It's just as immoral right? It's just as unethical. It's just as evil to kill a thousand babies. But in that case because self-defense is invulnerable to morality and ethics really if the self-defense is big enough you're saving an entire country which would include saving a lot more babies than you would kill. I would say where are those babies and when could I get started because saving the country would be a bigger priority than saving a thousand babies.

So the thing I would add to the conversation is if Israel is doing something to you that looks like killing a thousand babies but their alternative looks to them and they're the only ones who get to decide. It looks to them like they could lose their entire country to a rising force that wants to kill every one of them. Then it's sort of none of my business. They get to make that decision. Everybody gets to decide what your own self-defense looks like. And other people don't get to tell them that was unethical or that was immoral or we wish you hadn't done it. I mean we could move our lips but it's not really part of the decision.

So when I look at Israel doing some pretty brutal stuff with Gaza I don't say to myself is it ethical or moral? I say to myself is it self-defense? And if it's self-defense or they reasonably believe it's self-defense I don't even have to be the judge of whether it is. If they reasonably believe it's self-defense it's not really a moral or ethical question. It's self-defense. And I do think they have an argument that it's self-defense. And it wasn't Israel's fault that Hamas wraps itself around the civilian population. It does make it a gigantic tragedy. So I'm not devaluing the horror of it. You could still say the horror is a 10 out of 10. Okay. But in the real world when people have a self-defense motivation and they've got one shot and October 7th made it possible for Israel to take its one shot don't be surprised if they take it.

But here's the important thing. If you thought that I just gave you an opinion on Israel it was the opposite. All I did is describe the world. I didn't give you an opinion on Israel because my opinion on Israel is completely irrelevant. Israel will do what's good for Israel because they have the power to do so. If Hamas had the power they would do what Hamas wants and it would be pretty brutal. And my opinion wouldn't matter to that either. So stop trying to drag me into it because it's really just a way to find a way to criticize public figures. So I'm not in this fight. I care what's good for America and I care about America's self-defense and America's well-being. Israel's on its own. If you ask me should we pay for it? I'd say no because that's not my best interest. So just keep me out of the Israel Hamas thing because my opinion of what's ethical or moral has nothing to do with anything. It's a power play. It's a self-defense play. It's a national interest play. And the people who have the power are going to get what they want. And that's just the way the world works. And that's an observation not an opinion. You don't need my opinion. It has no value here whatsoever.

All right so I just wanted to clarify that because people have been asking me on X.

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