Former Israeli soldier exposes IDF war crimes | The Marc Steiner Show

There's a contradiction inherent in how Israel reckons with its atrocities against Palestinians. On one hand Israel's leaders and their supporters call for the genocide of Palestinians, such as this past weekend when Israel's Defense Minister announced a blockade of Gaza, referring to its residents as "human animals." On the other hand, the grisly truth of Israeli war crimes must stay out of sight, out of mind. Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans, attempts to shatter the silence surrounding war crimes against Palestinians with soldier testimony. Nir Avishai Cohen of Breaking the Silence joins The Marc Steiner Show to talk about the work of his organization, the failure of the Israeli left, and his new book, Love Israel, Support Palestine: An Israeli Story.
Editor's Note: This interview was recorded in September, 2023, before “The Flood of Al-Aqsa" operation by Palestinian armed resistance forces took place on Oct. 7.
Studio / Post-Production: David Hebden
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[@coshyno]

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X

[@GuinessOriginal]

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell

[@GuinessOriginal]

"The foundations of totalitarianism lie in the misuse of language to manipulate the truth and humanity's tendency to be subject to such manipulation." George Orwell

[@GuinessOriginal]

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims, but accomplices." George Orwell

[@DDd-gm8uz]

@@GuinessOriginal Orwell: I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Also Orwell: Stalin is a mean pig and peasants are too stupid to read.

[@bonitajanssen745]

BOOK OF REVELATION IS COMING TO PASS

[@karlad4082]

Anyone who doesn’t see the problem with Israel, it has lost his/her soul .

[@rickheron932]

It never had one

[@annychest718]

Armageddon soon come

[@kenj.8897]

Jews are great !

[@timownage932]

in fact there's 1,8b muslims u can never beat them

[@kenj.8897]

@@timownage932 yeah 1.69 billion living in little mud huts with no running water or electricity. They sure are a up and coming group of mad at the world individuals . Should I go on about all there great attributes? Lol

[@THESocialJusticeWarrior]

It is almost like brutally occupying people for 70 years is a bad idea. Who knew?

[@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism]

The US has been doing it far longer to us.

[@THESocialJusticeWarrior]

@@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism, yes, but the US has a democracy (for now) that allows progress. There is no progress in Israel. Trump has ripped the scab off of the wound for everyone to see now. No more hiding behind dog-whistles. That should end up being a good thing as long as we don't lose our democracy in the process. If we keep getting people like AOC in government, we going to be all right.

[@williamabbott9437]

But amazingly not one word of China committing genocide on Muslims, and China occupying ownership over Taiwan. The U.N. created Israel, Israel did not seize the State of Israel from anyone.

[@EightFrancs]

​@@0mywhat's your opinion of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians?

[@nickjenkins1663]

Tell that to Hamas.

[@sturdevantphotography5726]

I’m really struck by his humanity, I have so much respect for people who come out of Israeli culture with respect for Palestinians, it takes an individual with integrity and strength

[@batphink2655]

Great comment you are right it takes bravery and also for 'One For Israel' Israeli Christians who must be hated in their own homeland!

[@Lalallalu]

The nub of the problem is that cowardice and subservience to sociopathic authority (both sides of the same coin) are now THE NORM, so that anyone who is simply a NORMAL human free of psychopathology is hailed as A HERO. Thus the hero can remain the rare figure, rather than be seen as what normality should be like, what everyone should be inspired to be like in the course of their lives. PATHOLOGICAL CONFORMITY is the DISEASE we need to recognise and cure ourselves of.

[@ayubshaikh9156]

True……

[@StelaSabbagh-di6zu]

I am shocked and beautifully surprised...an honest jew!!!!!!! Thanku and God bless u!!

[@user-et2ng1qb2m]

I get we're angry about what's happening, but that doesn't mean it is OK to post hate comments about Jewish people. Separate Judaism and Jewishness from Zionism. We do not accept hatred toward Jewish people, who were our neighbours and friends in the name of Palestinian suffering. Don't exchange evil for evil.

[@dorothyslater2656]

Years ago, in the mid=8o's - i was in Israel for the first of several trips as a graduate student during the time that the peace movement was alive and well. I heard an Israeli soldier also was aware of where Israel was headed. He refused to be part of the invasion of Lebanon and was not only dismissed from the army but denied his pension. He had just come back from the US where he was on a lecture tour trying to tell of his situation to anyone who would listen. He said that he was absolutely stunned at how he was vilified by his listeners as a traitor when NONE of them had ever been in Israel . What I cannot figure out, is why support for Israel even amongst non-Jews and people who have never traveled there is so intense that there can be no discussion.

[@AprilWatters]

Because Most people are Adult children, no Critical thinking skills whats so ever, Altered Mental Status

[@7empest47]

To them it's a religious war

[@carltond.bullington720]

You can't talk to a people that only wishes to be with there God. Palestinians, dug there own hole, by letting hamas rule them. Another citizenry that won't stand up for them selves. And now they will learn how to stand up for them selves, or Parrish.

[@aycoded7840]

They didn't "let" anything happen. It was barely a choice. Between that, and you know, allowing the people who were brutally ruling over them, taking more over their land, zeizing their homes kiling peaceful protestors to continue doing as such. Also, they have not voted for Hamas on nearly 2 decades.@@carltond.bullington720

[@snailtrail6178]

Listen to Chomsky - it’s related to the evangelical history of Christendom - the main countries that support Israel have heavy ‘coloniser’ history and identify with it (USA, Australia, France, UK) they also have strong Christian connections to Jerusalem - it’s about race and religion Chomsky exposed this history for me and when he did suddenly I understood why so many people are quick to support Israel as white non Jews who know nothing of the history of Palestine or the creation of Israel itself...

[@nedkelly8495]

Sending greetings of solidarity to Palestine from newzealand Aotearoa

[@cruisinusa5110]

How about solidarity to the Israeli families whose babies were decapitated and mothers raped and kidnapped?

[@amallulla2000]

Thank you Mr. Steiner for standing for thruth and morality.

[@batphink2655]

There's more Norman Finkelstein and Miko Peled son of an Israeli General both good humanitarian men who expose Israel's plan to eradicate Palestine! THIS is what needs to be addressed, so many of you are ignorant siding with the Oppressor!

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

So where was the morality of Hamas as they slaughtered those innocent people?

[@amallulla2000]

@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou Perhaps you should ask that question about Israel, which has been slaughtering Arabs for decades. Nobody can justify killing civilians, but you seem to have two different yardsticks to judge Hamas and Israel. By the way, methinks that Hamas, having been created by Israel, may share the same ethos regarding the cheapness of human life and civilian lives particularly.

[@trickywoo5165]

@@TheOneManWhoBeatYougullible 🙄

[@yeshuasaves2314]

​@@TheOneManWhoBeatYouAsk the Leaders of your State. Isreal created Hamas as opposition to the Palestinian Resistance ( according to a former Congressman Ron Paul, who is well respected), so ASK YOUR LEADER.

[@greenmachine1372]

Salute You Mr Steiner for being a decent human being.

[@odinga77]

Why won't cnn,or fox,or msnbc,have people like this on to talk to us about what's really happening there?

[@charlenefrench5404]

It's called propaganda. I'm from Canada and the here and in the US is extremely bias. CNN is the tool to stoke hate towards Republicans and Fox is the tool to stoke hatred towards the democrats. Divide and conquer.

[@EnderKnightz]

Because mainstream media is controlled by the governments and they control information. They have been doing this since day 1. They don't want the reality to go out because it goes against their agenda

[@earlthepearl4161]

Smith/ Mundt amendment

[@user-gy5so3nl5d]

Because they have to stick to their lines in the "approved narrative".

[@Z5-XB]

They’ll get their pay cut off.

[@hereitis2418]

A true patriot is able to recognize the good and bad things in his own country, and not blindly defend his country by making excuses, or worse, whitewashing the wrongdoings of the leaders.

[@yaelz6043]

Or in other words a true patriot performs a limited hangout to hide the fact that the whole place is rotten.

[@hereitis2418]

@@yaelz6043 What the government does is different than what the people want, but to make the people accept the actions of the government the politicians have to lie, and present evil as good by manipulating the media. Corrupt governments hide the truth and are enemies of history, they want us to think that these things are happening just now as if yesterday the region or the world was a paradise, far from it.

[@DarkZerol]

_Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons._ _- Bertrand Russell_

[@BillMurey-om3zw]

Free Palestine

[@williamabbott9437]

From who? To whom?

[@cheri238]

​@@williamabbott9437 For all humanity ❤

[@katiekane5247]

​@@williamabbott9437from those that occupied their land.

[@hughbennett5342]

Send the Palestinians to Iran

[@somedude5951]

Free Palestine from Islam 💀

[@halakurshov1380]

Break the silence is what everyone whos afraid to speak the truth should do. People are sooo scared to be called anti-Semitic.

[@user-gy5so3nl5d]

The "anti-semitic" card is being played falsely imho. I think most of the world is beyond that.

[@classics39]

I know where and how I stand. Nobody can manipulate me this way.

[@kutie216]

I’m not afraid of being called anti semitic. They use it do often its meaningless at this point

[@yeshuasaves2314]

​@@kutie216ironically, they have been genociding real Semitic, while many in Isreal ancestors did not even walk in that land. There are people from Russia that converted to Judaism around 1060s AD.

[@kutie216]

@@yeshuasaves2314 Right? And ironically they still use that (correctly saying arabs are also semitic) as justification to call you antisemitic. All of their “arguments” and retorts are emotional and void of any logic.

[@SR-tx3dj]

Much respect to genuine human beings like your guest. Keep up the great work Marc

[@hichic4390]

I have a lot of respect for people who try to tell the truth in the face of the broad narrative that is included in the agenda of the mainstream media. Be safe and enjoy life.

[@MrBendybruce]

It's so refreshing to hear an interview where the interviewee is not consumed by grief and rage. I feel most news agencies are being incredibly exploitative at the moment in the way they are maximizing emotional response and minimizing critical thinking. This guy gives me hope that in spite of so much tragedy it is possible for people not to succumb to hate.

[@freedomfighter4990]

His military service ended some time ago, so Cohen can afford to be more measured & stoic in his responses.

[@MrBendybruce]

@@freedomfighter4990 That really wasn't the point of my comment. Channels like bbc News and Al Jazeera TV do nothing but Demonize the other side, thus legitimizing their own acts of inhumanity. Many people watching these events don't take the time to properly understand the conflict and its Historical roots. Instead they are simply informed by the visceral horror of the atrocities without getting any chance to understand why this is happening. I think most news agencies are being incredibly irresponsible and are simply exploiting this war for clicks. They are little better than vultures picking over a carcass IMHO.

[@OSYofRR]

This is Israeli leadership's dark secrets. All powerful governments do this. This is an important distinction. Some just hide it better than others. They justify it by fear. Create a culture of fear so one can justify unjust behaviors and hide it at all costs. At the end of the day the little people always lose and the rich profit off war. This will be no different in this conflict. I am hearing phrases like "colateral damage" and "genocide" coming from them and these are the signs of a really nasty and hateful bloody war. Nobody condones the barbarism and savagery committed by terrorists but the karmic vengence I see coming from both sides is ugly. War is like this. If you need news agencies to justify the upcoming butchery then you should probably take another look at what you are doing and make sure you can live with it all as people of God. People will judge your actions with ruthless scrutiny so tread carefully. The problem is he needs to take out the partisanship of his message. I mean look you have 2 parties, 2 religions, 2 cultures, 2 ethnicities and races. This will always divide the majority because humans are predisposed to tribalism and governments weaponize that for power, money and control. When the majority begin to realize this is the root of all problems and stop living in fear and making excuses for that paycheck or lifestyle than this will change and it will be a new type of conflict that will make REAL change.

[@jumperontheline]

I'm not saying he would speak differently now, but if you read the description it says this was recorded in September.

[@jeanlloydbradberry9099]

This is a great man, this Israeli patriot but non-Zionist. A fine distinction, and iconoclast which I get, and agree with, but many others may not be able to due to indoctrination and stereotyping.! This is a great man! 🥰😇🙏

[@doctorjekyll6125]

Artificial State

[@yaelz6043]

A mythical distinction. Zionism is the creation of Israel.

[@alidabirnia2882]

This soldier is a true warrior with an underground railroad soul.

[@joniman6899]

Like in the Vietnam

[@freedomfighter4990]

I can't believe Cohen subjected himself to being on Big Brother just to have a big platform to address the apartheid oppression of Palestinians in Israel. I will definitely buy his graphic novel.

[@yoservs]

is it a graphic novel or a text novel?

[@freedomfighter4990]

@@yoservs From the cover I saw @ Amazon, it appears to be a graphic novel.

[@yoservs]

@@freedomfighter4990 i looked at the first 3 pages, i guess that's just the intro, that was just text. i thought if i googled images, i'd see one or two storyboards from the content, but no luck.let me know if it's a graphic novel if you should get your own copy, i'm quite a graphic novel enthusiast.

[@freedomfighter4990]

@@yoservs I checked too, you're right, it's all text. The cover fooled me. But I still plan to buy it.

[@jonathangold2087]

Thank you for bringing this guest on to your podcast. It is important that people inside and outside Israel , hear the important message he has to deliver. I was surprised and delighted to hear his message from the heart! Never would have expected such a perspective from an Israeli who served in the IDF, but what he had to say really restored my faith in humanity, in a very profound way! To know that there is a group of former Israeli soldiers who were on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza, actively supporting an end to the illegal and unjust occupation of the Palestinians, inspired hope in us all!!! The fact that he and other members of this courageous group of soldiers is speaking out about this, and trying to connect with the younger generation, is all the more remarkable! This will be a major step in opening the lines of communication between young and old alike, and beginning a dialogue and opening up honest debate, so that positive changes can be implemented. Your guest , as well as the other members of his group, all sound like extraordinary human beings, whose efforts will definitely make a positive difference for Palestinians and the Israeli population as a whole. There needs to be a new path forged, so that the never ending back and forth cycles of violence that have been perpetuated since before 1948 and the establishment of the state of Israel, can once and for all come to an end. That would seem to be the only viable path forward, for both Israel and its Jewish and Palestinian populations! Thank you for bringing this wonderful individual on to your podcast. Perhaps you can have him on for a Followup interview, in the not too distant future. I think going into a little greater depth on this critically important subject matter, would be of benefit to us all!!!

[@lindastaves5042]

Thanks for this interview. I have chosen to completely turn off all of the major news sources as it is so obvious they are reporting this war so one sided. Propaganda

[@ghas4151]

I have done this also. I’ve had enough of hearing the lies and total disregard for the Palestinian people.

[@lisao6928]

Yep. I think that has probably always been the case when it comes to war.

[@habsom1406]

I recommend Novara Media, Double Down News and Channel 4 News who are more honest about what's going on.

[@marievarenya7817]

Living in this world is all about sharing. Not the "Monopoly Game" what became so popular after WW2

[@h2oquality2010]

Thank you Mr. Nir Cohen. I will get your book. God is alive within you. Be well.

[@thebonniemonroeshow3708]

There’s a special place in heaven for him. To be able to examine the side he’s on and choose what is true & righteous... May God bless him & keep him & grant him peace. 🤍

[@ColinFreeman-kh9us]

Truth, hard to hear for those with evil agendas. Great reporting mate, from Australia

[@syddiesel8420]

What a brave and good man speaking out about the war crimes that the IDF commit Against the Palestinians..

[@earbjr4715]

Bros, my grandfather was Jewish, yet knowing Souls have no color and HaShem Adonai & Yeshua know are Hearts, I appreciate ALL SOULS on this earth that are for the two most important Commandments, mentioned in der Torah first and repeated bei Yeshua. Be ready! Yeshua, is coming! God Bless.

[@SusanHopkinson]

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is our strategy.” Benjamin Netanyahu to his Likud party members in the Knesset (2019).

[@saulsarr6645]

Kudos for speaking out, the TRUTH will eventually come out.

[@mercurial382]

Great, this is sanity. A natural sense of empathy for other human beings, especially their suffering. Shades of Miko Peled. You give me hope.

[@carlo6912]

Killing innocent children and civilians is NEVER justified.

[@FukcAUsername]

Only one side does it regularly and gets backed and armed by the US while they do it though

[@darkdarker4596]

we just have to treat humanbeings like us never accept aparthied

[@rezakarampour6286]

Palestinians - The Real Victim .

[@dinnerwithfranklin2451]

Interesting interview, thank you.

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Marc Steiner for having Nir Avishai Cohen on with his new book, "Love Israel," the failure of the Israeli left. This was recorded on September 2023 before the "The Flood of Al-Ausa," operation by Palestinian forces took place on October 7, 2023. Another book I will buy. Thank you both again. 🙏♥️🌍🕊🎶🎵📚 Peace for humanity.

[@adrianariaratnam5817]

Israel is breathing its last Under this title, the Hebrew newspaper “Haaretz” published an article by the famous Zionist writer (Ari Shavit) in which he says: It seems that we are facing the most difficult people in history, and there is no solution for them but to recognize their rights and end the occupation. Shabit began his article by saying: It seems that we have passed the point of no return, and it may no longer be possible for “Israel” to end the occupation, stop settlement, and achieve peace. It seems that it is no longer possible to reform Zionism, save democracy, and divide the people in this country. He added, if the situation is like this, then there is no taste for living in this country, and there is no taste for writing in “Haaretz,” and there is no taste for reading “Haaretz.” We must do what Rogel Alfer suggested two years ago, which is to leave the country. If "Israeliness" and Jewishness are not a vital factor in identity, and if every "Israeli" citizen has a foreign passport, not only in the technical sense, but also in the psychological sense, then the matter is over. You must say goodbye to friends and move to San Francisco, Berlin or Paris. From there, from the lands of the new German extreme nationalism, or the lands of the new American extreme nationalism, one must look calmly and watch the "State of Israel" take its last breath. We must take three steps back and watch the Jewish democratic state sink. The issue may not have been resolved yet. We may not have passed the point of no return yet. It may still be possible to end the occupation, stop settlement, reform Zionism, save democracy, and divide the country. The writer continued, “I put my finger in the eyes of Netanyahu, Lieberman, and the neo-Nazis, to wake them up from their Zionist delirium, that Trump, Kushner, Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton are not the ones who will end the occupation.” It is not the United Nations and the European Union that will stop settlements. The only force in the world capable of saving Israel from itself is the Israelis themselves, by creating a new political language that recognizes reality and that the Palestinians are rooted in this land. I urge you to look for the third way in order to survive here and not die. The writer in Haaretz newspaper confirms: Since they came to Palestine, the “Israelis” have realized that they are the result of a lie created by the Zionist movement, during which it used all deception on the Jewish character throughout history. By exploiting and exaggerating what Hitler called the Holocaust, the movement was able to convince the world that Palestine is the “Promised Land” and that the alleged temple is located under the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Thus, the wolf was transformed into a lamb that was suckled by the money of American and European taxpayers, until it became A nuclear monster. The writer sought help from Western and Jewish archaeologists, the most famous of whom is “Israel Flintstein” from Tel Aviv University, who confirmed that “the Temple is also a lie and a fairy tale that does not exist, and all excavations have proven that it completely disappeared thousands of years ago, and this was stated explicitly in a large number of Jewish references.” Many Western archaeologists have confirmed this... The last of them was in 1968 AD, the British archaeologist Dr. Caitlin Kabinos, when she was director of excavations at the British School of Archeology in Jerusalem. She carried out excavations in Jerusalem, and was expelled from Palestine because of her exposure of “Israeli” myths about the presence of traces of Solomon’s Temple under Al-Aqsa Mosque. .. Where I decided that there were no traces of the Temple of Solomon at all, and I discovered that what the Israelis call “Solomon’s Stables Building” has nothing to do with Solomon or stables in the first place. Rather, it is an architectural model of a palace commonly built in several areas of Palestine. This is despite the fact that “Kathleen Kenyon” came from the Palestine Exploration Fund Society, for the purpose of clarifying what was mentioned in the biblical narratives, because it She showed great activity in Britain in the mid-19th century around the history of the Near East. He stressed that the curse of lying is what haunts the "Israelis", day after day, slapping them in the face in the form of a knife in the hands of Maqdisi, Khalili and Nabulsi, or with a stone or a stone or a bus driver from Jaffa, Haifa and Acre. The "Israelis" realize that they have no future in Palestine, as it is not a land without people as they lied to. Here is another writer who acknowledges, not only the existence of the Palestinian people, but rather their superiority over the “Israelis” - Gideon Levy, the leftist Zionist, when he says: It seems that the Palestinians have a different nature from the rest of humanity. We occupied their land, and we called their youth prostitutes, prostitutes, and drug addicts. We said that a few years would pass, and they would forget their homeland and their land, and then their young generation exploded the 1987 Intifada. We put them in prisons and said, “We will raise them in prisons.” Years later, after we thought they had learned their lesson, they returned to us with an armed uprising in the year 2000, devouring the land. We said we would demolish their homes and besiege them for many years, and then they extracted impossible missiles to hit us with, despite the siege and destruction. So we began planning for them with walls and barbed wire. . And then they came to us from underground and through tunnels, until they killed us in the last war. We fought them with our minds, and then they seized the "Israeli" satellite (Amos)? They bring terror into every home in “Israel” by broadcasting threats and threats, as happened when their youth were able to seize control of the “Israeli” Channel 2. In summary, it seems that we are facing the most difficult people in history, and there is no solution for them but to recognize their rights and end the occupation. Article title: “Israel” takes its last breath Writer: Ari Shavit Source: Haaretz newspaper

[@williamabbott9437]

Never again. It's called the Samson option. There is nothing anything the whole World can do. The Jews aren't leaving. Israel will draw it's last breath as their enemies draw their last breath. Watch out what you wish for, you just might get it.

[@williamabbott9437]

@@cheri238 You misspelled incorrect.

[@williamabbott9437]

@@cheri238 Your phone seems to be glitching? Or maybe it's just your neuralnetworks?

[@katiekane5247]

​@@williamabbott9437or maybe yours 🤔

[@williamabbott9437]

@@cheri238 Wrong thread

[@Lita1]

Finally a real kosher show 👏💡 THE TRUTH RIGHT HERE...I pray you succeed fully as did Moses staff...I liked this video yes!!!!👍😅

[@Willtolov]

I'm buying the book right now. Thank you for the truth.

[@buck13horn]

Great conversation. Mistitled, though. Nir didn't specify IDF war crimes. The term "occupation" is a bit abstract for Americans who have not seen for themselves what crimes occur under the occupation. Presumably he detailed IDF war crimes in his book, but it would have been helpful and useful to have asked for specifics.

[@superSIZEmee]

We are taught to love a Country more than OTHER PEOPLE… This is the problem with humanity. Love is the answer…!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@FukcAUsername]

Thanks man for speaking the truth

[@cev12]

Due to this war, I have become anti-Zionist. I presume you can be anti-Zionist and pro-the-few-decent-Israelis (and obviously neutral on Jews). And I'm glad to hear decent Israelis speaking against this unnecessary bloodshed of civilians.

[@gansitomarinela]

Thank you for your reporting ❤

[@kailashbedi3404]

I would have LOVED to have heard Nir read an excerpt from his book.

[@AKAndoh]

Thank you for sharing. It was very important to hear this experience and the nuanced details of conscientious objectors and the facts of the reality. Much Love & Peace!

[@Kiki-Delivering]

Beautiful talk.

[@vig37]

How absolutely refreshing and revealing. Too bad many more dont have the courage to determine for themselves what is right and wrong and how to stand by their beliefs. Without the terrorism of hardliners from both sides, normal peotcan learn to love harmoniously.

[@walterchin8832]

The siege of Gaza by Israel is not unlike the siege of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis during WW2.

[@Jensth]

Except for that minor little detail, that the Warzaw jews did not commit terror and killed ordinary civilian Germans before the Nazis took them out.

[@nassermj7671]

Nobel soul - underscore COURAGE

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Nir Avishai Cohen articulates so clearly what I have long thought about the Israel-Palestine conflict, which is that Israelis and Palestinians need to live in peace. There is no other way to half the cycle of disaster which hatred feeds. The political Right see everything in terms of power and domination and submission, but theirs is the path to extinction for all of us.

[@jerrydeem8845]

Two sides to everything, it's said, and I'm covering both in this calamity. That's all I have to say at present.

[@realolivertwisted]

Good for you. That’s more than most people do. How can anyone know the truth - about *ANYTHING* - if they only listen to/hear one side? “Hear the other side.” -Saint Augustine

[@sssssinead]

I'm also against the zionist Apartheid Israeli Illegal Occupation. But I believe that this brave Israeli man was meant to walk his walk and share his unique story to shine forth and be a light for Jews across the world..this is Judaism in Action. Praying for Middle East lasting Peace 🙏

[@marievarenya7817]

The only way to stop such horror, is by STOPPING all revenge, no matter how horrible the attack has been. may be by first freeing all the Palestine prisoners' (possibly with a time-limit for a positive response),, may be the Hamas will return all their israeli prisoners'. That might be a first step

[@cathyburkart9395]

Peace on earth.♥️🇵🇸🇮🇱

[@EvanLovesWhiskey]

I hope the Iraqi veterans against war help with this project

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Well said!

[@suejohnson7191]

You need truth to make truthful comments and for truth you need proof. This is why media has to be impartial and investigate thoroughly before making statements which may be bias and untrue.

[@larry3591]

Awsome

[@peppermint9133]

Free Palestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@aissatoudiouf2245]

Both countries should leave in peace This is enough land for everyone Peace ✌️ ❤❤❤❤

[@rogerbranton1752]

Since this interview took place before the worst of the atrocities filtered out to the world's eyes, let's hope that now, 6 moths in, we've all seen enough and the needed paradigm shift has begun!

[@lynnienorris5776]

APARTHEID! NOTHING TO SAY

[@berylackermann8240]

I support the Palistinians and the Jews in Israel who do not seek violence but peace.

[@marlbankian]

Excellent food for thought

[@ap5587]

It’s definitely refreshing to hear a different perspective.

[@coytimotoworks2440]

When Exposing a Crime is Trested as Committing a Crime, you are being Ruled by criminals" -Edward Snowden

[@user-ov9zx3oy4w]

Thank God for creating conscious in human

[@user-sl7gz8sv2g]

From the river to the sea, one person one vote. 🇵🇸

[@williamabbott9437]

Israel in 1948 when the U.N. created Israel, offered all "Palestinians" who would recognize Israel as a State, to stay in Israel, keep their homes, have seats in the Knesset, to be a part of Israel. Those historical Philistine Muslims choose to go to Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan to wage war on Israel in 1948 to exterminate the Jews and drive them into the Mediterranean.

[@judydyer]

I can't deal with the flashing light.

[@shirleyclay6761]

You need to talk to jimmy fore show and put heat on us politicians

[@user-jz7rp6bg2k]

It is time for world Peace. It is time our Homosapien species finally Evolve into a more Humane species. 🕊️

[@charleslamb4419]

great stuff thank you

[@yehmen29]

Good point on the influx of Orthodox Jews. I've met some in the UK (landlords). I am NEVER renting a place from people like them, or working for people like them. Definitely not nice people like in Louis de Funes' Rabbi Jacob movie. I applaud this young chap for thinking independently, I can't help noticing that his English is accented, I am used to dealing with Jews whose English is perfect (except when they are French). I wonder how highly (or lowly) educated Israeli soldiers are. I couldn't help noticing that some of them were given junk food (burgers and soft drinks) prior to going to battle. Definitely not an Ironman's diet! Kudos to this young man and I will add his book to the list of books I want to buy, when I get the dough.

[@Elizabeth.384]

Thank you... From America. You busted right through the propaganda War Machine. Thank you so much....

[@richdetlaff-5983]

I am surprised KZbin hasn't deleted this video yet

[@richardburt9812]

Your episode would have been better had your guest focused on the war crimes, explained which ones he is exposing.

[@freedomfighter4990]

I think you'll get that from reading Love Israel, Support Palestine.

[@nickjenkins1663]

​@@TheChosenOne2222AGREED!!!

[@UPPERHAND7576]

$10M/ DAY for 80 years,....everything else could only go Wong!

[@Jim-nt7xy]

But Western Pravda won't dare acknowledge this

[@annonuhm8400]

"O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities." (psalm 130) For faithful Israelis their only hope is that G-d will forgive them the terrible sinful crimes committed in their name.

[@ordsmedensmening9702]

Interesting conversation. Would like to hear boths perception of The Word.

[@johnveitch7410]

The BBC is a good place to start your 'alternative view', research .

[@ordsmedensmening9702]

@@johnveitch7410 Point being expressed there or you making a different one? Is BBC still owned by Red Bee Media? Is it there i should look?

[@abdi3300]

#freefreepalestine Boycott Apartheid 🇮🇱

[@stephenhargreaves9324]

Ha Ha, where's Max Headroom? He should be fronting this channel.

[@tylerdebo2467]

Israel let it happen

[@Connectingdots100]

Freedom 🍉

[@roijaxen5674]

The 50th year of the occipation was ordered to be a Jubilee year. Isreal missed the will of their Torah and thus their God.

[@Gregorypeckory]

The inherent contradiction of saying you want a nation of freedom with equality for all of it's people, but with a unique national identity based on being members of any religion is unavoidable and an irredeemably bad idea that can't possibly ever be a sustainable and just society, because obviously it means you're discriminating against all members who fall out of that group in some way, like for example, someone who loses their ability to lie to themselves in order to believe the absurd things every religion requires its victims to believe in order to demonstrate that their brains have been properly broken as every religion must do to gain a faithful follower or others who were simply never a part of it. By definition a state based on a religious identity such that one calls it "the Jewish state" or the whatever state, substituting any religion; doesn't matter which one, cannot possibly be a free and open society with equality and justice for everyone regardless what kind of relationship they have with imaginary beings in the sky.

[@mariacrouch7109]

Wow 😲😲😲😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@anyariv]

I would ask this soldier - how do you end the occupation without immediately suffering massive retaliation and destruction of Israel?

[@lightintheworld5690]

Israel is not a legal state, so it will cease to exist in the future. They can discuss the existence of Israel with Europeans, the middle east didn’t do holocaust and owes them nothing, especially after all bloodbath they caused.

[@basmam3366]

Ask yourself the following question: When someone takes your house and kills your family and leaves u to live for many years in the toilet and bathroom and expects you to be thankful and silent, while he controls your access to water, food and electricity and whenever he decides he hits you and kill some of your family members every day What would you do to them? And what is the best solution in your opinion?

[@darkworx666]

What happened in South Africa after Apartheid ended? Not a genocide, this notion of oppressors that once we give up power they will come for us is not a thing historically.

[@theyouchannel6355]

It is what it is...😐

[@saskiapeer44]

Sorry I missed out...whats the book call Please?

[@polygamous1]

There are many Israelis who help the Palestinians some at great cost to themselves because they stand for what is right, most of us find it very hard to blame Israelif nothing else they have been suffering lots of discrimination n hardship for 2000 years, If I was an Israeli I would rather die than lose my country this I very well understand n respect But same time Israelis must understand the oppression of the Palestinians has to stop must stop you cannot right the wrongs of history oppressing and killing Palestinians cannot right the wrongs Jewish people have suffered in the past it cannot take the pains Jewish people have suffered in the past

[@leishajack9820]

Bright young progressives have been leaving Israel because they can. This is a classic 'brain drain', which happens under brutal oppressive regimes. I have seen articles about the problem. If things improve I am sure they would be eager to return. I think the best way to understand how brutes can take over and dominate a country over time is best explained by cultural evolutionist Prof David Sloan Wilson with his quote: "Selfishness beats aulturism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commintary". Human brutality and violence is best explained by the late social psychologist Ernest Becker in his books 'Denial of Death' and 'Escape from Evil'. Carl Jung, the famous psychologist once said, 'Understanding evil doesn't cure evil. But, it helps, in that a comprehensible darkness is easier to cope with". Evil derives from fear. Israeli Zionists have become the evil that they fear. In the same way that some serial killers were often brutalized by their parents or someone in their childhood. Clearly, this doesn't happen to everyone, but traumatised people or those who are fear driven by nature are more likely to become violent fundamentalists.

[@Eemmee77]

Thank you

[@annychest718]

it's not westbank it's Palestinia sounds like your sweet old Grandmother might have been a zionist all was not as it seemed in ww2 Thank you for speaking out and recognising Palestinians as human

[@firujmiah7781]

You give hope to people in the world to challenge the one sided opinion.

[@susanmercurio1060]

10:05 We on the Left in America agree that if you love your country, you should criticize it if it's doing wrong.

[@arafangndow4021]

❤

[@JamesCMays-lr5ie]

You know I'm in Chicago USA. Main stream media is doing that exact thing .James in America Chicago. 🤔😐

[@tonyvalisky4856]

War crimes

[@Mark-cd3vd]

War is crime agsinst soul