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Jan. 8, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Blackstone Intelligence investigator Jake Morphonios interviewed by Mike Adams
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, coming to you from The Matrix today, as you can see with the background here.
And speaking of The Matrix and, gosh, the reality that's being shaped around us, we're joined today by a geopolitical analyst that helps to decode The Matrix.
His name is Jake Morphonios.
His channel on X, or Twitter, is at Morphonios, and it's...
It's spelled like it sounds, but we'll give you a link later.
But welcome, Jake.
Welcome to the show.
It's great to have you on.
Thank you, Mike.
Good to be here.
Well, thank you for joining me today.
This is the first time we've had the chance to speak, but I've seen some interesting things in your work that I thought were very insightful, so I invited you on to talk about it.
So welcome, and where do you think we stand right now in terms of Middle East events and what's about to happen next?
Well, that's an idea, isn't it?
Yeah.
What's going to happen next?
Well, I'll tell you what's going to happen next is more of the same.
We see a repeating cycle.
It's been going on for decades now.
Israel will go in and pound Gaza.
They'll take more land in the West Bank.
The international community will twiddle their thumbs up.
Pass some resolutions.
Eventually, there will be enough of an uproar that politicians in the United States, whatever the sitting administration is, will start to get enough pushback from the public, and then they'll send the message to Adriel, say, okay, we got to slow it down.
Israel will then stop the mass murder that's going on, go to ground operations, go and flatten the area, take more and more land, and things will start to settle down again, and everybody will just pretend like nothing happens.
Everyone will go back to watching whatever they watch on Netflix, and it'll just set things up to happen again three to five years from now.
That's what's been happening.
What is a little bit different this time is the scale of the massacre has been so much bigger that there has been a bigger mobilization of the public than what we've seen with the operations that Israel carried out in 2008 that led to about 1,500 deaths, 2014 with over 2,000 deaths, this with now more than 11,000 deaths.
Has really piqued the interest of a lot of people who normally don't pay attention to this.
Yeah, I'm sorry to jump in, but I've noticed that too.
We're seeing massive protests in London and many other cities.
Even in the United States, large protests.
I've even had one in Austin, Texas.
And I'm in Texas here, but...
This is different, I think, from everything else that Israel has done in the sense that for the first time we're seeing so much pushback against Israel's actions and people aren't as much afraid today of being called anti-Semitic because...
I mean, that's a BS excuse anyway.
We can criticize what Israel's doing while actually being in support of the Jewish people, especially Jews in America.
We support Jewish people or all people, but we criticize Israel's ethnic cleansing.
Are you seeing more and more signs of that kind of pushback?
Yeah, absolutely.
And I've been called an anti-Semite I don't know how many times over the decades that I've been covering this.
And it used to sting a lot more, but it has been so overused that now it's just this knee-jerk reaction.
There have been what really has contributed to the weakening of the anti-Semite claim against people is that more and more Jews, especially in the United States, Typically, the liberal Jewish population.
The demographic, the rising generations, don't hold to the same kind of extremist views that their parents and grandparents did.
And because there are so many more Jews now that are saying, wait a second, you can't carry out ethnic cleansing in the name of the Jewish people.
I'm a Jew and I don't agree with it.
All of the attacks on, well, you're a self-hating Jew.
Well, that only goes so far.
When you have masses and masses of Jews taking a stand, you no longer just fling these epithets around.
It loses power.
And so this idea, the conflation of anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, has really eroded.
We've seen that a lot since the beginning of October, when enough people speak out and say, I'm not afraid of the label.
Call me what you want, but I'm still going to speak out in defense of this unarmed population that's being cleansed from the land.
That's what we've needed all along.
Fortunately, this time, we're seeing that movement.
I'm seeing also, I'm glad you mentioned that, but we're all getting an education also in what is Zionism, what's the history of Zionism versus Judaism, which is not the same as Zionism versus Jewish people who, of course, are not all Zionists.
And in fact, I would say that most Jews around the world actually oppose Zionism at this point.
Do you agree with that or what's your take on that?
I wouldn't say it's the majority yet, but there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Jews that take issue with it.
Even in Israel, there are Jews that are coming around and seeing that, wait a second, the way we're doing it, just the industrialized cleansing of the land of Arab Palestinians, that just doesn't look good.
It doesn't sit right with me.
The problem is that the while we do see the common people in nations all around the world, every region of the planet, we've seen mass protests against what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
But they're not the ones we are not the ones that hold the power.
The people that hold the power are the small cabals at the top of most of these governments, and money is really what it comes down to.
Whoever controls the money controls the politicians, who controls the policy of the governments.
And that's why the Palestinian people and the supporters of the Palestinians have struggled so much over the years to make any substantive gains toward Palestinian statehood.
It's because there is a A considerable difference in the economic capacity of the two sides.
But again, that is changing as well.
Okay, this is valuable insight, Jake.
And yet, with all of this pressure from the world right now against Israel, including pressure from the U.S., I should add, the State Department, Anthony Blinken is increasingly demanding that Israel not displace Gazans and not take over the governance of Gaza, by the way.
Those are two specific requests.
But Netanyahu...
basically screw America it's like yeah we need your battleships we I mean your aircraft carriers excuse me we need your cruisers we need your Navy we need your nukes but screw you and whatever you want like how how long is that gonna work for Israel oh well it has worked quite well for them from very beginning I I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Unfortunately, I hate to be pessimistic, but taking a long-term view at this, if I had just been covering this since, say, October, Maybe I would sound a little more, oh yeah, we're going to see major changes.
But I've been covering this since the late 90s.
Oh, is that right?
And so, yeah, very much so.
And all throughout the second Intifada, all of the operations ever since then.
The problem is that Zionism is so entrenched in the American political system.
That trying to cut that out, it's like stage four cancer.
Without really going to town and potentially killing the whole body in the process, you're really going to have trouble weeding it out.
And so our political system is so, Zionism is so entrenched in the system.
The war industry makes so much money off of this car that the power, the true power is not in the hands of the people.
It's in the hands of the war industry.
It's in the hands of this elite political class and the investor class over them.
Is that going to change anytime soon?
Probably not.
But that does not mean that we can't keep whittling away, keep resisting, keep up the fight, make substantive changes to the extent that we can.
And quite often in history, there are key moments in time when all of the stars align just at the right time.
And if you're ready and you've got an organization in place and you've got a system and a plan, You can capitalize on that and make a difference.
And so that's what has to be done.
We have to focus, first of all, on ending the hostility that's going on right now.
Absolutely have to have a ceasefire, not one of these humanitarian pauses, which is...
You know, propaganda, total garbage, that's not going to do anything.
There has to be an actual ceasefire.
We have to restore the Gazans back to their homes in North Gaza, as difficult as that may be, because so many of the homes have been just demolished.
Well, right.
And you can't bring back the dead.
I mean, there would have to be a settlement where Israel pays the Palestinians tens of billions of dollars to compensate for all the murder and all the destruction.
I mean, that's not going to fly in Israel ever.
Yeah, the problem is the Palestinians don't have their version of Halliburton to go into Iraq after we level it and then get paid from U.S. tax dollars and whatever can be bilked out of the Federal Reserve to rebuild.
Exactly.
The Palestinians don't have that.
But the Arab world does have vast resources, and they are often maligned and criticized because they are not doing more I think that is to the shame of the Arab states.
But one problem is that so many of the Arab nations, most notably Egypt on one side, and then Jordan on the other, receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year from the US government.
To basically stay out of the conflict.
So we're bribing them into not supporting the Palestinians.
So it's not so much that while the Arab nations don't have the desire to help, the common people in those nations absolutely do.
But what they're afraid of is losing the money train.
They don't want to lose the dollars that the United States government is giving them, bribing them to make nice with Israel and let Israel get away with these atrocities.
That could change, though, if these massacres reach a certain point.
One thing that we're looking at that could be a game changer and change this into something different from what we saw in 2008-2014, and that is the agitation of Iran through Hezbollah is really concerning the Israeli military.
If Israel, and right now it is the Israeli military that is more aggressive toward southern Lebanon than the other way around, if Israel does what the United States government is afraid it's going to do, and that is to so provoke Hezbollah that Hezbollah opens up a You know, a can of whoop-ass on them.
Then we have a big regional war that's going to break out.
The reason for that is while Hezbollah is a, you know, heavily armed, well-trained militia that's, you know, 100,000 strong, Iran has invested so much money into Hezbollah.
It's kind of their crown jewel out of the 15 proxy militias that Iran funds and arms.
They're the biggest.
They're the most notable.
And they do the most in helping to prop up Bashar al-Assad in Syria and so forth.
So if Israel goes and starts carpet bombing South Lebanon, like they did back in 1982, And we see Hezbollah really ramp it up.
Hezbollah can give them a run for the money.
They'll start striking Tel Aviv.
They'll cause all kinds of chaos in Israel.
And the will of the Israeli people will falter because they are not like the Iranians who suffered just badly.
Countless casualties during the Iran-Iraq War of the 80s.
A lot of these nations in the region have been so conditioned through a lot of fighting, they can accept higher casualty counts than what the Israelis would put up with.
I mean, we can see the response from October 7th.
The casualties, the fatalities from October 7th has sent them into an absolute maniacal rage against the Palestinians.
No, really good point.
Sorry to interrupt, Jake, but I have to add this in.
Israel is provoking Hezbollah, as you are well aware.
I mean, there was a drone strike 40 kilometers inside the Lebanon border just the other day.
Right.
And at the same time, Israel's speech, I think, I don't remember which Israeli official it was, but they...
Perhaps you know, they were just saying recently that we can do to Beirut what we are doing to Gaza.
I couldn't believe they said that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's a direct threat.
Right, right.
Well, that's what the Biden administration is dealing with right now.
On the one hand, Biden has not wanted to rock the boat.
He's wanted to sit aside and let Netanyahu carry out this industrial-scale massacre of the Palestinians in Gaza.
But at the same time, if.
Netanyahu succeeds in his ultimate goal, which is to draw the United States into conflict with Iran, yes, that would be very bad for Biden in his reelection efforts.
He's already reeling from problems with inflation and so forth.
He's lost the Arab vote.
They're not going to vote for him.
Adding to that the outbreak of war with Iran, that would be huge.
So it doesn't serve the interests of the Biden administration to go to war with Iran, but it does serve the interests of the far-right Zionists in Israel.
So Netanyahu is going to keep provoking Hezbollah.
Not so much a grand assault on southern Lebanon that it would be obvious that it was Israel that started the fight.
They don't really want to do just enough to get Hezbollah mad, to take a big swing, and then they, aha, we've got our provocation.
We've got our justification.
We've got to go fight the terrorists.
We've got to go slaughter them.
Now, when that big bombardment starts and it becomes full scale war between Israel and Hezbollah, Iran is not going to let Hezbollah suffer the kind of degradation that would happen in that war.
Hezbollah would hold its own.
They would fight to a stalemate at the very least with Israel.
But it would leave them in a state that would require at least a decade or more of rebuilding to get their numbers back up and so forth.
Iran can't countenance that.
So Iran would really jump in there, resupply, push their other proxies into attacking Israel, U.S. interests in the Middle East there in Syria and so forth in Iraq.
And inevitably, that's going to make Biden look weak if he doesn't respond, and boom, you've got major conflict going on.
And I'm sure you know it's no exaggeration to take it a step further and say, all right, well, if the United States is fighting Iran, And you've got all of the Russian investment that has been poured for years now into Syria and into Iran.
Russia's not going to sit by and watch their investment go down the tubes and lose the geopolitical war on their turf to the United States.
So now you've got the potential for direct conflict between Russia and the United States.
And it's very clear.
We saw the Wall Street Journal publish a propaganda piece right after October 7th that they claimed linked Iran- To Hamas, actually.
There was no evidence of that.
They just made it up.
But it's clear that somebody probably in the CIA told the Wall Street Journal, print this, we need a link between Iran and Hamas.
Because Senator Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran.
Always.
I guess he wants to bomb everybody.
Right, he wants to bomb everyone.
I call him No Limit Lindsey now because there's no limit to how many civilians we have to kill in order to enrich the military-industrial complex.
I'm paraphrasing.
He didn't say it exactly that way, obviously.
But that's what he means.
So it seems like, okay, so Israel is trying to provoke Hezbollah.
The U.S. intelligence services are trying to provoke Iran into a counterattack.
And it seems like the smartest thing that Iran can do right now is to just stay out of it, at least directly, like not launch missiles directly from Iran to Tel Aviv, but rather to fund their proxy militias and Hezbollah.
Does that make sense, right?
That makes sense, and that's exactly what they're doing.
That's how they fight.
The goal is not a quick, decisive victory.
That's not how Iran fights.
That's not how their military is set up.
It's about using proxies to the full extent possible, and when necessary, the Iranian military itself.
But to carry out a long, protracted war, That wears down the opponent to the point that the other side either has spent so much money or there's been too great of a cost to the citizenry of, in terms of blood and soldiers lost, that they withdraw.
So that's why you've got it.
As far as just like a straight up conflict, take Iran versus Israel.
Neither side has a navy.
Iran's got 19 submarines.
Israel's got five of them.
But really, when it comes to war, it's inconsequential.
When you look at the ground army, Iran has a million soldiers in its military.
Israel's got about 600,000, so you've got a difference of about 400,000.
The difference, though, between the two ground forces is that Iran has a population of 77 million people from which they can keep pulling.
And Israel only has 9 million people.
So they can afford to lose far more people in a conflict than Israel can.
And you can do a comparison of the power that they have as far as artillery and all of that.
But Israel's got a far superior air force than Iran does.
Iran's got a superior force of tanks and artillery.
But what it would come down to, because it doesn't matter if Iran has all of these soldiers, it doesn't matter if they've got more tanks, you've got all of this distance you would have to cover from Iran to get over to Israel, and between here and there, Israel could degrade the forces through airstrikes and so forth.
So it comes down to missiles.
Who has got the long-range ballistic missile capacity?
And Iran could really challenge Israel in that way.
They could fight from a distance.
Well, exactly.
And missiles that carry massive warheads that could cause massive damage.
And so Israel knows this, and that's why they want the United States to come in and wipe out Iran, because Iran really is the foil to Israeli geopolitical expansion in the area.
They don't want just the Palestinian territories.
They would love to go back in there and take part of the Sinai Peninsula.
They would love to take Jordan.
They would love to take as much of Syria as they can get, certainly swallow up Lebanon.
They want the whole region.
Iran is the only state in the area that has the ability to really stop that.
So if you can wipe out, if you can get the United States to come in and do the dirty work, then you've got the red carpet rolled out for massive expansion in the region.
Well, at the same time that this is happening, though, of course, there's an effort among the BRICS nations to launch their own currency and to dethrone the dollar as the world reserve currency.
The dollar is already in serious trouble.
As you know, the U.S., what, $34 trillion in debt and the annual cost just to service the interest on the debt is now over a trillion dollars, which is very frightening.
At the same time, the U.S. dollar payments to nations like you mentioned, Egypt and Jordan, those are essentially bribes to, you know, chill out.
We're just going to buy your friendliness, let's say.
And also, of course, the financial support to Israel itself from the United States, which is many billions of dollars a year.
When the dollar...
Really collapses as I think it's headed there, although it may be a gradual erosion that just accelerates.
When the dollar is less useful, then regardless of how many aircraft carriers you have, you lose the ability to project control over the Middle East.
And how much of a role do you think that may play in where we are right now?
Because time is on the side of Iran and Russia and China.
Time is not on the side of the U.S. and Western nations because the dollar is in a state of accelerating decline.
Oh, absolutely.
There's a global realignment happening right now.
There's a shift from the Western New World Order into a multipolar world.
We're no longer top dog anymore.
China has formed something that we just we can't stop.
It's inevitable.
And and so you have the the thing that keeps the United States propped up is the world's confidence in our ability to keep producing, to keep paying back the debts.
They will keep buying our debt, our treasury bonds.
We'll keep packaging the debt.
The Fed will keep pouring money into all of the things that it does, the war industry and so forth.
We'll keep shoveling the debt out to the rest of the world.
They buy it, they invest.
As long as we can keep paying the interest to the rest of the world that's buying our debt, everything's good.
But the more it becomes clear that we can't do that, that's when we're going to see the dominoes fall.
And one thing that could set that off potentially Is if Saudi Arabia finally says, all right, you know what?
We're going to get rid of the special petrodollar status that you have.
As it is right now, the world, when they want to buy Saudi oil, they have to first trade their own currencies for US dollars that Saudi Arabia requires that their purchases be done in US dollars.
That keeps the demand for the dollar sky high.
If Saudi Arabia decides we're no longer going to do that, And we suddenly overnight lose this high demand for dollars if they no longer have to go buy our dollars in order to purchase the oil.
That's going to cause a quick collapse.
I agree with you that we're probably going to have a slow erosion, but that is something that could trigger something quick overnight.
Well, and...
My understanding is that's already a done deal, what you just described.
The Saudis are going to drop the dollar requirement.
I mean, the Saudis are joining BRICS nations coming up in early 2024, along with many other nations, and it's called BRICS Plus.
And Joe Biden has pretty much Pissed off MBS over there.
And the U.S. State Department doesn't know how to deal with the Saudis at all.
Trump had a much better relationship, regardless of what people think of Trump.
He wasn't angering the Saudis, at least.
And also, under Trump, we had more of a domestic energy supply, which made it more difficult for a Middle East energy embargo to hurt the United States economically.
But right now, we're in the worst of all scenarios.
I mean, the Saudis hate the United States now.
We're dependent on the supply out of the Middle East to some degree.
I know we produce a lot of energy domestically, but we no longer export a net amount of energy.
We depend on the global supply in one way or another.
And our currency is losing value.
And all these other nations, they saw the U.S. weaponize the SWIFT system against Russia, which means that, hey, if we don't like what you're doing, we're just going to steal all your central bank deposits that are in dollars.
Yeah.
So why wouldn't the rest of the world just reject the dollar at this point?
Well, that's what we're saying, little by little.
But the problem is, the United States continues to use, first of all, the CIA when possible, but if you can't get things done with the CIA, then you send in the actual US military to soften things up and encourage nations to fall in line.
Venezuela learned that lesson just a few years ago.
So, there would have to be a collective Pulling away from the United States all at once, as it is when it's just individual states, individual nations, saying, well, we don't like what you're doing.
We're going to pull back.
We have the power over them still.
We have the leverage over them still to isolate them and hurt them.
So that's why BRICS is such a threat.
The more that join in, the more collective The more resistance there is to the United States, the greater the threat.
And we are in a transition period.
Things are going to look very different.
My children, when they're adults, it's going to be a very different world than what it's been like, the way society has been and the economy of the United States, the way you and I grew up.
It's going to be very different.
Yes, clearly that's the case.
Yeah.
I want to remind people how they can follow you.
It's Jake Morphonios, and at Twitter, your handle is Morphonios, M-O-R-P-H-O-N-I-O-S. That's pretty cool to have a last name that's half of Morpheus, by the way.
And then you have the site, is that your site, Blackstone Intel?
Is that right?
Right.
Right.
Yeah, I'm so censored on the, back during my coverage of the Ukraine war, they slapped a A big thing on my Twitter channel where you can't see it.
It's very hard to find it in search results.
It's got tens of thousands of followers.
But I created the second one, Blackstone Intel.
So with only a thousand followers on it, I actually get far more views than I do with the one with tens of thousands.
Wow.
Okay, so blackstoneintel.com, that site is not up yet, or is that about to go live?
No, I found out that Blackstone Intel was associated with an Israeli company.
Blackstone Intel was the provider, so I shut that website down and I'm shopping for a new one now.
So Blackstone Intel is not up as a website right now.
Okay.
Wow.
Yeah, you have to dance around these days just to be able to stay online, given the nature of what you're saying.
Now, in addition to...
No, is it primarily the Middle East that you have monitored and reported on for all these years?
Mostly.
Mostly the Middle East.
Okay.
So, do you find it interesting or perhaps alarming?
I don't know.
But it seems like this incident that's happening right now, or war, is garnering the attention of more Americans and more Europeans and people around the world than ever before.
I don't even remember in my lifetime ever paying this much attention to Palestine and Gaza and the history of that conflict.
But now I've had to get educated very, very quickly about a lot of things that are frankly quite shocking to learn.
But I think a lot of people are in my shoes right now.
Do you find that to be the case?
Yeah, yeah.
And it's been very refreshing to see so much interest this time around than in the past.
It's a topic that In the past, when I would try and talk to people about it, you'd see eyes roll up in the head and yawning and just has nothing to do with me.
But the availability of video footage coming from Palestine is far more ample than it has been in the past.
People can see it.
They don't have to just take someone's word for it.
Now you can see it.
I do have a Telegram channel, Blackstone Intel, where Where I post things there that I can't post on Twitter or anywhere else.
And it's gruesome and it's horrible.
And I don't recommend it to regular people because it shows the true horrors of war, of warfare.
But people see these things and they're stunned.
They're traumatized by it.
And they wonder, how can this be happening?
And the civilized world is allowing this to go on?
It just...
People are dumbfounded and they're really waking up not only to what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades, but they're coming to realize, wait a second, the world is not what I thought it was.
The power is not in the hands of the people.
The power is in a small elite class that control our politicians.
With the banking class, with the investor class, and they're really, it's like they're being red-pilled in real time, and you can see this happening, and this conflict, the issue going on in Gaza, is leading people into that.
that.
So we're seeing all kinds of benefit in terms of people learning and gaining greater education because of what's happening.
And I was really encouraged by that.
Well, here's something that I found very shocking.
And I know you've probably witnessed this for many years, but the way Israeli people tend to talk about Palestinians amongst themselves is so racist and so atrocious that when they speak to an international audience, you know, on an online video or whatever, they think it's perfectly normal to refer on an online video or whatever, they think it's perfectly normal to refer to Palestinians as animals or to say, kill them all, kill them all,
But the rest of us, at least in the United States, many of us, and I'm sure in Canada and so on, we're looking at this like, Oh my gosh, is this what these people believe?
That you can just kill all the children?
And that is what they believe.
Right.
It absolutely is.
And I spent time over in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
And I can tell you that I met when I was over in Palestine.
I had dinner with the mayor of Ramallah.
I had meetings with people from Politicians, lawyers, civic groups, journalists down to Palestinian olive farmers out picking olives with them.
I interviewed dozens of people while I was over there and it didn't matter what their status was.
Every single palace, and I talk to people on the street, just random people stop them and talk to them.
Not one person ever expressed hatred toward Jews.
Not one of them ever said anything that could be seen as a desire for Jews to be thrown out of the land.
From top to bottom is the ability to live in peace.
If the Jews are there, fine.
But the Palestinians want the same thing that the Jews have, which is self-autonomy.
They want the dignity that comes from having the ability to vote for their own representatives, to choose their own form of government, to control their own streets, to police themselves, to have a military to protect themselves against invasion.
They're not asking for anything that the Jewish people don't have.
Now, I also spent time among the Jews, and while there were plenty of peace activists that I met with, I had a very different experience.
My first night in Israel I went up by myself, which in retrospect was maybe not the smartest thing to do, but I went up to the Mount of Olives.
I wanted to see this historic place where Jesus and the apostles spent time and looked down on it.
And from up there, from the vantage point, they've still got some olive trees up there.
You look across, you see the Dome of the Rock.
Well, I was up there one evening, not bothering anyone, not just in a public area, a place where during the daytime there's plenty of tourists.
First of all, there was one group of people, of Israelis, that came up to me and surrounded me.
They were teenagers, teenage boys, and they just walked in circles around me, almost like a wolf pack.
You know, just not saying anything, but being intimidating.
Like, all right.
They left.
A few minutes later, as I was standing near the road, a car pulled up and a bunch of men got out, Israeli men.
And they did the same thing.
They didn't say anything.
They came up to me and they just glared at me.
And they got in their car and they left.
And so after this, I decided, you know what, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
So I went up to, there was a little hotel there, an Arab hotel, to call a taxi to go back to my hotel.
And I got talking with them.
I said, oh, yeah, that's a settlement right up here.
And that's how they treat people.
I thought, OK, maybe this is isolated.
Then I was on a tour throughout Jerusalem.
I had rocks thrown at me, not big stones, but like handfuls of pebbles thrown at me.
Look up and settlers.
Up in homes in East Jerusalem that they had taken from Palestinians.
Now, I'm not walking around wearing a Palestinian flag or a keffiyeh or anything that would identify me that way, but there was hostility toward me.
Then, though, I went through the Arab quarter, and as you walk through...
The corridors, open air, you've got shops on either side, school kids walking back and forth to school, all the shop owners selling their herbs and different things, but they had chicken wire over the top.
And I noticed a lot of trash up there, and I asked someone about it, and they started pointing out things I hadn't noticed before.
There were bottles, there was used toilet paper, and bottles of urine, big pieces of stones, glass, things that the settlers who kind of live, their homes are built above this.
They throw it down on the school children as they're walking back and forth.
So the Palestinians had to To put the chicken wire there to protect themselves from getting hit.
I went to Hebron, which is Al Khalil in Arabic.
Hebron, as I was walking through, I came out of the Abraham Mosque, saw where Abraham is buried, and came out, and I was stopped at a checkpoint.
Everywhere you go, you have to go through these checkpoints.
It's like you're in a prison.
Barbed wire, turnstiles.
I come out of a checkpoint, I'm walking around looking to see what I want to take a picture of, and Israeli soldiers walked up to me and detained me, Israeli security forces.
They started questioning me, asked me why I was there.
Very hostile.
Not like, hey, how are you doing?
We want to ask you a few questions.
Very hostile.
Grabbing my clothes and saying, what is this?
Why are you wearing this?
Took my passport, called it in, put my name on some kind of list.
Now, what I did not know was that I was carrying my camera gear.
I was taking photos.
What I didn't know was that a few days before, the day I came walking through, Oh, Oh, wow.
So I had a very different experience everywhere I went in the dealing with the settlers compared to the Palestinian people.
Now, I don't want to broad brush and say all Israelis are like that, because they absolutely are not all like that.
But there is a marked difference between the common Israeli and the common Palestinian.
One side has the power.
And so they want to be the ones to set the agenda.
And the agenda is, you Arabs don't get to live here.
You have to leave.
The land is ours.
God gave it all to us.
It doesn't matter that you and your fathers and forefathers have lived here for centuries.
We are going to take it.
It's ours.
And you get no part of it.
It is a system of apartheid.
That is unsustainable.
You cannot expect to ever have peace when you have your boot on the throats of somebody's children.
And that is how it is over there.
So while I do not support in any way violence from Palestinians against Israeli civilians, I understand the context of it.
I understand this I'm glad you mentioned that you understand the context because I think from the point of view of a lot of, let's say, Christian Americans, All history of the Middle East began on October 7th.
It was unprovoked.
Nothing happened before then.
And then suddenly, out of the blue, we hear this with Ukraine, too.
Putin, out of the blue, suddenly decided to attack Ukraine, unprovoked, for no reason.
He's a madman.
Let's ignore that since 2014, there's been an assault going on against the people of Donbass.
Exactly.
You know, 10,000 people killed by the Ukrainian military.
Right.
You know, attempt to cleanse the area of all Russian influence, despite the people being ethnically Russian.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's not look at any of that.
Let's just say it all started with Putin and he's the modern day Hitler and take it all out of context.
That's the problem with it.
And fortunately, While the mainstream media perpetuates that kind of ignorance, the good thing is social media does provide an opportunity For there to be kind of intellectual warfare, for each side to present its evidence and for people to consider it.
And that's where the battlefield is, and that's where we are, this side, is making a lot of progress, a lot of gains.
May not result in immediate political change, but it is changing hearts, it is changing minds, and it's waking people up to the simple fact that there's a whole lot more out there than what they've been exposed to in the past.
Yeah, I'm hearing, I agree with everything you just said, and I'm hearing more calls among Americans, and I'm not even talking about pro-Palestinian Americans, or certainly not pro-Hamas.
I'm just talking about Everyday Americans who are realizing what's going on here, they're saying, why are we funding Israel?
Maybe we should just stop sending money to Israel, number one.
Why do we have the US military, especially the Navy, protecting Israel's borders when we're doing nothing to protect our own borders?
Why are we sending money to Ukraine and Israel?
While our cities are falling apart in the United States where we don't have enough police and there's mass looting and shoplifting to the point where retail establishments are shutting down and so on.
I mean, these are common sense questions.
Why is it, you know, Israel first, Ukraine second, and America last?
Yeah.
Yeah.
People are starting to ask that.
And when you show them the numbers, like, okay, fine.
We're giving billions each year to Israel.
All right.
But no one stops and asks, do they need the money?
Israel runs a budget surplus year after year after year.
They don't need the money.
It'd be like, instead of giving money to a homeless person, you instead see somebody in a three-piece suit stepping out of a limousine, and you go over and you hand them your money while you don't have enough money to pay for your own kids' dinner that night.
It makes no sense.
But that's what we're doing.
That's the dynamic between us and Israel.
They don't need our money, but they get it.
And what a lot of people don't know is that a lot of this money that goes to Israel from the Federal Reserve, what Israel does is they don't even spend it.
They turn around and they reinvest it and they make money off of the money we gave them.
So they're earning money off of it.
And while, just like you said, we've got inflation, we've got all the troubles that we do here, so people need to wake up and say, no more foreign aid to Israel.
I'm kind of libertarian in that I don't agree with foreign aid of any kind to anyone, but at the very least, let's balance it out.
Don't be sending money over there or weapons over there to perpetuate an apartheid occupation.
Well, and I'm glad you mentioned you have kind of a libertarian take on this.
I've thought the same thing, where I've asked, why can't the U.S. just have a stance where, hey, Middle Eastern countries, we'd like to buy your energy.
We'd like to engage in a fair, free trade exchange.
We'll send you money, you send us oil.
Or we'll trade corn for oil.
Or, you know, something freedom-based.
Instead, it's like, no...
Israel's a beachhead.
We need to have a military threat and coercion against Middle Eastern countries.
Even RFK Jr.
said this recently, that Israel's a beachhead.
We've got to have Israel because we have to put pressure on the Middle Eastern nations, which means military threats.
You know, why can't we engage nations in trade instead of coercion all the time?
This is all the U.S. knows how to do.
I mean, cutting off Russia...
We don't need to fight every country in the world.
All we need to do is trade with them, for God's sake.
That's right.
But see, you're trying to make sense.
You're trying to use logic and speak from a position of morality.
That's morality and common sense and decency does not make money.
The United States is trying to expand empire.
It's trying to dominate.
This is imperialism.
And so what you're saying is maybe right.
It may be moral.
It might be the smart thing to do, but it doesn't make the investor class money.
Not not not the kind of money that they can make through the way that they're doing it.
Right.
The oil wars and and everything else.
How is Jeannie oil going to be making money if you're trading corn for oil?
They don't want corn.
Right.
Right.
And they want war because, I mean, even think about so much of the money that was supposedly spent on Ukraine actually went to U.S. weapons manufacturers who haven't even delivered most of those weapons to Ukraine.
And by the time they even have those weapons, Ukraine's probably done.
They are.
They probably already signed, you know, a peace accord or something with Russia, where Russia sets the terms, by the way.
And then those weapons will never go to Ukraine.
So it's really just corporate welfare in America to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and Boeing and whoever else is making weapons.
It's what it is.
What a racket.
It's absolutely what it is.
An absolute racket.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, Jake, we're about out of time.
What do you want to leave our audience with today?
I guess my if I could leave one thought, the wish of my heart is for people to be a little more moderate in their approach to these controversial issues.
Recognize that there's almost always more than one side to the story.
And so when you hear the mainstream U.S. media pushing one side of the story, just know there's always another side and be courageous enough to stand against the crowd.
and investigate it.
And if they want to label you for it, call you a Putin lover or a terrorist sympathizer or whatever, anti-Semite, just deal with it.
Just take a look at the information anyway and use the brain that you've been given to make up your mind for yourself.
Don't go along with believing something just because that's what the crowd thinks.
Because the crowd is often dead wrong.
The crowd is often only going making their decisions based on what the corporate media is allowing their minds to consume.
And that content is only going to present one side of a story.
And you're never going to be on the right side of history when you're only listening to the propaganda of one side.
So let yourself consider all of the facts.
Seek out opinions and information from sources that you know you're probably going to disagree with.
At least listen to it.
You don't have to decide that you agree with it.
You can still have your beliefs, but at least look at it and you can refine your position based on the additional information.
The other side often has at least some elements of truth to what they're saying.
Incorporate that.
Refine.
Be independent in your thinking.
Don't be tribal in your thinking.
Think for yourself.
Very wise words there, Jake.
That was an excellent summary of critical thinking.
And that's exactly what we need right now.
And also, I would say, along with that, the courage to stand by your conclusions.
Once you go through that process, don't be easily swayed because five of your friends said, no, you have to stand with fill in the blank.
Right.
Absolutely.
I mean, I think that most people...
They're not even bothering to think or do research.
They're just going with the flow.
Whatever the tribe or the herd's talking points are, you just regurgitate that without even thinking it through.
I heard a lot of that also during the COVID years as well.
It's all been pretty crazy.
This has been a fascinating conversation.
I want to thank you for taking the time to join us today.
It's been really great.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Mike.
I appreciate you having me on.
Absolutely.
It's been very enlightening.
We appreciate you, Jake.
And folks, again, Jake Morphonios is the name of our guest today, and his channel is at Morphonios on Twitter or X. And you can also – are there any other platforms, Jake, that you want to mention or any other – YouTube, you said, right?
Yeah.
Blackstone Intel on YouTube is where I publish most of my videos.
And then Telegram, what's your Telegram channel?
Blackstone Intel.
Blackstone Intel.
Okay, great.
I would tell people, go to Telegram.
Because, I mean, YouTube can censor you at any moment.
Use Telegram.
But also, you're welcome, by the way, Jake, to join Brighteon.com.
So feel free to post your videos on Brighteon.
Thank you.
If it's crazy, graphic murder videos, we will not allow those, by the way.
I guess that's every day now in a hospital in Gaza from bombs.
It's crazy, but try not to make it crazy, violent videos.
It's crazy.
I have to even say that in our world today, but that's where we are.
It's wild.
Thank you so much, Jake.
It's been a pleasure.
Thank you, Mike.
Take care.
And thank you all for watching today.
Again, Jake Morphonios, first time we've had the honor of being able to interview him and get his analysis.
So thank you for watching today on Brighteon.com, free speech platform, as you can tell.
And I love what Jake said there right at the end.
Think for yourself and don't be swayed by popular opinion because popular opinions are very often, if not usually, wrong.
If you follow the herd, you're just going to follow them off a cliff, by the way.
So think for yourself.
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Thanks for watching today.
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