If You Watch One Video About the Iran Conflict, It Should Be This One

[0:00]I think the core problem about our this whole discussion is the conflation of the nation state, the modern nation state of Israel with all Jews. And for the record, I've never been, I said this a thousand times it's true. I've never been against Israel. Took my family there on vacation. So I mean, I didn't not an Israel hater. But the second you say that the modern state of Israel is the same as global jewelry, and then you say that the United States has no divergent interest from Israel, we're exactly the same country, we've exactly the same interests. You're on a collision course, man. Um, and you're going it's going to hurt a lot of people. Uh on a personal level as well. So you can't criticize Israel because that makes you an anti-semite. That has been the rule for a long time and I've just kind of lived with it because it wasn't worth it, but the second we started moving toward a war with Iran, I knew that we were because I it's my job. And I had a very clear picture of what that would mean for the United States and unfortunately I think it's turning out to be true. I feel sad about it. Uh, but I I made a conscious decision, I know I'm going to take a lot of grief for this. I didn't realize how much. I had no idea, but I was like, I'm going to say something because I don't want to go to war with Iran. It's just kind of that simple. And because that so that's the first thing. This was all inevitable, unfortunately. And the second thing is that there are people who seem to be trying to inspire hatred and it's no one I know really well personally, but it's a couple of very loud voices who are trying to make people hate them, and I don't understand what that is. And I'll you know, I hate even to use their names, but I'll just name one because I sort of know him as Mark Levin. And watching his attacks on me, I kind of get it. Like I'm in the way of his agenda, he wanted to war with Iran. I have the ear of Trump, I had the ear of Trump he does too. So, you know, turning me into a Nazi is helpful to getting to his goal. I get it. He's a goal oriented guy, not mad about it, I understand what's up. Watching the way that he's responded to Megan Kelly has been a like a radicalizing experience for me. Because I know Megan Kelly, he does too, and Megan Kelly is sincerely moderate on this question. Most of her friends are Jewish. Um, she's always liked Israel. She did show after show about how October 7th was terrible. Great. And she said like she refused to denounce me. I think that's how it started. Or something like that. I mean, he's my friend, I'm not going to denounce him, Candace Owens or something. I'm not going to denounce her. They have called her a Nazi. Like actually a Nazi. So what's the effect of that? And at some point you realize like the effect of a system is what it does. So if you wind up doing something over and over and over, that's the point of what you're doing is to affect that outcome. And they have not turned people to their side, to their cause. They haven't convinced anybody. They've instead inspired hatred and I feel like it's on purpose. Like what's the point of that? And I and I don't know the answer. I don't know why you would ever want to inspire inspire hatred of yourself. Lavin is doing that. But he clearly wants it and I think there's complicated psychology there maybe, maybe there's a strategy that's so advanced I can't understand it. Maybe there's spiritual elements at play. I really don't know, but if your goal was to turn down the temperature to make people more supportive of the Netanyahu government, which is a totally fine goal as far as I'm concerned, I disagree, but I don't think it's illegitimate to want people to like Netanyahu or something. This is the opposite of what you would do. So clearly we've exceeded my intellectual capacity. Like I don't understand what this is, but I know it's not what they're claiming it is. Or else BB and I've called the Israel, I know a lot of people in the Israeli government. I've been there a number of times and I know them, I've dealt with them for many decades and I've called them and like, dude, this is not helping you. I don't understand why you're allowing this. They're controlling the message. Pretty directly, actually. And this is the wrong message. It's not going to help you in the end. If you want allies in the United States, don't behave like this. I've literally said that, I said it to Danny Danon, who is uh, you know, long-time Israeli political figure, ambassador to the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations. And he's a reasonable guy, smart guy, and I said this to him and he's like, yeah, tough. So, clearly there is a strategy here again, I'll just stop with this that I don't understand and but it's not it's bad. It's it's dividing our country. You run into real anti-semitism? Yeah, I believe you. I believe you. And I'm very jaded about that. Everyone's like, oh, people hate me. I believe that you're running into real anti-semitism. In fact, one of the reasons I don't want to go on X. It's it's it's crazy. Hatred of all kinds based on people's bloodlines and like we live in a country that has no majority of anything. And so if that's the state of play where my tribe hates your tribe, I don't see a winning tribe. And I don't see a place where my grandkids can live comfortably or yours or anybody's. Like this is just a total dead end. Tribalism is a total dead end and I've spent a lot of my life abroad as you have as well, and you've seen it. It's not resolved quickly. It's resolved like in a thousand years if you're lucky and it leads to violence right away. So don't have that. Don't do that here, but we're doing it. We are doing it and uh, among the things that we should talk about is the modern West. You're describing the modern West. You wouldn't do this if you wanted the modern West to survive, because the fundamental principle undergirding the modern West is that we put lineage aside and we collaborate as a people because collaboration is a good thing to do. And you and I also remember, you know, the '80s and '90s and it just wasn't like this. It's not that there was no bigotry or anything, but we knew what direction we were heading and it was totally unacceptable to act like this. It was totally unacceptable and the idea that you would parse someone else's religious views in public. I mean, the working assumption I grew up with as a Southern California wasp was our religious views are right. That's what what I mean, that's our religion. So we think we're right. But let's be honest, everyone's religious views sound pretty kooky when exposed to the light of day. So how about we don't do that and how about if we have Mormon neighbors or Jewish neighbors or in my case Roman Catholic neighbors, What's the point of like getting into how their doctrine differs from ours? Like we're confident that ours is right and theirs is wrong, but we can also see them as really great people. And the last thing we're going to do is sit down and be like, let's talk about trans substantiation. That sounds really crazy. It's like why would you do that unless you wanted to permanently be at war with your neighbors? And all of a sudden, I'm reading all this stuff online about various people's religious views and I have gotten into it myself with the Christian Zionist. I have explained their religious views on camera. I feel bad about doing that. I knew what their views were. I didn't want to talk about it until they were driving America's foreign policy. Anyway, I just feel like this is not a good road to go down and we need to reestablish a little bit of Anglo-Saxon, sorry to brag about my culture, but restraint here, where there are certain things we don't talk about at dinner and one of them is your sex life and another is your religious beliefs. And we've often been made fun of for that, like, oh, you know, you guys are so constipated, you can never talk about anything real. Yeah, not in public, you don't, actually, because it causes fractures that don't heal. That's why we don't do that. Let's get let's get back to that soon. Thanks for watching our YouTube channel. We hope you'll subscribe to it and by the way, you can hit the little bell on there and get notifications every time we produce a video. We hope you'll do that also.