Full Transcript for SPECIAL REPORT: Remembering October 7th - How Will Your College "Remember"

WEBVTT 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:05.280 This is Ken Mercer of Mercer Moments in American History. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:13.519 Today I'm doing a special report on the anniversary or the memorial of October 7th, the year 2023. 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:22.239 What I and many people call the second Holocaust, October 7th, the year 2023, in the nation of Israel. 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:34.479 This is important to me because my fear is people will and perhaps already denied it even happened or somehow place the blame on this massacre on Israel. 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:45.920 I'm wondering this year, this October 7th, what will our colleges and universities, what would they teach our children and our grandchildren about what happened on October 7th? 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:57.359 Will they at least baseline and say that the terrorist organization Hamas, funded by Iran, they launched a huge, a well-coordinated attack on Israel. 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.159 There were 2,200 rockets that fell in the first 20 minutes. 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:08.159 2,200 rockets fell in the first 20 minutes, over 5,000 on Tory. 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:17.200 They killed 1,200 Israeli citizens and wounded 3,400 children, women, and men. 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:25.599 And then Hamas took 240 children, women, men as hostages. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:32.079 Will our colleges and universities at least baseline and share those facts? 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:50.719 And that's why October 7th, what I saw about, God help us, as you saw the next day, within a few days after that, across our college campuses, across our nation, young people were out there protesting against Israel, and some of those already denying that it had happened. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:52.799 Denying that it happened. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:02:01.040 This is so sad, but let's go back and let's talk about what happened that day, that October 7th. 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:08.080 It was the supernova Sukkot Gathering, also known as the Nova Music Festival. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:09.199 This is important. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.400 It was a Jewish holiday. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:29.520 Now, many of the Israeli Defense Forces, the IDF, were on leave during this holiday, but the IDF had their attention focused on Israel's northern border, where tensions were with the fighting of the terrorist Hezbollah organization, also funded by guess who? 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:30.479 Iran. 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:37.439 And Gaza was on the southern strip bordering Egypt, and the terrorist organization there was Hamas. 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:45.199 October 7th was also the day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:54.479 That's the war where Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack to destroy Israel on October 6th, 1973. 00:02:54.639 --> 00:03:00.400 So you have a good level set of what was happening, what was happening that day. 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.759 They were funded by Iran. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:15.599 And now the terrorists on the southern border, Hamas, the Gaza Strip border and Egypt, were also funded by Iran. 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.560 Now you should know this is not a political comment. 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:19.919 It's an historical fact. 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:31.599 The President Biden, Vice President Harris administration of the United States had just freed up, freed up$8 to$10 billion with a B,$8 to$10 billion for Iran. 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:36.479 And of course, politicians and people like you and me said, well, they're going to use that money for terrorism. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:48.080 They said, no, we have a verbal agreement that$8 to$10 billion will be humanitarian aid for Iran, for food and water, for new schools and hospitals. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.879 None of that money would go to terrorism. 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:59.439 Well, all of a sudden, Iran was funding terrorism in the north, Hezbollah, and terrorism in the south of Israel, Hamas. 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:09.919 But at this music festival, they saw these rockets, and then they saw that these men on these expensive gliders flowing into the music festival. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:16.800 These men had weapons, and they were firing on a civilian population and killing all they could. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.079 And the stories that came out in there were horrendous. 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:33.600 See the British broadcasting from the Israeli network, Israeli police forces from forensic scientists, from other people that give us a lot more detail that I'm afraid we're not seeing in a place called the United States of America. 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:40.079 But the BBC said that they had evidence of rape, sexual violence, and mutilation of women. 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:51.600 Another report said multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvis, victims ranged from children to teenagers to what the British call pensioners. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:55.040 Pensioners is a title, I guess, retired people. 00:04:55.519 --> 00:05:06.160 And there is video testimony from Hamas, their cell phones and their own body cameras of what had happened to mutilate people, cut off body parts, and then execute them. 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:07.600 And it was systematic. 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:14.000 What I personally call, I have a term called EDS, E, evil, D demonic, S satanic. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.319 It was evil, demonic, satanic. 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:24.720 The Hamas had gone into homes, the small homes, and taken the whole family in there and tortured and then executed the whole family. 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:53.360 I'd like to share more about, you know how horrible it was, but here's the consortium part was in the next few days, across our colleges and universities, and not one or two, across our nation, there were protests going up against Israel, and many students denying that it even happened, denying that 1,200 people were tortured and murdered,