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Oct. 26, 2023 - Lionel Nation
08:46
It's Not Just About Antisemitism
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For the love of God, stop saying that Israel and Palestine and Hamas is about anti-Semitism.
Of course that's a part of this.
Yes, yes, of course.
They hate Jews and Judaism rabidly.
I understand that.
But that's not the issue.
The issue is not about hating.
That's the issue that goes on typical morning cable news shows, where you have a lot of B-roll, and you've got some awful racist and hateful and some anti-Semitic scrawl on some delicatessen or synagogue.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that.
There's a guy on one particular favorite, if you will, cable news...
Conservative show.
He refers to kibbutz.
Kibbutz.
Not a kibbutz.
A kibbutz.
He's only been hearing the name kibbutz 50,000 times in the past two weeks.
But no, no.
It's kibbutz.
Because these people are morons.
Because they work in a world of B-roll and anything that gets eyes and clicks and positive reactions.
That's it.
They have no interest whatsoever.
In trying to figure out what is the reason behind it.
What is happening right now, which is so critical, is the idea of the existence of Israel, ultimately.
Israel doesn't have any friends in the world.
It has friends in terms of very positive, very, I should say, very, very...
It's supremely powerful countries and the like.
But when it comes to the rank and file of the average world citizen, absolutely not.
Why?
What's that about?
And it's not anti-Semitism per se.
Whenever you reduce it to an ism, you reduce the complexity of it.
It's like racism.
Everything's racism.
No, everything's not racism.
That's when you don't know what to call it.
It's not about transgender or xenophobia or any of that stuff.
That's not it.
It's about something else.
It's about something which is more important.
It's about something which is about the future of this particular area and who is going to reign the peacemaker, the dealmaker.
You put your money on MBS and watch these new coalitions between Xi Jinping, Putin, MBS.
Erdogan trying to figure out his identity.
Jordan, Abdullah.
I mean, this is something which is still, I find, the most important and the most interesting.
Where is this going next?
And how do you figure out who vies for power in this area?
You've got Abu Mazen and the West Bank, and you've got Gaza.
How does that work?
And who speaks for the Gazans?
Do you think they actually want, they like, they prefer?
Do you, do you, do you think they prefer Hamas?
Are you kidding?
No way!
Absolutely not!
They know what's happening.
They know the problems.
They know all of the horrors that are caused.
They're being used as human shields.
We've heard this before.
It's like suicide by cop.
But they, Hamas, are...
The bad guys.
Look, we can explain this.
We know the story.
We know how in 2005, Israel said to Gaza, here, it's yours, or the Palestinians, it's yours, take it!
And we know how Hamas said, great, we'll take it too.
We'll use this as terrorism central.
And we'll take all of the stuff that's coming in, your pipes and your water and your food, and we will use it to fortify and to provide the bases and the superstructure for our terrorism central.
Do you understand this?
Do you get this?
Do you understand?
Do you follow this?
This is what we are talking about.
This is what we're talking about.
You and I can discuss this all day long.
We can use every form of reference.
We can do whatever.
What I am telling you, and what I am suggesting to you, and what I am making very clear to you, is that if we, as a society, keep repeating the same issues over and over again, as to, yes, this is anti-Semitic, Yes, they hate the Jews.
Yes, Hamas are terrible people.
If we spend our time merely going through, and please, don't take this the wrong way, but just recounting, just explaining, just reviewing every instance of mistreatment, maltreatment.
If that merely is the focus, we're going to miss the big picture.
And it's the big picture that's critical.
Because I'm telling you, the next stage in this is we're going to see terrorism here.
Not the 9-11 kind, but the very simple kind.
Where bad people pick out areas like the Mall of America or Las Vegas or Disney World or...
East Hendersonville, Wyoming.
Some little small town to make us feel unsafe.
This is the essence.
This is the gravamen, so to speak, of the way of the world.
This is it.
We need intelligent people here.
And we have to get people like you to focus on world news from around the world.
Global.
Alternative.
Alternative.
Civilian.
Citizen.
Foreign.
Something other than the same five people professing their love and fealty and respect for Israel.
Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing.
But I don't want to see a news program that gives me the news vis-a-vis any prism of one or the other.
I'll use that as a balance.
I want to know the truth.
Tell me what both sides want.
Tell me what their perspective is.
As Robert McNamara said in The Fog of War, empathize, rule number one, empathize with your enemy.
Don't sympathize.
Don't feel sorry for them.
Don't go...
To their particular way of viewing the world.
But understand their beef.
And only then can something be done.
I'm going to have more to say on this.
And I know there's a lot of it you're not going to like.
But it's the truth.
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