The 'humiliation' of Iran is awesome (08-05-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Some breaking news here because not enough is going on. The United Nations admits that their own independent investigation found that their humanitarian staff was involved in at least nine terror incidents on October 7th. I am as shocked as you are. Not really. Here's a quote.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I acknowledge the completion of the investigation by the Office of Internal Oversight Services into the serious allegations that 19 area UNRWA or UNRWA staff members in Gaza were involved in the abhorrent attacks on September or sorry, 7 October on southern Israel.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The allegations were brought to the agency's attention in January. In close consultation with the United Nations Secretary General, I immediately terminated the contracts of the staffers in question in the interest of the agency.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: While the Secretary General tasked the internal oversight, the internal oversight services or IOS to launch an investigation. Additional allegations were brought to our attention in March and April and the concerned staff were added to the OIOS investigation.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that'll fix it. All is well.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The Times of Israel reporting on information in the UK Telegraph citing two Iranian officials as saying that the initial plan to assassinate the Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was actually when he was in Tehran back in May for the funeral of the

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Iranian Iranian president.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Iranian president, Ibrahim Raisi. Remember that guy? Of course you don't. He's in the dustbin of history. Anyway, that guy, he got killed in a helicopter crash.

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they had the big state funeral for him. And the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, he or Haniyeh. I don't know how to.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Haniyeh. Well, he's in the dustbin too now. So either way, he was supposed to be there.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Or he was there for the funeral of the Iranian president back in May.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But that operation was reportedly called off due to the large number of people that were in the building with him that they had rigged up with the explosives.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And they also thought there might be a higher possibility of mission failure at the time.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So instead, according to the UK Telegraph, the agents went ahead and planted explosives in three different rooms at the compound and then left Iran.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The sources quoted in the report said that surveillance footage showed them moving discreetly from room to room.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They reportedly detonated the bombs from abroad.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so they were going to whack the guy while he was there for the funeral.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But then they were like, oh, there's too many people here, which is totally what some genocidal maniacs do and genocide would do, right?

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Is to not blow up a bunch of people because that's what genocide means.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It's sort of like the definition of recession and how that got changed.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So now genocide means something else.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, they decided not to go ahead with that attack at that time.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So they just planted the bombs and like, we're totally going to hit these guys later.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they did.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And as an official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC or the IRGC, as I call it,

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: an official told the newspaper that they are now certain that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Makdi security unit.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That is a unit that is tasked with protecting senior officials.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a problem.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure if these were people that were hired out of like the U.S. Secret Service or leadership.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, they were supposed to be protecting these high-level officials, but apparently they cut deals with Mossad.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's how they were able to infiltrate and plant these bombs in this Airbnb.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it was an Airbnb.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It may have been a Vrbo.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Another IRGC official was quoted as saying, quote,

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The IRGC runs the guest house in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran, where Haniyeh and other dignitaries were staying.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: The New York Times reports, quote,

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Iran has arrested more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers, military officials, and staff workers at a military-run guest house in Tehran,

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: in response to a huge and humiliating security breach that enabled the assassination of a top leader of Hamas,

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: according to two Iranians familiar with the investigation.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The high-level arrests came after the killing in an explosion early Wednesday of Ismail Haniyeh,

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_00]: who had led Hamas's political office in Qatar and was visiting Tehran for the inauguration of Iran's new president

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and staying at the guest house in northern Tehran, which is the capital of Iran.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: The Revolutionary Guard Corps' specialized intelligence unit for espionage has taken over the investigation

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and is now hunting down suspects that it hopes will lead to members of the assassin team that planned, aided, and carried out the killing.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: This is awesome.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Not just the fact that they whacked the leader of Hamas, this terrorist, who, by the way, I think this was the guy who had like a $5 million bounty on his head.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is awesome because this is destabilizing.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This is really, really bad for the Iranians.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And generally speaking, when things are really, really bad for the Iranian regime,

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_00]: that's a good thing because the Iranian regime is really, really bad.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com asks a couple of good questions here.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, is this a mole hunt?

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a mole hunt?

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're on the prowl.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They're on the search for the mole.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it the beginning of a purge?

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Either way, again, good thing.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Could be both.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And neither.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But either one of those options is going to make it hard for the IRGC and the regime to be effective in the short term.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So think about this.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: They're on the hunt for the moles.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe they're starting a purge.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're doing it right as they are threatening to launch a war against Israel,

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_00]: which they kind of sort of already did, in my opinion,

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: what with the bombing of Israel a couple of weeks or months back.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that?

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Where they fired all the drones and rockets and stuff.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And kind of sort of through their proxies for years with Hezbollah and Hamas.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of feel like they've already been acting in a kind of provocative sort of way against Israel.

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But now they say, you know, that they're going to retaliate.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And everybody is bracing for what they're going to do.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And Joe Biden, he's going to have this meeting in the Situation Room today to, I don't know, hand it off to Kamala.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But they're going to have this meeting.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So everybody is waiting for, like, what is the Iranian reaction going to be here?

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And mole hunts distract even the best intelligence and security agencies.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Morrissey says it soaks up valuable resources that would normally focus outward to instead look inward.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And the process of mole hunts necessarily derails efforts by those not investigating the breaches by sheer intimidation,

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: as well as misdirection from top officials who are trying to trick their own agents into exposing themselves.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's how you have to go about these mole hunts is, yes, you're doing interviews and that sort of thing.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to, you know, talk to people and find out if anybody's raised suspicions or something like that.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You're doing, you know, the IT investigation.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're searching emails, that sort of stuff.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But you're also putting traps out, right, for the moles.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're, you know, running underground and stuff.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They're ripping up the garden beds.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So you've got to lay the traps.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So in doing that, you have to create fake intel.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to put fake stuff out there in order to try, because like, all right, let's say you have three divisions of some agency, whatever,

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and you've got A, B, and C.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So you give correct information to A and B, and you give false information to C.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And then if the false information gets used somehow, then you would know that the leak is coming from where the mole is in unit C.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And you have to keep doing this sort of operation across the entire organization.

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's time intensive.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But also, people get confused.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: People don't know what's true.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, purges are even worse.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Which, again, is really awesome for us.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: If they're going to go, if Iran is going to go ahead with a purge, this is going to be pretty good for really like the whole world.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I think.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So Ed Morrissey asks the question, is this a mole hunt going on in Iran, or is it the start of a purge?

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm fine with either.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I think I would prefer a purge, just because it usually ends up with a lot of the high-ranking officials in the regime getting whacked, you know?

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And that, to me, like when you're dealing with evil, oppressive regimes, that's a good thing.

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it tends to be like, I don't want to go all Mark Robinson here, but, right, like some people in oppressive evil regimes in the leadership need killing.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're not going to stop being evil and oppressive.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of feel like this is a good thing from a geopolitical standpoint.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, any death is a tragedy.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: We're all children of God.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But when looking at it from a geopolitical perspective, the military leadership and the regime leadership turning on themselves, that's actually a good thing for way more people.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Most notably, the Iranian people that have been trying to overthrow this oppressive evil regime for quite a while, but getting very little help from others.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So is it a mole hunt?

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's one option.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: The other is a purge.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Purges are even worse than mole hunts.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, not just because of their usual scope.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Purges, Ed Morrissey writes at HotAir.com, purges in regimes like Iran usually involve dominant factions exerting power to get rid of their opponent factions while using the excuse of security.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: He then lists a couple of example.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: He then lists a couple of examples like Stalin and Hitler and the like arresting a couple of dozen people in the immediate aftermath of the hit on Hamas's leader.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not it.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a purge.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yet.

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Yet.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We still could see one.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Fingers crossed.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't take much for mole hunts to spin out of control into outright purges, especially when you're dealing with paranoid regimes already riven with internal tensions.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll be watching for that.

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, this is from a piece in the Federalist, the Federalist dot com by.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me see if I can pronounce these correctly.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Jonathan Hamburger and that's that's Hamburger, Hamburger.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And to Sally Riker, they are writers and rabbis serving communities throughout the regional south.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They say that directly responsible for signing off on terror attacks that took thousands of lives, Hanayeh, the Hamas leader who is now taking the celestial dirt nap, thought that he would be spared if he fashioned himself as some sort of untouchable moderate statesman and framed as such by a complicit media, regardless of his less than savory activities.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And for months, it looked like he was right until he went too far.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so over at the federalist dot com.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The headline on this piece, by the way, is Democrats weakness on Israel is prolonging war in the Middle East.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The head of Hamas, the guy that just got whacked while in Iran for the inauguration of Iran's new president.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: That guy was pretending to be some sort of moderate.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_00]: He fashioned himself as some sort of untouchable moderate statesman.

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And the only reason that that worked for as long as it did.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: When it was quite obviously not the truth.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Was that you have an international media that is complicit.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: He has there were allies of their cause or of him or of Hamas or the Palestinian people or, you know, the anti-Semites or whatever.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They were all sort of on board with this rebranding effort.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Of Hamas's leadership.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And look, this has been going on.

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: For as long as I can remember.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is from about two years ago.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything before that was kind of blank.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember much, but no, I'm kidding.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But this effort to brand Hamas as some sort of, you know, regular, non-terrorist-y kind of governing entity.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It's always been crap.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a lie.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been pointing this out ever since Hamas came around.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were talking about, you know, the military wing of Hamas versus the diplomatic wing of Hamas.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a joke.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody else gets that kind of kid glove treatment.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They really are snowflakes in that regard.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you have to handle them with kid gloves and don't say the wrong thing because they may chop your head off and it'll be your fault, obviously.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So this idea that there's like this military wing and they engage in terrorism and oh, that's bad.

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's not all Hamas.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Hashtag not all Hamas.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: The only way that that works is if media plays along.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the case with so many different issues nationally, you know, domestically, but also internationally.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was right, by the way.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Honey, he was right.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: If he could brand himself and get the media to go along with it and the international community to go along with this idea that he's just a moderate statesman.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So therefore, he's untouchable.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: He was right.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: That was that was an effective strategy until it wasn't until they found out where he was staying.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: In Gaza, thanks to a comprehensive strategy to stop the flow of weapons from Sinai.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: The probable assassination of Hamas's military wing leader, Mohammed Dayif, as well as dismantling the Hamas terrorist infrastructure in Rafah and elsewhere.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Hamas has responded to the assassination of their leader with zero rocket attacks because Israel has removed Hamas's ability to harm it.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that amazing?

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It's funny how that works.

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: This was not achieved by some sort of diplomatic solution where Hamas could bide their time to commit another October 7th.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It was achieved by Israel's comprehensive war effort to snuff out any chance they have of doing it again.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Israel is removing the obstacles to peace from the battlefield.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they have said all along.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Any all the obstacles to peace will be eliminated and then we can have some peace.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And then maybe close this chapter of history and start writing another one.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis could still be alive if all the pressure that was placed on Israel.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: We're correctly directed at Hamas and their leaders to pressure them to surrender, return the hostages, demilitarize Gaza and rebuild a peaceful society that would coexist and even flourish next to Israel.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that Israel is being criticized for eliminating mass murderers shows a deep moral rot in society.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: When our leaders are wavering in their confidence in the morality of our positions, all elements of deterrence are lost.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Empty calls for appeasement resonate with no one.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And this gets to.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: What Rush Limbaugh talked about his entire career, as far as I can remember, was the world is governed by the aggressive use of force.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you think about it, it makes sense.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: It's true.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The reason the only reason that you can say no, for example, in your personal interactions.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody comes up and demand something of you and you don't want to do it and you say no.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: What lies at the heart of that dispute?

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: The application of force.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't ever normally most people most of the time you're not speaking it.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not saying I will do this to you if you don't do it.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But the ability to say no is rooted in the ability to defend yourself from the force required to make you do that thing.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't want to do that thing, you say no.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Then the other party can force you to do it or they can be stopped.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: How?

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: With force.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: This is all very elemental stuff.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: This idea that we'll just talk it out like diplomacy is the way you avoid force.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But it has to be rooted in a mutual belief that forces to be avoided.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And if one party is insistent on using force, then you have to use force to stop them to be able to say no.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we are witnessing at a large scale.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Biden's going to be going down to the Situation Room.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it down?

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it across the hall?

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: It may be.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's right next to the lockers of cocaine.

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what we learned when they found the coke there.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's like right near there.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So the meeting is supposed to take place today, which is the day after the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, spoke with his counterpart in Israel to reiterate U.S. support for the Jewish state as tensions escalate with Iran and its proxies, threatening a wider regional war after 10 months of fighting Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Fox News reports that Austin and the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Galan, discussed U.S. force posture moves.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Force posture moves.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like a 1980s exercise VHS tape.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, the DOD is looking to take to bolster protection for U.S. forces in the region and support the defense of Israel and deter and de-escalate broader tensions in the region.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: That meeting came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel is already in a multi-front war with Iran and its proxies.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Because, of course, it is.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And it has been since October 7th.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I talked about it in the week after those attacks.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Was that as Israel goes after Hamas, Hezbollah on the north is going to start their rocket attacks in order to create a larger war.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the point.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, will the Sunni Arab states, you know, will they refrain?

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Will they show restraint or will they come in on the side of Israel against Iran?

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Surely they must recognize that a strengthened Iran is a threat to them.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe that's the play here.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly told his counterparts yesterday that Iran and Hezbollah would attack Israel as early as today.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The war in Gaza was triggered by the October 7th attack on Israel and Hezbollah.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And Israel have continued to trade fire along the Lebanon border since the war began with the severity growing in recent months.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Hezbollah said that it's aimed at relieving pressure on Hamas because they're all backed by Iran.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: They are all allies.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're trying to divert attention away from the Gaza Strip.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It already is a wider war.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a message from Russ on the Twitter machine at Pete Callender.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Pete, I am so glad you are back.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: There was so much international news between the Olympics.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, gosh, I haven't even got to that stuff yet.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: The Middle East.

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I did not feel comfortable discussing any of this stuff with family and friends because I did not have the correct name and place pronunciations that we depend on you for.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry about that.

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe I should just do a couple of reels.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Or get onto the gram, the Instagram, and just do some pronunciation guides.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it is a gift.

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a professional here.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's how I am able to make all of the pronunciations so accurate as I do.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: This is from Social Screamer.

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That's their Twitter handle, people.

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't make these.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: They make these up, not me.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Social Screamer says,

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: If only there hadn't been a country with a failing president that didn't release billions of dollars to Iran.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That's, we may never have known what could have been.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: In a related story, have you seen what's going on over in Britain?

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're kind of fed up over there.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, really, like you just, you import tens of thousands or I don't even know, maybe it's hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, how big is Britain anyway?

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And what is the difference between Britain and the UK and England?

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: For such a tiny island, it's got too many names.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: That's just my opinion.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, they've imported all of these people from areas of the world and countries around the world that really don't like them very much.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And then once they've arrived, proceeded to operate rape gangs and such.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been reported for years.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I think, 15 years now they've been doing this stuff.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And the British authorities keep covering the story up.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And they jailed a couple of journalists who did reports on it and that sort of thing.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not optimal.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's not optimal, let's say.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think people over there, they've had enough now.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And what precipitated it over the weekend was another activity by peace-loving migrants.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Although apparently the person who engaged in the peace-loving act of murdering three young girls at a dance class, he himself was not a migrant.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Just the son of migrants.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Progressive British politicians and elite media dismissed the protesters as far-right and assert misinformation is the root and cause of the demonstrations.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: However, if you watch the videos, it seems like there's something else, according to Leslie Eastman over at LegalInsurrection.com.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Several police officers were harmed amid serious disorder.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the British way of saying riots.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: In Liverpool's city center, about 20 miles from the site of Monday's heinous stabbing spree in the seaside town of Southport.

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no place for this despicable behavior which disrupts the lives of members of the public who live in the city or are visiting to enjoy the amenities the city has to offer.

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, they're not talking about the grooming gangs and that sort of thing or the stabbing of the British people.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They're talking about the protesting of the citizens who are so fed up with the policies that have been implemented by both the labor and the conservative parties that it doesn't even matter who you have in charge.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_00]: They still pursue the same policies with regards to immigration.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're kind of fed up with it because they are made to feel as if they are not citizens in their own country and that there is a special set of laws that they have to live under versus the newcomers or the new arrivals.

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They get free passes on all sorts of destabilizing and lawless behavior.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they rioted.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_00]: We may never know why.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening.

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[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, thank you so much for listening and don't break anything while I'm gone.