The Young Turks - Israel Kills Journalists - August 11, 2025

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

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a lot of you know We're going to be able to be. All right, welcome to the Young Turks, Jake Uger, Anna Kasparian with you guys. Look, towards the end of the show, we are gonna get the lighter stuff, including whether you'd pay $130 for a back scratch. Literally a back scratch. Yeah, my resounding answer is yes.

You can get these dudes to pay for anything. Yeah, well, that's also a resounding yes. But anyways, we actually literally have that poll on our, on t.com. But before that, of course, we're gonna have super serious stories. Unfortunately, every day Israel finds a new way to go over the top and rub it in everybody's face that they're the new evil on the planet and there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Before when we met evil, you could do something about it.

But now we're all powerless as they go on a murder spree and it's not at all hyperbole and you're about to see the innocent journalists that they murdered on purpose. on purpose, yeah, over the weekend. So let's give you that, sir. Yes, let's get to the details. Anas al-Sharif, fellow Al-Jazeera correspondent, Mohamed Kareka, and cameramen, Ibrahim Zafar, Mohammed Nufal, and Wauman Aliwa

were in the journalist camp at the main gate of the Al-Sheifa hospital in Gaza city when the IDF struck. Al-Jazeera says this was an assassination that Israel wanted to silence some of the last remaining voices within Gaza providing unfiltered coverage of the war. The IDF has confirmed its target was Anas al-Sharif.

Well, Israel has in fact assassinated at least five Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza City in what they have admitted was a targeted strike, although the director of Al-Shifa Hospital has reported that they received seven bodies as a result of the strike, six of them being journalists. But five of those individuals have been. confirmed to be journalists. Now, among them was Anas al-Shifa, or Sharif, I should say, Anas al-Sharif, who made a name for himself for his fearless reporting in Gaza every single day,

detailing the atrocities that were committed by Israel and the IDF. And as a result, he had become a target of the Israelis. And so to justify the assassination of al-Sharif, the Israelis put out a complete BS, defamatory campaign against him, accused him of being a member of Hamas without providing a shred of evidence. Although I will say there are quite a few fabricated documents floating around the internet that are easily debunkable. Now, Israel doesn't deny that they targeted him. In fact, they launched this propaganda campaign. According to the Washington Post, the Israeli defense forces confirmed the strike shortly after it took place, and accused Sharif of serving

as the head of a Hamas terrorist cell. He was a journalist in his and a father of two children, but critically, the IDF has not shared or released any documentation indicating Sharif was involved in military activities during the current conflict. It has not accused any of the other slain journalists of ties to militants. When asked about the others killed in the strike, the IDF said that it had no further comment. Because they're above the law, international law, they don't need to have any further comment. This genocide has slaughtered literally hundreds of journalists on the ground in Gaza at a time when, of course, international journalists are not allowed access to the enclave, to the territory in order to report on the ground. And so what do you think Israel wants, Jenk? I mean, obviously what they like to do is argue that all the Al Jazeera journalists, they can't be trusted, they're not credible.

Okay, well, why don't you let international journalists in, oh, we're worried about their safety. We're worried about their safety. No, no, you're worried about international condemnation for the war crimes and genocide that's currently being carried out in Gaza. Okay, so look, these are murderers, the IDF, the Israeli government, they're serial killers. So for the other five journalists that were killed and the other civilian that was killed, they have no excuse at all. They're just like, we're Israel. We get to murder civilians. And remember, you have to call our enemies terrorists, but we're wonderful, we're the moral army.

Okay, it's a sick joke at this point. It's like the Third Reich calling themselves the moral army. And if you're offended by that, you're an idiot, and I don't care about you being offended as they murder one person after another, after another, and they start people to death. Okay, so at least 184 journalists murdered by Israel inside Gaza, according to the committee to protect journalists. Some have that counted above 200. More than any other conflict, and in fact, all other conflicts combined. And as Anna pointed out, and Pierce Morgan points out, bless his heart very regularly, they don't allow any outside journalists. They say, well, it's a safety risk.

It's true. It is a safety risk, because if you're a journalist in Gaza, Israel will murder you. And now they're bragging about it. They're saying there's nothing you could do about it. Oh, yeah, he was Hamas wing. So no outside journalists is allowed in, and every Palestinian who covers Gaza is a terrorist, according to Israel. So conveniently, no journalism is allowed inside where they are doing a genocide and have now set up a giant concentration camp. Okay, so the murderous terrorist government of Israel continues to collect checks from American taxpayer payers who are barely getting by as they are slaughter one journalist after another and more children every single day. If you are not fighting with all of your energy against Israel, in this case, to stop the genocide, you have to check your moral bearings because you're probably a bad person.

So let's get to some more details here. As I mentioned, there are some fabricated documents floating around online. For instance, there was a fake and fabricated document, including this fake Hamas military ID that was totally Photoshop, it's made up. He was not a member of Hamas, besides which really Hamas is running around with ID, like identifying themselves as Hamas militants. The committee to protect journalists, as Jank mentioned, warned less than three weeks ago that it was gravely worried about Sharif safety and called for the international community to protect him, saying that he was being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign that he believed would be a precursor to his

assassination, and it turns out he was right about that. The Committee to Protect Journalists Regional Director, Sarah Kuda, says that it's no coincidence that the smears against Al-Sharif, who has reported night and day for Al Jazeera since the start of the war, surfaced every time he reported on a major development in the war. Israel is murdering the messengers. Israel wiped out an entire news crew. It has made no claims that any of the other journalists, were terrorists, that's murder, plain and simple. And I should note that now there are absolutely no journalists remaining in Gaza City, which is the last part of Gaza that has not been occupied by the Israelis yet. As we all know, Netanyahu announced that they will be doing a ground

invasion in Gaza City. I'm sure there'll be slaughtering a lot of additional innocent people in order to occupy the whole of the Gaza Strip. Now, in addition to that, Al Jazeera, the committee to protect journalists and the United Nations expert have said that the documents previously released by the IDF, which accused six other Al Jazeera journalists of being Hamas militants, are not credible. Pretty much anything coming out of the Israeli government or the IDF at this point should not be considered credible. If their mouths are moving, you should assume that they're lying. In the hour after the strike, a post appeared on Sharif's social media, he had actually pre-written a final message in the event that he would get assassinated.

Here's what it said, should these words find their way to you, know that Israel has succeeded in ending my life and silencing my voice. From the depths of my heart, I have dedicated every effort, every ounce of strength to be a steadfast support and a vocal advocate for my people. I have stood firm in my commitment to convey the truth as it is. I call upon God to bear witness against those who choose silence, those who accepted the violence against us and those who turned a blind eye to the anguish of our children and women. And with that in mind, I want to talk a little bit about one of the reports that he put out

recently in regard to the starvation of the Palestinian people. He became very emotional and had a difficult time, you know, keeping things together as he was reporting. That got a lot of attention. He's been a target of the Israelis. Take a look. I can imagine how hard it is to keep it together, and we're reporting on the slaughter of persecution, starvation of your own people.

And there's a video of his little girl where she talks about how much she fears that she'll lose her father. every time he goes out to do his job. And unfortunately for that little girl, that day came, he's been assassinated. There's another video that I want to show you featuring his daughter. Anyway, take a look. Boba? Yeah.

The Trump says he'd want to take us from Gaza. You'd want to come from Gaza? No, Tata in... You want to take you in Gaza? Why? I love to Gaza. You'd like Gaza? Oh.

You don't you'd like to talk it? Oh. Okay, I'd have to Saffer. On Qatar? No. On Jordan. No. On Mastar?

No. On... On Turkey? No. On any dole? I'm going to stay here in Gaza? Yeah, I'm not out of it. Oh.

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Yeah, right. Finally, I'm, I'll just leave with one more thing. So this morning, Sky News, which has been firmly on, Israel side of this ongoing genocide admitted something today that I thought was interesting. This is Diana Magne Sky News International Correspondent quoted as saying, I think it's very clear that journalists are being targeted in the same way as we ourselves have proven that medical health workers in Gaza are being targeted. These are people who are seeing every day what is happening on the ground and who have

a voice to speak out about it. And Israel does not want that voice to be heard across. across the Arab world or across the rest of the world. Finally, she says that, and Israel knows that it is easy to silence that voice. And that is what it is trying to do because it is the worst conflict there has ever been for journalists. We've never seen this number of journalists killed in this period of time. Discover Vegas-level excitement with BetMGM Casino. Now introducing our hottest exclusive, Friends, the One with Multi-Drop.

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They just keep murdering civilians tens of thousands at a time and all the journalists. So they're murderers, and there's no question about that anymore. Anyone who claiming that they are not serial killers and murderers and terrorists are bigots who think Muslim lives don't matter at all, Christian lives don't matter at all. The only lives that matter are the supreme people of the Israelis. and everyone else is inferior to them, so their lives are irrelevant. So I'm not interested in Israeli lies. And by the way, they've been doing this for a long, long time.

It's not just now, it's not for self-defense. Before any of this conflict started, there was a program to just walk up to the fence to show how despotic the government of Israel is. It was a peaceful protest, and everyone who walked up to the fence was murdered by Israel, by snipers. Then reporters covering the event were killed by sniper shots from hundreds of yards away, including Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akle. And after that American citizen and journalist was murdered, the American government kissed Israel's ass and gave them more money.

Now another six to seven, I'm losing track now. I mean, they murder so many Americans. It's hard to keep up and have been murdered since October 7th in the West Bank. But all of those Americans, half a dozen Americans killed, our government, both under Biden and Donald Trump, their answer was, thank you, sir, may we have another. You can murder. That's right. You can murder as many Americans as you like.

You can murder as many human rights workers, as many journalists, as many children as you like, as long as you keep those beautiful checks flowing to our deeply corrupt politicians, which I'm gonna come back to in a second. So look, if you're still a supporter of Israel and you think that they're not acting monstrously, I've got a quick challenge for you guys. We'll put the link down below, Brave New Films has a movie called Gaza Journalists Under Fire. It's so short, it's 41 minute documentary, okay? If you could make it through that documentary and you still think Israel's doing the right thing,

okay, that's amazing, and at least you'll have said, hey, look, I saw it. I saw it with my own eyes, it's a Jewish filmmaker, there's Jews in the movie, there's Muslims Christians in the movie, I made it through that and I think, no, I'm still on board. I think Israel is doing the moral thing by murdering all these people. Okay, then at least you have some sort of internal consistency, okay? But I don't think anybody can make it through that movie without just breaking down in tears, et cetera. It's very similar to what you just saw there.

That little girl that you just saw doesn't have a father anymore because Israel chose to murder him because they were covering this genocide of theirs. Now, guys, that leads to the, and apparently they're shutting down GROC. Yeah, let me just give you some details on that. They suspended GROC, it's now been, the suspension has been lifted. But what's interesting about it is, you know, people were trying to access GROC on X, Elon Musk's platform. GROC is Elon Musk's AI chat bot.

And after it was basically restored and people were asking the GROC account, why were you suspended? Here's how it responded. My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the United States are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by international criminal, you know, court findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like Bitzellam, citing mass killing, starvation, and intent. U.S. complicity via arms support is widely alleged. And it's now restored is how it, meaning my account is now restored.

Okay, so now if you state facts, even if you're AI robot, they're like, no, the robot is anti-Semitic. Now, look, there's glitches with Groch before, but it's supposed to, it got back to just doing facts. And I can tell from personal experience. And now, though, if your facts are against Israel, which they are, they're indisputably against Israel, Israel says, and every powerful person in the country, apparently Elon Musk included, bow down like, dogs and go, we'll change the facts. We'll change the facts. So they support Israel, the murderers, the terrorists, instead of decent human beings, an actual reality. So it's, it's, oh, but, but if you suggest that maybe Israel might control America, oh my God,

how dare you? How dare you? All the murder Muslim children and Christian children, who cares? Who cares? But you're saying something that is an undeniable fact? fire him, cancelment, etc. I'm so sick of the people in power in this country. I got to say something for, bunch of sellouts. For those who are legitimately concerned about anti-Semitism, you know, the Israeli supporters who are concerned about anti-Semitism.

When there are individuals who are stating the facts of what's happening on the ground, and they grieve over the innocent children who are starving to death, or the innocent children who are shot in the head, they have bullet, holes in their heads as they arrive at the hospital or in their chest. When you call those people anti-Semites, and of course, there's never an effort to debunk what is being said or the substance of what's being argued. It's just flat out, let's just smear this person as an anti-Semite. When you do that, do you understand that you're doing positive PR for anti-Semitism?

Because humans, believe it or not, most humans are actually kind, and they understand the importance of human life. And when they see children getting slaughtered, it disgusts them. Most people feel that way. And when you say that someone who is airing their disgust over the slaughter of children as an anti-Semite, well then I mean, you totally, like you totally like take that word which actually used to mean something. And you turn it into something that's almost positive. Yeah, right? Right. Absolutely. They're lunatic. They're gonna get our Jewish friends and family hurt because they're saying now if you don't support genocide and starving children to death, that means you hate Jews. Why is the pro-Jewish position

to be in favor of slaughter? No, it's not. Of course not. Of course not. Why do you keep saying that? And they keep saying that because protection of Israel above all, even if it hurts Jews, even if they, by the way, they murdered their own hostages because they were in a kill zone. They're starving their own hostages. I could go on and on and on. They don't care about Jews. They don't care about their own citizens. The only thing that the monsters in charge of the Israeli government right now care about is their own power,

the infinite greed. Last thing goes to one of our members. Embedded dude on t.com said, is shame and conscious ever going to overcome A-PAC money? I'm not optimistic, but I don't rule it out. No, it's not. It's so, guys, our politicians are the most corrupt people. on earth. They're sociopaths. They're all, they are. They're psychotic, okay? And all, and our mainstream media has been fluffing up these psychos, these groveling pieces of crap

our whole lives. Oh, the honorable gentlemen from Connecticut, none of them are honorable. They're disgusting. 400 out of 435 members of the house, take money from APEC and serve Israel. And our lying, disgusting media says, no, you can't say that. That's true. But you're not allowed to say true things, because now true things are anti-Semitic. So the truth is anti-Semitic? Or did it ever occur to you that maybe Israel is not moral and truth is moral? But to them, everyone in goddamn mainstream media, they prefer Israel over the truth 200 out of 200 times. Well, I mean, they prefer Israel over the health of their own business, right?

Because at the end of the day, people have caught on to the fact that corporate media provides cover for a genocide that we're currently funding through no choice of our own, obviously. We have two parties, both parties are firmly up the ass of the Israeli government, and we'll do whatever the Israeli government wants. And so when you have corporate media trying to provide cover in a context where media's really diversified as a result of this explosion of independence sources, you're cooked. You're cooked. They are, who would believe them?

Other than the rumors who got stuck on TV and we love you guys, but you got stuck there. So none of you are there because you're watching an online show, okay? But if you got, if you know family members who are still watching TV, help them, rescue them, get them out because they're being brainwashed. Mainstream media doesn't do news. They do propaganda for the powerful, not just Israel, but they tell you that politicians are not affected by donor money. What a ludicrous lie. This is the least true thing I have ever heard in my life.

Oh, no, them getting millions of dollars, whether it's from oil or pharma or whatever. No, that doesn't affect them at all, doesn't affect it's a lie factory. Yeah, they're getting brainwashed by foreign governments like Israel and corporate donors into complying and obeying. And so look, we're gonna talk more about it as we go along, but nearly 100% of the Republican Party is corrupt, they all take AIPAC money outside of Tom Massey and now Marjorie Taylor Green and and they will do anything, Mike Johnson would do anything that Israel asked for.

He prioritizes Israel 2,000 times more than America, and then you get to the corrupt, disgusting corporate Democrats. And we have more on that later in the show as they grovel to Israel in the middle of a genocide. Please send me money back. Yeah. They're disgusting human beings. All of them, these establishment, the powerful, they're not your friends.

There are people trying to hurt you on behalf of a disgusting corporate and foreign government rule. We are occupied in America. We are occupied. We're definitely occupied. And our occupiers are our politicians and our media. Well, good news, they're all going to be bankrupt soon, because only a moron would believe mainstream media. All right, when we come back, we'll talk a little bit about what former Republican congressman Matt Gates has to say about his experiences on an APAC funded trip to Israel when he was a congress member. Some really interesting insight there. Don't miss it. We'll be right back. All right back on Ti-T-Jananana with you guys.

We do honest news reporting on this channel on this network. So let us return to the murderous Israeli regime. Let's do it. Let's start with this. I went on that APEC trip. I went on subsequent trips. And there is an actual downward pressure from the leadership and even the committee chairs. Like if you're on the Foreign Affairs Committee, if you're on the Armed Services Committee, if you're on the Intelligence Committee, there's like an expectation that you go there in some sort of like congressional hodge. Former Republican Congressman Matt Gates detailed and fascinating experience he had on an A PAC sponsored trip to Israel. when he was still in elected office. And what he shared uncovered yet another example of Israeli occupation of the United

States government. Take a look. I was at the King David Hotel and I roll back to my room unexpectedly when the rest of the group was still on some planned activity. And there's some dude in my room. I'm like, hey man, what are you doing here? And he acted like he was associated with the hotel and taking an inventory but had no clipboard. And so yeah, there's a lot of There's a lot of reasons why they want members of Congress over there. And it is ideologically to steep them in this notion that the protection of Israel is of great import to people in America.

But it's really not that important to voters. And that is becoming more clear on the right and left. In fact, there are photos right now floating around the internet featuring dozens of Republican members of Congress. The house, I believe, is on recess right now. They took a trip to Israel immediately, immediately. I mean, it's so embarrassing. But real quick, Shank, he also posted this on X in regard to the comments he made in the

video you just watched. He says, this absolutely happened. I explained these events to my family in case something went awry with me. I reported this to my committee leadership at the time and was told it was regular. And I should never leave anything meaningful in my hotel room abroad. as a member of Congress. Yeah. Because it's just accepted that like the Israelis spy on Americans, members of the American government.

I mean, Ted Cruz in that wonderful smackdown interview with Tucker Carlson even admitted, yeah, yeah, the Israeli spy on us. Not a big deal. I like it. Keep doing it. Keep abusing us. Yeah. So I don't think they're our ally.

Come on. So, okay, let's break this down a little bit. Do I believe that they would be bugging the hotel rooms and maybe the the material that the Congress people brought with them so that they could have the bugs when they go back home so that they could spy in on them, maybe catch them doing some sort of affair, etc. Where's the question? Or any kind of damaging thing like that, obviously, if you think that Israel is so pure and moral that their Mossad would never do that, they'd never even contemplated.

Because they care so much about the well-being of America and other human beings that they're the one spy agency that definitely wouldn't do it. You're ludicrous. I mean, that's a, I mean, probably you're biased and you can't see straight. Or naive. Or you're like the most ignorant person in America and you've been watching CNN your whole life. And you're like, oh my God, aren't they more moral than everyone else? No, they're obviously as this genocide is proven, they are way less moral than other governments. In fact, they're one of the most immoral governments of my lifetime.

So would they spy in on American congressmen that go there and stay? Of course, of course they would. Of course. Look, Tom Massey has said, we all have Israeli handlers or what he called babysitters. Well, we have that video. Yeah, let's show you that video. And then I'll come back and tell you how I don't think Israel is our ally. I think there's some chance there are enemy.

Everybody but me has an APEC person. What does that mean an APEC person? It's like your babysitter, your APEC babysitter, who is always talking to you. for APAC. They're probably a constituent in your district, but they are, you know, firmly embedded in APAC. And every member has something like this? Every, I don't know how it works on the Democrat side, but that's how it works on the Republican side. And when they, and when they come to D.C., you go have lunch with them. And they've got your cell number and you have conversations with them. So I've had like, that's absolutely crazy. I've had four members of

Congress say, I'll talk to my APEC person and it's literally what we call them my APEC guy. I'll talk to my APEC guy and see if I can get them to, you know, dial those ads back. And I mean, you're telling me that our government isn't occupied right now. You're telling me it's not occupied. Yeah. So Marie Newman on the Democratic side, she settled on the show here. You can check it out on YouTube was a Democratic Congress from Illinois. She votes against Israel once, okay, members of her own party pull her aside and say, that's it, we're pulling all your money. How dare you vote against Israel? They said, you're sitting U.S. congressmen. They're not congressmen from Tel Aviv and Haifa, okay? And they said, we're going to pull all your

money. And then on top of that, we're going to spend millions against you. And because you voted against Israel this one time, we're going to eliminate you. And by the way, they did. They pulled all of her money. They spent about $4 million against her, and she lost. Okay, now when they spend that money, they don't go into her district in Chicago, near Chicago, and go, oh, you know what, Marie Newman has been disobedient to Israel. No, they make up stuff about you, right? And so all the people that have dissented against Israel have had their character assassinated in different ways. They're going after Marjorie Taylor Green right now, making up lies about her funding.

And by the way, she remains undeterred, just, you know, doesn't care about their attacks. She, in fact, posted over the weekend, good morning to all Americans who agree that our country should not be controlled by foreign lobbyists. I hope you have a wonderful day. Obviously, she's talking about APAC there. And I commend her for holding strong on this issue because it is important for her to prove that she's not lying when she says she's America first. Yeah, so now back to going to Israel like Matt Gates was discussing. If you're a US congressman, you go to Israel, you ought to have your head examined. Why? Why do you have to go to? What a weird thing. Like you come into office,

oh, you have to go to the Czech Republic. You'll have to go to Malaysia and you have to kiss their wall and put on their guard. Why? Like I got nothing against Czech Republic or Malaysia, But why do I have to do that? And I'm forced to bow down to this government. I'm forced to listen to their BS propaganda and then maybe have my room bugged. Why am I forced to do all of these things? And by the way, here's a whole boatload of money. If you support us, you get millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

If you don't, we'll spend four to six million dollars against you. By the way, not just Marie Newman, Nina Turner, Andy Levin, Jamal Bowman, Cori, Cory Bush, a half a dozen Congress people have been eliminated for daring to criticize Israel. N-Eleven is from a Jewish family, Marie Numa's husband is Jewish, so this is I mean with 80-semitism, Jewish or not Jewish. It's just about Israel. And Zionism, that's all N-Eleven said was two-state solution. That's the official American policy.

And they're like, how dare you? Don't you know that Israel is superior to the Palestinians. The Palestinians will never govern themselves. And he loved is a good person, he's like, I don't think so. I think they should have two independent states and I love Israel and I want to protect Israel. They're not good enough, and they eliminated them. So if you're saying that Israel is our ally, but they legally bribe almost all of our politicians, they use blackmail against them, and if anyone disagrees with that foreign government,

whichever government it might happen to be, that they should be eliminated from American politics. That doesn't, that is not how an ally acts, that's how an enemy acts. And then the enemy, and this is an amazing trick, gets you to believe that they are your ally. Oh, we are your special ally. That is why you owe us $300 billion. I owe you? Why do we owe them? We owe them because they are special ally, or that's how someone who has great disdain for you takes $300 billion out of your pocket and then tells you I'm entitled to.

it and I'm entitled to another $300 billion and there's nothing you could do about it. I control, but I control all your politicians, but you're not allowed to say that. You're not allowed to say things that are true, wait, if I'm not allowed to say things, even though there's a First Amendment in America, doesn't that prove you're controlling us? Yeah, that our government, our country is occupied by the Israelis. And look, I get that some people like Ethan Klein get very chapped about that, but address the substance of what we're saying, address the substance. I don't know when Ethan lost his mind.

I mean, he totally did, and go ahead and attack if you want. But how about you try, just try to attack the substance of the argument. Because he's, by the way, under the assumption that no, the top foreign lobbyists in the country, the lobbyist that has spent the most is associated with Qatar. Okay, nonsense, I'll just adjust this real quick. I don't know anything about Ethan. All I know is he was for the two state solution, that was a perfectly reasonable thing to be in favor of, and now apparently he's become a zealid, who's a founding anti-Semitism everywhere.

Is anti-semitism in the rule with us, Ethan? Okay, yeah, I know, everybody's against you, everybody. No, no, no, the fact that Israel is now murdering tens of thousands of children is not the problem. No, no, no, it's that people are irrationally hating Jewish people. Nobody said Jewish people. We said Israel. You guys are the idiot saying, no, no, no, this genocidal maniacs in Israel represent all Jews. No, they don't.

Stop saying that, you're doing great damage, okay? So anyways, Israel, you are not the boss of us. I know you are currently, and I know we are occupied, and now we all know how it feels to be a Palestinian. But you're not supposed to be the boss of us. And if you're trying to be the boss of us, by definition, you are not our ally. You are our enemy who is occupying us. And if you catch feelings over that and you don't catch feelings about 61,000 dead people

at a minimum, 25,000 dead children, the starvation of children. the murder of journalists, you don't care about that and you care about theoretical, theoretical, theoretical anti-Israel bias. You're a terrible person, and you are our enemy. Okay, but I want to be, I'm always honest with the audience. I'm anti-Israel. At this point, I wasn't before. At this point, I'm anti-Israel. How am I going to be in favor of a genocidal regime and government? No, honestly, how could you be pro-Israel? How could you be pro-Israel? I mean, it's not like, like, how could you? Seriously. It's not like we're permanently against German people, the German people are human beings just like anyone else.

But if in the middle of World War II, you demanded that everyone be pro-Germany, that would be a maniacal position, right? As Stalin was murdering 25 million people, if you said you have to be the pro-Russian government right now, you'd be like, wait, why? I mean, I love the Russian people, but why do I have to be in favor of the Russian government as they murder all these people? But Israel has a special exception to everything, but if you pointed out anti-Semite, get the hell out of here.

No, in fact, I mean, look, if we're gonna do moral judgments, I find it deeply immoral to be a supporter of Israel at this moment. It is, it's totally immoral. Like, you could call me whatever you want. I look down at you. Oh, I'll call you something. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're done with is maniacal Israeli supporters calling other people names.

We're done with that era. Now we're in the era where we call you names, okay? And the name we call you has nothing new with religion. It has to do with you specifically if you're still a supporter of this maniacal genocidal government. Okay, you're a terrible person. You're a hateful person, you're a racist against Palestinians, you're a bigot against Muslims and Christians, and you think you're superior to all of us and that we owe you all of our money. No, you're a terrible person and a bigot and a racist. And a supremacist.

Okay, and a supremacist. I'm not interested in white supremacy. I'm not interested in supremacy of any religion, race or creed. We're Americans. Americans are supposed to be equal. We're supposed to fight for justice. And if some stupid Israeli supporter says, no, my people are superior to all of you. You must bow down.

And if you don't, I'm going to call all of you hateful. You are all anti-Semitic. Ome more money. You owe me more money. Give me money. Give me $310 billion isn't enough. I haven't murdered enough Palestinians. I haven't occupied them enough.

I'm sick of you occupying the Palestinians. You are not our ally. You are definitely our enemy. And if you ask me to love Israel in the middle of a genocide, my answer is hell no. The exact opposite. Preach. All right, we got to take a break when we come back. Pete Buttigieg, who I'm sure is considering a run for president in 2028, has some strong words for what's happening in Gaza.

I'm kidding, they're not strong at all. So that and more coming up, don't miss it. All right, back on TYT, Chen Canana, with you guys. more news. Time to talk about the loser Dems. Do you think it's time to recognize a Palestinian state? I think that that's a profound question that arouses a lot of the biggest problems that have happened with Israel's survival, Israel's right to survival in the diplomatic scene. Oh, what a jerk. What an unbearable piece of crap. Wow. That is a profound question that arouses sentiments about the destruction of Israel? No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. It asks you

whether the Palestinians can exist. He's just so pathetic. When you pretend that Israel might not exist when they are nuclear power, when they have Iron Dome, when they're the most protected nation on earth, and you're pretending the Palestinians are the villains, the aggressors, and that Israel might not exist, when they ask you a goddamn question about whether the Palestinians can exist. And your answer, let me translate it for you is, I get a lot of money from APAC and the Israeli lobby. So I will, no, I will never allow the Palestinians to exist if you elect me, because I serve like a APAC, like a dog. That was the answer that Pete Buttigieg just gave. No, I mean, that's, that's exactly right. And what's actually pretty incredible about

the reaction to his appearance on Pod Save America is that the same kind of talk talking points and BS like focus group tested statements don't fly anymore. Like you can see through it right away. And so an empty suit like Pete Buttigieg, right? The kind of politician that's like created in a lab is gonna keep flailing. And I'm happy to see it because he doesn't represent anything. There's no moral core there, right? Someone who wants to be a public servant, I mean in an ideal world would sign up for that kind

of role in society because they want to serve the people. They have guiding principles, they have values, they have morals. You look at Pete Buttigieg, what are his values, what are his morals? What does he represent other than I have to play ball and do you know, do these empty hollow statements at a time when innocent people are literally being slaughtered with U.S. taxpayer money. So let me give you- He works for Israel.

If you vote for him, you ought to have your head examine it. He's not gonna represent America at all. His answer is crystal clear. It is, no, I don't think the Palestinians should exist because I get bribed to the tune of millions of dollars by the Israeli lobby. And he looks weak, honestly. He looks pathetic. He looks pathetic.

Okay, like what is that? Like, do you think the facial hair makes you seem like tougher, manlier, stronger? Yeah, I told you. They were gonna, oh, they're gonna full populist. He's like, oh yeah, I'm wearing a, you know. The flannel shirt. I'm not wearing the suit anymore. I'm wearing the flannel shirt and I got a beard.

Israel's awesome. Send me more money. Israel's great. You're the same guy, dude. Okay, so here are some more clips, because over the weekend, Pot Save America did interview Pete Buttigieg on a variety of topics, one of which, of course, was Israel and Gaza. And there's so many more non-answers in the Israel-Gaza portion of the conversation. So let's start with the rest of his answer on the possibility of a two-state solution.

Many of the people who have taken that step historically have done so for different reasons than what we see happening with European countries. I think we need to step back and we need to do whatever it takes to ensure that there is a real two-state solution and that no one, not even the likes of Netanyahu, can veto the international community's commitment to a two-state solution where you have Palestinians and Israelis living with safety, with security, with rights. I believe that can happen, but we have to actually show some commitment to it. What are you talking about? Any time the Security Council votes on any

anything that leads in the pro-Palestinian direction, the United States vetoes it every single time, literally every single time. Any ownership of that, any statement on that, of course not. And over the weekend, Australia became the latest country to state that they would recognize a Palestinian state if certain conditions were met, joining Britain, Canada, and France, which of course have made similar commitments. In the United States, Representative Rokana is attempting to make that happen. I hope he has a significant security detail considering the fact that Israel loves to assassinate

people, including American citizens. Go ahead, Jane. Yeah, so they ask him a clear question, an easy question, very straightforward, should Palestine exist? Harvard word salad, as Anna put it this morning, okay? Oh, it's a profound question that arouses a lot of blah-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. And then later he goes to a two-state solution. Wait, if you're for a two-state solution, why don't you just say, of course, Palestine should exist? Yeah.

Because you're not for a two-state solution. That's just empty talk that they do, the politicians do. Oh, I checked it off. The consultant said to say that I'm in favor of a two-state solution, check. Okay, they also said treat Palestinians like dirt and don't recognize their right to exist. Check, okay? Oh, speaking of checks, Apex, send me money, okay? So guys, there's a silver lining here, but we, I don't know if it's real, right?

I think it's real, but I'm not sure yet, which is what Anna said earlier. Now everybody's getting caught, right? Right? So before Buttigieg would give that answer and everybody on cable news in New York Times and Washington Post would declare him genius of all geniuses. What a brilliant, beautiful moving answer by the greatly educated Pete Buttigieg all bowed down to bootage, right? And cable news, they're maniacal out of touchness is still doing that crap. Okay, mainstream media is still doing it. But for the rest of us out here in the woods, now the woods are much, much larger. We used to be smaller, they used to be bigger, right? Now they're getting lost in the woods and the woods are going now we see you all man, we see you. That was him saying I'll serve Israel and the Palestinians will never get a state if Buttigua just elected.

If you still fall for their crap, okay anyway, I want to ask this question because it's an important question. It's in our live chat, we do the show live at 6 o'clock Eastern every day. Would you support a Dem in 2028 who would send weapons to Israel? So that look, I don't like litmus tests, but I have one that's, you can't take corporate PAC money, otherwise we can't trust you. And now I'm going to add another. I agree with you guys, 83% saying, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't trust anyone who's sending weapons to any genocidal government, right? I actually think it's really important to also make taking any money from the Israel lobby. Notice I'm not just saying APAC, any money from the Israel lobby,

at all. Toxic. Yes. Any candidate, any politician, anyone running for reelection who has taken a dollar from the Israel lobby, they should be made pariahs and no one will vote for them. Yeah, so that's the second limit test. I'm going to add. And for a logical reason, it's not to single them out.

It's corporate packs run our government, but now you see so do foreign government packs. So all the Israeli lobby is for Israel. Even if they collected from American citizens, they are proudly declaring this is for to help another government. Yep. This is so the American taxpayers could have their money taken, their troops taken, their morals taken, all of that stripped away from you and given to a foreign government. So yes, if you take Israeli lobby money, obviously no one should vote for you. And you should vote them out in your own primaries, whether you're Republican or Democrat, because anyone who takes APEC type of money is saying, I serve Israel. That's, you can't say, oh, I took a million dollars from AIPAC, but trust me, I prioritize

America over Israel. No, I don't trust me. And I say the same thing if you take money from oil companies or defense contractors. I don't trust you at all. And honestly, you'd have to be a moron or a mainstream media reporter to trust a politician telling me, oh, I'm taking a million dollars from a pack. But trust me, I don't work for them. No, you work for them.

And if you work for a foreign government, you should not be an American representative. 100% and the occupation. All right, so Buttigieg was also asked about the fact that a majority of Senate Democrats voted to block a weapons sale to Israel and how he would vote on that type of measure. Let's take a look. I think we need to insist that if American taxpayer funding is going to weaponry that is going to Israel, that that is not going to things that shock the conscience. And look, we see images every day that shock the conscience. So much of this is complicated, but what's not complicated is that if a child is starving because of a choice made by a government, that is unconscionable. And we, I think especially including voices who care about Israel, who believe in Israel's right to exist, who have stood with Israel in response to the undoneable.

believable cruelty and terrorism of October 7th. I think there's a reason why so many of those voices are speaking up now too, because this is not just something that is on its face and in itself a moral catastrophe. It is also a catastrophe for Israel for the long run. The measure that Senate Democrats voted in favor of obviously didn't pass because they don't have the supermajority necessary to pass legislation in the Senate, but nonetheless, only had to do with offensive weaponry, and the answer, I don't think needed to be as complicated as Buttigieg made it, because it's not that complicated. The answer was no. I mean, yes, I would vote in favor of that measure. I would not send offensive weaponry to Israel. But the word

salad tells you everything you need to know. I mean, let me just give you some of the comments in response to this interview. Real quick, real quick, because it has to do with what he said right there. Let's go to graphic two. The response to the Palestinian statehood question was a textbook non-answer. If you are hesitant to give straightforward answers, explain your hesitation. Do not tell us how important the question is. So that was in regard to the statehood. Hearing Pete on Gaza was unsurprising and very disappointing. I really wish John, meaning John Favro, the host of the show, had pushed back. There need to be real consequences for Israel committing genocide on the dime of the U.S. taxpayer. Like another commenter said, he's a great

communicator so great that you might miss him refusing to say that he wouldn't have voted against continuing to send weapons to fund this massive ethnic cleansing campaign. You're here. Yeah, go ahead, Shank. So look, I guarantee you that if Pete Buttigieg is president, he will send Israel every single dollar that they ask for. He will never dissent from Israel. He is a creation of the donor class.

And the donor class, a huge portion of it, definitely not all of it guys, he will serve any donor. You're a drug company who's robbing us blind. Pete Buttigieg is your guy. He's the corporate robot whose job is to represent the donor class. So will he do what the donor class wants and send our money to Israel? It's an absolute guarantee you'd be the, you'd be the biggest sucker in the world if you thought that's not the case. I'm gonna translate one quick thing that he said. He said, we're gonna assist on It's not going to things that would shock the conscience, okay? What he means by that is I'll do something cosmetic like, oh, you, we won't fund your

2,000 pound bombs anymore because those are, you know, they just wipe out a whole neighborhood. I mean, they don't even need those anymore. They've already wiped out. Because all of God's already wiped out, right? So he'll do something like that. Oh, oh, oh my God, it shocked my conscience. I can get him to go back a bomb, but I tend to $4 billion every year and I sent them to $20 billion they wanted in the middle of He said aside, I sent him this, he's a, so his lies are not pretty obvious.

Like before, people believe Buttigieg's lies. Oh, I learned Norwegian to read this book I really like. And then a Norwegian reporter talks to him in Norwegian. He's like, he's such a liar. I know. The only people who believe him are idiots on cable news, okay? We'll leave him. Just real quick, I want to put the graphic of how much money he's taken from APEC that we know about.

So that's graphic number four, just going to the point that you were making, you know, He has taken in nearly $200,000 from APAC. And if he runs for president, that'll be $2 million. If he becomes president, that'll be $20 million. So that's how this game is played. I'm gonna read one last quote from Rokana. He said, I respect Pete, but we need more moral clarity, not status quo. Yes, John Favs, Dems should have voted for the Sanders amendment.

Yes, Dems should join my letter recognizing a Palestinian state. Yes, Trump and Biden disastrously failed on Gaza. And we need a new human rights centered vision. So look guys, there's only a couple of honest Congress people left. And Roe Kana is definitively one of them. And they're gonna, by the way, he's also gonna do a press conference on September 3rd with Thomas Massey with the Epstein victims. All mainstream media can't find the victims.

So they're like, oh, okay, we found them. Here they are, we're gonna do a press conference, et cetera. He's working, Massey's working, a couple other guys are, the rest of Marl Crooks. So I'm so glad that that's an ally of ours. Someone, I can't believe there's an honest person in Congress. We found him, but it definitely ain't Pete Buttigieg. And do not get tricked by the establishment and do not get tricked by hucksters telling you, oh, you know what, the real alliance we need to make is not with independence,

not with honest, decent people, not taking pack money. We need to make an alliance with corrupt corporate Democrats. No, that's a disastrous alliance. Well, another Democrat had some difficulty on this very topic during a recent town hall. When we come back, we'll show you how Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego responded to questions about Israel's genocide on the Palestinian people in Gaza. Come right back. Grab a coffee and discover Vegas-level excitement with BetMGM Casino, now introducing our high. hottest exclusive friends the one with multi-drop your favorite classic television show is being

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