Why Crowder opposes guaranteed US aid to Israel

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Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 1:41:35

   I'll just say, this is my, because I get called both an anti-Semite and a Nazi in the same day. Okay, this is my perspective. And it has been for pretty much all of my adult life. I even said this to Ben Shapiro going back, I don't know, 2016. I didn't get into depth. I said, but you know what? If we just stopped sending any money over to that area of the world, Israel would actually come out ahead.

2. 1:41:56

   when you add up all the money that we send to people who want to wipe them off face them out is that a reasonable policy they go yeah i think that's actually reasonable and then uh my position is hey israel has some motives that sometimes are not aligned with the united states and the united states would have some motivations that sometimes aren't aligned with israel and then quite often there is overlap because there are similar groups of people who want to kill both of us And so the simple approach forward is no money, no blank checks to Israel.

3. 1:42:27

   I don't think we should be sending the amount of money. If they want to make some purchases, when convenient. If we want to exchange intel, okay, great. But we shouldn't be tied at the hip as a matter of policy. And let the cards fall where they may. Iran is a good example. They have motivations. We have motivations. Sometimes they are congruent. Sometimes they're not. Think AIPAC should probably register under Farah.

4. 1:42:48

   They can go screw themselves with a wire brush for the same reason Act Blue can, because they gave so much money to Hakeem Jeffries and Elizabeth Warren. I don't care. They tend to lean left. But so should all the people who give money to universities, whether it's Qatar, whether it's China. We should know about the influence in our elections. We should know the proportionality, which is something people are avoiding.

5. 1:43:05

   And I don't think that we should be having a consistent, guaranteed, relied-upon check to Israel. And I believe they have the right to exist. I think that's probably a position that most people would find sensible. There's no place for that. It's incredibly unsexy, isn't it? Because the Jews that are in control of the government is much more appealing. Yeah. As is, there's a genocide, which there isn't.

6. 1:43:26

   You know, like, these two extreme positions, like on many other issues, are far more appealing, especially to dumb people, let's be honest. But I'm extremist. I'm an extreme right-wing. I'm just saying, like, that one is where I look at the truth and I go, okay... That's a very moderate position on this issue. It probably is a moderate position on this issue, but it's a position that, actually, it's not common ground.

7. 1:43:45

   I'm not trying to find common ground based on a lie. you'll find probably some people on the left and on the right who would agree with that yep stop the guaranteed funding farrah got it we also need no other money in politics and wherever it makes sense for us to partner up great otherwise enjoy your I think that's a very sensible view and many Americans agree with it and we're funding all sides of the war in the Middle East we know that so like this is the problem that's not clippable that's a conversation that can take place and I say this as someone who has been accused of