Israel's military launched an attack unprecedented in scale in recent history in Beirut's southern suburbs, with both dead and wounded being counted literally as we're live on the air. Multiple residential buildings have been utterly destroyed, and we are [00:00:15] going to show you some footage of it. It looks like what I imagine. I don't know, Dresden would look like. Like utter massive craters and just an entire residential area turned into it. Looks like the moon. It does not look like Earth anymore. [00:00:33] And that's what was done in the last day. This was the largest Israeli strike in Beirut since the 2006 war. They were, according to them, the reasoning for this was they were targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The strike, of course, also brought down multiple residential buildings. [00:00:50] We can show you right here two of the buildings that were destroyed. I've seen counts of 4 to 6 buildings having been destroyed, by by the numbers that we had, at least when we were putting this together. At least two people had been killed and 76 wounded. [00:01:06] Of course, that is a very preliminary assessment of the casualties, because when the buildings are destroyed and many of them might well be filled with people, it takes a long time, if ever, that you actually find them and can count it. Now, I did see video of two children being pulled still alive, [00:01:23] but of course injured from the rubble. So at least two of the children whose lives were endangered by this attack were thankfully not killed. But of course, many, many were. And we'll find out over the next day or week or month exactly how many. Bear in mind that more than 700 people, just within the bounds of Lebanon, [00:01:41] have been killed over the last 11 days of this fighting. And that's that's a massive scale of violence. I saw one thing that stood out to me. In one town in Lebanon, dozens of people attended a mass funeral for one family, the Shu'ayb family. [00:01:58] A strike overnight had killed 15 members of the family. There was one survivor in that entire family to attend the funeral of 15 people killed during a strike, because they lived in the wrong area. Yeah. [00:02:13] Okay, so let's break this down. First of all, Israel, with yet another terrorist strike in the capital of a neighboring country. This is the third capital that they've attacked, Damascus, Tehran and Beirut. [00:02:28] And they and, of course, every time they do an aggressive attack against another country, they go, oh, we have a right to defend ourselves. Okay, so now you're the Israeli supporters out there going, oh my God, Jake, how dare you? [00:02:43] Hezbollah has fired tens of thousands of rockets. How many have landed and actually killed people? One, one. So does that mean that Hezbollah's nice guys for doing that? No, no. You want to condemn them? Happy to condemn them. Of course they shouldn't do that, etc.. Right. So now are we going to be even handed? [00:03:00] No. You're going to say Hezbollah has no right to do that. And I don't care if it barely ever even hurts us. We have a right to kill. 700 of them. 12 kids were killed in northern Israel. So now we have a right to kill 700 and then 7000 and then 70,000. We have the right to kill an unlimited number of human beings. [00:03:17] No you don't. That's not right to self-defense. Israel is definitely starting this war. So. Okay, look, I'm tired of debating the nonsense. People that are so biased that they're borderline lunatics now. Totally detached from reality. They. In their mind, Israel is little. David is surrounded by her Goliath. [00:03:36] Palestinians and the Palestinians have all the power at any second. They can make Israel not exist. Israel has Iron Dome. In some ways that makes it literally the safest country on earth. It doesn't have a right to exist. It exists already. It's existed since 1948. Does Palestine exist? [00:03:54] No, no. And who's blocked Palestine's right to exist? Israel. And you go. Well, they they they they they they might, they might block our right to exist theoretically, hypothetically, at another time. But we've been blocking their right to exist for 57 years. But who cares? [00:04:10] Their lives are aren't worth anything, and our lives are worth everything. Yeah, I know, but that's because you're a giant hypocrite and I can't stand it anymore. So I gave the analogy the other day on the show. When I was a kid, I got into a little scuffle with another kid and he threw a stone, giant stone for at me in his driveway, [00:04:27] had broken off the driveway, and and it hit me and I started bleeding from the from the head. So I murdered him, his mom, and the entire neighborhood. Now, if I told you that story, the first part is true. He did throw the stone and it did hit me in the head. It was gigantic and I was bleeding from the head. [00:04:43] Did I murder him? No, of course not. You know why? Because I'm a decent moral person. But Israeli logic according to their right wing government. But honestly, like now, how many years? Six decades of every government says if you even throw a stone at me and it doesn't hit me. [00:04:59] Or a rocket. And it doesn't hit me. It doesn't matter. I get to murder you. Your mom. Because the mom came out in that story. And your neighbor who didn't do anything wrong. And in fact, I'm going to incinerate the entire neighborhood and murder all of these innocent people because you threw a stone. [00:05:16] It didn't even hit me. But who cares? Because I'm the moral one. No, that's what a wildly indecent, immoral person does. And then if you are, if you only listen to American television, you'd never know this. Do you know why Hezbollah has fired those ineffectual rockets right now? [00:05:34] I debated a guy on Piers Morgan. They comically. He's like, oh, I don't know. For no reason. Because they hate Jews. I mean, I. But look, to be fair, I was going to say, if anybody is stupid enough to believe that if you watch American media, you literally wouldn't know a second reason why. Right. So I'm not blaming the people who receive that propaganda. [00:05:52] I'm blaming the people who did that propaganda. No. Israel has been occupying 5.5 million people. The Palestinians, for 57 years in a dictatorial control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And then they go around and gaslight the world and go, we're a democracy. [00:06:08] Ignore the concentration camps we have for 5.5 million people. They're not allowed to the minute they step. They don't even have to do anything wrong. They don't even have to look at us wrong like Emmett Till did. I mean, if they look at us wrong, the settlers are going to murder them. If they don't murder them, the IDF is going to murder them. [00:06:23] And then there's going to be a kangaroo court that says 99% of them are innocent. Oh they are. Well, the Palestinians deserve to be murdered. You know, their lives have no value at all. No. They are occupying in a dictatorial way. 5.5 million other human beings. [00:06:40] And then they say, we have a right. You have to kill all of them because we have a right to defend ourselves. So now I'm going to ask what is for any normal human being, the most logical question on earth. But an American media will be considered deeply controversial. Do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves. [00:06:58] Do the Lebanese have a right to defend themselves? And if by defending themselves, Israel means killing 41,000 people in Gaza, do the Palestinians have an equal right? Now, nobody can answer that question because you'd have [00:07:15] to say logically they would. As human beings have the same rights. But here in America, if you say that, you'll be canceled, fired, and maybe even arrested because are you equating Hamas or Hezbollah with Israel? [00:07:32] When Israel's killed 40 times more. How dare you? Israel is obviously a moral one. No, I'm here to break the spell. Wakey wakey, America! You've been hypnotized by liars and propagandists. No. Israel does not have a right to murder anyone it likes and call it self-defense. [00:07:49] Hamas doesn't have that right. Hezbollah doesn't have that right, and neither does Israel. J.R. It's the basis for how we do stuff. I mean, look, societies do this? I think since forever there's been wars. You kill a large number of people. There's always civilians and citizens killed in these wars. [00:08:05] And the person who's the strongest and the most savage and most brutal and most bloody is the one who wins. And then they make the rules. All these things have been said. Nothing about this is brand new. Nothing about it's new. You talk about how you got the rock thrown at you as a kid. There's street violence, there's cliques, there's gangs, [00:08:21] there's gang violence in the streets. A lot of times it's retaliatory. You kill someone, that's my brother, then it's going to happen back to you and maybe three other people with it. And we criticize that. This is just a larger scale of that. I'm not sure why that's we've got everything right in front of our faces [00:08:36] about everything that we're talking about, from politics to wars, which always go hand in hand. But I think there's beginning to be these moments when people can see reality. There's so much more new information, not new information, just information that we decided not to look at before. So everyone can sit at home, grab their phone and find out what's happening. [00:08:52] That's why a lot of these journalists, a lot of these victims that are in these war torn areas, is are showing us what they're experiencing, what they're seeing, and the tide begins to turn. But that's what makes people who kind of have been buying into the dehumanization campaign of this would go, how dare you? [00:09:08] But if you can say, how dare you not care about 40,000 people being murdered and you see children's bodies in bits and pieces, where's the shame? Why not? Because we've always been accepting of that. The nation was built off of dehumanizing people, murdering them, [00:09:26] and then saying, that's okay because it's for the greater good. Those human lives don't matter. And anyone who's affected by it that still hangs around that one person of the 15 of his whole family, he, his or hers, whole family that that was brutally incinerated, how should they feel? [00:09:41] We don't think that far because that's not a human. They don't have the same feelings I have. They don't have the same outlook on the world as I have. Think about a five year old that's been here for five years, looks up at the world and sees that there's constant bombing coming their way, and then apparently never hears this. [00:09:57] Probably that the people who are saying it's okay are saying, well, it's because the people that look like you, that are adults voted in the wrong person, wrote in the wrong party, votes in the wrong type of leadership. So therefore you five year old child, your life is in danger. [00:10:13] I think they would probably again their only experience in this existence. Think about it that way. You're only experiencing this existence. You look up and there's this nation, a couple of them that are killing everyone around you. That may be an idea that you're in hell. [00:10:29] What is this world I'm in where this is acceptable, where I'm just living and there's rockets and bombs and a ton, two ton times size bombs landing on my head. Yeah. Why is this acceptable? I feel like this is an unreal world. [00:10:47] We can't see it that way because they don't matter that much. We can say who's so and so doesn't matter. But when you think about when someone says so-and-so doesn't matter, it really goes all the way down to their literal existence and experience in this world. - Yeah, and that's a really bad person. - Yeah. [00:11:04] I mean, you just described the almost the entire American government, let alone the Israeli government. Those people that are saying that, look, guys, the kids and the adults that were killed in Israel on October 7th, and then that one strike from Hezbollah that landed. [00:11:21] Those are precious, valuable lives. The minute you find out about any of them, I would hope to God that you you feel empathy towards them and you go, that's a real person. They were at a concert, they were on a farm. They were doing something with their grandma. They were doing something with their aunt, and then they got kidnaped, [00:11:37] they got killed, etc.. I love that you care about the Israelis in that way, and I care about the Israelis in that way. And I want Israel to be a safe haven for Jews across the world who have been abused throughout history. But this is not a safe haven. And what part of a safe haven is I'm going to keep you in prison for 57 years. [00:12:00] And? And you. Your life doesn't matter, and I can. We have a right to defend ourselves. But you do not have a right to defend yourself. You have to accept your dictatorial imprisonment. You have to accept that you live in a camp and that you're never going to be free. Netanyahu says, I will never allow a Palestinian state. [00:12:16] If a Palestinian leader said that, that would be cause for Israel to murder them. Those are facts. When they say Israel shouldn't exist. Israel says they're terrorists and I have a right to kill them. They just are bragging about how they tried to kill Nasrallah Hassan [00:12:32] Nasrallah today in the Beirut attack that we're talking about now. They said, well, he says that Israel doesn't have a right to exist, but Netanyahu and every Israeli leader is certainly in recent history has said that a Palestine doesn't have a right to exist. I shouldn't say every Israeli leader in the recent history, [00:12:47] because there's plenty of liberals, etc. That aren't like that. But I'm saying his cabinet. Okay, so no, we have America has this ludicrous two different sets of rules for two different sets of people. And as our heart breaks for Israeli citizens, their heart does not break for [00:13:04] Palestinian citizens or Lebanese citizens. They look at those dead Muslim kids and they go, so what? Hey, you know what? Not so what? Joe Biden would like to send Israel a thank you note and attach $26 billion as a thank you for murdering those Muslim children. [00:13:22] Yeah. Joe Biden, by the way, is a racist, doesn't care about Muslim lives at all, has never cared. Has voted for every war to murder more Muslims 100% unjustly. John is absolutely right. In the earlier segment, America killed way more innocent civilians in Iraq [00:13:39] than Israel has even killed in Gaza. And Joe Biden voted for it. And that's who Joe Biden is. If his donors are going to make money, the defense contractors, etc., Joe Biden will let you kill any number of Muslims you want. One of the most racist men in American Politics, then pretends to go [00:13:56] and do civil rights and against and protest against apartheid with Nelson Mandela and get arrested. Giant liar. He never did that. Huge liar. Deeply racist and a total loser who let this giant war in the Middle East [00:14:11] happen on his watch because he refused to use his leverage with Israel? History will think of Joe Biden as a weak, pathetic warmonger. And he earned it. He earned it. Congratulations, Joe. That will be your legacy. [00:14:28] Young Turks, thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. [00:14:43] But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. Thank you.