Instant destruction in Gaza City this morning after an evacuation warning. No injuries reported this time, but this now. The very place which Israel's security cabinet has agreed to take control of. [00:00:15] The approved plan focuses very specifically here on the largest city in the enclave, home to hundreds of thousands of people. Some here say they'll refuse to move again, having returned to their homes after being displaced before. [00:00:30] Yes, as just said, right there. Overnight, the Israeli security cabinet voted in favor of the complete occupation of Gaza City, paving the way for the eventual, perhaps inevitable takeover of the entire strip. They had a meeting. It was somewhat divisive. [00:00:46] It lasted for ten hours. There was apparently heated debate between Netanyahu, who clearly wants to take over the entirety of the strip cleanse and all of that. And the leader of the IDF, Eyal Zamir, who has warned that a military military occupation of the entire strip would endanger the lives of the remaining [00:01:03] Israeli hostages inside of Gaza. According to four Israeli security officials, he also shared concern about the current level of exhaustion and fitness of reservists, and about the military becoming responsible for governing millions of Palestinians. [00:01:18] Now, I think as we're going to get to it's not only the head of the IDF, but also many of the families of the hostages that believe this increasing military conquest of Gaza would endanger the hostages, which obviously would be a good reason to not do it [00:01:34] if the goal was to recover the hostages. But if your goal was to just militarily conquer Gaza, then yeah, this is what you're going to have to do. And Netanyahu has been very clear about which of those two is actually driving his actions. And so they have not okayed the entire strip being conquered just yet, [00:01:52] just Gaza City as of right now. But the five principles which we're going to show you right here that Netanyahu's office said the security cabinet agreed to make clear that this military operation is not going to just end with Gaza City. [00:02:07] You can see they're saying there are five principles for ending the war Israeli security control in the Gaza Strip, disarming Hamas, returning all the hostages, including the bodies of those who've died, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and establishing an alternative civil administration that is neither Hamas [00:02:24] nor the Palestinian Authority. And, of course, as a matter of fact, basically they already control the vast, vast majority of Gaza, depending on who you talk to, it's somewhere between 75%, that Israel says it controls the UN says [00:02:40] about 86% or so are either militarized or under evacuation orders. And this is only going to increase that, as we said in the video, of course, Gaza, Gaza City in particular, has a very large population, something around 1 million currently living there. [00:02:57] It was smaller before the invasion of Gaza, but of course many people have been herded into there and so it looks like they're taking another big step. I suppose they could have, voted in favor of the complete annexation of Gaza. [00:03:12] So I suppose this is better than that. What do you think? Yeah. I mean, okay, no, I don't find that interesting at all. - We'll cover that in a month. - Yeah, it's. It doesn't matter. Look, guys, there's two major things happening here, and then I'll break down [00:03:28] some of the important details. One is Israel is trying to conquer land in the modern world while still pretending to be part of the West and civilized society, etc. And it's going to be really interesting to see if they can pull that off. [00:03:44] Like now, I'm not talking about the moral outrage. I'm going to get to that in a second. But in just like looking at it from a historical perspective, is it possible for Russia and Israel in the year 2025 to just say, we don't care about the people that are our neighbors, we're just going [00:04:01] to murder them and take their land. So that's what Russia is doing in Ukraine. That's what Israel is doing in Gaza right now. And they're also doing it in the West Bank, just slower. Right. And Israel has announced their intentions over and over again to take the West Bank and Gaza Strip. So they don't necessarily do an official pronouncement like this. [00:04:18] But their cabinet ministers say Netanyahu talks about Greater Israel. Netanyahu has talked about from the river to the sea. Netanyahu has brought a picture of the Greater Israel to the United Nations and giving a speech. Miriam Adelson has reported by the Israeli press, backed Donald Trump so that Trump [00:04:34] would allow Israel to annex the West Bank. You didn't hear that wrong. The West Bank, let alone Gaza. Right. So here's Israel in the middle of the whole whole world on the stage going, yes, we're starving them to death. [00:04:49] We're moving them to a camp. And yes, former Israeli prime minister has called it a concentration camp, and we're going to squeeze them all out. We're going to take this land for ourselves. So now you're going to see a little bit later in the show, [00:05:04] that Trump said it was starvation. And Netanyahu called him and furious and saying, how dare you ever disagree with anything? I said, okay. So we're going to find out, can Israel, now that people are seeing it happen? [00:05:21] Control America 100% and take this land and murder those people and drive them out and get away with it? So that's what they're trying to do. We're going to get to world reaction in a second. So number two thing is I need you to understand this, because it is not at all clarified in almost any of the articles. [00:05:37] You have to go to page, I mean, paragraph 37 to find out this information. Unlike a quarter of the articles, as John alluded to, they're going to have to move a million Palestinians in Gaza City to do this. How do you think that's going to go? Do you think that's going to go humanely from the people who murdered 4400 people [00:05:56] waiting in line for food just recently, by the way, that's more people than Hamas killed on October 7th. If I hear Netanyahu talking about how October 7th is the greatest tragedy known to humankind, as he does as he's done over 50th October seventh in Gaza, including on starving [00:06:15] people waiting in line for food. I'm going to vomit. And the whole world is vomiting right now, I don't know. For supporters of Israel, how do you think this is helping you? You have to be mental. You freshly escaped from a mental asylum to think that this helps Israel's reputation, longevity, creating a safe haven for Jews, etc., right? [00:06:34] So that moving those million Palestinians is going to be a slaughterhouse. So that's why even the head of the IDF is like, really? And by the way, the head of the IDF is a terrible guy. Not only did he do all these massacres, is he responsible for the slaughter in Gaza? [00:06:53] But earlier in 2018, when the Palestinians tried something that was nonviolent, going up to the gate that is keeping them prisoners in Gaza, he ordered their assassinations. He murdered 150 innocent people that were going up to the gate, including [00:07:10] including an American journalist. Sniper shots. So he's among the worst guys on the planet. And even he's saying to Netanyahu, are you nuts now? It's not going to be 150 or 1400. We're going to just kill like an endless parade of human beings to [00:07:28] move a million Palestinians and take Gaza. You have to be out of your mind. Netanyahu and the terrorists that are in the Israeli cabinet were like, yeah, we don't care. What do you think we did this for, you schmuck? What? To get rid of Hamas? What are you. I don't tell me you're a naive fool. We don't care about Hamas at all. [00:07:46] To get the hostages back, who cares? Let him get killed. No, we're taking Gaza. Get it through your head. The whole point of this slaughterhouse is to take the land to set up Greater Israel. So that's super obvious. I'm, you know, happy to have a discussion about it, but I think that all rational people can now see that, I hope but we'll find out. [00:08:06] So. And then now the details real quick before we get to Mark. Okay. In their so-called peace negotiations, they say that we they want Israeli security control of the entire Gaza Strip. That means occupy the entire Gaza Strip. Where's the compromise? The whole point was the cease fire. [00:08:21] The entire time has been Hamas saying, we'll give the hostages back if you give us some prisoners and get out of Gaza. Right. Israel's been pretending. Oh, yeah? Maybe one day we'll get out of Gaza. Sure. Yeah. Which is the whole point of ending this thing that you eventually leave Gaza and let the Palestinians govern themselves. [00:08:37] Of course, he's not going to do that. So his offer is complete and utter surrender and humiliation, and you get nothing and I get everything. And. And then the last part was that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, in fact, no Palestinian is allowed to govern Gaza. [00:08:55] Well, who the hell is going to govern it then? Oh, let me guess Israel. And then, of course, like the absolute lie of all lies that all of American press will now repeat, and I've seen it in all the articles. Well, Israel says that after they take all of Gaza, they will one day return it [00:09:11] to the Palestinians. I mean, you got to be the world's biggest sucker to believe that. I mean, it's preposterous thing to say, let alone believe. So every part of this is just as bad as it can be. And finally, you get to the hostages. So what they're doing here is they're calling Hamas's bluff. [00:09:28] They're saying we don't think you're going to kill them. We don't think there's anything you could do. So we're going to come in and you have no hope for peace left. Okay. We just told you there's. Our only offer is complete and utter surrender. Humiliation. [00:09:43] Allow us to take Gaza and write it down. By the way, sign off on us owning Gaza. Nobody's going to do that, and no one should do that. Okay, so now that there are no options left. At some point, if Hamas is to be believed, they have to kill the terror. [00:09:58] They have to kill the hostages, which is stomach churning and awful. And I hope they don't. I hope to God they don't. But Netanyahu saying, go ahead, go ahead, kill him. I don't care about them. Do you think I cared about the people who died on October 7th in Israel? Do you think I cared about the 61,000 people I murdered in Gaza? [00:10:15] No. The whole point is I murder a lot of people, and then I take your land. And that's the offer I have for you. So I hope Hamas was bluffing. And they don't kill those hostages. But now that the percentage chance of them getting killed is sky high because of this. [00:10:31] More curious about your thoughts? Well, I'm kind of would disagree with you on your take on the notions that Netanyahu is obviously a despicable, demonic figure in modern life. His view is something we can all only guess at. [00:10:47] But on the Hamas thing, I think he's not figuring. Look, we don't think you're going to kill the hostages. I think he thinks just the opposite. We think you are going to kill the hostages. In other words, nothing we can do can save these hostages. Therefore, I'll continue with this policy. And that's where I would agree with you. [00:11:03] This policy. That makes no sense. The, It's the really the reannexation of Gaza, as you know, because the Israelis left Gaza, they had control of Gaza in oh five and they disengaged. It was called the disengagement. [00:11:18] And they did so with many Israeli businesses and many agricultural concerns in Gaza being burned, and, and, and destroyed. And, and the Gaza Strip was turned over to the Palestinian Authority at the time. Now, I'm not suggesting that that, that that was a plan that was all [00:11:37] designed to, as a, as an olive branch. In fact, there, if you really drill down many Israelis who would say no, it was designed to freeze the peace process at the time, you know, to kind of prevent a permanent Palestinian state from being established. [00:11:54] So there's a lot here. Look, what we can agree on, I think, without question, is most of what Jenkins just said, which is this is a this is humanitarian, horror show. And I don't get the end. The one thing I would say is that the entire Knesset, the ruling parliament [00:12:13] of Israel, doesn't agree with this. And as you know, Jenk, there are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands Israelis taken to the streets who disagree with this as well. So I always hate it when Israel, which is clearly pursuing this as a government [00:12:29] horrifying, immoral policy, which is a jihad on the part of Benjamin Netanyahu. I hate it when two broad a brush is painted over the Israeli people, because there's a lot of pushback in Israel around this as well. [00:12:44] And Netanyahu, as you know, Jake, this is a policy to save his skin because he is an outlaw. He's a lawless leader, just like Donald Trump. So there's a lot going on here. There are a lot of crosscurrents. But most of all, this is an absolute humanitarian crisis [00:13:01] of of the greatest extreme. Yeah. Just real quick, before we go to John again with more updates from how the world is reacting to what Mark said. Yes, Israel withdrew from Gaza, 20 years ago. But people say that as if Gaza had sovereignty. [00:13:19] The Palestinians had were state. No, they were not a state. They didn't have sovereignty at all. The minute they did anything that Israel disagreed with, they would get bombed. They had to they didn't control their own borders. They had to go through humiliating checkpoints. They couldn't even come close. If they came within a couple hundred yards of the fence. [00:13:37] The current IDF head who at the time was in charge of the wall, would order that they be murdered so they could be murdered at any time by Israel. They had no sovereignty at all. So I don't want people thinking, oh, well, they gave them Gaza and then look at what they did with it. [00:13:53] No, it wasn't a real state. And and there's some chance that it was a trick, as Mark alluded to. Now, to the Israeli citizens. Look, there's, I feel conflicted about this. On the one hand, there's polling that shows that they want them to keep going in Gaza. [00:14:09] The majority in Israel do. And that is disheartening. And that is a coarsening of the culture that is heartbreaking. On the other hand, Mark's absolutely right. There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of protesters in Israel. There's a lot of people who want the hostages back, know that this is a problem. [00:14:25] And yes, plenty of people who think that enough already in what you've done in Gaza. And not only is it hurting the Palestinians, but they rationally conclude that this is harming Israel Significantly in the world stage and with America, etc., let alone their former prime ministers and the former heads of Shin Bet [00:14:43] and some former IDF soldiers, let alone the Jewish community worldwide, the top rabbi in America, the top Holocaust historian in America, etc., all the way down to the people confronting Alan Dershowitz as he's [00:14:58] being banned from buying a pierogi. And he's like, you're all, you're an anti-Semite. You're an anti-Semite. They're like, I'm Jewish, I'm Jewish, I'm Jewish. Right? So all these activists who've been pushing for peace and trying to do the right thing, unfortunately, governments sometimes turn into a horrific situation, and that's what's happening [00:15:15] with the current Israeli government. John. Yeah. Yeah. And the devastating thing is, if I mean, you know, they get a lot of negative pushback. If they take the land, then they have it. They have it for effectively forever. That seems to be the calculation. Russia obviously knows they look terrible with what's happening in Ukraine. [00:15:31] But look at the deal that apparently Trump and Putin have agreed to. They get to keep all the land. And so that's that's the world order that's being set up. You can just you can invade, you can commit war crimes, ethnically cleansed areas. And who's going to stop you? Who's going to stand up to the UN going to do something, [00:15:49] especially with Trump in power. He supports all of this. These are his buddies or worse than buddies in the case of Netanyahu, where he's clearly the submissive in the relationship. That said, we're going to get to those reactions really fast. I should let you know. They say, Palestinians have until October [00:16:05] 7th, conveniently to evacuate Gaza City. And that's when they're going to launch their ground invasion. As said was said in that video, many do not plan to leave or can't conceivably. I mean, these are people who've been starved. Like, what are they going to do? Like how are they going to do that? [00:16:20] And so God only knows how many people are going to die as a result of that, if they even wait until October 7th. Here are some satellite images showing the the massive and rapid buildup of infrastructure and military vehicles. Now, maybe those were moved there so that they could just sit [00:16:36] for several months without being used. I guess that's possible. I'm old enough to remember what happened when Putin had built up all of his forces over the border from Ukraine, saying they weren't going to use it. So we'll see. As Genk has been saying, there has been significant backlash, [00:16:51] not only from some of the forces he was talking about inside of the United States, obviously the UN, Europe as well. The Hostage Families Forum, an organization representing the families of the hostages still remaining, put out a statement saying we are appealing to the cabinet. [00:17:08] The expansion of the fighting is a danger of death and immediate disappearance for our loved ones. Look us in the eye when you choose to sacrifice them. And so that is a good statement. They're obviously scared about what might happen to their family members. But we've been covering this for a very long time, and I feel like there's always a point in one of these big stories [00:17:25] where we get to a statement from the families of the hostages, and they're always being ignored. Netanyahu does not. He's never he's barely even pretended to care about what they think about this. And as Jake said, former Israeli leaders, political, military [00:17:41] have put out statements as well. The Israeli opposition leader denounced this move, saying that the invasion could lead to many other disasters not only the deaths of of hostages and the killing of many soldiers, but tens of billions of dollars in costs, as well as diplomatic bankruptcy, which that same sort of comment, [00:18:01] Ehud Barak, former Israeli prime minister, had written in the end of July an opinion piece talking about Israel becoming a pariah state. So that's sort of now out there, this concern that you are doing very long term damage to the reputation of Israel by continuing this. [00:18:18] You have 550 former Israeli security officials, including the former head of Shin Bet, sending a letter to Donald Trump saying it is our professional judgment that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel. [00:18:34] And our experience tells us Israel has all it takes to deal with its residual terror capabilities, remotely or otherwise. Of course, I understand that they're they're trying to appeal to Donald Trump. The idea that Hamas posed a strategic threat to Israel before all of this is absurd. [00:18:50] The idea that they posed a significant tactical threat is kind of stretching things, but even they're admitting, come on, what are they going to do? Like pretending that you need to ethnically cleanse the entire Gaza Strip because of Hamas? That just does not. It's ridiculous at this point. [00:19:06] But unfortunately, as as we've covered on the network, as I'm sure they've covered on The Young Turks, earlier this week, Donald Trump, like a beaten dog in his press conference, just says, well, you know, it's it's going to be whatever Netanyahu wants it to be. This guy that loves throwing his weight around, silverback gorilla, alpha male. [00:19:25] Not with Netanyahu. It's whatever the dude wants to do. Yeah. And notice so everybody in Hezbollah leadership is dead. Everybody in Hamas leadership is dead. And, you know, Israel used to use the excuse of Hamas fires rockets into Israel. I'll tell you why I call it an excuse in a second. [00:19:42] But notice they haven't done that in a long time because there are no rockets left, because there's almost no Hamas left. So they don't have that excuse anymore. Did it stop them? No. And if all 20 of the hostages were killed today or return today, it doesn't. Better yet, returned along with the bodies. [00:19:59] And they got Hamas. Got nothing in return. Right. Do you think Israel would stop? There's no chance Israel would stop. They'd come up with a new excuse, and then our media would repeat that excuse as if it's legitimate, and then have a fake debate about it. And then Congress would send them another five, ten, $20 billion. [00:20:15] Right? So this has nothing to do with any of that. Can Hamas in the old days do some damage to Israel? Obviously. Look at what happened on October 7th, right. But that was startling because it was so extraordinary, so rare that they could do that kind of damage. [00:20:31] But that's the kind of damage that Israel does. I don't say daily, but some days, but certainly weekly, weekly. And in in Gaza, Israel regularly murders that many people. Right. So like the idea that the Palestinians are an existential threat to the best [00:20:50] defended nation on earth is preposterous. The Palestinians are down to stones, and when they throw a stone, some terrorists murder them and they do in the West Bank, etc.. Right. That they're going to somehow defeat Iron Dome and Israel's nukes with rocks. [00:21:08] This is an absurd, ludicrous thing, but all of our press repeats it as if it's oh no, no, the Palestinians are not under existential threat. It's not a problem that their state does not exist. Reality is not at all important. [00:21:23] The fact that the Palestinians are in concentration camps, that they're being starved, that they've been brutally occupied by this despotic force for all of these years. Not important and should never be discussed. But poor Israel is under an existential threat at any point. [00:21:42] These Palestinians, with their rocks and and their fists, are going to destroy all of Israel and kill all the Jews. It's it's ridiculous. It's not anywhere within a million miles of truth. It's the reverse of reality. It's it's Orwellian to pretend that the Palestinians are the aggressors [00:22:02] and Israelis are the victims. So no, it's not within a billion miles of true. So I'm going to go to the last two things for me. Let's see if that turns out to be true. Civic folly, 86, wrote in, from, a member on Twitch. [00:22:18] Israel. Israel already occupies three quarters of Gaza. If they take Gaza City, it's 100% occupied. That's a great point. Like they say, Gaza City, but there's nothing else left. So thank you for contributing to the show. That's terrific. And Rebel Dragon on tight.com, a member on our website said Israel kept [00:22:36] insisting it's not an occupation. So what gives them the authority to even have a vote like this? So yeah, you tell me. Oh, no, we don't control Gaza. Okay. Now we're going to decide what we're going to do in Gaza. And here now we will tell the Palestinians what to do. And then lastly, okay, as I kick it back over to Mark, [00:22:54] when Netanyahu and the other enormous liars that speak for the Israeli government now come out and go, oh, we're here to liberate the Palestinians. It's just it's like it's grotesque in in every way. [00:23:11] And if, if, if Israel was a government that I liked or loved, I would be ten times angrier than I am now, because then I would say, oh my God, not only are you slaughtering these Palestinians and doing it with American money and getting the whole world to hate you, but you're making this government [00:23:31] and this country that I love. Let's put aside the government, this country that I love as one of the most hated nations on earth, with great justification. And and how did that help? How did that help Israel to be absolutely loathed by the world as the entire world [00:23:49] sees them, starving babies to death? How did that help Israel? Well, we're going to get more land. Wow. Okay. Genocidal freak. I bet that keeps people safe in Israel. Their only threat to their safety, as they are the greatest nation on earth. [00:24:06] Literally no one else has Iron Dome. Only like eight. What, seven? Eight? Other countries have nukes? They are. And that's why when the IDF soldier earlier this week said, yeah, they told us to stand down on October 7th. Oh, the guys who targeted Hezbollah and Hamas with pinpoint precision [00:24:23] and the Iranian scientists, etc., with pinpoint precision. They couldn't respond. What? For seven hours on October 7th, or however long it took for the IDF to what, walk over there? They didn't have cars. They didn't have ships. They didn't have anything. Now, this is all total nonsense. [00:24:41] They have genocidal freaks running that government now. And if you love that country, that should break your heart into a thousand pieces. And you should be doing everything in your power to make sure that that guy is taken out of office. Mark last words. Well, the stench of this humanitarian horror will be something that, as you [00:24:58] said, will, change the face of Israel. And it's heartbreaking because there is so much great in history about Israel and about the people who live in Israel. And this is a this is a horror show. And you're right. It's as I say, the stench will overtake it. And it's it's indefensible. [00:25:14] I want to go back to what you just said, though. I just want to make sure I'm clear on this. You're saying that the IDF deliberately stood down to allow October 7th to continue with the the rapes, murders and the destruction of October? I really I. Is that what you were saying? [00:25:30] Yeah. So I'm not saying an IDF soldier said it earlier this week. Okay. So I'm reporting it. Do I know that he is absolutely right? I don't know. Have others have Israeli officials conceded that they had the information about October 7th but decided to dismiss it? [00:25:49] They did. Right. Yeah. So you could say you could put those things together and go. That's paints an interesting picture, especially given the enormous capability of Israeli intelligence. Right. Sure. But do I know for sure? I do not know it for sure. Thank you for that clarification. I mean, it's more than a little bit controversial. [00:26:06] The notion that the and there's a political price that's been paid, and continues to be paid by Israelis toward their government because of October 7th, because you guys did know about this. You heard about these plans and you didn't take them seriously. [00:26:22] To Jenks Point, you didn't think Hamas had it in them to actually pull this off. So I always feel like the Middle East is this is look, this is horrifying. As I said, it's a it's humanitarian, awfulness that I can't even get my head around. [00:26:38] And, I always feel the Middle East is, like a movie. It depends when you walk in. And, boy, I walked in right now, and it is, sadly, the Israelis are all bad on this one, and they. The only thing I would say about the Israelis is, I said at the beginning [00:26:54] is from people I've talked to, there are a huge chunk of Israelis who are not good with this. They hate this, and they don't want it to continue. But this government has been hijacked by Netanyahu, and he's on a jihad, and it's a horror show. [00:27:10] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.