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That's patriotmobile.com/slash Dana or call 878-PATRIOT. Look, we've been quite clear that we just have a fundamentally different view of this situation and that we believe those criticisms are not well-founded and frankly inaccurate. Any implication that money that has not yet been spent, not a single dollar of that money has yet been spent, had any role in the attacks that took place, in planning them, in equipping the parties that conducted them, just frankly doesn't make any sense. And as we've been clear, that money can only be spent on humanitarian items, on food, on agricultural products, on medicine, that sort of thing. We're going to be watching that very closely as well.

And if Iran spends that money in ways that it's not supposed to, we will know. And so we're quite clearly on our side. How stupid does this walking mental abortion think that we are? For real. How dumb does he think we are?

Do I look like his mother? Do I look like some dumb bitch who's gonna believe anything this guy says? If you're upset with my language, too bad. There's bigger things in the world to be upset about. What I don't like is my government gaslighting me.

What I don't like is my government assuming that I, as an educated American that funds them with the theft of my tax dollars, What I don't like Is when they assume that I am so stupid that I'm just going to believe this nonsense that they're spilling. We're going to explain really quickly. For the drive-by baby mental abortions who accidentally figured out how to stumble upon this ray of sunshine that we call this radio program, we're going to explain to them how fungibility works. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash.

I apologize for nothing. I'm not big bird. I'm not here to babysit your kids. I'm not something that you can just sit in front of, you know, the younger generation and let go and let me take care of them for you. I'm not that.

So don't expect that of me. There's a lot to be upset about, obviously, to day. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program, all of that good stuff. We'll get into that later, but I want to start with this because.

This uh we all now know. the terror attack. It's what, I think, the worst since Yom Kippur.

Some says it's the worst some say it's the worst list of fatalities to take place since the Holocaust against Israelis. Uh, it's Hamas. It's Iran through Hamas that is carrying out this fight against Israel very conveniently. You know, here in the wake of the Abraham Accords, and after Saudi Arabia has been normalizing relations with Israel, and it's very interesting too that the United Arab Emirates have also released a statement condemning the terror attack by Hamas. There's a lot of tension.

A lot of this is between Iran and Saudi Arabia. They are trying to jockey for power in this area. This is also about a political justice rewriting of history about a make-believe country that has never existed in all throughout antiquity. And we're going to give a history lesson on how Palestine has never literally existed. I'm going to educate the drive-bys on how it came to be, who named it, and all of the players in the past and current.

Because we have an absolute illiteracy, a historical illiteracy in this country. It is shameful.

So, nine Americans thus far killed. They don't even know. This administration, Biden's already called a LID today, in case you didn't know. Biden has already called a LID. We don't even know how many American hostages there are.

We have no clue. This administration is MIA. Yesterday, Biden held a barbecue. They had a barbecue, and they were playing loud music and just, you know, living life. All of that.

They were just, you know, living life. And the administration, I think what, they had like one statement that they released, and then now he's called a lid. We're not expected to hear from or see the president for the remainder of the day. Congress is on its way back, which a sidebar, we're going to also discuss how this was a stupid strategy from Kevin McCarthy Jr., two unabashed rhinos, And now you have the house frozen. If all hell breaks loose, we're blanked.

'Cause the house is frozen. Great job with strategy, Lil McCarthy. Great job. Hey, tell me about the earmarks. You know, you sit here and say you don't get PAC money and all this stuff, but you get some more earmarks almost than any other member in Congress.

You want to have talk about that? We will.

So. Getting into all of this. Wall Street Journal yesterday confirmed Iran's involvement. You know how they confirmed Iran's involvement? Because Iran just basically admitted it.

I mean, there's nothing really else to say. They came out and said, yeah, you know, they did it. You also had Hamas going out there and saying that, yes, we thank Iran. It was one of the spokespeople for one of Hamas's terror brigades going out and saying, we thank Iran for providing us with weapons, money, and other equipment. They gave us missiles to destroy Zionist fortresses.

They helped us with anti-tank missiles. This is all the stuff that they were saying. The uh The issue of money as we came into this hour with the issue of money here. is One of It's a stupid discussion. It's a stupid discussion simply because.

If you have someone who wants to buy missiles, et cetera, and they need money to do so, they have $6,000, they don't have enough to cover maybe something else they want to get in missiles, and you give them $6,000, they're going to use that $6,000 to buy missiles and then the other $6,000 to get other stuff because that's the argument coming from this administration. They act like money isn't fungible and that you can't reallocate stuff. They act like this is the administration that can't track COVID funding. This is the administration that can't tell you where the hell our tax dollars in Ukraine are going. But by God, they can tell you where every last cent of the money that we unfroze for Iran, where that's going, we can guarantee you that they're not spending it on Hamas rockets.

Well, that's a big fat, fatty, fat lie. That's all there is to it. Big fat fatty McFat lie. The end.

So The whole argument of, well, we just don't know. We just don't know. We do. And it's very Interesting that after all of that is unfrozen and they're allowed and that was an easing of the sanctions, by the way. They keep saying, oh no, there were no sanctions that were yes, that's exactly what that was.

They really they eased sanctions on Iran, and that's exactly what it is. Uh that's uh they we we help them. I mean there's no other way put to put it.

So in addition to this, now you have Hezbollah. In the northern front, Reuters reports that because Israel is dealing with Gaza, now the group Hezbollah exchanged artillery and rocket fire yesterday. It was a multi-pronged attack. Did you see? I'm sure that you saw some of the.

some of the footage, and we're going to talk about some of the stuff, but I'm going to give you a little lay of the land right now. I'm sure you saw the infiltration of these different terror cells with. uh with with Hamas going through uh Israel, going through Jerusalem, going through Tel Aviv, etcetera, going through some of these other parts of the country, and then now you have this Northern Front breaking out uh and factions there, Lebanon's Hezbollah, and guess who they're also backed by? Iran! Yay, they're also backed by Iran.

Of course they are.

Now, the death toll is going to rise. I think what did they say? In terms of Israeli citizens, it's over, what, 800 now? Iron Dome was completely overwhelmed, and that's the whole point. I mean, the Iron Dome is fantastic, but when you have 5,000 rockets that are being fired over, the Iron Dome, you know, it can only handle so many at a time, and that was the whole purpose of that.

Uh was uh that was the that was the entire purpose of it.

So This, I mean, some of the fatalities that we saw, there was a female Israeli soldier apparently that was killed and paraded around. They went and they launched an attack against some kind of like peace rave thing that was in, that was near Gaza. And what are they? They kidnapped a German. They killed a bunch of people.

They were going through the streets. They were going through, you know, house by house. There's, I mean, entire families have been killed. Grandmothers have been kidnapped. This is all confirmed stuff, by the way.

This is all absolutely confirmed stuff. And so the, I mean, all of this, it's horrific to see. Uh they've uh raped women. There have been multiple confirmations of, you know, Hamas terror cells going through neighborhoods, raping women, kidnapping children, et cetera. I was watching MMA fighter Jake Shields, who I follow on Twitter, and I just, you know, I'm amazed.

People really show you how much they know during certain times. And I was watching him say, wow, you know, there was a photo of some Hamas terrorists that had been captured by the IDF and they were stripped to their skivvies and hogtide. And Shields was saying, oh, well, you know, this is, we need to make sure that we're treating them better. Blank that. you lose any claim to be able to demand better treatment when you start going out kidnapping grandmothers and raping women, turn them to absolute salt and put such a fear in God in them that they feel it's six generations down.

Tired of this stuff. Tired of this terrorist, this mentality of terrorism that feeds like yeast off of sugar. the indulgences of observations like the one I just shared with you. And honestly, I'm going to tell you something. For all the people saying, oh, well, the United States, the United States doesn't need to get involved in this.

Because we don't have to. The only thing that was preventing Israel from annihilating everybody was Israel. Because they were trying to get along with everyone. We're also going to get into a little bit of the history about how there's no such thing as an occupation. There's three things that are made up, unicorn, kitten, and sunshine terms.

assault weapons The term Palestine and the the idea of occupation as it relates to Israel and Gaza. Because they left unilaterally in 2005, left everything, pulled up roots, left infrastructure, left farms, left irrigation, left everything. And you know, The leaders and the officials in Gaza, they could have turned that. Into like, they could have turned that into like a monaco. They could have turned that into like this, this Mediterranean seaside resort.

And instead, what did they do? They invested every dollar that was given to them. Sidebar, that's one of the reasons why the administration actually stopped funding and sending aid to Palestine because guess what? They couldn't guarantee that it wasn't being used to dig tunnels and buy rockets. And that was under Biden.

So, this idea that there was some occupation, no, they unilaterally pulled up roots in 2005 and moved. Anyone telling you otherwise is a moron. There are more stupid people with zeal than smarts on social media.

So, you have to be very selective about what you read on Facebook and what you see on Twitter and Instagram and TikTok right now, because stupidity is a virus that rivals the propaganda of COVID. We have a lot to get into today. We're going to get into a history lesson on how there is and never has been a Palestine, and the left can't conjure one into existence. We're going to discuss that. We're going to discuss the players.

We're going to discuss the biggest myths. We're going to get into the reaction. And we're also going to look at the United States and all of this and our immigration problem. Could something like that happen here? All of this and more as we roll into a very unfortunate Monday.

All right, folks.

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So as you heard, the White House is called a lid for the day, which means that you will not see or hear from President Biden for the remainder of the day. And you're not going to hear from John Kirby or anyone else either, apparently.

So that is the latest, just to give you an update. Also, a couple of other things. This is just, I think, kind of goes into how pervasive stupidity can be and cowardice can be, even at a celebrity level.

So Kylie Jenner apparently posted support for Israel and then deleted her Instagram story. It was on her Instagram stories after fan backlash because there are too many stupid people out there who think that historically a nation that ever existed called Palestine that was named spitefully by Hadrian still exists. Oh yeah, we're going to get into all of that. Let's just bring the brass knuckles today, everybody. Also, this fascinates me.

Listen to this.

So an 84-year-old dude reveals that he lived free in a secret apartment in New York's historic King Manor, where he resided for 30 years. 30 years without paying any rent or working a legitimate day in his life. That's insane. He lived there. Dude named Roy Fox.

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This is crazy. This is so wild. And so there's a whole piece that's just weird. It's just, I didn't even, it's a little secret apartment that's in this place that I guess, did they not know about it? How does this happen?

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ICE. And you have to understand, when we talk about Gaza in the West, for a lot of people, it's very easy to conflate Hamas Which is a militant group that carries out acts of vicious terror, as they did this weekend, with Gaza, which is a place that contains 2.2 million people. Alex, half of them children. Half of the 2.2 million people are children. And it's one of the most densely populated places on planet Earth.

You've got 2.2 million people crowded into 141 square miles.

So they automatically become the victims of Israeli airstrikes because it's so crowded, because it's so densely populated. And it's basically like Lizzie. This is, I don't know, what is it? Medi, whatever. Over at, I don't care who this guy is.

He's some talking head schmuck who's over at MSNBC. Right? Isn't that where he's at?

So, what I want to do right here, and welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program. You can watch the Simulk Ice C2 Facebook channel 347 DirecTV as well.

One of the things that I want to do here is go into some of these myths because there's a lot of really stupid information out about there. And one of the other aspects with this is that. You it it's like uh every Few years you have these bust-ups due to Hamas. This one is like the worst, I think, what, since Yom Kippur and then. Many saying that the fatalities really, these are the most fatalities for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

And There's so much. Bad information because there are some people who think that history began the day that they were born. There are other people who think that isolationism is the exact same thing as. uh or that or that they don't understand the difference between isolationism and then also supporting an ally. And there's a bunch of foreign policy, geopolitical things in here.

So what I want to do is start with how there's no such thing as Palestine. I don't care if that makes people mad. I will tell you to go do something unflattering to yourself and all of your holy beliefs. I don't care. Uh because I just as I don't sit here and say that a dude who chops off his schlong is a chick, I'm not going to sit here and say, oh yeah, you're going to go ahead and force me to accept your conjuring of something from antiquity that never existed and isn't supported by any historical document, isn't supported by history, period, isn't even supported by your own belief set going back into the day.

So, where did the term come from? It wasn't actually even popularized, the term Palestine, until actually. It was recent times. It was recent era. I mean, the whole term came because Hadrian was mad.

This was after they had put down a Judean uprising. And Hadrian was mad. And so he decided he was going to rename the land there. This was like in 135 AD.

So after quelling this Judean uprising, Hadrian decided to rename the land Palestine after the Philistines, who, by the way, were Israel's enemies. They were Israel's enemies. And they They also weren't Arab. In fact, they were Greek. They weren't Arab at all.

So They that was done out of spite, and it didn't come into use It wasn't actually anywhere in history ever used for 2,000 years prior to that. And it wasn't in popular usage until after World War I. Actually, it didn't even get popularized until Arafat. It wasn't until after World War I that, that's when the whole idea of the boundaries of Palestine it was established. Because you had the Brit you had the British mandate and during that time, You had that term, quote-unquote, Palestinian.

That typically referred to, during the British media, that referred to Jews, Jewish people who were living. in that area in their institutions.

So This idea that there is a specific type of people that Came from this area, and that this is how it is with antiquity is not supported at all by factor history. I mean, that's just the. What I do find interesting is how the same people who try to, as I said, like conjure this into our reality. These are the same people that don't support an independent Kurdistan. You think about that for a little bit.

Like, those people can actually trace, you know, that just saying.

So And then there's the whole issue of the Canaanites. They there's some claims that, oh, well, they that's who the Palestinians descended from, except they had disappeared from that area like 1600 years before Arabs even arrived.

So you see, nothing makes sense. It's a made-up propaganda term used to delegitimize. Israel's historical claim to that area. End of That's not Zionist, it's not anything other than fact. And if You can either believe in fact or not.

Don't accept anything less than, okay, you don't have to like it. But to not acknowledge that as the truth Means that you go out, you're one of those people who probably believe, again, if a dude chops off his schlong, then he can call himself a chick. You go ahead and you stand with that crowd because that's who you are. You think you can just make stuff up and pull it out of the ether and will it into existence. These are facts.

We follow facts. The other issue with this So just to discuss, we're talking about where How Palestine didn't exist. There's no mention of Palestine in the Quran or in the Bible. Uh and The Issue of Occupation? We talked about that because that's the other thing that was being discussed.

The whole occupation. Audio sound by 14. This is the State Department spokesperson, Matt Miller. Listen to this.

I don't think I agree with the premise of the question, Caddy. We have always made clear that we continue to support the two-state solution and that we continue to support measures that will improve the dignity, the prosperity, the lives of both Palestinians and Israeli citizens alike. The Secretary has made that clear on a number of occasions.

So here's the problem with that. Uh n I think since what is it thirty six thirty seven? Every time a two-state solution has been Proposed. Israel has had no problem in coming to the table and accepting terms. It's the Palestinian quote unquote leadership that has always rejected it.

They've rejected it every single time. Go look it up. Go Google it. Don't take my word for it. Every time they've rejected it.

So The issue, there would not be a conversation. conflict at all. If Hamas would just stop being a bunch of terrorists. There wouldn't be an issue if they just chose to live peacefully. They don't want a two-state solution because a two-state solution.

Necessitates the recognition of Israel as an independent state, and they don't want that. That is not what they want. They don't agree with that. They don't believe it.

So that is why they have always. rejected the two-state solution. And that was further strengthened by Yasser Arafat, who was a POS terrorist. And I don't know why he was lionized by Democrats. I've never figured that one out, Kane.

Why, yeah, so Arafat was lionized like that? Why? I mean, dude was a straight-up terrorist, and terrorist apologist, and terrorist lover. He totally was. And he was a short stack.

What is he, like, three foot four, something like that? I think Danny DeVito's taller.

So the and and all of this. He Arafat, yes, sir Arafat popularized. The Again, the whole Palestinian, the Palestine thing. Yeah, Arafat was always presented as K noted as, oh, well, the United States is going with the lesser of two evils. No, they're both pretty evil as hell with the leadership decisions.

If you're looking at PLO, FATA, you're looking at all of those over there, it's all different sides of the same. You know evil, devilish, demonic coin. But Arafat, if you remember. He He really promoted the whole Palestine thing and Palestinians and occupation. And he advanced all these different kinds of terrorist attacks, coddled them.

I mean, they literally established a martyr stipend. And just a quick to add this on. The suspension of aid to Palestine had occurred under the previous administration. This administration didn't renew it. But Because our money was literally, it was funding rockets and it was funding the martyr, that martyr fund that they were using.

to pay terrorists to carry out suicide attacks in Israel.

So that's I mean every single Every I can't count the number of times that I've heard this. I mean, Kane and I, we've all grown up with this. Israel always goes to the table. They're the ones who always they're the ones who unilaterally withdrew in 2005. They're the ones who who agree have agreed every single time.

Yeah, okay, two state solution.

Okay, all right. And it's always. The leaders of quote unquote Palestine. That's it. It's always those leaders.

that reject it constantly.

So that's it's not the They've refused to talk peace. Every time. Mahmoud Abbas, who is the Palestinian Authority President, This was just a couple of years ago. When our country recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. I mean, he basically said he didn't want to talk about religion or history because he was talking about Israelis and Jewish people, and he said that they are excellent in faking and counterfeiting history and religion.

I mean, the irony of that statement is so rich. And he gets in and he intimates that he is completely uninterested in talking any kind of peace or any kind that's why they say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Do you know what exists between the river Jordan and the sea? Anyone want to take a guess what exists there? Israel.

Yeah. That's literally a song about genocide. That's a chant about genocide.

So, when they chant that, they are literally chanting for the destruction and annihilation of an entire people. That's what that means.

So No, they've been fantastic at reinventing their past, Palestinians, and then Arafat popularized that. The Jewish people, they have a state, and the whole quote-unquote Palestine and that Arafat modernized movement. They just want, they exist to prevent that state, they want to prevent that state from being a reality. The end.

The whole idea of Israeli apartheid is a lie. And The reason why That Israel has to be so militant in terms of protecting their border and their people is because Hamas, oh my gosh. Have you seen some of this stuff? Like I watch this video. Uh Literally just, I think this was yesterday afternoon.

They do what they call a knock bomb.

So, if they're, they warn people, Israel was warning people in Gaza, like, we're gonna, we've identified this building as, you know, like basically where munitions are stored. That's what Hamas does. Israel cares more about quote unquote Palestinians than Palestinian leadership does. They don't give a rat's ass about killing their own people, using them as shields because they're dog terrorists, is why. Hamas are a bunch of dog terrorists.

They don't care about any of this. They don't care about their people. They don't care about the well-being of their community. That's why they hide their rockets in schools. That's why they hide their munitions in their mosques and in the neighborhoods.

That is why, underneath everyone's homes where their children sleep at night, there is a network of tunnels where terrorists have taken all of the money that could have been used for development, could have been used for schools, could have been used for hospitals, could have been used for any number of things. And instead, they buy weaponry, they dig tunnels, they fund martyrs. That's what they do with their money instead. And they hide all of this stuff and they use their citizens as a shield so that if Israel strikes back and citizens are killed, Hamas can wring their hands and act like they care one iota about human life. That's why they do it.

So there was this video yesterday of a knock bomb. And there apparently were a bunch of munitions in this apartment building. And The knockbomb is a very precise, very targeted, very, very small explosion. That isn't actually designed to kill anyone. It's literally to warn people.

It's more sound than destruction. And then they come. They were telling people to evacuate the area. They do the knock bomb. Like, I can't remember the time period before they actually do.

Then a strike takes it out.

So The whole Idea that, oh, well, they're just so mean. They're just so, oh, they're just. They're they're uh the way that Israel's respond Israel's responding the way that Israel needs to. And honestly, Israel needs to be as aggressive as possible. And the best way that the United States, the best way that the United States can be a supporter of Israel right now.

is to be hands-off. and let them do what they got to do.

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At hotels and malls on the street. And they remind me that this country is ready for a history-making change. are ready they are ready to reclaim their freedom. They're independence. And I saw that and I thought so many things.

And that's why I'm here today. I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate.

So, RFK Jr. says that he is not running as a Democrat now. He's running as an independent. I bet there are some people on the right that are very happy that they propped him up. I mean, the guy is for gun control.

He actually thinks that there should be tests before you can even get a firearm. I mean, he's a climate change pusher. He's one of those guys that's all for the redistribution of wealth through the theory that isn't even adopted by three-quarters of the scientific community, quote-unquote, climate change. I mean, the guys, I think that he's a nut job. I've always thought he's a nut job.

The fact that we finally fell on a square of agreement as it relates to the coronavirus vaccine, which wasn't a vaccine, it wasn't the clotshot, does not mean that that is enough to make him the messiah of the right, which is what a lot of, even people that I know and friends of mine have tried to do. They really propped this dude up.

Well, guess what? His independent run. He's going to pull from both sides, including from some people's very, very preferred candidate. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

We also have this situation with Kevin McCarthy in the House. And I don't know. I am so done with the drama. Here's why I bring this up: because if something goes sideways, like if there's, say that there's something, I mean, say there's a terror cell here in the US. Hell, nobody knows because the southern border has been so wide open.

And we do know for a fact that CPB has been able to actually, or CBP, they've been have. Taken and apprehended terrorists at the southern border before, you know, so you really don't know. But what happens if something goes sideways here in the US with the terrorist cell? What happens if we have a situation where you have terrorists running through the streets like you did in Israel? The house is frozen.

They can't do anything.

Now, some say that maybe McCarthy could go back to being speaker because nobody else can get 218.

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Secretary, do you acknowledge that both Israeli intelligence officials and U.S. intelligence officials were caught off guard here? This is an attack that I don't think anyone saw coming in in the immediate intelligence failure, Mr. Secretary? Do you acknowledge it was an intelligence failure?

We will have plenty of time to the Israelis will have plenty of time to look into that. All of us will have time to look into that. The focus now has to be on making sure that Israel has what it needs to deal with this attack and to make sure that its citizens are safe and secure. That's the entire focus. I don't think Anthony Blanken has any idea of what's going on ever at any time.

That was him saying that, well, this horrific terror attack in Israel.

Now what? 800? Fatalities? I mean, it keeps going up. It's going to continue to go up.

And th that's not even including the hostages. You don't even know if they're alive. He says, Well, I don't know if it's an attack that anyone saw coming. There's been a lot of discussion about this online. Welcome back to the program.

Danelash here with you. Top of the second hour this Monday. You can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program, the simulcast as well, Channel 347, DirecTV, YouTube, and Facebook. The I think the argument that why didn't Mossad or why didn't Israel see this coming?

for that for me I was looking at that, like for me to For that to work though, do you think that they would ever anticipate literally 800 fatalities climbing? Where you had Hamas? If you guys missed some of this, just let me tell you. They had uh Motorized hang gliders. and they were in these motorized hang gliders attached to them, they were basically flying.

suicide mission and with their rifles and just shooting people from in the air. They had uh they took over in what two Uh checkpoint stations. A lot of uh there were apparently a lot of IDF that were taken hostage. If they weren't killed, they ran. I mean, the story about the Raver thing.

Is really sad too because that's where they had, what, 260 people killed? That was the place where they had the h that place had the highest fatality. They were hiding, uh, dodging bullets as Hamas. Murdered two hundred and sixty. Uh, it was a it was a festival, a peace festival.

And there's one girl Who was I think she's uh German. She was captured They just assumed she was Jewish. She was captured. and uh killed, reportedly raped, all this stuff. Uh her It looks like her legs were broken in the video.

I don't know how your legs can go like that. But. And they stripped her down and they were parading her on the back of a truck, her body. Um She had a German passport.

Sorry, she wasn't, she was Jewish, but she had a German passport. And She was considered a conscientious objector to military service according to her family. Uh via German newspaper Der Spiegel. And She was a pacifist in that her German pass support helped her. It's just she was at this peace that, you know, festival.

Ah, they should get killed anyway. 'Cause Hamas. They don't care. Just it's just horrific. It's just absolutely horrific.

There's video of people fleeing and screaming. I mean, there's video of families that were. kidnapped. Babies. That's not made up.

That's not you know, exaggeration. That's that's truth. Uh they are incredibly brutal. And they and what they'll do is, and I saw already this taking place, they've released like a video. Of themselves giving one of their hostages a cup of water or something and say, Oh, look how nice we are.

They just omit all the raping and the... killing and they act like that that didn't happen. Oh yeah, they it just uh And there was someone saying, oh, there hasn't been a single verified report. Uh uh oh really? Really?

That those people making that those people making the arguments, first off, that's not true. There's tons of verified reports. And The argument of Well you know, well, they're yes, they're rapists, but you know, they're They're trying to free themselves from occupation. Oh my gosh. There is a lot of Anti-Semitism that I've been seeing recently, and it's just from all of this, and it's wild to me.

Now, there's a difference between criticizing government. For instance, if you don't like one of Netanyahu's policies, or you don't like You know, the particular, like for instance, I don't like Israel's anti-gun policy. They actually had to relax their gun rules in the wake of this terror attack. I had tweeted a statement. Over the weekend from one of their ministers They actually had to roll back, they said.

Their licensing restrictions because they wanted to make sure that people can get. A firearm if they need it, but the thing is, you got to wait for a phone call, you got to be interviewed. That apparently is still all up, is still in effect. I mean, it's very. It's very, everyone thinks if you're an IDF, you get a gun, but it's government-owned, but it's very restrictive there.

Like, they have. Uh everything controlled me Even the ammunition, everything's controlled. And so The statement that they had. The firearms licensing division, they said to go on emergency operation to allow as many citizens as possible to. Arm themselves, but you still have to have a detailed test.

You still have to have the phone call. You still have to have all this stuff.

So, I mean, it's still.

So basically it's not really going to be helpful.

So, for instance, I dislike Israel's anti-gun policy. I think that that's the reason I'm so glad we have the Second Amendment. That's different from some of the other arguments that I've seen people making. On here. Why do we always have to support the Jewish people?

I mean, that's literally some things I've seen said. on social media. If people aren't smart enough to differentiate between criticism of government policy and criticism of a people, then maybe you should keep your mouth shut and let the adults do the talking. Big difference. By the way, can we talk about?

Can I Kane? Can I say Andrew? Can I say that? Can I say it? Yo, right?

It's not his name, but it's. Oh no, it's his name. Yeah, the balding beta foe fighter, Andrew Taint.

Sorry, Tate. It's verbal typo. Stays. I got to get out of jail-free card. I want to get right up to that line today.

He had tweeted, quote, Israel forced vaccines in everyone's arm. Rather live in Palestine in my own blood. And then he said, Alo Akwar. Uh that guy who s who people on the right thought was a good guy. That dude, that beta baldy male.

No, by the way, sidebar, balding's not bad. But on him it is. Re that guy. It's just these, like, so many of these instances I see. It's just, it's wild to me.

Now, There Is a lot of discussion as to how involved the United States would get. Because you got Americans apparently. There were nine killed, and apparently, there are some Americans taken hostage. We don't know how many. The administration literally does not know.

Don't expect an answer on that today because they've already called they called a lit two hours ago. You're not going to hear from anybody in the administration today. Nobody. They had a barbecue yesterday. Do you know that?

I know here while we're trying to figure out well how involved is the United States going to get here?

Well, uh we don't know because uh You know, the administration that had welcomed an actual spy in its upper echelon. Oh, yeah, the Iranian spy ring. We had that last week, or the week before. Didn't we? That seems like very you know.

That seems real I mean it was a high-level Iranian spy ring that was busted and it was Biden's Iran envoy. Hmm? Yeah, Rob Malley, he was suspended, placed on leave without payback in April. And apparently, he worked with a quote unquote high-level Iranian spy ring that was busted in Washington. Tablet Magazine said that he helped fund, support, and direct an Iranian intel operation designed to influence the U.S.

and allied governments. Boy, it really seems like we should have a discussion about that now, huh? No wonder Biden called a lid today. No wonder. I mean, you have literal Iranian spies that have infiltrated the US government.

And so I think that makes the question of, well, what was known? I think that that makes that that at least on the United States side, I think that that that's a fair question to ask. I mean, we've had this Yeah. The the involvement of the US Because we again, we don't know how many hostages were taken. We none of that.

I think the involvement of anybody that supports Israel should be to let them do everything that they got to do. Because the only reason that all of these enemies to that one one country surrounded by enemies and then the sea is because they've held themselves back. They could annihilate every single one of them. They've held themselves back. Of course, you know, DeSantis made a point over the weekend That is also true.

Just to make this very starkly clear. He had said that You know, Iran could also get nuclear. with Israel. That is true.

So and that's one of the things we're going to talk about. with Steven Eads coming up in our third hour today. But they need to do exactly what they need to do. Audio soundbite 10. Netanyahu.

says That they're all about to find out the FO part of FAFO. Listen to this.

Mashekara Yom, Ronni Rab Israel. He's going to turn them into rubble. But he says they're going to turn them into rubble. And they should. They have every right to.

They have their capabilities that they have networked throughout the city. They use civilians. Like I've said, Israel cares more about Palestinians than actual Hamas does, than their own leaders. Did y'all see the video of quote-unquote Palestine? Last hour, we went over how Palestine is a fictional term, much like assault weapon and it doesn't exist.

And I went over, I mean, glad to go knuckle to knuckle with you on it if you're so inclined. You won't win it, but you can burn some calories in the exertion. Uh but The uh can we talked about the network of Like tunnels and everything else that they have that makes it really, really difficult. Because if they have to start, if IDF has to go over there and go door to door. That's like the urban warfare you do not want to get into.

That's like the worst type of. Fighting situation. We're going to talk a lot about that. We also have headlines on the way. And what about our own immigration system?

It's weird because. Egypt shut down the border. They closed their border with Gaza when all this kicked off. They won't allow a single damn person to get over. Interesting, is it not?

So, why can't we do that with the southern border? Egypt's so racist. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Apparently, nobody is going into accounting.

That's kind of weird, isn't it? I was reading this piece over at the Wall Street Journal. Apparently pay has stagnated in the accounting field. And other fields are much more lucrative, so nobody's going into accounting. That's wild.

I did not know it was like that serious, but apparently it is. Yeah, they're like facing. A huge absence of, I don't want to say recruits, but of people going into that industry. Why? I don't know why.

RFK Jr. is going to speak at CPAC for some reason. The guy who is pro-choice, a big proponent of climate change, anti-Second Amendment, is going to speak. At the conservative content? For clicks, Really?

People need to tend, not trend.

So tired of this garbage. I'm so tired of it. Like, why the hell? That's like, you know, it's like Trump speaking to the DNC or something. Like, why?

Why would that doesn't make any sense? Uh, let's see apparently oh man, this is me to a T Americans think that disgust isn't a strong enough word to describe feelings towards politics and the political Environment right now, according to a number of surveys. Let's see here. This story sucks. We're going to blow past it.

Also, California is decriminalizing psychedelics. The governor has hit the brakes on that. The study finds that running is just effective. just as effective for treating depression as actual antidepressants. That's interesting.

You know, like getting out and just touching grass is also super helpful. I think a lot of people just like rush to pharmaceuticals so fast. I really feel like they do. They just like, oh, there's a pharmaceutical for that. There's a drug for that that I can take.

There's, you know, and they, without any consideration for what it does to their bodies. But this was a report from Amsterdam. They said that they looked at a huge number of people from the university in Amsterdam, and they found that the same exact same percentage of people with depression and anxiety experienced improvement after six weeks, 16 weeks, regardless of whether they were running or taking antidepressants. That was interesting. Also, the U.S., we're going to talk more about this, is sending warships and an aircraft carrier.

as a show of support for Israel. Apparently, there's this is from NBC. They said that the assets are not going to be in place for several days. But they said that they are moving them into position just as a show of supp of support, just as a show of support. There was also, we'll talk about this, a pro-Palestine, quote-unquote, Palestine rally that was held in Times Square over the weekend.

That was pretty stomach-turning. You know, yeah. Also, Nancy Mace endorses Jim Jordan for speaker. The New York City Mayor's immigrant fact-finding tour in Columbia is not going well. He was ridiculed, apparently, on a couple of different points.

Eric Adams on his trip. We're going to get into all of that and more. We're at the bottom of this second hour coming up. The U.S. involvement, the latest.

with the attack on Israel and our own border. Stay with us. Looking for the drive-through version of The Dana Show? Check out the best highlights from every show in Dana's Absurd Truth podcast, posted daily from The Dana Show. Can you tell us what more you know about the Americans that have been killed so far?

So I'll start with, yes, I can confirm that nine Americans unfortunately have lost their lives as a result of these horrific attacks in the region. We are in close contact with the Government of Israel as they continue to conduct security operations to locate missing U.S. citizens, missing Israeli citizens. And we are, of course, in close contact with the families of these nine deceased Americans and offering them any consular assistance that we can provide. Does the U.S.

have any sense of how many American citizens or dual citizens are missing at this point? No. It's very hard to say. It's a number that moves all the time as the Israeli military continues to conduct military operations. There are missing Americans who are unaccounted for.

We've continued to work.

Some of them will be located, we suspect.

Some of them may unfortunately turn out to be deceased, but we will work on that with the government of Israel in the coming days. But nine have been killed. The State Department can do that. There's not going to be any more. Don't expect any other information, though, about all this because they call the lid.

They're not going to have anything else. Biden is going to, he's going to be, they announced that he's going to be in Philly on Friday to talk about bidding onics, though. You guys are so excited? Welcome back to the show. No, you're not.

I mean, I asked, other people have asked, so is he going to talk about, oh, you know, I mean, Is he gonna what is he gonna talk about anything else? Like, uh, oh, I don't know. Is he going to talk about maybe American hostages or the Iranian spy ring, billions to Iran for Hamas? You know, I'm just curious. They're not gonna They're not going to see.

Anything else? from this administration.

Meanwhile Hamas has said And This is where, again, please keep in mind that I don't, I'm not in the Sid Bee friends. With drive-bys particularly. Hamasa said, a spokesperson for them said that they're going to start executing civilian hostages that they took from Israel on live TV for every IDF airstrike that hits a civilian in Gaza. Uh which happens because they're using them as human shields, of course.

So for every civilian that Hamas kills, Hamas should lose 10 of their own, I think. In fact, let's why stop why started ten, a thousand of their own? Kill every Hamas member. Turn their organization to absolute salt. This is what I don't get either.

And I get so I get aggravated at some of these people. Like, for instance, someone's like, oh, you know, I really like you, Dana, but this is a horrible take. There are innocents on the other side. Don't do this other side BS with me. This is some moss.

Stop standing. for a terrorist organization, you absolute clown ass. I'm so tired of this. That's exactly what it is. There's no both sides of this.

There's Hamas, terrorists, and then there are people who don't like terrorists. The end.

And honestly, terrorists only respond to brutality. They only know brutality, so shove them. That's the thing. You don't ever want. Move people.

who believe in a higher power. Who don't want to engage? in their brutality. That they have seen carried out against innocent people on this earth. You do not want to motivate.

Those are the last people on earth that you want to motivate. to go after you. Because Removing Hamas off the face of the earth then becomes a righteous cause. By their own actions. They've determined it.

Threatening to kill innocent people. We're going to kill innocent people for it. Hamas uses. innocent people. As shields.

Hamas doesn't care. Do you think Bahmat Abbas, do you think he cares about women and children? No. He's terrorist scum. All Palestinian leaders are terrorist scum.

And that's a country that, as I explained to you last hour, doesn't even exist. It's not a real phrase. It's not a real nothing that is confirmed by fact, history, or antiquity, nothing. And so The objection to Israel, responding with anything but brutal force. There shouldn't be objection.

Because one of the reasons, honestly, that we're in this position is because so many people have told them not to for so long. Thank you, Agree.

Okay. I mean they have the absolute ability. to just wipe out terrorists. And they've been and they're they're putting it this is what Democrats this is how Democrats negotiate. I'm not now for the stupid, they're going to say, did you just compare Democrats to terrorists?

That's what the stupid people like the lotion boys funded by George Soros over at Media Matter say. We're looking at the variables here. Democrats, for instance, will take a perfectly fine spending bill and they'll add a bunch of garbage to it, like taxpayer-funded trans surgeries or abortion on demand used as birth control. And then if you don't support it, then they say that you hate the other sensible things. It's kind of like a modified Mott Bailey.

Then they argue that you're against the sensible things that are in this bill. And then you have Hamas. That uses citizens as shields for their munitions. They have their munitions and their rockets and everything else, and they could keep them somewhere. They could keep them somewhere away from the citizens in a depot.

They could keep them somewhere where they don't endanger the safety of the people that they claim that they're trying to free. But this isn't about freedom for Hamas. This is about power. This is about control. This has nothing to do with freedom.

They don't care about a single person that lives in Gaza. And anyone who believes otherwise is deluded. That's why they put rockets in schools. Oh, that's real. You ought to go back and look at where they store their ammunition, where they store their artillery, where they put their munitions, where they put everything.

You ought to go and look. It's pretty unbelievable. But that's what people who don't care about life do. That is what people Who Don't care about limiting civilian casualties do. And so, if Israel responds, then Hamas.

Well, you know what? Maybe if you didn't store all your stuff. in civilian areas like a bunch of cowards. They wouldn't have to. But you see, and people don't even see there are people who don't understand that so the left I want to know who amongst the left thinks that it's acceptable.

To hide your artillery, to hide your munitions, to hide your weaponry. in schools and mosques. And using humans as shields. in order to protect your your terrorist resources? Who thinks that's acceptable?

Because that's the question that should be asked. Every single time you hear this both sides nonsense, you ask, so you so you are fine with terrorists keeping rockets in schools? You're fine with with kids in classrooms. Literally, a floor above a bunch of rockets. You're fine with that?

You're fine with them using kids as shields? Grown men. Using children? As shields to hide there. Weaponry So that if Israel strikes where they keep their munitions.

And there are casualties, then Hamas can make the argument that it's Israel who doesn't care, even though Hamas has killed way more Israelis. That's the argument that that you want to go with? People who make that argument, people who say that stuff are terrorists. I'm done. I'm so done with this.

Kane, how long have we lived with this? Our whole lives. Hell, we don't even live over there. I can't even imagine. Imagine living over there and having to hear the sirens go off because of terrorists decided to terrorize again.

It's a day that ends in Y. I mean they heaven forbid they can't They can't, and apparently, the other thing that came out. They they have all these people like they all these pictures of the kids that have been kidnapped all this stuff This is um Biden was asleep at his 3 a.m. call. Biden's too old to have a 3 AM call.

I told you that they had live music and a barbecue yesterday, right? It was one of the deadliest days for our strategic ally. They're one of the deadliest in half a century. American hostages. Nine American fatalities.

And uh the White House pool put out yesterday. I put this on Facebook for you all yesterday. It said the pool report was, quote, In late afternoon and early evening, a live band could be heard coming from the area around the Rose Garden. Your pooler asked why a band was playing. The White House responded, The President and First Lady are hosting a barbeque for the White House residents, staff and their families.

Big ol' barbecue. Hmm. I mean, you know, you got Americans that are held hostage and Our strategic ally suffered, you know, it's a terrorist, one of the worst terrorist attacks in its history. You know, you would have think that you would have thought that maybe the President wouldn't be partying it up with a live band and a barbecue. But then it got worse because now you have, they called, it was 11 o'clock and they called lid for him already.

Meaning, when they say call a lid, what that means is the president is done with public engagements for the day, including press conferences.

So whenever you hear that phrase call a lid, that's what that means. It means the president, oh, they called a lid. That means just imagine you putting a lid on a jar, closing it up for the day. That's what this means.

So it means the president. You're not going to see him anymore today. And apparently, you're not going to see anything from any department today, from what we're hearing from the White House. I mean, you Americans were killed by a terrorist group. in Gaza by the terrorist government in Gaza.

Gaza is a terrorist state. because of its terrorist government. funded by Iran. who has all this money. that was freed up for it by this administration and a hostage.

As a as a part of a hostage agreement. Do you remember When there was, let me pull this story up. says New York Times. It was back in 2002. A friend of mine sent this to me, and it said, remember.

Do you if they and they asked me, do you remember the uh feedback uh Bush got from this? and it was a story about Bush playing golf. uh the morning after a bus was bombed in Israel. And a statement was issued where he condemned the attack about the same time that I guess he took to the. To the green.

And the New York Times had this hit piece. Oh my gosh, Bush plays golf. It was literally Bush plays golf. Wow. You know, Israel's attack.

I'm just wondering. And that was about a year after 9-11. I'm just wondering, you know. If there's gonna be anything like that. You know, there's no accountability from the media.

Nobody's there. Apparently also Anthony Blanken. And this is the other thing. They had. A number of tweets that they put out and then deleted.

From the Secretary of State. This is the other thing that's confusing.

So, if you thought, you know, all the barbecues, that's a bad look, that wasn't even the worst look.

So US Secretary of State Anthony Blaken. Apparently, he said that he had tweeted that he talked with the Turkish foreign minister. and encourage Turkey's advocacy for a ceasefire. What? and release of hostages by Hamas immediately.

So I guess a ceasefire meaning no response. or defense from Israel. This is the unfortunate choice that Hamas made. This is the unfortunate choice that these terrorists have been making. and administration of this strip of land for decades now.

This is what the terrorists have. This is what they chose to do.

So people don't get to demand. That Israel ceasefire. Mm-mm. That that off ramp has passed. You passed that.

This is the FAFO highway, and we're coming up on the town of FO. Yeah, they don't get to demand that anymore. I can't believe that. I mean, and he deleted it. He deleted the tweet.

He tweeted it and then he deleted it. He deleted it. He called for a ceasefire. That's like Telling Roosevelt It would be it would be the same as like another country telling Roosevelt Yes, we're encouraging you to cease fire after Pearl Harbor. Oh, Pearl Harbor was attacked.

We're encouraging both Japan and U.S. to cease fire. What? No, no, no. Uh-uh.

That's not how this works. There is going to be a response. There's going to be a defense because no one learned. You know how many times they've done ceasefires? In fact, every time they've done ceasefire, Israel has done ceasefires.

Israel has followed it to the letter of the agreement. And it's always been who, Cain? Hamas. Always. That has violated the ceasefire.

Every single ceasefire agreement. It is always without exception from the beginning of measured time Hamas that has violated it.

So now. You don't get to call for ceasefires any more. That has passed. It's time to salt the earth. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

Yeah. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. Mm-hmm.

Alright, so I got one headline. Oh, kind of a gross one. It has to do with a villager. Religious Yeah. Minecraft style.

This one's kinda gross though. Uh I gotta be real.

So The headlines, whenever they say Villager, I just I still am amused. A three hundred pound villager was sentenced after stalking a resident's grandson. Russell Edward Thompson, 54, of the village of Springdale, has been placed on probation for three years. He pled no contest last month in Sumphre County Court to charges of burglary and theft, a charge of stalking, a charge of criminal mischief. He's living with a 70-year-a man who is living with a 73-year-old grandmother.

Met Thompson through an online dating application, and the grandson was picked up at the grandmother's house by Thompson, who asked if he could buy him some pot. Uh, long story short, the dude thought that the 300-pound villager seemed weird and uh didn't want to be around him, and then started getting threatening messages from him. The dude started showing up at the guy's grandmother's house, banging on the door, all this stuff. And the dude is huge, too. I mean, he's every bit looking 300 pounds.

Uh, so finally, and he also did damage to the property too. Uh, he was uh apprehended and he was sentenced to he well, he was put in jail, he was apprehended, and now he's got uh probation for three years. He's also a prohibited possessor. Man. They don't make villagers that big in Minecraft, I do have to say.

Just, you know, that's not why I am. Let's see. This is not a way to do a job interview. A man went to a Florida store. This is from Miami Herald.

He went to a Florida store for a job interview, and then he ended up stealing a car outside in the parking lot like a genius. Stole a car legit right outside the business, according to Paul County Sheriff's Office. It was Pilot Travel Center in Lake Wales. 23-year-old shut up for a job interview, but then he stole a car outside of the business. Yeah.

It was like, was the job for stealing? And that was. Like the The, I don't know, was that his test? I don't know. I'm just very.

Let's see, a Florida man crashes a stolen car after OnStar shuts the engine off in a multi-county high-speed chase. Dude, Winterhaven man facing several charges. He crashed a stolen car in Interstate 4 after the engine was turned off by OnStar. That's actually kind of neat how that can. Hmm.

The 23-year-old stole a Cadillac SUV from. Again, this was. Told the Cadillac SUV he was tracked by OnStar the moment he stole the car. Shut it down remotely. Third hour on the way.

Stephen Yates will be joining us. We've got a lot more coming up. Stick with us. To put an end to this. From this moment on, we announce that any targeting of innocent civilians without warning Will be met, regretfully to say, by executing one of the hostages.

In our custody, and we will be forced. Israel doesn't target citizens, though. That's why they're Israel and not Hamas. Hamas does, though. Hamas lives off of targeting citizens.

In fact, that's their whole strategy: they target citizens and they put citizens at risk. If only Hamas actually cared about the citizens it claims it wants to free as much as it hated everyone else. Wow. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lashier, top of this third hour.

And you can listen coast to coast. You can stream the radio program. You can watch the simulcast of the radio program, YouTube, Facebook, channel three hundred forty seven, DirecTV. There's a great piece that Lorraine has for you up at Substack that gets into that went up this weekend. The Uh what kicked everything off, and also the money.

So, you know, they had motorized paraglide uh hang gliders and that, and they had drones. They had a lot of. I mean, it seems. And like some of the some of the they had a lot of those hand gliders apparently, and they had a lot of a lot of them. I saw a video of like a handful of them, different ones.

Where do they get the money for this? 'Cause Hamas is broke. Oh. Oh, I maybe have an idea. Audio Soundbite 2.

This is Anthony Blinken. Listen to this.

What do you say about the argument that money is fungible?

So Iran may have known this money is coming and used other funds. To help fund this attack that happened. Iran has unfortunately always. used and focused its funds on supporting terrorism, on supporting groups like Hamas, and it's done that when there have been sanctions, it's done that when there haven't been sanctions, and it's always prioritized that. And again, I come back to the proposition that these funds have always been, under the law, available to Iran to use for humanitarian purposes.

But that's the thing, the humanitarian purposes. This is the same government that can't tell you where the money in Ukraine is going. And they can't even tell you about the COVID relief funds. They don't even know where the hell that's going. But they're going to assure you that all of the $6 billion that were released as part of this rolling back of sanctions against Iran, that this was, oh, no, not a single bit of it.

It was all strictly, guys, just humanitarian purposes. No one believes that. Not a single person. I mean they Iran has has funded uh Hamas. For years.

And in fact, as Lorraine noted in the piece, too. our good friend Anthi uh Andy McCarthy. uh just the other day talked about the history of that funding. to Hamas and just how much they're actually funded. Uh because i the releasing unphrasing the six billion is part of You know, the hostage deal that Biden insisted he was just adamant that it had no connection to the Hamas attacks, that had none at all whatsoever.

Well, nobody believes that, especially after the Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian officials, while they were meeting in Beirut, that they admitted freely in front of everyone that they had helped plan the assault and that they and they and they were like gleeful over it.

So that's, I mean, this is not true. They absolutely helped plan it and they helped fund it. But in Andy McCarthy's piece, he's talking about the circumstances under which the administration chose to. allow Tehran to access six billion dollars in funding. I mean, they're going to be free to do whatever the hell they want to.

And it's supposed to be rigorously overseen by Qatar. Do you believe that? Because I have a bridge to sell you. And they're only going to use it for food, medicine, and other necessities. And this is all due to the same, the reason the money was frozen, it was all due to the sanctions related to the money being made off of them selling their oil.

And there are sanctions against that. And nobody would need to buy it if Joe Biden hadn't kneecapped us for our own domestic energy. I mean, we could be replacing them on the world market. But the Biden administration absolutely refuses to allow us the domestic drilling capabilities. And so he's curbed that.

He's pulled leases. He's done everything he could to damage the United States's ability to put oil on the world market to supplant that offered by Russia and Iran and sideline them economically, sideline OPEC, all of that, save the pedro dollar.

So he's chosen not to do that. And instead, I think that that alone. I think he should be impeached for that alone, by the way, sidebar. Because that is a national, that's an attack on the country from this president's policy that disabled us nat sex style. I think that that's a r one of the tr most traitorous moves I've ever seen.

So, you can sit here and talk about the drugs and the investigations for everything else. That alone does it for me. Back to this point though. When he unfroze that money. And I think it was held in a South Korean bank, is the way that I understand it, because there are only a couple of, like a handful, I think three banks in the entire world that were even allowed to deal with it in the first place.

And Qatar says, oh, we're going to vigorously oversee everything. No one believes that. The Do you honestly think That They would not, if they got six billion marked for food and medicine. Doesn't that equal six billion? As Andy noted, in existing funds that can be shifted.

to their main export, which is jihad. Correct? If you Like how Joe Biden giving money to his son. allowed his son to spend to shift money to spend on hookers. There's no way to argue this.

that doesn't end with the facilitation of jihad by this administration. There's no way. I mean, there the video that is on MSN. Even leftists, even CNN had to report this. Hamas leaders.

were celebrating. The attacks On camera. They were in Qatar. And they were celebrating and laughing. And then praying.

After watching the destruction. I mean, it's the video's all out there. It's been on Twitter since the what? Two days ago. On the seventh.

I just wild. And I, do you honestly, I don't trust Qatar to deal to rigorously monitor anything. I mean, hell, they've been harboring Hamas's leadership. And that's where this meeting was. That's where all the video was taken.

Cut her completely harbors jihadis. I mean they har they harbor Hamas.

So that's it's silly. to say, oh well, this they're going to be some sort of unbiased partisan observer in all of this. No, no, no, they're a participant.

So you have Hamas and Hezbollah, which are proxy groups of Iran. This is Iran attacking Israel through its proxy groups. Iran's the top funder of Hamas. And Now You have Hezbollah opening in that front up in the north. This money absolutely went.

to facilitate this? Where do they I mean, good heavens. I think it's, I can't even believe we're having this discussion that as though we have to take it. serious enough. to actually argue against the assertion that this did not facilitate or help finance jihad.

Juan's got the on the signal cast. All the Hamas leaders in Qatar Laughing and all their looking at all the destruction. They were actually pointing. The video that they're pointing to. was uh uh when they raided uh and were kidnapping people at that uh Peace Festival.

Hamas leaders acting like they're civilized humans instead of the absolute dogasses they are. In some bougie office and cutter. Getting down. doing their performative theatre after laughing, About The kidnapping of innocent people at that peace rally. That's what they were pointing to.

That truck that had the people in it, they had kidnapped. uh women from That uh festival. In Israel. That's the that that's what they were pointing and laughing at. There's no manners in war.

There's no kindness, either. This administration doesn't have the stomach to do what's needed to be done, and there are a lot of people in this country that don't either. We're a nation of people who are soft. I always love the people who say that they're nonviolent. You're not nonviolent, you're just a sissy.

Nonviolence means that you have A possibility to be violent. And I don't think any of these some of these people I think are too soft even for that. These people who other side this and other side that, there isn't the fortitude to do what needs to be done. from a lot of people in this country. When you talk about Geopolitical issues like this, and you get into these sort of conflicts, like what Israel is going to have to do.

the Biden administration doesn't have the stomach for. What Israel is going to have to do to protect its people. There are portions of the United States. Where people that where uh different uh numbers that don't have The stomach for it. And those are the kind of people that perpetuate this, by the way.

I absolutely lay that. at their feet. Because their softness and their inability to make a decision and their inaction enables this stuff. It empowers these types of terrorists who keep doing this over and over, year after year. I read a story where a young couple has they have 10 month old babies.

These ten-month-old babies. They saved them. They hid them. As Hamas broke into their home. They heard the gunshots outside.

They knew they were coming. And they didn't know what to do. They had seconds to react. And when Hamas got to their front door. The terrified parents wrapped their kids.

ten month old twins. and hid them And a secret compartment in their home. Ten-month-old babies. They The couple Heard the gunshots in the neighborhood, in their neighborhood. They knew what was coming.

And then Hamas busted through their door. They hurried up with seconds left and hid their babies. in a secret compartment in their home and they try to fight off the terrorists themselves. And they were unsuccessful. They were shot and killed.

Brutally killed. But thankfully, The terrorists didn't find the babies. Twelve hours later I DF'd it. as they had to sweep through the neighborhood. Going house to house.

hearing from families who were brutalized, women who had been raped. those who were left alive and not taken hostage, Kids hear about children who've been kidnapped. And they found those two babies. Those babies had been alone by themselves for 12 hours, and they found them. They hailed their parents as heroes.

For giving their lives for their children. There was an entire family, a young family, four kids that were wiped out. Hamas busted in their door. Those parents didn't have seconds to act and hide their kids, and they were all killed. That was Hamas that did that.

Hamas that targets civilians, whether it's their own or Israeli civilians, they don't care. It makes no difference to them. They hate everyone that stands in their way of power. This isn't about freedom. It's not about free.

It's not about free, quote unquote, Palestine. a fictional place for a fictional thing that's never existed in time. A name thought up by Hadrine and given spitefully. to the area. As an offense to Jewish people.

I mean, the name is a joke. And people have adopted this thanks to Yasser Arafat, and they wear it as some sort of like cape of virtue when it's actually a joke. No, they are the ones who target the innocent and the civilians. And they only understand brutality, which means You have to respond brutally to stop it. And anyone who opposes that is part of the problem.

Then you don't have a seat at the table. And you don't need to chime in on what's being served. We have a lot more on the way. I got headlines coming up. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. This is how the difference between conservationists and environmentalists.

So, environmentalists are like, hey, let's go ahead and release some big giant grizzlies into the North Cascades. Let's just, you know, go ahead and release a bunch of them up there. That's literally what's been happening. This is in Washington. And conservationists are going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

That's an apex predator that you're releasing near a bunch of different communities. You literally cannot do that.

So now they're arguing with the Biden administration to try to figure out how to reintroduce grizzlies through the North Cascades National Park near the U.S.-Canadian border. That doesn't include just dumping them near a bunch of towns. Because that seems like that'd be a bad idea, especially when you know you basically will go to jail if you shoot them, unless you know you let them maul you to death and eat your guts. Because that's really, you know, the laws are so crazy. Three in ten U.S.

adults say they have no religious affiliation. You know, one of the reasons why we have such a problem in the world? Because of that, right there. A St. Louis bill can our hometown would let the homeless people pee in public.

Just pee wherever you'd like. Yeah, pay more in public. Thank you. Lawmakers in St. Louis are debating a bill that would exempt the homeless from laws against public urination and defecation.

So anyone could just, you know, since you can be fluid with anything, you can just proclaim that you are homeless. I'm just saying, you could. Scientists find six toxins like arsenic and uranium in systems used by 95%. Of the population and water systems. That's terrifying.

Stephen Yates joins us.

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250 young people gathered at a dance, and the Hamas terrorists took machine guns and shot them all dead. I was very disappointed, to be honest, by the foreign ministry statement that showed no sympathy or support for Israel during these tough, troubled times.

So this was a surprising soundbite, I have to say. And it's about Chuck Schumer.

So I'm just as shocked as you that my mouth is saying these things because he was in, he's in Beijing. And he called on Xi Jinping to support Israel. Uh After these deadly terror attacks by Hamas. And he said he was disappointed there was no sympathy shown at all. Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of this third hour. Joining me now, our very good friend Stephen Yates, who he is very, well, it's. It seems like these are very busy times. And you know, he's a senior fellow at America First Policy Institute as well as the chair of the China Policy Initiative. He served in the previous administration as well.

He was an advisor of foreign policy. He's been an advisor on everything with so many different previous presidents, former VP Cheney, all of that.

So I want to start with. I was actually surprised about this, Stephen, because. Who said very straightforward you know, I was surprised by your absence of any kind of sentiment at all, much less sympathy. Did that take you by surprise that Chuck Schumer said that? And do you think it was di I mean, did it move the Chinese at all?

Well, Dana, I don't think it will move the Chinese very much. It did, I think, provoke a new statement that moved slightly better in terms of the rhetorical direction. But so there was kind of a mechanical adjustment. And like you, I'm no fan of the Senate majority leader, among the most ruthless practitioners of politics ever to walk the earth. But he is at his core a New Yorker.

And has been very consistent in talking about Israel. And so, for all of the many other things where I would definitely kick up dirt, mud, dust, whatever else, that part doesn't surprise me. He also has the, I guess it's fair to say, chutzpah to say to the face of another leader that what your foreign ministry said wasn't up to snuff. I wish we had presidents with that same chutzpah. They called lids already, though.

After the big barbecue yesterday. Such a travesty. And, you know, my goodness, he used to track when presidents would go on vacation, but now it's the default position that there's a lid-in vacation with this president.

So, to me, I don't know how the Democrats can defend any of this at this point. Talk to us a little bit, and you can follow Stephen on Steve on Twitter at YatesComs. Talk to us a little bit about. The intel aspect of this because there's a lot of discussion as to how.

something like this by Hamas, which you know, they're they're essentially just funded by Iran. They're not entirely sophisticated. I mean, it's they're pr they're barbaric. I mean, it's and maybe that's maybe that's an oversight to to expect nothing but barbarism from them to think that they're going to get more sophisticated with their attacks. I don't know if that factors into the psychology of this, but a lot of people are asking whether or not this is a major Intel failure.

I don't I mean, is it Without, because you're going to have to do a post-mortem on this. I just can't imagine any nation would expect, oh my gosh, 800 plus climbing of our people have been murdered. You know, we knew something like this was coming. But still, I mean, with all of the intelligence network that we have, that Israel has, that, you know, five eyes, everything else, nothing, nothing, we, there was nothing, no headwind. Yeah, well, there are echoes of 9-11 in this as I as I go over these details.

And while it's unacceptable to everyone, and it's not really acceptable to me either. You don't really get to know what a major act of violence by these groups is going to be until after it's done. And after the fact, the pieces look obvious. And so while there was all the chatter and intelligence about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and an impending attack, and there was meeting after meeting in the weeks running up to when it actually happened, no one was able to pull out anything that said it's going to be hijacking of planes. It's going to focus on these geographies.

They're going to have a group of people who are trained in taking off but not landing of planes, all things that would look like major red flags after the fact. And that might occur in this case, but. There are some basic building blocks of this that I don't think were missed except by the belligerently and woefully ignorant. And that is that the leader of Iran. Said that they're going to use the money released to them however they see fit.

The leader of Iran said that they would support Hamas. The leader of Iran raised the attack.

So, any exercise that tries to say, oh, I'm not sure whether we know whether they're involved. I mean, give me a freaking break when the bad guys are basically saying they are, you know, maybe. They're just making it up for bluster, but who would want to claim this back to absolute barbarism unless they really did own a part of it? And it is just pure barbarism. I mean, as much as I think it's goofy for people to go to raves and whatever else, no one deserves to have people swoop in and have rape, murder, kidnapping.

And it wasn't just the misguided youth that were hit. There were Holocaust survivors that were among those affected by this. I mean, just the level of outrage really should be off the charts by any decent human alive. Completely agree. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates at YatesComs on Twitter.

I mean, Iran essentially already admitted publicly that they helped plan this. Where's the line for this? And I say this not at all as a neocon, but also someone who wants to make sure that we don't have terror cells popping off here in the U.S. I mean, we have our own issue with the southern border. But at some point, when you have infiltration to that level, I mean, it doesn't even matter where you are or where you go anymore, you're involved.

But where is the line drawn when it goes from full on your engage with Iran to beyond past just a proxy fight with them, with Hezbollah, which has now opened up a Northern Front, and Hamas? I mean, what is that fine line?

Well, I have a few lines, and they kind of go back to basics. Number one, this isn't our war. True. This is Israel's war. And Israel hasn't asked America to make it either.

Right, and so number one, respect our ally who is the victim of the attack. Uh, number two, if we had a sentient being running the United States of America and the free world, that leader would recognize that he contributed to this by moving away from the strategic footing of Iran being the most important destabilizing force in the Middle East and having the Gulf allies resuming cultural and other relations with the state of Israel. It was an alternative path to peace. It may seem like cheap revisionism to some people, but it's true. That foundation was undone.

That enabled the resumption of some outrageously pro-Iranian sympathizers to go back to the Obama administration's entreaties with Iran on the nuclear negotiations. That's where the talk of releasing funds came back up. And so these pieces are not divorced from what the president and his team decided to do. But if we had a real leader, they would be leaning on Saudi Arabia to say, this is not the time to cut off negotiations with Israel. Maybe there's a pause, but even you cannot accept.

this kind of barbarism in the name of the faith that you profess. This has to stop at some point. And if we had real leaders, sort of like Schumer going to Xi Jinping, you would go to the leaders of the Gulf states and say, stand firm. And you'd go to the leaders of Qatar, who has showered Washington with billions of dollars to get people to talk up relations with them and say, you know, you grossed us out after 9-11 and giving basically al-Qaeda talking points on air. But this really now has to end, or we just can't have a presence in your country.

Exactly. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates, that you bring up a great point with the Saudi involvement. I think UAE actually came out with a statement. Which kind of shocked me that the UAE came out with a statement condemning the Hamas attack. Frankly, that doesn't shock me.

The UAE was a prime mover in the Abraham Accords. And without their involvement, I think the U.S. and Israel would have had a hard time pulling a lot of it together. There was a strategic decision made by their leadership, and they're against this kind of violent extremism. And you just don't see enough leaders in the broader Middle East really putting their name and national reputation on the line at times like this.

I'm sure that they don't like Israeli policy toward the Palestinians writ large, but I think that they're much more concerned about Tehran. They're much more concerned about the broad revival of terrorism. As is Saudi Arabia, I get the impression that Mohammed bin Salman, the leader, the prince over there in Saudi Arabia, doesn't really care so much about the Palestinian issue as you were just saying, as he does about Tehran, because it really is a power struggle between the Saudis and Iran, which has a very cozy relationship and a huge reliance growing upon China. There's a trifecta there with Russia forming. What's stopping the Saudis from going as far as UAE or maybe even more and saying that they back Israel?

I mean, if Iran is such a huge threat to them, then why not go all in with it? I don't have a good answer for that in the sense that I think that the leadership of the UAE is much deeper into the national strategic decision making process of the direction they want to go, most broadly about tolerance and anti violence. Trying to create these alternative paths to peace and prosperity, diversifying their economies, being clear about their cooperation and support with the United States, but also clear about where they might go independently. And I think that the leadership of Saudi Arabia has a little less of A time and cockpit, so to speak. To have much more commitment to these broad directions.

When you get hit with something like this, this is a really ugly shock. And so maybe we give it a little bit of time to see where it shakes out. But I really hope that basically the leadership of the UAE influences more of the other parties in the region to come back to where they were before. And really, they should be pressuring the Biden administration to put this genie back in the bottle on its broader approach to the Middle East, too. That's what I was just getting ready to ask.

Are sanctions? Do you think sanctions are going to come back? I mean, I can't imagine. That not being the response to this, but you know, it's Biden. They went to great pains to To make us not believe what we could see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears, that they hadn't, in fact, allowed money to flow back to Iran.

And they ignored what all of us know as human beings: that if you put money in my left pocket, that gives me more freedom on how to use the money in my right pocket. There's a fancy pants word called fungibility that describes this very phenomenon.

So, even just the signal that that money might be released was a go for Iran to do whatever it was likely to do. And if it's true, and I believe it's true, that they've been supporting this kind of plan for some months, that came even before the announcement that those funds were going to get released. And so, it's even more damning. And if the administration is telling the truth that that money hasn't been spent yet, then refreeze it. Then, you know, it's just pretty, it's pretty simple.

I think Senator Cruz and some others have called for exactly that. Yeah, if they haven't spent it, then just refreeze it. Don't let it thaw, so to speak. Let's just, you know, let's just keep it frozen. Stephen Yates at YatesComs.

Busy time for you, busy time for everyone. And man, our prayers are with our strategic ally, our one there in that area. Good heavens. Thank you so much for your time today and every Monday. We're grateful for you.

Thank you so much, Dana. Take care. You too. We have more to come, folks. This is Columbus Day.

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Well, I am, but let me begin at where we ought to start. I mean, that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has emboldened the enemies of freedom around the world. And now, war is raging in Eastern Europe. And President Joe Biden's kowtowing for the last two and a half years to the mullahs in Iran, lifting sanctions, begging them to get back in the Iran nuclear deal, and then paying $6 billion in a ransom for hostages. I think set the conditions for this unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas.

against Israel. But I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ram Swami, and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America's role as leader of the free world. Look, what happened in Ukraine? It's Mike Pence who is his any kind of political future that he has should be DOA after That ridiculous sound bite. Are you kidding me?

So he's upset. Because Uh Well, at least DeSantis and I think Trump to an extent too have said that they oppose. Just Ukrainian funding, unaccountable. No way to monitor it. And also, not getting the US involved in a bunch of foreign conflicts, especially with that, because it's a land dispute.

And somehow that means that they're ta what is what in the world Mike Pence has really fallen. I think. I tweeted about that over the week, and I said it was a dumb take from the vice president of the Abraham Accord.

So, if you oppose the mystery finance of Ukraine, then you support Hamas. I mean, Mike Pence is trying to out Biden Biden. And then you have this train wreck of a statement from RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel. Audio sound by 12. Where is this when she said that it's a great opportunity?

Is this it? Yes, listen to this. Absolutely. I think this is a great opportunity for our candidates to contrast where Republicans have stood with Israel time and time again.

Okay, that's not the wording for this. She is, I think, one of the most disastrous RNC chairs. She's been on the show before. Um Sh that's not that's like The worst messaging ever. The worst messaging ever.

But look, as bad as the Republicans. The mess that the Republicans are in with their messaging and everything else. You got Democrats. Biden's called a lid. He has not issued a single statement about the Americans killed or taken hostage, not a single statement from this president.

Oh, but he's going to talk about Bidenomics Friday. Mm-hmm.

Today and stupidity came.

Well, I worry about our borders when we see stuff like that. We're not going to hit that heavy tomorrow. Yeah, but this is Mayor Adams. Even though he's been getting busloads of migrants from Texas and other places illegally coming into the country, this is what he says. Listen to this.

We believe the borders should remain open. What? That's the official position of this city, but we have made it clear there should be a decompression strategy that we could properly. What is the decompression strategy? Like closing the border, then?

Would that be part of it? No, no, no, no, apparently. Folks, that does it for us. For this unfortunate Monday, we're praying for our friends, and especially some of our personal friends in Israel. And God bless, and let's pray that our leaders do the right thing no matter who they are, shall we?

I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Mm-hmm.