as Iran and its proxies beat the war drums ever harder and Israel prepares

for a multi-front war in the new year of 2024 the Biden Administration is

escalating its pressure on Israel to Stand Down by among other things using its own proxies to threaten to overthrow

the netan government I’ll give you details on all that coming up and in

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2023 was not a very nice year here in Israel in fact it was a terrible year in Israel it started with 10 months of the

left’s Insurgency near civil war against the uh netan government and it ended in

war uh with the Hamas October 7th Invasion that of course uh uh opened up

uh a major war uh between Israel and Hamas and Israel with Iran’s Lebanese

proxy hasbalah a war that right now is uh seen as low intensity but it is

moving very quickly towards high intensity as we’ll see in just a second 2023 ended uh with Hamas shooting a 20

rocket Brigade uh bar uh at Southern at sorry at Central

Israel to the areas around Tel Aviv at midnight um to show that uh just as uh

we’ve seen really that despite the fact that the IDF has uh gained control on

the ground of much of Northern uh Gaza and also parts of central Gaza and is

focusing its effort on Southern Gaza the areas where Israel controls things on the ground doesn’t mean that the war is

over we’ve had very violent battles ambushes of our forces uh in the north

and in central Gaza because while you may control 70 80% of the terrain you’re

control far less of the Subterranean battle space which is where

Hamas of course has buried down in a massive expanse of of tunnels uh some of

which are miles long and located anywhere between 50 and 80 M below the

surface and and uh there we keep seeing over and over again Hamas terrorists jumping up uh like Viet Kong uh in the

Vietnam War killing IDF soldiers and then um running back into their holes um

and it’s much more difficult as a practical matter to get them there which is also where we assess that the uh

hostages are located uh being used as human Shields around hamas’s Terror

Masters both uh throughout the go throughout the uh Gaza Strip um I certainly don’t know where whether it’s

in Northern or or Central or Southern Gaza in the South IDF forces are

focusing their efforts right now in the uh town of Kan Yunis which is another

major operational Hub of Hamas it’s where uh their uh uh leader Yas sinir

Mass murdering sadist um jihadist uh lives and uh and is likely to now be

located in the tunnels beneath the surface um and we have many many uh brigades operating there it’s a very

very difficult battle space um the finding is house to house um it’s very

violent it’s very hard um and uh it’s ongoing the one place that Israel hasn’t

really attacked yet but it must as prime minister Benjamin nanyo said at his news

conference on Saturday night is the Border Town of Rafa which controls the internet interal border between Gaza and

Egypt and that’s seen as the major uh strategic Hub of weapon smuggling again

through Subterranean tunnels uh and also through humanitarian assistance trucks

moving in from Gaza to from uh from uh from Egypt to Gaza so we’re looking at a

very difficult battle uh that we’re fighting today and an expanded battle that we’re going to be fighting in the

future throughout the throughout the GL Heights I keep saying Goen Heights because we’re going to get to that in a second throughout the GSA strip um so

this isn’t a nice way to start the year I was doing an interview uh Saturday night with um Fox’s um online um live

now uh news and um it was nice long interview and I the interviewer asked me

what I thought the greatest threat facing Israel was going to be in 2024 and I said take a number because there

are so many and I said 2024 is going to be a war a war year it’ll be a year of war and as we see it certainly is

starting out that way and there’s uh every reason to believe uh that it’s only going to escalate in the coming

months so unfortunately that’s the news but hopefully by this time next year on

January 1st 2025 the war will be behind us and our enemies will have been defeated and our soldiers will have been

able to come home to their families um be that as it may um we are seeing the

other fronts uh rising in intensity of the fighting and of the organization of

enemy forces all organized by Iran of course uh to expand and escalate uh

their their fight against Israel um in Lebanon uh we see a couple of things one

is that we’re continuing to see escalating uh rocket fire into Northern Israel and we’re also seeing um

depressingly or distress inly that there’s also been a a pretty heavy movement of forces from Eastern Syria

and Iraq and perhaps from Afghanistan through these areas into Lebanon so

we’ve been seeing increasing troop movement and movement of armaments from the Iraq border across Syria and into

Lebanon or in terms of the forces they’re moving into Lebanon and they’re moving into the Syrian Goan Heights

porched against Israel’s Northeastern border uh in the Golan Heights so we’re

seeing Iran lining up its proxy forces uh for an extensive operation against

Israel from the north both in Syria and in Lebanon the IDF and particularly the

Air Force has been carrying out a lot of escalating strikes inside of Syria both

against the Damascus Airport and against the rat line of of uh forces and

Munitions that are trans being transported by land across Syria starting in Iraq I think over the

weekend we saw air attacks that did extend from East and Iraq uh into uh the

Syrian Goan Heights to try to block the movements of forces and of course Israel

attacked the uh head of the Iranian revolutionary guard Corps that was operating in Syria of the Syrian uh the

Syrian Division I guess you would call it of the irgc who was responsible for coord inting both the movement of forces

and ammunitions uh in the war against uh Israel so he was taken out as were some

other irgc senior leaders operating in Syria over the past week so they’re lining up their forces and Israel is

doing what it can in order to undermine their ability to line up those forces uh ahead of a much more high-intensity

battle uh in the north um and Israel has done a lot of training of its forces we

had forces that are now sort of being uh quietly um would diminish the number of forces

at the border with Lebanon reservists are being allowed to go home for a couple of weeks and then come back so

they’re having more extended furlows and then returning um they underwent

training on uh the amava 3 tanks uh which Israel was intending to

idiotically export to Europe but they uh that that those orders were cancelled

and they’ve been reintroduced to of service for our reservice uh that are poised to fight in Lebanon so um we’ve

had that we’re building up new division forces that’ll be able to fight uh in the northern sector as well and going

over War plans um and and uh so we’re we’re looking towards uh that um we have

uh the hooes in the Red Sea the United States is removing now just gave orders

uh Lloyd Austin the defense secretary to withdraw the USS Carrier Group Gerald

Ford uh back to its Home Port uh in Virginia from the Eastern Mediterranean

where it was deployed immediately after hamas’s October 7th Invasion um and now

Austin said that it’s going back to the United States so they’re removing that uh which we’ll get to in a second uh the

United States’s Eisenhower carrier group is in the Gulf of addin off the Yemen

Coast with um theaba mandab as part of this Coalition that the United States formed to try to fight the houti piracy

of international shipping in the Red Sea but so far that Coalition seems to be a

bit of a dud it seems to again just be an anglo-american force of the British and the Americans and they’ve made

pretty explicit their intention not to take any offensive action against the houis but you know there’s a lot of fog

of war in uh that fight so on the surface it looks completely incompetent

but they are bringing a lot of uh of uh Naval vessels there both the British and

the Americans so that remains a work in progress and we’ll have to see what the Americans are really intending to do because right now basically they’re

standing back and allowing Iran to undermine International uh Merchant shipping in one of the major hubs of uh

World commercial market so that would be quite extraordinary if the United States Dees they don’t care about that anymore

um um so we’ll just have to see how that pans out but all the same the hooti

operation in the in the Red Sea to interfere with civilian shipping has already led to an effective Maritime

embargo or or blockade of Israel’s port in a lot so Israel is suffering uh very

significant consequences to this active economic war of Naval War by the houis and the United States has been

restraining Israel from taking any offensive action against yemeni ports and houti forces or the Iranian most

importantly the Iranian Espionage ship that we’ve spoken about in previous discussions uh that’s really directing

all of the houti operations against international shipping in the Red Sea so um the United States is restraining

Israel it so far has limited all of its operations to defensive uh interceptions of uh of bombs of uh

drones being shot uh at uh civilian uh Merchant vessels in in the Red Sea by

the houti forces that are being directed by Iran so the United States will have to see that’s a work in progress but

certainly they don’t seem to be doing a lot um and then finally uh there was word that just came out a report today

that uh Central Command in the IDF is now assessing in its assessment for 2025

that we Face an increased likelihood of assaults from Jordan uh by

Iranian uh controlled uh militias umbala and others uh attacking Israel from

Jordan we know that there have been a lot of uh fights between Jordanian military forces and these Iranian uh

controlled militia from hisis balah and other uh Terror groups controlled by

Iran in Iraq and in Syria both along the Jordanian border with Iraq and Jordan’s

border with Syria just in over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen over the past two years an intense an intense

um um uh uh smuggling operation across the border between Israel and Jordan of

arms and terrorists both into judan Samaria the Westbank and also into

Sovereign Israel um and that uh those massive smuggling operations led to the

intensif intensification of Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel over

the past two years in Jude and Samaria and in places like Jerusalem um and uh

there seems to have been a linkage formed between these Iranian proxy forces uh in Iraq in Syria operating

through Jordan and into Israel so cedal command is concerned that we may actually be seeing a war scenarios

carried out uh along the border with Jordan uh by Iranian proxies so that’s

that’s a border that’s been largely unprotected we discussed this also in terms of the reduction of Reserve forces

that Israel uh carried out uh in the past two decades that has seen our

reever Reserve forces on the eve of the Hamas October 7th Invasion having been

reduced over 80% uh over a 20-year period so uh now we’re expanding them

obviously all the same this is the threat environment so when I said take a number uh to Fox I I meant it um and

um you know then let’s just go back for a second to the removal of the carrier group and the larger game that the

United States the Biden Administration is now uh carrying out uh in terms of

its relations with Israel and with Iran oh and Iran one last word about that I think we’ve spoken about it but if not

it’s worth just mentioning it’s worth mentioning even if we have which is that Iran the the international atomic energy

agency of the UN which is in charge of inspecting all of Iran’s nuclear sites and overseeing in general its elicit

nuclear weapons program announced that Iran is massively expanded in 60% enrichment operations which is pledged

not to do just months ago uh and it’s now um

essentially placed no limits on the amount of uranium it’s enriching to near weapons grade levels and the assessment

of a lot of people whose opinions I trust have said look it looks like what

Iran is trying to do is reach breakout nuclear breakout not with one atomic

bomb but actually being able to announce at once that it has an atomic arsenal of

10 or 20 atomic bombs so that it’s not saying we have one nuclear pop gun you know take

us seriously it’s saying we have 20 take us very seriously and so that seems to

be the operation that they want a Cascade effect where they have a full-fledged nuclear arsenal when they

reach breakout pace and that uh reach breakout uh mode and um the large

assessment the the basic assessment of Israeli for of Israeli uh War planners

is that Iran intends to attack Israel

through his Bala and perhams directly as soon as it reaches nuclear breakout so

that they’re they’re restraining for now hasbalah because they want hisbah to attack Israel with full force along with

the augmented forces that they’re bringing in uh to Syria from Iraq and

Afghanistan and other places um they want to attack basically simultaneous

with uh Iran declaring that it has nuclear Arsenal so um this then brings

us to the United States’s decision to withdraw the Ford carrier group from the Eastern Mediterranean so the decision by

the P President Biden’s decision just like on October 8th to deploy the

carrier group to the Eastern Mediterranean seemed to have been made kind of on the Fly um and initially it

was incredibly important for Israel because we were um we were facing u a uh a uh we were

facing a devastating scenario that uh while we were still Gathering our forces

after the uh complete shock that we received on October 7th with hamas’s

Invasion and the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis in a single day and the

kidnapping of another 240 uh into captivity as hostages of Hamas and Gaza we needed time to catch

our breath and to um mobilize our Reserve forces both in Gaza and also in

the north because hbal immediately opened up with barges of rocket and missile fire into Israel following

hamas’s uh Invasion so um if if the United States hadn’t announced that it

was sending the carrier group and then sent it you know Israel was facing a prospect of being at war with his Bala

without having the forces to fight that war so it was an extremely important move by B that may have stopped aala Invasion so

what are we supposed to do now and we’re looking at this as Iran uh hasbalah and

also Hamas forces are entering into South Lebanon they already have a presence there in greater numbers

they’re coming in now um how are we supposed to look at the Biden administration’s decision to remove the

Ford carrier group now when uh chances of War Rise by the day so there are

three different ways to look at it one is just oh it’s got nothing to do with anything which is what secretary Austin

said he said look you know um we sent it there but it was supposed to be uh in

Doc in Virginia uh for servicing and uh we’re bringing it back now so that it

can remain on its servicing schedule um and it’s got nothing to do with anything and nothing to see here folks uh maybe

probably not uh there are two other possible scenarios that I see just off the top of my head uh the first one is

look you know I I said the entire time like after that initial save that the United States did so importantly uh on

the heels of October 7th by sending the carrier group to the Eastern Mediterranean it became less and less

clear who the carrier group was there in order to deter from going to war whether

it was hisbah as originally advertised or whether it had just become Israel

because in the meantime uh Biden kept sending more and more messages to Israel some of them have been published in the

US media itself saying you better not go to war against kbal you better not go to war against kbal you know we have uh 70

or 80,000 Israelis who are now internal refugees from the border communities with the north because they can’t live

there given the level of threat posed by hasbalah Port forces Commando forces porched at the border and trained to

invade their communities and Massacre them so the we have uh we have 70,000 at

least uh internal refugees from the border communities in the north who are now living in hotels uh throughout the

country because they can’t live in their homes until that thread from kisala forces and obviously kisala missiles and

Rockets is diminished so that’s one thing that we’re facing another thing that we’re facing um and and and so as a

result of that that particular threat we’re in a situation where um unless

something miraculous happens and kisala decides to stand out and even if that happens kbal still has to remove its

forces from the border uh we can’t allow our civilians to go back the threat is just too great after what happened on

October 7th you can’t have an armed Terror terrorist force uh controlled by

Iran standing at your border uh right against uh the walls right against the

right in front of the homes of your civilians you can’t do that anymore so Israel can’t actually allow its

civilians to go home to their farms and to their homes until after the with theala forces are removed the likelihood

of reaching some sort of diplomatic solution to this clearly medical uh military problem were basically nil and

yet the United States was trying to negotiate a deal between Israel and

hasbalah that would see a cosmetic withdrawal of some of those forces uh perhaps 10 perhaps 30 kilometers away

from the border but they would all remain intact and in exchange Israel is supposed to cough up its own Sovereign

territory from the Golan Heights to the city of naria on the western coast uh

tobala which would have been which if Israel were stupid enough to do would uh

constitute a strategic collapse of Israel’s will to defend itself and be seen as such by Iran and its proxy

forces at our borders and also by our allies uh throughout the Arab world so or would be partners all the same and so

you have this situation where the United States was pushing for a policy that was going to further imperil Israel not to

fight means leaving Northern communities at risk of annihilation by invading forces from Lebanon and uh trying to

push them away in a diplomatic agreement that was going to see Israel surrender territory to the Iranian proxy as it’s

as it as it threatens to uh invade Israel would uh also be a strategic

Calamity for the Jewish States so Israel would also not be able to do with that on the other hand forcing Israel to

stand down is a strategic uh victory for Kama and for hisbah and for Iran for the

same reason so that’s been the United States policy and so the question was what is the Ford carrier group doing in

the region given that the United States is forcing Israel to restrain itself against growing uh aggression from the

north from hasbalah and from Iran’s other proxies in Syria and in Iraq and

um now it’s leaving so aside from what Austin claimed which is that it’s just going for repairs and regular servicing

there are other two other scenarios one is that the United States has said to Israel you know do whatever you want

we’re just not going to be involved we’re not you know we don’t want to be part of this war we don’t feel like fighting Iran in his proxies if you feel

you need to go ahead but we’re not going to help you and that’s why we’re removing uh our Carrier Group uh the

other possibility is that they’re doing it in order to threaten Israel and say look you’re on your own you know good

luck to you um if you go against our wishes is to War uh in Lebanon and not

only are you on your own but you know we’re not necessarily going to side with you because we offered you this idea of strategic collapse through surrender of

territory and you didn’t want it so you know there it could be bad or you know it could be we’re washing our hands of

it but you have a green light could be washing your hand our hands of it and we’re not supporting you I mean I think

that those are the two likely most likely explanations for it um but what

we we definitely know is that what wants most urgently is for the war to end and

to this end um not only have there been multiplying reports that he’s been

Haring netan that their conversations are no longer you know friendly chats

between two allies with the larger Ally of the United States wanting to uh be in

Communications with a smaller Ally to see how to help them as a smaller Ally

fights the forces that are also enemies of the the larger Ally of the United States but rather that these are uh

increasingly hostile conversations where Biden is doing two things one is demanding that Israel stand down both in

relation to the houis and Iran and its nuclear Arsenal and not to attack Iran

and its nuclear installations or its uh or its refineries or its uh oil oil um

Terminals and gas terminals uh on the coastline and not to uh attack back

preemptively ofala and Lebanon or take any action that may move the front in

the north into a more high intensity mode along the lines of what we’re seeing in Gaza and as for Gaza the

United States wants Israel to set out its plan for the day after and the

United States insists that the plan for the day after that it insists that Israel sit down and and discuss and

approve would involve moving Palestinian Authority uh us trained

anti-israel uh military forces from Judea and Samaria to Gaza and they would

then take over Gaza in a post Hamas Gaza not Israel and then that would lead to

the unification of judan Samaria the Palestinian Authority controlled areas

in Judean Samaria and Gaza and an increased pressure to compel Israel to

accept a Palestinian State ruled by fatak ruled by the PLO ruled by the Palestinian Authority um controlled by

Palestinian Authority forces in the in Jude and Samaria in Gaza and likely in

in Jerusalem as well and Israel rejects that on many many levels it rejects it

because the Palestinian Authority forces are terrorist forces just like the ones

uh in Hamas they have a longer timeline line for Israel’s Annihilation but they have the same goal which is Israel’s

Annihilation um and even though they’ve been uh funded and trained and are

massively supported by us tax taxpayers in the US military um they

are um corrupt uh largely incompetent but they’re also genocidal in their

Outlook towards Israel these forces train to kill Israelis they train to

invade Israeli communities um we have uh you know training videos of these us trained

forces or you can look at some uh where they are training to invade Israeli

communities to attack Israeli forces in judan Samaria and seemingly Beyond as

well so that’s one reason their enemy forces despite the fact that they are trained by the United States basically

United States has raised an enemy terrorist Army in Israel’s Heartland and

insists that it’s an ally to Israel in the war against Terror and of course in the joint War of the moderate

Palestinians from the PLO and the moderate Israelis from the hard left against the extremists on both sides

with Hamas being the extremist in in h Palestinian society and the evil

settlers the Jews the 500,000 Jews who live in judan and Samaria on the Israeli

side so it’s all sort of uh this package this concept which was completely proven

wrong on October 7th it had been proven wrong a million times before but in the most graphic and horrific way on October

7th when all factions of Palestinian Society participated in the invasion and the massacre and the mutilation the rape

the kidnapping the Looting of Israeli citizens and Israeli communities along the border um and uh fat the Palestinian

Authority the PA Security Services have done nothing but celebrate October 7th

since so there’s like no daily between Kamas and fatak and as for the violent

settlers or whatever this has been repeatedly demonstrated by Israel police

and grudgingly as we discussed last week uh by a Central Command as well um that

this is just a lie there is no settler violence violent altercations between Jews and and Muslims Jews and

Palestinians and Jude and Samaria were down 50% month by month from

2022 in the two months that followed October 7th so there is no escalating

Violence by uh Jews against Arabs in Jude and smear or anywhere else in the country um and so this is this is just

you know it’s just a slanderous attack at any rate I think it’s really important to point out that on uh

December 28th uh one of the administration’s mouthpieces uh Washington Post columnist

David Ignatius wrote a piece where he essentially laid out the US uh plan to

compel Israel to accept its day after scenario by among other things threatening to oust or actually Ting

prime minister nanyo from Power because netan despite all of this pressure

that’s being placed on him both by the Americans and then by uh the leftwing members of his emergency War cabin at

Benny Gans and kotti Eisen cot uh working by the way with the defense minister y G who is supposed to be a

loyalist to netanel but he’s sort of uh reverted to typ as an IDF General and he’s siding with the uh with the

pacifists and the general staff against Anon and this and they’re all in insisting on having this discussion in

the government and the war cabinet and the emergency cabinet and wherever on the day after where Israel has to accept

uh the American Plan essentially of a Palestinian State being the end state of

the Palestinian invasion of Israel and the massacre of 1,200 Israelis so that

they invade us they Massacre us they slaughter us they rape us and then we have to give them a state that’s the

American plan and in the meantime Israel has to stand down in Lebanon stand down let Iran cross the nuclear threshold in

Iran allow the hooes Iran’s proxies to blockade its Coastline and so I just

want to say a couple of things here so Ignatius is article was uh notable for

its incredible incredible hostility towards netan who we should just remember a year

ago received a resounding mandate from the people of Israel to lead the country

and still today uh has the support now in time of War of 60% of Israelis who

want him to continue on and less than a third of Israelis think that he should re resign so you know we’re looking at

majority uh small minority unfortunately this minority

contains a lot of the same Elites who were burning Israel down for the 10 months preceding the October 7th

Invasion at any rate so here’s what he says and I’m just going to read a bit of

this it’s called Palestinians must be part of any post-war Gaza peacekeeping Force so here he’s making the deal now

what does he say it’s it’s very nice the way that Ignatius puts every together all of the Israeli far-left talking

points together with the Biden administration because basically they’re operating together um and so he says

here as New Year’s Day approaches this from December 28th in a blood soaked

Gaza the Biden Administration must prod Israel to Face Reality there is no

endgame for this war that doesn’t require a Palestinian security Force to maintain order in Gaza after Hamas is

deposed then he goes on and he starts talking about how it has to be the Palestinian Security Forces it’s true

they’re corrupt it’s true they’re incompetent but they’re all we have and we need them and we need them to come in

and then he says then he says that uh prime minister netan refuses perhaps is

incapable of thinking clearly about this uh and that’s why he’s

resisting and he says and this is this is one of the lovely things that he says there’s so many lovely lines here it’s

hard not to just read the whole thing and gag but I’ll try my best says here Israel’s difficulty in thinking clearly

about future Security in Gaza is an example of the broader policy making failure in Israel after the country went

to war after hamas’s Savage terrorist attack on October 7th some prominent

israelies have told me privately for more than a month that the United States

must press Israel to make wise choices about this war because netan seems

unable to make them himself so our leader is incompetent and therefore his

political opponents in Israel not surprisingly are telling Ignatius privately that you know the United

States has to Hector Israel and force Israel to take the actions that are weak

and you know I don’t know listless prime minister seems unable to make himself

then he goes like this he says the only way to do Gaza right is to is to empower

these forces in the West Bank against these forces are the ones training for war against Israel these forces in Gaza

participated and took pictures of themselves participating and we showed you this before here it is again fat

forces right with their fat headbands on going in and participating in the

slaughter of Israelis on October 7th right so he’s saying that these forces

17,000 of them are in Gaza and have been receiving monthly checks from the US

Finance Palestinian authorities since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007 and they

have to be they have to be the the the backbone of a future Palestinian

security Force so these people are adjuncts to Hamas and have been since

2007 and now they’re going to be on top of Kamas and they’re going to be moderate and they’re going to be

independent of Kamas and they’re going to take over with Egypt’s help with America’s help and by shoving them down

Israel’s throat but in order for that to happen first of all something else has to happen which is that Israel has to

give uh Palestinian Security Services again these people training to kill us

in judan Samaria at the US tax P payers dime we have to let them operate more

widely in judan and Samaria so right now under the treaties that Israel signed

with a PLO they’re allowed to operate in area a which are all the Palestinian major cities in judan Samaria from

Janine in the north to Kon in the South they go across and they operate only in

the cities they’re uh you know they’re extremely well trained Commandos they

have the latest military gear and armaments courtesy again of us taxpayers

and US trainers from the US Military and the CIA so they have all of this training they have all of these arms but

they’re only allowed to operate in the cities and America says that’s no good that’s only 18% of the territory and

they have to be able to operate in what’s called area B which is the sort of the the more the smaller villages in

Judean Samaria more uh rural areas of Judean Samaria that abot the Israeli

community so that they can be an even larger threat to the 500,000 Israelis living in judan and Samaria and then you

know the 2 million 3 million Israelis who live in central Israel which is just you know Stones Throw from from uh from

judan and Samaria so what he’s saying is okay they’re only an 18% let’s expand

their rid let’s allow them to operate openly at another 22% so that they’re actually in control of 40% of judan

Samaria and they’re literally operating just outside of the communities where

you have half a million Israelis living and the cities where you have several more million Israelis living because

that’s going to solve the situation in Gaza where they’re going to be deployed

together with hamas’s you know adjunct crew in fatak that have been getting all

the money from uh us taxpayers since 2007 and operating under Hamas including

on October 7th and there’s participation in the slaughter in southern Israel so the United States has to allow that to

happen and the biggest roadblock to all that is who I don’t know how you got it

but you’re right it’s BB as prime minister netan he’s the biggest problem

and uh he just has to be uh marginalized so first what he does which is

interesting is that Ignatius praises to high heaven um the uh general of Central

Command we’ve talked about him repeatedly here UDA fuk so just as I reviled him because he has attached

himself to the American slander of Israelis who live in Jude and Samaria

and his incredible insistence on paring the

livess claims that there’s been an expansion of settler violence we talked about this I think almost the entire

broadcast last week um so just as I find him an object

of of scorn and believe that he should never have been appointed to his

position he should certainly be removed from his position as quickly as possible because of the way that he acts and his

refusal to understand the inherent hostility of the US of the Palestinian forces that the United States has

trained in Jordan Samar so so ignacious and his interlocutors in Biden

Administration and in Washington uphold him as a paragon of

stability so of fuks he sees him as

quote an he is an unlikely Ally to the United States in the drive to restrain

extremist Settlers of course there aren’t almost any of those but the United States has capitalized on it

because it enables them to maintain their faith and Devotion to this this

insane and completely wrong idea that there’s a moral parallel or moral equivalence between Israel and the

Palestinians and that Hamas is to the moderate Palestinians and fat who

support Hamas what the settlers are the Messianic the extremist settlers are to

uh good enlightened left-wing uh um uh Israelis so who they

now view youa fuks is a paragon of and so um he talks about how he has a

consistent record of attacking and condemning liing the israelies who live

in Judea and Samaria and therefore he has to be supported so this is what he says here um he says and I’ll just read

the last two paragraphs because they’re important the Biden Administration should recognize that senior IDF

Commanders oppos violence committed by extremist settlers and the harassment of the authorities that’s the Palestinian

authorities uh fragile Security Forces because they make it harder to maintain order in the West Bank and eventually to

create a stable post Chamas order in Gaza in which Palestinian rights and

Security will be respected um the IDF doesn’t want an endless

war as opposed to everybody else I guess in Israel who does and then he goes on this is his final paragraph netanyahu’s

Relentless campaign against Hamas has shattered Gaza he seems to have no idea how to put the pieces back together or

even to care what happens to the Palestinians there the United States has a plan for the day after even if netan

doesn’t he should start listening or face the likelihood that he will soon be

replaced who’s going to replace it fuks and here you have it so this is

Ignatius and he talked also to Martin indic one of the greatest haters of Israel in Washington and he was you know

he was telling him what to think and then with the Israeli leftist who hate nany said that the United States should

you know Force Israel uh Force Nano uh to heal and then he talks about this

General who is working with United States and particularly uh Lieutenant

General Mike fencel who’s the security coord coordinator of uh Palestinian forces that operates

out of the embassy in Jerusalem Mike by the way uh Lieutenant General fenzo uh was a i he went to graduate school with

me at the Kennedy School in Harvard um I had nothing personal against him but the fact that he was a brigade commander in

the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan gives him zero credibility

when it comes to issues related to Israel we are not fighting 8,000 miles away from from our homes we’re fighting

in our homes from our homes we’re being attacked in our homes um so there’s no connection and of course the United

States was defeated in Afghanistan so all of these things probably speak to why uh a US security coordinator doesn’t

have uh the vaguest idea of what Israel’s interests are or how to protect

them in Jude and Samaran nor should he care because it’s not his problem at any rate here I just want to say one last

thing the thing about all of these day after scenarios is that we’re very much not at the day after we’re in the midst

of a war for our survival the most intense for right now is Gaza and it’s going to remain high intensity for some

time whether our IDF that wants no endless war likes it or not because

that’s just the name of the game I mean there’s nothing we can do about it and of course we’re facing all of these

other active and and and quickly intensifying fronts in the North in the

South with theotis and even in the East with Jordan and we’re looking at this very very difficult scenario the United

States Post Its aircraft carrier group out sending an extremely mixed signal but at the same time it’s letting

everybody know that it is telling Israel ordering Israel barking at Israel through netan every single day demanding

that we stand down that we restrain ourselves that we uh lower the intensity of our operations in Gaza even when we

should probably be escalating the intensity of those operations and certainly laying Siege to Gaza some that

the United States absolutely opposes because they want us to resupply Hamas all the time through this humanitarian

Aid quarter that Hamas controls completely so all of this is uh the US

game plan and here is Israel and here is Ignatius calling for the overthrow of

the Israeli government if we don’t agree to be defeated in this War I don’t know what’s going to happen but I know that

unlike the United States that doesn’t want to pay attention to the war Iran is dead serious about fighting it through

its proxies directly through its expanded nuclear operations Israel you know I I doubt I

think that the more pressure and the more an animosity they display towards netan the longer he’ll stay in power you

know he he may end up retiring at the r bold age of 140 uh at this rate just because the Americans are making the

Israelis constantly rally around them even if we didn’t want to um but but be

that as it may we do live here we’re not security coordinators of somebody else’s countries we’re the neighbors of the

people who slaughtered us on October 7th and neighbors of the people who want to

continue assaulting and slaughtering us throughout the country today so we’re not going anywhere this is our country

this is where we stand these people are all enemies of the United States but if

America doesn’t want to fight its battle I guess the least that we could ask

is that it not interfere with our ability to do so anyway those are my thoughts going into the new year as I

said like it or not and none of us like it 2024 is a year of war and uh we have to

fight it we have no choice and we have to win it we have no choice it’s not about empowering Palestinians the day

after it’s ensuring Israel’s survival and perpetuity whatever happens anyway

those are my thoughts on the time you again next [Music]

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