In this episode of the Glenbeck Program, host Jeff Perla Van Zandt is joined by his good friend and long-time friend, John Rocha, to discuss the latest events in the world, including the recent attack on a Jewish hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel.
01:27:40.560Yeah, President Biden just arrived, gave a speech, and he also backed the Israeli take on the blast at the Gaza hospital.
01:27:59.460He noted that U.S. intelligence also confirmed that Israeli intelligence has concluded that that was an Islamic jihad rocket and not an Israeli rocket,
01:28:10.760as so many in the international and U.S. media falsely reported.
01:28:15.880I think that people, we've been, so far, I think Israelis are skeptical people, and I don't think anyone is expecting the Biden administration to necessarily save Israel.
01:28:35.660But I think we've so far been, people here have been pleasantly surprised by Biden's backing of Israel, at least rhetorically, given his record with Iran and some of the rhetoric by members of the Democratic Party in Washington, D.C.
01:28:56.160So, I mean, Israel is the one ally that we have that, you know, while they are asking for aid, they're the one ally that is like, well, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:29:08.080You're not going to fight our battles.
01:29:53.320And, of course, Israel is now preparing to or seems to be preparing to launch a ground assault into the Gaza Strip, which is, you know, where the where the terror, the Hamas terrorist came from on October 7th.
01:30:09.760So, yeah, we and actually in following the the false reporting and the false claims from the Palestinians about the hospital bombing, things have, as you as you mentioned, things have become much more inflamed as far as protests in the West Bank.
01:30:29.360So, yeah, things appear to be escalating.
01:30:43.800I don't think anyone knows for sure where it's going.
01:30:48.940And maybe I think most Israelis hope that it does not that the war is contained to the Gaza Strip and that we can deal with the terrorists who came and slaughtered our civilians and took a couple hundred of them hostage without having to fight a regional war.
01:31:11.940But but but it's definitely a very real possibility that things could escalate.
01:31:17.700Yeah. And that's not going to stay a regional war.
01:31:19.720That'll go global, unfortunately, I fear.
01:31:22.920There is an opinion poll that I read in your article.
01:31:27.000Four in five Jewish Israelis blame the government for the rampage.
01:31:33.780Yeah, there was actually another another poll that came out either yesterday or today in a Israeli newspaper that showed even higher number.
01:31:49.600I think it was ninety four percent of Israelis.
01:31:51.900I think the government is to blame for this.
01:31:54.220It's been it's basically it was a it was a massive intelligence and military military failure, or at least that's what it appears to.
01:32:01.820I think we can just say that definitively.
01:32:03.780It was a massive intelligence and military failure that.
01:32:08.240That these what we were kind of seen as barbarian terrorists, not a particularly sophisticated group were able to burst across the high tech Israeli border and do so much damage.
01:32:24.280And the border remained unsecured for for.
01:32:32.600There were still there were there were there were regular Palestinian citizens from Gaza, not affiliated with Hamas, streaming into the country, participating in the atrocities, holding people hostage, robbing them.
01:32:45.500There's reports that they were involved in rapes and assaults and kidnappings.
01:32:49.840So it was a massive failure to predict that.
01:32:53.780Apparently, there was there were there were there were indications that it should have been detected and to prevent it and to deal with, you know, it took there were this heroic stories of Israeli soldiers.
01:33:06.840I was I was seeing on Israeli TV last night.
01:33:10.300There was one young man who killed dozens and dozens of terrorists in a in a small Israeli village near the border.
01:33:17.520But he was just on his own with a couple, a couple of his friends, you know, like basically fighting the fighting Hamas terrorists as they as they continue to flood in and no one came to the rescue.
01:33:34.000So so so. So so people are very people.
01:33:55.820And and so and there's lots of different types of Christians and there's different types of Jews and there's.
01:34:04.940There's even a quite a few Jews, the Jews from Russia and Africa.
01:34:08.460No, I mean, honestly, if you've ever been to Israel or just around Jewish people that I'm telling you, you have two rabbis, you have five opinions.
01:36:06.000and American Jews caught up, so there isn't a lot of faith in a two state solution.
01:36:10.220We it's pretty clear that there's no partner for peace right now, even those who would very much like to see peace, which is probably a majority of the country still holds out hope.
01:36:22.880This this has definitely no one is talking about about.
01:36:26.700About. About reconciliation right now, this is definitely kind of driven home the point that there.
01:36:35.040That Israel has to fight for its existence and there's no one to talk to about about a two state solution at the moment.
01:36:41.560We are seeing some really frightening things here in America and all over the world.
01:36:48.880London with these Palestinian support groups that are, you know, you know, exhilarated is a quote from one one college professor by the the killing and the the killing of innocence and and the executions that that happened by Gaza.
01:37:10.640And, you know, there are some politicians now here in America saying maybe we should deport some of these people.
01:37:19.980We can can can can the rest of the world live with the Palestinians?
01:37:24.640How do you how do you know who the good Palestinians are and who the bad Palestinians are?
01:37:54.300I met an Israeli girl and fell in love and started a family.
01:37:58.140Now and now I'm I've been stuck here ever since happily stuck here for the most part, but stuck here.
01:38:04.480So I'm Israeli now and I live in Israeli life.
01:38:07.320But I'm I'm I'm American first and foremost in some ways.
01:38:12.840And and I have been really appalled by the response from parts of the left and the media in the U.S. to this.
01:38:29.340And I think a lot of even liberal American Jews are kind of waking up that there's a bigger problem here,
01:38:35.540that you see so much of an overlap between a kind of radical Islamist ideology and what's supposed to be progressive worldview.
01:38:46.040And just this the the hatred of of America and Israel and and, you know, the West in general,
01:38:59.300the the rejection of kind of liberal basic liberal principles about, you know, equality under the law and all people being equal
01:39:09.460and more of a worldview that's about oppression and power and vengeance and retribution.
01:39:15.660And, yeah, it's been very, very disheartening, worse than I would have even expected in a lot of ways.
01:39:21.740There have been some, you know, there's been some bright spots, of course.
01:39:25.640Biden has been less bad than than feared.
01:39:28.920And there's been some sympathy for Israel and the media and everything.
01:39:32.620But, you know, yeah, you see what the regime believe in, you know, on Omar Black Lives Matter and Harvard students.
01:39:38.720And you see the, you know, the really atrocious reporting on this on this hospital blast that that was pretty clearly carried out or maybe it was an accident,
01:39:51.060but it was clearly pretty clearly the result of a Palestinian rocket.
01:39:54.600And you had the New York Times and so much of the U.S. media taking as fact the word of of Hamas terrorists as far as what happened and how many people were killed and all that.
01:40:07.320And I think that's just that that actual event yesterday was really kind of a good microcosm.
01:40:14.680Or it was very revealing about a larger trend that isn't always quite so blatant and explicit with with the media's tendency to just the left's sympathy to the Palestinian cause and the media's tendency to take the terrorists at their word.
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01:50:40.620Uh, there's a great, um, a great op-ed, uh, that is, um, that's out today about how people are going to remember, not enemies, but the silence of friends.
01:51:00.460Have you ever been in that situation to where you thought you had a lot of friends and then something happens and then, like, you're like, Bill?
01:51:48.440Uh, but he gave a good speech today and, you know, it's, it's nice that, you know, the president would go over and he was invited and he would go over and, and speak.
01:51:57.680Um, you know, take it for what it's worth words.
01:52:01.920Uh, and the only thing that they got going for him is I think the president also would like a global war with Russia.
01:52:10.560Uh, so, you know, that maybe his dream comes true, uh, quickly on that.
01:52:16.560Um, but can you imagine being a college student today and Jewish?
01:52:34.380We're told that African Americans are not allowed, like they, white people have to stay away from them so they can feel safe.
01:52:41.360Um, I don't see a lot of, uh, multi thousand person rallies where the call is for the wiping out of all African Americans.
01:52:52.440Thankfully, we don't live in those times.
01:52:54.100We do live in times where people are in the multi thousands, uh, group grouping, going to colleges and cities and our embassies around the world.
01:53:04.080And saying they want every Jew eliminated off the face of the earth.
01:53:06.640So, yeah, I don't, I feel like maybe Jews need duty to safe space.
01:53:16.940Uh, it's actually quorum call right now, which is my favorite part of, you know, all of the things that are happening in the, in the house of representatives, the quorum call.
01:53:31.740But the update on the actual vote, it does seem like everyone, the Jordan allies are preparing everyone for him to get more people opposing him, not fewer.
01:53:45.560So more like 25, 30, maybe people coming out, I suppose, opposing him as opposed to the 20 from last time.
01:53:51.520And the momentum is building for Patrick McHenry now, who is the guy that we talked about earlier.
01:53:57.960He's the temporary guy who's in the speaker seat as of this moment without any real power to expand that power with help of the Democrats.
01:54:06.280So in that point, I wonder if he'll, uh, be really pissed at Jim Jordan and, uh, maybe stop all of the investigations on, on, uh, Joe Biden.
02:01:14.860I think that's probably a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty easy one to do.
02:01:19.700I mean, I like, you know, not intentionally sticking a hot poker in the eye of, you know,
02:01:28.620crazy people that are supporting the Palestinians, you know, killing all of these people, you know,
02:01:35.440while they slept or, you know, innocently there with their families.
02:01:40.980I, you know, I do have a problem with all of all of those people.
02:01:45.220I don't want to stick a hot poker in their eye in Baghdad, in Istanbul, in Lebanon, Beirut, in Amman, Jordan, in Doha or Doha in Tehran, Barcelona, Cairo, Yemen, Berlin, Greece, Montreal, Canada, Morocco, here in the United States.
02:02:09.820I mean, I like those spontaneous, you know, support groups that are coming out for the killing,
02:02:16.820especially those that were trying to break down the gates of our embassies all over the Middle East yesterday.