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Joe Biden facing a protester calling for a ceasefire. We will tell you his response. He made some news with that. We'll get into that and also additional American response. We also have a bit of a focus on what is going on in the West Bank. Of course, we know about the brutality in Gaza, but also violence escalating there as well, so we'll break that down for you what it could mean for the future of this conflict going forward.

Joe Biden facing a protester calling for a ceasefire. We will tell you his response. He made some news with that. We'll get into that and also additional American response. We also have a bit of a focus on what is going on in the West Bank. Of course, we know about the brutality in Gaza, but also violence escalating there as well, so we'll break that down for you what it could mean for the future of this conflict going forward.

Also a lot going on with regard to Ukraine.

Also a lot going on with regard to Ukraine.

Yes, Toms, both in terms of US public opinion, but also really the wheels kind of coming off internally and some signs of growing discontent from some people close to Zelensky.

Yes, Toms, both in terms of US public opinion, but also really the wheels kind of coming off internally and some signs of growing discontent from some people close to Zelensky.

We will bring you all of that.

We will bring you all of that.

Also, some really interesting general election polls RFK Junior getting like twenty two percent of the vote. This is massive, I mean, I feel like this is dramatically undercover at this point for a third party candidate to be polling this high. So we'll show you that breakdown of you know, who is helping, who's hurting, what it all means. Really fascinating there. We also have our first pull in the Democratic primary with new challengers janke Yuger.

Also, some really interesting general election polls RFK Junior getting like twenty two percent of the vote. This is massive, I mean, I feel like this is dramatically undercover at this point for a third party candidate to be polling this high. So we'll show you that breakdown of you know, who is helping, who's hurting, what it all means. Really fascinating there. We also have our first pull in the Democratic primary with new challengers janke Yuger.

And Dean Phillips, so that is interesting note as well.

And Dean Phillips, so that is interesting note as well.

And in the wake of the UAW scoring those big victories with regard to the Big Three, those tentative agreements, you already have reportedly Toyota, which of course is non union, responding to the pressure by upping the wages for their workers, and you have new union pressure being put on Tesla, So really interesting developments. They're also excited to be joined by James Zogby to talk about the dramatic, truly stunning fall in Arab American support for Biden's re elect Really fascinating stuff to get into that.

And in the wake of the UAW scoring those big victories with regard to the Big Three, those tentative agreements, you already have reportedly Toyota, which of course is non union, responding to the pressure by upping the wages for their workers, and you have new union pressure being put on Tesla, So really interesting developments. They're also excited to be joined by James Zogby to talk about the dramatic, truly stunning fall in Arab American support for Biden's re elect Really fascinating stuff to get into that.

Yeah, I'm excited to talk to him.

Yeah, I'm excited to talk to him.

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So we want to start with that. This happened late last night.

So we want to start with that. This happened late last night.

President Joe Biden was at a fundraiser in Minneapolis when he was confronted by a member who said that she was a rabbi and asked him to call for a cease fire.

President Joe Biden was at a fundraiser in Minneapolis when he was confronted by a member who said that she was a rabbi and asked him to call for a cease fire.

He made some major news in his response. Let's take a listen.

He made some major news in his response. Let's take a listen.

I'm a rabbi. I need you to call for a seafire right now.

I'm a rabbi. I need you to call for a seafire right now.

There you can see the rabbi asked him for a ceasefire. Here is what he said, quote, I think that we need a pause. A pause means give time to get the prisoners out. Continuing quote, I am the guy that convinced BB to call for a ceasefire to let.

There you can see the rabbi asked him for a ceasefire. Here is what he said, quote, I think that we need a pause. A pause means give time to get the prisoners out. Continuing quote, I am the guy that convinced BB to call for a ceasefire to let.

The prisoners out.

The prisoners out.

I don't even know what he wut with that.

I don't even know what he wut with that.

I'm the guy that talked to CC to convince him to open the door. Assuming he means the raw foot crossing the Heckler was then escorted out by security who was singing cease fire now on Gaza. He continued, quote, I understand the emotion. This is an incredibly complicated for the Israelis. It's incredibly complicated for the Muslim world as well. I supported a two state solution, I have from the beginning. The fact is the matter is that Hamasa a terrorist organization, a flat out terrorist organization. Look, the big news out of that is when he said I support a pause or a humanitarian pause. I believe that's previous language that the administration has used, but is still I mean, the problem with Biden is is this an official change of US policy? Is this going to come from the State Department? Or is this off the cuff at a fund.

I'm the guy that talked to CC to convince him to open the door. Assuming he means the raw foot crossing the Heckler was then escorted out by security who was singing cease fire now on Gaza. He continued, quote, I understand the emotion. This is an incredibly complicated for the Israelis. It's incredibly complicated for the Muslim world as well. I supported a two state solution, I have from the beginning. The fact is the matter is that Hamasa a terrorist organization, a flat out terrorist organization. Look, the big news out of that is when he said I support a pause or a humanitarian pause. I believe that's previous language that the administration has used, but is still I mean, the problem with Biden is is this an official change of US policy? Is this going to come from the State Department? Or is this off the cuff at a fund.

It just trying to placate the person who's in there exactly.

It just trying to placate the person who's in there exactly.

This man has made so many pronouncements. I mean, I feel recall remember whenever he said that we were on the brink of nuclear armageddon and closer than nineteen sixty during Ukraine, again at a fundraiser with no camera.

This man has made so many pronouncements. I mean, I feel recall remember whenever he said that we were on the brink of nuclear armageddon and closer than nineteen sixty during Ukraine, again at a fundraiser with no camera.

The only reason we even know about this lady.

The only reason we even know about this lady.

In the protester is because somebody happened to be filming it, which you're not even supposed to do at one of these fundraisers, is completely behind the veil we find out, you know, in these offhanded like transcripted I've been that person before. I can't imagine being her, having to sit there and transcribe the president's remarks on your phone and making sure that you're one hundred percent get it right before we send it out for every.

In the protester is because somebody happened to be filming it, which you're not even supposed to do at one of these fundraisers, is completely behind the veil we find out, you know, in these offhanded like transcripted I've been that person before. I can't imagine being her, having to sit there and transcribe the president's remarks on your phone and making sure that you're one hundred percent get it right before we send it out for every.

Word rest of the world.

Word rest of the world.

That's why, you know, mister President, if you believe that, then give a damn press conference and say it on the cameras. We're making sure that we don't misquote you or anything. Yeah, haphazard nature that Joe Biden, regardless, that is a still massive change in US policy. If it is a change in US policy.

That's why, you know, mister President, if you believe that, then give a damn press conference and say it on the cameras. We're making sure that we don't misquote you or anything. Yeah, haphazard nature that Joe Biden, regardless, that is a still massive change in US policy. If it is a change in US policy.

I have a lot to say about this.

I have a lot to say about this.

So, first of all, it looks like the group that organized this protest, and by the way, Biden faced a variety of protest while he was in Minnesota. In Minneapolis, which of course is you know, one of the hubs actually of Muslim life in America.

So, first of all, it looks like the group that organized this protest, and by the way, Biden faced a variety of protest while he was in Minnesota. In Minneapolis, which of course is you know, one of the hubs actually of Muslim life in America.

With Jewish Voice for Peace.

With Jewish Voice for Peace.

So they're the people who posted the video of Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg interrupting Biden calling for the ceasefire, and they were part of the groups that were staging protests all around Minneapolis to coincide with his trip.

So they're the people who posted the video of Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg interrupting Biden calling for the ceasefire, and they were part of the groups that were staging protests all around Minneapolis to coincide with his trip.

That's number one.

That's number one.

Number two very noteworthy that while Biden was in Minneapolis, which, as I just said, major hub of Muslim American life, huge Muslim community there, he did not meet with a single Muslim leader, and they took note of that. In Minnesota, a swing state. Of course, there's also a large and significant Muslim population in Michigan as well. So we'll get into some war of this with James Agby on the politics of how all this is going for Biden. Okay, so that's one piece. Another pieces, this whole humanitarian pause thing is such utter and complete made up bullshit, like have you ever heard this phrase? But for no, never, this is not a thing that like exists that you know, Oh, of course you call for the humanitarian pause. It's total vague liberal ass covering. So they have something to say when faced with the fact that, oh, I don't know, you've got two point three million people facing a medieval siege and you have more babies children killed in this three weeks of the conflict than you have had in every international conflict in all of the twenty twenties. So this is what Bernie Sanders has decided he's going to say.

Number two very noteworthy that while Biden was in Minneapolis, which, as I just said, major hub of Muslim American life, huge Muslim community there, he did not meet with a single Muslim leader, and they took note of that. In Minnesota, a swing state. Of course, there's also a large and significant Muslim population in Michigan as well. So we'll get into some war of this with James Agby on the politics of how all this is going for Biden. Okay, so that's one piece. Another pieces, this whole humanitarian pause thing is such utter and complete made up bullshit, like have you ever heard this phrase? But for no, never, this is not a thing that like exists that you know, Oh, of course you call for the humanitarian pause. It's total vague liberal ass covering. So they have something to say when faced with the fact that, oh, I don't know, you've got two point three million people facing a medieval siege and you have more babies children killed in this three weeks of the conflict than you have had in every international conflict in all of the twenty twenties. So this is what Bernie Sanders has decided he's going to say.

This is what.

This is what.

Tony Blinken had already made some noise about this. There was already some indication that this was the new Biden administration line. And so now you have Biden here, you know, with this vague like we need a pause to get the prisoners out, whatever that means.

Tony Blinken had already made some noise about this. There was already some indication that this was the new Biden administration line. And so now you have Biden here, you know, with this vague like we need a pause to get the prisoners out, whatever that means.

It really is completely utterly.

It really is completely utterly.

Meaningless, especially when you aren't applying any of the considerable pressure and leverage that we have to achieve this undefined pause, Like how long is the pause?

Meaningless, especially when you aren't applying any of the considerable pressure and leverage that we have to achieve this undefined pause, Like how long is the pause?

What is the pause for?

What is the pause for?

Does that mean after you know, okay, stop bombing for half a day and then we go back to giving them money to bomb the people at palsying Like that is basically completely an utterly meaningless and like I said, was probably drafted on some zoom call here in DC by some sort of think tank to give liberals some way that they can pretend like they actually care about the bloodshed that's going on here.

Does that mean after you know, okay, stop bombing for half a day and then we go back to giving them money to bomb the people at palsying Like that is basically completely an utterly meaningless and like I said, was probably drafted on some zoom call here in DC by some sort of think tank to give liberals some way that they can pretend like they actually care about the bloodshed that's going on here.

I think that everybody understands exactly what we're talking about here, and or everybody understands that they're trying to have it like multiple twisted different ways, and it sounds just as tortured as it actually is. So is it an official change in US policy. We'll see, as Trump used to say. What we do know though, is that there are some serious and very troubling discussions going on behind the scenes. Let's go and put this up there on the screen. So this was a I guess trial balloon that has been floated and leaked out where there is some plan that is currently being discussed at least at a pretty high level between the United States, Israel, and the rest of the world, where they are weighing peace peacekeepers for the Gaza strip after Hamas is destroyed in this in this hypothetical world, well, these multinational forces would incclude American, UK and French troops AK NATO, and another option would quote put Gaza under the United Nations oversight. And again this is a joint possibility that is being discussed at the highest level of the United States and in Israel to put American forces on the ground in Gaza as peacekeepers. So I can first of all just say hell no to that. This is Israel's problem. Israel breaks it, they can buy it, and they can occupy it for as long as they want to take all the attenuated casualties, because we don't need anything the hell to do with this un peacekeepers. I mean, come on, name a single situation with that has actually worked out, just completely ridiculous. Then basically they're turning to the P five plus one. They're looking at US, UK, Germany and France. I mean, and where are the Arab troops in all of this? So there's so many levels to this insane plan. But the TLDR of it is Israel wants to you know, what, how many? What percent of Gaza has already gone a quarter last time I checked, So to New York Times analysis based on satellite imagery that just came out yesterday, they destroyed already a quarter of all of Gaza. So let's say at the end of this, what do we got at best fifty percent? It's like you deal with it. We are not stepping in to clean up your mess and have thousands of our troops who are stationed there. I mean, I can't even imagine the four the amount of forces that it would take to secure two point three million people. I don't remember off the top of my head what the population of Iraq was. But at the time, the calculation for what it should have taken was half a million American soldiers. That would have been How on the ground if we were to properly occupy quote unquote that country and have some sort of have actual peace and store security. We had one hundred and fifty thousand, and we all we know we failed miserably on the initial invasion. So this thing, and what shocks me crystal is the lack of attention and outrage that it has not garnered in official Washington. These are American US UK forces. First of all, we have way.

I think that everybody understands exactly what we're talking about here, and or everybody understands that they're trying to have it like multiple twisted different ways, and it sounds just as tortured as it actually is. So is it an official change in US policy. We'll see, as Trump used to say. What we do know though, is that there are some serious and very troubling discussions going on behind the scenes. Let's go and put this up there on the screen. So this was a I guess trial balloon that has been floated and leaked out where there is some plan that is currently being discussed at least at a pretty high level between the United States, Israel, and the rest of the world, where they are weighing peace peacekeepers for the Gaza strip after Hamas is destroyed in this in this hypothetical world, well, these multinational forces would incclude American, UK and French troops AK NATO, and another option would quote put Gaza under the United Nations oversight. And again this is a joint possibility that is being discussed at the highest level of the United States and in Israel to put American forces on the ground in Gaza as peacekeepers. So I can first of all just say hell no to that. This is Israel's problem. Israel breaks it, they can buy it, and they can occupy it for as long as they want to take all the attenuated casualties, because we don't need anything the hell to do with this un peacekeepers. I mean, come on, name a single situation with that has actually worked out, just completely ridiculous. Then basically they're turning to the P five plus one. They're looking at US, UK, Germany and France. I mean, and where are the Arab troops in all of this? So there's so many levels to this insane plan. But the TLDR of it is Israel wants to you know, what, how many? What percent of Gaza has already gone a quarter last time I checked, So to New York Times analysis based on satellite imagery that just came out yesterday, they destroyed already a quarter of all of Gaza. So let's say at the end of this, what do we got at best fifty percent? It's like you deal with it. We are not stepping in to clean up your mess and have thousands of our troops who are stationed there. I mean, I can't even imagine the four the amount of forces that it would take to secure two point three million people. I don't remember off the top of my head what the population of Iraq was. But at the time, the calculation for what it should have taken was half a million American soldiers. That would have been How on the ground if we were to properly occupy quote unquote that country and have some sort of have actual peace and store security. We had one hundred and fifty thousand, and we all we know we failed miserably on the initial invasion. So this thing, and what shocks me crystal is the lack of attention and outrage that it has not garnered in official Washington. These are American US UK forces. First of all, we have way.

Better things to do than occupy Gaza.

Better things to do than occupy Gaza.

But I don't think anyone has taken seriously what it would actually take to do this. Now we are responsible for restoring security in this place insanity.

But I don't think anyone has taken seriously what it would actually take to do this. Now we are responsible for restoring security in this place insanity.

Well not to mention like you can frame them as quote unquote peacekeepers. How are the Palestinians and Gaza going to view that force? That's what I'm talking And then we're the occupiers directly. I mean, it's bad enough it's our bombs that are hitting them. Okay, that's horrifying enough. And we're funding the occupying force now directly US troops are going to be on the ground as the occupying force. Even if you don't care about the morality, think of how that impacts.

Well not to mention like you can frame them as quote unquote peacekeepers. How are the Palestinians and Gaza going to view that force? That's what I'm talking And then we're the occupiers directly. I mean, it's bad enough it's our bombs that are hitting them. Okay, that's horrifying enough. And we're funding the occupying force now directly US troops are going to be on the ground as the occupying force. Even if you don't care about the morality, think of how that impacts.

Our security situation.

Our security situation.

That's wrong.

That's wrong.

Then I mean that we become direct target.

Then I mean that we become direct target.

Then you know, all these people who are very you know, really stretching the truth about what Hamas's aims are and how it's a risk to us, et cetera. Like, then yeah, we are directly at risk. We are directly the subject of their ares, you know, as if we aren't already putting ourselves in that position by how strongly we're backing Israel and all.

Then you know, all these people who are very you know, really stretching the truth about what Hamas's aims are and how it's a risk to us, et cetera. Like, then yeah, we are directly at risk. We are directly the subject of their ares, you know, as if we aren't already putting ourselves in that position by how strongly we're backing Israel and all.

Of this to begin with.

Of this to begin with.

So yeah, the fact that this is being floated, the things that are being floated behind the scenes, and these little trial balloons that are being put out there, like the other one that we reported on the other day, and we have some updates on of like maybe we just go ahead and do the whole ethnic cleansing and push all the Palestinians out into the Sinai desert into tense cities.

So yeah, the fact that this is being floated, the things that are being floated behind the scenes, and these little trial balloons that are being put out there, like the other one that we reported on the other day, and we have some updates on of like maybe we just go ahead and do the whole ethnic cleansing and push all the Palestinians out into the Sinai desert into tense cities.

What do you guys think.

What do you guys think.

Let's put it down to the population, see how it goes, See how the Americans feel about it. See if we can pressure Egypt through their debt status to try to go along with all of this. This is why, you know, how we feel about what Israel is entitled to do. How are we feel about watching this horrific carnage unfold. You have to keep in mind that israel stated aims here number one make no sense. Okay, if you actually are trying to go after Hamas Hamas leadership, most of Hamas's leadership is sitting in Qatar, like, do a deal with guitar and go arrest their asses. Go do that instead of bombing multiple times the same refuge g camp and massacring probably hundreds of Palestinians just in that one instance. We don't have casualty numbers, just to be totally clear. Instead of that, like, if you actually care about Hamas leadership, this is not the way you go about it.

Let's put it down to the population, see how it goes, See how the Americans feel about it. See if we can pressure Egypt through their debt status to try to go along with all of this. This is why, you know, how we feel about what Israel is entitled to do. How are we feel about watching this horrific carnage unfold. You have to keep in mind that israel stated aims here number one make no sense. Okay, if you actually are trying to go after Hamas Hamas leadership, most of Hamas's leadership is sitting in Qatar, like, do a deal with guitar and go arrest their asses. Go do that instead of bombing multiple times the same refuge g camp and massacring probably hundreds of Palestinians just in that one instance. We don't have casualty numbers, just to be totally clear. Instead of that, like, if you actually care about Hamas leadership, this is not the way you go about it.

This is just about revenge.

This is just about revenge.

Let me inflict brutality because that is you know, in the wake of this horrific October seventh attack, that's what the public's calling for. Net you Yeaho's desperate to hold on do his power. That's what they're doing, and there is no thought about what comes after, and the thoughts that are have been developed and formulated about what's comes after are horrifying.

Let me inflict brutality because that is you know, in the wake of this horrific October seventh attack, that's what the public's calling for. Net you Yeaho's desperate to hold on do his power. That's what they're doing, and there is no thought about what comes after, and the thoughts that are have been developed and formulated about what's comes after are horrifying.

So that's where we are.

So that's where we are.

And you know the fact that this just is this little note in Bloomberg and no one really pays attention to it is insane to me.

And you know the fact that this just is this little note in Bloomberg and no one really pays attention to it is insane to me.

Yeah, completely insane. It's not just Bloomberg.

Yeah, completely insane. It's not just Bloomberg.

I mean this was all leaked at the highest levels the Israeli press of Bloomberg. I know the reporters behind this. These are incredibly well sourced people. They're at the White House, they know what they are doing. This is a well sanctioned leak. This is not and also let's speak clear. It wasn't denied by the White House or the State Department or the Pentagon. So plans are being drawn up and we can talk counterinsurgency, we could talk removal of hamas and all of that, but we only need to make it very very clear we are not getting involved in this period boots on the ground inside of Gadza. We had well enough experience in Iraq and we I think all of us have had plenty enough. And this is where it's like red, absolute red line in the sand that needs to be drawn. I'm not delusional. I know that you know that will never happen. Our American political leadership doesn't have the courage to say any of these things at this moment, which is, you know, it's shocking and ridiculous and troubling even and of itself. But let's give people an idea of what they're alread planning. We'll put this up there on the screen. This is from Haratz again in Israeli organization. Guys, please keep this up. This is a map that just shows you the amount of US military equipment that is currently in the Middle East right now. We are talking about the twenty six Marine Expeditionary Unit, two thousand, five hundred marines, three ships. We're talking about multiple destroyers, two carrier strike groups. We've got two aircraft carriers, guided missile ships that surround them, multiple US Air Force heavy lifters, fifty civilian cargo planes. We've got evacuation preparation flight sitting in Lebanon.

I mean this was all leaked at the highest levels the Israeli press of Bloomberg. I know the reporters behind this. These are incredibly well sourced people. They're at the White House, they know what they are doing. This is a well sanctioned leak. This is not and also let's speak clear. It wasn't denied by the White House or the State Department or the Pentagon. So plans are being drawn up and we can talk counterinsurgency, we could talk removal of hamas and all of that, but we only need to make it very very clear we are not getting involved in this period boots on the ground inside of Gadza. We had well enough experience in Iraq and we I think all of us have had plenty enough. And this is where it's like red, absolute red line in the sand that needs to be drawn. I'm not delusional. I know that you know that will never happen. Our American political leadership doesn't have the courage to say any of these things at this moment, which is, you know, it's shocking and ridiculous and troubling even and of itself. But let's give people an idea of what they're alread planning. We'll put this up there on the screen. This is from Haratz again in Israeli organization. Guys, please keep this up. This is a map that just shows you the amount of US military equipment that is currently in the Middle East right now. We are talking about the twenty six Marine Expeditionary Unit, two thousand, five hundred marines, three ships. We're talking about multiple destroyers, two carrier strike groups. We've got two aircraft carriers, guided missile ships that surround them, multiple US Air Force heavy lifters, fifty civilian cargo planes. We've got evacuation preparation flight sitting in Lebanon.

We've got multiple.

We've got multiple.

Air assets which are again as I described, the P five plus one powers in addition to some other Europeans, on top of the Patriot and the THAD missile defense systems, on top of multiple other air units that we have all spread acrout across the region.

Air assets which are again as I described, the P five plus one powers in addition to some other Europeans, on top of the Patriot and the THAD missile defense systems, on top of multiple other air units that we have all spread acrout across the region.

This is like the last time we had this.

This is like the last time we had this.

Amount of force that was masked in this we invaded Iraq. Just look very clearly at what they're prepping for. I don't know what it is, Okay, you know we haven't seen the second front materialize yet in Lebanon. You know, hopefully it never happens, but they're ready certainly if it does. But if you put these pieces of news together, you can begin to see they're preparing for something far more significant than Hamas.

Amount of force that was masked in this we invaded Iraq. Just look very clearly at what they're prepping for. I don't know what it is, Okay, you know we haven't seen the second front materialize yet in Lebanon. You know, hopefully it never happens, but they're ready certainly if it does. But if you put these pieces of news together, you can begin to see they're preparing for something far more significant than Hamas.

You don't need F sixteens.

You don't need F sixteens.

And aerial refueling tankers and carrier strike groups to go after Hamas.

And aerial refueling tankers and carrier strike groups to go after Hamas.

You don't even need that to go after Hezbolad. You know who you need it. You need to go after Iran.

You don't even need that to go after Hezbolad. You know who you need it. You need to go after Iran.

You need to go after conventional military forces, and clearly they are very worried about it. I also would be remiss if I didn't mention. I think Counterpoints covered this yesterday as well, where the Egyptians came out yesterday and they said, we will quote sacrifice millions to make sure that nobody comes out on our territories. We're talking about the return of a conflict between Israel and between Egypt. I mean, this is This is very troubling rhetoric. When an Egyptian dictators come in out and saying We're going to sacrifice millions of our people to protect our sovereignty in our territory. You should pay attention considering that they fought multiple wars against Israel in the past, and that all US foreign policy for the last five decades has been centered around let's make sure that never ever happens again. And instead we're going in the opposite direction. We're going in the opposite treamer.

You need to go after conventional military forces, and clearly they are very worried about it. I also would be remiss if I didn't mention. I think Counterpoints covered this yesterday as well, where the Egyptians came out yesterday and they said, we will quote sacrifice millions to make sure that nobody comes out on our territories. We're talking about the return of a conflict between Israel and between Egypt. I mean, this is This is very troubling rhetoric. When an Egyptian dictators come in out and saying We're going to sacrifice millions of our people to protect our sovereignty in our territory. You should pay attention considering that they fought multiple wars against Israel in the past, and that all US foreign policy for the last five decades has been centered around let's make sure that never ever happens again. And instead we're going in the opposite direction. We're going in the opposite treamer.

I mean, this is the reason why we give Egypt and Israel so freaking much aid. That was the whole idea, The whole idea of the amount of aid we give Israel is supposed to be peace for security. Where's the peace part of that? That part just got left to the side. And again it's really important to keep in mind, like the Natanyahu government, they make no bones about it, they do not want a Palestinian state. They will go to great lengths, including propping up a muss which they have been doing, to avoid the even possibility of a Palestinian state. In that report, that analysis that was leaked from an Israeli government Ministry of possible solutions, solutions after their war on Gaza. One of them was the one they said was the most ideal, was to push everybody out into the Sinai Desert. They evaluated the idea of having Palestinian authority come in and take over Gaza, which has a whole lot of issues, which we'll get into too in a minute when we talk more about the West Bank. But they said this is an ideal because then that opens up the possibility of Palestinian statehood. So they would rather have Hamas in place than the possibility of Palestinian statehood. So just keep that in mind in terms of where we are with this Israeli government and really all of society. I mean, there barely is a left or a liberal Israeli political force left, certainly within the Kanesset when you look at that map. I'm no military expert, but this is the analysis from Haratz. The breadth of deployment attests to multiple considered scenarios, a multidirectional missile attack on Israel, a second northern front between Israel and hesbla escalation into a regional war, and finally, consideration of the need to evacuate thousands of Western citizens, and I would presume that's in the event that you do have this escalation into this. To call it a regional war, I think is to undersell it a bit, because if you're talking about all of these countries, some of whom have really considerable militaries, getting into a war and the alliances that they already have in place, we're really not talking about a regional war there. We're talking about something much larger.

I mean, this is the reason why we give Egypt and Israel so freaking much aid. That was the whole idea, The whole idea of the amount of aid we give Israel is supposed to be peace for security. Where's the peace part of that? That part just got left to the side. And again it's really important to keep in mind, like the Natanyahu government, they make no bones about it, they do not want a Palestinian state. They will go to great lengths, including propping up a muss which they have been doing, to avoid the even possibility of a Palestinian state. In that report, that analysis that was leaked from an Israeli government Ministry of possible solutions, solutions after their war on Gaza. One of them was the one they said was the most ideal, was to push everybody out into the Sinai Desert. They evaluated the idea of having Palestinian authority come in and take over Gaza, which has a whole lot of issues, which we'll get into too in a minute when we talk more about the West Bank. But they said this is an ideal because then that opens up the possibility of Palestinian statehood. So they would rather have Hamas in place than the possibility of Palestinian statehood. So just keep that in mind in terms of where we are with this Israeli government and really all of society. I mean, there barely is a left or a liberal Israeli political force left, certainly within the Kanesset when you look at that map. I'm no military expert, but this is the analysis from Haratz. The breadth of deployment attests to multiple considered scenarios, a multidirectional missile attack on Israel, a second northern front between Israel and hesbla escalation into a regional war, and finally, consideration of the need to evacuate thousands of Western citizens, and I would presume that's in the event that you do have this escalation into this. To call it a regional war, I think is to undersell it a bit, because if you're talking about all of these countries, some of whom have really considerable militaries, getting into a war and the alliances that they already have in place, we're really not talking about a regional war there. We're talking about something much larger.

Yeah, we're talking about a massive war. And Secretary of blinkoln made some troubled comments also yesterday. Let's take a listen. This is what he said before Congress.

Yeah, we're talking about a massive war. And Secretary of blinkoln made some troubled comments also yesterday. Let's take a listen. This is what he said before Congress.

Let's do a thought experiment. Hamas, at some point in the future is disabled. I think eliminating is a rhetorical flourish that puts us in a position where we will never stop fighting against some offshoots, some first cousin of Hamas someplace on the planet. So let's stipulate that the objective is to disable them to the point where they cannot pose a threat. Who runs Gaza?

Let's do a thought experiment. Hamas, at some point in the future is disabled. I think eliminating is a rhetorical flourish that puts us in a position where we will never stop fighting against some offshoots, some first cousin of Hamas someplace on the planet. So let's stipulate that the objective is to disable them to the point where they cannot pose a threat. Who runs Gaza?

I think we have a two shoals, if you will. One is we can't have a reversion of the status quo with Hamas running Gaza. We also can't have and the Israelis start with this proposition themselves, Israel running or controlling Gaza. That's not their intent, that's what they want to do, and it's not something that would be be supported. So in between those shoals are a variety of possible permutations that we're looking at very closely now, as are other countries. At some point let me let me be more precise sure, at some point, what would make the most sense would be for a.

I think we have a two shoals, if you will. One is we can't have a reversion of the status quo with Hamas running Gaza. We also can't have and the Israelis start with this proposition themselves, Israel running or controlling Gaza. That's not their intent, that's what they want to do, and it's not something that would be be supported. So in between those shoals are a variety of possible permutations that we're looking at very closely now, as are other countries. At some point let me let me be more precise sure, at some point, what would make the most sense would be for a.

Effective and.

Effective and.

Revitalized Palestinian authority to have governance and ultimately security responsibility for Gaza. Whether you can get there in one step is a big question that we have to look at. And if you can't, then there are are other temporary arrangements that may involve a number of other countries in the region. It may involve international agencies that would help provide for both security and governance. Ultimately, though, beyond that is what we come back to what this administration believes, which is the imperative of getting to two states for two people.

Revitalized Palestinian authority to have governance and ultimately security responsibility for Gaza. Whether you can get there in one step is a big question that we have to look at. And if you can't, then there are are other temporary arrangements that may involve a number of other countries in the region. It may involve international agencies that would help provide for both security and governance. Ultimately, though, beyond that is what we come back to what this administration believes, which is the imperative of getting to two states for two people.

Yeah, we're talking about nation building. Let's just be very real about this.

Yeah, we're talking about nation building. Let's just be very real about this.

Regime change, regime change and nation building, all of this name one time the United States has been able to do this successfully in the last thirty years. Don't throw Germany in Japan at me. Okay, it's been a long time. And also I don't think you want to look at the price tag.

Regime change, regime change and nation building, all of this name one time the United States has been able to do this successfully in the last thirty years. Don't throw Germany in Japan at me. Okay, it's been a long time. And also I don't think you want to look at the price tag.

I was going to say, we're.

I was going to say, we're.

Going to talk about Marshall Plan, how much money we spent or rebuild those guys.

Going to talk about Marshall Plan, how much money we spent or rebuild those guys.

You know what's interesting, we actually spent more inflation adjusted on Ukraine than we did on the Marshall Plan.

You know what's interesting, we actually spent more inflation adjusted on Ukraine than we did on the Marshall Plan.

But that's a whole other conversation. But I've got a lot of comments on that.

But that's a whole other conversation. But I've got a lot of comments on that.

But point being, we are talking about nation building, fake international coalition. First, the UN can't even agree on what the hell to do. But right now on a ceasefire, you think we're gonna agree on how to administer Gaza get out of here, and then it becomes a question of like who are these entities? Who is now responsible for this mess? It's very simple. What's gonna happen is Israel is gonna blow if they accomplish this. Gaza as we know it is, as we already know, is gone, but it's gonna be even more gone by the time that we get to this stage. And then they're gonna pull out and be like, hey, international community, come fix this. And the plan right now is only the Americans, the UK and the French are dumb enough to be like, you know what, we'll do it, even though we would be the occupying force.

But point being, we are talking about nation building, fake international coalition. First, the UN can't even agree on what the hell to do. But right now on a ceasefire, you think we're gonna agree on how to administer Gaza get out of here, and then it becomes a question of like who are these entities? Who is now responsible for this mess? It's very simple. What's gonna happen is Israel is gonna blow if they accomplish this. Gaza as we know it is, as we already know, is gone, but it's gonna be even more gone by the time that we get to this stage. And then they're gonna pull out and be like, hey, international community, come fix this. And the plan right now is only the Americans, the UK and the French are dumb enough to be like, you know what, we'll do it, even though we would be the occupying force.

And then what's gonna happen.

And then what's gonna happen.

We're going to start taking all the same incoming that we used to take in Afghanistan when we were doing this, and we'll send in these USAID idiots and we'll be like, we'll build you a well as long as you love us, and they're like, yeah, totally, just give us the money and then we'll shoot at you on your way out and then thirty years later we'll be a billion dollars trillion dollars or whatever in the hole. And the Israelis are sitting there laughing because we're dumb enough to do this, Like, absolutely not from the get go. It should be a demand and red line should be drawn. They're like, we're not doing this. You are responsible, and by that you can get your ass on a plane and go to Riod and to you know where, Tehran, wherever you need to go, Jordan, Aman, and you guys can figure this out.

We're going to start taking all the same incoming that we used to take in Afghanistan when we were doing this, and we'll send in these USAID idiots and we'll be like, we'll build you a well as long as you love us, and they're like, yeah, totally, just give us the money and then we'll shoot at you on your way out and then thirty years later we'll be a billion dollars trillion dollars or whatever in the hole. And the Israelis are sitting there laughing because we're dumb enough to do this, Like, absolutely not from the get go. It should be a demand and red line should be drawn. They're like, we're not doing this. You are responsible, and by that you can get your ass on a plane and go to Riod and to you know where, Tehran, wherever you need to go, Jordan, Aman, and you guys can figure this out.

Because this is a regional problem.

Because this is a regional problem.

The US will help you, but we are not going to be backstopping and security guaranteeing all this stuff for Gaza. And you know, all of this is it almost seems fanciful because, as we were just talking about while the clip was playing, the idea that they could truly rid Gaza of Hamas just seems ludicrous at this point. I mean, it's possible, it's certainly possible. Does Israel really want to take you know, fifty thousand.

The US will help you, but we are not going to be backstopping and security guaranteeing all this stuff for Gaza. And you know, all of this is it almost seems fanciful because, as we were just talking about while the clip was playing, the idea that they could truly rid Gaza of Hamas just seems ludicrous at this point. I mean, it's possible, it's certainly possible. Does Israel really want to take you know, fifty thousand.

Casualties in Gaza?

Casualties in Gaza?

I'm honestly dubious that that is even politically sustainable or possible or not even that in terms of Israel and in Gaza. I'm doing is whether the international community doesn't escalate to a much broader level at that point. So maybe all of this is a moot conversation, but we are all of the crumbs. The crumbs for the disaster in Iraq were laid well before we ever invaded. In fact, many smart people predicted exactly what was going to happen far before the invasion. We are at the same point where we need to read all the tea leaves for what the plans are and all that. And you know, a year two years from now, when all this stuff starts materializing in these possible scenarios, and we like, see they told us years before, they told us.

I'm honestly dubious that that is even politically sustainable or possible or not even that in terms of Israel and in Gaza. I'm doing is whether the international community doesn't escalate to a much broader level at that point. So maybe all of this is a moot conversation, but we are all of the crumbs. The crumbs for the disaster in Iraq were laid well before we ever invaded. In fact, many smart people predicted exactly what was going to happen far before the invasion. We are at the same point where we need to read all the tea leaves for what the plans are and all that. And you know, a year two years from now, when all this stuff starts materializing in these possible scenarios, and we like, see they told us years before, they told us.

Put a eight up on the screen, guys, because this speaks to the other possibility, which is the one that Israel has really been pushing, which is and this was laid out by a think tank aligned with the government, is also laid out in the government ministry report that we brought to you before. Where the idea is you basically first, and this.

Put a eight up on the screen, guys, because this speaks to the other possibility, which is the one that Israel has really been pushing, which is and this was laid out by a think tank aligned with the government, is also laid out in the government ministry report that we brought to you before. Where the idea is you basically first, and this.

Goes in phases.

Goes in phases.

Phase number one is you push everybody out of northern Gaza. That's already happened. I mean, there are still people there who couldn't flee and who are sheltering in hospitals, et cetera. But evacuation order has already come down, even though they're still bombing southern Gaza.

Phase number one is you push everybody out of northern Gaza. That's already happened. I mean, there are still people there who couldn't flee and who are sheltering in hospitals, et cetera. But evacuation order has already come down, even though they're still bombing southern Gaza.

Okay, then you do the ground vane.

Okay, then you do the ground vane.

Then you push everybody out of southern Gaza, and you pressure Egypt and use the US to help pressure Egypt to take in all of the Palestinians and completely displace them from the Gaza strip. These are the detendants of refugees who went through the original Nakma, so the full like second Nakba is their ideal plan now one way. Now, you may think, and this is something we talked about before. Egypt and CECI have already said hell no, absolutely not off the table. CEC told this to blink Intua his face, et cetera, et cetera.

Then you push everybody out of southern Gaza, and you pressure Egypt and use the US to help pressure Egypt to take in all of the Palestinians and completely displace them from the Gaza strip. These are the detendants of refugees who went through the original Nakma, so the full like second Nakba is their ideal plan now one way. Now, you may think, and this is something we talked about before. Egypt and CECI have already said hell no, absolutely not off the table. CEC told this to blink Intua his face, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, here's the.

Well, here's the.

Leverage they want to use, which is really gross. They're proposing writing off a significant chunk of Egypt's considerable international debts through the world to entice the cash strapped government to open its doors for displaced Palestinians. That's the point of leverage, reportedly that they want to use. And they even have said in some of these documents like listen, yeah, sure, right now they're saying, no way, we don't want you know, we don't want these refugees, and we're not going to deal with it, and you know, we're not going to be part of this full ethnic cleansing of the Gaza strip, et cetera, et cetera. But you know, you come a year down the road and the pressure is mounting over these debts and the other scenarios, as we've just been laying out, are sort of preposterous and ridiculous. They are betting on people's minds changing and this becoming, you know, essentially a FATA complee where there is no other real option available. And I think that is a very real possibility as well. So that's what they're really banking on, you know, the US, I don't know if they're I don't I can't believe they're this stupid, but they're sort of floating and pushing behind the scenes, like maybe the ideal thing is for the Palestinian Authority to men in rule Gaza. Palestonine authority has been so neutered in the West Bank it has no credibility if there is no way that it is in a position to govern Gazai, not a chance. And as I mentioned before, the net Nahoo government and not just net Yahoo by the way, like Vaswass of the Kanesset, have no interest in having any sort of unity between the West Bank and between the Gaza strip. Why because that creates the possibility of a Palestinian statehood and that is something they are so opposed to that they were willing to backome Us and risk exactly the type of atrocity that ended up unfolding. So to them it's completely off the table. And again it's fanciful to think that the PA would even be capable of pulling this off to start with. So there are there are really zero good options here for what comes after. And then you raised an important point Socergn. It reminds me so much of this just reminds me of the way all of the War on Terror stuff unfolded. War on Terror, well, that is an incredibly squishy concept, and we've seen the way that the powers we gave our government during that time have been now used to like wage war wherever they want, whatever they want without consulting us all over the world. Hamas is also a very squishy concept. I would like to hear someone in the Israeli government define exactly what they mean when they talk about quote unquote hamas, because then we're going to get to this in a minute. You know, you have quite a number of Israeli government officials at this point defining hamas as literally everyone in Gaza. You have a Republican member of Congress who seems to be defining hamas in that same way. So when we're talking about eliminating hamas, what exactly does that even mean based on their words? You know, it's a pretty scary possibility of what they're laying out here.

Leverage they want to use, which is really gross. They're proposing writing off a significant chunk of Egypt's considerable international debts through the world to entice the cash strapped government to open its doors for displaced Palestinians. That's the point of leverage, reportedly that they want to use. And they even have said in some of these documents like listen, yeah, sure, right now they're saying, no way, we don't want you know, we don't want these refugees, and we're not going to deal with it, and you know, we're not going to be part of this full ethnic cleansing of the Gaza strip, et cetera, et cetera. But you know, you come a year down the road and the pressure is mounting over these debts and the other scenarios, as we've just been laying out, are sort of preposterous and ridiculous. They are betting on people's minds changing and this becoming, you know, essentially a FATA complee where there is no other real option available. And I think that is a very real possibility as well. So that's what they're really banking on, you know, the US, I don't know if they're I don't I can't believe they're this stupid, but they're sort of floating and pushing behind the scenes, like maybe the ideal thing is for the Palestinian Authority to men in rule Gaza. Palestonine authority has been so neutered in the West Bank it has no credibility if there is no way that it is in a position to govern Gazai, not a chance. And as I mentioned before, the net Nahoo government and not just net Yahoo by the way, like Vaswass of the Kanesset, have no interest in having any sort of unity between the West Bank and between the Gaza strip. Why because that creates the possibility of a Palestinian statehood and that is something they are so opposed to that they were willing to backome Us and risk exactly the type of atrocity that ended up unfolding. So to them it's completely off the table. And again it's fanciful to think that the PA would even be capable of pulling this off to start with. So there are there are really zero good options here for what comes after. And then you raised an important point Socergn. It reminds me so much of this just reminds me of the way all of the War on Terror stuff unfolded. War on Terror, well, that is an incredibly squishy concept, and we've seen the way that the powers we gave our government during that time have been now used to like wage war wherever they want, whatever they want without consulting us all over the world. Hamas is also a very squishy concept. I would like to hear someone in the Israeli government define exactly what they mean when they talk about quote unquote hamas, because then we're going to get to this in a minute. You know, you have quite a number of Israeli government officials at this point defining hamas as literally everyone in Gaza. You have a Republican member of Congress who seems to be defining hamas in that same way. So when we're talking about eliminating hamas, what exactly does that even mean based on their words? You know, it's a pretty scary possibility of what they're laying out here.

Yeah, that's an important point, and it actually takes us back just you know, we're talking about Iraq.

Yeah, that's an important point, and it actually takes us back just you know, we're talking about Iraq.

We're talking about lessons. One of the things that America probably the single biggest mistake.

We're talking about lessons. One of the things that America probably the single biggest mistake.

Other than invading in the first place, that we made in Iraq, is that we went in and anybody who belonged to the Bath Party aka the Saddam regime, We're like, no, you're done. It's called it's called debath of acasion. And you know that's on paper. You're like, oh, that makes sense. The bad guys also, they're like, oh wait, all the teachers are gone, Oh wait, the police are gone, oh wait, we're disbanding the everybody who knows how to do literally anything, and all of civil society. And then three months later, lo and behold, all these guys start to become terrorists and shoot at American soldiers like, oh, shocking, it's absolutely shocking.

Other than invading in the first place, that we made in Iraq, is that we went in and anybody who belonged to the Bath Party aka the Saddam regime, We're like, no, you're done. It's called it's called debath of acasion. And you know that's on paper. You're like, oh, that makes sense. The bad guys also, they're like, oh wait, all the teachers are gone, Oh wait, the police are gone, oh wait, we're disbanding the everybody who knows how to do literally anything, and all of civil society. And then three months later, lo and behold, all these guys start to become terrorists and shoot at American soldiers like, oh, shocking, it's absolutely shocking.

Yeah, we took her job.

Yeah, we took her job.

They're still armed and equipped and trained, and what do you think is going to happen?

They're still armed and equipped and trained, and what do you think is going to happen?

Thank you, mister President Bush. These are some lessons that we should really not forget. It wasn't that long ago, guys, It was only twenty years, and yet we're repeating all the same same mistakes and it's just, you know, ridiculous.

Thank you, mister President Bush. These are some lessons that we should really not forget. It wasn't that long ago, guys, It was only twenty years, and yet we're repeating all the same same mistakes and it's just, you know, ridiculous.

But let's move on.

But let's move on.

There's another important point of news here that we don't want to forget that's part of all this, which is Americans who are currently inside of Gaza. Initially we talked a little bit about it. It's been more than three weeks now at this point and they're still not out of Gaza, which bears so many questions about why and how and why does this take me so long? Only just yesterday we can go and put this up there on the screen. The Rafa crossing from Gaza into the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt opened for the first time. You can see some of the crowds here of people being allowed out into the Rafa crossing. These are mostly foreign passport holders, but there's a lot of questions crystal as to why no American passport holders were allowed to pass through. Nobody still actually is aware. It appears that the Americans are The Americans are telling them that the passing will come soon. Can we put a nine please up there on the screen, just so people can say that US citizens were excluded from the list of approved foreign nationals. The attorney for the Massachusetts family tells a news They say that nationals permitted to cross were from Japan, Austria, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Jordan, Australia, the Czech Republic, and Finland. So it's an open question here of whether these people are being held hostage or not. Now President Biden is claiming that we expect American citizens to depart today, but he said that yesterday, and as of now the shooting of our show, it's morning time, which means this afternoon or sometime in Israel or in Gaza right now, from what we can see, that has not yet happened. So there is an open question as to the success even of this so called deal that they've had Crystal to get these people out. On top of that, there were some seventy six critically injured Palestinians that were allowed to go through to go to a hospital. But the vast majority and pretty much the only people who are going to be coming through that crossing are very very critically injured people and foreign passport holders period.

There's another important point of news here that we don't want to forget that's part of all this, which is Americans who are currently inside of Gaza. Initially we talked a little bit about it. It's been more than three weeks now at this point and they're still not out of Gaza, which bears so many questions about why and how and why does this take me so long? Only just yesterday we can go and put this up there on the screen. The Rafa crossing from Gaza into the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt opened for the first time. You can see some of the crowds here of people being allowed out into the Rafa crossing. These are mostly foreign passport holders, but there's a lot of questions crystal as to why no American passport holders were allowed to pass through. Nobody still actually is aware. It appears that the Americans are The Americans are telling them that the passing will come soon. Can we put a nine please up there on the screen, just so people can say that US citizens were excluded from the list of approved foreign nationals. The attorney for the Massachusetts family tells a news They say that nationals permitted to cross were from Japan, Austria, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Jordan, Australia, the Czech Republic, and Finland. So it's an open question here of whether these people are being held hostage or not. Now President Biden is claiming that we expect American citizens to depart today, but he said that yesterday, and as of now the shooting of our show, it's morning time, which means this afternoon or sometime in Israel or in Gaza right now, from what we can see, that has not yet happened. So there is an open question as to the success even of this so called deal that they've had Crystal to get these people out. On top of that, there were some seventy six critically injured Palestinians that were allowed to go through to go to a hospital. But the vast majority and pretty much the only people who are going to be coming through that crossing are very very critically injured people and foreign passport holders period.

But our citizens remain inside of this country.

But our citizens remain inside of this country.

And again so the hypocrisy of the press, just like everybody cared about all these American citizens in Afghanistan, like Joe Biden left them behind all this. These are our citizens sitting in God, there's five hundred of them. Where are they? We have no clue. You know, they could be dead for all we know at this point.

And again so the hypocrisy of the press, just like everybody cared about all these American citizens in Afghanistan, like Joe Biden left them behind all this. These are our citizens sitting in God, there's five hundred of them. Where are they? We have no clue. You know, they could be dead for all we know at this point.

That's fairy true.

That's fairy true.

According to State Department spokesperson, yesterday, Matthew Millery said an initial group of foreign nationals, including some US citizens, departed Gaza through Rafa Dei said today that was yesterday, so they claimed some Americans went through, but the reporting suggests the bulk of Americans still remain in Gaza. The reporter goes on to note doesn't say if they were dual nationals using other passports. That's a possibility, is that you know they were what were the lists Japanese and American passport holders, and so they were able to get out because they were Japanese passport We don't know. Yeah, does not answer a question whether it was a handful or more. And again the Biden administration saying that the bulk of them will be allowed to leave today. We'll see if that ultimately unfolds. And some of the reporting also suggested that it was kind of intentional from the US that they wanted to wait and see how this crossing went, whether it was safe, whether it was actually possible to achieve. So definitely something that we want to keep our eye on. You can understand from Israel's perspective, they have a lot of incentive to want this crossing to occur because obviously, for you know, their big ally, the United States of America, this was a really point of pressure here and on discomfort. I mean, the number of Americans who are at risk of dying in these bombings is relatively significant, so that's what's going on there, you know. I also want to you mentioned the the number of dozens of injured, critically injured Palestinians who were allowed out to these field hospitals in the Sinai Desert in Egypt. And I am glad that they were able to get out and get treatment because most many of the hospitals in Gaza have already shut down at this point, the very latest. But this a ten up on the screen. This hospital, which was the only place, the Turkish Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, this was the only hospital remaining that performs cancer treatments. This has now shut down We're now at a place where sixteen of the Gaza Strip's thirty five hospitals are already out of service, as are more than fifty of Gaza's seventy two primary healthcare clinics. This is all just to underscore the seventy some critically injured who were able to go to this Egyptian field hospital. I mean, this is less than a drop.

According to State Department spokesperson, yesterday, Matthew Millery said an initial group of foreign nationals, including some US citizens, departed Gaza through Rafa Dei said today that was yesterday, so they claimed some Americans went through, but the reporting suggests the bulk of Americans still remain in Gaza. The reporter goes on to note doesn't say if they were dual nationals using other passports. That's a possibility, is that you know they were what were the lists Japanese and American passport holders, and so they were able to get out because they were Japanese passport We don't know. Yeah, does not answer a question whether it was a handful or more. And again the Biden administration saying that the bulk of them will be allowed to leave today. We'll see if that ultimately unfolds. And some of the reporting also suggested that it was kind of intentional from the US that they wanted to wait and see how this crossing went, whether it was safe, whether it was actually possible to achieve. So definitely something that we want to keep our eye on. You can understand from Israel's perspective, they have a lot of incentive to want this crossing to occur because obviously, for you know, their big ally, the United States of America, this was a really point of pressure here and on discomfort. I mean, the number of Americans who are at risk of dying in these bombings is relatively significant, so that's what's going on there, you know. I also want to you mentioned the the number of dozens of injured, critically injured Palestinians who were allowed out to these field hospitals in the Sinai Desert in Egypt. And I am glad that they were able to get out and get treatment because most many of the hospitals in Gaza have already shut down at this point, the very latest. But this a ten up on the screen. This hospital, which was the only place, the Turkish Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, this was the only hospital remaining that performs cancer treatments. This has now shut down We're now at a place where sixteen of the Gaza Strip's thirty five hospitals are already out of service, as are more than fifty of Gaza's seventy two primary healthcare clinics. This is all just to underscore the seventy some critically injured who were able to go to this Egyptian field hospital. I mean, this is less than a drop.

In the bugget it. Really.

In the bugget it. Really.

It's really in line with, you know, the liberal ass covering of the Oh, we quote unquote want a humanitarian pause, We're not going to do anything to achieve it, and it doesn't really mean anything even if we did, but that's what we want. Or we really hope that Israel follows international law, even as we already know from the jump, the minute they announced we're going to do a complete like medieval siegure, we know they're not following international law. But still three weeks later, we're still hand ringing with Warren sending on twists. G I hope, I really hope they'll follow international law. This, you know, Egyptian Field Hospital appears to be the same level of bullshit, minimal ass covering something you can point to or the other one I would put in this saga is like, oh, we increase the number of aid trucks from making these numbers up, but they're pathetically small numbers from like twenty to twenty five. Aren't we so amazing? Look at how humanitarian we are. Meanwhile, the UN is like they need one hundred trucks of aid every single day if you're going to be even close to providing sufficient resources for a population that is being starved and dehydrated and has no fuel as we speak. So just keep that in mind when you see and I saw that, you know, New York Times and watch they were all in on this, like, oh, seventy people got treatment in the Egyptian desert. Compare that to the number of people injured, let alone killed. It is it is pathetically insufficient, pathetically insufficient.

It's really in line with, you know, the liberal ass covering of the Oh, we quote unquote want a humanitarian pause, We're not going to do anything to achieve it, and it doesn't really mean anything even if we did, but that's what we want. Or we really hope that Israel follows international law, even as we already know from the jump, the minute they announced we're going to do a complete like medieval siegure, we know they're not following international law. But still three weeks later, we're still hand ringing with Warren sending on twists. G I hope, I really hope they'll follow international law. This, you know, Egyptian Field Hospital appears to be the same level of bullshit, minimal ass covering something you can point to or the other one I would put in this saga is like, oh, we increase the number of aid trucks from making these numbers up, but they're pathetically small numbers from like twenty to twenty five. Aren't we so amazing? Look at how humanitarian we are. Meanwhile, the UN is like they need one hundred trucks of aid every single day if you're going to be even close to providing sufficient resources for a population that is being starved and dehydrated and has no fuel as we speak. So just keep that in mind when you see and I saw that, you know, New York Times and watch they were all in on this, like, oh, seventy people got treatment in the Egyptian desert. Compare that to the number of people injured, let alone killed. It is it is pathetically insufficient, pathetically insufficient.

And you know, it also comes after I know that Ryan and Emily did job talking about some of this yesterday. Yeah, we've got some of this that we can put, you know, up there on the screen that just shows you some of the damage that continues inside of Gaza, and this is the daily reality now at this point, it almost you know, it's difficult because it just shows you that we are slow walking ourselves to a point of something.

And you know, it also comes after I know that Ryan and Emily did job talking about some of this yesterday. Yeah, we've got some of this that we can put, you know, up there on the screen that just shows you some of the damage that continues inside of Gaza, and this is the daily reality now at this point, it almost you know, it's difficult because it just shows you that we are slow walking ourselves to a point of something.

You know, this is an unsustainable situation.

You know, this is an unsustainable situation.

Where we've got air strikes that are dropping international outcry. After this refugee camp was bombed, the Israelis say that there was a Hamas terrorists that was inside of the refugee camp. But I think, really what this highlights, as you were talking, you know, with the Rafa crossing, with this US peacekeeper plan and more, is someone has got to deal with this and we are either going to get to that final point. You know, it's very unlikely in my opinion, without it just breaking into an open, full scale international crisis, and the war drums are beating, the tension is high, the international situation. I mean, things are crumbling in a way that most Americans don't really seem to comprehend. The Jordanians, their neighbor kicked out the Israeli ambassador, they said, get the hell out of here.

Where we've got air strikes that are dropping international outcry. After this refugee camp was bombed, the Israelis say that there was a Hamas terrorists that was inside of the refugee camp. But I think, really what this highlights, as you were talking, you know, with the Rafa crossing, with this US peacekeeper plan and more, is someone has got to deal with this and we are either going to get to that final point. You know, it's very unlikely in my opinion, without it just breaking into an open, full scale international crisis, and the war drums are beating, the tension is high, the international situation. I mean, things are crumbling in a way that most Americans don't really seem to comprehend. The Jordanians, their neighbor kicked out the Israeli ambassador, they said, get the hell out of here.

I just checked.

I just checked.

The Bahrain just did the exact same thing, where a budget US troops are just so you know, Yemen, whatever the Hoothy government or whatever, has officially.

The Bahrain just did the exact same thing, where a budget US troops are just so you know, Yemen, whatever the Hoothy government or whatever, has officially.

Declared war on Israel, whatever that means.

Declared war on Israel, whatever that means.

Turkey, we have freaking aridiwan out there in Turkish being like, hey, maybe we'll go to war with Israel. The Egyptians are telling us we're willing to lose millions of people to keep people off of our soil. It's like every single actor, Nucerella, by the way, the leader of Hezbola, he is expected to make an appearance in a statement sometime soon. It could either be today or tomorrow. That's what some of the reporting coming out of Lebanon is. The Iranians, the foreign minister. You know, they've made several We've got multiple US troops now who've got TBIs traumatic brain injuries, We've had evacuated positions, and then on top of that, we've got all this firepower which is in the region.

Turkey, we have freaking aridiwan out there in Turkish being like, hey, maybe we'll go to war with Israel. The Egyptians are telling us we're willing to lose millions of people to keep people off of our soil. It's like every single actor, Nucerella, by the way, the leader of Hezbola, he is expected to make an appearance in a statement sometime soon. It could either be today or tomorrow. That's what some of the reporting coming out of Lebanon is. The Iranians, the foreign minister. You know, they've made several We've got multiple US troops now who've got TBIs traumatic brain injuries, We've had evacuated positions, and then on top of that, we've got all this firepower which is in the region.

The stage is set. You know, things don't just happen all at once.

The stage is set. You know, things don't just happen all at once.

They build up. But if you can read carefully what's happening, all of the you know, all of the ingredients in the powder keg have been assembled.

They build up. But if you can read carefully what's happening, all of the you know, all of the ingredients in the powder keg have been assembled.

It just takes the match. Who knows what that is. Nobody ever knows.

It just takes the match. Who knows what that is. Nobody ever knows.

Yeah, you learn from history, but it's like all it takes is the assemblage, and then the possibility now starts to reach like ten thirty forty fifty.

Yeah, you learn from history, but it's like all it takes is the assemblage, and then the possibility now starts to reach like ten thirty forty fifty.

We're rapidly approaching the coin toss.

We're rapidly approaching the coin toss.

The match may already have been lit for all we do.

The match may already have been lit for all we do.

Well.

Well.

I mean, they hit that that refugee camp where they claimed there was one Hamas guy that they initially claimed, oh, we got him, and then they proceeded to bomb the same refugee camp two more times. That was enough of a like clear atrocity that even Wolf Blitzer, who used to be.

I mean, they hit that that refugee camp where they claimed there was one Hamas guy that they initially claimed, oh, we got him, and then they proceeded to bomb the same refugee camp two more times. That was enough of a like clear atrocity that even Wolf Blitzer, who used to be.

With Apak, Yeah, I read that was you guys.

With Apak, Yeah, I read that was you guys.

I'm sure probably watch that on Counterpoints or somewhere else yesterday as well. Even he was like, you knew there were women and children there and you still bombed it. And the IDF guy was like, eh, it's the cost of war.

I'm sure probably watch that on Counterpoints or somewhere else yesterday as well. Even he was like, you knew there were women and children there and you still bombed it. And the IDF guy was like, eh, it's the cost of war.

Cost of war.

Cost of war.

It's just just imagine, just imagine if we were talking about Israeli citizens, and would.