RADIOOctober 18, 2023

ALL the evidence points to THIS culprit in Gaza hospital rocket strike

A debate is raging over who is responsible for a rocket that hit a Baptist hospital in Gaza and allegedly killed 500 people. Israel claims it was a misfire from a Palestinian Islamic jihadist group. But Hamas is blaming Israel. So, what's the truth? Glenn and Stu review the evidence we have so far, including a video that appears to back Israel's claim and new reports that the rocket hit a parking lot, and not the building. But most importantly, they ask why anyone in the media would believe Hamas?!

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GLENN: Okay. Where do we even begin?

STU: I have an idea.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Maybe -- and this is just a -- I'm going to throw it out there as a theory. A working theory. I would like you to help me work through this idea.

GLENN: Okay. I'm here to help.

STU: Maybe. Just maybe. Maybe we don't just take Hamas' word for what happened.

GLENN: That's crazy. That's crazy.

Now, they have lied to you about absolutely everything.

STU: Yeah. I noticed that.

GLENN: Why wouldn't you take them at their word.

STU: Like if they were to say 500 people were dead at the hospital.

Maybe -- just perhaps.

GLENN: Perhaps.

STU: On the off-chance.

GLENN: Throw it out there.

STU: Maybe we just should ignore their complaint. Because every time they make them, they're lying.

Maybe the death count, that they've been reporting, that comes from Hamas and the Palestinians, maybe we shouldn't believe it at all.

GLENN: Right. Now, you have nothing to back that up.

STU: Well, there's a couple of this.

GLENN: Okay. Let me just show a video. I've got video.

Now, you will see rockets flying. I will show this, if you happen to be watching on TheBlaze. If you're listening on radio or on the podcast, let me just explain what's happening. This is video taken by the Israelis. This is the attack on Israel that happened right before, and you'll see all of the -- see all the rockets being taken off there from Gaza? All right. And then right directly in the path, boom, there is an explosion right after those rockets are launched. You know what that explosion is? That's the hospital. That's the hospital.

STU: The hospital. Five hundred people died.

GLENN: Yeah, not so much.

So there you have, can we show one more here?

Here's another one, the rockets being launched.

You'll see it up in the sky. Something goes wrong.

And it starts to come down. And, oh. Watch it follow, follow, follow. Follow.

Oh. Right on to the hospital.

STU: Huh. Now, that's a rocket fired from -- it's actually not even Hamas. It's another group, right?

GLENN: Palestinian, or something.

STU: Yeah. They fired it from their territory. At Israel. The rocket is -- it's hard to tell what exactly happened. Either failed or shot down in some way.

But the rocket itself goes down to the hospital. And then blows up the hospital. And kills 500 people. And that would be. Maybe you believe that. Then you start looking today, at the new footage that is out. Of the actual hospital in daylight. You know what's weird about this hospital.

You know what may have been happening at this hospital? Maybe they were having a bloc party in the parking lot, and they put all of their patients in the parking lot.

Because that's the only part that seems to be hit at all.

GLENN: Yeah, it's weird.

Because I saw the hospital. It seems still to be there.

STU: Yeah, how did they all die?

GLENN: Well, they were all in the cars apparently.

And the parking lot, all the cars are on fire.

But there is -- I mean, remember. A JDAM -- that's what they said Israel would have used, of course. Because that's what they're using. A JDAM would leave at least, you know, like a little pothole in the parking lot.

STU: I would say a crater would be.

GLENN: Well, sure. If that's the way Israel propaganda for you.

It would leave, you know, kind of a dent in the parking lot. There is no dent in the parking lot.

STU: It barely dented the cars. Let alone the ground.

Honestly, it doesn't even look like. You know when you have a car fire, on the side of the highway. And the police -- the fire department gets there finally and puts it out. And it's just a shell of itself. It's not even that level. It looks like there was a fire nearby cars, and they didn't actually catch fire. And they're a little -- they're a little brown on the top. And a little charred. And something certainly happened there. But there is -- again, these are -- the footage from this, we should point out, came from al-Quds.

It didn't even come from the Israelis. This came from Palestinian sources. And these sources are posting these photos. I think -- I don't even know why honestly at this point, why they would do such a thing. Because it's ruining all their propaganda.

But we had the American media, go to Hamas. A group of people who just murdered and raped and decapitated thousands of people.

And said, hey. Tell us your story. About what happened. And we'll just put it on the news.

We'll take it from your mouth, and we'll make it news.

GLENN: Well, the good news is, that Biden immediately came out and said, we're going to look into it.

Immediately --

STU: He did.

GLENN: Immediately came out and said, you know, like I would as a president, said, yeah, I find that highly unlikely. But we're going to look into it.

You know, I tend to not take Hamas at face value, but we're going to look into it.

Anything like that, would be -- would probably be good.

But he didn't. In fact, he -- Kirby didn't even -- Kirby even went a shorter distance than that.

STU: Yeah. Now, Biden did seem to say, that from what he has seen, it seems like it was a rocket gone wrong.

Or something like that. He threw out some phrase like that briefly.

GLENN: A rocket gone wrong. Whose rocket?

STU: Yeah. He meant it. I think he indicated it looked like a Palestinian rocket from what he had seen. Step back from this for a 16. There's two sides to this fight.

GLENN: Is there?

STU: No. I'm saying to the fight.

There's the Israeli side. And the Hamas side. One side, the Israelis were attacked.

And had all sorts of things happen to them. They're about to try to start a ground invasion.

Now, the one way they could possibly lose, right? Is drawing a larger conflict out of this.

Because they do something so terrible to the Gazans, that the rest of the Arab world unites and starts invading them. They're not going to lose to Hamas.

They are at risk though, if something like that happens. If a larger conflict breaks out.

GLENN: Wait a minute. I want to make sure I understand. So what you're saying is, maybe if you would use critical thinking, you would say, who wins from this scenario?

STU: Right.

GLENN: The one thing Israel needs to avoid, is bombing a hospital and killing 500 people.

So at the very least, your instincts should be, well, if it was Israel, had to be a mistake.

GLENN: Correct.

STU: But instead, it was reported as an intentional bombing of a hospital.

On the other side, Hamas, who had no chance to beat Israel on a one-on-one military battle, their only chance, the only thing they want is chaos and a larger war in the area.

The thing that they want is fully supported by what they're saying. Right?

GLENN: How old-fashioned, he's using critical thinking.

Listen, here's what you need. Kirby a retired, United States Navy rear admiral. And I think he focused on the rear part of it.

He said, the proper number of civilian casualties in a conflict like this is zero.

Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. That's great. That is great. As a rear admiral, you're sure. That's why you were in the rear.

STU: Yeah. Hamas really screwed that up, didn't they? Because it's not zero because of what Hamas did.

Bought, you know what, the ideal is zero. Nirvana is a war with zero civilian casualties. It's not really realistic, is it?

GLENN: No. No. There has to be 72 virgins in some place. So there were demonstrations in Baghdad, Iraq. Istanbul, Turkey. Beirut. Amman. Dohar -- or Doha, Qatar. You know, of course, in Tehran. In Spain. In Cairo. In Yemen. In Berlin, Germany. In Greece. In Montreal, Canada. In Morocco. All last night, all last night, but don't worry about the borders.

Don't worry about looking into people here. Don't do it. Don't do it.

America, you're perfectly safe. My gosh.

This is what happens to a world. When you forget, what is important and true.

What's important to us, America?

What's important to us?

Our -- our -- our vacations? Our jobs? Our cars? Our houses? What's important to us?

And I don't mean now. I mean, over the last 40 years. What's been important to us? Who will win on American Idol?

Is that what is important to us? Because that's what we've concentrated on. We have concentrated so much on our wealth, and our way of life. That we'll just never, ever, ever go away.

That we have destroyed our children. We have allowed our country to be taken over by radicals. We have allowed our -- our higher institutions of learning to be taken over by Marxist, communist, Islamists. Atheists. Whatever they are.

They are pumping poison into our system. We have turned a blind eye, because we worshiped multiculturalism.

We worshiped everybody getting together.

You cannot come together. The United States of America cannot be united without a certain group of principles and ideas, that we all gather around.

One of those is, I don't know. I'm for life. I like life.

I hate war. If we're going to have to fight a war. It's going to be a just war. No. No. We canceled that. Obama canceled those classes.

What's just war? I don't know. You don't kill women and children. And execute them on the -- in the name of war. You don't just -- you don't just go into houses and do that. See, some of these things, they're not self-evident. They were self-evident. Back in the 1700s. Because our churches preached them. Because our churches -- shame on all churches, including mine.

For not talking about the miracle, that was the founding of this nation. The miracle that is the Bill of Rights.

Shame on you.

And shame on me.

For allowing it to happen. And sitting there, and just going, yep. Yep. Yep.

Why are we learning any of this stuff? Oh, that's okay.

Yep. Yep. Yep.

It's not okay. This is what happens. This is what happens, when you dismiss that one group of religious extremists actually mean it when they say, we are trying to wash the world in blood.

I cannot believe that we're sitting here, talking about which side is right.

When one side is literally quoting Scripture. Their Scripture.

Not yours.

Just a quick highlight.

The end of their story, is the exact opposite of the end of our story.

Okay?

Two different books. Two different endings.

You know how we always say, oh, don't worry. We know how it ends.

Yeah. If you're not reading their book.

Then it's just the opposite way.

So that would say, if I believe what I believe, they're on the dark side.

And hmm. We've been talking about it for years here.

But America just doesn't care to pay attention.

Because why? Because why?

We all just want to get along. We all just want to be able to have that one guy, who is wearing a dress, say I can have a baby.

Or that one woman, that's now wearing pants, saying, I can have a baby.

And I'm a man. Good God, America.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

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Is Socialism replacing the American dream?

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

Transcript

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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The world is about to realize the DEADLY enemy we face

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.