Back to episode — Episode 2774 CWSA 03/10/25
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no bad guy. It's just power. And Israel is doing what would be good for Israel. What's good for Israel is to increase their land for two reasons. One is it could give them a little extra buffer against attacks. But also wouldn't it be good to have a bigger country? Because in the long run, very long run, that will just all be good. So Israel is doing what is in the best interest of Israel and the…
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So you know of course there's other elements to this such as the military industrial complex in the US would like to have another place where we can sell weapons. We'd like to be able to project our own US interests through a proxy in the Middle East. So the US has an interest in Israel being the strongest player in that region. And so that means Israel will have the power and they will keep doing what they want.
Now one of the claims that the Palestinians make is that when the Israelis say, hey we gave you Gaza and it was just your own country and you could have turned it into a paradise but you turned it into a Hamas terrorist hellhole and now look what it bought you. Well the Palestinians and the people in Gaza would say that never happened. It's true that you sort of pulled out but you didn't stop bombing us. But of course they always had reasons. They were responding to some kind of an attack. And they didn't have freedom of travel and commerce because they were sort of surrounded. And again presumably entirely for security reasons. Israel couldn't let them ship in and out anything they wanted because that would be dangerous. Didn't let them travel unrestrictedly for the things that you would normally do for commerce. And so the Gazans never felt that they really had the ability to run their own country. They felt like they were still under some kind of siege even if there were no boots on the ground within Gaza itself. Now that would be their take. I'm not endorsing it. I'm not taking a side. I'm just describing it. If you ask them they'd say, yeah you sort of on paper gave us Gaza but it was never free in the way that other countries could be free. You have to deal with everybody.
And then Israel would say, how could we give you that freedom when you're just a boil in a stew of terrorists who if we open the roads or open the sea you'd be shipping in massive weapons and turning it into another attack. And that of course would be exactly the right approach from their self-interest.
I'd also point out that the thought about having two separate countries with the West Bank and the Palestinians, even forget about Gaza for a second, but if you want to have the two-country solution, you know that ship already sailed. There are now so many settlements, Israeli settlements, just peppering that entire area that there's not really any possibility of a two-country solution. And again that would be presumably what the Israeli government wants, to not have a two-country solution even if they use the words that they would. And it looks like they have a long-term plan, Israel, to maximize Israel. Which everybody would expect. Again it's not good, it's not bad. It's just power.
And if you just reversed the power instantly you would have almost the same situation except the Israelis would be the ones complaining and the Palestinians would be saying, well look at you terrorists trying to fight back against our massive power. I guess we'll just have to press you a little bit harder because you're still acting like terrorists. Because the weaker party doesn't have any tools so they're going to use some terrorism. That wouldn't surprise anybody.
So let me see what else. Yeah I think that pretty much does it. So that's my take. My take is as long as you're in the who's good, who's bad, who's got the historical claim, whose Bible says what, that's all just power. And who has the power is going to use it. Right now it's Israel. That's sort of the end of the story. Everything else is just a normal outcome of who had the power. And I don't see it changing anytime in the near future because I don't see them coming up with a Martin Luther King. Oh we were wrong the whole time. Let's just get the international community to back us and we'll ask for a bunch of peaceful things. I don't see it happening. So it'll just be more of the same I think for a long time.
Jonathan Turley is writing about a crisis fatigue. And he's sort of mocking the legal experts in the country which of course in many cases are leaning left and talking about how easy it is to get a thousand legal experts to sign on to any Democrat anything. And then the news will treat it like it matters that you got a thousand legal experts to say there's a constitutional crisis. And everything's a constitutional crisis until you're so tired of constitutional crises that don't seem to actually make any difference in your life that you see another list of a thousand legal experts saying there's another constitutional crisis like every week or two. And it just doesn't mean anything. We're just exhausted by it and it never has real effect in the real world. And we figure they're all biased and it doesn't matter how many people on the list because you can always get a list. You can always get a thousand people to agree to anything. You know, as long as you're not talking about the ones who didn't sign it. Just say, well a thousand people say we're in a constitutional crisis because of Trump. And it's all getting just stupid. Like it's the best the Democrats can do is to try to get basically to reproduce the 51 intelligence people who say the laptop isn't real. The most debunked method of truth. It's all they have. Let's put together another easily debunked proof of what's real. Yeah we'll get a list of people. It'll be long. There'll be a thousand people on the list. Doesn't mean anything anymore in today's world. And we're smart enough to know it.
Now I've not been following the situation in Romania so maybe I got a little this wrong. I was seeing Mike Benz talking about it online. So apparently Romania was having a presidential election that the EU and I guess the US probably was behind a little bit got the election cancelled because they didn't like who was going to get elected. Is that roughly what happened? But the European Union president, this Ursula von der Leyen, she's sort of quiet about it because as Mike Benz says, and what can she say? Benz says if she says she supports Romania cancelling elections, which she does, says Mike, the EU will look like a dictator it is, says Mike. And if she says she doesn't support it, it would throw the very network in Romania the EU leaned on to cancel elections under. So the EU is basically overthrowing the government of Romania just sort of matter of factly right in front of everybody. Do I have that even a little bit right? All right, s
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o I don't know if I do. But that would be more of the same for the United States anyway to be influencing other countries' elections. Anyway, according to Wall Street Journal, American defense companies are having a good time. They're increasing their dominance of the global arms trade. And the European nations are trying to buy as much as they can to protect themselves. They're buying US fighter…
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