Glenn Greenwald discusses the escalation of the extremist rhetoric employed by pro-Israel pundits and commentators, and the deliberate starvation of the civilian population in Gaza by the Israeli military. PLUS: A NYC event featuring Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Givr ends with a pro-Israel mob chasing down a lone woman, and a BBC documentary reveals the supremacist ideology behind the Israeli settler movement. ------ Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET. Become part of our Locals community Follow System Update: Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn
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Tonight, whether one likes it or not, Israel and its various wars continue to shape and dominate American politics.
That's so for multiple reasons.
First, the U.S. pays for and finances Israel's military in wars, even though Israelis have a higher standard of living than millions of Americans who are forced to subsidize their society.
Then there's the fact that the atrocities which Israel has been committing and continues to commit in Gaza not only erodes their international standing around the world, but America's as well, given that the whole world knows that none of what Israel is doing in Gaza would be possible without American support.
And finally, and perhaps most importantly, our domestic politics and our core free speech rights continue to be eroded in the United States in the name of protecting Israel and punishing its critics.
Israel, like any country, has always had its share of violent extremists, including those who want to steal all of the West Bank, Gaza, and even parts of Lebanon and Syria for Israel.
But those extremists have in Israel become rapidly mainstreamed, are at the highest levels of its government, and the fruits of their extremism can be seen in the full destruction of civilian life in Gaza, as well as the ongoing annexation of land by their settlement movement in the West Bank and by their multiple wars in several countries in the region.
As the true destruction of Gaza becomes globally undeniable, And as 2 million Gazans now face the reality of mass famine due to Israel's refusal to allow any food or medicine to enter Gaza, no matter who sends it, the Israeli government,
but also their legion of loyalists in the United States, are becoming rapidly more extreme and repressive to justify all of this.
And it is contaminating not only Israel, but our own country as well.
We report on the multiple significant events, both in Israel and in the United States, many in the United States, Before we get to all that,
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From the beginning of the war, following the October 7th attack that Israel has been waging on Gaza, senior Israeli officials, led by its then-defense minister, Yoel Gallant, have explicitly threatened that they intended to cut off all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza,
including food, water, and medicine.
This doesn't mean they're refusing to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, even though it was an occupying army.
They are required to do so under international law, but no one expects that of Israel.
It's Israel.
They're not going to provide food and water and medicine to Palestinians and Gaza as they destroy their society.
But they're doing something much more extreme, which is they're using their military, paid for by the United States and American workers and taxpayers, to block any aid from entering.
There are humanitarian groups all over the world trying to put food into Gaza.
Because generally the world considers it to be a singular atrocity to watch millions of people die of famine, a deliberately caused famine.
You have countries trying to get an aid and medicine, watching children have to undergo incredibly horrific surgeries with no anesthesia because it's just not available in the Gaza Strip.
You've seen all the horror stories.
Those are deliberately induced.
By a blockade that the Israeli military has imposed on Gaza where they simply won't even let flour into the Gaza Strip.
And as a result, it's no longer accurate to say that the people of Gaza are in the brink of starvation or that mass famine is imminent.
They're in the middle of it.
There's essentially no more food left.
Here from the BBC yesterday...
Quote, the UN agency runs out of food aid in Gaza after the Israeli blockade.
Quote, today, the World Food Program, this is them talking, delivered its last remaining food stocks of Hot Meals Kitchens, it warned.
These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days.
Israel cut off aid on March 2 and resumed its offensive two weeks later after the collapse of a two-month ceasefire, saying it was putting pressure on Hamas to release its remaining hostages.
In other words, using mass starvation as a weapon of war.
The UN says Israel is obliged under international law, which they don't care about, the United States doesn't care about, to ensure supplies for the 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel said it is complying with international law.
There is no aid shortage.
At the end of March, all 25 bakeries supported by the World Food Program in Gaza were forced to close after wheat flour and cooking fuel ran out.
Food parcels distributed to families containing two weeks' rations were also exhausted.
Malnutrition is also rapidly worsening, according to the UN.
Last week, one of its humanitarian partners screened 1,300 children in northern Gaza and identified more than 80 cases of acute malnutrition, a two-fold increase from previous weeks.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says there are also severe shortages of medicine, medical supplies, and equipment for hospitals overwhelmed by casualties from the Israeli bombardment, and that fuel shortages are hampering water production and distribution.
Now, a couple of things to note about this.
First of all, the World Food Program, because I've seen before, any institution, any entity, any country, any government, any person, Any journalist, any media outlet that criticizes Israel immediately gets labeled as anti-Semitic, as hating Israel.
Anyone who criticizes Israel immediately gets called a racist.
That's just the go-to tactic.
Or in hating Israel or having some...
The whole world, everyone's persecuting poor Israel, even though the world's largest military and economy pay for their military, pay for their wars.
All of Europe has stood up in defense of Israel.
Somehow Israel is the poor little victim on the playground constantly being bullied.
You have all these UN organizations and Doctors Without Borders, people who do the most noble work of going around the world administering health care in the most dangerous place.
All these institutions are immediately deemed anti-Semitic the one time, the first time they say anything negative about Israel.
It's a little bit more difficult to do in the case of the World Food Program because its executive director is Cindy McCain.
She is the widow of former senator and presidential candidate John McCain and the mother of media personality Meghan McCain.
And the McCain family has been as steadfast, as extreme, as loyal.
And their support for Israel is basically anybody in Washington.
I mean, to try and depict the McCain family, Cindy McCain, as some kind of Israel hater.
She was born into great wealth.
She's using her platform to run the World Food Program, which does work to alleviate famine wherever famine is found.
She didn't take it as a platform to criticize Israel.
Much to the contrary.
As I said, the McCain family...
Worships Israel.
But as the executive director, she is basically duty-bound to report the truth, which is that there's no more food left in Gaza.
And they have no more food to distribute because all the stuff they were able to get into Gaza is now extinguished and exhausted.
And they're barred by the Israeli military from delivering more.
Here is the World Food Program itself on its X account yesterday.
The WFP has run out of food in Gaza as border crossings remain closed.
Two million people inside Gaza rely entirely on food assistance to survive.
The situation is at a breaking point.
We need food to reach Gaza.
We need access now.
I've seen people trying to claim, oh, this is a war, this is what happens in war.
No, no, it's just not true.
Most wars do not entail the deliberate blockading and starvation of an entire population.
A population in this case composed of 50% of children.
Trying to starve them to death or face the risk of the imminent death from starvation as a means to get their hostages back.
And of course, just like
was bombing everywhere in Gaza, claiming that they were concerned by their hostages and ended up predictably killing all of the hostages,
hostages. Obviously, if you bomb indiscriminately in the places that you know the hostages are, you're going to end up killing many of them, as happened.
Similarly, if you starve an entire place to death, then there's no food to provide to the hostages either.
And this is not
Something that the Israelis are doing by accident or incidentally as a byproduct of war, starving the two million people in Gaza to death is absolutely an explicit, open boast that Israeli officials,
at least when they're speaking in Hebrew, and sometimes even when they're speaking in English, are very proud that they're doing on purpose.
Here's a number of the Knesset, the Israeli Knesset, Moshi Sada.
And he was on a network called Middle East Eye and they asked him about the people who, including the children, who have no food in Gaza.
what he said.
Yes, absolutely.
It's our duty to expel the Gazans.
There are 10 countries in the world, and we are ready to resolve them.
This is our job.
If you say in the Israeli parliament, this is the interviewer, I want to starve Gazans, understand the implications of that statement.
And he says, wasn't I clear?
It's simple.
I want to starve Gazans completely, a full siege.
Anyone who wants to leave Gaza can leave for a humanitarian zone that we will control, a zone that we control.
The Israeli army will distribute food in the zone.
And then the reporter says, how will you deal with the world's criticisms?
And he says, really, we've been there before, the world's criticism for
And this is not anomalous.
There's nobody rising up in criticism of this MP.
You may recall that there were videos that were leaked to the press showing Israeli soldiers gang raping helpless Palestinian detainees in the dungeons Israel keeps where they send them with no due process, no charges.
They just keep them there indefinitely.
And when these soldiers were caught gang raping, anally raping helpless detainee Palestinians, Not only was there no revulsion in Israel, but members of the Knesset actually went and protested with all of their supporters outside where those soldiers were being held,
demanding their release.
And you had people going on media saying there's nothing wrong with rape.
Rape is a perfectly legitimate weapon of war.
These are not human beings we're dealing with.
These are savages.
They're not Jewish.
And this has been the ethos in Israel from the start.
Here is the...
Former Defense Secretary Netanyahu has since fired him, Yoav Golant.
This was him on October 9, 2023, saying what the Israeli strategy will be.
Quote, he says, We are imposing a complete siege on the city of Gaza.
There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel.
Everything is closed.
We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.
When South Africa brought its case against Israel for work on violations to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, and now other governments have subsequently joined, their entire case basically existed of statements by Israeli officials about what they intended to do in Gaza.
Because Israeli officials have been saying the whole time, we're going to keep food out, we're going to keep water out.
And...
At some point, the U.S. was pushing a little bit for more humanitarian aid to get in, and very basic food supplies were permitted to get in, but remember that when Trump facilitated the ceasefire in Gaza,
which he and his envoy Steve Witkoff absolutely deserve credit for having facilitated, it was...
He finalized one day before Trump's inauguration.
He wanted there to be a ceasefire.
He went around boasting and giving himself credit for the ceasefire.
The Israelis were saying, Netanyahu was saying to his country, don't worry.
The Americans have told me this is not permanent.
It's just for a little while.
We're going to get some hostages back.
And then there's going to be no stage two of the ceasefire deal.
We're never going to get stage two.
We're only going to do stage one and then go back to destroying.
And that's exactly what happened.
Stage one of the ceasefire agreement that Trump facilitated demanded the permitting of humanitarian aid, including food, water, and medicine, to enter Gaza.
And the Israelis, before the ceasefire unraveled, refused to allow any such humanitarian aid to enter.
And just by the way, given that the United States is still bombing Yemen every day, remember Yemen?
It's just like a country that the United States government and military are just bombing intensively and consistently every day.
When that ceasefire was signed, the Houthis said, we're not going to attack any more ships now that there's a ceasefire.
And it was only when the Israelis began violating the ceasefire by blockading basic humanitarian aid to enter that the Houthis say, actually, now we're going to resume our attacks, but only on Israeli ships.
Not on anyone else's, including Americans.
And yet Trump restarted and escalated Biden's bombing campaign, even though the Houthis weren't attacking American ships.
The much easier solution to bombing Yemen would have been to tell Israel you have to comply with the ceasefire deal that Trump and Steve Whitcoff caused to be agreed to by both sides in the Middle East.
But instead...
We're bombing the Houthis because we don't want to force Israel to allow food and water and medicine into this unbelievably beleaguered population.
One of the most extremist ministers in Israel is the National Security Minister, Itmar Ben-Gevere, who is in the United States.
Today he went to Congress to speak to several of his employees who work there.
Sometimes it's better to have meetings between your boss and the employees face-to-face.
I mean, you can have it on Zoom.
You can have it in lots of different ways.
But every boss will tell you it's good to have in-person meetings with the people to whom you're giving instructions.
And so Ben Gavir went to Washington today to visit the Congress to do that.
But Ben Gavir used to be such an extremist in Israel.
And I don't mean like 30 years ago.
I mean like a decade ago or less.
That he was convicted of several terrorist crimes.
He was the spearhead of this settler movement that every country in the world, including the United States, regarded as illegal.
Every time settlements expand in the West Bank, it meant that this dream of a two-state solution with Israel and a Palestinian state side by side living in peace became impossible because Israel just kept eating up land.
And Ben Gavir and others in the Netanyahu government Who used to be so on the fringes that they were actually in trouble with the law constantly, have now become mainstream in the NetNahu government.
This was before October 7th.
And Ben Gavir in particular, his view is that the Israeli military should be in the West Bank protecting the settlers as they expand.
There used to be a view that at one point Israel was going to have to confront its settlers because the only way for Israeli survival was a two-state solution.
Nobody believes in that anymore.
So Ben Gavir is in Washington, in the Congress, and just to give you a sense of what he believes is a sort of very, just a taste of his extremism.
And again, to show you that what that Israeli MP said, what the Israelis are doing, this is not fringe, marginalized views in Israel.
These are the mainstream views of the Israeli government.
They openly boast about the things they're doing.
Here's Ben-Gavir, October 17, 2023.
Here from the Jerusalem Post, February of 2024, Ben-Gavir takes shots at the IDF chief in an Israeli cabinet meeting.
Quote, Ben Gavir took aim at the military chief for the IDF's cooperation with Israeli police in foiling daily protests against the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
So the IDF had worked with the Israeli police because a bunch of Israelis, including the extremists in the West Bank, went to the border with Gaza and blocked.
They took their kids, they took their entire family, and they...
Physically blocked humanitarian aid, the trucks with humanitarian aid, from entering Gaza.
They wanted to starve the population to death.
And the Israeli military worked with the Israeli police to try and remove these protesters, these people blockading humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, in part because the U.S. government was asking for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza,
and so they wanted to have a minimal amount sent in.
And that's what Ben Gavir was mad about.
That the police and the IDF were acting against these protesters.
Quote, National Security Minister Edmar Ben-Gavir was involved in a screaming match with IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halavi at Sunday's cabinet meeting held at the northern Julius military base, Israeli media reported.
Ben-Gavir squabbled with Halavi over the IDF's open fire rules, which the former Ben-Gavir argued were not strict enough and would harm Israeli soldiers.
Quote, you know how our enemies operate.
They will try to kill us, Ben Gavir asserted.
They will send women and children as undercover terrorists if we continue like this, meaning trying to avoid killing women and children.
We will reach another October 7th.
We cannot have women and children getting close to the border.
Anyone who gets near must get a bullet in his head.
Just last month, March 23rd, 2025, as reported by JNS, Ben-Gavir urges strikes on Hamas's food reserves and power supply.
Now, obviously, Hamas food reserves are the food reserves of the 2 million people living in Gaza.
He wanted to deliberately, whatever food was left that they found...
deliberately attack it.
National Security Minister Edmar Ben-Gavir employed the IDF on Sunday to attack Hamas's food warehouses
Now, obviously,
one of the institutions That depends upon functional electricity and cannot function without it are hospitals.
People on respirators, people on life support, people who need all kinds of machines hooked up to them.
And if you cut off all electricity in Gaza and then continue to bomb them in the dark, not only are you killing a lot of people, but then you're preventing doctors from treating the wounded or even feeding the wounded.
And this is what they're all Very happy to admit that they're willing to do and are doing, even as many of their supporters in Israel continue to insist it's fake news or anti-Semitic to point out that Israel is blockading all food from getting into Gaza.
The Israeli officials just openly admit it.
From the Times of Israel, April 25th, just a couple days ago.
Ben Gavir calls to bomb Gaza food warehouses, completely contradicted efforts to get aid into the Strip.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce appears to criticize National Security Minister Edmar Ben-Gavir's call for the IDF to bomb food storage facilities in Gaza in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages.
Asked during a press briefing whether the Trump administration backs the idea, which Ben-Gavir said is supported by senior Republicans he met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort this week, Bruce initially says that she won't comment on the matter as the far-right Israeli leader's claim is unconfirmed.
But then she said that the proposal is, quote, When the Trump administration is openly chastising an Israeli official for going way too far,
for even contradicting what the Trump administration says its policy is with respect to Gaza, you know you're dealing with an extremist.
You had an extremist who was openly welcomed.
By synagogues in New York and now is walking the halls of Congress to meet with members of Congress like he did in Mar-a-Lago.
Over the weekend, there was a protest in the Brooklyn neighborhood where Ben Gavir went to speak and meet with religious leaders in Brooklyn.
And it ended up that the Crowd of these Jewish religious fanatics welcoming Ben Gavir, that crowd ended up becoming very violent and attacking at least two women physically,
one of whom is an Israeli Jew, but who nonetheless is protesting Ben Gavir.
Here from the New York Times, the NYPD is investigating pro-Israel crowd's attack on women in Brooklyn.
Quote, on Thursday night, pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the Chabat Lubavitch World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown High.
Quote, At one point,
hundreds of men and boys Hundreds, most of them Jewish, surrounded one woman, a woman, according to the police and videos of the episode.
In a statement to the New York Times, a woman identified herself as the victim, but asked that her name not be used for fear of retribution.
So she's scared in the United States to identify herself as the victim of mob violence.
On the part of these people at the Brooklyn Synagogue, they ought to hear Ben Gavir speak.
She said she was not even involved in the protest, but had been watching with neighbors and pulled a scarf over her face when people began filming.
She said she was quickly encircled by an angry crowd who shouted abuse at her and moved near a line of police officers for protection.
The crowd, the victimized Jewish crowd, petrified to even leave their house because it's so unsafe for them in the United States.
That crowd began to chant, quote, death to Arabs in Hebrew.
Death to Arabs in Hebrew.
Is that a genocidal chant?
Death to Arabs?
We're constantly hearing that people on campus chanted death to Jews or kill all Jews, which never actually happened.
But here's a crowd of hundreds of men as they're menacing and physically attacking a woman, a single woman walking down the street, chanting death to Arabs in Hebrew.
And they followed her, and an officer had begun escorting her video shows.
Many also shouted racist, sexist, and anti-era profanities as others shoved her.
At least one hurled an orange construction cone at her head before the officer was able to put her in a police vehicle, the footage shows.
The woman said she was terrified as a member of the crowd kicked her in the back, spat at her, and threw objects at her head.
And there are videos showing all of this.
In another incident, pro-Israel counter-protesters harassed a second woman.
Now, let's be very clear about one thing.
Even if that woman had been part of the protest, in the United States, at least for the moment, you're allowed to protest anything you want.
You're certainly allowed to protest a foreign official of a foreign government coming to the United States.
You're allowed to protest.
That's one of the basic rights in the United States is to assemble and protest.
So it should go without saying that even if she were protesting Ben Gavir, which I think any decent person would do, that wouldn't justify having a bunch of men and Boys who they've indoctrinated to love and worship Israel physically attacking them.
Because this is still the United States and we're still free to protest, especially foreigners, foreign leaders, without being physically assaulted.
Here is one of the videos.
This one is the one that shows the Jewish men and young teenagers.
Menacing this woman, kicking her, chanting at her death to Arabs in Hebrew.
and you can watch this
video.
You see as she's just trying to walk away, the police officer, she has one police officer, and they just keep running up behind her, kicking her, hitting her, throwing things at her while they chant death to Arabs.
Is this what we want in the United States?
A bunch of violent mobs?
Physically attacking lone women?
100, 200 men?
To punish her for the crime of protesting, which again she wasn't even doing.
And we're supposed to believe that this is the group in the United States that are the only real victims, the only real endangered victim group in the United States are American Jews who are too afraid to even go out on the street and therefore need the protection of the government and the state with special privileges and rights and even including censorship of speech,
including campus censorship.
These are the people who are sacrificing free speech on campuses in order to protect?
Do they look like a victim group to you?
Now, there was a second woman who wasn't just menaced, but beaten.
And pretty severely.
And what you had is pictures of her that circulated on On social media, including here, you see her with her face all bruised,
her head all bruised.
And there were people on Twitter.
Here is Yael Jacobi.
You may remember him.
He was the 22 year old student at the University of Pennsylvania, who Mike Johnson had come to Congress.
And he stood up and he said, "I am not safe.
I do not feel safe."
This, like, big 22-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most privileged people on the planet, goes to Congress and says, I am not safe, using exactly the language of the woke left that had been so mocked and criticized by these same people.
So while he was weeping and whining about how he doesn't feel safe, even though he was never physically attacked or threatened, here's what he said about this Jewish woman who ended up being beaten.
And here's the photo that we have of her.
Here, you can see her there.
She's bleeding.
She has water in her pants.
On her pants, and this is how he interpreted that photo and what he said.
Quote, she tried to assault Jews outside of a synagogue.
She ended up leaving in handcuffs and peeing her pants.
F-A-F-O, which means fuck around and find out, meaning she's the one who's to blame.
A woman who got physically mauled in the United States for protesting.
These Israel loyalists are saying, yeah, she got what she deserved.
You don't protest Israel.
In the United States, unless you want to get beaten.
Hear from an Israeli who does a lot of propaganda in English, Haviv Rediger.
He says, quote, Jews don't need to be polite or nuanced, not if you just showed up at their synagogue.
They need to walk right up to you and punch you in the face because you're a vile bigot trying to intimidate them.
Lubiturs are famously kind and outgoing.
You deserved worse.
I mean, is that what we want?
People in Israel and their royals in the United States telling Americans that they're not allowed to protest?
You can protest anywhere, just not a gathering of Jews at a synagogue to welcome an extremist foreign leader who's been convicted of terrorism in Israel and has been saying wretched, rancid things of the kind we showed you.
He's basically saying, look, You can protest whatever you want.
You just don't protest Jews.
You don't protest Israel.
Or we're going to punch you in the face.
And in fact, if you do it, you deserve worse than that.
Here from DropSite News, which reported on all of this, quote, the only thing that gives me some joy is that while all the Zayos were celebrating and laughing at me, I'm over here thinking y 'all hit a Jew with a damn Israeli passport.
Great job.
And this is, What they report.
and it posts that she is Jewish and has an Israeli passport and was wearing a keffiyeh on Thursday night.
So she was wearing what is associated with the Palestinian scarf, even though she was Jewish and
and was protesting Ben-Gavir on
in Crown Heights.
They go on where racist Israeli national security minister, Idmar Ben-Gavir, was giving a speech.
He was left bloodied with a head wound that required medical attention after a violent mob of mostly Orthodox Jewish counter-protesters attacked and assaulted pro-Pelicinians.
And then this is the picture that they posted of the woman who, again, is an Israeli Jew.
You see here someone that she says, the only thing that gives me some joy is that while all the Zayos were celebrating and laughing at me, I'm over here thinking y 'all had a Jew, a damn Israeli passport.
Great job.
So that was her comment.
That they were chanting anti-Arab stuff.
They thought she was an Arab.
Instead she was a Jew.
There she is lying on the ground.
And here she is with her face beaten up.
And as I said, there she is too.
As a bunch of different people, including Israelis who don't even live in our country.
They're not even citizens of the United States.
They're not citizens of the United States.
They're just Israelis.
They have no connection to the United States at all.
But they use social media to say, yeah, you can't protest our leaders.
And if you do, you're going to get punched in the face, even though you probably deserve worse.
To what extent are we willing to sacrifice our core liberties, our basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution in servitude to this foreign country and to its loyalists inside the United States?
A lot of people are obviously asking that question, and that's why opinion polls are clearly showing, surveys of public opinion, that Support for Israel is at its all-time low in the United States.
From Gallup on March 6, less than half of the United States are now sympathetic toward Israelis.
Although Americans remain more likely to say their sympathies in the Middle East situation are with the Israelis rather than the Palestinians, the 46% expressing support for Israel is the lowest in 25 years of Gallup's annual tracking of this measure on its World Affairs survey.
The previous 51% low point, And this trend of American sympathy for Israelis was recorded both last year and in 2001.
You have to go back a long way.
And there was never, until this year, just a month ago, any public opinion poll finding in Gallup that less than a majority of Americans sympathize with or are on the side of Israelis or say they are approving of the Israelis and this is the first time it's gone below half.
Which in a country with a bipartisan Washington consensus, overwhelmingly in favor of Israel, is an extraordinary finding.
That was echoed by Pew at the beginning of this month, April 8th.
In fact, they had even worse findings from the perspective of Israel and its American supporters.
How Americans view Israel and the Israel-Hamas war at the start of Trump's second term.
Quote, a slight majority of Americans, 53%.
A majority of Americans now express a somewhat or very unfavorable opinion of Israel.
A majority have an unfavorable opinion of Israel, whether you're somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable.
This marks an 11-point increase in unfavorable views since March 2022 when we last asked this question.
The share of U.S. adults who voice very unfavorable views of Israel has roughly doubled.
Over this period, from 10% in 2022 to 19% in 2025.
Younger and older Democrats alike have turned more negative toward Israel over this three-year period, but negative views among younger Democrats have grown by nine points compared with a 23-point increase among older Democrats.
Among Republicans, much of the shift in attitude has come among younger adults.
Republicans, Republicans under 50. Are now about as likely to have a negative view as Israel as a positive one.
In fact, 50 to 48 percent, so basically half of Republicans under 50, Republicans under 50, now have an unfavorable view of Israel.
So you have a lot of people now asking these questions.
Why are we paying for all their wars?
Why are we isolating ourselves from the world for this one foreign country constantly?
Why are our politicians, almost every day, not just talking about Israel, but passing bills in favor of Israel and resolutions, and the Trump administration every day has a new policy.
We showed you last week that people who get NIH research grants, medical researchers who get research grants from the National Institute of Health.
We'll lose all those grants unless they certify they don't support a boycott of Israel.
Like, why is our government constantly passing bills and laws or issuing policies not that improve my quality of life and what's going on in the economy in my country, in my neighborhood, in my state?
Why are they constantly talking about this foreign country?
And then, why are we now getting all these attacks on free speech by Conservative movement that vowed they were going to restore free speech all to protect not even our own country, not even our own citizens, but this one foreign country on the other side of the world.
The more that happens, the more horrific acts people watch every day of Israel just constantly blowing up babies in half.
All the things we were told that Hamas does, watching Israel do it for 15 months as the United States government pays for it and supports it.
While our rights are eroded in the United States, obviously, that's going to start turning people negative against Israel, and that's exactly what's happening, not among young leftists, but across the board.
Pretty much the only people not abandoning Israel are older Republicans, hardcore Fox News watchers, people who have been indoctrinated to love Israel for many years, even Republicans under 50, half of them at least, majority likely.
Now have a negative view of Israel.
If you're a supporter of Israel, if you are Israel, that has to be very worrying.
But the more worrying it gets, the worse they're going to make it.
It's like a vicious cycle.
We're going to say, oh wow, this is really collapsing in support for us.
We have to do more to restrict speech, to disseminate propaganda, to guarantee a bipartisan consensus in the port of our foreign country.
And the more they do that, and we're going to show you an extraordinary clip in just a minute.
From a former U.S. senator and what he said about the steps that they have to take to make sure that this disapproval of Israel and the United States reverses.
The more they talk openly like that, the more they do in this vein, then the worse it's going to get for them in terms of this collapse in public opinion, as it should.
I mean, a movement that calls itself America First is funding all of Israel's wars and all of its military.
Forcing American workers to subside in society?
How long is that sustainable?
Apparently not for much longer.
And we're going to get to a lot more of this, including other issues associated with all of this right after this break.
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Now, as we have been documenting, I want to continue in this vein for a little bit.
There really is a massive escalation in Israeli rhetoric and Israeli actions, getting more criminal, more atrocious.
But it's so important to remember, I'm not talking here about a foreign war that has nothing to do with you or a foreign country that has nothing to do with you if you are an American citizen.
You're the ones who are paying for this war.
Your government has supported and enabled it.
And during the campaign, Joe Biden, who flew to Israel shortly after October 7th, hugged Netanyahu, said, my whole life has been about support for Israel and you're going to have all the money and all the weapons you want.
Until you decide this war is done and kept his word, gave Netanyahu all the money and all the weapons he wanted.
In 2024, when Biden realized that, at least among some voters and in key states, that support for Israel might actually harm his chances, then when Kamala Harris was imposed once they forced Biden out, and she too, a lot of Democrats,
including Kamala and people around her, and her supporters like AOC, kept saying, We assure you, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and then Kamala Harris are working, quote, working tirelessly for a ceasefire.
Working tirelessly.
And we're going to show you that in a minute.
Actually, we can show it now.
Here is AOC speaking about Kamala Harris at the DNC, the Democratic National Convention, on August 20th of last year.
She is working tirelessly.
To secure a ceasefire in Gaza and bringing hostages home.
Look at that smug, self-satisfied smile as she said it.
I mean, she had to know she was lying.
There's no way she believed that because it was never true.
Everyone following this knew it wasn't true.
Biden and Kamala Harris were not working for a ceasefire at all.
Let alone working tirelessly.
The only time he got a ceasefire was when Trump won the election and sent Steve Witkoff, who as a long-time Israel supporter has a lot of credibility, a lot of standing, to say to Netanyahu Trump wants a ceasefire and force one.
Biden and Kamala were doing nothing.
And there's now reporting in Israel that the Israelis are saying, we thank God that Biden...
was in office during our war because never once did he try and pressure us into a ceasefire.
Here's from the Times of Israel today.
Quote, Biden officials vent frustration in dealing with Netanyahu decried missed chance of a Saudi deal.
Quote, despite his animosity toward Netanyahu, Biden stood by Israel through the end of his term.
Quote, this was the most significant political peril of Joe Biden's political career.
The easiest thing for Joe Biden to do, if he was worried about the voters in Michigan, is to basically get a little soft.
He refused to do it, former Ambassador Thomas Need said.
Quote, there was an enormous pressure on Biden inside the White House to change his position.
So when I hear comments about how he wasn't good enough or how he didn't have Israel's back, am I disgusted by it?
100%.
Is it true?
100% no.
Former Ambassador Michael Herzog, too, made a point of summarizing Biden's perilous term positively.
This is what Ambassador Herzog said, quote, God did the state of Israel a favor that Biden was president during this period.
Let me just emphasize that.
Remember, we just showed you Kamala Harris, AOC saying, Biden and Harris or Kamala working day and night for a ceasefire.
He said God did the state of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period because it could have been much worse.
We fought in Gaza for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, quote, ceasefire now.
It never did.
And that's not to be taken for granted.
The former Israeli ambassador said.
So the Israelis are saying, including the people, these are ambassadors between Israel and the United States.
They're saying, never once did Biden even suggest to us that we should do a ceasefire.
And it's a gift that God gave to Israel that Joe Biden was president during this war.
And then you had AOC, not just at the DNC, but many other times.
A lot of left liberal influencers.
Claiming to be so concerned about the war in Gaza, but absolutely lying about it and exploiting it to try and get Democratic votes, telling people Kamala Harris is going to be different than Joe Biden in Israel.
She's working tirelessly for a ceasefire.
And the Israelis are like, for the whole time Biden was president, the United States never came to us and said, hey, you should have a ceasefire.
Here's an Israeli, Shail Ben-Ephraim.
And when I say he's an Israeli, I mean, he's a Zionist.
He vehemently believes that the state of Israel needs to exist as a Jewish-dominated state.
Denounced October 7th as a horrific war crime.
Believes that Hamas is the epitome of evil.
And this is what he said yesterday after all this news that we just showed you.
This is what he said, quote, It took me a long time to get to this point, but it's time to face it.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Between the indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, the starvation of the population, plans for ethnic cleansing, slaughter of aid workers and cover-ups, there is no escaping it.
Israel is trying to eradicate the Palestinian people.
We can't stop it unless we admit it.
It took him 17 months, 16 months into this atrocious war He obviously doesn't want to acknowledge this.
He doesn't want to admit that.
And he's saying, look, I've resisted this for so long.
Again, this is a supporter of Israel.
An Israeli Jewish citizen.
Who's saying, it's just time to face facts.
There's no denying it any longer.
Our country is committing genocide in Gaza.
And I know there are a lot of people critical of Israel who don't like that word genocide.
I had Professor Mir Shimer on a couple weeks ago to explain why he believes it's not only so...
Applicable, but so important to call it that.
Because, again, it's the United States enabling it, paying for it, defending it, protecting it in every way.
And there's no longer any doubt about the Israeli aim.
It is to cleanse Gaza of all Palestinians, to make life impossible for Palestinians to remain in Gaza, clear them out, and just have Israeli moves in and annex Gaza for the Israelis.
I mean, Trump said it.
The Israelis are saying it.
How much more do you need to understand that ethnic cleansing, eradicating the Palestinian people, and stealing Gaza for Israel, which was never supposed to be part of Israel from the beginning, it was always going to compose a Palestinian state along with the West Bank.
The West Bank is on its way to full Israeli annexation.
Settlers are now completely emboldened.
They attack Palestinians every day.
Violently, while the IDF protects them.
And the Israelis have a vision, and they had it before October 7th.
October 7th is what permitted them to do it.
It was the pretext.
Sort of like neocons wanted to go attack Iraq and play in the Middle East long before September 11th.
September 11th happened.
They're like, ah, now we have an event that can justify what we've wanted to do for a long time.
It was clear that the Israeli government under NetNahu and the formation, the iteration that they now exist in, with people like Ben Gavir populating the government, had as their goal the eradication of Palestinians from Gaza and the full annexation of the West Bank.
Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, has said he fully supports, on a biblical basis, the idea that the Jews should control all of that land.
Including the West Bank, which the world calls the West Bank, but religious Jews in Israel call Judea and Samaria, and that's the term Mike Huckabee uses.
Because Mike Huckabee obviously is not a Jew, but he's an evangelical and believes that God has commanded of the world to make sure Israel controls or Jews control that land.
They believe that's the commandment of God as expressed in Exodus.
The first five...
Books of the Old Testament.
And that is a big cause of support inside the United States.
Now, here's Tucker Carlson, who I would say identifies with and embraces the America first, not just labeling, but ideology, as faithfully as almost anybody.
Here is just part of what he said on his latest show.
When this woman was not on to, and I probably should know who she is, I didn't check before, but she was not on there to talk about Israel.
She was there to talk about other things.
But this is what Tucker said, and I suppose you could say it's a little bit veiled, but it's really not, about U.S. financial support for Israel, and I suppose you could say for other countries in the Middle East, although we give Israel far more.
Egypt gets a lot, too, in order to do our bidding for Israel.
But here's what Tucker Carlson had to say.
Or how would we, you know, pay off foreign countries who flutter our political system with donations if, you know, if we're actually spending it to, like, build nice houses for Americans, like repair Redding, Pennsylvania, when we could be spending it in whatever disgusting Middle Eastern place?
So if you look at place-based financial statements, there's extraordinary opportunity to just...
So that's a question that I...
Have never been able to hear someone identifying as America First respond to, like, why are we forcing American workers in the heartland, in these de-industrialized places, suffering in so many ways, including not even available housing,
to pay and send all this money to Israel just because they've flooded our political system with so many donations.
What is remotely America First about imposing censorship codes and hate speech laws on college campuses and elsewhere, or making it illegal to protest Israel and the United States upon deportation, all to protect this foreign country?
What way is that America First?
It's blatantly not.
Here is something I mentioned and alluded to before, which is a really unbelievable statement.
It comes from former Senator Norm Coleman, who represented Minnesota.
He was one of those kind of very moderate Republicans.
And he's Jewish and a very steadfast supporter of Israel.
And he was giving a speech at the JNS event for Jews.
And he was addressing the fact that in the United States, public opinion is turning against Israel.
And here was his solution to that.
have Gen Z have an unfavorable impression of Israel.
And my friends, I think the reason that is that we're losing the digital war.
Okay, they're getting their information from tick tock and whatever it is, and we're losing that war.
When you think about it, the masters of the universe are Jews.
You know, we've got old minute AI. We've got Zuckerberg.
We got, you know, we, we.
So, I just want to note a couple things before I show you the rest.
He's saying there that...
First of all, there's these places where people who are young Americans, Gen Z, are getting this information that's turning them against Israel.
And the example he led with was TikTok.
Because as we've shown you many times before, the reason the TikTok ban finally got enacted after lingering in Washington for four years was not because of fear of China, but because of people becoming convinced in the Congress.
That there was too much Israel criticism, too much pro-Palestinian sentiment circulating on TikTok, and it was turning young Americans against Israel, and they couldn't allow that, and that's why they voted to ban it.
Now, just by the way, the deadline for banning TikTok has come and gone 90 days ago, more than 90 days ago, and Trump is pretty much ignoring it and just saying, like, yeah, at some point we'll do a sale.
In order to keep TikTok going.
And you barely hear anyone complaining about that.
But, so we're saying, TikTok is where a lot of the sentiment came from, and we had to do something about that, and that's where the TikTok ban came from.
Imagine banning an app in the United States that a third of the country voluntarily chooses to use, tens of millions of people, because there's too much criticism of a foreign country allowed on it.
But that's what the U.S. government did.
But he's also saying, and when I first heard it, I thought it was being ironic or sarcastic or satirical, like mocking what an anti-Semite would say, but no, he's not.
You're going to see, but you just saw this in the clip.
I'm going to play it again.
He's saying, look, the solution is obvious.
The masters of the universe are Jews.
We, Jews, have the masters of the universe on our side.
They're part of us.
It goes on to list a bunch of examples like Mark Zuckerberg.
You're going to hear that.
Could you imagine if anybody who was critical of Israel said that?
Oh, look, all the masters of the universe are Jewish.
You would be destroyed as an anti-Semite in a minute.
But you can say the same exact thing as long as you're saying it in support of Israel and nobody blinks an eye.
Here's what he said.
And whatever it is, and we're losing that war.
When you think about it, the masters of the universe are Jews.
You know, we've got Oldman, we've got Zuckerberg, we've got Sergey Brin, we've got a group across the board, Jan Combs, you know, founded WhatsApp.
It's us.
And we have to figure out a way to win the digital battle.
Amelia, we've got to get our digital sneakers on.
So that the truth can prevail over the lies.
And when we do that, the future of Israel will be stronger because the majority of all Americans will support Israel.
We'll make that happen.
We have to make it happen.
Thank you.
I want you to reflect on how unbelievable that really is.
He's saying, hey, look, I have a list of Jews who are the masters of the universe.
They control everything.
They can control public opinion.
Sam Almanid.
OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Sergey Brin at Google and the founder of WhatsApp.
And then he says, we have them.
We, the Jews, have them.
They're us.
So he's like speaking about Jews as like a kind of separate from the population people, which again is like a very anti-Semitic trope to be promoting.
He's not saying we Americans or we Israelis.
He's saying we the Jews.
We have these people.
The masters of the universe are us, are Jews.
And he's saying the thing that we need to do to combat declining support for Israel among American citizens is use the power we have over the internet, the control we have over the biggest platforms to disseminate propaganda and Change the minds of Americans back to supporting Israel.
And the reason he says we can do it is because all the masters of the universe are Jews and it's time for them to do what they should be doing as Jews, which is not offering a platform for American citizens to speak freely or to receive information freely,
but no, to use it to bolster and disseminate and promote support for Israel so that Americans once again learn to love Israel.
He's such a naked, blatant way of seeing the world.
I mean, people do see this world this way, believe me.
They just don't usually say such a thing in public.
And especially for someone whose life has been in politics, and they're just kind of naturally trained to understand the goalposts that you cannot transgress, the limits that you cannot transgress.
For him to say something like this?
I think, again, shows the desperation.
Because ultimately, that is the biggest fear of Israel, to lose political support inside the United States for paying for their country.
And that's where a lot of this desperation is coming from.
Now, speaking of desperate, a Harvard professor named Ruth Weiss, wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal, an op-ed, the title of which is, Harvard is an Islamist outpost.
For a decade it nurtured resentful leftists and anti-Semitism united them in a common cause.
The idea of Harvard being an Islamist outpost, the longtime home of Alan Dershowitz as one of its most celebrated and famous faculty members, I think it's something like six of the last seven or five of the last seven,
six of the last eight presidents of Harvard.
Have been Jewish, including the current one, Alan Gerber.
They had a non-Jewish president for about seven seconds, and Elise Stefanik and the Republicans forced her out because of her refusal to say we're going to ban phrases like from the river to the sea is genocidal.
We have to look at the context to see if it's genocidal.
They got rid of two other, three other.
Ivy League presidents as well over the same issue, one at the University of Penn, two at the University of Columbia.
I just want to show you who this person is, Ruth Wisse, who is writing this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying Harvard is an outpost of Islamism because I think it's very valuable to really listen to these people when they're at the most candid.
Ruth Wisse, she's a very distinguished professor of Yiddish at Harvard.
But she's also one of the old-school neocons.
Very vocal in support of everything Bush and Cheney did as part of the war on terror, invading Iraq.
She wanted to invade Iran.
She wants a war with Iran.
So everything to her looks like an Islamist outpost.
Any criticism of Israel becomes anti-Semitic or Islamist.
This is her worldview.
And I just want to have you hear her worldview in her own words where she's...
Explaining to American Jews like herself what their duty is by explaining to them using the voice of an Israeli Jew what Israeli Jews are saying to American Jews and what American Jews should hear.
Here's what she said.
Us look good.
Our job is not to make you look good, American Jews.
What do you have to worry about?
Your job is to make us look good.
And here's how you do it.
Every one of us has to serve three years in the army, two years in the army, some of us five years, and then for the rest of our lives.
You have got to serve two or three years in the army of words.
You've got to learn to fight the political battle, which is even more important at this point than the military battle.
We'll fight the military battle.
We're not asking you necessarily to come and be lone soldiers, although some of you can.
You've got to learn how to fight back on the campuses, how to make the arguments.
Now, they keep shifting.
I mean, that's her view of the duty of an American Jew.
To enlist in the army.
Of words, loyalty in defense of a foreign country, Israel.
And she's even saying like, hey, some of you can actually come and fight for the Israeli army.
And there are a lot of Americans who do.
A lot of American Jews go to fight in the Israeli army.
a quote unquote "American hostage" that's in Hamas is actually somebody who is an Israeli citizen as well, went to Israel, enlisted in the IDF, was in active duty combat
the day that Hamas took him.
I mean, now if American citizens go to fight for a foreign army, it suddenly becomes our war.
If Americans go to fight in Ukraine and they get captured by the Russians, now it's suddenly our responsibility because they decided to go and fight for a foreign army.
Obviously, that would never be the standard for any country other than Israel.
I want to show you this as well.
This is from March of last year, unlike the clip we showed you before, which was from 2019.
Here's the same person, the same Harvard professor, Ruth Wisse, who has this article in the Wall Street Journal saying Harvard is an outpost of Islamism.
And this is what she believes is also the duty of Jews.
I just want you to listen to this.
I mean, again, this is an American Jew.
I think she's Canadian, actually.
But like Norm Coleman, who we just showed you, she conceives of Jews as a kind of separate people, a people with duties and obligations apart from their citizenship of a foreign country, which is one of the worst and most destructive anti-Semitic tropes ever.
That's what Hitler wrote about Jews in Mein Kampf.
That it doesn't matter where Jews go, what citizens of what countries they become, they're always going to have supreme loyalty to Jews and not to their country.
People thought that about Catholics as well.
When JFK ran as a Catholic, there was a lot of claims that he was going to be loyal to the Vatican and to the Pope and not to America.
And there were previous Catholic candidates who were sunk by those suspicions as well.
And that's why it's so amazing to hear Norm Coleman stand up and say, hey, we have, like, we are Jews as a separate people.
We have all these masters of the universe, so we can use them.
They're for our agenda.
Here's Ruth Whissy talking about how she sees Jews globally.
If you are an Israeli anywhere, and if you are a Jew anywhere, a Jew anywhere, Mr. Netanyahu is the head of the Israeli government, and you stand up and salute, and you ask everyone else in the whole world,
don't you dare.
Again, I can't believe it.
What I can't believe is not that they think this.
I know they think this.
What I can't believe is that they're at the point where they're kind of so desperate that they're willing to say it publicly.
She said, if you are a Jew anywhere, not just in Israel, but anywhere, so you're an American Jew, Netanyahu is your leader.
And so when he enters the room, you stand up and you salute him.
The duty of an American Jew, an American citizen who's Jewish, is to stand up and salute?
The leader of a foreign government?
We don't even stand up and salute our own leaders.
Why would we stand up and salute as an American citizen the leader of a foreign country?
Unless you believe, as she's saying, that the real duty of Jews, the real loyalty of Jews is not to their country of citizenship, but to Israel.
That's insane.
That's insane to go around saying that.
That is what anti-Semites believe about Jews, and these people are saying that openly.
Here, let me just play that part again, because I just kind of can't believe it.
And if you are a Jew anywhere, a Jew anywhere, Mr. Netanyahu is the head of the Israeli government, and you stand up and salute, and you ask everyone else in the whole world,
don't you dare minimize our prime minister.
Don't you dare call him a chicken shit.
I don't know who called Netanyahu a chicken shit.
I mean, I personally wouldn't call him that.
He actually did fight in wars for Israel.
I'd call him a lot of other things.
I don't know who called that, but I don't know.
You can call him that if you want.
But the idea that American Jews have to stand up and salute Netanyahu, I mean, this is the kind of thing that anti-Semites would say.
Verbatim.
And these people are so desperate now that they Are trying to, like, impose this framework.
You know, like, hey, the heads of all these American social media companies, they're us.
They're Jews.
They're the masters of the universe.
It's time for them to start using their power to manipulate discourse and public opinion to turn Americans into lovers of Israel again.
They're not saying that in private.
They're saying that openly.
I just want to show you one thing, by the way.
There was this photo.
This notorious gathering of Israelis who went to the border when Israel was bombing the crap out of Gaza in order to sit in lounge chairs and watch it and cheer it and dance as they watched buildings collapse.
This happened not in January 2024 or November 2023.
This happened More than a decade ago, July of 2014, 2014 was really the last time it was under Obama, when the Israelis conducted a massive, sustained bombing campaign of Gaza.
They bombed Gaza every year.
They were bombing Gaza throughout 2023 until October 7th.
Even though we're supposed to believe, oh, before October 7th happened, everything was so peaceful.
The Gazans were just minding their own business, the Israelis were minding their own business, and just Hamas attacked out of nowhere.
The Israelis have been bombing Gaza forever.
Including throughout 2023 before October 7th.
But here's the Guardian from 2014.
Israelis gather on a hillside to watch and cheer as the military drops bomb on Gaza.
Quote, people drink, snack, and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts an ongoing offensive.
And there are a bunch of interviews from them saying, yeah, we don't consider Palestinians human.
They all need to just be flattened.
Leave.
And this has been percolating in Israeli society for a long time, and it's now fully the mainstream view.
Just want to leave you with one last point.
There's a documentarian named Louis Thoreau, who's been a celebrated documentarian for quite a while.
He is Jewish.
He's a British Jew.
And he made a film about the settler movement, I think 13, 14 years ago in the West Bank.
But this time, the BBC commissioned a new documentary for him to go to the West Bank and report on what is now.
When he reported on it then, it was like a fringe group.
Israeli politicians kept at arm's length.
They often condemned them.
But now, with them being completely mainstream, occupying the highest positions of government, Ben Gavir is a huge, complete supporter of the settlement movement.
He went back to the West Bank and produced a documentary for the BBC and it's a shocking documentary.
It's about an hour long.
You can watch it online now.
And what's amazing about it is it went through BBC's editorial process and they're extremely careful, to put that mildly, about the criticism they're willing to express about Israel.
And yet, most of what he did was just go and put a microphone in front of the leaders of this movement.
Just like I showed you, all I showed you was what Israel's most vocal supporters in the U.S. are saying.
I didn't put commentary around it in terms of putting it on the video.
I didn't use graphics or any kind of distortion.
I just played for you what they say in front of the microphone.
And that's what he basically did in this video.
One of the stars of the documentary is Daniela Weiss.
Daniela Weiss.
She has been working on...
The annexation of the West Bank and Gaza, she wants Israel to, and the Jewish people to control all of it.
And there's a lot of clips circulating online, 10 minutes or so, about the things she said.
Here's just a small clip.
Settlers do not wake up in the morning or do not go wait for sundown to attack.
No, no, no, no.
Why should we wake up in the morning and think?
About violence.
Why?
Our life is good!
Because you want the Palestinians to leave.
No!
No, no, no!
You've said so.
I said that what is on my mind all the time is how to bring more people to settle the land.
This is a new development by Jews.
I never think in terms of...
I know this is beta.
I don't think about beta.
Why not?
Because I think about...
I'm a Jew.
I'm a settler.
I'm a human being.
So I do not...
Think about this.
You're thinking about tribalism, thinking of your own people to the exclusion.
It would be understandable to think of your own people or your own children first, but to think about other people, other children, not at all?
That seems sociopathic.
Doesn't it?
No, not at all.
This is normal.
All right, here's just one other clip, just to give you a sense for this documentary, which I really encourage, but also some of what?
He saw when he was there.
Then the settler convoy arrived at what seemed to be its destination.
A viewpoint overlooking the war zone.
Daniela had told me she'd signed up 800 families who were ready to move into Gaza.
One of her team explained how it would work.
Over there we can see the north of the Gaza Strip.
We're now preparing a temporary site comprising of 40 caravans, currently being manufactured, designed to be brought to one of the new settlements.
We don't yet know which one.
The idea seemed to be to get spiritual buy-in from the two rabbis.
One of them was next to speak, Rabbi Dov Leor.
Look, gentlemen, to my mind, there was never peace with these savages.
There is no peace and never will be.
It's not that I don't want peace.
I want peace too.
This land belongs only to the people of Israel, all of Gaza, all of Lebanon.
We should be cleansed of these, quote, camel riders.
Whoever runs away, good on them.
Whoever doesn't, well, we'll encourage him to do so, including providing money so they can buy everything they need.
Are these journalists, by the way, pointing at the people filming?
I've stopped speaking to journalists for years now.
I have lost any trust in them.
And then they're told to stop recording by people with heavy weapons and machine guns and the like.
So, these are the people in their own words.
This is the predominant ideology in Israel.
A lot of Israelis like to pretend, oh, this is just a fringe group still.
I mean, they're in all the...
Top positions in the government, the military is dispatched to protect them as they steal Palestinians' houses and land.
And they have a Jewish supremacist ideology, which they believe entitles them to take the land of people they consider inferior, non-Jews, Arabs, Palestinians, savages, as they call them, human animals, as Yov Golan,
the former defense minister, called them when announcing that they would block all food and water and electricity and fuel from entering Gaza.
And at the end of the day, the question always we need to come back to is why is the United States paying for these people?
Why are we providing the guns and the bullets and the tanks and the air force that enable them to do this?
How is it in America's interest?
You know, the view of the United States government always had been, I mean, going back to Reagan, Bush 41, into the Clinton years, through Bush and Cheney, and then into the Obama years.
The view of the United States government and both political parties has always been that it is a danger to American interests to have the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue.
And it was the official policy of the United States government to strive for the creation of a two-state solution where Palestinians live side-by-side with the Israelis.
And everybody knew, including the U.S. government, that the more this settlement movement was permitted to eat up the West Bank...
The more impossible that would become.
And the assumption was, at some point the IDF has to go and remove these settlers.
Even though the settlers always said, we'll have a war with our military if they try and remove us from this land.
But that was always the assumption.
It was always the view of the U.S. government.
That settlements and its expansion were a danger, a threat to, a harm to American national interests.
And that's why the Bush 41 administration tried to say, we're not going to continue to give you loan guarantees, Israel, unless you stop the settlement expansions.
That was Bush 41, his Secretary of State, James Baker, his now security advisor, Brett Scowcroft.
And there was a huge campaign to take Jim Baker, one of the most respected Texan lawyers and politicians.
He was kind of this, like, wise man he was viewed as in Washington.
And overnight, they just turned into an anti-Semite.
Article after article, Jim Baker is an anti-Semite, lots of Democratic supporters of Israel, Republican supporters of Israel, just destroyed his reputation.
And since then, nobody's really been able to stand up in the United States to Israel, but it still has been the policy that all of this that we're enabling, that they're doing, is contrary to American interests because Colin Powell has said, David Petraeus has said, generals have long said.
But a major cause of anti-American hatred in that region is the understanding that we support the Israelis as they attack Palestinians and the Lebanese and the Syrians, basically whoever they want.
And then terrorist attacks come to our soil, fueled in part by our support for Israel.
And so that's why American policymakers have always said we want this conflict to end and we want it to end with a two-state solution.
Trump knows that's impossible, which is why he's now talking about expelling Gazans, turning it into a Trump casino in Taj Mahal that the Israelis own and that Trump benefits from.
Just get all the Gazans out.
And that has been the point of the war from the beginning.
It's not about the hostages.
It's not about vengeance against Hamas for October 7th.
It's not even about preventing Hamas from governing.
Gaza, it's what these people are saying.
They think this is their land, even though the entire world thinks it isn't.
And all of this that we're paying for, all of this that we're arming, all of this we're tying ourselves to, for 30 years has been considered to be a destruction of American interests, and yet we place Israeli interests first for the reason that Tucker Carlson said,
in part, that it's because Israel floods are.
I don't want to say it will because that's too much, but with far more capacity than any other interest group.
They poured $15 million into a Democratic congressional primary in order to remove Cori Bush.
They found some local black politician who was willing to be supremely pro-Israel.
They gave him $15 million.
Funded his whole campaign.
Did the same thing with Jamal Bowman.
Just to show, if you are in the United States and you question the U.S. support for Israel, if you criticize Israel, your political career is over.
It's over.
And that has been what has been driving not just our foreign policy, but increasingly our domestic policy.
The erosion of rights at home and all of the other things that are happening.
So you might consider spending the whole show as spending the show Focus on Israel or this war on the other side of the world.
It's not.
This is radically and fundamentally harming the United States.
Our rights at home, our economic prosperity, our standing in the world.
So if you are American, or any country in Europe that vehemently supports Israel, this is all you're doing.
And the way in which it's harming you is all coming from the exploitation of you to pay for it, to support it, to sacrifice for it.
When you hear these people, what they think and what they say, and as the Israelis necessarily escalate their war crimes, really starving two million people to death, or forcing them to leave as the only way to survive,
Cutting off all medicine, bombing their water supply.
They have to justify more and more the severity of these crimes, and as a result, the severity of their rhetoric, the severity of their tactics, the severity of their ideology becomes more manifest.
Not just in Israel, but in the United States.
And we're seeing that manifest in so many different ways that have multiple serious...
Detriment to the United States, and if you're an American citizen, like most Americans are now doing, you should really be questioning why the United States wants to continue to support this and enable it, given the multiple harms it causes.
All right, so that concludes our show for this evening.
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