Jul 15, 2025
Israeli Settlers Attack CNN REPORTER
CNN's Jeremy Diamond managed to escape an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
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Hundreds of Palestinians turned out for
the funeral of Saifullah Masala on Sunday.
The 20 year old was born in Florida
to parents of Palestinian heritage.
As we head to the location
where Saif's body was retrieved, a
white vehicle suddenly appears behind us.
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We have a group of settlers
who are now following us in their vehicle.
They've put their masks on as well,
which is a concerning indication.
At an intersection, the settlers get out
and try to pelt our vehicle.
You know, every once in a while, we come
across a story that makes me understand
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the value of the Second Amendment.
And this would be one of them,
because Israeli settlers have been raining
terror on Palestinians and in some cases,
even killing American citizens
in the West Bank with impunity.
And they're so emboldened
that now they're attacking American press
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that's reporting out of the area.
So while reporting on the brutal killing
of an American citizen in the West Bank,
CNN journalist Jeremy Diamond and his team
were
actually attacked by Israeli settlers.
And it's yet another example of the
impunity that these settlers get to enjoy,
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because oftentimes they are provided cover
by either the IDF
or the Israeli government.
Now, as we talked about yesterday,
Saif Musalla, a 20 year old American from
Florida, was beaten to death by settlers
while visiting relatives
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in the occupied West Bank.
And according to the family,
a group of settlers blocked an ambulance
from reaching him for about three hours.
Because they're religious fundamentalists?
No, no.
- They're lunatics.
- They're terrorists.
Call them what they are.
They are terrorists.
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As many as five Americans have been killed
in the West Bank since October 7th.
And our government
hasn't done anything about it.
Nothing. Nothing.
They keep sending
our taxpayer dollars to Israel.
They keep sending bombs to Israel.
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I mean, we keep doing
whatever Israel wants, but Israel provides
cover for these settlers
who have killed American citizens.
How are we okay with this?
Okay, guys,
think about a different country.
So imagine Syria had killed
five different American citizens
in five different incidents, right?
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Or China had killed five Americans
in five different incidents.
And they say, yeah,
we beat your Americans to death.
So what? What are you going to do?
And prevented an ambulance
from reaching them?
Yeah. And and yeah.
And we made sure they bled to death after
we beat them within an inch of their life.
And we wouldn't let the ambulances in.
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So what what are you going to do about it?
Right.
Do you think America
would be like, oh, no.
No. We're good. Okay.
I'm so sorry. China.
Here's $30 billion.
Remember, since October 7th,
we've given them not just the 4
billion a year, but on top of that,
we're sneaking in 500 million into
the Pentagon budget that Marjorie Taylor
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Greene tried to take out the other day.
And we've given them 30 billion extra
for the genocide.
Oh, you guys are slaughtering
innocent Palestinians.
Oh, you're murdering Americans, too.
Here's our gift to you. $30 billion.
Imagine China kills five Americans,
and we give them $30 billion.
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It is inconceivable.
If you say that AIPAC doesn't
run Washington, you're a moron.
Okay, so like in mainstream media.
Look, Jeremy Diamond,
we've given a lot of credit to Trey Jenks.
We've given a lot of credit to.
He's on Fox News.
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Those two have been super brave,
doing great reporting.
When we see great reporting, we love it
and we give credit where credit is due.
The rest
of the mainstream media is a joke.
Totally like I mean.
Like, you don't notice that these guys
are murdering Americans
and we're giving them money to do it.
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You don't notice that the lunatic
terrorist settlers keep murdering
Palestinians for no reason in the West
Bank, having nothing to do with God.
You didn't notice that Gaza is leveled,
that they've destroyed all of Gaza,
and they're trying to move them out,
and you're still equivocating and people
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calling people anti-Semites, you monsters.
I don't like.
I've said before, I'll say it.
Call me an anti-Semite, I don't care.
Okay, those are our people.
Those are Americans who are getting killed
by these emboldened terrorists.
Okay.
That enjoy the euphemism
of Israeli settlers?
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No. They're terrorists. Okay.
Yes, they're religious fundamentalists.
They're terrorists.
And they are provided cover
by the Israeli government.
So what does that say about the Israeli
government, which we're funding, we're
supporting, and we're sending bombs to.
Absolutely disgusting.
By the way, let's not forget the fact
that after October 7th, I can't remember
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if it was Ben Gvir or Smotrich,
but there were images and videos of them
passing out assault weapons to settlers,
to these terrorists, to further
terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank.
So when this happened
relatively early on in the conflict,
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I remember I had a debate discussion.
It was a number of hosts.
I can't remember what show it was.
And one of the hosts,
he was a pretty gentle debater.
He was he seemed like a good guy.
But he said, you know,
my I grew up in the settlements.
My parents are settlers.
Are you saying
all settlers are terrorists?
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You know, are wrong.
And I'm like, yeah, of course I am, right.
Because the settlers, the whole point of
the settlers is let's go steal Arab land.
100%, because our God told us
3000 years ago, we think.
It was promised to us.
It was promised to us
because we're the chosen people.
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If Arabs said that or Muslims said that.
No, no, no, Allah promised it to us.
That's why we're murdering you
and taking your land.
Everyone would call them. What?
Terrorists, right?
So I said, yeah, brother,
I'm sorry, but that's right.
And I said, so what was the ideology
you grew up with?
And then he admitted, yeah,
we were taught to hate the Arabs
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and that it was our land.
And by the way,
what's the Israeli propaganda?
Oh, we can't let the Palestinians
have a state.
They were taught to hate us.
By you guys. By you guys, by the way.
Because you're occupying them, you're
putting them in concentration camps.
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Okay?
But meanwhile, they're taught
to hate Arabs, to steal their land.
Exactly.
God damn it, man, they should get nothing.
Jesus.
Wake up! America!
So a second man.
Man, I should note who wasn't an American
citizen was also killed by this attack.
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Mohammed Al Shalabi, 23 year old,
was killed in the same incident.
So, Jeremy Diamond, from CNN and to your
point about media, Jake, you're right.
Overall, I think the media has
been terrified to cover what's happening
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in the Middle East accurately,
with a few exceptions.
And I want to give Jeremy Diamond in
particular credit because he's done really
great reports, you know, on the ground.
And this is a good example.
Now, diamond and his team
were in the West Bank to cover this story
about the American citizen getting
slaughtered by these Israeli settlers.
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And instead of ending up becoming instead,
they ended up becoming targets
of the same terrorists
that we're talking about here.
So let's go to the next video and you'll
get a sense of what I'm talking about.
We managed to approach a nearby
Israeli border police vehicle,
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and the settlers turn around.
He got out of the car
with a gun or something.
No, he's trying to get rocks.
Shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot
shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot
shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot!
- Go go go!
- Drive drive drive!
Keep driving.
The masked men smashed
the rear windshield of our car,
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but we managed to speed off unharmed.
No no no no.
- They turned, they turned, they.
- Turned, they turned.
It is just a small window
into the reality here.
It took us five more seconds.
- We all would have been beaten with.
- You think they would have beaten?
- Yes, sir.
- But your son was also killed.
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In January 2024. By a settler.
Simply just being there. Barbecuing.
Israeli police tell us
that they have opened an investigation
into the attack on our team.
And they say that they, quote,
take such matters extremely seriously.
We will be monitoring to see
what the outcome of that investigation is
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because, as you know, there has been
enormous levels of impunity for these
Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
I just want to refer back
to the comment I made about
the Second Amendment and the importance.
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No no.
No. Palestinians are not allowed
to defend themselves.
They're not allowed
to defend themselves only.
It's only the Israelis can
defend themselves by starting wars
and by occupying other people's land
and by stealing it.
That's how they defend themselves.
But God forbid,
if you try to defend yourself
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and against an Israeli occupation,
you'll get smeared as terrorists from here
to eternity by the liars in American media
and all of Western media that will say,
how dare the Palestinians
resist the Israeli occupation?
They should know that the Israelis
are the chosen people
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and they should surrender to them.
They are lowly Muslims, and they're
supposed to be beaten to death.
And if they protest terrorists
and if you anti-Semite f the media,
all of American media that has been
perpetuating these viciously racist
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and bigoted lies against Palestinians,
Arabs and Muslims my whole life,
all of you guys are guilty while you
chase around mythical anti-Semitism.
Or do you criticize Israel?
Anti-semite? Anti-semite?
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Oh my God.
Oh, they say something about Netanyahu.
Anti-semite. Anti-semite.
Well.
Oh, they they're protesting for peace.
Anti-semite. Anti-semite.
Well, you go do
that over and over and over again.
There's massive bigotry against Muslims,
the murder of Muslims,
children over and over.
Do you know us?
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Every time this goddamn media do you
do not denounce Hamas, denounce anyone
fighting back against Israel, right?
Okay, fine. We denounce them.
They do something terrible.
You know how many people they killed?
Civilians they killed on October 7th, 815.
That's a big number. That's terrible.
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You know how many children
under the age of one babies
Israel has killed since October 7th, 870.
More than all the civilians Hamas killed.
So if Hamas are the worst terrorists,
what does that make Israel
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the murderer of babies?
Peace.
Oh, no. No, you can't say that.
Anti-semite. Anti-semite.
Anti-semite. Right.
No, I don't care.
I don't care what you call me.
- Stop murdering babies.
- Stop murdering innocent people.
- All of these innocent people.
- You killed their.
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Stadium full of children. 17,000 children.
Everybody says
they care about the children.
Unless it's Palestinian children.
In which case, anti-Semite.
You don't care about bigotry.
You are bigotry. American media.
You are all bigots,
with the exception of wonderful people
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like Jeremy Diamond and Trey Yingst.
Yep, yep.
By the way,
Jeremy Diamond looking real good.
Keep get it, boy. Keep getting it.
All right.
Just adding a little bit of lightness
to this terrible story.
But, you know, of course,
the foreign press has weighed in on this,
essentially condemning what has happened
to Jeremy Diamond and CNN in this attack.
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By the way, he posted a photo
of the shattered, you know, back window
of the vehicle that they were in.
And of course, it was shattered
by these terrorists.
Now.
Jeremy Diamond reported
that the American who was just killed
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by Israeli settler terrorists, Saif, his
father, has come out to share his thoughts
and demand justice for his son.
Now, do I think that there
will be justice for his son?
Well, given the four other Americans
who have been killed in a similar way
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in the West Bank?
No, I don't think
that there's going to be justice.
That's unfortunately
the situation we're dealing with.
But let's hear what he has to say here.
We want we want justice.
His father, Kamal, was home in Florida
where he runs an ice cream shop
with his son.
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When he got the call
that Saif had been attacked by settlers.
You never think that it's your son
or anything like that,
that whose is happening to.
And then I got word that it was my son.
He was hit. He was beaten.
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He lost consciousness,
but nobody could get to him.
Ambulance couldn't come in. Why?
Because the IDF restricted that.
The IDF blocked that.
So you hold the Israeli military?
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I hold the Israeli military
just as responsible as the the settlers
and the American government
for not doing anything about this.
The State Department said it is aware of
safe's death, but declined to comment
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further on calls for an investigation.
So far, there's only been
one American official who has weighed in
on what happened to Saif,
and that's unfortunately,
a pretty disgusting individual.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee,
who says that he's asked Israel
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to aggressively investigate this.
Oh, I'm sure they're right on it.
They're working around the clock on it.
You know, how many settlers
have been held accountable or IDF soldiers
held accountable for those American deaths
in the West Bank?
Zero.
They're never held accountable
because they're like, oh, who cares?
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We control America so we can murder
their citizens any time we like guys.
The IDF literally fired shots
at a group of international diplomats
as they were visiting Jenin.
Israel said they are going
to investigate it.
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What happened to that investigation?
What happened to the investigation
of every hospital and school
that they destroyed?
Do you know that right now
they're going through Gaza?
And not only are they bombing all the
buildings, but they're bulldozing them.
They're bulldozing all of them.
Well, how are you?
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What is bulldozing a home?
Have anything to do with finding Hamas?
It's Hamas's fault.
Yeah, I'm sure they used the home
as a shield, blah blah blah, blah blah.
Okay.
I'm so sick of my money being robbed
from me by the American government,
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by the sick American politicians
robbed from me to go pay for the slaughter
of those innocent children
by a terrorist government of Israel.
You call me anything you like,
but I fight genocides.
Okay, I fight it.
If it's happening to Jews, I fight it.
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If it's happening to Palestinians, I
fight it no matter who it's happening to.
And if you're not fighting
against this genocide, you're sick,
there's something wrong with you,
and you're a bigot and you're a racist.
Okay, so go ahead.
Every time somebody calls anybody
fighting against genocide an anti-Semite,
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I'm going to call them a racist
a thousand times over because they
don't give a damn about any life
but precious, precious Israeli lives.
Oh, those settlers, poor little terrorists
murdering anyone they like.
No, I don't give a goddamn about them.
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Stop sending our money for this murder
and slaughter and genocide.
Stop sending our money!
Israel is literally robbing us.
They're robbing us. They robbed you.
Every time you go to work,
Israel takes a portion of it.
Why? Why?
Why are we under an obligation
to give over $300 billion?
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Because we might have pedophiles. Look.
- Government.
- Yeah.
Even if that government was saintly, like,
Norway's a perfectly lovely government.
We haven't given them $300 billion
because we don't owe them.
But we give Israel over $300 billion,
and they still say you owe us.
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No, we don't owe you a goddamn thing.
And after this genocide, the world
doesn't owe you a single thing, okay?
Nothing.
You've used up all of your goodwill.
It's gone.
You are now no longer the victim.
You are the villain.
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You are a worldwide villain.
The latest to commit a genocide.
And all of you are going
to go to a museum.
And God help you, Netanyahu,
if there's ever an honest American leader.
Because then we're going
to pull your protection.
And I can't wait to see you in The Hague
and and Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
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If those guys are not getting Nuremberg
trials, then we failed as a society.
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