12/27/23: Israel Declares “7 Front War,” Assassinates Top Iranian General

videos of potential war crimes. We have a new report from the Washington Post comparing this level of destruction in Gaza to all other wars this century and finding that already in just this comparatively short period of time, this surpasses the brutality and destruction of anything that we have seen this century. They've got maps and data to prove that,

so I'll show you that as well. We've also got some new data coming out of Israel about just what Israeli Jews want to see in the quote unquote day after spoiler alert. It's ethnic cleansing, and clearly this is also what their political leaders are pushing for as well. Well.

And lastly, we've got this is a huge development, Israel allegedly assassinating one of Iran's top generals, doctor Tresa Parsi, had a really important thread breaking down what this could mean, what Israel could be pushing for here, and of course this sparking concerns additional concerns of a potential regional war which would certainly directly pull in the United States of America. But I wanted to start with a viral Christmas message from a reverend in Bethlehem sharing his thoughts on what

is happening. This is Palestinian Reverend month or Isaac preaching in Bethlehem on December twenty third. Let's go ahead and take a listen to what he had to say.

something wrong with your humanity. And if we ask Christians are not outraced by the genocide, by the weaponization of the Bible to justify it, there is something wrong with our Christian witness and we are compromising the credibility of our gospel message. If you fail to call this a genocide. It is on you. It is a sin and a darkness you willingly embrace. Some have not even called for a ceasefire. I'm talking about churches. I feel sorry for you.

We will be okay. Despite the immense blow we have endured. We the Palestinians, will recover. We were rise. We will stand up again on the midst of destruction as we have always done as Palestinians. Although this is by far maybe the biggest law we have received in a long time. But we will be okay.

powerful country in the world, aiding in a betting these crimes, shipping weapons, providing diplomatic cover, providing rhetorical cover. You know, doing this, playing this game of pretending like Joe Biden and co. Are really concerned about civilian lives, which is, you know, at this point, just a ruse to try to buy Israel even more time to commit the atrocities that they've been committing. And I also wanted to share with you the Pope with some similar language, I would say,

calling out the horrors of this war. And he has been very unspoken throughout this war, including calling some of Israeli's actions terrorism and certainly calling for an end and a ceasefire and end to the bloodshed. This is per Reuters, as posted in Haretz. Pope Lament's war in Holy Land on solemn Christmas Eve put France's lamented war in the Land of the Birth of Jesus on Sunday, where Christmas Eve brought only fresh bloodshed and an intensification of fighting

across the length of the Gaza Strip. Tonight, he said, our hearts are in Bethlehem, where the Prince of Peace is once more rejected by the futile logic of war, by the clash of arms that even today prevents him from finding room in the world. Palestinian Christians, they say, earlier held a Christmas vigil in Bethlehem with candlelight hymns and prayers for peace in Gaza. Instead of the usual celebrations, there was no large tree, the usual centerpiece of Bethlehem's

Christmas celebrations. Nativity figurines and churches were placed amid rubble and barbed wire in solidarity with the people of Gaza. And as I had mentioned before, the Pope's most recent comments, as far as I'm aware before this had been with regard to the IDF killing of two Christian women, a mother and daughter, who were sheltering at a historic Christian

church in Gaza. They were walking I believe, to use the bathroom at the convent, and an IDF sniper took them out, and those were the actions that the Pope referred to as terrorism. So he continues to speak in grave terms about what we are witnessing here, and there's a good reason for that. It appears that we may have just seen the most deadly stretch of killing yet since October seventh, since Israel began their assault on Gaza. This is per Al Jazeera. Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, killing

two hundred and fifty Palestinians in twenty four hours. More than one hundred people have been killed in Israeli strike on the Magazi refugee camp with families still trapped in rubble. Let me read you a little bit of this they spoke to, or they are recording the comments of a woman, a bereft woman on Monday at that refugee camp, saying, my entire family is gone. All five of my brothers are gone. They didn't leave me any brothers, all of them.

Palestinians lined up to touch the shrouded bodies of those killed and Israeli strikes on the camp in a funeral on Monday, commemorating dozens of people who were killed, many of them women and children, and Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza said the figure has now reached more than one hundred. The government media office in Gaza said seven families were wiped out completely in that Israeli attack on a residential square in the camp camp. One of those residents, Zaiyad Awad,

told Al Jazeera the Israeli army doesn't spare civilians. My child said to me, help me, what's happening. I can't breathe. And of course we're all very well aware of the unbelievable toll in terms of civilian deaths in terms of women, in terms of children. That's another way in which this conflict stands out from all others. And you know, when you cover this, when you care about this, you always get these questions of like, oh, why are you so

focused on this? There are lots of terrible things happening in the world. And that's true, lots of terrible things happening in the world. But even with that being said, on the level of starvation, on the level which I'm about to show you of the destruction of buildings, just total, you know, turning the whole landscape into a moonscape or

a parking lot, destroying all kinds of civilian infrastructure. This is the worst this century, and certainly in terms of the number of children killed, which is significantly over ten thousand kids killed at this point. This is like nothing else that we have seen in recent history. And then you add to that, as an American citizen, the fact that you know, when you're sending in your taxes here in the new year, they are going for some of these two thousand pound bunk or busting bombs that have

been indiscriminately dropped all over Gaza. And there was a report I don't have the element here for you. But you know, another many tons of weapons and AMMO just being shipped by Biden to Israel. So all of their you know, supposed concerns about civilian life. I know we've been having these tough conversations. Total and utter nonsense, Total and utter nonsense. So let me show you. And this is this is very disturbing, but I think it's important, if you're able to bear it, to see some of

the video that is emerging. We talked before about reports of summary execute We also talked previously on breaking Points about how they were rounding up civilian civilian men, stripping them naked, posting pictures of there were you know, utter humiliation. Even Israel admitted after those roundups that most, the overwhelming number of those who had been you know, rounded up, strip naked and humiliated in this way, that they were civilians.

So we have another video that has emerged here that I want to share with you may go ahead and uh and pull this up. And this The sound is not important on this one, so I'll keep it low. But take a listen to those so you can see here these in some instances children, I mean, if you look closely at these pictures. You see men and you see little boys who have been rounded up, hands on their head. They're using a an empty uh soccer field

or football field to conduct these masked attentions. This is from Rami Abdul with Euromed monitor and they have a report about alleging these war crimes and documenting some of the summary executions. What he writes here is field executions and massed attentions. Alarming footage of Israeli forces turning a stadium in Gaza into a massed attention camp. The video shows the detention of hundreds of civilians, including women, elders

and babies. Euromed monitors confirmed that the Israeli forces are carrying out field executions against civilians in Gaza after forcibly removing them from displacement centers and stripping them. So that is what you are watching in this horrifying video. And they have, as I said, they have pulled together a report that they have submitted to un Rappertours and the ICC prosecutor. This is a primary report documenting dozens of

field execution cases in Gaza. Read a litle little bit of this to you and a primary report submitted to you on special Rapperturs and the prosecutor of the ICC euro Met human rights monitors documented dozens of cases of field executions carried out by the Israeli Army and the Gaza strip. The Human Rights Group requested an immediate investigation into these crimes, calling for the perpetrators to be held

accountable and for justice for all victims. If you read through this, they have documented multiple instances of what they describe as crimes and liquidations. You can see the dates here and some of the details that they have submitted with evidence in order to start an investigation hopefully and

some accountability. Hopefully. Wouldn't hold my breath on any of this, because the truth of the matter is, I think, after what we're seeing unfolding here, with the active participation of the United States and with US providing diplomatic cover, etceter like, any idea that human rights war crimes that any of this matters, I just don't know how you sustain it.

And we are truly back to, you know, pre World War two period, and that comes out in Natan Yahoo's rhetoric of course, where he says, oh, well, you know, we're not doing anything different than what the allies did and what you all did in terms of World War two, and anytime anyone says that, remember, first of all, there is actual data to show that the level of destruction Goza now surpasses what we did in places like dressed In that were synonymous with mass civilian casualties and destruction

of civilian infrastructure. But second of all, there's a reason why after World War Two we put in place things like the Geneva Conventions so that civilians would face some level of protection and so that we wouldn't have the horrors unfolding again that we saw in wars like World War two. So but all of that completely completely out the window. So let's talk about this, you know, fake conversation about what is going to happen on the day after.

Of course, US officials, oh, we want the Palestinie authority to come in and then we want a two state solution, completely ignoring that Netanyahu is adamantly opposed to that. Has been clear that he's adamantly opposed to that, has been bragging about how he is the reason why there is no Palestinian state, has been bragging that he is the guy to continue to prevent such a state from taking hold.

And now we have just the latest indication of many reports that you know, we've tried to bring you, that he knows what he wants on the day after, and it is ethnic cleansing, he said in a lacud meaning today, according to a Hebrew Israeli outlet, that he is actively working to ethnic transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. And as this person rightly indicates, similar statements have been made by other ministers, but none of them had direct involvement in

war policy. Now we've got it coming straight from Netanyahu, and it should be seen as a statement of intent. And I saw others saying that, hey, listen, you know we should be asking every US politician and every media figure at this point, every analyst what they think about this potential, you know, ethnic cleansing of Gaza. We know bb net Nyahu has talked about us. He's pushing his senior aid to come up with plans to quote thin

out the Gaza strip. We're seeing all of this incredibly dystopian language, framing this in humanitarian terms, and the game here is very clear render all of Gaza uninhabitable, which frankly has been a project years in the making and is just vastly accelerated by this current assault. Northern Gaza is already uninhabitable, unlivable sea water being pumped into tunnels,

which is rendering the aquifer unusable, further compromising. It is already the case that the overwhelming majority of Gazans had no access to clean water even before this, you know, destroy all of the civilian infrastructure. That was the game with Al Shifa, which was you know, a beating heart of Gaza civilian life. So you know, destroying all of that, making it so no one can come back, and then saying, oh,

the humanitarian thing to do is to relocate people. We know that there was a plan that apparently has some bipartisan support to use US eight dollars to pressure regional countries including Egypt and others, to accept hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees. And make no mistake about it, this is the direction that Israel is going to push in. And you know, the longer that this goes on, the more of Gaza that is rendered completely uninhabitable, the more

likely they are to succeed. And using this, you know, just the ultimate gas lighting of language, claiming that it is humanitarian to engage in this final ethnic cleansing of Gaza. And by the way, there's also a reason why net Yahoo outside of his ideological commitment to this outcome over a long period of time, but guess what, he's also fighting for his life. And this is the outcome that

is extremely popular among Jewish Israelis. Eighty three percent of Israelis courting Jewish Israelies, we should say, according to this new poll, support the expulsion of Gaza's population under the label quote unquote voluntary migration. That's again the you know, gas lighting or Wellian term that they're using for this voluntary This person opines as in leave Gaza or die by starvation, air strikes, diseases, bullets, or under an IDF bulldozer Well said, sixty eight percent. You can see this

this pole that was shared. It's the words are in Hebrew. Obviously, sixty eight percent are extremely supportive of this genocidal proposal and fifteen percent, I presume are moderately supportive. You add those together, you get the eighty three percent who say yes, yay, ethnic cleansing. So that's what we're looking at here. At the same time, we have some dramatic developments in terms of Israeli actions, possibly sparking a wider war. Let me

put this up on the screen for you. This is incredible. So a top Iranian commander assassinated in a reported Israeli airstrike, Iran warned Israel will pay for the killing of say Ed Rozi Mussavi, senior military advisor known as a close companion to the assassinated General Costom Solomani, senior advisor in Iran's Revolutionary GUARDCORE, killed an Israeli airstrike outside the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday's according to Irani and state media.

Three security sources later confirmed say Ed Razzi Musavi's death. Two Reuters around State Television interrupted its regularly scheduled program to announce Massavi had been killed. The were reported in a Revolutionary Guard statement read on the air as a brigadier general and one of the Guard's most important figures in Syria, responsible for coordinating its military alliance with Iran.

He was also described as a close companion to Costum Soul of Money, the top Irani in general who led the Guard's elite could's force until he was killed in a US air strike in Iraq in January twenty twenty. Undoubtedly the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said in Monday's televised statement. According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, this action is another sign of frustration, helplessness and inability of the occupying Zionist regime.

No immediate comment from the IDF, but it is widely expected and understood that Israel was probably behind this assassination. Israel, they say, was bracing for a response by Iran on its northern front. The Jerusalem Post report later on Monday, citing local media reports. I will also add to that there were some comments from Israeli Defense Minister Yoev Galant saying we are fighting a war on seven fronts, seven fronts,

and we have taken action on six of those. So this could be one of the fronts that they're referring to there in which they've taken action. We also have the US, separately, you know, ramping up attacks on these Houthi related suicide drones. I think that we shut down a dozen of them. That comes as they've been essentially blocking shipping through the Red Sea, and it's taking a huge toll, especially on the Israeli economy, also partly on

the global economy in the US. Has marshaled this new coalition of the willing to try to restore the ability to traverse that shipping lane. Wanted to read for you what doctor Parsi had to say about this Israeli assassination alleged of that top Irani in general, because I think he lays out what they could be up to here, what the intent could be, and also what it could mean going forward to If you bear with me, I'm going to read through this. He says some brief analysis

and that this assassination was presumably by Israel. Bottom line, Israel either killed Massavi as a warning to Iran, given Tehran support for the Houthi's targeting of ships in the Red Sea, as a provocation to beget an Iranian response that would give Israel a pretext to enlarge the war, or as a preparatory move to enlarge the war regardless

of Iran's response. It goes on, it's very likely Israel's behind the assassination of Massabi, since it is the only power with both a motive and capacity to pull off such a killing, not to mention a long history of assassinating Iranian operatives. The US has the capacity, but not necessarily the motive. The analysis below us on the rather

safe assumption that Massavi was assassinated by Israel. US intelligence believes that Iran has been actively involved in the Huthi movements targeting of ships in the Red Sea, which has effectively closed the Bob Almandab straight for Israel and costs the Israeli economy billions of dollars. The Huthis insists they will continue the attack despite threats of retaliation from the US, until Israel ceases its bombardment of Gaza. Israel, of course refuses,

Biden is loaths to press Israel for a ceasefire. From Israel's perspective, Iran is not paying a price for its alleged role in the Red Sea attacks. The assassination may, as a result, be a warning to Iran that Israel's capacity and willingness to exact a price from Iran, even in areas where the Iranians may have presumed they are safe,

so that scenario number one. In a second scenario, the assassination may be a deliberate provocation to beget an Iranian response that would give Israel the pretext to enlarge the war. So in this second scenario that he envisions here, this is an attempt to intentionally draw Iran into this war, sparking a wider regional war, he says, will the Biden administration has given Israel complete green light to bomb Gaza to Smithers. Biden opposes an expansion of the war sinceuff

could likely drag the US into it. The debate inside the Israel government is increasingly leaning toward expanding the war. They've already mobilized three hundred thousand plus troops. There's growing belief in Israel it simply is intolerable for Israel to live next to Hesbela. They thought they could manage the threat from Hamas, and they couldn't. Even though it was

not Hesbela that attacked Israel in October seventh. The Israeli argument is that next time it might be Hesbela, and as a result, Israel has no choice but to expand

the war. But unless there's an attack from Iran or Hesbla itself, the US may continue to oppose such a move, and we have seen is Israeli's the Israeli government floating this sort of trial balloon of oh Hesbela is violating this particular UN resolution as if they care about any other UN resolution only when it is convenient for them, and trying to shop that around as like a pretext

for potentially more directly attacking Hezbela itself. Of course, they've already been skirmishes in that region already, he goes on, the assassination of Musabi may cause Iran to retaliate against Israel via Hesbela, the reasoning goes, and Israel can then use Hesbel's action as a pretext to not only expand the war Lebanon, but also force the US to go along with it. Lastly, he said there's a third explanation.

According to Amwajh Media, Mussavi was in charge of facilitating the entry of Iran led forces and arms shipments to Syria as well as Lebanon's Hesbelah movement. If Israel intends to attack Lebanon, taking out Massavi could be a logical first step to disrupt the arming of Hesbla as well as its supply lines. As such, the assassination may be a preparatory move to enlarge the war regardless of Iran's

response to the killing of Massavi. So in the second scenario, it's the intent is to trigger some sort of vitalitary response and launch a broader war. Here it's to enlarge the war regardless of whether Iran responds in a provocative manner. All of these scenarios, he says, point to one undeniable reality.

As long as Biden refuses to pressure Israel to accept a ceasefire, in GA's attentions in the region will continue to rise, and the Middle East will gravitate towards a regional war that very likely will engulf the US as well. May think he can control these events that allow Israel to slaughter the people in Gazawak, keeping a lid on the escalation risk. He is likely wrong, and the American people may soon find themselves and yet another unnecessary war

in the Middle East because of Biden's strategic incompetence. And I think that lays it out incredibly well the dangers that we are facing and the potential risk of this broader war, and also lays out the very real possibility that Israel is actively courting this broader war. And as I said, previously, we already had them sort of workshopping this and trial ballooning this with regard to a wider war.

There have even been comments coming out from top officials, perhaps even including net Nyaho if memory serves, saying that after the war with Hamas is finished, then they want to move on to the war with Hesbola. Now, of course, the reality is this hasn't been a war with Hamas. It's been a war against the civilian population in Gaza. It's been a war intended to provoke a quote shock among the civilian population in Gaza. It's been a war on the civilian infrastructure in gazamm about to show you

that as well. And it has been a war with the ultimate intent of complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. There were comments made previously. I don't know if you guys recall this. I'm pretty sure we covered it on the show, saying, hey, we could turn Beirut into Gaza. We could do the same things in Lebanon that we're doing in Gaza. So if that isn't a threat against civilians, I don't know

what is. And we also have those reports from multiple human rights organizations and confirmed by the Washington post of white Phiosophus already having been dropped on civilians in Lebanon, in southern Lebanon in contravention of the rules of war. So a lot to be very very concerned about there. Lastly, just to put things in perspective and kind of tie things together with where we started about the big picture. What we are all witnessing unfolding before our eyes here.

Oh no, I'm paywalled. Is the utter destruction, the utter destruction that is unlike anything that we have seen this century. So they compared the washingmtposts compared in this report that I'm paywalld from. Sorry guys. They confirmed that they looked at the satellite data and the number of buildings that have been destroyed and damaged. They compared it to Raka, They compared it to Aleppo, they compared it to Mosseil. These are considered the three most devastated cities in bombings

that have occurred in this century. And they found that in just seven weeks time. Because this data is a little old, so this doesn't even take into account recent bombings week's time. This assault on Gaza has been more devastating, just in sheer numbers of buildings destroyed, damaged than any of those conflicts to come as no surprise when you consider the fact that you have this AI driven what's

being called mass assassination factory. Doesn't come as a surprise when you know nine seven to two magazine is reporting about these quote unquote power targets that Israel is intentionally going after to create that shock in the civilian population. Power targets or things like high rise apartment buildings. They are things like hospitals, other public civilian infrastructure. Gaza City, of course basically leveled now, I mean just utterly destroyed,

completely uninhabitable. And also when you consider things like previous reports we've talked about the number of two thousand pound bombs that have been dropped here, the fact that half more than half of the bombs that have been quote

unquote dumb bombs not targeted. And when we were fighting in Mosul, which was incredibly devastating to civilian life and civilian infrastructure, certainly our military, which has hardly been a paragon of perfect moral warfighting, determined that five hundred pound bombs were the absolute macs that you should be dropping in this sort of dense urban environment, and in Gaza routinely.

Israel is dropping two thousand pound bombs that we, the United States of America, continue to provide them in spite of all of our oh the civilians, Oh bomb a little nicer. Oh maybe wrap things up in the new year at some point. Bullshit, bullshit. All of that should be seen as attempting to buy some cover to enable Israel to continue this bombing longer, longer, when already again in just the first seven weeks, more destructive than any other war this century. So that's where we are, guys.

Appreciate you as always. You know, obviously this news is incredibly dark, I do want to say, because I always think him a lot about this over Christmas, in the holiday myself. We are seeing the worst, absolute worst of humanity, seeing things that you know, I hoped had been consigned

to pages of history books. Clearly they hadn't been. But I also think about, you know that, I think about the popees being out, I think about that reverend that I played in the beginning his comments, and I really think about the courage of you know, the doctors and nurses in these hospitals in Gaza, working in the most unimaginable circumstances. Sacrificing their own lives, putting their families lives at risk, to try to care for people as best

they possibly can. I mean, I literally can't. I can't imagine being a doctor nor situations, let alone a war zone, let alone the most destructive warzone in this entire century. Just absolute heroes. I think about the journalists, more than a hundred of whom have been killed, many of them intentionally targeted for assassination, and their family members as well, The risk that they are taking to show the world

what is happening here. Just absolute heroism. And I think about just the ordinary people trying to survive, just trying to keep it together and get day to day and find a little bit of food so their kids don't starve to death. I mean, over half a million people now starving in Gaza. There's a lot of human bravery, human heroism here as well. So in any case, love you guys. I hope you are enjoying some lovely holiday time, that you are safe and enjoying some blessings of the

season with your family and with your loved ones. And I'll make sure to keep you guys updated if anything else needs to be brought to you take care