Judging Freedom - Max Blumenthal : What is the “Board (Bored) of Peace” Up to?

Episode Date: October 15, 2026

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What if it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish fighting for freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom's greatest hour of danger is now? Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for judging freedom. Today is Thursday, October 15th, 2006. My dear friend Max Blumenthal joins us now. Max, it's always a pleasure. Thank you. I do want to ask you in some detail about the latest involving the Israeli elections and the latest involving President Zelensky. But before we get there, what is the Board of Peace up to involving Tony Blair and Jared Kushner and Trump's wealthy friends? They're Board of Peace.

Right now, Israeli D9 bulldozers are establishing gigantic sandburns on the ruins of Rafa, the entire Rafa district. The entire Rafa district encompasses most of southern Gaza, which Gaza really isn't a strip. It's actually itself a district, which a large refugee population who were ethnically clean. cleansed between 1948 and 1967, but mostly around 1948, were pushed into. So it's basically a district within a district. And this entire district of Rafa was destroyed by Israeli explosives. I mean, we're talking about sapper crews coming in and stringing together explosives to blow up entire neighborhoods.

And then under the watch of the Board of Peace, Israeli bulldozers, have been establishing sand berms on top of the ruins of these homes, which are now de facto walls for the Gaza ghetto to hem in the population that survived the genocide and establish potential future Leibbensram for the Israeli settler population. Now this is taking place at the same time as Jared Kushner declaring on and it's it's when i check his uh twitter x account i'm constantly i'm reminded that he follows me for some reason i guess he hasn't learned much from anything i've said what did you do to get him to follow you it's sort of a it feels passive aggressive

um but you know barit christner's basically proclaiming that the board of peace has brought peace and prosperity to gaza uh you know he's he's issued a one year victory lap on On October 9th, 2025, we achieved an agreement on Trump's 20-point peace plan that many believed was impossible. And now he's created a path to reuniting hostages, bringing security to Israel, and relieving the suffering of Palestinian people in Gaza. And it's just an absolutely absurd list of achievements which have deliberately not been achieved, specifically forcing Israeli troops to pull back to Israel away from the yellow

line. The yellow line is wherever Israel seeks to establish de facto walls around the ghettoized population of Gaza. And it's moved from 40% of the Gaza Strip to now, as Netanyahu has boasted, close to 70%. That's where these sandburns are. Kushner also boasted that on January 17th of this year, the Board of Peace established a national committee for the administration of Gaza. This is the technocratic government, which Hamas agreed would govern. Israel has not allowed them to even bring in any personnel into the Gaza Strip, the NCAG, as it's known. And what is Jared Kushner, the Board of Peace, done to pressure Israel to allow them

in? Nothing, because they're functioning as an arm of Israel, claiming achievements that will never take place as people starve. They claimed humanitarian aid has been surged into Gaza. Today, Nikolai Mladenov, who is the director of the director general of the Board of Peace and formerly served at Winnap as a senior fellow, which is one of the main arms of the Israel lobby in Washington. He's a Bulgarian sort of NATO vassal, former parliamentarian and former defense minister in

Bulgaria. He today blocked all aid to Gaza on behalf of Kogat. Kogat is the Israeli military arm that decides what goes in and out of Gaza. They're the ghetto masters. And so Mladenov released a statement on behalf of Kogat, which really shows who's calling the shots. Israel calls the shots and the board of peace is actually a propaganda mechanism for Israel, which will do nothing to pressure Israel into fulfilling any of the achievements that Jared Kushner has claimed on his one-year victory lap. Wow. And Tony Blair is paid as the executive director or governor general or whatever his title is of all this? Yeah, and who is Tony Blair? I mean, aside from a war criminal

who abused and exploited the fake peace process in order to. to rake in loads of money on behalf of his corporate clients like J.P. Morgan, which were representing cellcom companies that were run out of the UAE selling, you know, sell service to the occupied West Bank like Watanilla. You know, and then Tony Blair would get a kickback. You know, through the peace process, he was basically a rainmaker for the UAE and J.P. Morgan. He went on to start the Tony Blair Institute for Peace and his biggest investors. slash funder there was Larry Ellison of Oracle. And so now through the Board of Peace, he's hoping to get Larry Ellison a series of deals

in which Oracle will control all of the data that is used in the dystopian project of the Gaza Strip as a smart concentration camp. And Oracle already maintains several data centers inside Israel. as Larry Ellison's former CEO, Safra Katz, an Israeli boasted at a recent meeting of the Israel America conference presided over by Israeli warlord Miriam Adelson. We did some things we can't even talk about in Gaza to assist the Israeli war effort. We did some pretty sin—she almost said we did some pretty sinister things to loud applause from her audience. So Larry Ellison, a close friend of Netanyahu, who's hosted Netanyahu on his private island in Hawaii, whose son David Ellison has taken over over 80 media properties through his media conglomerate skydance to basically control the media on behalf of Israel is also Tony Blair's biggest benefactor.

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What do you see in the Israeli elections and is it significant that Gadi Eisenkot is leading, his coalition is leading Netanyahu's. at this stage about 10 days before the election. I still think Netanyahu could pull this out. And one reason is that Gadi Eisencott is leading a Zionist officially racist coalition, which will not coalition with any of the Arab parties that will put them over the top. It's that simple. Netanyahu also may be deeply unpopular across the board.

in Israel, but he's also the most popular politician in Israel. And also the only one who I think is able to communicate Israel's propaganda imperatives to the West because of his long history in Washington, growing up in Philadelphia, his connection with all of these Western leaders, whereas Gaddi Eisencott comes out of the military and just doesn't have a command of the English language. So who is Gadi Eisencott? He is the former Israeli Army Chief of Staff. When he was the northern commander of the Israeli military, he established the Dahlia Doctrine, which we've talked about many times here.

It is a doctrine of state terror named for the district in southern Beirut that was destroyed by the Israeli military in 2006 because it is a majority Shia district that was considered a base of Hezbollah. The doctrine holds that anywhere that, any place that supports the resistance in Lebanon or anywhere else in the Gaza Strip can be totally destroyed and that civilians will pay the price for supposedly harboring the quote-unquote terrorists. So it's a doctrine of state terror. It was the basis for destroying the Rafa district, which I talked about in the beginning of our discussion. And this is the man who's being presented as the alternative to Netanyahu. The New York Times has a very very, very favorable whitewash profile of Eisenkot, written by Dahlia Shindlin, who is a left Zionist, probably the leftmost Zionist you can get within the Israeli spectrum. And they portray him as this bereaved father who's speaking to the pain of Israelis who've been through this horrible post-October

seventh war, but he's someone who's caused bereavement across the Arab world and is poised to do so announcing in a speech just yesterday that he will personally remove Hamas from the Gaza Strip in the next 18 months if elected through the Board of Peace or through other means, in other words, re-igniting the Gaza genocide. Eisenkot, in my view, might be more likely than Netanyahu to reignite the Gaza genocide because as soon as he comes in of power if he does, he'll have a narrow governing coalition and he'll be under relentless pressure from the right-wing opposition and Netanyahu himself to prove how tough he is. And we saw before Netanyahu what figures like Ehud Barak from the Labor Party did. These were the most violent

figures who caused the most Palestinian death, not the Likud Party of Netanyahu until Netanyahu who came in in 2009, and really until October 7th. And here's another thing to know about Gadia Eisenkha. When he was the IDF chief of staff, which is the most important position in the Israeli military, between 2015 and 2019, he was moving another figure up the ranks of the Israeli military, who he considered

to be a very brilliant military strategist named Tamir Hyman, all the way to becoming the head of military intelligence, known as Amman in Israel. Tamir Hyman is now the director of the Institute for the National, Institute for National Security Studies, which is Israel's main military-oriented state-sponsored think tank. Actually, Eisenkot also served as a senior fellow there. And Tamir Hyman has an essay out.

It's sort of like a blueprint for an incoming Eisenkot, administration. And it's deeply disturbing. But also it basically just says out loud what Zionism represents today, which is a total, he calls for a total rejection of peace or the peace process, consolidating a Jewish ethno state or ethnocracy over democracy, rejecting Palestine, not just as a Palestinian state, but Palestinians as people who represent a nation. He said, all Arab nations are basically fake. And he calls for the continuous expansion of Israel's borders, preparation for conflict far away, including with Turkey, and preparing to sever ties with the United States because the U.S. is adopting progressive values in which Israel and Zionism

are no longer popular. So it's very likely, in my view, that Tamir Hyman will become the national security advisor or an important figure in an Eisencott administration if Eisencott manages to topple Netanyahu. So that's the alternative to Netanyahu who just presided over a genocide. And it's the alternative is more war, ethnocracy, and everything that Netanyahu is now identified with. Is there any other likely outcome less violent, less supportive of genocide, less apartheid? Not with Zionism as the ideological and philosophical basis for Israel's political project. No. There is literally no one within the Zionist political spectrum in Israel who does not support the continued destruction of Gaza and

and maintaining Netanyahu's eight front war. No one. Absolutely no one. What is Eisencott going to do? Look for another country as a sugar daddy if he's going to reject the U.S.? Well, it's an absurd proposition. You know, Zionists always say that Israel represents Jewish sovereignty, that, you know, Jews have finally achieved this nation where,

they're they're they're they're they're they're sovereign and they can control their own destiny but as one of the few historic israeli figures who i really admire yeshaehu lebovich said decades ago what zionism actually means in practice is that the so-called jewish state depends for its very survival on its direct line to the gentile authority in washington which is why and this proves John Meersheimer's thesis, Israel requires this massive, manipulative, and increasingly belligerent lobbying apparatus. So without Washington, what do they have? There's no other place in the world where Israel maintains such a sophisticated, elite,

and disproportionately wealthy fifth column as it does in the United States. So it has nowhere else to turn. And that's why one of those fifth columnists, possibly the premier fifth columnist in Washington, Mark Dubowitz, who is of South African extraction, who merely seemed to have come to the United States to lobby and infiltrate on behalf of the country where his heart truly is, Israel, through the foundation for the defense of democracies, which was actually founded to advance Israel's interests in Washington according to its founding documents. Mark Dubowitz is now proposing that because the United States, or at least its population,

is turning away from Israel, particularly in the Democratic Party, Israel should seek to make it impossible for the United States to ever disentangle itself from this relationship by pushing for legislation to merge its military intelligence apparatus with that of the United States. So if the U.S. ever tries to get out of this relationship, it will actually harm U.S. national security. So that's the agenda. They're going to move away from direct foreign aid packages to Israel and move toward integration. This is something that Rahm Emanuel in the Democratic Party supports as well,

and they're very afraid of the writing that they can clearly see on the wall, not just within the Democratic Party where the clash is more extreme, where there's a real arena for contestation over the issue of the special relationship even now in the midterms, but also in the Republican Party,

there's a somewhat hilarious op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal in which a Republican, Republican propagandist is complaining that Ted Cruz, who is the most ardently Zionist Israel lackey on Capitol Hill, or at least one of them, Ted Cruz has complained that he can't hire anyone for his office who doesn't have anti-Israel opinions because of the advent of the Groyper's. So it's both parties, and they're basically seeking to cancel democracy through the integration of the Pentagon, with the IDF. Wow.

Let's switch over to President Zelensky, who gave a fascinating interview to the Financial Times in the past 12 hours. Is he thumbing his nose or poking into the eye of Donald Trump? Yeah, and that's not something, I don't know if that's something he wants to do.

And some of the... the EU leaders who are backing him are concerned about some of the language he's using. He's basically saying that Trump is transactional, he's being paid off by Russia, he is a dupe, and that he's attracted to Putin. He's using a lot of the language that we heard from the kind of blue and on turbolibs around the Democratic Party during Russia gate. And it's a very superficial understanding of Trump's relationship with Putin. What's happening right now is Donald Trump has been forced through his own servitude to Israel

and failed war on Iran on behalf of Israel to lift sanctions on Russian oil exports in a desperate and probably fruitless bid to lower the price of diesel because it's hurting him politically. All right? If he hadn't launched a war on Iran that closed the Strait of Hormuz, none of this would have been necessary. And so that's why Trump's doing it, not because he's being paid off. There are enough people in the world to pay him off outside of Russia. But this is what Zelensky's saying. And he's saying Trump is essentially an autocrat in his interview with the Financial Times, which is certain to make Trump lash out at him in autocratic fashion. But the irony is that Zelensky has canceled elections in Ukraine. Zelensky has banned all opposition media. His top rivals are in jail.

Some of them have been tortured. Others have gone into exile. His former spokesperson, Yulia Mendel, is facing sanctions in Ukraine because she's criticized the war. Zelensky has acted to prevent her from even speaking publicly anywhere in the EU. And he's not just insulting Donald Trump. He's doing precisely what Donald Trump ordered him not to do because it's raising the cost of diesel. He's continuing to attack Russian oil refineries.

Ukrainian drones just hit another Russian oil refinery a few hours ago. Why is he doing that? He's doing that because he wants to hurt Donald Trump. He wants to hurt Donald Trump because he wants to hurt Donald Trump because he wants a new. boss in Washington. And so by raising the cost of diesel, he's essentially telling Trump, you're going to lose in the midterms unless you give me back the war toys that I want. I want $28 billion of military aid and pay our pensions in Kiev, pay for us through this winter,

and give me my Starlink back. He's furious that Elon Musk has slowed down the Starlink speeds that Ukraine needs for its targeting systems. And at the same time, he's telling everyone in the world that he's fighting for Ukraine's sovereignty. Look, when you're dependent on Donald Trump and an eccentric would-be trillionaire, Elon Musk, for your war toys and to continue your supposed fight for survival, you're not fighting for sovereignty. You're not fighting for national freedom.

You're fighting for vassalage, perpetual vassalage to the Epstein class. And that's the position that Zelensky's in. He's totally dependent on Elon Musk and Donald Trump right now for his war. And Elon Musk is called for new leadership in Kiev. Elon Musk, by the way, is going all in with Donald Trump. He's contributing over $260 million to save the Republicans during the midterms. Part of it is motivated by his own personal pathology and psychosis because he has a trans daughter. And he's running all these ads in swing states that are all about the trans issue.

He's like gone deep down a pathological personal rabbit hole. And Zelensky is insulting him now and insulting Donald Trump. And I don't think he understands the situation that he's in. So this isn't going to work out well for Zelensky. He's banking everything now on Trump being defeated and the Democrats coming in and basically saving him by continuing this war forever. Here's a portion of an unhappy Zelensky in that Financial Times interview. The question, can you give me missiles for Patriot? Because when I will not attack them, because you ask me not attack them,

They will attack me. It's fair if you will give me with what to defend. It's the minimum what I ask. No, I think yes. And when I'm asking this, your answer is blocking Starlink. So how to deal with this? To speak more, to explain more, and to hold position. Our position, the position of Ukraine.

of Ukraine, of our people. That's what I do. This is really a mess that Zelensky is in right now. Where are the Europeans on this? Well, the Europeans are, it depends on who you ask. I mean, if you ask one of these vassal states in the Baltics, like the Estonian Prime Minister, is in favor of escalating and destroying even more oil refineries in Russia,

But, you know, there's a situation in Germany that I don't think the consent, the sort of centrist leadership or Friedrich Merz, the embattled Chancellor, really are welcoming. And it's one in which they have basically sacrificed their economy to this proxy war. Germany's economy has contracted 15%. It's lost tens of thousands of jobs. Well, I should say it's lost something like 60,000 jobs in its energy sector. due to this war. And that's why the IFDA is surging. It's not surging because of Russian bots. It's surging because of Germans who are out of work for a war that is being waged on a purely ideological basis. And then let's consider where Ukrainians are on this war. I mean,

we've all seen the footage of Ukrainian men resisting being thrown in the draft mobilization vans and sent to the slaughter to provide Slavic meat for this crazed NATO drive for the balkanization of Russia. We've seen their wives try to save them, their children try to save them. There have even been photographs of men being handcuffed and taken to the front like criminals. Most Ukrainians now oppose the war. This is according to a new poll by rating group was taken from October 3rd to October 5th, and it shows that 57% of Ukrainians favor an immediate negotiated peace with Russia and territorial concessions. Only 21% support fighting until the Donbass is, quote-unquote, liberated, meaning return to Ukrainian sovereignty, which many people in the Donbass don't want.

Most of them favor, like an overwhelming majority, close to 70% won a national referendum to determine the future course. That means they don't trust Zelensky to decide and they don't trust the Rekona Rada, the parliament. This poll is not an outlier. There was another poll by Gallup this June, which showed 66% of Ukrainians favor an immediate negotiated cessation of hostilities. That's why you're starting to see Ukrainian parliamentarians like Alexei Goranchenko speak out for a ceasefire.

And he was actually thrown out of Poroshenko's party. for doing so. That's why you see Yulia Mendo, Zelensky's former spokesperson, calling for peace. And what you're seeing with Ukraine heading into the winter is very disturbing. Ukraine is getting, the Ukrainian military is getting hit not in the front line, but in its rear supply lines now. And its supply lines are beginning to collapse. Russian attacks on Ukraine steel plants have caused the Ukrainian economy to contract by 10%. Odessa was just hit today. So Ukraine can continue to hit Russian oil refineries or Russian data centers,

and Zelensky can spin out hoaxes about how he's destroying Russian bot farms and reducing disinformation. But the price, the cost he is paying is much higher. And I think Ukrainians are starting to recognize this. And it should be up to them. Let's have a national referendum or maybe even elections something Zelensky has banned.

Here's, before we go, here's a downtrodden Zelensky feeling betrayed by Trump, Chris, cut number eight. And now you have a situation where President Trump announced a energy ceasefire and within hours

Vladimir Putin launches an absolute bombardment of Ukraine, aim directly at your energy. Do you feel betrayed by what has been happening? Really, yes, really, between us. But it's a little bit more complicated than just my emotions or my feelings. Yes, it depends not on me. I mean, our country has to survive. Boy, I don't know where this is going to go.

it. He attacks Trump and uses words like betrayed at his own peril, Max. You can see what Zelensky's doing, which is clever. I mean, he's playing, he's leveraging his institutional strengths. One of them is the media. And if you watch that whole interview, Pierce Morgan is walking Zelensky through the interview. He's practically holding up cue cards for him. Yeah. And he's teeing him up there to attack Russian oil refineries. and data centers and infrastructure and so forth. So Zelensky still has the Western media, and he also has what Trump would call the deep state.

And I think this could be another mask-lifting moment where Donald Trump orders Zelensky to stop these economically damaging attacks on oil refineries, and he continues attacking them, gets targeting from the CIA, which he's had all along, His entire military is dependent on the CIA and MI6. And it just continues.

And Donald Trump is revealed as not having actual control over the war. The so-called deep state is still there. They're still running the show. And the band played on. So Trump can get Elon Musk to reduce the strength of Starlink, but he can't get John. whatever's last name I forget is the guy that runs CIA to get the CIA out of that sure I mean and who's running Ratcliffe I mean right Ratcliffe was like this

backbencher politician that Trump liked but the CIA career professionals are running Ratcliffe so ultimately we're going to see who really runs this war and it's probably not Donald Trump two great great analyses Max, thank you very much for them. Deeply appreciate it and look forward to see you next week. Thanks a lot, Judge. Great seeing you. And congratulations on the show's anniversary.

Oh, thank you. It's been five wonderful years of steady growth. Thanks in large measure to the golden boy, to whom I'm speaking right now. Proud to be a part of it. The whole world is watching. Thank you, Max. All the best to you. Tomorrow, Friday, sorry there I was pausing for just a moment.

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