David Mendes and Tamara Ugalini dissect Israel’s October 7th Hamas attack—40 dead babies, slaughtered civilians, and reservists evacuating bodies near Gaza—while exposing Canada’s pro-Hamas rallies chanting "Anti-baba!" and calling the country a "racist regime." Trudeau condemned Hamas but avoided protest backlash; Poilievre called it a "genocidal death cult," contrasting bluntness with media inconsistencies. The episode reveals CBC’s past silence on labeling Hamas terrorists, despite leaked emails, and questions whether Western values still hold amid extremist normalization. [Automatically generated summary]
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Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Daily Roundup on this, a Tuesday, October 10th, 2023.
I'm David Mendes, and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co's.
Folks, do you know that today is National Angel Food Cake Day?
And my co-host does not celebrate National Angel Food Cake Day because, well, she's just so gosh darn angelic as is.
She is the she-devil with a spatula.
She is the Khaleesi of the greater Coburg area.
She is Tamara Ugalini.
How you doing there, Tamara?
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Do you have a nice Thanksgiving?
My, what an introduction.
Yes, I was going to say that I'm very angelic.
So thank you for that cross-reference.
Really appreciate it.
I did have a good Thanksgiving despite the very sad and tragic world events that are taking place.
I celebrated my birthday as well over the weekend.
So happy birthday.
Thank you.
I took some time to just kind of disconnect, which, you know, in hindsight was maybe inappropriate, but also very much needed over the weekend.
So, and you, David, you're out in the field all weekend.
So I don't even think you had a turkey dinner.
Yes.
You know what?
And we'll get to this a little later on, but I thought even though we're a world away from the Middle East, the feeling of Thanksgiving this year, it was a very melancholy one given the events and the fact that I didn't really get to celebrate it.
But I'm not complaining because there were so many important events to cover right here in our backyard.
Thank goodness, Tamara, that Ezra is dispatching Avi Yamini from Australia to Israel.
I think he lands there tomorrow, folks.
And it's not just to cover the war, which is important, but it's to cover those who are covering the war in the mainstream media because you know very soon the bullshite cycle will start.
The demonization and vilification of the victim, Israel, will get underway.
And I think our Abby Yamini was going to act as a one-man fact checker.
And I couldn't think of a better journalist to cover this tragic event, folks, because Avi has spent many years in Israel.
He was an IDF member.
He knows the country.
He has connections there.
So this is, I can hardly wait.
And thank goodness we have a guy like Avi to keep the media honest, if that's indeed in the realm of possibility these days.
Well, and just contrasting their reports as well.
And we've launched a campaign to support Avi and follow along as they give you breaking on the ground reports.
That new website is thetruthaboutthewar.com.
So there we already have lots of articles and video clips about what has transpired since Saturday when the news broke out of the attacks and the escalation that has resulted.
But before we get into that news, we have to, we want to share with you that Rebel News is bringing you the latest and next Rebel News Live event.
So that's a great way for you to come out and support us in our journalistic endeavors, but also to gather with us in person, unabated.
You know, David Menzies and I co-host in studio typically.
We had a little bit of a break there for several weeks while the studio had some renovations and then there was other issues and then you were traveling.
So it is always so nice though to get together in person and you really can't compare to gathering, if you could even call it that, virtually or via electronics.
So we are doing our next in-person in the flesh event in Calgary on Saturday, November the 18th, RebelNewsLive.com.
That's where you can find out more and get your tickets.
We're still securing some speakers, but it's a great way for you to hear from certain keynote speakers, have great feud, music, socialize, and of course, purchase exclusive Rebel News merchandise and our latest books.
So I would urge everyone who's interested and or in the Calgary area to head over to RebelNewsLive.com, buy your tickets, and stay tuned as we announce our speaker list over the next few weeks.
And then you can find the list from last year.
So Tamara Leach, Arthur Powlowski, Julie Panessi, Maxine Bernier, Andrew Lawton, and the list goes on and on.
But I'm sure there will be equally as intriguing speakers to bring to you in a little bit over a month.
So get it while it lasts because these events continually seem to be selling out.
So purchase them now before it does.
I love these events, Tamara.
And one of the reasons is the members of the audience who are our supporters, you couldn't encounter a better bunch of people.
And to see them live, shake their hands, hear their stories, it's fantastic.
So it's very much symbiotic.
You're coming for the speakers and the special guests.
And we get to meet you, which is always a pleasure indeed.
So there you go.
Saturday, November 18th, correct?
That's it.
In Calgary.
In Calgary.
And more speakers to be announced soon.
So follow along there at RebelNewsLive.com.
Well, without further ado, we have the recent unfoldings in the GTA, the Greater Toronto Area.
I'm sorry to interrupt, Tamara.
Don't you at this point usually do the whole housekeeping?
Yeah, I'm getting ahead of myself, aren't I?
Thanks, David, for that reminder.
So for those of you who are just tuning in, this is our daily roundup, our way to dissect and bring you the newsiest news items of the day, or in this case, of the weekend and the holiday Monday here in Canada.
We had Thanksgiving Monday yesterday.
So it was a holiday for us, some of us, or none really of us.
But anyway, so we do this every day from 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern and we stream on a few different platforms.
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We will make sure that we get to your comment at some point throughout our live on the air commentary.
And with that, David, maybe you can take us through the series of events you were out in the field over the weekend, as we mentioned, covering some of these rallies in the Greater Toronto area.
It was truly a tale of two demonstrations.
First of all, around two o'clock at Nathan Phillips Square, we had, and I can't believe I'm going to say this, folks, but I'm going to say it, a pro-Hamas demonstration.
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Can you imagine as the Israeli death toll, I believe at last count, is approaching 1,000?
And the most horrific acts of terrorism, I'm so sorry, I might have offended some reporters at the CBC.
They're not allowed to use the T-word to describe terrorism.
But everything from innocent civilians being killed, dismembered, their bodies paraded through the streets.
Now we have stories of babies being behaved, beheaded.
You know, a lot of people are saying, you know, these animals, and people go, oh, no, no, no, don't call them animals.
That's not right.
And you know, I agree with that because I think that's an insult to the animal kingdom, folks.
Animals don't behave like this.
This is beyond animalistic behavior.
But in any event, here I am, Tamara, on holiday Monday, Thanksgiving Day.
And I'm thinking, we have so much to be thankful for in this country.
I mean, being with our loved ones, food on the table, a roof over our head, being healthy.
And here I am in the city of my birth.
I mean, just behind City Hall, about a click away is the place of my birth, Women's College Hospital.
Tamara, do they call it Women's College Hospital?
I mean, is that a little insensitive to the trans community?
Maybe it's Persons College Hospital.
Who knows?
And here I see people, not in Ramallah, but in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the place of my birth where I've spent most of my life marching up Bay Street in support of these savages and barbarians that carried out this attack on Israel on Saturday.
And it's getting to the point I don't even recognize my city anymore.
And this is not a unique Toronto thing.
There are other major Canadian cities that had this grotesque display, cities in the U.S. as well, cities all across Europe.
And I got to think, especially if you're a Jewish person, it is, you know, post-Holocaust, the saying is, never again.
Well, you know what?
It kind of looks like it's happening again, doesn't it, Tamara?
This idea of demonizing Jews and those who are pro-Israeli.
And I have to say, in light of how the Freedom Convoy was treated last year, remember, Prime Minister Blackface inferred that those people were Nazis, yet Hamas, I think, fits the definition of an Islamo-Nazi terrorist group.
And you saw all kinds of hateful slogans and signs there.
Do you think, Tamara, is anyone going to be arrested, Tamara Leach style?
Do you think, Tamara, oh, I don't know, people are going to have their bank accounts frozen?
Is Blackface going to demonize those people?
No, that doesn't dovetail into the whole diversity is our strength and multiculturalism is fantastic, even though Blackface, as his nickname indicates, mocks those who are racially different than him by donning blackface so many times that even the prime minister has lost count.
So it was the hypocrisy on display that really jarred me.
And also, I look at some of the so-called allies marching with them.
The most spectacular one of all, Tamara, was a trans person.
In this, it would be a man pretending to be a woman.
And by that, folks, I mean an obvious male in every regard, except that he was wearing earrings and a dress, and oh, and a face diaper too, and had an umbrella, even though there was zero precipitation that day.
It's very funny, all these people that hitch their wagon to a pro-terrorist march and to an antifa demonstration.
And in this case, antifa, intifada, hey, what's the difference?
And my question to him, her, it, whatever you want to call, maybe it was a trans cat, who knows these days.
They, them, yeah, got to get my pronouns straight.
Otherwise, I might be committing a thought crime.
I said to this person, how well do you think you would be treated in the Palestinian Authority?
And of course, no comment.
And that was par for the course, Tamara, because they, you know, the organizers were shutting down all of our interviews.
They wanted to make sure they controlled the narrative.
And I think the reason is many of these people marching would embarrass themselves.
The answer, folks, is that if you're in the Palestinian Authority, I mean, forget about trans, if you're openly gay or lesbian, you're going up the express elevator of a skyscraper and you're coming down, well, freelance.
You're not coming down by those people are thrown off buildings.
And it's kind of like I looked at this mockery of a woman marching in solidarity with the pro-Hamas people.
And all I could think of, Tamara, it's like the chickens marching in a pro-Colonel Sanders demonstration, right?
I mean, do you know what you're even standing for?
You know, and I want to, I'll finish very quickly because I want to get your thoughts.
In terms of a tale of two demonstrations, and as you can see, that is Nathan Phillips Square.
And by the way, the silver lining, compared to the last time the pro-Hamas crowd came out, which was May 2021, which we covered, there was easily, I would estimate, 10 times more protesters back in 2021.
They were even climbing the arches over the reflecting pool.
And I was a little concerned because I don't know what the weight tolerance of that concrete was.
And of course, you're not allowed to, by law, climb those structures, but you know, we turn a blind eye to these special people.
But at 7 o'clock at Mel Lasman Square, which was in the former North York section of Toronto, now it's just all Toronto, a solidarity with Israel event took place.
And a couple of notable things.
First of all, the huge police presence and not just a police presence, Tamara, but major intersections all over Mel Lasman Square.
And this is a commentary on the state of the world as it is, unfortunately.
They were blocked off with City of Toronto dump trucks.
Sorry, garbage trucks.
You know, it was literally a dam.
And we know why.
Because when you have a few thousand pro-Israeli people and Jews congregating in a square, in the world in which we live, do we know there might not be, and there you can see the garbage trucks, some individual that might pack a vehicle with explosives and take out several hundred people.
So this, again, this is the city of my birth, Tamara, where we have to lay siege to a section in order for a peaceful protest to take place.
And by the way, that was the other thing that was very noticeable.
You didn't see the Jews and the pro-Israeli people at Mel Lasman Square chanting death to the Palestinians, destroy the Palestinian Authority, nothing like that.
It was very peaceful by every definition.
Not that there were agitators there.
You can see it's a sea of Israeli flags.
But yes, by foot traffic, some Palestinian or pro-Hamas demonstrators came and they were trying to bait the crowd into throwing haymakers with their slogans.
And all they got was copious quantities of raised middle fingers and F-bombs.
In other words, nobody crossed the line, thank goodness, because this is what they want.
They want to show that these people are violent, but nobody took the bait.
And again, In stark contrast to the hatred we saw on display in downtown Toronto five hours earlier, and also the ramped up security, like I said, because and for good reason.
We have to live, I think, today, Tamara, in a world where we say better safe than sorry.
I mean, in all likelihood, there was probably going to be no terrorist attack if vehicle traffic was allowed on Young Street that night, but we don't know, do we?
No, you can never be too sure, which is probably why they deployed those vehicles to keep that line of separation between the two different sides.
And, you know, it's important to note here that there's extremism on both sides.
And the pro-Hamas side is a direct reflection of the extremist extreme that you're seeing post-the Saturday attack where the Hamas terrorists broke through, what is the wall called there, where they broke through several key points of the border.
There is so much nuance involved in the situation.
I mean, my question keeps going back to how did the Israeli defense not see this coming?
That's a major point of contention for me personally, where I go, how did no one see this coming?
How are they not prepared for such an attack?
And to see, you know, we had this write-up posted on October 7th, so the day that this all unfolded, to see the way the liberals, the unions, the CBC minimized this slaughter of innocent victims, right?
There's innocent civilians being targeted and slaughtered for ideology.
And that's where this is so unfortunate.
And my heart really goes out to the innocent people that are caught in this crossfire and these attacks, because obviously this is adjacent to a war crime.
And you have one of Canada's largest unions, CUPE, post on Twitter, Palestine is rising, long live the resistance, and really validating this and normalizing this kind of extremism, murderous extremism.
And that is really concerning to see on the Canadian socio-political landscape.
There's this whole write-up that Sheila did on Saturday has some of these tweets and these retweets.
CBC, the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on Saturday in a surprise assault, right?
A surprise assault.
So the wording's really strange, really downplaying the magnitude of this attack that combined gunmen crossing into several Israeli towns with a heavy barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
Nothing in there about how these are innocent civilians being targeted and murdered because of a radically extreme ideology.
And we see that not necessarily this particular ideology infiltrating Canadian politics and, as I mentioned, our socio-political landscape, but this kind of radical progressive extremism is very much aligned with things like the CBC, the unions, so on and so forth.
This normalization isn't far off from where they've been the last few years in terms of the political landscape and these really progressive extreme ideologues.
Those tweets by Cupie, Tamara, were absolutely horrific.
By the way, have they been taken down yet?
I think at least one of them has.
It took a while.
It took a while.
And, you know, even in instances, and I'm not sure if we're going to get into this in a little bit, but Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, I think it took her three times to get it right.
She tweeted, tweeted, and deleted and posted on X, whatever it's called now.
But it took her three different tries to get it right on this.
And she kept kind of wishy-washy, changing her tune, wasn't sure which way the winds were going to blow politically for her.
And so she had to delete and repost her point or her stance three different times.
You know, I'm not surprised because one thing I noticed at Nathan Phillips Square, which folks, if you've never been to Toronto, that is the, that's where Toronto City Hall is physically located.
The flag of Ukraine was there flying.
But remember, this is three days after this terrorist attack.
Is it too much to ask Mayor Chow to put up maybe the flag of Israel?
Now, maybe in the meantime, there has been a flag raised, but it seems like that might be a bridge too far or a flag too far, as the case may be.
The other thing, I mean, this is, you know, when you see these celebrations supporting Hamas, this is equivalent, I think, Tamara, to, you know, in the hours after 9-11 going out there and supporting the terrorists.
Can I say terrorists?
I know CBC wants me to use the word militants or militant to extreme, maybe protesters.
How about that?
And celebrating those people.
And I don't exaggerate it, folks.
The population of Israel, I believe, is almost 10 million people.
So if you extrapolate the death toll that happened in Israel in terms of a proportional American death toll, you're talking about 20,000 Americans killed in an act of terror.
So it's kind of 9-11 squared, if you will, in percentile times.
By the way, isn't that amazing?
Look at that brave woman with the Israeli flag draped over her, standing up to these mobsters.
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There's our friend Joe Warmington in the orange vest, you know, giving proper and good journalism.
And thank goodness for the police presence.
I have no doubt that the smattering of pro-Israel counter demonstrations to the pro-Hamas people would have had the you-know-what kicked out of them if there wasn't police.
And no, I'm not speculating because going back to 2021 in May, it's too bad we never got this on camera, but when those pro-Israel demonstrators left to the parking lot just north of Nathan Phillips Square, they were followed and some were really brutally assaulted.
So these are the people you're dealing with.
And apparently the union movement, the CBC, the whole love Trump's hate contingency, they are weighing in with these pro-savagery, pro-barbarism people.
And I've got to say this, Tamara.
If you are coming out in the public square in Western cities and you are supporting barbarism and you are supporting savagery, the question arises, maybe you kind of identify as a barbarian or savage yourself.
Or as you've already mentioned, you don't even know why you're coming out.
Often we see that on the typically politically left or in these sorts of cases, where people come out to show the support for the current thing and they don't even know what they're supporting or why or how or they can't even ascertain or justify what it is exactly that brought them out.
So it's, I suspect that that's also part of what's happening here.
It's just, it's the current thing and come out.
There's an urgency.
The unions have said, the mainstream media has said, and you just have to be there because it's the current thing to support.
And people, for whatever reason, whether it's mindless drone or so on, they come out and support it.
And I wanted to highlight too, David, what you mentioned a few minutes ago about how the CBC has been told not to report on the Israeli rampage and denounce them for what they are, which is terrorists.
And this came from a leaked email from allegedly from CBC's Director of Journalistic Standards, which states that journalists should refrain from referring to Hamas gunmen as terrorists.
And so we've posted the email there.
Yeah.
That comes from, again, the CBC's Director of Journalistic Standards.
There he is, George Achie.
I hope I'm not butchering it.
Standards.
Yeah, and so he's instructed journalists to use fact-based language and not refer to militants as terrorists, apparently.
Yeah.
And you know, it's funny while you were speaking about that, and how gross is that that we're funding this disgusting organization, the CBC Blackface's Propaganda Arm.
But I noticed there was one poster and it was Smash Israeli Apartheid.
And, you know, going back to that trans thingy that was marching with them, you know, for several years in the Toronto Pride Parade, there was a group, it's disbanded now, called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
And just think about that, Tamara.
In the Middle East, there is only one nation that hosts pride parades.
That's Israel.
There's one in Tel Aviv and one in Jerusalem.
And if you try doing this elsewhere, oh boy, you might see another little bit of barbarism and savagery break out against members of the alphabet soup community.
But the thing is, that proves that there is no apartheid in Israel.
And I've been to South African, South Africa, I'm married to a South African, so I know a little bit about apartheid.
But the point is, and there they are marching along, it's just amazing.
If the name of your organization, in this case, Queers Against Israeli apartheid, if the very name of your organization is a lie because there is no apartheid in Israel, then what is really motivating this kind of demonstration?
And I'll tell you what it is.
It is garden variety anti-Semitism.
They hate Jews.
It is still alive and well, even 80 years removed from the Holocaust and the mantra of never again.
There are those who do want to do it again, Tamara.
And I think if you're a Jew anywhere in the world today, these are scary times.
Well, and especially to be even a Canadian and or a Jew in Israel currently, our government is such a failure that they can't even get Canadians out of the war zone.
And there has been reports circulating online that the embassy has been closed because, as I mentioned, it was Thanksgiving weekend.
And so the Canadian embassy, despite being in Israel, was allegedly closed.
And Canadians aren't able to get in touch with anyone from the government.
They're not able to plan and strategize how to get out of the country.
I'm hearing reports that those who were able to get out of the country did so on their own accord.
They're not waiting or relying on the government for anything.
And is that really surprising given the grotesque ineptitude we've seen repeatedly of the Justin Trudeau liberals?
Its Minister of Transportation right now is Rodriguez, Pablo Rodriguez, the same one responsible for all of the online censorship and online harms bills.
And then we have Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Jolie.
I don't know what she's ever done that's really been helpful or beneficial to Canadians.
And the Minister of Defense, which is Bill Blair.
So we have these three completely inept ministers in charge of the, you know, the safety and security of Canadians abroad.
And they're probably lavishing in their turkey dinners and saying, oh, we'll deal with it on Tuesday when we're back in the office.
Well, Melanie Jolie, our Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the way, Tamara, I really stress the second word in her portfolio, affairs, at least when it comes to blackface.
Anyway, I won't get into that right now, but she has disgraced herself.
She has said that she doesn't want to weigh in.
She wouldn't connect Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, as funding these Hamas butchers.
And this is not a secret.
This is a fact of the matter that Iran is behind this.
And by the way, not that I'm trying to give cover for inept Canadian officials in terms of dealing with Canadians in Israel.
The problem right now, of course, is the airport in Tel Aviv has basically been shut down.
Why would that be?
Oh, I think when you have 4,000 rockets flying across Israeli airspace and your flight plan might dovetail with those rockets, I think that's another disaster waiting to happen.
So I think in the days ahead, if people are there, you've got no choice but to hunker down and wait this out and see what happens.
And by the way, another narrative that I keep hearing about, and Jolie was saying she's already hoping for a de-escalation.
De-escalation?
Israel hasn't even got into first gear in terms of what they're going to do to enact justice.
But I will bet you a donut, Tamara Ugolini, that in the days ahead, you will see the usual suspects and the train seals in the media going, now, Israel, don't act in a disproportionate response.
And that always strikes me as perverse, Tamara, because in war, you play to win.
And you know, I mean, if this was back in the Second World War and, you know, German forces took out 10 Allied tanks and killed 120 soldiers, no general is going to say, well, make sure when we fight back, we only take out 10 tanks and kill 120 German soldiers.
No.
If you want to win, of course you're going to ask and you're going to act in a disproportionate state of affairs.
If you go into a war with one hand tied behind your back, you're going to lose.
And I'm telling you, that is going to be the narrative.
It's already starting.
Israel has laid siege to the Gaza Strip in terms of no fuel, no water, no electricity going in.
And I would say to the Palestinians that live there, just get out of Dodge because that might be the safest thing you can do.
Another notable thing, Tamara, is that despite the rhetoric of those on the left, when you see an innocent Palestinian die, that's basically an unintended casualty of war.
Israel goes out of its way.
The IDF goes out of its way in terms of announcing where and when they're going to strike because the fact of the matter is that groups like Hamas, they have their weapons stored in hospitals, in schools, in daycares.
They use human shields.
And this is the challenge Israel has.
Whereas what we saw on Saturday, these were these Hamas terrorists coming over and deliberately targeting innocent civilians.
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Young girls at a dance concert, elderly people, some of whom had dementia and didn't even know what was going on, and killing, raping, butchering them.
I think that's a big difference in terms of the moral equivalency of how Hamas acts and how the IDF responds.
And we have some video content to share with you and warning that there's a content warning associated with that.
Obviously, we're not going to show any overly grotesque or what's the word I'm looking for?
Disturbing.
Yeah, disturbing content.
But maybe we'll go to a quick ad break and then we'll come back and share some more clips with you on this topic.
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We're going to get into a lot of relevant clips, as Tamara mentioned before the ad break.
I think we've said just about everything we can say and we think it's important to show the visuals and I'll tell you why.
One individual I interviewed in the pro-Hamas demonstration yesterday basically said that all the victims of that terror attack were IDF soldiers.
He said there were no senior citizens, there were no children.
And now we have stories of babies being beheaded.
So you can see, I guess, Tamara, as the saying goes, the first casualty of war is truth, isn't it?
Because already the spin cycle in terms of who the victim group was is being distorted.
So if a picture says a thousand words, I guess a video says 100,000 words, and we should get into that right away.
And I believe from super producer Efren, he says that we have a few clips of that grotesque pro-Hamas parade in the city of my birth yesterday.
So why don't we see some of the inanity and insanity on display?
And again, we're not going to be showing bloodshed and things like this, but this is a graphic content warning.
Even for myself, some of the clips are very disturbing.
And so I would proceed with caution.
But yeah, we have this first video to share where it says about 40 babies were taken out on Gurneys, cribs overturned, strollers left behind, doors left wide open.
This comes from I-24 News English, where their correspondent Nicole Zedek continued to survey the scenes left behind after a Hamas invasion.
So we're actually still moving through the community.
It's starting to exit now, but I want to show you just some of the destruction to these houses as well.
Because as I showed you, all of the destruction that these terrorists committed on foot as they bombarded and massacred this community, there were also air raids and rockets happening overhead, completely taking out buildings like this one.
So it was really a mixture of everything happening on the ground and in the sky as well, completely devastating this community.
Truly horrific images that we're seeing.
Now, as we're leaving the community, you can see all of these soldiers here.
As I said, so many of them called from their homes, jumping into action at a moment's notice.
Many of these reservists leaving all of their families behind to be here to protect Israel's southern border, less than a quarter of a mile away.
We continue to hear loud artillery and shelling in the distance at the Gaza border as we're walking out.
So really, all of these soldiers are doing their best to protect us, the journalists who are also out here because they want us to see exactly what's happening and what they've been witnessing with their own eyes for these past three days.
Many of them coming here Saturday night and they knew that no other soldiers had been here yet.
And so they kind of knew an idea of what was happening, but no one could expect that it would be like this, the horrors that I'm hearing from these soldiers.
As I mentioned earlier, about 40 babies at least were taken out on Gurneys.
Still, right now, they're going house to house, still evacuating dead bodies, kill Israeli citizens who were killed.
I had to cut in such a shocking, jarring statement there.
And just for our viewers, we're in a new hour here on the broadcast who very likely weren't with us last hour to understand that you've come in there to find this small community littered with the dead and slaughtered bodies of Israeli civilians primarily.
And you're saying 40 babies, dead babies.
Tamara, 40 babies taken out on Gurneys.
You are a mother of several young ones.
Can you even imagine?
No, that's unimaginable.
That is what I say that when I say that my heart goes out to the innocent civilians on both sides who are caught in this crossfire.
It is an absolutely atrocious thought to have as a mother that is your worst fear and completely unimaginable.
So yeah, that's very difficult to come from that impartially.
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There's no neutrality there.
That is a war crime and needs to be heavily denounced and pushed back on and fought against.
It's atrocious what's happening.
And then, you know, we have some clips here to share from our British Columbia correspondent, Drea Humphrey, where she went out on, I believe it was Sunday or yesterday, Monday, the holiday Monday in Vancouver, where supporters of the Hamas regime were calling Canada a racist regime full of colonizers on stolen land.
Settler colonialist project in the third world will be destroyed.
I say last settler colonialist project in the Middle East and in the third world because the most vicious settler colonialist occupation is we are living it here in North America.
And we are sure, we are sure when the world is liberated, the U.S. Empire will collapse and our brothers and sisters in the indigenous community will have full rights.
They are full rights.
We are through them.
And we will be able to.
Very bizarre.
Very bizarre connection to try to draw there.
Absolutely.
Happening also in Toronto.
There was another rally, as we've already touched on.
But in this particular clip, I wanted to throw to the protesters or the terrorist sympathizers who call out Prime Minister Trudeau chanting, Justin Trudeau, will see Palestine will be free.
Anti-baba, intefaba!
Anti-faba, and Pi Faba!
I'm going to pee in people!
Pee in people!
Marvin Pi Faba!
Enti-Faba!
Getting back to comparing the way that the Freedom Convoy protested and things like this in the streets and how the Freedom Convoy was treated by the government, media, police, etc.
I never heard a Freedom Convoy demonstration with such vitriol in their voice when they were protesting that screeching.
It's really unsettling to hear.
I have to tell you, though, Tamara, I mean, I'm really torn by watching that clip, pro-Hamas demonstrators denouncing Justin Trudeau.
It reminds me of the tagline for the movie Aliens versus Predator.
You know, no matter which side wins, we lose.
I mean, like, who do you support?
You know, the blackface regime or pro-Hamas people.
But I want to say something.
It's terribly unfashionable and politically incorrect.
But I think this makes for a case, not only for Canada, but for other Western nations, that when it comes to immigration, I think we really have to screen who we are letting into the country.
These are people on display who don't give a rodent's rectum about Western values.
And on the contrary, they're not quiet about it.
They're flouting it in the streets.
We want more destruction.
We want more death.
We want more terrorism.
The fact of that, you know, to see such a critical mass as opposed to, you know, just a couple of dozen people, this is chilling for me.
Again, that clip is from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, not Ramallah.
And that gives me cause for concern about who exactly we're letting into our country.
There was a clip.
I'm trying to find it.
I think it was from Fox News where one of their reporters was interviewing a Hamas supporter and they said, you know, essentially, do you back America first?
And they said, no.
And he said, well, aren't you American?
They said, yes.
And he said, and you don't back, don't back America first.
Said, nope, I back Hamas or Palestine, whatever it was.
So let me.
And that's case in point there.
Case in point.
And I think the follow-up question was, or is or should be, then why are you here?
Yeah.
Like, if you aren't, I mean, in the U.S., don't you swear a pledge of allegiance?
So right off the bat, you lied.
And if your heart is with barbarians and savages back in the motherland killing innocent people, carting babies out and beheading them, then why are you in a land that subscribes to democracy and Western values?
I don't get it, Tamara.
Here, I think I found the clip.
Just give me a moment to share it and maybe we can just throw that quickly to just drive that point, to just drive that point home.
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And here, let's just throw to that Fox News clip.
And I think this is from yesterday.
Do we have that here?
Yes.
Okay.
I spoke to a guy before this and he said America first.
You weren't happy with that.
Why?
Israel would not exist without America.
So no America first for you.
No.
Are you an American?
Yes.
And you don't want to put America first?
No.
Yep.
The defense.
I mean, it's straight up, right?
It's shocking.
And I think what it speaks to as well, if that was someone who was actually born in America as opposed to immigrating there, this speaks to, well, what we're seeing on the trans sanity file in schools, Tamara, the indoctrination.
This is someone that's gone through the education system in the United States of America, where, you know, America is a colonialist, imperialist country where death to America, hey, nothing wrong with saying that.
We have so much to be guilty for.
These are people that hate their own country.
That's what they're being taught.
And it's much like what, you know, as I said with the education regarding trans, that trans women are real women, and a man pretending to be a woman can get into women's sports and women's shelters and women's prisons.
And who are we to say that's wrong?
In fact, that's more diversity.
It should be celebrated and cheered.
It's unbelievable.
And you'll have a full report on what happened yesterday out in the field, but we have this first small 15-second clip here, which really highlights the dehumanization under the guise or because of these differing ideologies.
so basically he's saying there's no such thing as israel It's self-defense.
Yes, no such thing as Israel that a real Jew denounces the state of Israel.
That the solution for the crisis in the Middle East in that neighborhood, Tamara, it's a one-state solution, which is to say it's a Palestinian state only.
This speaks to the bigger problem that over the decades in the peace process that has always proven futile, when the Palestinians are getting in one piece deal, I think it goes back to the Clinton years, 98% of what they were asking for.
98%.
Now, Tamara, if you're negotiating a deal and you're getting 98% of your demands, that's not a good deal.
That's an incredible deal.
That's an exceptional deal.
But it's not enough.
And therefore, you know, again, it might be unpopular to say this, but I think based on all those failed attempts, including land for peace, money in land for peace, and it's always no, no, no.
And then you see this act of barbarism on Saturday.
It makes me wonder if the Palestinian people are mature enough to have their own state because their actions speak otherwise.
Well, and I just want to really drive home the point that there is the radical Hamas terrorists, and then there are innocent Palestinians who are caught in this crossfire.
And we should really make sure to note that there, you know, the entanglement of the extremes is really where we get lost in the nuance and not to contribute further to that dehumanizing on either side.
And because there are innocent civilians being caught here, and that is the most atrocious and atrocious part of this.
No, no, you're quite right.
And if we look at the Gaza Strip, you're talking about 2 million residents.
It is probably the most densely populated strip of territory on planet Earth.
And of course, not all Palestinians are simpatico with groups like Hamas.
And that, you know, the question arises: who was the real winner here based on Saturday?
Already Israel is ramping up to enact justice as it should.
And unfortunately, with the bombings in retaliation and with the siege in terms of fuel and food and electricity, it is going to be those Palestinian citizens that are going to be victimized.
But what else can Israel do?
I mean, this can't be, oh yeah, sorry about that little act of savagery on Saturday.
Can we get back to the bargaining table and discuss the latest peace deal?
No, I think, Tamara, this is going to go on for months, if not more than a year.
And we're just seeing the beginning of it.
And for the likes of Jolie to say, let's have a de-escalation before it even escalates.
Are you kidding me?
And not even pointing a finger at the sugar daddy for Hamas, which is Iran.
I wonder what's behind that.
Do you think Jolie doesn't want to offend the sensibilities of liberal member of parliament Jahid or Mahid Johari?
I almost said jihadi there, Freudian slip.
You know what, folks?
I live, and this was interesting, at the Israel event last night, we saw many members of the Persian community waving the flag of Iran in solidarity with Israel.
And again, it's important to differentiate the Persian people from the Islamic regime, because I think the biggest victim group of the Islamic regime are the Iranians that live in Iran.
But they were out there in support of Israel.
I live in a city, Richmond Hill.
I believe the Persian minority, it's very significant.
I think it might be as big as 14%.
And it's kind of funny, Tamara.
I've had nothing but admiration for the Persians I deal with there.
I go to their shops.
I go to their fantastic restaurants.
Great people.
Except for one, the member of parliament for Richmond Hill, who actually has his allegiance with the tyrannical terrorism-supporting state of Iran.
How in blue hell did that ever happen?
Yeah.
That's a great question and remains unknown because you've investigated.
Well, Blackface calls him a great man.
And they've just shut the door in your face repeatedly, if I remember those reports correctly.
If you can even find him.
And call the police.
Yeah, of course.
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Well, and let's remember, too, that Israelis were just starting to rise up and protest against Netanyahu, what, 10 days ago?
I think it was October 1st.
They took to the streets.
You're starting to see how much the COVID response actually harmed them.
They're the most locked down, most injected population, arguably, on earth.
And so they were starting to say, hey, wait a minute, we don't appreciate and we don't agree the way that our government responded to the COVID regime and the COVID narrative.
And lo and behold, 10 days later, all of a sudden a war breaks out in the country.
So that's an interesting kind of nuance to note recent, not even historically, like just recently, 10 days ago, Israelis were out in the streets protesting.
Yeah, and there's been huge protests too on a totally different matter, Tamara, and that is the judicial reforms that the Netanyahu government is trying to enact because basically you're having a country increasingly governed by unelected judges by striking down bills of the government.
But I think one of the backstories here, when you look at the international politics of this region, you saw recently Israel and Saudi Arabia, of all people,
getting involved in diplomacy to see if Saudi Arabia could be part of the Abraham Accords, something I believe seven Middle East nations are, something that Donald Trump should have got the Nobel Peace Prize for, but you know, Trump derangement syndrome can't give him credit for anything.
And that is an important point because Iran, I think, wanted to derail these talks.
These talks are now on hold, obviously, because Iran sees itself, that is the regime of Iran.
Again, I'm differentiating between the regime and the people of Iran.
They want to be the straw that stirs the drink in the region, not Saudi Arabia.
And I think this was given the timing, deliberate sabotage to end those negotiations of having Saudi Arabia come into the Abraham Accords.
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There you are from Israel.
Israel being the only tiny democracy in the middle of the stone age.
No respect for fanatics who abuse their own women and children.
Yeah, very powerful.
And we have so many more clips to get to here.
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We're already at 2.01.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, so and I know you're out heading out on another mission specialist.
Yes, nothing to compare to what's happening half a world away, folks, but a jaw-dropping story nevertheless.
Well, let's get to what the political class has chimed in thus far on this situation.
We'll share with you the first clip that we have from Justin Trudeau.
So let's just throw to that quickly and we'll get to a couple more before we end for the day.
Canada, unequivocally and in the strongest possible terms, condemns these terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas.
We stand with Israel and reaffirm our support for Israel's right to defend itself in accordance with international law.
The attacks this weekend were brutal and horrific.
We heard stories of people who were there at the Music Festival for Peace when gunmen started shooting.
I saw images of parents shielding their children to protect them from rockets.
Women and kids have been forced out of their homes and kidnapped.
Images and the imagining what it must have been.
Middle of the night, as doors were kicked in, people ripped from their beds.
It's unimaginable.
We know that even Holocath Holocaust survivors were kidnapped.
The indiscriminate killing of civilians, the sexual violence, the violence against women, children, and elderly people, these acts are sickening and completely unimaginable.
The glorification of death and violence and terror has no place anywhere, including especially here in Canada.
So let me be very clear: Hamas terrorists aren't a resistance, they're not freedom fighters, they are terrorists, and no one in Canada should be supporting them, much less celebrating them.
So, what about CUPE?
Justin Trudeau, what about CUPE?
Well, I would say two things.
I guess it's true, Tamara Ugolini, what they say.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
But on the other hand, what has my spidey senses tingling a bit is that line where we're going to stand with Israel to defend itself in accordance with international law.
And words matter because already I heard an interview, I can't remember the individual's name, it was a commentator on Middle East Affairs, who was already suggesting that Israel, by preventing electricity, fuel, and food to go into Gaza, could fit the definition of a war crime.
So, without firing a single bullet, just this siege in order to have Hamas at bay is considered a war crime.
Is this what Blackface is inferring here in terms of in accordance with international law?
That Israel yet again has to fight with one hand tied behind its back.
I don't think it's going to happen.
I think the country, the government, Nahu, really they don't give a rodent's rectum what the world community has to say or what the UN has to say or the international law has to say.
They have to defend themselves by any means necessary.
And based on what happened on the weekend, Tamara Ugalini, can you blame them?
Well, and I want to contrast that as well with what Leader of the Opposition Pierre Polyev had to say, which we also have a short clip to.
And I think after that one, maybe we'll try to get to Melanie Jolie's.
I noticed that our battery is dying here as well.
So we'll have to be mindful of that.
But here, let's throw to Leader of the Opposition Pier Polyev and his condemnation.
In starting my remarks tonight, let me be explicitly clear: Hamas is not a militant organization.
It is not an activist organization.
It is surely not a government.
It is a sadistic, demonic, genocidal, terrorist death cult.
And it must be defeated and destroyed.
In starting.
Yeah, you know, Tamara, I urge our viewers to check out Mr. Polyev's speech because it's about seven minutes long, I do believe, and he nailed it.
He hit out of the ballpark.
It was so refreshing, the honesty there.
And maybe we should compare Pierre Polyev weighing in with Melanie Jolie, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the mealy-mouth words she had to say about this.
We're just going to look for that clip, folks.
Yeah, and I love how succinct Pierre Polyev can be.
Justin Trudeau is just always so emotive and drawing on those emotions.
And this is why I always like to contrast how Pierre Polyev responds because it's very pointed, very succinct, very logic, rational, reasonable approach versus Justin's Trudeau breathless emotion that he just can't seem to curtail.
Anyway, let's show this Jolie clip.
You call these attacks terror attacks.
Canada designated Hamas as a terrorist organization about 20 years ago.
But there were protests across Canada this weekend and even today, in some ways celebrating the Hamas attacks that you've decried.
There have been calls for your government to condemn these protests here in Canada.
Will you do that?
Well, we know that according to Canadian law, the Hamas, Hamas is a terrorist organization.
So of course we don't support it.
And at the same time, we've always been clear when it comes to our relationship with Israel.
So the position of our government stands.
At the same time, there have been hostages.
Hostages must be released.
And like I said, civilian lives must be protected.
So these will be difficult days ahead and right now and ahead for Israeli people, for Palestinian people, for Canadians, for the world.
And you Canadians can know that the government and the prime minister and myself are absolutely engaged 24-7 on this issue.
But Minister, what do you say to Canadians or other people in this country who might go to a protest that critics say is purporting to celebrate what Hamas has done?
I mean, should these protests be happening?
There have been some calls by others to maybe find a way to prosecute this over supporting terrorism.
I don't know if it goes that far or not, in your view.
But what is your message to Canadians that might attend these protests, given what's happened in the last 48 hours or so?
We don't support Hamas.
We don't support also what they've done.
And we don't support hate speech.
That's what I can tell you.
And meanwhile, of course, the Minister of Public Safety will do its work working with local authorities.
But do you condemn the protest, Minister?
I guess that's what I'm trying to understand.
There have been calls directly for the Prime Minister to do it.
Because he's not here, I'm going to ask you.
But David, I'm answering your question.
Of course, we can't support the celebration of Hamas terrorist attack.
Of course, we don't.
So we don't.
The double speak, right?
We can't support it, but we also can't condemn it.
It's this political double speak.
It's really bizarre.
And maybe she just didn't fully have her talking points ready.
What a lightweight.
And wow, he had to, you know, I'll give kudos to that CBC journalist.
Jeez, there must be a blue moon in orbit right now.
I mean, he was trying to get her to come out and answer that question.
It looked like about three attempts, Tamara.
And you know, it's funny, too, at the Solidarity for Israel gathering last night.
One of the speakers was Toronto Liberal MP, Yara Sachs.
She's the one that infamously said that honking a horn twice, Hong Kong, is an acronym.
I mean, what a moron.
She doesn't even know what an acronym is, but is an acronym for Heil Hitler.
Wonder, you know, now at Mel Lasman Square, as I mentioned, for security reasons, Young Street was closed to vehicle traffic, so there was zero honking, but there was plenty of honking downtown Toronto five hours earlier by the pro-Hamas people.
Is Yara Sachs gonna call them Nazis or neo-Nazis or Islamo-Nazis for their horn honking?
Or does that just pertain to the Freedom Convoy folk?
What a disgrace.
Yeah, and I'm actually surprised to see that pushback from CBC journalists, especially after they were instructed not to refer to these attacks or Hamas as terrorists.
So the CBC, I can't imagine what they're going, what they're doing and the frenzy that they must be in today on Tuesday after hearing Justin Trudeau denounce that using strong, harsh language, like terrorist.
And now the CBC, they must be in a frenzy trying to figure out their journalistic stance.
And what were they called?
They were calling it their journalistic.
Let me just pull it up to find the exact wording here: standards, their journalistic standards on whether or not they should refer to a Hamas gunman as terrorists, which they were previously instructed not to.
So let's see if there's a change there in their standard after hearing the way that the political sphere has denounced these unfoldings.
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I dare any CBC reporter to walk downtown in any metropolitan city in Canada with a Palestinian flag and Israel flag, I think is what he meant to say, and see firsthand the response they experience from the public and document it.
Well, that's not going to be down with the camera.
Yeah.
That's for sure.
So, well, you know what?
I see we're almost 15 minutes after the hour, so, but this was a very important issue.
We'll be talking about this, I suspect, weeks, months.
This isn't going away anywhere soon.
We have no idea what's going to unfold in the days to come, but we're going to be on it.
And thank goodness, Abby Amini is going to Israel to really keep an eye on things.
Good for you, Abby.
So, Tamara, I want to thank you for co-hosting.
I mentioned Thanksgiving at the top of the show.
You're one of the people I'm thankful for too.
And I'm thankful that you come into the office on Tamara Tuesdays.
It's so much better than doing it virtually.
Thank you to super producer Efren.
Thank you to our audience, especially those of you who are generous enough to give us some super chats.
That's how we keep the lights on.
Greatly appreciated, as always.
I believe I'm back here tomorrow, maybe with Sheila Gunread, maybe with Drea Humphrey.
Who knows?
But in the meantime, as always, folks, stay safe and Stay sane.