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first casualty of war is the truth, right, and it's
something that I feel like we need to constantly remind
ourselves of when looking at the reporting coming out of
Gaza and Israel, what's going on over there. It's very
difficult to get the truth. And I've said this before
that there are two different war is being fought there,
maybe more, but the one war is obviously the kinetic war.
It's the military operations and that sort of thing number one,
and along those lines, you always have to keep in
mind also that it's not static. It changes. So the
strategies employed at the beginning of the war almost two
years ago, which I always point out was started when
thousands of maniacs stormed across the border, raping, murdering, torturing
and kidnapping thousands of Israelis. And so that's the first
you've got, the first, you know, kinetic action, and those
tactics change in pursuit of the larger strategy. The Hamas
strategy has been from the beginning, and I mean from
the beginning, going back twenty years ago, when they got
control of Gaza and then began flinging their fellow Palestinians
off of rooftops if they didn't sufficiently acquiesce to their rule.
Their primary strategy has been to lure Israel into Gaza
and then to fight them in guerrilla warfare from their tunnels,
from these all the buildings and everything. That's why all
the tunnels were built, rather than bomb shelters. It wasn't
the point. The point is not to save Palestinian lives.
The point is to murder Jews, to lure them in
and be able to escape down your tunnels, hide from
the bombs, let the Palestinian people suffer the brunt of
the engagement, and then you use the follow up tactic,
which is the second war that we are seeing, which
is the pr war or the propaganda war, and every
Palestinian death helps Humas. That's the point there. That's their
tactic is to use their own people as essentially cannon fodder,
so they can then use those stories and those death
counts in order to delegitimize Israel and to break the
bonds of Israel with any other country, particularly those in
the Middle East that are run by Muslim monarchs. Essentially,
that's the strategy. That's how you get a you know,
one Palestinian state from the river to the sea and
no Jews left alive in it. So again stated by Hamas,
that is their charter, that's what they want to do.
That's what they talk about. The river to the sea
is not some sort of you know, misunderstood code. It
means to eliminate all Jews from the Jordan River all
the way to the ocean where Gaza is and everything
in between that river is Israel, and so they want
they want all that land. So you got two components,
two wars, and again the kinetic war, the military action,
the strategies are adapting. I've been so I don't do
this topic a lot anymore. I did a lot of
it when right after October seventh. But there's been a
shift since March in what's been going on, because in
March Israel made what I think now is probably a
really bad decision, a miscalculation, which is sort of odd
for the Israelis. This miscalculation was to put a pause
on the humanitarian aid, which I think Israel may be
the first nation state, or enemy or enemy in a war,
or participant in a war that has ever been called
upon or demanded to provide humanitarian aid to the adversaries
civilian population, right, especially when that adversary has access to
the humanitarian aid and does not distribute it to their
own people. But again see my previous comment about the tactics.
Every gozen that dies helps humas. They've raised, They've raised
now at least one generation, probably two, to believe that
there is no higher calling than to murder Jews and
die while trying to murder Jews. That is the highest calling.
And when you uh when if you succeed in either
of those two things, you will be rewarded for eternity
in heaven. So they withhold the aid, they withhold the humanity,
the food, the water. They don't allow their populations to
be moved right when Israel at the beginning of the word,
was like, hey, we're gonna be going into this area,
and they sent in ground troops. The response because tactics change, right,
All war has actions and then reactions, right, so your
enemy is going to adapt to whatever strategy you are employing.
And so when they would Israel would say, we're going
to go into this neighborhood. We're going to go into
this area. Initially it was Rafa and they're like, we're
going to go in there and we're gonna, you know,
root out the Hamas terrast we're gonna search for hostages.
And they're like, get your people out, everybody leave the area.
And Hamas prevented people from leaving the area because again,
every Gosen that dies helps Hamas. Why because they know
there are useful idiots in the West that will use
that death count against Israel. They never use the death
count against Hamas because they're the oppressed. They're the oppressed.
So Hamas now says as of yesterday, that it is
prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid
to hostages. This would be a first because for some reason,
the Red Cross has not really expressed at least publicly
that I have seen, and I've been following this for
the last two years, I've not seen the Red Cross
make any kind of publicized appeals to Hamas to be
able to go in and check on the hostages. So
now they say, okay, we will let the Red Cross
deliver aid to hostages that they are holding in violation
of Geneva Convention among every other Geneva convention that Hamas
has been violating, but only if Israel meets some conditions.
And this was announced after a video was released of
by Hamas that has I think backfired. They set out
sent out a video of one of the hostages emaciated
in a tunnel being forced to dig his own grave,
and I don't think it landed the way Hamas thought
it was going to land. Hamas at any coordination with
the Red Cross is contingent upon Israel though permanently opening
humanitarian corridors and halting airstrikes during the distribution of aid.
Keep in mind, aid is the lifeblood of Hamas. They
will not remain in power if they do not control
the aid. This has been the case for the last
twenty years. The UN has become so corrupted with the
various NGOs and their own employees that are in Gaza
because you don't, like, you can't operate in Gaza. If
you're not going to, you know, take the knee to Hamas,
they'll kill you. So you have to do what they say.
And so you've got all these people that are working
for these UN agencies and programs and they are either
they are part of Hamas or they bend the knee
to Hamas. So these are their conditions. Also, there are
fifty hostages remaining in Gaza roughly, but about half of
them are believed to be alive still. So again they
are refusing to return the bodies of the dead hostages
because that's the tactic. And they're like, we don't care
if you kill our people. We're going to keep your
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This from Reuters and I know Reuters. I saw a
tweet from one of the top guys at Reuters who
said Israel is the enemy. So that's Reuters for you.
But this piece by Nidal al Mugrabi said. On Saturday,
Hamas released its second video in two days of Israeli
hostage Avatar David. In it, David skeletally thin is shown
digging a hole that he says in the video is
for his own grave. The arm of the individual holding
the camera, which can be seen in the frame, is
a regular wit. What does that mean? A regular wit
means pudgy, means means that Hamas guy shooting the video
has not been starving. Now. Hamas claims six people died
of starvation or malnutrition in Gaza over the past twenty
four hours. Reuters doesn't throw in the without evidence when
it cites the Health Ministry, which is Hummas the new
death These new deaths raise the toll of those dying
from what international humanitarian agencies say maybe an unfolding famine
to one hundred and seventy five, including ninety three children,
since the war began, according to the Ministry, the Health Ministry,
and that's Humas and Hamas lies. Also, Hamas wants there
to be deaths, and this is so it's one of
these things. This is the Western conceit, this idea that oh, well,
you know, we all would do anything to protect our kids. No,
listen to them when they tell you that they love
death more than they love life. This is the strategy
and seems to be working for them. You've got people
turning against israel I. Mean, yes, you have the anti
Semites that were opposed to them before. You've got the
people who say, I'm not an anti Semite, I just
opposed the Israeli government. You got that wing as well,
so they're opposed to the Israeli action. Sure, but now
you have people that are buying into the propaganda narrative
that is being pitched by Hamas and laundered through the
legacy media outlets, to the point where Hamas got rewarded. Yeah,
the leaders of France and Britain, they came out and said,
we're prepared to recognize Palestinian statehood. So that's a reward,
which means now, anybody, if you want to get something,
this is the plan you should adopt. Right, you should
create tunnels under your your territory, and you should allow
your citizens to bear the brunt of the attacks. You
hide out in your tunnels. You then cite the civilian deaths,
and then you get what you want. And to this day,
and I've watched a lot of interviews with a lot
of people. I've watched I don't even know, probably one
hundred to two hundred hours of debates on this topic,
I have yet to hear anybody say what Israel should
have done differently what they always frame it as. If
you're you know, Dave Smith, it's always figured it out, bro,
That's what he said. Piers Morgan, who's now flipped on Israel,
he's like this needs to end and this is ethnic cleansing.
And so now he's like he's saying, well, they they
should do what they did with the Hesbala beeper operation,
which took ye years to do years to do that,
and they couldn't do it in Gaza because they don't
have the ability to operate as they did in Lebanon.
One of the problems also not for nothing, that the
Israelis are having. According to one expert I saw over
the weekend, he was talking about this that with the
Gaza humanitarian foundation that's been putting the food in there
in these distribution sites, and then then people are opening
fire on the people getting the food, and we don't
really know who the people opening fire are. And Piers
Morgan will tell us that that's because we don't know.
Israelis aren't allowing international journalists to go in there, and
he says it's a lie when Israel says we don't
want them in there because they're going to get killed,
and Piers Morgan says that's their decision and this has
never been done before, which is not true. But Israel
doesn't want them going in there and getting killed because
that hurts Israel because the first time a journalist is
embedded with Hamas and Israel wipes out that little group
of Hamas holles, then uh, Israel will be blamed for
killing the journalists. They don't want the negative pr Yet
we have all of these people going to get the
food and they're all being mowed down. We are to
believe by only the Israelis, not Hamas, and not any
of the local gangs, Islamijihad, or any of these other groups. No, no,
whose stated goal is to use their people as human shields.
They have literally said this, this is the tactic. And
so it's so unreasonable to think that maybe they may
be killing some of their own people in order to
tar Israel with that, right, that's so beyond the pale
to consider. But also, where's all the footage from everybody's
cell phones? If all of these things are happening all
the time, where's all the sell footage. The other thing
is that people point out, and I mentioned this, with
the action and reaction when it comes to war, tactics evolve.
When Israel first went in, they were going building by building,
street by street, heavy fighting, all of that, and so
then Hamas adapted and they started running IEDs, remote controlled
with cameras set up to blow up the buildings when
the Israeli forces went in. So Israel then reacted to that.
Now they send in drones and detonate the IEDs and
that takes down buildings. So not all of the destruction
in Gaza is due to the Israelis. A lot of
it is also due to Hamas, who once again, as
I said, is willing to kill their own people in
order to defeat the Israelis. All right, if you're listening
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I think it's safe to say that the Middle East
has been a pain in the bud for a number
of decades. Now, yes, yes it has. There is a
there there is. I think though, in listening to a
fellow by the name of Michael Duran from the Hudson Institute,
the interest of America in the Middle East right now
is to get it to some sort of stabilized position,
because the focus is going to be on China, and
there are only two he says, there are only two
militaries that are actually able to project their military power
outside of their borders, and that is Israel and Turkey.
Turkey and Israel don't really get along though, right, So
then you got the Saudi's they have a military, but
it's not it's not it's not it's not great. And
so how do you create a stabilization there so you
are able then to maybe not even draw upon them
for help if you need it. If we are focused
on China for something at the very least, right, they
keep things stable, and if China tries to make any
kind of inroads over there, you've got you've got some bulwark. Right.
That's where all of the focus is now starting to
shift in American American geopolitics and the military. You're looking
at East Asia and China, and this is my view,
my view only that, but like, there is a lot
of trouble brewing with China, and that's where I see
in the next decade or two, that's where I see
the problems. And I think that's where Trump sees the problems. Also,
it's why this reh shoring of stuff get and trying
to break these bonds, these supply chain reliance on Chinese manufacturing.
I think that's why he's doing what he's doing. Yes,
make America great, Yes, restore the manufacturing jobs. I know
he says all of this, but I think that he's
trying to position America in a way that we are
able to defend ourselves and we're not at the mercy
of the Communist Chinese Party if they decide to cut
off fill in the blank, really like almost everything right,
and at some point I do believe they will try
to do that. They're commis r, they are looking at
China ascendant, they are looking at the long term, and
they're like, we are going to be the new global hedgemoon,
and that means against us. And I would prefer not
to have commis messing around with us. That's me. This
is from Doug. He says, what do you think this
war looks like? Of course, what do you think war
looks like? Of course there is death and starvation. Those
people chose their leadership. They hate us. The poor children
are innocent, hence the phrase war is hell. Now I
have heard an idea which is to just completely flood
the zone with food and aid. Just make it. Because
if Hamas is using the aid in order to sell
it to their people and then you know, raise hundreds
of millions of dollars, as they have in the past years,
then the way to rob them of that lifeblood would
be to essentially devalue the currency of food and water
and supplies and fuel. Right, so you just you flood
the zone. Now, the problem with that is obviously Hamas
is still going to get some of this stuff. But
I think it was a mistake that Israel shut down
the humanitarian access points back in March. They did it
for like three months, because then it opened them up
to this and you know this, these charges that they're
trying to starve everybody to death. Even though they set
up distribution points, it didn't matter. It doesn't matter. Israel
has been losing the pr war for like the land, well,
I think probably for the duration. Miss here. This is
from Kevin Pete. I agree with you on ninety five
percent of the stuff you talk about, but on this
one I have a slightly different viewpoint. The nation of
Israel should get out of there. All their neighbors hate them.
Why live like that? Trump would give them land in
the US similar to what Israel looked like two thousand
years ago in a heartbeat, lush green, lots of trees.
Get them out of the belly of the beast. At
some point, someone is going to set off a dirty
bomb or a nuke in that area and kill a
bunch of my Jewish brothers. I know you said in
the past, what about all the monuments and the sacred
land and such? A family or a nation in this
case is not the place it dwells in. It's the
people in it that makes it what it is. Right, Well,
Israelis are free to immigrate to America. But this is
a larger Jewish problem. But this is there, I mean,
it creates the Jewish problem with the Muslims that are
living in the area, This tiny little strip of land.
They require all of it. They have colonized all that
area of the world. And the Jews were always seen
as second class. And when the Jews got their state,
and then the Arabs tried to take it back and
then they lost repeatedly multiple efforts to take the land
back and recolonize the land, and the and the second
class lowly Jewish people were able to defend themselves and
to beat back all of the of the neighboring nations.
Right that was the tragedy, that was the Knakba. It
wasn't that the people were displaced. They left because there
was a war. And by the way, you know who
can help right now, save a lot of Gosins Egypt.
But Egypt went and fortified six walls. There's like six
layers of walls along the gos of border. They don't
want the Palestinians coming in. So no, I'm not going
to tell people what to do. I'm not going to
tell the Israelis that they have to move. And unfortunately,
throughout all of world history, this is how people acquire
territory violence. Sometimes it's done through treaties. In fact, that's
how Israel God virtually all of the landed God, it
was through diplomatic efforts. They bought a bunch of land.
They got the mandate from the British Empire after defeating
the Ottoman Empire. It was the British mandate, right, So
either way, either way, like, I don't see. And here's
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UK Spectator A couple of days ago. A laked directive
reveals the BBC instructed staff members to dismiss counter narratives
and blame a new Israeli backed aid body that's the
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for any distribution failure in Gaza of
the food and eight. The linked email has further shown
how UK Date broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Company has misled
audiences on events in Gaza since the October seventh Pilgrim.
Writing in The Spectator on July twenty eighth, broadcaster Jonathan
Sasser Dotty Assertity sacred O d Anyway details how an
internal memo called covering the Food Crisis in Gaza and
this memo acts as a top down editorial dictate that
discards impartiality. It was sent to the BBC staff in
late July July twenty fifth. It opens with the assertion
that quote the argument over how much aid has crossed
into Gaza is irrelevant. Instead, staff should say that the
current distribution system doesn't work. Now, why doesn't it work? Well?
Number one, there's only four centralized locations where the food
is being distributed, which makes sense because the GHF has
not been able to work with the United Nations. The
United Nations has refused to work with them. Also, it's
a brand new operation, so they started smaller and they've
you know, they're trying to figure out how to expand
their efforts. Also, you can't go into all parts of
Gaza because it's not secure from Hamas. They will murder
the GHF workers, which they have already done by the way. Also,
most importantly, you have to provide security for these types
of operations. You got to make sure that Hamas doesn't
come in and murder everybody and you know, rape a
bunch of women, behead a bunch of people, and take
all of the food. So yes, that's that's part of
the that's part of the issue. The other part of it, though,
is that the UN has left a bunch of humanitarian
aid to rot. There are videos of it, there are
verified reports. The UN has not been doing any of
the distribution that they could be doing, apparently allowing gozens
to starve to death right, isn't that the charge against Israel.
They also at one point said we should have Hamas
acting as our security forces. Why would you do that?
If you're the UN, why would you want Hamas to
be the quote security for your truck convoys. Such criticism
is directed at the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, not
the uns hamas riddled UNWAH, the UNWRA, which is an
NGO which is yes riddled with Hamas. Members of UNWAH
were part of the October seventh attacks and afterwards helped
to secret away the hostages. The BBC is instructing journalists
to blame the GHF for the failure of aide to
get through rather than Hamas. So that's the line from
the BBC. Totally committed to obviously educating the people. And
then you've got the story that we saw go viral
the other day with the New York Times front page
story with a big photo of this woman holding her
very young boy who is emaciated, and the whole story
is about starvation and gaza. And then it turns out, oh,
that photo that you used was actually cropped, and it
cropped out. The little boy's brother, who's older, is three
years old and is well fed. Why is he well
fed and the other child is not well? Turns out
the child in the photo has cerebral palsy and the
mother is just trying to get help for her kid
with this genetic disorder. So she's talking to anybody, but
the Western media out let's keep framing this as if
this is an example of starvation that then goes around
the world, retweeted, you know, fifty five million impressions on Twitter.
And then when The New York Times is dragged to
the truth, they put out an editor's note updating our coverage,
and they put that out on their New York Times
Communications Twitter account. Not the main one with all of
the millions of followers. No, this one's only got like
thirty forty thousand. They send it out on that second
account to let everybody know that oops, yeah, the photo
that we attach to that big story actually doesn't depict
the thing that we are describing in the story. But anyway,
let's move on, right. This is what Hamas understands about
the left. This is the intersectionality, if you will, anti westernism.
They are of a like mind on this, and Hamas
understood it. They understand it, and they keep using it.
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