In our inaugural episode of 2025 we tackle the contentious issue of anti-Semitism faced by Israel by the UN and the Pope. We critically examine the actions and statements of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Pope Franics, who have often condemned Israel's military actions while seeming to disregard the threats posed by terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
A shoutout to @erinmolan for her ongoing inspiration and strength!
00:00:02.222 --> 00:00:03.204 Happy New Year, everybody.
00:00:03.204 --> 00:00:05.525 Welcome back, it's the Rat Network.
00:00:05.525 --> 00:00:09.951 And you know, folks, we may have turned the page on 2024 to 2025.
00:00:09.951 --> 00:00:14.756 And we might have said, hey, it's a new year, let's talk about something new and perspective.
00:00:14.756 --> 00:00:25.333 Unfortunately, we really have to go back on some of the older topics that really were prominent in 2024, because they're just not going away in 2025.
00:00:25.333 --> 00:00:29.329 And that includes the UN and the Pope.
00:00:32.798 --> 00:00:34.503 Stuart Briskell is still away.
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00:01:08.742 --> 00:01:14.712 Now, while we were away and we were doing the top 10 of the year, unfortunately Israel once again popped into the spotlight At Christmas time.
00:01:14.712 --> 00:01:25.170 You know, you would think that what you would talk positively about is celebrating Christmas in Nazareth, the beauty of the Christmas and New Year's.
00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:28.436 Even though I don't celebrate Christmas, there's a beauty to it, behind it.
00:01:28.436 --> 00:01:34.718 There should be a beauty behind it and there should be a time of peace and love, but it doesn't happen.
00:01:34.718 --> 00:01:41.359 But what does consistently happen, unfortunately, is the ongoing anti-Semitism by prominent individuals, and it's so clear and it's so evident.
00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:49.522 So let's start with my first one, and that is Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
00:01:49.522 --> 00:01:52.948 Antonio Guterres has never hidden his dislike for Israel, his hate.
00:01:52.948 --> 00:02:04.539 He'd love to see Israel destroyed and while he talks from you know, he says no, that's not true.
00:02:04.539 --> 00:02:06.621 His statements are clearly so anti-Israel.
00:02:06.621 --> 00:02:07.563 It's actually vile.
00:02:07.563 --> 00:02:14.302 Twelve days ago, he blamed Israel for attacking Syria, claims we have to stop.
00:02:14.302 --> 00:02:18.752 Didn't matter that there's been attacks from Syria via, from Iran, from Syria.
00:02:18.752 --> 00:02:29.109 It didn't matter that you know that there were threats of, you know, attacks on Israel.
00:02:29.109 --> 00:02:29.973 It didn't matter to Antonio Guterres.
00:02:29.973 --> 00:02:31.319 The only thing that mattered is that Israel was doing something.
00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.402 It's not his first time, folks.
00:02:33.402 --> 00:02:35.967 He did that after October the 7th.
00:02:36.810 --> 00:02:50.135 Yeah, the UN sort of said this was bad, but since October 7th 2023, antonio Guterres has taken one attack after another on the state of Israel for defending herself against Hamas.
00:02:50.135 --> 00:02:57.532 October the 7th is not the first time rockets were launched, but thousands and thousands of rockets were launched into Israel.
00:02:57.532 --> 00:02:58.713 We talked about this.
00:02:58.713 --> 00:03:10.532 1,200 people were murdered, raped, and yet the United Nations continues to deny Israel her right to defend herself, not only in Gaza, but even in the United Nations.
00:03:10.532 --> 00:03:12.800 The UN has denied that Israel.
00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:17.167 These people were raped, murdered, burnt, tortured.
00:03:17.167 --> 00:03:23.582 It denied UNICEF to go in and find the children who were kidnapped.
00:03:23.582 --> 00:03:28.372 The Red Cross is not going in to look for the hostages Zero, nothing.
00:03:28.372 --> 00:03:30.055 That's okay.
00:03:30.055 --> 00:03:32.627 But Israel's blamed.
00:03:32.627 --> 00:03:40.649 And Guterres has continued to blame Israel for the lack of aid going in there and all these hypocritical things, and even to accuse Israel of genocide.
00:03:40.649 --> 00:03:42.645 Talk about that in a minute.
00:03:42.645 --> 00:03:45.425 But that's the United Nations.
00:03:45.425 --> 00:03:48.092 Now imagine, if you will.
00:03:48.259 --> 00:04:01.502 As soon as Israel retaliated against Hezbollah, way, way, way, way after October the 8th, when Hezbollah was firing rockets at Israel and built tunnels and did all these things, lutheranists blamed Israel and condemned Israel for retaliating.
00:04:01.502 --> 00:04:05.711 Could you?
00:04:05.711 --> 00:04:17.545 This is now even worse, because the Houthis have been firing rockets into Israel as well and Israel's had enough and finally retaliated by destroying many of its infrastructure.
00:04:17.545 --> 00:04:19.072 And what does Guterres do?
00:04:19.072 --> 00:04:23.112 Condemns Israel's strikes against Yemen, against the Houthis.
00:04:23.112 --> 00:04:25.733 He hasn't said one word against the Houthis.
00:04:25.733 --> 00:04:32.149 Hamas, hezbollah, iran, iraq you name it Only Israel.
00:04:33.425 --> 00:04:34.449 And, as the head of the UN.
00:04:34.449 --> 00:04:36.274 This is the message he's driving.
00:04:36.274 --> 00:04:38.310 Israel is to be blamed for everything.
00:04:44.372 --> 00:04:49.211 Bravo, un Secretary General, your true colors have come out.
00:04:49.211 --> 00:04:50.716 The UN is.
00:04:50.716 --> 00:04:51.887 This is more proof.
00:04:51.887 --> 00:04:52.788 The UN is useless.
00:04:52.788 --> 00:05:11.776 Now my hope is, under the new administration, with Donald Trump and Elise Stefanik as the new ambassador, she'll go in very much like what Nikki Haley did and rattle the cage and hopefully Donald Trump sends such a clear message to the UN that this is no longer acceptable, intolerable and Guterres should step down.
00:05:11.776 --> 00:05:26.221 It's not going to happen, because in that jungle where the inmates run the asylum, where Iran, qatar, russia and China literally run the show, the US can only do so much.
00:05:26.221 --> 00:05:27.987 So let's hope.
00:05:27.987 --> 00:05:37.432 Let's hope that something does change and Guterres steps down and a new leadership comes in, because we're sick and tired of this ongoing racism and anti-Semitism.
00:05:38.136 --> 00:05:41.550 Israel has a right to defend herself and unfortunately, the UN doesn't believe so.
00:05:41.550 --> 00:05:43.230 But Guterres is not the only one.
00:05:43.230 --> 00:05:44.800 Shout out to Erin Mullen.
00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.779 Guterres is not the only one.
00:05:46.779 --> 00:05:51.521 Shout out to Erin Mullen, who is the former Sky News reporter from Australia.
00:05:51.521 --> 00:06:00.584 If you don't know who she is, please look her up, because she stood with Israel time and time again and her posts went viral around the world.
00:06:00.584 --> 00:06:06.245 She was fired for defending the state of Israel.
00:06:06.245 --> 00:06:10.230 What she believed was standing on the right side of history and she was right.
00:06:10.230 --> 00:06:14.173 But unfortunately, her bosses didn't believe so.
00:06:14.173 --> 00:06:22.541 Australia, the politicians and many others have gone down the road of hate and anti-Semitism and anti-Israel and pro-terrorism.
00:06:22.541 --> 00:06:31.365 They love it.
00:06:31.365 --> 00:06:35.333 And Erin made a comment which I had thought about and she went out and did a great job and please watch her video.
00:06:35.333 --> 00:06:35.793 It's all nine minutes.
00:06:35.834 --> 00:06:38.019 Why is the Pope condemning Israel?
00:06:38.019 --> 00:06:47.471 It's fascinating because, if you think about the papacy, over centuries they've been anti-Jewish forever.
00:06:47.471 --> 00:06:52.286 Jews were the scapegoat, whether it was the Black Plague, other issues.
00:06:52.286 --> 00:07:03.338 Jews were used as scapegoats to ensure that the church would always be in power, the church would always be right, and the church employed these tactics for centuries.
00:07:03.338 --> 00:07:06.427 We know this.
00:07:06.427 --> 00:07:22.312 You know we've seen this throughout, you know time that the church just stayed quiet when Jews were in peril and when Jews were not in peril but they could have been threatened, they used the Jews as the scapegoats In World War II.
00:07:22.312 --> 00:07:35.620 The papacy, vatican, stayed very much out of the opportunity to help Jews to escape Nazis, to escape the hate that the Nazis put forward to try to avoid the Holocaust.
00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:41.918 But no, instead, what these, unfortunately, the Pope led was led the Jews to slaughter.
00:07:42.925 --> 00:07:46.074 There was that much anti-Semitism and hate in the Vatican.
00:07:46.074 --> 00:08:03.206 Pope John Paul II changed that, where he actually said there should be a rapport, schma, between Jews and Catholics, that there should be that, and he did make moves and efforts to ensure that the Catholics and Jews would finally get over those centuries-old, you know, misconceptions.
00:08:03.206 --> 00:08:11.343 I mean all the stereotypes you hear today came from the church and it's still going on today.
00:08:11.343 --> 00:08:27.745 You would think that the Pope would have half a brain and understand that Jews and Catholics have much in common, much in common, but instead this Pope doesn't believe so.
00:08:27.745 --> 00:08:38.359 This Pope Francis actually believes the Nazi rhetoric that he grew up hearing in Argentina the Jews are the bad ones.
00:08:38.359 --> 00:08:42.707 He can say whatever he wants, but actions speak louder than words.
00:08:42.707 --> 00:08:52.386 When he went to Israel and visited Israel a number of years ago and he went on his so-called pilgrimage, he blamed Israel for the problem with the Palestinians.
00:08:52.386 --> 00:09:00.942 He went to the wall that divided the West Bank and Israel and prayed at it as if it was the Western Wall, and that was his attitude.
00:09:00.942 --> 00:09:05.326 His attitude towards Israel has never wavered.
00:09:05.326 --> 00:09:08.764 It's been anti-Semitism to the core.
00:09:10.735 --> 00:09:23.961 Instead of the Pope standing up with Jews and saying we need to fight radical Islam, he went on and became the useful idiot that the Iranians love and Hamas loves by saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
00:09:23.961 --> 00:09:25.326 What proof do you have?
00:09:25.326 --> 00:09:34.293 Generals, governments, even the UN, in their own kind of kooky kind of way, said oh yeah, no, there's no genocide here.
00:09:34.293 --> 00:09:36.423 The definition of genocide doesn't exist here.
00:09:36.423 --> 00:09:38.140 There is no genocide.
00:09:38.140 --> 00:09:48.264 Where there is, genocide has been the death and the murder and the rape and the pillage of Christians in the Middle East and in Africa, and he's quiet.
00:09:48.264 --> 00:09:51.744 He hasn't said a word against it publicly.
00:09:51.744 --> 00:09:54.261 Instead, he vilifies Israel.
00:09:54.261 --> 00:09:57.181 That children shouldn't die.
00:09:57.181 --> 00:10:02.524 Yes, I agree, children shouldn't die, but what about the scores of children that were killed on October the 7th?
00:10:02.524 --> 00:10:05.481 What about the women who were raped on October the 7th?
00:10:05.481 --> 00:10:11.625 Not important, because to the Pope, the only thing that matters is blame the Jews.
00:10:11.625 --> 00:10:16.712 The only thing that matters is blame the Jews.
00:10:16.712 --> 00:10:20.254 He and Antonio Gutierrez are the useful idiots at both Hamas, hezbollah and, oh, and Iran.
00:10:20.254 --> 00:10:23.745 They love them because they're continuing this fight.
00:10:25.115 --> 00:10:27.264 Ladies and gentlemen, radical Islam exists.
00:10:27.264 --> 00:10:28.900 It is vile.
00:10:28.900 --> 00:10:33.562 I'm not saying every Muslim, I'm not saying every Arab.
00:10:33.562 --> 00:10:42.590 But like there are radicals in any group, there are radical Muslims here who fundamentally want to see Israel destroyed, jews killed.
00:10:42.590 --> 00:10:54.461 Europe has fought these radical Muslims for centuries and now they've put their arms down and said come into our homes, come into our countries.
00:10:54.461 --> 00:10:58.481 They're in America, they're in Europe, they're all over the place.
00:10:59.434 --> 00:11:11.229 And the Pope, antonio Gutierrez, instead of focusing on stopping the growth of this radicalism, has encouraged it by slamming Israel, by promoting anti-Semitism.
00:11:11.229 --> 00:11:14.042 That's right Promoting it, not denying it.
00:11:14.042 --> 00:11:20.067 Not denying it, not cutting it off, not stopping it promoting it.
00:11:20.067 --> 00:11:27.664 These two individuals of power are embarrassing and the same way, gautier should be taken down in the UN.
00:11:27.664 --> 00:11:38.909 I wish that there were cardinals, I wish that there were people within the church who had the intestinal fortitude to take Pope Francis and said maybe it's time for you to retire, step aside.
00:11:38.909 --> 00:11:44.259 We need new leadership, because this kind of leadership leads us to the slaughter.
00:11:47.583 --> 00:11:51.269 Pope Francis is 88 years old.
00:11:51.269 --> 00:11:53.559 He's not going to be there much longer.
00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:54.683 I kind of get that.
00:11:54.683 --> 00:12:00.427 But by him making a message that he does during Christmas to blame Israel.
00:12:00.427 --> 00:12:07.503 And it's odd, because if you went to Nazareth right now, during Christmas time, what would you see?
00:12:07.503 --> 00:12:10.961 You think you'd see Christians and the pilgrimage in Nazareth.
00:12:10.961 --> 00:12:12.961 What you saw was violence.
00:12:12.961 --> 00:12:18.544 The radical Muslims violently attacked Christian worshipers.
00:12:18.544 --> 00:12:20.629 The Pope stayed silent.
00:12:20.629 --> 00:12:31.687 Meanwhile, you go across Israel to Haifa and you see Jews and Christians together with Muslims celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah, which fell on the same time.
00:12:33.753 --> 00:12:35.879 That he didn't talk about that.
00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:42.139 He didn't praise that the only place in the entire Middle East and Africa where Christians can pray and be themselves is Israel.
00:12:42.139 --> 00:12:49.678 Instead, he'd rather give a high five to the terrorists than to help his own people.
00:12:49.678 --> 00:12:55.615 That's why both Gutierrez and Pope Francis need to go away, need to retire, need to move on.
00:12:55.615 --> 00:13:03.123 They are detrimental to our society, not just to Jews in the world, but to all of us.
00:13:06.211 --> 00:13:09.801 Pope Francis is sending us to the slaughter by making statements like that.
00:13:09.801 --> 00:13:18.224 Gutierrez is putting us to the slaughter by making statements against Jews.
00:13:18.224 --> 00:13:26.241 They're empowering and emboldening these radical Muslims to continue this fight, this intifada in the streets.
00:13:26.241 --> 00:13:42.539 This what they call, you know, resistance, because their resistance isn't just to Jews and to Israel, but to all non-Muslims, and they've recruited people around the world non-Muslims, and they've recruited people around the world, non-muslims alike, to fight this fight.
00:13:44.072 --> 00:13:50.221 And Gutierrez and Pope Francis have just said you're right and the rest of us with real values are wrong.
00:13:50.221 --> 00:13:54.359 We don't need you to send us to the slaughter.
00:13:54.359 --> 00:13:56.556 We don't need that at all.
00:13:56.556 --> 00:13:57.871 What we needed was you to stand.
00:13:57.871 --> 00:13:58.230 Send us to the slaughter?
00:13:58.230 --> 00:13:58.392 We don't need that at all.
00:13:58.392 --> 00:14:00.993 What we needed was you to stand up and stop being afraid.
00:14:00.993 --> 00:14:05.289 What label You're going to be called an Islamophobe Like.
00:14:05.289 --> 00:14:07.595 That label really is going to make a difference.
00:14:07.595 --> 00:14:08.116 At this point.
00:14:08.116 --> 00:14:14.350 Words matter, so stand up and help.
00:14:14.350 --> 00:14:17.251 Don't send us to the slaughter.
00:14:17.251 --> 00:14:19.832 You have the power to do it.
00:14:19.832 --> 00:14:25.054 Use it or step aside and let others do it right.
00:14:26.216 --> 00:14:27.076 That's it for today, folks.
00:14:27.076 --> 00:14:30.096 Thank you for joining us on the inaugural episode of 2025.
00:14:30.096 --> 00:14:33.558 We hope that you enjoyed this conversation and did something out of it.
00:14:33.558 --> 00:14:34.759 We appreciate your support.
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00:14:51.326 --> 00:14:58.131 Ladies and gentlemen, I wish you a healthy and happy, peaceful, successful new year and let's hope.
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