Transcript [00:00] Melanie Phillips is an intellectual that [00:02] is unlike many others in that she gives [00:05] us big picture. She kind of puts the [00:07] dots together and helps us understand. [00:10] Listen, it's very hard to understand [00:11] where this world is going. Is Saudi [00:13] Arabia moving towards Abraham Accords, [00:16] right? And so therefore we're going to [00:17] have a new Middle East that gets [00:20] together Sunni states and Israel against [00:22] jihadism? Or is jihadism together with [00:26] the former Soviet Union and the Chinese [00:29] Communist Party? Are they together going [00:31] to erode the West in such a way is that [00:33] they're not going to be able to keep [00:35] their identity or fight back against [00:36] anything because they're going to be [00:38] totally lost in all the various colors [00:41] that emanate from blue, green [00:44] environmental, and green jihadi, and [00:46] rainbow, and communism? Which way is the [00:49] world going? Is it a Mamdani world or is [00:51] it a Rubio world? Let's listen to [00:53] Melanie Phillips as she gives us a kind [00:56] of picture, a snapshot of this world as [00:58] it is today before we go to her, don't [01:00] forget to help us and help yourself [01:03] build the land of Israel. [01:04] buildisrael.com. What a great website [01:06] name. buildisrael.com as well as [01:09] buymeacoffee.com/yeshay. [01:11] Get me a coffee. I need it. God bless [01:13] you wherever you are. Melanie Phillips, [01:15] what's the big picture? She starts off [01:17] first by talking about Britain and [01:20] Europe. [01:21] >> Britain and Europe meanwhile are [01:23] unwilling to go to war at all. [01:26] They dance to the tune of Kumbaya [01:29] liberal universalism, which means they [01:32] say all conflict must be ended by [01:35] negotiation and compromise even with [01:38] genocidal fanatics. [01:40] They say nothing has ever been solved by [01:44] war. [01:46] What do they think was going on between [01:48] 1939 and 1945, [01:51] one wonders. [01:53] Their belief in what they think of as [01:55] the brotherhood of man means they have [01:58] at home embraced multiculturalism [02:02] and mass immigration. [02:04] They've told themselves it is racist to [02:07] uphold their own historic culture over [02:10] anyone else's because the West was born [02:12] in the original sins of colonialism and [02:15] whiteness. So, they allowed in millions [02:19] of Muslim immigrants. And now their [02:22] societies are well on the way to [02:25] Islamization. [02:27] Now, let's be clear. [02:28] Many, many Muslims in Britain and Europe [02:31] pose no threat to anyone. They want to [02:34] live as British and European citizens [02:36] enjoying the benefits of Western [02:38] society. [02:40] But, huge numbers of them do not wish to [02:44] do that. They do pose a threat [02:46] whether through terrorism or their [02:48] agenda to Islamize the culture. [02:51] But, the political and cultural elites [02:54] in the West won't even admit this is [02:56] happening, denouncing instead anyone who [02:59] sounds the alarm as Islamophobic, [03:01] racist, or fascist. [03:04] In Britain, the result of this has been [03:06] a refusal, for example, to deal with the [03:09] infamous, mainly Muslim, rape and [03:12] grooming gangs that you've read about. [03:14] There's a willful blindness towards [03:17] jihadi preachers in mosques inciting [03:20] murderous hatred against the West and [03:24] against the Jews. [03:26] And the rise of sectarian Islamic Gaza [03:30] first politics with more and more [03:32] politicians in Britain nervously doing [03:35] the bidding of Muslims determined to [03:37] make Britain adapt to Islam. [03:40] The result of all this and more is that [03:43] Britain and parts of Europe are just [03:46] like the frog being boiled slowly in in [03:50] pot. And I'm afraid that parts of [03:52] America, I'm thinking of New York, shows [03:55] signs of following suit. [03:58] Now, since October 7, ecstatic Islamists [04:01] >> It's important to mention that since [04:04] this speech that Melanie Phillips gave, [04:07] the infamous Mumdani speech where he [04:09] says I I can't arrest Netanyahu legally, [04:13] but America should when he comes here [04:15] for the UN, [04:17] that speech, you know, hit [04:20] the social media and went around the [04:22] world. And you know, that's that's [04:26] the most Jewish city outside of Israel, [04:29] New York. [04:31] And now it's headed up by somebody who [04:33] is just like a overt, he's not covert. [04:35] Maybe that's his best part is that he's [04:37] overt and not covert. But he is an overt [04:40] jihadi and he's shifting the Overton [04:42] window against Israel [04:45] and and against Jews of New York in that [04:47] sense as well. [04:48] >> Who like the Iranian regime believe that [04:51] the final defeat of Israel in the West [04:53] is now at hand, have been spearheading [04:56] an onslaught on diaspora Jews. [04:58] But they have been supported by many [05:01] non-Muslims. [05:03] What's been so shocking is not just the [05:06] demonstrations with their chance to [05:08] murder Jews and destroy Israel. [05:10] It's that verbal and physical attacks on [05:13] Jews have redoubled even after Jewish [05:16] people have been viciously assaulted or [05:19] even murdered in Britain and other [05:22] Western countries. [05:24] What we're seeing, I'm afraid to say, is [05:27] that violence against Jews just excites [05:30] the blood lust. [05:32] No one, no one wants to hear about [05:35] Jewish victimization. No one wants to [05:39] hear about anti-Semitism. [05:41] All the guardrails against Jew hatred [05:44] have come down. [05:45] There's an attempt within the West [05:47] not just to get rid of Israel, but to [05:50] get rid of the Jews from their heads, [05:53] from their conscience, and from their [05:55] world. [05:56] It's emerged as anti-Zionism [05:59] because wall-to-wall falsehoods about [06:02] Israel's behavior, parroted by the [06:04] universities, the media, and the global [06:07] humanitarian establishment have framed [06:11] Zionism as evil and Israel as [06:13] diabolically monstrous. [06:16] And appallingly, these blood libels have [06:19] been framed as conscience itself. [06:23] In Britain, and increasingly in America, [06:26] too, courage now consists of supporting [06:30] the Jewish people and the state of [06:32] Israel. [06:33] So, is it all over? Absolutely not. [06:37] Much can be done [06:38] >> And before she gets to, you know, the [06:40] the the what can be done, I just want to [06:43] make the point that uh my good friend uh [06:46] who is out there in the front lines and [06:49] uh talks with uh with Jews and [06:51] Christians and and American folks, [06:53] American leaders, he says to me, [06:55] "Listen, it's an issue now that [06:56] everybody's got to have much more [06:58] courage, which is not an easy [07:00] characteristic trait to develop, and [07:02] places like churches now need to [07:04] consider whether they're going to create [07:06] a whole budget for guards and for [07:09] security because they're pro-Israel. And [07:12] the other option is just drop it. Just [07:13] drop your pro-Israelism." And and this [07:16] is a phenomenon that's happening. [07:18] There's more hats being worn by Jews to [07:20] cover up their kippahs. There are more [07:22] congressmen who are going to vote the [07:23] other way cuz they're being personally [07:25] bullied. Uh and that is a uh the [07:28] bullying is powerful. Standing up to [07:32] bullies means courage, but it also means [07:34] finances and other things that are [07:36] needed in order to to push back. You [07:38] need a lot of wherewithal [07:40] to push back against the well-funded and [07:43] loud and vociferous bullies out there. [07:46] So, that is the situation. Let's hear [07:49] some good news from Melanie. [07:50] >> against these enemies of civilization, [07:52] but only if one crucial thing is [07:56] understood. [07:57] These evil forces are strong only [08:01] because their victims in Britain, [08:03] Europe, and America are weak. [08:06] And they're weak because they will not [08:08] do what it takes to defend themselves. [08:11] Iran is not strong, [08:14] but America's many powerful weapons [08:18] count for absolutely nothing if it won't [08:21] use them. [08:22] If America won't commit itself to take [08:24] the pain involved in fighting for its [08:27] way of life, [08:29] then Iran wins. [08:31] And America won't defend itself properly [08:35] because it does not understand that when [08:38] it has an enemy as in the Iranian regime [08:41] that believes God is instructing it to [08:45] destroy America and the Jews, any [08:48] negotiation is viewed by them as [08:50] weakness and a way to manipulate America [08:54] into surrender. [08:57] To defeat Iran, America needs to end all [09:01] negotiation and fight through blockades [09:04] or kinetic war or boots on the ground [09:06] wherever necessary. [09:10] Britain and Europe could themselves [09:11] fight back by ending immigration from [09:14] the most troubling areas in the Muslim [09:16] world, banning the Muslim Brotherhood [09:19] and Sharia courts, and jailing or [09:21] deporting hate preachers in mosques. [09:24] Diaspora Jews should be able to fight [09:27] back by stopping, first of all, going on [09:30] and on about anti-Semitism. They should [09:33] start instead telling the West essential [09:36] truths that are never told. For example, [09:40] that Palestinian identity is a scam that [09:43] was invented purely to exterminate [09:46] Israel and steal the Jews' own history [09:50] in the land from them. [09:52] >> Amen. [09:53] >> be saying to the West that Israel does [09:56] as everything Israel does is in [09:59] accordance with international law. [10:02] They should be saying that it is the [10:04] Palestinian Arabs who [10:06] >> I mean, I wouldn't say that everything [10:08] we do is in accordance with [10:09] international law. That's not the That's [10:10] not the language I would use. I would [10:12] use the language of a lot of [10:13] international law today is being written [10:15] by the progressive the the red-green [10:17] alliance [10:18] and it's not really law, right? It's all [10:20] kinds of declarations by the UN which [10:22] are not law, but sometimes you have to [10:25] be like, I'm not going to listen to you [10:26] and there's a huge list of of countries [10:28] who are not part of the UN. I wish that [10:30] Israel wasn't part of the UN like Taiwan [10:33] is not part of the UN. Switzerland's not [10:35] part of the UN. Like I just wish that we [10:37] would just be like like what do we need [10:39] this thing for? What do we need it just [10:40] to just to be bashed over the head? And [10:43] I think here [10:44] she I'm not sure, you know, if I agree [10:47] with that language which is like to say [10:49] we're we're you know, we're we're [10:50] complying with international law. We're [10:51] complying [10:53] wherever it's real law and when it's not [10:55] law and it's just there designed to [10:57] shrink us and to and to and to injure [11:00] Israel and to destroy Israel, well, [11:01] we're not complying with that at all [11:03] because we have a more important law. [11:05] You could say you think probably I mean [11:07] Torah law, but there's even before that [11:09] there's this simple law which is survive [11:11] and push back on bad guys. [11:13] >> all the would-be colonizers and that [11:16] Zionism was the greatest [11:18] anti-colonialism movement of the 20th [11:21] century. [11:24] >> Hear, hear. [11:25] >> And they should also start telling [11:27] Americans in terms that the war against [11:31] Iran is a war to defend the West and [11:34] that they all in America depend upon [11:38] Israel to keep them safe in America. [11:42] Now, since October 7, Israel has fought [11:45] like a lion. [11:47] Its soldiers do so because they are [11:50] fighting for their people, which they [11:53] love. [11:54] Because they are bound in blood and [11:57] tears to their history, to their [12:00] culture, and to the generations who came [12:03] before them and fought and died to keep [12:07] the Jewish people alive. [12:09] Israel pays the heaviest price possible [12:13] of defending itself because its people [12:16] are determined to keep their nation [12:18] alive. [12:20] Their identity, their love of their [12:23] culture and their history and their [12:25] people [12:26] gives them idealism, courage, and hope. [12:31] Since October 7, [12:33] the Israelis have returned to their [12:36] historic Jewish destiny as a heroic [12:40] warrior nation. [12:42] Diaspora Jews themselves need to [12:44] identify as part of that warrior nation, [12:48] or else they will largely disappear. [12:52] Britain and Europe will not survive [12:55] their cultural death wish. [12:58] This week, I was horrified to see [13:01] America moved alarmingly to join them. [13:05] President Trump has not escaped the [13:08] Iranian trap as I think some of his [13:11] comments today [13:13] indicate he is well aware. [13:16] >> And these comments that Melanie's making [13:19] was before [13:21] the latest round of [13:24] violence, of American attacks, [13:28] bombardment of Iran, of Iranian [13:31] bombardment [13:32] of uh all of its Arab neighbors, UAE and [13:37] Bahrain and Jordan, including the death [13:40] of American servicemen and women. [13:43] And so uh she's still talking about the [13:46] issue of [13:48] Donald Trump a month ago, right? Who was [13:51] uh telling us that he's moving over to [13:53] sign a deal and he's going to uh you [13:56] know, recognize a certain amount of [13:58] uh [13:59] non-non uh weapons-grade nuclear [14:02] material uh and and basically trying to [14:05] cut a deal with Iran. Today, we're [14:07] already past that, but it seems that way [14:09] and in fact, as I'm recording this, it [14:11] could very well be that we are on the [14:13] verge on the eve of another very serious [14:18] round as armament and American ships are [14:22] moving back into the region poised for [14:25] yet another attack. So, that is uh [14:29] Melanie is concerned with Trump of a [14:32] month ago who seemed to be going into uh [14:35] that Iranian trap that she was talking [14:37] about. Uh but the bigger issues [14:40] uh of the loss of the West's identity, [14:43] the uh wholesale buy-in of the into the [14:48] Palestinian so-called Palestinian [14:51] narrative, [14:52] the uh old blood libels which have made [14:56] Israel [14:58] one of the most [15:01] moral in the sense that tries very hard [15:04] to care for individual lives, does not [15:06] strike, does not target, does not target [15:09] civilians, [15:10] uh and fights for its life after being [15:13] attacked. [15:15] And identifies the jihad for what it is, [15:17] uh [15:18] but in in the West, Israel has become [15:21] the [15:22] uh [15:23] the villain. [15:24] And that turnaround, that loss of [15:26] identity in the UK, in Europe, and some [15:30] parts of the United States, [15:31] that is what Melanie Phillips is raising [15:34] the alarm about. [15:36] Um the the darkness that involves Israel [15:40] is one that is scary in some ways. [15:43] But on the other hand, [15:45] there is a sense to me that the world [15:48] wants to go down into a deep dive of [15:50] into into a kind of [15:52] belief in nothing, [15:55] nihilism, [15:57] uh and succumbing to all the [16:00] various kind of, you know, [16:02] energies of of of submission that Islam [16:05] generates, [16:06] uh a kind of like, you can't do anything [16:09] about it, so just, you know, if you [16:10] can't beat them, join them type thing. [16:12] That's what's going on in the West. [16:14] Uh and yet, I believe that there's going [16:17] to be an awakening. There's going to be [16:18] a moment where people like, "No way. [16:20] This is not what I want." And I actually [16:22] think that the the pro-Israel people [16:25] should not give up [16:27] and should talk to those people and [16:28] encourage courage. Right now, we have to [16:30] encourage courage and encourage faith in [16:33] God, and remind people that faith in God [16:35] has always been a test. [16:37] And that's what it is right now. It's a [16:38] test. It's a test of, will you allow the [16:41] culture of nihilism, [16:45] and hedonism, materialism, [16:49] and godlessness to take over, or will [16:51] you stand up with courage and and call [16:55] out the fake god of jihad and the [16:59] godlessness of progressivism, and say, [17:02] "You know, if it's going to cost us more [17:03] money, it's going to demand more [17:05] courage, I stand strong." [17:07] And that courage will be rewarded. That [17:09] courage will be remembered. And that [17:10] courage will be recognized [17:13] by other people of courage, and of [17:14] course, by God, who's looking to us [17:17] right now to to see where we stand at [17:20] this moment, where we stood. And it's a [17:22] repeat of World War II. Maybe another [17:24] chance. Maybe another chance for so many [17:27] nations to say where do they stand. [17:29] Sadly, many nations are succumbing to [17:31] the wrong side, but I know that you are [17:33] strong out there. So, God bless you [17:35] wherever you are, and thank you Melanie [17:37] Phillips, and thank you for being part [17:39] of the strength of Israel. One of the [17:41] ways to strengthen Israel is to give [17:43] your blood, sweat, and tears to the land [17:46] of Israel and help build it. [17:47] Buildisrael.com [17:49] is the website we built for you. [17:50] Buildisrael.com and [17:52] buymeacoffee.com/yeshay. [17:55] May the God of Israel grant you [17:56] strength, and of course he wants you to [17:57] lead, and he'll be right behind you. [17:59] That's what he told Abraham. He told [18:01] him, "Walk before me and be whole [18:03] because I'm right behind you. [18:04] I'm giving you strength, but you got to [18:05] show courage. God bless you folks [18:06] wherever you are. Lots of love and lots [18:08] of blessings [18:11] from the land of blessings and shalom.
