Victor Davis Hanson

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show · Overexposed: The Truth and Troubles of Left Politics · 25 Feb 2025 podcast

She's a very effective speaker. She's beautiful. She's competent. Gosh, that's a scary pair, the two of them, Ron DeSantis and his wife.

Yes, she survived cancer and cancer. And then Laura was there, Laura Ingram. And I talked to Laura, and I owe a great debt to Laura because I had been informally, to tell you the truth, exiled from my rare occasions appearances on Fox. And then Laura Ingram brought me back in 2017, I think. So I owe her a debt of gratitude and gratitude. I had a little conversation. We were both a little worried.

I don't know if she's going to bring it up Monday, but there can't be a triumphalist message that we're doing all this. It's like, you people put us in this position, so there's going to be some rough medicine that's being administered. We don't like to do it, but you made us do it because this was not sustainable, especially on the economy. We didn't create the hyperinflation. You did.

We didn't create these huge deficits in the same degree that you did. And so, I think we were kind of on the same page on that.

Well, what was interesting about this is the left wants to create this narrative that There was this small clique of Hamas radicals that, yes, they did get elected, but they canceled all the elections. And they're not representative of the Palestinians of Gaza. And... When you gave them evidence that on October 7th, when it was announced, these hostages, Jack, were not taken by Hamas terrorists.

They were taken by civilians and sold. I mean, there was a bounty on Israelis. You saw the picture when the bulldozer knocked down the fence. It was a free-for-all. Once the word got out, you can rape, you can kill, you can torture, you can steal right across there. You know, look at that beautiful kibbutz, all these affluent Israelis. Just go to it. They had hundreds of people who swarmed.

And when you saw the bodies that they came back with or the people they were torturing, it was the Gazans. And then when they started releasing the first prisoners, they had Hamas people protecting the prisoners from the civilians. They wanted to kill them. So, and this whole idea that we didn't, oh, I have a, I'm in a mosque, I'm in a hospital, I'm in a school.

I didn't know there was a Hamas headquarters beneath me. Of course they knew they were part of the thing. So my point is when you, and then they did the autopsies on the two young children.

who came back battered, and it was very clear to them, very... I mean, you can't fool an Israeli pathologist and coroner, and what they found was that the children had been strangled to death, and then their bodies had been beaten up to make it look as if they were hit by falling concrete or something. So they killed little children.

And as I said, even the Grand Mufti, that's pretty hard for him to get shocked by anybody. And the UN criticized it. But here's the point. Their whole currency that protects them is the international left. And so all they had to do was take off their mask, wear business suits, and conduct themselves like other people who claim that they are nations. And they couldn't do that.

So they, as they are cowards, they put on their whole camouflage uniforms, their scarves, their headbands, the whole Hamas get up. They... were anonymous, you couldn't identify them. And then they started triumphantly bragging and boasting over coffins. Coffins. So they were trading corpses. And they didn't tell anybody they were dead. That came very late.

It suggests to me there's a lot of people we think that are alive or dead. And here's the final point. There's a thin thread that protects them from annihilation. Just a thin thread. And that is everybody in Israel wants to get rid of Hamas for what they've done and what they are doing. But the United States uniparty diplomatic corps says you can't do that. We're not going to give you bombs.

We're not going to do that. And that's not there anymore. It's Donald Trump. Donald Trump said yesterday that They ask him what Israel should do. He said, I trust them to do what they want. Whatever they want to do, go do it. And all of those people on the stage that were triumphantly boasting about the coffins, I have a feeling they're all dead men right now. They're all dead.

They don't know they're dead, but they're dead because there's going to be informants and there's going to be people who know it and they're going to boast to people and they're going to have some sophisticated technology that can identify foreheads and they're going to identify them. And you haven't heard anybody said, I'm the proud leader of Hamas.

You hear names, but not self-identification because to say that you are a leader of Hamas is a death sentence. And everybody laughed at Donald Trump when he said, you know what, we have to rebuild that rubble, but you can't do it when people are supporting Hamas, so we suggest they temporarily go somewhere. The criticism of him in the Arab world wasn't, well, we don't, that's a little extreme.

It's like it was twofold. That came from an American with Israel support. Therefore, since we're illegitimate rulers everywhere, we've never won an election. We're afraid of the people, and they won't like that. And number two, we don't want these people. We do not want them in Egypt. We do not want them in Jordan. We do not. Kuwait must be saying, we had these people once.

And when Saddam invaded Kuwait, they sided with Saddam. We don't want them. And remember... The Kuwaitis, once we gave them their country back, what was the first thing they did? Ethnically cleanse a third of a million Palestinians. They just said, get out. And so that's the only hang-up.

And I think there's going to be a lot of support for rebuilding Gaza, but having passport control about who gets to come in. and make it a real nation and try to make it, you know, a situation where you don't let terrorists in. And that's going to be my only reservation. I don't think the United States should spend any money on it. Period. Not one dime.

And number two, I don't think that we should allow anybody from that enclave to come in the United States. Not one.

There's plenty of Arab money to do that. And we have 12 million illegal immigrants. We have students rioting and chasing Jews on our campuses, defacing monuments and graves. We don't need any more students from the Middle East countries that support terrorism. And I hope Donald Trump reinstitutes his ban, not aimed at Arabs or Muslims, just countries that Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran. Ireland.

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