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Hello, everybody. I
0:18
had the opportunity today
0:20
to talk to Mr. Mossab
0:23
Hassan Yousaf, who's
0:25
a very complicated
0:28
person. He spent a lot of his life north
0:31
of Jerusalem. His
0:34
father, Isheik Hassan
0:36
Yousaf, who's a co-founder of Hamas,
0:41
he told me that he loved his father but
0:43
came to believe that his orientation
0:46
in the world was deeply misguided. He
0:50
said the same thing about his culture in
0:52
general. I had a
0:54
very brutal childhood. He
0:57
grew up during a sequence of
0:59
Antifatas, became conversant
1:02
with bloodshed and the death
1:05
of children at a very early age in
1:08
his life. That isn't the worst
1:10
of it by a large
1:12
margin. He started
1:15
to work for the Israeli
1:18
intelligence in 1997. He
1:21
was born in 1978 and
1:24
was a very reliable source for
1:26
them in relationship to the doings
1:28
of Hamas. He
1:31
involved himself in the prevention
1:33
of suicide bombings, most particularly.
1:38
We talk quite
1:41
broadly about the situation
1:43
in the Middle East, about the culture that he
1:45
was raised in, about the
1:48
transformation of his attitude towards Israel
1:52
as a state, the
1:55
Israelis as people, his
1:57
understanding of what constituted Palestine.
2:00
and the general situation in the Middle
2:03
East. It's a very
2:05
intense interview to say the least. I
2:07
suppose part of what I walked
2:09
away from it concluding was that, you
2:12
know, fools rush in where
2:14
angels fear to tread, and everybody has an
2:17
opinion about Israel
2:19
and Gaza, and most
2:21
of us don't have the
2:23
wisdom or the experience to
2:27
do anything but remain silent in the
2:29
face of what's happening there. You
2:32
can watch, listen to, Osama
2:35
bin al-Saf and draw
2:37
your own conclusions about the catastrophe
2:40
unfolding in the Middle East. His
2:44
conclusion was that alliance
2:47
with the Israelis is the best pathway
2:49
forward, not only for the West,
2:51
but for the Arab world. There's many
2:53
people in the Arab world who believe that as
2:55
well. You know, that's why the Abraham Accords are
2:58
holding in face, even in the
3:00
face of Iran's attempts to
3:02
tear that accord to shreds.
3:05
So, buckle up, it's
3:07
a wild ride. So,
3:10
obviously there's a terrible mess in the Middle
3:12
East, and everybody has an opinion about it,
3:15
but everyone's
3:18
also woefully under, what
3:21
would you call it, underinformed
3:25
with regards to the situation there, because
3:27
it's unbelievably complicated. And
3:30
so, I think people take sides and
3:32
make opinions without knowing
3:35
the first thing about what's actually happening. And
3:37
so, I want to ask you a bunch
3:39
of, like, really basic questions, and
3:43
we can flesh out the
3:45
landscape for everybody who's watching and listening. So,
3:47
the first question I'd like to ask you
3:50
is, what is
3:52
Hamas exactly? How would you
3:54
characterize it? You know, before
3:56
actually we say, what is Hamas? what
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is Palestine? Okay,
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because Palestine is non-existention.
4:08
And it was never a country. It's
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not ethnic group. It's
4:13
not a religion. It's not a faith. It's
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a colonial entity created
4:18
by the British that
4:20
lived for about 25 years. And
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Jews, Arabs, Druze,
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Christians, Zionists, were
4:32
called Palestinians before
4:35
the termination of
4:38
the British Mandate. It
4:40
was called the British Mandate of
4:42
Palestine. So the Mandate
4:44
itself had
4:47
the name Palestine. Now,
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this is all taking place after World War One,
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after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
4:54
Right, right, right. So the empire collapses.
4:58
There's questions about how the
5:00
political boundaries should be drawn,
5:04
the British establish
5:08
this state known as
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Palestine. So what
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should people think about that? Exactly. Like, what
5:15
do you think people should think about the
5:17
fact that the British were involved? I mean,
5:19
they won World War One and the Ottoman
5:21
Empire collapsed. So there was some mopping up
5:23
to do and often those things are done
5:26
in a hurry and with less
5:28
than optimal information, let's say. Well,
5:33
the Ottoman Empire continued for about 400
5:36
years. During that time, they
5:38
ethnically cleansed the Jewish people from
5:40
their land, which explains why
5:42
the Jewish people were all over the place. After
5:46
World War One and
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all the atrocities and the persecution
5:51
of Jewish people, they filled the
5:53
need to seek a refuge and
5:56
the homeland was the best option
5:58
for the Jewish people. Now,
6:01
this led to clashes between
6:03
the colonizer, which was the
6:05
British Empire, and the
6:08
Jewish people. The Jewish people fought
6:10
for their independence, and they shed blood in
6:12
the process. Also the Arabs did
6:14
the same. In 1948,
6:16
when the United Nations
6:21
divided the land, given
6:23
the opportunity to the Jews and the
6:25
Arabs to build and
6:27
establish their own states, the
6:31
Jews declared their independence, but
6:34
the Arabs declared war against the
6:36
Jews. And
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I think this is a very important point
6:41
to understand. There
6:44
was no such thing as Palestine. And
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when we talk about the British
6:50
mandate of Palestine, it was never
6:52
a state. It was just a
6:55
transitional period from
6:57
the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to
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the termination of
7:03
the British mandate. And that was
7:05
less than 28 years. So
7:08
that termination was in 1948? In
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1947. OK.
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So, why in
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your estimation weren't
7:19
two states established at that time? State
7:23
for the Palestinian Arabs and a state
7:25
for the Jews? From
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a Muslim point of view, and this is where it
7:32
gets tricky, this is where nobody wants to talk about,
7:35
the ideological religious dimension of
7:37
this war. From
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Islamic point of view, the
7:43
Al-Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding
7:45
areas does not define boundary.
7:49
The surrounding areas could be 100 miles, could
7:51
be 500 miles. It's
7:55
an Islamic trust that
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no Muslim leader has the authority. to
8:00
give it away to the non-Muslims. So
8:03
when the Jewish people returned to their homeland,
8:08
the Muslims outraged. And
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that's the most fundamental reason and
8:13
motive for the Arabs and Muslims
8:15
to fight against Israel, because
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they consider that territory
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as an Islamic land. Right.
8:23
And now it's the mosque that's built
8:26
on what was the capital of Mount,
8:29
exactly. Actually, the history
8:31
of the mosque is about approximately
8:33
1300 years. But
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the Jewish Temple beneath is
8:38
a lot older than that. And the
8:40
Jewish ruins in Judea and
8:43
Samaria are still erected, actually. And
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the Jewish people have overwhelming
8:48
evidence of
8:50
artifacts and archeology
8:54
that support
8:57
their existence over centuries, millennia.
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But the Muslims don't. There
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is no currency. There is no book. There is
9:06
no Bible. There is only a building that is
9:08
1300 years old. And
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this is why for the Jewish
9:15
people don't have a problem in
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principle, co-exists with other ethnic groups, like
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even the Zionist movement did
9:23
not have a problem to have a two-state
9:25
solution back in the day, while
9:29
the Muslims refused completely
9:31
having Jewish existence on that land.
9:35
The same way in Mecca, non-Muslims
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are not allowed to enter Mecca,
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even to drive through Mecca. The
9:42
same thing, they want the situation to be
9:44
in Jerusalem. How
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did you come to these conclusions? I
9:50
don't imagine this is how you looked at the world
9:52
when you were young. So
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how did you come to these conclusions? I
9:59
understand that your father was a Jewish. Sheik
10:01
Hassan Yousaf is a co-founder of Hamas. So
10:04
obviously that's complicated to say
10:06
the least. So when
10:09
did, tell me how you looked
10:11
at things when you were a young man and
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then what
10:16
events in your life started to change your mind?
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Since I was very young, I had, how
10:22
old are you now? I'm 45 years old.
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45, okay. Okay, so you were born
10:26
in about 1980? 1978, Shavri-8, yeah. So
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we had critical thinking from
10:34
the early beginning of my
10:36
life. When the
10:38
mullah told the
10:41
funeral crowd that the
10:43
angels of heaven are going to come
10:46
back and interrogate
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this deceased in the grave,
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and they're going to bring his soul back. They're going
10:56
to torture him. And if he does not answer the
10:58
right question, it's going to be an
11:00
open hill. I
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went back to the graveyard and I investigated. I
11:04
was only 10 years old. And
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since that point of my life, I
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did not find death intimidating as
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much as actually became my drive
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to seek a higher truth. It
11:18
led me to vision. So tell me about that again.
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I don't understand that story exactly. What
11:23
event was that? So basically in
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the Islamic belief, there
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is something called the grave torture. This
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is a device that religious authorities
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use to control the Muslim
11:37
population. When
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the person dies in the
11:42
grave, supposedly there is
11:44
torture and there is interrogation. If
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the person doesn't know
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who is his God, who is his
11:51
prophet, if he failed to answer the
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questions regarding the religion, they're
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going to be tortured
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painfully. They're like
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a last judgment sort of. Yeah,
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but it happens in the transitional
12:06
period. So
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because people die, you know, and they've
12:12
been dying for thousands of years. So
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when the afterlife hill is going to
12:16
happen, which is a fundamental thing
12:20
in Italy, the afterlife heaven
12:22
and hill. So
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many people die. And
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is there torture? So they come up with the
12:30
story that there is a great torture. Whether
12:33
Muhammad said this or not, but
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it's widely believed in the Islamic
12:37
faith. And many
12:40
people are afraid. When I was very young, I
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asked all my friends to go back with me to the
12:45
cemetery and none of
12:48
them agreed. And
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when I went back, I was terrified. Eventually
12:56
I did not hear any screaming, any
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torture. And I put my ear to
13:01
the ground trying to do
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this alone. I did this alone because nobody,
13:05
none of my friends would come back with
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me to the graveyard who I'm terrified. Just
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during the day, it was during
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the day, during the day. But eventually I found
13:14
my peace even at nighttime. And
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this might sound a bit psychic, but
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I reached the point that was
13:23
my challenge to myself was
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I able to lay down in
13:28
an open grave and look at
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the stars at midnight. How
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old were you when you did that? I
13:34
was maybe 12, 13 years old. What
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do you think drove you to do that? It's
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my fear of death. Yeah. Because
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the entire culture... Usually people avoid it
13:43
rather than confronting it. Well, it sounds
13:45
strange, but this is when I made
13:48
peace with death. And this
13:50
is actually what empowered me throughout my
13:52
journey. Right?
13:55
So that's very young when you did that. Yes. How
13:58
Many times did you go visit a grave? So, basically, we... We'll
14:00
just a nice to the
14:02
graveyard. And
14:05
that this this is not
14:07
actually. The most important
14:09
sake of observing desk and.
14:12
Have an. Early age
14:14
encounter with this. That.
14:17
The first, but a second intifada
14:19
started. When. I was living in that
14:21
neighborhood. So.
14:24
And you were living where? Exactly Right
14:26
next to the cemetery? Okay so here's
14:28
the Summit Symmetry war and he is
14:30
my eyes my a bit. Okay
14:32
and where are you geographically located at
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her death say or mullah Under as
14:37
below. To
14:39
the north of doesn't okay to see
14:41
the capital of of what's in a
14:44
person of. Focus Okay so
14:46
you're north of Jerusalem? yes right. But
14:48
but this was we were of the
14:51
hearts of the conflict and now or
14:53
the blood. Sit on the youngsters guts
14:55
his shots during the first person to
14:57
father we have buried next door. So.
15:02
I guarantee you that there is no one.
15:05
In that conflict that witnessed firsthand once
15:08
it as much as it did as
15:10
a top. Hundreds.
15:14
Of people were buried next or. Whether.
15:16
They died naturally. Or they died because
15:18
of the conflict or. Internal.
15:21
Conflict between some ass and said the wedding
15:23
or they saw each other or stabbed each
15:25
other. So. The
15:28
entire conflict conflict was displayed in
15:30
front of my eyes as a
15:32
time. And
15:34
the I couldn't find the a
15:37
stronger motive. Why? Are we
15:39
suffering? Why are we die? And who's doing
15:41
this to us? Of.
15:44
Course, The narrative on the fencing is
15:46
that this is Israel. This is the
15:48
Jewish people getting us. And.
15:51
As a child, I did not have the power to
15:53
decide. to see i
15:55
have to how could i same thing
15:57
with the children known guts they
16:01
suffer the consequences of war,
16:04
but they don't realize or understand
16:06
how the war originated. So
16:09
in that situation, I had
16:11
the trauma of the First Palestinian Antifada
16:13
and all the memories. Stay with
16:15
me. This is what empowers me to carry on. That
16:18
was when about that would be 1987. 1987
16:21
to 1992 and 1990. What's
16:28
the definition of Antifada? Chaos.
16:32
People call it uprising, but the very
16:34
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16:37
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16:40
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as a artifact sitting
17:53
in Tunisia. This is supposed to
17:55
be the father of the Palestinian
17:58
revolution. who
18:00
died with like four billion dollars that
18:02
a lot more a lot more a
18:05
yes or a fact That was
18:07
an Egyptian con artist. He
18:09
was born in Egypt with an
18:11
Egyptian accident It
18:14
was so obvious to know that he's
18:16
Egyptian but everybody was in denial that
18:18
he's Palestinian and he is the
18:20
father of the Palestinian Revolution After
18:25
they were kicked out of Jordan of
18:27
Lebanon and the end of Indonesia some
18:30
2,000 miles away They
18:35
came up with the idea to engineer the
18:37
Intifada they wanted trouble but from
18:39
within They knew that this
18:42
could be a lot more effective than trying
18:44
to destroy Israel
18:46
from outside And
18:49
they sent children to die this has been
18:51
their mechanism their strategy and who is they
18:53
when I say they All
18:56
those who are complicit in
18:58
this continuous crime All
19:01
those who sacrifice children For
19:06
power and for money It's
19:08
a fundamental part of that culture. We have
19:11
to understand this first was the ideological dimension
19:13
that I told you about then Sacrificing
19:16
children is not something
19:18
that makes them feel guilty. It's
19:21
acceptable in that culture um,
19:24
so now as
19:26
a student Mask men used
19:28
to come and we were just Fifth
19:31
and sixth grade. We were very young and
19:34
we forced all students To
19:37
evacuate the school. They paralyzed
19:39
the educational system. They
19:42
paralyzed economy Transportation
19:45
and they wanted complete chaos
19:48
another today. I asked myself If
19:51
you were fighting against israel, why
19:53
would you stop the education and the
19:55
economy and the and all other? aspects
19:58
of the life in the
20:00
West Bank. This
20:03
is what Intifada means. So
20:06
instead of going to school,
20:08
we stayed at
20:10
home for the first two or three years
20:13
of the first Palestinian Intifada.
20:16
We did not go to school. Now,
20:19
instead, many
20:21
of the children got engaged in
20:24
stone throwing, and this became our game.
20:26
I was part of that game. Many
20:28
of my friends got shot in the
20:30
process throwing stones at the IDF or
20:35
what we used to call them settlers, just
20:38
clashing. Of course, many
20:41
civilians got hurt in the process.
20:45
So they did not
20:47
want us to go to school, and I did not understand
20:49
why. What about the economy?
20:51
What about the people who
20:53
were forced to shut down their
20:55
stores, and if they did not obey, they
20:58
became traitors. In the
21:01
morning, they came back to their stores,
21:03
and they were burnt down to ashes.
21:06
So by the means of intimidation, Yasser
21:09
Arafat sitting in
21:12
luxury, like Hanin
21:14
Yatodeh sitting in luxury in Qatar. And
21:17
what's in common between all these con artists
21:20
that they were outsiders,
21:22
living outside while
21:25
they wanted the children to die on their
21:27
behalf? Because what really globalized
21:30
the Intifada or the
21:32
Palestinian cause is
21:37
the children. During
21:39
the first Palestinian Intifada, when the
21:41
world saw a child in the
21:43
face of
21:46
a modern army, that
21:48
was outrageous, and everybody sympathized
21:51
with the cause. So
21:53
how did the leaders
21:56
of the Intifada benefit personally from
22:00
Putting children on the front line. How
22:02
what's the money pipeline precisely? Aerofat
22:05
ended up with an absolute bloody fortune like
22:07
an insane fortune and I know the same
22:09
thing is happening But how exactly is that
22:12
monetized? It's the suffering of children
22:15
Produces an influx of foreign
22:17
aid that's then then that's
22:19
then pocketed essentially Yes,
22:22
because on one hand they Delegitimize
22:26
Israel. Hmm. It's right. But
22:28
become a child killer, right?
22:30
Right then
22:33
There is no one in the world That
22:36
does not sympathize with children
22:38
dying. Right? So there is
22:40
no more destructive
22:43
or powerful weapon in the
22:45
hands of Corrupt
22:50
Revolution That
22:54
don't want to fight they don't have the
22:56
courage to actually fight in
22:58
combat. Mm-hmm But
23:00
they prefer that their children would die on
23:02
their behalf in the meantime delegitimize
23:05
Israel and globalize
23:08
their cause The
23:11
international community Don't
23:13
know the reality 100% on the
23:15
ground. They don't understand this game
23:17
even up to now They see
23:19
Hamas using children as a human shield, which is
23:22
very obvious. This is what Hamas
23:24
wanted from this war The
23:28
international community is still in denial a
23:32
so when sugar and I
23:35
this this will lead to more chaos it
23:37
would lead to war would lead to Today
23:40
a global chaos. Well, how do
23:43
you deflate the tension? You
23:46
deflate the tension by going to
23:48
the middleman pay him
23:50
off and he's going to Stop
23:54
the madness. Hmm. And this
23:56
is how they paid off. Yes, or are fair
23:58
paid off Hamas This
24:00
is the Gaza war today. This is
24:02
not the first one. This is the
24:05
first one. And every time Hamas started
24:07
the war, they used human
24:09
shields. Children died. Hamas exaggerated
24:11
the numbers, the statistics. They
24:14
weren't accurate. The international community
24:16
bent over and
24:18
submitted to a ceasefire, which
24:21
basically guaranteed Hamas staying in power. Now,
24:24
how do you silence Hamas for a while? By
24:26
giving them lots of money. But
24:29
this time Hamas thought they could double
24:31
that on
24:34
human ships by putting booby traps
24:36
all over the place. Schools,
24:39
hospitals, mosques. They did not
24:42
leave any secret location in
24:46
Gaza without using it as a
24:48
shooting path. They
24:51
could begin hundreds of miles of tunnels
24:54
beneath one of the most populated areas
24:56
on Earth. How
25:00
come that wasn't widely known? How come that
25:02
wasn't widely known in the West? Well, this
25:04
is obvious. This is obvious, but the world
25:06
is in denial because it's much easier to
25:08
condemn Israel. When we have close
25:11
to 2 billion Muslims repeating
25:13
a certain narrative, a
25:16
forced narrative that is baseless, that says,
25:18
Palestine. And we say the very foundation
25:20
of this narrative, there's no such thing
25:22
as Palestine. It never existed. But
25:25
everybody suddenly became a
25:27
pro-Palestine. It fits
25:29
into the oppressed narrative. It's
25:32
the victim narrative. It's a
25:34
victim mentality. Even in
25:36
the United States, the anti-bankers, those who
25:39
are in debt or anti-establishment, communists,
25:42
feminists, Islamists
25:46
are coming in the same
25:48
room protesting or opposing as
25:50
pro-Palestine. Well, what is Palestine?
25:52
You are extreme
25:55
opposites that you should
25:57
not be in the same avenue. At
26:01
all. Without Israel, you
26:03
would be conspiring to destroy each
26:05
other. Yes, yes. And you can
26:07
mean this clearly. But suddenly now
26:09
you are pairing. So
26:11
this phenomenon of Palestine, it
26:13
just basically shows you falsehood
26:16
versus truth. Yeah,
26:18
well there's something really fundamental to that
26:20
victim-victimizer narrative, right? That's underlying all of
26:22
this. If you can tap
26:25
into that, then you get all the, well you
26:27
certainly get all the left-wing radicals on your side
26:29
instantly. Because they're of course 100% bought
26:32
into the victim-victimizer narrative. And it
26:35
enables them to explain the world and also
26:38
to be moral. Because all you have to
26:40
do is identify with the hypothetical victim. The
26:43
thing I see happening in Palestine, and you
26:45
can clear up any misconceptions on my part,
26:47
is like, I've thought for
26:49
decades that the Palestinians are sacrificial victims
26:52
for any outside powers that want
26:54
to delegitimize Israel. And it
26:57
doesn't matter how many Palestinians die,
26:59
because they're essentially expendable. And
27:01
that seems to me particularly too in relationship to
27:03
Iran. So it's
27:06
completely in Iran's fundamental
27:09
interest to foment this chaos
27:11
that you described. It's not in the best
27:13
interest of the Palestinians in anything like the
27:15
media to the long run, but it doesn't
27:17
matter. As long as the trouble keeps occurring.
27:20
It's hard on Israel. It's hard on the
27:22
United States. It helps
27:25
Iran maintain its
27:27
iron grip. It
27:30
seems to me obvious that many people in the Arab
27:32
world are waking up to that, have woken up to
27:34
that. I think
27:37
that's why the Abraham Accords have more or less
27:39
held through this. Because there
27:41
are powerful forces
27:44
allied against Iran
27:47
most fundamentally. But it's in their
27:49
best interest to keep the misery
27:51
in Palestine going as long as
27:54
it possibly can. And
27:56
my suspicions are that what happened on
27:58
October 7th was... command
28:00
directly, please, you know, feel
28:02
free to disagree with me, but this is how it looks to
28:05
me, is that the Iranians
28:07
decided that it was time to stir
28:09
the pot and they produced this massacre
28:11
and they hope they'd provoke Israel into
28:13
exactly the sort of reaction that Israel
28:15
is having and that Israel
28:18
would take the threat extraordinarily seriously and
28:20
move in and as their
28:22
military victory mounted, public opinion would turn
28:24
against them and it would fragment the
28:26
Abraham Accords. I suspect that was their
28:29
plan. What do you think about that?
28:31
Is that in accordance with your understanding of
28:33
the situation? Absolutely. This
28:37
is Iran's attempt to actually rearrange
28:39
the region. Right. But
28:42
I don't want to go too
28:45
far that also China and Russia
28:47
have ambition of reshaping
28:49
the world. Yes. Yes,
28:52
changing the world order. Yes. But we don't
28:54
want to go too far. No. The
28:56
United States, God only knows how that's going to turn out,
28:58
but it's basically Iran,
29:01
Russia, China. They made it
29:03
very clear that they don't
29:05
want the United States monopoly
29:07
over power. They want to
29:09
change the world order. Putin
29:12
understands, he understands
29:15
completely what it really meant for Hamas
29:17
to go and ethnically cleanse 20 Jewish
29:20
communities. And it
29:22
was not coincidental right after
29:24
the Ukraine-Russian war where all
29:26
the attention was at
29:29
your end.
29:32
We saw after what happened in Gaza,
29:34
nobody talked about Ukraine. Right. Right. Right.
29:36
Right. When you bring
29:38
the three major religions and
29:42
make them clash
29:44
somehow, Hamas was the
29:46
trigger. I
29:49
doubt that Hamas understands
29:51
the KGB and Putin's
29:54
play, but
29:56
they are part of it. And
29:59
Putin is complicit. in this
30:01
situation. So
30:03
Iran does not act on its own, you
30:05
know, when they launched, for example, hundreds of
30:08
ballistic missiles in the
30:10
21st century, this is a major attack.
30:16
I haven't witnessed this in our lifetime. Maybe here
30:18
in the Iraqi war, but it was not on
30:21
this scale. So
30:23
anyway, yes, these people don't care
30:25
for the global security. They are
30:27
irresponsible. And worse than this,
30:30
that we have experience with the
30:33
communists or let's say communist Islamic
30:35
ideologies that they reached at the
30:37
end, they failed. The
30:40
communist Islamic model did
30:43
not bear fruit. It
30:46
did not emancipate humanity, did not solve
30:49
the human problem. And
30:51
they still insist on replacing
30:53
capitalism. Yeah, I don't think
30:56
capitalism is the perfect solution,
30:58
but it's the better option for sure.
31:01
So anyway, they insisting and they want
31:05
this to keep going. And
31:08
when we have a weak leadership,
31:11
with due respect, the
31:14
Biden administration is not
31:16
showing leadership. And
31:19
in the Muslim culture, the Arab culture,
31:23
they don't understand tolerance. There is no such
31:25
a thing. Not
31:27
in the Muslim consciousness, maybe
31:29
forgiveness, but not tolerance. And
31:32
tolerance is mostly perceived as weakness.
31:36
And I speak as someone who grew up
31:38
in that culture. So every
31:40
time, you know, when Trump was there,
31:42
for example, everybody was terrified of him,
31:45
unpredictable. And
31:47
you don't know what he's going
31:49
to do next. So he moved
31:51
the American embassy to Jerusalem. Nobody
31:53
there, even to shalom. Yeah, right.
31:56
Yes, Not even riots or any of that. Right.
31:58
Yeah. But
32:01
now a. The.
32:03
Obama administration in now the
32:05
Biden as mysteries. And.
32:09
The. Americans and the American power of
32:12
is not. Even able
32:14
to ram. Guess. The
32:16
A One of the things that appalled me
32:18
when when Biden took office is that I've
32:21
been following the Abraham records quite closely because
32:23
I thought they were. Not. Really quite
32:25
the miracle. And I knew. From.
32:27
Talking to people who are involved
32:29
first hand that the Saudis were
32:31
very interested in having that process
32:33
continues and very inclined to sign
32:36
on. And my sense with
32:38
the by the administration was at
32:40
that. Got saddled because. The
32:42
democrats were completely unwilling to give Trump
32:45
any credit for anything he did during
32:47
his mistress, and I thought that was
32:49
absolutely unforgivable because it would have been.
32:52
And and the Democrats to the pull this
32:54
off. They could have brought Saudi Arabia into
32:56
the Abraham Points. And the me.
32:59
Squandered. The opportunity. And.
33:01
Not. Complete Tasks V As far as I'm
33:03
concerned and unforgivable catastrophe. And you know, here
33:06
we are now as a consequence of at
33:08
least in part, let's go back to when
33:10
you were thirteenth. I won't take up the
33:12
threat of that store. It's okay, so you're.
33:14
You're. Seeing all this catastrophe, this chaos
33:16
that you describe redound to the
33:18
benefit of the con men who
33:20
are running the show for example
33:22
and that is there to did
33:25
legitimize. Israel
33:27
and and the United States. And to read
33:29
down to the credit, let's say the Iranians
33:31
offering the backgrounds you're seeing all the consequences
33:33
of this first hand. You decide that. For.
33:37
A Cop variety. Complicated reasons: You decide
33:39
that you're going to face your fear
33:41
of death. You have
33:43
this graveyard next. You're going
33:45
there. To. Investigate into
33:48
experiment. What was the consequence
33:50
of doing that for you? And then. How
33:52
does that tie in with your transformation
33:54
of. Worldview. Overtime.
33:59
Well. as a And this is
34:01
stuff I don't like to talk about
34:03
because I choose not to be a
34:05
victim. Yeah. So I don't like to
34:07
become vulnerable because people think that you
34:09
are weak. Stuff
34:12
that I don't have to talk about, but I think there
34:14
is no way around it because
34:17
many people ask, you know, what motivates you and
34:19
where are you coming from? When
34:23
I was very, very young, I was raped
34:27
in a culture, in a
34:29
culture that
34:32
would kill the rapist, but
34:37
also they would kill the rape
34:40
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34:44
I never told anybody about
34:46
that story. I never got any support.
34:48
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opportunity. In
36:03
a society that did not have mercy
36:05
that they pursued that I would disappear
36:07
it's I don't bring same on the
36:09
right. An. Eyewitness: So many
36:11
women. Been.
36:13
Killed. After. Being raped
36:16
month that the father would proceed
36:18
to kill his daughter. To
36:22
bury. The same with her.
36:25
Not to have to face the society that
36:27
his daughter was. What?
36:30
Type of mentality? Is this? What Type of religions?
36:32
This and this is not just a cult. Oh
36:35
okay, does it reflect on his inability
36:37
to protect and serve as the same
36:39
as his status. It isn't as it
36:41
is is the father of a he
36:43
could not protect his dorothea. Yeah.
36:46
And they now a maybe the
36:48
daughter is pregnant this was before
36:50
abortion is okay this that daughter
36:52
is pregnant What is he going
36:54
to do with the time know
36:56
he possessed kinda daughter? He does
36:58
not want to go events to
37:00
the to the degree that is
37:02
grants file. Is
37:04
a result of a very
37:07
bright as. So.
37:11
And the from. The some essential.
37:14
A Islam. Or
37:17
in in Arabia the killed that
37:19
instance. Is. So when
37:21
a seat sacrifices symptom and
37:24
is not a coincidence that
37:26
says. It's rooted in that got.
37:31
So for me it was
37:33
in just. That. I had
37:35
to. Actually. Get. Is a burden
37:38
sort of getting the support from the
37:40
family. From. The society like as
37:42
is come and see who did it.
37:45
Today. I'm forty five years old. I'm very
37:47
strong man. I can confront
37:49
the whole universe is necessary. And
37:52
up to now none of them asked the question.
37:54
Who did it. And
37:57
by the way, I have the power! To.
37:59
work the predator down
38:02
there. He's probably living in a nightmare. Why
38:04
I didn't actually harm him? Because later on,
38:06
I got lots of power even
38:08
when I was back in the territory, but I choose not
38:10
to. Instead of going
38:12
after the rapist, I
38:15
went after the belief system. And
38:19
this is where I need to create the change. I
38:22
see. So you, the what's so
38:24
called the Islam. And
38:27
I know this is very sensitive talk.
38:30
If the belief system, if Allah thinks
38:33
that the rapist and the rape
38:36
are equal and they deserve the
38:38
same punishment, then this God does
38:40
not have authority over my life. And
38:43
this is where I start questioning the
38:45
entire belief system. And I rebelled. How
38:48
come you're still alive? Well, they
38:50
tried to kill me and they're still trying
38:52
to. They have been trying
38:54
to assassinate me politically, at least
38:56
all this progressives and Muslim
38:59
Brotherhood wearing all
39:01
type of masks in the United States. They
39:04
have been trying to discredit me. So I
39:06
cannot even speak for myself to defend myself
39:08
because I'm speaking on behalf of all the
39:10
wounded children in the region. And I know
39:12
their game and I know they don't care
39:14
for the children. Instead,
39:17
my father sacrificed me. He said, this is not
39:20
my son. And I don't know if you want
39:22
to kill him. His blood is allowed. So
39:26
when you have to choose between a
39:28
hypothetical God that does not even exist
39:31
and the future of children or your
39:33
own child, well, we have
39:35
a fundamental problem here. Then you come posing
39:37
to tell the rest of the universe that
39:39
Islam is a religion of peace. Well, no,
39:41
we have a big problem here. We have
39:43
to talk about it. And when I start
39:46
talking about this, I
39:48
got canceled. Yeah,
39:51
you got canceled. So and
39:54
now I'm labeled Islam of all
39:57
Islam of all I'm confronting this
39:59
thing. and I'm willing to
40:01
die in its pursuit because there
40:04
is no other way. Only the truth can set
40:06
people free. Only the truth. The
40:08
same thing with Palestine. It
40:11
totally depends on the destruction of Israel
40:14
in order for us to see what Palestine
40:16
is. And
40:18
the manifestation of Palestine
40:20
requires the destruction
40:23
of Israel. Same thing with the Islamic State.
40:26
It requires the destruction of
40:28
civilization. All
40:30
civilizations combine in
40:32
order to achieve this global state
40:35
called Qilafah. But
40:38
we don't know how it is going to look
40:40
like then. We have
40:43
first to die. For them to
40:45
live, then they can prove themselves.
40:49
If there is anything
40:54
that defines madness, this is
40:56
madness. So you were
40:58
hurt very badly when you were very young and then
41:00
you lived through the Antifada. You
41:04
were right beside the graveyard. You
41:08
decided that you were going to confront death
41:10
relatively directly and overcome your fear of it.
41:12
You were doing some religious
41:14
experimentation really at the same time then. You
41:16
said that you were testing out
41:19
this hypothesis that there was torture in
41:21
the grave. You did that
41:23
alone because your friends wouldn't come along
41:25
with you, which is hardly surprising. So
41:28
you said that you also
41:30
decided with regards to being
41:32
raped that the
41:34
proper response to that wasn't to go
41:36
after the person specifically who was responsible,
41:38
but to go after something deeper than
41:40
that, which was the belief system that
41:42
gave rise to this problem. All
41:47
right, so now you're 13. Are
41:50
these ideas already in your imagination? When
41:53
was it that you started sorting this out? Some
41:58
of them were in the form of... feelings, just
42:01
a gut feeling. I
42:04
did not have the means to express them, but
42:06
I knew them. It
42:09
was not coincidental that I could not tell
42:11
my own father about the situation, but later
42:13
on I knew that my punishment is death.
42:19
So today I have
42:21
the power to express myself. I didn't know
42:23
everything at that time, but believe
42:26
or not, I felt that
42:28
this society cannot be trusted. This
42:35
is why today when I stand and I
42:37
tell the world, anyone
42:40
who identifies as a Muslim, I
42:44
consider them as a threat. I
42:46
don't trust them. People say, you cannot
42:48
generalize. This is like insane. What you say?
42:50
No, it's not insane because
42:54
their belief system has
42:58
sentenced me to death many times
43:00
for crimes that I haven't committed.
43:04
Then you pause as a Muslim, you carry
43:06
that identity. How am I supposed to feel
43:08
to watch you? It's
43:10
like coming to a Jewish refugee during the
43:12
Nazi era and say, I am a Nazi.
43:14
Come with me. I'm not going to hurt
43:16
you. No, you're taking
43:19
the identity of a Nazi regime.
43:22
And whether you are the bad
43:24
cup or the good cup, it
43:26
doesn't matter. You are serving the
43:28
same establishment and I'm tired of
43:31
this moderate versus extremist. Every
43:35
individual has the responsibility to
43:37
know what they are identifying
43:39
with. You're my individuality is above
43:41
all religions and above all gods.
43:45
I don't accept to just take a label for myself,
43:47
not knowing what I'm getting myself involved into because
43:51
only my parents push that religious identity
43:53
on me. And if I am
43:55
at that level of consciousness,
43:58
then how can I trust you with that? anything I cannot
44:00
trust you with my woman I can't trust
44:02
you with my property I cannot trust you
44:05
with my money I cannot trust you being
44:07
even close to me because
44:09
you don't qualify you don't
44:12
know your individuality you are
44:14
unpredictable you can be friendly now but five
44:16
minutes later you can be a part of
44:18
a crowd and you are going to show
44:21
me your tasks you might bite
44:23
me so then I have a problem
44:25
okay what
44:27
do you have what do you make of moves
44:29
on the part of countries like the UAE and
44:32
and the other countries that are involved in the in the
44:35
Abraham Accords let's say because that it looks to
44:37
me like that's a pathway
44:39
forward much different than the path we
44:41
laid out in
44:43
Iran that right that holds out
44:45
the possibility of something like a
44:48
rapprochement between let's say
44:50
Christianity Judaism and Islam do
44:52
you see any hope on that side of things yes
44:57
with the statement that I made this is
44:59
my fundamental stand I don't compromise this and
45:02
I don't respect anyone who identify themselves
45:05
as a Muslim in tension because
45:08
why okay but this is
45:10
my fundamental stand because I aim to reform
45:14
a generation I need people to
45:16
get out of their cave of delusion and
45:18
think for themselves like for example I
45:20
don't have a problem with the Sufis and I
45:23
don't have a problem actually with
45:25
Muslims who don't pose as Muslims
45:27
they don't have to bring
45:32
their religious identity
45:34
as they are entitled to something they
45:37
want to intimidate me or maybe tempt me with
45:39
something sincere devotion and
45:41
people don't need a religious
45:44
identity at all and
45:46
those exist in the Arab and the Muslim
45:48
world but also
45:50
hypocrisy is is well so you know
45:52
the other side of the coin I
45:54
just did a seminar on
45:57
the Gospels with some scholars
46:00
the same group that I walked through
46:02
the story of Exodus with. Now,
46:04
we spent 20 hours going through the Gospel
46:06
accounts and the biggest
46:09
enemies of Christ are the religious
46:11
hypocrites. That's the Pharisees in that
46:13
story. And there are people who proclaim
46:16
allegiance to God while acting in their
46:18
own service, right? The deepest of all
46:20
possible sins, right? To invert the moral
46:22
order so that you
46:25
serve yourself while claiming to
46:27
serve what's properly
46:30
put in the highest place, right?
46:32
There's no shortage of religious hypocrisy. And
46:34
I think it is
46:36
the worst of all possible sins because
46:38
it inverts the cosmic order, right? It
46:41
makes everything good, subservient to what
46:43
it is that you want. And
46:46
that's a very, that's a very, I mean,
46:49
that can be, obviously that's
46:51
a problem faced by any
46:54
religious system because any religious system
46:56
can become overrun with hypocrites. But
46:59
that's really what you're pointing to, is the
47:01
distinction between hypocrisy and it
47:05
says in the Gospels that you shouldn't let your
47:07
left hand know what your right hand is doing.
47:09
And what that really means is that it's something
47:11
like practice your devotion
47:13
in solitude and secrecy
47:16
and don't trump it. Don't make a show of it.
47:22
The activists in the West are exactly the
47:24
same sort of people, right? They're wearing their
47:26
morality on a stick. Look
47:28
how good I am because I'm on the right
47:30
side. It has nothing to do with them organizing
47:32
their lives in any sense of the word. All
47:35
they have to do is proclaim allegiance to the
47:37
victim and they're on the top of the moral
47:39
order. Regardless
47:41
of who they have to crawl in bed with to manage
47:43
that particular stunt, which is what
47:45
we're seeing everywhere in the West at the moment. After
47:48
October 7th, obviously. And
47:50
all this moral decay, of course, there's no
47:52
comment. It's a human condition. This
47:55
is why we're saying if we want to see
47:57
the new man, If
48:00
we want to integrate to a higher
48:02
state of consciousness, then we need to
48:04
drop this political
48:06
correctness. It's the difference. It's
48:08
the same thing. It's the same game. Yeah. You
48:11
know, I was born in that society and up on
48:13
the same side. And
48:16
I was born in that belief, like at least when it comes
48:18
to me. I
48:20
don't have the right to criticize my own
48:22
belief system. And if I
48:24
do, I become, it becomes
48:27
a hateful speech. Who
48:29
says this? It
48:32
is like birthright to
48:35
rebel and to criticize. This is what
48:37
makes us superior to animals. Especially
48:40
that there is no such thing as Islam. We
48:42
have so many denominations. So
48:44
basically, at
48:47
least what we can do now, we can push
48:49
them back. They have to back
48:51
off. And
48:55
we probably can apply political
48:57
pressure. Where, you know, they will have
48:59
to hold
49:03
extremists accountable. After
49:08
October 7th, what I saw, and this is why
49:10
I went outrageous, and I really told the Arab
49:12
world, listen, if it comes down to choose between
49:15
the entire Muslim population and the cow, I choose
49:17
the cow. Like at least the cow is very
49:19
peaceful. It gives us milk.
49:21
It gives us leather. It gives us
49:23
meat. It is very peaceful. It is
49:26
harmless. But
49:28
you, what's your contribution? And
49:30
now we have this global crisis
49:33
where a minority, a
49:37
religious minority, being persecuted, suffering
49:39
public cleansing on October 7th.
49:42
And instead of siding with truth to
49:44
say that this does not represent us
49:46
as a Muslim world, instead
49:49
they have been weaponizing their
49:51
religious identity against
49:54
this religious minority that is
49:56
most creative with the greatest
49:58
contribution to life. And
50:01
I don't see like this is the
50:03
blueprint of our society. I mean, I
50:05
cannot imagine the Western civilization or
50:08
our civilization without the Jupyter. How do you
50:10
account for the fact that the Abraham Accords
50:12
haven't collapsed? I
50:14
mean, they haven't, right? They've held. And
50:17
that's, again, that seems to me to be a very positive
50:19
thing. I mean, I think you
50:22
could make a case that perhaps the people who
50:24
are on the Abraham Accords side of the
50:26
world could have been more forthright in their
50:28
defense of Israel after October 7th, but at
50:31
least the whole bloody process hasn't collapsed. I
50:33
mean, that's what Iran was hoping for. It's not
50:35
collapsed. It's not collapsed. And I think it is
50:37
going to be rejuvenated after this war because it's
50:40
in the interest of everybody. Yes. And
50:42
now the thing is, Israel is showing
50:44
everyone that violence is the dead end.
50:47
So what I am hoping for that
50:50
I don't know if we have to go to
50:52
the point where we have to deal with Iran
50:54
and Hezbollah and this war could be a lot
50:57
longer than people expecting. But eventually
50:59
the Middle East is going to reach
51:01
the point, especially Muslims
51:03
and Arabs, that violence
51:05
is a dead end. We are not going
51:08
to tolerate violence. You
51:10
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51:12
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This was the final
52:30
result, the use of force after
52:33
exhausting every possibility with Islamists with
52:35
the Muslim Brotherhood, especially which is
52:37
Hamas. There is no difference. Now
52:42
that they learned the lesson, they can
52:44
stay in their delusion. It's
52:46
not my responsibility to go and try to pull
52:48
them out of their cage. But
52:51
if they choose to act on it and
52:53
manifest their delusion in the form of
52:55
violence, in the form of terrorism, then
52:58
we have very tough warriors and
53:00
we are going to fight. I
53:02
personally am fighting for my very existence.
53:05
I'm not an expert on the topic.
53:07
They want me to cease to exist.
53:10
Hence my relationship and my understanding
53:12
of Israel, because Israel didn't
53:14
do anything wrong to the Arabs and to
53:17
the Jews, except, you know, just being who
53:19
they are and they want
53:21
them to cease to exist. This
53:23
is how I feel, why I feel with Israel.
53:26
It's there is no difference. We are
53:28
in the same situation where
53:30
I didn't commit a crime against
53:32
my people. I didn't commit a
53:35
crime against anyone. Even later on
53:37
when I collaborated with Israel in
53:39
the intelligence service, my
53:42
main goal was to just stop
53:44
the madness, stop suicide bombers from
53:47
targeting civilians indiscriminately. This
53:49
was my goal. This was my
53:51
moral compass. I didn't do it because of
53:53
a national motivation. I
54:00
still became a traitor. I
54:03
said, why you labeled me as a traitor? Why
54:05
you condemn me to death? I
54:07
did not only save Jewish life, I saved
54:10
also Palestinian life. I saved my father's life
54:12
and other Hamas' Iggers' lives. Believe
54:14
it or not, for 10 years I don't
54:16
have blood on my hands. I did not
54:18
take part in killing any human being. Throughout
54:21
10 years of war
54:24
and chaos and bloodshed, working
54:28
around the clock to save people from
54:30
their madness, trying to just juggle with
54:32
the whole situation. I was very young
54:35
and I almost got killed so many
54:37
times in the process. Sitting in a
54:39
room full of explosives with
54:42
potential suicide bombers, 19
54:44
years old, discussing who's going to
54:46
die first. That kind
54:48
of situation. And I am trying,
54:50
how can I stop this
54:52
kid from killing
54:55
so many other people? This
54:57
is not about treason. It's
55:00
about pro-life. This is what we were doing.
55:03
Yet, a society that prays
55:06
suicide bombing attacks prays death.
55:09
Because blinded with hatred
55:11
towards the Jewish people. That by the
55:13
way, they don't know nothing about the
55:15
Jewish history. They don't know nothing about
55:17
the Jewish suffering. They are not willing
55:20
to study about the Holocaust. Instead,
55:22
they're teaching people the
55:24
wrong and the false narrative. And this is
55:27
how they guarantee to
55:29
stay in this victim for eternity.
55:33
So basically, it's so complicated,
55:35
you know, in my
55:38
matrix that I
55:40
learned a lot about myself. And I fought the
55:42
good fight. But right now, I reached a point
55:45
that I don't need to explain to
55:47
anybody anything. There is a volcano inside
55:49
me that is about to erupt. And
55:52
I don't care what people are going to
55:54
say. Whether they're going to say mad, crazy,
55:56
out of control, they can say whatever they
55:59
want. We have to eradicate Hamas.
56:01
We have to finish Islamists. There
56:03
is no room for savages in
56:06
our civilization. And anyone who pose
56:08
a threat against innocent
56:10
civilians don't have equal rights.
56:13
It's as simple as that. And all the
56:15
voices coming from the United States say, hey,
56:17
Palestinians, give the Palestinians equal
56:20
rights. I say, no. First,
56:22
I want to see equal responsibility. Show
56:26
me equal responsibility and we can discuss
56:28
equal rights. But you
56:30
don't compare savages to decent
56:32
civilians or to decent civilized
56:34
people who know their responsibility
56:37
towards themselves and towards their
56:39
neighbors. And compare, say, hey,
56:42
Israel is democracy. Why you
56:44
treat the Palestinians in such
56:46
manner? Well, there is no
56:48
such thing as Palestine to begin with. And
56:50
the entire social structure needs
56:53
to be studied before
56:55
we decide what Palestine is, because
56:58
it's not a nation. It's political gangs
57:02
fighting against each other, fighting Israel
57:04
as a common enemy. And
57:06
when Israel is not there, they will kill each other.
57:08
I promise you that. So
57:12
what happens to you at 13? Walk
57:16
me through your life from 13 onward to
57:19
the point where you start working with the
57:21
Israeli. So walk me through that whole biography.
57:26
So. That
57:30
was the first person in the fight. Yeah. But
57:32
it looks like I developed so many
57:35
disorders because of the traumas of
57:37
childhood. And
57:39
instead, a society that can understand a
57:41
child and what's going on, what they
57:43
did, they beat me up. Everybody
57:47
from the Hamas leaders to my parents,
57:49
to the teachers at school, to
57:51
the principal, to the other kids
57:53
in the streets. Everywhere
57:56
I went, at some point I
57:58
got beaten up by a mob. In
58:00
fact, in my life, I got beaten up
58:02
by a mob multiple times to the point
58:04
where I went unconscious. And
58:07
why were you a target of that sort of art?
58:09
I was just troublemaker. And I'm
58:11
still a troublemaker. This is one
58:13
of my best qualities. So
58:16
basically, they wanted
58:18
me to behave accordingly, according
58:21
to the religious laws
58:23
and the cultural laws. But
58:25
I didn't know I was behaving that way. I
58:27
just wanted to rebel. There was lots of anger
58:29
inside me. And there is still lots of anger.
58:32
So what were you doing that was causing
58:34
trouble? I broke the rules. At
58:37
the mosque, I played. I
58:39
just was a very playful kid. And
58:43
they wanted me to just not
58:45
do anything. If I ran in the mosque, once
58:48
the imam at the mosque left
58:51
me up above his head and throw
58:53
me flat on my back, where I lost
58:55
my breath. And
58:58
on another occasion, I
59:01
was whipped by a
59:03
Hamas leader with the
59:05
electric cable to the point I
59:07
lost consciousness. How old were you? Between
59:10
the 10 and 18 years
59:13
old, this is like where the brutality
59:15
of the society took place. So
59:18
if I was only a rape victim and I was
59:20
very young, I would say, okay, that was one event.
59:23
But come on. Everybody
59:26
was conspiring against me. And I
59:28
still wonder why so many forces
59:30
wanted me dead. And they still
59:33
don't have compassion to just look and
59:35
say, wow, this guy went through a lot.
59:37
Like maybe whatever
59:39
he's saying, he has the right at least
59:41
to express it. But
59:43
they want to strip me even the right to talk
59:46
about it. So
59:48
it's a brutal
59:51
culture. When some
59:53
say what happened on October 7 was
59:56
barbaric, it's not only Hamas. There
59:59
is a majority. in the Gethan
1:00:01
society that is complicit in this
1:00:04
crime. In fact, for
1:00:06
those who watched the footage of
1:00:11
the October 7 crimes, it
1:00:13
was not only Hamas that committed crime.
1:00:15
Most of the crimes, especially raping and
1:00:17
kidnapping, were committed by Gethan civilians. And
1:00:20
I know now this is considered,
1:00:24
or somebody can't discredit me because I'm generalizing,
1:00:26
but I say the vast majority of the
1:00:28
society don't have mercy when it comes to
1:00:30
children. And no woman can walk freely
1:00:33
and feel safe at midnight, anywhere
1:00:35
in the Palestinian territories. This is
1:00:38
why a father is willing to kill
1:00:40
his daughter if she would
1:00:42
leave the house without a companion. Because
1:00:45
if she leaves the house without a companion, there's
1:00:48
a big chance that she's going to be raped
1:00:50
on the streets. And why are you taking such
1:00:52
a risk? They would beat them up if they
1:00:54
leave the house alone. So
1:00:57
it's a troubled society. It's a death
1:00:59
culture. And I don't
1:01:02
mean to label them as savages. And
1:01:04
I don't want to say this because
1:01:06
it's so hard. It's my biological family.
1:01:08
This is where I came from. And
1:01:10
I love the people. I want the
1:01:12
people to integrate. But
1:01:16
they want me dead still. And as
1:01:18
long as they are not able
1:01:20
to make peace with their own child, I
1:01:24
don't know how they can make peace
1:01:26
with other nations, with other people, with
1:01:28
others. What was your relationship with your
1:01:30
father like? I loved
1:01:32
my father. I
1:01:34
loved him. He was my God. Even
1:01:37
though he beat me up, so many times, I
1:01:39
loved him. And I loved
1:01:41
my mother as well. I loved
1:01:43
my people. I did not hate them. I was
1:01:45
just a troublemaker, but it's not out of hatred.
1:01:47
Even the ones who hurt me the most, I
1:01:50
was able to let go. Even my rapists or
1:01:52
that guy who beat me up or the teacher.
1:01:56
I did not go after them. And
1:01:58
it was not coincidental. that
1:02:01
existence gave me so much power
1:02:03
during the second personian Antifod, which
1:02:05
I was, I had the capacity
1:02:07
to pretty much give
1:02:10
the permission to
1:02:16
an army to kill somebody. And
1:02:18
I refused, especially when they were my
1:02:20
opponents. Like, so how did you,
1:02:22
how did you come to be in that position? So,
1:02:25
so you're a young man, 13 to 18. What's
1:02:29
happening in your life and where do you end up? So
1:02:32
basically at the age of 18, the
1:02:36
gap between me and that society was really
1:02:38
white. And I
1:02:41
questioned many things about the
1:02:43
culture of who we are and why people
1:02:45
are just so
1:02:48
cruel. And
1:02:51
I wanted to take revenge, but I
1:02:54
thought I'd take revenge from Israel. And
1:02:57
somehow I wanted to go to suicidal
1:02:59
because it was very hard, you know, to take a
1:03:01
gun and go shoot my people. So
1:03:03
I thought, okay, how about I go
1:03:06
against the occupiers or enemies? And
1:03:08
I decided that I'm going to buy a
1:03:11
purchase gun and shoot some Israelis and just
1:03:13
go as a Shahid. That was my only
1:03:15
escape. And that was
1:03:17
only at the age of 18. So I got the
1:03:19
guns. And
1:03:21
before I did anything, thankfully, I
1:03:24
was arrested by the
1:03:26
Israeli intelligence. During
1:03:29
interrogation, they
1:03:32
offered me to work for them. And
1:03:35
I thought it was an opportunity to actually say
1:03:38
yes and destroy
1:03:41
them from within. On
1:03:43
one hand, I would be released from prison and
1:03:47
I would have a lot more information, a lot more
1:03:49
power, and I can't do something against. Because
1:03:52
there was no way for any intelligence service
1:03:55
to buy me, to
1:03:57
say buy money or buy intimidation or
1:03:59
any of that. So
1:04:01
that was actually my real motive,
1:04:03
and it's described in detail in
1:04:05
my books. But
1:04:11
instead of releasing me, they said you must go to
1:04:14
prison. If we release you, people
1:04:17
will get suspicious, and
1:04:19
you will get killed. So
1:04:22
I ended up going to prison for 16
1:04:24
months. This was my first in prison. In
1:04:28
prison, I
1:04:30
told Hamas about this encounter with the
1:04:32
Israeli intelligence. In prison, yeah.
1:04:35
In prison, okay. I told them the truth, and this
1:04:37
is my plan. But they said, is
1:04:39
this everything? They said, this is everything. They said, no,
1:04:41
you write more. So there is nothing else. So who's
1:04:44
your handler? What's your mission? So they did
1:04:46
not give me any mission. Hamas became
1:04:48
suspicious of me. Instead
1:04:51
of helping me, I became a suspect. But
1:04:55
my father is one of the founders of the movement.
1:04:58
So they could not torture me, but
1:05:01
in the meantime, they were torturing hundreds
1:05:03
of other prisoners for suspicion
1:05:06
of collaborating with Israel. Dozens
1:05:09
were killed during that time, and hundreds
1:05:11
were tortured. They destroyed their
1:05:13
lives completely, and they were brutal. Some
1:05:16
of this was taking place in the prison. In prison. All of it. All
1:05:19
of it. I see. I'm talking about the 16 months
1:05:22
of a nightmare beyond
1:05:25
anyone's imagination, where
1:05:27
I am a suspect, but they are not touching me.
1:05:30
While everyone else, everyone around
1:05:32
me is being tortured and
1:05:34
killed for 16 months. And
1:05:38
I was wondering, is
1:05:40
my turn going to come? Because
1:05:43
of my father's status and their hypocrisy,
1:05:46
and of course their shame, they
1:05:49
did not do anything to me.
1:05:52
But the thing is, I didn't – up
1:05:56
to that point, I did not betray. I just
1:05:58
told them the truth, not under the law. pressure. I thought,
1:06:00
you know, they could help me that this is
1:06:03
my plan. And this is how
1:06:05
things went wrong between me
1:06:07
and Hamas to the core. When
1:06:10
I was released from prison after 16 months, Hamas
1:06:14
followed up outside prison. My father
1:06:16
was still in prison, but different Israeli prison at
1:06:19
that time. So he wasn't there to protect me.
1:06:22
And I was outraged. Was
1:06:25
he in prison with you? No, no, my
1:06:28
father was in a high security prison. I
1:06:30
was in a, like more
1:06:32
of a jail. Okay. Okay. So he wasn't
1:06:34
inside prison to protect me. And when I
1:06:37
was released, he was still in Israeli prison.
1:06:39
My father spent some 30 years
1:06:42
of his life in Israeli prisons. So
1:06:47
now outside the prison, Hamas
1:06:49
is coming after me. It's just like,
1:06:51
just keep us posted what's going on.
1:06:53
And now they're,
1:06:56
I don't want to say blackmail me, but in
1:06:59
the human nature, the handler
1:07:01
of Hamas found
1:07:04
opportunity actually to, to
1:07:07
take it to total advantage. He wanted me to become
1:07:09
somehow like his bitch.
1:07:14
And I was in a situation I prefer
1:07:16
to die. You know, I did not betray my people. I don't
1:07:18
have any intention to betray anybody.
1:07:21
I always thought that, okay, you know, we're
1:07:23
fighting against occupation and this is the way
1:07:25
to just become a Shahid and exit all
1:07:28
this tragedy for
1:07:31
good. So I was going suicidal. I
1:07:33
did not mean, you know, to, to sell my people for
1:07:35
mom. So
1:07:39
the only refuge was left on
1:07:42
the table is to actually go to the Israeli intelligence and
1:07:45
ask them for help from Hamas this time, because
1:07:47
Hamas, what were they
1:07:49
requiring of you, the
1:07:52
Hamas handler? What was being recorded of you? The
1:07:55
moment they put you in the room, at
1:08:00
defense and you are in a
1:08:02
society like this where everything is
1:08:04
ruled based on shame and
1:08:07
honor. It's the most shameful
1:08:09
thing. They can
1:08:11
ask you to do whatever they want you to
1:08:13
do. And it's up
1:08:15
to the individual. It's not
1:08:17
even to the Hamas movement.
1:08:20
And they are going to hold it against you
1:08:22
for eternity. What kind of life is this?
1:08:26
It's like someone is holding
1:08:28
something against you. And nothing
1:08:31
will clean that shame no matter
1:08:33
what you do. Except if
1:08:36
you die, even if I became a
1:08:38
suicide bomber, the shame will hunt
1:08:40
me to my grave. This was the
1:08:42
reality of it. So this
1:08:45
is where I think everything just went
1:08:48
out of control. I was like since
1:08:50
childhood, I had
1:08:52
no mercy from these people. And right
1:08:54
now, trying to actually just
1:08:58
escape my misery by
1:09:01
dying for Allah, by dying
1:09:03
for the nation against the
1:09:06
Zionist occupation. They're
1:09:08
coming after me. So this is my
1:09:11
psychic. And I was, no
1:09:13
matter what I do, even if I die, I
1:09:15
will never be able to please them. And why would I
1:09:17
die? So in
1:09:20
the first encounter with Israeli intelligence, I told
1:09:23
them the whole truth. Going
1:09:25
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1:09:27
kids with the nearest stranger while you
1:09:30
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1:09:32
a kidnapper or a serial killer. But
1:09:34
why would you ever take that risk?
1:09:37
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1:09:39
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1:09:41
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1:09:43
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the people who are tortured in
1:10:58
prison. If you now want
1:11:00
me to work for you, you abandon
1:11:02
money. You abandon me. They
1:11:06
said none of these people who were
1:11:08
tortured and killed had any relationship with
1:11:10
the Israeli intelligence. It's all in
1:11:12
Hamas head. The
1:11:15
handler said, I have been working with the
1:11:17
agency for 18 years. One
1:11:20
asset in our district
1:11:22
was was caught in the
1:11:25
action. And this man still alive
1:11:27
in the United States. And he gave me the
1:11:29
name of that person. He
1:11:31
said, this is the only one. This is the only true
1:11:34
story. The hundreds of
1:11:36
others who have been killed had
1:11:38
no relation. They are all innocent people. Well,
1:11:42
if he was telling me the truth, this
1:11:45
is even more
1:11:47
disastrous. And
1:11:53
I decided to go to the second to
1:11:56
go back to the second meeting and the
1:11:58
third meeting and every meeting. They were
1:12:00
just building me up. I was so broken Building
1:12:04
you up in one building me up in a Education
1:12:09
Conversation open conversation about who
1:12:11
they are what they do And
1:12:15
so this is when your political attitude started
1:12:18
to switch your your attitude towards history. Not
1:12:20
yet This was just the early beginning. Okay,
1:12:22
it was the early beginning because simply They
1:12:26
said here is money You
1:12:29
go back to school and They
1:12:33
gave me enough money exact amount that
1:12:35
pays for my school and
1:12:38
when I needed the To
1:12:41
to do anything financial they
1:12:43
said not possible We cannot give you
1:12:45
any amount of money because if you
1:12:47
give you money and you do
1:12:50
you cannot prove where you got this money From they would
1:12:52
kill you. So I said you only go
1:12:54
to school. Oh, what's my mission? There is no mission There
1:12:57
was no gun. There is no go spy
1:12:59
and cool. Did you show did you go
1:13:01
back to high? I went back to the
1:13:03
high school I graduated from high school But
1:13:05
also they wanted me to go to college
1:13:07
and I graduated four years college and during
1:13:09
that entire time they funded my education my
1:13:12
education only And there was
1:13:14
no other deal than that. There is was no other
1:13:16
deal. Why did they do that? Because this is how
1:13:18
they work And this
1:13:21
is how the Israeli intelligence work They
1:13:23
say from the beginning they said listen, we
1:13:25
don't work with losers It doesn't matter like
1:13:27
the fact that you are some of a
1:13:29
Hamas leader does not qualify you You
1:13:32
must Be like us
1:13:35
You need to think like us and you need to
1:13:37
be a part of your society and you need to
1:13:40
be productive You cannot be a loser if
1:13:42
you are a loser You
1:13:44
will not gain the respect of your
1:13:46
own society and they did a
1:13:49
long process of fooling Hamas That
1:13:55
we don't have a relationship that included,
1:13:57
you know, some attack on our house
1:14:00
some arrests in the future,
1:14:02
all type of allusion orchestrated
1:14:06
by the Israeli intelligence to just convince
1:14:08
the society that I was a wanted
1:14:10
person at some point, that there
1:14:13
was no way in the world that
1:14:16
I had a relationship with the Israeli
1:14:18
intelligence. Especially when Hamas started
1:14:20
building their trust with me again and
1:14:22
I had top
1:14:25
secrets of the movement but the Israelis
1:14:27
did not act upon
1:14:30
my intelligence or my information.
1:14:33
To just keep Hamas safe for as
1:14:35
long as possible. So
1:14:38
part of the building me up, you know, it was, we
1:14:41
had hundreds of meetings and they showed
1:14:46
me many of
1:14:48
the values. For example,
1:14:50
when we got into operation later
1:14:53
on, civilians were involved.
1:14:55
We avoid civilians every time. The
1:14:59
civilian involvement was a big concern for
1:15:02
the agency. And
1:15:04
I was really surprised because I felt that
1:15:07
the wisdom on the Palestinian street, the
1:15:09
Israelis will give you poison to put
1:15:11
in the town's water. They
1:15:14
will give you a gun to shoot your
1:15:16
own people. They will make you rape women
1:15:18
and take footage of them so you can
1:15:20
blackmail them. They
1:15:23
will, all type of crazy stories
1:15:25
that they had, it had nothing
1:15:27
in reality. And I was
1:15:29
on my own. They never connect me with anyone else. And
1:15:33
after my college, this is, I think,
1:15:35
was the period where I was ready
1:15:37
to do something
1:15:40
good for my students. What did you take in college?
1:15:43
I studied history. What
1:15:47
aspect of history? It
1:15:49
was history and social
1:15:52
studies. But I studied
1:15:54
the world history, Middle East
1:15:56
history, the history of
1:15:58
religion. Of
1:16:00
course, you cannot cover everything in four years, but
1:16:02
I did as much as I could and I
1:16:05
was very interested in the topic. So
1:16:09
what did your education change for
1:16:11
you? Education
1:16:17
was just
1:16:20
the first step. I had to
1:16:22
educate myself. Like for example,
1:16:24
while I was
1:16:26
in prison, I studied
1:16:29
English. I
1:16:33
memorized Oxford
1:16:35
dictionary. I was reading 16
1:16:38
hours a day and
1:16:41
I spent lots of time in Israeli prison. This
1:16:43
is how I spent my time. When
1:16:45
I was released, I opened up to
1:16:47
Christianity, especially the Bible. The
1:16:50
Bible had a huge impact on my
1:16:52
life, especially the
1:16:55
New Testament and the teachings of Christ,
1:16:58
which to me is not Christianity
1:17:00
as much as Christ's consciousness. It's
1:17:02
an advanced state of
1:17:04
consciousness and
1:17:07
the challenge of love thy
1:17:09
enemy. That came in
1:17:11
a place where I was conflicted.
1:17:14
Where you actually had enemies. Exactly.
1:17:17
Who is my enemy? Is it my people?
1:17:19
Is it my people? Is it my rapist?
1:17:21
Is it my torture? Is it Israel? Who
1:17:23
is it? So
1:17:26
the
1:17:29
challenge of love thy enemy really
1:17:31
made peace with the world somehow.
1:17:37
I decided that I don't have enemies
1:17:39
anymore and this would help me actually
1:17:41
heal and progress. So
1:17:43
I made a principle that I did not
1:17:46
want to kill any of my opponents. I
1:17:49
have to say that today I regret it. Today
1:17:52
I regret it. The influence
1:17:54
of Christ's consciousness of just
1:17:56
love everybody unconditionally. did
1:18:02
not get me to where I needed to be. Because
1:18:07
today I'm under the
1:18:09
influence of cause and effect, not
1:18:12
right and wrong. And
1:18:15
I think there is no escape for
1:18:17
anybody from karma or from their own
1:18:19
actions. Nobody's above this universal law. It
1:18:21
has nothing to do with cultures. And
1:18:24
I tried so hard to save my father's life.
1:18:27
If I wasn't in the picture, they would have
1:18:29
killed him a thousand times. Saying
1:18:32
that he's, I thought to myself,
1:18:34
he's moderate, he's in a political way. He's not
1:18:36
a military way. But
1:18:40
this is the problem of this is
1:18:42
a moderate and this is extremist. Then
1:18:45
you go into this rabbit hole and you never find
1:18:47
your way out. I thought to myself,
1:18:49
no. You
1:18:51
are complicit in Hamas crimes. Then
1:18:56
you qualify for the same
1:18:58
punishment as
1:19:01
any of their attackers
1:19:03
on October 7. And this
1:19:05
is why I had to take a moral stand and say, all
1:19:09
Hamas leaders must
1:19:12
be executed. What
1:19:14
happened on October 7 was a capital
1:19:16
crime. A genocide cannot be
1:19:18
taken lightly. This
1:19:22
is not just an act of
1:19:24
resistance. To
1:19:27
wipe out 20 plus
1:19:31
communities based on their ethnic background,
1:19:33
based on their religion, is
1:19:37
not an act of resistance. It's
1:19:39
not justified. Killing babies,
1:19:41
killing children, raping women, kidnapping
1:19:44
hostages, killing animals,
1:19:47
burning trees. Nothing
1:19:51
gets worse than this. And
1:19:54
it requires capital crime. And I had the
1:19:57
thought, what about my father? Who
1:19:59
I love. very much who disowned me
1:20:01
14 years ago. I
1:20:07
never give up on him. I was like
1:20:09
always, you know, in my heart, this is my
1:20:11
father. I love you. Whatever,
1:20:13
you know, he didn't necessarily to just shun me
1:20:17
and throw me to the mouth
1:20:19
of death. It's no problem. I'm as
1:20:22
long as you are okay. But
1:20:26
after October 7, I had to make
1:20:28
a very difficult choice because
1:20:33
this is where or when we have to
1:20:35
draw the line. All
1:20:37
of us are
1:20:40
connected to a certain
1:20:42
interest that this is a family relationship.
1:20:44
This is a love relationship. My relationship
1:20:46
to this property, my personal
1:20:48
interest, a certain degree.
1:20:51
Hence, we compromise the truth. Even
1:20:55
though the obvious truth that what happened in
1:20:57
October 7 is wrong, it doesn't matter if
1:21:00
they, if Muslims did it,
1:21:03
they are wrong. I don't care if
1:21:05
they are Buddhist, if they are Americans, it
1:21:07
doesn't matter who they are. It was wrong.
1:21:10
And I take the moral stand. My
1:21:14
father is complicit in this.
1:21:17
And especially when I saw him on the top
1:21:19
of a demonstration supporting Hamas
1:21:21
in our town in Ramallah, this
1:21:23
was the moment that
1:21:25
I thought he's not my
1:21:27
father anymore, cannot be. And
1:21:32
the hostage situation was very hard that
1:21:34
I didn't know how Israel is going
1:21:36
to bring those hostages back. And
1:21:39
Hamas wants mass murderers to
1:21:41
be released, happened
1:21:43
to be same people who
1:21:45
were torturing prisoners on
1:21:48
my watch and happened to be
1:21:50
the same mass
1:21:53
murderers who carried Swiss
1:21:55
head bombing attacks during the second person in
1:21:57
Tifa, like Ibrahim Hamid and Abdullah.
1:22:00
Barghouti people I knew personally. These
1:22:03
people Hamas is asking to
1:22:05
release. And
1:22:08
we cannot release them. We cannot put them
1:22:10
back to the streets for
1:22:12
innocent hostages. Such impossible situation.
1:22:15
So my suggestion, and this is again,
1:22:18
you know, the Israeli, I knew the
1:22:20
Israeli government will not do that. I
1:22:24
give them the permission to execute
1:22:26
all these mass murderers because if
1:22:28
they were executed from the
1:22:31
beginning, Hamas would have not
1:22:33
kidnapped a one-year-old hostage asking
1:22:35
for the release. But then
1:22:37
what about my father, my own father? Is
1:22:40
he an exception? He
1:22:46
could not be an exception. No
1:22:49
one can be an exception if they are complicit
1:22:51
in a genocide. So
1:22:54
this is where, you know, since October 7,
1:22:56
it's just as chaotic as it
1:22:58
is in the Middle East. And my life also
1:23:00
is chaotic, and I don't have way around it.
1:23:03
To see the Muslim population weaponizing
1:23:06
their religious identity against the Jewish as
1:23:09
a religious minority. And
1:23:11
I have known the Jewish people for about 27 years now. Actually,
1:23:16
my relationship with the Jewish nation is a
1:23:18
lot deeper than my relation with
1:23:20
the Muslim nation. It's
1:23:23
a lot longer, a lot deeper. Many
1:23:27
of the Jewish mothers throughout this journey, they took me in. You
1:23:31
know, a country, a nation that really gave me
1:23:33
so much support. I'm not
1:23:35
talking about financial support as much as
1:23:37
like sincere concern
1:23:39
for my well-being. I've
1:23:44
been to hundreds of Jewish families,
1:23:46
Shabbat binners. I
1:23:50
have adapted nephews, Jewish nephews, that
1:23:52
they're fighting in Gaza today. So
1:23:57
in the face of such a situation, how can we
1:23:59
be able to do that? I am banned in the
1:24:01
Jewish people. And those are my
1:24:03
people right now. And the
1:24:05
Arabs also, the Arab children, I see
1:24:08
myself, this is me. And
1:24:12
I see how the predators, the
1:24:14
pro-Palestine and the Hamas, billionaires
1:24:17
and the other criminals
1:24:22
taking advantage of the situation on a
1:24:24
global scale. I
1:24:28
find myself just fighting at so many fronts that
1:24:30
it just, it makes out of me an absolute
1:24:32
mad person. So
1:24:37
you, your education was paid
1:24:39
for by the, by
1:24:41
the Israeli intelligence agency,
1:24:45
and you started to question your
1:24:50
concept of their work, and then and
1:24:53
then you broadened
1:24:56
your education formally. How
1:24:59
is it that you worked for the
1:25:01
Israeli intelligence organization? How did that
1:25:03
come about? And what sort of work did you do?
1:25:07
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1:25:09
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1:25:11
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1:25:13
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1:26:22
Second Palestinian Intifada started in 2000,
1:26:24
right before 9-11. So
1:26:30
I was already towards the end
1:26:32
of my school and I knew
1:26:36
enough about
1:26:38
Hamas, about the
1:26:41
Palestinian Authority. And
1:26:43
it happened that I was part of Yasser al-Rafat
1:26:46
meetings and I
1:26:48
was part of other Palestinian
1:26:50
factions meetings, Islamic Jihad, Fata.
1:26:55
And my relation based
1:26:57
on my father's
1:27:00
public status, I was
1:27:02
able to go pretty much anywhere I wanted to go.
1:27:05
And people knew me from my childhood even
1:27:08
though I was troublemaker, you know, at that
1:27:10
time I was a lot more stable. And
1:27:13
what position exactly did your father
1:27:15
play or hold? So
1:27:19
basically my father's position,
1:27:21
of course, is changing because
1:27:24
of internal elections. And his
1:27:26
status would never be revealed to
1:27:28
the public, not even to Hamas
1:27:30
members because the voting for his
1:27:33
status would be only limited to
1:27:35
the Hamas leadership. At
1:27:37
that time, I think he was from the,
1:27:40
or he maintained throughout his
1:27:43
career with Hamas top
1:27:46
leadership in the Hamas Shura
1:27:48
Council plus a
1:27:51
huge chance that he's one of the founders
1:27:53
of Hamas, but he never revealed that. I
1:27:56
knew this from other Hamas leaders, but he
1:27:58
would never really do that. information
1:28:00
to me. Okay. Okay. They usually
1:28:02
reveal this information after his death.
1:28:05
So we're talking about his, he
1:28:07
is not only a leader of
1:28:09
the movement, he's also the
1:28:12
spiritual leader of the movement. Today
1:28:14
he could be the spiritual father
1:28:16
of the movement. This is his
1:28:18
significance. So not
1:28:21
just logistical. Okay.
1:28:23
And of
1:28:27
course, after my story came out, his status
1:28:30
in the movement was shaken.
1:28:32
Right. But somehow they
1:28:36
wanted to give him as much support as
1:28:38
they could. Okay, so now we're
1:28:40
at the second day to father. This is about this.
1:28:43
You said this is just before 9 11.
1:28:45
This is around the year 2000. Okay.
1:28:47
So what's happening and you
1:28:49
have access to all these meetings, right?
1:28:52
But you've already established relationship with
1:28:54
the Israeli intelligence. Yes.
1:28:56
So, so basically, um, trust
1:29:01
between me and the Israeli intelligence
1:29:03
was already established and,
1:29:05
um, I
1:29:08
was highly motivated to
1:29:11
capture a suicide bomber before they reached
1:29:13
their target. Israel was really struggling with
1:29:15
this issue. Uh, we
1:29:17
had, so that became your mission. It was
1:29:20
suicide bomber prevention oriented.
1:29:22
Yes. The thing is everything was happening in
1:29:24
front of my eyes. The
1:29:27
only thing I just needed to set my
1:29:29
intention that do I want to do
1:29:31
this job? Do I want to do
1:29:33
this very difficult job or not? Because even
1:29:36
though they established the relationship with the Israeli
1:29:38
intelligence, that did not mean that I was
1:29:40
forced to do anything. So
1:29:44
I was in the mosque. I was
1:29:46
in the meetings. I was in the
1:29:48
safe houses. I was pretty much everywhere.
1:29:51
And, uh, any strange encounter
1:29:53
between two Hamas members, I was
1:29:55
able to just detect that this
1:29:57
is unusual. We have to look
1:29:59
into it. Now,
1:30:02
what was more important than the
1:30:04
Israeli intelligence had lots of information,
1:30:08
but it would take an expert hours
1:30:11
and hours to go through thousands
1:30:13
of pages to come to a
1:30:15
conclusion. And for me,
1:30:17
if I hear the story, I would come
1:30:20
to that conclusion immediately. So I was
1:30:22
able to piece the puzzle. And
1:30:24
many people think that I was informed,
1:30:26
like going and bringing information, but what
1:30:28
they didn't realize actually that the Israeli
1:30:30
intelligence had the information already. And
1:30:32
all I was just in a meeting, piecing
1:30:35
the puzzle. And
1:30:38
then when I go back to
1:30:41
the society, I act based on
1:30:43
what I know now from the
1:30:45
meetings. So
1:30:49
the information, the intelligence that I received
1:30:52
from the Shinbait, helped
1:30:54
me navigate a
1:30:57
thousand times stronger than if I was
1:30:59
only a son
1:31:02
of Hamas leader. So
1:31:05
I ended up knowing about Hamas a lot
1:31:07
more than what my father knew about Hamas
1:31:09
operations. So
1:31:16
being part of that culture and
1:31:19
having whatever
1:31:21
information, it
1:31:25
made my position very, very strong that
1:31:29
I was able to reach a suicide bomber
1:31:31
before they reached their
1:31:34
target. How many
1:31:36
arms did you do that? Okay. And I hate to
1:31:38
talk about this. Okay.
1:31:40
I hate to talk about it because this is where
1:31:42
I start playing the hero. And even in the book,
1:31:44
I always talk about it. But I think right now
1:31:46
it's inevitable because many people are trying to discredit my
1:31:48
journey. And
1:31:52
it's a vow. It's also that
1:31:54
I'm supposed not to talk about
1:31:56
operation. the
1:32:00
secrets of our work to the enemy. But
1:32:05
you can say the least dozens
1:32:08
of suicide bombing attacks, dozens
1:32:12
on a regular basis from
1:32:15
capturing five suicide bombers at
1:32:18
the time to seven suicide
1:32:20
bombers at the time to
1:32:23
capturing the masterminds
1:32:25
that includes the
1:32:28
bomb maker. And that
1:32:30
was our biggest concern. In
1:32:32
fact, somebody
1:32:34
like Abdallah al-Bargothi, which was very
1:32:37
very dangerous Hamas asset, the most
1:32:39
dangerous Hamas bomb maker. He's
1:32:43
in Israeli prison today. I
1:32:46
was the first to reach his location, his
1:32:48
lab, and
1:32:51
recognize him. responsible
1:32:56
for the death of at least a hundred people
1:32:59
at that time before he was arrested. Ibrahim
1:33:02
Hamid and the entire Hamas
1:33:05
military wing of the West Bank,
1:33:09
which they were using
1:33:11
a research
1:33:15
center as their cover. They
1:33:17
never come to the mosque. They
1:33:20
never participate in Hamas activities. They're all
1:33:22
shaped. They don't have beards. They're
1:33:25
in the intellectuals, etc. historians.
1:33:30
And I had my suspicion, but the agency
1:33:32
did not have any information about this guy
1:33:34
because guys there were five of them. And
1:33:38
I kept arguing for about
1:33:40
three years arguing
1:33:42
with the agency that these people are doing
1:33:45
something wrong, doing something and nobody would listen
1:33:47
to me. Until
1:33:49
finally, we realized that these people
1:33:51
have been the core
1:33:53
group behind 95% of the
1:33:56
suicide bombing attacks during the
1:33:58
second Palestinian anti-fath Just,
1:34:02
they were there and we could not make the connection. Then
1:34:04
finally the agency is like, how did you come to
1:34:07
this conclusion? So many
1:34:09
times they were just like a gut feeling. Or
1:34:11
like literally I would just be taking my little
1:34:15
sister to the school in the morning. And
1:34:17
all of a sudden I see this most
1:34:19
wanted internability.
1:34:22
And this was his apartment, his safe house. Then
1:34:26
I called the agency and I say, I found him. How
1:34:28
did you find him? I was just driving
1:34:31
and he just entered the building. They could not
1:34:33
believe it. Ibrahim Hamid, the
1:34:35
agency did not see him in eight years. They
1:34:37
did not see his face in eight years. And
1:34:41
I finally locate him. So it was at some
1:34:44
point, I remember, Avidikhtar was the head of
1:34:46
the agency at that time. He said, get
1:34:48
him out. He said, get him
1:34:50
out. He's going to get killed because the
1:34:53
amount of operation, whether
1:34:55
in Fatahe, Hamas,
1:34:58
Islamic Jihad, public front for liberation
1:35:01
of Palestine, in fact, Yasser Arafat,
1:35:04
after winning the Nobel
1:35:07
Prize, I was
1:35:10
the source that brought the
1:35:12
information of his relation to
1:35:14
Swiss-Adbanian attacks. Because I
1:35:16
was in that meeting. And the information
1:35:18
that was given to Arief Sharon, the Israeli
1:35:22
prime minister at that time, my
1:35:24
identity was never revealed. The
1:35:26
same information that was used in the UN
1:35:29
Security Council. So why
1:35:32
am I telling you this? Not to brag about it. The
1:35:35
amount of intelligence out my life
1:35:38
was on the line every day,
1:35:40
every single day, during the second
1:35:42
Palestinian Intifada, all the way up
1:35:45
to Hamas coup in Gaza. And
1:35:49
I told the Israeli intelligence that Hamas is up
1:35:51
to something. They said, but
1:35:53
this is too hard to believe. The
1:35:56
Palestinian Authority has 35,000... police
1:36:00
officers. Hamas has only 5,000.
1:36:02
It's not possible
1:36:04
for them to overthrow the Palestinian
1:36:07
Authority. I told them this is Hamas's
1:36:09
plan and this is what's going to happen.
1:36:12
And that was three months before Hamas
1:36:14
took over Gaza Strip. Okay,
1:36:16
now where it's going to
1:36:18
get tricky, you know, this is stuff that I don't like to
1:36:20
talk about. Nobody
1:36:23
gave it there. And
1:36:25
three months later Hamas was in power. And
1:36:28
instead of destroying Hamas and not allowing
1:36:30
them to grow, the
1:36:33
world's pressure against Israel, that
1:36:36
this is an election and
1:36:38
Hamas won the elections. And
1:36:40
we have to accept them
1:36:42
as a legitimate political party.
1:36:44
And they just keep playing
1:36:46
this game. And Israel agreed to go
1:36:48
into their rabbit hole until Hamas became
1:36:51
the power it became. And
1:36:54
even from the first war with
1:36:56
Hamas, Israel was determined to destroy
1:36:58
Hamas completely. But the world came,
1:37:00
sees fire now. And
1:37:03
we see fire the first war, the second war,
1:37:05
the third war, the fourth war. And
1:37:07
every time they use children as human shields. And
1:37:11
this time it was there is no way
1:37:13
around it. You'll have to eradicate them. Otherwise
1:37:15
they will do a lot
1:37:17
worse in the in the next war.
1:37:19
How do you understand the relationship between
1:37:21
Hamas and Iran? It's
1:37:26
a very weird and awkward relationship because
1:37:28
she and Sunni, they hate each other.
1:37:30
So there's a bloody history between both
1:37:33
sects. But the,
1:37:38
it's in Iran's interest to
1:37:41
destabilize the region. They
1:37:43
find in Hamas a
1:37:46
device. They
1:37:48
give Hamas billions of dollars. But
1:37:51
they, why do you think the Americans, especially
1:37:53
the Democrats, why do you think they can't
1:37:55
see this? Because
1:37:58
everybody's after their interests. Like, for
1:38:00
example, right now we have
1:38:02
Iran's full
1:38:04
attack on Israel, ballistic
1:38:07
missiles. Okay. We downed many of
1:38:09
those and the United States helped
1:38:11
the UK, other NATO countries. This
1:38:14
is the Arab States. Arab States. Okay. This
1:38:16
is great. But are
1:38:19
we supposed to be a defense? Is
1:38:21
this the best we could do that
1:38:23
we just stand a defense, the superpower?
1:38:29
I would destroy the Iranian nuclear
1:38:31
program immediately. This is what I
1:38:33
called from day one. I said
1:38:35
the most adequate response to
1:38:37
October 7 is the destruction
1:38:39
of Iran's nuclear program. You
1:38:42
cannot give a Muslim country a
1:38:44
nuclear power. It was a big
1:38:46
mistake to let Pakistan to become
1:38:48
a nuclear power. This
1:38:51
could lead to
1:38:54
a global situation, a very ugly
1:38:56
situation. They are not
1:38:58
responsible. They are dictatorship. They
1:39:01
are not accountable
1:39:03
to anybody but Allah. How can you
1:39:05
give them our interpretation of Allah? Of
1:39:08
course, yeah. And how Allah itself, I
1:39:10
don't want to say even interpretation because
1:39:12
Allah as is in the Quran is
1:39:14
a very dangerous entity. So
1:39:17
it's not a matter of misinterpretation that the
1:39:19
guy is a very good guy in the
1:39:21
Quran and the Islamists or extremists see
1:39:24
him as a bad guy. No,
1:39:26
he's a bad guy. Sooner or later,
1:39:28
the world is going to wake up on a disaster
1:39:30
and realize what we are saying is the truth. So
1:39:36
the United States is not doing their job.
1:39:39
We have advanced weaponry.
1:39:43
Like, for example, the electromagnetic
1:39:45
bomb. We drop one of
1:39:47
these, paralyze their entire system. No civilians will
1:39:49
die in this process. Just
1:39:51
send them back to the Stone Age and
1:39:54
in the meantime, destroy their nuclear program. Show
1:39:56
them who is the boss. We
1:40:00
are compromising so they can get
1:40:02
access to our intellectual property and
1:40:05
use our weapons against us This
1:40:08
is insanity But
1:40:10
why the Biden administration doing this because
1:40:13
he's trying to please the voters He's
1:40:16
trying to please receive that plea.
1:40:18
He's trying to Please
1:40:21
get a hard at that's all part
1:40:23
of that victim victimizer narrative. Yes
1:40:25
He's trying to please everybody and I say, you
1:40:27
know, if it's strong leaders the
1:40:31
Chris Weak
1:40:34
leaders try to please everybody and
1:40:36
I think this is a situation of
1:40:39
this administration You cannot please everybody you
1:40:41
cannot please Israel and please Rashid a
1:40:43
slave simultaneously You
1:40:45
cannot you need to choose who's my ally in this
1:40:47
situation? Israel is a reliable
1:40:50
ally and they are under attack and They
1:40:54
are protecting the American interests in the region
1:40:58
They are maintaining the stability
1:41:00
of the of
1:41:03
the region. I don't want to say the world. It's not
1:41:05
just an ally but then
1:41:07
they come and and
1:41:10
accuse America of giving support
1:41:12
to Israel well how much support
1:41:14
Israel give the in assets
1:41:17
how much support the Jewish
1:41:20
population in the United States American Jews
1:41:22
give the American Treasury
1:41:25
from their tax money and the
1:41:28
in every aspect of economy
1:41:32
What conclusions did you draw about
1:41:34
the Jewish society in Israel as
1:41:36
you became more and more familiar
1:41:38
with its nature? First
1:41:42
of all, it's democracy
1:41:44
that it's a very
1:41:46
diverse society There are
1:41:48
the Muslims they are the Jews the
1:41:50
Christians their human rights
1:41:53
You know one of the things that was
1:41:55
just unbelievable During
1:41:58
the second person and in the father When
1:42:01
a building collapsed, and
1:42:03
there were clashes on the
1:42:05
checkpoints everywhere, shooting at soldiers, it
1:42:08
was very dangerous for the Israelis to
1:42:10
enter the city of Ramallah. But
1:42:12
when the building collapsed, we did not have
1:42:15
rescue team. We did not have a fire
1:42:17
department because it's such a corrupt system that
1:42:19
invested all the money in luxury, and
1:42:22
they never invested the money
1:42:24
in infrastructure. So
1:42:26
the dozens of workers stuck under
1:42:29
the rubble, and we cannot get them out. So
1:42:32
we had to call the Israelis
1:42:34
during the second Intifada while
1:42:37
we're shooting at them, said, please come into
1:42:39
Ramallah to the city center and help us.
1:42:43
So the Israelis sent the fire department,
1:42:45
of course, with the idea of to
1:42:47
protect them. The
1:42:51
entire day, evacuating the
1:42:53
victims, taking them
1:42:55
to Israeli hospitals. And after a
1:43:00
long day, the
1:43:02
IDF exited the city
1:43:04
of Ramallah, and people rewarded them,
1:43:06
shooting at them, throwing more of
1:43:09
cocktails, throwing stones, etc.
1:43:13
I was there because my job was
1:43:15
just be there to make sure that
1:43:17
the troops are okay. So
1:43:19
the troops protecting the rescue team,
1:43:22
I am there to make sure that the troops are okay. And
1:43:26
the civilians of Ramallah are waiting
1:43:28
for the troops to evacuate after
1:43:30
helping the Palestinians by
1:43:32
throwing stones, more of cocktails and shooting
1:43:35
at them. This
1:43:37
type of events, you know, it's just
1:43:40
insane. And
1:43:42
it just keeps going like this,
1:43:44
everything about
1:43:46
the Palestinian
1:43:50
mentality, the Arab culture. And
1:43:53
you see the law and order
1:43:55
that there is protocol, the Israeli
1:43:57
intelligence follow a protocol. No
1:44:01
one was arrested if Israel did
1:44:03
not have evidence of their involvement
1:44:06
in terrorism. And
1:44:08
no one was assassinated, especially
1:44:10
the most dangerous terrorist that
1:44:13
Israel could not arrest, that they were
1:44:15
hiding in the city
1:44:17
centers. None
1:44:20
of them were killed if they
1:44:22
did not have direct relationship to suicide
1:44:24
bombing attacks and they had blood on
1:44:26
their hands. None. So
1:44:29
you saw an organization that ran by rule of
1:44:31
law? Absolutely.
1:44:34
And there is no doubt about it.
1:44:36
And this is why I'm heartbroken because
1:44:38
I know what's happening in Gaza right
1:44:40
now really pushed Israel to the corner,
1:44:42
that they had no other choice.
1:44:46
And there was no possibility
1:44:48
to avoid civilian casualties
1:44:50
after October 7 because I know
1:44:53
at their heart they would
1:44:55
never hurt an
1:44:57
innocent civilian. And
1:44:59
they gave the – why did you become convinced of
1:45:01
that? Because in our operation,
1:45:03
this is how we dealt with the situation.
1:45:07
When you saw this first hand, like
1:45:09
later on, one of the exceptions of
1:45:12
my entire career, that it was a
1:45:17
day where the agency had
1:45:19
no choice but
1:45:23
to kill one of Yasser
1:45:25
Arafat's bodyguards. His
1:45:28
name was Muhammad al-Wahlao. This
1:45:32
guy was killed about 13 Israelis
1:45:35
and he was hiding in Yasser Arafat's
1:45:37
compound. I was the one who discovered
1:45:39
it. So I was the only one
1:45:41
who could recognize it.
1:45:45
And the
1:45:47
Israeli intelligence said, listen, we
1:45:49
have no one else except
1:45:51
you. And this guy is going every
1:45:54
night shooting and killing people. Yasser
1:45:57
Arafat gave him immunity. The
1:46:01
Israeli intelligence could not go into Yasser Arafat
1:46:03
compound and arrest him. And they
1:46:05
could not predict where he was going. And they didn't
1:46:07
know how he looked like, so they wanted him dead.
1:46:09
That was the only way to deal with him. So
1:46:11
the agency said, listen, you have your moral thing. You
1:46:14
don't want to kill anybody. But if
1:46:16
this guy is not dead, he's
1:46:19
going to kill people tonight, tomorrow night, and he's
1:46:21
going to go like this. So
1:46:25
this is when I had to compromise. The
1:46:32
first attempt atop
1:46:36
Fatah al-Ihir was in the car. His name
1:46:38
is Marwan Burguti. He is today in Israeli
1:46:40
prison, and everybody said that this could be
1:46:42
the next Palestinian president. And
1:46:45
the operation was canceled because
1:46:48
there was other terrorists in the car.
1:46:50
I'm not talking about, like, a civilian
1:46:52
in the car. And
1:46:55
this guy was so hard to find. Like,
1:46:57
the agency would say, you know what? Eliminate
1:47:00
both of them. We are not going
1:47:02
to take a risk that he's going to kill more Israelis
1:47:05
if it is. And the operation was canceled.
1:47:07
I was really shocked. I
1:47:10
was shocked. So our
1:47:12
job was many times when we knew
1:47:14
about the safe house of terrorists, OK,
1:47:17
is his family there? When
1:47:20
is his family leaving? Always
1:47:24
civilian situation was
1:47:27
taken into consideration. And this is
1:47:29
a 10-year experience. So when people come
1:47:31
to me today, it's like that Israel
1:47:33
is ethnically cleansing the
1:47:36
Palestinians. It's a lie. Israel
1:47:39
is accountable to international law. Israel
1:47:42
cannot do this. Even if
1:47:44
there was corruption, let's say,
1:47:46
some racist within the IDF,
1:47:48
and they did something illegal,
1:47:50
they would be held accountable.
1:47:53
But this is not a state policy. It cannot
1:47:55
be. But people
1:47:57
want to see it in black and white. You
1:47:59
can't try. to bring them other truth. Like,
1:48:01
for example, what's happening today is a collateral
1:48:03
damage. And
1:48:06
it's not only that. Who's
1:48:08
killing the civilians? These people
1:48:10
taking into consideration that Hamas put
1:48:13
booby traps everywhere. And
1:48:16
how would we know the difference
1:48:18
between Israeli airstrike and Hamas booby
1:48:20
trap that targeted civilians? And
1:48:22
how do we know actually that it's not
1:48:24
in Hamas' interest to kill
1:48:28
civilians? So
1:48:32
then how many Hamas? Clearly in
1:48:34
their interest. Of course. This is
1:48:37
the most powerful weapon in their
1:48:39
hands to delegitimize Israel and get
1:48:41
legitimacy. I think it's impossible to
1:48:44
understand the situation in Israel without
1:48:46
understanding that the Palestinians are expendable.
1:48:51
So Hamas is committing not only
1:48:53
a capital crime by committing a
1:48:55
genocide on October 7, which actually
1:48:57
defines the genocide. Then the Muslims
1:48:59
around the world outnumbered
1:49:03
Israel and
1:49:07
changed the narrative so fast that we
1:49:09
go from a Jewish genocide on
1:49:11
October 7 to a
1:49:14
Palestinian genocide in less
1:49:16
than 70 days. This
1:49:18
is how fast the effective work on Iran's
1:49:21
part, my estimation. So let me, we're running
1:49:23
near the end of the time we have
1:49:25
in this session for everybody watching and listening.
1:49:28
I'm going to continue this conversation on
1:49:30
the daily wire plus side for another half an hour. So,
1:49:34
you know, be welcome to join
1:49:36
us there. I guess
1:49:38
I'd like to ask you, there's
1:49:41
many things obviously that we've left undiscovered, but
1:49:43
that's going to be how it is. I
1:49:45
would like you to tell me what
1:49:49
you think about what's happening on the
1:49:52
streets in western cities, but
1:49:54
most specifically on university campuses
1:49:57
with regards to the pro-Hamas,
1:49:59
movements that seem to be everywhere.
1:50:02
And if you were speaking with a
1:50:05
group of students who are
1:50:08
acolytes of the victim-victimizer narrative
1:50:11
and portraying their moral superiority
1:50:13
by adopting the
1:50:15
identity of allies of Hamas, it's like,
1:50:18
what do you have to say about that? Again,
1:50:24
it's not one
1:50:27
phenomenon. Many
1:50:34
with different motives are
1:50:36
coming to claim to be
1:50:39
a pro-Palestine. It's
1:50:42
not only a pro-Hamas. Hamas
1:50:44
is actually igniting
1:50:50
the bloodlust in
1:50:52
many of the demonstrators. So
1:50:54
when Hamas scores and
1:51:00
sheds blood, this gives
1:51:02
them the
1:51:04
pleasure of inflicting pain on
1:51:07
their opponent. They say, oh, they
1:51:09
deserve it because they are the
1:51:11
Zionists, they are the colonizers, they are the
1:51:13
occupiers, they are the bankers, they
1:51:16
are the ones who control the
1:51:18
economy. Those are the ones we
1:51:20
are in debt to. So
1:51:24
many people come with a different motive,
1:51:26
and this is just the hatred against
1:51:29
the successful minority. This
1:51:31
is the curse when you are a successful minority
1:51:33
that many people are going to come after you,
1:51:35
especially if you are down or if you are
1:51:37
wounded, that they will come and try
1:51:40
to kick you while you're down. So
1:51:43
many forces, as
1:51:46
we discussed at the beginning, they
1:51:48
are opposing forces, but somehow they
1:51:50
got united in a
1:51:52
very disgusting way. That
1:51:54
shows you the moral decay of
1:51:56
such groups. And I'm not talking
1:51:58
only about students. There
1:52:01
are historians, there are intellectuals,
1:52:03
there are lawyers who
1:52:05
bought into the
1:52:09
BDS or the pro-Parisite
1:52:12
propaganda, which is basically
1:52:14
that Israel is an apartheid state,
1:52:19
that Israel has been,
1:52:21
or the Zionists, been ethnically
1:52:24
cleansing the Palestinian people. If the
1:52:27
Palestinians had a Palestinian state, we
1:52:29
would have not been in this
1:52:31
situation. Hamas
1:52:34
is a resistance group, so
1:52:37
everybody projects their
1:52:39
hatred based on
1:52:41
their intelligence and based
1:52:44
on their ability
1:52:49
to express that. So
1:52:51
some intellectuals, they can represent their
1:52:55
hatred, but in
1:52:57
a deceptive way, that does not show hatred, just show...
1:53:01
It's always the allyship for the victim. That's
1:53:05
the best possible mask
1:53:07
for a sadistic hatred, that's for
1:53:09
sure. Are
1:53:13
you speaking anywhere? Do
1:53:16
you have the opportunity to speak publicly? I
1:53:19
have been cancelled from many universities
1:53:21
because you probably now understand why.
1:53:26
But I'm okay with that. I'm not afraid
1:53:28
of being cancelled. I have been cancelled by
1:53:31
my own family, by my own people. So
1:53:33
when I have American
1:53:35
campuses or American universities cancelling
1:53:38
me, I'm not affected.
1:53:40
I don't feel ashamed
1:53:42
that, oh my God, this is a threat
1:53:44
to my career. I never intend to make
1:53:46
a career, and I don't care about my
1:53:48
public image as much as I care about
1:53:51
where do I stand morally, and am
1:53:53
I at peace with myself or not.
1:53:55
But anyway, I
1:53:58
find my way to speak. to the
1:54:00
students and I challenged them. Yesterday
1:54:02
we had a debate. I
1:54:06
thought I've been
1:54:08
trying to get the pro-pad
1:54:10
sign advocates, anyone,
1:54:14
to an open debate. Let's go, let's talk
1:54:17
about the thing. This is the way of
1:54:19
the West dialogue. We cannot
1:54:21
be clashing like this, inciting for violence,
1:54:24
harassing Jewish people, harassing successful
1:54:27
people, bringing the
1:54:29
Hamas nightmare into the American soil,
1:54:31
globalizing the intifada, globalizing the chaos.
1:54:33
These are very dangerous terms that
1:54:35
we don't know what we're talking
1:54:38
about. From the river to the
1:54:40
sea. They don't understand that back
1:54:42
in 1987 when
1:54:45
people start chanting from the river to
1:54:47
the sea, violence followed just shortly after
1:54:49
that. And this is my childhood trauma.
1:54:51
And when I saw the people chanting
1:54:54
from the river to the sea, I knew we were
1:54:56
in trouble. So
1:54:59
this is why I tried to counter
1:55:02
this force. But
1:55:05
nobody wants to listen. So I thought
1:55:07
to myself, yeah, well that narrative,
1:55:09
that underlying narrative of victim victimizers,
1:55:11
that's very intractable. It's very
1:55:13
difficult thing to move. It's so morally
1:55:15
attractive. Well, I tried to get them
1:55:17
out of their comfort, out of
1:55:19
their convenient truth, and they will
1:55:21
crucify. This is the price you
1:55:23
pay. So practically,
1:55:28
just two days ago, we
1:55:30
had a debate. I
1:55:33
had to pay somebody $20,000
1:55:39
from my pocket to debate
1:55:42
me on the topic because no
1:55:44
one else agreed
1:55:46
to where was the ultimate? Berkeley
1:55:49
University. And that's one of the
1:55:51
most respectful educational
1:55:53
institutions, that they cannot even host
1:55:55
a debate on their own. I
1:55:58
had to pay from here. his own pocket to
1:56:00
bring his opponent to have a discussion. And
1:56:03
the funny thing that this guy acts
1:56:06
like a giant outside of
1:56:08
the debate, like when you see him at Jezirez
1:56:10
El Jezireh host and
1:56:13
was a CNN anchor. They
1:56:15
were delivered the speech to the United
1:56:17
Nation and called from a United Nation
1:56:19
podium from the river to the sea.
1:56:23
But when he came to the debate, he agreed
1:56:25
with 90% of the things that I was saying.
1:56:27
I was like, then
1:56:32
who are you? That
1:56:34
you're outside, you know,
1:56:36
just this outrageous anti-Zionist,
1:56:39
anti-Israel, pro-Paris,
1:56:41
and all of a sudden here,
1:56:44
you're just checking out. And
1:56:47
I cannot find the debate like a decent debate.
1:56:49
I've been calling them out, you know, come debate
1:56:51
me, let's talk about this. This
1:56:53
is not a joke. Children
1:56:56
are dying. This
1:56:58
is not a political stand. This is
1:57:00
not a career. I'm not your typical
1:57:02
expert coming on the topic. You
1:57:05
get in the way where
1:57:08
I'm trying to stop the death of innocent
1:57:11
children, protect them from
1:57:13
predators. They've been killing them for 70
1:57:15
years by
1:57:17
the name of Palestine. You
1:57:20
get in my way, I destroy you. It's
1:57:22
not okay. So
1:57:24
I'm not politically correct. I cannot be, and
1:57:26
I don't care if you cancel me or
1:57:28
not. And I'm not in a position even
1:57:31
to reason with you.
1:57:33
We are at war right now. It's finished. We
1:57:36
can talk about it later, but
1:57:38
it breaks my heart. America
1:57:41
is my country now. And
1:57:43
I have responsibility towards the people that
1:57:47
we don't want to bring the anti-father here. We
1:57:49
don't want to globalize the anti-father.
1:57:52
In fact, we want to de-globalize
1:57:54
it. We want to localize it.
1:57:56
We want to cut all the... foreign
1:58:00
entities that have been trying to
1:58:02
take advantage of this conflict. And
1:58:06
we have to give the power to the
1:58:09
people, to the Arabs. They
1:58:11
are Arabs. They're not Palestinians. So
1:58:14
please help me with this. This is what I've been
1:58:16
trying to spread. There is no such thing as
1:58:18
Palestine. Palestinian is a
1:58:20
political identity. It's a corrupt one,
1:58:22
a colonial one. It's actually very
1:58:25
disrespectful for the Arabs who were
1:58:27
born in that region to call
1:58:29
themselves after a colonial entity and
1:58:32
a dot of other national identity.
1:58:34
You just absorb it. This
1:58:37
is why I didn't use the term for myself.
1:58:40
So no, keep them Arabs. They were born
1:58:42
there. They have the birthright to be there.
1:58:45
But what they need, they don't need a state. They
1:58:48
need a police force. They need education.
1:58:50
They need economy. They
1:58:53
need decent leadership that works towards
1:58:55
building a nation. They need
1:58:57
a civil constitution. They
1:58:59
need to be friends with Israel and
1:59:01
drop their stupid idea of destroying Israel
1:59:03
because Israel is going nowhere. If
1:59:07
they cannot see Israel as just the
1:59:09
same way they see themselves when
1:59:12
they look at an Israeli child, like
1:59:14
they see them as their own child, then
1:59:17
we have a problem. We cannot
1:59:20
justify the killing of Jewish children because
1:59:22
they are Jewish. This
1:59:25
is where I need this to be. And
1:59:32
I don't want this
1:59:34
whole nationalism, this whole Palestine. So
1:59:36
of course, when
1:59:38
I see now globalizing the issue, bringing
1:59:41
it to the states and making free
1:59:43
Palestine. This
1:59:53
is the markets with the free and the hostages. Not
1:59:56
there doing the posters of hostages,
1:59:58
you know, not even. allowing their
2:00:00
families to represent their case in
2:00:02
the land of the free. And
2:00:07
what do you want to free? They want to free
2:00:09
concept, a dangerous political
2:00:12
concept that actually depends on
2:00:14
the destruction of order. At
2:00:18
the expense of children, at the expense
2:00:21
of generations, at the expense of individuality,
2:00:24
who are we? You know, we
2:00:26
are Americans. I mean, not only
2:00:28
Americans, anybody in the West. This is our value
2:00:30
system. So this
2:00:32
is where it gets really, as you see,
2:00:34
like I speak about it with
2:00:37
lots of strong emotions because there is
2:00:39
no way, there is no other medium
2:00:41
for me. What's happening is absurd, not
2:00:43
only on the American campuses. Before
2:00:46
you say free Palestine, at what expense?
2:00:48
At the expense of Israel, you want ethnic cleansing
2:00:50
from the river to the sea. So this hypothetical
2:00:53
political entity would take
2:00:56
place in reality. And
2:00:59
who's going to pay the price? The
2:01:02
Palestinian children, and for how long? We have
2:01:04
been paying this price for 70 years,
2:01:07
and we
2:01:10
received in return suffering,
2:01:12
pain, confusion, and
2:01:16
a minority of
2:01:18
con artists became billionaires.
2:01:22
Yes, Arafat had $9 billion in his bank
2:01:24
account before he died, and it vanished
2:01:27
because his wife stole it after she
2:01:29
killed him. And this is
2:01:31
the first time I see it in public. What
2:01:33
happened to his wife and
2:01:35
what the wife supports only those?
2:01:37
Even the Palestinian people don't know this, and
2:01:40
let them go figure. His
2:01:43
wife is his killer. So
2:01:46
we're talking about such
2:01:49
corruption and fight for money where
2:01:51
the First Lady is killing the
2:01:53
father of the nation. And
2:01:56
in the meantime, screwing
2:01:59
up. I must
2:02:01
add agent. So I'm
2:02:04
done with this. I don't want to
2:02:06
see more children dying. I don't care
2:02:08
for the Palestinian
2:02:12
entity. All right,
2:02:14
sir. Thank you.
2:02:17
Pick this up on the daily wear plus
2:02:20
side for everybody watching and listening. Yeah.
2:02:23
Thank you very much for talking to me today. Thank
2:02:26
you all for your
2:02:28
attention. And as
2:02:30
I said, if you want to join us on
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