Israel's flag now flies high in the center of Gaza City, overlooking a desolate,
apocalyptic landscape.
This is one of the most intense assaults on a population the world has ever seen.
And it's not over yet.
More than 18,000 Gazans have died and thousands more are missing,
buried under the rubble.
Others are severely injured and are unable to get the health care they need,
as hospitals are unable to function due to a lack of fuel
and due to repeated aerial bombardments by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Now, with that said, the United States decided to be the sole country
in the United Nations to basically veto
a resolution that called for a cease fire.
Now, the Security Council vote on the resolution, backed by Arab states,
had 13 in favor and one the United States against,
while the United Kingdom abstained.
US Deputy Representative to the UN, Robert Wood said the resolution
was rushed and ignored.
US diplomatic efforts to get more aid into Gaza
and free hostages taken by Hamas militants in the October 7th attack on Israel.
Now what he left out of that ridiculous argument was the absolute terror that
civilians have been living with in Gaza as the IDF bombs not only the northern region
of the Gaza Strip, but also the South, there is literally nowhere for anyone
to go for them to be safe from these bombardments, from these bombings.
Robert Wood also said that the resolution's authors declined
to condemn Hamas October 7th attack that killed 1200 people,
including women, children and the elderly.
Now, something I wouldn't have expected, but here we are.
Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the top progressives in Congress,
opposes a cease fire.
During a interview over the weekend on CBS news, he said the following
in terms of a permanent cease fire.
I don't know how you can have a permanent cease fire when Hamas,
who has said before October 7th and after September 7th that they want to
destroy Israel, they want a permanent war.
I don't know how you have a permanent cease fire with an attitude like that.
Now, a cease fire would protect the journalists, humanitarian aid workers
and doctors who have been, you know, slaughtered by Israeli airstrikes,
but no consideration for them, because God forbid, we actually consider the ratio
of civilians that are getting killed versus alleged Hamas militants that the
- IDF is claiming that they're going after. - Okay.
So I believe that Bernie's in favor of the cease fire resolution.
He's just saying that he doesn't want a permanent cease fire,
because how can you negotiate when Hamas wants to kill all the Jews?
Well, how do you negotiate when Israel won't end the occupation for 56 years?
So it's the number one problem is the occupation.
And Bernie, to be fair, is on the right side of that.
He doesn't want the occupation, he wants a two state solution, etc.
but everybody's in.
America's favorite sport is ignoring the fact that these people have been kept in
an open air prison for over 50 years now.
So imagine just reverse the roles.
And I know people get like really touchy when it's the same exact fact pattern,
but you reverse ethnicities.
So if Jewish people had been kept in open air prisons for 56 years, would we
all be like, how dare you fight back?
You shouldn't love the the Germans. You should love the Palestinians.
You should love whoever it is. Oh, so what?
They're keeping you in a ghetto and you have no rights, and you have no
country and you have no existence.
Shut up and take it and love your occupier.
And oh, by the way, if you fight back, it's your fault.
Can you imagine?
That would be horrific if anyone did that to the Jews.
It's also horrific when you do it to the Palestinians.
- These are super simple. - Concepts, Jake.
You know, I've been seeing some pushback against the notion that Gazans
had been living in an open air prison.
Now, I know what you're referring to when you describe it that way, but I
think it's worth revisiting why people describe the conditions in Gaza that way,
because there seemed like there's this video that's like floating around.
I don't know when that video was shot. It shows beautiful scenes of Gaza.
Oh, but Gaza is so beautiful. How could this be an open air prison?
So talk about why it's referred to as an open air prison.
So first of all, they they don't have their own sovereign state.
That means they cannot make any decisions regarding foreign policy.
And if they make any decisions domestically that Israel doesn't
agree with, they can cut off the water, the power, the electricity.
They could drop 2,000 pound bombs on them and kill 18,000 of their civilians
with no recourse, nothing.
Okay, Gazans can leave though, right? If they know.
They cannot leave, they do not control their own borders.
They do not control their own government.
They don't have any military. They don't.
They are not a country. So again.
We have.
The great irony of is Israeli supporters going, oh my God,
if the Palestinians had it their way, Israel wouldn't be a country.
Well, but Israel is a country because of Israel.
Palestine is not a country.
But you're not worried about it that at all?
Because Palestinian lives don't matter, right?
Be honest with yourself.
You don't care about Palestinian lives at all.
At all. Don't pretend that oh, oops.
Did I occupy them for 56 years or they can't control anything?
And by the way, the minute that you disagree with Israel at all,
or or not even you, but someone else in this in the same area does something
wrong, we're going to come by.
It doesn't matter if you're a dentist, a shopkeeper, or whatever you are,
we're going to strip you naked in the middle of the town.
We're going to gag your mouth and have you just wearing underwear,
and then we're going to take pictures of you and humiliate you in the whole world.
Oh, by the way, that's after we kill your family.
Yeah, but you see how it's your fault. So, Bernie.
I love you, brother. And you're right.
About 90% of it, and I appreciate you, but please don't tell me about how.
Oh, it's Hamas's fault.
The Palestinians fault for for this problem being here in the first place.
As we're going to show you a little bit later in the program, Netanyahu
has been trying to prop up Hamas.
That's already horrible. So don't tell me, oh, Hamas.
Is something wrong?
Well, then, if that's the case, then it's a Netanyahu's fault,
and it's the Israeli government's fault that has allowed Hamas to fester instead
of getting to a two state solution.
But more importantly, the reason they bolstered Hamas, according to reporting
from the New York Times and almost every major paper in Israel is because Netanyahu
didn't want a two state solution.
So he thought Hamas, continuing to create problems for Israel and the
Palestinian authorities in the West Bank would be helpful for him politically.
So it is literally Netanyahu and the Israeli government who does not
want peace, does not want a two state solution and wants a permanent occupation.
They are totally guilty.
I think it's important, you know, when explosive claims like that are made,
I think it's important to provide evidence for those claims.
So I'm going to do that right now because it sounds crazy.
It sounds crazy for anyone to say that Benjamin Netanyahu would prop up Hamas.
Let's go to graphic ten here.
So in March of 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues the following.
I'm going to read his quote verbatim.
Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state
has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.
This is part of our strategy to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza
from the Palestinians in the West Bank.
I didn't say it. We didn't make it up.
We didn't even paraphrase. We read you his exact statement.
So now the civilians who had been living in horrible conditions as a result of
the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip, now have to pay the consequences
of what Hamas carried out on October 7th, and Hamas was propped up
and funded by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Isn't that so convenient?
And specifically for the purpose of making sure that there was no peace deal?
So you'll also hear BS talking points about, oh, we offered the Palestinians
six, you know, six different peace deals.
It's all their fault for not taking it, by the way.
Oh, here, let me come into your house, take three quarters of your house
and then say what?
I gave you a quarter back. You didn't take the peace deal.
It's totally your fault.
That's why they keep the whole house, right?
Absurd. Point one.
Point two is.
Well, are those same people going to say it's all the Israeli government's fault?
Because here, for two decades straight, they have had a concerted plan
that even the Israeli papers confirm to make sure that the Palestinians
could not get a peace deal.
So aren't they just as guilty as Hamas? Are you?
Well?
Oh my God, they killed ten times as many civilians.
But you can't say they're as guilty as Hamas.
You can't say that we'll ban you.
We'll cancel you if you're a university president.
Well, if someone is doing a theoretical chant,
we'll make sure your life is ruined.
But you kill ten times as many Palestinians.
Make sure there's never any peace.
Oh, you're perfectly good. Hey, you're an ally.
You're a democracy. Come on, get out of here.
Not anywhere near close.
Now, with that said, I do think it's interesting to see how media has had no
choice but to pivot to the reality of what's happening on the ground in Gaza.
Jake Tapper, I think is a prime example of that, because we're not just hearing
about high civilian death tolls.
We're also hearing about dozens of journalists getting slaughtered
as a result of Israel's aerial bombardments in the Gaza Strip.
Let's watch.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 63 journalists
and members of the news media have been killed, 56 of them Palestinian.
In this war, presumably mostly, if not entirely, by IDF strikes.
Is that acceptable to you?
You've made a press freedom, a hallmark of your of your terms.
How do you explain all these deaths of journalists?
How do the Israelis explain it when it comes to.
Instances where journalists have been killed?
We want to make sure that that's investigated and we understand what's
happened, and there's accountability.
You know, there's been a lot of fear over a growing number of Americans who are
starting to question liberalism, right?
Human rights, everything that the American government purports to care about
and want to protect, and the reason why they're second guessing it, if you ask me,
is because the very values that fall under the umbrella of liberalism seem to be
hollow, seem to be nothing more than cheap talk by those in power, by the elite.
And that's what you're seeing right there.
I mean, you have Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
pretending as though he has any concern for the dozens of journalists who have
been slaughtered in the Gaza Strip.
We're supposed to want to protect. That's what I mean.
It's a big part of liberalism wanting to protect the press,
wanting to protect freedom of speech.
But we have a situation in which dozens upon dozens
of journalists have been killed.
And all you get from Anthony Blinken is, well, you know,
we're concerned about that.
- We're going to investigate it. - Are you?
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
Are you they're working around the clock. They got people working in shifts on it.
Okay guys, here's more stats. Again.
This is I'm probably going to be called anti-Semitic for giving you numbers.
Okay.
So Hamas killed six reporters on October 7th.
Awful.
Horrific terrible. Everybody agrees.
What?
A bunch of no good terrorists, right? Israel has killed 63 reporters.
A bunch of.
Suckers going around going, oh, I bet it was all collateral damage.
I bet it was all an accident. Golly gee.
The Israeli Defense Forces have the worst aim in the world.
Hamas meant to kill the six reporters, but Israel didn't mean to kill any
of the 63 reporters who were, by the way, coincidentally happened to be there
to document the ethnic cleansing that is going on in Palestine now and in Gaza.
Are you joking?
I mean, when you make points like this, don't you get a little embarrassed?
Maybe even humiliated?
Yeah, they're obviously killing them on purpose, and we're obviously
not going to do anything about it.
And why on purpose?
I don't mean like, hey, I don't like that guy and that guy.
They've done that in the past.
That's right. With an American journalist.
Okay.
But in this case, they're like, oh, there's journalists in the area,
I don't care, who cares?
Just drop a 2,000 pound bomb, kill, kill, kill, kill.
Oh, oops. It was all 18,000 people dead.
All an accident.
No one outside of the propaganda filled heads inside Washington believes you guys.
No one believes you.
Okay, so I want to move on to the casualties
and others who have been killed.
Individuals who had just recently done press interviews about what they
were experiencing in the Gaza Strip.
So let's go to graphic five here, where the Israeli Israel Defense Forces
struck more than 250 sites across Gaza and was fighting fiercely in Khan Yunis, the
largest southern city, and in the northern neighborhoods of Jabalia and Shejaiya.
And look, I mean, that makes it clear they're obviously doing aerial
bombardments at every region of the strip.
There is nowhere to evacuate to for safety.
The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that multiple
health facilities and personnel were attacked across Gaza over the weekend, and
that three medical workers were shot while trying to retrieve medical supplies for
hospitals at health ministry warehouses.
It's according to reporting from The Washington Post and also a 44
year old Palestinian poet by the name of Rafat Al-harir was also killed by the IDF
just weeks after he told CNN that he and his family have no choice but to remain in
the North because they have nowhere to go.
And here is one of his final interviews before he was killed.
We know that it's very bleak. It's very dark.
There's no way out.
If there's no water, there is no way out of Gaza.
What should we do? Like drown?
Like commit mass suicide. Is this what Israel wants?
And we're not going to do that.
And I was telling some somebody, some friend the other day that I'm an academic.
I probably the toughest thing I have at home is an expo marker.
But if the Israelis invade.
If the target has charged at us, open door to door to massacre us.
I'm going to use that marker. Throw it at the Israeli soldiers.
He says all I have is an expo marker and he'll throw it at them.
That's. That's the only line of defense he has.
Weeks later on.
Hold On. On December 7th, Al-hareer was killed by a strike in northern Gaza.
His friend and colleague Jihad Abu Salim confirmed to CNN.
He was staying with his brother, his sister and her four children,
who were all killed.
Okay, here's another question that everybody in Washington liars,
the hypocrites, the guys funding genocide right now would find outrageous.
So if Israel has a right to defend itself and everyone agrees that they do.
Do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves?
- No, they don't, apparently no. - Right.
I mean, like, let's be honest, Washington everyone in Washington says
the Israel has a right to defend itself by killing ten times as many civilians
as Hamas, the terrorist group.
You see how they're not terrorists, even though they kill
ten times as many civilians.
And we're just getting started.
They're going to they're now we're going to tell you later on the show
they're looking to broaden the war.
And they said, move to the South.
And as Anna just told you, they're bombing the hell out of the South.
I mean, you're seeing the pictures, guys, family members being picked out of
the rubble, one body part at a time.
The whole place is obliterated.
We've never seen civilian casualties like this.
The New York Times reporting in 20 years in in the war in Afghanistan,
we killed less civilians than Israel.
Killed in two months.
And you're telling me they were all accidental killing of civilians?
No, they're massacring the civilians.
They're doing it right in front of all of our eyes.
And America blocks any resolution that would stop them.
Green light, green light.
So, look, I used to hate it when people would say like, oh, genocide.
Joe, I thought, that sounds ugly. That's too far about Joe Biden.
But if you're going to send $14 billion to actively committed genocide,
well, what should we call you?
So do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves,
or are they the only people on Earth who must submit to their own massacres,
so end their own occupation?
Do they have any rights as human beings?
No. Washington says over and over again, Palestinians are not human.
They will never be treated as human.
And we will send more money today to go murder them.
That's exactly what Congress is doing now.
Oh, we're so concerned about hypothetical chants on college campus fire
anyone who disagrees with Israel, okay, because we're concerned about genocide.
Oh, by the way, next we'll be voting on genocide.
And we will almost all of us vote yes to genocide and send your money.
You worked so hard at your job. Are we going to give your kids anything?
Education, health care, anything?
No. We're going to take your money and we're going to send it over to a butcher.
Those Palestinians don't spare me.
Spare me any BS about how you care about human rights, how you care about genocide,
how you care about protecting people.
As we continue to fund massacre after massacre, daily massacres
by the Israeli government.
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