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With Israel. It's it's absolutely disastrous that the United States has been in the hands of the Israel lobby or the Zionist lobby for decades. Israel is waging uh war all over the Middle East, destabilizing the entire region, and the United States is saying, "Okay, okay, okay, okay." Even President Trump said as Israel is now in war in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and I mean war, it's on the ground fighting in Yemen. In uh now Qatar, Donald Trump said yesterday, well, Prime Minister Netanyahu told me he's for peace. That's good.
This is um this is not good. This is not serious. This is extremely dangerous. Uh and every time we've talked, Israel has just escalated its mass murder, its war on its own population that it is has in occupation. And now it continues to expand the war, bombing uh Doha. yesterday. It's and and Trump saying he didn't know. I believe him. He didn't know. I'm sure the CIA knew. Uh but they probably don't let Trump in on on a lot of what's going on. Uh this is all absolutely dangerous, reckless, and a very sad uh commentary on uh what passes for US foreign policy. It's not US foreign policy. It's Israeli foreign policy.
I want to play you the same clip I played uh Ian which is Yalda Hakeim from Sky and he's talking to Napali Bennett former Israeli prime minister. Let's take a look. You've gone into sovereign territory crossed uh the skies and launched uh this this strike on a sovereign state. You know uh when the US went out and took out Osama bin Laden and Pakistan, they didn't notify Pakistan in advance. That was also a sovereign country. you have to do this in order to eradicate terror. So this has been the position of Israel from the start. We were attacked in an appalling terror attack which is obviously true on October the 7th and we were then wedded as a policy to eliminate Hamas and we will do that wherever Hamas is. Their argument is the Hamas leadership uh have been based a lot of the time in Qatar in Doha. They got information clearly that they believed a number of the leaders were going to be uh in this particular building and they attacked it. And what is the difference they say between that and what America did with Osama bin Laden in Abadabad?
Well, I'll tell you some similarities indeed. The United States put Osama bin Laden on the CIA payroll in the 1980s and similarly BB Netanyahu put Hamas on the payroll. Uh we all know that it was Netanyahu who went repeatedly to Qatar to tell Qatar pay Hamas they were funding Hamas. So yes, there's a lot of dissimilar duplicity, but basically Israel is completely lawless. Uh it is utterly a rogue nation. It is uh committing a genocide before our eyes. It is starving 2 million people. Uh children are dying of starvation every day. It is shooting people when they go to the food lines. Israel is just a murderous rogue nation. I have no nothing else to say other than this is a country that is in brazen violation of every moral standard and every international law that we have right now. So when Napali Bennett speaks, yes, he talks about Israel's impunity and other Israeli leaders have said so in the last day. We will go anywhere. We will hunt anyone. Nothing of no nothing is beyond our reach. Well, that is complete lawlessness and they're speaking the truth of their point of view, which is that they have complete impunity to commit murder anywhere that they want in the world. I don't agree with that.
What do you think happens as a consequence of the strike in Doha? It does seem a significant escalation. The reaction from countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and others show how seriously they're taking this. Obviously, before October the 7th, there was a move to potentially bring the Saudis in to the Abraham Accords and so on. Now, you've got UAE saying that actually the way things are going, they might come out of the Abraham Accords. Um, you know, there are going to be realtime consequences to this. And if you know I I was saying to I was at the state dinner uh thrown by the Emiry of Qatar for Donald Trump a few months ago and their relationship looked extremely warm, very respectful and it came at the you know in the middle of a Middle Eastern tour by Trump that had been focused on the extraordinary amount of business that was coming from these Middle Eastern countries uh in deals with America totaling several trillion dollars potentially over a few years. Um, you know, is all that up in smoke now? I mean, where does this leave us? If there is an attack by Israel into Doha in the way we saw that and there's no consequence for it, where does that leave everything?
We should remember that the reason that the Hamas individuals were in Doha is that this was the group that was considering uh Donald Trump's negotiating position from yesterday. This was a negotiating group. Israel does not want negotiations. Israel uh every time that there are negotiations tries to kill the negotiators. I mean that literally, not figuratively. It doesn't try to kill the negotiations. It tries to kill the negotiators. When the United States and Iran were negotiating uh over the status of Iran's nuclear program, they were entering the sixth round. And if you looked at what uh uh the negotiators were saying on both sides, they were making progress. That's precisely why Israel launched its so-called 12-day war on Iran to stop the negotiations. Uh this yesterday was an attack to kill the Hamas negotiators who have said several times that they want the permanent ceasefire that the United States has been pushing. Israel wanted to kill them before they could say that. Why? Because Israel's vision of this particular government, though it has unfortunately to say wide backing in the Israeli public, is that Israel will control all of Palestine and it will either kill the Palestinians or it will ethnically cleanse them, expel them or they will live under complete Israeli domination and nothing is going to stop that. No negotiations, no two-state solution, no state of Palestine. This is obvious what they're doing. They are literally killing negotiations by killing the negotiators anywhere. And they're claiming the right of murder at any time, any place. Again, to my mind, this is a dangerous and rogue state. And what country in the Gulf can feel safe if the United States is giving a blank check, financing and arming and diplomatically supporting any attack, whether it's in Lebanon, whether it's in Syria, it was against Iraq, whether it's in Yemen, now it's in Doha Qatar. Uh, of course, no one's safe. If Israel is the one that decides everything by military means, diplomacy counts for nothing. And the US will always back us up. Why will the US always back up Israel? It's one of the biggest mysteries imaginable. Is it Epstein files? Is it Apac money? Is it uh whatever misguided ideas? Nobody understands this honestly because the last thing in the world is this is not in the US interest. Don't take it from me. Donald Trump said so yesterday. He said explicitly, "This isn't in America's