Nov 13, 2023
Netanyahu Denies Responsibility For Hospital Shutdown, Where Preemies Have Been Left To Die
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied that he is purposefully targeting innocent Palestinian civilians.
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Mr. Prime Minister, as you know,
a number of the protesters
are protesting the actions by Israel.
Even the Secretary of State saying, quote,
far too many Palestinian civilians
have been killed.
Let me ask you this.
How many civilian deaths are you
willing to bear in order to achieve your
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ultimate goal of eradicating Hamas?
If I had my way, there wouldn't be
a single civilian death.
If I had my way,
no civilians would be killed.
If Israel had its way
and our calls would be heeded.
They'll all be out of harm's way.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
did his best to launder his reputation
as he engages in the slaughter
of Palestinian civilians,
and that continues not only in Gaza,
but the brutality against Palestinians
in the West Bank continues as well.
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In reality, the high volume of civilian
casualties, along with the continued
and relentless airstrikes and bombardment
of the Gaza Strip, prove otherwise.
So let me make my case.
Let me make my case.
So the latest controversial act
by the IDF under the leadership
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of Benjamin Netanyahu,
has to do with one of the largest
hospitals in Gaza, known as Al-Shifa.
In Gaza City, Al-Shifa hospital is caught
in Israel's ground offensive aimed
at destroying Hamas, and the compound
has been repeatedly hit by strikes,
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one of which Hamas health officials said
destroyed the cardiac ward on Sunday.
Gaza City's Al-Quds hospital went out of
service due to lack of generator fuel,
the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
Now, witnesses at Al-Shifa told AFP by
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phone on Sunday that violent fighting had
raged around the hospital the whole night.
Inside, doctors said Saturday that two
babies had died in the neonatal unit
after power to their incubators
was cut off, and a man had also died
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when his ventilator shut down.
I mean, what could Israel do, right?
We've been told that they believe
that Hamas is operating
in the tunnels underneath the hospital.
So of course, of course
they have to bomb the hospital.
Of course, they have to cut off power
and resources to that hospital and every
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other hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Of course, they have to do that.
God forbid they send IDF soldiers
in the tunnels to actually fight the Hamas
militants that they claim are operating
in the tunnels under the hospitals.
God forbid they do that.
Instead, they do this. Let's take a look.
Health organization is now saying Al-Shifa
hospital, the largest, most important
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medical facility in the Gaza Strip,
is effectively no longer functional.
There is no running water,
there is no electricity.
There is the bare minimum of
medical operations going on at this point.
There are some 600 patients
inside the hospital.
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Andrea.
But no case is more urgent than the dozens
of prematurely born babies who were
being held in the neonatal unit there.
The electricity is gone.
Those newborns,
some of them younger than this war itself,
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have been taken out of their incubators.
They were, last we heard, being held
in the surgery unit at Al-Shifa hospital,
dozens of tiny, tiny Gazans
on two beds being kept together,
swaddled to try to keep them warm.
In some cases, medical officials
respirating them with their hands, trying
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to keep them breathing, basically doing
everything they can to keep them alive.
Hospital officials tell us at least
three of these newborns have died so far.
Benjamin Netanyahu and the
current Israeli far right government.
They're monsters, okay? They don't care.
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They will justify the slaughter of
those babies by just simply regurgitating
the same tired talking point
over and over and over again.
Israel has a right to defend itself.
They're using Palestinian civilians
as human shields, human shields, human
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shields, human shields, human shields.
All we have to do is repeat that like
robots and completely deny the humanity
of the Palestinian civilians
that are being bombarded
by airstrikes day in and day out.
Okay, there are dead bodies laying all
over the Gaza Strip, and Palestinians
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who want to bury their loved ones
are terrified to go retrieve those bodies
because they know that they might die,
that they might be attacked, that they
might be fired at if they do that.
Okay.
So their loved ones bodies are on
the roads, just rotting away, decomposing.
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But you know,
Israel has a right to defend itself.
And I guess they get to defend themselves,
defend themselves however they want
any war crime they'd like to do.
We get to hold Israel to a much lower
standard when it comes to war crimes,
and even lower standard
than Americans held their own government.
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Jake, what do you have to say?
So a lot. First off, would you guys do it?
I'm asking you, as human beings, let's say
that you thought they were terrible guys.
Just imagine the worst guys
you could imagine.
I don't know how many of them to ten.
Let's just assume
that Israel is telling the truth.
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Let's assume America is telling the truth,
that there is a group of Hamas guys
underneath the hospital.
Let's let's say it's
a big number 20, okay?
And there's hundreds of sick people
in the hospital and wounded,
and there's those babies.
Would you bomb the hospital?
Would you shoot at the hospital?
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Would you cut off the water
and electricity to the hospital, knowing
that those babies are going to die, and a
lot of those sick people are going to die?
I wouldn't do it.
I'd say I'm going to find a different way
to get those bad guys, but I'm not going
to kill the people inside the hospital.
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And by the way, how does that help get
the terrorists underneath the hospital?
It doesn't. And how does dropping.
A bomb or cutting off the water
and electricity to a hospital, where then
you lose the power to the incubators?
How does that get the terrorists
underneath the hospital that are
in the tunnels, that have nothing to do
with even the electricity
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or the water connected to the hospital?
The tunnels go all across.
Even if it were true,
how does it help get them?
It doesn't. Would you do it anyway?
Would you kill those dozens
or hundreds of people?
I wouldn't do it. That's sick.
What kind of weirdo vengeance is that?
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Okay, so then let's go
to the excuses that I mentioned.
Look, I keep bringing this up because
it's unfortunately a haunting analogy.
And I know because I grew up with Turkish
propaganda and the Ottoman Empire used
to say we had a right to defend ourselves.
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The Armenians attacked us from within
when we were in the middle of fighting off
foreign armies like the Russians.
We had a right to defend ourselves,
and the Armenian terrorists
were hiding inside the civilians.
So what do we.
We had a right to defend ourselves
by killing all those people.
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And we got a couple of the Armenian rebels
that were rebelling against the empire.
- We had a right.
- Can I jump in on that, Jake?
Because the exact same excuses
were used by the Turks in regard
to their slaughter of Armenian civilians.
They argued, well, the group of people,
Armenians who we had been oppressing
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as religious minorities,
they fought back with the help of Russia.
They fought back
and they committed atrocities.
And so that that gave them in their minds
the right and the excuse
to slaughter 1.5 million Armenians.
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And by the way,
that was 1.5 million Armenians.
Do you want to know how many Palestinians
have already been internally displaced
in Gaza? 1.5 million.
Okay, nowhere to go.
They're told to go to the south,
and then the South gets bombed.
They get bombed as they're fleeing
the north to the south, they don't have
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enough humanitarian aid, not even close.
None of the hospitals are operational.
None of them take it away.
I mean, what exactly would you call that?
How exactly are people supposed to survive
when not a single hospital
is operational?
Because they won't allow fuel
into the Gaza Strip?
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- Explain that to me.
- So 1.5 million people displaced 45%.
It's about half, obviously,
of homes destroyed or damaged.
That means like it's pretty.
They wiped out the whole place.
18 hospitals already closed, 40 health
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centers already closed, 1100 civilians
dead, at least 4600 children dead.
Let me ask you guys another question.
Please be honest with yourselves.
If Hamas had done the same to Israel.
What would people call it if they said,
well, we were trying to target Israeli
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soldiers and we got a bunch of Israeli
soldiers, but we killed 11,000 Israelis,
and we moved one and one half
million of them, and we wiped out half
the homes in Israel, half the homes,
and we bombed a whole bunch of hospitals.
But hey, those people were
collateral damage in our fight.
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What would we call that as they bombed
and bombed Jews and Israelis?
We'd probably call it a genocide, right?
But so but when Israel does it to Gaza,
does it to the Palestinians.
Oh, you have nothing
but nonsense talking points.
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So look, if it breaks your heart
to hear this, if you're on,
you know, on the side of continuing
to kill Palestinians inside Gaza.
I'm sorry, but you got to look
into your soul and say, is this okay?
Is this okay in your name?
Are you comfortable with it?
I'm not comfortable with it.
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I hope to God you're not
comfortable with it, but I've got more.
So if you're an evangelical Christian in
America and you claim to be pro-life your
whole life, you see those babies dying?
Are you still okay with it because you
think Jesus is going to come back
and you need the slaughter of the Jews
and the Muslims in the area,
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and the two giant conflict like this,
so that you can get the end times.
And Jesus is it.
Are you so are you pro-life
or aren't you pro-life?
Are you okay with this?
If you're okay with this
and you really think you're a Christian,
look in the mirror.
Look in the mirror.
Okay, I want to give credit
to MSNBC for running that report.
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I want to give Andrea Mitchell credit
for not only running that,
but then aggressively questioning
US officials about their excuses,
saying basically something similar to what
Anna said, which is even if you thought
there were terrorists under the hospital,
does that justify killing people
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inside the hospital?
And then Netanyahu,
if you're being honest about it right now,
he has become Hamas's best friend.
Why?
Number one, nobody's talking
about the savagery of Hamas anymore,
because now Netanyahu has killed
ten times as many civilians.
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So now the whole world
is busy condemning Israel.
Israel had everybody on their side
and everybody was condemning Hamas,
and Netanyahu took that goodwill
and burned it, and instead he
killed ten times as many civilians.
And now the whole world
is condemning Israel.
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And Hamas has got to be thinking,
how do we get so lucky?
And he's barely gotten any of the Hamas
fighters, and all he's doing
is killing Palestinian civilians.
And Hamas is thinking,
oh, when they leave, we're going to be in
much stronger shape, much, much stronger,
because every Palestinian in Gaza now
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is going to be enraged with this.
Can you imagine being inside Gaza
and not being enraged with Israel?
And then finally on the Hamas issue,
now the whole world is talking about
this occupation is unbelievably brutal.
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So not the US, though,
the US. Officials, the.
US officials, terrorist sympathizers.
Yeah, yeah.
And so so if, if, if you were trying to
help Hamas, you couldn't help him any more
than Netanyahu just helped him.
So let me ask you guys something, okay?
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Because I am curious
and I'm going to go to a UN report.
This is a UN report. Okay?
So anyone who's already jumping down our
throats is like, This is Hamas propaganda.
Sit down. You're going to be all right.
Okay.
Let's go to graphics 13 and 14.
Because I'm curious,
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were Hamas militants operating under every
single one of these buildings?
According to a recently released report
from the UN, surveying a preliminary
aerial assessment of structural damage in
Gaza, 45% of the homes in Gaza have been
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destroyed or damaged. 45% of the homes
in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.
More than 40,000 destroyed housing units
have been destroyed,
and and over 222,000 have been
partially damaged, the report found.
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So were Hamas militants operating
in every one of those buildings
that were destroyed by the IDF.
Is that what happened? I'm curious.
I'm curious because that's the excuse
that we get, by the way,
we're told over and over again, don't
trust anything that comes out of Hamas.
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Don't trust anything that comes out of
Gaza because it's controlled by Hamas.
Am I supposed to take
every talking point coming from the IDF
and the Israeli government?
At face value?
They just justify everything they do
by saying, oh, there are Hamas militants
operating in the tunnels underneath.
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First of all,
can I see some evidence of that?
Is there any proof or are we just supposed
to take what Israel says at face value?
Because I refuse to do that.
I mean, Netanyahu,
in the context of that interview
that we just showed you lied incessantly.
In fact, why don't I show you the next
video where he makes a pretty bold claim
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about what Israel was willing to do
for the very hospitals
that have been brutalized by the IDF.
Let's watch.
Let's talk about what's happening
at Al-Shifa hospital.
There are reports that there's been a loss
of power, which has caused the death
of patients and even some infants.
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And I know that Israel has said
Hamas is headquartered there.
Even if that is the case,
does that justify jeopardizing
the lives of sick people and babies?
Mr. Prime Minister.
Now, on the contrary, we offered actually
last night to give them enough fuel
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to operate the hospital,
operate the incubators and so on, because
we have we have obviously no battle
with patients or with civilians at all.
And I think every civilian death,
every dead baby is a tragedy.
But that tragedy should be placed
squarely at the responsibility of Hamas,
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that is keeping its military installations
inside hospitals, its command posts,
inside hospitals, inside schools,
inside Unwra UN facilities and so on.
So we obviously don't want
to give them immunity.
But at the same time,
we're sensitive to this issue.
So we offer this help. They refuse it.
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He's a liar. He's an absolute liar.
In fact, here's what the director
of the hospital had to say, not Hamas.
The director of Al-Shifa hospital,
Al-Shifa Director Mohammed Abu Selmiya,
told journalists
the Israeli Israeli claims were lies.
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The 300l the army said had been delivered
would power generators for no more
than a quarter of an hour anyway, he said.
So maybe they maybe they did deliver
a tiny amount of fuel just to save face.
Just so Netanyahu can go on
national television in the United States
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of America, which is aiding and abetting
the slaughter of innocent civilians,
to pretend as though he's a humanitarian.
He's actually looking out
for the Palestinian civilians.
But the numbers would say otherwise,
wouldn't they, Jake?
Because you look at the numbers,
let's go to graphic ten.
Israel's relentless campaign in response
to what Hamas did, has killed at least
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11,180 people in Gaza, also mostly
civilians, and including 4609 children.
Oh, what a humanitarian.
You know, Netanyahu is.
He's so kind for cutting off fuel,
humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip
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for displacing 1.5 million Gazans
from northern Gaza.
And then.
Receding to bomb southern Gaza as these
people were fleeing for their lives.
What a humanitarian. Wow.
We should all give him
a round of applause
and take everything he says at face value.
Yeah, so there's no dispute
that 300l would power the hospital
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for about a quarter of an hour.
So that's some sort of sick joke
and obvious, obvious propaganda.
And Netanyahu knows that.
And he goes, you see
how cool and collected he is?
He goes on TV and he's like,
we offered them fuel for the hospital.
They wouldn't take it. Absurd.
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And by the way, everybody in the hospital
says that's nothing but a complete lie.
And even if it was true again,
it would last a quarter of an hour.
He's taunting them. Yeah.
I'm killing the people
inside the hospital.
Ha, ha.
I gave you an extra quarter hour
to live before they all die.
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It's unbelievably sick. Not in my name.
So wonderful.
Jewish protesters in America have been
saying, not in our name, not in our name,
but all Americans should say
not in our name, because our government
is helping them to do this.
Then they say, oh, well, we question the
numbers because technically, technically,
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Hamas run Gaza
and these hospitals are inside Gaza.
So the Palestinian Health Ministry
is connected to Hamas.
So we don't believe the numbers. Okay.
So but everybody knows the numbers
are relatively correct,
meaning they're in the ballpark.
The United Nations has confirmed them.
So what's your big claim? It's not 11,000.
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It's 10,500.
You didn't bomb one hospital,
but you bombed the other 18 hospitals.
How does any of that help?
It doesn't help at all.
It's just an incredibly weak excuse
to try to deny culpability.
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Oh, don't believe any of the numbers.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
Don't believe the dead.
Babies don't believe anything.
Only believe our propaganda.
Sorry, we don't agree.
We don't believe you.
And then the last lie is no intent.
We had no intent to kill civilians.
We just happened to destroy
half the buildings in Gaza.
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And we happen to kill 11,000 civilians
because the Israeli Defense Forces,
apparently, according to their
own supporters, are the most incompetent
military in the history of the world.
They just can't shoot straight.
They just keep killing
and killing and killing civilians.
Oops. Every time it's an accident.
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Every time. No, sorry.
A couple of times
they got a couple of Hamas guys.
So what, 98%?
Now, what number would you like 95%?
90% of the time, it's collateral damage.
We just accidentally happened
to drop bombs all over Gaza,
and we happen to kill civilians
ad nauseam, but we didn't intend it.
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If you think they didn't intend it,
you're a schmuck.
You're an.
And you're so biased
you can't see straight.
I'm sorry.
I love your brothers and sisters,
but you can't possibly think
that they didn't intend this.
The World Health Organization said
the situation inside the Al-Shifa hospital
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was dire and perilous, and it was
not functioning as a hospital anymore.
That's the World Health Organization,
not Hamas, not the Gaza Health Ministry.
Okay, the World Health Organization,
let's go to graphic.
Six.
People fleeing the Al-Shifa Hospital
in Gaza City were shot at by surrounding
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Israeli forces, Doctors Without Borders
claimed on Saturday.
They're trying real hard
not to kill civilians, guys.
They don't want to kill civilians.
Their heart breaks for the civilians who
are dying as a as a as part of this war.
At the time of writing, our staff are
witnessing people being shot at as they
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attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital.
MSF that's Doctors Without Borders in
the region, urgently reiterates its calls
to stop the attacks against hospitals
for an immediate cease fire and for
the protection of medical facilities,
medical staff and patients.
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I mean, you have organizations
not tied to Hamas in any way.
These are international organizations
like the World Health Organization,
Doctors Without Borders, telling you
exactly what's happening on the ground,
telling you that civilians are being
targeted, that hospitals are being bombed,
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refugee camps getting bombed
not once, not twice, but repeatedly.
And we're supposed to sit here
and stomach the lies told to us
by the very man who failed to keep his own
civilians safe in Israel on October 7th.
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We're supposed to take him at face value.
No, I refuse, he's a liar.
And he doesn't give a damn
about those civilians.
His actions speak louder than words.
Any final thoughts, Jake?
Guys, every day that our government,
the United States government,
greenlights, this massacre is a day
that more babies are going to die.
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More children are going to die.
Imagine. Imagine being in that rubble.
Imagine being in that city
and there's nowhere to run.
There's nowhere to hide.
There's no electricity, there's no water.
People are starting to starve.
And everyone inside Gaza, from journalists
to American nurses to Doctors Without
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Borders to the United Nations to the World
Health Organization are all reporting
the same thing nonstop civilian deaths.
And there's nowhere to run
because it's an open air prison.
They're just dropping bombs
and firing indiscriminately.
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Yes, I said indiscriminately, okay.
And I don't care
if your feelings are hurt.
I care about those dead children.
And us is now saying, oh, yeah,
those bombs that are being dropped
in your head made in the USA.
We're going to send them another $14
billion to kill more Palestinians.
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No, not in our name.
Not in our name, do we?
That $14 billion should not be sent.
We should not send a single dollar
to the State of Israel from here on.
Otherwise we're culpable.
Otherwise the whole world, not just
the Muslim world, the whole world looks
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at us and goes, what kind of a monsters
would greenlight these massacres and send
them more money to murder more civilians?
And then don't pretend.
Oh, I don't know why people hate us.
- I don't know why I'm.
- Jealous of our democracy.
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Oh, yeah,
they're jealous of our democracy.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- And by the way, last thing.
And occupation. Are you insane?
Are you insane to say that that people
should be brutalized like this?
Are you insane? You're going to say no.
We're going to keep them
in open air prisons.
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We're going to imprison the Palestinians,
and we're going to commit
any violence we like,
any time we want on them all accidentally.
Is the occupation of 56 years an accident?
No. You are a.
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Jews across the world through time
have been the oppressed.
And my heart goes out to the
Jewish community for all of the oppression
that they have suffered.
Unfortunately, now Israel
in this different situation
has become the oppressors, and there's
really no argument about that at all.
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The Palestinians are not occupying Israel.
The Palestinians
are not preventing an Israeli state.
It is the Israelis that are occupying
and brutalizing the Palestinians.
They have enormous military might,
and they have the United States of
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America, the greatest military ever built,
all behind them.
They have all of the might
pretending that Israel is the victim
in what was happening in Gaza.
Oh, poor little Israel.
Poor tiny little Israel with its
giant bombs and its giant military.
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They're the victims.
As you destroy half of Gaza,
as you kill all those civilians.
No, they were the victims on October 7th,
and our hearts went out to them.
Now they are not the victims.
They are the oppressors.
And the occupation is nothing
but pure oppression.
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If you tell yourself pretty little lies
about, oh, they're Muslim savages.
They needed to be oppressed
so they know their place.
You don't realize
you're being deeply, deeply racist.
And I won't stand for it.
We shouldn't send Israel
a single more dollar.
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I want Israel to be a beautiful,
great country.
But this ain't it.
And as long as their government
is brutalizing Palestinians and killing
civilians and keeping them imprisoned for
decade after decade, not a single dollar,
not a single dollar should go to Israel.
And by the way,
you're crazy to visit Israel now.
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No one should go to Israel. No one at all.
Why would I go support Israel
after what that's like sanctioning their
government's brutality of Palestinians?
No. They should be cut off
from the whole world
until they stop being the oppressors.
And then welcome back.
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And we love you, brothers and sisters,
because we're all humans
at the end of the day.
Treat the Palestinians as humans,
and then you're welcome back
to the rest of the world.
Until then, you are clearly
the oppressors, and it's not even close.
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