Israeli Soldier and Los Angeles Man Discuss Gaza and Hamas

Shalom Shalom Where are you, in Israel? Yes I need to come back. I need to come back.

So you should come back. Where are you from in the States?

I'm, I'm from Los Angeles. From where? Los Angeles, California.

California, no way. You know, I, I was in California 10 years ago.

Wow, and you made, uh, back to, uh- Yes ... Israel?

Back to Israel. Wow. Why? To serve in the army?

Oh. Can you see?

Can you see? Wow. Do you see? Hashem, Hashem bless you, my brother. Hashem bless you.

For protecting my brothers and my family back home.

Ah. So I, I, I'm in the, I'm in the Gaza right now as we're speaking.

You're in where? Gaza. Oh, you're in Gaza. You're Gaza.

Yeah. Wow, what a- Yes How is it looking out there?

Well, it's, uh, pretty much demolished as you could, uh, as you can see.

Uh, we, we all, we all like 75% of the whole territory, we, we are already there.

You know what I mean? So no more Palestinians over there?

No, you have Palestinians there. You have, but, uh, what do you call it? Uh, it's not, the job is not finished yet.

Ah, okay. So when will the job be finished?

The Moshiach might come and the job is not finished.

No, soon, soon. Very soon. Very soon. Very soon. Very soon. What is, uh, what is meaning of job finished? We want to understand as the people of the Jewish people.

Well, you still, you still have Hamas out there, right?

Mm. But Hamas is done. So the job is not finished.

Hamas is done. They are, they are finished.

No, they're not finished. They're not. Iran, Iran is finished. Hezbollah finished.

Hamas finished. Listen, we, we crippled, we crippled them, but they're not finished.

We crippled them. We killed a lot of people, a lot of people, you know, but it's not finished yet.

Mm. You know what I mean? What is left on the checklist?

What is life over here? What is left, left for the checklist for to finish?

What's left? Well, what is left is that you have to get rid of the Hamas.

I mean, you still have, uh, Hamas, uh, controlling, uh, the- Some of the schools and the, the hospitals and the- Yeah Wow. Wow, wow.

Over- Yeah. They're, they're hiding the kids in there, in the- That's right. That's right. Where, where in Los Angeles are you from?

Say it again. Where in Los Angeles do you live?

Uh, Hollywood area. Hollywood. We have, uh- Hollywood area?

We have big synagogue in Beverly Hills. I used to live, I used to live in Valley Village.

You know Valley Village? It is north, uh, north, in the valley.

Yes. Correct. I used to live over there.

Why... And why did you, uh, go back to Israel?

Why did you make a- That's my home You made Aliyah, huh?

I made Aliyah, yes. I mean, uh, I, I was born here in Israel. I was born here, but I was, uh, uh, uh, when I c- I came to America when I was like seven years old.

You know what I mean? But you're having, you're having the American accent, so I'm thinking you are, you are born in American.

No, no, no. I, I, I was born in America.

No, I was born in Israel, and I, and I lived in America for a very long time, and I came back to Israel when I, um, 10 years ago.

Wow. I came back. We hope you come- Yeah ... back very safely to America. Very safely.

But- Amen ... only after you finish the job. You have to go harder.

You have to go a little bit harder, right?

At, at the- It's not up to me ... at the end of the day, the kids, they will grow up and they will be Hamas, so we have to just remove everybody.

I'm with you. I'm with you. But, uh, there, there are leaders bigger than me, and I can't do whatever I want.

This is why we have to, uh, improve the leadership.

They are too, a little bit too, uh, conservative.

We need them to be hard, hard, hard, right?

The kid, maybe now- God willing ... this is a kid, he is five years old, but we're not seeing him as human, right?

He's just... Yeah, still- That's right Yeah.

Well, it's good to see you. Good to see you