Discussion on Gaza Conflict and Humanitarian Aid

These guys have been fighting for how many years now, right?

Okay.

Uh, Hamas still exists and they still have it.

The Israeli Defense Force didn't just bring in one shipment of ammo

and hold onto

it in the center of Gaza and fight off that one shipment of ammo,

right?

They're constantly refitting and refilling.

Now, if you go over to my X account and you go search from September of last

year,

you'll see where I posted pictures.

I went over to the COGAT site down at the Kerem Shalom Border Crossing, and I had a

conversation with the COGAT OIC that was down there, the officer in charge.

And I told him, "Listen, uh, there's no way that just drones

are flying over the

Egyptian border and dropping off rifles to keep this going.

There is one point, right, in which you can fit

that much contraband through in

order to keep these fights ongoing." And you'll see it where I posted

ammunition,

explosives, precursors, all sorts of crap, uh, that got pulled off these,

like, humanitarian aid trucks. And just the week prior, you had, like,

over

25,000 pounds worth of crap that was being shipped in via humanitarian aid.

Um, and those, those photographs are geo-located and they're,

they're tagged.

So that humanitarian aid was being shipped in that way,

and that's why Hamas is

stealing and grabbing it, right? And so you've got-

Mm-hmm

... to have, like, some sort of a better control system so

that you're not doing

that. Um, and again, aid is flowing, right?

Is using, is shooting live ammo into, into the crowds of people waiting for

food,

was that necessary also?

So that's something that we actually went over very in-depth,

and I have a very

long and big article-

No, I'm sure you do-

... over there. Anthony Aguilar-

... but that was also necessary

... hold on, hold on. No, no, no. Hold on.

Anthony Aguilar even admitted that the way they went about, like,

conducting the

crowd control to make sure that that food didn't get issued out

was something that

they had to sit down and actually discuss for a very long

period of time on, how do

we do this? Because at the time, like you said, they had closed off the

humanitarian aid, and then you had the UN saying

that they are on the brink of

famine, or famine is occurring or about to occur.

At the time, I forget, because o- one moved to the other very rapidly.

So they moved GHF in very, very quick.

In order to build up, like, food distribution sites of that scale

and nature, you

would want some very serious security measures in place.

And so they had an option.

Their option was either, A, let's get this food in there

and risk the lives of the

men on the ground, um, versus, B, let's take our time

and build these things up

completely, um, and that way we're completely

and totally secure-

And risk the lives of the, of the hungry-

But you're talking about months down the road

... Palestinian civilians.

Right, but you're talking about-

No, you said, "Risk their lives"-

... months down the road. And so what they were doing-

... to fire live ammo. Would you be comfortable-

Right

... with that if it was your child?

And so what they chose... Hold on.

If it was your child-

Hold on. Dave Smith, calm down

... desperately waiting for food, would you be okay with that conversation?

Calm down, Dave Smith.

Would that decision be made?

Calm down, Dave Smith.

No, answer the question.

Calm down, Dave Smith. You don't, uh, listen-

I, I mean, I'm listening to you going on-

... number one, yeah, I'm comfortable with the decision being

made

... to defend the indefensible.

I'm not. I'm actually explaining to you how things

work in a war zone, seeing as

how you've never been to one. And you might not like that answer, Dave,

but it is

an answer.

It's, it's not-

And this is the reality on the ground

... it's a non-argument

And you still haven't addressed my question.

It's nothing. It convinces no one.

It's not a non-argument.

It's nothing.

Okay, comic Dave Smith-

You might as well just make sounds

... you ready? Okay, comic Dave Smith-

Make, make an orange one.

Okay, you ready? Okay, comic Dave Smith, how do you solve that situation?

Yeah, okay.

If you don't wanna hear my information-

You don't, you don't fire live rounds-

... comic Dave Smith-

... into civil- into hungry-

Okay, so how do you resolve it?

You don't fire live rounds into hungry civilians.

Okay, so-

Would you? Why don't you answer my question?

Oh, so you don't do that.

I answered your question first.

So you allow them to come-