[Applause] thanks we all need someone to handle the mic for us I'm going to give you two
parts the first part is a little history and the second part is screaming current events history there have been hundreds of Empires in the 5,000 years of human history we know something about in the 3000 we know a great deal about with approaching modernity teaching us even more there have been hundreds all of them are gone every one of them every single one of them the Persian the eastern and western Roman the Mongol the Mogul the ottoman the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler even the Empire upon whom it was said the Sun never set the British Empire gone look at Britain today Washington's poodle if that the one distinguishing feature of the current Empire your Empire America for that is surely what we are is we invented the means that no other Empire in human history has ever had at its beck and call to ex distinguish human life if you saw the film open Heimer you know how we did it it's pretty good film pretty accurate film you know how we did it that alone makes us unique horribly unique perhaps part two the screamingly current events 2:00 a.m. this morning I get up my phone just buzzed I look at it it's Neema alarid you may know him from a show called dialog Works he broadcasts from a little village in Brazil south of sou Paulo he's Iranian by birth but he's a Brazilian citizen now and dialogue works is a pretty good show well he's already working in the time zone is the same for us and him he's already working on the ongoing Israeli attack on Iran only he's working on it not from MSNBC or CNN or any polluted propagandistic organ in the American Empire he's working on it from the point of view of a journalist and he's talking to people and he's talking to me and we're texting back and forth and I'm getting an update on the isra iseli strike on Iran which of course the whole world that knew anything about the whole world was waiting for not eagerly but certainly to see what would happen what was happening according to people on the ground in tan and people on the ground in Jordan and in Israel primarily Tel Aviv and people reporting on it who have essentially the right attitude about journalism was that Israel was being defeated I don't know if it was Russian s400s or whatever but I was hearing that what they were doing was not having much impact yeah a few bombs went off a few things a few fires and so forth but nothing of significance I I was even watching a video furnished Me by one person who was in tan of Iranians out in the street filming with their cell phones and yet as the morning went on and I picked up the US News I I saw the usual propaganda that the attack had come off that great damage had been done a 100 Israeli planes went out at the same time I was picking up some good information from Al jazer and others about how badly the Israelis are doing in Lebanon frankly they're getting their rear ended rear end handed to them they're losing more people probably than the IDF at wartime in a tight period has ever lost why do I why do I connect these two now and here's the the sad part of my message I connect them because that is the arena right now and don't forget Ukraine because it's one of them too but this is the Premier Arena right now for someone using a nuclear weapon because unlike what I was hoping that Israel would take what it's done and say it's over and Iran would take what was done to it which apparently was not all that bad and say it's over and this 11 times to the re to the arena lawyer for BB Netanyahu Tony blinkin would actually succeed in doing something something and maybe we'd have a halt to this but then as the train pulled into moan I started getting texts that were quoting what Netanyahu yo Gant and some of the others were saying and quoting what some of the Iranians were saying and it looks like we're off to the races again that Iran is going to re re respond in a spectacular way and then of course Israel will respond to that this is to me an ineluctable chain to an eventual use of a nuclear weapon if Ukraine is not the Levant the Middle East certainly is this is a very dire moment because you have this situation that could go off at any second and I have no doubt that golden May's comment to a BBC reporter in 1972 was accurate when he asked her Point Blank if Israel were in existential duress would it use a nuclear weapon and she without batting an eye said yes I have no doubt BB Netanyahu is a far worse scoundrel than goldem mayair was so that's the second part of my story what do we do about that we need to get out there we need to do everything everything we possibly can to let our government know that not only do we want these both of these wars to stop we definitely don't want a nuclear weapon to be used and that we will do everything in our power even though we are operating as Israel's lawyer to stop that from happening thanks what can we understand from the Biden administration's policy in Lebanon I think the B Administration is um serving as an extension of the Israeli government at this point in time um trying to leverage the um the murder of Hassan Nala U leverage the uh the acts of terrorism that were carried out by Israel through their pager attack and the ongoing uh Israeli military campaign uh leveraged the U implementation of the dya uh you know doctrine of collective punishment named ironically or not ironically for a southern Beirut suburb that was bombed in 2006 we've been using it to describe Israel's Collective punishment of the gazen people but now we see that they once again are returning to the same Southern um you know suburb of of Beirut and U in applying against the Lebanese somehow the United States is operating under the U the the assumption that the Lebanese are tired of Hezbollah and that the Lebanese are looking for a way out of this um of this crisis that was brought onto them by the Israelis um and I I I I don't see this succeeding um it doesn't mean that they there won't be some fissures uh that are that are discovered in uh in Lebanon but the fact of the matter is the Lebanese people know who's resp responsible for what's going what's happening to them and that is the Israeli government and by extension the American government um hesah is far from defeated Hezbollah is uh is putting up very stiff resistance u in southern Lebanon and is striking Israel as we speak um the notion that somehow Benjamin Netanyahu was going to be able to create the conditions for the return of 60,000 settlers to the north which was his State goal and objective and going into Lebanon to begin with has been dashed uh it isn't going to happen in fact you're probably going to see tens of thousands more um Israelis flee their uh their homes in hia and surrounding areas because of the continued Hezbollah bombardment and it will continue hezel has prepared for this conflict for some time now Israel has not inflicted fatal harm um and in fact it's Israel that's suffering um you know near fatal harm uh their military is on the cusp of collap um physical collapse they're exhausted moral collapse they're demoralized uh you know you're starting to see people talk about high suicide rates as people return from Gaza um you know these These Are Soldiers who went to Gaza fought they had cleared an area were withdrawn now they have to go back and they find that they haven't cleared anything that they have to go back and reoccupy the same territory territory that is stained with the blood of their comrades who died earlier now new blood from the people that are dying and these soldiers can't take it anymore Israel was not conditioned to fight a war of this length the military is not psychologically prepared to fight a war of this length U or of this cost and now they're doing the same thing in Lebanon you have Israeli soldiers saying they do not want to go to Lebanon because they know what it is it's a death trap literal death trap if you go to Lebanon you will die you will see people die your fellow so because you can't defeat Hezbollah you're fighting on their terrain every step you take into Hezbollah is a step closer to the Ambush that's inevitably going to take place that takes your life and the life of your comrades to your left and your right the Israeli Army is is broken um that doesn't mean that they can't fight of course they can fight they have technology they have the ability but you know this is not the military that you want um to be building a policy that uh is is predicated on um Israeli military dominance this is not a dominating military it's a military that's uh has proven that it's not invincible and it's a military that is you know is reaching a a a point of of collapse uh the Israelis do not plan on fighting long Wars in fact the Israeli military approach is to uh have technological Supremacy that is that you're operating in tanks you're operating aircraft you're using drones Etc that um keep the human factor separate from uh the fighting you're using technology to do your in the idea is to overwhelm your enemy through you know Firepower that's directed by you know information um you know dominance uh of you know intelligence collection Etc um to the extent that you have boots on the ground it's only designed to be a very short period of time a short duration fight um after which the enemy is broken and you can withdraw you take some casualties but nothing like the sustained casualty rate that the you that the Israelis are suffering right now their military is not configured um physically or emotionally or intellectually to fight this kind of fight that's the problem you have soldiers who aren't ready to die for their country there's the difference right there uh you know Marines aren't suicidal but if you push us off a mile and a half off the beach at Tara and tell us that we have to wait through chest high water to get to the beach to storm the Japanese fortifications we're going to do that that's what we do and then we come back we regroup we train and we take the next Island we leave thousands of dead on that island we come back we regroup we take the next Island and we keep going until all the islands are taken that's how we're configured that's how we're trained that's how we operate the Israelis aren't trained to operate that way they're not trained to take these casualties they're they're they're they're just not conditioned for that and so psychologically uh this this length of a war is devastating for these people um you know if Israel survives as a nation state and that is not a guarantee um there will be a generation of young Israelis who will be permanently scarred by this experience um and I'm not just talking about the war crimes that they commit I'm just talk I'm talking about just the the the the combat experience because there is fighting taking place I mean it's you know we focus on the genocide and it's real it's ongoing it's devastating I don't know if you're watching what's happening in Northern Gaza as the Israelis L Round Up thousands of people and send them on a death march on a Death March that's what this is It's a death march to another camp that they'll B and then they'll Death March them out again it's literally we're watching the Nazi deprivations of World War II play out before our very eyes by the people whose nation is formed under the notion of Nazi victimhood meaning they were victimized by the Nazis therefore they have a right to exist to do what victimize the Palestinians same way the Nazis victimize them this is absurd this is perverse this is unforgivable but you take that aside and that alone Israeli soldiers participating that that is devastating um emotionally Psych logically Etc um but you even if we can separate that and you can't you just focus on the combat the notion that they of them going into Gaza knowing that around each turn could be a mine could be an RPG could be uh an engagement that there's no peace that there's you're never going to control this territory ever um you know that is devastating too emotionally the Israelis can't handle it and that's why their military is on the cusp of collapse emotional collapse do you think that in Gaza do they really understand that any of those Fighters Hamas Fighters would be a yayas war when you look at the pictures of Yas and War he was on the ground on the front fighting Israelis with few Soldiers with few forces around him is that possible for the mindset of Israelis to understand it the Israelis I think have um they have so dehumanized the Palestinians that they're incapable of um instilling um Notions that we normally attach to uh movements that lead to nation building like the the Palestinian cause Etc um so the Palestinians are a bunch of terrorists terrorist sympathizers um facilitators of terrorism and therefore um yah senoir is a terrorist leader that's how it is and so they focus on killing the terrorist leader as if by decapitating this blob of terrorist supporters The Blob will go away yahia Sinar was a child of the camps his parents were Palestinian refugees who were thrown out of their homes by the Israelis in 1948 compelled to go live in Gaza uh knowing that right over the wire right past the Kuts was their home um you know so he was raised in the camp as a as a prisoner um and as a result he was raised to resist those who were oppressing him those are the Israelis um and he joined the resistance uh I think in 1987 when it was when Hamas was created he became a a member headed up the Maj which is their security Force his primary mission was to eliminate Israeli spies um you know Palestinians uh who Israel had brought over to their side one way or another who were spying on the Palestinian resistance to the Israelis and sino's job was to clean that up and he did so very effectively the Israelis don't like the fact that he did so effectively there's people out there who accuse him of torturing murder or whatever could be um I'm not going to defend what he did but I'm not gonna you know paint it as anything other than it was killing spies I hope people understand that in Wartime if you find a spy let's go back to World War II when um when the brandenburg's the the sort of British or German covert operators put on American uniforms and penetrated our lines in the battle of the BS to get into the rear area and cause problems when we captured them we shot them immediately that was it there's no if hands or butts um that's what you do to spies um and you know senoir purged the the Palestinian ranks of spies was very effective in this matter he got arrested by the Israelis sentenced to four cons excutive life terms for his role in the uh not only in the killing of Israeli assets but I think in the uh in the death of two Israeli soldiers um but he was exchange well while he was in prison this is a man who um you know you can just tell a lot he became a leader in prison of the Palestinians and Hamas so even from prison he became a leader by through the example that he set um very educated uh wrote a book uh the thorn in I think the thorn incarnation about his experience as an autobiographical work of fiction um but he also learned about the Israelis got in learned about their mind learned to read Hebrew think like this his enemy and when he was released in a prisoner Exchange in 2011 um he immediately rose up in the ranks and again became a a dominant figure um but he always said that he was Marked for Death I mean that's the thing the Israelis don't understand when people like yah senoir and people like Hassan Nala understand the Israelis to kill them so you don't create an organization that collapses like a house of cards if you die you are a product of an organization that is built upon uh an ideology of it's premised on the Palestinian statehood a notion that resides in the hearts and minds of every Palestinian you happen to be at the top of it but when you get eliminated that's just a body dying that doesn't mean the end of the uh of the cause that you're serving in fact by killing sinir the way they did and by foolishly sharing the video of his final moments to the world they just solidified the notion of a man who wasn't down hiding in a tunnel surrounded by women and children and hostages he was on the streets fighting according to Hamas he was on the streets for for 18 days prior to this moment leading the fight um you know here he is his uh his his com compatriots are dead killed by multiple tank rounds in this building uh anti- tank guided missile rounds Etc this man is probably fatally wounded meaning I don't know if he could have recovered from these injuries they're very severe uh an arm that would have to be amputated a leg that would have to be amputated internal injuries um and yet he can stare down this and see he picks up a stick with his last strength you don't have no idea how much effort this took this is a broken body a man who's dying and yet in his last moments stares down the Drone stares at the Israelis and then throws a stick at it to try and knock it down I mean he just solidified himself as the the the the king of resistors uh you don't have to agree with the guy you can call him a terrorist or what that's bad V that's bad imagery for the Israelis because he is now a martyr every kid that is raised every Children of the camp just like him are raised up now they're going to see this and they're gonna say that's me that's what that's my future because you know they're not going to live in a camp forever as prisoners that day is over that's what October 7th solidified the Palestinians that are there will not be prisoners Forever This resistance will last forever as long as the Israelis try to occupy Hamas will resist and this will be Israel's future and Israel can't survive this can't cannot sustain this the Palestinians shouldn't have to sustain this but they've been prisoners since 1948 so the idea that the Palestinians are suddenly going to break and and collapse no this is their moment this is the moment this is the put up or shut up time do you want a Palestinian State because you have crossed the line of departure There's No Going Back you either complete the task get your state or you're finished um and I think sino's death has showed that uh they're not going to quit they're not going to they're not going to back down that this is uh this is an existential fight between them and the Israeli occupiers yesterday I talked with col Jack Bo about his point of view on this assassination of political and military leaders of HB Hamas he said that the British intelligence had everything every information about the Irish commanders when he asked them why don't what's the reason that you don't go and kill them you have everything about them said why why should we do that because we have everything if we kill them we just destroy our information it's it's against us not against them but it doesn't seem that the Israelis are thinking the same way that the British intelligence were thinking those days I don't know if they're thinking this way right now but when you destroy everything you gather through intelligence through the everything about yasan war for example for instance the leader of what's the mindset in your opinion by the attitude on their poor Israelis well also remember that it wasn't just about the British being able to gather intelligence about the uh Irish and the IRA uh it was making sure that there's people that they could negotiate a end of conflict with um if it weren't for Jerry Adams or and other Irish um Republican leaders um there wouldn't have been a piece um the Brits had to sit down with people that they knew people that knew them people that they had a relationship it might have been a bad relationship but it was a relationship nonetheless um because you have to start with some sort of foundation if you're going to have a negotiated something the Israelis are not interested in a negotiated settlement the Israelis aren't interested in maintaining connectivity with uh Hamas leadership or hezb leadership so that they can uh find a peaceful way out of this the Israelis are interested in Greater Israel um at least the current manifestation of the Israeli government is said that's what they're shooting for um I don't know are Americans listening to what's coming out of Israel listening to what Israeli policy makers are saying about Gaza um about how they're going to go in and build new real estate Israel's taking it over the Palestinians are done um the the kind of language about human animals and and things of this nature I mean if you view the Palestinians as human animals why would you care about who Human animals can't do this is the kind of stupidity that's taken is because at one time the Israelis were capable of you know having complicated realistic F I know this because I I worked with them to get that way in 1991 at the end of the first golf War Israelis made a decision that the greatest threat to them was Iraq Saddam Hussein because he had fired 48 missiles into their country and he they believed he was keeping missiles or he had the potential to reconstitute missiles with chemical weapons and Israel could not accept that so from 1991 to 1993 they practiced to assassinate Saddam who they vied as viewed as an irrational character who had to be removed and they actually came very close to assassinating him they had uh his uncle carala had died there was going to be a funeral in the fall of 1993 and or 19 1992 1993 around I think 92 perhaps um and the Israelis had actually sent Commando teams into Iraq to reconnaissance this place they had their they had the whole assassination lined up they did their last second uh rehearsal before the troops went off to kill Saddam and a mistake happened they fired a live rocket when they should have not and they killed some soldiers and it got bad P press and suddenly you you couldn't you you couldn't assassinate Saddam anymore but this created a open to window where the Israelis were like well what do we do and so enter me and some others and we came in and said hey why don't you work with us to eliminate the threat of weapons and mass destruction and uh and buy into the notion that Iraq can be contained uh if it doesn't have weapons of mass destruction that Saddam can be part of the family of Nations as long as he can't threaten you with weapons of mass destruction this required Israel to go through a very major rethink uh I worked with the colonel whose job was to be Saddam Hussein and I spent hours talking to him about the reality of the Iraqi regime how it functioned Tri he knew a lot I knew a lot we we just started wor and then they started to see how the Iris were responding to the inspections and uh the notion that Iraq could be disarmed was was raised and and the Israelis changed their position by 1998 when I left they had decided that Iraq could be disarmed and that if Iraq was disarmed that Iraq that Iraq no longer posed a threat they also changed their mind about Saddam Hussein saying he's a rational actor and um you know as long as you know he can be engaged economically Etc he's not going to you know embark on you know suicidal policy policies of continuing to attack Israel um then in 1998 the United States put pressure on Israel to join the regime change thing and the old thinkers came back and said well let's get rid of Saddam um so they redid everything so all the hard work which is intelligence-based fact-based that we had worked upon was flush down the toilet Amos gilad came in he was their new intelligence Chief and he just allowed basically it created the notion that they could cherry-pick intelligence they could manufacture intelligence they could do anything it was n the quality of the information but rather the result that mattered that they would as George W bush and Tony Blair agreed they would fix the intelligence around the goal so if the goal is to get rid of Saddam and blame him about weapons of mass destruction they would create the intelligence that supported that picture as opposed to letting the intelligence you know determine the policy based upon reality so Israel this this is 1998 and it only got worse since then Amos gilad and uh Netanyahu and you know wrote up together he's been an adviser of Netanyahu for some time now we're at the point right now where you know the decisions being made by the Israeli government are about sustaining political objectives as opposed to you know making sure political objectives um are are shaped by reality um you know could you negotiate with Hamas yes could you negotiate with Hezbollah yes but only to what end um you know does is you know for Israel to withdraw from the sheah Farms which is you know Hezbollah considers to be part of Lebanon they would have to give up control of the um of the um Springs and the source of water for the Jordan River which they're not going to do uh so they're there because they want to control the water that breathes life into uh into Israel um uh in order therefore to be a Palestinian State they need to give the Palestinians you know um political autonomy um you know and land they're not going to give them land we see the ongoing theft of the land in uh in West Bank and now we have them talking about stealing Gaza political autonomy the whole reason why Hamas was created was to create a divide within the Palestinian community so there would be forever divide and the Israelis could play off that divide um you know so now you have a situation after October 7th where Hamas has emerged as the most dominant political force because of their ongoing resistance the Israelis they don't respect that they so they person they they've personalized this they personified Hamas in the form of one man senoir um and now they've killed him and they they somehow believe that this will cause the Palestinian um you know people to collapse all it's done is ensure that um a the Palestinians will be less likely to engage in uh in kind of you know you could have sat down with senoir and cut a deal you could have they there was a deal there ready to be made but first of all you kill Han who was the chief negotiator in the head he's dead when he was in Iran trying to figure out you know how um how how to bring about you know the terms that that could create a ceasefire they killed him they killed Hassan Nala right when he agreed for a ceasefire and now they killed senoir so there will never be a ceasefire um they're they're not looking for a peaceful end the Israelis are not looking for a peaceful end of this conflict they're looking for a violent end of this conflict I think Netanyahu has made to decision that his political Legacy is dependent upon Him defeating Hamas hezb Andy Ron at the Strategic level and so he's committed down that path and so the normal notion of having people like the British did with the IRA having connectivity there to control the conflict shape the conflict and bring the conflict to a to an end that doesn't exist in the Israeli psyche and do you think with the layest attack on Neto on his house do you think that Hezbollah is changing its attitude toward Israel are we going to see the same way that they have assassinated their leaders are they going to go that way to respond to Israel if the escalations continue to grow between Israel and Hezbollah I I don't think it was a real assassination attempt I mean they they put three drones out there two of them got shot down one hit the target um I mean if they got lucky and got him then they of course they'd say success uh if you really wanted to take out you know Netanyahu and and you had information that he was there um and apparently he was there um then you fire missiles that um that can't be shot down and you fire enough of them to ensure that the target is destroyed so if they're trying to kill him there's another way to you to do to kill him this was to send a signal to Netanyahu that he could be killed look they're not again if you're trying to get Israel to agree to negotiations because no matter what um you know Israel is going to have to agree to a piece a piece that includes a pathway to a Palestine whether it be a two-state solution or you know eventually morphs into something else um If you eliminate Netanyahu you've complicated that in because now you've killed a head of state which pretty much guarantees that the next head of state coming in is going to be more in for revenging the death of his predecessor than he is to negotiate a peaceful resolution to this problem um so it doesn't make the other thing is knowing that n yahu is not going to be someone to negotiate the best way to get somebody in to negotiate is to have Netanyahu U collapse from within meaning have the Israeli political system bring him down and replace him with somebody who's now under political pressure to bring an end to this conflict so Netanyahu has to stay alive so look I believe Hezbollah proved that they know where he is and they sent a signal um but they weren't trying to kill him because unlike Israel the the hezel is more like the British um they know these people they have intelligence about these people and eventually um they're going to have to negotiate with people that are from this circle um it's best to keep them alive as opposed to kill them how much Iran has leveraged hasah in helping them or making some policies for them I think Iran has a tremendous amount of say what goes on with Hezbollah um you say Iran hasn't given them guidance I think Iran's given them tremendous Guidance the goal right now is the creation of Palestine that's how this all started October 7th hezbollah's entire purpose of engaging with Israel was to support Hamas Ana's entire purpose of engaging with Israel is to support Hamas I mean Iran is in the business of creating the conditions under which Hamas the Palestinians can achieve their objectives and the number one objective is a free and independent Palestine um what could if you have a broader conflict between Israel and Hezbollah um how much are you talking about Hamas now if you make the problem Israel and Hezbollah then the solution is Israel and Hezbollah and Hamas is on the back burner you're not talking about it it's not getting the intention and needs and if you broaden the conflict to be Israel Iran now we're talking about global energy security disruption of uh of oil potential nuclear conflict talking about things that don't have Hamas in the uh in in the in the subject line so um I think Iran's done a tremendous job of keeping the attention on where it needs to be on Hamas on Gaza on the Israeli crimes against Gaza to the extent that Israel is repeating these crimes in Lebanon again to focus on the crimes that Israel is doing but not to create an expanded conflict Hezbollah could definitely strike back harder than they are right now there's no doubt about that but hezbollah's job is escalation management uh Hezbollah now that Israel has decided to you know move in will now make Israel suffer a death by a Thousand Cuts um again that will be detrimental to Israel um to the benefit of hezb long term there's a lot of people out there that want that think that you know Iran should say unleash the dogs of war um and just go for it but then you're not achieving the goal that this was all supposed to be about the creation of a free and independent Palestinian State hi hi this is Mark prer I'm an orthopedic hand serer from North Carolina and I serve in Gaza between March and April of this year we saw four different types of injuries specifically uh Bomb Blast injuries including the crushing buildings that uh buried many people alive and also shredded a lot of uh women and children mostly um we saw Burns largely emanating from these blast and we saw two specific types of shrapnel injuries uh one was classic High Velocity bullet injuries from snipers and I've said on multiple social media platforms that I've had several children that I saw shot twice and that just doesn't happen by accident the other unique form and the most rare form were very small tungsten bullets smaller than a pencil eraser but large of the same shape about maybe a third to half that size they're made out of tungsten they surrounded a bomb that exploded very indiscriminate when it goes off it shoots out into every possible Direction in 360° circumference and these little uh tungsten pellets fly at such an impressively High Velocity that they enter the skin and exit the other side of a limb with almost no visible wound but the tissue on the inside is purely vaporized bone has so many fracture fragments that they're impossible to fix muscle is turned to Jello arteries and nerves are thoroughly destroyed and almost every injury um that this cause requires an amputation uh this is similar to the pleds that Israel used in the pants that were found based on moral grounds and the laws of war illegal and we're banned and they should be banned again 