Dave Rubin (11:39)
Okay, okay. So this is about seven years ago. Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that Saudi Arabia is perfect and they have their own issues with the strain of Wahhabism that radicalize all sorts of people, but they have started to moderate. And if you remember about a week before October 7, 2023, what was all of the talk all over the world? It was that Saudi Arabia and Israel were about to normalize and Iran saw that. And then I think you can directly connect that to the events of October 7, which by the way, Biden had just released, Remember that non fungible money that we had given back to the mullahs? So there's something there. But the point here is that even if the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, he's not saying, oh, Khomeini is Hitler because he doesn't like the Jews. Right? Like put the Jews aside for a sec. He's saying he's Hitler because Hitler wanted to expand, right? He wanted Greater Germany and greater, greater, greater, greater. That has been the goal too, of Iran, which is why they've put an army like Hezbollah in Lebanon, et cetera, et cetera. So putting aside Israel and the Jews for a second, the Saudis did not want this either. And if the Iranians were to get a nuclear bomb, it starts a crazed nuclear ra. Most people think that Israel has nukes. It's not a declared situation, but most people think they have it. But no one thinks Israel's threatening anyone with nukes. It's purely deterrence. But if the Iranians were to get the bomb while they're saying, we're gonna blow Israel off the map, well, then the Saudis might be like, we're in some deep doo doo, too. And then we have to get it, too. So this is all very, very good. So now let's get into some of the details of what happened yesterday. This is from the Times of Israel. Decades of Israeli warnings against Iran's nuclear program and preparations for military action to thwart it culminated early Friday morning with the Jewish state launching a major offensive attack against the Islamic Republic, striking nuclear sites, military facilities, missile bases, and senior leadership. Jerusalem said it had engaged in a precise preemptive strike against Iran, declaring it an eminent threat from its nuclear program and announcing a domestic state of emergency as citizens braced for retaliation. Over 200 Israeli Air Force aircraft were involved in the opening strikes, and fighter jets dropped over 330 munitions on some hundred targets. The IDF said the operation, dubbed Rising lion, was directed at Iran's nuclear program. The military assessed Iran currently has enough uranium, enriched uranium, to build 15 nuclear bombs, as well as its ballistic missile factories and its primary capabilities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the military said, so look, what's interesting about this, and we're gonna have more obviously on the specifics here, is that Israel does not want to destroy Iran. Netanyahu has been saying for years, the people of Iran are not the enemy. It's the mullahs who are trying to wipe out Israel. So note, Israel did not do what most of its enemies do, which is just launch crazed rockets right all over the place and just try to kill as many people as possible. They went for the nuclear sites, they went for the nuclear scientists. They did incredibly precise things. We're going to show you one in a minute, but here's just a compilation of some of the Israeli strikes on the nuclear facilities. Pushed it out of his arms. Okay, so these were highly targeted strikes. They didn't go for malls, they didn't go for schools or anything else else. They went for military targets and the people that were in charge of it, if you want to see how Precise it is, Dr. Eli David, I had him on the show when we were in Israel, not this pastime, but a year before, who was an Israeli entrepreneur, really brilliant guy. Look at this, what he put up. It's really extraordinary. This is how precise Israel's intelligence and execution is pinpointed attack at eliminating the head of the IRGC directly in his apartment nearly 2,000 kilometers away from Israel. They were able to target that guy, know exactly where he was. I mean, this is such an extraordinary level of intelligence. And we will find out more. This is very much like the beeper thing. Like how the high hell did they do it? How much planning was there, how much coordination on the ground? I mean, it's, it's just absolutely extraordinary. And again, they didn't just carpet bomb the place, which is exactly what Iran, we're going to wipe you off the map. That means we're going to kill all your women and children and all of that stuff. They did not do that. They did a targeted pinpoint precision operation that they've been working on for quite some time. Here's more from the idf. We can now confirm that the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, commander of the IRGC, and commander of Iran's emergency command were all eliminated in the Israeli strikes across Iran by more than 200 fighter jets. These are three ruthless mass murderers with international blood on their hands. The world is a better place without them. I should say. As a sidebar to all of this, Az, Iran basically is taken out and Hezbollah is gone and the Houthis are basically gone. What this really does, because the thing that gets us the entire world on the other side of all of this is ending the Gaza situation, right? Well, now who's gonna fund them? Who's putting money over there? Who's gonna keep giving them weapons? The pressure on those psycho jihadists in that little tiny enclave is gonna be so great that. I don't know, I don't wanna predict it, I don't wanna be too Pollyannish here, but that thing could wrap up pretty quickly too, if they can get those 20 hostages out. And then Hamas is like, yeah, we got nobody. Nobody's backing us anymore. We are screwed. And how do we know nobody's backing them? Because all the people backing them are dying. This is from Disclose tv just in. Iranian state media confirms Revolutionary Guard chief Salami not baloney. Salami killed in Israeli strike. Did you ever have fried salami? I think I had that in Nashville once. Anyway, this is from the White House. A statement from Marco Rubio. Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believed this action was necessary for itself defense. President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear. Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel. Look, that's a super strong statement. Again, we're going to find out a little bit more about how much coordination there was. Was there a little bit of a smokescreen going on that Bibi and Trump were doing as it pertained to these negotiations? Did it get to a point where even just a few days ago, where finally they were like, boy, the Iranians are just not acting in good faith? We don't know all of the answers to those things. But I do think it's worth noting and worth repeating what Rubio said right there. America was not asked to drop a bomb. America was not asked to send a soldier or anything else. It probably had some level of ancillary support, right? Whether that's intelligence or whatever, it might be on the ground, but no troops or blood was spilled here. Israel was doing what it had to do to protect its national interests, which is what I would say every single country should do. If you are being threatened by a nuclear power whose goal, whose stated goal repeatedly at parties is death to you, you gotta do what you gotta do. Here's another one from Dr. Eli David, breaking. Israeli sources confirm that US was fully coordinated with Israel. And Trump's public statement calling Israel not to attack was part of the coordinated deception. Thank you, President Trump, for standing with Israel. Okay, so that's why I'm saying there's some level of smokescreen here or some stuff that will sort of shake out right now. We'll have a little more evidence on that in just a second. But. So whether. Whether there was coordination or whether it was a shell game to confuse the Iranians or whatever, again, no Americans were asked to do anything. It was just give Israel a chance to do this absolutely crazy, crazy operation. This from Donald Trump. I gave Iran a. I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them in the strongest of words to just do it. But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know anticipated or were told that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world by far, and that Israel has a lot of it with much more to come and they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all dead now and it will only get worse. There has already been been great death and destruction. But there is still time to make this slaughter. With the next already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end, Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and same what was and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction. Just do it before it's too late. God bless you all. So you can see the way the American messaging is going out is a little confusing, right? Because Rubio is saying we had nothing to do with it. Trump's basically saying, well, we kinda, it's not that we bombed anybody, we didn't press a button, but we were basically telling the Israelis, hey, if these MFers don't honor their deal or get close to what we want, or give up the enrichment, then you're gonna do what you gotta do. This is another one, and this is, I think the key one from Donald Trump. Two months ago today, I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to make a deal. They should have done it. Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they couldn't get there. Now they have perhaps a second chance. So that seems to be it than anything else. And this is what strong foreign policy looks like. Nobody wants war. I don't want war. I don't think the Israelis want war. As a matter of fact, I know it because I was just there and everybody there, nobody wants work. They would like to be left alone. They would prefer rockets not be shot into their territory. They would prefer that jihadists not kidnap their women, et cetera, et cetera. And if you say that you're going to destroy them and you're occasionally shooting rockets, as the Iranians do, they're going to do what they got to do. But no sane person wants war. But the way you stop war is not saying, oh my God, I'm against war. You stop war. You stop bad people by speaking softly and carrying a big stick. And that's exactly what Donald Trump did right here, right? He gave them 60 days. He gave them 60 days. Halt the uranium, get to the table, let's get to something real. Stop with the rhetoric and everything else. And then it says, clear as day. I mean, this is the exact same thing with Trump and the border and the deportations. 60 days, what'd we do on 61? He came through, right? What's he doing with the deportations? He's coming through. He's doing exactly what is promised. And I really, really believe not only is this not leading to World War III, this is probably stopping World War 3 because Iran had got the nuke, Saudi Arabia gets the nuke. There's a constant. It would be basically Russia and the United states in the 80s in this constant state of Cold War, who's gonna bomb who first? We'd be in a sort of nonstop Cuban missile crisis just in the Mediterranean instead. And I think there's an unbelievable chance and an incredible horizon right in front of us for true worldwide peace. To whatever extent, that is actually a real thing, not a utopian dream, but a real thing. We'll have more on that in just a second. But first, Hillsdale College. Have you ever heard someone say capitalism is evil or tried to define it yourself, only to realize it's more complicated than it seems? That's why I'm taking Hillsdale College's free online course, Understanding Capitalism. 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And that's a quote tweet of Dr. Eli David, who I just referenced, breaking reports that the entire top brass, the irgc, have been eliminated. And the reason I'm quoting myself, which I know, is a little. It's a little of this. It's a little patting on the back is. The point is you pushed them far enough and now they did what they had to do. And it's not going to lead to World War 3 or any of the other hysterics that so many people said. All we had to do was just coordinate with them. Coordinate with an ally who did not want to be holocausted. Once again, Jerome Hazoni who I've had on the show a few times, he is an Israeli conservative who. He is really the creator, the original creator of natcon and natcon National Conservative Conference. I've spoke there a few times. That really is, I think, the sort of main foreign policy, you could say, sort of brain trust behind the Trump foreign policy. J.D. vance is very intimately involved with that. And Yoram wrote this from Jerusalem. He wrote this last night. Israel attacks Iran tonight because we believe Iran is assembling nuclear weapons to be used against us. This is not an assessment of one Israeli political figure or party. It represents a consensus here in Jerusalem. Anyone saying this attack is an affront to the United States is serving Iranian regime propaganda, whether out of gullibility or malice. Israelis love the United States and especially revere President Trump and his administration. No one has been better at us than President Trump. Israelis are grateful for all he has done for us. But President Trump understands what some clearly do not that it is Israel's responsibility to protect its people against a fanatical regime that has sought to destroy us using every means at its disposal. If we chose to attack a potential arsenal of between 10 to 15 nuclear weapons before they can be made ready for use, we are only doing what any other nation in the world would do in our shoes, protecting our country and our people against a clear and present danger that cannot be dealt with in any other way. My love and gratitude go out to my many friends in America, Europe and Asia, both those who know that they would do the same if they were in our place, and those who cannot fully see this. Yet we are, all of us brothers in a war against forces that openly and shamelessly seek our annihilation. Whatever happens in this Israeli Iranian war, we will still be brothers and we will still have much work to do together when it has ended. I look forward to seeing you all again on the other side. You know, there's a. There's a slight chill to that, obviously, because as he was tweeting that everyone was waiting for an Iranian response. And it does appear, at least at the moment, that the Israeli attack was so overwhelming and so with such pinpoint precision that there was no real response. Right? There wasn't 300 rockets or 800 rockets then fired from Iran, which is what they did a couple months ago, Right? So. So now we will see. Could they have lone wolves? Could they have terrorism cells? Like, there is a bunch of stuff that we might see, but he was tweeting that, thinking that a rocket could basically explode over his house at Any moment. And fortunately, that did not happen. It also is worth noting that again, what he's saying there is true, and I believe this for any country, any country on earth. If you had a country that was saying, we are going to destroy you. Our goal is to destroy you. We are working on weapons. To destroy is our intent and it really is our whole reason for existence, right? We want to expand our borders and we want to destroy you. Well, what would you do? I mean, just think about if it was your neighbor and he just kept encroaching on your property and saying, I'm going to kill you, what would you do? Dave Rubin also had this banger yesterday. Rough day for the messed up Israel hating psychos and their Twitter pals. I'm going to just leave that one there. Amjad Taha, who's a great Middle east commentator, I think he's from the uae. He wrote this. I thought it was quite good. Congratulations. Today, the Middle east, including the brave and silenced people of Iran, celebrates and stands firmly with Israel as it strikes the heart of the Islamic regime's nuclear ambitions and long range missile arsenals. The regime has not only targeted Tel Aviv, it has bled Yemen, poisoned Syria, bullied Iraq and bombed its own people. They turned the name of Islam into a threat and diplomacy into blackmail. It traded prayers for payloads. But tonight, history changes course. In this defining moment, humanity stands not only against a nation, but with its people and against the tyrants who defiled them. This is not just Israel's battle. It is the world's reckoning with a regime that sanctified terror and weaponized fate. As it is written in the Torah. When you go out to battle against your enemies, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you. Deuteronomy 21. And as the book of Psalms declares, the wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, but their sword shall pierce their own heart. Psalm 37, 14:15. This is not vengeance. This is vision. This is not destruction. This is deliverance. Congratulations, Israel. You stood alone. Now the free world stands with you. You, from the smokes of Auschwitz to the shadows of Tehran, you never begged to exist. You fought to live and you rose to protect. And you have proven once again the Jewish spirit does not break, it builds. That is from someone in the uae. He is a great political commentator. I mean, I wish I could write that. Well, that was really beautiful, particularly at the end. So where are we? Is he right? Is he right? Did Israel just reset the world so the Bad guys are finally and officially on their back foot. Well, I think he did. So remember the video we just showed you a moment ago with Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Salman? He was the one that was basically saying that Iran is the new Hitler like regime. Again, forgetting the Jew stuff because they wanted to expand, which is exactly what he wanted to do do. Well, you know who agrees with him? My friend Clay Travis, who originally was a sports guy, but now makes more sense politically than anyone on cnn. I promise you that. He wrote this. Israel wiped out Hamas and Hezbollah to Iranian terror proxies after October 7. Syria, a puppet state of Iran under Assad, then fell. Iran has never been weaker in our lives. Now is the time for Israel to strike. And most Muslim countries in the Middle east quietly agreed. And again, that's the point. You don't. You don't get the major claps. They're not going to get all the major claps because unfortunately, they've used Israel as the boogeyman. Most of the Muslim countries, while they abuse their own people, that is largely changing, particularly with the Gulf states led by the uae. That's what brought the Abraham Accords around. Once you had countries that were flourishing, they realized, oh, we don't have to just blame everything on the Jews anymore. And then you can get more and more people into these expanded Abraham Accords. Now, I wanna show you a video. This is from March of 24. So this is from just over a year ago. So this is, this is post October 7th, right? All the war in Gaza, which is still going on is at the height of it a year ago. Right. And here's Jared Kushner, who was one of the architects of the Abraham Accords, talking about how this can just be the beginning and you could get Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and many more on board. And then, hot diggity dam. As Palpatine said, then we shall have peace. Speaking with both Jews and Muslims who are navigating the dynamics caused by the current conflict, left me more positive than ever that the Abraham Accords have the foundation to prosper and expand across additional nations, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and many, many more to come. Wouldn't that be something, you know, before Trump came around and everyone had to decide, oh, if you hate Trump, I just, just Trump says something, I automatically disagree with it. I automatically hate him. Everyone used to be for Middle east peace, but the only way you could get to Middle east peace, the only way you can get to peace anywhere, is you have to remove the people who don't want peace. Israel's always extended its hand. Hey, can we have peace with you guys? Just stop trying to kill us and we'd like to have peace with you. It can be a cold peace, right? They have a pretty cold peace with Egypt. It's pretty cold peace with Jordan. It's not like they send their citizens on there over there for vacation, really. Occasionally someone goes and often they get killed. But you can have a cold peace. Like we're just not going to endlessly hate each other. But the only way that works is if you get rid of the main drivers of the violence. And that was Iran. I thought this video is quite good. This is just a quick compilation of what's going on in Qatar, Dubai, Israel and Riyadh. If you want to see what a future Middle east could look like and it could be pretty bright. Subhanallah. Subhanallah. Let's remove borders, nationality, religion and the rest of it for a second. What do you think all those people in those cities were want? Not all of them. What do you think the large bulk of the people in those cities want? They want peace. They want an ability to build a family, have some success. They want hopefully some degree of freedom again. They can have their own religious beliefs and whatever else it might be. But if you want human flourishing, you have to. It's not just that you can be for peace. You have to stop the people who want to destroy it. And that seemingly is what has happened here. And there is a new horizon. It is right. It is right on the edge, guys. Do you see it? And it's gonna take work now. There's gonna be a lot of bad actors who are gonna try to exacerbate the situation. As I said at the beginning, who knows what's gonna happen with lone wolves. We know that Iran has used terror proxies around the world, particularly in South America, to do all sorts of acts of terrorism. So who knows what they have in store. But there is a brief moment right now where because America either wink winked or tacitly said to Israel, do what you gotta do do, and Israel went ahead and did it. All of those countries in the Middle east are now safer. From Israel to Saudi Arabia to uae, even Turkey, like everybody is safer right now having a less violent and less capable to destroy them Iran. So this is extremely, extremely good. We will connect this or at least try to connect it to what's going on back here in the the United States of America in just a second. But first block, trust ir, right? When the financial elite quietly build their wealth through crypto everyday Americans have been left out until now. Block Trust IRA is changing that. I've partnered with them because they're using cutting edge AI to empower hardworking Americans with the same wealth building tools the establishment wants to keep out of your hands. 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Check this out from America First Oversight. Federal judge orders Trump to give National Guard command to Newsom. Pretty confident that this gets overturned. And is your usual federal judge overstepping? So, you know, we've seen many versions of this. Trump tries to deport people. Lower courts try to stop him. He tries to protect the border. Lower courts try to stop him. We have a fight right now. Some might call it a constitutional crisis between the federal government, that's the President of the United States, and the judicial branch. And the real question is, I'm for separation of powers, right? We want co and equal branches of government and we want checks and balances and all of those things. But can you have lower court judges that every time the president does something, if they don't like them, that they can basically hamper and stop him from doing what he was elected to do? That's different than if a ruling went to the Supreme Court. And could they potentially stop the president? The answer to that is yes. But if every time the president does something, some random activist judge is able to put an injunction on him, then we'll never be able to be governed as a people who elect somebody Anyway, that judge made that decision. And here's Newsom. I would say short term, temporarily appreciating it. It didn't really work out for him, but take a look. So I'm very hopeful this order puts that in perspective and hopefully Donald Trump will immediately back down. The courts have ruled on the guard.
