Mordechai Kedar Confronted Over 2014 Rape Deterrence Quote

Okay, let me bring back in, uh, Dr. Kedar because we did check, uh, we did check the claim that Professor Morandi made that you had said, uh, this. So Haaretz... And you can respond to this when I've read it to you.

Haaretz reported on July the 22nd, 2014, a direct quote from you, "The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped." And now that assertion they reported was made by Middle East scholar, Dr. Mordechai Kedar,

uh, of Bar-Ilan University about three weeks ago on an Israel radio program. It sounds very bad- ... you were quoted as saying- ... you were quoted as saying- Well- ... but that's the Middle East.

What I w- what I actually said is that in the Middle East, means the Arab world around us, this is the way how to deter.

Saddam Hussein was doing it. Even in Iran they are doing it.

They are raping relatives of dissidents who are- So it sounds like you did say it, even though you just said you didn't say it.

But you, but you said... I mean, Dr. Kedar, you did say the only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them- Y- yeah. In the Arab world- ... which was, uh, obviously at the time this was- In, in, in the Arab world and in Iran,

the regimes are filming, um, the rape of relatives of dissidents who hide somewhere in Europe or in America, and they send them the video in order to show them in, in exile what the, is being done to their relatives in Iraq as it was under Saddam and in Iran un- under the Mullahs. This is what I said.

So when you want to divert what I say, you can do whatever you like. But in, in- So it sounds like you did say it. And I think that if I may just jump in-