Ezra Levant highlights a July 30 UN declaration by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and 14 others—plus the EU and Arab League—demanding Hamas disarm and end Gaza rule to revive the two-state solution, partly influenced by Trump. Israel’s military gains contrast with propaganda losses, as unverified Hamas claims dominate media narratives, including a debunked NYT image. Canada’s $10M aid pledge to Palestine and planned 2025 UN recognition of Palestinian statehood (excluding Hamas) expose diplomatic contradictions, while Levant links anti-Semitism to virtue-signaling criticism of Israel. Global Affairs Canada’s waste—$8,800 on sex toys, $12K on senior sex talks, $6B for veterans vs. $11B in foreign aid—underscores systemic failures, with Levant questioning leadership accountability amid rising extremism and cultural shifts like Ireland’s €148M migrant hotel acquisition. [Automatically generated summary]
Qatar and Saudi Arabia calling together for Hamas to lay down its arms and get out of Gaza.
I don't think I've heard of that before of you.
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Tonight, why are Canada's liberals more pro-Hamas than even Sharia law Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and now Qatar?
It's July 30th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Look at this story from the Times of Israel.
Very interesting headline.
It reads, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, signed declaration calling for Hamas to disarm.
End rule of Gaza at UN two-state confab.
So basically, I mean, there's a lot in this, and I read the very lengthy document.
There's some good stuff and some bad stuff.
I mean, it's a UN document, but I think the news here, as you can see in the headline, is that some most powerful Arab Muslim countries are saying, Hamas, you gotta go.
Let me read a little bit from the story.
Arab countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and notice that Egypt borders Gaza, if you didn't know, have signed on to a statement calling for Hamas to disarm and end its role, its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.
17 countries plus the European Union and Arab League are throwing their weight behind a seven-page text obtained by the Times of Israel, agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.
So I'll just read a little bit from their declaration now.
In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority with international engagement and support in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state, says the declaration.
Now, I skimmed through the document.
There are some terrible anti-Israel things in there too, for sure.
But still, it couldn't be clear.
Hamas is no longer being protected, let alone championed even by its very longtime hosts and funders, Qatar.
I think that's an important change, and I think it's completely due to Donald Trump, by the way.
Now, other countries signed on to this too, including France and the United Kingdom, who also call for a Palestinian state.
So there's that.
I mean, they basically want to reward Hamas for October 7th, but here they are saying Hamas must go.
Of course, it really only matters what America says.
Am I wrong?
Here's Trump on the plane to the UK the other day talking about not rewarding Hamas, as he says Keir Starmer, the PM of Britain, is doing.
Is there any use at all in pressuring Israel now to come to some sort of longer-term solution?
Well, you could make the case that you're rewarding people that, you know, you're rewarding Hamas if you do that.
And I don't think they should be rewarded.
So I'm not in that camp, to be honest.
We'll let you know where we are, but I am not in that case.
Because if you do that, you really are rewarding Hamas.
And I'm not about to do that.
But I think Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are getting a bit sick of things.
I think they're actually becoming the real leaders in the Arab world.
I mean, when you think of the capital city of Arabia, obviously it's dozens of countries.
But obviously you think of Dubai.
Maybe you think of Cairo, one of the largest cities in the world, but maybe just for its history and its size.
But the future, the wealth, the excitement, the internationalism, Dubai is the way.
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, a very liberal country that has already made peace with Israel and that has a very strong program against Islamification, against radical Islam.
By the way, here is Saudi Arabia, which is catching up to the UAE in that regard.
Here's Saudi Arabia.
This is a few years ago, but listen to this tough talk from their foreign minister.
Could you say a few words about the falling out on the one hand of Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the one hand and Qatar on the other?
Are you moving toward a resolution of that situation?
It's not a falling out.
It's just we don't want to have anything to do with them.
The Qataris, since the mid-90s, have been sponsoring radicals.
They have been inciting people.
They have become a base for the leadership for the Muslim Brotherhood.
And the Muslim Brotherhood, you have to keep in mind, is what begot us Takfir and Hijrah, which begot us al-Qaeda, which begot us al-Nusra.
The Qataris allow their senior religious clerics to go on television and justify suicide bombings.
That's not acceptable.
The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists.
That's not acceptable.
And Nashdi, the head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in 2000, entered Saudi Arabia on a Qatari passport.
We captured al-Qaeda types coming into Saudi Arabia with Qatari passports.
The Qataris know this.
The Americans know this.
The world knows this.
The Qataris are funding dissidents in the Emirates and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and in Kuwait in order to cause problems for those governments and to create instability.
Why would you do this?
The Qataris pay ransom to terrorist groups, including $500 million to Hezbollah and Iraq, $50 million to Qasim Suleimani, according to text messages between the Qatari Ambassador in Iraq and the Foreign Minister of Iraq, including, I don't know how much to Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Is that acceptable?
If we gave $1 to Hezbollah and Iraq, we'd be sued in a court down the street.
And so the Qataris use their media platforms to spread hate.
The Qataris send weapons to al-Qaeda-affiliated militias in Libya.
The Qatari emir was conniving with Qaddafi on how to overthrow Saudi Arabia.
The Qataris connected Qaddafi with a Saudi dissident in London who they fund, who connected the Libyans with this group in Mecca with the objective of assassinating the then Crown Prince later king of Saudi Arabia.
Is this acceptable?
In 2012, we cut off relations with them, the same countries.
And a year later they came back and agreed that they will end all of this nonsense.
And they signed an agreement.
And nothing happened.
So this time we said, you know what?
We're not going to deal with you.
Until and unless you change.
We will not allow you.
There's a list of terror finances that the U.S. puts out, the UN puts out, and a number of them are living openly in Qatar, raising money and giving it to bad people.
Is this acceptable?
Shouldn't be.
Why do the Qataris get away with it?
Because I think people see a young country, young leadership.
They buy fancy buildings, they have a nice airline, and they think, wow, these guys are really modern.
But we have to deal with the dark side that I just explained.
So in a way, things are going well in the region.
I mean, for Israel, it was a terrible massacre on October 7th, 2023.
But militarily, they have rubbed their enemy, Hamas, and unfortunately, their collateral damage to the citizens that Hamas hid underneath.
They destroyed Hezbollah with that startling pager explosion that took out 2,500 senior military leaders of Hezbollah and took out the big boss there with really without a war.
Syria, total regime change.
And of course, Iran was deeply degraded in their military abilities, including their nukes.
Things are different on the ground, but the problem is, Israel, for just as much as it's winning the hard war, the hot war, the Kinetic War, it's losing the propaganda war terribly so.
Child Starvation Debunked00:07:32
Here's an image that was on the front page of the New York Times and countless other media as well.
A picture purporting to show a child who had been starved by those Israeli occupiers.
But turns out that child actually was not suffering from starvation.
The child had a rare and different chronic condition, nothing to do with the war, had actually been attended to by Israeli physicians.
But Hamas knows propaganda and knows that Western media will publish anything.
55 million people saw the lie on the front page of the New York Times.
At least that's how many people follow the New York Times' main Twitter account.
The Times printed this retraction and correction yesterday on a tiny Twitter account with just 89,000 followers.
Why would they tell the defamatory lie to 55 million people, but just have their correction on an 89,000 person corporate account?
Why would they do that?
Because it wasn't a mistake.
Of course, it's not a mistake any more than citing the Hamas figures for casualties.
That's not a mistake.
They know that Hamas is a propaganda organization, yet every single time they quote Hamas and show Hamas images as the truth.
Well here in Canada, I mean, no one really cares what our foreign minister says.
I bet you you'd have trouble naming our foreign minister.
It's not Melanie Jolie.
It's Anita Anand.
And here's her comments the other day.
And one that charts a path toward lasting regional peace and prosperity.
As Article 1 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights states, all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Canada remains firmly committed to a two-state solution, an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security.
Canada supports the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, and we endorse the principle of Palestinian statehood.
We shall continue to discuss with the Palestinian Authority the next steps in our relationship.
A workable Palestinian state needs legitimate democratic governance that serves all Palestinian people.
Crucially important is the Palestinian Authority's commitment to undertake the comprehensive reforms necessary to govern Gaza and the West Bank.
To that end, today, Canada is pledging an additional $10 million this year.
I don't think there's a single decision maker in the world who cares what Anita Annan has to say, except and other than Hamas itself, which has now sent three thank you letters to Canada's liberals.
That is so, so gross.
For the reasons I cited earlier, Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025.
This intention is predicated on the Palestinian Authority's commitment to much-needed reforms, including commitments by the Palestinian Authority's President Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026, in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.
Canada will increase its efforts in supporting strong democratic governance in Palestine and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future.
I spoke today with President Abbas at length to reaffirm his commitment.
Canada reiterates that Hamas must immediately release all hostages taken in the horrific terrorist attack of October 7th, that Hamas must disarm, and that Hamas must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.
Canada will always steadfastly support Israel's existence as an independent state in the Middle East, living in peace and security.
Any path to lasting peace for Israel also requires a viable and stable Palestinian state, and one that recognizes Israel's inalienable right to security and peace.
Israel is losing the PR war, though.
It's winning the war war.
And with Trump, it might actually win the peace in the region.
Wouldn't that be something if the Abraham Accords Round Two created another peace deal with Iran knocked down to size and some other terrorist forces denuded?
Imagine if Saudi Arabia sounded onto that.
And the word is when the king, who's very aged himself, passes away, his successor, the Crown Prince, will make peace with Israel.
I believe it.
I personally flew across Saudi Arabia with a whole rebel gang.
We had 60 people with us in what we called the Abraham Accord Strip.
We flew from Tel Aviv to Dubai over Saudi Arabia in an E-Al Israeli Airlines jet that wouldn't have been impossible a decade ago.
For all the talk of World War III and how Trump was going to blow up the world, it didn't happen.
There's never been a bigger chance for peace in the region.
Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace several times over.
It's the West that I'm worried about.
It's London.
It's Toronto.
It's Montreal that I'm worried about.
The Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group is legal in Canada.
It's banned in the United Arab Emirates and places like that.
I hate to see people being anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic just as the ultimate virtue signal.
You know, all wars are horrific.
Here's a terrible picture of a large city turned into rubble.
No, that's not Gaza.
That's Mosul.
The United States and the United Kingdom turned it into rubble.
I don't know how many children died.
I don't know how many civilians died.
There, like with Hamas, ISIS melds in with the population.
They don't just ride around in tanks.
That's what happens in war.
That's why war is so horrible.
Just like the bombings of Dresden and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that is war.
War is hell.
Suddenly being Israel attacking Israel is a sign of an ultimate virtue signal.
And I think it gives people license to be anti-Semitic.
I think things are more anti-Semitic.
I'm not talking about anti-Israel.
I'm talking anti-Jewish in the world than has been since the 1940s.
I'm more worried about Canada than I am about Israel.
We'll see how things go in the months and years ahead.
Stay with us for more.
Government Wastage Scandals00:10:27
There are a lot of moral hazards to being a diplomat.
For example, if you work in the Canadian embassy in China for even just a few years, you are working for the interests of Canada, supposedly.
But the minute you're done, your ability to sell your services to either side of that equation in the private sector is enormous.
Imagine saying to a Canadian investor into China, hey, I know the ropes.
I have all these connections from being a diplomat in Beijing.
Or imagine saying the opposite.
Imagine saying to the Chinese side, well, I am connected in Canada.
I know how the embassy works.
I know how the security side works.
The trade side works.
That is a moral hazard, an ethical hazard.
It's one of the problems of the foreign ministry, and it was ever thus.
But what about people who go beyond ethical questions?
I mean, by the way, if you're wondering if that ever happened, I put it to you that Jean-Krechen, when he retired as prime minister within six weeks, went to work as a lobbyist for Communist China.
Do you remember that?
Anyways, what about people, though, who can't wait till they're retired before selling their connections and influence?
What about diplomats who literally start selling influence or embezzling or selling visas while they work for the government?
Joining us now to talk about this and the number of diplomats who have been fired for it is our friend Franco Terrazana, the boss of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
He joins us now by Ottawa.
Franco, good to see you.
Hey, Ezra, thanks for having me on.
Oh, it's a pleasure.
You know, I just, I really think of that Beijing embassy because that was the starting point of so many lucrative careers for consultants.
But what we're talking about here is something more dastardly, actual crimes.
Tell us a little bit of the story that our friends at Blacklocks broke this morning.
Yeah, well, shout out to Blacklocks.
I mean, they're doing some great investigative journalist work, right?
Showing you how governments are wasting and spending your money.
And like, look, this is gross.
I really felt sick to my stomach reading this story, just knowing how hard Canadians work for the money they earn and the taxes they pay.
And meanwhile, you have 22 Canadian diplomats that were fired, okay?
Some of the allegations or some of the reporting that Blacklocks looked into, by the way, from records from the Department of Foreign Affairs, soliciting kickbacks.
Gross.
Falsifying receipts so that they can claim allowances.
I mean, this really is some gross stuff that was reported by Blacklocks.
And again, they're just reporting what was in reports from the Department of Foreign Affairs itself.
You know, there's four words in this story that I think are even worse than what you've described.
Let me read the first two sentences in the story.
Some of it you've touched on.
22 Canadian diplomats were fired last year for fraud, theft, investment, soliciting, kickbacks, and other wrongdoing, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs figures.
And then here are those four words, Franco.
No police were called.
Hang on, embezzling, selling interest.
What they're doing is like, we don't have the details here, but maybe it's selling a citizenship visa or like a path to citizenship.
Maybe it's, you know, a kickback for a contract.
Those are serious offenses that typically in the private sector, the cops would be called.
But the private sector, you know, theft is more important than PR here.
PR rules.
Imagine 22 serious crimes and they just didn't call the police, Franco.
That's crazy to me.
Well, you know, I hope what this reporting from Blacklocks does is really kick off further, I don't know how to say, further auditing within the House of Commons, right, Ezra?
Like you'll kind of remember how the ArriveCan story, how that developed into a national scandal, where there was initial reports of the app ballooning somehow to $54 million.
And then members of parliament, the House of Commons, other people, other journalists just kept smashing some of the records around ArriveCan.
And eventually it became a national scandal.
So I'm really hoping that that's what can happen when it comes to Global Affairs Canada, right?
Because this is one of the worst waste offenders in the entire government.
You know, Ezra, I mentioned off the top that you had 22 Canadian diplomats who were fired.
But you know what my first thought was?
Is why aren't more bureaucrats at Global Affairs Canada being fired, right?
Who are the bureaucrats who decided to spend $8,800 on a sex toy show in Germany?
Who are they?
And why aren't they fired?
Right.
Who are the bureaucrats who decided to spend 12 grand on a show where senior citizens in other countries could talk about their sex lives in front of live audiences?
Who are those bureaucrats?
And why aren't they fired?
How about the bureaucrats at Global Affairs who's approving $51,000 a month on booze?
Who are those bureaucrats and why aren't they fired?
Right.
So I hope what this reporting can do from Blacklocks is put a spotlight on some of the stuff going in that's happening at this department.
And I hope our members of parliament can run with it and continue to dive into the wasteful details.
Franco is absolutely on fire here.
It's a pleasure to see.
Hey, you know what?
I have a theory for you.
And again, I'm not being partisan here, but I remember when Stephen Harper was in office and his foreign trips often were cut short, as in they didn't stay an extra night.
They would fly home at night just to avoid staying in a fancy hotel.
Like Stephen Harper's entire foreign affairs style was to really limit chances for, oh, why did you stay in $800 a night hotel kind of thing?
He literally came back like he would rather get on the plane and come home than risk that.
That was his style.
Remember, that was when Bev Oda was sacked for a $16 room service orange juice.
Well, What kind of example have we had for 10 years?
And now Mark Carney having 600 conflicts of interest.
I think what I'm saying is a fish rots from the head down.
Leadership starts at the top.
So if you've got a penny-pinching Scottish accountant in the form of Stephen Harper, who's making a, you know, you know, who's making an example by being frugal versus the billionaire oligarch Mark Carney, who refuses to divest or Anita Anand's husband, who just happens to be involved in so many government contracts, I think people get the message, which is get while the getting's good.
And as long as you get away with it, you're fine.
And if you're caught, no big deal.
The police won't be called.
I think this is a moral example that comes from the top.
Well, Ezra, first, I just want to say, look, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we're filing access to information requests every time Carney goes on a trip overseas, right?
So we're going to be getting all those records in and we're going to be exposing what type of spending the Carney government is undertaking.
But, you know, your point about the Trudeau government and it's just massively wasteful and extravagant spending overseas.
Like, look, we all remember who it was who billed us taxpayers $6,000 per night hotel suite during the Queen's funeral in London, England.
It was the right honorable Justin Trudeau.
Or how about the time that he spent $61,000 on a two-day star-studded conference?
What was the conference about in Manhattan, by the way?
Fighting poverty.
You know, so Trudeau was fighting poverty the only way he knew how with selfies and room service.
So we've seen so much extravagant waste over the last decade or so.
It's getting out of hand.
But Ezra, let's look at the big picture here and let's just expand all of the foreign aid.
Okay.
The government spent $11 billion on foreign aid in 2023-24.
$11 billion on foreign aid.
Ezra, I went through the departments, okay?
In that same year, the government spent $6 billion through the entire Department of Veterans Affairs.
Wow.
$11 billion for foreign aid, $6 billion through veterans affairs, almost double on foreign aid as what the government was spending through veterans affairs.
Let that sink in.
Wow.
I tell you, I'm worried because Mark Carney, he's giving me off mixed signals.
He talks about cutting certain budgets and it gets me a little bit excited, but then he goes and brings in the largest deficit.
Like it's almost, how many commas would $92 billion be?
That would be, how many digits is that?
That's like, oh, 11 figures or something.
I mean, these are, don't tell them what comes after a trillion, I always say.
Anyways, Franco, I'm glad you guys are on the beat.
Keep coming with your access to information requests.
And like you said earlier, blacklocks.ca is just such a great news source and we subscribe to it here.
It's not cheap, but they do research that no one else does.
Hey, let me throw something in you.
I'm just curious.
What do you think about Justin Trudeau going on a date with Katie Perry?
I think that's the right place for him.
That's, you know, a little bit of celebrity, aging celebrity past their prime.
You know, he doesn't have to read briefing notes.
He's probably using his own money for the first time in memory.
I think it's a really good look for him.
I think this is the best Justin Trudeau has been in years.
For me, I totally support this.
What do you think?
Well, you know, now that he's not wasting taxpayers' money, Ezra, I couldn't care less who he's going on dates with.
You know, I was just joking around.
I just have to say this is the first normal thing he's done in 10 years, and I'm glad he's doing it with his own money, as you point out.
There he is.
Franco Terrazano didn't mean to throw you that curveball, but I was thinking, you know what?
It's remarkable how little people refer to Justin Trudeau once he's gone.
Like, I literally have never heard anyone say WWJD.
What would Justin do?
I have heard no one, even in the Liberal Party, say, oh, if only we had Justin Trudeau's wise counsel, we sure would get out of this mess.
I don't think anyone misses him.
Why Justin's Absence Matters00:02:47
And hey, you know what, folks?
Don't feel too bad for Mr. Trudeau, right?
He's going to be taking two taxpayer-funded pensions in retirement.
Yes, you heard that right.
All the prime ministers, they get not one, but they get two pensions in their retirement.
So there you go.
He's going to need it to keep up with Katy Perry.
Great to see you, Franco.
Thanks for joining in.
Hey, thank you, Ezra.
All right, there he is.
I'm just joking around.
There's Franco Terrazano with the Taxpayers Federation.
Stay with us.
more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Your letters on my UK trip and the London Hotel converted into a migrant camp.
Bern Dog says this is crazy.
And it's happening here in Canada.
Yeah, you're right.
And that's why I'm so riveted by it because they have migrant hotels here in Canada.
I know them.
We have covered them before.
We got into a sort of a quarrel in front of the Radis in Toronto East.
It's been turned into a migrant hotel.
So why is it that we have mass immigration, including by some measurements, more than the UK does, but we don't have the reaction they have in the UK?
We have migrant hotels too, but we don't have the same reaction.
And suddenly, now that you have protests all the time in the UK, spontaneously, large local protests, what was the tipping point for the UK?
And will we see that here in Canada?
Cooley Guy says, exactly the same thing happening in Ireland.
The Irish government have just bought the City West Hotel in Dublin for 148 million euros to house refugees.
Couldn't find a dime to help our own before now.
I'm riveted by what's going on in Ireland.
And the reason it's so interesting to me is it's a small country, 5 million people, and it's happening at like double the pace it has anywhere else.
And Ireland is so ethnically and religiously and linguistically unique.
It's got a real ethnos.
It has a, it's its own Indigenous people.
So when you bring in foreign migrants, the shock on the system is much more than if you were to bring them, let's say, in into a real already multicultural city like, say, London.
When you take foreign migrants, military age, and put them in a tiny town and outnumber the town, it's such a shock.
And Ireland is something to watch, that's for sure.
Last letter from RSP: Tommy Robinson will be hailed as a British hero one day.
Well, I think many people do hail him as a hero, but others, you know, they say a prophet is hated in his own time.
Because he speaks the truth about things that the establishment does not like.
They're doing everything they can to censor him, silence him, jail him, and God forbid, I fear, even one day to kill him.
That's the show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.