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Episode Transcript

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H m m. Hey everyone towelcome to the Politically Correct Podcast. I'm

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Jim Williams and uh it's Friday.It's the seventh day of the war between
Israel and Hamas. We have alot of headlines, a lot of things
to get to and I think it'simportant that as we do in all of
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input in our show. Okay,because it's your show too. So what
we'd like to do before we getinto what's going on in Israel with regards

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to the war, is we goto our friend Alan Levy, who is
a spokesperson for Israeli government and wegive you his latest and this comes from
this morning, his latest update andhis latest press briefing. So here's the
press briefing with questions, any answers. It's unedited, and we'll give that

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to you. Then we'll on thebackside. We'll come back and we will
begin the process of letting you knowwhat's going on with the war, both
from an Israeli standpoint and from what'sgoing on here in the US. Okay,
so let's start with our buddy ElonLevy from the press briefing he did
this morning. Good afternoon everyone.I'm Israeli government spokesman Aylon Levy. This

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is day seventy of the October seventhwar. Lots of updates today, and
then I will take your questions.We'll start with the latest figures. To
date, over one two hundred victimsof the ten to seven massacre have been
identified and ten thousand, nine hundredand thirty nine people have since been evacuated
to hospitals. Since the start ofthe war, Hamasas fired over twelve thousand,

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five hundred rockets at Israeli communities,with over two thousand misfiring. The
large majority falling inside Gaza and causinguntold damage and casualties there. The IDF
has notified families of the deaths offour hundred and forty nine soldiers Idea fatalities
have risen by four since yesterday's update. That includes two soldiers who fell in

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battle over the last twenty four hours, Sergeant oz Schmuel Aradi, aged only
nineteen, and seant Sergeant first ClassReserve's chai Uriel Pizem, who became a
father only three weeks ago. Andthat death toll includes two nineteen year old
soldiers who were abducted on ten toseven and murdered in captivity and whose bodies

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the IDF only recently rescued and recoveredfrom Gaza. Corporal Nick Beizer and the
late Sergeant Ron Sherman Our thoughts arewith their families at this impossible time of
Greek An update on the hostage crisis. Hamas is still holding one hundred and
thirty two people hostage since ten seven, in addition to four hostages from before.

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That hostage count has been revised downby three since yesterday's update. In
addition to recovering the bodies of murderedhostages, Corporal Nick Beizer and Sergeant Ron
Sherman. The IDF also recovered thebody of dual Israeli French national Elia Toledano,
age twenty eight, who was abductedfrom the Nova Music Festival and murdered

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in Hamas captivity. Among the remainingone hundred and thirty two hostages in the
Hamas Terra dungeons are one hundred andthirteen males and nineteen females. There are
two children under eighteen, the bbus infants and ten people over seventy five.
One hundred and twenty one of thehostages are Israelis, another eleven foreign

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nationals. Of the one hundred andthirty two hostages, twenty have since been
murdered and Hamas is holding their bodies. There are one hundred and ten survivors
of Hamas captivity, eighty six foreignerssorry, eighty six Israelis and twenty four
foreigners. A further eight hostages weremurdered in captivity, with their bodies since

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repatriated. There are still five missingpersons. Since ten seven some operational updates,
Israeli forces continue to target Hamas terroristsin their strongholds, even as they
fight in civilian dress out of civilianbuildings in northern Gaza. IDF forces have
secured and destroyed the Hamas Shajaia Battalion'scommand and control center, having already eliminated

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the battalion's commander and then his replacementin carn Unis, IDF troops have been
conducting targeted raids on terror infrastructure,killing terrorists, destroying weapons compounds, and
locating tunnel shafts containing motorbikes used inthe ten seven massacre. Israel continues to
target Hamas terrorists hiding underground, turningtheir terrors tunnels into death traps. Last

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night, the IDF and shin Bedreleased special footage from an operation by the
Combat Engineering Yahalom unit to kill terroristsin a major tunnel. This week,
the Israeli Air Force has also targetedand destroyed Hamas military assets located along the
border between Gaza and Egypt. Hamashad used those assets to smuggle weapons into

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Gaza, and their destruction will nowhinder Hamas's attempts to re arm. There
will be no hiding place for theten to seven monsters. Humanitarian update.
The Kerem Shalom crossing has been openedsince December twelfth for inspections of AID trucks.
In addition to Nitsana that moves makesit possible to more than double shipments

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of humanitarian necessities into Gaza in recentdays. Equipment and personnel have also entered
for the Emirati and Jordanian field hospitals. It will, of course be possible
to expedite AID shipments to civilians inGaza if Hamas stops stealing it and if
the UN is able to distribute itat the pace that Israel is inspecting it.
An update from the Northern Front.Hesbala continues its unprovoked aggression against Israeli

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communities. Since October seventh, Hesbalahas fired hundreds of rockets and missiles at
Israel from Lebanon in flagrant violation ofUN Security Council Resolution seventeen oh one.
Its entire presence south of the LitaniRiver is a flagrant violation of that resolution.
By the way, one in fiveof those Hesbala rockets has fallen short

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inside Lebanese territory, calling unknown damageto Lebanese civilians as they try to inflict
maximum damage on Israeli civilians. TheIDF will continue to defend Israel's northern border
against any threat striking and destroying Hasbalaterror infrastructure and operatives in Lebanon. We
repeat our consistent warning if Hezbala dragsIsrael into a full scale war, which

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we do not want, it willbe making the mistake of a lifetime and
the consequences for both Hezbala and Lebanonwill be severe. Some diplomatic updates Prime
Minister Benjamin Nettannia who met yesterday withour friend US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
The Prime Minister expressed his great appreciationfor the U S support for Israel

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and the supply of munitions needed todefeat Hamas after ten to seven blocking attempts
at the UN to try to keepHamas in power and assisting in securing the
return of our hostages. Prime MinisterNetanyahu reaffirmed that Israel stands more determined than
ever to continue fighting until we achieveour common goals with our American allies,

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the elimination of Hamas and the releaseof the hostages, in other words,
total victory. The Prime also discussedthe continuation of humanitarian assistance to the non
combatant population in Gaza and threats tothe Israeli people from the North and South
from proxy forces of Iran's Axis ofEvil. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who

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also met yesterday with the President ofthe Red Cross, Miranaspoliarich. In their
meeting, he gave her a boxof vital medicines for the hostages in Gaza
and demanded that the Red Cross doits job and deliver it to them.
The Prime Minister told Missus Spoliaritic aboutHamas's brutal atrocities on ten to seven and
the inhumane conditions of the Hamas terrordungeons. The Prime Minister expressed his gratitude

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for the Red Cross's help in securingthe release of hostages and criticize certain statements
coming out of the agency which failedto make the distinction between Hamas's deliberate and
systematic acts of murder and the unintendedcasualties in this war which Hamas started and
is waging out of urban areas,trying to use civilians as human shields.

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The Red Cross must demand unconditional accessto those vulnerable hostages, not subject to
practical details to be agreed with Hamas. As the Red Cross President suggested,
we condemn in the strongest possible terms. These shameful statements by international officials trying
to deflect blame onto Israel to coverup the fact that they have been covering

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up for Hamas. Specifically, wewish to call out the Red Cross's chief
legal officer, Cordela Drug who falselyclaim that Israel is almost totally depriving civilians
in Gaza of food, water,and medical supplies. Let's be clear,
doctor Droga is not telling the truth. Israel has excess capacity to inspect AID

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trucks and has placed zero restrictions onthe entry of humanitarian necessities into Gaza.
The backlog is that the rapha crossingand inside Gaza, with UN agencies unable
to distribute AID at the pace thatIsrael is inspecting it, and of course,
with Hamas stealing that aid. Sadly, the Red Cross is doing everything
to avoid admitting that Hamas steals aidand wages war from inside hospitals. That

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must change. These statements also clearlygo against the Red Cross's own principles of
neutrality and confidentiality. While the RedCross openly criticizes Israel, a democratic state
with a law abiding military, ithas yet to utter one condemnation of hamas's
systematic violations of international law, includingits militarization of the very hospitals that the

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Red Cross Funds and Works had.How could they not know? And now
that they do, now, whydo they not speak out? It's not
particularly difficult. Finally, his starkreminder of Hamas's threat to global security.
Yesterday's security agencies in Denmark thwarted aterror attack that would have killed innocent civilians
on European soil, arresting seven terroristsacting on behalf of Hamas. Since ten

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to seven, HAMAS has been steppingup its attempts to expand its attacks against
Israelis, Jews, and other Westerntargets around the world. Israel is fighting
on the front lines of humanity,and Hamas is coming for you too.
The West is next. The samemonsters who intentionally and methodically burned, beheaded

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and raped Israelis on ten to sevenwould gladly globalize their in Tifada as protesters
on campuses and streets around the Westare calling for. They aim to sow
terror on the streets of Western capitals, and the whole world must be vigilant
and stand in solidarity with us aswe battle our common enemy. Which wants
all of us, which wants allof us alike dead. That comes to

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the end of today's update. Willnow take your question through the chat please,
first question from Adam Scott Belas theIsrael Innovation Fund. It seems like
more daylight is being seen between theUnited States and Israel when it comes to
this war, and now recently PresidentBiden stated that we have been indiscriminately bombing

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Gaza. CNN just released the reportthat almost forty percent of our bombs are
unguided, quoting many people who criticizethis tactic as well. Does the Prime
Minister's office have any comment about theseunguided bombs or the recent remarks coming out
of the White House related to this. Thank you Adam for your questions.

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As for your first question about thetiming of this war, Israel and the
United States are fully aligned on ourmission to destroy Hamas. The only clock
that matters is that every second thatHamas still exists after ten to seven,
it is a ticking time bomb.And the best way for our allies to
expedite and enter this war which Hamasstarted is to stand by us as we

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push for total victory over Hamas.The destruction of Hamas using swift, decisive,
and overwhelming force in the face ofpure evil. As for your question
about the CNN report about quote unquotedumb bombs, that's a classic example of
a sensationalist headline with a buried lead, because the very same officials the CNN

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is quoting in that report say thatIsrael is using these munitions using a tactic
that makes them just as precise asguided munitions. So you have a headline
there that is accusing Israel of beingindiscriminate or careless in its targeting of Hamas,
while you have to go about twelveparagraphs down to say that it vin
indicates the claim that Israel has beenmaking all along, that we are using

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munitions against Hamas with unprecedented precision,using all of our munitions in a way
that is precise in order to targetthe Hamas terror monsters responsible for ten to
seven, who are now planning anotherattack and doing everything we can, going
further than any military in history totry to avoid harm to civilians, despite
Hamas's best efforts to maximize civilian casualties, because that's part of Hamas's sick ploy

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to maximize casualties try to get internationalsympathy, to garner diplomatic pressure to try
to stop Israel defending itself, andwe're going to continue with that unprecedented precision
all the way to total victory.Question from Junko yasmin utmaskin how many dead
bodies have been found this week UK. I don't have an exact breakdown for

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you based on a week by weekbasis. We can tell you that just
in the last twenty four hours,we've informed the public of three bodies that
we returned from Hamas captivity, CorporalNick Beizer and Sergeant Ron Sherman, who
were abducted on October seventh, andEliat Toledano, aged twenty eight, abducted

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from the Nova Music festival. Thatbrings us to eight hostages who are murdered
in captivity and their bodies since repatriated, and Hamas is currently holding onto the
bodies of twenty hostages. Out ofthose one hundred and thirty two, twenty
hostages we know have since been murderedin captivity, and Hamas is holding their
bodies for our ransom in sick violationof humanitarian law and every norm of humanity.

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A question from Bernard Maudler from BurningNews Network. In recent updates from
our sources in Gaza, there havebeen reports that Hamas operatives are shooting individuals
trying to access food from the eighttrucks. In this context, could you
inform us about the organizations or entitiesresponsible for ensuring that international aid reaches gazas

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as civilians. Also, is theidef's involvement limited to just inspecting aid for
contrabrand or do they play a moreactive role in distribu distribution process to prevent
such an incidence. You're right todraw attention to these horrific images that we're
seeing of Hamas gunmen requisitioning aid shipmentsinside the Gaza strip to make sure that

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their fighters remain well fed and wellstocked at the expense of civilians who need
that aid. We think it isshameful that the agencies involved in distributing that
aid, whether it's Honra Enough Saidor other agencies, have not a word
of criticism or condemnation against Hamas forstealing that aid, and instead they try
to deflect blame onto the state ofIsrael, which has placed zero restrictions on

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the import of humanitarian aid and hasmore than doubled capacities. We see that
as an attempt to deflect blame,to account for their own failures and to
cover up for the fact that Hamasis stealing aid. We genuinely ask we're
going blue in the face asking whatis so diff difficult for the international agencies
that are feigning concern for civilians inGaza to condemn the terror organization that runs

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Gaza stealing that aid. Israel inspectsaid at the Nitzana and Karamshalam crossings.
We have to scan those trucks tomake sure that Hamas isn't trying to smuggle
in weapons, and from there theygo to the Rafa border crossing with Egypt.
They enter Gaza and are then passedon to UN agencies on the ground
responsible for distributing that aid, andwe expect them to do a better job

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distributing the aid so we can getmuch more in through Rafa. The aid
is there. They need to doa better job, and we expect clear
and unequivocal condemnations of Hamas for stealingthat aid at the expense of the civilians
in Gaza who need it, becausewe do not want to see civilians in
Gaza paying any more of a pricefor Hamas's evil decision to wage war with
the October seventh massacre. Fight thatwar from inside densely populated areas it is

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trying to prevent from evacuating, shiftingthat war into the humanitarian zone. Again,
not a word of condemnation from theUN about Hamas exploiting a humanitarian zone
to shoot rockets, and now aswe see stealing aid from the people who,
as these agencies constantly remind us desperatelyneeded. Question from Joel Pollock Brightbart
News Jake Sullivan said yesterday that Israelmust wrap up intense fighting in weeks,

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not months. Does Israel believe thatthat the Biden administration is imposing a political
calendar on the war because of theupcoming US presidential election? And Joel as
I said in response to the previousquestion, Israel and the United States are
fully aligned on the mission to destroyHamas. That has been consistent since ten
seven. The only clock that mattersis that every second Hamas still exists after

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the ten to seven, dedicting timebomb that we must diffuse or it will
explode in our faces again. Andthe best way for our allies to expedite
and enter this war which Hammas startedand we also want to see over but
needs to be over. With theend of Hamas is to stand bias as
we push for total victory over Hummas, the total destruction of Hammas using swift,
decisive and overwhelming force in the faceof what the United States has defined

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as pure evil. Question from JimWilliams Zenger, International News Service, Washington,
d C. Does the international doesthe Israeli government share the view of
the US that Israel is clearly winningthe war against Amas? But is Israel
and the U, as the USdid in Afghanistan, losing the messaging war

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on the world stage by how weare Israel is fighting the war in Gaza
and how it's being reported. Firstof all, Israel is clearly winning the
war right now, under the directionof Prime Minister Netanyahu and the War Cabinet,
we are making major achievements towards achievingthe goals of this war. We
have already significantly degraded Hamas's capabilities insideGaza. We see that with the dramatic

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drop in rocket fire towards Israel.We see that with the destruction of their
military assets. We see that withthe mass surrender of Hamas terrorists just yesterday
seventy emerging from the Amaladwan hospital innorthern Gaza. We've made large strides towards
the other goal of the war ofbringing back the hostages. With one hundred
and ten coming back to Israel notenough. We still need to bring back

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the other one hundred and thirty twoand we are committed to that pledge of
no one left behind. And ourjob is to remind the world of exactly
what it knew on ten to seven, as news began to emerge of the
acts of burning, beheading, andrape during Hamas's systematic extermination of Israeli civilians.
As former President Obama said on themorning of ten seven, as the
news was just beginning to come out, the United States and the world must

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stand firmly by Israel as it dismantlesHamas. They know that to be true.
They've known that to be true sinceten seven. They know it to
be true despite Hamas's best efforts togenerate diplomatic pressure through creating international sympathy by
deliberately manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. And We're going to continue shining a
spotlight on Hamas's crimes against humanity andits war crimes, and on our unpressed,

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adented efforts to try to keep civilianson the other side safe as we
prosecute what is probably the quintessential exampleof a just war in the twenty first
century. We did not start thiswar. We did not want this war,
We did not expect this war.Hamas declared this war against us,
and we will continue with our defensivecampaign until we achieve total victory. Question

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from Yunko, Yes, may notthe skin from Kyodo News regarding the hostages
and missing persons Missing Persons Family's forum. Notice that shock among the families of
the hostages and the rejection of thedirect at the rejection of the director of
the Mossad's proposal to travel to Qatarto formulate a new hostage deal. Do

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you have any comment on this?We have no comment on negotiations surrounding the
return of the hostages. You'll appreciatethis is a sensitive situation and human lives
hang in the balance, and theless we say, the better. But
we reaffirm the State of Israel isdoing everything it can in order to bring
the hostages home safe and sound immediately, and unconditionally to ensure they have access

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to the Red Cross, which hasnot been doing enough to secure access to
those hostages. And we will considerand continue with every avenue in order to
get those hostages home. You know, one thing maybe people don't realize around
the world, Israel is such asmall country that this is a very personal
issue for all of us. Twohundred and fifty hostages in a country of

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ten million people means that everyone knowsat least someone who has had someone stolen
from them. And we repeat ourpledge that we will leave no one left
behind and that none of us arefree till all of them are free.
And that's why, like so manyIsraelis, I have around my own neck
this dog tag in solidarity with thehostages that says on it bring them home

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now. And in Hebrew halivshilan Chavoibaza, our hearts are still trapped in Gaza.
Thank you very much. Okay,thank you very much. Everyone,
have a safe weekend. Keep safe. We'll update you on the time,
okay, eline from this morning anduh, he gave us quite a bit
of information, so you know,let's let's go to where things are right

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now. Okay, is the ustelling Israel how to run the war with
Mas. Well, the answer tothat question is kind of yes and no.
All right, let's go back toyesterday. Basically what's going on is
the President was asked if he wantsto scale back the you know, the
intensity of the fight. Uh,and after National Security spokesman John Kirby told

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reporters that the White House has discussedwith Israel and the there's this ability of
rating down it's battle and the PresidentBiden said, I want to be them
to be focused on how to savecivilians, not going after Hermas, but

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not stop going after a moss Ishould say, but more be it more
carefully. So, Biden said hewants them to be focused on how to
save civilians while at the same timegoing after Hamas. And he made that
clear now as you heard Alan totalk about. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

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spoke to Israeli leaders yesterday about theprocess in the war where the Israelis think
they're going at this point. Thursdayin Tel Aviv, the Defense Minister suggested
that the war, which began inthe wake of Hamas's brutal attack on October

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seventh, would probably go on formonths. And so as I said,
it's a yes and no answer here. What Biden and Jake Sullivan and others
are telling the Israelis is that whatthey want to see is them to continue
to fight against Hamas. Biden hasnot said anything about supporting in any way,

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shape or form a humanitarian cease fire. He's against that because he feels
strongly that Hamas would be able toreplenish themselves. But at the same time,
they're losing the messaging war. AndI think that's the critical point that
Biden is trying to say and JakeSullivan is trying to put forth, and

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that is that you know, wehad that problem. I mean, the
United States had that problem in Afghanistanwhere we were winning the war but losing
the messaging, where you know,people were seeing the body count go up
of civilians and wondering if you knowwe were disproportionately killing people who were civilians

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and not attacking the war aspects ofit. Okay, So the goal here,
which Jake Sullivan you know, wasin Israel for yesterday, was to
talk about, you know, strategictargeting, and I think that that's going
to happen probably sooner as opposed tolater, and it's something that you know

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we wrote. You know, Iwrote a piece yesterday about how SITCOM and
the IDEAF are working on the strategicplanning of how to fight wars like the
US did and Fallujah and in otherplaces where you're targeting more on a very
very one to one basis and usingmore special forces and that sort of thing,

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and less of the bombing of theinfrastructure, Okay, which has been
going on now for seventy days.The the deal that Jake Sullivan was talking
about yesterday has to do with,as I said before, more strategic planning

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and fighting. It's not ratcheting backthe intensity of fighting, but targeting the
fighting against strictly Hamas and trying tokeep the body countdown in in Gaza,
I mean the amount of people whohave been killed, whether you believe Hamas's

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numbers, where if you believe thenumbers from the UN are staggering and distressing
in the world. Is forgetting franklyunfortunately about what happened on October the seventh
in Israel and paying attention to what'sgoing on in Gaza. You have two
humanitarian problems, one in Israel,one in Gaza, and the one in

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Gaza is getting the play at thispoint in time on a international basis,
rightfully or wrong. You're paying uponhow you look at And nobody wants to
see innocent people killed. I mean, that's just a matter of human nature.
You don't want to see people whohave nothing to do with this war
die, whether they're you know,Israelis who were killed on October seventh or

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get continued to get killed in thewar, or the Palestinians. So that's
something that you know, Jake Sullivanand President Biden and others are telling Prime
Minister net Yatu and the and thecabinet, Israeli's war cabinet needs to needs

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to be reigned in. But makeno mistake that the United States continues to
support and the President and his securitypeople continue to support Israel and will continue
to help them. Okay. Sothat brings us to our next topic in
that same boat, if Joe Bidenand bb and now who were Facebook friends,

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under the topic of relationships, thetopic would be it's complicated, all
right. So what do I meanby that? What I mean by that
is these are two men who goback thirty five years to when Biden was
a center and net Yahoo was workinghis way through government in Israel. They

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know each other, Okay, theydon't particularly care for each other on a
number of levels. This goes allthe way up to when Biden was Vice
president under Obama. Okay, So, but that being said, Biden is
someone who has proven time and timeagain over the years that regardless of whether

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he likes someone, who doesn't likesomeone, if a deal needs to be
made, he will make the deal. All right. He's not abandoning Israel
because at the moment bbs now whoruns the country. Okay, the two
of them are working together to bringhome the hostages, defeat him Moss,

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and figure out how to have peacein the Middle East. And that's no
easy thing to do. And Biden'staken some heat here in the United States
from his own party, and he'staken some fun legislative issues from the Republican's

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on how they're holding up aid.So, by the way, an update
on that, Senate Majority Leader ChuckSchumer is keeping the Senate in town at
least through Monday to see if theycan close a deal that will get aid

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to the Ukraine, to Israel andTaiwan, as well as the Southern border
as they work on potentially changing somelaws down there that would returned in some
regards to some of the Trump lawsthat he had when he was president,

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and they would soften them. Theywouldn't go the whole route on that one.
So keep an eye on it.If there's a deal to be made,
it's going to have to be doneover the next seventy two hours or
so because there still is not enoughRepublicans you know, who work where to
just assign on to that deal.So we'll have to keep, you know,

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keep an eye on it. Butas I said, if BB and
Joe were Facebook friends under the topicof relationships, it would be complicated.
But rest assured that Jake Sullivan UH, when he was in Tel Aviv yesterday,
was there to explain what they wantto do now. Coming up next

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week, Lloyd Austin, who isthe Forster her General, who is the
United States Secretary of Defense, andas they said, the former head of
Sentcom. By the way, ifyou want to read the story that we
that I wrote on syncom UH,it is dropped live through Zinger. You
can read it on Inside the Nationor the Daily Cable, which is UH.

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Two of the outlets that published ZingerNews, which is basically over two
hundred of them you know, worldwide. Those two were linked in the in
the box show box below, soif you want to check it out,
you can. And we also didyesterday's show on on the on sentcom and

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their relationship with the IDEAF and howthey are working with them to fight more
strategically. So that's something that youmight want to check out. Lloyd Dustin,
as I said before, it isheaded to Tel Aviv next week in
hopes of working with the war Cabinetto come out with a plan that will

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continue to fight against tomas while atthe same time limiting the casualty. So
okay, so let's go through this. You know this this important aspect of
the eight we and support. Youhave Obaum who made the trip to the

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war zone early in Tel Aviv.Okay, You've had Anthony Blincoln who is
the Secretary of State who has beenthere three times. You have Jake Sullivan
who was just there yesstually that's histhird trip down there. You have Floyd
Austin, who, as I said, it's going this is the third time

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Austin has been there. You haveBill Burns, who is the director of
the CIA, who has been therefour or five times. Burns was one
of the key guys in negotiating thehostage releases. So the fact that we're
talking about this is that the highestranking members of the Biden administration when it

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comes to security, have been inIsrael working hard with the Israeli government to
put together a plan that works fordefeating Hamasin now, but also on what's
going on diplomatically. They're working onthat aspect, what happens the day after.

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So this is all unprecedented when youconsider the fact that the United States
is not at war. This isIsrael is at war, and they're supporting
it. So when people say,well, you know, wondering if the
support is there now, the supportis there, okay. But there are,

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as in any other situation, thesedeals, where you have political sidebar
issues that need to be addressed,and they're doing the best they can to
address them. So do not concernyourself that Israel is being you know,
not supported by the United States.They are on the highest possible level,

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okay. So but we will dealwith that in a column coming up about
is you know, where do westand with regard to that support and where
could it be, you know,lacking from other issues. Okay, but

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that's way down the road. We'llworry about that when we get there.
The next story coming up from mewill be on the Red Cross and how
the complications of this war is makingit difficult for them to do their job,
okay, because they really haven't seenthe hostages. It has to do
with the fact that you're dealing withthe terrorist organization, not a government.

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Okay, And we'll focus on that. One one last partying thing, and
this is we talked about this yesterdayabout the defense building passed. It included
a bit of information which really didn'tsurface much until you go to deep dive
into it. And it has anew law that requires congressional approval to leave

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NATO. Now you're gonna probably sayto yourself, why is that important.
Well, here's why it's important.It's important because you President Trump when he
was in office, and he hassaid this if he were to get back

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into office that he would reevaluate theUnited States' involvement in NATO. That would
be a catastrophic mistake to get outNATO. It's something we started seventy six
years ago, and it really hasbeen very helpful to the United States,

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and it's been something where we've hada coalition Sentcom as a matter of fact,
coalition of forty six countries, manyof whom are NATO countries as well
as Middle Eastring countries. These coalitionsare important and we need to keep them.

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We should not run away from repsonsability of working with our allies.
Okay. So that's the reason weshould be involved with NATO, and that's
why SITCOM and the United States areinvolved in these So let's let's keep our
eye on that and make sure thatwe don't lose those options. Okay.

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