The Young Turks - Middle East Mayhem

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

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Okay. So we're going to start series, but later on, hilarious stories about Donald Trump. Let's have fun. Let's do the news. Go. While things are continuing to escalate in the Middle East, let's get into it. These pictures just released by the IDF show them attacking a number of Hezbollah targets. Israel's defense minister has issued a 48-hour state of emergency in the country.

We're operating in self-defense from Hezbollah and any other enemy that joins in their attacks against us. The failure to get a ceasefire and hostage rule. release deal in Gaza could see this escalating to a wider regional conflict. American officials have announced that they're sending two aircraft groups and a guided missile submarine to the Middle East after Israel carried out preemptive strikes in Lebanon over the weekend. Now, the move by the United States is allegedly meant to deter a possible attack from Iran. And I want to get to the details of that. that because obviously it has repercussions and consequences for Americans in just a minute,

but first, a little bit of context into those preemptive strikes that were carried out by Israel. So Hezbollah has vowed retaliation against Israel over the fact that Israel has assassinated one of its senior commanders, his name was Faud Shakur, in Beirut last month. In addition to that, Iran and its proxies have threatened to attack Israel in retaliation for Israel's assassination of a top Hamas leader, Ishmael Hania, in Tehran, on July 31st. Now, Israel says that it carried out these preemptive strikes in Lebanon in order to thwart a missile attack by Hezbollah. In the early hours of Sunday morning, around 100 Israeli jets hit dozens of Hezbollah launch sites in southern Lebanon, destroying thousands of rockets. The military said were aimed at Israel.

In fact, reports indicate that Israel struck 40 separate sites in Lebanon. And I want to go to Benjamin Netanyahu justifying these attacks on Lebanese soil. Let's take a look. What happened today is not the end of the story. Hezbollah tried to attack the state of Israel with rockets and drones early in the morning. We instructed the Israeli army to carry out a powerful preemptive strike to remove the threat. The Israeli army destroyed thousands of short-range rockets. them were intended to harm our citizens and our forces in the Galilee.

In addition, the Israeli army intercepted all the UAVs that Hezbollah launched at a strategic target in the center of the country. Jenk. Yeah, so first of all, self-defense my ass. Let's review the timeline here. Israel bombs Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing one of the top leaders of Hezbollah. So that's Israel striking first. And I know you can get into, yeah, but how about

throughout the war, going back and forth, how about October 7th, how about 1948, how about 1960s? I'm talking about this particular conflict. Are we going to go to war, or Israel are going to go to war with Lebanon and Iran, right? So Israel bombs first in the middle of Beirut. Then, before Hezbollah can respond, they do a preemptive strike, so they bomb them twice before Hezbollah could even bomb once. Hezbollah then does a light bombing. How do I know it's light. Well, first of all, a lot of their stuff was knocked out, which I'll get back to. So Israel's not entirely wrong about the preemptive strike. I'll get back to it in a second. But then Hezbole fires back limited number of bombs. You could say hundreds, but remember,

these are like, they're like throwing rocks basically at Israel. Every one of them gets knocked down. None of them lands according to Israel. So totally ineffective. Then you think, okay, it's over. And Hezbole even says, well, look, we did the best we could. It might be over. Then Israel hits a again this morning. So that's three times that Israel has hit Lebanon and only once back with no effect at all against Israel. So this is not self-defense. This is Israel trying its mightiest to start a war in the Middle East that America will have to fight for it. A lot more where that came from, both a little slight defense of Israel and a slight defense of Hezbollah's actions as well in a minute. But Anna, go ahead.

Hezbollah wasn't attacking Israel when Israel, you know, wasn't carrying out the atroids. that it's currently carrying out in Gaza. So Hezbollah is obviously retaliating against Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, to be quite clear. It's not like they're being hands off with Palestinians in the West Bank. They're being driven out of their legal homes, both by settlers and by the Israeli military standing by and allowing it to happen. And so, I mean, this is why a ceasefire is so incredibly important.

It's not only important because it will secure the release of hostages. It's also important because it will help prevent a broader regional war, which is quickly, by the way, escalating into a potential war between the United States and Iran. So I actually want to get to that portion of the story right now. So in yet another sign that things are escalating into a potential war with Iran, the State Department has announced that it is sending, as I mentioned earlier, more military personnel to the region to defend Israel against a threat from Iran. So two aircraft carriers, the Theodore Roosevelt and the Abraham Lincoln, and their accompanying warships and attack planes are now in or near the Gulf of Oman. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent guided missile submarine Georgia to the region. An unusual move as the Pentagon seldom talks about the movements of its submarine fleet.

The Georgia can fire cruise missiles and carry teams of Navy SEAL commandos. Now, one might argue that the U.S. is doing this as a deterrent. It's just simply a deterrent. Others could, I believe, rightfully argue that this is a provocative move by the United States and will potentially provoke Iran and its proxies. And it doesn't help when you have other state officials give the types of quotes that I'm about to read to you to the New York Times. A senior U.S. official said on Saturday night that the American military was better positioned,

better positioned to address a threat from Iran, and that the Israeli defense forces would shoulder the bulk of any defense from attacks carried out by Hezbollah across the border in Lebanon. So let's just quickly decode that. The argument is, no, no, we should fight any threat from Iran, meaning the U.S. should engage in a potential war with Iran in order to defend Israel. Israel can focus on its border with Lebanon as it fights Hezbollah. Yeah, so look, my opinion on this part is not going to surprise you. I don't think we should fight Israel's war for it.

I don't think we should have any aircraft carriers or submarines going there to try to intimidate anybody in the region because it is not making war less likely. It is making war more likely because, okay, so now let me do the slight defense of Israel and Hezbo that I was going to do because it relates to this. So Israel did a preemptive strike. I'm never in favor of preemptive strikes. There's a different word for that. It's called attacking first, declaring war, et cetera, right? But this is a really rare case where it looked like Hezbollah was about to launch, and they did hit Hezbollah targets that were going to launch against them.

So if anything is preemptive, this kind of was preemptive. Having said that, they did the bombing in the first place. That was their second bombing, and we don't know, we'll never know for sure if Hezbollah was going to attack with those things, because Israel didn't give them a chance to, they just attacked them for the second time. But my job is to give you the context there, and as preemptive bombing, goes, that looked like that was pretty on point, okay? So the slight defensive Hezbollah is they're signaling in every diplomatic way.

We are doing a light attack. We do not want a broader war. Here comes the missiles and the drones. And even after you hit us a second time, we don't want a broader war. Iran did the same thing. So Israel conducts bombings in Iran. Remember, this whole saga played out. And Iran essentially sent a signal to the United States and Israel to let them know to save face with our people in Iran to make it seem like we're not being weak.

We're going to carry out these strikes. But here's where the strikes are going to land. Here's what we're doing. Here's when they're going to get to you. I remember they had hours and hours worth of warnings before the strikes were conducted. Yes. And so that was on purpose intended to basically create as little damage as possible. because they didn't want to escalate the war.

So, but there's no weighing with Netanyahu and the insane right-wing government of Israel. Because if Hezbollah had done major damage, they would have said, oh my God, 13 Israelis are dead! We have to strike back and obliterate Beirut. We have no choice left. Hezbollah did this, et cetera. Now, good news, there's no casualties, no hits at all. So what does Israel say? Do they say, oh, to be fair, if they had hit someone, we would have been really livid, would have been really livid, but they didn't hit anyone, so we're good, let's just

stop, we bombed them twice before they even bobbed those once, we're good. No, instead they said, they put out a statement saying, you see, this shows Hesblood doesn't have much capabilities, and Hamas doesn't have much capabilities outside of Israel, so we have no incentive to stop. So you were going to keep going on the war no matter what. Yeah. Whether Hesblood did a big bombing, a small bombing, whether they had casualties or they didn't have casualties, you had excuses ready to continue the war in either,

outcome because you don't want the war to stop. You want to start a giant war and make us fight it. So we're sending a bunch of aircraft carriers there. Look, guys, do you know how to solve this easiest thing in the world? The minute I say it, all of you are going to agree, even like the hardline Israeli people are going to be like, uh, that's kind of true, but don't do it, don't do it, right? And that is, US uses this leverage and goes, Israel, cut the crap out. You're not doing any more bombings. And we're not sending any aircraft carrier groups there. And if you don't listen to what we're saying, we're going to cut your funding. Or at a bare minimum, we're going to do a weapons embargo, not send you any more weapons.

Does anyone think Israel wouldn't respond to that? That that wouldn't be proper incentive for them to get to a ceasefire. Everyone who's rational and on planet Earth knows that's how you get to a ceasefire if we use our leverage, which is gigantic. We just sent them $26 billion, right? And by the way, it's not all sent. You could just say, I'm not sending the remaining $22 billion. until you sign a ceasefire. You'll have a ceasefire tomorrow.

The U.S. is choosing not to do that. Instead, they're sending a bunch of aircraft carriers over there to encourage Israel. Don't worry, buddy. I got your back. Bomb as many capitals as you like. Bomb Tehran, Beirut, Damascus, which they already did. Bomb any goddamn capital you like.

Start any more you like because we're going to have these sucker Americans pay for it with their lives and with their treasure. Because remember, Israel's the boss of us. Keep it real and you know that's real. Let me frame this in a way that maybe officials within the Democratic Party will understand, because that's the party in charge right now. That's the party in the executive branch. And Anthony Blinken, of course, is the one who's allegedly. attempting to broker a ceasefire deal. I say allegedly because no one in the Biden administration

is willing to use those weapons as leverage at all. And in fact, during the DNC, Kamala Harris's speech made abundantly clear that she will in no way threaten Israel's weaponry. And so when I say that they're playing with fire, what I specifically mean is, if this war escalates to a situation in which we are in a hot war with Iran, that's going to hurt Kamala Harris. his chances of winning this election. And by the way, let me say one other thing. Netanyahu and the far-right government of Israel has made it abundantly clear that they want Donald Trump

to serve another term. So look, I don't know, this is speculation, but not only does it serve Netanyahu's interest in expanding this war so he can remain in power, it could also potentially, if it continues to escalate, have an impact on who gets elected in our presidential election. So look, if a giant war starts, which Iran has not counterattack yet, God knows what's going to happen there, Hezbollah, now that they got hit again on Monday, are like, well, okay, I guess we're not done.

So I guess we've got to go another round now because Netanyahu definitely, definitely wants the war, right? Meanwhile, if you had a ceasefire, all this would end because Hezbollah says we will not send a single more bomb if you get to a ceasefire. But they don't want to. So why Netanyahu, after Hamas agreed on July 2nd to the ceasefire terms, said, I was lying. I am adding two more demands. I want to reoccupy Gaza. I want the southern border occupied and I want a central strip in Gaza occupied. So Hamas said, yeah, no, we're not going to agree to that.

We just agreed to your goddamn deal in the first place. Now you're moving the goalpost. He doesn't want a peace deal. Make him do it. Of course they're not going to. So to get to Anna's point, look, I don't know what happens if that giant war starts. I do know all bets are off, and no one has any idea who's going to win the U.S. election if that war starts.

It depends on the reactions, et cetera. I also know that Anna's likely to be right, that that albatross will be put around Kamala Harris' neck. Why? Because they're in charge. Exactly. It's the Biden-Harris administration. Exactly. Joe Biden could both save the, you know, not just the Palestinians, but the Israelis

from a giant conflict, and let alone Iran-Hazbaugh and the whole world, and he could save his own party and right now Kamala Harris is leading if there's no war Kamala Harris is likely to win. He could save all of that by doing one sentence. If you don't listen to us, we're going to cut the funding. But he won't say it. He won't say it. And then they come and send the liars out there and go, we're doing everything we can. No, it's obviously you're not. It's so preposterous that every reporter doesn't immediately launch into them. Are you joking? You haven't used one piece of leverage not one you haven't threatened one dollar and you're claiming you're doing everything you can No, you're doing everything that Israel allows you to do

The Israeli people want to cease fire there were mass protests in Tel Aviv over the weekend as well Okay, you have the family members of the hostages who obviously want to cease fire You have the Arab nations surrounding Israel wanting a seize like everyone wants a ceasefire. So this doesn't escalate. So the hostages are returned. And by the way, in regard to Israel, we haven't even even talked about how this war has completely decimated their economy. Israelis are suffering based on the horrible decisions that Netanyahu and that far-right government are making. And they're making it for themselves out of their own self-interest, not over what's best for the Israeli people, not over what's best for the hostages,

certainly not what's best for Palestinian civilians. They couldn't care less about that. And so as this continues to escalate, the real question is, is the United States going to continue enabling this far-right regime in Israel to the detriment of the international community, as by the way, the international community watches in horror as we've been enabling Israel and their belligerent military activity? All right, last thing I'll say is, look, I hate all the anti-Semitic tropes. Israel is a government. Governments do terrible things. So I don't want anybody thinking, oh, this is one of those, the Jews control everything. That's nonsense. Elon Moss, Jeff Bezos, among a billion other people who are not, well, literally eight billion other people, are not Jewish. They're not just going to go, oh, okay, Jews, you run the place. That's not how the world works.

It's ridiculous. On the other hand, does Israel, the government of Israel, control the government of the United States? Definitely and obviously. And how do they do it? They have APAC spent $100 million in American elections. They buy off our entire government. That is obvious. Any government can do that. Any corporation can do that. In fact, most corporations do do that. Look into big pharma, big oil, et cetera, right? So I'm not going to engage in, you know, the tropes and the hatred and any of that nonsense. I'm going to fight against it. But I'm also not going to engage in nonsense where, oh, no, Israel has no effect on U.S. policy. U.S. is just, and the money in politics, that has no effect at all. You're not allowed to say it. No, America just has no effect. happens to love Israel so much.

For no apparent reason, we give them $26 billion here, $4 billion a year. We follow every command of theirs in a humiliating fashion, no matter what they say and no matter how much they ignore us. And is it true that Bibi Netanyahu owns Joe Biden? Well, we all have eyes and we all have ears. So Biden says, don't do it. Netanyahu comes on and goes, yeah, I'm going to do it. What are you going to do?

None, idiot. And Biden goes, okay, he didn't give me permission. I'm so sorry, Beebe. I'm so sorry. And then he dog walks him. So we all saw it on the national stage for the last couple of years here, certainly for the last 12 months.

Anyone who denies it is not living in objective reality. So you can be the biggest Netanyahu fan in the world and be like, Of course Israel should control America. And of course the US president should be the dog of the Israeli prime minister. But there are people.

There's a significant number of people that believe that, and almost all of them live Washington, D.C. But for the rest of us, this is getting exhausting and humiliating. You get one American soldier killed there, and you're going to have massive problems in this country. We have some testimony from one of the freed Israeli hostages when we come back.

She has some thoughts about how the media covered the way she was treated while held captive by Hamas in Gaza. Don't miss it. Back on T. Y. Jank. Jamie H. Justin Black Walker and Ina Dysselbergh. I did my best, Ena. Jesse and Box, thank you for gifting five-gunners memberships. Kaspers. Well, let's talk a little bit about one Israeli hostage who is absolutely disgusting. with the way the press in Israel has been covering her. Let's get into the details.

Freed Israeli hostage, Noah Argomani, is setting the record straight after Israeli media, along with some government officials in Israel, spread lies about what she experienced while she was being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. Now, she was one of the hostages that really became the face of the victims of October 7th. There's video of her that went viral showing Hamas militant. basically taking her while she was at a music festival and driving her over to Gaza. She was later freed during a rescue operation that was great for a few of the hostages, but awful for Palestinians.

That rescue operation killed 236 Palestinians, most of them women and children. But what Noah Argomani is disgusted by is how the media totally twisted how she got injured while she was held captive by Hamas. So outlets, including the Jerusalem Post, ran the headline, Hamas beat me all over. And Noa Agamani said on Instagram that that just wasn't true. I'm going to give you her exact quotes. I can't ignore what happened in the media in the last 24 hours. Things were taken out of context.

I was not beaten. I was in a building that was bombed by the Air Force, meaning the IDF. I emphasize that I was not beaten, but injured all over my body by the collapse of a building on me. As a victim of October 7th, I refused to be victimized once again by the media. Now, prior to that statement on social media, she also testified before the group of seven, the G7, in Tokyo and said the following, it's a miracle because I survived October 7th and I survived this bombing and I also survived the rescue. And so where did this lie originally come from? The media didn't just fabricated out of thin air. It turns out that there were

some Israeli officials who were repeating this lie over and over again, including prominent Israelis like President Isaac Herzog, that's, again, the president of Israel and pro-Israel voices around the world, including writer Aviva Klompas, and the Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, which amplified the false claim that Argomani was beaten by her captors. Now, look, what Hamas did was bad enough, right? They took her, they kidnapped her along with hundreds of other people and held them captive in Gaza. So that is bad enough. That is already a crime.

But making up how she was injured, I think seeks to cover up how the IDF's military operations in Gaza showed very little regard for the hostage's lives. Yeah. So in other stories on this topic, you'll sometimes hear me say, I don't believe a word the IDF says. It's because of stories like this, constantly, over and over again. The Israeli government puts out a statement, and then later, two weeks later, two months later, they go, ah, yeah, we've told a lot, utter lie, fabricated, completely fabricated. Oh, my God, UN is working with Hamas, totally fabricated. The UN says there's no evidence of it.

The U.S. says there's no evidence of it. By the way, everybody cut their funding anyway. Because it doesn't matter how much Israel lies. It's absurd. And the media will report it, no matter what, no matter how absurd it is, no matter how much their track record is of non-stop lies. So who has been consistent and correct here? We have.

So we were consistent after October 7th said terrible loss of civilian lives, awful. Hamashtra didn't have done it. The taking of the hostages is awful. They should be returned as soon as possible. We want now then the 40,000 dead, Israel should stop. Obviously, we want the hostages return. And one of the things we said in the meanwhile was, I don't think they really want the hostages back. and that's because they're bombing the buildings.

Right. And the hostages are probably in the buildings. You heard us say that with your own ears. And it turns out that's exactly what was happening. And we were right all along. The Hamas was in the tunnels. They couldn't get to the tunnels. They were bombing buildings.

And they didn't give a damn if the hostages were in there because they wanted death and destruction and revenge and to absolutely eviscerate Gaza and then go back to occupying it, which is exactly what their demand is today. And you're going to, you guys are probably going to think this sounds outrageous, but it's not, and I'm going to show you what I mean in just a minute. But that was actually the order by the military, right, to take out Hamas, even if Israeli hostages are going to die as a result of their military operations. And I'm going to give you the details on that in just a moment. But I do want to just quickly note, after Argomani came out and called out the media for lying about how she was injured while held captive in Gaza, public. Like the Jerusalem Post did stealth edits without doing a real retraction where you admit, hey, we got this wrong, we're now going to correct the record.

They just changed the headline, right? So the original headline for the Jerusalem Post was Hamas beat me all over my body, Noah Argomani says, in first testimony on her captivity. That was the original one, which was a lie. They later did a stealth edit of that headline and changed it to, It's a miracle I'm alive, Noah Argomani says, in first testimony, on. her captivity. Here's another thing I'd like to know. All the people who printed that lie, she never said that. So where did you get the quote from? She never even came close to saying

that. Where'd you get the quote from? From the president. Okay. So can we now agree that the Israeli president is an obvious, preposterous liar and you should never trust anything he says. I was already there. Yeah, I know, I know. But I'm talking to the American media because American media is like, anything Israel says is, we bow down to you. You're of course correct. You're correct. Oh, dirty Palestinians, never trust them, right? So what happened to the dirty Israeli president who made up an outrageous lie? She says, oh my God, thank God I didn't die from the bomb you put on my head.

And he goes, oh, yeah, she said Hamas beat her so badly. You're still going to trust the Israeli president. I guarantee you every single mainstream media outlet in America, the next time the Israeli president or prime minister put out a statement, they will carry it 100% as if it's true. And they won't tell you about their history of lies throughout the entire conflict. So I wanted to just quickly talk a little bit about what I was referencing earlier.

And it's a protocol within the IDF known as the Hannibal Directive. And this is important to know about not only with how they're carrying out military operations in Gaza right now, but how they responded to the Hamas attacks on October 7th. So basically, the Israeli defense forces use this protocol known as the Hannibal Directive, which authorizes lethal force against Israeli soldiers. and Israelis, in this case Israeli hostages, in order to prevent them from being taken prisoner by enemy forces, the use of this directive was confirmed by freed hostages who have recounted being fired upon by Israeli aircraft as they were being taken by Hamas militants into Gaza.

So we don't know the exact number. We don't know the percentage of Israeli civilians who were killed on October 7th as a result of IDF soldiers shooting at them. But But there was a really great investigative piece in Heretz about this, which I highly recommend everyone look into. This is something that the hostages have been speaking out against. This is something that Israelis have been speaking out against. One former captive, for instance, said in December that every day in captivity was extremely challenging, we were in tunnels terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel that would kill us.

And then they would say Hamas killed you. So they were more concerned about the aerial bombardments carried out by the IDF and how those very bombings would likely kill them before Hamas would. So it's important to know those details. It's not to cover up or in any way whitewash what Hamas did on October 7th. But these military directives, this protocol shows a complete disregard for Israeli lives, along with Palestinian lives, of course. Yeah. So, but we already saw at least some version of that when Israel killed its own hostages. You remember, they were had the white flag. They were just walking their hands up, no weapons at all. They were Israeli hostages that had escaped and they slaughtered them. I don't know if they did it because it was a Hannibal directive and they're like, I don't know, it doesn't matter. Just kill everyone and blame it all on Palestinians and we'll call them savages and that'll allow us to murder more of them because you see how they're the savages. More likely that particular one was because they were in a kill zone. Oh, right.

Israel has kill zones. Areas that they declare to be, no one goes in, otherwise we murder you, all right? You're Israeli, you're Palestinian, you're a child, you're a dog, I don't care. You're in the kill zone. We murder you. So that's what Israel does. If that breaks your heart, take it up with Netanyahu, take it up with the Israeli voters. More details that are important.

When I said occupy, they want to go back to occupying Gaza. Obviously, they have an effective occupation of Gaza anyway they can cut off their water power and bomb the hell out of them any time they want. But on top of that, they're asking for a quarter in the south and in the middle of Gaza as a reoccupate military occupation of Gaza. And they're saying, well, what? We just added that provision where we reoccupy you through the military.

Oh, I guess you object to that, even though we already had a deal earlier. So it's more bad faith by Netanyahu in this monstrous government of Israel that wants to continue this for war as long as they possibly again, which leads me to the last points. So, look, and Anna's right, of course, and we're right that we've been telling you, are there blame on both sides?

Of course, right? And now there's reports, oh, well, you know, the UN is saying maybe there were some people from UNRWA that might have been involved, et cetera. And it gets so messy because you don't know if the U.S. is putting political pressure on them, make sure you tell what the Israelis want, et cetera, because they do that.

If you don't know that they do that, you're sad, you don't know the news. Okay, so finally, now human rights workers say that the Palestinians in Gaza are down to about 11% of Gaza that is considered, quote, unquote, safe area. And remember, Israel bomb safe areas anyway, right? But they're down to 11% where there's almost no infrastructure. Millions of people. We're talking millions of people. There's 2.3 million people in Gaza. They have to be squeezed into that 11% with no infrastructure.

was starting to spread. We're back to mass starvation. There should be 500 trucks going in to bring in food. There's only 100 trucks because both the settlers and the Israeli government keep blocking the trucks going in with humanitarian aid. Now the Palestinian kids look like the Jewish kids during the 1930s Germany, where they're skin and bones or they're horribly mutilated by Israeli bombs. And then Israel constantly rubbing salt in those wounds has destroyed every university in Gaza, even after they were empty, those are controlled explosions. They're just saying, you're not allowed to get educated

because you guys are savages, your goddamn animals. How dare you try to learn like human beings? And in Khan Yunus, they just destroyed one of the oldest mosques in the world. Also completely empty, controlled explosion. Why? They want to say, we don't value your religion. We don't value your lives. You're nothing but animals to us.

But by the way, we're the moral ones. We're the moral ones, and these dirty Muslim savages should be killed at every turn. But remember, America, send a goddamn check. In fact, look, the universities, that's bad enough. But obviously, hospitals are critical, especially at a time when the region is being bombarded with IDF bombings. And the last operating hospital in Gaza has been ordered to evacuate as they carry out, you know, military operations in that area. area, probably to destroy that one last remaining operating hospital in Gaza. So what's happening in Gaza should not be forgotten.

I get that this war has been going on for 11 months now. And it's a hot story until everyone gets distracted by something else. But make no mistake about it, the United States, with its resources, is aiding and abetting unquestionable atrocities in the Gaza Strip. And the majority of those victims are women and children. It is reflected in the death toll. And if you're going to argue that this is just Israel going after Hamas, well, I mean, the evidence doesn't really bear that out when you consider the demographics of individuals who are getting killed in Gaza as we speak. Yeah, you should all boycott Israel.

No decent, sane, moral person should go to Israel or spend any money on Israeli products. I mean, when the Taliban destroyed historic monuments in Afghanistan, the whole world was outraged. How dare they? And I agreed with them. How dare they? Those, I can't believe those fundamentalists, horrible people did that. So Israel's doing that right now in Gaza. Where's outrage?

How about they're against all civilization. They're against all morality. They're against all history. No, if it's Israel, you're not allowed to say it. So I'm saying it. They're just like the Taliban. And yes, they're led by religious zealots who are lunatics who think that an invisible person in the sky whispered in their ear

to murder Muslims. and to take their land. Lunatics. Okay, and Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the worst terrorists of my lifetime and clearly the biggest terrorist leader in the world today. All right, well, let's take a break.

When we come back, we're going to move on to something entirely different. Let's check in on the presidential elections here in the United States, including JFK Jr.'s decision to drop out of the race and endorse Donald Trump. Don't miss it.

Back on COIT, Jenk Anna and We, Dieter 72. Thank you for joining at the premium level, since we didn't raise prices during all the inflation, that makes a big difference. You could also upgrade through that join button. We appreciate all of you guys. I'm going to read one comment from a YouTube member. said, I wish either Anna or Jenk could go to CNN and Fox, educate our sheep-minded Americans. Well, I wish that, too. I'd go on in a second.

I don't know any problem with platforming or any of that nonsense arguments, but we're banned, and we're not allowed on any of those stations. I don't know about Anna. I know I am from CNN, MSNBC, and I think Fox News, but I'm not positive. And the reason we're banned is because we say the truth. And they're like, no! No! Corporations are great.

Israel is great. Okay, all right. so they can go and piss off. I don't know if I'm allowed to say. Anyway. Okay, let's move on. Independent candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Friday. He is suspending his campaign and supporting the former president.

Our polling consistently showed that by his staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues. Third party candidate RFK Jr. has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump, who just back in May, he accused of scamming American workers while enriching big agricultural companies. Now, RFK joined Trump during his packed rally in Arizona over the weekend. Now, remember, RFK Jr. first ran as a Democrat, then as an independent, before finally turning on the Democrats entirely in order to. to endorse Donald Trump, which is kind of weird considering all of the things that RFK Jr. had to say about Trump not a few years ago,

like literally this year just a few months ago. So in a lengthy Twitter post on May 26th of this year, he put this out. President Trump scammed American workers. He promised to bring back manufacturing, raise wages, fixed trade deals, close the carried interest loophole, and help small farmers. But everything President Trump achieved

were things the Republican machine wanted. We got a tax cut for Jeff Bezos, deregulation for special interests, and giveaways to agriculture conglomerates. Also keep in mind that Donald Trump is the president who pushed for and succeeded in implementing Operation Warp Speed during the coronavirus pandemic, which ensured that a vaccine would be rolled out. If you know anything about RFK Jr., it's that he is against vaccines. And so this endorsement is a little strange. In that same Twitter post, by the way, he also wrote that President Trump bragged about arming Ukraine more than Obama did. He also walked away unilaterally from the intermediate range nuclear missile treaty with Russia, destabilizing

our relationship. He also exacerbated tensions between Ukraine and Russia that ultimately caused a war. And look, these are issues that he's been speaking out about. These are issues that he purports to care about. These are issues that he felt that Donald Trump failed in basically responding to. But we're going to go to a Fox News video where he's confronted by his change apart or about his change apart. But before we get to that, Jank. Yeah. Look, I hate every part of the RFK Jr. stories and I'm conflicted on all fronts. So here's what I mean. So on the one hand, I always thought RFK Jr. was more right-wing than left-wing these days. Yes, his career has been mainly left wing, and I appreciate that, and I've talked about that. We interviewed him

about it. But the anti-vaccine stuff, the massively pro-Israel, bomb, bomb, bomb, Gaza stuff. Just every part of it that wasn't actually like policy that was progressive seemed rhetorically politically leaning right wing. And so, and you know Democrats these days, they don't want people like Bobby Kennedy Jr. And that's, you know, you could argue that's more on the Democrats than it is on RFK. Okay. On the other hand, brother, you started in the Democratic primary this time around, and now you're endorsing Trump.

So look, I get it. The Democrats were jerks to you. No one understands that better than me. One, because I've covered it for 25 years, too, because I lived it. I went in the primary. They were jerks to me. So, yeah, they have a terrible process. It wasn't Democratic at all.

They're totally biased. They always support their incumbents, et cetera. I get it. That didn't magically make my... make me change all of my opinions about policy? Or more importantly, forget that you're unhappy with how Trump responded to these issues or how he handled these issues, right? And look, I actually do think that part of what's motivating RFK Jr.

is the fact that he's furious with the Democratic Party. And something that I know from personal experience is Democrats can't wait to purge you from the party, right? Like it's an exclusive club. Whereas the Republican Party, oh, they jump in it. Like the second someone is purged from the Democrats, that person who's been purged is going to get emails, tweets, direct messages, super welcoming from the Republican side because they understand politics and they understand power and they understand building

a broad coalition in order to win. They want to win. Yeah. Well, that goes to my point, Anna, which is that this seems like it's personal now, right? I think it is. So, guys, I load the DNC. Not only do they always fight against progressives, they're massively biased. And there was a dumb.

Oh, you drove him out from the party, and now he's supporting Trump. How'd that work out for you? Strategically stupid at all turns, right? They should have let him run. Like, the fact that they fought so aggressively to keep him off the ballots during the primaries. Like what? You're threatened? You're threatened by RFK Jr.?

Yeah. In fact, I sued the Democratic Party in South Carolina because they took me off the ballot. And they said, in open court, we have a right to put anyone we want on there. We don't have to follow any democratic process. And we do not wish to be associated with you. Then don't purport to care about democracy. Hold on, Anna. Okay.

So that is all true. And if anyone could have caught feelings, it'd be me. They literally said, we do not want to be associated with you, okay? But that does not make me change my policies on protecting the Constitution, on housing, on corruption, on every single policy I have. And it doesn't make me go, oh my God, I'm so mad at the Democrats, I'm going to get in bed with, like, a dictator, want to be clown ass. Okay, so I would never do that. Okay, fine, everybody's different. He goes in this direction.

I'm annoyed at everybody that's covering this in different ways, too, to. to be honest. Oh my God, what did the other Kennedy say about it? Who cares what the other Kennedy said about it? Who cares? Oh my God. Okay, now this one we might agree or disagree at it. I don't know. But oh my God, he asked for something in return. Of course he did. That's what everybody asked for, except the rest of you just lie about it. And he did a subtle lie here too. But you think Pete Buttigieg didn't get Secretary of Transportation because he stepped aside for Joe Biden in South Carolina? Of course he did. Anybody in the press pretending he didn't is being ridiculous.

Now all of a sudden, it turns out there's politics going on here. Oh, really? Wow. the Democratic primaries in 2020, yeah, in return for a favor. And that favor was a position in the Biden White House. Yes. But Biden and Buttigieg are the same, politically speaking. It's not like he was, you know, looking at his political values and then, like, throwing them in the trash in order to help someone he completely disagrees with policy-wise to win the presidential election. It's a little different with RFK Jr. Like, honestly, I don't know what

RFK Jr. really stands for. I'll give you a little more from that super lengthy May tweet from this year. He also wrote that Trump appointed the worst neocons to the highest positions of power in his administration, John Bolton, H.R. McMaster, and Robert O'Brien. Now Lindsey Graham is one of his top advisors and likely to be his secretary of state. President Trump bombed Syria, killed an Iranian general and failed to fulfill his promise of ending the war in Afghanistan. Now, again, this isn't from a few years ago, right? This is even worse than the J.D. Vance situation, because J.D. Vance was hating on Trump many years ago when he was first, you know, coming onto the political scene, and he claims he had a change of heart. But with RFK Jr., really, you had a change of heart

in just a few short months, really? And you really think that Donald Trump is going to handle these issues better the second time around? Like, I just have a hard time believing he genuinely feels that way. So he was asked about this while on Fox News. He was speaking to Shannon Bream. Let's hear what he had to say. In a recent text exchange, Kennedy told one person that Trump was a terrible human being. The worst president ever, and barely human, he is probably a sociopath. Now, I haven't read your text, so you can speak to that. But how did you get from that position to Friday night?

Well, you know, it became clear to me that I did not have a path to victory. 16 months of censorship of not being able to get on any network, really, except for Fox. President Trump had been reaching out to me. And I talked to home a few hours after the assassination attempt, and we had a long conversation by phone. I then had two extensive meetings, and there were issues, the broader issues that were most important to me, the ones that brought me into the campaign, which was ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship and protecting children's health, we're all reforming our food supply, all the things that we need to do to make our children help. healthy again. Those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on. And he invited

me to form a unity government. We agreed that we'd be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don't agree. Let's see how the public criticism of Donald Trump actually plays out once it happens, but also ending censorship, a priority of his. So he's going to endorse the guy who said that he's going to deport pro-Palestinian protesters. Okay, all right. Look, I don't care.

To be honest with you, I don't care who RFK Jr. endorses. RFK Jr. from the very beginning has not really been an interesting candidate, in my opinion. Like, I haven't really cared. Third-party candidates are never going to win. I think what happened to him

when he was running as a Democrat was absolutely wrong, and I think Democrats need to come to terms that while they preach about saving democracy, they engage in undemocratic behavior. And in a way, this is chickens coming home to roost for Democrats because he's kind of retaliating over the way that he treated them, or the way he was treated by them, I should say. Yeah, all right, last couple of things here. Number one, I'll add the media to the guilty parties here, and I think they're number one, actually, on the list.

The guy was sitting at 20 points in the Democratic primary, and nobody did a town hall, nobody did a debate, nobody had them on. That's outrageous. 20 points is a giant number. 12 points in the general election's giant number, no town halls, total media blockade. But the media did talk about him. They weren't looking for needles in a haystack. And yeah, with RFK Jr., they found a lot of needles. Makes you think maybe it is the haystack.

But having said that, you only look for dirt. You never actually took care, ever, ever, ever shared any of his actual policies with the American people. So if you're in the mainstream media, just admit that you're biased and you don't like outsider candidates and you smear them. and you never give them a fair hearing. It isn't about Bobby Kennedy, Jr., it's about the media. It doesn't matter if it's a perfectly honest guy like Bernie Sanders, doesn't matter if it's RFK Jr.,

it doesn't matter if it's a right winger. Well, Biden, like Tom Massey, who's perfectly honest that we disagree on a lot of things, or most things. But he's honest. No, no, no, outsiders suck. We hate outsiders. That's mainstream media. Just be honest for the first time in your life,

but you won't. Instead, you just keep banning people. By the way, we're gonna ban your ass when you're smaller than us. Oh, please, give me. get on? No, F off, you can't. OK? I can't wait to do the same treatment to the establishment.

Reality number two, they were probably running out of money, guys. Nicole Shanahan is financing this. She's a VP candidate. When it became clear after Kamala Harris entered the race, they're not going to win. Any pathway to victory was closed off. And she's like, am I going to spend another $10, $20 million

chasing this down? That's the real reason all this is happening. Third thing is, I'm positive. Now, this is personal, right? Because I hate the media. I hate the way the Democratic Party runs primaries. I would never support Trump. It's obvious that Bobby Kennedy Jr.

is pissed at all these people on a personal level. So he's like, well, screw them. I'm going to the right wing now. Yay, MAGA. And I don't like that. I think it's wrong. Finally, can we just have one, like, I know you've got to get fin-ass. I know it's super hard.

But one, decent, honest person run as a third person. party and maybe we can see if this thing could ever work, right, where you actually stick with it. So all of RFK Jr.'s critiques, there are policies I disagreed with, but his critiques of Trump were exactly right, and his critiques of the Democratic Party were oftentimes right. But no, at the end, politics gets them all, and they get frustrated, and then they go and join one side hoping for some sort of political advantage. Good luck. I don't think it's going to work out for you.

By the way, Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.'s running mate, has not inviative. Donald Trump because she wants him to apologize for Operation Warp Speed. So. Oh, yeah. He's not going to do that. Yeah, you keep waiting. You're irrelevant. Sorry, but it's true.

I mean, look, the close, RFK Jr., was the only one talking about the closed, closing the carried interest loophole that Trump promised and didn't do. Hey, Kamala Harris, where are you? Why aren't you talking about that? That's an absolute outrage. Why aren't you talking about it? Oh, right. You're donors on Wall Street. And they like that loophole and you're going to keep that for him.

So that's why I'm frustrated that somebody who had at times would say things that are true about both sides. Now he's gone in the MAGA 10. He'll never talk about the carried interest loophole during this campaign again. All right. Let's take a break. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we'll talk a little bit about the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Is it going to happen? Looks like these terms are now being renegotiated.

We have that and more coming up. Don't miss it. I'm gonna be Buhn't know Buhn't Bhop Bhop I don't know.

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