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Aug. 13, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Dead Men Tell No Tales: How Israel Eliminates Witnesses
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Max Blumenthal, your frequent guest, wrote a book more than a decade ago called Goliath.
And the picture it paints is that this is just a fundamentally fanatic society.
It's irredeemably fanatic.
It's just the level of Jewish supremacy, chauvinism, was just off the deep end.
And so something like this was foreseen by Max over a decade ago.
Because that's what happens when you build an ethno-state on stolen land.
You colonize the West Bank, you pin Palestinians inside a death camp inside of Gaza.
To do all that, you have to develop a level of fanaticism, extremism that is just off the charts.
So it's not a total shock to me that it's devolved into genocide.
He was one of the most recognizable voices reporting from Gaza since the war began in October 2023, among the few international journalists who remained in northern Gaza throughout the conflict, broadcasting even as Israeli forces ordered more than a million Palestinians to evacuate the area.
Born in Jabalia refugee camp, Al-Sharif graduated from Al-Aqsa University's media faculty.
He became one of the key voices from Gaza's front lines.
Throughout the war, the 28-year-old reporter paid a high personal price for his commitment to truth.
In December 2023, his father was killed when Israeli forces struck the family home in Jabalia.
This came weeks after death threats.
Israeli officers told him to stop reporting, but he refused.
And in recent weeks, the pressure intensified.
The Israeli army targeted him and his colleagues online, falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a Hamas member.
A pre-prepared message was posted on his ex-account after his death, saying, if these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.
I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times.
Yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification, so that God may bear witness against those who stayed silent and accepted our killing.
He ends, Do not forget Gaza, and do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
I've watched this a half dozen times.
It still puts goosebumps on my arms.
How does the Israeli public react to this?
I don't think they care.
It just doesn't matter to me.
This has been normalized.
Most Israelis support the genocide in Gaza.
They support ethnic cleansing.
And so if their government tells them that they killed another member of Hamas, even though it's just another blatant lie, people shrug, life goes on.
Israelis are living a comfortable life.
They like to show the footage of people on the beach in Tel Aviv while there's a genocide going on not that far away.
So this murder of a brave Palestinian journalist is just considered normal and it's considered totally acceptable in the eyes of Israel.
Is there no sense of virtue or intellectual honesty?
Is there no recognition of Judeo teaching that everybody has the right to live?
No, that's long been suppressed in Israel.
Again, this is a country founded on ethnic cleansing, expelling forcibly hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, stealing their homes, and then just being in denial about it, coming up with all these fictions to just erase the Palestinian history inside of Palestine.
And so a country predicated on that kind of denial was bound to go this direction, where essentially the very existence of a Palestinian is considered to be a demographic threat to a Jewish supremacist state.
So, and we're seeing this now with the continuing genocide.
You know, in that clip you played from Al Jazeera of Anas al-Sharif, there's a few seconds of footage of the moment when he was reporting on the ceasefire.
I believe the last ceasefire that was negotiated by Steve Wickhoff.
And there was a famous moment where as he's reporting, he takes off his press fest because it's the first time he can Not worry about being murdered for doing his job.
But of course, his press vest had to go back on because the genocide continued.
And of course, Israel inevitably was going to murder him because he was before he was killed.
He was the foremost journalist left in Gaza after so many before him have been assassinated by Israel.
And there's no repercussion for this amongst Israeli society.
Is there, we've talked about this before, Aaron.
Is there an anti-war movement of any significance?
There are small protests that happen, and you have a small sliver of people who show concern for the people of Gaza.
And there was a symbolic flotilla that was launched recently, actually, by families of captives against Netanyahu, trying to basically reach Gaza in protest of Netanyahu abandoning their loved ones because he'd rather continue the genocide.
So there's a little, you know, and the captive families are vocal.
They know that Netanyahu has abandoned them.
But if you look at polls, there's no serious opposition to Netanyahu's genocide and the cleansing agenda.
Chris, play the clip of the young man that Aaron knows.
One thing that you need to keep in mind is Israel has been lying incessantly since the beginning of the genocide.
It's been the cornerstone of Israel's genocidal campaign to lie every single day about everything possible and to come up with the most lunatic lies possible, imaginable.
Israel lied about massacring the ambulance workers in Rafah.
They lied about the GHF massacres.
They lied about the Shifa hospital, the flower massacre, the beheaded babies, Hamad Hospital, Hindrajab, the terrorists at the Rantisi hospital that turned out to be a calendar, the world central kitchen workers, babies in ovens, white physphorus, deliberately starving Gazans,
Sinwar surrounding himself with 20 hostages in a tunnel, gassing hostages, the Ahli hospital, killing women and children with white flags, mass raping Palestinians, non-existent tunnels under graveyards, Nasser Hospital, Hossam Abu Safiyyah, mass graves, snipers targeting kids in the hills, providing protection to criminal gangs that are looting aid systematically.
Israel also lied about wiping out Gaza incrementally, gradually.
They lied about refusing and collapsing the ceasefire, blowing up Gaza's Gazans fleeing now south, blowing up and destroying Kamal Odwan hospital, claiming that dead Gazan children are fake plastic dolls.
Is this true?
All of those claims that he listed are documented Israeli lies, and it goes on and on and on.
And it's striking just how many he was able to list off in such a short amount of time.
I mean, it's an extra that Chris turned it into a, pardon me, into a full screen.
Yeah.
So you can see it on the screen.
There's too much for me to read, and it basically repeats what he said, but it's just an extraordinary catalog of lies perpetrated by the Israeli government.
Yeah.
And it speaks to the Israeli desperation to sustain the genocide.
It knows it can only do that if it has the tacit support of its allies and the full support of the U.S. And so to do that has to constantly put up propaganda to just bombard Western audiences with so that people are intimidated into pushing back and just standing up.
So that's where all this propaganda comes from.
There's been so many of them.
It's basically, Norman Fickelstein says that everything Israel says should be presumed to be false until proven true.
It's true at this point.
They're just pathological liars because they're pathologically committed to genocide.
Is there no, well, here he is again.
Israel murdering Gaza's most prominent journalist tonight is about creating a full blackout ahead of what's coming.
The total annihilation of Gaza city and completion of genocide.
So that's what they expect.
Can Hamas resist that?
I can't predict what Hamas can do.
Hamas has surprised me in terms of their staying power so far.
But look, the people of Gaza are totally defenseless and they're going after Gaza City because Gaza City hasn't been completely demolished.
There are a lot of people still sheltering there.
And Israel wants to destroy the parts of Gaza that are still somewhat habitable and push people to the south so that it can prepare them for ethnic cleansing or just pin them in permanent concentration camps within the larger Gaza concentration camp.
You mentioned Israeli allies.
What allies does Israel have besides the U.S.?
Well, the U.S. is the most important one.
And as long as they have the U.S., they can continue doing this.
And other allies have started to be a little bit more critical.
Even Germany, which has been totally subservient to Israel, recently said it would pause some weapon sales to Israel.
That's a reflection of just absolute revulsion that the public has for what Israel is doing and the government's inability to pretend anymore that Israel is following international law and is just defending itself.
So it is losing some support internationally from its allies.
But yeah, the most important one is the U.S. And on that front, there's nothing but a green light from Trump so far.
Has Israel always been this degraded, this immoral, this reprehensible, or is it worse under Benjamin Netanyahu?
I think the basis has always been there.
A country founded on ethnic cleansing, guided by Jewish supremacy.
Max Blumenthal, your frequent guest, wrote a book more than a decade ago called Goliath.
And the picture it paints is that this is just a fundamentally fanatic society, irredeemably fanatic.
It's just the level of Jewish supremacy, chauvinism, was just off the deep end.
And so something like this was foreseen by Max over a decade ago, because that's what happens when you build an ethno-state on stolen land, you colonize the West Bank, you pin Palestinians inside a death camp inside of Gaza.
To do all that, you have to develop a level of fanaticism, extremism that is just off the charts.
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