Iran Just Created a New Hell in Israel | Max Blumenthal

0:00 Uh Netanyahu >> maybe he wants a vacation with his wife and his crazy kid, or maybe he's going to ask for Trump to ask for a ceasefire again. >> No, he's not asking for a ceasefire. This is what I know. Netanyahu is concerned that Donald Trump will somehow find an off-ramp. And so, right now, he needs to keep the media posit. They need to keep hyping up Operation Epstein Fury as this great success as Trump gets deeper and deeper into the quagmire and begins authorizing ground troops, probably under Kurdish cover, which we can talk about in a second. The last thing Netanyahu wants is for Trump to authorize another ceasefire before he accomplishes his goal of uh Iranian state collapse. That's pretty much the

0:47 goal here. Okay, tell us this is it's a claim. You sent it to us, you've seen it, of course. It's a clip from former defense minister Benny Gance. Chris number 20. >> Do you think eventually there will be a need for boots on the ground? >> I would not exclude it for those reasons or other, but we'll have to see how it goes forward. >> And will that include Israeli boots on the ground, do you think? >> I I exclude nothing. uh we've been waiting for 47 years and uh we came to a point with every every necessary mean should be taken in order to achieve our goal. >> It's a message to Donald Trump. >> Well, it should be a message to every US service member about who's actually calling the shots here. You have the Israeli defense minister declaring that he can't rule out on the ground. Who is

1:34 he to determine whether there are American boots on the ground? Well, he understands that they have Donald Trump under their thumb and that when they determine and that they are determining when Americans fight, where they fight, and how they die. And as I've said before on your show, uh we can go back weeks and weeks. There is nothing that Netanyahu and the Israeli military intelligence apparatus that Benny Gance represents than dead American soldiers in a bloody costly ground war because it will guarantee a US presence in the region fighting Iran and uh calls for revenge from the United States in what is now a very unpopular war. So, Donald Trump, if you look very carefully and

2:20 take a granular detailed look at Donald Trump going back to I don't know uh the height of his campaign which was which could have ended it Butler, Pennsylvania, he was campaigning as a president of peace. He was denouncing regime change wars. Even Pete Hegsth had denounced regime change wars. And then there was this strange turning point where after Butler, Donald Trump was being fed phony reports by Israel that Iran was actually behind it. In fact, Netanyahu declared that Iran was behind the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump during a Fox News interview one week before Trump first bombed Iran with Operation Midnight Hammer. They've been figuring out a way to get into Donald Trump's

3:06 head after getting into his bank accounts and fueling uh his campaigns with Miriam adds money. And now, as Netanyahu has declared in Hebrew, his 40-year plan has been realized through Donald Trump. So, Israel's been dictating entire campaign, keeping Donald Trump on the straight path to war, encircling him with Israel aligned advisors and handlers like Susie Wilds and Marco Rubio and Pete Hegath. And now the moment has arrived and they've duped him into believing that there was this easy solution where if he took out the Ayatollah who was sitting in his office. He wasn't running and hiding like Netanyahu runs and and hid on the campaign trail after Butler taking decoy flights to hide from supposed Iranian hitmen. The Ayatollah was in his office

3:52 and Trump was told if you just bomb him, it will Iranian people will come out and overwhelm the IRGC and you will have a Venezuela style solution and you will choose the Persian deli Rodriguez and it completely failed. It radicalized and electrified the Iranian public. There are now millions of people in the streets of Iran every night chanting against the United States Israeli Epstein coalition denouncing this war, declaring their resistance, declaring uh victory or martyrdom. And the only way for Donald Trump to either lose fa Donald Trump either has to lose face and quit or follow the Israeli agenda of constant escalation all the way to a

4:37 ground war. the Israelis knew that was the path he would take as soon as he authorized the Ayatollah's liquidation. And Donald Trump has uh now opened the gates of hell. I don't know which way this war is going to go, Judge. I'm not going to make some bold prediction about the war, but I can pretty confidently predict that Donald Trump's administration is going to go down in flames. Um, a fascinating clip just a few hours old. NBC News with the on this topic the Iranian foreign minister Chris number 15. >> Are are you afraid of a US invasion in your country? >> No, we are waiting for them. >> You you are waiting for the US military to invade the ground troops. >> Yes, because we are confident that we

5:24 can confront them and that would be a big disaster for them. So you're saying that that Iran is ready and willing to take on the US military if there were to be ground troops? >> Well, we were ready for this war uh even more than the previous war. So you can see uh you know the quality of our missiles how much they are upgraded after the last war because we learned lots of lessons and we are prepared for any other eventuality even you know a ground invasion. So our our soldiers are prepared for any scenario. I when I said that we we are waiting for them, it didn't mean that we are waiting for for continuation of the war. No, but we have prepared ourselves to to confront with any scenario with any eventuality, any

6:10 possibility and we know that we can >> the uh wax museum sculpture men's warehouse host seemed very stunned there by that response. I don't know who he was. >> They're all the same guy. But it's like that's the attitude in the Trump administration, too. Uh is uh you know, why wouldn't we just have a cakewalk all the way to Tyrron if we send in ground troops? Uh they don't seem to understand that this pl strength that tens and tens of thousands of besiege volunteers will sign up to confront them directly. that those people that are chanting in the streets don't want their country to fall to the Epstein coalition and will confront them directly. They don't

6:55 understand they they they they are playing the USIsraeli coalition right now is playing to its one strength which is air power. But once it goes to the ground uh this the dynamic changes. >> Uh you had professor Mirandi on yesterday. Ask him about the battle of Kuramshar when Iran recaptured a city from Saddam Hussein's forces and what that took. Ask him about the battles he fought in. Uh Carbala 2. Iran lost tens of thousands of men in this battle to try to penetrate Iraqi uh defenses, barbwire tanks, artillery. He was in a frogman brigade. He lost many of his uh friends and brothers in that brigade as they attempted to get all the way to Basra. Iran has taken so much bloodshed

7:43 and they understand that the US was backing Iraq. They the way they see it is they were actually fighting the CIA, the MI6, the entire empire when uh France when they were going up against Saddam Hussein. And since then they've been preparing for this confrontation. So, can the US lose as many men as Iran lost in the Iran Iraq war? Can they take that? Are are is the American public as ideologically invested in this war? Iranians. Do you see Americans with American flags in the street cheering on Trump's war? No. All you see are bands of Persian Gusanos with monarchist flags and often Israeli flags uh doing the YMCA dance looking

8:30 completely unrelatable. That's the domestic constituency for Trump's war is a bunch of angry expats and a small mostly hermetic immigrant community. So once the the US soldiers start to die, as the American public wakes up and takes the giant red pill that this is a war for Israel, Donald Trump, the political bottom will completely collapse from Donald Trump's coalition. >> What happens if the CIA arms the Kurds? >> They already have armed the Kurds. They've armed Kumala. They've armed Pjac. Kumal, I should say, is the pronunciation. Who cares? I mean, you know, they're just like these small >> Max. I would not know if the pronunciation was correct. >> Well, it doesn't matter. It's like no one's going to No one's going to these

9:16 small little bands of guerrilla fighters are uh no one really understands what what the Kurds want. They keep getting uh supported by the Americans and abandoned. It's important to go back to, I guess, last month when the US abandoned the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces, which was just like uh the Kurdish YPG in uh northeastern Syria. And they couldn't stand up to the uh rag tag band of Ahmed al- Shar's Syrian army that had taken Damascus. They were completely routed because they just do like they can do hit and run attacks, but they can't actually hold territory. uh when they fought with the US in Koban against ISIS, they were hailed as these heroes and these brilliant fighters,

10:03 they were just uh relying completely on US air power there and the US didn't want to send in ground troops for political reasons. So, it's the same thing here. The Kurds will just serve as a Trojan horse for a US ground war. We're witnessing another Vietnam scenario where advisers will come in, US advisers to help the Kurds on the ground, special forces teams will be honeycombed among them. And then as the Kurds start to kind of melt away, it will just be a US ground invasion. This is what Trump is doing to deceive the American public and to deceive his base into thinking there won't be boots on the ground. But it's just a Trojan horse. I'm going to guess you were not surprised that the War Powers vote uh Senator Federman the only uh Democrat to

10:51 vote against it. Senator Paul was one of the sponsors of it, the only Republican uh to vote uh in favor of it. How mindless can the Republicans be? How terrified can they be of his threats to primary them? That they have no ability to see the absence of justice, the absence of constitutionality in this. We've gotten to the point where Congress doesn't declare war. It ratifies wars that presidents have started and that just expands and expands and expands presidential force. >> And that's the purpose of the Senate. I mean, these are slavery era institutions that were hardwired into the American system to guarantee the consolidation of

11:39 the upward transfer of wealth and the constant authorization of imperial wars going back to the US Mexico war. These are anti-democratic institutions that prevent reform like the Supreme Court and uh that and and so it goes well beyond this vote. But the Senate is there for this precise vote. The Senate is an undemocratic institution that gives the same amount of representation to sparsely populated resource extraction states like Wyoming and Alaska as it does to uh diverse, densely populated, productive economic centers like California and New York and Illinois. So this was not a vote that

12:24 represented the American people. It was a vote that represented uh the Epstein class. The American people are solidly against this war and no amount of propaganda is turning that around. And it's so, you know, it's also illustrative of the uh foreign influence scandal that's unfolding before our eyes that John Federman was the lone Democratic vote in favor of this war. you know, he falls into some kind of coma, goes into Walter Reed because he's depressed, and he comes out as though the Mossad had hacked his brain, and he is the subject of Israeli foreign influence. Uh, and he's not going to be able to run for reelection. He's unpopular among Democrats in his own state, not popular enough among Republicans. His angle is he's going to

13:10 quit and do exactly what Eric Adams did, which is open his bank account to Israel First billionaires and live comfortably after serving Israel in Congress and authorizing the deaths of untold Americans for Israel's war on Iran. Oh, why would uh the American military blow up a ship nowhere near the battle area unarmed with uh offensry and containing not sailors but dignitaries. >> There was no we no weapons on this ship. >> Right. This ship had participated in a military a naval parade in India and joint exercises. It was in international

13:57 waters very close to India and very close to the coast of Sri Lanka and the US was looking for a spectacular psychological victory after the first stage of the war had failed to achieve regime change and Iran hit back hard at US bases all across the region. for just basically a soft target and carried out a c a a a sickening war crime that really shows how little ethics actually exist within Pete Hegsth's pentagon. I mean, you see Pete Hegsth up there at the lect turn at the uh s I should say the war department in his slim suit. this dry, drunk former Fox News host who uh ran a a coke sponsored organization

14:43 to reduce benefits to veterans as his main uh experience leading up to the Pentagon. And he's practically masturbating to war, declaring that the US will reign death and destruction all day long over the people of Thrron. So this for him was a psychological win. He wanted to demonstrate that the US is sadistic and ruthless and doesn't follow any rules of war and to humiliate Iranians. But what it has done is unleashed a diplomatic scandal because the Indian government of Hindu supremacist Narendra Modi has not said a word about this taking place. And many suspect that India actually lured the Iranians into this exercise and sold them out to the US and Israel after this

15:30 dramatic and deeply disturbing meeting between Modi and Netanyahu in which India promised $10 billion of weapons purchases from the Israeli defense or arms industrial complex. Why? So, so that's why he they can't say anything. They are part of the Epstein Empire that is to extend all the way through Iran into India if this regime change war succeeds. And now there's a crisis in India. Mod's opponents are disgusted by this. Uh and uh you know it raises questions about whether these kind of naval drills can be held in the future in India. How uh destructive to Israel has the Iranian Tel Aviv in particular

16:16 has the Iranian counteratt attack been? >> Well, we we don't know because of official censorship and if journalists are being arrested from uh CNN Turkey, for example, I think a Russian journalist was arrested. CNN uh the our our US CNN correspondents refused to show a missile uh impact because of official censorship. It means the damage is far worse than we understand. Israelis are observing the holiday of porim in shelters and at the same time they believe that they have successfully suppressed Iranian ballistic missile launches and will soon be able to come out of the shelters and resume normal life. The Israeli stock market actually

17:04 surged after the war began. Why is that? when other stock markets were plunging uh were falling into volatility because of the closure of the straight of Hormuz for example because Israel's stock market and the Israeli economy is based around a model of volatility through war and genocence Israeli defense stocks are now surging because investors believe they can get a quick uh sort of quick sort of final solution to Iran and then take all of the uh new uh military tech, surveillance tech, AI that's been used in this war as well as the bombs and export them as field tested. However, if the war carries on

17:52 for several weeks, as it looks like it will, I think you're going to start to see Israel's uh economy start to spiral again as it as it did during certain po points uh during its assault on Gaza where its bonds were downgraded. So, this really uh is a question of uh of of timing and the Pentagon is now letting it kind of leak out into US media that this war could last into September. It started with a two like a two to four day war then the Pentagon said it was going to go for two to four weeks. Now they're saying to September. >> Wow. Day to which you just referred. Poor him. I mean, it's, you know, for secular or more uh assimilated Jews like

18:38 myself in the US, it's sort of like Halloween. >> Oh, okay. All right. >> But it's I mean I mean for religious nationalist Jews who Netanyahu caters to. It has aidal undertones particularly if it's it's misinterpreted. Um, essentially, you know, it it it it celebrates the triumph of the Jews through a Jewish queen who married a Persian king who is considered kind of like a leerous character who abandoned his wife for Esther. And then she uses her ws and her charms to convince him to uh save the Jewish people and foils the plot of the

19:24 evil Hmon, you know. So So you know on porm we eat hamashin which are shaped like Hmon's uh threeed hat. >> This sounds like something I would expect to hear. >> Well, exactly. And so when Netanyahu reads from the book of Esther with Idomar Bengir directly behind him as he did yesterday, Netanyahu is someone who may not even believe in God gave him the land, it says something. It says that for him, this is a religious war and this holiday, the way it's observed in Israel is very different from the way that like it was observed in my circles in the US. It's part of a springtime season of mass indoctrination in which the Israeli public is sent into this sort of spiritual religious nationalist

20:11 cycle in which the Persians start out as the enemy. Then there's a Holocaust memorial day where the whole nation has to stop and listen to a siren signaling uh observance of the Holocaust. You know, the Europeans were the enemy. And then uh uh I you know you have Memorial Day when you observe the deaths of all the soldiers who have fought in all these wars. And then finally so-called independence day which was the beginning actually of the Palestinian Nakbo when Israel was free and Israelis go out and have barbecues and many of them go to like a place called Canada Park uh which is just outside Jerusalem. Uh it's a forest and with lots of recreation places that was built by the Jewish National Fund on top of three Palestinian villages that were

20:56 ethnically cleansed in 1967 when Israel commenced its occupation of the West Bank. Uh and it's a totally unnatural forest with pine trees that come from Europe. And and so that that we're in the heart of the indoctrination season in Israel and this war is being interpreted as a religious war. Everyone in it like the vast majority of Jewish Israelis support it. There was a tiny anti-war demonstration. Uh young man named Idomar Greenberg who's a rare Israeli anti-ionist was brutally arrested along with a few of his friends. These demonstrations are not allowed today in Israel. And they're imposing this war on Iran during Ramadan. So in Iran, the war is increasingly known as the Ramadan war. A

21:43 war when civilians are being slaughtered and placed under the rubble during their own uh very spiritual moment. >> Blumenthal, you're unbelievable, Max. Thank you. Your knowledge is so >> Well, this is what we've lived through uh especially since 9/11. It's just like we feel it feels like we're in this endless cycle, but now the mask is lifting and we can see what's behind it. >> Thank you, my dear man. Stay well, stay safe, and uh we look forward to seeing you next week. Thanks a lot, judge.