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that's like our entire staff at the gray zone.

They're definitely not punching above their weight over there.

But anyway, the piece notes that according to sources, I think within the Pentagon, There's this fantasy that if Iran is pulverized over the course of three days, that if the U.S. just pours all the munitions it has left into Iran, carries out lots of assassinations, but also attacks Iranian infrastructure, in other words, state terrorism, that this will change the economic calculus from Iran, where inflation is really hurting the average Iranian citizen due to the US economic blockade, and that Iran will soften its position on its nuclear stockpile and make a deal.

And it should be up today.

We're just finishing up the translation by my colleague Hekmat Abu Khater.

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For three years, a lot of people have tried to dismiss any kind of discussion along these lines as a pro-Hamas conspiracy theory, or even a blood libel against the Jewish state.

Here in the West, the only media outlets that have really covered this very controversial topic have been on the fringes, the likes of Electronic Intifada, The Gray Zone, Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye.

It's really kind of outrageous that mainstream Western media outlets have totally ignored this question, when the truth is that the Israeli media has not.

Watch this clip from February 2025, more than a year and a half ago, of former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who was in charge of Israel's military on October 7th, 2023.

And, uh, we'll bring this up on screen.

Great report which was released recently on The Gray Zone here.

This is by Kit Klarenberg.

British chemical warfare commentators, MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails.

And just to give you a preview of what we're going to be talking about here, private messages show that Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning inc- incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer who handled the Russian intelligence defector Sergei Skripal at the center of the scandal in question, and reaped considerable benefits from his proximity to the case.

In old-fashioned terms, that's called conflict of interest.

I wanna welcome onto the program right now the author of this amazing report, Kit Klarenberg of The Gray Zone's joining us on the live link right now.

Kit, welcome to the program.

He does some of the best reporting on U.S. foreign policy.

I go to him and Dave DeCamp and Max Blumenthal at The Gray Zone and guys like the Dropsite guys to get my news on U.S. foreign policy.

He's a big part of it.

I couldn't recommend it more.

He wasn't even technically an American.

Today, Max Blumenthal at The Gray Zone proved in a piece that this guy, Alexander, who was born in Israel, lived in New Jersey at some point, was back in Israel fighting with the foreign military when he...

The IDF, when he was kidnapped, has, subsequent to his kidnapping, after he was kidnapped, applied for American citizenship back in the United States, and then announced publicly, "I'm moving back to Israel to fight with the IDF again." So of course you wish him well, as you wish every person well.

But if you are an actual American, you have to ask yourself, are we being used here? Maybe a little bit? Here's a guy who's not an American citizen.

And Michael was there, and we had lots of people there, including Judge Napolitano, Glenn Greenwald, Brianna Joy Gray, the Invisible Institute, and Jamie Kelvin.

Who am I missing, Leonard? Who got awards? The Gray Zone.

The Gray Zone, of course.

Max Blumenthal and the Gray Zone.

So it was a great get together and a great way for independent media people to meet one another and just talk.

And it was a tremendous, it was a great time for us, let's say.

They killed the hostages on purpose?

They knowingly killed the hostages, and we reported on that at The Gray Zone.

We were one of the first sites-

It's so evil.

It's hard to get my mind around

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One of the, the, the lone survivor witness to that, um, p- provided testimony in Hebrew in Israeli media, and we then conveyed that testimony to an American audience at The Gray Zone.

So they, they, they dedicated like a paragraph to my reporting on October 7th.

So yeah, we're getting more and more of those leaks coming out.

People like yourself have been talking about something off with October 7th for a while, at least Grayzone News was.

So I'd love to get your thoughts on it all, these reports, but everything we know so far on October 7th and how much the Israeli government might have known, if anything.

By the way, there's one more report, too, about an ignored warning.

So I'll understand why people think that Netanyahu let October 7th happen on purpose.

But personally, my own speculation was that he just didn't fathom that the Palestinians who he has such contempt for could possibly carry this out.

And that's also why on October 7th, and this is the aspect that Grayzone is really focused on.

Max Blumenthal has led the way on this along with the electronic intifada.

There's something else that happened.

My friend Max Blumenthal, who runs an absolutely fantastic investigative reporting website called The Gray Zone, broke a story in the last couple of days that is very, very important.

Max got somebody in a closed-door AIPAC fundraising dinner to leak the audio to him of the dinner.

Now, I wanna play the audio for you.

We give $30 billion a year to Israel in federal tax money, your money, my money, $30 billion, but did you know every single one of the 50 states also sends budget money, your state taxpayer money, to Israel? And now most localities, most cities have a line item where they take your city taxes and send that to Israel too.

Well, when you control all the major politicians, sure, you get to do things like that.

Check out The Gray Zone.

There's another, uh, thing that, you know, we talked about briefly a couple of days ago, but it's sort of taken on kind of a funny life of its own.