 40 here. Do you feel like the news is trying to manage you? I mean, it's just so strong that the news media wants us to hate Iran and to blame Iran for the Hamas attack on Israel. The news doesn't put much emphasis into conveying the Hamas point of view. All right, Hamas is a democratically elected representatives of the people of Gaza. Hamas overwhelmingly represents the people of Gaza far more than the Netanyahu government represents the people of Israel. So yeah, this is a democracy for all intents and purposes, not in this classical form, but in its essence. All right, this represents the will of the people Hamas does. And they are fighting out of their hero system. Just like I am live streaming out of my hero system and you get a church and you worship out of your hero system. We have different hero systems. So you say, why can't the arrows, why can't the Muslims make peace with this tiny little insignificant Jewish state in their midst? Well, why can't people who believe in heterosexual marriage make peace with the presence of a tiny number of same sex couples in their midst because it violates their hero system that marriage should be between a man and a woman. And it violates the hero system for many to have homosexuals open and out and serving in the US military that violates a hero system. It violates a hero system to have transgender becoming popular. All right, we're all driven, we're all motivated, we're all inspired and compelled and given strength and given pain by damage done to our hero system. Frequently, we would rather be punched in the stomach or punched in the face than to suffer the trials and tribulations of the desecration of our hero system, whether our hero system revolves around Christianity or Judaism or the pursuit of scientific truth or liberalism or conservatism or nationalism. We all have a hero system and Muslims have a hero system. All right, part of their hero system is that the land currently occupied by the Jewish state of Israel belongs to them. And Arabs and Muslims do have a claim to the land. Historically, I don't have any interest in litigating who is who has the stronger claim to the land. That's largely a matter of faith. So I don't try to litigate matters of faith. But Muslims and Arabs have their reasons for believing that this land belongs to them. And their sense of self, their hero system is violated, it is desecrated, it is damaged by the presence of a Jewish state on land that they believe belongs to them. And interesting what happened in Sydney, Australia. All right, so a particular group of Muslims got together, took over the area around the Sydney Opera House, right, the Central Business District of Sydney. And the Sydney police warned Jews to stay away from the Central Business District of Sydney. I mean, this is always unprecedented. I didn't know if this has happened before in Australia. It's hard to imagine happening in America. But for the for their own welfare, police told Jews stay away from the Central Business District. And you had Palestinians gathering at the Sydney Opera House, and yelling, you know, gas the Jews kill the Jews rejoicing in the slaughter of Jews. And you know, how on earth is Australia strengthened by the importation of this kind of dissension? Right now, I don't think for a second that, you know, all Muslims support the slaughter of Jews, right? I don't believe that these Muslims who were at the Sydney Opera House causing, you know, celebrating the mass slaughter of Jews and calling for more mass slaughter of Jews, by no means do I think that these Muslims are just inherent to Islam. They're not, right? But a particular set of Muslims is going to celebrate the slaughter of Jews. And a particular set of Jews is going to scream out death to the Arabs, right? It's not Ashkenazi Jews by and large who marched through the streets of, you know, cities in Israel, communities in Israel, screaming death to the Arabs, right? It's by and large disaffected, low achieving, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who do that. Now I live in Los Angeles and Los Angeles Orthodox Jews are pretty hardcore. I've been told by much wiser or knowledgeable Los Angeles Orthodox Jews than myself that probably half of Los Angeles Orthodox Jewry believes that Baruch Goldstein is a hero, right? You can go to the best of my knowledge to every Torah bookstore in Los Angeles and you can buy a Baruch HaGever. It's probably one of their best sellers celebrating the saintly, the righteous, the sardic, Baruch Goldstein. And why was he so righteous? Because he went into a mosque and just slaughtered as many Muslims at prayer as he could. And I would estimate that half of Los Angeles Orthodox Jews regard him as a great guy. Now, Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles and Orthodox Jews elsewhere in America not going out and committing murder and they're not going to, you know, publicly call for the mass slaughter of Arabs and Muslims. But a lot of Israelis, you don't really wish that the people of Gaza and the Palestinians would just disappear. Most of them are not going to go public with that wish. But everybody down deep has a significant part of themselves that wishes that those who are different from them regard them simply as subhuman, right? People in Gaza think that way about Israeli Jews, the Palestinians on the West Bank by and large think that way about Israeli Jews, Israeli Jews by and large think that way under times of stress about people in Gaza and people in the West Bank. All right, this is just inherent to the human condition. Right, I made some notes. Oh, it's interesting. So New Yorker has a big profile on glowing profile by and large on the National Security Advisor for Joe Biden. And this guy, Jake Sullivan, he talks about the Russia Ukraine war as as good versus evil. I mean, it just seems like such incredibly naive language for someone who's got a sophisticated Ivy League education. Wow. But that is how the dominant elites see things. I mean, you feel like you're being stage managed when you watch the news, read the news, listen to the news. We're supposed to load Russia so much so that we're itching to go to war with Russia. The media is managing it so that we load China and itching to go to war with China over Taiwan, even though Taiwan can't be bothered to put much effort into defending itself. And we're expected to encourage to load Iran to blame Iran for what Hamas did in southern Israel this weekend so that there is American support for going to war with Iran like substantial parts of the pundit industrial complex of the foreign policy complex of the American news media longs for America to go to war with Russia, China and Iran simultaneously, which would be an absolute disaster. Right. And at the same time, they tell us that democracies don't declare war on other democracies. And it's just not true. All right. Hamas represents the democratic will of the the Gazan people. All right. More than the Netanyahu government represents the Israeli people. All right. Hamas is far more popular with Gazans than BB Netanyahu and his governing coalition are with Israelis. Right. And when democracies go to war, right, they are not more moral and not more sensitive to civilian deaths than non democracies. Right. About 500,000 to a million Iraqi children died in the 1990s because of American sanctions against Iraq. It was horrifying to look at the video and the pictures of the dozens, possibly hundreds of Israeli children who were slaughtered by Hamas. Well, about a million Iraqi children were killed by American sanctions. But by and large, you didn't have TV cameras capturing those deaths. All right. That wasn't, you know, brought to the American people's attention because by and large, Americans don't really care about the death and suffering of non-Americans. Just like Australians, by and large, don't care that much about the death and suffering of non-Australians. And the French, by and large, don't care much about the death and suffering of non-French and Germans. By and large, don't care about the death and suffering of non-Germans. Right. That's reality. You want to do good in the world. You have to recognize reality. Now, contrary to this Wall Street Journal report, which came out very quickly, very conveniently, saying that Iran was behind these attacks on Israel by Hamas, both America and Israeli government have stated there is absolutely no evidence that Iran ordered these attacks. Right. Iran has yet to attack Americans in America. So I'm sure Iran has hit squads in this country who will go to work if America directly attacks Iran. The Obama administration reached the best possible deal with Iran. Iran can go nuclear essentially anytime at once. It's a shame to me that Trump repudiated it. The Republican argument and the media argument of the Biden administration played a significant role in the Hamas attack by returning $6 billion of frozen Iranian assets to Iran is absurd. Iran has been allowing in nuclear inspectors. They've reduced uranium enrichment. They've released American hostages. They've indicated openness to direct negotiations and engagement with America through the country of Oman. Iran is not on a trajectory to order these attacks. So much to talk about. But this idea that democracy is just so much more moral than non-democracies when it comes to war is absurd. But one thing I don't see in the news media is the significant role that Russia likely played in these attacks. That doesn't seem to get any attention. Right. I am skeptical that these likely Hamas attacks would have occurred if America was not so deeply involved. So balls deep in Ukraine funding, supplying, encouraging and directing this proxy war against Russia by NATO that is taking place in Ukraine. Ukrainians are dying because the U.S. thinks it's a great idea to have a proxy war with Russia. And this attack on Israel I don't think would have occurred if Russia had not been so highly incentivized to get back at America. Russia is getting back at America by encouraging directing, helping this Hamas attack against Israel. Just like Russia encouraged the Azerbaijan attack on Armenia and taking Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia is highly incentivized to create as much global trouble for America as possible because America is creating so much zuras, so much trouble for Russia. John Mirsheimer says that this decision by the Biden administration to be so supportive of Ukraine and supply tens of billions of dollars and encourage a proxy war in Ukraine is 10 times the disaster of our 2003 invasion of Iraq. It is essentially 10 times the disaster of our 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and our 2003 invasion of Iraq, which together costs approximately up to about $7 trillion. We blew $7 trillion in these pointless, disastrous invasions. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 cost about a million Iraqi lives. I'm horrified just like you are by these pictures of the Hamas slaughter of about a thousand Israelis. The American invasion of Iraq cost 1 million American lives. Before that, American sanctions against Iraq cost about 1 million Iraqi children's lives in the 1990s. This idea that democracy is so much more moral in the way they wage war. It's ludicrous. All the evidence is against it. Great article in Moscow. This is instability created by an attack on Israel. It is intended to pull US attention and resources away from the war in Ukraine, which is exactly what it is doing. But the media doesn't let you know that it's Russia that played a very significant role in this Hamas attack. Their interests are far more served by the Hamas attack than Iran's. Who benefits from the Hamas attack on Israel? Moscow. Russia benefits far more than does Iran. I'm not at all sure that Iran benefits at all. Moscow benefits. Russia benefits. Putin benefits. Just as he benefits from Azerbaijan, a Muslim nation thrashing Armenia and taking over Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin will be fomenting more of these. And we've brought it on by our boneheaded, stupid, ridiculous ludicrous just awful decision to essentially get into a proxy war with Russia versus NATO over Ukraine. If Trump had been re-elected, Putin would never have been incentivized to mount this invasion of Ukraine. So, why not here? Instability created in places like Serbia, Kosovo, West Africa, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and now Israel all intended to pull U.S. attention and resources away from the war in Ukraine. And it's doing that. It's doing exactly that. Putin is not an idiot. He has idiotic tendencies, just like we all have idiotic tendencies. He miscalculates. He makes mistakes. But overall he's not an idiot. He is creating conflict between Azerbaijan, Armenia, Serbia, and Kosovo, creating conflict in West Africa now in Israel. And he's pulling U.S. attention away from the war in Ukraine. U.S. recently created $500 of munitions stored in Israel and gave them to Ukraine. Now the U.S. is going to have to take these munitions and send them to Israel. So, they're not going to be able to be available to the Ukrainians to fight back against Russia. Russia used Iran to supply large numbers of drones to attack Ukrainian civilians. It's now using Iran to encourage and enable these attacks in Israel. So, the governing consensus, the way we're being stage-managed by the news and by our elites is to believe that if only liberal norms prevailed. If only we had widespread human rights and democracy, we wouldn't have these awful things. Well, John Mirshama read a great book about this in 2018, The Great Delusion, Liberal Dreams and International Realities. So, there is a governing consensus in the news media and among our elites that liberal democracies fight wars in especially virtuous ways. It's ridiculous. There's no evidence for this. Liberalism places great stress on inalienable human rights. So, yeah, you'd expect liberal democracies to go to lengths to avoid killing civilians, right? But when you study it, you find democracies are more likely than non-democracies to target civilians. The way the United States fights its war, it has killed millions of civilians, many of them on purpose. Right, yeah, autocracies are more likely than democracies to abuse prisoners of war, but plenty of evidence that democracies widespread mistreat their business. Right, when democratic states get desperate, they quickly forget the enemy's humanity, begin to value human rights far less. Israeli rhetoric is that Hamas are animals. Right, Israel is a democracy, many ways a liberal democracy. Right, when foreigners murder Americans, there's much greater concern to the average American than when foreigners murder each other. And it's that way universally, Australians and non-Australians murder each other. Right, there's a great human crime in the United States when the Islamic State, ISIS, beheaded two American journalists in 2014. That persuaded President Obama to go to war against ISIS. Right, Americans cared about the deaths of their fellow Americans. They didn't care nearly so much when ISIS slaughtered thousands of Muslims. Americans who murder foreigners, especially non-white foreigners, don't get treated very harshly. Lieutenant William Cowley, who directed the Milai massacre in Vietnam in March 1968, served three and a half years under house arrest before he was freed. He enjoyed overwhelming support from the public, even after his role in the massacre was revealed in the media. Nobody else in his unit was convicted of a criminal offense, even though Americans slaughtered somewhere between 350 and 500 civilians, mostly women and children. Now, if they butchered that number of unarmed Americans, they would not have received such benevolent treatment. Americans are extremely sensitive to American casualties. Israelis are extremely sensitive to Israeli casualties. Australians extremely sensitive to Australian casualties. But your normal member of the nation doesn't care much about the casualties of outgroups. One study has done a major, one scholar, John Tierman, done a major study on this subject because one of the most remarkable aspects of American wars is how little we discuss the victims who are not Americans. All nations think this way. United States has fought seven wars since the Cold War ended. United States is addicted to war. It's a liberal democracy. Britain and Australia by and large have been at America's side through these wars, more liberal democracies. Democratic peoples frequently start wars. Wars are frequently good politics. And the public in a democratic nation like the United States, Australia, Britain, frequently does not pay a big price where this country goes to war. Both the countries get to have highly capitalized militaries wherein only a small slice of the population actually serves and volunteers. And liberal democracies can wage war in ways that minimize their own casualties. All this cumbersome decision making that holds democracies back from going to war. Well, essentially the President of the United States or any executive can usually plunge this nation very quickly into war. These checks and balances may sometimes make it a little bit difficult to start a war. But democrat democracies initiate wars all the time like the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Very rarely do checks and balances and democratic inefficiencies prevent governing elites from taking their country to war. All these institutional impediments do not thwart democratic leaders bent on starting a war. Even if the war is a disaster like the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In emergencies, liberal democracies such as Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, are fully capable of reacting swiftly and decisively in initiating a war. This is the latest New Yorker. With trepidation, as he had told me, but now in the White House's Roosevelt Room, steps from the Oval Office, he seemed surprisingly relaxed for a congenital worrier. It's my job to worry, he once told an interviewer, so I worry about literally everything. When I asked about reports that at a recent NATO summit he had been furious during negotiations over whether to issue Ukraine a formal invitation to join the Western Alliance, he said only half jokingly. First of all, I'm like the most rational human being on the planet. But when it came to the subject of the war itself and why Biden has staked so much. Rational being on the planet could very well plunge us into the war that ends human life on this planet. Very well plunge us into a conflict with Russia. But the Biden administration just seems competent because they by and large members of his administration are cohesive, they don't leak against each other, their conflicts don't spill out into the open, so the media keeps telling us how competent they are. They're going to competently advance us into a catastrophe 10 times the size of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. On helping Ukraine fight it, Sullivan struck an unusually impassioned note. As a child of the 80s and rocky and red dawn, I believe in freedom fighters, and I believe in righteous causes, and I believe the Ukrainians have one, he said. There are very few conflicts that I have seen, maybe none, in the post-Cold War era where there's such a clear good guy and bad guy. And we're on the side of the good guy. Wow, I mean, I, I, sure, morally you can make that case, but wars are not fought and sustained and decided primarily on the basis of morality. Morality, if it is to be objective, right, depends upon a subjective leap of faith, some sort of transcendent source of morality. Alright, I doubt that Jake Sullivan's religious man, I doubt he accepts that the source of morality is God, so therefore his description of this war is good versus evil is irrational because there's no objective basis on which to make such a pronouncement, unless you have and share some kind of transcendent source of morality, or you have our opinions on morality. And we have to do a lot for that person. There's no question that the United States has done a lot. American assistance to Ukraine totaling $76 billion with more than $43 billion for security aid is the largest such effort since the Second World. Okay, so asking for a friend, what is your favorite Sunni civilization? Is it Hamas? Like, what would you like to patent American? What is your favorite Sunni civilization? Is it Saudi Arabia? Hey, where do you see a, a Sunni civilization that you really want to imitate? In the aftermath of the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion, the U.S. has delivered more than 2,000 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, more than 10,000 Javelin anti-tank weapons, and more than 2,155 millimeter artillery rounds. It has sent Patriot missiles for air defense and high mobility artillery rocket systems, known as Haimars, to give Ukraine longer range strike capability. Sophisticated ghost drones and small hand... So as I mentioned, Australian Jews were told to stay away from the central business district of Sydney because bloodthirsty Muslims were celebrating the Hamas slaughter of Israelis and calling for more of the same and gassing the Jews. And again, I make clear this is not inherent to Muslims. This is a particular set of Muslims that Australia has imported and this is a particular set of Muslims and you can identify them. All right, Muslims from certain countries are far more likely to be bloodthirsty and to welcome genocide. The Muslims from other countries, just like certain Jews, far more likely to scream death to the Arabs than other Jews. Ninety-five percent of American Jews do not regard Baruch Goldstein, right? The guy went into a mosque and slaughtered 30 plus Muslims at prayer as a hero, but a tiny percentage do. And you can identify them only half of Los Angeles Orthodox Jews regard Baruch Goldstein as a hero. And launched Puma drones, striker armored personnel carriers, Bradley fighting vehicles, and M1A1 Abrams tanks. Biden has framed the conflict in sweeping nearly civilizational terms. So human rights is, you know, the favorite preoccupation of our ruling elites, of our academic elites, our political elites, our media elites. And human rights really developed as a prominent, you know, article of faith among our elites only in the 1970s after the failure of Marxist politics. Right, after communism and socialism really didn't work out, lefties looked for something else to invest themselves in and they developed this notion of universal human rights. Now, prior to the 1970s, essentially human rights were understood to be something that only a nation state could grant to its citizens really. So there's no real meaning to human rights outside of what a nation state at a particular time and a particular place can grant its citizens. But it is a preoccupation of people who live in an abstract world. I largely live in an abstract world. I get living in an abstract world. I live much of my life in an abstract world. I love the abstract world. I frequently spent way too much time in an abstract world when I'd be much better served, you know, spending time interacting with real people. But I'm recently smart guy I like to read books and think in abstract times. When you live in an abstract world it's very easy to live in a substantial amount of delusion. I have spent a substantial amount of my life in delusion. My therapist said to me, I'd hate to see you waste your life in delusion. She said that because he saw me wasting much of my life in delusion. I had another therapist say to me, I'd hate to see you wind up as that guy on the bar still talking about, you know, what a contender he could have been. So this notion that there are universal human rights and this is a righteous cause to fight for it does virtually no good in the world. It's a delusion. It's something that makes you feel good. The only meaningful definition understanding of human rights is that the human rights are the human rights that can be conveyed to by a nation state to its citizens. That's it. Vowing to stick with Ukraine for as long as it takes to defeat the invaders who despite an estimated 120,000 dead and 180,000 injured. So our Hamas the invaders, right, Arabs and Muslims can make, you know, strong case that the Zionists are the invaders and Zionists can make a strong case that the Arabs and Muslims and Hamas are the invaders right? No people spring out of the ground right? Nobody is owed any territory on earth unless you look at things through the eyes of faith. The only territory that your people get is the territory that your people can seize and defend. Israel does not belong to the Jews unless you look at it through the eyes of faith. I look at it through the eyes of faith. So I'm down with saying Israel belongs to the Jews but I'm admitting that I'm making a leap of faith. Just like Arabs and Muslims can make a leap of faith that the current land of the Jewish state of Israel belongs to Islam. No people emerge straight out of the ground and have an inherent right to a particular plot of land. The only right you have to any land is the land that your people can seize and that your people can defend. Still hold nearly 20% of the country's territory but at nearly every stage the administration has faced sharp questions about the nature and the durability of the US commitment. I mean remember President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the Vietnam War, he would decide on a case by case basis where American planes could bomb in North Vietnam. He would personally select many of the bombing targets and the Biden administration is similarly trying to manage the Ukraine war, the proxy war fought in Ukraine between NATO and Russia by giving certain weapons to Ukraine but then saying oh but you can't use these inside of Russia as though you can give weapons to a country fighting for its survival and then effectively limit how it uses its weapons. I mean how delusional is that? The Biden administration thinks they can stage manage how the weapons it gives Ukraine are used. Good luck. Beyond the inevitable tensions with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky there are jostling Washington bureaucracies restive European allies and a growing Trumpist faction in the Republican controlled House of Representatives which is opposed to the bipartisan congressional bills that have up until now funded the war. A vocal peace camp meanwhile is demanding negotiations with Vladimir Putin to end the conflict. Even a Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has said there is currently little prospect for meaningful diplomacy the task of leading the White House through such treacherous politics has fallen to Sullivan. Who? Well if Anthony Blinken says that there's little meaningful opportunity for negotiation I mean then that just answers that. I mean if our Secretary of State makes such a pronouncement like who are we to question him? I mean it's just subtle that. Yeah apparently 20 Americans missing in Israel guys we need to bomb bomb bomb Iran bomb bomb bomb Iran to get a war with Russia and get a war with China. Ugh. Crazy, crazy how we're trying to the American news media is trying to stage manage what's going on to avoid the bleeding obvious that this attack on Israel likely would not have happened if America hadn't been so balls deep in Ukraine. Taiwan can't be bothered to put much effort into defending itself yet tens of thousands of Americans must die to defend a country that can't be bothered to defend itself. And that Iran are the bad guys here that Hamas a Sunni organization is putting to much of the news media essentially a proxy for the Shiite regime in Iran. He was appointed at the age of 44 was the youngest national security advisor since McGeorge Bundy held the job during the Vietnam War. It's really Jake Evo Daulter a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO who has consulted regularly with the National Security Council since the Russian invasion told me he is the quartermaster of the war and everything else. Sullivan is lean with wispy blond hair a tendency to blush bright red and a workaholic intensity unusual even by Washington's standards one night a few months ago Sullivan discovered an intruder who had broken into his home at around 3 a.m. because he was still up working in his office there is a chart updated frequently showing countries current stocks of ammunition that might go to Ukraine this spring during the battle of Bakhmut he knew the status of the fighting down to the city block that's amazing that isn't that fantastic the national security advisor those the status of the fighting in Ukraine down to the block I'm kind of naive I wish that he was up on American interests I am not as interested in the fighting in Ukraine block by block as I am in what's good for America so Hamas and the Palestinians can make a powerful case for their own victim hood Israelis can make a powerful case for their own victim hood I can make a powerful case for my own victim hood you can make a powerful case for your own victim hood right or group identity depends upon a strong sense of grievance and and victim hood every people can feel terribly terribly oppressed and it's absolutely essential for a group identity now I know what you think he's saying 40 stop with the blather get to the point what does Peter Zion have to say about all this coming to you from central Texas it is the October and the news today is that in the early hours of today Hamas the political slash terror group based on your politics that controls the southern enclave of Gaza in southern Israel launched an attack into Israel proper demolishing a little bit of the border land sea paraglider attacks and literally thousands of missiles and so far they've kidnapped at least several dozen civilians and a handful of soldiers and took them back to Gaza with them Netanyahu so do you think Peter Zion is going to go into the jq I don't remember Peter Zion delving into the mysteries of the jq he doesn't talk much about Israel and the Israel lobby I wonder why who Benjamin Netanyahu the prime minister of Israel has declared war on Hamas and military operations are forthcoming he's very hot situation on the ground very fluid don't have a lot of information for you there and honestly there's people who are much better at that than I am what I can tell you there's two kind of things that kind of stand out that we need to watch here number one within minutes of the news being reported the Ukrainian government offered its support to the Israeli government oh wow that must be such a lead to the people of Israel that the Ukrainian government had offered its support what a relief I mean the people of Israel must feel so warm so nurtured so safe so reassured heartened so strengthened so inspired so transcendently supernally eternally terrifically fantastic that the Ukrainian government has offered its support wow this is this is a game changer and Hamas was just Hamas was shaking in his boots that Ukraine had offered its support and I'm just looking at the chat right now Leponius Maximus Meridius I want you to know I'm offering you my support cyber view I am offering you my support Ozzyan Sultan Bekov I want you to know that I am extending to you my support and my love now send you even a dollar but I'm offering you my support live madly you too get my support Elliot Blatt you have my support bro everybody who's watching the show right now all 20 of you right 16 on YouTube and a few on Rumble and maybe one on Twitter I'm offering you my support and my support it should mean as much to you as the support of Ukraine means to Israel and you know how the Israelis they're just smitten right now they are devastated they feel so bad that Ukraine immediately offered Israel their support during Israel's time of suffering while Israel had not offered the same support to Ukraine when Ukraine was suffering the Israelis are just torn up inside they're bleeding inside they're crying inside they're ripped up inside in defending against the assault which is far more than the Israelis have offered to the Ukrainians in response to the Russian invasion the Ukrainians have been a little annoyed with the Israelis trying to sit on the fence you know why the Israelis sat on the fence because they didn't want to provoke exactly what happened right Russia is an incredibly dangerous enemy you don't gratuitously needlessly make dangerous enemies and if that means you don't get to be as moral you don't need to immediately you know go to the aid of the suffering because you put a higher priority on your own welfare than the welfare of strangers half a world away that that's what you do Israel was absolutely right to be highly reluctant to side with Ukraine if the United States had been highly reluctant to side with Ukraine we would not be on the verge of World War three we would not be on the verge well we are stuck in a massive catastrophe in this conflict with Russia that there's no way out of this is going to be 10 times more damaging to America's interest than the stupid invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 invasion of Iraq in 2003 if I'm the America had been this reluctant in all likelihood no attack by Hamas on southern Israel this weekend for their part have a population that's roughly one sixth Russian and so they've been trying to not get involved as much as they can because they're always trying to keep their lines of communication open to the Russians as a way to manipulate events in the Arab world it's going to be very interesting to see if this changes the mindset of folks in Israel at all because for them dealing with groups like Hamas is kind of an existential issue and for Ukraine to come down so quickly and so publicly on their side is definitely noteworthy there is no direct noteworthy why? Ukraine can do absolutely nothing for Israel. Why exactly is it noteworthy? It's noteworthy to Peter Zion who thinks it's just so important that the United States you know back Ukraine to the Hilton that Putin is just like Hitler and to Peter Zion is noteworthy I don't think to any thoughtful analyst of war affairs that Ukraine support for Israel is particularly noteworthy I mean I assume that Bolivia supports Israel too and New Zealand during this time of pain and suffering and that makes Bobkas difference to Israel. Indication of Russian involvement here but there are a lot of tactics that are very familiar that we've seen the Hamas group has actually shared footage of some of its attacks including attacks on civilian targets which under normal circumstances would be considered a war crime pretty much there but the rules in the Middle East are a little odd and we know that the senior leadership there are no meaningful rules in war alright war means that usually there is such an intense clash of interest that people are willing to kill over them they're willing to kill because they believe that the survival of their own people is at stake and in such situations there really aren't any rules. Israel has been in and out of Moscow quite a bit over the course of the last year so it's going to be interesting to see how that whole dynamic changes politically. Second aspect is political strategic as well and that is that the Saudis and the Israelis have been hip deep in negotiations on a normalization program right now most of the countries of the Arab world still don't recognize Israel as a independent state and entity that has broken a little bit under the Trump administration with Morocco and the United Arab Emirates switching sides but now the question is whether the Biden administration can get Saudi Arabia to switch sides and the debate of course is about the Palestinians not between the Saudis and the Israelis but among the Saudis there's a debate going on within Saudi Arabia itself it's generational over whether or not they should just ditch the Palestinians completely normalize relations with the Israelis and just move on. Yeah I've emailed Mike Benz aka Frame Game Radio have not heard back from him. On the older generation of the king who's probably senile at this point wants to continue to back the Palestinians where the younger one ruled by the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman really doesn't care at all so we're going to find out really quickly here who actually holds power in Riyadh and that is going to have any number of implications because whenever the world's largest oil producer and exporter decides to change its political stance on regional affairs and starts backing up with money, oil and military power a lot of interesting things can break through very quickly so watch Jerusalem. Is this the once a decade cutting of the grass where Israel goes into Gaza and kills off some of the most militant perhaps I have no idea a full fledged ground invasion and takeover of Gaza by Israel may very well precipitate an attack on Israel by Hezbollah which would very well kill 10,000 Israelis in the first 24 hours and flatten much of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Let's take a look at this New Yorker article on Jake Sullivan inside the White House's battle to keep Ukraine in the fight. He often speaks with his counterpart in Kiev, Zelensky's chief of staff Andrei Yermak two or three times a week and has taken charge of everything from lobbying South Korea for artillery shells to running an emergency operation to get Ukraine additional power generators. Earlier this year when Germany came to Ukraine, Sullivan spent days in intensive talks with the German national security advisor to secure them. Thank you, thank you Jake Sullivan for all that you do. Here's another premier intellectual big Alaska. I'm like no matter how much I sleep I'm just exhausted every day all day like just want to like die like bad it's not good well if you think if you get a good night's right