Nov 29, 2023
MORON Radicals Voice Support Of Hamas During City Council Meeting
Leftists defended the terrorist group Hamas during Oakland's city council meeting.
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Calling Hamas a terrorist organization
is ridiculous, racist,
and plays into genocidal propaganda that
is flooding our media and that we should
be doing everything possible to combat.
I support the right of Palestinians
to resist occupation,
including through Hamas, the armed wing
of the unified Palestinian resistance.
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That was in Oakland
during last night's City Council meeting.
And it's really hard to overstate.
And I'm going to try to be calm,
open minded, understanding and not use
the rhetoric that I really want to use,
like the fact that I can't overstate
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how much I despise these people and
how self-indulgent and stupid they are.
And yes, that is an ad hominem attack.
That is exactly what it is.
But it's also the perfect description.
Okay, to let everyone know
who these people really are.
Now, let me just back up and tell you
what the City Council meeting was about,
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what was being debated.
The city council was
deciding on whether or not.
And of course, this is symbolic,
to call for a cease fire for the aerial
bombardments carried out by Israel
against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to stop
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because of the high civilian death toll.
Day after day, I come on this show
and I condemn what the IDF has been doing.
I've been condemning and speaking out
against the disgusting, genocidal
statements that members of the Likud party
have been making since October 7th.
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So I've been very clear about where I
stand in regard to the various
international war crimes violations
that Israel has engaged in.
But I'm also not an idiot,
and I don't fall for propaganda
by a group of people who carried out
some of the most vicious atrocities
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against innocent civilians in Israel.
I don't need to carry water for them,
and I don't need to fall
for their stupid propaganda.
But unfortunately, there are some fragment
of the left and I'm hoping it is a tiny,
tiny fragment of the left.
That stupid enough to look at propaganda
videos where Hamas is releasing
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the hostages and gee, I don't know.
Some of the family members
of the hostages that are being released
might still be held captive by Hamas.
And so when you see the hostages who are
being released waved to the cameras and
awkwardly look like they're happy about
the situation, could it be that they're
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concerned about their family members
who are still held captive by Hamas,
which, by the way, also committed
international war crimes by, you know,
kidnaping innocent Israeli civilians.
So, look, I want to break down
the arguments made by these individuals
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who were incensed over the fact that the
you know, the measure that was voted on by
the city council, which did in fact pass
they did decide to pass a measure calling
for Israel to engage in a cease fire.
They did that, okay.
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But they also wanted to include
a provision that made it abundantly clear
that they condemn Hamas,
which should be an easy thing to do.
But apparently it's not easy to do.
It's not easy to do.
So I'm going to break down the dumb
arguments that were made by these leftists
who think they're revolutionaries because
they support Hamas, and they think that
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somehow representative of freedom fighters
in Palestine break them down, debunk them.
And then I'm going to tell you how this is
actually incredibly counterproductive
for anyone who actually gives a damn
about the well-being, freedom,
and statehood of the Palestinian people.
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Let's go to the first video.
There have not been beheadings
of babies and rapings.
Israel murdered their
own people on October 7th.
There's been a lot of atrocity propaganda,
ranging from claims of beheaded babies
to mass rape.
Are arguing that Hamas didn't
carry out atrocities on October 7th
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is both ignorant and shameful.
It's also indecent
and incredibly cruel to the victims.
On October 7th, some Israelis, by the way,
have actually accused Palestinians
of faking their deaths
or faking their injuries and wounds.
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They're crisis actors, right?
The crisis actor narrative has come from
some on the pro-Israel side, and we have
condemned that because it's disgusting.
There is no evidence that you have
Palestinians faking their own deaths.
I mean, that is Alex Jones level,
Sandy hook propaganda.
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Okay.
But people are engaging in it
on the Israeli side.
And then you have morons like the ones you
just heard from engaging in it publicly
during a city council meeting, because
they somehow think it is helpful to deny
the atrocities that Hamas carried out.
I don't know how many examples
we need to provide, but one of the videos
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that I can't get out of my mind, okay,
because I'm a human being, and when I see
other human beings suffering, regardless
of what their politics are, regardless
of where they reside, my heart breaks.
I don't enjoy seeing it,
and I don't want to provide cover for
what's being happened happening to them.
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But what's so disgusting to me
is we've all seen the video
of an Israeli woman being forced
into a truck by members of Hamas.
She's wearing pants, but her backside
is absolutely covered in blood.
Well, gee, I wonder what happened to her.
Why would she have all this blood
on her backside?
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Oh, but there's no evidence of rapes
that occurred during these atrocities.
It's true that Israel hasn't released
evidence of decapitated babies.
That doesn't mean that it's already proven
that babies weren't decapitated.
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We don't know. We really don't know.
But I would just venture to say that
maybe, just maybe, there's the possibility
that the family members of those children
wouldn't want photos of those babies
being decapitated, floating around all
over on the internet, I don't know.
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I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
They might find that incredibly cruel.
They might be retraumatized
by that over and over again.
Maybe that's why
they didn't want that out.
But again, I don't know.
I agree. We haven't seen those photos.
We haven't seen that evidence, but I've
seen enough evidence of the atrocities
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that Hamas committed to acknowledge
that they committed atrocities.
And I don't need to provide cover for them
to also simultaneously find
the behavior and the military actions
of the IDF abhorrent
and in violation of international laws.
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You can hold those two thoughts
at the same time.
I know it's crazy.
If we're disgusted by the crisis
actor conspiracy theories
coming from the pro-Israeli side,
pro-Israel side, I should say we should be
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just as disgusted when we hear the type
of arguments that those same types
of arguments being made of Hamas.
By the way, again, I want to reiterate,
taking civilians as hostages
breaks international laws.
It's a war crime. Now.
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Human Rights Watch also verified
some of the videos that came out featuring
Hamas carrying out these atrocities.
So I'm going to give you
some descriptions here.
They're hard to hear about.
I mean, I personally find them incredibly
hard to to hear about, read about.
So I want to give fair warning to people
who still have a soul, the ability to feel
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anything when it comes to human lives.
But here are, again,
this is Human Rights Watch.
Here are the verified descriptions
of the videos that Human Rights Watch
has looked at in one verified video.
Dashcam footage taken at 7:55 a.m. shows
seven gunmen, including several yelling
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in Arabic, kick a shirtless man
in front of a bomb shelter
connected to the Ram Junction bus stop
just a few minutes walk south of the
location of the Supernova Music Festival.
One gunman shouts in Arabic,
guys inside, inside here!
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And they appear to argue briefly
before another gunman
throws an object into the shelter.
A man dressed
in civilian clothes dashes out.
The gunmen yell take aim and shoot
at him from behind as he tries to flee.
As they are shooting,
there is an explosion inside the shelter.
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The video ends and it is unclear
whether either man survived.
You know, that also reminds me
of one of the other verified incidents
that happened on October 7th,
and this is one of the incidents that I
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also have a hard time forgetting about.
So a father runs into a shelter
where his two sons are a Hamas militant
throws a grenade into that shelter.
The father dies.
Somehow, miraculously,
the two young sons survive.
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They start wailing and crying.
One of them says, why?
Why couldn't we die?
Why are we still alive?
And the other?
His brother looks at him and says,
we're going to die, aren't we?
And as this is happening,
a Hamas militant opens their fridge
and proceeds to enjoy a Coke, a soda.
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Oh, no, no, no,
these are freedom fighters, right?
I mean, look at the freedom they managed
to secure for the Palestinian people
who are now suffering
brutal aerial bombardments by the IDF.
Wow.
Great job. Real, real great strategy there.
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Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
I'm disgusted by anyone that would
provide cover for this, but I have more.
CNN visited that shelter, by the way, on
October 9th and reported that its interior
was splattered with blood,
which would happen, you know,
as you fire into the building in an effort
to shoot and kill individuals.
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Or if you throw a grenade into a building
with the intention of killing
individuals within that building.
In a second verified video security
camera footage filmed at 8:43 a.m.,
a man in civilian clothing who appears
to be fatally shot lies bleeding
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on the ground in front of a kibbutz.
A group of gunmen congregate in front
of a structure close to the dead man,
and one throws an object toward it.
Within 15 seconds,
there is an explosion inside the structure
and a gunman drags out.
A person, shoots them at close range
and beats them with the butt of his rifle
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as the other gunmen look on.
The New York Times also reports
of just how indiscriminate Hamas is.
Atrocities were.
Obviously, they targeted everyone.
It wasn't just IDF soldiers.
They also went after civilians.
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This is very clear here,
but they also went after other foreigners.
Those killed in Israel on October 7th also
include foreigners and dual nationals.
At least 31 US citizens and 39 French
citizens were killed during the attacks.
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Authorities in both countries have said.
Other victims include
at least 34 Thai nationals.
Asian workers were a common sight in
the farms near Israel's border with Gaza.
So do do these people's lives matter
or are they martyrs in the quest
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for freedom for the Palestinians?
And did they get that?
Or are we seeing Palestinians
live better lives today after Hamas
carried out the atrocities it carried out?
Of course not.
It has made the possibility
of an actual two state solution
at this point pretty impossible.
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And for anyone who thought
that a one state solution, I get it.
Look, I have empathy for people
who genuinely think that
that can be accomplished.
A one state solution, a democratic country
where Israelis and Palestinians
live side by side and coexist.
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Everything is fine.
It's not going to happen.
There's too much animosity.
There's too much history.
Realistically, a two state solution
made a lot more sense to me.
We're further from that
than I think we've ever been.
And there's a good possibility that
what the IDF is currently carrying out
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is ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip.
So mission accomplished, freedom fighters.
Speaking of the freedom fighters argument,
I want to go to the next video.
- Let's watch.
- As an Arab.
Asking with this context
to condemn Hamas is very anti-Arab racist.
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Calling Hamas a terrorist organization
is ridiculous, racist and plays
into genocidal propaganda that is flooding
our media and that we should be doing
everything possible to combat.
Did anyone else notice
that those who oppose this resolution
are old white supremacists?
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Weaponizing racism. Sexism. anti-Semitism.
Islamophobia.
I'm sick of it. Okay.
Asking people to condemn Hamas
is not racist.
It's just not.
It is a lazy and boring argument.
Just as lazy and boring as the people who
want to shut down critique of the Israeli
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government by calling anyone who engages
in that conversation an anti-Semite.
Obviously, that doesn't work anymore,
because people have felt more
and more emboldened to speak out,
and that's a good thing.
Okay.
But I'm also going to feel
just as emboldened to speak out against
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these morons as they provide cover
for atrocities committed by Hamas.
And look, this is different from people
who want to make the case
that the way Israel has treated
Palestinians has led to more extremism.
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That is an argument
that I think has a lot of credibility.
But that is also very different
from then saying, oh, the extremists are
totally okay in carrying out atrocities.
That's when you go too far.
You see the distinction.
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At least 50% of the homes
in Gaza right now.
Totally demolished.
Okay, I don't understand how anyone can
see the aftermath of what Hamas did and
think that they were justified in doing
it, that it was somehow moral to commit
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the war crimes and atrocities that they
did, and then make the argument that it's
somehow a good thing for Palestinians who,
by the way, haven't been allowed to have
an election in the Gaza Strip since 2006.
They're not able to practice
in a democratic process.
They're not able to cast a ballot
for who they want to be their leaders.
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They are forced, okay.
They're forced to live
under the rule of Hamas.
Half of the people living in Gaza weren't
even born in 2006, when Hamas was elected.
So the idea that Hamas is somehow good,
a force for good in this equation
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is insane to me.
All right.
By the way, one other thing I need to say.
Let's dispel the notion that Hamas,
like, consists of freedom fighters.
Really?
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And you're about to hear
the arguments here, and then I'm going
to tell you why, what Hamas did.
I mean, I can't believe I have to spell
it out, but what Hamas did ended up being
devastatingly counterproductive.
Let's watch.
I support the right of Palestinians
to resist occupation,
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including through Hamas, the armed wing
of the unified Palestinian resistance.
Hamas is not a terrorist organization just
because the US and Israel deems it so.
Hamas is a resistance organization
that is fighting for the liberation
of Palestinian people and their land.
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Please seek help.
Just please, for the love of God.
Seek help.
What Hamas did has already read
to obviously,
the retaliatory slaughter of tens
of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
So congratulations. I guess.
Okay, at least 50%.
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The numbers have actually gone up a
little bit. 60% of residential property
homes in the Gaza Strip gone destroyed
through Israel's aerial bombardment.
So did the Freedom fighters
get what they wanted?
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But there's more.
The outcome of this could very likely.
I want to repeat this lead
to the ethnic cleansing
of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
So the argument that what Hamas is doing
represents armed resistance, as if
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what they're doing is somehow helpful
to the cause that we've been fighting for,
for the Palestinian people is it's lunacy.
It's what lunatics say, lunacy.
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And just take a look at what the former
Israeli prime minister just recently said
during an interview on CNN.
This is Naftali Bennett, and this gives
you a little peek inside the future
of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
This is what the freedom fighters
have led to.
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Congratulations. Let's watch.
Israel would retain overall security
and defense responsibility.
But we don't want to govern the Gazans.
So what I think we would do is create an
interim technocratic self-government that
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that would say for about five years govern
Gaza de-nazify Gaza, which means clean
out all the incitement, all the education,
that all Jews are pigs and devils.
And after five years, we would revisit
and figure out how to create a sustainable
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government, perhaps with our Abraham
Accord partners countries in that area.
Okay, so let me decode that for you.
We are going to occupy the Gaza Strip
for security reasons,
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and it goes more than just preventing
the import export of the Gaza Strip.
It's it's about actually being there,
having boots on the ground,
Israeli forces on the ground
in Gaza for security purposes.
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Right. Censorship.
What the students in Gaza
can and cannot learn about.
I mean, it's just it's
more restrictions, okay.
More occupation.
A puppet government, I mean, that's
essentially what he's proposing here.
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Naftali Bennett is saying, like, you know,
we're prop up a puppet government
that will have control over.
Is this the freedom that the freedom
fighters were fighting for?
Is that what happened here?
And the biggest problem
with this faction of the left and God,
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I hope it's a tiny faction.
I don't know the real loud.
And unfortunately, since they're
super loud, they end up making all of us
look like we agree with them.
I don't agree with them.
I find them super toxic,
super problematic, problematic,
super counterproductive.
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Okay, the problem with them is that what
they tend to advocate for isn't really
about improving the lives of all people.
Their ideology is really about improving
the lives of one group of people
at the cost of another group of people.
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And you see this when it comes
to criminal justice reform.
It became very clear to me with criminal
justice reform, they want criminal justice
reform that leads to a softer criminal
justice system for the actual perpetrators
of crimes, including violent crimes, at
the expense of the victims of the crimes.
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Now, I don't I'm not on board with that.
I'm not going to sign on to that,
because I envision a world
where we improve the lives of everyone,
where we create a just justice system,
where those who are accused are treated
fairly, and the victims of these crimes
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are able to get their own justice.
But the way that these lefties
handle situations is they everything is
through the oppressed and oppressor lens
rather than a dialectical lens.
And when you see a situation
as complicated as this war
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through a oppressor oppressed lens,
well then it's really easy to dehumanize
innocent civilians on the Israeli side.
And I refuse to do that.
In fact, most leftists I would venture
to say, are on board with what I'm saying.
It's just these super annoying,
loud idiots who show up to city council
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meetings in Oakland, in Los Angeles
and embarrass all of us and provide fodder
for dishonest actors who want to use them
in what they say to to paint a like,
take broad strokes and paint a picture
of what the entirety of the left is about.
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So the reason why I talk about these
stories, I know, like Minority Report got
mad at me for speaking out against some
of the lunacy that happens on the left
because they feel that it's not smart,
it makes the left look bad.
Don't do that. Don't do that.
Because, you know, we're supposed
to be propagandists for the left
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and provide cover, even for those
who engage in bad behavior, I refuse.
That's not what I'm into.
What I'm into is holding members
of our own side accountable,
and at least drawing a distinction to make
it abundantly clear we're not with this.
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We're not in favor of this.
This is not what the left represents.
Because if you think avoiding any
conversation about it is going to lead
to a situation in which people don't
know about the morons who said these
moronic things, that the Oakland City
Council meeting, you'd be mistaken.
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You'd be mistaken.
There's a very real effort right now to
lump together level headed people, okay?
Level headed people who believe
in freedom, peace, dignity for all.
With these ignorant leftists.
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That's the reason why I think
it's important to speak out against it.
They think that they're freedom fighters.
They think that they're being helpful when
in reality, again, they are feeding into
some of the paranoia the Jewish people
in America are really struggling with
right now because they think, oh my God,
there's a giant population within our
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own borders who don't value our lives.
And why would you want
to make anyone feel like that?
Why would you want to provide fodder
for the right wing when the right wing
wants to paint the left?
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As apologists
for groups that carry out some of the most
vicious atrocities imaginable?
Why? Why would you want that?
I. Again, this provides fodder
for dishonest actors who seek
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to deflect from Israel's war crimes
by instead fearmongering
about the entirety of the left,
allegedly having the same thought process
as what you experienced in those videos.
And it's not true.
And it's about time the general left grow
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a set and speak out against these lunatics
because they are a liability.
And if you want to actually accomplish
something, the self-indulgent idiots
that you saw in those videos
are going to be an obstacle to
accomplishing the policies that we want.
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