Netanyahu Wants a 9/11-Style Probe plus DHS Offers $3,000 for Self-Deportation
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
1. Netanyahu’s Push for an Inquiry into October 7 Attacks
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposes an investigation into the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks, comparing it to the U.S. 9/11 Commission.
- He advocates for a bipartisan committee (half coalition, half opposition) rather than a Supreme Court-appointed state commission.
- Opposition parties refuse to participate, calling the plan a “whitewash” and demanding a fully independent inquiry.
- The commentary criticizes political exploitation of victims’ grief for partisan gain, drawing parallels to U.S. debates on gun control after mass shootings.
2. U.S. Immigration Policy and Self-Deportation Incentives
- The Department of Homeland Security offers $3,000 holiday stipends to encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport voluntarily.
- Since January, 1.9 million illegal aliens have reportedly self-deported, aided by the CBP Home app.
- The policy is framed as cost-effective compared to forced deportation and linked to economic benefits like higher wages and lower housing costs.
- Includes anecdotal stories of migrants choosing self-deportation for family stability.
3. Government Waste and Rand Paul’s Festivus Report
- Senator Rand Paul’s 2025 Festivus Report exposes $1.6 trillion in waste, including:
- $1.2 trillion in interest payments on national debt.
- $13.8 million for beagle experiments (infected with ticks, denied pain relief).
- $5.2 million dosing beagles with cocaine and meth.
- $14.6 million for monkeys playing a Price Is Right-style video game.
- $1 million forcing ferrets to binge drink for 90 days.
- $40 million promoting COVID vaccines after the pandemic ended.
- $7.5 billion for EV infrastructure resulting in only 68 charging stations.
- $22.6 billion for migrant benefits.
- Miscellaneous: insect consumption campaigns, TikTok influencer programs, Pakistani climate cartoons, anti-racism campus initiatives.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Benjamin Netanyahu has come out with a very interesting and blunt statement of what he's planning to do moving forward when it comes to the investigation of the October 7 terrorist attacks. |
| 0:19.7 | He says that he has a plan. He wants to investigate the October 7th terrorist attacks. He says that he has a plan. |
| 0:22.3 | He wants to investigate the October 7th, 2023 attacks the same way the U.S. |
| 0:28.2 | investigated 9-11, along with the unfolding political response and the controversy. |
| 0:35.1 | Netanyahu does have many that are frustrated that the country did not |
| 0:38.9 | keep them safe from those attacks, that the intelligence clearly broke down in some capacity. |
| 0:46.0 | And now there are people asking questions, okay, when are we going to get real answers? |
| 0:51.8 | Well, Netanyahu is explaining that, pushing for the government-controlled inquiry. |
| 0:58.3 | He compared it not only to the U.S.'s bipartisan commission used to study the September 11th, |
| 1:03.5 | 2001 attack, signed the model as a way of for broad questioning and examinations of failures, |
| 1:14.1 | also admitting that there were obviously clear failures. |
| 1:26.7 | He has repeatedly rejected a formal state commission of inquiry, arguing that such a panel often appointed by the Supreme Court wouldn't be trusted by a significant portion of the public. |
| 1:32.5 | Instead, his government is advancing a bill to establish a committee whose mandate and members are influenced by the governing coalition with three from the coalition and three |
| 1:38.2 | from the opposition, though opposition parties have said they will not, quote-unquote, |
| 1:43.8 | participate. |
| 1:45.4 | Netanyahu insists the inquiry will be balanced and broad, |
| 1:49.2 | claiming all relevant political, military, and security levels will be examined. |
| 1:54.1 | Now, the 9-11 commission in the United States was a bipartisan federal commission, |
| 1:59.3 | established by Congress after the September 11th terror attacks |
| 2:02.6 | to investigate the intelligence and policy failures leading to the attacks and issued a comprehensive |
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