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Peter King Former U.S. Representative from New York

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Speaker 1 What is today is a former Congressman Peter King, and he is very upset about what the heck is going on in Israel in Palestine with Hamas. Congressman King tell us, so give us an update on your thoughts.

Speaker 2 Yeah, John, I have found this whole situation when Hamas brutally attacked Israel, killing civilians for the sake of killing civilians, men and women, children, kidnapping people, taking hostages. This was all terrorism from beginning to end. Israel is a victim.

Israel is obviously going to fight back, not out of revenge reading retaliation, but to remove Hamas is a threat to their people, to the Israeli people going forward, and all would talk after the first couple of days. Everybody felt sorry to Israel in the first day or two just then, though you see in the media the concern

is more about is Israel going to go too far? The house India is going to be treated. What exactly is Israel’s strategy? You know, this should be like if after World War after Pearl Harbor, at beginning of World War Two, if they asked fr FDR was he going to ask for a cease fire? Asked FDR was he

going to overreact against Japan, or asking Churchill and FDR if they were going to overreact against Sutler, and then going street by street in Germany to see how many civilians might have been killed, how many buildings may have been destroyed. And we saw early also earlier in the week when a hospital was blown up, which was a tragedy,

and immediately the media ran with the story that was probably Israel, and that was based on Hamas reporting. And then when the intelligence comes out, it’s basically obvious that it was a Hamas rockets. It was one of their own rockets which destroyed the hotel, that excuse me, the hospital.

So this is to me, we have to get a moral straight here. There’s no moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas, just like there was none between the United States and Hitler, but the United States and a hero hero in Japan.

And we have to check the fact that there is right and there is wrong, there is good and there is evil, and right now, there’s no doubt in my mind and it shouldn’t be not any doubt in anyone’s mind that Israel is on the side of rights, is on the side of evil, and there’s more involved here.

Than just Israel. I mean, this is the you know, the Middle East we’re talking about. We’re talking about Hamas is just a tool and a weapon of Iran, as is Hezbala is controlled by Iran, and this is an attempt by Iran to gain control of the Middle East, become more of the world power, and ultimately be it

threats to the United States. This is and yet we have university presidents and students and people out there demonstrating in behalf of the palest Indians, in behalf of Hamas against Israel. I must say have been a personal pride.

I’m glad that not the name. And a number of other universities signed on with Yeshiva to basically say this is a very basic issue, that Israel is right, Mars is wrong, and all people of good conscience have to stay with Israel. But there’s so many other schools. We’ve seen it, whether it’s Harvard or Congressman down the lists.

Speaker 1 You know, and there’s so much turmoil on that accongressment. Almost everybody realizes that the only people capable of giving him those weapons and giving them the money. And to me, it looks like that Iran hired a bunch of thugs, gave them guns, gave them, gave them probably paid them each five ten thousand dollars apiece for their families, and

they said, go ahead, Yeah, here’s the guns, here’s the money for your families, going there and kill Israelis. And I don’t know if there was five thousand of them or ten thousand of them. And one of the challenges they have is they go and hiding into Gaza where there’s two million Palestinians, and who knows how many of

them are are supporters and how many of them are just working people. How do we get those five or ten thousand or twenty thousand and kill the heck out of them.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and I agree that Hamas is like an agent here or frontman or a gang hired by Iran. This is Iran is the driving force behind all of this. Hamas wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Iran. And Hamas would not have risked this type of attack on Israel if it didn’t believe that Iran was standing behind it,

just like with Hezbala, which is up in the northern part in Lebanon. So no, this is Iran, and it really it bothers me that President Biden almost never mentioned to I ran say, first of all, he said, there’s no conclusive proof that Iran is goodness. Meanwhile, it never stopped the Democrats from saying that Donald Trump was an

agent of Russia when there was no evidence. Here. You have overwhelming evidence that Iran is behind this, and the administration is, you know, seems totally reluctant to say that. I think it’s because they made a big mistake early on and Biden administration when they decided to try to get close to Iran, get back into a nuclear deal

with Iran, restricting the embargo on Iran and now allowing him to sell a lot more oil, bringing them billions of dollars. And then in addition to that, you have the six in the six million that they gave back to Iran.

Speaker 1 Congressman the other day we spoke about it. Iran was never supposed to produce more than four hundred thousand battles a day. The Trump administration had him under restrictions. In all of a sudden, you blink your eyes and they’re producing right now three point four million bottles a day, and they’re making two billion dollars a week in extra

cash and you know where that cash goes to terrorism.

Speaker 2 Terrorism, Absolutely you shouldn’t do.

Speaker 1 Biden administration have some responsibility towards that.

Speaker 2 I think they’ve a major responsibility for it. And when I said before the six billion went to array, now they’re saying it’s being held. The fact is they had, they were able to use that they had, they’re able to say they have the six billion dollars coming in to improve this their economic status and just show the

whole mindset of the Biden administration. Now, I think John, they have tremendous responsibility unfortunately for even the attack because again say right about Donald Trump, nobody attacked Israel when Donald Trump is a person Sarla Mayne who was killed by Trump, a Russian never attack you, we get down lost.

China never spoke about attacking Taiwan. And yet as soon as Joe Biden came in and the way he pulled out of Afghanistan, how he said mixed signals on so many different issues, and how listen he’s snubbed then Yahoo last month during the un uh General Session in New York that yeah, was one of the only world leaders

who was not invited to the White House of the top world leaders. President Biden refused to have that Yahoo come come to the White House, so he was putting up difference between a distance between himself and that Yahoo.

He was getting closer and closer to Iran, and that’s when Iran felt that it could take the risk of having Hamas attack Israel. And so it was brought on to me. Any type of weakness when you’re dealing with a country like Iran, friendship is weakness. Any attempt to have a reconciliation is weakness. And that’s what they saw.

They show weakness here and her boss took advantage of that was encouraged by Iran. They went in and right now is also waiting and it was I’m sure watching this carefully when it comes to a red at Taiwan.

And also John President Trump for the Abraham Accords. And even before that with Bill Clinton, you had Jordan was now coming close to Israel, even the Saudiast you’re talking about coming close to Israel. You had various countries in the Arab States signing agreements with Israel. And now when President Biden went to meet with that Yahoo this week,

the Egyptian president, the Udordinian president, the head of the House Indian authority. They all declined to meet. They cancel their meetings. From President Biden, so well, the Middle East is unraveling and going the wrong direction.

Speaker 1 The Congressman Peter King, I think we have to wait and see and see how things developed. And thank you for coming on this Sunday morning, and we’ll catch up again real soon.

Speaker 2 See it’s tomorrow night, John. Take you

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