The Young Turks - Razed Rafah

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45 people and prompts international outcry. Human rights Watch founder and Holocaust survivor accuses Israel of genocide on CNN. The Biden administration tries to plug a loophole that released a migrant linked to terrorism into the U.S." HOST: Ana Kasparian (@anakasparian), Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, well, the young Turks, Jake U Granite Kusparian with you guys. Yes, unfortunately, as usually, we have tragic news for you guys as wars continue and as the Biden campaign continues to fall apart at the seams, et cetera. But today's Tuesday, so it's good day because we've got Operation Joy for the members. during the bonus episode, how to change your perspective into a more positive one today?

Mm. Useful. Yeah, definitely useful. It'll be more useful out of the show. And then later tonight, old schools back, Ben Manquins and I, among the different goofy topics, I have a segment in defense of cereal. Okay, all right. Now having said that, we're gonna go on to obviously super serious news, but bear with us here.

Also lighter stuff later on how many babies you should have. according to a new movement. Okay, all right, Anna. Well, unfortunately, we begin with bloodshed in Rafah. This happened over the weekend, and I want to give you all the details. Their blood-curdling screams tell the story of the unfolding horror more than words ever could. But it is only as bodies are pulled out of the inferno that the scale of this attack becomes clear. At least 45 people were killed after an Israeli airstrike targeted this camp for displaced Palestinians in Western Rafa.

Mere days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to immediately stop its assault on Rafa, the southern border town in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli defense forces carried out a massacre in the area, slaughtering at least 45 people and wounding over 240. individuals. The area was declared a safe zone for Palestinians who have been displaced by this war, but the IDF's airstrike on this civilian camp proves that it was anything but safe. Yeah, and by the way, unfortunately today, another one, another 21 slaughtered in another tent camp near Rafa. But since there was no video of children being burned alive, Israel has yet to apologize for it. We've got more of that story and more videos coming up in a second for you. But Anna, more details. Yes. So here is more from Jeremy Diamond's report

on CNN about the Rafa attack that took place over the weekend. Mohamed Abu Atei is one of those civilians, so badly burned that he cannot even open his eyes. But there are so many more. So many children writhing in pain. And then there are the parents, Desperate to save babies whose cries have been silenced, perhaps forever. The occupation army is a liar. There is no security in Gaza, says this man whose brother was killed in the strike. Here he is with his wife. They were martyred, they are gone. For one man, a brother, for another his sister. She was the only one, he says. She was the only And she is gone.

Now the Biden administration alleged that an attack on Rafa was Biden's red line. But the response from the Biden administration following this assault on Rafa over the weekend has been, just to put it bluntly, incredibly disgraceful. According to Barack Ravid, the White House National Security Council spokesperson told him the devastating images following the IDF strike in Rafa last night that killed dozens of innocent Palestinians are heartbreaking. Israel has a right to go after Hamas, but as we've been clear, Israel must take every precaution possible to protect civilians. They don't, and they haven't, but that hasn't stopped the Biden administration from supporting Netanyahu and the far right

government in Israel. Anyway, the statement continues, we are actively engaging the IDF and partners on the ground to assess what happened. But as we know, it's American made bombs that Biden sends to Israel, paid for, of course, by the U.S. taxpayer, that end up killing these Palestinian civilians. As Stephen Semler writes, Israel reportedly used U.S. made G.B.U. 39 bombs in the attack. Biden has sent Israel at least 1,000 of these bombs since October. Just these bombs alone. Of course, there are many other types of bombs that have been sent, and munitions that have been sent to Israel to support their assault on the Palestinian people. And during a press conference today, White House spokesperson, John Kirby, made clear that despite what happened in Rafo over the

weekend and continues to happen today, there was another attack which will tell you about in just a moment. The Biden administration is not changing any of its policies toward Israel because the Biden administration is full of horrors that take APAC money and carry out the best wishes of the Israeli government as opposed to the best wishes of the American people. And more importantly, Democratic voters who Biden obviously needs in order to get reelected. But good luck with that, Biden. Jank, go ahead. Yeah, so the American officials have gone as far as saying there is no ground offensive in Rafa.

They've turned Biden into a pathetic Baghdad Bob, whose jobs just sit there and lie on behalf of Israel. And I'm sure he sent some sternly worded letters or calls to Netanyahu. This Raffa was supposed to be his red line. That's why they're saying literal lunatic statements like there is no ground offensive. As we see the tanks rolling into civilian evacuation zones, tent camps, in the middle of Rafa, etc. Why is Biden moving his red line? Well, first of all, that red line never existed. We covered on the young Turks for you guys.

It was gobbledygook. It was totally vague statements about, oh, I care about Palestine. I guess they shouldn't do anything around, but I'm not sure. But overall, I'll send Israel any money they ever want. I am their servant, please, please Netanyahu. There's an article in political today about how Biden's team is worried Netanyahu is trying to make sure Biden loses the elections. Well, I have a remarkable revolutionary idea.

How about you stop listening to him? And you say, hey, you know what, you cross my red line, I'm going to stop sending you bombs to murder Palestinians. I know, but what is AIPAC paying him for, Jank? But that's a thing. Paying him for, to be a good little whore for Israel. So that's just look guys. That's the reality of the situation, no?

So here's a stone cold fact. No politician in American history has ever received more money from AIPAC than Joe Biden. He has received $11.2 million and counting from APAC. That is why when he's like, oh, I think Netanyahu is going to cost me the election, it never even occurs to him to defy the leader of a foreign government that he's sending our money to. It doesn't even occur to him to defy Netanyahu. And he's like, well, I guess I'm going to lose the election then. Oh, God, golly, gee Willikers. I can't believe Netanyahu is forcing me to lose the election. What kind of pathetic person are you? Jesus Christ,

meanwhile Congress, bipartisan, Democrats and Republicans, invited Netanyahu over to give him a standing ovation for all these murders. So now let's be clear, if Hamas had burned people alive, like Israel just did in Rafa, and we're not showing it to you, because it's, it's beyond, you like you can't, you can't unsee it. There was a decapitated child. Yeah, it's, if Hamas had decapitated an Israeli child and burned 45 Israelis alive, we would bomb the Palestinians from here to forever. In fact, we're doing it right now. We would, we would, would allow Israel to murder 36,000 Palestinians in revenge. But when Israel does it the most moral, come on guys, you guys are disgusting.

Obviously when Hamas does it, it's terrorism. And yes, I hate to break your hearts if you're in American media and American politicians. But when Israel does the same exact thing, except 30 times over, it is also terrorism. We just spent $20 billion of our money to help a terrorist state, and now they're doing it again and again and again, including the 21 people murdered today in a different time. Well, let's talk about the military for that terrorist state, the IDF and what they're claiming was carried out. So the IDF claims that they carried out this airstrike in order to target two Hamas commanders, one named Yassin Rabia, the other Khalid Nagar.

Now, I wouldn't take anything the IDF says at face value. They claim that the airstrike took these two individuals out. That is what they're claiming. There's been no confirmation of that so far. Worth mentioning the extreme lengths, though, that CETCOM has gone through in order to kill certain individuals that the United States was targeting in a way that prevented civilian casualties. One of the more recent examples, as General McKenzie wrote about in the Atlantic recently, had to do with Qasem Soleimani. Now, assassinating Qasem Soleimani, who was the

head general for the Iranian military, was an incredibly risky maneuver. I wouldn't have done it and I disagreed with it because I could have dragged the United States into a war with Iran, which would have been disastrous. Luckily, that didn't happen. But I think what we learned from McKenzie in his, you know, in his piece for the Atlantic says a lot because he writes this. Someone from the Pentagon asked me, can you shoot this effing? Can you shoot this effing down, right? This effort down. So basically, Qasem Soleimani was on a flight.

And so the argument was, let's just, let's attack the plane that he's on. Let's just kill him, right? But McKenzie realized, there might be some issues at play here. So he says, without deciding to execute the request, I called my air component commander in Qatar. If I give you an order to shoot this aircraft down, can you make it work? The Air Force responded quickly, and we moved two fighters into a trail position behind the jet. We now had an option in hand to finish the mission if we were told to do so. We worked feverishly to determine if the flight was chartered or commercial.

Is this a private jet or is this a commercial flight? Because if it's a commercial flight, there are innocent civilians on that flight. And then he writes this. It soon became apparent that the plane was headed to Damascus. We also learned that the jet was a much delayed civilian flight, meaning at least 50 innocent people were probably on board. I immediately advised Millie that we should not shoot. Not even Soleimani was worth that loss of life.

He and I quickly agreed that we would not engage. So it's interesting how the U.S. military is able to make that kind of calculation. And as we know, the U.S. military isn't full of doves, okay? full of war hawks, people who have usually no problem with, you know, civilian casualties in a lot of cases. But in this case, it's like you have the head general for the Iranian military, do we kill 50 innocent civilians just to take them out? And they decided against it.

And by the way, I don't know if you guys know this, Qasem Soleimani eventually was assassinated without civilian casualties. But Israel can't be bothered to, you know, send in special ops or, you know, do target attacks of Hamas militants, why would they when you can just wipe out dozens of innocent Palestinian civilians in the process, right? And we're not supposed to call this a genocide, right? That would be too inflammatory. Yeah, 36,000 at a bare minimum dead, 10,000 on the rebel, 77,000 injured, bare,

bare minimum, 25,000 women and children, a stadium full of women and children murdered. But we're all supposed to believe that it was an accident every single time. How do you accidentally murder a stadium full of women and children? Yet the, I mean, the sad, pathetic creatures in American television and in an American Congress are like, yes, sir, of course, sir, Apex's giving the money, good. I mean, I don't see it, sir, I see the most moral army in the world. I serve that. I mean, I mean, I serve America.

But did the check clear, the APEC check clear? APEC is spending $100 million bribing American officials in this term. alone. So anyone who any reporter who talks about why Democrats and Republicans are blindly kissing the ass of these obvious terrorists and doesn't mention that they're being bribed to the tune of $100 million just in this cycle, let alone the hundreds of millions APAC has given before is not really a reporter. They're hiding the truth from you. Do you think that, I mean, maybe you think that, hey, all those Democrats and all those Republicans in Congress are just the most immoral, vicious psychopaths in the world.

So they're enjoying this. Like, oh, like, in fact, in the Israeli right wing, there's in the press over the weekend, they said the Sunday bombing that roasted 45 people alive. They called it, they said, happy holidays. It was apparently a Jewish holiday, and they celebrated it by saying, oh, look at these Palestinians, we burned alive, because there's normally a bonfire apparently associated with this holiday. And American media and American politicians, maybe they're agreeing.

Maybe they're like bonfire of humanity. We love it, burn all the civilians to death. Or it could be that bothers them a little bit, but not much. And as long as they're getting the money from AIPAC, they're like, burn anyone you want alive. Who cares? The kids decapitated, the check clear, they literally have invited Netanyahu. They're all going to give them standing ovation after standing ovation. Only a few people like Bernie Sanders say, I'm not going to that.

I'm not going to celebrate this monster, but almost all of the corporate Republicans and Democrats bow down to the donor money, no matter where the donor money comes from. And yes, in this case, it's coming from APEC, which has Israel in its name. That means we serve Israel and not America. So that's just a reality. If you want to put pretty words around it, you can try to hide their crimes all day long. rights groups are saying this is the worst they have ever seen in their lifetimes most moral army. It's a sick, sick joke. Not only is it not a moral army, they are empowered by the impunity granted to them by our government here in the United States, which is why the IDF has

continued shelling Rafa, shelling tent encampments in Rafa, consisting of displaced Palestinians. Now Israel is denying the latest news that IDF shelling led to 21 Palestinians dying in one of these Rafa encampments. And two days after an Israeli airstrike on another camp stirred global condemnation. Gaza emergency services said four tank shells hit a cluster of tents in Al-Mawesi, a coastal strip that Israel had advised civilians in Rafa to move to. for safety. So they're telling Palestinian civilians to go to specific areas for their own safety, and then they do the shelling, they do the bombing, they do the aerial bombardments. Tuesday's incident in Al-Mawesi occurred in an area designated by Israel as an expanded humanitarian zone. Israel had urged Palestinian civilians in Rafa, including around one million displaced

by the almost eight-month-old war to evacuate there when it launched its incursion in early May. So 21 people have been killed as a result of that. At least 12 of those killed are women. And Reuters also reports that residents in Rafa's Tell All Sultan Neighborhood, the scene of Sunday's nighttime strike in which tents and shelters were set ablaze as families settled down to sleep was still being bombarded. So please spare me the nonsense about how, oh, it was a terrible accident as Netanyahu claimed over the weekend. It wasn't a terrible accident. It was very much intentional. I mean,

if you, look, if anyone watching chooses to be incredibly dumb in believing what the far right government of Israel has to say about its military operations that just consistently kills all of these innocent civilians, go ahead and be dumb about it. That's fine. You can choose to be stupid and believe Netanyahu. In reality, I mean, how many accidents have happened? Right? This is the, I mean, how well funded is this military? This is supposed to be a sophisticated, well funded military, but they keep doing all these accidents, especially after the international community condemns them, right?

International community condemns them for not allowing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. What does Israel do immediately after that? They do three consecutive drone strikes to kill seven humanitarian aid workers with the World Central Kitchen. That was an accident, right? The three consecutive drone strikes. I mean, it's just ridiculous at this point, Jank. Yeah.

So look, guys, why did Israel bother to apologize for the 45 killed in Rafa? What extra difference does 45 people make when they've killed 36,000? Because there was video of it. There was video of decapitated babies and people set on fire. Before, you didn't see the videos. So they didn't bother apologizing. On the 21, they just killed, there isn't video. So they don't bother apologizing.

But when you see people being burned alive, but guys, what do you think happens when we drop bombs? How do you think the bombs kill people in a gentle sleep? No, they either burn them alive or crush their skulls. But as long as there's no video, there's no apology and the goddamn Palestinians had it coming. All their civilians had it coming, their women and children had it coming, et cetera. But when there's video, the propaganda kicks into overdrive. Oh, it was an accident, it was a tragic mistake. People were looking into it.

And then the U.S. comically comes down and goes, oh, well, they are looking into it. I'm sure that they will be fair and honest. Get the hell out of here, man. Everyone in the U.S. State Department now is Baghdad Bob, a bunch of buffoons lying on behalf of a foreign government. By the way, every person you see there that was killed, we paid for that.

And we didn't just send them the $20 billion like, oh, well, God, there was nothing we did. We sent it two years ago. we didn't know this was going to happen. No, we just sent it a couple of weeks ago. After we saw six to seven months of the most brutal campaign, after we knew that they were trying to starve a million Palestinians to death, we sent them $20 billion as a good job.

Correct. That's the sick psychopaths that did it for a couple of bucks in Congress. They're the politicians that television reveres. Oh, the honorable senators are, no, they were the worst. of us. They are scum of the earth. Finally, I'll give the last line to one of our members. Jenks left tricep of fury, that's his funny handle. But in this case, he says, Biden's red line is made out of Palestinian blood. He doesn't have a red line at all. He doesn't have a red line when it comes to Israel. And that's something that we have to acknowledge and accept

as a reality when it comes to the Biden administration. Mr. Decent President, Mr. vote for me because the other guy is so indecent, right? Yeah. Yeah, this is what decency looks like, according to Joe Biden. Yeah, last thing on this, because you mentioned the other guy. Trump over the weekend, not to be outdone, came and said that he would not only arrest every peace protester in the country, but he would deport them if they dared to criticize Israel. Deport them where if they're U.S. citizens?

It doesn't matter. He's like, they dare to criticize Israel. And he's saying to who, to donors? And he keeps saying, hey, I'm doing it for you guys. I would arrest them and get them out of the country for you guys. And he then promised to set the peace movement back 25 to 30 years. But remember, he's the anti-war candidate if you listen to Maga. No, he's not.

Both Trump and Biden will do anything a donor orders them to do because they're both pathetic. When we come back from the break, I want to introduce you to someone who is a hero in my eyes, someone who is incredibly brave and willing to call a spade a spade. Fareed Zakaria speaks to a genocide, a Holocaust survivor who calls Israel's military operations in Gaza a genocide. That and more coming up, don't miss it. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size. Whether you're taking over your parents' basement

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Thank you, guys. We can't do it without you. Anna. There was a fascinating and incredibly brave interview on CNN over the weekend that I have to share with you all. So let's get to it. Arya Nair, he's a giant in the world of human rights and a survivor of genocide himself. He was born a Jew in Nazi Germany. You, I think, only one time accused a country of genocide.

Yes. Saddam Hussein attempt to eliminate the Kurds. The Kurds. You have concluded that Israel is guilty of attempting genocide. Yes. That's a very heavy charge. Yes. Two thousand pound bombs, which are utterly inappropriate in a,

crowded urban area, a bomb like that can kill somebody two football fields away. Human Rights Watch co-founder and Holocaust survivor Arie Neer was on CNN over the weekend speaking to Fareed Zakaria to share his opinion about why he feels that Israel is currently carrying out a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Now he made his case while speaking to Fareed Zakarie and he pointed to specific reasons why he feels this way. Now, I want to be clear that he actually did not initially agree with South Africa's allegation that Israel is carrying out a genocide, but he ended up changing his mind. And he's about to explain why in this next clip.

What changed my mind was that over a period of time, Israel has obstructed the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Gaza. And those who have been most severely victimized are not the members of Hamas. Men with guns ordinarily find a way to get food and to get fed. But it is young children who are most severely damaged by malnutrition and who will either starve to death or if they survive, they will be diminished for the rest of their lives, diminished physically and psychologically. by the severe malnutrition they are enduring as children. And I thought that severe obstruction of the delivery of humanitarian assistance

amounted to genocide. And it's not just the fact that the Israeli government is not allowing for an adequate amount of humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. That includes food, water, fuel, medical supplies. Think about all the children who have been severely wounded from Israel's aerial bombardment, who have to have decapitation, not decapitation, amputations, and other treatments without any anesthetics, okay? But he also points to what the IDF is targeting in the Gaza Strip on top of blocking humanitarian aid.

One more clip, and we'll go to you, Jank. The USAID administrator Samantha Power testified before Congress that famine had set in in Gaza. The head of the UN World Food Program has said that a full-blown famine is underway in Gaza. Destroying the farms, destroying the greenhouses in Gaza, killing a large number of aid workers who were involved in the distribution of food, challenging the ability of the UN agency that has been principally involved in distributing food to continue. that activity and persuading the United States and other governments to cut off funds from that agency. All those things have had a cumulative impact on the availability of food and water and electricity and medical supplies in Gaza.

You know, when you're dealing with so much gaslighting in the American press about what's happening in Gaza, it feels so refreshing to hear someone plainly, bluntly state the facts of what's happening in the Gaza Strip. But Jake, the other thing that's really powerful about the statements coming from this man is the fact that he is a Holocaust survivor himself, right? And so it's a lot more difficult to just brush him aside as an anti-Semite when he himself is a survivor of the Holocaust and just plainly sees what's happening in Gaza and wants to call it out for what it really is.

I wouldn't put it past the lunatic right wing in Israel to call him an anti-semit. I mean, I agree with you on that. They'll call anybody anti-Semitic. Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish politician in American history. They've called him anti-Semitic. And in fact, other Democrats in Congress right now have implied that Bernie Sanders is anti-Semitic, because he won't take A-PAC money and serve them. Okay, so this is nothing new with the religion.

It has everything new with moral fiber of human beings. So Ari Nyer is a wonderful human being. Apparently when he said never again, he meant never again. He didn't mean never again for us, but for you guys, who cares? Your lives don't count at all, right? No, he meant for everyone and he spent his life. time doing this, that's why he's the head of human rights watch, and he's principal to hear guys, but I also want everyone to have a little bit of grace for people that,

yes, might start out with a certain bias or perspective in this case. He didn't get there right away, and he said Israel has the right to defend itself, and he didn't call a genocide for a long, long time. Bernie Sanders didn't get there immediately, okay? But they're there, and they're making a giant difference, and they're the one standing up most forcefully and saying never again, this is definitely a genocide, and we shouldn't allow it. Now I need you to know some more details about why he said what he said. So when they are now moving 800,000 people from Rafa, remember they moved them in in the first

place, now they're moving them out. There's a couple of catastrophes you should understand there, and that's why he's mentioned these. They close the border crossings in Rafa. Once they do that, now the food is not coming in it anymore from Rafa. But when they leave Rafa, there's no infrastructure to receive food or water. And most of the water and in Gaza's contaminated because of all the bombing. So then you can't even drink some of the water if it's there. You have to go through a whole process to just get water. Most of the toilets in these places, they're gone.

So now disease is festering. You can't think of the simple little things that no longer exists. There's no trash pickup. So trash is piling up. They're starting to burn the trash both to get it out of the way. And because they run out of firewood. And on top of that, there's no ATMs left. So they can't get cash, there's no banks, there's no nothing left.

And the price of food has doubled or quadrupled since the border closings. So just to get a loaf of bread, you can't, you can't just get the bread. You need money, but you don't have money. Right. And so. It's all an accident, though, right, Jake? It's all an accident. It's all an accident.

Just as Netanyahu says, every civilian casualty is a tragedy. So everything that's happening in the Gaza Strip must be an accident. Yeah. So that is why Ari Nyer and every single human rights organization is saying this is the worst we've ever seen in our lifetimes. How Israel is the best at protecting civilians? No, they're literally the absolute worst. Now look, you can say, hey, Bashar al-Assad in Syria is worse. What's happening in Sudan is worse?

Or North Korea. But if you're like bragging that you're slightly better than Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Syria, or slightly better than the dictator Kim Jong Un who keeps all of his people in concentration camps. How low is your bar? So yes, no, this is starvation on a mass scale. You see the pictures and they keep dropping bomb after bomb after bomb and Rafa burning people alive. Guys, just because you saw one video, doesn't mean the rest of the kids who got the bombs dropped on them didn't get burned alive. They all did.

Yeah, and of course when it comes to other awful, you know, people in the country, in the world, right? Whether we're talking about Bashar al-Assad or Vladimir Putin, these are individuals that the United States government is against. In the case of Israel, this is a government that the United States government is fully on board with and continues to fund and greenlight the, you know, assault on Rafa, the assault on the Palestinians for. So it's, that's the difference. Like whenever you hear the counterpoint of why do you guys care so much about what Israel's doing? What about all these other wars that are happening all over the, you know, all over the globe? You guys don't seem to worry about that at all.

We're not supporting those wars. We're not backing those wars. We're not sending 2,000 pound bombs to Bashar al-Assad. We didn't just send them $20 billion of our money to go commit those atrocities. So it's a preposterous argument. And guys, if you're wondering, wait, why are human rights? group saying that it's the worst they've ever seen in their lifetimes when Syria happened and other atrocities happened. It's because the level of starvation in Gaza, you don't

have video so you can't see it. A few pictures that came out, we showed you earlier, CNN showed you earlier of the starving children. There's hundreds of thousands of starving children just like that. And so they say, look, in other areas, you see certain areas being devastated. They've never seen the entire area, 2.2 million people suffer collective punishment like this before. So the idea that they're just going after Hamas is ridiculous. You would have to be an utter fool to believe that. In fact, Nair kind of touches on that when he talks about how the Israeli settlers are treated by the Israeli government, even as they're reigning terror on innocent Palestinians in the West Bank, and even as they sabotage the delivery of

humanitarian aid, let's take a look. At this moment, there are settlers in the West Bank area who are interrupting trucks, taking humanitarian assistance into Gaza. They are attacking the truck driver, spilling the contents of trucks carrying humanitarian aid. The Israeli military defense forces have not intervened in order to prevent the settlers from engaging in sabotage of that sort in delivering humanitarian assistance. The Israeli defense forces have aided the settlers and a very large number of Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed in the past few months. Was that all an accident as well? Every settler

that destroyed the food meant as humanitarian aid going to starving children is a terrorist. And it's not even close. Agreed. They're definitely terrorists. Are they going to be labeled terrorists by the U.S. State Department? No, we're going to send them $20 billion. Please go ahead and try to help murder more babies. Oh, Israeli settlers, we bow down to you.

Steal more Palestinian land. They're stealing a whole bunch of land in the West Bank. And there's no other word for it other than stealing and making the peace settlement much more unlikely preventing it and that's and they say it this is from the river to the sea this is our land is Judeo Samaria some God whispered in in the rabbis here 2,500 years ago and I'm a lunatic who believes that crap that obvious genocidal moronic lunatic ideas about how God told God told me I'm special and chosen and I'm supposed to murder the Palestinians. They're terrorists, they're obvious terrorists. And yet we send

them money. We send them money to do that terrorism. And by the way, now, even the most liberal of the cabinet ministers in Israel are saying, oh, obviously we're going to take some of Gaza for ourselves. It's a buffer zone for security. We're just going to take, I mean, steal, I mean, take more land because we want it. I mean for security after we cleared out all the Palestinians and ethnically cleansed them. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll switch gears, talk about some other news, including domestic policy and how the Biden administration is responding to the ongoing migrant crisis. All right, back on TYT, Jane Canana with you guys, Lady F&T, who's a wonderful regular viewer, I just gifted five memberships on YouTube.

And John W., thank you for upgrading. Upgrades are enormously important, you could do it through the join button below as well. Thank you, Anna. Well, we've got some big updates on the migrant crisis, so let's get to those details. Among the record number of migrants crossing the southern border was a member of an Afghan terror organization, who was released into the U.S. by border agents, according to U.S. officials. 48-year-old Mohamed Harwin illegally crossed into California in March of last year. His name is on a U.S. terror watch list, identifying him as a member of Hague, a terror group

that's killed Americans in Afghanistan. That NBC report that you just watched a clip of dates back to April 11th of this year. And of course, it has to do with someone on the terrorist watch list, making it, the border into the United States. Now the Biden administration is attempting to close the loophole in the immigration system that allowed this individual to enter the country despite posing a threat to public safety. Now before we get to the changes that Biden is making, here's more of NBC's investigation. Border agents suspected he was on the watch list at the time of his apprehension,

but lacked corroborating information, according to U.S. officials. CBP released him without contacting the FBI or immigration and customs enforcement, those officials told us. Harwin was allowed to apply for work authorization and board planes in the U.S., according to those officials. After almost a year, ICE arrested him here in San Antonio. When he went to court, U.S. officials tell us, ICE officials withheld classified information about his terrorism ties. A judge ordered him released on $12,000 bond, which he posted and was freed last month. Harwin's case appears to be just one of at least three incidents in the past two years involving suspected terrorist being released by Customs and Border Protection, according to the DHS

Inspector General and Congress. So let's break this down a little further, okay? So he did end up getting apprehended, okay? So that's good news. However, border patrols claim that they lack the biometric information connecting him to the terror watch list. and therefore let him go. Within hours of the NBC report being released,

the man was arrested again in San Antonio. Now, of course, the, let me just state this because this is important. Not every migrant that crosses the border is a threat to public safety, as we know that. In fact, the percentage of migrants on the terror watch list is tiny making up just 0.02% of CBP apprehensions under Biden and 0.05% under Trump. Now, before I give you more details on what Biden is attempting to do to close this loophole, so this incident doesn't occur again with other individuals crossing the border, Jenk, what do you think about the fact that we're just now learning about these loopholes?

Yeah, so I get it. They're saying that we didn't want to share the classified information because we might be working on us, but you can share it with a judge and then decide. whether you're gonna go forward or not if it's in the middle of an active investigation and you're tracking him for different reasons. Okay, but you and the judge can decide that. But it's a different thing not to share it with the judge at all. And just to say anyone who's on the terrorist watch list, we're not going to tell you. That's an obviously bad idea. It was left over from 2004, so it's not like Biden did it or Trump did it. It's been around for a

long time. And Biden is looking to fix it, so I'll take it. But guys, the terrorism watch list is it's kind of a joke because it's not that there aren't actual terrorists on there. There definitely are, but it depends on your politics, whether anybody cares or doesn't care. So you know that people on the terrorist watch list can buy guns in America? Because the NRA has that much power. So that guy can get out of, when he was out of jail, he could legally buy a gun. Even if they know he's on the terrorist watch list because the NRA bribes the Republican Party. Correct, yeah.

So when they complain, oh, terrorists, no, the revolins don't care at all about the terrorists. In fact, they're willing to give them weapons here in America. Well, they don't care about the individual being a suspected terrorist if gun manufacturers can sell weapons to that person. Of course, because if the terrorist takes action, then more people are going to buy guns and protect themselves. All right, one more thing about this, though, in particular, most of the terrorists that come in that do actual violence here in America, which is not a huge list, but it's a list we're very concerned about, right? Most of them did not come in through the border. They come in legally with tourist visas, et cetera. They overstay their visa and then commit to violence.

That is true, but do you get the sense that Biden doesn't seem to have control of anything domestically? Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah, but I mean, look, that's the thing. The upside of Biden versus Trump was at least Biden comes in with an infrastructure of capable people who could actually keep the government going, right? Diddy. But now you look around and you go, did he? Right? So a lot of things falling apart at the seams.

I mean, Biden appears barely cognizant of a lot of things that are happening. So, okay, look, they caught this because of NBC News and I often criticize mainstream media, but good job NBC News for- Good report. For catching this and it made a difference and now they're gonna fix the loophole. But yeah, I mean, Anna's point is best on immigration because Biden never came to up with a plan. He said, oh, Kamla, why don't you do it?

She never came up with a plan. And then at the end, they panicked and adopted Trump's plan, which is a double loss. Because you didn't have a plan of your own and things became much worse. And at the end, you begged Trump to institute his plan. It's just the worst optics and the worst policy you could possibly do. Yeah, and look, let's be fair to Biden. Biden put out a plan, I mean, a few years ago, but didn't actually fight to implement that plan because it's something that would need to be carried out through legislation,

through Congress. But Biden literally doesn't fight to implement anything. Yeah, no, that's 100% right. So look, it's cool that you wrote your blog post on the White House website about what you'd like to do about immigration. Now, what are you going to do about actually getting that policy implemented and he did nothing? And you're right, he sat around doing nothing about immigration until there was a massive influx of migrants seeking asylum at the border.

It became a political liability, and he urged Republicans in the Senate to pass legislation, which they did in a bipartisan fashion. But it was a giant handout to what the right wing in this country wants in terms of immigration. They ended up squashing the bill after Trump said he wants to run on immigration, but you get the point. So let's talk about what the Biden administration is now doing in regard to this loophole, which allowed for someone on the terror watch list to enter the country and even seek a workers visa. So what Biden wants to do is give immigration judges and asylum officers more access to classified information to basically help them determine whether or not migrants have any ties to terrorism.

The new policy announced in a May 9th memo from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, overrides a 2004 directive that said classified information could only be used in immigration proceedings as a last resort. Now under the old policy, asylum officers making an initial determination about an immigrants eligibility to pursue an asylum claim, and prosecutors presenting a case for deportation in immigration court had to get approval from the DHS secretary to share classified information. But the new memo instructs those employees to go to the head of their individual agency like ICE or U.S. citizenship and immigration services for approval instead making it easier for them to obtain the critical

information necessary to make these determinations. The administration is also considering allowing more employees to obtain security clearances. So that is what he is planning to do. Now, news of this change comes at a time when illegal crossings at the southern border are down more than 50% compared to December. But let me just note, the amount in December was insanely high. We had 250,000 illegal crossings in December alone. Another 500, yes, 500, wait, so there was 250,000 and then another 50,000 tried to seek asylum. Those were not illegal crossings, but the vast majority of them were. Now, during the first 21 days of May, U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded a daily average

of approximately 3,700 apprehensions of migrants between official ports of entry. That represents a 54% decrease from the 8,000 daily average in December when illegal entry soared to a quarter of a million, an all time high. By the way, this is happening when American citizens can't find any housing because we have a severe housing shortage. But thousands of people entering the country every single day apparently is no problem, and we're just going to continue moving along with a broken immigration system. Great.

So look, everybody roughly knows what the right immigration policy is. And this is the same thing with the Israel and Palestine peace deal. It's sitting on a shelf, everybody knows the countries of the deal already. They just don't want to make the deal, right? So in this case in immigration, we know that there has to be some pathway to citizenship at some point. I mean, in the past they discussed 14 years, which is twice as long as indentured servitude took.

And then the Republicans said, no, 14 years isn't enough. What do you, what do you want them to work for 50 years? Enough, that's insane. I mean, 21 years, 40 years, what is it ever going to be enough, right? And then, and then in this latest round, you know, send in more. judges to go through the asylum cases quicker. And people didn't get deported afterwards because most of them do not succeed in their asylum cases. And more guards to catch more people crossing illegally. Right. And the Republicans took their own plan and voted no, because

Trump told them to. So Biden's sitting on his ass. Trump is ordering people to sit on their ass. They are both claiming this is a giant problem. Trump's claiming it's the number one problem. And they're both saying, well, to be fair to Biden, he would now like to do Trump's plan. would like to solve it through what Trump proposed earlier, which I think is kind of pathetic, but okay, at least he's proposing a fix. And Trump is saying, don't even do my plan because I wanted to fester and be a giant problem for America so that I could pretend Biden was doing it. For America-

And in the beginning, by the way, before he didn't have to pretend, it was Biden's fault. But now Trump has taken it on and saying, yeah, I wanted to get worse so I could unfairly blame him when I'm the one who blocked the legislation. So that's who Trump is, he's a disgusting human being. And Biden is now saying, please, please, can I do the disgusting person's plan? And by the way, I should also note that as we shared with you just last week, Biden is planning on carrying out an executive order that would allow for him to shut the border down if the amount of migrants crossing the border hits a certain threshold.

We don't know exactly what that threshold is going to be. The announcement is going to be made after June 2nd following Mexico's presidential election. But I just, now you're deciding to do an executive order. It's just to me guys, it communicates or it messages to the American people that he does not have control of the border and doesn't even have control of what's happening in our own country. And at the same time, I mean, how much of our resources are getting sent abroad to wars abroad, including Israel's genocide in Gaza. Yeah, I mean, look, come on, both the Republicans and Democrats gleefully just sent Israel.

And by the way, when you include, I mean, they sent Israel at least $20 billion. When you include Ukraine and everything else, they sent them $90 billion and they won't send a nickel to help on the border. And that includes all of the Republicans. They're like, don't help, don't help the border. I want more immigrants to come in, political cause for us. Yeah, they don't care about you at all. So it's just disgusting what they've done.

Lastly, guys, when you see these immigration waves, so they spike like crazy in December and a month's around then, and now all of a sudden they dropped by 50%. Did we change a single policy in that time? No. What does that tell you? A huge percentage of why we have those influxes is because of what's happening? in their home countries. The reason we had a giant

wave was because of the collapse of Venezuela. So Venezuelans and the neighboring countries that affected them as well, they came in a huge surge to the border, right? Meanwhile, my plan was dual Marshall plan in Latin America so you stop the actual

problem instead of constantly try to put a Band-Aid on it, right? Did Biden push for that? No, of course not. He never pushes for anything. He's a lump on a log. So he just sat there and let the problem fester instead, and now it goes, Bernie, please Trump, let me do your plan. So just our politicians are pathetic, no problem ever gets solved, unless it's a tax cut

for the rich, in which case it passes right away, or the defense contractors are going to get money. Then it also passes right away. Well, Robert De Niro spoke in front of the courthouse where closing arguments were being made by the prosecutors in the Trump hush money case. I want to share what happened behind the scenes and who made the decision to send De Niro there. When we come back from the break, it's an incredible story, don't miss it.