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Speaker 1: So in July, BB Nan Yahoo is set to address Congress.
Speaker 1: Some Democrats are going to boycott that speech, and we
Speaker 1: happen to have one of those members of Congress who
Speaker 1: will not be attending with us, Congressman Willcona. Great to
Speaker 1: see again. Yeah, we love to have you here. Let's
Speaker 1: go and put this up on the screen. This is
Speaker 1: kind of amazing to me, is the headline here. No
Speaker 1: one knows what he's going to say. White House fears
Speaker 1: mount about BB's DC visit. White House has reportedly grown
Speaker 1: anxious about his upcoming address. They're worried he could directly
Speaker 1: criticize Joe Biden in front of Congress, which I just
Speaker 1: just get your reaction to this, because this is it's
Speaker 1: like the most predictable thing in the world. To me,
Speaker 1: it's no secret beaving netya who would rather have Donald
Speaker 1: Trump in office? So what were they even thinking about
Speaker 1: the Democrats joining with the Republicans to invite him in
Speaker 1: to address a joint session here.
Speaker 4: It's bewildering and a'm malpracticed. I know exactly what he's
Speaker 4: going to say, because he's put out videos criticizing the
Speaker 4: president and criticizing the Democratic Party, and he's going to
Speaker 4: go there and basically give an implicit endorsement of the
Speaker 4: Republican Party and Donald Trump. I don't understand why any
Speaker 4: Democrat would sit there and applaud for NETANYAHUO doing this,
Speaker 4: putting aside even the more urgent moral question, which is
Speaker 4: that he's prosecuted this war in a horrendous way with
Speaker 4: civilian lives lost. So my hope is, and my expectation
Speaker 4: is that you're going to have one hundred Democrats not
Speaker 4: go Jim Cliburn, who's not traditionally the progressive Democrat, is
Speaker 4: actually talking about having an alternative forum to put something
Speaker 4: constructive out about the Middle East and peace and ending
Speaker 4: this war and releasing the hostages.
Speaker 2: Congressman, talk to us a little bit about that. So
Speaker 2: President Biden he famously like, maybe he won't listen to
Speaker 2: the progressive members, but he's going to listen to Jim Clyburn.
Speaker 2: Clearly a huge portion of his coalition, people like Chris
Speaker 2: van Holland and others, have spoken out against the war.
Speaker 2: You will have more insight into us what explains Biden's
Speaker 2: the bear hug strategy despite I mean, Bebee in many
Speaker 2: ways been more disrespectful to President Biden than he almost
Speaker 2: was to Barack Obama. So what explains the affinity there
Speaker 2: both between Biden and the State of Israel and then
Speaker 2: the people around him too, who don't necessarily have the
Speaker 2: same generational connection.
Speaker 4: Well, Barack Obama was actually a break from the traditional
Speaker 4: unconditional support of even the far right government of Israel.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like it because Benny wanted to go
Speaker 4: either even further for two states. But Biden has always
Speaker 4: been more aligned with that Yahoo. He's always been unconditional
Speaker 4: in his support of Israel since nineteen seventy two. So
Speaker 4: he comes at this from a different generational perspective. And
Speaker 4: then when he has in any way broken from unconditional
Speaker 4: absolute support of net Yahoo, he's gotten criticized by the ADL,
Speaker 4: by AJC, by the Nordon Federation of Jewish Americans, And
Speaker 4: so I think that his people are looking at this
Speaker 4: and saying, well, we want to play it safe about
Speaker 4: what they aren't realizing is they're upsetting an everyone and
Speaker 4: that the real solution here is an end to the
Speaker 4: war in the release of the hostages that I still
Speaker 4: believe President Biden can affectuate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's actually dig into that. Let's put B
Speaker 1: two up on the screen. So, as you know, as
Speaker 1: you alluded to, Prime Minister Netanyaho put on a video
Speaker 1: in English by the way, you know, claiming that the
Speaker 1: Biden administration was slow walking critical weapons. I mean, I
Speaker 1: wish that was the case. But as far as we know,
Speaker 1: there has been one shipment of two thousand pound bombs
Speaker 1: that they haven't even blocked. They've just sort of slow
Speaker 1: rolled it. BB again doubled down. He said there's been
Speaker 1: a quote dramatic drop in US weapons deliveries for Israel's
Speaker 1: war effort in Gaza. This in spite of the fact,
Speaker 1: again the White House really rejects that. Can put B
Speaker 1: three up on the screen, they say they reject these
Speaker 1: new accusations we aren't going to keep responding to the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister's political statements. We look forward to constructive consultations
Speaker 1: with Defense Minister Golant in Washington this week.
Speaker 3: He's here this week. He also is.
Speaker 1: Under looming indectment from the International Criminal Court for war
Speaker 1: crimes as well. You have Golan as well, So you know,
Speaker 1: just speak a little bit to what the Biden administration
Speaker 1: is thinking about here and what could possibly shift their orientation,
Speaker 1: because as you're pointing out, I mean, they've done everything
Speaker 1: that the Israelis have wanted them to do. Every time
Speaker 1: there's been a red line drawn, like with regard to Rafa,
Speaker 1: they've walked away from it and let Israel move forward.
Speaker 1: We're about to talk in the next segment about this
Speaker 1: looming war with Hesblah, which we've seem to have effectively
Speaker 1: given a green light to.
Speaker 3: So you know, is there a red line? What would
Speaker 3: it take to actually change the policy here?
Speaker 4: Well, for me, in many progressives, the biggest issue is
Speaker 4: the morality, the issue that thirty seven thousand civilians have
Speaker 4: died the net Yaho continues to bomb sites where women
Speaker 4: and children are being killed. But putting that aside, if
Speaker 4: you're an average American, ordinary American. You're looking at the
Speaker 4: president the United States being bullied, and this is I
Speaker 4: think the biggest issue. That the president doesn't look strong.
Speaker 4: I mean net Yahoo puts out a video basically punching
Speaker 4: the administration in the gut, and the President's response isn't
Speaker 4: the netnya who isn't telling the truth? The President's response is,
Speaker 4: we look forward to a constructive conversation with Gallan. I mean,
Speaker 4: at some point Bill Clinton said America is the superpower,
Speaker 4: and we're going to act like the superpower. And yes,
Speaker 4: Israel's an ally, but we're going to call the shots.
Speaker 4: And I actually think that that is the biggest issue
Speaker 4: that the administration is facing, that it looks like not
Speaker 4: only is he beer hugging Netnyahu, but that he's not
Speaker 4: an active, aggressive, assertive actor on the world stage. He
Speaker 4: tried to do that with the Peace Plan for finally
Speaker 4: calling for a permanency as far which I supported, but
Speaker 4: it needs more teeth. He needs to have the ability
Speaker 4: to get it done.
Speaker 3: What are the levers, What are the levers he could use?
Speaker 1: Because what you'll hear from his defenders, well, he tried,
Speaker 1: He's trying. He wants to cease fire. He gave a speech,
Speaker 1: What are the actual levers that could pressure on these
Speaker 1: rae leis to change course? Because clearly the speech isn't enough.
Speaker 1: The leaks to Brockravihy and other reporters that like, oh
Speaker 1: they're having tough conversations behind the scenes. Obviously that's not enough.
Speaker 1: So what are some of the affirmative levers that the
Speaker 1: US that the President of the United States could use
Speaker 1: to actually change behavior here.
Speaker 4: I could do what thirty seven House Democrats voted to do,
Speaker 4: which is to stop offensive weapons to net and Yahoo.
Speaker 4: He could get AID across into Gaza. I mean, what
Speaker 4: is Israel going to stop American tanks American convoys from
Speaker 4: going in with aid? Of course we could get aid
Speaker 4: into to Gaza if we wanted to. He could be
Speaker 4: much more assertive at the United Nations. But he could
Speaker 4: just tell Netanyahu, look, you're going to end the war
Speaker 4: or I'm going to say that both you and Hamas
Speaker 4: aren't coming to the table. So far, every statement is
Speaker 4: Hamas isn't coming to the table, and that is correct
Speaker 4: and something. I mean, look, they need to continue to
Speaker 4: put pressure on Hamas. I mean, Hamas is not some
Speaker 4: angelic actor here, but there's never been a statement saying, well, look,
Speaker 4: Netanyahu continues to have an aim of the eradication of
Speaker 4: Hamas and he's not coming to the table. You know
Speaker 4: who said that, Benny Gantz. Benny Gantz is actually willing
Speaker 4: to say that net nya who is enacting in good
Speaker 4: faith there.
Speaker 3: So this is a very important point.
Speaker 2: Let's put this up there because we have the actual
Speaker 2: statement you referenced, which is the White House for official
Speaker 2: rejecting Netanyahu's new accusation. He says, we aren't going to
Speaker 2: keep responding to the Prime Minister's political statements. We look
Speaker 2: forward to constructive consultations with the Defense Minister in Washington
Speaker 2: this week. That seems to me a tacit admission that
Speaker 2: the Israelis rely almost entirely at this point on US
Speaker 2: provided weapons. Can you give us insight into that and
Speaker 2: then what any future incursion in Lebanon would look like?
Speaker 2: Could that you invite a Biden administration so called cut off,
Speaker 2: because that appears to me, you know, a far more
Speaker 2: dangerous situation, perhaps even than what's happening in Gaza right now.
Speaker 4: It is, and the administration keeps saying, well, what has
Speaker 4: worked is we've avoided a regional war. Well now it
Speaker 4: looks like we aren't even avoiding a regional war. And
Speaker 4: that is why what we need to do is make
Speaker 4: it clear to Gallant, to net Yahoo that we're going
Speaker 4: to stop the offensive weapons. They need to come with
Speaker 4: a permanency's fire and a release of hostages. Now, if
Speaker 4: they agreed to those terms, that Hamas still does not
Speaker 4: agree to release the hostages, it'll be clear for the
Speaker 4: world to see that Israel was willing to do everything
Speaker 4: to stop the war and Hamas still is enacting. But
Speaker 4: they've never put the pressure on net Yahoo to do that.
Speaker 4: And that is the only thing that's going to stabilize
Speaker 4: the Middle East. It's the only thing in my view,
Speaker 4: that is going to help the president also politically bring
Speaker 4: this war to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's a key point because we don't
Speaker 1: really have leverage with Hamas. We don't fund Humas, right,
Speaker 1: we don't have the you know, the sort of diplomatic
Speaker 1: tools we can use with Jumas. Israel is holding dependent
Speaker 1: on us both diplomatically and directly in terms of weapons
Speaker 1: to continue their prosecution of the war. So I think
Speaker 1: that's really key for people ultimately to understand, going back
Speaker 1: to this speech to Congress from net and Yahoo, what
Speaker 1: is your prediction of how many Democrats boycott? You mentioned
Speaker 1: that connorsoon Clyburn is planning some alternative forum EARTC take
Speaker 1: us inside some of the plans that are happening on
Speaker 1: the Democratic side of the aisle among people who are
Speaker 1: not going to attend to try to expose what's going
Speaker 1: on and dissent from the Biden administration policy.
Speaker 4: Well, just to be clear, this speech is going to
Speaker 4: be a one way lecture by net Yaho criticizing the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party, criticizing our president, and supporting implicitly Donald Trump
Speaker 4: and Republicans. I just don't see how is a Democratic
Speaker 4: Congress person you can show up and applaud that, and
Speaker 4: stand up again and again and applaud that. So I
Speaker 4: hope and expect that over one hundred Democrats aren't going
Speaker 4: to show up one hundred House Democrats. There was about
Speaker 4: sixty for when he came, when Obama was president. And
Speaker 4: what Representative Cliburn is talking about is having a constructive
Speaker 4: conversation with Jewish Americans, Palestinian Americans and others about what
Speaker 4: a two state solution looks like a secure Israel, a
Speaker 4: secure Palestine and having the Gulf allies involved in getting there,
Speaker 4: having the United States in mind, you recognize a Palestinian
Speaker 4: state that one hundred and forty three other countries have done,
Speaker 4: but having a constructive vision. Look, I talked to everyone,
Speaker 4: you know that I go on all the shows, and
Speaker 4: I've said I would be fine in a group talking
Speaker 4: to net and Yahoo. But what I'm not going to
Speaker 4: do is sit there and applaud while he tells blatant
Speaker 4: on truths like he has on the video.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's well said. I also wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you, Commerson, Obviously you're apporting Joe Biden for reelection.
Speaker 1: There are many young people who feel that his support
Speaker 1: of what they and I and many other international observercy
Speaker 1: is a genocide is a red line in terms of morality.
Speaker 1: You know, what's your message to them? And also for you,
Speaker 1: is there a red line beyond what you would say?
Speaker 1: You know what, listen on these issues. I do feel
Speaker 1: like he's better than Trump, but this is just a
Speaker 1: red line morally for me. I cannot support someone who
Speaker 1: is complicit in a genocide.
Speaker 4: I understand people's frustration, they're moral concerns, and I certainly
Speaker 4: can't lecture them to make a choice. And I also
Speaker 4: think that the administration's underestimating this issue in terms of
Speaker 4: the outcome. They look at the polls and they say
Speaker 4: it's it's one or two percent of people of care.
Speaker 4: What they don't realize is that among the organizers, among
Speaker 4: the activists, this is the only thing people are talking about.
Speaker 4: So if you want to get the president's message out
Speaker 4: on healthcare, on rent, on the economy, you're not being
Speaker 4: able to do it, or on climate because all the
Speaker 4: groups are taught looking that Palestine. My message to them is,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, I want peace there.
Speaker 4: I want a Palestinian state living side by side with
Speaker 4: an israel state. And I believe that we have a
Speaker 4: much better chance of making progress towards that with a
Speaker 4: Joe Biden and a Democratic coalition that keeps growing with
Speaker 4: progressive ranks than we do with Donald Trump, who's basically
Speaker 4: gonna even bear Hugnett and Yahoo stronger and give carte
Speaker 4: blanche the extreme right. Politics is a tough business where
Speaker 4: we don't always get the ideal and we make progress
Speaker 4: inch by inch. That's the case, but I certainly wouldn't
Speaker 4: shame anyone if they are voting their conscience on this.
Speaker 2: All right, well we at least get that no shame
Speaker 2: here from a politician. I appreciate you, sir, Thank.
Speaker 3: You so much for joining, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Great to see you.
Speaker 1: So we have a bunch of additional Israel updates for
Speaker 1: you as well. As I mentioned before, Defense ministerry go
Speaker 1: off galant is in town for meetings that are supposed
Speaker 1: to In particular, take a look at what is going
Speaker 1: on with Israel's potential all out war against Hesbela in Lebanon.
Speaker 1: Can put this up on the screen. Very troubling signs
Speaker 1: here coming from the administration, in particular, US officials, this
Speaker 1: reporter for CNN Rights have not explicitly told Israel they
Speaker 1: oppose any attack against Hesbla, but warned it could lead
Speaker 1: to a greater war. A US official said, Israel's made
Speaker 1: the case it can pull off a quote blitzkrieg. The
Speaker 1: US is not so sure. Let me give you a
Speaker 1: little bit more of that CNN reporting. They specifically say
Speaker 1: senior US officials reassured a delegation of top Israeli officials
Speaker 1: visiting Washington this week that if a full out war
Speaker 1: were to break out on Israel's northern border between Israel
Speaker 1: and Hesbla. The Biden administration is fully prepared to back
Speaker 1: its ally, according to a senior administration official, and this
Speaker 1: looks more and more like a possibility, if not a guarantee,
Speaker 1: that they are headed towards this all out war Saga.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you probably saw net Yahoo over the weekend
Speaker 1: indicating that they may be shifting to a different phase.
Speaker 1: In terms of Gaza. They had a number of horrific,
Speaker 1: deadly strikes of the weekend will bring you in a moment,
Speaker 1: but they've basically destroyed They destroyed northern Gaza, they destroyed
Speaker 1: Central Gaza, They've now destroyed southern Gaza, so there isn't
Speaker 1: a lot more of the Gaza strip left to destroy.
Speaker 1: Bibi nat Yahoo wants to continue to postpone that after
Speaker 1: the war conversation about what has gone wrong. He wants
Speaker 1: to continue to hold onto his grip of power, and
Speaker 1: so in his logic, now starting in all out war
Speaker 1: against Hezbola makes all of the political sense in the world,
Speaker 1: even as it is incredibly dangerous for Israelis. It's obviously
Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous for Lebanese civilians, and it's also incredibly dangerous
Speaker 1: for our troops who are stationed in the region.
Speaker 2: It's way more dangerous for Israelis than anything that's been
Speaker 2: happening with Hamas. Let's put this up there pleas on
Speaker 2: the screen and it shows, for example, just exactly what
Speaker 2: they are inviting. So two Israelis were already wounded yesterday
Speaker 2: by anti tank fire from a Lebanon netsannaw who claiming
Speaker 2: that the quote intense part of Gaza fighting is almost over,
Speaker 2: but the anti tank missiles and others have what caused
Speaker 2: Crystal the entire northern part of Israel to be evacuated.
Speaker 2: And a lot of IDF soldiers have already lost their
Speaker 2: lives as a result of has Bowl of Fire. And
Speaker 2: they allegedly are not even in a war right, so
Speaker 2: this is a much much stronger group. There's also some
Speaker 2: fear here about potential let's say manufacturing consent, I guess
Speaker 2: is the best way to try and draw the Israel
Speaker 2: into the war, making claims about weapons being stored at
Speaker 2: the Bairut airport to Pavilion Beyroot Airport, which means what, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a good justification to bomb it and It's like, well,
Speaker 2: if we're bombing airports now, cutting off supplies in and
Speaker 2: out of the country, this just has significantly bigger potential.
Speaker 2: Not only do you have Lebanon, by the way, is
Speaker 2: an actual sovereign state, right, So there's first, there's that.
Speaker 2: Then they Hezbollah has got fighters all across of Syria,
Speaker 2: they have actual connections to Iran, they have much deeper pockets,
Speaker 2: and it could ignite a full blown regional war and
Speaker 2: completely destabilize the entire region. There is another US aircraft
Speaker 2: carrier heading to replace the US S. Eisenhower in the
Speaker 2: Huth emissions, so there's more firepower. That's on why, I
Speaker 2: believe is the USS Theodore Roosevelt. So the US is
Speaker 2: still prepared in a real threat position for anything to
Speaker 2: pop off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So with regard to that report you're talking about, which
Speaker 1: people are you know, really looking at very skeptically. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to go, I think it's complete BS. But
Speaker 1: the Telegraph published this report that HESBLA has been accumulating
Speaker 1: large quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles and bombs at the
Speaker 1: Central Civilian Airport in Beirut. According to testimony that exposes
Speaker 1: corruption at the airport, They did not provide any other
Speaker 1: just anonymous sources, actual evidence that such a thing is occurring.
Speaker 1: Also very noteworthy, of course, the timing of this report
Speaker 1: being published in the Telegraph right now. Lebanon's airport authlready
Speaker 1: deny the reports, said they presented no proof for evidence,
Speaker 1: added that the outlet bears all responsibility for the safety
Speaker 1: of airport staff and inviting media outlets to visit the
Speaker 1: airport to see for themselves. And yeah, you could see
Speaker 1: the way very easily, the way this could be used
Speaker 1: as justification for bombing that airport.
Speaker 3: And then we've also seen the way.
Speaker 1: Israel and Gaza once they justified, for example, the bombing
Speaker 1: of one hospital, the rating of one hospital, well then
Speaker 1: it was open season on effectively all civilian infrastructure within Gaza.
Speaker 3: This is not just out of nowhere either.
Speaker 1: We've had multiple high level Israeli officials going back to
Speaker 1: the beginning of this particular war, talking about how they
Speaker 1: could do to Lebanon what they've done to Gaza.
Speaker 3: So those threats have been made. They've been made very clearly.
Speaker 1: By the way, we shouldn't ignore the fact there have
Speaker 1: already been tit for attacks between Hesbelah and Israel. You
Speaker 1: still have the entire population of northern Israel who have
Speaker 1: been relocated temporarily because of this ongoing fighting.
Speaker 3: You also had last.
Speaker 1: Week we showed you that drone footage that Hesbelah was
Speaker 1: able to obtain, seemingly circumventing the Iron Dome Dome defense
Speaker 1: system in order to record via drone some sensitive sites
Speaker 1: as effectively you know, a threat against Israel if they
Speaker 1: go ahead and escalate the war. There was a quote
Speaker 1: from the head of Hesbela saying something like there would
Speaker 1: be no ceiling, no limit, no rules, nothing out of
Speaker 1: bounds if we did go to that level. So this
Speaker 1: is a major major threat that everyone should be deeply
Speaker 1: concerned about. And the fact that you don't even have
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. You know, they say they want to
Speaker 1: avoid and all out war, but they're also saying in
Speaker 1: the same breath, we've got your back if you do
Speaker 1: it like we know how this play own. Bb doesn't
Speaker 1: care if you're like uncomfortable with it. What he might
Speaker 1: care about is if you actually cut off the weapons,
Speaker 1: if you actually pull the diplomatic support.
Speaker 3: But we know very well that Biden is never going
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 1: And you know part of the way that Israel has
Speaker 1: justified all of these assaults on civilians and civilian infrastructure
Speaker 1: in Gaza strip is Hamas uses people as human shields,
Speaker 1: and you could very much see them using the same
Speaker 1: rhetoric viz A vihsbla this airport report being a prelude
Speaker 1: to that. Well, let's talk about human shields, because put
Speaker 1: this video up on the screen. What you're looking at
Speaker 1: here is an IDF vehicle that has an injured human being,
Speaker 1: a Palestinian who was injured tied to the hood of
Speaker 1: this vehicle. By the way, this isn't in Gaza. This
Speaker 1: is in the West Bank, using an injured Palestinian here
Speaker 1: as a literal human shield here on video for everyone
Speaker 1: to see. So next time they tell you about human
Speaker 1: shields and they say, oh, this is under investigation, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're going to get back to us on that saga.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll hear a lot of accountability for these
Speaker 1: actions which are totally out of line with the most
Speaker 1: moral army in the world's act typical action.
Speaker 2: So they will be investigating the incident. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll hold it our brother on that one investigate incident.
Speaker 1: At the same time, we've had a number of deadly strikes.
Speaker 1: We can put this up on the screen in both
Speaker 1: really throughout the Gaza strip. This one in particular shows
Speaker 1: the aftermath of the bombing of an.
Speaker 3: AID distribution senator center.
Speaker 1: Sorry, the very last numbers I saw were that at
Speaker 1: least eight people were killed in that air strike. We
Speaker 1: can put the next one up on the screen, which
Speaker 1: shows some of the details of an additional Israeli airstrike
Speaker 1: near Rafa. This actually occurred right in that humanitarian zone
Speaker 1: where they've been telling people to flee almawassee for months,
Speaker 1: but at this point. This article from the AP says
Speaker 1: the Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians outside
Speaker 1: Gaza southern city of Rafa on Friday, killing at least
Speaker 1: twenty five people and wounding another fifty, according to the
Speaker 1: Territori's health officials and emergency workers. Witnesses whose relatives died
Speaker 1: in one of the bombardments near a Red Crossfield hospital
Speaker 1: north of Rafa told the AP that Israeli forces fired
Speaker 1: a second volley that killed people who came out of
Speaker 1: their tents. So there was a first volley and then
Speaker 1: when people came out of their tents where they were
Speaker 1: displaced in this supposedly safe zone. When they emerged, there
Speaker 1: was a second volley that then killed those people who
Speaker 1: came out of their tents. So the horrors in the
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip continuing. As I mentioned before, these are the
Speaker 1: sorts of things that they have threatened to unleash also
Speaker 1: on the Lebanese civilian population.
Speaker 2: Well that's the terrifying part. It's just about the explosion
Speaker 2: about where things are. If Gallant here laterally in Washington,
Speaker 2: slowing up traffic this morning, by the way, mister Gallant,
Speaker 2: and he is here to what beg for more weapons
Speaker 2: and to set the ground for the Hesbola campaign and
Speaker 2: BB's eventual visit here to Washington. So he's here to
Speaker 2: suss things out and to make sure smooth things over
Speaker 2: with the Pentagon, make sure that the delivery schedules continue
Speaker 2: with ammunition and with all of the other weapons. But
Speaker 2: it does give us deep insight into how much Israel
Speaker 2: and it's military actually does rely on us resupply. So
Speaker 2: don't let anybody tell you that we don't have tremendous
Speaker 2: amounts of leverage. I know everyone knew that intuitively, but
Speaker 2: when the number one complaint is give us the weapons
Speaker 2: to finish the job. What does that tell you? It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you don't have weapons to finish the job. And I
Speaker 2: also want to say it really does erase a lot
Speaker 2: of Israeli myths and lies. I tell you, tell you,
Speaker 2: when I was over there, they used to brag so
Speaker 2: much about how self sufficient they were about their military.
Speaker 2: And you guys have been funding us for all this time,
Speaker 2: but we've used that money to really invest in ourselves
Speaker 2: and this, this and that, and so it's like, you
Speaker 2: guys can't even go ten months into a war without
Speaker 2: getting your hand out more weapon. What kind of military
Speaker 2: are you? It's like, look at you're like Ukraine, you know,
Speaker 2: but allegedly what you know, some great Silicon valley startup nations,
Speaker 2: so that there's there's a lot of lessons in that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what this looks like. And you know, to the congressman,
Speaker 3: we just talked to the congressman.
Speaker 1: Conna's point about just the level of humiliation at this point,
Speaker 1: it's just like a certain point, don't you just have
Speaker 1: any shame as a man? Like it's so astonishing Biden
Speaker 1: has done everything that bb has wanted.
Speaker 3: Him to do.
Speaker 1: They slow walked one shipment of two thousand pound bombs.
Speaker 1: That's it, okay. And in spite of that, BB is
Speaker 1: clearly trying to undercut him, clearly trying to stab him
Speaker 1: in the back to keep him from getting re elected.
Speaker 1: Puts on a video in English doing exactly as I described,
Speaker 1: doubles down on that than in Hebrew as well. And
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, first we get this report that they
Speaker 1: rescheduled a meeting because they were so upset. Oh, they
Speaker 1: rescheduled a meeting, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: But then once that report went out, then they were
Speaker 1: desperate to walk that back. And no, no, we would
Speaker 1: never reschedule a meeting. We would never do that. And
Speaker 1: I promise we're giving them everything that they want whenever
Speaker 1: they want it. Don't worry about it. Now they're having
Speaker 1: these meetings with you av Galant, clearly to try to
Speaker 1: reassure him that, of course, will give them all of
Speaker 1: the weapons they want to continue, you know, bombing civilians
Speaker 1: and unreaid facilities and displace people intents, etc.
Speaker 3: It's just it's so pathetic.
Speaker 1: You think about the interview with Aaron Burnett where he
Speaker 1: talked about you know Rafa is a red line, and
Speaker 1: that we would you know, reevaluate weaponshipments if they launch
Speaker 1: a major invasion into Rafa.
Speaker 3: Well, guess what they've been in Rafa for how long now?
Speaker 3: How many weeks? Now? How many people have been killed?
Speaker 1: All those people that were millions of people who were
Speaker 1: displaced in Rafa have either had to move or they're
Speaker 1: being directly bombed. And even when they've gone to the
Speaker 1: safe zones, they've also been bombed. Not a word about
Speaker 1: that supposed red line. Then you had the ploy of
Speaker 1: we're going to put out the ceasefire proposal that the
Speaker 1: Israelis had sort of agreed to. Biden's going to give
Speaker 1: this big speech. He's going to lay on this these
Speaker 1: fire proposal. He's going to really frame it as this
Speaker 1: came from Israel, and so we're just waiting for Amas.
Speaker 1: We just had Biby come out and rebuke that walk
Speaker 1: away from that ceasefire dell that purportedly came from him
Speaker 1: and say no, no, we'll do a partial hostage release
Speaker 1: and then we want to go back to war. We
Speaker 1: don't agree with that. Where is Biden's upset over their
Speaker 1: rebuke of his every word, every you know, insistence, every
Speaker 1: desire that he's put out there. They Baby in particular
Speaker 1: seems to take particular glee in rebuking him directly undercutting
Speaker 1: him and humiliating him. It's horrible for his political prospects,
Speaker 1: which I don't really care about, but you would think.
Speaker 3: That he would.
Speaker 1: It's horrible for you know, Israeli interests even and the
Speaker 1: interest of future security for Israeli's and it's obviously outrageously immorble, immoral,
Speaker 1: and horrific for the people in Gaza. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just incredible at this point. And it does go to
Speaker 1: Sager also. I mean, this man is just like out
Speaker 1: of it and incapable of really you know man having
Speaker 1: a commanding presence or any sort of commanding policy. He's
Speaker 1: sort of on autopilot. This is what the autopilot instructions have,
Speaker 1: and so.
Speaker 3: Here we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually think that's a huge part of it,
Speaker 2: is that whenever you're old, it's just you know, expending energure,
Speaker 2: Expending energy is difficult.
Speaker 3: So what do you do.
Speaker 2: You go to what is comfortable and you just stick
Speaker 2: with that. And I think that's a big part of
Speaker 2: why he even allows so much of this to happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't think I'd ever be in this position.
Speaker 2: But like even Obama did not take it upstanding. When
Speaker 2: bb came to Washington and shit all over his own
Speaker 2: foreign policy, he really took it. He did not take
Speaker 2: it well, reamed BB out in private during their meeting,
Speaker 2: gave a statement against the Israeli Prime Minister. His whole
Speaker 2: White House was geared up for war against the Israelis
Speaker 2: and the lobby and APAC here in Washington, which they
Speaker 2: did beat. They actually beat them on the Iran deal
Speaker 2: that doesn't exist this time around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Obama, it's not.
Speaker 1: Like it was great on Israeli best he though, like
Speaker 1: his big brave moment was what he didn't veto a
Speaker 1: UN resolution to Security.
Speaker 3: Council in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: R on his way out.
Speaker 1: Winning was on his way on the tour. But that
Speaker 1: does lose sight of the fact that the Iranian nuclear deal.
Speaker 1: Israel hated that, and BB nine now in particular hated it,
Speaker 1: and he did accomplish that over APAC objections and over
Speaker 1: the direct objections of the Israelis. Clearly Biden does not
Speaker 1: have that in him on any level whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly all right, Tacker, we you're looking at well.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably fair to say I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: doing this job if it weren't for nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: Nine to eleven, the Iraq War and the Bush presidency
Speaker 2: spurred me into politics at a very young age, because
Speaker 2: I grew up in a place where the full on
Speaker 2: mass Formation psychosis took hold. For a variety of reasons,
Speaker 2: it didn't work, but I watched people who I liked
Speaker 2: and even respected fully cheer on the war in Iraq
Speaker 2: by the Bush administration's lies, well past the time it
Speaker 2: was obvious that they had all fallen apart. Twenty three
Speaker 2: years later, though, it is now shocking even to an
Speaker 2: extreme cynic like me, the extent to which it is
Speaker 2: now just openly and publicly acknowledged that everything that we
Speaker 2: were told about nine to eleven in the aftermath of
Speaker 2: the event was alive, specifically with respect to the Saudi
Speaker 2: government and its outright involvement in the plot that killed
Speaker 2: over three thousand innocent civilians in the span of a
Speaker 2: few months. Now, absolutely shocking new information has come to
Speaker 2: light that reveals two things. One the extent of the
Speaker 2: Saudi connection. It's as deep as the cynics always suspected,
Speaker 2: and two, there is no explanation for any of this
Speaker 2: information staying hidden for so long other than an explicit
Speaker 2: bipartisan cover up lasting twenty three years. Let's start with
Speaker 2: the first, and perhaps the craziest, a new video now
Speaker 2: released by CBS News sixty minutes showing Saudi government agent
Speaker 2: Omar al Bayumi casing out the US capital in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine. Four al Qaeda.
Speaker 5: A voice on the video says in Arabic, I am
Speaker 5: transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the
Speaker 5: American capital, Washington, washing for This video, unsealed in federal
Speaker 5: court this week and obtained by sixty Minutes, was recorded
Speaker 5: in the summer of nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Auction book put on.
Speaker 5: Man behind the camera is Omar al Beyumi, who the
Speaker 5: FBI says was an operative of the Saudi intelligence Service
Speaker 5: with close ties to two of the nine to eleven hijackers.
Speaker 5: We go for I'm a fig PM. The video was
Speaker 5: filmed over several days. Beyumi recorded entrances and exits of
Speaker 5: the Capitol security posts, a model of the building and
Speaker 5: nearby Landmarks monument. In this portion of the video, Beyumi
Speaker 5: points out the Washington Monument and says, I will get
Speaker 5: over there and report to you in detail what is there.
Speaker 5: He also notes the airport is not far away for.
Speaker 3: Those not familiar.
Speaker 2: That is truly insane stuff, because it proves definitively that
Speaker 2: the nine to eleven Commission and the Bush administration completely lied.
Speaker 2: The official story from the nine to eleven Commission and
Speaker 2: the Saudi government is that Omar al Bayoumi was a
Speaker 2: tangential Saudi government ish connected official. He just happened to
Speaker 2: live in southern Cali before nine to eleven. According to them,
Speaker 2: Bayoumi happened to be in the same Los Angeles restaurant
Speaker 2: as two of the nine to eleven hijackers, he overheard
Speaker 2: them speaking Arabic, and, according to the official narrative, out
Speaker 2: of the goodness of his heart, he just gave them
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred dollars arranging apartment for them in San Diego,
Speaker 2: where he was also living across the street at the time,
Speaker 2: just because he was a good Muslim. At no time,
Speaker 2: according to him, did he know or suspect they were
Speaker 2: al Qaeda, and he was simply, as I said, just
Speaker 2: a good guy helping others. In need. FBI officials actually
Speaker 2: bought his story, and the Bush administration just waved it
Speaker 2: all away. The nine to eleven Commission followed suit by
Speaker 2: classifying twenty eight pages of that commission report, which spelled
Speaker 2: out more of al Bayoumi's Saudi government connections that remained
Speaker 2: classified up until twenty and sixteen. In the meantime, the
Speaker 2: American people were left only with the public declaration from
Speaker 2: the Commission that said, quote, we have found no evidence
Speaker 2: that the Saudi government as an institution, or senior Saudi
Speaker 2: officials individually funded al Qaeda. Remember this was two thousand
Speaker 2: and two. If you were a renegade who thought that
Speaker 2: the government was lying, you only had the nascent internet
Speaker 2: boards and your friends to talk about this. This was
Speaker 2: the cable news era and the heyday. They bought this
Speaker 2: story hook line and sinker. In the meantime, at the
Speaker 2: very same time their platforming Bush Administration lies about how
Speaker 2: actually Saddam Hussein was responsible for nine to eleven. We
Speaker 2: got to lead you a war into false pretenses. By
Speaker 2: that point, the conversation is no longer about nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: It's about Iraq WMD, and we forgot very quickly. But
Speaker 2: The people who didn't forget are the families of the
Speaker 2: victims who died on nine to eleven, murdered in cold
Speaker 2: blood by al Kaida, who have long sought restitution from
Speaker 2: the Saudi government for its complicity, and through sheer force
Speaker 2: of will, have forced this information out into the open.
Speaker 2: You might be asking, hey, how did that video even
Speaker 2: stay secret this long? Of course, the answer is right
Speaker 2: in front of you. The FBI was in possession of
Speaker 2: this video via British intelligence just mere days after nine
Speaker 2: to eleven. It was then covered up and kept secret
Speaker 2: until today only because the victims of nine to eleven
Speaker 2: family lawsuit ended up dredging it up. Just the latest
Speaker 2: bombshell revelation that they have given us in the span
Speaker 2: of a few months. You may have missed this, but
Speaker 2: there's even more to the story that definitively again proves
Speaker 2: the Saudi connection to nine to eleven. Just a month ago,
Speaker 2: the victims of nine to eleven families revealed they have
Speaker 2: learned through their lawsuit that Omar al Bayumi and another
Speaker 2: Saudi official linked to nine to eleven hijackers quote were
Speaker 2: not rogue operators, but rather the front end of a
Speaker 2: conspiracy that included the Saudi embassy in Washington and senior
Speaker 2: government officials in Riyad. They confirmed that Bayoumi organized housing
Speaker 2: for the hijackers at the behest of the government and
Speaker 2: took care of their day to day needs, including introducing
Speaker 2: them to other terrorists officials. They also found a sketch
Speaker 2: seized from all Bayumi's apartment quote of a drawing of
Speaker 2: a plane alongside a calculation used to discern the distance
Speaker 2: which a target on the ground would be visible from
Speaker 2: a certain altitude. So, in other words, not only did
Speaker 2: he know about the plot, he actively helped the hijackers,
Speaker 2: and himself appears to have been an Al Qaeda agent
Speaker 2: working for the Saudi government here on us soil. Imagine
Speaker 2: if any of this had been known in two thousand,
Speaker 2: when the Bush administration was trying to take us into war. Now, look,
Speaker 2: I'm happy it's out today for people like me to
Speaker 2: have their worst suspicions confirmed. But in a sense, it
Speaker 2: no longer matters. We already invaded Iraq, we already screwed
Speaker 2: up in Afghanistan. The worst has already happened. Trillions lost,
Speaker 2: millions killed, soldiers maimed, killed, all under false pretenses. So
Speaker 2: let this be a lesson that many questions about nine
Speaker 2: to eleven remain unsolved, and that much of the official
Speaker 2: narrative is still a straight up lie, and it's still
Speaker 2: all of our duty to not forget that story after
Speaker 2: it was done, both in our name and in the
Speaker 2: names of the victims, because there's still a lot left
Speaker 2: to uncover here. So I mean, it's crazy stuff right well,
Speaker 2: And if you
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