And in the Maghazi refugee camp. Hamas says another Israeli strike killed at least 38 people and injured 100 more. This photojournalist carried his dead child, one of four he lost, along with four brothers and their children. [00:00:16] Photojournalist loses four of his own children in the Gaza Strip. Unfortunately, that is not a rarity in the Gaza Strip these days, entire families continue to be wiped out by IDF airstrikes in response to what happened in Israel on October 7th, when Hamas carried out a terrorist attack. [00:00:35] Now, Israel, of course, says that they're going after Hamas, but their military activity there, the aerial bombardments, which are relentless, show a pretty clear disregard for human life. And if the actions don't speak to you and give you the reality of the situation, [00:00:52] I'll give you actual statements from members of Netanyahu's Likud party. Now, the Israeli government, along with the Israeli Defense Forces, continue to shamelessly bomb refugee camps, knowing that the majority of those killed will in fact be civilians and children. [00:01:09] Here are more details on that. This was the Maghazi refugee camp this morning. The panorama of destruction from the air. Soon becomes the particular of tragedy on the ground, and that [00:01:26] unbearable murmur of misery returns. At least 40 dead, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel doesn't deny the number, but says that the presence of Hamas units makes it a legitimate target. What human price victory? It is the question that haunts this war. [00:01:44] Perhaps any war. And here, too, both sides have answers that are unacceptable to the other. An Israeli fighter jets struck this ambulance convoy claiming Hamas fighters were inside. Men and women laid in their own pools of blood outside [00:02:00] the strip's biggest hospital, Al-Shifa. Israel also hit Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, the third time in five days, targeting more militants and infrastructure. In the aftermath, this anguished boy said he carried out dead bodies, [00:02:17] including one decapitated. Now, before I go to you, Jake, I think it's really important for people to understand that the images you're seeing are very much real. And despite what you might be hearing from Netanyahu, despite what you might be hearing from officials here in the United States, Biden administration [00:02:36] officials justifying what's happening and pretending as though there isn't this attempt to target Palestinian civilians or conflate Palestinian civilians with Hamas militants. Let me give you some actual statements from politicians within Israel. [00:02:51] Some Israeli hardliners advocate keeping control of Gaza and permanently expelling its Palestinian residents. That's called ethnic cleansing. For those who might not know, a Likud lawmaker, Ariel Kallner, has called for another Nakba that would overshadow the original mass displacement in 1948. [00:03:12] Right now, one goal Nakba, Kallner said on October 8th. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join, he added. Also, a far right government minister, Amichai Eliyahu, said on Wednesday [00:03:27] that Gazan land should be given to former Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, or to former Israeli settlers who lived in the enclave before Israel withdrew from it in 2005. Then on Sunday, he said that Israel should consider [00:03:43] dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, an idea that drew condemnation from Netanyahu and other members of the government. Netanyahu has decided to suspend him over that because he appeared to say the quiet parts too loudly. And finally, in a statement, the UN chiefs said in a joint statement [00:04:01] that an entire population is besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival. Bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship. This is unacceptable. We need an immediate humanitarian cease fire. It's been 30 days. [00:04:17] Enough is enough. This must stop. There were 18 UN signatories on that letter. Netanyahu refuses a cease fire. He barely wants to engage in tactical or humanitarian pauses in order to get humanitarian aid into the strip. [00:04:34] Because it's not about saving human lives, innocent human lives. It's about getting your pound of flesh, and it's about brutalizing these people while simultaneously conflating them with Hamas. That is what's happening. Yeah, we should cut off all funding to Israel 1,000%. - It's not. - Even close. [00:04:49] So the extra $14 billion, I mean, anyone with a conscience would vote no. That's easy. The current billions of dollars that we send to Israel, they get the most aid out of anyone, even though they're a very healthy economy and one of the largest economies in the world, one of the largest militaries in the world, [00:05:07] certainly one of the most capable, if not largest in terms of manpower. And and I don't know why America is funding them in the first place. For what? There are big allies to do. What? To set the whole world on fire and have 1.6 billion Muslims furious at America [00:05:23] so that we can drop bombs that say, made in the USA on innocent civilians and have them hate us forever and ever and ever. How does that help America? How is this big ally helping us? I just don't get it. Oh, there are big democracy. No they're not. They're a democracy within Israel. [00:05:39] But they occupy millions of Palestinians and give them no rights at all. It's a brutal occupation that seems to have no end at all. How is that a democracy? Imagine if any other country was like, oh, we have a democracy. Oh yeah. Yeah. We keep millions of people prisoners, you know, they're not allowed to go anywhere. [00:05:56] They're not. And any time we could cut off their water power and drop bombs on their heads. But we are a democracy. No you're not. You're not even close. As long as you're occupying the Palestinians, you don't get to call yourself a democracy. It's like China saying they're they're a democracy. [00:06:12] It's absurd. It's totally absurd. So China is a little bit different case, but but you get the point. I say that because the Chinese are of course, got concentration camps for the Uighurs. And they said, what, what? Oh, I'm allowed to do concentration camps. No you're not. You certainly can't do that. [00:06:30] And call yourself a democracy if you're upset at the words that I just use. You can call the open air prisons that are the occupation. Any words you like, it doesn't matter. It is deeply immoral. It is not right in any way. And I don't want a single American dollar going over there. [00:06:46] That's my money. That's your money? That's taxpayer money going to kill innocent civilians. Are we insane? I mean, look at the lunatic words coming out of the mouths of the right wing government of Israel. All these right wing members going, oh, yeah, let's just kill them all. Let's just do ethnic cleansing. Let's do genocide. [00:07:02] Nakba means catastrophe. That's what happened in 1948. They were all Palestinians were displaced. And now they're saying, yeah, let's do it on purpose. Before we were pretending we didn't do it. Now I like that we're doing it. Let's celebrate that we're doing it, and let's drive these people out and kill as many civilians as possible. [00:07:17] Don't pretend that Israel is not. Honestly killing civilians. You can't say I killed 13 Hamas members and 10,000 civilians. Imagine if Hamas did that. Oh, by the way, Hamas killed a lot more Israeli soldiers. [00:07:33] So. But. And they also killed tons of civilians. Right. But they have a better ratio than Israel does. Israel has killed almost no Hamas members and killed 10,000 civilians. When you're five times as bad as Hamas. We should not send you a dollar. [00:07:49] Yeah. And I want to give you two other pieces of information that might convince you of what I think sober minded individuals are seeing and acknowledging. One of the other things that happened recently. I want to go to the first graphic here. Palestinian health officials said eight people were killed [00:08:04] in an airstrike overnight on Gaza City's Rantissi Cancer Hospital. Israel's military said it was looking into the report. Now Israel denies that it targets hospitals and refugee camps. Rather, they're targeting Hamas, which uses these structures [00:08:19] and their inhabitants as human shields. But let's say we give them that argument that Hamas uses these Palestinian civilians as human shields. Well, you guys pulled the trigger knowing that there are innocent civilians, many of whom are children, many of whom are women, many of whom are [00:08:35] innocent civilians right there who are going to lose their lives once you decide to sign off on that airstrike. The other thing that I thought was fascinating was Israel decided to bomb one of the only water sources for Palestinians near the Jabalia refugee camp. [00:08:54] I don't know. Were there like Hamas fighters hiding in the water pipes? Is that what the argument is going to be? And by the way, you know, a Hamas statement called on UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez to form a committee to visit Gaza hospitals [00:09:11] to verify Israel's false narrative that Hamas uses these hospitals as sites. Now they might I don't know, I don't trust Hamas. I want to be clear about that. But the fact that Hamas is calling on the UN to send a committee there to to prove it, to show what's actually happening on the ground, [00:09:28] I think speaks louder than just taking what the IDF says at face value. The civilian death toll is massively high. They have already confirmed on multiple occasions that one of their strategies is to push Palestinians outside of the Gaza Strip into Egypt. [00:09:47] Whatever remains of Palestinian civilians. And at the same time, you're seeing rage across the Arab world. We are sending we're engaging in a military buildup in that region as we speak, and we're already seeing our troops get targeted by rocket fire [00:10:05] because of this, because of the rage, because of the anger. This is quickly expanding. I think we're already in a like a low grade war with Lebanon. And I'll give you some details on that in just a moment. - But, Jane, can you weigh in on that? - Yeah. So I think that a giant difference has been made by the videos [00:10:22] that we're getting out of Gaza. In the old days, the West, not just Israel, would bomb the hell out of Muslim lands. Let's keep it real. Okay. And and before that, of course, Vietnam. And before that, other places as well. But now for the last 20, 30 years, it's been pretty much almost [00:10:41] exclusively Muslim lands. We just bombed them, bombed them. Hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq when Iraq didn't even attack us. And then our politicians, like jackasses and liars, come out and go, oh, I don't know why they're mad at us. Okay. We were just trying to liberate them and give them freedom at the end of one of [00:10:58] our bombs, and it blew their heads apart and it murdered their children. I don't know why they're mad at us. So we spend money that goes to defense contractors. They get unbelievably rich off of it. And then we make about a billion and a half enemies because we keep killing them. [00:11:16] But the American people totally blinded the media, telling them all we had to we had to attack Afghanistan. We had to attack Iraq. Israel had to kill all those Palestinians. Oh, they're hiding behind the civilians. What do you mean, you're occupying them? Where are they supposed to go? So, okay, and to Anna's point, and I've said this a million times, [00:11:34] would you please, seriously, if you're out there in the audience, would you do it? Would you say, oh, that that's a bad guy. They're even hurt. My family members hiding behind five civilians, an aunt, a sister, a baby and and two parents. [00:11:50] Would you kill them? Would you say, hey, I was getting the bad guy, so I murdered the baby. The aunt. ET cetera. ET cetera. I wouldn't do that. I would hope no decent person would do that. So how come our government is helping Israel do that? Oh, and they are helping quite a bit. Yeah. [00:12:05] And so I just want to say one more thing, though. But now that we're seeing the videos, whether it's through cell phones or, or incredibly brave journalists who are risking death at the hands of Israel by reporting on the ground, let's be super clear about it. Risking death at the hands of Israel. [00:12:22] Okay, so they go in there and they get those pictures, then you've got to then now you have all of a sudden you have a decision to make. Before we didn't see him. We didn't see him in Iraq. We didn't see him in Afghanistan, and we didn't see them. Earlier in these conflicts in Israel and Gaza. Now you're seeing them with your own eyes and you go, oh my God, that is a kid. [00:12:40] Oh my God, that guy is decapitated. Oh my God, that is a woman crushed to death under all those blocks. Yes. Oh my God. Who did that? We did that. We're funding Israel to drop bombs that say made in the USA on top of their heads, kill them at a rate of 10,000 civilians, which is now I'm losing track [00:13:00] seven times worse than Hamas. And then we say, well, I don't know why they hate us. That's why they hate us. We killed their civilians and we're doing it today. And you still have a green light from the American government to do it. Let's go to graphic six, because this will help you understand just how many kids are dying in Gaza. [00:13:18] Every ten minutes, on average, a child is killed and two are injured every ten minutes. During this war, the UN Relief Agency for Palestinians said the UN. So I'd like to hear the Israeli government pretend as though these numbers aren't real, [00:13:34] because they can't argue that Hamas controls the UN. The agencies shelters in south Gaza are overcrowded and unable to take new arrivals, and many displaced people are sleeping in the streets, the UN humanitarian office said. And so this has led to a lot of rage toward the Biden administration, [00:13:51] providing cover for the brutality that the Israeli government is basically carrying out against Palestinian people. And so Blinken is like, oh, we got to do something about this. It's not going to bode so well for Biden's chances of getting reelected. [00:14:08] And so Axios is reporting that Blinken continues to ask for humanitarian pauses, which is different from a cease fire in order to essentially get Americans off his back, get maybe some protesting members of the Arab world [00:14:24] off the American government's back. But he's trying to sell it to Netanyahu by saying that this might even help them with their ground invasion. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told his Israeli counterparts on Friday that agreeing to a humanitarian pause will help the US fend off [00:14:39] growing pressure it is facing over its support of Israel's brutality in Gaza. Operation is a very light way of putting it. Blinken said that the Biden administration is taking a lot of fire domestically and internationally because it is giving Israel its [00:14:56] full backing and then get a load of this. Blinken's message, according to one US and two Israeli officials, was, we don't want to stop you, but help us help you get more time to kill more people. Oh, I filled in that part. So in other words, green light, 100% green light. [00:15:15] We don't want to stop you. We want to help you with your propaganda. That and so that you can get catch your breath and then kill more Palestinians. So that's the current American position. And it's disgusting. And so look, there's a rebellion now in America. So we've got the left wing was never in favor of this brutality [00:15:34] and this monstrous behavior on the part of the right wing government of Israel. Now, a lot of right wingers are saying, I don't get it, man. Why are we killing these people? I just don't get it. And so they're in the America First crowd. America First is in like, I'm not getting money. Now we're going to give more money to Israel to kill more civilians [00:15:52] who are then going to come bomb us. Why? Why are we doing that? Good question. Why are we doing that? Why no one's asking why? For what? These nonsense talking points about how their democracy and how they're an ally. All they ever do is get us in trouble. And it's not because of who they are, it's because of what they do. [00:16:12] It is the government's actions. If they were attacked by Hamas, we all went in when they were. We all had sympathy. All Americans were on the same team. We all wanted to support Israel. And now they're like, okay, we're killing way more civilians than the terrorists. Are you still with us? And our answer in America, according to the polling, [00:16:29] is no, no, we're not with you. We don't want to spend money to have you kill those innocent people. And so but our politicians. No way, no way. So, like, what is every politician in in DC or almost all of them? [00:16:45] They're just bloodthirsty. They like killing civilians. What is it? No, they like money. That's what it is. So now, of course, go ahead, go ahead. - Oh, the media. - Afraid of AIPAC. They're afraid like Fetterman. Okay. Fetterman is terrified about what AIPAC and the Democratic majority of Israel [00:17:01] is going to do to him if he grows the pair necessary to call out what is actually transpiring in the Gaza Strip. You can't say that about Senator Bernie Sanders, who also fails to call for a cease fire. Maybe Bernie genuinely thinks that despite the brutality that Palestinian civilians [00:17:19] are dealing with right now, I'm going to support Israel anyway because of what Hamas did. But if you think that this is going to root out Hamas, that is laughable to say the least. Hamas leaders are not even in the Gaza Strip. They're in other countries. They're in Lebanon. In Qatar. There's no conversation about making a deal with those countries [00:17:36] to turn over those Hamas leaders and bring them to justice. However, the Israeli government wants to bring them to justice. I don't even give a damn, but I think that the targeting of civilians is pretty clear. I think that there is acknowledgment, even among some US officials, [00:17:52] that what they're doing is not going to keep Israeli civilians safe in the long run, but they want their pound of flesh. So I guess they're getting it. It's just that we're also cosigning to a potential expanded war with other countries. Real quick, Jake, I wanted to mention the details about Lebanon. [00:18:08] So tensions increased with Lebanon after an Israeli strike on a car in the south of the country killed three children and their grandmother, Lebanese authorities said. Israel said it hit terrorist targets of Hezbollah in south Lebanon in response [00:18:23] to a missile attack against tanks that killed an Israeli citizen, Hezbollah said it responded by firing rockets at Kiryat Shmona, a town in northern Israel. And we are building weapons like we're amassing weaponry [00:18:41] and military presence in that region. In fact, the US military announced something over the weekend, so the US Central Command said on a social media post on Sunday that an Ohio class submarine was entering its area of responsibility. [00:18:57] A picture posted with the announcement appeared to show the sub in the Suez Canal, northeast of Cairo. And so this is a sub that has the capability to launch guided missiles. And they say that this is an attempt to deter any potential expansion of the war. [00:19:16] But it's also considered provocative for these countries in that region to see an increased and aggressive military presence there. It is again, provocative. And it might actually lead, in my opinion, to a worse situation, [00:19:31] not a better situation. I think if you want a real deterrent, you persuade Israel to engage in a cease fire. And when Netanyahu says no, you threaten to pull the funding, but the US government isn't willing to do that. So we're just sending our boys and girls into harm's way. Just just like on the hoping that Iran or some other country kills them [00:19:50] so that we have an excuse to attack and start a much larger war. What does Israel's military can't handle? Hamas in Gaza? They seem to be destroying every square inch of Gaza. Why do they need our aircraft carrier? They don't have enough weapons. That's absurd. [00:20:06] The only reason the aircraft carrier goes there is to get attacked like they're crossing their fingers. Please attack us. Please attack us. So we have an excuse to start a giant war. And so, guys, look. And I mentioned AIPAC. If you're a lunatic, you think no, AIPAC and Democratic majority for Israel has [00:20:23] no effect, even though they spend millions of dollars in every campaign in campaigns like the one against Nina Turner. And they eliminate their political opponents. But golly gee, we can't talk about it. No, I can talk about it. That's definitely a factor. But are but they're not the largest factor. [00:20:39] The largest factor is defense contractors. So that $14 billion is not going to go to Israel. It's going to go to defense contractors and then to Israel. And they're going to take their the defense contractors are the ones taking the pound of flesh. They're going to take all the money, and they're going to give bribes [00:20:54] to every stupid American politician that takes bribes. Yes, they're bribes from defense contractors. Campaign contributions, my ass. That goes to your power, your fame, your status. That's how you buy it with the blood of Palestinian children. And so. And the defense contractors just think, oh my God. [00:21:12] Yes. Send the aircraft carrier, please attack America. Come on. Raytheon executives, Lockheed Martin executives, all of you guys. You're telling me you're not preparing right now, that you don't have spreadsheets that are ready to make an unbelievable literal killing on this? [00:21:29] If a war with Iran starts and that guy's right wing, left wing, moderate wing, it doesn't matter. How does this help America? Show me one way that it has helps America. So one last two things here. They say, oh, this is not an endless war. It isn't. [00:21:45] How do we know when Hamas has been defeated? It's literally an impossible standard. There is no arbiter, there's no ref, there's no nothing. Who can say, oh, okay, we're so Hamas is now defeated. It's not a thing. It's just a BS excuse to kill more Palestinians and maybe ethnically [00:22:04] cleanse them and maybe reclaim Gaza. According to some of the right wing officials in the Israeli government, thinking, oh, great, we'll take their land to we'll kill them and take their land. Look, I'm going to say this analogy one more time, but it's the when in [00:22:19] the when the Ottoman Empire was breaking apart, a lot of different ethnicities attacked the Ottoman Empire. That's what happens when an empire is decaying. The Greeks attack, the Bulgarians attack, the Armenians attack, and then the Armenian attack the Turkish. At the time, the Ottoman government went and killed tons [00:22:36] of innocent Armenian civilians as well as the people who attacked. Then they drove them, they marched them, and tons of people died in that march. Okay. And that's what we call the Armenian Genocide. So and you know what the Ottoman government said at the time? [00:22:53] We have a right to defend ourselves. These Armenian rebels attacked our troops and attacked our civilians. We have a right to defend ourselves. And if America was around on the Ottoman side at the time, there would have been like, whoa, whoa whoa, what? Let's send money to the Ottomans. They have a right to defend themselves. [00:23:09] Let them kill as many civilians as they like. That's literally what we're doing right now in Israel. Last thing. Look, I don't want to put pressure on Jewish Americans. It's not their business. They're not Israelis. They're Americans. Okay, but I have hope, and I have faith. [00:23:25] What I have seen is not only are the right wing, left wing, etcetera now turning on this issue, but tons and tons of wonderful moral Jewish Americans are saying, not in my name. Don't do this in my name. All you're doing is sullying my name. Don't do it. Don't do it. I'm not signing up for this. [00:23:41] I love those folks. They're not just wonderful Americans. They're wonderful human beings who are trying to get to the right answer. And I love that they're saying, do not do this in my name. Thank you. 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