WEBVTT - Israel Under Attack 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 Violence has broken out in Israel as Hamas is firing 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:08.000 rockets into the state of Israel, Israel defending itself, and 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.719 our host of this show, Senator Cruz, will be headed 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.400 where the rockets are flying in the coming days. This 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:23.520 is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict with 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.920 Ted Cruz. Senator. I'm very glad that we are doing 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:31.120 this episode from our very comfy studio here in Washington, 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.479 d C. And that we're not doing it under rocket 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.760 fire in Israel. But you, you, madman, are headed right 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.760 into where the violence is. So Michael, you're saying you're 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.520 not going to come with me and do a podcast 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.680 on location alongside the Gaza strip in a bomb shelter. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.159 You know, I was. I've gotten sick of zoom over 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.720 the last year. This will be an instance. I think 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.000 I'd prefer zoom. I think Skype further distance would be great. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.680 All right, you can zoom in from Bay great, wonderful, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.880 the far more peaceful. Yes, you are headed there into 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.320 a conflict that I think we can say without exaggeration 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.760 is the most complex conflict ye on planet Earth. I 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.640 think a great many conservatives, even you know, certainly the 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.880 leftists but even a great many conservatives don't really know 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.319 what exactly is it play here, what exactly the two 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.600 sides stand for, or why there seems to be perpetual violence, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.320 And I to some degree would count myself in that category. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.120 So Senator, if you wouldn't mind, please explain it well. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.479 Israel is surrounded by nations that for most of the 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.120 existence of the modern state of Israel have wanted to 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.640 drive it into the sea. I wanted to destroy it. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.560 If you look at Israel, the only reason Israel exists 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:55.320 today is that it is militarily able to defeat its neighbors. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.520 There's been a whole history of Middle East wars where 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.760 Arab nations join together attacked Israel. Every time they do it, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:10.760 they lose, and in fact Israel gains territory. That strength 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.280 has been critical to Israel's existence. If you look at 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.160 what's happening with Hamas terrorists, these are terrorists in Israel 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.840 that that do not believe Israel has a right to exist, 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.200 that they do not want there to be a Jewish 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.080 state on the face of the earth. They want to 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:33.120 obliterate it, and they engage in deliberate, repeated acts of 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.600 violence terrorism. They target individuals, They target civilians, They target 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.440 women and children. They whether it is suicide vests and 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:52.280 blowing up cafes or discotheques or malls. But but they 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.120 also use rockets. They use typically low tech rockets that 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.680 are that are fired into Israel over and over and 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.640 over again seeking to cause mayhem. And there and they're 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.000 doing a couple of things. One, uh, they want to 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.320 destabilize Israel. They want to create fear. And I'll tell 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.520 you I've been to Israel many times. I've been along 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.800 the Gaza strip where where the folks there are used to, 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.480 you know, having a siren go off and having to 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.840 run to a bomb shelter because in ten twenty thirty 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.440 seconds a rocket could explode and kill you. And it 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.160 has an effect. I mean, I've talked with Israelis who 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.080 you know, it's like PTSD, I mean they're dealing with 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.440 I mean, it's really frightening when you're playing with your 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.600 child and suddenly have to run and hide because of 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:46.000 fear of being killed. But another reason Hamas does this 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:50.560 is they count on the media to be their propagandists. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.320 They know that Israel will have to respond that if 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.680 you start I mean imagine how people would react in Washington, 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.560 d C. If if sub lead folks in Maryland began 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.480 firing rockets in the DC like you would respond and 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.120 you would respond with military force. Inevitably, Israel responds and 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.160 goes after the terrorists, and the press predictably takes the 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.720 size at side of the terrorists and paints Israel as 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.480 the bad guys. Now. I think also for people who 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.080 are unclear of what Hamas is, it's confusing because they're 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.479 terrorists in that they target civilians to achieve political ends, 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.120 the very basic definition of terrorism. But they're also sort 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.440 of the government elected by the Palestinian Arabs, even though 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.880 Palestine is not a nation, but there were elections in 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.080 two thousand and five and the people there who participated 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.640 elected this terrorist group to represent them. That's right. And 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.839 not only that, you have the Palestinian Authority, which is 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:53.640 the governmental entity in the portions of Israel that are 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:58.159 controlled by the pay that pays terrorists. So if you 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.719 Michael gostrap dynam to your chest and you walk into 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.120 a mall in Tel Aviv and you blow yourself up 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.360 and you murder a bunch of other people, you murder 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.200 a bunch of israelis the Palestinian authority will pay your 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:17.640 family a stipend in perpetuity. They literally are essentially paying bounties. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.240 You know, go blow yourself up and we'll take care 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.200 of your family for you, and will celebrate you as 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.839 a hero and martyr and and and that is profoundly dysfunctional. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.840 It is. But the media and the Democrats play this 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.800 game in moral relativism where they say, well, both sides 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:40.800 are doing wrong. Nope. Yet you know, years ago. The 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:45.320 first time I visited Israel was in twenty twelve, so 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.640 nine years ago, and first time I traveled there, I 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.840 went and visited a hospital on the northern border of Israel, 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.880 right alongside Syrias with a Ziv hospital. At the time, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.640 that hospital had provided over eight million dollars in free, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:11.039 uncompensated care two Syrians injured in the horrific civil war 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.200 playing out there. And I heard stories from Israeli doctors, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:20.120 Israeli nurses how you would have a little Syrian child, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.239 a boy or girl, go to sleep in their bed 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.880 and a bomb would go off and blow up their 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.120 home and they would wake up, and they'd wake up 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.479 in an Israeli hospital being treated and these little girls 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.279 and little boys were terrified, terrified at whatever injuries they had, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.080 but even more terrified that it was Israeli doctors that 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.840 were treating them. Right. And you know, one of the 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.880 physicians there told me about a woman who was a 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:53.320 Syrian woman who who said, my whole life, the government 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.839 I've been told was there to protect me, Now they're 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.000 trying to kill me, and my whole life. The people 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.920 I've been told that hate me and want to kill me, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.440 Now you're saving my life, right right. And and it's 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.320 so I wrote a number of years back an op 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.200 ed that was called a Tale of two Hospitals, and 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.120 it said, you can tell a lot about a society 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.320 by how they treat their most vulnerable, and a hospital's 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.120 a good place to start. And I compared the Ziv 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.280 Hospital where they'd given all of this free care to 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.880 Syrians wounded in the Civil War, and I contrasted it 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.280 to a hospital in Gaza, which is in the southern 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.040 part of Israel that's under the control of the Palestinian 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:45.200 authority and Hamas, where Hamas had based their headquarters in 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.880 the basement of the hospital. And what they were doing, Now, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.040 mind you, this is a Palestinian hospital under was the 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.360 hospital is filled not with Israelis but with Palestinians, and 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.800 they were using Palestinians as human shields. And so you 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.200 have mothers giving birth are literally using the mothers and 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.480 the infants just being born as human shields. And from 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.920 Hamasa's perspective, it's a win win either as ended up 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.040 being the case, Israel will refrain and not attack the 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.040 headquarters from which they're planning terrorist attacks on Israel. Okay, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.200 that's a win if like Israel is afraid to attack 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.160 their headquarters, Hamas is happy about that. Or on the 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:29.960 flip side, if Israel does attack the headquarters, there will 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.959 be a bunch of Palestinian patients, mothers and infants killed. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.120 It's great pr and it's great pr. They know that CNN, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.760 they know that New York Times, they know that the 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.160 Democrats will say, see the Israelis or monsters. We told 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.560 you so. So either way, and in the practice of 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.959 human shields is something Hamas does a lot. So this 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.880 this conflict is not particularly complicated to obviously the history 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.599 is very complicated. But which side we should be on 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.880 it's not that complicated. If you elect Hamas terrorists to 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.760 represent you, and if you celebrate in the stats on 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.640 nine to eleven has happened, I remember watching it play 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.320 out live twenty years ago. Then it doesn't seem like 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.679 the United States should should really support whatever national cause 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.320 you want to represent. And Israel has has been a 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.720 good ally. We've been good allies to Israel. That seems 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:22.280 perfectly ordinary. Why is it that so many prominent Democrats 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.199 are against Israel and are supporting the Palestinian Arabs? What 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.800 is the argument? Are what am I missing here? Well, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.200 the far left hates Israel, and actually the far left 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:40.400 frequently traffics and anti Semitism where they despise Israel's right 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.760 to exist. Is you look, Israel is a nation that 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.719 shares America's value. Israel is our strongest ally in the 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.920 Middle East. We provide about three billion dollars a year 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:58.880 in military assistance to Israel that produces enormous military advantages, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.199 in national security advantag just to the United States. I 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.320 am the strongest defender of Israel in the US Senate, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.360 and I resolved to be that when I was elected. Um, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.760 but but I defend our support of Israel, not as 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.640 a welfare case, not like we're helping out this you know, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.760 poor on their luck neighbor r Right, it's not We're 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.760 not just a national charity, right. I mean, it's good 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.240 to be charitable, but that's not the benefits America. So 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.880 you look at all of the enemies of Israel, our 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.719 enemies of America. You you look at the Ayatollah Kamene, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.679 the leader, the so called Supreme leader of Iran. He 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:41.240 leads mobs enchanting death to America and death to Israel. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:47.079 They call Israel the little Satan. They call America the 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:53.920 big sat, the great Satan. Yeah, and when Israel is 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.520 fighting her enemies, Israel is fighting our enemies. Not only that, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.160 the Massad, their spy net work is second to none. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.560 It is incredibly effective, and so we get massive national 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:11.599 security benefits from what they do with our assistance. For example, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.839 the Massad did this raid on Iran that uncovered this 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.920 cash of documents showing their nuclear programs that they were 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.280 actively working to develop nuclear weapons, even when they said 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.320 they were not, that they were lying. It proved that 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.200 they were lying that and by the way, they gave 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.600 those documents to America. So they went on a commando 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.640 raid seize these documents. I mean, it's like something out 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:41.280 of Jason Bourne. All of that is very much benefits us. Well, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.760 you're certainly right here in particular when you're talking about 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.319 these prominent democrats who hate Israel and don't think it 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.080 should exist. I mean, there are elected democrats who have 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.679 repeated the slogan from the river to the sea, Palestine 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.319 will be free, which is to say Israel will cease 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.440 to exist as a nation state and that state will 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.600 be turned over to the Palestinian Arab So that it's 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.839 hard to be more antipathetic than that. Well, and listen, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.720 the barrier to Middle East piece has never been Israel. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.280 Nobody wants peace more than Israel. Look, it's it's Israeli 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.800 babies that are being murdered. It's it's the citizens that 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.200 live in the fear of terror. The barrier to peace 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.360 is the Palestinians, who number one, refuse to acknowledge Israel's 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.199 right to exist. They refuse their objective is to abolish 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.080 the entire nation of Israel. And secondly, they refuse to 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.440 renounce terrorism. They in fact, they continue to pay people 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.240 to commit acts of terrorism and murder innocent civilians. Until 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:50.400 those two things change. You can't have meaningful peace. I 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.040 will say though, that all of us have been benefited 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:58.920 from an incredible object lesson the last year of what 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.240 works in the Middle East and what doesn't. So for 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.320 years and years and years, Democrats have said there can 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.440 be no peace, you can have no Arab Israeli peace 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.000 until the Palestinian situation is resolved. John Kerry said this 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.320 as Secretary of State in twenty sixteen. Yes, he said, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.960 it's impossible to solve until we solve the Palestinian situation. Well, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.079 it turns out that's totally wrong. Yeah, that's now been 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.240 objectively disproved. And think about it. Last year, we were 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.640 seeing this flowering of peace across the Middle East, historic, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.880 the first peace agreements in decades, the Abraham Accords. As 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.320 you know, I was there at the White House when 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:41.440 the Abraham Accords were assigned. And why were they signed? 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.800 I think it's important to understand because there's a reason 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.720 we had peace last year, and there's a reason we 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.319 have war this year, and it's based on the policies 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.760 of America last year and the policies of America this year. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.000 Why did we have peace last year? I think the 0:13:55.120 --> 0:14:00.480 single biggest thing that changed was clarity about where America costance. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.600 So you and I have talked before about the two 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:09.719 biggest foreign policy decisions that Trump made. The first was 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.440 the decision to move the United States Embassy to Jerusalem. Yeah, 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.480 you know, Israel was the only country on Earth or 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.240 we didn't have our embassy in its capital city. And 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.840 it had been US policy for decades to move the 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.800 embassy to Jerusalem. We just never did. Every president said 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.240 they would do it, and we just never do. Both 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.880 Democrats and Republican presidents had promised to move the embassy 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.960 and then they didn't and the reason why. So there 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.880 was a big fight in the Trump administration about do 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.840 we move the embassy. Both the Secretary of State Rex 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.440 Tillerson and the Secretary of Defense Jim Maddis, both of 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.600 them vigorously argued against moving the embassy. They said, if 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.400 we moved the embassy, the enemies of Israel will be 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.880 in rage, they will attack, It will cause violence, There 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.720 will be violence in the streets, they said. And I 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.960 made the case vigorously to President Trump we should move 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.080 the embassy, that it would make absolutely clear but to 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.200 both our friends and enemies that we stand unequivocally with Israel, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:11.520 and I think there's power in clarity. Trump agreed with me, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.440 moved the embassy, and I was there the day the 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.080 embassy opened up, just over three years ago. That very 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:26.200 same week, and I don't think it's coincidental, the Trump 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.720 administration announced we were pulling out of the Iran nuclear Deal. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:36.200 That's the most important foreign policy decision. Trump made same dynamics. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.440 Both State and Defense opposed pulling out of the deal. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.680 I made the case repeatedly to the President in the 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.680 Oval Office, we needed to pull out of the deal, 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.480 and again he agreed with me, and he overruled his 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:50.880 own State department, his own Defense department. Those two decisions 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.320 are what produced the Abraham Accords, and I'll tell you why. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:59.160 So when the Abraham Accords were being signed, I spoke 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.920 with the foreign ministers and the ambassadors of both the 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.000 UAE and Bahrain. Both of them said the same thing. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:12.280 They said, it is now clear to us that America 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.760 stands on equivocally with Israel. We want to be friends 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.200 with America, so we'll be friends with Israel. Yeah, it 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.360 was that clarity. And notice there's no resolution of the 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.640 Palestinian situation. It was simply they were making a decision. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.640 Being friends with America is a big damn deal, and 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:35.320 so we'll suck it up and make peace with Israel. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.720 Now fast forward to Biden. What does Biden do? From 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:46.040 day one? Begins undermining Israel, begins undermining data. By the way, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.400 Prime Minister Dat and Yahoo Joe Biden. The Democrats hate him, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.800 They hate him, they loathed didn't Obama try to oust him? Yes, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:59.160 the Obama They sent their political operatives to Israel to 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.840 help run the campaign of his opponents. I mean they 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.639 despise him because he's strong and unequivocal and to be honest, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.000 nat Jah who is more pro America the Democrats are. Yeah, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.720 they despised nat Jah who they began sending they've Biden 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.520 is sent over one hundred million dollars to the Palestinian authority. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.480 So why did the money stop? The money stopped? We 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.399 had been giving aid to the Palestinian authority, and we 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.960 actually passed a law in Congress called the Taylor Force Act. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.080 Taylor Force Act is named after Taylor Force, who was 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.160 a Texan. He was a veteran and he was in 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.480 Israel and was killed by a terrorist in Israel, and 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.720 the Taylor Forsact said we're not going to send us 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:48.040 taxpayer money to any governmental entity that pays but like 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.199 if you're cutting checks. And by the way, it's a 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.760 major budgetary line item for the PA funding the families 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.359 of the martyrs, funding the families of the terrorists who 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.879 committed acts of murder. Because of that, the Trump administration, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.320 following the Taylor Force Act, cut off the cash, said 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.520 you don't get any more money. What had Biden said, Oh, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.480 we're giving you the money over one hundred million dollars. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.080 And by the way, these are the same clowns that 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:17.280 are now firing rockets in right to Israel. Hamas is 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.840 also funded by Iran. Biden's number one foreign policy objective 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:26.639 is to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal. And you know, 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.000 the funny thing is when you undermine our ally, and 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.600 when you praise the terrorist and you say you give 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.080 them money, and you say you're going to give them 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.320 more money, suddenly they start engaging in more acts of 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.960 terrorism and firing rockets. And they know that the press 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.400 and the Democrats will side with the terrorists. And we're 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.040 saying that, especially from the squad. Yeah, so I think 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.000 this is actually such an important point both when you 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.880 think of Iran, you know enemy state actors, and when 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.359 you think of politicians, our opponents here in the United States, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.560 you can judge a man by his end. And so 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.240 when I'm trying to think of this, this issue, which 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.720 is so complex, and I look and I see the 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:15.119 squad AOC, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, all these radical politicians 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.360 that I think are wrong about everything, when I see 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.600 that they uniformly are against Israel, and then I look 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.359 at the people who are supporting Israel and in the 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.760 United States, but state actors as well. To me, I think, okay, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.720 if I don't if I don't know anything else about 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.440 this conflict, it is likely that I am going to 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.280 come out on the side of Israel. Here just look 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.040 at just look at where the people are lining up. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.119 I think you're right. And it's worth noting that the 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.080 politics on this has changed a lot. So for a 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.560 long time in Washington there's been a bipartisan consensus in 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:54.840 support of Israel. Yea APACK is political action committee that 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:02.160 works to encourage American Israeli cooperation and support. It's assiduously bipartisan, 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.800 and I actually agree with the principle that we should 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.479 have as much bipartisan cooperation when it comes to standing 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.680 with Israel as possible. Israel wants to continue to exist, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.600 whether it's Democrats in office or whether it's Republicans in office. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.439 That changed very significantly during the Iran Deal. So the 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:27.080 second term of Obama, they're negotiating the Iran Deal. Net 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.119 and Yahoo said, and I agree with him, that the 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.640 Iran Deal was an existential threat to Israel, literally going 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.080 to the very existence of Israel. That a nuclear Iran. 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.800 The odds are unacceptably high that the Aetola would use 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:45.120 nuclear weapons on Israel. That's how much they despise the Jews. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:51.920 You know, the head of Iran's nuclear program, who, by 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.640 the way, has since met his maker, and many say 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.040 at the hands of the Massad. That has not been confirmed, 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:03.080 but I can't imagine to believe he had written into 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.479 his last will and testament that he wanted written on 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:12.480 his tombstone the following. Here lies a man who sought 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:18.960 the annihilation of Israel. Now think for a second, just 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.680 how much hatred, Yeah, you have to have to want 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.159 that's all you want to be remembered for is I 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:30.399 sought to annihilate them That's what a lot of people 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.399 don't get is these people want to kill every Jew 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:42.120 in Israel. Um And and when you're dealing with bullies, 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:46.760 when you're dealing with tyrants, weakness doesn't work. Um So 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:51.119 this actually, this very point raises an objection that the 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.960 leftist media and politicians bring up, which is, look, sure, 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.680 Hamas is firing at the civilians, and that's bad. Yeah, 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.480 they probably shouldn't do that, but they're firing the dinky 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:05.200 little rockets. And the response from Israel has been disproportionate 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.920 because they have better funding and they've got better weapons, 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.159 and so it's it's unjust for Israel to respond in 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.800 a stronger way than the way in which they've been attacked. Well, 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.960 Israel has a responsibility to protect itself and to stop 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.920 him out. And if you fire rockets, try to murder 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.320 Israeli citizens, you're going to get a serious military response. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.280 That's why Israel exists. Also, if you're in a fight 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.000 with a bully, I don't know, it's been a while 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:32.480 since I've been in grade school, but I was not 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.640 told if a bully punches you, punch him exactly as 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.480 hard as he punched you. I was told if a 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:40.119 bully comes out and threatens you and punches you, you 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:44.400 punch him twice as hard. I didn't think anyone punched anyone, Agale. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.040 It's really more of a slap. It's actually a bit 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.159 of a slapping or just you know, sit down and 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:57.120 try to understand each other. So look that that's absolutely right. Um. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.240 Let's take this past week what has driven in the 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:05.480 press crazy, which is that Israel bombed a building that 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.600 happened to be the headquarters of the Associated Press. Now 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.119 it also happened to be the headquarters of a major 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.399 operation for Hamas in the building, an intelligence operation. And 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.320 you know net and Yah who has said publicly that 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:23.160 he had compelling intelligence that showed that there was AMAS 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.399 operation headquartered in that building, and it's been reported that 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.320 he shared it with the US government, with the Biden administration. 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.560 I haven't seen any classified information on that, so I 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:37.520 just know what's been reported. But a couple of points 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:42.520 on this. Number One, that's consistent with Amassa's pattern of 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:47.359 using human shields of locating in the AP headquarters. Number Two, 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:50.639 I'll wager twenty dollars AP knew that. Of course that 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:54.359 they knew exactly because you know what those Hamas guys 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:58.240 were their sources. Yeah, I mean, they are propagandists for 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:01.800 the terrorists. It does raise a question why did the 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.159 AP have an office in Gaza, And there have been 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:06.800 incidents in the past, by the way, that shows a 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:11.200 bit of a deeper relationship here between these journalists. Well, 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.639 and one of the things actually that the Israelis do 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:17.600 so they try to do everything they can to minimize 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:22.360 civilian casualties. They go so far so for example, they 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:25.480 notified the AP get out of the building so that 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:27.800 the reporters were not there when they leveled the building. 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:34.080 The APE knew, they knew exactly. You know, some years 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:39.000 back there was a story about Gaza. In Gaza, Hamas 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:42.320 was storing their missiles in a kindergarten. Yeah, so they're 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:45.280 literally and they're using by the way, Palestinian kindergarteners are 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:51.080 the human shields. I passed legislation that imposes sanctions on 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:54.879 any organization that uses human shields. I also passed a 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.920 bipartisan resolution condemning the use of human shields as a 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:01.680 war crime. So this has been an issue that I've 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:03.960 been the leading voice in the Senate for a long time. 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:06.719 Against using human shield. But I gotta tell you when 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:10.959 when they put the missiles in the kindergarten, Hillary Clinton 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:16.280 was asked about it and her defense she said, well, 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:21.560 you've got to understand, Gaza's very small, so there's no 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:25.399 other place to put the missiles, which is such utter 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:30.080