Settler Violence Got More OUTRAGE Than Hamas

The whole discussion around settler violence. As Piers Morgan would say, settler violence. The settlers. The settler violence. Okay. Cuz here's what I'll say. They always love, oh my god, the Western media. And those who hate Israel in the West are always so thirsty for the smallest infraction, the smallest flaw, failure, mistake on the Israeli side. Ooh, are they offended by something they can characterize as Jewish terrorism, which I find very interesting. I find that very interesting and very revealing. Because boy, it's like every conversation on Piers Morgan eventually arrives at Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, despicable the comments they've made. So, you're offended by their comments, Piers? You're offended by their comments, Western media? Offended by the comments of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich? Okay, these two guys say things that offend you? >> [snorts] >> They speak of ethnic cleansing and they speak of all these things that are offensive to your Western educated minds. That's interesting. >> [clears throat] >> Cuz if that's those two people, the two people you can point to, what about the entire state-sponsored regimes and entities that make it their ultimate platform to ethnically cleanse the Jews, to kill the Yahud, to fight the Jews in the end times? The most genocidal rhetoric followed by genocidal actions and attempts to kill Jews, to kill Israelis. Well, yeah, all of that, sure, not great. But the real problem are these two ministers in the Israeli government. Okay. Let's concede your point. Let's take Ben-Gvir and Smotrich out of the equation. They're no longer in the Israeli government. The Israeli government now is filled with Replace them with left-wing hippies. Replace every minister in Likud party with left-wing hippies. Guess what? Nothing changes as far as Israel's security. It's probably in a lot more danger. A lot more naivete, desperately clinging to the idea of peace with people who don't want peace. Get rid of all those people and put them and replace them with left-wing hippie political leaders, nothing changes. Uh but if you take Palestinian leadership and society and replace them all with left-wing peacenik hippies, everything changes. It's over. There's peace. That's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. So, let's discuss this settler violence. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> I'll say it on the outset because I guess it needs to be said. If you target civilians, whether you're an Israeli settler, an Israeli citizen, and you target journalists or civilians and you attack them violently, you need to be prosecuted and arrested. >> [snorts] >> If you intentionally target an attack civilians or journalists, if you burn down homes, Naftali Bennett said it today, you got to be arrested, prosecuted, investigated. That's criminal. It's wrong. Easy to condemn that. Simple. We live by those principles. Violence, intentional violence towards civilians is wrong. Okay? But something is a little fishy about these stories as if there's this new phenomenon of settler violence. Like that's what's overwhelming the region. Uh I have my doubts, but I find it also just really convenient and interesting that all of these people who trivialized, who looked at Hamas terrorism against Israel, all of the aggression against Israel from Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, rockets flying, October 7th, they look at it as it's an issue, but it's marginal, it's trivial, it's not the main driving factor. Are outraged at the sight of group of settlers throwing rocks or attacking a car. Man, are they outraged? Woo, as if that is the cause of the Middle Eastern conflict, that's what it is. That's what's doing it. It's funny cuz when the other side does it, it's contextualized, it's a reaction to the conditions. It There's context. There's a reason. We can't judge. There's a non-judgmentalism from the regimes, entire state-sponsored terroristic regimes funding an operation to destroy an entire country. That needs context. We need to understand that in the context of history, of grievance, of justice, of people who have the right to resist a brutal occupation. That's how it's all framed as a legitimate right to resist their colonizers. But a handful of settlers, a minority, a fringe, committing acts of violence, which I would never condone. But boy, that is the fundamental. That's the cause. So it's an interesting shift in the perspective and the agency and the accountability. Putting it all on these people, on these homes in Judea and Samaria, in the ancient biblical homeland of the Jewish people where Jews have a long connection to. It's these communities that are the problem. All right, let's take an experiment. Like what if we just got rid of all the settlements in the West Bank, pulled out, and then left it to their own devices for the Palestinians to govern? What would happen? Have we ever done that before? Oh, yeah. Gaza 2005. Every single Jew was removed and their graves removed. Oh, yeah. So what happened then? Did they build a free Palestine? What did you learn? What did we learn? As if this hasn't happened before. It's a freaking >> [snorts] >> Groundhog's Day over here. They talk about these ideas and proposals as if they're new and haven't been tried before decade after decade, always to fail because of the desire to destroy Israel more than there's a desire to create Palestine. >> [snorts] >> They tell you that. They tell you that. And so I find it rather curious, the faux outrage at Israeli settler violence. I've spoken to people from these regions, from these areas who live there, >> [snorts] >> and how it's being characterized in this narrative. Nobody condones that. I'd like to find out what's really going on because oftentimes you look beneath the surface and you find out that a lot of settlers are responding to threats. They show up to an area where violence is being perpetrated on them. >> [clears throat] >> Somebody's in danger, somebody calls the police. You come to find out they might be responding to violence against them. It does happen, but people are so quick to jump to the conclusion when the broader Israeli society and principles and ideas do not support that kind of behavior of going to a mosque or a a car full of journalists and attacking it, throwing stones at it, setting fire to homes. It's not supported. It's so marginal, so trivial, but boy is it used as a way to say this is what's driving the conflict. This is why we can't have peace. Yeah, right. >> [sighs and gasps] >> I don't buy it. I I smell something fishy. I wonder. It seems easy enough to manipulate the situation. I don't know. Oh, what? You're going to be offended if I say maybe it's possibly Arabs dressing up as Jews and causing problems? Easy enough to put on tzitzit, to cover your face with a mask, which you don't see too many in that community do, but apparently they're putting masks over their face and throwing stones, moving in a certain way. I don't know. Oh, is that offensive? Is that offensive to suggest that uh it may be Arabs dressed up as settlers doing it. Is that offensive? Because how many of you claimed October 7th was actually the Israeli army killing its own civilians and targeting them? So, don't throw that back in my face. I'm open to it. I'm not making that claim, but I think it should be investigated, prosecuted, and figure out what's going on. If it turns out that these were Israelis doing this, arrest them. Can't do that. That's not It's not what we stand for. Okay? But I wonder and if it stopped if every ounce of Israeli settler violence stopped tomorrow, nothing would change in terms of the conditions on the ground, in terms of the view of Israel by much of the Arab world, unfortunately, by certainly its neighbors and the entities that are trying to destroy it. Nothing would change. If you pulled out every single settlement, and what a settlement is, by the way, community in Judea and Samaria, in the West Bank, if you pulled every single one of them out, nothing would change. I guarantee it. It'd be taken over by Hamas in 2 seconds. Home after home after home in the West Bank is filled with terroristic propaganda, copies of Mein Kampf. I've spoken to soldiers who go to these homes and they they find literature, Hitler literature, Mein Kampf, the deep-rooted anti-Semitism taught in schools and in the culture. Nothing would change. If anything, the only thing that would change is that Israel would be in far more danger, far more danger. Why is there a wall up on the Why people point to these things? Oh my god, a wall. It's It's a terrible thing. And it is. It's horrible to have to have checkpoints and security. Why though? What are we protecting against? Did something happen that by 2002 we had to put up security measures? Yeah, it was suicide bombs in malls and cafes and buses in Israeli society. Ongoing, constant terror Israeli society, blowing them to bits. And then you put up a security fence and a wall to protect against terroristic activities, they go way down and then you point to it and say that's some kind of injustice. If it's a choice between death and pissing off Western sensibilities, I say piss off Western sensibilities. >> [music] [music]