Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's up, everybody? What's up? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am going to be going solo this episode. We had some technical issues on Rob's end, so apologies for that. Apologies for starting a little bit late, but here we are. We will give you an episode nonetheless.
I wanted to... Oh, I should say before we... First of all, thank you to everyone who came out in Phoenix. Thank you.
that was up there with one of the best weekends of comedy i've i've ever done i mean like every show was packed great crowds the whole night through so i will 100 be back there at the desert ridge improv that was my first time i know a lot of people had asked me to come out to phoenix for years so i i was glad that we did and it worked out great and definitely will be back next up uh is one night june 5th one night only uh me and rob will be at the parkdale hall
It's a theater up in Toronto. So we got two shows on Friday, June 5th, that really looking forward to that. I haven't been up to Toronto in a while, and it's great comedy, great comedy crowds up there. And then after that, June 18th, 19th, and 20th is Comedy Works in Denver. We're doing the Comedy Works South on June 18th in Greenwood Village.
And then we're doing the Downtown Club, Comedy Works Downtown in Denver, June 19th and 20th. So ComicDaveSmith.com for all those ticket links. And Rob Bernstein Comedy is Rob's website for all of his solo stuff. Okay, so... Let's get into this episode, which is going to be a response to Benjamin Netanyahu on 60 Minutes. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu just sat down a couple days ago.
They just released it. And it's interesting on so many different levels. We're going to get into some of these clips here. I mean, it's just really fascinating stuff. The man is truly... I don't know. You know, there's a funny... So neoconservatives and the Israel lobby, but I repeat myself, have made a history of disastrous wars over the last 25 years.
And even before that, neoconservatives have relentlessly called everyone Hitler. who they wanted us to fight a war with. And you see this all the time. The Warhawks always demonize. Everyone is Adolf Hitler. You know, Noriega was Adolf Hitler. And, you know, Saddam Hussein was Adolf Hitler. Vladimir Putin's Adolf Hitler. Everybody gets called Hitler. Muammar Gaddafi was Hitler for a moment there.
But, like, there was... I just think... I know that they go to this all the time. I know that it's very lazy. Watching this interview, it was Hitlerian. I don't know what other word to use to describe it. Of course, on our last episode, our last public episode,
last week we were talking about how donald trump had just announced the war is over um and we were pointing out that it very much is not and that in fact nothing has changed okay well since then donald trump has essentially announced that the deal fell through with iran um that he he he is i mean it's really it's comical he is saying he's claiming that they agreed
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Chapter 2: What are the key points from Netanyahu's 60 Minutes interview?
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you know again we just heard so much of this through the last uh couple of years but you know to say we we uh we sent text messages or we dropped leaflets or we did any of this it's like Yeah. Well, OK. Israel does everything in their power not to kill innocent civilians. Yeah. Except not killing them. Like it's just you can't say I do everything in my path.
Like if I just like for the sake of the matter, I don't know if I just if I told everyone to evacuate a building. And then I just machine gun fired through the building. And a lot of people didn't evacuate. And a lot of them got killed. I can't say I did everything I could to make sure innocent people in there didn't get killed.
Because no, there was one thing you did that you could have not done. So that's a thing. That falls under the category of everything. And that's actually the biggest one. The biggest one was killing all of them. And, you know, he can he can say that we drop leaflets and this or that goes. Yeah. But first of all, they do not always do that.
Also, oftentimes there's nowhere for the people to evacuate to. Also, oftentimes the people get killed when they go to the place where they're supposed to evacuate. We all read about this through the destruction of Gaza. And you killed like one hundred thousand people there, probably more. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's like.
say what you want to, but it's like, what are people seeing on social media? What is the connection between social media and people hating Israel? Okay, well, there's just, for example, today, okay, today, there's this viral video going around.
And I'm sure people listening to this, I apologize for describing really gruesome shit, but I'm sure you've seen a lot of this over the last two and a half years. But so there's this new one out. And I know people will dispute, well, this video is fake or this video isn't real. And honestly, the truth is that It just doesn't even really matter because so many of the videos are real.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Iran's nuclear capabilities?
And him being like, oh, you know, it's just that fucking the Jews run the media and they've convinced everybody that this is that, you know what I mean? Like, it's just that's just the action to go now. But in your own genocide, were there any tactical mistakes that you know, like what? What is this? And then, of course, he's going to like this all the same bullshit. The bottom line is that.
The reason why you're losing on this eighth front, just think about this right already, where they go, you're losing on the eighth front is what they call the fucking propaganda war.
Why is it the eighth front? Because there's fucking seven other fronts, right?
Because you're destroying Gaza, the West Bank, the Houthis, Iran, Lebanon, like because you're fighting so many wars that you, it's the eighth front is the propaganda. Okay, look,
the reason why you're losing is because this is not a response man to go hey some yeah we've made some tactical mistakes sometimes armies miss dude no one's talking about where you missed that's not what the conversation's even about and that is also true and also tragic that sometimes you hit the wrong building or whatever man look i'd like to assume that that american tomahawk that hit that little girl's school was a miss but please hope that that was not intentional um
But the apartment buildings in southern Lebanon that the IDF has been taking down, I don't know, let's say this morning, they didn't miss. That was the target. They hit their target. They destroyed Gaza. Your target was Gaza. There's 2 million people live there. And so like, yeah, you destroy the whole thing. A lot of people die.
I mean, you know, so to just get out of it with like, yeah, sometimes, you know, in wars, bad things happen. It's like, right. Okay. Let's be real specific about the bad things. Like that five-year-old boy, you know, comforting his two-year-old brother. That's the type. That's what happens when you launch wars like this. And that's what decent people tend to be opposed to. All right.
Let's keep playing.
media front on the propaganda front and we've not done well on the propaganda war yeah so that you know at least he does admit that well why do you think that might be why do you think it might be that you're not doing well in the propaganda war it's like because when when you come here and you may it's not like you have some new argument or you haven't you have nothing you have i mean literally what what benjamin netanyahu just presented here is
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Chapter 4: How is social media perceived as the '8th front' in war?
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anti-Semitism, this vile vilification of the Jews, took a reprieve after the Holocaust. It took a reprieve. It took 80 years. It wasn't fashionable to be anti-Semitic, so you didn't say these things in polite society. But it's come back. It's almost like it accompanies us throughout our history.
What is that about, Mr. Prime Minister? Because I want to stop you right there, because in my career, which started in 1990 in Washington, up until very recently, It was an established fact in Congress, established fact. The Republicans and Democrats had a default proposition favorable to Israel. Not always, not universally, but a default proposition that began with, yes, that's not true anymore.
That's less true than at any other time I've covered Washington.
Pause it. Pause it for a second. By the way, again, this is just like the framing of this question, because it was almost kind of going to an interesting revelation there. And then Major takes it off track. And because there's something about, okay, there's two different claims being made here. And I just want you to focus for a moment here, just how utterly unhinged, bizarre claims
religious, and paranoid, what Benjamin Netanyahu is saying is. So essentially, right, his argument is that anti-Semitism is like this force, like this evil spirit that has always been plaguing humanity. Why do people hate Jews? They're just possessed by this evil spirit, and then they're evil, and then they, like, by the way, this is,
And I'm not saying that people don't get, you know, possessed by evil forces at times in life. I'm actually, I've grown to be more open to that view. But anytime anyone is describing their enemies this way, it's always propaganda bullshit. Like, it's that, there's nothing else to it. It's just, I don't know, this force, after World War II, it took an 80-year break, but look, it's back.
Like, what? This is just not how human beings actually operate. Everybody just fell under the spell of hating Jews all of a sudden over the last couple of years, as we just mentioned before. And it just happens to correlate when you started launching these aggressive, brutal military campaigns that are slaughtering civilians by the tens of thousands.
But then Major, he pivots to, you know, I've been doing this since 1990, and it used to be the obvious given that both major political parties support Israel. Which is a different thing. That's a different thing than why some dark force starts making everyone hates the Jews. Now he made it about Congress and how they vote. And also, that's still the same. That has not changed at all.
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Chapter 5: What impact does antisemitism have on Israel's global perception?
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I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now, we've degraded a lot of it.
But all of that is still there, and there's work to be done.
How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran? You go in and you take it out. With what? Special forces from Israel, special forces from the United States?
Well, I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there. And I think it can be done physically. That's not the problem. If you have an agreement and you go in and you take it out, why not? That's the best way.
What if there isn't an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?
Well, you're going to ask me these questions. I'm going to dodge them because I'm not going to talk about our military possibilities, plans, or anything of the kind.
And I'm just trying to get at how long is it going to take to achieve that aim?
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