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Oct. 25, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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The Next Levels of Confrontation

The Next Levels of Confrontation

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America right now in particular is in desperate need of focusing on critical thinking skills.
We're going to be talking about that today in levels that I know nobody else is, not because they're that deep, but because they're just not talked about.
It's very easy for you, very easy, and I've seen it before, and I've seen it from some very, very good people who love to reduce everything to the most simple of thoughts.
The most simple of Ideas.
Referencing something in the past.
And Tebby.
That's great.
What does that have to do with anything?
I don't know.
I'm trying so hard to find some connective tissue here.
Some sinew that helps me understand this.
And I'm seeing it more than ever.
People don't know how to think about this.
It's too much.
There's too much information, too much data.
There's no critical thinking.
You've got to sift through this.
What am I supposed to do with this?
What am I supposed to do?
You are a part of a very unique group because of all of the various strata of news consumers, you're very far more sophisticated by virtue of how much you know.
By virtue of what you know and your perspective on this.
It's like if somebody were to listen to music and say, oh yes, rock and roll, Beatles.
If somebody else says, oh no, no, no, Chuck Berry.
You see how one goes back further?
One ties it better historically?
That's what's going on right now.
Let me tell you one of the most important issues which I find Wonderful.
And I am gloating.
I am a human being and I recognize what I am.
I'm a petty person.
I love gossip.
I love schadenfreude.
I love seeing my enemies crushed.
I love being right.
I love saying I told you so.
And I love when very stupid people who do not deserve the level of success that they have because either because of...
I mean, there's something wrong.
There's something wrong with, let's say, Carmen McRae being elevated to this status and Taylor Swift going beyond that.
There's something wrong intuitively with this trite nonsense.
There's something wrong when, I guess, when Neil Cavuto is considered to be the voice of anything other than dime store, barbershop populism.
There's something wrong with that, and I recognize that.
There's something wrong.
And I'm going to do everything in my power to bring people back around to this.
But let me tell you a phenomenon that I'm seeing.
And if the right knew what they were doing, they would be able to act on it.
But they don't.
America, and we, many people, have had a hard time with the Jews.
Not with the Jews, but either the concept of Judaism, and even the word Jew.
Jew is the only word that can be used both as a pejorative and as a descriptive, depending upon how long you say it.
Depending upon how long you utter it.
When you say, you know, Eddie's a Jew, that's one of the words, Eddie's a Jew.
And you can hear it.
And the reason for it, believe it or not, is not necessarily anti-Semitism, but it could be a lot of other reasons.
Perhaps maybe the subject matter is alien.
Maybe the same way people respond to issues that are racial in nature.
I don't think people are racist as much as people think, but whenever the notion of Black Lives Matter comes about, what people will do is they will say it bothers them because they understand the politics and the phony politics involving race matters.
So they will immediately respond, not because they're racist, but because there's a political subtext to that of black America.
Same thing with Israel and Jews.
Many people feel, look, I've got no problem with Jews whatsoever, with Judaism, but I think Israel pulls us into stuff that we don't need to be involved in.
And we've been saying that about everything since Vietnam.
What do we care about Vietnam for?
What the hell is that about?
What does North Korea have to do with anything?
What does Israel have to do with anything?
I've had people tell me, look me in the eye and say, I've got nothing against Israel or Jews, but if they weren't our ally, we wouldn't have all these problems.
And mathematically, it's true.
That's a problem with allies.
Did we necessarily have to be involved with World War II?
Perhaps you can and others say no.
This is a reality.
When you align yourself, when you say, we're behind you, whatever that is.
Whether in this phony baloney cotton candy NATO Article 5 business or what have you.
So we're having a lot of folks right now who are really, maybe for the first time, saying, what does Israel have to do with us?
What is our connection?
Is it worth it?
Why are we involving ourselves so openly and so vocally?
Involving a de minimis population in a very small piece of land that has nothing to do with us.
We're invoking and encouraging the wrath of billions of people and we're being looked at as the same way we looked at Vietnam, we looked at Russia and China for funding basically our enemies who are killing American soldiers.
Does that make sense to you?
Now if you have never, if you do not I'm not asking you to subscribe to that.
I'm not asking you to agree with that.
I don't agree with that.
I'm telling you that's the way people think.
You must understand the way people think.
You've got to understand the way people think.
It's critical, or else you're wasting your time.
Let me give you an example of something.
I have a friend of mine, and many, many, many friends, and these are folks who The world Jewish population is what, two and a half, three?
Who knows?
I mean, it's de minimis compared to the rest of the population.
Here in this country, it might be more so.
But in New York, in some big cities in New York, there are more, I think there's more, I don't know if there's more Jews here in Israel, I don't know if that's true, but there's more Puerto Ricans here than in Puerto Rico.
This is because you've got eight million people.
New York has been forever associated with Not Israel, but Jewish populations, Jewish culture, Jewish from delicatessen to our use of the words to the Lower East Side, the Tin Pan Alley.
I mean, it's part of a very wonderful part that makes New York what it is.
It's true.
Little Italy, Italians, Chinatown, Koreatown, and this very, very rich Lower East Side.
One time we were, I was, when I say immersed, there was one period of time where we were involved and were invited to all of these examples of Yiddish theater and, oh my god, it's, okay, you understand this?
So that was a very, very, very important and critical part of the American, of the New York culture in particular.
Those individuals, they confused, I mean, they always knew there was...
Anti-Semitism, when in fact it's not really anti-Semitism, but they knew that New York was a different kind of oasis.
Maybe the old Miami Beach used to be considered this in the days of Meyer Lansky.
But for the most part, New York was considered to be this epicenter of Jewish faith and culture and art and food.
Great.
Well, they also tended to be leftist, liberal.
From the days of the kibbutzim and collectives and socialism.
It was a perfect...
Some of the initial founders and benefactors and directors of the NAACP were Jews.
White, Jewish.
Okay, you got it?
European.
Okay, fine.
There was always this connection.
The Jewish intellectual, the Leonard Bernstein, or Bernstein, I guess.
The Upper West Side, or the radical chic.
Woody Allen.
Woody Allen.
I love to watch Woody Allen's movies because it was a time which doesn't exist anymore.
It was this beautiful Upper West Side, Chardonnay, having...
You know, these parties during the week when they have some piano player and the first part of The Exorcist, if you ever watch that, where they're playing songs and it was this world where the intelligentsia, the kandashendi, the beautiful people who were Jewish were left and liberal and they would be probably as inclined as you to be anti-war.
Climate change and all of this stuff.
Okay?
Okay.
One of my friends in particular, I'll give you as an example.
I've known him for 40 whatever years.
Okay.
And he always called himself a hippie.
You know, I'm a hippie, he said.
You know, I'm a hippie.
Okay, I've been doing this for 10 minutes.
I'm building this up, okay?
I'm building this up.
When Trump came along, he said, you know, I don't know.
I think you've lost your mind.
I said, well, you know, I don't know.
Trump makes a lot of sense.
Well, I don't know.
Trump is a little bit crazy for me.
You know, I'm a hippie.
He's a Jewish man.
I'm a hippie.
He might be a hippie, but Trump is far more rational than anything.
Well, you know, I don't know.
And Trump certainly has been a friend of Israel.
Well, it's true.
Daughters are converted, and his son, Jared, and blah, blah, blah.
Nothing worked.
Nothing worked.
I said, you know, I think your left is going to maybe one day disappoint you.
Never understood it, never said it, never grasped it, never paid attention to what I was saying.
Okay.
Then all of a sudden, October the 7th, and he said, well, clearly, Clearly, the world, America, every sentient human being must be on the side of Israel in this brutal attack by Hamas.
These concertgoers, these young people just wanting to have fun who were themselves, okay, fine.
What happened?
It's like that was forgotten.
It was forgotten.
Like it never happened.
It was forgotten.
It was the most incredible thing in the world.
They said, well, do you denounce Hamas?
Yeah.
But they didn't.
I mean, they were hesitant.
And I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
Yeah, but you know, Israel's an apartheid state.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
Hold it.
You've been saying, okay, fine, but we'll get to this in a moment.
We'll get to this in a moment.
We'll get to this in a moment, but what are you saying?
Do you not agree that Hamas is a terrorist organization?
Do you not see that?
Do you not grasp that?
And I, being a rational human being, I, enjoying a little bit, a little bit, my sense of, I told you so.
My friend, the erstwhile hippie, the person who, you know, always Thought himself kind of a lefty and liberal and progressive and liked to watch maybe Rachel Maddow and liked to NPR and maybe liked to go to bookstores and walk around like the prototypical New York liberals.
This is a guy with the Strand bookstore bag and the New York Times.
He realizes, I told him, I said, you understand, right?
You're with me now.
You're with me.
You have to ask yourself, if you are what you thought, a member of the leftist community, and you are a proud Jew and a proud supporter of Israel, and you realize and you're hearing that people from your group, yours, And this isn't motivated just by some political consideration.
There is a certain degree of this which I dare say is indeed anti-Semitic.
There is indeed a part of this which is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
There is a degree of anti-Semitism.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I understand that.
Yes, it's true.
It's true.
It's not just here, but it's okay.
But, but, what are you going to do?
And now is the time.
For the Republican Party, for the Conservative Party to pick up, as I have been screaming for years now, the African American community, the Latino community, the gay and lesbian community, and now the abandoned leftist...
I don't know what the word is.
The abandoned leftist liberal wing or whatever.
They are sitting there.
And they might necessarily be Jewish, but they are looking at this and they're saying, wait a minute.
Hold it.
Let me explain something even clearer to you.
Okay?
Let me say this again to you.
Listen to me.
Listen.
Please listen.
There are people who are fundamentally on the side of, fundamentally, theoretically, on the side of, I guess you would say, theoretically, on the side of the Palestinian community.
Nobody's for Hamas.
Let's be honest.
Nobody.
And that's a very important point.
But there are a lot of folks right now who are not really on board with this.
Number one, because they don't understand it.
And they're being abandoned.
And the left has basically said, this is part of the litmus test.
Here's a new page in the binder of the litmus test rules.
And you cannot be a leftist, a liberal, a progressive, and pro-Israel.
You can't do it.
That is what they're telling people.
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Absolutely correct.
Now, as you have probably figured out, dear friends, in trying to make your way through the various news stories, you're wondering, how exactly do I think about this?
And this is what's important.
I mentioned this last night.
And I'm going to say this again, and I want you to grasp, understand, feel, whatever the word is, become sensate with this idea.
Freedom of speech, the ability to speak, maybe in a way that is not consistent with what everybody is thinking at the particular time.
It's part and parcel with the American dream, the American worldview.
There is a fellow named Mehdi Hassan.
We talked about this last night.
Mehdi Hassan.
He is on MSDNC.
He's brilliant, British-born.
I think he's an Indian...
I don't know, but he is...
I don't want to say rabidly, but I think he is vociferously either anti-Israel in terms of the political structure, but pro-Palestinian.
He is given the most incredibly important lectures.
He is a very, very smart, it's wonderful to see somebody who is that smart on TV.
Do I agree with him?
No.
But it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what I think.
So yesterday, there was this group, this magazine called Mediaite.
Mediaite is run by Dan Abrams.
Mediaite is, it's very interesting.
It's always been, it's been leftist to an extent.
It's been, you know, anti-Trump and the usual.
But what they did was, there was an article, and I mentioned it last night, and I read it, and I could not believe how they went from not only saying that Mediasan is this crazy lunatic, whatever it is, but they even compared being pro-Hamas or being pro-Russian.
It was the most incredible example of distorted opinion I've ever seen in the guise, under the guise of...
A kind of a very non, what's the word?
Kind of a non, usually a non-political point of view as to, okay.
First, Mediasan has the right to say it.
MSDNC should be able to have it on there.
Whatever it is, if it works, fine.
It has nothing to do with whether I agree with it or not.
That's number one.
Number two, I can, and, and, and, media, I can say the same thing.
Dan Abrams and others can say whatever they want.
That's their thing.
I cannot believe that somebody who fancies themselves, theoretically fancies themselves as a platform that looks at what's going on carefully and rationally.
Okay, fine.
Do you see?
I've never seen A subject.
I have never seen a subject that has made people lose their minds.
I thought maybe the Russia-Ukraine thing, maybe that was it.
But then I thought, okay, they don't know anything.
Because nobody still understands what that's about.
They still don't get it.
And they were told and trained over the years to hate Putin and think he's some kind of a...
Boris Badenov or whatever it is.
I mean, that's been their whole thing since whatever, okay?
You know it, I know it, they all do it.
That's just their thing.
And that's, look, I recognize that fact.
I got it.
But this, this is incredible.
Now let me see if I can explain this in another way.
Here is the Here is the Israeli issue here.
In that, you have to say, what is this about?
This goes back to well before 1948.
Well before.
This is about a homeland who lives where.
Fine.
We know it.
We've understood it.
I don't want to go through and talk about this again.
But we all understand this.
Okay, fine.
Now, there has always been this idea, and the way it was portrayed, in a very weird way, was there was Yasser Arafat, this ugly, scary, Ringo Starr-looking dude who...
Wore a sidearm.
Remember towards the end, when he was really old, he would do this...
It was...
Oh my God, it was the hardest thing to watch him speak.
1972, Munich.
The Olympics.
The world said, you did what?
This is where the world said, wait a minute, you did what?
It was something which was in...
It was incredible.
This was something so big.
The world said, this is unconscionable what you did.
Unconscionable.
You went and you decided, you decided that you were going to involve yourself into this horrible, horrible example of I guess,
duplicitous I don't know what the word is, but you went and you took the the Olympics and it was a long time before anybody, before they recovered from that.
I mean, then there was a, forget the Raiden and Tempe that was before that, but the Mossad, this It was a sword, Gideon's sword, or whatever.
These stories, this romantic story of Israeli intelligence and David against Goliath and how they fought back.
Just incredibly, just the world was behind you.
Behind you.
And then something happened.
I don't know what it was.
If you follow this.
World opinion is critical.
World opinion is what I think is the most important aspect of the battleground.
World opinion.
And what happened with this, and what happened, which is so critical, what's so critical is it started to change.
Very differently.
Maybe around the time of Bibi, maybe the first intivata, second intivata, who knows?
But today, forget that.
The world right now, despite the fact that Hamas attacked in this savage example of naked terrorism, naked aggression, Hamas, this is, this is just, this still kills me.
This is, you know, Einsatzgruppen.
This is death squad stuff.
This is obvious.
And even that, think about what I'm saying, even that hasn't done anything to make an appreciable change in the collective world opinion of Israel.
Let that sink in.
Now, I don't care what they say about the United States or France or Italy or what Europe is saying.
It doesn't matter.
Those are governments.
What the world, what the street, what people are doing, certainly youth and young people, and they will consider, they will change, by the way, world opinion.
Remember, these folks are, this is the future.
My generation basically killed, or for a while killed the notion of any renewal or any chance again at kind of replicating Vietnam, but notwithstanding all that stuff.
Do you see what's happening here?
Do you see?
There's something that happened so drastically.
Now get scared.
Now get scared.
Why?
What would happen if something happens here?
I said this the other day.
Who benefits from that?
Who benefits?
It's easy.
Who benefits if something like that is brought to our shores?
Who?
Who does?
Think about this.
Does Hamas benefit?
No.
Because Americans think that's over there.
We kind of think of them as they're just frustrated.
Young men without, I don't know, jobs and hope, women, girlfriend, these incels and blah, blah, blah.
What happens to them?
What happens to them?
What do you mean what happens to them?
It's their future.
If something happens here, something big, Something horrible.
And it is associated, whether true or not, with Hamas.
That changes everything.
Then you're going to see all of the people who were standing on the steps of Harvard Law School and various renowned and vaunted institutions.
Those individuals that were applauded at first, now are going to say, wait a minute.
Now we understand things a little bit different.
If you don't see the potential for actual terrorism here, or false flag, or agent provocateur, or combinations thereof, if you don't see what's happening, you're not paying attention.
You're simply not paying attention.
It is that scary.
And now they're talking about war with Iran.
I heard somebody today say, Israel is wasting too much time.
No.
Focus.
Are you sure you want to do this?
Because once you start, there's no, okay, my bad, never mind.
You understand?
I hope you see what is happening right now.
And you must listen to what they're saying in Israel.
You must know what they're saying in Ramallah, what they're saying in Cairo, what they're saying around the world.
It is more incumbent now that you independently research what is going on, and it is more important now that you recognize the fact that there are people, there are these folks on regular news stories that do more to hurt the cause than anything else.
I'm calling out Fox News and the usual suspects and CNN to an extent.
You've got to understand how this thing, what it matters.
During World War II, it wasn't enough just to say, well, the Germans are moving here.
Well, there's Barbarossa.
No.
Who are the players?
What's at stake?
What's going on in the world?
Ask yourself this question.
If you could eliminate from the equation, for some reason, mathematically, take an eraser and just remove, not remove Israel, but remove Israel from the equation.
And Israel now becomes, I guess, a Palestinian country.
Do you think the world would be better?
Do you think Hamas would say, okay, that's it.
Mission accomplished, guys.
See you next time.
Do you think that there would be no more Middle East actors?
Do you think there would be no more problems?
Absolutely not.
Who benefits, qui bono and qui protest, remember the other part of it, who benefits from Hamas?
Who benefits from terrorism?
Governments?
The Middle Eastern, you know, collective, if you will.
Military-industrial complex, war profiteers, everyone.
Globalists, speculators, bankers, the world.
They hate Stability.
So if you think for one minute, if you think in your heart of hearts that somehow by removing Israel from this, all of the problems go away?
Absolutely not.
If there was no Israel, they would create an Israel.
They would create an Israel.
You always have to have positive energy, negative energy.
Always have to have yin and yang.
All the time.
I can't say that enough.
You understand what I'm saying?
I can't say that enough.
So I want you to focus very, very carefully, very, very clearly on this.
And I also want you to do something which is very important as well.
I want you to investigate and spend your time reading, going to other.
Don't just sit back.
Turn Fox News off.
Cable news.
If it's on cable news, it's wrong.
If it's on cable news, forget it.
Any newspaper that slipped under your hotel door, forget it.
Remember that.
When something is free, you're the product.
When something is ubiquitous, you're the product, not it.
Be an autodidact.
Understand how this thing works and understand perspective.
Listen to military leaders, listen to political leaders, listen to strategic leaders, but listen to people around the world, not just here, not just in this country, not just here.
That's all I'm saying.
Now, my friends, you think about this carefully.
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