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Oct. 13, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES: If we cannot defend Israel while preserving our principles...
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Welcome to this special podcast involving a discussion and statement of first principles surrounding Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Palestinians, and, well, I guess the greater war in the Middle East that has unfolded.
I'm Mike Adams, thank you for joining me today, and I'll start out by saying that I am a principled person.
I operate based on principles, and by definition, being that they are principles, they are universally applied.
Because if they're not universal, then they aren't principles, are they?
By definition.
So I'm going to lay out a few principles here, and I'll start out by saying that in our world today, to be a principled person is to be labeled an extremist.
Just to be clear.
If you are not principled, if you bend the rules, break the rules, if you are inconsistent in your application of hatred or labeling or whatever, then, well, that's considered normal, that's okay, that's acceptable.
But if you have principles that are universally applied, then you will be labeled an extremist and you will be attacked and threatened.
But I have decided it's more important to stick to these principles than to be swayed by lunatics.
So let me state a few of these principles.
Principle number one, and by the way, we were taught this principle across society.
I mean, we were demanded to obey this principle for a very long time, and it's simply this, that all lives have value.
All human lives No matter if it's a black baby in Detroit, or an Israeli citizen, or a Palestinian citizen, or a Ukrainian citizen, or a Russian citizen, or whoever it may be, Chinese, Hispanic, Mexican, whatever.
All lives have value.
Now, it is noteworthy That during the Black Lives Matter riots, especially of 2020, that anyone who said all lives matter, which is really a statement of principles, that's essentially what I'm stating here, was considered a racist.
Yeah, you were called a racist for stating a fundamental key principle that should govern...
Humanity and human civilization on our planet that all lives do matter.
All lives have value.
Another key principle is that it is wrong during a military campaign to target or to take actions that result in the killing of women and children or non-combatives in particular.
Now, that's mostly women and children and sometimes the elderly and so on.
This is a principle that has been embraced by Western culture and also Eastern cultures and Middle Eastern cultures throughout known human history, by the way.
That even when there were wars between nations, and usually men would kill each other, they would not kill the women and the children unless they were particularly evil and wanted to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign to wipe out an entire population, they would not kill the women and the children unless they were particularly So if you're not carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing, then you spare the women and children.
That is a core principle.
There are also rules of war.
For example, when an enemy is surrendering, you accept their surrender.
You allow them to surrender.
And if you are an honorable country, you would even render aid to those enemy soldiers that you have captured.
For example, if they were wounded, you would treat the wounds.
You would not just let them die under your custody.
And eventually you would probably arrange a prisoner swap and then both sides could trade prisoners with each other and then some people would have not died in the war then and could go on with their lives after the war.
So these are some very important principles that have guided human history for as long as we know it has existed.
Now, surely many nations have violated these principles from time to time, but those are particularly egregious acts Acts of extreme evil, such as during the Holocaust carried out by the Third Reich against the Jews.
So that was genocide when the Third Reich decided that they wanted to eliminate Jews from planet Earth to exterminate an entire ethnic group after first labeling them inferior.
Animals.
Okay?
Now, keep that in mind because we're hearing that again.
But not coming from Germans this time.
So now we get to the facts of what we are seeing happening in Israel, Gaza, with Hamas, and so on.
And let me be clear and very upfront about this.
I vehemently reject the outrageous acts of terrorism carried out by Hamas.
Which is a terrorist group.
It's a group of extremists, many of whom are based in Gaza, but it does not represent all the civilians of Gaza.
And it does not represent all Palestinians.
It is a fringe terror group that was originally created, by the way, by U.S. and Israeli intelligence.
It was created by the West.
In order to have an opposition group, in order to justify all kinds of military buildup and funding and to create crisis whenever they needed one and so on.
But that's another story.
And Ron Paul has even just recently warned about this very thing, that Hamas is a creation of the West originally.
But Hamas is a terror group, no question about it.
And what Hamas did to Israel in that surprise attack is absolutely unconscionable.
It is barbaric.
It is evil.
It is, you could even say satanic.
No question about that.
And also, for the record, I have no issue whatsoever with any pursuit of individuals who participated in that, who are members of Hamas, who provided aid or funding or logistics or whatever to make that terrorist attack happen against Israel.
Those individuals who are responsible for that should absolutely be pursued.
They should be prosecuted.
They should be held liable, and if the courts decide appropriate, then I would not have any issue whatsoever with the state executing those individuals after they're found guilty through due process, by the way.
So, just to be clear about all of that, I know there are a bunch of Harvard students and Harvard student programs, I think 34 of them, that side with Hamas, which I think is insane, And they are being called out, by the way.
But that is not at all where I'm coming from.
Remember, my principles are very simple.
It is wrong to kill innocent people.
Wrong to kill women and children.
Wrong to kill civilians.
Wrong to kill non-combatants.
And that's exactly what Hamas did.
They carried out...
Horrible wrongs that are evil.
Now comes the part that's difficult to discuss.
Because the emotions of Israelis are running so red hot right now.
Let me just say this up front.
I have been threatened with death if I do not support the mass genocide of Palestinians.
I've been threatened by Israelis.
And apparently, some Israelis are very unhappy with my principles.
Even though my principles are the kind of principles that would lead to peace for all of humanity.
I.e., don't kill women and children.
Don't carry out war crimes against people.
Don't carry out ethnic cleansing and genocide and so on.
My principles are opposed to the Third Reich, opposed to the Holocaust, opposed to war crimes.
And, importantly, and this is where I get a lot of heat from Israelis, I am opposed to the genocidal extermination of Palestinian civilians.
Now, you may find it surprising that that position gets a lot of pushback from Israelis, but what I've come to learn recently is that a surprising majority of Israelis Including some of whom I have known for many years, wholeheartedly support, endorse, and call for genocide against the Palestinian people.
They want to exterminate all Palestinians, period.
And they justify it.
So that's just a fact.
That's not my opinion.
And you can see many, many examples of this now all over the internet in the comment sections of every video, YouTube videos.
The protesters in New York that are pro-Israeli, openly calling for complete genocide, the wipeout, the extermination of all Palestinians, period.
That they say the Palestinian people have no right to exist, have no right to occupy Gaza at all.
And they openly talk about leveling Gaza.
In fact, Netanyahu and the defense minister Gallant talk about turning Gaza into a pile of rubble and then a tent city.
And even Lindsey Graham, the senator in the U.S., says, level the place.
That's an exact quote, level the place.
Senator Marco Rubio talks about the complete extermination of all Palestinian children and women.
He endorses that, apparently.
And This is very disturbing to hear this.
Why?
Well, because again, I'm a person of principles and I believe those principles must be universal and I value all human life.
Now, that doesn't mean that I wouldn't support the court-ordered executions of people who carried out murder.
Yes, I value all human life, but I also expect people to be held Responsible for the consequences of their actions.
So if someone carries out murder and terrorism, and they are found guilty through due process, then the state, which represents the people, does have the right to terminate the lives of those individuals who took part in that murder.
I'm completely in agreement with that.
I actually do support The idea of a death penalty, however, noting that the justice system in the United States is incredibly corrupt.
And I also know firsthand that the police evidence systems in the United States are massively fraudulent because I own a laboratory myself and I know all the shenanigans that the police labs pull in order to falsely convict people.
With false DNA evidence, false drug testing evidence, false fingerprint analysis, false hair analysis, all kinds of things.
So I am very, very cautious about the death penalty as it is applied in the United States, although that's another podcast entirely.
But in principle, I do agree with the idea that those who carry out acts of terrorism and murder themselves should face being terminated if a court and due process have concluded that they are responsible for those murderous actions themselves.
Okay, so that's just a principle.
However, I absolutely take issue with the fact that Israel has cut off the water, the power, the food, and the electricity and fuel to two plus million Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
This act of cutting off the basic necessities of life, cutting off the power to hospitals, cutting off the water to hospitals, cutting off the water to the entire sewage system.
I mean, no one can flush toilets.
No one can wash hands.
No one can eat or drink.
No electricity works.
They cannot communicate.
They have no way to exit Gaza because the exit to Egypt has been bombed and shut down.
The fact that Israel is laying siege to a civilian population in Gaza is by definition according to the United Nations that is a war crime.
It is a war crime because it indiscriminately targets civilian populations who had nothing to do for the most part We're good to go.
Who may hide themselves among that group, but the vast majority of the group itself has not engaged in such actions and is not guilty of any such crimes.
So Israel has decided on collective punishment, and by and large, the Israeli people, at least the ones that I have spoken to and some of the ones that have been threatening me, they now openly advocate the complete extermination of the Palestinian people Because of what Hamas did to Israel.
And yes, emotions are running red hot right now, absolutely.
And part of that is understandable because of the particular viciousness of some of the crimes that have been carried out against children.
But I would remind you that in 1990, when...
When the neocons in the United States wanted to wage a war against Iraq, they fabricated completely false stories about Iraqi soldiers murdering children in incubators.
And they even found a Kuwaiti witness, so to speak, that they had testify over this.
But it turned out to all be fabricated.
But it was the story of the horrific murder of children that outraged people and got people to back the war against Iraq, which was also falsified under weapons of mass destruction, another total fabrication and lie by the intelligence community.
So when you hear Joe Biden say that he has seen photos of Israeli children who were beheaded by Hamas, But he won't show you the photos and no one else can confirm the photos.
Be very mindful of what happened in 1990 because this ploy of demonizing your enemies by claiming they do horrible things to babies, this has been used over and over again, especially by the intelligence services of the West, just to be clear.
Now, it may have happened.
But just because Joe Biden said it happened, that absolutely does not mean it happened.
And if you find yourself agreeing with Joe Biden on anything, you should have your IQ checked, by the way.
And allow me to remind you, by the way, that when Russia launched missiles at Ukraine and damaged Ukraine's electrical power grid, causing...
Many hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Ukrainians to be plunged into darkness for some period of time.
Most of those were short-lived and electricity was back on within a day or so.
But when that happened, the president of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, She stated that these actions by Russia consisted of a war crime, because she said in particular that if you cut off the electricity, the water, to civilian populations, that is a war crime.
She is silent about Israel doing this to Gaza.
And so is the corporate media, so is everybody in the West.
But you see...
The conundrum that I face is that, again, I am a person of principle, and I believe those principles must be universal.
So, no matter who does it, if you cut off the power, the water, and the food to a large civilian population, that is a war crime.
Whether it's the United States doing it, whether it's Russia doing it, or whether it is Israel doing it.
But what we are told, what I'm told,...is that it's not a war crime when Israel does it.
I'm literally told this, that yes, it's a war crime when Russia does it, but not a war crime when Israel does it.
And when I ask why, I'm told that, you know, well, because Israel has this history of being persecuted.
Therefore, the logic goes, well, non-logic, therefore, Israel has kind of a free pass to carry out war crimes with impunity today...
And, I'm sorry, I don't buy that twisted logic.
I don't, I mean, that is false thinking, to say that because horrible things happened to Jews in the Holocaust, Therefore, it is okay for Israel to pursue its own holocaust against whatever named enemies that it wants to destroy.
That is not okay because I thought that the phrase never again meant never again, not by anybody.
I didn't think it meant never again unless we want to do it to somebody.
Which is what I'm being told I should accept.
So again, I am being threatened and told that if I don't support genocide against the Palestinians, then I am a bad person and that violence is, they say, the answer to what's going on right now.
I'm also being told that to value the lives of Palestinians is a horrible thing.
And I'm being told this by people who their ancestors were themselves persecuted by the Nazis.
So, first of all, just in case you're curious, I do not bow down to irrational, emotional, violent people who are threatening me.
No matter who they are, it doesn't matter to me what their nationality is, what their color is, whatever.
I stand with my principles, and I speak this out In order to hopefully help set an example and provide a template to other people, that principles matter.
And if we are to even exist As human beings on this planet, if the human race is to have any longevity at all, we must have certain principles that value life.
That's why I'm opposed to the systematic abortion of children, which, by the way, is endorsed by the government of Israel, to murder Israeli babies.
So if you're wondering, actually, who's murdering the most Israeli babies?
It's the abortion centers, not Hamas.
That's a statistical fact.
You can be all emotionally charged about it, you can get all pissed off about it, but it doesn't change the fact that that is a fact.
Same thing is true in the United States.
The abortion centers are murdering hundreds of thousands of babies a year, maybe more depending on who you ask.
In America.
So the most violence against babies is actually committed through abortion, not terrorism.
But that's an inconvenient fact that most people just absolutely refuse to recognize.
They don't want to hear that because people would rather live without principles.
They would rather live in their world of tribalism.
Which is exactly what we're seeing right now with many Israelis, perhaps most, tribalism.
It is, destroy this other tribe.
No matter what.
Oh, forget principles.
That's what Gallant said, the defense minister.
He's like, we are abandoning the rules of war.
It's a free-for-all, basically.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he said.
He's essentially giving his soldiers free reign to go into Gaza and simply execute anyone on site, even if they are surrendering, even if they are women, And this is just pure bloodlust tribalism, and I cannot support it.
I will not support it.
I will not be threatened into supporting it.
And I will call it out for the crime that it is.
What Israel is doing to Gaza is, by every definition, a crime against humanity.
It is ethnic cleansing.
It is genocide.
And all the threats in the world do not change that fact.
I operate as a person of principles, and I would apply these same principles of valuing innocent civilian life to any group.
Black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, any ethnicity, any religion, including Muslims and Jews and Sikhs, any group.
It is a universal principle.
And I will not be swayed from that principle by people with bloodlust in their eyes who are emotionally charged and have turned into raging, hate-filled, murderous, genocidal lunatics.
And I pray that they come to their senses.
I pray for peace, which I know will get me labeled an extremist.
Maybe an anti-Semite, because if you call for peace, apparently you're an anti-Semite now.
Or if you call for peace in Ukraine, you're an agent of Putin.
I will continue to call for peace, because I know who's behind the war and the violence.
It's the globalists.
It's the neocons.
All of this is engineered.
Everything that you are seeing right now has been scripted.
It's part of theater.
You're living in a giant Truman show.
I mean, the deaths are real.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying that this whole thing was faked.
The deaths are real, but the script wrote it all out in advance.
This has all been planned in order to invoke precisely the kinds of emotions that we are seeing right now from especially many Israelis.
Remember that anger is designed to bypass your rational mind.
It's designed to take you out of your humanity and push you into an animalistic response.
And I am seeing that in spades right now among Israeli people.
They have been hijacked.
Their minds have been hijacked to invoke extreme hatred and bloodlust so that they don't think rationally about what they are approving or endorsing as the next action steps.
Which apparently will be a military raid on Gaza door-to-door mass slaughter executions of Palestinian civilians.
The reason that the Israeli people are being, in essence, hijacked and ordered not to recognize what they're about to do is because the globalists need an escalation of war in the Middle East.
And they know that Israel's attack on Gaza will bring in Hezbollah from Lebanon and probably Syria soon after.
And then the greater world war will commence involving Iran and Russia and so on.
And this is exactly what the globalists have wanted.
They tried to spark World War III with Ukraine.
Russia refused to launch nuclear weapons.
Well, so now, and public support for more funding for Ukraine has just about run out, so now they've unfurled Hamas to carry out a terrorist attack on Israel, knowing the reaction would be mass outrage.
Bloodlust and support for anything, any escalation, even if it leads to World War III, which is exactly the desired goal of the globalists.
So if you find yourself filled with seething hatred and violence and bloodlust and you just want to kill, kill, kill, understand you have been manipulated into that.
You have been hijacked.
Your neurology has been hijacked.
You are a puppet of the globalists at that point.
If you don't want to be enslaved, if you don't want to see World War III, you don't want to see billions of people die from what the globalists have planned for all of us, then back off of your anger, regain control of your conscious mind, and get to your core principles of what you believe in and the principles that are sustainable for the future of humanity.
embrace those principles and help share those with others.
And we might have a chance to negotiate a way through this that doesn't result in the end of the world.
So whether we all live or die, if I die in World War III, at least I will die as a man of principle, not as a tribalistic, animalistic, bloodlust, vicious, violent woman killer, which is sadly what violent woman killer, which is sadly what a lot of IDF soldiers are about to become.
I pray for them too.
I pray that they come to their senses.
And I pray for peace that does not make me an anti-Semite, does not make me an extremist.
It makes me a member of the human race.
So thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of naturalnews.com, and also, of course, brighteon.com.
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