Discussion on West Bank Violence and Law

I do want to give you the

opportunity, if you would like, to respond to Congressman Ro Khanna.

He is going to be on this broadcast.

He says he visited the West Bank.

He was blocked by settlers wielding guns.

He says the IDF did not help fuse this situation.

Do you have any comment on that this morning, Mr. Prime Minister?

Yeah, we're a country of laws, and people who break the law, we take them to court.

But in the West Bank, in Judea and Siberia, we've had thousands,

thousands of attempted attacks and warnings against terrorist activities,

against innocent Israelis,

families, mother with their children driving along the road.

They're stopped by

terrorists, and they kill them. And this has happened again and again and again.

There is a vigilante effort, not by the settler community.

They're 99 9 percent, you know, law abiding citizens.

They work, they serve in the army, and so on.

There are 150

juvenile delinquents that are not part of that community.

They come from the other parts of Israel.

I don't want vigilantes of any kind.

And we are working to put them under the law.

But I think if we put things in perspective,

we should see that we have thousands of attacks, and some, few, but obvious

breaking of the law, then we apply the full measure of the law against them.

Israel, unlike our neighbors.

It's a democracy and a country of law and we act against those who break the law.

The IDF is lying.

What happened was unprecedented.

They had violent settlers detain American citizens,

including an American government official.

You had these settlers brandishing M4s, kicking the tires of our van,

laughing at us, mocking at us, videotaping us.

We were detained for about 20 minutes, fearful of our lives.

Then the IDF comes, four soldiers.

They tell our translator

that they're on the side of the settlers.

They further detain us and block us in.

We had to call the American embassy.

Fortunately, David Brownstein helped and he got to someone in

Israel and 75 minutes after the detention by the

IDF soldiers and by these settlers, we were let through.

Now, I heard the prime minister and

he says that Israel is a country of law and order, but let me be very specific.

The prime minister needs to open an investigation on these violent settlers who

are connected to Yanon Levy,

who has destroyed Zenuda's village and is

a known person who has killed Palestinians and these settlers were connected to him.

They need to be prosecuted, including Yanon Levy.

Their outpost needs to be

investigated and he needs to have an investigation on these four IDF officers.

Security cameras can see that

they were involved in the detention of American citizens.

How dare they mistreat people with an American passport that way.