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May 6, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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With US Backing, Israel Set To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza

The Israeli government has announced that it plans to remove what is left of the Palestinian presence in Gaza and with it demolish what buildings remain. US backing for the project is essential to its success. Also today: Congress still determined to throw you into jail if you boycott Israel.

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Inflation's Shadow? 00:04:31
Hello, everybody.
Thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, welcome to the program.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
Good.
Keeping my eyes and ears open, though.
There's a lot of politicking going on.
There is a lot.
And we have an activist president, if you haven't noticed.
He does a lot of stuff.
Hyperactive.
He reverses a lot of stuff.
You better be on your toes.
But I'm not watching him today as closely as I'm watching a very special meeting that goes on every three or four months, and that's the Fed meeting.
The Fed is.
Because the Fed is made up of people who are very, very confident of their ability.
They are geniuses because they claim, at least they claim they're a genius, that they know what interest rates should be.
So they meet every once in a while to get together and hash it over and then make a prediction that is very ambivalent.
You can't figure out what it is.
It doesn't mean a whole lot.
But they're having the meeting today and tomorrow.
They're going to announce what the interest rates are going to do.
Should they raise the interest rates or lower the interest rate?
Quite frankly, I don't think it matters because the marketplace has a lot to say about what real interest rates are, what people will pay to borrow money.
So that's something that is affecting the markets today.
And there are a lot of other reasons for gold to be affected.
But when the Fed meets, the gold price bounces all over the place.
So as we speak, the gold price is up about $60 plus.
And they're anticipating that the Fed is going to say something that's not going to solve all the problems that we have.
And yet, the significant events that people should continue to look at if they're worried about the future of gold is, are there any deficits?
What are they going to do to deficits?
I hear they're going to cut them, cut the deficit.
And there's some other people like me.
We're skeptical.
We're not going to see the deficit shrink.
We're certainly not going to see the debt shrink.
So some of the incentives or most of the incentive for the printing of money and devaluing the dollar, which means the gold price ratio goes up.
And there's a lot of fighting over the budget in the Congress.
A lot of sincere people, but it seems like the age of Doge is over.
It's good and some good things will come of it, but they're not talking too much about that.
But then there'll be these fights over I have to cut something for the people.
But they've had an agreement.
The Democrats and the Republicans have come together.
Don't touch one penny of the military budget.
And on and on it goes.
And so the politics is very powerful.
And that represents the lobbyists in Washington.
They happen to have a very powerful lobby.
And they have a lot to say about it.
So they'll be around.
And that's why it's up in the air.
And yet it's bouncing around.
I still am, I marvel at the fact that how easy we adopt to this.
Over $3,000, $3,300.
And there were times over the many decades that I watched this, gold would double or triple.
At the beginning, it went up like sixfold, sevenfold.
And, you know, when you even talk about doubling gold, people say, well, it's $3,000.
Is it going to double?
Well, the history shows that it very well may get together.
You know, it may, you know, the market may insist on that because I see no signs that they're going to quit the printing.
The deficit is going to flow.
And one of these days, everybody's going to recognize, huh, maybe the dollar, maybe the dollar is not going to hold up.
So I think that's why there's anxiety, but I think that's going to increase.
So tomorrow, there's going to be an announcement.
It's conceivable that they'll come up with something that says, oh, no, there's going to be an attack on gold and we better get out for a while.
And gold goes on.
My bet is.
I've bought gold since 1973.
I'm not selling.
War Plans and Aid 00:10:40
So that's it.
And that to me is an important meaning, but it's on and on.
Nobody ever learns anything.
The people who know the truth don't bother with this nonsense.
And the people, you know, the people who are orchestrating the propaganda, they know the truth, but their job is to deceive people into believing that the Federal Reserve note is equivalent to a hard currency, which is obviously not the case.
But we want to go back to some foreign policy today.
And I want to talk about Gaza because it makes me sick.
Yeah, it's general.
Israel approves plans to occupy Gaza, control aid distribution.
And there's so many bad stories.
I hope those were mistakes, but they're horrible stories.
And then I said accidents happen.
But there's too many people who say some of these hospitals being hit and food distribution and children being killed.
I just don't want to believe that.
And there's accidents in war, but this one is not adding up.
So if any part of this is true, and under the very dangerous conditions that Israel faces, living in the land where they don't have a lot of close friends around them, they're going to have to wonder what will happen.
And that is a big question because I sense that some of this stuff showing a strength that they're showing.
And they are strong, and they are capable.
And they've won wars over there against quite a few countries all at once.
And so the Israelis will fight for it.
But this seems to be a little bit different to me.
It's more aggressive.
Either the enemies has built up because, you know, they used to talk about a war in the Middle East.
Oh, the Six-Day War.
Yeah, we remember that.
And Israel was able to gain more land and win the war, so to speak.
But I think this one is different.
Just like we can't predict what the Fed's going to say tomorrow.
We can sort of anticipate what's going to happen in the Middle East.
I do not see a easy, gentle answer to the problems that everybody faces there.
Yeah, well, Israel's just saying out loud where everyone's known for months at least, which is that they want to completely occupy and flatten Gaza and get rid of all the people that live there.
And it feeds conspiracy theorists, theories, which are probably true, which is that this has nothing to do with October 7th, the attack that Hamas did on Israel.
And this was the plan all along.
A lot of people say, well, you could hear a flea.
That's how surveilled Gaza was before.
How did they not respond for seven hours and let all this stuff happen?
And then when they did respond, the Samson option, I guess it was, or what's the other one called, where they are killing their own people, was obviously a pretext for what's happening.
I'll put up this first link.
Now, this is Dave DeCamp at anti-war.com, wrote this summary of what's happening.
They've just announced it.
They said we're going to occupy the whole place.
The Israeli government has approved plans to expand the genocidal war on Gaza that Israeli officials say will lead to the full Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territory.
The plan involves capturing more territory in Gaza, expanding the so-called buffer zone, where the IDF has demolished virtually every structure and forcibly displacing Palestinian civilians to move them to a small area of southern Gaza.
Now, what that means, of course, is occupying everything.
Remember, when that first hospital was bombed, you remember that?
And it was outrageous.
How dare anyone suggest that they did it on purpose?
Well, since then, they've bombed every single hospital that's left, and they don't even try to pretend that it's something outrageous anymore.
So this is what's happening.
Now, go to the next one.
Axios is reporting that the plan involves flattening every single building that remains in Gaza and forcing the entire population into a single area and pressuring them to leave as part of an ethnic cleansing plan.
Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich said Israel is finally going to occupy the Gaza Strip and was no longer afraid of the word occupation.
So it's very clear it's ethnic cleansing.
That's what they want to do.
And frankly, I mean, I think Dr. Paul, if any other country was doing this on earth, we probably would be bombing them, you know, as we tend to do, but not in this case.
You know, Trump, unfortunately, is backstopping them.
And I think this shift you talk about is very significant and very meaningful in a negative way.
Because, you know, in the Middle East war, you know, I guess the terrorists in Iraq, all you had to do, a terrorist, we're in there.
We're going to start.
We're willing to gamble on World War III.
There are terrorists over there.
They're going to bomb us and kill us.
And that went on.
Then we fight for 20 years and kill a lot of people.
Oh, there really weren't terrorists.
That was a small number, a group.
But right now, I think the noise has shifted.
They're not talking about just a segment.
They're not talking about a couple hundred terrorists.
What they do is say that they have to clear the area of Hamas militants.
You know what a militant must be?
And that must be somebody that's defending his home and trying to save his kids.
So that to me is bad news.
And just think of the chanting and the complaining about lack of due process for the January 6th demonstrators, you know, and some of them got arrested and been in prison, probably still facing some things.
Of course, Trump, I'm hoping he'll clean that mess up.
But if these are the militants or if they're the terrorists, is there any indication that, well, we have to have to take care of?
Because believe me, there are some terrorists on both sides and there's some terrorists, you know, because the whole situation, when a country or a people that is not allowed to be called a people are surrounded and they live with those bombs, they would become militant.
I think I'd become militant too if I was put up with that.
Your homeland, yeah.
Yeah.
Homeland, right.
Well, I want to thank Georgias for giving $30, saying thanks for speaking up.
A lot of people are not speaking up.
Go to that next clip.
This is the Axios report says that President Trump isn't pushing for a ceasefire deal.
That's not a surprise.
And quote, has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Yetanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit.
And what he does see fit to do is, of course, get rid of every building.
The approval of the plan to take over Gaza comes after two months of a total Israeli blockade on the strip as children are starving to death due to the lack of aid.
According to CBS News, the plan includes a mechanism to have a private security company distribute aid in Gaza, but there's no indication it will be implemented soon or that it would provide the relief needed to stave off a massive famine.
And the thing that's most frustrating, Dr. Paul, is that one phone call could end this.
President Trump could call Netanyahu and say, look, I'm tired of seeing kids starving to death.
I know you've got to deal with people who've attacked you.
That's fine.
Don't take it out on the kids.
If you don't end the siege of the aid right now, all of our aid to you will end.
That would finish it.
It just would take a phone call.
And it wouldn't make Israel any less secure to give a kid a meal than they are now.
Well, when your statement gets passed on to the president, get ready.
He'll be calling you and checking you out if you can organize that.
Well, you know what's sick, Dr. Paul?
And I put this up because I saw it last night and I couldn't believe it.
This is a member of the United States House of Representatives.
He was just elected, and I think in a by-election in Florida, maybe he was elected in November.
Randy Fine.
Randy Fine is actually laughing and encouraging the starvation.
Put this up, Representative Fine from Florida.
He says, hey, Muslim terrorists, cry harder.
And then he uses the hashtag, starve away.
Starve away.
I love blocking Muslim terrorists.
They clearly aren't too hungry.
Keep on starving, he said.
So much for the religion of peace.
This is a member of the United States House of Representatives laughing and mocking people who are starving to death.
Go to the next one.
This is Randy Fine.
This is the member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
And sadly, I have to say, Dr. Paul, I looked it up.
He was endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee, right?
Right to life.
And here's the people who he's laughing and mocking.
And I hate to do this, but I'm going to put up this little girl.
Very heartbreaking.
She's starving to death.
And she's looking at a picture of herself back when she was not starving to death.
And she said, the thing I miss most is my hair.
Very, very sad.
And this is the person that Randy Fine is laughing at and mocking, saying, starve harder.
So we clearly have a problem here in the United States as well.
You know, where there's irony, and I'm not going to accuse or think I know exactly what religion people follow, but the term Christian nation is frequently used and it shouldn't have any legal meaning.
But if he's right to life, it's most likely that he's been exposed, at least, to what Christians think.
So this would be not very much following that type of tradition.
And if it makes it sadder when they take this pretense and they turn it, and it's back to this thing, they're not people.
They're not a people.
And we've talked about that.
They're not killing people.
They're not a people per se.
Boycott and Free Choice 00:07:38
They don't have rights.
This is so sad.
And that's what Hitler did.
He demonized Jews and said they're not really a people.
They're just animals.
And that's how he justified killing them.
You think that they would know better.
And thankfully, we talked about it yesterday, but not on the show.
Thankfully, there are thousands and millions of Jewish people in the world who do not agree with this.
I think hundreds of them signed a letter.
We were going to talk about it yesterday, but we wouldn't have time.
Hundreds of them, rabbis.
Yes, all Jewish groups.
Yeah.
And you saw the page on a New York Post.
Yeah, that's right.
NEW YORK POST and because you know what they have won the battle to intimidate.
If you are, you know, pro-life and you don't like these wars, into saying, oh you, you're Anti-Semitic, that's got.
That goes on in the universities yeah, just think of how they try to kick people out of, out of school.
And and even even our own government uses that as a weapon to to, you know, cancel out the First Amendment.
Say oh, you can't, say that we're not going to send you any more money.
The money is to bribe you to do what we tell you to do and you can't.
You can't come along here and say that both sides have to be looked at.
You know, look at.
Both sides are of the argument.
So all we can do is, you know, give our little voice out there and maybe someone will hear it.
And thankfully there are these, the Jewish groups that are speaking out, and they don't.
They don't, they certainly don't want to have this in their name.
Who would?
No normal person would want.
There might be fifty I don't know how many, but at least 10, more than 10 different groups that were well-known Jewish groups.
Yeah, and they were saying, enough is enough yeah yeah, yeah.
So well, the second story we want to cover is sort of related and it's about a bill that was supposed to go on the floor yesterday.
It was expansion of the anti-boycott bill that expanded to include a boycott that was endorsed by international organizations.
Put the next one up, Reason magazine we don't cite very often, but they have a good article about this uh, and it says, should sharing information about Israeli businesses get you 20 years in prison?
Now, that caught our attention.
But what it is is a bill that was written uh, by Lawler his name is a represent U.S. Representative that would have go to the next one now would have sent Americans to prison, boycott.
Now, I like the way they start this.
This is what caught my attention too, Dr. Paul.
Boycotting foreign countries is an American tradition older than the United States.
The Boston Tea Party that preceded the American Revolution came at the tail end of a boycott campaign against British goods, but since the 70s the U.S. Government has tried to stop Americans from participating in unauthorized foreign boycotts.
That's a great opener, because that's that's part of our tradition is boycotting.
You know we want to make it illegal, but this Anti-international Governmental Organization, anti-boycott act that they put up on the suspension calendar for monday, the AND in recent rightly points out, the most draconian measure of its kind.
It would impose a maximum 20-year prison sentence or a $1 million fine for complying with international human rights sanctions against a U.S. Ally, including, and I highlighted this, by furnishing information.
Go to jail for 20 years by furnishing information about a boycott.
All this is designed to secure the empire and expand the empire because empires aren't static.
And if you don't get, stay busy, you don't expand it and maintain what you have.
And that's what they do.
They have to intimidate these people and scare them to death.
And this is the reason why I think it's very difficult to attack because they grab the emotions of it all.
And this whole thing of using money to bribe an educational system, first thing, it's wrong to take money from somebody who can't go to college and pay money to send rich kids to college and get a worthless degree.
And yet they do that.
Then they say, well, it's a gravy train for a lot of people.
Professors, especially in universities, they have billions of dollars in their kidney.
So they benefit from this, but they want to live off it.
Boy, they don't want it to dry up.
So our government comes along and says, if you're going to talk like that, we're going to not send you any more money.
So it's almost a blatant bribe to you say you say what we tell you to say, especially on foreign policy.
And that's not a good sign.
Not a good sign.
Well, thankfully, the bill was pooled, and that's because there were some unexpected Republican opposition, which is good to hear.
And I know that Senator Paul on the Senate side was strongly opposed to it for First Amendment reasons.
But also, and I put up that next clip, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's been on fire lately, she's been very good.
She's, of course, she's very pro-Israel in the House, but she also understands the meaning of America first.
If we can put that next clip up, here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene said.
Now, here's sort of an assessment of the bill.
The House will vote Monday on H.R. 867, the IGO Anti-Boycott Act sponsored by Representative Mike Lawler.
Look him up.
Fines up to a million bucks, 20 years in the slammer for Americans who participate in boycotts of Israel or its settlements if these boycotts are endorsed by international bodies like the UN or EU.
Marjorie Taylor Greene said, I will be voting no.
It's my job to defend Americans' rights to buy or boycott whomever they choose without the government harshly fining them or imprisoning them.
But what I don't understand is why we are voting on a bill on behalf of other countries and not the president's executive orders that are for our country.
Absolutely well said, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
We need to get her on the show.
She's doing great lately.
That'd be deep.
Yeah, she is.
She's doing great.
So it's not about Israel.
It's about the ability to do what you want and say what you want.
Free choice.
Yeah, free choice.
Free choice.
But people have whittled away that because one thing that authoritarians and dictatorship cannot stand is the truth.
So I see all these battles throughout all of history, a battle between truth and people who are nihilists and they don't believe in truth.
It isn't like they're just making a mistake.
Oh, a little white lie here.
Well, it's for their benefit, they argue.
It's the fact that they have no respect for anybody who would dedicate themselves for the telling the truth because it muddies the water.
It slows things up.
It puts a dent and people start challenging the dictators because that's what they are.
They're always good people trying to use their authority to take care of us, make us safe, make us secure.
And people roll over because what do they do?
They get the people dependent.
And they start at an early age.
That is why the Department of Education and the takeover of education was not a very good idea.
And that's been going on longer than the Department of Education.
That's been going on for 100 years or more.
And people become very dependent, and they're fortified by the intellectuals in the community.
And they say, this is the best thing we can do.
We live in a free country.
Value Decline 00:03:42
And look at what we can give our people.
Robbery and killing.
Oh, my.
Well, they pulled it because they didn't have the two-thirds necessary under the suspension of the rules.
As you know, Dr. Paul, you need two-thirds of Congress of the House to accede to it.
They don't have that, but they probably have 50%.
So people, I would recommend keeping your eyes out for this bill because they're going to try to sneak it in somewhere.
They're going to try to get it passed, and they're going to want to put you in jail if you don't want to buy Israeli goods because you don't like the fact that they're starving people in Gaza.
So anyway, I'm going to close out, Dr. Paul, and thank everyone for watching the show.
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Over to you, Dr. Very good.
You know, we talked about economics today, and we've talked a lot about foreign policy.
And these are very important issues.
And also, people do understand and watch closely, you know, an old-fashioned method of measuring the turmoil in the markets.
And that's the doctor, the dollar-gold ratio.
Some people call it the price of gold, but it's the value of the dollar that we want to deal with, and also the system that it breeds.
And it breeds trouble.
And I think that's coming to fruition.
And we're seeing how it's going to be climactic in bringing down a lot of people.
So it is a special time to be watching because there are predictions.
I will look at them carefully.
I know I can't predict timing, but I do believe the Austrian School of Economics teaches people to understand some truths about economics.
If you print a lot of paper money and think that it's going to be redeemable in gold and you lie to the people, it eventually fails.
And that is a truism.
What you can say is it's going to fail in one year, two years, or ten years, but it won't work.
In the meantime, a lot of people are going to suffer and a lot of people are going to get very rich on it.
That's one of the really the big seductions here is on early ages of inflation when they started out and people aren't aware of it.
You know, a lot of rich people get a lot richer.
You can build more houses.
More houses are built.
And it also looks so good.
And if you borrow money, they might write off the debt and all that.
But eventually it gets caught up and people realize the money is losing value.
It might be at a steady pace, reasonably steady pace, but eventually it rapidly declines.
It's contagious.
It becomes a panic.
And that's when it's a little bit too late to solve the problem.
There's all kinds of thoughts and theories how people can protect themselves, you know, in these categories.
And to me, the most important thing you do is understand economics.
Understand what the politicians are saying, trying to sort out the authoritarians from those who want to seek truth, because that's all the difference in the world.
We will never reach perfect truth and we will never see a perfect dictator.
Things end, but it's a movement.
Which way are we doing going?
Things we talked about today, I would say, indicates some very serious movement toward the dictatorships.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today.
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