So we will take all of Gaza's territory. We will seize all of the territory. At the same time, we will take from Hamas not only territory and not only kill its terrorists, but we will also take away its ability to steal food from the residents of…

…So we will take all of Gaza's territory, we will seize all of the territory. At the same time, We will take from Hamas not only territory and not only kill its terrorists, but we will also take away its ability to steal food from the residents…

…and not only kill its terrorists, but we will also take away its ability to steal food from the residents of Gaza who are not Hamas. And we will put all the residents aside so that they will not be harmed. And then we will go after Hamas and also…

…are not Hamas. And we will put all the residents aside so that they will not be harmed. And then we will go after Hamas and also free the hostages. I mean, what do we want to achieve? To release all the hostages, to eliminate Hamas both militarily and…

…Hamas and also free the hostages. I mean, what do we want to achieve? To release all the hostages, to eliminate Hamas both militarily and politically, to demilitarize. Do you know what demilitarization is? Do you know what demilitarization is? What is it?…

…Do you know? So I'll tell you. Demilitarization is to take all the weapons that are there, take out the weapons, take out Hamas, exile its leaders, free our hostages. That's the plan. What else? What else? What do you say about the less than military?…

…our hostages. That's the plan. What else? What else? What do you say about the less than military? You shouldn't go to the Hamas terrorists, right? You shouldn't go to the terrorists. Where are your people to prevent Hamas from coming in? So then he goes…

…military? You shouldn't go to the Hamas terrorists, right? You shouldn't go to the terrorists. Where are your people to prevent Hamas from coming in? So then he goes and he explains the military... strategy of enforcing the blockade. Obviously, the trauma…

…study published in an international psychiatric journal on the trauma level of children in Gaza. In 2004, it was two years before Hamas took power. In that report, 97.5% of children in Gaza exhibited some symptoms of trauma. Some of them severely, some of…

…under a vicious, brutal blockade, I mean, I don't have to rehearse or go through all the history. And if you look at Hamas, again, if anybody thinks that history began on October the 7th, they should read that psychiatric study from 2004. If you look at…

…thinks that history began on October the 7th, they should read that psychiatric study from 2004. If you look at the leaders of Hamas themselves, Chris Hedges, who I know you know, he spoke to one of the founders of Hamas, a physician, who watched his…

…If you look at the leaders of Hamas themselves, Chris Hedges, who I know you know, he spoke to one of the founders of Hamas, a physician, who watched his uncle being murdered in 1956 by the Israeli army in Gaza. And he said, they planted hate in my…

…Gaza. And he said, they planted hate in my heart. All right. And so for Netanyahu to begin with this evil monster Hamas, without acknowledging that Israel created Hamas, both in the sense of creating their refugee problem in Gaza, that 80% of Gazans were…

…hate in my heart. All right. And so for Netanyahu to begin with this evil monster Hamas, without acknowledging that Israel created Hamas, both in the sense of creating their refugee problem in Gaza, that 80% of Gazans were people who were exiled from…

…secondly, in traumatizing the Gazan population over and over and over again for decades, And then talk about these monsters in Hamas. Well, who created the monster if they're monsters? Who created them? I'm not going to get into political analysis of Hamas.…

…in Hamas. Well, who created the monster if they're monsters? Who created them? I'm not going to get into political analysis of Hamas. I'm just saying that nobody should begin to think that history started on October the 7th. I recently wrote the foreword…

If you actually look at the history of the founders of Hamas, one of the founders of Hamas subsequently assassinated by Israel decades ago was a pediatrician who was eight years old when he watched his uncle and 200 other boys and men massacred by the…

If you actually look at the history of the founders of Hamas, one of the founders of Hamas subsequently assassinated by Israel decades ago was a pediatrician who was eight years old when he watched his uncle and 200 other boys and men massacred by the…

…didn't make this up. This is history. You can look it up. And I forget this doctor's name who became one of the funders of Hamas, but he said, they planted hate in my heart. That's what he said. They planted hate in my heart. So for sure, October the…

…PTSD as young children. About 35% had significant symptoms. Only 2.5% had no trauma symptoms. 2.5. This is 2005. This is before Hamas took over in Gaza. But already 97.5% of Palestinian kids showed some degree of trauma, some of them severe degrees of…

…going on for generations and ask, what is causing all this? What is the source of it? Remember something, 40 years ago, Hamas didn't even exist. There was no Hamas 40 years ago. Something happened. to create that organization and that ideology. Where did…

…talk about what, how much of a fuck up this was on the American part, because all of a sudden, they had to negotiate with Hamas. And I just want to say, I just want to jump in to say that Hillary Clinton's comment was, if we're going to have…

…the work of a lot of organizations, but primarily a group called Physicians for Human Rights Israel. And that all died when Hamas was elected. The Israelis cut everything off. It was an absolute and utter siege. So within the first year, every single…

…the territories, and I knew the general history. In 2005, And I think that election happened 2006 to 2007. But in 2005, before Hamas was elected in Gaza, there was a study done on trauma around the world in war zones. And the most traumatized children…

…that constitution were always flexible. to take over more and more and more and more. And people talk about the so-called Hamas charter with its, you know, has anybody ever looked at the Likud manifesto? It says no Palestinian entity, no non-Jewish entity…

…this horrible, people call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. Incredible poverty, 50% unemployment. Now Hamas, is an Islamic organization that was originally encouraged by Israel and supported by Israel as a counterweight to the…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. But there were free elections in Gaza, monitored by…

…in Gaza, monitored by international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated. For which the…

…to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated. For which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza of food, of medical…

…packed into this horrible, people call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. You take the worst thing you can say about Hamas,…

…Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. You take the worst thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times. And it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.…

…In fact, I'm wondering why they didn't exercise that right for a full seven fucking hours when they were being attacked by Hamas. Maybe they just ate and they were afraid to get a cramp. Maybe that's what it was. I'm kidding. I'm pretty sure…

…before October 7th, like you always say, it's amazing how many people want to start stories in the third act, be it Israel, Hamas, or Ukraine, Russia. If you started the story on October 6th, then October 7th was an act of self-defense by that logic,…

…gigantically horrific scale. I do get a sense that Israel is in a collective sense of trauma. And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman,…

…of trauma. And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman, saying they would do it again and again and again if they can. So that represents…

…Israel has a right to defend itself. The question is, how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. Look, I live in Canada,…

…how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. Look, I live in Canada, where this country was founded on the suppression and…

…Israel could live within the borders that are internationally recognized, I believe peace is possible. Now, we keep talking about the Hamas charter. Did you know that the Likud charter, the ruling party in Israel, excludes a Palestinian entity west of the…

…Journal of World Psychiatry looking at traumatized populations under war conditions. The most traumatized children in 2005, this is before Hamas gained power in Palestine and in Gaza. The most traumatized kids were in Gaza. This population has been traumatized…

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…a survey of thousands of tweets by Gazans since October 7th, 2023. And although we found, or although he found some condemning Hamas because they're upset at the war and the destruction of their homes and blaming them, He couldn't find a single righteous…

…wishes, which states there are no innocents in Gaza. Oh, yeah. And in the interview with The Guardian, the same officer said that the Hamas attack on October the 23rd beat many Israelis' field and need to pick up the gun. A lot of us went there. I…

…could not verify that this person really... said that. The IDF could not verify that this was actually spoken and not by some Hamas operative who was planted in his voice box. That's right. I mean, they do hide everywhere. Who's to say they don't hide…

…in someone's voice box? Or someone's word processor. This could have been a Palestinian bot. I mean, we all know Hamas propaganda is everywhere. It's even in children's entertainment. That's right. You posted something, Matt, about how Miss Rachel, who's a…

Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, one of the co-founders of Hamas, who I knew, who was assassinated in 2004 with his son by the Israelis. And he was in Haniounis in 1956. He was a 10-year-old boy. And he watched the Israelis line up hundreds of people against…

…this horrible, people call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. Incredible poverty. 50% unemployment. Now Hamas... is an Islamic organization that was originally encouraged by Israel and supported by Israel as a counterweight to the…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. But there were free elections in Gaza monitored by…

…in Gaza monitored by international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated, for which the…

…to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated, for which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza, of food, of medical…

…gigantically horrific scale. I do get a sense that Israel is in a collective sense of trauma And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman,…

…of trauma And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman, saying they would do it again and again and again if they can. So that represents…

…Israel has a right to defend itself. The question is, how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. Look, I live in Canada,…

…how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. Look, I live in Canada, where this country was founded on the suppression and…

…Israel could live within the borders that are internationally recognized, I believe peace is possible. Now, we keep talking about the Hamas charter. Did you know that the Likud charter, the ruling party in Israel, excludes a Palestinian entity west of the…

…blockaded, people call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. Incredible poverty, 50% unemployment. Now Hamas... is an Islamic organization that was originally encouraged by Israel and supported by Israel as a counterweight to the…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. But there were free elections in Gaza monitored by…

…in Gaza monitored by international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated, for which the…

…to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated, for which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza, of food, of medical…

…of power and responsibility and oppression is so markedly on one side that you take the worst thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.…

…there is in the world. In this meme, we see a quote that reads, Take the worst thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by 1,000 times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression, killing, and dispossession of Palestinians. It's attributed to…

…for spreading truth and debunking falsehoods yourself. Now let's examine the math behind Gabor's claim. On October 7th alone, Hamas murdered 1.2 thousand people in the countless other atrocities they've committed over the years. Let's say, for argument's sake,…

…countless other atrocities they've committed over the years. Let's say, for argument's sake, that's the worst thing you could say about Hamas. Now multiply that by 1000, as Gabor suggests. That gives you 1.2 million murders. And that's before we even mention…

…interpret this that doesn't lead to a grotesque slander against Israel. It's a lie, and not even the most extreme Hamas propagandists fabricate numbers that absurd. And yes, as uncomfortable as it may be, Jews themselves can spread anti-Semitic lies. Being…

…acts were perpetrated by the Palestinians. Gabor Mate lives in Canada, where the Jewish community was devastated, first by the Hamas atrocities and then by the outbursts of hatred and the attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools. Jews are hiding Jewish symbols,…

…about the Jewish community in his country. He doesn't mention it in any of his interviews. He says he isn't justifying the Hamas attack, but one sentence later, he is accusing Israel of massacres in 1948, as if that explains the 7th of October attacks.…

…ago, Israel did exactly what Gabor suggested, and it didn't prevent the October 7th attack, and it didn't bring about peace. Hamas doesn't act the way it acts because of the collective trauma that the Palestinians experienced in 1948. Gabor, look at the…

…They experienced a collective trauma in 1944, and yet Jews don't go around killing Germans in Berlin? Not today, and not 60 years ago. Hamas acts the way it acts because violence is one of its key values. It is not just me saying it. They say it about…

…to do with what Pierce is asking him. Gabor doesn't answer the questions. Peirce asks again, what should Israel do about Hamas? And Gabor doesn't answer him and instead start talking about being Canadian and how terribly the native population of Canada was…

…of sort of profound international trauma. Yes. Let's just start with what happened in Israel. We are more than a year past the Hamas attack on Southern Israel. What impact do you think it has both on the people who directly experienced it and on the…

…who are living through that. In the Journal of World Psychiatry in 2006, there was a study of Palestinian kids. This is before Hamas came to power. So let's not begin the assumption that it all started when Hamas took power. This study was done before…

…study of Palestinian kids. This is before Hamas came to power. So let's not begin the assumption that it all started when Hamas took power. This study was done before Hamas took power in Gaza. And 97% of Gaza children showed signs of post-traumatic…

…came to power. So let's not begin the assumption that it all started when Hamas took power. This study was done before Hamas took power in Gaza. And 97% of Gaza children showed signs of post-traumatic stress. We're talking 20 years ago now. and many…

…study of the mental health of Gaza children. Only about 2% of them had no traumatic symptoms at all. And this was before Hamas even came on the scene as the ruling party in Gaza. So if anybody thinks that the traumatization of the Palestinians began on…

…this horrible, people call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. Incredible poverty, 50% unemployment. Now Hamas is an Islamic organization that was originally encouraged by Israel and supported by Israel as a counterweight to the…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity, but There were free elections in Gaza, monitored by…

…Gaza, monitored by the international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the…

…to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the punishment was this blockade that deprives Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza, of food, of medical…

…gigantically horrific scale. I do get a sense that Israel is in a collective sense of trauma And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman,…

…of trauma And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman, saying they would do it again and again and again if they can. So that represents…

…Israel has a right to defend itself. The question is, how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. Look, I live in Canada,…

…how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. Look, I live in Canada, where this country was founded on the suppression and…

…Israel could live within the borders that are internationally recognized, I believe peace is possible. Now, we keep talking about the Hamas charter. Did you know that the Likud charter, the ruling party in Israel, excludes a Palestinian entity west of the…

…get to today's episode, just to note that my conversation was recorded before the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Today, when trauma becomes a weapon. This is a very emotional issue. It's not about intellectual facts or historical facts…

…the trauma of the October 7th attack itself are what often get referenced. The savagery that we witnessed perpetrated by the Hamas murderers coming out of Gaza were the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust. How do you understand the role…

…last October here in California, where I am. And in it, the audience member repeats some now debunked claims about the Hamas attack in 2023. We are approaching October 7th. Yeah. When the horrible massacre happened in Israel. Yeah. Where young children were…

…That's the second thing I'll be thinking about. The third thing is rather not cynical, but realistic. There have been ceasefires between Hamas and the Palestinians in general, on the one hand, and Israel on the other. If you actually look at the history,…

…gigantically horrific scale. I do get a sense that Israel is in a collective sense of trauma. And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman,…

…of trauma. And they are determined that Hamas should not be allowed to perpetrate such a massacre again. And they are on record, Hamas, just two weeks ago, their spokesman, saying they would do it again and again and again if they can. So that represents…

…Israel has a right to defend itself. The question is, how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. So just want to pick…

…how do they do that appropriately? And how do they get rid of Hamas, if indeed you think they should get rid of Hamas? You're raising many questions and many fair questions. So just want to pick up on his response, Gabor's response to that question. So…

…question. So where Piers is sort of asking, you know, should have should Israel have a right to defend itself and get rid of Hamas? What is your response to that? And Gabor kind of takes some time, buys himself some time in a way by saying, yeah,…

…So we're here today to talk about what's going on in Israel and Palestine. And three weeks ago today, on October 7th, Hamas entered Israel and killed 1,400 Israelis, took over 200 Israeli citizens hostage. And in response, Israel has retaliated in a brutal…

…be a ceasefire right now. There needs to be a ceasefire. There needs to be negotiations for the release of the hostages. And Hamas has asked, and you tell me how this is unreasonable, that Israel lets go of the children and the women in Israeli jails.…

…is unreasonable, that Israel lets go of the children and the women in Israeli jails. How is that unreasonable? I'm not here to support Hamas. I don't like Hamas. I don't like what they stand for. I don't like what they do. I don't like what they do to…

…lets go of the children and the women in Israeli jails. How is that unreasonable? I'm not here to support Hamas. I don't like Hamas. I don't like what they stand for. I don't like what they do. I don't like what they do to their own people. But…

…their own people. But they have made a reasonable demand about exchange of hostages. Let that happen. Because those hostages that Hamas holds are innocent people just as much as thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails are innocent. And they're not even…

…dictatorships, and I'm including so-called democracies, could become the new normal? Well, as to the first question, in 2004, before Hamas became the ruling party in Gaza, there was a psychiatric report on the post-traumatic state of fasting in children, 95%…

…that he's been in a roadblock on the way to a Palestinian state. He also said less famously that, of course, we supported Hamas. That was our best way of preventing a Palestinian state. Yeah. So that's kind of the flip side of what I was setting…

…were simply not the case. Israel is not, well, Israel is not an occupying force in Gaza. Israelis can't even go into Gaza. Hamas, they cannot even go in. Now the soldiers are in there because of this war that you and I both disagree with. They're…

…October 7th. No, Israelis cannot even go. I'm not in any way arguing that the blockade of Gaza was not a good thing. However, Hamas, not all of the misery of the Gazans is due to Israel. um or the statements rfk jr recently made on uh breaking points…

…said they had not enough food to eat. Right. And why is that? Why are you blaming Israel for that? Well, in part, it's Hamas. And in part, it's the fact that Israel imposed a blockade and talked about putting them on a diet. If your neighbor... First…

…food self-sufficient, gave it to them as a gift, offered to rebuild the port of Gaza to make it the Singapore of the West. Hamas said, no, we don't want Jew money, we don't want Jew ideas. And what did they do? The international aid agencies have given…

…even criticizes Israel or points out that there's another story. Now we become terrorist supporters and obviously we're Hamas spokespeople. Because there's such a thing called integrative thinking. And integrative thinking, you can hold two opposing ideas…

…buy in? So it's easier then to be open-minded and to not accept the shackles that were given in order to advance. what about Hamas? What about their genocidal rhetoric against Jews? Let me try to steel man the argument. Let me try to, you know, give it…

…man the argument. Let me try to, you know, give it its due before we do what we're going to do to it. Hamas is a genocidal Islamic fundamentalist organization akin to ISIS, which is bent on global jihad. And the definition of jihad, according to these…

…Well, yeah, but, you know, and so that's Palestinian's business who rules them. And now, in terms of the actual details of Hamas, I mean... Well, it's sort of interrupt, but it's the Palestinian business, but you can't have an opinion because, like... Joe…

…the right to fire a single bullet into Gaza. They had the right to self-defense on October 7th. Within Israel. Within Israel. Hamas, of course, you know, Just because Israel is an occupier doesn't mean they have to let Hamas kill their people. Okay, fair…

…happened in 1956, where they lined up some civilians and just murdered them. And the kids who were watching that became leaders of Hamas decades later. So, you know, this is, if you know a bit of history, it's not all that mysterious, but Yeah, they…

…history started October the 7th, I want to show them a study that came out in 2004 in the psychiatric journal before Hamas even took over power in Israel. in Gaza. And this journal showed that Palestinian kids were severely traumatized. They wet their…

…was 2004. 20 years later, who do you think streamed across Israel, the Israeli border? Those same kids. who were traumatized before Hamas. And then you look at all the massacres of Gazans starting in 1956 by the Israeli army, civilians. These are not in…

…to wipe out a whole people, it's just that they're ready to do it if they have to. We keep hearing about the Hamas constitution, the Hamas charter, but no Jews in Palestine. Well, I don't know, maybe that's true. I've never read the Hamas charter. Let's…

…a whole people, it's just that they're ready to do it if they have to. We keep hearing about the Hamas constitution, the Hamas charter, but no Jews in Palestine. Well, I don't know, maybe that's true. I've never read the Hamas charter. Let's say that…

…Hamas constitution, the Hamas charter, but no Jews in Palestine. Well, I don't know, maybe that's true. I've never read the Hamas charter. Let's say that it's true. Does anybody ever talk about the constitution of the Likud party, the governing party in…

…It says no non-Jewish entity between Jordan and the sea. Does anybody hear about that? When the New York Times would write about Hamas years ago, it would always say, Hamas is an organization that denies the right of Israel to exist. When they talk about…

…and the sea. Does anybody hear about that? When the New York Times would write about Hamas years ago, it would always say, Hamas is an organization that denies the right of Israel to exist. When they talk about Likud, do they say Likud is an…

…triggers a lot of stuff. And we may think we're reacting to the political situation. You might think you're reacting to the Hamas attack on October the 7th. Or you might think you're reacting to the Israeli response. Or you might think you're reacting to…

…families the other reasons to hate Israel and become murderers. Yeah. If you actually look at the history of the founders of Hamas, one of the founders of Hamas subsequently assassinated by Israel decades ago was a pediatrician who was eight years old when…

…Israel and become murderers. Yeah. If you actually look at the history of the founders of Hamas, one of the founders of Hamas subsequently assassinated by Israel decades ago was a pediatrician who was eight years old when he was watched his uncle and 200…

…didn't make this up, this is history. You can look it up. And I forget this doctor's name who became one of the funders of Hamas, but he said, they planted hate in my heart. That's what he said. They planted hate in my heart. So for sure, October the…

…PTSD as young children. About 35% had significant symptoms. Only 2.5% had no trauma symptoms. 2.5. This is 2005. This is before Hamas took over in Gaza. But already 97.5% of Palestinian kids showed some degree of trauma, some of them severe degrees of…

…what's happening with the Palestinians and so forth. But I don't understand. the fact that I haven't heard you speak about what Hamas, what these awful, I don't even want to call them human beings, did to innocent people. I know that you've talked about…

…day what's going on, on both sides, the suffering. The rationale for what the IDF is doing to Gaza is, of course, that Hamas is hiding in the tunnels and among the hospitals and in the homes of innocent Gazan people and threatening them that if they…

…hiding in the tunnels and among the hospitals and in the homes of innocent Gazan people and threatening them that if they don't join Hamas, they'll kill them and all that kind of stuff. But on both sides, people are dying and I don't see an end to it,…

…don't see an end to it, and I don't see a two-state solution. I don't see how it's possible, because the goal of Hamas is to destroy every Jew, not just Jewish people, but anyone who doesn't believe in jihad, Christians, Buddhists... Rivka, if we could…

…the 75 years that preceded it. That's all true. Number one, you don't know. I'm going to say to you, Rivka, what you said about Hamas wanting to kill all the Jews in the world, how do you know? Have you read what they have to say about it? That's…

…two reasons. One is that the underlying Zionist project has always been all of Palestine. We keep talking about the charter of Hamas, I don't want anybody who supports Hamas. But we keep talking about the Hamas charter of taking all the land over from…

…Zionist project has always been all of Palestine. We keep talking about the charter of Hamas, I don't want anybody who supports Hamas. But we keep talking about the Hamas charter of taking all the land over from the Jews. Anybody know what the Likud…

…Palestine. We keep talking about the charter of Hamas, I don't want anybody who supports Hamas. But we keep talking about the Hamas charter of taking all the land over from the Jews. Anybody know what the Likud Constitution says? Likud being the governing…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. But there were free elections in Gaza monitored by…

…in Gaza monitored by international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the…

…to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza, of food, of medical…

…United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza, of food, of medical supplies. of sufficient water. I could go on and on and on…

…this horrible, people call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. Incredible poverty, 50% unemployment. Now Hamas, is an Islamic organization that was originally encouraged by Israel and supported by Israel as a counterweight to the…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. But there were free elections in Gaza monitored by…

…in Gaza monitored by international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated, for which the…

…to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them. which Hamas defeated, for which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Hamas of, not Hamas, but Gaza, of food, of medical…

…charter says, I want to actually bring it back to the question at hand. We received a lot of questions about what Hamas perpetrated on October 7th. We received a tremendous amount of questions that actually had to do with the gender-based violence on…

…the other way, I want to really be able to narrow down the question that I asked. Whether you agree with the Charter of Hamas or not, are Hamas is Hamas, the way that they acted on October 7th, the gender based violence, the violence in general, the…

…to really be able to narrow down the question that I asked. Whether you agree with the Charter of Hamas or not, are Hamas is Hamas, the way that they acted on October 7th, the gender based violence, the violence in general, the concept of a terrorist…

…be able to narrow down the question that I asked. Whether you agree with the Charter of Hamas or not, are Hamas is Hamas, the way that they acted on October 7th, the gender based violence, the violence in general, the concept of a terrorist attack to…

…a terrorist attack to begin with, the taking of hostages that are still being held to this day. Do you believe that Hamas goals and what they did are doing damage to the Palestinian people? Is Hamas really the true representative of the Palestinian…

…this horrible... People call it the world's largest outdoor prison, which is what it is. Incredible poverty, 50% unemployment. Now Hamas is an Islamic organization that was originally encouraged by Israel and supported by Israel as a counterweight to the…

…That's what people do when they're miserable and hopeless and deprived of any possibility whatsoever. You don't have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights. That's a complete falsity. But there were free elections in Gaza monitored by…

…in Gaza monitored by international community. They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against…

…They were declared to be the freest elections ever held in the Arab world. And Hamas happened to win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the…

…win. And when Hamas won that election, Israel and the United States immediately organized a military coup against them, which Hamas defeated. For which the punishment was this blockade that deprived Gaza of food, of medical supplies. of sufficient water. I…