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00:00I'm certainly not proud of mass starvation because there isn't any.
00:02I'm proud of the fact that the Israel defense...
00:04Well, hang on, hang on.
00:05The IDF literally for three months starved the population in a blockade.
00:11There was no secret about that.
00:12Everybody saw it for what it was.
00:14So I'm afraid you're just not right about that.
00:17They only recently ended that blockade.
00:19So they are starving the population, which is, by the way, a war crime if you do that.
00:25Peter, do you know how many meals the Gaza humanitarian system is proud of?
00:28It's amazing.
00:29Look, look, Shabos, here's the thing.
00:31Unfortunately, you sound like the people who have started to defend the indefensible
00:36when it comes to what Israel's government is doing.
00:39And I'll tell you why.
00:40After all these attacks on Palestinians as they're queuing up for food,
00:45the IDF says basically the same thing.
00:48Either they were firing warning shots,
00:50or they felt they were being threatened by some people,
00:54or they've launched an inquiry or an investigation.
00:57And we never get the results of any of this.
01:00But in the meantime, a thousand people who are desperately hungry and are queuing for food,
01:06even though you say they've got plenty of food,
01:09there are thousands stampeding for the small amounts of food that they can get their hands on,
01:14even though you say they're not hungry because you've overfed them, right?
01:18That all these people are just dropping dead.
01:21And it's got nothing to do with the fact the IDF are firing towards them.
01:26When everybody knows, it does.
01:28And this is the problem when you defend the indefensible.
01:30It would have so much more credibility if the IDF just once,
01:34just once said, you know what?
01:37We did.
01:38We shot at them.
01:39And like you said, you're very proud of everything they're doing.
01:43And if they were to proudly own this and explain why they need to shoot starving people
01:48who are stampeding for fragments of food,
01:52maybe we'd all take a lot more seriously the other claims they make.
01:55And the other point I'd make, Shabbos,
01:57is when you now just tell me I'm talking nonsense,
01:59and they're all overfed, and no one's getting killed,
02:02and it's all on Hamas.
02:04To this day, the Israeli government refuses to let any international media into Gaza.
02:11And it's not because of the quaint notion that they're worried about the safety of journalists,
02:16because they've killed over 200 Palestinian journalists.
02:19They don't care about the health and safety of journalists.
02:22And it's not their business to decide about the safety requirements of journalists.
02:26It's the business of the organizations that employ them.
02:29But until Israel's government allows foreign media into Gaza
02:35to verify its endless, in my opinion, utterly disingenuous statements,
02:40then no one should believe a word they're now saying.
02:43Because why should we?
02:45Why should we?
02:45Why should we believe what anything that the Israeli government is saying
02:49about any of this when they don't want the world's media to see it?
02:53After October the 7th, what was the first thing they did?
02:55They brought the world's media into the kibbutzes
02:58to see the full horror of what Hamas did, to verify the truth.
03:02But they won't apply that same thinking to verifying the truth in Gaza.
03:07And as a journalist, I know why they don't want to do that.
03:10They don't want people to see the truth.
03:13They're hiding the truth.
03:14That enables them to lie with impunity
03:16and to discount any responsibility for anything they're doing.
03:20And if I sound angry about this, it's because I'm bloody angry about it.
03:24Because it's so obvious that they don't want people to see the truth.
03:28And you can sit here and you can say, till you're blue in the teeth,
03:32there's nothing going on that's wrong.
03:34There's nothing to see here.
03:36It's all on Hamas.
03:38No one's starving anyone.
03:39No one's shooting anyone in food aids.
03:42No one's doing anything wrong.
03:43This is the most moral army in the world.
03:45Well, OK, so let the journalists in and we can see for ourselves just how true that all is.

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