Judging Freedom - Max Blumenthal : Rubio’s Drugboat Diplomacy.

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

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There we are. What happened in Qatar earlier today and what is the back story, as you understand it? Israel, with the green light of the Zionist-controlled Trump administration, attempted to assassinate the entire Hamas negotiating team after they were lured into a trap by Donald Trump, who presented a 100-word Israeli-composed ceasefire, and warned Hamas of the consequences if they did not accept it, pushing them to send their negotiating team to Doha, getting them in target range for the Israelis. The entire U.S. controlled, multi-layered anti-aircraft defenses of Qatar stood down and allowed

Israeli aircraft to enter the airspace to attempt to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team. The attack failed but killed the son of the chief Hamas negotiator, Khalil Ahayah, as well as two members, elite members of Qatar's security services. And the negotiations are now dead. The mask is off. There never were any negotiations. It was always covered just to keep the genocide going. And there never was any rules-based order or international law.

We've just had the whole mask lifted on the entire operation. and there's nothing left but a regime of global gangsterism that spans between Tel Aviv and Washington, and Trump has literally outsourced his entire policy in the region to Netanyahu. Isn't this the third time that Trump has lured people into a negotiation trap, once the attack on Nasarala, once in Iran, and now this? Who would negotiate with the United States, knowing that this is the way Trump operates? It's not negotiation. When you negotiate with the United States, it's not negotiation.

It's orchestration. Donald Trump was orchestrating a surprise, unprovoked Israeli attack on Iran as Iran negotiated with Trump over its nuclear program. And this was eventually admitted first by the U.S. Israelis who wanted to force Trump into admitting this, Hamas has many, many times been taken into a trap by Steve Whitkoff, and every single one of its negotiators has been assassinated by Israel wherever they are. Salah Arori assassinated in Beirut, Ismail Hania assassinated in Tehran, where he was celebrating the new president's inauguration, and now this attack in Doha, where 10,000 U.S. troops are stationed at the Al-Udeid air base, a complete humiliation of Qatar,

unless they were in on it, which is a very distinct possibility. And among the targets was Khalid Mishal, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt when he was in, I believe, Jordan at the time. They attempted to poison him, but were forced into giving the antidote because the Mossad assassins were actually captured. So this is just an expansion of Israel's global gangsterism to the point where it's clear that there are no negotiations. There's no point in negotiating.

Israel has moved into final solution mode in Gaza. The Trump administration has given them a complete green light and support for anything they want to do. And this is what we're faced with. Does Hamas have the wherewithal to resist the IDF or are their backs to the wall? Well, you mean in the Gaza Strip? Yes. Well, it's very clear that the Israeli military has the ability to destroy at will.

And what they're doing in Gaza City right now is destroying all the major high rises to deprive the population of any living space outside of tents. Gaza is a giant tent encampment right now. And the objective has been spelled out in the Gaza Riviera documents that have been passed around between various consultancy groups hired by the Israeli and Zionist-controlled Trump regime, which is destroy everything, move people into biometric concentration camps, and then expel them. It's an ethnic cleansing campaign. The state terror that we're witnessing in Gaza city is unparalleled. Literally every high-rise residence is coming down. Netanyahu claims they're being used for Hamas spotting and surveillance of Israeli troops. That's a lie. And in fact, and this was widely reported

in Israeli media back in May, Netanyahu told members of Knesset that he was going to destroy as many houses in Gaza as possible. So the population there would have nowhere. to live. It's the crime of the century. And anyone who gets in the way, including diplomatic negotiators, has a target on their back now. Well, listen to this nonsense. Moments ago, Trump's press secretary, Carolyn Levin, unilaterally bombing inside Qatar does not advance Israeli or America's goals. However, eliminating Hamasua profited off the misery of those living in Gaza is a worthy goal. She then claims President Trump spoke to the emir and Prime Minister of Qatar,

thanked them for their support and friendship, and assured them that such a thing will not happen again on their soil. Who the hell would take his word for it after he just orchestrated this? Well, the emir and the Altani clan have a lot of spleen in to do because they gave Donald Trump $400 million. jet that he hopes to convert into Air Force One as a gift. And they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Trump Incorporated. Three of their top lobbyists in Washington are in the top Trump administrations. Lee Zeldin at the EPA, Cash Patel at the FBI, and Pam Bondi

at DOJ. Pam Bondi was the top lobbyist for Qatar through Ballard partners in Florida, which got the contract. So they, what do they get? This is how Trump has repaid them. And what are they going to do to retaliate? Nothing. Are they going to kick the 10,000 troops out, kick out the Alu Dade Air Base? No, because they are engaged as the Emirates and Saudis are in a kind of protection racket where they allow the U.S. to place these bases on their soil and yet still open themselves up for Israeli attacks, and in exchange, the U.S. protects their oil fields, and basically all their countries are are oil fields with U.S. military bases and a slave class that provides all the services. So the mask is off for them as well, and Caroline Levitt is just adding insult to injury

because we know what the Trump administration is really about. The Trump administration isn't even hiding it. It's just what we've been living through since. Trump's re-election is the ultimate mask-off moment. On Trump's top 100 accomplishments, there's a separate section called fighting anti-Semitism and supporting Israel. And they acknowledge that striking Iran, sanctioning the international criminal court and withdrawing from all of these UN institutions, they did it all for Israel. They're not even pretending that there is some American interest anymore. It's the ultimate validation of the thesis of Walt, Stephen Walt, and John Mearsheimer.

It's right there. The mask is off. You mentioned earlier that the peace proposal was 100 words. I mean, that's a joke. Shouldn't it have been more like 100 pages? Isn't there a tremendous amount of detail to go through? Did Trump himself write this thing if it's 100 words? Well, again, it's another mask-off moment because these kind of phony negotiations,

have been going on since Madrid in 1991. And all they were, they were these elaborate, long negotiations with endless meetings and so much money expended on paying for hotels for the peace processors. And all they were doing was buying time for Israel to put more facts on the ground and tighten its occupation, build walls, settlements, steal Palestinian land.

And what Israel would never do is propose borders or any finality to these negotiations. They just would kick the can down the road. And every administration would just go along with it and pretend that Israel supported peace. And then Israel would get to go around the world saying, we support peace, but we don't have a partner on the other side.

Now Trump puts forward a 100-word proposal, which basically says nothing, offers the Palestinians nothing. And Trump tells them, if you don't accept this, complete document of complete submission, which offers you nothing, you will all die. Two days later, Israel moves in and attempts to assassinate the entire negotiating team in a foreign capital. So that's what the peace process has always been about.

And now we can see very clearly what the real dynamic between Israel, the U.S. and the Palestinians are. And the U.S. is not an honest broker. It is not just Israel's lawyer. It's Israel's assassination subsidiary. Has the Netanyahu regime claimed that it succeeded in assassinating the Hamas leadership today? Netanyahu said that this is actually going to encourage better negotiations. I mean, of course, he's taking credit for this.

It's going to improve Israel's negotiating leverage. because when you negotiate with Israel, you're always negotiating with a gun to your back. And if you don't accept their conditions, which is total absolute submission, then you are dead. So this is a great message for the United Arab Emirates, which is normalized with Israel under the Abraham Accords, and the Saudis who are being pushed to normalize with Israel, and the Egyptians who are being pushed to open up the Rafa crossing and allow Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign to continue. There will never be peace with Israel. If you want any sovereignty for your country at all, you will die.

You will be attacked. And I believe Egypt is next. Egypt is in the crosshairs if they refuse Israel's final solution, which is contingent on opening the Rafa crossing to allow them out into Egypt. Egypt is the last Arab country that has a strong military. Of course, it was provided by the U.S. Of course, it's a U.S., they relate. rely on U.S. spare parts, but they still have the ability to stand up to Israel, and Israel's worried about that. So I think what we're witnessing now is the expansion of Israel's

global warfare into realms we never thought or we haven't imagined could be possible, especially after the Camp David Accords. And let's also remember that Israel attacked Tunis yesterday to kill Greta Toonberg. In 1985, Israel sent a command. team to kill PLO officials in Tunis. And they came back, what, 40 years later, to kill Greta Toonberg. I mean, that just shows you the insane, it's a perfect example of the insanity and psychosis of Israel, but also the fact that they are operating on all fronts and even going after activists.

They literally are, they're accused of drone attacking the boat that Greta Toonberg was on while was in port in Tunis. Right, right, right. Switching gears, if we could. Why is Rubio accusing visa applicants from Latin America of being Chinese spies? I mean, you can't make this. You can't make this up. I guess so he can pull the visas.

I mean, he'll say anything. Why is he accusing Nicholas Maduro of running the global narco-traum? trafficking cartels when it's actually Ecuador and President Danielle Noboa, whose family is directly responsible for overseeing the majority of shipping routes of cocaine to the U.S. in Europe, and Marco Rubio was just in keto to rub shoulders with Noboa and tout him as his top partner in the drug war. None of it makes sense. So Rubio is just offering another rationale for the Trump administration.

to cancel visas from Latin America as they celebrate the fact that the foreign-born population in the U.S. has declined by three percent precipitously since Trump re-entered office. Forgive me for going back to Qatar. I forgot to ask you this. Have there been international condemnations? Has Egypt said anything? Has Saudi Arabia said anything? Has Jordan said anything? Has Erdogan of Turkey said anything? Oh, yeah. Turkey was attacked by Israel just yesterday.

Can you believe it? They were attacked in Palmyra, Syria, but Turkey was setting up a base to train the new military of the Syrian junta of Ahmed al-Shara just to professionalize his military. So Israel bombs them. I mean, this is an attack on Turkey. So yes, all of those countries have

condemned it. The United Arab Emirates has issued a very strong condemnation. So has France, I believe Italy, you know, the EU countries are condemning it. This is a U.S.-Israeli operation. And it's about the seamless axis of messianic Zionist gangsterism that spans between Tel Aviv and Washington. And we have to, but we have to ask questions about Qatar as well and what they knew and when they knew it and why their anti-air air defenses were neutralized or not even activated, why their radar systems did not alert any Qatari authorities when Qatari security personnel have been killed. This is a huge insult. Isn't isn't the United States's largest air base in that area in Qatar?

Yeah, the Alu-Dade Air Base. It's like the head of the snake. It's the main airbase for attacking targets. Is it reasonable to assume that the Israeli jets that attacked this residential neighborhood this morning in Doha took off from that airbase? No, no, no, no. They took off from a airbase inside Israel. And they can easily reach that area. But just to, you know, remind people just a few months.

months ago in June, Qatar's multi-layered air defenses were activated against Iranian ballistic missiles. One of them got through and struck a major communication center at Al-Dadeh, but the rest were intercepted. They were not activated in this case, and Qatar was left totally defenseless. The meeting of these Hamas negotiating officials, negotiators, was conducted next to schools. The strike took place as school was getting out. There were civilians all around, and Qatar was left naked because it is a neo-colonial construction and now it's exposed. By the way, where's the vaunted Qatar lobby in Washington to stop this?

Well, they're in the Trump administration, and they're actually controlled by the Zionist billionaire class that answers to Netanyahu. So nobody replaced Bondi or Patel lobbying for Qatar because they don't. need lobbyists anymore since their people are running major aspects of the executive branch. Lee Zeldin was recruited by Qatar as a influential Jewish Zionist Republican after 2017 when Saudi Arabia sort of laid siege to Qatar, they blockaded Qatar and Qatar, you know, Trump was in office. So Qatar said, who are the most, 100 most influential people in the Trump administration? Let's go for especially the Zionist Jewish influencers.

They were sending Alan Dershowitz on paid trips to apparently paid trips to speak at like Georgetown University's campus in Doha. They were recruiting Morton Klein from the Zionist Organization of America, one of the most anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian figures in the country. And they were recruiting Lee Zeldon. And Lee Zeldon gets in the Trump administration and obviously has no qualms about supporting this attack. on Qatar. What were they getting out of it? Well, they did get Trump to get Saudi Arabia to stand down. In exchange, the word on the street is they were forced to contribute $150 billion into the U.S. economy to get Trump to do that. And, you know, I saw it in Washington, like Qatar's, you know, they're buying up otherwise kind of half dead downtown. They paid one night the Washington

capitals had a playoff game that went late and Qatar paid for the metro to stay open late. So you could kind of, you could kind of see it. And well, really, what are they getting in return for all of this? And this is the point that Iran constantly makes and the Ansarallah constantly makes is, yeah, we're getting attacked, but we at least have some dignity and they're going to come for you too. So you might as well get your backup instead of dying on your knees. You should fight on your feet.

and not pay for this protection racket for your oil fields. And Hassan Nasrallah, this was one of his most famous statements, is you think that you're protected by the West, but they're going to come for you too. And his words resonate very strongly today. Max, thank you very much, my dear friend. It's a terrible, terrible state of, what can stop this? Nothing but Trump changing his mind or being embarrassed.

or humiliated into it? It's never been more clear. Like the lines have never been more clearly drawn. There is a global rebellion taking place against this lawless Zionist, borderless regime. We don't know where it starts or where it stops, but it's starting to poison our own societies. And when you see 900 people in the UK,

many of them people over the age of 60, getting arrested just because they are declaring their support for Palestine action, a direct action anti-war group that has been banned and defined as a terrorist group by the British government, then you know that a rebellion is going well out of, it's spread well out beyond the control of these Western states. And so we're going to continue to see it spread as the repression grows. Thank you, Max. All the best. My best of your family. Thank you for your time. We'll see again soon, my dear friend.

Thanks very much. coming up on all of this at 3 o'clock this afternoon, Colonel Karen Kutkowski, and a full day tomorrow, which I'll tell you about shortly. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom. Thank you. Thank you.