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Sept. 19, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Gaza Genocide Survivor Reveals Explosive Truth about Violations of International Humanitarian Law...
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Welcome to today's episode on Brighteon.com.
We have an extraordinary interview coming up for you here.
Of course, my name is Mike Adams.
I'm the founder of Brighteon.com.
And I'm a man of faith who believes in humanitarian principles.
And as such, I disavow the use of violence for geopolitical gain.
And there are many who have joined me in denouncing The violence that is being pursued by the current leaders of the nation of Israel, Netanyahu in particular, who is extremely unpopular with his own people, who had faced arrest himself, and who had openly admitted To wanting to carry out acts of genocide against Gaza by cutting off food and electricity, making it a living hell for the Palestinian people in Gaza.
So let there be no question, no debate about the actual goals of Netanyahu.
For the record, Netanyahu absolutely does not speak for all Jews around the world.
Most Jews living outside of Israel condemn Netanyahu, as many Jewish students do in the United States.
So, please understand that this interview is not in any way an attack on the religion of Judaism, nor any person's religion or faith, but rather, this is a call for humanitarian principles.
And for the end of violence against innocent civilians in Gaza and we need to understand the larger context of the Nakba 1948 and what has happened to the Palestinian people and how they have suffered for generations at the hands of extreme malicious violence.
So with that context in mind, I'm going to bring in my guest who is himself a survivor of Gaza.
He lived through it.
He escaped.
He was able to get his family to Egypt.
He is an expert in international humanitarian law.
And he is a Palestinian.
He joins us now.
Khalil is his name.
Welcome, sir, to the show today.
It's an honor to have you on.
Welcome, Michael.
I'm very happy to be with you on this show.
Thank you.
Thank you for being willing to join us.
I have been working for months to try to have some kind of interview with someone who actually lived in Gaza and experienced the bombing and just the day-to-day life experience there.
So I would like to ask you first, if you could, although it may be painful to talk about, could you describe what it was like to live under constant bombardment by the IDF in Gaza?
Yeah, sure Michael.
Yeah, the constant bombing and bombardment is something.
And the years before the October 7th events, is something else.
Well, actually, Gaza has been under a strict closure for 16 years.
And then there was that burst that came from Hamas during the launch, the attacks of the October 7th.
And then this expansive Israeli military operation, aerial from air, from the sea, from the ground, ground invasion has happened into Gaza.
Yes, well I still remember the first days.
I still remember the first days where basically it was starting from October 13th.
So it's between October 7th and October 13th that the Israeli concerned authorities have made up its plans, have concluded its plans, and decided to attack Gaza, decided to attack some 10,000 fighters from Hamas.
It started already October 13th.
I was living in the downtown of Gaza City.
I still remember that we have that warning that we need to go southward, you know, southern than the Gaza Valley.
Well, honestly, at the beginning, I didn't want to leave my house because, you know, it's not easy to leave your house.
You know, it's your comfort zone.
It's your comfort area.
There are many belongings.
But me, myself and others, we needed to respect the Israeli warnings and leaflets and telephone calls and messages and buggings, etc.
And I left.
I took my family.
I went southward.
And for that, I thought that now, okay, the war will be in Gaza City, Gaza North, and Israel.
And the South, somehow, is immune from hostilities, exchanges.
But let me interrupt, because that was the initial promise of Netanyahu, is that you would be safe if you fled to the South, towards Rafah.
And then we found out that they were bombing the escape routes, and of course they later attacked in the South as well.
So, but you at first, you believe that you would have been safe in the South?
Yes, surely, and this is why I left.
I left with my father.
The big family has left Gaza City.
We're originals from Gaza City.
I mean, it's our city since years and years and years ago.
We left, all of us.
We left, we left, leaving Gaza City because we thought it's a matter of six weeks, two months, whatever, and then we'll go back to our houses.
But no, 13th October was the last time that I was in home.
And until now, it's now about a year where we're actually, we are not allowed to go back home.
And, you know, I'm sorry to interrupt, but is your home still standing?
Myself, yes.
Some windows are broken.
But the, you know, because it's families back in Gaza, so the big family has many losses.
And there is, like I speak of my family now, Al-Wazir family, we have a Turkish Samaritan bathroom.
You know, it's like Turkish, a historic Turkish bathroom.
And actually it was fully destroyed.
So it was like a family business with you all that we inherited from our grand grandfathers but now it's it's it's equal with the ground so it's all destroyed and that was the big financial loss.
But you know, speaking about lives, let's not care so much about the financial losses, although it's important.
It's important for the future of the Gaza or Palestinian generations in general.
Very important point.
We need to focus on the lives lost because property can be rebuilt, but first we have to stop the violence.
But I want to ask you about The crumbling of the infrastructure and what that was like in your experience as water became intermittent or food or medicine or electricity or internet services.
And the reason I ask this is because I believe that the United States of America is facing a similar situation in the near future because of the political strife and rigged elections and all kinds of horrible things that are happening in America.
That we need to take heed of what you have been through because we may experience the same thing as well.
So please tell us, what was that like to lose infrastructure?
I hope that no one will be facing this, Americans or in America or elsewhere.
Yes, well, yeah, I'm speaking about the infrastructure.
It's a destroyed city now.
Gaza is a destroyed enclave.
We need to speak about the infrastructure, but we need to speak about the losses of life.
I will start with the losses of life.
We have now more than 50,000 killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
You know, October 7th, myself, I also, I denounced any attack against civilians.
And I know that there were many civilians killed during October 7th events.
Nevertheless, the numbers of the fatalities of October 7th is about 1,000 persons.
So 1,000.
Now, so far, this speaking up today, we speak about more than 50,000 Palestinians.
And guess what, my friend?
Well, 80% of them, they are women and children.
Women and children.
So you see the disproportionality here.
I know people, I know it's an Israeli action.
for October 7th that they launched this big operation against Gaza.
Nevertheless, the disproportionality is now, it looks very clear and brilliant and that, you know, for all European countries, even the U.S., it said that the events of October 7th does not justify the atrocities carried out by the Israeli it said that the events of October 7th does not justify the atrocities carried out by the When we speak about self-defense, then there is also an equivalent right for the Palestinians to have the right to self-determination.
Now, what you found on the Israeli side is that they...
Superpass, they exceed, they somehow outweigh the right to self-defense over the Palestinian right to achieve and realize the right to self-determination.
So this disproportionality in general, you know, the unbalancing between the legitimate objectives and between the objectives that are on you as an occupying power, the obligations that are on the Israeli side as it's the the obligations that are on the Israeli side as it's the occupying They disregarded assembly, they outweighed the right to self-defense over any Palestinian right, regardless of what it be.
And they outweigh the security advantage, or the military advantage, over the humanitarian consequences.
And this is what you see right now in Gaza City.
People have been going on multiple displacements.
So you go to a place.
Myself, I told you, I went first to southern Dandi Gaza Valley, and then I went to Rafah after a bit, thinking that they can be safe, but it's not the case there.
And imagine people, elderly people, going from a place to a place to a place, running for their lives from the middle area to Hanounez and then to Rafah and then going back to the middle area.
I don't know what the, when I look at the American president, whom I do respect very much, Biden, and I imagine someone in the same age of Biden who has to take out his gun and go to multiple places and try at every place to secure some food Secure some water, secure some sanitation.
You know, this is not a big ask.
But imagine doing this for 12 times, for 10 times.
Because it's not every person who was able to cross outside the Gaza.
Because this also is a problem.
The people need money.
And people, they were unemployed since October.
People, they don't have money.
So it's only some people who are actually privileged to cross and leave that bed, leaving behind people in bed in such a manner.
I'm speaking about elderly, I'm speaking about children, I'm speaking about women.
I myself, I documented many cases, I worked with an Italian NGO, and I tell you, in one of the displacement movements, one pregnant woman, well, she had to lose her fetus because she ran She tried to run away from Israeli bulldozers and drones and she was under stress and as such the fetus did no movement after that kind of displacement.
And when she was able to revisit the doctor afterwards, after one month, Because that is not easy to do.
She discovered that the fetus has gone and she unfortunately there are no medical care.
Let's say there's the very minimum capacities in the Gaza Strip providing medical care but as an essence and standard, there's almost no medical care that can be provided within such an environment that lacks, you know, Malnutrition, contaminated food, contaminated water, no good sanitation.
You know, the people living in the tents for 10 months, the skin diseases, it's too hot in the day time, too cold in the night.
So it's unbelievable, the suffering that the Palestinian people, the Gaza people, they have undergone is unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.
So Khalil, let me ask you, I mean, thank you for that description, but this is a really important point, that Israel's leaders claim to be acting in self-defense against Hamas.
And I agree with you that we denounce Hamas attacks on civilians, just as we denounce Israeli attacks on civilians.
And the Israeli attacks have been 50 to 1 in terms of the current death count, but as you are alluding to, this very rapidly becomes a much bigger picture with a much higher potential death count, especially even the Lancet has published studies that are estimating higher numbers based on destruction of infrastructure.
So what happens to a population when they are denied medical care for an extended period of time?
Or if they are denied clean water, or denied sanitation, or denied nutritious food that can help the body defend itself against pathogens, for example.
Because it seems to me that Netanyahu in particular, but some of his other high-level political leaders I mean, they stated so, that they want to destroy the infrastructure, no food, no electricity, no water, in order to cause what could potentially be hundreds of thousands of deaths from these secondary causes that are not bombs.
But it could be a much larger number of deaths.
And isn't this sort of attack on a civilian infrastructure A rather horrendous type of war that violates international humanitarian law.
Exactly.
You said it, you mentioned it.
This is all violating the international humanitarian law.
The IHL, it relies really on a balance between the military advantage and between the humanitarian consideration.
But what we have been witnessing is a collapse of the whole Gaza Strip.
as a collapse of generations because there are people, there are students, there are young children who need to go to school.
Guess who could have joined his school since last October?
No one, no child, university students.
What do you feel if I tell you that more than 85% of the universities in Gaza are now destroyed?
Yes.
What if I tell you that more than 80% of the schools in Gaza are either destroyed or damaged?
What if I tell you that it's war not only against Hamas but against the Palestinian people and against international organizations like the UNRWA that is described by Israel as a terrorist organization?
You know, Terrorism, oh my God, this world.
You know, and speak about terrorism and the United States.
It's not only Hamas that is terrorist.
No, it's the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Back then, in 1987, the U.S.
Congress has announced the Palestinian Liberation Organization as a terrorist organization.
This organization, that Israel itself, it recognized it.
As the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people is actually a terrorist organization in the United States since 1987 by a motion taken by the US Congress.
It has, this PLO has 11 Palestinian factions.
And now you have Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
They are not within the PLO, but they are also labeled as terrorists.
So that means that all Palestinian factions Political ones, they are all terrorists in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of the United States.
Well, when I see the opposite, when I see the opposite in the United States, when I see the American students, American college students, they go, they try to demonstrate in the campus, inside the campus, out of the campus.
They are trying to stop the bloodshed.
They should not be misunderstood in a way to say, you know, because the state of Israel, it has a strong, let's say, propaganda.
For example, in October 7th, there was that saying that there were so many rapes conducted by the Hamas fighters.
But then the international, the investigators, the journalism, all of them, they disconfirmed this.
And they said that someone from Israel who basically made it up.
It was a hoax.
Yeah.
So it's all around the world.
And typical, normal American people will say, yeah, go and get those Palestinians.
That's it.
They did trip.
This is shameful.
This is awful.
Well, now the reality is that There was no rape within the October 7 attacks.
And the reality, as shown on the Israeli television, is that there are rapes and sexual harassment incidents against the Palestinian detainees.
Absolutely.
I'm sorry to interrupt, but there's something important to interject here.
I mean, you're absolutely correct.
And also there was accusations that Hamas was baking babies in ovens.
And that was completely debunked as well.
But you still hear people in America repeating this.
You hear even Christian pastors repeating this.
And I've had many disagreements with Christian pastors, as I have heard Christian pastors in America speaking like Satan, saying, you know, kill them all!
Kill all the Palestinians!
Leave no child alive!
And I'm like, you have no right from God to demand such mass death.
I mean, who do you think you are?
God himself in the Old Testament?
But listen to this.
Show my screen, if you would, to my producers.
This is from A Great Game India.
South Africa to present explosive Gaza war crimes evidence against Israel in October.
So this is coming up.
This was just published, but they're going to have explosive new evidence about war crimes.
Now, from my point of view, I've already seen so much evidence of Not just the videos of the babies being killed and bombed, and the mosques, and the universities, and the refugee camps, and the hospitals being bombed.
But I've heard, in their own words, Israeli leaders like Gavir and Galant and Netanyahu, in their own words, calling for war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
But you're the expert in humanitarian law.
Is there enough evidence now to convince more nations around the world to join the South Africa action with the ICJ or maybe eventually with the ICC?
What's it going to take?
We Palestinians, we were very happy to see South Africa moving and acting on behalf of the whole world.
We believe that we want more countries intervening into that lawsuit.
Now, just to make things simple, Gaza is one of the most overcrowded areas all over the world.
Everyone knows this.
Gaza has a population of 2.4 million.
Half of them, more than half of them, are women and children.
So when it comes to the general identification or definition of war crimes, I want to simply say the following: There are explosive weapons with wide area impact.
So... - 2,000 pound bombs.
Well, until now it's 80,000 bombs.
80,000 tons of bombs.
They fall onto the Gaza Strip.
It's more than, for the audience, there's more TNT equivalent dropped on Gaza now than the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War II.
By multiple times.
Like six or seven times.
Yes, yes.
And it's a small incident.
I thought myself that the world will learn a lot from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but since it's not the case.
Anyway, so I was saying simply that the employment of weapons that has wide area impact.
So it means IDF is aiming against one person, but with using these tons of bombs.
In every attack, in every airstrike, that means that the effect, the impact of the strike, it goes indiscriminately to other people.
Be them women, be them children, be them neighbors, be them someone who's 500 meters away, but the debris fall on him and killed him.
And that happened a thousand times from before.
And this is why there are no safe zones in Gaza.
So, it's not a shooting for a sniper warfare.
No, it's basically the idea of suspect that there are Hamas operatives in a particular place.
So they bombarded, regardless if there are women, there are children, there are other people, because they are aiming, from their point of view, at a legitimate target, at a local target.
But again, this disproportionality that makes all the calculations wrong, because by knowing that you are now throwing at two tons, for example, a bomb on a particular place, you know that the impact of that will extend a bomb on a particular place, you know that the impact of that will extend to other people, other Yes.
Khalil, I'm sorry to interrupt again, but I even question Whether there is a legitimate, justified target of an actual Hamas person that was targeted in the first place.
Because there's no method of due process, obviously.
We've heard of AI technology choosing targets based on algorithms that bypass human decision-making.
We've also seen the IDF launch drone-based missiles at food aid workers who clearly are not Hamas.
They are food.
The world kitchen food aid workers driving a vehicle that is specifically targeted by the IDF.
So it seems to me that these 2,000-pound bombs are used to destroy infrastructure, to destroy the civilization so that there's nothing for the Palestinian people to come back home to one day.
There's nothing left.
That's why they're using the 2,000-pound bombs that, by the way, Boeing supplies an American company, Boeing, and other weapons manufacturers.
I don't know if Boeing supplies the 2,000-pound bombs, but Boeing supplies other bombs.
And the weapons companies in America gladly supply these bombs so that they can generate profits for their shareholders in the United States.
They can give campaign contributions to members of Congress who are also taking money from the AIPAC lobby while people People are dying from indiscriminate area-effect bombings in Gaza.
That's what I'm trying to point out to our audience.
Thank you.
You said the whole truth.
That's exactly true.
It's heartbreaking, I know, I mean, to intake all of this.
But again, yes, you said that there can be no Hamas operator, but then an attack was launched.
I want to give another assumption actually and this is solely an assumption because Israel continues to speak about a network of tunnels underneath the Gaza Strip.
So as people may know that the Gaza Strip has an area of At 27 square kilometers.
27.
Imagine, and this is just an assumption, this is just an imagination, that there is a network of tunnels underneath the whole Gaza Strip.
Because fighters, when they want to move, they will not go to the streets.
The drones will see them and then it will attack them.
So the Hamas preferred mode of action is actually to dig tunnels and move it from an area to another, go from an area to another, using these types of tunnels.
Now, I want to put this assumption, that there are tunnels underneath the whole Gaza Strip.
So wherever Israel strikes, wherever IDF strikes, then there need to be somehow A tunnel under that place, and as such, can be a local attack, and as such, if there are 20 civilians killed, this is somehow understandable by the senior American politicians, or regular people even, or normal people.
Okay.
If there is that kind of network of tunnels, Then you can kill all Palestinian people, you can kill all Gazans, you can kill the 2.4 million people there.
No, IHL does not say this.
IHL says if there's a concrete military advantage that you can uphold by minimizing as much as you can the incidental damage, then you can go for it.
But Israel needs to understand I know that it was a shock, this October 7th.
I know their personal reactions.
Yeah, this is true.
Nevertheless, all of their calculations were either wrong or no.
They want, actually, the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
And this is why they destroyed the majority of factories, universities, the schools, the medical care units, the band, the food.
You know, Israel controls the whole borders of the Gaza Strip now, from the sea to the ground.
They can't simply.
It brings so much food into the Gaza Strip so people don't feel hungry, but they don't want to do this.
This is their obligation as an occupying power under international law.
But now they are dealing with the Gaza people as foreign people, as the whole conflict has started in October 7th, not in 1948 or 1967.
So, the whole story started from there.
There was a legitimacy for the Israelis to go and come again to invade inside the Gaza Strip, although they had already surrounded it from before for long, and they had control of the movement, goods, persons, etc.
The hostilities, it's hostilities, it's killing, it's children, women, and also some Hamas operators.
You know, these kind of strikes, it doesn't go down in the sub-terra.
So, even the impact of it is very low on Hamas.
So, we need to speak about... Yeah.
I'm sorry, let me respond to that.
I need to add context, I believe, for our audience.
So, but you pointed out something really important, which is that Israel justifies its bombing of the surface buildings, including hospitals and universities and residential buildings, because they would claim, well, they need to get the tunnels that are underneath those buildings.
However... Yes, however...
Well, and as Americans, I think most Americans accept, it's well known, it's widely known, there are some number of tunnels.
Nobody knows how many or how long, but there are some number of tunnels there.
However, that logic is so twisted because if that were true, then even in the United States, let's say that some, quote, terrorist took over the basement of New York University in New York, in New York City, Then would the US military be justified to bomb and destroy the entire campus of the university in order to try to get the terrorists in the basement?
Because that's what's being stated by Israel.
Now, and the other point of this is that if Israel, if their soldiers actually went into the tunnels and set off bombs, let's say, in the tunnels, And they could do their attacks in the tunnels and not destroy the surface buildings.
Exactly.
They don't have to destroy the huts.
They want to inflict as much pain on the Palestinian people so they have to.
Clearly.
But I would argue, and I know I'm going to take heat for this, but I would argue that the IDF soldier has turned out to be Much less prepared for war than anybody thought, and thus the typical IDF soldier who is really a part-time soldier that is not as experienced and certainly not as passionate as Yeah, I think this is true.
I think this is true.
defending their own home, right?
That the IDF soldier is not capable of winning a victory in the tunnels, and thus they are resorting to 2,000-pound bombs to destroy surface buildings to try to displace all people from the entire area.
That's my theory.
What do you think?
Yeah, I think this is true.
I think this is true.
And if you want to fight people or kill people in the tunnels, Please go to these tunnels.
Don't kill the people on the earth, on the ground.
It's because people on the ground, they don't know that there is even a tunnel underneath.
And this is the problem.
It's this type of nature of war, unfortunately.
Now, Israel just limiting its operation against the Hamas.
This is what they say.
But on the ground, no.
The whole Gaza Strip.
It's the whole Gaza Strip that is now destroyed.
The whole Gaza Strip that will suffer for the coming eight years of rebuild.
And we will probably rebuild and then it will be also destroyed.
So it's an endless painful story.
I don't know what should be the end of that story.
But what I believe is that a peaceful, a peace, a recourse to peaceful means by way of negotiating And finding a deal between Israelis and Palestinians, that would be the best option.
That would be the best option.
The two-step solution, as it's always said, as always recalled upon by the U.S.
administration, is the best option.
But what I see is that now, as everyone is somehow, and at the beginning, everyone was encouraging Israel to go for military intervention.
Now, the whole world, the whole international community, is starting to doubt Any effective impact out of that military operation, starting to doubt even that it's the objectives, the identity of the Israeli objectives.
Because more and more, it looks like the real agenda is to enforce an ethnic cleansing by the commission of acts of genocide and acts of expulsion and acts of cutting warfare and destroying infrastructure, etc, etc.
I'm thinking the whole Gaza Strip as uninhabitable and that such people will need to leave because someone like me, for example, I have children.
They need to be educated.
There is no school in Gaza that is running.
In the first opportunity, I will go and leave Gaza because at the end of the day, I'm Palestinian, but I'm a human being and I need to take care of my kids.
Now, to destroy generations in that manner, prevent them not only from water, food, bring some famine-like conditions, but also killing their spirit, their psychological resilience, to ban them from even the livelihoods, the livestock of people.
They were all destroyed.
So I don't know how can the Gaza people earn some money in the future as to support themselves, not to support the reconstruction of their demolished houses.
You see what I mean?
Yes, absolutely.
But let me add that Israel, in failing to achieve its stated goals in this war that it says is against Hamas, We've already seen Israeli military leaders state that those goals are impossible to achieve.
But we have seen Israel achieve its own destruction in so many ways.
We've seen economic destruction of Israel.
We've seen Many, many Israelis, certainly hundreds of thousands, flee their own country, and of course hundreds of thousands have fled from the north, close to the Lebanon border, for security reasons.
We have seen international companies like Intel pull out of tens of billions of dollars of investment projects that were going to build manufacturing facilities into Israel, that's been halted.
We've seen Israeli ports essentially shut down, mostly because of the Yemeni's attacks on the cargo vessels through the Red Sea.
But we've also seen Fitch downgrade the rating of Israeli debt.
We have seen, just as the Palestinians have had to flee Gaza, global investment money is fleeing Israel.
Israel is suffering a different kind of economic and credibility destruction simply because they have failed to achieve their goals in Gaza.
And this brings up a much bigger question, given that Israel has a plan for a greater Israel.
That is, from the Jordan River all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, to clearly to exterminate the people of Iraq, and Syria, and some of Lebanon, and maybe one day to go to war again with Egypt, and who knows what are their plans for Jordan, what are their plans for Iran.
But this plan of Israel clearly cannot be, there is no practical means by which Israel could achieve that, given that they can't even defeat Hamas in Gaza.
Yes, and the problem is that peace is a problem.
Peace is a problem, unfortunately, bringing all of that military repercussions.
Yeah, and it's the length of the military operation.
So, in urban settings, what I shall say, that it should be very surgical.
It should be very concise.
It should be not taking so much time.
But now, we, everyone, Palestinians and Israelis, we are all together, we're facing the problem of time passing for a long time.
So it's been 10 months, you said it, 1 million Israelis, they had to go back to Europe or wherever, or the U.S., just to be safe in this time, in this period, and then they probably would come back to Israel, to Tel Aviv, or from where they had traveled.
Now, it's the long operation, it's the extensive time that is actually exhausting all of us, Palestinians and Israelis, and it had an impact on the Israeli economy.
When you speak about Israel, You know, Israel, what does it mean, an Israeli?
An Israeli means, can be a Palestinian Arab, originally I mean Palestinian Arab, can be a Jew, or respectful Jews.
And I want to say that, and thanks God, that there are, there's this Zionism application so that we don't speak much about Jews.
Because, you know, this, the, you mentioned Ibex, and I'm sorry I'm jumping from a topic to another.
But you know what is the truth, my friend?
The truth is this.
There's some malfunction in the electoral system of the United States because they allow an organization like IBAC to pay so much money for all congresspersons as to go for their campaigns.
And then when they are elected, they volunteer trillions of dollars from the taxpayers, from the American taxpayers to Israel.
So they give billions.
Then Israel give IBAC some, I don't know, a small percentage of that number that enable IBAC to sell, to buy.
And I'm sorry to use this word, but to buy all the American politicians.
Well, they are bought off, there's no question.
I'm sorry, no, not all of them.
Not all, no, I know, but what I'm saying is... I still believe in the American spirit, but yeah, this problem is the U.S.
support, U.S.
political line support to Israel.
That adds insult to the injury, because we like Americans.
And Arabs, they are the first ally of the U.S.
I don't think Israel is the first ally of the U.S.
It's the Arabs, it's Saudi Arabia, it's Egypt, it's Jordan, it's Morocco, it's Tunisia.
You are speaking about a region that is all considered an ally to the United States, and not only Israel.
So we need some balancing, balancing, balancing.
I'm very sorry to hear that you had to watch that clown show.
I just want to mention one point of it.
into the Middle East because unfortunately, yesterday I saw the presidential debate, I'm sorry, the debate yesterday.
And I saw-- - I'm very sorry to hear that you had to watch that clown show because it was theater. - But I just want to mention one point, okay?
When the Trump whom I respect, sure, when he said, when he referred to Ukraine and Russia, he stressed that we need to negotiate a deal.
Yes.
We need to negotiate a deal between Russia and Ukraine and end this war.
But for Palestine, Israel, he didn't mention this.
If it's up to him, he would give even fighters from the U.S. volunteering with the Israeli army.
He didn't say that I want to find a deal that would relieve the Palestinian people from the pain they have endured, not since October 7th, but since 1948, since the Nakba and the Naksa, etc.
It's, you know, for this, for this, I believe that the next American election, the Israeli reliance on Trump victory into the next American or U.S.
election is something that I'm fearful from, because honestly, if that were to happen with the current budget, That means that we will be unfortunately suffering endlessly as Palestinian people.
Well, I want to point out something that is changing.
I'm not saying that Democrats are better, but I just want to mention this as for the American people also to think and reflect.
No, you're exactly right.
There was no candidate on that stage that would halt the shipment of weapons from the United States to Israel.
Every candidate, you know, Trump and Kamala and everybody except Jill Stein, perhaps, would send more weapons to Israel.
However, something significant is changing, something historic.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has had the dominant naval power, the dominant military threat, and the dominant currency, the dollar.
This is dramatically changing now because of the rise of the BRICS nations.
Russia, China, Iran, India, and now Turkey expressing interest.
Well, they're going to join BRICS.
We have over 100 nations around the world that are going to join BRICS.
This is going to sharply diminish the economic power and weaponization potential of the U.S.
dollar, which has been used as a means of financial coercion against other nations for decades.
Secondly, and this is why I think Israel made a huge mistake, and the U.S.
made a huge mistake, Israel's failure to completely eradicate Hamas, which was one of the goals of Netanyahu, has exposed Israel's military capabilities as weak and, frankly, largely incompetent in terms of having a soldier-to-soldier fight.
The fact that a Hamas fighter wearing sandals can run up and put a bomb on a tank and take out a multimillion-dollar tank, and we've seen numerous, numerous videos of that, this shows the weakness of the Israeli military that was not prepared this shows the weakness of the Israeli military that was not prepared for urban guerrilla warfare, and also not prepared for a
We're already seeing so many IDF soldiers, injuries and deaths, of course, always a secret.
You can never know how many, but they had to call up more reserves, 15,000 reserves.
But on top of that, Khalil, the United States Navy recently, they had to issue, I forgot which leader said this, but they had to tell Israel, we can't keep all of our ships here forever.
And you know why?
Because the Navy is no longer the strongest, well, It may currently be the strongest blue water force in the world, but that is rapidly changing.
It's becoming more and more obsolete because of ballistic missile capabilities from nations like Iran that's getting technology transfer from Russia.
And in addition, Turkey is rising up as a very, very technologically capable Weapons manufacturing nation that is probably going to leave NATO and join BRICS and so the obsolescence of the United States dollar and the US military and Without the US Israel could not exist as it is currently structured These dynamics are changing Khalil.
It is I mean history is being reshaped in real time right in front of us and Yes, unfortunately, because what you say means that it's possible that we will witness one day a third world war, which we want to avoid.
But again, the erosion of the U.S.
legitimacy It's because there's some disagreement between the U.S.
administration and between the Israeli administration.
And nevertheless, there was so much erosion of even the trust in the American dream, the trust of the high values and principles that we should all be sharing.
That erosion has happened because of the course of the Israeli army into Gaza, and not only into Gaza, but also in the West Bank.
And you have Hamas in Gaza, but you have DPA, the Palestinian Authority, it's there in the West Bank.
It actually thwarted many, many, many operations against IDF soldiers and against Israeli civilians.
But what did they receive in return?
the continuation of the settlements.
Why?
Because this is at the end, the West Bank, for some of the Jews, is Judea and Samaria.
So I wish one day, one day, okay, I know that the United States will not be able to put Israel behind its prioritism.
No, I mean, we are rational people.
We know the U.S.
will be always supporting the State of Israel because of the horrible events that the Jews were subject to during World War II.
Nevertheless, the problem is that We need some balance of relation, and these tons of bombs, they are actually killing children, and they are not achieving any particular outstanding results for the Israeli army.
I go back to the West Bank.
I tell you, there are settlements.
It's Judea and Samaria.
Well, I wish one day to see Israel as a state in the United States, in its current location.
But I want it to be Israel.
I wish one day to see it a state, like called a state within the United States.
It's because I wish one day the federal law to apply on it.
Because the international law these times, these days is actually, I'm sorry to say it and put it in that word, but it's worthless.
Well, it's... It's not being applied, is what you're saying.
I mean, I understand South Africa, the International Criminal Court.
It's not being applied, is what you're saying.
Yes, yes, it's not being applied.
There is a federal law that can be applied on the state of Israel.
By this, we can ensure some sound support from the United States to Israel.
Well, I would – I'm sorry to interrupt.
We're almost out of time.
But I would appeal to basic humanitarian principles.
And we're told that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East – It's a lie.
It's not a democracy.
Because in a democracy, one person gets one vote.
And every human being has basic dignity and recognition as a valuable life.
The Palestinians get no votes.
in the government of the occupiers.
And no election is a lot.
That's right.
That's right.
So it's not a democracy.
That's a great lie that's told to all of us Americans.
And secondly, history shows us that apartheid-style occupations eventually fail.
They eventually fail.
And it's obsolete.
It cannot persist.
Israel is going to have to find a different way to coexist with its neighbors and the Palestinian people in the Middle East.
Otherwise, I think that its current model is not sustainable.
I mean, it's clear it's not sustainable.
So I would call, and we're almost out of time Khalil, but I would call for All the American people watching this, if you believe in humanitarian principles, you believe in democracy, so you should demand that of Israel.
And Israel is not following any of those principles right now.
It is violating them routinely.
And we welcome Israel to continue to exist if it can exist on a level playing field with other human beings and stop pretending that, oh, all those children we just bombed, well, they were Hamas, so we're going to call them terrorists after we found their bodies.
And yeah, they were 9 and 10 years old, we'll just call them terrorists.
Sorry, we don't buy that anymore.
But Khalil, your final thoughts as we wrap this up?
Yes, well I want to say it's not all Israelis who want this war to continue.
It's just the political equivalent in Israel that wants this war to continue.
For the Israeli people, the Israeli society, the families of the missing They don't want this war to continue.
So it's the political system giving its order to the military echelon, which is the IDF, to enforce.
Unfortunately, the political asked the military to achieve the impossible.
And in achieving the impossible, there was not enough sufficient precautions taken or adopted by the IDF as to spare the Palestinian civilians from the impact of the current war.
So, we are seeing somehow, I would say it's a reckless behavior following a political decision that is eventually a genocide committed in the Gaza Strip.
Now, it's everyone's responsibility, actually, to stop this bloodshed.
And to stop that, that means that we need our voice to go higher.
We need some sympathy, this time from congresspersons.
If you tell me all Palestinian factions are terrorists, then what do you expect out of Palestinians?
It's like you don't respect any Palestinian faction.
This is the truth.
We really are out of time here.
We have to wrap this up.
Yeah, just one last thing.
The Palestinian factions are terrorists because they don't belong to a state.
Because if there is a state, then there is an army.
And those Palestinian factions, I mean the militants within the Palestinian factions, will constitute the army.
There's no terrorist army.
But for groups, organized armed groups, yes, it's easy to label them with terrorists.
So yeah, Palestinians, they want to have the right to self-determination realized.
And for this, it's either that the world will reward us with a positive change, or we will continue on to this bullshit, which, unfortunately, will have a bad impact on the universe, for sure.
All right Khalil, thank you so much for joining me today.
We appreciate your thoughts and be safe.
You know, we pray for the safety of all people in the region and we pray for the end of bloodshed.
So thank you for joining us today.
And as a final note to my audience, I meant what I just said.
We pray for peace.
We pray for de-escalation of violence and we also pray that America would stop funding and sending weapons that are used against civilians that is not acceptable.
And it is also not acceptable for Christian pastors to call for mass death of the Palestinian people, simply because many of them are followers of Islam.
There are many Christians in Gaza who have been killed by Israel, by the way.
There are many Christians in Lebanon.
There are Christians all throughout the region.
And they are also under assault by Israel's war against humanity.
So it's time to end that call for peace and humanitarian principles.
And please join me in doing that.
Share this interview wherever you can so that we may find a way to coexist peacefully on this earth as Christ himself called for.
And if you don't believe me, read the New Testament.
It's all right there.
So thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger, the founder of brighteon.com.
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