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The game of numbers Download YouTube 2023-10-19 (#014) < Previous Next > This video is about "the game of numbers", about how people compare statistics of the number of dead Israelis and Palestinians in order to convince you that one side is more moral than the other, which makes people respond emotionally. This video is about what matters: intent and actions, not numbers, and explains why, giving several examples such as the vastly larger number of Germans killed in World War II or the more recent number of Russians who have died in the war with the Ukraine. Does that mean that the side that has the most casualties are the victims? Obviously not: in both casess they launched wars of agression and their intent was to kill innocent civilians. And now imagine if Russia launched rockets from residential buildings, hid them in churches and schools, built tunnels under civilian neighborhoods with the intent of kidnpping and killing as many people as possible. What would you expect the Ukrainians to do? Nothing? Just to allow it to happen? To stop defending itself as soon as the casualties are equal? Of course not! Look at the difference of how both sides of the Israel/Hamas conflict treats its civilians:Hamas who is inflicting horrific attacks on Israel, has wasted billions of dollars on rockets guns and tunnels, leaving the people of Gaza with absolutely no protection, while Israel invests in protecting its people. This is the reason for the disparity in the number of deaths on either side. Video Transcription: Coming soon

Hamas wants death of ‘a lot of Palestinians’ to ‘blacken the name’ of Israel Download YouTube 2023-12-11 (200) < Previous Next > Hamas' tactic is beginning to crumble 👊🏽 It seems like the Palestinians have had enough of the idea that Hamas can sacrifice their lives in exchange for support from the West❗ Video Transcription:

Shocking Response by the Red Cross to hostage's family. Download YouTube 2024-01-10 (265) < Previous Next > Family of female hostage being held in Gaza says when parents told the Red Cross that she needed daily medication for her health, a Red Cross worker told them they should focus their concerns on Gazans. By Jake Tapper/CNN Video Transcription:

United Nations resolutions - Not surprising 🤦🏻♂️ Download YouTube 2023-10-30 (#069) < Previous Next > Context according to U.N. Watch: from 2012 to 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted 83 resolutions that have focused on condemning Israel. That is 86% of all resolutions against individual countries! Considering all the other atrocities occurring around the world, is Israel deserving of so much condemnation, or is something else afoot at the General Assembly? Video Transcription: Coming soon

The Loudest Voice Isn't Always The Right One Download YouTube 2023-11-21 (#141) < Previous Next > “America's Rabbi", International Best-selling author, broadcaster, relationships expert, Champion of Israel and Human Rights, Anti-Genocide Activist debates "Creators: Roy Peker & Keren Shefet Video Transcription: Coming soon

Senator Jacqui Lambie lays into Hamas & the Australian media. Download YouTube 2023-10-25 (#040) < Previous Next > Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie admits to being no epert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but says she knows a criminal act when she sees one. Being a soldier, she says, is an honorable profession. Soldiers don't murder babes or take entire families hostage. Hamas terrorists are nothing but brutal rapists and murderers, criminals who murder young people at a music festival, mothers and fathers and children and babies. A man holding a gun against a child or a baby is not a fighter, he's a thug and a coward. She calls on the media to expose Hamas for what they are: terrorists, criminals and murderers Video Transcription: Coming soon

The UN fails woman around the world. Who are they really helping? Download YouTube 2023-12-19 (221) < Previous Next > Credits: Tom Lahat @lahatom Video Transcription:

We have to be outraged': Calling out silence over Hamas' sexual violence Download YouTube 2023-12-06 (#190) < Previous Next > Westchester County, NY DA Mimi Rocah and Joyce Vance join Morning Joe to discuss the lack of international outrage over the reports of sexual violence committed in the Hamas terror attacks. Video Transcription: So today the united nations is going to hold a hearing on the sexual and gender based violence reported during the attack and the silence from the international community that followed. Joining us now, former U. S. Attorney and MSNBC legal analyst, Joyce Vance, District attorney for New York's Westchester County, Mimi Roka. They are co authors of a new opinion piece in Slate calling out the lack of international outrage over the reports of sexual violence committed in the October 7 hamas terror attacks. A lot of it is seen on video and documented in video of women who were raped, killed while they were being raped, young girls who were raped. I mean, the evidence is clear, and yet, Mimi, I'll start with you. There has not been a focus on this as a war crime or on this enough, according to many who believe women's rights are not even being considered here. Yeah. Thank you so much, Joe Mika, for talking about this important topic. And I guess the thing I would say, given the clip you played, is why we don't have to be balanced in our outrage, which I think is the phrase that was used. We should not be balanced in our outrage, not against the Palestinians, by the way, she said Palestinians. It's against Hamas. Hamas did this on October 7. And we have to be outraged because, first of all, the girls who had their pelvic bones broken because they were raped so much, whose legs were broken, who were shot while people were still raping them, they deserve us to be outraged, as any woman of any background would. Second, because there are still young women hostages, and we have every reason to believe something horrible may be happening to them. And so we have to be outraged. The whole world has to be outraged and demand their release now, just as we've done for other girls who were taken captive in other parts of the world. And finally, Mika, and this is the most nuanced point, but I hope women everywhere understand it. It's because this hurts women everywhere when we say, tell us, don't believe what your eyes are seeing. When we let people with an agenda like Hamas men dictate when we believe rape happened. No. We have evidence here. I'm a prosecutor. Joyce is a prosecutor. We look at the video. We listen to the witness testimony. We hear the accounts of people who saw it, and we can't let other people tell us when to believe rape happened. It happened. And we have to support all women everywhere. Joyce fans, your take and what do you think needs to be done? So I think, Mika, that Mimi makes the most important point here, and it gives us the starting point going forward. This is, as y'all have been discussing this morning, a hopelessly complicated crisis. The question is, what's the path forward? And perhaps a small piece of that starts with an acknowledgement of our common humanity. It's not complicated to condemn rape. It shouldn't be difficult. And often in the heat of the moment, it's difficult for people to reconcile their emotions. Now, the United Nations hearings give us an opportunity to evaluate the evidence, and that's what Mimi and I do. As prosecutors, we're used to discussing the evidence, even in these horrific sexual crimes, in a very straightforward manner. This will be painful and difficult for many people to listen to. But the evidence, the eyewitness accounts, the accounts of medics and first responders absolutely confirms that these rapes took place, that they were torture rapes. Now, it's incumbent upon women in the international community and here domestically, to take a moment to reflect and to evaluate on what the evidence says. And then we can speak with one voice and say, this is wrong. It doesn't matter if it happens in war. It certainly shouldn't make a difference that the victims are Jews and Israelis. We can condemn this and acknowledge our shared humanity and begin to move forward to deal with the other implications of this cris. Mimi during World War II, military code law was that American soldiers who raped a woman could be executed. And that actually relaxed a bit just because men of color were convicted unfairly and Eisenhower intervened in a case. And then by the time we got to Germany, it wasn't necessarily that an American soldier would get convicted. And George Patton was infuriated. And that was the ethos of the US. Military during that war. If any American soldier raped a woman, they should be executed. How did we get from that to today where you have American leaders trying to equivocate here? I don't totally know the answer to that, but my educated guess or opinion is that it's about victim blaming. And that's why I say this is so dangerous to all women, because for many complicated reasons, as Joyce says. And I'm not here as an expert on foreign relations or the war itself or anything. I'm here on this one issue about women and sexual assault and believing victims and believing the evidence that we see in front of our eyes. But I also am very familiar with victim blaming. I mean, we know it in this country. From her skirt was too short, she drank too much, and we've all fought, I think, quite hard for decades to get away from that. And this feels very reminiscent of that. The girls at the music festival have nothing to do with the bombing that's happening now. But yet when you pivot from, yes, rape is bad, but don't bomb Gaza, you're inherently blaming these victims for that. And I think that's what's going on here with some people. I mean, this is a generalization, and it's wrong, and it's dangerous for all of us, for all women everywhere. Joyce what you and me are concerned about in part, is the international community's failure to condemn the rapes. What more do we need to know about that. Who are we talking about? What have they failed to do? Right? So there was silence for a lengthy period of time. There were even some folks who suggested, as Mimi's been discussing, that the accounts of these rapes weren't credible. I think today there's a little bit of a restart. The United Nations was extremely slow to acknowledge and condemn these rapes. Now we appear to be on that path. These are war crimes, and they can be prosecuted as such. It's also a possibility, quite frankly, that the Justice Department could engage on the topic of American women who were kidnapped and who were raped, and there could be prosecutions. Israeli law on conspiracy is a little bit different than our law in the United States. It's more demanding and restrictive in terms of the need to specifically show an agreement that encompassed an agreement that Israeli women would be raped as part of this operation. There is evidence that indicates that there was preparation and advanced planning, including linguistic help, people being told how to speak Israeli, to tell women to pull down their pants. There's been some testimony from people who were involved on the Hamas side that there was perhaps a religious waiver, a fatwa, that permitted them to violate traditional Muslim dictates against rape. All of this deserves examination and scrutiny, and really, it demands it, because, as Mimi says, if women aren't safe in Israel, then women aren't safe anywhere. If we can use justifications to blame individual victims, young women who were asleep in a kibbutz and here we're talking in some cases about teenage girls and younger. If we can blame women who were attending a concert for the policy seas of a nation that they may or may not have supported and used that to justify rape, women are not safe anywhere. So we need to begin to speak out more strongly than we have up until this point. Former U. S. Attorney Joyce Vance and District Attorney for New York's Westchester County, Mimi Roca. Thank you both very much for coming on this morning.

"No one is born hating... people must learn to hate", *Mandela* Download YouTube 2023-10-18 (#002) < Previous Next > Nelson Mandela once wisely said, "No one is born hating; people must learn to hate." It's perturbing to observe that some young children in Palestine are exposed to a narrative in their schools that encourages them to embrace violence, portraying martyrdom as a path to championing their cause by harming Jews. This narrative depicts Zionists as the enemy, urging both boys and girls from a young age to aspire to acts of violence, such as running over or stabbing Jews, in the belief that it will bring respect to Palestine. #TikvaInternational" Video Transcription: Coming soon

Getting Real: What Do Folks in Gaza Actually Think? Download YouTube 2023-12-27 (247) < Previous Next > An in-depth look into IDF Espionage Unit 504 Courtesy of Israeli channel N12 Video Transcription:

The Oldest Conspiracy Theory in History ✡️ Download YouTube 2023-11-21 (#143) < Previous Next > Already points out the huge threat that social media poses to the Jewish community by spreading conspiracy theories and hate propaganda." "Thomas Hand tells us of his living nightmare after his daughter Emily was kidnapped by Hamas on 7th Oct. Video Transcription: Coming soon

The son of a Hamas leader share why Hamas is responsible for the war. Download YouTube 2023-11-11 (#108) < Previous Next > Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader, explains why Hamas is responsible for the war: when they launched their murderous attack on Israel on October 7th, they knew that Israel would retaliate, knew that Gazan civilians would die and are happy about it because it meant they would be dragging Israel into a dirty war where Israel would be stained because they would be blamed for spilling childrens' blood. Hamas started the war and are therefore wholly responsible. People die in war but had Israel not been so careful, the casualties on the Gazan side would be much higher. Video Transcription: Coming soon