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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRtRDeopt40 00:00 damn it Daniel mad is lying to you this bastard is too good not to be on their radar they swear they have nothing not even a Hamas code name Israelis Tracked Down shik Yasin and ranzi in the heart 00:14 of Gaza you cannot tell me that they do not know who this guy is this is NCIS a real meat and potatoes cop show that's been running for 21 years and for most of that run it's been weirdly obsessed 00:27 with Israel this tape aired on Al jazer after SEL himself up along with nine Israeli civilians on a bus in Jerusalem it's the Joint Chiefs battle plans in the event of an attack on Israel officer 00:37 deade was sent back to Israel when she went back to Israel Bargo was a specialist in Israel You're an Israeli junah he'd want to kill Israelis Brothers in Israel I'm Israeli Israel 00:46 Israel Israeli Israeli Espionage is all over NCIS with dozens of episodes that include mad which is basically the Israeli CIA you may have heard about mad recently as they were behind one of the 00:58 most aggressive and overt acts of Espionage in recent years news right now some 150 people have been wounded in Beirut suburbs and other parts of Lebanon after there handheld pagers 01:09 reportedly exploded today sources tell CNN the pager attack on Tuesday was a joint operation involving the Israel Defense Forces and the country's major spy agency the mosad across Lebanon on 01:22 Tuesday at around 3:30 in the afternoon thousands of pagers exploded almost at the same time scenes like this playing out hundreds of times across Lebanon within the space of an hour a targeted 01:34 coordinated highly technical attack on September 17th 2024 thousands of pagers in Lebanon and Syria exploded killing at least 42 people and wounding nearly 3500 this was the latest escalation in the 01:46 most recent chapter of the Israeli States ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza that hit high gear following the October 7th attacks in 20123 the pager attack was executed by mad against Hezbollah a 01:58 group that's been launching Rockets into Israel and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza but it's clear that a ton of Lebanese civilians were caught in the literal thousands of explosions these pagers 02:07 exploded while people were on the road uh going about their daily lives basically in in supermarkets and hospitals uh driving their cars getting their kids from school a lot of the 02:19 coverage of the attack described it with some amount of awe impressed by the incredible feat of engineering and spycraft that mad was able to pull off on October 7th the Israeli intelligence 02:28 Services came across as Johnny English completely dumbfounded and dumb struck today they look like James Bond a very modern form of unconventional warfare blamed on Israel so how much planning do 02:40 you think went into this sophisticated coordination involving this old school device the New York Times wrote that quote Israel demonstrated technical prowess and partly restored the aura of 02:51 its intelligence agencies ABC News wrote that the unassuming pager took its place in the annals of Israeli covert operations history the Washington post wrote as an act of spycraft it is 03:02 without parallel one of the most successful and inventive penetrations of an enemy by an intelligence service in recent history this is illustrative of a larger American Media Trend using very 03:12 different language to talk about Israeli military operations versus the actions of their enemies you know the terrorists Hezbollah had to come to the full realization of what had only been a 03:23 suspicion which is what if there's more now as an organization they have to look at every device they have figure figure out where it came from how they got it um and if it's compromised which means 03:34 paranoia and fear has to be very very high inside that organization yeah maybe put down the Game Boy I mean it's a violent attack with civilian casualties meant to inspire paranoia and fear maybe 03:46 you could describe it as an act of Terror you know if someone else did it now this is not a new observation many have noted how news media often uses selective grammar to emphasize certain 03:57 killings or deaths as Elena dudam puts it plainly for Time Magazine Palestinians seem to die at the hands of an invisible executioner Palestinians are shot dead Palestinians starve 04:08 Palestinian children are found dead Palestinians die they aren't killed as if their death is a fault of their own but how did we get here why does this blatant double standard go unchallenged 04:18 by so many well that brings us back to NCIS and one of its main characters Zea deid who are you Ze David mad you're Israeli 04:31 very good the way you made that connection mad Israeli Zea isn't just an Israeli on TV she is arguably the most prominent Israeli representation in the history of American television even to 04:43 this day although although to be fair it's not exactly a stacked field of competition while Zea left NCIS way back in season 11 she's periodically returned and there's even a spin-off scheduled 04:54 for 2025 called NCIS Zea and Tony Zea has been praised in Israeli and Jewish Publications across the Spectrum in 2012 the Jerusalem Post called her the boob tub's outstanding Israeli Patriot a 05:06 self-disciplined and self-reliant Zionist Warrior a virtual one-woman Army and a sharpshooter Guided by an uniring moral compass the forward wrote In 2011 that Zea is our most prominent 05:18 televisual Israeli helping in her own way to spread awareness of Israeli culture and all this kind of got me wondering how has this show shaped our understanding of Israel as an ally in 05:28 the war on terror their brutal methods and why so many seem blind to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the regional war that seems primed to explode welcome to copaganda a series 05:40 of videos exploring the portrayal of the police on television and how that portrayal has shaped our understanding of who the police are and what they should be there's a playlist around here 05:49 somewhere turns out there's a lot of cop shows I don't know why I say that I know that it's always right up here today in a very special episode we're really not going to talk about policing that much I 05:58 mean NCIS does some police work but it's it's we we'll get to it it's complicated instead I want to look at the show's portrayal of mad and Israel because I think it can help us understand what 06:07 kind of thinking goes into supporting the current genocide in Gaza before we get into it a few things that this video is not it is not going to be a full history of Israel Palestine there are a 06:18 lot better people for that I'm just I'm just a TV guy second this is not a deep dive into NCIS at large because holy [ __ ] there is so much to be said about the forensics and the just general war 06:28 on terror stuff and a good lawyer could prove that but you're not getting a lawyer you're getting a transfer to a Naval Base in Cuba it's called GMO ever heard of it we're not here to talk about 06:39 that yet Perhaps in a future video patreon.com skip intro and finally while I'm going to be talking specifically about ncis's portrayal of Israel and Israeli politics that is separate from 06:50 Judaism critiquing the policies or actions of the nation state of Israel has nothing to do with the Jewish religion just like critiquing George W Bush's war on terror policies not 06:59 anti-christian even though he claimed that he was being led by his own brand of white jesus American and Israeli Jews are far from a monolith on this issue either groups like The Israeli Orthodox 07:10 netra Carta and the American group's Jewish voice for peace and if not now have been calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza since November 2023 there has long been Jewish resistance to 07:21 the occupation so I don't want to in any way conflate ethnic Jews with the decisions of the nation state of Israel trying to get the public to understand what we did in our military service so 07:31 they understand the prices of continuing the control of millions of Palestinians all right here we [Music] go let's start by talking a bit about 07:45 what NCIS is as a TV show how does it operate what what's its deal what's the deal with NCIS NCIS has been one of the top five most watch shows every year since 2008 and almost always the most 07:58 watch show once you take out Sunday night and Thursday night football and NCIS only has slightly more military propaganda thas again another sack for D Thomas the show has spawned a slew of 08:14 creatively titled spinoffs like NCIS laa NCIS New Orleans NCIS Hawaii NCIS Sydney and NCIS Origins I mean how do they come up with these even in the streaming age the series is still pulling in roughly 08:26 10 million viewers per episode and there aren't even any original cast members left well okay McGee is still on the show but he's hardly recognizable cuz the whole OIC glow up and he's the 08:36 show's punching back so who really cares you're 5:00 McGee green SUV oh jeez Mi I kept it stey there's no way around it NCIS is one of the most popular shows in the history of American 08:52 television all while routinely being a punching bag for other comedies all the greatest detective shows are focused around a Central usually titular character code Jack monk ncas who's 09:04 nicas you know nicas sometimes he goes to Los Angeles sometimes he goes to New Orleans are you do you mean NCIS no hang on recent breakup fanny pack cat quick who is the lead character 09:18 on NCIS special agent Jethro Gibbs in your office now so sorry man we're prepping for a movie this is gritty Indie flick we play soldiers trying to adjust to life back home seriously 09:28 you've never seen NCIS LA while technically it's a police procedural NCIS is a little different from most cop shows whereas many shows focus on cops taking to the streets interviewing 09:38 Witnesses and Gathering evidence most of the police work on NCIS is done from a lab or an office the focus is on magical forensics and surveillance the kind of stuff that most people realize is kind 09:50 of [ __ ] can you pull up the bullet trajectory data [Music] wow plus I really got to get one of these obviously budget's permitting this 10:07 a single Source wow it's like if Sports Center covered terrorism you know other than football football is a war crime while there's a lot to be said about forensics again we're going to save that 10:17 for another video what we need to know here is the result of all that lab work NCIS mostly takes place in an office making it more like a light-hearted workplace drama than a hardboiled cop 10:27 show the driving force isn't really the Episode by episode cases but rather the inner relationships of the team it's a bit more of a Sentimental show than you'd expect like Fast INF Furious or 10:36 the Olive Garden when you're here it's your family dad this is why I don't want Tim driving my car you know I told Tim that that's 10:46 my car and and it's not a family car it's my car Gibbs is the patriarchal badge daddy a marine sniper suppressing his emotions kind of like my dad while guzzling coffee and hitting his kids 10:57 like he's Red Foreman on that 70 show Gibbs is never wrong because well he's the main character he's not in the Middle East he is here where'd you get that 11:09 Intel my gut Tony dooso is his misbehaving eldest son a self-described wild card and connoisseur of workplace sexual harassment yes yes dating was tough you need any help with that now 11:21 Paula no Tony thank you I've been there and I've done that quick question the pink ones do they taste like strawberry thought you said you weren't seeing anyone Tim McGee plays the computer tech 11:33 nerd who uses the weight of the American surveillance state to solve crimes from the comfort of his own desk desperately vying for the fatherly approval that he'll never get and last but certainly 11:42 not least is Zea deid the adopted hot isra lady assassin princess of the family the clear favorite of Gibbs probably because she's so good at killing people I've always sensed that 11:52 there's a strong bond between the two of you something shared [Music] perhaps she proved herself see McGee that's the way to get to his heart 12:13 murder get off your laptop and just start shooting some people that Family Focus and the physical distance from crime helps obscure the fact that nobody seems to really know what NCIS is in 12:23 real life are they cops are they soldiers o maybe they're magic crime fairies what's NCIS can't believe some people have never heard of us if you haven't seen 12:34 the show or just never bothered to pay attention NCIS is a real life organization the naval criminal investigative service they're in charge of investigating any deaths of Navy 12:44 personnel that aren't ruled natural causes that's their main thing but despite being a fairly small Federal agency they're only about 12250 agents they also have this insanely broad 12:54 Mandate of Counter Intelligence counterterrorism cyber warfare National Security and the prote of US Naval assets worldwide it's expansive the best way to think about NCIS is that they're 13:03 like all those other deep State three-letter acronyms NSA DEA CIA FBI IC ATF Etc but NCIS is different because they have four letters Federal authorities they mean us four stinking 13:20 letters NCIS this broad mandate is very well represented on the show one week they'll be investigating the fake suicide murder of a marine the next they'll be hunting down a Cold Case 13:30 serial killer and in another they'll be doing a rescue operation in Somalia they're literally all over the place well this is how the real life NCIS operates I think there's something 13:40 problematic about the way the show mixes counterterrorism work with what we would consider common policing sometimes you'll be watching an investigation into a pretty standard crime you'd find on 13:49 any cop show only for it to suddenly turn into a terrorist hunt so a robbery depends free m don't move cars wired to explode as scholar Ivon Tasker wrote in 2012 the show depends on 14:06 a fluid understanding of the boundaries between different types of crime terrorism is as often motivated by personal as political concerns and investigations of routine crimes such as 14:16 drug dealing can lead the team to concerns of National Security whereas what initially seems to be a case of terrorism masks themes of adultery and sexual jealousy very familiar to viewers 14:26 of the crime drama so between the blurring of the crimes and the distance from those crimes and the family aspect as opposed to the mystery aspect you get this kind of central ambiguity on NCIS 14:38 they really don't want you thinking too hard about anything the show has an almost code switching ability that allows it to dip in and out of the Spy genre or the crime genre or the 14:48 workplace sitcom in a way that obscures just how little information they give us about what's actually going on with their enemies often they're portrayed as extremists falling into one of two camps 14:59 they're either unrelatable monsters who just love death and that works for you for anell crazy terrorist kills himself can't really understand that mentality doesn't mean I can't accept it 15:10 or they're just in it for some selfish reason whether that's money or or Revenge understand my feelings about Israel are far from political and hardly personal it's strictly business hell my 15:22 own attorney is a Jew the showe never wants to Grapple with any kind of ideology except to hit basic talking points about them usually involving some number of virgins bohamed last night he 15:32 died for rivers of honey and 72 virgins maybe he wanted to make sure that he got the 70 virgins instead of some Muslim with an alias he used well he's not in it for the 70 virgins you'd have no 15:41 trouble attracting women it's always it's always the virgins while we are going to primarily focus on Arab coded terrorists in this video since they're the ones that come up in Mad plot lines 15:51 it's important to note that NCIS has a pretty wide distribution of crazy bad guys so to see how this Dynamic plays out on a more neutral playing field let's look at season 9 villain Harper 16:01 Dearing a venture capital CEO who becomes a terrorist after his son a Navy sailor dies in an explosion because his ship wasn't up to spec so he becomes a terrorist trying to blow up American 16:12 vessels in order to show off how dangerous they are the terrorist attack that killed my son Evan did not need to happen these recent attacks the vulnerabilities that I have pointed out 16:24 they needed to be disclosed sacrificing a few I have have saved thousands of lives I mean who Among Us hasn't been there this motive kind of morphs into a more personal Vendetta against agent 16:36 Gibbs because Gibbs is the hero of the story I I truly think that's about as deep as it goes you have a job to do Gibs I've done mine as media critic Robert applebomb described the episode 16:55 in 2019 however implausible the story not the story of during's anger but of what he plans and accomplishes when he acts upon it it falls into line with a conventional interpretation of terrorist 17:05 violence its main spring being resentment and frustration focusing his attention on one man who has actually had nothing to do with his son's death and thus displacing his anger from an 17:15 institution onto an individual or perhaps to a suicidal pact another conventional feature of terrorist violence the show has very little interest in understanding their enemies 17:25 and viewers are kind of just expected to take everything as a given of nature America is good so our enemies are bad why are they bad because they're not us and also they're crazy and violent which 17:38 we definitely aren't you have no rights you're a terrorist on a US Navy ship and we're invoking the Patriot Act in an hour you're going to be flown off this ship escorted by agent David and myself 17:50 to Aviano Airbase where you're going to board a c 37a and you're going to be flown to Guantanamo Bay Cuba once there you're going to be staying at a Sunny little seaside resort the locals call 18:02 gitmo heard a nasty rumor about what goes on down there on NCIS terrorism is kind of just a thing that's always happening a thing that the agents have to handle like any other natural 18:12 disaster just like there's no way to reduce the number of tornadoes the best we can do is just limit the Damage Done by them but this brings us back to our main question why does a lazily written 18:25 CVS deep State procedural have so much to say about is really spies did I miss the memo is this NCIS Tel Aviv I've been watching the first major character from Israel introduced on the show isn't 18:41 actually Zea it's a man named Ary hesari and he is not a friend to the team long story short Ary is a deep cover Massad agent infiltrating Hamas and while he was trying to get inside he 18:56 had to do some bad guy terrorists things to look like he was a bad guy terrorist Zea is sent in as his Handler and to get him out of hot water with any local law enforcement at least that's what mad 19:07 thinks in reality Arie is half Israeli and half Palestinian and has chosen his Palestinian side and joined tamas although the show like we laid out before pretty light on the details of 19:17 his motivation one has to wonder what made him such a sades I don't give a damn I just want to kill the bastard hey I I told you it was an uncurious show Ary ends up explaining that he joined 19:29 Hamas because his father the director of msad killed his Palestinian mother and now he's a double double agent it was a retaliatory Israeli strike on the day I was in Tel 19:41 Aviv visiting him the Decades of planning he had his mle in her M he never knew how much I hated him yeah I almost feel sorry for you is that a triple agent or a quadruple agent not 19:55 not a math guy but AR's explanation is literally just this two-minute scene at the end of a multi-episode multi-season multi-year Arc the show spends just as much time wondering if maybe he's just 20:06 an adrenaline junkie he needs to face death to feel alive maybe to feel anything or maybe it's because he has a personal Vendetta against Gibbs because Ary is so 20:19 threatened by gibbs' hyper masculine centerp part we now think he's here for more personal reasons he's planning on killing Gibbs in the end Z is convinced that Ary has 20:29 turned and kills him to save Gibbs and then the plot twist when Zea reveals this he's my half brother show literally sounds like Jane the Virgin when I explain it anyways 20:42 that's Zea's introduction to the team and she joins NCIS as a liaison to mad as a character Zea is Stern and tough she's reserved she's smart she's fiercely loyal and Hyper capable 20:54 something the show frequently credits to her massage training shouldn't feel bad I was trained by the best you know that's what I like about mad our training modesty but the most important 21:07 detail about Zea she's hot you're sweating it's hot in here I had not noticed really I'm not just saying that her sex appeal was literally the entire 21:20 focus of the character creation process after actress Sasha Alexander left the show in 2005 producers needed a new girl but didn't really have much to go on other than that as Creator Donald 21:30 Bellisario told tv.com quote I want to go for a European or Australian girl who is very comfortable with her femininity and sexuality when actress coach to depablo auditioned for the part the 21:40 actor who plays Tony dooso Michael Weatherly deviated from the script pushing her hair behind her ear and saying my God you are so pretty you remind me of Salma hyek As depablo Told 21:51 her Alma moer Carnegie melon my primary thought was don't let this guy get physically close to you and at that moment everybody in the room room started laughing and thought it was the 22:00 funniest thing in the world because the chemistry between the two characters was perfect impressed with how she dealt with Weatherly going off script and being generally creepy they gave her the 22:09 job and insisted that she'd not take a cab ride home but instead ride with Weatherly so they could work on their chemistry toblo resisted but eventually she was kind of forced into it Carnegie 22:20 melon quotes Weatherly talking about the car ride like this initially I thought wow this is a frosty unfriendly almost mean girl but by the end of it I dro dropped her off and thought wow she's 22:30 kind of sweet deep down so to recap uh the showrunners of NCIS were looking for a girl and the only thing they had to go on was that she had to be a hot Foreigner and had to be cool with creepy 22:42 co-stars got it I tell this story to illustrate just how much the core of Zea's character is to be eye candy that can give a feisty retort to [Music] 22:52 misogyny ever been tied up by a woman before huh did you like it and today's not your lucky day and the details about her being Israeli and 23:05 part of mad were an afterthought this one trck mind on her being hot first and foremost is even further highlighted by the fact that Depo isn't Israeli she's Chilean which is let me check my map 23:17 almost literally could not be further away from Israel as the Jerusalem Post reported in 2007 depablo quote spent the first 10 years of her life in Santiago the eldest daughter of an upper class 23:28 right-wing family and given the social stratification of Chilean society never met a Jewish child or for that matter any poor people despite this background Depo actually thinks she's a she's a 23:39 pretty good fit for this role telling the post that once she finally did get around to meeting some Jewish people she immersed herself in the history of World War II the Holocaust the capture of 23:47 Adolf Eman and became fascinated by the Jews struggle for survival I identified with them it's uh same Vibes as this your great great great grandfather Robert Elliot it was part 24:00 africanamerican I knew it I knew it thank you God I always felt akin to to to black people now it is absolutely wild to say that you identify with Holocaust Survivors as a privileged 24:16 right-winger but especially in Chile since there was a whole ass Nazi concentration camp run by actual Nazis after the war that did some torturing for pet in the 1970s it was just a quick 24:27 4-Hour drive from where to Pablo grew up the military government and the colony each found something they needed in the other Paul Sheffer needed new political allies and protection and Pet's agents 24:39 who AV versed in only the most crude forms of torture wanted someone to teach them the more sophisticated methods of interrogation another ex-nazi who was a welcome guest at Colonia dignidad was 24:51 Walter Ralph the man responsible for creating Mobile Gas chambers that led to 100,000 deaths wait a second family was upper class and and right-wing during the P regime come here kot who is it you 25:05 identify with you you said you identify with them who who's the them who's the them but even though the character wasn't designed to be any deeper than hot making her Israeli is an interesting 25:16 choice given that the Israeli military has long used hotness and sex to recruit if you've been on Tik Tok there's a high chance that you've encountered gun waiu or a similar account featuring Hot IDF 25:27 soldiers in ridiculous ly tight clothing showing off the guns they use to mow down the children of [Music] Gaza it's important to remember just who 25:44 they're bragging about killing 43.5% of the Gaza strip's population is under the age of 15 Oxfam International places conservative estimates of the gazen children killed in the year since 25:55 October 7th at 11,000 accounting for nearly 1/4 of the Dead little less Rambo little more Casey [Applause] [Music] 26:06 Anthony gun Wu AKA Natalia FIV is a member of the alpha gun Angels whole ass network of gun toing IDF models who primarily post what amounts to military nationalist propaganda journalist Sophia 26:20 goodfriend described an alpha gun Angel's appearance at a massive Israeli military Expo for the magazine Jewish currents in 2019 writing quote the angels render Israeli militarism 26:29 sanitized sexy and salable effacing the specific lethal effects of its defense and security apparatus it doesn't matter what the gun or combat accessory can do or has done to occupy people it just 26:41 matters that the angels look good doing it I I mean just look how hot they are with their guns and this isn't a case of just some soldiers having fun while they're taking a break from bombing 26:51 heavily populated areas the IDF itself has even posted some of these thirst traps to their official Twitter account claiming that it was is a picture they'd use to catfish their enemies but I don't 27:01 know feels about as flimsy as felt cute might delete later oooo of course this isn't new back in 2007 IDF veterans including future Wonder Woman gal gdau posed for sexy photos in Maxim next to 27:14 captions describing their favorite Parts about being IDF soldiers like I loved shooting the M16 and I was good at hitting the targets you got you got to practice on the small targets because 27:23 you're you're aiming for for for kids and they're tiny you know they haven't grown yet and it's not just hot ladies promoting the IDF in 2012 electronic inata found a whole slew of naked 27:34 Israeli men under the IDF tag on instagram and looked at some of the other posts on those accounts like this one captioned [ __ ] all Arabs their blood is tasty literally vampire [ __ ] the 27:45 Israeli sex cells approach goes deeper than simple military recruitment as well you may have heard about Birthright Israel an organization that sponsors Jewish diaspora community members to 27:54 visit Israel and learn about their Heritage it is the largest education tourism organization in the world with about 20% of American Jews between the ages of 18 and 46 having taken the trip 28:05 while the trip is ostensibly about introducing tourists to historic sites and learning about Israeli culture that's not the only goal as kiar Feldman wrote in the nation in 2011 quote the 28:15 common denominator of Birthright experience is the promotion by turns winking and overt of flings among participants or between participants and soldiers no problem if there's intimate 28:25 encounters an Israel Outdoors employee told old American staffers during training in fact it's encouraged Birthright boasts that alumni are 51% more likely to marry other Jews than 28:36 non-participants Birthright was conceived of by yasi Balin an Israeli politician who felt that intermarriage was diluting Jewish identity and wanted to create a situation where spouses are 28:47 available that's why Birthright only accepts applicants between the ages of 18 and 26 for fertility reasons hey did you know that a woman's fertility starts to decrease about the age of 25 and it's 28:59 not like Birthright is a political Feldman writes that quote no longer is it simply a project to shore up Jewish identity Birthright has joined the fight for the political loyalties of young 29:09 Jews she goes on to describe her tour like this the tour guide used Palestinian interchangeably with terrorists driving through Northern Israel shachar gave a lesson on 29:18 judaization the government's term for settlement policy passing through an Israeli Arab town he called our attention to a litter strewn Road perhaps a result of inequities in 29:27 Municipal funding which escaped mention and then point into a neat ring of State subsidized Jewish towns judaization he explained was necessary to keep them from spreading Birthright in what it 29:38 does by refusing to discuss show the occupation or even allow us to hear from Palestinians um what it's really doing is is hiding the occupation from Young American Jews like myself now I'm not 29:50 saying you're a bad person if you went on or enjoyed a Birthright trip they look fun as hell who wouldn't want hot people thrown at you while you're encouraged to [ __ ] them all in what is 29:59 likely the first international trip you've ever taken without your parents that sounds like the beginning of a pretty rad 2000s party movie what I am saying is that trying to manipulate how 30:08 people breed in order to create some pure undiluted race of people just kind of gives me the heebie gbes it it never seems to work out well and I think that when we look at Zea whose two defining 30:18 characteristics are being hot and being an Israeli assassin we start to head towards some uh troubling territory the Israeli State often uses women soldiers to contrast between them and the 30:29 comparative sexual repression of their Arab neighbors portraying Israel as a protector of women and the queer [Music] [Applause] 30:43 [Music] community and while Israeli law is certainly more Progressive on some of these issues it's not like they're only dropping bombs on siset Palestinian men 30:56 they're not smashing the matriarchy speaking of sex NCIS can't shut the [ __ ] up about it why don't you visualize her naked does she intimidate you woman hasn't been born yet who can 31:08 intimidate Anthony denoo if you tell McGee I'm going to post those bikini photos that I have on the agency website I told you to destroy them well a man's got to have leverage misogyny is kind of 31:19 a defining feature of NCIS as a TV show oh uh well women Tony is constantly hitting on women and creepy ways and female co-workers are routinely dismissed or 31:31 bulldozed by their male colleagues any problem taking orders from me as director or as a woman L easy H she was just doing what she was told you do not get to determine what is worth sharing 31:42 and what is not I don't answer to you agent Gibbs yes you do yes you do on the job it is director Shepherd or ma'am okay what about off the job there won't be any off 31:57 the job agent that's too bad I missed you Jen all of the men on the show partake of this Behavior even McGee Sports his own brand of nice guys 32:08 misogyny I couldn't decide between childish Juvenile and just plain old annoying it's true and you you know better but you're so busy playing the faithful sidekick you just go along for 32:20 the ride Gibbs and ducky embrace the label chauvinist just face it Jethro you and I are a couple of old chauvinists women will never be equal in our eyes until they're equal in death boy I bet 32:34 they're really into Andrew Tate today speaking of an alleged sex criminal it should be noted that Michael Weatherly has been involved in some really gross workplace sexual harassment actress 32:43 paully pet accused star Mark Harmon of attacking her and also that the showrunner for NCIS New Orleans was fired for his own brand of sexual misconduct but the jokes the team makes 32:53 are accompanied by quirky music so they're actually just funny SE exist first things first got to narrow down perspective agents it's got to be a woman those are just a women are there 33:02 photos in here boss boss really Tony pics because you know coming from anyone else that might be considered a laps in judgment okay you both picked that makes much more sense you don't trust me to be 33:13 professional no Casting Couch Tony I just died and you're having a sexual fantasy I can't help it oh that's nice isn't it you know what's even 33:29 nicer my current view Victoria Secret Agent Cassidy see it's it's a joke just listen to the music yeah woohoo what's a little sexual workplace harassment between friends now I'm not just 33:43 bringing this up to dunk on ncis's sexism because there's a pretty disgusting sexist Spectrum on the show when it comes to the Israelis on the show they're portrayed as sex positive 33:53 and sexually active am I sensing something between the two of you nothing serious you haven't slept together then well of course we are sleeping together it's just nothing 34:04 serious got to get back to Israel and when it comes to the Arabs on the show they're portrayed as hyp sexist and Hyper misogynist director Vance's wife was caught in the crossfire fanis woman 34:14 is dead as well her name was Jackie being slapped by a woman is twice the insult of a s she doesn't know why should she she's just a woman women should never get involved in politics 34:25 it's a waste of beauty you are a woman you're a genius I have no problem with women but I cannot vouch for my men but really this is all the same harassment and misogyny right the Americans 34:41 Israelis and Arabs are all engaging in the same kind of sexism but it's portrayed on a kind of sliding scale of acceptability crucially with Americans at the top of the ethical ladder excuse 34:51 me Ary is a chauvinist he is taking out the women I work with before me give I thought you were proud to be a chauvinist yourself game recognize game I guess the point is that it is 35:02 literally the same behavior identified for being that behavior but with the gravity of the accusation having everything to do with the color of that character's skin and this weird moral 35:12 hierarchy isn't just reserved for sex it's also the best way to view the show's perspective on violence and Middle Eastern [Music] 35:24 geopolitics for as much as mad and Israel are represent Ed on NCIS the show's portrayal of them is far from glowing instead you might actually be surprised to learn that it's pretty 35:35 antagonistic right from the jump as I mentioned earlier the Show's first portrayal of a Mad agent is Ary haswari who turns out to be a double agent working for Hamas when Zea shows up to 35:44 handle the situation Gibbs immediately confronts her with this that's all we ask don't kill the wrong man like mad did in Norway that mistake cost us dearly not as dearly as the Palestinian 35:54 waiter you killed now what Gibbs is referring to is known as The Lily Hammer Affair where in 1973 mad operatives assassinated a Moroccan waiter not a Palestinian in Norway shooting him 13 36:06 times in front of his wife turns out they had the wrong guy mistaking him for a Palestinian militant an honest mistake you know he was brown the guy they were looking for was brown they're not even 36:17 from the same continent it was an international incident a Norwegian law enforcement captured and convicted several of the Mad agents involved so Gibbs bringing this up is pretty hostile 36:27 right at the very least it brings up a massive Israeli [ __ ] and highlights an assassination program that has been internationally criticized according to New York Times magazine writer Ronan 36:36 Bergman since World War II Israel has used assassination and targeted killing more than any other country in the West in many cases endangering the lives of civilians just this year Israeli 36:48 assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders have been carried out by air strikes killing dozens in the process all these are the scenes overnight of the camp in Rafa set Ablaze the Israeli 36:59 military claim two CN Hamas officials were killed in the strike with what they called prise Munitions local officials say most of the casualties were women and children hell in mad's decades long 37:12 quest to assassinate Palestinian leader yaser Arafat Former Defense Minister Ariel Chiron even ordered an attack on a commercial plane carrying a doctor 30 children and crucially not yaser Arafat 37:24 thankfully the mission leader called the air strike off but if you haven't noticed that hasn't exactly stopped the Israeli military from bombing hospitals or refugee camps in the years since 37:33 Hospital workers over over the past 12 months as well as as having to deal with the most horrific of injuries that they're tending to have also had to evacuate have had to pack up time and 37:45 time again as a result of evacuation orders as a result of fighting NCIS definitely highlights this kind of recklessness and collateral damage often depicting mad operations with big 38:07 explosions mad operations are not only messy Ary is far from the only Shady agent in their ranks Zea and AR's father the head of mad Eli deid sends an agent named Michael rivkin to spy on an 38:20 American intelligence Summit where he actually kills an ice agent to avoid being discovered dead man is ice that's cold immigration Customs Enforcement oh no think of all the families that ice 38:33 agent won't be able to rip apart and in classic messy NCIS style the show also R conon Zea's introduction to the team as a covert Mission her father Center on assassinating Ary in order to gain 38:43 gibbs's trust and provide intelligence back to mad from inside NCIS Harry was out of control so Zea's father sent her to eliminate him she kills Ary earns your trust two 38:56 birds one bullet it really does sound like a deep stay telen Noll in the 10th season NCIS hunts down a rogue Massad agent named Elon bodnar who assassinated Eli and tried to frame Iranian 39:09 intelligence so that he could become the new director of mad which is how that would work mad claims Bodner acted alone the Israelis are as anxious to find him as we are he hired the Hitman but when 39:19 ases took himself out Bodner finished the job himself depending on you take out sa take over as director of mad so I wouldn't say that this portrayal mad or Israel is uh kind NCIS even engages in a 39:31 pretty boring and tired anti-semitic Trope where the show brings into question Zea's dual loyalties to Israel and to NCIS giving more Credence to the idea that this show is maybe not all 39:42 that fond of Israel are you by any chance questioning my loyalty I'm worried because you don't seem to understand that your secret friend is interfering with this agency's ability 39:52 to shut down a terrorist cell you've been in the service of two masters for too long you're to your father and mad predates anything else because Eva I don't know who you answer to anymore 40:03 NCIS or mad what is it you expect from me I expect your loyalty to me and only me but in classic code switching NCI fashion the show morphs this anti-semitic Trope of dual loyalties 40:17 into a more purely misogynistic one you see Zea's dad is Eli deid the head of msad but her adopted dad is Gibbs Eli is all but dead to me and the closest thing I 40:32 have to a father is accusing me as critic Eaton kensky summed it up in 2011 quote she's not loyal to a tradition or a nation but to a daddy I'm telling you these writers 40:46 literally cannot comprehend someone believing in something but the tense relationship portrayed on NCIS between American and Israeli intelligence is pretty historically accurate in the 40:55 1960s the Kennedy Administration sought intelligence over the Israeli nuclear program in 1984 actual NCIS agent Jonathan Pard was revealed to have been stealing classified material from Assad 41:06 the US has periodically criticized Israeli intelligence for targeted killings and the Snowden leaks revealed that American and British spies had targeted the Israeli Prime Minister 41:15 likewise in 2019 Israel was accused of planting listening devices inside the White House Trump was unbothered but despite this history you'd be wrong to think that Israeli intelligence is 41:26 viewed as anything but our closest and most abusive partner those Snowden leaks also reveal that the NSA shares its raw unredacted data of American civilians with Israel as the guardian reported in 41:37 2013 quote but the memorandum makes clear that the information shared with Israelis would be in its pre- minimized State Israel is allowed to receive raw sigint signal intelligence including but 41:49 not limited to unevaluated and un minimized transcripts gists the similes tect voice and digital Network intelligence metadata and content and like in real life NCIS and mad remain 42:01 close throughout the show's history despite the many uh many betrayals sometimes patience is a necessity otherwise you end up making an enemy out of your 42:11 friend and then we end up with a dead American and a dead Israeli and I know that's the last thing either one of us wants at no point is Israeli Ally ship ever in question even when they've 42:21 killed an American law enforcement agent in an attempt to spy on an intelligence Summit that that feels like a big deal oh I understand Eli I don't judge you I never have sure NCIS shows that they're 42:34 messy both in terms of their targeted killings and in terms of their loyalty but Zea is always the main contact and she plays the role of a good immigrant the kind of person who can be reformed 42:44 and shown the American way eventually quitting mad and becoming a full-fledged NCIS agent and while the show presents us criticisms of Israeli policy we can see that same moral hierarchy here that 42:55 we saw with misogyny and sex you can hear it in the way that the show talks about mad and Hamas using the exact same language Hamas is like the mafia they never trust anyone outside the family SS 43:07 like the mafia one big happy family when NCIS operates like a big happy incestuous family that's great but when non-americans do it it's it's the mafia when it comes to violence it's even more 43:18 blatant Palestinians oh they just they love killing people and they don't care who else they hurt in the process Wars are measured in body counts the news carries a running 43:29 tally you change the world with rivers of blood there is no reason to kill just one person Israelis are portrayed as loving violence too with the show 43:43 especially hammering home the idea that Eli deid is a monster for training his children to be Assassins but most of the time the others I can feel them looking at me and silently wondering how can a 43:54 father possibly raise his daughter to be a professional killer but in a gesture the show never offers to Arabs it goes out of its way to tell us that the Israelis are only so violent because you 44:04 couldn't possibly understand the pressure they're under the view from where I sit is quite different the threats are immediate every day is a fight to 44:14 survive it is my dream that my daughter will not have to make that decision with her sons and her daughters I am saddled with responsibilities that you cannot possibly fathom the safety of a Nation 44:26 when every one of our neighbors wants us dead and the Americans well it's no accident that Gibbs is a sniper looks sweet the way you hold that boss a kind of symbol of precise clean violence he 44:36 can come and go without a trace killing only the crazy bad guys and nobody else remember when I told you my boss was a sniper on NCIS when we do violence it's unambiguously Justified oh jeez well all 44:58 I can say is if we killed them they must have been bad guys when the Israelis do it it's not good but you know it's necessary I don't have the luxury of allowing my feelings to dictate my 45:08 actions and when the bad guys do it well that's just that's just evidence that they're evil how can you support any group that lets their children blow themselves up their leaders say that 45:16 suicide bombers are all they have to fight with sir when Hamas leaders start blowing themselves up I'll consider it ah yes because our president is always on the front lines we don't send 45:27 children but we do send 18-year-olds that can't afford to go to college No Child Left Behind threatened to cut Federal funding from schools that didn't give military recruiters private student 45:35 information No Child Left Behind guarantees Schools Federal funding as long as they Grant recruiters access to students on campus unlike the rest of us who have to show ID recruiters can walk 45:48 right in no questions asked I mean check out these military recruiters reaching out to literal children at a gaming convention the Army is here at one of the world's top gaming expose to 45:58 Showcase its latest recruitment tool the US Army Esports team maybe as good as me one day their goal turning virtual Fighters into real soldiers the newest Call of Duty Black 46:13 Ops is literally about how we need to take out Saddam Hussein before he unleashes weapons of mass destruction where have I heard that before year after year Saddam Hussein has gone to 46:24 elaborate lengths spend enormous SU s taking great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction luckily saddam's wmds and Call of Duty are obviously fictional it's a video game 46:36 but you know so were they in real life those weapons of mass destruction got to be somewhere when we do it it's recruitment when brown people do it it's brainwashing and when Israel does it 46:46 it's kind of intense but I don't know maybe I would do that too who's to say it's really [Music] complicated if you've ever engaged with 46:56 anything involv Israel and Palestine you've probably heard it described with the word complicated these nations Israel and Palestine have 75 years of ongoing tensions and conflict beginning 47:06 in the mid 20th century until now and it's very complicated of all the regions in the world none may have as complicated a history as the Middle East it's basically impossible to predict 47:17 what's going to happen in a place this complicated sure people are largely not in favor of the Israeli military bombing the streets of Gaza killing thousands of innocent women and children but they're 47:27 also not in favor of attacks like the ones on October 7th for the same reasons plus doesn't Israel have a right to exist don't we owe the Jewish people a safe Homeland after the horror that was 47:37 the Holocaust and someone else brings up the Noca and the decades long ethnic cleansing campaign and the Gaza Strip and the mission to push Palestinians out of the West Bank through Colonial 47:46 settlements and you kind of just throw your hands up in the air and say h it's just really complicated if we're being as charitable as possible I think this is the kind of opinion that NCIS leaves 47:55 its viewers with sure sure mad is sketchy and bad but so are the terrorists they're both bad I don't support either this is a sentiment that's very popular in America claiming 48:07 some kind of neutrality while also wondering if I don't know maybe it's okay since those guys are even worse okay real quick you don't think that I support Israel do you I don't but I 48:19 think that no I don't think you support Israel but I think you saying that like Palestinians are uh Palestinians are are immoral or evil or have an evil Antiquated uh culture or are barbaric is 48:33 not only a historical what's up I do I do think that you can hear it when activists protesting for a ceasefire or arms embargo are confronted with the but do you condemn Hamas you support hamash 48:46 do you not I Senator oddly enough I'm going to say thank you for that question because it demonstrates the purpose of our hearing today in a very 48:56 yes or no Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that I do not support but you asking the executive director of The arab-american Institute that question very much puts the focus on the issue of 49:07 hate in our country and I think that the general ambiguity of ncis's plot feeds into this is mad on our side are they good are they bad well it's complicated if you're just focusing on the show's 49:18 portrayal of Israel and mad it's tempting to view this as muddying the waters next time viewers see a debate about Israeli military policy and they think think back to the only exposure 49:27 they've ever had to that organization a CBS TV show called NCIS they'll throw up their hands and say I don't know it's it's complicated this is the prevailing opinion in the United States according 49:37 to an October 2024 Pew research poll 36% of Americans said that they weren't sure if Israel was going too far or not in its military operations more than any other response but it's complicated is a 49:49 thought terminating cliche that only serves the status quo because what this portrayal glosses over is the fact that the United States is not a neutral Observer here because 49:59 you know what's not complicated United States military aid to Israel since October 7th the Biden Administration has sent a record $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel and politicians of both 50:11 parties support unconditional ongoing Aid even as the Israeli military uses American Munitions to commit war crimes Amnesty International has documented a pattern of unlawful attacks by Israeli 50:22 forces in the occupied Gaza Strip including indiscriminate attacks that failed to distinguish between civilians and Military objectives and which caused Mass civilian casualties and this isn't 50:32 a new development axios estimates that more than 80% of Israel weapon imports from 1950 to 2020 were from the US and that the US foreign military financing represents around 15% of Israel's 50:44 defense budget in recent years Israel has received more than twice as much military aid from the United States as any other country has since 1946 according to the Council on Foreign 50:54 Relations during that same time period the Israeli military has routinely conducted not just targeted killings but attacks that deliberately Target densely populated communities in downtown 51:05 buildings yet despite this asymmetry $18 billion in Aid to the Israeli military and less than 3% that total for humanitarian Aid in Gaza American Media repeatedly covers Palestine in a way 51:16 that they would never refer to Israel here's CNN host Jake Tapper saying that the deaths of Palestinian civilians is unfortunate but really Hamas forced Israel to bomb heavily populated areas 51:27 right did they not anticipate IL Israel would retaliate in a way that would cause innocent Palestinians in Gaza to die especially given the fact that as has been established by Israeli 51:41 intelligence us intelligence and journalists who have visited Gaza the fact that Hamas embeds within the Palestinian population compare that to CNN's coverage of Iran's missile strike 51:51 on Israel which is portrayed as a dangerous escalation of violence that among the targets were Israeli airfields but also and this is crucial the headquarters of mad the the 52:02 international intelligence service of Israel which is inside Tel Aviv it's in the northern part of Tel Aviv but it's in the city it's in a densely populated area uh and of course the concern is if 52:14 you're firing even even though Iran might consider that a military Target it is in a densely populated city uh with civilians around it dare I say it's embedded the Hamas embeded heads within 52:27 the Palestinian population it seems like the Israeli military is never to blame for the bombs they drop whereas the innocent Palestinians well they get they just got to die and if they have a 52:36 problem with that they should probably take it up with Hamas they think that even though they're the government of Gaza it's not their responsibility to protect Palestinian civilians the 52:44 tunnels are for themselves for fighting the kids of Gaza just got to vote out Hamas already I mean once they get old enough to vote vote harder am I so out of 52:54 touch no is the children who were wrong and despite some empathetic rhetoric about Palestinian civilians being killed given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian 53:05 casualties and displacement in Lebanon it is devastating the Biden Administration has been steadfast in its commitment to unconditional military aid to Israel ultimately dismissing the 53:15 massive leverage the US has to end this conflict a threat to withhold Aid could end this stage of the genocide tomorrow and while the Administration has publicly suggested this idea the Harris 53:26 campaign assured Zionist voters in Michigan that they didn't really mean it as The Times of Israel reported a representative called it quote a political gesture that did not reflect 53:34 any change in policy in the administration but the Biden Administration recently admitted that the only way they want this to end is with the complete destruction of Hamas 53:44 we've never wanted to see a diplomatic resolution with Hamas well okay well well what about the ceasefire we wanted to see a ceasefire but we have always been Comm we we have always been 53:53 committed to um the destruction of Hamas and this comes while Israeli officials have repeatedly claimed that there is no difference between Palestinian citizens and Hamas conent Deputy speaker Nissim 54:04 vat said that the goal of the operation was quote erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the Earth after having been blocked already for calling followers to quote burn Gaza now nothing less the 54:17 Israeli defense minister even characterized the siege of Gaza in 2023 as quote fighting Human animals and Kash and Maz the Israeli government has even posted 54:36 and promoted on their official account in a now deleted video that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza on October 7th many Gaz and civilians participated in killing raping and 54:50 looting the Optics of the Israeli campaign in Gaza and now Lebanon are so horrific that they require this kind of double speak in order to maintain support for example President Biden 55:00 postured publicly that he was dismayed by the escalation of violence and long sought to avoid it but this is one of those situations where if he wanted to he would ladies withhold Aid that is 55:12 instead just like the way ncis's criticisms of the Israeli intelligence machine don't actually mean anything Biden's posturing is just that posturing because recent reports show that the 55:22 administration was actually a okay with a ground Invasion all along the violence needs to be publicly condemned sure but it also must continue because those victims of violence are even worse they 55:33 would do so much worse to us if they could just trust me on this did you make love to her and then blew her brains up she would do the same to me those kids they 55:45 must just be born bad it's in their jeans meanwhile the American state has a long history of cracking down on Pro Palestine protests 1979 4 years after being publicly called out for illegally 55:57 surveilling and infiltrating American political and civil rights organizations the FBI did the exact same thing again to the general Union of Palestinian students finding no evidence of 56:07 terrorism but still monitoring the group for 10 years purely for political speech according to a 2012 Associated Press report the NYPD surveilled Muslim college students across the Northeast us 56:17 without a warrant far beyond their jurisdiction including in Pennsylvania and Connecticut often without any evidence of any wrongdoing one officer after haing a group of students across 56:27 the state noted some very suspicious activity namely that quote the group prayed at least four times a day and much of the conversation was spent discussing Islam and was religious in 56:36 nature in other words they were being surveilled for being Muslim which is illegal theoretically and if you think this has gotten better since the October 7th 56:48 attacks you can just turn off the video now I'm not going to reach you this year Elon Pape an anti-zionist Israeli historian Professor was detained and interrogated by Homeland Security about 56:59 whether he was a supporter of Hamas whether he thought Israel was committing a genocide and what his solution in the Middle East was he was also asked to name names of Arab and Muslim friends 57:10 just this year Mike Turner the Republican chairman of the house intelligence committee used this anti-palestinian animist to defend warrantless spying on US citizens 57:18 according to a report from wired his presentation implied that New York protesters demanding that the US halt weapon sales to Israel were responding quote to what appears to be a Hamas 57:28 solicitation while arguing against an amendment that would force the FBI to get warrants before collecting phone calls emails and texts of Americans although that's largely a technicality 57:38 because as one Republican legislative director who was quoted in the piece noted yeah it's true you can't Target protesters under 702 but that doesn't mean the FBI doesn't still have the 57:47 power to access those emails or listen to those calls if they want let me just again remind you that the US already shares unredacted raw metadata about American cens with an organization that 57:57 has conducted more targeted assassinations than any other in modern world history it doesn't seem to particularly care about the bystanders they kill in the process just just worth 58:06 noting just reminding you all of that also worth noting is that I very much want to continue this YouTube channel and continue uploading so if that were to stop for any 58:18 reason and I know I focused a lot on critiquing Democrats here because you know they're in power but rest assured I know that this is going to get a whole lot worse with Trump to double the 58:28 Tantrums probably embracing the more maskoff elements of this double standard Israel's the one that wants to go he said the only one who wants to keep going is Hamas actually Israel is the 58:37 one and you should let him go and let him finish the job but make no mistake continuing the ethnic cleansing in Palestine is a bipartisan position they're at least profiting off of it is 58:47 NCIS prepares its viewers to hear criticisms of Israeli geopolitical policy but still side with them or at least muddying the waters enough to inspire paralysis in the audience these 58:58 criticisms are not substantive or impactful because they're still portrayed as better than the alternative rather it serves to whitewash their brutality not denying it but instead 59:09 justifying it Zea is the sharp end of the spear it provides cover for people to either side with Israel or to claim a false sense of neutrality and I think that the way NCIS uses these double 59:22 standards for Israeli intelligence and their enemies is emblematic of the way americ America at large has responded to the latest escalation in this conflict people will hide behind its complicated 59:31 nature in order to draw some of the most insane comparisons I've ever read Pulitzer Prize winner and War on Terror apologist Thomas fredman recently wrote In The Seattle Times that quote I 59:40 totally understand the distress coursing through these two communities Arab and Muslim Americans with friends and family in Gaza or Lebanon or the West Bank worry every day about loved ones being 59:50 killed or wounded with us-made weapons that were transferred to Israel Jewish Americans have had to worry every day about their kids being exposed to left-wing anti-zionism on us college 01:00:04 campuses God on the one hand we you know we have people dying on the other hand some students were exposed to new ideas on college campuses that they didn't like those are the stakes we're talking 01:00:14 about while there is a near constant clamor for anyone asking for a ceasefire to also condemn Hamas Israel has been assassinating negotiation Partners all over the region from Ismail Han the lead 01:00:25 Hamas negotiator to Hassan nasara a Hezbollah leader who had agreed to a ceasefire before being assassinated all of this while the families of Israeli hostages taken on October 7th are still 01:00:36 waiting for their loved ones to be returned I don't know maybe it'd be easier to negotiate the release if you hadn't assassinated your negotiation Partners I don't know I'm no Tommy Freds 01:00:44 but might help other hostages have been killed in the Israeli military's carpet bombing of Gaza or shot by their own Soldiers the Israeli military doesn't seem particularly worried about who gets 01:00:55 caught in the Crossfire besides the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed over the past year the IDF has also fired on Indonesian and Irish troops positioned in southern Lebanon on 01:01:05 peacekeeping missions as IDF spokesman Daniel higari told heret quote right now we're focused on what causes maximum damage echoing the dozens of statements from Israeli officials presented as 01:01:16 evidence in the international Criminal Court's genocide and apartheid cases this year there's no denying that Israeli military and Espionage operations are 01:01:28 brutal and morally questionable but if NCIS shows us anything it's that simply acknowledging those criticisms doesn't necessarily mean anything if there's no material change behind it this is why 01:01:41 activists have switch their call for a ceasefire to that of an arms embargo you can't really say that you're working towards an arms embargo while also sending billions in arms to continue the 01:01:50 war as Amanda cling National director of government relations at Amnesty International told the intercept I do believe that the US suspending the transfer of arms would send a 01:01:59 significant message to the government of Israel that its conduct is inconsistent with international law and the US will not risk complicity with that right now all the US has done is have words we 01:02:10 just have not seen action to really push the government of Israel to adhere to tenants of international law the trick that this intentionally muddied portrayal pulls is that it makes it seem 01:02:21 as though we're watching football and picking a team to root for but nearly 18 billion dollar in your tax money has been spent to bomb a densely populated area filled with children only to then 01:02:32 continue bombing in the refugee camps where they were told to flee to look this isn't that complicated American tax money is being spent to kill children at a scale that frankly breaks my brain 01:02:43 let's stop bombing children huh oh huh arms embargo now and if you'd like to support Palestinian children much more directly I've included a link in the description to the Middle East 01:02:54 Children's Alliance a nonprofit humanitarian Aid organization that delivers life sustaining services to Palestinians in Gaza even in places in the Gaza Strip deemed too dangerous for 01:03:03 other International humanitarian organizations you can make a donation at shut itdown forp palestine. fundraiser or the link in the description the only thing that 01:03:11 separates NCIS from the situation in Palestine more than geography is age while 43% of the Gaza strip's population is under the age of 15 the viewers of the NCIS franchise are all in their 01:03:23 mid-60s 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