Israel Lobby, Gaza Genocide & America’s Endless Wars – Green Beret Unloads | Ep. 266 | Pt. 2

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of this explosive conversation, former Marine turned Green Beret and Afghan-American warrior Kawa Mawlayee goes even deeper with host Mike Ritland. What starts as a discussion about post-9/11 wars quickly spirals into some of the most raw and controversial territory ever covered on Mike Drop: the real reasons behind the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, the overwhelming influence of pro-Israel lobbies (AIPAC, ADL, Christian Zionism), the shrinking map of Palestine from 1948 to today, why Arab nations won’t take Gaza refugees, Holocaust/Zionism historical claims, the military-industrial complex, Ukraine as a money-laundering proxy, and why America keeps fighting endless wars that don’t serve American interests. Kawa pulls no punches on Gaza (“modern-day Nazis”), the Nakba, the deliberate creation of Israel, Jewish Bolshevik history, the Scofield Bible’s role in Christian Zionism, and how the same forces destroying Palestine are quietly eroding American sovereignty at home. At the same time, the two veterans bond over their shared combat experience, the Marine-to-Green-Beret pipeline, coming full circle returning to Afghanistan, and whether America can ever claw its way back to the country they grew up in. If you want a conversation that refuses to stay in the safe lane – blending war stories, geopolitical red pills, and uncomfortable truths from someone who’s lived on multiple sides of these conflicts – this is it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I guess two things. One, you know, to me it's, for me at least, it's, I would say, disingenuous or impossible to separate, you know, all of Germany or Nazi Germany's action in World War II and to just focus on trying to negotiate with England via bombing versus the entire Eastern European multiple fronts of
0:24.0	sweeping through and doing what they did.
0:26.8	Like, you know, to me, I don't think you can discount that.
0:30.5	Also, to be fair, though, there are a lot of places all over the world that have similar
0:35.4	scope of atrocities taking place, even as we're sitting here right now,
0:39.9	that we're doing absolutely nothing about. So I don't think you can just separate the two,
0:45.8	but I do understand what you're saying. I guess my point was, World War II, from my perspective,
0:52.6	is the last time that America, I would say, in terms of once involved,
0:59.0	irrespective of, you know, because it would take, we could spend the entire, you know,
1:04.0	podcast talking about whether or not we should have done any of these things.
1:07.0	Right, right.
1:08.0	But once you are there, of seeing it through in a manner with which it
1:11.9	feels like the outcome was worth the expense on on all fronts and we haven't done
1:18.7	it since it seems like you know going Korea Vietnam I mean the first Gulf
1:24.2	War Panama Grenada Somalia the Balkans I mean like I first Gulf War, Panama, Grenada, Somalia, the Balkans.
1:29.3	I mean, like, I can't think of an outcome where it was like, yeah, we made the right call.
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.3	I am curious, if you were to put yourself in George Bush's position on September 12th, what would your reaction and response have been to 9-11?
1:46.0	I mean, I think I would have gathered like our best, you know, fighting force that we have at the highest levels and given a very specific task, you know, to go in there and take out bin Laden and that's all you really need to do as far as
2:02.2	bin Laden goes now dealing with the 19 hijackers and why we didn't deal with Saudi Arabia
2:07.8	specifically I don't get boggles my mind so it's hard to answer the rest of that but
2:13.9	George Bush I think I mean look the guy was pretty smart he's not he
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