World opinion is turning against Israel 'quite strongly': Retired Lt. Gen. Kellogg

>> Giff: WE WILL BE FOLLOWING IT. TREY YINGST LIVE IN TEL AVIV. THANKS. >> Molly: LET'S BRING IN RETIRED LIEUTENANT GENERAL KEITH KELLOGG. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE ON MEMORIAL DAY. WE APPRECIATE IT. TRY YOUNGSTER BROUGHT US THIS REMARKABLE HEARTBREAKING VIDEO OUT OF ISRAEL, OUT OF GAZA. THE IRON DOME DOING ITS JOB AND THIS TERRIBLE VIDEO OF CIVILIANS THAT ARE SUFFERING THERE ON THE GROUND. THE FIRES IN THE TENTS. I WANT TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS OF THE SITUATION AS WE ARE WATCHING IT UNFOLD. >> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY. IT IS THE MESSAGING ISSUE RIGHT NOW. THE ISRAELIS ARE LOSING AND THEY ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE THE HAMAS LEADERSHIP AND RAW FOR RIGHT NOW. BUT THIS IS REACHING A POINT WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE GONE IN EARLIER AND GOT OUT. THE UNITED STATES SHOULD INTERVENE IN THE SENSE THEY NEED TO PICK UP AND CALL THE GOVERNMENT. CALL WHO IS HOSTING HAMAS LEADERSHIP AND SEE THE ISSUE IS A HOSTAGES. TELL US WHERE THE HOSTAGES ARE OR PUT THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS ON THE GROUND TO VERIFY THAT THE HOSTAGES ARE STILL ALIVE. WE'VE HAD NO PROOF OF LIFE. THAT THEY ARE STILL ALIVE AND THE NUMBERS THAT THERE ARE. BUT THIS WILL CONTINUE AND I ADVISED THE ISRAELIS TO FINISH THIS IN HER EARLY BECAUSE THE WORLD OPINION AS TO RING THEM QUITE STRONGLY. AS IS A COMPLICATED PROBLEM. I KNOW THEY WILL TRY TO FINISH THE JOB. >> Molly: THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR RECENTLY SENT OUT ARREST WARRANTS FOR BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, FOR THE DEFENSE MINISTER AS WELL AS SOME HAMAS LEADERS. THIS IS WHAT HE HAS SAID. HE HAS SAID ISRAEL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO PROTECT ITS POPULATION AND TO GIVE THE HOSTAGES BACK BUT NOBODY HAS A LICENSE TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES OR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. WHEN ISRAEL SEEKS SOME CLARIFICATION AS TO WHAT HE MEANS, HE MADE THIS ARGUMENT THAT IN ESSENCE TO LOOK AT HOW BRITAIN HANDLED THINGS WITH THE IRA, WITH THE TIME OF THE TROUBLE SO TO SAY AND DREW A COMPARISON HERE THAT ISRAEL COULD ACT SIMILAR TO HOW BRITAIN DID IN THAT TIME PERIOD. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT SUGGESTION? >> IT'S APPLES AND ORANGES. IT'S TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. AND WE'VE MENTIONED THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR FOR THE ICC. YOU TALK ABOUT MARGARET THATCHER AND HOW SHE HANDLED IT WITH THE IRA. IT'S NOT THE SAME AT ALL. HAMAS LAUNCHED A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WENT INTO ISRAEL AD ATTACKED ISRAEL AND KILLED OVER A THOUSAND. AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE, THE UNITED STATES IS 30 TIMES LARGER THAN ISRAEL. THAT WOULD BE LIKE HAMAS KILLING 30,000 AMERICANS. WE WOULD NOT TOLERATE THAT. YOU LOOK AT THE ICC AND YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF WAR. NOBODY WANTS TO GET IN A WAR BUT WHEN YOU CAN GET INTO IT, IT CAN BE NASTY AND THERE WILL BE COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO CIVILIANS. THAT'S WHY THE ISRAELIS NEEDS TO FINISH IT UP AS SOON AS THEY CAN. BY THE WAY, THE ICC, ONE OF THE REASONS WE ARE NOT PART OF THE ICC. THE UNITED STATES ISN'T. WE SIGNED UP INITIALLY AND THAT'S IT IT WON'T WORK. THE SENATE DID NOT RATIFY IT AND ALSO WE ARE NOT ACCORDING TO IT. IN 2002 WE PUT IN THE SERVICE AND PROTECTION ACT WHERE WE TOLD THE ICC QUITE CLEARLY IF YOU TAKE ONE OF OUR AMERICAN SERVICE MEMBERS OR DIPLOMATS THE PRESIDENT HAS ALL MEANS AND CAN USE ALL MEANS NECESSARY TO RETRIEVE THAT INDIVIDUAL. WE PUT THE ICC ON NOTICE WHEN IT COMES TO AMERICANS GRADE THE ISRAELIS HAVE NOT DONE THAT. >> Molly: A GREAT POINT YOU WERE MAKING IS THIS NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE HOSTAGES. RIGHT NOW, IN RECENT DAYS WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MESSAGING OUT OF ISRAEL. THEY PUT FORTH A VIDEO REMINDING EVERYONE, REMINDING THE GLOBE ABOUT THESE YOUNG WOMEN STILL BEING HELD WELL OVER 200 DAYS AND WHERE ARE THEY? WORRIED ABOUT THEIR CONDITIONS GOOD HOW ARE THEY DOING? THERE IS SO MUCH WE DON'T KNOW AND ISRAEL IS STILL WORKING TO GET THEIR PEOPLE BACK. THAT IS SOMETHING THEY SAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BRING THEM HOME. IS IT WORKING? IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THINKING ABOUT THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE? >> WE CAN TELL THE QATARI GOVERNMENT, THE ULTIMATE FAMILY AND THEY LEAN ON US A LITTLE BIT. WE NEED TO LEAN ON THEM. WE NEED TO DO AND ONE THING WE NEED TO DO IS GET HAMAS OUT OF QATAR AND OUT PRESSURE THE RED CROSS WITH HAMAS LEADERSHIP TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE HOSTAGES AND YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE WOMEN. MY CONCERN IS I DON'T THINK THE NUMBERS WILL BE THERE. ORIGINALLY WE THOUGHT 100 THEN I WENT DOWN TO 50 AND NOW WE ARE AT AROUND 30. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE AND THAT'S THE HEARTBREAKING PART OF THIS. >> Molly: BEFORE I LET YOU GO, THIS IS MEMORIAL DAY AND I HAVE YOUNG KIDS, I TRY TO IMPART LOVE AMERICA AND APPRECIATION FOR THE SACRIFICES OUR TROOPS HAVE MADE AND PEOPLE SERVING. THERE'S A HEADLINE FROM "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL." TEACH YOUR TO YOUNG AMERICA WHERE SHE SAYS CHILDREN ARE INSTRUCTED IN 100 DIFFERENT WAYS THROUGH 100 DIFFERENT WAYS THAT IT'S A DARK PLACE. THE HISTORY OF PUSHING PEOPLE AROUND OFTEN AND IN IMMORAL QUEST FOR WEALTH BUT ALSO BECAUSE WE AREN'T VERY NICE. IDEOLOGY AND IDIOCY IMPOSED THIS SHALLOWNESS AND IT BEGAN SOME DECADES AGO BUT HAS SPEEDED UP AND BECOME MORE EXTREME IN THE PAST TEN YEARS. WITH THAT SORT OF SENTIMENT OUT THERE, WITH PEOPLE THAT DON'T APPRECIATE THIS COUNTRY, HOW DO WE IMPART A LOVE FOR AMERICA AND AN APPRECIATION FOR THE PEOPLE THAT SERVE TO HER CHILDREN? >> WE NEED TO KEEP REMINDING THEM ABOUT SACRIFICES. TODAY'S A DAY OF REFLECTION AND MEMORY. THE SACRIFICES. THIS IS NOT LIKE VETERANS DAY PRAYER THIS IS MEMORIAL DAY WHEN WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED. AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT. THINK ABOUT THE FAMILIES THAT SACRIFICE SO MUCH FOR THE NATION APPEARED ABOUT THE MOMS WHO NEVER WERE ABLE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THEIR SONS OR DAUGHTERS AND THE FATHERS WHO WENT INTO A BACK ROOM AND WEPT SILENTLY OR THE FATHERS AND MOTHERS WHO HAD TO RAISE CHILDREN ON THEIR OWN BECAUSE THEIR SPOUSES WERE GONE OR THE YOUNG CHILDREN WHO ARE HOLDING PHOTOGRAPHS, FADED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THOSE THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE THEM. THEIR MOMS AND DADS, SONS, BROTHERS, SISTERS. WE JUST NEED TO REMIND THEM ABOUT THAT. SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO REMEMBER THAT. I REMIND EVERYBODY WHEN YOU PLAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND YOU THINK OF THE LAST STANZA OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND SAYS OKAY SAY CAN YOU SEE IS IT STILL THE LAND OF THE FREE IN THE HOME OF THE BREAK. IT'S A QUESTION AND YOU HAVE TO ANSWER THAT HOPEFULLY APPEARED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. AND I THINK ABOUT TODAY REALLY HARD AND YOU THINK ABOUT THAT GREAT POEM FOR THE FALLEN BY LAWRENCE PINION WHO WROTE IT OVER 100 YEARS AGO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR WHEN HE SAID AT THE FALLING OF THE SON, REMEMBER THEM. AND YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THOSE THAT WE LOST AND IT'S A HARD THING TO DO SOMETIMES. I KNOW IT COMES TO ME PRETTY HARD BECAUSE I'VE LOST A LOT OF SOLDIERS IN COMBAT BUT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE SACRIFICES THEY GAVE FOR THE NATION AND WE NEED TO IMPART THAT TO OUR YOUNG MEN WOMEN AND THOSE CHILDREN GROWING UP.

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Length: 7min 10sec (430 seconds)

Published: Tue May 28 2024