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Sept. 30, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Trump's 'Deal' For Gaza Drops As US Support For Israel Craters

It is a race against time for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: a new poll shows Americans have dramatically turned against Israel while President Trump has unveiled a new "deal" for Gaza that looks designed to fail.

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New York Times Gold Revaluation 00:07:40
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 this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
Doing well.
I want to start off with a little bit of an economic tidbit, and that is it's just been reported a day or two when they revalue the amount of gold we have.
We have more gold than any other country.
That's nice to know.
But it really isn't priced.
It's still priced, I think, at $42 an ounce.
So it's not on the books of the real value.
But it is noted now that if you take the gold that the government has and revalue it to the current value, which is very high, over $3,000, close to $4,000, it's going to be worth over a trillion dollars.
But while that's important, I mean, everybody's known it's been there.
Nobody knows that was going to be a fallback.
But what it does, though, is there has to be an adjustment.
How are they going to do it?
How are they going to use it?
And there's a lot of discussion.
Of course, there's a lot of mischief going on in the financial markets today.
The gold dropped a bit during the night, but it's recovered.
I don't think it's going to affect the gold price.
If anything, the chaos is going to probably push the chaos off.
But I compare what's going on now equivalent to the activity that preceded the breakdown of Bretton Woods back in 1971.
It's a significant event.
This will be a significant event because they're looking how to get a new reserve currency.
And I think they will not be very successful, especially on a gold standard.
Because I think if they revalued it at $4,000, I think people would grab it up because what we're doing is printing so much money so fast that people that looked at it at $1,000, it goes to $3,000, $4,000, it's going to go higher.
Anyway, that I think will be dealt with as time goes on.
But there's no signs that anybody in Washington is leading the charge to sanity.
So we're going to have to live with our result.
But a couple of issues we want to talk about today is one, you know, we had the Secretary of Defense Secretary talk about the military had a meeting with a lot of people coming millions of miles around the world to tell us what's happening.
Of course, that happened this morning.
He was given this lecture.
But also, we want to start off with the good news thing.
So we work and struggle to change opinions.
And we have certain rules on how we approach that.
And one is to seek the truth and do our very best to present it as being truthful.
But the headline they caught us from the New York Times.
You know, that's a great newspaper.
It's been around for a couple of years now.
Okay, but the headline that caught us, Daniel, is American support for Israel dramatically declines.
How'd that happen?
Times sent a poll.
Oh, they took a poll.
And you're a fan of polls.
So, and I like to look at them too.
I always have to think, is it true?
Or are they fudging it or whatever?
But this, I think there's some reliability here.
And I think, you know, for long term and for seeking truth, I think it's worthwhile because we see what's happening in the Middle East with our support and the so-called peace meetings and all has not really produced a lot of confidence that much peace is going to come out of what's happening right now.
So I think this is very, very significant that this poll was taken.
And all of a sudden, we've had a couple others shifting this way.
And even with the young people in the Republican Party, the attitude is changing.
So, and that, of course, is what I think is more important than a new professor at some fancy university that might be able to propagandize in who knows which way.
So I think this is a good news story.
Yeah, this follows a trend that we've been watching this past year, and it's been a steady, steady trend.
And if you put up that first clip, you can see this is the headline from the New York Times.
Americans' support for Israel dramatically declines, as Dr. Paul says.
Now, if you go into it a little bit in that next clip, you can see nearly two years into the war in Gaza, American support for Israel has undergone, and I underline this, a seismic reversal, with large shares of voters expressing starkly negative views about the Israeli government's management of the conflict.
A new poll from the New York Times and San Diego University found.
It appears to have the disapproval of the war appears to have prompted a striking reassessment by American voters of their broader sympathies in the decades-old conflict in the region, with slightly more voters siding with Palestinians over Israelis for the first time since the Times began asking voters about their sympathies back in 1998.
So for the first time, more Americans actually find themselves on the side of Palestinians over the Israelis.
So that is a very, very dramatic shift in the polls.
See, I think opinions and people understanding what's going on is very helpful.
And they'll come down on the side of less government and less war that we're on.
And I think this is the case.
More people are hearing about it.
And evidently, the information of what's going on in the Middle East and what's happening to the Palestinians has caught a lot of people as a surprise.
And especially the younger people know that they're not locked into old clichés and why certain things are sacred and you can't say anything about it.
But I think this is very good.
And I think the young people are important.
I think ideas do have consequences.
And this is what puts pressure on the politicians.
The politicians try to distort things and put pressure on the people to support the politician, not to support the country and to support the principles of liberty.
So I see this as the people are waking up for various reasons.
There's a lot of people out there on the internet and talk shows and whatever.
And I think this is excellent that this message is getting out.
And I hope it continues because it has to be the answer.
It's coming one way or the other, because if we don't do it in a gradual and a more organized way of cutting back on this activity, it's going to be so disruptive.
And this way, if they can do this, if they wait until we have to surrender, like have maybe 10 surrenders like Vietnam and Afghanistan, all of a sudden people will lose confidence in our military, which is a mixed bag.
Enough Civilians Killed 00:11:37
But the big deal is they'll lose confidence in the dollar, which is happening all the time.
And that's a big deal.
Yeah, and a big shout out to Georgist who kicked it $100 today.
And he says, thank you for covering this today and yesterday.
Will we thank you for helping us keep the show going?
So go to the next one.
Now, here's some more about the poll, Dr. Paul.
In the aftermath of the Hamas-led tax attacks on Israel on October 7th, 2023, American voters broadly sympathized with Israelis over Palestinians, with 47% siding with Israel and 20% with the Palestinians.
In the new poll, 34% said they sided with the Israelis and 35% with the Palestinians.
Majority of American voters now oppose sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, a stunning reversal in public opinion since October 7th attacks.
About six out of 10 voters said that Israel should end its military campaign, even if the remaining Israeli hostages were not released or Hamas was not eliminated.
Now, dramatically, representing this shift in opinions, if you go to that next one, this is a, I'm sure you saw this chart, Dr. Paul.
This is simply from December of 2023, which you could say probably in the wake of the October attacks, October 7th, until September of 2025.
If you look at that red line, do you think Israel is intentionally or unintentionally killing civilians?
Back in December 2023, only 22% viewed them as doing it on purpose, killing civilians on purpose.
Now that number is 40%, a massive increase.
And you also see the percentage of people believing that they are unintentionally killing.
That's gone from 21 to just 16, Dr. Paul.
So you see a huge increase in people that feel like they're just killing civilians for the fun of it, basically.
Now, one more on this.
The survey also hints at challenges for the U.S.-Israeli alliance in the future.
This is what we focused on a lot, Dr. Paul.
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding in 1948, receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in support.
Now, listen to this.
Younger voters, regardless of party, were less likely to back continuing that support.
Nearly seven in 10 voters under 30 said they opposed additional economic or military aid.
That is dramatic, and that is the future.
And that is why Netanyahu can't wait to get his hands on TikTok.
You know, I think the evidence of what's going on over there, civilians dying and so disruptive, the war continues, and we continue to finance it.
But I think that it's also a financial thing that's sinking in because people are hurting, and they're starting to connect these deficits and what's happening to their pocketbooks.
And I think the people are suffering a lot more than by the media reporting.
They're not saying that, you know, what was it?
I think I talked about it the other day.
67% of the people live paycheck to paycheck.
That's a very practical thing.
And they say that's a huge thing.
I can imagine how horrible that must be.
And there's all kinds of causes for that.
Sometimes it's some people's own fault, but it's also a system that breeds that into the people's attitude.
And I think that economic policy is also doing this.
And also the morality of seeing these civilians killed.
And every weekend, this weekend, I forget how many Palestinian civilians were killed.
Well, someone said they have normalized killing 100 civilians a day.
They've just sort of made that normal, you know, as if, yeah, well. just happens every day.
And in the meantime, Trump talks about how the Russians are killing so many, so many in Ukraine.
Well, the fact of the matter is there was a big drone strike, I think it was in Kiev, and they reported the Ukrainians themselves reported 40 injured.
Now, that's terrible.
If you're a civilian injured, that's awful.
But 40 injured versus 100 killed a day, you know, there's no.
So we have to keep it rather short today because we've got something coming up.
But we do want to go a little bit over this peace plan.
The White House, BB went back to the White House again, of course, the fourth time this year.
He probably just needs to get a room there.
The White House released a 20-point plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
This is Dave DeKemp's write-up during a joint press conference.
Netanyahu says he's accepted the proposal, though throughout the genocidal war, he repeatedly sabotaged ceasefire deals.
Dave, wisely adding that in.
That's what they do.
So here's the thing.
There's this 20-point plan, and people can read it.
It's not very different from what's happened, a couple of very small things.
But Trump made the point in front of Netanyahu by saying, if Hamas rejects this, you've got my green light to finish it.
You know, which I guess means kill everyone.
So obviously the Netanyahu is going to have the incentive to do something, a poison pill in there to make it fall apart.
You know, but the language is getting rougher and rougher.
You know, this is one headline.
Gives Hamas ultimatum to release hostages or face total destruction by Israel.
And I don't think there are mincing words there.
I think they're determined.
It's amazing how we're seeing shifts in attitudes toward a more peaceful solution.
At the same time, about all it does is make the pro-war people more aggressive.
But the point is, is there's less people now thinking that's a wise investment nor a wise moral choice to subsidize it.
And a lot of people don't realize how this affects us.
But we just say, oh, they're killing each other.
It's a war that they're going.
But more people now understand that this is also, this is always a cost to us.
And that's where the dilemma is.
And that's also the self-limiting factor.
So if nothing is done to change policy, it ends.
But more tragically than it should end the way you can just decide enough is enough.
Most a lot of wars are just off by exhaustion on both sides.
But this one is, you know, all these problems started with outside interference all the way back to World War I, especially, and maybe even before that.
So they've been affected, and they've made things worse since that time.
I think that they ought to, well, anyway, we ought to stay out of it and advocate that other people stay out of it.
But as everybody wants to do, they say, well, we're the peacemakers.
They always are the peacemakers, you know, on their terms, and they want to take control.
And so they've had it.
So if you object to what they're saying and doing, oh, you guys are always for war.
We're for peace.
We want to talk to them and we want to have an agreement.
But I think the agreement is self-serving on the people who promote war.
Well, I don't think this new deal that he's offering is going to be very attractive to anyone.
In fact, as Dave pointed out in his sort of commentary within his piece, they continually, every time, violate these deals and then they blow up and they say, see, Hamas doesn't want peace.
But if you go to this one, this will be my last comment on it because I know we've got to get out of here.
But the proposal also says that Israel, quote, will not occupy or annex.
I think this is the wrong one.
You have to go to the next one.
One more.
I'm trying to cut this short here.
Yeah, the proposal also says Israel will, quote, not occupy or annex Gaza and that, quote, no one will be forced to leave.
And those are two things that are different.
But Dr. Paul, as soon as Netanyahu got back home, here's what he said.
Go to the next one.
Netanyahu claims ceasefire deal will allow the Israeli military to stay in Gaza.
So no sooner does he get home from reading a proposal that says you cannot occupy it, and he says, no, no, that's not the case.
We're going to continue to occupy it.
So basically, it's Israel saying, you guys give up all your weapons, and then we'll continue to occupy you and kill you.
And, you know, that's not going to be a very good deal.
So this headline is such a stretch.
Israel will finish the job.
If Hamas doesn't accept Trump's Trump, is he king?
Is he the world king?
20-point Gaza plan.
You know, I started to go through it, and I can study it some more.
But just the notion that somebody's 6,000 miles away and this war has been going on a long time because there's been so much outside people interfering.
20-point Gaza plan.
But they said that this argument goes, well, who's going to be in charge during the transition?
And they took care of that.
The Trump plan is they're going to set up a board of peace.
Board of peace.
Or well.
And the details doesn't show that there are many libertarian leanings, pro-peace people who are going to be on that board of peace.
No, it's going to be Tony Blair, who's like the last person you think of when you think of peace.
You know, he wants a peace of everything, but he doesn't want peace.
So I am going to close out and thank all our viewers for watching the show today.
A kind of quick update on what's going on in the Middle East.
And I'm going to turn it over to you, Dr. Paul, to close out.
Very good.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today.
We depend on viewers to listen and come and pay attention, hopefully agree with what we're trying to do and help spread the message because we strongly believe in spreading the message.
That's the real, you know, intellectual weapon that we have to use because it is representing a true peaceful solution to these problems rather than saying militancy.
And, you know, how are we going to do this?
How are we going to force it?
And give them no choice.
We have the most money.
We have the most wealth.
We have the strongest currency.
We have the most weapons.
But all those things are up for bargain right now.
And they're starting to dwindle.
So I would say that this is an opportunity for us to buckle down and look at what happens and bite the bullet and say, let's go.
No, we don't need these bullets anymore.
And we can really work for peace.
But unfortunately, although we've quoted some statistics that are saying that more people are saying enough is enough.
And even though we're 6,000 miles away, we have something to say about it because it's our money and our support that has caused so much hardship in these regions, especially in the Middle East.
Want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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