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Nov. 7, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Genius of Israel - November 6th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, uh I know we've been focused on elections and Donald Trump uh taking the stand today.
Um, but there is a lot of news out of the Middle East, and it's very interesting.
If you pay very close attention, it was an article that came out uh over the weekend because Biden's poll numbers are imploding, apparently, with Muslim voters in this country, and and winking Tony Blinken racing over to the Mideast to reassure the Palestinians and meeting with Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, etc.
There is it has been a common belief that there is a distinction, and there is among many.
Um not every Palestinian supports Hamas, but Hamas is in charge.
You know, that network of 300 miles worth of tunnels was spent that that was money spent that was designed to be for the people in Gaza, the people, the Palestinian people, but it was not because the people in charge are Hamas.
You know, Israel has been warning innocent citizens and families to get out to protect their lives, protect their families, and the people that have been pointing guns at the Palestinian people in Gaza and saying return to your homes, that would be the Hamas terrorists.
And there's no moral ambiguity on any of these issues.
Um to what extent people in Gaza support um the terrorist group Hamas, I don't think anybody could ever know because how do you ever judge somebody's heart, mind, and soul?
You can't read people's hearts, minds, and souls, but I think it is one of the reasons neighboring country countries like Egypt and others have been so reluctant.
Why are they so reluctant to even take on refugees, innocent women and children?
Could it in part be due to what we have been showing you on television, cartoons played in Gaza, aimed at young, young children, indoctrinating them into hating, quote, the Jews and how evil the Jews are, etc.?
I mean, if if people are refugees and you look them in the eye and you can can you possibly ascertain whether or not they've been radicalized, and I think the answer is obviously no.
Now, you do have the Palestinian ambassador was given an opportunity to condemn Hamas and their terror attack that killed 1400 on October the 7th, uh, but refuses to do so.
Listen to this.
So do you want to clear the air and clearly condemn the attack in Hamas today?
No, I want to clear the record.
First of all, uh the Palestinian Authority is not what represents the Palestinian people.
It's the PLO.
It's the Palestine Liberation Organization.
I represented the PLO in Washington.
Now I represent the PLO and London.
The PA does not have external arms.
The sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people is the PLO, the peacemaker, number one.
Do you want to clear the air and condemn it?
De-designate the PLO from the terrorist list in the US Congress.
These are decades worth of problems.
I'm just asking with this one specific issue on October.
the tax revenue.
Not the kids.
It's the result of us not really focusing on the root cause.
And over the weekend, Obama weighed in on this, and he said that both Hamas and Israel deserve an equal share of the blame for the recent carnage.
No, Mr. Obama.
The victim in this terror attack was Israel.
The rockets that have been fired into Israel from Gaza in the south by by Hamas and Islamic jihad, the missile fired by Hezbollah in the north out of Lebanon.
No, that would be war being waged against Israel.
And Israel has been trying to defend itself.
Now it's gotten to the point where they must now go to war to protect their very existence.
So by that'd be like I mean, I just can't believe that Obama would make the moral comparison, but I guess nothing should surprise me about him.
Biden's State Department official accusing Joe Biden of being complicit in the genocide that's also breaking out politically.
Pro Palestinian, you know, mobs that you just heard there.
Uh anyway, joining us to discuss all of this and the developments about it.
Dan Senior is with us.
He is the author of a brand new book.
It's just out today.
It's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
I've been reading it.
It's very well done.
The genius of Israel, the surprising resilience of a divided nation in a turbulent world.
Uh now I'm sure your final copy and your final draft was handed in before October seventh.
Am I wrong on that?
Yeah, first of all, Sean, thanks for for having me, and thanks for the commentary you just delivered.
It was spot on.
Uh yeah, we wrote this book before October 7th to explain.
We we wrote it actually at the depths of the division in Israel when there was all this political division in Israel, and the country was debating these judicial reforms, and there were protests and counter protests, and all these outsiders were saying this is the end of Israel, that this is Israeli society coming apart.
And we our argument, our book is Israel is the healthiest society.
It is it may have weak institutions, but as a strong society, there's m there's building blocks of solidarity that you don't see anywhere else in the world.
There are fertility rates are way above replacement rates, while populations around the world are shrinking, including the U.S., Israel's population is growing, it's young and growing, it's got high life expectancy, it's got high patriotism, it's got uh no loneliness crisis, it's got no mental health crisis, it's a fundamentally healthy society.
So when it gets poked, and it got poked on October seventh, we said when this place gets poked, the society comes together and rallies, and that's what the book is about.
It's about resilience.
But you're right.
We didn't anticipate that that where this resilience would be so badly needed, and it is badly needed beginning in October seventh.
Israel experienced a terrible, brutal, barbaric, truly barbaric setback on October seventh.
But I think now what you're seeing is what we write about in the book, which is the country coming together and rallying, and I think Israel's upswing now is going to be hard.
It's gonna be tough.
They got a tough road ahead because they're surrounded by these genocidal actors on their borders.
But I think they're gonna I think they're gonna bounce back.
Uh I I don't think there's any other option here for them.
Um in many ways, if you look at nine eleven and what happened in this country, you know, what the conclusion of the nine eleven report was they were at war with us, we were not at war with them.
That was the one conclusion that I uh really stuck with me.
And if you look at what Israel has been living under, and I've I've been there during flare-ups, Dan, I've been in the tunnels, I've been in the border towns, I've been in kibbutzes the day after they got hit with rockets.
I'd been there.
And I've been there a number of times.
And the all every all of these hundreds of thousands of rockets that have been fired from the north or the south or wherever, you know, all of these terror tunnels that have been built out three hundred miles of terror tunnels, this is a group, these are groups of people that are at war and have been at war with Israel, culminating in October seventh.
To me, the end result has to be Hamas can no longer exist, that Gaza can no longer be a launching pad for rockets, that Hezbollah can no longer exist, uh and Lebanon can no longer be a launching pad for their rockets.
The terror tunnels have to be Destroyed and and frankly, at some point, Israel's gonna have to deal with the head of the snake, and that's Iran.
Yep.
So I couldn't agree with you more.
First of all, I think, and I know you've been there, and I know you've been in those tunnels, and I will tell you you you can appreciate this, Sean.
I try to Israel's such a small country.
I mean, it's only a population of nine plus the nine point three million people, but the geography of it is the size of the state of New Jersey.
It's a tiny place.
So it's not just that it has these entities, these terror organizations that are committed to its destruction, and as we learned on October 7th, they are willing to try it.
But it's that they're they're so close to the population center.
Like when you're there, you see it firsthand.
You know, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, these are cities where most of the population is concentrated.
It's like a two or three hour drive to the southern border with Gaza, or two or three or four hour drive up to the north where Hezbollah is.
So it's not just that these genocidal uh terror groups are there, it's that they are they're right there.
And I thought about right on time.
If you're in the city of Starod, I mean, I'm telling you, you look with the naked eye, and there's Gaza.
This was a city that when I was there last had been hit with 10,000 rockets, one little city in in ten years.
Yeah, and kids can't even play outside because it only takes thirteen minutes from the time you launch a rocket to the time it lands, they play in underground bunker playgrounds.
That's life for them there.
Yeah, we we have a we have a chapter in the book called uh 15 seconds, because it's fifteen seconds is the length of time in Steyrot where you were, that when the siren goes off, that the rocket is coming, the that you have fifteen seconds to get into your bomb shelter.
You have fifteen seconds, and so what happens is exactly what you're describing, which is that they wind up during tense times, they wind up having the kids they turn the bomb shelters into play facilities because they were if the kids are outside playing in Steyrot.
If the siren goes off for kids, they may not fifteen seconds may not be enough time.
My mother lives in Jerusalem, by the way.
She's eighty-five years old, she doesn't have extraordinary mobility.
Even in these last couple of weeks, it's a little better now since the IDF has been on the offense.
But a couple weeks ago, she couldn't go grocery shopping.
Because if the siren goes off and you're an elderly person and your mobility isn't great, you don't have enough time to get back and run to get to some shelter.
So that's what life is like.
And I just want to say something, Sean.
You you talked about what Obama said over this weekend.
It infuriated me, the moral equivalence.
Because among the things he said was he he went after Israel, basically, saying that you know they need to think about the occupation of the Palestinians.
First of all, Israel has not occupied Gaza since two thousand five.
So Israel has been out of Gaza for eighteen years, so there is no territorial dispute between Hamas and Israel, only that Hamas wants Jews eliminated and they want all of Israel.
It's not about an occupation of Gaza.
But two, in terms of this whole idea of a disproportionate response by the Israelis.
Well, look at how the Obama administration, once they decided finally to deal with ISIS in 2016, look what they did to Mosul.
They leveled Mosul.
There were enormous civilian casualties in Mosul, which by the way, I was for it.
I'm I'm happy we finally did confront ISIS.
But the idea that he wants a ceasefire, there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on October 6th.
On October 7th, Hamas ended that ceasefire.
And so Israel now has to eliminate, as you said, every last piece of the threat.
All right, quick break, we'll come right back.
We'll continue more with Dan Sinor.
His new book is out The Genius of Israel, the surprising resilience of a divided nation in a turbulent world, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
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Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
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Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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It really wasn't a piece because it was a percolating, you know, rockets being fired with on a regular basis.
The Iron Dome in many ways, I think we'll look back historically and think that that was a band-aid to prevent, you know, the ultimate defeat of both Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, other terrorist groups.
Yeah.
Well, it gave it gave, I think, is the Israelis a false sense of security.
Uh, I will say, because I just the Israelis didn't anticipate what Hamas could do on October 7th.
In other words, they thought there'll be these skirmishes, as you said, these things would heat up from time to time, the rockets would fly, they were dangerous, his road fire back, you know, from the air.
But this kind of thing would happen every couple years.
What they didn't anticipate was this.
I mean, honestly, you you what Hamas did on October 7th.
We don't need to rehash it.
It is it is so graphically and visually shocking.
It's shocking what they what they did.
And it And I will say, I no doubt believe that Hamas is separate from the Palestinian people.
And I have no doubt that Israel's focus should be on destroying Hamas.
But let's just be clear.
This was not a handful of thugs on motorcycles and pickup trucks.
This was an elaborate operation.
It involved thousands of people that we know of in terms of those that cross the border.
And and as you said, there they must have been backed by Iran, no doubt.
This couldn't have been done without escalations, quasi-military escalations.
An operation like this never involves just the you know a couple people that cross the border.
There's logistics, there's fundraising, there's there's training, there's plenty of things.
Let me say this only because of the constraints of time.
Um Dan Senor is with us, and his book is just out today.
It's the genius of Israel, the surprising resilience of a divided nation in a turbulent world.
Uh, you can get it on Amazon.com, uh Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
Uh, if you really want to understand what's going on and what we're witnessing unfold before our eyes, this book is going to open your eyes in a big time.
Uh, I urge people to go get it.
Uh Dan, we love having you.
I think we're having you on TV tonight as well.
We look forward to that also.
Great.
Thank you, Sean, and thanks for your voice on on all this for Israel.
I mean, people like you standing with Israel right now is extremely important because they feel like it's a good idea.
Hey, hey, Dan, it's not hard to stand against terrorists.
It's not a hard thing to do.
I wish I wish more people had that.
I mean, I'd like to say that I'm being real brave here, but you know what?
The people that are being brave are the ones fighting the terrorists, not me.
Anyway, the book is great.
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I'd like to say happy Monday.
Linda, is this such a thing as a happy Monday?
Not during this not during this time.
No way.
But is there ever really a happy Monday?
Because you kind of like your weekend, right?
I do, but I like working.
So I don't really mind Monday.
You know, I could always do it a few more hours of sleep, but you know.
That uh a few?
I mean, seriously?
A few.
I hear you.
But you know.
I mean, I think it would probably take me a year to catch up on lost sleep just in the last five years.
At least it would take you months just to regulate just to get back to like a level playing field.
So you you're saying that I'm not normal.
That's what you just said to me.
I mean, I don't think that was up for debate, but just for clarity's sake, I mean, I think when you don't sleep as often as you don't sleep, it's hard to be normal.
Well, it's kind of hard.
Um, what are the hours of the day you have received text messages from me?
I don't think there is an hour that I have not received a text message, except for 9 a.m.
You don't really text at 9.
You'll text at 6, 5, 4, 3.
Well, 9 a.m. or more.
I am working out.
Sensei does not like it when I'm looking at my phone.
He gets pissed off.
Yeah, and honestly, that's good.
It's good to have some time where you're not looking at your phone.
If my phone's going ding-ding-ding-ding-ding, he gets it.
But if it's not, if it's a ding, and then three minutes later, another ding.
You know, he's like, okay, focus.
And yeah, I get that.
Yeah, I get it too.
All right.
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It is, let's see.
Jerry is in the free state of Florida.
Jerry, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Good afternoon, Sean.
It's uh great uh great to be on your show.
I'm a daily listener, and you've been talking in recent days about how we're reaching an inflection point, and there's a need for moral clarity.
And I thank you for bringing that moral clarity to the radio airwaves and the general public.
I wish I was, I wish it was a unanimous voice.
I wish the world had moral clarity.
Well, I wish I didn't see students at who uh Cooper Union University locked in a locked classroom because they were coming for the quote Jews on campus.
I wish I didn't see what I've seen with in Columbia or Harvard or Cornell or any of these other institutions of higher learning around the country.
You know what it makes me proud of?
Makes me proud I didn't finish college.
Well, I agree, because you have the practical experience of of worldly uh knowledge and engagement with people to understand people's uh wills and people's uh dispositions.
I mean, I come from New York, as you may hear from my accent, and my wife is half Jewish and half Italian, and I have nothing but great love for the Jewish people.
They are a beacon of freedom, an oasis really in the desert there.
And for Joe Biden and his administration through Anthony Blinken, his Secretary of State, to have the hubris to tell them to have a pause or a ceasefire.
Israel is fighting for its very existence, as stated by Hamas, the government duly elected by the Palestinians.
I mean, I feel bad as any human being would feel bad for innocent people and non-combatants being involved in the conflict.
However, Hamas, through its insidious behavior, has purposely located their uh operating areas and weapons depots and and command centers within civilian populations.
I really think it's pretty cynical of the Biden administration to cause for a ceasefire or a pause because he's trying to placate a very radical wing of his Democratic Party, a coalition that's going he needs to get re-elected.
I really doubt it's a lot to me, in my opinion, maybe I'm a little too cynical.
It's my New Yorker coming out of me, but I really feel that he's doing it for political means because he knows he's got a fractured Democratic Party, and he cannot lose any votes in a very cl close race right now as the polls are showing Donald Trump is actually ahead of him in several of the various national polls.
And I think it's more of a cynical step for him to try to placate that very radical wing as opposed to being a good and loyal friend to our most loyal ally in the region, that being Israel.
I really think it's it's it's very Let me tell you, I remember very, very clearly, because I interviewed Bibi a lot post-9-11.
Israel stood with us.
They didn't waver, they didn't equivocate, there was no ambiguity.
It was straight on hardcore moral clarity.
And and we need to be standing with them.
And this president now vacillating these idiotic comments by Obama, frankly, I found repulsive over the weekend.
You know, why these people want to do business with Iran?
Why why they think that they can kiss the ass of people that are bought into radicalism, I don't know.
Radicalism, there's only one answer that I know of for this.
It is to defeat those that think that they are doing God's will by killing innocent men, women, and children.
I don't know any other any other plan that would work except to destroy them.
The way we needed to destroy our enemies after 9-11.
You know, now with wide open borders, God only knows how many terrorist cells have have walked right across that border into our country.
God help this country.
It's so bad.
Anyway, Jerry, appreciate it, buddy.
God bless you.
All right.
The state of California, the highest income state in the entire country.
How are we well, New York's right there with you?
What's going on, Roger?
How are you?
Hi.
I'm an organizational psychologist, and I am really upset as to what's happening in our universities.
I started teaching uh in the 70s.
My mentor really emphasized that my job was to teach people how to think rather than what to think, and to engage in the process with students so both may learn.
When you look at social psychology, for example, which is in my general realm of study, the ratio of progressives far left to conservatives is 14 to one.
In some areas, the ratio is high as 28 to 1.
There is no thing such thing as free speech within a university.
If you engage in any kind of dialogue that challenges the status quo, not an institution of higher education.
It's an institution of indoctrination.
Listen, I experienced it when I was in school.
I graduated high school in 1980 and went to a Delphi for a year.
My next year was at MYU.
And I could tell you I the political science professor, you know, the one of the first things the guy said to the class was that he's uh a Marxist and a communist, and I was the kid in the back row sa saying, excuse me, but you don't understand what Ronald Reagan is doing.
And the entire class became about me and him fighting.
And then like everybody when I raised raised my hand and we'd start getting into it.
I mean, that became the rest of the lecture.
That was it.
And we'd go back and forth the whole time.
I end years later, I ended up having them on Hannity and Combs.
He remembered me.
He gave me the worst grade I ever got in college.
I I had been a dean's list student prior to that, and I got a C plus.
Um and frankly, I and that was after I had acted the midterm.
I just couldn't take it anymore, and I started speaking up, and the more I spoke up, the more he hated me.
Right.
So that's where you that's where the whole cancel culture has come from.
In the university, who hires the faculty?
A committee of the faculty.
So they're looking for people, they talk about cultural fit.
They really talk about ideological fit.
Now, do they know your personal views?
Are they aware of them?
Yes.
I was an outlier.
I would and has anybody ever put pressure on you not to express your views while they're expressing theirs?
Yes.
Yes.
So what how do you handle that?
Well, fortunately, I received a lot of research grants, and I brought in money.
So the money spoke louder than their objections.
And that's what I'm saying.
By the way, I think the most effective deterrent for allowing this rabid anti-Semitism to continue on college campuses is all the big money donors to places like Harvard and Cornell and Columbia.
You know, they all have these massive endowments.
I think in the case of Harvard, I think it's over 37 billion dollars.
I mean, it's insane.
But they're not they're not holding the students responsible for supporting a terrorists openly.
No.
They're not holding any of them accountable at all.
There's a bigger lever than that.
We have many of these institutions that receive federal funding.
All of the land grant schools receive federal funding.
When free speech is violated, there should be consequences.
It's time that particularly the House of Representatives start looking at funding for higher education, and as they see the process moving from educating people to indoctrinating people, they should cut the funding.
Well, I will tell you this.
I I I think it's gotten so bad, unless you're looking for a specialized degree.
You know, uh look, I'll tell you what I told my own kids.
Because my own kids, they're not as political as their dad.
Let me put that out there first and foremost.
However, they kind of agree with their dad politically.
And you know, you'd be shocked at the stuff that I could tell you about the schools that they've gone through and the experiences that they've had and the advice that I'd given them.
You know, I just out of respect for them, not to drag them into the public limelight.
I chose this life, they did not, so I keep them out of it.
But I'm just telling you, these conversations are surreal.
They really are.
I would hear over and over again from parents.
My son or daughter has become critical of what we value and what we believe.
I don't recognize them when they come home.
It's uh well, I recognize my kids because they stay in pretty regular touch with me about a lot of this stuff.
I I mean I can tell you some of the most hilarious conversations that I've had with my daughter.
She's telling me what's going on in a class.
She's texting me during the class.
I'm like, well, just stand up and tell everybody, you know, that you're my daughter and that you agree with everything that I say and that you uh you you you plan on voting for Donald Trump in 2024.
See how that works out for you.
Go right back.
Uh-huh.
Very funny, Daddy.
Very funny, Dad.
Yes.
Uh that's not the advice I give them.
I d listen.
I have told kids that have called this program seeking my advice, you know, whether to speak up or not.
And I'm like, well, what are your career goals?
Do you want to go to medical school?
Do you want to go to law school?
Do you want to go to graduate school?
Do you want to go to business school that's hard to get into?
If your goals are that, you know, lofty, my advice to them is there's no shame in playing the game and giving them their their wrote answers that they're insisting on, getting your grade and getting into real life and achieving your dream.
Because if you take a stand as a student, you know, the odds are pretty high you're gonna pay the price with a much lower grade.
And if you're not willing to do that because of a really legitimate reasons, my advice is play the game.
There's no shaming it shaming it.
Right.
And then when you get into a position in your life where you can be yourself, be yourself.
Just know that you're giving just know you're feeding them BFs.
No, you're just lying to them.
You're also and I mean it's terrible advice on the one hand.
On the other hand, it's like, well, okay, the kid gets a C and then doesn't get into law school or medical school.
That's not worth it.
Price is too high.
Yep.
Well, if you take this point of view, you might get a kick out of it.
I think the average professor today is like a virgin trying to teach sex education.
They have no context.
That's certainly one way to look at it.
Linda, I like that.
That's a good analogy.
Big fan.
Big fan.
All right, Professor.
Appreciate the call, man.
God bless you.
Good luck in your career.
There are some good professors out there.
Not enough though.
Uh big time AJ Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
Big time Sean Hannity.
Hey, as Linda is saying, first of all, if I know if you gotta say, you gotta do it right.
First of all, first of all.
I like the way he says it.
He has his own little thing to it.
It works for me.
Yes.
But if I was the husband of Trump's lawyer, I would be a nice guy.
You l I love the way she told him.
I didn't like the way he pointed his finger and hitting that doggone table.
You don't be hitting no doggone.
She basically basically saying, You don't hit no table in front of me like that.
I mean I don't play that crap.
I loved it.
Boy, she was so awesome.
And Sean, we all the protests that went on when they protest in the Palestinians.
Well, wait a minute, Sean, I gotta ask you this.
When is the Palestinians gonna fight for their own land?
When they're gonna fight Hamas since they not one of the same.
I mean, come on.
This is unbelievable what we watch.
All right, big time.
I gotta run, my friend.
We love you.
You know that.
God bless you, AJ.
Big time AJ Houston, Texas.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up uh for today.
Eric Trump was in the courtroom as his father was was giving the judge in this case fits, you know, the judge that thinks Mar-a Lago's eighteen million dollars.
Anyway, we'll check in with him.
Big election in the Commonwealth of Virginia tomorrow.
We'll check in with Governor Glenn Youncan, also Governor DeSantis tonight will join us.
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