E521 Bassem Youssef

27:06But that's more than that. Zionist is... Are Zionists Jewish or are they... No, not necessarily, because you can be Zionist and still Christian, or a Zionist or an atheist. Because many of the pros, that's why I don't say Jews, I don't say, I say pro-Zionist or pro-Israel. Because many of the people in Congress are Christians, and they just believe in Zionism. And Zionism here, as we believe it from an Arab perspective, it is a colonial, settling idea of ideology that is based on cleansing the whole group of people out of their land and you coming into, if you wanna have like a national state, that's fine.

27:48But you understand they are building it on the state of other people. You're coming in and you're doing it. And just to give you a very, very small snippet of the magnitude of what happened, 1948, 15th of May, the day that Israel declared independence. On that day, overnight, 750 ,000 Palestinians, three quarters of a million were displaced overnight. Overnight, displaced from their village, displaced from their homes, displaced from their cities. They were killing, raping, they were burning, all kinds of things. And you have documentaries where Israeli soldiers, they talk, braggingly talk about like the atrocities that they did and the rape and the women that they raped and all of that happened.

28:31And was that? Yeah, so this is a perfect example. You see, this is 1946 Palestine. This is all Palestine with a little Jewish spots here and there. And this is the UN partition. Suddenly the UN gave all of that white space to Israel. So the Palestinians are like, wait a minute, that doesn't work. But how were they lobbying the UN? Is the UN the group that was doing it? No, but you have to understand, UN has no power. Okay, got it. Who has the power? America and England. You understand that you are now, or security, America runs the world. So America is the superpower, especially after the second world war, they are the strongest country.

29:15They are the strongest country. They just like bomb, like drop two nuclear weapons, or bombs. So they had women playing baseball at that time. And you have even Henry Truman's like, we tried, but like we're trying to do it, but it's difficult. So this is, you see how it went from here to here in less than 50 years? how now the Palestinian state, quote unquote state, have become just like islands and islands and islands. So you had 1.2 million. Now you see this little green thing? You have more than 5 million Palestinians living there crushed into these little things. Gaza, which is the little strip on the side, it has 2.2 million people.

29:55And those 2.2 million people were not born in Gaza. More than three quarters of them came from outside, but they were pushing and pushing and pushing. So we understand this is the state now. So the basis of all of this is occupation. I see. That's why when they tell you that Israel has the right to defend itself, and people say that an occupying force has no right to defend itself against the people that they occupy. Wait, say that again to me, Boston. So if you are an occupying force, you have no right to defend yourself. Because you cannot, it's like, does the Nazi Germany has a right to defend itself against the French resistance?

30:29You can't. You went into their country with might and with force and with military. You occupy them. You get them. And this is why, and I'm going to tell you, how come if you did October 7th, you should expect that, well, before October 7th, it's been going on and on and on. Every single day, a Palestinian will wake up in the morning and an Israeli soldier or Israeli settler can go into their house, burn their house, take their house, kill them, take them as hostages, put them in prison, say that they are terrorists. A lot of people talk about the Israeli hostages. You understand, before October 7th, there are 5 ,000 Palestinian hostages in prisons.

31:10One of every five Palestinian has been put in jail. You understand? So put that in perspective. America has 330 million people. Yeah. So imagine - Some people are missing. How many people are missing? 300. So imagine, imagine out of those, about 65 million Americans is in jail right now. This is the reality of Palestinians. So at a certain point, if I'm talking to people who are listening to us now, you have a farm, you have a land, you have your cows, your herds, your family. Imagine for 75 years, your house has no privacy. Your family has no sanctity You can't go to sleep knowing that you're going to wake up And your house will be yours in the morning You go in, people take them, being pushed out They take their land At a certain point you have to break You have to snap So you're saying that what happened on October 7th Is just a build up of a long series of things That's just a pinpoint And it's not new I know a lot of people say I'll give an example, 2014, exactly 10 years ago In Gaza, 2 ,200 Palestinians were killed Dead, 500 children killed There was no October 7th.

32:22You understand? There was no October 7th. But they go in because it, and I gave this example to Chris Cuomo once. It's like, Israel is like, Palestine, Gaza and West Bank is like a small fishbowl. And you have the power to go into this fishbowl and you just like, like kick the shit out of those fish anytime you want. At a certain point, one fish will be crazy enough, suicide enough to jump from the fishbowl and bite your pinky. That's October 7th. So you're going, I'm gonna destroy, it's already destroyed. Yeah, you're creating piranhas. You understand that in just eight months, Israel have bombed Gaza more than America has bombed Iraq for eight years.

33:05Wow. In eight months. You don't do that. You don't do that. And of course they tell you, oh, it's collateral damage, which crazy, right? It's like, oh, those people that died, this collateral damage. We really wanted to take that terrorist, but the school got in the way. I mean, the geography is very hostile. Every time we kill Hamas, they just like schools and babies come out of nowhere. I shouldn't be laughing at this. I know. I mean, it's dark because sometimes I feel that Israel has some sort of a program called No Civilian Left Behind. You know, it's like, it doesn't matter if you're a little kid playing soccer or a Hamas terrorist, you get a piece of the action.

33:45It's like, you understand? It's like favored nations. Because I, as an Arab, I have no power. I'm not powerful as the United States. I'm not powerful as Israel. So all I have to do is just like laugh at this. Right. Because that doesn't work. So back to 1948, they displaced 75 ,000 people, and they continue to occupy the land every single day. So you said that in 1948, what was that movement called? And that was just like in one day it kind of happened? Yeah, that is the establishment of the state of Israel, 1948, 15th of May, 1948. Okay, and so when Israel established itself, is Israel able to establish itself by itself or did they have to have like support from Britain and America?

34:25Well, Israel didn't establish itself over one day. I mean, they've been doing it there, but like having like pushing people into it from other countries. And actually they had a lot of support from England and from America. And I find it very interesting how that Israelis make, made Americans think that terrorism is something that has been invented by Arabs or Muslims. Because if you talk to anybody, terrorism, oh, Arabs, Muslim. You know that the first terrorist attack ever in the Middle East was carried out by Israel. 1946 in July, Israel bombed King David Hotel, killing 91 British soldiers.

35:0691. and it was led by a stern gang, which is Itzhak Shamir, who later became the prime minister of Israel. So they have been killing people. They have been terrorizing people all through, and then they call Palestinian terrorists. And when that, so when that one day comes the establishment of Israel as a country, is it like a certain, at that day, is there just like a mass where everybody has to move out of this space and this is ours and this is yours? They basically moved them into, if you go get back the map, they moved them into the West Bank and in Gaza. And then in that map that we've been, yeah.

35:40And you see the third one? Yeah. So now all of the Palestinians are into this. 1967, we go to war with Israel. Egypt goes to war, get its ass kicked because we had Nasser messing up big time. And 1967, Egypt went to war? Yeah, with Palestine. And then Israel. With who? With Palestine? With Israel. With Israel. And then after that, Israel could actually completely control the West Bank and in Gaza. I see. So now this is under, So what you could see in all of these green marks is an occupation. And let me say it again, it's an occupation. It's a military force that is occupying people and it is an occupation because of a land that has been disintegrated from this to this.

36:22So you're saying that it wasn't, the occupation, it was by force. It was never by like agreement. Yeah, how can you agree to? Is there a lease? Like what does the lease say? The what? The lease. The lease? There's no lease when you occupy. What did the lease say in France when Nazi came in and took over your land? You have nothing to say. You have people coming in with it. Most Jewish people I know are landlords, you know? So it's like, I can't imagine they would do this without a lease. Well, if you have an army next to you, why would you need a lease? Oh, I see what you're saying. Because till today, till today, like you have, go into the internet and find just like Israeli settlers terrorizing Palestinian farmers.

37:11Just random thing, you have like 100 videos. Happens every single day. So, and this is why I'm talking, because everybody is focused on this little strip, on the Gaza Strip. But people don't know what is happening in those green scattered, this is happening every single day. Every single day people, by the way, the hostages are not 5 ,000 people anymore. After October 7th, it's now 12 ,000 people. 12 ,000 Palestinians in prisons. In prisons. So when you talk about hostage, and I just wanna get people back October 7th, when Hamas did this, and I'm not defending Hamas, I'm not into any kind of support of any group.

37:48But they said, we will release the hostage if you release our hostages. Because you have been going into our houses and taking people, half of the 5 ,000 people that I told you about, half of them are women and children. Half of them. And I'll just give you an example Because I know what people tell you Oh but these are terrorists I'll give you an example of a terrorist Suad Zuraikat She is a Palestinian mother Suad Zuraikat She's a Palestinian mother Her husband was killed And then she wrote on Facebook May God unite us in heaven The Israeli authority Considered that as an incitement for terrorism And they took her and they put her in detention for eight months.

38:30That's the kind of people that they will take you for terrorism. All right? And I'm not saying that there's violence, but put yourself in their place. Your house is being taken, your farms are being burned, your cattle is being killed, your kids are being taken in front of you, your woman, your wife maybe even raped and taken away and sexually molested. Yeah. How long can you keep going? But we want peace. This is not a peace. This is subjugation. So you're saying that over time, it's like a slow devouring of the Palestinian people is kind of what's happened. Yeah, yeah. It is devouring. As you said, they devour the land.

39:06They devour their lives. They are dehumanizing. And when you fight back, you're called a terrorist. Now, let's go back to October 7th because this is very important. Okay. October 7th, Hamas, which is a militant group that is living in Gaza, that has won the election in 2006, but they were never allowed to take power because Israel started bombing them. Okay, so Hamas was actually an elected group. Yeah. Okay. And when they ran for election, what were they like? They were running as a group. I mean, Hamas is a—they don't like the Palestinian authority that was already there. They didn't like them.

39:44They didn't like them. Okay. And Israel, Netanyahu, was so happy with that, and they started to give money to Hamas in order to bolster them and make them stronger. And he said in the Likud party, in his party, he said, the only way to prevent a Palestinian state is to make the Palestinian factions fighting the whole time. He said that. So he created a monster. So he saw that, so you're saying that Netanyahu, who is the president of Israel, or the prime minister, He saw that, okay, there's this alternative group, Hamas, who is causing conflict with the people who are in charge in Palestine. And so I'm going to fund Hamas.

40:25Yes. And Hamas was, I wouldn't say that they were moderate. They would say like, we want to eradicate Israel, whatever. And then they kind of revised their charter. But they weren't fans of each other. And did Israel definitely fund them? You have Netanyahu on tape actually confessing, facilitating their support many times. And you can look it up if you want. What I'm trying to say is they won the election in 2006 and Israel didn't like it. And then they started bombing. Who won? Hamas? Hamas won by 51 % in Gaza. But then they were like infighting and it didn't work. and then Israel kind of like created even a bigger embargo.

41:13And then for the past like 20 years, they're just like been going every time Hamas like retaliates, Israel retaliates and they retaliate and they retaliate. But who has the power? Who has the military? It's Israel. At the end of the day, it's militants. Oh, yeah. Israel is a superpower. Yeah. So you cannot just like cry, oh, we're going to perish because of a militant group. If we're giving you that money, that doesn't work this way. But here's what I want to talk about. which is the most important thing about October 7th, which I find there is like a big failure of the American media. When October 7th happened, everybody was talking about raping women, decapitating children, putting women in the oven.

41:55Even Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he went into Congress and he described this scene about the Hamas militants going into a house, raping the woman, blinding the father, cutting the limb of a child, cutting a finger of another child, and then cutting the chest, the breast of a woman and playing football with it and raping it. And I said, wait a minute. How is this happening during war? Where are the Israeli Apache fighters? Where are the response? Because you know, I understand how big is Israel? Israel is like as small, actually as small as New Jersey. And in that area of New Jersey, there is like, there is a, yeah, you see, it's almost there.

42:39Wow, it's the same. Yeah, almost there, yes, a little bit. And you understand, you understand, Israel has airfields and military camps in every five seconds. It's like Starbucks in New York. The response should be less than five minutes. It took them eight hours. Yeah, I need a Venti missile. Now, that testimony that I just gave you by Anthony Blinken came out to be wrong. Who's Anthony Blinken? Anthony Blinken is the Secretary of State. For Israel? No, for America. For America, okay. So he went and gave that graphic detail in order to bring money, to get money to be sent to Israel. These testimonies came out to be untrue, false, fabricated, because they were promoted by rescue groups in Israel.

43:25They're called Zaka and Hadzullah United, Zaka, Z-A-K-A. Zakah is a group that has been known to be lying. They fabricated babies in oven, babies in laundry lines. Yeah, they keep putting the babies everywhere. No matter what side you're on, it's like, oh, the babies are here. And yeah, that's the website. And if you look at, if you search for them, you will find that their lies has been debunked many times by the Israeli media themselves. Israeli media artists, Channel 12, they said that these people have lied to us and they have collected so much money because of the graphic details. And you understand, these are lies that has been repeated by Biden, Antony Blinken, the State Department, in order to justify the absolute maximum killing of Israel to Palestine.

44:13So this was made on a lie. So it's propaganda, yeah. It's propaganda. Because, you know, I'm not going to tell you, they killed a million people. They raped women. They decapitated babies. That have a much more stronger effect because what a baby could do to you. Baby could do nothing, climb up your leg a little. You decapitate him, you must be a monster. So now these are monster death cult worshipers that we can kill and we can bomb everybody. You see that? So it's a perspective, you're like framing it. So you're saying, but who's doing that? The Israeli media? Yeah, the Israeli media. The Israeli media because all of the, and not just the Israeli media, the American media have propagated these stories and they have never taken back or refuted a single story.

44:53Oh, American media is not good. And you know, and what made me like go crazy, the Israeli, they made themselves like, guys, this didn't happen. So this is like the strongest bro code I've ever seen in my life. It's like, you know, you're lying for your bro and your bro's like, dude, that didn't happen. That didn't happen. So America is lying hard for Israel, while Israel itself, the Israeli men say like, guys, that didn't happen. All of these lies didn't happen. The New York Times article screams without words was debunked to be lies. There was so many people, lies, lies, lies. no decapitated babies were found.

45:26Only one baby was killed. Her name is Mila Cohen. She's 10 months old and she was died during an exchange. No decapitated babies. No rape women. Sheryl Sandberg and New York Times have spread all of these lies and they were debunked many, many times. And still the American media are running with the lies. But America, a lot of American media is... If you say that, that would be anti-Semitic. So I'm not going to go there, right? Oh, is that anti-Semitic? They're telling me everything that I say now is anti-Semitic. Oh, I didn't know that. But I'm saying that even the Jewish people in Israel telling you these are lies.

45:57Well, my friends, my Jewish friends who, they say that. They say that the media is mostly run by Jewish folks. I don't think that that's. It is. They told me that. It is. It is. All of the corporates, all of the CEOs, but that's a different. But I don't want to go into their intention. I'm just giving you a case that it didn't have. We can't say that though? Well, according to a bill that was passed by the Congress two months ago, There is now an anti-Semitic bill that anything, any criticism to Israel will be counted as anti-Semitic. Any criticism to Jewish people who might have a dual loyalty to Israel and America, if you attack them, that will be called anti-Semitic.

46:36If you talk about AIPAC controlling the elections and giving money, that's anti-Semitic. And it's like, wait a minute. That's against the First Amendment of the United States. because I have grown up seeing people shitting on everything, on the American president, on religion, on Jesus Christ. Gays, whites, blacks. Jesus, whites, Muslims. But suddenly when you talk about Israel, which is a foreign country that we give aid, you can't speak? You can't talk about, you're labeled anti-Semitic? Why? Yeah, I got to, yeah, some of it's like, well we had um roseanne baron she's jewish she said something she made a joke and our episode got taken down but if she made it was obviously like a joke you know like so i some of it's just confusing because here's the thing i don't understand like just say if you can't say if we're not allowed to say something at least tell us what it is no we're not they always keep you in this kind of fear of saying something wrong and they have all of their you're anti-semitic You're anti-Semitic.

47:38Like guys, you have to stop this anti-Semitic because - Well, it becomes this boy that cried wolf kind of thing where it's like you accuse everybody of - Of anti-Semitic. It's like, dude, I have so many Jewish friends you think I'd be anti-Semitic? I'm not, I don't like Netanyahu. I don't like some of the choices that I feel like that that country makes, but I don't, I don't have anything against my Jewish friends though. That's why I'm very careful when I talk. I never say Jewish people. I say pro-Zionist, Zionist, Israel, pro-Israel. Oh shit, I said Jewish people all the few minutes ago. No, no, no, I don't say about Israel because I know that a lot of Jewish people don't like what Israel is doing.

48:12I know a lot of Jewish people don't like how they control the Congress. I don't like how a lot of Jewish people that don't like how AIPAC, which is a foreign lobby, and yet is allowed to operate under American local law, that they can openly brag about buying Congress seats. If you go into AIPAC Twitter account or X account, they would brag about like how 98 % of our candidates. Do not accept all cookies if you go over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like go to their, no, not network, APAC, just, yeah, APAC. It's A-I-P-A-C. A-I, A-I-P-A, A-I, A-I, A-I. Yes. And APAC. No, not tracker, yeah, APAC, yeah, that's one, yes.

48:57And what is APAC? American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Yeah, Public Affairs, yeah, Public Affairs. So go down, go down, and see what they talk about the elections. When they talk about the elections, they always talk about like they end it with, yeah, another great thing. Being pro-Israeli is good policy and good politics. They end that with every 100 % of ABAC and Dutch Democrats won their primary rate, 100%. How is like a foreign country, like a foreign, like a lobby that's worked for a foreign country, brags about buying your elections like that. You see, being pro-Israel is good policy.

49:35And every single tweet is like that. They are basically looking to you in the eyes and say like, we're buying your elections and you can't do anything about it. So I can accept that from NRA because the NRA is a domestic group, right? At least it presents the interest of American gun owners. Oh, this is a very - Oh, I just saw this guy recently. Mr. Massey who said like each one in Capitol Hill has an APAC handler. It's like, I need to talk to my guy. Everybody but me has an APAC person. What does that mean an APAC person? It's like your babysitter, your APAC babysitter, who is always talking to you for APAC.

50:23It's just kind of like having an agent or whatever. yeah but like handle it go ahead go continue and i don't understand why every american politician have to go there and bend the knees you go have lunch with them and they've got your cell number and you have conversations with them well i think part of this my apac person and it's clearly what we call them my apac guy i'll talk to my apac guy and see if i can get him to you know dial those ads back group of americans who lobby on behalf of israel there for but i think also it's like you have to look at is like like is like we live in a country that is a capitalism right absolutely and they are like israel just does they're they're the best business people you know they're like it's almost like monopoly and they won okay you know that's what i feel like sometimes like um yeah they they They won and good for them.

51:21They're very good. But like, how does an American feels? Right, but you can't hold it against them because they are good at this. You can't hold it against them because they won, right? So you cannot hold it against Israel, but you hold it against Russia if they try or China if they try. So why do we accept it from Israel, but not from Russia? Except what? Accept them controlling the elections. You understand? So you have an AIPAC, which is a lobby, basic lobbying for another country. this is in the news and you can look it up they paid 100 million dollars in order to buy seats for congress people and senate and because of the people they were able to put there they were able to approve 26 billion dollars to Israel so understand as an American your politicians are being bought for 100 million dollars and because of that your country will send 26 billion to a different country 26 billion that could have been spent in my own country, in my own community.

52:23This is the biggest, the best return of investment ever. You pay 100 million and I take back 26 billion from you. That's crazy. Yeah. And this is why when I talk about what's happening, I'm not even, you see like, oh yeah, you missed that. What you just had, AIPAC targets progress with 100 million dollars in its coffers. Yeah. So basically anybody who talks against you in Congress, You pay Basically you pay them out And then you take more money How Don't we as Americans Deserve the 26 billion dollars To be put in our communities Oh I think it's like This is This is We give them money Yeah But they control us Yeah This is like Oh it's fucking They're good at the business This is like This is like a sugar daddy Who's being slapped around Like a bitch from his From his sugar baby This is like there's like basically picking up a whore in the strip mall, in the strip in Las Vegas, and then suddenly she's in charge of your life.

53:23This is like having a dominatrix and so like, it's like, I'm gonna kick your balls and you're gonna like it. And you're gonna pay me$26 billion for it. It's like, that doesn't work. Because I come from the Middle East and I'm used to dictatorship. I am used for us having no voice. I'm used to a certain class of people controlling the country. But even then, we knew that these people or not in control because they had to answer for China or Russia or America or France, right? Because we're a dictatorship. This is how dictatorship works. A democracy living, a loving country like America or Britain go control a certain country and it's easier for them to deal with a dictator.

54:00So we knew that they were not calling the shots. It was called from Washington. I'm fine with that because I'm a third world guy. We're from the Middle East. We have to follow the masters of this planet. Now I came to America and I became an American. and I thought I was like joining, I'm joining the winning team. I will have a say in my country and then suddenly my country, the most powerful country in the world, the superpower in the world has its policies being dictated from Tel Aviv. How does it work? You see? And it's fine. And I ask Americans, guys, are you used to this kind of humiliation?

54:32You're supposed to be like from a country for the people, by the people and then suddenly your elections and being dictated by a different country. How does it work? But to me, the thing is just like making it, is it true or not? It's like, just tell me what's happening. I just told you. Right. So whatever I, I just told you that like a foreign lobby from a foreign country is controlling your politics right in front of you. And then you have, and by the way, I understand how lobby works. Because, but remember when, when Democrats was giving shit to Republicans where they were having so much money from NRA, right?

55:09Oh, you're taking money from the gun lobby. How dare you? And then the Republicans were attacked. You're taking money from tech. Israel is the only country that gives both sides and nobody questions. So basically it's not, caring about the education will not get you elected. Caring about healthcare will not get you elected. Caring about the wellbeing of your American constituents will not get you elected. It is caring about what's good for Israel. So yes, guys, our neighborhood is shit. We have no sewage, no education, but God bless Israel. It doesn't, you're basically having a lot of people elected for your Congress to look for a different country.

55:48Look out for a different country. To me, it's very, it does seem very bizarre. Yeah, I think a lot of that stuff, like when it hits my heart over the past, like especially eight months, you know, it's been, it makes me feel like there has to be a way better way to figure things out. It's all about like fear mongering. they will tell you, but Israel is alone. It is surrounded by enemies that want to wipe our ass. Is that true or not? Is Israel surrounded by enemies or not? Bring the map of the Middle East. Because one of the reasons I'm sure America and Israel have a like work together is because they need each other, right?

56:24Okay, so Egypt is surrounded by Egypt. Egypt is the biggest military force in the Middle East. That's my country. Okay. And they have having like a 45 years lasting peace treaty. There has never been a single missile or bullet shot from Egypt to Israel all over that. So Egypt and Israel have a good - Yeah. Jordan is the other country's peace. UAE, peace. Do you have - Really the big threat for Israel is the little militant group in the Gaza Strip, which is Hamas, and Hezbollah, which is south of Lebanon. Oh, yeah. And if you have all of that military - Hezbollah and President - Yeah, it's up there.

57:02Like you see the gray area, like in Lebanon? Yeah. Is that where he lives in? So basically, you have like two militant groups who doesn't like you, right? Supported by Iran, which is far away from you. And you have all of these Arab countries around you, basically friends with you. Yeah. So all of these, they want to kill us all. We're going to perish. Well, fuck you. All of this. You see, Saudi Arabia, they have like almost normalized relationship. So you don't believe that. You believe that they have, it's pretty stable over there. It is a way to push in war and make you, because if you're not threatened, how can you sell the war?

57:32Yeah. and if you talk about October 7th see what they want to be you believe that before October 7th there were peace actually before October 7th two weeks before October 7th Israel bombed Gaza three times before October 7th Israel already killed 75 children in the West Bank in the same year all of these numbers were happening all of this ongoing there was no peace before October 7th and you go in and you go in with these lies that has never been refuted by the American media although it was found to be lies and lies and lies. And you do that because you wanna tell people we're dealing with terrorists, all of the Arab countries hate us and we have to kill us because, and then they will bring in the Holocaust.

58:11I'm very sorry for the Holocaust guys, but we had nothing to do with your Holocaust. We were just like minding our fucking business. I was dead or whatever, I wasn't dead, I wasn't alive. We were in the Middle East, we were just there and the Holocaust happened to you in Europe. It didn't happen to you because of us. And then you import people from a different continent because you didn't want them, you didn't give them visa, You didn't take them as refugees. Oh, America and Britain, you mean? Yeah, and then you put them on our land, and then you take our land, and then you tell everybody, oh, there was no one there.

58:39So has America showed up, or Britain showed up, and tried to help facilitate communications to make things better there? There were many tries for peace treaties, but Obama said it best. In his book, he said, the problem with Israel and Palestine is that one of them is very strong, and one side is very weak. And there's nothing that compels me to give you land. So they will tell you, oh, we gave five chances to the Palestinians, and they said, no, that is not true. When I have the whole land, and suddenly you're gonna give me 49%, that is not a deal. That's like, if you don't like it, we're gonna take it from you.

59:15If you give me like a shitty deal, and I don't accept it because that is my land, you just gonna say like, oh, they didn't accept it. Right, but have there been deals offered one way or the other, like peace? Yeah, yeah, like there's something called the Oslo Accords, it's happened in 1995. The Oslo Accords? The Oslo Accords. And you have Netanyahu bragging on tape, saying that I have personally sabotaged the Oslo Accords, so it means nothing. Okay, the Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, signed in Washington, D.C. in 1993, signed in Egypt in 1995.

59:51They marked the start of the Oslo process, a peace process aimed at achieving a peace treaty based on resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. Among the notable outcomes of Oslo Wars was the creation of the Palestinian National Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinian governance over parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. So this was helping Palestine create a government? Yes, but then it was all over the way. It's now clear the Oslo Peace Accords were wrecked by Netanyahu. And that was written by Avish Lime, who's an Israeli author. right because there's there's people in israel that don't agree with netanyahu right yes i know but honestly i'm sick and tired of saying oh netanyahu is bad but the rest of the israel no uh 98 of israeli community said that we're not doing enough in gas only two percent says it's too much 70 of israelis said that we should not send humanitarian aid to a lot of people and i i don't blame i mean i blame them but like when you tell your people that those are like evils and and they're like vampires and they're like killers.

1:00:53Of course you're going to hate them. Of course you don't want them to live. But you cannot expect to treat people like animals. And when they behave like animals, retaliate like animals, you go on and complain. Yeah. Right? How do you, is there a way? Because man, it's just, there's so much. There's so much damage done there. Yeah. How do you find, how is there some sort of a solution? Like what direction do you see? The solution is fixing the occupation. There is an occupation. And why doesn't America and Britain step in and say, look, we helped create this in the beginning. We want to be here to help us like establish safety for these people now.

1:01:31Okay, America. What is America made of? Government. What is the government is made of? Elected officials. These people are elected through what? Through elections. Who is controlling the elections and paying for certain people to be there? APAC. But doesn't every country have lobbyists that try to influence our elections? Not a foreign lobby like this. Yeah, there's lobbies everywhere, but when you have a foreign lobby that works for an external country, that is not normal to you. But is that considered just like a, you know how we have like little base or little, what are the places called if you're in London?

1:02:07Oh, the embassy, like we have embassies in different places. Yes. Isn't that just like them having like a human embassy or something like a - No, no. You know what I'm talking about? I'm making sense. I understand, but that doesn't work with lobbies with parliaments. This is, again, this is like, imagine a lobby that is openly funded by China and that lobby going there and buying seats for people who are pro-China. It seemed like unfair. It should not be accepted in a democratic country. Why do we allow that to happen? It would seem like, but then you know what? that's where it comes down to capitalism because it's the same shit that we allow where just like where that drug company came in and hired former people from the FDA to come and work for their drug company.

1:02:56That's wrong. That's illegal. Right. And also the government. I mean, capitalism wants you to believe that there's nothing you can do. It's only the free market. Even the free market has some sort of a government control. If a company goes out and become a monopoly, you have antitrust laws. and that government can curb that company. But the problem is the government that should curb the influence of a foreign lobby is being paid by the same foreign lobby. So who would come up and put like a questioning for Israel lobby? The people they just paid get into Congress? I paid you. I own your ass. You are not gonna go into Congress and then ask why are we following?

1:03:33Israel's a gangster. Exactly. This is what really made me disenfranchised. I became an American citizen in 2019. And I was so happy, right in time for the 2020 elections. I was so happy. I'm going to be elected. It took me now four years. I'm not going to vote in the coming elections. What's the point? What about America, man? What America? So now, why would I even care to vote for anybody while both of them are competing to be Israel's favorite bitch? Yeah. It's basically like this. It's like, oh, I'm the best one for Israel. How about being the best one for America? How about doing what's good for America?

1:04:08Is it good for America to pay$26 billion? If I'm seeing this, how do I feel as an American? Well, I think it's, well, for one, I think a lot of people don't know what to think. A lot of people aren't super clear on maybe what's going on, you know? Because they're not allowed to, because they are being, all they need to know is like to see the headlines of the news. And the headlines of news is always something bad about Palestinians or something bad, or nothing is bad. They don't spend enough time because they want their ESPNs and they need to their Netflix. They don't want to involve. That's why a lot of Americans are still believing in the raping and the decapitated babies because you can't stay tuned into the news for long.

1:04:48So for them, they do the shock, the lies. And then when people say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. That didn't happen. It's like, ah, it's too late now because people are kind of, they're tuned out. Yeah, I think a lot of people do not even believe the news at all anymore though. I think the news has super lost a ton of credibility over the years. So what happens? You create a kind of apathy. So people don't care and business go as usual. The Congress getting bought, people getting bribed, $26 billion getting sent to Israel. People continue having bombing. And then every now and then, why is this happening?

1:05:21Because you checked out a long time ago. And then you ask, what can we do? Nothing, because they made you check out a long time ago. So you have all of these people looking at what the government's doing, looking at what the world is doing. It's like that ain't right, but there's nothing I can do about it. And this is exactly how you run the world. In my country, in the Middle East, I do that because you cannot speak up because you're gonna be put in jail. But here, you can speak up, but nothing will happen. Nothing will change. Here I think sometimes you get afraid to even ask questions about stuff and it's like, well, this doesn't even make any sense.

1:05:55Like just at least let things make sense to me. For me, not be able to ask questions and shit that is just fucking, that's the thing that's really, really weird. Yeah, because it's all about like the attacking. So if you go and you repeat what I just told you, it's like, oh, he's a liar. He's an anti-Semite, he hates Jews. Okay, what did he lie about? They will never give you details. What did he lie about? I'll give you an example. When on the second Piers Morgan interview, I went up to him and I gave him a story. I told him that Israel used to give contraceptive pills to the Ethiopian Jews, Ethiopian Jewish women who were immigrated from Ethiopia.

1:06:32And for more than 15 years, Israel would give them contraceptive shots without them knowing. So they would sterilize them. They would not allow them to breathe because they are black. Is that true? Yeah.

1:06:46Dude, you know what I noticed, dude? I was in Atlanta at the Coca-Cola factory or whatever. And you can taste all the sodas from around the world. Look. Ethiopian woman in Israel giving contraceptive without consent, huh? Yeah, so... Israel's lead... So when I... Benjamin Netanyahu was in the government and he came out and he personally apologized, right? So this is cut and dry. You cannot... And you know what happened the Israelis on the X? Oh, he's a liar. That never happens. It's here. So this is... I'm just preparing you that every time you're gonna tell them something, they will tell you, oh, it's a lie.

1:07:25It's a lie. Nobody said that. Nobody said that. Well, a lot of that's just, yeah, people will position themselves constantly. It's like people are, especially if people are up to no good, nobody wants to get caught. Yes. A lot of times. Yeah. It's like you saying something and somebody, you're a racist. It's like, wait, what did I just say that was racist? Oh, no, no, you're a racist. You're making me uncomfortable. You see that? The way that they attack you. Yeah. It's like, okay, attack what I said. Yeah. If I'm racist, I do it at home, behind closed doors. But this is, you're antisemitic, you're racist, you're a homophobe.

1:08:02The way that they use, like the same way, oh, you're Islamophobe. I don't like this word, Islamophobe. I don't know if anybody cares about that shit anymore. Nobody cares. Well, people have thrown around some of those terms so many times. It's like the boy that cried wolf kind of in a way. It's like, you can't, I can't, you can't make it feel like I can't ask something or talk about something. Yeah, it just, sometimes that just, Some of that stuff is strange. And it's hard. I mean, some of this stuff is even hard to talk about because it's like, I worry that even just by having like some of this conversation, it's like, you just, it's kind of scary because I don't know what I could get in trouble for.

1:08:39But this is scary, man, because like, I'm new to this country. So like, I'm kind of like following your lead guys. And I'm saying like, wait, isn't this country made, created on the cornerstone of freedom of expression? why is there some things that we are not allowed to speak about or afraid this is the promise of the West come here and speak and say whatever you want no matter how offensive it is it doesn't matter because it is words but then suddenly you come here and you find all of these red lines and I was made fun of like when I came oh you came from the Middle East you have all of these red lines you cannot speak about that we can't speak about Jesus we can't speak about the American president you can't speak and now I come here and I see the red line you have one red line really and you have one red line everybody here not you then that red line everybody can see you guys cannot be able to talk about which is Israel this is your red line your red line is not even in your country yeah which is crazy that's a crazy statement it's a crazy dude I'll tell you what I heard dude I heard that Jesus did like a lot of impersonations and stuff what did he impersonate his dad just his friends and stuff but I heard that somewhere I don't know why I read that but he would do like impersonations I guess, or whatever.

1:09:50But he would be like the Archangel Michael. And it's like, hey, Jesus. Hey, Jesus. But he's - So an archangel walks into a cloud. But I think, okay, I'll tell you something about things that people find offensive, for example. We were basically profiled as Muslims that we hate. Slims, we call them. Yeah, yeah, Slims. Yeah. I made that up a couple years ago. It's like a Slims I don't want to say It's a racial slur But if it is You're welcome Slims It's like the Slims The cigarettes Whenever we say Muslims We say Slims I think it's I really like it Some people might not like it And that's okay One thing that kind of Like drives me clear Sometimes like We like Israel But we don't like Muslims Like why And then Paul is like Because Judeo-Christian values Have you heard about that Judeo-Christian values You say, guys, what do you talk about Judeo-Christian values?

1:10:49You understand that people in Israel hate Christians. You understand that? You go right now. That's not true, you think? You go right now in the video and you write Israelis spitting on Christians in Bethlehem or spitting on Christians in Israel. You see? Spitting, hitting, attacks on Israel, surging in Israel, occupied Israel, ultra-Jewish, spitting on Christians. But this could be specific stuff. No, no, this is part, okay, so. You know what I'm saying? This might not be an everyday thing because I have a lot of friends that are Jewish and they don't treat me bad. There's like so many videos.

1:11:24It's just like the videos keep scrolling as we say, that's not that very, you see how many videos right now we're talking? The videos keep scrolling. That's not that everything, but we happen to have a hundred videos to say that that's true. Oh, it says there's only 2 ,000 videos. Oh, okay. Okay, and you have actually one of their ministers, Bin Gavir, who is the basic national security, as I said, it is actually part of our religion. There's no hate about that. And many of the rabbis would say that Jesus right now, Jesus is the son of a whore. The Virgin Mary is a whore. She made up the whole thing about the son of God in order to cover for her adultery.

1:12:05And Jesus right now is being burned with feces and semen for eternity. This is what they say. So basically, I don't know if you follow this trend. Yeah, you can find it out. And this is a trend on TikTok? No, not a trend. These videos are already there. So basically when Christians go there, the Orthodox Jews will go, Haqtuah! Haqtuah! They spit on that thing!

1:12:35And again, I'm not saying that this represents all Jews, but what I'm saying is if you want net pick about this, because I grew up as a Muslim and all of those videos, net picking of like, oh, look at this extreme Muslim who said that. Oh, this must be all Muslim. All Muslim are terrorists. And we have a lot of those videos and nobody's talking about it. So you understand like how this is personal for me? Yeah. And I'm fine talking about those horrible people in the Muslim community, but talk about everybody. Right. Don't limit our speech. And by the way, and I hate the word Islamophobe. Anybody is allowed to talk about Islam or the Quran or whatever, I will never call you an Islamophobe.

1:13:13but I'm an equal opportunity offender. If you talk about my religion, let's talk about everybody's religion. If you're gonna talk about my politics, let's talk about everybody's politics. I'm not here to attack Jewish people. I'm not here to attack Israel. I am just asking for my right as an American to be able to speak about everything without having fear of being canceled or having my career canceled. I had opportunities. My opportunities in Hollywood dried up completely after I broke down. Is that true? Yes. Do you think it's tougher for Arabic and Islamic entertainers in Hollywood? It is tougher, but there's also people who are not Muslims, who are not Arabs, who had canceled because of their opinions.

1:13:56There have been blacklists of people in tech companies that have been removed from their companies because of a post of Facebook. And this is happening in America. and of course you remember what happened in these colleges where like American students were being beaten by American police for the sake of a foreign country. You understand like the American university movement which one of the most amazing movements that they went out against Vietnam, they went out against South Africa and now they went out against Israel and they're being hit and penalized in their own campuses for just speaking up.

1:14:31Yeah, I feel like they should be able to do that at campuses But then what happens is investors or donators to the campuses who don't, who believe what they believe, they choose to take their money away. And those donors are pro what? They're pro money. So if you write, please, Jewish billionaires threaten Columbia universities to withdraw their money. I'm never going to fucking work again. Dude, I came here having receipts. I know, but I'm gonna get in trouble, dude. Bro, Israel Jewish billionaires, look, there it is. Billionaires stop Colombia cash over anti-Israel protest. Colombia billionaires do Israel money giving a million.

1:15:15So you see, what does it, so your donors, the donors have more loyalty to a foreign country and telling you, if you speak against that foreign country, I'm not even giving you my money. But it makes sense though, that makes sense. If you think that you, say you're a, like I'm a New Orleans Saints fan. If somebody puts up a Falcons flag, an Atlanta Falcons flag, and I'm a New Orleans Saints fan, and it's my bar or something, or I'm the one that helps take care of the place where they're putting the flag up, I'm going to be upset. I'm going to say, well, I'm not going to help take care of this place anymore if you support this.

1:15:48But the Falcons and myself, these are two people in the league, in an American league. But you are basically talking about a different – I'm not even talking about – I'm not even attacking your team. I made a bad choice. I am saying that I don't want my college to take part from, you don't understand why they went. They said that we need to divest from any investment with the Israeli army. Is that fair or not? That's fair. Like I don't want my universities, the one that I pay tuition to, to be involved with the military or the Israeli, that's fair. And then you have, No, we need to be involved in other people's shit.

1:16:34And you need not to speak about that. That doesn't make any sense. That doesn't make any sense to me, man. Well, why don't like Arab, like why don't different groups start to build their own strongholds of like university and like media so that everybody can have their own channels? Most Arabs work in vaping. I don't know that there's money in the Arab community. Hey, smoke signals. We just said that like Jewish people are very good in business. We can't compete with that. We just have hookahs and vapes. We can't compete with them. So, but like, you see, if that is the case, don't call it a democracy anymore.

1:17:12If the whole idea about like who pays the more money, it's an oligarchy. Don't call yourself democratic. Just say, hey, it's a capitalist country, whoever has more money, but that's dangerous because tomorrow, China might have more money here and control it. So it has to be a fair game for everybody. But it's not fair. Because now they say, TikTok, we need to ban TikTok because it's against Israel because it's pro-China. So you're not even making the game fair. If Israel can buy its way through it, anybody should buy its way through it. Yeah. Oh, I see what you're saying. You're saying, well, then if that's the case, then China should be able to do it too.

1:17:50And Saudi Arabia is able to do it, and Iran is able to do it. Israel's an ally. I guess like - Why is Israel an ally? I don't know why. And which ally have you given$26 billion? I don't know, dude. You see, but these things, we repeating that, oh, Israel is our greatest ally, why? I don't know, but you have to have, well, here's why I believe, this is what I've always been kind of like, I guess, heard, is that you have to have an ally in the Middle East because there's so much oil and power and money over there. And America doesn't have allies in the, all about Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producing company though, Iraq, Egypt, these are UAE, all of Kuwait, all of these are allies for the United States.

1:18:32I don't know if Saudi Arabia is an ally, I don't know about that. Really? Saudi Arabia is the most beneficial for your economy. Really? They are the biggest buyer of your weapons. Except for those two buildings in New York City, dude, outside of, you know what I'm saying? Well, so why didn't you go after them? Because I guess somebody owed somebody some money or something. Let's talk about 9-11 now because it's a bigger issue. We're going to go really down the rabbit hole. But here's the thing. You have all of those people that are allies. What has Israel done to you being an ally? It has ruined your reputation in front of everybody.

1:19:02Everybody hates America because of Israel. I don't know if that's true. You think so? Yeah. Everybody hates America because of Israel. I'm telling you. And that's why they hate America because of what Israel is doing in Palestine. And how America is supporting Israel forever. And if you find America supporting the killing of my own people, you can't help but people hate you, right? At a certain point, I don't think that Israel is a good ally for us. They are costing us a lot of money. They are harboring a lot of terrorists. They're Jewish Defense League. There are three people from Jewish Defense League in 1994 who killed an American citizen and they escaped to Israel and Israel is not delivering you.

1:19:40Is that a work of an ally? Israel hit the U.S.S. liberty in 1967. It's an American vessel. Is that an American? No. No, there's a book called By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrowinski, who is an ex-Mossad officer who said that Israel knew about the 1982 Lebanon bombing where 52 Americans were killed, and Mossad held the information so because they want to do it in spite. Is that the work of an ally? Israel has the biggest, it harbors the biggest number of pedophiles in Israel, more than 50 people, at least from 2014, by the Jewish watch community. There's actually a Jewish group who have actually said that.

1:20:27So you have people who are molesting American children in America, and they're escaping to Israel using the dual nationality thing, and Israel is not giving you back. Is that the work of an ally? If somebody's a molester, you gotta send them back. It's on CBS News if you want to look at it. Like CBS News, you can talk about it. I don't like Israel, I think. I don't like Israel, no. I do not like it. I think their ways are evil. And you see how Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel, that's CBS. I'm not making this up. A lot of them too would hide by the - Yeah. Would hide by the - So is this - Winn-Dixie in our area.

1:21:04Is this a work of an ally? Is an ally giving you$100 million to bribe your politicians, buy your elections and then make you pay$26 billion? That's not a work of an ally. If someone takes$70 million of tax exempt money for their veterans, that's not a work of an ally. But how much, how much, how many issues did America create for itself just with its own practices of like doing this, like, like these, doing those sorts of things to other countries and stuff? I wonder, you know what I'm saying? Like, I wonder if there's a part of, if that's true, I don't know. I mean, America has known to finance and carry out coups in all kinds of different countries.

1:21:45In Latin America, they're known to like, you know, overthrowing a government if they don't like, for example. It happened in Chile, it happened in Argentina, it happened in so many places. It happened in Iraq, in Iraq in 1954, there was like an elected official that they thrown out because of oil agreements. America is known to manipulate the whole world. It is, that's what superpowers do. Right, so if - Like the Romans did it, the Greeks came, I accept that. I accept that because we were the police of the planet. Yes, it happens, it comes with a cause. It's terrible. But couldn't that evolve and then Israel could just become that?

1:22:19What do you mean? Like if we were the leader at one time, couldn't Israel be the leader at one time? Why? Couldn't China be the leader at one time? Well, China I can accept because it's a superpower. But Israel is a client state. It's a small state. This is like basically you living, you're working in a corporate and the CEO coming every day and shitting on your office, shitting on your office. It's like, but he's the CEO, he's the owner. But then he brings his little poodle and then he shits on your desk. That's too much. That's Israel, right? I can accept it because you are the superpower of the world, but don't bring your brat dog to do it on my desk.

1:22:56That's too much. Because the only way that I can do anything for that dog is that the owner is the CEO and I don't wanna be fired. So that's basically, Israel is the bulldog that's harassing everybody around it in the region. And they all know, they hate us. Where are we going to perish? Fuck it, you're not going to perish. You have nuclear weapons. You have like - Yeah, they're fine. They're fine now. It's definitely, it's kind of - They're fine. And then how is it sense of self-defense? Because I'm sure that you've seen these videos, all of these IDF soldiers wearing women's laundry, taking like the women's, the kids' toys, destroying empty hospitals, destroying empty schools just for the fun of it that doesn't look like an army that is defending itself yeah well to me it's felt like the feeling of it is that um like usually when you hear i mean i've said this we usually when you hear like free a place that's the place that needs help you know it's like you don't hear like free michigan or free america or free china you know or sometimes you hear free China.

1:23:58But yeah, if you hear free Palestine, if you hear that, then that's usually, if something becomes that big of a fervor that that's the campaign slogan, that place usually needs some sort of help. How does some place that's stronger, like Israel that has so much, how do they help? How do we get to - Why would they help? They just want the land. But they're the - Remember the map that we saw, how they disintegrated? This has been ongoing from 1940s. But they obviously have enough of the land. No, they want the whole land. They want all over the West Bank. They want all over Gaza. And they have said many times on television that the only way this would happen if people in Gaza go into Egypt and people in the West Bank are driven into Jordan.

1:24:41Is this a legitimate map? Did you draw this map? It's from the internet. But they have been telling you openly, we're going to displace those people out there. But at a certain point, they have to recognize, hey, we haven't, this is. No, they don't care. They haven't, why would they? Well, see, that's the part to me. That's not cool, dude. Show me in this map anywhere where Israel has scaled back. What they have done, they have moved forward to disintegrate the land more, push the people more, abuse the people more. And because they have the power and because they have America behind them, they are not compelled to do anything different.

1:25:13Well, they feel like they're in the right. Yes, they feel in the right because it's given, the Bible gave it to me because God gave it to me. So if I believe I'm the chosen people, I can do whatever I want. Oh, yeah. And I have to tell you, like a lot of people ask me, are you religious? I said, if these are God chosen people, I have doubts.

1:25:34I'm gonna lose my job for another two more years for laughing at all. But do you think though, that why doesn't America help Palestine? Why don't we? Why? Because they help, I just told you. Why, what is America? America is a government. This government is made of officials. These officials are elected. They need money for the elections. Who pays for election campaigns? Who is the biggest? But even still, you could still help someone because they need help. No, no, they don't care. Who is the biggest recipient of donors from Israel? $9 million over the years. Joe Biden. Joe Biden, yeah. Yeah. So why would he help?

1:26:11Why would I help Palestine while I'm getting my money from you? I mean, he can give me all kinds of like fancy political talk, but it's really about being reelected. So the idea, you are thinking as a human being, what is the right thing to do? And you're right. But the right thing to do is not the right thing in politics. The right thing in politics is to survive and have as much money as possible to stay in power as long as possible. No morals, no right and wrong, nothing. Just power. Well, one thing that didn't help, by having the term free Palestine, that's going to attract all the... But if you label something free something right next to Israel, dude, no wonder they keep coming.

1:26:51they should have said a very expensive Palestine it's a very expensive Palestine but it is expensive it's costing us a lot of money they should have said under contract Palestine work in progress Palestine now is that a joke am I going to go to jail I don't know why would you go to you shouldn't I understand that but why do I feel like I might exactly why do you feel that Theo you are you are an outspoken person you speak about you go on stage and you you have no boundaries When people in America start to have boundaries About a certain issue We need to ask questions Why? Oh, I get it Why? And also It's just like It's crazy It's just like Maybe it's my disappointment Because I bet everything on this country I really, really love living here Being here And the only thing that I was promised Which is freedom It seems not to work And I'm someone who's been cancelled a few times From my own country So I come here It's like, hey, America, freedom.

1:27:49It's like, oh, freedom about everything except that one thing. Come on, come on, dude. What kind of freedom is that? Maybe I should have like, I don't know, went to Tel Aviv instead. Well, I think it behooves everybody if you can joke about everything. I think that that makes things a lot more chill. How do you handle like not agreeing with Israel but still supporting like your Jewish friends and stuff that are in America? I don't think that's a difficult choice because the Jewish people, So here's the thing, they want you to make you think that all Jewish people are with Israel. That is not true.

1:28:21A lot of Jewish people do not agree with that. Oh yeah, I have a lot of Jewish friends that are on kind of both sides of this thing. You have a Jewish block that every single week that goes out in Europe and in America. And remember when we were talking about those university encampments? Many of them, there was like a Jewish block that was part of, many of them were even arrested with their Arab and American brothers, but they don't want to talk to you about that. You can find many pictures for Orthodox Jews burning the Israeli flag. Orthodox Jews in New York. OJs, yeah. Yeah, OJs. They do not represent us, but they don't want you to see that.

1:29:02They want you to see one thing. How do you get... Here it is. All of those Jewish people, they don't like what is it. You can't show that, dude. We're going to... Why not? Yeah, you old man. Wait, wait, wait. How many pictures of burned American flag have you seen? I don't look at those either. Not at night anyway. But if you have a picture now of burning the American flag or the Iranian flag - Oh, you can't even go to jail for it anymore. No, but like Israeli flag? Why? Why? I'm not inviting people to hate on Israel. I'm not inviting people to hate on Jewish people. I just want to say you need to have the freedom to speak your mind, even if it doesn't please certain people, because this is democracy.

1:29:40democracy is noisy and you will listen to things that you don't like but you should not feel afraid of speaking up your mind yeah yeah i think the part where i even started to think about it was it just started to seem like you know obviously what happened on october 7th was horrible and but then it just started to seem like such a over statement of uh yeah we have to kill hamas that we have to kill Hamas by anybody. And then they just won't exist. And so, I don't know. There's something inside of me, even if I don't know anything about it, there's something inside of me that just says, this just feels messed up.

1:30:15I like the fact that they say, like, oh, we're doing this for Palestinians. We need them. We will get rid of Hamas for them and the Palestinians will be grateful. And then I see the destructions. I see that, yeah, there's a lot of Palestinians who don't like Hamas. But you want to convince me that you want to destroy that place and then you think those people that would be left would be okay with you? Do you think the Palestinian people knew that Hamas was going to do this October 7th? I don't think they knew. And of course, it's devastating for them. And I wish the October 7th never happened.

1:30:49But again, we come back, it's like, how long can you take it? How long can you take the abuse, the land theft, the killing? At a certain point, you're going to be desperate. And you're going to be desperate against a much more stronger enemy. but isn't like but when America revolted for tea they revolted against a much stronger enemy and I find it very interesting how everything in the American culture, you watch Star Wars, you side with the rebels you watch the Hunger Games, you side with the rebels, you go to Israel you side with the oppressors you don't side with the rebels, you don't side with the people with no weapons, you don't side with the people with the machine guns or the You said the people with the military arsenal.

1:31:35Yeah. Because they were deemed terrorists, less humans, dehumanizing. See how they talk about Palestinians. They are death cults, they are terrorists. And what are Palestinians like? Like normal people. Normal people, but they're living in a horrible condition. I married one of them. Oh gosh. So I can report that she has no fangs or nails other than the nails that she does in the nail salon. So she's like a normal human being. And we have normal kids and they don't turn into werewolves at night. They are normal people. They are normal people who have been in this land and they were taken away from them.

1:32:07And this was a problem that was imported from a different continent, done by other perpetrators. They were rejected by other white people and they were just like put on us. And it is terrible and it should not happen. So do Palestinians also have issues with Britain and the US then probably? Of course. But like I don't think they have any time to have issues with anybody. They have time to survive. They're living in tents right now in Gaza, and the people who live in West Bank are under threat to be killed or kicked out at any moment. And I just want people to look at them as humans. Everybody who went to Gaza, everybody who went to West Bank saw what happened to those people, and they will speak of being shut down.

1:32:50Are you able to look at Israel as humans too? Yes. but I ask them, I look at everybody as humans and I will not do the same mistake that they have been doing to us, dehumanizing us, calling us terrorists, but they are acting like terrorists. Why don't we give part of our country to Palestine? Why don't you give part of your country to Jewish people? Oh, yeah, why don't we give part of our country to one of the groups, at least that would help, do you think? Yeah, I think, maybe, but it's not, it's... Or an island, what about that? What if you did a merger, you did Palestine-Ireland? Palestine, that's a good one.

1:33:29Yes. Do you think that's possible? Would Palestine accept something like that where it's like, let's give this place - I'm not Palestinian, so I cannot speak on their behalf, but I think Palestinians want to stay in their land. And I think many of those, this is what drives me crazy because it doesn't make any sense. Any Jewish person all around the world, if you're like a Polish Jewish, like an American Jewish, just because you're Jewish, you can get the Israeli passport right now. Right now. And once you get the passport, you can come from Brooklyn, land into Israel, take a piece of land that was owned by a Palestinian right on the spot.

1:34:08Or a home that is owned by a Palestinian saying that this is your promised land. Like what do you mean? You can walk into the house? Yeah. You can just walk in the house and you can have videos of people taking their stuff and barging into a Palestinian home in the West Bank. It happens all the time. It doesn't make any sense. A Brooklyn Jew, just because he was born Jew, can just go to Israel, take the passport, and take a piece of land that is belonged to someone else, even now as we speak. Does that make any sense? But most people wouldn't do that. Many people do that. Many people do that. On every single given day, you have planes with thousands of Jewish people from all over the world coming from Eastern Europe, coming from Africa, coming from Latin America, coming from America, and settling in the land, settling in Arab land.

1:34:53The Palestinian people, do they have a police department? They have something called the Palestinian Authority, which is an oxymoron. They are called the Palestinian Authority, but show me an authority that has absolutely no say about the foreign people coming in and taking land from your people. My friend got a job at the airport, and he was a little guy, right? And they gave him a billy club and it weighed him down. Dude, he was so little. He's like, he probably weighed 60 pounds or whatever. And I guess - I think he's more effective more than the Palestinian Authority. He has more power than their - The club, dude, when you'd see him run, it was so - He almost had to run sideways because the way the club would like shuffle and like block his legs.

1:35:35I wish it was that funny. What's a solution? There has to, you have to have some - The solution is to end the occupation and the solution is that israel should stop killing palestinians taking their land it's as simple as that details what land how much well that's not my thing to say because i'm a comedian not a politician i'm not a palestinian there are palestinian politicians that can talk on their behalf but i can tell you whatever is happening now is wrong and i'm not it's not my problem or my issue to come up with a solution because i didn't cause that crisis it's someone else caused it and it's not for me to fix it for them.

1:36:09But what I can say, what's happening is wrong. Are any American or British leaders, and some of this stuff I don't know a ton, you know, I'm trying my best to learn. Is some American or British leaders trying to help negotiate that? Have we tried over the years to help? Yeah, but it's always been skewed towards Israel. What Israel wants to do. Is that true though? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because both sides have rejected peace agreements, right? Yes, but one of them rejected it because basically you're giving them a very shitty deal and the other side rejected it because they want more. And now they're telling you, it's like, hey, you know what?

1:36:44Forget about the second state. Forget about two state solution. Even the Israelis say that it's all ours now, forget it. What about like ladder and bloom or something? Who is doing the, or remark or something? Who's negotiating it all? I don't know, there's no negotiation now. Like Israel hasn't gone to the negotiation table for the past 20 years. Like is Gaza on Zillow? No. I think if there's Zillow's. I'm just joking, dude. Is that offensive? Oh my God. No, no, no, no. I learned to laugh about everything. It's like, I think Zillow's like. Here's the thing. If it's not on Zillow, I don't think you can take it.

1:37:27However, it's not in Zillow. It's not. Oh, wow. But I think one thing about a lot of my Jewish friends I notice is they do a good job of working together. Jewish people are great business people. And I don't wanna kind of be the guy who said, hey, I have black friends, but like, I honestly like my agents, my managers, and they all come from companies that are overwhelmingly Jewish people. And I have no problem with dealing with it.

1:37:57My utmost friend and the guy that I look up to is Jon Stewart. And he's the reason why I'm known to America when I came on his show. He came to my show, I love him to death. that he's my big brother and he's Jewish. I don't, and that's why I don't fall into this like Jewish, Jewish, Jewish thing. Now, there are just like bad people that happen to be Jewish, and there's bad people that happen to be Muslims. There are bad people that happen to be Christians, and there are bad people that happen to be atheists. I don't look through the lens of religion, but I can see people who would use religion in order to advance their policy.

1:38:27The same way that ISIS and Qaeda used Islam in order to promote themselves as the only speakers of Islam. We as Muslims rejected it. And the way that Israel is speaking on behalf of all Jewish people. Jewish people, a lot of Jewish people are rejecting that because it's not anti-Semitism to attack Israel. It's not anti-Semitism to criticize Zionism. It's just like freedom of expression. And that is why I don't hold, but they want to reduce you. You're a Jew hater. Dude, relax, I'm not. Yeah, I don't like when people say that sort of thing. Yeah, it's a way to shut down the conversation, to scare you, to intimidate you, to make people have like a negative reaction to you without even you speaking.

1:39:01Dude, if I hated Jewish people, I would know. You would know. You would know. You know what I'm saying? I feel like I'd be the first to know. You go to New York and not eat bagels. You'll know. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I would have an inkling. You're a boy called Bagels in New York. Yeah. Now, don't do that, dude. Have you had debates with friends on this topic a lot? Yeah, many times, many times. And some of them listen. Some of them are set in their ways, like anything. That's true for Americans, for Egyptians. I have debates about the Egyptian revolution with Egyptian friends who would never listen to my point of view.

1:39:37So yes, it's a very emotionally charged topic. So you will have people coming in very emotional and they will not want to hear. Yeah. Have you heard a good solution idea from a friend? No, a solution is end the occupation and treat everybody living in that land equally. Don't treat them as subhumans. But at this point, say they ended the occupation, right? Those, the people, nobody's, the kids are never going to forget. It's never going to. Yeah. Yeah. You have created a catastrophe. You have created something that will last for decades. Many of those people do not like America right now. They don't like Jewish people like now.

1:40:18They don't like, oh, you just realized. Well, yeah, because it's American young men and women and they're probably at some point going to have to go and put their blood in a field somewhere. Yes. and as an American, I don't want America being involved in wars in the Middle East. I don't want America to be funding wars in the Middle East. I don't want our taxpayers' money going to fund killing babies. Some babies are assholes. I'll say that. Some of them. Some of them. I give you that. Not a lot of me. Every now and then you're like, whoa, dude. But you don't want your money. But I'm joking too, babies.

1:40:52Yeah, but you don't want your money to be part of that disruption. Well, our country's fucking falling apart. Everybody is addicted or dealing with addiction or families are dealing with loss from addiction. You kill people's spirits with the fucking bullshit plan for the vaccine. But don't make it worse and go and pay more money for destruction. If it's already been fucked, like deal with these fuckery. Don't make it worse. Don't go and fuck yourself even more. I wish you guys could settle it on the field. Is there any sports that Israel and Palestine play against each other? Circumcision. Oh, really?

1:41:29That's the only thing in common.

1:41:40And who's winning? I don't know. Like, I think we get, because there are more Muslims, I think we're cutting more dicks than they. There you go, the year, huh? This year. Like on the NAS deck. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And let's see. When you see like the pain and the like physical destruction and the human destruction that's happening over there and just like the videos of people being like maimed and brutalized on both sides over there. As a surgeon, that must make you feel some type of way too. Yeah, and there's a lot of surgeons and doctors who've been to Gaza and they come back with horrible stories.

1:42:15Yeah, they're all over there. They tell you because every single hospital in Gaza is bombed. 36 hospitals, all of them destroyed. You have like maternity wards and incubators being killed. They have basically a place that has no basic needs and you're bombing the shit out of them every day. And you say, oh, we couldn't get Hamas. It's like Israel, I think the IDF would be the worst in playing Jenga. You know, like, okay, this is a terrorist. Ah, the whole region went down. Well, you do think that if the army is that acute that they would be able to be more articulate. You mean like killing people less discriminately?

1:42:59Just like getting exactly whoever Hamas is. Yeah, they can, they can, but they don't care. Because we have seen them on video killing babies. We cannot just tell me it's by mistake when you have babies with sniper bullets in their head. Yeah. Right? Twice. You can say that's my mistake. You can say, oh, we're trying our best and then you blow up an empty hospital or an empty school just for spite. Yeah. You can't say, oh, we're not doing that by mistake, and you cannot have a war when 80 % of the people are displaced, 100 % of the people are just, 100 % of the place is destroyed, and 50 % of the infrastructure is completely wiped out.

1:43:43It's 80%. You can't. This is not war. This is annihilation. Do you think it's going to stop or no? It's been going on for eight months, and I don't know how much they're gonna continue. And they - I think there was just, what's the latest? Nothing, they just bombed a, there's a video of a refugee hospital. All Palestinians to leave Gaza's largest city, the latest, Israel orders all Palestinians to leave Gaza's largest city. Yeah, also there's a video - Where do they go if they're ordered to leave? They just, in the rural areas around, they wanna push them into Sinai, but in Sinai they can't, but they're closed.

1:44:16And they can - Sinai's closed? The borders with Sinai. Also, you can see there's a video of a refugee hospital, a refugee school in Gaza, that the moment that they were playing football and Israel just dropped a bomb as they were playing football. Well, let me read this. Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas' October 7th attack in which militants stormed into Israel, killed some 1 ,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250. Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 38 ,000 people in Gaza. According to the territory's health ministry, does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.

1:44:50Wow. But yeah, that's the video. They were playing football. This is like a refugee camp. And then the moment - What is a refugee camp? A refugee school. They're like inside guys, they're all, see?

1:45:08Oh. That's every single day. Every single day. That's every single day. in schools and hospitals every single day. That just happened two days ago. Yeah. Man. Yeah, I don't know. I just remember when I was a kid, my mom would say sometimes, like, I don't know why we're sending Israel all this money, you know? But she never liked Netanyahu. Yeah, but whether Netanyahu or more, we said he looks like a bad guy. We send money to Israel even before Netanyahu. The question is, there's just like a lot of questions and we need to be able to ask these questions without having fear of being canceled or destroyed or having our career taken away from us.

1:45:53Well, we fucking threw that out the window this episode. I don't think you did anything wrong, Theo. Theo, you did well, man. Even listening though, sometimes. Even listening now, you're afraid of listening? What happened to our American freedoms? It disintegrated to being afraid of listening. Oh, as a human being, I'm okay. I think just my life, I get worried about being able to still do my job. You did nothing wrong, Theo. You got a guy who spoke his mind, which is what Americans are. I agree. You just gave me a platform to speak our mind and you're bringing someone else who will say the opposite of what I'm gonna say.

1:46:25It's gonna be up to people to decide. How do you like support your Jewish friends like just in the US and stuff or whatever, who disagree with the kind of some of the situation there? Is that kind of tough sometimes? It is tough for them. I mean, I have a lot of Jewish friends who are in disagreement with their parents who are pretty much Zionist and they don't agree with that. And as Zionists, what is it again? Just give me one. Okay. According to Jewish people or Zionist people, it is just simply having a national state of Israel in the Middle East. But for us, it's more than that. For us, it's more than this.

1:46:59It's not just the establishment. This is what they tell you, just the establishment. But for us, they have done that by displacing people, colonizing their land and taking away their homes, taking away their land. For us, Zionism is not good. Okay. For who? for Arabs and Muslims because they took a land from Palestinians under the pretense of this thing and then they tell you it's decolonization. If Israel moved out of the territory there, do you think that another group would move right into it? No, I don't think. There's seven or eight million Jews in Israel. That's a lot of people to move out.

1:47:35Right, but I'm just saying, say if that was vacated, would Syrians or Egyptians or somebody else cruise right in there? Because there are already Palestinians there. And how many Palestinians live in Israel? Okay. There are 3.5 million who live in the West Bank. 2.3 million live in Gaza. So a total of eight. Inside Israel, in the territory, there are 2 million of Palestinians live in Israel. And there are 7 million Palestinians who live outside refugees. And where is one of the largest spaces of Palestinians outside of? Jordan. Jordan. Jordan. What about in America? No, maybe there are like half a million.

1:48:15Maybe Michigan? No, no, no. Michigan, there's a lot of Muslims, but many of them are Lebanese, many of them are Iraqis. Some of them are Palestinians. I think they are about like 400 ,000 in America. A total of 7 million outside of Palestine, 7 million. Some of them are refugees, some of them are citizens of other countries now. How much longer do you think Palestine? I see, 175, yeah. oh 175 000 Palestinian in America yeah wow that's like 0.05 they're very small some of them are on Wilshire every couple of every other Saturday hey yeah yeah three of them some of them have the best uh restaurants here um well yeah yeah I I'm I'm super glad we got to talk about it uh sorry for some stuff I was kind of like trying to like you know I just I think some stuff I don't know what if it's like, I don't know what to say, I guess.

1:49:09And sometimes I just listen because I don't know how to like, some conversations I just, you just don't know what to say or do. Yeah, and I understand because for Americans, Americans have so much to worry about. They have to worry about their own daily life and their own like paying their bills. And then it's like, why do we have to care about this remote place in the Middle East that we will never see? And now why is this like - Yeah, it's a great question. This is like an everyday. This is an everyday. This is an everyday. Why do we have, and I feel for them. But the reason why Americans should care about that, because that is affecting our government, our democracy, our way of life.

1:49:43Because if you're an American, you think this is remotely, remote from you? No, it doesn't, because it affects the way that you speak about politics. You hear many times, you say, I don't know if I'm going to go to jail. Well, if you talk about something that's happening that foreign, you shouldn't be worried about going to jail. You should be worried about talking about the government giving that much money for destruction. So it affects you. Whether you like it or not, it affects you. Yeah, I think one of the bigger problems that we have is that we facilitate so much war and weaponry in the world to try and leverage things.

1:50:20But then maybe that needs to happen for us to have the safety we have. And maybe we're, you know, It's hard to know all that stuff, how one thing affects the other. But you see, I find that this is actually the end result of every conversation. Oh, we don't know, maybe this is what will happen, just in order, but that's like a way to stay complacent. Yeah, it's a good point. Because what is happening is not right. All of this money, all of these billions of dollars coming up from our pockets, that is not right. And I'm talking about money, politics, and freedom. These are the three things that are the cornerstones of American life.

1:50:54Our politics, our freedom, and our money. If we don't know where our money is going and why, and why is our politics is being taken over by a foreign lobby, that is wrong. And you need to start from there. Yeah, it just breaks my heart. I mean, you see what happens over there, and it's heartbreaking. And it's like, well, how do you? Yeah, I just wanted to learn a little bit more about it. And I wanted to get some perspective from somebody that was at least able to speak about it and who was willing to speak up about it. and you've spoken vibrantly about it. And I understand how difficult it is because maybe some of your listeners, your audience don't really care about that stuff.

1:51:31And maybe for them, this is too heavy. But for the people who are interested, what you did is to bring a problem that affects us whether we like it or not. And I'm happy that you're bringing a rabbi to speak on a totally opposite level. And I'm happy that when people have more questions, you bring more people to speak to you. I'm happy to come back again and talk to the people. and because at the end of the day, you listen not just for entertainment, but for education. And there's so many things in that world that I don't know. So I listen to shows that will tell me. So I just want, I'm not here to attack anybody.

1:52:04I'm not here to say bad things about anybody. I'm here to just invite people to be more curious and to understand how things work and to form their own opinion and not just give up to, oh, this is the way it is. We can't change anything. Because if you said that, nothing would change. and then you will come up tomorrow and you will complain about why things are not changing. It just needs to start from asking questions. Asking questions, open your mind and I will be more than happy to come back again and talk about, I'm sure that you can have so many questions, so many rebuttals, like ask him this, ask him that and I'm happy to come and if you would get me on the show again and I'm happy to speak.

1:52:46You see how we talked, it was nothing, there's nothing threatening of what we did today. There's nothing anti-Semitic There's nothing Islamophobic We didn't go and attack people From different faiths We just talk about politics And I might be wrong But prove me wrong Thank you so much man I really appreciate you Inshallah, what do people say? Inshallah is like if God wills Inshallah Inshallah Inshallah Inshallah That's it Amazing Inshallah Yes You can People can find you BasimYusuf.xyz Or Basim at Instagram I'm starting my Montreal I'm coming 20th of July Then I'm going a whole American tour In Florida Chicago Minneapolis Let's go San Francisco Chicago Minneapolis I said that Yeah Tampa Orlando Toronto So I'll see you guys Marvelous yeah if you haven't seen this guy Watch his also his interview with Piers Morgan It's insightful and interesting And funny And it's okay to say that We have to laugh in times of pain That's why God put it into us Thank you Thank you for having me Thank you for the space Thank you for accommodating me I appreciate you love all of your listeners guys Love you all

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