Trump's Victory, Musk's Influence, and Growing Up Jewish in Lebanon (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_746)
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Summary
Dr. Ghad Saad is a visiting professor and global ambassador at Northwood University, a famed author, and a former journalist. He has over a million followers on Twitter, and Elon Musk is one of his biggest fans. And it s not hard to see why. Dr. Saad calls out nonsense, and is warning that what he saw as a Jewish child in Lebanon is a lot closer to home than we might think.
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Dr. Ghad Saad is a big deal, to put it bluntly.
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He calls out nonsense and is warning that what he saw
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as a Jewish child in Lebanon is a lot closer to our home
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He's a visiting professor and global ambassador
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I'd imagine it would be a little bit tough being in that position.
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Lebanon was not this utopia of progressive tolerance.
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I mean, you're tolerated until you're not, right,
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So I tell many stories of how difficult it was to be Jewish in Lebanon,
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So, for example, when I was five, the Egyptian president,
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Well, when he passed away, all the people would go on the streets,
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and the first thing that they would sing or chant or shout was,
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So as a five-year-old boy, I was looking at my mother and saying,
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the teacher asked us to stand up and say what we were going to be
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I want to be a soccer player, I want to be a doctor.
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And so one of my friends who knew that I was Jewish stood up and said,
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when I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer to raucous laughter and applause.
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And so this is the kind of life you lived in Lebanon as a Jewish boy.
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So you're giving examples of what it was like for you in Lebanon as a Jew
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from decades and decades ago, but so much of that mentality sounds very familiar.
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In fact, it's starting to rear its ugly head now in 2024 and has been since October 7.
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Look, if you allow millions of immigrants to come into host nations that are generous
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by virtue of the fact that they're letting these people in,
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and those people come from cultures where you have 95% to 99% of polled people
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exhibiting endemic Jew hatred towards the Jews,
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it doesn't take a fancy professor to tell you what's going to happen to Jew hatred
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And so that's exactly what I had been warning about in Canada,
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and that's exactly what we now see in every corner of every street.
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What really frustrates me about the pro-Hamas, and they say pro-Palestinian,
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they're not, they're pro-Hamas-types waving flags and cheering on terrorists,
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So they'd say to someone like me who stands against terror alongside the only country
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who's fighting it right now that I don't care about children in the Middle East,
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The only reason I stand against terror is because I care desperately about all children
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in the Middle East, and I want the people killing them,
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It's a bit of false rhetoric, but it actually trampolines into my next book,
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So empathy is a wonderful and laudable virtue to possess,
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as long as it is directed towards the right targets in right measure.
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So it's not that empathy is bad no matter what,
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but if I care more about Central American illegal migrants than I care about American vets
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who've lost their limbs protecting the United States,
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So I think the example that you just discussed is exactly that.
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Oh, that will absolutely be a bestseller, I've got no doubt at all.
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My dad was a politician here in Australia, a former major general,
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and he was an architect of what they called Operation Sovereign Borders,
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which essentially stopped people smugglers bringing people here illegally by boat,
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And it's like, no, we're actually saving people's lives.
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Now, you took 2X and you said that you might now have to hide under a desk in fear.
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Explain that to me and tell me you don't appear to be under a desk right now,
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But no, I'm, of course, elated that he won to the dismay of nearly 100% of my academic colleagues,
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all of whom are saying that women will now no longer have any access to health care,
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trans people will be executed, Jews will be in internment camps.
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It really is a level of orgiastic, unhinged irrationality that is an affront to human reason.
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And the exact same people who are saying that he hates women and that women aren't safe
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in America now are the ones who sided with Hamas after October 7, who denied the rape of Jewish
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women, who marched in the streets, flying the flags of the terrorists who killed people,
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Now, I mentioned Elon Musk at the start of our interview.
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And what kind of role do you see him playing in a Trump administration?
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I don't think that Donald Trump would have been elected were not for, number one, Elon Musk
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buying Twitter, now called Edge, and then putting his influence into the final stretch.
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But I think that it looks like if he does try to remove some of the excess fat that occurs
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with any institution, and certainly the U.S. government, if he did only that, it would
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So I think let's start with there and see where it goes.
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Highly educated, reasonable, rational, things that are quite rare these days.
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We only achieve it when young kids straight out of the womb are not taught that anybody
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who doesn't share their religion is to be eliminated or converted.
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It has nothing to do with any of the things that you hear about.
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It's got nothing to do with colonialism and Zionism.
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It has to do with endless orgiastic teaching of hatred of the other.
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However, once that is removed, Golda Meir, who was a prime minister of Israel in the late
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60s and up to the mid-70s, said that once the Palestinians love their children more than
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Doctor, thank you so very much for speaking with me.