Discussion on Israeli Society and Gaza Conflict

The problem is not Netanyahu.

The problem is the whole of Israeli society.

If you look at the polls,

half of Israeli Jews believe Israel should commit a

genocide in Gaza.

Wow.

That's what the polls show.

About 70 to 75%

in polls say there are no innocents in

Gaza.

Mm.

No innocents.

And there's nothing but children.

Y- yeah. No innocents in Gaza-

Mm

... half of the population being Jewish.

The former Israeli, or the current Israeli

opposition leader,

he said that

the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, they kill children

as a hobby.

As a hobby.

Yeah.

It was-

I've seen some videos of-

Yeah

... like how proud they are when they kill a child, and it's,

it's really

dark. But also, I will say you can see psychological

conditioning, as in you- their viewpoints on the Palestinians,

you can

tell is being nurtured from the time that they're a child.

I totally agree with that.

And I ran into somebody who left Israel-

Mm-hmm

... moved to Tennessee recently.

Mm-hmm.

And I ran into him, um, at a farmers market, and he said,

"I absolutely love you,

and I want you to know that we learn this stuff from the time we

are

children."

I totally agree with that.

He said, and he, so he left, and he said, "From the time we are children, we learn

to ha-" So he kind of broke a psychological barrier to get there,

obviously, as an

Israeli, but you are correct. I mean, and, and that's why-