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presi thank you very much for joining us
so good to have you with us Isa it's my
pleasure
all right um Rabbi pransky I'm going to
uh I want to I want to uh I want to ask
you a lot of things today about really
where the war is and where it's going
and and I also want to talk with you a
little bit about your the legal
perspective because there was this you
know case against Israel the case of
genocide against Israel but an amazing
video emerged just today and I wanted to
play this for you uh which is uh uh a a
South African City Congressman in
Johannesburg uh being before he goes
into the council chamber he made this
video explaining the challenges that he
faces there I wanted you to see that and
react to friends in South Africa and all
around the globe my name is Daniel Shay
and I'm a city councelor here in
Johannesburg South Africa behind me is
the council chamber where shortly we
will begin our first meeting of 2024 in
this chamber today I'll be confronted by
a mayor representing a Muslim party that
campaigns extensively on its extremely
anti-zionist thoughts I'll be confronted
by counselors from the economic freedom
f an extreme leftwing movement pushing
for The Cutting of diplomatic ties with
Israel and of course I'll be confronted
by the African National Congress the
party leading the Lous genocide charge
against Israel at the international
court of justice so some up I'll be
facing up against some of the most
prominent anti-c Mars in the world out
now these anti-c Mars are acting as
proxies for Iran they want you and me to
be ashamed of our heritage to hide our
beliefs and to silence our convictions I
stand here today to tell them straight
that they will never succeed I stand
here today proudly with my Kipper on my
head an Israeli flag on my tie and a
yellow ribbon on my chest I stand here
today and proudly say that I am a Jew
and I am a Zionist and at every single
Jew and every single Zionist around the
world should join me in celebrating our
beliefs and our heritage we will not B
to fear and oppression I pray for the
release of the hostages and for
deliverance from those who seek to
destroy us Shalom and I'm Israel
Kai all right Rabbi panski I want you to
know that right right after this he goes
into the chambers and they basically
call him out for wearing this like weird
symbol on his tie and he stands up for
it and then this this African lady gets
up there and she's like we have never
challenge people's rights to Religious
Freedom in this chamber and we will not
start now uh so just before we before we
get to where the war is at let's talk
about the legal war and this case
against Israel at the heg what do you
think Rabbi kalot to him for standing up
for Israel and his Jewish identity very
proudly we need more of that in the
world rather than to cower and hide we
should stand up strongly and proudly and
forcefully for who we are what we
represent after all we're the chosen
people and we shouldn't hide it we
shouldn't shy away from it we should in
fact declare to the world that they have
a lot to learn from us especially now
against our will but nevertheless how to
conduct Warfare in an urban setting and
it's only out the last week or so
ignored by the uh by his diplomats and
jurists in the heg the UN released a
report in 2022 lamenting bemoaning the
fact that the civili civilian casualty
rate in urban Warfare is 9 to1 meaning
for every one soldier killed in urban
Warfare nine civilians are killed in
Afghanistan the Americans were a little
more careful and five civilians Afghans
were killed for every one American
soldier in Iraq apparently they were
even more careful and four Iraqi
civilians were killed for what every
American Soldier well if you just
compute the numbers that even Hamas is
releasing about the total casualties in
Gaza and what Israel has said about the
number of terrorists who've been
eliminated in Gaza
the civilian to combatant casualty rate
is less than 2 to1 meaning Israel has
the highest record the greatest
efficiency in minimizing civilian
casualties in this conflict and Gaza has
the added
curveball of having much of the
terrorist infrastructure underground for
the first time in human history so
literally our soldiers are entering
places where they're in the dark aside
from the fuel and electricity we're
forced to provide to our enemies but
they're doing in such a way as
minimizing civilian casualties and
jeopardizing their own well-being it's
unprecedented in the history of the
world in the history of warfare and what
do we get for it this type of indictment
at the international Court of Injustice
it's uh obscene to add to the other
obscenities that we've witnessed in the
last three and a half months was it
right to was it right for Israel to
enter into that Court legitimize that
court or should have Israel skipped it
my good friend Eugene kovich argued that
we didn't have to be there in the first
place I think he's
right if I was making the decision I
think I would have gone only to give a
speech and said basically what I just
said now how this tribunal is the height
of hypocrisy and barring a page from Kim
Herzog at the United Nations in 1975 I
would have said my words taken their
indictment and torn it in half and
walked out because to actually engage in
some type of dispassionate analysis and
rebuttal of their charges is
demeaning but nonetheless they did it I
think the icj came up with an interim
decision that surprised many people in
that they didn't outright condemn
Israel they didn't call for a ceasefire
but they did leave the accusation of
genocide open for future discussion but
nevertheless it's probably better than
we could have hoped for on the other
hand it is meant to demean and is meant
to announce to the world essentially
that when when Jews defend themselves
there's something wrong with that that
Hamas and other Arab terrorist groups
and radical Muslims feel they have a
natural right to kill Jews but Jews do
not have a natural right to defend
themselves and take the war to the enemy
and somehow if the enemy hides among
civilians well then everything has to
end oh well we can't do anything about
it we have to allow our civilians to be
murdered and raped and mutilated because
now they're hiding among civilians of
course it's absurd no one else would
tolerate such a situation no one in the
history of warfare has tolerated such a
situation none of the wars going on now
elsewhere in the world not the wars that
America fought recently in this region
and certainly not the way America fought
World War II or the Allies fought World
War II you look at the bombings of Tokyo
and hoshima and Nagasaki just on the
Asian front and look at the way the
Allies conducted Mass bombings in
Dresden and Hamburg killing tens and
tens of thousands of German civilians in
Japan the tally was close to three to
400,000 Japanese civilians killed in
just the raids in those three cities
including the two atomic bombs and he
say what are we talking about about here
we're talking about yeah every life is
precious but it's a relative handful of
a population that I must remind your
listeners is not as innocent as they're
portrayed it's a civilian population
that hundreds if not thousands took part
in the Invasion on October 7th in which
they these so-called civilians voted
Kamas a terrorist group of genocidal
Maniacs into power in
2006 and therefore they're not even
titled they should not be entitled to
the same protections that ordinary
civilians are granted they in many cases
are
knowingly allowing themselves to be used
as human Shields and knowingly allowing
their homes to be used as bases of
Terror after all many of the shafts that
lead into these tunnels are found inside
the homes of these so-called civilians
not to mention the schools the mosques
and the hospitals so Hamas a depraved
group has violated every tenant of the
Norms of even civilized Warfare and
therefore I think we make a big mistake
in giving any type of legitimacy to an
IC J proceeding as well as paying a
little too much attention to the fates
of these not so innocent Gaza
civilians Rabbi pransky we were you're
talking about uh this institution which
it's it's the trick that it uses is the
um name and the international type of
Aura of of seriousness and serious
jurist Prudence it's it's got like a
kind of you know it's a kind of put on
right it's a kind of show um a similar
organization which even has more
damaging effect is unra an organization
that's dedicated to the refugee status
of um of the pal so-called
Palestinians and uh I I want you to know
that I learned what is the yearly budget
of unra the answer is
1.6 billion dollars
billion with about 30,000 workers so now
they've identified that at least 10 or a
little bit more of these workers were
actively involved in the October 7th
Massacre but Soldier friends of mine are
telling me that in every house that they
go into there are there is stuff from
unra from the poor to the super rich
there is like unra stuff unra uh is an
organization that's dedicated to
teaching two things one is jihadism I.E
hate of Israel but the other one is is a
term that I used on on on Twitter and a
lot of people picked up on it which
which a term maybe I created it it's
called refugeeism
they they've they've they're teaching
them The Narrative of Palestinian
refugeeism it's well known that it's the
only organization that's dedicated to
keeping uh a refugee population a
refugee population even to the fourth
generation an unheard of thing around
the world where where Refugee
organizations try to matriculate uh
refugees into into their host societies
um my question is are we going to
succumb to this thing or is Israel going
to wake up and be like that's it you
know we're not going to let this kind of
organization and we're not going to let
the you know faux Aura of international
uh uh legitimacy uh be the thing the
stumbling block that keeps us from
empowering keeps this organization from
being empowered in our land to teach
both jihadism and refugeeism let's start
with the original sin which is that
there is a US agency that deals with
refugees across the world only the
Palestinians have their own agency to
deal with them and like you say very
correctly unra has been a force for
destabilizing the situation for
perpetuation of the refugee status of
the Palestinians and at this particular
point it actually is not so much a wing
of Kamas but it is
indistinguishable from Kamas
you said there are tens of people it's
actually in the hundreds and the
estimate today of the
12,000 uh Gins who work for unra 6,000
of them are either members of Kamas or
related to members of
Hamas everything that unra brings into
Gaza falls into the jurisdiction the
nefarious hands of Kamas just the other
day even they admitted that
70% of the humanitarian Aid that for
inexplicable reasons Israel's allowing
into Gaza 70% is taken over by Kamas so
we are literally
subsidizing
electrifying feeding our enemy and
prolonging the war you ask will we wake
up and see unra as the enemy well I
should add that unra is not only limited
to Gaza unra has a very active and
deletar relationship in yusim in
Jerusalem in the holy city they run at
least six schools there and they fill
the minds of their students with Jew
hating ideology of Israel's
illegitimacy of the right that Arabs
have to murder Jews in any way they can
to the extent that you could see these
clips on the internet if they teach
their children that if an Arab has a
chance to kill a Jew of a Muslim to be
precise has an opportunity to kill a Jew
and he doesn't he's a bad Muslim well
this is unra related facilities I think
what Israel should do not only is Ban
onra from Gaza and from the entire land
of Israel but at this particular point
the
UN which is an organization that is
majority dictatorship and tyranny really
have no place anymore in the land of
Israel and their headquarters on the top
of the apply named Hill of evil Council
in yush in Jerusalem it should be
disbanded they should be expelled their
Diplomat should be deemed Persona nrata
and as Rabbi Warren Goldstein said last
week in a interview I the time has come
that the democracies of the world world
the 3540 remaining democracies in the
world that value freedom and morality
and human rights we have to band
together and form our own International
Organization because the UN is not only
flawed is
defective you we spoke about the icj a
few moments ago well the justices of
that Court are chosen by the United
Nations so you have people sitting on
that Court representing despots
representing dictatorships and tyranny
representing Injustice and yet they find
themselves in a nice black robe and the
the the strange white wig and they're
pontificating on matters of morality and
Justice which are completely beyond
their purview and which they have no
background for coming from the countries
for which they do yeah so if I was a
decision maker and I guess Israeli
citizens decision makers but what we
should be doing is urging our government
to get rid of unra to make the
Palestinian refugees as they're now in
the fourth generation like you said part
of the general
un Refugee organizational framework and
begin the process of getting rid of
every single refugee camp wherever
they're located in the land of Israel
because what unra is doing now it's not
a relief organization it's not a Works
organization it's a support of Terror
organization and that has to end and I
hope our government has the courage to
look Beyond far beyond what has become
the norm the status quo the default
position and start thinking out of the
box how to change the situation
completely that's true in Gaza it's true
in Judea Samaria God's land and it's
true as well in regarding unra we have
to change the narrative they no longer
have a place here and nor does the
United
Nations so we've now talked about two
external organizations coming in from
the International Community uh we're
talking about the icj judging us we're
talking about unra teaching jihadism and
refugeeism but jihadism exists also
within our very
knesset and I want to show you a video
of Iman UDA who is the head of the joint
list uh he's a cessant member in our
knesset getting paid a handsome
salary uh and uh I actually know exactly
where he's from because he's actually
born in the same Village uh of kifa that
I'm from and I know his broader family
as well which are though some of the
luckiest Arabs in the whole Middle East
living in one of the most beautiful
parts and getting great educations and a
great life and Beautiful Homes um but
this Iman UDA is a bad seed and he's
speaking here in Hebrew there's
subtitles I'll translate a little bit
right after as well but if you just look
at your screens you'll see uh what Iman
UDA said in the knesset I don't know if
I'll play the whole clip but I'll play
part of it for you Rabbi uh let's take a
look
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all right so basically Iman UDA is
yelling from the podium and he says the
occupation is not only it's an
occupation it's your stupidity and he
says uh look at Janine uh everybody's
going to join the Jihad against you uh
and uh he says the proud Palestinian
people standing up against Israel and
against the United States uh and he is
um you know he is being the spokesman
for the so-called resistance right uh
and to some extent I I must say
admirably so say he does he does a good
job uh and in general I think the
Narrative of the uh quote unquote
Palestinian uh is is has has traction in
the world it has a lot of traction
because it's a very simple and and
understandable narrative occupation you
guys are stealing somebody else's land
we're the brown or black people we're
the indigenous people you guys are white
colonialists and that's really the track
you guys are foreigners you have nothing
to do with this land you've taken over
our land and I saw an awesome awesome
graphic and when I say awesome I mean I
respect it of course it's my enemy's
graphic but I respect ECT that's just a
general principle of mine which is to
respect the enemy um an awesome graphic
where where it was like an AI generated
graphic and you see these tanks and jets
coming at you know this this again quote
unquote you know an an an Arab quote
unquote Palestinian fighter and his feet
are these roots in the ground and he's
standing up against this a massive
Onslaught and the the legs are like
these like tree trunk Olive roots and it
was just a powerful graphic and so
there's Iman UDA uh getting so we were
talking Rabbi panski we were talking
beforehand about external organizations
but from the very within and within our
very knesset stands stand these people
who really claim to be these
representative of righteousness but but
they are nothing but a front for the
Jihad but you know how do you explain
how that that that exists within Israel
I was in the Kessa today on other
business and I saw IM and UDA walking
around freely he's able to speak his
mind incidentally I walked past the door
that said no entry unless to authorized
Personnel I heard screaming at the other
on the other side of the door and then I
realized that's the knesset plenum so
they were in session and they're just
all yelling at each other he walks
around freely because this is a
democracy I dare say that in any other
Arab country if he found himself in
opposition to the government policy he
would not be walking around so freely
there's no doubt that exploit the fact
that we are democracy and look they're
citizens and they have the right to vote
for their
representatives a few points should be
mentioned though poll after poll say
that polls of the Arab Arab Israelis
that if in fact we ever succumb to utter
foolishness and allowed a second
Palestinian state to be established you
know the two-state illusion 90% of Arab
Israelis would rather remain in Israel
under Jewish sovereignty then move to
that Palestinian State because they know
that life is good here and yet they are
infected with this jihadist mentality
with a radical Muslim
ideology that dictates that there is no
room in the Middle East for a Jewish for
that matter any type of non-muslim
sovereign presence so in that sense they
are they would vote against their own
interests they would rather live with
Jews in a Jewish State than live with
Muslims but you'd have to take it to a
step further of course when he's talking
about occupation he's not talking about
janin which is not under occupation
anymore you know janin the audience
should know is under the jurisdiction of
the Palestinian Authority the PA so if
in fact they wanted to liquidate the
janin refugee camp and build them
permanent housing there's absolutely
nothing stopping them but the reason why
they don't do it is to perpetuate this
victim mentality that the life is
against them the Jews are against them
and the Jews took their land well now
they're living on the land and they
could just as easily build themselves
housing and get jobs other than the
production of rockets and missiles to
shoot against Jews that they don't is
because you have an entire entity that's
only devoted to one purpose and that's
the eradication of the state of Israel
and the extermination of every Jew
living here but I would add one point
while he exercises his freedoms and
speaks about occupation and now we're
foolish not to accommodate them we
should be saying again and again what's
obvious to any historian a Palestinian
so-called Palestinian presence in the
land of Israel is barely a century and a
quarter old they are a new phenomena in
this part of the world it's a contrived
identity that only arose to counter the
Zionist movement so therefore I've
issued this challenge many times in the
past name a Palestinian writer from the
19th century name a Palestinian scholar
from the 18th century name a Palestinian
artist from the 16th century name a
Palestinian uh cleric from the 15th
century they don't exist as a post to
the Jews we have a presence in this land
since we entered with Joshua of thir
almost three thou more than 3,000 years
ago we have a constant presence be 32
and a half centuries ago we have a
constant presence in the land of Israel
you want me to name Jewish writers and
Scholars and artists and thinkers and
authors from the 19th 18 17 16 15th
centuries and before that who lived in
the land of Israel I could do do it in
an instant but you can't do it for the
Palestinians because they didn't really
exist so the more they cry and Shout
about the occupation and how we took
their land
Etc the more any person who has the even
a a basic knowledge of History knows how
false it is and the louder they yell the
more their claims are suspect and easily
repudiated and that's a we should be
doing and our government does not always
do that and you have even now in Israel
it's much less than before this
flirtation with the two-state
illusion we have to end those thoughts
because they don't want a second state
they don't want a state they want to
destroy us and we just look back in our
history the last I was just thinking
today on my way back from the Kessa that
I started coming here in the 60s even
though I don't look that old I started
coming in the 60s and then I remember we
told do not watch for boxes on the
street even coins might have bombs in
them the refrigerator bombs and in the
70s they progressed to more
sophisticated bombs and they started
with shootings and then they started the
stonings and the shootings in the 80s
and the 90s and the O's became the era
of more and more shootings on the
streets and suicide bombings and bombs
on buses and Pizzeria and shopping malls
and then in the teens that's or the late
O's that's when they start the Rockets
and the missiles when are we going to
learn the basic lesson they don't want
us here they just want to kill us and
they've done it in many many different
ways since I've been visiting since I
was a child in the 60s they don't want
this here to give them as the foolish
Americans say why don't we just reward
Kamas and give them a St they don't want
a state they want to destroy us and once
we recognize that we'll be a stronger
Nation for it I think that ideology will
pervade our political system except for
The Fringe elements and we'll know how
to deal with our enemy who praise every
day for our
destruction Rabbi step pansy thank you
very much for your clarity it's good to
hear from you hope that you're were
successful in Kess it we got to move the
dial here a little bit we got to use
this War uh to move the dial to to to
kick to kick the kind of to kick the
situation in a different way a little
bit to get people out of the ziness so
one way
Al we read in the Torah this
week God says to us I will make you into
a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
what's a holy nation a holy nation is a
nation that's devoted to sanctifying
God's name in everything we do certainly
in the military but in every aspect of
life we should be involved in
sanctifying God's name and therefore I
think one mistake we have to stop making
that our politicians have made since
time immemorial is looking at the
resolution of the conflict somehow in
terms of how will we ensure our security
because that's a Fool's errand there
will always be people in the world
saying okay they'll disarm they'll
demilitarize we'll send in international
forces to protect you if we make that
the reason the justification for our
possession and residence in the land of
Israel it's counterproductive we should
make our residence here based on only
one phenomenon and that is it's God's
land and God gave us this land in the
Bible and he promised us that if we're
unworthy we'll be exiled
and yet at the end of days or before the
end of days he will restore us to this
land that's why we're here not because
we need a Haven or Refuge we're here
because God gave us this land and
promised us he will return us to this
land at the end of days that's the
argument we should be employing call it
God's narrative call it keep God's land
that is Kush Hashem that is sanctifying
God's name and that is the Mandate that
we received in this week's Torah portion
will be a g kados a holy nation a nation
devoted to the sanctification of God's
name
amen Rabbi thank you so much for being
with
us uh of that that Israeli Soldiers made
of themselves being tough guys being the
beautiful awesome the good uh the badass
uh and the awesome Israeli soldier let's
take a
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go okay so that was Israeli soldiers uh
um showing their toughness uh and their
cuteness and a little bit of humor is so
so needed at the same time uh as that
we're dealing with all of this we need a
little bit of humor