NBC reported that the head of HAMAS gave an order to kill any hostages under their control if IDF soldiers are approaching. Therefore unfortunate hostages that have survived 11 months of hell such as Jonathan Polin were MURDERED recently. My question is: Did Israeli intelligence know about this new edict???Did Netanyahu choose to ignore it??? Are the recent murders of the hostages directly linikable to Netanyahu???
Thank you so much for this wonderful hope inspiring interview. I am reading Dr. Baskin’s book In Pursuit of Prace in Israel and Palestine and am so grateful for this voice of reason, compassion and hope. Thanks again for this intelligent and thoughtful interview. Elizabeth Steindel
My notes on this interview. 3:40 - here Barston asserts not just that Hamas is useful to Netanyahu‘s policies, but that Hamas policies were “ at worst genocidal” and he says explicitly “anti-Semitic”.
It's 2024 and Israel has a larger per capita GDP than the UK, France or Japan. Israeli people live longer than Swedes. We have peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Saudi Arabia is using Israeli software to kill dissidents. And the Syrian government has probably killed a half-million of it's own people. Have a nice day.
Why all these people who come from America and have no knowledge, respect for Arab culture or mentality put words in the mouth of Palestinians. The Palestinians always tell the truth as it is. We refuse to listen to that they say. When Palestinians say that Jews have no place between the river and the sea, they mean it. Why can't you respected what they say and treat them as natives who don't know what is good for them? I refer you to the writing of Professor Edward Saíd the number one Palestinian expert on Orientalism. This man tells the bitter truth: We don't want you here! Go away!
Propaganda - look at Likud's charter and compare it to Hamas' updated charter of 2017. This is a bad faith conversation to make Zionists sleep better at night.
Israel is an apartheid, terrorist state which controls politicians and the US government through AIPAC. The US does Israel’s and fascist Netanyahu’s bidding while the pathetic, current US government is powerless to stop Israel’s genocide. Disgusting! Does MSNBC coverage tend support Israel and therefore its war crimes more than it supports the Palestinians?
Trump did this too using disgusting rhetoric to incite the base .. Netanyahu is a crook that constantly lies! Yet Biden believes him.. now Obama had the man cased out and despised him.. I can’t believe US isn’t stopping this genocide!
wow so damn smart. leftist zionists showing the 'soft side' of a cruel, racist zionist apartheid state. Who the F gives a shit about a democracy for one people while they steal, kill and torture millions. Give me a break. No one is falling for this shit any more. The audacity of these people, talking about this shit while thousands of innocent children are being killed by the so called Democracy of the Middle East.
I suggest Mr. Friedman to write about the 2.5 to 3 million people who died (in excess) from 1991 to 2001 in Russia. He can also chose to write about the 3 to 7 million who died in all the former soviet republics. This is the second time I'm hearing Mr. Friedman and he seems to be a positive force. I should say, though, that he is an American - and probably someone whose earnings put him on the top 10% and therefore he has no contact with real life like everybody on that tier. My apologies for the bad mood ...
This all bares a striking resemblance to the Agenda 2030 project sweeping the world after bypassing democracy. Human settlement zones, no-go rewilded zones, digital ID, surveylance society, AI controlled, food rationing, no travelling, 15minute neighbourhoods, etc.
Even though this may be overshadowed by the events of the last few days, this is still important information to listen to... I looked it up and discovered that Amir Tibon's kibbutz, Nahal Oz, was attacked but he and his family survived. I hope that stays true.
I agree 💯 % The reason there is no peace in the middle east is because of the violent extremest netanyahu and ben gvir. The palestinians yearn for peace and its netanyahu that's the problem.
Friedman's columns are at best drivel and worthless. I am being polite. Friedman is against Israel responding after Palestinians invaded Israel and raped babies
Very interesting interview. I epuld like to comment two points: - the analogy holocaust / Nakba is not fair. Holocaust was not planed by Palestinians against Jews, but Nakba was executed by zionist Jews (Israelis) against Palestinians but they are denying it. - they both want all yeah, but one side got already almost all and continuously keeps grabbing more and it's not because of the extremists that they can stop at any time but there is a consensus about expansion in Israel and such policies never stopped under all Israeli left, center or right wing leaders.
The Arabs included the Palestinians were planning to snuff out and exterminate the nascent Jewish state, they actually proclaimed it loud and clear, it was a fight for survival .
These events removed many masks from our politics, now more and more people understand that major parts of of the national religious parties are in fact fascists who believe in Jewish racial superiority. I’m amazed by the fact that so many young people take this protest on their shoulders with Shikma and other protest leaders to whom we come to listen while we are demonstrating against this kuku government composed of criminals and cowards who can’t stand against what’s happening. I’m not young but my personal task is to prevent my grandkids from serving in an army made to support a Dictator and some fascists who believe that Jews are superior by origin
Organization UN /HRW/ taking money from NGO which has friendly contacts with arab terrorist organization cannot be just and objective towards Israel. I listened Mr. Keneth Roth , many times. He is speaking anti-israeli nonsense in accordance with the request of Al-Jazeera / Qatar/. Shame on Roth and shame on Harvard. But dont worry.... the truth will prevail.
whatever it wants? that's what happens when you misuse the word 'democracy.' you didn't have democraacy, so one of the several gangs that masquerade behind the political party label shakes out as boss. in a democracy, the people who are citizens authorize state activity through referendum. they control state activity through initiative. and the citizens know what's going on because because public affairs happen in public. so you don't have a democracy crisis, but rather an exposure of ugly reality - you don't have democracy. or even know what it is.
