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Dec. 22, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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The Effect of Social Media on Israel and Palestine
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
Glad to have you with us today.
Just a minute after the break, we're going to talk about some issues that have come out that are really disturbing here in the last few days.
Some poll numbers that came out showing young people's response to Hamas and Israel.
It really is beginning to show the effect of really social media that is not hinged to reality.
And we're going to deal with that and I think there's some room for discussion here.
But the realities of some of this poll was pretty, I'll be honest, pretty startling to me to see just really in a matter of seemingly days, it seems like, but probably a number of years, how their education system and how social media influences have Risen to the level of distortion in some of these actual world events, especially this deal, the dealings with Israel and Hamas as we go forward in the future.
Also, criminal justice reform done wrong.
Shockingly, the LA District Attorney This is George Soros DA promoting someone who doesn't believe actually in law enforcement.
We'll talk about that today and also the military getting smaller as we speak.
As someone who sees this close and personal, I just wanted to touch base on this here.
As we get ready, it's a week to get started, but here on Wednesday we're going to get it going here right after the break.
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I mentioned this in the opening, and it really is disturbing.
I'm just going to read some of this.
This was actually out of a report from National Review, and it was on a survey that was done by Harvard Caps Harris Poll.
Now, again, let's take it from where it's at here.
Let's take it from the perspective of Harvard Caps, the Harris Poll.
This is probably going to be skewed.
In some ways, we understand that.
But what stuck out to me, even in this poll, was 51% of 18 to 24-year-olds in the U.S. want Israel to lose to Hamas, and the sentiment decreases significantly among higher age brackets as you go accordingly.
31% among 25 to 34-year-olds, 24% 35 to 44, 15% of 45 to 54-year-olds, 13% 55 to 64, and only 4% of age 65 and older say Israel should be wiped out.
In comparison, the overall 81% support for Israel over Hamas.
However, support between the two sides is split evenly among the 18 to 24 age bracket.
Again, this is disturbing.
I just want to get at this for a little bit as we look at it.
Although as a slight majority of that age group, which is 18 to 24, support the genocide of Jews.
Now, I'm not, this is not 1940, 30s polling in Germany.
This is today's polling of a segment of folks in the 18 to 24-year-old hybrid That basically say they support the genocide of Jews.
A slight majority said they support genocide, so a little over 50%.
58% of the respondents in the same age group say Hamas should be removed from running Gaza, which is an interesting point here.
The same group further displayed contradicting views with 62% saying Hamas' October 7th attack was genocidal, and 60% answering that Israel's campaign in Gaza consists of genocide.
The reason I'm bringing these numbers out, and I want to give you some more in this, is because it just shows, and even this article points us out in the National Review, these very contradictory views.
And this is where I'm very concerned about the future, not only in elections, but I'm concerned about where we're headed, really, in many diplomatic situations.
What is normal, or at least reporting, that we would see.
Now, it is being skewed in some ways to fit an agenda.
We saw this anti-Semitic discussion in Capitol Hill just in the last few weeks, and we talked about this on one of the episodes just briefly about the university presidents from Harvard, MIT, and Penn, one of which does not want to have her job.
They basically couldn't just come out and say that the calling for the genocide of the Jews was hateful or against the code of conduct of these universities.
This is harking back to a very dark time.
And what is really concerning here is that over time, you're seeing young people who, the same group, now I want you to think about this, the same group, 51%, want Israel to lose to Hamas, which number one, will never happen.
Okay, again, I know I'm being picky here.
I know I'm actually being logical in numbers.
Israel will not lose to Hamas.
It could last forever in a sense of just continuing on like we've seen for the past 25, 20 years roughly.
In the guerrilla organization of Hamas, because they're not organized in the way that most traditional armies are organized.
They're not.
They're organized as a guerrilla militia group.
So in a different way, you could have two people stationed, and that is a significant guerrilla operation or insurgent operation against an even larger force because they could, you know, planning IEDs, they could do a lot of things to disrupt, although never win.
This is the very thing we saw in Vietnam.
It's the same thing that Russia encountered in Afghanistan.
So, again, this idea that Israel would lose this in some sort of traditional sense is really mind-blowing to me that this generation would actually think that.
They're thinking in terms that doesn't exist.
It does go on to say, though, and it really concerns me in the sense that a slight majority of the respondents support the genocide of Jews.
I mean, I'm sort of just stunned here at this.
I'm not understanding how...
We've come this far with such an, quote, open-minded group of young people who support everything that really want to support the genocide of Jews, the Jewish people.
Now, that is the exact feeling of Hamas and Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed groups and Iran and others who don't believe that Israel has a right to exist at all.
It is interesting to me that American young people, 18 to 24, more than half would support the genocide of Jews.
It's no wonder Jewish students on these college campuses are feeling so threatened at this point.
We've seen this happen over and over again.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise compared to any other discriminatory behavior that we're seeing.
The Jewish discrimination is high and it just gets ignored.
This frankly gets ignored by many in the press, and even the Democrats, which many of these young people are leaning toward, are leaning more toward the terrorist organization, Hamas, in a sense, and what they're doing, as opposed to Israel, who is our strongest Democratic ally.
Now, I will put in a stopgap, if you would, however you want to put it.
Is there room for discussion on how much Israel can actually take out in Hamas and at the cost of what is a very brutal civilian casualty loss and a door-to-door foundation?
Yes, there is a discussion to be had there.
But at the same point in time, Israel is the one that has endured for years upon years of being attacked, being killed, having its citizens living in daily threat of missiles and bombs and mortars being lobbed at them on a regular basis out of Gaza from Hamas.
There's the tunnels.
We see all of this going on.
So again, the viewpoint that Israel has had enough, and especially after the October 7th massacre, that they're going in and trying their best to weed out Hamas is understandable.
It is a difficult situation.
It is in a very urban environment in which you can't tell the enemy from the populace.
This is, again, another tactic of what we'll call insurgent warfare.
You see this in, and I've already mentioned countries that you see it in all the time.
You have Yemen, who is barely able to feed itself, is able to take Iranian-backed military equipment and run drones and ICBMs and others that they're firing not only at Israel and southern Israel, but they're also firing in and around the United Kingdom and the United States naval vessels.
They're obtaining ships.
They're hijacking ships.
They're holding them for ransom.
I mean, this is not a good situation here.
And Israel has been involved in this now ever since its inception with people who do not believe it should have the right to exist.
But going further, here's the point that is really interesting to me.
Again, these same groups said that the 66% said that Hamas attack was genocidal.
And 60% answered that Israel's campaign was also genocide.
I think we're throwing around the word genocide around here a little bit too much.
Again, as I said just a moment ago, you can have disagreements as to maybe the tactics and where we're going.
I'm still wondering why Israel is allowing the Hamas leadership to sit in luxury in Qatar and actually still direct so much of this that is inflicting pain upon the People who live in Gaza, Palestinians in Gaza, who elected Hamas to supposedly take care of them, which they have not done, which we have seen them use humanitarian aid and hijack humanitarian aid for their own benefits.
We've seen pictures of this just in the last couple of weeks of humanitarian aid coming in.
In which you have Hamas gunmen sitting on top of the aid trucks.
Anybody out there think this is actually going to the people is, you know, they're not dealing in reality.
So I think this concern leads more and more to me that The misconception of what's going on in the Middle East and the poor educational system, it's seeming like, of education in world affairs is coming home to roost for us.
Additionally, this poll goes on to say 32% of young Americans want Israel and Palestine to be recognized in a two-state solution.
Okay, that is a offer.
I mean, that's something that's been discussed for many years.
The question is, is a two-state solution will work if both sides are peaceful?
And again, we're not even close to that there.
And yet, 35% who just said, you know, well, over half have said that same age group said they wanted the genocide, supportive genocide, support the genocide of Jews, are now saying they want Israel and Palestine to live together.
Again, I don't understand this kind of thinking as we look at it.
17% think that Arab states should absorb the Palestinians displaced from the conflict.
That's something that's been said for many years.
It should tell you something that they don't.
But again, not looking at this as we go forward.
I point this out because this is becoming more and more of an issue as we go forward and looking at how this conflict in Israel and with Hamas is playing out on social media.
And if you go and you look at a lot of the videos being shot, some investigative reporters going into the protests that are being had, pro-Hamas protesters.
Pro-Palestinian, however they want to claim themselves in certain cities, especially New York and Chicago, all over, without having a basic understanding of the situation as it currently exists.
And again, this is where you get into major disagreements.
You get into deserted arguments and people taking sides on things that they're not actually...
I guess the best way is educated in.
And so I'll point this out to say this is something that we'll probably talk about more on the podcast as the months and time go by.
But the idea that...
You have this group of people who have very little understanding of what's going on in there, are claiming things that are, one, virtually anti-Semitic, also giving contradictory ideas, should lead us to this understanding that at a certain point in time, How we disseminate news, how we look at this, how the people get information.
Now in a social media format, I was just decrying the fact and the loss of our weekly newspapers here in Georgia.
We had a daily here in my hometown that's now, I think, two days a week at best.
And if you look at it, it's probably filled with more stories or even just reprints from other places.
So we don't really get the long form You know, journalism that we used to get here in our small towns, and this happened all over the country.
So people are more and more turning to Twitter and TikTok and Instagram and others for their news sources, Facebook.
And again, folks, I am all for free speech.
I am all for doing it.
Go spout off whatever you want to spout.
But when people are believing what they're seeing from someone who may or may not have any knowledge of what's going on, except to push a political agenda or maybe not even be a person, be a bot that is pushing a political agenda, this is what you get.
And you get over half of these young people who believe that genocide of Jews is okay.
I leave it at that.
This is just amazing.
Moving on to another story that is not all that surprising, but is something that we're going to have to look at as we go forward here.
We've talked a lot about the George Soros DAs.
The L.A. DA Gascon very much was supported by George Soros.
He is a Terrible district attorney who has absolutely no idea how to prosecute a Prosecute the law and basically be on the side of public safety.
I say this in a sense as someone who has spent most of my, especially political life, in the advocacy of proper criminal justice reform.
And I even hate to say criminal justice reform, but actually upholding the law, holding accountable, and finding better ways to make sure that we have people who commit crimes that then can get back into society and produce at a Functioning level and not have to go back to jail.
That should be our goal.
There are going to be some people who, frankly, need to go to jail and need to stay there because they have no idea how to function in a normal society and the crimes that they have committed are heinous enough in which they have separated themselves basically from society, made the choices, the old political science term, social contract, they have broken that and now they need to live their life out in jail.
That's their choice.
That's what they did.
However, what we're seeing now in LA and some of these other counties is the promotion of non-prosecuitorial practices in a DA's office.
Think about this.
If you're a police officer on the street, You're out there and you're trying to help people who call for help.
So your business has been robbed, someone in your family has been assaulted, raped, they're stealing Product off your shelves, and you call the police.
The police come out there at their own risk in their own life because, you know, frankly, the job is dangerous.
And they come, they arrest somebody, they send them to jail, they take them to jail, the jail releases them, the DA doesn't prosecute them, or the DA simply turns a blind eye.
How would you feel if you're a police officer trying to enforce the law that way?
You wouldn't.
That's why we have so many problems.
With our law enforcement officers right now and others who are not able to stay in the job or want to stay in the job.
Well, the LA District Attorney, who I was hoping they would have recalled, they did not, has decided to promote a looter to Chief of Staff.
This is the same person who wants to abolish prisons, who wants to defund barbarian police, back the ransacking of shots during the 2020 BLM riots.
Um...
She's a self-professed looter herself.
She's a...
I mean...
I wish I didn't have to go through this because this is the very things that, um...
Takes those of us who are trying to make things better, to get help to those who are addicted, those who have mental health issues, those who have committed crimes maybe when they were younger, or they were under addiction, they had issues in their life, to get them help they needed.
This is the kind of thing that destroys it for everyone.
This is sort of like the old saying, this is why you can't have nice things, because you have idiots like this.
I mean, this is someone who has been promoted by Gascon.
She's a former public defender, regularly speaks of her support of defunding the police, referring to the LAPD as barbarians and claiming they're an occupying army.
This is coming from the same person who will now be Chief of Staff.
Tiffany Blacknell is the Chief of Staff.
This is the office that is supposed to prosecute crimes arrested by the LAPD. If you believe them to be the enemy, if you believe them to be an occupying force, how are you actually going to prosecute crimes?
How are you going to be fair to the people of Los Angeles County?
I mean, this is the same anti-police activist who is posed wearing t-shirts with his saying statements like, the police are trained to kill us, they can't kill us all, and selfies taken for social media.
The proud, she's an LA native, in 2020 Facebook, to being part of the...
Riots in 1992 against police brutality.
She said, I was a looter then.
I'm not sure what she actually accomplished by being a looter in that time.
Again, it is amazing to me where you loot the very areas in which the people you supposedly are trying to help live.
I don't, Yeah, I don't get this.
Prisons are obsolete.
We need to reimagine America without it.
Her career is riddled, you know, there's been controversy.
A 2020 incident in which she went behind the backs of prosecutors in the victim family in a gang murder case to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal with a defendant.
Gascon, it's just, we don't get this.
And at this point in May, this is a story out of the Daily Mail, it was reported that Gascon is accused of letting 10,000 cases pile up, driving scores of prosecutors to quit, and the city of Los Angeles developing a reputation for soaring crime, and people are terrified.
And this is exactly what is happening.
Look, you had a chance to get rid of this guy.
I don't know why you didn't.
And if you didn't get rid of him, Then basically you're getting ill.
You're getting what you asked for.
But the reason I bring this story up today is, number one, yes, there are prosecutors out there who are not prosecuting law.
That's their very job.
It's like a baker who doesn't bake.
It's like a barbecue place that doesn't serve barbecue.
It's like a fireman who doesn't put out fires.
It's like, you know, keep going as far as you want to here.
This is a just absolute abysmal use of taxpayer funds.
And They're not being used to protect the citizens, and yet they keep on doing it.
And yet this idiot promotes someone who has trashed the very people she is supposed to serve.
Again, I go back, if you don't understand this, go back and simply watch the episode of Law& Order.
It starts off, the police who arrest and the district attorneys who prosecute.
This is the way it's supposed to work.
I don't know what kind of lifestyle.
I guess they enjoy living in a city that is unsafe.
That's the only thing you can assess here.
Because they're not making it safer.
And we see it getting worse and worse and worse.
So as we go through this process, for those of us who really believe that the criminal justice form ought to be taking place, that there should be conservatives and liberals, everybody in between should be looking for ways to help people get jobs, to get them back on the street, to get them back in their life after they've held accountable for the actions that they did.
We can't just ignore accountability.
Otherwise, those people just keep doing it.
There's no reason to change.
This is where we're at.
2023. LA's district attorney openly not wanting to prosecute the law.
Last thing we'll touch on today on this episode is I've mentioned this before and it just deserves mentioning again.
Military going into 2024, the U.S. will fill the smallest fighting force since before World War II. Military recruitment is down, as we've talked about.
Army, Navy, Air Force missed their 2023 recruitment goals by a combined 41,000 personnel.
The Annual Defense Authorization Bill passed by Congress just this past week.
State of the Activity Troops will drop to 1,284,000 in Fiscal 24, which is down 64,000 troops over the past three years, giving the U.S. military the smallest force since 1940. The numbers underestimate the challenge before services in strength in recent years, in part because of difficult recruiting environment.
You know, they've actually lowered in strength numbers to make it not look as bad.
We need a larger force.
This is just something that's really concerning.
And, you know, the armed forces have now went away from it being a Something you strive for.
I remember growing up, you know, the ads, and I've been in the middle of the Air Force for 22 years.
I was in the Navy for a little over two and a half, three years.
And you went in it because it was a thing of service.
You went into it because you wanted to be there.
You went into it because you wanted to serve your country.
And some of the branches now have gone just to lower levels.
You have the Navy actively recruiting drag queens.
You have the Air Force, my own Air Force, decreasing weight standards.
None of it helped.
In fact, if anything, it actually hurt.
Where you get most of your soldiers, most of your airmen, most of your sailors, are from many times more rural areas, more conservative areas, or inner city, where this is not what is attracting them to The service.
And yet, this is the continuation.
Folks, this is a problem.
I'm going to mark it down here.
As someone who actually sees this, actually deals with it, you need to understand that if we do not enforce that serving is honorable, that serving is good, and they trust the leadership, and we've gone through a lot of different reasons without specifically going into them right now over the past few years,
from wars to everything else, from policies and You know, from the COVID epidemic and everything else, there are a lot of reasons why members who were in are getting out, and that's another issue we haven't even talked about, about how many are getting out, not just staying, and then trying to come in.
But if we don't look at this, this is going to be a problem, because the world is not getting any safer, the world is getting worse, and if we don't have the population in our military services to fulfill those obligations, Then we will be hurting even further.
I've seen this coming for a long time, even going back to the Iraq-Afghanistan wars.
When I was in Iraq, you had, again, less than 2% of the United States actually participated actually firsthand in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Think about that for a second.
That smaller percentage was being resent to these war zones over and over and over again.
It's no doubt that the burnout factors and the desire to get out is very heavy.
And yet now we have military members, families who have served in the military for years who are telling their sons and daughters not to Get in.
Folks, I believe in this country.
I believe in our military.
I believe that the security of our nation is first and foremost.
And yes, we have a responsibility around the world to be prudent and resourceful with the best military that we have.
And I do believe we have the best military in the world.
Others are trying to catch up.
They're not there yet.
They still got a ways to go.
But if we don't properly use our military, and if we don't properly take care of our military, and if we don't properly do things that keep people there, then we will continue to fall behind and that will have long-term consequences for us as we go forward.
So with that, that's the catch-up on the news.
Not the happy today.
I look for soccer stuff and say, hey, let's be happy about it.
But between Congress can't get anything done on immigration, we're trying to send billions across cities.
These are things, though, that needed to be talked about.
I want you to understand the dangers of misinformation going on in the world.
You're seeing criminal justice form done wrong, and you're seeing our military drain.
These are things in 2024, hopefully in this presidential election, that we'll start seeing addressed as we go forward.
With that, we'll be gone.
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