Episode 439, The Andrew Parker Show - Fighting the Lies: Why Standing with Israel Is an America First Policy

In Episode 439 of The Andrew Parker Show, Andrew breaks down one of the most consequential battles of our lifetime: the global struggle between civilization and extremism—and how it’s playing out in the United States.

Andrew confronts the dangerous rise of misinformation about Israel, the Middle East, and the war on terror—from false genocide accusations to the myth of Israel as a “colonial state.” He unpacks the historical record, the strategic realities, and the truth behind the lies now circulating on college campuses, in Congress, and even on the far right.

This episode makes a compelling case for why supporting Israel is not dual loyalty—it is a clear America First policy, rooted in shared values, strategic partnership, humanitarian principles, and decades of lifesaving cooperation.

A must-listen for anyone seeking clarity in a moment clouded by propaganda, political polarization, and moral confusion.

Transcript

Episode 439 Transcript

Andrew Parker (00:02)

Welcome to another episode of the Andrew Parker show where each episode we talk politics, Israel and the law. And I say thank you. Thank you for listening, joining in and our sponsors. Thank you as well. That is the Parker Daniels Keyboard Law Firm, premier litigation law firm, Wise Counsel winning results located in downtown Minneapolis. I've handled ⁓

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And find us on the YouTube channel. I want to talk today in this episode. Geez, we're approaching episode what? 440. Just about.

And but but I want to talk today about the fact that

Human civilization.

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is in the fight of its life. A civilized society.

One that reveres life.

believes in a higher power, is not so arrogant.

believes in freedom and liberty and allowing each and every individual to

succeed and find its his or her God-given talents.

and to exercise those talents to become the best that you can be.

It is not the civilization of despots, religious zealots who believe that everyone must believe what they believe.

and who

demand such and you are a second class citizen or you are exiled or you are eliminated if you do not believe.

these zealots believe.

And so we're in the fight of our lives.

for these, to save these ideals. And here in the United States, we see significant.

deterioration falling from good to evil on both the far left and the far right.

The attacks on the state of Israel based in fundamental blood libels and blatant outright lies.

Not, well, people could disagree. There's probably a little truth to both sides. There really isn't on a number of issues. First, there was no genocide in the last couple of years during the war in Gaza by the Israelis. Israelis do not engage in genocide or anything like it. In fact, they put their own people, their own soldiers, kids in the IDF.

at substantial risk in order that they not.

violate any war crime laws or

definitions such as those given to the concept of genocide.

And they do this again at their own peril and risk as Hamas attempts to gin up this theme of genocide through lies, through distorted statistics and facts. But even if they were believed, it would not be genocide.

So that is just a blatant falsehood, that whole narrative. But in addition, ⁓ refusal or failure to provide humanitarian aid. Another lie, blatant lie. More humanitarian aid per capita was provided in this armed conflict to the quote unquote enemy.

⁓ by the state of Israel than in any other. And the civilian casualties to combatants numbers in urban warfare is lower than any other. And this is not just any kind of urban warfare, it is densely populated urban environment.

with a tunnel system of more than 300 miles of tunnels. It just uncovered very, very recently a 4.3 mile tunnel in and of itself with more than 80 hideout locations where weaponry was stored underneath hospitals, schools, mosques, residential apartments.

all to bring on more death and destruction, more death of civilians.

Hamas committed many many deaths as well and they have done so and continued to do so today even after this so-called peace plan Which is hardly going to result in peace in my judgment at all. I know that Donald Trump is Attempting to great take great credit for engaging peace and he and he did some great things with this quote-unquote peace plan including

getting the return of the living hostages as well as most, I think there are a couple ⁓ bodies that are still not returned, of murdered hostages.

⁓ But make no mistake the

supporters of terror the actors in these terrorist organizations

from A to Z are retooling. They are rehabilitating their troops, their supporters. They are reconstituting.

And they are getting munitions and weaponry. They are not sitting idly by. And there are governments that are providing the money and, in fact, the equipment and munitions directly to them, both Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood ⁓ behind this with Qatar and Turkey, and then the whole Iranian axis. They are

retooling. These are actors who are evil.

They are terrorist organizations. try to excuse their conduct by saying that Israel is a colonialist settlement state.

And the fact of the matter is, it is not. It is a lie to say otherwise. It is a lie to say that they are a colonial settlement state.

The Jews are indigenous to the state of Israel, have been there even though they were kicked out time and again and exiled. They've been there for thousands of years. Not just the last, what, 77, 78 years.

No, thousands of years.

And they just didn't appear on the scene and kick Palestinians out. No, they did neither They have been there they were there Before Islam ever even existed and There is archaeological scientific proof of this fact not developed by Jews or by Pro isville advocates, but by professionals by scientists

And so there can be no question or doubt regarding that. But in addition to it, the evidence is overwhelming that the Jews did not kick the Palestinians out. The Arabs said, we are going to destroy the nascent Jewish state. Within hours, they declared that. Within hours of the recognition of the state of Israel that

The Arab population rejected the partition plan in 1947, and within hours, war broke out, and the Palestinians left.

with the desire to return when their Arab brethren destroyed the Jews, destroyed the Jewish state, the only Jewish state in the entire world, and it's a sliver the size of New Jersey, the only location for the Jews to have a homeland. It's their ancestral land.

this little strip of land, again, the size of New Jersey. But no.

The Arab countries are raid.

enormously larger than the state of Israel strategically positioned Around the state of Israel with the Mediterranean Sea On the other side and they said we're going to push all the Jews into the sea and you'll come back to your homes You'll have the entirety of the land. There won't be any partition plan. There won't be any ⁓ Jewish and Palestinian state or Jewish and Arab state

No, it'll be all Arab, all Palestinian.

Well, that didn't happen.

The Jews did not, right after World War II and the complete destruction of a third, entire third of the world Jewish population destroyed, eliminated, even off the heels of that heinous action by the third Reich, by the enemies of the Jews at the time, they survived.

And they fought off this array of, in this Arab onslaught and somehow survived.

It was no hue and cry for a Palestinian state after they had rejected the partition plan during the years, 19 years between 1948 and 1967. There wasn't.

No, this was all about a one state solution and yet another war was brought on by the Arabs.

So this colonial settlement state is a lie, just like the claim that the Israelis engaged in any kind of genocide. They did exactly the opposite. They fought this war in the most humane way possible, and we need to start to stand up against those lies. And those lies flow into Congress.

They are being spread by members of Congress, certainly by the supporters of those members. They are being spread by scholars, by professors at universities said to walk, they walk around with ⁓ their diplomas ⁓arrayed around their neck like a scarf.

and you walk into their classroom and they give their lecture and they blatantly unadulterated lies is what they spread.

Now, it doesn't mean that Israel has never made mistakes or that they have people have in the IDF have gone rogue or outside of, but there's a justice system, a judicial structure that takes them to task and to meets out justice and judgment. And it has happened numerous times when errors have been made.

But that is what civilized society does.

not line up opponents and shoot them in the back of the head like Hamas did when they were given some semblance of control after this quote unquote peace plan was entered into.

and this cesspool of lies has found its way.

into the regular discourse of the Democratic Party. Not just the far left, but into the middle of the Democratic Party, I would argue.

And it's a problem. It's a serious problem. And it is finding a home, these lies, are finding a home in the Democratic Party. But it is not as if the Republican Party

is clean as a whistle? No.

Because on the far right.

These lies in the name of isolationism, lies such as

People who are Zionist, people who are pro-Israel have a dual loyalty.

and they carry out that dual loyalty through their lobbying of members of Congress. How dare they go to their members of Congress and tell those members their opinion about the Middle East conflict, about the state of Israel versus our enemies.

They're showing dual loyalty. Are they? Or are they showing full loyalty to the United States and that this is good policy for the United States? This benefits the United States. It is strategic. It is smart. In fact, it is the commonality of values between the two countries. It is the foundation upon which every argument

marches forward that commonality.

And I'll tell you, the far right is as dangerous as the Democratic Party and what has seeped in so clearly on the left.

As on the right you see

traditional

Hundreds, no, thousands of years.

of restating the blood libels.

the conspiracy theories.

against the Jewish people, particularly those who lobby their members of Congress. Like, the Jews can't lobby, others can't. The black community, they can lobby as much as they want for the black community because it's not another country. But what about ⁓ those who lobby for Ukraine? Ukrainian Americans who lobby for Ukraine.

Well, they can do that as much as they want. That's not dual loyalty. But the Jews, the Jews who...

try to bring fact and truth to what has actually happened over this last two years during this war. That is dual loyalty. That is not an America first policy. That is an Israel first policy. But wait a minute. They're not mutually exclusive. Can't they both be the case?

Is being pro-Israel a sound America first policy? Well, I would argue that it is. And in fact, I would argue that clearly stating the pro-Israel position, the Zionist position, that Jews have a right

to a home, to a state, to a sovereign in the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.

They have a right to that. And by the way, people have lobbied the U.S. Congress for their ancestral homeland many, many times before.

And they're not called out for having dual loyalty.

We can openly and should be openly pro-Israel, pro-Zionist. Yes, I am a Zionist. that word, that is racist. Since when has Zionism been erased from the good side of our political lexicon, our language in politics?

Probably over last 10 years. Yeah, maybe over the last 20 years. It's been a tag.

We need to fight back against that. Use the term as appropriate because it is legitimate and it is good.

US support for a country that tests our weaponry in battle as the Israelis have that helps train our military month in month out The number of groups military groups that have gone to Israel for training purposes for sharing purposes is legion

Support for a country that provides quality information sharing.

Unequivocally, number one, that is America first.

and the amount of lives that have been saved because of it cannot be overstated.

Support for a country that spends 75 to 80 percent of all aid that the US provides to it, that spends that money back here in the United States creating thousands of good-paying jobs in America, is an America first policy. And that's what Israel does.

Support for a country that shares world-class technology, innovation, connecting people, saving lives, and improving lives is an America First policy. How many lives have been saved by Israeli innovation?

Congresswoman Giffords is just one anecdotal example. I talked about it on a previous episode. The bandages that saved her life were invented, created, wouldn't exist but for the state of Israel. But that's just, you know, that's one important but small example.

Many, many more lives have been saved through military security and safety measures created, innovated in the state of Israel. That is America first. Support for a country that has been with the United States shoulder to shoulder with zero space or separation in the war on terror every step of the way, including

information sharing, training of our personnel overseas in the state of Israel, the state that knows how to deal with terror sadly and unfortunately better than any other in the world. That training has helped save the lives of Americans and advanced our position as it relates to the war on terror. That is America First policy.

Support for a country second to none in unwavering support of America worldwide. I dare ask, name another country that has stood by America consistently arm in arm with the positions America takes around the world in our foreign policy, consistently unwavering the state of Israel.

And that is an America first policy. And finally, support for a country with shared values of freedom, liberty, democracy, unique in the Middle East, but I would argue uniquely at the highest level of any country in the world. Support for that country is an America first policy.

So how dare they say?

Lobbying on support on behalf of Israel Gathering money to support candidates who understand the importance of Israel to the United States

The claim that that is somehow dual loyalty, improper, conspiratorial.

somehow suspicious. ⁓

That has no place in our political discussions.

But more than that...

Our support for Israel should be doubled, tripled, quadrupled, off the scale.

it will benefit the united states it is the america first policy i'm andrew parker and until next time be kind to your neighbor