# Idi Amin on Israel, Palestinian Hijackers and the Entebbe Raid - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117783334080151956 - Source account: [@mcdutchess16](https://x.com/mcdutchess16) - Source language: English - Duration: 6:10 - Published: 2026-11-04 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid) The whole world are looking at General Amin and Uganda as a whole. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=7) What will be the future of Uganda? The people are looking at this. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=16) Idi Amin was president of the African nation of Uganda in the 1970s. [0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=22) By the late '70s, he was notorious as a pathological psychotic killer. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=28) Ask yourself why anyone would want to lie about him. [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=33) We look at footage from an early '70s French documentary on Amin to hear him in his own words. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=39) Idi Amin will mention Golda Meir. She was prime minister of Israel, and he also mentions General Moshe Dayan, the Israeli defense minister at the time. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=50) But I'm trained as a paratrooper in Israel. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=53) But I have got a very good brain, and even General Dayan knows that I am very good field officer. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=61) You know Dayan very well? I know him and, uh, I know him. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=65) He has been my friend. He has been giving me dinner, lunch in his house. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=70) If I go to Israel, I used to stay with Dayan. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=73) He brings Air Force band playing for me. [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=76) We stay together. But I must make absolutely truth. [1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=81) The reason why I chased them from Uganda was because of the economy of Uganda. [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=86) Uganda was going to be bankrupt. That is the reason why I chased away the Israelis. [1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=92) And you said you were friend with Golda Meir. [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=94) Yes, because she used to give me very good entertainment when I go to Israel. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=102) Then you changed completely from an Israeli alliance to the Arab alliance. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=108) I changed from Israeli alliance because Israeli are criminals and they are not trusted people. [1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=117) They don't tell the world the truth. They were taken to Palestine as refugees, and then they changed Palestine to become a state of Israel by force of arms given to them by Americans and the British. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=135) Idi Amin, why would anybody want to lie about him? [2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=141) I came so close to the Arab because Arab found that I am most influencing leader in Africa, in the continent, and also I am a leader who speaks the truth. [2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=154) Did your Muslim religion take part into your choice of the Arabs? [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=159) It is, it is, it is, it is not because of the Muslim, because the people who broke relationship with Israel, they are not only Muslims, they are Christians, but they have seen the truth. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=171) And everybody listen for me. And even in OAU, if I don't speak, every leader try to ask why, and I must speak like in a non-aligned conference in Algeria. [3:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=184) I was not feeling well. I did not speak. [3:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=187) But 15 minutes before the conference closed, I was brought to come and give a speech. [3:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=193) I gave very good speech, including Castro broke relationship with Israel after my speech. [3:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=201) So Idi Amin kicked the Jews out of Uganda. [3:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=204) He allied with the Arab world. He gave international speeches against the Israelis. [3:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=210) But there's more. Would you accept some Palestinian hijackers with their hostages in Uganda? [3:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=217) The Palestinians? Yes. I read in the papers they were asking to be sent to Uganda or to Libya. [3:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=223) If they are sent here, I will welcome them. [3:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=228) But they are welcome. In Uganda? Yes. If they want to come to Uganda, they are welcomed in Uganda. [3:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=238) They have got a representative. Having expelled the Israelis, General Amin installed the Palestinians in the former Israeli embassy. [4:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=247) But the people in some planes are innocent. [4:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=250) But you must not go in the airplane which is belonging to Israelis, to Portuguese, to South Africa. [4:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=257) If you use this airplane, then it is up to you. [4:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=260) You must choose because the airplane is booked in advance. [4:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=266) Then in 1976, he let hijackers land a jet in his country in order to exchange the jet passengers with Palestinians in Israeli jails. [4:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=276) In the subsequent Israeli raid on Entebbe Airport, the one Israeli soldier killed by Ugandan troops happened to be the brother of Benjamin Netanyahu. [4:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=286) He later became the prime minister of Israel. [4:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=290) Eight months after the hijacking, here's the cover of Time magazine. [4:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=296) In the article we read, "The prevailing sense of horror is perhaps best described by the apocryphal tale of a freezer in Amin's house that contains the heads of his most distinguished victims, including the former chief justice. [5:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=313) From time to time, the story goes, Amin walks over to the freezer to lecture his frozen audience about the evils of their ways." [5:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=323) It's not unlike the Buchenwald shrunken head story. [5:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=328) We've looked at the 1940s, we've looked at the 1990s, and now we're extrapolating into the 1970s. [5:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=337) The USA, Britain, or Israel floated stories into the population as a way to depose Idi Amin. [5:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DSraePFV118t/en/idi-amin-on-israel-palestinian-hijackers-and-the-entebbe-raid?t=346) The reason it's important to debunk the Holocaust is because it and other stories of evil are used to justify war.