Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 09, 2023


Israel's 9⧸11-and How the Biden Administration Provided Billions of Dollars that Funded It


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

152.13043

Word Count

6,973

Sentence Count

460

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

75


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.340 Welcome.
00:00:06.040 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.320 And Senator, obviously, we have to talk about what many are referring to as Israel's 9-11,
00:00:15.940 this horrific attack on Israel.
00:00:17.660 And there's so many different aspects of this.
00:00:20.140 Obviously, Americans are dead.
00:00:21.760 That's been confirmed by the White House.
00:00:23.880 Others are unaccounted for being possibly held hostage.
00:00:26.360 You have countless people that have been taken by this terrorist organization and a White
00:00:31.540 House and the president that have pretty much been absent.
00:00:34.000 We're going to dive into all that.
00:00:35.160 But let me get your initial reaction to what we've witnessed over the weekend.
00:00:40.600 Israel is under attack.
00:00:42.720 Israel is at war.
00:00:43.980 Israel is facing the greatest hostilities in over 50 years.
00:00:48.940 If you look at what's happened already, we have seen hundreds of Israelis murdered.
00:00:53.260 We have seen thousands of Israelis wounded.
00:00:56.720 We have seen thousands upon thousands of rockets raining into Israel.
00:01:00.980 And I got to say, Ben, the footage, the videos that are coming out of Israel, Hamas terrorists,
00:01:09.540 number one, they're targeting civilians.
00:01:11.260 This is not a military attack.
00:01:13.240 They are going home by home and massacring civilians.
00:01:18.200 They went to a rock concert and just began firing randomly, murdering civilians that are at a concert.
00:01:25.740 They are kidnapping women.
00:01:29.240 They're kidnapping children.
00:01:30.940 They're kidnapping elderly people.
00:01:32.900 They are violently raping women and girls in massive numbers.
00:01:37.940 The videos that are coming out are horrific.
00:01:41.560 This is it's not just war.
00:01:43.060 It is war that is grotesque and evil, and it is terrorist.
00:01:48.100 It is targeting when you are murdering infants.
00:01:51.580 You're not engaged in war.
00:01:53.360 You are engaged in a grotesque act of evil.
00:01:57.560 And that's what's unfolding in Israel right now.
00:01:59.880 You and I decided to do this late on Sunday evening.
00:02:02.280 It's 1152 Central Time after almost one o'clock Eastern because we wanted to get as much intel as we could before we did this.
00:02:10.480 The latest numbers we're seeing are at least 700 plus dead now.
00:02:14.180 That's the newest numbers coming out from the Israeli government.
00:02:16.900 2,300 wounded after the Hamas terror attack.
00:02:20.040 And we are also seeing bodies that are being, quote, stacked in the street.
00:02:25.580 Unprecedented number of hostages, including now, which has been confirmed, Americans.
00:02:31.520 This, by the way, Senator, as apparently Hezbollah has said through their own channels, they have joined in this fight with Hamas as well.
00:02:38.700 Well, and I'll tell you what is infuriating about this.
00:02:44.880 This was paid for by Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:02:51.340 This is something that the corporate media desperately wants to avoid.
00:02:55.520 But let's be clear.
00:02:57.020 This attack, this massacre, this horrific assault on Israel was funded by Iran.
00:03:04.700 Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies.
00:03:07.920 They work for Iran.
00:03:10.700 They work under the direction of Iran.
00:03:12.580 They are funded by Iran.
00:03:15.680 The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that these attacks were planned, were signed off on by the Iranian government.
00:03:24.020 And in the last two and a half years, Joe Biden and this White House are responsible for $50 billion flowing to Iran.
00:03:34.620 And let me break that down because the corporate media does not want to cover that.
00:03:38.720 Everyone acknowledges the $6 billion.
00:03:40.760 The $6 billion is the ransom money that Joe Biden paid to get five Americans out of Iranian custody.
00:03:50.040 At $6 billion, that's $1.2 billion an American.
00:03:55.320 That set a bounty on Americans of over a billion dollars.
00:03:59.100 It means Americans in the future will be taken hostage.
00:04:02.960 But the $6 billion is just a fraction of the cash that Joe Biden has flooded into Iran.
00:04:10.040 Because a few weeks before the $6 billion, the Biden administration allowed $10 billion from Iraq to flow into Iran.
00:04:20.700 That brings it up to $16 billion in cash that directly flowed into Iraq.
00:04:26.820 Iran, rather.
00:04:27.380 But that doesn't cover it all.
00:04:30.260 Because for two years, the Biden administration has refused to enforce American oil sanctions.
00:04:37.260 The single most powerful economic weapon we have against this theocratic, genocidal regime in Iran is sanctions that were shutting down their oil sales.
00:04:50.660 That under the Trump administration, that had brought the Iranian economy to its knees, had crippled it.
00:04:56.640 Well, Joe Biden and the Democrats came into office.
00:04:59.660 And what did they do?
00:05:00.680 They stopped enforcing the Iran oil sanctions.
00:05:03.660 And right now, do you know how much Iran is selling in oil right now?
00:05:07.200 How much?
00:05:08.200 Two million barrels of oil a day.
00:05:12.880 Over the last two and a half years, the Biden administration is responsible for roughly $50 billion.
00:05:20.900 So when you were watching Israelis murdered, when you were watching infants murdered,
00:05:26.140 when you were watching women and girls raped, when you were watching hundreds of Israelis taken hostage,
00:05:33.220 know that Joe Biden and this White House funded it.
00:05:36.800 They funded it for idiotic political reasons.
00:05:40.120 And now they're desperately trying to backtrack, saying, no, no, no, no, we didn't pay for these atrocities.
00:05:47.220 They absolutely did.
00:05:48.720 You mentioned the reporting from the Wall Street Journal, and I'm going to want to quote this from the journal.
00:05:52.600 It says, Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas's Saturday surprise attack on Israel
00:05:59.200 and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday,
00:06:06.620 according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah in another Iran-backed militant group.
00:06:13.240 This, as now these two groups have basically teamed up and said, let's do this together moving forward,
00:06:19.600 you now have Hamas and Hezbollah together.
00:06:22.720 Well, and both are proxies for Iran.
00:06:26.220 They're working for Iran.
00:06:27.560 They are funded by Iran.
00:06:29.040 And it's worth noting also, the funding that flowed to this is not just the $50 billion
00:06:37.460 that the Biden administration sent to Iran.
00:06:42.320 The Biden administration also directly funded Hamas.
00:06:47.060 Now, this is something also the corporate media won't tell you.
00:06:49.560 It's why you listen to this podcast.
00:06:51.440 And by the way, can we please tell everybody, this needs to be shared today.
00:06:54.960 Yes.
00:06:55.160 Because if you want people to know what's really going on in this attack,
00:06:58.260 and you want to know where the money came from, and you want to know who's behind it,
00:07:01.320 please help us get the word out and share this immediately wherever you're listening,
00:07:04.920 wherever you're on social media.
00:07:06.200 So, as soon as the Biden administration came into office,
00:07:10.520 they immediately began flooding money into the Gaza Strip.
00:07:16.360 At the time, the Biden administration knew for a fact that it would fund terrorism.
00:07:22.720 In fact, one internal document, a Biden official wrote that there was a high risk that Hamas
00:07:29.200 would potentially derive benefit from the money they were sending, but they wanted to do it anyway.
00:07:34.220 And so what did they do?
00:07:35.180 They actually exempted themselves from American laws against funding terrorism.
00:07:40.660 Here's the quote from the Biden administration document.
00:07:43.000 Quote, due to its overall strength and level of control over Gaza, we assess there is a high risk
00:07:52.000 that Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza.
00:08:00.300 And so they waived, they waived the U.S. laws that ban funding terrorists because they are so opposed to Israel,
00:08:09.600 they are so in favor of Palestinian terrorists that they wanted to send money to Gaza,
00:08:14.740 even though they knew it would fund Hamas.
00:08:18.100 Those rockets that are flying into Israel, you can thank Joe Biden for them.
00:08:22.320 And by the way, I fought tooth and nail against sending that money.
00:08:27.000 I led a letter that was joined by 17 other senators, all Republicans,
00:08:31.740 calling on the Biden administration not to send that money.
00:08:35.680 And I got to tell you, at the same time, 145 House Democrats sent a letter,
00:08:42.060 actually slightly later, urging that the money be released.
00:08:45.020 And so this was every one of those Democrats that signed those letters.
00:08:49.220 Well, congratulations.
00:08:50.380 Aren't you glad you sent money to Gaza that went to Hamas that is being used now to fund murder
00:08:56.780 and kidnapping and horrific war crimes?
00:09:00.960 Senator, there's also something else that's really troubling.
00:09:03.940 It's the fact that not only is this clearly, I think, Israel's 9-11,
00:09:08.240 the number of dead is so eerily close to what we had in the days after 9-11.
00:09:13.200 But also there's another issue, and that's as many as four American citizens
00:09:17.960 are now confirmed to have been killed during this terrorist attack in Israel over the weekend,
00:09:22.300 which has claimed countless lives at this point.
00:09:25.560 Confirmation of the dead Americans came on Sunday after the U.S. Secretary of State,
00:09:28.980 Anthony Blinken, said the Biden administration had been, quote,
00:09:32.680 working overtime to verify reports of missing and dead Americans
00:09:37.120 in the midst of the Hamas launching an unprecedented attack on Israel.
00:09:40.880 The four Americans have been killed in the attacks in Israel close to the Gaza border,
00:09:45.580 and the death toll quote is expected to rise.
00:09:47.760 Sources familiar with the briefing to key House committees said off the record.
00:09:53.080 Now, we haven't heard much from the President of the United States of America on this,
00:09:57.020 and that should bother every American,
00:09:59.060 especially the families who are trying to get answers here.
00:10:01.540 Well, the President, unfortunately, has been completely AWOL,
00:10:04.940 but it's even worse than his being AWOL.
00:10:08.240 The Biden administration has been affirmatively harmful.
00:10:11.800 As this war began, as Hamas began invading Israel,
00:10:15.420 as they began murdering civilians, as they began murdering women and children,
00:10:19.140 as they began raping women and little girls,
00:10:22.220 here's what the Biden State Department tweeted out.
00:10:24.620 I want to quote it, quote,
00:10:26.520 We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred.
00:10:32.360 We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.
00:10:40.280 Terror and violence solve nothing.
00:10:43.280 This is from the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs in the State Department.
00:10:47.700 They sent this out at three in the morning as these murders and assaults were ongoing.
00:10:53.820 Within minutes, I retweeted it, and here's what I said on Twitter.
00:10:59.100 I said, quote,
00:11:00.560 This is disgraceful, and every single person involved in drafting and approving this tweet
00:11:07.900 should be immediately expelled from the U.S. government.
00:11:12.360 Now, I'll tell you, thankfully, in response to that,
00:11:16.380 within about an hour, the State Department deleted the tweet.
00:11:19.260 So their first instinct was to tell Israel,
00:11:22.060 Your country's being invaded.
00:11:24.660 Terrorists are murdering your citizens.
00:11:26.780 Your citizens are being kidnapped.
00:11:29.380 Infants and children are being murdered.
00:11:32.000 The position of the U.S. State Department is,
00:11:33.900 Israel, please do nothing.
00:11:35.100 Do not engage in any retaliatory strikes.
00:11:37.040 Just sit there and allow the terrorists to murder your citizens.
00:11:41.060 It is shocking.
00:11:42.000 And that is the ideological reaction of the Biden administration.
00:11:48.100 They see these terror attacks, and their immediate reaction is,
00:11:51.920 Dear God, I hope Israel does not respond by killing the terrorists.
00:11:56.500 The answer should have been,
00:11:58.320 We stand with Israel, period, full stop.
00:12:02.380 Israel has a right to defend itself,
00:12:04.540 and these terrorists are vicious monsters.
00:12:07.500 This is barbarism against civilization,
00:12:10.460 and Israel has a right and an obligation to defend its innocent citizens.
00:12:16.360 What about the fact the president also didn't say anything on Sunday
00:12:19.300 about the Americans that, A, have been killed,
00:12:21.500 and, 2, the Americans that are apparently being held hostage?
00:12:24.800 Now, the reason why we know that is American citizens have been taken as hostages by Hamas.
00:12:30.820 We know that because an Israeli minister of strategic affairs,
00:12:33.820 Ron Dermer, is the one that put it out, saying this to the world.
00:12:38.760 And in response to those reports,
00:12:40.140 the Secretary of State Blinken said the U.S., quote,
00:12:42.100 is working overtime.
00:12:43.400 Not the president responding to this,
00:12:46.480 but Anthony Blinken saying we're working overtime.
00:12:48.980 Where's the, hey, don't harm an American.
00:12:51.640 Hey, don't screw with us.
00:12:53.200 Hey, you better be careful if you have an American
00:12:55.280 and give him back immediately.
00:12:56.980 Well, unfortunately, this administration,
00:13:00.200 this president, can't be found saying that.
00:13:02.480 What this president has said is we'll pay $1.2 billion per American to Iran,
00:13:09.340 and mind you, that money can be used then to fund rockets
00:13:12.640 and then to fund terrorists to capture more Americans.
00:13:15.900 By the way, when they paid that ransom,
00:13:18.100 I said more Americans would be taken hostage.
00:13:20.460 As we sit here tonight, there are in all likelihood
00:13:22.860 more Americans that have been taken hostage,
00:13:25.480 there are more Americans that have been killed,
00:13:27.360 and the Biden State Department's reactions on this are exactly backwards.
00:13:33.220 I want to play part of how the media responded to your tweet
00:13:36.000 and how they covered it as well,
00:13:37.660 and I'm glad that they at least were able to delete it,
00:13:39.900 but it doesn't mean they're changing their policy.
00:13:41.540 Take a listen.
00:13:42.500 Also, this tweet that has now been deleted
00:13:44.660 by the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs,
00:13:47.260 saying in part, quote,
00:13:48.500 We urge all sides to refrain from violence
00:13:51.620 and retaliatory attacks.
00:13:53.740 Terror and violence solve nothing.
00:13:56.300 Senator Ted Cruz condemning the tweet,
00:13:58.460 saying, quote,
00:13:59.440 In response,
00:14:00.280 This is disgraceful,
00:14:01.620 and every single person involved in drafting
00:14:03.700 and approving this tweet
00:14:04.960 should be immediately expelled from the U.S. government.
00:14:07.720 It shouldn't take, Senator,
00:14:10.660 you sending out that tweet
00:14:12.020 and seeing what they wrote
00:14:13.480 for them to take it down,
00:14:15.040 to even have that as their mentality,
00:14:16.640 which is,
00:14:17.400 you guys need to show restraint
00:14:19.080 when you're under attack,
00:14:20.040 like a 9-11-style attack.
00:14:21.900 This is the worst assault on the Jewish people.
00:14:26.180 We're talking about number dead
00:14:27.180 since the Holocaust
00:14:28.540 is how they described it in Israel today
00:14:30.340 in the newspapers.
00:14:31.400 Well, and I got to tell you,
00:14:32.740 I am hearing from more and more Jewish friends of mine
00:14:35.340 in America
00:14:36.320 that the images of the Holocaust
00:14:38.100 are being brought back to them
00:14:41.220 because they're seeing
00:14:42.640 bands of terrorists
00:14:44.580 going home to home in Israel
00:14:47.700 and murdering every person in the home,
00:14:51.420 murdering civilians indiscriminately.
00:14:54.480 And those they don't murder,
00:14:56.120 we're seeing them capture
00:14:57.740 their videos of women
00:14:59.320 who are bloodied,
00:15:00.880 who are covered in blood,
00:15:02.580 who've been violently sexually assaulted,
00:15:04.700 being paraded through the streets,
00:15:07.020 being brought back to Gaza
00:15:08.720 as hostages.
00:15:11.140 And this is unfolding right now.
00:15:14.040 And I have to say,
00:15:15.380 number one,
00:15:16.980 the fact that the American government
00:15:18.960 is responsible for financing this
00:15:22.660 is heartbreaking.
00:15:24.480 Number two,
00:15:26.020 the statement that the State Department put out
00:15:28.180 that they thankfully deleted
00:15:29.860 within about an hour
00:15:30.800 once I called them out,
00:15:31.880 it is indicative of their mindset.
00:15:34.480 Let me tell you what's going to happen
00:15:35.580 in the next 24 and 48 hours.
00:15:39.200 The Biden administration
00:15:40.360 is going to start telling Israel,
00:15:42.740 stop.
00:15:44.000 Stop retaliating.
00:15:45.980 Stop fighting back.
00:15:47.160 Stop going after Hamas.
00:15:48.660 Because their reaction every time
00:15:51.060 for two and a half years,
00:15:52.720 this White House
00:15:53.660 has systematically undermined
00:15:55.660 the government of Israel,
00:15:57.120 and they have simultaneously,
00:15:59.580 systematically elevated
00:16:01.120 the Palestinian terrorists
00:16:03.300 who are right now committing
00:16:04.720 these atrocities.
00:16:06.680 At best,
00:16:09.040 they see a parity
00:16:10.560 between the Palestinian terrorists
00:16:13.220 and the IDF soldiers.
00:16:15.080 And mind you,
00:16:15.620 the Israelis don't murder
00:16:16.980 individual citizens.
00:16:19.760 They don't murder civilians.
00:16:20.900 They are aiming at
00:16:23.300 and trying to take out
00:16:24.400 military targets.
00:16:25.360 They're trying to take out
00:16:26.340 Hamas targets.
00:16:27.160 Now, here's the problem.
00:16:28.820 Hamas deliberately
00:16:30.240 uses human shields.
00:16:33.560 So, for example,
00:16:34.780 years ago,
00:16:35.500 the headquarters for Hamas
00:16:36.700 in Gaza,
00:16:38.160 while Hamas was raining rockets
00:16:40.120 down on Israel,
00:16:41.280 the headquarters was in the basement
00:16:43.200 of a Palestinian hospital.
00:16:45.560 Let me tell you why it was
00:16:46.740 in the basement
00:16:47.200 of a Palestinian hospital.
00:16:48.620 They wanted to put
00:16:49.560 the Israeli military
00:16:50.900 into a lose-lose situation.
00:16:53.220 Either, number one,
00:16:54.260 they could refrain
00:16:56.560 from attacking
00:16:58.260 that hospital
00:16:59.340 and taking out
00:17:00.840 the headquarters,
00:17:01.680 which means
00:17:02.460 the Hamas headquarters
00:17:03.500 could continue planning
00:17:04.760 and executing
00:17:05.440 military assaults
00:17:06.720 on civilians in Israel.
00:17:08.840 Or, number two,
00:17:10.080 if Israel does take out
00:17:11.560 the Hamas headquarters,
00:17:13.580 the result would be
00:17:15.200 dozens,
00:17:16.460 if not hundreds,
00:17:17.360 of dead individuals,
00:17:19.440 many of them civilians,
00:17:20.780 people like Palestinian
00:17:22.980 mothers and babies
00:17:24.280 in a maternity ward
00:17:25.460 being delivered.
00:17:26.300 And, mind you,
00:17:27.920 the Hamas terrorists
00:17:29.000 are deliberately using,
00:17:30.480 in the case of Gaza,
00:17:31.440 they're using Palestinian
00:17:32.500 women and children
00:17:33.400 as human shields.
00:17:35.200 They're saying,
00:17:35.860 look,
00:17:36.080 there's newborn infants
00:17:37.160 upstairs,
00:17:37.700 so if you try to kill us,
00:17:40.420 you have to kill the infants.
00:17:41.720 And so Israel
00:17:42.640 bends over backwards
00:17:44.720 to try to avoid
00:17:46.900 killing civilians.
00:17:48.020 Look, one of the real challenges
00:17:49.780 with all of these hostages,
00:17:51.340 we have to assume
00:17:52.800 these Israeli hostages
00:17:54.500 are now being used
00:17:56.580 as human shields,
00:17:57.540 are now being placed
00:17:58.880 in militarily
00:18:01.140 significant locations,
00:18:02.800 whether guarding
00:18:04.060 the Hamas headquarters,
00:18:05.340 whether guarding
00:18:06.100 weapons tranches
00:18:08.200 or rocket launching locations.
00:18:11.680 And, again,
00:18:14.160 Hamas is planning
00:18:15.440 a lose-lose for Israel.
00:18:17.820 Either they refrain
00:18:19.020 from striking back
00:18:20.260 or, from their perspective,
00:18:22.680 even better,
00:18:23.440 from Hamas' perspective,
00:18:25.140 Israel does strike back
00:18:26.800 and the result is
00:18:27.760 dead bodies
00:18:28.480 of innocent civilians
00:18:29.520 that they can blame
00:18:30.840 on the Israelis.
00:18:31.760 And then what happens
00:18:32.720 is the useful idiots
00:18:34.480 at the New York Times
00:18:35.580 and CNN
00:18:36.220 and the BBC
00:18:37.720 and the world press
00:18:39.020 start denouncing
00:18:40.640 the Israelis
00:18:41.420 are murdering civilians,
00:18:42.820 never noticing
00:18:43.980 that the civilians
00:18:45.720 in harm's way
00:18:46.560 were put there
00:18:47.260 by Hamas terrorists
00:18:48.460 and the Israelis
00:18:49.680 are trying to do
00:18:50.780 everything they can
00:18:51.940 to prevent civilian deaths
00:18:53.760 but at the same time
00:18:54.780 to stop the bloodshed
00:18:56.740 and I guarantee you
00:18:58.160 we will see this week
00:19:00.220 harrumphing
00:19:01.000 from the Biden administration
00:19:03.080 not condemning
00:19:04.540 the terrorists
00:19:05.020 or actually,
00:19:05.700 okay, look,
00:19:06.800 they'll do an obligatory,
00:19:08.320 we condemn
00:19:08.920 the acts of terror.
00:19:10.100 Now,
00:19:10.920 our real point,
00:19:11.760 Israel,
00:19:12.060 don't you dare respond,
00:19:13.340 stop responding right now,
00:19:14.580 stop killing terrorists
00:19:16.260 because that's the position
00:19:17.520 of the Biden White House,
00:19:18.720 we don't kill terrorists,
00:19:20.340 we give them billions
00:19:21.640 of dollars
00:19:22.340 where you can see
00:19:23.460 the disaster
00:19:24.900 that is that policy
00:19:27.060 of appeasement
00:19:28.220 that characterizes
00:19:29.900 this White House.
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00:21:33.940 I think for the last 10 years,
00:21:35.780 you mentioned it,
00:21:36.480 the media has really done
00:21:37.500 a great job
00:21:38.360 of humanizing
00:21:40.220 Hamas
00:21:41.720 and making them not
00:21:43.320 seem like they're
00:21:44.200 horrific terrorists,
00:21:45.320 which they are,
00:21:46.060 and doing the atrocities
00:21:47.240 that you just mentioned.
00:21:48.920 And trying to make you
00:21:50.280 feel bad
00:21:51.220 for the people
00:21:52.060 in the Gaza Strip,
00:21:53.220 for example.
00:21:54.220 Trying to make you feel,
00:21:55.860 justify Hamas
00:21:57.460 and Hezbollah
00:21:58.120 and their actions.
00:21:59.640 And even
00:22:00.420 while this is going on,
00:22:02.540 while women
00:22:03.440 are being raped,
00:22:04.320 while infants
00:22:05.060 are being taken,
00:22:06.560 while people
00:22:07.220 are still being murdered
00:22:08.260 door to door,
00:22:09.020 as you mentioned,
00:22:10.060 on CNN,
00:22:11.600 Fareed Zakaria
00:22:12.540 said,
00:22:13.640 quote,
00:22:14.360 life is pretty hellish
00:22:16.060 for the people
00:22:17.020 in Gaza,
00:22:18.540 implying
00:22:19.200 that there's justification
00:22:20.280 for what we're witnessing
00:22:21.720 right now,
00:22:22.160 and you should understand
00:22:22.980 why they're so mad
00:22:24.480 and why they're going
00:22:25.280 after the Israelis.
00:22:26.260 He said this
00:22:26.720 with Anderson Cooper,
00:22:27.580 who was in Tel Aviv.
00:22:28.560 Listen.
00:22:28.780 Thank you.
00:22:32.460 Well,
00:22:33.140 in Gaza,
00:22:34.000 I mean,
00:22:34.220 Hamas is in control
00:22:35.080 of Gaza.
00:22:35.680 There are plenty
00:22:36.240 of people living
00:22:37.020 in Gaza City
00:22:37.880 who may not
00:22:39.180 like Hamas,
00:22:40.000 but it's not as if
00:22:41.140 there are free
00:22:42.100 and fair elections
00:22:42.900 there routinely
00:22:43.580 that there can be
00:22:44.520 a change in government.
00:22:45.560 Hamas is the power there.
00:22:47.240 There's Islamic Jihad
00:22:48.180 operating there as well,
00:22:49.760 but Hamas
00:22:50.600 is fully in control.
00:22:51.860 Absolutely.
00:22:55.040 There is no prospect
00:22:56.120 and there have been
00:22:57.140 efforts to do
00:22:58.180 other things.
00:22:59.580 It just feels
00:23:00.420 as though
00:23:00.800 that would be
00:23:01.420 particularly now
00:23:02.660 in a situation
00:23:03.540 of war and siege.
00:23:05.540 It's impossible
00:23:06.540 to imagine.
00:23:07.640 There was plenty
00:23:08.640 of evidence
00:23:09.100 that people in Gaza
00:23:10.540 were very dissatisfied
00:23:12.580 with their lot,
00:23:13.500 but let's remember
00:23:14.400 that their lot
00:23:15.700 is in part
00:23:16.380 because they are
00:23:17.880 in this almost prison.
00:23:19.100 Israel maintains
00:23:21.360 border controls
00:23:23.040 that are essentially
00:23:23.680 a stranglehold.
00:23:24.980 It's very hard
00:23:25.980 to leave.
00:23:26.560 It's very hard
00:23:27.040 to import anything,
00:23:29.040 even medical equipment
00:23:30.160 that could be seen
00:23:30.960 as dual use.
00:23:32.220 On top of that,
00:23:33.040 you have this
00:23:33.720 radical terrorist
00:23:36.860 organization,
00:23:37.700 Hamas,
00:23:38.100 that rules.
00:23:39.140 So you put that
00:23:39.980 all together
00:23:40.580 and life is pretty
00:23:41.500 hellish for people
00:23:42.800 in Gaza.
00:23:43.380 It's not surprising
00:23:44.260 they want some
00:23:45.460 alternative.
00:23:46.940 You listen to this.
00:23:48.100 He's justifying
00:23:49.400 that,
00:23:50.300 well,
00:23:50.420 you should understand
00:23:51.060 why they're so upset.
00:23:51.880 You should understand
00:23:52.700 why they're in a bad situation.
00:23:54.220 You should understand
00:23:54.820 that this is partly
00:23:55.580 Israel's fault
00:23:56.280 for putting them
00:23:57.500 in this box here.
00:23:58.820 That is why
00:23:59.420 we're witnessing
00:24:00.260 the videos coming out
00:24:02.440 of people that are
00:24:03.180 being killed
00:24:03.820 on screen
00:24:04.820 and this is the
00:24:05.720 propaganda the media
00:24:06.600 is saying.
00:24:07.300 Look,
00:24:07.760 these are anti-American,
00:24:09.560 anti-Israel propagandists.
00:24:11.480 What utter garbage.
00:24:12.620 You know what?
00:24:13.380 I don't doubt
00:24:14.320 that life is pretty
00:24:15.180 hellish in Gaza.
00:24:16.140 You know why?
00:24:16.700 Because they're governed
00:24:17.640 by a bunch of
00:24:18.520 barbarian terrorists
00:24:21.860 who take virtually
00:24:24.240 every penny
00:24:24.980 of humanitarian aid
00:24:26.100 they get,
00:24:26.720 they steal it
00:24:27.360 from the people
00:24:28.000 and they use it
00:24:28.720 for weapons
00:24:29.260 to engage
00:24:29.860 in acts of terror.
00:24:31.440 And yes,
00:24:32.320 Hamas is responsible
00:24:33.560 for hell.
00:24:34.620 Let me read you from,
00:24:35.760 so in 2014,
00:24:37.660 I authored a resolution
00:24:38.840 in the Senate.
00:24:39.540 It was actually
00:24:40.120 co-sponsored
00:24:41.380 by Kirsten Gillibrand,
00:24:42.620 the Democrat
00:24:43.040 from New York,
00:24:43.760 condemning the use
00:24:45.480 of human shields
00:24:46.400 as a war crime
00:24:48.000 and it passed
00:24:48.740 the Senate 100 to nothing.
00:24:50.100 Let me read you
00:24:50.740 some of the resolution
00:24:52.420 that I wrote
00:24:53.020 nine years ago
00:24:54.060 that dealt
00:24:54.960 with Hamas's use
00:24:55.860 of human shields.
00:24:57.300 Whereas the term
00:24:58.440 human shields
00:24:59.100 refers to the use
00:25:00.100 of civilians,
00:25:01.020 prisoners of war
00:25:01.760 and other non-combatants
00:25:02.900 whose mere presence
00:25:04.400 is designed
00:25:05.120 to protect combatants
00:25:06.400 and objects
00:25:07.280 from attack.
00:25:08.400 Whereas the use
00:25:09.340 of human shields
00:25:10.160 violates international
00:25:11.300 humanitarian law,
00:25:12.760 also referred to
00:25:13.740 as the law of war
00:25:14.640 or the law
00:25:15.700 of armed conflict.
00:25:17.340 Whereas since
00:25:18.180 June 15, 2014,
00:25:20.460 there have been
00:25:21.160 over 2,000 rockets
00:25:22.460 fired by Hamas
00:25:23.620 and other terrorist
00:25:24.320 organizations
00:25:25.040 from Gaza
00:25:25.780 into Israel.
00:25:27.400 Whereas Hamas
00:25:28.420 uses civilian populations
00:25:29.840 as human shields
00:25:30.780 by placing its
00:25:31.660 underground tunnel network
00:25:33.100 and missile batteries
00:25:34.500 in densely populated areas
00:25:36.360 and in and around
00:25:37.580 schools,
00:25:38.720 hospitals,
00:25:39.280 and mosques.
00:25:40.440 Whereas Israel
00:25:41.580 drops leaflets,
00:25:43.620 makes announcements,
00:25:45.080 places phone calls
00:25:46.060 and sends text messages
00:25:47.280 to the Palestinian people
00:25:48.580 in Gaza
00:25:49.080 warning them
00:25:50.200 in advance
00:25:51.080 that an attack
00:25:51.780 is imminent
00:25:52.280 and goes to
00:25:52.960 extraordinary lengths
00:25:54.080 to target
00:25:55.260 only terrorist actors.
00:25:57.380 Whereas Hamas
00:25:58.280 has urged
00:25:58.860 the residents of Gaza
00:25:59.860 to ignore
00:26:00.520 the Israeli warnings
00:26:01.600 and to remain
00:26:02.660 in their houses
00:26:03.600 and has encouraged
00:26:04.500 Palestinians
00:26:05.120 to gather
00:26:05.700 on the roofs
00:26:06.380 of their homes
00:26:07.700 to act
00:26:08.780 as human shields.
00:26:10.200 now therefore
00:26:11.980 be it resolved
00:26:13.040 by the Senate
00:26:13.740 the House of Representatives
00:26:14.780 concurring
00:26:15.420 that Congress
00:26:16.200 one
00:26:17.000 strongly condemns
00:26:18.660 the brutal
00:26:19.120 and the illegal
00:26:19.660 tactics by Hamas
00:26:20.880 and other terrorist
00:26:21.540 organizations
00:26:22.220 of using innocent
00:26:23.940 civilians
00:26:24.480 as human shields.
00:26:25.400 Two
00:26:25.800 calls on the
00:26:27.040 international community
00:26:27.920 to recognize
00:26:28.720 the grave breaches
00:26:29.640 of international law
00:26:30.740 committed by Hamas
00:26:32.180 in using human shields.
00:26:33.700 Three
00:26:33.940 places responsibility
00:26:35.680 for launching
00:26:36.460 the rocket attacks
00:26:37.360 on Hamas
00:26:38.200 and other terrorist
00:26:39.840 organizations
00:26:40.600 such as Islamic
00:26:42.060 Jihad in Gaza.
00:26:44.100 Four
00:26:44.620 supports the
00:26:45.940 sovereign right
00:26:46.600 of the government
00:26:47.100 of Israel
00:26:47.560 to defend
00:26:48.060 its territory
00:26:48.820 and stop
00:26:49.840 the rocket attacks
00:26:50.700 on its citizens.
00:26:52.020 Five
00:26:52.540 expresses condolences
00:26:53.780 to the families
00:26:54.480 of innocent victims
00:26:55.520 on both sides
00:26:56.340 of the conflicts.
00:26:57.880 Six
00:26:58.300 supports Palestinian
00:26:59.360 civilians
00:26:59.900 who reject Hamas
00:27:01.120 and all forms
00:27:02.140 of terrorism
00:27:02.740 desiring to live
00:27:03.720 in peace
00:27:04.960 with their Israeli
00:27:06.260 neighbors
00:27:06.740 and seven
00:27:07.540 calls upon
00:27:08.960 Mahmoud Abbas
00:27:09.720 to condemn
00:27:10.540 the use of
00:27:11.140 innocent civilians
00:27:11.880 as human shields
00:27:12.880 by Hamas
00:27:13.940 and other terrorist
00:27:14.680 organizations.
00:27:15.680 That was nine
00:27:16.560 years ago.
00:27:17.580 I introduced it.
00:27:18.640 It was bipartisan.
00:27:19.760 It passed the Senate
00:27:20.620 100 to nothing.
00:27:22.920 Ben, let me ask you
00:27:23.600 something.
00:27:24.900 Why can't Joe Biden
00:27:26.400 say something like that?
00:27:27.840 Why is it impossible
00:27:29.180 for the President
00:27:30.340 of the United States,
00:27:31.340 for the Secretary
00:27:32.000 of State,
00:27:32.680 for the Biden
00:27:33.480 administration
00:27:34.080 to unequivocally
00:27:35.560 condemn
00:27:36.300 terrorist monsters
00:27:37.720 and to stand
00:27:38.520 with Israel?
00:27:39.940 Take it a step further.
00:27:41.380 The Israeli ambassador
00:27:42.440 went on Face the Nation
00:27:43.580 this morning
00:27:44.160 and he said this
00:27:45.920 about Hamas.
00:27:48.060 That your Prime Minister
00:27:49.000 is promising
00:27:49.660 a sustained campaign.
00:27:51.320 Do you have
00:27:52.380 any sense
00:27:53.160 of how Israel
00:27:54.100 will define success?
00:27:56.720 Well, Israel
00:27:57.220 is at war.
00:27:58.540 Yesterday,
00:27:59.640 we were attacked
00:28:00.420 by a terror organization.
00:28:02.720 They infiltrated
00:28:04.000 the Israeli territory
00:28:05.400 and killed
00:28:06.980 hundreds of Israelis.
00:28:09.300 At least 600
00:28:10.360 were butchered
00:28:11.380 yesterday,
00:28:12.640 including whole families,
00:28:14.400 elderly women,
00:28:16.220 children,
00:28:17.360 babies were taken
00:28:18.560 out of their mothers,
00:28:20.060 slapped and murdered.
00:28:21.460 This is war
00:28:22.380 and we have to fight
00:28:23.420 that war
00:28:23.960 and win it.
00:28:25.040 We have to destroy
00:28:25.980 the Hamas war machine.
00:28:27.360 you know,
00:28:29.920 in war,
00:28:30.580 back in war.
00:28:31.300 We have to fight it.
00:28:32.660 You hear him,
00:28:34.280 Senator,
00:28:34.540 say this
00:28:34.980 and there's a
00:28:35.880 chilling
00:28:36.800 distinction now
00:28:38.560 between
00:28:38.940 the Biden administration
00:28:40.520 on fighting
00:28:41.660 against Russia
00:28:42.780 and Ukraine,
00:28:43.880 unlimited checks
00:28:44.680 going there,
00:28:45.480 we're all in here
00:28:46.620 as long as it takes.
00:28:47.940 We're hearing
00:28:48.720 none of that
00:28:49.600 about our ally,
00:28:50.800 our closest
00:28:51.680 and best ally
00:28:52.480 in the Middle East.
00:28:53.860 Why won't we come out
00:28:55.160 and say,
00:28:55.740 yes,
00:28:56.060 we stand with Israel
00:28:57.280 to destroy
00:28:58.280 the Hamas war machine?
00:29:00.100 Because the Biden
00:29:01.140 administration
00:29:01.720 supports the Palestinians
00:29:03.300 because they're
00:29:04.060 quietly cheering
00:29:05.180 for the terrorists.
00:29:06.460 Now, look,
00:29:07.180 they're not cheering
00:29:08.180 for the acts of terrorism,
00:29:09.520 but they think
00:29:10.080 the terrorists are right,
00:29:11.100 just like CNN.
00:29:12.220 Oh, oh, well,
00:29:13.240 they're just,
00:29:14.060 they're in terrible circumstances,
00:29:15.320 so we understand.
00:29:17.140 Look,
00:29:17.460 we had multiple Democrats.
00:29:19.180 We had
00:29:19.740 Cori Bush
00:29:21.560 and AOC
00:29:22.160 and Rashida Tlaib
00:29:23.140 putting out statements
00:29:24.200 referring to things
00:29:25.500 like calling Israel
00:29:26.560 an apartheid statement.
00:29:28.620 Literally,
00:29:29.280 while you have
00:29:30.440 genocidal terrorists
00:29:32.320 murdering infants,
00:29:34.440 these left-wing squad
00:29:36.260 Democrats
00:29:36.880 are savaging
00:29:38.640 not the terrorists,
00:29:41.280 but the people of Israel
00:29:42.620 with blood libels.
00:29:45.100 And it is horrific.
00:29:47.060 And look,
00:29:47.960 the distinction,
00:29:49.020 it is important to understand,
00:29:50.220 it's one of the things,
00:29:51.140 one of the reasons I read
00:29:52.620 that resolution
00:29:54.040 that the Senate passed
00:29:55.240 back in 2014.
00:29:56.980 You know,
00:29:57.240 Israel,
00:29:57.760 when it goes in
00:29:58.500 into Gaza,
00:30:00.400 it does things like,
00:30:01.800 for example,
00:30:02.460 right now,
00:30:03.060 Israel is sending out text.
00:30:04.720 They have cell numbers
00:30:05.960 of every cell phone
00:30:07.420 in Gaza.
00:30:07.920 They send out texts
00:30:08.820 that say,
00:30:09.500 if you're an innocent civilian,
00:30:11.520 go to these parts of Gaza,
00:30:13.040 go to these safe zones,
00:30:14.260 because these other areas
00:30:16.000 that are Hamas headquarters
00:30:18.340 or weapons bases,
00:30:19.800 we are going to level,
00:30:21.040 so leave.
00:30:22.260 The Israeli government
00:30:23.420 is asking innocent civilians,
00:30:25.440 please get out of harm's way.
00:30:27.420 They do things like,
00:30:28.500 if they're going to bomb
00:30:29.180 a building where they know
00:30:30.260 Hamas has rockets stored
00:30:31.980 or they have terrorists stored,
00:30:33.580 they will send text
00:30:34.960 to every individual
00:30:36.020 in that building.
00:30:37.080 They will do things
00:30:38.360 like they will drop
00:30:40.160 basically a dud bomb
00:30:42.960 on the top of the building
00:30:45.820 to have a thud,
00:30:47.140 to let people hear the noise,
00:30:49.160 to give civilians time
00:30:51.100 to evacuate,
00:30:52.080 and then they'll level
00:30:52.660 the building
00:30:53.500 because they're trying
00:30:54.380 to take out the murderers.
00:30:57.020 You know,
00:30:57.260 Hamas has placed rockets
00:30:59.020 literally in kindergartens.
00:31:02.920 It reminds me of something
00:31:04.560 that Israel's Prime Minister,
00:31:06.380 Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:31:07.200 said that I thought
00:31:07.960 was really beautiful.
00:31:09.000 So Israel has a missile defense system
00:31:13.680 called the Iron Dome.
00:31:14.760 I have spent 11 years
00:31:16.680 in the Senate fighting
00:31:17.820 to help preserve the funding
00:31:21.700 for the Iron Dome
00:31:22.420 because the Iron Dome,
00:31:23.640 it's amazing.
00:31:25.860 It intercepts missiles
00:31:28.840 as they're coming in
00:31:29.720 and it saves thousands
00:31:31.340 and thousands of lives.
00:31:32.700 So Hamas will send
00:31:33.700 these rockets aimed
00:31:35.140 at civilian populations
00:31:36.500 and Iron Dome will intercept
00:31:38.500 a great many of them
00:31:39.400 and save lives.
00:31:40.920 Now, and Israel's got Iron Dome,
00:31:44.480 it's got another system
00:31:45.460 called David's Sling,
00:31:47.260 it's got another system
00:31:48.140 called Arrow 2 and Arrow 3.
00:31:50.300 These are all different systems
00:31:51.780 that are aimed at missile defense.
00:31:53.920 And what Prime Minister Netanyahu said
00:31:56.060 during an earlier Hamas rocket attack
00:31:58.400 is he said,
00:32:00.340 we use our missiles
00:32:01.480 to defend our citizens.
00:32:04.960 They use their citizens
00:32:06.840 to defend their missiles.
00:32:09.700 And it is a profound difference.
00:32:12.640 every one of these
00:32:14.500 leftist ideologues
00:32:16.240 in Congress,
00:32:17.560 in the Biden White House,
00:32:19.620 in the Biden State Department,
00:32:21.700 or in the corporate media
00:32:23.740 who draws a parallel,
00:32:26.200 draws a moral equivalency,
00:32:28.200 they are lying.
00:32:30.580 These terrorists
00:32:31.580 are looking for terrorists,
00:32:33.660 looking for civilians rather,
00:32:35.600 and murdering.
00:32:36.500 When you're murdering infants,
00:32:37.980 when you're raping children,
00:32:39.420 that's not an act of war.
00:32:42.340 That is a war crime.
00:32:44.360 And the Israelis
00:32:45.220 are doing everything they can
00:32:46.820 to avoid civilian casualties
00:32:48.560 and to target the terrorists.
00:32:51.340 They are qualitatively different.
00:32:53.680 And when you hear
00:32:54.720 the Biden administration
00:32:55.880 equating the two,
00:32:57.460 you ought to be outraged.
00:32:58.640 For example,
00:32:59.460 Secretary Blinken,
00:33:00.220 who's the most outspoken
00:33:01.240 so far from the administration,
00:33:03.180 he went on TV,
00:33:04.820 not really condemning
00:33:06.020 that much Hamas
00:33:07.020 or what they're doing,
00:33:08.320 but actually calling out Israel,
00:33:10.580 saying, quote,
00:33:11.720 we're looking to Israel
00:33:13.280 to apply the highest standard
00:33:15.500 to avoid civilian casualties
00:33:17.080 in Gaza.
00:33:18.000 We're not saying anything
00:33:19.760 about the Americans
00:33:20.440 that have been taken.
00:33:21.220 The Americans have been killed
00:33:22.200 or all the atrocities
00:33:23.060 and war crimes
00:33:23.680 you just mentioned.
00:33:24.340 No, no.
00:33:24.900 We're going to put Israel
00:33:26.520 on notice,
00:33:27.220 as you just described it.
00:33:28.680 You better not screw this up.
00:33:31.700 If this is a prolonged attack,
00:33:34.380 what kind of humanitarian crisis
00:33:37.380 are you expecting here
00:33:38.860 and impact on civilians?
00:33:41.840 Well, we've seen this,
00:33:43.240 unfortunately, repeat itself,
00:33:45.180 although the magnitude,
00:33:47.120 the scale of what Hamas did here
00:33:48.940 is something we haven't seen before.
00:33:50.780 But in prior instances,
00:33:53.280 those who have suffered,
00:33:55.080 along with the victims of terrorism,
00:33:58.460 are civilians,
00:34:00.220 including in Gaza.
00:34:01.320 And whatever Israel does in Gaza,
00:34:05.260 as always,
00:34:06.120 we look to it
00:34:06.820 to do everything possible
00:34:08.060 to avoid civilian casualties,
00:34:09.980 something, of course,
00:34:10.580 that Hamas doesn't do.
00:34:11.660 On the contrary,
00:34:12.240 not only does it not
00:34:13.020 seek to avoid them,
00:34:13.920 it deliberately targets civilians.
00:34:15.740 It's gunning down Israelis
00:34:17.100 in the streets,
00:34:17.940 in their homes,
00:34:18.640 and as I said,
00:34:19.260 dragging them across the border
00:34:20.340 in Gaza.
00:34:20.960 So there's absolutely
00:34:22.360 no comparison.
00:34:24.400 But we look to Israel,
00:34:26.840 as always,
00:34:27.820 to apply the highest standards
00:34:29.780 when it comes to avoiding
00:34:30.540 civilian casualties
00:34:31.280 in anything it may do in Gaza.
00:34:32.740 It's amazing the but there
00:34:33.700 at the end.
00:34:34.120 But, right,
00:34:34.900 we'll say all this is bad,
00:34:36.400 but, but Israel,
00:34:37.960 you better be better
00:34:38.860 than everybody else.
00:34:40.060 Well, and I gotta say, Ben,
00:34:41.060 listening to that,
00:34:41.840 I have mixed sentiments.
00:34:43.140 On one level,
00:34:44.120 frankly, Tony Blinken
00:34:45.140 is better than most of the clowns
00:34:48.100 in this Biden administration.
00:34:49.500 He at least acknowledges
00:34:51.020 that Israel is bending over backwards
00:34:54.180 to try to avoid killing civilians,
00:34:55.940 and that Hamas
00:34:57.180 is deliberately killing civilians.
00:34:58.540 That's something.
00:35:00.480 That's a tiny shred of truth.
00:35:02.440 Now, what he doesn't do
00:35:03.580 is acknowledge
00:35:05.040 that Israel historically
00:35:06.420 has gone to incredible lengths
00:35:09.060 to avoid civilian casualties,
00:35:12.020 and the reason
00:35:13.100 Palestinian civilians are killed
00:35:15.240 is because Hamas
00:35:16.820 wants them to be killed,
00:35:18.280 because they deliberately
00:35:19.720 put their military assets
00:35:21.600 in a place
00:35:22.240 where it is impossible
00:35:23.300 to take out
00:35:24.300 their military assets
00:35:25.280 without killing,
00:35:26.140 killing Palestinian civilians,
00:35:28.800 that the Palestinian deaths
00:35:30.840 are what Hamas wants
00:35:33.600 because they know
00:35:35.040 the useful idiots
00:35:35.960 in the media
00:35:36.480 will use it against Israel.
00:35:37.920 Let me give you an example
00:35:39.180 of some of the,
00:35:40.140 the, the vicious rhetoric coming.
00:35:42.220 In this case,
00:35:42.780 this is what the statement
00:35:44.040 that Congresswoman
00:35:45.620 Cori Bush put out
00:35:46.820 as these atrocities
00:35:48.840 are ongoing.
00:35:49.440 Quote,
00:35:50.500 I am heartbroken
00:35:51.600 by the ongoing violence
00:35:52.720 in Palestine and Israel,
00:35:53.880 and I mourn
00:35:55.200 the over 250 Israeli
00:35:56.640 and 230 Palestinian lives
00:35:58.380 that have been lost today
00:35:59.360 and the thousands injured
00:36:01.260 following attacks
00:36:02.300 by Hamas militants
00:36:03.500 on Israeli border towns
00:36:04.780 and Israeli military
00:36:06.300 bombardment of Gaza.
00:36:07.680 I strongly condemn
00:36:09.360 the targeting of civilians
00:36:10.420 and I urge
00:36:11.000 an immediate ceasefire
00:36:12.140 and de-escalation
00:36:13.760 to prevent further
00:36:14.520 loss of life.
00:36:15.840 Our immediate focus
00:36:16.960 must be on saving lives,
00:36:18.360 but our ultimate focus
00:36:19.340 must be on a just
00:36:20.440 and lasting peace
00:36:21.800 that ensures safety
00:36:22.680 for everyone in the region.
00:36:24.500 Violations of human rights
00:36:25.720 do not justify
00:36:26.640 more violations
00:36:27.800 of human rights
00:36:28.620 and a military response
00:36:30.880 will only exacerbate
00:36:33.060 the suffering
00:36:33.740 of Palestinians
00:36:35.020 and Israelis alike.
00:36:36.340 as part of achieving
00:36:38.180 a just and lasting peace,
00:36:39.680 we must do our part
00:36:41.200 to stop the violence
00:36:42.800 and trauma
00:36:43.440 by ending
00:36:45.060 U.S. government support
00:36:46.720 for Israeli military
00:36:48.920 occupation
00:36:49.840 and apartheid.
00:36:52.280 I am continuing
00:36:53.940 to closely monitor
00:36:54.900 the situation
00:36:55.640 and my office
00:36:56.320 is ready to support
00:36:57.700 the residents
00:36:58.260 of the 1st District
00:36:59.360 with family members
00:37:00.820 and loved ones
00:37:01.760 in the region.
00:37:03.520 So literally,
00:37:04.820 while Israel's 9-11
00:37:07.340 is unfolding,
00:37:08.580 this Democrat squad member
00:37:11.280 accuses Israel
00:37:13.540 of apartheid,
00:37:14.640 a total lie,
00:37:15.880 and calls for ending
00:37:17.640 U.S. government support
00:37:19.040 for Israel's military
00:37:20.920 in the middle of a war
00:37:22.240 and she simultaneously,
00:37:24.820 what does she call for?
00:37:26.160 An immediate ceasefire
00:37:28.300 of the military response.
00:37:30.580 In other words,
00:37:31.180 Israel,
00:37:33.160 never mind that terrorists
00:37:34.540 are murdering
00:37:35.100 your civilians,
00:37:36.400 are targeting
00:37:37.060 your civilians,
00:37:37.860 are kidnapping
00:37:38.480 your civilians,
00:37:40.380 we in America
00:37:41.640 call for you
00:37:42.460 to stop the ceasefire
00:37:43.860 and do nothing
00:37:45.360 in response.
00:37:47.260 You know,
00:37:47.420 I gotta say,
00:37:48.520 how many Democrats
00:37:49.380 are condemning
00:37:50.460 this viciously
00:37:52.380 anti-Semitic,
00:37:53.580 anti-Israel statement
00:37:54.900 that sadly
00:37:55.920 was echoed
00:37:56.760 by multiple members
00:37:58.260 of the squad
00:37:58.960 and the degree
00:38:00.260 to which the far left
00:38:01.720 tolerates
00:38:03.040 and even celebrates
00:38:04.260 this vicious anti-Semitism,
00:38:07.320 it gets worse
00:38:09.060 and worse every day.
00:38:10.300 Is Joe Biden,
00:38:11.600 and I want to end with this,
00:38:13.020 he's a guy that,
00:38:14.300 you know,
00:38:14.540 he called a lid
00:38:15.260 at 11.34 a.m.
00:38:17.280 For people that don't
00:38:18.120 understand what a lid is,
00:38:18.900 that means basically
00:38:19.460 the day's over, right?
00:38:20.740 That's the way
00:38:21.520 they tell the media,
00:38:22.220 hey, he's doing
00:38:23.260 other things now,
00:38:24.180 he's not making
00:38:24.740 any more public statements.
00:38:26.260 We haven't heard
00:38:26.820 from a president saying
00:38:27.680 don't harm Americans,
00:38:28.700 he hasn't said
00:38:30.100 that Israel
00:38:30.920 has got our,
00:38:31.880 you know,
00:38:32.340 our unwavering support
00:38:33.380 and we will do
00:38:33.800 whatever we have to do
00:38:34.680 to get Americans back,
00:38:36.440 and he's sitting there
00:38:37.960 and saying nothing
00:38:39.340 publicly here.
00:38:41.940 While all of this
00:38:43.480 is going on,
00:38:44.980 is he the worst president
00:38:46.280 in our lifetime
00:38:47.400 when it comes to a policy
00:38:48.900 of clearly not standing
00:38:50.580 with Israel?
00:38:51.580 Because he's not.
00:38:53.260 He's not even standing
00:38:53.920 with Americans in Israel.
00:38:56.140 Unequivocally,
00:38:56.740 for the last two and a half years,
00:38:58.240 the Biden administration
00:38:59.320 has engaged
00:39:00.300 in a systematic,
00:39:01.540 granular,
00:39:02.200 day-to-day effort
00:39:03.080 to undermine
00:39:04.780 the nation of Israel.
00:39:06.280 You know,
00:39:06.500 within the first couple
00:39:07.720 of weeks of,
00:39:08.780 or first couple of months
00:39:09.900 of the Biden administration
00:39:10.740 coming into office,
00:39:12.200 the State Department
00:39:13.360 put out written guidance
00:39:14.620 prohibiting
00:39:15.360 employees at state
00:39:17.340 from referring
00:39:18.640 to the Abraham Accords.
00:39:20.040 The Abraham Accords
00:39:20.860 were the historic
00:39:21.920 peace treaty
00:39:23.160 that the Trump administration
00:39:24.780 negotiated
00:39:25.580 between Israel
00:39:26.480 and numerous
00:39:27.600 Arab countries.
00:39:29.860 Instead,
00:39:30.840 the Biden administration
00:39:31.840 State Department
00:39:32.720 was ordered to refer
00:39:33.800 to them as
00:39:34.440 normalization agreements.
00:39:36.500 They couldn't use
00:39:37.180 the word Abraham.
00:39:38.740 They couldn't acknowledge
00:39:40.080 the historic nature
00:39:41.080 of it.
00:39:41.480 Now,
00:39:42.260 I called that out
00:39:43.200 and in fact,
00:39:43.940 I brought out
00:39:44.660 the documents
00:39:45.320 that demonstrated
00:39:46.120 it was the Biden White House
00:39:47.720 that directed state
00:39:49.160 to do that.
00:39:49.700 They were so embarrassed
00:39:50.560 by that,
00:39:51.040 they backed away from it.
00:39:52.080 So now they use the terms.
00:39:54.760 The frequency with which,
00:39:56.260 so one of the things
00:39:57.040 they did,
00:39:58.120 they changed
00:39:59.240 the Office of Israel
00:40:01.880 and Palestinian Affairs,
00:40:04.360 they changed the name of it,
00:40:05.880 to the Office of Israeli
00:40:08.180 and Palestinian Affairs.
00:40:10.560 Wow.
00:40:11.240 Why?
00:40:11.880 Because they didn't want
00:40:12.800 to acknowledge
00:40:13.440 the nation of Israel exists
00:40:15.480 and they wanted to put
00:40:16.840 Israel's claims
00:40:17.820 of sovereignty
00:40:18.560 on the same level
00:40:20.120 of parity
00:40:20.740 as the Palestinian terrorists
00:40:22.700 that are right now
00:40:23.420 committing these atrocities.
00:40:25.340 Beyond that,
00:40:26.380 the Biden administration
00:40:27.340 is the first government
00:40:28.480 in U.S. history
00:40:29.420 to implement a policy
00:40:31.100 of BDS,
00:40:32.500 of boycott,
00:40:33.240 divestiture,
00:40:33.800 and sanctioning,
00:40:34.500 in particular,
00:40:35.720 cutting off funding
00:40:36.740 for scientific research,
00:40:39.000 cancer research,
00:40:40.040 no less,
00:40:41.140 in Judea and Samaria,
00:40:43.580 what they call
00:40:44.220 the occupied territories,
00:40:45.740 portions of Israel,
00:40:47.260 that now the federal government
00:40:50.280 is boycotting
00:40:51.140 and saying,
00:40:51.720 we will not fund
00:40:52.740 because their view
00:40:54.000 is the same
00:40:54.840 as these squad members.
00:40:56.260 They view Israel
00:40:57.440 as illegitimately
00:40:58.560 occupied territory.
00:41:00.440 And so the harm
00:41:01.900 that is coming
00:41:03.040 from the Biden administration
00:41:04.080 is horrific.
00:41:04.980 And let me just ask you this
00:41:06.400 as we wrap up.
00:41:08.500 You know,
00:41:08.860 we've seen Joe Biden
00:41:10.200 light up the White House
00:41:13.440 in rainbow colors
00:41:15.940 in support
00:41:18.140 of a transgender agenda.
00:41:21.260 We've seen the White House
00:41:22.760 in blue and gold
00:41:25.220 in support of Ukraine.
00:41:28.680 What's the White House
00:41:29.540 done for Israel?
00:41:31.180 It's not blue and white.
00:41:32.720 No.
00:41:34.080 I would even go
00:41:34.940 some further.
00:41:35.420 What has the White House
00:41:35.940 done for any Americans
00:41:36.820 that are being harmed
00:41:37.600 right now in Israel?
00:41:38.580 Do we know the names
00:41:39.320 of any Americans
00:41:40.100 who are hostages?
00:41:40.980 Do we know the names
00:41:41.620 of any Americans
00:41:42.300 who have been killed?
00:41:43.000 Has the president
00:41:43.980 spoken about it?
00:41:44.840 Has the president
00:41:45.400 gone on national television?
00:41:46.860 Has the president said
00:41:47.680 if you harm one American
00:41:48.840 you will face
00:41:49.920 real repercussions?
00:41:50.940 No.
00:41:51.160 What they've said is
00:41:52.060 do not retaliate Israel.
00:41:55.320 Don't strike back
00:41:56.420 at the terrorists.
00:41:57.820 This administration
00:41:58.980 funded the atrocities.
00:42:02.480 Understand.
00:42:03.460 Do not forget
00:42:04.540 the $50 billion
00:42:06.820 that Joe Biden
00:42:09.320 and the ideologues
00:42:11.540 in this administration
00:42:12.500 flooded to Iran
00:42:13.980 flooded to Iran.
00:42:14.640 That money funded
00:42:16.220 these attacks.
00:42:17.780 Now by the way
00:42:18.460 the Biden White House
00:42:19.320 is defense of that.
00:42:20.860 They say no no no no
00:42:21.640 our money technically
00:42:23.360 went to other
00:42:24.440 other endeavors.
00:42:25.940 Well money is fungible.
00:42:27.060 If you send
00:42:27.520 $50 billion in there
00:42:28.940 they can spend
00:42:30.000 other money
00:42:30.780 to fund the terror attacks.
00:42:32.180 And by the way
00:42:32.980 the some
00:42:35.380 $40 billion
00:42:36.400 that is from
00:42:37.480 oil sales
00:42:38.300 that is completely
00:42:40.480 available to be spent
00:42:42.600 and in a very real
00:42:44.120 and direct sense
00:42:45.200 it funded this attack
00:42:46.900 as did the money
00:42:48.280 that the Biden administration
00:42:50.480 sent to Gaza
00:42:52.380 that they stated in writing
00:42:55.200 they knew would go to Hamas
00:42:57.100 for terrorism.
00:42:58.240 Well congratulations
00:42:59.600 to the Biden White House.
00:43:01.380 It's done exactly that.
00:43:03.300 If there's any good news
00:43:04.340 that has happened
00:43:04.860 the Israeli Defense Force
00:43:06.000 has just announced
00:43:06.880 they have rescued
00:43:07.720 48 hostages
00:43:09.580 from a dining hall.
00:43:11.680 They've confirmed
00:43:12.740 the number is 48.
00:43:14.440 They say the problem
00:43:15.540 is now
00:43:16.140 there are countless
00:43:17.460 others that are still
00:43:18.540 being held hostage.
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