The Young Turks - Iran Strikes Israel

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

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150 missiles at four targets in Israel. This includes the Mossad headquarters, Israel's spy agency, three Israeli air bases. As it stands at this moment, Iran has in fact launched 180 missiles into Israel in retaliation for Israel assassinating a leader of Hamas, Ishmael Hanea, and also for assassinating the head of Hezbollah. in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah. Now, this, of course, broadens the Middle East War to levels that are both dangerous for human lives and also devastating for the global economy. And so I want to walk through all of that with you right now. So as I mentioned, today, Iran launched two rounds of missiles against Israel in retaliation for, you know, these assassinations. Israel is likely to intercept the missiles. In fact, you saw some footage of them

intercepting the missiles because of the fact that they have an incredibly sophisticated, multi-layered defense capability. They've got the Iron Dome intercepts long-range ballistic missiles, David Sling, intercepts medium-range missiles such as those believed to be possessed by Hezbollah in Lebanon. And then there's the arrow two and arrow three. These are the upper layers of Israel's defense system. The arrow two and arrow three intercept medium to long-range missiles. and intercontinental ballistic missiles respectively.

Now with all that in mind, let's take a look at some of the reporting on ABC News, which elaborated on some more of the details on this retaliatory strike. We certainly know that the Iron Dome and other air defenses are in operation, and this is happening right as we speak, a nationwide emergency alert to all Israelis to shelter. All our colleagues, people with friends and family are all hiding now basically in bunk. Many people in their homes, they have kind of makeshift shelters, and everyone is now underground. This came shortly after a terrorist attack in Israel. We're told that this is possibly the first of four waves of attacks.

Now this is almost, if the 250 figure is right, that's almost double the size of the attack that took place in April. Remember Iran attacking at that time, we suspected that there would be attacked, but this is significantly larger. Israel has warned all of its citizens to take all precautions to try and stay underground if they can. Well, the retaliatory strikes should have been expected, and in fact were expected, Netanyahu, who has been urging the United States to go to war with Iran on his behalf, on Israel's behalf, is of course saying that there is a price to pay for these retaliatory strikes and that Israel will retaliate for Iran's retaliatory strikes. So essentially inching us closer and closer, I wouldn't even say inching at this point, but making it clear that we are headed toward a hot war with Iran.

And the United States, the military superpower backing and enabling Israel has made clear that they will be defending Israel. For instance, you have a White House official who told the Washington Post anonymously. We are actively supporting defense preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe. consequences for Iran. A U.S. defense official who also spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity says that U.S. forces are actively defending against Iranian launched missiles targeting Israel, quote, our forces remain postured to provide additional defensive support

and to protect U.S. forces operating in the region. Hey, we know you probably hit play to escape your business banking, not think about it. But what if we told you there was a way to skip over the pressures of banking? By matching with the TD Small Business Account Manager, you can get the proactive business banking advice and support your business needs. Ready to press play? Get up to $2,700 when you open Select Small Business Banking products. Yep, that's $2,700 to turn up your business. Visit TD.com slash Small Business Match to learn more conditions apply now before we get to the economic consequences for all of us should this war move forward i want to go to you jank what are your thoughts yes there's actually a bunch of good news

out of this one is that the attacks were totally ineffective so no one got hurt that's good news always. Number two, it makes it less likely that you're going to have a bigger war when the counterattack is totally ineffective. That's number stopping at Yahoo. We'll get back to that in a second. But number three, if there is no broader war or bigger war, that means the U.S. elections are less likely to be affected, and we don't want that. Now, if you don't know right now, the Israeli public is by two to one margin wants Trump. So the Israeli government government wants Trump, it appears then Yahoo, it thinks that Trump will allow them free reign to, you know, attack, invade, kill whatever number of different Muslim countries and

as many Palestinians as they like. And that's true, that would be shocking if Trump didn't cheer lead that. And he believes that Trump, of course, since he's controlled by Miriam Edelson, et cetera, that he will just funnel more of our taxpayer dollars to Israel, which is also likely true. But so would Kamala Harris, to be fair. So that's the limited good news from today, but significant if it doesn't get into a broader war, right? Now, look, there's plenty of bad news too. We'll get into more of that as we go, but the American media reaction is also telling too.

So there's just this huge coverage on air, and I get it, you know, there's interesting pictures and video of it, and bombs keep coming in and then getting knocked out, etc. But there's this like this thing of like, oh my God, oh my God, the Israelis are slightly scared. They had to go into bunkers for an hour and then come back out. Or however, I've heard an hour and I don't want to be unfair. Maybe it was longer than an hour. And so I'm thrilled that nobody got hurt. I'm massively in favor of completely in favor of nonviolence. Okay.

So that coverage would be perfectly fine if it was just Iran attacked and that's the only context there is. But you've got decapitated kids in Gaza, 250 women and children killed. I know, but they're Palestinians, they're not Israeli. No, those are Lebanese. It's still Muslim though, so totally irrelevant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, by the way, they could be Christians in Lebanon, okay? It doesn't matter, they slaughter whoever they want, and no one cares.

Like that's the, that's the thing that drives me nuts. Dana Bash today, as she is watching, okay, Israel's defense capabilities intercept those missiles, she's having a panic attack. Yeah. But she herself sat there on that set, watching the footage out of Gaza, watching the footage of children who lost their limbs as a result of Israel's bombings, children who are decapitated, okay, parents holding their children without a head, okay? Was she concerned about that?

Any shock in awe when it came to that kind of footage? Yeah, so look, I don't want you to not have empathy for Israeli citizens. We're all human beings. We need to have empathy for all of us. But when American media seems to have almost no empathy for the Lebanese and the Palestinians, that's what's upsetting. So was there equal coverage of like them being on rooftops in Beirut? Well, obviously they wouldn't go there because Lebanon doesn't have a defense shield.

Israel's the only country in the world that has a defense shield and has one of the largest militaries, nukes, and the largest military to back it up. So of course, you'd be playing with your life if you went into Beirut. But were they on the rooftops going, Oh, my God, 250 kids and women are about to get slaughter. Oh, they did get slaughtered. Oh, my God, here they are. Their heads exploded.

Their bodies are mutilated, et cetera. No. Oh, Israel did against strike. Yep, no, yep. Civilians are dead. Human shields. Collateral damage, no big deal. Oh, my God.

Israel might get it. Okay, okay. Come on, guys. Like, the extreme reaction and the difference between the reactions is unreal. Yeah, the double standard. I mean, it's deteriorating. I mean, look, if the tables were turned and the treatment, you know, toward Israelis was as deplorable as the treatment toward Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanese, I would be equally as outraged by it. Are you kidding me?

Because I see them as human beings, but on both sides. I see civilians as civilians. I see them as human beings. But it is shocking to me how much this current war has allowed for all these various public figures that people tune into to watch because they trust them. How much they've let their mask slip. How little they care about human lives. Look, come on guys, this is so obvious. So if you had five and a half million Jews who were being occupied by,

and let's be honest, religious fundamentalist Muslims, because it's religious fundamentalist Jews in Israel that are like trying to take the land in the West Bank and reoccupy Gaza Strip, et cetera. And we saw those poor Jews, five and a half million of them occupied for 50, seven years in these unbearable open air prisons and camps and slaughtered at will. And we saw an area of the size of Las Vegas filled with Jewish people who were just slaughtered, 41,000 of them slaughtered, 20 dead women and children everywhere. I mean, what wouldn't we do as good, decent human beings?

Not just as Americans, but like as decent human beings, what wouldn't we do to save those Jewish people. But when it comes to Palestinians or Lebanese, America doesn't care at all. In fact, that's not even true. Joe Biden has rewarded them. The more Palestinians they killed and the more wars they started, Joe Biden wrote them a bigger check. And it's not just Joe Biden. The Republican leaders were like, Joe Biden hasn't given Israel enough money. So we are, we as a country, are rewarding the massacre of the Palestinians, their endless occupation, and Israel invading its neighbors. But the minute Israel is even threatened with no casualties at all, all of the American media politicians go nuts. The politicians are out there going, there will be severe

consequences for Iran. Oh, so 41,000 dead, you don't care, no severe consequences. In fact, a severe check in the other direction, $26 billion is a reward and a gift for murdering all those Palestinians. If Israelis are even endangered and they have to go into a bunker for an hour or two, That's all that's a severe consequences for those dirty violent savage Muslims. They're ridiculous. So let's talk a little bit about what a war with Iran would mean, outside of obviously the men and women in our military risking their lives on behalf of Israel in a war that should not have happened.

Well, the economic impact would be pretty devastating. So Israel plans to retaliate by potentially. hitting Iran's oil infrastructure? What do you think that's going to do to the global economy? So for instance, Iran is a major oil producer and provider for China. China can't get its energy from Iran. It's going to turn to other sources in the global market. My point is there's going to be limited supply of something that every country needs, which means that demand stays the same, supply goes down, obviously oil prices are gonna go up. So look forward to that. Oil prices go up, the price of everything goes up because the price of transporting goods and services goes up.

So I don't know how enabling Israel to basically provoke the situation to a point where now we're potentially going to go to war with Iran was a good idea. How was that a good idea by the United States government? So, no, Biden. would rather lose the election, and he's proven it a thousand times. He'd rather lose the election than defy Israel. He brought in 43,000 troops as we're about to tell you. He's like, Iran, please hit them, please hit them, so I could use it as an excuse to fight this war on behalf of Israel. So that's the situation. Look, guys, if I want to be complete on October 8th, Hezbollah started firing again, 100% ineffectual, no, 99% ineffectual rockets. One got three,

killed 12 kids and I hate it. Obviously now 250 dead on the other, a thousand dead in Lebanon, but 250 women and children. And nobody gives a damn. Nobody thinks that, oh, well, of course Lebanon should strike back and Iran should strike back against Israel. Israel's the aggressor and has killed so many more people, so many more innocent civilians. But here in America, you would never get that kind of fairness, justice or equality because they just don't think Muslim lives matter at all.

And I want to be clear, not just our politicians, but almost everyone in our, in American media. Ironically, the two, Trey Yinks and Fox News has done a great job. And I say ironic because it's on Fox News. And he says covering Gaza was like living in hell. Absolute torture that the Palestinians are going through. And Jeremy Diamond of Sienna has done a brilliant job of covering it. And they've been on the ground. Because when you're a human being and you're on the ground and you see the devastation

that Israel does so flippantly, and it's hard not to be moved by that and give them credit for good reporting. Yeah, I wish Jeremy Diamond's incredible reporting had some impact on Dandabash, but apparently not. All right, I actually want to reset for this political piece, which is pretty explosive, and I think it deserves a lot of attention. With that in mind, let's talk about the Biden administration enabling a regional war. As the Middle East teeters on the edge of catastrophe and a hot war with Iran, according to a recent political report, the Biden administration is apparently happy about.

the state of affairs. And while publicly, we have heard from Biden argue that an expanded regional war would be a disaster and he wants to prevent it, it turns out behind the scenes, the U.S. government was kind of egging Israel on. Now, what do I mean by that? An anonymous senior White House official who spoke to Politico said that presidential advisor, Amos, Hockstein and Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, told top Israeli officials in recent weeks that the U.S. agreed with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's broad strategy to shift Israel's military focus to the north against Hezbollah in order to convince the group, this isn't the funniest statement, in order to convince

the group to engage in diplomatic talks to end the conflict. How? It's the exact opposite. Okay. So in mid-September, calls and in September, in September, there were calls and meetings where Israeli officials had outlined broadly what their military was planning to do and how they were planning to make that shift. And Hoxton and McGurk, remember, these are U.S. officials, relay to their Israeli counterparts that while they still urged a cautious approach, the timing was likely opportune for such a move, especially after Hezbollah had been significantly degraded in the months prior.

So on one hand, the argument is Hezbollah poses such a severe threat to Israel, even with their sophisticated defense capacity and their sophisticated military capability, which is paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. But then on the other hand, they say, no, striking Hezbollah right now is actually an opportune moment, especially because their capabilities have been degraded. So which one is it? Are they an imminent threat to Israel or are they weak and not much of a threat at all? It doesn't matter because it's just shell game.

It's just talking point shell game. Which talking point would you like? We have infinite excuses to kill Muslims, human shields. They had it coming. They started it. They hate Jews. If they offended me, et cetera. And the real reason is donors that care for.

Israel have given hundreds of millions of dollars to U.S. politicians who are completely corrupt. That's the actual answer. It's heartbreaking, but it's real. Now, not everyone in the Biden administration was on board for this, probably because they understood that once you engage in war, things can get pretty unpredictable. And when you can't control everything, things can get out of control. So figures in both the Pentagon and the State Department, in addition to members of the intelligence community worried that encouraging Israel to go after Hezbollah would drag the United States into another war. Some were even concerned about the civilian death toll.

Oh, wow, are they not merciful in Lebanon specifically? Which has now passed 1,600 people, at least 1,600 people in Lebanon already killed by Israel's military activity there. But it is obvious which side won the debate within the Biden administration. Behind the scenes, Hawkstein, McGurk, and other top U.S. national security officials are describing Israel's Lebanon operations as a history-defining moment, one that will reshape the Middle East for the better for years to come. Oh, war is going to reshape it in a positive way, huh? So just note, Hawkstein and McGurk are terrible human beings. They sure are. So the thinking goes, Israel has obliterated Hezbollah's top command structure in Lebanon, severely undercutting the group's capabilities. What capabilities?

They can't hit anything anyway. And weakened Iran, which used Hezbollah as a proxy and power projector. Now, I just, it is true. They did, at least for the time being, decapitate Hezbollah by taking out its leadership. But I now turn to John Mearsheimer. He's a political scientist. He's also one of the authors behind a book that everyone should read. It's called the Israel Lobby.

He talks about what the reality is on the ground in Lebanon. Let's take a look. The Israelis clearly scored a stunning tactical victory by decapitating the leadership of Hezbollah. There's no question about that. But they'll replace those leaders. And more importantly, there are 40,000 fighters in the South who are armed to the teeth with all sorts of weaponry and who have dug trenches and have built all sorts of capabilities into the terrain, which is rugged terrain. reign to begin with, that'll make it very difficult for Israel to prevail in that conflict. And then if you take it a step further, even if Israel does prevail, they're stuck in southern

Lebanon, maybe even in central Lebanon as well. And they've been there, done that, and it didn't work out very well in 1982. And there's no reason to think it's going to work out well this time. And again, you want to remember that they still have their hands full in Gaza. And they could have their hands full in Iran soon, Jank. Yeah, I mean, look, but at this point, I don't know if Iran and Hezbollah are holding back some sort of capability, but I'm beginning to believe that they don't have capability. And so I was worried about Iran's army, and I think that if you go into Iran itself, then you're asking for a nightmare, because we saw what happened in Iraq, and that was

the U.S. military, we got our asses handed to us in Iraq and Afghanistan. And as I've told you many times, Iran is four times larger. But can Iran actually reach Israel? It takes them forever to get there. Israel has the best defense shields in the history of humanity. Hezbollah can't hit anything at all. So I, you know, maybe Netanyahu is thinking the only way I can get them to kill Israelis so we can get my population could get even angry and reelect me and start even more wars

is I have to bring the Israelis to them. Like if I bring them into southern Lebanon or maybe central Lebanon or Iran, and then at some point, they're going to have to kill our soldiers, right, because we're invading and taking their land. And then we'll get to call them terrorists again. We'll get to pretend that they're the violent ones again. Right. As we're occupying their homes and taking their land, we'll pretend we're the victims. Yeah.

So, but right now, you know, look, I feel conflicted, Anna, because at this point, I don't know what their capabilities are. And maybe it's nothing. And they're just going to continue to get slaughtered to the end of time. And then Israel's in America is going to be elated. Oh, it turns out we can murder them, ad nauseum, but they can't even fight back. You see how we're the victims? Wait, what? Okay.

Iran has said over and over and over again, and I think their actions bear out that they do not want a hot war. Oh, there's no question, and I want to get to that too, because look, the other possibility is that Iran is scared. Yeah, they should be. Yeah, yeah. And so I get it, and by the way, that too, look, we're the most honest show. I can't stand these Israeli invasions and attacks and nonstop civilian massacres, right?

But their idea is if we kill enough of them, they'll get scared. Maybe the leadership of Iran got scared. Maybe that's part of it. And they think, well, if we do an effective strike against Israel, we're all dead. And remember, the Mossan infiltrated Iran so thoroughly that they killed their top 20 scientists. They were the guys that were trying to track down Israeli spies. It was actually Mossad, so they didn't track that. They were the Israelis.

I mean, it was a spectacular success in terms of intelligence within Iran. So Iran and Hezbollah, of course, are human beings. They're going to be nervous about them dying. And remember, Israel kills family members. So they wait, there was that daddy project. Where's Daddy Project? where they would wait for suspected militants picked by a computer to go home first so they can murder their family along with them. So they're probably worried like, hey, and one of the scientists that they killed,

where they killed them right in front of his kids in a kindergarten, in front of a kindergarten, et cetera. So they're thinking, well, the Israelis are, I mean, there's certain words I'm not allowed to use. War criminals? Yeah, so, okay, let's keep it simple and call war criminals. They'll kill my grandkids, they'll kill my parents, they'll kill anyone. They'll kill anyone, right? So, and I know a lot of Israelis hear that and go, yes, that'll show those dirty Muslims who are so violent. And if we kill enough of their children and grandchildren, then we will be safe.

And that is the most important thing in the world. If everyone else is dead, but we're safe, we're good. I mean, did you feel safe today? Yeah, but seriously. But they do, they feel invincible because they keep attacking and killing. and attacking and attacking. And there's no effective strikeback. So they're thinking, who cares?

We don't value these Muslim lives anyway. So please spare me that it's like, of course some Israeli citizens do care. Of course there's decent people inside Israel, right? But is it the majority? No, no. The majority very clear, 75% of Jewish Israelis wanted to go into invade Lebanon. So, and they know that they're going to kill thousands of civilians. And then when they do, they're going to say, ah, who cares?

Collateral damage. But you invaded them. Well, they're bothering us with the rockets. And so we had to do it. Well, look, guys, the bottom line is the occupation. If just the absurdity of American media pretending that these countries are attacking is like firing the ineffectual rockets to Israel for no reason. Just because they woke up that morning and they're like, oh, my coffee's a little bitter.

Oh, I hate Jews. No, it's absurd. It's absurd. No, it's because they're occupying the Palestinians and they're doing resistance. I think they're doing it in the wrong way, and I believe in non-violence. But now I'm saying economic boycott and shaming of the Israelis for their endless, brutal occupation of the Palestinians. And people say that that's so cruel.

The words you're using, I mean, you can't use words against Israelis, you can't use violence against him, you can't use words, you can't use diplomacy, you can't use dollars, you can't use anything against the Israelis. They have a giant shield over the whole country, they can do whatever they want. But God forbid, you even criticize Israel, you're gonna be in a lot of trouble. So this is, and guys, they're fermenting more and more anti-Semitism. That's reason number two, but among 88, a thousand reasons. Why can't stand what they're doing?

Because you think people aren't seeing this and going, hmm, what's the one country that gets all of the protections, all the military, all of the weapons, and the rest of it, and They do it with immunity. You think that's not going to drive anti-Semitism? Are you nuts? It's driving record anti-Semitism. How is this helping Israel? It only helps the warmongers.

All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll look into how limited Israel's ground invasion into Lebanon really is. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna, and Zeus, Gweberra, thank you, Zeus for joining. We appreciate it. I like having Zeus on our side. Zeus hit the join button below the video on YouTube. You can do likewise.

Come join us, Anna. What's the news? Let's check in on Lebanon. Some 200 kilometers up the coast from where we are here in southern Lebanon, Israel has started what it calls a limited ground operations, sending in paratroopers, commandos, and members of the armored corps. The Israeli military says it is conducting, quote, targeted raids at the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Israel says there will be no long-term occupation of southern Lebanon. You just heard a snippet of CNN's reporting on Israel's alleged limited ground invasion into Lebanon, or at least that's what the Israeli government would like you to believe. But we probably shouldn't take their word for it. In fact, why don't we take a look at CNN's Jeremy Diamond and some of the incredible reporting he's been doing in the Middle East on this matter? I was cautioned by some sources that this is not a very large force going into Lebanon. but they wouldn't say exactly how many forces there are.

And as I've said before, they are incentivized to continue to characterize this as limited, as targeted, as small. And I would also note that when Israel began its ground operation in Gaza, which of course we've now seen Israeli troops pour throughout the Gaza Strip, invading the entire strip effectively, at the time, they also characterized that as a limited ground operation that was slowly, slowly expanding. And of course, it ultimately expanded into an all-out. invasion. Well, Jeremy Diamond is not the only person who is saying this. In fact, why don't we go to

Gideon Levy, who has similar things to say? Everything is so expected. This scenario repeats itself in every war that is luncheon. First, nobody's interested in full-scale war. Then comes the bombardments from the air and all kind of operations. Then it will be a very, very limited. ground operation, limited in time, limited in territory, and a few weeks later, how we might be in the outskirts of Meru. And then, and then comes the main question, how do we get out from there? Because entering Lebanon is the easy side, the easy step. Look what happens in Gaza. Israel is deeply stuck in Gaza without having any idea how to get out from there and what to do He's got some.

Now Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grimm, who launched a new media company known as DropSight News, reported on how many troops are actually in the area, in Lebanon. Israeli authorities are calling the invasion a small-scale military incursion, but over 30,000 troops are currently stationed in the north and are being joined by 36th armored division, primarily artillery and tank brigades. 98th paratrooper division, two recently called up reserve brigades totaling about 3,000 soldiers, reserve armored brigade with an additional 4,000 soldiers in tanks. And, Jank, it's not just the number of troops.

It also has to do with the bombs and the military weaponry that we're talking about here. Warnings to civilians in Lebanon from the IDF's Arabic language spokesman indicated that Israel is planning for intense battles with Hezbollah militants south of the Awali. river. That's more than 30 miles from the border and far beyond the U.N. buffer zone declared after the 2006 Israel Hezbollah war. And by the way, as we know, American troops are also being sent to the area as well. The U.S. is sending a few thousand troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to defend Israel if necessary, according to the Pentagon. The additional forces would raise the total number of troops in the region to as many as 43,000.

Cenk. Yeah. So I want to give credit to Ezra Klein and David Remnick. They had a great podcast on Ezra's podcast through the New York Times. And in the beginning, I got frustrated. I thought there was going to be typical American media. They started talking about how the Palestinians are, you know, attacking and they didn't fully explain the context of the lives that they lived, et cetera. But then turned into a fantastic podcast where they were super honest about what's actually happening in Israel. And one of the things that they explained is Netanyahu's dad was what is called a revisionist Zionist. And the original Zionism is, oh my God, let's get a piece of land that's create a safe haven for Jews.

So we're not attacked, we're not killed, and we can protect ourselves. Revisionist Zionism is let's take as much land as possible. So Netanyahu's dad thought that not only should they take the West Bank, but they should take Jordan. Just attack it, conquer it, take it, make it Israel's land and push Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians. out to other places, ethnically cleanse them and kill them, cleanse them, it doesn't matter. So that's Netanyahu's version of Zionism where it's a conquering Zionism. And so this whole idea, in American media get this war perspective that like, oh, Israel had to take all this land and occupy all these people because they're just protecting themselves,

not because they're grabbing land, even though in the West Bank, they have taken a larger and larger portion of the West Bank as we've gone through all these decades. And that is totally inarguable. Yeah, you know, wait, there's something worse in Israel. I'll get to that in a second. I just want to make a quick comment. I mean, there are other people who have said similar things like Vladimir Putin when he invaded Ukraine. He had to do it.

It was for Russia's security, of course. Well, look, now I'm going to use an example that's going to trigger people. But to Anna's point, every imperial power, colonial power that goes and grabs land never says, oh, I'm the bad guy. I'm just gonna go grab this land, even, and that's why I'm giving the same man, even the most extreme example, the Germans in the 1930s when they were grabbing land, said, oh, no, we're doing it to protect the homeland. We need this security buffer. So I know that that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. That's a fact. That's exactly what they said.

So anyways, now, Neftali Bennett is currently leading in the polling, not Netanyahu. So you think, oh, the good news, no, not good news. Nftali Bennett represents the religious fundamentalist wing of Israel, who believe that God himself gave them the right to all this land. So there are two different forces in Israel, both agreeing, it's our land and the Muslims are inconveniently on our land. So what do we, and then there is a, like, it's not just a minority. It is a giant portion of the Israeli electorate that is supporting the idea of pushing

the Palestinians out of not just Gaza, out of the way. West Bank and just ethnically cleanse them and just take it. And so now they're in southern Lebanon and we're being told again limited incursion. Oh, except they have a giant army that's about to enter. Well, we're only doing it to protect ourselves. We want a buffer zone. This is for our security, not for going on the office, even though I just took your land and I just invaded your country, right?

And remember, Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, stay there for a long, long time. Then they went into Lebanon again in 2006. They've been trying to take a part of southern Lebanon for a long for decade after decade. So Hezbo has driven them out. And then, of course, since Hezbo defended their land, they were called terrorists. And so even defending your own land is terrorism, apparently. So, and if you don't agree to that, then, of course, you're canceled, blah, blah, blah. So the reality here is Israel's going to southern Lebanon, and nothing that they have ever said in this conflict has ever proven to be true.

So when they say it's for security, I don't believe them at all. When they said it was a limited incursion, on day one, we now already know it's not a limited incursion. And so I think there's an excellent chance they'll try to stay and take more Arab land while calling it for security. And again, remember, tens of thousands Arabs Muslims killed. And October 7,200 Israelis killed. again, what are we at, 40x, 40x the number of people killed. But then after October 7th, Hezbollah had one rocket that landed. Hamas has done nothing.

Iran has done nothing. I don't mean they're not trying, but they're not landing. It's very ineffectual. Yeah, because it's an asymmetrical war. It's an asymmetric. But the idea that the guys who can't get hit need extra security and the guys who are getting slaughtered don't need any security, that in fact, the giant Goliath in the middle of the Middle East needs security from the people that they're massacring.

It's absurdity, but we all go along with this illusion and mirage because of American media and American politicians. I want to end on this. It's the final graphic here from Axios because I think it gives you a sense of the U.S. reaction and response to the belligerence of the Israeli government and the broadening war in the Middle East. The feeling inside the administration is a mix of perturbed and intrigued. On the one hand, the Israelis really are playing with fire here. But on the other hand, what if it works? What if what works? Yeah, I know. What if what? Like what? I need to

understand like what is the end goal here. No. Yeah, there's another thing. Again, if you, if they actually believe that they would be the world's dumbest people. But I don't think they believe it. I think these are all excuses to just again take more land to continue the occupation continue to oppress and humiliate Muslims and feel good about it because now you're the powerful one congratulations but so in reality like how could it be an end goal of you wipe out Hezbollah and Hamas you can kill their leaders and they did by the way you're gonna be shocked to find out Hezbollah today announced new leaders oh wow I didn't know they could do that oh like you didn't think they'd

come up with new leaders? You think that there's about 40,000 Hezbole fighters theoretically in Lebanon? That's what the reporting is. And so did you think they were all going to come out and do a press conference to go, we surrender. Israel is superior to us. Just come and take southern Lebanon and continue to oppress the Palestinians. We give up. Our new leaders, our rulers are Israel. And by the way, we also love them now. We love the Israelis. Love them. Is that what you expected? No, as long as you have the occupation and as long as you keep taking their land, they're going to fight you till the end of time.

No human beings would ever not fight you. I try to get people to do nonviolence. Now I'm getting attacked by the Jackson Hinkle's or whatever the hell his name is. Oh my God. Okay, and say, oh, they're saying I'm a Zionist because I believe in nonviolence. He's a clown. Okay, I know, I know. But my point is, guys, if you're so deluded that you think the Palestinians are just,

going to surrender and say, just take our land, just occupy us forever. You're nuts, you've lost touch with reality. Of course they're going to fight you. What would you do? What would you, if they were Jewish, what would you do? Would you say, hey, Jews, don't fight your occupiers? Understand that you're to be ruled, you're inferior. Let them take your land, let them abuse you, let them kill your children.

Would the Israeli Jewish people accept that? Of course not, and they shouldn't. I would be livid about that. I'm livid about the Palestinians, but when I'm living about the Palestinians, I'm a radical anti-Semite. And if, you know, but if you're concerned about Israelis going into a bunker for an hour, oh, there you go. Their lives are valuable. Their lives are valuable. Let them take all the land they want. Just a quick note about the markets. Overall, the markets are down, but I should note that some businesses are doing really well, including Lockheed Martin,

Northrop Grumman. Of course. Raytheon, they're actually reaching record highs. A friend of mine told me to invest in those as soon as October 7th happened. I couldn't stomach it and I didn't do it. But yeah, like you'd be a knucklehead. Of course, those companies are even more motivated than Israel, right? And they grease the politicians just as much, if not more than Israel. And isn't it insane that we allow lobbyists for war to go and bribe our officials?

And then our officials start a war with our money so that the, those defense contractors can get paid. And then meanwhile, all these innocent people dying all over the world. And then when America gets attacked, we go, oh my, what outrageous violence, savage Muslims, I can't believe that they did it for no reason, okay? No, you're, here guys, if you didn't realize it, the mainstream media is massively lying to you. And they're pretending that Israel and defense contractors are innocent, and it's the Muslims

that they're killing that are the actual violent people and the and the terrorists and the bad guys. No, the powerful are the ones that are the bad guys, not the powerless. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, an incredible moment on CBS mornings where Ta-Nehisi Coates is met with some of the most insane framing I have ever seen on the issue of Palestine. We'll be right back. All right back on TYT, Jankana with you guys and super tech dragon. Thank you for the donation through TYT.com slash team. And yes, we got the TYT debate coming up to our debate, t.yt.com slash debate where we'll be, you'll be able to watch the debate, talk with us,

and then we'll do analysis right afterwards at 10.30 Eastern, but all of that is on t yt.com slash debate. All right, Anna. Let's get to our next story. I want to dive into the Israel-Palest section of the book. It's the largest section of the book. And I have to say when I, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away. The The content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist. I have a very, very, very, very moral compass about this. And again, perhaps it's because of my ancestry.

Either apartheid is right or it's wrong. CBS Morning's co-host Tony Ducupil basically accused Tanahisi Kos, as you just heard of that video, of being an extremist over the way he talked about or wrote about Palestinians and the the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in his new book, The Message. Now the exchange was pretty wild to say the least, and we're gonna show you all of the highlights. But for me, this was the most powerful moment. And for this reason, Tanehisi Coates will forever have my respect. Take a listen. What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish

safe place and not any of the other states out there. There's nothing that offends me about a Jewish state. I am offended by the idea of states built on ethnocracy, no matter where they are. Muslim included. I would not want to state where any group of people laid down their citizenship rights based on ethnicity. The country of Israel is a state in which half the population exists on one tier of citizenship, and everybody else that's ruled by Israelis exist on another tier, including Palestinian-Israeli citizens.

The only people that exist on that first tier are Israeli Jews. Why do we support that? Why is that okay? I'm the child of Jim Crow. I'm the child of people that were born into a country where that was exactly the case of American apartheid. I walk over there and I walk through the occupied territories and I walk down the street in Hebron.

And a guy says to me, I can't walk down the street unless I profess my religion. That was very clear. In fact, it reminds me of how Michael Brooks, who was Jewish himself, would talk about this conflict and why he had an issue with the treatment that anyone who isn't Israeli was met with in Israel. But anyway, there's a lot more to get to, but I want your thoughts first. Yeah, this Tony Docappel guy, it was basically accusing him of anti-seemitism through the whole interview. Every question was, is it interesting that you pick the judge? Jewish state to be against in no other country. Wait, you think Tanahisi Coates doesn't criticize any other country?

What kind of an insane supposition is that? In reality, it's the exact opposite. Docappel is saying, how dare you criticize Israel? Don't you know that their lives are much more valuable? Don't you know you have to lie about them and pretend that they're treating the Palestinians equally? Hey, Tony, you don't mind 57 years of brutal occupation of the Palestinians? You don't mind the 41,000 people slaughtered in Gaza? Obviously not.

And you have the temerity, the gall to pretend that if he's not cheerleading at genocide, that he's anti-Semitic. But guys, look, at this point, something really interesting happened with that interview in my mind, okay? Because a lot of people are really upset about it, which I found to be stunning. Because in my life, having been in media for over a quarter century, that was the That was the norm for the entire time. I have had that treatment done to me dozens of times.

And even on the mildest criticism of Israel. Interesting that you picked the Jewish. Oh yeah, I wonder why. In fact, it happened to me today. I was debating a supporter of Israel and she said, why is Israel the only country you criticize? What an absurd thing. Are you kidding?

We criticize so many different countries. We criticize America. We criticize our own country. Saudi Arabia, Turkey. Arabia, Turkey, you name it, we criticize. Jake, why do you not believe in America's right to exist? Yeah, but for people like Tony Dogapel, and almost, that's why I bet you right now, Tony's at home going, I don't get it.

This is the kind of smear job we always do, and we pretend that Israel is an angel and that everyone would agree to their slaughters and their occupations unless they were anti-Semites. Why? I picked the wrong target, he's a really well-respected African American. I should have done it to a Muslim, then no one would have. and everybody would have agreed, okay? So sorry Tony, this is the one time you got caught.

And is it unfair? Yeah, every other anchor has been doing that for a quarter of a century in America. So I love that at least people are pushing back and going, get a load of this racist Docapil, and he is, he's a giant racist. Now earlier in the exchange, immediately after Docapil basically called Tanahesi Coates, an extremist, he dedicated, he, he dedicated. He talked about why he decided to dedicate such a huge portion of his book on Palestinians. Let's take a look.

Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it? Why not detail anything of the first and the second intifada, the cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown to bits? And is it because you just don't believe that Israel in any condition has a right to exist? Well, I would say the perspective that you just outlined, there is no shortage of that perspective in American media. That's the first thing I would say.

I am most concerned always with those who don't have a voice, with those who don't have the ability to talk. The reporters of those who believe more sympathetically about Israel and its right to exist don't have a problem getting their voice out. But what I saw in Palestine, what I saw on the West Bank, what I saw in Haifa in Israel, what I saw in the South Hebrun Hills, those were the stories that I have not heard. So I just want to be clear, and you should watch the entire interview, there wasn't a single moment in which Tonehisi Coates said that he doesn't believe in Israel's right to exist.

The allegation that someone doesn't believe in Israel's right to exist is immediately used when someone is critical of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians in order to shut them up. But at no point did Ta-Nehisi Coates say, I don't believe it Israel's right to exist. In fact, we'll show you some other highlights where he makes that clear. But I wanted to make it clear now in case you were wondering if he had ever said that. So let me explain with examples of why Tony Doakerbill is such a bad person, it's an immoral person. So he says, oh, aren't you worried about little kids being blown to bits?

And he has to go back decades for cafe bombings that happened, right? because he only cares about Israelis. But we saw kids being blown to bits just the other day. Human shields. Yeah, for the last year, Israel's been blowing up kids to bits endlessly. Do you know, so 25,000 dead women and children, a stadium full of massacred women in children, Tony Donoble doesn't care. He's like, what do you mean Israel is the right to exist?

Hey, idiot, Israel does exist. They are preventing the Palestinians from existing, from Palestine from existing. You never realize that? You know why? Because he doesn't care about Palestinians at all. He finds them inanimate objects that are inconveniencing the Israelis. How dare they? Don't they know that they are ruled?

They should know when they're ruled. So we showed you, and I mean, the world saw it. I mean, so many horrors of the emaciated kids, the kids that were crushed to death, blown up, et cetera. But the one that is just haunting it, you can't get out of your head, is the kid with no head that when they lit the tents on fire, right? And Tony Docapill doesn't care about that at all. He never mentioned that.

And he's outraged. Tonya He's he coach for caring about them. Don't you know they have inconvenienced the most valuable people on earth, the Israelis? And so if you're wondering why I call them a racist, because the occupation by definition is racist and it's apartheid. because it says it's not a limited occupation, it's not for a short period of time. Hey, we had to occupy them for a little bit, but then we did a peace deal and obviously then they got, they're say we got our state, they're a sovereign country.

No, for 57 years, the Israelis have said an American media has regurgitated, the Palestinians are so violent by nature that they cannot be trusted to govern themselves in a sovereign state. Everyone else on earth can, but not the Palestinians. Well, when you say that, you're a bona fide, indisputable racist. So CBS has this racist working next to two black anchors. I, okay, go ahead. I look, I don't believe in cancel culture. And if I did, I'd have to fire 75% of the mainstream media anchors who say the same exact thing. But I'm tired of them and pretending that the people opposed to Israel are the racist or bigots when they themselves are flagrant racist and bigots.

I want to go to a final clip and in this clip, you'll hear Coates address the allegation that he doesn't believe in Israel's right to exist. If you were to read this book, you would be left wondering why does any of Israel exist? What a horrific place committing horrific acts on a daily basis. So I think the question is central and key, if Israel has a right to exist. And if your answer is no, then I guess the question becomes, why do the Palestinians have a right to exist? Why do 20 different Muslim countries have a right to do.

My answer is that no country in this world establishes its ability to exist through rights. Countries establish their ability to exist through force, as America did. And so I think this question of right to Israel does exist. It's a fact. The question of its right is not a question that I would be faced with within the other country. Boom. Yeah, I'll just add two things, because apparently Tony Docappel, on top of being a racist and idiot, the Palestine doesn't exist.

That didn't occur to you? As you're saying, can you believe you are saying theoretically, hypothetically at some point in a totally impossible situation, Israel might not exist. But you've prevented Palestine from existing for six decades. Yeah, yeah, they're irrelevant. Palestinian losers, kill him, kill him, kill him. Who cares? Tony, don't pretend that that's not what you think.

You showed it in the interview, clearly. You showed no compassion, no empathy at all for Palestinians. You looked at them as they're totally worthless. And so last thing is, this whole idea of this giant, stupid talking point about Israel's right to exist. Okay, well, when I criticize Saudi Arabia, does that mean, are you saying the Saudis don't have a right to exist? No, I'm saying the Saudi government is doing something wrong. Of course, the Saudi people have a right to exist.

And they have a right to have a government. They have a right to have their own country. They have a right to be sovereign. I'm criticizing their government. But when you say it about Israel, they do this total BS talking point that is tricked the entire country. Oh my God, they're the ones in danger. No, they're not. They have a giant military. They have nukes. They have the United States military to back them up. They're Goliath crushing David to pieces. While Tony Docapul says anyone who criticizes them is an anti-Semite and a racist and a bigot. And that's the only reason that he could imagine that anyone would criticize Israel.

By the way, just emphasizing they have nuclear weapons. They have nuclear weapons. And by the way, they're the one country on earth that I'm worried to death. Would use it? would use it without hesitation because they don't value Muslim lives. They think that there are some of 4,000, 40,000 or 4 million Muslim lives is still zero. So to them, who cares if we kill millions of them? So look, that's the thing about Israel.

Like they feel invincible. They feel they have a right to attack anyone they like and occupy people for decade after decade. So if they thought they were an actual danger, in actual danger for the whole country? Is there anything Israel wouldn't do, given what they've done over the last 60 years? And I'm worried about what the answer to that is. Well, we come back for the second hour of the show. We're going to switch gears and get into the dock worker strike, which Democrats are very

upset about because it could hurt the Democrats' chances in the election cycle. So that and more coming up, don't miss it. Thank you. Thank you.