Israel Under Siege and the Media and Political Double Standards
Show Notes
Israel is under attack from multiple fronts, yet the world condemns its defense while turning a blind eye to daily aggressions. Why are the media and politicians so quick to vilify Israel and so slow to report the full story? In this episode, we critique the biased portrayal of Israel's defensive actions against rocket attacks from Hezbollah and other militant groups. We explore how the mainstream media and politicians sensationalize the conflict, focusing on Israel's retaliation while ignoring the continuous provocations that force such responses.
00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:01.566 Friday it's the end of the week.
00:00:01.566 --> 00:00:25.350 We got hurricanes blowing, Houthis firing rockets actually ballistic missiles and yet the world says shame on Israel for getting attacked, Shame on Israel for having to defend itself to the world on receiving missiles as it's their fault.
00:00:25.350 --> 00:00:34.868 No different than Kamala Harris is a perfect gem in society, Guys why, did I mention these two people?
00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:41.753 Because the country of Israel and Kamala Harris seem to have a bad rap.
00:00:41.753 --> 00:00:47.904 One smells like tuna fish, the other one smells like shit.
00:00:49.609 --> 00:00:50.734 My name's stewart briskell.
00:00:50.734 --> 00:00:53.121 That's my co-host, david solomon, staring down.
00:00:53.121 --> 00:00:54.604 Now he's looking up.
00:00:54.604 --> 00:00:55.527 Now he's smiling.
00:00:56.289 --> 00:01:10.829 Now I get an eye twitch where we peel back multitude of layers on topics, not holding back a damn thing, as, as I just introduced, we're here about raw, unfiltered dialogue that really is unfiltered.
00:01:10.829 --> 00:01:17.903 It's an outlet, it's a voice sharing experiences and ideas that really cross the globe.
00:01:17.903 --> 00:01:22.087 Lately it has been really about two major issues.
00:01:22.087 --> 00:01:25.611 About two major issues Israel and Kamala Harris.
00:01:25.611 --> 00:01:42.662 And as we dive into this, another pop culture, politics or quirk of existence, we're venting over life's daily frustrations and tackling them in a way that are not in the mainstream news, because the mainstream news doesn't want to cover it.
00:01:42.662 --> 00:01:45.930 You got to ask yourself is ignorance bliss?
00:01:45.930 --> 00:01:54.634 So get comfortable as we join David on leading this rant this morning about rules for me, not for thee.
00:01:54.634 --> 00:01:57.302 You can't do anything right, no matter what you say.
00:01:57.302 --> 00:02:02.183 You're just wrong, and you know what it's put up or shut up time.
00:02:03.748 --> 00:02:04.902 You know what folks I've got to?
00:02:04.902 --> 00:02:09.587 Tellart, you know, wants to talk about my facial expressions, and that's exactly what the media likes to do.
00:02:09.587 --> 00:02:17.020 The media will pick on something so we can divert your attention, so we can drive home a message, but it's not a reality, people.
00:02:17.020 --> 00:02:22.459 The reality out there is is so different, and I'll give you a concrete example.
00:02:22.459 --> 00:02:24.043 Stewart talked about israel.
00:02:24.043 --> 00:02:34.991 On october the 7th, as we've said time and time again here on this channel and I will continue to remind people until every single person is returned home 1,200 people were killed.
00:02:34.991 --> 00:02:37.889 Over 200 people were kidnapped by Hamas.
00:02:38.979 --> 00:02:46.332 On October the 8th, there were protests already against Israel on her retaliation.
00:02:46.332 --> 00:02:47.235 That hadn't even started.
00:02:47.235 --> 00:02:56.471 It took weeks before Israel made its move, but already the protests had begun, condemning Israel for her retaliation.
00:02:56.471 --> 00:03:00.688 Nothing had happened, but again, media doesn't want to cover facts.
00:03:00.688 --> 00:03:04.326 All they want to do is cover sensation, and the sensation was wait for Israel.
00:03:04.326 --> 00:03:05.503 When will Israel retaliate?
00:03:05.503 --> 00:03:07.110 So we can now go and crap on Israel?
00:03:07.860 --> 00:03:14.387 On October the 8th, hezbollah started firing rockets at Israel and it went virtually unreported.
00:03:14.387 --> 00:03:18.308 Israelis now had a war on two fronts.
00:03:18.308 --> 00:03:25.852 That was followed later on by the Houthis, iranians, the Syrians, iraqis, you name it.
00:03:25.852 --> 00:03:28.181 It was attacked on multiple fronts.
00:03:28.181 --> 00:03:30.987 You never heard about it in the media.
00:03:30.987 --> 00:03:38.121 But the moment Israel went into Gaza and started firing on Gaza, of course every media had to show up in Israel, because it was now time for the Jews.
00:03:38.121 --> 00:03:39.465 The Jews were retaliating.
00:03:39.465 --> 00:03:40.306 The Jews were wrong.
00:03:40.306 --> 00:03:41.730 The Jews were wrong, israel's wrong.
00:03:41.730 --> 00:03:51.979 Netanyahu was to be taken out of power and the and all of a sudden we've seen, since october the 7th, the ramp up of the rhetoric and the media focus on israel.
00:03:51.979 --> 00:03:59.312 They treated israel like a pariah state, like she is the devil incarnate.
00:03:59.312 --> 00:04:16.908 She caused this amazing that's the media angle For months 11 and a half months and I ranted about this while Stuart was away that Israel has been firing rockets from Hezbollah into Israel on a daily basis.
00:04:16.908 --> 00:04:19.004 70,000 were displaced.
00:04:19.004 --> 00:04:23.663 We had 12 children murdered on a soccer field.
00:04:28.454 --> 00:04:30.225 The media ignored it.
00:04:30.225 --> 00:04:34.588 And then Israel retaliates.
00:04:35.341 --> 00:04:41.069 Finally, after finishing what they needed to do with Gaza, they turn their attention to Hezbollah.
00:04:41.069 --> 00:04:43.867 This Hezbollah is not Hamas people.
00:04:43.867 --> 00:04:46.166 Hamas is a bunch of thugs.
00:04:46.166 --> 00:04:53.927 Hezbollah has been known to be the most armed terrorist group in the world, almost military-like.
00:04:53.927 --> 00:04:58.089 Israel could not have a war on two fronts at the same time.
00:04:58.089 --> 00:05:07.612 She had to finish what happened in Gaza and then turn her attention, much to the chagrin of millions of Israelis who wanted to see their citizens go back home.
00:05:07.612 --> 00:05:13.259 And I say Israelis, I mean Muslims alike, it wasn't just Jews.
00:05:14.675 --> 00:05:25.221 But yet, the moment Israel turned her attention on Hezbollah and got into the pagers and blew them up, the world woke up.
00:05:25.221 --> 00:05:28.625 How dare Israel attack Lebanon?
00:05:28.625 --> 00:05:30.940 Israel did not attack Lebanon.
00:05:30.940 --> 00:05:41.369 Israel is attacking Hezbollah terrorists who enjoy life among citizens, knowing what the world would do to Israel.
00:05:41.369 --> 00:05:46.264 Amazing, and if you read the reports, israel is attacking Lebanon.
00:05:46.264 --> 00:05:50.644 No, israel did not declare war on Lebanon.
00:05:50.644 --> 00:05:57.807 Israel, like she's done in the past, warned civilians get out of the way.
00:05:57.807 --> 00:06:01.024 We are going to take out the people who have the.
00:06:01.024 --> 00:06:02.497 Could you imagine?
00:06:02.497 --> 00:06:06.327 There are missiles, cruise missiles, in homes and in buildings.
00:06:06.327 --> 00:06:08.781 What did you want Israel to use there?
00:06:08.781 --> 00:06:10.461 Flour Sugar?
00:06:10.461 --> 00:06:12.550 No, they had to blow up the bombs there.
00:06:12.550 --> 00:06:18.324 Flour Sugar, no, they had to blow up the bombs.
00:06:18.324 --> 00:06:21.428 They were inside schools, inside homes, inside hospitals and mosques.
00:06:21.428 --> 00:06:25.478 This is the method.
00:06:25.499 --> 00:06:30.889 And you have hateful politicians across the world who are condemning Israel for invading Lebanon.
00:06:30.889 --> 00:06:35.958 There hasn't been an invasion of Lebanon.
00:06:35.958 --> 00:06:37.100 It's an incredible thing.
00:06:37.100 --> 00:07:02.305 Military experts, generals, marveled at Israel's precision with the Patriots, the walkie-talkies, but they also commented that the world would never let Israel properly defend herself, from Kamala Harris, stewart to Justin Trudeau, to all these other lefty Western politicians who claim Israel has a right to defend herself.
00:07:02.305 --> 00:07:09.581 But you even have your Secretary of Defense saying we need to use diplomatic means.
00:07:09.581 --> 00:07:15.708 No, your version of diplomacy hasn't worked Never has.
00:07:15.708 --> 00:07:22.160 Joe Biden continues to insist that Israel must disarm so that there can be a ceasefire.
00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:23.504 This is insane.
00:07:23.504 --> 00:07:27.940 The way that you're saying diplomacy is to threaten Israel.
00:07:27.940 --> 00:07:29.821 That's diplomacy.
00:07:29.821 --> 00:07:32.035 That's the Joe Biden version of diplomacy.
00:07:32.035 --> 00:07:41.107 The Justin Trudeau version of diplomacy, the Emmanuel Macron's version of it, the prime minister of UK this is their version of diplomacy.
00:07:41.107 --> 00:07:44.444 Threaten the democracy, not the terrorists.
00:07:44.444 --> 00:07:48.444 Stuart, with this I'm going to wrap up my monologue.
00:07:49.435 --> 00:08:05.848 If you saw the movie Batman with the Joker a number of years ago I believe it was, heath Ledger was the actor they said the most ironic part of the movie was that people who watched the movie actually felt bad for the Joker.
00:08:05.848 --> 00:08:15.764 He was a criminal, he was a murderer, he wanted devastation and destruction, but there was a sympathy for the Joker.
00:08:15.764 --> 00:08:21.286 Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we've done with Hamas, hezbollah and the Houthis.
00:08:21.286 --> 00:08:27.379 The Houthis fired a cruise missile into Tel Aviv yesterday and nothing, no condemnation.
00:08:27.379 --> 00:08:34.543 If Israel was to retaliate now on the Houthis, the world would condemn Israel, just like they did in the United Nations.
00:08:34.543 --> 00:08:37.884 Israel, ladies and gentlemen, is Batman.
00:08:37.884 --> 00:08:39.780 Israel is Batman.
00:08:39.780 --> 00:08:46.119 Batman has to use crazy means not necessarily the cleanest means to clean up the streets, and she's condemned.
00:08:46.119 --> 00:08:54.243 They're fighting and they're supporting the Joker, and the Joker is Iran, the Joker is the Houthis, hebollah, hamas.
00:08:54.663 --> 00:09:27.945 It is a sick mindset, stewart, and it's amazing how the world focuses on the joker and not the batman you know you mentioned the pagers and the radios, which will be studied for probably the next hundred years, and I got to tell you you mentioned the Houthis are launching ballistic missiles indiscriminately into populated areas that are not strategic military targets.
00:09:29.215 --> 00:09:30.658 Lebanon, lebanon, lebanon, and just Jewish, and just Jewish.
00:09:43.667 --> 00:09:57.309 Because it is Lebanon, is the government of Lebanon, and that's just the way it is is allowing them to launch ballistic missiles indiscriminately into Israel.
00:09:57.309 --> 00:10:08.284 So, at the end of the day, the response that Israel is going outwards is purely targeted, something that the United States has been incapable of doing.
00:10:08.284 --> 00:10:12.759 They demanded but have been incapable of doing.
00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:19.408 They couldn't even exit Afghanistan without allowing the murder and condemnation of thousands.
00:10:19.408 --> 00:10:22.980 And you know what, David, I tip my hat off.
00:10:22.980 --> 00:10:32.928 I really do, Because the Israelis have always been above the fold and they take it on the ear every single time.
00:10:32.928 --> 00:10:35.140 And, David, I'm tired of it.
00:10:35.140 --> 00:10:36.937 I'll be honest, I'm tired of it.
00:10:37.217 --> 00:10:41.269 You know, stuart, but this is thanks to your left-leaning media.
00:10:41.269 --> 00:10:42.875 That will never.
00:10:42.875 --> 00:10:52.716 We've said it numerous times the politicians, the media, when they're wrong, they double down, and here they were looking to double down.
00:10:52.716 --> 00:11:09.673 They're pleased and happy to broadcast and to show the protesters all around the world who are saying stay out of Gaza, stay out of Lebanon, but where is the stay out of Israel?
00:11:09.673 --> 00:11:11.297 You know what's interesting, stuart?
00:11:11.317 --> 00:11:23.083 Kamala Harris yesterday condemned Donald Trump for suggesting that Ukraine cede its territory to Russia Its sovereign Ukrainian territory.
00:11:23.083 --> 00:11:25.760 But what does Kamala Harris keep talking about?
00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:34.129 A two-state solution, that Israel is to cede its sovereign territory to the Palestinians?
00:11:34.129 --> 00:11:35.799 I don't get it.
00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.240 Now they're going to say this is not the same.
00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:42.043 Agreed, but why does Ukraine get a pass, stuart?
00:11:42.043 --> 00:11:54.818 Why does Zelensky keep getting passes, keep getting arms, keep being allotted in the United States and in Europe and whatever, but not Israel?
00:11:54.818 --> 00:12:05.195 Why is it that when Trump says to everybody hey, don't vote for the people who have been holding arms back on you, they're condemned.
00:12:05.195 --> 00:12:07.888 They're condemning Trump that he's anti-Jewish.
00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:09.783 Do you see the doubling down?
00:12:09.783 --> 00:12:12.812 Every single time something has to favor Israel.
00:12:12.812 --> 00:12:14.703 It's a bad thing.
00:12:14.703 --> 00:12:15.827 We are going to double down.
00:12:15.827 --> 00:12:24.687 It's bad, but for Ukraine, no problem because, because Zelensky is fine, folks look into Zelensky.
00:12:24.687 --> 00:12:27.690 He's not exactly a charmer and he's not exactly innocent.
00:12:27.690 --> 00:12:29.965 Wow, they invaded his country.
00:12:29.965 --> 00:12:31.109 I'm going to give you that.
00:12:31.109 --> 00:12:35.591 But he's not exactly the clean, innocent guy that everybody wants to make him out to be.
00:12:35.591 --> 00:12:38.208 But did anybody call for an election in the Ukraine?
00:12:38.208 --> 00:12:48.125 No, they called for an election in Israel, because Israel is not doing what the United States wants.
00:12:48.125 --> 00:12:48.645 This is what's amazing.
00:12:48.645 --> 00:12:52.974 Israel informed the United States of its move on the pagers, on the walkie-talkies.
00:12:52.974 --> 00:13:03.873 Israel informs Israel about stuff and in the retaliation it's apparently the United States says they're not going to give Israel any intelligence because they want Israel to stop and have a ceasefire.
00:13:03.873 --> 00:13:06.607 Joe Biden cannot have another war on his front.
00:13:06.607 --> 00:13:13.448 That's all the Americans care about, not Israel's safety, not even safety Survival.
00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:44.049 You know, david, I want to show a picture, and I hope we put many more of them up in the middle of Gaza and in the middle of Lebanon, and I think it's time that the Israelis hold their flag up high wherever they seem to need to have to go, as they did 45, 50 years ago, in the 1960s, the 1950s.
00:13:44.049 --> 00:13:50.253 They went and held their head up high, of course, and they did what they had to do.
00:13:50.253 --> 00:13:58.778 David, I got to tell you I am by far not a fan of doing things the wrong way.
00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.006 Stuart, you're a fan, and I'm a fan of doing things the wrong way.
00:14:02.006 --> 00:14:04.381 But listen, stuart, you're a fan and I'm a fan of it.
00:14:04.381 --> 00:14:08.525 But, folks, the media has painted this lovely, lovely picture.
00:14:08.525 --> 00:14:12.263 Politicians are trying to convince you that Israel is the pariah.
00:14:12.263 --> 00:14:17.947 The United Nations vote is proof of the complicity of so many countries.
00:14:17.947 --> 00:14:25.488 Guys, this is like the kid in high school that's been bullied around by a bunch of those so-called popular states, popular kids.
00:14:25.488 --> 00:14:46.113 And when, you know, israel's emerged as a technological marvel, a marvel in the environmental sciences, medical sciences, has been a plus, a contributor to society on the global scale, helped African nations with water supply problems, south American problems.
00:14:46.113 --> 00:14:52.350 Every time there's a massive earthquake or disaster, israel's there to try to help, regardless if she's a friend or a foe.
00:14:52.350 --> 00:15:01.032 But, just like you know, we've seen lately with the protests, when Israel needs to defend herself, she has to stand alone.
00:15:01.032 --> 00:15:02.794 She stands alone.
00:15:02.794 --> 00:15:07.510 And it's sad, stuart, that the media doesn't see the beauty, the gem.
00:15:07.510 --> 00:15:11.049 You know, stuart, with this I'm going to wrap up.
00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:17.350 They used to talk about Beirut being the Paris of the Middle East back in the 1970s, until there was a civil war.
00:15:17.350 --> 00:15:19.374 But nobody's talking about that.
00:15:19.374 --> 00:15:21.620 Same thing with, same thing with gaza.
00:15:21.620 --> 00:15:23.144 When they when israel?
00:15:23.144 --> 00:15:24.307 You know they yell.
00:15:24.307 --> 00:15:25.629 And the occupation in gaza?
00:15:25.629 --> 00:15:27.081 There is no occupation in gaza.
00:15:27.081 --> 00:15:30.067 This is the media can't even get their story right, the narrative right.
00:15:30.067 --> 00:15:32.379 But think about it, stewart.
00:15:32.379 --> 00:15:42.294 What could have been, instead of investing in arms and investing in destroying Israel, had they invested in their own population, which nobody asks.
00:15:42.294 --> 00:15:48.764 The Middle East would be a beauty, a gorgeous area, not a destroyed area.
00:15:48.764 --> 00:15:52.803 And to keep blaming Israel, keep blaming Israel.
00:15:52.803 --> 00:15:58.221 It's not going to change the lives of the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Yemenites, anything.
00:15:58.221 --> 00:16:01.167 Nothing's going to change people, because they don't care about their own people.
00:16:02.301 --> 00:16:04.299 David, that's a wrap for today's episode.
00:16:04.299 --> 00:16:06.488 Huge thanks for lending us your ears, your eyes and your time.
00:16:06.488 --> 00:16:11.351 It's been a real pleasure just unloading with you today.
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