The Young Turks - Up In Arms

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

The U.S. warns Israel to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza or face a potential arms embargo. Netanyahu informs the U.S. that Israel will target Iranian military sites, excluding nuclear and oil facilities, according to officials. A report reveals how Israel's army allegedly uses Palestinians as human shields in Gaza. SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞ https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER ☞ https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch ☞ https:/www.shoptyt.com 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. Donald Trump's a style icon. That's what I do. Baga! All right, one of the young Turks live from the Polymarket studio in LA. Jake Hugo Anna Kusparan with you guys.

All right, look, tons of news about the campaign coming up in a little bit. I happen to think that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in a big, big race to try to lose this campaign. I mean, one out does the other. Kamala Harris is like, oh, yeah, I'll go after the most unpopular Republicans in the world. And I'll hug them. And I'll tell everyone, I'm with this unpopular person and this unpopular banker, right? And Trump will go, ah, yeah? Oh, yeah.

Okay, why don't I just like say the craziest things you have ever heard in your life? Okay, you guys need to understand or know the story behind the, ah, yeah, because Jank and I keep saying it. Well, Jank says him way more than I do. I don't think I've ever said it on here. It's when either I'm telling a story to my husband and he's not really listening, but he wants to make it seem like he's listening. So he'll just get, eh, like throughout my story and vice versa. We do it to each other. I told Jank that once, and he loved it.

I think it's too funny. And I don't even, I don't use it in that context, really. I mean, I, yeah. But by definition, that means she was listening. You see what I'm saying? Okay. But I love the way that it sounds. It does sound pretty good.

So I'm bringing, ah, yeah, back, I'm bringing a gas back, a little, of course. So we're going to have, we're going to have so fun in the last three weeks of this election until there's no more fun left. All right, let's do the show. We're actually not going to begin with election related news, although we've got a ton of election-related news. Later in the show, for now, some international news. It is widely known and documented in the humanitarian community and the U.S. government that Israel has been blocking humanitarian assistance since the start of the Gaza conflict. Tessingram was delivering aid to Kamal-Adwan Hospital with a UN convoy in April when it came

under fire near an Israeli checkpoint. Do you know that it was the Israeli military doing the shooting and who were they targeted? I know that the shooting came from the direction of the checkpoint, and it seemed to be aimed towards these apparent civilians who were just to the east of our convoy, and we had to turn around and go back to Rafa. So these sorts of delays that really prevent us from doing our job, and at the end of the day, it's the kids that pay the price for that. That was a new documentary by Al Jazeera English, talking about the humanitarian crisis that continues to unfold in the Gaza Strip due to Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip. In fact, the situation has become so dire on the ground that two members of the Biden

administration have penned a letter to the Israeli government threatening an arms embargo if this humanitarian crisis persists. Now, I think there's a big caveat to the story, so please stick around for that. But here are the details. Secretary of St. Anthony Blinken, who was one of the individuals who was only enabled everything Israel has wanted to do. And Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, sent this letter to Israel demanding that it takes steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within 30 days.

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Defense Minister Yoav Galander, the two individuals who received the letter. The letter highlighted how much humanitarian aid has been blocked from entering the Gaza Strip in recent months. They write that the amount of assistance entering Gaza in September was the lowest of any month during the past year to reverse the downward humanitarian trajectory as consistent with its assurances to us, Israel must, starting now, And within 30 days, act on the following concrete measures. And I'll tell you exactly what the concrete measures are. But I also want to note that while September was one of the months that had on record the lowest humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, beginning this month, October, Israel has completely blocked humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

So the situation has only gotten worse. By the way, the letter called for Israel to be held to its March 24 commitment to facilitate and not arbitrarily deny the delivery of United States humanitarian aid to and within Gaza. As part of this commitment, the state department would conduct an audit under U.S. law and policy. But already, I mean, this was a commitment that Israel made to the United States in March of this year, and they have reneged on that commitment already. So what is the, I mean, what is the thought process here of U.S. officials that Israel would sudden, change course. And the threat of an arms embargo, in my opinion, is a hollow threat.

I'll explain why in just a moment. But I've got the concrete steps that they want Israel to take. I'll get to that in a moment as well. Jank, initial thoughts. Yeah. So first of all, it seems like really good news that we're willing to at least say the word arms embargo out loud. And the world did not collapse in on itself. Our special ally has been slightly offended, but yet the world keeps spinning. So that's definitely good news. The fact that we're considering it and say that it'll happen in 30 days ago. Okay, I just wish I believed it. Now let me tell you why I'm skeptical based on facts. So Nanyahu hasn't listened to a thing that Biden has said for the last 12 months. Everybody knows this. We've got over this a million

times. So then Nanyahu wants Thad. What's Thad? Terminal high altitude area defense. That helps Israelis defense even more. By the way, let's note for the record, Israel is the only country in the world that has a defense shield. We have not given it to any other ally. We have not given it to ourselves. We have not given it to anyone. And they didn't come out with it. We did. And they didn't pay for it. We did. We just gifted it to them. And it's multi-layered. And the THAA defense system that Jank is referring to requires U.S. troops to operate it. So Biden not only provided that defense system, but also provided the 100 American troops necessary to operate it. Yeah, and then if they get killed in Israel, obviously, that's going to be used as a pretense for us getting dragged into the war, et cetera.

So I would, for example, I've said, hey, why don't we give iron no, which is the larger defense system to the Palestinians as well. I don't mind the Israelis having it. I don't want them hurt. Why? But people say, well, you can't do that. Then they would feel like they were impervious to attack. And they would attack wildly, being encouraged by their imperviousness. That's the problem that's happening in Israel right now.

Anyway, so Nanyahu says, oh, Biden, hey little boy. Okay, I will moderate my position. Send over the thad missiles right now. Send your person all over. Keep sending the money, okay? And then Biden says, oh, okay, they will do something. good in 30 days, otherwise there will be consequences, financial consequences, right? What is happening within that 30 day window?

Oh, right, our elections that are 21 days away, okay? So once the elections are over, Netanyahu has no incentive at all to keep a word of his promise. Biden has no incentive because the election is gone now. He doesn't have to appease Arab voters in Michigan, and he doesn't have to do anything. So all of a sudden, oh, well, we have found that Israel is complying. Oh, they're definitely complying. Yeah, you know what? We're going to send them even more money and more weapons.

So that's usually how it goes. That is very likely how it will go here. But the word arms embargo has been spoken. So we'll take the smallest win in history. Yeah, I don't see it as a win until there is a consistent and, you know, unhindered flow of humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip. Until then, I'm not buying any of this. And the reason why I'm not buying any of this guys isn't because I just think the Democratic

Party or the Biden administration is inherently evil. I'm just basing my opinion on an educated base guess, just looking at recent history and what's happened over the last year. All we have seen from the Biden administration is an enabling of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis in the West Bank, bombings of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. I mean, Netanyahu has reneged on so many promises and so many deals. How many times has he agreed to a ceasefire only to turn around and renege on the ceasefire? Say that, no, tell Biden that he will accept the ceasefire and then immediately publicly say he does not accept the ceasefire.

How many times is he going to lie to the Biden administration? Biden administration isn't dumb. They know that Netanyahu can't be trusted. They know that Netanyahu reneges on his promises or commitments. And they send them the weapons anyway. The only reason why we're hearing about this strongly worded letter from Blinken and Austin to officials in Israel is, yeah, the elections coming up. And guess what? This issue is hurting the Democratic Party, in particular Kamala Harris in an incredibly important state like Michigan. So for me, this is nothing more than, you know, a little band-aid on a huge problem that will persist. Yeah, so we're going to talk more about Israel's potential strike against invasion of what however you want to phrase it of Iran in a minute later in the show.

But I just want to say in this context, so Biden says, no, it's okay he's moderating his position because not only is, you know, are we wagging our finger at him about the 30 days, but we're also got him to say that he's not going to hit the nuclear targets or the oil targets in Iran, which would be more destabilizing. You go to Netanyahu and the sources from the inside of the Israeli government goes, no, Biden doesn't make the decisions. Netanyahu makes the decisions. And so no decision has actually been made. And then even if they hit a military installation, which would be the lowest target, which is what Biden wants, they said, quote, it was, it was. will be won in a series of responses. So even if we listen briefly to you, the minute we think

it's more convenient, we won't anymore. Okay, that's what we've been dealing with with Israel for a long time. But the reason I brought that up is because remember, what if Netanyahu a week before the election goes, just kidding Joe Biden, you already sent Thad, you already sent your half your military here to do my bidding, I'm not bombing the living crap out of Iran. Nuclear oil fields, gas prices skyrocket, Trump's got a cakewalk into the presidency, and then Joe Biden goes, I can't believe Netanyahu lied to me. Well, that is entirely possible. Let's go to graphic four here where Blinken and Austin also demanded Israel and the isolation of northern Gaza, Northern Gaza Strip, and officially announced it has no policy of forced

evacuation of Palestinians from Northern Gaza, from the Northern Gaza Strip to the Southern Gaza Strip. So far, no movement on that. They have been terrorizing northern Gaza and demanding evacuations of the civilian population there. That has not changed. Blinken and Austin expressed concern about a bill that's currently pending in the Knesset to sever its ties with UNRah. Of course, that is the UN agency that provides humanitarian aid to Palestinians. trapped in Gaza. The Secretary of Defense also demanded in the letter that Israel allowed the Red Cross to visit Palestinian detainees in detention facilities in Israel, considering the reports that have been coming out in regard to torture, abuse, and rape. And things have

also, by the way, let me just pause there, because, I mean, in writing this letter, there's quite an admission by members of the Biden administration of the war crimes that are being committed by Israel, by our wonderful ally. And things, by the way, have not been easy for humanitarian workers with the UN either. Something that we've been following, covering. Here's some more details on that. Nearly 300 aid workers have been killed so far. The majority were Palestinians working for the UN.

It's not just delivering aid that can be deadly. Scores of civilians have been killed while collecting it. In February, more than 100 Palestinians seeking food from aid trucks in North Gaza were killed and hundreds more injured after Israeli forces opened fire on them. It's known as the Flower Massacre. So when we hear of the Flower Massacre, it's not one isolated incident that was some accident. We partnered with open source investigators at forensic architecture to examine the data behind attacks on people seeking aid.

We found more than 40 attacks. So that flower massacre, which was one of the most horrific stories I've ever had to talk about on the show, wasn't an isolated incident. I suspected that was the case. And it turns out that the investigation that they conducted the here showed 40 other instances of civilians being fired at as they're trying to get humanitarian aid so they don't starve to death and die. So the intentions of the letter, what exactly specifically are there are they asking for? You know, I talked about how allegedly the U.S. wants Israel to avoid passing that bill. They want northern Ghazans to not be evacuated from their homes. All of these things are asks that I just do not believe the Israeli government has any interest in.

They have been able to do what they've been doing, totally unencumbered. They've been given all of the bombs and weapons and U.S. troops necessary to carry out their dirty deeds. I just am not buying this at all. I think they're concerned about how this issue is going to impact the outcome of the presidential race. And that's why they're putting this letter out there. Look, final thing I'll say about this is Democrats can't have their cake and eat it to. They want to, on one hand, take the APAC money and carry out all the wishes of the Israeli guns. government, provide cover for the Israeli government, regardless of the war crimes they're committing.

And they're doing it even though they know that their base, their voters are against it. But they want to take the money. They like the lobbying money. They want to take it. So instead of actually listening to their voters, they have opted to take the money and instead, shame the voters. Okay, fearmonger about the voters and how they're going to, their decision to not support the Democratic Party will destroy democracy in this country. But maybe listen to your voters. Maybe listen to the democratic base and what their concerns are. That's what a democracy is actually about. So look, in my book Justice is coming, I talked a lot about how they forgot what was supposed to be the means and what was supposed to be the end, right? They now think that the means are the end. So they're so obsessed

and addicted to donor money that they're basically saying, as there's three weeks left before an election, I'd rather lose the election than defy Israel. Why? Because they, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden grew up with an incredible love for Israel in their hearts randomly? No, because of the enormous amount of donor money that they've gotten from people who support Israel and PACS that support Israel. But the point of the money is supposed to be to win the election.

But now they're so blind, they're like, no, no, we can't, we can't defy APAC or Israel. It doesn't matter if we're gonna lose the election. They would rather lose the election than defy their donors. Then what the hell was the point of the donors? So welcome to politics in America where everything is about corruption. Well, Jenk referenced, you know, what Israel claims that they are willing to do in terms of moderating their retaliation against Iran. I want to get into the details of that when we come back from the break because it is important to understand, you know, what kind of promises are being made to the Biden administration and how oftentimes those same promises get broken.

We'll be right back. what we're going to use through the election t yt.com slash oh this year 2024 what a fun handle Nicholas DiPerno Christina Crawford and shiny Kimi are our American heroes who hit the join button below became young turks members we appreciate you guys and speaking of fun URLs so you know well it's not really fun we got the ceasefire shirt it's an amazing shirt it's beautiful and put together by one of our members it's got a new URL ceasefire shirt.com So super easy, ceasefire shirt.com, if you want to check it out. All right, Anna.

All right, let's get to our next story. As Israel prepares to retaliate for Iran's now two-week-old missile attack, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling NBC news, we listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interests. As they've been doing from the very beginning, even though I don't think causing hostility toward the civilians of Israel is really in the best interests of those civilians.

But nonetheless, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Anjahou has stated that he is planning to strike Iran's military targets rather than oil or nuclear facilities, as many had feared. You should never take his word at face value, he is a known liar, a proven liar. But nonetheless, Joe Biden was so thrilled that he is allegedly moderating his retaliatory plans against Iran that he decided to provide U.S. troops and yet another defense system for Israel. But as you heard, Israel is, of course, making it clear that in the end, they're going to do what they want to do. And so the Israeli government is looking to retaliate against Iran's recent strike on Israel. And that was, by the way, a retaliation.

strike after Israel had conducted assassinations in Iran, okay? So it's not like Iran randomly decided to attack Israel, they retaliated against Israel, and they did so in a way to ensure that no civilians died. Unfortunately, they accidentally killed a Palestinian in the West Bank when they conducted their retaliatory strike. Now if Israel strikes Iran's oil fields, obviously that would be disastrous when it comes to global oil prices. All of us would be paying a significant price for everything. It would cause inflation because of the fact that Iran is a major oil producing country. A strike on Iran's

nuclear program would, of course, provoke a much larger and deadlier war. So the Biden administration alleges that they don't want Israel to do that either. Now, according to two officials with knowledge of a recent call between Netanyahu and Biden, Netanyahu was in a more moderated place in that discussion than he had previously been. The retaliatory action would be calibrated to avoid the perception of political interference in U.S. elections, the official familiar with the matter said, signaling Netanyahu's understanding that the scope of the Israeli strike has the potential to reshape the presidential race. Fascinating that he knows that, I should note that Netanyahu is hoping that Donald Trump win

the presidential election as opposed to Kamala Harris. I don't know why suddenly we would believe that Netanyahu would moderate his views in order to avoid shaping policy or an election in our country when everything he has done has shaped what's been going on in our country. But I don't know, Jake, you tell me, what do you think? Yeah, so first of all, I'm as usual, tired of the begging and pleading that Joe Biden does on our behalf. Oh, I'm so happy you're moderating your position a tiny bit, thank you, sir.

We appreciate it. Oh, my God. Our overlords have told us that they're moderating their position a little bit after we begged them for a year straight. Well, we don't know if they're going to do it because they lie to us every time. But, oh, thank you, thank you. It's pathetic, absolutely pathetic. I mean, if you watch television, you'll get a totally completely different view.

Oh, my God, Joe Binds a hero. You're on what? On what? Yeah, there's definitely a masculinity crisis in America. It's in the White House. Yeah. So now on Netanyahu and what he's going to do, look, it's impossible to tell and there's so many backroom deals. And whenever, why is Netanyahu moderating his position for half a second or pretending to? Because he wanted that. That's the missile defense system,

the extra missile defense system that we're sending in and the 100 U.S. soldiers who are now human shields. Because God forbid, Iran hits one of them, then Netanyahu is going to be the happiest man on the planet. The U.S. soldiers would be operating Thad, which is why they are also sent to Israel along with the missile defense system. Right. And then Netanyahu, who's constantly giving speeches about our war is your war. I give you this giant war of mine so you can pay for it in blood and treasure. Oh, we're defending Western civilization. Wink. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but is it possible that Netanyahu hits their oil fields despite promising Biden that he won't a week before the election, causing gas prices to skyrocket, causing Trump

to win. Well, knowing the snake that Netanyahu is, it would be surprising if he didn't do it. Exactly. And then by, well, here's what I'm going to enjoy, though. So that's going to be a disaster of epic proportions, and I'm going to hate every part of it. But then when Biden and Kamala Harris cry about how they could, can't believe Netanyahu betrayed that. They're not going to cry. Okay. No, no, but then will the Democrats who will be furious about it? Will they do anything to take away the funding of Israel? No, of course not. I'll just go back to, we can't believe Netanyahu did that to us and Trump won the election.

I'm so sorry, Israel. I'm so sorry, I'll do anything for you, Israel. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A bunch of corrupt politicians. So go make your stupid deals that have no effect at all. So, but I've got more on that in a second. Anna, go ahead. No, but you know, why be upset with Netanyahu for potentially hurting Democrats in this upcoming

presidential race, when the real enemy is Jill Stein. That's who they're directing their ire at right now as we speak, but we'll get to that later in the show. Getting back to this story, though, look, there are several caveats to the moderated strategy that Netanyahu claims to have. Number one, we actually don't know how many strikes Israel is planning to carry out against Iran. In fact, an anonymous U.S. official told the Washington Post the following.

It will be one in a series of responses. So in other words, when we tell you that we're only gonna hit their military facilities. Might just be the first time they strike. And they're gonna say what we told you. Number one, you're not making the decisions. You're not the boss of us, we're the boss, okay? Number two, I told you I was gonna do a series of responses. And I told you I'd hit one of their military facilities.

And then I did the other responses. Well, well, you're an idiot for thinking otherwise. In fact, I'll give you one more quote, Anna. They said we will get to the same point in the north, we will finish it, and then get to Iran, which is not going anywhere. So in other words, we're not going to listen to here, guys. We're going to bomb the living crap out of Iran and start this giant war. We're just choosing not to do it yet while you guys send in more troops and more weapons and more money like idiots.

I should also note that, again, there are no guarantees that the Israeli government will keep their word. There have been countless examples of the Israeli government saying one thing and then doing another. In fact, the most recent example that comes to mind is the fact that Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. And then after agreeing to that ceasefire deal, after telling the Biden administration that he agreed to that ceasefire deal, what did they do again? Oh, yeah, that's right. They continued bombing Lebanon and they assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, who would also agree to the ceasefire deal. Oh, they killed everyone who's in favor of a ceasefire or moderates in their, in their respective groups. Correct, yeah. Huh, interesting.

In fact, I'm going to tell you something about that in relation to Iran in a second. Now, perhaps the most concerning is this leaked message from Nathan Eschel, who's an advisor to the Netanyahu family. He's quoted as saying, just as we waited with Hezbollah in Lebanon and with Hamas in Gaza in the south, now I think we will have to wait with Iran. We will get to the same point in the north. This is the point that Jank was making. We will finish it and then get to Iran, which is not going anywhere. I wanted to give you the full quote there. And so in regard to the missile defense system, take a look at this video.

This is the first time nomina that U.S. forces will deploy into Israel since the October 7th attack. And about 100 service members will arrive with a fad battery. That is the terminal high altitude area defense, defends against ballistic missiles. So it would be used alongside Israeli missile defense against Iranian attacks. That's two weeks after 180 Iranian ballistic missiles really caused no damage. But as you can see there, got through U.S. and Israeli air defense. So they have Iron Dome, David Sling, they have like these, this extra layer of like a satellite missile defense system, they now have THAAD. So when you consider all of the defense capabilities that Israel has, thanks to the United States taxpayer providing these defense systems for Israel, do you now understand how ridiculous it is when Israel, which is the aggressor in this war,

right now. Certainly the aggressor as they're, you know, bombing the crap out of Lebanon, bombing Syria, they've bombed Iran. I mean, like bombing all of their neighbors, absolutely leveling Gaza, annexing the West Bank. They're doing all of this stuff, okay? All of their enemies don't have nearly close to the type of, you know, weaponry and offensive capabilities that Israel has. They don't have the same defensive capabilities that Israel has. But Israel continues to position itself as the number one victim in the international community. Okay, constantly at risk, constantly dealing with threats. They're the victims.

When they're the ones who have slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians in now multiple countries. No, Anna, they had to kill them over there before they ever made it to Israel. I mean, imagine if anyone made it to Israel and, and, and, and, um, But, oh my, it hasn't happened in 12 months. They've fired endless rockets. They have an incredible impenetrable defense system. A couple landed out of thousands and thousands of rockets that landed. 1,200 people were killed on October 7th.

That's terrible. And then they said, oh, you think that's bad? Wait till we slaughter 42,000 people. We destroy all of Gaza. We attack five of our neighbors. Oh, over a year later, we're still defending ourselves, even though almost no rockets have landed in over a year, right? But we've obliterated the place. Oh, but hey, we needed some breathing space.

Some, you know, hey, and we're going to have to take some of Gaza because we need breathing space. So people keep asking, okay, then what do you propose Israel do, right? Because the thinking is, if Israel stops with the bombings, if Israel stops leveling capitals of other sovereign countries, well then obviously that means they're surrendering and inviting their people to be slaughtered by all of these evil Muslim and Arab countries that surround them, right? Are we just gonna pretend like they don't have their defense capabilities? Are we gonna pretend like they don't have the backing of the international community's

hegemon as it applies to military capability? The United States backs Israel no matter what Israel does. Like the idea that Israel is like this poor vulnerable little country and they don't have anything. It's like a little third world country and they don't know what to do. Oh my God, they're all gonna die any second. They're all gonna die any second. The world hates Israel.

Poor little Israel, they're such a tiny little victim. It's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little place. They have nukes. Who are you kidding? They have nukes. Who are you kidding? Are you insane? I just don't understand. Like, how, what do, what does Israel need to have for people to finally wake up to the reality of the Middle East right now? What the most powerful country in the Middle East actually is, okay?

It's not Iran, okay? It's not Lebanon. It's not the Palestinians. It's not Hamas. It's not Hezbollah. It's Israel. Israel is the most powerful country in the Middle East. They are not the victims here, okay?

Netanyahu dropped the ball and allowed his citizens to get slaughtered. He did not have IDF troops stationed near the Gaza Strip. Was that an accident? Seriously, was that an accident? This was a failure of Israeli leadership within the Israeli government, and they're acting like the real problem is all the enemies that surround Israel. When Israel is the country that has the defense capabilities, the military capabilities, the military capabilities, a U.S. military backing it no matter what it does, we are risking the lives of

our own soldiers on behalf of Israel. How is Israel the victim here? How many more innocent people need to die for people to wake up? Seriously, how many more? How many more? How many more kids? How many more kids? Can they at least give us a number? Netanyahu, how many more kids do you want to slaughter before you're finally satisfied? Tell us. Yeah. How many more Kids need to be shut in the head by the IDF. How many? People are real upset that the New York Times would allow doctors from the United States who donated their time and risked their lives in Gaza, okay, to pen an op-ed about what

they saw on the ground in Gaza, including children as young as five with gunshot wounds to their head and their chest. So they went after the New York Times and alleged that these incidents were totally fabricated. Yeah, yeah, they're all bigots. They all think killing Arab kids is no big deal. I can't imagine. They're like, what do you mean? One of us was hurt 12 months ago. That's why we had to slaughter your kids and we're doing headshots and we're now doing human shields, which is the next story. How do you shoot a five-year-old kid in the head? How do you do it? How do you do it? It's easy when you're a terrorist. So now Israel is taking all the things they said were the

worst examples of terrorism and they've done all of them, all of them, while pretending their tiny little David that could be extinguished at any moment, right? That was in the past and it was horrific when you were the Palestinians, when you were the abused, when you were the oppressed, you were the starved, you were the slaughtered. Now you are the Germans saying, no, we need more room. Oh, we attacked everyone for our self-defense. We had to defend the whole I mean, we have a giant military and we crushed our neighbors, but we are, the Germans are the victims here. So I understand what the hell's happened here.

And it's human psychology. They think they're fighting the Nazis. You're fighting the most helpless people on earth. They are David. You are Goliath. Why do you think they throw stones at you? Because you bomb them to the Stone Age. And if you're proud of that, you're a disgusting pig terrorist.

You see, oh yeah, we turned it into glass. We killed all their kids. Then we killed the medics. Then we killed a journalist. You see how we're the good guys? No, I don't. I see how Israel has turned into this thing that is unrecognizable. It went from, my God, when they formed Israel, imagine if they actually said, all right,

we're going to give back to Occupy Territories, save Jewish Haven. Now let's go help the rest of the world. Anytime there's a natural disaster, Israel's going to come to help. We have great technology. We've got plenty of money. We're good to go. to help the world. Then everybody would love Israel. But no, they said, well, I don't know why people don't like us. We've crushed everything around us. So last thing, goes to the point about

moderation. So this is from the Washington Post. Netanyahu's team was alarmed by the recent election of Iran's reformist president, Massoud Pasekian. Why were they alarmed about someone who would reform the Ayatollah's ways and the fundamentalist Muslim ways of the Iranian? government. Because then they might not have an excuse to, you know. To bomb them and kill them and to and to obliterate them and humiliate them. Yeah. Because you're supposed to be excited about a reformist. Whenever I debate an Israeli supporter, they'll say, oh, yeah, I bet you really like them all this. No, apparently Netanyahu does. I don't want them on us to be in charge in Iran. So I'm glad that a reformer got elected.

It's, you know, a reformer within the context of Iran. I'm not overly excited about it. But Nan Yahoo and the Israelis are like, oh, God. Damn it. We don't want them reform. We want them as fundamentalist as possible. We want them so that we could pretend that they're a boogeyman. Oh, we had to do it. Oh my God, they hate you so much. We had to kill them all, right? Or a reformer? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, now they say, if Vice President Kamala Harris, this is Washington Post again, if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected, Nan Yahoo thinks the nuclear deal will be back on the table, she said. And so now is a strategic moment to undermine this.

But wait a minute, you know what the nuclear deal was? It takes away Iran's nuclear program. Yeah. Israel says that we must invade Iran because they might have a nuclear program. But the nuclear deal would take that away from them. They would have no nuclear program at all. And Israel's livid about it. Yeah, Netanyahu was furious when Obama was able to succeed

in accomplishing the Iran nuclear deal. He was so angry at Obama. angry at Obama, that he came to America and spoke in front of Congress to basically trash the Iran nuclear deal, trash Obama. A bunch of Democrats decided they're not going to go to see Netanyahu speak as a result of him trashing Obama and the nuclear deal. Trump gets elected and Trump did exactly as Netanyahu wanted him to do. He ripped up the Iran nuclear deal, paved the way for Iran to go ahead and develop a nuclear

weapon if they want. That was the plan all along. Netanyahu has wanted war with Iran, just like Netanyahu wanted war with Iraq and go to the U.S. government under the Bush administration to do a preemptive war in Iraq. And he's trying to do the same exact thing in Iran, and he's not hiding it. So he's saying, I don't want a reformer, I don't want them to stop their nuclear program so that we go and kill them. We, and we show them whose boss around here.

I think everyone knows. Then they'll all be subjugated and they'll all know. No, no, no, he thinks then they'll all know they can't defend themselves against us. And then we could take more and more land. He's a revisionist Zionist. He thinks Israel should have as much land in the Middle East as possible. And if you subjugate them to the point where they have no way of defending themselves, then Israel can be the overlords that Netanyahu dreams about.

And by the way, guys, I'm sorry, I hate to break it to you, but we've lost Israel. Like the population, are there wonderful people inside Israel? So of course, they're a normal population like anyone else. But the culture has gotten to a very dark place. So right now, Netanyahu, if there were elections today, would not win. Naftali Bennett would win. Oh, that's good news, right? No, Nftali Bennett is even more fundamentalist.

And he says we should hit Iran's nuclear facilities right now. And not listen to Biden, not listen to America, not listen to anything. So Israel is saying, well, I love this monstrous terrorist warmonger Netanyahu. But my God, a guy who's more radical and more right wing and more of a war monger and wants to grab land from the Arabs and kill them more is even better. So I'm sorry, Israel, but you've lost your way. So we, look, I can't, I'm not an Israeli citizen, there's nothing I could do about it, okay? But I am a US citizen, stop the money, for God's sake, this is all on our conscience.

Everybody's gonna look back and say, what did you monsters do? Why did you encourage them and give them more money every time they attack? a new country and slaughtered more people. Biden's legacy. All right, we got to take a break when we come back. A story in the New York Times that probably also upset those who want to provide cover for Israel. This one has to do with the IDF using Palestinians, including some children as human shields. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna, with you guys and legendary American hero, Kevin Young.

You know who you are, Kevin. Anna. Yeah, you know who you are, Kevin. All right, anyway, let's do the show. All right, so the Israeli defense forces are using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and that is according to a new explosive report in the New York Times. In fact, they detail specific instances. Now, this investigation by the Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents with Israel have regularly forced captured Palestinians to conduct all sorts of life-threatening

reconnaissance missions to essentially avoid putting the lives of IDF soldiers at risk. Now, Palestinian detainees have been coerced to explore places in Gaza where the Israeli military believes that Hamas militants have prepared booby traps or a possible ambush. They've also been coerced to film within the underground tunnels or enter buildings that have been rigged with mines. The practice, by the way, I should note, is absolutely illegal under both Israeli and international law. In fact, back in 2005, the Supreme Court in Israel banned this practice saying this is against our morals, this is against who we are as Israelis. We are banning this practice. The IDF is not to use Palestinians as human shields.

Two years later, the BBC and Jank Yugar reported on this. This is in 2007. This was Nablus last week. Israel's army came to arrest men they accused of plotting attacks against Israel. We filmed as the soldiers moved through the old city, but now details are emerging of what else was going on. Look at the man in the black top in this rare footage filmed by a news agency. He's a Palestinian civilian. The soldiers push him ahead of them as they search homes. Jehan Dadoosh says she was also forced to lead soldiers through the old city during last week's operation. She is 11 years old. They had their weapons pointed at me, she said. I was so afraid that the soldiers might do what they threatened. Take me to jail or shoot

me. So the footage is from Nablis in 2007, but the story was reported in the video, I believe, was leaked in 2009 and Jank had covered it on TYT. That's why the video, That's why the video is so pixelated. But the same practice continues today, according to this reporting from the New York Times. The Times interviewed seven Israeli soldiers who observed or participated in the practice and presented it as routine, commonplace, and organized, conducted with considerable logistical support and the knowledge of superiors on the battlefield.

I'll get to specific examples in just a moment, Jank. Yeah, so first I want to give credit to those Israeli soldiers that came forward with moral compunctions and told the press this is terrible we shouldn't be doing this so I love people like that and I appreciate that thank God there's still people like that inside of Israel and so save as many people as you can save as many Palestinian lives as you can hide them in basements hide them in addicts but if the IDF gets them they're gonna use them as human shields children they've been doing it for decades did you ever see it in American

news. Their Supreme Court ruled on it as Anna told you. That's a big story. Did you see it in American news? Then they did it anyway after the Supreme Court told them not to. Did you see that in American news? Or did you hear in American news that Hamas uses human shields? Do they actually do what the soldiers you just saw on the tape do, put them in front of them? Is that what they mean by Hamas uses human shields? No, they don't mean that. They said, well, generically. I mean, we had to kill the Palestinian civilians because they were in the general areas, Hamas. So we'll call that. What do we do? Oh, yeah, remember? how we use the human shields and the Palestinian kids to get killed first? Oh, we'll say Hamas is

using human shields. Now guys, let me ask you something. Where do you think, whether you hate them or love them, whether you think they're terrorists or not, right? Where do you think, and I'm not talking about Hamas, I'm talking about any resistance group. And if you think Hamas is not or, they can be both a terrorist group and a resistance group at the same time, like the African National Congress was. They did acts of terrorism, but they were obviously resistance stuff, a part time, right? So where do you think a resistance group would go? in a remote location far away from any possible civilians. And set up a giant military complex, right?

Because then the oppressing, occupying force will know where they are and they could kill them immediately. And so I'm sure that's exactly what they would do. No, every resistance force, including the French resistance against the Nazis, hid. They hid, where do they hide? They hid in their homes. They hid where they live, which is in the middle of civilians. So then the Nazis came and killed civilians.

around the French resistance and said, why? They said, we have a right to defend ourselves. And these French terrorists are in the civilians. But they didn't think of the clever turn of phrase of human shields. The reason it probably popped into Israel's mind in order to help them do propaganda as they slaughter tens of thousands of civilians is because they use human shields. So let me flip it for a second. I want people to really consider this thought exercise, if you want to call it that.

So obviously someone like Yoav Galant, the military minister in Israel is an enemy, considered an enemy of Iran's, right? So if they engage in war, if there is now a full blown war between Israel and Iran, if Iran decides we're going to take out Yoav Galant and a bunch of civilians die as they do so, does Israel get to complain about the civilians dying if Yoav Galant was among the civilians? Well, first of all, God forbid, by the way. Yeah, of course, we don't want that at all. We don't want any of these deaths. We want an immediate ceasefire, peace deal, and the occupation. There's an easy solution to this. They're like, oh, we can't find the solution. And the occupation, dare I solved it for you. You can't be that dumb. Oh, no, no,

the Palestinians and the Arabs are savages, and they'll always want violence and war. But I want to know. You want violence in war. Why don't you just admit it for the first time in your life? But I want to know, does the international community then, have to accept an argument from Iran that all of those innocent civilians died because Yoav Galant used them as human shields. I'm serious. No, but by the way, Iran would be, as you're pointing out, doing the same exact argument as Israel, and the US would then turn around and say, terrorists, we told you Muslims,

you have to kill them all. You see, they're all, they're either terrorist or future terrorists. But wait a minute, they did the same exact thing as Israel. No, no, no, no, Israel's a moral army. So when they use human shields and they put bullet holes in children's heads, as the New York Times reported yesterday. Not yesterday or earlier, in order a percentage of children coming back with bullet holes in their head in the Gaza Strip. No, they're the moral army because moral people murder children with headshots with snipers. Moral people use children as human shields where they could step on a booby trap and blow up the entire, blow up the kid.

you know, at one point, the commanding, and this is important guys, the commanding officers are telling soldiers, some of them happy to do it, some of them as I told you, an amazing human beings who said they don't want to do it, right? But they tell them, you must use them. And they say, well, look, we could get a drone or a dog, but it's going to take a while. And they're Palestinians. They literally said their lives are not as important as our lives. So let's talk about the specific individuals whose lives don't matter at all for the IDF and have been used as human shields. Luckily, these individuals remained alive to tell their story. So the reporters here spoke to Muhammad Shubir, who was detained by the Israelis for 10 days before they released him without charge.

It is a common practice. Now, the Israelis killed his father and then his sister before separating him from the remaining family member. who survived, but while he was detained, Shubir, then 17 years old, said he was forced to walk handcuffed through the empty ruins of his hometown, Con Unis, in southern Gaza, searching for explosives set by Hamas. To avoid being blown up themselves, the soldiers made him go ahead, Shubir said. The soldier sent me like a dog to a booby-trapped apartment, he said, a high school student at the time. I thought these would be the last moments of my life. Then you have another individual that gave direct statements to the New York Times here. Bashir al-Daloo, who is another

example. Dalu is a pharmacist from Gaza City. He said he was forced to act as a human shield on the morning of November 13th after being captured at his home. The soldiers ordered him to strip to his underwear, then handcuffed and blindfolded him, he said, in an interview in Gaza, after his release without charge. Now he was ordered by the soldiers to enter the backyard of a nearby five story home, or building I should say, the yard was littered with all sorts of debris, bird cages, water tanks, gardening tools, broken chairs, shattered glass, and a large generator. Behind me, three soldiers pushed me forward violently.

They were afraid of potential tunnels under the ground or explosives hidden under any object there. Walking barefoot, he cut his feet on these shards of glass, he said. With his hands tied behind his back, Aldalu, was ordered to walk around the yard, kicking bricks, scraps of metal, and empty boxes. At some point, the soldiers tied his hands in front of him so that he could easily shunt suspicious objects in his path. And then finally, they wanted him to basically move the generator because they suspected that the generator was covering an entrance to a tunnel. And he was terrified. Like obviously he's scared. He's scared that there might be a bomb that he steps on, might kill him. But they kept pushing him with the butt of a rifle. Later that day,

he said he was ordered to walk in front of an Israeli tank as it advanced toward a mosque where soldiers worried they would encounter militants. Some of the neighbors were taken to look for tunnel entrances at a nearby hospital, and he has not seen them since. So some of the people that he personally knew, who were also forced to act as human shields for the IDF, have disappeared, doesn't know if they survived or not. So they have different names for different kinds of human shields that they use. So the ones that are detainees inside Israel, it requires a couple of days to get them. They're called wasps.

And civilians that they use inside Gaza are not detainees, not terrorists, and they know it. Pharmacists, high school kids, et cetera, they call them mosquitoes. Let's pause here to note that they're using the names of different bugs to refer to Palestinians. They have become everything they despised. Okay, but then sometimes they don't want to wait for a drone or a dog to arrive because sometimes they use that. So they're like, oh, let's just use a Palestinian, a civilian, a kid, because we don't want to wait for a drone. And, you know, their lives are obviously not anywhere near as valuable as Israeli lives, which apparently are the most precious thing on earth. Yeah, let me give you a quote from an IDF soldier who spoke to the Times.

They were all considered expendable. An IDF soldier said, if the tunnel explodes, at least he will die. And not one of us, he recalled an officer saying. Well, he's just a mosquito, lower than a dog. So who cares if the bugs are crushed? So, and by the way, I put stuff like this on social media and wall-to-wall comments from Israeli supporters going, of course, super proud, they are, they're lower than dirt, they shouldn't have started this, it's their fault, they're savages, they're violent,

they had it coming. I'm so proud of Israel. If you are, there's something deeply wrong with you. You've become a monstrous immoral person. Okay, so now we're, this is systemic. The commanding officers are ordering it. Some of the soldiers are objecting. Systemic.

Israel knows that they're doing this. Meanwhile, they have all their propaganda dogs all over television going, oh, Hamas is using human shields. I mean, well, that's what we call their civilians if we're not calling them bugs. And so we had to kill all their civilians. and but they know that Israel's actually using human shields literally and they're like who cares they're just Palestinians we fund all this and finally experts in the peace in the New York Times and before it was easy to you know a lot of people in America especially in the establishment

this makes them uncomfortable they love Israel and they don't they don't want to be or their friends love Israel or their donors love Israel whatever it is right and they didn't want to be made uncomfortable. So they just deny, deny, deny, deny. Oh, you can't believe Arabs. You know how they are. You just, yeah, they're lower than us. You can't believe anything they say. We're the righteous ones. So now even the New York Times has debunked every one of their talking points and shown that Israel is doing what they say is terrorism. I don't mean the New York Times. Israel says using human shields is terrorism, right? Killing civilians is terrorism, targeting them on purpose, targeting journalists, medics, et cetera, all terrorism, all what Israel is doing.

So Israel is obviously a terrorist state. If that hurts your feelings, you should be super mad at Israel, not us or the New York Times for reporting the truth. And so go check yourself because you've lost touch with morality and decency. And the experts in the New York Times piece said, no other country on earth does this. There is no documented other government, as vicious and horrible as some of the other governments are. No one uses human shields. This, to take a human being, an 11 year old girl, 17 year old boy, and say, here, step on a bomb, you bug, you lower than dirt, and who cares if you die?

That takes a special kind of depravity. This is what happens when you give anyone or any government absolute power. And that is what we've done here in America. And we should be deeply ashamed for how we have helped Israel commit war crime after war crime and acts of terrorism after acts of terrorism. One of the worst terrorist states in the world by far right now. All right, let's take a break. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we'll check in on the presidential election. Thank you.