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Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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Everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. It's the end of the year, and it's time for us to look back, and we did that for you. Here's the best of Judging Freedom in the past 12 months. Merry Christmas to you. The intrepid, the fearless, the bold Patrick Lancaster joins us now, not from the wilds of the battlefront, but from the comfort of his hotel room in Moscow, where Patrick and I had planned to meet up and spend a little time together and do a broadcast together, but events canceled my trip. Patrick, welcome here. Before we start, with all the dynamic tape you've given us, including you being right there under live fire, how are you? And why are you in Moscow?

Hi, Judge. As normal, it's great to be on with you again thanks uh as always to uh to you and your team for bringing me on and helping me uh spread my uh reports and messages to the world because it's it's hard to get everything out across the world i'm glad we have uh people that are you know not trying to hide certain things like a lot of the media and we can actually get the information out on both sides all right you um you have given us some dramatic video let's go right to it the first of these shows you present uh at the explosion of a russian mortar after the russ, I think, incoming fire from a drone. Do I have that right? Well, basically the situation here on this latest report of mine is I traveled to Russian forces at a military position on the last, basically the last front line

of the Lugansk area or the Lugansk People's Republic area, depending on what side of this conflict you favor, is what you call these areas. But the fact is this area is the Lugansk region that the Ukrainians in West calls the Lugansk part of Ukraine and Russian law calls the Lugansk or Lugansk People's Republic region of Russia. So where you sit is depending on how you call it. The local people that live there call it the Lugansk People's Republic as part of Russia. But this front line is the Belogorovka Front Line, which is the last stronghold of Ukrainian forces in this Lugansk area. Basically, the last few areas that are still controlled by Ukrainian forces. And this area, Matt, is the battle, basically, of Russia trying to force Ukrainian forces,

the last Ukrainian forces, out of the Lugansk area, area lugansk people's Republic area and I'm documenting them attacking Ukrainian forces with 122 millimeter mortar shells and that's what we're going to see here I believe okay so in a moment we're going to see a Ukrainian drone uh attacking Russian troops in what Ukraine says is Ukraine and Russia says it's Russia and you're right there and then we're going to see a Russian mortar um propelled in the direction of the Ukrainian troops do I have that right yes exactly while we were there on the position going through the process of Russia attacking the uh Russia attacking the Ukrainian positions with mortars, the Russians were identified by Ukrainian reconnaissance. And what I was told was a Ukrainian kamikaze drone came in at the positions now it didn't hit us but i could

hear it uh yeah so it was a little bit scary all right i can see uh and the and the audience will see in a minute you were uh not comfortable there you are dressed in full uh military protective gear. So, Chris, cut number one, the drone strike. Well, this is the situation here. Drones overhead and outgoing artillery, mortars. For the situation this is, it's almost surreal. Almost surreal, my dear friend. You're so courageous.

Is that the closest you have come to live fire? No, no. I've been actually shot at many times and have had shells explode about 10 meters, a little over 10 yards from me in the past um there's bullets rockets and things like that whiz by my head so all right before i've had quite the i've had quite the uh the experience with being fired at over the years but uh and uh yeah so it is what it is before we get to the clip where you are running with troops through the field uh and

before we show uh Russian artillery being prepared uh for uh for use uh let me ask you some big picture uh questions uh do the Ukrainians stand a chance in stopping the Russian onslaught uh Russians say they don't um the Russian morale is pretty up right now because of the constant advances of Russian forces, which is a fact. I believe a few days ago, less than a week ago, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that in the last time there has been 180 new square kilometers taken control of by Russian forces from Ukrainian control. So, you know, as I've been saying since Avdiivka was taken control of by Russia, it's a new war now russia has bumped it up to the uh storm or assault mode and is just taking territory one step at a time now some

channels out there some reporters will say oh well they're taking fields uh and all this non-strategical stuff well the the fact is that yeah they're taking fields but they're also taking settlements towns and villages um so anybody that tries to get you to believe that these are that 180 square kilometers taken control of by russia from ukraine isn't a strategical gain they're lying to you and I think the the viewers out there can understand that themselves that the the when the media is trying to say these games are not important but minor villages being held by Ukraine are um I think you know the people out there can think that it for themselves as I say in all my videos get as much information as possible and try to и считают это для себя, как я говорю в моих видео, получайте как много информации, как возможно, и попробуйте понять, когда кто-то пытается вытащить рог из твоего лица,

хорошо, давайте перейдем к следующему клипу, это покажет тебе, и мы услышим тебя, как ты бегаешь через поле с русскими солдатами Это дрон слышит, да? Я вас видел, я полностью лезу. Вас, все хорошо? Да, да, он подлетает, подлетает, слышу его. Заходи, заходи. Ну давай, короче, как будет с состоянием, то мне обходить. Да, да, приеду, приеду. Хорошо, так, я слышал от... Леха, они живы?

Командир, ну дайте мне сразу сейчас корректуры, я посчитаю сразу. I heard from the... Alright, so orders are coming from the leadership. So, we got word from the commander here on the ground of this position. That was a Ukrainian Kamikaze drone that we were hearing just overhead and it seems like they might have hit the neighboring position or something along those lines is what I understand. But we're going to stay here in this bunker underground for a few minutes. And then, as I assume, the soldiers are going to move out and continue to engage Ukrainian forces. Were you afraid for your life when you made that clip? Well, yeah, at the beginning, for sure. Once I got down in the hole in the bunker it felt quite

a bit better it's amazing how such old technology works so well on the battlefield uh but yeah once i just before that um clip started is when i heard the drone and as soon as i heard it they heard it as well it just started saying run and I clicked the camera on and before we had gone to the before they had started firing they had showed me the hole the uh bunker where in the events of a drone they said you dive in this hole and that's exactly what we did everything worked exactly as they said um and luckily I was not hit by the kamikaze drone. Why do you call it, I know what the word means, at least in American culture, but why do you call it a kamikaze drone? Aren't all these drones kamikaze drones?

There are some of them surveillance drones that are just taking pictures and then leaving? Okay, well basically what we've got is on both sides, Russian and Ukrainian, three types of drones, or three general types of drones. Of course there's a thousand different brands and variants, but the major three types is one, as you said, reconnaissance, which is used to find new locations, to target artillery. I mean, specifically like during this mortar attack, the people on the radio that they're talking to is someone at a different position who's got a drone in the sky watching in real time the location that those mortar shells are landing on Ukrainian positions and telling them how to correct their fire. And that's a common use of reconnaissance drones. Another type is the kamikazes, or FPV drones, as I said. And those are little hobby drones that cost about 500 to make that they use to fly into people equipment and i mean they can use 500 500 drone to take out a two million dollar tank and it works extremely well on both sides and uh then we've also got the drones that are mainly like DJI drones where they have special attachments that they attach a grenade or a mortar shell or some sort of ammunition.

And they have an extra button on their remote control where they go over a Ukrainian position or tank or something like this, push the button and whatever ammunition they have on their drone gets dropped directly on top of whatever they're trying to eliminate. And both sides use those tactics. And this is really, as far as I understand, the first war that is really used-on drone warfare in this to this high of a level where drones are a huge factor in this war on both sides and that's why I try to report so much on them since uh we last spoke um the president of France uh announced that whatever equipment the French have given to the Ukrainians, they can use to strike inside of Russia, the prime minister of Great Britain, the chancellor of Germany, and most importantly, the secretary of state of the United States. Has this in any way affected any way you can perceive the morale or the attitude of the Russians or the morale

or the attitude of the Ukrainians, that Western offensive weaponry in the hands of the Ukrainians, but operated by Western out-of-uniform troops, can target inside russia it's just infuriated uh both the military the government and the people i mean because especially the people that live in the belgarod region of russia have been under under daily attack in russia not a disputed area but let's say the russian uh city of belgrade which i a report, a full film on not long ago. And this city has thousands of civilian residents, thousands, not hardly any like some sources might try to lie to you and try to pull the rug again over your eyes. These cities, particularly the Belgrade, I've seen hundreds of thousands of civilians living there, children, women. And the West is trying to say

that it's okay for Ukraine to attack these Russian cities with Western-supplied weapons. It's not okay to attack these civilians. As I showed in my report, these rockets coming from the border of the Kharkov region of Ukraine into Russia and just landing randomly across the city. It's not okay at all. And that's what is being done with western people's tax money, the weapons that are being supplied to the West, to Ukraine by the West. And it's not okay. And something needs to be done to get people to stop dying on both sides. Have you come across any Americans operating Ukrainian equipment, soldiers out of uniform, intelligence officers, obviously they don't wear uniforms, or outside contractors, as far as you know. I ask this because we are told

that some of the American weaponry is so sophisticated that it requires a person with a top secret security clearance, an American top secret security clearance, to download data from a satellite. Have you come across any American who, in your view, was doing that? Obviously, I don't report much in the Ukrainian positions, but as far as information that I've been told by refugees and uh other locals uh civilian locals yeah there are foreigners uh mercenaries that are working with Ukrainian forces as we all know specifically about operating this uh equipment I can't really comment. Of course, I've heard through the grapevine there has been Americans captured, but me as a journalist trying to stick to all the areas of the Geneva Convention, not going into gray areas, I make it a point to kind of steer clear of any prisoners of war, just to keep all on the right path of journalism.

Just, as I said, no gray areas to show the people and continue to show the people what I see with my own eyes and not run the risk of doing anything that might hurt someone, particularly on either side. And that goes for POWs as well. So unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience with working with the foreigners that have been captured by Russia. But I think now we can move on to this. All right. So tell us what we're looking at here this is film uh with which you provided us patrick all right now this is the position commander that the the high ranking uh person on the positions where they were attacking the uh ukrainian positions from and that's what he was showing us was their cache of 120 mm mortar, Soviet made, Russian made mortar shells.

That's exactly what we were seeing being shot out of that tube to Ukrainians. What they're trying to do, that particular position, their job is to fire those when called upon, when they have the targeting information to kill ukrainian soldiers and destroy whatever equipment they might be using so obviously the russians do not have a problem with an american journalist photographing their equipment and showing it as you have just done with us yeah i mean i've been uh doing my best to uh show the west what's really happening and i mean you're not going to see the the other western journalists come here and i think it's understood that i've you know really show the truth of what I see. I don't try to spin it in some way that fits the Western narrative. I try to make hit pieces or something like this, which is, as you know, pretty much the standard for the Western media now, unfortunately.

I am totally independent. I just put what I see on my own YouTube channel without having to submit it to anyone or give any type of edits because of what narrative it might show. I just show the facts that I see and try to show the world the other side of what their eyes are trying to be closed to. Patrick, you're a brave man, courageous man, and a patriot. And I thank you for all the time you've given us and all the knowledge and the tape that you've shared with us. I know you're in Moscow and you're traveling. When you're back and you're ready to come on the show, you know how to reach us.

We'll put you right back on. I appreciate you personally as a colleague and as a courageous friend and i know the audience appreciates you i can tell from what they're saying about you in the chat room and i can tell from the numbers that are watching you now and we'll watch you once this is posted and streaming which it will be in just a moment you know well if you can't get the ukrainians to use them we'll use their own people so this is nato is uh you know slowly getting pregnant here is is taurus a german or an american product is it's german because we used to think it was the ford car you know the taurus but. But this is a German missile. I mean, Chancellor Scholz acknowledged publicly, according to Alistair Crook,

that Taurus would require German technicians. He didn't say intelligence and he didn't say military. He said technicians in order to operate. Yeah, well, it just goes without the assumption, the underlying assumption with all of this is that it will use NATO ISR, the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Capabilities, which means satellite intelligence, as well as that provided from some of the fixed-wing aircraft.

Is NATO waging war against russia larry yes oh yes yeah no it's clear um this is this is crazy you know when when the united states was providing covert aid to the mujahideen in afghanistan the you know, the Soviets, you know, they thought we were doing that. But the CIA went to great pains to try to cover it up and try to, so that there was not this open conflict. You know, it was a surrogate conflict. NATO is no longer taking that step at all. It is clearly out in the open and i heard just just last night there is a report that the russians hit one of those cia bases that was talked about in the new york times piece a week ago monday and and that it uh killed some cia officers as well as some of the special

operations forces for the ukrainians that were being trained. Now, it's unconfirmed, but there was a video report to that effect last night. So where does this go from here? Does this go towards World War III, or do the Republicans stand firm, no aid for Ukraine, and Zelensky signs a peace treaty in the next couple of months. We're headed towards, let's call it verbal World War III. The Russians will continue to defeat the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians will continue to crumble for the simple combination of two factors one they do not have the train manpower they don't have the ready the reserves ready that can come in

to plug the gaps so they're going to continue to suffer major attrition on the manpower front uh then they do not have the ability to produce the weapons themselves and it turns out neither does nato nato talks a great game about oh yeah we're going to supply you all these uh artillery shells and but then uh after prom you know like the europeans promised last year oh with a million shells you got it they couldn't even do 300 000. so, you know, talking is one thing, actually being able to deliver is another. And so with the shortage of manpower, shortage of weapons, Ukraine's ability to fight is going to continue to erode dramatically as the Russians are faced with none of those problems. They have just the opposite. Their manpower is increasing and it's trained manpower.

You know, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece I thought of you when I was reading it. I believe it was yesterday's, talking about the bitter rivalry between Gallant, Netanyahu, and Gantz, that they don't even speak with each other except when they're in the group of the war cabinet. Is this deleterious to Netanyahu's government? Is it the beginning of the end of Netanyahu's government or is it just vanity? Well, I think this is par for the course, but it does speak to the instability of Israeli politics. It's an instability that the Americans are seeking to exploit. The protests leading up to October 7th had influence from the Biden

administration. I don't think there's any question about that. Benny Gantz is the person the Biden administration would like to see in place of Netanyahu. They welcomed him to Washington, which infuriated Netanyahu. I mean, he did get a little dressing down, but they didn't do anything to him. And Netanyahu has made repeated decisions, including decisions about negotiations in Doha over the objections of or without the approval of other members of his war cabinet, basically violating the rules. So Israeli politics are very unstable now and this coalition that Netanyahu has, I mean the fanatics Ben-Gvir, the security minister who's from the most fanatical faction of the settler religious nationalist movement in the West Bank,

Smotrich, they got Netanyahu by the shortened curlies, which is why Netanyahu is promising to build settlements in the Gaza Strip, which is just seems untenable and absolutely insane. It's sort of a sop to keep them from bolting from his coalition. I mean, they're also demanding a massive strike on Iran. And then you have people like Gabi Ashkenazi, the former chief of staff of the Israeli military who comes from Netanyahu's left immediately after Iran's counterattack, it was Ashkenazi who was pushing for a direct attack on Iran. This is something a lot of people don't recognize outside observers is Netanyahu is not always the most hawkish and might even be more cautious than the militarists who are supposedly to

his left, who are more favored by the Americans. It's a head scratcher. Colonel, we all have our eyes on November 5th. Obviously, no one knows what the outcome is going to be. One day the polls are one way, the next day the polls are the next. But do you fear an October surprise involving the military or some foreign event? I'm not sure it'll be orchestrated, but I can see very clearly now, sad enough to say, that we might be in a war with Ukraine, a war with Iran Iran before the elections. It's hard to figure out who that helps, if it helps the vice president or if it helps the former president. It's hard to say.

It usually helps the party in power if a war starts and they are seen to be the responsible entity or the responsible management structure, if you will. People are really reluctant to switch horses in the middle of a battle. But I don't know in this case, because I think the American people are waking up to whose responsibility they might lay it at the feet of in terms of it's happening. Right. Colonel, how badly have these reckless decisions, as you and I have called them, of Prime Minister Netanyahu destabilized Israel? As I've said before, there will be no Jewish state in the Levant in the future. There might be a liberal democracy if they could affect that, and it'll be called Israel-Palestine or Palestine-Israel, whatever they want. And it will eventually, the Palestinian Arabs will outnumber the Jews, unless the Jews really start migrating. I certainly don't see that happening. And that's the only way it's going to continue to exist, is a liberal democracy. If it stays a Jewish state, it will be an apartheid state, and the world's revulsion will kill it. It will not be able to exist. So Israel is over as a Jewish state, finished, period.

Chris, put up the email from the local police officer. Ray McGovern, I want you to comment on this. I'm going to read it aloud. So we're looking at a full screen. We see a photo of a police officer with a high powered rifle. He has published this photo himself along with the following email. My name is Jonathan Willis, W-I-L-L-I-S. I'm the officer in the famous photo of the two snipers on the roof at Trump's rally. I came here to inform the public that I had the assassin in my sights for at least three minutes, but the head of the Secret Service refused to give the order to take out the perp. 100%. The top brass prevented me from killing the assassin before he took the shots at President Trump. Ray McGovern, this cop either is lying, in which case he should be prosecuted, or is telling the truth, in which case the top brass of the secret service or whoever it is

that prevented him from doing his job should be prosecuted well i don't think he's lying there's no real motive or incentive for someone like this to come forward like that he identifies himself as an officer i really would like to know which police or federal force he belongs to. But here he is. He's a witness. Where is he right now? I don't know. the Homeland Security people, the Secret Service and the FBI couldn't get any attention. How about him? Where is he? I sure hope that they're in witness protection and that it's not run by the FBI. This is very serious stuff. What else could I say? Well, not much. All right. Well, let me ask you about intelligence, Ray. Every case stroke, every photograph, every fiber, holding up my iPhone, every fiber optic data that comes into or goes out of this, not because it's me, but everyone in the United States is being surveilled by the NSA. If this kid went up there and took photos or took measurements or communicated or sent themselves any notes, wouldn't those people who capture, who invade our privacy 24-7 have known about it? They would have, Judge. The problem is, would they be free to say what they know? As I said in the Substack piece that I wrote on this, as you read

the document you can't help but thinking about how the Nazis talked about the Jews when you read about how the Israeli Jews are talking about the Palestinians. I mean the parallels are marked. It's almost incomprehensible to me that Israeli Jews would be making these kinds of comments about any kind of people. But the evidence is overwhelming. The piece is heavily footnoted and hardly anybody disputes that these comments were made. And then again, when you marry that with what's actually going on, it's horrific what's going on in Gaza. And therefore, the South African government concluded and lays it out in this brief that the Israelis are guilty of genocide. So this international court is not a criminal court.

It resolves disputes between countries. It could theoretically order the Israelis to do something or refrain from doing some things. The Israelis could thumb their noses at it if they wanted. It'll put them in trouble with the UN, but the court does not have an army to enforce its will. This is not an indictment of Prime Minister Netanyahu personally, the way President Putin has been indicted by the International Criminal Court. However, it is a court to which they are subject because it was established by the UN Charter, and Israel and South Africa are both members of the UN. Here's Admiral Kirby, cut number two,

Chris. I mean, his statement about this complaint is mind-boggling. It's hard to believe that this is the official United States position on this complaint. South Africa's filed this 84-page lawsuit against Israel, accusing them of genocide. Israel says that this is blood libel. Does Washington agree and where does this put Washington and Pretoria? We find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever. In another world, Professor. Yeah, he's in another world. You really sort of wonder what the principal spokesman for the United States is doing when he makes

comments like that. I mean, he can disagree with the report, of course. But this is an 84-page report that is thoroughly documented. You have much experience as a judge. If somebody brought this report before you, would you say that it's baseless? There are no facts to support the charge? No, of course not and the and the report is so well uh documented that the court has ordered uh some sort of oral argument or public deliberation about it next week so it's not a case where you need discovery where you have to examine the facts the facts are obvious and available for everybody uh read. Here is Prime Minister Netanyahu. It's in Hebrew, so I'll read the subtitles

for the benefit of our friends who are listening to the show. The language is very strong. It's typically Netanyahu-like. Cut number five, Chris. I would like to say a word about South Africa's false accusation that Israel is committing genocide. No, South Africa. It is not we who have to perpetuate genocide.

It's Hamas. Hamas would kill us all if only it could. In contrast, the IDF is acting as morally as possible. It does everything to avoid harming civilians. And Hamas does everything to get them using them as a human shield and i asked where were you south africa and others who accuse us where were you when millions were murdered and displaced from their homes in syria yemen and other places. You weren't there because everything you do now

is just nonsense, lies, and evil spirit. We will continue our war of defense with you, just and moral. That's about as absurd as Admiral Kirby's comments. Yeah, I mean, the argument that the Israelis are going to great lengths to spare civilian lives and they're just focusing on targeting Hamas is not a serious argument. Just the evidence belies it. What's very interesting here, and it gets back to your point

that the International Court of Justice really doesn't have real teeth it's going to be hard to sort of get israel to change its behavior or get the united states to change its behavior i think that's true but the question you want to ask yourself is why therefore is israel taking this so seriously i think the is the iranians are way further ahead than the West has acknowledged. I think they have nuclear weapons. I think they've tested them. I think that's one of the things that's holding back the West from hitting nuclear sites in Iran right now because I think they hit one of those, and you may have plutonium-210 floating around a battlefield

from something that explodes. I think people are afraid to face that. Can Israel defeat Iran? I mean, they can't even reach Iran without stopping for refueling. No. So that's what becomes, that's why the response, the Israeli response is so problematic regarding what they can do to iran uh and that by the way that's why i think the biden administration has the largest show of force during its time in office ongoing right now with two carrier battle groups right there in a region to theoretically serve as control rods that is a nuclear term for and

i'm using it purposely control rods to slow down the the potential uh nuclear outcome why are five thousand Marines uh on those uh two battleships is that for a a land invasion or is that to evacuate Americans what are they there for it's to evacuate yeah force like that judge is all about securing embassies and pulling people out five thousand you you could barely invade Guam with 5 000 people trust me it's not a that's not an invasion force okay start getting the 50 50 to 100 then yeah you're starting to look at invading hitting something always remember whenever you see us doing something if you got five you have to have at least uh seven times that in support of it so if you got 5 000 you got a lot of people supporting that you're not gonna

you know you're not that's not we're not doing anything. Okay. I appreciate that, that insight. The gentleman does not recognize colleagues. No, I'm going to, the house will be in order. Like children waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House. That was one of the Republicans that voted against it, who admonished everybody else to, quote, put the damn flags away. And then he he took the microphone away from her. You're one's reminded to forgive them.

They know not what they do. What they're what they're what they're doing is sending tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands more young Ukrainians to their death. That's what they're doing because they are absolutely unaware of any of the real issues in this conflict, unaware of its genesis, unaware of its possible resolution. All they seem to know is war. And they're ignorant. They don't study this. They don't look at alternatives. They don't say one word about diplomacy. They know nothing. They don't understand the consequences. It's regrettable how really sad our government has devolved into almost this ludicrous display of irrationality and immaturity because that's what this is. This wasn't a considered discussion, a considered deliberation taken after a careful reflection of the myriad possibilities, alternative approaches and likely consequences. kind of an ignorant mob waving their flags that has already condemned around 500,000 Ukrainians to their deaths or grave wounds, that has lost a great deal of territory,

not because Putin was out to take the territory, but because the United States at every stage refused basic diplomacy over the issue of the U.S. placing its military along the Russian border. That's the issue we've never discussed. That's the issue that the New York Times will not tell its thumb-sucking readers, excuse me, because they can't read that thing as adults, that New York Times. It has no facts. And that's what leads us to this kind of display in Congress. I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged

is something that would be a better deterrence because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States. Would you believe that? Are we going to bring back the Alien and Sedition Act, whereby if you criticize American foreign policy, you could be prosecuted? She would. That woman would. That woman never got my vote. She never got my opinion that she could

be elected president. That woman is a disaster. She was a disaster as first lady. She's a disaster as First Lady, she's a disaster as Secretary of State, she's a disaster now. Now, what would I do? What would I do if I went to her and I said, do you know what we did in this election, in that election, starting in 1948 with Harry Truman and the Italians? You know what we did in this, that, and the other election in the last five years? Well, what if Putin demanded at the UN Security Council, for example, some kind of accountability for those actions?

You're a bitch, lady, and you need to go hide yourself somewhere. Colonel, I can see Chris, and he's roaring over this. Can we cut what you just said and feature it? You know, we laugh about this. It's quite serious. California, Governor Newsom just signed a law making these AI memes, these deep fake things, illegal. You know, some people put together a satire of Kamala Harris. It's hilarious. It's not her, but it looks like her and it sounds like her. We're not going to run it. How can that be against the law? The Supreme Court has held that satire, propaganda, harsh, caustic, antagonistic, obscene, hateful speech, all protected all protected a war against humanity itself doesn't seem to be recognizing or resonating with the biden administration he supposedly had a conversation a 30-minute

testy conversation with benjamin netanyahu today did he stop sending the 2,000-pound bombs? Of course not. No. Biden says he's outraged, but they will not stop sending the 2,000-pound baby-buster bombs to Gaza. And just two points on José Andrés's obviously heartfelt words. I think José Andrés is starting to wake up to a reality he didn't understand. Indeed, what Israel is doing in Gaza is a war on humanity. But that's the war that Palestinians have been experiencing for over 75 years. It's the war on humanity that made October 7th inevitable and for many Palestinians necessary. And now Jose Andres, who naively believed that the Israeli military would allow him to deliver food to people that they were systematically starving and ethnically cleansing, now he realizes that even his own staff was not seen by Israel as fellow humans.

So Jose Andres needs to display some dignity and resign his position as culinary ambassador at the State Department. Where are the resignations? Where is the concrete backlash against Biden? I'm not seeing it. And we also need to look at what Jose Andres was doing in Gaza. He clearly was being used for an insidious, ulterior agenda of the Biden administration and the Israeli military to remove UNRWA, the United Nations Relief Works Agency, from the North, replace them, and to build, he was building a dock out of the rubble of Palestinian homes

against the wishes of homeowners. Imagine if your home was destroyed. Anyone watching this, your home was destroyed, and then a foreigner comes and takes the remains of your home and uses it to build a dock, supposedly to offload aid, but this dock was located right around the same corridor that Israel's building to section the north off from the rest of Gaza in order to ethnically cleanse the northern population and the same area where Biden is planning his dubious and clearly disastrous army aid pier which we should talk about here so Jose Andres had been was being used all along and Israel just pulled his card because

they couldn't have any aid going in there everybody has to starve well I mean things have changed a little bit too because now he's stepping into an environment where he actually has far more uh influence Biden has stepped aside um now he will meet with Biden but Biden isn't in the future of Israel um the future of Israel is going to be defined by you know the Democratic candidate who's no longer named Biden. We don't know the exact name yet. And the Republican candidate whose name is Donald Trump, unless he's successfully taken out by people who don't want him to be the candidate, it'll be J.D. Vance.

But the point is, the focus is on the Congress of the United States, where, you know, I mean, look, he has bought the Congress. I mean, he's playing to a paid audience he's paying these people to sit in their seats and cheer him and he's paid them so well that the head of the u.s congress the speaker of the house uh mr johnson has threatened to arrest people and charge them should they somehow uh disrupt the uh the the the scripted scene that's going to take place where there will be more standing ovations than previously that the idea is to show not just to Netanyahu because again he wrote the script this is something he said has to happen this is played out for the Israeli people this is Net Netanyahu coming. He's been beaten in Gaza. He's been

beaten by Hezbollah. Houthi have humiliated him. Now he's coming here to have the American flag wrapped around him to be anointed by the American Congress so he can go back to Israel and say, America is fully behind me. I have the backing of the United States during these difficult times. This is an act of political desperation on the part of Benjamin Danielle because his military is almost an open Rebellion telling them we are fundamentally broken we're running out of tanks because we don't have any spare parts we've run out of ammunition our troops are exhausted and we can't go to war against Hezbollah because they'll beat us uh that's the reality and then Yahoo can't take that to the Israeli people and so instead he's going to come here an act of Grand political theater and that's the reality. And Netanyahu can't take that to the Israeli people. And so instead, he's going to come here, an act of grand political theater. And that's what this is all about.

I would like to believe the American people could see through this. Unfortunately, we keep electing the same bought and paid for members of Congress and Senate, knowing that Israel owns it, we keep electing them. So I think the American people are culpable in this as well. Reuters is reporting this morning that Prime Minister Netanyahu announced yesterday to the public that he gave an order to the IDF to prepare to invade Lebanon. Do you know if this is true? And if so, is it wise? Yes, I can tell you what he said he said i have instructed the israeli army and all security forces to prepare to change the situation he's referring to the situation in the north of israel and the remote possibility we do current situation that That's the Gaza-West Bank situation.

And we are obligated to return all the residents of the north to their homes safely. I think what's happened is that really two things have changed the situation. And the brief hiatus that we've had there, where things have just been continuing as before, both with Lebanon and with Gaza, really two things. Was at the end of last week, Netanyahu announced in an interview on Fox News, to the effect that he was saying, look, there's no there's no deal there's no deal even likely imminent and the idea

that there is the prospect of a deal which is the deal for release hostages if you like and then to um the uh the war in gaza the end of the conflict in g, he said, that's false news. It's not true. So he completely contradicts the White House. And he says, there's no deal, and it's not imminent, and not likely. So I think that left Israeli Israel only with two options. With the deal ruled out, I mean, that was one option. The only other option is then to resolve the issue with Hezbollah. And so we've seen during this period already a change taking place, much less noticed in the international press. But really, West Bank is being treated to the Gaza system. There are these major attacks. Palestinians in West Bank are being moved

from place to place. They're told to leave this area, move to this area, a safe area. Really major attacks on the infrastructure of West Bank and by infrastructure I mean things like schools and public buildings. It's not military buildings. So lots of deaths. It's really now taking on the appearance. And the Israeli military forces have been saying very clearly, you know, this can't go on for longer. It is explosive.

The whole of, if you like, I'm now talking about the sort of smaller Israel, Gaza, West Bank, has become an explosive issue. So hence he's now saying, well, now I've ruled out any deal on Gaza, then we must now move to the next stage. And the Israelis are both becoming more polarized, again, in their sort of sense of not opposing. I mean, Ashkenazi European Jews have been saying online very clearly, look, if there was a button by which I could remove all of the Palestinians from Gaza, I would press it in a flash. The Prime Minister's invocation of Amalek is being used by soldiers to justify the killing of civilians, including children. These are the soldiers repeating the inciting words

of their prime minister. Larry? Yeah, sickening. I mean, it's just, you know, for a while, you know, all my life, I've been a supporter of Israel. I believed Israel was something special. I remember training a group of Israeli police officers in the anti-terrorism assistance training program and asking them, what was your finest moment in counterterrorism? I said, I know what the answer is. And they looked at me and I

said, it was when you went to Argentina and you captured the man responsible for supervising the execution of Jews or at least sending them to death camps. And I said, so when you put him on trial, you showed the world the difference between you and terrorists. You showed the difference between you and Nazis. Well, that was then. Now the Israelis are acting like nazis they are doing the exact they're stripping people naked they're shooting people who aren't carrying weapons they're murdering women and children they're they're claiming that hamas raped and

murdered and killed children that's a lie there's zero evidence of that, zero. And yet they continue to push that as their justification for killing other women and children. It's sickening, it's disgusting, and Israel has lost its way. Ray, does the Israeli government care if it stands alone with just the United States and the rest of the world, either silently or overtly condemns its behavior? Up till now, it has not cared. Now, I believe it has to care. After all, the Houthis are creating bedlam in the Red Sea, the Iranians are actually frontally capturing oil tankers that were captured by others. They are in for a tough slog here with Hezbollah in the north and their problems, their real problems militarily in Gaza.

So yeah, they have to care now because their economies can be severely damaged if the rest of the world believes that this is beyond the pale. I think the rest of the world does. And citing Amalek, you know, I'm sure that Bibi Netanyahu was disappointed that he did that. But I'll bet God was, too. If you take the Hebrew scriptures as your code of conduct, you're in real trouble. And when they said, Hamalik, of course, for the tribe that God supposedly told the Israelis to exterminate, and they did. That's what they're invoking here. They're not going to get away with it. Why does the American CIA search the world for monsters to slay, why did it dislodge the popularly elected

Pakistani Prime Minister Imre Khan two years ago and incarcerate him on a phony charge? And why did it just dislodge the President or prime minister of Bangladesh? Well, let me clarify one point. In both the case of Pakistan and Bangladesh, I don't know what the CIA role was per se, but it was a US government role, almost surely in Pakistan and quite possibly in Bangladesh. So the face of this is actually the State Department in this case, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Donald Liu, who is playing, it seems, in the region of South Asia, the role that Victoria Nuland used to play in regime change operations in Eastern Europe, Ukraine. And what that means is that there is a general pattern where the CIA

is typically the lead, but not necessarily the lead, where the U.S US government decides it doesn't like another government, so it will bring it down. Now, the US is just about the only country in the world that does this, but the US does it with such unbelievable frequency that it is essentially our modus operandi of foreign policy. Thank you. I'm out.