Why does the world stay silent when Israel faces relentless attacks, yet erupts in condemnation when it defends itself? In this episode of the Rand Network, we tackle this glaring double standard head-on. From the devastating rocket fire by Hezbollah on Israel's northern region since October 8th, 2023, to the recent UN resolution that condemned Israel while ignoring aggressions by Hamas and Hezbollah, we dig into the biased global response that Israel endures. Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and international politics are explored to understand why Israel's right to self-defense is continuously questioned.
Get ready for a raw, unedited discussion that pulls no punches. We cover everything from cultural events like Macklemore's controversial performance in Seattle to the widespread anti-Israel sentiment in international bodies like the UN. We do not shy away from calling out the hypocrisy and the political maneuvering that paint Israel as the perpetual villain. This episode is crucial for anyone looking to understand the complexities of the world's view on Israel and why the silence over attacks on its people is so deafening. Tune in to challenge your perspectives and hear the untold side of the story.
00:00:03.145 --> 00:00:12.692 Since October 8th and that's October 8th 2023, the northern part of Israel has been hit by tens of thousands of rockets fired by Hezbollah.
00:00:12.692 --> 00:00:27.442 Day in and day out, these rockets have fallen, destroyed forests, 70,000 citizens have had to leave their homes, infrastructure destroyed, and the world doesn't say a word.
00:00:27.442 --> 00:00:29.867 Because why should they?
00:00:29.867 --> 00:00:33.493 It's Arab hitting Jew, it doesn't matter.
00:00:33.493 --> 00:00:41.694 And even when the 12 kids from the Druze village were killed, the world remained eerily silent.
00:00:41.694 --> 00:00:46.991 But now the world has woken up because Israel has had enough.
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00:01:44.542 --> 00:01:46.995 Yes, folks, that's it, it's Israel again.
00:01:46.995 --> 00:01:50.564 Israel cannot retaliate, israel cannot defend herself.
00:01:50.564 --> 00:02:02.867 She's attacked by the Houthis, hamas, hezbollah, iran, you name it from Iraq, other places, not a reaction, none.
00:02:02.867 --> 00:02:12.747 But when Israel wants to defend herself in a legitimate way, she's scrutinized, she's destroyed, she's hated.
00:02:12.747 --> 00:02:21.072 Last week, at the United Nations, that's exactly what happened Over 140 nations voted in favor of a resolution once again condemning Israel.
00:02:21.072 --> 00:02:25.067 Not one mention of the hostages, not one mention of Hamas' attack.
00:02:25.067 --> 00:02:25.711 Not one mention of the hostages.
00:02:25.711 --> 00:02:29.104 Not one mention of Hamas's attack, not one mention of Hezbollah's attacks.
00:02:29.104 --> 00:02:33.394 Iran, houthi nobody, just Israel.
00:02:33.394 --> 00:02:50.330 Yes, the United Nations voted against this and a handful of other nations, but many abstained so-called friends of Israel, including Canada, germany, australia, new Zealand and others Because Israel just cannot seem to get a fair shake.
00:02:50.330 --> 00:03:07.769 The rules are twisted, but Israel's had enough, and despite all the attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu to get him to stop, now he has had to turn his attention to the north After dealing with Hamas for almost one full year.
00:03:07.929 --> 00:03:09.673 Yes, folks, it's September 23rd.
00:03:09.673 --> 00:03:17.394 We are only a couple of weeks away from October the 7th, the day that no one in Judaism will ever forget.
00:03:17.394 --> 00:03:19.526 Not one Israeli will ever forget.
00:03:19.526 --> 00:03:26.110 We're only a couple of weeks away and for the last 11 and a half months, the focus has been on getting rid of Hamas.
00:03:26.110 --> 00:03:30.911 And it's interesting, because how the world has treated Israel, the pariah.
00:03:30.911 --> 00:03:36.930 Take, for example, macklemore, who performed in Seattle a song Palestine Will Live Forever.
00:03:36.930 --> 00:03:40.682 It's a whole festival and he declares fuck.
00:03:40.682 --> 00:03:49.324 America cheers in the Seattle concert about that, but that's okay, that is okay.
00:03:51.629 --> 00:04:02.806 Amazing, rampant anti-Semitism, hate towards Israel, rampant anti-Zionism, and that is okay, because Israel is not allowed to retaliate.
00:04:02.806 --> 00:04:26.473 Israel deserves to be beaten up per these people, but now Israel doesn't want to listen to the rest of the world, despite what South Africa is doing in the ICC, in the International Court of Justice, despite others who have tried in vain to get BDS movements against Israel to try to do.
00:04:28.307 --> 00:04:31.108 We don't even know what's going on.
00:04:31.108 --> 00:04:43.072 Countless communities have had to fight back these anti-Israel agitators who tried to ruin universities but also forced communities to vote against BDS.
00:04:43.072 --> 00:04:53.927 This boycott, evasion and sanction, the hate towards Israel is incredible, and the United Nations has not exactly been a front to Israel at all.
00:04:53.927 --> 00:05:01.312 We know that the UN Secretary General has stated numerous times that Israel is to be blamed for all of this.
00:05:01.312 --> 00:05:04.067 How could you blame the Palestinians for their cause?
00:05:04.067 --> 00:05:05.225 It is Israel's fault.
00:05:05.225 --> 00:05:16.369 Even Kamala Harris, in her attempt to play middle ground, has alleged that Israel has a responsibility.
00:05:16.369 --> 00:05:21.291 She's responsible for the woes that are for the Palestinians, and yet Israel is not listening.
00:05:21.291 --> 00:05:24.750 Israel doesn't want to hear it anymore, because it has a threat.
00:05:24.750 --> 00:05:26.745 It's an existential threat.
00:05:27.940 --> 00:05:37.809 And yet, instead of the world saying thank you to Israel for doing what she's doing to help the world with terrorism, the West continues to mess up the Middle East.
00:05:37.809 --> 00:05:44.165 Terrorism the West continues to mess up the Middle East.
00:05:44.165 --> 00:05:56.257 It's incredible how, over 100 years some 100 years ago, apparently, the Emir of Iraq and Lord Balfour, who is from England they had this idea of establishing a Jewish state, even back in 1919.
00:05:56.257 --> 00:06:03.350 But the Europeans, the English in particular, created such a divide between Jew and Arab.
00:06:03.350 --> 00:06:07.565 Never happened, and here we are 100 years later.
00:06:07.565 --> 00:06:24.630 It took the Abraham Accords with the UAE, bahrain, south Sudan, morocco to get people to realize that, yes, it is possible for Arabs and Jews to coexist in an area and it has nothing to do with the Palestinians and shouldn't do anything to do with Palestinians.
00:06:24.630 --> 00:06:30.170 And you know, if it was any other president other than Donald Trump would have gotten a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:06:30.170 --> 00:06:31.172 But he did it.
00:06:31.172 --> 00:06:32.985 No one else could have done it.
00:06:32.985 --> 00:06:37.685 But again, we just can't be happy.
00:06:37.685 --> 00:06:38.947 But again, we just can't be happy.
00:06:38.947 --> 00:06:42.413 The West has to poke its nose in to screw up the Middle East.
00:06:42.413 --> 00:06:51.584 Instead of thanking Israel, she's condemning her.
00:06:51.685 --> 00:06:53.206 And last week was the piece de resistance.
00:06:53.206 --> 00:07:01.774 We talked about the pages that Israel blew up and killed dozens of terrorists, injuring scores and scores, hundreds of them.
00:07:01.774 --> 00:07:03.617 But what do they focus on?
00:07:03.617 --> 00:07:07.713 Two kids were killed.
00:07:07.713 --> 00:07:17.004 Not that Hezbollah were plotting and arming themselves in civilian neighborhoods, not that Two kids were killed.
00:07:18.389 --> 00:07:22.367 Once again, israel is the cause, she is the pariah.
00:07:22.367 --> 00:07:33.028 Israel took out Ibrahim Akil and 15 of his men amongst those that were killed.
00:07:33.028 --> 00:07:35.004 Who's Akil folks?
00:07:35.004 --> 00:07:41.386 He's apparently linked to the killing of hundreds of Americans in Beirut in the attacks on the US Embassy in a Marine barracks.
00:07:41.386 --> 00:07:48.600 He had a $7 million bounty on his head and instead of the United States saying thank you for taking out one of our worst enemies.
00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:50.608 They condemned her.
00:07:54.098 --> 00:07:59.704 Jake Sullivan once again said Israel must de-escalate, de-escalate.
00:07:59.704 --> 00:08:01.309 What de-escalate?
00:08:01.309 --> 00:08:08.634 Eleven and a half months of rockets being fired at Israel, people displaced, kids killed.
00:08:08.634 --> 00:08:10.545 Israel needs to stop.
00:08:10.545 --> 00:08:12.764 You got to backwards.
00:08:12.764 --> 00:08:13.827 Put the pressure on them.
00:08:13.827 --> 00:08:17.208 No, here's what we're going to do.
00:08:17.208 --> 00:08:20.879 We're going to reward the palestinians with a state for terrorism.
00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:29.889 We're going to stop israel from getting attacked in the north from hezbollah because god forbid they should touch peru, and israel should be suffering.
00:08:30.430 --> 00:08:36.908 Not anybody else makes sense to you, makes no sense to me.
00:08:36.908 --> 00:08:40.832 But but, ladies and gentlemen, that is the Middle East.
00:08:40.832 --> 00:08:43.861 That is what the West has done.
00:08:43.861 --> 00:08:51.480 The West has created this massive shit show and continues to mess it even further.
00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:56.206 Ukraine doesn't get this kind of pressure.
00:08:56.206 --> 00:08:57.849 Russia does not get this pressure.
00:08:58.230 --> 00:09:02.336 In fact, when Zelensky says I need more arms, they send more arms.
00:09:02.336 --> 00:09:10.245 When Israel says we need more arms, countries like Canada say no, france says no, the UK says no.
00:09:10.245 --> 00:09:15.025 The United States puts a hold on it and Kamala Harris claims she never did.
00:09:15.025 --> 00:09:18.628 She did, she was the one who wants to stop the arms going to Israel.
00:09:18.628 --> 00:09:26.191 You have Western state after Western state punishing Israel for doing their bidding.
00:09:26.191 --> 00:09:32.269 That's right, because if Israel doesn't stop, the terrorists are coming to your neighborhood.
00:09:32.269 --> 00:09:33.331 They're there already.
00:09:33.331 --> 00:09:38.169 Israel's trying to stop them and it doesn't matter.
00:09:38.169 --> 00:09:42.865 Take a look at Canada.
00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:57.907 Melanie Jolie one of the most idiotic foreign affairs ministers rather than saying, hey, israel needs to defend herself because she is being attacked on all fronts, she wants to hurt Israel.
00:09:57.907 --> 00:10:06.296 She wants to stop not only the arms, but she's siding with the NDP on boycotting Israel altogether.
00:10:06.296 --> 00:10:08.340 Bravo.
00:10:08.340 --> 00:10:20.312 A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing Prime Minister Harper about two and a half weeks ago in a speech he generally says don't want to stay, I stay quiet.
00:10:20.312 --> 00:10:31.855 Instead, he condemned melanie joly, prime minister trudeau and his cabinet and others for utter incompetence.
00:10:31.855 --> 00:10:42.874 Naivete to believe that israel should not be like Ukraine, supported to the nth degree.
00:10:42.874 --> 00:10:44.216 I mean, think about it.
00:10:44.216 --> 00:10:54.450 The United States is going to send arms to the Ukraine, to launch rockets into Russia, and Israel cannot get arms to defend herself.
00:10:54.450 --> 00:11:05.200 The world cares about when a Jew finally stands up for himself, when Israel stands up for himself.
00:11:07.364 --> 00:11:13.572 The media is aghast because Israel shut down Al Jazeera in Gaza.
00:11:13.572 --> 00:11:15.200 They had to get rid of them.
00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:25.345 They had to get rid of the United Nations Relief Workers Association, unrwa, who's tied in to these terrorists and the UN Secretary of General's?
00:11:25.345 --> 00:11:25.908 It's unfair.
00:11:25.908 --> 00:11:28.467 It's only a handful of people who work for Hamas.
00:11:28.467 --> 00:11:32.222 There's proof of thousands of them.
00:11:32.222 --> 00:11:35.126 Doesn't matter.
00:11:35.126 --> 00:11:45.082 Support Ukraine to hurt Russia, deny Israel so she could stay in existence.
00:11:45.082 --> 00:11:46.764 Make sense.
00:11:46.764 --> 00:11:57.182 The media is loving this whole thing of going into Gaza and showing pictures of the destruction and devastation that Israel destroyed all of this.
00:11:57.182 --> 00:12:01.693 But Israel would have never destroyed any of it had she not been attacked on October 7th.
00:12:01.693 --> 00:12:08.903 Beirut would not be blown up partially had Hezbollah not attacked Israel on October the 8th.
00:12:16.817 --> 00:12:18.503 It's always Israel at fault.
00:12:18.503 --> 00:12:22.458 Israel escalates.
00:12:22.499 --> 00:12:28.260 I appreciated John Kirby today, who came on on Fox News, who finally admitted.
00:12:28.260 --> 00:12:44.380 Finally admitted that the number one obstacle to a ceasefire in Gaza is Yahweh Sinwar, the new leader of Hamas who, as of Sunday night, was suspected to be killed.
00:12:44.380 --> 00:12:47.278 We're not sure how, we don't know where or what.
00:12:47.278 --> 00:12:51.860 In all likelihood we'll find out over the next day or so.
00:12:51.860 --> 00:13:04.806 But folks, john Kirby finally, finally said what was needed to be said.
00:13:04.806 --> 00:13:09.678 Point the finger away from Israel.
00:13:09.678 --> 00:13:12.275 Sinwar has the hostages.
00:13:13.610 --> 00:13:23.658 Sinwar has the chance had offer after offer after offer, said no Nasrallah in Hezbollah same thing.
00:13:23.658 --> 00:13:29.177 You've got an offer to cease, to stop and desist, and it said it continues.
00:13:29.177 --> 00:13:35.437 And Iran backs him by saying yes, we will retaliate because Israel doesn't have a right to defend herself.
00:13:35.437 --> 00:13:37.615 Israel should be destroyed.
00:13:37.615 --> 00:13:42.432 Amazing, israel hits Hamas.
00:13:42.952 --> 00:13:44.456 Iran, the Houthis retaliate.
00:13:44.456 --> 00:13:47.851 Rockets were fired into Israel by Hezbollah.
00:13:47.851 --> 00:13:49.014 Who sends in the rockets?
00:13:51.097 --> 00:13:59.557 Iran and Israel's getting condemned, not Lebanon, not this so-called Palestinian authority.
00:13:59.557 --> 00:14:01.559 Who's going to get a seat in the United Nations?
00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:03.864 Because that's the right thing to do.
00:14:03.864 --> 00:14:05.794 Reward them for terrorism.
00:14:05.794 --> 00:14:12.457 Beautiful, not the Houthis, not Iran, not Iraq.
00:14:13.030 --> 00:14:16.602 No one is blamed for the escalation in the Middle East, but Israel.
00:14:16.602 --> 00:14:25.620 Let me conclude with this United Arab Emirates signed the Abraham Accords with Israel some four years ago.
00:14:25.620 --> 00:14:26.822 They're not thrilled.
00:14:26.822 --> 00:14:28.934 They're not thrilled.
00:14:28.934 --> 00:14:32.678 Saudi Arabia was supposed to sign the Abraham Accords.
00:14:32.678 --> 00:14:39.327 They're not thrilled with what's going on and they've kind of said to Israel let's tone it down a little bit, but you don't hear the condemnation.
00:14:39.327 --> 00:14:43.621 Let's tone it down a little bit, but you don't hear the condemnation.
00:14:43.621 --> 00:14:51.590 You don't hear the absolute, vile attacks like you hear from the West towards Israel.
00:14:51.590 --> 00:14:54.020 Ask yourself why.
00:14:54.020 --> 00:14:57.774 Ask yourself why it's because these countries don't want to blame Israel.
00:14:57.774 --> 00:15:03.823 They need her, they need this over because they know the existential threat is Iran.
00:15:03.823 --> 00:15:11.292 But the West is in the way again.
00:15:11.292 --> 00:15:14.000 The West is screwing it up and it's time for the West to step aside and let Israel do her job.
00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:15.706 That's it for today.
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