Valuetainment - The History of Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS

00:00:00.100 Tensions between Israel and Hamas is not slowing down.

00:00:02.540 Palestine, it's such a mess right now that 400 people got killed in a hospital

00:00:06.740 where one side is saying Israel did it, the other side is saying Hamas did it.

00:00:10.540 President Biden had to go to meet with Netanyahu and have a conversation.

00:00:13.600 Even in a meeting, he says, well, with the recent events that happened,

00:00:16.300 we're pretty confident that it was Hamas that did it, but we're looking into it.

00:00:19.340 It's that you didn't do it.

00:00:20.480 Like, that's what Joe Biden said to Netanyahu in his face, which was kind of interesting.

00:00:24.020 And then to the point, 2.2 million people were talking about the Gaza Strip,

00:00:27.400 one of the most densely populated places in the world, 75,000 people live within a square mile.

00:00:33.560 No food, no water, no electricity, no hospital supplies.

00:00:37.520 Since tonight, they've had none of that.

00:00:39.340 They're being pushed down.

00:00:40.520 Imagine the viruses, the sickness, all of this stuff is taking place.

00:00:44.320 At the same time, Russia is now getting involved.

00:00:46.560 Hezbollah is commenting.

00:00:47.560 Iran's been involved.

00:00:48.860 U.S. is sending 2,000 troops that are ready to go out.

00:00:51.340 It's just an absolute mess.

00:00:52.640 So here's what we wanted to do.

00:00:53.680 A number came out, a report, if you're looking at the screen, showing only 4 in 10 18 to 29-year-olds have a negative view of Hamas.

00:01:02.700 If you look at this chart, you'll notice that when you look at 18 to 29-year-olds, 10% of them, 1 out of 10, views them positively.

00:01:11.020 Why do they view them positively?

00:01:12.760 Hamas positively? 0.99

00:01:14.220 Where do these 18 to 29-year-olds spend the most time with?

00:01:17.100 At universities.

00:01:18.080 Are professors speaking positively about Hamas?

00:01:20.360 Is this why so many billionaires are taking money that they're no longer putting in universities, publicly saying we're no longer supporting University of Pennsylvania or Harvard or Yale or many of these other places?

00:01:31.340 What is this all about?

00:01:32.720 Why are they doing this way?

00:01:33.840 So we wanted to make a video specifically to talk about the history of Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS, a little bit of Al-Qaeda.

00:01:41.760 So you know how they got started, what their motives are, what their vision is, and are they a terrorist organization?

00:01:48.520 Categorically, they are.

00:01:49.580 Why are they a terrorist organization?

00:01:51.620 I think we need to take a deep dive to learn about their histories.

00:01:54.180 So if you get value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel, so let's get right into it.

00:02:06.100 I want to start off by posing a question for you to be thinking about.

00:02:08.620 When does a political party become a terrorist organization?

00:02:12.600 When do freedom fighters, a lot of people are saying, I'm doing this for freedom.

00:02:15.720 When do freedom fighters stop being heroes and become killers?

00:02:19.720 Let's take a look at Hamas first. 0.91

00:02:21.020 So what is Hamas?

00:02:21.720 Hamas is a spinoff, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.89

00:02:25.280 In the late 80s, the Islamist militant group Hamas took over the Gaza Strip after defeating its rival political party, Fatah, in elections in 2006.

00:02:34.540 Its rival party, Fatah, which dominates the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, and rules in the West Bank, has renounced violence.

00:02:44.300 So again, just to isolate these two here, Hamas, pro-violence, Fatah, we're not violence.

00:02:49.680 Okay, we have a different way of going about presenting our argument to others, okay?

00:02:53.500 So Hamas' founder was Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric who became an activist in local branches of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:03:00.560 After dedicating his early life to Islamic scholarship in Cairo, Yassin established Hamas as the Brotherhood's political arm in Gaza in December of 1987,

00:03:07.680 following the outbreak of the First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.

00:03:15.820 At the time, Hamas' purpose was to counter Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, another organization whose commitment to violence resisting Israel threatened to draw Palestinian support away from the Brotherhood.

00:03:27.540 In 1988, Hamas established and published its charter calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic society in historic Palestine,

00:03:36.960 and they called it, we're going to bring back Sharia law to here. 0.53

00:03:39.500 So that is their vision.

00:03:41.140 We talked about this in a previous video as well.

00:03:43.160 To continue, in what observers called an attempt to moderate its image, Hamas presented a new document in 2017

00:03:49.280 that accepted an interim Palestinian state along the Green Line border established before the Six-Day War, but that still refused to recognize Israel.

00:03:58.140 Hamas first employed suicide bombing in April of 1993, five months before PLO leader Yassir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yachak Rabin signed the Oslo court.

00:04:08.640 Then, finally, the U.S. in 1997 and the European Union designated Hamas a terrorist organization because of its armed resistance against Israel,

00:04:19.540 which has included suicide bombing and rocket attacks.

00:04:21.980 So this category for Hamas happened in 1997.

00:04:26.600 Today, Iran is one of Hamas's biggest benefactors, contributing funds, weapons, and training.

00:04:31.060 Iran currently provides some $100 million annually to Hamas, PIJ, and other Palestinian groups designated as terrorist organization by the U.S.

00:04:40.280 Hamas has fired rockets and mortars into Israel since the group took over the Gaza Strip in the mid-2000s.

00:04:45.360 The group has also carried out incursions into Israeli territory, killing and kidnapping soldiers and civilians.

00:04:51.620 Now, let's take a look at their violent history to see what they've done on the past before.

00:04:55.060 Prior to its 2023 conflict, Hamas and Israel had their deadliest fighting in 2021 when Hamas fired rockets into Israel following weeks of tensions between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem.

00:05:06.880 And during the 11-day conflict, Hamas and PIJ fired more than 4,000 rockets from Gaza, killing 10 Israeli civilians, injuring more than 300 others.

00:05:17.040 And Hamas reportedly coordinated with the IRGC and Lebanon's Hezbollah, again, IRGC, Iran, Hezbollah.

00:05:23.880 But during the fighting and used so-called suicide drones, along with its usual arsenal of less-precise missiles, the United States and Egypt brokered a ceasefire to the conflict.

00:05:33.120 So now, let's talk about Hamas' hostages. 0.52

00:05:35.160 In addition to Hamas' surprise attack on October 7th, Israel's military said at least 199 people had been taken hostage by Hamas.

00:05:42.360 Officials from the U.S. and other countries are determining if their citizens are among the captives.

00:05:46.500 You're hearing numbers around 250 people.

00:05:49.020 And even recently, Hamas came out and said, listen, if they're figuring out a way to do ceasefire, they're talking to Israel, we will negotiate to give some of the children and women hostages up if you ceasefire.

00:05:59.700 They announced this, I think, on Wednesday or Thursday, they made that announcement.

00:06:04.080 So now we've talked about Hamas.

00:06:05.840 Let's not talk about Hezbollah and what Hezbollah's history is because I have some history with Hezbollah.

00:06:10.240 Because when I was in Iran, I remember what Hezbollah was doing to the streets, how many people feared Hezbollah.

00:06:15.520 This is Hezbollah's history. 0.99

00:06:17.060 Hezbollah means the party of God, is what they consider themselves.

00:06:20.860 Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon, where its extensive security apparatus, political organization, and social services network have fostered its reputation as a state within a state.

00:06:32.440 So what is Hezbollah?

00:06:33.400 They were founded in the chaos of 15-year Lebanese civil war, and Iran's back group is driven by its opposition to Israel and its resistance to Western influence in the Middle East,

00:06:43.660 with its history carrying out global terrorist attacks.

00:06:46.400 Part of Hezbollah, and in some cases the entire organization, have been designated as a terrorist group by the United States also in 1997 and by many countries.

00:06:56.100 Now, when it comes down to their military strength, in the recent years, longstanding alliances with Iran and Syria have transformed Hezbollah into an increasingly effective military force,

00:07:04.980 one that experts say would pose a challenge in the event of new fighting against its longtime enemy, Israel.

00:07:12.220 Just to put this in perspective so you can look at it with numbers, Hamas is total roughly 40,000 soldiers is what Hamas has.

00:07:18.980 Hezbollah is 150,000, nearly four times as powerful as Hamas.

00:07:23.560 By the way, Israel is 400,000.

00:07:25.940 So you may say, wow, Israel is massive.

00:07:28.040 Not that much bigger than Hezbollah, if you think about it. 0.67

00:07:30.740 150 to 400, it is two and a half times, but it's not astronomically a bigger military organization.

00:07:37.420 Hezbollah still has a lot of firepower behind their army that they have.

00:07:41.280 Let me continue with Lebanon's failing. 1.00

00:07:43.400 At the same time, Hezbollah officials and other leaders in Lebanon are facing public discontent as the nation verges on failure,

00:07:50.640 and Hezbollah's political power could be shrinking.

00:07:53.560 The history of Hezbollah's violence emerged during a Lebanon's 15-year civil war which broke out in 1975

00:07:59.140 when long-simmering discontent over the large armed Palestinian presence in the country reached a boiling point.

00:08:05.580 They were a group of Shiites influenced by the theocratic government in Iran,

00:08:09.200 the region's major Shiite government, which came to power in 1979.

00:08:12.900 This is when I was born in 78.

00:08:15.420 Khomeini comes in around late January, early February.

00:08:19.420 Hezbollah's takeover Iran, and it's a complete different country, 0.98

00:08:22.760 complete different revolution, complete different way of living when that took place.

00:08:26.720 And obviously when this happened in 1979, Hezbollah took arms against the Israeli occupation.

00:08:32.100 So many times when you hear Hezbollah, you'll hear Iran, Iran's funding, Iran IRGC.

00:08:36.100 You'll keep hearing these phrases.

00:08:37.020 What does that really mean?

00:08:37.720 Seeing an opportunity to expand its influence in Arab states, Iran and its IRGC,

00:08:43.680 which stands for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, provided funds and training to the budding militia

00:08:49.060 which adopted the name Hezbollah, meaning the party of God.

00:08:54.020 It earned a reputation for extremist militancy due to its frequent clashes with rival Shiite militias,

00:09:00.380 such as attacks on foreign targets, including the 1983 suicide bombing of barracks housing U.S. and French troops in Beirut,

00:09:09.560 in which more than 300 people died.

00:09:12.360 They were behind it.

00:09:13.780 Hezbollah became a vital asset to Iran, bridging Shiite Arab-Persian divides as Tehran established proxies throughout the Middle East.

00:09:20.880 Remember how earlier we talked about Hamas's charter, what they stand for?

00:09:24.680 This is Hezbollah's manifesto. 0.97

00:09:26.880 Let me read it to you.

00:09:27.540 In 1985 manifesto, they vowed to expel Western powers from Lebanon,

00:09:32.020 called for the destruction of the Israeli state, and pledged allegiance to Iran's supreme leader.

00:09:37.260 It also advocated an Iran-inspired Islamist regime,

00:09:40.680 but emphasized that the Lebanese people should have the freedom of self-determination.

00:09:45.040 So again, Hamas, the enemy, Western civilization, Israel, same exact thing with the manifesto that Hezbollah has. 0.94

00:09:53.080 They're very much aligned on who the enemy is.

00:09:55.980 The enemy of an enemy is a friend.

00:09:58.060 You know that whole thing?

00:09:59.060 This is when they're kind of like saying, you hate those guys and those guys?

00:10:01.900 We do too.

00:10:02.580 Let's become friends.

00:10:03.440 That's where they're at.

00:10:04.240 So aside from the manifesto, the group reiterated its commitment to its destruction of the Israeli state in its 2009 manifesto.

00:10:11.320 24 years later, manifesto, same thing.

00:10:14.040 The enemy is still Israel. 0.96

00:10:15.240 Hezbollah has been blamed for attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets abroad,

00:10:18.260 including the 1994 car bombings of a Jewish community center in Argentina,

00:10:22.120 which killed 85 people and the bombings of the Israeli embassy in London.

00:10:27.540 So, you know, some people say, well, maybe if Israel, you know, withdraws and they leave, the tensions will go down.

00:10:32.560 Even after Israel officially withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, it continued to clash with Hezbollah.

00:10:38.340 That conflict didn't stop.

00:10:39.440 A periodic conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces established into a month-long war in 2006,

00:10:44.820 during which Hezbollah launched thousands of rockets into Israeli territory.

00:10:49.780 And in August 2021, Hezbollah fired more than a dozen rockets in response to Israel's airstrikes in Lebanon.

00:10:54.740 It was the first time the group claimed responsibility for rockets fired into Israel since 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

00:11:01.900 Analyst and Brigadier General, retired Asaf Oryan of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies,

00:11:07.360 says Hezbollah possesses a larger arsenal of artillery than most nations enjoy.

00:11:14.060 And a 2018 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies called it,

00:11:18.280 the world's most heavily armed non-state actor, Hezbollah.

00:11:22.980 Meanwhile, critics say Hezbollah's existence violates UN Security Council Resolution 1559,

00:11:28.160 adopted in 2004, which called for all Lebanese militias to disband and disarm.

00:11:33.940 And in October of 2019, Hezbollah became a target of mass protests,

00:11:37.260 government mismanagement, and years of slow growth had saddled Lebanon with one of world's highest public debt burdens

00:11:43.280 at 150% of its gross domestic product.

00:11:46.020 So obviously a lot of people are sitting there saying,

00:11:47.780 well, look, if Hamas is doing what they're doing, if Israel attacks literally too much,

00:11:51.480 Hezbollah's going to get involved to back them up.

00:11:53.240 And did we see a sign of that? That's exactly what happened.

00:11:55.660 Following the October assault on Israel by Hamas,

00:11:58.100 Hezbollah had fired shells across the Israel-Lebanon border

00:12:01.440 in a show of what the group's leaders call solidarity with Hamas.

00:12:06.020 It's like a announcement.

00:12:07.560 Hey, just so everybody knows, we have their back, Hamas. 0.75

00:12:11.540 In several Hezbollah's militias reportedly attempted to infiltrate Israel,

00:12:15.420 Iran and Hezbollah likely advised and trained Hamas on how to attack Israel.

00:12:19.180 Experts say that Hamas maintains that neither was involved in planning its 2023 operations.

00:12:24.080 This has been written about all over the place.

00:12:25.900 Wall Street Journal, that Iran was involved in this attack that Hamas had on Israel.

00:12:30.120 So, so far we've talked about Hamas and we've talked about Hezbollah.

00:12:32.580 How about ISIS? And how big are they today?

00:12:34.780 Are they still as powerful as they were before?

00:12:36.720 Let's talk about the history of ISIS.

00:12:38.340 ISIS is a Salafi jihadist group that has conducted and inspired terrorist attacks worldwide,

00:12:43.460 resulting in thousands killed or injured.

00:12:46.020 In 2004, an Iraqi extremist network, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,

00:12:51.040 merged with Al-Qaeda to form ISIS's predecessor group called Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

00:12:55.840 So, in 2013, Al-Qaeda in Iraq changed its name to ISIS and in 2014, the group separated from Al-Qaeda declared itself a caliphate and took over vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.

00:13:07.320 So, if you're asking the question, I don't know what a caliphate is, here's the definition of caliphate.

00:13:11.660 It's a political religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the death of Prophet Muhammad.

00:13:18.840 Now, in 2019, an international coalition ejected ISIS from its last stronghold in Syria,

00:13:24.860 although the group continues to operate clandestinely there and in Iraq.

00:13:29.760 Despite losing many of its leaders in its territory, ISIS remains capable of conducting insurgent operations in Iraq and Syria,

00:13:36.440 while overseeing at least 19 branches and networks in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

00:13:40.680 And, by the way, when you look at size, tier one terrorist organization, some would say it's Hezbollah, 150,000 of them, right?

00:13:47.120 Tier two is Hamas. 0.95

00:13:48.700 Tier three, when you look at ISIS, it's only roughly between 8,000 to 16,000,

00:13:54.580 and their operating areas is primarily in northern and eastern Syria and northern Iraq.

00:14:00.700 Now, ISIS tactics and targets.

00:14:02.960 ISIS uses targeted killings, IED attacks, ambushes, military-style assaults, kidnapping and suicide attacks in Iraq and Syria.

00:14:10.280 The group also encourages adherents worldwide to conduct operations in their own countries.

00:14:16.420 And ISIS mostly attacks military targets and civilian defense forces, government personnel, infrastructure,

00:14:21.740 in addition to foreign aid workers and civilians who ISIS perceives are working against it

00:14:26.820 or are opposed to the interpretation of Islamic law.

00:14:30.180 So, if now you're wondering, you're saying, well, Hezbollah got a terrorist group designation.

00:14:34.220 So did Hamas. 0.97

00:14:35.080 Did ISIS ever get that?

00:14:36.420 They did.

00:14:36.940 In 2004, the U.S. State Department designated al-Qaeda, ISIS's predecessor, as a foreign terrorist organization

00:14:43.940 in December of 2004, a designation that remains in effect for ISIS till today.

00:14:49.380 So, even though this is in 2004 and it still stands till today, you may be asking,

00:14:54.160 well, when's the last time they even did an attack?

00:14:55.680 Wasn't that like pre-Trump?

00:14:56.920 Did we have anything that happened?

00:14:58.060 Because during Trump, everybody forgot about ISIS.

00:15:00.280 ISIS was very big during Obama.

00:15:02.120 But I want to give you four of the different attacks they had recently.

00:15:04.880 One of them is July 3rd of 2016, they attacked Baghdad, Iraq.

00:15:08.340 They carried out a suicide car bombing that killed more than 200 people.

00:15:11.840 January 16, 2019, in Syria, they conducted a suicide bombing outside of a restaurant killing

00:15:16.400 15 people, including four Americans.

00:15:18.520 July 19, 2021, Baghdad, Iraq, they conducted a suicide bombing in a crowded market on the eve of

00:15:24.600 Eid al-Adha holiday, killing at least 35 people and injuring more than 60.

00:15:29.300 And last but not least, January of last year, 2022, in Syria, ISIS attacks Gowarian prison,

00:15:35.380 leading to a week-long siege on the facility and surrounding neighborhoods, killing more

00:15:40.640 than 100 prison guards and 400 ISIS detainees.

00:15:44.440 So, if you look at this chart, you'll notice a trend.

00:15:46.640 Two of them are Iraq, two of them are Syria, three of them are suicide bombing. 0.96

00:15:50.020 So, again, going back to what their style is, suicide bombing, Iraq, Syria. 0.98

00:15:54.820 To finish up the topic here on ISIS and comparing al-Qaeda, I want to give you a little bit more

00:15:59.320 context before we move on.

00:16:00.800 Al-Qaeda and its affiliate remain a threat to the U.S. homeland, while the Islamic State

00:16:04.520 danger is more to the stability of the Middle East and U.S. interests overseas.

00:16:09.580 Much of their rivalry between the two, al-Qaeda and ISIS, involves a competition for affiliates,

00:16:14.680 with both trying to spread their model in al-Qaeda's case to ensure its operational relevance.

00:16:19.720 For now, the Islamic State focus is primarily on Iraq and Syria, and to a lesser degree on

00:16:26.380 the states in the Muslim world, particularly in Libya.

00:16:30.020 Now, in the United States and in Europe, it may inspire lone wolves, but it's not directing

00:16:34.960 its resources to attack in these areas, and security services are prepared for the threat.

00:16:39.980 Al-Qaeda is weaker and less dynamic than the Islamic State, but the former remains more focused

00:16:44.740 on attacking the United States and its Western allies.

00:16:48.280 So they're not targeting Syria and Iraq.

00:16:51.240 They're targeting U.S. 0.94

00:16:52.840 So now, somebody may be watching this, and let's just say you're Palestinian.

00:16:56.720 Let's say you're a Muslim.

00:16:57.480 You're watching.

00:16:57.900 It's like, oh my God, what's this all about?

00:16:59.620 How dare you put this?

00:17:00.440 How about all the things that Americans have done?

00:17:02.440 How about the fact that you guys had a drone strike in August of 2021, and you were targeting

00:17:07.420 somebody, but you missed your target, but you killed 10 innocent people?

00:17:10.500 What about that, huh?

00:17:11.620 U.S. has done that, and it's happened under every president.

00:17:14.680 Biden, we had collateral damage under Trump, and we had collateral damage under Obama,

00:17:18.780 was trying to target this, and all of a sudden, they target, they missed the opportunity.

00:17:22.320 Totally get it.

00:17:23.100 There's blood on many different countries' hands, including U.S.'s, but there's a difference,

00:17:28.180 and you have to be reasonable enough to ask this question.

00:17:30.860 When's the last time you heard Americans doing suicide bombing?

00:17:34.700 When?

00:17:35.180 Now, Americans believe in God.

00:17:36.920 We also believe in God.

00:17:38.100 I believe in God.

00:17:38.860 But when's the last time you hear things like that?

00:17:41.280 There is a reason why these guys get categorically, they get designated as a terrorist organization,

00:17:47.080 because they're willing to give up their lives to kill people that they think is the enemy.

00:17:52.500 You can sit there and say, Pat, you're out of line.

00:17:55.160 How about the time of America?

00:17:56.040 No problem.

00:17:56.840 I'm not sitting here telling you everybody's, you know, everyone's guilty, and we're innocent

00:18:00.520 and all this stuff.

00:18:01.620 But you have to be able to reason and say, yeah, it's kind of a good point, man.

00:18:05.200 They don't really have that reputation for doing that.

00:18:07.300 But maybe folks from these three places do, but Americans do not.

00:18:12.100 All right, so let's talk about update on Israel-Palestine.

00:18:14.260 The last week here, I've been asking two questions.

00:18:16.300 Number one, how did Israel not know that Hamas was going to attack,

00:18:19.300 and they're setting up a facility to learn how to come and get hostages?

00:18:22.340 How does Israel not know? 0.86

00:18:23.540 You brag about having the best intelligence in the world, Mossad,

00:18:26.140 and you mean to tell me you missed this one?

00:18:27.620 A little bit weird.

00:18:28.460 Valid question.

00:18:29.080 Then the other one that I asked earlier, and we've been talking about this on podcast with

00:18:33.040 Vinny, Adam, and Tom, is if Palestinians are so great, and they're so innocent, 1.00

00:18:40.140 and they're such fantastic, peaceful people, why isn't Egypt willing to take them?

00:18:44.840 They're their neighbors.

00:18:45.700 They know them better than anybody else.

00:18:47.320 Both questions gets a group to say, that's the right question to ask.

00:18:51.440 Terrible question.

00:18:52.520 Or they say, that's the wrong question.

00:18:54.460 How dare you say that about Palestine?

00:18:55.880 Because they know, if they leave Palestine, Israel's going to take over Gaza. 0.83

00:19:00.100 Really?

00:19:00.700 Yes?

00:19:01.200 Okay, fine.

00:19:02.160 You give that argument.

00:19:03.000 But my question isn't about if they leave.

00:19:05.020 My question is, a lot of people are trying to leave.

00:19:07.480 Why is Egypt saying, no, you can't come here?

00:19:10.280 What's Egypt's incentive of keeping people there? 0.98

00:19:12.640 So, people say, well, no, that report of Egypt reporting and giving it to Israel is not true.

00:19:17.880 Let me show you what we got here.

00:19:19.080 September 20, an intelligence report warned of the possibility that Hamas would launch

00:19:23.020 rocket strikes into Israel over the course of multiple days.

00:19:26.900 The New York Times reported, citing U.S. officials.

00:19:29.540 Then the second report from the CIA dated October 5th, two days before Hamas carried out its attack,

00:19:34.940 warned of an increased probability of violence from Hamas.

00:19:37.680 This is twice.

00:19:38.460 One September 28th.

00:19:39.620 One October 5th.

00:19:40.560 From CIA, Israel's time over. 0.98

00:19:42.440 This is not like its hypothetical New York Post article.

00:19:45.180 Then, a source familiar with the intelligence told CNN, the military friction in the Israel-Gaza

00:19:50.160 region is nothing out of the normal, while another official familiar with the reports

00:19:53.640 described them to be times as routine.

00:19:56.360 And meanwhile, Iran is sitting there saying, you know what, you guys crossed the line.

00:19:59.580 We have to now intervene.

00:20:00.600 And what does that really mean?

00:20:01.640 Well, the Hezbollah is going to get involved. 0.66

00:20:03.520 They're going to get involved.

00:20:04.320 They got many different ways to get involved.

00:20:06.300 And remember, tier three, ISIS, 8 to 16,000.

00:20:09.600 Hamas, 40,000.

00:20:11.460 Hezbollah, 150,000.

00:20:14.360 What happens if they get involved?

00:20:16.180 It's a whole different story if they choose to get involved.

00:20:18.620 Now, I want to put this thought for you to be thinking about when it comes down to the

00:20:21.300 hospital.

00:20:21.920 With 400 people that got killed in the hospital, whose fault is it?

00:20:25.340 Israel? 0.53

00:20:26.220 Is it Hamas?

00:20:26.920 When I was living in Iran, during the time when, it's so funny, my dad's telling my wife

00:20:31.320 today on what time I was born.

00:20:32.720 I was born a little bit after midnight on October 18th.

00:20:35.400 My mom's water broke.

00:20:36.560 My dad's taking her to the hospital.

00:20:38.320 There's curfew.

00:20:39.200 They're past curfew.

00:20:40.160 They get held up with semi-automatic weapons saying, what are you doing driving a car?

00:20:44.360 When the streets are empty, he says, my wife's water broke.

00:20:47.040 She's pregnant. 1.00

00:20:47.880 They escort me to the hospital.

00:20:48.980 And then I'm born, literally past midnight on the 18th.

00:20:51.560 Watch the story.

00:20:52.540 An event happens in Iran called Cinema Rex Fire.

00:20:55.620 Cinema Rex Fire.

00:20:56.800 Cinema, cinema.

00:20:58.080 Rex, name, fire.

00:20:59.740 Cinema Rex was in a city called Abadan.

00:21:02.480 Abadan is the place where all these oil refineries are, okay?

00:21:06.500 There's a police station right across the street from Cinema Rex.

00:21:09.500 When this happens, Khomeini, Hezbollah, everybody said, this is the work of Savat.

00:21:15.520 They shut down the entire movie theater.

00:21:18.860 400 people couldn't leave the movie theater.

00:21:21.240 They caught the place on fire.

00:21:23.260 Pregnant women, kids, died. 1.00

00:21:25.340 Imagine you're burning.

00:21:26.540 You can't get out because they locked up the place.

00:21:28.240 It's called the Cinema Rex Fire, okay?

00:21:29.660 I'm sure you've seen the story.

00:21:31.100 They're posting the article all over the page while I'm talking to you.

00:21:33.580 Hezbollah and Khomeini convinced Iranians that Reza Shah Pahlavi did it with the help of Savat.

00:21:40.660 Savat was his Mossad. 0.69

00:21:42.060 So our CIA, they're Savat. 1.00

00:21:43.820 They were trained by Mossad and CIA.

00:21:46.760 Again, they're an intelligent group, right?

00:21:48.280 You know what ends up happening to everybody in Iran? 0.99

00:21:50.020 How dare this cold-hearted billionaire king monarchy spend 25 quarter of a billion dollars

00:21:58.280 putting the celebration of 2,500 years of Iran.

00:22:00.980 This guy's so rich and we're so poor and you killed 400 innocent people?

00:22:04.860 Boom.

00:22:05.280 Escalated, escalated, escalated.

00:22:06.820 Everybody said the king did it.

00:22:09.120 Revolution, millions of people in the streets.

00:22:11.020 It was the biggest revolution ever that took place.

00:22:13.760 Coup d'etat with none of the major four components that you need for a revolution.

00:22:17.960 You know who won?

00:22:19.120 Khomeini won.

00:22:19.900 The Shah had to get in a helicopter, escape, get in a plane and leave. 0.55

00:22:23.260 Do you know what happened a couple months later, a year later?

00:22:25.680 Reports came back that fire was never the Shah.

00:22:28.660 There was somebody that was part of Khomeini's camp that did it.

00:22:32.380 Guess what?

00:22:32.940 It's too late.

00:22:33.640 Revolution already happened.

00:22:34.960 What's the moral of the story?

00:22:36.060 I don't know if Israel's behind it or not. 0.90

00:22:37.720 And I don't know if Hamas is behind it or not.

00:22:39.460 All I know is whoever's behind it that did this intentionally, there's a strategy behind

00:22:44.240 it to put the blame on the other person to increase emotions, possibly yours and mine,

00:22:48.700 and say how dare they did something like that to get what they want.

00:22:51.940 Whatever that they want is, we don't know yet.

00:22:55.060 It may take us 6, 12, 18, 24 months to really find out who was behind it.

00:22:58.240 But don't jump to conclusion taking one side or the other because it favors your argument.

00:23:02.900 Sit back a little bit and let's really see what happens.

00:23:05.220 I like what Joe Biden said today when he's sitting across Netanyahu.

00:23:08.480 He says, our intelligence tells us Hamas was behind it, not you.

00:23:12.380 Obviously, we'll find out, but our intelligence said Hamas is behind it.

00:23:15.640 Look at the way he's giving the answer.

00:23:17.060 It's leaving it out.

00:23:17.700 But he's saying, we have your back, but we're going to find out.

00:23:20.020 That's the right approach to take because we still don't know who was really behind what

00:23:23.900 happened with this hospital.

00:23:24.820 So, look, we're going to do a whole different video on World War III here soon on how many

00:23:29.920 times we got close to and how to prevent it.

00:23:32.240 That's going to come up here soon, but I want to give you a final thoughts to be thinking

00:23:34.640 about.

00:23:35.060 One of the biggest challenges you and I have as human beings because we're emotional

00:23:39.940 beings.

00:23:40.640 Robots don't have this challenge.

00:23:42.240 You and I do.

00:23:43.060 We have something called emotions.

00:23:45.320 We have something called life experiences.

00:23:47.740 We have something called beliefs, religion, who you believe in, what you believe in, political,

00:23:52.160 all this stuff that we have, right?

00:23:53.760 And our loyalty typically is to our parents, our heritage, our background.

00:23:58.300 These guys can never do anything wrong.

00:24:00.060 As a parent, I've been in the office where my kids were at fault and I'm sitting there

00:24:04.140 saying, you paid a price.

00:24:05.720 What is his, you know, a price?

00:24:07.540 He's going to be suspended.

00:24:08.420 Totally get it.

00:24:08.920 You paid a price.

00:24:09.680 Okay.

00:24:10.080 Here's what we're going to do.

00:24:10.820 We're going to have a conversation.

00:24:11.960 And then if I think it's too much, I'll have the private conversation with the principal.

00:24:15.760 But if I think it's right, it's right.

00:24:17.620 And there's been times where I've been in a place where I've watched the punishments

00:24:20.920 went way too much and I've said, I don't think I'm good with this punishment.

00:24:23.860 Did you guys look at the tape?

00:24:24.900 So we have to be fair.

00:24:26.120 There's some parents are like, no, my kids are never wrong.

00:24:28.640 He's an angel.

00:24:29.340 And it's a lie because when I was a kid, there were many times I was wrong.

00:24:32.800 Okay.

00:24:33.100 And I know I was wrong as a kid, just like yourself.

00:24:35.760 What's the moral of the story?

00:24:36.920 Let's do our best to not join the jump to conclusion community just because it validates

00:24:43.300 your argument or my argument.

00:24:45.400 We're all guilty every once in a while.

00:24:47.360 Not sitting here telling you I'm an angel or you're an angel.

00:24:49.460 So all I'm saying during times like this, where emotions goes from zero to let's, you

00:24:53.640 know, go to war and do this.

00:24:55.380 Let's kind of pump the brakes and let's not jump to conclusion.

00:24:58.060 The only suggestion I got for everybody, the goal is to prevent people from dying.

00:25:01.860 That's the goal.

00:25:02.620 The goal is for people to live their lives.

00:25:04.960 And the goal is to hold people accountable who are doing things that is not appropriate

00:25:09.800 and they're taking people's lives.

00:25:11.820 But before we jump to conclusion, let's see who's behind it.

00:25:15.320 Let's do some research.

00:25:16.300 And then once we know, and if you're right, salute to you.

00:25:19.520 If you're wrong, hey, I was wrong.

00:25:21.240 Totally okay.

00:25:21.860 I'm okay being wrong and I'm okay being right.

00:25:23.900 I'm more interested in finding out the truth, not being right or wrong.

00:25:26.620 That's my job.

00:25:27.220 Anyways, hopefully that gives you a little bit of insight.

00:25:29.220 Having said that, we did a video.

00:25:30.700 As a Middle Eastern myself, I wanted to find out who were the angriest people in the world. 1.00

00:25:35.780 And I don't know if you've ever seen the study or not.

00:25:37.600 As an Armenian, we were ranked third.

00:25:39.640 I'm like, wow, now that's all starting to make sense.

00:25:41.600 And as an Assyrian, Armenian from Iran, when you see the ranking, you'll see why. 0.70

00:25:44.780 But it tells you a little bit about the history, why certain regions are angrier than others.

00:25:49.120 If you've not seen this clip, click here to watch it.

00:25:51.760 Take care, everybody.

00:25:52.680 Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Valuetainment - October 24, 2023

The History of Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS

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