While in Israel. A new and fierce wave of protest.
Thousands taking to the streets in Tel Aviv and across the country
for a second day in a row.
Calling for Prime Minister Netanyahu to resign.
Go sign this deal. Get the hostages back.
There are measures that should have been taken and they didn't take them.
Protesters gathering tonight warning they're not going home
until the hostages are back.
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets and absolutely demanded the ouster
of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an end to the ongoing war on Gaza.
On Sunday, the protesters moved from Hostage Square Plaza in Tel Aviv
to the parliament in Jerusalem.
Protesters were heard chanting for Netanyahu's removal.
Netanyahu addressed his critics in a prime time speech, saying, quote, the
pain of the families, meaning the family members of the hostages breaks my heart.
I think it breaks all of our hearts.
Anyone who says that I'm not doing everything to bring back our hostages
is wrong and is misleading others.
The calls for elections right now, this is what he's really concerned about.
At the height of the war.
A moment before victory will paralyze Israel for at least half a year.
And the first person to celebrate this will be Hamas.
But some Israelis are not convinced by Netanyahu's statements, including zero.
Shahar Shahar More, who is the uncle of a hostage
who is currently held captive in Gaza.
He says the Israeli government is actually misleading the public
about how they are victorious in this war.
Let's take a look.
There's a lot of pressure coming from the the cabinet ministers
stating these thoughts.
Okay, be quiet, be quiet, play along.
Come with us to the to the to this delegations and and meet with the UN
and put pressure on on outside players.
But don't say anything to to contradict
the official governmental line and we,
the Israeli public is being pumped with.
Together we will win, together we will win.
And we're not winning.
We're not winning at all. So this, this, this charade should stop.
We need some some international intervention.
Because the way things are going in Israel now, we're we're we're jumping
straight head down to their base.
I have to say.
I mean, look, it's obviously crazy how little Netanyahu cares about human lives
in Gaza, but he also doesn't really care about the destruction of Israel, right?
Under his leadership, as long as he gets to remain in power.
It's unbelievable.
And I give like my heart goes out to the family members of the hostages.
I can't imagine what it's been like to to withstand the reports of this war,
the complete destruction, the lack of humanitarian aid, all of that that got
civilians in Gaza are suffering from the hostages, have been suffering from,
as well, all those airstrikes, the aerial bombardments, the lack of humanitarian
aid, the lack of water, lack of fuel, lack of hospitals that are functioning,
hostages are dealing with that too.
I can't imagine being the gentleman that we just heard from right now.
Yeah.
So, part of the reason that Netanyahu does not make much of an effort to get
the hostages out is because if he got all the hostages out, he has no, reason or not
a good enough reason to continue the war against the people of Gaza, because, yeah,
of course, some percentage of Israelis and some percentage of Americans
believe that this is a war against Hamas.
And that's because they want to believe that.
Right?
But the rest of the world, like 98% of the world knows that there is
a war against the Palestinian people, that starving the Palestinians to death
has nothing to do with Hamas.
It also starves the hostages, by the way.
And and already dozens of people have died from starvation,
and 1.1 million people are on the brink.
And they are telling both the British and the American governments, you are not
to bring any aid in without us clearing it, and it'll take as long as we want.
And yes, those places are jammed up. Shut up.
Send us the money. And no, we don't trust you.
We think you might be working with terrorists.
So we're going to slow your humanitarian aid into Gaza.
But golly gee, this is a war against Hamas.
Oh, we just leveled all of Gaza and drove everyone to the south.
And now several cabinet ministers say we should push them into the Sinai desert
and outside of Gaza entirely, and ethnically cleanse them
so that their entire population there is destroyed and wiped off the map.
But this is a war against Hamas.
It doesn't matter if you believe that no one else does.
- And so right. - Now, Gaza is valuable real estate, Jake.
Yeah, that's valuable real estate.
Jared Kushner, who was in charge of our policy on Israel and the Middle East
when Trump was in office.
He was literally in charge of that entire region as a clown son in law who's a total
failure at everything he's ever done.
And so now he says, what do you mean?
There's really valuable waterfront property in Gaza?
We could just take that and build something nice
after we drive out all the Palestinians.
So. But I really wanted but I but I want to focus.
I want to say, look, I know some in Israel believe.
Oh, it's such a wonderful, great, holy war or whatever they believe.
Right.
But as you see here, a lot of Israelis go, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
It doesn't look like you're making any effort to get the hostages out.
They're seeing the same thing that the rest of the world is seeing.
Exactly. And they're saying enough, enough.
You're making no effort at all.
This is obviously to protect your own political career.
And we want to get those Israeli citizens back and alive.
And every day you don't do that.
You're endangering their lives for your own goddamn career,
and we're not going to take it anymore.
That's the kind of rebellion that's in Jewish culture that I love.
Yeah, exactly.
And I look, I have no patience for anti-Semitism, for even any
anti-Israeli civilian like rhetoric.
I find it disgusting.
I have no patience for it, especially because it's the same kind
of gross black and white thinking that we speak out against here in the United
States on other issues all the time.
And I want to read a few more quotes from protesters,
Israeli protesters from the past weekend.
One of them said, quote, our country is being led
by a gang of nutcases that jeopardize not only our existence but our well-being.
This is not the way we grew up, and these are not the values that we hold.
Perfect.
That's what I how many times did I tell you guys that?
And then people call me apologists for Jews and all.
- They call me every. - Kind of name and.
Apology.
Yeah. What what what does that mean?
Yes. I'm an apologist for all human beings.
Okay, so guilty as charged.
But look, folks saying the same things we're saying here inside Israel,
saying we see you, man, we're not blind, we're not dumb.
And what we value is a culture that questions authority.
That's what you do in temple. That's what you do in Saturday school.
And that's what that's a beautiful part of the culture.
And we're not going to sit here and go, oh, Netanyahu said it.
So it must be true.
That's like a BS line you feed dumb ass American politicians so they have
a fig leaf for doing what they do.
It's not a thing that's real.
One more quote. Let's go to graphic five here.
Another individual, Anyof, whose 24 year old son Matan is held in Gaza,
blamed the Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for torpedoing a deal
for a temporary cease fire that would have allowed Israeli hostages
to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.
Quote you stand between us and bringing our loved ones home,
end quote, she said, addressing Netanyahu.
Of course.
So, I really hope that they, you know, keep that aggressive spirit alive and hold
their current far right government accountable for what's happening,
because I think the actions of the Israeli government have made it
abundantly clear that they don't genuinely care about the lives of the hostages
that have been held captive in Gaza.
The only time they were able to free some of those hostages is when they agreed to a
temporary cease fire, but Netanyahu keeps lying to them over and over again about
how no military pressure is the only way.
They're not stupid, okay? They have lived through this so far.
Israeli civilians have seen how this
assault on on Gaza has not really been fruitful for the return of Palestinians.
- I'm sorry for hostages in Gaza. - Last thing here, guys.
So also in that great quote that we showed you,
is the idea that we've also been talking about here for months now, which is
this is not just about the Palestinians.
Israel was meant to be a safe haven for Jews across the world who were bullied
and intimidated and killed, etc..
Right.
But you can't have a safe haven as long as you're keeping
5.5 million people prisoners.
And I don't.
Again, if you think occupation is a lovely state that they shouldn't complain about
and they should just shut up and be ruled, and it's their fault
for being ruled and imprisoned.
I'm not going to be able to help you because you've lost sight
of all rationality and logic, right?
But if you're a decent person, which a lot of Israelis are, you know,
you're never going to be safe as long as you keep those people occupied.
No human beings of any ethnicity or race are going to go, oh, okay,
we will be permanent, enslaved, occupied people who are living under occupation.
And we'll put your boot on our necks, please.
We love it. And we will.
We'll comply from now on. That's not going to happen.
You're going to have endless conflict, endless war.
So you've got when you get to new elections, which I hope, I hope, I
hope you get to please elect someone with a mandate for peace so that Israel can be
saved and the Palestinians can be saved, and the Palestinians can have a state.
By the way, you'll hear in Israel this nonsense from the right wing of,
well, don't reward Hamas and its terrorism by giving them a state.
Instead, let's have war forever. Right?
And that'll show the terrorists.
No it won't, it'll just create more terrorists.
And so the reality is, is that trick.
And I could just flip it on them super easy.
And you should as well.
The number one terrorist this world has seen in a long time is Yigal Amir,
who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was likely going to do a peace deal.
So do not reward the worst terrorist of our lifetimes
by not doing peace right, Amir said.
I'm going to murder the Israeli prime minister so that we never get to peace.
And the Palestinians never have a state.
Every day that you do not get to a two state solution is a day.
You reward Amir for murdering Prime Minister Rabin.
So two can play at that game.
Get the peace right now for the sake of both people.
And it looks like Israel might, might, might be headed in that direction.
And we greatly welcome it.
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