Are international bodies truly impartial, or do they play favorites on the global stage? Our episode exposes the truth behind international politics, focusing on the contentious issue of anti-Semitism and bias against Israel. We detail the motives behind international actions, such as the ICC's arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, juxtaposed with their silence on other global atrocities. The narrative further unfolds as we critique the political undertones and perceived double standards of organizations like the UN and dissect reactions from global leaders, including the Pope. Join us as we explore the intricate dynamics of international justice and examine the responses of countries like the U.S. and Canada to these global decisions.
00:00:01.883 --> 00:00:05.410 You know David and I constantly talk about.
00:00:05.410 --> 00:00:10.528 You know what are the rules, what's fair, what's reasonable.
00:00:10.528 --> 00:00:19.815 We typically take a pretty centrist view on many of these issues and debates that the world is having right now.
00:00:19.815 --> 00:00:24.591 You know, the Ukraine was invaded by Russia a long time ago.
00:00:24.591 --> 00:00:30.446 Carnage, murder, rape we hear about it every day.
00:00:30.446 --> 00:00:35.667 Billions of dollars go to Russia and, yes, some parties are not in favor of it.
00:00:35.667 --> 00:00:37.250 Some parties are.
00:00:37.250 --> 00:00:45.692 Israel was attacked a year ago, october 7th, and billions of dollars are going there, but there's conditions with these weapons.
00:00:45.692 --> 00:00:50.731 Israel is receiving support, but there's conditions with this support.
00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:55.090 But when you hear about the war in Ukraine, we don't really hear about much.
00:00:55.090 --> 00:01:00.112 We hear that they're blowing each other up, they're crossing borders, crossing enemy lines.
00:01:05.549 --> 00:01:06.790 My name stewart brisgall.
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00:01:37.528 --> 00:01:49.055 And I started this off in a little twisted way, as I typically do, to try and make David put his eyebrow up, like Leonard Nimoy used to.
00:01:50.081 --> 00:01:59.510 The issue is we're not talking about the Ukraine, we're not talking about Africa, we're not talking about India and Pakistan.
00:01:59.510 --> 00:02:02.128 We're talking about Israel.
00:02:02.128 --> 00:02:07.772 When the United States goes and blows up another country, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:02:07.772 --> 00:02:13.012 I don't hear about the ICC saying that President Bush should be arrested.
00:02:13.012 --> 00:02:15.788 They talked about it but they didn't do it.
00:02:15.788 --> 00:02:23.051 I don't hear about when Obama or Biden or Clinton.
00:02:23.051 --> 00:02:25.314 You don't hear about the ICC.
00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:33.313 Now you hear the ICC has an arrest warrant for prime minister of Israel.
00:02:33.313 --> 00:02:34.944 For what reason?
00:02:34.944 --> 00:02:36.764 Defending its country?
00:02:36.764 --> 00:02:38.504 For what purpose?
00:02:38.504 --> 00:02:48.715 To pick on the one small tiny democracy in a place where there's nothing close to it for thousands of miles?
00:02:48.715 --> 00:02:56.733 It's amazing how one little tiny country is the focus of the ICC.
00:02:56.733 --> 00:03:04.907 I'm sorry there are men, women and children being raped and murdered in Ukraine, but we can't talk about that.
00:03:04.907 --> 00:03:07.328 We don't put it out against Vladimir Putin.
00:03:07.328 --> 00:03:11.439 Where is the ICC arrest warrant for that guy and all of his generals?
00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:15.852 How about North Korea for bringing troops into this battle?
00:03:15.852 --> 00:03:25.036 You don't hear about this, and this is, I think, the easy explanation that David's going to try and give us.
00:03:25.097 --> 00:03:27.420 David, what do you think you know?
00:03:27.420 --> 00:03:40.675 Ladies and gentlemen, we have on this podcast and we will in a few weeks, do our year interview and we will talk about anti-Semitism clearly as one of the top topics of 2024.
00:03:40.675 --> 00:03:53.147 And what is incredible is that the anti-Semitism is not just in university campuses, but you could see political movement really showing their true colors, that on a regular basis.
00:03:53.147 --> 00:03:56.430 And if you don't believe me, check UN Watch.
00:03:56.430 --> 00:04:18.809 This organization is in Geneva and follows every resolution with every country, from China, with the Uyghurs and Russia attacking Ukraine and African warlords and what they do.
00:04:18.809 --> 00:04:29.589 And when you add them all up, Stuart, all the resolutions to all those countries, they still dwarf the number of resolutions brought up against Israel.
00:04:30.692 --> 00:04:51.747 There is a line in the agenda where Israel alone is a topic at the United Nations A population of 9 million, A place where Arabs, Jews, Christians live side by side in peace and has been accused by it as an apartheid state.
00:04:51.747 --> 00:05:16.170 Far from the truth, Because the United Nations has no interest, Because when you have people like Francesca Albanese, a UN rapporteur, whose posts are so absolutely clearly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and the UN does nothing, it shows their true colors Again and again and again.
00:05:17.161 --> 00:05:29.088 So is it any wonder that when South Africa brought Israel to the International Criminal Court, of which Israel, by the way, isn't part of, neither is the United States, neither recognizes the validity of the ICC?
00:05:29.088 --> 00:05:36.028 The ICC is a kangaroo court, because it's obvious that justice is irrelevant, it's political.
00:05:36.028 --> 00:05:40.663 You know, the Americans like to say that the Supreme Court is political.
00:05:40.663 --> 00:05:45.113 You have no idea what political is until you go and you look what the ICC does.
00:05:45.113 --> 00:05:49.608 This International Criminal Court is a joke.
00:05:49.608 --> 00:05:52.074 It's completely a joke.
00:05:52.074 --> 00:05:58.850 One of the judges is clearly a criminal, but they're doing nothing about it.
00:05:58.850 --> 00:06:00.392 That's the ICC.
00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:11.870 So this week, two things occurred with respect to Israel that was disgusting and violent, shows the anti-Semitic attitude brought forward by the world.
00:06:11.870 --> 00:06:21.992 One, the Pope decided on his own, without checking no, fact-checking nothing, israel's coming genocide in Gaza.
00:06:21.992 --> 00:06:28.947 The Pope, the man who's supposed to be the protector of the Catholic Church, has accused Israel of genocide.
00:06:28.947 --> 00:07:02.170 Once again, the Church, despite the changes Pope John Paul II made during his tenure as Pope, reverted back to what he is known for a body of hate and anti-Semitism, ignoring the plight of Christians in Africa, ignoring the plight of Christians in the Middle East, ignoring the fact that Israel is the only state in the Middle East in which Christians can live in peace and practice in peace, whether you're Arab or non-Arab in the area.
00:07:02.170 --> 00:07:05.288 He still accuses Israel of a genocide.
00:07:05.548 --> 00:07:12.673 How nice and so for the International Criminal Court to proceed then to issue arrest warrants.
00:07:12.673 --> 00:07:14.399 Now, this is apparently a formality.
00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:23.884 It's not a judgment, but a formality Issuing at the same time to a dead Hamas leader.
00:07:23.884 --> 00:07:44.762 They issued arrest warrants for former Defense Minister Yoav Galant and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which means in theory that should Benjamin Netanyahu go to Canada, uk, france, Holland or any other country that is part of the ICC, they'll be immediately arrested.
00:07:44.762 --> 00:07:54.254 Thankfully, the Biden administration rejected it, but my Canadian administration said they will respect the international courts decision, as did the UK.
00:07:54.254 --> 00:07:58.146 These are your allies, these are your so-called friends.
00:07:58.146 --> 00:08:00.351 These are the people who are supposed to help you.
00:08:00.351 --> 00:08:10.759 Now France's prime minister has said that while they heard and they are still part of the ICC and respect the ICC they're not going to arrest Netanyahu.
00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:11.706 They don't believe in it.
00:08:11.706 --> 00:08:15.918 Thankfully, france woke up and said this makes no sense.
00:08:15.918 --> 00:08:21.451 But they put the cart before the horse, of course, the ICC to try to further discredit Israel.
00:08:22.553 --> 00:08:23.937 Where is the accusation?
00:08:23.937 --> 00:08:28.153 Where is the criminality with Hamas Almost non-existent.
00:08:28.153 --> 00:08:33.052 Yeah, there are lines in their comments about it, but really this is what you do.
00:08:33.052 --> 00:08:36.755 You go after you know a prime minister and a defense minister.
00:08:36.755 --> 00:08:40.914 You can't even prove genocide in Gaza.
00:08:40.914 --> 00:08:41.496 You can't.
00:08:43.105 --> 00:08:52.509 Military experts around the world have said that by every definition, including the United Nations definition of a genocide, israel's not guilty.
00:08:52.509 --> 00:08:55.899 Every military expert was neutral.
00:08:55.899 --> 00:09:03.073 The ones that have accused Israel have also and it's clear shown their hate and disgust to Israel.
00:09:03.073 --> 00:09:06.059 You know, I don't understand.
00:09:06.059 --> 00:09:20.301 When the president of Syria, bashar Assad, kills hundreds of thousands of Syrians, palestinians, with chemical weapons, stuart, in a civil war, there's no criminality.
00:09:20.301 --> 00:09:25.015 Russia wipes it under the table and says, uh-uh, we do nothing here.
00:09:25.015 --> 00:09:34.024 When the president Recep Erdoganan does the same thing to Kurds in Turkey, we put that under the table.
00:09:34.024 --> 00:09:35.370 We don't do that.
00:09:35.370 --> 00:09:40.533 The United States went into Afghanistan, iraq.
00:09:40.533 --> 00:09:51.836 If you are going to use this definition of genocide, then you're all guilty and all these presidents and prime ministers should be brought before the International Criminal Court.
00:09:51.836 --> 00:10:01.138 Of course they will and it will never happen, because the only state that really people rally around to hate is Israel.
00:10:01.138 --> 00:10:11.104 It's easy you deflect Now, while this week the United States vetoed yet again another resolution against Israel.
00:10:13.047 --> 00:10:27.855 At the same time, stuart, to show you the depths of anti-Semitism, jew hater, senator Bernie Sanders tried to stop any arms shipment to Israel and 20 other senators supported that move.
00:10:27.855 --> 00:10:30.890 Stuart, I'm trying to understand here.
00:10:30.890 --> 00:10:34.875 Your ally is you have no problem sending arms to Ukraine.
00:10:34.875 --> 00:10:37.172 You're not bringing Putin to court.
00:10:37.172 --> 00:10:39.490 You're not accusing him of any criminality.
00:10:39.490 --> 00:10:44.504 He just launched, stuart, stuart, let me finish this one.
00:10:44.504 --> 00:10:46.467 He launched.
00:10:46.467 --> 00:10:57.509 He launched missiles mid-range experimental missiles into Ukraine, killing people, and there's nothing happening here.
00:10:57.509 --> 00:11:04.514 Please forgive me, what you just posted on screen means nothing, because I do not hear screaming from politicians.
00:11:04.514 --> 00:11:06.163 I do not hear screaming from the media.
00:11:06.163 --> 00:11:07.873 I do not hear the protests on the streets, nothing.
00:11:07.873 --> 00:11:08.657 You do see protests on the street.
00:11:08.657 --> 00:11:10.063 I do not hear the don't see the protests on the streets?
00:11:10.083 --> 00:11:10.245 Nothing.
00:11:10.245 --> 00:11:15.474 You do see protests on the street, death to Israel, death from the river to the sea.
00:11:16.254 --> 00:11:24.929 I went long on this, but I want our listeners and our viewers to understand the depths of what the media and the politicians have done.
00:11:24.929 --> 00:11:29.356 They've singled out only one state, who is not guilty.
00:11:29.356 --> 00:11:43.078 Who is not guilty, who is not responsible for all the deaths in Gaza and is still being vilified, still being vilified from media to the UN, to the ICC.
00:11:43.078 --> 00:11:47.296 It matters not the truth, stuart, when it comes to Jews in Israel.
00:11:47.946 --> 00:11:49.812 You know I'm going to put this post up here.
00:11:49.812 --> 00:12:07.751 Crimes against humanity and international law cover these Extermination, enslavement, deportation, enforceable transfer, population imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution against an identifiable group.
00:12:07.751 --> 00:12:10.618 Hang on a second, Let me pull that off the screen.
00:12:11.144 --> 00:12:20.350 But, stuart, you notice that what you're about to show people really doesn't matter, because Israel had to prove that women were raped and babies were burnt.
00:12:20.350 --> 00:12:21.274 Prove it.
00:12:21.274 --> 00:12:25.816 It took months for the United Nations to go.
00:12:25.816 --> 00:12:30.208 Yeah, it happened and yet they're still denying it.
00:12:30.208 --> 00:12:37.676 You still have high level un officials denying any guilt by hamas.
00:12:37.676 --> 00:12:51.735 It's interesting, stewart, that hezbollah was firing rockets in israel since october the 8th and they're not guilty of anything so hamas has got guilty of anything, but what you're putting on screen doesn't seem to matter Right.
00:12:51.865 --> 00:12:54.474 Well, I put this on because this is the final one.
00:12:54.474 --> 00:12:57.549 This is part of the Rome Statute and I want to read it.
00:12:57.549 --> 00:13:07.636 Other humane acts of similar character intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury to body or mental physical health.
00:13:07.636 --> 00:13:21.909 Now, david, I don't know about you, but when you have bombs blowing up, 200 rockets coming at you, I mean every day, 19,000 rockets fired over, that's okay, guys, don't worry about it.
00:13:21.909 --> 00:13:24.030 That's insanity.
00:13:24.030 --> 00:13:26.592 And you keep doing the same thing over and over again.
00:13:26.592 --> 00:13:29.495 All you're doing is perpetrating more of the insanity.
00:13:29.495 --> 00:13:32.350 And, david, I couldn't agree with you more.
00:13:32.350 --> 00:13:34.956 Not that we always agree, but I agree with you.
00:13:34.956 --> 00:13:41.995 Today there's too much going on and too lack of things to address other problems.
00:13:41.995 --> 00:13:48.552 I misspoke, they did list Vladimir Putin as a war crime and put it up.
00:13:48.552 --> 00:13:54.452 I don't like misspeaking and I don't mind being corrected, but I will tell you I don't hear about it.
00:13:54.452 --> 00:13:55.735 You know what, stuart?
00:13:55.784 --> 00:14:00.225 I give the new Senate Majority Leader, john Thune, a lot of credit.
00:14:00.225 --> 00:14:08.335 He called on Chuck Schumer, while he's still Majority Leader, to put a bill to the floor to sanction the ICC for its arrest warrants.
00:14:08.335 --> 00:14:13.032 Apparently, the House already passed a bipartisan bill and he called on Chuck Schumer to do the same thing.
00:14:13.032 --> 00:14:15.995 And let's see if this Jew-hater could do something about it.
00:14:15.995 --> 00:14:20.437 Because, frankly, you know, chuck Schumer hasn't exactly been on Israel's side.
00:14:20.437 --> 00:14:26.014 He's been more on his political side and let's see if he does it before his tenure as majority leader is over.
00:14:26.544 --> 00:14:42.133 But the United States could clearly send this message yet again, and I know, with the new president, with at least the phonic at the helm, the Similar to what Nikki Haley did, there will be some justice presented by the United States towards Israel.
00:14:42.133 --> 00:15:03.024 But unfortunately, numerically, this United States is being outnumbered by the number of haters and the amount of allies, because Russia, iran, are twisting the arms of so many countries to do its bidding, do its bidding, and it's South Africa who is going to pay the price.
00:15:03.024 --> 00:15:23.340 And it's time and time again that Israel has told South Africa that, despite all the help Israel brought to them helping them with water problems, helping them with conservation, with a whole bunch of things to do this because Russia and Iran twisted their arms and you know what Stuart Payback's a bitch armed?
00:15:23.340 --> 00:15:30.114 And you know what Stuart Payback's a bitch, you know as Israel continues to produce more and more technologies to help people medicines let's see the begging that occurs.
00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:44.506 Let's see, you know, there was an interesting and I know I'm diverting a little bit, but there was an interesting Sunday morning piece on PTSD and on Sunday morning on CBS they talked about how Israel has really found ways to help people with ptsd and it's incredible.
00:15:44.506 --> 00:15:48.543 There, you know, one of the questions are you going to share this technology?
00:15:48.543 --> 00:15:54.153 And I'm thinking what a dumb, freaking question, what a question.
00:15:54.153 --> 00:16:07.929 Israel has been sharing its technology, but it's been spit on time and time again, from the Pope to the UN, to a variety of political leaders, to media around the world, that the facts do not matter.
00:16:08.350 --> 00:16:12.808 And when you continue to see these pro-Palestinians so-called pro-Palestinians they're not.
00:16:12.808 --> 00:16:25.261 These are anarchists destroying universities, as we've had here in Montreal this week, by the way, as you've seen, bill after BDS bill, after all these things being done behind the scenes in, by the way, as you've seen, bill after BDS bill, after all these things being done behind the scenes, in front of the scenes.
00:16:25.261 --> 00:16:31.229 None of that helps Palestinians, none of that is for Palestine.
00:16:31.229 --> 00:16:36.647 All of it is to destroy, as you said, the one tiny state in the Middle East.
00:16:38.942 --> 00:16:41.168 On that note, david, we're going to wrap it up.
00:16:41.168 --> 00:16:45.182 Thank you everybody.
00:16:45.182 --> 00:16:58.667 It's a wrap, a huge Thanks for lending us your ears, your eyes, spending some time and possibly thinking about what we're really talking about and trying to show how the world has a strange lens on today.
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00:17:20.365 --> 00:17:20.665 David, wow.
00:17:20.665 --> 00:17:21.066 So thank you again.
00:17:21.066 --> 00:17:21.446 David, wow.
00:17:21.446 --> 00:17:22.688 So thank you again, david.
00:17:22.688 --> 00:17:25.411 Any last thoughts before we say goodbye to these friends and family?
00:17:26.471 --> 00:17:38.365 Ladies and gentlemen, once again, as the ICC continues to shriek its ugly head, the one thing we need to remember are there are still 101 hostages being held in Gaza.
00:17:38.365 --> 00:17:51.243 The plight of these poor people, from babies babies the Biba's child, who has spent more time in captivity than in freedom, is still in Gaza somewhere, all the way to seniors and their plight is ignored by the world.
00:17:51.243 --> 00:17:53.710 The UN hasn't called once for their release.
00:17:53.710 --> 00:17:56.884 That's to show you the depths of disgust that we're dealing with.
00:17:56.884 --> 00:17:59.741 Ladies and gentlemen, please do in your prayers this weekend.
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