At this school turned shelter today. The aftermath was too much to bear and too graphic to show. Survivors collected body parts in whatever they could carry. After a bomb gutted the bedroom that had once been a classroom, [00:00:16] Israel said the target was Hamas militants planning attacks. Palestinians said among the dead, displaced women and children. Israel has pushed the displaced to Al-mawasi, where early yesterday morning, first responders dug through soft sand in the crater left by an Israeli bomb. [00:00:34] By day, three craters, each at least 40ft wide, suggested Israel had dropped large bombs on what Israel calls a safe air zone. This week, the Israeli military conducted two separate airstrikes [00:00:50] that were devastating in nature. Of course, this took place in Gaza and combined they killed dozens of Palestinians. Hey, don't scroll away. Come back. Come back Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tight U power our honest reporting. [00:01:07] You do it at tyt.com/team and we love you for it. Now the Israeli Defense Forces claim that Hamas militants had established a command and control center at both areas that were bombed, the humanitarian zone that was struck on Tuesday, and the school turned shelter [00:01:25] for displaced Palestinians. That was struck the next day on Wednesday. Now, the Israeli prime minister's office also claimed on Wednesday that Israel is, doing more to protect, protect and prevent civilian casualties than any [00:01:41] army in the history of armed conflict. Yeah. - So let's go. - To the video. And then, Jake, I know you're chomping at the bit. We'll go to Jake. So let's watch. Israel is trying its hardest more than any other nation on earth, more than any other army has in the history of armed conflict [00:02:00] to get civilians out of harm's way and to go for the terrorist targets, even though they embed themselves in civilian areas. Now, there's at least one expert who disagrees, and that expert isn't Cenk Uygur. [00:02:15] We're going to hear from that expert in just a moment. But, Jake, I want to hear what you think first. So first of all, the Ottoman Empire said the same exact thing. We're just moving the Armenians from out of the way, and you guys aren't even thanking us. Okay, so a lot of them died on the way, but we were doing it for their benefit, [00:02:31] to move them out of the way and look at what Israel just said. I mean, did you catch that last part of that news report? Israel claims these are safer areas. Oh, the ones where they dropped the three giant bombs and killed 18 people, including six UN workers. [00:02:47] Apparently you're just I don't know if Israel is the only country on earth that's allowed to murder UN workers, but they certainly are allowed. It's nothing but rewarded. We'll get to Blinken's hypocrisy in a minute. But no, it is not a safer. But the funny thing is, like Israel supporters will be like, we tried so hard we didn't drop 5 or 10 bomb giant bombs in the safe area. [00:03:09] We only dropped three giant bombs. We only killed six UN workers. We're trying so hard not to kill people. That's why we've only killed 41,000 people, let alone all the people buried under the rubble. ET cetera. And and, golly gee, with three quarters of them were civilians. [00:03:26] At a minimum, two thirds of them are women and children. They are tens of thousands of honest mistakes. And you believe that if you get paid by them, by AIPAC, to believe that, you believe that if you're a die hard Israeli supporter, literally no one else on earth believes that. [00:03:43] So let's get to some of the details. Now. There are things that we know and things that we obviously do not know. We do not know exactly what type of bombs were used in the latest airstrikes. We don't know if they're using the 200 0 pound bombs or 500 pound bombs. But Wes Bryant, who's a retired senior marketing professional in the U.S. [00:04:02] Air Force, stated that these airstrikes were in fact excessive in his view. He says dropping any bombs, even if it was a 200 or 250 pounder in and among tents, is reckless and irresponsible. It's not feasible. Mitigation of civilian casualties. [00:04:21] And look, I know that we are in the era of endless gaslighting, but trust your instincts when you see that any military is literally dropping bombs on tent encampments containing displaced civilians. Now, Israel has packed the Gazan population tighter and tighter [00:04:40] into these safer areas or shelter zones. At the start of this year, for instance, Israeli military evacuation orders pushed Palestinians fleeing the war to shelter in areas totaling around 33% of the Gaza Strip. [00:04:56] And that's according to the UN. The displacement zone now accounts for 11% of the Gaza Strip itself, about the size of the city of Philadelphia. So we're talking about millions of people having to shelter in 11% of the Gaza Strip, which was a tiny piece of land to begin with. [00:05:17] I mean, Gaza, one of the most densely populated regions of the world. And now you have an even smaller percentage of that area being determined or being used as a safer zone for displaced Palestinians. Yeah. I'm going to say two quick things about that. [00:05:32] One, don't get misled by a couple of labels here. The Palestinians say their schools. The Israelis say their command centers know their former schools that are now refugee camps. And so then Israel says, well, we didn't have a choice. They're using their civilians as human shields. [00:05:48] No. Israel packed all the civilians into 11% of Gaza. And they said, well, I think Hamas is in there. I have some intelligence. And by the way, when I most of the time I don't present it because I didn't really have it. And, you know, barely ever did they show. I actually had intelligence. [00:06:04] And a Hamas commander was killed because Hamas will then come out and say, yeah, our commander was killed. So outside of those few cases where that actually happens, they just drop huge amounts of bombs and then go, oh, I guess they were using their civilians as human shields. When I dropped a giant bomb in the middle of a refugee camp. [00:06:22] Oh, did I also kill UN workers? Oh, those are all accidents from the most moral army on earth. So Jane keeps mentioning UN workers getting killed, and we have some details on that as well. Look, after yet another American citizen was killed in the West Bank [00:06:39] by an Israeli sniper. And literally nothing happened in terms of consequences. No, I'm not shocked by anything at this point. In fact, Anthony Blinken, our, secretary of state, decided to go to the UK and pressure them to lift the weapons ban [00:06:56] that they had implemented toward Israel because they were concerned that Israel was using those weapons to. Commit war crimes. By the way, they didn't ban all weapons, just a tiny. Little slice of the weapons that they had been sending Israel. Yeah. So in a second, we're going to get to how U.S. Representatives are making money off of killing Palestinians through all this. [00:07:14] And it is just a gut wrenching story. But on the Blinken thing, I just want you guys to be aware that when mainstream media tells you Blinken or Biden or yes, Kamala Harris, let alone Trump, who's even worse on this issue, but in this case, they're the ones in charge Biden, Blinken say, oh, they are. [00:07:32] Oh, man, they're heartbroken about that American citizen killed. It's their top priority. No. Blinken then, not only didn't do anything to Israel, he tried to help Israel get more weapons from the UK. Anthony Blinken and Joe Biden are massive liars who basically now. [00:07:48] I mean, look, I hate saying this because their US government president and, you know, secretary of state and but they're let's put it this way they are doing Israel's work for them. They're going around bullying the rest of the world. They go out in front of the TV cameras and go, oh, we are so concerned about [00:08:06] all those dead Palestinians. As soon as the cameras are turned off, they're like, you better give money to Israel. You better not veto. You better veto anything. That's their war crimes. You better. And then nothing for the Palestinians. Fiercely pro-Israel, when they get in front of a camera, they're giant liars. [00:08:23] They have no concern for Palestinians. In fact, they financed the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. So let's get to the UN workers, because at least three of the people named by the IDF, three of the people named by the IDF as Hamas militants appeared [00:08:39] to be on the Hamas media offices list, albeit with slightly different spellings. The IDF did not provide evidence for its allegations, and NBC news has reached out to the IDF and Unwra for further comment. Because, you know, the Wednesday strike took the lives of six separate UN workers. [00:08:59] Israel claimed that several of those workers were actually members of Hamas. That was that was the allegation with no evidence, by the way. Meanwhile, the number of dead and injured in Gaza, of course, continues to rise to Jake's Point. Earlier, we had previously reported that 40,000 people were killed in Gaza. [00:09:15] That number has already gone up after more than 11 months of war. The death toll in Gaza is more than 41,000. And that's according to health authorities in the territory. This is reported by The Guardian. More than 95,000 people have also been wounded, with a quarter suffering life changing injuries, including amputations that will [00:09:32] require years of support, according to the World Health Organization. So, to be. Fair, that was done by the most moral army on earth, right? Exactly. So let's talk a little bit about, you know, another element of what I believe is corruption when it comes to war in general. [00:09:52] Oftentimes, we'll talk about the lobbies that provide legalized bribes to our politicians, which of course influences their decision making, their policy making. But there's also the issue of members of Congress trading individual stocks. Now, we've talked about that in various contexts when it comes to, [00:10:10] for instance, regulations on businesses here in the United States, it's kind of difficult for members of Congress invested in those businesses to pass laws that would provide more oversight and more regulations for those kinds of companies. [00:10:25] And the same is true when it comes to war. So sludge, which is a great publication that's hyper focused on corruption in Congress and in, you know, our government in general did this incredible report. And let's talk about what they found. They found that at least 50 members of Congress [00:10:43] or other members of their households hold stock in defense contractors, companies that receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation. Now, if you want to know just how widespread this is [00:10:58] or how much money we're talking about. Well, the total value of the federal lawmakers, defense contractors, stock holdings could be as much as $10.9 million, according to a sludge analysis of 2023 financial disclosures. [00:11:14] So if war is making these defense contractors more profits, obviously those profits translate to higher returns for their shareholders and their investors. It is a problem when members of Congress, the very people deciding on how much [00:11:32] to support this war, whether to support this war, are personally invested in these private defense contractors. So sludge reports that the most commonly held defense contractor stocks in Congress are Honeywell. That's that comes in at number one. And at number two you have RTX, formerly known as Raytheon. [00:11:50] Now Honeywell manufactures sensors and guiding devices that the IDF is using specifically in Gaza. And when it comes to Raytheon, they're providing or making the missiles for the Iron Dome system. Look, I have no problem with Iron Dome and I have no problem [00:12:07] with supporting Iron Dome. Okay. That is actually a defense capability that the United States has provided for Israel. It is different from offensive weaponry. And so I have no problem with Iron Dome. I want to be clear about that. Now, both have a clear incentive for the United States to keep sending [00:12:24] weapons to Israel, though the stock price for RTX has increased by 71% with Biden in the white House. In an October earnings call, the company's then CEO Greg Hayes, now its chairperson, said that with the Department of Defense stepping up orders for Israel and Ukraine, [00:12:43] RTX again, that's Raytheon would see a benefit of this restocking. Yeah, some of the defense contractors have actually beat that 71%. Number one of them is at 91%. So war is great for business for defense contractors. [00:13:00] But the real problem here is that it's great for the personal finances of so many of our congresspeople. So, guys, think about it. Even if you take Israel out of it, Ukraine out of it, they are saying, okay, I'm going to invest in this at the stock market. [00:13:15] This money is going to go straight to my pocket. Then I'm going to give those same companies hundreds of billions of dollars more. That will definitely increase their stock price. And I'll get rich. How is that allowed? That's should be wildly illegal. Ridiculous. [00:13:31] Guys, they're going to rob us blind. They're already doing it. I mean, that defense contract. Do you know how much defense budget has gone up under Biden? Remember how Trump was like, oh, the defense is shattered. I'm going to fix it. At that point, it was already like this size of the next eight defense. [00:13:47] You know, combined for the other eight countries that are do giant defense budgets. Then Trump massively increased it. Then Biden, he's going to slow it down. Right. Democrat Democrat. No, it has increased by 20% under Biden [00:14:02] and is nearly at $1 trillion. Why? Because every time they increase it, the people in the house make more money. The representatives are getting incredibly rich and they're like, oh, Israel wants to kill Palestinians. Yes, we're going to make more money. [00:14:18] Oh, and the two stocks they're most heavily invested in are the two that happen to make weapons for Israel. What a coincidence. Again. Will you look at that? And right wingers, if you think Nancy Pelosi is the only one doing this, you're crazy. [00:14:33] First of all, she's just as guilty, if not more guilty than everyone there. - Okay, but these are bipartisan. - Democrats. And Republicans robbing you blind to perpetuate more war, more death, and doing it with our money so they can get rich. [00:14:49] That is a that is a great point. And I want to really emphasize that because remember, we're talking about the United States government appropriating tens of billions of dollars in defense or military funding for Israel. So it's not like Israel is spending their money on buying these weapons from [00:15:09] defense contractors in the United States. No no no no no. We are giving them money. Us, the taxpayers, to buy the weapons from the defense contractors. Defense contractors get rich. The shareholders for those companies get rich. [00:15:24] The American people get screwed. Unless you yourself are personally invested in those defense contractors. - Yeah. - And one last thing, guys. Everything in the media is Republican versus Democrat. So I get and we have elections that are very binary. You either the Republican wins or the Democrat wins. [00:15:40] I understand all that. But remember, it's a shell game. It's good cop, bad cop. They're actually on the same team because both under Republican and Democratic presidents, both under Biden and Trump, what happened? Massive increases. The defense contractors no accountability. They can't. [00:15:55] The Pentagon cannot pass an audit, doesn't know where half the money is, half $1 trillion. They're like, I can't account for it. It would be unacceptable under any other scenario. But it's the government that is getting paid by these donors are now making personal cash by by investing into these companies [00:16:14] that are robbing us day in, day out. So I need you to focus on stories like this instead of thinking, oh, Trump's going to solve it. Trump's anti-war. Oh no, Biden's going to solve it. Or Kamala Harris is going to solve it because they're good guy Democrats. Nancy Pelosi is going to solve it because she cares so much. [00:16:31] No Trump, Pelosi, Kamala, none of them care. All they care about is the money. And the way that you control the money is you fix the system. I agree. If you're not going for systemic change, real change, you're just having nonsense battles. And the whole time they're laughing at you. [00:16:47] Oh, they voted for the good cop. They voted for the bad cop. - Ha ha ha. - What difference does it make? I think the. Best way to view politicians is you could either be cynical like I am and just see them as empty suits or empty shell of human beings that are just completely motivated [00:17:02] by incentives and disincentives. Or you could think of them as just normal people who are motivated by incentives and disincentives. If this job allows for members of Congress to literally personally enrich themselves out of war or through war, [00:17:21] then they're going to support war. And I think that's what we're seeing here. We got to get money out of politics. That's something we talk about a lot. But the other side of that is also the need to ensure that members of Congress aren't trading individual stocks, because it's a conflict of interest. - It's so obvious. - Yeah. [00:17:37] And last thing I'll say is actually right wing, left wing, no matter who you are and no matter who wins Trump or Kamala Harris, can we unite and put tremendous pressure on both sets of politicians? If you just do it for Republicans or just do it for Democrats, it's not going to work. You have to put pressure on your own side, has to put pressure on your side [00:17:56] to change and say, I'm tired of you guys robbing us. No, we're not going to let you do insider trading, pass the stock act. Otherwise we're going to. ET cetera. ET cetera. And otherwise are things like one of the things we should definitely do in 2026 is a rebuttable presumption vote against all incumbents. [00:18:14] So if you guys are going to keep being crooks, we're going to literally throw all of you out. And by the way, I mean it. I'm dead serious. I'd rather have 535 people off the street, average Americans than these crooks, because at least those guys I know aren't crooks yet. These guys are almost all universally crooks. [00:18:32] So throw all the incumbents out next time around. But we got to work together. If we don't work together, they're going to do the same old theater and we're going to get nowhere and they're going to laugh at us and go, ha ha! We robbed even more money from them. If you enjoyed this video, that's because of our members. [00:18:47] They make us independent, they make us strong, and they make us honest. Become a member today by hitting the join button below.