The Young Turks - Land Thieves - October 15, 2025

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

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to waste any time. I'm not going to give you any teases, okay? Find some other lady who's going to tease you. I'm going to get right to the news. Let's get to our first story. Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is renewing calls. And this should be unsurprising to anyone who's been paying attention. Renewing calls to build illegal Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, which seems to fly in the face of a peace deal that the Trump administration alleges that they're making progress on pursuing. Now, he argues, Bezal-Smotrich does, that it should be the next phase after all the hostages are returned. Now, to just give you an update on where we are currently standing on

the hostage release situation, Hamas has released all living hostages. And they have released the remains of the, of eight deceased hostages, although there is some reporting indicating that one of the hostages who was deceased and whose remains were released, that individuals remains do not actually match up with the hostage that Hamas claims the remains belong to. So there are issues when it comes to the deceased hostages for a number of different reasons, including the fact that just like the Palestinian victims in the Gaza Strip, some of the Israeli hostages tragically are believed to be trapped under the rubble.

So Israel can help with that situation by allowing heavy machinery into the enclave. It remains to be seen whether or not they are willing to do that. But let's move forward to what Bezalel-Smotritch has to say, because he claims that after all the living hostages were returned, well, after they were all returned, this is what he said. He said, with the emotional return of all our living hostages, I say again, just as I said here a year ago, there will be no Hamas in Gaza, there will be no threat from Gaza toward Israeli civilians for decades to come. So far, so good, by the way. So far, I've got no problem with that statement.

That seems like a totally normal statement, especially coming from an unhinged lunatic like Bezalel Smokritch. But he goes on and says. And yes, this too must be said, there will be Jewish settlement in Gaza. Now he took it a step further, if you can believe it, by making the unhinged argument that building illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land should be done in order to make Israelis safer? Okay, let's just, let's just hear him out. Maybe he's making a sound argument here. Without settlement, there can be no lasting security. First, because it is part of the land of Israel, is it?

And second, because only a Jewish presence guarantees that we won't return to a situation where rockets are fired on Cedarot and the South. When you steal stolen, when you steal land and when you build settlements on said stolen land, well obviously that makes the individuals who are now living in said stolen land targets. So I fail to see how this would make Israelis safer. But I also have no doubt that this is what Bezalel Smotrich and this unhinged far right Israeli government intends to do. I haven't believed for a second that there was any sincere

statement, any sincere movement or progress from the Israeli government toward an actual peace deal. Because a peace deal would require the Israelis to end their expansionist project. And they haven't ended their expansionist project. They have continued annexing the West Bank. They have been salivating over the notion that they could resettle the Gaza Strip once again, steal land from the Palestinians once again. And even though the majority of genocide scholars have referred to what has gone down in Gaza as a genocide, they have called it a genocide. If you don't like that word, that's fine, makes you a little uneasy, you think it's too harsh, that's fine. But it is now widely accepted that the project the Israeli government has unleashed is all about the greater Israel project.

It's all about ethnically cleansing Palestinians from land that belongs to them. When the Lakud's founding charter indicates the pursuit of the greater Israel project, why don't we believe them? Why is it that only Hamas's original charter matters here? So this isn't the first time Smotrich signaled that the Israelis have no intention to end the bloodshed in Gaza. He is one of the most vocal genocidal maniacs in the Israeli government. And for anyone who tries to make you think, oh, he's just like a marginal figure. Like, who cares? No, no, he's not a marginal figure. Okay, not only is he Israel's finance minister.

Benjamin Netanyahu knows that he needs Smotritch's support and Ben-Gavir's support in order to keep this government's coalition together so he can remain in power. So the Smotritch's and the Ben-Govirs of the Israeli government, the extremists in the Israeli government, actually have a lot more leverage and a lot more power than the Israel supporters would like you to believe. So earlier, he said that there is a tremendous responsibility to ensure that this is not, God forbid, a deal of hostages in exchange for stopping the war as Hamas thinks and boasts. Immediately after the hostages return home, the state of Israel will continue to strive with all its might for the true eradication of Hamas and the genuine disarmament of Gaza, of Gaza, not of Hamas, it's disarmament of Gaza so that it no longer poses a threat to

Israel. No, no. So the Palestinians won't have the ability, the capability, or the capacity to defend themselves as they're living alongside a regime that attempted to basically wipe them off the face of the earth and ethnically cleanse them. You don't have a military, you don't have country. Let's just keep it 100, especially when you're living next to a country that didn't believe in your right to exist, doesn't believe in your right to self-determination. It's one thing to argue, hey, we want to disarm Hamas. Okay, I'm willing to hear out that argument for sure, but what does that mean? How do you determine what Hamas's arsenal is? How do you determine whether Hamas has been fully disarmed?

These granular details are super important in order to get people to sign on and to execute a real peace deal, a real peace agreement. I get that Trump wants to be viewed as the peacemaker, but we live in the real world. You don't just like snap your fingers and say, I declare peace. It's like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy, you don't just say it out loud and it happens. You actually have to work on the granular details of the deal. And that hasn't been dealt with at all, at all. And it does not inspire much confidence when you hear from high-ranking Israeli government officials saying,

as soon as we get all of the hostages back, including the remains of the deceased hostages, we're going back in, baby, we're going back in. More examples of that, Israel cats, of course, had basically said, yeah, yeah, once we get the hostage, We're gonna go back in. Let's go to Graphic 11 here. This was reported by the times of Israel. Israel to shift focus on raising Gaza tunnels, Katz says. And that piece was a reference to the Israeli defense minister,

Israel Katz, announcing that following the release of all the hostages and the remains of the deceased hostages, the IDF will be ordered to go back into the Gaza Strip to destroy the terror tunnels. The major challenge for Israel after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas's terror tunnels in Gaza. What were you doing in Gaza for two years? Oh yeah, that's right. You were just leveling the entire place.

93% of residential buildings gone. They wanted to make it uninhabitable. So Palestinians will want to leave the Gaza Strip. They'll want to abandon the land that is rightfully theirs. So Bezal-Smotrich and the other extremists like him can finally get their dying wish, that they will be able to resettle the Gaza Strip, steal that land, and then possibly and likely, think about the next country they're going to invade and annex. That's what the expansionist project known as the Greater Israel Project really is.

And so for all the people out there who were talking about how, oh, where are the Palestinian supporters? Why are they so quiet? Why aren't they celebrating the peace deal? It's because there isn't a peace deal. For now, there's been a slowdown in the unbelievable brutality and aerial bombardments that the IDF has carried out in the Gaza Strip. People are still getting killed, but not to the same extent as earlier. But is there really an end to what's been happening in Gaza? No, there is no peace deal yet. You have two parties that agree to the first phase of a ceasefire.

But again, all those other details remain murky. They have not been dealt with, they have not been negotiated. And so when there's an actual end to this bloodshed, when we could actually look to the future and not have to worry about the Israelis just incessantly attempting to steal land from the Palestinians, then I'll celebrate. But we're not there, we're not even close. That's the reality. This episode is brought to you by prize picks.

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here before we go to break and i wanted to talk a little bit about what we're hearing from the israeli hostages who have been freed look it's one of the incredibly positive things that that have happened this week, you know, seeing the videos of Israeli hostages released and reunited with their family members has been a wonderful thing to see. Okay, I can't imagine what those family members went through. So with that in mind, I want to go to this next story where we're going to hear a little more from one of the hostages or a family member from one of the hostages that was released recently. When you block humanitarian rights in the Gaza Strip for three months straight, It not only impacts the Palestinians, which I know you couldn't care less about, but it also obviously is going to impact the hostages.

They're going to starve to death as well. You're saying Israel is starving the hostages? I'm saying, yes, yeah. When you block humanitarian aid for three months, where do you think they're going to get the food from? Max, Israel. What a joke. Well, it turns out that Israel blocking humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip negatively impacted the Israeli hostages. How do I know that?

Well, we're now hearing from the father of one of the hostages who was released earlier this week. And guess what he had to say? Blocky humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip made it real difficult for my son to survive. Turns out it was difficult to feed him when food wasn't entering the enclave for nearly three months straight. Let's go to those statements. So Yehuda Cohen is the father of the Israeli hostage, Nimrod Cohen, who was released this week on Monday to be exact. Now he was captured while serving in the IDF's armored cops and was released from Hamas captivity on Monday of this week. His father, Yehuda, spoke to Haretz and said the following. His son told him that after humanitarian aid was blocked from the Gaza Strip in March,

there was less food. Scott Jennings finds that outrageous. Are you arguing that the Israelis starved the Israeli hostages? Yeah, I am saying that. And apparently so is the father of one of the hostages who was released earlier this week. That's not outrageous. That's just common sense. It's literally common sense.

So beginning in March of this year for nearly three months straight, Israel blocked all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip. That's why you have a famine. That's why you see those images of the children literally starving to death. You know, the children that the free press wants you to pretend don't exist. Or the children who, according to the free press, died for all. other comorbidities, not because of the fact that they were skin and bones moments before they passed away.

I know, like random jab at free press, but honestly, that reporting was so unbelievably disgusting. I mean, the most hideous piece of propaganda I've seen in a while, but nonetheless, that's what the father says here, Nimrod's father, his son told him that after humanitarian aid was blocked from the Gaza Strip in March, there was less food. Now, last February, this is a really interesting wrinkle in the story. So last February, a month before Israel had imposed that block of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, Nimrod's family actually did receive some communication from him as he was held captive in Gaza. Now, the way that this all worked was this was in the middle of a different ceasefire and hostage exchange.

And so one of the other hostages had been released. But before that individual was released, Nimrod spoke to him and told him to give his family a message. And the message was, remember this is February, one month before the March blockade of humanitarian aid. He tells his family, I'm okay, don't worry, love you. Now look, was he actually okay? Was he really okay? I mean, he was being held captive by Hamas. by Hamas in an enclave, in a territory that was being brutally bombed, aerial bombardments,

the likes of which we haven't seen on our television screen. Well, we haven't really been seeing it on our television screens. We saw it on our computer screens, that's for sure. And so do I think Nimrod Cohen was doing well? No, I don't think he was doing well. But remember that blockade of humanitarian aid hadn't been implemented yet. So Israel took a terrible situation for the Israeli hostages and compounded it by blocking humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip. After October 7th happened and after Hamas did what they did in rounding up all sorts of people but mostly Israelis and held them captive as hostages in the Gaza Strip.

I don't want you to forget about the statements that came from high-ranking government officials, including Yoav Galaan, who at the time was the head of Israel's military. Because he said out loud that we shouldn't be negotiating with Hamas to get the hostages back. We should annihilate. We should go in, the number one goal, the number one thing we should be pursuing is the complete annihilation of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. So from the beginning, there was an understanding among high ranking government officials within the Israeli government that the hostages were not the priority. That's why you had the Hannibal directive.

The Hannibal directive, which also Yoav Galant confessed, was a reality, a real policy implemented by the Israeli government. And what was that? Basically, if you see Hamas trying to take a hostage, it would be better to be better to be better to kill the Israeli than to allow Hamas to have that leverage over Israel. So the IDF literally killed their own people on October 7th as Hamas was attempting to take hostages. Now I want to be clear, I am in no way providing cover for the disgusting atrocities that Hamas carried out on October 7th, especially as it pertains to innocent civilians.

And that's one of the areas in which I get a lot of criticism and a lot of heat from, you know, people who defend the Palestinians. And that's fine, they can be mad at me, but what Hamas did was wrong. And I have no problem saying that. But how about a little bit of heat for the Hannibal directive that was implemented by the Israelis? You're not going to protect your own people. people, you're not going to do anything and everything necessary to save your people. And once they are taken captive, you're not going to want to negotiate because the top priority

is to annihilate in the Gaza Strip. Fascinating stuff. It's really, really gross. Now, getting back to Nimrod Cohen and his father, Yehuda, Yehuda also focused his ire on Benjamin Netanyahu, which I think is definitely justified. He told Heretz that the war has not ended on the national level. We have to make sure that those responsible for the incident, primarily the prime minister, step aside. It took hours for the IDF to respond to the attacks on October 7th.

And because of the fact that immediately Benjamin Netanyahu went into Gaza and has been at war ever since, there hasn't really been a moment for the country of Israel to deal with the fact that their government failed them and allowed for this brutal attack to happen given the endless military funding and support they get from the United States, despite All of the sophisticated intel they get from Mossad, despite the various pieces of intelligence that the Israeli government received a year before October 7th happened, and then three weeks before October 7th happened. Why did they choose to ignore that intelligence?

And I think it's time for the Israeli government to be confronted about that by the Israeli people. Because you can hate Hamas all you want, and I don't begrudge anyone for feeling. that way. But why is it that your government failed to keep you safe? Focus on that. And if they failed to keep you safe, why is the United States taxpayer going into debt in order to hand over their resources to your country? Just want to know. When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about what Senator Lindsey Graham is saying about the next stage for Gaza. It's not pretty. Neocons be neoconning, that's for sure.

We've got that and more coming up. Don't miss it. What's up, everyone, welcome back to the show, Anna Casparian with you. And thank you to everyone who's writing in in our member section. Thank you for your super chats. Write in, I want to get your feedback on the stories that we're covering today. I'm gonna read one member comment from Michael Napin who says, is Scott Jennings going to call up Anna and admit she was right? Doubtful, doubtful. But you can ask him, let's see what he has to say. For now, though, why don't we move on to our next story?

There's a bloodletting going on as I speak. The people in Gaza who sided with Israel are being slaughtered by Hamas. Israel cannot afford, Sean, to sit on the sidelines and watch people who stood up to help them be slaughtered by Hamas. As I speak tonight, their discussions in Israel about potentially going back in to save those tribes and clans that had the guns to stand up against Hamas. They went in Syria, they'll go back into Gaza if they have to. I love that he referenced Syria there. Anyway, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is already clamoring for the genocide in Gaza to continue. I mean, who could be surprised about that? Now, in an interview with Sean Hannity, he said that Israel was considering going back into Gaza in order to stop Hamas from targeting individuals and gangs who collaborated with Israel.

And to be sure, Graham actually isn't wrong that Hamas is already making abundantly clear that they intend to go after the groups that they view as their enemies, including groups who teamed up with Israel to weaken them. And by the way, there is evidence that Israel bankrolled some of these groups, and we're going to get to that in just a minute. But soon after the fragile ceasefire went into effect, a video came out featuring Hamas fighters executing eight men in the streets. Now I know about this because Israel supporters can't stop sending it to me as if it proves something. Like, oh look, Hamas bad, so all these

Palestinians need to be slaughtered or displaced. It's not the argument you think you're making, but anyway. So those horrific public executions weren't the end of it. So the Palestinian militant group has killed at least 33 people since the ceasefire began last week. And that's according to Reuters. And yesterday, President Donald Trump referenced these killings and pretty blatantly gave Hamas a pass. Yeah, he gave them a pass, believe it or not, take a look. You know, they did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad, very, very bad gangs that they did take them out. And they killed a number of gang members.

And that didn't bother me much, to be honest with you, that's okay. It's a couple of very bad gangs, you know, it's no different than other countries. Let's cue up that video again. Yeah, yeah, I want to do a little bit of repetition. Cue it up. But again, I'm speaking directly to the Israel supporters who keep sending me that Hamas executing people video over and over again because they think they're making a point. Listen to your daddy. Go ahead. Listen to your daddy. You know, they did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad, very, very bad gangs that they did take them out, and they killed a number of gang members.

And that didn't bother me much, to be honest with you, that's okay. It's a couple of very bad gangs, you know, it's no different than other countries. Mm-hmm. Now, Hamas says most of the people they killed were members of a gang affiliated with a family in Gaza City, likely referring to the, bear with me here, Dogmush family, which is a powerful clan based in Al-Sabra, who Hamas has violently clashed with in recent days. Now, Hamas accused members of this clan of collaborating with Israel following the killing of two Hamas fighters, including the son of a senior Hamas leader. So the dogmush family denies those accusations entirely,

and even accuses and actually says that they've turned down multiple offers from Israel to essentially collaborate and work with them. So maybe that's not the group that Lindsay Graham is specifically referring to when he talked about Gossens who Israel needs to protect. By the way, can we just stop? Let's pause and acknowledge how laughable it is that Lindsay Graham is talking about the need for Israel to protect Palestinians. They've killed close to like what, 68,000 people that we know of so far. 10,000 Palestinians are missing, presumed to be dead, trapped under the rubble. Israel has no interest in protecting anyone except themselves and anyone who believes in their expansionist project. They don't even believe in protecting Jewish individuals who are critical.

of the Greater Israel Project, who are critical of what's going down in Gaza, what's going down in the West Bank. That's why this has nothing to do with Jewish people at all. This has everything to do with a foreign government wanting to build an empire. And anyone who stands in the way must be destroyed, whether it's reputationally or by taking their lives. It's so sick. So again, maybe, you know, the dog mush family isn't the clan that Lindsay Graham is talking about here. So let's talk about the people he likely was referring to. So in June, an opposition leader in the Israeli government by the name of Avigdor Lieberman accused Netanyahu of arming a Gaza gang with affiliations to jihadi terror groups. And that sounds like an outrageous allegation, doesn't it?

Until you remember, Benjamin Netanyahu is the guy who facilitated the funding of Hamas. He's the guy who propped Hamas up. So would you really be surprised if Netanyahu was funding other terror groups? I wouldn't be. So in response, Beeb put out a video admitting to it and chastising his opponent for revealing this information. That's at Gorms of the Bittachon, we've found no homol at Aza that's

not against to Hamas. What about it? It's just tov. Just in chile of Chalal. And the parson that, the persoom that does it does too,

but Lippermann no he's upat. This man is the scum of the earth and should be in prison for the rest of his life. So there he is admitting, yeah, yeah, I'm funding the clans.

That's right. The same clans, the same clans, that are now being cited as justification to continue annihilating the Palestinian people by people like Senator Lindsey Graham. It's just outrageous, it's insane. So there are actually a few militias throughout Gaza that have allegedly operated side by side with Israel over the course of this genocide. And the anti-Hamas gang that Israel provides the most material to is called the popular forces. So it's led by a man by the name of Yasser Abu Shabab. And his gang,

which is mostly made up of Bedouins, operates sort of like a paramilitary in an area of the strip under Israeli control. And they have their own base in southern Gaza, where food is plentiful, and the 1,500 or so people living there are actually safe from Israeli bombardment. The base's location is strategically important. It sits along the route by which aid trucks must travel when entering Gaza through the Karim Shalom crossing, a route that aid officials have named looters' alley. That's important to keep in mind. And indeed, an internal UN report dated November 24, identified Yasser Abu Shabab and his gang as the most influential stakeholders behind the systematic, I'm sorry, yeah, systematic and massive looting of convoys.

So Netanyahu funds groups, terrorist groups, who oppose Hamas inside the Gaza Strip, and these are the same people who were looting the humanitarian aid as Netanyahu was blaming Hamas for doing so, even though reporting, including reporting in the news, New York Times claimed that there was absolutely no evidence that Hamas was systematically stealing or looting the humanitarian aid. Isn't that outrageous? I mean, you should be outraged if you actually care about fairness, if you care about facts, if you care about reality.

What I love about the moment that we're living in, though, is that previously Netanyahu in the Israeli government would get away with this. But we have unlimited independent media now that we can turn to in lieu of the corporate media that omits information, twist the truth, and intentionally lies to the American people. So luckily we're able to know, by the way, this is actually this is reported by Sky News. Like the last few graphics I read to you, that was reporting from Sky News. Super Zionist, huge supporters of Israel. But sometimes the facts are so important.

It's so obvious in my opinion that you can't help but just report it. So they're believed to have been responsible for a violent looting incident last November, by the way. I'm talking about popular forces, which are funded and propped up by Israel. They're believed to have been responsible for a violent looting incident. last November when 98 out of 109 trucks carrying UN food aid from the Karim Shalom, you know, area were ransacked by armed men. So the looters allegedly shot at the trucks and detained a driver for hours. The UN said the attack caused injuries to transporters and extensive vehicle damage. Okay, and yet aid organizations say that Israel denied

most of their requests for better measures to safeguard convoys and failed to intervene when looting was actively taking place. Well, Israel was actually backing the militant terror group that was engaging in the looting. So why would they provide protection against it when they are literally backing it and funding the group doing it? Even worse, Israel eventually used Abu Shabab's men to help protect Gaza Humanitarian Aid Foundation or Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites where at least 859 Palestinians were killed between May 27th of this year and July 31st of this year. Popular forces said it had secured the surroundings of GHF centers in Rafa but was not involved in distribution of food. But instead of securing

the sites, the gang members reportedly shot at Palestinians who were seeking aid. And instead of going to civilians, much of that aid was funneled directly to the gang. And remember, as this is all going down, as a gang that was propped up by the Israeli government was looting the aid, stealing the food, the Israeli government was blaming Hamas for it. Back in August, we interviewed Aziz Rahman, an American doctor who went to work at a hospital in Gaza. He also gave an interview to Theo Vaughn, in which he confirmed that the gang did, in fact, take the aid. Here's a little reminder. We were in the hospital looking outside and there's like, you just hear this AK40s, and I asked the locals, I was like, I thought you can't have a gun in Gaza.

And like, you can't. And I was like, so how was that guy shooting a gun openly in the air, trying to get everyone. away from the aid and they're like their, their IDF associated gangs. Abu Shabab is this main gang leader. He works with the IDF. And so his gang basically gets first dibs on the aid coming in. So he and his gang steal the aid and then they go to the market and sell out at super high prices. And honestly, believe it or not, an extensive in-depth expose written by Sky News. It was a Sky News. It was a Sky News investment. that was published earlier this month uncovered even more about the incredible amount of support Israel has been providing this gang, the popular forces.

So in interviews one of Abu Shabab's senior commanders, as well as an IDF soldier serving on the Gaza border, detailed how Israel is allowing them to smuggle cash, guns, cars, cigarettes, and more into the Gaza Strip. In order for these supplies to enter Gaza, requests, must be made to a coordination office run by the Palestinian Authority, which then liaises with Israel and various Arab states to ensure the supplies entry into Gaza. The office is basically a communications room with Egyptian security, with Israeli national security, with Jordanian national security, Hassan Abu Shab, a popular forces commander, says, adding that his mechanism, or this mechanism was created specifically for the use by the popular forces.

Again, the very gang propped up and funded by Israel, or let me just, let me rephrase that, indirectly funded by the American taxpayer. Because remember, much of the military activity carried out by the Israelis is finance, financially backed by America. Oh, you had your Medicaid benefits cut, it's okay because that money that could have helped you is going to a better cause, funding terror gangs in Gaza to fight Hamas and brutalize the Palestinian people. And that very gang is now being referenced by the likes of Senator Lindsey Graham for why we need to continue a genocide in Gaza, why we need to continue bankrolling atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

You see how this works? They think you're stupid, but you're not. I know you're not. It's just that there have been gatekeepers of information for far too long, and now we're starting to see things very clearly here. The injustice makes me sick. One more statement from Abu Shabab. It provides us with weapons and money.

and with everything our people and forces need. Now Israel has allegedly supplied the group with Kalishnikov assault rifles, including some weapons seized directly from Hamas. Interesting. I thought Israel wanted to demilitarize and disarm the people living in the Gaza Strip. And food, Hassan says, is provided free of charge by a number of donors, including the GHF and is delivered to their camp by merchants. An active IDF soldier even confirmed Hassan's claims while speaking to Sky News,

saying that Israel helps Yasser Abu Shabab, it gives him grenades, it gives him money, it gives him vehicles, it gives him food, it gives him all types of things. The cooperation with Abu Shab mainly goes through Israel's security service Shibbeth or some other state mechanism. We just bring in the food, make sure it arrives in Gaza. Now, they've even coordinated militarily. Sky News found evidence suggesting coordination between the gang and the Israeli air force in at least two battles fought by the popular forces. So why would Israel support them? Right, that's the big question here.

Well, Israel's backing of groups like Abu Shabab is intended to undermine Hamas, obviously, and to ensure that Israel maintains a level of control in Gaza. So Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, says that Israel's use of the popular forces against Hamas mirrors the way in which it previously supported Hamas against its secular rival, Bhattah. The idea is that the more you can remove the hegemony of any particular faction, the more difficult you make it for society to resist the occupation. That's what's really going on here.

That's why Israel props up people, or these people specifically, and now it's given Lindsey Graham the perfect opportunity to use them, to cite them as the excuse for continuing the military campaign in Gaza. And while Donald Trump seemed to give Hamas a pass for public executions, he also, after getting plotted from the Israelis, of course, he also threatened to go back into Gaza if they refused to disarm. How long will it take Hamas to disarm? And can you guarantee that is going to happen? Well, they're going to disarm. Because they said they were going to disarm. And if they don't

disarm, we will disarm them. How will you do that? I don't have to explain that to you. But if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm not playing games. And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently. Are you going to disarm Abu Shabab's gang, which is getting its grenades and its Kalishnikov rifles from Israel? This whole thing is super sick. But you're armed with the knowledge to push back against these narratives. And I want to thank our producer, Kate Batino, for putting this incredible segment together, this is the type of reporting that matters the most. Don't get fooled into making our country poorer to aid and abet ethnic cleansing and genocide carried out by

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And it's interesting, you're like the first to bring up AIPAC in years. Is it interesting? Okay, that was California Governor Gavin Newsom, malfunctioning as he was being asked a question that he didn't expect and didn't really seem prepared to answer. Now Newsom malfunctioned and said the word interesting, a total of eight times after he was confronted on the topic of APAC and the Israel lobby. Just to give you a little bit of background, Democratic voters have really soured on the issue of Israel. Okay, they are not supportive of what Israel has been carrying out in Gaza, in the West Bank,

and much of the Middle East, to be quite frank, and have now been paying closer attention to whether the politicians they've been favorable toward are being funded by the Israel lobby. And so democratic lawmakers, state and local leaders, you're now on notice. If you're taking APAC money, you're going to be asked about it. And try to do better than what we're about to hear from Gavin Newsom. I will not vote for a candidate that takes $1 from APEC. It's interesting. It's interesting.

I even thought about APEC. And it's interesting, you're like the first to bring up APEC in yours, which is interesting. Why? I say that. Not relevant to my day-to-day life. Okay. Which is just interesting. Listen, it's interesting you say that. J-PAC, perhaps more, but A-PAC, less and less. Okay, right now, which is just interesting. What's interesting about it? That it's just interesting, as you bring up A-PAC, that it hasn't been part of, I'm just reflecting quite openly and honestly. Okay, I love this so much for so many different reasons. So obviously, Newsome sounds idiotic, But for those who don't know, the podcast that he's appearing on is the higher learning podcast, which is hosted by Van Lathen and Rachel Lindsay.

And for whatever reason, my eyes are fixated on Lindsay because her face was so funny as he kept saying interesting. She was just like, you could just see. She's like, oh, this is not going well for Gavin Newsom. By the way, the conversation with Gavin Newsom, I listen to the whole thing, I want to commend them for asking tough questions, because that wasn't the only tough question they asked him. And that's how it's done. I love it. All right. Now, Representative Rokano was unimpressed with Newsom's comments, writing that this is not interesting.

It is defining for the future of our party. We must be for human rights, not take PAC and lobbyist money, including A PAC, and call out the genocide to win the trust of young voters and have America be a moral leader in the world again, agree Van Lathen? Now a few minutes earlier, Lathen had asked Newsom if he was in favor of halting all military assistance to Israel, and let's see how that went. Are you in favor of halting military assistance to Israel? I mean, the timing is a curious one, when when the precipice of a phase one deal that was announced today in a ceasefire. But even if this is over, but I get it.

Yeah. So look, no, I'm not prepared to say that I would support a blanket exemption for military support of Israel. That said, I've been very vocal in my opposition to BB Netanyahu. Said he doubled down on stupid on Meet the Press like a year ago. I'm sitting here on your behalf, you're a taxpayer, as the only governor in the United States had sent a field hospital to Gaza and got it in through third party. country and is disgusted by what's happened in Gaza as a human being, as a father to see these children and how this war has been perpetuated by BB Netanyahu. I also have deep

respect for the right of the state of Israel to exist and defend itself. Okay, he seems defensive if you ask me. And look, Lathen did follow up with a pretty good point. So if Newsome Netanyahu so much, then why would he want to, like, why wouldn't he want to stop sending Netanyahu money, military aid? Let's see how he answered that. I guess the question is, if there's an admission or an understanding that the prime minister of a country is acting in a way that's either irresponsible, callous, or inhumane, why will we continue to support that country I think that's the executive's role to leverage that. We do that a lot.

I mean, that's part of the game of leverage. But to eliminate support across the board is something to me is a bridge too far. Conditioning in a thoughtful way with a flexibility of criteria, flexibility with conditions that are changing on an hourly or daily basis or weekly basis as it relates to not just what's happening in Gaza. But what's happening in Lebanon, what's happening in Iran, what's happening in Syria and other parts of the Middle East is where I think you have to be careful. And I just don't think there's a clean way of answering that without the nuance that I think it deserves. Well, there you have the governor of California competing with Kamala Harris in the word salad Olympics. What was that? What was that?

Let me just list off a bunch of other Middle Eastern countries and talk about leverage and that. and do the little weird like shoulder shimmy. Like you are not guided by values or principles. It is very obvious Newsome, destroyed the state of California and yet feels entitled to the highest office of this land. It's gonna run for president in 2028. Look, I get that I am deeply, deeply biased against him as a victim of his leadership here in the state of California.

But let me just give him a tip. I don't know if he's even capable of doing this, but let me just give him a tip. Be authentic for once in your life. You're afraid of Israel or you support Israel, but either one doesn't matter has led you to supporting Israel and backing it economically, financially, even though we're talking about a country that had an economic surplus in 2021 when we haven't had one since 2001. Now look, as governor of California, his views on Israel don't matter that much, but his views on Israel matter a lot if he is the head of this entire country, if he's the president

of the United States. And I will not vote for any politician that takes any money from the Israel lobby. I never thought I would be a single issue voter, but that's my single issue at this point. Because I see our alliance with Israel as an existential threat to the United States, I said it. Take a good hard look at where we were standing economically in the year 2000. Did we have debt in 2000? No. But our debt blew up after 2001, after the 9-11 attacks on our country.

That spurred endless wars that we fight allegedly for our own national security. But it turns out, no, not for our own national security. A lot of those wars, including the war in Iraq, our boots on the ground in Libya, our engagement in the proxy war in Syria, where we literally indirectly armed al-Qaeda terrorists. And now there's an al-Qaeda terrorist leading the country of Syria as a result. That was all done on behalf of Israel. We paid for that. We're in debt, at least $37 trillion.

Who knows what the number is now, considering the big, beautiful bill added another $4 trillion in debt for that. We're bailing out Argentina, we're providing more military aid to Ukraine, we're just bleeding money, bleeding, bleeding, bleeding, bleeding. I guess that's America first. So the real question is, does Newsom represent a paradigm shift or not? And I would venture to say that he doesn't. He's super defensive, doesn't give you straight answers, he's pathetic, I can't stand him. Now, we have very little publicly available information about whether or not Newsom takes

money from pro-Israel organizations, and that's because he has run in and won in state and local elections. So it's harder to track that money, unfortunately. But we did find an article from 2008 in which Newsome went to an all expenses paid trip to Israel, and we all know what those trips are about, it's all about propaganda on behalf of Israel to get these politicians to support Israel and also to spy on our politicians, as we've learned recently. Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco at the time. The goal of the trip is to create connections between Bay Area and Israeli business leaders. No thank you.

I don't think we need that. Nonetheless, a Newsom spokesperson said this. Many executives, including Richard Bloom, husband of U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, are going. That is the least surprising thing I've read in my entire life, he will not visit the Palestinian territories during his stay, the mayor's spokesperson said, also unsurprising. And this month, Newsom signed AB715 into law in the state of California, which is intended to stop anti-Semitism in schools. So it is unbelievable. So it was supported by J-PAC, among many other leading Jewish organizations. Much of the requirements in the law, which takes effect on January 1st, are open to interpretation. Teachers must be factually accurate in lessons and adhere to unspecified standards of professional

responsibility while avoiding advocacy, personal opinion, bias, or partisanship. I just want to remind you all that our textbooks were published by a Mossad, agent for many decades, Robert Maxwell. He's luckily dead now. But McMillan, McGraw Hill, those were the social studies and history books, textbooks that I grew up on. And I had no idea that there was a Mossad agent publishing them. That's not an issue, though. The issue is we need to stop anti-Semitism by hindering the speech of students who might want to be crue. of the genocidal campaign that Israel has been engaging in, got it, okay. It also creates an office of civil rights within a state agency, meaning taxpayers are going

to fund this garbage, which will include an anti-Semitism prevention coordinator to consult with school districts and advise lawmakers on preventing anti-Semitism in schools. Newsom has acknowledged that the bill will likely require follow-up legislation since the language is so vague. We have a housing crisis in the state. We have more homeless people in California than all the other states combined. This is what they're spending their time on. The state legislature, along with the leadership, political leadership in California, is beyond embarrassing. Their state is in shambles, I would know, I live here. And you have Newsome and the rest of the Democratic state legislature fiddling around with policies to make Israel happy.

It's gross. It's gross. Instead, he is sending 20 billion American first. Instead, he is sending 20 billion American taxpayer dollars to bail out his buddy in Argentina. And he's doing this after Argentina has just cozyed up to China. She has no idea what she's doing. A nasty, horrible senator. Go ahead.

Other than that, I like it very much. President Donald Trump is at war with Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren over the administration's decision to, in my opinion, betray the America First Movement and bail out the foreign country of Argentina. Now, I know that there are some conservatives who watch this program, and I thank them for keeping an open mind. And I am so, so curious to hear from you and get your thoughts on this particular story. Because if I'm missing something I want to know. And if you agree with my take, I also want to know. So with that in mind, let's get to the details.

Now, before we get to their fiery exchange, here's the background. Argentina is in a lot of economic trouble. There's no question about that. And the Trump administration believes that if they're not saved economically, the policy of deep austerity, okay, meaning cuts to social programs coupled with, you know, free market capitalism will fall out of favor. And in fact, it's already fallen out of favor among people in Argentina because the austerity has negatively impacted them. So in more recent elections, Malay, Javier Malay's

party lost a lot of support. Now, Javier Malay is concerned about more political consequences if something isn't done soon. And so this is where the U.S. government under Donald Trump steps in. So the U.S. government authorized an extraordinary $20 billion currency swap this month, essentially a loan to prop up the sagging Argentine peso, which has fallen more than 24% against the dollar this year. In other words, the U.S. government is bailing out Argentina. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the administration was marshalling an additional $20 billion from banks and sovereign wealth funds to help Argentina make its foreign debt payments. So that's a $40 billion bailout. That's crazy. And is not in any way beneficial to

the American people who bought into the America First narrative that Trump was running on in 2014 and 2016, by the way. So today, again, it was announced that the Trump administration was going to double the bailout amount to Argentina. So it's going to be $40 billion. Obviously, this isn't America First, although Besant wants you to think it absolutely is. This is not America First. I'll tell you why it's not. Do you want to be shooting at more gunboats like in Venezuela? We do not want a failed state. So this isn't a bailout? Sorry, it's not a bailout at all. There's no money being being transferred. The ESF has never lost money. It's not going to lose money here. I've been doing, I was in the investment business,

mostly currencies for 40 years. You're supposed to buy low, sell high. And the Argentine peso is undervalued. We're going to have an election in Argentina, the 26th of this month. We think present melee will do quite well. Argentina is rich in rare earths and rich in uranium. And I think they are committed to U.S. private companies coming in and being good partners with them. Ah, US private companies. Let's do a little favor for Argentina. And maybe in return, we can look out for corporate interests in the United States, which tends to conflict with the best interests of rank and file Republican voters and ordinary Americans. Cool. So speaking of American private companies. Funds at investment firms including Black Rock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily

invested in Argentina as our investors such as Stanley Drucken Miller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros. Wow, okay. So this is really about doing favors for corporate America. And the same members of corporate America that Scott Besson himself worked for. That's totally America first, right? Now, the Dukenzie, I don't know if I'm saying that right, family office, which Drunken Miller runs, was the second largest investor in Argentina's principal exchange traded fund, a pool of Argentine stocks, to Chitrone, the founder of discovery capital management, has made Latin America his biggest bet in the world, and Argentina is the fund's biggest investment in the region.

And here's some more context on this bailout, because Argentina's currency, bonds, and stocks have all been sliding following Javier Malay's party losing an important election in Buenos Aires last month. So since then, Malay has been doing everything in his power to keep Argentina's currency, the peso, from getting devalued. Now, if that happened, inflation would spike, and Malay would be at risk of losing power during the midterm elections, which are set to take place later this month on October 26th. But the United States wants Malay to win enough seats in the legislature to keep his agenda moving. And we should note that his leadership has led to some silver linings, there have been some upsides. I want to be fair in Argentina.

So Argentina posted its first budget surpluses since 2009, and inflation is down to around 30% from peaks almost 10 times higher. So there's that. But explain to me why Americans are supposed to bail out this foreign country again and how it's supposed to benefit ordinary Americans, because I don't really see it. Okay, so as part of this currency swap with Argentina, the US purchased Argentinian pesos in an open market, in the open market. And that makes the fourth time that the United States has bought another country's currency in that manner, in that manner, since 1996.

So that's how you basically prop up the value of the currency. You get the United States to purchase the currency on the open market. But here's the real kicker. Even as the bailout was being finalized, Argentina suspended its tax on exports, encouraging China to buy massive amounts of soybeans from Argentine farmers. Orders that American farmers say should have gone to them.

And that is where Senator Elizabeth Warren comes in. Trump is not happy about what she had to say in the next video you're about to watch. Donald Trump ran for office proclaiming he would do America first. Instead, he is sending 20 billion American taxpayer dollars to bail out his buddy in Argentina. And he's doing this after Argentina has just cozyed up to China and cut a deal with China that takes the legs out from underneath American soybean farmers. So let me get this straight.

Argentina hurts American farmers and the President of the United States responds by giving $20 billion to Argentina plus Secretary Besson saying in a blank check if they need more. That's pretty appalling. It sure is, it is pretty appalling, it's absolutely disgusting, it really is. Because again, this is about benefiting corporate America, corporations and corporations executives that members of this administration, you know, rub elbows with. That's the fact of the matter here. But Trump, you know, really hates being called out, especially when he's being called out on reneging on his promises to his own base.

And so here's the message he had for Senator Warren today. We've been criticized by a couple of American peronists like Senator Warren. So, and she, she and it's a compliment. She has no idea what she's doing. The nasty, horrible senator. Go ahead. Other than that, I like her very much. She doesn't know what she's doing.

She's a nasty senator. Other than that, I like her very much. It seems like you both know what you're doing. Trump knows whose bread he's buttering, okay, who he's actually helping out by bailing out a foreign country. And Senator Warren knows exactly what he's doing and has decided to call him out on it. It's very easy to understand. Now, Trump is considering a $10 billion bailout for American farmers in America's high debt environment, by the way. We're spending a trillion

dollars a year on servicing our debt. Now, I'm not saying that our farmers should be abandoned. I feel terrible for them. But how do you justify bailing out a country that just made a deal with China that squeezes American soybean farmers out of the equation entirely? How do you justify that? Finally, U.S. farmers are not buying Trump's explanations. Here's one of them. China is beginning to buy soybeans from Argentina.

And the president bailed them out with $20 billion. dollars and we see it as that could have been a whole lot of relief for America's farmers for the first time in a very long time I was not able to secure a farm operating loan myself this year due to the bankers telling me that the cost per acre just wasn't working as the young people said that the math wasn't math in here and I was out here so I'm basically farming from from vendors so to speak so it's a very troubling time in America's history for America's farmers and as we lose farm this the vice president who's out here

buying land through his company acre trader all of these are happening while America's farmers are going under America's farmers are going under but at the end of the day they're Americans who cares about them when you can be bailing out foreign countries funding a genocide in the Middle East bomb and strike random boats in international waters in, you know, gearing up for a war with Venezuela, all of that stuff matters way more than you do. That's the message that's being sent from the Trump administration through policies like this. And the thing that drives me nuts is they think we're too stupid to see what's really going on. We're not. We see it. It's as clear as day. After we come back from the

break, Jank Uger joins us for a whole host of other stories. Don't miss it. We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you.