Saturday, October 04, 2025

10/04 Links: Eli Sharabi: ‘Break my ribs again, just give me food’; After Manchester, there can be no doubt – anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism; BBC doc ‘ignored Hamas killed Gazans in aid queues’

From Ian:

‘Break my ribs again, just give me food’: Hamas hostage on his desperate plea to captors
I am going to meet the saddest man in the world, or so I think. On October 7 2023, Eli Sharabi lost his wife and two daughters as Hamas terrorists rampaged through their kibbutz near Israel’s southern border, burning, beheading, gleefully slaughtering. The sorrow is unimaginable. But it gets worse. Eli was taken hostage before his family were murdered. For the next 491 days, most of the time spent in a tunnel beneath Gaza, he was sustained by the thought that, if only he could survive, he would be reunited with Lianne, who was born and brought up in Bristol, and their beloved girls, 16-year-old Noiya, and Yahel, just turned 13. “I’ll come back!” he shouted as the brutes dragged him away.

And he was as good as his word. There is a heart-stopping moment in Eli’s book, Hostage, where he returns from the underworld, literally almost half the man he was, and, suddenly, he knows. The social worker who welcomes him at the hostage handover point says his mother and sister are waiting for him. Eli says he wants his wife and daughters, and the social worker says his mother and sister will explain.

“It’s all clear in that moment, right there, standing in front of her. I understand everything. I understand it in my bones. I understand it from head to toe. I understand it, and I feel the pain pulsating through my broken body, a pain without a name and without form, and nobody needs to say another word.”

He made it, and they did not. Eli’s book, one of the most compelling and unflinching you will ever read, is dedicated to the memory of Eli’s girls and to Yossi, his brother, who was also taken hostage and was killed. Yossi’s body is in Gaza, one of the 48 remaining hostages, 20 of whom Israel believes are still alive.

I was apprehensive about meeting Eli (pronounced “Ellie”, the Hebrew pronunciation) because this will be a tough interview, maybe the toughest I’ve ever done. But I needn’t have worried. The short, compact figure who walks briskly into the hotel suite, which has a glorious view over a beach a few miles outside Tel Aviv, exudes determination and quiet confidence. In neatly pressed clothes and wearing a yellow hostage ribbon in a pendant around his neck, Eli looks together, not broken. The face is solemn in repose, dark eyes a little haunted maybe, but he breaks into a wide grin when I hand over the crumpets.
BBC documentary ‘ignored evidence Hamas killed Gazans in aid queues’
A BBC documentary on the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians queueing for food aid in Gaza has been accused of ignoring a report claiming that some had been killed by Hamas.

The Panorama documentary, called Gaza: Dying for Food, reported that more than 1,300 Palestinians had been killed while queueing outside aid centres.

It told viewers that most of those who died outside the centres between May and Sept 12 were killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), according to a report it used to inform its own despatch.

But it has now been claimed that the documentary, broadcast on Sept 22, ignored evidence in the report that Hamas fighters were responsible for some of the deaths.

The report, by the US-based research group Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), was written in the wake of the deaths outside and near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres.

Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, told viewers: “Since the GHF began its operations, at least 1,300 Palestinians have been killed at or around its sites. Mostly, according to ACLED data, by IDF fire.”

The research group’s own report, released on Sept 17, had made a similar claim. However, it also listed three other categories of “armed actor involved” besides the IDF, describing them as “unidentified Palestinian gunmen”, “Hamas” and “contested actor”.

In contrast to what Bowen said, the report described the presence of Hamas gunmen outside the GHF aid distribution centres, stating: “Eyewitnesses on the ground report that individual Hamas members may also have been among those collecting aid for their families.”

The research group quoted Anas Baba, a Gaza-based producer for the American National Public Radio (NPR) news website, who said: “At the GHF site, I saw people I am certain were Hamas members, based on their dress, taking food for their families.”
Brendan O'Neill: After Manchester, there can be no doubt – anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. It’s the main form Jew hatred takes in the Western world in the 21st century. It is the uncanny likeness this ancient hatred wears in these supposedly post-racist times. You expect me to believe it is purely by chance that the activist class now says about the Jewish State all the things that fascist scum once said about the Jewish people? Israel, they say, is uniquely murderous. It’s a bloodletting entity. It derives pleasure from the murder of children. It wields staggering levels of global power. It has even mighty states eating from the palm of its blood-stained hand. Zero out of 10 for originality – every one of these libels was feverishly issued against the Jewish people before you co-opted them for your campaign of demonisation against the Jewish State.

Consider the sheer fixation with Israel. I have opposed wars fought by America, Britain, France, Turkey, Russia and Rwanda, but not once did any of those states occupy my every waking thought. Not once did I call for their violent obliteration from the family of nations. Never did I obsessively visit campuses, write articles, make videos and stand on street corners to say not only that ‘Turkey is wrong to bomb the Kurds’ but also that ‘Turkey is the most demonic, bloodthirsty entity in existence and the whole of humanity is fucking doomed until this vile so-called “country” has been wiped from the face of the Earth’. You know why I didn’t say that? Because I am not racist.

Here is the key commonality between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitsm – both ideologies hold some Jewish thing, whether the Jewish nation or the Jewish people, to be the true source of evil in the world. That is always what distinguished anti-Semitism from other forms of racism – the fact its fuel was not merely prejudice and bigotry but also a conspiratorial derangement that sees the Jews as the corrupters of the Earth, the spoilers of men’s souls. And it is what now distinguishes anti-Zionism from politics, from the realm of reasoned discourse that the followers of this ideology falsely claim to inhabit – it, too, finds a Jewish phenomenon, the Jewish State, guilty of manifesting evil, of sullying our species, of letting the blood of innocents and warping the minds of Westerners. It, too, sees ‘the Jew thing’ as the poison in the well of humanity.

To my mind, anti-Zionism is like a laundering scam. It is the passably political belief system that allows certain sections of society to launder their fear of Jews and present it as ‘criticism of Israel’. From England’s upper classes, who’ve long been iffy about Jews, to radical Islamists, who openly hate Jews, anti-Zionism has become the cloak under which they might spirit their Jew suspicion into everyday life. From far-right filth to leftists drunk on the old Socialism of Fools, anti-Zionism is a mask for the lingering, latent belief that there is something noxious, something unholy, about Jews.

To sow so much rancour for the Jewish nation and then reach for the smelling salts when Jews are demonised – no. We aren’t having it anymore. The reason ‘Zios’ – Jews – are getting it in the neck is because you have polluted public life with the fanatical, chauvinistic belief that Zionism is evil and everyone who supports it is evil. That Israel is uniquely cruel and everyone who backs it is cruel. That the Jewish State is the most despicable state, so much so that it deserves to be destroyed, ‘from the river to the sea’. Only Jihad Al-Shamie is responsible for the barbarism at Heaton Park. But here’s what you are responsible for: rebirthing in pseudo-political language the medieval derangement about evil Jews. After Manchester, I, for one, am devoted to the complete defeat of anti-Zionism.


Seth Frantzman: How US President Donald Trump is boxing Israel, Hamas into a Gaza deal
US President Donald Trump’s approach to securing a Gaza deal is part of his larger approach to dealmaking, which seems to include announcing that a deal is accepted even before both sides are on the same page.

This keeps the sides at the table and boxes them in to a compromise. In essence, you make the deal first and then work on the details. One of the problems with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has usually been that it gets bogged down in many small discussions and no one is willing to have the courage to make the big choices needed.

Trump’s method of trying to get a “yes” from both sides to end the Israel-Hamas War is how he has handled other deals. He did the same thing during the 12-day Iran war, announcing a deal before it was complete. He basically told both sides to agree and said they had. This helps both sides save face and also get out of a conflict that could last longer.

Wars are often harder to end than they are to get into. Consider World War I. Both sides careened toward the war without any idea of how it would unfold. Both were optimistic, and the public was largely supportive.

However, once the horrors of the front became clear, most understood that this war had no real purpose. But although the war was obviously not going anywhere after the first several months, the sides spent years fighting with terrible casualties for no achievement.
Ruthie Blum: Netanyahu’s perfect response to Trump
On one hand, Netanyahu has to put Israel’s interests first. On the other, Trump has been the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House.

He was in lock-step with Jerusalem during the United Nations General Assembly in Washington last week. And he emerged from his meeting on Monday with Netanyahu in the Oval Office by announcing the plan that places the onus squarely on Hamas to free the captives and end the fighting.

Figuring out how to reconcile the two in this case is tricky. That’s probably why it took the Prime Minister’s Office a good few hours to decide on the best way to formulate a rebuttal that satisfies Trump without caving to Hamas.

Well, Team Netanyahu pulled it off brilliantly.

“In light of Hamas’s response, Israel is preparing for the immediate implementation of the first stage of President Trump’s plan for the immediate release of all the hostages,” the PMO statement read. “We will continue to work in full cooperation with the President and his team to bring the war to an end in accordance with the principles set by Israel, which align with President Trump’s vision.”

It was the perfect way to remind everyone involved that unless every last hostage is released ASAP, Israel will have carte blanche in the Strip. Since this is in keeping with Trump’s own threats and promises, it was safe to assume that he’d consider it both sufficiently respectful of his wishes and appropriately tough from Israel’s perspective.

Given Trump’s subsequent post on Saturday, the assumption was correct.

“I appreciate that Israel has temporarily stopped the bombing in order to give the Hostage release and Peace Deal a chance to be completed,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Hamas must move quickly, or else all bets will be off. I will not tolerate delay, which many think will happen, or any outcome where Gaza poses a threat again. Let’s get this done, FAST. Everyone will be treated fairly!”
Jake Wallis Simons: Trump may just have given Gaza peace a chance
And just like that, we’re into a game of spot the devil. The headlines were bold: Hamas accepts Trump plan. The president was just as bold, calling on Israel to stop the bombing, after which Benjamin Netanyahu begrudgingly limited his troops to defensive operations. But the detail is what counts. Where are those devils hiding?

Let’s start with releasing the hostages. All will be freed, Hamas said, depending upon “field conditions”. This seemed to refer to the breakdown of the group’s command and control.

Hostages have been held at UN facilities, underground and in family homes, as well as by other groups like Islamic Jihad, which has rejected the Trump plan out of hand. With so many commanders dead, coordinating a mass release is difficult. Will the president be gulled into extending his 72-hour deadline?

That is just the first of the devils. In February, Hamas tried to pass off an unidentified corpse as Shiri Bibas, the red-haired woman who was killed in captivity and whose two toddlers, Kfir and Ariel, were strangled to death. An innocent error? Or an attempt to test the Israeli capacity to spot such gruesome fraud?

Forgive me if I draw the more cynical conclusion. By the same token, the “field conditions” cited by Hamas may contain tactical deception as the group plays for time, manoeuvring to preserve what it wants: survival, influence and deeper knowledge of how to play the enemy.

The jihadis seem to have concluded that Trump is not a detail man, that his eagerness for recognition as a historic peacemaker, combined with his volatile attention span, could be used to their advantage. But his quickfire response – “I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE” – was soon followed by a vow that he will “not tolerate delay”.

Whether or not they miscalculated, this strategy is threaded through the Hamas response. The 20-point plan demanded the release of all hostages, the disarming of the jihadis and the installation of a technocratic government as preconditions for ending the war. In response, Hamas was lavish in its praise of the mediators, offering enough leg to put them off.
The Extraordinary Silence...And What It Tells Us - Konstantin Kisin

Inside decimated Gaza City: As world holds its breath for Israeli hostages, how every day is still life and death
As the Israeli armoured personnel carrier clatters across Gaza, the only glimpse I get of the decimated hellscape outside comes through two tiny video screens.

Everything is flattened; everything destroyed. So many buildings have been levelled in this bloody war that vast mounds of pulverized concrete litter the landscape and mix in the Mediterranean breeze with grit, dirt and filth.

It seeps into every crevice, penetrating even the IDF vehicle's armour, and clings to the throat leaving me choking and gasping for air.

But I don't have time to catch my breath - we have arrived. The armour-plated rear hatch yawns open and I now see Gaza City with my own eyes.

I am one of a handful of journalists allowed into the Strip's capital for the first time since Israel launched its ground offensive in September.

We are here, embedded with the military, principally because the IDF discovered the entrance to a 1.5km tunnel and weapons manufacturing factory within the Jordanian Hospital and wish to show it to the world's media before destroying it.

It is tunnels like this - forming part of an underground labyrinth which stretches for longer than the London tube network - that the Israeli government say is in large part why so much of Gaza has been reduced to dust.

How else, they say, can they root out such a cynical foe which hides within civilian infrastructure, attacking them at any time from above and below ground, before slipping away? Some 1,000 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, 2023.
Israel: Fighting for Survival mini documentary - Robert Midgley
Israel stands at a crossroads. In this investigation, I explore the forces driving its fight for survival — and what the world isn’t being told.

From regional conflicts to global diplomacy, Israel’s struggle is more than a headline — it’s a story of resilience, geopolitics, and survival. This episod takes you beyond the soundbites into the realities shaping the nation’s future. Unedited interviews and raw footage of the people on the ground.




Netanyahu announces likely return of ALL hostages within the coming days
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the likely imminent return of all remaining hostages from Gaza, saying that while “it is not yet final…I hope, with G-d’s help, that in the coming days, during the Sukkot holiday, I will be able to inform you about the return of all our hostages, both living and deceased.”

In a televised address to the Israeli people on Saturday evening, Netanyahu said that “we are on the verge of a very great achievement”. The Sukkot holiday is due to start on Monday evening.

Last week, US President Donald Trump issued what appeared to be an ultimatum to both Israel and Hamas for a final deal. In an interview with Axios’s Barak Ravid, Trump described how his conversation with the Israeli leader: “I said, ‘Bibi, this is your chance for victory.’ He was fine with it. “He’s got to be fine with it. He has no choice. With me, you got to be fine.”

The 20 point plan put forward by Trump last week, publicly accepted by Mr Netanyahu, states that “If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage release. During this time, all military operations, including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended, and battle lines will remain frozen until conditions are met for the complete staged withdrawal.”

It also says that “within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages, alive and deceased, will be returned. Once all hostages are released, Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1,700 Gazans who were detained after 7 October 2023, including all women and children detained in that context. For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.”

The Trump plan specifies that Gaza “will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in Gaza”, and that “Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt.”

Hamas’s response to the Trump plan, believed to have been drafted with the help of mediators, agrees to the release of “all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead”, as well as the handover to an independent Palestinian body. It does not outright refuse some of the later points regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, but says that “they are to be discussed within a comprehensive Palestinian national framework. Hamas will be part of it and will contribute to it with full responsibility.” Trump responded by indicating his belief that Hamas are ready for peace.


‘Shut the doors!’: Manchester survivors describe chaos of deadly Yom Kippur terror attack
Worshippers at Heaton Park Synagogue in north Manchester gathered early on Thursday morning for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, for what was meant to be a day of solemn reflection and prayer. Instead, the synagogue was targeted in a deadly terror attack that lasted minutes but left a deep scar on one of Britain’s largest Jewish communities.

At 9:31 a.m., the congregation’s leader, Rabbi Daniel Walker, was leading the morning service, clothed in white robes. Minutes later, they were bloodstained. Outside, chaos erupted when a small black car crashed into the synagogue gates. Some initially believed the driver might be having a medical emergency, but the truth revealed itself quickly and violently.

“It was a rampage,” one witness told the UK’s The Guardian.

The attacker, later identified by police as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, emerged from the vehicle dressed in black and began stabbing people near the entrance. Inside the synagogue, the congregants heard the commotion and immediately acted to protect each other.

“Shut the doors!” they cried, according to witness testimony recounted to the New York Times.

Ivan Telzer, who was among those inside, recalled hearing pounding on the other side of the synagogue doors as Shamie tried to force his way in. Congregants and the rabbi used their bodies to barricade the entrance.

The terrorist was still trying to gain entry when armed police arrived within minutes and opened fire. In the chaos, two worshippers were struck by police bullets. One was wounded, and the other, Adrian Daulby, died at the scene.

“Shoot him!” someone shouted, according to the reports. “He’s got a bomb!”


Kemi Badenoch: We have allowed antisemitism to fester on our streets
This afternoon, after speaking to the Prestwich Hebrew Congregation, I met some of the excellent police officers and CST first responders at the scene of the terrorist attack, as well as some members of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation.

The strength of Manchester’s Jewish community in the face of evil is humbling. But the overwhelming feeling I have after meeting them is rage. How dare a man welcomed into our country as a child repay that generosity with terror and bloodshed?

So many lives ruined, so much trauma, pain, anxiety and loss left behind. I am absolutely sick of seeing Britain’s kindness turned against us.

The brazen antisemitism on display on Yom Kippur under the pretence of “protest” is another example of people abusing the rights and freedoms we have. Yet too many still champion causes and cultures that do not respect those same rights and freedoms.

The naivety of those who believe this will all go away with warm words is also taking our country down a dark path. This hand-wringing has a cost.

Manchester’s Jewish community has been part of the city for over two centuries. It is a scandal that many In Manchester and beyond are considering leaving our country.

For generations after the Holocaust, the world said “never again”. Never again would we allow Jews to be hunted, terrorised, or live in fear because of who they are. Those words ring hollow today.

On Yom Kippur, Jews ask where they’ve fallen short and how to do better. We, as a nation, must ask ourselves the same. How did we let hatred fester again on our streets?

There are many causes: Islamism, media bias in reporting the war in the Middle East, the inability of authorities to go after serial wrongdoers while instead focusing on minor infractions of the law-abiding population and so much more.

The terror-supporting hate marches must stop. The government must abandon its dangerous "Islamophobia” definition. And we need a wholesale new approach to tackling misinformation and bias in our media.


Police still questioning six as investigation continues into synagogue attack
Police are continuing to question six people arrested as part of investigations into the background of Manchester synagogue terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, who it emerged was on bail for an alleged rape at the time of the fatal attack.

The 35-year-old was heard to shout “this is what they get for killing our children” as he tried to get inside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, on Thursday.

Adrian Daulby, 53, is believed to have been shot dead by police while attempting to prevent Al-Shamie entering the synagogue during the car and knife attack.

He was killed together with Melvin Cravitz, 66, from Crumpsall, a worshipper who helped prevent the attacker from entering the premises.

Armed police accidentally shot Mr Daulby and another member of the public who survived during the attack, which happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

On Saturday, the force said three men remain in hospital with serious injuries, including a security guard with car-impact injuries and a Community Security Trust (CST) worker with stab wounds.

On Friday night, police raided a house in Central Avenue, Bolton, while six people have been detained on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts as part of the investigation, with counter-terrorism police saying they will seek warrants to give them extra time to continue questioning them.


Synagogue attack: the perverse reality of Islamism & antisemitism in Britain
Spectator editor Michael Gove joins Tim Shipman to discuss the shocking attack on a synagogue in Manchester – and what it reveals about antisemitism, extremism and Britain's failure to protect the Jewish community.

CHAPTERS
00:00 – The Manchester synagogue attack
02:05 – Antisemitism and ignored warnings
05:50 – Protests and Palestine marches
07:35 – Labour’s unresolved problem with antisemitism
11:20 – Britain’s blind spot on Islamist ideology
14:45 – Migration, integration and extremism
18:10 – Prevent and the failures of counter-extremism
22:40 – Can Jewish life in Britain ever feel safe?


Ben Shapiro: Two British Jews are murdered at Yom Kippur services by a Muslim terrorist;
Top tier comedians travel to Saudi Arabia to deliver anti-American diatribes for cash; two British Jews are murdered at Yom Kippur services by a Muslim terrorist; and the government shutdown continues.




Jonathan Sacerdoti: The UK must deal with anti-Jewish marches and the causes of Islamic terrorism. Jew hatred is rife.



Woman injured in car-ramming near Jerusalem
A Palestinian slammed his car into the Biddu checkpoint near Jerusalem on Saturday, lightly injuring a woman in her 40s.

“The suspect exited the vehicle and fled on foot toward the village of Biddu. Border Police officers at the checkpoint pursued him, fired warning shots into the air, and apprehended him,” the Israel Police said in a statement cited by Ynet.

“None of our forces were injured. The suspect was arrested and transferred for further investigation by the security forces,” the statement added.

The injured woman was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem by a Magen David Adom team.

She was reportedly inside her vehicle at the checkpoint in the Binyamin region of Samaria when the attacker’s car struck her from behind, causing injuries to her head and limbs.


"What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews" | Josh Hammer
In this conversation, Josh Hammer examines the perilous moral confusion of our age through the prism of Israel and its survival. The attacks of October 7 and the confused global response revealed, he argues, a civilisation that has lost confidence in truth itself. When so many can no longer distinguish between barbarism and freedom, the very survival of Western civilisation is at stake.

Hammer maintains that the West’s survival depends on rediscovering its biblical foundations in Judaism and Christianity. Without recovering that foundation, the West cannot withstand the mounting pressures of relativism, Islamist extremism, and cultural Marxism. This is a sobering but vital discussion on Israel, anti-Semitism, and the future of the West.

Joshua Hammer is the author of Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. He is a syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, senior editor-at-large for Newsweek, and host of The Josh Hammer Show.

00:00 Trailer
01:21 Introducing Josh Hammer
02:06 The West's perilous moment
6:57 – Relativism, Separation of Church & State, and the Loss of Truth
16:02 – Judaism’s Profound Contribution to America & the West
22:40 – Feelings Over Facts: Debate, Universities & “Emocracy”
25:59 – Rising Antisemitism: Immigration, Wokeism & the Red-Green Alliance
36:00 – Populism, Tucker Carlson & Divisions on the Right
44:55 – Israel, Nationalism vs Globalism, and the Future of the West
55:09 – Netanyahu, Gaza War & the PR Battle
1:02:27 – Recognition of Palestine, Abraham Accords & The Path to Peace


Coleman Hughes: Dave Smith vs. Coleman Hughes Debate: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy
For months, my audience has been asking me to have this conversation. Dave Smith—stand-up comedian, host of the Part of the Problem podcast, and one of the most prominent libertarian critics of U.S. foreign policy—recently made a video responding to my analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We disagree about a lot. So we sat down for three and a half hours to hash it out.

The conversation was challenging in the best sense. It was long and substantive, and I was genuinely uncertain about where it would go. We covered Ron Paul's influence on Smith's worldview, whether 9/11 was driven by foreign policy grievances or jihadist ideology, the Iraq War, whether Israel wants peace, what Palestinians actually want, and what American foreign policy in Iran should be.

At the outset, I told Smith I wanted to focus on the issues that matter—not on personal attacks or referendums on either of us as people. He agreed immediately.

We found common ground where we could: Both of us think neoconservatism has been disastrous, the Iraq War was a catastrophic mistake, and America should be far more skeptical of foreign intervention. But we part ways on Israel, the role of ideology versus grievances in terrorism, and whether withdrawing from the world makes America safer or not.

This conversation won't resolve those debates. But I hope it models what good-faith disagreement looks like: civil, rigorous, and unafraid to follow the argument wherever it leads.

Note that this conversation took place before Hamas addressed some conditions of President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan and said it agreed to release all remaining hostages.

00:00:00 – Intro
00:02:25 – Ad: Uber
00:02:59 – Dave's Libertarian Awakening
00:09:40 – Why They Hate Us: Foreign Policy vs. Radical Islam
00:32:37 – War Spending, Debt & The Federal Reserve
00:38:47– Anti-War Philosophy: Where Are the Limits?
00:52:42 – Did Israel Influence the Iraq War?
01:27:15 – Selling the Iraq War: Tony Blair and the Ethics of Intervention
1:38:48 - Trump and the U.S.–Israel “Special Relationship”
01:52:48– Was There Ever a Partner? Negotiations, Distrust, and Gaza
02:15:29 – Parallels: Slavery, Segregation, and Occupation
02:17:56 - Gaza, Hamas & The Morality of War
02:37:28 - Palestinian Statehood & the 1967 Borders
02:47:47 - Withdrawing from the West Bank
03:05:39 - What if America Cut Off Support for Israel?
03:09:59 - The Puerto Rico Analogy: Choosing Stability Over Sovereignty
03:14:40 – Iran and the 12-Day War




Istanbul cancels Robbie Williams concert over safety fears following anti-Israel activist pressure
British music star Robbie Williams's concert in Istanbul, originally slated for Tuesday evening, was cancelled by city authorities, Williams confirmed on his personal Instagram on Saturday.

"I'm extremely sorry that I will not be able to perform in Istanbul next week. City authorities have cancelled the show, in the interests of public safety," Williams wrote.

"The last thing I would ever want to do is to jeopardise the safety of my fans," he added.

This comes after days of pressure on Turkish social media seen by The Jerusalem Post, denouncing Williams as "a Zionist" who "supports genocide perpetrators."

Why is Williams controversial in Turkey?
Williams is married to Ayda Field, an American actress born to a Turkish father and a Jewish mother. Williams has spoken before about the importance of raising his children with Jewish identity due to their mother's Jewishness.

The music star has also spoken out before about positive experiences in Israel, and has the word Simcha (Joy) tattooed on his arm in Hebrew.

Williams has held several concerts in Israel, including in May 2023.

“Normally, I can tell a lot from a place from the entrance in the airport,” Williams said at a press conference in Tel Aviv before the concert. “Big smiles, welcoming, kindness, and a lot of gratitude in people’s eyes.


Police arrest more than 350 people over Palestine Action support
At least 355 people have been arrested over pro-Palestine protests in London which is taking place in defiance of calls by politicians and police bosses to reconsider after the Manchester synagogue terror attack.

The Metropolitan Police arrested protesters for offences including supporting the banned terror group Palestine Action.

The arrests include six people who were detained for unfurling a banner backing the proscribed group on Westminster Bridge.

But the bulk of the arrests occurred in Trafalgar Square, where protesters held placards showing their support for Palestine Action.

The Metropolitan Police said: “As of 5.20pm, 355 people had been arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation.

“The majority of people still remaining in Trafalgar Square are onlookers who are not holding placards in support of Palestine Action. Arrests continue.”

Organisers Defend Our Juries said more than a thousand people had gathered at the central London landmark to hold a mass, silent vigil protesting the proscription while the names of Palestinian children killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict are read out.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had urged protesters to “respect the grief of British Jews”, while Jewish figures have called the action “phenomenally tone deaf” following Thursday’s killing of two people in the terror attack.


Brookline man arrested after allegedly firing pellet rifle near synagogue on eve of Yom Kippur
Brookline police arrested a man on Wednesday night after he allegedly fired a pellet rifle outside a synagogue, breaking the window of a car.

The incident, which took place as the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur was beginning, triggered a large police response that brought more than a dozen officers to Temple Beth Zion at 1566 Beacon Street, according to a police report. However, police said it did not appear he was targeting the temple.

Carlos Gouvea, 43, was charged with illegally discharging a pellet gun, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and malicious damage of personal property.

Gouvea, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School who is also the CEO of a major Brazilian think tank, told police he was hunting rats, according to the police report.

Neither he nor an attorney listed in court documents responded to a request for comment on Friday. He was arraigned in Brookline District Court on Thursday, and entered a plea of not guilty to all charges, according to court records.


Soccer fans in Pamplona  hoist ‘Destroy Israel’ flags in La Liga match
A soccer match in Spain’s La Liga between Club Atlético Osasuna and Getafe Club de Fútbol on Friday was disrupted by the former’s home fans who hurled tennis balls onto the pitch at the 10th minute to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

In addition, two large banners with the writing “Israel Suntsitu” (“Destroy Israel” in Spanish) were unfurled by Osasuna fans during the game in Pamplona.

In recent years, throwing tennis balls onto soccer fields has become a popular form of political protest in Europe.

The game resumed after a few minutes’ break.

The Basque-region fans of Osasuna waved PLO flags throughout the match and could be heard chanting anti-Israel slogans, calling for the Jewish state to be banned from European competitions, according to outlet Ynet News.

Spain has come under the spotlight in recent months for escalating its rhetoric and actions against Israel. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described Israel as a “genocidal state,” as his government imposed personal sanctions on Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir in September.

After protesters in Madrid forcefully compelled the early cessation of the Vuelta a España cycling race due to the participation of an Israeli team, Sánchez delivered a speech in which he encouraged more anti-Israel demonstrations of the same nature.




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