The United States remains a pillar of global order because it is anchored in principles of individual dignity and inherent rights, which have lifted more people out of oppression than any other ideology throughout human history; however, Western liberal democracies have normalized authoritarian regimes like Iran by voting them into international positions while simultaneously criticizing Israel, revealing a fundamental inconsistency in their stated values versus their actual foreign policy behavior.
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Monumental events of historic significance are unfolding before our very eyes. World order is literally shifting and yet unbelievable levels of stupidity are taking place. It is astounding how stupid people can be. I don't know how you feel when you see this. I feel awe, respect, and gratitude. We are living in times witnessing with our own eyes events changing the world and resetting processes removing the rot that has set in the core of western international policies since World War II and leading us to a new era. And instead of embracing it, all of us wanting to be part of this new horizon, we have people taking to the streets, sick and perverted. Those who glorify this murderous racist homophobe and turn him into an icon. people who prefer this miserable flag of oppression and totalitarianism, chanting murderous slogans, covering their faces with symbols of religious dominance that they don't even understand. And while much of the focus is on the battlefield, they prance around sanctimoniously in sync solidarity campaigns, admiring and adoring tyrants and regimes that crush their own citizens, holding them up as symbols of freedom or justice while berating the United States of America, the country constructed on the principle of individual freedom.
The irony is that many of the loudest critics of the United States, the ones who rail against imaginary tyrants, are doing so in societies that allow them to speak freely, allow them to protest freely and live freely. The people who stood up to Chavara, to communists, to kamas, tobalah, and to the Ayatollas, they were murdered in mass. And the demonstrators are doing it in countries the people who fled real oppression built new lives in. People who never lived under authoritarianism are defending ideologies that would silence them instantly. There is nothing more dangerous than the sanctimonious ignorant fools that are so easily manipulated by evil masquerading as righteousness.
This year, as the United States marks 250 years of independence, it's worth pausing for a moment to consider something that has suddenly become controversial to say out loud. that the United States is the greatest country in the world, that the United States is one of the most consequential gifts ever given to humanity. And don't start clucking off on what it did in its past or what the faults of the country are.
No nation is flawless, just as no person is. Not to mention how no historically great leader is without fault. Moses, Abraham, King David, King Solomon, Washington, Lincoln, Martin Luther King, none of them were perfect. It is the ability to rise above their flaws and fulfill their calling and mission that matters. For the United States, it's upholding the ideas that it introduced into the world. Ideas rooted in a very specific moral tradition, the Judeo-Christian conviction that every human being is created with inherent dignity, that rights are not granted by rulers, but endowed by a higher authority. Just as the founders in the Declaration of Independence didn't just globalize anything, they focused on individual by writing all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
This was a real revolutionary statement.
It meant that rights do not come from kings, governments, parliaments or movements. They come from the creator and therefore more importantly cannot be taken away by human power. These ideas reshaped the political imagination of the entire western world. They created a new model of society where we the people, the individual, is sacred, where power is to be restrained, and where freedom is not a privilege, it's a birthright. And instead of celebrating that, the spoiled brats fake valor and fearlessness. All those whining against imaginary kings would be in goologs and re-education camps or vanished off the face of the earth if they were really in a non-democratic country.
No, instead you little pansies parade in the streets covering your ugly nose ring, blue-haired faces, waving your stupid signs, and waving flags of mental derangement.
Funny thing is, I saw this just before taping today posted by David J. Harris Jr.
And it says there, you can read it, Western women cosplaying as revolutionaries. It captures it perfectly. Instead of going to live in cesspools like Cuba or Venezuela, you go to your cafes and eat at your fancy restaurants where hardworking people who escape from the very dip holes that you want to emulate.
Heck, without the United States, Europe would have been German or worse, Russian and communist at that. Fact is that without the United States, the map of the modern world would look very different. Asia would have remained under imperial Japanese militaristic domination or Chinese communist rule like North Korea with vast populations living under systems that erased individuality, erased descent, and erased entire cultures.
The United States didn't just defend itself. It defended the possibility of free societies everywhere. We in Israel appreciate that. For us in Israel, this isn't theoretical. We know what Islam has done to the peoples of this area. We know how they treat defenseless minorities. Because unlike the propaganda you've been swamped in, most of the citizens of Israel are descendants of families who escaped Islamic colonized areas in the Middle East. We know what it means to have an ally whose values align with our own. We prefer partnership with a nation built on the dignity of the individual rather than on the supremacy of a leader. That is why even in a moment when the world feels confused, fragmented, and morally inverted, the United States remains a pillar. Not because it's perfect, but because it is anchored in principles that have lifted more people out of oppression than any other ideology throughout human history.
And just look at what the alternative is with the other western so-called liberal countries. Countries so rife in the defeist policies of postcold world war era. Because these skank countries, Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, and Finland. All these countries so concerned with human rights, they all voted this week with the United Nations to nominate the Islamic Republic of Iran, no less, to lead a UN Committee on Women's Rights, Human Rights, and Terrorism Prevention. I'm not joking.
Terrorism prevention. Well, to be honest, they've learned how to prevent terrorism by us over the past two and a half years.
But these countries also chose to elect China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia to the UN committee that oversees the work of human rights groups at the United Nations. Isn't that just wonderful? For years, Iran was committing atrocities, carrying out terrorist attacks against the West, funding terrorists in the West. The Europeans normalized this behavior. They accepted it. Human rights groups never spoke up against it. They're always being critical of easy targets. Western democracy under attack, always excusing terrorists. Lebanon was taken over by Iranian proxy terrorist movement. France never questioned or sanctioned them. But Israel passes a law to execute terrorists and immediately they're vocal in their criticisms. And the United Nations celebrated the 47th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, but it constantly raises concern about Israel.
May we remind them that the only place in the Middle East that Arabs aren't mass migrating from is Israel. You can say what you want about Israel, but the facts speak for themselves. We can overlook the fact that all other so-called Western liberal democracies have stood by and not join in in the war against the terrorist regimes. But it is unforgivable how they also reward these countries by acting as if they respect any of the principles that matter to citizens of liberal democracies. For too long, the West has normalized this acceptance of sick, perverted countries that are playing the game of sharing values that are warped in these international organizations, eagerly critiquing Israel while while whitewashing these countries, normalizing Iran that is massacring its own citizens. And the countries doing this, they're not on our side. And to be honest, I don't want them on our side.
This here is our youth in Israel today.
They are proud, strong, focused, and appreciative.
This were our youth 80 years ago. These things can still happen to us as we saw at the Nova Festival on October 7th. And if anything, October 7th reminds us of what we thought was our past. Actually, we should be really grateful. Grateful for the [Â __Â ] comments that many of you post and comment. the ones some of you even leave here in the comments section.
These are daily reminders of bygone days. My content is not meant to change people's minds because I know it won't.
It's meant to strengthen those who already know the truth. All the others, I don't care what you think. You just confirm that what Kamas did on October 7th is something you wish that you could do. When they broke through the border of Israel on that horrific day, they also released the sick, demented hatred that so many of you carry in your perverted soul. Like Spain, for example, who are so ardent with their condemnation of Israel, so critical of Israelis celebrating an annual kill the [Â __Â ] day. Oh, wait a minute. I'm sorry.
That's my mistake. That's not us. They have an annual Matar Kudios week, literally meaning killing the Jews week, a centuries old tradition in the northern Spanish province of Leyon, where people drink a specific alcoholic cocktail during their Easter holiday.
That is acceptable in Europe. But God forbid that Jewish moles, the ones who perform the Jewish tradition of the Brit, do that in Belgium. There they are persecuted for that act. Oh, wait. Did I say persecuted? I meant to say prosecuted. I honestly don't care about it or about their hypocrisy. We now will not go gentle into that dark night.
Facing enemies who outnumber us in size and territory, who oppress minorities, who today are sick with the frustration that they can't do that to us anymore, so screw them all. Better they condemn us as Zionists than mourn us as victims.
And look at this. Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran.
Images of total destruction.
Look very closely and remember the days of pilgrims in Europe and the Arab countries where we were helpless victims are not coming back.
And all those commenting about how hated Israel is now. You sound like your great-grandparents. It's nothing new.
You know who else hated us?
They did. And guess what? They got over it. They don't hate us anymore. They're not alive anymore, but they don't hate us anymore.
So get in line with your hate. We've been there for generations.
And buzz off. And it's not only governments. This week, the UN marked World Press Freedom Day to highlight the importance of independent journalism leading up to World Press Freedom Week to allow for deeper exploration of media challenges, ethics, and safety. And in this week, they primarily condemned authoritarian regimes and of course the Israeli military for record-breaking levels of journalist fatalities and repression. The 2026 World Press Freedom Index by Reportel San Frontrontiers and data from the Committee to Protect Journalists labeled the Israeli Army as the biggest killer of journalists in the world. And this because Hamas and terrorists employed by news agencies wear press vests and helmets. Not to be left behind, the Foreign Press Association in Israel also issued a demand for Israel to scrap its broader security protocols. They're calling it a fight for press freedom, suggesting that without their physical presence in Gaza, the world is in the dark. Well, I worked with them for over 25 years. These same outlets, which often claim to be objective observers, conveniently ignore that terrorist entities would never let them employ independent media personnel in the areas that are under the terrorist control.
They never share the restrictions applied to them by the other side. Now, you don't have to be a genius to understand this. It's very clear to anybody with a brain in their head that if you are a terrorist that controls an area, you're not going to let anybody operate there freely. So, they never admit to local people they employ using the immunity given to them by press vehicles, for example, in order to transfer arms and terrorists and engaging Israel in the combat zones. and they never show the images shared by the terrorist organizations themselves in memoriam of those same press members clad in terrorist fatigues after they were taken out by Israel.
There is also the question of the media's self-proclaimed necessity. While they argue that only they can provide the truth, they are simultaneously ignoring the realities that don't fit their personal politics. The crown prince of Iran, Reza Pakabi, had the misfortune of encountering just that last week and had this to say about Western media while on tour in Europe.
My visit had one objective, to give a voice to the millions of Iranians held hostage by the Islamic Republic, its terror, and its internet blackout, the millions of Iranians who have been silenced.
But I can now say with confidence that that silencing, that censorship is not just happening at the hands of the regime in Iran, but by the international and particularly the European media.
>> He explains how he met with 150 journalists and spoke with them for over two hours. And here is how they responded. And in those two hours, not a single of the 150 journalists asked me a question about the 40,000 Iranians slaughtered on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th.
>> Baklav even had families of Iranians murdered by the regime with him, but they were not asked a single question.
What were the press interested in? Here is how he concluded. Here in the heart of a continent that claims to stand for human rights, justice, and dignity, its journalists have fully abdicated their professional responsibilities and even their moral objectivity.
They seem more interested in criticizing America, asking why the United States and Israel killed the dictator that has slaughtered our people for 47 years than criticizing the regime doing the slaughter.
>> It's a classic case of the self-proclaimed fourth estate trying to dictate policy.
Whether you see them as defenders of the truth or simply as an industry looking to boast its uh own ratings at the expense of the truth, one thing is clear. These news giants aren't just reporting the news. They're trying to force their opinion on all of us. So there's no surprise then when you see headlines like this that just leave you with partial information, not letting you know that entered areas that they were banned from returning to, which is also part of the ceasefire agreement, or that they were preparing to fire missiles at Israel. The media create impressions of the truth, knowing that most people only read the headlines, and then by sheer volume of negativity, they formulate an impression of what is happening, and they're basically lying to you. But unlike the past, now we can call them out on it. All right, so now let's take a deep breath and relax and move on as we take a look at some of the events unfolding this week. With the war in Iran, it appears we're caught in what I can best describe as an unstable middle. Negotiations seem frozen.
Everyone pretends it's still alive, but they're not moving or producing anything. It's diplomatic theater without a script. But while the political track is stuck, the economic pressure is doing its work. Sanctions, restrictions, financial isolation, these are not just symbolic. They're accumulating pressure and slowly grinding Iran. They reshape the strategic landscape without a single shot being fired.
And into this vacuum between the deadend negotiation and the possibility of a major war, the United States is pushing the middle path maneuver. Washington announced an operation to extract tankers, commercial vessels that are trapped in the Strait of Hormuz. On the surface, it's a technical mission, but it is a strategic message. It's an attempt to reopen the straits under the banner of freedom of navigation, one of the core principles of international order without lifting the economic siege on Iran. And why this important is because the Americans are not doing it for themselves. They're doing this for the rest of the world. The Americans have their own oil resources. So if anything happens here and if the Iranians continue with this then the United States is fighting for the rest of the world. This is absolute brilliance.
And now once again this is a familiar pattern and the ball is back in the Iranians court. Trump gave them until next Wednesday. So we shall see.
Thran can choose restraint or it can choose to challenge the United States.
Not through a declared confrontation, but some miscalculation, a test, a provocation, or a simple step that goes too far. Who knows? No one last week expected the attack on the United Arab Emirites. That turns the unstable Middle East into something much larger. Real historic events don't unfold at the pace of Tik Tok clips or even at the course of a news cycle. And I go back to what I said last month when the ceasefire just began. We in the west live in a society is programmed for immediate gratification. No waiting, no process, just here and now. When something takes time, when it unfolds in stages or demands patience, we don't endure it.
But that's not how process works.
History doesn't stream on demand. It doesn't skip to the finale. It unfolds slowly and unpredictably. That's what the whole game is about, time. And the same goes for Gaza and Lebanon. Gaza exists in its own suspended reality. A ceasefire that is technically in place but functionally asymmetric. Aid flowing in at massive scale but weapons not flowing out. Kamas still present but diminished. A present absent actor. It's a territory that functions just enough to avoid collapse but not enough to resolve anything. A frozen equilibrium.
While kamas is trying to preserve its control, 44,000 Gazins have immigrated from the Gaza Strip through the land crossing so far. When you're talking about free free Gaza, well, you have flee flee Gaza. And Israel continues its efforts announcing that it has completed the destruction of Hamas infrastructure in Bethanon both above and below ground.
And this after two and a half years.
That just gives you an idea of how much they had invested in these infrastructures underneath the ground in the Gaza Strip. Lebanon too is living in this unstable middle. We are waiting for negotiations with Lebanon to commence even though we know it cannot enforce its own decisions. And every week we continue to expose tunnels, weapons, infrastructure, all meant to attack us on a moment's notice. On Wednesday night, Israel took out the Iranian terror liaison to Hezbollah, the head of the Radwan force who was planning an attack on Israel. It's a good indication that what we were willing to tolerate pre-occtober 7th is no longer going to happen.
And if you think the Middle East is not your problem, not your war, then before signing off, I want to leave you with a thought raised by Arab affairs expert Id Bar, who I've quoted here before. It captures something that is deeper than geopolitics. It captures the psychology of the moment. In a recent post, she offers a striking comparison, one that forces us to look at the ideological currents that are shaping the west with a bit more sobriety. She reminds us that what we now call social justice movements once had a very different name in another part of the world. It was the method of the Iranian revolution.
Bar draws a direct line between Ayatollah Khmeni in 1979 and the new generation of Western political activists and she's pointing to a familiar strategy.
Humani understood that if you want to destabilize a western aligned society, you don't begin with theology. You begin with promises. Free electricity, free water, justice for the poor, a war on corruption. A dream wrapped in the word free. Sound familiar? In 2026, Zoran Mdani, the mayor of New York, promises free housing, free transportation, social justice, and a war on the rich.
Humeni used the Iranian left to rise to power, and then he eliminated it.
Mandani uses the woke generation to take over the New York City municipality.
So, where do you think this is going to lead? This is the Red Green Alliance at its best. an extreme ideology disguised as social progress. And indeed, it reminds us of something else. In 1979, many western intellectuals were convinced that Kumeni represented liberation and modernism.
Only later did they understand that what had actually taken shape. History doesn't always repeat itself with the same symbols. Sometimes it simply changes its language, its slogans, and its target audience. And Id bar leaves us with this. The question is not whether New York will become Tehran. The question is why the Western intellectuals keep falling in love with the same ideological mechanisms just with new slogans.
It's a question you can ponder. Until next time, thank you for joining me here. I'm Daniel Seaman and this is Straight Up from the JNS TV studios in Jerusalem, Israel.
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