Netanyahu's allies are pleading with him to stop | James O'Brien - The Whole Show 

I'll say this again. It's not about the hostages. It's about the real estate.

I do not understand how people could really expect that the Palestiniañs would be happy to live forever in an apartheid dystem under Israeli tyranny and oppression....really??

30,000+ dead, mainly innocent women and children at the hands of this monster.

That caller from Israel "Michael" has helped me to better understand how the average German in the early 1940s could rationalize Hitler's actions as "justified". We have all been given a peek into the darkness of complete indifference to human suffering.

Let's get something straight here. The only reason some Israelis hate BiBi is not out of sympathy for Palestinians but because of the hostages. They would gladly see the status quo returned.

Israel has not only protected Hamas, it supported and backed it to win the 2006 Gaza election

Why people dont want to understand ,there is an occupation people are oppressed people denied the right to have a state .why is it so difficult to understand this !

I saw an interview with a Christian Palestinian whose family home was destroyed by IDF. Their neighbours received a letter from IDF saying their (the neighbours) house will be targeted. His family wasn't warned, but when the neighbours told them, they decided to get out of their house as well. They were standing in the street when the neighbour's house was hit. A minute later their house was hit as well. They would have died if they had not erred on the side of caution.

The west and Israel spent years calling African countries as banana republic! These days we Africans are like LOL!

Netanyahu should be charged with war crimes

The mantra of God's chosen children needs to be torn away

Is ot not obvious? The mistake was that FORIEGN aid workers were in the cars. Were they Palestinian, they would not be sorry at all. These are clearly their rules of engagement: free for all.

Maybe bring up Starmer's 'Israel has the right to cut off food and water' next time you have a cosy hour long interview with him

I agree with the caller who said, "asking a bully to stop does nothing, there has to be consequences"

Israel has the right to Defund itself

How is Isreal the only democracy when people always say the Palestine’s voted Hamas into power so are they a democracy?

I regard myself a humanist, egalitarian. I'm proud to stand on the same path as James O'Brien.

The sincerity of the Jewish lady who called in should be admired. She genuinely wishes a peaceful future for Israel but I think her understanding of the feelings of the majority Israelis should be questioned. The truth is the majority in Israel support what IDF is doing in Gaza and about 30% think IDF is not doing enough to finish Gaza. She is quite right to believe that the only way Israel can live in a peaceful neighbourhood is to accept that their Palestinian neighbours are also human beings and should enjoy the same rights as those in Israel.

Netanyaho wants to stay away from his own courts never mind the international court. The only way for this man to stay away from courts is to keep everyone busy fighting, as it looks.

Norman Finkelstein inspires my path towards unbiased intellectualism.

“It’s a consequence, it’s not the intention” This red paint caller, if his own children were in a hospital bed in Gaza, suffering from some illness, denied food, water, medicine, power cut off from life saving equipment, and IDF went in and “unintentionally” deliberately hurt them along with those they were pursuing, his clarity would all of a sudden come back to him like a hard slap in the face. And then you have no journalist from the inside or outside to cover it, because IDF deliberately targets journalists. Not to mention aid workers, medics, basically anyone who would help these civilians. Of whom 50 percent are children.

brave israeli woman, refusing to commit war crimes in the IDF

Sofia, you are a beautiful soul! I hope the future of Israel looks like you! Thank you for showing humanity and hope for a peaceful future.

I am sorry this lady is still talking nonsense . If there is a terrorist state it is Israel not Iran. You are. Stressed because you have been found out by the world.

In Canada its the Jewish community leading the charge against the occupation. I'm not saying antisemitism doesn't exist here. I just haven't come across anyone IRL at protests or in groups who blame the Jewish community.

Some Israeli supporters will say, ‘oh we gave Gaza the chance for independence when Sharon dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza. But they voted for Hamas.’ That view ignores the fact that Gaza’s borders were completely blockaded and controlled by the Israeli government, who controlled everything going in and out of Gaza. What freedom is that? Gaza is a big concentration camp. Israel gets so much military support from the west in the name of ‘security’, but what about the security of the Palestinian people, who have had their lands stolen and homes demolished by Israeli government and settlers. There are so many political prisoners, held withou trial.

I think it is very easy to understand Netanyahu's motives: he wants the eradication of Palestinians from all territory that he views as being the property of Israel. International law, conventions and pressure held him in check before October 7th, but the Hamas atrocity, and the world's backing for legitimate self-defence, has let him off his leash. He now sees the eradication of Palestinians as being within his grasp and he's going to make sure he achieves this before he's sent to prison.

The caller from Tel Aviv raised the issue of assumed threat. During the first raid on Al Shifa hospital in Nov, I believe, IGF left 3 babies at the hospital. Each was given their own bed and left to decompose, after Israel forced everyone out of the hospital. Because of the outcry about those preemie babies before they raided the hospital, IGF said that they would be transported to a safe hospital. They never were. They left alone to die. The most very helpless of us all treated with such disrespect ... were they assumed terrorists? Or posed a terrorist risk?

Wonder if James is going to reverse his totally bad faith criticisms of Jeremy Corbin over the obviously fabricated allegations of antisemitism.

Don`t spill any paint, priceless... 🤣🤣🤣

How come Netanyahu's two ADUKT SONS are not fighting his WAR like the rest of the young men? How about that.

@James O'Brien,.So it took 7 Aid workers to make you all angry. Everyone else didn't matter.

Thank you James for exposing them.

And remember children, never be a "Michael"

That caller with the spilled paint analogy sounds completely brainwashed. If it was his own children or nieces and nephews he wouldn't dismiss their death as a bit of spilled paint.

Red Paint ? Wow , what an 'analogy'.Jeez. Storming show today.The fantastic young lady refusing to fight in an unjust conflict just left me speechless.

Love from Baltimore in America. James is by far my favorite host.

I do enjoy the confident air of affability that Israel supporters call in with, only to get flummoxed by the audacity of being challenged with facts and reality by James. I think its the tonal change of the voice that really does it, from plummy English to a bit more at home in Israel.

I truly never knew how many evil people there are in the world. To just dismiss babies and children being killed in their thousands and call them collateral damage just makes me believe we are nearing the end of times.

It’s hard to instinctively 1:09:15 trust a country that won’t allow independent journalists to report from Gaza.

At some point, James should talk about how we apply the term "terrorist".

Just wondering how many people have overlooked the fact that starving the population in Gaza and even denying food to Hamas ultimately starves the hostages too. For want of a better word, Hamas hostage takers are still hostage guardians whose duties are to keep them alive as a bargaining chip. More evidence the hostages are not Netanyahu's top priority when his military have killed almost 200 aid workers and even today shot a lone unarmed man attempting to pick up airdropped aid.

Netanyahu is not stopping, because his ego has taken an almighty battering

Last week Netanyahu sanctioned the confiscation of 15,000 acres of land in the West Bank. How can there be a two state solution if the Palestinians have no land?

James and his intellect 👌

See how they turned on James once he stopped saying they were in the right. Oh hasbara ;/

The more I listen to Sofia, the more I want to cry - you give me hope Sofia ❤❤❤ Please keep safe Praying for you

What a brave enlightened young lady!

That Micheal guy was insane need any other hints people?

That guy was struggling man I feel bad for him. You could tell how he was trying to justify the actions of the Idf so badly but he knows what the reality is. He has to know, and I don't think he's a bad guy, he's just misled.

At what point does Israel (the Netanyahu faction) become a terrorist group, or does the term terrorist apply exclusively to non-European groups?

pleading with him to stop ? now plead, a garden snake turned anaconda , ?

James says it’s AS to say British Jews are loyal to Israel first. I’d like to know How many dual British / Israeli nationals are currently IDF conscripts?

Proportionality is not even the only or biggest issue, discrimination is.

If you repeat a lie often enough , eventually it will become IDF.

Yes they left many orphans but I am not sure James is paying attention. They are now starving those orphans either out of the Gaza or into the ground, and I am not talking about tunnels

That guest who refused to serve in the IDF is a remarkable young woman I wish I could send her strength through my phone

Thank you, JaMES, for all you said to the gentleman from Israel justifying "spilling paint" as readily as he feels Bibi is entitled to eliminate Palestinian civilians. I hope Michael reflects on all that you said and about how kindly you said it all despite his ethical obtuseness.

If the allies did not plead with Natanly to stop. what would he do ?? Dreadful

To say that the state of Israel represents the entire Jewish community and that every Jew must and should support the IDF is in and of itself incredibly antisemitic. There were many prominent pro-Israel pundits that called Jews that opposed the Netanyahu government or what the IDF is doing as “not real Jews”. It’s quite incredible but also dangerous rhetoric.

Thanku James for calmly asking the right questions!

To answer your question the reason is obvious: it was never about getting the hostages out it’s been 6 months,,, it was about razing Gaza … Netanyahu needs to go he is horrible for Israel

Let's be quite clear about this he should stand trial as a war criminal !!!

You let that lady rattle on without fact checking her.

These debates sound SO different when you look at them from the Global South. I mean: what makes any of you think that, in the eyes of anyone in the Global South, the British have ever had the remotest grip on moral ground at all?

I really felt the genuine pain of your lovely British Jewish lady. She is more rational and compassionate than most of our current leaders. i appreciated her humanity

😂 i was arrested in Germany for saying " End Apartheid, from the River to the Sea"

Poor Michael and his Red Paint analogy - or whatever that was….. Shocking mind set really, and the reality is that there are millions out there just like him…..

If you condem people who said everybody jews is antisemitic,You should agree to condem the perspective that everybody muslim is a terorist..

Netanyahu wants to pull Iran in to deflect the blame from him to the region. I hope Iran stays put, although the region has the support of the people

That caller at the 45 minute mark is the biggest problem with the support of what the IDF is doing. They believe they’re getting rid of Hamas but all they’re doing is strengthening their recruiting cause

Not terrorist to the First Lady called, they’ll be the next resistance fighters those children, and it’s not fair for those orphans in Gaza or anywhere else in this civilised world

Maybe James you could do a show on what's happening in the west bank whilst the world's eyes are on gaza.. Israel using this to deflect from the daily abuses going on in the west bank.. And there are no hamas there..

Brave women has morals at young age❤

There is an existential threat to Gaza!

Netanyahu was told by the Rebbe that he would be the one to welcome the messiah. Therefore he thinks he is above the law of man because he has to fulfill his destiny prophesied

Ive heard this caller so many times its pathetic. Micheal red paint , is this the walking around the room bloke

When the Hamas resistance force attacked the IDF every adult was either an IDF trained reserve or actively serving soldier SO the only exceptions were the few innocent civilians who were mostly shelled or shot by the IDF and some were collateral damage in the firefight.

That's one brave ypung lady. All the power to her.

James is brilliant

43:16 not only is Michael’s analogy incredibly inapt but his own point that Israel was just “clumsy” is inexcusable. We’re talking about innocent lives and the IDF is just “clumsy”. 🤬

Bravermen should stay in Israel

Proportionate insanity has taken over.

Braverman is evil

Israel is happy that aid providers are leaving.This is their plan. The lies and dismissals are getting ridiculous. US and Israel are isolating themselves!

He should get a knighthood. SIR JAMES. A KNIGHTHOOD FROM THE PEOPLE.

I fully agree with the Jewish woman. Those are the people that have to be heard and supported not the Israeli warmongers.

James O'Brien and owen jones are two of a very small group of English people that remind me that they aren't all bad

Utterly horrified by this guy - hypnotical in denial, and apparently happy for war crimes to continue

A ce point, je n'ai plus aucun mots pour exprimer l'horreur,🇵🇸❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸

James, there are some people who you just can’t get to see the light - as we wonder how these people come to their conclusions, Michael showed us how…minimal brain cells really.

You're the best James. Godspeed

Israel is often referred to as the only democracy in the Middle East. However like its undemocratic neighbors, it doesn’t recognise international law. We need to make that distinction when talking about Israel.

40:54 James logical, critical and objective approach and his demeanour has garnered my respect.

What a wonderful woman Sophia is, Israel's brightest, best, and most humane.

Hi from Mauritius from Mauritius. e listen to you even from far James.

What a remarkable lady, in the midst of all the hatred. If only we were all as brave in our convictions as she is

My wife is Palestinian. We are now both French citizens, As is our adopted Palestinian daughter. My wife Aude has lost at least 5 family members in Gaza in the last 4 months. Her two nieces were 9 and 12 years old killed in a missile strike. I have spent a long time working in Gaza. I listen to the callers to LBC, I read the comments and I realise that nobody on either side of the popular views has the slightest idea OF WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ! Your communal lack of insight is sickening, your opinions are simply projections of your own deep rooted prejudices !

Remember when Macron was caught on hot mic saying to Obama "I can't stand that guy, he's just a liar".

The red paint analogy was just another version of "if you're going to make an omelette..."