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July 1, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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As Gaza Starves, US Green Lights More US Weapons To Israel

Just as news comes out that IDF commanders ordered Israeli soldiers to shoot unarmed Palestinians lining up for food, the US announced that it has approved $500 million in new weapons to Israel - just the kinds of weapons that are being used on the Palestinians who line up for food. Also today, the BBB spat between Musk and Trump widens!

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Israeli Militarism and Moral Responsibility 00:14:11
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
There's a war still going on.
Which one do you want to talk about?
Lots of them.
I wish we didn't have to talk about any of them.
There is still a war going on in Ukraine.
It doesn't get as much attention, but it looks like there's a lot of weaponry still up there.
Yes.
And we thought only one side would have real access to it.
But all of a sudden, you know, the United States government saw fit that the American people be involved.
And we have been supplying lots of weapons.
So there still looks like there's mischief there.
But in the news, more so has been what has been going up in the Palestinian area.
And there's an article today, came out yesterday, actually.
Dave de Camp brought this subject up.
And the title is Israeli military admits to killing Palestinian civilians near aid sites in Gaza.
It's horrible.
And if you read one side, it is super horrible.
But if you listen to the explanation, they say, well, this was minor.
Only a few people were killed, and it wasn't a big deal.
But the whole mess is a big deal.
Israel, you know, their hands are not clean, but neither are our hands because most of the weaponry and the deaths, in a moral sense, could be carried all the way back to what our policies have been like and how generous the American people feel about giving somebody else's money, not their own.
They don't think it's their own money, and subsidizing this war that's going on.
And so I think when they say that so-and-so killed these people, I think the American people ought to ask the question, you know, where did they get their weaponry?
Did that involve any American money?
And for the most part, it almost always involves some American money, which is, you know, the taxpayers' money, which contributes to our economic problems, our deficits.
They're squirming around, you know, right now trying to balance a budget.
No, they're not trying to balance a budget.
They're pretending they're going to cut spending.
And it's just a matter of, are we going to raise the national debt for like $3 trillion next year?
Or could we just sneak it in?
Nobody will notice.
We'll raise it.
Just stretch it out a little bit.
We'll just change the law.
They won't have to worry about this nonsense.
We'll just sign on this time an increase in the national debt by five more trillion dollars, which is, you know, if you think anything about fiscal sanity, this makes no sense whatsoever.
Yet there's very few people.
How many votes have they been able to get in the House and the Senate?
Virtually none.
And then you take a person like Thomas, and he votes against it, and it looks like he's the most evil person in the world, and he's the most hateful toward America.
Things are twisted.
So that's hope that we can help some people think this through and think of it in terms of morality as well as where does the money come from?
And basically, what is our foreign policy and what should our foreign policy be in a Republican form of government, which we had been given?
Yeah, this article came out, and we were going to talk about it yesterday.
It came out on Monday in Heretz, which is an Israeli newspaper.
And if we can actually put up that first clip, you'll see that the Israeli newspaper broke the story that Israeli troops were firing on Gazans, unarmed Palestinians, as they lined up for food.
The article says, Israeli military admits to killing Palestinian civilians near aid sites in Gaza.
The Israeli military admitted on Monday that its forces have killed Palestinians in Gaza near aid sites run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, but claimed the death toll from the Gaza's health ministry was exaggerated.
The admission came after Israeli newspaper Haretz reported that Israeli troops have been given orders to fire on unarmed Palestinians attempting to reach GHF distribution sites to drive them away or disperse them.
Though it turns out that they actually killed them.
So you can imagine, Dr. Paul, you're starving.
You haven't had food in months.
Finally, some aid starts to come.
You go and get in line to get your aid and you get shot.
It's terrible.
And if you go to the next clip, it's not just a couple of people that it's happened to.
Based on Gaza Health Ministry's latest numbers and the killing of Palestinians at aid sites Monday, more than 600 aid seekers have been killed in Gaza since the GHF began operating at the end of May.
While the IDF disputes the numbers, okay, fair enough.
The figures align with daily reports coming out of Gaza, which I've cited eyewitnesses, rescue workers, medical staff at the hospital.
Studies have also found that the health ministry's overall death toll is likely a significant undercount.
So you have people, Dr. Paul, lining up for food.
They're starving.
And the Israeli military is firing at them.
And this is not some raving anti-Semitic person making these claims.
This is the Israeli newspaper, Horetz, very old, very well-respected newspaper.
It's a huge black eye for Israel to have this coming up.
You know, Heretz is well known and they're credible.
And it goes against the grain of some people who think you shouldn't even be able to say this in our college campuses in a way.
What if everything that, you know, what we're talking about here is said with people standing out and making a point and demonstrating this, they could get kicked out of school or who knows what.
And then our government say, well, you're not following the rules of the First Amendment.
So we're going to deny you the funds that should be given.
Well, the solution is we should have never given their funds in order to use it as a weapon.
But anyway, it's just the point that what we're reading here now is something that is not casually accepted and permitted on a lot of our college campuses.
Yeah, it's, in fact, I do have a short clip of the Palestinians that are trying to get aid being fired at.
If you put that, and there are plenty of these on X, and some of them may be fake, but this one is from a pretty reputable source.
If we can run that video, we don't really need our air pieces in.
You can just see what's happening.
You can get the background.
And these are starving people.
They're not armed.
They're not soldiers.
They are civilians, you can see.
Children, women, young men.
And they're being shot at by the Israeli Defense Forces.
It's a real stain.
You can, yeah, take that down.
It's a real stain.
It's a real embarrassment for Israel.
But the real problem, Dr. Paul, yes, they are doing this.
It is their own business.
But here's the part that makes it our business.
If you put that next clip on, this is why it's our business.
This is also from anti-war, and we thank them for their great work in getting these big articles down to digestible.
This is why it's a problem, Dr. Paul.
Just as this is happening, U.S. approves $500 million arms deal for Israel.
So we're the one giving them the weapons that they're using to shoot these kids, young people, women, children trying to queue for aid.
It's a real stain not only on Israel for doing it, but it's a stain on our administration and everyone in Washington for funding it and giving the weapons to do it.
You know, if people complain about this, they can be accused of being anti-Semitic.
You know, oh, you mean you're not going to send the weapons to Israel?
And they can get into all kinds of political problems.
But it's also a point that somebody might want to make a point.
What's our position?
What's the benefit of America?
What is our authority?
What is our moral authority?
What is our constitutional authority?
You go through that and you become the enemy of so many people.
It's almost automatic.
And yet you mentioned when I complain about how much they're there, you say, well, maybe there's a shift in this and an attitude.
So it's very encouraging that a newspaper in Israel is publishing this.
And of course, if we heard there that they treated Herets like we treat college campuses, they would say, hey, you guys can't do this.
So I think that's a positive, but it's also a negative that we're blinded to it.
And we don't want to talk to anybody who champions getting rid of all this funding everywhere.
No, not against Israel, against everybody that we're funding.
And we see no good results from it.
We see just a broken nation morally and financially.
We're in a mess.
And that's what this crazy argument is all about about the budget, because they won't deal with this.
One or two people willing to vote against this militarism.
And because the rest is, you become un-American and anti-Semitic if you start doing things like that.
Yeah, but I think a lot of that stigma has gone away because there are a lot of people who are now talking about it, who are mainstream people.
Tucker Carlson talks about it a lot.
And it depends on how you talk about it.
If you talk about it in a tone that suggests that you hate Jewish people, then that's a problem, obviously.
But if you're saying just objectively, why are we doing this?
Why are we giving them bombs when we can see that they're killing people, civilians with the bombs?
I think the tone is important to not single out people because of their background because there are certainly, as you mentioned a second ago, Dr. Paul, there are plenty of the students on college campuses who happen to be Jewish students who don't support what the state of Israel is doing.
They don't identify with the state of Israel.
So, you know, there's more debate now than there has been.
In more detail, the $510 million, that's, you know, peanuts these days, but it's very vital because this turns, it is used to turn bombs into precision-guided weapons.
So it never stops.
And the prolongation of these wars.
And, you know, why we were more excited at the beginning of this administration was we heard criticisms of this.
Why are we starting these wars?
Why are we in these wars for so long?
And of course, we've been, just you and I, we haven't known our lifetime, but the few years we spent has always been concentrating on this.
And how many wars didn't we stop?
Too many.
It's frustrating.
You know, even there's places like, you know, Syria and Somalia, and who else knows?
And they're in 120, some type of militarism is in that country.
But I think people say, well, they don't want to talk about it.
But I think it's this obsession with empire that drives it.
And some people don't see it just for the money.
Well, it is morally reprehensible to shoot civilians.
That's a fact.
But it's doubly bad when our own government forces us to pay for it, forces us to send the weapons over to do it.
It makes you culpable, you know, and that's why more Americans need to speak out.
Now, skip that next clip and go to the one starting it's unclear, because here's the real story here.
If we can, yeah, here we go.
Here's the real story, Dr. Paul.
It's unclear at this point how the deal will be financed, but many arms sales, quote-unquote sales, I would say, to Israel are funded by U.S. military aid.
And U.S. assistance to Israel has significantly increased since October 7th, 2023.
According to the Israeli paper Haz, again, Horetz, in that time, U.S. funding has covered an estimated 70% of Israel's war-related military spending.
We are not only paying for our own massively bloated military spending bill, well over a trillion added together, we're also paying 70% of a foreign country's military bill.
How long can the American people be expected to do this?
Does this follow the rules of common sense or they avoid that?
You know, I've often argued that if you gave me a group of just fair-minded kids that are interested in ideas, I think I could talk to 12-year-olds and convince them something about the monetary policy that nobody in Congress has the faintest idea or desire to talk about it because it isn't that complicated.
And I would think, and you know, young people are generally, you know, not for the war.
They don't like I mock this whole idea.
Yeah, young people from one country get together with the young people from another.
Oh, let's have a war.
Sounds like fun.
But wars get started and they have to fight it.
And then who has to pay for it?
Somebody that has to stay at home and try to keep a family together.
And their grocery bills are doubling and tripling.
But they can't see the connection of all this.
Just leave people alone and be permitted to keep what you earn and give them an incentive.
But that is not what we have now.
Yeah, as you say, we can't afford this empire.
We really can't.
Well, speaking of can't afford, the next topic is kind of an update.
And we talked about it yesterday.
Why Young People Oppose War 00:08:14
The big, beautiful bankruptcy bill.
Go to the next one.
It looks like there's some holdouts in the Senate.
This is from Hedge.
As final vote looms, eight GOP holdouts threaten passage of Trump's $3.3 trillion tax and spending bill.
So there are some Republican senators.
It looks like there might be eight right now who are maybe not firm no's, but are leaning no.
Now, some of those are the more moderate, quote-unquote, lefty Republicans like Murkowski.
They don't like the fact that it cuts Medicare.
But still, that's not enough right now if they're going to pass.
See, even if there's a fancy announcement today, tomorrow, next week, something for six months or something, I was always cynical.
That's one thing I did learn in Washington.
Don't get too excited when they look like they're serious about change.
But they would cut things from good policies.
They said, oh, we can pass this and we'll cut 50% out of this program.
But there's always going to be a supplemental.
Not next week, not part of the system.
This is trying to even get this year started.
But later on, there's always a supplemental that'll come up.
There's always an emergency.
And they say, you mean there's no food stamp money and we have four months to go yet?
Do you think anybody is not going to do it?
But they won't say, well, we would at least offer the alternative.
Why don't you cut that $750 million out of foreign aid, you know, to purposely kill people who are looking for getting some food to eat.
Yeah, yeah, terrible.
Well, that next clip tells a little bit more about the bill.
And I clipped this for a reason, Dr. Paul, because this is how it's referred to in all articles.
And I think if you put that next one at the center of the impasse is Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, who struggled to unite a fractured GOP conference around the sprawling bill, dubbed by Tump the one big, beautiful bill.
And here's how they describe it, Dr. Paul.
It includes sweeping tax cuts, a $5 trillion debt ceiling increase, significant Medicaid reductions, and a rollback of clean energy subsidies.
But the one thing that I never see mentioned in the discussion of this bill, it includes a massive increase in military spending.
I don't know why they never report that, because that's the objection that a lot of people have, I think, to the bill, the spending and the increased militarism.
So anyway, even if they do pass it, Dr. Paul, if you go to the next clip, they still have to bring it back to the House.
And what the Senate has done, and we talked about it yesterday, they made the bill worse.
They took out all the carrots that they gave the conservatives.
And so they're going to have, they're going to, I think Johnson, Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, he's going to face a House GOP that is irritated and not very happy about this bill.
Right.
You know, there are a few people coming up with new names for the bill, sort of to mock it.
This big, beautiful, who know why?
But I have one which you can still keep the same letters.
You wouldn't have to raise it.
How about the big, beautiful bankruptcy?
Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah.
And, oh, everybody's for it because that's how they stay in office and save the world.
Bring peace and prosperity.
They don't need us.
Well, you know, related to this is another dust up.
And Hedge wrote about it, but I was watching some of it happen live on X, is that Musk couldn't hold his tongue anymore.
Now, yesterday we talked about he couldn't hold it.
Now he just let go.
And you have Donald Trump putting out, President Trump putting out some pretty unhinged, in my opinion, unhinged posts on his Truth Social attacking Thomas Massey.
Again, he does it every other day, it looks like.
Now put this next one up, new poll.
Anybody I endorse beats Thomas Massey of Kentucky by 25 points.
Get ready.
Massey is a very bad guy.
But Lindsey Graham is a very good guy, right?
But so go to the next one.
Now, Justin Amash, our good friend, former Congressman Justin Amash, he responded to Trump's attacks on Massey.
And this really dropped a bomb, metaphorically speaking.
So Justin Amas says, please support Thomas Massey, he posted on X.
The establishment is working to primary him because he's a genuine fiscal conservative and opposes the big bloated scam.
And then the reply came from Elon Musk.
I will.
And that shook the house.
Justin Amash said thank you.
That is incredible.
And what that did is that led to a blowout article on Fox News website.
Put the next one up.
Everyone is talking about Elon Musk indicates he'll donate to Representative Thomas Massey, a Republican who's been excoriated by Trump.
Now, that was a lot of drama because Trump's putting a million dollars in to get rid of Massey.
Well, you know, when this debate on cutting spending in the committee that Elon was in charge with the president, he hinted that he might accept an invitation, you know, to our program.
I mean, it wasn't an acceptance, but we wanted to read a lot into it.
Yeah, he's on the line.
He's open to this.
So I think we should go back to him.
I have a better argument now.
I say, you know, what we can do, our audience is bigger now than it was before.
We can get thousands of people to come see our program.
Maybe we can help you out to build your list.
Exactly.
Help you build it.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, but you know, and Trump unleashed on Elon after Elon did this.
He got furious.
He's going to, he says he's going to look at getting the subsidies cut.
They're going to look at using Musk's own program to cut Musk's funding.
So he just threw a big hissy fit about the whole thing.
It was pretty wild.
So anyway, always drama.
Just do the one last one before I close, if you don't mind, Dr. Paul.
Thomas Massey was kind enough to repost our show from yesterday.
If you put that one up, Thomas Massey very kindly said, thank you, Ron Paul, for amplifying the truth and defending freedom as always.
Now, here's the neat thing, Dr. Paul.
And our friend Chris, our colleague Chris, sent it over.
Elon reposted both our show, I believe, and the clip from the show from yesterday.
And that gave us a combined viewership on X yesterday of about 20 million people.
That's a little more than you.
I guess he doesn't need to come on our show to get it.
He helped us.
He gave us 20 million.
Yeah, that's right.
But it sounds like he's willing to at least look and give us consideration.
Yeah, very nice of him.
We're glad to be part of it.
It's all about the policies and the issue.
Well, I'm going to just ask you to go to that last one and remind you all: Blueprint for Peace is the August conference.
There is a link in the description of today's show.
Now, I did put out a little article yesterday to our subscribers talking not only about the conference, but about why we're getting together.
If you're not subscribed, go to the Ron Paul Institute, RonPaulInstitute.org, and subscribe.
And I will resend it to new subscribers this afternoon.
It's a short couple of paragraphs, but I think it lays out the case for why we really need to get together next month.
So over to you, Dr. Paul.
Very good.
We've passed out a story on Davy Crockett many years ago and into the many, many thousands of people.
And it still floats around.
It's well known.
Not Yours to Give 00:01:55
And it's called Not Yours to Give.
And they talk about a subsidy that Davy Crockett voted against, and he was defending himself.
But the conclusion and the emphasis, it's not yours to give.
And I keep thinking that's exactly what more people should think about.
Yeah, we need to send more money to Israel because of this and that.
But it's don't, yeah, you're looking at what you think you can do.
You may or may not do some good.
But the question is, it's not yours to give.
If it's your money, yes, you can do with what you want.
Matter of fact, I would not make it illegal if somebody said, you know, I think that money's going to the wrong side.
I'm going to go over there and help somebody.
I wouldn't have a barrier there and arrest a guy because he says, I want to go over and help my side of this thing.
So they can use their time and their money and everything else.
That's theirs to give.
But to accept this, but this is accepted.
This is the general acceptance of interventionism and welfarism and socialism, authoritarianism, that it's not you.
It's not your life.
It's not your property.
It's our property because we're smart.
We run the government.
And we have a great government going now, biggest government ever.
We have an empire that defends, and we can't let it fold now.
So they use this and they never even ask a question.
But is it your money to give?
And then the money becomes invisible.
You don't even have to take the money.
All you have to do is destroy the money and you steal it.
You steal the wealth of the money so the money doesn't buy anything.
So it's not theirs to steal.
It's not theirs to destroy and manipulate and not there to regulate people who are not doing any harm to anybody else.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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