The billions of dollars that went into Gaza were largely used by Hamas leaders to enrich themselves

to build an incredibly elaborate terrorist infrastructure throughout Gaza.

A misconception was Hamas' leadership were happy with just being corrupt.

The terrible hand of Iran is behind Hamas and Hezbollah.

Iran has absolutely no compunctions about sacrificing every single Palestinian to the cause.

What possible response could Israel have except to roll over in what submit? That's not an option.

An army that fights by the laws of war, which the IDF does, the civilized army seeks to minimize

civilian casualties.

When an army like that encounters an army that not just desires death for its enemy,

but desires death for the people it purports to govern,

this thing of the ecstasy in bringing death.

It's a death cult, a cult that literally worships death.

Hey everybody, so I'm talking today to Douglas Murray, who just wrote this book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization.

That's this. We basically walk through the book chapter by chapter. It's relatively short book, although it doesn't lack in intensity. What happened? October 7th when Hamas invaded Israel. What I saw, Douglas's account of his sojourn through Israel in the aftermath of the catastrophe. How the world turned.

We discussed the protests primarily originating on university campuses, much to their eternal shame.

The disconnect, the fact that the propaganda exercise and what would you say the zeitgeist of the West was such so that Israel was demonized

almost immediately after the attack for daring to defend itself. And then Douglas's conclusion,

from defeat into victory. Well, that's where the conversation got a little bit more theological,

possibly, an inevitability when talking about the existence of good and evil.

We discussed Douglas' observations that the Israelis have been very successful at

pushing forward a truly pro-life, pro-abundance ethos,

and the consequence for their thriving,

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