Shadowing Practice: Ben Shapiro Goes Into Blind Rage Over Trump’s Peace Deal. Tucker Reacts. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Here's Ben Shapiro.
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So Trump, while characterizing the Iranians as very reasonable, says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a very difficult guy.
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Okay, I'm just gonna be clear.
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One of these countries has been flying sorties next to the United States
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and putting the lives of his own soldiers at risk next to the United States.
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One of these countries has been trying to kill American soldiers.
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So probably we should, you know, be a little bit more measured in our critiques of our allies.
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The one thing I will say with regard to the president and the vice president and the signals they are sending, if you keep sending the signal to a terror backing regime that chants death to America,
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that you want to deal with them so badly that you're going to tell our allies in the region to stand down, you are giving them an enormous amount of forward momentum.
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And that is a huge mistake that should not be done.
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And I hope that the president does not do that.
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Again, that signing ceremony in Switzerland should be canceled.
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It should not happen.
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All right.
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Now, well, I mean, there's so many things to say, but we'll just keep this limited just because it's just too easy.
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But you'll notice big picture that there is no distress at the truly harmful effect to the United States of this war,
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to the American economy, to our ability to project legitimate power, assuming there are times when you do need to project legitimate power around the world, in the Middle East specifically,
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the deaths of, well, we don't know the real number.
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The number is 13, according to Grok, of Americans in this war.
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Is that the real number?
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No, it's not the real number, actually.
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What is the real number?
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We don't know.
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We will at some point know.
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But Americans have died for Israel in this war.
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No concern about that at all.
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The concern is that Trump isn't being appropriately respectable to a foreign head of state.
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He's not showing enough respect
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or deference to a guy who runs a tiny country of
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9 million people in apartheid state with no natural resources at all from which we derive nothing.
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It's only an expense.
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Israel's side of the ledger is just bright red.
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We're not getting anything out of this at all.
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And Trump is treating him like the junior partner he is in negotiating with a real country, Iran.
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And that's what just sends this guy into orbit.
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But you'll notice that's not enough to just say like, how dare you criticize Netanyahu?
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How dare you?
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Because his real interest, of course, is not the United States.
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It's in Israel, obviously.
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It's not a slur or slander or blood libel.
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It's just like demonstrable from watching the guy.
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Come on now.
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Stop lying.
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That's all you care about.
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Fine, but let's not lie about it.
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But it's not enough just to make that case.
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You also have to get self-righteous and oh, they're risking their lives for what?
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The second this war started, they used it as a pretext to steal land in a neighboring country, Lebanon.
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They used our money and our military and the lives of our service members to steal more land?
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Okay, that literally happened.
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It's happening now.
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And guess who paid for it?
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We did.
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Has Israel and the United States spent more money defending Israel in the last 100 days?
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Oh, that's an easy one.
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We have.
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We're paying for their self-defense.
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We pay almost half of their entire military budget one way or the other.
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So don't lecture me about how we owe you something.
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Are you kidding?
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And then to the question of whether or not Israel's our ally. In what sense?
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If Americans die, if the nation gets poorer, if pressing problems in the United States are ignored in favor of theoretical problems,
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ideological problems, or Israel's problems thousands of miles away,
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if your average senator is more concerned about Islamic jihad than homelessness or housing prices in America,
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and that is true, how are they an ally?
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If the Israeli intelligence service had foreknowledge of 9-11, which they did according to the American FBI, how is that an ally?
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You know it's coming and you don't tell us?
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That's what the FBI said.
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That's not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
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That's a provable fact because there are photographs from September 10th of Mossad operatives mocking the burning of the World Trade Centers.
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And you can look them up if you want.
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And Fox News at one point, right after 9-11, ran that package.
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Wouldn't do that now.
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The point is not to attack Israel.
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The point is to attack the idea that this is an ally.
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There's nothing allied about that.
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That's an opponent, a rival, a resentful, dependent nation.
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And of course that shouldn't surprise anybody.
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Dependency breeds resentment.
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People who take welfare hate the government.
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Adults who take money from their parents resent their parents.
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Like dependency always causes resentment And they resent us.
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I get it.
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That's our fault, not theirs, by the way.
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But the point is, it's all ending.
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Many times today, I got texts from people, including in the government, saying, you know, I hope this works, but there's no way, honestly, that we can stay at peace
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as long as we maintain this relationship with Israel and there are no signs despite Trump's theatrics about not liking Bibi.
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By the way, nobody likes Bibi, including Mrs. Bibi.
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So that's not like a unique position, right?
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He's insufferable and everyone knows that.
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So a bunch of people texted to say, you know, nothing's gonna change.
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Just like after the 12 day war last June, we took out their nuclear sites and we're done.
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But of course, everybody who follows this knows, knew then this is just preparatory to a regime change effort, which it was, right?
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Took till February, but it happened.
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And so cynical people in Washington are convinced that this cycle will continue, but it won't.
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It may not end soon, but it will end for two reasons.
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First, in one word, Gaza.
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What's happening in Gaza, what Israel has done in Gaza,
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which is ethnic cleansing, which is murdering people and moving them out because you don't want them there.
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and by people, people on the basis of bloodline, not even on the basis of religion.
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This is happening to Christians and Muslims, but they're Arabs, they're Palestinians.
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And they're being moved out of Gaza and the West Bank
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and Southern Lebanon because Israel wants the land that is ethnic cleansing.
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It's genocide.
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It's the definition of genocide.
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It's happened before. That is happening now.
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It's happening with US tax dollars in the Middle East and Israel is doing it.
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Now, that fact wasn't until recently very controversial in the United States.
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You couldn't say that.
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You were somehow the criminal.
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The people committing murder were fine.
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The people complaining about it were the criminals.
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That's been kind of the status quo for a long, long time.
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It's fine for you to commit genocide.
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It is totally evil for me to say something about it.
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But that's nonsensical.
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It's actually totally unnatural.
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It's crazy, really.
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And so that can't continue.
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And now all of a sudden, it's not going to continue because too many people know what's happening.
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Now, they don't know details because they can't, because there's almost no access at all to Gaza.
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Over 100 journalists have been murdered in Gaza by Israel in
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an effort to keep secret what they have done to the civilian population.
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We have no even good guess as to the death toll, which is clearly over 100,000 Palestinians,
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women and children being the majority of those deaths, apparently
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but we don't know because Israel won't allow any independent assessment of what has happened there.
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But images, including satellite images, make it really, really clear that Israel used the pretext of October 7th to just destroy Gaza.
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Over 2 million people live there.
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How many people live there now?
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At some point, we're going to know exactly what Israel did.
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And it will be very obvious, in fact, impossible to deny that what they did was genocide.
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And genocide is wrong, no matter who commits it, whether it's the Nazis, whether it's the Rwandans, whether it's the Turks against the Armenians, it doesn't matter.
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Killing entire populations because you don't want them there, killing their children because you don't want them to grow up into your opponents, that's always wrong.
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It doesn't matter.
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There is no special carve out for that kind of behavior.
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, learners will practice their English listening and speaking skills by engaging with the politically charged dialogue presented in Ben Shapiro's commentary. The focus will be on understanding nuanced opinions surrounding diplomatic negotiations, military involvement, and the implications of international relations. By analyzing the transcript, students will enhance their vocabulary while also gaining insight into the phrasing and tone used in politically oriented discussions. This exercise aims to bolster your overall fluency and encourage more articulate expression on complex topics, making it an excellent opportunity to learn English with YouTube.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Sorties - Military missions involving aircraft flying a specific operational mission.
- Critiques - Critical evaluations or analyses of something.
- Legitimate power - Justifiable authority or influence in a particular context.
- Respective - Considering each in relation to the other.
- Apartheid state - A term used to describe a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination.
- Pretext - A reason given for an action that is not the actual reason.
- Self-righteous - Having or characterized by a certainty that one is totally correct or morally superior.
Practice Tips
To effectively employ the shadowing technique, pay close attention to Ben Shapiro’s speech patterns and intonations as he delivers his commentary. This video features a moderate pace with a somewhat assertive tone, making it suitable for learners at intermediate levels who want to improve English pronunciation. To practice, follow these steps:
- Watch the video once without subtitles to capture the main ideas and context of the speech.
- Replay the video with subtitles, focusing on how words are pronounced and the flow of sentences.
- Use the shadow speech technique by repeating phrases immediately after hearing them, mimicking both the pronunciation and rhythm of the speaker.
- Record yourself as you practice. Listening to your own recordings can reveal aspects of your pronunciation that need improvement.
- Identify and focus on challenging vocabulary from the key phrases list; practicing these will further refine your language skills.
Incorporating these techniques will not only enhance your English speaking abilities but also bolster your confidence in discussing intricate subjects like international diplomacy.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.