1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,480 Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:06,640 Libertarian Institute. Constantine Kissen has responded 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,480 to Dave Smith. Let's check out the video. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,040 Kill us We're. Going to go kill a whole bunch 5 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,400 of you. And then you kind of realize 6 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,080 it's like, yeah, that's exactly how those people who flew the 7 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,520 buildings into the tower stops. Exactly the same way you feel 8 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,160 right now. This is a cognitive era called 9 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,160 mirror image bias, well known to analysts who study other 10 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,600 cultures. They spend years training 11 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,280 precisely to understand that not all people are the same, nor do 12 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,840 they act for the same reasons. As it happens, jihadis like bin 13 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,840 Laden have. So since not all people think 14 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,520 the same, not all people act the same, what we can do is look at 15 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:39,600 the actual words of the Hamas media office when it comes to 16 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,280 October 7th specifically, according to the Jewish 17 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,640 Chronicle, Hamas releases new document explaining motives for 18 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,960 October 7th. Realized the goal of terrorism 19 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,400 is to amplify a certain message. It's a shortcut to freedom, so 20 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,400 to speak. The Jewish Chronicle says the 18 21 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,920 page document entitled Our Narrative Operation Al Aqsa 22 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,239 Flood, released on Sunday in both Arabic and English, reveals 23 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:09,560 the motives for Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel. 24 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,440 So let's go through this document. 25 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,600 According to Constantine's thesis, what we're going to find 26 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:21,520 are things like, well, we really hate that people don't read the 27 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,680 Quran, that they don't pray to the East number of times a day, 28 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,480 that they don't believe in an afterlife with 72 virgins. 29 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,960 And this is the primary motivating factor which gets 30 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:34,720 people like Hamas, people like Al Qaeda. 31 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,160 Apparently he doesn't differentiate between Sunni and 32 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,080 Shia motives. This is the primary motivating 33 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,440 factor when it comes to why people in Muslim countries 34 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,240 commit acts of terrorism. So now that all the spotlights 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,320 on them, this was published by the Hamas media office, let's 36 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,160 see what they have to say. Our steadfast Palestinian 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,640 people, the Arab and Islamic nations, the free peoples 38 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,200 worldwide and those who advocate for freedom, justice and human 39 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,120 dignity. Immediately, we would expect to 40 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,919 see for those who advocate Islam instead, the document says. 41 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:13,440 In light of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and 42 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,440 the West Bank, and as our people continue their battle for 43 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,960 independence, dignity and breaking free from the longest 44 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,840 ever occupation, during which they have drawn the finest 45 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,400 displays of bravery and heroism in confronting the Israeli 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,560 murder machine and aggression. Constantine wants us to believe 47 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,280 that the actual occupation, the actual murder of civilians, 48 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,560 these people are more or less neutral towards. 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:42,760 They don't really have an opinion. 50 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,680 What really motivates them to put their lives on the line is 51 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,800 Islam. Let's go through the document #1 52 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,120 the This section is titled Why Operation Al Aqsa Flood? 53 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,160 The battle of the Palestinian people against occupation and 54 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,440 colonialism did not start on October 7th but started 105 55 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,800 years ago, including 30 years of British colonialism and 75 years 56 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,720 of Zionist occupation. Realize it's very common for 57 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,400 people to put their lives on the line for independence. 58 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,840 In America. There was a revolution against 59 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:23,480 the British Empire for a 3% tax. Now the domestic imperialists 60 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,240 like taking 40% of our income every single year even though we 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,400 get horrible products and services in exchange for it. 62 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,440 The purpose is our independence was being violated. 63 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,640 Same with the Algerians who felt that their independence was 64 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,520 being violated by the French. It's almost never a cost benefit 65 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,160 analysis like Americans today would not say. 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,960 If our independence is violated, we will weigh the costs and 67 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,680 benefits of having a new foreign regime rule over us and then 68 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,480 determine whether or not we should go to war. 69 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,520 What they say is if our independence is violated, we're 70 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,640 going to war. I don't care what the benefits 71 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,600 are. I will not be ruled by a foreign 72 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,640 group, the document continues. At that time, the Palestinian 73 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,680 people were denied from the right of self determination and 74 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,720 the Zionist gangs engaged in an ethnic cleansing campaign 75 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,200 against the Palestinian people aimed at expelling them from 76 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,280 their lands and areas. As a result, the Zionist gangs 77 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,840 here, they're referring to Ergon, Stern and Hagana, 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,760 controlled by 477% of the land of Palestine, where they 79 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,640 expelled 57% of the people of Palestine and destroyed over 500 80 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,280 Palestinian villages and towns and committed dozens of 81 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,280 massacres against the Palestinians, which all 82 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,360 culminated in the establishment of the Zionist entity in 1948. 83 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,400 For example, the Der Yasin massacre. 84 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,520 Second, note, the Gaza Strip, for example, suffered as of 2007 85 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,520 from a suffocating blockade over 17 years, which turned it to be 86 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,640 the largest open air prison in the world. 87 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:15,440 Realize that it's well known in American establishment circles. 88 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,800 Anyone at the Council on Foreign Relations will tell you if China 89 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,240 forms a blockade around Taiwan, that's a declaration of war and 90 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,360 we might have to go nuclear. But Israel gets a near 20 year 91 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,800 blockade on Gaza #3 According to official figures, in the period 92 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,760 between January 2000 and September 2023, the Israeli 93 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:45,520 occupation killed 11,299 Palestinians and injured 156,768 94 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,080 others. The great majority of them were 95 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,520 civilians, according to status to. 96 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,400 These numbers basically match up with what the Hamas media office 97 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,760 is saying. Maybe they're just getting their 98 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,360 numbers from Hamas. the United Nations Office for the 99 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,640 Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has been tracking deaths 100 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,280 in the conflict since 2008. This is before October 7th. 101 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,160 The status to document goes from 2008 to 2020. 102 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,800 It's data shows that 5600 Palestinians died up to 2020 103 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,440 while 115 thousand were injured. 250 Israelis died during the 104 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:30,600 same period while 5600 were injured again, Hamas knows that 105 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,080 they have world attention with documents like this. 106 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,800 This is their time to shine. This is their time to start 107 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,120 quoting Allah, quoting the Quran, quoting Muhammad, and 108 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,240 instead they are talking about the occupation. 109 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,360 Point #4 The Israeli violations and brutality were documented by 110 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,480 many UN organizations and international human rights 111 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,600 groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights 112 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,520 Watch, and even documented by Israeli human rights groups, 113 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,920 most likely referring to Beth Salem. 114 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,960 For example, on October 29th, 2021, Israel's ambassador to the 115 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,560 UN, Gilad Aaron insulted the UN system by tearing up a report 116 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,320 for the UN Human Rights Council during an address at the General 117 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,040 Assembly and threw it in the dustbin before leaving the 118 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,040 podium. Point #5 the US administration 119 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,160 and its Western allies have always been treating Israel as a 120 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,240 state above the law they provided with the needed cover 121 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,960 to maintain prolonging the occupation and cracking down the 122 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,520 Palestinian people, and also allowing Israel to exploit such 123 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:38,440 situation to expropriate further Palestinian lands and to Judaize 124 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,400 their sanctuaries and holy sites. 125 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,280 Point number six, we're we're still waiting to hear quotes 126 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,040 from the Quran. Despite the fact that the Oslo 127 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,600 Accord signed in 1993 with the PLO Palestinian Liberation 128 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,120 Organization, stipulated the establishment of a Palestinian 129 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,640 independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 130 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,440 Israel systematically destroyed every possibility to establish 131 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,280 the Palestinian state through a wide campaign of settlements, 132 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:11,080 construction and Judaization of the Palestinian lands in the 133 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,840 occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. 134 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,240 So apparently when we see footage like this, we're 135 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,240 supposed to believe that the Palestinians are more or less 136 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,280 indifferent. This actually makes no 137 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,760 difference with how they view America or Israel. 138 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,559 So Palestinians apparently look at this, say people are on fire 139 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,880 and doesn't really move the needle. 140 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:40,760 It has no effect on how they view Israel, Zionism, Judaism, 141 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:45,240 America, this apparently they are just totally indifferent to 142 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,480 and it's all about wanting us to follow the Quran. 143 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:54,320 We look at this one by Max Blumenthal of The Gray Zone. 144 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,840 Let's listen to the audio. It's titled Mother cries for 145 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,880 burning daughter after IDF strike. 146 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:15,280 You can see it on the screen. So apparently this woman is just 147 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,440 acting or pretending to care like the daughter she gave birth 148 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,560 to, the daughter she raised, the daughter she fed, the daughter 149 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:23,080 she had all this time with. She doesn't really care about 150 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,760 that. She's really crying about the 151 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,800 fact that we read the Bible and not the Quran, that we pray him 152 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,240 standing up and they do it bowing and facing the East. 153 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,800 We like Jesus, they like Muhammad. 154 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,320 That's what she's really crying about. 155 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,960 This is all just an act. Max Blumenthal actually wrote a 156 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,760 book titled The 51 Day War. On Page 1 you can see that this 157 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,280 was in 2014 during Operation Pillar of Defense. 158 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,360 Not to be confused with Operation Pillar of Cloud or 159 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,840 Operation Cast Lead. There was an Israeli remote 160 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:02,320 controlled machine gun pointed in to Gaza in it's 2 by 25 mile 161 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,880 landmass. Here's a book titled A History 162 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,680 of Zionism from the French Revolution to the Establishment 163 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:12,600 of the State of Israel by Walter Lacour, published in 1974. 164 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,800 On page 451 he says the Balfour Declaration had not provided a 165 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,840 clear answer with regard to the identity of a protecting power. 166 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:28,640 The American King Crane Commission in 1919 reported that 167 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,200 the Arab Muslims, the great majority of the population, were 168 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,240 in favor of Syrian independence and that a mandate over a united 169 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,360 Syria, including Palestine, should be assigned to the 170 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,200 Americans or as a second choice, to Britain. 171 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,680 You would think that word would have gotten out that America and 172 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,280 Britain were not Muslim countries to the people in 173 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,240 Syria, yet they saw out of all their available options. 174 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,960 If I had to be ruled over someone, it would be these 175 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,120 infidels, cause all else equal, it's better to be ruled over by 176 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,920 them than anyone else. If there was such hostility 177 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,840 innate to Islam, you would not have gotten that result. 178 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:17,160 This goes to show that the issue did not start in 600 AD when 179 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,240 Muhammad was calling the shots for Islam. 180 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,880 There were very reasonable American Arab relations. 181 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,360 President George W Bush wrote a book titled Decision Points and 182 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,960 on page 186 he says the roots of the terrorist presence in 183 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:37,240 Afghanistan trace back to. I'll pause and see if he could 184 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,880 guess what year he says. Surely he Muhammad was 600 AD. 185 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,120 Maybe it took a little while to expand. 186 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:49,280 He might, he might say 700 AD or maybe 800 AD took him a while to 187 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,920 get to the areas of Afghanistan from Mecca and Medina. 188 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:55,920 Let's read the whole quote. The roots of the terrorist 189 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,960 presence in Afghanistan trace back to 1979, when the Soviet 190 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,720 Union invaded and installed a communist puppet regime. 191 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,160 The Afghan tribes, along with a band of hardcore Islamic 192 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,520 fighters known as the Mujahideen, rose up against the 193 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,400 foreign occupation. Tribal warriors who had defeated 194 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,520 the Soviets turned their guns on one another. 195 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,880 Ultimately, the Taliban, a group of Islamic fundamentalist, 196 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:28,400 seized power. According to President Bush, no 197 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:33,920 anarcho capitalist himself says that the origins of terrorism in 198 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,600 the country which we just had a 20 year war against actually 199 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,720 were the result of people fighting against foreign 200 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,640 military occupation. Mr. Kissen goes on to use a 201 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,320 specific example of where we can look. 202 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,480 So let's look at what example he uses, and then extrapolate 203 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,160 empirical evidence from that. All people are the same, nor do 204 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,840 they act for the same reasons, as it happens, jihadis like Bin 205 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,560 Laden have. Been So let's look at the words 206 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:03,960 of bin Laden. He mentioned bin Laden. 207 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,920 Let's look at bin Laden. This is bin Laden recounting his 208 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,960 time talking to Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan in 2003. 209 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,960 Then the fighters realized that the gang in the White House 210 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,520 could not see things clearly and that their leader, that idiot 211 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,800 they obey, was claiming that we envied their lifestyle. 212 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,080 When the truth, which this Pharaoh would like to hide is 213 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,520 that we are attacking them because of their injustice 214 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:33,000 toward the Muslim world and especially Palestine and Iraq, 215 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,520 as well as their occupation of the land of the two sanctuaries. 216 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:40,600 When the fighters saw this, they decided to come out of the 217 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,280 shadows and take the fight into their territory, into their 218 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,720 homes. Other quotes from bin Laden by 219 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,880 Harvard University Press in bin Laden's declaration titled 220 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,960 Declaration of Jihad against the Americans occupying the land of 221 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:59,000 the two holy sanctuaries. Bin Laden says, again, I'm not 222 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,720 picking bin Laden. Kissin did. 223 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,480 Their blood is flowing in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. 224 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,840 The awful images of the Khana massacre are still present in 225 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,120 everyone's mind. Not to mention the massacres in 226 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,240 Tajikistan, Burma, Kashmir, Assam, Philippines, Pattini, 227 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,720 Ogadon, Somalia, Eritrea, Chechnya, Bosnia Herzegovia 228 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,000 where Muslims have been the victims of atrocious acts of 229 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:28,320 butchery. Again mentioning acts of mass 230 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,880 murder, this Khana massacre he's referring to is the Khana 231 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,680 massacre of 1996, not to be confused with Israel's Khana 232 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,840 massacre in Lebanon of 2006. Bin Laden goes on. 233 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,400 When duties accumulate, it is necessary to begin with the most 234 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,440 important one. What's he going to say? 235 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,840 Promote Islam? Make sure everyone's reading the 236 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,400 Quran to push back this enemy, the Americans who are occupying 237 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,720 our territory. Referring to the occupation of 238 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,480 Mecca and Medina. One of bin Laden's first letters 239 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,880 was to King Fad in 1995 where he explicitly called the King of 240 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,160 Saudi Arabia a Co conspirator with the Americans and a 241 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,240 complete sell out. Here is bin Laden's interview 242 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:17,360 with CNNCNN interviewer. Mr. Bin Laden. 243 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,320 Could you give us your main criticism of the Saudi royal 244 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,320 family? That is a ruling Saudi Arabia 245 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,080 today. Bin Laden, regarding the 246 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,520 criticisms of the ruling regime in Saudi Arabia and the Arabian 247 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,160 Peninsula. The first one is their 248 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,920 subordination to the US. So our main problem is the US 249 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,720 government, while the Saudi regime is but a branch or an 250 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:42,520 agent of the US. Interviewer, if you had an 251 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,520 opportunity to give a message to President Clinton, what would 252 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,120 that message be? Bin Laden mentioning the name of 253 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,480 Clinton or that of any American government provokes discuss and 254 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,840 revulsion. This is because the name of the 255 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,880 American government and the names of Clinton and Bush 256 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,040 directly bring to our minds the pictures of one year old 257 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,080 children with their heads cut off. 258 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:08,440 It reflects the picture of children whose members have been 259 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,240 amputated, the picture of the children who died in Iraq, the 260 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,080 hands of the Israelis carrying weapons that destroy our 261 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,880 children. The former secretary to the 262 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,600 United Nations actually had a clarifying moment discussing 263 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:30,560 what bin Laden's referring to. This was the occupation bombing 264 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,960 and sanctions that were imposed on Iraq in the 90s after the 265 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,920 first Gulf War. We have heard that a half a 266 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,840 million children have died. I mean, that's more children 267 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:47,760 then died when when in Hiroshima and and you know, is the price 268 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,800 worth it? I think this is a very hard 269 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,000 choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. 270 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,320 Next, we have bin Laden's message to the American people. 271 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,480 Again, this is all in Harvard University Press's publication 272 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,000 Al Qaeda in Its Own Words. Bin Laden titled this message to 273 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,280 the American people. American People, My speech to 274 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,400 you is about the best way of avoiding a repeat performance of 275 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,920 Manhattan as well as the causes and consequences of the war. 276 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,000 By way of introduction, let me say that security is an 277 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,480 indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not 278 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,000 forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate 279 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,079 freedom. If that were true, let him 280 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:32,320 explain to us why we do not attack Sweden, for example. 281 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,520 Freedom haters do not possess defiant spirits like those of 282 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,560 the 19. May God have mercy on them now. 283 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,480 I hate Al Qaeda as much as anyone else. 284 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,880 They violate the non aggression principle. 285 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,560 I absolutely hate them. Bin Laden's point is that while 286 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:53,640 we'd hate, dislike, maybe even hate the fact that you aren't 287 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,280 Muslim and that you're blaspheming the true God on 288 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,000 earth, it's not motivating enough to get people to risk 289 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 their lives to commit acts of terrorism. 290 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,520 What does motivate them, in the case of Muhammad Atta was 291 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,640 Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996. 292 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,560 This was Israel's invasion of Lebanon, where the first kind of 293 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,000 massacre took place. Bin Laden continues. 294 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,760 No, we fight because we are free men who do not slumber under 295 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,160 oppression. We want to restore freedom to 296 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,240 our nation, and just as you lay waste to our nation, we shall 297 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,840 lay waste to yours. Only a witless wrongdoer plays 298 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,720 with the security of others and then fools himself into thinking 299 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,320 he will be secure. Whereas rational people, when 300 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,240 disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for causes. 301 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,400 Maybe that's a bad source on al Qaeda. 302 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,960 Let's go to the Al Qaeda reader with introduction by Victor 303 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:54,240 Davis Hanson quoting Bin Laden. Why we are fighting you, Osama 304 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,600 bin Laden's letter to Americans while seeking all his help. 305 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,400 We form our reply based on two questions directed at the 306 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,000 Americans Why are we fighting and opposing you? 307 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:07,600 What are we calling you to and what do we want from you? 308 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,160 As for the first question, why are we fighting and opposing 309 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:12,640 you? The answer is very simple. 310 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:17,200 Because you attacked us and continue to attack us. 311 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:20,480 You attacked us in Palestine. Palestine which has sunk under 312 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,880 military occupation for more than 80 years. 313 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,680 The British handed over Palestine with your help and 314 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,680 support to the Jews who have occupied it for more than 50 315 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,520 years. Years overflowing with 316 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,600 oppression, tyranny, crimes, murders, expulsion, destruction 317 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,280 and devastation. The blood pouring out of 318 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,120 Palestine must be equally avenged. 319 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,960 You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone. 320 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,000 Their women are not widowed alone. 321 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,120 Their sons are not orphaned alone. 322 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,560 One of the best ways to understand the current situation 323 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,280 in Palestine is to look at the origins. 324 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:58,000 Let's look at a 1923 document written by Zivyabatensky, the 325 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,520 founder of the Argon Zionist militia. 326 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,760 He also founded the Jewish Defense League in Odessa some 327 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,400 years previously. He was a soldier for the British 328 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,640 Empire in the First World War. This document is titled the Iron 329 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,400 Wall. Constantine, I know what you're 330 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,360 thinking. Argon. 331 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,480 Isn't that the Zionist terrorist organization that? 332 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,040 On the King David Hotel, while having Menachem Begum, future 333 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,160 Israeli Prime Minister, as one of its members. 334 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,640 Yes, it is. Sir Yabatinsky says voluntary 335 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,680 agreement not possible. There can be no voluntary 336 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,440 agreement between ourselves and the Palestinian Arabs. 337 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,040 My readers have a general idea of the history of colonization 338 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,120 in other countries. I suggest that they consider all 339 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:42,840 the presidents which which with which they are acquainted and 340 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,600 see whether there is one solitary instance of any 341 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:50,360 colonization being carried out on with the consent of the 342 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:52,880 native population. There is no such precedent. 343 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,440 The native populations, civilized or uncivilized, have 344 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,880 always stubbornly resisted the colonists, irrespective of 345 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,240 whether they were civilized or savage. 346 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:08,080 So again, Americans will proudly take 40% of their income and 347 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,280 give it to the psychopathic U.S. government. 348 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:15,640 But if China so much has a little influence in an app 349 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,680 called TikTok that people can voluntarily put on their phones 350 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,840 and use, that's a violation of our independence and we need to 351 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,840 stand up against it. Every native population, 352 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:29,440 civilized or not, regards its land as its national home of 353 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,920 which it is the sole master, and it wants to retain the mastery 354 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,120 always. It will refuse to admit not only 355 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:39,600 new masters, but even new partners or collaborators. 356 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,000 Yabatinsky is explaining the mindset of Palestinians today, 357 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:48,960 back in 1923, a 101 years ago, referring to the Palestinian 358 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,760 Arabs. They feel at least the same 359 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,560 instinctive jealous love of Palestine as the old Aztecs felt 360 00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:00,440 for ancient Mexico and their Sioux for their rolling 361 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,440 prairies. Every native population in the 362 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,280 world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of 363 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,240 being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonized. 364 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,240 The current problem today is the blockade and the occupation, 365 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,920 Yabatinsky goes on. There is only one thing the 366 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,640 Zionists want, and it is that one thing that the Arabs do not 367 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,600 want, for that is the only way by which the Jews would 368 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,480 gradually become the majority. The Zionists want only one 369 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,160 thing, Jewish immigration, and this Jewish immigration is what 370 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:39,280 the Arabs do not want. So This is why the Zionist 371 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:43,520 Federation of Germany created in 1897, one year after Theodore 372 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,840 Herzl wrote and published The Jewish State. 373 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,480 The Zionist Federation of Germany was willing to ally with 374 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,560 the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1933 with the 375 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,880 Havara agreement to migrate Jews from Europe to Palestine. 376 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,400 Yabatinsky says Zionist colonization must either stop or 377 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,680 else proceed regardless of the native population, which means 378 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,080 that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a 379 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,680 power that is independent from the native population behind an 380 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,360 iron wall which the native population cannot breach. 381 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:23,000 You think this picture from 2014 is the iron wall that Xavia 382 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,800 Patinsky was talking about? Yeah, Patinsky continues. 383 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,920 Eventual agreement. What is impossible is a 384 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,640 voluntary agreement. And when a living people yields 385 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,000 in matters of such a vital character, it is only when there 386 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,440 is no longer any hope of getting rid of us because they can make 387 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,360 no breach in the iron wall. And look, this is the same 388 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,120 mindset that Abraham Lincoln had. 389 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,960 You will not have your own state. 390 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,760 You will not have your own Union Confederacy. 391 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,160 You are going to be part of us or you're going to have to 392 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,400 emigrate. That is the same mindset. 393 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,120 It's not too crazy. Just as if Texas tried to secede 394 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,680 today. Eric Swalwell already threatens 395 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,440 us with nukes every couple of weeks. 396 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,040 If, you know, we dare to say the state shouldn't have a monopoly 397 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,160 on guns. This is the same concept. 398 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,240 So it's not like I'm saying there's a unique thing about the 399 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,040 Zionist The problem is states that have a monopoly on violence 400 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,040 and a recognized right to initiate unilateral obligations 401 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,080 on people as opposed to everyone else who has to contract 402 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,720 voluntarily. And states are constantly 403 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,600 provoking these wars because they have the moral hazard of 404 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,120 having an involuntary income called taxation. 405 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:39,640 They have access to a central bank. 406 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,280 They have a monopoly on compulsory education. 407 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,560 They have a right to conscript soldier. 408 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,920 So of course, in this, but with this set of incentives, states 409 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,640 are going to be much more likely to engage in mass murder and 410 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,400 warfare than they otherwise would be. 411 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,400 That's why it's profitable for them to engage in such 412 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,080 atrocities such as mass murder of innocent civilians. 413 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,480 Now let's look at some empirical data. 414 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,360 This was collected by Robert A Pape and James K Feldman in 415 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,600 their book Cutting the Fuse, The Explosion of Global Suicide 416 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,360 Terrorism and How to Stop It from page 8. 417 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:17,560 This is the first complete data set of all suicide terrorist 418 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,960 attacks around the world. From 1980 to 2009. 419 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,480 Nearly all emerge from communities resisting foreign 420 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:29,200 military occupation. From 1980 to 2003, there were 421 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,680 345 completed suicide terrorist attacks by 524 suicide 422 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,720 terrorists who actually killed themselves on a mission to kill 423 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,120 others, half of whom were secular. 424 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,360 The world leader was the Tamil Tigers, a secular Hindu group 425 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,120 who carried out more attacks than Hamas or Palestinian 426 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,720 Islamic Jihad PIJ during this period. 427 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,560 Further, at least a third of the suicide attacks in predominantly 428 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,440 Muslim countries were carried out by secular terrorist groups 429 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:05,280 such as PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey, instead 430 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,480 of religion. What over 95% of all suicide 431 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,680 terrorist attacks before 2004 had in common was a strategic 432 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,560 goal to compel a democratic state to withdraw combat forces 433 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,800 that are threatening territory that the terrorist prize. 434 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,520 From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to the West Bank to Chechnya, the 435 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,720 central goal of every suicide terrorist campaign has been to 436 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,440 resist military occupation by a democracy, or, as President Bush 437 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,120 would put it, to resist foreign military occupation, whether 438 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,760 it's the Soviet empire, the American empire. 439 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,200 So the world leaders in suicide terrorism were actually the 440 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,000 secular Tamil Tigers, not Islamic fundamentalists. 441 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,800 Pape actually quotes three of the Saudi hijackers on 9/11. 442 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,560 Names can be viewed on the screen. 443 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,800 Here are the quotes from these three men What is happening in 444 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,920 Muslim countries today blatant occupation about which there is 445 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,840 no doubt there is no duty more obligatory after faith to repel 446 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,080 him. The occupation and deterioration 447 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,960 in the land of the two sanctuaries is a plot by the 448 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,880 Jews and Nazarenes, foremost among them America, may Allah 449 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,280 destroy it, which has been among the chief causes of every 450 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,120 misfortune suffered by Islam and the Muslims, thus repelling the 451 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:22,920 Americans. Occupying the land of the two 452 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,720 sanctuaries is the most obligatory of obligations. 453 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,440 And I say to America, if it wants its armies and people to 454 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,840 be safe, then it must withdraw all its forces from the Muslim 455 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,200 lands and depart from our countries. 456 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,880 If not, then let it await the men, prepare its coffins and dig 457 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,520 graves for its citizens. Pape concludes the section by 458 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,840 saying further notice that there are no suicide attackers from 459 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,920 Iran, one of the largest Islamic fundamentalist populations in 460 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,640 the world, with a population greater than Iraq, Saudi Arabia, 461 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,600 Kuwait, Jordan and Syria combined. 462 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,760 Now what happens if we just say, you know what Kissen is, right? 463 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,080 It's all about Islam. They love it when you kill their 464 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,440 kids and burn their cities to the ground, or they're 465 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,560 indifferent to it. What really motivates them as 466 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,880 Islam? It does not therefore follow 467 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:20,040 that we should support the US and Israel going to war with 468 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,640 these countries. The 20 year what NATO's first 469 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,680 declaration of war was in 2001, which ended up in the 470 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,480 Afghanistan operation after 20 years. 10s of thousands of 471 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,440 civilian deaths, thousands of Americans killed, trillions of 472 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,640 dollars spent. The Taliban took Kabul in like 473 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,320 11 days. That's what you get with 474 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,960 government. In the case of Iraq, yes, we got 475 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,120 Saddam, even though he was somewhat of a secular socialist, 476 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,240 we're we're still poking the Islamic bear getting back at 477 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,280 them. Well, this led to Abu Musab al 478 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,760 Zarqawi writing his allegiance to Osama bin Laden. 479 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,680 And I'm an al Zawahiri, also quoted in al Qaeda in its Own 480 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,480 Words and al Qaeda taking over large portions of Iraq, later 481 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,760 giving us the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. 482 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:13,680 In the case of Syria, take that Operation Timber Sycamore 483 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,760 explicitly laid out the US support for rebel groups in 484 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,240 Syria to fight against Bashar al Assad's regime. 485 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,320 Obama comes out and says Assad is gassing his own people, so 486 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,800 we're going to support rebel groups. 487 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,880 Well, it turns out that you can't just go knocking door to 488 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,720 door on your average Syrian and say, could you get a few weeks 489 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,520 off work and go to war with Assad? 490 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,200 The average person doesn't do that. 491 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,440 Only these Mujahideen radicals who are professional fighters 492 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,360 will do such a thing. So they end up arming and 493 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,520 funding Jabat al Nusra, the AL Nusra Front in Syria, which was 494 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,040 al Qaeda in Syria until 2016, when al Jaladi announced his 495 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,800 breakaway from al Qaeda. In the case of Libya, let's go 496 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:03,680 get Moammar Gaddafi. Gaddafi, in either 96 or 98, was 497 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,360 one of the first people to put out a arrest warrant for Osama 498 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:08,960 bin Laden. He goes, this guy is too much of 499 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,240 A liability for our lands. Please arrest this guy. 500 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,800 So what happened? You killed Gaddafi just like you 501 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,040 got Saddam. And then Thomas Jefferson of 502 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,920 Libya took control and they now have a democracy. 503 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,520 No, what happened was they more or less had to fight on the side 504 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,080 of Al Qaeda in Libya, known as the Islamic fighting group. 505 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,560 In the case of Yemen, fighting against the Houthis, the US and 506 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,520 its allies, along with Saudi Arabia, allied with AQAP, Al 507 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:41,440 Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. So even if I can see the problem 508 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,560 is Islam, it does not therefore follow that a solution is to 509 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,880 give the mass murdering U.S. government more money, more 510 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,120 power to fight wars of aggression. 511 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,640 Say that you say, you know what, I don't even care. 512 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,640 I don't care if all those Muslims get blown to bits and 513 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,560 there's a complete genocide. I just care about Israel. 514 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,840 OK. There was a book written titled 515 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,600 Our Man in Damascus, the story of Ellie Cohen. 516 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,600 This is a biography. Ellie Cohen is in Syria working 517 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,720 for the Mossad, and he goes by the name Kamel. 518 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,920 At the time, Pamel is having a discussion with a Syrian 519 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,360 military general. Here's how the exchange goes. 520 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,160 Pamel, Ellie Cohen says, With all the armaments we have and 521 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,280 with this excellent position, why can't we drive them Israel 522 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,960 into the sea? The general responds. 523 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,760 The trouble is that the Israelis have world sympathy and the big 524 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,160 wheels are protecting this little bastard nation. 525 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,000 Look, Kamal, we have better armaments than they do. 526 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,920 We have several times more men. We have topographic superiority. 527 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,680 But all this isn't enough in Modern Warfare. 528 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:57,040 What we're lacking is the support of public opinion and 529 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,160 the power to fight the entire W which is behind Israel. 530 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,680 So he talks about the importance of public opinion and world 531 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,800 sympathy. Again, we're now in the mindset 532 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,000 we only care about the chosen people. 533 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,840 Let's look at what this conflict has done to public opinion, the 534 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,640 very thing keeping Israel afloat. 535 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,320 What has this war done to public opinion in general in the West? 536 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,800 According to the Jerusalem Post, most Democrats believe Israel is 537 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,440 committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. 538 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,080 According to a poll, this is from May of 2024. 539 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,760 So are the Americans or just a bunch of people who only care 540 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,800 about spreading Islam? Maybe they see the videos of 541 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,960 dead babies and cities getting blown to bits and say well this 542 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,880 is completely unjustifiable, just as my grandma would always 543 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,040 tell me. I never really considered the 544 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,880 downsides of war until I saw the war in Vietnam on my TV and just 545 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,520 how devastating it was. And I thought it was good to 546 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,200 fight. But then I just thought, gosh, 547 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,920 we got to get out of there. This is not just something that 548 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,320 the Democrats believe. This is something, according to 549 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,160 Data for Progress, says voters support the US calling for a 550 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,520 permanent ceasefire in Gaza and conditioning military aid to 551 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:26,280 Israel around the world. 2/3 of voters, 67%, including 77% of 552 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:33,160 Democrats, 69% of Independents and 56% of Republicans support 553 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,600 the US calling for a permanent ceasefire and de escalation of 554 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,480 violence in Gaza. This would have been unheard of 555 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,800 in 2420. Years ago with George Bush, Dick 556 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,720 Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz calling the shots in 557 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,200 America would have been absolutely unheard of. 558 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,880 Even if you only care about Israel, which is psychopathic, 559 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,520 only caring about one geographical area of people when 560 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,000 most people everywhere are totally innocent and it's a 561 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,560 psychopathic politicians in generals provoking these 562 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,120 conflicts where the civilians have to pay the cost. 563 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,440 If you only care about Israel, what this war is doing do 564 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,520 Israeli public opinion just horrible. 565 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:18,400 Just horrible. Again, even if let's say I'm in 566 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,239 the year 1914 and all I care about is the Austro Hungarian 567 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,560 Empire, well, it doesn't make sense that I should necessarily 568 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,679 go to war with Serbia, even though I have the backing of 569 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:31,199 Kaiser Wilhelm in the entire German military. 570 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,840 This could be very costly. Sure enough, that war ended with 571 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,679 1.1 million dead members of the Austro Hungarian Empire, and the 572 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,920 Austro Hungarian Empire now no longer exists. 573 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,520 Even if you just support American lives and only Israeli 574 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:51,440 lives, it does not necessarily follow that you should support 575 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,920 these conflicts. Now you might be saying, well, 576 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,960 Israel and America are very civilized areas and why would 577 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,000 these people be committing genocide? 578 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,440 Why would they be engaged in an ethnic cleansing operation? 579 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,200 Well, it's not. They're not. 580 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,360 What happens is some psychopaths with political power conscript 581 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,520 others into doing this work for them. 582 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,040 The people then later rationalize it. 583 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,760 Here is what the great statesman of the 20th century, Winston 584 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,360 Churchill, said in his book The World Crisis, 1911 to 1918, 585 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,240 referring to the First World War against Germany when he was 586 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:33,520 First Lord of the Admiralty. The vital need for Germany was 587 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,680 to break the blockade. Its efficiency might be impaired 588 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,600 by the devices of neutrals, but the vast process of starvation, 589 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,080 not only in food but in materials indispensable to 590 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,600 modern armies, was remorselessly and unceasingly at work. 591 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,480 Which I can hear Mr. Kissen in the distance saying, well, he 592 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,720 was just trying to, you know, make sure the army didn't have 593 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:01,080 enough supplies and, you know, you got to do what you got to do 594 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,160 in a time of war. Well, Churchill continues on 595 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,480 page 686, saying the British blockade treated the whole of 596 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,160 Germany as if it were a beleaguered fortress and 597 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,720 devoutly sought to starve the whole population, men, women and 598 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:17,880 children, old and young, wounded and sound into submission. 599 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,960 So we have the greatest statesman of all time telling us 600 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,560 that when he engages in warfare, he has the civilians in mind as 601 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:30,960 those who deserve to be punished. 602 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:35,400 They have to bear the cost of the crimes of the politicians. 603 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,960 Again, even if Churchill had only been considering the 604 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,840 well-being of the British people, it doesn't mean that 605 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,080 well we still got to take out Kaiser Wilhelm. 606 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,640 By the way, Germany lost 2.3 million soldiers and Kaiser 607 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,000 Wilhelm retired to the Netherlands for the rest of his 608 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,040 life. Just because a bad guy is on the 609 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,640 throne doesn't mean whoever replaces him will be better. 610 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,000 I mean, I could see. I can see Churchill saying 611 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,440 Kaiser Wilhelm's on the throne in Germany if we take him out. 612 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:07,480 I cannot imagine anyone worse calling the shots in Germany. 613 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,080 No one could be worse than this man. 614 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,640 Let's just take him out and then figure things out after we 615 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,000 imposed the Treaty of Versailles. 616 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,840 The Germans also did this when they funded revolutionaries to 617 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:23,840 go overthrow Zar Nicholas's regime in 19 O 5 and in 1917. 618 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:29,760 Yes it got the Russians out of the First World War and then 619 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,560 gave us the Bolshevik regime which led to the biggest German 620 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,200 and Russian death in recorded history. 621 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:42,040 I mean blindly saying that I support country X therefore I 622 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,240 support what the politicians and generals and country X are 623 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:48,400 currently engaged in does not follow at all. 624 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,520 That would be like saying, but there's a conflict in Eastern 625 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:56,080 Europe and I support the democratic country, even though 626 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,960 the democratic country did not host the planned elections of 627 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:02,360 2024. Even though that democratic 628 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:07,240 country is engaged in mass enslavement of conscripts, men 629 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,040 ages 18 to 60, who have no right to leave under their regime, 630 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,680 Even though they're confiscating property from the Orthodox 631 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:19,120 Church, even though they bombed Poland on November 15th of 2022, 632 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,160 a NATO ally, and killed two Polish civilians, I'm still 633 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,640 going to support them because I support Ukraine, Kissen. 634 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,600 I support Ukraine. That's why I support them having 635 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,640 a referendum in the Donbass to see where people actually which 636 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,640 throne they actually want to worship. 637 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,480 If your policy of support of a certain country leads to 638 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,720 hundreds of thousands of civilians in that country 639 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:44,240 getting killed and the city's being blown to bits, you're not 640 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:49,880 pro that country. When it comes to the causes of 641 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,040 the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, President Barack Obama 642 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,880 has shined some light on the origins of this conflict. 643 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:01,760 In his book A Promised Land. On page 464, Obama says the US 644 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,440 decision seven years earlier to pull out of the Anti Ballistic 645 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,480 Missile Treaty and its plans to house missile defense systems on 646 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,760 Russia's border continue to be a source of strategic instability. 647 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,800 The admission of former Warsaw Pact countries into NATO during 648 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,160 both the Clinton and Bush administrations had steadily 649 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,840 encroached on Russia's sphere of influence, while US support for 650 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,000 the color revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan 651 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,600 under the specious guise of democracy promotion had turned 652 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,680 Russia's once friendly neighbors into governments hostile to 653 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,320 Moscow. President Dwight Eisenhower 654 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,080 said. We will go to war in Guatemala 655 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,800 if we so much as suspect the Soviets being behind Jacob Arnez 656 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,560 and his government. We clearly saw it when the 657 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,600 Soviets tried to put missiles in Cuba. 658 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,360 Reagan saw the importance of making sure the Soviets don't 659 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:01,160 have any influence in Nicaragua. Looks like the Russians have the 660 00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:05,400 same motive, to have their own sphere of influence. 661 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,960 So notice how Kisin is completely wrong with the cause 662 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,120 of these conflicts. They hate us because we're not 663 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,200 Muslim. It's blowback from the 664 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,440 occupation and bombing campaigns and blockade. 665 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,640 Putin hates Ukraine because it's democratic. 666 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,080 It's not democratic. It engages in mass slavery, a 667 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,960 form of slavery far worse than force. 668 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,920 Cotton picking considering according to NBC, the average 669 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,320 life expectancy in. But the battle of Bakmut for 670 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,160 Ukrainian soldiers is 4 motherfucking hours. 671 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,480 Of course it has nothing to do with well he just hates 672 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,480 democracy. It has everything to do with 673 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,080 NATO expansion. Not my words. 674 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,320 According to President Barack Obama, the war in Ukraine and 675 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,360 Russia is over. NATO expansion, the US leaving 676 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,840 the Open Skies treaty now along with the anti ballistic missile 677 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,240 treaty and the color revolutions. 678 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,000 Again. Even if you think I'm wrong 679 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,160 about all this and I'm just making it up, I just completely 680 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,760 fabricated that entire quote. Pretend you believe that. 681 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,440 Not true first of all. Second of all, it does not 682 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,040 follow that you should then give the US government or the Israeli 683 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,160 government or the United Kingdom's government more money 684 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,800 and more power. They have no incentive to 685 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,960 improve the well-being of the people and the situation at 686 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,960 large, and they don't have the knowledge to do so. 687 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,360 Mr. Kissen is so blatantly wrong about both of these issues. 688 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,560 How could that be with all his research? 689 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:35,280 What's actually going on? Well, sometimes the motive for 690 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,960 certain actions is not the truth. 691 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,120 Let's look at what economist Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler 692 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,600 say in their book The Elephant in the Brain, page 292. 693 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,040 Our hypothesis is that political behavior of ordinary individual 694 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,000 citizens is often better explained as an attempt to 695 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,800 signal loyalty to our side, whatever side that happens to be 696 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,280 in a particular situation, rather than as good faith 697 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,680 attempts to improve outcomes. We are wanting to appear loyal 698 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,960 to the groups around us. It's also, in many ways, a 699 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,680 performance. So how is it that Mister Kissen 700 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,640 could say bin Laden has told us what he believes, but we didn't 701 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,520 listen? And then he doesn't go on to 702 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,920 quote bin Laden, he quotes a magazine that was published 703 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,320 three years after bin Laden had allegedly been killed. 704 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,040 The authors go on to understand the mindset of how someone like 705 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,000 Kissen can be so unempirical in his analysis. 706 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:40,120 Voting as an act of consumption. It's something we do in order to 707 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,600 feel good without concern for external benefits, and that 708 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,600 would be like advocating a mass murder campaign and not caring 709 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,560 about the downsides. Voting is seen as providing a 710 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,280 psychological reward, like getting to a firm one's identity 711 00:42:55,280 --> 00:43:00,040 or feel a sense of belonging. The real benefits not come not 712 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,560 from voting per SE, but from all the activities surrounding the 713 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,360 election, like attending rallies, discussing the issues, 714 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,560 posting to social media, and watching election coverage with 715 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,520 friends and family. It's during these social 716 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,720 activities and not just the polls that it's important for us 717 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:17,480 to express our political opinions. 718 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,600 They refer to them as political badges. 719 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,200 So that is a psychological analysis of how someone like 720 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,640 Kissen could say, well, we just got to look at bin Laden's words 721 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,800 and then he doesn't look at bin Laden's words like this is a 722 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:37,440 very, very intelligent man. He's excellent on the social 723 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,960 justice questions of the day. For those of you who don't know, 724 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,720 when it comes to things like the claim that America's inherently 725 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:48,080 racist, the proof is that there's income differences and 726 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,400 violence differences. The reality is in America, 727 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,720 Asians earn more than whites. And when it comes to black on 728 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:57,440 white violence, blacks are much more are about 13 times more 729 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,200 likely to initiate violence against whites than the other 730 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,200 way around. So when you come across stats 731 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,560 like that, you might say, well, I need to either become a social 732 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,560 justice warrior or a white nationalist. 733 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,040 When I see a crime happen in the Middle East, I either have to 734 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:15,360 support Hamas or Israel. This, Mr. Kissen, is the fake 735 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,640 divide that people constantly try to get us in, politicians 736 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,680 and the corporate press in particular. 737 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,040 The good news is there are sides to take. 738 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,080 You don't just have to be Robinson Caruso alone on the 739 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,120 island. You can say I support the people 740 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,560 in life who achieve their ends voluntarily through voluntary 741 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,240 exchanges, original appropriation or persuasion. 742 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,560 And the people who I hate, those are the good guys, the people 743 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,360 who I hate, the evil people who I'm against, or anyone who 744 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,960 initiate violence against peaceful people. 745 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,640 Violence when it comes to resisting aggressors, Totally 746 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,000 legitimate. Initiating violence against 747 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,320 peaceful people. This is what separates slavery 748 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:03,000 from work, rape from lovemaking, trade from theft, kidnapping 749 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,080 someone versus having a dinner party. 750 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,200 All of these things are the root of civilization. 751 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,200 I asked Mr. Kissen to embrace civilization. 752 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:15,960 I have no problem condemning Al Qaeda and Hamas as people who 753 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,120 advocate violations of the non aggression principle and 754 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,040 initiate violence against peaceful people. 755 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:27,520 I'm willing to condemn Hamas. Mr. Kissen, are you willing to 756 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:50,360 condemn the IDF? Really. 757 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,080 Thank you to everyone for watching Keith Knight. 758 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,040 Don't tread on anyone. Mr. Kissen, you are welcome on 759 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,360 the Libertarian Institute podcast anytime.