Israel PANICS After Gov Minister ABUSES Flotilla Prisoners On Camera

So the Israeli establishment has found the guy who is responsible for all of this, and his name is Itamar Ben -Gavir.the Minister of National Security in the State of Israel.He's under fire across the board in the country because of a video or multiple videos that he himself posted to social media showing himself and his colleagues abusing hundreds of flotilla activists that have been detained in Israel.So there you see them throwing a young woman down on the ground.There's a smiling Ben -Gavir.He's waving the Israeli flag as he has these detainees hunched over.

They're roughing him up.They're dragging him around.They start singing the Israeli national anthem to them while singing here.He's saying, you know, basically, you need to say, I love Israel to this detained protester.What's curious in here is that he's dragging, they're dragging more around.What's curious is that he did a version of this on video the last time Flotilla activists came through.

I remember.It was not quite as, I guess it wasn't as long, it was just a few seconds of him kind of.

He's done it in Palestinian prisons too.He always does it.A lot of times.

He goes into Palestinian prisons and glories in the sadistic nature of the treatment.This time though, it has really blown back on him and you're getting condemnations from across the world and even across the Israeli spectrum saying that this is not, also by the way, This is something you should know as we talk about this.Ben Gavir is the head of the prison system.Prison system has been in the news globally lately because of this.the systemic abuses reported on towards Palestinians by Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times.A couple weeks ago, we ran a co -written kind of first -person piece by two women, a German and an American, who had been on the last flotilla, and they described their experience in this prison system.

One of them was brutalized on multiple occasions.The other was raped.This is a German and an American, the two Western countries that are most supportive of this government.Let's run through some of the backlash that Itamar Ben -Gavir is getting.We put up D2 here, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs.You knowingly caused harm to our state in this disgraceful display and not for the first time.

You have undone tremendous professional and successful efforts made by so many people from IDF soldiers to foreign ministry staff and many others.No, you are not the face of Israel." I don't even know where to start from that or start with that. Let's just go to D3 before we like collapse into like some psychedelic type of seizure. All right, so as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Assar have made clear, Itamar Ben -Gavir, his reckless grandstanding is not representative of government policy. I am Israel's top diplomat in the United States at the heart of our most important alliance Ben -Gavir's antics take a sledgehammer to our diplomatic efforts, while Israel's enemies gleefully jump on every unfortunate nonsense to discredit and demonize. The provocateurs of the flotilla charade were properly detained in accordance with international law and will be deported to their home countries."End of story.TheyThey were picked up, by the way, many, many, many, many, many, many, many miles from Israeli territory, way, way, way out in international waters.

So that part is just, you know, not remotely true.And they're just trying to deliver stuff to Gaza.The other thing, they just let them, they don't have, it's just a bunch of boats, it's not that much stuff on the boats, just Let them deliver the humanitarian aid.It's gonna be okay.You're a pretty big military.If they sneak in a baseball bat, I think you're gonna be okay.

Mike Huckabee even upset and put up D4 here.Mike Huckabee says that Ben Gavir, quote, betrayed the dignity of his nation.This is not who we are.D5 real quick.European leaders from Belgium to Ireland, Spain, Italy.So left wing, right wing, center, Canada, Everybody but the United States was bothered by Ben Gavir.

Well, no, even the US.

Well, Huckabee.

I just played Huckabee.He's our ambassador.I don't think of Huckabee as American anymore.

It literally didn't click.

He's a spokesperson for the Israeli government.

Once upon a time, people actually did think that.Look, I have seen criticism before.So why so much Israel coverage?Here's my thing.I haven't had a chance because you guys did such a great job yesterday to react to the Thomas Massey thing.How can you not now have to be hyper focused on this country?

This country is so dramatically influential that the Kentucky Commonwealth of Kentucky's fourth district gets $35 million poured into it by three billionaires, all of whom are acting to protect the interests of this foreign state.actually at a certain point.with our tax dollars that are backing it, with the expansionary goals that it has across the region, dragging us, or coercing us, or joining us, whatever adjective you want to use, into this war in Iran, and then now to have multiple states on our books with BDS laws, all of that was known, but then finally here to have Israel as the final and most important factor in this Kentucky 14 district race, how can you not now have to focus entirely on the behavior of this nation?What we are forced to tolerate as citizens of the United States to see how its dramatic influence basically enables this type of barbarism abroad, not only enables, pays for, protects at the diplomatic stage.And if you dare question it, and if you dare say, hey, there's something wrong with that, their actors here in the United States will spend millions to destroy your political career.This does not also, though, absolve the President of the United States who has decided to join forces with these two.

And so, man, I gotta tell you, I've been sitting in like a form of depression since Massey lost.

I didn't even like a lot of the stuff that he stood for.

I hated him for so many different things.It drove me crazy.but there's an iconoclastic element to him.He's not, honestly.Yeah, I mean, he is as a citizen.Yes.

But yeah, he's not, you know, I disagree with him on so, so many different things, but just his level of bravery to just kind of stand up and be like, yeah, I don't support this, actually.I have a well -grounded group of principals.And then, you know, to see the Cretan who replaced him, Gahlgren, you know.

Didn't debate, didn't do anything.

Didn't debate, nothing.And I think the most depressing element of it, Ryan, is that all those billionaires in conjunction with the president could convince however of these, you know, boomer Fox News people just be like, yeah, all right, he's right.It was like these AI ads.

That's the other crazy thing.There are all these AI ads that these seven billionpeople watched where he's walking hand -in -hand with Ilhan Omar and AOC with this like fake AI CCT video up to a hotel lobby.And then it shows him walking with AOC and Ilhan Omar into a hotel room while they're saying he's engaged in a thruple.Like we get sort of like metaphorically what they're trying to say.We know that it's AI.

If you're 72 years old, which is like half of the Kentucky primary electorate, sitting at home watching 50 of those on Fox News, you're gonna be like, oh, that's weird.I liked Massey, but I didn't know he was in a thruple.

It's disgusting, you know, the way that it has, and it honestly does make me like despair.I didn't used to, I've never, until very recently, I was never a blame the voters person.Now I'm like, I mean, what do you do?What do you do?Now, to be fair, The idea that this would have happened in a general election is bullshit.It was a closed primary.

They spent billions of dollars.They basically, you know, this was the hardest, sorry, millions of dollars, but it's the hardest of the hardcore kind of Republican base.They don't speak for all of us.So like, let's make that very clear.If he had made it to the general, he would have won overwhelmingly.There's no question about it.

But, I mean, you do have to say, it's like, wow, okay.I mean, look, the rules are what they are.Maybe we attack the rules.That's a fool's errand.I've been around long enough to see every election reform issue crash and burn.It just gets worse.

No, you're right.Actually, it's worse.There was all this pipe dream about ranked choice vote.It's nonsense.We all know it, right?Oh, third party, yeah, that works out real well, doesn't it?

On the other hand - We're stuck with the system that we have, and with that one, I don't know.I really feel despair.

It's possible that this murder was done so out in the open That it's like a George Floyd moment on the right like I don't think you guys have any ideathere and watched them put their knee on Massey for and Extinguished that life.It's political life and just did it in front of everybody maybe maybe Maybe it doesn't matter.

What did George Floyd do?

It brought out a lot of people into the streets and we actually didn't even get any police reform through Congress.

out making the Tel Aviv joke and driving everybody crazy.I loved it.I loved it.And then it just showed how, you know, the still, the pro -Israel bias and, you know, Jake Tapper being like, oh, that's not why Massey won.You're like, dude, I mean, even now.

They spent $20 million for fun.

Yeah, they spent $20 million for shits and gigs.That's what they did, Jake.

Barely, barely.

I don't know.Barely won.That's why I think pairing these two things together, you know, the Ben Gavir thing, like, this is what it's about, people.Like, this is, like, Miriam Adelson and these other people, they wake up every day and they're like, how can we protect?this nation.And then they spend their money here in the United States, which I guess is legal, in the Kentucky 4th District, and enough Fox News boomers, because Trump said so, they just come out and they're like, yeah, okay, let's do it.

That's the system we have.Is that even democracy?I guess, right?

Now for those concerned about the status of the 400 plus activists, I'm told by a spokesperson for the Flotilla that they're all being deported today, and it's a result really of of Ben Gavir's face plan here, that it appears that Netanyahu said, like, just get them out of here immediately.Like, get them back to their home countries.Because previously they kept them for up to, you know, days and weeks, a kind ofthem in Israeli prisons to try to prevent them from going.One of the authors, one of the co -authors of the piece that Dropsite, Noah Avishag -Schnall, is being detained and went again for Dropsite to cover this even after they brutalized her last time.Look forward to kind of hearing, well I actually don't look forward to hearing what was done to her this time.

At least it was shorter this time.One of the activists there is the sister of the President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, friend of the show, as some may recall.Let's roll the Irish President talking about that.

I'm very worried about her and I'm also very concerned about her colleagues.I've been very busy today.I've been in the Irish Community Center in Hammersmith, which was wonderful.magnificent display, and then I met with King Charles.I haven't really had a chance to get details in relation to my sister, and indeed, equally importantly, her colleagues.

I'm wishing the president's sister a safe trip back to Ireland.