00:00:00.000Hey everybody, down the Charlie Kirk show, a repulsive op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
00:00:05.000It's just hard to even fathom what these two individuals are arguing here, basically saying that if you don't take in the people of Gaza, you're a bad person.
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00:01:34.000Today, we have the CR, the dirty CR, that they're trying to sneak through because your members of Congress obviously need a Christmas break.
00:02:10.000They're always looking for something to complain about, some sort of crusade of justice, and they have found their cause right now.
00:02:16.000And Joe Biden is seeing his support erode because Joe Biden has a constituency of some people that are very pro-Israel in his administration that are donors to him.
00:02:29.000But then also he has a much bigger in-number constituency of people that want nothing to do with supporting Israel.
00:02:37.000So Joe Biden is going to be looking for some way to remedy his falling poll numbers.
00:02:48.000And I think I found out what he's going to do.
00:05:39.000So why isn't Danny Dinan and Rahm Ben Barak writing in the Wall Street Journal, Jordan, you have a moral imperative to let these refugees in?
00:08:49.000The international community has a moral imperative and an opportunity to demonstrate compassion, help the people of Gaza move forward towards a more prosperous future and work together to achieve greater peace and stability in the Middle East.
00:09:07.000Oh, so you're a bad person, Danny Dinon and Ben Barak say.
00:09:12.000Now, mind you, this is not an official position of the Israeli government, but it's pretty close to it.
00:09:16.000So the question should be by Speaker Mike Johnson, he should look at this op-ed and say, hey, can we get an answer from Bibi Netanyahu?
00:09:23.000Is this the official position of the Israeli government?
00:09:33.000Did these two people who used to, one of which used to be the second in command of Mossad, is he just kind of one-off saying, you need to do this?
00:09:41.000Is this, or is this consistent as a trial balloon?
00:12:18.000The international community has a moral imperative and an opportunity to demonstrate compassion.
00:12:23.000What I find so interesting about this piece that Danny Dinon and Rahm Ben Barak wrote is nowhere in the piece do they make an argument as to how this will improve the West, how this will make our lives better, will increase prosperity, will strengthen the bonds that tie us together.
00:12:44.000No, instead, they kind of dance around the issue.
00:12:47.000They talk about the humanitarian crisis that is happening, and then they go straight for guilt.
00:15:27.000You have to realize that whether we're talking about Gazans and Palestinians, you know, all of them don't, you've got half of them at the time that I was there, didn't want to be under Hamas's rule.
00:15:39.000They didn't want to have terrorists overseeing them.
00:15:41.000They knew that they were living a terrible life because of Hamas.
00:15:45.000You had the other half that supported Hamas and wanted to be a part of that.
00:16:17.000By the way, why doesn't Saudi Arabia take them?
00:16:20.000Saudi Arabia has a landmass the size of, I'm just estimating, like Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, like the southeastern part of the United States is massive.
00:16:31.000Basically, all of the Arabian Peninsula, absent Qatar, the UAE, Yemen, Oman, and Bahrain.
00:16:37.000I'm just doing that off the top of my head.
00:16:38.000Blake can correct my geography, but it's huge.
00:18:11.000So what is the driving motivator here for wanting to open up our borders?
00:18:15.000You know, Steve Salier, who came on our program a couple of weeks ago, I believe coined the phrase, invade the world, invite the world.
00:18:22.000And it is a perfect summary of neoconservatism, which is we must try to remake the world in our image and then invite them to the American homeland.
00:19:54.000Now, mind you, this is what's interesting, is that pro-Palestinian forces took over Grand Central Station, which were actually Jews, interestingly enough.
00:20:05.000Jewish Voice for Peace, which it feels very astroturfed.
00:21:12.000And by the way, just so we're clear, the IDF is doing very, very well.
00:21:16.000Again, my advice is not exactly listened to by the Israeli government.
00:21:20.000But hey, Israeli government, if you want to lose or at least weaken, soften the support that you have from American Christian right, stop saying that we're bad people if we don't want to have the people of Gaza into our country when you obviously don't want them into your country.
00:21:40.000By the way, if you wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and you said, here's why they're so beautiful.
00:22:20.000Just prove it to me and just make a couple points.
00:22:23.000Like all on board, by the way, because I've seen the track record.
00:22:27.000Like for example, right now, if the Cuban government started to terrorize citizens even further in Havana and there were 10,000 Cubans that wanted to come to Miami, I'd be open for that conversation, legitimately.
00:23:21.000And I think guilt is the operative word.
00:23:24.000The guilt that so many Americans feel is an outgrowth, by the way, of secular society.
00:23:32.000The more secular a society gets, the harder people have, the more difficult, the more difficult it is for a person to deal with their guilt.
00:24:01.000You realize in Christianity, you are forgiven of your sins.
00:24:06.000They are washed away, not because you earn it, but because of grace.
00:24:11.000Now, whether you're a Christian or not, That is a far superior moral framework to design a society around.
00:24:21.000It's a lot better than what the critical race theorists would have just on the race issue, which is that you have white privilege and nothing you can do can remedy it.
00:24:32.000You have to live with the guilt of being racist for the rest of your life, and there is nothing you could do to break free of it.
00:24:39.000It is, by definition, a control tactic, and guilt is a political tactic.
00:24:44.000Because if you have millions of people, which by the way, you put that picture back up of middle-aged Jewish women from New York, how many of them walk around with guilt?
00:25:15.000By the way, that's not an Arab occupation of Grand Central Terminal.
00:25:20.000These are allegedly, I mean, we don't know, right?
00:25:23.000But they are self-proclaiming that, they're self-describing themselves as Jewish voices against a continuation of what's happening in the Middle East.
00:25:36.000And by the way, how many of these wealthy liberal Jewish women that live on the Upper East Side wearing a mask after they get their ninth Pfizer vaccine, who go occupy Grand Central Terminal, how many of them will allow a Gaza refugee to come over for a Passover Seder or to be a housekeeper?
00:26:25.000The premise of neoconservatism is that our ideas, our planning, the central planning of neoconservatism is no better than the central planning of Anthony Fauci.
00:26:35.000Hubris, arrogance, pride, self-righteousness, that I can go into a third world country and because I'm in charge, I can remake them in our image.
00:26:47.000So you have this incredible tension between pride and guilt, like two of the lower impulses of our species, by the way.
00:26:57.000Those are not the higher virtues of courage, of love, or at the very least, justice, which Aristotle said is the messiest of all the virtues.
00:27:06.000So you have the animating force guilt, these people that are, they feel guilty because they live in the West and they can kind of figure it out by allowing in a bunch of foreigners.
00:27:30.000I got to be honest, the government of Israel has badly handled the PR of this, which should have been the easiest PR fight ever, starting to pick fights with celebrities.
00:27:39.000I think it's been better the last couple of weeks, honestly.
00:27:42.000But now this, this is so bad for me personally.
00:27:46.000And again, if they would have wrote this article without the last paragraph, I wouldn't be so intense about this.
00:27:54.000But I want to just reiterate, the international community has a moral imperative.
00:27:59.000We have a moral imperative to solve your mess.
00:28:32.000I take it, I just kind of shrug it off.
00:28:35.000But if you were to type my name into a search engine, there has been this drumbeat of low IQ degenerates that are like, well, Charlie Kirk is anti-Semitic.
00:28:48.000It is so, it is so dishonest and damaging to American discourse to call someone like me anti-Semitic.
00:29:02.000And what it does is, forget me, is those of you that know my heart and that know my worldview, especially conservatives that are looking to see where they align on these issues,
00:29:19.000it doesn't exactly make you more likely to be engaged in the pro-Israel cause when you see someone like Charlie Kirk, who goes on campuses and defends Israel.
00:29:34.000I was just at UCLA, defending Israel, defending Israel, defending Israel, defending Israel.
00:29:44.000It gets you treated by attacks not just from the left, but you get the Washington Times publishing a pile of trash saying that I'm an anti-Semite.
00:29:54.000And again, honestly, they don't listen to anything I've said.
00:29:57.000So what's to say they're going to listen now?
00:29:58.000But it's very important for those of you that care about Israel and care about the case.
00:30:03.000Israel has successfully sapped and drained the enthusiasm out of your most ardent supporters.
00:31:05.000And look, by the way, you see this current kind of feud happening between Shapiro and Candace, and I'm sure that thing's going to bubble up and keep on going.
00:31:14.000In some ways, this is breaking the right apart.
00:31:17.000And I guess my one piece of advice, for whatever it's worth, to the Israeli government or to pro-Israel voices or forces is: I don't know, someone like, let's just take myself, someone who honors the Shabbat,
00:31:31.000who studies the Torah literally for hours a week, who's trying to learn Biblical Hebrew, albeit clumsily, who is there for the embassy opening for Jerusalem and is accused of being a Jewish shill more times than not, and someone who has the heart for the Jewish people.
00:31:50.000Probably not strategic or wise to call that person an anti-Semite.
00:32:01.000The American right is losing its gusto for Israel.
00:32:07.000And part of it, not all of it, part of it is because of how ferocious, hostile, and unfair some, not all, but some pro-Israel forces, authors, and voices have been towards their greatest allies, myself included.
00:32:26.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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