Oct 30, 2023
WATCH: Hillary Clinton Says Ceasefire Would Only HELP Hamas
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said anyone calling for a ceasefire against Hamas doesn't actually understand Hamas.
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People who are calling for
a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas.
That is not possible.
>> Speaker 2: Our old friend
Hillary Clinton was back beating the war
drums during a panel at
a Baker Institute event.
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Now here she is explaining why
she thinks it's dumb to call for
a halt to the absolutely brutal military
operations israel has been
carrying out in the Gaza Strip.
>> Speaker 1: It would be such a gift to
Hamas because they would spend whatever
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time there was a ceasefire, in effect,
rebuilding their armaments.
Creating stronger positions
to be able to fend off
an eventual assault by the Israelis.
>> Speaker 2: We can't have a ceasefire,
which,
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by the way, the airstrikes,
the attacks on the Gaza Strip
have overwhelmingly impacted
Palestinian civilians.
There are a little over a dozen Hamas
militants that have been killed as
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a result of the IDF's
actions in the Gaza Strip.
But with the death toll reaching roughly
8000 people, you do the math and
ask yourself whether what Israel is
carrying out is strategic smart,
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actually leads to peace in the long,
but Cenk, Hamas.
If we do a ceasefire,
hamas will build their armaments
against Israel,
which is obviously well trained.
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They have a well trained military, okay?
They have weapons given to them
by the United States government.
They've got the iron dome.
I'm so sick of people trotting
out these weak ass arguments,
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pretending as if we're talking
about two equal sides here,
as if Hamas has the kind of international
support the Israeli military has.
As if Hamas, which is currently
in a region of the world that is
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currently being leveled as we speak,
has the same military capability.
Or could build even close to a similar
military capability that the Israeli
government has.
Now, I have no problem with
Israel going after Hamas,
no problem at all after what
they did on October 7th.
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I do not begrudge the Israeli people or
the Israeli government for
wanting to go after Hamas.
But if you are believing that they
are just going after Hamas and
they are doing everything they can to keep
the innocent Palestinian civilians safe,
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I got a bridge to sell you.
You're a sucker, it is a lie.
It is very clear to me, based on the
footage we've seen, based on the number of
civilian deaths, they don't give
a damn about civilian lives.
And not only is it immoral, and
not only does it break international war,
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international laws, committing war crimes.
But in the long run, what it does
is it keeps Israeli civilians less
safe because the Arab world is in a rage.
This war could expand to other countries.
And what do you think happens to
civilians whose entire families
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are wiped out by these airstrikes and
these military raids?
You think that they just chill after
that and they're okay with it?
Or could it be that this is what
leads to the extremism that is
unfortunately directed toward
innocent Israeli civilians?
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This is so dumb, so
just lacking in any strategy.
It's just absolute brutality
toward the Palestinian people.
And of course, Hillary Clinton signs
off on it and gives us a BS excuse for
why she supports everything that
the Israeli government is currently doing.
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>> Speaker 3: When I see Hillary Clinton
now, I just see a corporate robot.
>> Just go away.
>> Speaker 3: She just goes out there and
repeats, this is going to make more money
for my different donors
that I have had in my life.
The Clintons went into office broke.
They came out with $150,000,000 and
that was pretty convenient, by the way.
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How did they do that?
Among the different ways
that they did that?
Hillary Clinton went and gave speeches
at the largest banks in the country and
told them, I love you guys.
You guys are gonna be in
charge of my policy if I win.
And they gave her millions and
millions of dollars, so she's profited off
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the corruption her whole life, and
now she's doing more of that corruption.
Now, if she said, look, Israel has
the right to do Special Forces and
counter strike against Hamas,
nobody would argue with that.
In fact, Israel has been doing Special
Forces strikes inside Gaza right now.
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And guess what?
Just like I told you guys,
we set a constructive solution.
Not that Israel has to do nothing, okay?
The Special Forces have been working.
They bragged today about how they killed
a bunch of Hamas guys that came out of
a tunnel because they sent in
Special Forces and they rescued a hostage.
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That is actually effective, right?
What is not effective is
the indiscriminate bombings and
the collective punishment and cutting
off the water, the energy, the power,
the electricity to Palestinians.
And having thousands and
thousands of innocent civilians die, and
the onslaught that is about to
come with the ground invasion.
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But Hillary Clinton doesn't
care about any of that.
Look, there's two options for
why she says things like this.
One is she doesn't care
about anybody's lives.
It's like she's old know?
It's a group think, yeah,
rah rah military industrial complex.
Everybody in Washington is
going to get new mansions.
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Yes, maybe the Clinton fortune
can go up to $300 million.
>> Speaker 2: No, Cenk.
>> Or, yeah.
>> I think what it is, is she looks at
Netanyahu and she sees herself, right?
Who built up Hamas?
Who funded Hamas?
>> Speaker 3: Yeah.
>> Speaker 2: Who built up
the Taliban in Afghanistan?
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Okay, who gave them the weapons?
Who supported them to fight the Soviets?
The United States did and then we turned
around and fought the Taliban, right?
Engaged in a war in Afghanistan to
fight them after we're the ones who
empowered them.
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So Hillary Clinton turns around, she looks
at Bibi Netanyahu and says, I see myself.
I see myself, so what choice do I have but
to support what he's doing?
Similar to what we did in
Afghanistan with the Taliban.
>> Right, or she's an idiot, but
either way, it's not helpful.
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So why do I say maybe she's just an idiot?
She's the moron who voted for
the Iraq War because she thought
that would be good politics.
We're gonna kill a couple hundred
thousand innocent civilians and
a bunch of our service members and
we're gonna spend billions of dollars.
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Right, that goes to my donors,
forgot to mention that part.
We're gonna do all of that and
we're gonna accomplish nothing in Iraq.
You think?
Look, maybe the average layman in America
didn't know that Iraq didn't attack us,
but Hillary Clinton knew definitively
that Iraq did not attack us.
But she voted to invade Iraq
anyway because she's always wrong.
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She always supports whatever
the donors tell her to do.
If the oil companies and
the defense contractors order
the corporate robot to go out there and
tell you that war is awesome,
whenever America does it, Israel does it.
Then that's what the corporate
robot is gonna say.
And all the other corporate robots in
mainstream media are going to say,
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hillary, you must vote for
Hillary Clinton.
You cannot vote for Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders is dangerous.
This maniac that starts war after war
after war, all on behalf of her donors,
she's the only legitimate candidate.
Yeah, gee, I wonder why everyone in
America lost faith in mainstream media.
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>> Speaker 2: Why don't we see what
else this monster had to say about
the Palestinian people and
getting humanitarian aid to them?
Apparently she thinks
it's way too complicated.
>> Speaker 1: Should more aid be
getting in and should fuel be allowed?
>> Speaker 1: Well,
I think that this is one of those dilemmas
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that is very difficult to have a yes or
no answer.
I do think it's important at some point
to try to get fuel into the hospitals.
Israel is understandably worried about
the fuel being diverted to Hamas,
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and that's a totally legitimate worry.
But the hospitals will shut down, their
generators will shut down without fuel.
I think getting the aid
in is very complicated.
Getting the aid where the aid needs
to go is similarly complicated.
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But we have to be caught trying, and
the Israelis should be wanting for
us to figure out how to
get aid in that will
deal with these very serious
humanitarian challenges.
>> Speaker 2: So those hospitals
that are unable to function properly
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due to the lack of fuel, you need the fuel
in order to operate the machines.
Keep in mind that some of the hospitals
currently have premature babies
in the NICU.
Now, the premature babies
weren't born prematurely.
Many of them were literally cut out of
the stomachs of their dead mothers who
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died as a result of
the Israeli airstrikes.
Just something to keep in mind.
As talk about the complicated nature
of getting humanitarian aid to innocent
civilians who are now dealing
with the Israeli government and
the IDF reigning terror on them.
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Now, even her panelist Jim Baker had
a little more moral clarity than
Hillary Clinton had.
In response to the question about
humanitarian aid, let's watch.
>> Speaker 4: One overreaction,
in my view,
is to shut off fuel and
electricity and food and
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medicines to a civilian population.
>> Speaker 1: So you disagree with
Israel's decision to do that?
>> Speaker 4: No,
I disagree with embargoing food and fuel.
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And I also disagree with not letting
aid trucks get through the Rafa
crossing because there are a lot of
innocent civilians who are dying.
A lot of innocent civilians died.
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A lot of innocent civilians died
when Hamas went in brutally and
murdered 1400 Israelis.
But that kind of tit for
tat is only gonna lead to a broader war.
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>> Speaker 2: So, Cenk,
before I go to you,
I just want to give you a sense of what's
happening with the humanitarian aid.
Israel has allowed only a small
trickle of aid to enter.
On Sunday, 33 trucks of aid entered
the only border crossing from Egypt,
a spokesperson at the Rafah crossing said.
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But humanitarian workers said
the assistants still fell desperately
short of needs after thousands of people
broke into warehouses to take flour and
basic hygiene products.
They're experiencing a level of
desperation that is just unimaginable.
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And this is because of the block of
humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip.
And whatever does enter
is clearly not enough.
Cenk?
>> Speaker 3: Yeah,
should humanitarian aid enter?
Is not a complicated question.
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And she said there is no yes or no answer.
Incorrect, there is a yes or no answer.
Yes, humanitarian aid should enter.
So here I'll give you one needless example
but Turkey was bombing northern Syria.
Our US kurdish allies in the region
created a humanitarian problem.
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If you had said to me, hey, should we
allow humanitarian aid into northern Syria
where the Kurds are being bombed?
My answer would have
been an unequivocal yes.
Yes, we should allow for
humanitarian aid there.
Well, what if they use some of
the water pipes for crude missiles?
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Okay, what's the alternative?
Let all the Kurds die there?
No, it's not complicated.
Not at all.
What if they use the fuel for
some attacks against Turkish citizens or
other citizens?
Okay, what if they use the fuel to
save the babies in their hospitals?
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So, no, these are very poor excuses for
collective punishment and
massive civilian casualties.
And the people in Washington generally
don't care about Palestinians at all.
They don't think they're human.
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They have no empathy for them.
None, zero.
They don't treat,
is an Israeli life and a Palestinian life
the same to someone like Hillary Clinton?
Not even close.
She couldn't care about that
Palestinian's life at all.
She's never shown any interest
in Palestinian lives.
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Now, the final irony is if you
don't know who Jim Baker is,
he was the top advisor to Ronald Reagan,
okay?
And he was served in a number of roles,
including chief of Staff.
Then he helped George W Bush steal
the 2000 election this guy is very
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significant.
Almost a legendary not almost
a legendary right winger, okay?
The right wing is going to flank
the left wing on the anti war position.
The Republicans are going to take
the anti war position from the Democrats
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because the Democratic leadership,
they're all morons.
And they're incredibly callous and feeding
at the trough of defense contractors.
There's blood spilling out from your lips,
okay?
So now Republicans are at least
pretending to be anti war.
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And there's Jim Baker, one of
the legends of the right wing being so
much more humanitarian than
Hillary Clinton and saying,
look, aren't we going to care about
the Palestinian lives at all?
And by the way,
the American people are more on Baker's
side than Hillary Clinton's side.
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But the morons who run
the Democratic Party are like,
let's take the more unpopular position
again, because you know what?
Our military contractor donors love war.
So let's pretend Palestinians
aren't human beings.
They have destroyed the party of FDR.
>> 1000%.
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>> This used to be a beautiful progressive
party that stood for the average man.
Does it look like any of their leaders
today stand for the average person or
care about life at all?
>> Speaker 2: Pro corporate, pro war?
I look at the Democratic Party and
I feel overwhelming disgust.
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