Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a concerning speech, to say the least, that shed some light on what the motivating factors might be in regard to his actions in the Gaza Strip. Now, the overwhelming majority of individuals killed in [00:00:18] the Gaza Strip by the IDF happen to be Palestinian civilians, many of whom are women and children. They are being told to evacuate half of the strip fleeing the north to go to the south, and then the south is bombed. [00:00:34] They are engaging in a limited ground invasion at the moment, but are expected to increase the number of Israeli troops there. And as they do that, the airstrikes continue. And when you see the lack of concern for the loss of human life, [00:00:50] civilian life in the Gaza Strip, one wonders what goes through the mind of a prime minister like Netanyahu. Well, you're about to hear it. Let's watch. >> Speaker 2: You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. [00:01:05] And we do remember. And we are fighting. Our brave troops and combatants who are now in Gaza or around Gaza and in all other regions in Israel are joining this chain of Jewish heroes. [00:01:20] A chain that has started 3000 years ago from Joshua Benun until the heroes of 1948, the Six Day War, the 73 October War, and all other wars in this country are hero troops. [00:01:36] They have one supreme main goal to completely defeat the murderous enemy and to guarantee our existence in this country. We've always said never again. Never again is now. [00:01:53] >> Speaker 1: So that video is making its rounds online because of the religious fundamentalist rhetoric used to justify the absolute terror and brutality that Palestinian civilians are dealing with right now as a result of the military actions by the Israeli government. [00:02:12] There's a lot of religious stuff involved in this overall, especially when it comes to, in America, the evangelicals support for Israel, which should not be mistaken for support of the Jewish people. And Cenk, I know you've talked about this quite a bit on the show repeatedly. [00:02:32] So talk to me a little bit, talk to the audience a little bit about the religious aspect of this ideology that we're seeing from the far right wing of the Israeli government. >> Speaker 3: So I'm about to go off on all the fundamentalists Christian, Muslim and Jewish in a second. So my understanding is that Amalek is a reference to how in the Bible, [00:02:52] your opponents have to be wiped out completely, men, women and children. And so that is very relevant here because Netanyahu is basically saying in religious terms that he thinks only the religious fundamentalist followers that he has and [00:03:09] that America has will understand we're gonna kill them all. So that's the kind of monster Netanyahu is. Second of all, whatever your reference is to your religious texts as you're about to murder people, I'm not interested. I'm not at all interested. [00:03:24] I don't care what you think. Some mythical creature has whispered into your ear, and it is almost always death and destruction. If these religious creatures whispered into your ear, love others, as, by the way, Jesus actually said, and Muhammad actually said, well, [00:03:43] that would be one thing, right? But to be fair, the Quran and the Bible and the Talmud and the Torah and all of them are filled with both incredibly positive things and incredibly terrible things, including tons and tons of death to your opponents and kill them all. [00:04:01] And if you read the Old Testament, it is, as even Sam Harris has acknowledged on this show, the worst of them all. It is filled with bloody violence, god massacring the Israel's opponents non stop, murdering everyone in his path. [00:04:17] So that is what Netanyahu is referring to here. And so now to the fundamentalist overall. Look, these lunatics drive us to war and the rest of us have to stop babying them. Everybody's so worried about political correctness. [00:04:33] What will the religious zealots think? Well, they're telling us they wanna kill us all and we're worried about offending them. I don't care what the religious zealots think. I got news for you. 98 out of 100 times it's kill them all. [00:04:49] That's what they always say, whether they're Muslim, Jewish, or Christian. So the Christian evangelicals here, and by the way, I explained this on Turkish TV this morning, okay, do not blame Jewish Americans. [00:05:05] They got nothing to do with it, okay? It's Christian evangelicals in this country who have this absurd bloodlust for death and destruction in the Middle East cuz some lunatic, a leader of theirs, not Jesus Christ, not God, it's not in the Bible. [00:05:22] It's some end times revelation horse crap that a lunatic American made up here and convinced evangelical Christians, Israel has to be formed. Israel has to take over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has to destroy Alaksa Mosque. And then there's a giant war. [00:05:38] And good news, all the Jews and Muslims die. Yes, said that bloodthirsty monster and convinced 25% of this country that there should be Armageddon, should start in Israel, and it should be put on the heads of all of those Muslims and Jews in that area. [00:05:55] Isn't that convenient for Christian fundamentalists here in America? Sitting comfortably on their couch, rooting on Armageddon for all of us to die? And by the way, I got news for you. Number one, it's not even in the Bible. They totally fooled you into becoming monsters and savages. [00:06:10] And second of all, no, your mythical creature is not going to return to murder us all. And if he does, by the way, I'm not sure he's the good guy. I mean, what kind of monsters sit there and go, I can't wait for almost everyone on Earth to die, because then my God comes back and I'm right, and [00:06:29] I look at all of you and go, [SOUND] you're all dead. And I murdered my God. Murdered you all. And it's not just Christians, of course. The Muslim fundamentalists say the same goddamn thing, and they're gonna kill everyone that isn't them. And now the Jewish fundamentalists are the settlers. [00:06:44] My Yahweh said my Yahweh says that all the Ukala or Mukala or whatever the frick you have in your stupid thing from thousands of years ago yeah. He says I should kill all of your children. Okay, can you please find a God that doesn't want to kill us all? [00:07:02] This is not for all religious people. It is not for most religious people, but for the religious fundamentalists, including George W Bush. Who, when he invaded Iraq, said to the French leader, it's because GOG and Magog are coming from that area and that's why we have to kill. [00:07:19] And the French leader was like, what the hell is a GOG and Magog? It's some absurd reference inside the Bible. Unfortunately, the Bible and the other religious texts have murder all over them. But good people, most religious people, do not focus on that. [00:07:38] They focus on helping the needy, helping the poor, and spreading love, like Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount, like Muhammad said over and over again. But no, the fundamentalists say, I don't want the good parts of religion. I want only the negative, evil, destructive and [00:07:53] death that are in these religious texts. Never listen to religious fundamentalists. They are our enemies. They are the enemies of good people, rational people, loving people. But people like George W Bush and Netanyahu and [00:08:09] Hamas leaders are all religious nut jobs, total and utter lunatics who enjoy this death and destruction, and they must be rejected wholesale. >> Speaker 1: I wanna share something that I read about today in regard to what that [00:08:28] death and destruction looks like for the civilians on the ground in the Gaza Strip. Pregnant mothers are dying as a result of these airstrikes, and if they're far along in their pregnancy, [00:08:46] they cut open their sorry. It's hard. It's, like, hard to talk about it. >> Speaker 1: Yeah, look. >> Look, they cut open their stomachs to try to save the fetuses. And anyway, it's just anyone who thinks what's happening [00:09:03] right now in the Gaza Strip is justified really needs a moment of self reflection. >> Speaker 3: And by the way, if you're a Christian evangelical, that's celebrating this cuz you think it's gonna bring about end times or you get to murder all of us or your deity murders all of us, or [00:09:21] whatever sick sick fantasy that you have and you claim you're pro life. The babies are gonna die that are in the incubators cuz they run out of fuel and power. They're all gonna die there's pregnant ladies, 66 a day, and their lives are in danger. [00:09:37] So are you pro life? Are you pro life evangelical Christians? I don't believe you at all. If you're a right winger and you've been supporting end times and you've been supporting Israel, so that all the jews and muslims can die. You are not at all pro life. [00:09:53] Sorry if I've offended your precious feelings, but the lives of all of these human beings are a thousand times more important than your feelings. And don't ever, ever tell me you're pro life cuz you don't care about those babies. [00:10:09] You don't care about life at all. All you care about is one day my god's gonna kill you all. Sick totally and utterly sick.