October 8, 2025 • 6 mins
Jeffrey Lichtman talks with Mendte in the Morning about the ongoing peace talks between Israel and Hamas and Zohran Mamdani’s October 7th statement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to Jeffrey Lichtman, high profile criminal defense attorney,
host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast found in the
iHeartRadio app And Jeffrey, I definitely want to talk about
what is going on with the peace talks with Hamas,
but before I do that, I want to get a
comment from you about Zorin Mamdani releasing this statement condemning
(00:20):
Israel and what's happening in Gaza on October seventh, and
there doesn't seem to me, at least to me, to
be the outrage there should be for this.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What are your feelings today? Well, the reason he's doing
it is obvious because he knows that he'll get him
more votes. I mean, he could have kept his mouth
shut is to try to protect him if he felt
that it would cost them votes. But he knows that
New York City is far left, is very antisemitic, so
he knows that the more jew hate that he spoos,
the more votes he's going to get. So that's why
(00:52):
there's no outrage for that very reason is that people
support that kind of language. That's what New York City
has become. And that's what's going to be delightful, is
that all of these people that hate Jews so much
that they're allowing this some moss piece of garbage, this leftist,
communist pile of crap. They deserve him, Let him destroy
(01:13):
New York City, and all these jew haters that thought
it was a great idea, They're going to go down
the toilet with them. It's great.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The thing I don't understand, Jeffrey, and I hope you're
wrong about that, by the way, But the thing I
don't understand, Jeffrey, is how half of the voters out
there who are Jewish are going to vote for him.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's because their religion is not Judaism, it's leftism. Well,
let's be honest. I mean, they don't Judaism in Israel
means nothing to them. All they care about is they're
they're leftist ideals. I think probably very further along in
terms of problems with that is that look at what
he's running against. I mean, Cuomo is a horrible human being,
(01:57):
just absolutely the worst. Eric Adams is Amal who belongs
in a cage kurtisliwa nice guy, utterly useless, can't win
an election, and refuses to drop out. So there's no
chance that anybody I suppose these liberals would find any
of the other choices palpable. They can't. But it really
(02:19):
doesn't make a difference. It's no excuse. I mean, your
position is correct. The guy is a Hamas supporter. He's
openly supported Hamas. He's written a rap song praising Hamas.
You'd think that would be enough for the Jews, but
it's not just the Jews that are doing it's everybody
in New York City. They deserve it. It's going to
be wonderful to watch New York City burn to a ground,
(02:40):
to the ground They've got. The Hamas supporters are marching
in the streets, completely unmolested by Eric Adams NYPD. They're
waiving Hamas flags. Nobody seems to care. This is what
New York City is a couple of decades after nine
to eleven. The place needs to burn to the ground.
That it will.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I know you have said on this air time and
time again you would like to see Israel go into
Gaza and just finish the job with Hamas. Now Hamas
has come to the peace talks and they're negotiating a
peace settlement. What do you think is going to happen?
And how do you feel about possibly Hamas stepping down
(03:20):
and leaving Gaza.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's never gonna happen. I mean, I don't know how
any Look, nobody's this dumb to actually believe that Hamas
is going to agree with Trump's peace plans. They already have.
They've already said that they're not going to disarm, and
they agreed to a couple of the things on Trump's list.
But they somehow ignored the part that says that they
have of disarm and leave Gaza. Here's the question, Larry.
(03:44):
When they're exchanging prisoner lists right now, some of the
people on Hamas's list are the biggest maniac terror leaders
that are in Israeli jails, many of them, most of
them are not in Hamas. Why would they be asking
for these terror leaders if not to try to improve
their standing among the Palestinian public, which is just as
(04:06):
crazy and zealous as they are. They're doing it because
they want They expect to continue to run gossip. They're
not leaving. When Trump gave his first ultimatum last December,
if all the hostages aren't released by January twentieth, there's
going to be hell to pay. Of course, they ignored,
and they laughed in his face and they didn't release
(04:26):
any of them. Then a couple of weeks ago, he said,
if they don't agree with my plan, there's going They're
going to be paying in hell. So there's well, and
of course they laughed and ignored them. Again. They haven't
agreed to other than a couple of points. So all
we know is that somebody in hell is getting paid
or or somebody is going to be paying something in hell.
(04:49):
Nothing happened. They know the Trump is full of it.
There's These are the people that on October seventh lottery
forget that they were shooting children in the face, gating
them on fire. They were raping corpses, and the Palestinian
public that was with them, which dominated the numbers of
terrorists that were there. There were more people from the
(05:10):
Palestinian public than Hamas. They loved it, they cheered it,
they joined in it. They were treated as heroes amas
when they got back with the bodies that alive and
dead of Israelis. They are not going to this arm
So Trump can talk about how great this is and
how he's making peace. He's not making peace. They're never
(05:30):
going to stop it. I've got a question the Houthis
continued to send missiles at Israel. That's Iran, that's one
of Iran's proxies. Does that sound like they're ready to
look for peace? Does Iran sound like they're looking for peace?
What should have happened is Trump, he's terrified for there
ever to be a war longer than it has to be.
(05:51):
Should have allowed Israel to finish off the mulls in Iran.
Then all the support for the Huthis and Hamas ends.
He should have allowed Israel to finish off Hesbel and Lebanon. Whoops,
he stopped that as well because he doesn't want the
full blown war. Same thing with Hamas and Gaza. Trump
just refuses to finish this off, and he's expecting the
next administration that'll be their problem. Anybody saying knows that
(06:16):
there is never going to be peace. Hamas is telling
you they're not leaving the strip, So how do you
get them to leave the strip? You have to let
Israel go in finish them off. When a white flag
is raised, that's when it ends. You will never have peace.
If you keep kicking the can down the road. Hamas
is telling you, we're not leaving, and we're not disarming.
(06:37):
How much more do you have to hear Larry before
you realize that if there is a so called ceasefire now,
it's just a countdown until the next war.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, Jeffrey, as USU, you will. I pray you're wrong,
and I fear you're right. Jeffrey Lickman is the high
profile criminal defense attorney. He's with US every Wednesday at
this time.
Let's get to Jeffrey Lichtman, high profile criminal defense attorney,
host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast found in the
iHeartRadio app And Jeffrey, I definitely want to talk about
what is going on with the peace talks with Hamas,
but before I do that, I want to get a
comment from you about Zorin Mamdani releasing this statement condemning
(00:20):
Israel and what's happening in Gaza on October seventh, and
there doesn't seem to me, at least to me, to
be the outrage there should be for this.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What are your feelings today? Well, the reason he's doing
it is obvious because he knows that he'll get him
more votes. I mean, he could have kept his mouth
shut is to try to protect him if he felt
that it would cost them votes. But he knows that
New York City is far left, is very antisemitic, so
he knows that the more jew hate that he spoos,
the more votes he's going to get. So that's why
(00:52):
there's no outrage for that very reason is that people
support that kind of language. That's what New York City
has become. And that's what's going to be delightful, is
that all of these people that hate Jews so much
that they're allowing this some moss piece of garbage, this leftist,
communist pile of crap. They deserve him, Let him destroy
(01:13):
New York City, and all these jew haters that thought
it was a great idea, They're going to go down
the toilet with them. It's great.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The thing I don't understand, Jeffrey, and I hope you're
wrong about that, by the way, But the thing I
don't understand, Jeffrey, is how half of the voters out
there who are Jewish are going to vote for him.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's because their religion is not Judaism, it's leftism. Well,
let's be honest. I mean, they don't Judaism in Israel
means nothing to them. All they care about is they're
they're leftist ideals. I think probably very further along in
terms of problems with that is that look at what
he's running against. I mean, Cuomo is a horrible human being,
(01:57):
just absolutely the worst. Eric Adams is Amal who belongs
in a cage kurtisliwa nice guy, utterly useless, can't win
an election, and refuses to drop out. So there's no
chance that anybody I suppose these liberals would find any
of the other choices palpable. They can't. But it really
(02:19):
doesn't make a difference. It's no excuse. I mean, your
position is correct. The guy is a Hamas supporter. He's
openly supported Hamas. He's written a rap song praising Hamas.
You'd think that would be enough for the Jews, but
it's not just the Jews that are doing it's everybody
in New York City. They deserve it. It's going to
be wonderful to watch New York City burn to a ground,
(02:40):
to the ground They've got. The Hamas supporters are marching
in the streets, completely unmolested by Eric Adams NYPD. They're
waiving Hamas flags. Nobody seems to care. This is what
New York City is a couple of decades after nine
to eleven. The place needs to burn to the ground.
That it will.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I know you have said on this air time and
time again you would like to see Israel go into
Gaza and just finish the job with Hamas. Now Hamas
has come to the peace talks and they're negotiating a
peace settlement. What do you think is going to happen?
And how do you feel about possibly Hamas stepping down
(03:20):
and leaving Gaza.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's never gonna happen. I mean, I don't know how
any Look, nobody's this dumb to actually believe that Hamas
is going to agree with Trump's peace plans. They already have.
They've already said that they're not going to disarm, and
they agreed to a couple of the things on Trump's list.
But they somehow ignored the part that says that they
have of disarm and leave Gaza. Here's the question, Larry.
(03:44):
When they're exchanging prisoner lists right now, some of the
people on Hamas's list are the biggest maniac terror leaders
that are in Israeli jails, many of them, most of
them are not in Hamas. Why would they be asking
for these terror leaders if not to try to improve
their standing among the Palestinian public, which is just as
(04:06):
crazy and zealous as they are. They're doing it because
they want They expect to continue to run gossip. They're
not leaving. When Trump gave his first ultimatum last December,
if all the hostages aren't released by January twentieth, there's
going to be hell to pay. Of course, they ignored,
and they laughed in his face and they didn't release
(04:26):
any of them. Then a couple of weeks ago, he said,
if they don't agree with my plan, there's going They're
going to be paying in hell. So there's well, and
of course they laughed and ignored them. Again. They haven't
agreed to other than a couple of points. So all
we know is that somebody in hell is getting paid
or or somebody is going to be paying something in hell.
(04:49):
Nothing happened. They know the Trump is full of it.
There's These are the people that on October seventh lottery
forget that they were shooting children in the face, gating
them on fire. They were raping corpses, and the Palestinian
public that was with them, which dominated the numbers of
terrorists that were there. There were more people from the
(05:10):
Palestinian public than Hamas. They loved it, they cheered it,
they joined in it. They were treated as heroes amas
when they got back with the bodies that alive and
dead of Israelis. They are not going to this arm
So Trump can talk about how great this is and
how he's making peace. He's not making peace. They're never
(05:30):
going to stop it. I've got a question the Houthis
continued to send missiles at Israel. That's Iran, that's one
of Iran's proxies. Does that sound like they're ready to
look for peace? Does Iran sound like they're looking for peace?
What should have happened is Trump, he's terrified for there
ever to be a war longer than it has to be.
(05:51):
Should have allowed Israel to finish off the mulls in Iran.
Then all the support for the Huthis and Hamas ends.
He should have allowed Israel to finish off Hesbel and Lebanon. Whoops,
he stopped that as well because he doesn't want the
full blown war. Same thing with Hamas and Gaza. Trump
just refuses to finish this off, and he's expecting the
next administration that'll be their problem. Anybody saying knows that
(06:16):
there is never going to be peace. Hamas is telling
you they're not leaving the strip, So how do you
get them to leave the strip? You have to let
Israel go in finish them off. When a white flag
is raised, that's when it ends. You will never have peace.
If you keep kicking the can down the road. Hamas
is telling you, we're not leaving, and we're not disarming.
(06:37):
How much more do you have to hear Larry before
you realize that if there is a so called ceasefire now,
it's just a countdown until the next war.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, Jeffrey, as USU, you will. I pray you're wrong,
and I fear you're right. Jeffrey Lickman is the high
profile criminal defense attorney. He's with US every Wednesday at
this time.
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