Bibi's Boys - December 16, 2025

**Cenk Uygur** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_5** (1:11)
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**Cenk Uygur** (1:55)
All right, welcome to The Young Turks. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian with you guys. I'm at home because I got a little bit of a cold, but we carry on. Operation Joy later, and in fact, old school later as well. We'll do all of that. But first, fun little game here. Will Cenk be able to contain his rage today? because there are a lot of rage bait stories, as the kids say, in today's lineup, including the banning of Palestinians and more dirty tricks from the pro-Israel thugs in this country, I mean, they get dirtier and dirtier every day. And then Susie Wiles pulls a Steve Bannon and drops a bomb on the White House. I don't know why she did that. That is amazing. So that is Trump's chief of staff, and now they're dealing with a fallout. You gotta see what she said. It's amazing. So we got a big, big show ahead for you guys. Ana, how you doing?

**Ana Kasparian** (2:45)
I'm doing all right. I'm hanging in there. I'm happy I'm not sick and I'm happy that you're not right here in the flesh to get me sick again. So I hope you recover soon, Cenk.

**Cenk Uygur** (2:56)
I feel like I'm getting banned, like our first story. I'm kidding. All right, the first story is pretty serious.

**Ana Kasparian** (3:02)
Yes.

**Cenk Uygur** (3:02)
So let's do it.

**Ana Kasparian** (3:03)
All right. Well, a big announcement by the Trump administration. Today the Trump administration announced new travel limitations and entry limitations for individuals holding Palestinian authority issued travel documents. So in other words, he is targeting Palestinians following what happened in Australia, the Bondi Beach Massacre, which was an anti-Semitic attack targeting Jewish individuals who were celebrating the first day of Hanukkah. Now, let me just note that that attack had absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians and was inspired by ISIS, which happens to be a foe of both Hamas and Iran. But nonetheless, per statement from the White House, several US designated terrorist groups operate actively in the West Bank or Gaza, same same, right, same same. And have murdered American citizens, actually, Israel murdered American citizens. Israeli settlers murdered American citizens in the West Bank, but let me continue. Also, the recent war in these areas likely resulted in compromised vetting and screening abilities. In light of these factors and considering the weak and non-existent control exercised over these areas by the PA. Individuals attempting to travel on PA issued or endorsed travel documents cannot currently be properly vetted and approved for entry into the United States. Now, Cenk, I was led to believe that the Palestinian authority has been insanely deferential to the Israeli government and has gone out of its way to do what Israel wants in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, the terrorists in Israel will leave the Palestinians in the West Bank alone and stop stealing land, driving Palestinians out of their homes. It looks like that strategy didn't work at all. They're still being called terrorists. But anyway, what do you think?

**Cenk Uygur** (5:00)
Yeah, look, my main question is when do we ban the Israelis? And they'll get all their feelings hurt over that, well, you can't do that. No, we get to do it to you, you don't get to do it to us, really? Who harms this country more?
Palestinians who have no power at all, or Israel that has overwhelming power, breaks our laws all the time. In fact, I'm going to give you specific examples in a second, controls 94% of our Congress, most of our national media, has taken $300 billion off of us, and wants to take another $80 billion in actually just a little while. So I would argue that Israel has done much, much greater damage to this country. In fact, I don't know what damage Palestinians have done. The shooting had nothing to do with the Palestinians. None of these shootings have anything to do with the Palestinians. So-