Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 09, 2023


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


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Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Ben F. Ferguson join me to discuss the horrific attack on Israel, and how the attack was funded by the Democratic Party and the White House, and the Israeli government, as well as Iran.

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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. 0.53
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 1.00
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, 0.97
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. 0.97
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. 0.99
00:01:32.900 They are violently raping women and girls in massive numbers. 0.96
00:01:37.940 The videos that are coming out are horrific. 0.78
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. 1.00
00:03:04.700 Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies.
00:03:07.920 They work for Iran. 1.00
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. 1.00
00:05:36.800 They funded it for idiotic political reasons. 0.99
00:05:40.120 And now they're desperately trying to backtrack, saying, no, no, no, no, we didn't pay for these atrocities. 1.00
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. 0.99
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 0.91
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 0.97
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, 0.93
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. 0.81
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. 0.99
00:11:35.100 Do not engage in any retaliatory strikes. 0.95
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, 0.53
00:11:51.920 Dear God, I hope Israel does not respond by killing the terrorists. 0.85
00:11:56.500 The answer should have been,
00:11:58.320 We stand with Israel, period, full stop. 0.90
00:12:02.380 Israel has a right to defend itself, 0.99
00:12:04.540 and these terrorists are vicious monsters. 0.88
00:12:07.500 This is barbarism against civilization, 0.82
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, 0.80
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. 0.59
00:12:53.200 Hey, you better be careful if you have an American 1.00
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. 0.88
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. 1.00
00:14:26.180 We're talking about number dead
00:14:27.180 since the Holocaust 0.89
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 1.00
00:14:47.700 and murdering every person in the home, 0.92
00:14:51.420 murdering civilians indiscriminately. 0.95
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 0.93
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 1.00
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 0.91
00:16:26.340 Hamas targets.
00:16:27.160 Now, here's the problem.
00:16:28.820 Hamas deliberately 1.00
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, 0.89
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, 0.83
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, 0.99
00:17:37.700 so if you try to kill us, 1.00
00:17:40.420 you have to kill the infants. 1.00
00:17:41.720 And so Israel 1.00
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 0.97
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 1.00
00:18:32.720 is the useful idiots 1.00
00:18:34.480 at the New York Times 1.00
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 0.90
00:18:41.420 are murdering civilians, 0.99
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, 1.00
00:19:14.580 stop killing terrorists 0.97
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 0.96
00:21:41.720 and making them not
00:21:43.320 seem like they're
00:21:44.200 horrific terrorists, 0.98
00:21:45.320 which they are, 0.99
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 1.00
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 1.00
00:22:03.440 are being raped, 1.00
00:22:04.320 while infants 0.99
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 0.98
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, 0.98
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. 0.95
00:22:47.240 There's Islamic Jihad 0.98
00:22:48.180 operating there as well,
00:22:49.760 but Hamas 0.60
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 0.95
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 0.66
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 1.00
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. 1.00
00:24:11.480 What utter garbage. 1.00
00:24:12.620 You know what? 1.00
00:24:13.380 I don't doubt
00:24:14.320 that life is pretty
00:24:15.180 hellish in Gaza. 0.91
00:24:16.140 You know why?
00:24:16.700 Because they're governed
00:24:17.640 by a bunch of 1.00
00:24:18.520 barbarian terrorists 1.00
00:24:21.860 who take virtually 0.98
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 1.00
00:24:33.560 for hell. 0.99
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 0.55
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 0.99
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 0.99
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 0.99
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 0.59
00:26:40.600 such as Islamic 0.56
00:26:42.060 Jihad in Gaza. 0.83
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 0.87
00:27:36.300 terrorist monsters
00:27:37.720 and to stand 0.96
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 0.95
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, 0.79
00:28:20.060 slapped and murdered. 0.98
00:28:21.460 This is war 0.55
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 0.96
00:28:57.280 to destroy
00:28:58.280 the Hamas war machine? 0.54
00:29:00.100 Because the Biden
00:29:01.140 administration
00:29:01.720 supports the Palestinians 0.99
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 0.94
00:29:32.320 murdering infants, 1.00
00:29:34.440 these left-wing squad 0.99
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 0.67
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 0.96
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 0.99
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 0.89
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. 0.99
00:32:30.580 These terrorists 0.77
00:32:31.580 are looking for terrorists,
00:32:33.660 looking for civilians rather, 0.95
00:32:35.600 and murdering. 0.93
00:32:36.500 When you're murdering infants, 1.00
00:32:37.980 when you're raping children, 0.95
00:32:39.420 that's not an act of war. 0.98
00:32:42.340 That is a war crime. 0.89
00:32:44.360 And the Israelis 0.77
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 0.95
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 0.58
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 1.00
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 1.00
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, 0.71
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. 0.75
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 1.00
00:34:17.100 in the streets, 0.87
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, 0.91
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 0.98
00:34:45.140 is better than most of the clowns 0.98
00:34:48.100 in this Biden administration. 0.98
00:34:49.500 He at least acknowledges
00:34:51.020 that Israel is bending over backwards 0.80
00:34:54.180 to try to avoid killing civilians,
00:34:55.940 and that Hamas 0.53
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 0.92
00:35:16.820 wants them to be killed, 0.95
00:35:18.280 because they deliberately 0.99
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, 0.98
00:35:28.800 that the Palestinian deaths 0.99
00:35:30.840 are what Hamas wants 0.86
00:35:33.600 because they know 1.00
00:35:35.040 the useful idiots 1.00
00:35:35.960 in the media 1.00
00:35:36.480 will use it against Israel. 0.82
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 0.59
00:37:07.340 is unfolding,
00:37:08.580 this Democrat squad member
00:37:11.280 accuses Israel 0.93
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, 0.63
00:37:33.160 never mind that terrorists 0.95
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, 0.60
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 0.98
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 0.65
00:40:22.700 that are right now 0.99
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 0.89
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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00:45:30.960 Guaranteed Human.
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00:45:35.000 Tuya y boca metals.
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00:45:37.920 Tuya y tusga. 0.98
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00:45:40.460 No.
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