The first casualty of the war in Gaza (08-04-2025--Hour1)

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It's the military operations and that sort of thing number one, and along those lines, you always have to keep in mind also that it's not static. It changes. So the strategies employed at the beginning of the war almost two years ago, which I always point out was started when thousands of maniacs stormed across the border, raping, murdering, torturing and kidnapping thousands of Israelis. And so that's the first you've got, the first, you know, kinetic action, and those tactics change in pursuit of the larger strategy. The Hamas strategy has been from the beginning, and I mean from the beginning, going back twenty years ago, when they got control of Gaza and then began flinging their fellow Palestinians off of rooftops if they didn't sufficiently acquiesce to their rule. Their primary strategy has been to lure Israel into Gaza and then to fight them in guerrilla warfare from their tunnels, from these all the buildings and everything. That's why all the tunnels were built, rather than bomb shelters. It wasn't the point. The point is not to save Palestinian lives. The point is to murder Jews, to lure them in and be able to escape down your tunnels, hide from the bombs, let the Palestinian people suffer the brunt of the engagement, and then you use the follow up tactic, which is the second war that we are seeing, which is the pr war or the propaganda war, and every Palestinian death helps Humas. That's the point there. That's their tactic is to use their own people as essentially cannon fodder, so they can then use those stories and those death counts in order to delegitimize Israel and to break the bonds of Israel with any other country, particularly those in the Middle East that are run by Muslim monarchs. Essentially, that's the strategy. That's how you get a you know, one Palestinian state from the river to the sea and no Jews left alive in it. So again stated by Hamas, that is their charter, that's what they want to do. That's what they talk about. The river to the sea is not some sort of you know, misunderstood code. It means to eliminate all Jews from the Jordan River all the way to the ocean where Gaza is and everything in between that river is Israel, and so they want they want all that land. So you got two components, two wars, and again the kinetic war, the military action, the strategies are adapting. I've been so I don't do this topic a lot anymore. I did a lot of it when right after October seventh. But there's been a shift since March in what's been going on, because in March Israel made what I think now is probably a really bad decision, a miscalculation, which is sort of odd for the Israelis. This miscalculation was to put a pause on the humanitarian aid, which I think Israel may be the first nation state, or enemy or enemy in a war, or participant in a war that has ever been called upon or demanded to provide humanitarian aid to the adversaries civilian population, right, especially when that adversary has access to the humanitarian aid and does not distribute it to their own people. But again see my previous comment about the tactics. Every gozen that dies helps humas. They've raised, They've raised now at least one generation, probably two, to believe that there is no higher calling than to murder Jews and die while trying to murder Jews. That is the highest calling. And when you uh when if you succeed in either of those two things, you will be rewarded for eternity in heaven. So they withhold the aid, they withhold the humanity, the food, the water. They don't allow their populations to be moved right when Israel at the beginning of the word, was like, hey, we're gonna be going into this area, and they sent in ground troops. The response because tactics change, right, All war has actions and then reactions, right, so your enemy is going to adapt to whatever strategy you are employing. And so when they would Israel would say, we're going to go into this neighborhood. We're going to go into this area. Initially it was Rafa and they're like, we're going to go in there and we're gonna, you know, root out the Hamas terrast we're gonna search for hostages. And they're like, get your people out, everybody leave the area. And Hamas prevented people from leaving the area because again, every Gosen that dies helps Hamas. Why because they know there are useful idiots in the West that will use that death count against Israel. They never use the death count against Hamas because they're the oppressed. They're the oppressed. So Hamas now says as of yesterday, that it is prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages. This would be a first because for some reason, the Red Cross has not really expressed at least publicly that I have seen, and I've been following this for the last two years, I've not seen the Red Cross make any kind of publicized appeals to Hamas to be able to go in and check on the hostages. So now they say, okay, we will let the Red Cross deliver aid to hostages that they are holding in violation of Geneva Convention among every other Geneva convention that Hamas has been violating, but only if Israel meets some conditions. And this was announced after a video was released of by Hamas that has I think backfired. They set out sent out a video of one of the hostages emaciated in a tunnel being forced to dig his own grave, and I don't think it landed the way Hamas thought it was going to land. Hamas at any coordination with the Red Cross is contingent upon Israel though permanently opening humanitarian corridors and halting airstrikes during the distribution of aid. Keep in mind, aid is the lifeblood of Hamas. They will not remain in power if they do not control the aid. This has been the case for the last twenty years. The UN has become so corrupted with the various NGOs and their own employees that are in Gaza because you don't, like, you can't operate in Gaza. If you're not going to, you know, take the knee to Hamas, they'll kill you. So you have to do what they say. And so you've got all these people that are working for these UN agencies and programs and they are either they are part of Hamas or they bend the knee to Hamas. So these are their conditions. Also, there are fifty hostages remaining in Gaza roughly, but about half of them are believed to be alive still. So again they are refusing to return the bodies of the dead hostages because that's the tactic. And they're like, we don't care if you kill our people. We're going to keep your Israeli corpse. We're going to keep that in the hopes that it does kill more gozens because that redounds to our benefit. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina? Just a quick drive up the mountain and cabins of Ashville. Is your connection, whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. Nestled within the breath taking fourteen thousand acres of the Pisga National Forest, their cabins offer a serene escape in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Centrally located between Asheville and the entrance of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. 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The arm of the individual holding the camera, which can be seen in the frame, is a regular wit. What does that mean? A regular wit means pudgy, means means that Hamas guy shooting the video has not been starving. Now. Hamas claims six people died of starvation or malnutrition in Gaza over the past twenty four hours. Reuters doesn't throw in the without evidence when it cites the Health Ministry, which is Hummas the new death These new deaths raise the toll of those dying from what international humanitarian agencies say maybe an unfolding famine to one hundred and seventy five, including ninety three children, since the war began, according to the Ministry, the Health Ministry, and that's Humas and Hamas lies. Also, Hamas wants there to be deaths, and this is so it's one of these things. This is the Western conceit, this idea that oh, well, you know, we all would do anything to protect our kids. No, listen to them when they tell you that they love death more than they love life. This is the strategy and seems to be working for them. You've got people turning against israel I. Mean, yes, you have the anti Semites that were opposed to them before. You've got the people who say, I'm not an anti Semite, I just opposed the Israeli government. You got that wing as well, so they're opposed to the Israeli action. Sure, but now you have people that are buying into the propaganda narrative that is being pitched by Hamas and laundered through the legacy media outlets, to the point where Hamas got rewarded. Yeah, the leaders of France and Britain, they came out and said, we're prepared to recognize Palestinian statehood. So that's a reward, which means now, anybody, if you want to get something, this is the plan you should adopt. Right, you should create tunnels under your your territory, and you should allow your citizens to bear the brunt of the attacks. You hide out in your tunnels. You then cite the civilian deaths, and then you get what you want. And to this day, and I've watched a lot of interviews with a lot of people. I've watched I don't even know, probably one hundred to two hundred hours of debates on this topic, I have yet to hear anybody say what Israel should have done differently what they always frame it as. If you're you know, Dave Smith, it's always figured it out, bro, That's what he said. Piers Morgan, who's now flipped on Israel, he's like this needs to end and this is ethnic cleansing. And so now he's like he's saying, well, they they should do what they did with the Hesbala beeper operation, which took ye years to do years to do that, and they couldn't do it in Gaza because they don't have the ability to operate as they did in Lebanon. One of the problems also not for nothing, that the Israelis are having. According to one expert I saw over the weekend, he was talking about this that with the Gaza humanitarian foundation that's been putting the food in there in these distribution sites, and then then people are opening fire on the people getting the food, and we don't really know who the people opening fire are. And Piers Morgan will tell us that that's because we don't know. Israelis aren't allowing international journalists to go in there, and he says it's a lie when Israel says we don't want them in there because they're going to get killed, and Piers Morgan says that's their decision and this has never been done before, which is not true. But Israel doesn't want them going in there and getting killed because that hurts Israel because the first time a journalist is embedded with Hamas and Israel wipes out that little group of Hamas holles, then uh, Israel will be blamed for killing the journalists. They don't want the negative pr Yet we have all of these people going to get the food and they're all being mowed down. We are to believe by only the Israelis, not Hamas, and not any of the local gangs, Islamijihad, or any of these other groups. No, no, whose stated goal is to use their people as human shields. They have literally said this, this is the tactic. And so it's so unreasonable to think that maybe they may be killing some of their own people in order to tar Israel with that, right, that's so beyond the pale to consider. But also, where's all the footage from everybody's cell phones? If all of these things are happening all the time, where's all the sell footage. The other thing is that people point out, and I mentioned this, with the action and reaction when it comes to war, tactics evolve. When Israel first went in, they were going building by building, street by street, heavy fighting, all of that, and so then Hamas adapted and they started running IEDs, remote controlled with cameras set up to blow up the buildings when the Israeli forces went in. So Israel then reacted to that. Now they send in drones and detonate the IEDs and that takes down buildings. So not all of the destruction in Gaza is due to the Israelis. A lot of it is also due to Hamas, who once again, as I said, is willing to kill their own people in order to defeat the Israelis. All right, if you're listening to this show. You know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Now, yes, yes it has. There is a there there is. I think though, in listening to a fellow by the name of Michael Duran from the Hudson Institute, the interest of America in the Middle East right now is to get it to some sort of stabilized position, because the focus is going to be on China, and there are only two he says, there are only two militaries that are actually able to project their military power outside of their borders, and that is Israel and Turkey. Turkey and Israel don't really get along though, right, So then you got the Saudi's they have a military, but it's not it's not it's not it's not great. And so how do you create a stabilization there so you are able then to maybe not even draw upon them for help if you need it. If we are focused on China for something at the very least, right, they keep things stable, and if China tries to make any kind of inroads over there, you've got you've got some bulwark. Right. That's where all of the focus is now starting to shift in American American geopolitics and the military. You're looking at East Asia and China, and this is my view, my view only that, but like, there is a lot of trouble brewing with China, and that's where I see in the next decade or two, that's where I see the problems. And I think that's where Trump sees the problems. Also, it's why this reh shoring of stuff get and trying to break these bonds, these supply chain reliance on Chinese manufacturing. I think that's why he's doing what he's doing. Yes, make America great, Yes, restore the manufacturing jobs. I know he says all of this, but I think that he's trying to position America in a way that we are able to defend ourselves and we're not at the mercy of the Communist Chinese Party if they decide to cut off fill in the blank, really like almost everything right, and at some point I do believe they will try to do that. They're commis r, they are looking at China ascendant, they are looking at the long term, and they're like, we are going to be the new global hedgemoon, and that means against us. And I would prefer not to have commis messing around with us. That's me. This is from Doug. He says, what do you think this war looks like? Of course, what do you think war looks like? Of course there is death and starvation. Those people chose their leadership. They hate us. The poor children are innocent, hence the phrase war is hell. Now I have heard an idea which is to just completely flood the zone with food and aid. Just make it. Because if Hamas is using the aid in order to sell it to their people and then you know, raise hundreds of millions of dollars, as they have in the past years, then the way to rob them of that lifeblood would be to essentially devalue the currency of food and water and supplies and fuel. Right, so you just you flood the zone. Now, the problem with that is obviously Hamas is still going to get some of this stuff. But I think it was a mistake that Israel shut down the humanitarian access points back in March. They did it for like three months, because then it opened them up to this and you know this, these charges that they're trying to starve everybody to death. Even though they set up distribution points, it didn't matter. It doesn't matter. Israel has been losing the pr war for like the land, well, I think probably for the duration. Miss here. This is from Kevin Pete. I agree with you on ninety five percent of the stuff you talk about, but on this one I have a slightly different viewpoint. The nation of Israel should get out of there. All their neighbors hate them. Why live like that? Trump would give them land in the US similar to what Israel looked like two thousand years ago in a heartbeat, lush green, lots of trees. Get them out of the belly of the beast. At some point, someone is going to set off a dirty bomb or a nuke in that area and kill a bunch of my Jewish brothers. I know you said in the past, what about all the monuments and the sacred land and such? A family or a nation in this case is not the place it dwells in. It's the people in it that makes it what it is. Right, Well, Israelis are free to immigrate to America. But this is a larger Jewish problem. But this is there, I mean, it creates the Jewish problem with the Muslims that are living in the area, This tiny little strip of land. They require all of it. They have colonized all that area of the world. And the Jews were always seen as second class. And when the Jews got their state, and then the Arabs tried to take it back and then they lost repeatedly multiple efforts to take the land back and recolonize the land, and the and the second class lowly Jewish people were able to defend themselves and to beat back all of the of the neighboring nations. Right that was the tragedy, that was the Knakba. It wasn't that the people were displaced. They left because there was a war. And by the way, you know who can help right now, save a lot of Gosins Egypt. But Egypt went and fortified six walls. There's like six layers of walls along the gos of border. They don't want the Palestinians coming in. So no, I'm not going to tell people what to do. I'm not going to tell the Israelis that they have to move. And unfortunately, throughout all of world history, this is how people acquire territory violence. Sometimes it's done through treaties. In fact, that's how Israel God virtually all of the landed God, it was through diplomatic efforts. They bought a bunch of land. They got the mandate from the British Empire after defeating the Ottoman Empire. It was the British mandate, right, So either way, either way, like, I don't see. And here's the thing, Like, I'm a bit of a well, I want to say oppositional, defiance or contrarian, but when you tell me I can't do something, then I kind of want to do it more. You know, you know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in nineteen ninety seven in Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. The trusted, talented and dedicated team at Creative Video will go over all of the details with you to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. Drop them off in person or mail them. 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Writing in The Spectator on July twenty eighth, broadcaster Jonathan Sasser Dotty Assertity sacred O d Anyway details how an internal memo called covering the Food Crisis in Gaza and this memo acts as a top down editorial dictate that discards impartiality. It was sent to the BBC staff in late July July twenty fifth. It opens with the assertion that quote the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant. Instead, staff should say that the current distribution system doesn't work. Now, why doesn't it work? Well? Number one, there's only four centralized locations where the food is being distributed, which makes sense because the GHF has not been able to work with the United Nations. The United Nations has refused to work with them. Also, it's a brand new operation, so they started smaller and they've you know, they're trying to figure out how to expand their efforts. Also, you can't go into all parts of Gaza because it's not secure from Hamas. They will murder the GHF workers, which they have already done by the way. Also, most importantly, you have to provide security for these types of operations. You got to make sure that Hamas doesn't come in and murder everybody and you know, rape a bunch of women, behead a bunch of people, and take all of the food. So yes, that's that's part of the that's part of the issue. The other part of it, though, is that the UN has left a bunch of humanitarian aid to rot. There are videos of it, there are verified reports. The UN has not been doing any of the distribution that they could be doing, apparently allowing gozens to starve to death right, isn't that the charge against Israel. They also at one point said we should have Hamas acting as our security forces. Why would you do that? If you're the UN, why would you want Hamas to be the quote security for your truck convoys. Such criticism is directed at the recently created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, not the uns hamas riddled UNWAH, the UNWRA, which is an NGO which is yes riddled with Hamas. Members of UNWAH were part of the October seventh attacks and afterwards helped to secret away the hostages. The BBC is instructing journalists to blame the GHF for the failure of aide to get through rather than Hamas. So that's the line from the BBC. Totally committed to obviously educating the people. And then you've got the story that we saw go viral the other day with the New York Times front page story with a big photo of this woman holding her very young boy who is emaciated, and the whole story is about starvation and gaza. And then it turns out, oh, that photo that you used was actually cropped, and it cropped out. The little boy's brother, who's older, is three years old and is well fed. Why is he well fed and the other child is not well? Turns out the child in the photo has cerebral palsy and the mother is just trying to get help for her kid with this genetic disorder. So she's talking to anybody, but the Western media out let's keep framing this as if this is an example of starvation that then goes around the world, retweeted, you know, fifty five million impressions on Twitter. And then when The New York Times is dragged to the truth, they put out an editor's note updating our coverage, and they put that out on their New York Times Communications Twitter account. Not the main one with all of the millions of followers. No, this one's only got like thirty forty thousand. They send it out on that second account to let everybody know that oops, yeah, the photo that we attach to that big story actually doesn't depict the thing that we are describing in the story. But anyway, let's move on, right. This is what Hamas understands about the left. This is the intersectionality, if you will, anti westernism. They are of a like mind on this, and Hamas understood it. They understand it, and they keep using it. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.