Oct. 9, 2023 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| My friend Gadi Taub is on Skype right now. | ||
| He's an Israeli historian and author. | ||
| He's a screenwriter. | ||
| He's a political commentator. | ||
| I did a few events with him when we were in Israel not too long ago. | ||
| He's been battling a lot of the sort of crazy leftism that's deeply connected to the backwardsness, which is why you have gays for Palestine, which is very different than Palestine for gays, and all of the confusion around all of this. | ||
| I don't even know how to do this properly. | ||
| Gadi. | ||
| Gadi, you there? | ||
| Yes, I am. | ||
| Thank you for your strong words, Dave. | ||
| They come from the heart and we can see them. | ||
| So, thanks. | ||
| I hope I did something that could make a few of you guys proud. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Just tell me what's going on. | ||
| You're in Tel Aviv at the moment. | ||
| Just take it away. | ||
| As I was listening to you, there were the interceptions by Iron Dome. | ||
| I'm not sure if it's above my house or somewhere around the outskirts of Tel Aviv. | ||
| My cats are sitting here because they're scared from these explosions. | ||
| But what is happening in Tel Aviv is nothing. | ||
| What we've seen in the south of Israel are atrocities and and images that we haven't seen since the Holocaust. | ||
| And I'm glad you mentioned that these barbarians took a Holocaust survivor, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, as a hostage. | ||
| Imagine this woman has been, I don't know how many sleepless nights from post-trauma in Auschwitz, and now she's back in the hands of those anti-Semitic neo-Nazis and it's unthinkable. And you see those images | ||
| slaughtering children. We came to this country saying never again, never again. And I don't know what existential | ||
| apology the universe can make to this woman who is now back in the | ||
| hands of those barbarians. | ||
| So first of all, there's utter shock here. | ||
| And we're just beginning to understand what is going on. | ||
| And everybody was heartwarmed by President Biden's warm words, but we shouldn't forget that this has been brewing for a long time. | ||
| This is an Iranian operation, and the United States has just given them $6 billion. | ||
| You've seen probably the videos of the high-tech drones that they've used in this infiltration. | ||
| And so these are the sour fruits of two terribly misguided Democratic administrations | ||
| with one short break for Donald Trump. | ||
| And you need to see the geopolitical picture. | ||
| What was in the making now is a peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel. | ||
| And what we are seeing now is Iran strategically sacrificing the interests of the Palestinian people in order to break this new alignment, which is threatening its strategic interests in the region. | ||
| Because obviously, the Palestinian people, I have nothing to say in their favor now. | ||
| They voted for Hamas. | ||
| If you want to understand the mentality of a people, Who are the heroes on the names of whom they call schools and squares and streets? | ||
| You're a hero for the Palestinian people if you killed enough Jews. | ||
| That's the one thing that makes you a hero. | ||
| So we're not on the road to any peace. | ||
| And the Iranians are trying to turn the Palestinians into a wedge now between Israel and Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And they're doing it in this barbaric way. | ||
| So we have Hamas on the south, and we have Iran's other arm on the north, Hezbollah, and we have them trying to circle us with their proxies. | ||
| Yeah, and I hope that some of my explanation, again, I was doing it all sort of off the top of my head. | ||
| I don't even know what to say exactly. | ||
| But right before we started, Brock, my social media guy, mentioned to me that, you know, when I saw you just a few days later, back in May, we went up to the north and we looked at, you know, one of the Hezbollah towers that's literally just like feet away from the Israeli border. | ||
| And it's like, if the Israelis weren't there, They would gladly jump over the other side, but Hezbollah doesn't fear that the Israelis out of nowhere are just gonna attack them. | ||
| Like, the asymmetry of the thing is backwards, but he showed it to me because it looks like the tower has now been destroyed because they're shooting rockets or that, but I don't even wanna get lost in that. | ||
| Can you just talk about the human part of what's going on? | ||
| I mean, I have no doubt that you know people that have probably been killed and or kidnapped. | ||
| Just the human part of, and does it feel like it's at least a little more controlled within the borders at the moment or something? | ||
| A little more control. | ||
| They've not completely taken control of the situation. | ||
| And what happened, I think, is that we were not expecting this infiltration of kibbutzim, of private homes. | ||
| What they did is they, we don't yet know how they neutralized all the electronic surveillance apparatuses, but what they did and they plan to do is to Enter civilian settlements like kibbutz Overwhelm the guards at the entrance and then go from house to house to slaughter people Sparing no one and the videos are so atrocious you you can't you can't show them on your show Dave You can't you can't even put them on social media. | ||
| Some of them are this is this is a snuff pornography of I don't want to start describing them, but people in Israel have lost their sense of security. | ||
| And so now we're talking about giving arms to civilians. | ||
| And the Minister of National Security has now loosened our gun laws. | ||
| Usually we have a lot of guns. | ||
| You know, a lot of people are in reserve service and we have a lot of guns, but they are not enough. | ||
| And if we are going, if indeed we are going to a two front war with Hezbollah too, we have only a limited size for an army and we are going to have to massively arm ourselves because the scary thing with this is you don't know where it will come from. | ||
| What do you make of sort of the existential misunderstanding of Israel and the history of the Jews? | ||
| And again, I tried to do some basic, simple history there, but like the amount of stupidity and ignorance that is flaunted everywhere and that MSNBC constantly shows this map of how Palestine has disappeared over the years, even though there was never a country called Palestine or a people known as Palestinians, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| The average Israeli must walk around with that, knowing that in some ways it does not matter. | ||
| We just have to survive, and they will lie about us, and it just is what it is. | ||
| First of all, we have a woke contingent in our elites too, and you and I have been fighting basically the same war in our separate countries. | ||
| But note that what they've managed to do over the years is turn the language of human rights into the new vehicle of anti-Semitism. | ||
| Now, human rights organizations are demonizing Israel in the language of human rights. | ||
| So if you're an historian, you look back at history, then they've been saying for decades that Jews have been slaughtering Christian kids for their matzot in Passover, and now they use human rights organizations. | ||
| In order to portray the Jewish state as a murderer of children, while we have murderers of children on the other side. | ||
| Look, as Benjamin Netanyahu said so clearly, we protect our women and children with rockets. | ||
| They protect their rockets with women and children. | ||
| And it's time we stopped flinching. | ||
| This blood is on their hands, and we are trying to play In an ultra moral way of behavior in a conflict where we are facing barbarians with no moral scruples at all and we should in the very least | ||
| Give the right impression that we this time around, we are not going to stop because of some Goldstone report that turns out to be fake and full of full of blood libels in the language of human rights. | ||
| I don't even know what else to ask you. | ||
| Is there anything else you want to say for now? | ||
| I mean obviously I'll have you on whenever you want to come back on and I'll gladly have anyone that you think I should have on and all of that. | ||
| I'll be glad to be back and you're doing great work. | ||
| I think the work that people should do on your side in the United States is Don't let the Biden administration cheat you about Iran. | ||
| They're strengthening Iran. | ||
| They're stepping over Israel's head. | ||
| They're doing it in a sly way. | ||
| They've loosened all the sanctions on this state that has a religious goal of erasing the Jewish people from the face of the earth. | ||
| And they're playing this game. | ||
| It started with the Obama administration. | ||
| It goes on with the Biden administration. | ||
| We still know there are Iranian spies inside this administration, and it's appeasing the worst force ever. | ||
| So this is a Chamberlainian mistake, and Americans should point it out. | ||
| Gadi, I thank you for your time. | ||
| I will say a prayer for you. | ||
| I know that literally millions of Americans, and more than that all over the world, are doing just that, and I mean it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Anytime. | ||
| I'm deeply touched, Dave. |
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