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Dec. 26, 2024 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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[SPECIAL] - Best of Judging Freedom 2024 - PART THREE
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Everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
It's the end of the year and it's time for us to look back and we did that for you.
Here's the best of Judging Freedom in the past 12 months.
Merry Christmas to you.
The intrepid, the fearless, the bold Patrick Lancaster joins us now, not from the wilds of the battlefront, but from the comfort of his hotel room in Moscow, where Patrick and I had planned to meet up and spend a little time together and do a broadcast together,
but events canceled my trip.
But Patrick...
Welcome here.
Before we start, with all the dynamic tape you've given us, including you being right there under live fire, how are you?
And why are you in Moscow?
Hi, Judge.
As normal, it's great to be on with you again.
Thanks, as always, to...
To you and your team for bringing me on and helping me spread my reports and messages to the world because it's hard to get everything out across the world.
And I'm glad we have people that are, you know, not trying to hide certain things like a lot of the media.
And we can actually get information out on both sides.
All right.
You have given us some dramatic video.
Let's go right to it.
The first of these shows you present at the explosion of a Russian mortar after the Russians received, I think, incoming fire from a drone.
Do I have that right?
Well, basically the situation here on this latest report of mine is I traveled...
Two Russian forces at a military position on the last, basically the last front line of the Lugansk area, or the Lugansk People's Republic area, depending on what side of this conflict you favor, is what you call these areas.
But the fact is, this area is the Lugansk region that the Ukrainians in West calls the Lugansk...
Part of Ukraine and Russian law calls the Lugansk or Lugansk People's Republic region of Russia.
So where you sit is depending on how you call it.
The local people that live there call it the Lugansk People's Republic as part of Russia.
But this front line is the Belogorovka front line which is the last The last few areas that are still controlled by Ukrainian forces.
And this area, Matt, is the battle, basically, of Russia trying to force Ukrainian forces, the last Ukrainian forces, out of the Lugansk area, Lugansk People's Republic area.
And I'm...
Documenting them attacking Ukrainian forces with 122-millimeter mortar shells.
And that's what we're going to see here, I believe.
Okay, so in a moment, we're going to see a Ukrainian drone attacking Russian troops in what Ukraine says is Ukraine, and Russia says it's Russia, and you're right there.
And then we're going to see a Russian mortar propelled.
Yes, exactly.
While we were there on the position, going through the process of Russia attacking the Ukrainian positions with mortars, the Russians were identified by Ukrainian reconnaissance and what I was told was a Ukrainian Kamikaze drone came in at the positions.
Now, it didn't hit us, but I could hear it.
So it was a little bit scary.
All right, I can see, and the audience will see in a minute, you were not comfortable there.
You are dressed in full military protective gear.
So, Chris, cut number one, the drone strike.
This is the situation here.
Drones overhead and outgoing artillery.
Mortars. For the situation this is, it's almost surreal.
Almost surreal, my dear friend.
You're so courageous.
Is that the closest you have come to live fire?
No, no.
I've been actually shot at many times and have had shells explode about 10 meters, a little over 10 yards from me in the past.
Bullets, rockets, and things like that whizzed by my head.
I've had quite the experience with being fired at over the years.
But yeah, so it is what it is.
Before we get to the clip where you are running with troops through the field, and before we show Russian artillery being prepared...
For use.
Let me ask you some big picture questions.
Do the Ukrainians stand a chance in stopping the Russian onslaught?
Russians say they don't.
The Russian morale is pretty...
It's up right now because of the constant advances of Russian forces, which is a fact.
I believe a few days ago, less than a week ago, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that...
In the last time, there has been 180 new square kilometers taken control of by Russian forces from Ukrainian control.
You know, as I've been saying since Divka was taken control of by Russia, it's a new war now.
Russia has bumped it up to the storm or assault mode and is just taking territory one step at a time.
Now, some channels out there, some reporters will say, oh, well, they're taking fields and all this non-strategical stuff.
The fact is that, yeah, they're taking fields, but they're also taking settlements, towns, and villages.
So anybody that tries to get you to believe that 180 square kilometers taken control of by Russia from Ukraine isn't a strategical gain, they're lying to you.
And I think the viewers out there can understand that themselves.
The media is trying to say these games are not important, but minor villages being held by Ukraine are.
I think the people out there can think for themselves.
As I say in all my videos, get as much information as possible and try to understand when somebody's trying to pull the rug over your face.
Okay, let's go to the next clip.
This will show you, and we will hear you narrating as you're running through a field.
What's that?
It's a drone, right?
Yes, yes, he's flying, I hear him.
Go, go, go.
All right, so I heard from the...
All right, so orders are coming from the leadership.
So... We got word from the commander here on the ground of this position that was a Ukrainian kamikaze drone that we were hearing just overhead and it seems like they might have hit the neighboring position or something along those lines is what I understand but we're gonna stay here in this bunker underground for a few minutes and then As I assume
the soldiers are going to move out and continue to engage Ukrainian forces.
Were you afraid for your life when you made that clip?
Well, yeah, at the beginning, for sure.
Once I got down in the hole in the bunker, it felt quite a bit better.
It's amazing how such old technology works so well on the battlefield.
But yeah, just before that...
Clip started is when I heard the drone and as soon as I heard it they heard it as well and just started saying run and I clicked the camera on and before we had gone to the pit before they had started firing they had showed me the hole the bunker where in the events of a drone they said you dive in this hole and that's exactly what we did everything worked exactly as they said and luckily I was not hit by
the kamikaze drone.
Why do you call it?
I know what the word means, at least in American culture, but why do you call it a kamikaze drone?
Aren't all these drones kamikaze drones?
There are some of them surveillance drones that are just taking pictures and then leaving.
Okay, well, basically what we've got is on both sides, Russian and Ukrainian, three types of drones, or three general types of drones.
Of course, there's a thousand different brands and variants, but the major three types is one, as you said, reconnaissance, which is used to find new locations, to target artillery.
I mean, specifically, like...
During this mortar attack, the people on the radio that they're talking to is someone at a different position who's got a drone in the sky watching in real time the location that those mortar shells are landing on Ukrainian positions and telling them how to correct their fire.
And that's a common use of reconnaissance drones.
Another type is the kamikazes, our FPV drones, as I said.
And those are little hobby drones.
That cost about $500 to make, that they use to fly into people, equipment, and I mean they can use a $500 drone to take out a $2 million tank, and it works extremely well on both sides.
And then we've also got the drones that are mainly like DJI drones where they have special attachments that they attach a grenade or a mortar shell or some sort of ammunition.
And they have an extra button on the remote control where they go over Ukrainian position or tank or something like this, push the button and whatever ammunition they have on their drone gets dropped directly on.
On top of whatever they're trying to eliminate and both sides use those tactics and this is really as far as I understand the first war that is really used full-on drone warfare in this to this high of a level where drones are a huge factor in this war on both sides and that's why I try to report so much on them since we last spoke The
President of France announced that whatever equipment the French have given to the Ukrainians, they can use to strike inside of Russia.
The Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Chancellor of Germany, and most importantly, the Secretary of State of the United States.
Has this in any way affected any way you can perceive?
The morale or the attitude of the Russians or the morale or the attitude of the Ukrainians, that Western offensive weaponry in the hands of the Ukrainians but operated by Western out-of-uniform troops can target inside Russia.
It's just infuriated both the military, the government, and the people.
I mean, because especially the people that live in the Belgorod region of Russia who have been under daily attack in Russia, not a disputed area.
But let's say the Russian city of Belgorod, which I did a report, a full film on not long ago, and this city has thousands of civilian residents, thousands.
Not hardly any like some sources might try to lie to you and try to pull the rug, again, over your eyes.
These cities, particularly the Belgrade, I've seen hundreds of thousands of civilians living there.
Children, women, and the West is trying to say that it's okay.
For Ukraine to attack these Russian cities with Western-supplied weapons.
It's not okay to attack these civilians.
As I showed in my report, these rockets coming from the border of the Kharkov region of Ukraine into Russia and just landing randomly across the city.
It's not okay at all.
And that's what is being done with Western people's tax money.
The weapons that are being supplied to the West, to Ukraine.
Have you come across any Americans operating Ukrainian equipment, soldiers out of uniform, intelligence officers, obviously they don't wear uniforms, or outside contractors,
as far as you know?
I ask this because we are told that some of the American weaponry is so sophisticated that it requires a person with a top-secret security clearance, an American top-secret security clearance, to download data from a satellite.
Have you come across any American who, in your view, was doing that?
Information that I've been told by refugees and other locals, civilian locals.
Yeah, there are foreigners, mercenaries that are working with Ukrainian forces, as we all know, specifically about operating this equipment.
I can't really comment.
Of course, there's...
I've heard through the grapevine there has been Americans captured, but me as a journalist trying to stick to all the areas of the Geneva Convention, not going into gray areas, I make it a point to kind of steer clear of any prisoners of war.
Just to keep all on the right path of journalism.
Just, as I said, no gray areas to show the people and continue to show the people what I see with my own eyes and not run the risk of doing anything that might hurt someone, particularly on either side.
And that goes for...
The POWs as well.
So unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience with working with the foreigners that have been captured by Russia.
But I think now we can move on to this.
All right.
So tell us what we're looking at here.
This is film with which you provided us, Patrick.
All right, now this is the position commander, the high-ranking person on the positions where they were attacking the Ukrainian positions from, and that's what he was showing us was their cache of 120-millimeter mortar,
Soviet-made, Russian-made mortar shells, and that's exactly what we were seeing being shot out of that tube.
To Ukrainians.
That particular position, their job is to fire those when called upon, when they have the targeting information to kill Ukrainian soldiers and destroy whatever equipment they might be using.
So obviously the Russians do not have a problem with an American journalist photographing their equipment and showing it as you have just done with us.
Yeah, I mean, I've been doing my best to show the West what's really happening.
And I mean, you're not going to see the other Western journalists come here.
And I think it's understood that I really show the truth of what I see.
I don't try to spin it in some way that fits the Western narrative.
Try to make hit pieces or something like this, which is, as you know, pretty much the standard for the Western media now, unfortunately.
I am totally independent.
I just put what I see on my own YouTube channel without having to submit it to anyone or give any type of edits because of what narrative it might show.
I just show the facts that I see.
And try to show the world the other side of what their eyes are trying to be closed to.
Patrick, you're a brave man, courageous man, and a patriot.
And I thank you for all the time you've given us and all the knowledge and the tape that you've shared with us.
I know you're in Moscow and you're traveling.
When you're back and you're ready to come on the show, you know how to reach us.
We'll put you right back on.
I appreciate you personally as a colleague and as a courageous friend.
And I know the audience appreciates you.
I can tell from what they're saying about you in the chat room.
And I can tell from the numbers that are watching you now.
And we'll watch you once this is posted and streaming, which it will be in just a moment.
You know, well, if you can't get the Ukrainians to use them, we'll use their own people.
So this is, NATO is, you know, slowly getting pregnant here.
Is Taurus a German or an American product?
It's German.
We used to think it was the Ford car, you know, the Taurus, but this is a German missile.
I mean, Chancellor Scholz acknowledged publicly, according to Alistair Krook, that Taurus would require German technicians.
He didn't say intelligence, and he didn't say military, he said technicians.
In order to operate.
Well, it just goes without the assumption, the underlying assumption with all of this is that it will use NATO ISR, the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Capabilities, which means satellite intelligence as well as that provided from some of the fixed-wing aircraft.
Is NATO waging war against Russia, Larry?
Yes. Oh, yes.
Yeah, no, it's clear.
This is...
This is crazy.
When the United States was providing covert aid to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, they thought we were doing that, but the CIA went to great pains to try to cover it up so that there was not this open conflict.
It was a surrogate conflict.
NATO is no longer taking that step at all.
It is clearly out in the open.
And I heard just last night there was a report that the Russians hit one of those CIA bases that was talked about in the New York Times piece a week ago Monday and that it killed.
Some CIA officers, as well as some of the special operations forces for the Ukrainians that were being trained.
Now, it's unconfirmed, but there was a video report to that effect last night.
So where does this go from here?
Does this go towards World War III, or do the Republicans stand firm, no aid for Ukraine, and Zelensky signs a peace treaty?
In the next couple of months.
We're headed towards, let's call it, verbal World War III.
The Russians will continue to defeat the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainians will continue to crumble for the simple combination of two factors.
One, they do not have the trained manpower.
They don't have the reserves ready that can come in to plug the gaps.
So they're going to continue to suffer major attrition on the manpower front.
Then they do not have the ability to produce the weapons themselves, and it turns out neither does NATO.
NATO talks a great game about, oh, yeah, we're going to supply you all these artillery shells, but then after, you know, like the Europeans promised last year, oh, a million shells, you got it.
They couldn't even do 300,000.
So, you know, talking's one thing.
You know, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece I thought of you when I was reading it.
I believe it was yesterday's.
Well, this is just...
I think this is...
Par for the course, but it does speak to the instability of Israeli politics.
It's an instability that the Americans are seeking to exploit.
The protests leading up to October 7th had influence from the Biden administration.
I don't think there's any question about that.
Benny Gantz is the person the Biden administration would like to see in place of Netanyahu.
They welcomed him to Washington, which infuriated Netanyahu.
I mean, he did get a little dressing down, but they didn't do anything to him.
And Netanyahu has made repeated decisions, including decisions about negotiations in Doha over the objections of or without the approval of other members of his war cabinet, basically violating the rules.
So Israeli politics are very unstable now.
And this coalition that Netanyahu has, I mean, the fanatics, Ben Gavir, the security minister, From the most fanatical faction of the settler religious nationalist movement in the West Bank, Smotrich,
they got Netanyahu by the short and curlies, which is why Netanyahu is promising to build settlements in the Gaza Strip, which is just seems untenable and absolutely insane.
It's sort of a sop to keep them from bolting from his coalition.
I mean, they're also demanding a...
Massive strike on Iran.
And then you have people like Gabi Ashkenazi, the former chief of staff of the Israeli military, who comes from Netanyahu's left.
Immediately after Iran's counterattack, it was Ashkenazi who was pushing for a direct attack on Iran.
This is something a lot of people don't recognize outside observers.
Netanyahu is not always the most hawkish and might even be more cautious than the militarists who are supposedly to his left, who are more favored by the Americans.
It's a head-scratcher.
Colonel, we all have our eyes on November 5th.
Obviously, no one knows what the outcome is going to be.
One day the polls are one way, the next day the polls are the next.
But do you fear an October surprise involving the military or some foreign event?
I'm not sure it'll be orchestrated, but I can see very clearly now, sad enough to say.
That we might be in a war with Ukraine, a war with Iran, before the elections.
Hard to figure out who that helps.
If it helps the vice president or if it helps the former president.
It's hard to say.
It usually helps the party in power if a war starts and they are seen to be the responsible entity or the responsible management structure, if you will.
People are really reluctant to switch horses in the middle of a battle.
But I don't know in this case because I think the American people are waking up to whose responsibility they might lay it at the feet of in terms of it's happening.
Right. Colonel, how badly have these reckless decisions, as you and I have called them, As I've said before,
there will be no Jewish state in the Levant in the future.
There might be a liberal democracy if they could affect that, and it'll be called Israel-Palestine or Palestine-Israel, whatever they want.
Eventually, the Palestinian Arabs will outnumber the Jews, unless the Jews really start migrating.
I certainly don't see that happening.
And that's the only way it's going to continue to exist, is a liberal democracy.
If it stays a Jewish state, it will be an apartheid state, and the world's revulsion will kill it.
It will not be able to exist.
So Israel is over as a Jewish state.
Finished. Period.
Chris, put up the email from a local police officer.
Ray McGovern, I want you to comment on this.
I'm going to read it aloud.
So we're looking at a full screen.
We see a photo.
My name is Jonathan Willis, W-I-L-L-I-S.
I'm the officer in the famous photo of the two snipers on the roof at Trump's rally.
I came here to inform the public that I had the assassin in my sights for at least three minutes.
But the head of the Secret Service refused to give the order to take out the perp.
100%. The top brass prevented me from killing the assassin before he took the shots at President Trump.
Ray McGovern, this cop either is lying, in which case he should be prosecuted, or is telling the truth.
Well, I don't think he's lying.
There's no real motive or incentive for someone like this to come forward like that.
He identifies himself as an officer.
I really would like to know which police or federal force he belongs to.
But here he is.
He's a witness.
Where is he right now?
I don't know.
How about the red-haired guy?
The red-haired guy who saw the person on the roof and shouted at the Homeland Security people, the Secret Service and the FBI, couldn't get any attention.
How about him?
Where is he?
I sure hope that they're in witness protection and that it's not run by the FBI.
This is very serious stuff.
What else could I say?
Well, not much.
Well, let me ask you about intelligence, Ray.
Every keystroke, every photograph, every fiber, holding up my iPhone, every fiber optic data that comes into or goes out of this, not because it's me, but everyone in the United States is being surveilled by the NSA.
If this kid went up there...
They would have, Judge.
The problem is, would they be free to say what they know?
As I said in the Substack piece that I wrote on this, as you read the document, you can't help but thinking about how the Nazis talked about the Jews when you read about how the Israeli Jews are talking about the Palestinians.
I mean, the parallels are marked.
It's almost incomprehensible to me that Israeli Jews would be making these kinds of comments about any kind of people.
But the evidence is overwhelming.
The piece is heavily footnoted, and hardly anybody disputes that these comments were made.
And then again, when you marry that with what's actually going on, it's horrific.
What's going on in Gaza?
And therefore, the South African government concluded and lays it out in this brief that the Israelis are guilty of genocide.
So this international court is not a criminal court.
It resolves disputes between countries.
It could theoretically order the Israelis to do something or refrain from doing something.
The Israelis could thumb their noses at it if they wanted.
It would put them in trouble with the UN.
But the court does not have an army to enforce its will.
This is not an indictment of Prime Minister Netanyahu personally, the way President Putin has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.
However, it is a court to which they are subject.
Because it was established by the UN Charter, and Israel and South Africa are both members of the UN.
Here's Admiral Kirby, cut number two, Chris.
I mean, his statement about this complaint is mind-boggling.
It's hard to believe that this is the official United States position on this complaint.
South Africa's filed this 84-page lawsuit against Israel, accusing them of genocide.
Israel says that this is blood libel.
Does Washington agree?
And where does this put Washington and Pretoria?
We find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.
In another world, Professor.
Yeah, he's in another world.
You really sort of wonder what...
The principal spokesman for the United States is...
I mean, he can disagree with the report, of course.
This is an 84-page report that is thoroughly documented.
You have much experience as a judge.
If somebody brought this report before you, would you say that it's baseless, there are no facts to support the charges?
No, of course not.
And the report is so well documented that the court has ordered Some sort of oral argument or public deliberation about it next week.
This is not a case where you need discovery, where you have to examine the facts.
The facts are obvious and available for everybody to read.
Here is Prime Minister Netanyahu.
It's in Hebrew, so I'll read the subtitles for the benefit of our friends who are listening to the show.
The language is very strong.
It's typically Netanyahu-like.
Cut number five, Chris.
I would like to say a word about South Africa's false accusation that Israel is committing genocide.
No, South Africa.
It is not we who have to perpetuate genocide.
It's Hamas.
Hamas would kill us all if only it could.
In contrast, the IDF is acting as morally as possible.
It does everything to avoid harming civilians.
And Hamas does everything to get them harmed, using them as a human shield.
And I ask, where were you, South Africa and others who accuse us?
Where were you when millions were murdered and displaced from their homes in Syria, Yemen, and other places?
You weren't there because everything you do now is just nonsense, lies, and evil spirit.
We will continue our war of defense with just and moral.
That's about as absurd as Admiral Kirby's comments.
Yeah, I mean, the argument that the Israelis are going to great lengths to spare civilian lives and they're just focusing on targeting Hamas is not a serious argument.
Just the evidence belies it.
What's very interesting here, and it gets back to your point that the International Court of Justice really doesn't have real teeth, it's going to be hard to sort of...
Get Israel to change its behavior or get the United States to change its behavior.
I think that's true.
But the question you want to ask yourself is, why, therefore, is Israel taking this so seriously?
I think the Iranians are way further ahead than the West has acknowledged.
I think they have nuclear weapons.
I think they've tested them.
I think that's one of the things that's holding back the West from hitting nuclear sites in Iran right now, because I think they hit one of those.
And you may have plutonium.
Q10 floating around a battlefield from something that explodes.
I think people are afraid to face that.
Can Israel defeat Iran?
I mean, they can't even reach Iran without stopping for refueling.
No. So that's why the Israeli response is so problematic regarding what they can do to Iran.
And by the way, that's why I think the Biden administration has the largest show of force.
During its time in office, ongoing right now, with two carrier battle groups right there in a region that theoretically serve as control rods, that is a nuclear term, and I'm using it purposely, control rods to slow down the potential nuclear outcome.
Why are 5,000 Marines...
On those two battleships, is that for a land invasion or is that to evacuate Americans?
What are they there for?
It's to evacuate.
Yeah, a force like that, Judge, is all about securing embassies and pulling people out.
You could barely invade Guam with 5,000 people.
Trust me, that's not an invasion force.
If you start getting 50 to 100, then you're starting to look at hitting something.
Always remember, whenever you see us doing something, if you've got five...
You have to have at least seven times that in support of it.
So if you got 5,000, you got a lot of people supporting that.
You're not going to, you know, you're not, that's not, we're not doing anything.
Okay. I appreciate that, that insight.
The gentleman is not recognized.
Colleagues. No, I'm going to.
The house will be in order.
Like children waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House.
That was one of the Republicans that voted against it, who admonished everybody else to, quote, put the damn flags away, and then he took the microphone away from her.
You're once reminded, forgive them, they know not what they do.
What they're doing is sending tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands more.
Young Ukrainians to their death.
That's what they're doing.
Because they are absolutely unaware of any of the real issues in this conflict, unaware of its genesis, unaware of its possible resolution.
All they seem to know is war.
And they're ignorant.
They don't study this.
They don't look at alternatives.
They don't say one word about diplomacy.
They know nothing.
They don't understand the consequences.
It's regrettable how really sad our government has devolved into almost this ludicrous display of irrationality and immaturity,
because that's what this is.
This wasn't a considered discussion, a considered deliberation.
Taken after a careful reflection of the myriad possibilities, alternative approaches, and likely consequences.
This is kind of an ignorant mob waving their flags that has already condemned around 500,000 Ukrainians to their deaths or grave wounds.
That has lost a great deal of territory, not because Putin was out to take the territory, but because the United States at every stage refused basic diplomacy over the issue of the U.S. placing its military along the Russian border.
That's the issue we've never discussed.
That's the issue that the New York Times will not tell it some.
Thumb-sucking readers, excuse me, because they can't read that thing as adults, that New York Times.
It has no facts.
And that's what leads us to this kind of display in Congress.
I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda.
And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a Would you believe that?
Are we going to bring back the Alien and Sedition Act, whereby if you criticize American foreign policy, you could be prosecuted?
She would.
That woman would.
That woman never got my vote.
She never got my opinion that she could be elected president.
That woman is a disaster.
She was a disaster as First Lady.
She's a disaster as Secretary of State.
She's a disaster now.
Now, what would I do?
What would I do if I went to her and I said, do you know what we did in this election, in that election, starting in 1948 with Harry Truman and the Italians?
Do you know what we did in this, that, and the other election in the last five years?
Well, what if Putin demanded at the UN Security Council, for example, some kind of accountability for those actions?
You're a bitch, lady, and you need to go hide yourself somewhere.
Colonel, I can see Chris, and he's roaring over this.
Can we cut what you just said and feature it?
You know, we laugh about this.
It's quite serious.
California, Governor Newsom just signed a law making these AI memes, these deepfake things, illegal.
You know, some people put together a satire of Kamala Harris.
It's hilarious.
It's not her, but it looks like her and it sounds like her.
We're not going to run it.
How can that be against the law?
The Supreme Court has held that satire, propaganda, coarse, harsh, caustic, antagonistic, Obscene, hateful speech.
All protected.
All protected.
A war against humanity itself doesn't seem to be recognizing or resonating with the Biden administration.
He supposedly had a conversation, a 30-minute testy conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu today.
Did he stop sending the 2,000-pound bombs?
Of course not.
No. Biden says he's outraged.
But they will not stop sending the 2,000-pound Baby Buster bombs to Gaza.
And just two points on Jose Andres' obviously heartfelt words.
I think Jose Andres is starting to wake up to a reality he didn't understand.
Indeed, what Israel is doing in Gaza is a war on humanity.
But that's the war that Palestinians have been experiencing for over 75 years.
It's the war on humanity that made October 7th inevitable.
And for many Palestinians necessary.
And now Jose Andres, who naively believed that the Israeli military would allow him to deliver food to people that they were systematically starving and ethnically cleansing, now he realizes that even his own staff was not seen by Israel as fellow humans.
So Jose Andres needs to display some dignity and resign his position as Culinary Ambassador of the State Department.
Where are the resignations?
Where is the concrete backlash against Biden?
I'm not seeing it.
And we also need to look at what Jose Andres was doing in Gaza.
He clearly was being used for an insidious, ulterior agenda of the Biden administration and the Israeli military to remove UNRWA, the United Nations Relief Works Agency, from the north, replace them.
And to build, he was building a dock out of the rubble of Palestinian homes against the wishes of homeowners.
Imagine if your home was destroyed.
Anyone watching this, your home was destroyed.
And then a foreigner comes and takes the remains of your home and uses it to build a dock, supposedly to offload aid.
But this dock was located right around the same corridor that Israel's building, the section of the north off from the rest of Gaza.
Well, I mean, things have changed a little bit too, because now he's stepping into an environment where he actually has far more But
the point is,
the focus is on the Congress of the United States, where I mean, look, he has bought the Congress.
I mean, he's paying to a paid audience.
He's paying these people to sit in their seats and cheer him.
And he's paid them so well that the head of the U.S. Congress, the Speaker of the House, Mr. Johnson, has threatened to arrest people and charge them should they somehow...
Disrupt the scripted scene that's going to take place where there will be more standing ovations than previously.
The idea is to show not just to Netanyahu, because again, he wrote the script.
This is something he said has to happen.
This is played out for the Israeli people.
This is Netanyahu coming.
He's been beaten in Gaza.
He's been beaten by Hezbollah.
The Houthi have humiliated him.
Now he's coming here.
To have the American flag wrapped around him to be anointed by the American Congress so he can go back to Israel and say, America is fully behind me.
I have the backing of the United States during these difficult times.
This is an act of political desperation on the part of Benjamin Netanyahu because his military is almost in open rebellion.
Telling them, we are fundamentally broken.
We're running out of tanks because we don't have any spare parts.
We've run out of ammunition.
Our troops are exhausted.
And we can't go to war against Hezbollah because they'll beat us.
That's the reality.
And Netanyahu can't take that to the Israeli people.
And so instead, he's going to come here, an act of grand political theater.
And that's what this is all about.
I would like to believe the American people could see through this.
Unfortunately, we keep electing the same, bought and paid for.
Members of Congress and Senate, knowing that Israel owns them, we keep electing them.
So I think the American people are culpable in this as well.
Reuters is reporting this morning that Prime Minister Netanyahu announced yesterday to the public that he gave an order to the IDF to prepare to invade Lebanon.
Do you know if this is true?
And if so, is it wise?
Yes, I can tell you what he said.
He said, I have instructed the Israeli army and all security forces to prepare to change the situation.
He's referring to the situation in the north of Israel.
And there is no possibility we can do the current situation.
That's the Gaza West Bank situation.
And we are obligated to return all the residents of the north to their homes safely.
I think what's happened is that really two things have changed the situation.
And the brief hiatus that we've had there, where things have just been continuing as before, both with Lebanon and with Gaza, really two things.
It was at the end of last week, Netanyahu announced in an interview on Fox News to the effect that he was saying Look, there's no deal.
There's no deal even likely, imminent.
And the idea that there is the prospect of a deal, which is the deal for release hostages, if you like, and an end to the war in Gaza, the end of the conflict in Gaza,
he said, that's false news.
It's not true.
So he completely contradicts the White House.
And he says, there's no deal and it's not imminent and not likely.
So I think that left Relly Israel only with two options.
With the deal ruled out, I mean, that was one option.
The only other option is then to resolve the issue with Hezbollah.
And so we've seen during this period already a change taking place, much less noticed in the international press, but Relly.
The West Bank is being treated to the Gaza system.
There are these major attacks.
Palestinians in West Bank are being moved from place to place.
They're told to leave this area, move to this area, a safe area.
Really major attacks on the infrastructure of West Bank.
And by infrastructure, I mean things like schools.
And, you know, public buildings.
It's not military buildings.
So lots of deaths.
It's really now taking on the appearance.
And the Israeli military forces have been saying very clearly, you know, this can't go on for longer.
It is explosive.
The whole of, if you like, I'm now talking about the sort of smaller Gaza West Bank has become an explosive issue.
So hence he's now saying, well, now I've ruled out any deal on Gaza, then we must now move to the next stage.
And the Israelis are both becoming more polarized, again, in their sort of sense of not opposing.
I mean, Ashkenazi, European Jews have been saying The Prime Minister's invocation of Amalek is being used by soldiers to justify the killing of civilians,
including children.
These are the soldiers reputing the inciting words of their Prime Minister.
Larry? Yeah, sickening.
I mean, it's just, you know, I've, for a while, I've, you know, all my life I've been a supporter of Israel.
I believed Israel was something special.
I remember training a group of Israeli police officers in the anti-terrorism assistance training program and asking them, what was your finest moment in counterterrorism?
I said, I know what the answer is.
And they looked at me and I said, it was when you went to Argentina and you captured the man responsible for supervising the execution of Jews or at least sending him to death camps.
And I said, So when you put him on trial, you showed the world the difference between you and terrorists.
You showed the difference between you and Nazis.
Well, that was then.
Now the Israelis are acting like Nazis.
They are stripping people naked.
They're shooting people who aren't carrying weapons.
They're murdering women and children.
They're claiming that Hamas raped and killed children.
That's a lie.
There's zero evidence of that.
Zero. And yet they continue to push that as their justification for killing other women and children.
It's sickening, it's disgusting, and Israel has lost its way.
Ray, does the Israeli government care if it stands alone with just the United States and the rest of the world, either silently or overtly condemns its behavior?
Up till now, it has not cared.
Now, I believe it has to care.
After all, the Houthis are creating bedlam in the Red Sea.
The Iranians are actually frontally capturing oil tankers that were captured by others.
They are in for a tough slog here with Hezbollah in the north and their problems.
They're real problems, militarily, in Gaza.
So, yeah, they have to care now because their economies can be severely damaged if the rest of the world believes that this is beyond the pale.
I think the rest of the world does.
And citing Amalek, you know, I'm sure that Bibi Netanyahu was disappointed that he did that.
I'll bet God was, too.
If you take the Hebrew Scriptures as your code of conduct, you're in real trouble.
And when they said, Hamilek, of course, for the tribe that God supposedly told the Israelis to exterminate, and they did.
That's what they're invoking here.
They're not going to get away with it.
Why does the American CIA search the world for monsters to slay?
Why did it dislodge?
The popularly elected Pakistani Prime Minister Imre Khan two years ago and incarcerated him on a phony charge.
And why did it just dislodge the President or Prime Minister of Bangladesh?
Well, let me clarify one point.
In both the case of Pakistan and Bangladesh, I don't know what the CIA role was per se, but it was a U.S. government role almost surely in Pakistan and quite possibly in Bangladesh.
So the face of this is actually the State Department in this case, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Donald Liu, who was playing, it seems, in the region of South Asia.
The role that Victoria Nuland used to play in regime change operations in Eastern Europe, Ukraine.
And what that means is that there is a general pattern where the CIA is typically the lead, but not necessarily the lead, where the US government decides it doesn't like another government,
so it will bring it down.
Now, the U.S. is just about the only country in the world that does this, but the U.S. does it with such unbelievable frequency that it is essentially our modus operandi of foreign policy.
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