From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (50) eta Scott Ritter

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Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”

Zionists in 1899… “We will colonise Palestine”

Copied from @Resist0 5(Pelham).

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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYmMVA05Eo)

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[Music] so we’re going to go ahead and bring in our special guest ladies and gentlemen

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let’s welcome Max Blumenthal welcome back how’s it going good to be back

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great to see you i I know you are very very busy um but a lot has

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happened I’d say the past week uh particularly with foreign policy and I I

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want to show you this here for those who are not aware Benjamin Netanyahu was here uh to visit Donald Trump on Monday

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and one of the things that is mentioned right in front of Benjamin Netanyahu Donald Trump here is speaking about Gaza

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as a new form of real estate listen to this well you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip i think it’s an incredible

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piece of important real estate and I think it’s something that we would be

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involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there

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controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now all it is is for years and years all I

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hear about is killing and Hamas and problems and if you take the people the

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Palestinians and move them around to different countries and you have plenty of countries that will do that and you

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really have a freedom a freedom zone you call it the freedom zone a free zone a

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zone where people aren’t going to be killed every day that’s a hell of a place when you know how I feel okay so

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uh Max I want to get your take on that there i think Eric says your mic might be a little bit low uh just FYI but uh

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Donald Trump there talking about Gaza as a piece of real estate and possibly relocating Palestinian

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people what’s your take on that well this

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is completely in contravention to the

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America first principles as understood by the first wave of MAGA supporters who

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supported Donald Trump on the basis of his opposition to nation building you

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know they might have seen Arabs and Muslims in a kind of racist way but they

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didn’t want to get involved in their civil wars and involved in liberating

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them after the failures of Afghanistan and Iraq and all the damage the moral

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damage to the country but also just the physical injuries suffered by so many Americans on those battlefields that

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Donald Trump spoke to that when he destroyed Jeb Bush in one of the first

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major Republican debates back in the 2016 primary it was like a signal turn

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moment a turning point for uh for this country’s politics and now

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he’s talking about the United States owning a property in the heart of the

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Arab world and basically taking it over and turning it into a freedom zone i don’t know how that h happens without US

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troops it sounds more like Moadishu which didn’t turn out very well for the

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US army uh than it does Afghanistan and for the Palestinians it

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is sort of the capstone or I should say the tombstone on the Holocaust that

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we’re witnessing day after day after day which Trump has rubber stamped after

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greenlighting Netanyahu

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so is Trump what he says

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here to I think I think your mic is muffled Max it got muffled for a second

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yeah i don’t know how it’s muffled it’s the same setup I always have so it’s fine now all right yeah so I mean does

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Trump really mean what he says well we we’ve seen in the past and early in this

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second administration that he’s deployed a lot of maximalist extreme language

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against countries like Colombia or Mexico or Canada to try to create chaos

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and caused them plunge them into crisis and then move as quickly as possible to

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get them into a deal on his terms and it has worked in the past but it’s not

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working with Hamas and it’s not working with the broader

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paniply of Palestinian resistance factions because uh they’ve already

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suffered so much and they have so little to lose at this point so they’re not

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going to just surrender give up their weapons and then and give up all their

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collateral and then let Israel move in and fulfill Donald Trump’s plan i don’t know what the strategy is here here and

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if you played that clip for longer you would just hear him lying persistently

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and maliciously about the history of the conflict and then he hands over the mic

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to Netanyahu he says “Why don’t you explain to everyone here to this press conference uh what the situation with

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Gaza is?” And Netanyahu then lies shamelessly like the

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most the biggest con artist you can imagine saying Gaza was just blocked but

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we had nothing to do with it gaza was blocked and so what we want is to allow people from Gaza to go somewhere else

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the Arabs won’t let them be there they won’t let them go and it is true that

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Egypt has partly participated in the siege of Gaza but that has a lot to do

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with Israeli pressure on Egypt to do so they don’t

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want Palestinians flowing into Egypt who are war

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refugees but Israel is the one who stole all the land of those refugees making them refugees in the first place

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starting in 1948 Israel is the country that enacted the siege in 2005 israel’s

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created this entire crisis all the way up until October 7th 2023 and so Trump and Netanyahu are just

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lying to the world in order to continue like keep the wheels of the Israeli

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Holocaust machine turnurning and where it’s unclear where this will end up but

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what Netanyahu is saying definitely has to be taken seriously he’s calling for voluntary migration he wants ethnic

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cleansing and you didn’t hear a single critical question from the Washington press corps of Netanyahu in that press

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conference when he is like the Hitler of our time carrying out the

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most concerted naked and

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uh criminal ethnic cleansing project right before our eyes it’s being live streamed before everyone the Washington

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press corps had no interest in questioning them about that they were you know it’s a serious issue the tariffs but that’s mainly what they

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wanted to talk to Trump about and Trump’s messaging just on Gaza was it clearly was just coming from him not

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from I don’t know if his um director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who’s supposed to brief him before this

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had any input at all it was it was a real like a barbaric crude display

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that is consistent with uh at the same time

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consistent with overall US policy to Gaza which has just created this

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catastrophe max when he says that we are going to send the Palestinian

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people somewhere else where are they supposed to go

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well part of uh the part of what Netanyahu has put forward is to send

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some of them to Somali land uh which is a an imperial carveout from

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Somalia and you know when you create these kind of carveouts these like like

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abortions of countries out of conflict zones then they’re pretty desperate for

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cash they’re desperate for loans and they’ll do what you want um we can look

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at the you know uh Rwanda under Paul Kagame as an example although it wasn’t

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exactly a carve out of a country kagame is the West’s favorite leader in

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probably on the whole African continent and he was willing to accept tons of uh

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refugees and migrants who are kicked out of the UK in exchange for favorable favorable loans naim Boulli from El Sal

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of El El Salvador who will do anything he can to curry favor with Donald Trump

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and the MAGA base accepted not only migrants from the US but legal

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immigrants to the United States who are falsely accused of being gang members and essentially tortured them on camera

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abused their rights on camera in a disgusting PR show for the Trumpist base

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shaving their heads holding them like frog marching them on camera into one of

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the most brutal prisons in the western hemisphere where many MS-13 members are

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housed in violation of a US court order these are the leaders that are uh

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favored by the west because they help displace the crises created by the west

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and its real imper direct imperial partners and so that’s where they’ll go

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they’ll go anywhere where some vassel will accept a deal but the Egyptian

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vassel I mean Egyp Egypt has been a sort of a vassal state in a terrible

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financial crisis since it signed the Camp David deal with Israel in

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1979 and you know with that surrendered its role as a sovereign proud

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independent leader of the Arab world not just politically but culturally and accepted the whole

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neoliberal program of e economics became kind of a laboratory for neoliberal

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economics shock therapy in the Middle East egypt while it’s pretty much given

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up its sovereignty it still refuses to accept Palestinians and it’s a red line

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for a lot of complex reasons uh but one red line one reason is that it sees

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Palestinians as troublesome they don’t actually the Egyptian leadership doesn’t

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want them there and then the Egyptian population the grassroots reg you know the regular

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people of Egypt stand in total solidarity with Palestine so destabilize

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Egyptian society to for is for Egypt Egypt’s leadership it’s ha led by Abdul

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Fatal Cece to do Israel such a ghastly

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favor and allow it to completely take over the Gaza Strip so Israel’s in a bind donald Trump’s trying to work this

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out and they and then there’s the population of Gaza this is these are people who’ve

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suffered through atrocities crimes deprivations that we can’t even

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imagine and they are still standing steadfast uh many of them do want to

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leave understandably but many of them are also seeking to stay in their homes or in the rubble of their homes because

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they understand that the fate of Palestine rests on their shoulders and once they’re pushed out the West Bank

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will go next and there will be nothing left in historic Palestine after that

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you know East Jerusalem what’s next we’re witnessing

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right now a real acceleration of a historical plan which began in 1948 but

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it’s simply something we could just call greater Israel and Israel is trying to realize as many of its goals as possible

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because it has Donald Trump and the Trump administration on lockdown and Trump is giving them

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everything they want during this period and that doesn’t just pertain to Gaza or

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the West Bank we’re talking about Syria where Israel is moving deep into the

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Golan Heights and has even moved into Drew’s towns in the Damascus suburbs and

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is seeking to hold that territory we’re talking about Israel attacking southern

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Lebanon and in southern Shia areas in southern Beirut uh in expectation

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probably of another war to eliminate Hezbollah and all resistance and force Lebanon to normalize relations with

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Israel something the vast majority of Lebanese people oppose and we’re seeing Donald Trump issue a

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deadline May 1st for Iran to basically capitulate before the United States and

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give up all of its support for its allies in the region and render itself

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neutered or face a US bombing campaign where Trump has moved key US air force

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and military assets into range of striking Iran along with inair refueling

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capacity and Ohio class submarines with low yield nuclear missiles

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equipped uh this is and and then the war in Yemen which Donald Trump mentioned in

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his press conference to destroy the Ansura Houthi movement in order to allow

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uh Israeli shipping to proceed unmolested through the Red Sea all of

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this is the Israeli greater Israel agenda and it can’t be realized without its direct line to Donald Trump and he’s

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giving them everything they want this is incredibly true and you mentioned Iran so I want everyone to see

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this again benjamin Netanyahu was here Monday to meet with Donald Trump this part right here in particular someone

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got a closeup of his face here trump’s announced direct talks with Iran to avoid war and I want you to see the look

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on Benjamin Netanyahu’s face during this part of the discussion we’re having direct talks with Iran and uh they’ve

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started it’ll go on Saturday we have a very big meeting and we’ll see what can happen and I think everybody agrees that

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uh doing a deal would be preferable uh to doing the obvious and the obvious is

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not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be

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involved with if they can avoid it so we’re going to see if we can avoid it but it’s uh getting to be very dangerous

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territory and hopefully those talks will be successful and I think it would be in Iran’s best interest if they are

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successful we hope we hope that’s going to happen

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having direct talks with He does not that closeup he does not look happy

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about that at all um I want to get get your take on that

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well there were no direct talks of that kind under Biden and Netanyahu is

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believes that he should have veto power and that he he wasn’t made aware that

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there would be direct talks because just hours before Donald Trump said that the

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Iranian foreign minister Aragchi announced that there would be only indirect talks in Oman and that was the

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message he’d been sending so for Netanyahu to not find out about this first was unusual for him and it really

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speaks to the chaos that Trump causes even

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for I I don’t even want to call Israel an ally but like the closest US proxies Zalinski

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Netanyahu and another point he said Netanyahu asked if Trump would drop the tariffs and he said “We already give you

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four billion a year.” Um so he actually rebuked Netanyahu it was something we had never

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seen we rarely see from a US president i don’t know what to expect from these

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talks which are going to be held in Oman but they’re not going to be direct talks

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that might have been that might have helped explain Netanyahu’s expression i mean we don’t

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know what’s going to happen under Trump necessarily but according to Iran there

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will now be a meeting between Foreign Minister Arachi and Steve Witoff who is

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Trump’s negotiator and they’re going to be in Oman and that’s to see what’s possible

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as far as indirect negotiations so it’s basically direct talks but indirect negotiations through Oman which is

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played this historic role as a regional negotiator i I I know like Israel

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lobbyists uh in Washington who more align with Biden are very uncomfortable with Trump

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doing talks with Iran biden wasn’t wasn’t really willing to talk as

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directly or to put uh the whole nuclear issue on the table and what Iran is

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demanding is very sensible because look at what happened during the first Trump administration he

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basically made a promise to his Zionist billionaire patron Sheldon and patrons

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Sheldon and Miriam add that he would scrap the Iran deal and so he tears up the JCPOA as one of the first things he

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does and then imposes a policy of maximum pressure on Iran which includes the assassination of Iran’s second most

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powerful official Kasam Solommani iran wants Congress

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to authorize the deal whatever deal it makes with Trump and make it permanent

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so it can’t be ripped up and why would you deal with the United States when you have such an

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erratic political system that sends in one figure to make a deal with you and then four years later the next guy rips

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up the deal because he becomes a target of uh Israeli foreign influence it’s it it doesn’t make sense

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for Iran to do that so they’re they’re seeking some stability here in

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negotiations and I don’t know if Trump will be able to deliver that the other issue is something that Tucker

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Carlson pointed to in a I think a very smart way because he’s trying to make

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the case to the Trump White House as someone who has direct access to Trump

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and Elon Musk and these other figures in the inner circle that the United States

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would be insane to wage war in Iran and he pointed to the tariffs and said ‘Look

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at all the economic chaos that’s happening now whether you think these tariffs are necessary or not a war with

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Iran at this point would send the global economy into a kind of death spiral and

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we can’t have it right now so I don’t I don’t know if Trump is really prepared to push the button and

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execute the threat that he’s made to Iran but he’s definitely gotten things to the table in Oman in a way we didn’t

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expect and I don’t think Netanyahu is comfortable with it well he’s not uh because he issued this

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statement uh after that meeting he’s definitely not comfortable with

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it for Donald Trump

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she’s a

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lawyer

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foreign trump for

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So uh to wrap things up very quickly one of the things that he said there was that there is no agreement with Iran

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unless they do uh denuclearize in his mind that that

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that’s the only way that an agreement could happen at the same time if you’re Iran why would you give up your nuclear

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capability knowing that Israel still has that still has that ability why why

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would you give that up he’s calling for them to destroy even their civilian reactors i mean they have

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one at like in Thran that was actually um USmade that’s just providing energy

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but they Netanyahu doesn’t want them to even have breakout capacity and what he’s calling for is the Libya option and

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we know where that led for Mar Gaddafi mar Gaddafi trusted the West which he

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had always denounced tony Blair negotiated the Libya option he was he

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was Gaddafi’s line to the west he gave up all of his uh uncon unconventional weapons which

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were for deterrence to prevent an invasion and he was left with a not very

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strong army and then the West just decided to overthrow him by sponsoring

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al-Qaeda mercenaries along with the the Gulf states that are actually kind of quietly

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assisting Israel including Qatar and uh you know Turkey got in on

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the act everybody wanted a piece of the Libyan pie they all ganged up on Gaddafi he had no deterrence left he called uh

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Tony Blair this guy in London and said “Come on i gave you everything you wanted and now you’re you’re sending the

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dogs after me like stop this now and you’re going to have a huge refugee crisis on your hand if you destabilize

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Libya and will be overrun by ISIS gaddafi Blair hung up the phone said

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“Sorry buddy nothing I can do for you.” Gaddafi got a bayonet up his ass he literally got bayoneted in the ass by

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al-Qaeda goons under NATO air cover

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disgusting and that tells you how good the West word is when you give up all your deterrence someone who didn’t and

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nuclearized was Kim Jong-un the North Korean leader who also had invested heavily in

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ballistic missile delivery devices to make sure that if he had nuclear

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capacity he could deliver it to United States assets in the Pacific Ocean and

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he made good on that and what did he get he got a

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personal visit from Donald Trump walking across the demilitarized zone from North from South Korea attempting to negotiate

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of course Donald Trump’s peace on treaties his peace attempt which I

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thought was courageous was deepixed by the deep state John Bolton and company

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but it really shows the value of having a nuclear program in today’s doggy dog

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world and for Iran to give up even breakout capacity as you mentioned

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against a country that has a nuclear weapons program at least 250 nuclear

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weapons that we know of at a plant in Deona that is exempted from IAEA

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inspections that really would have to be suic that would be suicidal the other

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terms that the West and Israel behind them is putting on the table for Iran

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are also suicidal giving up their ballistic missile program blocking the IRGC from being able to support allies

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in Yemen and Lebanon which play an important role in giving Iran strategic

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depth iran’s not going to be able to agree to those and so the pressure is building is what Israel is really

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demanding is the destruction of the Iranian state as a revolutionary force

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and they just their ultimate goal is to get someone like the sha back in there and uh this this will lead to deep

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social crisis in Iran in the region and that’s the price of supporting a tiny

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little apartheid entity like Israel it doesn’t serve US interests to do this

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so you know you had Trump and North Korea negotiating yeah there were some other

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forces that sabotaged the negotiations but it didn’t lead to war here you have Trump and Iran negotiating but you have

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this third force which is deeply integrated into the global financial

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system and has holds sway over US Congress US state houses and has close

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relationships with US intelligence and the US military talking about Israel uh

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that doesn’t portend well for the negotiations and I’m I’m really troubled about the prospect of war here and just

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finally Netanyahu touched on Turkey and Syria uh this is a new great game that’s

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worth paying attention to and Turkey is in a state of turbulence now with

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massive protests against Erdogan um there are deals that Turkey is making

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with the Kurds for the first time in a while I think to safeguard its near abroad and at the same time Turkey is

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arming and supporting the rebranded al-Qaeda government in

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Syria of Ahmed al-Shar aka aka Muhammad Al Jolani and Israel is trying to make

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sure that Golani who is basically an agent of Turkey at this point of Erdogan

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is as weak as possible and so Israel’s just attacked the T4 military airport

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and base outside homes and that previously was an Iranian

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IRGC that was a base where Iran would deliver military assets and support the

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Syrian military now uh Turkey has started moving in and so Israel totally

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destroyed the base and it’s a message to Turkey like we will attack you next if

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you begin to strengthen and fortify this new Syrian kind of Muslim Brotherhood

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aligned government i mean how far can Israel go it’s fighting on I can’t even keep track

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of how many fronts five to seven but it’s it’s it’s really pushing for war on so many fronts and I

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don’t know how long uh Trump can afford to keep this relationship going before

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he breaks and says “Wait a minute netanya is asking too much of me i’m going to have to eventually say

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no.” I just What’s stopping Israel from going

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into Iran i mean this is insane at this point it’s like they’re trying to go against anybody like anybody

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particularly in that region that doesn’t support the greater Israel and I mentioned Iran because when Netanyahu

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came to Congress I believe it was the last time he had uh two pictures in his hand and one he called the curse and the

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other one he called the blessing and he said that the curse was Iran and he showed the other map and he said this

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could be the blessing where we could have trade go from from Europe to the Middle East etc this is what we could

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have but we have this this curse that’s in the way and that curse he said was Iran

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so if they do proceed to let’s say take over Gaza and then the West Bank what’s

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stopping them from going going to Iran well that was that visual display was

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for the region the cur the blessing the cur blessing and the curse netanyahu is

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I mean it’s it’s it’s an invocation of the Bible and Netanyahu

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is positioning himself as God he’s basically saying I’m God of the region and if you side with Iran like Ensorah

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in Yemen or Hezbollah in Lebanon you will be cursed and you will be destroyed

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by God if you side with Israel which basically controls the US government you

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will be blessed and that’s the blessing is the Abraham Accords and the kind of

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sellout Sunni monarch monarchies of the United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia

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Bahrain which are basically uh

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glorified oil companies posing as states have sided with the blessing there they

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believe that you know they once they get the Palestinian issue out of the way we’ll be blessed we’ll make

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peace there are still other people in the region who have dignity and are

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actually standing up against a force that is telling them what they can do

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with their future and what kind of political system they can have who can be their leader and who will be

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assassinated they’re basically fighting they’re fighting off for their own freedom

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and outside of Gaza Gaza being a besieged area where most people are

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Sunni outside of there most of those forces are

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Shia and uh they are all targets they are targets and they’re not just they

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they in for the last 1015 years they haven’t just been targets of Israel they’ve been targets of these takuri

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extremist al-Qaeda and ISIS proxies that have not have just slaughtered every

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minority group in their wake and that’s what we’re seeing take place in in Syria where since Assad was removed the new

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government of Ahmed al-Sharz conducted a genocidal campaign against the Alawites from a Shia

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offshoot and Israel’s pretty content to see that take place as long as Muslims

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are killing each other that’s fine for them uh and the Syrian state to the

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extent it still exists has been powerless to resist Israel’s onslaught and seizure of its territory something

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that wasn’t happening before so that’s the the blessing and the curse is an

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ominous message Netanyahu was sending throughout the region and it’s clear

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increasingly clear who’s on Israel’s side and who’s still fighting for sovereignty why don’t why doesn’t Israel

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attack Iran israel on on its own obviously doesn’t

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have the capacity to attack Iran netanyahu’s life mission at least since he returned to

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office to the prime minister’s office in 2009 has been to manipulate and push the United States

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into attacking Iran on his behalf that’s why in his first major speech before

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Congress after returning to the prime minister’s office this is the Obama administration Netanyagu held up another

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visual display where and it was of Awitz radar like a like kind of

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like satellite or or maps filmed from a blimp of

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Awitz and he said the United States failed to attack the railways to Awitz

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and then he held up another satellite Maxar map of Iran’s nuclear facilities

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the facility at Natans I think and he said “Will you make the same mistake now

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and fail to bomb the new engines of the Jewish people’s

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destruction in Iran?” And this was a me message to Obama like if you fail to do this you are an anti-semite and you will

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be cursed and that’s that’s where he’s trying to get Trump right now and Trump

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is moving into position to do exactly what Netanyahu wants the Diego Garcia Air Base in the Indian Ocean has

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one-third of the US entire fleet of B2 stealth bombers along with uh attack

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aircraft for support F-18s and inair refueling

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jets that’s all they need to attack the nuclear facilities of Iran which are

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buried deep underground and they put them at Diego Garcia

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because it’s supposedly out of range of Iran’s ballistic missiles but Iran can

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do a lot if it’s not caught on the back foot it can attack oil facilities cross

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the Persian Gulf tank the global economy uh the straight of Hormuza can

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just cut it off i mean it can basically cut off shipping in a way that Ensorah and Yemen can’t

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and it can place Trump in real political danger just by doing that and then there are US bases across Iraq and across the

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region that can be reached by the ballistic missiles so you know there could be a real price here

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us to do Israel’s bidding could use could lose a lot of US soldiers

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so we could be potent potentially looking at another proxy war a proxy war where we’re the proxy

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for Israel it’s it’s just I and I point to this

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because people need to see this you guys um again here’s another one all of this

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happened on Monday by the way uh the defense budget he is going to increase

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you guys need to hear this but despite that uh we have a tremendous

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military that was a very small portion cuz we rebuilt the military during my first term and uh we uh we have great uh

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great things happening with our military we also uh essentially approved a budget

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which is in the facility you’ll like to hear this of a trillion dollars $1 trillion and nobody’s seen anything like

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it we have to build our military and we’re very costconscious but the military is something that we have to

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build and we have to be strong because you got a lot of bad forces out there now so we’re going to be approving a

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budget the uh and I’m proud to say actually the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military we’re cutting other

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things that were uh under Doge but under a lot of other when you look at uh a

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woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do with environmental and they had $100 in

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the bank and they give her two billion many many of those cases all that stuff is going to be cut out

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so the point that I I want to address here is the fact that he’s trying to increase the military budget to $1

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trillion and there the number of times that they tell us our government tells us we don’t have the money to pay for

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everybody to have universal healthcare in this country but they want to increase the military to budget to 1 trillion don’t forget people when Donald

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Trump was running remember he said oh we’re going to cut the defense budget and I was like yeah we’ll we’ll wait and see if that actually happens right so

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obviously not yet they laid off federal employees people lost their jobs but they’re increasing the military budget

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like this this is insane especially considering most people nowadays are not

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joining the military i mean military recruitment is down so it’s just giving

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Netanyahu everything he wants well first and most obviously you know

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if you’re going to have a trillion dollar military budget it’s already like 800 billion biden kept raising it uh we

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have to go back to the comment Secretary of State Maline Albbright made as the US began uh destroying Yugoslavia through a

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fake humanitarian intervention which was really just an imperial

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war uh what you’re not if you have such

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a how can you have she basically said how can you have the world’s biggest army and not use it and it was

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considered shocking at the time when she said that but that’s the logic here if

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there’s a trillion dollar military budget they’re going to have to jin up some fake wars and they’re already in

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Yemen what have they done there nothing they’ve achieved no

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military goals they’ve committed lots of war crimes blown up apartment buildings they blew up a tribal gathering it was

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like the collateral murder wiki Wikileaks video that Trump and Pete Haggath blasted out of them bombing a

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bunch of men having what’s known as a modulus or a a meeting in a kind of

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circle it was like a city basically their version of a city council meeting they just blew it up killed everybody we

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don’t need Wikileaks to expose it because these maniacs are proud of it they have not achieved freedom of

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navigation they which is the objective of this war

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for ships going through the Red Sea they have not reduced the cost of shipping they have not weakened Houthi leadership

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they have not taken out any highle targets we still don’t know the name of the top missile guy that Mike Waltz

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referred to that they killed on the first day of the war in his signal gate

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chat with without knowing it jeffrey Goldberg one of the top antagonists of

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the Trump administration was in the chat these people are idiots pete Hegsth I mean they talk

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about DEI picks the defense secretary is a DUI pick this guy is a historic level

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clown and they have wasted already close to a billion dollars of our money on this war

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of choice because they just have endless money to play with they’re testing new

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weapons trump has promised Boeing this gigantic grift to build the B47 stealth

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bomber it’s one of It will be the most expensive aircraft in history by by far

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more expensive than the B2 and you know what they did to get the B2 bomber built which is totally unnecessary is they

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would build a different part for it in every American state so every member of Congress would be so compromised and

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need the jobs so badly that they couldn’t vote against the uh appropriations for that bomber and

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that’s what they’re going to do with the B-47 and then they’re tying in all these new deals trump is uh gonna give Andreel

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the company of venture capitalist Mark Andre who became one of his supporters a

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deal to build um integrated drone support for the B-47 so the B-47 will be

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able to supposedly control a fleet of attack drones how is that going to happen it just seems like they’re taking

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all of the money from our pockets and feeding it into one of the only productive parts of the US economy which

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is the arms industry and it’s it’s big tech and AI and then they’re cutting

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entitlements which basically means social programs for regular people who are going to be deacto taxed by Trump’s

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tariffs and eliminating their jobs and calling government workers villains to

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try to claim that they’re reducing the budget and Elon Musk is lying left and right about finding all of this waste

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through Doge uh like uh condom money for condoms in Gaza completely made

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up and and and so I mean what what are you looking at here kind of like looks

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like fascism i hate to use that word because it’s so it’s it’s kind of like lost all

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meaning but when you’re left with nothing more than this gigantic military and a military grift and there’s

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practically no social programs i mean it’s just basically a we’re just living in a giant war state

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some people who did uh vote for Donald Trump are speaking out against this um

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not most that I’ve seen so far but some of them are speaking out uh some have been more vocal about what is this it

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seems like it’s Israel first not America first uh especially after the tariffs right so some people are like whoa what

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what is happening here right and that brings up this question that people are now floating around and I wanted to ask

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you about this if Kla Harris wins how do you think she handled this situation with Benjamin Netanyahu because she told

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us over and over again she still would not withhold weapons from Israel so where do you think this goes if Kamla

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would have won because I don’t see her saying no to Netanyahu either

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i don’t think there would have been a ceasefire in the first place she would have been steamrolled by

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Netanyahu trump had the ability to ink a ceasefire deal because of his

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relationship with Netanyahu because Netanyahu sort of trusted him and wanted to give him a a win to justify him being

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elected and Trump at the same time gave Netanyahu the West Bank said just go

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crazy annex it whatever kamala would have still spouted broomemides about a

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two-state solution but there would have there wouldn’t have been no ceasefire she never would have exercised

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any leverage there and uh it was up to Donald Trump to enforce the ceasefire but he green

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lit Netanyahu breaking it and slaughtering over 80 children in one hour after

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breaking the ceasefire and now here we are uh with hostages in Gaza actually I

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think they might be more like prisoners of war americans who went to fight with the Israeli military in Gaza and they’re

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still there languishing uh suffering the same conditions everyone else in Gaza is so they’re

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they’re famished and this is Donald Trump’s failure looking

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at I’m sure Kamala would have similarly failed it would to to stop

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Netanyahu really requires something extreme in US politics you have to defy

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the most powerful lobby in American life the Israel lobby by doing what Bernie

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Sanders is calling for now which is suspending arms shipments to Israel it’s the only way to stop them to stop them

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and then who knows what they’ll do to you right i don’t think Kamala would have done that but Donald Trump you know

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he did have a ceasefire deal he didn’t enforce it he he had momentum to negotiate also a deal between Ukraine

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and Russia and that seems to be uh I wouldn’t say abandoned but it’s lost all

44:52

momentum and uh it may completely fail and he’s threatening war with Iran there

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could for all we know be a war in the next two or three weeks and he’s launched a war for Israel in Yemen which

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is completely failed just from a purely military standpoint which could may very well lead to an a ground

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invasion by the sellout Sunni monarchies

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of Saudi Arabia the UAE with possible support from Qatar and the fake Yemeni

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government in the south which currently exists in an apartment building in Riad

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Saudi Arabia with US air support which would be grizzly and

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horrendous that will be you know just in the first six months of Trump’s

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administration the one of the most catastrophic foreign policy records that

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we thought Biden was the worst but Trump is really giving him a run for his money and and then the other thing that’s so

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um that I find kind of funny in a way since you mentioned people now having second thoughts or buyers remorse about

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Trump is the capitalist class that supported Trump the 0.1enters like Bill Aman of Persian

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Capital who supported Trump because you know he was going to put he was going to like jail pro Palestine professors bill

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Aman is a Jewish supremacist to the extreme and he pulled his money out of Harvard because like the president

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Claudine Gay wouldn’t like jail all the students who protested the genocide and he comes in Bill Aman comes in and he’s

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like “Donald Trump is pro Wall Street it’s going to be a progrowth administration.” Then Trump does what he

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says he was always going to do which is impose global tariffs and Bill Aman starts losing his

46:43

money billionaires are losing a lot of money right now and Bill Aman’s like “No no no we need a ceasefire it’s the first

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time I’ve ever heard him call for a ceasefire but he only calls for a ceasefire when it concerns his own money

46:55

not thousands of dead babies he’s fine with that they’re all freaking out donald Trump is actually willing to face

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down a large slice of the global capitalist class but he can’t face down

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Netanyahu so that really should say speak volumes about where the power lies

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and now we see the crimes have come back home which is what I think a lot of us were warning people we’re seeing

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students get deported or in the process of being deported because they

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participated in pro Palestinian protests uh people being jailed like it it’s

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absolutely insane uh but again to your point that’s what Bill Aman wanted right didn’t he want he wanted the crackdown

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uh on those protesters and and that brings up Mahmood Khalo because he was the first one I think that a lot of us

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heard about uh that was detained uh by ICE and Roger Meadows friend of the show

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he sent me this article and I wanted to ask you about this did you hear anything about this article that said that

47:58

Mimmude Khalil may have been British intelligence are are you familiar with that yeah I am uh I talked about it with

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Jackson Hle when he asked me about it um just to address overall your comment

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before I get to that um Trump and the Trump administration is

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going to screw over his own base i mean you know Democrats people on the left are used to getting screwed over by the

48:28

Democratic party it’s he’s going to take he he he’s moving towards reducing their

48:33

Medicare payments taking their social security accounts or reducing social

48:39

security payments they’re starting to worry and so what he’s giving them is a kind of

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sadistic almost pornographic theater of vengeance blood vengeance and

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humiliation of their perceived enemies among the poor and underclass of course

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there won’t be any vengeance against the real enemies their class enemies and so

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we see like Christy Gnome who’s like this poster posterwoman

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uh sadistic mil dominatrix fantasy for the Trumpist male standing in front of

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shirtless Salvador and MS alleged MS-13 members bearing tattoos in a packed into

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a prison cell and she’s wearing like a Rolex watch wearing her little DHS cap

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and she’s is posing there it looks like the cover of some like demented 90s

49:41

movie and then today she was out with Haya Rachik the crazy libs of Tik

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Tok Habad cult member Twitter influencer

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supposedly arresting gang members in Phoenix again she’s out with her MIL

49:58

dominatrix look rounding up Latino males into a van with this demented Twitter

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influencer who spends like days and days just staring at drag shows like I don’t

50:11

know how you can spend that much time watching like the drag shows that you say are so evil and not be a little bit

50:20

uh off yourself uh you seem pretty fixated on it it it it just shows like a

50:26

level of cultural perversion that might be like hard to

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understand but that is what they’re giving their base in exchange for their

50:38

base giving up all material benefits that they received from the post New Deal

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order and that’s what they voted for that’s what many of them voted for they’re just gonna sit there on their

50:49

screens and watch Latino males get abused and like it and just and they’ll and then they’ll they’ll type in replies

50:56

“Dort them all.” Like you always I always see that deply reply now i don’t care deport them all deport everyone

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they’re they’re they’re they’re entertaining this fantasy of a country just without everyone they hate

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and uh not to say that there wasn’t a real

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immigration crisis or a real uh warped economy based on globalization in this

51:23

country but they’re not going to respond to that in any real way i don’t actually think they’re going to get away with

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real mass deportations that will empower the American worker although the Trump

51:35

administration is giving Geog Group and these privatized prison firms uh

51:40

something like $50 billion dollar to build new prison infrastructure to house migrants it’s just a giant giveaway like

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corporate welfare giveaway to big donors among this booming industry which is the

51:53

only source of jobs in so many towns across Arizona and elsewhere and then

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you you know so the anti-semitism issue is plugged into this the Palestine protester that’s wearing hijab Makmoud

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Khalil they’re all seen in the same light as the Venezuelan migrant and they

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all need to be deported but they’re not all going to be deported they’re not going to be able to shut down protest

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they they are certainly going to move towards criminalizing it but they’re not going to get away with it immediately so

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what they need to do is have high-profile busts of prominent figures and pull their green cards and pull

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their student visas mahmud Khalil was like the test case the first one and I think they probably should have chosen

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someone else uh because Mahmud Khalil was a permanent resident who has this

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background that you mentioned of actually being a British soft power

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asset who worked for the British embassy in Beirut

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helping i I I mean he wasn’t like some highlevel figure i think he was just like an ambitious young man who was

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raised in a Syrian refugee camp Yarmmuk which you know before the dirty war on Syria was for Palestinian refugees a

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comparatively better place to live than in Lebanon he wanted to get out and be a

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part of the world and he spoke English and you know this was his way out the British brought him into the embassy in

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Beirut but what the British were doing in Beirut was horrible i mean they’re working to destroy the the resistance

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there hezbollah they were infiltrating he worked uh on regime

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change issues related to Syria he received a cheving scholarship which is

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a British soft power scholarship that trains young people for from around the

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world to like basically advance British interests and then he went to Colombia’s SEPA school the school of international

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and I think public affairs or policy affairs who are the te who who who are

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faculty at SEIPA hillary Clinton is teaching there now victoria Nuland I

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mean the MA it’s an imperial training school and then the genocide starts on

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October 7th 2023 or October 8th and protests break out at Colombia colombia

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has a very high percentage of students from the Middle East who are you stand

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in solidarity with Palestinians and students from the US including Jewish

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students who are anti-ionist and the protests intensify there and Mahmud

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Khalil emerges with this whole background and all the training he has as a key negotiator between the

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administration and the students and proved very effective and that’s how his name became known to Zionists and that’s

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why they began targeting him so I called up the British Foreign Office’s press

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department and asked them if they had anything to say about Khalil being

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kidnapped since they had trained him and you know worked with him and you know if you’re going to work in the foreign if

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you’re going to work in the British embassy in Beirut they’re going to vet you like Marco Rubio was basically

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calling this guy a terrorist i said you know can you come are you going to come out and say he’s not a terrorist you worked with him he’s a good you know

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upstanding young man with a strong moral compass like can you say anything and they said just send your questions by

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email i sent him by email no response the British Foreign Office has thrown him under the bus and so like it’s such

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a tragic story and I think when when you ask that question it gets to one of the angles of the story that a lot of his

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supporters don’t want to acknowledge but which I think says so much about Western Empire

55:40

which is that you can serve it you can deal with them as an ally but as soon as

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you start to carve out your own space or the native demands his own dignity they

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just kick you to the curb they abandon you completely mahoud Khalil has been betrayed and I guess is now what in a is

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he’s in a prison somewhere in New Jersey and can only speak through his lawyer he’s been silenced after being

56:05

disappeared this is insane i I have one more um

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question here Max and that is again about what’s happening here at home we are also seeing that even when it comes

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to Hollywood um Israel is not winning the narrative

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because we we look at the two movies uh that did not perform well that I think were predicted to perform well the Snow

56:30

White movie with Galado like even though she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame although I question that

56:35

very very heavily because I know that there have been people who have been actors for it took them 20 years before

56:41

they could receive a star so you got to question that but then also the Captain America movie which also there were a

56:49

lot of protest against that because it did feature I guess the introduction of

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one of the characters from the Marvel comics which is an agent superhero for

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uh the MSAD or something like that and what we saw is that there was great backlash not just from the protesters

57:07

but even with the ticket sales uh Snow White did not do well at all in fact it flopped captain America when you compare

57:15

it to all the other Marvel movies flopped so I I don’t think that in the

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end Israel was gonna win the narrative and I’m curious to what you think about that i think that it’s over for them

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when you look at their reputation i don’t think that they could ever clean up that reputation

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it’s it’s a it’s a complex issue i think Snow White flopped because

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it sucked overall it just sucked i think a

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lot of people on the right might not have wanted to see it because Snow White wasn’t a pureb blood white

57:50

girl uh they I saw a lot of objection to that but uh we have a story up at the

57:57

Greyzone by Wyatt Reed about one of the major faces of Israel’s post October 7th

58:04

PR efforts his name is Ramy Davididan and he claimed that he rescued 750

58:09

Israelis from Hamas on October 7th and that he witnessed like dozens of Israeli

58:16

women tied to trees after being brutally sexually assaulted by Hamas and he was

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just uh about to be exposed on a major Israeli network in Israel channel 13 by

58:28

their top investigative journalist Raviv Ducker as a complete fraud who invented

58:33

every single story and then the CEO of the network comes in and pulls the

58:38

report uh under public pressure supposedly they can’t really expose this

58:44

hero um but the guy you know he’s been on international speaking tours and he was in Cheryl Sandberg’s

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hoax movie about Hamas mass rape on October 7th and I just thought to myself

58:57

you know this guy is a much better actor than Galado

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i mean she’s a terrible actor have you seen her like just historically I I just

59:08

wondered how did she even get these roles and I guess it’s just she’s like a six- foot tall Israeli model and uh

59:15

Hollywood producers like that that didn’t help either

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um is Israel’s PR efforts

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are they they they they often work during periods of u shock like October

59:36

7th like they got the whole media to believe anything they wanted and they’re willing to lie in order to achieve a

59:44

genocidal objective the 40 beheaded babies babies hung on laundry lines

59:50

Hamas mass rape the whole thing they got the whole media to believe that for months and they carved out all the

59:56

political space they needed to commit genocide by the time the lies were exposed it was too late and much of the

1:00:02

media was too embarrassed to walk them back but then you have like the propaganda set pieces where they try to

1:00:10

plant their people in Hollywood um generate sympathy through Hollywood

1:00:15

films the public in the US is not interested in that it’s not going to go anywhere they have they’ve basically

1:00:22

lost the culture and in a generation they will have lost US public opinion

1:00:27

outside of uh parts of the political right there’s polls yuggov polls pew

1:00:34

polls showing most Democrats de do not oppo do not support Israel and in fact

1:00:41

oppose it that’s that’s just only going to intensify their only base of support is

1:00:48

among older Republicans right now and you know if you pull Jews Jewish Americans you know most of

1:00:56

them will identify as Zionists but the depth of their the intensity for Israel is it’s it’s not that strong except

1:01:05

within religious communities that are sort of hermetic hermetic and are are

1:01:11

like the five towns in Long Island but like secular Jewish Americans they’re not going to grow up with like this deep

1:01:18

love for the right-wing Israel that is just waging war on all fronts so

1:01:26

where does it go where does it go i mean the Israeli Foreign Ministry has a $150

1:01:31

million fund right now to pay influencers one of them I believe is Van

1:01:36

Jones um who’s just become like the biggest one of the biggest sellouts I’ve ever met in my life i knew him when he

1:01:44

was trying to be like a green activist but before that he was a Mauist in the Bay Area and now he’s like appearing in

1:01:50

Israeli propaganda videos with Noah Tishp who’s one of the Israeli government’s main cultural

1:01:56

influencers and he’s speaking at Israeli fundraisers who else do they have out there like Michael Rapaort clearly part

1:02:03

of this deborah Messing who has this dumb astroturfed October hate film demonizing

1:02:10

the Palestine solidarity movement no one’s really watching it it’s all astroturfed their their influencers the

1:02:17

the the celebrities they’re able to buy are they’re not even belisters like who is Michael Rapaort before October

1:02:24

7th so it’s it’s it’s and by the way they had to raise taxes on Israeli citizens

1:02:32

to pay for that $150 million fund so where is all this all leading they’re

1:02:38

not going to win some cultural war they’re not putting forward like they’re not even trying to convince anyone

1:02:43

anymore they’re just going to win through force they’re going to win by paying politicians like John Federman

1:02:50

who was instrumental in Mahmud Khalil’s kidnapping by uh carrying out AI

1:02:58

genocides in the region and uh you know you have these these kind of hooligan squads like Betar

1:03:07

the Shirion Collective digital hooligan squads like Canary Mission they’re just

1:03:13

there to intimidate American citizens and they think that they can win through force alone that they can just

1:03:20

criminalize us destroy the First Amendment and bomb their way out of every problem and if they succeed then

1:03:28

uh what’s left of civilization civilization is

1:03:34

gone and so that’s those are the stakes

1:03:40

max Blumenthal thank you so much thanks a lot for having me thanks for all the great great questions and uh

1:03:46

special thanks to Eric T red Eric Thomas your producer for uh all the hard work

1:03:52

he’s done for us helping to moderate the chat at the gray zone

1:03:57

awesome thanks Max see you soon hey guys this was a savvy clip if you like what

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Free Speech and the Apocalypse

Scott Ritter

Apr 12, 2025

When Highway to Hell was first conceived, I was in the midst of a campaign—Operation DAWN—designed to make preventing nuclear war and promoting arms control a central issue for the 2024 Presidential election. Highway to Hell was intended to be a primer for the education of Americans on the imminent danger of nuclear war, and the absolute necessity for disarmament and arms control as the ideal mechanisms to keep the nuclear genie in the bottle.

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice and FBI, however, took umbrage with this campaign and, as part of a larger effort to counter so-called Russian interference in the American electoral process.

On August 7 of 2024, the FBI raided my home. They seized my personal electronics, including my main laptop where I kept my files and drafts of work in progress. On that laptop there were several lengthy articles and two draft books. The FBI also seized archival material that was being used in both the articles and the draft books.

But the FBI did more: by carrying out such a high-profile raid, the FBI highlighted their allegations that I was an agent of the Russian Federation. They brought into question my credibility as a journalist and analyst, and by linking their allegations to my status as a contributor to both RT and Sputnik, sought to paint me as a Russian propogandist, and my work, by extension, Russian propaganda.

In short, the FBI raid was an elaborate act of theater designed to destroy a critical voice at the very moment this voice needed to be heard the most: on the eve of a national election where the issue of nuclear war and arms control was one of the most important being considered by the American people.

While I was, and still am, unable to access the draft articles and books, along with the archival research documents, I was not about to let the FBI and, by extension, the US government, silence me.

When the work the government labeled as propaganda (i.e., my articles published in RT and Sputnik) is combined with work I have done over the course of the past decade, the government’s efforts fail miserably.

This is especially true when addressing the issue of the threat posed by nuclear weapons and the critical importance of arms control in containing and eliminating this threat.

The government claims that in articles I published with RT and Sputnik I am simply parroting Russian talking points.

This is the furthest thing from the truth: when these articles are read side by side with dozens of other articles written over the years for outlets such as The Huffington Post, TruthDig, The American Conservative, The Washington Spectator, Consortium News and Energy Intelligence, the consistency of argument and the heavy reliance on fact-based analysis underscores the reality that my work is my work alone, influenced by no outside parties, including the Russian government.

The articles were, however, intended to influence the target audience, namely the American people.

And this is exactly what the FBI and the Biden administration were trying to prevent by raiding my home.

In preparing the original draft of Highway to Hell, I had gone back and reviewed the totality of my writing about nuclear weapons and arms control since 2015. I had written a couple chapters prior to the FBI raid, which were lost when the FBI seized my computer. Anyone who writes knows how hard it is to pour yourself into a project, and how hard it is to try and recreate that product in case it is lost, erased, or—as in this case—stolen by the US government.

I was having a hard time getting motivated to re-write the chapters in question, and was re-reading the earlier articles to get myself motivated, when I was struck by an epiphany: why re-invent the wheel?

The book I was trying to write was, for all intents and purposes, already written.

Moreover, by assembling the various articles I had written over the years into a single volume, organized chronologically by topic, I would be able to demonstrate to anyone who read the book the reality that what I wrote for RT and Sputnik was exactly what I wrote for my American publishers. And finally, by writing a book that incorporated the RT and Sputnik articles I wrote on nuclear weapons and arms control, I would be standing up to the forces that were trying to silence me, not only by continuing to speak and write on topics they found disconcerting, but also by publishing the very material they were trying to delete from the public eye.

Highway to Hell was now more than simply a clarion call about the dangers of nuclear weapons and the need to rid the world of that danger, but it was also the physical manifestation of the absolute need for free speech (my voice) and a free press (Clarity Press, which had the courage to publish this book in the face of US government pressure not to.) The threat of nuclear war is as great today as it has ever been in the history of the nuclear era, even more so than the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Someday the history of what happened between September and December 2024 regarding the Biden administrations insane rush toward the nuclear apocalypse will be become public. What we know now, however, should be enough to send a chill down the spine of any American—the Biden administration gave Ukraine permission to use long-range US-made ATACMS missiles against targets inside Russia despite a Pentagon assessment which said such actions had a better than 50% chance of triggering a Russian nuclear response.

More than 50%.

And the Biden administration went ahead regardless.

Some people may think that the Biden administration believed the Russians were bluffing.

But a senior Democratic member of Congress, when briefed by the CIA about the new Russian nuclear doctrine that the Biden administration would be testing by greenlighting the use of ATACMS by Ukraine, made it clear that the CIA had concluded that the Russians were not bluffing.

The scariest part of the briefing, this representative told me, was not the CIA conclusion, but rather the fact that the senior Biden administration officials present were not concerned by the potential for a nuclear “exchange” with Russia.

This fact was backed by a presentation made in November 2024 by the Strategic Command officer responsible for America’s nuclear war plans. Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan, the J-5 (Plans and Policy) for Strategic Command, told an audience at a panel hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the US was prepared to fight and win a nuclear war. While he did not cite Russia as the enemy in such an exchange, this conversation took place at the precise timeframe where the Biden administration was playing nuclear roulette with ATACMS missiles.

It is incumbent for the American public to empower themselves with knowledge and information about the dangers of nuclear war, and the need for arms control.

Highway to Hell is an ideal resource for this empowerment.

And the fact that the US government did its level best to keep this book from being published should be even more reason for this book to be read by every American.

Because free speech isn’t free if the American people are denied access to information by the US government.

Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 254 of Ask the Inspector.

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