Israeli Soldiers Refusing To Fight In Gaza!– w/ Scott Ritter & Jose Vega
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Jimmy, it's Jake Tamper from The Lead with Jake Tamper. I know what this is going to be about. Hi, Jake. On CNN. Yeah, I get it. We know. How are you, Jake?

Jimmy, if I'm being honest, I'm a little overwhelmed at the moment. The sheer volume of fact-checking that we have to do at CNN as the election draws closer is monumental. I go on air and interview Republicans like Mike Johnson, and all I do is fact-check, clarify, shine a light on the truth, all that shit. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

And I feel bad about complaining. I have it the easiest out of all of us. Our dedicated fact checker, checker Daniel Dale, is at his breaking point. We have various fainting couches spaced throughout the studio in case he encounters a real whopper of a lie that is just too much for his constitution. And then we have to revive him with smelling salts. Smelling salts, Jimmy, smelling salts. My goodness me.

And this is especially hard on Brian Stelter. You know, he's too young to really fully understand what's going on. He's usually in the playroom that we've had built for him, just rolling around like a panda. But he is trying. I've seen him practicing his serious face in the mirror multiple times. Good for him.

But now he's down in the dumps because his tweet backfired. He thought it was important that people know that the Trump at McDonald's scenario was staged and that the Secret Service vetted everyone going through the drive-thru. Yes, obviously. I can't imagine there was anybody who didn't simply assume that to be the case.

Well, yeah, of course, you and I know that. But Brian misunderstood and was under the impression that a lot of people thought that Donald Trump was now an actual employee of McDonald's. So Brian thought, here's my big chance to fact check. So we sent out that tweet. It got ratio and everyone clowned on him. So now he won't come out of his playroom. Oh, that's too bad.

Yes, this type of work takes its toll and has casualties. But luckily today, CNN is hosting a town hall with Kamala Harris tonight. So we are all looking forward to that as sort of a nice break from the madness. I assume you'll be fact-checking that assiduously. What do you mean? Fact-checking what? Fact-checking the Harris town hall on CNN, Jake. I'm afraid I don't follow. What?!

What? Look, it's just a town hall. It's not a debate or anything like that. She's going to sit down with regular folks in suburban Philly and answer their questions. Well, are you going to fact check her answers? OK, I'm really confused here. You only seem to ever talk about fact checking Donald Trump. Do you fact check Kamala Harris like like ever?

I mean, I assume so. Daniel Dale or someone does. It's probably illegal not to. But I never hear anything about her lying, so I assume she never does. It's Trump who lies, like, all the time. Look, Jimmy, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. We focus on Trump's lies. And what about Kamala Harris's lies?

Well, a Harris lie would end up being a right-wing talking point, and we aren't in the business of generating those. Jimmy, look, all fact-checking artillery should be aimed at the upcoming Donald Trump appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. There is no fact-checking going on there, that much I can tell you. Actually, they do fact-check on that show in real time. They seek out sources for claims made on the show. I've been on there more than once myself.

Well, do they have a Daniel Dale? A guy whose title is just fact checker? No, it's a producer who has other duties, but they're still fact checking and verifying claims. Doesn't count. Not fact checking.

Besides, I think it says a little something about the state of the two campaigns that Trump is doing a podcast and Kamala Harris is doing a town hall on CNN, the most trusted name in news. Jake, do you have any idea how many more people will see the Rogan podcast than the CNN town hall? Are you saying that more people will see Joe Rogan's podcast? I'm going to have to fact check that. Yeah, crazy, isn't it? About seven times more, most likely.

Well, as I wait for that fact to get checked, because I think, you know, OK, Daniel Dale has fainted again. As I wait for that, I'll just say, even if that's true, it's almost almost all young white males listening. So what? They're voters, aren't they? Yeah, but they're they're not important. We're not we're not supposed to care what they like or think because because, you know, because they're not good. You know what I mean?

Not really. I'm pretty sure young white males, like them or not, comprise a rather large voting bloc. I'd fact check that, Jake. Well, hey, you don't get to say that to me. We're CNN. We do the fact checking around here, Buster Brown. It doesn't go the other way around. People don't fact check us. That's backwards. Actually, a lot of my show is fact checking mainstream media outlets such as CNN.

Well, I don't even see how that's legal. Either way, I don't like it. Anyway, Jimmy, I have to go. Brian Stelter has emerged from his playroom and probably has to go potty. Yeah. When he's in one of these funks, he needs someone to go to the bathroom with him, and I think it's – where's the dry erase board? Yeah, it's my turn. So, yeah. Yeah, buddy, just take my hand. Okay, Jimmy, bye. Bye.

And only we can fact check. Is it number one or number two? Oh, man.

medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on. It's the Jimmy Tore Show. As the two people I have on the show right now, Jose Vega and Scott Ritter is with me. And I want to just run this story past them.

This is from Middle East Eye. Israeli soldiers becoming disillusioned and tired of fighting in Gaza. That's a report. Increasing numbers of Israeli soldiers are becoming disillusioned with fighting in Gaza and other areas of conflict in Lebanon and the West Bank, leading to some to refuse to return to the battlefield. According to a report in Israeli outlet Hamokam,

interviews with over 20 parents and fighters in a range of battalions have revealed increasing dissatisfaction dissatisfaction amongst the ranks among the nahal brigade soldiers spend five weeks fighting in gaza before returning home to rest something they have done 11 times so far since the beginning of fighting october 2023 hayeva according to hamakam

I hope I'm saying that even close. During the 11th deployment, only six soldiers of a platoon of 30 showed up with the others coming up with excuses. I call it refusal and rebellion, said Inbal, mother of one of the soldiers in the platoon.

They keep going back to the same buildings they've already cleared only to find them booby trapped again in the Zaytun neighborhood alone in Gaza City. They've been there three times. They understand that it is futile and it's pointless.

All the interviewees in the report spoke anonymously over fears they would face harassment from the military. What kills them is the conditions and the duration of the fighting with no end in sight. You never know when you will get out, and it's been like this for a year, another parent said. The Israeli military has published the names of over 750 troops

killed since the war began in October last year, including more than 350 who were killed during ground operations in Gaza. At least 43 Israeli troops have been killed in attacks and ground operations on the northern front of the war, along with the Lebanese border. Another soldier told HaNadim,

Wow.

This is from the new Arab, not the onion. CNN highlights suffering of Israeli army bulldozer driver who ran over so many people in Gaza it made him turn vegetarian. That is not from the... So, of course, CNN is sympathetic to the guy who drove the bulldozer.

He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him. Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma and suicide. This is from CNN. Guy Zakin provided insight into their experience in Gaza. We saw very, very, very difficult things, he told CNN, things that are difficult to accept. The former soldier had spoken publicly about the psychological trauma of

Endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. Boy, imagine the trauma that Palestinians had to go through. In a testimony to the Knesset Israelis Parliament in June, Zakin said that on many occasions soldiers had to run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds. Everything squirts out, he added. Zakin says he can no longer eat meat.

as it reminds him of the gruesome scenes he witnessed from his bulldozer in Gaza and struggles to sleep at night, the sound of explosions ringing in his head. When you see a lot of meat outside and blood, both ours and theirs, Hamas, then it really affects you when you eat, he told CNN, referring to the bodies as meat.

I'm not sure this piece is about the IDF soldiers who had to go vegetarian because of how many people they bulldoze is really achieving the goal CNN had for the article. Yeah, I don't think so. I think CNN wanted it to make people sympathetic towards the IDF soldiers. By the way, just to let you know, why is Ukraine's army facing desertion crisis? I've got three guesses for you. So let me bring in Scott Ritter and Jose. Scott, could you have predicted this?

Well, you can. I did predict it. I called out the Israeli army from the very beginning as being an army that is not professional in the sense that the American military is professional. I'm not defending any war crimes carried out by American soldiers. I know that we have misbehaved abroad as well. I'm talking about

training and preparation for war um i can say that the united states marine corps when we train a marine that marine is ready to close with and destroy the enemy through firepower maneuver 24 7 he lives each breathes war he prays for war he wants war and once war starts he wants to stay in war um it

until he's either killed or broken. Marines do break. But the point is, we know what we're getting into when we sign, when we sign up. The Israelis, they're a conscript military. They, you know, it's obligatory service. And the Israelis have made war easy because they don't really fight hardened enemies anymore. They bomb children. They bomb women. They go in with technological supremacy. They fight short wars. You know, they're not used to taking casualties.

They're not emotionally prepared for the reality of war. And I said, they're going to go into Gaza. And that's one of the first articles I wrote. They're going to turn Gaza into the equivalent of Stalingrad above the ground and Iwo Jima below the ground, meaning the Japanese tunnels.

And they're not prepared for either. And as a result, they're going to get worn down. They're going to get worn out. And eventually they will lose because of a death by a thousand cuts and exhaustion. That's what we're seeing right now. The Israeli military is not organized or indoctrinated for this kind of long war. An Israeli general himself said if this war continues on in the summer,

The Israeli army will cease to exist because people will just stop fighting because they don't believe in this. I mean, you know, the genocide that they're doing will break. Could you imagine somebody coming back at the end of World War Two, a German? And he said, I was in the Einsatzgruppen.

And I had to shoot Jews. I had to shoot a lot of Jews. It got really ugly there. They were lined up in the ditch and I had to shoot them. And the blood came out and the brains came out. Sometimes the children ran away and I had to bayonet them. And I can't sleep at night because of this. Would you have any sympathy for this murderous

Dog? No, of course not. There should be no sympathy for the Israelis. The Israelis are committing a war of aggression against the sovereign people, the Palestinians, whom they've denied any opportunity to have a homeland. Israel has no right of self-defense and the Israeli army has no justification in carrying out the crimes that they're doing. And the same can be said of the Ukrainian military. They're losing confidence in why they're fighting. They, they,

they're now waking up to the reality that this war could have stopped back in April of 2022. And had it stopped in April, 2022, they'd have care songs, Zaporizhia. They'd have 700,000 men alive. They've had the economy. It's intact. Uh,

Instead, they're recognizing the fact that the West has goaded them into this conflict where their only future is death and destruction. That's it. They're not going to beat the Russians. The Russians are going to continue to kill them. And many of the Ukrainian soldiers are recognizing this and making the determination to run as opposed to stay, fight, and die. So do you think that is happening in Ukraine? I mean...

But I guess you just said so. So you think that I I can't believe that it's taken this long. I can't believe they couldn't realize this immediately. And I mean, if I can realize it here, I'm sure they could anyway. But there is something to be said about fighting. Look, I understand the Russian position and I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to the Russian position. But I recognize that the territory that they're fighting on is Ukrainian territory.

Even the territory that Russia has taken and Russia says is ours, Ukraine is saying, but it was ours first. It was ours before you intervened militarily. So I can understand Ukrainians saying, I'm willing to fight and die for my homeland. I'm willing to fight and die for this territory.

But at some point in time, when you realize that this is futile, that you're not going to be able to recapture this territory, that all that's going to happen. There was a brigade commander in the Ukrainian military, very well regarded brigade commander. His brigade was a tough brigade. It fought very well. And he said, you know, they keep telling us.

that we have to restore the 1991 borders, meaning drive the Russians back out. He said, but the fact is, we're going to restore the 1991 borders, but not the ones that they're thinking of, meaning that the Russians are going to drive them all the way to Ukraine, absorbing all of Ukraine. That's the reality of the Ukrainians you're coming up with, that if they continue this futile exercise, many of them are going to die, and those that don't die are going to lose their country. Can I add something? Yeah, go right ahead.

Well, you know, you guys know Rafat Al-Arir. He was the one who was killed by a Israeli drone strike. I believe this was earlier in 2021.

four or so and Max Blumenthal in the book Goliath, I think, or it's in 51 Days War, describes this very thing about, well, who would have sympathy for the Israeli army? You know, as Scott said, it's a conscript army. So you have kids who are born in Israel who are brainwashed pretty much from the day they're born that they are supposed to be the superior chosen people. And then they go into the military when they're 18 years old and then they're shown all kinds of advanced brainwashing techniques to make them kill

But Rafat al-Arir, when he was teaching at the Islamic University of Gaza, had his Palestinian students, and this was a university that was funded by Hamas, by the way, in 2007, I believe. He had his students write essays from the perspective of Israeli soldiers who would shoot up kindergartens and mass slaughter children. And he would force his students to say, now, I want you to write about that Israeli soldier when he has to go home.

and talk to his family. And I want you to imagine what kind of nightmares and PTSD he must be suffering. That was Rafat doing that with the kids that his students, that he was teaching poetry to. But not only that, he was teaching them Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. And he, this Palestinian poet, was doing his best to say the Israelis have no humanity for us, therefore we have to have humanity for them.

Even after their university was destroyed and bombed and a lot of original Palestinian poetry was burned up in that university, he still asked his students to try and have some humanity. I think what we are seeing here is a classic case of old men have strife and conflict and jealousy and feuds that go back generations and young men die because of it.

The point is that this is all stupid. It is all absurd. And that's my take on this. I think that it should all end. I don't think a 16, 17, 18-year-old should be sent off to war for something that happened generations ago to go and mass slaughter people that they will never understand. So that's my take on it.

I'm reminded of the quote of when, I don't know who said it, was Nietzsche or Jung, someone said, when fighting monsters, be careful not to become a monster yourself. And so I think it's if you can hold on to your humanity and see the humanity in others,

And Carl Jung talks about your shadow projection. That's what war is. War is when you have the worst parts of yourself projected onto your enemy. And if you can make that part of yourself conscious, you can then not condemn your enemy, but you could...

see them as yourself, which is what Jesus's message was. So it's definitely different points of view, but war is horrible. And if we could stop the war, Jose and Diane Sarah are going to do it this Saturday in New York, October 26, 2 p.m. I'll be there.

Tell everybody else who's going to be there, Jose. Yeah, yeah. So it's going to be myself and Scott. So, you know, you're welcome to come and maybe we'll elaborate on this further. I don't know. I think these things should be fought out. They should be discussed on a stage in a public forum because that's exactly what kind of discussions we need to be having. And that's exactly what you'll find at this thing on TV.

Saturday, you know, why is it that we have to resort to platforms like yours, Jimmy, where we can have these kind of really, you know, stark discussions?

And I think so. Anyway, it'll be myself, Diane Sayre, yourself, Jimmy, Scott Ritter, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, Dennis Fritz, Ray McGovern joining virtually. It'll be our friends from Due Dissidence, Keaton Weiss, Russell Dabular. I'm sure there's somebody I'm forgetting or people I'm forgetting, but I think that's the that's that's a lot of the people there. Tickets are at VegasSayrePeaceFund.org.

And again, I just want to reemphasize, this is being a part of the resistance.

That's how movements are started, by exercising our right to assembly and our right to free speech. Because if we can't get together anymore and decide this is the point where we decide we're going to be sick of all of it and we're going to move and organize together, then we have nothing. So we have to meet this Saturday. You have to come if you want to be a part of a movement that's not just a protest movement, but one that intends to win.

That's my take, that and why you should come. And the tickets are, it's a donation? It's actually not a ticket sale, it's a donation? Thank you for clarifying that. That's right, yes, because we are campaigns and these are campaign events, you are technically making a donation to both my campaign and Diane's campaign. It'll be split evenly unless otherwise indicated, and that's how you get admittance. There's a number there if you have

questions and need something answered, you can call that number and we'll help you out. So and then the next day on Sunday, Scott's hosting a series of panels at the Tudor City Steakhouse. I'll be on that. Judge Napolitano will be there. Randy Credico will be there in case you need a co-cookup. Russell Dobular, Dennis Fritz, Danny Haifong, Garland Nixon, Jeff Norman, Diane Sayre, Jose Vega, and Larry Wilkerson. That's quite

that's quite the lineup. So everybody go to scottritter.com for the Sunday event. That's a brunch from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. And go to VegasSairPeaceFund.org for tickets to the Saturday event. Anything you'd like to say, Scott, before we say goodbye?

Look, again, I just want to point out that what Jose and you have said is morally correct. And it's what we need to be striving for. And but I just want to point out the reality of war. He who hesitates in combat dies.

And we can speak very well of the people that we bury saying he was a good soul. He was a kind man. He thought about extending the humane arm at the wrong moment because the enemy who wasn't extending the humane arm killed him. It's essential that we understand that we have men and women in the military who are trained to kill. It's also essential that we, the people of the United States of America, never give them the opportunity to kill.

that we insist that our elected officials exhaust every possibility short of war before ordering these brave men and women off to war. The ideal military career would be somebody spending 20 years training for war and never getting the opportunity to do it because we had wise leadership. And that's what these panels are about, how to empower the American people to elect people who make the right decisions. So we don't have to have this discussion about, um,

you know, sending Scott Ritters out to fight and die for our country and asking them to do horrible things and come home and pay horrible prices that we actually have people that, um, that believe in peace, believe in humanity, believe in the rule of law and implement policies that lead to, you know, peaceful coexistence and not the violence that we seem to be incurring, uh, and encouraging, uh, today by our government. So, um, I, I know I came off as a little, um,

hotheaded and red blooded, but that's my background. But I just want to make sure people understand that I'm not the animal that I sometimes appear to be. It's scary to contradict you sometimes. Okay. Jose and Scott, I really appreciate you making time. Thanks for your commentary. Thanks for your peace activism and your work and ending the wars. And I'll see you both this weekend.

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We have special guests in the house with us. Scott Ritter, one-time Marine intelligence officer who served as the former Soviet Union in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements. And from 91 to 98, he served as chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq.

leading the search for Iraq's prescribed weapons of mass destruction. He was later a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war with Iraq. He is also the author of nine books, including his latest, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika, Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union. Welcome to the show, Scott. How are you? Good to see you.

Well, thank you very much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Also with us is Jose Vegas, the Bronx based activist who previously worked as a staffer for Diane Sarah, who ran as an independent U.S. Senate against New York. Chuck Schumer. Jose is he's he's famous for confronting all the politicians and the bad people.

uh about their support for the ukraine war and the gaza war and uh you know all that kind of stuff he is uh currently a candidate for the u.s house in new york's 15th congressional district against incumbent richie torres hey jose how are you

Hanging in there. Happy to be here. So I don't know if both of you saw this. I wanted to show it to you. MSNBC deleted this interview about Palestine. It was with Jeremy Scahill, who got... It's nice to see he got approval from his billionaire handlers.

to tell the truth about a war. So that's always good to see. I'm happy about that. So let's watch this and watch what happens. I've just gotten done seeing images from the ground where children are being shredded like meat in a butcher shop. I don't I don't understand how any of us, whether we're journalists or not, this isn't about objectivity, how any of us can watch this genocide unfold in real time and watch the pontificating of the politicians running for president and not just cry out, this has to stop.

I mean, this has to stop. We've looked at this. I mean, I know you've reported on the ground from Gaza. I mean, we're watching a genocide in real time. And I'm sorry, but on this network also, there are people who have promoted propaganda from Israel.

There are people cheerleading for those running for office who are lying to the American people about concern for the Palestinians. And yes, we should talk about Yair Hassanouar. But Yair Hassanouar is also in many ways the story of Gaza. You know, yes, this was a violent man, but his violence was rooted in the fact that he was born in a refugee camp.

And Israel throughout his entire life waged a war of annihilation against the Palestinians. I'm not here to defend Yahya Sinwar. I'm here to say that we can't talk about who Yahya Sinwar was or what Hamas is without talking about 76 years of colonialism, of apartheid, of mass killing, of mowing the lawn, of controlling the calories.

Yahya Sinwar's death, the White House is saying this provides a moment to sort of pivot and to make a settlement. And what does Netanyahu do in response to those speeches from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and John Kirby? He doubles down. He goes full force, final solution on the people of northern Gaza. Yes, let's talk about Yahya Sinwar. But my God, we cannot watch more children being shredded and say that this is OK. Well, that's just a political issue. No.

So that actually ended up getting deleted. So here it is. This is why MSNBC doesn't want you to watch Jeremy Scahill's interview.

The episode on MSNBC's weekend show was aired and later posted on the channel's social media accounts. However, only a day later, the interview was deleted from the channel's online platform, sparking concerns about censoring of voices that are critical of Israeli war in Gaza. In the interview, Scahill says Israel has been waging an extermination campaign in the north of Gaza for the past two weeks.

There is no food or medicine of any kind that can reach the North. And first of all, let me just say, and I'm sure when that got deleted, I imagine it was a decision made

to remove the post was handed down in measured tones, followed by a contemplative trip to a unisex restroom. That's all. It's my guess. In stark contrast with Republicans, however, Democrats have been sending in hand sanitizer. The State Department has personally oversaw an airdrop of lawn signs reading joy. So that's good to hear. So there's no food or medicine going in at all, but

You know, that's just going to go to the enemy. Am I right? Come on. Here we go. You know, their enemy is the worst kind of enemy. Children who are unarmed. Israeli forces began the relentless attacks in the north of Gaza about three weeks ago with the declared aim of preventing Hamas fighters from regrouping and continued to intensify after the killing of Hamas chief Yaya Sinwar last Wednesday.

The health ministry has said over 650 people have been killed since the new attacks began, with at least 16 people killed on Wednesday as Israeli forces targeted a hospital, refugee shelters, and ordered residents to head south. The former investigative reporter for The Intercept also spoke about how MSNBC promoted propaganda from Israel, calling the channel out for its reporting on the Israeli war in Gaza.

We can't just sit here as journalists or normal people or whatever your job is and watch human beings shredded and say it's self-defense. Nothing is self-defense about this. So...

I think the best way to help Hamas not regroup is to deny them baby formula. Anyway, let me bring in Jose Vega, famed anti-war activist, along with Scott Ritter. First of all, what do you have to say about them taking down that video?

Well, I think I'll start here and then I'll pass it off to Scott. I mean, the fact that a voice like that, that's just speaking reason, it's not even a condemnation of one side or another. It's not saying that Hamas was right or wrong. It's not saying that Israel was right or wrong. Well, it is saying Israel's wrong. But the point is, is that the killing needs to stop. That's it.

It's not saying that we should celebrate what happened on October 7th or anything like that. It was the most reasonable thing you could say on mainstream media. It was very, you know, just like common sense. The killing should stop and the killing is not stopping. It's horrible. And the fact that they would delete that.

Who the hell would disagree that killing should stop and that we should stop sending baby formula and food to Gaza? Nobody would disagree with you on that. And the fact that the mainstream media would delete just that, like, hey, maybe we should stop this, I think goes to show how depraved our mainstream media has become and the fact that we can't rely on it anymore for a reason and rational thought. People like to say that Israel has a right to defend itself.

Would you agree with the comparison that I have made that that's like saying that the United States has a right to defend itself against the Native Americans we put in on reservations? I mean, is that a bad comparison or a good comparison? Well, I mean, first of all,

What I would say is back then we didn't have a body of international law that had been developed through legal institutions and matured. You know, so back then it was literally the frontier. It was the wild, wild west. Today we're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to have learned certain lessons from the Second World War.

about fascist Germany and the genocide they carried out, not just against the Jews, but against the Russians, against the Poles, against the gypsies, against homosexuals, about Imperial Japan and the slaughter of the Chinese. We came together as a community under the vehicle of the United Nations to say that is not how civilized nations are to behave. And we spoke out against colonial powers.

And we spoke about the right of self-determination. And we determined that when you are a people who are being illegally occupied, you have an inherent right to oppose the occupiers. And the occupiers have no right of self-defense, no inherent right, because the occupation is unjust. So I'm not giving the...

the great American manifest destiny march to the sea, a clean bill of health. I'm not doing that. Of course, we committed genocide of our own. We committed mass murder. The crimes we committed against the Native Americans, the indigenous peoples of North America are manifest, and we should never forget those crimes. But I'm just saying that back then, we were barbarians. Today, we claim to be civilized, and yet we ignore the

the very foundation of civilization, which are these laws that say you can't do this. And there are consequences for doing this. Israel is behaving as a nation above the law, above the rule of law. They ignore it. And the United States is supporting this. So what does that say about us? And, Jose, are you as shocked as I am at the –

the corporate news media how they in fact how that makes news because it was said once on a corporate news show and i think jeremy overestimates the quality because he says how can you sit here as a journalist i don't say i don't think those people are actually journalists they're not they're no edward r murrow's i mean if you ask the modern reporter have you no shame they would just say that's a double negative um anyway what what do you say to them

Well, first of all, I would just say I think those people are not human.

Because I don't think a human being can actually know what's happening over there and sit right with it and go to sleep at night not even thinking about it. I don't think that anybody who is watching the images coming out of Gaza, finding out all the people who are dead right now or looking at the videos of dead children who have actually been beheaded and then just go on about their lives and say, well, that's something happening over there. Or maybe the famous line I hear is, well, Hamas shouldn't have started it.

This happened 78 years ago. But I want to address something that Scott had brought up. You know, I thought that the American Revolution was fought so that we didn't have to be like the barbaric British Empire anymore. But today, the United States likes to imitate itself as if it's this revolution.

British Empire clone. And I think that it's absolutely horrible. You know, we have, what, 700 military bases around the world acting like we're the world's superpower? That is not what our country was founded for. That is not what our republic is supposed to do. We're supposed to spread peace around the world. We're supposed to be people who actually mediate the conflicts without weapons.

And I don't think us supplying all these weapons and arms to Israel is doing the world any favor. Now, I think Scott disagrees with me when I say I think it's happening here in the United States. I think the United States is what's dictating Israel and that the policy is being done here.

Not over there. And I think if the plug was pulled here by the collective administration, because I don't think we know who the hell is in power right now. Certainly not Biden. Most definitely isn't Kamala Harris. Whoever the hell is pulling the strings in the back rooms. I think if they just pulled the plug on this, it could happen if the American people demanded it.

Well, isn't, just to that point, Scott, didn't a recent revelation come out, a leak, that the United States had plans on how to attack Iran? Wasn't that an, was that an American plan or was that an Israeli plan? Well, the intelligence documents that came out talk about Israeli military preparations and apparently somebody leaked it in an effort to try and stop the Israeli attack. But let's be clear.

Israel has telegraphed what it plans on doing, and the United States is in full support. Last September, or two Septembers, you go 2023, after the death of the Iranian girl that got arrested because of the hijab, there was extreme violence that broke out in Iran.

And this violence was more than just demonstrations. It took on a life of its own as various resistance groups or opposition groups jumped into the fray. And I spoke with then President Raisi that day.

that same month. And he said that this was a concerted effort by the United States, by Israel, by British intelligence, by other foreign intelligence to achieve regime change in Iran. I think the Israeli attack is going to be a strike against the Iranian leadership to replicate what Israel has done with Hezbollah, with Hamas. And I think the United States is 100% behind this. Let me just remind people that coming up this Saturday,

I'm going to be I'm doing a show for the anti-war Jose Vega and Diane Sear. It's Vegas, Sarah, Peace Fund dot org. So it's this Saturday, 2 p.m. in New York City. When you buy the ticket, they'll send you an email that, you know, where that is.

event is taking place. So, uh, Jose Vega, Diane, Sarah, there's going to be lots of music there, lots of speakers. I'll be there. Uh, who else is going to be there? Jose.

Oh, well, of course it's going to be Scott. Of course, Colonel Larry Wilkerson of the Eisenhower Media Group, Dennis Fritz, our friend Garland Nixon, and our other friends from Due Dissidence, Russell Dabular and Keaton Weiss are going to be there as well. Ray McGovern will be joining us virtually. It'll be, I think that maybe

everyone, I hope I'm not forgetting anybody. If I am, I'm sorry, we'll amend it in the program. It's going to be quite a great day because what you're hearing from Scott, you'll be hearing on that day. And I know he has an event happening the next day too, which we'll get to as well. And I just want to highlight the importance of both of these events and what we've got going on these next two days. See, this is the resistance.

We are censored online. We are doing things we can on social media. We reach people that we can. But the truth is, is that when we are in person, when we exercise our right to assemble, when we exercise our right to free speech as what Julian Assange has asked all of us to do, that is what we are doing in these two days.

That is what we are exercising and practicing. We are a resistance. And this is all happening almost kind of quasi underground. You know, you'll get the address, of course, once you purchase a ticket. But this is the only way in which people can assemble nowadays, which is in person and not fear being censored or shadow banned or restricted.

That's why we are doing these events. And we're doing it, you know, exactly almost like a week before the election, because we are trying to supersede the election. We want to be above it. We are trying to tell people you don't need to rely on an elected official or some candidate. Not that people shouldn't vote for me. People should vote for me. But people should vote to elect themselves to stand up and tell the truth and do something. And I'll let Scott talk about his

So here is Scott's event. So on Saturday, it's the Vega Sear event. And then on Sunday, it's Operation Dawn. It's a brunch. It's at Tudor City Steakhouse.

It's Sunday, October 27th, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. I'll be there. Scott Riddle will be there. Judge Napolitano, Randy Credico, Russell Dobular, Dennis Fritz, Danny Hivefong, Garland Nixon, Jeff Norman, Diane Sayre, Jose Vega, and Larry Wilkerson. So those are two power-packed shows on Saturday and Sunday. And go ahead, Scott. I would also like to tell people about it.

No, I mean, this is, again, taking advantage of Jose and Diane's event on Saturday. We figured since people might be in New York City and spend the night, why not put together a brunch the next day? And why not see if we could take advantage of the talent to put together some lunches?

some panels. And so, you know, we've put together three panels. Operation Dawn is a challenge that, you know, I've put out to American voters asking them the question, what would you do to save democracy, to save America, to save the world through your vote in November? And

what we're going to do with these panels is we're going to talk about, um, you know, the danger of nuclear war. What would you do to save the world? We're going to talk about the assault on free speech. What would you do to save America? And we're going to talk about, you know, what it takes to save democracy in America. What would you do to save democracy? And with the eye on the election in November, um, you know, I, I, I respect people's right to say I'm voting for this person and that person. What I've asked people to do though, is, uh, hold onto your vote. Don't give it away yet. Make people earn it. Um,

by throwing light on these three issues, we're hoping that we're able to get candidates to recognize that there's a block of people out there that haven't committed yet. And you need to earn their vote by articulating sound policies about these three critical directions. So that's the goal. We have a fantastic venue, the Tudor City Steakhouse. If you go to scottritter.com, you can purchase tickets. You're going to get a world-class buffet.

You're going to get an Operation Dawn challenge coin and you're going to get three fantastic panels. We're going to videotape the panels and we'll package them and we'll get them out so we can magnify or echo the impact that we're going to have at this brunch. But this is an outstanding lineup. Jimmy, I thank you very much for agreeing to come and I'm very much looking forward to this.

Okay, so we'll see everybody this weekend in New York City. Hey, come see us on tour. We're going to be in Los Angeles, Columbus, Ohio, Dayton, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Lexington, Kentucky, Burbank, California, and Honolulu. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for tickets. So I don't know if you saw what happened. They had the BRICS meeting. So the United States has been such unbelievable war-mongering country

a hegemonic imperialists that the rest of the world is now creating

of coalitions to thwart us. And one of them is BRICS. Would you say it's the rumble of currency? And so now they had a big meeting, they had their big summit, and there were 20 heads of state, 30 countries involved. Now BRICS controls more of the world's economy than the G7 countries do. Great. Great job, everyone. So guess the big news, the biggest news that came out of that

was that longtime Haiti enemies, India and China, are now pals. Well, that's nice. Remember Modi? Remember when Tulsi was running for president? What's your vision on Modi? Yeah. Well, he met with Xi Jinping on the sidelines at the BRICS summit.

India-China relations are important for the people of our countries and for regional and global peace and stability. Mutual trust, mutual respect, and mutual sensitivity will guide bilateral. So the world is coming together in peace as the United States bombs pipelines, funds genocides.

threatens sanctions on half the world, including Russia. Okay, wait, Jimmy, can I just tell you something the great Condoleezza Rice said that I texted to you? That is, look, someone's got to rule the entire world. Do you want it to be Russia or China? Shouldn't it be us? They literally...

Say this. They literally say this. So think of just that mindset of that is like this is all in the service of somebody has to win the big game and control the whole goddamn world. Think how crazy that is. That's like mad scientist shit. Yes. Hi, America. It's me, India. I know we've had some good times together and I'll always remember our time together, but it's time to move on, especially since you guys have lost your shit and the world hates you.

Well, not only that, Jimmy. Sincerely, India. Yeah, not only that, you know how Iran and Russia and China have this, this, this,

The supersonic missiles that we don't have. Yes. I was like, how does that happen? And my girlfriend pointed out, well, we started outsourcing all the components to everything a long time ago. So the moron capitalist, by the way, if you love capitalism, just so you know, this is why we could never win a war with any of these countries. We've never won a war since World War II, by the way. That's right. But we can never win now because they make the stuff for all our fancy shit. How are we going to go to war against China? They make everything.

So, and that's how, because I really was like, that makes no sense to me that we can't make hypersonic missiles because we spend so much on war compared to everybody else. Well, our awesome capitalist oligarchs have been sending the components out and I guess they're like, well, they don't know what it's for. I think they do know what it's for. I think they've guessed and they come up with new things.

Kashmiri Hindu tweets out the West's worst nightmare, Russia, India and China coming together. I'm sure Peter Zaihan will have a great analysis of why China is about to go down any minute. So it's been a nightmare for the West, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Armenia, Azerbaijan. They're all seeking better relations. Syria is back in the Arab League.

Russia is beating NATO. BRICS is stronger. Africa is awakening. And the U.S. is arming a genocide. The empire is dying, everybody.

Wow. It's like, how often do you think about Rome as a man, Jimmy? Right. You know that meme? That's why the book of Revelation is applying now and people notice it is because we're doing all the same bullshit that Rome did. And that book was written about Rome. That's right. So if you're going to do the same stupid game, it's going to be the same stupid prizes forever. Headline, have India and China achieved a border breakthrough? Many people said this was impossible. Bricks makes this happen.

This is like Rogan getting Trump and Kamala Harris on. Like, why aren't they on the mainstream? You guys suck and everybody's sick of you. That's why. India and China agree to de-escalate border tensions. There's the headline. Great. Good job. No thanks to the United States.

India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along a disputed Himalayan border, which has seen deadly hand-to-hand clashes in recent years, India's top diplomat has said. Vikram Misri said on Monday the two sides have agreed on disengagement and resolution of issues in these border areas that had arisen in 2020.

He was referring to the Galwan Valley clashes, the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975, in which both sides suffered casualties. Relations between the neighbors have been strained since then, since 1975. But because the United States are such hegemonic maniacs and warmongering neocons that the world has hated us so much that they can come together.

Since 1975, they've hated each other. An agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along blah, blah, blah. The Indian foreign secretary statement comes just a day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Russia for a meeting of BRICS nations, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. So this is probably according to our friend of the show, Arnaud Bertrand.

This is probably the biggest story of the BRICS meeting so far. A very noteworthy change of attitude of India towards China with the border agreement and this declaration by Modi after years of antagonism. And there they are. We were counting on them being enemies. We were counting on that. When you hear neocon propaganda bullshit, they're always like, oh, India and China hate each other. It's never going to work.

You assholes made it work out. That's how much they hate. Yes. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. So here, reminder that the relationship got so bad that to this day, there are zero scheduled flights between both countries and India doesn't deliver visas to Chinese nationals, even for tourism purposes. India is also probably the one country in the world under the most intense anti-China propaganda regime, even far worse than in the West.

Not sure exactly what drove this change, probably a growing realization that the Asian century won't happen with India and China at odds with each other and that this hostility was becoming the elephant in the room for BRICS. Also, probably India realizing with the scandals around the murdered activists in Canada that the best it could ever hope for with the West is

was to be a junior subordinate who should know its place. Wow. That's right. Wow, it's kind of like Diddy, how he went down because he didn't want to be a subordinate, but they're winning with this. And so this means the fear of reprisal no longer hangs over their head. They're no longer fearing the United States. Oh, great. Great job, U.S.,

Marco Rubico was a prophet saying this would be bad. This thing that the thing that these countries are shaking their fist at is weak and dying. And by the way, that's us.

That's the United States. They don't like cancel culture. If it helps you in American terms, they don't want sanctions. That's cancel culture. You're canceled. I don't care if your family starves. So there's no United States there. This is these are the biggest countries in the world. India, Russia. By the way, Russia's China, Russia's economy far outpacing the United States.

Hey, look at those autocrats in all those pictures, Jimmy. All those autocrats. Autocrats. Oh, my God. I hate them so much. But guess what? Every one of them is, and I mean on every level, a better human than Benjamin Netanyahu. Yes. Putin, for sure. Putin is an angel of God. Compared to Benjamin Netanyahu, whose name ironically means given by God, Putin is an angel, a beautiful angel compared to that sack of shit.

Look at Modi setting himself up for that picture to look like a really old Jesus. America's Abrajan negotiations on the sidelines of the two. There they are. That's Armenian, Azerbaijan. So they're supposed to also be and they're all coming together at BRICS.

And Azerbaijan was just massacring them. That's right. On behalf of Israel, by the way. Look at these two enemies talk to each other like adults. Now, the Democrats in the United States, they don't want Donald Trump to have civil conversations with Putin.

Right. They want to hate them and go to war. They want to go to war. That's because they're not actually in charge and they have to do the directives of what they're told by the people that own them. And these autocrats, I guess, get to have more sway over their oligarchs than we do. Not over our oligarchs. Right. That's why we have these sanctions. Turns out there's a whistleblower over at the BBC that said that they got the BBC got direct instructions that.

to safeguard Israel's image during Israel's carpet bombing of Gaza and the slaughtering of the children and women. Here we go. Israel has a right to defend itself. That was the editorial line that was drilled into us, into all of our coverage. It was really an integral part of the editorial stance. To a guest talking about, you know,

Israeli airstrikes killing Palestinians in Gaza. That would be the response from our presenters. Denying access to food is collective punishment and that we should all be clear in saying that. Israel will argue obviously that it has a right to defend itself. People were terrified of using the word genocide in coverage. They still are. You will very rarely see it in any BBC coverage.

And if an interviewee says the word genocide? This is a genocide happening in front of our eyes. That word is, as you know, incredibly emotive and the Israelis, as you know, will be saying that they are targeting Hamas only. The presenter will almost always panic. The Labour Party, of all political parties, which has always had a strong peace contingent within it, is now actually supporting genocide. OK, maybe just avoid that language if that's OK.

So I think it's pretty obvious that that's what's been happening at the BBC, but it's nice to have somebody on the inside. Al Jazeera, by the way, did that. Recently, I understood, was it the United States? Who was it that asked Al Jazeera to relax on their coverage? Somebody is somebody. But anyway, here's a very similar story you get from come from Canada, right?

It says CBC has whitewashed Israel's crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster. I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out. That's by someone named Molly Schumann. So very. So there you go.

It's supposed to be public broadcasting. It's actually doing the bidding of Israel. And good on Al Jazeera for breaking that story. And good for the whistleblower. Is anybody surprised? I mean, all you have to do is watch. I mean, the mainstream coverage is just remarkable. And we just did a story yesterday about how they allowed a journalist on to...

to wag his finger and criticize MSNBC's coverage of Gaza, and NBC deleted that video. Hey, become a premium member. Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business.

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