Israelis

And why do I say that? Well, I was elected on the Green Party's 2024 manifesto, which made clear how we are calling out the genocide in Gaza and want our government to be much stronger on that.

But it also made clear that we support equal rights for both Palestinians and Israelis.

And Greens have always supported self-determination for all people.

So as Zach himself has said, it should not be for people in the UK, whether it's in the Green Party or elsewhere, to be dictating what the solution looks like for people in Israel and Palestine.

A familiar melody can bring back a person, a place, or a version of ourselves that we thought we had left behind.

For Israelis living in Los Angeles, hearing the music of home carries an emotional significance that goes well beyond the songs themselves.

It reconnects them with the country they came from, the people they miss, the language they grew up speaking, and the countless ordinary moments that made Israel home.

And for Jews who have never lived in Israel, Israeli music can create a different kind of connection.

Those matters are important, of course, but they are not the sum total of Israeli life.

Israel is also the family gathering for Shabbat dinner, the children playing soccer after school, the young couple getting married, the crowded cafe on a Friday morning, and the popular song playing from a car with its windows rolled down.

Israelis do not wake up every morning thinking about the international debates surrounding their country.

Like everyone else, they have jobs to get to, children to raise, relationships to navigate, bills to pay, dreams to pursue, and weekends to enjoy.

Do you think Jeffrey Epstein was a spy? I believe very strongly he was a spy, yes.

And who do you think he was working for? The Israelis.

I'm confident it was the Israelis.

Why? Jeffrey Epstein...

is kind of the stereotypical example that they give you in training for what's called an access agent.

As a proxy for a protected attribute.

Can be

used as a proxy for Jews and Israelis.

And this story will even wave a quote at you from an old newspaper piece about how the Obama administration was scrambling to reach Houthi leaders and reassure them that the United States did not consider them an enemy.

Now, if that's true, doesn't that change everything? It would mean that, oh, we've been lying to the Saudis, to the Emiratis, to the Kuwaitis, to, for that matter, to the Israelis.

So I wanted to check it out because part of that is true, but the true part is really very, very small.

And the way it's been blown up is a lie.

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the Houthis, and what they really mean for our relationships in the Middle East and how stories get spread out over the Internet that have a tiny little grain of truth in it, but are mostly just lies trying to hide up that little grain of truth.

So we cut a deal to pull our own ships out of the line of the fire of the Houthis and then left the Israelis, and for that matter, all the other allies in the region, to fight on their own.

So that is not friendship with the Houthis.

Let's not concede their premises.

This is not about giving money or preferring the Israelis and the Israeli politicians over the interests of Americans.

This is not about that.

This is about national self-interest, mutual, you know, they've been long-time allies.

There's every reason to suspect, right? They're going to hit back as hard as they can to drive home that point that, oh, man, nah, did you think that we're going to sit here and be a punching bag on the regular for you and your, like, political stunts and this kind of thing? No, you know? I mean, and I just took this down because it was up there sitting there and we weren't talking about it, but they're sending more Patriots.

From the United States, where they're supposedly here to protect the United States, although I don't know against who's going to hit America with missiles that can't overwhelm our patriots anyway, but they're sending them off to the Israelis.

Yeah, which, man, like the Gulf states must just, they love that, I'm sure.

Goodness gracious.

I had one here, Daryl, about, I think I closed this, man.

I'm sorry.

I had one about the Israelis asking Trump to restart the attacks before their elections here, and he told them no.

I don't have it anymore.

And, you know, it's interesting because

you don't see Israelis or Jews protesting against Muslim countries.

We don't.

It's...

On October 7th.

Yeah.

The news came out that 1,400 Israelis were killed.

That's the first number.

So there was a lot of things that were in the air and a lot of things that could affect the elections.

And just two days ago, on October 27th, Israelis went to vote.

And it's a celebration day because it's a vacation day.

So we voted in the morning, my wife and I, and I voted to the Likud party, Netanyahu headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.

I mean, they're very much a part of the life of Israel, no question about it.

And so when Israel gets tagged with being an apartheid state, you know, the world paints Israel into a basically a lie.

It presents a total lie about Israel because here we are talking about the Israelis.

We're not talking about the Jews.

Donald Trump just wants escalation at this point.

It's what the Israelis want, as Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to put together his coalition government again.

It's certainly what he wants, and we know the influence the Israelis have on Trump.

And it also scares me, this clip from Senator Murphy, as Donald Trump is posting like this.

So Donald Trump makes this insane post, welcome to Greenland, and it's a U.S. aircraft carrier, which I guess suggests, or kind of an aircraft carrier, kind of a military base, which suggests that, I don't know, Donald Trump wants greater military control of Greenland, although we already do have a military base there.