Jay Weber Show transcript 10-9-23 7:10am
If you completely checked-out this weekend- Israel is at war with the Iranian backed terror group Hamas.
The leftist media wants to call these Hamas members ‘armed militants’...or ‘Palestinian fighters’.... but they’re terrorists. They’re anti-Jewish, anti-west terrorists of the sort that you can put in the same category as al Qaeda, or the Taliban, or Hezbollah.
And Friday night-our time-Hamas launched over 3 thousand rockets into Israel as it’s fighters overwhelmed some border check points and then sent death squads into the country to attack and kidnap any Jews they ran across...and then take them back into Gaza. At least 900 Israelis are known to be dead, at this point and at least 12-hundred wounded. I haven’t seen an estimate on the number of hostages taken-but it’s significant.
Western foreigners were, of course, caught up in it and our putrid sect of state, Anthony Blinken, confirmed there are some Americans that have been killed-others unaccounted for.
No other specifics were being given as of yesterday. And Hamas’ terrorists intentionally targeted women, children, and the elderly.
Intentionally targeted civilians. In some instances-raped, shot, brutalized, and terrorized women. There were videos of rapes occurring on the bodies of women who had already been killed. Really, dark, evil, stuff.
The Israeli army and Israeli intelligence were caught completely off guard. It took hours to get a military response out to some of the Israeli villages that were being terrorized. This was a huge hit to the reputations and the egos of both Israeli military-and intel community members.
They pride themselves in being able to root out terror threats to their country before they occur-especially when it comes to these PLO and Iran-affiliated groups that have been terrorizing them since the 1950s.
The Israelis were completely caught off guard. Prime minister Netanyahu immediately declared a state of war and had the military launch retaliatory strikes against known Hamas targets. The full Israeli parliament has since officially declared war on Hamas.
This was a shocking act. It’s already being likened to America’s 9-11. It’s got global observers worried about the potential for a wider war breaking out- after video of Palestinians and Arabs celebrating all of the death, rapes, and torture of civilians was circulating.
Iran’s leader immediately celebrated it and applauded and egged on Hamas.
A different but similar terror group that controls Lebanon-just to Israel’s north- Hezbollah- also celebrated and launched rockets into Israel-
Hours later- the Taliban were saying they wanted to join Hamas in the fighting-and were asking for clearance from other middle eastern countries to give their fighters safe passage to get to Gaza.
This all, of course, is escalating worries over a wider war-
Because-if these Jew-hating Arab groups are going to band together and decide now is the time to eradicate Israel, Israel’s western allies-including us- would have to get involved, militarily.
This all speaks to the massive failures of the Biden team and their weak, appeasing, Iran-loving policies...which we will get to at some point this morning...but...as one critic put it: this is a recipe for disaster and it’s on the head of Joe Biden-who made it possible with his failures and his coddling of America’s enemies.
It proves what i and other conservatives have said time and again-since the Reagan era: we achieve global peace thru strength. Not appeasement. And not isolationism.
A lot of what played out this weekend is because Joe Biden is such a weak leader. Our enemies know it and sense all sorts of opportunities under him that they didn’t sense under trump or bush. And they know they have limited time before he’s dead or out of office- so they are taking their actions now.
But as of Sunday- the Israeli military was striking back with drone and missile strikes on both Hamas and Hezbollah targets-and Benjamin Netanyahu was vowing to turn Gaza into dust.
And folks-most Americans don’t know the facts of this-so it’s important to point out that the Palestinians have had complete control of the Gaza strip since 2005.
This, too, is due to the u-s and European left’s relentless appeasement and talk of a ‘two state’ solution.
In 2005, Israel agreed to withdraw their military and government forces out of Gaza. They even forcibly removed Israeli citizens who had built homes there...because.... okay. We’re going to give this back to the Arabs. Gaza is a Palestinian-controlled era now. Fine.
And so- the PLO and Hamas have overseen Gaza since 2006. 16 years or so. At the time- people like Netanyahu warned that Iran and the terror groups would only use Gaza as a launching pad for more terror attacks against Israel-and they have.
But this one was the worst, and most effective one yet. There has to be a western reckoning coming- and we in the US along with our European allies-who have been pathetically weak when it comes to defending Israel-
We-at the very least-need to give Netanyahu and the Israeli army the ‘green light’ to wipe out Hamas. Stop with the ‘cease fire’ talk. Stop with the ‘proportional response’ talk- and give Israel the green light to wipe out it’s terror threat
And I don’t say that lightly: the Jews now, for 60 years, have been trying to appease the unappeasable.
US presidents and diplomats-for 60 years now- have pressured Israel into capitulating, and appeasing, and giving more concessions, and more ground. For decades now- idiot democrats like the Clintons and Obama and Kerry and Biden-have been blathering on about a ‘two state solution’-when none of the Arab interests here want that.
What they want is- every last Jew dead and Israel erased from the map.
This action. Needs to be seen as the final proof that peace in that region cannot be accomplished so long as groups like Hezbollah and Hamas exist-and as long as countries like Iran and Syria are funding them.
We in the west need to wise up and say- we’re done with these falsehoods.
Folks-Israeli is barely the size of New Jersey. It’s about 260 miles...from the northern to southern tip-and is about 30 miles wide at its widest point.
If you lay that against the Wisconsin map- Israel -an entire country- stretches from the Wisconsin/Illinois border...up to about Escanaba, Michigan... That’s it. That’s’ how small and narrow this country is. It has nine million people crammed into that small space-and is very vulnerable to attack from three sides.
If it’s going to defend itself-and we in the west are going to defend democracy- Israel has got to be given the ‘green light’ by the western world than do more than just play defense or ‘be proportional’ when they are attacked like this.
Al Qaeda sent 13 terrorists to conduct the 9-11 attack and we, in America, started two wars in reaction to it.
But when Israel is attacked-the knee jerk reaction from our leaders is always ‘we urge peace. Be proportional in any response. Exercise restraint.’
Listen to former UN ambassador and current GOP candidate for president, Nikki Haley, who has the correct US response. Eradicate Hamas.
And to be clear-this isn’t ‘eradicate Gaza’...or target Palestinian civilians in retaliation now. We know Israel won’t do that.
Folks-a charter of Hamas’ that was declared in 1988 calls for Islam to obliterate Israel. We don’t have to guess at their intentions-just like we don’t have to guess at Iran’s intentions: they keep telling us they want ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’.
When are our leaders on the left going to wake up and admit it is another myth that Palestinian leaders want to live in peace with Israel. Or would...if they get a state of their own.
Well-Gaza has been theirs for sixteen years. Is the PLO living in peace?
Hezbollah has a grip on Lebanon. Are they living in peace?
And I know that Joe Biden didn’t even get out of bed on Saturday night as this attack occurred-but when he eventually made a statement-many hours later- he mouthed the words: the US is committed to Israel...
But he didn’t really mean them.
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I said earlier: the US and western leaders need to give Israel the ‘green light’ to go after and eradicate Hamas and Hezbollah- and this time- not step in after a few days or a few weeks and talk about ‘proportional responses’...or ‘measured actions.
Nope. Wipe them out. Because contrary to a lot of democrats and left-wing groups-there is a ‘good guy’ and a ‘bag guy’ in this equation. One side has charters and declarations that vow to eradicate the Jews and ‘death to Zionists’ ‘death to America’...and will even forego their own prosperity and peaceful existence to make that happen-
And the other side doesn’t.
The other side wants to live in peace and prosperity.
Way too many American democrats and elected officials pretend as if there’s a moral equivalence between the Israelites wanting a right to exist and the Islamist haters who want to kill them.
And there isn’t. And this weekend’s actions prove it. Again. Hamas has controlled Gaza since 2006. And unprovoked-they’ve just decided to launch a war against Israel.
Why?
Because Hamas’ charter states Islam must eradicate Israel. That’s why.
Folks-Iran sends at least 100-million dollars to fund Hamas-every year. And the more money the evil mullahs in Iran have-the more of it they use to fund terrorism in the middle east and around the globe-and so- of course joe Biden and Anthony Blinken screwed up when they recently gave Iran six-billion dollars back in frozen funds- as a way to buy some hostages back.
Everyone with a brain commented on how stupid that move was- and how it was going to lead to something like this: a newly emboldened Iran and heavily funded proxy terrorist groups.
Saturday, following the Hamas invasion of Israel...
there is no doubt about who is behind these attacks-
And there should be no doubt about how Biden’s weakness and appeasement has played a role, here.
For heaven’s sake-this clown didn’t even get out of bed Saturday night as one of our strongest allies came under attack from 3-thousand rockets and a border invasion.
Biden didn’t even get out of bed. He was MIA for hours....until he had had breakfast and gotten ready for the day-
Only then- later in the morning-did he make a statement expressing support for Israel-
And when he did- he even mentioned that he’d slept in.
Really?
Did his staffers even wake him up as it was happening?
Folks, it sounds like Joe Biden-literally- slept thru that 3am phone call that has become a standard sort of ‘litmus test’ for leadership in political campaigns: is Hillary ready to take that 3am phone call...etc.
Joe slept right thru it. This attack started right around midnight eastern time-Friday night.
By Saturday morning, all the major GOP candidates and half of our congressman had chimed in. Expressed outrage and support. Asserted Israel’s absolute right to defend itself.
Biden was still MIA.
It wasn’t until 9:40 eastern time that Biden’s white house even said- he’s aware of it-and will continue to get updates.
It then, wasn’t until 11am before Biden actually spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu to determine whether u-s help was needed.
That was nearly 12 hours after the rockets launched and the attack got underway.
Folks-that’s pathetic. And even then- the White House’s first official communique on it was so insulting and pathetic that they had to take it down.
Initially-Biden’s mindless minions tweeted out and quote...
The left wing media wanted to make the story about how ‘conservative critics were attacking’ Biden for his weak middle eastern policy-
As if that was illegitimate criticism.
It’s not.
Biden and Blinken’s global bumbling have absolutely helped to bring this on. It’s as if neither man has paid any attention over 40 years when it comes to Iran.
That same accomplice media insisted on focusing-only-on the six billion in funding -and pretending as if it had nothing to do with this.
But it is the act of appeasement that is just as important. The Biden admin, in several ways, has empowered Iran with its actions and the weak posture it projects.
And, of course, every presidential candidate on our side slammed Biden and Blinken and their idiocy. Ron DeSantis had the reaction you’d expect:
Interestingly, folks, the anti-Semitic members of the socialist squad in congress didn’t have much to say about this.
They’ve spent years now saying anti-Jewish anti-Israel things. Rashida Talib of Michigan has been proudly and intimately connected with several anti-Semitic Muslim groups here-and abroad.
And suddenly- Talib was silent on Saturday. Heck, she was silent all weekend.
This is a woman who genuinely agrees that Israel should not exist. She and these other squad members are young and dumb and have bought into the nonsense that’s regularly shoveled on the left-about how the Israelis are the aggressors here and the Arabs are the people who are being wronged...etc.
And their most rabid mouthpiece- Rashida Talib-suddenly clammed up and couldn’t be found this weekend.
AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar- they all decided to condemn the attacks- sort of. And call for peace-sort of.
In short-the three of them just put out obligatory
AOC was slammed as a Hamas apologist- and she has been in the past-
But you also notice the generic reference to peace. She doesn’t identify who is the occupier or the aggressor. It’s a weak statement. And she calls for a cease-fire. Hamas started a war. She doesn’t demand they stop their aggression. She tossed in a call for a cease fire.
Omar doesn’t identify the Jews as the ones being attacked. She doesn’t identify Hamas or Muslims as the attackers. And she even singles out the attacks on women and children as ‘out of bounds’...and in doing so...at least implies that attacks on Israeli men and the Israeli military might be fair game.
Ilhan Omar is- genuinely- a hateful woman with a genuine hatred for the Jews. She doesn’t hide it well.
Ayanna Pressley also- mindlessly-called for a cease fire. The squad was telling-Israel-to stand down after it had just been attacked with hundreds of its women and children raped, murdered, brutalized and/or kidnapped.
This was the far left’s response-in this country, proving they are awful human beings, themselves.
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