3/25/26: Trump Begs For Ceasefire With Iran, Israel Pushes To Conquer Lebanon

20:15They feel like they've been wronged, that they did not start the war, they've been pummeled, and they deserve reparations for this. Whether they actually get that and what form that takes, we'll see. But but I'm just my point here.

20:27Emily Jashinsky:It's strengthened the result. And they are serious. Like they feel we did not do anything to you to deserve this. You did this. You're now losing. Pay us. Let's listen to the commander in chief, Donald Trump in the Oval Office. This was the swearing in for Mark Wayne Mullen at DHS yesterday. He had a couple of interesting moments. A1. Because they're going to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.

21:15And they gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me, we're dealing with the right people. Was that nuclear-related? No, it wasn't nuclear-related. It was oil and gas related. And it was a very nice thing they did. But what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people. So a couple more clips that we're just going to. Well, we got to speculate first about what it was. Will Meneker said it was a large wooden horse. Possible. Great tweet. My sources say that Trump got an email from somebody who said that they were the Ayatollah's nephew. And that he had access to trillions of dollars in reserves.

21:51but he needed just a few thousand dollars to in bitcoin to unlock those reserves and they're going back and forth right now trump accidentally is now apparently locked out of his devices so they're trying to figure out because once they can get those trillion dollars in reserves it's going to be smooth sailing it's going to give checks to every american it's

22:11Emily Jashinsky:going to be incredible did you see the moment in bill clinton's epstein deposition where he was asked about sending emails? No. Oh, I'm going to send it to you. It's amazing. He boomer maxes. I think that's probably where Trump is on emailing too. You got to text it to him and probably like really big font. But he continued. He continued. We learned about his plans for an electric plant, A2. You know, if you read the papers, you think we're tied. You think we're in a tough battle. We are roaming free over Tehran, the city, Tehran, as opposed to Iran. We're roaming free. We can do whatever we want.

22:50And as you know, today, we were going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant, one of the biggest in the world. And one shot to the right location ends the plant that collapses. And we held off based on the fact that we're negotiating.

23:08Emily Jashinsky:So much to unpack. Tehran, not Iran. I like sometimes how he gives insight into how his brain works. You see Tehran, you think Iran, but no, it's the city, Tehran. Love to be there the first time he learned that the capital of Iran was Tehran. Yes. Blew his mind. It's clever. Now, also. And then there's Esfahan. One of his criticisms of Barack Obama and many people on the rights is they were often telegraphing plans, military plans. here Trump freelancing at a DHS swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office says today we're going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant ostensibly before it happened Ryan yeah except he didn't end up doing that because Iran threatened to escalate if he did that and they bat and he backed down so is it a taco or is it him negotiate like actual question because I think this is one thing that people get wrong about Trump is that it's sometimes called a taco and it's like i see where you think it's called a taco and he takes a lot of l's on these things rightfully so other times he's clearly just negotiating in public and wants to set the parameters in a certain direction taco in this case implies that he was going to do something and then he chickened out right i'm not convinced that's true i think it was market manipulation beginning to end that the the front end threat was market manipulation and the back end um fake chickening out was more market manipulation.

24:37And if anybody's watching, by the way, there is a lot to subpoena in 2027. When Democrats are probably going to take the House, they should have subpoena power. So we need to write down all the things we want to know, because we're going to forget, because there's so many things. So we need like 2027subpoenas.org or something like that. And put on the list, who are these investors? These, these Nostradamus like traders. I'd love to know. Who went in and bought, made the perfect oil trade right before, you know, he came out with his, were actually in fake negotiations with Iran. And who, who bought all of these S &P futures?

25:23like because there's there are a couple of traders that are making these massive trades that are perfectly timed with Trump's fake moves.

25:35Emily Jashinsky:The Monday was. So we need to put it on the subpoena list for 2027. Absolutely put it on the subpoena list for 2027. Speaking of our negotiations, here's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, A3. The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us was one for the history books, truly. And it's because we have of a president of the United States that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well.

26:07We negotiate with bombs. You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, about your future. The president has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. The War Department agrees our job is to ensure that. And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard as is necessary to ensure the interest of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.

26:31Emily Jashinsky:We negotiate with bombs as we are also negotiating, apparently, peace plan point by point by point. And if you have a second and you're like a juvenile, like roll back and watch Trump's eyebrow raise. Yeah, that's pretty good. Also, if you are the guy that started the war killing 165 plus little girls, would you really keep celebrating how Trump untied your hands? Like, he keeps talking about how there were all of these stupid political rules of engagement that kept the U.S. from waging war the way that Pete Hegza thinks that we should wage war. And the first chance he gets to put those rules into place, he double taps in elementary school.

27:16Emily Jashinsky:um well i mean he would probably say successful venezuela operation civilian harm mitigated all right the first time he has a the first time he has a war against an actual war a middle eastern country yeah he that was a raid that who knows um you know what what happened politically behind that yeah truly we don't know yeah so yes he did not double tap an elementary school in venezuela I will give him that. There it is. Yes. A very high bar for our War Department. Here's Donald Trump talking about, maybe the right word for this is cavalierly, talking about a launch of missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier.

27:56Emily Jashinsky:Next thought. With our great Patriot missiles, think of it. They shot 100 missiles at one of our aircraft carriers, the Abraham Lincoln, one of the biggest ships in the world, actually. And out of 101 missiles shot, every single one of them was knocked down in the sea. Think of that. Think of what that means. 101 missiles, highly sophisticated, very fast missiles shot. Out of 101, all 101 were shot down. And now, for the most part, lie at the bottom of the sea. It's pretty amazing, right? Pretty amazing. Our military is amazing, Pete. You know the attack I'm talking about recently? 101 shot. I said, wow.

28:41I saw that. You can see we have sort of pretty good equipment that we see. It's called the red line. Those red lines were thick, right? I said, that's a lot. And then we saw them one by one just get shot. And these guys that do the shooting, the coolest cucumbers ever. You know, most people. You don't have a lot of time when a missile is going at 2 ,500 miles an hour.

29:02Emily Jashinsky:He also just did the Shane Gillis bit there, Ryan, where Gillis' Trump impersonation, he explains it by saying, I walked into a room, I said, wow, what a beautiful room. He literally just did that in the middle of a conversation about war. Yeah, and this is the kind of information that the Department of War keeps under a very tight lid. they do not let the public in on the amount of volleys sent at the Lincoln carrier group. The fact that they had to expand, and they're not Patriot missiles, they have other missile defenses on ships, but whatever. I get details wrong too, me and Trump, it's fine.

29:45But for him to reveal that is very interesting, because we did not know that. And now people are speculating, oh, that might explain why we're seeing the Lincoln carrier group kind of shading further and further away from Iran, which makes it more difficult for us to project power back. And so if, okay, great, good, good. I'm glad for the sailors that they shot down the 101 missiles, but it shows how vulnerable the carrier group is. Yeah.

30:14Emily Jashinsky:How scary the situation is. Yeah, and in a way that the U.S. is not used to. Like the U.S. and Israel are used to just flying over Gaza, dropping whatever bombs they want, and then just landing. No stress at all. Nobody's shooting back at them. We're now getting shot at. And we are kind of retreating in significant ways. The Ford carrier group, they're like cooked. They're done. And this, like, supposed somebody didn't clean the lint drawer and there was a big fire in the dryer area. And now that whole carrier group is out of commission. For a trillion dollars a year, we can't keep our carrier groups close to Iran even.

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34:06Emily Jashinsky:Meanwhile, let's put up the next element. This is A5. CENTCOM told Stars and Stripes yesterday that a total of 290 service members have been wounded so far in Operation Epic Fury. The majority of those, 255, have returned to duty. The number of seriously injured remains 10. We also then should go to the next element from Barack Ravid, who reported yesterday, Yesterday, a senior U.S. official tells me the 82nd Airborne Division headquarters has received an order from the Pentagon to deploy to the Middle East, along with several infantry brigades of thousands of soldiers. Rafeet says why it matters.

34:45Emily Jashinsky:This is a significant additional reinforcement to the U.S. force structure in the region ahead of a possible ground operation in Iran. Ryan, when you look at the news, this is the escalation spiral in action that you go back 10 years from now, 10 months from now, and do an autopsy. We'll see the military analysts go back 10 months from now and autopsy what just transpired or what's transpiring at the moment. And they'll say, these are the precipitating factors of escalation. We're watching it happen. Yeah, and I can confirm that. we heard the same yesterday that the 82nd Airborne is being dispatched from Fort Bragg.

35:28There are, I'm sure, all sorts of plans being drawn up for Delta Force and these special operations types. The Karg Island, which is this island that Trump keeps getting pushed to seize and plays a very crucial role in Iran's oil production and shipping, is constantly kind of on the target list. And there was this incredible, I think it was a paragraph in the Washington Post that said, you know, Defense Department officials are, you know, game planning out what it would take and they believe that they could seize Carg Island. Probably true. We have like the most impressive like Special Ops and Delta Force guys and they're all hopped up on, as Seth Harbis written, the best drugs that they can ship into our country.

36:18so they could take it. But then they had a line that said for as long as they were there, they would have to fend off a relentless volley of drones and missiles. It's like, yeah, yes.

36:31Emily Jashinsky:Like in perpetuity. That's right. So you're going to put a whole bunch of guys on an island right next to Iran, which is part of Iran, and what are they going to do about the missiles and drones raining down on them? How are you going to fend those off? You can be the baddest special operator on the planet. You can't just get rained on by drones and missiles in perpetuity. You need to get resupplied constantly. Like that's, again, it's escalation spiral. You have to not get blown up, which is hard when you're getting missiles rained on you constantly. So it's just not, it's not a thing that you can do unless, unless you completely like just vaporize Iran.

37:17Like as long as Iran exists and can fire off drones.

37:19Emily Jashinsky:Yeah, right. Then those troops can't hold Karg Island. Yeah. A couple of polls to get to here. This one is actually, people started picking up on it. How does the public feel about this? Well, people started picking up on this one yesterday. It was actually a YouGov poll that was done in mid-February. We can put the next element up on the screen. This was just looking at a real news article pulled out by Adam Johnson, who said a new YouGov poll shows 25 % of Americans falsely believe Iran possesses nuclear weapons and 45 % believe they'll also false claim Iran has an active nuclear weapons program.

37:51Emily Jashinsky:And I went back and followed the poll. It was taken in mid-February. I'm sure you would get very, very similar results if you conducted it today. Meanwhile, though, even with that, so just keep that in your brain. Let's go to the next poll, A8. This is genuinely a new poll. CBS News, taken March 17th through 20th, 92 % of Americans want to end the conflict as quickly as possible. 80 % say they want to make sure Iran's people are safe and free. 73 % say permanently stop Iran's nuclear programs. 68 % say stop Iran from threatening other countries. Predictable results, but 92 % saying end the conflict as quickly as possible, Ryan.

38:34Yeah, I remember in our poll, there were some interesting kind of contradictory thoughts. People desperately wanted the war to end, so I find that to be a very credible number. People also, in our poll, we asked about the ballistic missile program. They overwhelmingly, American people, do not want Iran to have a ballistic missile program. I'd like to try to square some of that for people. Like, okay, well, what are you willing to do? Like, how much war are you willing to engage in? do you want to engage in to make sure? Like just as a, should this country that we believe is scary have a ballistic missile program?

39:15I can imagine, of course, like most Americans be like, no, why would we want a dangerous country to have dangerous weapons? But then it's like, well, okay, the only way we're gonna stop them from that is forever war.

39:26Emily Jashinsky:So I wanna stop on this point just briefly because it's been driving me insane. We remember when Diego Garcia was hit or they fired at Diego Garcia several days ago, there were people all over x uh from the right taking dubs being like you're telling me iran doesn't pose a quote imminent threat look at what they just did their missile range is double what we thought it was if you go and look at the countries that have full ice we're not even talking about nuclear weapons if you look at just icbms how many countries can cover the entire globe with their missiles do we think that we should be going to war with north korea because if you're using your justification that this is an anti-American death cult and it needs to be taken care of because they have a ballistic missiles program that can hit much of Europe, and it's true, they do, that's absolutely accurate, North Korea's is bigger.

40:21Emily Jashinsky:North Korea's range is bigger than Iran's. So if that is your justification, now I'm not saying it's everybody's only justification. But the glibness that was being projected after the Diego Garcia incident was mind boggling because it's a justification to go to war with other countries, but particularly with North Korea. And if you want to put that idea in Donald Trump's head and have America first Donald Trump, then after he finds some type of peace, he's already said that we won the war, go on and say, we're going to win a war with North Korea. Enjoy that. Yeah. Now they've got nuclear tips on those ICBMs, which also plays into how we're like, you know what, we're going to go pick on Cuba, I think, actually.

41:08Cuba's the problem.

41:09Emily Jashinsky:Yeah. Total extermination. That's the name of the operation. We'll get to that in just a moment. Right. Pakistan getting increasingly involved in this particular conflict. Go ahead, throw the next element up on screen. This is Pakistan's prime minister saying this just yesterday. Pakistan welcomes and fully supports ongoing efforts to pursue dialogue to end the war in the Middle East. In the interest of peace and stability in the region beyond subject to concurrence by the U.S. and Iran, Pakistan stands ready and honored to be the host to facilitate meaningful and conclusive talks for comprehensive settlement of the ongoing conflict.

41:41Emily Jashinsky:We roughly already knew that, Ryan. But can you maybe since you've covered Pakistan pretty closely in the last several years, explain to us the significance? According to our reporting, Whitcoff has been there in Islamabad for two days. They weren't returning his text messages. So he's like, maybe if I go to Islamabad, they'll just meet me at the bar. um uh and they haven't yet um and so pakistan is trying to become the you know the new oman here i the iranians are quite skeptical of moving the d moving the uh brokering from oman over to pakistan pakistani generals are and the pakistani military in general are are known like internationally as in a world of untrustworthy people, like the least trustworthy people.

42:36So if you were trying to pick a trusted intermediary to negotiate these talks with an adversary who is already not trustworthy because they have gone to war with you twice in the middle of negotiations, Pakistan doesn't raise your confidence level that this is on the up and up. So we'll see if Iran is like, whatever, fine. Whitcoff's already there. It's beautiful this time of year. Pakistan apparently is almost out of LNG. And I think the Arab Spring and other, there was this wave of protests in the early 2010s around the world, A significant and misunderstood or under-understood role in those protests was the spiking of energy and commodity costs that flew out of the great financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.

43:33And it made bread and fuel very expensive for people around the world, and they went out to the streets. I think we're going to see a lot of that in the next couple of years. and and pakistan is a place you could very easily see it like this place that's like always just kind of on on the brink yeah getting pushed getting pushed over it um so anyway uh yeah so we'll see if maybe maybe they'll allow pakistan to be the place let's

44:02Emily Jashinsky:talk about iraq um this is drop site reporting yesterday bag that clears pmf so the popular mobilization forces to defend themselves after a deadly strike on militia headquarters This decision, you all wrote, follows airstrikes on a PMF command headquarters. Let's put up A-15 for the context. Sorry to jump around in showrooms. In Anbar province. So, yeah. So A-15. Yeah. So this was yesterday or today. This is Monday. Airstrikes in Iraq on Iran-backed paramilitary alliance kill at least 15 fighters. So this is, the U.S. is basically at open war with these Iranian allied Iraqi militias. But these militias are not just freelance militias.

44:47They are a part of the security service, the actual government security service. We can go back to A-10, as Emily was saying, Iraq's National Security Councils, as Emily said, they're now authorizing these militias to strike U.S. forces. So that's state sanctioning of Iraqi aggression. Not aggression. They would call it defense because 15 of them were just killed. It was always disproportionate. when you look at the numbers of people killed and wounded on the other side versus us. But yeah, so the green zone is completely evacuated. We need Iraqi airspace. We invaded Iraq and spent trillions of dollars to like control it.

45:42I didn't even think I knew this. Maz was telling me all of the oil proceeds from Iraq live in the New York Federal Reserve. And we just send them pallets of cash. Basically, if we approve their budget, like total colonial structure there. Yet, despite that, they're shooting at us.

46:02Emily Jashinsky:Yeah, despite all of the American troops that died over the years, they're shooting at us. And now, speaking of which, Task and Purpose A11 is reporting that the Army's enlistment age has been raised to 42. They also eased marijuana restrictions. That's huge. How are you going to find somebody that's going to pass that test? Yeah. Now, I will say people are just like, does it sound like Ukraine a little bit? I will say the age limit for recruits being bumped from 35 to 42 in 2026, that actually might be long overdue, just given how much healthier people are able to stay into their 40s. I don't know if it's related to a recruitment crisis because of this ongoing war.

46:51Emily Jashinsky:It may well be. We'll learn more about it. But it also like people are staying much more healthy into their their 40s. Thanks. So all kinds of different things. Manosphere, keeping people fit. That's service. It's yep, that's right. It's all it's all the bros. Let's do it. Let's jump to A13 real quick, because that relates to this Iraq conflict. The Iraq U.S. conflict. It's a VO. So you can just roll a 13. This is an FPV, first-person view drone, that is attacking Camp Victory, which is the U.S. base right off of the Baghdad airport. And what's unique about this one is that it identifies this extremely expensive radar, attacks it, destroys it, and then keeps going.

47:41so it hits that or I guess gets footage of I guess there's two of them and one of them gets footage and then they go, they're like alright what else should we blow up while we're here this is a mostly evacuated base and so there they find a helicopter and boom there goes like an extremely expensive helicopter notice that they blurred that out Apparently what they blurt out is, I guess maybe they realized in post-production they had blown up a medical evac helicopter, which is less cool for them. They're still happy to destroy any military hardware that we have, but I think they would prefer to get one of those helicopter gunships.

48:30And then probably somebody, as they're editing the video, they're like, oh, shoot, I think this is an evac, medical evac helicopter. But either way, point is, the Iraqis are just making mincemeat of our hardware that we've left behind. Because there was a ceasefire that was agreed to with the militias so that we could evacuate these bases of personnel. And then right at, I don't even know if we announced that we were ending the ceasefire. That's when we bombed these officials in Anbar province. Classic U.S., this like, oh, ceasefire? Did we say ceasefire? We meant you cease fire at us so that we can leave the base and then we kill you.

49:12And so that's that I think duplicity contributed to the broader Iraqi government saying, you know what? Go ahead. You want to you want to hit these these creeps, hit them.

49:24Emily Jashinsky:Let's let's wrap on this news. This is going to be A14. Senior House Democrats telling Axios that the Iran war powers resolution is set to pass, quote, most if not all of the four defectors are expected to flip and vote for the measure this time because they were, quote, subject to intense criticism from the party's grassroots. What do you make of that? So I think that means that breaking points, viewers have basically bullied these Democrats who are pro-war into supporting this war powers resolution. And the way you know that it very likely has the votes to pass in the House is that Jeffries and Gregory Meeks are now saying that they want to postpone it.

50:10And as I've been reporting from the very beginning, Democrats secretly like this war because they think it hurts Trump and they think it, you know, that helps their ideological project of helping Israel and degrading Iran. Like a lot of Democrats support that ideological and imperial project, and all Democrats want Trump hurt. This is obviously hurting Trump. And so now that the House is on the precipice of a historic war powers resolution vote that looks like it would now pass on the floor and put real restrictions on Trump, now what the Senate does and whether Trump abides by it is a different question, but having the House go on record against the war would be a consequential act.

50:57So now that we're on the cusp of that happening, Meeks and Jeffries are like, you know what, maybe we'll pause this and come back in like mid-April and put it on the floor in like three weeks because there's a recess coming up. So Meeks has basically today and tomorrow to man up and put this thing on the floor. Otherwise, you have no choice but to believe what I've been telling you that Democrats secretly want this war to continue. And what does that mean? That means not only are they fine with the Iranian, Iraqi, Kurdish, like all Israeli, all the people who are dying as a result of it, all of the pain that you're suffering and will suffer economically as a result of it now, in the weeks ahead, months ahead, and years ahead.

51:54Democrats are okay with that because they might pick up an extra couple seats in the midterms what are they going to do with those seats nothing like vote to go to war yeah they're already taking the house probably

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55:24Emily Jashinsky:And let's move on to Lebanon, Ryan, because new developments we can start rolling B1. This is footage from Tyre. And man, we're looking at civilian neighborhoods here. If you're listening to this, you're just seeing smoke rise from what does clearly appear to be a 5 ,000 year old city. Yeah, it does clearly appear to be a civilian neighborhood right in the middle of what just looks like houses and office buildings and the like. Well, what we learned yesterday, B2, is that Israel's defense minister said the military will occupy southern Lebanon up to the Latani River, marking the first clear statement of intent to seize the territory Reuters reported.

56:07Emily Jashinsky:Ryan, what does that mean? What are we looking at here as the Iran operation continues, Lebanon being in the shadow of that? I suppose Israel feels as though the time is ripe to move in. Well, quote unquote, greater Israel has always included at a bare minimum, all of this Lebanese land up to the Latani River. And for many, you know, much beyond that as well. It is, you know, it's just preposterous. Like it's 2026. like the world has kind of moved we thought beyond this kind of thing where you just you know take what you can um we we're constantly told israel has a right to exist don't you believe israel has a right to exist does lebaton have a right to exist does it like syria have a right to exist like it was it's not just that israel like every other country has a right to exist israel unique among all other countries has a right to exist.

57:13And the rest of your existence is negotiable based on Israeli impulses. Now, the problem, we put up B3 here, the problem for Israel is that people don't want them there. The Lebanese are still resisting them. So there's this quote that was circulating, how can we as Christians in this area not be with Hezbollah?

57:36Emily Jashinsky:Yeah, this was from The Telegraph had this. The Telegraph had an article that was actually titled, Christians and Hezbollah unite against, quote, Epstein Empire. And southern Lebanon is mostly Shia territory, right, Ryan? Epstein Empire. That's even better than Epstein class. Well, they're taking straight from Iran, the Epstein Empire, Epstein class, Epstein propaganda. Although this one is sort of a gimme. Yeah. Sort of a gimme as far as propaganda goes. but Christians and I mean well actually I'm sure it's true of a lot of Muslims in Lebanon as well there's previously this tension or not previously but kind of always the simmering tension where even if you're Shia you're Lebanese Christian you have a little like there's friction with Hezbollah among a lot of Lebanese who say you're being controlled by Iran you're a puppet of Iran well Well, guess what happens when these attacks start ratcheting up?

58:35Emily Jashinsky:You once again risk driving people closer to Hezbollah. And I guess as an effect of that, closer to Iran, to the extent that Hezbollah and Iran are connected. Yeah. And so far, the Israelis have found southern Israel a little bit more difficult to take. I'm sorry, southern Lebanon, northern Israel, as they would like to see it. A little more difficult to take than they thought. You know, they thought that they had completely annihilated Hezbollah. It's one more blow to their strategic approach that suggests that they're just one round of bombing and one round of assassinations away from, you know, a paradise of peace in which they are able to just seize other countries' territory and just keep it indefinitely.

59:26um turns out people are pretty uh pretty attached to their to the land that they've been living on for many thousands of years and so that that's going to be a that's gonna be a problem for them um because they have so far not been able to dislodge Hezbollah and Ryan there's this

59:47Emily Jashinsky:Haratz report that we want to talk about as well before the starvation case so the headline from Mahara says, Palestinian minor who died in Israeli prison was, quote, likely starved, but the case was closed. This just happened yesterday. Yeah. And I want to highlight this because Jasper Nathaniel had, had written about this boy who was in prison, in, in detention, not charged with anything. And his roommate was the American child who Jasper had been reporting on relentlessly to get him, to get him and eventually got him released. He was accused of throwing stones, if you remember that, that kid's case.

1:00:26Um, and that kid is, that kid is now free, but he told Jasper the story of, of his roommate who was, uh, in horrific condition and died in prison without ever being charged or any explanation of why he was even in prison. and now this judge has said that that likely is what happened. And reading what happened to this boy in prison, I think we shouldn't let his life pass without recognition of it. So Mohammed Ibrahim, he was the 16-year-old American that was with him. We can put this next element up on the screen. This is 17-year-old Waleed Ahmad. who was his kind of cellmate. And so he writes here, one of his cellmates, 17-year-old Waleed Ahmad, whom he quickly grew close to, was visibly sicker and weaker than the others when Muhammad arrived.

1:01:26Skin and bones, Muhammad told me. He had severe diarrhea, couldn't keep food down, and shivered constantly. His skin was covered in scabies, which was ripping through the prison, leaving all the boys infested and scratching themselves raw. The boys worried about Waleed, begged the guards to let him see a doctor. They refused. On March 22nd, 12 days after Muhammad arrived at the prison, Waleed collapsed during their daily trip outside the cell, falling face first and splitting open the bridge of his nose. A pool of blood formed around him. The boys rushed to help and were pepper sprayed. Boys went to help this boy who'd fallen on his face and were pepper sprayed, which means Waleed, with whatever consciousness he still had left, was also pepper sprayed.

1:02:09he goes on, a pool of blood formed around him. Sorry. Muhammad said Waleed remained conscious for about two minutes, looking around, scared, before losing consciousness again. A guard then arrived and dragged Waleed's motionless body across the floor by his hair. So they saw a 17-year-old child smash his face on the pavement due to malnutrition that they were forcing on him, pepper sprayed him and then dragged him away by his hair. And then, so Jasper goes on, if we can put the next one up. Four days later, the boys learned that Waleed, who was never charged with a crime, was dead. Back home, this is in the U.S., Muhammad's family heard that a teenage boy had died in Megiddo and spent an entire unbearable day trying to determine whether it was him.

1:03:08Instead, they learned it was a boy from a neighboring town. An Israeli surgeon who observed Waleed's autopsy reported that the 17-year-old showed signs of prolonged starvation, extreme weight loss, and muscle wasting, along with untreated colitis and scabies. A prison medical report also revealed that he had complained to the prison about inadequate food since at least December. his body has still not been returned to his family. That's from Jasper Nathaniel's substack a while ago. The news now in Haaretz is that a judge is basically confirming all of this, that this is all accurate. And according to Haaretz, Israel is still keeping the body.

1:03:51Remember that Israel kept bombing Gaza and had refused to move to the next phase of the ceasefire because there was one remain of an IDF soldier that they had not been able to find and that Hamas said they weren't looking for. Because Hamas was like, we think he's over there. You control that area. They went weeks without even looking for it because they didn't want that body back because they wanted to continue the attacks. But the point is the priority that they placed on getting those remains back. Setting aside all of the depravity from beginning to end here. They still won't even give his body back.

1:04:31Emily Jashinsky:And the case was closed. And the judge says, we don't have enough evidence here. It likely looks like he was starved to death, but the autopsy is not definitive enough, so we're going to close the case. I mean, we covered, what was it just last week? The rape case. Right, they dropped the rape charges. They said there also wasn't enough evidence. There was CCTV footage that was, you know, you watch that, you pretty much know what's going on there. And a medical examination. Yeah. And before we depart at this segment, I did want to put up B5. I did want to just pay our respects to Hassam Shabbat, our drop site colleague who one year ago yesterday was assassinated by the Israelis.

1:05:24I remember we were actually on the show together around the time he was killed. And when I left the studio getting the news that he'd been killed, they targeted him. They put his picture up. They said they were going to kill him. They hunted him. They flew a drone over top of him, dropped an explosive device on him, split his body apart.

1:05:50Emily Jashinsky:23 years old. Yeah. He had his whole life ahead of him. Extremely talented journalist. We collected his stories onto one page that you can go check over at DropSite. So I didn't want that. I didn't want his anniversary of his assassination to go without remarking on that.

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