1 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,280 This is Michael Moore and this is my podcast. 2 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:28,040 One year ago today, my clock radio, old school clock radio 3 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:34,800 alarm went off, set to NPR News. And I woke up hearing these 4 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:42,120 words that 1200 people in Israel, mostly Jews, had been 5 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:51,600 slaughtered and lay dead in the street and in the kibbutz and at 6 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,600 a music festival for young people. 7 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,840 I was certain I didn't hear it right. 8 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,239 And so I got up and went out and to the living room to turn on 9 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,920 the TV. And there it was. 10 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,760 Is it safe to say that none of us, nobody, hopefully nobody, 11 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,400 ever wants to wake up and hear those words, That there are 1200 12 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,080 Jews laying dead in the street somewhere in this world? 13 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:33,560 I started to cry. It seemed to me for, I don't 14 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:38,840 know, decades, that as bad as things were in the Middle East, 15 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:44,600 as tough as it was to fix this Israel Palestine issue, that it 16 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:50,640 could get fixed. And in that moment, all hope 17 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:57,240 just kind of flew out the window and that awful sinking feeling 18 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,880 that now this will never be fixed. 19 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:11,760 And then the news started to trickle in with some very 20 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:20,760 uncomfortable truths. And I now subscribe to three 21 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,720 Israeli papers, publications that have an English version so 22 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,120 I can read it. And immediately the Israeli 23 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,640 press, the investigative journalists in Israel who were 24 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,920 already on to Netanyahu. If you remember, in the months 25 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,280 leading up to October 7th, 10s of thousands of Israelis, 26 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,040 hundreds of thousands of Israelis were in the streets 27 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,440 protesting his attempt to destroy their judicial system. 28 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:00,560 In part, his desire to do this was because he himself was under 29 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:08,480 indictment for fraud, for bribery, for other misconducts 30 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,320 of government. And the case against him was 31 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,800 pretty strong. And people thought that this was 32 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,480 going to be the end of Netanyahu. 33 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,600 Netanyahu thought it was going to be the end of Netanyahu, the 34 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,240 Prime Minister of Netanyahu. And so in the week before 35 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,600 October 7th, he decides to pull back the Israeli army from the 36 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:35,200 Gazan border. People were like, what's going 37 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,000 on? What? 38 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,880 Why? Why are you doing that? 39 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,840 And they, they had an answer. Oh, there's trouble in the West 40 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,040 Bank. We need to move them into the 41 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,520 West Bank. The only trouble was that the 42 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,080 Israeli settlers, the illegal settlers were doing a lot of 43 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,520 damage and killing of Palestinians, stealing more 44 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:03,920 homes, more land, et cetera. And he wanted the army up there 45 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,920 to stand by and be supportive of of the settlers. 46 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,080 Why do we use that term? Settlers? 47 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,320 I don't know. Is that what General Custer was 48 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:23,280 here in the US? He was a settler, the Spanish 49 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:25,880 conquistadors who came to the Americas. 50 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,400 And they were just, they're just doing some some settling. 51 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Wow. So he pulls the army away from 52 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,840 the Gazan border and then sends some of the army up to the 53 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:40,840 Lebanese border because, you know, they're worried about 54 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:46,640 what's going on up there and left the people in the kibbutzim 55 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,440 along the Gazan border completely unprotected. 56 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,560 And many Israelis have been asking now for a full year, what 57 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,880 the hell was that about? Where was the army? 58 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:05,880 Where were the police? It's not that there weren't any 59 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:07,880 police and it's not that there wasn't any army. 60 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,680 There's, you've probably seen the footage of the, the 61 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,440 destroyed, you know, towers on the border where the army was 62 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:21,520 keeping track of things. They were all overrun by Hamas. 63 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:28,040 But the general army, the basic, especially the reserves who were 64 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,240 there to be protecting their citizens inside Israel, how 65 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:40,080 Hamas was able to get through and they and using hang gliders, 66 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:49,360 kites, who goes up in a kite to fly over a border where you're 67 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,640 going to be shot down, you're not going to make it. 68 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,840 I mean, if anybody was surprised about this whole thing that 69 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:58,480 happened on this day, it was probably Hamas. 70 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,000 They never expected to get as far as they got. 71 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,480 And they got to go. Back and forth They go and they 72 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,440 take hostages and then take them back into Gaza and then go back 73 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,880 in and get some more, kill some more people. 74 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,680 What the hell? And then as the days and weeks 75 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,480 go by, we learned some awful truths. 76 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,440 And boy, oh boy, it's when the Israeli press again was doing a 77 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:29,120 great job and we learn. And I think I think people in 78 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Israel had already heard the story but or suspected it. 79 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:40,760 But but it turns out Netanyahu, he had been funding Hamas and 80 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,000 you're like, what? What do? 81 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:48,200 What do you mean? He had given the green light to 82 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:52,400 Arab nations and to Qatar and Qatar, as some people call it, 83 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,480 to go ahead and give Hamas millions of dollars over a multi 84 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:05,320 year period. Now you're, if you're just 85 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,480 hearing this for the first time, just Google it, look it up, read 86 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,960 it. Why would he do that? 87 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,280 Well, because he wanted really to destroy the Palestinian 88 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,000 Authority, which runs the Palestinian government in the 89 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,320 West Bank. And he wanted to create this 90 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,200 wedge between Hamas, which is running Gaza, and the 91 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,520 Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. 92 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,800 And he really wanted to destroy them because ultimately the 93 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,480 majority of Palestinians are, you know, going to be, even 94 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,480 though many, many criticisms of the corruption and stuff within 95 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,000 the within the Palestinian Authority, they still knew that 96 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,640 that was probably their best way to achieve some semblance of 97 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:56,160 their own government and the ability to hopefully be free of 98 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,440 the apartheid situation that they're living in. 99 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:07,040 And so Netanyahu's plan was to create this conflict, to create 100 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,600 a fight between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. 101 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,600 And so he funded Hamas. A lot of those tunnels, this 102 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,280 goes back even before or back when Israel was occupying Gaza, 103 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,360 Israel built a lot of those tunnels. 104 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,560 This never gets pointed out, never gets pointed out that this 105 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,080 whole from the river to the sea business that they claim the 106 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,720 Palestinians, that's their position is to just wipe out all 107 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,679 Jews, all Israelis. The sentence about from the 108 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,600 river to the sea or from the the sea to the river is in the 109 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,880 original founding documents of the Likud Party, Netanyahu's 110 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:55,160 political party. It's in their founding statement 111 00:08:55,160 --> 00:09:00,480 that they own it all, that there are no Palestinians. 112 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,600 And how many times have you had to listen to the propaganda this 113 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,440 year that there are no Palestinians because there is no 114 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,080 Palestine? There was never a Palestine. 115 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:15,760 It's just a concept, as Trump would say, demeaning this group 116 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,080 of people that have lived on that land for a couple thousand 117 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:26,200 years at least. So what is Netanyahu up to? 118 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,960 Funding Hamas and pulling the army back? 119 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,680 All the reports from the Israeli intelligence during the week or 120 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:38,960 two leading up to this, there are people trying to get some 121 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,320 attention to this. You know, and it's been pointed 122 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,160 out that there are a number of women in the Israeli government 123 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:51,680 were trying to point this out that why are they leaving the 124 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:55,880 people in Israel, living in Israel, Israel proper now, the 125 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:03,400 Israel, the country, not settlers, actually Israel along 126 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,240 the Gazan border. Why are they leaving them 127 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:10,120 unprotected? And then when the Hamas attacks 128 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,960 occur and Hamas is even shocked that they can fly in on a kite, 129 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:23,720 go back and forth kidnapping people, and they do this for 130 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,360 hours. And there's there's Israelis 131 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:33,160 hiding in shelters, trying to take cover somewhere, calling 132 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,400 the police. No answer, begging, calling 133 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,320 relatives in Israel. Can anybody come down to help 134 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:47,440 us, please? And all these people die and the 135 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:53,400 and the army, what's finally and police and reservists finally 136 00:10:53,400 --> 00:11:00,160 make it there. 10/12/14 hours after the attacks began at 6:30 137 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,760 in the morning, finally in the late afternoon and evening, they 138 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,560 aren't. Can you imagine that in the USI 139 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,920 mean, just seriously, Can you imagine whatever country you're 140 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:15,080 living in that, that your own people within your country are 141 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:21,440 under attack and being slaughtered and there's no 142 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:26,040 response. There's no cops, there's there's 143 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,360 no National Guard, there's no nothing. 144 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,160 I mean, even on January 6th, when, you know, they're begging 145 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,320 and trying to get the National Guard in there to protect the 146 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,800 capital from the Trumpsters that were trying to overthrow the 147 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:44,800 government, that took hours. It didn't take 14 hours. 148 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,760 Can you imagine that happening here? 149 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,560 How could that happen? You know, I mean, let's come on, 150 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:56,160 let's give some, everybody knows that the Israeli army and the 151 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,800 whole Israeli Defense Force and the Israeli, the Mossad and 152 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,160 their intelligence and their spies and everything and the 153 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,400 fact that they have a nuclear weapons. 154 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:15,400 This is one of the most. I mean, it's why, it's why 155 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,000 people around the world who can claim Israeli citizenship, even 156 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,680 if they don't have it, can claim it because they feel this is a 157 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:24,640 safe place. This is the place, you know, 158 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,480 after World War 2, this is this was created so we would be safe. 159 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:33,480 We'd have a place to go. And what October 7th showed is 160 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,360 that you're not safe. It's not the place to go. 161 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:48,000 Your own government won't defend your life, will not show up as 162 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:56,640 you're being slaughtered on your own soil by a people that don't 163 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:05,720 have a single bomber, jet plane, fighter jet, battleship, nothing 164 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:11,200 except homemade explosive devices that they cobble 165 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,800 together from the bombs that are sent into their land from 166 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,920 Israel. American bombs. 167 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,520 And they take the pieces, especially of the ones that 168 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:25,040 don't blow up, and they make their own bombs and missiles to 169 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,560 fire back into Israel. Total insanity, I know, but look 170 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,520 what the hell was going on before October 7th. 171 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:40,600 On October 7th. It's an embarrassing question 172 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,360 that fewer and fewer Israelis seem to want to ask anymore. 173 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:51,920 Because Netanyahu needed the justification to obliterate 174 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:57,360 Palestinian people. And that's what he went ahead 175 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,920 and did. And Biden warned him, said don't 176 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:02,920 be doing this. Don't do what we did after 911 177 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:08,000 where we invade two countries and we got it ended up in the 178 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:14,720 longest war in our history. And it did really it didn't no 179 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,200 good. And one of the countries had 180 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,080 nothing to do with 9/11. Don't do what we did. 181 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,520 That's what he said. And Netanyahu was like, shut the 182 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,840 F up. We're going to go in and kill as 183 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,480 many people as we want. We're going to teach them a 184 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,880 lesson. And what better lesson to teach, 185 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,960 you know, and to and to, to fight for the justice of the 186 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,760 1200 dead in Israel. What better way to, to, to honor 187 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,680 the dead than to go in and kill more than 40,000 people, mostly 188 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:55,760 children, women, old people? Why 'cause that'll stop Hamas 189 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,480 and whoever else from ever attacking you again. 190 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:04,960 You've created so many, so many now, hundreds of thousands of 191 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,360 Palestinians who will never forget the slaughter, the this 192 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,560 annihilation of civilians, people that have lost family, 193 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:21,880 babies, babies, thousands of babies dead, hospitals bombed, 194 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,400 schools bombed, universities bombed, everything bombed to 195 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:33,280 smithereens. Oh, and that's going to make you 196 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:43,640 safe. Only a sick, sick person would 197 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,880 think that this is the way to peace. 198 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,960 Only a sick person would approve millions of dollars being sent 199 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,840 to Hamas so that you can start a fight, a war between the two 200 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:06,240 Palestinian factions that that's going to help you sick. 201 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,960 Only a sick leader would leave his own people undefended. 202 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,160 Perhaps because it sure sounds like it in his tone of voice. 203 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:22,360 Because by having all these dead Israelis gave him the 204 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,360 justification to start. What he really wanted was to 205 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,240 move the Palestinians, to move them into the sea, to move them 206 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,040 into the Sinai desert and to kill as many of them as 207 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:37,400 possible. And probably surprised that 208 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,240 Biden let him get away with it because Biden had warned him. 209 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,040 So he knew this was a risky thing with the Americans. 210 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,480 I mean, they fund us, They're our bank. 211 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,760 They build the bombs for us and give them to us. 212 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,960 Very risky thing. And and yet he knew the old man 213 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:00,240 just didn't have it in him to follow through on his threat. 214 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:06,480 That if you, if you commit war crimes, we will shut you down. 215 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:11,280 And that's so Bibi just went ahead and committed this war 216 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,920 crimes and nothing happened. Nothing. 217 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,160 I mean, the international, you know, Court of Justice or you 218 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,680 know, whatever they're they're on their way to hopefully 219 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,680 prosecuting them someday. But still, we could have ended 220 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,160 this. We Americans could have ended 221 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,320 this so quickly. We could have easily said to the 222 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,760 Israelis, not one more Israeli is going to die. 223 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:43,840 And we will make sure that that happens. 224 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,960 But you are to stop the slaughter of babies and old 225 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,760 people and civilians and quit lying to us. 226 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,920 Quit telling us every time you bomb a school that there, oh, 227 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,640 Hamas was there. Every time you bomb a hospital, 228 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,680 oh, Hamas was hiding in there. I think they think we're really 229 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,080 stupid. I know they probably do think 230 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,560 we're stupid. I mean, you can, you know, turn 231 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,600 on any episode of The Real Housewives and, or anything on 232 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,560 our TV and you could see how freaking stupid we are, or at 233 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:23,960 least we appear to be. And they knew that we weren't 234 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,280 going to do anything to stop them and they just went ahead 235 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:30,440 with the slaughter. So they're going to avenge the 236 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:34,720 1200 dead by killing 40,000 civilians. 237 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,560 And then they try to come up with, Oh no, no, we got a bunch 238 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,600 of Hamas too. And they start bombing the very 239 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,440 places where they're hostages are being held. 240 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,080 Would you, I mean, just imagine if these were your grandparents 241 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:54,080 being held and the United States government was, was just bombing 242 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,680 the very place they're being held. 243 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,360 Why are you doing that? You're going to kill my 244 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:04,560 grandmother. There's still over 100 hostages 245 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,640 there and they don't have him back. 246 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,080 The Israeli army, think about this. 247 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,360 The Israeli army, with all of its defense forces, with all of 248 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:19,480 its nuclear weapons, with all of its really smart spies and 249 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,720 everything that they've got in their intelligence community. 250 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,760 And they don't know where the hostages are and they don't know 251 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,000 how to go in and get them against the people that have no 252 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,560 friggin army, no Air Force, no Navy, and they're still being 253 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:39,120 held. You do know how big Gaza is, 254 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:42,760 right, folks? It's about the size of Queens 255 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:47,240 roughly, roughly in terms of square mileage, you know, not 256 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,960 exact, but roughly the same size as Queens and roughly the same 257 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,640 population as Queens. You know, a little over 2 258 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:02,200 million people. Can you imagine some group, some 259 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,840 terrorist group, whether they be one of our home grown terrorist 260 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:11,640 groups in the US or they came from the outside, kidnapped over 261 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:18,400 200? Americans and then took them to 262 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,560 Queens and are hiding them in Queens, hiding them in the same 263 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:29,280 size of place that Gaza is. How long would it be before we'd 264 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:37,120 find those 200 Americans? Seriously, You know, as inept as 265 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:42,520 we are at a lot of this stuff, a year later, Can you imagine 266 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:48,840 there's there'd still be 100 some Americans being hid in 267 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:54,880 tunnels, rooms, wherever in Queens? 268 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,240 No, no, it's all bullshit, isn't it? 269 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:03,960 They know where these people are. 270 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:09,360 They know where their own people are being held and dying in 271 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:15,120 Gaza. Do you remember the the night 272 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,640 very early on when Hamas decided to release the elderly women, 273 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:26,280 the Jewish women with no, with no advance notice, they just got 274 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,480 the Red Cross and the Red Crescent together and took them 275 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,160 to the border and, and released them. 276 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,240 Do you remember that? And Netanyahu was in shock. 277 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,840 And again, the great Israeli reporting in their press about 278 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,320 their he was like, wait a minute, yeah, wait a minute is 279 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:51,080 right, Bebe, because he needed the hostages as the 280 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,880 justification for all this mass killing. 281 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,200 He needed it for the larger plant to remove the Palestinians 282 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:06,640 from Gaza entirely. And Oh my God, And he got, he 283 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,560 got to read some of this stuff, the Israeli press and, and, and 284 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,400 their commentators and their analysts and whatever. 285 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,560 It's like, wait, he, he was expecting them to hold these 286 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,880 hostages because he needed the justification for what he was 287 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,040 going to do. And now all of a sudden they're 288 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,880 going to start releasing them. Oh my God, what if they all got 289 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:31,720 released in the next few days? We got to get the get the 290 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,960 bombers out, send the missiles in, start killing these 291 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,440 Palestinians quickly. And when they did that, of 292 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,040 course, then the Palestinians and the Hamas were like, OK, to 293 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,280 hell with you guys. This is how you're going to, 294 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,120 we're starting to release the hostages and and you're just 295 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:56,320 going to kill us just like that. Wow, people have forgotten this 296 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,840 part of the story. Netanyahu did not want those 297 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,640 hostages released and not then. I'm not saying he wanted them 298 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,600 dead, but why would you bomb the very areas that they're being 299 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,920 hidden in? Why would you do that? 300 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,320 Can you imagine the US Army just bombing Queens because people in 301 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,600 Queens are holding 200 people hostage? 302 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:27,960 No, no, believe me, there's many Israelis who question it, but 303 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,920 you rarely hear it on the news here. 304 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,840 No, he wanted it. He wanted the war. 305 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,640 He wanted the slaughter. He needed the justification. 306 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,160 He came here and gave that vile speech to our Congress about the 307 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,960 Barbarians. They're the Barbarians were 308 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,080 civilization. We're the civilized ones. 309 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,360 There's nothing civilized about us Americans funding Benjamin 310 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:03,760 Netanyahu and funding the slaughter. 311 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,440 Nothing about this. Do we not think that we're going 312 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,200 to get away with this? Then we're going to have to not 313 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:19,320 answer for this someday, for our behavior, for our participation 314 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:25,640 in the slaughter. What makes us think that we're 315 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,080 going to get away with this again? 316 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:37,960 Jeez, I just, I just don't know. And so now the whole thing has 317 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,600 switched to the other front. They've created Lebanon. 318 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,560 They're under siege again. They're under attack. 319 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:50,000 The Iranians are firing missiles into Israel, just probably 320 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,200 lighting up Netanyahu's face like, oh, they took the bait, 321 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:59,040 these stupid Iranians. Oh, wow. 322 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,160 Yeah, because now you listen this weekend to all the 323 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,760 rhetoric, all the talk, and now just watching the news here this 324 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,400 morning, People on TV here, they're like, you know, this is 325 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,920 going to be an all out war. This is going to be an expanded 326 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,920 Middle East war where the United States is going to be dragged 327 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:29,680 into a war with Iran. No, no, Oh, no. 328 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:37,600 I'm sorry, Netanyahu. We are not entering any kind of 329 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,920 war. It's bad enough that we've 330 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,960 allowed your war to continue, but what? 331 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,360 What we are going to send our troops and our ships and 332 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,280 everything to have a war with Iran? 333 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:55,680 Are you freaking kidding me? The fact that you think that we 334 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,480 are that stupid, that we could be that easily led by the nose. 335 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,680 Just take us by the nose and lead us into a war with Iran. 336 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,360 Do you know that? Everybody listening to me and 337 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:12,560 those not listening to me and those who usually would disagree 338 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,920 with me. The vast majority of the 339 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,600 American people do not want a war with anybody. 340 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,640 They don't even want this war that you're doing. 341 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,360 The majority of Americans, every poll has shown that we want a 342 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,400 ceasefire. The majority of Americans want 343 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,080 this to end. And now you're talking about 344 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,160 that we're going to join you in going to war with Iran. 345 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:44,520 Are you frigging crazy? We are not going to war with 346 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,840 Iran. We want the war on the people of 347 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,240 Gaza stopped. We have enough problems in this 348 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,040 world. We have enough problems in our 349 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,320 own country and we lost enough people and we killed enough 350 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:05,480 people in Iraq and Afghanistan for years and years and years, 351 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,840 and nobody wants a return to that. 352 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,680 Before I continue on with a few other things, I want to say if 353 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,160 we could just pause for a minute to thank our underwriter for 354 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:39,680 today's episode, Shopify. As you know, Shopify has been a 355 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,720 long time underwriter of my podcast. 356 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:46,720 If you don't know what Shopify is, think of them as the the 357 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:51,480 business behind the businesses that help make especially for 358 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,640 small business owners. Sometimes it's nonprofits, 359 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,640 sometimes it's schools. 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Go to shopify.com/more to 377 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,440 upgrade your selling todayshopify.com/all in 378 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,320 lowercase now. More Moore. 379 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,360 And thank you Shopify for supporting this podcast and 380 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,560 supporting my voice, especially on such an important day as 381 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:34,600 today. Netanyahu is a fascist, Trump is 382 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,920 a fascist. They are peas in the same pod. 383 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,960 And I'm telling you, my friends watching Trump this weekend at 384 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,240 those rallies, wow, we're coming right out and saying that the 385 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,560 Democrats the the, the enemy to him. 386 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,560 They tried to have me killed. These assassination attempts, 387 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:06,280 they, the, they to him is the Biden Harris administration or 388 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,640 the other people or the deep state or whatever it is that's 389 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,920 controlled by the liberals and they, the radicals and the 390 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,880 communists of America. Oh my God. 391 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,440 And his people just eating it right up. 392 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,320 And then telling the people in the hurricane areas there in 393 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:28,440 North Carolina that Biden and Harris are only going to give 394 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:34,440 each of them $750 for all the devastation that's been caused 395 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,080 in in their homes and in their towns. 396 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,120 And that the reason why there's not enough aid there already is 397 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:47,000 because Harris and Biden sent billions of dollars of FEMA 398 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,960 money to help all these migrants relocate themselves all over our 399 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:57,560 wonderful country. The, the lying, the lying right 400 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:58,680 now. I guess it's going to be like 401 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,440 this for the next 4 weeks is intense. 402 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,160 It's incredible. It's it's gobsmacking in terms 403 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,160 of of what they think that they're going to get away with. 404 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:20,440 Wow, wow. They did whatever they could 405 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:25,920 this weekend to once again try to destroy this country, to try 406 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:32,400 to create violence. I know why a lot of you are so 407 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,000 scared, so scared that somehow he's going to pull this off. 408 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,080 And I've tried to tell you in these last weeks here that I 409 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,360 don't think that's going to happen. 410 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,640 I think most Americans know that this is wrong and he's not going 411 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:52,680 back to the White House. And there's going to be an A 412 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,880 tsunami of women at the polls this month, early voting all the 413 00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,800 way up to Election Day on November 5th. 414 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,000 And they're not going to tolerate a return of Donald 415 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,360 Trump. But I know it's not going to 416 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,480 feel that way right now. You know, and you're hearing the 417 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,280 reports out of Michigan that, you know, the internal polling 418 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,040 that the Democrats have been doing or whatever, seeing that 419 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,760 something I've been saying for months now that Harris could 420 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:25,920 lose Michigan. And you know, I'm so used to, I 421 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:30,120 know this, we're somewhere around 40,000,045 million 422 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:35,280 downloads to my podcast, 10 million of you follow me on 423 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,880 social media. I mean, I, I know I'm, I'm very 424 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,880 fortunate and blessed to have so many people that will listen to 425 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,640 my thinking on all this stuff. But in the end, I I've never 426 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:52,840 been able to beat back the party hacks that help us lose so many 427 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,480 times, help the Democrats lose when we should be winning. 428 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,880 They, they lose even when they win, even when they win the 429 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,920 popular vote, which should mean that they should get the 430 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:11,200 electors from that state. But no, twice, just just in, 431 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,600 since the year 2000, Gore won the popular vote, Hillary won 432 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:20,440 the popular vote. And I've told them why they're 433 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,720 going to lose Michigan. They won't listen. 434 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,680 They went to Flint on Friday. They had a meeting with Arab and 435 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,280 Muslim voters there. At least they had the meeting. 436 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,560 I'll give Kamala credit for that, that she sat down and she 437 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,440 listened. Biden had not done that. 438 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,520 She did it because, as I've told you, I think her heart is in the 439 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,360 right place. I think she's said and done 440 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,040 enough. And we've learned from our own 441 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:57,360 reporting of our press that she has not and has not approved 442 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,920 what Netanyahu has done in terms of the slaughter of civilians 443 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,000 and and in terms of not allowing humanitarian aid, food and 444 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,679 water, etcetera, to get to the people in Gaza. 445 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:15,000 And she would not sit there on the stage in Congress when 446 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,040 Netanyahu gave a speech. She would not participate in 447 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:24,000 that and did not attend. Now, I know a lot of you are 448 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,280 like, Mike, she's the same as Biden. 449 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,239 It's the Biden Harris administration. 450 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,920 Yeah. You know, and maybe, maybe, 451 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,040 maybe when she's president, she will not fix this. 452 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,760 I'm going to stick to my what my gut tells me. 453 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,280 I don't know her. I've met her a few times. 454 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:50,120 Each of those times, I walked away from those meetings feeling 455 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:54,679 very, very good about her as a human being, about her politics, 456 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,280 about who she is. And I have no personal 457 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,720 experience that tells me otherwise. 458 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,360 And I was very happy when Joe Biden stepped aside so that we 459 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,480 would have a chance. And as you can see, we have a 460 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,040 hell of a chance of having an incredible Election Day. 461 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,880 But if you are listening to me in Arizona right now or Georgia, 462 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,960 and you are not registered to vote or you haven't checked your 463 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,840 registration to make sure you're still registered, you have only 464 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,360 a few hours because today's the last day for Georgia and 465 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:38,440 Arizona, two of our critical blue states, to make sure that 466 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,760 you are registered to vote. This is the day you've got to go 467 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,880 online. You've got to go to vote.org. 468 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,200 You've got to tell family and friends in Arizona and Georgia 469 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,440 to do that. This is the day, this is it. 470 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,680 And in in the coming days and weeks, this is how it's going to 471 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,840 go. Every other day there's going to 472 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,400 be another state. The deadline for Alaska was 473 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,080 yesterday. That's already passed. 474 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,680 So if you're listening in Alaska and you're not registered, well, 475 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,960 we'll see in 2028. That's how this works in this 476 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:16,720 country, you know, But a lot of states like Michigan, you can 477 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,440 register the day of the election. 478 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,760 In fact, we've made it so easy in Michigan that let's say you 479 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,560 live in Flint. But that day you have to work in 480 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,080 Detroit. You can go to any polling 481 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,160 location in Detroit and vote even though it's not your 482 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,520 polling location, and just tell them where you're registered. 483 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,240 They'll make note of it and they'll have, they'll create 484 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:43,000 this ballot for you so that those votes go to who you want 485 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,520 to vote for in the state of Michigan and it'll go to your 486 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,040 locality. That's how easy we've made it 487 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:54,520 now in Michigan. And yet Hillary lost by 10,000 488 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,120 votes. That's two votes per precinct, 489 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,240 on average, 2 votes per precinct. 490 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,280 That's how Trump won Michigan in 16. 491 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,840 Hillary refused to campaign in Michigan or Wisconsin and lost 492 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,400 both states as a result of it. I tried to get them to listen. 493 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,520 They wouldn't listen. I got, I organized people. 494 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,360 I organized people to come in and help. 495 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:25,760 I did everything I could. I went everywhere to try to get 496 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,200 out the vote, college campuses, etcetera. 497 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,560 Two votes for precinct. Don't think it can't happen 498 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,480 again. And, and, and even though Harris 499 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,560 has one back, according to the last poll, I saw a goodly number 500 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:47,840 of the Arab and and Muslim voters in Michigan, she is still 501 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:53,240 18 points behind in the polls where she and Biden were at in 502 00:37:53,240 --> 00:38:00,280 2020 with the Michigan Arab Muslim vote 18 points behind 503 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,800 what they actually got in 2020. That's where she's at today. 504 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,680 So if the her campaign is not understanding that if Hillary 505 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,560 lost by 10,000 and right now according to these numbers, you 506 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:21,320 can see that it could be as high as 40,000 Arab and Muslim voters 507 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,520 that voted for them in 2020 that are not going to vote. 508 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:27,640 They're not going to vote for Trump. 509 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,760 All the polls show that he's won. 510 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,920 None of the the Arab or Muslim vote he's he's going to get. 511 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,440 Right now he's polling the same number that he pulled in 2020. 512 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,640 So that's not going to happen. They're just going to stay home 513 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,920 or they're going to go vote, but they'll leave the top line blank 514 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,640 like 75,000 Michigan voters did in 2016 when Trump won. 515 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,240 They went in there. They didn't want Hillary, they 516 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,520 didn't want Trump. So they voted for every other 517 00:38:54,520 --> 00:39:02,000 candidate on the ballot and left the top line blank. 75,000 518 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:08,560 people, mostly in Democratic areas did that and we got Trump. 519 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,960 And I'm sorry, I wish I could just wave a magic wand over the 520 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,080 over the state of Michigan and make this happen, but that's not 521 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,560 how it's going to work. I mean, I'm doing everything I 522 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,720 could do. Everybody I know is doing. 523 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,200 And yet what we hear this morning from our people in 524 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,480 Michigan is it's not looking good. 525 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,880 And I think we all know we can't afford to lose the state of 526 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,280 Michigan, just as we can't afford to lose Pennsylvania or 527 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,960 Wisconsin. And I showed you in my sub stack 528 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,840 last week how if that does happen, we can still win. 529 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:53,120 If we win North Carolina, Georgia, if we win Arizona or 530 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,680 Nevada, we can still pull this off without Michigan. 531 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,520 But who wants to go there? Who wants to do that? 532 00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:06,760 It was great watching the rally in in Flint on Friday. 533 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:12,240 She was introduced by the UAW local president of my dad's 534 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,360 local union, UAW Local 651 in Flint. 535 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,360 It's what he belonged to. And my sister worked in the 536 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:24,040 factory for a summer or two and she also belonged to that UAW 537 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,800 local. So that was kind of cool, seeing 538 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,520 the union president there introducing her speech in Flint. 539 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,680 Jeez. But we've got a lot of work to 540 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,440 do with Michigan in these four weeks. 541 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,640 And I promise you I'll do whatever I can do. 542 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,200 I will not try to convince, though a single Muslim or Arab 543 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,400 voter tells me that I just can't vote. 544 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,440 I'm so distraught over the killing of my people. 545 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,880 I'm distraught over relatives of mine who've lost their homes, 546 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:01,800 who've lost their babies. These are people with real 547 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,360 people, real relatives who've been killed by our bombs and our 548 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,840 money. And they just want to just sit 549 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,640 it out or stay home. And what do you say to that? 550 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,080 What do you do? Oh, no, you've got to vote 551 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,960 because you know, Trump is worse. 552 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,440 Not going to work. It isn't how it works. 553 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,920 And if you have any humanity in you, you wouldn't do that. 554 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,560 So I've what I've said to people is here's what we have to do. 555 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,240 You know, there's at least 2 million non voters in Michigan. 556 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:35,520 These are people who just never vote, you know, but they can 557 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,640 vote if they choose to vote, they can vote 2 million. 558 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,480 We only need a few 1000 people in Michigan. 559 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,200 So I said that let's make that that's our mission, not to 560 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:53,320 convince people who've lost their own people due to our 561 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,960 bombs and our funding of this war in Gaza. 562 00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:00,000 Let let's that's we'll make up for those votes that we're not 563 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,120 going to get from the Muslim and and Arab community. 564 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:07,280 We can do that. We actually can do that. 565 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,240 We just only need to if it's really just a few thousand. 566 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:15,680 If Hillary lost by two votes per precinct, What I'm saying is 567 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,920 can't we get four to six votes per precinct to people that are 568 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,280 essentially non voters? They don't like to vote, but we 569 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,080 convince them to just this one time, just this one time, you 570 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,120 vote, go back to non voting after that. 571 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,640 But just this time, because of everything that we're having to 572 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,200 confront here and the last thing any of us want is Trump back in 573 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:45,800 the White House. It's really hard to take, isn't 574 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,760 it? Somebody pointed out to me this 575 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:55,280 weekend that, you know, you're the probably the only filmmaker 576 00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:01,280 that has won the top prize at both the Tehran Iran Film 577 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:07,240 Festival in Tehran and the top prize at the Jerusalem festival 578 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:16,040 for one of your films. That's right. 579 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:22,320 I'm yes, I'm, I have the prize from Iran sitting in my podcast 580 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,560 studio. It's a beautiful Persian rug 581 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:33,240 that's handmade for the purpose of this of the top prize winners 582 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,720 of The Maine Film Festival there in Iran. 583 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:43,280 I was very honored, very, very happy to be given that. 584 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:48,240 And, and I was really happy and surprised to win in Jerusalem 585 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:53,000 because when that happened, I did not go, I did not attend for 586 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,640 moral reasons. This was in, I think, late 89, 587 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,720 early 90. And first they told me I needed 588 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,920 to supply a print of Roger and Me, my first film. 589 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,520 This is my very first film, a print that had a Hebrew and 590 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:21,000 French subtitles. And I'm like French, obviously I 591 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,480 get the Hebrew part, it's Jerusalem, but shouldn't there 592 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:29,160 be Hebrew and Arabic subtitles? It's a, this is a, a mixed city 593 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,400 here. No Hebrew and French. 594 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,720 That's the way we've always done it. 595 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,560 Oh, man, he said, I can't do that. 596 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,840 No offense to the French either. I'm just And then I said, and 597 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,280 what about what? Aren't you going to show my film 598 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,880 at the at theaters in East Jerusalem? 599 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,720 The Arab part of Jerusalem? Well, no, there's a curfew now. 600 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:57,240 And in fact, I said so wait a minute. 601 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,720 There's, you know, because there was the first intifada was 602 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:06,680 taking place, the uprising of children throwing stones at 603 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,440 Israeli soldiers. What about Bethlehem? 604 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,080 I mean, that's like two or three miles outside of Jerusalem. 605 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,240 We can't show it there. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 606 00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:21,400 There's a curfew. You can't. 607 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,840 We can't show the film at night. Can't. 608 00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,320 People can't come into Jerusalem from Bethlehem to see your film. 609 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,400 I said, well, but so basically you've got this set up so that 610 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:37,680 no Arabs can see my movie, which that makes your theatrical 611 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,960 situation an apartheid situation because because of people belong 612 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,440 to a certain Group, A certain race, a certain religion, 613 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,840 they're not allowed in. Well, it's complicated. 614 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,240 Yeah. No, I yeah, I get it. 615 00:45:55,400 --> 00:46:00,600 Yeah. Wow. 616 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,360 And finally, I just said to them, I can't, I can't come to 617 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:10,320 your festival. And Oh, my God, the shitstorm in 618 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:15,640 the Israeli press and people in Israel attacking me for not 619 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,800 coming, for not, you know, supporting. 620 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,000 I mean, here they are bringing my movie, and I won't come 621 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,280 because they won't put Arabic subtitles up there with the 622 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:31,120 Hebrew ones. And OK, so Palestinians can't 623 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,120 come into Jerusalem because of the curfew to watch your movie. 624 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:38,600 Yeah, that's right. I'm not going to participate in 625 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:43,040 an apartheid situation, and I would if I'd had a film during 626 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,560 South Africa, I never would have let it be shown there in in 627 00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,560 segregated theaters. I don't support any kind of 628 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,320 segregation. And I'm also one of the few film 629 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,120 makers who will never sign one of these contracts. 630 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,440 We always have to sign for international distribution that 631 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,160 allows certain countries where you are. 632 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,600 You if you say anything that's positive about Israel or Jews, 633 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:14,160 you have to give them that country the right to snip out 634 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,360 anything that they find offensive because it's pro 635 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,400 Jewish or pro Israeli. And I, I couldn't believe the 636 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,200 first time I got asked to sign. I'm not signing that. 637 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,760 Well, everybody else does. No, they don't. 638 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:36,160 Yeah, Yeah. You want your movie shown around 639 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,640 the world. The world is not a democracy. 640 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,800 The the world, you know you're not going to. 641 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,880 Then you're not going to allow us to show it on airplanes 642 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,160 because airplanes fly to all these countries. 643 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,200 Yeah, that's right. I'm not going to participate in 644 00:47:53,200 --> 00:48:00,080 any of this. MM Just listen to reason. 645 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,120 Anyway, so I didn't go to the Jerusalem Film Festival, and I 646 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,840 end up winning the top prize, the jury, the jury with other 647 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,920 film makers who they bring from, you know, around the world, they 648 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:18,120 decided that Roger May was the best film of the festival. 649 00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:25,720 And I was awarded this beautiful prize, not in attendance, in 650 00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:29,400 spite of all the vitriol toward me amongst, you know, the more 651 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:37,440 conservative Israeli citizens. Awful. 652 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,960 Just I was like, well, I was very honored that they gave me 653 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,760 the prize. A year later, I'm at the Toronto 654 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,600 Film Festival, and I see the woman who is the head of the 655 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,920 Jerusalem Film Festival walking toward me. 656 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,920 She spotted me, and she's coming right toward me. 657 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:57,520 And I'm going, Oh, no, Oh, no, please run away. 658 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,400 Anyway, she came up to me. She comes up to me and she gives 659 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:08,320 me this huge bear hug, I mean a huge hug, and says, I want to 660 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:13,560 thank you for having the courage to to not come and to say what 661 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,560 you said. It was the right thing. 662 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,040 And she said this isn't public yet, so you can't announce it or 663 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,680 anything. But we, the board of the Film 664 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,440 Festival just voted. We're changing this. 665 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,280 From now on, the film's are going to have Hebrew and Arabic 666 00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:35,320 subtitles and we're going to try to make sure that there's some 667 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,080 way to show the films in the Arabic Palestinian areas. 668 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,600 Should the government say no, There's a curfew where there's 669 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,040 this or that that. You're right, you're right about 670 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:46,920 all of this. You were right. 671 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:48,920 Thank you for having the courage. 672 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,280 It motivated us to do the right thing. 673 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,040 And the fact I get to see you here in Toronto and tell you 674 00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,400 this, I was just, I was just like stunned. 675 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:06,440 I mean, I'm like, wow, I'm really moved that you did this. 676 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,160 Yeah. So we're sorry that you had to 677 00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:14,600 take all the crap you had to take being called an anti semite 678 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,400 and all this stuff. You're doing the opposite of 679 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,680 that. You're trying to what you what 680 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,800 you believe in is what we believe in. 681 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,240 And there's not going to be in Israel if we go the other way. 682 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:30,120 This is, of course, this is, you know, 20, what, 24 years ago 683 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,040 now? Oh, no, it's longer than that. 684 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,640 God is this what happens as you get older? 685 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,360 You just start to think that you're still 45. 686 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:46,080 This is, I'm talking about 1989, not 1999 here. 687 00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,160 No, no, no, no, no. Oh, my God. 688 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,200 No, no, no, it's 30. Yeah, it's 30. 689 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,880 It'll be 3535 years ago right now is the was when the 690 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,040 Jerusalem Film Festival was in the fall, I think the fall of 691 00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:06,760 89. Oh, my God, 35 years, 35 years. 692 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,640 And you know, first time I went to Gaza and Palestine was back 693 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:19,960 in the early, early to mid 80s what I saw then 4040 plus years 694 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:26,880 ago. My friends, it's a sad day today 695 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,840 for everybody in Israel who lost somebody who's still waiting for 696 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,080 hostages to be released. And my heart goes out to 697 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,880 everybody who suffered any pain and any loss. 698 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:46,000 And I've received some wonderful letters this year from Israelis 699 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:51,320 who understand that for 16 plus years now, Gaza hasn't been 700 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:57,560 nothing but an open air prison where 2.3 million Palestinians 701 00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:02,560 have been imprisoned and cut off and suffered. 702 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,440 And knowing that that's wrong and maybe not even surprised, 703 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:15,480 you know, because when you treat people a certain way with a 704 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:20,280 certain inhumanity and barbarianism, sometimes they 705 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:25,560 react in not a good way. You know, I think I've told the 706 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:29,200 story before about the kid in the neighborhood who kept 707 00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:33,120 kicking this dog. It's one of the neighbors dogs. 708 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:39,080 And one day the dog went after this kid and, you know, chewed 709 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,480 off half his face. I'm probably exaggerating there, 710 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:48,880 but he did have, he did have a awful scar for the rest of his 711 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,880 life. Because that's what happens, 712 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,720 right? And you know, we all are animals 713 00:52:55,720 --> 00:52:58,480 in that way. And we all can only take so much 714 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,920 suffering. And then, and then you go crazy 715 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,840 and you do something that isn't right, but you want to protect 716 00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:12,560 yourself and you want to live. And I'm not, I'm not just really 717 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,080 talking about the people in the open air prison of Gaza. 718 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:19,160 I'm talking about the people who were almost wiped off the face 719 00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:23,080 of the earth in something we call the Holocaust. 720 00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:32,800 At least 6,000,000 Jews slaughtered for what? 721 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,040 For being Jewish. That's it. 722 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:42,920 And this country called Germany, one of the most intelligent at 723 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:49,040 that time and now and even before then, one of the most 724 00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,120 intelligent countries on earth with the greatest scientists and 725 00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,600 writers and thinkers, the first country to have universal 726 00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:04,200 healthcare back in the 1880s. And they came up with this idea 727 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,880 that we really could get away with this. 728 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,880 We could kill every Jew, at least every Jew in Europe. 729 00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,920 And, you know, if you were part of that group, if you were 730 00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,160 Jewish, or just pick another group that has had to suffer 731 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:26,800 genocide and slaughter. And when it's over and you, 732 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:32,360 luckily enough, are still alive, you may not make the best 733 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,680 decisions about what to do to protect yourself, to make sure 734 00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:40,760 it never happens again. Somebody may come up with some 735 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:47,560 wacky idea of, you know, what we should do to help the survivors 736 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,160 of the Holocaust. Let's go and take other people's 737 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,520 land in the Middle East because it says somewhere in the Bible 738 00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,240 that we could do that. And, and, and let's give that to 739 00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:01,920 the survivors of the Holocaust and then we'll all feel better. 740 00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:07,160 We white people, white Christians, European types, 741 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,680 descendants of Europeans, look what we did. 742 00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,960 We created the state of Israel to protect them and to make it 743 00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,600 up to them. And yet, as far as I'm 744 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,320 concerned, if you really read the history of the 1930s, 745 00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:27,520 there's no making it up. Boatloads of of Jewish refugees 746 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:32,360 trying to get to America turned away at every port, every single 747 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:38,240 port up and down the East Coast, every port in Canada, turn them 748 00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:41,560 away and then they go. Then they went down to the 749 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,600 Caribbean and they're stopping at all these Caribbean islands. 750 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,920 Would you please let us stay? No, no, no. 751 00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:57,440 And then finally, I only know this because they the one of my 752 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,880 best friends and Co workers on my films, she's only with us 753 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,080 today because her mother and grandmother were on one of those 754 00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,960 boats. All the boats got sent back to 755 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,640 Germany, got sent back to Europe. 756 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,080 The majority of the people on those boats ended up dead, 757 00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:19,480 killed in the Holocaust. Except Trinidad and Tobago, the 758 00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,440 very last two islands. They're the same country. 759 00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:27,680 It's called Trinidad and Tobago. Told the Jews they could stay 760 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,720 and they would give them Trinidad passports. 761 00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:38,520 And so they lived The shame that we carry as Americans by not 762 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:43,000 taking them in here in the 30s, by waiting and waiting and 763 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,960 waiting. And then during the war, not 764 00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,400 bombing the railroad tracks, that would prevent the trains 765 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:53,160 from taking all the Jews into the concentration camps, taking 766 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:57,360 them out of Germany, out of France, you know, out of other 767 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:04,920 European countries, to Germany and to Poland, where they could 768 00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,040 be put in ovens or gassed or shot. 769 00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:14,920 That's on us folks. And so, and the way we fix it, 770 00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:21,120 the way we fix it after the war is to to take other people's 771 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:26,440 land who had I can guarantee you, we folks, you don't need to 772 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:31,080 Fact Check this, OK? I can guarantee you not a single 773 00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:37,200 Palestinian turned away a single boat on the docks of New York or 774 00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:44,200 Boston or Baltimore or Miami. No Palestinian sent any Jews 775 00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:51,720 back to their deaths in Europe. No Palestinian built an oven at 776 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:56,240 Auschwitz. No Palestinian took Jewish 777 00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:03,040 people to to their death by putting them in those ovens, by 778 00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,960 gassing them. No Palestinian did that. 779 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:16,760 And yet somehow they've got to pay the price. 780 00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,520 Is it the right thing to do is to say to everybody who survived 781 00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,000 the Holocaust you come live here in the US you live here in 782 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,160 Canada, you live here in the UK, we'll take you in. 783 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,960 You'll be safe here. You'll be protected. 784 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:47,400 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. So we and the Brits, we have to 785 00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,040 create this awful situation. The UN goes along with it. 786 00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,080 Why? So all the people can feel good. 787 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,760 Oh, we did something right for the Jewish people. 788 00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:05,240 What you did was set them up. That would eventually bring us 789 00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:11,000 to the moment we're now in, to where a madman is now running 790 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,040 their country who won't even defend his own people. 791 00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:20,440 Who pulls the army back, doesn't protect them, doesn't answer 792 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:24,680 their calls on October 7th, all day long begging. 793 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,080 Please save us. No. 794 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,600 And then to find out that he approves this funding of Hamas 795 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:39,560 over all these years just so he could create a fight between 796 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:43,000 Hamas and the other Palestinian group, have them fight each 797 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,000 other instead of us. That's the theory of war there. 798 00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,920 And now expects us to fight Iran? 799 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:57,000 You friggin crazy. This has to be stopped my 800 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,440 friends. I'm sorry I'm so emotional and 801 00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,760 upset about this and I've gone much longer than I planned to 802 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,280 go. But those tears I had on October 803 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:13,520 7th last year. You know, I've been, I've been 804 01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:19,000 working in New York here the last year or two and I have an 805 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,920 apartment. I have an apartment in New York. 806 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,880 Three blocks away at the end of the street is a Jewish 807 01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:32,160 synagogue. And on October 7th, I just, I 808 01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:34,080 didn't know what to do. And I just wanted to do 809 01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,240 something. And I thought I should go down 810 01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:40,640 there, just just stand there and offer my support. 811 01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,920 And I thought about it and I thought, Oh no, don't, just 812 01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,440 don't. But they see that's not me. 813 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:50,920 And then the next day I'm like, oh boy, all right, don't tell 814 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,760 anybody I'm going to do this because family and friends are 815 01:00:54,760 --> 01:01:00,240 going to say do not risk this. Don't you don't want to get 816 01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:03,960 hurt. I'm thinking, what am I risking? 817 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:10,520 I really just want to maybe just take some something down for 818 01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:15,640 people to eat there or you know, so anyway, so I go, I go down. 819 01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:20,520 Well, I go down there and I'm like half a block away and I can 820 01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:28,280 see tons of NYPD police cars, tons of police people, others 821 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:32,440 standing up front of their congregation, couple people with 822 01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:38,280 Israeli flags. And I thought, you know, what 823 01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:42,680 you just need to do is just go and stand there, just make the 824 01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:47,280 statement that not on my watch, we're going to resolve this 825 01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:50,080 situation. Netanyahu is wrong. 826 01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,280 The government in Israel is wrong. 827 01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:56,080 All of this is wrong. We're going to make it right. 828 01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:00,640 We are the bank. We can call them in and say, 829 01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:04,240 look, there's got to be a way to peace here, a path to peace. 830 01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,800 But I think my feelings about this are pretty well known. 831 01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:15,480 And, and, and I don't know, I don't want, I don't want to say 832 01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:21,280 I was afraid, but I just, I, I stood there and sat there for a 833 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,960 while. I thought, you know, the best 834 01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,600 thing to do is just on a spiritual level, just be here, 835 01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,640 you know, a couple buildings down from the synagogue and just 836 01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:40,760 stand and watch and feel the pain and recommit yourself to 837 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,600 always have the backs of our Jewish brothers and sisters, 838 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,240 that this never happened to them again, what happened in the last 839 01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:53,880 century. But also also that statement has 840 01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,960 no credibility. And if you're Jewish and you 841 01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,440 hear somebody say that they'll do that, that they've got your 842 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:03,720 back, if they're not also saying that they also have the backs of 843 01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:09,280 your cousins, the Palestinian people, then then don't trust 844 01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,320 them that they've got your back. Because that statement has no 845 01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,600 credibility. You have to be for everyone, 846 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,320 Everyone to have justice, everyone to have freedom, 847 01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:24,760 everyone to be alive. You have to stand against 848 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:30,000 apartheid. Otherwise it's hollow. 849 01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:33,760 Your statement of support for those who survived the 850 01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:37,440 Holocaust. You, you white people, should 851 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:41,720 not be trusted by them when they hear you say that because they 852 01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,280 should say to themselves, yeah, but they don't give a shit about 853 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:50,040 the Palestinians. And by not giving a shit about 854 01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:54,400 the Palestinians, that means you don't give a shit about the Jews 855 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:58,160 and the Israelis either. Sorry, not sorry. 856 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:03,160 That's the way it's got to be. We have to survive all of this 857 01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:10,400 and we have to live in peace and we have to stop the madness. 858 01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,080 Thanks for letting me go on like this. 859 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,720 I really appreciate it. Feel free to share this with 860 01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,440 others. I know the world I want to live 861 01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,440 in and I think it's the same world all of you want to live in 862 01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:26,600 too. So let's do what we have to do. 863 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,680 Let's especially do what we have to do in these next 4 weeks. 864 01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:37,920 And Vice President Harris, if you're listening to me, I think 865 01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,520 the world of you. I've really enjoyed the few 866 01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:47,840 times that we've met and talked. And I know, I know you will do 867 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,640 the right thing. I know I can't wait to your 868 01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,640 president. I know it's hard to say and do 869 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:56,560 something now against the person you work for. 870 01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,760 You hold no power right now. You'll hold zero power. 871 01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:04,040 I know that you've tried to influence what's going on. 872 01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:09,160 Whatever you can do now, please do it. 873 01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:13,680 Whatever that needs to be done once you're elected, definitely 874 01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:18,440 this, this will be on you. It's OK. 875 01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,920 You've got the majority of the American people who want a 876 01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,440 ceasefire just like you. You're the majority is on your 877 01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:32,080 side. Just says the guy that was 878 01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:35,040 afraid to go down and stand there too close. 879 01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:41,560 Be brave. It's required of all of us right 880 01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:49,440 now. Thanks, everybody for listening. 881 01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:52,120 This is Michael Moore. This is my podcast. 882 01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:55,800 Thanks to my executive producer here, Angela Vargos. 883 01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:15,000 We'll talk soon the.