Today in Lebanon, hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah officials and fighters exploded all at once simultaneously in various parts of Lebanon, including the capital of Beirut. You're watching just one of those explosions unfold in a supermarket where [00:00:17] there tend to be, you know, civilians. The coordinated attack has killed somewhere between 9 to 10 people. There are conflicting reports on that and wounded over 2800 people. And that's according to Lebanese officials. [00:00:34] Among those killed was a ten year old girl. Other civilians are believed to have been killed as part of this attack, but the target was intended to be Hezbollah fighters, and thus far no one has taken official responsibility for the attack. But both Lebanon's government and Hezbollah have blamed Israel. [00:00:53] And I should also note that earlier this month, Israel made clear that they intended to expand military operations against Lebanon or Hezbollah in Lebanon in order to allow for Israeli civilians near the border with Lebanon to be able to go back home. [00:01:08] So let me give you the statement from the office of Lebanon's prime minister, who labeled the incident criminal Israeli aggression in a statement, adding that it was a serious violation of Lebanese sovereignty. Hezbollah accused Israel of responsibility for the blasts, adding that there would [00:01:26] be punishment for this blatant aggression. Now, the IDF has stated that they will not be commenting on the pager explosions, but I should also be clear that the reason why Hezbollah had kind of switched to mainly using pagers is because Nasrallah, their leader, warned them against using smart phones that could be penetrated [00:01:45] and hacked into because of their connection to the internet. Pagers don't have that capability, and so the belief is that the pagers were tampered with prior to delivery. But we don't know for sure yet. That is the suspicion. Yeah. So we're going to tell you two different theories as to why it might have gone off [00:02:03] as bombs here, the pagers, and how that affects how Israel probably could kill a lot of people across the world. So be careful who you disagree with. Apparently. So this has a lot of important ramifications. The most important by a landslide is we're going to war. [00:02:20] So this is pretty much the last, step here. The context is so monumentally important. Guys, this is not about blame. That's kind of relatively easy when we can get to that. Right. And this is not about the tit for tat. Well, you know, Hezbollah was firing rockets and then Israel did this. [00:02:38] And but then earlier there was occupation and then there was October 7th. All these different things. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about right now. America was trying as hard as they can. Theoretically they were with words, but not with power or leverage or money trying to get Israel to sign a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza and cool [00:02:57] things off with Hezbollah and Iran. And they asked for cooler heads from everyone involved. Iran did not do a counter-strike, a significant one, after Israel killed a Hamas leader in Tehran, their capital. [00:03:14] Right. Hezbollah has yet to strike back effectively at all. But they did at least launch some, rockets towards Israel earlier. So, again, not tit for tat, but basically, according to every credible source, Hezbollah and Iran and Hamas held off from retaliating [00:03:34] in a larger way against Israel. So they were all waiting to see if Israel is going to sign the cease fire. This is Netanyahu saying we're not signing any cease fire. Hey, don't scroll away, come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you [00:03:50] to lend your support to tight U power. Our honest reporting. You do it at t.com/team and we love you for it. In fact we're going to aggravate the situation even more. We're going to, you know, they just, you know, at least wounded [00:04:06] 2800 Hezbollah guys in Lebanon. - And again, we don't. - Know if they're all Hezbollah guys. Let's be clear about that okay. Yes. Okay. And this first of all, some of them probably gave it to their kids, etc. God knows where those pagers went. And Israel certainly doesn't know. [00:04:22] But guys, again, it's an atrocious act in my opinion. You can call Hezbollah a terrorist, etc. And justify it in your head any way you like. But right now, the number one point is this is Israel saying no to the peace path, no to a cease fire. [00:04:38] We want a broader war. We agitated, or we hit Beirut, we hit Tehran. What more do you need before you counter strike? And we can get a giant war in the Middle East. So now they hit thousands of people at the same time, basically saying it's war. [00:04:55] And so now when Hezbollah counterattacks and Iran counterattacks because there is no more ceasefire negotiations and there is no more pathway to peace, then Israel and America will howl and say, oh my God, the terrorists have struck us! [00:05:11] Oh poor us, for no reason at all. These dirty terrorist savages have attacked us, and a much larger war will start. And this I will guarantee you, we will pay for it here in America. Of course we will pay for it in a thousand ways. The most important. Well, I don't know if it's the most important, [00:05:26] but the most direct is literally. We will pay for it. We will finance it. So if you think that America is not going to finance 100% of Israel's war in the Middle East, you don't know anything about American politics. We will we'll actually finance 200% of it. We'll say, oh my God, Israel has a right to defend itself. [00:05:43] Those poor Israeli victims, all they did was bomb every local capital in the world. Now we have to give them all the money for the war and extra on top, because they might get counterattacked in a different war, etc. So that's point one. Second of all, we're going to get our ships involved any second now [00:06:00] when Iran counter strikes, and then Iran will do start doing counter strikes against us, and then Americans will die, and then we'll get more dragged into the war even more. And everyone will tell you, you're not allowed to criticize Israel, and you must fight and pay for this war by Israel. [00:06:17] I'll tell you the last domino, and I know I'm getting way ahead of myself now, but in about two years, this entire country and it will start with the right wing, not the left wing. We'll go. Enough of this. Oh my God, how many wars do we have to fight for Israel in the Middle East? [00:06:33] How many Americans have to die? How much of my money do I have to give Israel to to start these aggressive wars where they bomb every one of their neighbors and pretend they're defending themselves? And unlike our preemptive invasion into Iraq in 2003, this time when we're [00:06:52] dragged into a war, it's abundantly clear that the big influence that dragged us into that war is Israel. Yeah. Last time it was the neocons and half of them were Israeli, including Benjamin Netanyahu. He was literally one of the leading neoconservatives. Okay. [00:07:08] But they had Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, etc. They were that American. Bill Kristol said they're Americans, but they but part of their ideology was we must protect Israel. Right. Not America, Israel, Israel above all. So, to be clear, they exploited what happened to us on nine over 11, [00:07:26] which was not Iraq's fault, made it appear as though it was Iraq's fault. Spread lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to manufacture American consent, to go into Iraq preemptively and fight that war that we shouldn't have been fighting. It didn't benefit us in any way, shape or form. [00:07:42] But leading up to that war, you had Netanyahu on multiple occasions, even here on U.S. Soil, encouraging the U.S. To go to war with Iraq. And by the way, just to be clear, and I don't want to spend too much time on it because the new wars are starting, are more important and will be much larger. Okay. [00:07:57] But they not only the neoconservatives said, yeah, this is also to protect Israel. But remember, Saddam Hussein was fighting against al Qaeda. Dick Cheney and Netanyahu, they all knew that. Right? And so they said, we don't really care, even though they're [00:08:14] the enemy of our enemy. That just hit us on nine over 11. Let's start a war against them anyway, because they're a regional threat. Who are they a regional threat to? They're fighting against al Qaeda. How are they a regional threat to us? No, they were a regional threat to Israel. Yes. And so and and so now, after that war went disastrously. [00:08:33] Not only did Netanyahu fight for it ahead of time, afterwards, he's on tape bragging about how it really helped Israel because it made the Muslims look like the enemy of America. So that really, really helped Israel. So, okay, I'm glad you're happy about it. But it was a disaster for us. [00:08:50] I really think that you should retract that. The United States has been doing everything it can to prevent a broader regional war. Even with their words only right? Like, no, their words mean nothing. - No. Because. - No, I of course they mean nothing. And I hear you. But we sent a but this is relevant. [00:09:06] We sent a representative at the last minute to Israel just a couple of days ago, and they met with the defense minister, as you know. Right. And the defense minister told him, no deal. No. Instead we're going to attack more, not less. So that's basically going to bam right there, [00:09:25] open handed slap to the US representative. What are you going to do, boy? Well, let. Me give you the exact statement. So he's talking about Yoav Galant. That's the Israeli defense minister. And after meeting with a senior Biden adviser, Galant said the following, quote, the only way left to return the residence to the north, [00:09:43] Israeli residents to the north, to their homes is via military action. And Netanyahu's office also gave a massive middle finger to the Biden administration, essentially stating that while Israel appreciates and respects the support of the U.S.. [00:09:59] I mean, it is literally dependent on the military support of the U.S. It will ultimately do what is necessary to safeguard its security and return the residents of the North securely to their homes. And so what I'm trying to refer to is the fact that the reason why someone like Netanyahu or Yoav Galant, [00:10:16] they feel emboldened to say what they're saying is because they know that even though they're dependent on U.S. Weapons to carry out these military operations and a broader regional war, they're willing to give the United States the middle finger because they know the U.S. Is still going to provide the weapons to engage in a broader regional war. [00:10:35] And the U.S. Knows it's willing to provide the weapons. So the U.S. Government certainly is not against a broader regional war. If they really were, they would threaten to withhold the weapons. But they're not doing that, are they? Yeah. So, first of all, let me be clear. This is a literally a historic failure by Joe Biden. [00:10:52] He said that he, whether you believe him or not. Okay. So if you're a Democrat, you love Joe Biden. You believe Joe Biden? Okay. He said he definitely wanted a ceasefire. He said he tried his hardest for a ceasefire. So except he didn't threaten $1. $1. That's not trying your hardest. [00:11:10] That's saying I'm just playing around. I'm lying. I'm just a giant liar. I'm lying to the Democrats, the American people pretending that I care about Palestinians. Here's a giant $26 billion check. Murder any of them you like. Oh, you want to bomb Beirut? Great. You want to bomb Tehran? [00:11:26] Great. You want to blow up nearly 3000 people in the middle of Lebanon? Great. Do anything you want. Blank check. That's who Joe Biden is. And he is the next person who tells me that he's an empathetic, sweet guy while I'm on the air with them is going to have an issue, okay? [00:11:44] He's a monster for money. He'll let you kill any Arab or Muslim you like. He's a giant, even by his own standards, a giant failure. No cease fire. All we're going to get is yet another enormous war in the Middle East. [00:12:00] Brought to you by Joe Biden, who voted for the last giant war in the Middle East. He voted for the Iraq War. He said, oh, George Bush needs my vote. Dick Cheney needs my vote. Yeah, they did, brother, and you gave it to him. He's a war monger. He's a terrible president. [00:12:18] Terrible. Okay, now Hochstein and Blinken, they go in and they keep assuaging and trying to plead with the Israelis. Please, please, like pathetic, pathetic. All you got to do is withhold the money. But they can't because they serve Israel. [00:12:33] Yes, they're their dogs. So they go in and oh, please. And then the Israelis bat them around. They do it publicly. They spit in America's face, and then they go, oh, it's raining. Hey, American media and American politicians go tell everybody that that's not spit on your face, that's rain. [00:12:50] And it's going to give you flowers and beautiful things. So shut up and do as you're told. And we are, And we will fight this war for them, and America will hate them for it. Israeli snipers killed an American citizen in the West Bank. Literally an American citizen in the West Bank. [00:13:07] Blinken threatened to send a strongly worded letter, and then proceeded to urge the UK to lift any pause that they may have on weapons to Israel. Historic failure. Blinken, one of the worst secretaries of state we have ever. [00:13:22] Had, agreed. But I just I want to be clear that what Jake just said about how the government currently under the Biden administration will give Israel all the money and weapons they need to, you know, kill Muslims and Arabs. And who knows, maybe there are people in the audience who are [00:13:39] so disconnected from that they don't care. But it's not just Muslims and Arabs. It's also now American citizens with impunity. Yeah. And that should bother Americans. Yeah. One of our members just wrote, and my son is a senior in high school and is seriously leaning towards joining the military. [00:13:56] Military? I respect that decision immensely, but damn it, I'll be so uncontrollably upset if he goes to war for the inhumanity and stupidity of Israel. You've got to stop him. Don't let him sign up. I'm being serious. If my kids said I'm going to sign up, I'd be like, are you crazy? We're about to fight a giant war on behalf of Israel. [00:14:13] That has nothing to do with America. You think I want my kids and your kids to die for Netanyahu's war so he can stay in office and not face corruption charges for Netanyahu's political career and a bunch of crazed right wingers. [00:14:29] You're going to send your kids to go die for them. What part of this has anything to do with American national security? The only part that has to do with our security is we will now enrage 1.6 billion Muslims and have them hate the United States of America for the rest of their lives. [00:14:46] And you can say, oh, Muslim savages, we hate them anyway. Well, okay, you just made an enemy out of a couple of billion people because Israel wanted to occupy the West Bank and Gaza. Sounds great for national security. Yeah, that's not helpful to national, no matter what you think. Even if you're in the right wing crowd or whatever wing crowd that says, [00:15:03] oh, I hate Muslims so much. Enjoy your racism and bigotry, and I'm sure you bathe in it and you love it, etc. But I'm not talking about that. I'm not condemning you for that. I'm talking about national security. Is it helpful to our national security to have 1.6 billion people super mad at us [00:15:22] and can't wait to attack us because we are funding the slaughter of their families? So, okay, I know Muslim lives don't count. Just murder them all and they won't ever be able to respond. And it's okay. Ha ha. We just support Israel because Israel is giving. [00:15:38] Not Israel. AIPAC is giving money to all of our politicians. Ritchie Torres is out there humiliating himself again. Fetterman can't be far behind, etc. So, but one more thing here. This is the same exact warning I gave before the Iraq war, and we were literally one of only two national shows that said don't go into Iraq. [00:15:56] I see a lot of Johnny come latelies from the right wing pretending they were against the Iraq War. I don't remember you being against it back then, brothers. I remember you kissing Bush and Cheney's ass back then, right? And saying, how dare you? You support Muslims. We should murder all of them in Iraq. Okay, how did that work out? [00:16:12] I told you, I told you, and I'm telling you right now, this is going to be a disaster. Not just for America, but for Israel. I know the Israelis supporters are blinded and they can't see. No, we can kill all the Muslims we want. There is never any consequences. [00:16:28] Give us more money. Anti-semite. Anti-semite. We fixed it right. Guys, this is a new era of drone warfare. They've taken out Abrams tanks. We got a story on it later. They're taking out Abrams tanks with cheap ass drones in the Russia-Ukraine battle. [00:16:45] Okay, we did the same thing to the Russian tanks. They're going to take out our aircraft carriers, they're going to take out our tanks and we're going to be shell shocked. How could some drones do this? We've been telling you for literally over a decade here on The Young Turks. [00:17:00] These drones are coming and they're going to make the F-35s and all of these things totally obsolete. They're going to launch a thousand drones against these giant sitting ducks we have in the water and in the air. And then when we lose those and all the kids that are on those boats and in those [00:17:18] planes, people are going to go, oh my God, I can't believe it went poorly and they're going to infiltrate Israel. I know Israel looks impenetrable, and that's why they're absolutely, like, overcome with their sense of invincibility. [00:17:33] Goliath is smashing everything in his path because he Goliath thinks he can't lose. And I look, I hope no harm comes to Israel or any of those countries. I'm telling you, my analysis of the situation, just like I did before the Iraq war. [00:17:49] My analysis is Israel is going to get a surprise that they can't that they are not expecting? I don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is. And maybe it doesn't even exist now. But once you get into a giant, messy war where human beings, somebody's going to [00:18:05] figure out how to get past their defense, they did on October 7th, they'll do it again and again and again, and then Israel will be like, oh my God, now we're dying. This is terrible. If we're dying, it's terrible. If you're dying, it's Tuesday. Who gives a damn? America killed them. Killed them. America, give me money, okay? [00:18:21] It's going to be an epic disaster for Israel. And it's going to be an epic disaster for America and for the whole world. Thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. [00:18:37] You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. 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