Mark Levin: Netanyahu Interview and the Challenges of Defeating a Marxist Islamist in NYC

Peloni 

July 12; 

Mark spends the entire Saturday show with a face to face interview with PM Netanyahu.

Netanyahu begins by explaining that everyone should support his endorsement of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Following this, Netanyahu explains that Israel’s army is a citizen’s army, largely comprised of reserve units fighting alongside the regular army.  He relates that while the Israeli forces have performed miraculously, the costs in blood have been challenging to accept, and yet, there was no choice in having to commit Israel to war with Iran’s rush towards nuclear weapons, combined with its expansive missile project to produce thousands of missiles over the course of a year.  Noting that this was similar to having two lungs with cancer, he explains that Israel had to act, and that they did so with a unified support of the nation as a whole.

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He explains that Iran has been moving towards gaining a nuclear bomb for many years, but due to the Israeli actions and interventions over the years, this objective met with about a decade’s worth of delays.  After Israel broke the Iranian axis which surrounded Israel, Iran raced to develop a nuclear weapon.  With already having the enriched Uranium, they moved towards completing the development of an actual nuclear bomb.  Noting that if this threat was not neutralized, Iran would have had a bomb within a year’s time, and they would have used it to destroy the Jewish State, left Israel with no choice but to act.  Netanyahu goes on to describe the relationship which he has had with Pres. Trump, charactering the fact that Israel has never had a friend in the White House such as Pres. Trump, and even this is an understatement.

He reminds Mark’s viewers of Trump’s ability to cut strait to the point, sharing that preceding the election, Trump warned him about needing to make sure that Iran would not have an atomic bomb because they would use it, indicating the expectation of Trump that this is simultaneously a threat to the US as well, which was the purpose for Iran to develop long range missiles capable of approaching the US and its European allies.  In grasping the common threat from a common enemy, Trump explained that there could be a common victory over this threat, whereby Israel would set the stage with the early lightning attacks on Iranian targets, following which the US could act against the underground targets.

Noting that the success of America’s strike on Iran has led to a changed America, projecting American power and resolve which the world has longed to see.  Contrary to the nonsense put out by the Iranian alied opposition which warned of massive American casualties, prolonged engagements, boots on the ground , and forever wars, America was able to use measured and precise attacks to achieve specific goals while maintaining a no daylight policy with Israel.  The success of this combined effort led to great achievements for Israel, for the region and for America.  A secondary effect of this is that numerous Arab nations have made contact with Israel regarding the possibility of peace, due to the US-Israeli demonstration of peace thru strength while keeping Iran in check.

Netanyahu explains that his greatest fear over the past forty years has been the combined threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of militant Islamic regime, because of the greater expectation that such a regime would employ such a weapon.  Meanwhile he questions, as the Iranians are calling for the destruction of America and the West, how can the Iranian apologists in America be so blind as to Iran’s motives, obviously indicating an ulterior motive on their part, which would have lead to utter folly for America and the West if they had been successful.  This fact was understood by both Netanyahu and Trump, and due too their combined coordination, they were able to thwart the threat while ignoring the Iranian apologists.

Going forward, Netanyahu explains that his red lines for negotiations as being no enrichment of uranium, no ballistic missiles over 300 miles, and no terror axis.  Failing this, he notes that Iran will have to be kept at bay.  The potential economic, technological and energy cooperation with Israel’s Arab allies, combined with tourism and trade in the wake of a region without an ongoing Iranian threat, provides for a very different world than what has existed heretofore.   Detailing that they have had a significant victory in this war, Netanyahu explains that this could ultimately lead to tremendous regional growth, but to achieve such an outcome, they need to safeguard that victory, as was done in the wake of WWII.

Regarding Gaza, Netanyahu explains that the only reason the war is not yet over is because of the use of the hostages.  He also shares that while Israel does everything possible to prevent civilian casualties, Hamas does everything possible to maximize casualties, producing a twin tragedy of both the civilian deaths and the false accusation that these deaths were due to the fault or action of Israel when the opposite is the truth.  And while fighting on the battlefield, Israel has to simultaneously fight the propaganda war being waged by the protests as well.  In regards to the propaganda war, Netanyahu calls for a need of a course correction in the US, as compared to the Middle East where everyone knows the truth.  He explains that he is currently trying to negotiate the return of more of the remaining hostages, while also effecting greater humanitarian aid which does not advantage the terrorists over the Gazan population.  Either way, he explains that he will meet all of his wartime goals, including the return of all of the hostages, destroying Hamas, and ensuring that Gaza will not pose a threat to Israel in the future.  Meanwhile, the information war continues, and Netanyahu notes that the only way for him to win on that front is to speak for the truth, and to shame those who spread the lies, and he asks that Mark continue with his passion in doing exactly this.

He also shares the tremendous appreciation which has been voiced to him from nations across the globe, not just in regard to the victory with Iran, but with the way in which that victory was achieved.  He notes that this victory has also helped in the war against antisemitism.  Explaining that antisemites target the Jews because they are prominent, but also because they are weak, he highlights that this victory with Iran demonstrates that Israel is not weak.  In the centuries of wandering in the Diaspora, the world came to see Jews as the perfect victim, but they now have to recognize that the Jewish nation is an equal member among the world’s nations.  The corollary to this is that Israel has to act in support of its raison d’etre, but in a way that honors both its soldiers and the traditions which have been established collectively with America and other nations.  By doing so, he explains that the perception of Israel doing the right thing will change because they are winning in a moral and just way.  He also shares that he intends to intercede in the battlefield of the long abrogated of social media, while also shaming the role which has been played by mainstream media to adopt and promote the worst propaganda to their viewers.

Regarding his relationship  with Pres. Trump, Netanyahu explains that they have a real partnership, based on mutual respect and understanding, something which has been very different from past administrations.  He also adds that due to the size of Iran’s population, the power of its govt, and its ability to project its power around the world, Iran was perceived by past administrations as being the future leader of the region.  Yet, what he found most gratifying in Trump was the notion that this evil totalitarian regime should not be allowed to gain regional dominance but should be resisted, and defeated, which is what they worked together to achieve.  In addition to this, he highlights Trump’s uncompromising support for Israel, but that Israel does its own fighting, and the appreciation of this latter point is felt not just from Trump, but by the regional powers as well.  Beyond this, Netanyahu describes the import of the intelligence sharing which Israel offers the US, saving many lives.  And finally, he explains that while the US provides Israel with access to US technologies, such as with the F-35s, Israel produces its own weapon systems which it shares with the US, in deference to the knowledge that what secures the safety and longevity of  the US also bolsters the safety and security of Israel.

In closing, Netanyahu shares the personalities who past actions help him in making decisions.  Chief among these is Theodore Herzl, but so too stands Churchill, Washington, Lincoln and his brother Jonathan, who died during the greatest rescue operation of all time, who demonstrated that the difference between a great commander and a mediocre one is that, though they can each achieve great victories, a great commander will do so while suffering only minimal casualties.


 

July 13:

On Sunday’s show, Mark discusses Zohran Mamdani, and requests that it be understood that that Mamdani is not a democrat or socialist, but rather he is a Marxist Islamist based on everything he supports and on which he advocates.  Describing him as a radical extremist, Mark highlights Mamdani’s call for violence among other very disturbing things such as founding a student chapter for a Hamas front organization and refusing to reject globalization of the intifada, referencing a world wide program of violence directed against Jews among others in the West. Mark shares a list of Mamdani’s goals which includes free rent, free child care, free public transportation, city owned grocery stores, seizing the means of production, banning billionaires, replacing public property rights with a govt run system, and replacing police with mental health professionals, among other radical positions.  Mark notes the shared distinctions which Islamists and Marxists have with the West, as they share goals of coercion, control and centralization of power, while despising debates and silencing voices of dissent.  Mark warns of the ultimate depopulation which will take place under Mamdani should he win, as he will chase investments and jobs out of New York, not just NYC.  Liberty and the nuclear family will be among the most costly effects of Mamdani’s election, all in pursuit of the never achievable utopian project which will leave the power and money concentrated in the hands of those who enact these policies of destruction and totalitarianism.  Mark then addresses the weaknesses of Sliwa, Adams and Cuomo and explains if they do not decide upon a single candidate to oppose Mamdani, they will lose in a plurality to this Marxist Islamist.

In the second segment, Mark interviews Stephen Miller and they discuss the Left’s shift towards using an overloaded migration system to overwhelm and destroy social cohesion in the country, and by doing so the Left has produced the false basis of their claim that the American system failed.  He calls for Americans to support Trump and ICE in dealing with the immigration tragedy unveiled in the US over the past years.  Miller describes the efforts of the Democrats such  as the Mayor of LA to challenge the govt’s ability  to deal with the migration situation as being successionist behavior which is costing American lives.  Mark importantly raise the question of using civil litigation to fight the Left’s weaponization of violent mobs against law enforcement and ICE with which Miller strongly agrees and calls for the ICE members to pursue such legal actions while also indicating that he will reach out to the DOJ to help facilitate such a legal recourse for members of law enforcement.

In the third segment, Mark talks with Douglas Murray about the state of indoctrination in the US and that the Marxist and Islamist nexus is focused on delegitimizing and destabilizing Western society.  While wishing that the collaboration between the Marxists and Islamists would disintegrate under its own weight, Murray explains it will take the resolve of decent people to show up and defeat them, particularly in the coming NYC mayor race.  While taking note of the support which Mamdani has gained in the Democratic party, Murray explains that they are banking on the notion that Mamdani will be their saving thread to power, but he chastises them with the fact that it is the role of the political establishment in any society to remind the people where the boundaries of society stand, such as denying any support of terrorism, and not celebrating the wounding and killing of American troops and law enforcement.  Instead of asserting these norms, the Democratic leadership has abrogated this role in pursuit of the fabled ‘youth’ vote, which only exacerbates the damage being done in American society today.  Murray goes further by noting it is important to recognize how each side of the political aisle deals with the most reprehensible aspects of its supporters.  He explains that the Republicans have always ostracized its own radicals, but that the Democrats actually embrace them, because they never acknowledge the potential damage which might come from embracing someone such as Mamdani, among others.  He goes further by noting that the Left always fails to specify where the line might lay in which a candidate might have gone too far which is a basic failure specific to the Left. Relating the connection between this failure and patriotism, Murray explains that the Left has eroded the concept of patriotism in favor of their anti-Western, anti-American themes which characterize their agenda, and that the only way for the Democratic party to survive this catastrophe will be if they somehow make the leap back towards cherishing and supporting the American nation which they are currently acting to destroy.

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  1. @fquigley

    What was the AI you used, what prompt?

    I used Brave’s AI, and the prompt was “What is a Marxist?”

    And don’t call me a bad faith actor. I made my comment in good faith, supplied you the source, and am waiting for a response worth reading from you. So far you response appears quite lacking, but I will wait.

  2. If Levin has something to say about Marx or Marxism then open one of his many books, quote him fairly and go from there. Otherwise he is just a bad faith actor. Exactly the same goes for Peloni. What was the AI you used, what prompt?

  3. Of course give any kind of rabbit hole to Sebastien Zorn and there he is up to his ears burrowing away as if there was no tomorrow.

    Zorn has never got over the fact that Stalin and Stalinism was opposed. He didn’t gain power in his hands without being fought against by the working class. And internationally too.

    The Russian Revolution of 1917 didn’t create Stalinism.

    And there were people on israpundit (Yamit 82, Ross, and others ) who joked about Trotsky’s assassination. The editor Belman said not a word.

    How did that help Israel and Jews?

    There’s a whole history which WILL be told but obviously against the interest of Zorn who is devoted to stopping that.

  4. To remind (and should not need reminding)

    The two focuses

    1. Edgar recognised the centrality of the Hamas tunnels as having created a new type of war. He advised starting from northern Gaza and systematically destroy the tunnels, defeat Hamas, hold the liberated area

    2. I added to this removal of civilians out of this war theatre to Sinai and IDF looking after their welfare there only

  5. Peloni

    I could care less what you call Mamdani except not to call him a Marxist. That’s a figment of the Levin cold war hatred of the Russian Revolution.

    Levin is an out and out hater of the Russian Revolution and that hatred is at the centre of Levin’s politics today. Nothing more nothing less.

    As regards Netanyahu his treacherous method of fighting this war is the unnecessary lost of many Jewish IDF being abandoned and lives lost.

    Demand that Israel publish the number and names. Why are you hiding this Peloni?

    There was another way Peloni and Zorn…the way put forward by Edgar but I added key additions which would have only strengthened Edgar’s policy.

    From Peloni and Zorn on this…no comment ever.

    • @fquigley

      I could care less what you call Mamdani except not to call him a Marxist. That’s a figment of the Levin cold war hatred of the Russian Revolution.

      Really? Here is a summation of a Marxist via AI:

      In summary, a Marxist is someone who advocates for a classless society through (1)the abolition of private property and (2)the establishment of a system where the means of production are owned collectively by the workers.
      They are (3)particularly concerned with the struggles of lower and middle class workers, with the (4)conflict between social classes, and with (5)economic inequality.

      All four of these points are included in Mamdani’s campaign. He is a Marxist. He is also an Islamist. Ergo, he is a Marxist Islamist, as Levin describes him to be, and as Editor, I concur with him and his having made the points he made and find no need to correct him when he is right.

      If you disagree with any of the above 4 points being acted upon by Mamdani, or if you think the description of a Marxist is in error, feel free to explain further.

  6. Mamdani whatever people call him is not a Marxist. You are old enough to have read enough of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to not be calling these Islamist.

    It is one of the highest and most grotesque lies and you and Zorn are forever doing that.

    Mamdani is not the same as the British Labour Party my simple point being he is CLOSER to those than to Marxism

    Calling him Mark is a political statement

  7. Peloni

    I think you have a right to say something about Levin’s use of the term Marxist Islamist and by your silence on this that you are endorsing.

    You had the opportunity to raise this in the massively long praise for Netanyahu and your continual and jarring referring to this obvious Cold War Warrior as by his first name “Mark”. Why do that? It’s a bit weird.

    • @fquigley

      Why do that? It’s a bit weird.

      Why do you only find it wierd enough to suggest it is weird after he makes use of the term Marxist Islamist? I have been writing a column on Mark Levin’s fabulous commentary over the past many months now, and have referred to him then as I do now. By the way, his name is Mark, which is why I refer to him as such.

      Regarding your claim that Mamdani is just “A social labour party of UK type”, I completely disagree.

      Perhaps you would like to explain to us why he should not be characterized as a Marxist, and instead should be described as a social labor party type instead.

      As to what you describe as my “massively long praise for Netanyahu”, it is simply a summary of his own commentary, not praise for him. To be certain, Bibi has earned our praise, but that is not this, so if that is what you took from what I wrote, you might find it informative to actually read what I did write. But you are right, it was long, longer than I ever expected it to be. A very informative and enlightening conversation, actually.

      • And I heard him jokingly refer to Queens – which he respresents as a NY State Assemblyman, and which AOC, also represents in the U.S. House of Representatives – as “The People’s Republic of Queens”. A little side note about Bernie Sanders, the “Democratic Socialist’ in chief in the goverhment, he had his honeymoon in the Soviet Union and in a career of constantly attacking Israel, he has never ever criticized a Communist regime. And neither have they.

    • I have seen many podcasts by conservative pundits who say he is a Communist no a Social Democrat (I still can’t get used to “Democratic Socialist”) and always, as proof refer to Mamdani having advocated “seizing the means of production.”

    • There is a huge problem that Jews have today and that is the way that Netanyahu and the Jewish Israeli bosses have tactically and strategically fought the war. Simple as that!

      I can boil this down, in the interests of clarity and conciseness, to 2 main points.

      1. Netanyahu did not level with the Jewish people from the getgo. There had to be a clear explanation given to their Jewish people by the bosses as to what went wrong, ON THEIR PART, to cause and make possible October 7. From the boss class, like Netanyahu, Zilch!

      2. Secondly the advice of Edgar, based on long years experience, was totally suppressed. It was not acted upon. That must include my own additions to Edgar based on the valuable experience of Trotskyism which would also have been along with Edgar absolutely key.

      As an editor to these key factors Peloni you have been out of your depth and end up hanging on to the apron strings of Netanyahu, the very last thing Jewish people need to be doing…See number 1 above

      • @fquigley

        Netanyahu did not level with the Jewish people from the getgo. There had to be a clear explanation given to their Jewish people by the bosses as to what went wrong, ON THEIR PART, to cause and make possible October 7. From the boss class, like Netanyahu, Zilch!

        Wrong. The time for clear explanations is not amid a war which is being fought against an internal fifth column (inside the legal system, the govt, and amid the public) and an external malicious ally, both of whom were coordinating with existential threats such as Iran and Hamas. Israel was lucky, G_d, none of us could possibly know how lucky at the time, but in looking back, it becomes quite clear that this war was won by the coordinated effect of Bibi meeting these challenges.

        Acting on your suggestion, you would have effected the fall of the govt which would have led to the very leadership which fought all of these enemies and threats, and instead, the likes of Benny Gantz would have been effecting the instructions of Washington to the detriment and likely destruction of the Jewish State.