This isn’t some random psycho.
He’s Israel’s National Security Minister. He runs prisons and police. The government relies on his party’s support.
Neither do his comments exist in a vacuum.
Polling shows 76% of Jewish Israelis think “there are no innocents in Gaza”.
Contestants didn't know who we'd be debating until we showed up, so imagine everyone's shock when Tim Pool is the moderate 😭 This show was also pitched as 1 Moderate vs 20 Progressives and they changed it to 20 Liberals. Most of us were socialists lmao.
“Do You Support Israel’s Right to Exist?” Mehdi Hasan FIRES BACK
Mehdi Hasan: I've been debating hardcore Zionists, Israeli supporters of Israel, for years. And the conversation always comes back to one talking point:
“Do you, or do you not support Israel’s right to exist?”
If you don't, you're an extremist, you're an anti-Semite, you want to wipe Israel and millions of Israeli Jews off the map.
But you don't have to concede on this point. It's a bullshit argument.
Number one: Right to exist where?
Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define its borders.
So if you want me to recognize Israel's right to exist, does that extend into Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem all considered illegally occupied territory under international law?
So, right to exist where?
Number two: What is this right to exist? Where does it come from?
States don't have a right to exist. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries.
The USSR broke up into Russia and 14 other states. Yugoslavia broke up. Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
What happened to their “right to exist”?
People have rights, not states.
And number three: If there is a right to exist, does Palestine have a right to exist?
Israel exists. It's a country with sovereignty, it's on the map.
The idea that in a world where Israel is genociding the Palestinians in Gaza, ethnically cleansing them in the West Bank, and blocking their legal right to return the idea that Israel's right to exist is the one we should be concerned about, and not Palestine's, is both ridiculous and, let's be honest, racist.
This is what Israel calls a Palestinian terror attack:
A Palestinian man took his 17-year-old son with him to try to put out a fire Israeli settlers had started in their fields
Israeli settlers shot his son in the neck at point-blank range then kept shooting as he lay dying on the ground
They shot another young Palestinian who was there in the leg, then shot him dead as he tried to crawl away
Israeli soldiers were there the whole time and only started shooting when other Palestinians who were there tried to fight back
This is not “settler violence”
This is genocide
French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC, says Visa and Mastercard blocked all his cards, leaving him unable to make purchases.
He says judges, lawyers, & politicians are being intimidated & treated as criminals.
This banner identifying the elected mayor of NYC alongside top targets on Israel's kill list is not just a cynical campaign ad
It's a reminder that Israel is currently conducting hybrid warfare operations inside the US, which Netanyahu has described as the 8th battlefront
Hasan Piker: “Look at the hypocrisy. Can you imagine if Joe Biden was like, ‘I don’t care about prices, Jack. I don’t care if our soldiers are dying.’ Can you imagine if Joe Biden said that? Can you imagine if Joe Biden said anything that Trump says with regular frequency, what people would do? What the Republican Party would do with that information? We talk about Marie Antoinette, the let them eat cake moment. Donald Trump is telling people eat shitcakes on a daily basis and no one seems to care. It blows my mind”
nra and aipac are both funded by trump supporting right wing billionaires. they both subvert american democracy and they both work to continue the killing of children in schools. you and shannon seem not to mind when the school children are in the middle east.
Heather Reisman and her husband run a charity that provides a financial reward (a scholarship) for “lone soldiers” who join the IDF.
This is nothing but PR from someone who is directly complicit.
When Abdul took over the Detroit Health Department, the Health Department also absorbed animal control duties from the Detroit Police Department. After doing so, Abdul oversaw a 50% decrease in euthanasia at city run animal shelters. Don't let this AIPAC slander campaign work.
“I did a leg amputation on a 5-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her… We were praying for her to faint. She stayed awake the whole amputation.”
Absolutely devastating testimony from doctors in Gaza.
Israel rejects peace with Gaza, Israel rejects peace with Lebanon, Israel rejects peace with Iran, Israel refuses to leave Syria… at what point do you stop blaming everyone else?