1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Hey, guys, hope everyone is doing well. I have a 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: whole lot of Israel updates that I wanted to go 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: ahead and bring to use. Some that are incredibly significant 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: and we cannot lose sight of, including war drums beating 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: louder and louder for us to go to war with Iran, 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: both from Israeli politicians pushing us in that direction and 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: our own politicians. You won't be surprised, Lindsay Graham, John Bolton, 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: et cetera. We also have South Africa officially instituting proceedings 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: against Israel for the crime of genocide. I want to 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: spend a bit of time with that. Why it's significant, 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: What is the case that they are making. We have 12 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: Israel saying they regret the use of a particular munition 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: in attacking a refugee camp. They don't regret striking the 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: refugee camp, just the particular munition that they used in 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: what has been one of the deadliest attacks on the 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: Gaza Strip since the beginning of their assault. Post October seventh, 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: we have the US skipping congressional review to go ahead 18 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: and sell addition munitions to Israel. This is significant in 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: a number of ways. I want to break that down 20 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,119 Speaker 1: for you. You've got another alleged Biden versus bb fight, 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: allegedly difficult phone conversation, So I'll break that down for you. 22 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: What was it supposedly about and what happened there? What 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: does it mean? This war has apparently also unleashed a 24 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: drug resistant super fungus that is attacking Israeli soldiers and 25 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: undoubtedly Palestinians as well, So important to keep our eye 26 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: on that. And ethnic cleansing being mainstreamed by US politicians, 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: none other than our great friend, that moderate, that beacon 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: of moderate politics, Nikki Haley herself. So I'll show you 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: those comments too, But I wanted to go ahead and 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: start with war drums beating for us to get directly 31 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: in a conflict with Iran. Now this is incredible on 32 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: a number of levels. First of all, horrifying that anyone 33 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: is suggesting or excited about the possibility of escalating this 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: conflict into a regional conflagration, into a war directly between 35 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: the US and Israel and Iran. But in addition, so 36 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: this is eneught Aali Betta. He is a former Prime 37 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,399 Speaker 1: Minister of Israel. Just a year or so ago, he 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: was Prime Minister of Israel, and he published an op 39 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: ed in The Wall Street Journal saying the US and 40 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: Israel knew to take on Iran directly, make the Ayatolas 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 1: pay for sowing chaos through their hamas Hesbela and Huthi proxies. 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: Here he is tweeting this out. Iran is a terror octopus. 43 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: It's arms, hamas Hesbela and the Huthis are sewing chaos 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: and terror across the world. It's time for the US 45 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: and its allies to target its head, Tehran and bring 46 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: down its regime. Now. Think if any other foreign politician 47 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: published an op ed in a Western media outlet, in 48 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: one of the top Western media outlets calling for US 49 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: to send our sons and daughters into war, everyone be 50 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: freaking out about this. Even if it was, you know, 51 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian Zelensky saying we should get directly involved and 52 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: boots on the ground in a war with Russia, people 53 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: would rightly be freaking out. But here, for some reason, 54 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: since it's Israel, just fine a dandy for their prime 55 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: former prime minister, very recently former prime minister to write 56 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that Yeah, 57 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: it's time for us to go to war with Iran. 58 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: Let me read you a little bit of what he 59 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: says here. He says, there are many ways to weaken 60 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: Iran and power, domestic opposition, ensure internet continuity during riots 61 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: against the regime, strength and its enemies, increase sanctions and 62 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: economic pressures. But Israel can't and shouldn't do this alone. 63 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: The US should be leading the effort. So regime change 64 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: effort that he's saying here now he's saying, Oh, it 65 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be it doesn't have to go to 66 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: all out war. He floats this sort of like wish 67 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: list of what right wing hawks in Israel and here 68 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: in America too, as I'm about to show you want 69 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: us to be doing to Iran, including things like increasing sanctions. 70 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: I mean, we're already sanctioning the hell out of Iran, 71 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: and how has that worked out for us in terms 72 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: of our relationship. It's preposterous. But also to float all 73 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: of these actions aimed directly at regime change within Iran 74 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: and think that that includes no risk, no risk whatsoever, 75 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: that you can just do these things without any cost 76 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: or consequence. He can't be this stupid. There's no way 77 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: that he's this stupid. He concludes by saying the US 78 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: and Israel must set the clear goal of bringing down 79 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: Iran's evil regime. Not only is this possible, it is 80 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: vital for the safety and security of the Middle East 81 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: and the entire civilized world. So now you'll recall it 82 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: the beginning of you know, right after the horrors of 83 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: October seventh, there was this report, originally in the Wall 84 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: Street Journal claiming that Iran was directly in involved in 85 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: the October seventh attacks. This was always very questionable, based 86 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: on really shoddy sourcing, and immediately both the US and 87 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence shot this report down and said, look, Iran 88 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: provides support to Hamas, but they were actually caught off guard. 89 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: They were actually surprised by the October seventh attacks. They 90 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: were not directly involved in planning it. And so early 91 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: on in the conflict, people like John Bolden others right 92 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: wing Republican politicians here in the US started to build 93 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: this case for war with the run and howd it 94 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: really stopped. But once that initial report got kind of 95 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: shot down, there was a little bit of you heard 96 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: a little bit less of hey, now's the time we 97 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: go after I run, because again, they are not directly 98 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: implicated in the October seventh attacks. But now we're coming 99 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: back around to as we're saying what the hoo Thies 100 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: are doing with regard to the Red Sea, we're coming 101 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: back around to this incredibly hawkish case for direct war 102 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: and conflict with Iran. The next example I'll show you again. 103 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: He won't be surprised by this, because Lindsay Graham is 104 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: always looking for an excuse to call for war with Iran, 105 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: it seems. But he says the US should hit an 106 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: Iranian base and blow it off the map. Let me 107 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 1: read you this from Newsweek. Senator Lindsay Graham is urging 108 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 1: the Biden administration to blow parts of Iran off the map, 109 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: the South Carolina Republicans said. He told Secretary of Defense 110 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: Floyd Austin not to show weakness and make clear what 111 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: the US red lines for retaliatory attack are. Without Iran. 112 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: There are no Hoothias, Graham told Fox News on Wednesday. 113 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: The Houthis are completely backed by Iran. I have been 114 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: saying for six months now. Hit Iran. They have oil 115 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: fields out in the open, they have the Revolutionary Guard 116 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: headquarters you can see from space. Blow it off the map, 117 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: he continued, if you really want to protect American soldiers. 118 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: Make it real to the Ayatola that if you attack 119 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: a soldier through we are coming after you. So directly 120 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: calling to blow the Revolutionary Guard headquarters off the map, 121 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: off the map, It's Lindsey Graham. I've got one more 122 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: for you here. SHO shouldn't be left out. John Bolton 123 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: again one of these people who you know. I guess 124 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: it's just an ordinary day of the week for him 125 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: to call for direct war with Iran. He says the 126 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: lesson may now have no option but to attack Iran. 127 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: Tehran will only accept it has miscalculated if it faces 128 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: significant costs for its recent acts of aggression, and Caitlin Johnstone, 129 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: you're opining it's actually almost cute at this point. He 130 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: just keeps making up excuses to get the one thing 131 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: he desperately wants, like uh oh, looks like we'll have 132 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: to do the thing I've always wanted to do. He's 133 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: like a cartoon Breakfast Cereal mascot, always making news schemes 134 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: to grab a bowl, which is fairly well said, but 135 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: for me, it highlights just what a dangerous and precarious 136 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: situation that we find ourselves in with risks of escalation 137 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: across the board. You know, the fact that we have 138 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: so many service members still in the region makes means 139 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: that there are targets and possibilities of dangerous escalation. The 140 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: fact that you have this domestic push now coupled within 141 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: Israeli push for direct conflict with Iran, this is not 142 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: something to play around with. This is not something to downplay. 143 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: This is a risk we have to take incredibly, incredibly 144 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: seriously because you know, with regard to Biden, who is 145 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: mentally ailing and who has proven himself to basically do 146 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: whatever Israel wants him to do, I don't think you 147 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: can take any possibility off the table at this point. 148 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: But you know, I can't move on to the next 149 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: piece without just saying how how sick it is to 150 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: me to hear these people just so casual in calling 151 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: for or you know, directly escalatory attacks, calling for blowing 152 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: the Revolutionary Guard headquarters off the map, as if that 153 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't create the conditions for potential direct war. You know, 154 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: I guess they're just so used to thinking of the 155 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: globe as like some chessboard that they can just move 156 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: pieces around on. They don't even consider the human beings lives, 157 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:25,599 Speaker 1: it would be put at risk because I guess it 158 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't be them, it wouldn't be their family, it wouldn't 159 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: be the people in their like elite bubble circles. And 160 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: so it's just done so incredibly casually. And I you know, 161 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 1: even though it's characters like Lindsay Graham, John Bolton who 162 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: do this all the time, I still continue to find it, 163 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: and I think you should still continue to find it 164 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: incredibly shocking and incredibly disturbing. All right, let's go ahead 165 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: and move on to this next piece which I mentioned before, 166 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: which is that South Africa has now officially instituted proceedings 167 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: with the International Court of Justice against Israel for the 168 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: crime of genocide. You have Jeremy Scahill here, a fantastic 169 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: reporter co founder of the INTERCEPTUO says this is a 170 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: significant move, particularly because the action is being brought by 171 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: South Africa, nation that fought for its own liberation against 172 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: apart time regime supported for decades by the US. I 173 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: want to read to you a little bit of their 174 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: letter and what they have to say here. They say, 175 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: South Africa today filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel 176 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: before the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ 177 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: of the UN concerning alleged violations by Israel of its 178 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: obligations under the Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of 179 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: the Crime of Genocide the quote Genocide Convention in relation 180 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: to Palestinians in the Gaza strip. According to this application, 181 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: acts and omissions by Israel are genocidal in character as 182 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 1: they are committed with the requisite specific intent to destroy 183 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: Palestinians in Gaza as part of the broader Palestinian national, racial, 184 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: and ethnical group, and that the conduct of Israel, through 185 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: the state organ state agents, and other persons and entities 186 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: acting on its instructions or under the direction, control, or influence, 187 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: in relation to Palestines in Gaza is in violation of 188 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: its obligations under the Genocide Convention. I also want to 189 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: share with you just a bit of the actual case 190 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: that they filed here, and it's like, you know, eighty 191 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: some pages long, so obviously I'm not going to read 192 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: all of it, but in the specific language about this 193 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: about Genocide Convention and what it entails. You know, one 194 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: of the most difficult to prove components is the idea 195 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: of intent. So you have to see the acts on 196 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: the ground, which obviously, you know, we see in this 197 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: mass bombing campaign, targeting civilians, targeting civilian infrastructure, targeting, you know, 198 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: anyone who calls themselves a Palestinian, overwhelmingly in Gaza, but 199 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: also targeting in the West Bank as well. You have 200 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: to have the capability to actually effectuate genocide, and then 201 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: you have to have this component of intent. And as 202 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: I said, this is typically, you know, according to people 203 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: who study this, and I would recommend you go listen 204 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: to Ryan and Emily did a fantastic interview with a 205 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: scholar who's saying, this is, you know, textbook case of genocide. Typically, 206 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: the intent piece is difficult to establish because usually politicians 207 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: and media figures, etc. Military officials aren't running around saying, hey, guys, 208 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm doing a genocide. What do you think. But in 209 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: this particular case, they have so many examples of Israeli 210 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: officials up to and including Benjamin Nett Yahoo saying very 211 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: explicitly what they're up to here. And so I wanted 212 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: to show you a little bit of that part of 213 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: the report. It starts on page fifty nine under this 214 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: subheading expressions of Genocidal intent, against the Palestinian people by 215 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: Israeli state officials and others. They cite here comments from Netanyahu. 216 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: They talk about how, in a televised address he promised 217 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: to quote operate forcefully everywhere. He confirmed, we are striking 218 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: our enemies with unprecedented might. He said when Israeli air 219 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: STRIKX had already killed over twenty six hundred and seventy Palestinians, 220 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: including seven hundred and twenty four children. He said that 221 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: Israeli soldiers understand the scope of the mission and stand 222 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: ready to defeat the bloodthirsty monsters who have risen against 223 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,079 Speaker 1: Israel to destroy us. In a formal address, you may 224 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: recall this, he described the situation as a struggle between 225 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: the children of light and the children of darkness, between 226 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: humanity and the law of the jungle, a dehumanizing theme 227 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: to which he returned on various occasions. They write, including 228 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: on November third, in a letter to Israeli soldiers and 229 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: officers published on X. The letter asserted that this is 230 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: the war between the suns of light and the sons 231 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: of darkness. We will not let up on our mission 232 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: until the light overcomes the darkness. The good will defeat 233 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: the extreme evil that threatens us in the entire world. 234 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: He returned a theme in his Christmas message, stating, we 235 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: are facing monsters, monsters who murder children in front of 236 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: their parents. This is a battle not only of Israel 237 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: against these barbarians, It's a battle of civilization against barbarism. 238 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: On October twenty eighth, as Israeli forces prepared their land 239 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: invasion of Gaza, he invoked the Biblical story of the 240 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: total destruction of Amelek by the Israelites, stating, you must 241 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: remember what Amelek has done to you, says our Holy Bible, 242 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: and we do remember. He again referred to Amelek in 243 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: a letter on November third, saying the relevant Biblical passage 244 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: reads as follows, Now, go attack Amelek and prescribe all 245 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: that belongs to him. Spare no one but kill alike, 246 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels 247 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: and asses. They go on through the list. I won't 248 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: give you all of these details. Some of these comments 249 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: you'll remember Isaac Hertzog. 250 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: You know. 251 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: One of the comments they cite here is his discussion 252 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: of how the are no innocent Palestinians in Gaza defense 253 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: Minister you of Gallant saying they're imposing a complete siege, 254 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: saying we're fighting human animals and are acting accordingly. Israeli 255 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: Minister for National Security, Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, 256 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: Israeli Minister of Finance saying we need to deal a 257 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: blow that hasn't been seen in fifty years and take 258 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: down Gaza, the Israeli Minister of Heritage, the Israeli Minister 259 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: of Agriculture, the Deputy Speaker of the Kanesset and member 260 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. You've got, in addition, 261 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: you've got Israeli Army officials, advisors and spokespersons, Israeli Army 262 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: Coordinator of Government Activities, Israeli Army of Reservist, Major General, etc. 263 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: Et cetera, et cetera. So, in terms of establishing intent, 264 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: which again is oftentimes the most difficult part of proving 265 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: that you know, the crimes are grave enough to meet 266 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: what is intended to be of you know, high bar 267 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: of the Genocide Convention, their own words make it quite 268 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: clear how they are viewing this conflict, what their goals are, 269 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: and what they're up to. So that's part, a key 270 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: part of the case that they are making here to 271 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: the International Court of Justice. You know, I think it's 272 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: also important. South Africa's Foreign minister was discussing this case 273 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: against Israel and she had some very powerful words that 274 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: I wanted to share with you about US hypocrisy and 275 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: Western hypocrisy with regards to the view of Israel and 276 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: the acts they're committing in Gaza Versus the Way, and 277 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: this is something we've highlighted on the show Versus the 278 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: Way that they discuss Russian war crimes against Ukraine and 279 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: how you know, this hypocrisy, it really renders international law completely, 280 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: completely meaningless. So let's listen to what South Africa's Foreign 281 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: minister has to say. 282 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 2: You know, I think this notion of international rules is 283 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 2: very comfortable for some people to use when it suits them, 284 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: but they don't believe in international rules when it doesn't 285 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 2: suit them because they don't apply international rules or law 286 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 2: equally in all circumstances. So you can't say because Ukraine 287 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 2: has been invaded that suddenly sovereignty is important, but it 288 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 2: was never important for Palestine. It's very peculiar. If you 289 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 2: believe in international law truly, then wherever sovereignty is infringed, 290 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 2: it must apply. 291 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 3: And this is the point. 292 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 2: We've been making that we use the framework of international 293 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 2: law unequally depending on who is affected, and we are 294 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 2: arguing that that must change. And one of them interesting 295 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 2: changes that has occurred is the sudden movement, because Russia 296 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 2: has invaded Ukraine that we say, okay, let's not allow 297 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 2: the Security Council to just have the veto and let 298 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 2: it pass. We take it to the General Assembly. When 299 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 2: some of us had been calling for the General Assembly 300 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 2: to have a greater say, we never enjoyed support, but 301 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 2: suddenly today see, that's where international law begins to mean nothing, 302 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 2: because for some we see it as a cheating and 303 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 2: for others we see it as a benefit. So our 304 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:42,719 Speaker 2: argument is, let's revise the international multilateral system to ensure 305 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 2: that we observe that post nineteen forty eight has arrived. 306 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: Post nineteen forty eight has arrived. I think very powerful words, 307 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: they are very compelling, very difficult to deny the level 308 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: of hypocrisy. In fact, there was a new Russian attack, 309 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: likely war crime, bombing against residentially. I believe it is 310 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: a high rise apartment building in Ukraine. US officials Tony 311 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 1: Blanken jumping on Twitter, no problem calling that out as 312 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: the whoror that it was. But then when it's Israel 313 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: that has literally destroyed the vast majority of Gaza, including 314 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: apartment buildings, including there's actually New Wall Street Journal analysis, 315 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: I believe seventy percent of homes, huge percentage of homes 316 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: have been destroyed, schools, mosques, churches, farmland, water, infrastructure, you 317 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: name it, it's been destroyed. And virtual silence. You occasionally 318 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: get this little like, oh, maybe you should do a 319 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: little bit better, and or a leaked to the press 320 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 1: of oh, you know, we're really worried about the civilians, 321 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: and oh they need to stop. Biden even said they're, 322 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: you know, indiscriminate bombing, and he described as indiscriminate bombing 323 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: that is a war crime. And yet there is none 324 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: of the concern, there's none of certainly no repercussions. There's 325 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,719 Speaker 1: nothing but just green lighting more and more and more, 326 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: which actually, you know, let me go ahead and show 327 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: you what the latest is in that regard. We've got 328 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: the Biden administration once again bypassing Congress on an emergency 329 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: weapons sale to Israel. So they are bypassing the normal 330 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: procedure to allow for congressional approval and just going ahead 331 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: and green lighting this sale, which given the context, given 332 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: the fact, again you even have Biden describing what Israel 333 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:47,239 Speaker 1: is doing as indiscriminate bombing. You have you know, this 334 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: genocide allegations being presented at the International Court of Justice. 335 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: I mean, you have so much documented at this point. 336 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: This is directly aiding in a betting those war crimes. 337 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: So let me read you a little but to the article, 338 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: they say, for the second time this month, the Biden 339 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapon sale 340 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: to Israel, as Israel continues to prosecute its war against 341 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: Hamas and Gaza under increasing international criticism, State Department said Friday, 342 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln had told Congress that he 343 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: made a second emergency determination covering one hundred and forty 344 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 1: seven point five million dollars sale for equipment including fuses, charges, 345 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: and primers that is needed to make the one hundred 346 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: and fifty five millimeter shells that Israel has already purchased 347 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: function Given the urgency of Israel's defensive needs, the Secretary 348 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: notified Congress he had exercised his delegated authority to determine 349 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer. 350 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: So I looked up the significance of these particular munitions. 351 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: So each round is about two feet long, weighs about 352 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: one hundred pounds, is as the name indicates, about one 353 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five millimeters or six point one inches 354 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: in diameter. They're used in howitzer systems, which are toad 355 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: large guns that are identified by the re of the 356 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: angle of fire that their barrels can be set to, 357 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: can be configured in many ways, can be packed with 358 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: highly exposive material, use precision guided systems, pierce armor, or 359 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: produce high fragmentation. This is again according to the AP 360 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: and these are highly sought after munitions. There are a 361 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: few things that are really important to note here. As 362 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: I mentioned before, just the green lighting of this, the 363 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: bypassing of normal procedures, shows you how all in the 364 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: Biden administration continues to be on Israel's assault on Gaza, 365 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: any sort of words of concern. Notwithstanding that's number one. 366 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 1: Number two, this is these are exactly the munitions that 367 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: and Ryan Grimm is pointing this out on Twitter. Ukraine 368 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: is desperate for so it also shows you, you know, 369 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: the pecking order in terms of US support and priorities. 370 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: Ukraine has definitely fallen too. The back burder. We'll cover 371 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: this next week when we're back doing normal shows. You 372 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: now have being openly talked about, Hey, Ukraine may have 373 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: to give up some territory, something that was absolutely off 374 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: the table to even say up until very very recently. 375 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: And so they're you know, expediting this massive sale of 376 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: these you know, very large munitions to Israel and circumventing 377 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: the normal process in order to make sure Israel has 378 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: absolutely everything they need to continue what Joe Biden himself 379 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: has described as an indiscriminate bombing campaign in Gaza. And uh, 380 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 1: speaking of which, let's discuss. There was recently I brought 381 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,439 Speaker 1: you some of these details previously, a huge attack on 382 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: a large refugee camp. It killed, reports are killed, hundreds, 383 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: including you know, overwhelmingly civilians as usual, many women and children. 384 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: And the Israelis are now expressing regret, not over the 385 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: attack itself, but this is an Israeli government spokesperson on 386 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: Sky News saying they regret that a wrong munition was 387 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: used in this attack. Let's take a lesson. 388 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 4: Given that we have heard from the IDF about what 389 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 4: took place at the Magazi at refugee camp. I wonder 390 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 4: if we might focus the majority of our time on that. 391 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 4: What is your understanding as to what took place there 392 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 4: on Christmas Eve? 393 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 5: My understanding is, as a military spokesperson has told Israeli television, 394 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 5: an incorrect munition was used in that strike. We of 395 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 5: course do our best to be targeted and precise, and 396 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 5: to target the hamas terrorists and do everything to get 397 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 5: civilians out of harm's way. And it appears that in 398 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 5: this mistake in war, a mistake was made, and we 399 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 5: are learning lessons. 400 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 1: Mistake was made. You know, they're learning lessons. They're just 401 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: they're doing their best, guys, and we are now I 402 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 1: have actually entered one of what appears to be the 403 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: deadliest phases of this assault on Gaza. You know, this 404 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: comes after many US supposed concerns have been expressed. And 405 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: remember all those reports about how the US officials who 406 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: flew to Tel Aviv. We're telling that Nyahu, like the 407 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: attacks on the south, can't be like what you did 408 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 1: in the north, But none of that has been heeded. 409 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: If anything, it's more deadly, which makes sense, because obviously 410 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: every the north is completely uninhabitable, utterly destroyed. There's barely 411 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: anything left standing, you know, attacks on key parts of 412 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: civilian life, including hospitals, Alshifa being sort of like the 413 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: center of those attacks. That are very few hospitals that 414 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: are even continuing to operate anywhere in the Gaza strip. 415 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: But the north is utterly destroyed, and almost everybody in 416 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: the Palestinian Gaza population is now moved to the south, 417 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: so you have people even more densely packed in even 418 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: more close quarters. And the Israeli government and the IDF 419 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: have told them, oh, there's this one place where you 420 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: can go to be safer, while they still are bombing 421 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: those places where they claim to tell them the population 422 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: that they can move to to be safe. As the 423 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: UN has said, and as many analyzes, including from Western 424 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: media out looks like the Wall Street Journal, in the 425 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: Washington Post and the New York Times have said, there 426 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: is nowhere safe in the Gaza strip. And yet we 427 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: have yet another of these reports of how concerned Biden 428 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 1: is and how he's really you know, behind the scenes, 429 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: pushing back on bb and they're just they're doing their 430 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: best out there. This is from axios from a reporter 431 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: Barock Revide scoop Biden in frustrating call, told bb to 432 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: solve Palestinian tax revenue issue. So this has to do 433 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: with the West Bank, which is run in part by 434 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: the Palestinian Authority. The taxes that are directly owed to 435 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,719 Speaker 1: the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been withholding and this has 436 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: been a particular project of extremist finance Minister Bezilielsmotrich, who 437 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: doesn't want any of this money to go to the PA. Well, 438 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: they're already in a financial crisis and which has been 439 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: you know, really exacerbated by the fact that Palestinians who 440 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: used to be able in the West Bank to go 441 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: and work in Israel's day laborers, et cetera, they have 442 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: they have been blocked from doing that. So there's been 443 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 1: a huge drop in revenue and they're really struggling. And 444 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: now Israel is completely withholding the tax revenue that they 445 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: are owed in order to finance, you know, paying for 446 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: their employees and their bureaucracy and basic services and security services, 447 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 1: et cetera. So that's the context of this alleged conversation 448 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: that happened. Let me read you this report. They say 449 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: President Biden held a difficult conversation with Netanyahu over at 450 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: Israel's decision to withhold part of the tax remant collects 451 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: for the PA, According to US and Israeli officials, The 452 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: Big Picture, US officials said this part of last Saturday's 453 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,640 Speaker 1: call between the two leaders was one of the most 454 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: difficult and frustrating conversations Biden has had with Netnahu since 455 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: the beginning of the war. Sign of growing tensions between 456 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: Biden and YAHUO. I believe it when I see it. 457 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: The tax revenues Israel collects for the PA under an 458 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: agreement between the parties are a major source of income 459 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: for the PA, which is already in a financial crisis. 460 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, Israel's far right ulternationalist finance minister 461 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: Bezialilsmotrich and October decided to suspend the transfer of all 462 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 1: of the tax revenue funds after the Hamas terrorist attack. 463 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: Hamas does not run the West Bank, so why are 464 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,239 Speaker 1: they Why is the PA being targeted for something they 465 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: had absolutely nothing to do with, so they say Behind 466 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: the scenes, Saturday's forty five minute call focused on the 467 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: next phase of Israel's ground operation but towards the end 468 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: of the call, Biden raised his concerns about the withheld 469 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: Palestinian tax revenues. According to the officials, bidenes's Ntnyahu to 470 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: accept a proposal that the Israeli Prime Minister had raised 471 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: himself for weeks ago to transfer the withheld tax revenues 472 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: to Norway for safekeeping until an arrangement can be found, 473 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: and the PA had agreed to that. Netanyahu had floated 474 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: it previously, and now reportedly he backtracked on that, and 475 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: at the end of the call, they say, after a 476 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: few minutes of discussion, Biden told Netanyaho he expects him 477 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: to solve this issue, added that this conversation is over 478 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: and ended the call. The US official and source with 479 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: knowledge of the call said. 480 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: So. 481 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: Supposedly tensions over this. I mean, it is noteworthy to 482 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: me that this would be the thing that Biden would 483 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: really get most irritated and upset over. I mean, listen, 484 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not an important issue. I'm not 485 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: saying it's like completely unjust that this is being withheld 486 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: from the PA, causing additional suffering in the West Bank, 487 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: and it's easy to lose sight of what's going on 488 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: the West Bank because of what's going on in Gaza 489 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: is so horrific, but violence is dramatically escalated there. So 490 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: it's not that it's not important. But you had this 491 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: whole common conversation about the next phase of the quote 492 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: unquote ground operation that all went fine and dandy, and 493 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: the thing that you're getting completely hung up on is 494 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: the tax revenue part. What about the human beings who 495 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: are being massacred on a daily basis. What about this 496 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: attack on the refugee camp that just you know, slaughtered 497 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: hundreds of civilians. What about the attacks on the hospital 498 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: that they just blatantly lied about the extent of Hamas 499 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: use and any sort of connection to Hamas command and 500 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: control center. No, No, that none of that was the 501 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: part that really got Biden upset. It was the tax revenue, which, 502 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: again not saying it's not important, but you know, I 503 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: would if I had to choose between the things that 504 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: are going on right now to really you know, fixate 505 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: on and focus on perhaps the you know, plans for 506 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing and the utter destruction of the Gaza strip 507 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,479 Speaker 1: and killing of some you know, twenty one thousand plus 508 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: Palestadians in Gaza might might be an important thing to 509 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: race with Nyaho and get upset about as well. I 510 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: also wanted to just show you this in the lane 511 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: of fresh horrors that are being unleashed by this war. 512 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,479 Speaker 1: Apparently we have a new super fungus in Gaza because 513 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: of Israel's destruction of all of the sanitation infrastructure. A 514 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,479 Speaker 1: wounded IDs soldier died after infection by this super fungus 515 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: during the Gaza ground operation. Soldier was seriously injured in 516 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: the strip. Some ten soldiers believed to have contracted the 517 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: same fungus. No confirmation from IDF doctors worn of dangerous 518 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: battlefield infections. So apparently this was a drug resistant superfungus. 519 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: And it's because the soil has been contaminated with sewage, 520 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: with raw sewage, because all of the infrastructure has been 521 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: destroyed in Gaza. At the same time, we have mainstream 522 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: US politicians who are now you know, just getting super 523 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: comfortable with ethnic cleansing and arguing aggressively that this is 524 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: the right approach for the day after in Gaza, here 525 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: is Nikki Haley saying that starving Palestinians should go to 526 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: pro Hamas countries. 527 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 3: Let's take a listen, where should the Palestinians go? Well, 528 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 3: you know they should be going through the Rafa Gate 529 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 3: and Egypt take them. But I've always said that you 530 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 3: know what you should have is they should go to 531 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 3: pro Hamas countries, Cutter, Iran. You know if you send 532 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 3: them there, Turkey, those are pro Hamas countries. That's where 533 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 3: they should go. But they're on the run for their lives, 534 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 3: taking whatever they can, their kids in tow they're not 535 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 3: able to get into Egypt. How are you supposed to 536 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 3: even make it to Cutter at this in that telling 537 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 3: that Egypt won't take them? Why won't Egypt take them 538 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 3: because they don't trust which ones are terrorists and which 539 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 3: ones aren't. It's a sad state of affairs. But if 540 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 3: the reality of that evil is very clear in Arab 541 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 3: countries too. Arab countries have very much always been cautious 542 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 3: and know the threats that iron can place. They don't 543 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 3: want those terrorist proxies coming out them. Saudi Arabia felt 544 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 3: the Huthi's in that fight for Yemen. Egypt knows exactly 545 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 3: what they can do. But instead of the world hitting 546 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 3: on Israel, who was brought to her knees in the 547 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 3: worst invasion since the Holocaust. Why isn't everybody talking to Egypt. 548 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 3: Why aren't they talking to Turkey? Why aren't they talking 549 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 3: to Cutter, Why aren't they talking to Ron? Why aren't 550 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 3: they doing something to help the Palestinians. If that's the case, 551 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 3: why is it you come back to Israel and the US. 552 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 3: It's always the case. Everybody loves to help Israel when 553 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 3: she's hit, but all of a sudden they hit. They're 554 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 3: quick to beat up on Israel when she hits back. 555 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 3: If that had happened to America, do you not think 556 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 3: we would have hit back? But where are the friends 557 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 3: of those pro Hamas people? Where are the friends of Gaza? 558 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 3: They should be the ones doing what they need to 559 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 3: to save them. 560 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: So why do we come back to the US? Why 561 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: do we come back to Israel? I don't know. Maybe 562 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: it's because Israel the one dropping two thousand pound bunk 563 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: or busting bombs on a civilian population in a manner 564 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: that our own president describes as indiscriminate, even as he 565 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:13,240 Speaker 1: continues to ship whatever Israel means to continue to engage 566 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: in this indiscriminate bombing campaign. Maybe that's why, Maybe that's 567 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: why the focus on Israel. Oh why doesn't Egypt want 568 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: to take in all of these refugees who've been now 569 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: forcibly displaced from their homes because of this bombing campaign. 570 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: Oh I don't know, Maybe they don't really want to 571 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: participate in an ethnic cleansing that Netanyahu is now openly 572 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: floating and pushing for and clearly finding some support among 573 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: mainstream US politicians. Nikki Hilly is supposed to be the 574 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: moderate alternative to Trump, remember guys, And here she is saying, Oh, yeah, 575 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: that would be the humanitarian solution. I mean, that's the 576 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,879 Speaker 1: piece that always drives me completely insane. Is they frame 577 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 1: this quote unquote voluntary migration. How voluntary is it when 578 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,359 Speaker 1: your home is bombed, everything has been destroyed, and there's 579 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 1: nowhere left for you to return to, and your kids 580 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: are sick and there's not enough food and it's a 581 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: complete siege and you're starving and there's no water and 582 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 1: there's no medicine. Oh yeah, voluntary voluntary migration. Why do 583 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: we focus on Israel? Why do we focus on the US, 584 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: Because we're the ones who are making this entire area 585 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: unlivable and forcing people out and killing them on a 586 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,879 Speaker 1: daily basis. So we had covered before all of these 587 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: reports that, you know, I mean, it's clear at this 588 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: point what Netanyahu's goal is then out the population quote unquote. 589 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: We've had all these reports. We had that report about 590 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: it finding mainstream bipartisan support within the US using US 591 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 1: eight dollars to push countries in the region to take 592 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: in massive refugee populations. And Nikki Haley clearly down with 593 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: that plan. And I've got one piece to add to that, 594 00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: which is a report from uh to PARSI highlighted this, 595 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,800 Speaker 1: and I just you know, this is one single source. 596 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: This was in the New York Review of Books. A 597 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: person here says that a Biden official reached out about 598 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 1: studying the feasibility of building a tensity in the Sinai, 599 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,720 Speaker 1: which would be followed by a more permanent arrangement somewhere 600 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: in the northern part of the peninsula. So there are 601 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: some indications that US officials looking to assist with this 602 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: future ethnic cleansing plan. So again something to watch very 603 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 1: very carefully, because it's quite clear what the Israelis want 604 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 1: at the end of this situation. All right, guys, that's 605 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,479 Speaker 1: what I got for you today. I'll continue to watch 606 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 1: and see if there are other updates that we need 607 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 1: to bring, and we'll be back with a regular show 608 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so if not before, I will certainly see 609 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: you that