The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - My Chat with Brigitte Gabriel, On Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinians, and Islam (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_669)

00:00:00.000 guys oh boy fasten your seat belts today i've got i mean people say that i'm the lebanese

00:00:07.460 honey badger but i think the real lebanese honey badger is here with us brigitte gabriel how you

00:00:13.160 doing good thank you i'm so glad that we finally connected uh i'm going to read your bio then we're

00:00:20.160 going to do a little bit of niceties in arabic and then we will jump straight down let me let

00:00:24.580 me first tell people who you are you're a national security analyst a new york time best-selling

00:00:30.200 author and chairman of act for america.org your latest bestseller is rise in defense of judo

00:00:38.300 judeo-christian values and freedom two earlier books both of which were also very successful

00:00:43.800 because they hate a survivor of islamic terror warns america warnings 20 years ago and then they must be 0.64

00:00:50.880 defeated why we must defeat radical islam and how we can do it did i cover the key points

00:00:56.140 yes you did okay

00:00:58.540 oh my god

00:01:05.580 i just said that i'm so excited to be meeting you and that we just want to say a couple of things in

00:01:19.980 arabic and she said this is we're we're breaking new grounds here guys first time ever that she

00:01:26.380 breaks out the beautiful arabic one quick um accent issue how do you say room in your accent

00:01:34.080 uda see we say room like uda yeah yeah yeah you say i knew i was hoping you'd say that because that's

00:01:41.320 a christian dialect we say how do you say i want to eat but the ankle but the ankle we say but the

00:01:49.860 ankle so you have the palestinian exactly i'm the real palestinian that's right you have the

00:01:58.040 palestinian accent what's good i have the lebanese accent lebanese

00:02:01.880 okay so let's start your your personal story is an incredible one many people know it but others

00:02:11.020 don't please walk us through your history in lebanon and then leaving lebanon well actually

00:02:17.800 what i want to start with how amazing it is to be with you as a jewish lebanese most people don't

00:02:25.660 even think or know that jews lived in lebanon as lebanese when when they think of jews people forgot

00:02:31.860 about the jews who lived in arabic countries or arabic speaking countries because you know we in

00:02:37.020 lebanon we're not arabs you're arab phones okay i want to make sure we clarify that um but a lot of

00:02:43.620 people do not talk about the the jewish people who were kicked out of arabic countries who are no longer

00:02:50.780 overliving in the areas where they were born in the homes where they built um through their fathers

00:02:56.760 and their grandparents etc because they became refugees they were kicked out of their arabic

00:03:02.560 countries and you know they cannot go back the majority of them over one million jews from arab land

00:03:08.460 are refugees who are accepted by the state of israel you don't hear about them because obviously israel

00:03:14.260 absorbed them uh they they you know they have a life there so they're not screaming about we want to go

00:03:20.740 back to our land they accepted okay we'll go to the jewish state and we live there the reason why i

00:03:25.680 bring this point up god is because when you look at the palestinian issue right now none of the arabic

00:03:33.480 countries want them they do not want them to come they do not want them to have a life there and this

00:03:39.920 is exactly why we are seeing this problem like cancer mushroom on you know never treated and so you

00:03:47.480 know i it's amazing to be with you as a jewish lebanese um and here i am a christian lebanese we

00:03:53.360 both speak the same language pretty much as the exception of a little uh difference in the dialect

00:03:58.740 we probably eat the same food we both love belly dancing and we both love fairuz

00:04:03.760 and we both love fairuz exactly you know i used to uh this is several years ago whenever i would bring

00:04:11.480 on a arabic speaking guest i would joke with them and say i'm going to sing you a song in arabic if

00:04:18.620 you guess who it is then this guarantees me that you are not an israeli spy if you don't guess who it is

00:04:25.400 then you are jesus israeli and usually they get my singing ability is restricted to fairuz so it was

00:04:32.800 i would just go through the different songs of fairuz with the different guests

00:04:36.300 wow wow yeah she's an icon icon all over the middle east she's still alive she's still alive

00:04:44.880 she's in her 80s uh you know i still check on the lebanese news i go to my facebook and you know

00:04:50.820 nostalgia because i cannot go back to lebanon you know huzbollah wants my head on a platter 0.99

00:04:54.880 um because you know we have an occupied country right now by a terrorist regime a terrorist organization

00:05:00.580 funded by iran huzbollah the only difference is they carry lebanese passports while probably

00:05:06.080 i do not know if you still carry a lebanese passport but i can't get a lebanese passport

00:05:10.320 yeah uh you know and i and i don't want to but in any way you know uh so the nostalgia you know i i

00:05:18.140 still think about lebanon i miss lebanon i miss the food so i go back on lebanese different websites

00:05:23.360 and i listen to the music and it's amazing you know when you grew up in a certain way like today

00:05:28.520 when i'm sipping my coffee in the morning i'm listening to fairuz in the morning you know fairuz

00:05:32.680 yet and i listen to all my arabic music it's who i am it made me who i am today you know

00:05:38.760 those first 18 years of your life determine who you're going to be and what makes you for the rest

00:05:45.020 of your life um and i'm grateful i was raised in a great culture um that respects people respects

00:05:52.860 diversity that is an inclusive culture unfortunately that's all on our side the jewish christian side 0.99

00:05:59.860 because we want to get along with everybody and the muslims don't exactly share our feelings 1.00

00:06:04.860 do you do you i want to i want you to go through all of your personal history in a second but

00:06:11.160 since we're jumping ahead now do you think there is ever a hope inshallah in our lifetimes that you

00:06:18.080 and i would ever be able to take our family and go back if only to visit or do you think

00:06:23.920 that window closed long time ago uh i i don't see any hope right now uh and us going back and

00:06:34.400 visiting i remember taking my children uh to israel in 2018 and i wanted to see uh lebanon and i

00:06:44.920 remember going up to mizgav am in israel on the border with lebanon and i remember my children and i

00:06:50.940 and my son-in-law are looking through the binocular and i'm pointing marja yoon to them you know this

00:06:57.000 is my town this is where i was raised and looking through the binocular you know this is the uh this

00:07:03.260 is where my home used to be this is the school that my father built that my children will never lay

00:07:09.320 eyes on you know and that's why i tell people all the time when i'm speaking when i'm fundraising

00:07:15.540 when i am talking about why we need to preserve our civilization i tell my i tell people what good

00:07:22.020 is it to create wealth if you cannot leave your children a country in which they can live

00:07:27.220 yeah very my children will never ever lay eyes on what their grandparents my mom and my dad have

00:07:35.220 built or contributed to or supported or nothing my my children will never um see their my father's

00:07:43.360 name their grandfather's name on any hospital or any school or any church on anything you know we

00:07:49.700 can't go back yeah until we defeat huzbollah in iran very true uh you know one of my only regrets so 1.00

00:07:57.260 far as a parent is uh that i haven't inculcated our children with the richness of our heritage so

00:08:05.180 i i also speak do you speak hebrew oh very nice both my own uh so so so we so you know i speak of

00:08:17.200 course arabic hebrew french and english french again because we grew up in in lebanon which

00:08:23.280 right and my wife also she's lebanese armenian so she speaks armenian so between the two of us

00:08:30.400 we speak five languages but the problem was brigitte that if i spoke to them in arabic or

00:08:36.600 hebrew my wife would be out of the game because she doesn't speak arabic because she came too early 1.00

00:08:41.700 to to montreal if she speaks in armenian i don't understand so we ended up settling on only french

00:08:47.360 and english and i so regret that my children can't just come to your house and speak to you in arabic

00:08:53.700 because frankly even though i'm jewish to your earlier point my culture is arabic i i speak arabic

00:09:00.840 i listen to arabic music i eat arabic food but people don't appreciate that you could be christian

00:09:06.540 you could be jewish and be fully arabic in your ethnicity and orientation uh exactly look we appreciate

00:09:14.440 the best of the culture in which we were raised uh i love middle eastern music i love belly dancing this

00:09:22.280 is how i exercise i belly dance uh i don't do yoga i don't do aerobics that's my form of exercising

00:09:29.180 um when i listen to music in my home that's what i listen to uh the food that i cook uh i make all

00:09:36.460 the traditional lebanese food in my home and but i agree with you because when my children were growing

00:09:42.400 up even though they ate the lebanese food you know they used to wine i would make them the stuffed

00:09:46.600 grape leaves the stuffed kusa you know and all these traditional food them etc and they would say

00:09:52.740 to me why can't we eat you know macaroni and cheese like normal people food you know and here i stood

00:09:59.040 three hours cooking and stuffing grape leaves and rolling grape leaves or making baklava or tabbouli

00:10:05.500 and all of that stuff and um but finally now that they are adults they gravitated back to those memories

00:10:12.840 growing up with mommy in the kitchen dicing the parsley making the tabbouli now they look at it

00:10:19.380 now they adopted that culture i don't regret not teaching them arabic and here is why as a woman i

00:10:25.540 will never regret growing up in lebanon and you know in lebanon uh you're familiar with the phrase

00:10:31.180 when we would serve the coffee meaning may god cover your shame with a husband because as a single 0.98

00:10:41.160 woman when you're not married you are a shame just to exist unless you are married and i told my 1.00

00:10:48.500 children because they would ask me how come you're not teaching us arabic and i said i never ever want 1.00

00:10:53.060 you to go i don't you want you to even understand that statement if anybody ever said it to you because

00:11:00.100 i don't want your here your ears being soiled by such language and so i don't regret not teaching 0.95

00:11:06.180 them arabic as a woman i'm very independent i'm a feminist um but they got all the other good stuff

00:11:11.900 oh very nice okay so give us a brief summary of your harrowing i mean i've got my own harrowing

00:11:18.080 story trying to escape lebanon but i think yours is certainly as difficult give us a brief synopsis

00:11:24.060 and then we can drill down into some of the current realities that we're facing in the west

00:11:27.560 oh god well um my story is pretty much the story of a lot of christian lebanese you know i was born

00:11:36.180 into the country that used to be paris of the middle east the banking capital of the middle east

00:11:41.000 between 1965 and 1975 beirut and lebanon were experiencing an amazing economic boom explosion

00:11:48.720 tourists from all over the world coming to vacation in lebanon we were open-minded we were fair we were

00:11:54.440 tolerant we were multicultural we had open borders we welcomed everyone from the surrounding arabic

00:12:00.560 countries who wanted to come and study in our universities because we had built the best

00:12:05.480 universities in the middle east as you know uh muslims send their children from all over the islamic

00:12:11.540 world they graduated and worked in our economy because we had built the best economy in the middle east

00:12:17.000 even though we did not have any oil unfortunately all that began to change as we imported people into 1.00

00:12:25.620 our country who did not share our values and what i mean by that is we imported palestinian refugees who 0.89

00:12:33.240 came to our country lebanon was the only country in the arabic world to accept the third wave of 1.00

00:12:39.340 palestinian refugees after king hossein kicked them out of jordan they came to lebanon they put their

00:12:45.400 heads together with the muslims in lebanon and they declared war on the christians they wanted to 1.00

00:12:51.120 create a base from which to fight israel kill the jews and throw them into the sea something they tried 1.00

00:12:57.940 to do in jordan but they failed because of the dictatorship of king hossein but they were able

00:13:03.400 to use lebanese democracy to topple our democracy and that's when the war started um i come from southern

00:13:12.320 lebanon and a little town called marjayun on the border uh with israel marjayun um and um you know

00:13:20.520 we were a small christian town on the border and the palestinians had formed jaish libn al-arabi

00:13:27.600 the arabic lebanese army they started with the muslims at that time uh led by ahmad al-hatib who was the

00:13:34.020 uh guy who headed it and they started splitting the army so and taking over military bases well i lived

00:13:42.000 about 50 yards below the military base in marjayun as the palestinian tried to shell the military base 0.54

00:13:48.900 to take it over 14 shells exploded in my home falling short of the military base bringing my home

00:13:56.640 down and burying me under the rebel wounded um i ended up in the hospital for two and a half months

00:14:02.660 and later ended up living in a bomb shelter underground uh it was like an eight by ten room

00:14:09.320 no electricity no water very little food because the palestinians and the islamists surrounded us 1.00

00:14:17.060 and cut off the electricity cut off water supply to our town uh cut off food supplies but thankfully we

00:14:23.980 lived in the mountains so we had uh marjayun was called valley of spring marjayun uh that's where it

00:14:30.860 gets its name we had seven springs in our town and that became my existence and that's where i lived in

00:14:36.380 that bomb shelter for seven years of my life robbed of my youth wow and then after you were able to leave

00:14:43.960 you left to israel correct correct and how how many years did you spend in israel i lived in israel from

00:14:52.080 1984 till 1989 i became news anchor for world news in the middle east based out of jerusalem israel

00:14:59.400 wow and did you so prior to going to israel because yes of course there's a lot of anti-semitism that

00:15:06.480 comes from the islamic community but in all fairness we also know that many christian arabs don't hold

00:15:13.440 the most warm feelings towards the jews so as you made your way to israel were you inculcated with some

00:15:20.560 of those nasty feelings about the jews and then were surprised by it or in your own upbringing you had

00:15:26.420 never experienced the the typical jew hatred that you see in the middle east uh i never experienced 0.99

00:15:32.060 the jew hatred personally in my home uh remember the war broke out i was 10 years old and then we

00:15:37.680 were cut off from the rest of lebanon so my parents never really hated anybody they were church going

00:15:42.700 you know uh they always you know you hear it on the news you know lebanese news israel azrael which is

00:15:49.200 the name of satan uh they would be playing how the palestinian refugees the poor palestinians 0.98

00:15:54.200 are coming to lebanon we're taking them in so these were the official talking points of the

00:15:59.520 lebanese government because they control lebanese television but in my home i never heard anything

00:16:04.200 like that when the war broke out israel was our only lifeline because i look god when when we were

00:16:11.840 in the bomb shelter and we as the christians we were surrounded to be slaughtered by the muslims 1.00

00:16:17.960 and the palestinians and i remember one night i think i was around 13 years old one of our

00:16:22.860 militia man stopped by and he said brigitte i just want you to know that we are surrounded to

00:16:27.580 be slaughtered tonight we heard a lot of chatter on the radio and i don't think we're gonna last

00:16:32.260 because we lost a lot of men we don't have enough to defend the town and he said if i don't see you

00:16:38.080 tomorrow i wish you a merciful death and he gave me a hug and left wow and i remember at the age of 13

00:16:46.240 dressing in my sunday best my easter dress because i wanted to look pretty when i am dead knowing that

00:16:54.440 when they come to slaughter me there would be no one to bury me and i remember begging my mother i

00:17:00.980 don't want to die i'm only 13 years old please do something and there was nothing my mother could say

00:17:06.780 to me and i remember sitting in the corner of our bomb shelter and my father opened up the bible

00:17:13.540 and started reading from psalms i shall walk into the valley of death and fear no evil for thou art

00:17:19.740 with me and my parents said to me when they come to slaughter us tonight we will create a distraction

00:17:25.720 we want you we just want you to run towards the israeli border and don't look back see we knew

00:17:33.040 we lived five kilometers from the israeli border and we knew if we run to the jews and beg for help

00:17:38.920 the jews are not going to slaughter us because we had more shared values with them than we had with

00:17:44.560 the muslims and thank god i didn't have to make that decision that night because that's the night 1.00

00:17:50.040 when israel came in physically into lebanon in 1978 and set up artillery bases around the the hill

00:17:58.340 surrounding our town to protect us and created the security zone um and that's how we lived until

00:18:04.380 1984 when israel invaded lebanon working with the christians trying to help the christians

00:18:09.600 take back their democracy and kick out the radical islamic element that had taken control of the 1.00

00:18:15.260 country at that time because by the time israel entered lebanon in 1982 we had 11 islamic terrorist

00:18:22.440 organizations operating out of lebanon including the plo so while i was growing up in the bomb shelter

00:18:29.380 as a teenager my only knowledge of the world of any friend we ever had or anybody that cared about us

00:18:36.820 was israel not lebanon the lebanese government didn't care about us the rest of the world forgot

00:18:43.060 about us i remember my father in the beginning of the war and he would say france is gonna come see

00:18:49.080 what's happening to the christians in lebanon because of all the palestinian massacres against 0.98

00:18:53.360 the christians my daddy would say france is gonna come and nobody came america's gonna come

00:18:58.980 canada's gonna come australia's gonna come and the world forgot about us so growing up as a christian

00:19:05.640 girl in southern lebanon the only friend i knew growing up at 13 14 15 16 17 were the israeli people

00:19:15.540 israel and so when i moved and of course my mother was wounded in the war we ended up spending 22 days

00:19:21.720 in the hospital in israel actually my life story is detailed in my first book titled because they

00:19:29.780 hate i encourage people to get it it's a new york times bestseller the book sold over 1 million copies

00:19:36.260 wow and it's a story it's an amazing story so i encourage people read the story in because they

00:19:44.460 hate and so well my mother was wounded in the in the war we ended up in israel and those 22 days when

00:19:51.460 i was 17 years old spending it in israel changed my life that's when i decided that's when i made a

00:19:58.100 decision that i will go back to israel no matter what happens no matter the cost no matter what i have

00:20:04.920 to do i had one goal and that is to go back to israel and from israel come to the united states

00:20:10.520 and i ended up moving to israel in 1984 um and that's when i really developed my love for israel

00:20:20.300 um my loyalty to israel my adaptation of israeli culture my appreciation and deep understanding

00:20:29.580 of the of the jewish state look in israel you ride the bus you hear 32 languages on the bus every two

00:20:36.280 people are speaking a different language uh i lived in jerusalem the most cosmopolitan city in the

00:20:42.000 world um the culture the art the languages the intellect uh it was amazing uh and i knew in lebanon

00:20:52.160 this did not exist in lebanon i mean israel was on a whole different level and as a lebanese and

00:20:59.180 as a citizen of the world because i learned to appreciate um you know good traits good character

00:21:06.600 good values and be able to start you know when you're 20 21 22 you're starting to compare you're

00:21:13.420 starting to make up your mind as a young adult when you learn about the world and you see it through

00:21:18.560 the lens of a young adult trying to make up your mind you learn you start seeing a difference you may

00:21:24.800 not know the word for it but you start seeing a major difference and contrast between the two cultures

00:21:31.280 and that's when i developed my true love and appreciation for israel and israelis so how do you

00:21:38.060 i mean i know you've been doing this for many years now trying to warn people as i have how frustrating

00:21:44.340 must it be for you i mean for both of us mjerbin right we've tried it we've been there listen to us we

00:21:51.580 know what we're talking about to see the west so outlandishly clueless in their immigration policies

00:21:59.800 in their foreign i mean it's literally as though every single thing that the west does is the

00:22:07.040 perfectly incorrect thing do you see any possibility to wake our leaders up or are we in a death spiral

00:22:15.160 that we're never going to get out of our you know unfortunately you know they say there's nothing

00:22:23.880 new under the sun and history always repeats itself and they say those who are doomed from learning from

00:22:31.920 history are doomed to repeat who those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and so

00:22:37.460 today you and i are speaking to each other in 2024 in the west and we are seeing the same signs of the

00:22:44.700 holocaust what people thought it will never ever happen again we are seeing the same signs now play 0.99

00:22:53.180 out on the streets of canada australia america worldwide i remember speaking when i first started

00:23:00.240 speaking out after 9-11 um i was at a jewish home they were having a parlor meeting for me about the

00:23:05.920 work that i was doing and in the audience was a holocaust survivor this was 2004 and i remember

00:23:14.240 talking about the signs we're seeing the signs because i started a grassroots organization and i

00:23:19.380 would travel and i would speak to different people all over america and i started seeing the signs

00:23:24.220 in different communities and i said this is what you have to be careful of this is what's happening

00:23:28.840 and that holocaust survivor stood up and left so angry at me because she did not want to believe 0.51

00:23:38.460 that what i was saying was the truth and she tried to shoot down every single logical explanation i tried

00:23:46.020 to put out as to why we need to organize now and why we need to be careful 2004 20 years ago

00:23:54.900 and so the reason why history repeats itself is because people for whatever reason do not want to

00:24:01.940 believe that can happen again because every generation thinks no our generation is different

00:24:06.460 look look at teenagers and the youth every generation thinks oh we are so different than

00:24:12.280 anybody that has ever came before us you know we're college kids we're going to change the world

00:24:16.920 we're all going to have kumbaya we're all going to live peacefully together everybody's going to get

00:24:21.060 along and we're going to change the whole world and it's going to be amazing every college

00:24:25.860 graduate thought the same thing and then as you go through life and reality hits and you realize

00:24:30.860 there's nothing new under the sun people are people and from the beginning of ages when you look

00:24:37.020 through the theme through humanity from the beginning jealousy hatred love sex betrayal that's all the

00:24:45.260 same thing i mean we're not doing anything new in the 21st century than what people did back 2 000

00:24:50.680 years ago except today people are not waking up and what i'm and the reason why today uh we are not

00:24:59.160 learning especially those of us who come from judeo-christian worldview is we are reflecting

00:25:04.820 our values on evil people we just because you and i are not going to send our children to die

00:25:13.200 and strap bombs on their bodies and then rejoice in their death and hand out candy we cannot fathom

00:25:20.660 that a mother or a father could be so happy that their child died and i think that's the problem

00:25:26.940 that's why in the west they are refusing to understand how can the palestinians the islamists

00:25:34.400 because i'm going to say islamists whether you are a palestinian whether you are a somali who

00:25:39.600 belonged to al-shabab um you know buka haram it doesn't matter what what what society what language

00:25:48.540 you speak what passport you hold the common denominator between all these terrorist groups who are willing

00:25:53.700 to sacrifice their own children is the islamic ideology and we people who come from judeo-christian

00:26:00.900 worldview do not want to accept that there is a segment in that ideology that actually commands

00:26:09.720 their people to do that well i actually there's a clip that has gone viral all over the internet from

00:26:16.400 about seven eight years ago i had appeared on uh dave rubin's show and i know that you you also know

00:26:21.140 and where i was trying to explain the the quote distinction between islam and islamism and i was

00:26:28.080 explaining that islamism is a large inherent part of islam it's not something that's outside of it you

00:26:34.480 know 90 of islam is political islam yes there are spiritual elements but those spiritual elements are

00:26:41.340 dwarfed by the political ideology within islam that's why i don't like for example the terms

00:26:46.760 i know you use it in one of your books radical islam or militant islam or extremist islam or

00:26:53.820 islamism all those qualifiers for me are nonsensical islam is islam there are nice muslims who decide to 0.96

00:27:00.960 ignore most of the stuff just like there are nice jews and nice christians and mean jews and mean christians

00:27:06.240 but itself the ideology of islam is perfectly manufactured to be antithetical to western values 1.00

00:27:15.440 is there any hope that we can ever get people to understand that

00:27:19.580 you're gonna get some people to understand that and i think with isis a lot of people started opening

00:27:27.440 their eyes and saying why do they believe the same that they believe why do they carry a flag

00:27:33.500 that says la ilaha illallah muhammadun rasulullah there is no god but allah and muhammad is his

00:27:38.920 prophet uh which is the same words on the flag of saudi arabia for example uh the only difference is

00:27:45.380 one green and one is black uh you know and people shy away from confront people don't like confrontation

00:27:52.960 and people shy away from confronting difficult decisions and look you and i grew up in what in any

00:27:59.580 culture people tell you two things you don't discuss at the dinner table religion and politics

00:28:04.480 and what is islam it's a political ideology clocked in religion so we in the west avoid talking about

00:28:11.520 this and you know in my books i talk about that especially in my second book they must be stopped

00:28:16.380 is the title why we must defeat radical islam and how we can do it and i talk in particular about a study

00:28:22.740 that the pentagon did where they assigned a special unit to understand why you know very highly educated

00:28:31.420 young men and in some cases young women are willing to blow themselves up to smithereen where did this

00:28:38.940 ideology come from and when the pentagon they studied it for six months and finally the unit issued the

00:28:45.680 report the media ignored it as if it was nuclear and harmful to your health and here's why because it

00:28:52.320 pointed to one thing it's the religion itself it's the ideology itself no one wanted to talk about it

00:28:58.540 not only the pentagon refused to acknowledge the study but actually the second in command at the

00:29:05.660 pentagon who happened to be a muslim and a muslim brotherhood agent ended up firing steve coghlin

00:29:11.460 the guy who worked on the study and kicking him out of the pentagon and so we went through a period in the

00:29:18.260 united states especially under obama where nobody wanted to listen to what we were trying to say

00:29:24.360 because the islamists aided and abetted by the liberal jewish community in the united states which

00:29:31.420 is 80 percent liberal are the ones who worked with the islamic community which i call they were the 0.99

00:29:37.620 useful idiots who worked with the islamic community in standing up against islamophobia their heart was in 0.99

00:29:43.860 the right place but they were so misguided and so ill-informed and that's how we end up with the 1.00

00:29:49.700 situation that we are in today yeah well in speaking about some of those liberal lobotomized progressive

00:29:56.500 jews i tell a story in the parasitic mind in this in this book in the yellow one where a jewish woman a 1.00

00:30:03.780 friend from montreal had approached me this is probably 2010 maybe and she said oh i have a friend of mine

00:30:11.980 who's doing her phd in islamic studies and she insists that you know islam is the religion of

00:30:17.400 peace and all this stuff so can you god you you know your stuff about islam you come from that world

00:30:21.820 can you tell me what what is what is the real position do the does islam love the jews or not and so

00:30:28.040 on so i sent her brigitte a montage you may have seen it it's a it's about a 20 minute montage

00:30:33.720 of imams kids teachers in the islamic world saying some of the most diabolical things about the jews like 1.00

00:30:44.200 it makes the nazis seem as though they are warm and fuzzy at the end of which when i send her that clip

00:30:52.140 her response is you're no different in your extremism than them so let's let's break it down

00:30:59.240 so her asking me what's and she's jewish by the way and her grandparents went through the holocaust

00:31:04.580 so it her asking me tell me about the position of islam on jews and i share with her veridical

00:31:13.240 accurate information her conclusion is i am the extremist for spreading that stuff about two months

00:31:21.140 ago she sends me an email we hadn't spoken for many years because as you might imagine i was not

00:31:27.100 pleased with her reaction we hadn't spoken for over a decade she sends me an email and she basically

00:31:32.760 says oops i should have listened to you all those years ago so you're exactly right that again many of

00:31:39.740 the ostriches who bury their head in the sand are the ones who should be awakened they're called jews 1.00

00:31:45.860 but they too are lobotomized and so that's why sometimes i feel as though it's a it's a lost cause i want 0.99

00:31:51.600 to be optimistic i get up every morning wanting to fight but the imbecility is unbelievable brigitte 0.93

00:31:57.040 uh it is unbelievable but we have to continue fighting in my case i created an organization

00:32:03.280 called act for america because i wanted to make sure i not only educate education is important but i

00:32:09.560 learned very early on we can educate until the cows come home nothing is going to change education is

00:32:15.660 important but education by itself is insufficient education must be coupled with action so i started

00:32:23.160 act for america to mobilize and organize people in their own community to start working on issues

00:32:28.080 that will impact policy and i'm proud to tell you that act for america today is 2.8 million members

00:32:34.320 we have helped pass 240 bills on the federal level and the state level to protect america right now we

00:32:41.320 are working on many bills in congress to basically uh expel any foreign student on a student visa in the

00:32:48.300 united states who have been caught participating in these rallies kick their behind out of the united

00:32:53.200 states they have no business being here we are working on uh for example putting a cap on funding

00:32:59.020 for any university that's accepting funds from overseas in any arabic countries limit the number of foreign

00:33:05.220 students that are allowed to be accepted into our major universities we are working on so many bills in

00:33:10.820 congress and this is what i started doing so i encourage people if you are listening to us right now

00:33:15.580 from anywhere in the country or the world go to act for america.org a-c-t-f-o-r america.org right now

00:33:25.020 sign up to get our emails and action alerts stand with us and support our work we need you engaged we

00:33:30.960 need you involved the only way we're going to be able to impact policy and change the world

00:33:35.440 not by just be sitting and being entertained getting educated by actually by being organized and

00:33:42.700 mobilized in a way that can uh impact policy to have a positive outcome for world peace and national

00:33:49.700 security well by the way the the organization that you started speaks to something that i often talk

00:33:55.820 about when i ask people to activate their inner honey badger where i'm saying there is you don't have to

00:34:01.760 already have a big platform when you started you weren't a famous politician or a fit you were just

00:34:07.820 someone who had the truth on your side you had the the personality and temperament to get engaged

00:34:13.960 and you went from having zero platform to 2.8 million that to me is a very empowering message

00:34:20.720 because i get tons of people who write to me and say yeah but i'm not some famous professor who's got

00:34:25.800 you know the ear of joe rogan or whatever how do you expect me to affect any change well my answer

00:34:32.320 should be go look at what bridgete gabriel has done right because you didn't start with anything 1.00

00:34:36.780 that's right exactly you know when i started after 9 11 here's how i started act for america

00:34:43.540 i told you when i was in lebanon and my house was bombed when i was wounded in the hospital i spent two

00:34:49.620 and a half months in the hospital going from one surgery to another hooked up to ivs and i and i would

00:34:56.500 ask my father why did they do this to us and my father would tell me they consider us infidels and

00:35:03.280 they want to kill us so i learned since i was a 10 year old little girl that i am wanted dead simply

00:35:08.880 because i was born into the christian faith and lived in a christian town on 9 11 2001 my two young

00:35:17.180 daughters came home from school and they didn't tell them at school what had happened so they came home

00:35:21.680 at a normal hour and you know 9 11 was a defining moment for the united states 9 11 changed the way

00:35:28.880 we live changed the way we bank changed the way we all bank anywhere in the world changed the way we

00:35:34.500 listen to the news on 9 11 2001 no matter where you were in the world if you were next to a television

00:35:41.440 uh tv set you were parked in front of that tv set we couldn't get enough news my two daughters came home

00:35:48.340 from school that day and my youngest daughter was watching television with me seeing the images of

00:35:53.120 the world right center come down again and again and again being replayed and she said to me she said

00:35:58.720 mommy why did they do this to us and i found myself god uh looking at my daughter's eyes and repeating

00:36:06.920 to her the exact same words my father said to me they hate us because they consider us infidels and they

00:36:14.000 want to kill us here we were two generations apart i was a young lebanese girl she's a young american

00:36:19.340 girl i spoke arabic she spoke english 8 000 miles apart two continents apart 30 years apart and i had

00:36:27.420 to repeat to my daughter the same words my father said to me that day i vowed that i will do everything

00:36:34.000 i can to make sure that my daughter will never ever look into her child's eyes and repeat to him or to her

00:36:41.960 what my daddy said to me and what i had to say to her that day i was reborn as an activist

00:36:48.580 9 11 happened on a tuesday morning i laid in my pajamas on the couch in my family room

00:36:54.500 from tuesday morning until sunday thinking what can i do to make a difference you see god i'm a firm

00:37:00.300 believer that every single one of us in life no matter what trials and tribulations we go through

00:37:05.720 no matter what challenges we go through everything in life happens for a reason all these challenges

00:37:12.620 there are nothing more but a sharpening tool to make us become who we are today to serve a purpose

00:37:19.260 to make the world a better place i believe every single one of us has a destiny and has a purpose

00:37:25.100 i am so grateful that i found my purpose at a young age on 9 11 and i realized i now understand

00:37:32.140 why i went through war why i became a news anchor how i can talk to the press in soundbites i'm fluent

00:37:40.320 in four languages i can make a difference i'm a middle eastern woman arabic is my mother tongue

00:37:45.800 i look middle eastern i can have an impact i want to make a difference for my country the united states

00:37:51.500 of america and i knew i didn't know anything about non-profits i didn't know anything about how to set up

00:37:57.060 a non-profit or how to get it going but i had determination so once i decided i'm gonna start

00:38:03.520 an organization that's gonna mobilize americans and educate americans about the threat of radical islam 0.99

00:38:08.900 to world peace and national security i remember uh turning my guest room into an office and i went to

00:38:18.400 office depot and i bought one of those cheap desks for 150 dollars that took three days to put together

00:38:24.860 it was so heavy carried it upstairs uh to my office to the guest room and i printed business

00:38:31.820 cards a thousand business cards for 10 bucks at office max and i remember the address was 2420

00:38:40.700 litchfield way suite 201 which meant you go upstairs first room on the right and that was my address

00:38:47.760 and those are the cards that i would hand out i had determination and that's why on my website

00:38:54.460 brigitte gabriel i say two percent of the passionate will always overrule the 98 percent indifferent it

00:39:02.980 doesn't take money to change the world it only takes a dedicated few and that's people like you

00:39:08.400 and me and our listeners whom i hope you are today listening to me because if you are right here

00:39:14.380 listening right now you are here for a reason you are here for a purpose this was be shared for the

00:39:20.920 jewish listeners and for the non-jewish listeners you are here for a reason every single one of us

00:39:27.980 can make a difference every single one of us today i reach 8 million people a day on my social media

00:39:34.920 platforms i have 2.8 million members i have half a million activists throughout the united states we have

00:39:42.480 activists my organization on the ground in 3,070 counties out of 3,143 counties nationwide in america

00:39:51.740 we cover 97 percent of u.s territories and we have passed 250 bills in congress as well as on the state

00:40:01.420 level to protect america to impact terrorism laws to stand with israel our ally to make sure america is

00:40:08.620 safe and secure if i can do it you can do it i'm getting tired just hearing about your energy my

00:40:16.580 goodness i need a nap uh thank you thank you well you know cooped up in a bomb shelter for 70 years

00:40:22.620 you know you had a lot of energy uh do you i mean do you have a strategy in terms of how to reach the

00:40:30.180 people so for example i earlier today i appeared on charlie kirk's show you you know who charlie kirk is

00:40:35.640 right yeah of course so his strategy is you know he decided that the university ecosystem is where

00:40:42.560 he needs to be because that's where to to the point of the parasitic mind my book all of these bad

00:40:48.700 ideas they're always spawned on university campuses and then they spread out to the rest of society

00:40:53.680 so do you have a sort of meta strategy of where you want to go or you'll go wherever there is minds

00:41:01.360 that need to be changed i started the organization in 2002 right after 9 11 and my goal was to mobilize

00:41:09.880 people and train them and their activism to have an impact on on our national policy to protect america

00:41:17.920 so what we went because not only we knew that the education is happening in the school system and not

00:41:24.080 just on college campuses but it started with sixth grade all the way up through college so we focused on

00:41:30.100 the education back at the elementary and middle school and high school because we knew that's

00:41:35.720 where the brainwashing is happening but at the same time we realized and when you have a sinking boat

00:41:41.760 yes you can patch immediately where the hole is but you have to have a long-term strategy and our

00:41:48.000 strategy was we cannot just depend on students to change the world a 21 year old kid is not interested

00:41:55.560 in running for school board school board is a nothing position it's a public service position

00:42:00.220 but it's not important we realize a 20 year old is not interested in running for city council city council

00:42:07.300 i mean what's a city council that's a nothing position and so but those are the position that make an impact

00:42:13.660 uh it's the local school board it's the local school board that decide what books your children

00:42:19.980 study at school it is the local city council that decides to defund the police it's the local mayor

00:42:28.540 that decides to tell the police to stand down it's the local state delegates that decide dominion voting

00:42:35.360 machines in your state so we went after those type of position to try to flip community on the political

00:42:43.460 level because we've got a nation to say yes we can wait for the students until they are married in their

00:42:49.180 30s and they have kids where they actually develop okay i need to serve my community uh uh but then we

00:42:55.780 went immediately after uh my work focused on the people who actually sit on that chamber members of

00:43:02.320 the chamber of commerce they sit on boards in their community whether it's a business board they own

00:43:07.380 their own businesses they have a vested interest either their business their life their families their job or

00:43:15.020 their children to protect the nation and that's how we were able to grow the way we grew uh you know they say

00:43:21.220 an overnight success takes 20 years you know people see you all of a sudden successful with a massive

00:43:27.340 operation with a massive national operation builds fast relationship with the white house and in congress and

00:43:33.520 they go oh she's so lucky you know it's amazing she's so successful they don't realize that i started in my

00:43:40.540 guest bedroom with 150 desk because at that time that's all i could afford because the economy

00:43:45.920 collapsed we lost our money but i had determination and it took me 22 years of of sleepless nights heart

00:43:54.480 sweat building the organization block by block and all of a sudden now people look around and say wow

00:44:00.320 how did you do that that's what it takes it's never too late to start but we've got to start somewhere

00:44:05.740 now i probably know the answer to what i'm about to ask but because you you already wield a lot of

00:44:12.500 influence through your grassroots activism but do you ever consider the possibility of you running for

00:44:20.240 political office because that might allow you to have a more you know a quicker turnaround and being able

00:44:26.360 to implement things or do you feel that the current situation is one that allows you to change a lot

00:44:33.480 more minds than you would otherwise within the confined ecosystem of politics

00:44:38.440 i will never run for a political office and here is why if i run for a political office and i get elected

00:44:45.620 i am only one vote right now i influence every single member of congress uh that's how we are able

00:44:52.320 to pass these bills we created a tool called act now campaign we monitor all bills coming down for a vote on

00:44:58.400 the federal level in congress as well as on the state level i have a team that goes through these

00:45:03.440 bills we identify the bill if you want to get behind then we send an act now campaign an email to our

00:45:09.340 members and we say this bill number hr 750 coming down for a vote just got introduced in congress you

00:45:16.740 call your elected officials and we send this email nationwide so we get people from every single state in the union

00:45:24.300 to put pressure on their elected official to either co-sponsor or vote yes on that bill

00:45:29.760 so my activism can influence 200 members of congress and their votes instead of me being one vote

00:45:36.800 we influence presidential elections we influence local elections and look i started my organization

00:45:43.900 george bush was in office george bush came and left obama became president obama came and left

00:45:51.080 uh uh trump became president trump came and left biden is president biden is gonna leave i'm still here

00:45:58.160 i am already i had 250 bills and no matter who's gonna come who's gonna go we are here and we are

00:46:04.760 growing and we are impacting policy is is biden leaving now or are we going to have to suffer another

00:46:11.460 four years please brigitte give us the good news we are trying our darndest to make sure that the

00:46:20.360 senile president of the united states who has no idea what's happening in the country because he is

00:46:26.480 not running the country but the deep state and the members who are pulling him on a string are running

00:46:31.220 the country we are trying to do everything we can in our power to make sure we fix our broken election

00:46:38.340 process to ensure that the rightful successful candidate who actually wins the election will sit at the

00:46:47.540 white house for the next five years instead of somebody who may cheat in order to sit at the

00:46:53.480 white house for the next five years or four years four years inshallah all right is that can you give

00:46:58.720 us a list other than of course signing up for your important newsletters and so on you know here is a

00:47:05.240 recipe of four things that the average person listening to this conversation could go out and do in the

00:47:11.800 next few days so that they at least can feel that they've contributed can you give us a bit of a plan

00:47:16.220 of what everybody can do what the first thing that everybody can do is become engaged in a local

00:47:23.260 political grassroots organization because i know we have a lot of people listening to us in canada right

00:47:27.680 now and and and different parts of the world i'm not just talking to a u.s audience no matter what

00:47:34.200 country you are in immediately you need to be plugged in with passionate people who are working to impact

00:47:39.220 policy in your community whatever group it is second you need to be engaged in the political process and

00:47:47.000 that is by volunteering with a political organization that that bodifies the views that you agree with

00:47:54.560 your views your values uh your free speech you're wanting to preserve western nations you wanted to

00:48:01.740 preserve our freedom what made western civilization great um the freedoms that we have you need to

00:48:07.760 immediately be plugged into these types of people support and show up and volunteer to those

00:48:12.860 organizations they need volunteers like you and they need supporters like you financial supporters if

00:48:18.380 you are busy and you are unable to give up your time do not underestimate the power of your donation

00:48:24.020 whether it's five dollars whether it's ten dollars whether it's one hundred thousand dollars

00:48:29.540 because people who are leading grassroots organizations in your nation in your community cannot operate

00:48:36.660 without funding from the grassroots for example we don't receive any governmental funding we do not

00:48:42.960 receive any government grants because we do not want to be muzzled we rely on the donations of great

00:48:49.300 people like you right now watching us in order to operate and we grow and because i'm speaking to an

00:48:54.880 international audience whatever country you are from right now whatever organization you decide to be

00:49:00.340 involved with in your own community if you are unable to give up your time make sure you support them

00:49:06.460 financially they need you in our case we are a non-profit organization of 501c3 so your donation is tax

00:49:13.500 deductible um i know there's a lot of people listening who go between america and canada if you are any

00:49:19.860 position to support our work i would be so grateful but we are fighting to preserve our values and you know if you

00:49:27.400 are interested in starting a sister organization any like us anywhere in the world start one uh you

00:49:34.160 know we used to have act for canada i think our chapter leader is retiring so maybe you should start

00:49:39.460 an act for canada i know there is action for canada uh you can join as well there are many ways for

00:49:44.580 people to support and contribute wonderful are there any projects that you're currently working on that

00:49:51.380 you might want to use this platform to promote it could be a next book you're working on

00:49:56.080 a new endeavor tell us what's going to be keeping brigitte busy for the next year or two

00:50:02.300 uh what's keeping brigitte busy is the united states election uh this year uh wanting to make sure that

00:50:09.180 we have the right people in office and also making sure we are safe and secure right now we have many

00:50:14.120 bills in congress that supports law enforcement and gives the power to law enforcement this is why we

00:50:19.680 are working so hard on on the mayoral races on the on the local races but also on bills in congress that will

00:50:27.620 make sure we'll penalize students who are using the the the democracy the open-mindedness of the west to

00:50:35.400 basically create a third world country structure like the countries they left and they came here look they are

00:50:42.420 in america or in canada because they cannot do in saudi arabia what they are doing in america and in canada they

00:50:48.060 cannot do in jordan what they are doing in america and in canada you know in jordan the king's step

00:50:53.900 brother is in jail because the king threw his step brother in jail because his step brother was arguing

00:50:59.500 with him about power there was a power struggle we are a nation where all people from the middle east

00:51:05.640 from these third world countries come to because they love our freedom and we need to stand up and 0.99

00:51:10.860 protect our freedom welcoming them into our country does not give them the right to destroy our country to 0.99

00:51:17.080 destroy our national monuments to destroy our universities to destroy the peace in our country

00:51:22.420 we have a right to live in peace and security in our own nations and any guest who comes to our

00:51:29.420 nation they need to abide by our laws so our number one thing right now is we are working with

00:51:34.740 on many bills with congress so i encourage you to sign up to get our emails and action alerts they're free

00:51:41.020 they don't cost you anything go to act for america.org right now sign up to receive our emails and action

00:51:48.200 alert and if you have a dual citizenship and american canadian citizenship you can take action

00:51:53.660 about the bills being introduced in congress so we want to empower you we want your voice heard so

00:51:59.280 please stand with us go to act for america.org right now i'm going to say something in arabic then i'll

00:52:05.420 try to translate it as we close out this uh conversation

00:52:08.520 i said to brigitte one of the you know arabic is is a very beautiful language that has very sort of

00:52:25.600 flowery intonation to it so one of the things that you tell someone when you're saying goodbye

00:52:30.820 it's it is impossible to be satiated of you that means that just like when you eat imagine you can

00:52:38.940 eat and you could never get full this is how you tell someone when you are enjoying so much the

00:52:44.220 conversation brigitte thank you so much for coming i hope this will be the first of many future

00:52:48.540 conversations i look forward to seeing you in person you are a hero keep fighting stay on the line

00:52:54.300 so we could say goodbye offline thank you so much for coming it was fantastic thank you for having me with

00:52:59.520 you cheers

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - May 13, 2024

My Chat with Brigitte Gabriel, On Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinians, and Islam (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_669)

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