The Gaza Aid Scam & The Imperial Plan for the Middle East

[00:00:04] [Music] [00:00:25] [Music] [00:00:32] Ah, certainly more of an atmospheric [00:00:34] intro than what we've been usually going [00:00:36] with, but hello and welcome to State of [00:00:38] Play. [00:00:41] Sorry, it's been a it's been a day. [00:00:43] There's my mic. Hello and welcome to [00:00:45] State of Play on Mint Press News. I'm [00:00:47] your host for this solo episode today. [00:00:50] And if you've just accidentally stumbled [00:00:52] onto the alternative political media [00:00:54] part of the internet, my name is Greg [00:00:56] Stoker, a former US Army Ranger turned [00:00:58] anti-war activist, journalist, and [00:01:00] geopolitical analysts. And some people [00:01:02] find my editorial opinions and analysis [00:01:06] uh challenging, especially from a [00:01:08] veterans perspective. Not the biggest [00:01:10] fan of US foreign policy, as we'll see [00:01:13] over the next hour. So, we're just glad [00:01:15] you're here. Now that this iteration of [00:01:18] the Iran Israel 12-day war, which [00:01:21] accomplished nothing, at least from a [00:01:22] western hegemonic perspective, which [00:01:24] we'll discuss later, has concluded, the [00:01:27] White House has signaled a desire to [00:01:29] resume the darkly keyoded quest for a [00:01:32] ceasefire in Gaza, bearing in mind that [00:01:34] while the ceasefire in Gaza was in [00:01:36] effect this past uh January for a little [00:01:39] bit, the IDF violated it roughly 250 [00:01:43] times. And it has been quite the bad [00:01:46] week for Israeli propaganda, hasn't it? [00:01:49] You know, you first you had the [00:01:50] Glastonberry uh music festival where you [00:01:53] had Bob Violin uh sorry, Bob Violin, a [00:01:56] rap punk duo, come out with this spicy [00:02:00] chant. Death to the IDF. Death to the [00:02:03] IDF. Death to the IDF. [00:02:06] To the IDF. Death. Death to the IDF. [00:02:09] Death to the IDF. Death death to the [00:02:12] IDF. [00:02:14] Hell yeah. From the river to the sea. [00:02:16] Palestine must be will be. Inshah it [00:02:19] will be free. [00:02:22] Yeah. So that sent uh Hezbara into a [00:02:25] tail spin. Um for for the record, I [00:02:29] don't endorse this chant or message. As [00:02:32] we all know, the IDF, the Israeli [00:02:34] Defense Force is more properly referred [00:02:36] to as the IF, the illegal occupation [00:02:39] force. At any rate, needless to say, the [00:02:42] US government has revoked their visas [00:02:44] for their upcoming US tour, citing they [00:02:46] don't accept foreigners who glorify [00:02:48] hatred and violence. [00:02:51] But it's totally fine for Zionist [00:02:53] artists like David Draymond of Disturbed [00:02:56] to do a photo op signing artillery [00:02:58] shells that were lobbed into Gaza or for [00:03:00] a genocidal maniac like uh security [00:03:03] minister Bengavir to visit DC and New [00:03:06] York. And it's totally fine for Benjamin [00:03:07] Netanyahu who's being investigated uh [00:03:10] under charges of war crimes by the [00:03:12] International Criminal Court. He's [00:03:14] supposed to come to Washington DC next [00:03:17] week or sometime this coming month. So [00:03:20] that's all fine. But the hypocrisy of [00:03:25] the moral west is heightening in its [00:03:27] contradictions. Last Friday, a harrowing [00:03:30] expose [00:03:31] uh you may have seen this one, y'all. Uh [00:03:35] by the liberal Zionist outlet Harets [00:03:37] asserted that IDF officers and soldiers [00:03:40] uh told Harets that they were ordered to [00:03:42] fire at unarmed crowds near food [00:03:44] distribution sites in Gaza even when no [00:03:46] threat was present. Obviously, we know [00:03:48] this was happening, but that the fact [00:03:49] that a reliable outlet like Harets is [00:03:52] finally reporting it is significant. [00:03:54] Hundreds of Palestinians have been [00:03:55] killed, prompting the military [00:03:57] prosecution to call for a review into [00:03:59] possible war crimes. Netanyahu is and [00:04:03] foreign minister uh Israel cats reject [00:04:06] or sorry, defense minister Israel cats [00:04:08] reject the claims, calling them blood [00:04:11] liels. All right. And Hezbara has been [00:04:15] in a tail spin. They've even sent in [00:04:18] Richard Kemp, former British Army [00:04:20] Infantry Commander and head of U, head [00:04:24] of the UK's Friends of the Association [00:04:28] for the Well-being of Israel's Soldiers, [00:04:30] UK [00:04:32] AWIS, AWIS, UK AWIS, Association for the [00:04:37] Well-Being of Israel's Soldiers. It's [00:04:39] the UK branch of AWIS, an Israeli [00:04:41] organization managed by the Israel [00:04:44] Defense Forces and headed by Jerham uh [00:04:46] General Yaram Yair. Anyways, they sent [00:04:49] this paid propagandist Richard Camp who [00:04:51] we're going to see in a second down to [00:04:53] the aid distribution centers in Gaza [00:04:55] where the massacres happened and he [00:04:56] released the most embarrassing [00:04:58] propaganda yet. Well, who can who can [00:05:00] tell anymore? But this one, they didn't [00:05:02] even they didn't even edit out the gun [00:05:05] sounds. And I'm going to play this as [00:05:06] everyone keeps filtering into the live [00:05:09] distribution centers inside Gaza. You [00:05:11] will have heard a lot of propaganda [00:05:14] about violent attacks around in and [00:05:16] around the GHF sites here. It's all lies [00:05:20] generated by Hamas. [00:05:22] Okay. Um first of all, the GHF is Gaza [00:05:26] Health a humanitarian fund uh foundation [00:05:30] former uh founded by a former Marine [00:05:32] sniper. I've talked to guys who applied [00:05:34] within the contracting world to GHF. [00:05:37] They have no prior experience in [00:05:40] humanitarian logistics and they're all [00:05:42] generally ex special ops guys. But [00:05:43] anyways, keep going Richard Kemp. In [00:05:46] order to discredit the GHF, the G the [00:05:48] Hamas hate the GHF because the GHF [00:05:51] delivers aid directly into the hands of [00:05:54] the Garzen people without being seized [00:05:56] by Hamas and sold at a profit. Very many [00:06:00] of the people behind me here have told [00:06:02] me it's the first time they've ever [00:06:04] received free aid. So don't believe the [00:06:07] propaganda that's been churned out by [00:06:09] Hamas and amplified by too much of the [00:06:12] international and national media. [00:06:15] Whoops. What was that? [00:06:18] International and national media. [00:06:22] All right. Well, first of all, uh Hamas [00:06:24] isn't stealing the aid. We all know who [00:06:26] is according to Israel's own reporting [00:06:29] in Hebrew media. It's the Abu Shabbab [00:06:33] gang, like a bunch of ISIS affiliated [00:06:35] Bedawin goons running around stealing [00:06:38] aid, beating up aid workers, uh, killing [00:06:41] people, and and Hamas actually had to a [00:06:43] couple weeks ago stage an ambush and [00:06:45] kill a number of these Abu Shabbab ISIS [00:06:47] related uh, goon squads that the Israeli [00:06:50] intelligence is funding uh, because they [00:06:53] had to make a statement. They had to [00:06:54] show that they weren't the ones doing [00:06:55] it. Of course, you know, the Israel pays [00:06:58] these Ghana gangs to do this and then [00:07:01] blame it on Hamas. So, of course, it's [00:07:03] all part of their propaganda engine, [00:07:05] which again take took a massive massive [00:07:08] hit. So, that is what's actually going [00:07:11] on with these incredibly what is sorry, [00:07:14] what is actually going to going on with [00:07:17] these incredibly complex and dynamic [00:07:19] Gaza developments and what's happening [00:07:21] in the wider region? Well, we're going [00:07:23] to talk about it all this episode, but [00:07:25] let's first check in with a couple [00:07:27] minutes of liberal media reporting. It's [00:07:31] actually not horrible, which is [00:07:32] significant. In Gaza, again, proved [00:07:35] lethal. The Hamas run health ministry [00:07:37] says Israeli strikes killed at least 80. [00:07:40] Still have to add in that Hamas run [00:07:41] agency. It's an editorial note. It's [00:07:44] just policy at this newsroom. [00:07:46] Palestinians and wounded 400 others. [00:07:49] CBS's Deborah Pata reports tonight from [00:07:52] Jerusalem. [00:07:54] Good evening, Jerica. There is renewed [00:07:57] hope that the ceasefire in Iran could [00:07:59] lead to one in Gaza, but even as [00:08:02] President Trump indicated there could be [00:08:03] a truce within the Nope. We're going to [00:08:06] be talking about this all episode. [00:08:07] That's a hard nope, it can't. Next week, [00:08:09] Israeli forces launched a series of [00:08:12] strikes overnight on Gaza City. [00:08:16] A ceasefire may be inching closer, but [00:08:18] Gaza City was trapped in a pit of [00:08:21] despair following overnight Israeli air [00:08:24] strikes [00:08:26] which blasted this massive crater right [00:08:29] in the middle of a makeshift camp, [00:08:32] sheltering displaced Palestinians. [00:08:36] Rescue workers dug frantically, [00:08:38] retrieving at least five tents as they [00:08:41] searched for the people who had been [00:08:43] living in them. It was mostly the limp [00:08:46] bodies of children pulled from the [00:08:48] rubble. 12 people died, 10 between the [00:08:51] ages of 1 and 11. Of course, the Israeli [00:08:55] Defense Force has put out a statement [00:08:57] saying that they were targeting a senior [00:08:59] Hamas official who they apparently [00:09:02] killed. Of course, they will not release [00:09:03] any details because of course they [00:09:06] weren't targeting that. According to [00:09:08] eyewitnesses, [00:09:10] in a second strike nearby, there were [00:09:12] desperate attempts to revive those who'd [00:09:15] been trapped. [00:09:17] Many died of suffocation. [00:09:20] Again, [00:09:22] this is the first time we're actually [00:09:24] seeing this kind of reporting happen [00:09:25] immediately on a large C CBS newsroom. [00:09:29] So, of course, two years too late. [00:09:32] Almost two years too late, but at least [00:09:34] it's finally happening now. When morning [00:09:37] came, everyone lent a hand trying to [00:09:40] save what they could. [00:09:43] "Here in Gaza, we are buried twice," [00:09:45] said Zed Jabar. "First while alive, and [00:09:49] then when we are dead." His children are [00:09:52] still in hospital in a critical [00:09:54] condition. [00:09:56] At the morg, families bent over with [00:09:59] grief, prepared to bury their dead. [00:10:02] Among them, tiny bodies wrapped in [00:10:04] shrouds. [00:10:07] This distraught father had kept his [00:10:09] children safe for nearly 2 years of war. [00:10:13] Now this Palestinians who were living [00:10:16] here have nowhere else to go after being [00:10:19] repeatedly displaced. [00:10:23] It's enough, said Naveen Aluli. Please [00:10:26] stop the war. Feel our pain. Let the [00:10:29] children live. [00:10:31] Gaza's health ministry says more than 60 [00:10:34] people died in the strikes, Jerica. And [00:10:37] the IDF says they were targeting a [00:10:39] senior Hamas leader who was also killed. [00:10:43] Deborah Patter, thank you. That's the [00:10:45] general humanitarian situation right [00:10:47] now. Also, there's been other [00:10:48] developments over the weekend like [00:10:50] Israel was putting opioids in flour and [00:10:55] other drugs in the flour. Uh so that [00:10:57] when you know people would be exposed to [00:11:00] that and other chemicals when they went [00:11:01] to bake bread. Uh cuz they have to they [00:11:03] have to let in now. They have to pretend [00:11:05] to let aid in now. So I guess just pump [00:11:07] it full of chemicals and other harmful [00:11:09] material drugs. Get the kids hooked on [00:11:12] like opioids while they're young. But [00:11:15] yeah, anything that's completely [00:11:16] sadistic, they've quartered the market [00:11:19] on that. Uh so these Israeli air strikes [00:11:23] and other small arms fires have killed [00:11:27] at least 60 people uh across Gaza a day [00:11:30] after Trump called to make a deal in [00:11:34] Gaza, get the hostages back. He posted [00:11:37] it like late Sunday morning uh or sorry [00:11:41] early Sunday morning on Truth Social. Uh [00:11:44] yeah, so you know these aerial combat [00:11:47] operations were just all too familiar [00:11:49] after nearly two years of unmitigated [00:11:52] violence. And according to Reuters, uh, [00:11:54] Israel's strategic affairs minister Ron [00:11:56] Durmer is traveling to Washington for [00:11:59] talks on Iran and Gaza, which would [00:12:01] account for the heightened bombing [00:12:03] campaign over the weekend as Israel's [00:12:05] fundamental military da doctrine, the [00:12:08] collective punishment of civilians in [00:12:10] order to assert diplomatic pressure [00:12:13] continues unabated. So Durmer, yeah, Ron [00:12:16] Durmer is expected to hold meetings with [00:12:17] Trump administration officials on [00:12:19] Tuesday, tomorrow at time of this [00:12:21] recording. According to a report by [00:12:23] Reuters, the same one. Alongside the [00:12:24] Gaza ceasefire discussions, Durmer also [00:12:27] plans to discuss the possibility of [00:12:29] Netanyahu visiting Washington DC in the [00:12:32] coming weeks, most likely to shore up [00:12:34] political support now that his [00:12:35] long-standing corruption trial has been [00:12:37] postponed due to continuity and security [00:12:40] issues regarding the Gaza negotiations [00:12:43] and the simmering conflict with Iran. [00:12:45] The prospect that anything can be [00:12:47] achieved on these matters is remote as [00:12:50] daily fighting continues across the [00:12:52] enclave. And despite Israel's degrading [00:12:54] image on the world stage, the [00:12:56] fundamental diplomatic issues remain. A [00:12:59] Hamas official said that progress [00:13:00] depends on Israel changing its [00:13:02] long-standing position that the Israeli [00:13:04] military remain in Gaza after the end of [00:13:08] the war and that Hamas disband and [00:13:10] dismantle. Hamas, of course, refuses to [00:13:13] lay down arms. Uh, Israeli Foreign [00:13:15] Minister Gideon Sar said that Israel has [00:13:17] agreed to the a US proposed 60-day [00:13:20] ceasefire and hostage deal and put the [00:13:23] onus on Hamas. He told reporters, quote, [00:13:25] "Israel is serious in its will to reach [00:13:28] a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza." [00:13:34] Uh, so yeah, the US 60-day ceasefire uh [00:13:38] uh proposal is being exumed out of the [00:13:41] grave, put back on the table again. [00:13:44] It's a non-starter since Hamas won't [00:13:46] accept a cease 60-day ceasefire if the [00:13:48] fighting is just going to continue after [00:13:50] two months. In which case, they know [00:13:52] that Israel is going to be violating the [00:13:54] ceasefire constantly. The last [00:13:56] ceasefire, again, I said over 250 [00:13:58] ceasefire violations from the Israeli [00:14:00] side happened under the last ceasefire. [00:14:02] So what they're going to just accept 60 [00:14:04] days of constant bombardment with them [00:14:06] not being able to attack the Israeli [00:14:08] defense forces and then just for it to [00:14:11] end in 60 days after all the hostages [00:14:14] are recovered. This whole thing is Yeah. [00:14:17] Obviously you're smart. Everyone here is [00:14:19] media literate. So you you're picking up [00:14:22] what's being putting down. So while [00:14:23] prominent politicians [00:14:27] No, wait, hang on. So more basically [00:14:30] guys, this is just smoke and mirrors to [00:14:31] extend further political cover to the [00:14:33] Netanyahu government as it continues [00:14:35] with its plan to devastate the enclave [00:14:37] to the point where Gazins will elect [00:14:40] voluntary migration. So basically the [00:14:43] voluntary migration piece, I just want [00:14:44] to talk about this. There's nowhere for [00:14:47] them to go. The US isn't going to take [00:14:48] them. Europe's not going to take them. [00:14:51] The Mina countries can't take them. Uh [00:14:54] so basically [00:14:56] they're going for death. mass death [00:14:58] while the the final solution to the Gaza [00:15:00] problem. And while prominent politicians [00:15:02] such as Austrian foreign minister bet m [00:15:08] risinger ah mu risinger sorry my [00:15:12] grandmother tried to teach me German but [00:15:14] I was no no apologies but yes we'll just [00:15:18] say the Austrian foreign minister [00:15:20] declared that the quote suffering of [00:15:21] civilians is increasingly burdening [00:15:23] Israel's relationships with Europe. A [00:15:26] ceasefire must be agreed upon," unquote. [00:15:28] No tangible political pressure, and this [00:15:30] is the through line when we get to [00:15:31] talking about this, has been put upon [00:15:33] the rogue state to end the killing. One [00:15:37] gleam of hope for the Palestinians comes [00:15:40] from Israel's military failure, and its [00:15:42] engagement with Iran over the 12-day [00:15:45] war. Its regional military impunity was [00:15:48] checked and is difficult to overstate [00:15:50] how damaging this was for to Israel's [00:15:53] deterrence capacity which the state [00:15:55] relies on as a pillar of its security [00:15:57] posture. And of course, Israel's [00:15:59] position is deceptively weak. Despite [00:16:02] the moderately successful US diplomatic [00:16:04] efforts to push for pan-Arab [00:16:05] normalization with the Zionist state, [00:16:08] still deceptively weak position. In this [00:16:10] episode of State of Play here on Mid [00:16:12] Press News, we are going to really break [00:16:14] down the latest escalation, explore the [00:16:16] political theater behind the ceasefire [00:16:18] negotiations, and expose how Israel's [00:16:20] controversial diet doctrine, collective [00:16:22] punishment as deterrence, is still being [00:16:24] used with impunity. This is all very [00:16:26] calculated. We'll also discuss the [00:16:28] postponed Netanyahu corruption trial, [00:16:30] which Trump blasted off about this [00:16:33] weekend, and its implications. the [00:16:35] hollow prospects for a US brokered [00:16:38] 60-day ceasefire, why Hamas refuses to [00:16:41] disarm, and what's at stake, and of [00:16:44] course, the lasting impact of Israel's [00:16:46] failed confrontation with Iran. First, [00:16:49] let's look at this watershed Harets [00:16:51] expose from last Friday and what it [00:16:53] reveals about the Trump's [00:16:55] administration's real motivations here. [00:16:57] Okay. Okay. Um, first of all, this was [00:17:02] kind of crazy. We all know this was [00:17:04] happening, but every time Harets [00:17:08] reports something that we know happened, [00:17:10] like Apache attack helicopters were used [00:17:12] to fire on civilians at the Nova Music [00:17:15] Festival on October 7th, they always get [00:17:18] um decrieded across the Israeli media [00:17:20] landscape uh for being traitors, for [00:17:23] being like leftists, and for being [00:17:26] anti-atriotic. But again, Harets is the [00:17:29] best liberal Zionist reporting you're [00:17:31] you're going to get. So if they're [00:17:33] saying it, we can definitely believe [00:17:34] that they have high confidence that, you [00:17:36] know, this is actually going on. So [00:17:38] Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Harets [00:17:40] that the army has deliberately fired at [00:17:42] Palestinians near aid distribution sites [00:17:43] over the past month. Conversations with [00:17:45] officers soldiers revealed that [00:17:47] commanders ordered troops to shoot at [00:17:48] crowds, to drive them away, or disperse [00:17:50] them, even though it was clear they pose [00:17:52] no threat. One soldier described the [00:17:54] situation as a total breakdown of the [00:17:55] Israeli divorce fences ethical ethical [00:17:58] codes in Gaza. The fact that they [00:18:00] believe they still have ethical codes is [00:18:03] wild. So since, you know, since these go [00:18:07] uh aid distribution sites have been set [00:18:09] up, you know, over 400 have been [00:18:10] wounded, but the exact number of those [00:18:12] killed by the IDF remains unclear. [00:18:16] So, one second. [00:18:19] And you know, the military advocate [00:18:22] general has in instructed the IDF [00:18:25] general staff's factf finding assessment [00:18:27] uh mechanism to conduct an [00:18:29] investigation. They'll conduct an uh [00:18:32] investigation [00:18:34] and find that they've done nothing [00:18:35] wrong. Um so yeah, or they'll come up [00:18:38] with a couple scapegoats and they won't [00:18:40] go to jail. They'll just get relieved to [00:18:41] command. You know, standard cover up BS. [00:18:44] So [00:18:46] in the statement released following the [00:18:48] publication of this expose 3 days ago, [00:18:51] Netanyahu and Israel cats called it [00:18:54] blood liable. Blood liel. So the real [00:18:58] thing and the the reason why this kind [00:19:01] of matters is that you know we need to [00:19:04] talk about the Gaza Humanitarian [00:19:07] Foundation GHF. All right. These aid [00:19:11] centers began operating in the strip at [00:19:13] the end of May. These are all ex [00:19:15] generally special operations [00:19:17] uh soldiers turned defense contractors [00:19:20] who are now at the aid sites and a lot [00:19:22] of their behavior has been really [ __ ] [00:19:24] up and problematic. It seems like [00:19:25] they're making a game out of this. [00:19:27] Certainly the IDF is recreating the [00:19:28] Hunger Games more like the Squid Games [00:19:30] with these aid sites. You know, the [00:19:32] Palestinians have to rush in under fire, [00:19:35] get herded in through corrals, many of [00:19:38] them shot and killed just to get food. [00:19:40] And of course, it's a game. So the [00:19:42] circumstances of this foundation, the [00:19:44] GHF's establishment and its funding are [00:19:47] murky. It is known to have been set up [00:19:49] by Israel in coordination with US [00:19:52] evangelicals and private security [00:19:54] contractors. Its current CEO is an [00:19:57] evangelical leader close to US President [00:20:00] Trump and Israeli Prime Minister [00:20:02] Benjamin Netanyahu. And it operates [00:20:03] these four food distribution centers. Uh [00:20:07] three in southern Gaza and one in the [00:20:08] center. There is nothing happening in [00:20:10] the north. There's fighting in the [00:20:11] north, also in the south, but there the [00:20:13] the uh the three sites are not in the [00:20:17] four sites are not in the north. So [00:20:19] these are called rapid distribution [00:20:21] centers and they are staffed by American [00:20:22] and Palestinian workers and secured by [00:20:24] the IDF from a distance of several [00:20:26] hundred meters. So most of the gunfire [00:20:28] we're seeing coming in has been uh [00:20:31] Israeli gun teams just shooting a couple [00:20:33] hundred meters away [00:20:35] at Palestinians going for aid. So, [00:20:39] you know, thousands and times tens of [00:20:41] thousands of Gazas arrived daily to [00:20:42] collect foods from these sites, right? [00:20:44] And so, contrary to the foundation's [00:20:45] initial promises, the distribution is [00:20:47] chaotic. Um, it's a killing field. One [00:20:50] soldier said, quote, "Where I was [00:20:52] stationed," and this was coming from the [00:20:53] Harets article, "Between one and five [00:20:56] people were killed every day. They're [00:20:57] treated like a hostile force. No crowd [00:20:59] control measures, no tear gas, just live [00:21:01] fire with everything imaginable. Heavy [00:21:03] machine guns, grenade launchers, [00:21:04] mortars. Then once the center opens, the [00:21:07] shooting stops, they know that they can [00:21:08] approach. Our form of communication is [00:21:12] gunfire. So yeah, and basically a lot of [00:21:16] people think that they've been doing [00:21:17] this because Gaza doesn't interest [00:21:18] anyone anymore, said a reserveist. It's [00:21:21] become a place of with its own set of [00:21:23] rules. The loss of human life means [00:21:25] nothing. It's not even an unfortunate [00:21:27] accident like they used to say. So what [00:21:30] all is going to come from this expose? [00:21:33] You know, of course, nothing in terms of [00:21:36] policy. Absolutely nothing will change. [00:21:40] And we know that. We know how this kind [00:21:41] of we know how this works at this point. [00:21:44] But what's interesting and what's what [00:21:45] we should take away from this is let's [00:21:48] pull up this and let's show you got [00:21:50] let's do a Google search. So, uh, we can [00:21:53] interpret, you know, Trump's real policy [00:21:55] goals by who he's supporting, why the [00:21:58] Gaza Health Foundation is there in the [00:21:59] first place. So Gaza, [00:22:02] sorry I keep calling it the health [00:22:03] foundation humanitarian [00:22:06] foundation. [00:22:08] Uh I guess it's CEO now. The first the [00:22:12] founder resigned. The marine sniper who [00:22:14] founded it resigned and it's taken over [00:22:16] by Johnny Moore Jr. American evangelical [00:22:20] leader and businessman. Uh he has [00:22:23] previously praised Donald Trump's [00:22:24] proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, [00:22:27] stating the USA will take full [00:22:29] responsibility for the future of Gaza, [00:22:31] giving everyone hope and a future. And [00:22:34] so uh basically the uh the New York [00:22:37] Times did a a bio a biopic on it on this [00:22:42] Johnny Moore Jr. guy and he attended [00:22:44] prayer meetings in the White House. He's [00:22:46] now the chairman of the Gaza Aid Group. [00:22:48] We've talked about how Trump has want [00:22:52] wants to privatize the the Gaza Strip. [00:22:54] Obviously, his, you know, son-in-law has [00:22:57] massive connections with uh Gulf real [00:23:00] estate interest, that being Jared [00:23:01] Kushner, and they want to turn Gaza into [00:23:04] the new Dubai, the new Singapore, [00:23:06] whatever, you know, city strikes their [00:23:08] fancy at the time. So [00:23:11] what we've said from the beginning, I've [00:23:13] said this months ago in January when the [00:23:15] fir the story first broke that they were [00:23:17] using UG Solutions and SRS guys to run [00:23:21] security, private American contractors [00:23:24] to run security at these security [00:23:25] checkpoints. They were doing this as a [00:23:27] pilot, a test program to see if they [00:23:29] could send US contractors in there [00:23:31] without getting them killed by Hamas. [00:23:33] But of course, Hamas has and other [00:23:34] resistance factions within the strip [00:23:36] would not target these guys, right? [00:23:37] because it would risk further bringing [00:23:40] American involvement directly into the [00:23:42] strip, which they don't want. Uh so now [00:23:45] they're using these aid distribution [00:23:47] sites through GHF as a pilot program to [00:23:50] expand privatized security and [00:23:52] humanitarian logistical [00:23:56] uh contracting and work throughout the [00:23:59] entirety of the Gaza Strip. Because [00:24:00] guys, this is a big business. Defense [00:24:03] contracting was like one of the biggest [00:24:06] money laundering schemes during the [00:24:08] global war on terror. [00:24:10] Hallebertton, it was a construction [00:24:12] company, but they're also doing defense [00:24:13] contracting. Dina, you know, Dina, like [00:24:16] all of these institution, uh, all of [00:24:19] these defense contracting companies are [00:24:21] subsidized by the government. They take [00:24:22] taxpayer money uh money out of the [00:24:25] public sector into the private and they [00:24:27] make the same people that you know want [00:24:30] to bring in and you know develop the [00:24:32] Gazda strip they they sit on the boards [00:24:34] of these defense contractors as well. So [00:24:36] everyone within this small community of [00:24:39] inter interventionist capitalists is [00:24:41] making a lot of money. So yes, Johnny [00:24:46] Moore again, he's an evangelical [00:24:49] Christian Zionist. Trump [00:24:52] elected or appointed Mike Huckabe, arch [00:24:55] evangelical Christian Zionist to Israel. [00:24:57] So like these evangelicals, these [00:25:01] Zionist evangelicals, they don't want a [00:25:03] ceasefire in Gaza. They want the [00:25:05] messianic vision of a greater Israel to [00:25:08] be realized. And of course, they're all [00:25:10] informing policy. So when Trump talks [00:25:12] about a ceasefire, I'm like, cool, dude. [00:25:14] But all the people you appoint are [00:25:16] diametrically opposed to having a [00:25:18] ceasefire and a two-state solution. And [00:25:21] yeah, so okay, cool. The the the guy [00:25:23] who's now running the US security forces [00:25:27] in [00:25:29] in Gaza is a guy who got picked up [00:25:32] because of his fervor at White House [00:25:34] prayer meetings. Uh yeah. So look, we've [00:25:37] seen this ceasefire talk before. We're [00:25:39] not really placing much stock in it, but [00:25:43] the postponed Netanyahu [00:25:47] corruption trial and its implications. [00:25:48] Let's let's move on to that. So, because [00:25:50] that's all part of this the ceasefire [00:25:51] deal, like uh here we go. Let me think. [00:25:54] Uh I think I have this queued up from [00:25:56] Fox Business reporting or inside Fox [00:25:59] News reporting from earlier today. I'm [00:26:01] Austin Westall getting some breaking [00:26:03] news in. This is from Axios's Barack [00:26:07] Ravid. He says President Trump is [00:26:10] continuing to press for cancelling [00:26:12] Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial [00:26:14] and hints that he could suspend military [00:26:17] aid to Israel if the trial continues. [00:26:20] This is an unprecedented threat, Ravid [00:26:22] says, in the USIsraeli relationship. [00:26:25] This is incredibly important because it [00:26:27] telegraphs everything that Trump it [00:26:30] underpins everything that's not said [00:26:32] publicly about the Trump Netanyahu [00:26:34] relationship. [00:26:37] So, let's get this straight, folks. [00:26:40] Trump said [00:26:42] he will directly intervene in Israeli [00:26:46] internal politics [00:26:48] by withholding military aid, not because [00:26:52] they're doing a genocide, [00:26:54] but because they're prosecuting Benjamin [00:26:57] Netanyahu. [00:27:00] So, cool. Just saying. Anyone who says [00:27:04] that we can't control Israel, we can. We [00:27:07] just did it in order to cancel or [00:27:10] postpone Benjamin Netanyahu's freaking [00:27:13] corruption trial. And let's let's go to [00:27:17] a Guardian article published today and [00:27:19] like look at it briefly. So, Israel [00:27:22] court's decision to cancel this weekend [00:27:24] week's hearing in the longunning trial [00:27:26] came after Donald Trump said the case [00:27:28] should be thrown out. [00:27:31] Look guys, this is just demonstrating he [00:27:32] is lock step with Benjamin Netanyahu on [00:27:34] this on Iran, on Gaza, on everything [00:27:38] throughout the Middle East. He is lock [00:27:41] step with Netanyahu. Netanyahu wants us [00:27:43] in war with Iran. Netanyahu does not [00:27:46] want a ceasefire in Gaza. Ergo, it's [00:27:49] reasonable to assume that Trump's [00:27:51] ultimate decision-making policies will [00:27:52] be to protect Netanyahu. Why he does [00:27:55] that, I think y'all have some theories. [00:27:58] performative effect is he's going to [00:27:59] protect Netanyahu and what Netanyahu [00:28:01] wants. More confrontation with Iran, [00:28:06] development of Gaza, and the realization [00:28:08] of a greater Israel. That starts and [00:28:11] begins with the normalization of the [00:28:14] Arab world, all the governments with [00:28:17] Israel, both politically, commercially, [00:28:19] and diplomatically. [00:28:21] Anyways, Miss Israeli court has canceled [00:28:22] this week's hearing and quote following [00:28:27] uh following these the explanations [00:28:30] given we partially accept the request [00:28:31] and cancel at this stage Mr. Netanyahu's [00:28:34] hearing scheduled for the week. The [00:28:35] Jerusalem District Court said in his [00:28:37] ruling published online by Netanyahu's [00:28:39] Lood Party. The ruling said that the new [00:28:42] reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head [00:28:43] of Israel spy agency, the MSAD and [00:28:45] military intelligence chief justified [00:28:48] cancelling the hearings. It comes after [00:28:50] Donald Trump last week called for the [00:28:51] case to be thrown out. The social media [00:28:53] post said the case against him was a [00:28:55] witch hunt should be cancelled [00:28:57] immediately or a pardon given to a great [00:29:01] hero. And of course, this all stems from [00:29:04] Netanyahu, who was indicted in 2019 of [00:29:06] charges of bribery, fraud, breach of [00:29:09] trust, all which he he denies, of [00:29:11] course, and he has cast the trial [00:29:13] against him as an orchestrated left-wing [00:29:16] witch hunt meant to topple a [00:29:17] democratically elected right-wing n uh [00:29:19] leader. All right, so real quick, in [00:29:23] terms of the Israeli political [00:29:24] landscape, there is no left-wing [00:29:26] movement there. Just like in America, [00:29:28] there is no left-wing movement. There [00:29:30] are liberal Zionists [00:29:33] who still generally support the actions [00:29:36] taken. They just don't like the [00:29:37] far-right party, but they're all locked [00:29:39] up about the war. Generally, um uh one [00:29:43] of the big major contentions between [00:29:45] what they would call the political left [00:29:46] and the far-right lood and associated [00:29:49] coalitions within in the Knesset is the [00:29:52] hostage issue. But in terms of like [00:29:55] leveling Gaza. But anyways, in one of [00:29:58] the cases, he and his wife Sarah accused [00:30:00] of accepting more than $2600,000 [00:30:04] worth of luxury goods such as cigars, [00:30:06] jewelry, and champagne from billionaires [00:30:08] in exchange for political favors. So [00:30:13] fascism, amazing. [00:30:16] So basically, Trump said Netanyahu was [00:30:19] right now negotiating a deal with Hamas, [00:30:22] though neither leader has provided [00:30:24] details as of yet, and officials from [00:30:26] both sides have voiced skepticism over [00:30:28] prospects for a ceasefire soon. There's [00:30:30] not going to be a freaking ceasefire [00:30:31] soon. On Friday, the Republican [00:30:33] president told reporters he believed the [00:30:35] ceasefire was close. Yeah, he said on [00:30:37] Friday, you know, it's going to be [00:30:38] close. We think it's going to happen by [00:30:39] the end of the week. No, it's not. [00:30:42] It's just not. uh the hollow prospects [00:30:46] for a US brokered 60-day ceasefire. [00:30:51] Guys, this is this is US policy when it [00:30:54] comes to Israel. Give them political [00:30:56] cover. Keep stringing along the [00:30:59] narrative. [00:31:01] Give them another month, another week of [00:31:03] ethnic cleansing, bro. Just one more [00:31:05] week, bro. We're good. And so what what [00:31:07] what [00:31:09] we try to do and we saw this with Iran, [00:31:12] we we strung out these nuclear talks [00:31:15] almost went into the sixth round before [00:31:18] Israel struck over the weekend a couple [00:31:20] weeks ago. [00:31:22] And why [00:31:24] why did the US do that? You know, [00:31:26] President Trump came out saying he had [00:31:27] prior prior warning. He knew that Israel [00:31:29] was going to attack, [00:31:31] but they strung out the negotiation [00:31:33] process to to low [00:31:35] the Iranian diplomatic corps and [00:31:38] military into a false sense of security [00:31:41] because no one expected the talks to uh [00:31:44] to proceed that far. And of course, it [00:31:47] was a diplomatic ploy [00:31:51] to further a military objective. And of [00:31:54] course, Trump authorized it and he got [00:31:56] on board. A lot of people I've talked to [00:31:57] in Washington DC and I do agree with [00:31:59] this analysis think that it has more to [00:32:01] do with like he was talked into it by [00:32:04] people who are like the Israeli the [00:32:06] Israelis can cut the head off the snake. [00:32:09] They can kill the Ayatollah. They can [00:32:11] kill all these military uh leaders [00:32:13] within the IRGC. They can kill the head [00:32:15] of the uh Iranian nuclear program and [00:32:18] all its physicists and destroy it. And [00:32:20] and after that happens, after Kmeni is [00:32:23] taken out, [00:32:25] uh regime collapse or regime change [00:32:27] operations can begin. And Israel [00:32:30] promised that. [00:32:33] Uh the the US neocon establishment [00:32:35] within the White House most likely [00:32:36] promised that as well. Completely [00:32:38] delusional, but this this is this [00:32:40] foreign policy is determined by ideology [00:32:42] and not rational thinking. And so he [00:32:46] went ahead with it. Also, he he he saw [00:32:49] the the strikes on Toronto and was like, [00:32:51] "You know what? That looks cool. We're [00:32:53] going to do that." And so, he struck the [00:32:56] Iranian nuclear facilities. But in terms [00:32:57] of like the ceasefire itself, let's hear [00:33:00] from President Trump. How close is are [00:33:04] you and your administration to a deal in [00:33:07] terms of Gaza ceasefire right now? Uh, [00:33:10] often asked and I think it's close. I [00:33:13] just spoke with uh some of the people [00:33:15] involved. It's a terrible situation [00:33:17] that's going Gaza, he's he's asking [00:33:20] about and we think within the next week [00:33:22] we're going to get a ceasefire and we're [00:33:25] supplying, as you know, a lot of money [00:33:27] and a lot of food to that area because [00:33:28] we have to I mean, you have to we're in [00:33:32] theory not involved in it, but we're [00:33:33] involved because people are dying. And I [00:33:36] look at those crowds of people that have [00:33:38] no food, no anything. And you know, [00:33:40] we're the ones that are getting it [00:33:42] there. Uh some of it's being taken by [00:33:45] some bad people, you know, you give it [00:33:47] and you give it out and they're supposed [00:33:48] to be taking care of the people and they [00:33:50] end up stealing the food and selling it. [00:33:53] But uh we have a pretty good system now. [00:33:55] But uh so we're we're helping with that. [00:33:57] You see the the lines of people that [00:34:00] just get one meal essentially. Lot of uh [00:34:04] publicity because of the level of [00:34:05] brutality, right? It was it was nobody's [00:34:08] ever seen anything like it. and to be [00:34:10] involved in uh that. I mean, I consider [00:34:13] this the most important of my [00:34:14] conferences today. We just had a great [00:34:16] Supreme Court victory today and and [00:34:19] everybody would say that was big, but [00:34:21] you know, we're we're talking about [00:34:22] saving thousands and probably millions [00:34:25] of lives here. This is more important [00:34:27] than anything. So, uh it's great, but [00:34:30] we're working on Gaza trying to get it [00:34:32] taken care of. Yeah. Uh that means [00:34:35] absolutely nothing again because [00:34:38] who who in their right mind at this [00:34:41] point after watching the the deception [00:34:44] games played with the Iranian nuclear [00:34:46] deal uh to to to play cover for a [00:34:49] nuclear uh sorry a decapitation strike [00:34:53] against Iranian leadership after we did [00:34:55] the same thing to Nzraala right because [00:34:57] during the ceasefire negotiations [00:34:59] between Israel and Hezbollah US envoy to [00:35:03] Lebanon at at that time. Uh I I think [00:35:06] that was still what was his name? He was [00:35:09] that exfoldier. There there's too many [00:35:11] names for me to keep track of, but yes, [00:35:12] the US was giving political cover uh [00:35:15] making assurances to Nasra Dez Hezbollah [00:35:18] like trying to facilitate it. And it was [00:35:19] all just to buy time in order for Israel [00:35:23] to ascertain uh Nzraalla's location and [00:35:27] assassinate him. That this is how they [00:35:29] do it. This is the US's role in the [00:35:34] current uh state of affairs with regards [00:35:36] to Israel and our engagement in the [00:35:39] Middle East. And people are like, you [00:35:40] know, Israel's [00:35:42] waving the tail of the dog. No, this is [00:35:46] or sorry, the the the tail is wagging [00:35:49] the dog. But no, I always say this [00:35:51] because I don't like the whole [00:35:55] narrative about how US controls US [00:35:57] foreign policy. It exerts an undue [00:36:00] influence on US foreign policy. But at [00:36:02] the end of the day, and if you look at [00:36:03] these diplomatic moves and how the US is [00:36:05] doing it, it's clear that Israel is just [00:36:09] an extension of the US empire to conduct [00:36:12] adventurous wars and destabilization [00:36:14] operations to reshape the region into [00:36:17] vassal states that will allow Western [00:36:19] capitalists to exploit their people and [00:36:22] resources. So the United States's role [00:36:26] is to let its attack Israel disrupt Iran [00:36:29] which is a challenge to western hegemony [00:36:31] within the region to clamp down on the [00:36:34] axis of resistance to destabilize uh [00:36:37] Syria for extraction and exploitative uh [00:36:40] diplomacy diplomatic purposes to [00:36:43] normalize with the Gulf States and [00:36:45] intelligence services overthrow Iran [00:36:47] isolate China Russia like this is all [00:36:49] part of a global strategy right and our [00:36:52] role [00:36:53] as the US empire is to [00:36:57] provide political cover so our attack [00:36:59] dog can do it. And this is brings us to [00:37:02] the next point that is what's happening [00:37:06] with the ceasefire. It's just to buy [00:37:08] more time so Israel can do what it was [00:37:10] already going to do. And even though the [00:37:13] 12-day war with Iran is over, it was [00:37:16] just the first iteration of what was [00:37:19] happening. they had to end it and [00:37:20] they're preparing for round two. This is [00:37:23] not over by any stretch of the [00:37:24] imagination imagination. So, let's let's [00:37:27] talk about [00:37:29] um this from the perspective of a [00:37:32] right-wing thought leader Steve Bannon [00:37:36] uh who basically was the intellectual [00:37:39] force behind the America First movement. [00:37:43] Anyways, he has a lot of contacts within [00:37:45] the administration. He he sees Donald [00:37:48] Trump as a vehicle to [00:37:51] enact political change that he wants to [00:37:53] see in in the United States. But Steve [00:37:56] Bannon, yeah, the political strategist [00:37:57] and former adviser to Donald Trump says [00:37:59] the Israeli regime agreed to a ceasefire [00:38:01] with Iran to save itself as the [00:38:04] aggression it launched exceeded its cap [00:38:06] uh capabilities. in remarks published [00:38:08] last Wednesday [00:38:10] uh on a show Bannon's War Room. I I [00:38:13] can't listen to the guy speak, so I'm [00:38:15] just going off this article that recaps [00:38:16] it. Uh [00:38:19] he said that the US brokered ceasefire [00:38:21] with the regime unilaterally accepted [00:38:22] was not as much to save Israel. The [00:38:25] hidden story here, he says they bit off [00:38:28] way more than they could chew. They were [00:38:29] played out as uh this far, he said as [00:38:32] Iran dealt heavy blows to Israel. He [00:38:34] particularly referred to the final night [00:38:35] of Iran's retal retaliatory military [00:38:38] operation True Promise 3 when a barrage [00:38:40] of new generation missiles was launched [00:38:42] at the occupied territories resulting in [00:38:44] many casualties and widespread [00:38:45] destruction. [00:38:47] So yeah, basically he asserted that the [00:38:51] Trump uh brokered the ceasefire with [00:38:53] Iran with the help of Qar probably Oman [00:38:56] as well as the real Israeli regime was [00:38:58] running out of defensive ammunition. [00:39:01] So that's what we're doing. What we're [00:39:04] waiting for as we give diplomatic cover [00:39:07] uh to Israel [00:39:09] is they are trying to restock their [00:39:12] defensive in interceptors before another [00:39:15] iteration of a war with Iran has [00:39:17] started. So here's the problem. [00:39:21] How soon will this happen? How soon will [00:39:23] they be in a position to fight Iran [00:39:26] again? It's based off of military [00:39:29] logistical capacity. Look at this guys. [00:39:34] The real question is [00:39:37] um who can build missiles faster? Is it [00:39:43] Israel which in conjunction with Rathon [00:39:47] the American component of the Iron Dome [00:39:50] system that creates the Tamir [00:39:52] interceptor rockets is low has a supply [00:39:57] chain chokeold [00:39:59] which constrains missile output. So we [00:40:01] don't even have enough for ourselves [00:40:03] within the region. Israel definitely [00:40:05] doesn't. So who who can make the [00:40:08] missiles faster? Can Iran make the [00:40:10] ballistic missiles faster or can Israel [00:40:13] replenish its stockpiles faster? So [00:40:15] basically there are massive constraints [00:40:17] within the Israel and US [00:40:19] military-industrial base that kind of [00:40:21] makes unlikely. It seems like Iran does [00:40:23] have the upper uh hand because first of [00:40:26] all they have a completely different [00:40:27] supply chain than ours and a lot of it [00:40:29] is done in their own country. It's [00:40:32] native. It's indigenous to the Israeli [00:40:35] military the Iranian military-industrial [00:40:37] complex. We're having to outsource to [00:40:40] different countries for ours. It's [00:40:41] causing huge supply chain issues. We [00:40:43] can't get the enough rocket motors for [00:40:45] ourselves, not to mention for the Iron [00:40:47] Dome. So yeah, uh this was this was this [00:40:50] came out last week and I was reading [00:40:52] this. It was on defense news. This is [00:40:54] Rathon spokesperson saying all this. So [00:40:58] uh yeah, basically I think the the war [00:41:01] with Iran or the conflict with Iran will [00:41:05] hinge and when it what form it takes [00:41:08] with when the next iteration will happen [00:41:10] will hinge upon us fixing our industrial [00:41:14] base capacities for military conflict [00:41:17] because it's a distance conflict and [00:41:21] the two things that we pay attention to [00:41:23] are Iran's ballistic missiles and our [00:41:25] interceptors. Now, of course, why is [00:41:27] that important? It's because the [00:41:28] Israelis and not like the bombs that [00:41:32] Israel has the capacity to drop on Tran. [00:41:34] There are air operations flying out of [00:41:36] Israel, [00:41:38] uh, flying into Iranian airspace, [00:41:40] dropping munitions on Tran or Isvahan or [00:41:43] or Natans or wherever, flying back, [00:41:46] getting refueled by US strato tankers [00:41:49] over Syrian airspace and then landing [00:41:51] F-35 fighter jets back at Natavam Air [00:41:54] Force Base in Israel is way more [00:41:57] expensive and way less efficient than [00:41:59] Iran's just shooting ballistic missiles, [00:42:01] cheaper ballistic missiles across uh, [00:42:04] the mil uh Iraq and Jordanian Iraqi and [00:42:07] Jordanian airspace. So um it's really [00:42:10] just not cost-effective for the United [00:42:12] States or uh and since we're subsidizing [00:42:15] 70% of Israeli military op operations. [00:42:18] Yeah, it's basically just us. And again, [00:42:22] how how are they going to get out of [00:42:23] this? And when I say it's they're [00:42:25] deceptively weak, like Israel's the size [00:42:28] of New Jersey. It doesn't have a lot of [00:42:30] strategic depth. They can't just produce [00:42:32] these things and make them, you know, [00:42:34] materialize without the industrial base [00:42:37] or capacity. So, they're out of rocket [00:42:38] motors. And in the meantime, they signed [00:42:41] the ceasefire deal because they had to, [00:42:42] and because they will use that momentum [00:42:45] to continue to bomb Lebanon, which [00:42:47] they're doing, to occupy Syria and [00:42:50] expand their occupation of Syria, which [00:42:52] they're doing, and to level Gaza and [00:42:55] annex the entirety of the West Bank. So, [00:42:57] that's what we're looking at. And the [00:42:58] United States's role in this is to play [00:43:02] political cover until Israel restores [00:43:05] its interceptor capacity [00:43:08] and while it levels Gaza and privatizes [00:43:10] all the Gaza Strip. So we're just going [00:43:12] to string this along talking about a [00:43:15] ceasefire which will never happen as the [00:43:18] circumstances remain right now. And in [00:43:21] the meantime, there's going to ambush [00:43:24] warfare where, you know, Hamas or other [00:43:27] resistance group literally are just [00:43:29] taking out entire tank crews [00:43:32] will continue. Um, [00:43:36] yeah, I I think that's kind of like [00:43:37] where we're we're situated right now. [00:43:40] And [00:43:42] how what what does this mean for the [00:43:43] wider region? Well, we all know that [00:43:46] behind this we want a couple things. We [00:43:49] being from the IMP me speaking from the [00:43:52] Imperial perspective, [00:43:54] a lot of people within the defense [00:43:57] establishment were not happy that we [00:43:59] only did one air strike. I know you guys [00:44:01] are tracking that uh a a controlled leak [00:44:06] was given to CNN last week talking about [00:44:09] how the air strikes the US B2 bomber [00:44:12] strikes on the facil uh Fordo Natans and [00:44:18] uh Isvahan nuclear sites were not [00:44:20] effective. We didn't we set their [00:44:21] program back by a couple months like [00:44:23] like six months not years. We're not the [00:44:26] Ukra the enriched uranium is not [00:44:28] accounted for. Uh you know Israel uh we [00:44:31] we anticipate Iran withdrawing from the [00:44:34] non-prololiferation treaty uh and [00:44:36] leaving the IAEA the atomic energy [00:44:39] watchdog completely because the IAEA is [00:44:42] filled with spies and gave targeting [00:44:44] data for Iranian scientists [00:44:47] to the IDF so they could kill them. U [00:44:51] it's insane. Uh but anyways, [00:44:57] the the bottom line here would be that [00:45:02] there's these leaks were were given not [00:45:06] because they wanted to embarrass the [00:45:08] Trump administration, but because they [00:45:10] wanted to humiliate the the Trump [00:45:13] administration into [00:45:16] ramping or doing a second set of [00:45:17] strikes. We have every reason to believe [00:45:19] that these controlled leaks were not to [00:45:22] deescalate the situation by being like, [00:45:24] "Oh, yeah, it didn't work. You know, [00:45:25] what can we do?" But by trying, but by [00:45:27] wanting to escalate the situation. So, [00:45:30] it's my personal opinion that these [00:45:31] leaks that uh came in order to push the [00:45:35] war forward. Trump seems to be taking a [00:45:38] step back because again, he's not a [00:45:41] president of peace. You can't be a US [00:45:42] president and be a president of peace. [00:45:44] But he does want a normalization between [00:45:48] an expansion of the Abraham Accords [00:45:51] throughout the region and Syria is next [00:45:53] up on the list. Um, you know, there's [00:45:56] been a lot of developments there. [00:45:58] Galani or Abu Al-Shara, whatever you [00:46:01] want to call him, has been [00:46:05] conceding to Western demands in in [00:46:08] exchange for sanction relief. He's also [00:46:11] opening up uh different new trade [00:46:13] relations with Turkey. uh Turkey uh they [00:46:17] now have a bilateral trade agreement so [00:46:19] they can ship things in and out which [00:46:20] wasn't happening during the Syrian civil [00:46:23] war and that opens up trade lanes uh dur [00:46:26] down the middle corridor from Turkey [00:46:28] into the Gulf States. He definitely [00:46:31] wants regional stability [00:46:34] and also to turn like Saudi and the UAE [00:46:37] and the Gulf States into a bastion of AI [00:46:40] superdevelopment to try to rival China [00:46:42] and to bring Saudi Arabia closer uh [00:46:46] further away from BRICS nations and have [00:46:48] them sit more in the western aligned [00:46:51] sphere. And that's why they're investing [00:46:53] so much in AI technology in Saudi Arabia [00:46:55] and they're having conferences AI [00:46:57] conferences in DOA. It's not going to [00:46:58] work. they don't have there it's they're [00:47:01] they're starting too late. They can't [00:47:02] compete with China. But he definitely [00:47:03] does want to see regional peace. And I [00:47:05] think from his mind and the minds of the [00:47:07] defense establishment who also want [00:47:09] regional peace in the form of mass [00:47:11] normalization with Israel, they have to [00:47:13] they have to have Iran gone. And of [00:47:15] course, Iran falling takes, you know, [00:47:18] brings in uh [00:47:21] brings into further geopolitical uh [00:47:23] flash points like Taiwan, the isolation [00:47:26] of China, Russia, etc. However, this is [00:47:29] complicated, further complicated because [00:47:31] freaking Israeli ministers are now [00:47:33] saying that once the Iranian nuclear [00:47:36] program is dismantled, Pakistan's next [00:47:39] because they're the they're the only [00:47:41] other power in the region that they [00:47:43] actually have a nuke. They have a nuke [00:47:45] and what they have done over the past [00:47:47] month because their nuclear program was [00:47:50] geared against India. Pakistan was. I'm [00:47:52] not going to talk about the history of [00:47:53] the partition, but it was geared towards [00:47:56] India and that's it. Now, after Libya [00:47:59] and this Operation Midnight Hammer [00:48:02] strike on Iranian nuclear facilities in [00:48:04] conjunction with Israeli ministers and [00:48:07] think tank professors coming out and [00:48:09] saying, "We need to dismantle Pakistan [00:48:11] after we have regime change in Iran [00:48:14] because they're a Muslim country that [00:48:16] can deter them within the region." And [00:48:19] so now Pakistan has announced that [00:48:21] they're because they don't have a [00:48:23] delivery uh method beyond short range [00:48:27] missiles that would hit anywhere in [00:48:28] India. They can't reach Israel. They [00:48:31] can't reach the United States. And now [00:48:33] the only way to be safe is to ramp up to [00:48:36] proliferate your nuclear program. So [00:48:38] they're developing ICBM intercontinental [00:48:40] ballistic missile technology now as a [00:48:42] deterrent against US and Israeli [00:48:45] aggression. So, has this stabilized the [00:48:49] region? No. They want chaos that they [00:48:53] can control, but as we've seen, the US [00:48:56] is never able to control the chaos that [00:49:00] it creates. Um, hey guys, we're going to [00:49:02] have like 10 minutes. If you want to [00:49:03] post questions in there, I'll look uh [00:49:07] I'll look uh I'll try to try to find [00:49:09] some of those questions in there, but we [00:49:11] got like 10 minutes left. So yeah, it [00:49:14] really hasn't stabilized anything. [00:49:16] But from their line of thinking within [00:49:19] the established defense establishment, [00:49:21] yes, we want peace and stability [00:49:23] throughout the Middle East, but Iran has [00:49:25] to go first. It's a capitalist mission. [00:49:28] It's a Zionist mission. It's an [00:49:29] evangelical mission. And it's completely [00:49:31] ideological neoonservative [00:49:34] mission to collapse Iran and reinstall [00:49:37] kind of like a bajgeois dictator that's [00:49:41] subservient to western hegemonic [00:49:42] interests within central Asia in West [00:49:44] Asia or complete regime collapse. Allah [00:49:49] Libya um and eventually Syria. But in [00:49:53] the meantime uh they're going to [00:49:55] continue their pressure campaign. They [00:49:58] might resume nuclear talks again as a [00:50:02] part of diplomatic cover and political [00:50:04] theater for Israel to get it reestablish [00:50:06] its deterrence and to continue its [00:50:09] leveling of Gaza. So uh when do I think [00:50:13] someone just asked okay let me let me [00:50:15] add that. [00:50:17] Yeah. Okay. First of all someone just [00:50:19] said yeah they'll replace him with the [00:50:20] Sha's son or who would they replace him [00:50:22] with? Yeah. Reza Palavi. [00:50:25] No, I mean he is a C the the Sha's son [00:50:28] grandson is a CIA asset. Uh but it's [00:50:34] long past the point where the Iranian [00:50:35] people would like settle for another [00:50:37] bgeois monarch at this junction. So, [00:50:42] okay, getting some questions here. [00:50:49] Okay. Someone brought in the Pakistan [00:50:51] Peace Prize. Um, [00:50:54] oh, I don't have a question. Just want [00:50:56] to extend my sincere gratitude for my [00:50:58] activism. Oh, thank you so much. We'll [00:51:01] continue. [00:51:03] And anyways, okay. So, that's where [00:51:06] things stand right now. just wanted to [00:51:07] get on here talk about the GHF, the Gaza [00:51:10] massacres, uh the Iran nuc Iranian [00:51:14] nuclear talks and Trump because I want [00:51:17] to disabuse everybody of the notion that [00:51:19] these ceasefire talks that these Iranian [00:51:22] nuclear talks are in any way made in [00:51:24] good faith. They are not. They are [00:51:26] political theater meant to continue to [00:51:28] drag out this crisis, genocide, and to [00:51:32] collapse the Iranian regime. I was on [00:51:33] TRT World [00:51:36] um [00:51:38] what was it two weeks ago and I told the [00:51:41] anchor that you know they're looking to [00:51:43] assassinate the Ayatollah both the CIA [00:51:46] and MSAD and he was just like what are [00:51:48] you serious obviously obviously a [00:51:52] military invasion is nonviable how else [00:51:55] are they going to collapse the regime [00:51:56] without like their fascination with [00:51:58] decapitation strikes and then of course [00:52:01] the next week Israel cats the uh Israeli [00:52:03] defense minister came out and said uh [00:52:06] yeah we we were looking to assassinate [00:52:08] the Ayatollah but we couldn't get to [00:52:10] them. So that would be a next level [00:52:14] precedent. You know they they [00:52:16] assassinated Ismael Haneia in Thran. [00:52:18] They bombed a consulate in Damascus, an [00:52:20] Iranian consulate in Damascus. um [00:52:24] assassinated Nasalla, a politically [00:52:27] elected leader who was actually a [00:52:31] civilian, not a military leader. So [00:52:33] would Israel assassinate the head of a [00:52:37] state? Of course. And they'd brag about [00:52:40] it [00:52:41] because like there's nothing that they [00:52:43] won't normalize and they'd get away with [00:52:44] it too. So yeah, they are looking to do [00:52:46] that. But just want to do this episode [00:52:50] to explain what the Trump's position [00:52:52] what what the Trump what Trump's [00:52:53] position is. You know, it's political [00:52:56] theater and he's going to back Israel no [00:52:57] matter what. And you can say it's the [00:52:59] Epstein files. Not really. I mean, even [00:53:01] without the Epstein files, um, [00:53:06] or whether or not he's in them, I don't [00:53:07] really care. just from the sake of for [00:53:10] the sake of capitalist interest and [00:53:12] imperialist interest. This would be [00:53:13] happening even if they didn't have [00:53:16] blackmail on him or other people within [00:53:18] the administration. So, all right, I [00:53:21] started some questions. [00:53:23] All right. [00:53:26] When do you think Netanyahu's trial will [00:53:28] resume? [00:53:30] Um, it's postponed for a little bit. [00:53:35] uh when it resumes. [00:53:37] I mean, the the the trial will resume, I [00:53:39] think it's clear, until all the fighting [00:53:42] stops. All the fighting will not stop if [00:53:45] Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, who [00:53:48] supports him unconditionally, [00:53:51] has anything to say about it. So, I [00:53:54] think the trial is an important thing to [00:53:56] talk about, but it's really not going to [00:53:59] affect [00:54:01] materially what's happening. uh it of [00:54:04] course you know it's causing fractions [00:54:06] and fractures within uh the voter base [00:54:09] and the citizenry of Israel but in terms [00:54:12] of military action uh stopping the [00:54:15] genocide uh taking a more dove-like [00:54:18] approach to Iran nothing nothing at all [00:54:22] uh and so that's why I don't think the [00:54:25] the the talks or the the trials really [00:54:27] materially important to this at all at [00:54:30] this juncture Greg do you think that [00:54:32] Israel [00:54:33] and America's focus on decapitation [00:54:35] campaigns that tell that they themselves [00:54:37] are vulnerable to decapitation attacks [00:54:39] i.e. relying on cults of personality? [00:54:42] Not necessarily. I think the US has [00:54:45] always been obsessed and Israeli uh more [00:54:48] so uh military and intelligence [00:54:51] apparatus has always been uh obsessed [00:54:53] with it decapitation strike. It doesn't [00:54:56] work. Didn't work in Vietnam. [00:54:58] Didn't work during the global war on [00:55:00] terror. like all these decentralized [00:55:03] networks and stuff, you know, [00:55:07] they they think it will collapse [00:55:10] um the political identity and the [00:55:13] solidarity within these organizations [00:55:15] and they'll all fall to infighting. But [00:55:19] this is, you know, they're they're not [00:55:21] new to this freaking rodeo. This isn't [00:55:23] their first rodeo. They they know that, [00:55:24] you know, once their leaders are [00:55:26] assassinated, [00:55:27] um they they expect Israel to exploit [00:55:30] divisions. And so, generally, you see a [00:55:32] rally around the flag effect. And also, [00:55:35] um they're they're basically clutching [00:55:37] at this decapitation strike doctrine [00:55:40] because we can't invade militarily. We [00:55:42] can't bomb Iran into destruction. We [00:55:45] don't have enough bombs. We don't even [00:55:46] have enough bombs to level Gaza. So, I [00:55:49] mean, at least not for a while. So, what [00:55:51] are we going to do? Decapitation strike [00:55:53] is the only strategy that we have that [00:55:56] we can pitch to people and it won't [00:55:58] work. It just won't work, guys. So, um, [00:56:02] is the US vulnerable to decapitation [00:56:04] attacks? Not really. [00:56:08] It wouldn't change. Like if if Trump got [00:56:09] xed out by some weird sketchy situation [00:56:13] with, you know, a really bad shooter who [00:56:17] didn't even qualify for his high school [00:56:19] shooting team uh happens and he gets [00:56:22] taken out like JFK did. The machine of [00:56:26] Empire will keep rolling right along. [00:56:28] You know, we've had presidents [00:56:30] assassinated and shot before. Doesn't [00:56:32] really No. again because decapitation [00:56:35] strikes aren't all that they are cut out [00:56:37] to be whether it's United States [00:56:39] government or the Iranian government. [00:56:42] Um, and I will say that Israel's motus [00:56:46] operandi, the MSAD's Otus uh, modus [00:56:48] operandi because they're murder [00:56:50] incorporated [00:56:52] is to basically if they can't collapse [00:56:55] the system or the organization to kill [00:56:58] every person and work their way down the [00:57:01] hierarchy until they find someone who [00:57:03] will capitulate to them and uh, [00:57:07] basically give them diplomatic [00:57:09] concessions [00:57:11] in exchange exchange for not being [00:57:12] murdered by the MSADA. So, that's kind [00:57:14] of what happened with Hezbollah. And [00:57:15] some people were kind of surprised that [00:57:18] Iran accepted the ceasefire. [00:57:21] Uh I'm not uh or disappointed because [00:57:25] they're putting a lot of pressure on [00:57:26] Israel militarily, but you have to [00:57:28] understand they didn't want this war. [00:57:30] They don't want a war. They there's a [00:57:31] lot of difficult internal politics going [00:57:34] on with Iran and they don't want a war. [00:57:37] U they want sanctions relief from the [00:57:40] United States. there's a lot of other [00:57:42] things going on than just collapsing [00:57:44] Israel. And of course, you know, um they [00:57:46] didn't like Russia, China, Pakistan, all [00:57:50] these regional and global players didn't [00:57:52] want this to escalate at all. So yeah, [00:57:55] um can you explain why Pakistan just [00:57:57] nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize [00:58:00] in the context of the recent move to [00:58:02] develop ICBM tech to push back to US and [00:58:05] Israeli aggression? [00:58:08] Yeah guys again this is the main this is [00:58:11] the main trend of [00:58:15] this episode sorry main theme of this [00:58:16] episode it's political theater all right [00:58:19] yeah so Pakistan is playing and of [00:58:22] course there are different ideological [00:58:25] factions within the Pakistani [00:58:26] intelligence service and political um [00:58:29] military establishment but it's [00:58:32] political theater so what they nominate [00:58:34] you know Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize [00:58:37] So he kind of gets flattered and [00:58:39] Pakistan seems like they're more, you [00:58:42] know, open to, you know, the West when [00:58:43] in reality they're developing um a an [00:58:47] escalatory nuclear deterrent. So yeah, [00:58:50] okay, they can nominate him for a Nobel [00:58:52] Peace Prize, but what are they actually [00:58:54] doing behind the scenes? They're [00:58:55] protecting their own interests just like [00:58:57] any other country would by flattering [00:59:00] Trump, which he loves. we all know he [00:59:02] wants the Nobel Peace Prize while also [00:59:06] um heightening their national security [00:59:08] apparatus. [00:59:10] So this is this is how diplomacy works [00:59:13] in the the brave new world. So anyways [00:59:16] guys, uh just wanted to get back to Gaza [00:59:19] because this is now central to [00:59:21] everything that's happening within the [00:59:23] region in terms of how the this [00:59:26] iteration with Iran in terms of the [00:59:29] distance conflict is done for now. It [00:59:32] will ignite again most likely. Uh the [00:59:35] Trump administration will continue to [00:59:37] push for [00:59:39] uh pan-Arab normalization with Israel in [00:59:41] conjunction with regime change or [00:59:45] collapse operations [00:59:47] in Persia or uh with in in Iran. and he [00:59:51] will continue to provide political cover [00:59:53] for Trump or for Netanyahu to do what [00:59:56] Netanyahu does best, which is to kill, [00:59:59] expand, and [01:00:02] see a messianic vision of a greater [01:00:04] Israel. All right, guys. I hope that we [01:00:08] touched on a number of subjects. I hope [01:00:10] that was helpful and informative. This [01:00:12] concludes our live stream here on Mress [01:00:16] News. We are actually going back to [01:00:18] twice a week with these Monday and [01:00:22] Thursday. 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