RADIOMarch 08, 2022

Will Russia's ‘bad weekend’ bring a HARSHER Putin to Ukraine?

Chief Researcher for The Glenn Beck Program, Jason Buttrill, joins the show to detail what happened over the weekend in Ukraine. Despite propaganda from BOTH sides, Jason tells Glenn that it does seem like it was a ‘bad weekend’ for the Russian military, which likely thought this invasion would’ve been a LOT easier than the reality they faced. But, just because Russia seems to be struggling more than anticipated, that doesn’t mean Putin simply will give up. In fact, history shows his force used against Ukraine may now get even worse. The questions then become: Will NATO stand for a more brutal Putin and if not, how exactly will the West become further involved?

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GLENN: I have hesitated on telling you what things -- what is actually going on, down on the ground in Ukraine.

We didn't really talk about that last week, because I'm not sure who to believe.

I think our press is so skewed, and I know the Russians, so skewed. So what is the truth?

Well, we have Jason Buttrill with us. Who has some sources. On the ground, in Ukraine.

Mainly because we've done so much work in Ukraine, in the last couple of -- in the last couple of years. That we -- we know some people.

And he's got also some other context as well.

Tell me what's going on, Jason.

JASON: Fairly catastrophic. I won't say catastrophic. It was a bad weekend for the Russian military.

And it's been just a bad invasion period. A lot of the reports, and you hit on it. Is, you can't trust a lot of what you see, from both sides.

GLENN: Both sides. Good or bad.

JASON: But all evidence now, is showing that Russia probably expected this to be a 72-hour frame. The initial troops, that Russia sent in, are paratroopers. Which are basically glorified riot police.

And they were decimated. Most of them were decimated on entering into the country.

I don't have actual casualty counts on either side. Because they're so wildly skewed on both sides. Probably look at what each side is saying, and then take a middle number, and that's probably what it was. But even that number is not good for Russia.

A lot of the equipment that is getting either destroyed or captured, they also have riot equipment.

Like shields, batons, stuff like that.

So Russia clearly thought, this was, hey. Three days maximum.

We'll go in. The population will capitulate or turn to us. And this will turn into more of an occupation, without firing many shots.

Very wrong. Multiple aircraft were shot down this weekend. That just caps off over the past week and a half. Several aircraft. Helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft had been shot down on the Russian side.

For the most part, their operations are stalling on the ground. Because they don't have the logistical capability at the moment, to take care of anything.

They don't have fuel. They don't have food, water. Things like that are very scarce on the ground. Which shows, they were completely unprepared. This is not a good invasion.

Which, you might want to say, okay. That's a great thing. But if you look at Russian strategy. If you look at Aleppo. The siege of Aleppo. The siege of Grozny, during the second Chechnyan War.

When these things stall, they move to severe bombing, indiscriminate bombing. Cluster bombing.

They've --

GLENN: We think the cluster bombing in the cities already.

They were doing that last week. Which you don't do.

Isn't that against the Geneva convention?

JASON: Yes. But the Russians do it. And they get away with it.

GLENN: So now the news is this morning, that they have circled all these cities. Or a lot of the big cities in Ukraine.

That is what they do right before they just start bombing the snot out of cities, isn't it?

Historically speaking.

JASON: Yeah. And they haven't completed encircling many of these.

It appears that way. And a lot have reported and showing these large clusters of Ukraine, that are under Russian control. That's not entirely the truth from what I'm seeing.

Russia has pushed into Ukraine. They're on major roadways. But they're not really occupying the surrounding territory.

For one of the reasons, right now, it's very, very -- rainy, muddy. It's hard to move some of these vehicles, across this.

Again, it doesn't seem like they were prepared for this. The Russians. So even the territory they have. It's not exactly, what I would call an occupation. You know, they're not really occupying those areas.

GLENN: We're seeing the Russians move now, in force. Really, and having to have some sort of offense and defense.

They don't seem very impressive.

JASON: Oh, no. Most of them appear -- they don't seem like professional soldiers, to me.

GLENN: Right. Right.

What happened to the mighty Soviet Army.

JASON: It's almost like MacArthur was right, if this was the capability. We should have gone through. And gotten this over from the beginning right after World War II. Russia hasn't fought a war like this. If you look at the United States, we've been fighting a war like this for 20 years.

It's very complicated.

Combined arms. When you combine artillery, troops on the ground, aircraft in the air, it's complicated. The United States military is the best in the world the at it. I don't know if they thought, hey. We'll adopt these tactics. We'll go in, and it will be done.

But clearly this is the evidence. They're not very capable at this warfare.

GLENN: So what does that mean? You put Putin in a corner. What does that mean?

JASON: Yeah. Not good for the people in Ukraine. If you want to compare what it's going to look at. Look at what they did in Aleppo. Look what they did --

GLENN: The world won't stand for that.

Yes. They said, well, what about Syria? Syria is not about race or anything else.

It's about, the Middle East has always been on fire.

It's a Dumpster fire. And you never know how to help, or if it will help. You're always on the wrong side. That's why America didn't look at Syria.

America barely looked at -- at the Christians in the area.

JASON: Uh-huh.

GLENN: You know, we just didn't do anything to help the Christians in the area. So it's not because of a religion or a race. It's because it's a Dumpster fire.

JASON: Yeah.

GLENN: This has been a stable, westernized country. Completely corrupt. But a stable westernized country.

So, yeah. We are looking at it.

And I don't think the -- the world will stand for him just shelling cities.

JASON: No. We were talking off-air. Where has the Russian Air Force been on this?

And I think a big reason why he hasn't probably bombed the heck out of some of these cities with his massive Air Force is because, the world will not stand for this happening, to, you know, a more western European country.

When he just unleashes, like he did in Aleppo or Grozny. When cluster bombs are hitting Kyiv, that's when the world is going to be like, okay. You've gone far enough. The question then is: How far does the West get involved here? Which is scary.

GLENN: Okay. So let me play cut two. This is over the weekend. This is Blinken.

VOICE: What more can the United States do here, if for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member wants to send fighter jets. Does that get a green light from the US, or are you afraid that will escalate tension?

VOICE: No. That gets a green light.

In fact, we're talking with our polish friends right now. About what we might be able to do to backfill their needs. If they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do? How can we help to make sure they get something to backfill the planes they're handing over to the Ukrainians. We're in very active discussions with them about that.

Look, I've been in Europe, the last couple of days. Working closely with our allies and partners. That NATO, the European Union, the G7 countries, and all of us together, are continuing to take steps to increase the pressure on Russia through additional sanctions. All of which are very actively under discussion.

And will be implemented in the coming days. As well as, taking further steps to give the Ukrainians what they need to defend themselves against the Russian aggression.

GLENN: Okay. So this seems like a good thing. Explain how scary that is.

JASON: Well, NATO supplied fighter jets. That's kind of another level right there, coming from Poland.

They are bold. I think it was MiG-29s, that they were considering. Remember, Top Gun, MiG-28s. That was the '80s.

But yeah. So this is still an escalation.

And it's got the earmarks of your typical Cold War battle. Whether it's the U.S. in Vietnam.

The Chinese and the Soviets wouldn't get involved. They would supply Russians to the Vietnamese. Very similar. North Korea. Same thing. This is how -- and Afghanistan.

Put that one out too. But this is a major regression. And it's got all the symptoms, or the -- you know, the same things that happened during the Cold War. Now, the question now is: During Vietnam, we knew this was going on.

The United States wasn't on the verge of collapse.

How -- you know, Russia can't sustain this, right?

They cannot continue to let all these weapons go into Ukraine, embarrassing Putin. While at the same time, you know, an economic WMD is now being unleashed on Russia.

So he's going to have civil problems. His people are going to rise up. We're not going to see that probably. Because TikTok, all these Russian media outlets, Facebook, Twitter, are now shut off in Russia.

Which is a tragedy, really. But we're not going to see how they're reacting. But they're not going to react well.

GLENN: So Visa and MasterCard, over the weekend said they're not going to process anything in Russia. Which Russia immediately turned to China. And said, fine, we'll use their Visa and MasterCard. But this is targeting the civilians. Which we've never, ever, ever done before.

It was sanctions. We always say, we are targeting the regime. We're targeting the country.

We don't target the individuals.

STU: My understanding too, that the cards will work. Russian-issued visas will work in Russia. So they can still buy basic supplies with these cards. They just can't buy anything international.

GLENN: So it's remarkable to me, that nobody is noticing the number of companies that are involved in this.

This has never been seen before. And everybody is saying, this is great. And screaming for the oil to be shut off from -- from -- Russia.

But could I just point out, we don't have the oil.

If we want it to shut off. We need to say, open up our own oil and gas resources.

We can't afford to shut this off.

Well, it's only 10 percent.

Okay.

You want another 10 percent on top?

This is -- this is death for the United States.

We are, right now, negotiating with Iran and Venezuela!

Why would we enrich those two countries?

Look, I know the global warming bullcrap. I know all these people are like, well, the planet is going to die.

Well, you know what, I know the radicals. The real radicals believe that we should just -- we need to shut down more than we did, at COVID-19.

That's death for millions of people, all around the globe.

Literally, that will mean millions will die all around the world.

We cannot shut down all of our fossil fuels at this point.

Can't do it.

I would understand if the president who disagrees with me, came out and said, look, for the next nine months, or however long this thing drags on, we are going to open our pipelines.

We are going to fund our -- you know, the exons of the world. We're going to start going back and taking the natural gas out.

And shipping it. We're doing it. Because we have to.

Or we'll kill the nation.

Now, I'm going back. And I'm shutting it all off. Again, in whenever. Whatever it is.

People would understand that. Reasonable people. The only people that wouldn't understand it, are the Marxists that want to destroy us anyway.

It makes no sense. None.

Why would we be enriching Venezuela, and Iran?

Instead of taking care of business ourself.

That should be the number one call. I want the oil to stop from Russia. But I want the oil to be replaced with American oil and gas. Period.

The FBI knocked on my door to talk about Antifa...

The FBI showed up to Glenn's house to discuss his TV show exposing Antifa's network. Glenn shares what he learned from his "surreal" meeting and warns any member or funder of Antifa: you should be a little concerned because the FBI is SERIOUS about investigating you.

Transcript

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GLENN: Let me tell you something else that's changed.

Let me start with this. Cut five here.

Here are the new talking points for the media on Antifa.

Listen to this.

VOICE: This is an entirely imaginary organization. There's not an Antifa.

VOICE: Look, I don't even know what Antifa is.
VOICE: There is no growth.

VOICE: It's not even like far right groups, like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, compared to right-wing extremists, Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited.

VOICE: It is an organization.
It is -- it is in many ways mythology.

VOICE: It's not like the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers. You know, they're defined terrorist organizations, the leadership that led -- that, you know, leads violence.

VOICE: It's not a highly organized movement. It's a moniker. It's not even a group like the Proud Boys are.

Things like Antifa are things that are thought up.

VOICE: These guys are going after Antifa, which is nothing. There's no organization called Antifa.

VOICE: Nobody is a member of Antifa because it doesn't exist! They are just claiming existence to something that doesn't exist.

VOICE: There is no Antifa organization, so maybe that's good for social media.

But it really has -- is nonexistent.

VOICE: They exist on the internet and chat rooms.

And in 4chan.

GLENN: Okay.

VOICE: And places like that. Where they run discussion boards. Trade tactics.

Documents. Things like that.

But none of them are called Antifa.

STU: What!

GLENN: I don't even know what they're talking about.

You want to talk about living in a different world.

But that's what's going around.

Now, let me just tell you this: Last week, I did a TV show that apparently got the FBI's attention.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: The topic was -- was initial investigation. A jumping off point, shattering the myth that Antifa just -- oh, it's -- it's just leaderless. And decentralized. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

We thought, no. It's really not. So we dove in. Head first.

And we analyzed the Antifa network. And we went from the street thugs, to the support groups, eventually, to the funding.

Okay?

To say the FBI was interested in this might be an understatement.

Let's just say, the FBI is turning over every single stone.

It is so clear to me, that they are exploring all angles of this. And they are talking to anyone and everyone that can give them think kind of information.

How do I know?

Saturday, I get a phone call.

The director would like to send over some agents to speak to you, Glenn.

And I'm like, the director?

The FBI agents?

Yes, you said, some things that they need to talk to you about.

Well, good things or bad things? "They'll be over."

Three agents sat in my living room on Saturday afternoon for almost two hours. And I immediately called Jason. I'm like, Jason, you're the researcher. It's your fault. I'm going to throw you under the bus. You better get your butt over here.

So Jason was there. My wife and I sat there, and it was surreal at one point. I talked to them for about 15 minutes just going over the Tides Foundation. And saying, if you understand Tides, you'll understand how difficult your job is going to be. And this is information that I first gave on Fox years ago.

Let me just say this: Finally, we have an administration and an FBI director, that is willing to go in deep. Not surface. But deep!

I could only imagine what we could have avoided, if anyone in an administration, would have done this, in 2011.

But if I were in that, imaginary group, of Antifa, which, by the way, has imaginary leaders. Leaving the country to go maybe to imaginary countries outside of the US right now. I would be very concerned. If I were a part of anything that was sending money their way or assistance their way.

I don't know!

I might be a little concerned, because the FBI is deadass serious.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, and all of the agents at the FBI.

GLENN: We're covering from Allie Beth Stucky's big event, six or 7,000 women showed up this weekend for a weekend conference. It was -- it was unbelievable.

STU: Really, I saw the crowds. It was incredible.

GLENN: Yeah. She did a great, great job. I'm so proud of her. She's just killing it. But we will try to get to some of those clips because they're really, really good. We'll get to those later on in the program. You know, Stu and I were talking about how Antifa doesn't exist. And, you know, that's like saying -- it's like saying Al-Qaeda doesn't exist. Well, you're right.

There is no way, you know, 501 Broadway, you know, where you go to al-Qaeda's office. That doesn't happen, but it does exist, and it's an ideology.

And while they may not -- they may not take their direction from the same person at the office, I don't know. There's no HR. So they don't exist. They exist!

They exist. And they're loosely affiliated. And sometimes, they are getting money. You know.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And for the press and everybody else to say -- when you're watching them all over the country, and they're doing exactly the same thing, same tactics. Every -- everywhere.

You know, to say, they don't exist is just infantile.

STU: Yeah. It's like a -- it's -- I don't know what the word -- there should be a word for this, if there isn't.

But there's a real point used in an intentionally dumb way to mislead.

Is that malinformation? Is that what that is?

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: It really is. There's a real point to it. They're disengaged from a centralized thing. This makes them more dangerous. This is how you had to deal with terrorist cells back in the day. However, they're using it in a way that makes it seem like it's not a threat, which is not accurate. And they know it's not accurate. And they're trying to mislead people with a piece of --

GLENN: Why would you -- why would you support -- why would you try to brush Antifa under the rug? I mean, it's just perplexing.

How Trump SUCCEEDED where everyone failed in Israel and Gaza

For the first time in modern history, and perhaps the past few thousand years, we may have actual peace in the Middle East. Glenn Beck discusses the signing of President Trump’s historic peace deal, which will hopefully bring an end to the Israel/Hamas conflict in Gaza, and the freeing of the remaining 20 hostages.

Transcript

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GLENN: Let me start here: For the first time in living memory, the guns have gone quiet in Gaza. Hostages, that have been held now for over two years have just walked free. And for the very first time, not in decades, but perhaps a millennia or two: The descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have -- have signed something that might resemble more than just a ceasefire. You have to understand, before we start, how significant and how impossible it is to reach this point! This is not like anything we've ever seen before.

The conflict did not begin in 1948. It didn't begin with the British mandates and the creation of the state of Israel. The story really begins with the -- the ancient people of Israel and the sands of Canaan, where the people of Israel and the people called the Philistines, clashed over the same spot of earth called Gaza.

The Bible records Gaza as one of the five cities of the Philistines. And is this the place, Gaza is the place where the Philistines gathered their strength.

It was in Gaza that Samson, the judge of Israel was betrayed, captured, blinded, and paraded through the streets, as the Philistines mocked him. Much like you saw on October 7th. It was in Gaza that he brought the temple down on them. You know, one man against the empire. History has a very long memory in that land. We call it the Gaza Strip today. But it has seen conquers come and go. The Egyptians. The Babylonians. The Greeks, the on the mans, and the British.

And yet, somehow or another, the one rivalry, that is from 2000, 3,000 years ago, remains. The one between the children of Israel, and those who dwell along the sea.

That's an important thing. Palestinians of the ancient world, in Biblical context, are -- are different than the Palestinians. They were the group. They were not Semitic. They weren't Jewish. And they concentrated on the coast of Israel, Gaza.

The modern Palestinian identity came, you know, a millennia later, and that was shaped by the Arab, Islamic, and -- and historic developments in that area. It's not directly connected to the Philistines. However, Philistine and Palestinian both mean people that dwell on the coast. The word Hamas is an acronym, which means, you know, in their language. The Islamic resistance movement. But in Hebrew, Hamas means something altogether different. It means violence.

And this is in Hebrew, in Genesis 6:11. The earth was filled with Hamas. Violence, corruption, wickedness. It was because of Hamas, that the rains came, and Noah had to build the ark because of Hamas. So when you hear the word "Hamas," understand what it means to the Israeli ear, compared, you know, to the Palestinian ear.

It's not just an enemy. It's a Biblical echo, a spiritual warning from deep, deep time. So for 75 years, they have been trying to make peace between these ancient adversaries. Everybody has tried to do it. In my lifetime, the Camp David awards, or Accords, were in 1978. The Oslo Accords, in 1993. Endless road maps, summits, UN resolutions, and nothing! Every single one of them hailed as historic. And each one declared a new chapter. And every one of them failed, and it's not because the diplomats lack skill. But because too many on one side, the entire Arab world didn't believe Israel had a right to exist, and everyone was looking for a political solution. Then comes Donald Trump!

Donald Trump didn't approach this, you know, as a professor of Middle East studies.

He didn't approach this with the hundred years of expertise from the State Department.

In fact, he looked at the State Department expertise, and went, you guys aren't really experts of anything. You haven't solved anything.

And you keep trying the same thing. What are you doing?

He took a business approach. He knew all of the players, because of business. He knew all of the big players.

And so he got in with all of the players, and found out, what do you really want? And what they really want is stability. If you look at what's being built in the Middle East, they are these -- these incredible modern cities. Incredible modern cities.

They want prosperity. The Middle East does. Hamas doesn't!

He saw a region, Donald Trump did. He saw a region that was addicted to USAID.

Endless negotiation.

And so he just tore up the whole rule book. And he recognized Jerusalem, first thing as the capital of Israel.

A move that every single president before has been told by the State Department, you can't do that. It will cause war. And, you know what, it didn't.

He moved the embassy.

He then walked away from the Iran Deal. And he told the world that America is no longer going to apologize for standing with the only democracy in the Middle East. And that's where all of the anti-Semitic stuff comes. Because now, see, Israel is controlling our foreign policy! Israel is controlling Donald Trump. Donald Trump is doing the bidding of the Jews!

No. Nope. No, he didn't.

No, he wasn't being controlled. And, no, they weren't controlling him. It was actually seemingly quite the opposite. Because he did something extraordinary. He took the entire region, and brought them together!

First, he did it with the Abrahamic -- Abraham Accords. That is the first genuine realignment of the region, in a generation, or maybe two.

And it wasn't about ideology. It was all about survival, prosperity. And the shared fear of Iran's growing shadow!

When we drop the bombs on Iran, Americans, and people in the West, and people who have been educated in our universities, and have been indoctrinated with all of this garbage, they looked at that and said, "Oh, my gosh, look at. He's doing Israel's bidding."

No, he was actually doing Israel's bidding. He was doing Saudi Arabia's bidding. He was doing a bidding of Egypt. Everyone in the Middle East. Everyone in the Middle East. Hates Iran. They know how dangerous Iran is. They wanted somebody to put Iran in its place. So when Donald Trump did, the Middle East, the Arab world, celebrated. Not obviously not all of it, but a lot of it. The ones that are now at the table. He did something else: He proved himself to be an honest broker, and not doing the bidding of just Israel. And I would love to hear all of the people who are now standing up and saying, "See, we are just a puppet."

I would love to hear your explanation of this. When Israel went after Qatar, which I don't have any love at all for Qatar. But they went after Qatar. And that was going to blow this whole thing up.

What happened? Donald Trump went to Benjamin Netanyahu, and said, "You need to apologize to Qatar."

Israel and Netanyahu is not going to apologize. They ended up apologizing to Qatar. "That won't happen again."

That gave Donald Trump the -- the -- the image in the Middle East of not being the little boy toy, but the other way around. He has some control of what Israel is going to do. He can tell them, "Knock it off."

Then when everybody came to the table, the Middle East all came to the table and said, "Okay we'll handle Hamas. You handle Israel."

So they got Hamas to the table and said, "You're going to take this, and we're going to guarantee the peace." And Donald Trump went to Benjamin Netanyahu. Benjamin Netanyahu said, "We have to finish the job. We have to finish them off."

And Donald Trump said, "No, you're going to take this deal now."

And Benjamin Netanyahu said, "No, we have to finish them off." And he said, "I don't think you hear me: You're going to take this deal." That's how this happened. That's a miracle. He didn't try to make them friends, he tried to make them partners. They all want prosperity. And now, we are -- we're looking at the fruits of the labor that started with the Abrahamic Accords. The Arab states signed it to enforce peace rather than to sabotage it. For the first time in 4,000 years! The blood-soaked sands of Gaza whisper something today, that has been forgotten for 4,000 years. And that is hope.

If it hollows, even if it holds for a year, five years, ten years, it means centuries of hatred has been overtaken by something stronger than hate.

And even if we just start with survival, that's good!

It means that the children of Abraham, which is both the Arab and the Jew, the descendents of Abraham, long divided by faith and pride, have decided, choose life over death, trying to prove you're right!

It means the Biblical land of Gaza, where Samson fell, where violence has filled the earth, might finally learn the meaning of peace. But if it doesn't, and the rockets return and the lies reawaken, and this will just be another tombstone in the desert of broken promises. But the Bible says, "Blessed are the peacemakers. The Lord hates the hands that shed innocent blood." So if this holds, if this holds, if courage triumphs over chaos -- let's remember that peace is not the absence of war, it's the presence of righteousness. And righteousness, true, moral clarity demands that we call evil by its name. And we stand with truth, even when it's costly. And we defend the innocent, even when the world looks away. And now, it is our job, as long as this holds, to rebuild. I am so happy to say, "We are not being asked to rebuild. Not our money."

The Middle Eastern money is coming in now, to rebuild the region. As it should be. Men haven't suddenly become good, but for once, maybe they're choosing life over death or survival. But perhaps they've remembered and seen God's warning and chosen mercy over their rage.

The surprising link between Hamas, the Palestinian flag, and Biblical prophecy

Is Hamas mentioned in the Bible? Does the Palestinian flag have a connection to a prophecy in the Book of Revelation? Glenn Beck speaks with filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza about his new film, “The Dragon’s Prophecy,” based on the book by Jonathan Cahn, that discusses these “coincidences.”

Transcript

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GLENN: Dinesh, welcome to the program, how are you?

DINESH: Glenn, it's a great pleasure. Thanks for having me.

GLENN: Oh, you're welcome. I watched your film last week, and I've got to tell you, it's -- it's frightening, and really powerful.

DINESH: Well, we begin, Glenn, as you know with putting you on a motorcycle with a GoPro, and you ride with Hamas into the Kibbutz. Hamas took this footage. Remarkably, not a lot of people have seen it. The Israel government, I think was reluctant to show it, except to a handful of journalists.

But it opens my film, and it has a bit of a graphic warning. But it's ten minutes of putting you right on the scene of October 7th, 2 years ago, and the film kind of takes off from there, to give you the widest significance that engages politics, but history, archaeology. And even as you mentioned, a hint of Biblical prophecy, so that the political is wedded into the moral of the spiritual.

GLENN: So let me play a trailer here from the movie. Here it is.

VOICE: So who are the Jews? Who are the Palestinians? Whose land is it really? Could the fate of the world, of humanity itself, be somehow tied to this place?

VOICE: The nation of Israel is a resurrected nation. So what if there was going to be a resurrection of another people, an enemy people of Israel? The Bible speaks about this whole war as a dragon, representing the enemy, attacking a woman, representing Israel.

VOICE: Civilian deaths on both sides represent victories on the part of the dragon.

VOICE: Hamas burned everything within their ability to maximize the civilian casualty.

VOICE: Came back to a land that was largely barren, and we brought it back alive, and we are going to keep it!

VOICE: The devil hates the Jewish people because they represent the existence of God!

VOICE: Because without that Jewish foundation, there is no Christianity.

GLENN: So let us -- go to the Dragons Prophecy here for a second. What is the case of the Dragons Prophecy?

DINESH: Glenn, in the Book of Revelation 12, there is a depiction of a dragon representing the devil, going to war against a woman, representing Israel. And the woman is pregnant, representing the Messiah. So this is the sort of spiritual backdrop. It's a confirmation of what people sometimes say, that underneath our political fight, there is a spiritual war. But people don't often ask, who is fighting? Like who are the combatants?

And the answer is, this is a war that has been raging between sort of God and the devil from the very beginning of time. And the provocative idea in the film is that the devil cannot overthrow God, and so the -- the devil tries to find out, what is it that God cares about? Let me ruin that!

So in Genesis 1, for example, why does the serpent target Adam and Eve? Adam and Eve have nothing to the devil, but the devil goes, "I want to ruin them, because this is God's cherished creation. If I can ruin them, I can get my revenge against God."

And I think for the same reason, the devil targets the Jews and the Christians. The Jews, because they are the original chosen people. And so the devil's agenda is really simple: Drive them out of their ancestral homeland from the river to the sea. And also, put a big Islamic victory arch right on top of their holiest sight, which is the site of the Solomonic Temple.

And then, of course, the Christians are, the Bible itself, refers to Christians as like spiritual Israelites. And so the Devil is like, I hate that too. I will persecute and harass and destroy the Christians no less than the Jews."

And, look, this is not just sort of idle Biblical speculation. You can see this happening right in front of us in the world today.

GLENN: Talk to me about the meaning of the word Hamas, Palestinians, where that came from. Can you take us through that a little bit?

DINESH: Yeah, this is the genius of Jonathan Khan and his book, The Dragon Prophesy. He points out that Hamas in Arabic means something like force or strength, but in Hebrew, interestingly, the -- the word means violence and destruction. And if you -- in Hebrew, it literally says things like, "Lord, save me from the men of Hamas, or Hamas dwells in the dark places of the earth."

GLENN: I had to go to my Bible to look it up.

It does say that. It does say that. It's crazy!

DINESH: Yes. Not only that, Glenn. But the four colors of the apocalypse, mentioned in the Book of Revelation, which reflects famine, death, and destruction. The white horse, the black horse, the green horse, the red horse.

Han points out. He goes, just take a look at the Palestinian flag. It's made up of four colors. Basically, white for the white horse. Red for the red horse. Black for the black horse. Green for the green horse. And all of this, I think, within -- if there's a single connection, you can be like, "Hmm. I don't know."

But there are so many of these connections out in the film.

GLENN: So many.

DINESH: That, ultimately, it's almost like, you have to sort of -- you have to step back and reconsider if you are even understanding what's happening in front of you, in the widest and sort of deepest possible light.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I don't know about, you know -- I haven't studied this, you know, enough. I just watched the movie once.

And it's worth watching. But you will go back to Scriptures, and you will look it up. It is worth pondering. Because it shows you, where we might be right now. And the battle that we're preparing for.

Which is a really terrifying thing. But I would rather know it, so I can be prepared for it.

You also -- you know, did a lot of archaeological stuff. What stood out to you in the research that you did?

DINESH: What stood out to me, Glenn, was that for 2000 years, and even more, there are figures that appear in the Bible, Pontius Pilate, Isaiah, Jeremiah. We're going for King David. We're talking now about three -- a thousand DC.

So 3,000 years ago. And even 30 or 40 years ago, if you said, prove to me that these figures are real. Prove to me, outside the Bible, using historical or archaeological evidence, you couldn't do it. Remarkably, just in the last few decades, there are conscriptions and stones and clay seals, coming out of the ground, that are showing that these Biblical figures are real, the Bible is an account of real people and true events. So you could dispute the theology of the Bible. You can question the miracle. But the historicity of the Bible is being resoundingly affirmed.

And it's almost as if the world has become more secular and pulled away from God, God is speaking back.

But not in the thunderous language of Genesis 1. You know, in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. But rather, in the kind of prosaic language of science and archaeology.

GLENN: Yeah. It was really amazing. Because you don't think -- we live in our time. And so you don't think of the times that have come. David didn't exist.

You know, these stories are true. They didn't exist. And now we're finding all of the archaeological evidence, and we just -- at least I did. I just accepted, that, "Yeah. These -- the big things, we knew existed." No. No. We didn't. It's now just being proven now because of what we're finding in archaeological digs.

DINESH: Not only that, but for centuries, really for two centuries going back to the enlightenment, you have the armchair critics who would read the Bible and say, "Well, it looks to me, this was written several hundred years later."

But now we know that that can't be the case, because there are minor -- minor figures in the Bible. And, you know, the royal steward of King Josiah in, like, the 6th or 7th Century DC, and suddenly a seal comes out of the ground in Jerusalem and there's this name on the seal. Now, nobody 300 years later -- this is like asking for the names of interns who worked for Donald Trump. Hundreds of years from now. Who would possibly know their names and identities?

So this is why the Bible is being affirmed, even at the level of excruciating detail.

GLENN: The fact that everyone said that Pontius Pilate didn't exist. And the stair that has his name carved into it, 2000 years ago, that was discovered.

It's those things that you're like, "I mean, how do you deny some of this stuff now?"

I mean, it's just piling up.

DINESH: It's -- it's utterly impossible. And then we are in Jerusalem, and we go up to this place called Sheillo, in the middle part of Israel, and we find these remarkable red heifers. I've read the book about the red heifers. This has to do with the fact that in the end times, the dome of the rock will come down. The Jewish Temple -- the Solomonic Temple will be rebuilt, and some of the rabbis are actually preparing for temple services, which involve the ashes of a red heifer.

So all of this is not just interpretations. You have people in Jerusalem. And in Israel, actually preparing for this. In a practical way.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

In fact, one of the things that they said. Let me take a break. And have you come back and answer this. One of the things they said.

Because we were talking about the red rest offers two years ago.

And they were talking about maybe making, you know, red heifers into ashes to prepare.

And Hamas said, at the time, that's one of the reasons why they -- they went after on October 7th, was because of the red heifers. And you go into that. And what they really call October 7th.

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Great Reset Elites are Planning a Post-Human Future | Whitney Webb | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 269

Global elites are still pushing forward with their Great Reset agenda to enslave the world and create a post-human future despite President Trump’s crushing of ESG and DEI, researcher and author Whitney Webb tells Glenn. In her long-awaited return to "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Whitney explores the intricate web of global elites, including the World Economic Forum’s downfall under Klaus Schwab and current state under Larry Fink as well as the rise of digital IDs and AI-driven governance like Albania’s “digital minister.” Whitney also discusses the tools she believes the Great Reset elites are building to control us, including the Biden-era ARPA-H program and possible surveillance tech tied to Palantir and the CIA. Further, Whitney ties the globalists’ agenda to the chaos happening in cities like Chicago and Portland and what Trump must be wary of when deploying the National Guard. Plus, as a leading expert in the financial crimes and corrupt connections of Jeffrey Epstein, Whitney weighs in on the debate over the “black book” and why the government still hasn’t released all the Epstein documents.

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