Joe Rogan Experience #2067 - Dave Smith

Recorded shortly after the October 7th Hamas attack, Joe Rogan and Dave Smith spend the first half tracing the history of Israel and Palestine from late-1800s Zionism, the Balfour Declaration, and the 1947-48 founding through the present war. Dave argues that binary 'good guys vs bad guys' war thinking obscures reality, and that the US federal government, war propaganda, and the corporate press are the real drivers of conflict. The conversation widens into central banking and fractional reserve banking, fiat currency and inflation, gun control, the over-medication of children, and COVID-era institutional behavior. The back third pivots to ancient mysteries: the precision of the pyramids and Egyptian stone vases, the mercury-filled tomb of China's first emperor, and Gobekli Tepe. They close on how alternative media has broken the corporate media's monopoly on narrative.

• Dave claims it was Netanyahu's documented, admitted strategy for years to prop up and fund Hamas so Palestinians would have no legitimate negotiating partner for statehood.
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• Right before October 7th, hundreds of thousands of Israelis were protesting Netanyahu's judicial overhaul, which critics called the end of Israeli democracy.
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• Dave names Woodrow Wilson the worst US president, blaming WWI entry for the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of the Nazis, and WWII.
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• Israel's claim of a Hamas command center under Al-Shifa hospital was illustrated with a computer-generated image; ex-PM Ehud Barak said Israel itself built tunnels under that hospital in the 1980s.
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• Joe Scarborough, who called Dave a pro-Putin propagandist, has a father-in-law (Zbigniew Brzezinski) who devised the plan to bankroll the mujahideen and Bin Laden to lure the USSR into Afghanistan.
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• Scarborough now publicly says to cut Ukraine funding and negotiate with Putin, the same position Dave was attacked for holding.
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• The 1947 UN partition plan recommended Jews receive 56% of the land at a time when Zionist settlers owned about 10% of it.
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• Zionism began among Eastern European Jews in the late 1800s as a reaction to waves of violent pogroms.
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• The 1917 Balfour Declaration backing a Jewish homeland was addressed to the wealthy Rothschild banking family during WWI.
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• The 1919 King-Crane Commission found that Syrians overwhelmingly wanted the United States as their mandate power.
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• Osama Bin Laden was trained through a US program designed to lure a superpower (the USSR) into a bankrupting war in Afghanistan.
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• China's first emperor's tomb, found in 1974, was reportedly guarded by roughly 8,000 terracotta soldiers and rivers of mercury; soil tests show high mercury levels.
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• Gobekli Tepe was deliberately buried about 11,600 years ago, predating the Sumerian civilization once thought to be humanity's first.
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• Daryl Cooper's series 'Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem' runs roughly 25 hours across six parts.
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