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What's Next for Gaza - November 27th, Hour 2
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So as this prisoner exchange has been unfolding in anticipation of how long it might go on or whether or not the ceasefire ultimately ends for good, very odd that Joe Biden actually believes that he's one of the reasons that Hamas attacked Israel was because he was trying to bring peace to the region.
I guess he's the cause of the attack.
It's kind of a bizarre statement.
Listen.
Mr. President, you said you were hoping to get cooperation from Paris leaders.
What are you hearing from them as you talk to them?
What would you like to see them do?
I'm hearing a lot, but I'm not going to speak to it right now.
There's an overwhelming desire on the part of the region to, let me back up.
I cannot prove what I'm about to say.
But I believe one of the reasons why Hamas struck when they did was they knew that I was working very closely with the Saudis and others in the region to bring peace to the region by having recognition of Israel and Israel's right to exist.
You may recall when we did the G20 about a little while ago, I was able to get a resolution, a statement passed through there saying we're going to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way through the Middle East into Saudi Arabia, Israel, et cetera, and all the way up to Europe.
Not the railroad, but it would be an underground pipeline and then railroad.
The whole idea is there's overwhelming interest, and I think most Arab nations know it, in coordinating with one another to change the dynamic in their region for a longer-term peace.
And that is what I'm going to continue to work on.
Thank you all very, very much.
I appreciate it.
Now, there was a British reporter, her name is Catherine Foster, detailing what was nothing but the violent harassment as the rabid anti-Semitism around the world continues.
In this case, Great Britain, during what they call the pro-Palestinian protests, where all these chants are made about the destruction of Israel from the river to the sea, et cetera, et cetera.
Listen to her description of what she experienced during this protest.
In the last hour or so, we, the cameraman, our backwasher, who's here to keep us safe, had really quite an unpleasant experience.
A guy on a tannoy shouting at us wanted to know who we were broadcasting from.
He wouldn't go away.
He was very persistent.
Eventually, I said, GB News.
At that point, he just, I can't tell you what he said, but it was vile, fascist, scum, etc.
A group of people came round us, all shouting at us.
I have to say, it was very intimidating.
I was shaking by the end of it.
We then moved to a completely different place.
And at the end of that live, lo and behold, he appeared again.
The police spoke to him.
He's been moved on.
We've been told to stay here, and we're filing a police report.
Now, we are learning an awful lot about some of the details and the harsh conditions that even young children and older people that were taken hostage have had to face under the terror group Hamas.
Not particularly comforting in terms of they weren't fed regularly.
They were kept in very confined areas.
They were kept for days on end where they didn't get food or the only food they got would be pita bread or something like that.
This is even young children, the four-year-old American that was released.
That story is heartbreaking as all get out, but at least she is now free.
Her parents were killed on the October 7th attack.
The other food that they had were rice and bread.
And for the most part, they, you know, she said that when they wanted to go to the bathroom, they had to knock on a door.
Sometimes, you know, they were waiting for it to be open.
Sometimes they were waiting for one and a half hours, two hours, simply to go to the bathroom.
And, you know, the sickest part of all of this is the idea that somehow there is a comparison.
You have convicted terrorists, three to one, being released by Israel to get back one Israeli or American hostage.
And somehow there are people defending that fundamental unfairness.
Anyway, here to weigh in on all of this, David Schoen, civil rights attorney, and Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News.
All right, David Schoen, what's your take on all of this?
Listen, it's a sick, sick process.
You're talking about negotiating with terrorists about human lives.
They're releasing them in drips and drabs.
They're holding a one-month-old.
The nine-year-old was separated from her mother.
These are barbarians.
These are monsters.
It's a horrible process.
But you're right.
If you're a parent of one of these children or you're a family member of somebody being held, you want them released.
But in Israel, there's great patriotism.
And they also have a sense of the larger process here.
But make no mistake about it.
These are terrorists and quite frankly, Abbas's group with Fatak is no better.
The polls are showing today outrageous support for, look, 75% Palestinians, this is an Arab poll done by an Arab-controlled group.
75% of Palestinians, 83% in the Judean Samaria, what is called the West Bank, support the atrocities of October 7th.
74.7 say they want Palestine from the river to the sea, extinction of Israel.
85.9 reject any coexistence with Israel.
And the most popular groups of all are Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatak al-Aqsa, Marda, Hamas's military wing, 88.6% for al-Qasim Brigade.
There's no hope of dealing with these folks.
And as the Wall Street Journal said today, Hamas is playing the world.
With the release of some hostages and the terrible crime scenes, the world wants more release.
The world now is gearing up again.
Stop the destruction of civilians.
So Hamas knew from the start.
They play the world with using human shields, civilians to be bombed, and then they talk about the numbers being killed.
You know, you raised something a while ago about these terrorists being released.
You realize that nine of them are going to be paid pay for slave money.
They talk about teenagers being released from Israeli prisons as if there's some equivalence.
Well, you know who their teenagers are?
Their teenagers are 16-year-old Mara al-Bakri, who stabbed an Israeli border policeman, 14 and 16-year-old terrorists, cousins who stabbed a 70-year-old.
Those are their teenagers.
I can go on and on with the list.
The teenagers Hamas is holding are innocent civilians, babies, teenagers, grandmothers, people denied their medical care, people who are raped, mutilated, tortured, on and on and on.
There is no equivalence.
You know, as I bring Joel Pollack in and Joel and David, we've all been friends for a long time here.
And the fact that we've seen this hatred, this anti-Semitism worldwide and the numbers that we're seeing it, where we're seeing it, not just in Europe and Great Britain and Australia.
Never thought I'd hear a chant out of Australia, gas the Jews, F the Jews, but we're hearing that.
I never thought we'd see it en masse in the streets of cities all over this country or in college campuses or in the halls of Congress, Joel Pollock, but we're seeing it, we're hearing it, and the justifications are sickening.
It's really frightening what's going on.
And just over the weekend, there was another anti-Semitic attack on a pizzeria in Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up.
And you're right, the justifications are unbelievable.
And we're seeing it at the highest level.
This is not some sort of, you know, low-level anti-Semitism.
It's happening at the elite institutions.
It's happening at Harvard, at Penn, at Columbia.
It's happening in the halls of Congress.
This is what's really disturbing about it, is that it's coming from people who are the elite of our society, who think that they have the right to rule.
Well, why is it happening?
Is this undertone been there for a long time?
We've known that it has been in the UN and all these globalist organizations, the UN in particular, the comments of the UN General Secretary were just absolutely sickening to me along the lines of what we're talking about here.
Well, let me say a word or two about why it's happening on college campuses.
The reason it's happening there, and this was a feeling expressed to me by the head of Tel Aviv University or one of the heads of Tel Aviv University when I interviewed him in Israel.
The reason is that kids are being taught to hate America.
So when you teach students that America is evil, that everything Americans have is because we stole it from somebody else or because we are colonial evil oppressors, then that's the prism they use to interpret events around the world.
And when they look at Israel's success as a flourishing, democratic, prosperous, high-tech society, they don't look at that and say, let's emulate that or let's try to teach other people around the world how to do that.
They look at that and they regard it with hatred and resentment.
So when you teach kids to hate America, really to hate themselves, it's a very short hop to hating other people.
And it's an outgrowth of that anti-Americanism that you're seeing in the anti-Semitism on campus.
So I guess my next question is, I know we have a very public Joe Biden, and then there's the private Joe Biden that admits that he's been putting pressure on Israel, David Shon, to have a pause.
And I know there are people that are saying that they want this pause to continue indefinitely.
I don't think that's plausible considering what the stated goal of Hamas is and what their actions have been over the last decades, to be honest, an Islamic jihad and then Hezbollah out of Lebanon and the north.
To me, victory has got to be defined that Gaza could no longer be a launching area for any more of their missiles into Israel.
And it has to also be defined as Hezbollah could no longer use Lebanon as a launching pad for missiles into Israel.
And I hate to say it, at some point, some time, someplace, somewhere, somebody's going to have to deal with Iran that has been fomenting and plotting and planning and scheming and training and providing the weaponry for all of this.
100% right.
I mean, there's no question it all comes from Iran.
But there's also, you know, localized on the ground, simply raw hatred and respect for violence.
Remember, these innocents who were killed in Gaza and so on were just the day before cheering in the streets, cheering the raping, the mutilating.
I saw an interview with one woman from Gaza City who said she welcomes them using them as human shields because she's patriotic for her people.
So I got an email today from the foreign ministry assuring that they're going to continue with their goal.
Yes, it's true.
There's tremendous domestic pressure and international pressure for a pause to release hostages.
Every hostage is precious.
There's no question about it.
But Israel is committed to fulfilling its goals.
I do believe the U.S. is putting increasing pressure on them through the Biden administration.
I believe the administration is weakening, unfortunately.
They're going to call more for the ceasefire because they're getting international pressure.
Biden apologized today for not accepting Hamas's numbers of casualties.
No one would accept those numbers.
We see videos on the internet of them staging people who are supposed to be dead, and then the next moment they jump up because they think the scene is finished filming.
They've been using Red Cross ambulances for arms transportation for years and all that.
The U.N. is fully complicit in this business.
He apologized to Muslim American leaders for questioning Hamas's death toll, but I'll tell you what he didn't bring up is that almost every major media organization in this country got wrong and blamed Israel for something they didn't do, which was bomb a hospital and kill 500 doctors, nurses, and patients.
As a matter of fact, that missile came from the Islamic Jihad and it didn't hit the hospital.
And then to add insult to injury, we now know that terror tunnels and their base of operations were dug underneath the hospitals so that they could use those hospitals as shields.
Listen, the hostages are reporting Sinwar, the mastermind, if you can call it that, of this sick set of atrocities, met with them and he arrived through a tunnel to meet with them.
Israel has got to return to its original policy of finding these people wherever they are and taking them out.
These are monsters.
They're barbarians.
They're people who have no respect for law and order or civilized society.
All right, quick break more with Joel Pollack and David Schoen on the latest out of the Middle East in Israel.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm going to continue with David Schoen and our friend Joel Pollock discussing the very latest out of the Middle East of Israel.
You know, David, as we talk about this, look at the condition of the latest on this four-year-old little, you know, American girl that was freed.
Her parents were murdered right in front of her.
Apparently, her father saved her life.
And she did have two siblings that were able to hide and they are free and they've been reunited, but none of them will ever see their parents again.
You're right.
None of them will ever be the same again.
So many of these people will never be the same again because of what these terrorists did.
Unprovoked violence targeting civilians.
Look, they're sending rockets every day around Israel, targeting civilians.
People talk about war crimes by Israel.
Israel is the only army in the world that has a lawyer assigned to each brigade that goes out before each operation to make sure they're complying with international humanitarian law.
If you're a terrorist and you take 12 people and you hide under the beds of a school, you give license to the enemy to attack that school.
It simply loses its protected status, and the people there well know it.
Final word, Joel Pollack.
I think that we have to heed the words of Yoshio Leiter, who is a rabbi who moved to Israel and lost his son, Moshe Leiter.
I was actually at the funeral when he was late to arrest at the Mount Herzegovina Military Cemetery, and he delivered a eulogy in Hebrew, but then he broke into English to read a letter he wrote to President Biden.
And he said, President Biden, do not pressure Israel to stop this war.
We have to win this war.
We don't have a choice.
We have to get rid of Hamas as a threat to Israeli civilians.
And I hope the Biden administration was listening because if the terrorists are able to survive after this war, then none of us will be safe.
All of the radical terrorist groups around the world will take heart from Hamas's survival.
And the only way this can end well is with the destruction of Hamas.
The destruction of Hamas, frankly, Hezbollah deserves the same destruction.
They've been firing missiles from the north for now decades going into this innocent country.
That has to stop.
If they want this to end and end forever, they have to win the war.
And a pause is fine.
I want those hostages released as much as anybody.
But after that's done, then the war gets back to, then the Israelis will have to get back to work.
There's no doubt about it.
David Schoen, thank you.
Joel Pollack, thank you.
We appreciate both of you being with us.
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Let's say hi.
We have Joel in Kentucky.
Joel, happy Monday.
Glad you checked in.
How are you, sir?
I'm fine.
I'm real fine.
I've been a fan of yours since Hannity and Combs days, and I never thought I'd be talking to you.
Well, it's an honor that you called.
Honor to talk to you.
Thank you for sticking with me.
And I hope I'm meeting your standards every day.
Yes, you are.
What's on your mind today?
Well, last week you made mention of the facts, something about the Biden administration is trying to downplay or back away from that term Bidenomics.
Apparently, nobody's buying it anymore if they ever did.
And the closer we get to the election, it's harder for them to sell it.
So something went off in my mind when I heard that, you know, about Herbert Hoover.
And I started to look up some things.
You know, during the stock market crash in 29, he got to blame for it.
He'd only been in office about seven months, but it happened on his watch that he took the blame.
And people, they lost their homes either because they defaulted on the mortgages or couldn't pay the rent.
And shanty towns sprang up all across America.
And they became known as Hoovervilles.
Now, when I watch the evening news these days, what we see is a big dose of encampments on city streets and everything.
I started calling them Bidenvilles back in around August.
And every day we get footage of this.
We see the encampments on the streets, and they're being paid for with, you know, they have government-supplied tents, and they're shooting up with government-supplied needles, which were at least clean the first time they used them.
And everything's spreading all kinds of diseases.
This is what I call Bidenville's.
And the thing about it is, too, we're paying for all this throughout tax dollars.
We've got no say-so in the matter.
And then, again, at the same time, cities like New York, we see veterans being evicted from subsidized housing in order to accommodate people who are here illegally.
And where do these guys go?
Again, are they living in Bidenville's now?
But the thing is, between now and the election time, we need people like yourself and Laura Englam and Jesse Warders and others that have bully pulpits, both on radio and TV, to get the word out and make Bidenville's a part of our psyche, our political and economic election con, and just drive it in from now through the election and beyond if necessary.
And I just appreciate you.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Did you ever watch the movie Cinderella Man?
So it's based on a true story.
No, no, I didn't.
I watched very few movies.
Let me tell you, it's worth your time.
If you can get a copy, I don't know if you have Prime Video, but you can buy it on Prime or wherever you buy movies, Apple.
I'm sure you could probably buy it anywhere.
You should watch it because it's the story of those times and how hard and harsh that they were.
And interestingly for me, from my own family history, this is the era in which both my parents grew up.
My father grew up during the Depression, and they lived it, and they grew up poor, and they were desperate times.
And it tells a story about a very famous boxer.
Anyway, I don't want to give the whole story away, but it would be definitely worth your time.
And one night he's looking for a friend of his in Hooverville.
You know, he tries to get jobs on the docks.
They only pick three or four people.
There's, you know, 50 people wanting to be picked on any given day, and they just can't make ends meet.
And if you watch that movie and you see that, that was reality.
And now we're looking at Americans now.
There's a story that came out just today that American borrowers are getting closer and closer to maxing out their credit card utilization and what the delinquency rates are on the rise.
You look at people, you know, that they're just not making ends meet.
A minimum of nearly two-thirds of this country now living paycheck to paycheck.
They want to call it Bidenomics.
Fine, call it Bidenomics.
But even, you know, even Democrats, even the Washington Post, Leanne Caldwell, said that Bidenomics has now become a negative word with the Democratic Party as Biden has struggled to get his economic message across to translate with voters.
And the reason has been is he's been out of touch with reality.
You know, he's been out of touch with his own inflation costs.
He's been out of touch with the higher gas prices, the impact that has on every product we buy and every store we go to.
He's not living in our world.
Existing home sales now have fallen to their lowest level since the Obama-Biden recession.
You see, more people now struggling to make ends meet than ever before.
These are tough times for a lot of people.
And if this continues and if past precedence holds and peace and prosperity elect presidents, well, he's not looking too good.
And I think his poll numbers have been showing that.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
Glad you're out there.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, JD out in California.
JD, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Yeah, I appreciate you taking my call, Sean.
Thoughts on you hosting DeSantis and Newsome?
Obviously, you know, I'm not even in California.
We're not happy with that person.
My thoughts are it's not a good idea to give Newsome a national audience, which is obviously what you plan on doing.
I'll tell you, Ron is not that guy right now.
I can see him in the future potentially running again for president.
I mean, it's obvious where he's not at in the polls.
You know, it'd be nice if he was doing better, but, you know, I'm for Trump all the way.
But, yeah, I'm just not thinking that's really a good idea because I'll tell you, this guy is, I mean, he's slicker than snake oil when it comes to, you know, him and the way that he can present himself to the people out there.
Of course, I'm talking about Newsom.
I've been given in a number of interviews leading up to this.
One was in the L.A. Times yesterday.
And one of the things they quoted me as saying, and I've said it before, and I believe it to be accurate, that if conservatives and Republicans ignore this guy, they do so to their own peril.
And by that, I mean, I tend to agree with you.
I mean, if you're looking for central casting politician 101, you know, I mean, it's Gavin Newsom.
I mean, remember that image of him when he walks into the Oval Office of Joe Biden, Joe Biden wasn't there, flips his jacket over his shoulder.
I'm like, he's seeing himself one day in that Oval Office.
That's my thought.
Now, I've asked him about this many times.
He denies it.
But I think that Republicans better understand that there's a whole other party out there beyond Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
There was a story this weekend.
Was featured on the Drudge Report about how the coming civil war battle between Kamala and Gavin.
I think there's an awful lot of truth to that.
If Joe Biden falters or falls or bails out and is not the candidate, there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party that would like to leapfrog right over Kamala Harris and bring in Gavin Newsome.
So I just happen to be a believer that you need to know what you're dealing with or potentially dealing with.
And look, I think it's also an important moment.
How do you have one state that has the highest income tax and another state with no income tax?
These are fundamental governing philosophies we're discussing here.
What's the downside of that?
Or one state that believes in sanctuary state status and another believes in controlling our borders and not allowing illegal immigrants into their states and to their cities and believe in following the rule of law.
Or those that believe in reimagining the police department versus those that believe in hiring more cops and making sure everybody's safe and secure.
Or those that believe in green energy versus those that want America to be fossil fuel dominant.
Right now, there is a California lawsuit headed up by the governor that is going after oil companies saying that they've known for years that they're hurting the planet.
That's going to cost these companies a fortune, and in the end, it's going to raise the cost of things.
But honestly, this is their debate.
It happened organically, and it came up in the course of my interview with Gavin Newsom.
I don't know.
I think I have a very different take on it.
It's going to be red versus blue, state versus state.
And you've got to remember one other thing I think that's very important, JD, and that is we always talk about the federal government, but don't underestimate the impact that state laws and state regulations have on our lives as well.
And then we have this phenomenon of migration out of blue states into red states.
Why is that?
Now, I'm not going to be answering those questions on Thursday night, but I'll be asking a lot of those questions on Thursday night.
And then you'll be able to hear both sides answer.
And it's up to Governor DeSantis to debate Newsome.
It's not my job in this format.
I've already had my discussion with him.
Yeah, and I understand where you're going with this.
And it's good for the show.
But at the same time, I mean, I'm crossing my head.
I think it's good for the country, don't you?
I think the country needs to understand how we could be this divided.
Where's middle ground?
Tell me on any of the topics I mentioned, is there any middle ground that you can think of?
Well, obviously not with a Newsom, but you already know this, and I'm sure a lot of your audience knows this if they've watched Newsom at all.
The guy, like I said, I mean, he just comes off so smooth.
It's just incredible.
I mean, he's very personable, very likable, no doubt.
But so is Ron DeSantis.
I know them both.
Right.
All right, so let's see what happens.
You know, at the end of the day, I think it's going to be if you care about the country, the direction of the country, if you'd like to know more about this divide that exists that is very real in the country, I can't think of two more important people that represent the two various ideologies and governing philosophies than these two governors.
They're two powerhouse governors here.
So we'll wait.
We'll see.
And call me back on Friday.
Let me know what you think, okay?
Yeah, I appreciate you taking the call, Sean.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
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Harry's in the free state of Florida.
Harry, how are you?
Glad you called.
You mean Barry?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Says Harry in my eyes.
Maybe I can't see it anymore.
I'm getting like Biden.
What's going on?
That's all right, Sean.
God bless you.
I love you.
Something really ticked me off yesterday, and I'm a conservative Republican.
I'm sorry to think like you, I'm more conservative than Republican.
I don't understand why eight Republicans in the House voted against the resolution to impeach my orchestras.
I've watched every one of those hearings in the House and the Senate.
The guy lies through his teeth.
He denies everything, and he says everything's under control.
And remember, it was Biden who called for the surge while he was running for office.
And, you know, we have people like Daryl Issa, one of the eight, who's supposedly a law and order guy, and he votes against the resolution.
You got a congressman named Duarte said, we ought to spend better time looking to take care of the fiscal and budget areas.
The fiscal and budget areas has already been answered because Janet Yellen borrowed from the Federal Reserve $776 billion for this last quarter of the year and $877 billion for the next year.
So they've baked that pie in already.
And to talk about, you know, spending cuts and all that is ludicrous.
But I'm getting back to what I was talking about.
This president has colluded with the Communist Chinese and the drug cartels.
He had the Communist Chinese getting $50 billion a day in fentanyl and other drugs brought into this country, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and my orchestra is looking away and couldn't do a thing about it, couldn't care anything about it.
And eight Republicans in the House voted against the resolution.
One guy said, well, we have to go through the committee to handle that.
I mean, this is bizarre.
It's unreal.
And I have other words, but I won't use it on the radio.
It is amazing the more we learn from the House Ways and Means Committee, the Oversight Committee, the more we learn from the Judiciary Committee.
The deeper this investigation goes, the more I realize that it was very apparent to me that this Biden family doing business with all of the top geopolitical foes of this country is beyond anything I think I've ever seen in my lifetime politically.
And I think it's going to come to a head.
And that will be next year.
Democrats, they're looking forward to putting Donald Trump on trial.
Well, I want to see what Republicans do when it comes to holding Joe Biden accountable for Biden's involvement in something he said he never even discussed with his family, his son, his brother, or anybody.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
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