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Oct 7 -- Lessons Learnt?; Mamdani; Bond Vigilantes; Half Fought War; More | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: The Radical. Fundamental Principles of Freedom. Rational Self-Interest. And Individual Rights.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Yaron Brook Show. Fundamental Principles of Freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Alright everybody, welcome to Yaron Brook Show. On this Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: October 7th. A date that I think will forever, forever
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  Speaker 1: be remembered, just like 9-11, as tragic and horrific. It
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  Speaker 1: was three years ago, three years ago, at 6.29 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Israel time. It was a Saturday. It was a holiday,
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  Speaker 1: Simchat Toa, a religious holiday, when over 3,000 Hamas terrorists
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  Speaker 1: and Gazan civilians broke through the fence, came in on gliders,
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  Speaker 1: invaded Israeli territory. Over the next 24 hours or so,
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  Speaker 1: they would murder 1,200 people. They would rape. They would torture.
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  Speaker 1: They would burn. They would behead. They would destroy. They
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  Speaker 1: took 251 people alive. Prisoners, kidnapped, hostage, from babies to
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  Speaker 1: elderly Holocaust survivors. And it was not just uniquely cruel
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  Speaker 1: and disgusting. After all, pogroms against the Jews have always
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  Speaker 1: been thus. But what made this different is here, They
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  Speaker 1: actually filmed it. They documented it. They uploaded it in
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  Speaker 1: real time to social media. And they did so with pride,
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  Speaker 1: with great satisfaction. I mean, there was a guy who
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  Speaker 1: called his parents from the kibbutz to boast that he'd
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  Speaker 1: killed Jews with his own hands. It wasn't like his
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  Speaker 1: parents chided him or anything. They were proud. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a phone call that certainly has stayed with me for
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  Speaker 1: three years. Maybe will stay with me forever. It tells
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  Speaker 1: you almost everything you need to know about the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: about the culture that produces such an enemy, about the scale,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the self-deception that Israel engaged in and the
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  Speaker 1: West still engages in to pretend that Otherwise, with regard
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  Speaker 1: to the culture of the enemy. Now today in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: there was, as is Israel's habit, tradition, a moment of
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  Speaker 1: silence at 629. The country stood still. People stopped their cars,
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  Speaker 1: got out, and stood in remembrance. In Kfar Aza, where
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  Speaker 1: attackers killed half the 14-man civil defense squad at the
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  Speaker 1: armory just after 7 a.m. They killed, you know, 64.
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  Speaker 1: They kidnapped 19 from a kibbutz of under 1,000. There
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  Speaker 1: were memorials at the Nova site where 378 were killed,
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  Speaker 1: 44 were taken. And protesters died at the Dizengar Fountain
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of Tel Aviv read, Netanyahu today, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we will complete the mission. We have settled the score
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  Speaker 1: and will continue settling the score with all the murderers.
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  Speaker 1: No announcement of a commission to investigate the failure that
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  Speaker 1: led to October 7th. Indeed, the Likud, his political party
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  Speaker 1: today of all days, chose to make a statement that
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  Speaker 1: the PM had no advance warning, in spite of the
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  Speaker 1: reports we've heard, because according to them, these are all
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  Speaker 1: false political propaganda. A story came out today, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to read it to you because it's long
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  Speaker 1: and because I'll get too emotional if I read it.
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  Speaker 1: But a story came out today which is the other side,
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  Speaker 1: another aspect of what happened on October 7th that I
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  Speaker 1: think we should all be very much aware of. And
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  Speaker 1: that is the heroism of those who stood against the terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: This could have been a lot worse. It's the story
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  Speaker 1: of Lieutenant Colonel O. Ben Yehuda. a female commander, a
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  Speaker 1: commander of a caracal, a mixed-gender light infantry battalion that
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  Speaker 1: guarded about 40 kilometers of the Egypt-Gaza-Israel border from its
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  Speaker 1: base in Nakhon Raviv. You know, if you have access
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  Speaker 1: to Times of Israel, timesofisraeloneword.com, check it out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the untold heroics of the female fighters there. who held
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  Speaker 1: off Hamas at Sufa. It's an amazing story. Just of
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  Speaker 1: astounding bravery and courage. A story that is now really
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  Speaker 1: being told for a variety of reasons. A story of
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  Speaker 1: how a soldier responds, how a commander responds. A story
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  Speaker 1: of immense... You know, just the ability to command, the
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  Speaker 1: ability to control yourself, the ability to be rational and
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  Speaker 1: to fire. But it's also a story of failure, of
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  Speaker 1: the failure to get helicopters there to support her, the
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  Speaker 1: failure to bring reinforcements. I mean, she basically stood from 7.45 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: with 12 soldiers until 1 p.m. alone, facing hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian fighters. taking casualties, but inflicting many, many more. She
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  Speaker 1: prevented many, many deaths, saved many additional Israeli villages and
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  Speaker 1: towns from being overrun by the Hamas terrorists. And her
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  Speaker 1: story should be told and people should read it. It
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  Speaker 1: very much reminded me of some of the stories of
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  Speaker 1: the tankers that we told a little bit of about
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  Speaker 1: the Yom Kippur War that Nikos and I talked about
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. He was a woman who stood alone, not
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  Speaker 1: completely alone, 12 soldiers, plus a female medical team, not
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  Speaker 1: equipped to deal with hundreds. And yet, partially because of
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  Speaker 1: her own past experience, she had some anti-attack missiles with her,
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  Speaker 1: which everybody always made fun of her for carrying around.
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  Speaker 1: They came in very handy that day. Anyway, I encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to read the story. If you can find timesofisrael.com,
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  Speaker 1: read it. Take with you some Kleenex, because if you're
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  Speaker 1: like me, you will get teary-eyed. But it's important also
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  Speaker 1: to recognize the heroism of that day, the people who
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  Speaker 1: stood and fought and prevented this from becoming even worse
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  Speaker 1: than it was. The failures have and will and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: will for many years be discussed, debated, analyzed, learned from, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But we should also take the time to recognize the heroes,
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  Speaker 1: to recognize those who fought and in many cases died
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  Speaker 1: protecting their lives, their communities, their friends, their people. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, for Israel, it's never over. We saw that
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  Speaker 1: last week with the passengers on the Dubai flight to
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  Speaker 1: Tel Aviv, having to overpower a hijacker. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: was demanded, constant vigilance. constant heroism for a country that
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  Speaker 1: is constantly under attack. So I want to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the lesson learned if anybody has learned anything,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe we have learned something and we can, we
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  Speaker 1: can at least discuss them. Um, and, and as I said,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, we talk about this more and talk
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  Speaker 1: about the heroism and talk about the horrors. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: do recommend Fauda. Fauda Season 5 deals with October 7th.
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  Speaker 1: It is powerful. It is riveting. It is, you know, shaking.
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  Speaker 1: But it is important. It is important to watch. It
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  Speaker 1: is important to see. It is important to witness. But
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  Speaker 1: it is also about heroism. It is also about the response. So,
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  Speaker 1: So Fauda, all the seasons are worth seeing. And Nikos
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  Speaker 1: and I will talk about it, not this coming Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: but the following Sunday, we will discuss the series Fauda,
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  Speaker 1: and in particular, season five of Fauda. So I highly
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  Speaker 1: recommend it. And check it out. It's on Netflix. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: you will get a sense of kind of the horror
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  Speaker 1: of what was experienced on October 7th in that show.
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  Speaker 1: And again, important, important, to see it in spite of
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  Speaker 1: its horrific nature. The series, there are two episodes that
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  Speaker 1: dwell on it. The rest of the series is action
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  Speaker 1: in the post-October 7th period. It constitutes basically a flashback,
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  Speaker 1: a two-episode flashback to October 7th. But again, watch it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. So lesson number one. Lesson number one.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm hoping to put up an
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  Speaker 1: essay summarizing all of this later today up on Substack,
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  Speaker 1: Euron AI Substack. If you haven't subscribed, you should subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to the Euron AI Substack. It will be an essay
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  Speaker 1: that takes this material and basically puts it in essay
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  Speaker 1: form with the help of, you know, AI, with Euron AI. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: trained on all my stuff, and it will be available
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  Speaker 1: on Substack. So it still needs quite a bit of editing,
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  Speaker 1: but hopefully we'll have that done tonight, if not tonight,
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  Speaker 1: then tomorrow morning. So lesson number one that I think
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  Speaker 1: is really important. This was not, emphasis on not, an
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  Speaker 1: intelligence failure. This was an act of evasion. This is directly, unequivocally,
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  Speaker 1: unquestionably the result of evasion. Now, if you were with
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  Speaker 1: us for the last year on the Nico Show, you
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  Speaker 1: know that the Yom Kippur War in 1973 was similar.
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  Speaker 1: I was 12 in the synagogue. Sirens go off. My
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  Speaker 1: father runs home for his uniform. Again, memories that will
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  Speaker 1: stay with me forever. Israel had information about the upcoming
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  Speaker 1: possibility of an attack. Soviet families evacuated two days before.
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  Speaker 1: King Hussein warns Golda Meir personally. He actually meets with
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  Speaker 1: her to warn her. This is before there's peace between
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  Speaker 1: Jordan and Israel. Divisions of you know, Egyptian tanks visible
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  Speaker 1: on the canal, the Egyptians practicing what they are going
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  Speaker 1: to do over and over again, visibly. What was lacking
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  Speaker 1: was not intelligence. What was lacking was the willingness to
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  Speaker 1: let the evidence overturn an existing conception of the world.
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  Speaker 1: What was called, what came to be called in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the concept of The concept was the Arabs won't attack
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  Speaker 1: because they can't win. They know they can't win. We
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  Speaker 1: showed them that in Six-Day War. They'll never attack us.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore, all the evidence of the census, all the intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: all the data didn't matter. It didn't sink in because
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  Speaker 1: the concept held. Exactly the same thing happened on October 7th.
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  Speaker 1: There was a new concept. This concept said Hamas has
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  Speaker 1: been bought off. Qatari cash, nice homes. They're interested in governing.
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  Speaker 1: When lookouts reported drills that looked like they were practicing
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  Speaker 1: on models of kibbutzim. When Shin Bet chief sits across
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  Speaker 1: the prime minister, Netanyahu, on October 1st and uses the
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  Speaker 1: word earthquake. When the UAE leader reportedly calls 10 days before.
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  Speaker 1: when Egyptian intelligence chief reportedly flying to Tel Aviv less
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  Speaker 1: than two weeks before, when other intelligence agencies from the
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  Speaker 1: Shin Bet to military intelligence receive information, they observe, whether it's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, listening or whether it's actually seeing, none of
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  Speaker 1: it penetrates. None of it is taken seriously by the
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  Speaker 1: upper echelons of the political class and the upper echelons
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  Speaker 1: of the military, because they have a concept. Hamas is
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  Speaker 1: an interesting. I mean, there was a guy, Yigal Khamon.
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  Speaker 1: There's a story about him in the Free Press from
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago, October 4th. He's 80 years old.
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  Speaker 1: He's a former colonel in the military intelligence, a counterterrorism
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  Speaker 1: advisor to Shamir and Rabin. when they were prime ministers,
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  Speaker 1: former founder of Memory, which reads Arabic and Persian press
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  Speaker 1: every day. On August 31st, 2023, he published, quote, Signs
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  Speaker 1: of a Possible War in September, October. Terror chiefs escalating
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  Speaker 1: threats of a, quote, comprehensive regional war. Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Jihad, and other Iranian proxies acquiring weapons that, quote,
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  Speaker 1: can cause a large number of Israeli fatalities. And now
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  Speaker 1: he didn't name the day and the exact border. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do. But he named
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  Speaker 1: the war. He saw it coming. He saw it coming,
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  Speaker 1: but the political leadership, the senior military leadership, Now, what
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  Speaker 1: was he reading? He was reading the threats themselves in
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  Speaker 1: their own languages, what military intelligence was doing, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. He knew of a large Hamas
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  Speaker 1: military drill in Gaza in September 2023, which he now calls, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the final walkthrough. He saw Qatari cash flowing in, Qatari
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  Speaker 1: and Iranian cash, with Israel's approval. And Which made the
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  Speaker 1: tunnels possible. He writes, quote, it was all open source.
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  Speaker 1: We're not dealing with secrets. We believed them. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: dismiss it as bullshit. That's the whole lesson right there.
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  Speaker 1: Information wasn't hidden. It was the willingness to believe it
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  Speaker 1: that was. I mean, Jack Sullivan, the week before, Jack Sullivan,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Biden's national security advisor, the week before, the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East region is quieter today than it has been
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  Speaker 1: in two decades. Retired General Amir Avivi on September 5th.
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  Speaker 1: Neither Hezbollah nor Hamas won the confrontation. On October 6th,
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  Speaker 1: the day before, Cameron emailed a friend, give me some
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  Speaker 1: three weeks more, as I predicted. It turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be one day. It's not that nobody knew. They knew.
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  Speaker 1: It's that they evaded that knowledge. Because knowing would have
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  Speaker 1: required acting. Acting would have required admitting by the prime
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  Speaker 1: minister himself. That 15 years of policy towards Gaza had
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  Speaker 1: been a mistake. So it was easier to evade the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge itself. The lesson here is not get better intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: Israel has the best in the world. It proved it
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  Speaker 1: in Lebanon and Iran just a few months later. No
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  Speaker 1: amount of intelligence will protect you from a leadership that
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  Speaker 1: has decided in advance what the enemy wants for pragmatic, pragmatic,
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  Speaker 1: unprincipled reasons. It is pragmatism, evasion, Immorality that led the
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  Speaker 1: Israeli leadership to allow this to happen. And as we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: no consequences. Not to the political leadership. Oh, no. We
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  Speaker 1: might be rewarding them with another four years in power.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson number two. And this is a lesson I've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about since 9-11. The enemy is an ideology, not
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  Speaker 1: an organization. Israel defined the war as a war on Hamas,
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  Speaker 1: at least in the beginning. This was America's mistake after 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: It's Al-Qaeda. Then it became terror. Then anything but an ideology.
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  Speaker 1: But Hamas is one franchise. Islamic totalitarianism. The world under
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  Speaker 1: Sharia by force. That is the enemy. Go on, Spooksman.
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  Speaker 1: October 7th, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, October 7th, is coming.
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  Speaker 1: From the river to the sea is not a slogan
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  Speaker 1: about borders. It's a statement of genocidal intent. The people
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  Speaker 1: chanting it in London, New York, understand it better than
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  Speaker 1: the And some on the right who pretend it's ambiguous.
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  Speaker 1: There is an enemy. But that enemy is Hamas. It's Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Houthis. It's Iraqi militias. It's Tehran. It's Iran.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Muslim Brotherhood. It's Qatar and Turkey who are
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  Speaker 1: the bankers and the diplomats. It all is together. cannot
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  Speaker 1: be separated out and has to be dealt with and
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  Speaker 1: thought of as one. Now, Israel, I think, has come
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  Speaker 1: to this realization and to some extent always knew it. Again, evasion. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this idea, this Islamist idea, Sharia domination of the world,
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  Speaker 1: has a big constituency in the Muslim world. Among the Palestinians,
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  Speaker 1: a majority voted for Hamas in 2006. They're not innocent.
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  Speaker 1: Polls through 2025 to 2024-25, post-October 7th, show majorities on
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  Speaker 1: the West Bank of Palestinians approving of October 7th. These
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  Speaker 1: people are not innocent. Hamas manufactures that constituency, as does,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the entire educational institutions under the Palestinians, they
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  Speaker 1: recruit children as young as 12, and their educational institutions
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  Speaker 1: are dedicated to teaching hatred, hatred of Jews, hatred of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and that is the nature of their culture,
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  Speaker 1: the nature of this ideology. In 2005, when Israel left Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: evacuated its own civilians from Gaza, evacuated the settlements that
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  Speaker 1: it had left in Gaza, that it had built in Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: they had left some greenhouses. Greenhouses. You'd think the Gazans
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  Speaker 1: would embrace the greenhouses and use them to grow. No.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as they left, Palestinians walked in and destroyed
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  Speaker 1: them all because Jews had built them. Like it or not,
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian culture, Palestinian culture has chosen death over life, destruction
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  Speaker 1: over production. Now, this is not genetics. This is being
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  Speaker 1: chosen and it can be unchosen. But to unchoose it,
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  Speaker 1: to eject this culture of death, They have to be defeated,
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  Speaker 1: and defeated badly enough for them to question the choices
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  Speaker 1: they have made. See Germany, Japan in 1945. You can
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  Speaker 1: kill Sinwa, Nasrallah, Chania, Khamenei, as Israel did, but as
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  Speaker 1: long as the ideology is funded, taught, and sheltered. There's
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  Speaker 1: another Sinwa. A peace board created by Trump But shared
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  Speaker 1: by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey is a joke. It's the
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  Speaker 1: enemy's lawyers drafting the settlement. It's a compromise with an
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  Speaker 1: ideology that wants to kill you. Lesson three. Defense is
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  Speaker 1: not deterrence. Offense is not strategy. Wasn't a strategy in
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  Speaker 1: the Yom Kippur War. Should not have been a strategy here.
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  Speaker 1: For 15 years, Israel managed Gaza. Rockets? We have the
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  Speaker 1: Iron Dome. Tunnels? We'll build a billion-dollar barrier. Tunnels into Israel. Army?
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  Speaker 1: We'll mow the lawn. You know, whenever they pop up,
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  Speaker 1: we'll trim it. Great technology. But the technology became an
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  Speaker 1: excuse not to win. Not to destroy the enemy. Every
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  Speaker 1: intercepted rocket was a rocket Hamas was allowed to build.
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  Speaker 1: Every tunnel was dug with cement and cash Israel let through.
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  Speaker 1: Much of it Qatari money that the PM personally approved.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that you have a standing army
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  Speaker 1: holding defensive positions and you need 48 hours to get
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  Speaker 1: the reserves to come, which almost was disastrous on the
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  Speaker 1: Yom Kippur War, and again here. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: a country that its narrowest, with regards to the West Bank,
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  Speaker 1: is nine miles wide. It's a country in which the villages,
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  Speaker 1: the kibbutzim, are so close to Gaza, they could, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Gazans just walked over there. Yeah, they had senses.
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  Speaker 1: Israel had senses. That fancy fence and the Palestinians just,
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  Speaker 1: the Gazans, the Hamasniks just drove right through it. So,
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  Speaker 1: you can't defend A small country like Israel. The only
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  Speaker 1: way to defend. Is to take the initiative. It's to
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  Speaker 1: destroy your enemy. It's to preempt any attack. It's to
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  Speaker 1: take intelligence seriously. It's not like America has done. Bill,
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  Speaker 1: you know, spend trillions on Homeland Security and airport theater.
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  Speaker 1: To road. your own people's freedoms. It's to take the war,
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  Speaker 1: to take the battle, to take the struggle to the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Destroy them where they live. And create barriers. This is
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  Speaker 1: why Israel probably for now needs to be in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: needs to be in Syria, needs to be in Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: You can't allow the enemy to be as close as
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  Speaker 1: it was. Walls can be blown up and driven right through.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson number four. The goal of war is victory, not proportionality.
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  Speaker 1: Before October 7th, just war theory was gospel in the IDF. Walter,
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  Speaker 1: the author of the most important book about just war theory,
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  Speaker 1: was taught at West Point and probably taught in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: The result, an enemy who hides behind its own children
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  Speaker 1: is rewarded with impunity, immunity, immunity. Roughly a quarter to
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  Speaker 1: a third of Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza died from
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  Speaker 1: friendly fire. Much of it from rules of engagement designed
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  Speaker 1: to protect the enemy's population at the expense of Israel's soldiers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: after October 7th, something broke and it was the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: Hamas's leadership, Hezbollah's entire command in an afternoon of pages
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  Speaker 1: in 2026, Iran's political, religious, military leadership in one day
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  Speaker 1: at home with their families present, all killed, not proportional,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been proportional. The point of the war is
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  Speaker 1: not to march. It's not to match the enemy's capabilities.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: It's to destroy them. Destroy them. To use whatever means
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you have to win the war. And to make sure
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that the enemy is no longer a threat to you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You know, they keep coming at Israel with a genocide charge,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: which they know nothing about. They have no understanding of.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: It's just... A blood libel. A genocide when you have
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: wartime births that exceed deaths. You have polio vaccinations of children.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You have food convoys and humanitarian pauses. This is just
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a weapon to smear Israel. And of course, the hardest
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: part of all of this at least early on, was
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the fact that to win, to really win, which Israel
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: did not do, Israel had to disregard the hostages that
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: were being held. And that's a hard task. But the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: reality is, the fact is, the fact that we all know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: even if it's hard to admit, is that every negotiation
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: legitimizes Hamas. Every exchange of hundreds of murderers for a
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: handful of hostages taught the next generation that kidnapping works.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: A government's first duty is to the millions who will
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: be threatened by the next October 7th. Not to the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: hundreds held by this one, although every effort to free
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: them should have been made, short of negotiating with monsters.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: It's tragic. It's tragic. But it's reality. And, of course,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: now Hamas has no hostages. And still victory eludes Israel.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Thanks to the United States. Lesson number five. The West's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: reaction to October 7th revealed hatred of the good for
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: being the good. I mean, the real shock after October
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: 7th wasn't what happened in Israel. I mean, it was
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: shocking enough, but it wasn't surprising given the nature of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Hamas and Palestinian culture and the nature of pogroms. The
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: real shock was Sydney and London and Paris and Harvard,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Columbia and Cornell. Before Israel fired a shot already on
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: October 8th, crowds in Sydney chanting for Jews to burn.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Same day, 34 Harvard student groups, student groups, not students,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: student groups. Israel is entirely responsible. Tenured professors were exhilarated
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: by what they saw on October 7th. Within weeks, the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: biggest campus movement in a generation, not to mourn the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: dead or free the hostages, but to blame Israel for
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: whatever deaths occurred and to stop them from defending themselves.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And that's been institutionalized, completely institutionalized now. I mean, it's quiet.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: There are no demonstrations in campuses because it's now embedded
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: at the institution. You know, the attempts to document anti-Semitism
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: at MIT, resisted by the institution. Britain's Green Party, a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: major political party in Great Britain, adopts Zionism as racism.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Nobody says a word. Support for Israel now is a
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: litmus test in both political parties. This was never about Palestinians.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: They don't care about Palestinians, the demonstrators, the leftists on campuses.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: One iota, they don't care about Palestinians. This is all
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: about the settler-canonian framework, the oppressor-oppressed intersectional victim rankings. It's
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a dressed-up way of saying achievement is guilt, failure is virtue.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Israel builds, Gaza burns greenhouses. Deeks tunnels under hospitals. Israel, therefore,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: is hated because it builds. Hatred of the good for
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: being the good. And it didn't stay on the left.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Tuck up platforming Holocaust revisionists. Defending Hitler, left and right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Candace Owens. The America First crowd discovering Jews are the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: reason for every, every American problem. Indeed, left and right
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: anti-Semitism now, they agree on more than they disagree. It's
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: a wholesale rejection of reason. The embrace of the tribe
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: over the individual and resentment of success. Israel is a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: successful country. It is therefore resented and rejected. And the institutions,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the supposedly institutions that are supposed to provide us with
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: objective knowledge never thought they would. But think about the UN,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the ICC, the Red Cross, and then the New York Times,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: rape dogs, blood libel. Timed exactly to bury the story
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of sexual violence inflicted by Hamas, Palestinians. They showed themselves
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: for what they really are. Haters of Israel, haters of Jews.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And today, today, you know, on October 7th, you get
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: fresh examples in New York and London. We'll talk about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that in a few minutes. Lesson six. A free people
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: should hold its leaders accountable. After 1973, October 1973, the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Yom Kippur War, Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan resigned. Prime Minister,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Defense Secretary. There was a commission. And it held the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: political class responsible. Political leadership. In 1977, Labor, the political
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: party that has governed Israel from its founding, never came
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: close to losing, lost. Failure has consequences, should have consequences.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: After October 7th, the IDF chief, military intelligence chief, the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: head of the Shin Bet, the head of the Gaza division,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: all out, all left. Political leadership all stayed. 15 years
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: of buildup. Qatari suitcases filled with cash. Warning some Gulf
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: leaders and his own security chief. And three years of, oh,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: none of it reached me. I didn't know. There was
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: no intelligence. It's all the army's fault. And at the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: same time, blocking a state commission. Blaming the generals that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: he appointed. And today, the Likud saying, yeah, he didn't know.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: It wasn't him. I mean, today, in ceremonies in Israel,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: bereaved families demanding responsibility. Yoram Yehudi, whose son was killed
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: at Nova Festival. There is no accountability. And that is
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: a basic requirement from the government. Inav Zanguke says, quote,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: they're trying to make us forget what happened on October 7th.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: We won't forget. We will demand the truth. Three years on,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: no state inquiry, and the man in charge is running again.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And has a chance of winning. Now, I've got lots
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of reasons to vote against Netanyahu in the coming elections.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Lots of them. Going back 20 years. More than 20 years.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: It's not personal. But this is the number one reason.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: He was in office. Not just during October 7th. But
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: in the decade and a half leading up to October 7th,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: in the decade and a half that Hamas was preparing, arming, building,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: creating the infrastructure for October 7th, he is responsible. The
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: very idea of voting for this man, given that history,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: disgusts me to no end. Netanyahu is establishing a political
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: culture where a catastrophe under your watch carries no cost.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: And that kind of culture, that kind of political culture
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: will only lead to more catastrophes. Now, granted, America was
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the same. Nobody resigned after 9-11. Over 20 years of
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: altruistic nation-building and nobody, nobody, will resign over the failures
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, the failures of Iraq, the failures of nation building?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Will anybody resign over a ridiculous 2026 ceasefire that left
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the Iranian regime standing? Would anybody resign over the shocks
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to the oil market because of lack of planning? No.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: We now live in countries, Israel and the United States,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Where there is no accountability. Our political leaders are immune
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: from it. And we, the voters, don't seem to care.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: We don't seem to care. We evade. We ignore. We forget.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: We pretend. All gone. All right. One more lesson and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: then the deeper lesson. Lesson seven. Israel's dependence on Washington
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: is a strategic liability. The patent, consistent enough to write
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: into doctrine, the United States gives Israel a free hand
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to almost win and then stops it. Gaza, munitions slow
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: walked by Biden. Corridors Hamas used to resupply. Creeded. by
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: America forcing Israel to provide them. Lebanon truths, a truce
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: even after Hezbollah leadership is eliminated and Israel's on the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: brink of winning. Iran, leadership decapitated, but ceasefire in weeks.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Iran's own 10-point plan as the basis for negotiation. Vance
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: goes to Islamabad. Homo is left to Tehran. Vance today,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, I think, Oh, we just want
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: them to stop enriching up to a certain level. It
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: used to be no enrichment at all. Iran's National Security
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Council declared victory. You know, this is the pattern. If
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: we go back to Gaza, withdraw first, disarm later. Shouldn't
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Hamas be disarmed by now? Never defined and completely unenforced.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Who's going to enforce Hamas disarmament? Hamas says it means
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: to give up rockets and keep rifles. There's no de-radicalization,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: which is what is necessary in Gaza, without disarmament. And
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: no disarmament while Israel is not allowed to go in
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: and do the job. And indeed is told to leave first.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: America is not the enemy. But America is not... And
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: it hasn't been guided by an American first, an American
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: self-interest for a very, very, very long time. Altruism under Democrats,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: whim combined with altruism combined with craving for a deal
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: under Trump. Israel can't rely on that, shouldn't be able
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: to rely on that. It needs to find a way.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to establish strategic independence. Now, we'll see if it can
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: act alone, right? It can act alone, but can it
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: weaponize itself alone? Can it build the weapons it needs?
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Can it get the ammunition alone? It needs to figure
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: that out. It needs to solve that problem. But of course,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: there is a deeper lesson, and that is a philosophical lesson.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: A collision between a culture of life and a culture
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: of death. And a culture of life took the hit.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Not because it's weaker. Because it stopped believing it had
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the right to win. You can think of two philosophical causes.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: You can probably find more. But two that strike me. Pragmatism.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Pragmatism cripples Israel's leaders. before October 7th, with no principles,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: only situational awareness or whatever. A pragmatist looks at Hamas' character, sorry,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Hamas' charter, and sees rhetoric. At a Qatari suitcase full
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: of cash and sees potential for stability. At a fanatic
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and sees a man who must deep down just want
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: a nice house. The concept was pragmatism. Pragmatism in action. Oh,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Hamas doesn't really mean their propaganda because pragmatists can't take
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: ideas seriously. They don't take other people's philosophy seriously because
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: they don't take their own. There is none. A nation
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: run by pragmatists is always going to be surprised by
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: somebody else's willingness to actually die for a cause. It's
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the stormed itself. It's a stormed itself on the one
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: tool that it can use to predict the future. Reason.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Long-term thinking. Principles. The willingness to believe what people say.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: And then monitor and judge what they actually do. Pragmatism
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: is an evil ideology that leads to death and destruction.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: And of course, it is combined with the altruism that
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: has just crippled the West. Altruism is not kindness, as
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: you know. It's the doctrine of self-sacrifice, the placing of
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: other people's well-being above your own. The demand that you
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: sacrifice your values, your life, your happiness, your success, your life.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: for the sake of your enemies. That is the standard
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: of our morality. Just war theory is just altruism applied
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: to combat. Oppressed is altruism applied to sociology, to the
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: state of society. I mean, American foreign policy, it can
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: only justify war as a sacrifice for Afghans or the regions.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: never to eliminate a threat to Americans. You know, the
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: United States has aircraft carriers, F-35s, B-2s, but it's hampered
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: in using them by a code of ethics that says
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: you can't be too self-assertive. You have to do it
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: for their sake. I mean, victory is the one outcome.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: That is not a sacrifice. And therefore it's the one outcome.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: That is banned. And therefore it's the one outcome. That
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: is impossible to America. And has been impossible for America.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Since World War II. And. When you really take this
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: altruism seriously. When self-sacrifice. And the oppressor oppressed. And anti-colonialism.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: And seeing. Successful. the success be literally sacrificed in blood
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: in front of you, it becomes nihilism very quickly. I mean,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: that exhilarated professor, those students celebrating October 7th, those demonstrators
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: today in London and New York celebrating October 7th, that's
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: pure hatred. That's pure desire for destruction. So the ultimate
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: lesson is we need a new philosophy. Why didn't Israel
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: act before October 7th? Altruism and pragmatism. What we need
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: is a philosophy, a reason, rational self-interest applied to the nation.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: We need to take seriously the job of the government
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: to protect individual rights. The right to life of its
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: own citizens. That to be its only priority. And the
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: confidences say we are right, they are wrong, and we
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: will fight for our own lives and liberty. Now, Israel's
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: showed glimpses of this in Lebanon and in Iran. It's
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: recently dropped some of the apologies and embraced some moral
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: clarity and engaged an overwhelming force. Will that last? Will
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: its new philosophy of preemption sustain itself? We will see.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: The West needs pride in itself, confidence in itself, the
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: willingness to fight, not to sacrifice, to fight for itself.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Without that, Cannot win. Cannot achieve much. And to move
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: on to today's kind of news. beyond October 7th, or
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: maybe not beyond October 7th, to today, the mayor of
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: New York, greatest city in the world, the mayor of
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: New York, Zoran Mamdani, put out a statement commemorating 9-11. And,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: you know, He acknowledged in the statement that Hamas killed
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. But then,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: he turns to the Israeli government's devastating ongoing genocide, genocide,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: he uses that term, in Gaza, in which it has
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children. Thus,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Mamdani being a complete tool Of Hamas propaganda. And misinformation.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: He continues quote. Occupation and apartheid continue. Where war crimes
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: are met with impunity. And again he quote. Our tax
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: dollars fund these war crimes. So on October 7th. On
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: October 7th. Of all the days of the year. Mamdani
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: chooses to attack Israel. to spread blood libel, to spread lies,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to pile on on the false, absurd, ridiculous accusations of genocide,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: which have disproven over and over and over again. Indeed,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the part blaming Israel is longer than the part about
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: the massacre of Hamas. Mayor of New York City, You
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: guys voted for him. Some of you. Anyway, somebody out
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: there voted for him. Maybe not anybody who listens to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: this show. Americans voted for this guy. Today, it's also
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: true that Hamas and Iran marked the anniversary as a celebration. Now,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: there was a letter published today, I guess by a Jinsa,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: What does GINSA stand for? Let me just, let me just,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I don't remember what it just stands for. GINSA, the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Jewish Institute for National Security of America, right? Open letter,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: 75 plus retired U.S. military leaders, legal experts, rejecting the
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: genocide claim. There were 13 generals, 27 lieutenant generals, 19
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: major generals, five brigadier generals, all saying this is no genocide. Indeed,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Israel fought in Gaza to a large extent by the
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: rules of just war theory, sadly, in my view, sadly,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: not in their view. Quote, the precedent established today regarding
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Israel fought about as clean by just war theory standards
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: as you can. But the haters don't care. The haters
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: don't care. Genocide where the population has actually increased. The
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: population in Gaza has actually increased during this war. More people.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: And Israel having the capabilities to basically eradicate the population completely. Hasn't.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, in London, a pro-Palestinian march went ahead
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: in central London on October 7th. Now, the police asked
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: organizers to move to another day, but people still showed up.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Chants like Zionists not welcome here, from the river to
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the sea, some scuffles, five people arrested outside the Board
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: of Deputies building for inciting racial hatred. calling for an intifada.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, remember, just not that long ago, two Jewish
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: men were killed at a Heaton Park synagogue on Yom
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Kippur last year. Two stabbed in Golden's Green in April.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Terror charges last year over a plot against Manchester Jews. Again,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: the Greens voting days ago to equate Zionism with racism. So, yeah,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Britain has a problem Britain has a problem. Now, I
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: don't think the demonstrations in London were big this time because, again,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: the police asked them to move it to a different date.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: But the very fact that they were allowed or that
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: anybody felt compelled to go march on October 7th. I mean,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: here's the reality. On the anniversary of from the mayor
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: of the city with the most Jews outside of Israel.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: He mourns the dead Jews in one paragraph and indicts
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: the living ones in three paragraphs. That's the pattern. Jews
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: and Israelis are sympathetic as victims. Criminals as victors. Victors,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: you're strong. Victims, yeah, altruism. Okay, we don't like victims. Genocide?
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Was 74,000 dead in a war Hamas started? 74,000? How
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: many of those are combatants? Nobody tells you. How many
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: of 21,000 they say are children? How many of those
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: children had weapons on them? How many of those children
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: are over 12 and were in combat roles under Hamas?
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: No answer. How many children born during this period? More
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: than 74,000. How many of the 74,000 are natural deaths?
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: No answer. Genocide? Talk about, you know, Orwellian doublespeak. I mean,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Israel ran vaccination campaigns and let in food convoys. Now,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I'm against all that. But they did. That's a fact.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: If fighting an enemy who hides among civilians is genocide,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: then no free nation can ever defend itself. Because the
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: bad guys will always hide behind civilians. They'll know that's
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: your weakness, and they'll use it, and they'll exploit it. So, yeah,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: it's a pretty... It's a pretty crazy world we live
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: out there where this is just accepted. And, you know,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: on top of that, you know, we get an interview
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: with J.D. Vance saying that Iran must make a meaningful
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: cut in enrichment capacity to end the war. Meaningful. Undefined.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: What the hell does that mean? It used to be
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: they need to stop enriching. They need to give up
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the centrifuges. Not anymore. Not anymore. Trump is desperate. So
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: now it's meaningful cut. So the lesson learned from the
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: last few years is, yeah, let's keep the Iranians going.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: No regime change. No stopping funding terrorism around the world,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: which were the war games to stop them. No stopping
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: building missiles around but not even taking away the capabilities
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: of building a nuclear weapon. No, we're going to leave
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: them with all that. And, you know, the Congressional Research
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Services Office today, or yesterday, I think, also released this information,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: like 81 USA craft lost or damaged since the war began. Eighty-one. Now,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: 24 are drones, MQ-9 Reapers that were shot down. But
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: most of those airplanes are destroyed on the ground. Why?
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Because we won't frigging win the war. Because we didn't
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: plan for what? For ballistic missiles and drones from Iran?
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: Zero reason for U.S. aircraft to be lost. How many
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Israeli aircraft have been lost over Iran? Which is, how
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: many hundreds, thousands of kilometers away from Israel. None. Zero. Zilch.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: The IRGC is back to threatening to block the southern
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: transit routes through the Hormuz Canal, even though through the
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Hormuz Strait, even though it looks like at least oil
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: and LNG is coming out of the Persian Gulf almost
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: in quantities from before the war. but Iran is still threatening.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: You know, it's, you just, just not going to, it's
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: not going to end it. They don't want to end it.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: They don't want to win this war. Ken Paxton, who's
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: running in Texas and might lose Texas to a Democrat,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: there's an audio out where he's saying at a Washington fundraiser,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: it's the war, it's gas prices, it's diesel. That's our
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: biggest problem. It's affordability. And then he says, it's not tariffs.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Talk about evasion. Isn't tariffs the main reason that affordability
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: is unaffordable? That didn't make sense. But you know what
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah. I mean, more and more and more
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump. Imagine if Trump had
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: won the war and he won. I don't know, four
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: months ago, five months ago? Republicans would be winning. So
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: we got a war seven months in. that shrunk from
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: regime change, or at least no proxies, no missiles, no nuclear,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: to a meaningful cut in enrichment. And the timetable dictating
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: Trump's behavior and the administration's behavior, elections, will escalate it
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: after the midterms. Was this a war run for political convenience?
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  Speaker 1: This is how you defend Americans? If this is a
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: war of self-defense, we're told. And think of the cost
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: of the damage of the prestige of, yeah. And then
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: you've got diesel, right? Remember diesel? Diesel prices are up
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: and everybody's panicking because diesel is so expensive. Well, it
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: turns out, according to Bloomberg, Bloomberg did a deep dive
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: into diesel prices. And what they found is that over
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the last couple of months, cargoes of American fuel, diesel,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: and crude to parts of the USA, to parts of
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: the country that need them, have dropped significantly. Guess when?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Since when? Since the White House pared down its Jones
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Act waiver. Remember, originally Trump waived the Jones Act, and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: then they said, We're only partially waiving the Jones Act.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to have permissions and all kinds
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: of other restrictions. Since they shrunk it, the waiver, oil
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: shipments and diesel shipments have gone down, which has led
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: to higher pump prices and frustrated oil traders. I mean,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: who's the constituency out there defending the Jones Act? How
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: can they be this stupid? How can this administration be
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: this dumb? Because I can't think of anything else that
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: it could be other than dumb. I mean, remember the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Jones Act requires any shipment between the U.S. ports to
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: go on a U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-crewed ship. In March, with
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: the Iran war, The White House issued a blanket waiver
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: so anybody could transport, any foreign tankers could transport anything
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: from the Gulf to the East and West Coast. Then,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, really, in mid-August, I guess after pressure
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: from shipbuilding interests and their allies in Washington, how big
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: are shipbuilding interests in the United States? I mean, shipbuilding
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: is almost non-existent in the United States. The blanket waiver
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: became case by case. Since August 17th, a shipper must
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: ask permission. The entity that gives permission has the Survey
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Jones Act owners. They get 24 hours to claim they
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: could do the job, and the Pentagon decides. It's slow,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: frequent denials, and some companies just stop applying. So 280
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: plus foreign flagged energy voyages between mid-March and mid-August under
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: the blanket waiver. Nine since August 17th. What? Nine. Gulf
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: to coast shipment down more than 500,000 barrels a day.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Back to pre-war levels. September was the fewest seasonal fuel
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: and oil arrivals on the West Coast since 2020. New
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: York and Louisiana arrived Supply is tightening. And the waiver
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: expires again in November 15th. The White House says the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: waivers have allowed significantly more supply with safeguards for the
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: maritime industry. Really? Crippling America. I mean, crippling their own
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: chance at the ballot box. For what? For maritime industry
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: that doesn't really exist? How do you even start with
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: this administration? I don't know. All right, finally, let's talk
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: about bond vigilantes, right? I know you guys love it
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: when I talk about bond vigilantes. Bond vigilantes day two.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: So yesterday, bond prices went above 5.35 for the first
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: time in 24 years. But then the U.S. had a
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: big auction today of 10-year bonds that they sold. And
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: the expectation was they would go for 5.35 or maybe
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: even higher. It turned out demand was actually pretty aggressive.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people wanted American government bonds at 5.3.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: So the price that these bonds sold was 5.3, still
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: way higher than what it was just a few weeks ago.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: And bonds at 5.27. I haven't checked this afternoon what
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: they're trading at. But let's just see what they are
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: right now. Stocks are all down. 5.28. All right, so
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: just under 5.3. Yeah, stocks are down a lot today.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: At least the Russell 2000 is down a lot. The
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: S & P 500 is down a little bit. Because,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing, the S & P 500
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: is now basically three stocks. Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft dominate
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: that index. But, you know, again, debt is past $ 40 trillion. So,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: interest rate is way high. According to the IMF, speaking
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: in Singapore, je... Zheva, that's Georgieva, name of the person.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Global debt to GDP is the highest since World War II.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: It's heading towards 100%. You know, high debt advanced economies,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: he says, need to adopt credible medium-term plans to cut deficits.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: No advanced economy that I know of is doing that.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Central banks, he says, need to keep a prudently hawkish bias.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: We'll see. And he's worried, of course, that AI models
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: are going to run amok for whatever that's worth. In Paris,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: in the meantime, you know, yesterday we had massive demonstrations.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Today we had problems at the Central Bank. Bank of
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: France Governor Emmanuel Moulin rejected Le Pen and Melchon's demands
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: that the European Central Bank buy or cancel French debt.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: The ECB's job is inflation. Near 2%. That's it. Not
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: fixing countries' physical problems. Good for the banker, you know,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: the governor of the Bank of France. Good for him.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: He said, you know, the day before, Melchon, the far-left
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: candidate for the presidency of France, Melchon was threatening. that
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: if he won, he would prosecute the governor of the
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Bank of France for treason. People are nuts. French debt
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: is just getting more expensive. The 10-year is at 4.91%.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: European bank stocks are the lowest since July. You know,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: we will see. We will see. They're Finance Minister France
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: told the Wall Street Journal this afternoon that he is
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: considering issuing more short-term debt because backers are walking away.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: from long-term debt. Remind you of something? Wasn't that what
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Besant was trying to do? And since Besant did that,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: he said, at least you short-term debt, now buy long-term debt.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: Since then, interest rates have only gone up, not down, up.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: They don't learn these people. They really don't know. Yeah,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is straight out of the shell game.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: You know, let's shift the debt around. Let's pretend. Let's
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: play the bond market. Bond market is not stupid. Bond
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: market is not stupid. Let's see. Let me quickly go
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: through this, see if there's anything else I want to
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: talk about. We talked about that yesterday. We talked about that. Oh, yeah,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: a few stories on the achievement side. We don't want
• 1:09:57
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• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, at the Aging Research and Drug Discovery
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: Conference in Boston, Nova Nodisc and Eli Lilly each presented data.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing. The third GOP1 drugs, GOP1, we've talked
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: about GOP1 drugs before. The third GOP1 drug, slow biological
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: aging as measured by molecular clocks. According to Novo, blood
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: from 10,052 people, half on semaglutide which is a zeptic regovi.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Half on a placebo was drawn, and then their molecular
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: clocks were estimated at baseline, and then months later, these
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: are proteomic clocks that estimate age and mortality risk from
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: blood proteins. The result, the proteins on the drug came
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: out roughly two to three years biologically younger than the placebos.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: On a hot protein clock, they were as much as
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: four years younger. I guess a professor from Harvard did
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: these measurements. Eli Lilly had a smaller study. And they
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: used an epigenetic clock. These are DNA changes. And they
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: were testing it for triazeptide. This is Monjaro and Zepbound.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Molecular time, they said, for the most part, moved more slowly.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Lily's Kevin Duffin says, quote, it's not like we're going
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: to reverse age by 30 years or something, but you
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: age slower, supposedly. Stephen Hova, who was from UCLA, who
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: invented aging clocks, says a two-year effect is a pretty
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: strong effect, enough to call the drugs juroprotectors. Now, there
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: are lots of caveats here. These are company readouts. It's
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: unclear whether the clocks are reliable biomarkers. The subjects were
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: overweight or diabetic. So would this happen in a healthy population?
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows. One of the side effects of these drugs
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: is muscle loss, although you can combat that. Muscle loss
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: is associated with dying sooner rather than later. So hard
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: to tell, but there is some money being put into
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: a Texas trial of semaglutide in healthy over 60s. So
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: in a year or two, we'll know. But the evidence
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: keeps mounting. The GOP1 are, for lack of an alternative word,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: miracle drugs. They're just pretty amazing. And it might soon
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: be the case that it will be advised that everybody
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: take them. Now, you know, these drugs are incredibly profitable
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: for these companies, but they are doing amazing work. Amazing work.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: These are the most profitable drugs on earth. They might
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: be anti-aging drugs, or at least Slowing aging drugs. You know,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: while they were developed for diabetes originally and then for aging.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: I think I went through the story of GOP1s and
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: how they were discovered from the venom of a... I
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: don't know if I've done that whole... I should do that.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: We should do the whole GOP1 where it comes from.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: The venom of a lizard, right? And they have all
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: these benefits. All these benefits beyond... Weight loss, they improve
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: the health of your heart. They reduce all these diseases.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Not just because you lose weight, but even when controlling
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: for the weight loss. Here's another one. This one is
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: very personal. Very personal, because this will hopefully affect me.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: This is out of Stanford Medicine. Something called the limiflex.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: The limiflex is a flexible spinal implant for degenerative spondylolisthesis. Whatever.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Where a vertebra slips and pinches the nerves. The standard
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: fix is fusion. Fusion means screws, rods, bone grafts. A
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: segment of your spine never moves again. I got fusion.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: When was it? 2011? 2010? 2011? Now I'm confused. Around then, right?
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I got L4 and L5 fused. They're stuck together. I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: have no mobility in L4 and L5 because my disc
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: ruptured and there was nothing there. There was no way
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: to save it other than to fuse it Well, Lemiflex
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: is two small titanium springs joined by textile bands looped
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: around the bony knobs of the back of the vertebra.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: It stops the slip, but lets you bend. Now, I
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: don't know if this would be applicable in my case,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: but You can imagine, maybe not this, maybe something else,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: but this is huge. Louis Fielding, a mechanical engineer in
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Stanford's biodesign program, sketched it in 2004 with spine surgeon
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Todd Alleman. Alleman's question was, to control stability, do you
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: really need to get rid of all the motion, which
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: is what fusion does. So they founded a company, Empirical Spine,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: pretty cool name. They launched in Europe in 2011 with 2,000
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: plus patients. I guess they launched a trial. There was
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: a US pivotal trial of nearly 300 patients versus fusion.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: So fusion was the placebo, if you will. They found
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: a no less effective, shorter operation. I believe that my
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: operation got nine hours, but mine was particularly complex because
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: they had to clean up all the scar tissue for
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: previous operations on my back. Nine hours, and then I
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: had to go back into surgery for another, I think, four.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: So a shorter operation. Some patients home the same day. Wow.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: I was in hospital for a week. Faster return to work.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: FDA approved it in February 2026. First U.S. surgery at
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Stanford on April 30th, 2026. So it took 22 years
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: from sketch to patient. According to Fielding, quote, it's like
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: your car suspension. It's going to be the same at 100,000
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: miles as it was at first. Allman says, it's great
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: to see these patients four or five days out of
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: surgery feeling fine. I am so jealous. I mean, next
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: time I need fusion, I'm going to these guys. I mean,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: this is what innovation looks like. This is what innovation,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: you know, an idea turned into a product looks like.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Good for them. That is amazing. That is amazing. That
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: is what human beings can do. That is what achievement
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: looks like. That's what progress looks like. That's what success,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: that's what civilization looks like. We need maybe we need
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: first to defeat the savages so we can purely focus
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: savages within and without. So we can purely focus on
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: things like that. All right. That is the news for
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• 1:19:17
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• 1:19:27
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  Speaker 1: of $ 50 ones. Thank you, guys. We'll start with Shahzbad.
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  Speaker 1: Shahzbad has a quote from us from the Terminator. Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Reese in Terminator 1. It can't be bargained with. It
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  Speaker 1: can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse
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  Speaker 1: or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever until
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  Speaker 1: you are dead. So, you know, he's talking about an
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  Speaker 1: AI-driven robot, right? We're talking about an ideology that cannot
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: be reasoned with. Islamism. An ideology that does not feel
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  Speaker 1: pity or remorse or fear. It doesn't. It doesn't allow
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  Speaker 1: its people to feel any of that. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: of the quote from Kyle Reese. It absolutely will not
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  Speaker 1: stop ever until it, they, are dead. Until that ideology
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  Speaker 1: has been completely crushed. Until nobody can think that they
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  Speaker 1: have any chance ever of succeeding. That's what it's going
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  Speaker 1: to require. Until that happens, it'll keep coming after us.
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  Speaker 1: It'll keep trying to kill us and our children. It'll
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  Speaker 1: keep trying to destroy the West. I don't think in
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  Speaker 1: and of itself it can, but it'll keep trying. It
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  Speaker 1: won't stop. It's like the Terminator, and we better learn
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  Speaker 1: that lesson. Negotiating, compromising, only embolden it, strengthen it. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing it understands is force, because it is force.
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  Speaker 1: Molten Splendor. $ 50, thank you. Thank you for sharing lessons
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  Speaker 1: not learned. Being a defender of reason and continuing to
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  Speaker 1: explain the true motivations of all the religious zealots. Without
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: firing a shot, turn off the water, keeping those that
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: want them dead alive. Yeah, I mean, Throughout the war,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: here's the ultimate in altruism, the ultimate in altruism. Throughout
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: the entire war and before the war, for the last,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: you know, since 2005 when Israel left the Gaza Strip,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: Israel has been providing the Gaza Strip. It's sworn enemies,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: people committed to killing it, and who showed and expressed
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: that commitment on October 7th. And yet, even on October 8th,
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  Speaker 1: Israel was supplying them. with water, electricity, cell phone, internet,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: data coverage. And that was not turned off. It should
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: have been turned off immediately on October 7th. It's unthinkable
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: that you're supplying water to the people raping your daughters,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: that you're supplying electricity to people killing babies. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: talk about altruism. Oh, my God. It should make you
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: sick to your stomach. And these are the good guys
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: doing this. And imagine how the world would have been
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: apoplectic if Israel stopped providing water, electricity, food to the
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  Speaker 1: Gaza Strip. Starved them from day one. Would have made
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: fighting them much easier. Mary Eileen. Netanyahu says he knew
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  Speaker 1: of no October 7th warning. which is a lie. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: The response should be, why didn't you know? It's your
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: job to know. Israel's intelligence is legendary. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: Fauda's creed says they want him gone. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think most rational Israelis want him gone, but people
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: are so afraid. And he's been relatively tough since October 7th. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's unexplainable to me. I mean, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think somebody wanted to debate me on Netanyahu. I can't
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: bring myself to even debate it. It's so obvious in
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: the idea of keeping him on so horrific. And people
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: say there's no alternative. There's nobody else. How do you know?
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: What Netanyahu has perfected over the last 20 or so
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: years is the ability to so dominate Israeli politics, particularly
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  Speaker 1: on the right, that nobody else can arise. Nobody else
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: can rise up. Everybody who's tried to challenge him has
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: been destroyed. He needs to leave the political scene. At
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: some point he will, right? He's not a young man.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Sooner rather than later. And at that point, others will rise.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: And then we can decide who's qualified and who's not.
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  Speaker 1: As long as he's around, it's all about him. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the reality is, and I've talked about this many times,
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  Speaker 1: the reality is that Israeli politics is overwhelmingly center-right. that
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  Speaker 1: the four center-right political parties, or three center-right and one center,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: called it, have a clear majority in the Knesset, in
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli parliament, and could exclude the left, could exclude
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  Speaker 1: the Arabs, could exclude the religionists, could exclude the religious fanatics,
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  Speaker 1: the nationalists, and govern and do, you know, they could
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  Speaker 1: liberate the economy and they could be tough politicians, But
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  Speaker 1: they won't form a coalition because of Netanyahu. The other
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: political parties will not sit in a government with Netanyahu.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: It's personality. It's not ideas. They all kind of agree
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  Speaker 1: on the basic ideas. About 63 to 64 percent, 63
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  Speaker 1: to 64 members out of 120, according to the polls,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: basically all agree or basically center right. They're not that
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  Speaker 1: different from the Likud, from Netanyahu's political party. And yet,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: they can't form a coalition because of Netanyahu. Because he
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: is toxic. And he should be toxic. Because he is toxic.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: All he has to do is step aside. And Israel
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: is immediately better off. Andrew, $ 50. Thank you, Andrew. Is
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  Speaker 1: the Hamas-Palestinian culture pre-philosophical? Or do underlying ideas drive it?
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  Speaker 1: It's not pro-life. But is it even advanced to be
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  Speaker 1: systematically anti-life? Interestingly, it can't even clearly pass the threshold
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  Speaker 1: choice under objectivism, life or death. It's dominated by ideas.
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  Speaker 1: But what I meant called primitive or barbaric primitive ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's dominated by primitive philosophy or religion. Hamas and
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  Speaker 1: much of Palestinian culture as it has evolved is dominated
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: by Islam and by a particular virulent form of Islam, Islamism,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: world domination. But even the secular Muslims among the Palestinians
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: are inspired by emotion. They're inspired by hate, hate, hate
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. And always have been. Yasser Arafat was no Islamist.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: His ideology was nationalism and just hatred and power lust.
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  Speaker 1: So the philosophy that guides them is some form of
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: combination of nationalism with religion. And You know, it is
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  Speaker 1: a religion that elevates death. You get rewarded with death.
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  Speaker 1: Most religions elevate death. Most religions celebrate death. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even Christianity says you're better off when you're dead. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why they don't all commit suicide, but you're
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: better off when you're dead. You know, you go to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: I guess God doesn't want you to commit suicide because
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: he wants you to suffer on this earth because he
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: gets a kick out of your suffering. So they want
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: you to stay alive. The religion doesn't recognize the virtue
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: of suicide. But you're better off when you're dead. But
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: it's a culture that ultimately never really absorbed enlightenment. It's
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: like the culture of the dark ages in the West. Pre-philosophical.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: Or at least pre the philosophy of reason. But it's
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: not like the Kantians, although the elements, the secular elements
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: are influenced by him, like the Germans were. The nationalism
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: is inspired somewhat by Kant and Hegel and stuff. But
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: the dominant, dominant in that world is Islam. Exploring Simons.
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  Speaker 1: $ 50 sticker, thank you. Wes, $ 50 sticker, thank you, thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: from our goal. Not a lot of questions left, so
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: this is going to go by pretty quickly. But it
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  Speaker 1: would be great if we could make our goal today.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: That would be kind of cool. Exploring Simon, question. Premise,
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  Speaker 1: tragedy experienced by political constituents. can be coercively used by
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: politicians to compel constituent dependency on the political system on politicians,
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: especially when commanding a monopoly of force thoughts. Yes, politicians
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: always command a monopoly of force, so it's not especially when.
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  Speaker 1: It's always. That's what politicians do. They command a monopoly
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  Speaker 1: on force. So, yes, they take advantage of fear. They
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of tragedy. The Great Depression increases the power
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: of politicians. World War II increases the power of politicians. Any,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, a sense among Americans that
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: things are not going well is exploited by politicians. Trump,
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  Speaker 1: for example, particularly if you can find a way to
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: blame outsiders for it. So, yes, absolutely. Constant... angst, constant fear,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: constant problems, and particularly big tragedies, are typically used by
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: politicians to expand their power, to grow their power. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in Israel, it's not clear because in Israel, the security
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: kind of problems are so frequent that I think the
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: state has basically taken control over what it wants to
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  Speaker 1: take control of. So I don't think there's an expansion
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: of political power since October 7th. Maybe, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. But certainly in the U.S., which does not
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: really face that many tragedies. But when it does, I mean,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: think 9-11. And now we have the Department of Homeland Security.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: We have ICE. We have secret courts, FISA courts. We
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: have the NSA spying on us. We have all kinds
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: of stuff. You know, the Patriot Act, which has never
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: been repealed. All kinds of stuff that violates our freedoms.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: and increases the power politicians have over us. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Exploring Simon premise to political groups, tribes can present themselves
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  Speaker 1: publicly as antagonistic yet exchange in a tragedy by sacrificing liquidating, uh,
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: constituents targets from mutual political gain thoughts. Um, Sure. The
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  Speaker 1: challenge with that is that you're attributing abilities to politicians
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  Speaker 1: that I think they very rarely exhibit. You're attributing way
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  Speaker 1: too much efficaciousness and efficiency on them. Their ability to
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice or even liquidate constituents and coordinate all that for
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: mutual gain. It's just I can't think of examples, particularly
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: of liquidating In a free country where that exists. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans have a lot of shared interests in
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: the existence of the welfare state, in the existence of
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: the regulatory state. They don't have to really coordinate. And
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think they do much. particularly today. That would
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: require them to be able to step back from the
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: tribalism that they engage in on a regular basis. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you have particular examples of this one.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: I'd be interested. But, you know, yes, they could. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not clear that, for example, during the Great Depression,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans united to exploit or to liquidate anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of other circumstances where this would
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  Speaker 1: play out. I don't know what those would be. Silvanus, $ 100.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Silvanus. Really appreciate that. Hello, Yvonne. Thanks for
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: covering the horrible date. Do you consider the more conspiratorial
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: explanations for why Israel failed to defend the 7th credible
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: at all or pragmatism enough in your opinion? Oh yeah, no,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: they're not credible at all. They're all ridiculous. They exhibit
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: no understanding of the way Israelis think, of the way
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: politics in Israel functions or works. Like most conspiracy theories,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: like most conspiracy theories they they you know nobody on
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: the inside reveals them there's no real information about them
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: they're vague and amorphous and you know just announced that
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: they are these incentives and motivations but with no evidence
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: no proof no nothing to suggest it's true so no
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: Netanyahu didn't do this on purpose in order to be
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: able to take over Gaza and go after Hezbollah. He
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: didn't want to go after Hezbollah. He was avoiding that.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: It was his defense secretary that urged him on, and
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: it was only when Hezbollah attacked Israel that they attacked Hezbollah.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't add up to anything.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: None of those conspiracy theories do. Pragmatism, evasion, altruism, the
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: desire for no confrontation, The desire for peace, so you
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: believe there's peace, because alternative is too painful politically and personally,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: that explains what happened. You don't have to go to
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: any kind of conspiracy to explain what happened. And again,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: it's not like this is a one-off and it never
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: happened before. It happened in the Yom Kippur War. It
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: happened in 9-11. There are plenty of reasons to believe
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: 9-11 was going to, something like 9-11 was going to happen.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: There were intelligence reports. There was the other terrorist attacks
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: that al-Qaeda engaged in. We could have taken out bin
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Laden well before 9-11, but they didn't because they evaded,
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: because they're cowards, because they won't stand up, because they'd
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: rather pretend that it's all peaceful out there and everything's good. Okay,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: so exploring Simon says war between two competing nations. Let
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: me see if that fits in. Two political groups, tribes,
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: can present themselves publicly as antagonistic, yet exchange in tragedy
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: by liquidating constituents' targets for mutual political gain thoughts. Well,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that we see political tribes
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: coming together in order to go to war. Often was
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: opposed by quite a bit of the population. You know,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: unless there's good reason for that war, like after October
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: 7th or like after 9-11. But even after 9-11, it
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: didn't last very long before people were against what the
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: United States was doing. So I don't see it. I
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: don't see it. I guess it's possible, but... I need
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: a real example. He says, if a nation is unwilling
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: to dominate and win a war, then what is the
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: reason for engaging in the war? Well, the reason for
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: engaging in the war is to eliminate the threat or
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: to reduce the threat or to kick the can down
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: the road in terms of the threat. And what's stopping
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: them from winning the war is the altruism. So, you know,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: it might be very possible. that when they launch the war,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: they want to win. But then they embrace altruistic premises
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: that don't allow them to win. And there's this, I
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: think Bush, I think Bush, I think Trump wanted to
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: win the war with Iran. He just wasn't thoughtful enough,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: strategic enough, and then not willing to do what was
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: necessary to actually do it. So it's not that you
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: go to war saying, oh, we're not going to win.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Americans wanted to win in Vietnam.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: They just weren't willing to do what was necessary to
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: win in Vietnam. I think because of altruism. I think
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: America wanted to win in Iraq and Afghanistan. They just
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: weren't willing to do what was necessary. And they defined
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: winning as bringing democracy. Not bringing democracy would be wonderful
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: if these countries could become democratic. So they evade in
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: the name of altruism. What drives them is altruism. Not
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: some political motive of not winning so that we can
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: unite the people against and we get support from the people. So, no,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's what's going on. Jennifer, thank you
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: for talking about October 7th. It's extremely difficult to talk about,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: but it will always need to be talked about. Yes,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: it will. Thank you, Jennifer. Appreciate it. Exploring assignment again.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: In view of history of warfare and political corruption without accountability,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: would it be rational to advise a young individual to
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: join the military within that context? I mean, my view
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: is the answer is no, particularly the U.S. military, where
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: they're explicitly hampered. They're explicitly, their hands are tied behind
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: their backs. They're explicitly used as sacrificial lambs. I mean,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: during the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, I actively discouraged
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: people from joining the military because I thought it was,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: It was suicidal, given the political and military leadership and
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: what they were doing. So, no, right? I'm talking about
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: the U.S. military, right? And I think this is particularly
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: true of the U.S. military. So, when you join the military,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: you're entrusting your life, your life, in the hands of
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: military and political leaders. And our military and political leaders
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: are motivated by altruism, not by protecting the life of
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: the soldiers. Oh, God. I mean, these people in my
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: chat are so stupid and disgustingly dishonest. Sorry, not all
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: of you, obviously. It's just Tommy. Tommy, if you join
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: the U.S. military, you are fighting for Israel. It's such
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: a stupid, ignorant, ignorant of history, ignorant of fact, And
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: just shameful anti-Semitism because there's no other motivation, there's no
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: reason to evade reality to that extent other than anti-Semitism. See,
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: he's just a hater. J.J. Jigsby, just wanted to share
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: the news that I'm going to a culinary school to
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: pursue cooking. Wow. Which I've always loved. By the way,
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: are you going to cover Tucker's recent debate embarrassment just
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: for good fun, if nothing else. Probably, it's a long debate.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: I have to figure out exactly how to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations and good luck at the culinary school. Looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to tasting your food. All right, this is a question
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  Speaker 1: from yesterday, from Andrew. He says, Rami Manuel was interviewed
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  Speaker 1: by Hannity. He said calmly that while he knows Hannity disagrees,
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  Speaker 1: he believes that his religious morality, Hannity's, instructs him to
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  Speaker 1: fight for the public's right to health care. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and Andrew says true. Yes, it is true. You know, altruism,
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  Speaker 1: which is the foundation of Christianity, demands you be sacrificed
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  Speaker 1: so other people can have their health care. Right. Uh...
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  Speaker 1: I don't have patience for this. All right. Sorry, I
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  Speaker 1: just blocked Tommy for a while because today of all days,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have patience for anti-Semitic bullshit and the rationalization
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  Speaker 1: about how it's not really anti-Semitic. They're just trying to
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  Speaker 1: be America first, which is, again, massive, massive, massive evasion
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  Speaker 1: required in order to do that. And the only motivation
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  Speaker 1: for such evasion is anti-Semitism in this context. Neal, Oz
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  Speaker 1: Davidian drove his car back and forth 15 times, saving
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  Speaker 1: over 120 lives while taking on guns and while taking
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  Speaker 1: on guns and terrorists. Yes. I mean, there were there
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  Speaker 1: were these dramatic, uh, amazing, um, acts of heroism that, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we need to highlight. And again, this idea of driving
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, saving people from the festival was something
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  Speaker 1: highlighted in, in, uh, in, um, Fowler season five and
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  Speaker 1: in Fowler season five, uh, One of the things that
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  Speaker 1: is expressed is the cost. What did that cost them?
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you to all the Super Chatters. We
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  Speaker 1: made the goal. I really, really appreciate that. I will
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  Speaker 1: be back tomorrow, same time, same place. I will be
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  Speaker 1: putting up on Substack the essay, an essay that covers
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  Speaker 1: these lessons learned. written by Iran AI. So I'll put
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  Speaker 1: that up on Iran AI Substack later today. Please, please,
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  Speaker 1: if you like it, if you value it, please share it,
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  Speaker 1: like it, whatever. Come to read it on the Substack
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  Speaker 1: and share it widely. It would be great if we
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  Speaker 1: could get these ideas out there. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing the Substack is to get the ideas in
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  Speaker 1: writing and get an opportunity to get it out there
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  Speaker 1: to people. All right, guys, I will see you all tomorrow. Bye, everybody.