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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Historic & Tragic: Democrats Turn Their Backs on Israel, Demand that they Stop Killing Hamas Terrorists
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Ben Ferguson
Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Senator, this show is a really important show, and it's one that I want to say on the front end, I hope people will take this and put it on social media, because it's an important issue that you said we need to dedicate entire episode to, and that is talking about what's going on with Israel and the Democratic Party going after them.
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Ted Cruz
Well, that's exactly right. We are here at a momentous time. The Democrat Party is turning hard against the state of Israel. The White House is turning hard against Israel. Joe Biden personally is turning hard against Israel. The media is turning hard against Israel. We are seeing an historic pivot away from our enormous friend and ally in the Middle east, the state of Israel. And that is consequential. It is consequential for Israel. It is consequential for Hamas. It is consequential for Hezbollah. It is consequential for Iran. It is consequential for the entirety of the Middle east is consequential for the world. And what is striking, while the White House is actively undermining and abandoning Israel, every Democrat in the Senate and the House is sitting silently by and allowing that to happen. This is a podcast. We're going to do a deep dive onto that. But it is a very, very sad moment, I believe.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, no doubt about it. And even shocking words coming from the White House pressure today. We're going to start with that in a moment. The world is up in flames right now, and bidenomics has become a total and complete dis. And that can ruin your day. But you know what? When you start your day out with a America first cup of coffee, it starts out a lot better. And I want you to know about blackout coffee. Now, I love when we talk about our sponsors, and then I start getting feedback from you guys on social media. I, I got a note from a lady and it says, ben, I'm a school teacher and I kept hearing you say that this the best cup of coffee you've had. And it's a premium cup of coffee. And I said, fine, I'm going to order it. And I did. And it's amazing. Just want to say thank you. I have switched my coffee forever. Blackout coffee isn't just a cup of coffee. It is a hundred percent committed to conservative values coffee. And it is a premium cup of coffee. Now, look, I start my day early every day. I get on the radio at 7.0am I don't want just a cup of coffee, all right? I want a Great cup of coffee. And that's what I get from blackout coffee. Blackout coffee is not some woke coffee company. From the sourcing of the beans, the roasting process to customer support and shipping, they truly embody true American values and they accept no compromise on taste and or quality. Now you can try the best cup of coffee your life by going to blackout coffee.com verdict blackoutcoffee.com verdict and use the promo code verdict. It's going to save you 20% off your first order. So get away from the woke coffee companies. You know the ones I'm talking about and switch to Blackout Coffee. Blackout Coffee.com verdict Use the promo code verdict for 20% off your first order. Center there was something that was said at the White House today from White House press secretary Jean Pierre and she said we know how to deal with terrorists now and we're going to tell Israel what they need to do. Here is the new idea.
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John Kirby
We believe there has to be alternative ways to deal with Hamas in in Gaza as we're specifically in Rafah, a military operation that we believe not the way to move forward. There is a active conversations happening with the Israeli government and obviously our government. And I think that's important.
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Ben Ferguson
Senator, I'm going to take the bait. I'm going to ask you the question how is there an alternative and what is an alternative way to deal with actual terrorists that say they want to annihilate you and from the river to the sea they want you to all be dead?
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Ted Cruz
Well let me give you the non alternative way. The non alternative way is to kill them, is to eliminate Hamas. To kill the terrorists. To kill the people that murdered 1200 Israelis. To kill the people that murdered over 30Americans. To kill the people that raped little girls and raped women. To kill the people that burned babies alive, that burned infants. To kill the vicious anti semitic, anti Israel, anti America terrorists that pledged to murder as many of us as possible. That's the non alternative ways. Now let me just ask you a question, Ben. What the hell is she talking about? There's an alternative way to deal with Hamas terrorists. I don't know. Maybe we sit down in a circle with them, we hug them, we put little robes on them, we put flowers in our hair, we sing Kumbaya. Maybe that's the way to do it. Like what idiocy is this? These are psychopathic, homicidal genocidal maniacs. And here's the problem. You know what? There's an alternative way to deal with is left wing Democrat activists that the White House is terrified about. And so what are they doing? They're abandoning Israel. Let me say Israel is exactly right. They should eliminate Hamas. And every Hamas terrorist they eliminate is saving the lives of Israelis and it's saving the lives of Americans. That is a statement I want you to understand. Let's say you're a Democrat at home. Look, we don't have a ton of Democrats that listen to this podcast, but I actually think we have some. We try on this podcast. By the way, I encourage people all the time. When I talk to high schools, when I talk to colleges, when I talk to people that are nonpartisan, I say, listen, you want to know what's going on in the world? Here's part of the problem. The media is all biased. It's all partisan, it's all ideological. So if you only listen to CNN or msnbc, you'll only get part of the news. And by the way, if you only listen to Fox News or Newsmax or right of center media, you'll only get part of the news. What I do is I try to listen across the spectrum. So what I encourage people to do is I tell high school kids and college kids this. I said, I'll tell you what, Take a month, listen to every episode of Verdict and then also that same month listen to every episode of some left wing podcast. I don't care. Pod Save America. Some, you know, I don't know, whatever commie piece. There are enough of them out there. You can pick something. Yeah, but listen to both sides. And, and I don't know if anyone has ever taken me up on that request, but I hope they have. I hope they're listening to both sides. So if, if you're a Democrat listening to this, I want you to ask yourself, do you think America should stand with Israel? And if we should, what do you think is the, quote, alternative way to deal with Hamas terrorists? I don't know of any other way other than the way Israel is trying to do, which is to eliminate them, to defeat them, to kill them. But apparently the Biden White House has something else in mind.
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Ben Ferguson
You see, I've got like seven different questions for you. Senator, I've been wanting to ask you all day, so I'm just going to go through a couple of them quickly. Number one, when I heard this, I was, I was angry. But then I said, okay, what is the alternative? It sounds like, and this is one way you could take it. She's now saying you need to negotiate with terrorists that actually have hostages right now. That's what it seems like she's saying, and I thought a America's foreign policy was we don't actually negotiate with terrorists. They have Americans, by the way, that they're still holding hostage right now as well. So, so then the second question I have for you, center, is this, how much money are we supposed to give them? Because I'm assuming if there's an alternative way to deal with Hamas, that means, okay, we're going to bribe you. Am I wrong?
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Ted Cruz
You're not entirely wrong, but you don't have anywhere near close to the scope of it, sadly. Let me tell you what the Biden White House means. The alternative way to deal with them is, number one, allow them to live, allow them to prosper, allow them to succeed. Do not kill the terrorists who murdered Israelis. Do not kill the terrorists who murdered Americans. Do not kill the terrorists who, who raped little girls and raped women. Do not kill the terrorists who murdered infants. But they also, it's not just don't kill them, give them a state, reward them. Remember, the White House is trying to say the reward for October 7th should be a two state solution. The two state should be create a Palestinian state. By the way, they had a two state solution. Gaza was run by Hamas. Israel was not in Gaza. They were in control of it. It's a popular talking point on the left. Oh, it was an open air concentration. What utter imbecility. The Palestinians ran the Gaza Strip. They were in charge of it. The Israelis weren't there. They could do whatever they wanted. The reason it was a hellhole is because Hamas ran it. And by the way, Hamas ran it because when the Palestinians had elections, the Palestinians voted for Hamas. So at some level, listen, Hamas has wreaked havoc and suffering and misery on the Palestinian people. But at some level, a majority of them bear responsibility for that. Because when they went to the polls and voted, they said, yeah, the psycho terrorists, that's who we want running things. Now here's what Biden is saying. Because you engage in one of the worst acts of mass murder of Jews, in fact, the single worst mass murder of Jews in a day since the Holocaust, because you engage in horrific terrorism, because you murdered over 30Americans, we're going to reward you and expand your territory and give you control and give you power and elevate you and treat you as a statesman. And by the way, the way in about a year they'll give you the Nobel Peace Prize as a psychotic terrorist. That's what they mean by a different way is literally, we will show every terrorist in the world you Want what you want, commit horrific acts of mass murder and get the idiots in the press and the pacifistic appeasing, cheese eating, surrender monkeys of the Democrat party to give you what you want and all you need to do is murder and rape enough people and they'll give you exactly what you want.
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Ben Ferguson
You know, let's go back to when this attack happened because I, I will give credit. In that moment Joe Biden publicly was very clear that we were standing behind Israel. But the machine behind Joe Biden very clearly came out and wanted to get ahead of him and say no, no, no, we, we actually don't, we're calling on Israel to not retaliate even against their 911 that happened. The, the most Jews have been massacred since the Holocaust, for goodness sakes. And you called out quickly remind people we've talked about on the show before. But if people may be listening to the show for the first time because they've seen on social media where people have been posting this about Israel, I want to remind them in the hours after the attack what our government, the machine behind Biden, was doing.
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Ted Cruz
Within hours of the attack on October 7, while people will still were still being murdered, while the bodies were warm, the Biden State Department, the Office of Palestinian affairs tweeted out a tweet that said Israel should not retaliate, do not respond with violence, do not respond with warfare. Essentially roll over and allow mass murder to happen in your country and do nothing. Now, at three in the morning that night I called that out and denounced it and within hours they retracted the tweet. They deleted it.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah.
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Ted Cruz
Then the next day Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State did the same thing. He said, I just talked with the Turkish Foreign Minister and we agreed there should be an immediate cease fire. The one thing that is critical is Israel should not kill any terrorists. He didn't quite say that, but that's essentially what he said. I responded again within hours saying this is disgraceful, this is shameful. And again the State Department deleted the tweet. So understand, in 48 hours they sent out two anti Israel pro Hamas tweets. In 48 hours I called them both out and in 48 hours they deleted them both. Early on when Biden would get in front of a camera and talk, his actually talking points were pretty good. Because listen, Biden is from an older generation of Democrats that they actually said we should stand with Israel and Biden is what, 142 years old. He probably still thinks he's in the 1980s. He repeated those old talking points. Here's the problem. Biden has filled his White House. He's filled his State Department, he's filled his administration with rabid leftist, anti Israel, anti Semites. They hate Israel. They believe Israel is an illegitimate occupying force. They believe the Palestinians, they believe the Hamas terrorists are noble freedom fighters and they side with Hamas. I'm not exaggerating. And by the way, we've had, among other things, White House interns protesting, State Department interns protesting. Let me be clear. In any sane White House, listen, if I'd been elected President 2016 and the White House interns protest, the day they protested would the day they lost their White House badge and they left the White House, the idiocy of. They've hired these 20 year old radicals who hate Israel. They have been taught from their Marxist professors, Israel is a colonialist oppressor. And I got to say, Biden's rhetoric from a yesteryear of the Democrats saying we stand with Israel to the young, angry leftists made no sense. And let me say to people listening to this, if you're a Democrat, if you're a centrist, but you do support Israel, ask yourself, is there room left in the Democrat Party for their views? I don't see a whole lot of it.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, you're right. Well, and that brings me to what's happening now. Clearly the people around Joe Biden have said to him over and over and over and over again that, that he needs to quiet down on his public support of Israel. And the White House was asked about that. John Kirby was asked about it. And here's how it went down when Peter Doocy asked him at the White House press briefing.
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Ted Cruz
Last one then. Where is President Biden on any of this? When he wants to talk about how angry he is or frustrated he is about the high cost of insulin, he comes out and gives an impassioned speech. Where is he on any of this?
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Peter Doocy
He's been talking about this. He's been issuing statements on this. No, that statement, last I looked, was public.
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Ted Cruz
But where is he? Why isn't he here right now?
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Peter Doocy
I'm sure you'll continue to hear from the President about this and many other national security issues.
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John Kirby
We got, we got to wrap it up.
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Ben Ferguson
I love that you heard John Pierre in the background. We got to wrap this up. We got to wrap this up right now. Actions speak louder than words, right? So if the President has some words on a page about Israel that say something, but he's not saying anything publicly, it's very clear now that The White House has turned basically a 180. And the u. N. Vote from a week ago was, was a lot of proof. But now the White House is publicly not supporting Israel.
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Ted Cruz
Listen, the UN Vote from a week ago was I believe orchestrated by the Biden administration. They want the United nations to condemn Israel. They want the United nations to call for an immediate ceasefire. And let' be clear, Joe Biden yesterday talked with Benjamin Netanyahu. They put out a press, they put out a readout of the call and they said Biden demanded an immediate cease fire. Understand the President of the United States is telling Israel stop killing Hamas terrorists. Now that is their position, that you cannot kill any more terrorists. Why? And listen, it's not a national security reason. It's not an, it's not a reason that supports Israel's security. It's not a reason that supports America's security. The reason is domestic politics. The angry left wing Democrat Party, the anti Semites, and let's be clear, they hate Israel and they hate Jews. And by the way, I gotta say there are a lot of Jewish Democrats right now in this country who are facing an existential crisis because they have been Democrats, many of them, their entire lives. They vote Democrat and yet they're seeing people in the Democrat Party who despise Israel. And let's be clear, who despise Jews. Listen, in the Marxist worldview, as you know in my book Unwoke how to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, I describe the cultural Marxist view that divides the world into oppressors and victims. And the leftists, the leftists at universities, the anti Semites at universities, they define Jews, not Israelis. Jews. If you are Jewish in America, if you are Jewish in Israel, if you're Jewish anywhere in the world, the Marxists define you as an oppressor. You are white, you are a capitalist, you are wealthy, you are an oppressor. That is their worldview. And by the way, if you're not, they think you probably want to be. So you're an oppressor too. And they define Palestinians, all Palestinians and especially Hamas terrorists as victims. And the cultural Marxist support the violent aggressive revolution of the so called victims against the so called oppressors. And so the leftists and the Marxists are celebrating when Hamas murders Israelis, when Hamas murders Americans. The leftists in the Democrat Party are celebrating. And this is what Joe Biden, this is what Chuck Schumer, and sadly this is what every Democrat and House member on the Democrat side in the Senate and House are supporting. And let me ask you this. So Ben, you're a very sophisticated political observer. Have you seen a single Democrat, a single Democrat member of the House, single Democrat member of the Senate call out and denounce Joe Biden in this White House for undermining Israel, for supporting Hamas, and for demanding that Israel stop killing Hamas terrorists?
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Ben Ferguson
No. And not only that, to put it in perspective with the passing of Joe.
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Ted Cruz
Have you seen a reporter ask a Democrat that. Hold on. Yeah, the answer is no, I haven't seen it either. Have you seen one Democrat ask. I'm sorry, one reporter ask a Democrat that? I haven't. I literally have not seen a single Democrat Senator, a single Democrat House member ask that. In a normal, insane world, there are 535 members of the Senate and the House. Every one of us, myself included, should be asked. Now my answer, that's easy. You ask me, do I support it? Hell no. I think it is corrupt and evil and profoundly anti Israel. That's my answer. Now, let's start with the remaining 434 and let them get their answers on record.
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Ben Ferguson
There's also something else that's been happening, and early on you saw some members of the squad, the AOCs, Rashid Tlaib's, the more extreme socialists in the Democratic Party. They were anti Israel from day one. But we saw a shift this last week. And I want you to hear what Elizabeth Warren had to say. Of course, coming from Cambridge, Massachusetts, she goes on CNN and this is what she had to say about Netanyahu.
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Elizabeth Warren
You talk about Netanyahu needing to be held accountable and things that need to happen now. Last month you joined a group of Democratic senators basically asking Joe Biden to leverage weapons sales to Israel to pressure Netanyahu to change tactics in Gaza. We know the administration is set to greenlight a huge sale worth upwards of $18 billion to Israel having to do with a slew of F15 fighter jets. Do you, Congress can take action now to have a say in that? Do you want Congress to move to block that sale?
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John Kirby
Well, I think it is clear that Congress has a responsibility to act. We have legal tools here, and as I said, we cannot approve the sale of arms to a country that is in violation of our own laws on this, and that includes access to humanitarian relief. This is a moral question. It is also a legal question. Congress has responsibility here, and I'm willing to take that responsibility.
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Elizabeth Warren
Talk to me more about that because there's. I've heard a lot of kind of conversations around possibly considering legislation to step in. Are you considering or will you be putting forward Legislation, if that's the right term when it comes to this, to kind of start this process of blocking the sale.
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John Kirby
So actually, let's put this in a slightly different context. We already have an established US Policy here. And how do you enforce, how do.
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Elizabeth Warren
You make the president not green like this?
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John Kirby
I think the best we can do here is that we need to all be working together. And that's the president, that's people in Congress. And I am hopeful that when the President talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu, he will be making it clear that support for the actions of the prime minister are not. He's not helping Israel, he is not keeping Israel safe, and that he cannot, cannot continue to follow a policy of trying to starve out the people of.
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Ben Ferguson
Gaza center not just as she's saying, no more aid, military aid, to protect them from the terrorists. She then accuses Netanyahu of, quote, trying to starve out the people of Gaza. And that's her last point that she makes there on cnn. And CNN set her up perfectly for this.
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Ted Cruz
CNN wants to tell you that. And by the way, you and I did a podcast a couple of months ago that I think is a really important podcast. If you didn't listen to it, you ought to go back and listen to it. Even better, you ought to watch it on, on YouTube, because this was one of our video podcasts and it was entitled CNN is Hamas's Air Force. So is msnbc, so is abc. CNN is acting as propagandists for Hamas. With that, and sadly, a United States senator, my colleague Elizabeth Warren, was elected the same day I was in November of 2012. She served 12 years, just like I have. But you know what? She was a professor at Harvard Law School, my alma mater, where I went. And Harvard Law School is a pit of rabid leftist, often Marxist thought. And we have seen it festers antisemitism. There's a reason Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, was forced to resign. There's a reason Harvard has seen their applications plummet because the left despises Israel. In her comments, Israel's not trying to starve at anyone. That is grotesque. That is dishonest, that is false. But understand the angry lefties who are Elizabeth Warren's base hate, hate, hate Israel. They're not neutral. They're not ambiguous, they're not fair. They're not objective. They cheer when pro Palestinian and pro Hamas protesters chant from the river to the sea. What does from the river to the sea mean? It means literally, we should annihilate Israel. There should be no Jewish state on the face of the planet. That the only thing in the land that is now Israel should be a new Palestinian state where apparently Jews are not welcome. That is the view of the radicals. And sadly, Elizabeth Warren is not an outlier. Rashida Tlaib is not an outlier. Ilhan Omar is not an outlier. AOC is not an outlier. Their views are reflected by Chuck Schumer and by Joe Biden. This is the so called mainstream Democrat party. They have decided, they've looked at the political landscape and they said oh crap, the crazy lefties are our base. We need them to show up. So Israel were willing to abandon. And that, that makes me incredibly sad because it's dangerous. It's dangerous for Israel, it's dangerous for America and it's dangerous for the world.
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Ted Cruz
Listen, and we'll clarify on the the ceasefire language that the president used in the statement. He says that there should be a ceasefire and then the next after a comma, it's he urged prime Minister empower negotiators to conclude a deal without delay.
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Peter Doocy
So are the two tied together or.
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Ted Cruz
Is he saying cease fire right now and then the other thing later? I mean, what, how immediate is immediate?
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Peter Doocy
I can't really improve upon the president's language without we want to see a pause in the fighting. We want to see a ceasefire immediately so that we can get more humanitarian assistance in and create a set of conditions where aid organizations feel better about operating inside Gaza. Because as we've already seen as a result of the attack on the WCK workers, that some aid organizations now are pulling back. So we want to see that immediate cease fire in place. We also, of course, as we've said many times, think that that could also provide a window here to get the hostages out.
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Ted Cruz
All right, thanks. Thank you so much.
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Ben Ferguson
Thank you, Senator. It seems to me we don't know what the foreign policy is anymore of America with Israel and our ally in Israel because they can't figure out the politics of how to play this in an election year. And they're worried about losing younger voters. So they're trying to play both sides at the bare minimum. But we also could be witnessing for the first time in my lifetime an actual policy change with Israel maybe not being our great ally in the Middle East.
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Ted Cruz
How hard would it be for the president of the United States to stand up and say Hamas needs to release the hostages now. Every American that is a hostage should be released now. Every Israeli that is a hostage should be released now. Every woman that you are raping right now should be released today. And if you don't, we will hunt you down, we will destroy you, we will kill you. That's what a commander in chief who was defending Americans. How, how would you feel if it was your family, if it was your mom, if it was your sister, if it was your daughter, if it was your son or father or brother who was trapped in hell, being brutalized day after day after day? Look, I've spoken with the families of these hostages. Some of them released, some who have not the agony they're feeling in this White House. You know what? I sat on the floor of the House and listened to an entire State of the Union address. I don't remember Joe Biden standing up and saying, hamas, release the hostages now or face the holy fury of the United States of America. He didn't say that. Because you know what? His angry leftist base would be mad at that.
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Ben Ferguson
Senator, you and I want to go back in time because it's amazing how quick people forget about what happened on that day. I've met with the Israeli government independently. You've obviously met with them and the representatives countless times. You watched a long version of the atrocities of that day. I have seen more than I wanted to. But I think it was important with the platform that, that I have to be an advocate for Israel to see it and witness it. And I saw it much more recently. I can't get those images out of, out of my head, just how orchestrated, how barbaric, how evil the people were that were doing these things to, to, as we talked about children to the elderly, I, the, the elderly is somewhat been overlooked. And I, I, I was watching some of this. And you watch these elderly people, not only were they killing the grandfathers and great grandfathers in front of the great grandmothers and the, and the, and their kids and grandkids, but they were ripping them away and then taunting because they were going to go after the women. And this was all caught on video. And yet no one seems to be reminding people that those are the hostages that are still being held captive right now.
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Ted Cruz
They are. And where is America? Where is the President?
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Ben Ferguson
Great point.
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Ted Cruz
Where is a Democrat calling for the release of the American hostages? By the way, these are not many of them are Israelis, but there are multiple American hostages that this White House AWOL doesn't even begin. It's worse than awol. If they were silent, that would be disgraceful. But they're not silent. They're telling Israel, stop trying to kill the terrorists, instead reward the terrorists and give them a nation state that is stronger than it was before and in a better position to wage war with Israel and to murder innocent civilians going forward. That is a bizarre way to respond to a horrific atrocity carried out by Hamas.
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Ben Ferguson
Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary she obviously, and this is when you know it's a coordinated and orchestrated effort by talking heads, former White House Press Secretary Terry people in the media, people at the State Department, people in, in social media circles on the left and celebrities and others. This is what she had to say on Israel on msnbc. Well, and Jen, it's very easy for people to say the president should do a, the president should do. There is also the very real possibility, and they understand this, if the president turns on Netanyahu, if the president says we're going to stop sending weapons, then Netanyahu actually uses that to gain more power inside of Israel, saying, see, we have been abandoned even by the United States. We have to fight on.
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Jen Psaki
That's right, Joe, and I think that's important, too. Look, clearly the strategy that the United States is implementing at this point is not working to change the behavior of Prime Minister Netanyahu is not working to end the war. So obviously something has to change. And I think it's pretty clear they're discussing that. I think in the White House, and I hope in the White House in this Situation Room at this point in time, the question is what that will be. And there's a number of allies of President Biden's in the Senate, Democratic senators and others who have been pretty outspoken about the need for conditioning aid, at least as a consideration. That's obviously something that is being considered, should be considered. The question is, will that change the behavior and what additional leverage needs to be put on Prime Minister Netanyahu at this point in time to change the trajectory. But you're right, there's a calculation, if you're discussing this, if you're the president, if you're the national security team, about what would prompt Prime Minister Netanyahu to be more aggressive, what would prompt him to be less aggressive. Obviously, nothing has worked to date, but it's not as easy as it sounds to make that determination.
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Ben Ferguson
Senator, not one time did she say anything about putting pressure on Hamas, the terrorist organization, or the Palestinian that are supporting the terrorists to stop them. They're talking about Israel like Israel is the terrorist organization that started all this. They were the ones that were attacked.
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Ted Cruz
Look, they treat Israel as a client state. They treat Israel as the oppressors and understand the base of their party believes Israel is their oppressors. And also get. There's some folks, there's a popular media narrative that, hey, Joe Biden is really pro Israel, but he's just got a political problem that his party is not. That's actually not accurate. Joe Biden has been undermining Israel for more than 50 years. Let's go back to 1982. 1982 was a long time ago. 1982, Joe Biden was in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He had a private meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. And Joe Biden decided to do what he's doing now to threaten Israel. To threaten, we're going to cut off US Aid if Israel did not stop, quote, settlements in Judea and Samaria. So it's frankly the same thing he was saying in 82 as what he's saying now. We don't like Israel. You don't have any right to settle the land of Israel. And if you do, we're going to cut you off. And here's what Begin responded to. And this is one of the most famous responses by any Israeli prime minister, and it was in 1982. So a long, long time ago, here's what Begin said to Joe Biden, then a senator, quote, don't threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them, and when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid. That's what the Prime Minister of Israel said to Joe Biden over 40 years ago. You know what? The Prime Minister of Israel is still saying that to Joe Biden. But sadly, the entire Democrat Party is, with Biden undermining Israel and effectively forming a protective shield around the Hamas terrorists who committed the most unspeakable acts of modern times that we have seen.
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Ben Ferguson
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Ted Cruz
Well, listen, the Biden administration and the Democrats in the Congress hope that Israel will give in, that they want to, number one, undermine Benjamin Netanyahu. And I'm not, listen, I'm not being partisan in this. I'm not intuiting or supposing this. Chuck Schumer said it on the Senate floor. He said he wants Netanyahu to be forced out of office. He wants Israel to have a new election and for them to elect a prime Minister whose views he likes. And apparently the voters of Israel don't have a right to choose their own leader, that it's going to be the Democrats in Washington who choose that. But look, the White House and the Congressional Democrats, they hope that by attacking Israel relentlessly, by threatening to cut off money, by undermining their international support, that Israel will get cold feet, that they will get weak knees, they will stop attacking Hamas and in particular, Rafah. Look, the Hamas leadership, the Hamas terrorists are all gathered in Rafah now. I'll tell you, I sat down doing a zoom call two weeks ago with Prime Minister Netanyahu. He joined all the Republican senators at our lunch. I can tell you, two weeks ago, he was unequivocal. He said, we will go to Rafah, we will enter Rafah, we will engage in a military campaign, and we will utterly eliminate Hamas. And if America is not there, we'll do it on our own. To be honest, what Netanyahu said, it was almost word for word what Menachem Begin said, that has not changed. It's one of the reasons. Listen, as a Texan, I've explained, people have asked me a lot of times, they've said, how is it, how did it come to pass that a Cuban, Texan, Southern Baptist became the leading defender of Israel in the Senate? And there are lots of reasons for that. But I'll tell you, one of the biggest is the attitude of Israel. Israel is surrounded by nations that would drive it into the sea, that would murder every Israeli, every Jew, if they could. And the only reason they don't is because Israel is strong enough to defeat them all. I gotta say, that is an incredibly Texan foreign policy. It is a national security policy. I have more than once wished that American foreign policy could have the clarity and strength that Israel's does. And so I'm not surprised that Netanyahu is saying the same thing menachem Begin said 40 plus years later, which is Israel only survives because they can survive. They are not dependent on the largesse, the welfare from Democrats who are condescending to flick breadcrumbs from their table. But I really do wonder, Ben, is there one Democrat in Congress with the guts to stand up to Biden and say, this is wrong, we stand with Israel, we stand against Hamas, and all of the rest of this is garbage. If they have, I haven't seen it.
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Ben Ferguson
Yeah, I agree with you. And this is going to be such an important issue on the ballot this coming November. Don't forget to share this, please. It's an important episode so people understand what's actually happening with Israel on social media without you guys listening and and putting this out the world. No one hears it. So thank you. We we need to say that more often. We don't take you for granted. Thank you for being involved in fighting for this country and our allies. Please share this on social media, wherever you are. Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Friday, and on those in between days, you can grab my podcast as well, the Ben Ferguson Podcast, and I'll keep you updated with a big morning update of the latest breaking news that you need to know about. So grab that as well in the Senator, I will see you back here on Saturday for our week in review as well. See you then.