Transcript [00:00] So with Zoran Mandani the as the mayor [00:03] of New York it's kind of brought into [00:05] focus even more this whole red green [00:07] alliance issue. You know the red green [00:09] alliance being the alliance between the [00:11] Marxists and the Muslims because Zoran [00:13] Namdani himself identifies as a [00:16] socialist or communist or Marxist [00:17] whatever you want to call it but also [00:19] he's a Muslim. So he's kind of the Red [00:21] Green Alliance embodied. And I just saw [00:23] this clip from the other day of Mayor [00:27] Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York [00:28] Rudy Jul Giuliani talking about Mamani. [00:32] And he actually made a point about the [00:34] red green alliance that I think goes [00:37] even way deeper than he intended. So I [00:40] want to watch this clip and then I want [00:42] to talk about this uh this marriage [00:45] between Marxists and Islamists. [00:48] Have a look. a former mayor of New York [00:51] City, the former attorney for President [00:52] Trump, Rudy Giuliani, is here live. You [00:54] see now, we like to call him America's [00:56] mayor. Welcome in, sir. [00:58] >> Uh, very nice to be with you, Ed, but [01:00] not under these circumstances. Uh, I I [01:03] wrote a column several times, the latest [01:05] one being during the Delasio [01:06] administration, that any city that has [01:09] an appreciable number of homeless city [01:11] people is a city that has a mayor that [01:14] doesn't have a conscience, a soul, a [01:15] heart. how how you can drive down the [01:18] streets of your city and watch people [01:19] live on the street even in warm weather. [01:22] >> So why did he tell them to stay on the [01:24] streets? Why was he telling the police [01:25] initially don't force them into [01:27] shelters? That was the policy you had. [01:31] >> Why [01:32] are you surprised? Communists have no [01:34] regard for human life. Neither do [01:37] Islamic extremist uh supporters. He's [01:40] both. My god, he's like a double he's [01:42] like a a double vector. I mean there [01:45] there there's no group of people that [01:47] have less regard for human life over the [01:49] last 150 years than the followers of KL [01:51] Marx. The only group that might [01:54] equal that is the last 1400 years of the [01:57] strict followers of Muhammad. M [01:59] >> so the man is brought up in a culture [02:01] where human life means nothing and the [02:04] the the the the prevalence and the and [02:07] the victory of his ideology which is a [02:10] combination of communism. You know he's [02:13] going to have stores to provide our [02:14] food. Uh he's going to have rent [02:16] control. Uh he [02:20] I don't know if he calls himself a [02:21] communist or not but he doesn't have to. [02:24] He has straight out communist positions [02:27] and he's he's very favorable to Hamas. [02:29] Oh, they've only killed hundreds of [02:31] thousands of people. Very favorable to [02:33] Iran. Very his father was a big [02:35] supporter of all of them, [02:36] >> right? [02:37] >> Uh he he can't fool anybody that he [02:39] isn't a supporter not of Islam. [02:41] >> Sure. [02:42] >> Of Islamic extremism, including the [02:44] people who attacked the city. [02:47] >> He is now ridiculously governing. Now, [02:49] right now, killing people during a [02:52] snowstorm is absurd. He he reversed a [02:56] policy of New York City [02:58] >> that started before me, continued with [03:02] me. [03:02] >> Yeah. [03:03] >> And to him, it goes back I I think it [03:06] goes back to before Ed Caj. [03:08] >> Yeah. [03:08] >> It's a policy, and I made it much [03:11] stricter. It's a policy that says if you [03:13] get near freezing then all these rules [03:16] about you can't force the homeless to go [03:18] into a shelter are over. You can force [03:20] them to go into a shelter. [03:21] >> You want to protect lives. I get it. But [03:23] I want to get back to the communism part [03:24] as well because you're making so many [03:26] important points at once. So he promised [03:29] free buses. The bus fair in our beloved [03:31] city of New York has gone up as you [03:33] know. They're saying the buses are [03:34] running less on time. There's snow piled [03:37] up. The rats are running wild. and he [03:40] can't seem to to govern the basics of [03:44] the city. Sir, what is going on? What's [03:46] your remedy to try to dig us out of [03:48] this? [03:50] Well, the remedy usually in a straight [03:52] communist socialist situation is the [03:55] government falls. I mean, that's what [03:57] you have that's what you have going on [03:58] in Venezuela, right? The people can't [04:00] eat. [04:00] >> Yep. [04:01] >> That's what you have Soviet Union. The [04:02] people can't eat. But believe it or not, [04:04] that's what you have going on in half of [04:06] China. The people can't eat. So, I don't [04:09] know what happens here, but it's failing [04:11] on day one. Uh, he he promised us this. [04:15] He would show us how socialism can work. [04:18] Well, the guy fell on his face [04:19] immediately. I mean, he's he he he right [04:22] now has committed one of the biggest [04:23] sins a New York City mayor can commit, [04:25] not picking up the snow. It almost cost [04:27] John Lindseay his job. [04:29] >> Even the worst New York City mayors knew [04:31] how to pick up the snow. [04:33] >> Exactly. I mean, I I was I was very good [04:35] at it, but so were all my predecessors [04:37] and [laughter] successors. [04:38] >> So, last thing, Andrew Cuomo, pardon me, [04:41] Andrew Cuomo wanted to be mayor and [04:42] lost, obviously, and now he goes on the [04:44] radio yesterday in New York and says he [04:46] doesn't think taxing the rich will work. [04:49] I think I've heard everything now. A [04:50] Cuomo is saying, "Don't tax the rich." [04:52] Your final thought. [04:54] >> Yeah. [04:56] Well, thanks, Andrew. Uh, yeah, we all [04:58] know that taxing the rich is another [05:01] reason, a very practical one. There are [05:02] no more rich people left in New York. By [05:04] the time they're finished, they'll have [05:05] nobody to tax, [05:07] >> right? [05:09] >> Freaking record numbers. [05:10] >> Uh that's enough of that. And you know, [05:13] so let me So let me go back to what he [05:15] said towards the beginning of that [05:16] interview because it is so important. [05:18] You know, people ask the question all [05:20] the time, and I think it genuinely [05:22] confuses a lot of people, which is how [05:24] is it that radical Islamists and [05:28] progressive Marxists seem to be on the [05:31] same side so often, like this whole the [05:32] whole red green alliance? And again, as [05:34] I said, it's kind of embodied in the [05:36] person of Zoran Manni. So on the [05:39] surface, it makes no sense. Of course, [05:41] one side is religious, the other side [05:42] claims to be aggressively secular and [05:44] kind of atheist. One talks about God all [05:46] the time, Aloo Akbar. The other one [05:48] mocks religion. So what's actually going [05:50] on? So I think the mistake people make [05:53] is that they think of this as a kind of [05:55] practical pragmatic short-term [05:58] political alliance that they both hate [05:59] the West, so they're uniting to hate the [06:01] West [06:02] or that, you know, that they have [06:04] similar they have similar enemies. So [06:07] even though they don't really agree [06:08] ideologically, they're they're working [06:10] together because they have a shared [06:12] adversary. They're both anti-America. [06:14] They're both anti-West. They're both [06:16] anti- capitalist. But it's actually much [06:18] much deeper. You see, what they share is [06:21] not just politics. It's actually at a [06:23] very deep level a shared world view. And [06:26] I would actually say that it's a [06:28] theological worldview, even though one [06:30] side would never admit it. Let me [06:31] explain what I mean. When we talk about [06:33] theology, people immediately think that [06:35] we're talking, of course, about God. But [06:38] the heart of theology is really what is [06:42] a human being and what is the human [06:45] being's relationship to [06:48] to authority? That authority being God [06:51] or whatever the more powerful being is. [06:55] So how does power work? Look, once you [06:57] ask questions like this, things start to [06:59] become very clear between the Marxists [07:01] and the Islamists. Let's start with [07:03] Marxism. Marxism pretends to be purely [07:05] economic or political, but it actually [07:07] makes a very strong claim about human [07:10] nature. It says that people are not [07:12] really free moral agents. They're [07:14] defined by class, by power, other [07:17] identity issues, by structures, by [07:19] oppression. Everything gets filtered [07:21] through who's on top and who's on the [07:23] bottom. In that world view, freedom [07:27] isn't about personal responsibility or [07:29] moral choice. It's about overthrowing [07:31] whoever currently has power. [07:33] Everything's power power play. So [07:35] morality itself is is of course relative [07:39] for Marxists, atheists, and it's really [07:43] there isn't really morality. There's [07:44] really just ethics and ethics is built [07:46] into power structures. So that's why [07:49] everything is framed as systems and [07:50] structures and injustice and justice and [07:53] oppression. Individuals don't really [07:55] matter for Marxists and and individual [07:58] human agency certainly doesn't matter. [08:00] Power is what matters. And that's why [08:02] they see everything as an injustice [08:03] because everyone's either in power or [08:05] being oppressed. That's the Marxist [08:07] worldview about humanity. Now, let's [08:10] look at Islam. Not individual Muslims, [08:12] but Islam, the system. Islam is also [08:15] built around a very specific [08:16] understanding of authority and power. [08:19] It's a top it's top down. Now, you might [08:21] say all religion is top down, but that's [08:23] not really true. See, Judaism and [08:25] Christianity are built on a religion [08:26] where God creates the human in the image [08:28] of God and empowers the human being. [08:31] Okay. The defining relationship in Islam [08:35] is submission. It's not a God who [08:37] empowers you. It's not covenant. It's [08:39] not partnership. It's submission. So God [08:42] doesn't invite human beings into the [08:44] moral responsibility in Islam the way [08:47] the the way it does in the Bible in [08:49] biblical religion. But God God he he [08:53] doesn't limit his own authority and give [08:55] people authority. He he doesn't empower [08:57] people to challenge him. Right? The way [09:01] Abraham challenges God or Moses [09:03] challenges God when they feel that God [09:04] is being unjust. Authority flows [09:07] downward in Islam, obedience is the [09:10] central virtue. Obedience. And that's [09:11] why God creates man for the purpose of [09:14] being of submitting to him as opposed to [09:17] in the Bible where God creates man and [09:19] gives him dominion over the earth and [09:21] creates him in his own image and [09:23] likeness. So here's the key point. In [09:26] both systems, both in Marxism and and in [09:28] Islam, human beings don't really have [09:30] agency. Right? In Marxism, you're a [09:32] product of power structures. In [09:34] Islamism, you're a subject under [09:36] authority meant to submit. It's a [09:38] different language, but it's the same [09:40] posture in terms of the existential [09:43] state of the human being. And that's why [09:46] I believe that very deeply they feel so [09:49] comfortable with each other. They're [09:50] kind of talking the same language. Even [09:52] though one's coming from Islam and one's [09:53] coming from Marxism, they feel a [09:55] kinship. They feel a shared [09:57] understanding. They both see the world [09:58] as a struggle over dominance. And they [10:01] both believe that authority is imposed, [10:04] not chosen. They're both deeply [10:06] suspicious of ideas like individual [10:08] liberty or bottomup legitimacy or, you [10:11] know, just just the the uh the autonomy [10:15] of the individual to, you know, to have [10:16] his own wealth and have his own and and [10:18] build up his own life, right? and the [10:21] moral autonomy that people have. So [10:23] that's also why both Marxists and [10:25] Islamists are uncomfortable with [10:26] democracy, real democracy. They might [10:29] use democratic systems um you know [10:31] tactically because that's the systems [10:33] they're in. But neither of them truly [10:35] believes that authority comes from the [10:37] people in any moral sense. Marxists will [10:40] be cynical about that and say, "Oh yeah, [10:41] it looks like it comes from the people." [10:42] But really everything's top down. [10:44] Democracy is just a tool for Marxists [10:47] until power is secured. That's how they [10:50] think. So let's compare that to the [10:51] biblical worldview. In the Bible, power [10:53] is limited, authority is constrained. [10:56] Even kings, you know, in Deuteronomy [10:58] where it introduces the concept of a [11:00] king, it says when the people desire the [11:02] king and say that they want a king. So [11:04] even the even the commandment in [11:06] Deuteronomy to appoint a king is only [11:09] with the consent of the people. Right? U [11:12] even so and h human beings are created [11:14] with dignity, responsibility, moral [11:16] agency. The Bible doesn't say you're [11:18] either dominating or being dominated. [11:20] The Bible says you are responsible. And [11:23] that's a radically different way of [11:24] seeing the world. And that's why the [11:26] Bible is a real problem for both [11:28] Islamism and Marxism. [11:31] Right? Judaism and Christianity share [11:32] this. The dispute between Judaism and [11:36] Christianity is very much um kind of an [11:39] internal dispute between people who have [11:41] a shared general concept of the [11:43] relationship of man and God. [11:46] uh but Islamism and Marxism actually see [11:48] the whole thing differently [11:50] you know so yeah the real conflict [11:54] between Judaism and Christianity on the [11:56] one hand and Islamism and Marxism you [11:59] can now look at that as a whole camp is [12:01] the question about whether human beings [12:04] are free moral agents or just [12:09] either subjected to power or in power [12:12] and that's why Islam's goal you know [12:14] like Christianity's goal goal is to have [12:16] get everyone in the world to believe in [12:17] Jesus and be saved that way. Judaism's [12:19] goal is to get everyone in the world to [12:20] have to have faith in the God of Israel, [12:23] right? Through the through the Jewish [12:26] people as the catalyst for that, right? [12:28] More or less those are the goals. The [12:30] goal of Islam is dominance of the world. [12:33] And everyone must submit to Islam and [12:35] either by becoming Muslim or living as a [12:38] as a secondass citizen, paying a special [12:40] tax, meaning it's a power system. So, a [12:42] lot of these things make sense. And now [12:44] you understand why Israel is anathema to [12:46] both Marxists and Islamists, right? Why [12:50] churches and synagogues get lumped [12:52] together for them. Why they attack [12:54] Christmas and Easter in the name of [12:55] their hatred of Islam, right? Like [12:58] attacking Christmas markets and saying, [13:00] you know, Christmas is canled till [13:02] Palestine is free. Because from their [13:04] perspective, Jews and Christians are [13:06] basically the same thing, right? uh what [13:09] matters to them is that both are rooted [13:13] in this biblical worldview that they [13:15] hate. That's the threat to them. So when [13:17] people say, "Why are Marxists siding [13:19] with Islamists?" The answer isn't that [13:21] they're confused or they're or they're [13:23] being duped. It's that they they [13:25] actually agree on the most fundamental [13:27] things. Power [13:30] over freedom, authority over individual [13:33] human agency, dominance over individual [13:37] human responsibility. Anyway, I think [13:39] that once you understand that, we can [13:40] stop being surprised at what at this at [13:43] this merger of Marxism and Islamism [13:46] because in a certain sense, again, at [13:47] the very core level, they fundamentally [13:50] agree on on the structure of society. I [13:53] hope that made sense. Let me know what [13:55] you think. Uh, drop a comment. Let me [13:56] know if you think that this that this [13:58] monologue made sense. And uh yeah, if [14:01] you want to if you want to know more [14:02] about this, I did a a longer form video [14:06] uh long form discussion about this topic [14:08] with my good friend Rabbi Daniel [14:09] Shambach on his channel and you can find [14:11] it there. All right. Um please keep [14:14] watching, please keep sharing. Thank you [14:16] so much for uh helping build the [14:18] channel. Make sure to check out all the [14:20] great content we're putting up at the [14:21] Israel 365 YouTube channel. And uh God [14:25] bless.
