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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Will the War in Gaza Finally End? Flotilla Activists Predictably Abused in Israel's Dungeons; Van Jones' Revealing Joke about "Dead Gazan Babies"

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Rumble

Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Glenn breaks down the early stages of the Israel/Hamas negotiations for a potential ceasefire. Then: Israel's horrific treatment of the flotilla activists reveals the extreme measures taken by Israel to silence and intimidate its critics. Finally: Glenn reacts to Van Jones's disgusting joke about dead Gazan babies. 

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0:00.0

Good evening. It's Monday, October 6.

0:17.2

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every

0:21.0

Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech

0:25.7

alternative to YouTube.

0:26.8

Tonight, President Trump seems genuinely determined to force through a peace plan that he and

0:32.4

various Arab dictators negotiated for the end of the war in Gaza.

0:36.7

Will that really happen?

0:38.3

And if so, under what circumstances, we will take a look at everything we know.

0:42.3

Then, hundreds of people from around the world sailed on a flotilla attempting to deliver

0:46.3

food and medicine to the people of Gaza.

0:48.3

Among them were elected members of various parliaments, journalists, and the activist,

0:53.3

Greta Thunberg.

0:58.1

They were particularly intercepted and then arrested by the Israeli military despite being in international waters, and then immediately began reporting of the severe abuses

1:02.6

to which the Israelis subjected them. Are these accounts reliable? And what do they say

1:07.1

about the character of Israel? And then former Obama advisor and CNN commentator Van Jones appeared on Bill Maher's HBO show

1:15.1

on Friday night, along with fellow Israel supporter Tom Friedman of the New York Times

1:19.6

and the pro-Israel Bill Maher, amazing amounts of viewpoint diversity there.

1:24.3

Jones made what he clearly had rehearsed and regarded as an absolutely hilarious joke about what he called

1:29.3

Dead Gaza Babies.

1:31.3

But afterwards, when people reacted with pretty widespread revulsion, he's scroveling apologies.

1:36.3

Even though the joke fully represents what he has long believed, we'll examine the event as a broader, as a window into broader themes. And then finally, the UK Home Secretary over the weekend justified her country and her government,

1:48.8

the labor governments arrest, a pro-Palestinian activist.

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