6/18/26 - NATO Left Israel Hanging—And Mark Levin's Furious About It

Summary

Mark Levin Podcast

Episode: "NATO Left Israel Hanging—And Mark Levin's Furious About It"

Date: June 19, 2026
Host: Mark Levin (Cumulus Podcast Network)

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Episode Overview

In this charged episode, Mark Levin unleashes his full fury at what he views as the betrayal of Israel by NATO and the broader Western alliance, particularly in the wake of recent conflict with Iran and Hezbollah. The discussion weaves through recent events, US-Israel relations, the proposed Iran deal, disappointing responses from NATO, and the political divide in America. In the latter portion, Levin speaks with author Batya Unger-Sargon about her book “The Jews on the Left,” adding historical and cultural context to Jewish-American political identity. Throughout the episode, live callers from around the country offer their perspectives, frustrations, and support.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NATO’s Failure to Support Israel

[02:14]

• Levin lambasts NATO countries for failing to aid either the US or Israel in the recent war with Iran.
• He highlights the military strengths and sacrifices of Israel, contrasting its commitment and capability with the “mealy-mouthed” and “on-paper only” support from traditional Western allies.
• Quote:

  "You look at these NATO countries and not one of them helped us in this war. Not one... We have allies in name only, on paper only."
  — Mark Levin [02:56]

2. The US-Israel-Iran Conflict: Who Fought and Who Didn’t

[03:30 - 10:00]

• Details the joint US-Israel operation that neutralized Iran’s top leadership, crediting Israel’s intelligence and military contributions.
• Blasts other regional players (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey) for staying on the sidelines.
• Raises alarm over the growing threat from Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, describing the immense pressure on Israel as it faces daily attacks and is forced to evacuate populations.

Quote:

“Israel is not England, Israel is not France... Israel has a larger air force than France and England... And now, Israel is by itself to fight Iran's Hezbollah wing.”
— Mark Levin [05:45]

3. Hezbollah’s Attacks and "Absurd" Ceasefires

[12:00]

• Recounts the constant rocket and drone attacks by Hezbollah against Israel, mocking the notion of a meaningful ceasefire.
• Suggests that international pressure perversely incentivizes further terror attacks by giving Hezbollah protection and shifting blame onto Israel for defending itself.

Quote:

“This is what terrorism is all about: constant terror... So they [Israelis] have to leave their homes and their businesses.”
— Mark Levin [17:53]

4. Critique of Proposed Iran Deal and US Policy

[16:00 - 23:00]

• Outlines the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) elements, including a “permanent cessation of military operations," unfavorable terms for Israel, and a massive $300 billion fund for Iranian reconstruction.
• Argues that the agreement empowers Iran, endangers Israel, and sets precedent for Chinese aggression.

Quote:

“Don’t give up leverage before the nuclear issue is resolved. Ballistic missiles aren’t covered. Terror organizations aren’t covered... I want them to improve what’s been done in the next 60 days in this deal that is inevitable.”
— Mark Levin [18:00]

• Senator Ted Cruz is played criticizing the deal: “Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea... Setting up Iran to be in charge of the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity... is not in America’s interest.” [20:39]

5. US-Israel Defense Cooperation: Who Benefits?

[13:00; 15:00]

• Levin refutes the narrative that Israel simply mooches US military aid, highlighting Israel’s technological innovations (F-35, Bradley, missile systems) that the US then adopts.
• Asserts that most US aid to Israel stays in the US economy.

Quote:

“Much of our stuff is not battle-hardened. They’ve improved the F-35, improved our land vehicles, and just give us the technology. They’re at the cutting edge of lasers... The vast majority of [aid] money never leaves our country.”
— Mark Levin [16:00]

6. Analogies & Moral Clarity

[41:33]

• A caller likens Iran to cancer:

  “If you leave the cancer in the body… it comes back. We gotta get rid of the cancer. We can’t be messing around with this.”
  — Raymond, Savannah, GA [41:33]

• Levin expands: if New York were lobbing rockets into New Jersey or Mexico into Texas, would we “depopulate” our border? No, we would act decisively.

7. Political & Cultural Divides in America

[76:26 - 79:53]

• Shares and discusses polling showing a deepening divide: dramatically fewer Democrats, compared to Republicans, display the American flag, express patriotism, or celebrate July 4th for the nation.

• Levin laments:

  “It’s not just a split between Democrats and Republicans. It’s a split between people who love this country and those who don’t.”
  — Mark Levin [78:02]

• Critiques Democratic Party trends: embrace of socialism, activist anti-Israel/anti-patriotism stance.

8. Jewish American Political Identity — Conversation with Batya Unger-Sargon

[87:16 - 103:37]

• Unger-Sargon discusses her new book, The Jews on the Left, explaining why most American Jews have remained loyal to the Democratic Party even as parts of the left turn anti-Zionist or anti-Semitic.
• Argues that Jewish Democratic loyalty is tied to a (mis)perception of Jews as an oppressed minority, heavily reinforced by university education and social status.
• Details how, historically, America treated Jews as part of its foundation, not as outsiders, and that anti-Semitism in America was always met with overwhelming rejection.
• Levin and Sargon both emphasize the crucial support of American Christians and contrast how the right marginalizes anti-Semites while the left elevates them.

Quotes:

“Most American Jews… believe that Jews in America are an oppressed minority. But that is a complete misreading of American Jewish history.”
— Batya Unger-Sargon [88:43]

“If you ask them what makes you a Jew, they’ll say: their liberalism and their Zionism. The tragedy in our era is that these two things are in conflict.”
— Batya Unger-Sargon [90:08]

“Every instance of anti-Semitism in America was met with a massive, overwhelming rejection by the American people.”
— Batya Unger-Sargon [101:49]

9. Caller Questions and Grassroots Frustration

[39:16 – 111:16]

• Callers voice anger and confusion over the Iran deal, fears about American weakness, and concern for Israel’s safety.
• Suggestions raised: use frozen Iranian assets to reimburse terror victims/families, stall the deal until after midterms, or refuse sanctions relief altogether.
• Several callers, including Levin, express worry that unless the threat from Iran is eliminated, future generations will inherit the same crisis.

Quote:

“It’s a matter of time, and our kids are going to have to do it if we don’t resolve this.”
— Mark Levin [48:08]

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “You look at these NATO countries and not one of them helped us in this war. Not one... We have allies in name only, on paper only.”
  — Mark Levin [02:56]

• “Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea.”
  — Sen. Ted Cruz (audio clip) [21:14]

• “This is what terrorism is all about: constant terror... So they [Israelis] have to leave their homes and their businesses.”
  — Mark Levin [17:53]

• “If you leave the cancer in the body… it comes back. We gotta get rid of the cancer. We can’t be messing around with this.”
  — Caller Raymond [41:33]

• “It’s not just a split between Democrats and Republicans. It’s a split between people who love this country and those who don’t.”
  — Mark Levin [78:02]

• “Most American Jews… believe that Jews in America are an oppressed minority. But that is a complete misreading of American Jewish history.”
  — Batya Unger-Sargon [88:43]

• “Every instance of anti-Semitism in America was met with a massive, overwhelming rejection by the American people.”
  — Batya Unger-Sargon [101:49]

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Key Timestamps

[02:14] - Levin opens critique on NATO’s non-support
[05:45] - Praise for Israel’s military role; comparison to European powers
[12:00] - Listing of Hezbollah’s attacks and the farce of “ceasefire”
[16:00 - 18:00] - Analysis of the Iran deal, MoU, tangled funds
[20:39] - Audio of Senator Ted Cruz’s criticism
[41:33] - Caller’s “cancer” analogy for Iran
[47:04 - 56:44] - Callers draw analogies and share personal/family connections, Levin responds
[76:26 - 79:53] - Discussion of Fourth of July, patriotism, and Democratic/Republican divides in polling
[87:16 - 103:37] - Interview with Batya Unger-Sargon on Jewish American political identity
[106:03 - End] - Final wave of callers, robust criticism of the administration’s Iran policy, closing appreciation for listeners

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Memorable Moments

• Personalization of Israeli Suffering:
  Levin frequently likens Israel’s predicament—having to evacuate civilians from Hezbollah attacks—to Americans having to abandon entire states, making the threat palpable to the US audience.

• Passionate Callers:
  Several callers apologize for anti-Semitic intrusions, share their own military or Jewish backgrounds, and express deep frustration with US and global leadership.

• Fervor and Family:
  Levin maintains a highly personal tone, speaking of his own family’s military service, his connection to Israel, and his commitment to his audience:

  “We’re a big, big radio family. They don’t understand that online, they don’t understand that in TV.” [38:32]

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Structural Summary

• Opening: Fury over NATO’s and the West’s abandonment of Israel ([02:14]—[10:00])
• Hezbollah/Iran Threat & US Policy: Dissects ongoing threat, decries lack of clarity and resolve in US policy ([12:00]—[23:00])
• US-Israel Defense Partnership: Clarifies misconceptions about aid; highlights Israel’s strategic value ([13:00, 16:00])
• Callers & Personal Analogies: Analogies, what-if scenarios, and calls for stronger action ([39:16]—[56:44])
• American Political/Cultural Divides: Polarization, flag, July 4th, left vs. right ([76:26]—[79:53])
• Interview—Batya Unger-Sargon: History, culture, and psychology of Jewish political leanings ([87:16]—[103:37])
• Final Callers: Fresh anger over US policy, deep anxieties about the future, praise from listeners ([103:55]—End)

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Episode Takeaway

Mark Levin’s outrage is rooted in his deep conviction that Israel, America’s most reliable ally, is being hung out to dry by the very Western alliance built (supposedly) to defend democracy. He sees the Iran deal as a victory for America’s enemies and a looming disaster for the West, warns of the dangers of appeasing terror, and decries creeping anti-patriotism on the left. The lively caller segment and insightful interview dig deeper into the moral and historical stakes of the moment—both for policy and identity.

Bottom line:
“If you have allies in name only, you’re not going to have allies when you really need them.”
— Mark Levin [16:27]

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Transcript

[Mark Levin]

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[Caller/Producer]

He's here now. Broadcasting from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, We've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Lev Sam. It.

[Mark Levin]

Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-8138-1187-7381-3811 Me O Mile Pizza pie meal myo pizza pie. You know what, let's open the phones. 877-381-3811. I wasn't even going to do this. I've now spooked Mr. Producer and Mr. Call Screener. You know what's interesting, ladies and gentlemen to me? You look at these NATO countries and not one of them helped us in this war. Not one. You look what England with its quizzling leader, so called leader Stormer, has done to their military, has done to their country. He won't lift a finger to support us. You look at France Macron, the President spent a lot of time with him, I'm not sure why. But he won't lift the finger to help us either. Troubling, isn't it? We're taking a third of our jets out of there. Apparently. Then you look at this little country of Israel. Nine, nine and a half million people, the third largest air force in the world, some of the best fighters in the world, some of the best intelligence in the world. We didn't go to war with Iran on our own. The President decided to go to war. He wanted to take out those nukes correctly? Absolutely, 100%. And we allied with Israel. The Saudis weren't involved. Qatar wasn't involved. Egypt wasn't involved. Turkey, a NATO country, they weren't involved. Who was involved? So together the United States and Israel were a one, two punch, incredibly powerful. Within 24 hours, Khomeini was taken out the top tier was taken out. That took a lot of intelligence, mostly the Mossad and human intelligence in Iran that had been working with Israel from day one. Our air force, our navy, the munitions we have, are second to none. And Israel is a mighty, mighty powerful force for a tiny country, for any country. Israel has a larger air force than France and a larger air force than England, for God's sakes, and a larger air force than Germany. And it's now selling advanced technology, military technology to Germany and India and Greece and other countries. It has improved our F35, it improved our Bradley because of so many battles that they've had to fight. So why would we pick a fight with Israel? What is going on? They out of control? Is the Prime Minister an issue? While they weren't out of control and he wasn't an issue last June when they cleared the field for 12 days in Iran and they weren't out of control and the Prime Minister wasn't a problem when we decided to go to war on February 28th, as I recall, our great Secretary of War and our great head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hegseth and Kaine, they had daily press conferences talking about the great achievements of our military, side by side. In fact, talking about like, they've. They've never done this before. We've never seen anything like this before. Now, three months later, Netanyahu is a crazy f. He can't be restrained because Hezbollah is firing missiles and flying drones into their country on a daily basis under what's called a ceasefire. And they're literally having to move their population, depopulate northern Israel. Now that's like depopulating northern New Jersey. It's a tiny country. And then they started firing these, these missiles and sending these drones into central Israel, all at the direction of Iran. All at the direction of Iran. This Hezbollah has murdered hundreds and hundreds of our service personnel, including marines, over 200 marines in a marine barrack in Beirut, I believe. J.D. vance was a marine, wasn't he, Mr. Producer? They blew up two of our embassies, killed over a hundred of our personnel. Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, more military personnel slaughtered. That's just three instances. Hezbollah was never part of Lebanon. Hezbollah was sent into Lebanon by Iran in the late 70s, during the revolution in the early 80s, they assassinated the President, the duly elected President of Lebanon. Lebanon really was a beautiful, beautiful country right there on the Mediterranean. People had to flee. It was a majority Christian country. Now it's about 35%, 40% Christian. They are abused. They are killed. They don't want Hezbollah there. The government's not strong enough to push him out because the government's been infiltrated by Hezbollah. The army's too weak, it can't outgun Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has remained as the most powerful military force that Iran has, given what Israel and the United States did to Iran. So Israel is left by itself to fight Iran's Hezbollah wing. The problem is Iran won't make an agreement unless we agree and the Arab countries agree that Israel leaves Lebanon and stops firing in self defense. Now we get some mealy mouth gibberish from our side which says, yeah, you can do it, just don't do too much, don't do it on Fridays. You know, it's just absurd in the middle of a war. Israel is not the first one yet again to fire at Hezbollah. Hezbollah fires at Israel. But they want to preemptively do to Hezbollah what we and they did preemptively to Iran. They want to put an end to this. The Lebanese government, the President there has made statement after statement saying Iran has no right to drag us into this agreement, that Iran has no say in our sovereign nation and they want Hezbollah disarmed and removed. So who's going to disarm and remove Hezbollah? In the early 1980s there was an agreement signed that Hezbollah would be disarmed and removed. They ripped it up in two years and there they are decades later. But we so desperately want a deal. And I understand it, but I'm focusing on one specific point that the language and item number one basically says, actually says that there, that the, there will be a cessation of military operations and that war is permanently ended. Permanently ended, even before we have a final deal. And within that construct, we include Lebanon. Now you know, Iran's going to have Hezbollah, as it did during the ceasefire, as it did today, by the way, fire multiple missiles into Israel. And you know Israel's not going to put up with that for long. Israel is not England, Israel is not France. And so it will be Israel that is going to be blamed. That's the setup if the deal, quote unquote, doesn't go through. Now we know that. The enemy knows that. So what's going on here? Well, the enemy sees this. And you know what they see? Manner, those Americans, desperate. So Hezbollah, you keep firing missiles in there. And if Israel responds, of course we'll break down the whole thing. So the Vice President made statements today, you can go online and catch it yourself, that I thought were way over the top. He's accusing Cabinet members of attacking Donald Trump. We went back and looked. Others have gone back and looked. We can't find any such thing. I can't find it. If it's there, somebody will find, but we can't find it. If you're going to say it as vice president, then you need to have the receipts and if not, you need to apologize. And it's not the first place or the last place where he's done this. Then he says, you know, you get two thirds your arms from us. First of all, how does he has that number off the top of his head? And so the alliance in which Israel provides an enormous amount of intelligence, and they said today, hey, look, we have provided you with an extreme number of intelligence. We saved a lot of American lives. We wanted to do that. And we have an expert, John Spencer, who's written at length and I've posted it, how the Israelis take our equipment and improve it, because they're actually battle hardened and much of our stuff is not. They've improved the F35, they've improved most of our land vehicles, they've improved other jets, they've improved our missiles. And they just give us the technology. They're at the cutting edge of lasers. They're giving us the technology. Much of the technology we're going to use for the golden globe, even though they don't get credit from the administration, is from Israel. And the Germans are buying that technology, as are other countries. This isn't to brag about Israel, to pat them on the back. This is to say what was said about them and our relationship was very inappropriate. Moreover, what wasn't said also was that the vast majority of money that they've been getting of the $3.8 billion. Think about that. $3.8 billion of the $3.8 billion never leaves our country. 3.3 billion of it stays right here and goes right into our industries, paying for American jobs and pensions and health care right here. It's just a budget, a budget change, that is, they move one number from the book to this book. I'm not denying it happens. I'm just explaining it's not, oh, here's $3.8 billion from the Treasury. Do whatever you want with it. That's not what it is. It's just very troubling to me that that's, that's the way they're treated in a memorandum of understanding after they fought side by side with us. You don't treat an ally that way or you're not going to have a lot of allies. That's the problem with NATO. We have allies in. In name only, on paper only. And we may well need them again because Iran's not going away. $300 billion. I looked it over. I've heard how this was explained. But the way it's being explained isn't the way it's in the Memorandum of Understanding. The bottom line for you folks is this. They're going to get around 300 billion. Could be more. Not directly from us. First it'll be given to Muhammad, who will give it to Spencer, Spencer will give it to Nancy, Nancy will give it to Fred, and then Fred will give it to the Iranian regime. Okay, big deal. We're going to lift sanctions immediately. We have $24 billion of their money. They're going to get the $24 billion. The stretch of Hormuz was opened immediately and it's reduced the price of gasoline, which is what we wanted here. But it's not just that. There's only a 60 day period. A 60 day period, two months in which what happens? In which there's free unadulterated passage. After that the Iranians can charge and hence the Iranians will manage it. That has never been accepted before. When they tried that under Reagan, he blew half their Navy away in 24 or 48 hours. And it's a bad precedent because Communist China has claimed the South China Sea is its. And it's built all these phony islands. No, that's international navigable waters. The Straits of Hormu. That's international navigable waters. But not after this. Not after this. Oh, and the nuclear part and the rich uranium part is all the way down. Number eight out of number 14. Number eight. And it doesn't say anything about how this will be handled. Nothing. Nothing definitive. But don't worry, mark, it'll be 60 days worth. Well, don't give up leverage. Don't give up leverage. Before that, issue nuclear weapons. Nuclear dust that is. Uranium isn't resolved. It has to be resolved. Ballistic missiles aren't covered. Don't fund terror organizations. That's not covered. So I raise all these things because I want them to improve what's been done in the next 60 days in this deal that is inevitable. I'll be right back. I talk about protecting your liberty, your family and your future. And right now I think one of the smartest moves you can make for your financial future is gold and silver. Gold just had a pullback. You know what that means? It means you have a window, a real opportunity to get in at a lower price before the next move up. And it's coming. The fundamentals haven't changed. Washington keeps spending, inflation keeps eroding your savings and gold keeps doing what it's always done, holding its value when everything else is shaky. That's why I trust monetary gold. 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[Caller/Producer]

877-383-811.

[Mark Levin]

All right, Senator Ted Cruz. On Capitol Hill, somebody named Nicholas Balassay sticks a mic in his face. Cut one, go. Just wondering if you could share your reaction to the Iran deal. And Democrats saying they think the frozen assets could lead to more terror in the region. Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea. I think the president, unfortunately, is receiving

[Caller/Producer]

bad advice on this deal.

[Mark Levin]

What about the tolls for the strait? It's another one that Democrats are criticizing. Setting up Iran to be in charge of the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity and to charge tolls is not in America's interest. In my view, the ayatollah should not reap a single penny from the free transit of the seas. Do any of you disagree with that? I'm just curious. Call in if you agree. Disagree. Why is that controversial? That used to be the norm. Well, they know he's running for president. Well, so what if he is? A lot of people want to run for president. What does that have to do with anything? Well, that's why he's saying it. No, he's not. Ted Cruz is one of the most principled people you ever meet. But that position he's taken has been our position of our government, including in the first term of the president. I mean, this is just common sense right now. I think one of the reasons we agreed to some kind of a $300 billion fund of some kind that we wouldn't. That somebody else would fund, and they get. If they stand on their head and count to seven or whatever. I think the Iranians demanded reparations early on. We read about that. We talked about that. They wanted reparations. And I think what they did is they conceded a point of giving them access to money. And any way you cut it, they're going to use that to rearm. They're going to use that to reinforce, and that's been done with them before. You're not going to buy these people off. Okay. You're not going to buy them off when they believe Allah wants us slaughtered and anybody else who doesn't comply. And we see elements of this in our own country, don't we, with the radical Islamists, these imams, what they say and what. You know, Imagine a whole country run by this. Imagine that. Mm. Now, I'm a big fan. My wife. We're both big Fans of Pete Hags at the Secretary of War. She's known him a long time. I've known him a little while. Fairly long time, but not long. Long time. But anyway, he's a good guy. He's a great patriot. And he's at the NATO Defense Ministerial meeting in Belgium today. Now, he's going to have to say things to these European governments that he never would have to say to the Israeli government. In other words, the Israeli government doesn't need to be told to step up. You need to spend more on your defense. Why are you always leaving it to us you're not contributing your fair share. You've never heard them say that about Israel, have you? You know, that Netanyahu, we can't control him. He wants to shoot down buildings and so forth. I just read to you from yesterday. I'm sure there's a list somewhere today. All the missiles and the kind of missiles that were fired into Israel yesterday. They weren't two drones in the middle of a desert. And it was constant. It's constant. That's what terrorism is all about. It was a constant terror. Constant terrible again. Thursday, what's the Wednesday? 10:15 in the morning. One IED, 10:57, two explosive UAVs. 12:35, nine rockets. 12:37, two rockets. 12:51, a ballistic missile. 12:56, two rockets. 1304, six rockets. It's constant. 16:53, two rockets. 17:31, three rockets. 17:38, one rocket. 18:24, two rockets. 18:39. We're talking about 639 in the evening. Five rockets. 18:50, five rockets. 18:54, two rockets. 19:12, five rockets. 19:21, four rockets. So the people are in a constant state of, you know, sheltering. And so they move. They have to leave their homes and their businesses. 1937, three rockets. 1946, six rockets. 2056, six rockets and so forth. Then the next day begins. 1:00am Five terrorists approached for a defense line. They killed them. 6:57 in the morning. One explosive UAV 728. One explosive UAV 816. Two explosive UAVs. 823. Another explosive UAV 851 IED explosion. It goes on and on and on. So I ask you, if you live in New Jersey, and if something like this was going on, they were shooting these rockets from New York into New Jersey. And your governor said, you know what? We have to depopulate Northern Jersey. 25% of our landmass. You need to. You need to get out of there, you know, Newark, New Jersey, all the counties up there. Ridgewood, New Jersey, all the little towns, the big towns. We need to evacuate you to central central New Jersey. Then the rockets start to fly into central New Jersey. That's not two drones in the middle of a desert. And that's what they're facing. Or let me, let me pick another place as I have before. Mexico. Right over the border in Mexico. All these rockets, a ballistic missile, morning, noon and night. Let's say they're shot into South Texas. You have to depopulate the entirety of South Texas to Central Texas. You'd have to depopulate Houston, Houston, Texas. And they're finding tunnels more sophisticated than Hamas because they had more money. They're finding massive inventories of more missiles. And they've said, you can play defense, but not too rough. And they're saying, wait a minute, we need to go after these people. And the head of the snake is in and around Beirut. Well, you can't go near Beirut. And you do what you're told. Do what you're told. Now this is after we fought shoulder to shoulder against the enemy. And then they're told, you know, if we hadn't done this, you would have been blown off the face of the earth. No, they wouldn't have been blown off the face of the earth. Just look what they did last June. It was their forces for 12 days who cleared the path. I think there's a lot of people whisperers. They're very hostile to our country. They're like the woke, right? Isolationist, pacifist appeasers who are very giddy right now. They're happy. They're happy. They want to see Hezbollah defeat Israel. They want to see Iran defeat us. And I want to remind you something, underscore this. It's very, very important. You ready? Very important. For 47 years, with very few exceptions, we did not hit back militarily against this enemy. Reagan did it once, some of the others did it now and then, but nothing significant like Trump did. The launch of this military operation against Iran was noble, spectacular, historic, and completely successful. Then we, then we hit the brakes. I believe somebody thought we'd done enough. Now let's, let's negotiate. It was too soon because the military had another two weeks of targets they wanted to hit. How do we know? Because they said so, two more weeks. But we couldn't, we couldn't be patient enough, in my view, to do it. So that's where we are. And it is my Hope that the 60 day period will be extended beyond that. And then as I proposed after the election, if that's the aim here, then we can act in a much more aggressive way. I don't know that that's the case. People surmise. I hope it is, but that would give us the opportunity. If we lose the midterm elections, it won't be over this war. I just looked at the latest poll. Over 80% of the public. You know what the number one issue is? The economy. Is that a surprise to anybody? It's the economy. Well, it's a big deal. The economy. It was always going to be the economy. Was the economy before this war. It's the economy now and it'll be the economy election day. And will the Republicans be capable of making an argument even with gas prices going down and interest rates steady and so forth and so on? That's my concern. Do they even know how to debate affordability, Health care for all? And here's another problem. Here's another problem we're going to talk about this Saturday on Life, Liberty and Levin with our friend Joe Contrary. A significant percentage over majority of the Democrats believe in socialism over capitalism. Did you know that, Mr. Producer? So how do you even make an argument to these people? They want the government. They want government redistribution. They want high taxes that they know they'll avoid but others will pay. That's what we're up against. It always amazes me that these so called socialists live in a capitalist system in which they earn a good living or they can earn a good living. They live a great life while preaching socialism. They don't live in a socialist system. They live in a capitalist system. Preaching socialism isn't that amazing? Many of them are multimillionaires. We've already talked about Bernie Sanders. He not only has three homes and is worth millions, he flies private. So does AOC private jets. And when Bernie Sanders was asked about it, what did he say? He doesn't want to wait in line, but doesn't want to wait in line. Well, you know what socialism is all about? Waiting in lines. Bread lines, Empty shelves. Waiting in lines. Waiting in lines. Why? Because socialism isn't an economic ideology built on prosperity and wealth creation. It's built on redistribution and jealousy. I'll be right back. 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Learn [e-mail] that's guardyourcard.com paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. And by the way, callers will get to you at the top of the next hour, so don't hang up. You've been waiting a long time. All hour. I know. I promise you. Well, looky here. Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Post World News. Iran promises to help Hezbollah once assets are unfrozen, sanctions are lifted. What do you think of that, J.D. what are you going to do about this? What are you going to do about it, brother? Iran's initial peace deal with the US Sets the stage for Tehran to bolster Hezbollah's financial and political grip in Lebanon once cash begins to flow from unfrozen funds and oil deals, which is immediately According to a new report under the MoU, Iran stands to gain hundreds of billions from post war investment sanction relief and unfrozen funds. Now you see, the prime minister of Israel is supposed to sit there and just shut up. He's an ingrate for having fought with us side by side against this enemy. Now this would be a thousand times worse than what existed there before we went to war with Iran. And Iran is promising to use the reconstruction funds to prop up its battered terror proxy in Lebanon, sources familiar with the dealing told Reuters. How many more of those people in Israel have to die because Western powerful countries tell them to back off? Do their lives not mean anything? In fact, Tehran reportedly promised the inflow of cash to Hezbollah as soon as possible, paving the way for the group to rebuild its military wing and political arm in war torn Lebanon, two regional diplomats and two senior Lebanese sources said. Hezbollah's communications office confirmed Iran's public support for the terror group, which it has propped up for decades, including a transfer of $1 billion last year, according to the U.S. treasury Department. Why doesn't that Netanyahu shut up? The media office insisted Iran would continue to smart Hezbollah Regardless of the details of the retrieval of its funds. I told you before, I will be proven right. But unfortunately, the consequences will be grave. They're not going to honor any deal. They're going to do whatever they want to do once they get their money. And all the pressure is on Little Israel to comply so they don't screw up the deal. I just read to you a whole list of missiles that were fired yesterday. Can you imagine having to decide whether you're going to tick off our government versus defend your people? Is it that hard of a decision? And yet you know you're going to be attacked as an ingrate. You know you're going to be attacked. Outrageous. Really? Absolutely outrageous. All right, what's the clock say, Mr. Producer? Not enough time. So what we're going to do as soon as we come back and start talking to you folks who've been waiting a very long time all over the country, it's really a great honor to when you folks call and you want to talk about it and from all over the country, I'll give you an example. Oregon, Florida, Montana, Newark, California, Illinois. That's why conservative talk radio is so fantastic, because we really feel the pulse of you, the people. We hear from you. And of course, I feel we're a big, big radio family. They don't understand that online, they don't understand that in TV. And that's fine by me, all 14 some million of you. We'll be right back. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by PureTalk. PureTalk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to PureTalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening and thank you so much for this sponsorship. Pure Talk.

[Caller/Producer]

He's here. He's here now, broadcasting from the underground command puzzle deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building. We've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.

[Mark Levin]

Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 877-3813, 811-877-3813,. I promise to go to the calls and that's exactly what we're going to do. Pub. Portland, Oregon. The Great that's not right. Can we get the correct call letters there, please? Go right ahead.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah. Mark, longtime listener, first time caller.

[Mark Levin]

Thank you.

[Caller/Producer]

I have a quick question for you. You know, we see what President Trump is doing. If you were president, what would the situation look like? What would you be doing? In this situation, because I've already said

[Mark Levin]

what I would have done, which is I would not have had a ceasefire for two weeks. And I also would have armed. I mean, if my military is telling me we have some targets left, it'll take about two weeks to take them out. I'd take them out. I would also do what Reagan did under the Reagan Doctrine. I would have been training and arming Iranians. Some experts say we can't do that. We don't know how to do that. But we certainly knew how to do it in the 1980s under Bill Casey and under Secretary Weinberger and under President Reagan. So I would have done that. But here's the thing about a question like that. You see what call letter is, Mr. Producer. Here's what I would have done with a situation like that. I would have said, this is what I want to do. I would have called in the best generals I could. You're asking me. I'm not a general, but I know what policies were followed in the past, and I'd want to have it laid out for me. The president said the goal was never regime change. He said that a few days ago. Okay, fine. Now we have this situation. For me, the goal would be regime change because it's the only way to guarantee no nukes, no uranium, no ballistic missiles, no terrorism. That was a Nazi who called in, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry. We had a. We had to drop them. We had to drop him. Very clever. But he couldn't answer what I said. Raymond. Savannah, Georgia. The great WTKs. Go. And by the way, that's KU F O. Go ahead.

[Caller/Producer]

I can't hear you.

[Mark Levin]

I can't understand you, sir. Okay. I can't understand.

[Caller/Producer]

Hello?

[Mark Levin]

Yes, go ahead.

[Caller/Producer]

Okay, the reason I'm calling is because I have an analogy that you might find interesting.

[Mark Levin]

Okay?

[Caller/Producer]

Iran is like a cancer, okay? And we attacked that cancer, and we were going pretty well, basically, stage one, if you want to put it that way. What this deal does is say, okay, we have control of the cancer, but the cancer is going to eventually reach stage three and stage four. You gotta kill the cancer if you leave the cancer in the body. And if you know anybody that has had cancer, they might go into remission, but that cancer comes back. We gotta get rid of the cancer. We can't be messing around with this.

[Mark Levin]

I think that's a good analogy. Yeah, that's a very good analogy, Raymond. All right, you. You take care of yourself. Thank you. All right, let's trace back that number. We're not going to let that guy get away with it. Okay, already done. Thank you. These hit and run Nazis, they're not going to get away with it and I'm not going to allow them to get away with it. JEFFREY and by the way, why is this a Jew thing? The president went to war for our country, for our country to protect us from nuclear weapons. For 47 years, Iran has been killing Americans trying to assassinate our president and his daughter, funding Hezbollah that killed Marines, that killed sailors and others in Saudi Arabia. I mean, I can go on and on. Why is this a Jew thing for the Nazis? I don't understand. I really don't. Because Israel's fighting side by side with us against a common enemy. Okay, what's wrong with that when you have NATO countries that aren't fighting side by side with us and helping us sick. JEFFREY Tallahassee, Florida, the great wfla. Go right ahead, please.

[Caller/Producer]

First of all, on behalf of your listeners, I want to apologize for that man who called. He's obviously a very sick person. Mark, MARK I've got a bunch of foster dogs too and they pretty much keep they pretty much keep themselves. But once in a while one of them gets out of hand. I the alpha dog has to get in there and make the correction on that particular dog. And when, when the correction is done, I don't turn around and give him a treat. Now, we have had this the fact that we have has had this battle with Iran for over all these years and we are going to take the frozen assets that we have the ability to acquire for ourselves to pay back the hard working Israelis and Americans and us.

[Mark Levin]

They hit our they cost us billions of dollars in damage too.

[Caller/Producer]

Yes, we need that. We need to be reimbursed. The fact that we're not is just I sit here astounded, but I'm a I'm a man that's had to live through the Vietnam War too. And it is sad to see and I want to tell you, listen to your wife pace yourself. If we lose you, we lose a spokesman and analysis of what's going on in America. Listen to your wife pace yourself, buddy. Thank you so much.

[Mark Levin]

Very kind. Thank you. JEFFREY Some people love me, some hate me. I don't know why they hate me. They just hate me because of my views and who I am. I can't fix that and I'm not going to fix it. But those of you who are so loyal and so wonderful and have been for years, it's a special bond between us. This is something these Podcasters will never understand with their bots and their foreign viewers and the rest of them. It's something they can never understand because they, they disrespect their audience, they play their audience, they try and fear monger their audience. I just lay it out, folks. It's that simple. I treat you the way I wanted to be treated when I used to listen to talk radio as a young guy. And I was attracted to smart hosts, to interesting hosts, and to hosts that told us, you know, what they really thought. The truth. They weren't just doing a party line. I can tell you right now, if you listen to other shows that are playing right now, they're doing the party line. If the party line is right, I'll do the party line, but not because it's the party line. I had one guy post on the Internet today, really a sick little guy with very few followers. Have I ever criticized Israel. Now you've listened to me. I have strongly criticized their judicial system. I even wrote about it. I've strongly criticized their left wing media. I have strongly criticized some of their political parties and I've criticized their electoral process. I've done all those things. Why does that now make me okay? I call them as I see them, but I also know the difference between good and evil. I know the difference between democracy and terrorism. I know the difference between a nation that will fight to the last man and woman to save their people and a government that will slaughter Their people. 50,000 in a weekend. I know the difference. Let's go to Luke Troy, Montana, Sirius XM Satellite. Luke, how are you, sir?

[Caller/Producer]

Hey, I'm doing good. Mark Levan. I wanted to apologize to you for that disgusting comment that guy made. That's totally not right.

[Mark Levin]

Well, first of all, let me say thank you. And you don't have to apologize for anything in the prior caller too. I love you guys. You're great that there's, there's one in every crowd. So there you go.

[Caller/Producer]

I love. Yes, I love you too, Mark. I'm a big fan of yours. I'm a big fan of Netanyahu, Israel. I support Israel. I support Trump. I'm a big fan of all that stuff.

[Mark Levin]

You must be a neo con warmonger,

[Caller/Producer]

right?

[Mark Levin]

Right in the middle of Montana. Go ahead, I'm listening.

[Caller/Producer]

Yes, yes, yes. No, I wanted to let you know that I don't feel right about the Iranian deal. I think, me personally, I think it's a sham. I think Trump and Netanyahu should go in, bomb the hell out of that place. Turn around and head home and turn that place into a stone age and be done with that. Because like he said, they're just going to turn around and we're going to go back to square number one and we're going to redo this all over again. I just don't like.

[Mark Levin]

It's a matter of time and our kids are going to have to do it if we don't resolve this. I'm being quite honest, and I'm very worried about it. We have four kids. We have two grandkids. I'm very, very worried about it.

[Caller/Producer]

Yes. Well, anyways, Mark, take care. God bless you. You stay strong, my brother. I love Israel Trump and I'm a huge supporter of you.

[Mark Levin]

Thank you, Luke. Thank you. That's Montana, folks. Appreciate it. Let's go to Dave. I'm going right down the line. Newark, New Jersey, the great wabc. Dave, how are you, sir?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm fine, Mark. And it's such a pleasure speaking to you. You are the man. Mark, I listen to you all the time and I know you're not happy with what President Trump, the deal he's made. But what I don't hear anywhere is anyone criticizing the Democrat Party for not. Oh, man.

[Mark Levin]

Seriously, I'm not, I'm not trying to create. Do you listen every day or no?

[Caller/Producer]

Yes, sir, I do.

[Mark Levin]

I've been trashing the hell out of the Democrats here and on Fox, I think. Don't you, Mr. Producer? Tell me the truth. You think so? I think so. But anyway, go right ahead.

[Caller/Producer]

If I missed, I missed it. But I do listen every day. I mean, I heard the Democrat Party say they were going to charge President Trump with war crimes.

[Mark Levin]

Okay. I've said that they're aiding and abetting the enemy. I said that their broadcasts and their comments are being used by the enemy on Iranian tv. I attacked their efforts at the War Powers act to try and obstruct the president with an unconstitutional act, and they didn't have the votes. So it was performative and it was problematic. I said if the Democrats were in power, the enemy would already have a nuclear weapon. And I said other things, too. What do you want me to say?

[Caller/Producer]

My bad. No, I really. Listen, maybe I missed those things.

[Mark Levin]

It's okay.

[Caller/Producer]

I didn't hear any of it today, you know.

[Mark Levin]

Well, today that's true. I didn't. I was doing other things.

[Caller/Producer]

Okay. No, no, no. You can't do it every day. But this poor guy, I mean, he's trying to fight these evil mullers and they know what The Democrats are saying,

[Mark Levin]

and they know that the. Look, the President has just, just so you know, I know enough that he has a very good perspective and he has actually read a lot about other presidents, including McKinley and Roosevelt, Reagan, Lincoln, Washington. He's very familiar with all of them. And let me just tell you this. Nobody had a tougher time than Abraham Lincoln. Nobody. Where the country was falling apart, where the casualties were massive, every single battle. Where he had copperheads in the north that were basically promoting the Confederate position and demanding that he find an off ramp, demanding let the country break apart, let slavery exist in the South. When he was going into re election, the second election, he was way behind. He pulled his generals together. U.S. grant Sherman. He said, we need some victories here. We need some victories here. We're going to lose this whole thing. Then you had the battle of Atlanta and the battle of Georgia. Generally, Sherman basically saved the presidency. It's a man who lost family members during the war. It's a man who had a very depressed wife during the war. He was very depressed and upset. So I'm just pointing out to you, you're right. Every president has massive challenges. This one has more than most. But we can look at history for some solace and to see that turned out the right way and we have an obligation as citizens. This is about us. This is our country. We elect a president, but in the end it's we the people, we the sovereign. And we need to let everybody know where we stand, what we think and hope that our comments aren't used as sabotage. Because mine certainly aren't. The President knows that. He text me twice last night. He text me twice the day before. We go back and forth. And it's intended to be helpful. That doesn't mean he'll agree with me or that I'll agree with him. I do agree with him 95% of the time, but that's the way it goes. All right, my friend. Great call. We've had a lot of great calls as a matter of fact. We'll keep it up. We'll be right back. America doesn't stand for 250 years as a beacon of hope without the brave men and women willing to put their lives on the line to defend it and to honor those patriots. Pure Talk and its customers will raise $250,000 for America's Warrior Partnership by the end of July. Now this is an unbelievable foundation. It stands on the front line of helping to prevent veteran suicide by covering the basics. Housing, access to VA benefits, trans, transportation, counseling, the Tangible things that give veterans a hand up. When you switch your cell phone service to PureTalk this month, you'll have an opportunity to round up to support America's Warrior partnership. PureTalk will match that donation till the total donation hits $250,000. So get unlimited talk, unlimited text, unlimited high speed data. Just 34, 99amonth, folks. And be proud to partner with a wireless company that shares your values and was founded by a veteran himself. And that's Pure Talk. Go to PureTalk.com Levin that's PureTalk.com L E V I N To switch to my favorite wireless company right now, Pure Talk. Again, that's PureTalk.com Levin. Hezbollah tonight launched an attack against Israeli forces and effectively incinerated four Israeli soldiers. And I assume Israel will hit back very, very hard. Now, it's important that we take the measure of how people react here, not because we have a wet finger in the air to see where the wind's blowing. Let's see who supports good and who supports evil. Let's see. No H, no mou. No mou, no final agreement. Let me just write this for the whole world on the Internet. No MOU or final agreement will change who these terrorists are. And that's, that's, that's a fact. That's just a fact. Time will tell. Terrible. All right, we'll continue with some calls here. I'm just trying to gather all the information. Let us go to John. Redwood City, California, the great ksfo John, how are you, sir?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm doing great. I'm a longtime listener. And you're a ray of sunshine, being trapped here behind enemy lines. Yeah, I'm, you know, calling, you know, I support Israel. I think that they, they don't need to ask permission. I think it's better for them just to go in and annihilate Hezbollah right now, beg for forgiveness later. And, you know, they got to worry about the people.

[Mark Levin]

Look at the tongue lashing. They're taking it. Just unbelievable to me either way. And I just mentioned that four of their soldiers were effectively incinerated just now by an attack by Hezbollah. Now what would we do? Didn't the president say, you kill one soldier will bomb the hell out of you? Didn't he say that?

[Caller/Producer]

Exactly.

[Mark Levin]

Now let's see how the reaction goes tonight.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah, but I mean, you know, he's up for reelection. I don't know when the dynamics of that is coming, but it's October. I believe he doesn't do. If he doesn't take action, he's going to be damned for it. If he takes action, he's going to be damned for it. So I mean my advice to him, the Prime Minister of Israel, is take action for the safety of the Israeli people. And you know, you don't need to ask the United States.

[Mark Levin]

I don't know what they're going to do, but I know him well enough to know they pissed off the wrong guy. He's a battle hardened combat veteran who was badly wounded. He lost his brother in the battle of Entebbe to a sniper. Every one of these ministers and everybody, they have children in the IDF or the Mossad. The ambassador to the United States from Israel lost his eldest son in the first three weeks of the battle of Gaza because they were trying not to blow up a building. And so they were entering a building to find the terrorists and the building was booby trapped and it collapsed on them. This is how it is to fight there. And no matter how many times it is said that they're trying to do it as humanely as possible and this is really all for self defense. They're not the ones that are just randomly shooting missiles into Lebanon. Now we have joined the chorus of the Europeans and the Arabs and the rest in condemning what every country would do, certainly us, in response to a terrorist group like this. And now we're talking about funding them. You know, we have these debates sometimes that are so asinine when it really comes down to basic stuff, things that are black and white. I'll be right back. America doesn't stand for 250 years as a beacon of hope without the brave men and women willing to put their lives on the line to defend it and to honor those patriots. Pure Talk and its customers will raise $250,000 for America's Warrior Partnership by the end of July. Now this is an unbelievable foundation. It stands on the front line of helping to prevent veteran suicide by covering the basics. Housing, access to VA benefits, transportation, counseling, the tangible things that give veterans a hand up. When you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk this month you'll have an opportunity to round up to support America's Warrior Partnership. Pure Talk will match that donation till the total donation hits $250,000. So get unlimited talk, unlimited text, unlimited high speed data. Just 34, 99amonth folks. And be proud to partner with a wireless company that shares your values and was founded by a veteran himself. And that's Pure Talk. Go to PureTalk.com Levin that's PureTalk.com L E V I N to switch to my favorite wireless company right now, PureTalk. Again, that's PureTalk.com Levin, Mark Levin, the

[Caller/Producer]

voice the liberals want to silence. But you can talk to mark at 877-381-3811.

[Mark Levin]

Not just the liberals, the woke right neo fascists. All right, there's some news to give you, folks. This comes from the Jerusalem Post. And why do I go there? Because it's Israeli. No, it's actually a fairly liberal paper, but they're up on the news that's going on there that comes to our country much later. Machaba Khomeini. This is the Khomeini that's still alive. He put out a statement. He said that he eventually approved the memorandum of understanding based only on a series of promises from Iranian president and the negotiating team. Khomeini said that Iran will not submit to the, quote, excessive demands unquote, of the United States in future negotiations with the United States. In a series of posts on X, Khomeini said that he eventually approved the memorandum of understanding based only on a series of promises from the Iranian president and the negotiating team. He said, quote, let me get this right. I, as a matter of principle, held a different view. However, out of the commitment that the esteemed president, as the head of the Supreme National Security Council gave to me on his own behalf and on behalf of the other members regarding the safeguarding of the rights of the Iranian nation and the resistance front and his explicit acceptance of that responsibility, I granted my permission. That's a lot of weasel words to say he doesn't agree and that this guy is going to be the fall guy. Khomeini argued that it was the American president who out of desperation used all kinds of leverage to bring this about. Now, the Iranian supreme leader then said that Iran would wait to see the deal's effects, but that it was evident that in person negotiations did not constitute acceptance of the American position. Does this sound like a regime that feels like it's defeated now? It may be defeated militarily. It may have lost the top two or three tiers. But I keep explaining to people, they view their survival as Allah protecting them and as motivation to go on. The MoU was signed on Thursday by President Trump, actually digitally, Sunday, and the president of Iran, Vice President Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammed Bagar Galaboff digitally signed the agreement. This guy Galahoff is a mass murder. I don't know why we're. I guess I'm just old school. Per the agreement, there will be a. Yeah, it goes on as you know, but I wanted you to know what the Supreme Leader had to say. He's not buying in on this. It's all a ruse in the end. The question is, what can we get out of it? Because the fact that there's going to be a deal, at least for now, is a done deal. Okay? The question is, what kind of deal? And if the Israelis do as I expect them to do, and four of their IDF soldiers were effectively incinerated by the enemy, by Hezbollah, now you'll know very quickly if the Israelis are criticized, if Netanyahu is attacked, that we're not serious about this, because you can't let these terrorists just roam as they do. I just read to you the rocket number yesterday. Yesterday. And the problem is this, to be perfectly honest with you, you incentivize them when you include them in item one of an MoU, that there will be a permanent ceasefire, and that includes in Lebanon. And so you're telling Hezbollah they're terrorists. Fire away. Fire away. Fire away. And then they fire away. And they saw our reaction. The reaction was to attack the Israelis and to attack the Prime Minister. Well, let's pretend they're not Israelis, they're not Jewish. It's not the Prime Minister. I have an idea. Let's pretend it's Rome in the Vatican. Okay? Is that okay? No. All right. That one's not okay. Well, then let's pretend it's Washington, D.C. is that okay? No, that's not okay. That's not okay either. Okay, so why is it okay now? It's not. Not now, not ever. These are terrorists, for damn sake. Let's keep rolling here. Let's go to Jake, Jersey City, New Jersey, the great wabc. Go right ahead, please.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah, Mark, what's up?

[Mark Levin]

Well, I'm doing a little radio show. How are you?

[Caller/Producer]

Great. So I just want to make a couple points. My fourth point is I think this whole thing that America is not letting Israel bomb Beirut, all US do, with JD Vance making Trump anti Israel. Because I don't think Trump really says these things privately. I think he wants Israel to take care of Lebanon. I don't want you to say what you speak to Trump privately. But privately, do you know if he sounds like this, anti deviant, anti Israel bombing Lebanon? Because I think it's all J.D. vance.

[Mark Levin]

He's never done it to me personally.

[Caller/Producer]

Nope. Also, did you see this?

[Mark Levin]

I don't know who's behind it or anything like that. Thank you for your call, my friend. Walter. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The great Wjas. How are you?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm fine, Mr. Lynn. Thanks for taking the call.

[Mark Levin]

You bet. Everybody's so polite. You can call me Mark. It's all right.

[Caller/Producer]

Thank you. I'm not sure if that 300 billion is Iranian money that is frozen right now.

[Mark Levin]

No, no, that's not Iranian money. The frozen money is 24 billion. That's all. The 300 billion would be raised by Arab countries, or any countries for that matter. We would help organize it and facilitate it. And that $300 billion, the terms of it are not clear at all in the wou. As I understand, the Vice President was saying you have to meet certain standards. I don't see that in the document. And now they're talking about certain side deals. I don't know, but that's an awful lot of money. I don't think they should get one plug nickel. That's just me.

[Caller/Producer]

Well, what I was thinking of that with the 24 billion anyway, is we should free that up and use the beginnings of it going back to 1979 to pay for their hostages. And for the Marines in Beirut, well, pay. Pay back the hostages from 1979.

[Mark Levin]

Ah, that's not a bad idea.

[Caller/Producer]

Marines in Beirut and families have done. We take that money back until when it's gone, it's gone. And it's the same with the 300 billion.

[Mark Levin]

I don't think we should be helping them facilitate or raise 300 billion. We're right. We're lifting all sanctions so that money can be raised. And not only that, According to the MoU, if there are any international arrangements via the UN or the IAEA and these other entities, we're supposed to help them have the restrictions lifted.

[Caller/Producer]

No, that's not going to happen.

[Mark Levin]

Can you believe that that's in there? That's in there?

[Caller/Producer]

Actually, I can believe it. That's the problem.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah. All right, Walter. Appreciate you, man. Let's keep rolling here. We're gonna head to Hiram in Reynolds, Georgia. Siri XXXTM satellite How are you?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm good, sir. Nice to speak with you. It's. I haven't been. Listen. I haven't been listening for very long. I've learned a lot. I appreciate the stance that you take. I just think that Trump is the ultimate dealmaker and he's trying to build a coalition by a brilliant means of giving a. Giving in and trying to make a deal. The ultimate dealmaker, knowing that this deal will not. Will not be honored by the Iranians, therefore, further giving it a chance for the Europeans, the European Union and the Arabs to build a correlation to further isolate the Iranian regime.

[Mark Levin]

All right.

[Caller/Producer]

That's just my thoughts. Your thoughts on that? I think he's, you know, he's a brilliant man. You know him. And like the other caller just said, you know, Trump is doing things moving in ways we don't understand, like moving oil in the middle of the night. Nobody thought of it. He's doing it. And he may very well be taking back, taking the opportunity to recoup funds that the American people have lost in the past. And that's all I have to say.

[Mark Levin]

May, may, may. And you may be right. I don't know. But I, but I do agree with you giving him the benefit of the doubt that I agree with. Thank you, sir. All right. We'll be right back. America doesn't stand for 250 years as a beacon of hope without the brave men and women willing to put their lives on the line to defend it and to honor those patriots. Pure Talk and its customers will raise $250,000 for America's Warri Partnership by the end of July. Now this is an unbelievable foundation. It stands on the front line of helping to prevent veteran suicide by covering the basics. Housing, access to VA benefits, transportation, counseling, the tangible things that give veterans a hand up. When you switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk this month, you'll have an opportunity to round up to support America's Warrior Partnership. Pure Talk will match that donation till the total donation hits $250,000. So get unlimited talk, unlimited text, unlimited high speed data, just 34.99amonth, folks. And be proud to partner with a wireless company that shares your values and was founded by a veteran himself. And that's PureTalk. Go to PureTalk.com Levin that's PureTalk.com Levin to switch to my favorite wireless company right now, PureTalk again, that's PureTalk.com Levin. There's reading reports and int extensive operation by the military, by the Israeli military to evacuate the dead and injured soldiers right now as I speak. So I just want to ask the woke right onliners, I want to ask them what, what would you do? I want to ask those, including our friends in the administration, what would you do? People say, oh, you have a right to defend yourself. But do they really? But they're going to regardless. This is a people in a region of the world that outlasted the Babylonians, the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, even the Third Reich in Europe. All horrible. And that especially I don't think Hezbollah is going to be able to take them out because they're not going to permit it. No matter what any politician says in this country, it doesn't matter when you're fighting for your life and somebody's kid dies. These kids are these guys who are fighting. And gals, they're coming out of the cafes, they're coming out of restaurants, they're working in hotels. Some of them are lawyers. Most of them are not. Some of them are doctors. You know, they're construction workers. This is a citizen army they have over there. But they have. They have to. They only have nine, nine and a half million people. And rather than talk the way some people talk about them, you need to think about every damn day they're under attack every single damn day. Just because they exist. Just think about that every single damn day. Of course they don't want the Iranians to get $300 billion. I just read you an article where they said they're going to give a fortune to Hezbollah. What is that? They just fought a war next to us, with us. Let's take some more calls here. While we're at it, let's go to Jerry, El Paso, Texas, one of my original affiliates or one of my early affiliates, the great ktsm. Jerry, how are you?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm well, sir, thank you.

[Mark Levin]

You're in El Paso, Texas. Now, imagine if terrorists were firing missiles at El Paso, Texas, from Mexico. What would you do? Stand down.

[Caller/Producer]

Gather my. Yeah. I would gather all my guns and me and my son would go down there and take them sobs out.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

Yeah.

[Mark Levin]

You're not gonna sit still?

[Caller/Producer]

No.

[Mark Levin]

All right. What did you call about?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm sorry, I have a legal question for you.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah.

[Caller/Producer]

Since Tehran is going to pass this money on to Hezbollah under Title 18, U.S. code Chapter 113B, Terrorism subchapter 23 3B 9B, providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations. And also.

[Mark Levin]

Hold on. Now, the problem is it's not our money. That 300 billion, that's not our money. This is how they get around it. And the 24 billion the president said is actually their money. We've just been holding it back. And he said, we can't hold it forever. Well, of course we can. We're not required to get money, money back to a terrorist regime to use against us. But that said, the 300 billion, we're going to help them raise or coordinate it or facilitate it. And I'm sure a lot of these Arab countries are going to give it to them and so forth and so on. So it's. That's not actually. Those are not actually our funds. But who cares? Why should they get anything? I thought we won and they lost.

[Caller/Producer]

It's still providing some material support to the enemy.

[Mark Levin]

You know, I'm gonna have to look at that. What'd you say, 1113?

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah, it's 1113 Bravo. Sub chapters. Two of them. Yeah, two of them. Subchapters 2339 Bravo and 2339 Charlie. The second one is prohibitions against the financing of terrorism. And that one says knowing or unknowing, willing or unwilling.

[Mark Levin]

And what section is that?

[Caller/Producer]

Title 18, U.S. code.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah, yeah. Yep. Any particular section?

[Caller/Producer]

Well, it says here chapter 113B.

[Mark Levin]

Oh, okay. It's in that section. Okay. No, you made my job easy. We're gonna take a look at that. You know, overnight. That was a great call there, brother. Great call from Jerry. All your calls have been great. We'll be right back. From America's revolutionary war to Israel's fight for survival in 1948, both nations have faced moments that tested their courage. Yet freedom endured. Through generations of challenge and triumph, America and Israel have stood as beacons of courage, democracy and faith. Bound by shared values and a common belief in freedom, the United States and Israel continue to stand together as allies, as friends, and as partners in the cause of peace and security. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews honors the enduring friendship between the United States and Israel, two nations united by faith, liberty and hope. You can show your solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people by requesting your Free US Israel flag pin from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. We're proudly to show your unwavering support for both countries. Sign up to receive a Free USA Israel flag pin when you go online to levin for the fellowship.org that's L E V I N for the fellowship.org

[Caller/Producer]

is here now, broadcasting them from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin.

[Mark Levin]

Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-813811-87738-3811. Harry Enton, the data. The data analyst over at the Constipated News Network. I thought you might find this interesting. I try to bring you some good news, too. Cut six. Go. The meeting of the fourth. When we ask voters about this, what do most of them say at this point?

[Data Analyst]

This, to me, is one of the most stunning divides that we have seen. You know, we're talking about polarization in politics. It even comes down to what you believe July 4th actually is like. What does July 4th mean to you? Celebrate America. Friends and family time among Republicans. What do you see? You see the clear majority say it's a time to. To celebrate America. 65% among Democrats. However, the plurality disagree. Look at that. What do you see? Friends and family time at 42% versus just 24% who say that what it means most to them is to celebrate America. So even on the basic question of what July 4th means to you, we have Republicans on one end saying celebrate America, more of them say that, and Democrats on the other end saying that it means more to them to have time when with friends and family.

[Mark Levin]

What do they say about the flag?

[Data Analyst]

Yeah, okay, so what do they say about the flag? Even on the basic level of flag. Look at this. Look at how we have an increasing polarization on this issue. We'll display the flag on July 4th, the American flag, back in July of 2001. Look at this. Yet 68% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats saying that they would in fact display the flag on July 4th. You come over to this side of the screen. Republicans basically are where they were 25 years ago, right? 64%. But look at that Democratic percentage absolutely plummeting. Just 27% of Democrats say they will, in fact display the flag on July 4th. Democrats and Republicans in different camps. Even on the simple question of displaying the flag on July 4th. A polarization, a split that, simply put, did not exist a generation.

[Mark Levin]

All right, all right, listen to me. Let's hold on a second. It's not just a split between Democrats and Republicans. It's a split between people who love this country and don't. Only 27% of Democrats would fly the American flag. You know, I bet if we kept records about who volunteers to serve in the military that we'll be brave and heroic Democrats. But I'll bet they're in the minority. I'll bet it splits about just like this flag. I'll bet the majority of Republicans. I really would. Again, it's not to dishonor Democrats who've served in the military. That's not my point. I'm not talking about you, talking about your party. 27%. This is why when the Democrats talk about destroying the Constitution, the court, the Electoral College, they talk about opening the border, letting illegal immigrants in. Many of them are illegal immigrants. Or were. Or were. Go ahead. Proud to be an American.

[Data Analyst]

Okay, what about this idea? Are you proud to be an American extremely or very proud to be an American. Again, look at this divide, a growing divide on this question. Back in January 2001, 90% of Republicans, 85% of Democrats. This was after a very contentious 2000 election. Keep in mind, right, with George W. Bush coming into the White House, you come over to this side of the screen in 2026. Look at this again. The Democratic percentage absolutely plummets to just 29% of Democrats say they're extremely. Are very proud to be an American. That Republican percentage, the exact same.90 and 90. The Democratic percentage, what is that? That's basically a third of the level that it was just 20%.

[Mark Levin]

Okay, so 29% of Democrats say they're extremely or very proud to be an American. 29%. 90% of Republicans. As we've been talking about, the Democrat Party is the party that reprobates. It's the party of the malcontents, the miscreants. It's the party of the Islamists, it's the party of the Marxists. And you got some people who are there who are very patriotic and so forth. I just don't think they realize what they're surrounded with. At least most of them don't, or they feel an attachment to the party because their parents were Democrats. But other than that, there is absolutely no reason to be a Democrat today. 29% of Democrats do not. Are not patriotic. That's what that says, 29%. So they're leaders and they're congressmen. They elect Islamists, they elect Marxists. They elect people who want to destroy our constitutional construct. You know, early on, when we were dealing with AOC and then later with Mondami, you would have people on tv, Republicans, who was talking about, you know, the base of the Democrat Party. The base. I said it's not the base. It's the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is this party. It's not just the base. And there you have it. It's not just the base, it's the Democrat. You know, it's upsetting and I'm not going to play it. I don't think Obama opens his new library. You couldn't tell it's a library. I don't even know what the hell it looks like. To me, it's incredibly ugly. And I don't mean to say that because he's a Democrat and it's Obama. I just think it's ugly. And this is going to be the headquarters for this Marxist movement. Now, Valerie Jarrett at the opening of the library, she's talking about a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we gathered today. Now, this is in Chicago. And we, we honor the council of the three fires. The Okabobi, the Ottawa, the whatever, whatever. And another one. In here we acknowledge them. Stolen land. Obama says the founders fell short. Slavery, white men, property. He has no conception of what was taking place. What took place. It's really one of the only governing systems that created a method to correct itself. And while slavery was taking place all over the world, including in Africa, and that's no excuse. And while the British kept shipping black slaves into this country, they set up a mechanism to deal with it. And then a civil war was fought because it wasn't completely dealt with. 700,000 casualties. There's not another country in the world that fought a civil war over slavery. Not one. And there's still slavery taking place in Africa where black Muslims terrorists are enslaving and raping black Christians. You barely hear about that. I'm guessing they didn't bring that up at the Obama presidential library. Taking place in the Middle east in horrendous ways. Taking place in Southeast Asia, in communist China in horrendous ways. And North Korea in horrendous ways. We can pick out the countries, we know what's going on, but we don't talk about any of that. Any of it. Obama says his values are American values, not Democrat values. I don't think they're American or Democrat. I'm just being honest. I think they're radical left. Radical left. Eric Holder, he speaks and he trashes the Supreme Court. Trying to drive their negatives up so they can get support to destroy it. They probably already have support if only 29% of Democrats are patriotic. You know, this is what kills me. This is the greatest country man has ever imagined put into practice. There's not a better one on the face of the earth, no matter what. And to listen to the way these people talk about it, they know full well that people from all over the world, every color, every background, every creed, every religion are seeking to come into this country. There's not another country. You might say Europe. No Europe. The government's filled with a bunch of suckers. They're easy targets. People want welfare and so forth. No, you don't. Come to America. You're not supposed to anyway. That's not what draws people here. It's different.

[Caller/Producer]

Different?

[Mark Levin]

It's different? Yes. Except to these people. Except to these people. We'll be right back.

[Caller/Producer]

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[Mark Levin]

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[Batya Unger Sargon]

Thank God. Doing good. How are you?

[Mark Levin]

Thank God. Let me look. Yep, I'm doing well too. And you have a wonderful new book out. And I'm curious to know. First of all, I want you to share it with the audience. I'm curious to know the reaction right now given all the. All the hate that's spreading out there, but nonetheless, tell us about your book. We have it up there. It's called the Jews and the Left. It's really quite fascinating. Go right ahead.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

Oh, yeah. Thank you so much. So the question that I get asked the most when I travel by Christians and conservatives and Republicans is, I am sure, a question you get asked a lot too, which is people will look at me with like real pain in their eyes and say, but why are the Jews Democrats when the left has turned on them and we have their backs? It's something that I think a lot of people on the right really struggle to understand because they feel an affinity to Jews. And yet 2/3 of American Jews are Democrats. So I wanted to write a book that answered that question. Why the Jews became Democrats, why they stick with the Democratic Party even though it's turned on Jews and Jewish interests. And what I uncovered was. I think if I had to sum it up in one sentence, it's because most American Jews who are Democrats believe that Jews in America are an oppressed minority. But that is a complete misreading.

[Mark Levin]

Wait a minute.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

American Jewish history. Yeah.

[Mark Levin]

Even today. Well, today more than ever, actually, what's going on in the streets. But that's no reason to be a Democrat. Go ahead. I'm very fascinating.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

Yes. No. Well, so what I uncovered in my book was, you know, the first 300 years of American Jewish history was a country that absolutely refused to treat Jews even as a minority, let alone as oppressed. The Founding Fathers saw Jews as foundational partners in the creation of this great nation. They saw us as the living, breathing and embodiment of the source material for the civilization they were trying to build, which is the Torah. They believe that our rights are imbued in us by our Creator, not a gift from the government. That was the whole premise of this nation. And they felt that they had a covenant with God to protect their Jewish neighbors. And that continues to today. This country has always seen Jews as an essential part of the fabric of what makes America exceptional. So that's what the book is about.

[Mark Levin]

That is fascinating. And let me ask you this. The modern Democrat, who's the modern Jew? Who is a Democrat? Anything like The Jews, perhaps 50, 60 years ago, who were Democrats?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

You know, it's funny because there's definitely a generational dividend. Here's the thing. Most American Jews, if you ask them what makes you a Jew, what is your Jewish identity, They'll say that there's two main components to it. There's their liberalism, which they think is, you know, part of being Jewish, and their Zionism. That is what it means to them to be an American Jew. And the tragedy in our era is that those two things are in conflict with each other. If you are on the left, you cannot be a Zionist.

[Mark Levin]

Today.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

They have utterly rejected Zionists. They have room for, you know, Islamists. They have room for, you know, Hamas, but not for Zionists. And so a lot of American Jews are in this position where they feel a real conflict now at the heart of their identity.

[Mark Levin]

And Zionism is essentially just for the audience, essentially is talking about the Jewish homeland, the Holy Land, Mount Zion, which was really at the center of Jerusalem. Right.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

It's an utterly minimal proposition that planet Earth should contain one sovereign Jewish nation on our ancestral homeland. That's it. And by the way, the vast majority of Americans are Zionists. They're not so hot on Israel right now. They're not so sympathetic to Israel right now, but they do not believe what the left believes, which is that Israel shouldn't exist. Yeah, that's Zionism. It's like, it's a. It's a. It's not. It's like so obvious.

[Mark Levin]

Well, let me ask you this. How do you persuade so many Jews who are Democrats to abandon that party? I mean, if. If the party's conduct today with the Islamists and even people like Bernie Sanders isn't turning off so many of them, what will?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

It's a great question. I think a lot of it has to do with education and the class divide, which is what my other two books were about. If you go to university in America, you're very likely to come out with the woke mind virus, which says, you know, there's no right versus wrong. It throws out the basis of the Judeo Christian civilization. It says there's only oppressor versus oppressed. And this gets so ingrained in you. If you spend 4 years, 8 years, 12 years, as the majority of American Jews are college educated, 60%, many have a graduate degree. You get really inculcated into this mind virus, and it's very hard to think your way out of it. And one of the essential components of that is that the right is evil and racist and fallen. And that is the problem here is that. But younger Jews, and this is really interesting and compelling to me, younger Jews who experience those encampments, they're more conservative than their parents, which is very interesting and exciting. I write in the book. I didn't write this book so that, you know, Jews would become Republicans. I wrote it because I wanted them to stop being loyal to a party that hates them and return their loyalty to the nation that gave us this unbelievable gift of equality since its inception.

[Mark Levin]

Well, and we find. Or do we find that the more, quote, unquote religious you are, or that is more Orthodox, I should say, the more likely you are not to be a Democrat or to be Republican or nothing, right?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm Orthodox. And in our community, there's no struggle with, you know, young anti Zionists.

[Mark Levin]

No, I don't think so. Now, you're modern Orthodox, I assume. Is that right or am I wrong?

[Caller/Producer]

Yes.

[Mark Levin]

Let me ask you this. You know, I have a theory here, and maybe I'm not the only one, which is. And it certainly has exceptions, as they all do. But my question is, if people view Judaism as purely an ethnicity that Is Jews less so a religion, an ethnicity? And yet if you're a Jew who believes that, yeah, it's an ethnicity and it's a faith and it's a religion. Do the latter tend to be more Republican and the former tend to be more Democrat or who knows?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

I think so. You know, you have these Muslim politicians like Zoran Mamdani, Abdul Al Sayed in Michigan, and they will say, you know, we revere the Jewish faith. We just have a problem with Israel. Right. And the problem with that, of course, is that 80% of Jews worldwide are not necessarily people of faith. They're not religious, they're not orthodox. And in fact, it was sort of an irony in the history of America that Jews would come here and they would be very precious to their Christian neighbors because of their faith, but they would become very quickly enamored of the freedom. And as you know, being an Orthodox Jew is quite a heavy lift. And they were.

[Mark Levin]

I want you to hold on if you can. I want to take you over the break. This is fascinating to me. The book is the Jews and the left. It's on Amazon.com I strongly encourage you to get it by Batya Unger Sargan. We'll be right back. With Donald Trump back in office, one of his biggest adversaries, top Democrat Dick Durbin of Chicago, is leading the charge to derail President Trump's agenda at every turn. And now Durbin as a new scheme, a government takeover of your credit card. Right now, Americans have thousands of credit card options, all with equal strong security. But Senator Durbin's plan could result in less security. That means more risk for your credit, your identity and your financial future. Durbin's bill isn't about helping consumers. It's a giveaway to corporate megastores, which could shift costs onto you while putting your rewards and fraud protections in jeopardy. We've seen Durbin's fail policies before his last big banking regulation backfired, leading to higher costs and fewer benefits for American families. Tell Republican senators, stop Durbin's government takeover of your credit card before it's too late. Learn [e-mail] that's guardyourcard.com paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

[Caller/Producer]

Then the thunder on the right. Call in now. 877-381-3811.

[Mark Levin]

Welcome back, America. The book is the Jews on the Left. Why are so many Jews left wing and Democrats? And Batya Unger Sargon breaks the vault with this knowledge about why is that the case? Let me ask you this. How has this book been received, given the atmosphere that's. That's going on right now, which is not a very pleasant one.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

Oh, man. I'm going to be really honest with you. Okay.

[Mark Levin]

Yeah.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

So when it first came out, when I first submitted the manuscript, it was just when the podcasters on the far right started to turn on the Jews. And I thought to myself, I'm going to be a national laughingstock, because I wrote this book about how the left turned on the Jews. And the most prominent voices turning on the Jews right now are on the far right.

[Caller/Producer]

Now.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

In the intervening year, President Trump and every Republican who came on my show, every senator, congressman, member of the cabinet, influencer, journalist, pundit, said, actually, no, you can't be in the Republican Party. You can't be on the right if you're going to hate on the Jews. So you guys are out. And they kind of kicked them out. And it was an amazing thing to watch. And I keep telling this story to Jews. Like, on the left, they elevate the anti Semites, and on the right, they marginalize them. I do have to say this week has been really tough for me, as I'm sure it has been for you

[Caller/Producer]

as well,

[Batya Unger Sargon]

You know, anyway. But so the people have read it, have really loved it, especially the history, because I go deep into how much love there was and continues to be for Jewish Americans from their Christian neighbors. Specifically, American Christians are the first population in human history to organize their religion around the protection of Jews rather than the persecution of Jews. So the people who. That means something to have loved the book and written to me about how much it means to them, the Jewish left has pretty much ignored it. And then of course, there are people who say that I'm just too naive or too credulous and all that.

[Caller/Producer]

Of course.

[Mark Levin]

And you raise an interesting point, a good point, actually. It's thanks to really faithful Christians, evangelical Christians and so forth, even this in this country who are supportive of the Jews, like a dear friend of mine, Pastor John Hagee, and there are many others who believe in the tie between, you know, the Torah and the New Testament, that is the Old Testament, the New Testament for many people in the Bible, he makes the point, look, there wouldn't be Jesus, there wouldn't be the apostles, but Jews. Mike Huckabee, who was a former pastor, makes the same point. And of course, the founders made the same point, didn't they? Judeo Christian belief systems combined with the Enlightenment and so forth. So these are people who are very, very supportive of Jews and Many of us. So the public knows Jews. We know this, and we are very appreciative and supportive of this, wouldn't you say?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's. My grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi and he always used to say, America is a wonderful country for the Jews. And I don't think he knew the deep history of it. But, you know, this is a guy who was born in Brooklyn in Brownsville in 1913, and always felt a guy who was, never was without a yarmulke, wore a black hat for his whole life, and just always felt the love of his neighbors. And I think that that is something that a lot of Democrats don't know and a lot of Jewish Democrats don't understand. And I do feel a little bit like many on the Jewish left have sided with the side that hates us against the side that will always have our back. And that's why I wrote the book, because that's really intolerable to me. Like when you had the organized, you know, Jewish organizations like the ADL encounter this campus radicalism against Jews, and their response was, well, how come Jewish students aren't getting the trans treatment? We're also an oppressed minority. Why don't we get the special. The special protections? And I was like, this is the exact opposite of what you should have done. Said the response should have been a, it was never okay to treat anyone this way. It was not okay to treat white students this way. It was not okay to treat conservative students this way. It was not okay to treat Republican students this way. And we're not oppressed because this country never treated us like we were an other. We were always enmeshed in the fabric of American society. Every instance of anti Semitism in America was met with a massive, overwhelming rejection by the American people. Whether it was Leo Frank, whose judge got 100,000 letters from across the nation from Christians begging for clemency, or whether it was Henry Ford who had to put his anti Semitic newspaper to bed when he wanted to run for president because no one would vote for an anti Semite, or whether it was the Klan firebombing synagogues and then the white south turning on the Klan because they couldn't stand to be associated with anti Semitism. And I go through all of this in the book. Every instance of anti Semitism in America was met with a radical rejection by American Christians.

[Mark Levin]

Such a good book, the Jews on the Left. You don't have to be Jewish. It answers the question in a very comprehensive way why so many Democrats and liberals are Jewish. Let me ask you one more thing. You know, Norman Pot Hortz wrote a book, and my wife has said this to me over the years, that for the liberal Jews, many of them, their party and their political preference is their faith. Now that's probably not something that's probably not unique. You've probably heard that before. What do you make of that?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

It's a really good point. I mean, he wrote a book called why Are Jews Liberal? And it's a funny book because it kind of just restates the question, right? Like, yes, they do treat Democratic Party politics like a religion, but the question is why? You know what I mean? Like what makes them do that? And I think the answer has a lot more to do with socioeconomics today, a university education, the idea that oppression is currency on the left in the milieu that most Jews find themselves in the highly credentialed New York Times reading urban centers. And so they sort of have rewritten American Jewish history as a history of oppression when this is the exact opposite of the truth.

[Mark Levin]

Well, very delightful talking to you. Wonderful book. I want to encourage people to get it the Jews on the Left. You can go to Amazon.com and get it right now. Again, you don't have to be Jewish to read it. By Batya Angar Sargon, podcaster too, as a matter of fact. And where can people find you?

[Batya Unger Sargon]

I have a substack, bhatia.us.com I have a News Nation show every Saturday night at 7pm Obviously pre record it because of Chavez and then it airs again Sunday morning at 11. I'm on Twitter but I'm trying to spend less time on there because it's such a simple as, you know,

[Mark Levin]

I don't seem to be like there for some reason, but I don't give a damn either. All right. All right, my friend, you take care and congratulations on a great book. And folks, I encourage you to get it. All right, take care now. It's a fascinating book. Really is it answers your question. Many of you have asked me and by the way, I've asked myself, the Jews on the Left, Batya Angar Sargon, you can get [e-mail] I encourage you to grab a copy and I think you'll really enjoy it and you'll enjoy the history in there and other things in there. And also there's, there's discussion about Christianity as well as you heard her speak speaking just now. All right, not to bring it down, but we got this guy. I'm not gonna do it. We'll Be right back.

[Caller/Producer]

Mud Lavin.

[Mark Levin]

All right, Mr. Producer. Give me a time here, sir. Okay. We woke up Mr. Producer. He's getting a steak sandwich or something. No. Am I right or wrong? Can you send me the link again to the phone calls? Because I apparently have lost it. We have a new system. It's actually a great system as far as I'm concerned. If you. If you don't lose the link. All right. Okay. Here we go. Got it. Thank you. All right. Or take as many calls as we can. Let's go to Paul, Houston, Texas, on the Mark Levin app. We're going from the top down. People have been waiting a long time. I apologize. Go right ahead, Paul.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah. Hey, Mark. Good talking to you again. I don't know if you remember me from earlier last week.

[Mark Levin]

Go. Right. Sure.

[Caller/Producer]

Said I wasn't happy with what I heard.

[Mark Levin]

Mm.

[Caller/Producer]

Now, what first came out. This. This agreement. Now. Well, it's.

[Batya Unger Sargon]

It's.

[Caller/Producer]

It's even worse after you went. I heard you go through the last night, and I was so, so mad, I almost had to turn you off. I mean, we. We. This is surrender. This is surrender.

[Mark Levin]

And I hope they understand, and I don't think they do, how upset Americans are. This. This show really does have the pulse of America. Given the. The size of the show, it reaches every corner of the country and beyond. And this is your Mr. And Mrs. Conservative.

[Caller/Producer]

Yeah.

[Mark Levin]

And you're. You're not happy with this, but Mark

[Caller/Producer]

Trump calls everybody fools that are disagreeing. He is not MAGA anymore. He is not America first, he's Trump first. He's ego.

[Mark Levin]

I'm not prepared to go there. Honestly, I'm not. Because I know. I know he wants to do the right thing, and he does the right thing most of the time. I think almost all the time. But we can have our disagreement on this, I think, without. Without, you know, pounding away. I appreciate your call. You know, on the Woke Reich, the traitor Tucker Katarlson's and others, they'll trash the president if they disagree with him, and he'll invite them back, by the way. I'll take them back. But I just don't operate that way. I don't operate that way. I have something to say. I say it. I know he's got an incredibly difficult job. There's a lot of people who feel really, really upset about it. I'm very upset about what's going on right now, but I'm trying to do our best to communicate our views as succinctly as I can. And I'll continue to do that. As a matter of fact, if you watch my Life, Liberty and Levin show this Saturday, it's probably the most, how can I put this? The angriest I've ever been in giving a monologue. I guarantee most of you are going to want to watch this. 8pm on Saturday Eastern time. Set your DVR if you're not sure, or whatever recording device you use. 8:00pm Eastern Time on Life, Liberty and Levin on Fox. I encourage you to watch this, particularly if you're troubled by this or you want to learn more information about it.

[Caller/Producer]

It

[Mark Levin]

let's go to Bill Fort Worth, Texas, the great wbap. Go right ahead, please.

[Caller/Producer]

Hello, my hero, Mark Levin.

[Mark Levin]

Good to talk to you again. God bless you.

[Caller/Producer]

Yes, sir. Thank you. God bless you. And listen what you say. I'm sitting here listening to you every chance I get in my car radio or wherever I can on tv. I'm telling you, I, I wish I was sitting in the chair beside you, nod my head, yes, you go, man. You go, man.

[Mark Levin]

You're a good man. Thank you.

[Caller/Producer]

Anyway, I'm a former US army guy, information specialist. I also was a former professional journalist. I was over in Germany and I wrote a column one time about John Carlos at the wrong time. I'm a patriot. Long story short.

[Mark Levin]

Yes.

[Caller/Producer]

I don't know how in the world a guy named Obama got in to the Oval Office. I call him a usurper. I don't even call him by the P word unless it's something undeserving.

[Mark Levin]

Look what he's even said. It's like the man became president. He was a senator. He's led a dream life. He's become a multimillionaire. He's treated like a celebrity. America has been wonderful to him and his wife and his entire family. Only in America. Only in America. And he has absolutely no circumspect, nothing, no appreciation for what his fellow man has done for him and with him. I find it disgusting the things that they were saying and the people he brought up and what they were saying. It's very typical the radical left in the Democrat Party, Bill.

[Caller/Producer]

Right. And you know, the people, you know, I'm Catholic and I respect the Jews. I have a lot of Jewish friends and I consider myself a completed Jew. That's what my wife tells me. But the bottom line is how in the world can we get accountability from a guy like Obama? And you know, they're, they're trying to build this presidential, whatever you call it, building for him. That, that is going to, no, it's built here all the, you know, it's building.

[Mark Levin]

It looks terrible. And I'm not saying that because I have a problem with, I mean, the Clinton one looks okay. And. But this looks like a mess to me. All right, Bill, don't get mad at me. I got to move on. But do call again. We love having you, buddy, very much. Moshe. Lakewood, New Jersey, how are you?

[Caller/Producer]

I'm doing great. Consistent. Mark.

[Mark Levin]

Oh, thank you. Thank you.

[Caller/Producer]

I've been listening to you for quite a while already, and I'm a big supporter of the president. I'm also Orthodox Jewish, and it's very disturbing, this deal to me. And I was thinking that I think the president has been surrounded by people who are afraid of the midterm elections. They see the energy prices are not good, so they tried getting off ramp. Now, I think what they should do is take Iran's strategy of stalling and flip it on them stole for the next four months.

[Mark Levin]

You and I are on the same page. I said the same thing. But here's the thing. You know what the American people hate? They hate when we go to war and we don't have a victory. And we can say it's a victory, but I mean a victory where they're defeated and they surrender. Thank you, Moshe. Thank you all. What a fantastic audience and great callers. I want to thank you all. God bless you all. We'll do this again tomorrow. I hope I'll see you then. Have a wonderful evening.