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We interviewed Sen. Rand Paul on Counter Points today, as the Kentucky Republican is making the rounds to promote his new book on the origin of Covid-19. I also asked him about comments he made a few weeks ago on Fox News, when he said, “Let's let Israel do what they need to do, which is to have a punishing response to the people in Gaza to say no more, we are not going to let this happen.”
Now that the punishing response has indeed punished the people in Gaza, I asked him if he stood by that comment and whether he believed it was time for a ceasefire. He offered a long response, but one that warned Israel of the possibility that its ongoing assault was doing it more harm than good. “This is ultimately a judgment that Israel will have to make, whether or not the disruption of the Hamas chain of command is now sufficient, or whether they go on, because you are right, as more civilians die in Gaza, not intentionally, but as they die in Gaza, there is always the question, are ten new terrorists created for every civilian that was killed,” Paul said. “There always is the question of blowback.”
We also discussed my story that fact-checked the Gaza Ministry of Health’s casualty data, and found that even though it is controlled by Hamas, if anything, it undercounts the scale of the slaughter.
We also covered a chilling TikTok trend in Israel, in which Israelis capture Palestinians, blindfold and cuff them, and then bop to a song and upload it all to TikTok. Even kids are getting in on the horrifyingly dehumanizing trend. We also talked about the massacre at the Jabalia refugee camp, which Israel bombed yesterday, following it up with a new round of bombing in the past few hours.
Next week will see elections in Ohio, Maine, Virginia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and we went over what to watch for there.
Below are links to today’s show. Last week, our entire show was taken down from YouTube because a click farm in Indonesia claimed to YouTube that they own the copyright to a C-SPAN video, which of course they do not. But YouTube responds to those types of complaints by taking things down and figuring it out later. Obviously, that’s not ideal for a news show. Hopefully that doesn’t become a pattern. Either way, here are this week’s links:
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