Valuetainment - ＂Is Israel Targeting Journalists？＂ - The Death Of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif SPARKS Heated Debate

00:00:00.000 Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed an Israel attack in Gaza City.

00:00:05.860 And so a 28-year-old well-known Arabic correspondent who reported extensively from northern Gaza was killed

00:00:14.300 in what appears to be a targeted Israel attack on a 10-4 journalist outside the main gate of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City

00:00:22.700 as confirmed by the hospital direct to Al Jazeera.

00:00:25.020 Media network denounced the attack stating it was yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom

00:00:31.440 amid the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing Israel assault on Gaza

00:00:35.020 which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, forced starvation, and the obliteration of entire communities.

00:00:43.720 The Israel military admitted targeting Al-Sharif, claiming in a statement he served as the head of a terrorist cell

00:00:50.660 in the Hamas terrorist organization and was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israel's civilians

00:00:57.080 and IDF troops.

00:00:58.340 Tom, your thoughts on the story?

00:00:59.600 Well, there's a lot of sources that came out overnight.

00:01:03.240 IDF made a post about it on X.

00:01:05.900 You would expect people are going to say, oh, of course the IDF says that he was there.

00:01:09.860 You know, that's their propaganda.

00:01:11.360 But there are other sources that are in here too that maybe they're just repeating the IDF.

00:01:15.480 But there's information, and people appear to be publishing receipts here of, you know, databases

00:01:21.400 and things where he had been identified.

00:01:23.100 And by the way, regardless of how you feel about this and journalists in war, which is a different topic,

00:01:30.440 on this particular one, they're pointing out that, you know, in the dirty trick department,

00:01:38.460 Hamas has got quite the resume. 0.99

00:01:40.480 And hiding behind civilians, hiding in hospitals, under hospitals, posing as doctors, and posing as media,

00:01:51.760 Hamas does this.

00:01:53.400 And so would it surprise me that this journalist was actually a leader of a minor cell?

00:02:02.420 And when his cover got blown, then people are saying, oh, it's a smear campaign by Israelis.

00:02:08.260 It's a smear campaign.

00:02:10.040 He really was this.

00:02:11.160 Well, maybe his cover got blown.

00:02:12.460 He got outed.

00:02:13.340 And so what I mean, outed as a member of Hamas.

00:02:17.600 You know, what's that picture, Rob?

00:02:19.540 Yeah.

00:02:20.120 Well, here's what I was going to say.

00:02:21.500 Where is he?

00:02:22.920 He's the guy in the middle.

00:02:24.160 That doesn't look anything like him.

00:02:26.460 That's the guy?

00:02:27.680 I don't think that.

00:02:28.580 That doesn't look like the guy to me.

00:02:30.300 The guy that just was, we just saw that Rob showed.

00:02:32.460 That doesn't look like that guy.

00:02:33.940 No, yes, it does.

00:02:34.840 A couple of years different.

00:02:36.040 A couple of pounds different.

00:02:37.140 Well, regardless, here's what's happening right now.

00:02:41.200 I just went on Amazon and I just bought a nice little journalist press kit for $19.99.

00:02:47.600 What I've realized is this is I don't emotionally react to stories that come out good, bad, or ugly.

00:02:52.620 I wait for the facts to come out.

00:02:54.560 Do I want to see actual journalists reporting actual real news die?

00:02:58.540 Hell no.

00:02:59.720 We report stories here.

00:03:01.160 We know journalists.

00:03:01.980 I do not want anybody dead, innocent journalists whatsoever.

00:03:06.160 But what I've realized is that there's a lot of propaganda and there's a lot of people who are embedded in society here who are honoring the Hamas. 0.56

00:03:18.240 This guy right here after a cover of honor to stand with our crowns.

00:03:22.100 So whether it was this journalist or the journalist you're speaking about or any other journalist, this is who they are.

00:03:27.780 I remember a story of a journalist was found in Gaza and they were like, oh, my God, we captured this guy.

00:03:34.580 They went and found his house.

00:03:36.000 Three hostages were in his house.

00:03:38.920 This was a journalist.

00:03:39.720 So just because you're a journalist doesn't mean you're immune from accountability.

00:03:45.700 And they weren't being interviewed about the horrors of war.

00:03:48.700 Rob, can you ask Grok if that's actually him?

00:03:51.120 I'm just curious.

00:03:52.660 Okay.

00:03:52.940 Whether it was him or whether it was his best friend, the reality is this.

00:03:55.760 Oh, so just kill him if that's his best friend?

00:03:58.220 Here's what I love about Israel at this point.

00:04:00.480 They're not even denying it.

00:04:01.500 They're like, no, we went after this guy.

00:04:03.540 We believed that he was a terrorist.

00:04:05.760 So we took him out.

00:04:07.720 That's clarity to me.

00:04:08.800 I don't want to see innocent people die at all.

00:04:11.900 Unfortunately, it's kill or be killed in the Middle East. 0.95

00:04:13.740 And some people just can't understand that.

00:04:17.340 And the woke West and the woke right just don't understand these people are coming to kill you.

00:04:25.120 And it's kill or be killed.

00:04:26.400 I'm sorry.

00:04:27.400 That is what it is.

00:04:28.500 Go for it, Vinny.

00:04:30.820 What's the thing that you said right before about the...

00:04:34.740 They said that they did it because they were targeting him?

00:04:36.720 The terrorists are cosplaying as journalists.

00:04:38.160 What I'm asking is, did they say that they were targeting him after the fact?

00:04:41.740 Like, oh, yeah, we were going after this guy.

00:04:43.060 I don't know.

00:04:43.140 You're the expert on this.

00:04:44.000 Or was it an accident?

00:04:44.800 No, Adam, I actually read the news.

00:04:46.060 I don't sit in the car and watch the news on the way here.

00:04:48.420 I actually stay up until 1 o'clock in the morning and I actually do my research.

00:04:51.660 And I did a bunch of research.

00:04:52.560 What did you find?

00:04:53.100 And I just found out that they bombed the...

00:04:54.140 Hamas are nice freedom fighters.

00:04:55.780 And they're beautiful humans.

00:04:57.020 Very good talking point.

00:04:57.900 What did you find?

00:04:58.480 I love the fact that when you're just asking questions, I'm either a Hamas supporter

00:05:03.840 or I'm going to be anti-Semitic.

00:05:05.640 No, but go ahead.

00:05:06.000 Make your point.

00:05:06.760 It's the neither.

00:05:07.540 What I'm saying is...

00:05:08.340 I didn't bring up that.

00:05:08.900 You just did.

00:05:09.440 You can't even...

00:05:09.860 They banned reporters from even being in Gaza.

00:05:14.140 They banned international reporters.

00:05:15.620 How are you supposed to know?

00:05:16.920 Why are you banning them?

00:05:18.200 If you have nothing to hide, let us see what the hell's going on.

00:05:21.040 Because these reporters work for a company called Al Jazeera.

00:05:23.140 Where's Al Jazeera based out of?

00:05:24.440 But Adam, bomb every...

00:05:25.680 You don't just bomb attention to people next to a hospital and then just go, yeah, he worked

00:05:29.860 for Hamas.

00:05:30.680 And I'm not saying...

00:05:31.460 Listen, I don't know the facts, Adam.

00:05:33.320 But what I'm saying is if you're not letting...

00:05:34.600 That's where the clip should end right there.

00:05:35.680 Who killed...

00:05:36.680 Who has killed the most?

00:05:38.400 Who has killed the most reporters, Pat?

00:05:40.000 Did we do the numbers?

00:05:41.020 Tom, what is that?

00:05:42.040 Syria did. 0.97

00:05:42.820 Yeah, this is...

00:05:43.680 Do we have that?

00:05:44.360 We can just...

00:05:45.040 You can search for it.

00:05:46.580 There's a lot of...

00:05:47.480 Israel Defense Forces, Tom?

00:05:48.580 That's like...

00:05:49.440 But there's others too.

00:05:50.700 There's another media outlet that was Maya TV or everything, and it may be parroting

00:05:56.100 the IDF thing, but there's people that are out there publishing receipts on this that

00:06:01.640 appear to be receipts.

00:06:02.980 I don't know the validity of it, but you know what?

00:06:05.460 There's a heck of a lot going on here.

00:06:08.160 Look, is this the first...

00:06:09.340 Just do this logically, Vinny.

00:06:11.200 Is this the first reporter to die in the armed engagement over there?

00:06:17.060 To be in the wrong place at the wrong time?

00:06:18.640 In the wrong place at the wrong time?

00:06:19.700 No.

00:06:19.980 No.

00:06:20.020 So let's assume they're a reporter, not the first.

00:06:22.680 Then why is there so much static on this one?

00:06:28.740 What do you mean?

00:06:29.300 That's what I'm asking.

00:06:30.160 Why is there so much fuzz?

00:06:34.040 Like somebody shook up a root beer and opened it.

00:06:36.540 Because it only killed five reporters.

00:06:38.400 It only killed five reporters reporting on what's happening on the ground.

00:06:42.480 It kind of bothers me that there's so much buzz on this reporter.

00:06:47.980 No, Tom, it shouldn't be...

00:06:49.020 I don't think it's just about this reporter.

00:06:50.520 I think it's just for the past two weeks, all I've been hearing and seeing is...

00:06:54.460 Are you saying like this is a George Floyd thing they're capitalizing off of?

00:06:57.600 Yeah, or something.

00:06:58.600 And why is there so much buzz on this guy to say, unless the IDF is just doing the most amazing marketing between Saturday and Sunday, pushing out all these fake receipts and everybody else is pushing them, Pat?

00:07:12.420 That seems weird to me.

00:07:14.520 Why is it so important to say that this reporter was there?

00:07:19.500 Do you trust Muslims more than Israel? 1.00

00:07:26.200 Do you trust the report coming out of Gaza, Palestine more than reports coming from Israel? 0.53

00:07:34.500 I don't think you believe anything Israel says.

00:07:36.380 I'm not saying I don't believe that.

00:07:37.880 I don't believe...

00:07:38.380 Hold on.

00:07:38.860 I don't believe anything unless I'm shown the evidence, okay?

00:07:42.760 And what I've been seeing...

00:07:43.620 I don't know about that.

00:07:44.520 I think there's also...

00:07:45.780 Like, I've never heard you make a pro-Israel argument, ever.

00:07:51.000 I've never heard you make a pro-Israel argument.

00:07:52.920 So to me, the reason why I'm going with this is the following.

00:07:55.920 I don't know.

00:07:57.960 So for me, if you came in, notice what I said when we were prepping.

00:08:03.120 I said, is it true that Israel the last two years has killed the most journalists?

00:08:08.820 I'm the one that asked that question this morning, pre-getting started.

00:08:12.000 So it's not like I'm coming in on fire like...

00:08:14.760 For sure.

00:08:15.180 Because this is what I saw.

00:08:16.200 Let's look at it.

00:08:16.880 And I had Rob pull it up.

00:08:18.360 Then Syria came up. 0.95

00:08:19.520 But Syria was since 2011.

00:08:20.860 But the last two years was Israel. 0.87

00:08:22.460 U.S. was on the list as third place.

00:08:24.220 Top three countries were Syria, Israel, and us, right?

00:08:27.560 Okay, great.

00:08:28.700 But I think the part that, you know, you lose is when it's no matter what, it's all one side.

00:08:41.960 We're at dinner.

00:08:42.900 This guy is defending Nick Fuentes.

00:08:45.780 I'm like, what is Adam defending Nick Fuentes on?

00:08:48.860 He's like, I got more respect for Nick Fuentes than anybody else that's saying stuff that they're saying about Israel.

00:08:54.120 Right?

00:08:54.840 You have to be very careful.

00:08:56.200 More respect for Nick versus Tucker, is what I think is what I said.

00:08:58.460 Right.

00:08:58.720 No, specific that community.

00:09:00.440 Yes, yes, yes.

00:09:00.960 It was what?

00:09:02.700 Fuentes, Candice, and Tucker.

00:09:05.080 And Nick has been saying what he's been saying a lot longer than they have been saying it.

00:09:08.420 Right?

00:09:08.560 So, okay.

00:09:09.500 And what was his premise on the respect?

00:09:11.440 He says what he believes in.

00:09:12.760 That's Adam's point, right?

00:09:13.760 He hasn't shifted.

00:09:14.060 Yeah, I think the biggest thing here is, you know, it's almost become like if a white man is killed by a black man, CNN won't report on it.

00:09:25.440 But if, God forbid, Jussie Smollett, anything George Floyd, oh my God, boom, it's going on.

00:09:30.160 Right?

00:09:30.920 You have to find a way to, because if I, look what's going on right now in Europe.

00:09:38.220 How bad do you think Europe's about to get?

00:09:40.960 Very bad.

00:09:41.660 Europe is going to fall apart.

00:09:43.100 And you know what's after Europe?

00:09:45.780 We're after Europe.

00:09:46.460 Canada.

00:09:47.380 No, they're going to come here surrounding you, and then they're going to try to target here.

00:09:51.000 What is Mamdani doing?

00:09:52.200 What is another guy that I think when I was watching this video?

00:09:55.380 This is UK right now.

00:09:56.480 I don't even know if we want to play this clip.

00:09:57.980 A lot of profanity.

00:09:59.440 A lot of profanity.

00:09:59.540 It's just a lot of stuff like this that you can see.

00:10:01.420 But to me, you have to be very careful that you only follow accounts.

00:10:09.940 Like when I wake up in the morning, what account do I go and watch to see what they're saying?

00:10:14.180 I go to CNN.

00:10:14.980 Because I want to see what counter-arguments are being made there.

00:10:20.480 Blind spots.

00:10:21.580 But if you wake up and you just go to a couple things of guys you follow, because that's what you want to hear, because it validates what you believe in, you'll end up having a lot of blind spots.

00:10:31.260 And I don't want us to have blind spots.

00:10:32.700 And that includes myself.

00:10:34.080 I have my own biases as well.

00:10:35.600 So I'm not sitting here telling you I don't have any biases.

00:10:37.420 But if I have to choose between the two, it's not even close to conversation of what's going to be happening.

00:10:45.840 It's not even close.

00:10:46.740 And even yesterday, Trump said that they're going to take over Gaza.

00:10:50.340 I don't know if you saw that.

00:10:51.340 That happened yesterday.

00:10:52.060 Trump just said, yeah, how are you going to take over Gaza?

00:10:54.000 We're just going to take over Gaza. 0.99

00:10:55.420 How are you going to do it?

00:10:56.220 We're just going to take it over.

00:10:57.580 How can you do that?

00:10:58.780 Under what jurisdiction?

00:11:00.000 Under the U.S. jurisdiction.

00:11:01.120 I don't know if you saw that or not.

00:11:02.440 I don't even know what he's doing behind closed doors.

00:11:06.160 We don't even know what things are taking place.

00:11:08.760 But we have to be very careful that the only thing we ever, ever see is this the one, Rob?

00:11:17.660 Yes, sir.

00:11:18.140 Yeah.

00:11:18.580 Can you play this, Rob?

00:11:19.300 I don't want to leave the land.

00:11:21.100 Some people say this is ethnic cleansing.

00:11:23.480 You won't be able to force them to leave the land.

00:11:25.960 We're moving them to a beautiful location where they have new homes, where they can live safely,

00:11:32.600 where they'll have doctors and medical and all of those things.

00:11:36.720 And I think it's going to be great.

00:11:38.120 Yeah.

00:11:38.300 Any questions?

00:11:39.080 You said before that the U.S. would buy Gaza.

00:11:41.820 And today you just said we're not going to buy Gaza.

00:11:44.160 We're not going to have to buy.

00:11:45.300 We're going to have Gaza. 1.00

00:11:47.520 We don't have to buy.

00:11:48.320 There's nothing to buy.

00:11:50.560 We will have Gaza. 1.00

00:11:52.060 What is that?

00:11:52.460 No reason to buy.

00:11:54.100 There is nothing to buy.

00:11:55.320 It's Gaza.

00:11:56.020 It's a war-torn area.

00:11:58.320 We're going to take it.

00:11:59.560 We're going to hold it.

00:12:00.480 We're going to cherish it.

00:12:01.500 And Mr. Biden, take it under what?

00:12:03.780 Under what's it?

00:12:04.540 Under one authority?

00:12:05.760 Under the U.S. 0.92

00:12:06.580 Yeah.

00:12:07.520 So with so many opinions out there, I mean, if you asked me 10 years ago if I would just trust Trump's instincts,

00:12:14.740 I would say, hell no.

00:12:16.320 At this point, if there's one person who has all the information, whose instincts that I trust,

00:12:22.780 it's one person and it's Donald Trump.

00:12:24.700 I'm sorry.

00:12:25.620 I didn't feel that way before.

00:12:27.280 I feel that way now.

00:12:28.320 And that's on most issues, if not all.

00:12:31.500 So including the Gaza one. 0.99

00:12:33.540 Yeah.

00:12:33.800 I think you just, you know, it's very, very hard.

00:12:37.340 Like on my Instagram stories, I'm tagged.

00:12:39.680 You know how you go to see what stories you're tagged on?

00:12:42.100 Stories.

00:12:42.540 Videos, videos, videos, videos, videos.

00:12:44.100 You don't even know what's going on over here, what they're doing.

00:12:46.920 I'm like, yeah, you're going to only send me one side.

00:12:50.400 None of the videos are easy to watch.

00:12:51.940 And then I get messages from Israel.

00:12:54.520 You don't know what's going on over here.

00:12:56.140 And I got it yesterday.

00:12:57.100 I won't give any names.

00:12:58.040 But, you know, these are people that are in Israel saying, you don't even know what they're doing to the Christians and to this and this.

00:13:04.160 I'm also not fully there.

00:13:05.500 But I have the ability to watch both sides.

00:13:08.600 And I understand why you're sending me the clips to say what, you know, Palestinians are doing to Christians and Jews. 1.00

00:13:13.920 And I understand why you would send me the clips to say what Jews are doing to Gaza and Palestinians. 0.74

00:13:18.600 You have to find a way to not be emotionally caught up because then you are a victim of propaganda and they got you.

00:13:27.520 Hook, line, sinker, you're done.

00:13:29.920 And all you see is that.

00:13:32.100 And I'm seeing, believe it or not, more and more people now kind of stepping away and saying, oh, shit, I got a little bit in too deep here.

00:13:40.660 Let me step back a little bit and see what happened.

00:13:44.040 Neither side is innocent, but this side is definitely not innocent.

00:13:47.580 With the history that they have.

00:13:49.420 If they're so great, why isn't nobody else from the other side taking them? 1.00

00:13:52.640 You keep coming back more this way.

00:13:54.400 And I get that, you know, the motive of the other side where they're at, what they're up to.

00:14:00.840 But you have to be very, very careful that you only see and hear and read what you want to see and read that validates your point.

00:14:11.540 Because then you have so many blind spots.

00:14:14.460 So many.

00:14:15.280 And you can't be reasonable.

00:14:16.260 Now you're just fighting to be right.

00:14:19.080 Now you're just fighting to be right.

00:14:20.940 One of the best things about this exercise of sitting with the guys last week, this whatever, not last week.

00:14:25.420 Jubilee.

00:14:26.280 Jubilee.

00:14:26.980 You know what was great about it?

00:14:28.400 To sit and talk to a bunch of 20-year-olds.

00:14:30.560 One guy was probably 45, 50 years old.

00:14:32.240 I don't know why he was there.

00:14:33.480 But to sit and talk to all these other guys that are students.

00:14:37.260 It's also to see, okay, that's an interesting argument.

00:14:41.200 Let me go look into that.

00:14:42.420 Like, I myself have things to go look into after the conversation with them.

00:14:45.880 To say, why did they say this?

00:14:47.200 What was this?

00:14:47.640 Okay, got it.

00:14:48.240 This one.

00:14:48.780 Well, this got a good point here.

00:14:50.120 One of the guys had a good point that I brought him back at the end to debate it.

00:14:52.640 But I can't just go thinking, I'm going to beat everybody in this.

00:14:57.560 No.

00:14:58.760 Because then you'll never learn.

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Valuetainment - August 12, 2025

＂Is Israel Targeting Journalists？＂ - The Death Of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif SPARKS Heated Debate

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