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Sekulow on Israel Conflict - October 9th, Hour 3
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You know, as all of this is Israel, you know, an unprovoked invasion attack, murdering of innocent civilians, and then kidnapping other Israelis, you would think that the media might actually get on the right side of the issue.
No, not at all.
We have the media actually outright defending Hamas and, quote, the Palestinian people in this case and the people of Gaza in this case.
Listen to this.
And there has been the most aggressive encroachment into the West Bank by this far-right coalition government of any that we've seen.
This mobilization that has been going on for a year and that is reaching critical points, not completely observed by the outside world.
The fact that Israel is an occupying power, the fact that Israel has violated international law and Palestinian rights, you spend taxpayer money on buying Israel defense systems and trying those defense systems on Palestinians.
The prime minister of Israel, the most right-wing in its history, the most far-right extremist Jewish nationalist Jewish supremacist government that has existed in Israel has been over the past by law.
You're not characterizing me.
By the way, that's actually what they've written.
That is just like factually, you know what I mean?
The rhetoric that has come out from Israeli politicians towards the Palestinians in the West Bank over the past several months has been vile, has been disgusting.
Now remember, Hamas is funded and gets the approval of Iran to do all of this.
Just like in the north, you've got in Lebanon, you've got Hezbollah and Hezbollah.
Of course, they too are beholden to the Iranians.
And report after report after report, starting with the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, about how Iran was calling all of the shots involved actively in the plotting and the planning and the scheming of this attack against Israel.
Jonathan Greenblatt is with the Anti-Defamation League.
He's their director, just ripping MSDNC's coverage of the Hamas attack on Israel.
Who's writing the scripts for MSNBC?
Is it Hamas?
Listen.
I'll be honest, I am angry.
I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the terrorism of Hamas.
I must say, I love this show and I love this network.
But I've got to ask, who is writing the scripts?
Hamas, the people who did this, they are not fighters, Jonathan.
They are not militants.
And I'm looking right at the camera.
They are terrorists.
It is a barbarian who rapes and brutalizes women, who care, kills children in front of their parents, and then brings them over to Gaza.
Who literally, we've heard all these reports, and we know these aren't just reports.
These were filmed gleefully by the barbarians who committed these grotesque crimes.
They filmed, for example, an elderly woman in her home in one of these towns.
They burned her alive in her house because she was too infirm to take out.
All right, joining us now from the American Center for Law and Justice is their chief counsel, Jay Secular, front of the program, back with us, sir.
How are you?
I'm good, John.
Let's get your reaction to all of it.
And I think more importantly, you know, there is this media aspect of it, which is, you know, incomprehensible to me, is, you know, they want to lash out and blame the victims of an attack here and an assault here that killed nine Americans.
And we know that Americans have been taken hostage.
We don't know how many.
No, I'll tell you this.
You know, I'm one of the few lawyers that has had experience in the international criminal court and international tribunals putting forward Israel's position when it comes to not only self-defense, but the designation of Israel as a free Jewish state.
So, I mean, there's not many lawyers that have done that.
I've had that honor and privilege.
But let me tell you what's going on right now.
So I just got off the phone with our office in Strasbourg, France, which is our European Center for Law and Justice, our office in Jerusalem, to put forward a game plan because on Wednesday, the European Union is going to have in the European Council a debate on stopping funding of Hamas.
Now, Sean, you asked yourself, why are they funding Hamas?
It's millions and millions of dollars a year go to Gaza.
And that, of course, goes to Hamas.
There are only three countries that oppose it right now.
They are Denmark, Luxembourg, and Ireland.
And we are putting a lot of diplomatic pressure from our offices in Europe on those countries to get that designation put in place to stop the money flow.
The second aspect of it is going to be with the actual UN itself and their Committee on Human Rights, because obviously Hamas violates every law and code of the law of armed conflict.
Of course, they're not following any laws or international norms.
So we're taking that to the United Nations.
The key is, you talk about the media.
So here's what's going to happen.
The media right now, you know, initially, of course, says what happened in Israel is horrible.
And the films we're seeing and the new numbers we're seeing are unbelievably shocking.
Total families just disseminated more Jews killed on Saturday and Sunday since the Holocaust.
Including the Yom Kippur War.
There was never this kind of atrocity.
So the Netanyahu government is going into an emergency government coalition, which will show a united front.
And they're talking about an invasion of Gaza or a siege of Gaza.
They've already cut the power.
So here's what you got to watch in the media.
Whilst a lot of the media initially is sympathetic to the plight of Israel and Yadby, the Israeli flag shown on the Eiffel Tower in number 10 Downing Street.
But then the Prime Minister of Great Britain says Israel needs to only respond proportional.
It's called proportionality.
It's a legal standard, which is absurd because proportional here was they went in and they killed innocents.
So Israel's not going to do that.
The question is going to be when Israel starts taking offensive action, which it will be tonight, in morning their time, what will the media start doing then?
You think it's bad now, Sean?
Wait until the Israelis start taking action.
Well, we expect it, and I'm expected to be on the air a long time tonight, to be very blunt with you.
Because of what we believe will be Israel's fierce response, they have told everybody, they've telegraphed the world, they've told innocent people to get out.
In the process, you know, there are over 100 hostages held there.
And, you know, unlike Joe Biden, I don't think there's going to be any ransom opportunities to save the lives of these innocent people.
Look, the Israelis have always been good.
I've done them with Israel before.
Gilead Shalit, the soldier that was kidnapped and held hostage.
I've done hostage negotiations in the greater Middle East.
But I will tell you the difference here, Sean, is that's when you have one or two.
Here you have, they're saying now it could be 200.
It could be 400.
Who knows?
I mean, I saw this sort of video of a 12-year-old kid being taken hostage.
I mean, it's just...
Hey, Jay, there's a report in business today that Hamas is threatening to begin broadcasting the executions of these hostages.
Here's the horrible part, and I hate saying this, so take it for the way I'm saying it.
The hostages are almost a lost cause.
I hate even saying that, Sean, but in the reality of the scope of what is going about to happen, they will use the hostages as human shields.
They will start executing the hostages.
Hamasa said we will entertain a peace, a truce now.
That's what they said.
After they've slaughtered 1,000 Israeli civilians, including babies and grandmothers, they're now saying because their power has been cut off and their water has been shut off, now they want a truce.
And you've got to watch the whole world here.
And while the plight with the hostages is horrific, and I'm praying and I'm thinking of everything we can do to help work on the releases, it's not likely.
Okay?
Let's just be, I'm giving you the bold, blunt truth.
It's not likely.
30 countries may have hostages here.
30.
They're saying it could be from 30 other countries.
Germany, we know.
France, we know.
U.K. we know.
United States, we know.
Poland, we know.
But there are others.
So if you're talking about a siege or an invasion, which is what they're talking about happening this evening and early morning, the hostages are, you know, they're going to be used as human shields.
I don't think the Israeli, this can't happen again.
You've got to eradicate Hamas.
We eradicated ISIS for the most part, and now we got to, the Israelis have got to, and that may mean taking back God as awful as you want.
Nobody wants to take Gaza back, but you might have to do it.
I've been to Sarut, is the border town of Gaza, and kids can't even play outdoors because of its close proximity to Gaza and the 10,000 rockets that have been fired in 10 years into this one city.
And I went to the police station.
I saw the remains of these rockets.
The night before we got there, the city got hit with rockets, and we saw the aftermath of that.
And kids play in underground playgrounds because there's not enough time to get them into a shelter.
God forbid, if they fire a rocket, it's going to be there almost instantaneously.
14 seconds from the time of launch to the time of impact.
And Sean, I've been there when the rockets have fallen.
So have I. We've been there when it was fallen, too.
And it's not, when you go there one day and you come back the next day and a car that you pass by is blown up in the street, it's a little unnerving.
I'm wearing cufflinks right now that I had done during Operation Castlet.
I was there negotiating the release of a Christian family that was stuck in Gaza that was the head of the Palestinian Bible Society, Christian, and he was stabbed 41 times by Hamas in broad daylight.
And then the local cleric, the Imam, came to take the family's children away.
And they were ages three, five, and she was pregnant.
And with the help of the Israelis, we got her out.
But that was one person.
We had incoming rockets that day.
One landed about 40 yards from where Jordan was.
We picked up shrapnel.
I put him in a couplings that I'm wearing today, which are in the shape of the Israeli flag.
But I have the shrapnel in it as a reminder of what goes on for Israelis every day.
But now you're talking about 900 murdered Israelis, at least maybe 1,000.
I'm sure it's going to be more than that.
And we're looking at a possible ground invasion or a siege, which needs to happen.
And the opinion you talked about the media is going to change.
What you need to do, and I know you're great at it, is continuing to raise the banner of freedom and liberty and life, which is exactly what.
Well, let me ask you this.
If you get cancer, you got to go to the root cause of the cancer.
The root cause of the cancer we all know is a little country called Iran.
Yep.
Hamas is just a proxy for Iran.
Hezbollah, even though one Shia and one Sunni doesn't matter.
They're funding both.
Because the great evil is, you know, the little Satan is Israel, the big Satan is the United States.
They are just, us is just an Iranian proxy.
So going into Gaza is one thing.
Taking out Iran may be the next thing.
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All right, Jay Sekillo is with us, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice.
As we continue, it's almost becoming inevitable as, you know, we keep reading report after report after report that they're that close to getting nuclear weapons and the pursuit has never stopped.
Now, I can't imagine the Mulls in Iran having that type of weaponry in their hands because why do I believe with their sick, twisted, ugly ideology and their back against the wall, even though their own citizens hate them, that they would use them?
Here's the thing.
Mutually assured destruction is not going to work in their minds, in my view.
Listen, people are, if you're, you've got to be really naive to think that the Ayatollah, they want to bring back the next caliphate.
And they want to bring back the next spiritual leader.
And this is how they do it.
So, of course they would use it.
But Israel will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon.
And frankly, I know the Saudis have said, you know, Israel needs to not do anything here.
They have to say that for their own population.
But trust me, the Gulf State Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia as well, they want Iran stopped.
And Hamas is just the proxy of Iran.
But listen, this is going to bring at the ACLJ.
We've got a complicated, it's a complicated legal structure in these international tribunals.
But, Sean, what I want to let your audience know today is that we are engaging on all fronts on the lawfare side of this because what happens in these situations is Israel comes under unbelievable bombardment, unbelievable political bombardment, and unbelievable.
How do you expect with the UN that is historically anti-Semitic and anti-American that you can have an impact even there?
And if you look at the Human Rights Council, I mean, they put countries that have the worst human rights abuses on record on this council.
Yeah, Iran's chairing it right now.
You know what, though?
It's a hostile environment, but you got to go.
You got to go.
It's called the Ministry of Presence.
Sometimes you just got to be there.
Now, here's the interesting thing.
We are three countries away in Europe from getting the European Council to stop funding Hamas or Gaza as they call it.
Three countries away.
It was more than that a week ago.
It was more than that a month ago.
But now we've just got Denmark, Luxembourg, and Ireland.
If those three countries join the rest of the civilized world and you shut the money supply off and then go after Iran, that's where you got to do it.
So you've got to go to these international tribunals even when it's not pleasant.
And believe me, it is not pleasant.
I agree with you, too.
I think a lot of this is because of the normalization of relations that has been pending with the Saudis and the Israelis.
No question.
No question about it.
I think that's a big part of it.
So, look, we're hearing the same thing that tonight is going to be the night.
And, you know, Prime Minister Netanyahu has just laid it out for the country that he expects a long, protracted war, that they will win.
Yep, and they will, but it's going to be long and protracted, and it's going to get ugly, and the world's going to come against Israel.
And we've got Israel's friends like you, like me, have to do everything in our power and our spheres to make sure that people understand what's really happened here.
Yeah.
All right, Jay Sekulo, thank you.
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So over the weekend, circled by Jen Saki, in what is nothing short of a bizarre exchange over the $6 billion in ransom that the deal that Joe Biden made with Iran as a means of getting the five hostages out.
Now, there's certain nuances that you got to pay attention to.
Okay, sure, we'll pay attention to them.
Newton's number one, that money had to leave Seoul, South Korea, where Donald Trump had kept that money locked up and unavailable to them the entire time he was president.
And so that money was then moved to Qatar.
Okay, fine.
It's in Qatar.
Well, don't forget that groups like Hamas linked to Iran also have influence in Qatar.
They say it's only for humanitarian reasons.
Okay, well, the money hasn't been released yet.
But remember what the Iranian president told Lester Holt on NBC News that he said that Tehran will spend the $6 billion released in this prisoner exchange wherever we need it.
And then, of course, the Iranian president said he plans to use it again, wherever we need it.
Quoted widely, all over the place.
I don't think he's abiding by any, oh, this has to be used for humanitarian purposes argument.
Now, the fact of the matter is that's money that, okay, they'll request for infrastructure, help assistance, whatever need or capacity, but that then frees up $6 billion that they'd otherwise be spending on those projects for fomenting more terror.
They are the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
I don't know why this is hard for them to understand.
I don't know why it's hard to understand.
When you give ransom for hostages, you end up with more hostages.
You know, now we have Hamas threatening to execute the hostages they took over the weekend on live television while simultaneously requesting truce discussions.
What, after they attacked and Israel's on the verge of decimating them?
Oh, now all of a sudden you want to have a truce discussion?
I don't think so.
Anyway, here's how that exchange went down on MSDNC.
Obviously, in this instance, we traded those folks that we had been holding in exchange for hostages.
And in addition to that, the Biden administration released $6 billion in sanctioned Iranian funds.
The problem is, Jen, when you do that, money is fungible.
And so Iran is able to shift other resources that it otherwise would not have been able to do.
Congressman, terrorism, they are the greatest with all the people who are in the world.
I'm exaggerating because what you just stated is an accurate state sponsor.
The funding, Congressman, the funding, it does not go to Iranian hands.
It goes to approved third-party vendors who provide humanitarian support.
I did want to ask you, though, Congressman, because the Trump administration is with all due respect, Jen.
Jen, with all due respect, you're not listening to what I just said.
The bottom line is when you are releasing sanctioned funds that goes to Iran, ultimately, okay, whether you want to say it is to purchase food and clothing and other humanitarian relief, the bottom line is money is fungible, and you are freeing up other resources they would otherwise have needed to spend on such efforts.
And they are the greatest state sponsor of terrorism, period.
And we just have a difference of opinion on how they should be handled.
I believe this administration has been weak when it comes to Iran.
I think they have tried to appease Iran.
They have also tried to force Israel when it comes to Saudi Arabia to acquiesce to the Palestinians.
Anyway, Mike Lawler joins us now.
Sir, how are you?
I'm doing well, Sean.
Thanks for having me.
Okay, why is there this obsession?
If you look at the history of the Obama-Biden administration and this idiotic nuclear deal that they came together with in July of 2015 and the billions of dollars involved in that, remember, we never had as part of that deal, there were no American inspectors ever even allowed to step foot in Iran.
There was never allowed any place, any time inspections by anybody in that deal.
So you're given billions of dollars to the number one state sponsor of terror.
Donald Trump wipes that deal off the map and says, no, we're not abiding by this.
And now here's Joe Biden.
He's as president, almost from day one, wants to go back to this idiotic deal and somehow naively believes that the $6 billion that is in trust with Qatar is going to be only used for humanitarian purposes.
How stupid of these people?
Well, it's really amazing to watch.
You know, the Obama administration's appeasement of Iran, of Syria, of Russia, obviously was a disaster.
And when the Trump administration came on board, they cut up the Iran deal.
They implemented the Taylor Force Act to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority and their pay to slay of Israeli citizens.
And they forged the Abraham Accords.
You get Joe Biden, you get the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan.
He tries to revive the Iran nuclear deal.
Russia invades Ukraine, and now you have Hamas trying to wipe Israel off the face of the earth as a proxy for Iran.
It is total insanity.
This administration has been a failure on foreign policy like we've never seen.
And their attempts at bringing Saudi Arabia to the table were focused on making Israel acquiesce to the Palestinians.
Total insanity.
So what we're dealing with right now, I think obviously we need to support Israel every which way we can.
We need to increase funding for the Iron Dome.
We need to move military equipment to help them.
And I think we need to make it abundantly clear.
Either you stand with Israel and the United States or you stand with Iran and Hamas.
That's your choice.
And our allies across the globe need to be prepared to push back very forcefully against the totalitarian regime in Iran and what they are doing here.
The $6 billion that this administration gave is shameful, it's disgusting, and it needs to be reversed.
Apparently, Gen Saki and Democrats don't understand the fact that money is fungible.
By giving them $6 billion, you're freeing up $6 billion that they otherwise would have had to spend on those humanitarian efforts to use to fund terrorism.
They are the biggest state sponsor of terror and continue to be focused on one objective, wiping Israel off the face of the earth and then coming for the United States.
What should the response be here now that we especially know that Iran was actively involved in the plotting, the planning, the scheming, and even providing weaponry that was used to attack Israel?
What is the response to Iran going to be here?
How are they going to be held accountable?
Well, the $6 billion should immediately be pulled back.
That deal should be null and void, and that money, those assets refrozen.
In terms of Iran, we need to be clear-eyed on this.
They are looking to get nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
When I was in Israel earlier this year with Speaker McCarthy, we met with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and he made it very clear the reason he is back is to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and get Saudi Arabia to the table to normalize relations.
This administration, by their dereliction of duty, has put us on the precipice of all-out war in the Middle East, and they have made it extremely unlikely that we will be able to forge peace because they have not kept to the Abraham Accords.
They have not sought to grow them in the way that they should have been once enacted by President Trump.
And so it is critically important that we take Iran on, that we stop them from getting a nuclear weapon.
The idea that the Biden administration was looking at a new Iran nuclear deal just a year ago is total lunacy.
Well, it is total lunacy, but at some point here, I mean, I'd like to see Congress stop the funds.
I'd like to see it sent back to South Korea and put in a bank in South Korea and get cutter out of this.
Is that possible?
I think we obviously need to get a speaker so that we can start taking action as quickly as possible.
I think we should look at every avenue to reverse that agreement.
There's a reason we put sanctions in place, and you don't unfreeze these sanctions as part of a hostage negotiation.
I have a bill, the SHIP Act, which already has over 200 sponsors that would further sanction Iranian petroleum and any country, and specifically China, the biggest user of Iranian petroleum that purchases, transfers, refines Iranian petroleum.
We need to crack down on Iran along with China, Russia, and North Korea.
This unholy alliance that has been entered into is meant to destabilize and undermine the United States and our allies, and you're seeing the result of it right now with Hamas's terrorist attack in Israel.
How important is it for the House to get this speaker situation resolved moving forward?
Well, this is unprecedented, and I think the longer this drags on, the more instability there is.
And, you know, the Speaker Pro Tem has never been put in place before since 9-11.
So this idea of being able to act is very suspect.
And there's a lot of questions about what power the Speaker Pro Tem has.
So it's critically important we get a speaker in place and get focused on the issues that the American people elected us to govern on, from spending to the border to now this crisis in Israel.
We have a lot of work to do, and we cannot be putzing around trying to work through this process.
All afternoon, I've been discussing with everybody the root cause of all of this, and that is Iran.
What should the world's response to Iran be here, considering now we have all the evidence you'd ever want or need of their involvement in the plotting and planning, scheming, funding of all this?
They are the biggest state sponsor of terrorism between Hamas and Hezbollah.
They have continually provided the funding and the support for them to carry out attacks on the state of Israel as a proxy.
We need to be prepared to take on the Mullahs and the government over in Iran and hold them accountable.
And I think Netanyahu made it very clear when we met with him in May.
He would never allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.
And I think we are on the verge of a major conflict in order to prevent Iran from ever getting nuclear weapons.
And that ultimately.
What role then does the U.S. play and how do we possibly play a role considering the outright hostility that our current president seems to have towards Prime Minister Netanyahu?
This has been a major challenge and consternation.
You know, BB has not been invited here prior to President Herzog coming just a few months ago.
And I think the administration, President Biden, needs to make it abundantly clear that there is no daylight between us and Israel and that he will support the state of Israel and do everything in his power and that of Congress to provide Israel with the weapons, with the equipment, with the financial support, and if necessary, military support to win this war.
This is a war of good versus evil, and nobody should think otherwise.
Israel must be successful, and in it, the United States must stand with them shoulder to shoulder.
All right.
Anyway, Congressman Lawler, we appreciate it.
I thought you did a good job with Jen Saki.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
Appreciate it.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We've got a great Hannity tonight.
We got every angle covered.
We have reporters on the ground in Israel tonight.
Peter Docey, what the heck happened at the White House?
We have former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be on tonight.
Kevin McCarthy will join us on this issue.
I guess we'll ask him a little bit about what's going on in the speaker's race.
Nikki Haley, Brooke Goldstein, Pete Hagseth.
And I've been told to stand by that I might be on for longer than my hour tonight, depending on news if it breaks.
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