October 17th, 2023

October 17th, 2023

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA - OCTOBER 17: Palestinian emergency services and local citizens search for victims in buildings destroyed during Israeli raids in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Gazans are evacuating to the south as advised by the Israeli government, ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive. Israel has sealed off Gaza, leaving the entire population without fuel, water or aid, and launched sustained retaliatory air strikes, which have killed more than 2,000 people and some 400,000 displaced, after a large-scale attack by Hamas. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea, and air, killing over 1,300 people and wounding around 2,800. Israeli soldiers and civilians have also been taken hostage by Hamas and moved into Gaza. The attack prompted a declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the announcement of an emergency wartime government. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, CNN has breaking news, “Hundreds likely dead in Gaza hospital blast, as Israeli blockade cripples medical response.”  99% of that CNN article is a lie. Now we know what moves the media.  An allegation from Hamas that Israel blew up a hospital in Gaza, even though Israel does not target hospitals and is well aware of the outcry if it did target a hospital. The media must be disappointed.  They now say the pressure is on Israel to do something.  Now, Israel is responsible for an Islamic Jihad missile that hit a hospital in Gaza! But the fact that the media regurgitate the lies of terrorists and are poised to condemn Israel at virtually every turn is unconscionable. But we do know who committed atrocities against Jews, including babies in their cribs, burned people alive, decapitated people, and all the rest.  Hamas Nazis videotaped it all, and the forensic medical examiners have revealed even worse. If the Hamas Nazis had committed their atrocities against babies and others in a hospital would the media be more astonished? Who to believe? Hamas Nazi terrorists or Israel?  For much of the media, the Hamas Nazi terrorists. Also, Gov Ron DeSantis calls in to discuss his successful launch of cargo planes to get Americans out of Israel because Biden wasn’t doing anything. Biden and his administration put the American people last.  The far left in America has turned rabidly anti-Israel. We can have differences on politics but when the blood wasn’t even dry people were cheering on Hamas -that’s a sickness in society. Finally, Sen Rick Scott calls in to talk about the chaos happening in Israel – murder, rape, 30 Americans killed and where is the outrage from the Biden administration to what Iran and Hamas have done?  Biden needs to wake the hell up and stand up for Israel. They must be held accountable. Iran wants to destroy us. Just like the Democrats.

CNN
Hundreds likely dead in Gaza hospital blast, as Israeli blockade cripples medical response

Townhall
Hundreds Killed by Islamic Jihad After Misfire Causes Explosion at Gaza City Hospital

Daily Mail
All those who question the unimaginable savagery of the Hamas attack against Israel must read the words of these forensic scientists struggling to identify the 297 bodies so brutalized as to be unrecognizable

AP
Source: President Mahmoud Abbas cancels planned meeting with President Biden after hospital strike

Daily Mail
How U.S. taxpayer funds can ‘flow freely’ to Hamas and Hezbollah because of the UN’s failure to label them terrorist organizations – it’s evidence of ‘anti-Israel bias’ at UN says Nikki Haley

FLGov.com
Governor Ron DeSantis Announces the Successful Launch of Two Cargo Planes with Donated Supplies to Israel

Wall St Journal
The Siege of Hamas Is No War Crime

Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. We start this evening, ladies and gentlemen, with a breaking news report from CNN. From CNN. About an hour and a half ago. Hundreds likely dead in Gaza hospital blast as Israeli Blockade Cripples Medical Response. By Jessie Young, Tarah, John Sana, Noor Haque and Shaheed Mahmood. CNN. Palestinian officials say hundreds were killed by a massive blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday as humanitarian concerns mount over Israel’s deprivation of food, fuel and electricity to the Enclave’s population. Our Holly Baptist Hospital was sheltering thousands of displaced people when it was bombed Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. Many victims are still under the rubble, it added. First to Margaret. Third paragraph, Palestinian officials blamed ongoing Israeli strikes for the lethal incident. But the Israeli Defense Forces have categorically denied any involvement in the hospital attack, blaming instead a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, a rival Islamist group in Gaza. Gaza has been under siege. Basra for more than a week in response to the deadly incursion by Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls the coastal enclave home to 2.2 million people. Hospitals, meanwhile, are struggling to tend to the wounded across the territory, operating with shortages of electricity and water. Vital humanitarian aid is meanwhile piling up at Gaza’s shuttered border despite diplomatic efforts to open a corridor from Egypt. The U.N. and other officials have said they need assurance of safe passage for a potential aid for potentially convoys. And it goes on. 99% of that is a lie. 99% of that is a lie. And the corporation that owns CNN. Should be ashamed of what it’s putting out there, particularly at a time of war that could involve the United States. Supporting the enemy. CNN supports the enemy. The New York Times supports the enemy. The vast majority of the media in America and Europe support the enemy. The entity of America, the enemy of the West, the enemy of Israel. Now. Let me just say this to you. Now we know what moves the media. An allegation from Hamas that Israel blew up a hospital in Gaza despite the fact that Israel does not target hospitals and is well aware of the outcry if it did target a hospital. In fact, there’s now video showing that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Fired off a wave of missiles toward Israel. At the same time, apparently, one of them hit the hospital. But the media poised. Their paths. To attack Israel. To attack Israel. And this Islamic Jihad works side by side with Hamas. They’re the ones who fired a barrage of Mars missiles at Israel. One of them fell short hitting the hospital. There’s a video out now. And they have the data to back it up. In fact, about 30% of the missiles Palestinian terrorists fired is from misfire causing damage and death in Gaza. But. CNN didn’t report that. I understand the media are disappointed. I understand that. And I understand that now there’s pressure on Israel to make sure that. The terrorists. The Nazis. Aren’t shooting errant missiles. Somehow that’s now Israel’s responsibility. We’re told this couldn’t have happened at a worse time for Israel. So now Israel’s responsible for an Islamic Jihad missile that hits a hospital in Gaza. I understand Iran, the Palestinian Authority. The Arab countries don’t care about the facts. They have dictators in every damn one of these countries. There’s not a democracy in the Arab world. Not one. They’re dictators. They’re monarchs. They’re terrorists, they’re dictators. Whatever they are, they are. But the fact that the media regurgitate these lies from terrorists and are poised to condemn Israel at virtually every turn is unconscionable. Well, anybody at CNN resign? Over what CNN is doing. Now we know who committed the atrocity against the Jews on October 7th, including babies in their cribs. People burned alive, people decapitated. In one case, one of the forensic medical doctors said. Listen to this one, Mr. Producer. They took little kids, grouped them into what I’ll call a pile and set them all on fire at once. There was a burning pile of children. One of these forensic medical doctors. He was very active after 911. Going into the rubble to try and find bodies and so forth. And he was driven to tears. He was interviewed. He said, I have never seen anything like this. I can’t even imagine anything like this. He described one pregnant woman. Who had her belly sliced open. Her baby. Was slashed to death, the umbilical cord was still attached and they shot her in the back of the head. I guess for the media that has to happen in a hospital to make it matter. So we know who committed these atrocities. They even took video of the atrocities there was so proud of themselves. We know who slaughtered 30 Americans and have. A dozen or two American hostages. We know who started it all and always does. Whose mission statement calls for the eradication of the Jews and all non-believers. So when you get a report like this and Hamas is saying Israel did it, we lost 500 people in order to get the Arab street all fired up. And these dictators and terrorists. And monarchs who run these countries throw in immediately because they don’t want to be overthrown. Who do you believe? You’re in a newsroom and the story comes in. And Hamas is immediately saying it’s Israel. You go with a story like that. Most of our media do. Most of our media go with it. And then in a sickening. Example of professional malpractice, not kind of step back when the facts come out and then I’ll move on. Then they’ll move on. Here’s Netanyahu at a press conference just a little bit ago. Cut one. Go. Hamas are the new Nazis. Hamas is ISIS in some instances worse than ISIS. And just as the world united to defeat the Nazis, is the world united to defeat ISIS? The world has to stand united behind Israel to defeat Hamas. This is part of an axis of evil of Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas. Their goal, open goal, is to eradicate the state of Israel. The opening goal of Hamas is to kill as many Jews as they could. And the only difference is they would have killed every last one of us, murdered every last one of us if they could. They just don’t have the capacity. But they murdered an extraordinary 1300 civilians, which in American terms is like many, many, many 9/11. So obviously, we must take action to defeat Hamas and to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. But this is not only our battle, it is our common battle, the battle of civilization against barbarism. And if it’s not stopped here, this savagery will reach you very soon and reach the entire world. Already has. Democracies in Europe have been overrun with immigrants from the Middle East. Our own country. Same thing. You see the protesters in the streets. Obviously, they’re not all from the Middle East, but many are. And they are funded by Hamas related organizations. I’ve been through this in great detail. It’s inarguable. It’s unequivocal. And they’re here. On at least three college campuses. And they’re here in our media, like at MSNBC. CNN. New York Times, Washington Post. They are here, the Democrat Party on Capitol Hill. Talib. Omar, AOC. And the rest of the scum on the Democrat Party left. Don’t hit a hospital. You can hit a kibbutz, by the way. It can hit a synagogue. He can murder people in their beds. You can kill a Holocaust survivors and kill babies in a thousand different ways. You can rape. You can pillory. You can slaughter 265 teenagers at a. Music event for peace. Have at it. Just don’t hit the hospital. And they didn’t hit the hospital. The people who slaughtered Jews on October 7th. They wanted to kill more Jews because they’re shooting missiles from schools and hospitals and mosques and other places where the Biden administration says you cannot attack. In a more northern part of the Gaza Strip. Islamic Jihad of Palestine fired a barrage of missiles and at least one and they think may be more than one, fell short and hit the hospital. And there’s now video of this. And yet CNN rates the crap that CNN writes. And what about the humanitarian concerns? It’s amazing to meet humanitarian concerns. First of all, context, history, our own war. World War two, we know concerned about humanitarian efforts at all. Well, we went to war against the Japanese, the Germans and the Italians. None. Zero. In fact, we were targeting hospitals. Schools. Anything we could. To break the spirit. Of the Nazis of Imperial Japan and fascist Italy. Citizens were targeted all through World War Two. But Israel doesn’t target citizens. But you can’t fight a war without citizens dying. And if I have to explain night after night, day after day, time after time. The difference between targeting citizens. And citizens who die as a result of war launched. By their own regime. And if I have to explain again and again and again. The unconscionable effort at creating moral equivalency. Then these people have no morality. They don’t know the difference between good and evil. I’m talking about the American and European media. What does it take? What do they need to see? What do they need to hear? What do they need to read? The answer is it doesn’t matter. The American media are our enemy. We don’t have a free press. We have propagandists and demagogues. That’s what we have who are free under our First Amendment to be propagandists and demagogues. We don’t have freedom of speech and academic freedom in our Democratic controlled and funded college campuses with your tax dollars. We have indoctrination, brainwashing. The creation of a generation of American hating Americans. And terror loving Americans as long as the target is the United States in Israel. More when I return. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
Let me tell you, the difference is there are many. Between a culture of life and a culture of death. Many people in America, especially Jews and Jews in Israel, but Christians, moderate Muslims and so forth and so on. When they heard that this hospital was hit, particularly the Israelis, they said, Oh my God, let’s hope it’s not us. Let’s hope it’s not one of our jets. And it wasn’t. The Arab world has not condemned, as I speak, Islamic Jihad raiding that hospital. The Arab world. Last time I checked, is not condemned Hamas for slaughtering Jews. The Arab world, last time I checked, argue over and over about Palestinian statehood, the Palestinian rights, but they won’t take one single Palestinian. You’ll notice everybody repeats what I say just a matter of time, because I’m right.

Segment 3
80 years ago, when your father’s mother’s, your grandfather’s or grandmothers were alive. I wouldn’t have to come on the radio and explain any of this. Patriotic Americans understood all of this. But since our borders have been wide open center, immigration policies have been changed since our colleges and universities have been devoured by the Marxist left. In this, our media have become an arm of the Democrat Party in the Biden regime. I have to explain this every night because if I don’t push back. People will believe what they hear and see. If Hamas hit a hospital in Israel. And hundreds of Israelis died. The world wouldn’t genuflect. It wouldn’t turn on its heels. Oh, there’ll be a statement issued here and there. But two thirds of the world would celebrate. Two thirds of the students on our college campuses would celebrate. 9.8 out of ten professors would celebrate. It wouldn’t be an international issue. And you’re going to find as more data come out, as the Israelis put it out there, that this will slowly but surely fade away. Now notice terrorists like a boss. He is a terrorist. As I explained last night, the night before. He’s already using. I’m not meeting right by. No, no, no, no. And condemning Israel. King of Jordan. I’m not going to have a summit. No, no, no, no. This guy’s father had a civil war with the very same people because Jordan was almost 70% Palestinian and pushed him out. He didn’t believe in a two state solution. Egypt doesn’t believe in a two state solution. And as for CNN and the rest, talking about the humanitarian nightmare in Gaza. There are two borders, one with the Israelis, one with the Egyptians. And in the case of the Egyptians, they have the Sinai Peninsula between. The Gaza Strip and Egypt proper. That’s a lot of desert. It’s not the Israelis who are blocking the pathway. It’s the Egyptians. You know, the same Egyptians who had intelligence information that they shared apparently with Israel, but not with the United States. But something big is going to happen. And Israel says we don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. No, no, no. But we have to believe the Egyptians. We have to believe Hamas. We have to believe they Palestinian thought, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There are strongly reliable. Strong, reliable. Mark Regev, senior adviser to Netanyahu on FOX today. But this hospital. Got to go. Obviously, first question is what you can tell us about this strike on this hospital in Gaza City. What do you know, sir? So the truth is we’re investigating. And as the IDF said in his statement, they’re looking into exactly what information we have and what what happened. What we can say is the following. Number one, Israel does not target places like hospitals. They’re not a target for us. And we wouldn’t have deliberately hit a hospital. Number two, we know that at the time of the of this tragedy that Hamas was firing a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv and the center of the country. I myself went to the bomb shelter here at the because we were under attack. Now, in the past, there has been a pattern of behavior that we’ve seen that up to a third of rockets fired from Gaza fall inside the Gaza Strip because they malfunction. Now, it is possible once again, we don’t know the facts and that’s why people should be very careful here. But it is possible that this was one of those rockets that malfunctioned. I spoke to a senior IDF officer just before coming on this program and he said to me that actually Hamas made a statement saying they were sending a rocket to Haifa. Now, we know Haifa is in northern Israel. We know that no such rocket was sent or definitely didn’t reach Haifa. And so is it possible that there’s a malfunction here? And once again, there’s a there’s a pattern of munitions by Hamas falling short. We had something in the last round of fighting, the previous round of fighting with Hamas, where we did something jihad, where a missile did fall short, and that was documented. So at this stage, we don’t know what happened. Hamas, of course, the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza, will be saying it’s all Israel’s fault. That’s part of their narrative. I urge people, let’s just wait and see what happen. Let’s look at the facts as they develop. Israel does not target hospitals and we have to get to the bottom of what actually happened and it’ll take a little bit more time. Yeah, it took a little bit more time. And now we know what happened. Islamic Jihad of Palestine fired a barrage of missiles. One or more was short and hit the hospital. There’s even video on the Internet. But if an Israeli jet accidentally hit that hospital. There’d be no doubt that they’d have to confess to that. Even though it’s not purposeful, it will be treated as if it’s purposeful. Again. Moral equivalency, which certainly doesn’t exist. One side is immoral and evil, the other side is moral and good. It’s that simple. I don’t understand this. I honestly don’t. The same ideology that attacked us on 911 that have killed Americans for decades now. The same ideology. Well, they tell you they want to slaughter us. The same ideology. That took Americans hostage under Jimmy Carter. The same terrorists who killed 30 Americans and hold Americans as I speak hostage. And we treat them like noncombatants. Well, but don’t hurt the civilians. Look, we have to defend ourselves. The Israelis have to defend ourselves. The free world has to defend itself. And if there’s collateral damage. Well, that’s too bad. So be it. Because the truth is. If Israel wanted to, it wouldn’t need any weapons from the United States. Mr. Minister. It wouldn’t have to worry about any hospitals. America. It wouldn’t have to worry about humanitarian aid being blocked by the Egyptians. It wouldn’t have to worry about any of it. Because it has weapons. That would ensure victory. And would eliminate its enemies. In a split second. With a whole lot of civilian casualties. But they don’t do it. They don’t even talk about it. What would Iran do with a nuke? What would the Palestinian terrorists do with a nuke? Who’s kidding home around here? Israel has had to fight Obama tooth and nail. They have had to fight Biden tooth and nail over the nuclear agreement, which guess what, ladies and gentlemen, within a few hours doesn’t even exist anymore. And what does that mean? Under the Obama Biden deal. With the Communist Chinese and the fascistic Russians and all the rest of them. With the appeasers in Europe. It was only Trump who said no. Only Trump. Iran will be able to acquire missiles. Provide missiles. Our missiles and pursue its nuclear ambitions. Why am I the only one talking about this? Why am I the only one? Talking about this. Instead, we’re talking about a hospital that the Islamic Jihad hit where they were blaming the Israelis. How come there’s no story about this in CNN tonight? MSNBC. Where are the headlines on The New York Times? Iran now has the power and the ability to do not nothing. Washington compost? Nothing. What’s Biden going to do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. So Iran will be free. Let’s not be free to have intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on them aimed at Los Angeles. Chicago. New York. Everywhere in the United States. I brought this up on Fox the other day. And a very bizarre argument ensued. And now nuclear war. What do you mean, now? Nuclear war? I’m not advocating nuclear war. Not talking about Ukraine. I’m not talking about China. I’m explaining what’s taking place. There are too many ideologues on both sides. Quite frankly, foreign policy is about prudence. P. R. U. DNC. Three. Three. Three letters as Joe Biden would say, Prudence. It’s not about ideology. Is it prudent to let the Iranians get nuclear weapons? Is it prudent to fund the and rearm the Iranians to the tune of $70 billion? Is it prudent to rearm the Palestinian terrorists with hundreds of millions of dollars? Is that prudent? Or is that insane? Is it prudent to fund Hamas for your tax dollars? When we come back. I’m going to show you how this is being done. Is it prudent to have as an ally, Qatar? Which funds. Hamas, which killed 30 Americans and holds Americans hostage. Is it prudent to have an ally in Qatar? With a top echelon of the Hamas Nazi terrorists. Have a safe harbor and are protected. It’s important to have just a regular alliance with a NATO member like Turkey. That does the same thing. Sarah wanted caught. He’s a fascistic bastard. He locks up his opponents, he chases him down. He’s sort of a mini Putin. He wants to be a Putin. He fixes the results of elections so he can never lose. He took what was a fantastic country and turned it into another quasi Islamo Nazi regime. 20 did. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
This weekend. Saturday. Life, Liberty and Levin. 8 p.m. Eastern. Two great guests, Senator Tom Cotton and General Kellogg, both of whom are superb. Sunday night again, 8 p.m. Eastern time. We’re going to have Pastor Hagee. I like to call him my pastor. Is one of the largest evangelical churches in the nation. He’s also the chairman and CEO of Kufa, Christians United for Israel. And he has a lot to say. And the second guest is Eugene Kontorovich. Who was a and had him on the program before. He’s a law professor extraordinaire and he wants to explain and will explain that the siege and Hamas is no war crime. And I want to have my own account counter what the quislings and worse are saying in our own government. So that’s a very, very strong line up, including my opening statements each night. And I hope you will set your DVR. Now, set them this evening so you don’t miss them again. Saturday, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific 7 p.m.. Central Sunday, same time, same place, different show of course. And I think you’ll learn more on these shows and you will on virtually any other show. Let me start what I said I would discuss with you from the Daily Mail how we are funding Hamas. We have allies, Qatar, that’s funding Hamas. We’ve enemies that we rearmed Iran, that’s funding Hamas. This is all being done by the Biden administration and the Democrats. I’m sorry. They need to be held accountable. Actually, I’m not sorry. I’m disgusted. How U.S. Taxpayer Funds, writes The Daily Mail, can flow freely to Hamas and Hezbollah because of the yuan’s refusal to label them terrorist organizations. U.S. taxpayer dollars are able to flow freely to Iran, backed Hamas and Hezbollah because the U.N. Security Council won’t label them as terrorists weren’t top security experts. Hamas and Hezbollah are not sanctioned or labeled as terror groups by the U.N. Security Council, but other well-known terrorist groups, al Qaeda and ISIS, have been officially designated, which cuts off their ability to get foreign assistance. Richard Goldberg, a good friend of the program, a good friend of my stepson, good friend of mine, senior adviser of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, tells Dailymail.com that U.S. taxpayer dollars to the U.N. are going directly into the hands of terrorists as a result. That is especially alarming as Hamas in Gaza launched that brutal attack. That killed really now about 1500 people, including 30 Americans. But despite their horrific, horrific atrocities, including beheading babies and raping women, the Iran backed terror group is considered legitimate by the U.N., which has cleared the way for that organization to receive worldwide assistance, including from us. Kovac told the Daily Mail that the U.N. considers Hamas a legitimate political movement. Not a vicious terrorist organization. The same goes for Hezbollah. That means U.S. tax dollars handed over to the U.N. can flow freely into Hamas’s hands in Gaza. And they do every day through the U.N., so-called Palestinian refugee agency. The U.N. has a relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East. UNWRA. An agency that works to support these so called relief and human development of Palestinians, but they fund Hamas and Hezbollah. Goldberg said the Biden administration has given roughly $1 billion to UNWRA. Which spends about 38% of its budget on Gaza. Therefore, the US has subsidised Hamas to the tune of $380 million since Joe Biden took office and restarted funding UNWRA. Trump cut it off. I repeat, Trump cut it off. And now they want to put Trump in prison for the rest of his life and this phony, phony hack. Judge Tonya Chunking or whatever the hell my name is. She’s a Stalinist, and that case somehow needs to be removed from her courtroom. I’ll be right back.