Judging Freedom - Phil Giraldi : Is the MoU For Real?

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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, July 2, 2006. Phil Giraldi will be with us in just a moment is the memorandum of understanding for real. And have you ever heard of the Jewish American Security Act? Well, Phil has. But first this. You know, every year around the 4th of July, we celebrate independence. But here's the uncomfortable truth. A lot of people have never been more dependent. Dependent on the power staying on, dependent on the grocery store staying stock, dependent on supply chain, cell towers, and systems over which they have absolutely no control. That's why I like my Patriot Supply. They've helped millions of Americans become a little more self-reliant

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what is the Jewish American Security Act? Well, you know, it's funny. I had not heard about it either until this morning. An article appeared on the onsite, which I started to read it, and I was saying, no, this has to be fiction. It's basically bipartisan legislation that's making its way through Congress, predictively, presumably, marshaling the efforts of the people who get their money from APAC and other similar sources. And this is essentially an effort to identify and criminalize people who are critical of what Jewish groups are doing and what Israel is doing.

So this is what it's largely about. A lot of it will be focused on American universities where they will basically make it possible to stop people from attending the universities on that basis alone. So this is a real scary bit of stuff. There's going to be a man in charge or a woman in charge who essentially will be identifying all the people that he or she identified. as the bad guys and bad women who are critical of the activities of Jewish groups or are critical of Israel. So if this becomes law in effect, it's going to be very heavily funded. There's going to be something like a billion dollars given to Jewish groups to improve their security in the United States. I would point out they already get a huge amount of money from the Department of Homeland Security,

which has a budget for this kind of, for protecting the security of foundations and things like that. Well, 90% of that money goes to Jewish Foundation. So this is just more money thrown at the same groups. and it's all in support of criminalizing what many of the people who appear on your show have been saying about Israel and its genocide and other activities. And this is just to make it a real arm of the government, the federal government, here in the United States, to stamp us out. whatever happened to the freedom of speech i wrote a 99 page law review article it's in the

seat and hall law review it's dated now this is 30 years ago long before all of this stuff happened it's a it's a carrion cry clarion cry an academic verbiage for unbridled freedom of speech but we don't have freedom of speech today i asked one of our colleagues what would happen to me if I stood outside of the Parliament building in London and started proselytizing in favor of a Palestinian state. The answer was, you'd never get past security at the airport. You'd never make it to the Parliament building in London. And if you did, they would arrest you there. This is supposedly the birthplace of the freedom of speech. It's bad there, and now it's coming here.

Yeah, absolutely. And they just recently, as I'm sure you're aware, I think you've discussed it. They've arrested an American academic recently who was trying to enter the country. And the only sin he had committed was that he in a very academic way was critical of Israeli foreign policy, including its genocide. And this apparently you cannot talk about in England anymore. We're going to be there too. There's already been, there are a number of states that now require for individuals to receive benefits or to get a job with the state to sign a document, declaration, saying that they have not cooperated with any groups that are critical of Israel and its politics.

And you have to sign this kind of thing to get a job. to get a benefit. So we're there. Can Mrs. Giraldi go back to the land of her birth? Or it's her husband's intellectual honesty too much for the British to bear? Yeah, well, I mean, I'm a university graduate from Britain. And I would not go back now. My wife, of course, is a double victim because she is, of course, she's English-born.

And now she will probably have trouble from the Trump administration coming back into the United States because she doesn't have birthright citizenship. And they're going to be going after people for this kind of thing, too. Right. Did the United States and Iran in this memorandum of understanding agree that the United States would get the IDF out of Lebanon? Yeah, among other things, that the first point in the 14 MOU points is that the, well, first of all, the violence has to stop. You know, the shooting and the killing all across the board in Iran, in Gaza, in Lebanon in particular, was named as a place where it had to stop. and the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had to stop. This is the first point in the MOU.

And of course, since that happened, Israel has announced repeatedly a number of top officials of the Israeli government have announced that Israel will be staying in for a security zone in the south of Lebanon. Now, what Israel has done is has basically destroyed life by the natives in South Lebanon. This is where many of the Shia were residents, and they've been driven out. Their homes have been either taken over or destroyed, and the intention is to send a clearly stated intention by the Israeli government, is to send in settlers to take the place over. So the whole premise of this first point has been avoided.

And Lebanese every day, if you go to like anti-war website or something, you'll see how many Lebanese and Gazans have been killed that day. Israel has not stopped killing people. And so this is a basic premise that Iran is strongly supporting as its rules and things. that have to come as a result of some kind of ceasefire or peace agreement. And they're not going to back off from this. And if Trump had any integrity, since he was more or less a guarantor of recent talks between what he called the Lebanese government, although you could debate a bit about that,

and the Israeli government, and for some kind of, accommodation, he would step in maybe and then and for once try to do something with integrity. Well, aside from those conversations in which he used four-letter words to Prime Minister Netanyahu, what has Trump done since the signing of the MOU to liberate South Lebanon? Nothing. Nothing. He's done nothing. And in fact, he's done nothing to stop with the other activity going on, which is implicit in the document of the MOU. This is basically a document that hopefully would arrive at sooner or sooner rather than later at an actual ceasefire.

And in the next 45 days, this is the negotiation period right now. The next 45 days, it started out with 60 days, but the shooting didn't stop during those first two weeks. And so this is supposed to go, it's supposed to develop into an actual ceasefire, which will lead to an actual peace agreement. But he hasn't done a thing. He's threatened, it's interesting, he's threatened both Netanyahu and he's threatened the Iranians, Two days ago, he again threatened to completely destroy Iran if they don't concede to all the points he's raised. Wow. So one of the points of the MOU says that each country will recognize and respect the sovereignty of the other. Now, as far as I know, Iran has not attacked the United States.

Has the United States recognized and respected the sovereignty of Iran during the two and a half, three weeks, four weeks, whatever has passed since they signed the existence of the agreement? No, and in fact, as recently as a few days ago, there were tit for tat strikes, and the United States struck a number of facilities in Iran. So the United States has been as guilty as anyone in ignoring the very documents that it said it agreed to. So, of course, maybe when you have two real estate guys doing your negotiating, it could get a bit confusing as to what is actually agreed. Yeah.

You know, you mentioned Israel and Lebanon. this agreement that Marco Rubio copled together, this is really the anti-memorandum of understanding. Is it not because it gives Israel some legitimacy? Now, this is not with Hezbollah. This is with the Lebanese government, which isn't much of a government at all. But it's almost as if we have the two guys that each want to succeed Donald Trump, Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Rubio. Offering competing agreements,

Vance is the father, more or less, of the memorandum of understanding. Rubio is the father, more or less of the far less well-known, less publicized Israel-Lebanon agreement. How do you view all this, Phil? Well, you have to view it by jumping one step up to the top. We have a president who is incapable essentially of assimilating or understanding or appreciating the consequences of his actions. And he's letting these people kind of run wild.

It's been alleged that the two of them, Rubio and JD, when they're off on one of these missions, are in constant contact with the president. but the president seems to be preoccupied with a lot of other things like how he's destroying Washington, D.C. So it's kind of a joke. And I think the people that I talk to as soon as the people like Trita Parsi who really know what's going on, they're not in the loop. They're not allowed to talk to people in the White House or anything because they're don't want the truth or they don't want reality. They want something that will work for to make it look like the United States has won some great victory in doing what it's done and and basically to

let Israel off the hook in general. And, you know, whatever comes out after that, they, they kind of, I guess, we'll have to figure out where to go after that. The White House leaked earlier this week. Today's Thursday, I think they leaked it on Sunday or Monday, that over the weekend, the Pentagon, which I guess means General Kane and Secretary Hegeseth, briefed Trump on the logistics for a resumption of all-out war against Iran. So two questions. One, have they learned nothing from the war in June and the war in February and March. And two, is this for real or is this just some sort of negotiating ploy? Well, I think the answer to the first part is that they did learn.

These are the professionals. And they've learned that to declare war on Iran to do as Trump keeps spouting, destroy the country is not a viable option. We don't have the resources in place. We don't have the resources at all. So that's essentially, I think, what they told him. I also, of course, I think you've heard also that Trump has, in a couple of these meetings, come up with the issue of, oh, what about a nuke response?

Well, I hope they gave the right answer on that one too. But the fact is that this is basically something that's in Trump's head. He's looking for a solution that looks like victory, a solution that will go into the midterm elections, and the Republicans will at least sustain their advantage in Congress because all of the opinion polls are showing something quite contrary. And the U.S. public is very strongly opposed to the Iran war. So some kind of slithery way to get out of it might be something that would suit Trump very well.

Wow. What will Israel do if the United States and Iran establish normal relationships, normal economic, diplomatic, political relationship? Well, I think what Israel will do, Israel wants to get back to a condition of war in which the United States is doing most of the heavy lifting and paying the bills and sending home the dead bodies in caskets to Dover Air Force Base. That's what Netanyahu watch. He doesn't want to waste his resources. So I have been for a long time saying I foresee given Israel's history in terms of what I see as false flag incidents or attacks. I'm wearing a shirt for one of them, USS Liberty.

But of course there's also the assassination of JFK, which many people suspect Israel had either prior knowledge or had a hand in. And then there's also 9-11. same sort of thing. There's no doubt that Israel had prior knowledge of the event. And so Israel is up to these kind of things. And I would rather suspect that since the U.S. has a presence in that part of the Middle East and troops based in various places, it would be pretty easy to stage a false flag and make it look like it was Iran or something along those lines.

And I have a strong belief that that is something that could well come out of this. I love you, Phil, but of course, I hope this doesn't happen. I hope you're wrong. But you are on record of warning about this since long before today because of your knowledge of the history. And another thing you think about is Israel is the nuclear power in the region. and they are totally reckless. They just might, if the U.S. kind of, if Trump has the sense and the nerve to pull the plug on this war and start pulling U.S. resources out and leaving it to Israel if they want to keep going, I could see Israel going nuclear on Iran.

I can see it. Wow. Phil, I have to run, and of course I'm off for the next couple of weeks. Thank you so much for all your intellectual honesty and personal courage. And I already look forward to seeing you again in the second half of July. All my best to you. Well, I wish you a wonderful vacation. Thank you.

You deserve it. You guys, the way you guys have been working is unbelievable. Chris is the hard worker among us. But thank you very much, Phil. Deeply appreciate it. Coming up later today at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Where has he been fishing? But he's back.

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