Uh for a long time in this war, I defended Israel’s right to defend itself. But that right to self-defense has now been consumed by senior members of your government, your colleagues, Smodri, Bengavir, and others, extreme right-wing members of that government who are now talking in a very brazen and very open way about what they really want to happen, which is in their words, cleansing Gaza of all Palestinians. That is ethnic cleansing. That is a war crime. So you may not say that or maybe you will, but your colleagues are saying that and they want to cleanse Gaza, as they put it, of all Palestinians. That is not self-defense. That is ethnic cleansing. So you can play the moral argument against me about October the 7th, but it’s pointless.
I don’t need to play the moral argument.
Well, let me explain. Let me explain. I have said repeatedly, but if I may finish my sentence, I have for 20 minutes.
I hear you in delay. Don’t Can I finish my sentence and I hear you on delay?
Okay, but don’t get angry. I hear you on delay.
You’re the one getting angry. I’m trying to get a word in.
I’m not.
Let me finish my sentence if I may. For 20 months, as anyone who’s watched my show will tell you, and I would suspect you haven’t watched it much or you wouldn’t be questioning what I feel about October the 7th. To me, it was one of the most heinenous terror attacks of modern times. an absolutely despicable assault on predominantly innocent women, children, grandmothers, grandfathers in the most repulsive, horrific, atrocious manner. And I Hamas to me are a disgusting terrorist organization who lost any right to govern for another second in Gaza the moment they perpetrated that act of pure evil. However, and it’s an important however, what the Israeli government has been doing in the last few months in Gaza has now to even its closest allies become something they cannot defend. And you know this when you do a three-month blockade of food. You boast. You all boast about how much aid you’re giving them. You blocked most aid and food for three months to an already starving impoverished who have been reigned with bombs now for 20 months. That is actually not a right thing to do. That’s a complete lie. It’s not a lie. It’s not a lie. The blockade is not a lie.
