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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the latest in the Israel Hamas War.
Speaker 1: There has been now a report of a major air
Speaker 1: strike that has hit a densely populated area in Gaza,
Speaker 1: near the Jabalia refugee camp and a Jabaliyah refugee camp,
Speaker 1: and there are reports of a large number of casualties. Now,
Speaker 1: this is going to be seized upon immediately by the
Speaker 1: critics of Israel to say, this is why we need
Speaker 1: to have a ceasefire, because there are civilian casualties. I
Speaker 1: reject that. I think that anybody who understands what's going
Speaker 1: on here and the scope of the conflict ahead sees
Speaker 1: that the rules of engagement here should be very similar
Speaker 1: to what they were for the US after Ine eleven,
Speaker 1: namely that if you are a nation that is responding
Speaker 1: to this kind of mass casualty terror attack, you have
Speaker 1: the right to defend yourself and to do so in
Speaker 1: a way that is going to be imperfect when it
Speaker 1: comes to civilian casualties, but is effective when it comes
Speaker 1: to defending yourself. Now there is a balance there, I
Speaker 1: understand that. But Israel does not kill civilians on purpose.
Speaker 1: Hamas does. That is a clear and defining difference between
Speaker 1: these two groups. Israel does not kill civilians on purpose,
Speaker 1: Hamas does. And when Israel fires a missile or drops
Speaker 1: a bomb on a target has just happened here in
Speaker 1: the Jebelia neighborhood, there are going to be sometimes civilian casualties.
Speaker 1: They will try to mitigate those a degree they can.
Speaker 1: But this strike, it is believed when after one of
Speaker 1: the primary planners of the October seventh attack, and so
Speaker 1: with that high value target, even in a densely populated
Speaker 1: civilian area, you're going to have the Israelis making a
Speaker 1: decision that they just need to defend themselves through taking
Speaker 1: aggressive action because this guy could be planning another's I'm
Speaker 1: certainly it's a question of when he would plan another attack.
Speaker 1: This individual and some of those around him, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are other senior Hamas planners there too. This was
Speaker 1: an attack on the central Jabaliah battalion, which had taken
Speaker 1: control of civilian buildings. These deaths are all on Hamas
Speaker 1: and the Gie hottest cause that is embraced by a
Speaker 1: large number of Palestinians in Gaza. They have caused this situation.
Speaker 1: They are responsible for what is happening here, and all
Speaker 1: these efforts at some kind of moral parody to create
Speaker 1: moral parody between Israel and Hamas are rooted in ignorance,
Speaker 1: bad faith, and honestly often anti Semitism. The Israelis have
Speaker 1: been very patient actually in the response to October seventh,
Speaker 1: trying to hear from the US, which I know the
Speaker 1: Biden administration has been trying to hold them back and
Speaker 1: constantly telling them like, oh, you must obey the laws
Speaker 1: of war. As though then Yahoo and the IDEF need
Speaker 1: to hear that. I need to hear that from Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: They are the good guys in this and sometimes conflicts
Speaker 1: do have good and evil at stake. This is not
Speaker 1: some minor territorial dispute with two groups that are putting
Speaker 1: professional armies in the field, and after some casualties are
Speaker 1: observed by both sides, they'll come to some kind of
Speaker 1: an agreement. That's not what's happening here. Hamas wants to
Speaker 1: destroy the State of Israel and exterminate the Jewish people
Speaker 1: and that is what it says it wants to do,
Speaker 1: and that is how it has acted. The misery of
Speaker 1: the Palestinian people in Gaza is the fault of Hamas,
Speaker 1: the terrorist group that runs Gaza, and it's I think
Speaker 1: it couldn't be any more abundantly clear that the that
Speaker 1: misery falls upon Hamasa's shoulders, that the civilian casualties that
Speaker 1: will come from this conflict fall on Hamassa's shoulders. You know,
Speaker 1: all of these entities in the region, when you think
Speaker 1: about it, whether it's Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, the
Speaker 1: Shia backed militias, it's all rooted in hatred, misery, violence
Speaker 1: and destruction. None of these entities are involved in happy,
Speaker 1: well ordered societies. It there's there's something going on here, right,
Speaker 1: It's it's not like, uh, these these are our groups
Speaker 1: that are representing peoples in the region who are well
Speaker 1: governed and who are prosperous and law you know, lawful
Speaker 1: and happy and no, the this all comes out of misery.
Speaker 1: And it's worth understanding. You know, the e miseration I
Speaker 1: think is brought on by the leadership, but also by
Speaker 1: at some level the ideology here and depends on what
Speaker 1: specifically we're talking about them. It certainly you could look
Speaker 1: at the role that militant Shia Islam just plays in
Speaker 1: all of this, or militant Islam in general. Militant Islam
Speaker 1: is a recipe for misery for the people in the
Speaker 1: country that live under that regime and also for its neighbors,
Speaker 1: because eventually they're going to cause problems, not even eventually,
Speaker 1: it's usually rather quick that they are going to become
Speaker 1: aggressive and they're going to destabilize the region, and that
Speaker 1: is what they do. And also it's very it's hard,
Speaker 1: I think people to wrap their minds around this, but
Speaker 1: the depth of the hatred for the Jewish people that
Speaker 1: is inculcated at the very earliest age by Hamas and
Speaker 1: by Hesblah and these others, they have been they have
Speaker 1: been working to create a perception of dehumanization of Jews
Speaker 1: in there with Palestinian youth, to brainwash them into this
Speaker 1: as a function of state policy. So this isn't a
Speaker 1: normal conflict in the sense that it's armies in the field.
Speaker 1: You know, war is always hell, but eventually the combatants
Speaker 1: will come to some kind of a resolution based upon
Speaker 1: who gets what, and they split up the spoils. No, No,
Speaker 1: this is, on the one hand, a war of defense.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, an attempt at long term destabilization
Speaker 1: and extermination of a hated enemy. And that's what Hamas
Speaker 1: is doing to Israel. Israel is defending itself. And I
Speaker 1: think that moral clarity in this moment is absolutely essential.
Speaker 1: That's essential to have in this conflict. It's essential to
Speaker 1: have in any area of national security where the stakes
Speaker 1: are very high, and that is one that we're in
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Speaker 1: all heading in Israel and here here at home. What
Speaker 1: we're seeing, first of all, you know, Alan Dershowitz, for example,
Speaker 1: has come out and said that he doesn't think that
Speaker 1: people should give money to Harvard anymore. They're better now.
Speaker 1: He's somebody who built up certainly his academic career as
Speaker 1: a professor at Harvard Law School and is very much
Speaker 1: associated with that institution. So for him to come out
Speaker 1: and say Harvard Law should no longer be receiving donations
Speaker 1: and that, you think is pretty pretty big deal. So
Speaker 1: why does he feel that, Well, Well, because of not
Speaker 1: just the anti semitism of some of the student groups
Speaker 1: on campus, but also what he's what he's seen from
Speaker 1: the administration of Harvard, namely that the president of Harvard
Speaker 1: suddenly has discovered nuance in free speech issues. You know,
Speaker 1: if you would take in a very anti BLM stance,
Speaker 1: if you had said things about George Floyd that were
Speaker 1: factually true but that you weren't supposed to say in
Speaker 1: you know, June of twenty twenty, Harvard administration would have
Speaker 1: condemned you. They might have even taken action against you.
Speaker 1: True of a lot of schools, elite and non elite
Speaker 1: universities all across the country. But now when it comes
Speaker 1: to the support of Hamas and honestly, the outright jew
Speaker 1: hatred that has been on display on many of these campuses, right,
Speaker 1: the anti Semitism, it's the hatred of Jewish people. That's
Speaker 1: really what we're seeing when it comes to that, Harvard
Speaker 1: and these other schools are all of a sudden very
Speaker 1: very protective of free speech right. They're not saying they
Speaker 1: agree with it, They're just saying they're protective of free
Speaker 1: speech rights. And I think everyone at some level understands
Speaker 1: what the game is here, right. They're protective of free
Speaker 1: speech rights on this issue now, but a lot of
Speaker 1: other issues they would not be. So they pick and
Speaker 1: choose when to deploy that. It's not about principle, it's
Speaker 1: about what they need in the moment for their side.
Speaker 1: But I'd also point this out. You have all these
Speaker 1: different individuals. I mean, Dershowitz is a Democrats, it's maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But you have individuals who are
Speaker 1: coming forward to say that they will no longer give
Speaker 1: money to Harvard or some other fancy university that they've
Speaker 1: gone to because of this issue. And I just would
Speaker 1: would like to say, yes, it's worse what we're seeing
Speaker 1: than anything else we've seen on campus in some time.
Speaker 1: But it's also worth noting these campuses have been crazy
Speaker 1: for a long time, and conservative speakers have been physically
Speaker 1: attacked and threatened on these campuses. A Dartmouth there was
Speaker 1: a famous incident where Charles Murray came to speak and
Speaker 1: he and actually the professor who was with him so
Speaker 1: was some years ago, were physically assaulted. You can't speak
Speaker 1: on trans issues on these campuses, truthfully. You can't speak
Speaker 1: about BLM truthfully. It's only on this, in this moment,
Speaker 1: on this issue that it seems some of the very
Speaker 1: prominent donors are all of a sudden saying I'm not
Speaker 1: going to give money anymore. I just feel like this
Speaker 1: has been building for a long time. I understand this
Speaker 1: maybe is you know, the crack in the dam has
Speaker 1: now completely broken and the insanity is all flooding forward,
Speaker 1: and people can see that. But for me it does
Speaker 1: feel a bit like, well, there's a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: to not give money to these schools, based on what
Speaker 1: their positions have been, and based on their incredibly in
Speaker 1: some cases just flatly insane posturing and ideology. So that
Speaker 1: part of it, I think doesn't really get very much attention.
Speaker 1: In all this. But it's not like this came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. These campuses have been They've been certainly anti
Speaker 1: submitted for a long time, but they've also been promoting
Speaker 1: a lot of anti white rhetoric that's very real on
Speaker 1: these campuses, Promoting the notion that whiteness or white people
Speaker 1: are inherently problematic and oppressive and bad. Promoting trans ideology
Speaker 1: as mandatory on these campuses, and using plural pronouns for
Speaker 1: individuals and sex change operations for kids, and all these things,
Speaker 1: all these different things that the Left has been pushing
Speaker 1: on campus for years now, and that really have turned
Speaker 1: into issues of mandatory belief. The donors were still writing checks,
Speaker 1: still writing checks to these places with all that going on.
Speaker 1: Some of them are conservative. That's why I'm thinking about this.
Speaker 1: They look at this and I say, what took you
Speaker 1: so long? It'll take a long time, given how wealthy
Speaker 1: some of these schools are for them to actually feel
Speaker 1: anything from the change in donations, assuming that people actually
Speaker 1: go forward with this and they follow through with their
Speaker 1: promise to not donate anymore. But the you know, American
Speaker 1: university American university campuses right now are hotbeds of radicalism
Speaker 1: that is threatening, threatening to the Jewish people obviously, it's
Speaker 1: also threatening to our society. These people are radicals. They're
Speaker 1: not reasonable, they're not rational. There's something very wrong with them.
Speaker 1: And while it has been exposed more on this issue
Speaker 1: than anything else in quite some time, their derangement is
Speaker 1: not new. And the totalitarian impulse that they have has
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Speaker 1: will just say this, pay attention to who's speaking sense
Speaker 1: and truth and is with the righteous on this issue
Speaker 1: of Israel against Hamas. A lot of individuals are showing
Speaker 1: the public who they really are, and they have a
Speaker 1: right to speak and say these things, although I do
Speaker 1: think that some of them cross the line to incitement,
Speaker 1: which actually would be illegally don't have a right to
Speaker 1: do it. But some of the people out there are
Speaker 1: showing you what they really think and what they really feel.
Speaker 1: And I hope that everybody is going to remember this
Speaker 1: moment and remember who has moral clarity and who was
Speaker 1: siding with barbarism. Thanks for being here on the buck
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