Speaker 1: Hey guys, hope everyone is doing well. Had a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of updates coming out of Israel and Gaza that
Speaker 1: just felt like couldn't wait, So I wanted to break
Speaker 1: down a number of things for including message from the
Speaker 1: Pope over this holiday season, viral message from a Palestinian
Speaker 1: reverend in Bethlehem. We also have new evidence emerging, including
Speaker 1: videos of potential war crimes. We have a new report
Speaker 1: from the Washington Post comparing this level of destruction in
Speaker 1: Gaza to all other wars this century and finding that
Speaker 1: already in just this comparatively short period of time, this
Speaker 1: surpasses the brutality and destruction of anything that we have
Speaker 1: seen this century. They've got maps and data to prove that,
Speaker 1: so I'll show you that as well. We've also got
Speaker 1: some new data coming out of Israel about just what
Speaker 1: Israeli Jews want to see in the quote unquote day
Speaker 1: after spoiler alert. It's ethnic cleansing, and clearly this is
Speaker 1: also what their political leaders are pushing for as well. Well.
Speaker 1: And lastly, we've got this is a huge development, Israel
Speaker 1: allegedly assassinating one of Iran's top generals, doctor Tresa Parsi,
Speaker 1: had a really important thread breaking down what this could mean,
Speaker 1: what Israel could be pushing for here, and of course
Speaker 1: this sparking concerns additional concerns of a potential regional war
Speaker 1: which would certainly directly pull in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to start with a viral Christmas message
Speaker 1: from a reverend in Bethlehem sharing his thoughts on what
Speaker 1: is happening. This is Palestinian Reverend month or Isaac preaching
Speaker 1: in Bethlehem on December twenty third. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take a listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Raza today has become the moral compass of the world.
Speaker 2: Rassa was hell before October seventh, and the world was silent.
Speaker 2: Should we be a surprise that they're silenced now. If
Speaker 2: you are not appalled by what is happening in Raza,
Speaker 2: if you are not shaken to your core, there is
Speaker 2: something wrong with your humanity. And if we ask Christians
Speaker 2: are not outraced by the genocide, by the weaponization of
Speaker 2: the Bible to justify it, there is something wrong with
Speaker 2: our Christian witness and we are compromising the credibility of
Speaker 2: our gospel message. If you fail to call this a genocide.
Speaker 2: It is on you. It is a sin and a
Speaker 2: darkness you willingly embrace. Some have not even called for
Speaker 2: a ceasefire. I'm talking about churches. I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 2: We will be okay. Despite the immense blow we have endured.
Speaker 2: We the Palestinians, will recover. We were rise. We will
Speaker 2: stand up again on the midst of destruction as we
Speaker 2: have always done as Palestinians. Although this is by far
Speaker 2: maybe the biggest law we have received in a long time.
Speaker 2: But we will be okay.
Speaker 1: Very powerful words there, and I intentionally began with that,
Speaker 1: not only because of the season appropriate message for the season,
Speaker 1: I suppose, but also because it helps put in context
Speaker 1: everything else we're going to talk about today, because I
Speaker 1: do think there will be a time not long from now,
Speaker 1: when everyone looks back and is horrified by the atrocities
Speaker 1: that have been committed here on a daily basis, with
Speaker 1: the not only acceptance, but the United States, the most
Speaker 1: powerful country in the world, aiding in a betting these crimes,
Speaker 1: shipping weapons, providing diplomatic cover, providing rhetorical cover. You know,
Speaker 1: doing this, playing this game of pretending like Joe Biden
Speaker 1: and co. Are really concerned about civilian lives, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, at this point, just a ruse to try
Speaker 1: to buy Israel even more time to commit the atrocities
Speaker 1: that they've been committing. And I also wanted to share
Speaker 1: with you the Pope with some similar language, I would say,
Speaker 1: calling out the horrors of this war. And he has
Speaker 1: been very unspoken throughout this war, including calling some of
Speaker 1: Israeli's actions terrorism and certainly calling for an end and
Speaker 1: a ceasefire and end to the bloodshed. This is per Reuters,
Speaker 1: as posted in Haretz. Pope Lament's war in Holy Land
Speaker 1: on solemn Christmas Eve put France's lamented war in the
Speaker 1: Land of the Birth of Jesus on Sunday, where Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve brought only fresh bloodshed and an intensification of fighting
Speaker 1: across the length of the Gaza Strip. Tonight, he said,
Speaker 1: our hearts are in Bethlehem, where the Prince of Peace
Speaker 1: is once more rejected by the futile logic of war,
Speaker 1: by the clash of arms that even today prevents him
Speaker 1: from finding room in the world. Palestinian Christians, they say,
Speaker 1: earlier held a Christmas vigil in Bethlehem with candlelight hymns
Speaker 1: and prayers for peace in Gaza. Instead of the usual celebrations,
Speaker 1: there was no large tree, the usual centerpiece of Bethlehem's
Speaker 1: Christmas celebrations. Nativity figurines and churches were placed amid rubble
Speaker 1: and barbed wire in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Speaker 1: And as I had mentioned before, the Pope's most recent comments,
Speaker 1: as far as I'm aware before this had been with
Speaker 1: regard to the IDF killing of two Christian women, a
Speaker 1: mother and daughter, who were sheltering at a historic Christian
Speaker 1: church in Gaza. They were walking I believe, to use
Speaker 1: the bathroom at the convent, and an IDF sniper took
Speaker 1: them out, and those were the actions that the Pope
Speaker 1: referred to as terrorism. So he continues to speak in
Speaker 1: grave terms about what we are witnessing here, and there's
Speaker 1: a good reason for that. It appears that we may
Speaker 1: have just seen the most deadly stretch of killing yet
Speaker 1: since October seventh, since Israel began their assault on Gaza.
Speaker 1: This is per Al Jazeera. Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, killing
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty Palestinians in twenty four hours. More
Speaker 1: than one hundred people have been killed in Israeli strike
Speaker 1: on the Magazi refugee camp with families still trapped in rubble.
Speaker 1: Let me read you a little bit of this they
Speaker 1: spoke to, or they are recording the comments of a woman,
Speaker 1: a bereft woman on Monday at that refugee camp, saying,
Speaker 1: my entire family is gone. All five of my brothers
Speaker 1: are gone. They didn't leave me any brothers, all of them.
Speaker 1: Palestinians lined up to touch the shrouded bodies of those
Speaker 1: killed and Israeli strikes on the camp in a funeral
Speaker 1: on Monday, commemorating dozens of people who were killed, many
Speaker 1: of them women and children, and Al Jazeera reporter in
Speaker 1: Gaza said the figure has now reached more than one hundred.
Speaker 1: The government media office in Gaza said seven families were
Speaker 1: wiped out completely in that Israeli attack on a residential
Speaker 1: square in the camp camp. One of those residents, Zaiyad Awad,
Speaker 1: told Al Jazeera the Israeli army doesn't spare civilians. My
Speaker 1: child said to me, help me, what's happening. I can't breathe.
Speaker 1: And of course we're all very well aware of the
Speaker 1: unbelievable toll in terms of civilian deaths in terms of women,
Speaker 1: in terms of children. That's another way in which this
Speaker 1: conflict stands out from all others. And you know, when
Speaker 1: you cover this, when you care about this, you always
Speaker 1: get these questions of like, oh, why are you so
Speaker 1: focused on this? There are lots of terrible things happening
Speaker 1: in the world. And that's true, lots of terrible things
Speaker 1: happening in the world. But even with that being said,
Speaker 1: on the level of starvation, on the level which I'm
Speaker 1: about to show you of the destruction of buildings, just total,
Speaker 1: you know, turning the whole landscape into a moonscape or
Speaker 1: a parking lot, destroying all kinds of civilian infrastructure. This
Speaker 1: is the worst this century, and certainly in terms of
Speaker 1: the number of children killed, which is significantly over ten
Speaker 1: thousand kids killed at this point. This is like nothing
Speaker 1: else that we have seen in recent history. And then
Speaker 1: you add to that, as an American citizen, the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, when you're sending in your taxes here
Speaker 1: in the new year, they are going for some of
Speaker 1: these two thousand pound bunk or busting bombs that have
Speaker 1: been indiscriminately dropped all over Gaza. And there was a
Speaker 1: report I don't have the element here for you. But
Speaker 1: you know, another many tons of weapons and AMMO just
Speaker 1: being shipped by Biden to Israel. So all of their
Speaker 1: you know, supposed concerns about civilian life. I know we've
Speaker 1: been having these tough conversations. Total and utter nonsense, Total
Speaker 1: and utter nonsense. So let me show you. And this
Speaker 1: is this is very disturbing, but I think it's important,
Speaker 1: if you're able to bear it, to see some of
Speaker 1: the video that is emerging. We talked before about reports
Speaker 1: of summary execute We also talked previously on breaking Points
Speaker 1: about how they were rounding up civilian civilian men, stripping
Speaker 1: them naked, posting pictures of there were you know, utter humiliation.
Speaker 1: Even Israel admitted after those roundups that most, the overwhelming
Speaker 1: number of those who had been you know, rounded up,
Speaker 1: strip naked and humiliated in this way, that they were civilians.
Speaker 1: So we have another video that has emerged here that
Speaker 1: I want to share with you may go ahead and
Speaker 1: uh and pull this up. And this The sound is
Speaker 1: not important on this one, so I'll keep it low.
Speaker 1: But take a listen to those so you can see
Speaker 1: here these in some instances children, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: look closely at these pictures. You see men and you
Speaker 1: see little boys who have been rounded up, hands on
Speaker 1: their head. They're using a an empty uh soccer field
Speaker 1: or football field to conduct these masked attentions. This is
Speaker 1: from Rami Abdul with Euromed monitor and they have a
Speaker 1: report about alleging these war crimes and documenting some of
Speaker 1: the summary executions. What he writes here is field executions
Speaker 1: and massed attentions. Alarming footage of Israeli forces turning a
Speaker 1: stadium in Gaza into a massed attention camp. The video
Speaker 1: shows the detention of hundreds of civilians, including women, elders
Speaker 1: and babies. Euromed monitors confirmed that the Israeli forces are
Speaker 1: carrying out field executions against civilians in Gaza after forcibly
Speaker 1: removing them from displacement centers and stripping them. So that
Speaker 1: is what you are watching in this horrifying video. And
Speaker 1: they have, as I said, they have pulled together a
Speaker 1: report that they have submitted to un Rappertours and the
Speaker 1: ICC prosecutor. This is a primary report documenting dozens of
Speaker 1: field execution cases in Gaza. Read a litle little bit
Speaker 1: of this to you and a primary report submitted to
Speaker 1: you on special Rapperturs and the prosecutor of the ICC
Speaker 1: euro Met human rights monitors documented dozens of cases of
Speaker 1: field executions carried out by the Israeli Army and the
Speaker 1: Gaza strip. The Human Rights Group requested an immediate investigation
Speaker 1: into these crimes, calling for the perpetrators to be held
Speaker 1: accountable and for justice for all victims. If you read
Speaker 1: through this, they have documented multiple instances of what they
Speaker 1: describe as crimes and liquidations. You can see the dates
Speaker 1: here and some of the details that they have submitted
Speaker 1: with evidence in order to start an investigation hopefully and
Speaker 1: some accountability. Hopefully. Wouldn't hold my breath on any of this,
Speaker 1: because the truth of the matter is, I think, after
Speaker 1: what we're seeing unfolding here, with the active participation of
Speaker 1: the United States and with US providing diplomatic cover, etceter like,
Speaker 1: any idea that human rights war crimes that any of
Speaker 1: this matters, I just don't know how you sustain it.
Speaker 1: And we are truly back to, you know, pre World
Speaker 1: War two period, and that comes out in Natan Yahoo's
Speaker 1: rhetoric of course, where he says, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not doing anything different than what the allies did
Speaker 1: and what you all did in terms of World War two,
Speaker 1: and anytime anyone says that, remember, first of all, there
Speaker 1: is actual data to show that the level of destruction
Speaker 1: Goza now surpasses what we did in places like dressed
Speaker 1: In that were synonymous with mass civilian casualties and destruction
Speaker 1: of civilian infrastructure. But second of all, there's a reason
Speaker 1: why after World War Two we put in place things
Speaker 1: like the Geneva Conventions so that civilians would face some
Speaker 1: level of protection and so that we wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: horrors unfolding again that we saw in wars like World
Speaker 1: War two. So but all of that completely completely out
Speaker 1: the window. So let's talk about this, you know, fake
Speaker 1: conversation about what is going to happen on the day after.
Speaker 1: Of course, US officials, oh, we want the Palestinie authority
Speaker 1: to come in and then we want a two state solution,
Speaker 1: completely ignoring that Netanyahu is adamantly opposed to that. Has
Speaker 1: been clear that he's adamantly opposed to that, has been
Speaker 1: bragging about how he is the reason why there is
Speaker 1: no Palestinian state, has been bragging that he is the
Speaker 1: guy to continue to prevent such a state from taking hold.
Speaker 1: And now we have just the latest indication of many
Speaker 1: reports that you know, we've tried to bring you, that
Speaker 1: he knows what he wants on the day after, and
Speaker 1: it is ethnic cleansing, he said in a lacud meaning today,
Speaker 1: according to a Hebrew Israeli outlet, that he is actively
Speaker 1: working to ethnic transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. And as
Speaker 1: this person rightly indicates, similar statements have been made by
Speaker 1: other ministers, but none of them had direct involvement in
Speaker 1: war policy. Now we've got it coming straight from Netanyahu,
Speaker 1: and it should be seen as a statement of intent.
Speaker 1: And I saw others saying that, hey, listen, you know
Speaker 1: we should be asking every US politician and every media
Speaker 1: figure at this point, every analyst what they think about
Speaker 1: this potential, you know, ethnic cleansing of Gaza. We know
Speaker 1: bb net Nyahu has talked about us. He's pushing his
Speaker 1: senior aid to come up with plans to quote thin
Speaker 1: out the Gaza strip. We're seeing all of this incredibly
Speaker 1: dystopian language, framing this in humanitarian terms, and the game
Speaker 1: here is very clear render all of Gaza uninhabitable, which
Speaker 1: frankly has been a project years in the making and
Speaker 1: is just vastly accelerated by this current assault. Northern Gaza
Speaker 1: is already uninhabitable, unlivable sea water being pumped into tunnels,
Speaker 1: which is rendering the aquifer unusable, further compromising. It is
Speaker 1: already the case that the overwhelming majority of Gazans had
Speaker 1: no access to clean water even before this, you know,
Speaker 1: destroy all of the civilian infrastructure. That was the game
Speaker 1: with Al Shifa, which was you know, a beating heart
Speaker 1: of Gaza civilian life. So you know, destroying all of that,
Speaker 1: making it so no one can come back, and then saying, oh,
Speaker 1: the humanitarian thing to do is to relocate people. We
Speaker 1: know that there was a plan that apparently has some
Speaker 1: bipartisan support to use US eight dollars to pressure regional
Speaker 1: countries including Egypt and others, to accept hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of Palestinian refugees. And make no mistake about it, this
Speaker 1: is the direction that Israel is going to push in.
Speaker 1: And you know, the longer that this goes on, the
Speaker 1: more of Gaza that is rendered completely uninhabitable, the more
Speaker 1: likely they are to succeed. And using this, you know,
Speaker 1: just the ultimate gas lighting of language, claiming that it
Speaker 1: is humanitarian to engage in this final ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's also a reason why net
Speaker 1: Yahoo outside of his ideological commitment to this outcome over
Speaker 1: a long period of time, but guess what, he's also
Speaker 1: fighting for his life. And this is the outcome that
Speaker 1: is extremely popular among Jewish Israelis. Eighty three percent of
Speaker 1: Israelis courting Jewish Israelies, we should say, according to this
Speaker 1: new poll, support the expulsion of Gaza's population under the
Speaker 1: label quote unquote voluntary migration. That's again the you know,
Speaker 1: gas lighting or Wellian term that they're using for this
Speaker 1: voluntary This person opines as in leave Gaza or die
Speaker 1: by starvation, air strikes, diseases, bullets, or under an IDF
Speaker 1: bulldozer Well said, sixty eight percent. You can see this
Speaker 1: this pole that was shared. It's the words are in Hebrew. Obviously,
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent are extremely supportive of this genocidal proposal
Speaker 1: and fifteen percent, I presume are moderately supportive. You add
Speaker 1: those together, you get the eighty three percent who say yes, yay,
Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing. So that's what we're looking at here. At
Speaker 1: the same time, we have some dramatic developments in terms
Speaker 1: of Israeli actions, possibly sparking a wider war. Let me
Speaker 1: put this up on the screen for you. This is incredible.
Speaker 1: So a top Iranian commander assassinated in a reported Israeli airstrike,
Speaker 1: Iran warned Israel will pay for the killing of say
Speaker 1: Ed Rozi Mussavi, senior military advisor known as a close
Speaker 1: companion to the assassinated General Costom Solomani, senior advisor in
Speaker 1: Iran's Revolutionary GUARDCORE, killed an Israeli airstrike outside the Syrian
Speaker 1: capital of Damascus on Monday's according to Irani and state media.
Speaker 1: Three security sources later confirmed say Ed Razzi Musavi's death.
Speaker 1: Two Reuters around State Television interrupted its regularly scheduled program
Speaker 1: to announce Massavi had been killed. The were reported in
Speaker 1: a Revolutionary Guard statement read on the air as a
Speaker 1: brigadier general and one of the Guard's most important figures
Speaker 1: in Syria, responsible for coordinating its military alliance with Iran.
Speaker 1: He was also described as a close companion to Costum
Speaker 1: Soul of Money, the top Irani in general who led
Speaker 1: the Guard's elite could's force until he was killed in
Speaker 1: a US air strike in Iraq in January twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Undoubtedly the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for
Speaker 1: this crime, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said in Monday's televised statement.
Speaker 1: According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, this action is another
Speaker 1: sign of frustration, helplessness and inability of the occupying Zionist regime.
Speaker 1: No immediate comment from the IDF, but it is widely
Speaker 1: expected and understood that Israel was probably behind this assassination. Israel,
Speaker 1: they say, was bracing for a response by Iran on
Speaker 1: its northern front. The Jerusalem Post report later on Monday,
Speaker 1: citing local media reports. I will also add to that
Speaker 1: there were some comments from Israeli Defense Minister Yoev Galant
Speaker 1: saying we are fighting a war on seven fronts, seven fronts,
Speaker 1: and we have taken action on six of those. So
Speaker 1: this could be one of the fronts that they're referring
Speaker 1: to there in which they've taken action. We also have
Speaker 1: the US, separately, you know, ramping up attacks on these
Speaker 1: Houthi related suicide drones. I think that we shut down
Speaker 1: a dozen of them. That comes as they've been essentially
Speaker 1: blocking shipping through the Red Sea, and it's taking a
Speaker 1: huge toll, especially on the Israeli economy, also partly on
Speaker 1: the global economy in the US. Has marshaled this new
Speaker 1: coalition of the willing to try to restore the ability
Speaker 1: to traverse that shipping lane. Wanted to read for you
Speaker 1: what doctor Parsi had to say about this Israeli assassination
Speaker 1: alleged of that top Irani in general, because I think
Speaker 1: he lays out what they could be up to here,
Speaker 1: what the intent could be, and also what it could
Speaker 1: mean going forward to If you bear with me, I'm
Speaker 1: going to read through this. He says some brief analysis
Speaker 1: and that this assassination was presumably by Israel. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: Israel either killed Massavi as a warning to Iran, given
Speaker 1: Tehran support for the Houthi's targeting of ships in the
Speaker 1: Red Sea, as a provocation to beget an Iranian response
Speaker 1: that would give Israel a pretext to enlarge the war,
Speaker 1: or as a preparatory move to enlarge the war regardless
Speaker 1: of Iran's response. It goes on, it's very likely Israel's
Speaker 1: behind the assassination of Massabi, since it is the only
Speaker 1: power with both a motive and capacity to pull off
Speaker 1: such a killing, not to mention a long history of
Speaker 1: assassinating Iranian operatives. The US has the capacity, but not
Speaker 1: necessarily the motive. The analysis below us on the rather
Speaker 1: safe assumption that Massavi was assassinated by Israel. US intelligence
Speaker 1: believes that Iran has been actively involved in the Huthi
Speaker 1: movements targeting of ships in the Red Sea, which has
Speaker 1: effectively closed the Bob Almandab straight for Israel and costs
Speaker 1: the Israeli economy billions of dollars. The Huthis insists they
Speaker 1: will continue the attack despite threats of retaliation from the US,
Speaker 1: until Israel ceases its bombardment of Gaza. Israel, of course refuses,
Speaker 1: Biden is loaths to press Israel for a ceasefire. From
Speaker 1: Israel's perspective, Iran is not paying a price for its
Speaker 1: alleged role in the Red Sea attacks. The assassination may,
Speaker 1: as a result, be a warning to Iran that Israel's
Speaker 1: capacity and willingness to exact a price from Iran, even
Speaker 1: in areas where the Iranians may have presumed they are safe,
Speaker 1: so that scenario number one. In a second scenario, the
Speaker 1: assassination may be a deliberate provocation to beget an Iranian
Speaker 1: response that would give Israel the pretext to enlarge the war.
Speaker 1: So in this second scenario that he envisions here, this
Speaker 1: is an attempt to intentionally draw Iran into this war,
Speaker 1: sparking a wider regional war, he says, will the Biden
Speaker 1: administration has given Israel complete green light to bomb Gaza
Speaker 1: to Smithers. Biden opposes an expansion of the war sinceuff
Speaker 1: could likely drag the US into it. The debate inside
Speaker 1: the Israel government is increasingly leaning toward expanding the war.
Speaker 1: They've already mobilized three hundred thousand plus troops. There's growing
Speaker 1: belief in Israel it simply is intolerable for Israel to
Speaker 1: live next to Hesbela. They thought they could manage the
Speaker 1: threat from Hamas, and they couldn't. Even though it was
Speaker 1: not Hesbela that attacked Israel in October seventh. The Israeli
Speaker 1: argument is that next time it might be Hesbela, and
Speaker 1: as a result, Israel has no choice but to expand
Speaker 1: the war. But unless there's an attack from Iran or
Speaker 1: Hesbla itself, the US may continue to oppose such a move,
Speaker 1: and we have seen is Israeli's the Israeli government floating
Speaker 1: this sort of trial balloon of oh Hesbela is violating
Speaker 1: this particular UN resolution as if they care about any
Speaker 1: other UN resolution only when it is convenient for them,
Speaker 1: and trying to shop that around as like a pretext
Speaker 1: for potentially more directly attacking Hezbela itself. Of course, they've
Speaker 1: already been skirmishes in that region already, he goes on,
Speaker 1: the assassination of Musabi may cause Iran to retaliate against
Speaker 1: Israel via Hesbela, the reasoning goes, and Israel can then
Speaker 1: use Hesbel's action as a pretext to not only expand
Speaker 1: the war Lebanon, but also force the US to go
Speaker 1: along with it. Lastly, he said there's a third explanation.
Speaker 1: According to Amwajh Media, Mussavi was in charge of facilitating
Speaker 1: the entry of Iran led forces and arms shipments to
Speaker 1: Syria as well as Lebanon's Hesbelah movement. If Israel intends
Speaker 1: to attack Lebanon, taking out Massavi could be a logical
Speaker 1: first step to disrupt the arming of Hesbla as well
Speaker 1: as its supply lines. As such, the assassination may be
Speaker 1: a preparatory move to enlarge the war regardless of Iran's
Speaker 1: response to the killing of Massavi. So in the second scenario,
Speaker 1: it's the intent is to trigger some sort of vitalitary
Speaker 1: response and launch a broader war. Here it's to enlarge
Speaker 1: the war regardless of whether Iran responds in a provocative manner.
Speaker 1: All of these scenarios, he says, point to one undeniable reality.
Speaker 1: As long as Biden refuses to pressure Israel to accept
Speaker 1: a ceasefire, in GA's attentions in the region will continue
Speaker 1: to rise, and the Middle East will gravitate towards a
Speaker 1: regional war that very likely will engulf the US as well.
Speaker 1: May think he can control these events that allow Israel
Speaker 1: to slaughter the people in Gazawak, keeping a lid on
Speaker 1: the escalation risk. He is likely wrong, and the American
Speaker 1: people may soon find themselves and yet another unnecessary war
Speaker 1: in the Middle East because of Biden's strategic incompetence. And
Speaker 1: I think that lays it out incredibly well the dangers
Speaker 1: that we are facing and the potential risk of this
Speaker 1: broader war, and also lays out the very real possibility
Speaker 1: that Israel is actively courting this broader war. And as
Speaker 1: I said, previously, we already had them sort of workshopping
Speaker 1: this and trial ballooning this with regard to a wider war.
Speaker 1: There have even been comments coming out from top officials,
Speaker 1: perhaps even including net Nyaho if memory serves, saying that
Speaker 1: after the war with Hamas is finished, then they want
Speaker 1: to move on to the war with Hesbola. Now, of course,
Speaker 1: the reality is this hasn't been a war with Hamas.
Speaker 1: It's been a war against the civilian population in Gaza.
Speaker 1: It's been a war intended to provoke a quote shock
Speaker 1: among the civilian population in Gaza. It's been a war
Speaker 1: on the civilian infrastructure in gazamm about to show you
Speaker 1: that as well. And it has been a war with
Speaker 1: the ultimate intent of complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. There
Speaker 1: were comments made previously. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: recall this. I'm pretty sure we covered it on the show, saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we could turn Beirut into Gaza. We could do the
Speaker 1: same things in Lebanon that we're doing in Gaza. So
Speaker 1: if that isn't a threat against civilians, I don't know
Speaker 1: what is. And we also have those reports from multiple
Speaker 1: human rights organizations and confirmed by the Washington post of
Speaker 1: white Phiosophus already having been dropped on civilians in Lebanon,
Speaker 1: in southern Lebanon in contravention of the rules of war.
Speaker 1: So a lot to be very very concerned about there. Lastly,
Speaker 1: just to put things in perspective and kind of tie
Speaker 1: things together with where we started about the big picture.
Speaker 1: What we are all witnessing unfolding before our eyes here.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm paywalled. Is the utter destruction, the utter
Speaker 1: destruction that is unlike anything that we have seen this century.
Speaker 1: So they compared the washingmtposts compared in this report that
Speaker 1: I'm paywalld from. Sorry guys. They confirmed that they looked
Speaker 1: at the satellite data and the number of buildings that
Speaker 1: have been destroyed and damaged. They compared it to Raka,
Speaker 1: They compared it to Aleppo, they compared it to Mosseil.
Speaker 1: These are considered the three most devastated cities in bombings
Speaker 1: that have occurred in this century. And they found that
Speaker 1: in just seven weeks time. Because this data is a
Speaker 1: little old, so this doesn't even take into account recent
Speaker 1: bombings week's time. This assault on Gaza has been more devastating,
Speaker 1: just in sheer numbers of buildings destroyed, damaged than any
Speaker 1: of those conflicts to come as no surprise when you
Speaker 1: consider the fact that you have this AI driven what's
Speaker 1: being called mass assassination factory. Doesn't come as a surprise
Speaker 1: when you know nine seven to two magazine is reporting
Speaker 1: about these quote unquote power targets that Israel is intentionally
Speaker 1: going after to create that shock in the civilian population.
Speaker 1: Power targets or things like high rise apartment buildings. They
Speaker 1: are things like hospitals, other public civilian infrastructure. Gaza City,
Speaker 1: of course basically leveled now, I mean just utterly destroyed,
Speaker 1: completely uninhabitable. And also when you consider things like previous
Speaker 1: reports we've talked about the number of two thousand pound
Speaker 1: bombs that have been dropped here, the fact that half
Speaker 1: more than half of the bombs that have been quote
Speaker 1: unquote dumb bombs not targeted. And when we were fighting
Speaker 1: in Mosul, which was incredibly devastating to civilian life and
Speaker 1: civilian infrastructure, certainly our military, which has hardly been a
Speaker 1: paragon of perfect moral warfighting, determined that five hundred pound
Speaker 1: bombs were the absolute macs that you should be dropping
Speaker 1: in this sort of dense urban environment, and in Gaza routinely.
Speaker 1: Israel is dropping two thousand pound bombs that we, the
Speaker 1: United States of America, continue to provide them in spite
Speaker 1: of all of our oh the civilians, Oh bomb a
Speaker 1: little nicer. Oh maybe wrap things up in the new
Speaker 1: year at some point. Bullshit, bullshit. All of that should
Speaker 1: be seen as attempting to buy some cover to enable
Speaker 1: Israel to continue this bombing longer, longer, when already again
Speaker 1: in just the first seven weeks, more destructive than any
Speaker 1: other war this century. So that's where we are, guys.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you as always. You know, obviously this news is
Speaker 1: incredibly dark, I do want to say, because I always
Speaker 1: think him a lot about this over Christmas, in the
Speaker 1: holiday myself. We are seeing the worst, absolute worst of humanity,
Speaker 1: seeing things that you know, I hoped had been consigned
Speaker 1: to pages of history books. Clearly they hadn't been. But
Speaker 1: I also think about, you know that, I think about
Speaker 1: the popees being out, I think about that reverend that
Speaker 1: I played in the beginning his comments, and I really
Speaker 1: think about the courage of you know, the doctors and
Speaker 1: nurses in these hospitals in Gaza, working in the most
Speaker 1: unimaginable circumstances. Sacrificing their own lives, putting their families lives
Speaker 1: at risk, to try to care for people as best
Speaker 1: they possibly can. I mean, I literally can't. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine being a doctor nor situations, let alone a war zone,
Speaker 1: let alone the most destructive warzone in this entire century.
Speaker 1: Just absolute heroes. I think about the journalists, more than
Speaker 1: a hundred of whom have been killed, many of them
Speaker 1: intentionally targeted for assassination, and their family members as well,
Speaker 1: The risk that they are taking to show the world
Speaker 1: what is happening here. Just absolute heroism. And I think
Speaker 1: about just the ordinary people trying to survive, just trying
Speaker 1: to keep it together and get day to day and
Speaker 1: find a little bit of food so their kids don't
Speaker 1: starve to death. I mean, over half a million people
Speaker 1: now starving in Gaza. There's a lot of human bravery,
Speaker 1: human heroism here as well. So in any case, love
Speaker 1: you guys. I hope you are enjoying some lovely holiday time,
Speaker 1: that you are safe and enjoying some blessings of the
Speaker 1: season with your family and with your loved ones. And
Speaker 1: I'll make sure to keep you guys updated if anything
Speaker 1: else needs to be brought to you take care