Israeli Politician's Remarks About Gaza Babies Draw Criticism

The man you're about to watch, I think, was the deputy speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

He certainly served there. He's in Netanyahu's coalition.

He's a well-known guy in Israel, and he was asked recently, I think this is just two days old, was asked recently on Israeli television in English, "Should we really kill everybody in Gaza, like including the kids?"

Listen carefully to his response. Is it a Jewish, you know, point of view to like wipe out all of Gaza though and get everyone out of there and, and annex and annex the West Bank? Like, do you believe this?

100%. And you, you think that everything should be annexed completely?

In Gaza, they shouldn't... Look, the- What about international response to this?

Before we talk to- about international response, okay, you have to realize, Cashet.

The, the, the, the baby that will be born-- I'll say something very tough now, okay?

Excuse me for saying that. The baby that will be born tomorrow in Gaza, the Arab ba- Notice that I'm not saying Hamas.

I'm not saying Palestinian. There's a, there's a so-called national entity that we created in Gaza, okay?

The enemy is Gaza, not Hamas. Mm. Okay? The baby that will be born in Gaza tomorrow will do exactly the same, God forbid, to your birth baby that will be born tomorrow in Jerusalem.

There's no other way. That's the reason they live for, okay?

That's what they learn with their mother's milk.

Did he just say that we should kill all the babies because they are born hating Israelis?

It's in their blood, therefore the babies are guilty?

Did he actually just say that? Yes, he did just say that.

Now, imagine saying that about any other group.

If you said that about Jews, we need to kill all the Jews because they're born hating this, the, all the Arabs, you would be rightly attacked for being a Nazi lunatic.

But when someone says that about the Palestinians, that person should also be rightly attacked as a Nazi lunatic.

And by the way, this is a guy who's praised Hitler, weirdly enough.

You can look it up. But he just said that.

Now, this is a guy who's running for office right now who's in Netanyahu's coalition.

So where was the response from Netanyahu?

You would think, imagine an American politician saying of any group, we should kill them all, including the babies. You have to kill the babies. Have to.

I may, may not want to, but you got to. That person, you would hope, would have no place in American politics, except increasingly you are hearing people who used to be on the fringes of American politics and now are getting rides in Air Force One saying that about the Arabs.

In other words, they've imported this worldview from Israel into American politics, and all of a sudden you have people defending and laughing about genocide in the United States