Sep 23, 2024
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Nearly 500 People In Lebanon
Israeli aerial strikes in Lebanon killed nearly 500 people in an attack on Iran-backed Hezbollah.
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Tonight in one of the heaviest
bombardments since October 8th.
Hezbollah missiles
striking northern Israel.
More than 100 rockets fired, many of them
intercepted, exploding in the sky above.
And overnight, Israel carrying out
hundreds of strikes inside Lebanon,
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hitting this building
that allegedly belongs to Hezbollah.
The Lebanon based group today
saying they are entering, quote,
an open ended battle of reckoning.
As we feared, all out war has broken
out in the Middle East as Israel bombards
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Lebanon with airstrikes and Hezbollah
returns fire with hundreds of rockets.
The overwhelming amount of damage
has no doubt been seen in Lebanon.
The Israeli military says its
forces struck more than 300
targets inside Lebanon,
and the death toll keeps going up.
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Lebanon's health ministry
has raised the death toll to 492,
including 35 children, as well as 645
people injured in the Israeli attacks.
That makes today Lebanon's
deadliest day of conflict since 2006.
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The health minister said
convoys of vehicles evacuating people
from the areas under fire
had been targeted, as had two ambulances,
a fire truck and a medical center.
Two first responders were killed,
he added, and thousands of families have
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been displaced from targeted areas.
On Friday, an airstrike over Beirut
also killed at least 50 people,
including both Hezbollah fighters
and civilians, including children.
In a televised speech today,
Netanyahu claimed Israel's war
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is not against civilians.
Take a look.
I have a message
for the people of Lebanon.
Israel's war is not with you.
It's with Hezbollah.
For too long, Hezbollah has
been using you as human shields.
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It placed plays rockets in your living
rooms and missiles in your garage.
Those rockets and missiles
are aimed directly at our cities,
directly at our citizens.
To defend our people against Hezbollah
strikes, we must take out those weapons.
Now, starting this morning, the IDF
has warned you to get out of harm's way.
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I urge you, take this warning seriously.
Don't let Hezbollah endanger your lives
and the lives of your loved ones.
Don't let Hezbollah endanger Lebanon.
Please get out of harm's way now.
Once our operation is finished,
you can come back safely to your homes.
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He also told Israelis to expect
complicated days over the weekend
as tensions were heating up.
Axios reported an incredible tidbit about
Israel's alleged alleged strategy here.
Israeli officials said they're increasing
attacks against Hezbollah are not intended
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to lead to war, but are an attempt
to reach de-escalation through escalation.
They allegedly believe
putting more pressure on Hezbollah could
push them to agree to a diplomatic deal,
and that would return citizens
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to northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
U.S.
Officials told Axios they recognize
Israel's rationale and agree with it,
but stress this is an extremely
difficult calibration that could easily go
out of control and lead to an all out war.
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Yes, it seems like those fears have,
unsurprisingly, already come to fruition.
Hezbollah's leadership
said in a statement Monday
it was targeting dozens of rockets at an
Israeli military post in northern Israel.
Residents in the city of Nazareth
told NPR it was a scary night
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into early Monday morning, with rockets
and interceptions over us all night.
At least two Israelis have been injured,
according to paramedics.
Meanwhile, the US says
they're doing everything they can
to avoid a broader war, but their actions
would of course suggest otherwise.
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It was announced today that the US is
sending additional troops to the Middle
East in response to the escalation
of violence between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Pentagon wouldn't say how many more
forces were being sent, but we already
have 40,000 troops in the region now.
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Genk de-escalation through escalation.
Does that make sense to you?
It's one of the dumbest, most
Orwellian things I have ever heard any
government official say in my lifetime.
If the North Koreans said we're doing
de-escalation through escalation,
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we'd make fun of it for the rest of time.
And we should in this case as well.
What that means is, thank you very much.
We appreciate you admitting
that you are starting the war,
because that's an Israeli official saying,
yes, we're doing escalation,
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but that will lead to de-escalation.
I don't know how much he
laughed afterwards,
and I don't know how much he laughed.
After seeing the 35 children dead
and over 400 people slaughtered
as usual by Israel.
So, of course, the Israelis
have their usual standard excuses.
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Oh, they've been firing rockets
for 11 months.
How many of them landed? One.
And look, there might have been land
to some that landed
and caused minor injuries, but
overall they are enormously ineffectual.
So. Okay, but if they.
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Oh, my God, you were so concerned
that you had to go to war to prevent it.
Why didn't you do 11 months ago
or ten months ago?
Nine months ago?
No, you chose to escalate
and your official just admitted it.
And there's no question about it.
A little bit later in the program, we're
going to do another story about a former
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CIA director and secretary of Defense,
Leon Panetta, as establishment as it gets,
saying Israel is doing the terrorism.
That is an astounding thing for a U.S.
Official to say,
and I think he speaks for a lot more.
People hang around for that story as well.
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But now, let me give you more
from the American officials so you
understand what they actually think.
So Jordan read you the statement about we
technically agree with Israel's rationale.
Do we really have to say this?
They say, you know, as the people
that are in charge, the politicians go,
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yes, the clear check cleared from AIPAC.
Say it. Say you agree with Israel.
Yes. Sorry.
Yes, we agree with Israel.
That's why they send people like Leon
Panetta, who's not in the government
anymore, to say, of course,
Israel is the one starting the war.
But here you can see it clearly
in their own statements that they put out,
because they can't help it,
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because it's so obvious that Israel
is starting this giant war in the Middle
East, and they want us to fight it.
So here's a US official quoted by Axios.
One of the key messages
that we want to keep a path to open
to a diplomatic resolution
and therefore don't want the Israelis
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to take steps that will close such a path.
In other words,
they're closing the path to peace
by bombing the hell out of Lebanon.
Okay. If you're not clear enough.
More from Axios. The U.S.
Made clear to Israel that such a war
wouldn't help Israel achieve its goal
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of returning tens of thousands
of displaced Israelis
to their homes on the border with Lebanon.
So which one is it?
Do you agree with their insane,
ludicrous, humiliating rationale
of de-escalation through escalation?
Do you think that rationale is good,
or do you say
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that it would not achieve their goals?
It's obvious that officially we agree
with Israel because we are not allowed
to disagree with Israel.
But unofficially,
the minute you ask him any question,
they're like, of course it's Israel.
Are you guys nuts?
Hezbollah has been doing the
same ineffectual bombing for the last 11
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months, and now Israel is obliterating
them in basically invading Lebanon.
But Lebanon is not
their main target, guys.
Iran is. And but Iran is a giant war.
Israel cannot fight by itself.
That's why they want us to do it.
And conveniently, our corrupt politicians
have brought a giant part of our fleet
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right next to Iran
so that Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis
or Iran can bomb one of our ships,
kill a bunch of our service members
so we can say, oh, that's it.
We had to do it.
Come on, obliterate Iran.
Everybody pay for it.
Give it. Give us another trillion dollars.
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Give it over. Okay.
That's what they're going to do here.
I got more quotes from U.S.
Officials.
They say that,
they're focused on reaching.
I'm quoting Axios again,
focused on reaching an understanding with
Israeli leaders about the escalation dial.
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You get it.
So they're like, yep yep yep yep yep.
We have to say that they are
they're they're right.
And the other guys
are the bad guy terrorists.
But there's an escalation dial.
And it's been turned up to 11 by Israel.
That's why we're talking to their leaders.
Will you stop attacking
every goddamn neighbor?
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And Israel goes, yeah.
What are you going to do about it?
Send me another check. Yeah, dumbass.
Go home. I'll give you your next order.
Okay. When it's time you start a check.
Okay. It's.
Remember, because we normally give
Israel $4 billion a year, but when they
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slaughtered 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza
and obliterated the entire place,
we said 4 billion.
No, this time we're going
to send you 26 billion.
That's us politicians saying, nice job,
way to murder all those Palestinians.
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Oh my God, we're going to send you
so much more money.
Now imagine how much money we're going
to send them when they start slaughtering
that level of people in Lebanon,
let alone a much larger number in Iran.
Is it going to be contained at 26?
No, the next one
will probably be $260 billion.
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And I'm not at all exaggerating.
That is massive understatement, because
in Iraq and Afghanistan, we spent over
at least at a bare minimum, $2 trillion.
Iran has four times the size of Iraq.
One last one.
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McGurk, one of the top U.S.
Officials here,
who has to every once in a while go
and humiliate himself publicly and go.
Israel is right.
Attacking all your neighbors
is de-escalation.
Can I please leave?
This is every one of the US officials now.
Looks like a hostage video
when they're when they're doing
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their press conferences.
But he said, quote, we have disagreements
with the Israelis on tactics
and how you measure escalation risk.
It is a very concerning situation
combined with Panetta's comments.
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It is inescapable.
American officials are saying
we're not allowed to disagree publicly,
but they're starting the war
and they're going to make us fight it.
And there's no question about it.
The only people left
are like the Israeli zealots, like,
know everything Israel does is great.
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Of course, America should pay for it
and should fight their wars
for their special ally.
Moral army.
Well, we just killed another 400
some odd people.
Another 35 children.
If Hezbollah kills 35 children.
By the way, Hamas killed 34 on October 7th
and then return
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40,040 1000 Palestinians killed.
ET cetera. ET cetera.
For 34 kids.
October 7th 34.
Poor Israeli kids slaughtered by Hamas.
Hate it. Can't stand it.
Awful, right? 34. 35. Killed.
Just. Just today in Lebanon.
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America doesn't care.
The world cares.
But there's nothing you can do.
And America goes.
You need another check.
You need another check.
Okay, I know, we know you're starting it.
We know you're the one escalating, but.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. Whatever you need, sir.
Sir, the corruption in America
is a cancer of the world.
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It forces us to let the oil companies
do as much destruction
to this planet as possible.
Drug companies literally kill Americans,
68,000 Americans, health
insurance companies and drug companies
because we're the only civilized,
only developed nation
that doesn't have universal health care.
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We just let people die
in order for donors to make more money.
And now Israel says, you are to let
me kill as many human beings as possible,
start as many wars as possible,
and you're to shut up about it
and send me more money.
And right now, that's what we're doing.
If you don't realize
that's what's happening,
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you're just ignorant and and you will be.
You will pay for this war.
There's no question about it.
They will take a giant number out of your
check and go, no, no, no, that's
not going to help you with your wages.
It's not going to help your kids,
or get food.
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It's not going to help you with anything
that's set aside for Israel to start more
wars in the Middle East. 100% reality.
Jordan.
It's always interesting to see
Netanyahu post these videos
and release these statements in English,
because he's also he's not just speaking
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to people who speak English in Israel.
He's speaking to people in Congress
who are going to do his bidding.
So it's always fascinating
to see him release a video in English.
And in this case, we have an example
of what this type of language leads to.
Just there's so many parallels.
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We're almost at the one year mark
of October 7th.
And you see the same language,
the same the same deceitful tactics
to justify a bombing campaign,
a barbaric bombing campaign.
It's the same thing as human shields.
They're hiding weapons in your home.
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Please evacuate the area.
This isn't against civilians.
And already we're seeing
a civilian death toll.
Day one.
So the opportunity if US officials
and the Biden administration cared
would be would be to stop it now,
use the leverage you know you have.
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Stop it now.
Biden and his team over the past 72 hours
talked to media about how his number one
priority in his remaining days in office
is to guarantee a ceasefire.
How is this going to help?
How is allowing this to continue?
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Continue to send weapons aid, munitions,
whatever Netanyahu wants to not use an
ounce of leverage that you have over him.
How is that in line
with your number one priority?
We've seen these types of comments
from him and his administration
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for almost a year now.
And what does that amounted to?
They're moving to Lebanon in part because
they've run out of things to bomb in Gaza.
That's why they expanded their campaign
into a much larger extent
in the West Bank.
It's about a few things expanding their
control in that region and their influence
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in that region, but also preserving
Netanyahu's position as prime minister.
The longer a war rages, the longer
he's insulated from outside threats.
It keeps his coalition together,
keeps his government together.
He's not subject to an ouster from his
position or his government falling apart.
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So people have to die
because of his thirst for power?
Yeah.
So a couple of
other clarifying things here.
So to Jordan's point,
if this was Biden's top priority
to stop the war, well, he didn't.
So Joe Biden, by his own admission,
then, is a historic failure.
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Total utter failure.
And this is not complicated, guys.
If you want to stop the war, you use
your leverage, whatever the leverage
might happen to be in any negotiation.
What's our leverage here?
This is also obvious.
The 26 billion we're sending.
If you say, hey, if you do the thing
that I don't want you to do,
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which is escalation, which every official,
as I just read you, is making clear.
Yeah, Israel is escalating.
If you do that,
I will not send you the money.
It is the least
complicated thing on earth.
And why is he not using his leverage also?
Not at all complicated.
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If you're, like, still in la la land,
because you watch MSNBC and you're like,
well, he's such a great, empathetic,
sweet man and he just natural Zionist.
And he just believes that Israel should
be able to invade and attack and occupy
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millions of people any time that he wants
because he's such a jerk.
He comes from right here. Zionism.
Okay.
No, it comes from over $11
million in checks.
Honestly, if you don't understand that,
you're kind of an idiot.
And if you if you're a national media
and you just took that personally.
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Good. I meant it personally.
How dumb can you be
that you never write an article?
Why?
Joe Biden will not use his leverage
to get to his number one priority.
That never occurred to you.
It's never been in a single article
in mainstream media.
It never occurred to you that it might
be the $11 million or the 5 million they
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gave to Kamala Harris, or the $100 million
is spending on this cycle.
You're like, well, what do you think?
Let's have a debate.
Is it that he loves Zionism
or is it he loves exploding pagers?
Why do you think they're doing it?
Somebody says, could it be the money,
the $100 million they're
spending in this election?
Get out of here, you radical.
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We found an anti-Semite.
We found an anti-Semite.
Come on. If they really believe this.
Every reporter in Washington
is at the very bottom.
It's like the 1% on IQ scale.
Dumbest people in the whole country.
I challenge you.
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I challenge any reporter in Washington,
D.C., have a debate with me and prove
to me that the politicians don't care
about the hundreds and millions of dollars
that AIPAC is giving them.
That's just so irrelevant to them.
There's just all natural born Zionists.
God, you're sound so unbelievably stupid.
Okay, yeah.
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Now, I've said my piece
on that last things here.
Guys, the second reason why the pager
explosions, as I told you, was that's
that's as soon as that happened, I came
on here and said we're going to war.
That's Israel's declaration of war.
And then what followed afterwards?
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The leader of Hezbollah
comes out and goes, that was, quote,
an unprecedented and historic attack.
It crosses all red lines
and will be going to war.
That was their intent.
That is exactly what wound up being the
reaction of Hezbollah and every security
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expert that the US had says, well,
now and I read you the quotes from CNN
and all the other sources that say,
yes, now Hezbollah and Iran
will have no choice but to retaliate.
Otherwise they're humiliated
to their domestic audience,
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cannot retain power, etc.
Besides which, what if somebody slaps
you across the face, what, ten times?
A thousand times?
What do you think a normal human
being is going to do?
I know they're allowed to.
Israel is allowed to kill 460 people
in Lebanon, 35 children there
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because they're the moral army.
But of course, if a Hezbollah fires
back terrorist, why they're Muslims.
Muslims are always terrorists
and Israel is always the moral ones.
It doesn't matter that Israel kills
on a scale so much greater than any of
their Muslim enemies like 40 times Hamas
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and the people in media here again,
either the dumbest people on
the entire planet or the most biased go,
oh, Israel has killed
40 times the civilians of Hamas.
That is why Hamas is terrorists
and Israel is the moral army.
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I mean, we're so sick of these lies.
Last thing guys.
What? Israel.
Speaking of lies,
I saw it on the Piers Morgan Show.
I was kind of surprised by it when I heard
an Israeli official making this point.
And now they're doing it
over and over again.
And I realized that was the the beginning
of this propaganda campaign
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they're trying to decouple.
Hezbollah and Hamas and Gaza.
Wait a minute.
I thought you guys were saying
they were all funded by Iran.
They're all connected.
And they said, no, Hezbollah is not firing
the rockets because of the occupation
and to support Gaza
and to get Israel to stop bombing Gaza.
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Hezbollah just hates Jews
For no reason at all.
Not connected to the fact
that there's a 5.5 million people
imprisoned in open camps by the Israelis,
and not because Israel just destroyed
70% of the buildings in Gaza
and displaced 95% of the people there.
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Not because of that.
The Hezbollah is just doing it randomly
because they're raging anti-Semites.
And that's why we're allowed
to kill and murder all of them.
And we're the moral army,
and they're the terrorists.
Okay.
If you believe that you're, again,
either enormously biased
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and you're dumb as a rock.
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