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Hamas continues to fire hundreds of rockets into civilian centers in Israel.
Inflation numbers come out and they are frightening.
And the Biden administration continues to lie about COVID statistics.
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Alrighty, so overnight, Hundreds more rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas, which is a terrorist group.
A little bit of history for you.
Hamas is an openly genocidal group.
They have said over and over and over that they wish for Israel not to exist.
This is not a conflict over land.
This is not a conflict over borders.
This is not a conflict over a right to return.
This is a conflict in which one side wishes to destroy the other side utterly and completely.
And this has been their long-stated goal.
And they were about to win an election, by the way, in the West Bank, which is the reason for all of this.
The recent history here is that in late April, Mahmoud Abbas, who again is a terrorist, Mahmoud Abbas, treated as a legit world leader by much of the world community, but is not.
Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, which is a terrorist organization, but a slightly less terrorist organization than Hamas, He had declared that there would be elections in April.
The first elections since 2004.
He is now in the 16th year of a four-year term, Mahmoud Abbas.
So he declared elections, then it appeared he was going to lose.
So he canceled the elections in late April and blamed the Jews!
Because this is what you do if you are a Palestinian leader who has suddenly got their feet to the fire.
So, Mahmoud Abbas cancels the election, he blames the Jews, and he starts ramping up calls for violence.
Hamas not to be outdone because the way that you apparently garner support is to show that you hate the Jews even more than the guy next to you.
Hamas decides they are going to ramp up the violence.
This all culminates in violence on the Temple Mount, spurred by Hamas, spurred by Fatah, people using the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site to Muslims, as an actual staging base to perform acts of terrorism and violence against police officers, Israeli police officers.
And then when Israel goes in to stop that, then the rocket fire begins from Hamas, which has decided to up the ante.
So number one, let's just recognize a quick truth.
None of this would be happening right now in terms of this heavy rocket fire from Gaza if Israel had not unilaterally made the concession in 2005 to pull out of the Gaza Strip completely.
Remember, Israel had Jewish areas of the Gaza- there were Jewish areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
There were these little cities in the northern Gaza Strip.
They had greenhouses, they were quite prosperous.
In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew in order, supposedly, to push for a new peace deal.
The idea was going to be, look, Israel is giving up this land, and now it's another stone in the wall of peace that's going to be built right here.
Instead, Hamas immediately rushed in, burned all the greenhouses, and then started building up its rocket bases for use against the state of Israel.
And what this has resulted in is that most of Israel is now under the umbrella of terror.
From the north, Israel is under the umbrella of Hezbollah, which is an Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon.
They have apparently 150,000 rockets.
If you think it's bad right now, with Hamas firing hundreds of rockets today, wait until it's Hezbollah firing thousands of rockets today.
And then, from the south, they are under assault from Hamas, a terrorist group located in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is located in both Judea, Samaria, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
So Israel, Israeli citizens basically live under the constant threat that at any moment things could go up in flames and all of a sudden they could be living underground.
So I was texting with a bunch of friends in Israel last night who were literally texting from bunkers.
Many of them had been giving 45 second, 60 second, 90 second warnings to get underground as soon as humanly possible.
Because the fact is that Israel is a tiny, tiny country.
And it is a tiny country surrounded by malevolent countries that do not wish it well.
This is why the Trump breakthrough, in terms of actually creating alliances and helping to foster alliances between Israel and places like the United Arab Emirates, and places like Sudan, and places like Morocco, why this was such a good thing.
The Biden administration immediately blew it.
Okay, so there are a few events that led up to this.
One was Abbas canceling the election and then having to demonstrate to the Palestinians that mostly it was Israel and we need to blame Israel and let's have a competition as to who hates Israel most.
It's also a smart move by Abbas in the sense that Hamas, in going all the way, in shooting rockets into Israel, was going to be also the chief recipient of Israeli return fire.
So Abbas is basically having the Israelis do his dirty work by killing off all of Hamas's leadership.
So this is one of the things that's happening as well.
The other thing that happened is that the Biden administration, upon entering office, immediately signified that it wanted to push Israel into making concessions to these terror groups, that it would restore funding to the UNRWA, which is an agency specifically dedicated toward fostering Palestinian extremism.
That the United States would restore $290 million worth of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, much of which would be used for terrorism and fostering of terrorism.
Okay, so the United States basically reopened the door.
The Trump administration said, no, we are making very clear who our allies are here, and if you engage in terror, the money ain't coming your way.
And things were calm, and things were quiet.
And then the Biden administration came in, and within months, you have this massive conflagration, which is now on the verge of all-out war.
And the reason it's on the verge of all-out war is because Israel literally has millions of its citizens now living underground.
Okay, so to understand this conflict, the thing you really need to understand is the map.
Okay, so there are a few maps I'm going to show you right now.
The first map shows you the actual range of fire from Gaza.
Okay, the distances from the Gaza Strip to various Israeli cities.
Okay, what you will see here is that the distances are tiny.
Israel is a tiny postage stamp of a country.
The distance from Gaza, the Gaza Strip, which is located in the southwest corner of Israel, So the distance from the Gaza Strip to Ashkelon, which is a city that has been under steady rocket fire over the course of the last three days, is about 13 miles.
That's the distance, 13 miles.
The distance from the Gaza Strip to Tel Aviv, this was considered a long shot for Hamas until recently, that distance is about 44 miles.
Okay, not a long, less than an hour.
Car ride.
Significantly less than an hour car ride.
The distance from Gaza to Jerusalem, which is sort of in the center of the country, is only 47 miles.
From Gaza to Ashdod, it's 24 miles.
Okay, what does this mean?
It means that when you fire rockets, people have pretty much no warning.
Okay, here is a map of the warning times when a rocket is fired.
Okay, if a rocket were to be fired from essentially Gaza to Ashdod, you'd be talking about at most 30 seconds of warning time.
If you're talking about Gaza to Jerusalem, you're talking about 1.5 minutes of warning time, about 90 seconds of warning time.
If you're talking about to Tel Aviv, about the same, a little bit under 90 seconds of warning time.
That means that if you're woken up at 3 a.m.
by a rocket siren going off, you now have 90 seconds to grab your kids and get down into a bomb shelter before the rockets start to hit.
Hey so, Hamas, knowing this, has been firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.
The reason they're firing hundreds of rockets simultaneously is because their goal is to overwhelm Israel's iron defense system.
So Israel has an iron dome system, it's called the iron dome system, and the iron dome system is largely Relegated to shooting down missiles that are going to land in populated areas.
So Tel Aviv has an Iron Dome system.
Jerusalem has an Iron Dome system.
And it's very effective.
It shoots down about 90% of these rockets.
But here's the problem.
As you increase the number of rockets that are fired, the additional 10%, an absolute number, starts to go up.
So here is a map of the rocket alerts.
These are the sirens.
Just over the last 30, this is over a 30 minute period last night.
As you can see, The entire map is red.
The entire map from Ashdod in the south all the way up to Hadera in the north is completely red.
The reason is because they were firing hundreds of rockets.
They fired over a thousand rockets over the course of the last 36 hours from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
They don't care who they hit.
They don't care.
Last night, Hamas killed an Israeli Arab father and seven-year-old girl in Lod, which is a city that right now is actually in the middle of race riots, essentially.
Okay, so Hamas started this conflict.
Hamas clearly started the conflict.
And now Israel has no choice.
No country can sustain this.
No country can allow its citizenry to be put underground by a terrorist group.
Israel has every moral obligation to go in and decapitate the entire Hamas regime.
What comes next?
Who the hell knows?
But Israel has a moral obligation to go in and kill every Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader they can find.
And in fact, this is what Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is saying.
It's not just Netanyahu.
It's not just about Netanyahu.
Yair Lapid, who's in the opposition, feels the same way.
Benny Gantz, who's in the opposition, feels the same way.
He's the current Defense Minister.
There's widespread Israeli acknowledgement that just like if you, in your city, were put underground by a terrorist group living across the border, And you're told that you had to live in the basement, and you were going to live under constant rocket fire, you would expect the American government to go and eviscerate that regime.
Well, the same thing should be expected of any decent state, and Israel, of course, has a moral obligation to defend its own citizens, as even most members of the West acknowledge.
Now, most members of the West also then participate in this moral equivalence game where they pretend that Israel is somehow an aggressor here, which is a complete lie, but Israel does have the obligation to do this.
Benjamin Netanyahu came out yesterday and said, yeah, we are not going to stop anytime soon.
Like, if you think that you're going to get a ceasefire here, no, the answer is no.
You don't get to fire thousands of rockets into Israel and then survive.
That's not something that you get to do.
Over 850 rockets have crossed into Israeli territory after being launched from Gaza.
By the way, how little does Hamas care about its own citizens?
When people say it's terrible for the Palestinians, that's true.
The Palestinians are not of concern to Hamas.
Hamas does not care.
200 of the rockets that they fired fell into Gaza.
They fired 200 rockets that landed on their own people.
They don't care.
So Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, will continue striking Gaza until it can bring a complete and long-term peace during a visit to Ashkelon on Wednesday.
He said in the last few hours, the IDF has carried out a series of significant attacks.
We've attacked squads of commanders and significant Hamas infrastructure we'll continue to protect.
All residents of Israel.
We've attacked many hundreds of targets.
Towers are falling.
Factories are collapsing.
Tunnels are being destroyed.
Commanders are assassinated.
All the means and all the options are on the table.
There's a lot more activity in the bank.
So the IDF will continue to attack and bring a complete long-term peace.
Only when we achieve this goal can we talk about calm.
There is currently no end date.
We will not accept moral sermons from any organization or institution about our right and duty to protect Israeli citizens.
Again, Benny Gantz is opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu.
This is not about Netanyahu.
This is not about Likud.
Gantz is not a member of Likud.
There's widespread Israeli sentiment, as there would be in the United States, that if Democrat or Republican, there were hundreds of rockets falling on San Diego from Mexico, there'd be a widespread sentiment the United States government needs to go in and pacify the folks who are doing that.
Well, the same thing is happening in Israel right now.
To that end, Israel has knocked out several commanders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
They'll continue to do that.
And while we actually have video of what's been happening in the Gaza Strip.
So a few things, one, Hamas is one of the most evil groups on earth.
They fire rockets deliberately from civilian areas.
They deliberately fire rockets from civilian areas because they know that if Israel were to respond, Israel would have to kill civilians in order to stop the rocket fire.
And they know that Israel is loathe to do that because Israel is actually a moral state as opposed to Hamas, which is a deeply, deeply evil group.
Here is video of Hamas firing rockets from the middle of civilian areas.
These are civilian apartment buildings that are surrounding the firing sites for the Gaza Strip.
You can see, these are apartment buildings, right?
This is right in the middle of a populated area.
They're firing these rockets directly from the middle of streets in the Gaza Strip.
The goal here is that if Israel were to take out those batteries, then Israel would have to hit those civilian areas.
Hey, and by the way, a few other notes.
You'll notice that when these rockets are being fired, in the tapes, you will see that there are onlookers, and these onlookers are not are not just kind of watching this go on, they're shouting Allahu Akbar.
They're amokers who are shouting their celebration that these rockets are being fired on Israel.
Now, Israelis require that their government actually defend them, obviously, because any government should defend its citizens.
But you're not going to see Israelis out in the streets cheering as rockets or bombs fall on Hamas buildings.
Just as the United States.
There was no cheering in the streets when the United States was bombing the Taliban.
Okay, because that is something that you do more in sorrow than in anger, right?
Something you don't want to do it.
Except, apparently, if rockets are being fired on random Jews.
Remember, these are not rockets that are targeted at military sites in Israel.
These are rockets that are being randomly fired toward the most populated areas of Israel.
They don't care who they kill.
Israeli, Arab, doesn't matter.
Babies, doesn't matter.
They do not care.
They don't care.
It is that simple.
And here are the Almukers shouting Allahu Akbar as these rockets go off to presumably attempt to kill as many children and women and innocents and civilians as possible.
There's these sets of rockets being fired off and people celebrating and cheering.
What is it like?
But don't worry, there's moral equivalence according to the West.
Okay, so, in a second, we'll show you some more footage of what is going on over in Israel, and then we'll get to the insanity of a West that somehow declares moral equivalence here.
It is quite wild.
We'll get to that in just one moment.
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Alrighty, so.
Israel has this miraculous system called Iron Dome.
It's been able to shoot down the vast majority of these rockets that enter over civilian areas.
The footage is astonishing.
Here's some of the footage of rockets over Tel Aviv.
You can see in this footage the rockets that are that are flying over Tel Aviv and then you can see other anti-missiles essentially coming up from the ground and knocking.
It's a bullet hitting a bullet with like 90% efficacy.
It's unbelievable.
The efficiency is incredible.
It looks like something from Star Wars because it is.
In fact, there are Israelis who are still retaining their sense of humor who put the Star Wars theme music Over what Iron Dome has been doing here.
The goal here, of course, is to overwhelm Iron Dome by firing so many rockets simultaneously that the Iron Dome system is not capable of knocking out all the rockets at once.
But imagine this happening over a city where you live.
Imagine that there's just a bunch of rockets and all you can do is sit there and wait for the thing to fall on you or for Iron Dome to shoot it down.
And in some cases, obviously, it hasn't worked.
There's a direct impact, for example, on a school in Ashkelon.
See, here's the difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Hamas.
The Palestinian rulership in the Gaza Strip?
Hamas?
The difference is that the Israelis specifically avoid targeting schools.
The Hamas terrorists literally put their military bases in schools.
That is the difference.
This is a school that was hit directly by a rocket.
Thank God all the kids were not there.
Otherwise, presumably hundreds of kids would have been killed.
They were also firing at Ben Gurion Airport.
They were trying to kill as many people as possible and to shut down air travel to the state of Israel.
So this is actual footage from Ben-Gurion Airport.
You can see the rockets firing over Ben-Gurion Airport, and you can see them being shot down by the Iron Dome system.
Over in Halon, which is an outskirt of Tel Aviv, again, it's about 45 miles from the Gaza Strip, a bus was hit directly by rocket fire.
Apparently one person was killed in this particular attack.
You can see the bus flaming from the rocket fire.
Another Hamas rocket hit the Trans-Israel Oil Pipeline, which of course does no good to the citizens of the Gaza Strip because some of them actually get their power from this sort of thing.
And so it set the Trans-Israel Pipeline on fire.
And meanwhile, here's how it is.
So that's how Hamas treats this conflict, right?
Just shoot rockets everywhere, see if you can hit anything.
It's basically the game Battleship.
You just randomly just shoot things at people and hope that it hits somebody.
Okay, here is how Israel handles this stuff.
So, here is tape of a Palestinian security guard being called by the Israeli military and told, get everybody out of this building.
We know that Hamas uses this building, so we're knocking down the building.
That's literally what's happening here.
Israel calls minutes before they're about to hit a building.
They call whoever they can get and they say, get all the civilians out.
He's saying at least two to three hours?
No one should come close?
So I should go to the other building and not let anyone come close?
No problem, no problem.
So first, one shot warning and then two missiles.
I'm asking, you mean first you'll warn and then you'll hit the building?
I just want to make sure that there's no one inside.
OK, so this is a person talking to the Israeli military.
The Israeli military is literally giving up the element of surprise, which is the number one element in warfare, particularly when you're talking about terrorists who are embedded in the middle of civilian populations.
They're saying, OK, we'd rather not kill the terrorists who will then fire more rockets on us in order to get the civilians out of the way.
Okay, and then the propaganda that is printed by the media is that Israel is knocking down towers without any mention of this sort of stuff.
Okay, so here Hamas put out this video of Israel knocking down this apartment complex, right?
Hitting this apartment complex.
You know how they know?
Why do they know where to train the camera?
How do they know where to train the camera?
The answer is they know where to train the camera because Israel dropped a knock bomb on top of that.
A knock bomb is a bomb that is designed not to penetrate the top layer of the apartment complex.
They drop a bomb, it shakes the building, doesn't break the building, everybody gets out, and then they knock down the building.
So that is how Israel treats all of this.
Meanwhile, In what is actually the most devastating element of all of this, not the actual terror attacks from Hamas, which is somewhat expected.
The most devastating part of all of this is the situation in Lod.
So Israel has about 20% of its population is Arab, about 80% of its population is Jewish.
And typically in Israel, those populations don't live in close proximity with one another.
Typically you'll have sort of a Jewish city and then an Arab city that's right across the way, right?
That's fairly typical in Israel.
There are a couple cities that are an exception to this rule.
One of those cities is Lod.
Lod is considered sort of a model city in this way.
And it is kind of amazing.
I mean, last time I was in Israel, a couple of years ago, my cell phone broke.
I had to go to the nearest mall that had some sort of cell phone repair shop and that mall happened to be in Lod.
So I went there and Orthodox Jews walking around the same malls as Arabs and everybody getting along and basically that city is 70% Jewish, 30% Arab.
And everybody lives in pretty close quarters.
Well now, thanks to Hamas and Fatah ramping up the violence, there were riots in the city of Lod in which Arab citizens were going out and burning down synagogues.
Two separate synagogues were burned down, three Jewish schools were burned down, and a bunch of Jews were threatened in their own homes, requiring evacuation by the IDF.
And now a state of emergency has been declared in Lod, which again, was a city in which people were basically living together fine.
Now a state of emergency was declared in Lod with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, according to the Jerusalem Post, announcing the deployment of several border police units to help quell violence that saw the burning of three synagogues and dozens of cars.
At least two people were in serious condition from the clashes, one from rocks in Akko, which is another city.
That's actually where I got married.
It's another mixed Arab-Jewish city in northern Israel.
An 84-year-old man was seriously hurt when a restaurant was set on fire by rioters.
Some 25 residents of Ramla and Lod were arrested on Tuesday night.
According to a police spokesperson, 151 were arrested in total within the central northern district of Israel.
Lod Mayor Yair Revivo said we've lost control of the city and the streets.
Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai said, we've not seen this kind of violence since October 2000, which was the last Intifada.
Uri Buri is a popular Jewish-owned fish restaurant in Acre.
It had been set ablaze as well.
It's in Acre.
It had been set ablaze in Jaffa.
There's been violence.
So internecine racial violence has now been taking place, prompted presumably, not presumably, realistically by Arab citizens who are in solidarity with Hamas and with Fatah.
Okay, all of this is disastrous.
And so the question becomes, why exactly is all this happening right now?
Why is all this happening right now?
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Alrighty, so why is all of this happening right now?
The answer is all of this is happening right now because the Biden administration came into power and because Mahmoud Abbas decided that he was going to cancel elections.
That's why.
The Biden administration came into power.
They decided they were going to make overtures to the Iranian regime.
They were going to make concessions to the Iranian regime.
They were going to shame the Saudis.
They were going to try and cut off relations, essentially, with the Saudis.
They were going to try and pressure Arab states not to warm up their peace with Israel.
They're going to try and broker some sort of agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority by pressuring Israel.
They're going right back to the same failed model that has been tried for some 30 years in the United States.
Pressure our ally, not isolate our enemies.
The reality is Hamas hates America.
Hates America.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad hates America.
Palestinian Authority hates America.
These are people who do not like the United States.
Hamas is explicitly backed by the Iranian regime.
You wonder how they got all this technology?
Israel's been kind of stunned by the ability of Hamas to fire these long-range rockets.
Why?
Because Iran has been shipping that technology through the Gaza Strip.
And the United States is standing right there trying to reinstate good relations with an Iranian regime that openly declares death to America and death to Israel.
What America does makes a difference.
The United States basically isolated the Palestinian Authority.
They said, listen, if you guys want to make peace, anytime you want to, you can.
Otherwise, all the Arab states, they're going to just recognize that you are not top priority.
They're going to make peace with Israel in order to counter the rising threat of Iran.
Until you get a bunch of peace deals.
And then the Biden regime came in and they decided, you know what?
We don't care about those peace deals.
What we want to do is we want to revivify this idiotic notion that Iran is going to be a regional force for stability, which is insane.
It was pushed by Barack Obama.
Joe Biden has re-embraced it.
And this has led to the stupidity of morons like David Frum suggesting, well, you know, what happens to all those Kushner Trump people bragging about peace?
The answer is they actually achieve peace.
Within the first four months, you have achieved war.
Within the first four months, Joe Biden has given all the green lights to all of the conditions for a new intifada.
It's the worst conflict in this region since 2006.
That is because of Joe Biden.
The last time we had this sort of conflict was 2014.
That was under Barack Obama.
There was quiet in the region for four years.
You know why that was?
Because when America sides with its allies, there is no conflict.
When America does not side with its allies, there is conflict.
Every time concessions are made to terrorists, they immediately are emboldened and proceed to engage in this sort of activity.
And so it does make a difference that the West has decided to take attack of moral equivalence along these lines.
The amazing part of all of this, truly, is that this moral equivalence is even being drawn.
I mean, it just demonstrates the moral blindness of so many people.
Here's Jen Psaki from the White House drawing moral equivalence.
The President's support for Israel's security, for its legitimate right to defend itself, and its people is fundamental and will never waver.
We condemn ongoing rocket attacks by Hamas and other terrorist groups, including against Jerusalem.
We also stand against extremism that has inflicted violence on both communities.
We stand- that last part is the amazing part.
We stand against extremism that has inflicted violence on both communities.
Um, excuse me.
Right now, that first statement is the one that's supposed to matter.
The hell are you talking about?
Extremism that has inflicted vi- You have thousands of rockets being fired into civilian areas right now.
Israel has a right to defend itself.
The first part of the statement's fine.
The last part, where she tries to come back around and then do the cycle of violence routine, is just nonsense.
Recognize that, really, what this started with was a bunch of TikTok videos of Palestinians beating the living hell out of Jews in Jerusalem, fomented by Fatah, because Fatah wanted to distract from the fact that he just canceled elections.
Meanwhile, Hamas's leader, Ismail Khanei, who lives over in Qatar because he is scared of living in the Gaza Strip.
He's afraid that Israel will knock him out.
He's been tweeting out the bombing of Tel Aviv and the oil pipeline facility between Ashkelon and Eilat.
God is great and glory is to God alone.
He also tweeted out, Okay, by the way, this is the leader of Hamas.
He's the leader of Hamas.
Moral equivalence.
the servants of those whom I know from here and there, and you know where exactly, are very angry, and humiliation breaks them, and oppression pervades them, because you, oh heroes, have broken their thorns and destroyed the Zionists while hiding in shelters below the earth, mourning for their persecution which went in vain." Okay, by the way, this is the leader of Hamas.
He's the leader of Hamas. Moral equivalence. Unreal. But don't worry.
And by the way, did Twitter ban Ismail Khamenei?
Nope, he's still there.
It'll ban Trump, but not somebody who's openly celebrating terrorism.
How about Ayatollah Khamenei?
These are the people that the Biden administration is trying to make concessions to, the Iranian regime.
He tweeted out, Palestinians are awake and determined.
They must continue this path.
One can only talk with the language of power with these criminals.
They must increase their strength, stand strong, confront the enemy, and force them to stop their crimes.
Hashtag Free Palestine.
So just to get this straight, Facebook and Twitter banned Trump, but they won't ban this piece of human debris.
Pretty incredible stuff.
The good news is that the radical left in the United States, which is increasingly the mainstream left in the United States, is openly siding with the bad guys here.
So Alexander Ocasio-Cortez is very angry with Andrew Yang.
Andrew Yang is running for mayor of New York.
He looks likely to win, which is a good thing.
Andrew Yang had tweeted out his support for Israel, so she got mad.
She then tweeted out, Okay, so a few things that are just open lies.
Al-Aqsa was not attacked.
The only people who attacked Al-Aqsa are members of Hamas and Fatah, who literally took over the building, brought rocks in from the surrounding Temple Mount and fireworks, and proceeded to fling them at Israeli soldiers and build barricades so as to do violence in the middle of Ramadan.
There is no obscurity about this.
There is no opacity about this.
It is perfectly clear what happened there.
There's video.
I showed it here.
So she's just lying.
As far as a chest-thumping statement of support for a strike killing nine children, Israel has been attempting to kill Hamas members.
Hamas members deliberately hide themselves behind children, knowing that morons like AOC will then blame Israel for defending itself rather than the Hamas people who are hiding behind children.
What a moral cretin she is.
My goodness.
Bernie Sanders, similarly a moral cretin.
He tweeted out, The F is he talking about?
by the growing conflict in Israel and Palestine.
Once again, we are seeing how the irresponsible actions of government-allied right-wing extremists in Jerusalem can escalate quickly into devastating war.
The F is he talking about? He's just making things up right now.
Israeli children should not have to spend the night scared in bomb shelters, as many are doing tonight.
Well, that's true.
Rockets should not be fired.
Palestinian children should not have to grow up under the constant violence and oppression of occupation, as so many do and have done.
Gaza is ruled by Hamas.
Israel does not rule the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Authority rules Judea and Samaria.
It is not ruled by Israel.
Israel just does not allow people to ship weapons in and out, and controls its own border.
That's all.
Bernie Sanders then continues, the United States must call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to provocative and illegal settlement activity.
This is not about settlements.
Are you insane?
The hell is this about settlements?
They're firing on Ashkelon.
They're firing on Ashdod.
They're chanting bomb, bomb Tel Aviv on the Temple Mount.
We must also recommit to working with Israelis and Palestinians to finally end this conflict.
What a joke he is.
What an absolute Soviet... He's just disgusting.
Truly.
The number of people on the radical left who have been mainstreamed in the Democratic Party is truly an astonishing, astonishing thing.
And the media will continue to allow lies to be promulgated.
The same media that will tell you that fake news is really, really dangerous, they'll just allow lies to be promulgated.
So they'll have on an MSNBC guest, they had a Palestinian on MSNBC, not sure the name of this guest, and he was very angry that anybody would be upset with Hamas.
He says, you know, the US has waged more wars than there are Hamas members.
Um, excuse me?
The United States has waged more wars than there are Hamas members.
I don't wait for the United States to tell me what constitutes as self-defense and what not constitutes as self-defense.
That is not where my moral compass stems from.
I don't think the United States is in position, given all of the genocides and wars it's partaking in, to say something about who has a right to self-defense.
He sounds exactly like Ilhan Omar.
He sounds exactly like Rashida Tlaib.
He sounds exactly like AOC.
He sounds like Bernie Sanders, right?
The international terrorist movement uses the talking points of the left on a routine basis, right?
America doesn't have any moral credibility to call against rocket fire indiscriminately aimed at civilians because, after all, you guys are really bad.
It's pretty incredible.
And then, of course, you have Trevor Noah, who just tells open lies.
Trevor Noah actively defended Hamas last night on his show.
If you start from Israel fired rockets into Gaza, well, then Israel is the bad guy because they're bombing Gaza.
But then you take a step back in time, you go, well, Hamas fired rockets at Israel.
Well, then Hamas is the bad guy.
But then you take a step back and you go, but the Israeli police, they went in and started beating people up in a mosque during Ramadan, the most holy time in the Muslim calendar.
Well, then Israel is the bad guy.
Okay, well, except for you're lying.
That didn't happen.
Again, the number of lies that have to be told in order to reach the point of moral equivalence between a state that seeks to defend its citizens, including Israeli Arabs, who, by the way, were again murdered by Hamas last night.
Between a state that has a 20% tariff population, that attempts to warn people before they kill terrorists, and a group of people who openly declare that they want to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth, and fire thousands of rockets indiscriminately into civilian centers.
You know the mental gymnastics that you have to do in order to get there?
The moral pretzeling you have to do?
These folks morally make Cirque du Soleil look like nothing.
It's unreal.
The moral flexibility that you have to have, at a certain point, the rubber band has to break here.
It's pretty insane.
Alrighty, we're gonna get to the inflation, which is cropping up, plus more lies from the CDC first.
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All righty, so meanwhile, inflation is cropping up in the United States.
All righty, so meanwhile, inflation is cropping up in the United States.
Amazing how Joe Biden has somehow prompted an Intifada, so unrest in the Middle East, a more powerful Iran.
He has prompted inflation and gas lines.
We're back to Jimmy Carter.
This is great.
Really excellent, excellent stuff.
I mean, they're about the same age, so it makes some sense.
Inflation is back.
According to Yahoo News, U.S.
inflation is expected to jump 3.6% in April alone, economists forecast.
U.S.
consumer prices are expected to have risen by 3.6% in April over their level a year ago, a prospect already spooking markets and could fuel concern that inflationary pressures are setting in.
According to a consensus forecast assembled by Refinitiv, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will on Wednesday report that its consumer price index rose from 2.6% in March to 3.6% last month compared with the same month in 2020.
Stripping out food and energy costs, the CPI is expected to rise from 1.6% in March to 2.3% in April on an annual basis.
And the truth is that it is worse than that.
According to the Consumer Price Index Summary from the BLS, the index for all items less food and energy rose 0.9% in April, its largest monthly increase since April 1982.
We have the biggest inflationary increase in 40 years happening right now.
Again, this is according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
It's a government source.
Nearly all major component indices increased in April, along with the index for used cars and trucks, the indices for shelter, airline fares, recreation, motor vehicle insurance, and household furnishings and operations were among the indices with a large impact on the overall increase.
The all items index rose 4.2% for the 12 months ending in April, a larger increase than the 2.6% increase for the period ending March.
Similarly, the index for all items less food and energy rose 3.0% over the last 12 months, a larger increase than the 1.6% rise over the 12-month period ending in March.
So in other words, we have now basically doubled the inflation rate over the course of the last month or so.
The energy index rose 25.1% over the last 12 months.
The food index increased 2.4%.
So, I mean, unbelievable levels of inflation setting in almost immediately, despite the fact that you've got the entire Biden administration saying there's no problem to see here.
Here's Jen Psaki at the White House literally yesterday saying any inflation will be transitory.
Of course, we take the possibility of inflation quite seriously.
As actions that have been taken to date or proposals that have been made, most economic analysts believe that it will have a temporary or transitory impact.
But in terms of analysis on current events, I would point you to the Federal Reserve.
Okay, and quick note.
Where is Joe Biden?
He's completely missing in action.
You got a conflict in the Middle East.
You have a massive inflation hitting.
You have gas shortages that have basically knocked out half the gas stations on the East Coast.
And Joe Biden is nowhere.
He's watching Matlock.
Well done, everybody.
But at least there are no mean tweets.
At least you don't have any mean tweets.
That's really, you know, important stuff.
No mean tweets.
Well, the good news is that every crisis is an opportunity.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm yesterday, she said the good news is that if we're going to have these gas shortages, remember, we've had a giant pipeline, a colonial pipeline that was hacked.
So that meant that that basically gas went down most of this week in terms of its supply all over the southeast coast and all the way up into New Jersey.
Energy Secretary Granholm says, well, you know, the good news is at least this will push us toward a Green New Deal.
You know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
The broader issue is a very important issue.
It's an issue for the President's priority in the American Jobs Plan, the issue of investing in a transmission grid, for example, so that you don't have the cyber issues associated with it.
So there's a lot of broader questions in this, and we hope that we'll be able to see that investment in infrastructure that will facilitate clean and renewable energy.
I mean, amazing.
She's really, she's smiling about it.
Look at her.
She's like, she's gleeful about this.
This is going to facilitate Green New Deal stuff.
I mean, sure, it's costing you like a fortune at the pump.
Sure, you can't even get gas.
But everything is going great because it facilitates the agenda.
Crisis is always an opportunity for these people.
It's always an opportunity for these people.
And meanwhile, on COVID, the unemployment rate continues to be artificially high.
We all know why that is.
It's because the Biden administration is paying people to stay home.
So, last night, the chief of Chipotle, the restaurant officer, was on CNN explaining that the reason we can't get any employees is because you keep paying people to stay home.
A half dozen states now have announced that they're going to end those benefits before they expire.
Is that the right move?
I certainly believe so.
I think it encourages folks to get back to work.
There are a number of jobs available across all industry today.
And for us to continue to grow the economy here in the U.S., we've got to have people ready And willing to engage, get back to work and continue to drive the economy.
the economy.
Okay, it is perfectly true that the Biden administration is driving people out of the workforce.
But the good news is that we have a president who just is fighting the teleprompter.
He's not fighting inflation.
He's not fighting unemployment.
He's certainly not fighting for our allies around the world, ranging from Taiwan to Israel.
But he's definitely fighting the teleprompter.
He is locked in a death match with the teleprompter.
And help us get there.
We've added two new tools.
One, Americans can go to vaccines.gov or they can text their zip code to three, excuse me, misspoke, their zip code, text it to four three A829.
A senile old codger out there doing nothing for a living except pushing radicalism and fostering instability all around the globe.
Really, really well done.
Well, the good news is we have experts in charge.
Like for example, we have CDC chief, Rochelle Walensky.
So she should have been fired long ago.
You remember just a few weeks ago, she said she had a feeling of doom, an interior, an inner feeling of doom.
We're all going to die, unless we got vaccinated three times and also wore a triple mask and hopefully a bag over our head, and we like a plastic bag.
And then we took some duct tape, wrapped it around our neck.
You wouldn't die of COVID if you did that.
100% guaranteed.
Well, here she was yesterday, CDC Chief Walensky, saying she told her 16-year-old son that he can't go to summer camp this year, which is asinine.
Number one, the vaccine's already been approved for 16-year-olds.
Number two, He's 16.
He's not going to die from COVID.
Number three, he is outdoors.
The hell are you talking about?
And these tool bags are supposed to represent the science?
The science!
Here's Rochelle Walensky being completely ascientific but very angry about it.
I have a 16-year-old.
Every day, every year, he comes home from camp and he writes the number of days until he returns to camp the next year.
This year, it got to zero and I told him he wasn't going.
I want our kids back in camp.
We now have 38,000 new infections on average per day.
Last May 11th, it was 24,000 and we sent a lot of kids home and camps were closed.
The camp guidance is intended to get our kids to camp and allow them to stay there.
Okay, this is just ridiculous.
Okay, she just compared the stats from this year to last year.
Do you remember this time last year?
We didn't have the tests available.
The number of tests that we were tranching out was like one quarter, one fifth of what we are tranching out right now.
It was much, much lower.
If you're comparing the infection rates in May of 2020 to the infection rates in May of 2021, you're out of your damned mind based on the stats that she is citing right there.
Okay, but again, she's not representing the science.
She's just representing politics.
This is all politics.
Susan Collins, who is certainly no rabid right-winger, accused the CDC of using faulty data in its recent mask guidance for the outdoors.
The agency announced last month that less than 10% of transmission was occurring outdoors, except that that was wildly misleading, according to the New York Times.
According to the New York Times, when the CDC released new guidelines last month for mask wearing, it announced that less than 10% of COVID-19 transmission was occurring outdoors.
Media organizations repeated the stat.
It quickly became a standard description of the frequency of outdoor transmission.
But that number is almost certainly misleading.
It appears to be based partly on a misclassification of some COVID transmission that actually took place in enclosed spaces.
An even bigger issue is the extreme caution of CDC officials, who picked a benchmark 10% so high that nobody could reasonably dispute it.
Dr. Mujcevic, a virologist at the University of St.
Andrews, said the benchmark appears to be a huge exaggeration.
In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1% and maybe 0.1%.
0.1%.
Do you understand the difference between 0.1% and 10%?
1% 0.1% Do you understand?
The difference between 0.1% and 10% Ok, that means that you are off by a factor of 1000 Right?
Correct?
Like, what in the world?
What in the actual hell?
Like, hold on one second.
10 divided by 0.1.
10 divided by 0.1.
Just wanna make sure I got the numbers right.
You're off by a factor of 100 here.
You're off by a factor of 100.
They said that under 10%.
Okay, that's like saying that Under 1 million airplanes fall out of the sky every year.
That's true!
Under a million airplanes fall out of the sky every year.
The answer is much closer to zero.
Okay, so the CDC just lied with stats.
That's how you lie with statistics.
As the New York Times says, saying that less than 10% of COVID transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year.
The actual worldwide number is around 150.
It's both true and deceiving.
This isn't just a gotcha math issue.
It's an example of how the CDC is struggling to communicate effectively.
Or, alternatively, they are communicating effectively.
They're just communicating lies.
The lie they are communicating is that everything is crisis mode.
You gotta have kids, wear masks at camp, outdoors in 90 degree heat.
We have to pretend that outdoor transmission is going to be widespread.
We have to pretend, like Walensky just lied there, that transmission levels are at the same rate they were in May of last year.
All of this is insane.
Okay, but this is what is being pushed by this administration.
Lies that lead to economic uncertainty.
Lies that lead to inflation.
Policies that lead to worse outcomes for Americans.
Policies that lead to more conflagrations around the globe.
It's incredible.
This guy, this administration, was supposed to return to normalcy.
I'm waiting to feel the normal.
Are you feeling the normal yet?
This should be a period of optimism.
We were told this was going to be the booming 20s, not the stagflation 70s.
Instead, we're getting the 70s.
We're gonna get oil embargoes.
I mean, like, this is ridiculous.
We're getting gas lines.
We're getting inflation.
We're getting stagflation.
And we're getting all of this because of bad policy.
Policy makes a difference.
It makes a large difference.
And I know that everybody was very up in arms about the stuff that Trump said.
I hated a lot of it, too.
But guess what?
At the end of the day, the policy implemented by the White House makes a lot more difference in American lives than whatever dumb crap people put on Twitter.
Hey, but unfortunately, we live in a world in which we are supposed to pretend that the crap people say on Twitter is of significantly more importance than what actually happens on the ground.
And the people paying the price for that right now are you, waiting in line for gas, and you, at the grocery store, now having to pay twice what you were gonna pay, and you, yes you, Israelis living in bunkers under your cities right now.
Unreal.
Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
In the meantime, go check out The Michael Mowles Show.
On today's episode, OJ Simpson endorses Liz Cheney, which is weird.
It's just all of life, all of politics is just mad libs right now.
That episode is available right now.
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