Douglas Murray: The Delusion That Netanyahu Is The Problem

there's this very weird sentiment that we see in some pockets of the West and the liberal media that say that Netanyahu is somehow one of the major roots of the problem in the Middle East in the Israel Hamas War somehow if you take out Netanyahu from the equation things would be a lot better it's such an enigma to me that people can think this where it's so it's been so clear that basically throughout Israel's 75 year history it hasn't really been about the Israeli leaders that have been making the choices that hasn't led to peace it's been the Palestinian the Arab side I should say not Palestinian because the Palestinian cause was basically just contrived in order to undermine and get rid of the Jewish State it's not about a genuine nationalism but I want to read to you a piece by Douglas Murray who makes the case that and it's quite obvious to any Israeli living there that what Netanyahu is doing in response to the Hamas October 7th attack would be no different if it were another leader in Israel and so I want to read to you what he said in The Spectator what Douglas said because there's so much misunderstanding around this and it's important that we get this clear so have a listen to what Douglas said there are many misunderstandings about Israel and the international media but one of the most bewildering is the suggestion that if it weren't for the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu the war would end it is one of those mistakes that at best mixes up hope with analysis that's a very good way of putting it actually and at worst displays a dumbfounding ignorance let me give you an example in recent months I think I've interviewed everybody in Israeli politics who might someday replace Netanyahu it doesn't matter if they're from the right or the left over the political Spectrum not one would be doing anything different from what he is doing now you might ask why the answer is obvious if you had 1200 of your citizens slaughtered in the most barbaric ways what would you do if hundreds of your citizens had been taken hostage and more than a hundred were still being held in a densely populated civilian area what would you do add in a few other factors imagine if all this had been done by a terrorist group who do not wear uniforms that distinguish them from the general population that the terrorists want to maximize civilian casualties on their side that much of the civilian population are actually complicit in hiding hostages storing weapons in their houses or hosting entrances to the terrorists huge underground tunnel networks then again what would you do the Geniuses in the armchair class tend to say things like there should be peace as this as though this has never occurred to the Israelis or they say there must be an end to the fighting again as though this were some fantastically original Insight but all these things are wanted in Jerusalem who wants to have to fight a war in the same place for 18 years still in Washington Paris and London the mistaken idea continues that what is happening in Gaza might stop if there were only a change in Israel in Israel's leadership I can say with a considerable degree of certainty that this war would be going almost exactly the same way whoever the prime minister of Isel was no leader from the left Center or right would have been able to sit back and allow Hamas to get away with its Massacre on on the 7th of October no Israeli leader would have been able to allow Hamas to rape torture and brutalize Israeli hostages without doing everything they could to get them back one of those suggested as a possible Israeli Prime Minister is Benny Gant a minister in the war cabinet and longtime arrival of Netanyahu last month he went on a trip to the US which was highly controversial in Israel seen as it was by some as an opportunity for Gant to present himself as a more acceptable face in Washington what Gant said on the visit might have surprised some of those at the top of the US government in the leadership of the democratic party then as now the whole world's attention was focused on the south Garen city of Rafa the last hiding place for the remaining leadership of Hamas and the suspected holding place of the surviving Israeli hostages Rafa is also home sorry Rafa is also home to a large population of G civilians which makes the operation infinitely tougher for the Israelis though very helpful for Hamas who forever boast about and demonstrate how much they love death the intense Global focus on that operation alone is noteworthy I was in Ukraine the year before Gaza and at no stage was there any comparable concern about the operations or tactics of the Ukrainian Army nor was there then or since any special concern that ukrainians might be harming too many Russian or Ukrainian civilians in their effort to win the war one explanation is that much of the world still sees Israelis as the aggressors and Hamas as the victims even in a war which was demonstrably provably bloodily started by Hamas but picking apart that particular pathology might be a job for another day what was interesting about gans's appearance in Washington was that he said clearly that ending the war without clearing out Rafa is like sending a firefighter to extinguish 80% of the fire indeed it is just as there is no point in putting out 80% of a fire so there no point in destroying 80% of Hamas and not getting all the hostages back calls from people like our own foreign secretary Lord Cameron to stop the war ignore the fact that what they are doing is asking the Israelis not to win one of the other contenders for the top job in Israel told me a few months ago that he had the chance to destroy Hamas in 2009 when there was another round of the war that time caused by the terror group launching Rockets into Israel he could have done it then he said but an international outcry caused domestic political pressure and so he was pulled back from finishing finishing the job all that the people back then who thought they had done such a wonderful service had actually done was to cause every conflict that has occurred since including the one that Hamas and Israel are currently engaged in everyone who stands any chance of leading Israel knows that the only way to stop the cycle of violence is for Israel to win some people will of course resile at that statement some who do so want to Hamas Victory others believe that their calls are simply aimed at avoiding any more Palestinian casualties they could not be more wrong anyone who wants to stop the endless rounds of violence should notice who started the fire and who is the firefighter they should want Hamas to lose for Israel to win and for some non-as Palestinian leadership to emerge out of hamas's defeat will it happen who knows at present the world is trying to force Israel to another draw what they are in fact doing is setting the groundwork for ceaseless War that's absolutely right cease fire now actually means more war that's the truth of it and quite frankly the timidity that Israel has been pressured to have to pause to not to engage when they had terrorist and Strikes far earlier on because people will say yeah but you the other side are going to their civilians their people will get hurt that cannot be Israel's responsibility or fault if you have an elected government or a society that is based around trying to annihilate you it is not my job to protect your civilians you as a society should protect them and not be trying to be be aggressively try to threaten another state Israel's job is to protect her people and the waiting around is costing lives thank you Douglas maray for your moral Clarity hi everybody thanks for watching if you want to watch another one click here if you want to subscribe to up to date with all the latest JTV content click here and if you're feeling really Keen you can click the join button down below underneath this video where you can get perks including Early Access to 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Published: Sun Apr 21 2024