E521 Bassem Youssef
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 55 minutes
Words per Minute
190.72719
Hate Speech Sentences
185
Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Bassem Youssef, a comedian, writer, and political commentator who was born in Egypt and now lives in America. He's been called "The Jon Stewart of the Arab world" and has been vocal about the Israel-Palestine conflict for years.
Transcript
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Today's episodes are regarding the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
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I've heard a lot about this issue and I want it to deepen my own understanding.
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I recognize that this is a sensitive topic, but the only way to truly learn is to seek knowledge.
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I decided to have guests from both sides of the aisle, if you will, to help me learn by sharing their views.
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I did this in separate episodes because I'm not a debate moderator, and I chose guests who I thought would share their views sincerely,
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I'm very thankful to have the opportunity to learn, which is something that they don't even have in some countries.
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Today's guest is a comedian who was born in Egypt and now lives here in America.
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He's also a political commentator, writer, and a former medical surgeon.
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He's been called the John Stewart of the Arab world and has been pretty vocal about the Israel-Palestine conflict for years.
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You may have seen his viral appearance on Piers Morgan.
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And what kind of like, so your audience is predominantly, because you're Egyptian.
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And is your audience mostly like Egyptian folks, or does all Middle Eastern people come out and support a Middle Eastern comedian?
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and then maybe 20%, like Indian, Pakistanis, and then the rest are white.
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So I get like between 20% to 30% white people, but it's different from each state, from each show.
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Yeah, you've been doing comedy, because you were a surgeon.
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And I say in my show, I mean, you do that because that's what's expected of you in the Middle East.
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In the Middle East, you're expected to be one of three things, a doctor, an engineer, or a disappointment.
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So I went into medicine, and I went there for 19 years.
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I wasn't the guy who's cracking jokes in class or anything.
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And then, so how do you realize that you're able to be a comedian then?
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And I just happened to be like a regular fan for Jon Stewart.
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And so I watched Jon Stewart for years, and I had this dream of maybe I'll be a writer
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So when the revolution happened, and I saw the kind of crazy stuff that they've been showing
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So it's like the craziest conspiracy theories ever.
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So the states-run media was running all kinds of crazy stuff.
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So I started doing YouTube videos, making fun of it.
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And in two weeks, I had millions of views on my YouTube channel that I just opened.
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I didn't even have a YouTube channel before that.
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And then suddenly, every single platform, every single television station won me on the show.
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And I hired people who were not in the business, people who were like amateurs, like me.
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And it became the biggest show in the Middle East, and I had 40 million people watching
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I had even the signal, the satellite signal jammed a couple of times.
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When you, when you, when you make fun of people and everybody hates us, it's like, okay, I
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I didn't know, you know, like I was everything.
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I should come here and Hollywood should open its door.
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Yeah, so I, I think it's got to be a big transfer.
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That would have to be one of the scariest things I think for a comic is going to another
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country because the entire template of everything is different.
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Like the, the pentameter of what's funny, like things that people know and don't know
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And then you're in a whole new space and Hollywood does not care really.
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And you have to understand, I was even a comedian who changed.
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I just left medicine, did a show out of nothing, became successful.
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So I only had two, three years under my belt coming to America as an, as a comedian in
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So I, I started doing standup comedy and I sucked so bad because it's my second language.
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And also I did, it's not just the language, it's the rhythm, the music.
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Each language has its pauses, its rhythm, its cadence.
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And I, I would write stuff that would be intelligent, but I wouldn't deliver it right.
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So I went into the years of darkness and the humiliation.
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And that was here in the U S that's when you first started standup?
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Uh, I, uh, I did, um, I did something in, uh, oh, the improv, like open mic and it was terrible.
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And, uh, I did a few open mics and then I, uh, I, but, but here's the thing, here's the trick.
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What helped me is that I was someone with a good story.
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So I didn't go into comedy the whole, the, the first, all, all, like right away.
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I'm like, ah, I came from the revolution, Egypt.
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So I wouldn't go to talk to universities and stuff.
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And then I was like, oh, I have a five minutes.
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So I would go back and forth, back and forth, back and went, went for years.
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And when COVID hit, I still went on the road because I needed to have any time I can get.
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So I'll go and I would play for five people, six people.
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Uh, and, uh, it was funny that people knew me from Egypt, from my, my own country, Arabs
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It's like, oh, we have to come and see Basim Yusuf.
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Now in their mind is this guy with this huge show and they come and I'm a struggling comedian.
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Maybe he'll be driving an Uber in three months.
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Started to fill in spaces, places, have kind of a few sold out shows and it went well.
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And last year I was actually talking about shooting my special already.
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I was having interest and, uh, then October 7th happened and then I blew up because of
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When I was, uh, complaining about not, not having enough people coming to me, I wasn't
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After October 7th, now everybody knew who I am.
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If I was, if that, if the Piers Morgan thing happened, if that-
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Two years later, I wouldn't be good enough at people who come and get disappointed.
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So I think I took my time and I think I'm grateful for that.
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You said about like your time and how it like, you think you have, I remember when
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I first thought I had like five minutes, I'd be like, I'm like, guys, I'm doing, I got
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But then you realize if you have five minutes, you really only have like two minutes, you know,
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it's like when it really, when you cook the fat down and kind of figure things out.
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A comedian friend of mine, Amir Kay, connected us and he works with me a lot on the road.
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And this was absolutely, this was just so funny and insightful and ridiculous.
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Did you know it would have that big of an impact?
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That's, I went into that and I was warned by everyone that I know that not to go on
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Because at the time with October 7th, there was a certain story and a certain perception
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and no one was allowed to talk outside of the perception.
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And my wife is half Palestinian and her family in many of them are in Gaza.
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And, and she lost many of her family members all through the years, but it became so natural
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that Gaza gets, gets bombed that it's, it's, it's, it's crazy that this is a part of their
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It's like, yeah, we don't, we don't, I don't even hear anyone about anybody of her family
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And that's not just like the last eight months.
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So, uh, when that happened and I saw there's, this is one sided and our, my side of the story
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is not being allowed to talk, but nobody's is willing to listen because everybody was
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So when he went in and he said like, how's everybody?
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It's like, well, I know I tried to kill my wife, but she's using my kids as human shields.
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So I use the same stuff that they're using because it, the, the way that they were justifying
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One of them was by Ben Shapiro and even DeSantis.
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He said, well, you know, Israel warns Palestinians before bombing them.
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So, so like if, so if Putin warns Ukrainians, it's okay for Putin to bomb Ukraine because
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And I, and I, and I find it like, and I said, and I thought like, I think Israel became so
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effective of warning them that they actually be like warned them ahead of their funeral.
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They actually been sending flowers to the funeral.
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It's like a, we're very sorry for your upcoming loss.
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I mean, it's like, it's like, are you guys gaslighting us?
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And then, and then I was hearing, oh, there's so many babies we kill, but we cannot help it.
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If you're the most funded, most advanced, most trained, most supported military in the
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Middle East, and you can't help killing babies, maybe you can stick to your day job.
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Maybe, maybe genocide is not the hobby for you.
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It's just, so it kind of like drew, it was, for me, it, the, the, the, a justification just
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So I took every single element that they were taking and I just regurgitated back to them.
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It's like, exactly what they did, kill more people.
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Kill more because the whole idea, if you talk about ceasefire of please stopping the killing,
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you have all kinds of arguments not to say, all right, let's do whatever you want, guys.
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And then show them how ridiculous, because this is what comedy does.
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It's like, all right, let's see, let's see your idea.
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And let's multiply by hundreds and see how that feels.
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Because it is funny how the most crazy question that they asked me, remember that, Theo?
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It's like, I find it very interesting how the media suddenly is interested in calculus.
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It's like, if one Hamas rocket equals 10 Israeli strikes, how many funerals can we plan for next week?
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Are there people in Gaza that are consuming your content that are able, do you think it's bringing some relief?
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Because you understand, Gaza is basically, it's sealed off.
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I love it how it was just like, ah, we left Gaza.
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Yes, but you're making an embargo of sea and water and land.
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You cannot give five calories inside without going through the checkpoint.
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It was like, we're not occupying you, but we are locking you from outside.
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So when they get internet, sometimes they do, and I get a lot of people supporting, and someone sent me a video that made me cry.
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In the middle, after a bombing, they were like sitting, kids, and they were playing my video.
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Somebody downloaded it, and they blamed my video on like an old television in the rubble, and that made me cry.
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Oh, so yeah, just so my listeners know, because a lot of us, we're curious about Israel and Palestine.
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But some of us, we don't even know like what's going on there, you know?
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Because also a lot of the news you get, you're like, is this news even accurate, you know?
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So what do you feel like is happening between Israel and Palestine?
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Well, I don't want to talk about October 7th, not just now, because things didn't start on October 7th.
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There is a country called Palestine that's been there, and in this piece of land, many people have went in and out, had kingdoms, have empires, have states, and they were like any other place in the world, right?
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So very recently, and I would take as recently as like 150 years, there was a promise by the Jewish people in Europe to have a national state or a home in Palestine, which was very weird because if most of those Jews were in Europe, and they were persecuted by people in Europe, even before Hitler, there was pogroms all over.
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And there was pogroms, like kind of like mini holocausts, where they would like go persecute them, and they would like displace them.
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Most Jews in Europe didn't have a good life in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine and Russia.
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And yeah, they have pogroms, it's called pogroms all over.
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Yeah, pogrom right here, an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or Eastern Europe, what you just said.
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So they have been treated quite nasty in Europe for so many reasons.
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Many of them can actually track it back to the whole sin of Jews killing Jesus.
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And since then, the Catholic Church in Europe and many Christians in Europe have really dealt with Jewish people in a horrible way.
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Yeah, well, you should have killed somebody else, I think, because they're going to hold that against you.
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Was it like one of those murder mystery dinners or something like that?
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No, because it was the new religion, and then there was the whole idea about Jews pushing the Roman ruler to crucify Jews.
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But that doesn't matter, because you shouldn't kill anybody for the sins of their parents.
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Now I also, but if you're going to aim, you got to aim high.
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Can you imagine if like they're going with Jesus and then somebody's like, hey, he's been made.
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So for years and years, it's not going well for them.
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And then after First War I, there was a promise by the British government to the Jews to establish a home in Palestine.
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As a matter of fact, the British government gave the Jewish people about 8,000 acres in Uganda in order to start a home.
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But it was difficult for the Jewish council at the time or the Zionist council at the time to bring people to go to Uganda or to Argentina.
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It's like, no, the only way that we can do it is to send them to Palestine because it's the holy land.
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So did they choose Palestine or the British people are?
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In 1917, there's something called the Balfour Declaration, which was one of the British government who said,
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we can give you the state of Palestine as your homeland.
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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War,
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announcing its support of the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine,
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then an Ottoman region with a small minority of Jewish population.
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I like your fact-checking everything, and it's coming great.
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Well, I just, this is good because I always wonder some little things, and I know little things, but I don't know enough.
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But before 1917, there was other trials with other options for the countries I told you.
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Many Orthodox Jewish rabbis objected for Palestine to be the homeland
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because in their Jewish faith, we cannot have a land for Israel until the Messiah, the real Messiah,
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because they don't believe in Jesus, their Messiah would come.
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So they were a huge opposition for having a land of Israel in Palestine.
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It should wait until the Messiah to come, and then that will create the land of Israel.
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So wherever the Messiah sewed up, that would be the land of Israel.
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But the secular Zionists at the time, they said like, okay, how about like we build the land,
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So because here's the thing, because many of the people who talk about like Israelis being like a biblical promise,
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even they were not having a consensus of what, where should we have.
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So whoever tells you, oh, it's consensus, it's divine.
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So anyways, and at that time, they, especially in the 1930s, after Hitler came to power,
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there were like droves and droves and droves of Jewish Germans and Jewish Polish people,
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And they were like having, they went into refugee boats, and they came to Palestine.
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Because they were not granted visas by the United States.
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They were not granted visas by other European countries.
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So a lot of Jewish, like German Jews, Polish Jews, they weren't granted visas by the West,
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And Palestinians didn't have anything because it was a mandate by the British.
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They were occupying that land, but they were Palestinian people.
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So this became the myth of a land with no people to the people with no land.
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And if you actually find that, you will actually find that thing.
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This was one of the myths, a land with no people to the people with no land.
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So they will tell people, hey, there was no people living there.
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It is just a desert, but it was never a desert.
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There were like more than 1.2 million Palestinians living in that piece of land.
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And then many of those Jewish European residents started to form militias and armed gangs.
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Now were these Jewish people that had just been rescued from the Nazi Germany?
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From the 1930s all the way to the Second World War.
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So they started to move to Palestine, which is now Palestine and Israel.
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Because if you read it, it was giving a promise to make the land in the land of Palestine.
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So even many of those Israelis had Palestinian passports.
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And there were Palestinian people living there.
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Many attacks between the Palestinians and the Jews.
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Because the Palestinians said, like, you're coming from Europe and you're taking our land.
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And those Jews were, like, supported pretty much by the British and the American.
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And you think that's like, oh, we don't want them back.
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So, and then there were a declaration, a UN declaration, a partition.
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And they gave the Jews, who were less than 30%, more than half of the land.
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And they gave the Jew, the Palestinians, who were much more, like 45, 49%.
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Who was helping, not dictate it, but who was helping, like, facilitate it?
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Well, after First, Second World War, after 1945, the British and the Americans were, like, kind of the world superpower.
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And there's, like, a video, black and white video for Truman describing, like, we were trying to please everybody, but it was difficult because we were putting them people into other people's land.
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So, so that, why I'm telling, giving this, because, yeah, these ideas, see, former President Henry Truman talks about generating power in the Middle East.
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It is just like, if you watch them, especially the one in front of the map.
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We had several other people in the country, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that was to be done if they couldn't have the whole of Palestine and everything handed to them on a silver plate so they wouldn't have to do anything.
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You can't move five or six million people out of a country and fill it up with five or six million more and expect both sets of them to be pleased.
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So, you see, and I'm really talking about this because if you want to talk about October 17th, you need to talk about the basis because they will always get like a point of time.
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The basis of this, this was a land of Palestinian people.
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People from Europe came in and they started to import other Jews from other parts of Arab countries.
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And they said, this is our land now for whatever biblical reason would it be because this doesn't make any sense.
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This is like me coming into your podcast studio.
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It's like, hey, my fortune cookie told me that this is mine now and I'm allowed to kill you.
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I don't care about what your Bible or Torah or Quran tells you.
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If you have a holy scripture, good for you, but that doesn't dictate political decision that can affect the lives of other people in the region.
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And what drives me crazy is that we hear the whole idea about like the chosen people or the chosen people or the chosen people.
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But what drives me crazy is the Christian Zionists, the pro-Israel Christian Zionists who say that they are chosen, that the Jews are chosen.
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Like, how come you believe in a religion, in a God, in a doctrine, but you believe that other people from another religion are chosen over you?
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I mean, this is like a religious polygamy, right?
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And I don't, and I'm sick and tired of this whole idea about chosen people.
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And we were like back in the purgatory in our shitty timeshare.
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It's really great advertising if you just say you're the chosen people.
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But it's fine because everybody thinks they're chosen.
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That I'm the only one in heaven and everybody's going to go to hell.
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But I don't understand if they're saying that they're chosen, why the Christian Zionists believe that?
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They would want you to believe that the Zionists simply believe that having a national statehood for Jewish people.
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No, not necessarily because you can be Zionist and still Christian or a Zionist or an atheist because many of the pros...
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I say pro-Zionist or pro-Israel because many of the people in Congress are Christians and they just believe in Zionism.
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Zionism here, as we believe it from an Arab perspective, it is a colonial settling idea of ideology that is based on cleansing the whole group of people out of their land and you coming into...
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If you want to have like a national state, that's fine.
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But you understand they are building it on the state of other people.
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And just to give you a very, very small snippet of the magnitude of what happened, 1948, 15th of May, the day that Israel declared independence.
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On that day, overnight, 750,000 Palestinians, three quarters of a million were displaced overnight.
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Displaced from their village, displaced from their homes, displaced from their cities.
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And you have documentaries where Israeli soldiers, they talk, braggingly talk about like the atrocities that they did and the rape and the women that they raped and all of that happened.
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This is old Palestine with a little of like Jewish spots here and there.
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Suddenly, the UN gave all of that white space to Israel.
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So the Palestinians are like, wait a minute, that doesn't work.
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No, no, but you have to understand like UN has no power.
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You understand that UN now or security, America runs the world.
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So America is the superpower, especially after the Second World War.
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They just like bomb, like drop two nuclear weapons or bombs.
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And you have even Henry Truman's like, we tried, but like we're trying to do it, but it's difficult.
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This is, you see how it went from here to here in less than 50 years?
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How now the Palestinian state, quote unquote state, have become just like islands and islands and islands.
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You have more than 5 million Palestinians living there crushed into these little things.
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Gaza, which is the little strip on the side, it has 2.2 million people.
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And those 2.2 million people were not born in Gaza.
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More than three quarters of them came from outside, but they were pushing them, pushing them, pushing them.
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So we understand this is, this is the state now.
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That's why when they tell you that Israel has the right to defend itself.
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And people say that an occupying force has no right to defend itself as against the people that they occupy.
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So if you are an occupying force, you have no right to defend yourself because you cannot, it's like, does the Nazi Germany has a right to defend itself against the French resistance?
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And this is why, and I want to tell you, well, how come they, if you did October 7th, you should expect that, well, before October 7th, it's been going on and on and on.
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Every single day, a Palestinian will wake up in the morning and an Israeli soldier or Israeli settler can go into their house, burn their house, take their house, kill them, take them as hostages, put them in prison, say that they are terrorists.
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And a lot of people talk about the Israeli hostages.
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You understand, but before October 7th, there are 5,000 Palestinian hostages in prisons.
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One of every five Palestinian has been put in jail.
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So imagine, if, imagine, imagine out of those, about 65 million Americans is in jail right now.
00:32:06.740
So at a certain point, if I'm talking to people who are listening to us now, you have a farm, you have a land, you have, you have your, your, your, your cows, your hurdle, your family.
00:32:15.200
Imagine for 75 years, your house has no privacy.
00:32:24.940
You can't go to sleep knowing that you're going to wake up and your house will be yours in the morning.
00:32:35.020
So you're saying that what happened on October 7th is just a buildup of a long series of things.
00:32:42.160
I know a lot of people say like, I'll give an example, 2014, exactly 10 years ago in Gaza, 2,200 Palestinians were killed, dead, 500 children killed.
00:32:54.280
But they go in because it's, and I gave this example to Chris Cuomo once.
00:32:57.900
It's like, Israel is like, Palestine, Gaza and, and West Bank is like a small fishbowl.
00:33:04.900
And you have the power to go into this fishbowl and you just like, like kick the shit out of those fish anytime you want.
00:33:13.120
At a certain point, one fish will be crazy enough, suicide enough to jump from the fishbowl and, and bite your, with your pinky.
00:33:25.180
You understand, you understand that in, in just eight months, Israel have bombed Gaza more than America has bombed Pakistan, Iraq for eight years.
00:33:40.240
And of course they tell you, oh, it's collateral damage, which crazy, right?
00:33:43.700
It's like, oh, those people that died, this collateral damage.
00:33:46.680
We really wanted to take that terrorist, but the school got in the way.
00:33:52.100
Every time we kill Hamas, they just like, schools and, and babies come out of nowhere.
00:33:59.300
It's like, it's like, I shouldn't be laughing at this.
00:34:01.960
I mean, it's dark because sometimes I feel that Israel has some sort of a program called No Civilian Left Behind.
00:34:07.300
You know, it's like, it doesn't matter if you're a little kid playing soccer or a Hamas terrorist, you get a piece of the action.
00:34:20.940
I haven't, I'm not powerful as the United States.
00:34:24.000
So all I have to do is just like laugh at this.
00:34:28.420
So back to 1948, they displaced 75, it's like 750,000 people and they continue to occupy the land every single day.
00:34:36.300
So you said that in 1948, what was that movement called?
00:34:38.960
And that was just like in one day it kind of happened?
00:34:40.720
Yeah, that's the, that is the establishment of the state of Israel, 1948, 15th of May, 1948.
00:34:46.120
Okay, and so when Israel established itself and were they, or is Israel able to establish itself by itself or did they have to have like support from Britain and America or?
00:34:55.620
Well, Israel didn't establish itself over one day.
00:34:58.880
And they've been doing, they were like having like pushing people into it from other countries and, and, and actually they had a lot of support from England and from, from America.
00:35:11.160
And, and, and, and I find it very interesting how that Israelis make, made Americans think that terrorism is something that has been invented by Arabs or Muslims.
00:35:21.480
Because if you talk to anybody, terrorism, oh, Arabs, Muslims, you know that the first terrorist attack ever in the Middle East was carried out by Israel.
00:35:30.120
1946 in July, Israel bombed King David Hotel, killing 91 British soldiers.
00:35:37.100
That is the, that is the, that is the, and it was led by a stern gang, which is Itzhak Shamir, who was, later became the prime minister of Israel.
00:35:46.200
So, they have been killing people, they have been terrorizing people all through, and then they called Palestinians terrorists.
00:35:53.420
And when that, so when that one day comes the establishment of Israel as a country, is it like a certain, at that day, is there just like a mass where everybody has to move out of this space and this is ours and this is yours?
00:36:03.080
They basically move them into, if you go get back the map, they move them into the West Bank and in, in, in, in Gaza.
00:36:08.140
And then in that map that we've been, yeah, in, you see the third one?
00:36:15.780
1967, we go to war with Israel, Egypt goes to war, get its ass kicked because we had Nasser messing up big time.
00:36:28.940
And then now, and then after that, Israel could actually completely control the West Bank and in Gaza.
00:36:34.340
So now, this is under, so what you could see in all of these green marks is an occupation.
00:36:43.780
It's a military force that is occupying people and it is an occupation because of a land that has been disintegrated from this to this.
00:36:52.620
So was, so you're saying that the, it wasn't, the, the occupation, it was by force, it was never by like agreement.
00:37:08.680
There's no lease when you occupy, what did the lease say in France when Nazi came in, when Nazi came in and took over your land?
00:37:16.520
You have, you have people coming in with the, most Jewish people I know are landlords, you know?
00:37:20.460
So it's like, I can't imagine they would do this without a lease.
00:37:24.660
Well, if you have an army next to you, why would you need a lease?
00:37:27.700
Because, because till today, till today, like you have, go into the internet and find just like, uh, Israeli settlers, uh, uh, uh, terrorizing, uh, uh, uh, Palestinian farmers.
00:37:44.380
So, and this is why I'm talking because everybody is focused on this little strip, on the Gaza Strip.
00:37:49.900
But people don't know what is happening in those green scattered.
00:37:55.940
Every single day, people, by the way, the, uh, the, the hostages are not 5,000 people anymore.
00:38:07.620
So when, when you talk about hostage and, and, and I just want to get people back October 7th, when Hamas did this, and I'm not defending Hamas, I'm not into any kind of support of any group.
00:38:18.080
But they said, we will release the hostage if you release our hostages, because you have been going into our houses and taking people, half of the people, the 5,000 people that I told you about, half of them are women and children.
00:38:29.780
So, and, and then they, they, and I'll just give you an example, because I know what would people tell you.
00:38:37.960
Uh, Suad Zuraykat, she is a Palestinian mother.
00:38:48.560
And then she wrote on Facebook, may God unite us in heaven.
00:38:52.120
The Israeli, uh, uh, authority considered that as an incitement for terrorism.
00:38:57.320
And they took her and they put her in detention for eight months.
00:39:00.300
That's the kind of people that they will take you for terrorism.
00:39:03.740
And, and I'm not saying that there is violence, but put yourself in their place.
00:39:11.280
Your, your, your kids are being taken in front of you.
00:39:13.560
Your, your woman, your husband, your wife may be even raped and taken away and sexually molested.
00:39:27.320
So you're saying that over time, it's like a slow devouring of, of the Palestinian people
00:39:39.940
And when you, when you fight back, you're called a terrorist.
00:39:43.060
Now let's go back to October 7th, because this is very important.
00:39:47.120
October 7th, Hamas, which is a militant group that is living in Gaza, that has won the election
00:39:53.420
in 26, to 2006, but they were never allowed to take power because Israel started bombing
00:40:02.900
And when they ran for election, what were they, were they like?
00:40:06.020
They were, they were, they were, they were running as a group.
00:40:08.440
I mean, Hamas was, Hamas is a, they don't like the, the Palestinian authority that was
00:40:15.100
So they, and, and Israel, Netanyahu was so happy with that.
00:40:18.840
And they started to give money to Hamas in order to bolster them and make them stronger.
00:40:23.980
And he said in the Likud party, in his, in his party, he said, the only way to prevent
00:40:29.340
a Palestinian state is to make the Palestinian factions fighting the whole time.
00:40:38.060
So you're saying that Netanyahu, who is the president of Israel.
00:40:43.140
He saw that, okay, there's this alternative group, Hamas, who that, who is causing conflict
00:40:51.360
with the people who are in charge in Palestine.
00:40:55.540
And, and Hamas was, I wouldn't say that they were moderate.
00:40:58.080
They would say like, we want to eradicate Israel, whatever.
00:41:00.680
And then they, they kind of revised their charter, but they weren't fun, like fun, like fans
00:41:10.040
They, they, you have, you have Netanyahu on tape, actually confessing, facilitating their,
00:41:22.500
Like, it's like, what, what I'm trying, what I'm trying to say is they, they won the election
00:41:35.960
But then they were like infighting and it didn't work.
00:41:39.800
And then they, Israel kind of like created even a bigger embargo.
00:41:43.580
And then the, for the past like 20 years, they're just like been going, every time Hamas
00:41:48.320
like retaliates, Israel retaliates and they retaliate and they retaliate.
00:41:58.860
So you cannot just like cry, oh, we, we're going to perish because of a militant group.
00:42:04.180
If we're giving you that money, we, that doesn't work this way.
00:42:07.940
But here's what I want to talk about, which is the most important thing about October 7th,
00:42:13.820
which I find there is like a big failure of the American media.
00:42:18.000
When October 7th happened, everybody was talking about raping women, decapitating children,
00:42:25.060
And even Antony Blinken, the state, the secretary of state, he went into Congress and he described
00:42:29.880
this scene about the Hamas militants going into a house, raping the woman, blinding the
00:42:36.160
father, cutting the limb of a child, cutting a finger of another child, and then cutting
00:42:41.780
the chest, the breast of a woman and playing football with it and raping it.
00:42:46.980
And I said, wait a minute, how is this happening during war?
00:42:56.280
Because, you know, I understand how big is Israel.
00:42:58.060
Israel is like as small, actually as small as New Jersey.
00:43:01.680
And in that area of New Jersey, there is like, there is a, yeah, you see, you see, it's almost
00:43:11.960
And you understand, you understand, Israel has, has, has, has airfields and military camps
00:43:27.160
Now, that, that, that testimony that I just gave you by Anthony Blinken came out to be
00:43:39.060
So, he went and gave that graphic detail in order to bring money, to get money to send
00:43:45.880
These testimonies came out to be untrue, false, fabricated, because they were promoted by rescue
00:43:59.660
Zaka is a group that has been known to be lying.
00:44:02.860
They fabricated babies in oven, babies in laundry lines.
00:44:08.080
No matter what side you're on, it's like, oh, the babies are here.
00:44:12.900
And if you, if you look, if you look at, if you, if you, if you search, if you search for
00:44:17.100
them, you will find that their lies has been debunked many times by the Israeli media themselves.
00:44:26.260
They said that these people have lied to us and they have collected so much money because
00:44:32.260
And you understand, these are lies that has been repeated by Biden, Antony Blinken, the
00:44:36.860
state department in order to justify the absolute maximum killing of Israel to pass.
00:44:46.180
It's propaganda because, you know, I'm not going to tell you, they killed a million people.
00:44:56.460
Stronger effect because what a baby could do to you.
00:45:04.440
So now these are monster death cult worshipers that we can kill and we can bomb everybody.
00:45:15.360
The Israeli media, because all of the, and not just the Israeli media, the American media
00:45:18.440
have propagated these stories and they have never taken back or refuted a single story.
00:45:28.580
The Israeli media, they made themselves like, guys, this didn't happen.
00:45:31.240
So this is like the strongest bro code I've ever seen in my life.
00:45:34.240
It's like, you know, you're lying for your bro and your bro's like, dude, that didn't happen.
00:45:40.000
So America is lying hard for Israel, while Israel itself, the Israeli media said, guys, that didn't happen.
00:45:47.760
The New York Times article screams without words was debunked to be lies.
00:45:58.800
She's 10 months old and she was died during an exchange.
00:46:03.820
Sheryl Sandberg and New York Times have spread all of these lies and they were debunked many, many times.
00:46:08.780
And still the American media are running with the lies.
00:46:18.760
They're telling me everything that I say now is anti-Semitic.
00:46:22.860
But I'm saying that even the Jewish people in Israel telling you these are lies.
00:46:26.900
Well, my friends, my Jewish friends who, they say that.
00:46:30.800
They say that the media is mostly run by Jewish folks.
00:46:37.920
All of the corporates, all of the CEOs, but that's a different thing.
00:46:42.920
I'm just giving you a case that it didn't have...
00:46:47.000
Well, according to a bill that was passed by the Congress two months ago,
00:46:50.980
there is now an anti-Semitic bill that anything, any criticism to Israel
00:46:57.720
Any criticism to Jewish people who might have a dual loyalty to Israel and America,
00:47:03.940
if you attack them, that will be called anti-Semitic.
00:47:06.380
If you talk about AIPAC controlling the elections and giving money,
00:47:11.980
That's against the First Amendment of the United States.
00:47:13.880
Because I have grown up seeing people shitting on everything,
00:47:20.020
on the American president, on religion, on Jesus Christ.
00:47:28.800
But suddenly when you talk about Israel, which is a foreign country that we give aid,
00:47:46.260
She made a joke and our episode got taken down.
00:47:48.800
But if she made it, it was obviously like a joke, you know?
00:47:51.720
Like, so some of it's just confusing because here's the thing I don't understand.
00:47:58.680
If we're not allowed to say something, at least tell us what it is.
00:48:02.080
They always keep you in this kind of fear of saying something wrong.
00:48:07.960
It's like, guys, like, you have to stop this anti-Semitic because...
00:48:10.640
Well, it becomes this boy that cried wolf kind of thing where it's like you accuse everybody
00:48:14.600
It's like, dude, I have so many Jewish friends.
00:48:19.600
I don't like some of the choices that I feel like that that country makes.
00:48:24.500
I don't have anything against my Jewish friends, though.
00:48:31.280
I say pro-Zionist, Zionist, Israel, pro-Israel.
00:48:37.940
I don't say about Israel because I know that a lot of Jewish people don't like what Israel
00:48:42.160
I know that a lot of Jewish people don't like how they control the Congress.
00:48:46.360
A lot of Jewish people that don't like how AIPAC, which is a foreign lobby, and yet is
00:48:50.460
allowed to operate under American local law, that they can openly brag about buying
00:48:59.760
If you go into AIPAC Twitter account or X account, they would brag about how 98% of
00:49:08.280
Do not accept all cookies if you go over there.
00:49:33.160
So go down, go down, and see what they talk about the elections.
00:49:37.260
When they talk about the elections, they always talk about, like, they end it with, yeah,
00:49:45.840
Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics.
00:49:49.920
100% of ABAC and Dutch Democrats won their primary rate, 100%.
00:49:52.960
How is, like, a foreign country, like a lobby that works for a foreign country, brags about
00:50:03.680
You see, being pro-Israel is good policy and good policy, and every single tweet is like
00:50:09.240
They are basically looking to you in the eyes and say, like, we're buying your elections
00:50:14.500
So I can accept that from NRA, because the NRA is a domestic group, right?
00:50:19.040
At least it presents the interest of American gun owners.
00:50:31.240
And Massey, who said, like, each one in Capitol Hill has an AIPAC handler.
00:50:42.520
It's like your babysitter, your AIPAC babysitter, who is always talking to you for AIPAC.
00:50:53.440
It's just kind of like having an agent or whatever.
00:51:00.020
And I don't understand why every American politician have to go there and bend the knees.
00:51:04.040
And when they come to DC, you go have lunch with them.
00:51:13.040
I'll talk to my AIPAC person, and it's clearly what we call them, my AIPAC guy.
00:51:18.420
I'll talk to my AIPAC guy and see if I can get him to, you know, dial those ads back.
00:51:24.680
Group of Americans who lobby on behalf of Israel.
00:51:29.460
But I think also, it's like, you have to look at it as, like, we live in a country that is a capitalism, right?
00:51:54.320
Right, but you can't hold it against them because they are good at this...
00:51:57.200
Like, you can't hold it against them because they won, right?
00:52:00.000
So, you cannot hold it against Israel, but you hold it against Russia if they try, or China if they try.
00:52:05.300
So, why do we accept it from Israel, but not from Russia?
00:52:12.380
So, you have an AIPAC, which is a lobby, basic lobbying for another country.
00:52:23.140
They paid $100 million in order to buy seats for congresspeople and senates.
00:52:30.240
And because of the people they were able to put there, they were able to approve $26 billion to Israel.
00:52:37.580
As an American, your politicians are being bought for $100 million, and because of that, your country will send $26 billion to a different country.
00:52:48.740
$26 billion that could have been spent in my own country, in my own community.
00:52:53.260
This is the biggest, the best return of investment ever.
00:52:56.900
You pay $100 million, and I take back $26 billion from you.
00:53:00.900
And this is why, when I talk about what's happening, is I'm not even...
00:53:07.600
What you just had, AIPAC targets progressive with $100 million in its coffers.
00:53:12.240
So, basically, anybody who talks against you in Congress, you pay...
00:53:17.900
Basically, you pay them out, and then you take more money.
00:53:22.180
Don't we, as Americans, deserve the $26 billion to be put in our communities?
00:53:27.660
Oh, I think it's like, this is, we give them money, but they control us?
00:53:36.180
This is like a sugar daddy who's being slapped around like a bitch from his sugar baby.
00:53:43.940
This is like, there's like basically picking up a whore in the strip mall, in the strip in Las Vegas,
00:53:49.380
and then suddenly she's in charge of your life.
00:53:52.660
This is like having a dominatrix and stuff like, it's like, I'm going to kick your balls,
00:53:56.440
and you're going to like it, and you're going to pay me $26 billion for it.
00:54:00.220
It's like, that doesn't work, because I come from the Middle East, and I'm used to dictatorship.
00:54:08.060
I'm used to a certain class of people controlling the country.
00:54:11.880
But even then, we knew that these people are not in control, because they had to answer
00:54:16.800
for China or Russia or America or France, right?
00:54:22.660
A democracy-loving country like America or Britain go control a certain country,
00:54:28.180
and it's easier for them to deal with a dictator.
00:54:30.060
So we knew that they were not calling the shots.
00:54:33.800
I'm fine with that, because I'm a third world guy.
00:54:40.100
Now, I came to America, and I became an American.
00:54:42.720
I thought I was like joining, I'm joining the winning team.
00:54:46.840
I will have a say in my country, and then suddenly my country,
00:54:50.160
the most powerful country in the world, the superpower in the world has its policies being dictated
00:54:59.060
And I ask Americans, guys, are you used to this kind of humiliation?
00:55:02.780
You're supposed to be like from a country for the people, by the people,
00:55:06.520
and then suddenly your elections and being dictated by a different country.
00:55:11.020
But to me, the thing is just like making it, is it true or not?
00:55:20.400
So whatever I, I just told you that like a foreign lobby from a foreign country is controlling
00:55:27.160
And then you have, and by the way, I understand how lobby works.
00:55:31.660
Because, but remember when Democrats was giving shit to Republicans,
00:55:36.400
where they're having so much money from NRA, right?
00:55:42.160
And then the Republicans were making, were attacked there.
00:55:46.940
Israel is the only country that gives both sides and nobody questions.
00:55:51.820
So basically it's not, caring about the education will not get you elected.
00:55:56.720
Caring about healthcare will not get you elected.
00:55:59.960
Caring about the wellbeing of your American constituents will not get you elected.
00:56:07.920
We have no sewage, no education, but God bless Israel.
00:56:11.400
It doesn't, you're basically having a lot of people elected for your Congress to look
00:56:16.700
for a different country, look out for a different country.
00:56:22.580
I think a lot of that stuff, like when it hits my heart over the past, like especially eight months, you know, it's been, it makes me feel like there has to be a way better way to figure things out.
00:56:38.160
It is surrounded by enemies that want to wipe our ass.
00:56:46.660
Because one of the reasons I'm sure America and Israel have a, like work together is because they need each other, right?
00:56:55.940
Egypt is the biggest military force in the Middle East.
00:56:59.120
And they have having like a 45 years lasting peace treaty.
00:57:03.920
There has never been a single missile or bullet shot from Israel, from Egypt to Israel, all over that.
00:57:18.980
Do you have, really the big threat for Israel is the little militant group in the Gaza Strip, which is Hamas, and Hezbollah, which is south of Lebanon.
00:57:35.560
So basically you have like two militant groups who doesn't like you, right?
00:57:41.680
And you have all of these Arab countries around you, basically friends with you.
00:57:49.600
You see, Saudi Arabia, they have like almost normalized relationship.
00:57:55.140
You believe that they have, it's pretty stable over there.
00:57:57.320
It is a way to push in war and make you, because if you're not threatened, how can you sell the war?
00:58:02.660
And if you talk about October 7th, see what, they want to be, you believe that before October 7th there were peace.
00:58:09.440
Actually, before October 7th, two weeks before October 7th, Israel bombed Gaza three times.
00:58:14.620
Before October 7th, Israel already killed 75 children in the West Bank in the same year.
00:58:20.260
All of these numbers were happening, all of this ongoing.
00:58:25.820
And you go in and you go in with these lies that has never been refuted by the American media, although it was found to be lies and lies and lies.
00:58:33.840
And you do that because you want to tell people we're dealing with terrorists.
00:58:36.920
All of the Arab countries hate us and we have to kill us.
00:58:40.980
I'm very sorry for the Holocaust, guys, but we had nothing to do with your Holocaust.
00:58:45.000
We were just like minding our fucking business.
00:58:55.880
And then you import people from a different continent because you didn't want them.
00:59:03.980
And then you put them on our land and then you take our land and then you tell everybody, oh, there was no one there.
00:59:08.920
So has America showed up and Britain showed up and tried to help like facilitate like communications to make things better there?
00:59:18.000
There were many tries for peace treaties, but Obama said it best.
00:59:21.960
In his book, he said the problem with Israel and Palestine is that one of them is very strong and one side is very weak.
00:59:27.320
And there's nothing that compels me to give you land.
00:59:30.220
So they will tell you, oh, we gave five chances to the Palestinians.
00:59:36.520
So when you, when I have the whole land and suddenly you're going to give me 49%, that is not a deal.
00:59:42.920
That's like, if you don't like it, we're going to take it from you.
00:59:45.060
If you give me like a shitty deal and you don't, I don't accept it because that is my land.
00:59:49.540
You just can't say like, oh, they didn't accept it.
00:59:52.360
So, but have there been deals offered one way or the other, like peace?
00:59:55.740
Like there's something called the Oslo Accords.
01:00:01.380
And you have Netanyahu bragging on tape saying that I have personally sabotaged the Oslo Accords.
01:00:11.920
The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, signed in Washington, D.C. in 1993, signed in Egypt in 1995.
01:00:21.780
They marked the start of the Oslo Process, a peace process aimed at achieving a peace treaty based on resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
01:00:32.720
Among the notable outcomes, Oslo Awards were the creation of the Palestinian National Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinian governance over parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
01:00:42.260
So this was helping Palestine create a government?
01:00:48.300
The Oslo Peace Accords were wrecked by Netanyahu.
01:00:50.400
And that was written by Avish Lime, who's an Israeli author.
01:00:54.220
Because there's people in Israel that don't agree with Netanyahu, right?
01:00:58.620
But honestly, I'm sick and tired of saying, oh, Netanyahu is bad, but the rest of Israel, no.
01:01:03.240
98% of Israeli communities said that we're not doing enough in Gaza.
01:01:09.500
70% of Israelis said that we should not send humanitarian aid to Gaza.
01:01:14.080
A lot of people, and I don't blame, I mean, I blame them, but like when you tell your people that those are like evils and they're like vampires and they're like killers, of course you're going to hate them.
01:01:25.380
But you cannot expect to treat people like animals.
01:01:29.880
And when they behave like animals, retaliate like animals, you go on and complain.
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How do you, is there a way, because man, it's just, there's so much, there's so much damage done there.
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How do you find, how is there some sort of a solution?
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And why doesn't America and Britain step in and say, look, we helped create this in the beginning.
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We want to be here to help us, like establish safety for these people now.
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Who is controlling the elections and paying for certain people to be there?
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But do we know, but don't, doesn't every country have lobbyists that try to like influence our elections?
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But when you have a foreign lobby that works for an external country, that is not normal to you.
01:02:28.140
But is that considered just like a, you know how we have like little base or a little, what are the places called if you're in London?
01:02:40.540
Don't, is that, isn't that just like them having like a human embassy or something like a.
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I understand, but like that doesn't work with lobbies with, with parliaments.
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And like, this is, again, this is like, imagine a lobby that is openly funded by China and that lobby going there and buying seats for your, for, for people who are pro-China.
01:03:02.500
It's, it's, it's, it should not be accepted in a democratic country.
01:03:09.380
And it would seem like, well, but, but then, you know what, that's where it comes down to capitalism because it's the same shit that we allow where, just like where the, the, that drug company came in and hired former people from the FDA to come and work for their drug company.
01:03:27.100
And, and also, and also the government, I mean, capitalism wants you to believe that there's nothing you can do.
01:03:33.420
Even the free market has some sort of a government control.
01:03:35.760
If a company goes out and become a monopoly, you have antitrust laws and you, and the, and that government can curb that company.
01:03:43.360
But the problem is the government that should curb the influence of a foreign lobby is being paid by the same foreign lobby.
01:03:50.260
So why, who would come up and put like a questioning for Israel lobby?
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You are not going to go into Congress and then ask, why are we following?
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This, this, this is what really make me disenfranchised.
01:04:08.000
I came, you know, I became an American citizen in 2019 and I was so, right in time for the 2020 elections.
01:04:16.620
I'm not going to, I'm not going to vote in the coming elections.
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It's like, so now I'm, why would I even care to vote for anybody while both of them are competing to be Israel's favorite bitch?
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If I'm seeing this, how do, how do I feel as an American?
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Well, I think it's, well, for one, I think a lot of people don't know what to think.
01:04:50.100
A lot of people aren't super clear on maybe what's going on, you know?
01:04:53.100
Because they're not allowed to, because they are being, all they need to know is like to see the headlines of the news.
01:04:58.200
And the headlines of the news is always something bad about Palestinians or something bad about, nothing is bad.
01:05:03.820
They don't spend enough time because they want their ESPNs and they need to their Netflix.
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That's why a lot of Americans are still believing in the raping and the decapitated babies, because you can't stay tuned into the news for long.
01:05:21.640
And then when people say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, that didn't happen.
01:05:27.920
Yeah, I think a lot of people do not even believe the news at all anymore, though.
01:05:31.180
I think the news has super lost a ton of credibility over the years.
01:05:41.600
The Congress getting bought, people getting bribed, $26 billion getting sent to Israel.
01:05:49.140
And then every now and then, why is this happening?
01:05:55.420
Nothing, because they made you check out a long time ago.
01:05:58.080
So we have all of these people looking at what the government's doing, looking at what
01:06:02.300
It's like, that ain't right, but there's nothing I can do about it.
01:06:08.780
In my country, in the Middle East, I do that because you cannot speak up because you're
01:06:15.640
But here, you can speak up, but nothing will happen.
01:06:19.540
Here, I think sometimes you get afraid to even ask questions about stuff.
01:06:23.000
And it's like, well, this doesn't even make any sense.
01:06:25.180
It's like, just at least let things make sense to me.
01:06:28.220
For me, not be able to ask questions and shit is just fucking, that's the thing that's
01:06:35.320
So if you go and you repeat what I just told you, it's like, oh, he's a liar.
01:06:46.460
On the second Piers Morgan interview, I went up to him and I gave him a story.
01:06:49.420
I told him that Israel used to give contraceptive pills to the Ethiopian Jews, Ethiopian Jewish
01:07:01.160
And for more than 15 years, Israel would give them contraceptive shots without them knowing.
01:07:09.560
They would not allow them to breathe because they are black.
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I was in Atlanta at the Coca-Cola factory or whatever.
01:07:21.300
And you can taste all the sodas from around the world.
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Ethiopian women in Israel giving contraceptive without consent, huh?
01:07:33.500
So when Benjamin Netanyahu was in the government and he came out and he personally apologized,
01:07:50.200
So this is, I'm just preparing you that every time you're going to tell them something,
01:08:04.360
You know, it's like people are, especially if people are up to no good, nobody wants to
01:08:11.840
It's like you saying something and somebody, you're a racist.
01:08:13.940
It's like, wait, what did I just said that was racist?
01:08:29.200
But this is, you're anti-Semitic, you're racist, you're a homophobe.
01:08:32.400
The way that they use, like the same way as, oh, you're Islamophobe.
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I don't know if anybody cares about that shit anymore.
01:08:40.140
Well, people have thrown around some of those terms so many times.
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It's like the boy that cried wolf kind of in a way.
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It's like, you can't, I can't, you can't make it feel like I can't ask something or
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It just, sometimes it just, sometimes some, some of that stuff is strange.
01:08:58.100
I mean, some of this stuff is even hard to talk about because it's like, I worry that even
01:09:02.080
just by having like some of this conversation, it's like, you just, it's kind of scary because
01:09:07.460
I don't know what I could get in trouble for, but, but this is scary, man, because like
01:09:12.180
So like, I'm kind of like following your lead guys.
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And I'm saying like, wait, isn't this country made, created on the cornerstone of freedom
01:09:20.880
Why is there some things that we are not allowed to speak about or afraid?
01:09:27.480
Come here and speak and say whatever you want, no matter how offensive it is.
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But then suddenly you come here and you find all of these red lines.
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And I, and I was made fun of like when I came from, oh, you came from the Middle East.
01:09:51.320
Then that red line, you, everybody can see you guys cannot be able to talk about, which
01:10:05.820
I heard that Jesus, Jesus did like a lot of impersonations and stuff.
01:10:16.360
I don't know why I read that, but he would do like impersonations, I guess, or whatever.
01:10:20.540
He would be like the, the, the, the, the, the archangel Michael.
01:10:23.860
And it's like, hey, Jesus, but, but he, he's an archangel.
01:10:30.280
But, but, but, but, but I, and, okay, I'll tell you something about, like, things that
01:10:37.980
We were, we're basically profiled as, as Muslims that we hate.
01:10:47.280
It's like a, I don't want to say it's a racial slur, but if it is, you're welcome.
01:10:53.840
It's kind of like, whenever we say Muslims, we say, we say Slims.
01:11:04.680
And I, I, I, one thing that kind of like drives me clear sometimes, like, oh, we like
01:11:11.300
And then politicians, like, we go, Judeo-Christian values.
01:11:16.540
Like, guys, what do you talk about Judeo-Christian values?
01:11:19.000
You understand that people in, in Israel hate Christians.
01:11:25.220
You go right now in the video and you write Israelis spitting on Christians in Bethlehem
01:11:31.840
or, uh, uh, spitting on Israel, on Christians in, in, in Israel.
01:11:38.280
Spitting, hitting, attacks on Israel and surging in Israel, occupied Islam, ultra-Jewish, spitting
01:11:48.840
This might not be an everyday thing because I have a lot of friends that are Jewish and
01:11:54.260
It's just like the videos keep scrolling as we say, that's not that very, you see how
01:12:01.980
That's not that everything, but we happen to have a hundred videos to say that that's
01:12:10.920
And you have actually one of their, uh, uh, one of their ministers, Ben Gavir, who is
01:12:16.720
the basic national security, as I said, it is actually part of our, it's part of our
01:12:23.020
And many of the rabbis would say that Jesus right now, Jesus is a son of a whore.
01:12:30.780
She made up the whole thing about the son of God in order to cover for her adultery.
01:12:35.480
And Jesus, and Jesus right now is in, is being burned with feces and semen for eternity.
01:12:42.660
So basically, I don't know if you follow this trend.
01:12:50.060
So basically when Christians go there, the, the, the, the, all, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
01:13:05.080
So, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm not saying that this represent all Jews, but what
01:13:09.340
I'm saying is if you want net pick about this, because I grew up as a Muslim and all of those
01:13:15.000
videos net picking of like, oh, look at this extreme Muslim who said that, oh, this must be
01:13:21.900
And we have a lot of those videos and nobody's talking about it.
01:13:25.080
So you understand like how this is personal for me.
01:13:27.860
And I'm fine talking about those horrible people in the Muslim community, but talk about
01:13:35.280
And I'm, and I'm, and I, by the way, and I hate the word Islamophobe.
01:13:37.960
Anybody is, is allowed to talk about Islam or the Quran or whatever.
01:13:41.380
I will never call you an Islamophobe, but I'm an equal opportunity offender.
01:13:45.040
If you talk about my religion, let's talk about everybody's religion.
01:13:47.800
If you're going to talk about my politics, let's talk about everybody's politics.
01:13:54.540
I am just asking for my right as an American to be able to speak about everything without
01:14:00.840
having fear of being canceled or having my, my career canceled.
01:14:08.880
My opportunities in Hollywood dried up completely after I, I talked about it.
01:14:12.460
Do you think it's tougher for, um, Arabic and Islamic, um, entertainers in Hollywood?
01:14:19.420
Oh, it is tougher, but there's also people who are not Muslims, who are not, uh, Arabs
01:14:23.680
who were had canceled because of their opinions.
01:14:26.560
There have been, uh, blacklists of people in tech companies that have been removed from
01:14:35.160
And of course you remember what happened in these colleges were like American students
01:14:39.100
were being beaten by American police for the sake of a foreign country.
01:14:43.640
You understand like the American university movement, which one of the most amazing movement
01:14:51.260
They went out against South Africa and now they went out against Israel and they're being
01:14:55.160
hit and, and, and, and, and, and penalized in their own campuses for just speaking up.
01:15:02.920
I feel like they should be able to do that at campuses.
01:15:04.720
But then what happens is investors, uh, or donators to the campuses who don't, who believe
01:15:10.860
what they, what they believe, they choose to take their money away.
01:15:21.260
So if you, uh, right, please, uh, Jewish billionaires threaten Columbia universities
01:15:37.040
Pro-Israel Jewish billionaires cut, look, I, there it is.
01:15:40.420
Billionaires stop Columbia cash over anti-Israel protests.
01:15:42.800
Columbia billionaires doers are more giving a million.
01:15:44.820
So you see, what does it, so, so your donors, your donors, the donors have more loyalty to
01:15:51.240
a foreign country and telling you, if you speak about, against that foreign country, I'm not
01:15:55.780
But it makes sense though, that you, that makes sense.
01:15:58.460
If you think that, that you say you're a, uh, like I'm a New Orleans Saints fan.
01:16:03.060
If somebody, if somebody puts up a Falcons flag, an Atlanta Falcons flag, and I'm a New Orleans
01:16:07.900
Saints fan and it's my bar or something, or I'm the one that helps take care of the place
01:16:15.000
I'm going to say, well, I'm not going to help take care of this place anymore.
01:16:17.280
If you support, but the Falcon and myself, these are two people in the league, in an American
01:16:22.020
league, but you are basically talking about a different, you're, I'm not even talking
01:16:26.780
about, I'm not even discreet, attacking your team.
01:16:29.900
I am, I am, I am saying, I'm saying that I don't want my college to take part from, I,
01:16:39.540
They said that we need to divest from any investment with the Israeli army.
01:16:48.900
Like, I don't want my universities, the one that I pay tuition to, to be involved with
01:16:55.380
the military or the, or the Israeli, that's fair.
01:16:59.620
And then you have, no, we need to be involved in other people's shit and you need not to
01:17:09.200
Well, why don't like, um, Arab, like, why don't different groups start to build their
01:17:14.240
own strongholds of like university and, um, like media so that everybody can have their
01:17:25.040
I don't know that there's much for money in the Arab community.
01:17:30.100
We just, we just said that like Jewish people are very good in business.
01:17:38.100
So, but like, you see, if that is the case, don't call it a democracy anymore.
01:17:42.660
If the, if the whole idea about like who pays the more money, it's an oligarchy.
01:17:50.580
Whoever has more money, but that's dangerous because tomorrow China might have more money
01:17:56.540
So it has to be a fair game for everybody, but it's not fair because now they say TikTok,
01:18:02.200
we need to ban TikTok because it's, it's, it's, it's, it's against Israel because it's
01:18:06.680
So it's, you're not even making the, the, the, the, the, the, the game fair.
01:18:11.100
If, if, if, if Israel can buy its way through it, anybody should buy its way through it.
01:18:17.260
You're saying, well, then if that's the case, then China should be able to do it too.
01:18:20.660
And Saudi Arabia is able to do it and Iran is able to do it.
01:18:33.960
You see, but these things, we repeating that, oh, Israel is our greatest ally.
01:18:38.820
I don't know, but you have to have, well, here's why.
01:18:40.840
I believe, this is what I've always been kind of like, I guess, heard, is that you have
01:18:46.400
to have an ally in the Middle East because there's so much oil and power and money over
01:18:52.120
America doesn't have allies in the, all about Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producing
01:18:55.440
company in the world, Iraq, Egypt, these are, UAE, all of Kuwait, all of these are allies
01:19:05.280
Saudi Arabia is the most beneficial for your economy.
01:19:10.700
Except for those two buildings in New York City, dude, outside of that.
01:19:16.080
Because I guess somebody owed somebody some money or something.
01:19:19.420
Let's talk about 9-11 now because it's a bigger issue.
01:19:21.880
We don't, we're going to go really down the rabbit hole.
01:19:29.660
It has ruined your reputation in front of everybody.
01:19:38.280
And that's why they hate, they hate America because what Israel is doing in Palestine.
01:19:48.100
And if you find America supporting the killing of my own people, you can't help but people hate
01:19:53.160
At a certain point, I don't think that Israel is a good ally for us.
01:20:01.520
The Jewish Defense League, there are three people from the Jewish Defense League in 1994
01:20:05.120
who killed an American citizen and they escaped to Israel.
01:20:17.700
There is a book called By Way of Deception by Viktor Ostrovinsky who is an ex-Mossad officer
01:20:26.460
who said that Israel knew about the 1982 Lebanon bombing where 52 Americans were killed and Mossad
01:20:34.140
held the information because they want to do it in spite.
01:20:42.060
Israel harbors the biggest number of pedophiles in Israel, more than 50 people at least from 2014 by the Jewish Watch community.
01:20:53.260
There's actually a Jewish group who have actually said that.
01:20:56.500
So you have people who are molesting American children in America and they're escaping to Israel using the dual nationality thing
01:21:07.640
If somebody's a molester, you got to send them back.
01:21:20.640
You see how Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel.
01:21:27.500
A lot of them, too, would hide by the Winn-Dixie in our area.
01:21:35.780
Is an ally giving you $100 million to bribe your politicians, buy your elections and then make you pay $26 billion?
01:21:44.960
If someone takes $70 million of tax-exempt money for their veterans, that's not a work of an ally.
01:21:50.240
But how many issues did America create for itself just with its own practices of doing those sorts of things to other countries and stuff?
01:22:08.560
I mean, America has known to finance and carry out coups in all kinds of different countries.
01:22:15.360
In Latin America, they're known to overthrowing a government if they don't like.
01:22:24.460
Iraq in 1954, there was like an elected official that they thrown out because of oil agreements.
01:22:31.460
America is known to manipulate the whole world.
01:22:35.120
It is, it is, it is, it, that's what, what superpowers do.
01:22:38.240
So if like the Romans did it, the Greeks came, I accept that.
01:22:41.380
I accept that because we were the police of the planet.
01:22:46.040
But couldn't that evolve and then Israel could just become that?
01:22:49.900
Like, like if we were the leader at one time, couldn't Israel be the leader at one time?
01:22:56.680
Well, well, China I can accept because it's a, it's a superpower.
01:23:02.680
This is like basically you living, you, you, you working in a, in a corporate and the CEO coming every day and shitting on your office, shitting on your office.
01:23:13.120
But then he brings his little poodle and then he shits on your desk.
01:23:19.700
I can accept it because you are the superpower of the world, but don't bring your brat dog to do it on my desk.
01:23:27.620
Because the only way that I can do anything for that dog is that the owner is the CEO and I don't want to be fired.
01:23:33.220
So that's basically, Israel is the bulldog that's being, that harassing everybody around it in the region.
01:23:38.960
And, and, and, and they, although they hate us, where are we going to perish?
01:23:50.240
And then how can, how is it sense of self-defense?
01:23:52.700
Because I'm sure that you've seen these videos, all of these IDF soldiers wearing women laundry, taking like the women's, the, the, the, the kids toys, destroying empty hospitals, destroying empty schools just for the fun of it.
01:24:04.620
That doesn't look like an army that is defending itself.
01:24:08.320
Well, to me, it's felt like the feeling of it is that, um, like usually when you hear, I mean, I've said this before, usually when you hear like free a place, that's the place that needs help.
01:24:20.840
You know, it's like, you don't hear like free Michigan or free America or free China, you know, or sometimes you hear free China.
01:24:28.000
But, um, but yeah, if you hear free, free Palestine, if you hear that, then that's usually, if, if something becomes that big of a fervor that that's the campaign slogan, that place usually needs some sort of help.
01:24:41.160
How does someplace that's stronger, like Israel that has so much, how, how do they help?
01:24:51.440
Remember the map that we saw how they, this has been ongoing from 1940s.
01:25:00.860
And they have said many times on television, the, the, the only way this would happen if people in Gaza go into Egypt and people in the West Bank are driven into, uh, Jordan.
01:25:16.400
But, but, but they have been telling you openly, we're going to displace those people out there.
01:25:20.240
But at a certain point, they have to recognize, hey, we haven't, this is.
01:25:24.120
Well, let's see, that's the part to me that's not cool, dude.
01:25:26.340
Show me, show me in this map anywhere where Israel has scaled back.
01:25:30.500
What they have done, they have moved forward to disintegrate the land more, push the people more, abuse the people more.
01:25:37.180
And because they have the power and because they have America behind them, they are not compelled to do anything different.
01:25:44.860
Yes, they feel in the right because it's given, but the Bible gave it to me because God gave it to me.
01:25:50.180
So if I'm that, if I believe I'm the chosen people, I can do whatever I want.
01:25:54.780
And I have to tell you, like a lot of people ask me, Pastor, are you religious?
01:25:57.820
I said, like, if these are God's chosen people, I have doubts.
01:26:00.420
I'm going to lose my job for another two more years for laughing at all.
01:26:07.520
But do you think, though, that why doesn't America help Palestine?
01:26:25.580
But even still, you can still help someone because they need help.
01:26:31.800
Who is the biggest recipient of donors from Israel?
01:26:41.160
Why would I help Palestine while I'm getting my money from you?
01:26:44.160
I mean, he can give me all kinds of, like, fancy political talk, but it's really about being reelected.
01:26:49.900
So the idea, you are thinking as a human being, what is the right thing to do?
01:26:56.420
But the right thing to do is not the right thing in politics.
01:26:59.180
The right thing in politics is to survive and have as much money as possible to stay in power as long as possible.
01:27:08.560
Well, one thing that didn't help, by having the term free Palestine, that's going to attract all the...
01:27:15.480
But if you label something free something right next to Israel, dude, no wonder they keep coming.
01:27:21.620
They should have said a very expensive Palestine.
01:27:24.420
It's a very expensive Palestine, but it is expensive.
01:27:27.900
They should have said under contract Palestine.
01:27:37.280
I understand that, but why do I feel like I'm right?
01:27:47.880
When people in America start to have boundaries about a certain issue, we need to ask questions.
01:27:58.940
It's just like, maybe it's my disappointment because I bet everything on this country.
01:28:06.680
And the only thing that I was promised, which is freedom, it seems not to work.
01:28:13.300
And I'm someone who's been canceled a few times, mapped from my own country.
01:28:16.900
So, I come here, it's like, hey, America, freedom.
01:28:19.140
It's like, oh, freedom of everything except that one thing.
01:28:24.200
Maybe I should have like, I don't know, went to Tel Aviv instead.
01:28:27.440
Well, I think it behooves everybody if you can joke about everything.
01:28:31.080
I think that that makes things a lot more chill.
01:28:34.060
So, how do you handle like, not agreeing with Israel but still supporting like your Jewish friends and stuff that are in America?
01:28:42.000
I don't think that's a difficult choice because the Jewish people, here's the thing.
01:28:47.700
They want you to make you think that all Jewish people are with Israel.
01:28:54.820
I have a lot of Jewish friends that are on kind of both sides of this thing.
01:28:58.180
You have a lot of, you have a Jewish block that every single week that goes out in Europe and in America.
01:29:05.580
And remember when we were talking about those university encampments?
01:29:11.020
Many of them, there was like a Jewish block that was part, and many of them were even arrested with their Arab and American brothers.
01:29:19.520
There is, you can find many pictures for Orthodox Jews burning the Israeli flag.
01:29:36.560
All of those Jewish people, they don't like what is it.
01:29:42.500
How many pictures of burned American flag have you seen?
01:29:46.520
No, no, no, but if you have a picture now of burning the American flag or the Iranian flag.
01:29:57.320
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not inviting people to hate on Israel.
01:30:00.760
I'm not inviting people to hate on Jewish people.
01:30:02.680
I just want to say you need to have the freedom to speak your mind, even if it doesn't please certain people.
01:30:10.760
Democracy is noisy, and you will listen to things that you don't like.
01:30:14.320
But you should not feel afraid of speaking up your mind.
01:30:19.240
Yeah, I think the part where I even started to think about it was, it just started to seem like, you know, obviously what happened on October 7th was horrible.
01:30:28.080
And, but then it just started to seem like such an overstatement of.
01:30:33.580
Yeah, it was like, oh, we have to kill Hamas, we have to kill Hamas by any, it's just.
01:30:38.900
And so, I don't know, there's something inside of me, even if I don't know anything about it, there's something inside of me that just says, this just feels messed up.
01:30:45.280
I like the fact that they say like, oh, we're doing this for Palestinians.
01:30:49.680
We will get rid of Hamas for them, and the Palestinians will be grateful.
01:30:56.000
I see that, yeah, there's a lot of Palestinians who don't like Hamas, but you want to, you want to convince me that you want to destroy that place, and then you think those people that would be left would be okay with you?
01:31:07.360
Do you think the Palestinian people knew that Hamas was going to do this October 7th?
01:31:15.180
And, but it, and I wish the October 7th never happened.
01:31:19.040
But again, we come back, it's like, how long can you take it?
01:31:22.840
How long can you take the abuse, the land theft, the killing?
01:31:27.180
At a certain point, you're going to be desperate.
01:31:29.040
And you're going to be desperate against a much more stronger enemy.
01:31:34.440
But isn't, like, but when America revolted for tea, they revolted against a much stronger enemy.
01:31:43.020
And I find it very interesting how everything in the American culture, you watch Star Wars, you side with the rebels.
01:31:50.340
You watch the Hunger Games, you side with the rebels.
01:31:57.740
You don't side with the people with no weapons.
01:31:59.560
You don't side with the people with the machine guns or the knives.
01:32:05.900
Because they were deemed terrorists, less humans, dehumanizing.
01:32:17.300
Normal people, but they're living in a horrible condition.
01:32:21.440
So I can report that she has no fangs or nails other than the nails that she does in the nail salon.
01:32:34.260
They are normal people who have been in this land and they were taken away from them.
01:32:37.620
And this was a problem that was imported from a different continent, done by other perpetrators.
01:32:51.900
So do Palestinians also have issues with Britain and the U.S. then probably?
01:32:56.100
But like I don't think they have any time to have issues with anybody.
01:33:01.120
And the people who live in West Bank are under threat to be killed or kicked out at any moment.
01:33:08.380
And I just want people to look at them as humans.
01:33:13.860
Everybody who went to Gaza, everybody who went to West Bank, saw what happened to those people.
01:33:26.440
And I will not do the same mistake that they have been doing to us, dehumanizing us, calling us terrorists.
01:33:35.240
Why don't we give part of our country to Palestine?
01:33:41.100
Why don't you give part of your country to Jewish people?
01:33:45.900
Why don't we give part of our country to one of the groups?
01:34:01.600
Would Palestine accept something like that where it's like, let's give this place.
01:34:07.360
I'm not Palestinian, so I cannot speak on their behalf.
01:34:09.500
But I think Palestinians want to stay in their land.
01:34:14.560
This is what drives me crazy because it doesn't make any sense.
01:34:17.340
Any Jewish person all around the world, if you're like a Polish Jewish, like an American
01:34:23.760
Jewish, just because you're Jewish, you can get the Israeli passport right now, right
01:34:29.740
And once you get the passport, you can come from Brooklyn, land into Israel, take a piece
01:34:35.040
of land that was owned by a Palestinian right on the spot.
01:34:38.180
Or a home that is owned by a Palestinian saying that this is your promised land.
01:34:45.180
You can just walk in the house and you can have videos of people taking their stuff and
01:34:49.060
barging into a Palestinian home in the West Bank.
01:34:54.860
A Brooklyn Jew, just because he was born Jew, can just like go to Israel, take the passport
01:35:00.460
and take a piece of land that is belonged to someone else, even now as we speak.
01:35:08.860
On every single given day, you have planes with thousands of Jewish people from all
01:35:13.820
over the world coming from Eastern Europe, coming from Africa, coming from Latin America,
01:35:18.000
coming to America and settling in the land, settling in Arab land.
01:35:22.880
Does the Palestinian people, do they have a police department?
01:35:26.000
They have like, they have something called the Palestinian Authority, which is an oxymoron.
01:35:32.740
And they are called the Palestinian Authority, but show me an authority that has absolutely
01:35:38.360
no say about the foreign people coming in and taking land from your people.
01:35:42.880
Dude, my friend got a job at the airport and he was a little guy, right?
01:35:47.080
And they gave him a billy club and it weighed him down and he was so little.
01:35:50.960
He's like, he probably weighed 60 pounds or whatever.
01:35:53.760
I think he's more effective, more than the Palestinian Authority.
01:36:00.740
He almost had to run sideways because of the way the club would like shuffle and like block
01:36:07.840
We, we, we, there has to, you have to have some-
01:36:10.020
The solution is to end the occupation and the solution is that Israel should stop killing
01:36:15.380
It's as simple as that details, what land, how much, well, that's not my thing to say
01:36:20.580
because I'm a comedian, not a politician, I'm not a Palestinian.
01:36:23.160
There are Palestinian politicians that can talk on their behalf, but I can tell you whatever
01:36:30.020
And I'm not, it's not my problem or my issue to come up with a solution because I didn't
01:36:36.580
It's someone else caused it and it's not for me to fix it for them.
01:36:41.520
Are any, are any American or British leaders, and some of this stuff, I don't know a ton,
01:36:49.540
Is some, um, American or British leaders trying to help negotiate that?
01:36:55.540
Yeah, but it's, it's always been skewed towards Israel.
01:37:02.520
Because both sides have rejected peace agreements, right?
01:37:04.940
Yes, but one of them rejected it because basically you're giving them a very shitty deal
01:37:09.940
and the other side rejected it because they want more.
01:37:12.800
And now they're telling you, it's like, hey, you know what, forget about the second state.
01:37:17.940
Even the Israelis say that, oh, it's all ours now.
01:37:22.260
Who is, who is doing the, um, or Remark or something?
01:37:32.120
Like Israel hasn't gone to the negotiation table for the past 20 years.
01:37:55.100
If it's not on Zillow, I don't think you can take it.
01:38:00.540
But I think one thing about a lot of my Jewish friends I notice is they do a good job of
01:38:08.900
And, uh, I, I don't want to kind of be the guy who's like, hey, I have black friends,
01:38:13.300
but like, I honestly like my agents, my managers, and, uh, they, they all come from companies
01:38:18.800
that are overwhelmingly Jewish people and I have no problem with dealing with it.
01:38:22.100
My, my, my, uh, my utmost friend and, and, and the guy that I look up to is Jon Stewart.
01:38:31.600
And I, he's the reason why I'm known to America when I came on his show.
01:38:37.980
I don't, I, I, that's why I don't fall into this like Jewish, Jewish, Jewish.
01:38:41.760
Now, there are just like bad people that happen to be Jewish.
01:38:44.840
And there's a bad people that happen to be Muslims.
01:38:46.920
There are bad people that happen to be Christians and there are bad people that happen to be
01:38:50.280
I don't look through the sense lens of, of religion, but I can see people who would use
01:38:57.680
The same way that ISIS and Qaeda used Islam in order to promote themselves as the only
01:39:03.880
And the way that Israel is speaking on behalf of all Jewish people, Jewish people, a lot of
01:39:07.680
Jewish people are rejecting that because it's not anti-Semitism to attack Israel.
01:39:16.560
And that is why I don't hold that, but they want to reduce you.
01:39:21.900
I don't like when people say, say that sort of thing.
01:39:25.500
It's a way to shut down the conversation, to scare you, to intimidate you, to make people
01:39:29.140
have like a negative reaction to you without even you speaking.
01:39:31.800
Dude, if I was a Jew, if I didn't, if I hated Jewish people, I would know.
01:39:49.380
Have you had debates with friends like on this topic a lot?
01:39:58.240
Like, that's true for Americans, for Egyptians.
01:40:02.140
I have debates about the Egyptian revolution with Egyptian friends who would never listen
01:40:11.360
So, you will have people coming in very emotional.
01:40:16.900
Have you heard a good solution idea from a friend?
01:40:23.440
And treat everybody living in that land equally.
01:40:29.860
But at this point, say they ended the occupation, right?
01:40:40.420
You have created something that will last for decades.
01:40:43.760
Many of those people do not like America right now.
01:40:55.200
They're probably at some point going to have to go and put their blood in a field somewhere.
01:40:59.200
And as an American, I don't want America being involved in wars in the Middle East.
01:41:04.120
I don't want America to be funding wars in the Middle East.
01:41:06.620
I don't want our taxpayers' money going to fund killing babies.
01:41:22.660
But you don't want your money to be part of that destruction.
01:41:28.360
Everybody is addicted or dealing with addiction.
01:41:32.780
Our families are dealing with loss from addiction.
01:41:35.460
You kill people's spirits with the fucking bullshit plan for the vaccine.
01:41:40.740
Don't make it worse and go and pay more money for destruction.
01:41:44.280
If it's already been fucked, deal with this fuckery.
01:41:53.100
Is there any sports that Israel and Palestine play against each other?
01:42:13.560
Like, I think we get, because they're more Muslims, I think we're cutting more dicks than they.
01:42:23.480
When you see, like, the pain and the, like, physical destruction and the human destruction that's happening over there and just, like, the videos of people being, like, maimed and brutalized on both sides over there.
01:42:38.300
As a surgeon, that must make you feel some type of way, too, huh?
01:42:41.080
Yeah, and there's a lot of surgeons and doctors who've been to Gaza and they come back with horrible stories.
01:42:46.800
They tell you, because every single hospital in Gaza is bombed.
01:42:53.860
They have, like, maternity wards and incubators being killed.
01:42:57.360
They have, basically, a place that has no basic needs and you're bombing the shit out of them every day.
01:43:06.420
It's like, Israel, I think the IDF would be the worst in playing Jenga.
01:43:15.840
Well, you do think that if the army is that acute, that they would be able to be more articulate.
01:43:26.000
You mean, like, killing people less discriminately?
01:43:34.240
Because we have seen them on video killing babies.
01:43:38.040
We cannot just tell me it's by mistake when you have babies with sniper bullets in their head.
01:43:48.620
And then you blow up an empty hospital or an empty school just for spite.
01:43:55.700
You can't say, oh, we're not doing that by mistake.
01:43:58.520
Like, and you keep, and you cannot have a war when 80% of the people are displaced, 100% of the people are, 100% of the place is destroyed, and 50% of the infrastructure is, like, completely wiped out.
01:44:20.660
It's been going on for eight months, and I don't know how much they're going to continue.
01:44:25.840
No, nothing, just, they just bombed a, there's a video of a, of a, of a refugee hospital.
01:44:33.520
All Palestinians to leave Gaza's largest city, the latest.
01:44:36.460
Israel orders all Palestinians to leave Gaza's largest.
01:44:41.020
They just, in the rural areas around, they want to push them into Sinai, but in Sinai, they can't, but they're closed.
01:44:48.800
Also, you can see there's a video of a refugee hospital, a refugee school in Gaza, that the moment that they were playing football, and Israel just dropped the bomb, and they were playing football.
01:45:01.100
Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas' October 7th attack, in which militants stormed into Israel, killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250.
01:45:10.340
Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 38,000 people in Gaza.
01:45:15.960
According to the territory's health ministry, it does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
01:45:58.400
I just remember when I was a kid, my mom would say sometimes, like, I don't know why we're sending Israel all this money.
01:46:07.340
Yeah, but whether Netanyahu or Montyahu, we said, we said.
01:46:14.020
Now, the question is, there's just, like, a lot of questions, and we need to be able to ask these questions without having fear of being canceled or destroyed or having our career taken away from us.
01:46:23.160
Well, we fucking threw that out the window this episode.
01:46:38.540
I think just my life, I get worried about being able to still do my job.
01:46:43.500
You got a guy who spoke his mind, which is what Americans are.
01:46:48.780
You just gave me a platform to speak our mind, and you're bringing someone else who will say the opposite of what I'm going to say.
01:46:56.720
How do you, like, support your Jewish friends, like, just in the U.S. and stuff or whatever, who disagree with kind of some of the situation there?
01:47:05.420
I mean, I have a lot of Jewish friends who are in disagreement with their parents who are pretty much Zionist, and they don't agree with that.
01:47:15.640
According to Jewish people or Zionist people, it is just simply having a national state of Israel in the Middle East.
01:47:30.140
This is what they tell you, just the establishment.
01:47:32.040
But for us, they have done that by displacing people, colonizing their land, and taking away their homes, taking away their land.
01:47:42.280
For Arabs and Muslims, because they took a land from Palestinians under the pretense of this thing.
01:47:51.480
If Israel moved out of the territory there, do you think that another group would move right into it?
01:47:58.980
There's like, there's seven or eight million Jews in Israel.
01:48:05.740
But I'm just saying, say if that was vacated, would it not with the Syrians or Egyptians or somebody else cruise right in there?
01:48:11.380
No, because there are already Palestinians there.
01:48:17.060
There are 3.5 million who live in the West Bank.
01:48:24.900
Inside Israel, in the territory, there are 2 million Palestinians live in Israel.
01:48:31.340
And there are 7 million Palestinians who live outside refugees.
01:48:36.540
And where is one of the largest spaces of Palestinians outside of?
01:48:47.100
Michigan, there's a lot of Muslims, but many of them are Lebanese, many of them are Iraqis.
01:48:52.560
I think they are about like 400,000 in America.
01:49:05.080
Some of them are citizens of other countries now.
01:49:16.180
Some of them are on Wilshire every other Saturday.
01:49:30.780
Sorry for some stuff I was kind of like trying to like, you know, I just, I think some stuff,
01:49:35.980
I don't know what if it's like, I don't know what to say, I guess.
01:49:38.800
And sometimes I just listen because I don't know how to like, some conversations I just, you just don't know what to say or do.
01:49:45.520
Yeah, and I understand because for Americans, Americans have so much to worry about.
01:49:49.120
They have to worry about their own daily life and their own like paying their bills.
01:49:52.720
And then it's like, why do we have to care about this remote place in the Middle East that we will never see?
01:49:57.520
And now why is this like, this is like an everyday, this is an everyday, this is an everyday.
01:50:04.080
But the reason why Americans should care about that, because that is affecting our government, our democracy, our way of life.
01:50:13.120
Because if you're an American, you think this is remotely, they're remote from you.
01:50:18.000
No, it doesn't because it affects the way that you speak about politics.
01:50:20.660
You hear many times, you say, I don't know if I'm going to go to jail.
01:50:23.560
Well, if you talk about something that's happening that foreign, you shouldn't be worried about going to jail.
01:50:29.960
You should be worried about talking, talking about the government giving that much money for destruction.
01:50:35.860
So it affects you, whether you like it or not, it affects you.
01:50:40.000
Yeah, I think one of the bigger problems that we have is that we facilitate so much war and weaponry in the world to try and leverage things.
01:50:50.320
But then maybe that needs to happen for us to have the safety we have.
01:50:54.340
And maybe we're, you know, it's just, it's hard to know all that stuff, how one thing affects the other, you know?
01:51:01.280
But you see, I find that this is actually the end result of every conversation.
01:51:13.340
All of this money, all of these billions of dollars coming out from our pockets, that is not right.
01:51:18.640
And I'm talking about money, politics, and freedom.
01:51:21.540
These are the three things that are the cornerstones of American life.
01:51:25.840
If we don't know where our money is going and why, and why is our politics is being taken over by a foreign lobby, that is wrong.
01:51:40.860
I mean, I just, you see what happens over there, and it's heartbreaking.
01:51:43.880
And it's like, well, how do you, yeah, I just wanted to learn a little bit more about it.
01:51:46.500
And I wanted to get some perspective from somebody that was at least able to speak about it and who was willing to speak up about it.
01:51:53.300
You know, and you've spoken vibrantly about it.
01:51:55.440
And I understand how difficult it is because maybe some of your listeners, your audience, don't really care about that stuff.
01:52:03.220
But for the people who are interested, what you did is to bring a problem that affects us whether we like it or not.
01:52:10.080
And I'm happy that you're bringing a rabbi to speak on a totally opposite level.
01:52:16.720
And I'm happy that when people have more questions, you bring more people to speak to you.
01:52:20.300
I'm happy to come back again and talk to the people.
01:52:23.260
And because at the end of the day, you listen not just for entertainment, but for education.
01:52:27.020
And there's so many things in that world that I don't know.
01:52:31.700
So, I just want, I'm not here to attack anybody.
01:52:37.800
I'm here to just invite people to be more curious and to understand how things work and to form their own opinion and not just give up to, oh, this is the way it is.
01:52:50.360
Because if you said that, nothing would change.
01:52:52.160
And then you will come up tomorrow and you will complain about why things are not changing.
01:53:03.540
And I will be more than happy to come back again and talk about, I'm sure that you can have so many questions, so many rebuttals, like ask him this, ask him that.
01:53:11.680
And I'm happy to come and if you would get me on the show again.
01:53:18.440
There's nothing threatening of what we did today.
01:53:23.380
We didn't go and attack people from different faiths.
01:53:28.720
We just talk about politics and I might be wrong, but prove me wrong.
01:54:04.420
Then I'm going a whole American tour in Florida, Chicago, Minneapolis.
01:54:20.060
If you haven't seen this guy, watch also his interview with Piers Morgan.
01:54:23.840
It's insightful and interesting and funny, you know?
01:54:28.320
And it's okay to say that, you know, we have to laugh in times of pain.
01:54:33.260
And yeah, just thank you so much for your time, brother.
01:54:43.380
Now I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
01:54:54.440
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.
01:54:59.680
And I can feel it in my bones, but it's gonna take...
01:55:06.680
I can feel it in my bones, but it's gonna take...