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All Right, so you've heard the 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,560 first casualty of war is the truth, right, and it's 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,439 something that I feel like we need to constantly remind 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:45,880 ourselves of when looking at the reporting coming out of 13 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:52,799 Gaza and Israel, what's going on over there. It's very 14 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:57,880 difficult to get the truth. And I've said this before 15 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:01,039 that there are two different war is being fought there, 16 00:01:01,079 --> 00:01:06,000 maybe more, but the one war is obviously the kinetic war. 17 00:01:06,159 --> 00:01:09,280 It's the military operations and that sort of thing number one, 18 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:14,560 and along those lines, you always have to keep in 19 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:20,879 mind also that it's not static. It changes. So the 20 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,959 strategies employed at the beginning of the war almost two 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,760 years ago, which I always point out was started when 22 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:37,920 thousands of maniacs stormed across the border, raping, murdering, torturing 23 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:45,599 and kidnapping thousands of Israelis. And so that's the first 24 00:01:45,599 --> 00:01:48,280 you've got, the first, you know, kinetic action, and those 25 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:54,239 tactics change in pursuit of the larger strategy. The Hamas 26 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:58,439 strategy has been from the beginning, and I mean from 27 00:01:58,519 --> 00:02:01,560 the beginning, going back twenty years ago, when they got 28 00:02:01,599 --> 00:02:05,920 control of Gaza and then began flinging their fellow Palestinians 29 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,360 off of rooftops if they didn't sufficiently acquiesce to their rule. 30 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:16,919 Their primary strategy has been to lure Israel into Gaza 31 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,319 and then to fight them in guerrilla warfare from their tunnels, 32 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,759 from these all the buildings and everything. That's why all 33 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,080 the tunnels were built, rather than bomb shelters. It wasn't 34 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,319 the point. The point is not to save Palestinian lives. 35 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,319 The point is to murder Jews, to lure them in 36 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,639 and be able to escape down your tunnels, hide from 37 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:42,360 the bombs, let the Palestinian people suffer the brunt of 38 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:47,919 the engagement, and then you use the follow up tactic, 39 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,039 which is the second war that we are seeing, which 40 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,319 is the pr war or the propaganda war, and every 41 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:01,680 Palestinian death helps Humas. That's the point there. That's their 42 00:03:01,719 --> 00:03:06,680 tactic is to use their own people as essentially cannon fodder, 43 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:11,319 so they can then use those stories and those death 44 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:17,000 counts in order to delegitimize Israel and to break the 45 00:03:17,039 --> 00:03:20,560 bonds of Israel with any other country, particularly those in 46 00:03:20,599 --> 00:03:27,080 the Middle East that are run by Muslim monarchs. Essentially, 47 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,879 that's the strategy. That's how you get a you know, 48 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:36,360 one Palestinian state from the river to the sea and 49 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,319 no Jews left alive in it. So again stated by Hamas, 50 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,879 that is their charter, that's what they want to do. 51 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,919 That's what they talk about. The river to the sea 52 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:50,919 is not some sort of you know, misunderstood code. It 53 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:54,360 means to eliminate all Jews from the Jordan River all 54 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,680 the way to the ocean where Gaza is and everything 55 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,919 in between that river is Israel, and so they want 56 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,280 they want all that land. So you got two components, 57 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:12,479 two wars, and again the kinetic war, the military action, 58 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:16,439 the strategies are adapting. I've been so I don't do 59 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,399 this topic a lot anymore. I did a lot of 60 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:23,759 it when right after October seventh. But there's been a 61 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,199 shift since March in what's been going on, because in 62 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,120 March Israel made what I think now is probably a 63 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,399 really bad decision, a miscalculation, which is sort of odd 64 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:41,480 for the Israelis. This miscalculation was to put a pause 65 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,480 on the humanitarian aid, which I think Israel may be 66 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,720 the first nation state, or enemy or enemy in a war, 67 00:04:51,959 --> 00:04:57,120 or participant in a war that has ever been called 68 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:05,040 upon or demanded to provide humanitarian aid to the adversaries 69 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:11,040 civilian population, right, especially when that adversary has access to 70 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:14,560 the humanitarian aid and does not distribute it to their 71 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:19,360 own people. But again see my previous comment about the tactics. 72 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:26,480 Every gozen that dies helps humas. They've raised, They've raised 73 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:32,000 now at least one generation, probably two, to believe that 74 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:34,800 there is no higher calling than to murder Jews and 75 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,399 die while trying to murder Jews. That is the highest calling. 76 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,800 And when you uh when if you succeed in either 77 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,439 of those two things, you will be rewarded for eternity 78 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:51,800 in heaven. So they withhold the aid, they withhold the humanity, 79 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,720 the food, the water. They don't allow their populations to 80 00:05:56,759 --> 00:06:00,000 be moved right when Israel at the beginning of the word, 81 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,199 was like, hey, we're gonna be going into this area, 82 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:10,720 and they sent in ground troops. The response because tactics change, right, 83 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,480 All war has actions and then reactions, right, so your 84 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,879 enemy is going to adapt to whatever strategy you are employing. 85 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:20,639 And so when they would Israel would say, we're going 86 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,680 to go into this neighborhood. We're going to go into 87 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,639 this area. Initially it was Rafa and they're like, we're 88 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:27,120 going to go in there and we're gonna, you know, 89 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:29,800 root out the Hamas terrast we're gonna search for hostages. 90 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:34,439 And they're like, get your people out, everybody leave the area. 91 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,040 And Hamas prevented people from leaving the area because again, 92 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,240 every Gosen that dies helps Hamas. Why because they know 93 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:48,040 there are useful idiots in the West that will use 94 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:53,439 that death count against Israel. They never use the death 95 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,800 count against Hamas because they're the oppressed. They're the oppressed. 96 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,160 So Hamas now says as of yesterday, that it is 97 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,959 prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid 98 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:15,399 to hostages. This would be a first because for some reason, 99 00:07:15,439 --> 00:07:18,279 the Red Cross has not really expressed at least publicly 100 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:20,839 that I have seen, and I've been following this for 101 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:23,360 the last two years, I've not seen the Red Cross 102 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:28,519 make any kind of publicized appeals to Hamas to be 103 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,920 able to go in and check on the hostages. So 104 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:35,240 now they say, okay, we will let the Red Cross 105 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,839 deliver aid to hostages that they are holding in violation 106 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:43,839 of Geneva Convention among every other Geneva convention that Hamas 107 00:07:43,839 --> 00:07:50,240 has been violating, but only if Israel meets some conditions. 108 00:07:50,279 --> 00:07:54,079 And this was announced after a video was released of 109 00:07:54,680 --> 00:08:00,720 by Hamas that has I think backfired. They set out 110 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:06,199 sent out a video of one of the hostages emaciated 111 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:11,240 in a tunnel being forced to dig his own grave, 112 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,720 and I don't think it landed the way Hamas thought 113 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:19,839 it was going to land. Hamas at any coordination with 114 00:08:19,879 --> 00:08:23,480 the Red Cross is contingent upon Israel though permanently opening 115 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:29,319 humanitarian corridors and halting airstrikes during the distribution of aid. 116 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:37,480 Keep in mind, aid is the lifeblood of Hamas. They 117 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,360 will not remain in power if they do not control 118 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,279 the aid. This has been the case for the last 119 00:08:44,279 --> 00:08:49,559 twenty years. The UN has become so corrupted with the 120 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:53,879 various NGOs and their own employees that are in Gaza 121 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:56,799 because you don't, like, you can't operate in Gaza. If 122 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:02,440 you're not going to, you know, take the knee to Hamas, 123 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,399 they'll kill you. So you have to do what they say. 124 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,679 And so you've got all these people that are working 125 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,399 for these UN agencies and programs and they are either 126 00:09:12,639 --> 00:09:15,399 they are part of Hamas or they bend the knee 127 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:22,000 to Hamas. So these are their conditions. Also, there are 128 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,159 fifty hostages remaining in Gaza roughly, but about half of 129 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:32,120 them are believed to be alive still. So again they 130 00:09:32,159 --> 00:09:35,879 are refusing to return the bodies of the dead hostages 131 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:40,759 because that's the tactic. And they're like, we don't care 132 00:09:40,759 --> 00:09:42,559 if you kill our people. We're going to keep your 133 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,200 Israeli corpse. 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On Saturday, 161 00:11:20,879 --> 00:11:23,799 Hamas released its second video in two days of Israeli 162 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:30,639 hostage Avatar David. In it, David skeletally thin is shown 163 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,519 digging a hole that he says in the video is 164 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:37,159 for his own grave. The arm of the individual holding 165 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:39,720 the camera, which can be seen in the frame, is 166 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:44,480 a regular wit. What does that mean? A regular wit 167 00:11:46,879 --> 00:11:51,360 means pudgy, means means that Hamas guy shooting the video 168 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:56,919 has not been starving. Now. Hamas claims six people died 169 00:11:56,919 --> 00:12:00,320 of starvation or malnutrition in Gaza over the past twenty 170 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,519 four hours. Reuters doesn't throw in the without evidence when 171 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:11,639 it cites the Health Ministry, which is Hummas the new 172 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,919 death These new deaths raise the toll of those dying 173 00:12:15,919 --> 00:12:20,240 from what international humanitarian agencies say maybe an unfolding famine 174 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,279 to one hundred and seventy five, including ninety three children, 175 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:28,399 since the war began, according to the Ministry, the Health Ministry, 176 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:35,799 and that's Humas and Hamas lies. Also, Hamas wants there 177 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:40,960 to be deaths, and this is so it's one of 178 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,679 these things. This is the Western conceit, this idea that oh, well, 179 00:12:45,799 --> 00:12:50,639 you know, we all would do anything to protect our kids. No, 180 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:55,159 listen to them when they tell you that they love 181 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,519 death more than they love life. This is the strategy 182 00:13:00,919 --> 00:13:04,720 and seems to be working for them. You've got people 183 00:13:04,759 --> 00:13:07,799 turning against israel I. Mean, yes, you have the anti 184 00:13:07,799 --> 00:13:11,080 Semites that were opposed to them before. You've got the 185 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:14,279 people who say, I'm not an anti Semite, I just 186 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,080 opposed the Israeli government. You got that wing as well, 187 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,240 so they're opposed to the Israeli action. Sure, but now 188 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,279 you have people that are buying into the propaganda narrative 189 00:13:25,519 --> 00:13:29,519 that is being pitched by Hamas and laundered through the 190 00:13:29,759 --> 00:13:36,360 legacy media outlets, to the point where Hamas got rewarded. Yeah, 191 00:13:36,519 --> 00:13:41,519 the leaders of France and Britain, they came out and said, 192 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:47,720 we're prepared to recognize Palestinian statehood. So that's a reward, 193 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:54,159 which means now, anybody, if you want to get something, 194 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,320 this is the plan you should adopt. Right, you should 195 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:05,600 create tunnels under your your territory, and you should allow 196 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:10,000 your citizens to bear the brunt of the attacks. You 197 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,440 hide out in your tunnels. You then cite the civilian deaths, 198 00:14:15,039 --> 00:14:20,120 and then you get what you want. And to this day, 199 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:22,320 and I've watched a lot of interviews with a lot 200 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,120 of people. I've watched I don't even know, probably one 201 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,799 hundred to two hundred hours of debates on this topic, 202 00:14:30,039 --> 00:14:34,879 I have yet to hear anybody say what Israel should 203 00:14:34,919 --> 00:14:38,679 have done differently what they always frame it as. If 204 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,720 you're you know, Dave Smith, it's always figured it out, bro, 205 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:48,120 That's what he said. Piers Morgan, who's now flipped on Israel, 206 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:51,120 he's like this needs to end and this is ethnic cleansing. 207 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,120 And so now he's like he's saying, well, they they 208 00:14:55,399 --> 00:14:58,240 should do what they did with the Hesbala beeper operation, 209 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:03,240 which took ye years to do years to do that, 210 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:07,799 and they couldn't do it in Gaza because they don't 211 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,360 have the ability to operate as they did in Lebanon. 212 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 One of the problems also not for nothing, that the 213 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,679 Israelis are having. According to one expert I saw over 214 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,440 the weekend, he was talking about this that with the 215 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:25,759 Gaza humanitarian foundation that's been putting the food in there 216 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:29,720 in these distribution sites, and then then people are opening 217 00:15:29,759 --> 00:15:32,039 fire on the people getting the food, and we don't 218 00:15:32,039 --> 00:15:35,679 really know who the people opening fire are. And Piers 219 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,679 Morgan will tell us that that's because we don't know. 220 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:41,159 Israelis aren't allowing international journalists to go in there, and 221 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,759 he says it's a lie when Israel says we don't 222 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:45,519 want them in there because they're going to get killed, 223 00:15:46,159 --> 00:15:51,120 and Piers Morgan says that's their decision and this has 224 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,639 never been done before, which is not true. But Israel 225 00:15:54,679 --> 00:15:57,559 doesn't want them going in there and getting killed because 226 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:03,320 that hurts Israel because the first time a journalist is 227 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,399 embedded with Hamas and Israel wipes out that little group 228 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:13,039 of Hamas holles, then uh, Israel will be blamed for 229 00:16:13,159 --> 00:16:19,240 killing the journalists. They don't want the negative pr Yet 230 00:16:19,279 --> 00:16:22,039 we have all of these people going to get the 231 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,519 food and they're all being mowed down. We are to 232 00:16:24,559 --> 00:16:27,679 believe by only the Israelis, not Hamas, and not any 233 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:31,240 of the local gangs, Islamijihad, or any of these other groups. No, no, 234 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:36,840 whose stated goal is to use their people as human shields. 235 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,080 They have literally said this, this is the tactic. And 236 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:45,799 so it's so unreasonable to think that maybe they may 237 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:47,759 be killing some of their own people in order to 238 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:51,200 tar Israel with that, right, that's so beyond the pale 239 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,519 to consider. But also, where's all the footage from everybody's 240 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:58,679 cell phones? If all of these things are happening all 241 00:16:58,759 --> 00:17:04,720 the time, where's all the sell footage. The other thing 242 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:07,680 is that people point out, and I mentioned this, with 243 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:12,839 the action and reaction when it comes to war, tactics evolve. 244 00:17:13,559 --> 00:17:17,319 When Israel first went in, they were going building by building, 245 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,000 street by street, heavy fighting, all of that, and so 246 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:27,240 then Hamas adapted and they started running IEDs, remote controlled 247 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:29,880 with cameras set up to blow up the buildings when 248 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,160 the Israeli forces went in. So Israel then reacted to that. 249 00:17:33,319 --> 00:17:36,759 Now they send in drones and detonate the IEDs and 250 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:41,599 that takes down buildings. So not all of the destruction 251 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,039 in Gaza is due to the Israelis. A lot of 252 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:46,519 it is also due to Hamas, who once again, as 253 00:17:46,519 --> 00:17:50,079 I said, is willing to kill their own people in 254 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,079 order to defeat the Israelis. All right, if you're listening 255 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,720 to this show. You know I try to keep up 256 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,519 with all sorts of current events, and I know you 257 00:17:57,559 --> 00:17:59,960 do too. And you've probably heard me say get your 258 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,960 news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you 259 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,960 detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed 260 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,759 with ground News. 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Subscribe 271 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,519 through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. 272 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,599 I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to 273 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,119 every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 274 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,519 but it also supports ground News as they make the 275 00:18:55,559 --> 00:19:00,000 media landscape more transparent. Here's a number out of South Carol. 276 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,079 I think it's safe to say that the Middle East 277 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:03,640 has been a pain in the bud for a number 278 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:10,200 of decades. Now, yes, yes it has. There is a 279 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,680 there there is. I think though, in listening to a 280 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,559 fellow by the name of Michael Duran from the Hudson Institute, 281 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,640 the interest of America in the Middle East right now 282 00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:29,599 is to get it to some sort of stabilized position, 283 00:19:30,839 --> 00:19:35,599 because the focus is going to be on China, and 284 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,839 there are only two he says, there are only two 285 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,480 militaries that are actually able to project their military power 286 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:48,119 outside of their borders, and that is Israel and Turkey. 287 00:19:49,039 --> 00:19:51,960 Turkey and Israel don't really get along though, right, So 288 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,440 then you got the Saudi's they have a military, but 289 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:58,799 it's not it's not it's not it's not great. And 290 00:19:58,839 --> 00:20:05,880 so how do you create a stabilization there so you 291 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,000 are able then to maybe not even draw upon them 292 00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:13,319 for help if you need it. If we are focused 293 00:20:13,319 --> 00:20:18,480 on China for something at the very least, right, they 294 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:20,799 keep things stable, and if China tries to make any 295 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:26,319 kind of inroads over there, you've got you've got some bulwark. Right. 296 00:20:27,079 --> 00:20:30,160 That's where all of the focus is now starting to 297 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:36,920 shift in American American geopolitics and the military. You're looking 298 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:42,279 at East Asia and China, and this is my view, 299 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,839 my view only that, but like, there is a lot 300 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,279 of trouble brewing with China, and that's where I see 301 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,759 in the next decade or two, that's where I see 302 00:20:54,799 --> 00:20:58,240 the problems. And I think that's where Trump sees the problems. Also, 303 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,240 it's why this reh shoring of stuff get and trying 304 00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:08,839 to break these bonds, these supply chain reliance on Chinese manufacturing. 305 00:21:09,319 --> 00:21:11,359 I think that's why he's doing what he's doing. Yes, 306 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,039 make America great, Yes, restore the manufacturing jobs. I know 307 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,759 he says all of this, but I think that he's 308 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:19,799 trying to position America in a way that we are 309 00:21:19,839 --> 00:21:23,079 able to defend ourselves and we're not at the mercy 310 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,799 of the Communist Chinese Party if they decide to cut 311 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:31,039 off fill in the blank, really like almost everything right, 312 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,839 and at some point I do believe they will try 313 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,640 to do that. They're commis r, they are looking at 314 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,799 China ascendant, they are looking at the long term, and 315 00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:44,920 they're like, we are going to be the new global hedgemoon, 316 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:52,799 and that means against us. And I would prefer not 317 00:21:52,960 --> 00:22:00,920 to have commis messing around with us. That's me. This 318 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,519 is from Doug. He says, what do you think this 319 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:06,119 war looks like? Of course, what do you think war 320 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:12,000 looks like? Of course there is death and starvation. Those 321 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:15,039 people chose their leadership. They hate us. The poor children 322 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:20,680 are innocent, hence the phrase war is hell. Now I 323 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,759 have heard an idea which is to just completely flood 324 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:31,720 the zone with food and aid. Just make it. Because 325 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,200 if Hamas is using the aid in order to sell 326 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,160 it to their people and then you know, raise hundreds 327 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,400 of millions of dollars, as they have in the past years, 328 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:47,079 then the way to rob them of that lifeblood would 329 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:51,640 be to essentially devalue the currency of food and water 330 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,720 and supplies and fuel. Right, so you just you flood 331 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,240 the zone. Now, the problem with that is obviously Hamas 332 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,599 is still going to get some of this stuff. But 333 00:23:04,079 --> 00:23:07,160 I think it was a mistake that Israel shut down 334 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:14,039 the humanitarian access points back in March. They did it 335 00:23:14,079 --> 00:23:15,920 for like three months, because then it opened them up 336 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,319 to this and you know this, these charges that they're 337 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:22,079 trying to starve everybody to death. Even though they set 338 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,440 up distribution points, it didn't matter. It doesn't matter. Israel 339 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:32,079 has been losing the pr war for like the land, well, 340 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:38,640 I think probably for the duration. Miss here. This is 341 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,400 from Kevin Pete. I agree with you on ninety five 342 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,200 percent of the stuff you talk about, but on this 343 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,759 one I have a slightly different viewpoint. The nation of 344 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,000 Israel should get out of there. All their neighbors hate them. 345 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,680 Why live like that? Trump would give them land in 346 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,400 the US similar to what Israel looked like two thousand 347 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,680 years ago in a heartbeat, lush green, lots of trees. 348 00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:00,319 Get them out of the belly of the beast. At 349 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:02,680 some point, someone is going to set off a dirty 350 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,640 bomb or a nuke in that area and kill a 351 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,000 bunch of my Jewish brothers. I know you said in 352 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,880 the past, what about all the monuments and the sacred 353 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,480 land and such? A family or a nation in this 354 00:24:13,599 --> 00:24:16,359 case is not the place it dwells in. It's the 355 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,039 people in it that makes it what it is. Right, Well, 356 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:26,759 Israelis are free to immigrate to America. But this is 357 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:31,279 a larger Jewish problem. But this is there, I mean, 358 00:24:31,279 --> 00:24:34,480 it creates the Jewish problem with the Muslims that are 359 00:24:34,519 --> 00:24:37,119 living in the area, This tiny little strip of land. 360 00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:42,039 They require all of it. They have colonized all that 361 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:45,960 area of the world. And the Jews were always seen 362 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,440 as second class. And when the Jews got their state, 363 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:52,200 and then the Arabs tried to take it back and 364 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,680 then they lost repeatedly multiple efforts to take the land 365 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,279 back and recolonize the land, and the and the second 366 00:25:01,319 --> 00:25:05,359 class lowly Jewish people were able to defend themselves and 367 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,119 to beat back all of the of the neighboring nations. 368 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,480 Right that was the tragedy, that was the Knakba. It 369 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:15,000 wasn't that the people were displaced. They left because there 370 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,480 was a war. And by the way, you know who 371 00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:21,680 can help right now, save a lot of Gosins Egypt. 372 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,240 But Egypt went and fortified six walls. There's like six 373 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,359 layers of walls along the gos of border. They don't 374 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:39,640 want the Palestinians coming in. So no, I'm not going 375 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,519 to tell people what to do. I'm not going to 376 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:46,200 tell the Israelis that they have to move. And unfortunately, 377 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,400 throughout all of world history, this is how people acquire 378 00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:54,359 territory violence. Sometimes it's done through treaties. In fact, that's 379 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,400 how Israel God virtually all of the landed God, it 380 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,319 was through diplomatic efforts. They bought a bunch of land. 381 00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:04,559 They got the mandate from the British Empire after defeating 382 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:08,720 the Ottoman Empire. It was the British mandate, right, So 383 00:26:09,599 --> 00:26:13,519 either way, either way, like, I don't see. And here's 384 00:26:13,519 --> 00:26:18,400 the thing, Like, I'm a bit of a well, I 385 00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:21,200 want to say oppositional, defiance or contrarian, but when you 386 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,480 tell me I can't do something, then I kind of 387 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:26,240 want to do it more. You know, you know, stories 388 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:28,480 are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to 389 00:26:28,559 --> 00:26:32,000 understand experiences. 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A laked directive 408 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:46,039 reveals the BBC instructed staff members to dismiss counter narratives 409 00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:49,960 and blame a new Israeli backed aid body that's the 410 00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:55,000 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for any distribution failure in Gaza of 411 00:27:55,039 --> 00:27:59,160 the food and eight. The linked email has further shown 412 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:04,240 how UK Date broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Company has misled 413 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:07,880 audiences on events in Gaza since the October seventh Pilgrim. 414 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,440 Writing in The Spectator on July twenty eighth, broadcaster Jonathan 415 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:19,680 Sasser Dotty Assertity sacred O d Anyway details how an 416 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:25,880 internal memo called covering the Food Crisis in Gaza and 417 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,799 this memo acts as a top down editorial dictate that 418 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,960 discards impartiality. It was sent to the BBC staff in 419 00:28:35,039 --> 00:28:38,960 late July July twenty fifth. It opens with the assertion 420 00:28:39,119 --> 00:28:43,559 that quote the argument over how much aid has crossed 421 00:28:43,559 --> 00:28:50,400 into Gaza is irrelevant. Instead, staff should say that the 422 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:57,759 current distribution system doesn't work. Now, why doesn't it work? Well? 423 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,039 Number one, there's only four centralized locations where the food 424 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:06,559 is being distributed, which makes sense because the GHF has 425 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,960 not been able to work with the United Nations. The 426 00:29:10,079 --> 00:29:14,640 United Nations has refused to work with them. Also, it's 427 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,119 a brand new operation, so they started smaller and they've 428 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,759 you know, they're trying to figure out how to expand 429 00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:27,359 their efforts. Also, you can't go into all parts of 430 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,759 Gaza because it's not secure from Hamas. They will murder 431 00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:35,799 the GHF workers, which they have already done by the way. Also, 432 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,000 most importantly, you have to provide security for these types 433 00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:44,799 of operations. You got to make sure that Hamas doesn't 434 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,359 come in and murder everybody and you know, rape a 435 00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:49,640 bunch of women, behead a bunch of people, and take 436 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,839 all of the food. So yes, that's that's part of 437 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,079 the that's part of the issue. The other part of it, though, 438 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,079 is that the UN has left a bunch of humanitarian 439 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:05,960 aid to rot. There are videos of it, there are 440 00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:10,400 verified reports. The UN has not been doing any of 441 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:16,079 the distribution that they could be doing, apparently allowing gozens 442 00:30:16,119 --> 00:30:20,200 to starve to death right, isn't that the charge against Israel. 443 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,640 They also at one point said we should have Hamas 444 00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:28,119 acting as our security forces. Why would you do that? 445 00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:33,279 If you're the UN, why would you want Hamas to 446 00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:41,519 be the quote security for your truck convoys. Such criticism 447 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,039 is directed at the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, not 448 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:51,200 the uns hamas riddled UNWAH, the UNWRA, which is an 449 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,880 NGO which is yes riddled with Hamas. Members of UNWAH 450 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:03,799 were part of the October seventh attacks and afterwards helped 451 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:10,039 to secret away the hostages. The BBC is instructing journalists 452 00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:12,880 to blame the GHF for the failure of aide to 453 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,839 get through rather than Hamas. So that's the line from 454 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:25,559 the BBC. Totally committed to obviously educating the people. And 455 00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:28,640 then you've got the story that we saw go viral 456 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,920 the other day with the New York Times front page 457 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,799 story with a big photo of this woman holding her 458 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,240 very young boy who is emaciated, and the whole story 459 00:31:40,319 --> 00:31:43,680 is about starvation and gaza. And then it turns out, oh, 460 00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:47,400 that photo that you used was actually cropped, and it 461 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,000 cropped out. The little boy's brother, who's older, is three 462 00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:54,279 years old and is well fed. Why is he well 463 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:56,599 fed and the other child is not well? Turns out 464 00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:00,680 the child in the photo has cerebral palsy and the 465 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,559 mother is just trying to get help for her kid 466 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,519 with this genetic disorder. So she's talking to anybody, but 467 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,680 the Western media out let's keep framing this as if 468 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,839 this is an example of starvation that then goes around 469 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,200 the world, retweeted, you know, fifty five million impressions on Twitter. 470 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,119 And then when The New York Times is dragged to 471 00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:28,920 the truth, they put out an editor's note updating our coverage, 472 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,400 and they put that out on their New York Times 473 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,880 Communications Twitter account. Not the main one with all of 474 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,960 the millions of followers. No, this one's only got like 475 00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:45,519 thirty forty thousand. They send it out on that second 476 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:50,000 account to let everybody know that oops, yeah, the photo 477 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:53,319 that we attach to that big story actually doesn't depict 478 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,160 the thing that we are describing in the story. But anyway, 479 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,359 let's move on, right. This is what Hamas understands about 480 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:08,480 the left. This is the intersectionality, if you will, anti westernism. 481 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,640 They are of a like mind on this, and Hamas 482 00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:16,200 understood it. They understand it, and they keep using it. 483 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,279 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 484 00:33:20,319 --> 00:33:22,319 so much for listening. 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