"[Gaza] is - as a percentage of the population - the largest slaughter of human beings on the planet in this century, and the goals have not been met. They have not been achieved. And there were people who were saying this from the very beginning. They were protesting against this slaughter from the very beginning. They were mocked. They were reviled. Many of them were kicked out of school. They were suspended. They were expelled. They were called anti-semites. All of these things. And you know what? They were right.
They weren't just morally right in seeing that this would lead to a cataclysmic loss of life, massive war crime, something that that even more and more scholars, most scholars at this point, are calling a genocide. But they could see that this would not achieve its goals because it wasn't possible. Because slaughter and starvation doesn't actually defeat a guerilla insurgency. Because the only way to defeat an insurgency, which Hamas is, is to deal with the root of the political grievance.
And Palestinians in particular, and I've written about this, were saying this from the very beginning. They weren't only saying that their people in Gaza would be slaughtered and starved on an astonishing scale. They were saying that Israel's goals were unachievable. And these people also were marginalized, were mocked, were reviled.
And all of these people who have much much more prestige in the mainstream media, in mainstream establishment Jewish circles, who don't have any problem speaking and being considered serious people, now, after 21 months, after all of this, after most of the hospitals and the schools and the buildings and the bakeries and the agriculture have been destroyed, after Gaza has more child amputees than any other place on Earth, now they tell us, "Oh, oops. It turns out it's not possible. It turns out we can't do it."
“We made a very, very, very terrible mistake with our children and we went with radical honesty. But don’t do it, I’m not advocating for it, I’m not advocating for it. We made a deal from really young with our kids. The deal was, if you tell the truth,, you won’t get in trouble. 'The only way you can get in trouble in this house is if we find out you did something and you don’t tell the truth.' It’s a mistake, it’s terrible. Because they do whatever they want and then just come tell you. It’s awful don’t try it. You want your kids to lie definitely, you don’t want to know some of the stuff your kids are thinking of doing.”
"It was not hard to see these [MAGA people] are a bunch of freaks, crackpots, and criminals, who happen to manage to present themselves as less repulsive, than the alternative, to enough people, to win an election,...we get a lot of shit about 'Why do you go after Democrats so much?' I don't blame the fox for being a fox. I blame the sheep dog, who was supposed to be guarding the hen house, for taking a bribe. Right? These [MAGA] people were always foxes. That is their role in the system. The other side, the alternative, made itself so repulsive, I always compare it to - alright, so this is like people go to a place called 'Goat Island,' where they worship goats, and they show up with a severed goat head, hung around their neck. That is basically how the Democrats have presented themselves to the American public."
"Has [Trump's tariff] policy worked as he intended? I think the answer is clearly 'no.' As you said, he expected to have 90 deals in 90 days. As best I can tell, he has two deals, one with Vietnam and one with Britain. And as the media reports, we have hardly any details on those two deals. So, it's very hard to make sense of those two deals, but they're only two deals, not 90,..."
"Netanyahu is under extreme pressure to reach a 60-day ceasefire deal that would see 10 living Israeli hostages released, along with the bodies of dead hostages, in exchange for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, many without charge."
"How anyone, who is a Trump supporter, can listen to that, and not feel completely condescended to, and devalued, and ignored, is something I'll never understand."
"History is full of ironies. Of course, it was the British who invented the concentration camp, and they did that during their war with the Afrikaners in South Africa. Afrikaners, of course, were the inventors of apartheid. Israel has learned from the South African example and perfected it. In a sense, made it even worse. And now we're into concentration camps for Palestinians, by people who, themselves, are the descendants of Nazi concentration camp inmates. You can't make this stuff up."
"Trump has not solved one foreign policy problem that was on his plate when he moved into the White House. He couldn't even beat the Houthis after he promised us he was going to beat them. He wasn't able to defeat the Iranians, right? He can't shut down the war in Gaza in any meaningful way. Hasn't been able to shut down the war in Ukraine. So, he's talking to Putin in the hopes that maybe they can work out some sort of deal. But that's not going to happen,..."
"Totalitarian, authoritarian, dictatorial leaders, who are not accountable to the people, usually can't be trusted"
"It's just lie built upon lie, and we're deceiving ourselves, and to what end? In order to be able to justify these conflicts, and supporting a war of genocide in Palestine. It all comes together. It's all part of the same package. This web of lies is massive."
"All of Israel at the moment is praising and lording the technical feats on the 13th of June. That Mossad had sent their agents in and were blowing up things in Iran, and that they had assassinated nearly eight or four of the line commanders of the Iranian military, and killed or murdered all of these scientists in their homes. And there's a great celebration about it, but they missed the point.
Was it tactically a success? Was it professionally done? Yes. But it failed. It was a complete failure, because, yes, it did take Iran partly by surprise, but they thought it would break the spine of Iran, and, instead, a shield has emerged. A shield of real passion amongst Iranians, and a real sense, at all levels, of resolution. To go ahead and to proceed, and no sense of wanting support, for negotiating with the West, or seeing the IAEA come in again to try and supervise their process."
