for those from new york who most people don t, what does it mean to you haven t acolyte of the late mallorca hana in the government and netanyahu s current stance? the fundamental reality is that in the west bank you have jews and palestinians live leaving side by side but until the jews are citizens of the state around, they can vote for its government, they have free movement, due process, the palestinians have none of those rights. they live under military law. they need military permission to travel, for instance, from the west bank into jerusalem. what itamar ben-gvir believes is that that is not harsh enough. this is already what has been characterized by israel s own human rights organization as a part. but itamar ben-gvir wants to go further. if you look carefully at what he has written and what other far-right leaders in this israeli government have written, and their long term goal is the expulsion of palestinians from
community and done nothing about this? it s been decades and decades of this. it s worse than the. the united states funds this. the united states gives israel 3.8 billion dollars of essentially unconditional military aid a year. the united states ensures that the u.n. and the international criminal court that there is total impunity. there can never be investigations by the international bodies of what israel is doing. look, there are a lot of americans who have a very, very deep connection to israel and see, because of the suffering of jews throughout history, a sense of solidarity and concern for those people. you don t need to tell me. i was raised my entire life with those feelings. i cared desperately about the welfare of my own people. but it is not in the long term interest. it will not keep jews safe in the long term to brutalize and subjugate palestinians. just like it didn t in the long
term safety and self interest of white people to brutalized black people in the united states, ultimately, when you oppress people and inflict terrible violence on them, it comes back to you. the answer, i think democrats are rapidly realizing that partition is no longer possible. the core principle in israel palestine has to be the same one we are fighting for here, which is that people deserve equality under the law, the respect of whatever religion or ethnicity they are. it also didn t work in south africa, you said apartheid. this is what the far-right in israel, this conestee movement really wants. a foundational desire to have as few non jews in the country as possible, greater powers to crack down on the judiciary, greater segregation between jewish and non jewish populations, greater crackdowns on freedom freedom of the press, freedom assembly, freedom of the press. also religious rule, which sounds like what we are dealing with in this country as well. you also mentioned jim