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Speaker 3: Happy Friday. We are coming to you with an immediate
Speaker 3: reaction to some major developments between Israel and the United States.
Speaker 3: So let's go ahead and put this up there on
Speaker 3: the screen. Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is present today
Speaker 3: in Israel, where he met with the Israeli war cabinet
Speaker 3: and asked for a series of quote humanitarian pauses. However,
Speaker 3: developments almost immediately after showed that he was very coldly rejected.
Speaker 3: Even while he was still inside of Israel, I'm reading here,
Speaker 3: Secretary of State Anthony blincon urged Israel to protect the
Speaker 3: palest Indian civilians in Gaza and allow more humanitarian aid. However,
Speaker 3: soon after meeting with mister Blincoln, Prime Minister Netanyah, who
Speaker 3: appeared to rebuff the Biden administration's call for a series
Speaker 3: of humanitarian pauses to allow these more deliveries of aid. Netsaya,
Speaker 3: who said any ceasefire is contingent on the release of
Speaker 3: Israeli hostages who were abducted on October seventh, saying, quote,
Speaker 3: I have made clear we are continuing forcefully the Israel
Speaker 3: refuses a temporary ceasefire that does not include the release
Speaker 3: of our hostages held by Hamas. He also stood fast
Speaker 3: on the Israeli refusal to let fuel inside of Gaza,
Speaker 3: saying that these shipments and fuel are being used by
Speaker 3: Hamas for military operation. So this is obviously on the
Speaker 3: heels of this major new diplomatic salvo after this announced
Speaker 3: by President Biden where he called for a humanitarian pause.
Speaker 3: We brought everybody the news on Thursday. It also comes
Speaker 3: in what is probably best described as a series of
Speaker 3: covery or ass maneuvers. We can put this quote please
Speaker 3: up on the screen from NBC News was quote a
Speaker 3: senior US official who is saying, on background, quote, if
Speaker 3: this goes really bad, we want to be able to
Speaker 3: point to our past statements. The official said. The administration
Speaker 3: is particularly worried about a narrative taking hold that Biden
Speaker 3: supports all Israeli military actions and that the US provided
Speaker 3: weapons have been used to kill Palestinian civilians, many of
Speaker 3: the women and children. The Defense Department has said the
Speaker 3: US is not putting any limits or restrictions on the
Speaker 3: weapons it is providing to Israel. So crystal, the Biden
Speaker 3: administration is waking up to the growing backlash across the
Speaker 3: Middle East. Hezbolo leader in Ozrela spoke today, didn't officially
Speaker 3: declare war on Israel, but did call for a continuation
Speaker 3: of hostilities. We don't yet know how that is going
Speaker 3: to materialize, but overall, a pretty humiliating rejection of a
Speaker 3: Secretary of State Lincoln in Israel, basically an outright smack
Speaker 3: in the face because he was still in the country
Speaker 3: when they were actually openly violating what he want to
Speaker 3: ask him to do.
Speaker 2: Utterly humiliating and utterly unsurprising because Yaho and Israeli they
Speaker 2: don't care about our words. There isn't any threat to
Speaker 2: withhold AID coming along with these new strong words about
Speaker 2: how they want a humanitarian pause, which is like a
Speaker 2: made up thing to start with, Like okay, we'll pause,
Speaker 2: we'll stop bombing your kids for however long, and then
Speaker 2: we'll go back to bombing your kids. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: the real ask here, the real demand is a ceasefire,
Speaker 2: which we're starting to see increase in calls. We've saw
Speaker 2: Dick Durbin was the first United States Senator to come
Speaker 2: out and call for a ceasefire. So you can see
Speaker 2: the pressure really building. I mean, the other thing about
Speaker 2: that quote that you cited their saga is just extraordinary,
Speaker 2: how naked, like in reaction to you've now had one
Speaker 2: out of every two hundred and fifty Palestinians in Gaza killed,
Speaker 2: Like those are the numbers which are astonishing. I mean,
Speaker 2: I when you apply it to the American public, you're
Speaker 2: talking about if it was proportional, it would be over
Speaker 2: a million Americans killed. Okay, that's what we're talking about
Speaker 2: in terms of how many have been slaughtered in Gaza
Speaker 2: at this point. And your concern about that is like,
Speaker 2: we've got to make sure we've got the right narrative,
Speaker 2: and we're worried that there this might go badly. It's
Speaker 2: like it's already going badly. It's already a disaster. And
Speaker 2: you know this country that we basically, you know, certainly
Speaker 2: prop up in terms of their military and send massive
Speaker 2: amounts of money to every single year, let alone what
Speaker 2: they're you know, getting ready to send to right now
Speaker 2: in this particular moment. You send your secretary's state over there,
Speaker 2: and he's like, no, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 2: And not only that, put this up on the screen.
Speaker 2: I mean this talk about horrors, talk about a slap
Speaker 2: in the face. Minutes after this meeting h ended. Apparently
Speaker 2: Israel bombed a convoy of ambulances outside Alshifa Hospital. That's
Speaker 2: according to you know, sources on the ground. It's also
Speaker 2: according to Al Jazeera. So I want to be clear,
Speaker 2: we're still getting the details about how many casualties, what
Speaker 2: exactly happened there, et cetera. But it looks like outside
Speaker 2: of this this hospital, which if memory serves, is the
Speaker 2: largest still operating hospital in Gaza. It's also the hospital
Speaker 2: where do you remember this, saturn Net and Yahoo released
Speaker 2: this like bizarre computer animation claiming that Hamas had tunnels
Speaker 2: underneath the hospital, and so they've been urging, they've been
Speaker 2: telling them.
Speaker 1: They have to evacuate. So here you have.
Speaker 2: This convoy of ambulances of the critical critically wounded trying
Speaker 2: to evacuate this hospital to go to the rafakrausing in
Speaker 2: the South with hopes that they'd be able to go
Speaker 2: to these newly set up field hospitals in the South.
Speaker 1: And this is what was hit And this is.
Speaker 2: Where all of the you know, the new casualties and injuries,
Speaker 2: et cetera are And this happens right after this meeting
Speaker 2: where Tony Blincoln is calling for humanitarian pauses.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there is like our words.
Speaker 2: Mean nothing at this point without coming with using our
Speaker 2: actual leverage. And they've already heard everything they need to
Speaker 2: hear from us, which is we were one hundred percent
Speaker 2: with you. We stand with you know what, matter what,
Speaker 2: and we're not drawing a single red line. So that's,
Speaker 2: you know, we sort of made this bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from what I can tell, as you said, on
Speaker 3: Al Shifa crossing, we're still getting some of the details
Speaker 3: on what happened there. It appears to have been a
Speaker 3: convoy and also outside of the hospital. As you said,
Speaker 3: the Israelis are claiming that this is a hotbed of
Speaker 3: a hamas home may or may not be true.
Speaker 2: Again, we don't know international, but I just want to say.
Speaker 2: International doctors who worked at that hospital for years say
Speaker 2: they do not believe that that is true. They've seen
Speaker 2: absolutely no evidence of that. But even so, even if
Speaker 2: you accept their you know, computer generation hamas terror you
Speaker 2: know offices, under the hospital situation, they were trying to
Speaker 2: do exactly what you ask They're trying to evacuate these
Speaker 2: critically injured people. And then it's a convoy of ambulances
Speaker 2: outside the hospital that appears to have been struck.
Speaker 3: This is the issue for Israel. I mean there are
Speaker 3: any goodwill that is going towards them really has taken
Speaker 3: so many multiple hits, I think in the international unity,
Speaker 3: and often of course now by the Biden White House,
Speaker 3: especially when you saw the previous confirmation, for example, of
Speaker 3: that strike on the refugee camp. There's now an official
Speaker 3: siege going on of Gaza City that is included not
Speaker 3: just in terms of water and electricity, in terms of
Speaker 3: the maps we've been trying to show everybody is really
Speaker 3: troops are actually engaged on the outskirts and in some cases,
Speaker 3: according to the IDF, they are actually inside the city
Speaker 3: of Gaza. There's small arms fire battles that are now
Speaker 3: beginning to erupt. So we very we very may well
Speaker 3: be entering the bloodiest phase of this, both for the
Speaker 3: IDF and actually in terms of Gaza City, because now
Speaker 3: is when some of that hand to hand combat is
Speaker 3: really going to begin. I'm already seeing floods. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you are as well. Crystal of people, bodies scattered on
Speaker 3: the strikes. Israel's claiming Hamas shot them. Hamas is claiming
Speaker 3: Israel shot them. Nobody knows. They appear to be killed
Speaker 3: by small arms fire. I mean, it's one of those
Speaker 3: where the bodies are there, that are on the street,
Speaker 3: and that is just going to continue. As this happened.
Speaker 3: Israeli casualties also are beginning to increase. We've gotten more
Speaker 3: than a dozen or so now killed in the last
Speaker 3: couple of days. And these are the ones who are confirmed.
Speaker 3: It's just killed, not even terms of wounded. So as.
Speaker 3: I also saw actually a callback to Vietnam, their images
Speaker 3: that the IDF is putting out of Israeli soldiers going
Speaker 3: tunnel by tunnel and trying to clear some of these
Speaker 3: This is complete nightmare. They're three hundred miles remember tunnels,
Speaker 3: and actually the majority of that tunnel infrastructure exists in
Speaker 3: northern Gaza, which they are claiming for evacuation. So we
Speaker 3: are very very much getting to the beginning of this.
Speaker 3: The overall death toll, again, who knows for sure. The
Speaker 3: Gazens say nine two hundred or so, as you said,
Speaker 3: in terms of putting it in perspective, they claim the
Speaker 3: vast majority women and children. They've actually put out names
Speaker 3: of the actual lists of who they're claiming are dead.
Speaker 3: Journalists are trying to go through in fact.
Speaker 1: Check Ryan Ryan has done.
Speaker 2: Ryan actually did an analysis cross checking the family members
Speaker 2: of someone he knows who had multiple family members who
Speaker 2: they know were killed with the names on this list,
Speaker 2: and actually it undercounted the names. Some of the family
Speaker 2: members were not there in past conflicts. Uh. The Gaza
Speaker 2: Health Ministry, with which Yes is run by Hamas, has
Speaker 2: been accurate in terms of their casualty and death counts,
Speaker 2: So that's important context. Based on you know, what we
Speaker 2: can tell, based on the journalistic analyzes that have occurred,
Speaker 2: it does appear that that number is largely accurate. In fact,
Speaker 2: the fear is because there are so many people that
Speaker 2: are trapped under the rubble. It appears that there are
Speaker 2: still thousands of people who are trapped under rubble. It
Speaker 2: may actually be under counting the number of injuries and
Speaker 2: the number of deaths, but we know the toll is extreme,
Speaker 2: and we also know that the toll is overwhelmingly civilian.
Speaker 2: You know, it is largely women and children who are
Speaker 2: bearing the brunt of this whore. And so you know,
Speaker 2: that's where we are right now. And just to pick up,
Speaker 2: just for a quick minute on what you said about
Speaker 2: the speech from Nosrela, who is the head of Hesbala,
Speaker 2: of course, and we were watching this very closely, and
Speaker 2: you know, it's basically just like sort of their typical
Speaker 2: rhetoric and bluster and et cetera, et cetera. He's in
Speaker 2: between kind of a rock and a hard place because
Speaker 2: you know, he has his own politics to deal with,
Speaker 2: which is in order for Hesbela to keep their kind
Speaker 2: of street cred, they gotta pear tough. They got a
Speaker 2: pear like they're taking on Israel, they got a peer
Speaker 2: like they're standing up for the Palestinians. But they also
Speaker 2: have to think about the domestic population in Lebanon. Lebanon
Speaker 2: is sort of in free fall, you know, economically, politically,
Speaker 2: et cetera, and so the domestic population Lebanon not super
Speaker 2: excited about being staging around for another front of this war.
Speaker 2: So you know, that may be part of why this
Speaker 2: was mostly just bluster and not an active engagement, and
Speaker 2: you know, escalation into a regional war. So I guess
Speaker 2: we can all be relieved about that, but the danger
Speaker 2: still remains, obviously.
Speaker 1: I have the.
Speaker 3: Direct translated quote here from the Wall Street Journal. For
Speaker 3: those who say has Bola should start the war in
Speaker 3: the region, I say, wait, these are the beginnings from Nosrela.
Speaker 3: More actions will be taken against Israel from several different fronts.
Speaker 3: This issue will become more obvious in the next few days.
Speaker 3: He also praised the Iranian backed attacks on US forces
Speaker 3: in Iraq and Syria. So this is not a declaration
Speaker 3: of war, but it is, you know, just a continuation
Speaker 3: of ongoing military action, which the danger always is you
Speaker 3: never know when one of those is going to pop
Speaker 3: off and is going to significantly affect the major geopolitical situation.
Speaker 3: So that's pretty much the update that we have for
Speaker 3: everybody so far. It's the biggest diplomatic development I taking
Speaker 3: the last couple of days. Of course, the Secretary of
Speaker 3: b Lincoln's first trip to the region after the cancelation
Speaker 3: of that Middle East summit with President Biden. And it's
Speaker 3: the latest round of shuttle diplomacy, which has been a
Speaker 3: failure so far. So anything, Dad, Crystal before we go?
Speaker 2: No, I think that pretty much sums it up. Utter
Speaker 2: humiliation for Tony Blincoln and Joe Biden in Israel.
Speaker 3: There we go, all right, We'll see you guys later