Aug. 5, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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| Hi, everyone. | |
| Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. | |
| Today is Wednesday, August 6, 2025, my dear friend Max Blumenthal joins us now. | |
| Max, thank you very much for your time. | |
| Much appreciated. | |
| I want to ask you how desperate Benjamin Netanyahu is. | |
| But as we lead up to that ultimate question, how can he say with a straight face that there is no starvation in Gaza? | |
| Well, how can anyone say it with a straight face unless they're just mendacious liars who are trying to buy more time? | |
| And we see day after day that mobs of fanatical Jewish-Israeli settlers are actually attacking aid trucks that are waiting for kilometers outside various crossings leading into Gaza. | |
| And yet they're telling us that the UN is at fault for withholding aid. | |
| But the aid is being held by Israel at a warehouse that it occupies on the frontiers of Gaza. | |
| Philip Lazzarini, who is a spokesman for the United Nations, just put up a very, I think two days ago, tweeted out a really important graphic that everyone should see showing that there were over 400 community-based aid centers in Gaza before the process that Israel imposed of starvation, | |
| which included attacking these aid sites, formally banning the UN, UNRWA from Gaza through a Knesset vote. | |
| and preventing any aid from getting into these sites while criminalizing the UN staff. | |
| So there used to be over 400 community sites. | |
| Now there are three Gaza Humanitarian Foundation or what I call Gaza Holocaust Facilitator militarized aid hubs run by this group, which is effectively controlled by a former CIA operative. | |
| And his contract has been paid for by Israeli intelligence and money left over from USAID. | |
| And it's staffed by mercenaries who are opening fire on desperate aid seekers and coordinate with the Israeli military, which according to the | |
| So this is I mean, it's absurd. | |
| No one believes it. | |
| For the first time, the corporate media doesn't even believe Netanyahu's lies anymore. | |
| And we're even seeing like late night hosts like John Oliver go off about Israel's imposed starvation siege on Gaza. | |
| I think they have lost the propaganda battle in a very final way. | |
| Has Israel allowed Fox News on the ground in Gaza and nobody else? | |
| Oh yeah. | |
| And I mean, Murdoch Media is the only corporate media outlet left that's just full scale propagandizing for the Gaza Holocaust facilitators or GHF, even hosting their spokespeople. | |
| Wall Street Journal, they've opened up their op-ed section not only to GHF propagandists, but also to Yasser Abu Shabab, who is sort of the Palestinian local muscle for GHF. | |
| He's being protected inside a GHF aid hub in western Rafah. | |
| And who is he? | |
| He is from a Bedouin clan that has disowned him. | |
| And he is a known drug smuggler who has aligned with ISIS forces in the northern Sinai to smuggle drugs into Gaza. | |
| And he also has been notorious in Gaza for stealing aid that came in through the UN, not Hamas. | |
| but Yasser Abu Shabab stealing aid and then selling it on the black market. | |
| And this is why so many people are starving. | |
| Gaza's economy has been destroyed over the last two years. | |
| There is no, there are no jobs. | |
| If people went out to work their jobs, there would be no. | |
| you know offices and they may get killed. | |
| Are there banks? | |
| The banks have been destroyed. | |
| It's very difficult to get money in like Western union centers are gone. | |
| So much of the population now is totally dependent on aid. | |
| And then the food that is available costs dozens times like a factor of 20 times more than it did before the war. | |
| So if you can't work a job, you can't buy the food. | |
| So you have like well over 50% of the population totally dependent on aid that that isn't coming in and they can't buy the food. | |
| And the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Murdoch, is giving space to one of the key figures who made this possible while Israel's lying and saying that actually it's Hamas that stole all the aid. | |
| I should mention that Rupert Murdoch is a very close friend of Israeli leadership. | |
| He would pull around with Ariel Sharon in the early 2000s. | |
| I believe in Australia, he bought his first newspaper from Robert Maxwell, the Israeli intelligence operative who was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. | |
| So this goes back a long time. | |
| Wow. | |
| Are Americans involved in the killing of Gazan civilians as they line up for food? | |
| Yeah, we actually produced video of this at the Grey Zone, which turned out to have been filmed by the whistleblower Anthony Aguilar, who's been doing the media rounds. | |
| He might even give you an interview if you tracked him down. | |
| We've been trying to track him down. | |
| I'm dying to put him on here. | |
| The interview he gave. | |
| uh to tucker carlson was spectacular and uh and eye-popping yeah and he's he's also described how they've been either given orders to shoot aid seekers to Democratic Senator Chris Van Halen or that they were chastised for getting in the way of Israeli forces who wanted to just carry out mass shootings on aid seekers. | |
| But we didn't know it at the time at the Gray Zone. | |
| We had found this video at one of the mercenary firms press. | |
| sites, UG Solutions press site. | |
| I don't know why they put it up. | |
| They thought it would sort of exonerate them, but it wound up showing that their forces were, their mercenaries were firing at least towards aid seekers and that they were calling in Israeli forces to do the same. | |
| So I mean, we put up pretty hard evidence of this, and I don't know how they can deny it. | |
| What they're trying to do now is destroy Aguilar's reputation. | |
| There's a apparently forged or fabricated document going around claiming that he was arrested for beating his wife. | |
| And that's all they can do is kind of kill the messenger at this point, but the message is sunk in. | |
| Last question about the starvation before we get to Netanyahu's intentions to occupy Gaza. | |
| Didn't the gray zone examine the case of Muhammad al-Mutawak, a severely malnourished toddler? | |
| Can you tell us about that? | |
| Yeah, I actually got in touch with a journalist in Gaza, a very brave journalist named Muhammad al-Saif, and said, can you go to the tent of this child's family and just ask them what the child's condition is and show what, you know, just show raw footage of the child and why is this child significant? | |
| He has become the symbol, the face of the Gaza... | |
| of the starvation of Gaza the starvation sweeping the whole population of Gaza because his emaciated body showed up being held by his mother on the front page of the New York Times as well as tabloids in the UK like Express. | |
| And The image is haunting. | |
| It recalls Holocaust imagery and imagery from the Armenian genocide. | |
| So, Zionists and the Israeli propaganda apparatus set in on the child's family and began claiming that the child correctly that the child has a pre existing muscular condition and that this invalidated his and his mother's testimony and that we should just ignore the whole story as an antisemitic blood libel because the child has another condition. | |
| So nobody's actually starvingving in Gaza. | |
| This is just the natural condition of children with a kind of muscular dystrophy. | |
| The reality is, as his mother, Hidaya Almutawak, has repeatedly said, and as she told us on camera, is that her son was beginning to improve before the starvation siege, and then being deprived of milk caused him to regress to the point where he can no longer walk. | |
| He's a year and a half old. | |
| He is malnourished. | |
| She has nowhere to get food because she depends totally on aid because her husband was killed by the Israelis while he was seeking food and there's just no economy. | |
| She lives in a tent by the sea. | |
| She has nothing. | |
| So what's happening right now in this famine is that the weak are dying first and Israel is declaring that they're just undermention and we should accept their deaths and not consider that they are a harbinger of what's to come for the rest of the population if this siege continues. | |
| How desperate is Benjamin Netanyahu that he would now plan and plot an invasion, takeover, and occupation of Gaza well there are 10 captives left in Gaza they're male Israeli soldiers they're prisoners of war and recent video produced by their captors I think in Palestinian Islamic Jihad showed that they're very emaciated just like everyone in Gaza and | |
| so Hamas attempted to organize a deal where Israel would allow aid into Gaza on the and in exchange they would allow the Red Cross to visit these captives and feed them and deliver them whatever they wanted. | |
| Israel refused the deal. | |
| I believe the Israeli government wants these captives to die because that would deny Hamas all leverage and then Israel would have to give nothing in return. | |
| And so on the way to killing these captives as the continuation of Israel's ongoing Hannibal Directive, the lynchpin of Netanyahu's coalition, the fanatical finance minister, Bezil El-Smotrik, is demanding that the Israeli military go into heavily populated areas, including refugee tent encampments, occupy those areas, cause massive bloodshed, massacres, and hunt for these captives. | |
| This would immediately lead to the killing of these captives as we have seen in the past. | |
| And I think that's what they want. | |
| The problem here, Netanyahu is inclined to go along with it because his coalition has been severely weakened by the ultra-orthodox faction threatening to leave over the conscription bill. | |
| So he needs Smotryk even more. | |
| But the problem here is resistance from the military, the military intelligence apparatus, because during Operation Gideon's Chariot, where Netanyahu thought he would put unbearable pressure on Hamas with a giant call up of reservists and a new invasion of Gaza, Israel lost 40 soldiers. | |
| It lost many, many more severely wounded, like many more. | |
| There are thousands of new PTSD cases, and we're seeing a wave of suicides throughout Israel by Israeli soldiers who recently served. | |
| So this is a failed operation, and the military doesn't want to go in again. | |
| So it's really the fanatics in Israel against the military, and we're starting to see more civil strife. | |
| in Israel as they struggle to do anything but come to a real diplomatic solution, which has just been sitting there on the table. | |
| And of course, the Trump administration Trump has even said well I'm gonna let Israel decide here because he lets Israel decide everything that takes place in the region and and in his own country where Trump has threatened to deny disaster aid to states that have companies that boycott Israel Right. | |
| Coming up after you at the 3 o'clock Eastern is Phil Girali, who just wrote a piece about this fema actually the federal emergency management administration actually issued a pardon me directive that it will not go into states that are struck by emergencies if those states do not suppress people who refuse to do business with Israel and suppress people who criticize Israel. | |
| This is just a reprehensible, unconstitutional, maniacal thing. | |
| Now they may have withdrawn that, but they did initially issue the order. | |
| What will come back to Netanyahu of his firing of the Attorney General? | |
| Will that stop the prosecution of him? | |
| Will she be reinstated by the Israeli Supreme Court? | |
| Can you explain what happened there? | |
| Yeah, they've issued an injunction, I think, against the firing. | |
| But it's pretty clear what Netanyahu wants. | |
| This just all leads to my, you know, leads me to kind of reaffirm my thesis that if this genocide pauses for a significant period, I don't think it will ever end because it's necessary to Israel's consolidation as a ethno-supremacist. | |
| state. | |
| But if it pauses for a long period, Israel's going to enter a period of major upheaval, major political upheaval. | |
| And Netanyahu's going to face renewed nationwide protests. | |
| And there is no figure to fill the void after Netanyahu. | |
| So, you know, we're really witnessing Israel on the brink and Netanyahu is postponing the inevitable by waging war on all of Israel's neighbors, including Syria, which surrendered. | |
| And he has to keep the genocide going. | |
| And in our own country, I mean, you mentioned the FEMA aid. | |
| This is just incredible to witness. | |
| I mean, even Steve Bannon called this an Israel-first policy. | |
| And what Trump is doing is two things. | |
| He's mollifying and pleasing the Zionist billionaire donors who pay for his campaigns, doing whatever they want and they're acting on behalf of their cutouts for Netanyahu. | |
| And he's using Jews as the fall guys for the planned demolition of American society. | |
| He's destroying all of our countries. | |
| He defunded a mathematics center at UCLA because UCLA allowed student protests against Israel. | |
| It's a controlled demolition of America and he's setting up Jews to be the fall guy and a class of Zionist billionaires is kind of fueling the whole thing. | |
| What can you tell us about, if you know about this guy, Ari Ben Minash, who claims to be a former Mossad and at the time was the handler of Jeffrey Epstein? | |
| Is this credible? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I just watched, everyone should watch his interview with my friend Ashton Ratanzi at Going Under Underground. | |
| You should feel free to interview him, but I cannot speak to his credibility and have never met him before. | |
| All right. | |
| How's your buddy, Congressman Randy Fine? | |
| Did he ever get back to you? | |
| He's in Jerusalem kissing the wall with Mike Johnson. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| Somehow, somehow, I'm not surprised. | |
| Will Trump allow Netanyahu to invade and occupy Gaza? | |
| And wouldn't this be suicidal? | |
| How can you occupy a country where there's going to be guerrilla warfare going on forever? | |
| I think it would be very damaging. | |
| to is not just whatever's left of Israel's soft power, it really has none now. | |
| It would it would completely erode, but it would also be very damaging to Israel's military and its economy. | |
| I mean, Israel spent, I think, close to $3 billion on Operation Gideon Chariot. | |
| That doesn't even include lost wages for all the reservists. | |
| Its standard of living is declining in Israel. | |
| So Trump has said, I will, this isn't a question for me. | |
| I'm going to let Israel do what it wants. | |
| And his, the spokeswoman at the State Department, Tammy Bruce, has more or less said the same thing. | |
| It's up to Bezhel El-Smotric versus what's left of the military intelligence apparatus that isn't already in Netanyahu's back pocket. | |
| But isn't the military, aren't military leaders largely again for their own safety, their own longevity on the earth, largely against an invasion and occupation of Gaza? | |
| Well, I mean, you have the defense ministry now controlled by a Netanyahu loyalist. | |
| Israel Katz, Netanyahu also fired the Shinbet chief, Ronan Barr. | |
| He's replacing everyone he can with loyalists and one of the fathers of one of the ten remaining prisoners of war captives in Gaza went to El Zamir, who is the chief of staff of the Israeli military, which is traditionally one of the most respected figures in Jewish Israeli society. | |
| And he said that you have to, instead of attacking Gaza, besiege the Knesset and force them to make a ceasefire deal, because he knows that if the Israeli military goes back in to Gaza and reoccupies it, his son will be dead. | |
| Max, thank you very much. | |
| These are very dark times, but you aid everybody by explaining it as well as you do. | |
| Thanks for your time, and we'll look forward to seeing you next week. | |
| Thanks a lot, Judge. | |
| Good seeing you. | |
| Yep. |
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