Columnist: Israel not committing genocide

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00:00Jake, I absolutely need to give you right of reply briefly before we move on.

00:05If you could just respond to our Jake.

00:10Sure. I mean, Jake, we haven't spoken before and you seem like a nice guy.

00:13It's almost like sometimes I get the feeling that we could go out for a beer and we could end up agreeing

00:16and then suddenly you pull out something and I'm like, wow, where did that come from?

00:20I speak for the world and Israel's always shocked because they live in a different reality.

00:24They're like, in their reality...

00:26Cenk, just let Jake respond, Jake, because we're going to need to move on, Jake, so just let Jake respond.

00:32Cenk, you gave me a cute line about not talking over you, so why don't you try not talking over me?

00:36I think that if we just narrow down to this idea of genocide, I mean, just because I know you want to move on.

00:42Just this one point. I mean, if Israel really wanted to commit a genocide with all the military might that it has,

00:49it could have been over in Gaza in about half an hour.

00:52They could have carpet bombed it, they could have dropped, you know, serious weaponry, serious bombs,

00:57and killed everybody within half an hour.

00:59They didn't do that.

01:00And they didn't do that because they went house to house trying to evacuate civilians,

01:04clean out Hamas without killing civilians as much as they could.

01:07And the tragic, awful loss of civilian life has been less proportionately in Gaza

01:13than it's been in all other conflicts around the world.

01:15Israel's been doing a wonderful job in trying to keep those down,

01:19although I completely accept and will be the first to say

01:22that every single innocent death is a total tragedy.

01:25I'm not wanting to be glib about that at all.

01:29If you had.

01:30By the end of the night.

01:33rei