Oct. 11, 2023 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| the Hi everybody, I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It's October 11th, 2023. | ||
| As always we're on Rumble, Locals, Spotify, all the usual spots. | ||
| More than ever now I would say please do join us on Rumble or Locals so that you can get me directly because as you know we live in a time of censorship and I suppose telling the truth these days is not That comfortable for a certain set of people that run big tech and Lord only knows how long we will remain on YouTube. | ||
| So if you could jump over to Rumble.com slash RubinReport or RubinReport.com slash locals, that would be great. | ||
| As always, we've got a postgame show after the show today. | ||
| Today, obviously, there's just like a ton of news to catch up on and what's going on, obviously. | ||
| In Israel and how that relates to American foreign policy and some of the domestic things going on here. | ||
| So I'm gonna recap that for just a bit at the top of the show today. | ||
| And in about 15 minutes or so, we have former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. | ||
| He was the ambassador under Donald Trump. | ||
| I'm sure many of you remember, I interviewed him at the Western Wall in Jerusalem just about six months ago in May when we took that trip to Israel. | ||
| He's a great American. | ||
| He's a great supporter of Israel. | ||
| And I think he was really the architect or at least the force, the real driving force on the ground behind the Abraham Accord. | ||
| So this is a guy who knows a little something about history and a little something about peace. | ||
| So he's going to check in with us. | ||
| He is in Jerusalem right now at his home. | ||
| Before we get to the show, just two quick things. | ||
| I've gotten more comments and emails and texts from friends and from people that I haven't heard from in 20 years and a whole bunch more about the shows that we've done for the last couple days than in my entire career. | ||
| And I'm just trying to do what I think is right. | ||
| And I appreciate it, and we appreciate you guys, so I just wanted to make note of that. | ||
| And I think people sort of can see that there's a little bit of a different tone in the show the last couple days than there usually is. | ||
| And hopefully we will get back to the other tone, because I do dig that one too. | ||
| But this is important. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| And number two, a lot of you are asking me where to donate. | ||
| I've made a couple different donations, but a group that is in Miami that helps out a lot of Israelis and they are raising money for the frontline IDF officers that are fighting right now. | ||
| They are raising money directly for the families. | ||
| That have been affected and we don't have to get into the litany of horrific things that they're going to going through. | ||
| It's called H.E.A.R.T. | ||
| H.E.A.R.T. | ||
| I've donated $10,000. | ||
| It's just the beginning of, I've donated a couple other things, not important, | ||
| but like it's important. | ||
| And if you have the means, it's appreciated. | ||
| And we are fighting for Western civilization here truly. | ||
| So the link is in the description. | ||
| So please, if you've got the means, as I said, do let us know. | ||
| Okay, let's get to the top here, Phoenix. | ||
| Give me just a sec as we're rolling through some things here. | ||
| All right, so look, you guys know that I've had some issues with former President Donald Trump lately, right? | ||
| Like, I haven't liked some of the behavior and all that, but I was a huge supporter of him. | ||
| I took the arrows for that. | ||
| And I've always said, if this thing all ends with DeSantis as my governor here in Florida and Trump as my president, like, things will be just fine. | ||
| Because things were a lot better under Donald Trump, period. | ||
| Domestically, we know it, whether we're talking about our border or whether we're talking about financially, the economy and all of those things. | ||
| And certainly foreign policy, it's night and day. | ||
| There isn't even a chasm that I could show you that would be wide enough to see how different these things are. | ||
| And we are now seeing the difference between a strong president on the foreign policy stage, on the world stage, and a weak president who nobody believes is really in charge of his administration. | ||
| So I'm gonna compare and contrast that, add in a couple other little details | ||
| over the last day or so, and then we will get to Ambassador Friedman. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| So I want to start quickly because you know this thing is not just about politics and I always tell you that great Andrew Breitbart line that politics is downstream from culture. | ||
| So I want to start with a very quick clip from Joe Rogan's show yesterday because Joe is not known for his geopolitical analysis and he's kind of what put him on the map really is that he's just a decent guy trying to have conversations with people. | ||
| He made an interesting comment yesterday on his show about anti-war liberals and how they actually might become MAGA people in this next election. | ||
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It seems to me like the more time goes on Trump, Trump has a shoe in. | |
| It seems like if this shit gets getting crazier and crazier, there's going to be a lot of liberals that will vote for | ||
| him. | ||
| He was the one in the beginning. | ||
| We got to stop people from dying. | ||
| Like when, do you want Ukraine to win this war? | ||
| Remember that conversation? | ||
| He's like, I want people to stop dying. | ||
| Like, which is the best answer any politician has ever given. | ||
| And the way he said it... | ||
| And isn't that the simplicity of Donald Trump, right? | ||
| Again, for all the criticisms and all the stuff and the name-calling, it's like that's the simplicity of Donald Trump. | ||
| That's the reason people hear him talk and like him. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
| And what's interesting about that clip is, you guys know, for the last year, what have I been saying ad nauseum, the slim group of people who maybe can move One way or the other, from Democrat to Republican, or Republican to Democrat, the slim group is the disaffected liberal, and I'm seeing an awful lot of them. | ||
| An awful lot of them, who over the last couple of years have said some pretty horrible things about a guy like me, they're now waking up. | ||
| They're going, boy, you know, when you see a whole bunch of people with Nazi signs at Palestinian rallies in New York City, you suddenly go, oh, maybe Maybe the people who were criticizing the left were kinda right, and oh, maybe there is an answer, and my God, that man's orange, but I might have to vote for him. | ||
| Here's a quick clip from Trump, this is a day or two ago, talking about what the world was like when he was president. | ||
| When I was your president, we had peace through strength, and now we have weakness, conflict, and chaos. | ||
| The atrocities we're witnessing in Israel would never have happened if I was president, would never have ever happened. | ||
| When I was commander-in-chief, we reduced the Iranian economy, and I withdrew from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, imposed the toughest ever sanctions on the regime, and imposed a strict travel ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. | ||
| Now they're pouring into our country. | ||
| They're pouring into our country. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, he's just right. | ||
| And there's no doubt about it. | ||
| He would not have released the $6 billion to Iran, which they said was going to be for humanitarian purposes. | ||
| And then we played you the clip two weeks ago, the Iranian president said, well, we're going to just do whatever we want with it. | ||
| And then here we are two weeks later, right? | ||
| Beheading of children, right? | ||
| You see the connection? | ||
| So he makes a good point on that. | ||
| He makes another good point. | ||
| We would have never Withdrawn from Afghanistan the way we did, and now it does sound like some of those weapons that we left over are somehow making their way over to the Middle East. | ||
| I mean, all of these things. | ||
| And then, of course, the next step of this, which may be, for those of you that might look at the Middle East and go, okay, I don't care about that far off place. | ||
| What happens there actually affects us, because if we don't have a border, we have no idea who has walked into this country. | ||
| So when you see these people at these rallies, You have to wonder where their allegiances lie and what they would do if they had the power to go after anyone here who believes in freedom and individual rights and our constitution and all of those things. | ||
| So let's contrast that a little bit with our current president. | ||
| First, I want to throw back to something that Joe Biden said not too long ago. | ||
| This is at a college graduation. | ||
| And then we'll contrast it with what he said yesterday, which actually was pretty decent, I suppose. | ||
| But here he is not too long ago on the biggest threat to the United States. | ||
| As the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. | ||
| One of the things I think is important, I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. | ||
| That's interesting, right? | ||
| So, okay, white supremacy is the biggest threat. | ||
| We all know that that's just abject nonsense. | ||
| When they say white supremacy, they basically mean MAGA. | ||
| They mean Trump supporters. | ||
| That is not to say that there are not some white supremacists and they should be called out and marginalized. | ||
| But we know it is simply not. | ||
| And then, of course, the secondary video that we should be teaching more about the Islamic faith is just sort of Bizarre, because I'm fairly certain in all of the Islamic countries, they're not running around going, hey, can we teach more about Judaism? | ||
| How about Christianity? | ||
| Can we get in on that? | ||
| Anyway, Biden did finally speak yesterday. | ||
| Now keep in mind, there are, I think, 11, we know of 11, and the numbers obviously are changing and it's a little unclear, 11, at least 11 American hostages right now somewhere in Gaza. | ||
| There's been basically no call to free these people, but Biden did give a speech Yesterday, and for Joe Biden, who I'm very critical of, it was fairly clear. | ||
| Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people's right to dignity and self-determination. | ||
| Its stated purpose is the annihilation of the state of Israel and the murder of Jewish people. | ||
| And let there be no doubt, the United States has Israel's back. | ||
| We will make sure the Jewish and democratic state of Israel can defend itself today, tomorrow, as we always have. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
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All right. | |
| Look, the message was basically right. | ||
| You know, the hard part about Biden right now is because we all know he's not running the show, right? | ||
| He's not the captain of the ship that it's like, where is this coming from? | ||
| And are you guys going to take any of the blame for what got us here? | ||
| Because it's his policies. | ||
| I mean, this is just True. | ||
| This is not partisan. | ||
| It is his policies that got us here. | ||
| We've got a compilation right now of Biden administration officials explaining some of their poor policies regarding Iran. | ||
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Aren't going to be released for nothing in exchange. | |
| Didn't they also get five Iranians? | ||
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They will get five Iranians as well. | |
| Yeah, Jackie. | ||
| We need to add $6 billion on top of that. | ||
| This is the deal that we were able to strike. | ||
| Biden's ransom payment will be immediately used to stoke violence, bloodshed, and mayhem throughout the Middle East, putting Israel, the United States, and the entire world in very grave peril. | ||
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Six billion dollars they want released, and they're going to have choice. | |
| They're going to use it for humanitarian aid. | ||
| There's no guarantees of that, so I'm very much concerned about this. | ||
| We're looking into it much deeper, but I'm very concerned. | ||
| Do you have concern that money is fungible? | ||
| I am. | ||
| There is, obviously. | ||
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Money is fungible. | |
| The administration says this is limited to humanitarian aid, but they also acknowledge that funds are fungible, which means they can move them around, and it will aid them in being able to do other things. | ||
| So people are very concerned. | ||
| It seems, you know, very clear to the critics on both sides on the Hill that money is fungible. | ||
| That's the criticism. | ||
| And now, President Mahese has added fuel to the fire that already existed of criticism by saying, we're going to do anything we want with it. | ||
| But isn't it true that this frees Tehran up to spend more on other nefarious goals like supporting terrorism and boosting its nuclear program? | ||
| And it's, you know, I can't predict what they'll do going forward here. | ||
| Iran may have known this money is coming and used other funds to help fund this attack that happened. | ||
| Iran has, unfortunately, always used and focused its funds on supporting terrorism, on supporting groups like Hamas. | ||
| I assure you guys, we could have shown you a way longer compilation of the confusions and outright lies and obfuscations from this administration related to that. | ||
| You can thank me for not showing you anything from Corinne Jean-Pierre. | ||
| I love this phrase, money is fungible, and that they all start repeating it. | ||
| Of course it is, you're not gonna believe this. | ||
| I pay all the guys in this room. | ||
| Guys, you do whatever you want with the money, right? | ||
| You don't ask me when you're having lunch or you're buying your chick something. | ||
| Yeah, everybody, money's fungible. | ||
| You give it to somebody, they can do what they want with it. | ||
| Anyway, just a little bit more and then I want to get to the ambassador. | ||
| Here is a tweet and it's interesting. | ||
| There's something so fascinating happening right now. | ||
| Elon Musk, this cannot be overstated, he in some respects is saving Western society right now. | ||
| I don't think this was his intention when he bought Twitter. | ||
| I think it might have been sort of in a kind of blue sky way. | ||
| But by allowing people to get information directly and allowing people to see the horrors and then also expose the bad guys who are all too willing to expose themselves, we would not have that if Elon Musk did not have Twitter, right? | ||
| We know that the censorship and the banning and all of those things, they would be banning and suspending the good guys and promoting the bad guys. | ||
| Some of the bad guys are still on there, and it's an interesting philosophic debate as to what Elon should do about these things, but I think it is good to know what some of the genuinely bad guys are saying. | ||
| Here is Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. | ||
| That video that he linked to, before I read the tweet, is from the desert, the party where 250 Israeli kids, I mean, Teenagers and 20-something-year-olds were killed who were just going to a concert. | ||
| He wrote, God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands | ||
| of the Palestinian people and the resistance forces through the region. | ||
| Now look, you could have a debate like, is that a direct threat to Israel? | ||
| Should he be allowed to be on these platforms? | ||
| Again, I sort of think exposing these things is the best. | ||
| I wanna throw you to a map. | ||
| We've shown you a map, a couple different maps of the Middle East. | ||
| I saw this one this morning. | ||
| Ben Shapiro tweeted this one out. | ||
| Just again, showing you the scale of what we are talking about. | ||
| We are talking about a tiny country. | ||
| That red box you're looking at there, the box is probably four times the size of what Israel actually is. | ||
| It's the little speck in the box, but you can't even make a box small enough But only if that country was a little bit smaller, we would have peace. | ||
| That seems to be the argument, and I think most people realize it isn't. | ||
| But Khamenei is not the only one internationally saying crazy things. | ||
| This is a tweet from Turkey's deputy minister of national education. | ||
| He said, one day they will shoot you too. | ||
| You will die. | ||
| That seems like a direct threat. | ||
| To Bibi Netanyahu and then now just a little bit more catching up and then we'll bring on the ambassador. | ||
| This is from the AP. | ||
| Now the outbreak of the war between Israel and the Palestinians after a devastating Hamas attack on Israeli soil is threatening to delay or derail the years-long country-by-country diplomatic push by the United States to improve relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. | ||
| The so-called normalization push, which began under former President Donald Trump's administration and was branded as the Abraham Accords, is an ambitious effort to reshape the region and boost Israel's standing in historic ways. | ||
| Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, The Hamas attacks may have been driven in part by a desire to scuttle the United States' most ambitious part of the initiative, the sealing of diplomatic relations between rivals Israel and Saudi Arabia. | ||
| The Middle East's two great powers share a common enemy in Iran. | ||
| A generous military and financial sponsor of Hamas. | ||
| However, social media showed crowds take to the streets with Palestinian flags in Lebanon, Bahrain, Kuwait and elsewhere in the hours after Hamas attack. | ||
| A policeman in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria Open fire on Israeli tourists, killing two Israelis and one Egyptian. | ||
| Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry in a statement soon after the attacks did not condemn Hamas. | ||
| Instead, the ministry noted that it had repeatedly warned that Israel's occupation, the deprivation of the Palestinian people of their legitimate rights, and the repetition of systemic provocations led to this moment. | ||
| White House national security spokesman John Kirby declined Dave, I'm fine. | ||
| on the Saudi response and with no further ado, having caught you up on some of that and Ambassador, | ||
| I seriously hope that I'm doing justice to all of the things that you have been fighting for. | ||
| I welcome my friend, former US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman to the show. | ||
| Ambassador, how are you? | ||
| Dave, I'm fine. | ||
| I've been better, but I'm fine. | ||
| And I wish I could say the same thing for so many people in Israel who are not fine. | ||
| I mean, a lot of them are not fine. | ||
| And you know why? | ||
| We don't need to go through all these parade of horrors that we've seen over the last few days, but we're really not fine. | ||
| It's a day of Holocaust. | ||
| It's not the Holocaust in its scope. | ||
| But the day, that day of October 7th, was a day that the Jewish people experienced during the Holocaust, and it's a day that we never thought we'd see again. | ||
| And so the people of Israel are in pain, but they're also incredibly united, incredibly determined, incredibly angry, and they are going to respond, I think, like never before. | ||
| Well, actually, on that note, if you don't mind, Ambassador, you posted a video of young Israelis who are returning to Israel at this very moment to defend their country and their people and their families. | ||
| I'd like to throw to that real quick, because maybe that'll give us a little more of a positive note to start on. | ||
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Hey, I'm Maya. | |
| This is Yuval. | ||
| We're returning home. | ||
| We're currently on our way from Beirut to Israel. | ||
| We're on our way to you, to the war. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| We love you, the people of Israel live! | ||
| The people of Israel live! | ||
| Ambassador, that spirit, young people returning home to defend their families, | ||
| maybe Hamas has awoken something that needed to be awoken in some bizarre spiritual sense? | ||
| They have. | ||
| I mean, these are young Israelis on vacation in various parts of the world. | ||
| They were collected, you know, from whatever their meeting point was. | ||
| And they're not complaining about having their vacations cut short. | ||
| They're coming. | ||
| They're joining their brothers and sisters in Israel. | ||
| They're on this plane, they're singing Am Yisrael Chai, which means the nation of Israel lives. | ||
| And by the way, that's emblematic of the entire country. | ||
| What I'm seeing in Israel, apart from the pain, and the pain is real, But those who are not mourning today, or at least not mourning directly for an immediate member of their family, those who don't have someone who's being held hostage, and unfortunately, those are hundreds of people. | ||
| But the people, the rest of the country, they are determined, they are rushing, they're tripping over each other to get into battle, to get to the front lines. | ||
| The people who are not in the army anymore, people like me who are too old to serve in the army, Uh, doing acts of kindness, raising money, philanthropy, uh, you know, putting up people who are displaced from the north or the south because they're, they had to move out of their homes or their homes were destroyed. | ||
| People are, you know, they're just welcoming everybody into their homes. | ||
| I mean, this country, uh, knows how to deal, unfortunately knows how to deal with the tragedy and they're up to the task. | ||
| You know, I have to say, Ambassador, when I saw you six months ago, it was the first time we ever met, and I interviewed you, and you said, hey, you want to take a walk around Jerusalem? | ||
| And we had lunch, and we walked around, and I said to you many times, the thing that I could not believe, and having been to Israel several times before, I could not believe how peaceful it was, and how safe it was. | ||
| And it's so personally, I mean, the tragedy is just beyond imagination, but I really thought that the next time I was gonna have you on, if you would have asked me last week, was gonna be in a few weeks from now, to explain that this deal with Saudi Arabia and Israel had been signed, and here we are. | ||
| But can you just talk a little bit about the peaceful nature that actually is in Israel for just a moment? | ||
| I mean, again, we can talk about the horrors all the time, but something incredible has been brewing there, and that's what's being frayed right now. | ||
| Look, the one thing about the people of Israel, and I wish we had this now in America, but there are foundational principles and foundational experiences and commonality that notwithstanding the politics here, which, as you know, is all over the place and very robust, People get very upset and angry about that. | ||
| But when it comes down to it, it's a family. | ||
| The people here are a family. | ||
| Many of them are children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors who came here as their only place of refuge. | ||
| And they understand. | ||
| I mean, there's an expression in Hebrew, we have no other land. | ||
| And that's their view. | ||
| That's really the motivating principle here. | ||
| There's no place to go. | ||
| This is the last stop. | ||
| This is where the Jewish people take their stand and they stand for their home. | ||
| They stand for their family. | ||
| They stand for their neighbors. | ||
| And that's something that I don't know that any other country has. | ||
| It's a sense of unity and camaraderie and brotherhood and sisterhood that I don't think we have anymore in America, regrettably, but it's still here. | ||
| And that's what contributes to the stability almost all the time until something like this happens. | ||
| And then we realize something very painful, which is that Um, you know, we had thought that, um, that the Holocaust was, you know, as it relates to the Jew, the war against the Jews was the war to end all wars. | ||
| And I think we, you know, we didn't really believe it, but we kind of felt that way and optimistically felt that maybe the Jewish people after 2000 years are going to finally be allowed to live in this land, this God-given land, this only Jewish state in the whole world, this little, as you point out on the map, little tiny speck of dust on the globe. | ||
| Um, We thought we could live here in peace, but we still can't. | ||
| We still can't. | ||
| And when I say Dave to people, when they ask me, you know, to describe this moment, I call it a never again moment. | ||
| You know, the phrase never again is used by everybody of all stripes, you know, when it comes to the Holocaust, never again, you know, we use that word, those words, they're wonderful words, they convey a real meaning. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But now we're gonna find out, you know, are these just words? | ||
| Or is there really something to it? | ||
| Because now is really where the rubber hits the road on this issue. | ||
| This wasn't a terrorist attack. | ||
| This wasn't a battle. | ||
| You know, this was a day of Holocaust. | ||
| This was a, you know, the soldiers who came here, these hard, hardened battle tested soldiers, you know, | ||
| when they finally exposed these places, it was almost like, you remember Eisenhower, | ||
| when he and his troops came into the concentration camps after the end of World War II. | ||
| These are tough people. | ||
| You know, these are these are really tough people. | ||
| They couldn't contain, you know, they were throwing up. | ||
| They couldn't contain it. | ||
| They were crying. | ||
| They couldn't believe that human beings could be so cruel and barbaric to each other. | ||
| And that's the kind of, that's what the reaction that the Israeli soldiers, you know, diplomats, even the press, I mean, everybody that went and visited yesterday, there was an open day of press to come and look. | ||
| Nobody left there unchanged. | ||
| I mean, nobody. | ||
| And so, This is the time to find out who we are, who we really are. | ||
| You know, are we gonna stand with Israel? | ||
| so that they can defeat and eradicate this evil? | ||
| Or are we going to start kind of micromanaging and getting politically correct and thinking about, well, you know, 1,200 people were murdered, you know, should Israel be able to kill twice that many? | ||
| I mean, that's the way the world has traditionally thought. | ||
| And we've got to get completely out of that paradigm and say, this is a war for the existence of the Jewish state. | ||
| It's probably a war for the existence of the Jewish people. | ||
| Because if we lose this, who knows where this leads? | ||
| And we have to win this fight. | ||
| How much of this do you think is because the West does not know how to stand up for itself? | ||
| It doesn't know its own history. | ||
| I mean, when I, some of the things that I see on Twitter and even, I mean, MSNBC, which is almost a Hamas network at this point, the absolute lies of the history, you know, all of these people saying the, an occupation began 75 years ago. | ||
| It's really bizarre to have a bunch of Palestinian people on MSNBC, apparently calling for the British empire to come back or bring back the Ottomans before that, or the idea that the Jews Everyone knows that Jews celebrate Hanukkah in Judea and Samaria, like all of the things that I keep repeating ad nauseum that you know, of course, that the West didn't know how to explain its history. | ||
| And I would directly link that to a problem we have in the United States, where we have half the people thinking that our foundation was fundamentally based in racism and not in the individual rights and freedom and a nation for all people and all that, that we've just lost it, maybe out of, it's a function of our success, I suppose. | ||
| And that might stand, you might be able to say that for Israel, And you might be able to say that for the United States. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| I think I think we have lost our way. | ||
| And I think we've also lost we've lost our way. | ||
| We've also lost some basic facts, which, you know, for the benefit of your audience, if I could just point out the fact that people refer to Gaza as the most densely populated place in the world. | ||
| You know, it's an open air prison. | ||
| Gaza is 142 square miles, right? | ||
| Manhattan Island is one-seventh of that. | ||
| It's about 24 square miles, right? | ||
| So, Manhattan Island where 8 million people either live there or come to work there every day is one-seventh the size of Gaza, right? | ||
| So, you know, just in terms of understanding the density. | ||
| Now, where is Gaza, right? | ||
| It's not landlocked. | ||
| Gaza has, along its border, A strip of the Mediterranean that is the most beautiful beach in the world. | ||
| It's the same beach as you'd have in Tel Aviv. | ||
| We all know how beautiful the beaches are in Tel Aviv. | ||
| So, Gaza has the potential to be a place of tourism, to be a place of commerce. | ||
| It's got, I can tell you, I used to go there when I was a kid in the 80s and the 70s. | ||
| It's a beautiful place. | ||
| It was beautiful, beautiful beachfront. | ||
| People used to come there all the time. | ||
| And, you know, why is it a place today where you wouldn't want to live or I wouldn't want to live? | ||
| By the way, it's a place where corrupt Palestinians want to live because there's some mansions there on the water that are spectacular. | ||
| Why would I want to live there? | ||
| Well, if there's someone to blame, okay, it's not Israel. | ||
| It's Hamas. | ||
| You know, Hamas has destroyed commerce. | ||
| Hamas has destroyed, you know, freedom of speech. | ||
| Hamas has destroyed freedom of religion. | ||
| Hamas takes people who are accused of being gay, brings them up to the top of a building, and throws them off. | ||
| Hamas is subjugating women. | ||
| Hamas is destroying any opportunity for engagement with the rest of the world. | ||
| And primarily, Hamas refuses to accept the State of Israel and has as part of its charter a mandate to kill the Jewish people. | ||
| So you ask yourself, well, why aren't the people there, you know, why aren't they enjoying some of the economy that the Israelis enjoy? | ||
| Why aren't they participating in tourism? | ||
| Because of Hamas, because Hamas doesn't permit it. | ||
| And so, you know, all these people that are bemoaning the fate of the Gazans and the Gazan Palestinians, let me tell you, when Hamas is defeated, They're going to be liberated, okay? | ||
| So all the people that want to help them, if they want to help them at all, they should help Israel in this war to defeat the single source that's keeping the Gazans down, keeping them from achieving their aspirations. | ||
| So, you know, the facts are just completely upside down in terms of, you'd think in a university and, you know, we're watching, you know, places like Harvard and Columbia where I went to school and NYU Law School where I got my law degree. | ||
| You know, the student organizations are coming out And think of what they're saying. | ||
| They're saying that a woman who was raped, a woman who was murdered while she was pregnant and had her stomach sliced open so that the fetus could be pulled out and decapitated. | ||
| That these people had it coming. | ||
| They had it coming because they live in Israel, which is an apartheid state. | ||
| That's what these people are saying at Harvard, at Columbia, at the best schools. | ||
| You know, it's an indication that somehow SAT scores are inversely proportional to intelligence, right? | ||
| I mean, it's unbelievable that people that presumably, you know, have some cerebral matter, Can't get this can't even open up a book and get the facts right so they can make the right decisions and it's it's massively frustrating But you know what? | ||
| I don't care because we're gonna win this war whether people like it Whether they don't whether Harvard thinks it's a good idea or a bad idea. | ||
| We're gonna win this war the Jewish people Okay, I don't care whether you're left-wing right-wing Center if you care about Jewish survival, you have to support Israel in winning this war. | ||
| I Yeah, and if I could just add one thing to that, I can't say anything better than you just said, but it's not just, you don't even have to care about the Jews specifically. | ||
| If you care about Western civilization, this is it. | ||
| We're seeing it. | ||
| It's not that surprising that a bunch of people that don't know if boys are girls also don't know if the people beheading babies are the bad guys. | ||
| You know, I want to throw the map up for just another second, because could you, from a geopolitical and from a geographic perspective, perspective. | ||
| Explain this situation with Egypt and Sinai. | ||
| Now, most people, I mean, you don't hear this on MSNBC, but Gaza was in control by Egypt before 1967 and then they lost it after attacking Israel. | ||
| But everyone can see that map right there and there is a border with Egypt, that's Sinai specifically that they're bordering with. | ||
| Basically, nobody lives in Sinai, and if the Egyptians or the Jordanians or the Syrians, et cetera, if any of these people actually cared about the Palestinians, wouldn't everybody be saying, boy, you gotta get away from those crazy Jews. | ||
| How about you just walk over the border there? | ||
| But Egypt has completely bombarded the border. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, nobody wants them. | ||
| And not only does nobody want them, but they are intentionally, I believe, certainly by Hamas, certainly by the radical Islamists, they are intentionally kept suppressed so that they remain angry and remain angry at Israel. | ||
| I mean, this is a terrorist farm, right? | ||
| This is where terrorists are taught to be angry and to hate Israel. | ||
| I'll give you an example. | ||
| You know, we cut off funding. | ||
| To an organization called UNRWA, the United Nations Relief Works Agency. | ||
| It's a refugee agency. | ||
| It's the only refugee agency in the world that's earmarked specifically to Palestinians, right? | ||
| Every other refugee agency just deals with refugees. | ||
| This particular agency for no particular reason, And if I may, don't they also do it for, it's not just people that were displaced, let's say, in the war in 1948, it's for all of their children and grandchildren and everything else, which doesn't apply to any other people on the face of the planet, correct? | ||
| Their definition of refugees would extend to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, you know, who happens to be of Palestinian origin. | ||
| So yeah, it's absurd, but understand what they do. | ||
| I mean, in these schools in Gaza, and you can find these on the internet, these schools put on plays, right? | ||
| And they dress up, let's say in a fourth grade play, they'll dress up half the kids as terrorists, you know, with fake machine guns, I assume | ||
| fake, maybe just, you know, maybe just unloaded. And then they'll dress up the other | ||
| half the kids as Jews, you know, Jews, they'll put them on big noses, they'll put them on yellow | ||
| stars, whatever, they'll make clear that these are Jews. And then the terrorists, you know, in the | ||
| play, they kill all the Jews, the Jews all fall down, they act like they're dead, and the | ||
| parents get up and applaud, right? | ||
| That's, that's what UNRWA does. | ||
| I mean, this is, they've made no effort whatsoever to in any way teach, you know, coexistence with the Israelis who are, you know, on their, along their border. | ||
| So, you know, one of the problems is, you know, is, as in almost every situation, is, you know, who's funding all this, right? | ||
| You know, and we didn't fund it. | ||
| Like we didn't, we cut off UNRWA completely. | ||
| We cut off almost the entire aid to the Palestinian Authority. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they, they have a system where they pay terrorists to kill Jews. | ||
| The more Jews you kill, the more money you get. | ||
| So he said, well, if that's what you're using your money for, God forbid the American people, the American tax payers should be funding us. | ||
| We cut that off. | ||
| And of course, we cut off funding to Iran, which really is the head of the snake, is really | ||
| coordinating all of this. I mean, there's no way this attack could have been possibly achieved | ||
| without the financing and the training, I believe, the cyber attack capabilities, | ||
| the organization and the approval of the Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| And so, you know, what are we doing with Iran? | ||
| You know, people are debating, I'm watching this debate, I find it so amusing, whether or not the $6 billion that America gave to Iran as part of the prisoner swap, you know, they're debating whether or not that money was actually used or spent on this attack, as if it matters, you know, as if it matters. | ||
| And of course, and it's not just I mean, of course, money is fungible, you pointed that out as well. | ||
| But it's even worse than that, because this problem existed long before the, this particular prisoner swap. | ||
| I'll just you know, I just want to make sure here are some numbers that you understand. | ||
| And Iran's revenues from the export of crude oil and condensate reached $42.6 billion in 2022. | ||
| In 2021, the number was $25.5 billion. | ||
| And in 2020, our last year, it was $7.9 billion. | ||
| So that's almost a six-fold increase in Iran's oil revenues since the end of the Trump administration. | ||
| $25.5 billion. And in 2020, right, our last year, it was $7.9 billion. So that's a almost a six times sixfold increase in | ||
| Iran's oil revenues over, you know, since the end of the Trump | ||
| administration. Now, who cares about the 6 billion, you know, | ||
| that's an escrow in Qatar. | ||
| They have become incredibly rich. | ||
| We have taken the pressure off. | ||
| We have lifted sanctions. | ||
| And this is what you get. | ||
| I mean, this is what you get. | ||
| We've created a financial pathway, a lubricant, if you will, to all the maligned activity in the Middle East and elsewhere. | ||
| And it's not just the Middle East. | ||
| I mean, you know, we have an open border, right? | ||
| We have no idea who's in our country right now. | ||
| No idea. | ||
| And I sure hope it's not any of these people, but that would just be an optimistic speculation. | ||
| I mean, there's no reason to think that there aren't, you know, lots of people in America right now who are being funded by Iran. | ||
| So, it's a problem for America. | ||
| It's a problem for Israel. | ||
| It's a problem, as you point out, it's a problem for the free world. | ||
| It's a problem for the West. | ||
| It's a problem for any liberal democracy, anyone who values freedom and opportunity. | ||
| This is the tip of the spear, and this is where we find out whether or not Western values are going to prevail, whether we're going to be in a quagmire with the worst of the worst. | ||
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What do you think America should be doing right now? | |
| What I'd like them to do, which they won't do, I don't believe, is to do an about-face on Iran. | ||
| Uh, you know, it's hard to admit mistakes and politicians almost never do that. | ||
| Um, the guy I used to work for didn't like to do it either. | ||
| So I'm not going to pick on, uh, pick on Biden, but, but it's a huge mistake and it's being proven to be a huge mistake. | ||
| Just like the border has been proven. | ||
| The open board has been proven to be a huge mistake. | ||
| Um, they got to get tougher on Iran. | ||
| I think they ought to go to the Qataris just it may only be a symbolic gesture. | ||
| But what I would say to the Qataris is freeze that money or give it back to us. | ||
| You got to understand something at the same time the very same time that the United States and Iran are negotiating this five for five prisoner swap with a six billion dollar sweetener at the same time. | ||
| Hamas and Iran are negotiating, are planning this attack. | ||
| And $6 billion, according to the Americans, was a token of good faith. | ||
| I mean, which boggles my mind, as if as between America and Iran, | ||
| it's America that has to show us good faith. | ||
| But in any event, we got duped. | ||
| I mean, I assume, I sure hope I'm right about this. | ||
| I assume that if America knew, at the time it was negotiating this prisoner swap, | ||
| that Hamas and Iran were negotiating this assault against the Jewish people, | ||
| this barbaric attack reminiscent of the Holocaust. | ||
| I would hope that America would not have gone through with this deal. | ||
| And assuming that's the case, and I sure hope it's true, They ought to look the Iranians in the eye and say, you cheated us, you duped us, give us back the money. | ||
| We're not going to honor this deal. | ||
| You know, we're not going to take back, we're not, you know, we can't take back the prisoners because you haven't written, but we're not sure, so I'll not give any of the money. | ||
| And I hope they do that. | ||
| Now, on another front, I'm going to, I'm going to say, I think that moving the Gerald Ford, which is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, moving that into the East Mediterranean, and I think Biden's speech last night was helpful. | ||
| I mean, if it keeps Lebanon out of the war, and I'm not sure that's going to happen. | ||
| But if it does keep Lebanon out of the war, because of the threats made by America, you know, I'm going to give credit to Biden for doing that. | ||
| It could save lives. | ||
| But we got here. | ||
| The reason we got here is because of the American weakness over the last three years, I have no doubt. | ||
| I know we could do this all day, but you have, I am sure, plenty of things to do. | ||
| Just two more questions for you. | ||
| Can you just describe, because I think most people watching this accept, and I think most Americans, except for a small, crazy minority, accept that if Donald Trump was still president, That this would not have happened. | ||
| But can you describe what it was like when you were doing the Abraham Accords, talking to the Arab counterparts and doing these deals that no one said could ever be done. | ||
| Could you talk about what it was like to have strong American leadership and why they did it? | ||
| And sort of why, when you have weak American leadership, they won't do this. | ||
| And it seems like the Saudi Arabia thing is now, it's probably kicked down the can 10 years or something. | ||
| Well, these countries, whether it was UAE or Bahrain or, uh, or Morocco and Saudi as well, uh, had enormous respect for president Trump because, uh, number one, he kept his word when he said he was going to do things. | ||
| Number two, all these countries, Israel included, uh, have roughly the same enemies, which are, you know, radical, radical Islamic terrorists. | ||
| Every one of these countries faces radical Islamic terrorists and Donald Trump, you know, in 2017, he goes to Saudi Arabia and he speaks to 50 Arab countries and says, look, You know what, we're all facing the same enemy, but I don't want to start dealing with them when they cross the Atlantic. | ||
| It's your job, your job to stop these animals before they come my way. | ||
| And if you do, you'll find the United States to be one of your best friends. | ||
| And I think that changed the entire paradigm. | ||
| When Trump took out Qasem Soleimani, who is the head terrorist among the country that is the biggest state sponsor of terrorists, Change the dynamic. | ||
| People looked and said, wow, look what this guy did. | ||
| This guy was willing to directly take out the most popular leader in Iran to send a message that we will not allow him to proceed with plans that he had underfoot to kill Americans. | ||
| So that strength is what people are looking for. | ||
| It's not what you say, it's what you do. | ||
| And I think in Trump, All these countries, Israel as well, saw a reliable partner that was, you know, it's easy to have a partner when everything's great, you know, like you got a business partner, you're making tons of money, everybody's friendly. | ||
| The question is, you know, what kind of a partner do you want when you're in the trenches? | ||
| You know, when things are tough, when you have to fight and you have to survive and you have to prevail, who's the partner you want? | ||
| And all these people would much rather have Trump than Biden because Trump is a guy that can, that will fight and he's not afraid. | ||
| I have one more question for you, because I'm seeing a lot of people that seemingly want to fall on the sword. | ||
| There's no win for Israel here, no matter what they do, and you can't win this war and all these things. | ||
| What does a win for Israel now look like to you? | ||
| Look, I think, you know, in my mind, and I'm not a military strategist or an expert, but in my mind, I look at this, I look at the, I look at Hamas as if they are, as if they're Nazis or ISIS or, you know, in that, in that category. | ||
| And look, in 1945, America and its allies defeated the Nazis. | ||
| And we occupied Germany. | ||
| None of the countries there wanted to hold Germany, but we occupied it for a while. | ||
| We cleaned it out. | ||
| And then we turned it over to people that we thought we could trust to build a nation. | ||
| We helped them. | ||
| And look where we are today. | ||
| We've got great relations, of course, with Germany and Japan. | ||
| That, to me, is sort of my model. | ||
| I mean, we have to clean it out. | ||
| Okay, and we have to liberate Gaza for the benefit of the people that live there. | ||
| When Hamas is dead and gone, I think Israel will reach out to its neighbors, will reach out to America, to the UN, to try to create a caretaker military occupation for as long as is necessary to turn it over to people that want to keep the border quiet. | ||
| all Israel wants is a quiet border. | ||
| Doesn't want one inch of Gaza. | ||
| There's not a single Jew living in Gaza. | ||
| There's not a single military presence in Gaza. | ||
| All Israel wants is a quiet border. | ||
| Once they're sure they can get that, they'll leave and that will be the victory. | ||
| Ambassador, I'm honored that you took some time on obviously a very difficult time. | ||
| You are welcome back anytime. | ||
| You have our thoughts and prayers. | ||
| And we will do this in the promised land one way or another, either in the promised land where you are or the other promised land of Florida, where you part-time live. | ||
| I will see you soon, I hope. | ||
| God bless you, Dave. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, guys, so we're going to continue for just a little bit. | ||
| I hope that gave a little historical, not really just historical perspective, but a little political perspective on kind of where we're at. | ||
| And again, why what I've been trying to lay out over the couple of days is not last couple of days. | ||
| It's not just, ah, look at all the horrible things that have happened. | ||
| And believe me and you know, they have happened. | ||
| It's like there's a reason we got here. | ||
| There's a reason this fight is on our doorstep. | ||
| And we have to now unfurl the nonsense that got us here. | ||
| And one of the reasons that we are here is because over the last, well, many people would say it's the last 40 years, we have lost all of the institutions in the United States. | ||
| When Ambassador Friedman talks about his alma maters of Columbia and NYU going radically, radically left and supporting decolonization, And all of these things, and now that BLM has come out for terrorism, and it basically is a domestic terror organization at this point, and all these things, we shouldn't be surprised at any of this, right? | ||
| It was there to see if you wanted to see it, and a lot of people, again, would rather put their head in the sand, and they're just the last ones to get beheaded. | ||
| But one of the things that we really have to come to grips with is that we have about a half dozen supporters of Hamas in our Congress now. | ||
| They are the Hamas caucus. | ||
| They are all Democrats. | ||
| We're talking about Rashida Tlaib and AOC and Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush and Jamal Bowman and Ayanna Pressley. | ||
| These are radically anti-American Congress people. | ||
| who believe that America is evil. | ||
| Obviously, they believe that Israel is evil. | ||
| They churn out these duplicitous statements, condemning attacks, when fundamentally they believe these attacks are good. | ||
| And I wanna get into that for just a little bit, and then we'll finish up with a few other things. | ||
| But I wanna throw back to, because Rashida Tlaib is probably the worst of all, it's hard to say. | ||
| Actually, we should probably figure out a way, maybe AI could figure it out for us. | ||
| How would you figure out who's the worst between Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib, AOC, and Ilhan. | ||
| Like, I don't know how you would do it. | ||
| Maybe we can get, I have to get a mathematician. | ||
| We should have a mathematician, a philosopher, and a scientist come on, or something like that. | ||
| Anyway, it might be Ilhan, because I think she married her brother, but all right, anyway. | ||
| Reset. | ||
| Here's Rashida Tlaib a couple years ago, talking about how the Holocaust gives her a calming feeling. | ||
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I think two weeks ago or so we celebrated, or just it took a moment, I think, in our country to remember the Holocaust. | |
| And there's, you know, there's a kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, the human dignity. | ||
| I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. | ||
| And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right? | ||
| In many ways. | ||
| But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away, right? | ||
| And it was forced on them. | ||
| And so when I think about One State, I think about the fact that why couldn't we do it in a better way? | ||
| Man, she is a psycho-Islamist. | ||
| Everything she said right there is a complete lie, except that it gave her a calming feeling. | ||
| I do absolutely believe that the death of six million Jews was a calming feeling for her. | ||
| A couple things there. | ||
| First off, she accidentally said celebrated the Holocaust memorial. | ||
| So she said celebrated, then she backtracked on that. | ||
| The calming feeling? | ||
| Have you ever in your life heard anyone say, the Holocaust gives me a calming feeling? | ||
| Have a little tea. | ||
| I have a little tea, I listen to some ambient music and I think about the Holocaust. | ||
| Her ancestors lost their land. | ||
| There were people, Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims, living in Israel forever. | ||
| They lived under the British Empire and again before that under the Ottoman Empire. | ||
| The western wall of the ancient Jewish temple is thousands of years old. | ||
| Why do they find every time they dig a whole bunch of stuff written in Hebrew? | ||
| Jews have been there forever. | ||
| But then her implication is, but my ancestors, they somehow gave them the land. | ||
| These people, these foreigners all showed up and they just gave them the land, and I'm so proud of that. | ||
| Actually, The British said, hey, we're done here. | ||
| We're not going to stay here anymore post-World War II. | ||
| The British Empire is collapsing. | ||
| Jews, you want some land? | ||
| Arabs? | ||
| Again, there were no Palestinians at the time. | ||
| Would you guys want some land? | ||
| Google it. | ||
| The 1947 UN partition plan. | ||
| The Jews said yes. | ||
| The Arabs said no. | ||
| And then all of the Arab countries launched a war, including Rashida's family, to kill the Jews. | ||
| And some of the Arab countries said, hey, you guys, Arabs, but they weren't known as Palestinians then, get out of your houses, because we'll kill all the Jews, and then you can come back. | ||
| And those pesky Jews somehow won. | ||
| And then they ended up with more land. | ||
| Ah, tough shit. | ||
| What are you gonna do? | ||
| So everything she says there is a lie. | ||
| She's comforted that her family gave up. | ||
| They welcomed them in. | ||
| It's just abject lie. | ||
| But here she is yesterday. | ||
| This is so profoundly vile, except that it's obvious. | ||
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Right? | |
| Except that it's obvious. | ||
| Here she is. | ||
| How long is this video? | ||
| About 60 seconds? | ||
| It's about 60 seconds. | ||
| She cannot say a word about beheaded babies, raped women, burned children, slaughter of innocents. | ||
| Watch this rat. | ||
| Watch this rat scurry away. | ||
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Terrorists have cut off babies' heads and burned children alive. | |
| Do you support Israel's right to defend themselves against this brutality? | ||
| We're just going to go through here. | ||
| You can't comment about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads? | ||
| Congressman, do you have a comment on Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads? | ||
| Do you have nothing to say about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads? | ||
| Do you condone what Hamas has done, chopping off babies' heads, burning children alive, | ||
| raping women in the street? | ||
| You have no comment about children's heads being chopped off? | ||
| No comment. | ||
| Congressman Whitey, have a Palestinian flag outside your office if you do not condone what Hamas terrorists have done to Israel. | ||
| Do Israeli lives not matter to you? | ||
| First off, before I comment on Rashida, and I have no doubt that you guys were going through the words that I might say about her in just a moment, that girl who I want to give an awful lot of credit to there, that is a journalist, and I can actually call her a journalist, which is so refreshing without using air quotes. | ||
| Her name is Hillary Vaughn, and she works over at Fox. | ||
| That was about 60 seconds of a rat scurrying away who simply cannot say, you know, Baby's heads being chopped off is pretty bad. | ||
| Like, why couldn't she stop for one second and say, you know, I don't see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the way you see it, but yes, these tactics, murdering pregnant women, like, there's such an easy out here. | ||
| But she can't do that because she's for it. | ||
| She is for it. | ||
| And we don't have to equivocate. | ||
| We need to stop being nice. | ||
| You know, there are too many of us. | ||
| Too many of us have just become sort of amoral, wishy-washy. | ||
| We will never stand up for ourselves as the people come to get us, as the murderers calling from inside the House, and in this case, inside the House of Representatives. | ||
| Okay, she could not just say, you know, actually, obviously, I'm more on the Palestinian side of this thing, and okay, generally, that's different than maybe what you guys think at Fox, but yeah, you know, the burning of babies, the beheading of babies, we can all get on board that one, and she can't, because she's for it. | ||
| But it's not just her. | ||
| The dishonest lies that these people have spread, not only our politicians, but our mainstream media regarding this conflict, the dishonest way they cover this conflict, and that they do not tell you that there was never a Palestinian state. | ||
| It never existed. | ||
| Who was the prime minister? | ||
| Who was the president? | ||
| There was an area, right? | ||
| It's also Babylon, like, I mean, it's just so mind-blowingly stupid. | ||
| And I know, and I saw a lot of comments over the last couple days. | ||
| When I say these things, people are like, holy cow, is that true? | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| ...Googling things, and God only knows how long before Google starts censoring all of what actual history is. | ||
| But it's not just the Hamas caucus that are awful, it is also our mainstream corporate media. | ||
| The New York Times, which has lied. | ||
| about Israel and the founding of America and Western values and has ushered in so much of this crap. | ||
| Here they are. | ||
| This is from another guy that I'm proud to call a journalist by the name of Greg Price. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Holy shit, you can't make this up. | ||
| The New York Times published a story referring to Hamas as terrorists and then changed it to gunmen. | ||
| I don't know how it even made it into the New York Times in the first place, actually calling Hamas terrorists. | ||
| Let me read the headline for you. | ||
| Hamas leaves trail of terror in Israel. | ||
| As Israeli soldiers regain control of areas near Gaza that came under attack, they are finding evidence seen in videos and photos and confirmed by witness accounts of the massacre of civilians by Hamas terrorists. | ||
| And of course, as you can see there, then they changed it to Hamas gunmen. | ||
| I want you to think about this for a second. | ||
| In any other Western nation, in any other Western nation on Earth, and maybe not even any Western nation, in any other nation on Earth, if a bunch of guys with guns and masks broke into a house, murdered babies, all of the stuff, if they broke into houses in Greece and they did it, and if they broke into houses in Chile and did it, if they broke into houses in Japan or South Africa, everyone would be calling them terrorists. | ||
| It would not be a debate. | ||
| But for the liberal brainlets over at the New York Times, it's a debate. | ||
| I'm amazed, actually, quite frankly, that the first headline even made it into the New York Times. | ||
| Somebody's probably getting beheaded over there because of that. | ||
| But you can see what they do. | ||
| You can see what they do. | ||
| Okay, we have a breaking headline, so I'm just reading this on the fly. | ||
| This is from the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Well, I guess this is another one of these types of headlines. | ||
| Israel sought to contain Hamas for years, now faces a potentially costly fight to eliminate it. | ||
| It's so incredible the way they frame everything. | ||
| As Ambassador just laid out, no Jews live in Gaza. | ||
| 2005, took them all out. | ||
| There were 8,000. | ||
| There were 8,000. | ||
| They took them all out. | ||
| They said, here are our greenhouses. | ||
| Here are our temples. | ||
| They ransacked all the temples. | ||
| Blah, blah, blah. | ||
| OK, fine. | ||
| But now it's Israel once again. | ||
| They want nothing to do with these fucking people. | ||
| One of the, I guess, silver linings of all of this is that some people are waking up. | ||
| Played a clip of him yesterday. | ||
| I'm going to play another clip of him today, and I hope it is not short-lived. | ||
| Jake Tapper over at CNN, who I think was the hope of CNN. | ||
| He was on ABC before that. | ||
| He was the ABC White House correspondent for many years before he went over to CNN, which must be a decade ago or so. | ||
| And he sort of kept going more left on CNN. | ||
| That's what breaks people's brains, and that's what it does to you. | ||
| But he's doing a fine job of reporting right now, and I always think it's important when people, even if they've been muddled and confused before, when they start coming around, you got to give them credit. | ||
| So here is CNN's Jake Tapper starting to push on the idea that, boy, the left and the Democrats, they really have gone crazy with some of this shit. | ||
| This does, these last few days have been a real eye-opening period for a lot of people, a lot of Democrats, a lot of progressives, in terms of anti-Semitism on the left. | ||
| A lot of people who seem more shocked at dehumanizing language used by world leaders to describe Hamas than what Hamas actually perpetrated on Saturday. | ||
| Yeah, well, it's not shocking to some of us. | ||
| Some of us have been saying for a long time, if you believe in identity politics, if you believe that immutable characteristics are the most important thing, and if you don't have any basis in biological reality or the rest of it, you might start thinking the bad guys are the good guys. | ||
| You might look at a minority of people that have been pogrommed and holocausted across the globe and go, wait a minute, how did those Jews become successful? | ||
| Fuck, how did Adam Sandler make all those movies? | ||
| Jews must be evil! | ||
| And then you might find yourself at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan, waving a Nazi flag. | ||
| So I want to congratulate Jake, and I would encourage Jake to keep pushing. | ||
| Keep trying to show truth on CNN. | ||
| It ain't going to be easy. | ||
| I've got another headline here. | ||
| Again, I'm getting some of this on the fly. | ||
| This is from the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| And the Wall Street Journal is usually pretty good. | ||
| A scene of massacre becomes staging ground for Israel's invasion of Gaza. | ||
| And then they use a quote, I am looking for revenge. | ||
| Well, so the onus is on the Israelis. | ||
| Ah, the Israelis just want revenge. | ||
| You know, they behead your wife and burn your baby. | ||
| You might want revenge. | ||
| It's just, it's all so fucking incredible. | ||
| What am I looking at here? | ||
| Sorry, we're doing a lot of this on the fly right now. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| Here is a tweet by Sovereign Brahms, a random account on Twitter, but this is now what the leader of Hamas is calling for at the moment. | ||
| Be advised, the leader of Hamas just called Muslims around the world To embrace a day of global jihad this Friday the 13th. | ||
| Friday the 13th, you know what I'm saying? | ||
| That's three days from now. | ||
| If you live in a major city in America or Europe, I'd recommend avoiding crowded, highly public places on Friday. | ||
| Please be safe. | ||
| One more, this is from Bra Rashid on Twitter. | ||
| Khalid Mishal, the leader and founding member of Hamas, gave a speech today asking all Muslims around the world to do the following. | ||
| to show anger, especially next Friday in Muslim countries and also among Muslim diaspora around the world. | ||
| He called it the Friday of Al-Aqsa flood. | ||
| He said this will send a message of rage to Zionists and to America. | ||
| He asked for financial help from all Muslims around the world to help with their money. | ||
| He called it financial jihad. | ||
| He asked for Muslims to give the fighters of Gaza Three, he asks for political pressure from Muslim leaders and Muslim nations to stop Israel's military invasion of Gaza. | ||
| Four, the most important thing, he asks all Muslims around the world to carry jihad by their souls, to fight and be martyrs for Al-Aqsa. | ||
| He wants Muslims to fight against the Jews, starting with Muslims who live in the countries surrounding Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, but also other countries. | ||
| To go to the borders and try to enter, each by his own means. | ||
| He said this is time for jihad to be applied on the ground rather than just in theory. | ||
| He asked the Mujahideen to go in long caravans to spell their blood on the land of Palestine. | ||
| These are his final words. | ||
| Funds are important, but today we are asking for your blood and souls to be sacrificed for Palestine. | ||
| Friday the 13th. | ||
| They're telling you. | ||
| I want to be very clear about one thing and I think it's fairly freaking obvious if you have ever followed me. | ||
| I have no doubt that the average Muslim person and your neighbor and your friend and all of those things are peaceful people. | ||
| And I have Muslim neighbors and friends and all of those things and I have for my entire life. | ||
| We are fighting a radical, twisted ideology right now, a warped, twisted ideology that is celebrating blood, and murder, and mayhem, and medieval barbarity that the world has not seen, literally, since the Holocaust. | ||
| But they were doing this to Jews before the Holocaust, right? | ||
| They were doing it, right? | ||
| Before, I'm sorry, they were doing this to Jews before the State of Israel, and now Israel exists, and they're still doing it. | ||
| We better start waking up to this. | ||
| Believe me, there was way more we could've done on the show to you today. | ||
| I really wanna link, and I think we'll do some of this tomorrow, I wanna link some of this to what's going on at the border right now, and as Ambassador Friedman said, it's like, why wouldn't we think that Iran has pushed people through our border? | ||
| These things are deeply connected. | ||
| There was a rally in Dearborn, Michigan, which is Rashida Tlaib's, we can't grab that video quickly, we'll do it tomorrow? | ||
| Okay, we'll do it tomorrow. | ||
| There was a rally at a theater, thousands of people, In Dearborn, Michigan, which is Rashida Tlaib's district, waving Hamas flags, calling for jihad, like here in America. | ||
| It's kind of 1938 Nazi stuff. | ||
| So what are we going to do? | ||
| I don't know what we're going to do. | ||
| I actually don't know what we're going to do. | ||
| But you better wake up. | ||
| You better wake up. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I want to thank Ambassador Friedman again. | ||
| And again, the link to one of there's many obviously many places that you can donate the link to the one that I mentioned, which is this Miami organization that the The funds will go directly to the soldiers. | ||
| Again, it's called HEART. | ||
| I donated this morning. | ||
| The funds go directly to the soldiers and the families impacted. | ||
| That link is down below. | ||
| We're going to do a post-game show in just a second at rubinreport.locals.com. | ||
| And I said to the guys, I was like, how are we going to end with the World's Day? | ||
| You know, like, come on, man. | ||
| And I have friends coming into town this weekend. | ||
| You know, it's like the worst time for worldwide jihad. | ||
| And Phoenix said, Dave, I got you covered. | ||
| We got a funny one to let everybody out with. | ||
| So here you go, and we'll see everybody at the post game. | ||
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