Speaker 1: Hey, guys, hope everyone is doing well. I have a
Speaker 1: whole lot of Israel updates that I wanted to go
Speaker 1: ahead and bring to use. Some that are incredibly significant
Speaker 1: and we cannot lose sight of, including war drums beating
Speaker 1: louder and louder for us to go to war with Iran,
Speaker 1: both from Israeli politicians pushing us in that direction and
Speaker 1: our own politicians. You won't be surprised, Lindsay Graham, John Bolton,
Speaker 1: et cetera. We also have South Africa officially instituting proceedings
Speaker 1: against Israel for the crime of genocide. I want to
Speaker 1: spend a bit of time with that. Why it's significant,
Speaker 1: What is the case that they are making. We have
Speaker 1: Israel saying they regret the use of a particular munition
Speaker 1: in attacking a refugee camp. They don't regret striking the
Speaker 1: refugee camp, just the particular munition that they used in
Speaker 1: what has been one of the deadliest attacks on the
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip since the beginning of their assault. Post October seventh,
Speaker 1: we have the US skipping congressional review to go ahead
Speaker 1: and sell addition munitions to Israel. This is significant in
Speaker 1: a number of ways. I want to break that down
Speaker 1: for you. You've got another alleged Biden versus bb fight,
Speaker 1: allegedly difficult phone conversation, So I'll break that down for you.
Speaker 1: What was it supposedly about and what happened there? What
Speaker 1: does it mean? This war has apparently also unleashed a
Speaker 1: drug resistant super fungus that is attacking Israeli soldiers and
Speaker 1: undoubtedly Palestinians as well, So important to keep our eye
Speaker 1: on that. And ethnic cleansing being mainstreamed by US politicians,
Speaker 1: none other than our great friend, that moderate, that beacon
Speaker 1: of moderate politics, Nikki Haley herself. So I'll show you
Speaker 1: those comments too, But I wanted to go ahead and
Speaker 1: start with war drums beating for us to get directly
Speaker 1: in a conflict with Iran. Now this is incredible on
Speaker 1: a number of levels. First of all, horrifying that anyone
Speaker 1: is suggesting or excited about the possibility of escalating this
Speaker 1: conflict into a regional conflagration, into a war directly between
Speaker 1: the US and Israel and Iran. But in addition, so
Speaker 1: this is eneught Aali Betta. He is a former Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of Israel. Just a year or so ago, he
Speaker 1: was Prime Minister of Israel, and he published an op
Speaker 1: ed in The Wall Street Journal saying the US and
Speaker 1: Israel knew to take on Iran directly, make the Ayatolas
Speaker 1: pay for sowing chaos through their hamas Hesbela and Huthi proxies.
Speaker 1: Here he is tweeting this out. Iran is a terror octopus.
Speaker 1: It's arms, hamas Hesbela and the Huthis are sewing chaos
Speaker 1: and terror across the world. It's time for the US
Speaker 1: and its allies to target its head, Tehran and bring
Speaker 1: down its regime. Now. Think if any other foreign politician
Speaker 1: published an op ed in a Western media outlet, in
Speaker 1: one of the top Western media outlets calling for US
Speaker 1: to send our sons and daughters into war, everyone be
Speaker 1: freaking out about this. Even if it was, you know,
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian Zelensky saying we should get directly involved and
Speaker 1: boots on the ground in a war with Russia, people
Speaker 1: would rightly be freaking out. But here, for some reason,
Speaker 1: since it's Israel, just fine a dandy for their prime
Speaker 1: former prime minister, very recently former prime minister to write
Speaker 1: in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's time for us to go to war with Iran.
Speaker 1: Let me read you a little bit of what he
Speaker 1: says here. He says, there are many ways to weaken
Speaker 1: Iran and power, domestic opposition, ensure internet continuity during riots
Speaker 1: against the regime, strength and its enemies, increase sanctions and
Speaker 1: economic pressures. But Israel can't and shouldn't do this alone.
Speaker 1: The US should be leading the effort. So regime change
Speaker 1: effort that he's saying here now he's saying, Oh, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be it doesn't have to go to
Speaker 1: all out war. He floats this sort of like wish
Speaker 1: list of what right wing hawks in Israel and here
Speaker 1: in America too, as I'm about to show you want
Speaker 1: us to be doing to Iran, including things like increasing sanctions.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're already sanctioning the hell out of Iran,
Speaker 1: and how has that worked out for us in terms
Speaker 1: of our relationship. It's preposterous. But also to float all
Speaker 1: of these actions aimed directly at regime change within Iran
Speaker 1: and think that that includes no risk, no risk whatsoever,
Speaker 1: that you can just do these things without any cost
Speaker 1: or consequence. He can't be this stupid. There's no way
Speaker 1: that he's this stupid. He concludes by saying the US
Speaker 1: and Israel must set the clear goal of bringing down
Speaker 1: Iran's evil regime. Not only is this possible, it is
Speaker 1: vital for the safety and security of the Middle East
Speaker 1: and the entire civilized world. So now you'll recall it
Speaker 1: the beginning of you know, right after the horrors of
Speaker 1: October seventh, there was this report, originally in the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal claiming that Iran was directly in involved in
Speaker 1: the October seventh attacks. This was always very questionable, based
Speaker 1: on really shoddy sourcing, and immediately both the US and
Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence shot this report down and said, look, Iran
Speaker 1: provides support to Hamas, but they were actually caught off guard.
Speaker 1: They were actually surprised by the October seventh attacks. They
Speaker 1: were not directly involved in planning it. And so early
Speaker 1: on in the conflict, people like John Bolden others right
Speaker 1: wing Republican politicians here in the US started to build
Speaker 1: this case for war with the run and howd it
Speaker 1: really stopped. But once that initial report got kind of
Speaker 1: shot down, there was a little bit of you heard
Speaker 1: a little bit less of hey, now's the time we
Speaker 1: go after I run, because again, they are not directly
Speaker 1: implicated in the October seventh attacks. But now we're coming
Speaker 1: back around to as we're saying what the hoo Thies
Speaker 1: are doing with regard to the Red Sea, we're coming
Speaker 1: back around to this incredibly hawkish case for direct war
Speaker 1: and conflict with Iran. The next example I'll show you again.
Speaker 1: He won't be surprised by this, because Lindsay Graham is
Speaker 1: always looking for an excuse to call for war with Iran,
Speaker 1: it seems. But he says the US should hit an
Speaker 1: Iranian base and blow it off the map. Let me
Speaker 1: read you this from Newsweek. Senator Lindsay Graham is urging
Speaker 1: the Biden administration to blow parts of Iran off the map,
Speaker 1: the South Carolina Republicans said. He told Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: Floyd Austin not to show weakness and make clear what
Speaker 1: the US red lines for retaliatory attack are. Without Iran.
Speaker 1: There are no Hoothias, Graham told Fox News on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: The Houthis are completely backed by Iran. I have been
Speaker 1: saying for six months now. Hit Iran. They have oil
Speaker 1: fields out in the open, they have the Revolutionary Guard
Speaker 1: headquarters you can see from space. Blow it off the map,
Speaker 1: he continued, if you really want to protect American soldiers.
Speaker 1: Make it real to the Ayatola that if you attack
Speaker 1: a soldier through we are coming after you. So directly
Speaker 1: calling to blow the Revolutionary Guard headquarters off the map,
Speaker 1: off the map, It's Lindsey Graham. I've got one more
Speaker 1: for you here. SHO shouldn't be left out. John Bolton
Speaker 1: again one of these people who you know. I guess
Speaker 1: it's just an ordinary day of the week for him
Speaker 1: to call for direct war with Iran. He says the
Speaker 1: lesson may now have no option but to attack Iran.
Speaker 1: Tehran will only accept it has miscalculated if it faces
Speaker 1: significant costs for its recent acts of aggression, and Caitlin Johnstone,
Speaker 1: you're opining it's actually almost cute at this point. He
Speaker 1: just keeps making up excuses to get the one thing
Speaker 1: he desperately wants, like uh oh, looks like we'll have
Speaker 1: to do the thing I've always wanted to do. He's
Speaker 1: like a cartoon Breakfast Cereal mascot, always making news schemes
Speaker 1: to grab a bowl, which is fairly well said, but
Speaker 1: for me, it highlights just what a dangerous and precarious
Speaker 1: situation that we find ourselves in with risks of escalation
Speaker 1: across the board. You know, the fact that we have
Speaker 1: so many service members still in the region makes means
Speaker 1: that there are targets and possibilities of dangerous escalation. The
Speaker 1: fact that you have this domestic push now coupled within
Speaker 1: Israeli push for direct conflict with Iran, this is not
Speaker 1: something to play around with. This is not something to downplay.
Speaker 1: This is a risk we have to take incredibly, incredibly
Speaker 1: seriously because you know, with regard to Biden, who is
Speaker 1: mentally ailing and who has proven himself to basically do
Speaker 1: whatever Israel wants him to do, I don't think you
Speaker 1: can take any possibility off the table at this point.
Speaker 1: But you know, I can't move on to the next
Speaker 1: piece without just saying how how sick it is to
Speaker 1: me to hear these people just so casual in calling
Speaker 1: for or you know, directly escalatory attacks, calling for blowing
Speaker 1: the Revolutionary Guard headquarters off the map, as if that
Speaker 1: wouldn't create the conditions for potential direct war. You know,
Speaker 1: I guess they're just so used to thinking of the
Speaker 1: globe as like some chessboard that they can just move
Speaker 1: pieces around on. They don't even consider the human beings lives,
Speaker 1: it would be put at risk because I guess it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be them, it wouldn't be their family, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be the people in their like elite bubble circles. And
Speaker 1: so it's just done so incredibly casually. And I you know,
Speaker 1: even though it's characters like Lindsay Graham, John Bolton who
Speaker 1: do this all the time, I still continue to find it,
Speaker 1: and I think you should still continue to find it
Speaker 1: incredibly shocking and incredibly disturbing. All right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and move on to this next piece which I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: which is that South Africa has now officially instituted proceedings
Speaker 1: with the International Court of Justice against Israel for the
Speaker 1: crime of genocide. You have Jeremy Scahill here, a fantastic
Speaker 1: reporter co founder of the INTERCEPTUO says this is a
Speaker 1: significant move, particularly because the action is being brought by
Speaker 1: South Africa, nation that fought for its own liberation against
Speaker 1: apart time regime supported for decades by the US. I
Speaker 1: want to read to you a little bit of their
Speaker 1: letter and what they have to say here. They say,
Speaker 1: South Africa today filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel
Speaker 1: before the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ
Speaker 1: of the UN concerning alleged violations by Israel of its
Speaker 1: obligations under the Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of
Speaker 1: the Crime of Genocide the quote Genocide Convention in relation
Speaker 1: to Palestinians in the Gaza strip. According to this application,
Speaker 1: acts and omissions by Israel are genocidal in character as
Speaker 1: they are committed with the requisite specific intent to destroy
Speaker 1: Palestinians in Gaza as part of the broader Palestinian national, racial,
Speaker 1: and ethnical group, and that the conduct of Israel, through
Speaker 1: the state organ state agents, and other persons and entities
Speaker 1: acting on its instructions or under the direction, control, or influence,
Speaker 1: in relation to Palestines in Gaza is in violation of
Speaker 1: its obligations under the Genocide Convention. I also want to
Speaker 1: share with you just a bit of the actual case
Speaker 1: that they filed here, and it's like, you know, eighty
Speaker 1: some pages long, so obviously I'm not going to read
Speaker 1: all of it, but in the specific language about this
Speaker 1: about Genocide Convention and what it entails. You know, one
Speaker 1: of the most difficult to prove components is the idea
Speaker 1: of intent. So you have to see the acts on
Speaker 1: the ground, which obviously, you know, we see in this
Speaker 1: mass bombing campaign, targeting civilians, targeting civilian infrastructure, targeting, you know,
Speaker 1: anyone who calls themselves a Palestinian, overwhelmingly in Gaza, but
Speaker 1: also targeting in the West Bank as well. You have
Speaker 1: to have the capability to actually effectuate genocide, and then
Speaker 1: you have to have this component of intent. And as
Speaker 1: I said, this is typically, you know, according to people
Speaker 1: who study this, and I would recommend you go listen
Speaker 1: to Ryan and Emily did a fantastic interview with a
Speaker 1: scholar who's saying, this is, you know, textbook case of genocide. Typically,
Speaker 1: the intent piece is difficult to establish because usually politicians
Speaker 1: and media figures, etc. Military officials aren't running around saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm doing a genocide. What do you think. But in
Speaker 1: this particular case, they have so many examples of Israeli
Speaker 1: officials up to and including Benjamin Nett Yahoo saying very
Speaker 1: explicitly what they're up to here. And so I wanted
Speaker 1: to show you a little bit of that part of
Speaker 1: the report. It starts on page fifty nine under this
Speaker 1: subheading expressions of Genocidal intent, against the Palestinian people by
Speaker 1: Israeli state officials and others. They cite here comments from Netanyahu.
Speaker 1: They talk about how, in a televised address he promised
Speaker 1: to quote operate forcefully everywhere. He confirmed, we are striking
Speaker 1: our enemies with unprecedented might. He said when Israeli air
Speaker 1: STRIKX had already killed over twenty six hundred and seventy Palestinians,
Speaker 1: including seven hundred and twenty four children. He said that
Speaker 1: Israeli soldiers understand the scope of the mission and stand
Speaker 1: ready to defeat the bloodthirsty monsters who have risen against
Speaker 1: Israel to destroy us. In a formal address, you may
Speaker 1: recall this, he described the situation as a struggle between
Speaker 1: the children of light and the children of darkness, between
Speaker 1: humanity and the law of the jungle, a dehumanizing theme
Speaker 1: to which he returned on various occasions. They write, including
Speaker 1: on November third, in a letter to Israeli soldiers and
Speaker 1: officers published on X. The letter asserted that this is
Speaker 1: the war between the suns of light and the sons
Speaker 1: of darkness. We will not let up on our mission
Speaker 1: until the light overcomes the darkness. The good will defeat
Speaker 1: the extreme evil that threatens us in the entire world.
Speaker 1: He returned a theme in his Christmas message, stating, we
Speaker 1: are facing monsters, monsters who murder children in front of
Speaker 1: their parents. This is a battle not only of Israel
Speaker 1: against these barbarians, It's a battle of civilization against barbarism.
Speaker 1: On October twenty eighth, as Israeli forces prepared their land
Speaker 1: invasion of Gaza, he invoked the Biblical story of the
Speaker 1: total destruction of Amelek by the Israelites, stating, you must
Speaker 1: remember what Amelek has done to you, says our Holy Bible,
Speaker 1: and we do remember. He again referred to Amelek in
Speaker 1: a letter on November third, saying the relevant Biblical passage
Speaker 1: reads as follows, Now, go attack Amelek and prescribe all
Speaker 1: that belongs to him. Spare no one but kill alike,
Speaker 1: men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels
Speaker 1: and asses. They go on through the list. I won't
Speaker 1: give you all of these details. Some of these comments
Speaker 1: you'll remember Isaac Hertzog.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: One of the comments they cite here is his discussion
Speaker 1: of how the are no innocent Palestinians in Gaza defense
Speaker 1: Minister you of Gallant saying they're imposing a complete siege,
Speaker 1: saying we're fighting human animals and are acting accordingly. Israeli
Speaker 1: Minister for National Security, Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure,
Speaker 1: Israeli Minister of Finance saying we need to deal a
Speaker 1: blow that hasn't been seen in fifty years and take
Speaker 1: down Gaza, the Israeli Minister of Heritage, the Israeli Minister
Speaker 1: of Agriculture, the Deputy Speaker of the Kanesset and member
Speaker 1: of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee. You've got, in addition,
Speaker 1: you've got Israeli Army officials, advisors and spokespersons, Israeli Army
Speaker 1: Coordinator of Government Activities, Israeli Army of Reservist, Major General, etc.
Speaker 1: Et cetera, et cetera. So, in terms of establishing intent,
Speaker 1: which again is oftentimes the most difficult part of proving
Speaker 1: that you know, the crimes are grave enough to meet
Speaker 1: what is intended to be of you know, high bar
Speaker 1: of the Genocide Convention, their own words make it quite
Speaker 1: clear how they are viewing this conflict, what their goals are,
Speaker 1: and what they're up to. So that's part, a key
Speaker 1: part of the case that they are making here to
Speaker 1: the International Court of Justice. You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: also important. South Africa's Foreign minister was discussing this case
Speaker 1: against Israel and she had some very powerful words that
Speaker 1: I wanted to share with you about US hypocrisy and
Speaker 1: Western hypocrisy with regards to the view of Israel and
Speaker 1: the acts they're committing in Gaza Versus the Way, and
Speaker 1: this is something we've highlighted on the show Versus the
Speaker 1: Way that they discuss Russian war crimes against Ukraine and
Speaker 1: how you know, this hypocrisy, it really renders international law completely,
Speaker 1: completely meaningless. So let's listen to what South Africa's Foreign
Speaker 1: minister has to say.
Speaker 2: You know, I think this notion of international rules is
Speaker 2: very comfortable for some people to use when it suits them,
Speaker 2: but they don't believe in international rules when it doesn't
Speaker 2: suit them because they don't apply international rules or law
Speaker 2: equally in all circumstances. So you can't say because Ukraine
Speaker 2: has been invaded that suddenly sovereignty is important, but it
Speaker 2: was never important for Palestine. It's very peculiar. If you
Speaker 2: believe in international law truly, then wherever sovereignty is infringed,
Speaker 2: it must apply.
Speaker 3: And this is the point.
Speaker 2: We've been making that we use the framework of international
Speaker 2: law unequally depending on who is affected, and we are
Speaker 2: arguing that that must change. And one of them interesting
Speaker 2: changes that has occurred is the sudden movement, because Russia
Speaker 2: has invaded Ukraine that we say, okay, let's not allow
Speaker 2: the Security Council to just have the veto and let
Speaker 2: it pass. We take it to the General Assembly. When
Speaker 2: some of us had been calling for the General Assembly
Speaker 2: to have a greater say, we never enjoyed support, but
Speaker 2: suddenly today see, that's where international law begins to mean nothing,
Speaker 2: because for some we see it as a cheating and
Speaker 2: for others we see it as a benefit. So our
Speaker 2: argument is, let's revise the international multilateral system to ensure
Speaker 2: that we observe that post nineteen forty eight has arrived.
Speaker 1: Post nineteen forty eight has arrived. I think very powerful words,
Speaker 1: they are very compelling, very difficult to deny the level
Speaker 1: of hypocrisy. In fact, there was a new Russian attack,
Speaker 1: likely war crime, bombing against residentially. I believe it is
Speaker 1: a high rise apartment building in Ukraine. US officials Tony
Speaker 1: Blanken jumping on Twitter, no problem calling that out as
Speaker 1: the whoror that it was. But then when it's Israel
Speaker 1: that has literally destroyed the vast majority of Gaza, including
Speaker 1: apartment buildings, including there's actually New Wall Street Journal analysis,
Speaker 1: I believe seventy percent of homes, huge percentage of homes
Speaker 1: have been destroyed, schools, mosques, churches, farmland, water, infrastructure, you
Speaker 1: name it, it's been destroyed. And virtual silence. You occasionally
Speaker 1: get this little like, oh, maybe you should do a
Speaker 1: little bit better, and or a leaked to the press
Speaker 1: of oh, you know, we're really worried about the civilians,
Speaker 1: and oh they need to stop. Biden even said they're,
Speaker 1: you know, indiscriminate bombing, and he described as indiscriminate bombing
Speaker 1: that is a war crime. And yet there is none
Speaker 1: of the concern, there's none of certainly no repercussions. There's
Speaker 1: nothing but just green lighting more and more and more,
Speaker 1: which actually, you know, let me go ahead and show
Speaker 1: you what the latest is in that regard. We've got
Speaker 1: the Biden administration once again bypassing Congress on an emergency
Speaker 1: weapons sale to Israel. So they are bypassing the normal
Speaker 1: procedure to allow for congressional approval and just going ahead
Speaker 1: and green lighting this sale, which given the context, given
Speaker 1: the fact, again you even have Biden describing what Israel
Speaker 1: is doing as indiscriminate bombing. You have you know, this
Speaker 1: genocide allegations being presented at the International Court of Justice.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have so much documented at this point.
Speaker 1: This is directly aiding in a betting those war crimes.
Speaker 1: So let me read you a little but to the article,
Speaker 1: they say, for the second time this month, the Biden
Speaker 1: administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapon sale
Speaker 1: to Israel, as Israel continues to prosecute its war against
Speaker 1: Hamas and Gaza under increasing international criticism, State Department said Friday,
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln had told Congress that he
Speaker 1: made a second emergency determination covering one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: seven point five million dollars sale for equipment including fuses, charges,
Speaker 1: and primers that is needed to make the one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five millimeter shells that Israel has already purchased
Speaker 1: function Given the urgency of Israel's defensive needs, the Secretary
Speaker 1: notified Congress he had exercised his delegated authority to determine
Speaker 1: an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer.
Speaker 1: So I looked up the significance of these particular munitions.
Speaker 1: So each round is about two feet long, weighs about
Speaker 1: one hundred pounds, is as the name indicates, about one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five millimeters or six point one inches
Speaker 1: in diameter. They're used in howitzer systems, which are toad
Speaker 1: large guns that are identified by the re of the
Speaker 1: angle of fire that their barrels can be set to,
Speaker 1: can be configured in many ways, can be packed with
Speaker 1: highly exposive material, use precision guided systems, pierce armor, or
Speaker 1: produce high fragmentation. This is again according to the AP
Speaker 1: and these are highly sought after munitions. There are a
Speaker 1: few things that are really important to note here. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned before, just the green lighting of this, the
Speaker 1: bypassing of normal procedures, shows you how all in the
Speaker 1: Biden administration continues to be on Israel's assault on Gaza,
Speaker 1: any sort of words of concern. Notwithstanding that's number one.
Speaker 1: Number two, this is these are exactly the munitions that
Speaker 1: and Ryan Grimm is pointing this out on Twitter. Ukraine
Speaker 1: is desperate for so it also shows you, you know,
Speaker 1: the pecking order in terms of US support and priorities.
Speaker 1: Ukraine has definitely fallen too. The back burder. We'll cover
Speaker 1: this next week when we're back doing normal shows. You
Speaker 1: now have being openly talked about, Hey, Ukraine may have
Speaker 1: to give up some territory, something that was absolutely off
Speaker 1: the table to even say up until very very recently.
Speaker 1: And so they're you know, expediting this massive sale of
Speaker 1: these you know, very large munitions to Israel and circumventing
Speaker 1: the normal process in order to make sure Israel has
Speaker 1: absolutely everything they need to continue what Joe Biden himself
Speaker 1: has described as an indiscriminate bombing campaign in Gaza. And uh,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, let's discuss. There was recently I brought
Speaker 1: you some of these details previously, a huge attack on
Speaker 1: a large refugee camp. It killed, reports are killed, hundreds,
Speaker 1: including you know, overwhelmingly civilians as usual, many women and children.
Speaker 1: And the Israelis are now expressing regret, not over the
Speaker 1: attack itself, but this is an Israeli government spokesperson on
Speaker 1: Sky News saying they regret that a wrong munition was
Speaker 1: used in this attack. Let's take a lesson.
Speaker 4: Given that we have heard from the IDF about what
Speaker 4: took place at the Magazi at refugee camp. I wonder
Speaker 4: if we might focus the majority of our time on that.
Speaker 4: What is your understanding as to what took place there
Speaker 4: on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 5: My understanding is, as a military spokesperson has told Israeli television,
Speaker 5: an incorrect munition was used in that strike. We of
Speaker 5: course do our best to be targeted and precise, and
Speaker 5: to target the hamas terrorists and do everything to get
Speaker 5: civilians out of harm's way. And it appears that in
Speaker 5: this mistake in war, a mistake was made, and we
Speaker 5: are learning lessons.
Speaker 1: Mistake was made. You know, they're learning lessons. They're just
Speaker 1: they're doing their best, guys, and we are now I
Speaker 1: have actually entered one of what appears to be the
Speaker 1: deadliest phases of this assault on Gaza. You know, this
Speaker 1: comes after many US supposed concerns have been expressed. And
Speaker 1: remember all those reports about how the US officials who
Speaker 1: flew to Tel Aviv. We're telling that Nyahu, like the
Speaker 1: attacks on the south, can't be like what you did
Speaker 1: in the north, But none of that has been heeded.
Speaker 1: If anything, it's more deadly, which makes sense, because obviously
Speaker 1: every the north is completely uninhabitable, utterly destroyed. There's barely
Speaker 1: anything left standing, you know, attacks on key parts of
Speaker 1: civilian life, including hospitals, Alshifa being sort of like the
Speaker 1: center of those attacks. That are very few hospitals that
Speaker 1: are even continuing to operate anywhere in the Gaza strip.
Speaker 1: But the north is utterly destroyed, and almost everybody in
Speaker 1: the Palestinian Gaza population is now moved to the south,
Speaker 1: so you have people even more densely packed in even
Speaker 1: more close quarters. And the Israeli government and the IDF
Speaker 1: have told them, oh, there's this one place where you
Speaker 1: can go to be safer, while they still are bombing
Speaker 1: those places where they claim to tell them the population
Speaker 1: that they can move to to be safe. As the
Speaker 1: UN has said, and as many analyzes, including from Western
Speaker 1: media out looks like the Wall Street Journal, in the
Speaker 1: Washington Post and the New York Times have said, there
Speaker 1: is nowhere safe in the Gaza strip. And yet we
Speaker 1: have yet another of these reports of how concerned Biden
Speaker 1: is and how he's really you know, behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: pushing back on bb and they're just they're doing their
Speaker 1: best out there. This is from axios from a reporter
Speaker 1: Barock Revide scoop Biden in frustrating call, told bb to
Speaker 1: solve Palestinian tax revenue issue. So this has to do
Speaker 1: with the West Bank, which is run in part by
Speaker 1: the Palestinian Authority. The taxes that are directly owed to
Speaker 1: the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been withholding and this has
Speaker 1: been a particular project of extremist finance Minister Bezilielsmotrich, who
Speaker 1: doesn't want any of this money to go to the PA. Well,
Speaker 1: they're already in a financial crisis and which has been
Speaker 1: you know, really exacerbated by the fact that Palestinians who
Speaker 1: used to be able in the West Bank to go
Speaker 1: and work in Israel's day laborers, et cetera, they have
Speaker 1: they have been blocked from doing that. So there's been
Speaker 1: a huge drop in revenue and they're really struggling. And
Speaker 1: now Israel is completely withholding the tax revenue that they
Speaker 1: are owed in order to finance, you know, paying for
Speaker 1: their employees and their bureaucracy and basic services and security services,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So that's the context of this alleged conversation
Speaker 1: that happened. Let me read you this report. They say
Speaker 1: President Biden held a difficult conversation with Netanyahu over at
Speaker 1: Israel's decision to withhold part of the tax remant collects
Speaker 1: for the PA, According to US and Israeli officials, The
Speaker 1: Big Picture, US officials said this part of last Saturday's
Speaker 1: call between the two leaders was one of the most
Speaker 1: difficult and frustrating conversations Biden has had with Netnahu since
Speaker 1: the beginning of the war. Sign of growing tensions between
Speaker 1: Biden and YAHUO. I believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1: The tax revenues Israel collects for the PA under an
Speaker 1: agreement between the parties are a major source of income
Speaker 1: for the PA, which is already in a financial crisis.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, Israel's far right ulternationalist finance minister
Speaker 1: Bezialilsmotrich and October decided to suspend the transfer of all
Speaker 1: of the tax revenue funds after the Hamas terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: Hamas does not run the West Bank, so why are
Speaker 1: they Why is the PA being targeted for something they
Speaker 1: had absolutely nothing to do with, so they say Behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, Saturday's forty five minute call focused on the
Speaker 1: next phase of Israel's ground operation but towards the end
Speaker 1: of the call, Biden raised his concerns about the withheld
Speaker 1: Palestinian tax revenues. According to the officials, bidenes's Ntnyahu to
Speaker 1: accept a proposal that the Israeli Prime Minister had raised
Speaker 1: himself for weeks ago to transfer the withheld tax revenues
Speaker 1: to Norway for safekeeping until an arrangement can be found,
Speaker 1: and the PA had agreed to that. Netanyahu had floated
Speaker 1: it previously, and now reportedly he backtracked on that, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the call, they say, after a
Speaker 1: few minutes of discussion, Biden told Netanyaho he expects him
Speaker 1: to solve this issue, added that this conversation is over
Speaker 1: and ended the call. The US official and source with
Speaker 1: knowledge of the call said.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Supposedly tensions over this. I mean, it is noteworthy to
Speaker 1: me that this would be the thing that Biden would
Speaker 1: really get most irritated and upset over. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not an important issue. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's like completely unjust that this is being withheld
Speaker 1: from the PA, causing additional suffering in the West Bank,
Speaker 1: and it's easy to lose sight of what's going on
Speaker 1: the West Bank because of what's going on in Gaza
Speaker 1: is so horrific, but violence is dramatically escalated there. So
Speaker 1: it's not that it's not important. But you had this
Speaker 1: whole common conversation about the next phase of the quote
Speaker 1: unquote ground operation that all went fine and dandy, and
Speaker 1: the thing that you're getting completely hung up on is
Speaker 1: the tax revenue part. What about the human beings who
Speaker 1: are being massacred on a daily basis. What about this
Speaker 1: attack on the refugee camp that just you know, slaughtered
Speaker 1: hundreds of civilians. What about the attacks on the hospital
Speaker 1: that they just blatantly lied about the extent of Hamas
Speaker 1: use and any sort of connection to Hamas command and
Speaker 1: control center. No, No, that none of that was the
Speaker 1: part that really got Biden upset. It was the tax revenue, which,
Speaker 1: again not saying it's not important, but you know, I
Speaker 1: would if I had to choose between the things that
Speaker 1: are going on right now to really you know, fixate
Speaker 1: on and focus on perhaps the you know, plans for
Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing and the utter destruction of the Gaza strip
Speaker 1: and killing of some you know, twenty one thousand plus
Speaker 1: Palestadians in Gaza might might be an important thing to
Speaker 1: race with Nyaho and get upset about as well. I
Speaker 1: also wanted to just show you this in the lane
Speaker 1: of fresh horrors that are being unleashed by this war.
Speaker 1: Apparently we have a new super fungus in Gaza because
Speaker 1: of Israel's destruction of all of the sanitation infrastructure. A
Speaker 1: wounded IDs soldier died after infection by this super fungus
Speaker 1: during the Gaza ground operation. Soldier was seriously injured in
Speaker 1: the strip. Some ten soldiers believed to have contracted the
Speaker 1: same fungus. No confirmation from IDF doctors worn of dangerous
Speaker 1: battlefield infections. So apparently this was a drug resistant superfungus.
Speaker 1: And it's because the soil has been contaminated with sewage,
Speaker 1: with raw sewage, because all of the infrastructure has been
Speaker 1: destroyed in Gaza. At the same time, we have mainstream
Speaker 1: US politicians who are now you know, just getting super
Speaker 1: comfortable with ethnic cleansing and arguing aggressively that this is
Speaker 1: the right approach for the day after in Gaza, here
Speaker 1: is Nikki Haley saying that starving Palestinians should go to
Speaker 1: pro Hamas countries.
Speaker 3: Let's take a listen, where should the Palestinians go? Well,
Speaker 3: you know they should be going through the Rafa Gate
Speaker 3: and Egypt take them. But I've always said that you
Speaker 3: know what you should have is they should go to
Speaker 3: pro Hamas countries, Cutter, Iran. You know if you send
Speaker 3: them there, Turkey, those are pro Hamas countries. That's where
Speaker 3: they should go. But they're on the run for their lives,
Speaker 3: taking whatever they can, their kids in tow they're not
Speaker 3: able to get into Egypt. How are you supposed to
Speaker 3: even make it to Cutter at this in that telling
Speaker 3: that Egypt won't take them? Why won't Egypt take them
Speaker 3: because they don't trust which ones are terrorists and which
Speaker 3: ones aren't. It's a sad state of affairs. But if
Speaker 3: the reality of that evil is very clear in Arab
Speaker 3: countries too. Arab countries have very much always been cautious
Speaker 3: and know the threats that iron can place. They don't
Speaker 3: want those terrorist proxies coming out them. Saudi Arabia felt
Speaker 3: the Huthi's in that fight for Yemen. Egypt knows exactly
Speaker 3: what they can do. But instead of the world hitting
Speaker 3: on Israel, who was brought to her knees in the
Speaker 3: worst invasion since the Holocaust. Why isn't everybody talking to Egypt.
Speaker 3: Why aren't they talking to Turkey? Why aren't they talking
Speaker 3: to Cutter, Why aren't they talking to Ron? Why aren't
Speaker 3: they doing something to help the Palestinians. If that's the case,
Speaker 3: why is it you come back to Israel and the US.
Speaker 3: It's always the case. Everybody loves to help Israel when
Speaker 3: she's hit, but all of a sudden they hit. They're
Speaker 3: quick to beat up on Israel when she hits back.
Speaker 3: If that had happened to America, do you not think
Speaker 3: we would have hit back? But where are the friends
Speaker 3: of those pro Hamas people? Where are the friends of Gaza?
Speaker 3: They should be the ones doing what they need to
Speaker 3: to save them.
Speaker 1: So why do we come back to the US? Why
Speaker 1: do we come back to Israel? I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's because Israel the one dropping two thousand pound bunk
Speaker 1: or busting bombs on a civilian population in a manner
Speaker 1: that our own president describes as indiscriminate, even as he
Speaker 1: continues to ship whatever Israel means to continue to engage
Speaker 1: in this indiscriminate bombing campaign. Maybe that's why, Maybe that's
Speaker 1: why the focus on Israel. Oh why doesn't Egypt want
Speaker 1: to take in all of these refugees who've been now
Speaker 1: forcibly displaced from their homes because of this bombing campaign.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't know, Maybe they don't really want to
Speaker 1: participate in an ethnic cleansing that Netanyahu is now openly
Speaker 1: floating and pushing for and clearly finding some support among
Speaker 1: mainstream US politicians. Nikki Hilly is supposed to be the
Speaker 1: moderate alternative to Trump, remember guys, And here she is saying, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be the humanitarian solution. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: piece that always drives me completely insane. Is they frame
Speaker 1: this quote unquote voluntary migration. How voluntary is it when
Speaker 1: your home is bombed, everything has been destroyed, and there's
Speaker 1: nowhere left for you to return to, and your kids
Speaker 1: are sick and there's not enough food and it's a
Speaker 1: complete siege and you're starving and there's no water and
Speaker 1: there's no medicine. Oh yeah, voluntary voluntary migration. Why do
Speaker 1: we focus on Israel? Why do we focus on the US,
Speaker 1: Because we're the ones who are making this entire area
Speaker 1: unlivable and forcing people out and killing them on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. So we had covered before all of these
Speaker 1: reports that, you know, I mean, it's clear at this
Speaker 1: point what Netanyahu's goal is then out the population quote unquote.
Speaker 1: We've had all these reports. We had that report about
Speaker 1: it finding mainstream bipartisan support within the US using US
Speaker 1: eight dollars to push countries in the region to take
Speaker 1: in massive refugee populations. And Nikki Haley clearly down with
Speaker 1: that plan. And I've got one piece to add to that,
Speaker 1: which is a report from uh to PARSI highlighted this,
Speaker 1: and I just you know, this is one single source.
Speaker 1: This was in the New York Review of Books. A
Speaker 1: person here says that a Biden official reached out about
Speaker 1: studying the feasibility of building a tensity in the Sinai,
Speaker 1: which would be followed by a more permanent arrangement somewhere
Speaker 1: in the northern part of the peninsula. So there are
Speaker 1: some indications that US officials looking to assist with this
Speaker 1: future ethnic cleansing plan. So again something to watch very
Speaker 1: very carefully, because it's quite clear what the Israelis want
Speaker 1: at the end of this situation. All right, guys, that's
Speaker 1: what I got for you today. I'll continue to watch
Speaker 1: and see if there are other updates that we need
Speaker 1: to bring, and we'll be back with a regular show
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so if not before, I will certainly see
Speaker 1: you that