a message in israel. >> it's important that the united states is committed to making sure everything possible is done to protect civilians. >> tonight, the calls for a humanitarian pause as the bombardment continues. then -- >> the entire world is watching this, and they're laughing about what's going on. >> day two for some number two. if the gag order grows in new york, meanwhile out west -- >> trump incited a violent mob to attack our capital. to stop the peaceful transfer of power, the case to throw trump off the ballot wraps up in colorado. >> trump claims after all that, he has the right to be president again. >> and an unbelievable case study and how to succeed in congress without really trying. >> corruption is a real problem in this country. and i have seen [laughter] it is. it is. >> when all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. today, america's top diplomats secretary of state antony blinken flee to israel for a second time in two and a half weeks where he met with israeli war cabinet. that's the new unity government more cabinet. there, he called for a humanitarian pause to the conflict in gaza. >> we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. we've been clear that as israel conducts this campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. i've seen images to of palestinian children, young boys and girls pulled from the wreckage and buildings. when i see that, when i look into their eyes, through the tv screen, i see my own children. how can we not? >> following those remarks from the u.s. secretary of state, two things happened. in a brief address to the nation, israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, swiftly rejected calls for any kind of humanitarian pause. invoking the more than 200 calls to just in hamas custody in gaza. despite last week, israelis military did not seem to consider those hostages a strategic priority before their incursion into gaza. the other thing that happened was the israeli military took credit for bombing an ambulance outside of gaza's largest hospital. that's the al-shifa hospital that we've been reporting on throughout the conflict. the gaza health ministry says multiple people were killed, and dozens more injured. the israeli military claims the ambulance was shielding hamas militants, as it often does when justifying why it believes civilian infrastructure is a legitimate military target. the health ministry, which is under the authority of hamas, denies those allegations. according to the washington post, quote, the dead and wounded invisible in the videos reviewed by the paper included women and children and no weapons or individuals were in military clothing could be seen. for now, it does not seem that the israeli military or government is particularly open to the white house's argument for a pause to protect civilians. while the biden administration has fallen short of calling for a full cease-fire, as some democratic members of congress have called for, the call for a pause, nonetheless, represents a shift, a marked one actually, in tone, for the white house. president joe biden has always been a stall supporter of israel. all the way back to his time on the senate foreign relations committee. >> i think it's about time we stop those of us who support, as most of us do, israel in this body, for apologizing for our support for israel. there is no apology to be made. none. it is the best three billion dollar investment we make. were they not in israel, the united states of america would have to invent in israel to protect our interest in the region. the united states would have to go out and invent in there is a real. >> that was senator biden back in 1996, following the barbaric attacks on october 7th, the president's initial instinct was to stand firmly with israel, both, i believe, out of genuine principle. it's what he believes, as well as u.s. strategic alliances. and the approach that i think president biden adopted, with benjamin netanyahu, who he has known for decades, and talked about that all the time, is that he would publicly pledge his full support and solidarity to the people in israel, and behind the scenes, whenever possible, he would try to affect the trajectory of israel's response while maintaining that public posture of unwavering support. that was clearly the plan. unwavering suppit is true, as s national security in nato's government have said to me, that there's not a single nation on earth that would've experienced the trosky israel went through last month and not responded with some kind of military action. israel was always going to do something. and that's particularly true when you consider the ancient foundational trauma of a pogrom, elicited by the mass slaughter of jewish men and women and children, in a state created to stop such an atrocity. but there's the obstruct principle, israel's right to self defense, amid mass atrocity. it's right to go after the a purpose -- everyone in the u.s. government, around the world immediately afterwards, many agreed with. then there's the actual government in the state of israel. that the actual government, the men and women that will empower the actual politics and mechanisms of that state response -- right now, it's a unity government run by benjamin netanyahu. which prior to the attacks last month, was a hard right government run by benjamin netanyahu. considered by many israelis to be one of the worst, if not the worst government in the country's history. a netanyahu government that first of all, at the most basic level, had the worst security state failing of any government in the world since maybe 9/11, and maybe further back. a government whose primary military objective, prior to these attacks, appeared to be pursuing its own ideological goals of settler expansion in the west bank, raer than focusing on national security. it's also a government whose explicit strategy for stopping the palestinian state was to make sure there was divided regime between gaza and the west bank, which meant supporting hamas. benjamin netanyahu said that famously at a party meeting of his own party in 2019, according to various reports of people who were there. not to mention the fact that netanyahu himself is actually currently under indictment on corruption charges in israel. charges he denies. and much like donald trump, his current attempts to seize and retain power seem inextricably linked to his own self preservation. that includes his recent effort to basically take over the israeli courts, and remove the lone single independent check on the executive authority in the state of israel. that power graph led to widespread protests across the country for months. the largest in israel's history. with netanyahu quickly becoming something of a pariah among many of his own constituents. >> not only this particular law there has been that my past now, but the line of legislation is going to turn israel into a -- in the best days, a hollow democracy. in the worst-case, a dictatorship. and none of us air force pilots want to serve in an air force of a dictatorship. >> those concerns of eroding democratic -- were a exasperated by the fact that netanyahu's current coalition may well be the most right-wing government in the country's history. which has collaborated with some of the most fringe, vile figures in all of israeli politics. in some cases, even in the highest positions of power. take, for example, israel's current minister of internal security. that man, a man by the name of ignore ben-gvir, this is a man that even the israeli military refused to draft as a teenager over concerns about his extreme far-right views. according to the times of israel. ben-gvir openly admires a terrorist, a guy named barack goldstein who perpetrated one of the bloodiest acts of anti palestinian terror back in 1994. >> it's the bloodiest act of violence ever to occur in the occupied territories. a jewish settler opened fire indiscriminately this morning on muslim worshippers in a crowded mosque during morning prayers. the settler identified as an american immigrant slipped past armed guards at the tomb of the patriarch in have ron. a holy site for jews and arabs. >> brooke goldstein, jewish american who went to israel, murdered worshippers in that mosque. ben-gvir, and his wife, reportedly had their first date at the sight of that grave. for years, ben-gvir had a big laudatory admiring posture of him. when you see there, in his living room. that picture was considered so offensive, so beyond the pale, that even other far-right politicians in israel wouldn't stand for it. he was effectively barred from joining the current government, literally, uess he took the picture down. and under enormous pressure, ben-gvir agreed to take the picture down in his self pitying social media post. that guy, ben-gvir, he's still in power. in fact, he's ordering at least 10,000 guns to arm israeli settlers in the west bank. settlers who have only stepped up, markedly, their campaign of violence, intimidation, and terror against palestinians in the occupied west bank. nothing to do with hamas. since the october 7th attacks, as reported by sky news in this pocket. >> they've lived here for generations, but they've decided enough is enough. the entire population of the west bank villages are moving. it has no choice. israeli settlers have harassed them and threatened them. now, they're being told by israeli defense forces, that they have a week to leave. >> a whole village of palestinians forcibly ejected from their homes by israeli settlers. the this is what's happening right now in the west bank, as th war happens. one of israel's own intelligence services along wi less extreme members of its right-wing government and many israelis are very concerned about exacerbating tensions in the west bank. about opening another front. when israel is in this incredibly perilous situation. this is a coalition government, where some of the far-right members believe that fundamentals like israel is there's. that the enduring state they look for, openly they say this, is one in which jews control all of greater israel, including the west bank. and they just keep palestinians occupied and sedated. it's not the abstract principle of the right to self defense or reacting to atrocity, there are real people, in a government, making real decisions. so, when secretary of state, antony blinken, shows up and calls for restraint, what does he think prime minister benjamin netanyahu or his minister with the mass shooter poster are going to say? in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, israel defense minister justify the total and immediate blockade of gaza of all fuel and water and everything. which has led to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis by saying, quote, we are fighting monsters and we are acting accordingly. human animals was the translation, but some say monsters is closer to the original hebrew. at least one member of the israeliament has called for a knock bar, the catastrophicmass displacement of palestinians fromgaza -- this is a -- the new york times reports that in private conversations, israeli military leaders told officials that civilian deaths are just fair game. they compared their strategy to the ally bombings of germany and japan. the two atomic warheads in world war ii. i'm the ones that killed hundreds of thousands of people. whatever the israeli military says publicly about minimizing palestinian casualties, the ideological view of many people in that government are that they don't really matter. nbc news is now reporting the biden administration is growing concerns over the course israel is taking in this war. yes, they should be concerned. joining me now is vermont senator, bernie sanders. -- he's been an outspoken critic in the netanyahu administration. he actually worked in israeli in a kibbutz in his youth. senator, it's good to have you here. do you share the concerns of the white house, chris murphy who is on my program last week, about the direction, the war effort that the israeli government has taken some. >> what we are looking at now is one of the -- moments in modern history. it's indicated in hamas attack that there's a barbaric way to kill hundreds of men and children, israel has a right to defend itself. i don't think anyone disagrees with that. but what they are doing now in an indiscreet way, bombing refugee camps, arming ambulances, killing thousands of innocent men and women and children, a violation of international law is simply not acceptable. it has got to stop. you know, the united states provides 2.8 billion dollars every year to israel. now they say they don't want the money. fine. but if they could take our money, they want to give them even more. they've got to recognize that they cannot offend american values, what we stand for, what this world stands for. so in my view, -- i said this several weeks ago. understand we need to pause right now in the bombing. we need to deal with the horrific humanitarian disaster that you described. i mean they have no water, they have no food, they have no fuel. . hospitals have been bombed. it's a total disaster. and we are on the brink of seeing dozens more people die, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. where are they? going -- many of them are living in overcrowded conditions in the united nations facilities. by the way, the u.n.'s lost over city relief efforts. we are looking at a humanitarian disaster. the united states put a lot of money in israel. obviously they have a right to defending themself. but palestinian children, are as important as israeli children, as important as american children. stop the slaughter of innocent people. >> i just want to fairly represent, i think, what i think the position of the israeli military is articulated among others by president herzog who was posing with anthony blinken at that meeting, where he was showing flyers that they were dropping in gaza. basically saying it's not indiscriminate, it's discriminate. we are giving people warning. te, it'sthis is what the israeli defense force is saying. this is a place in which hamas has integrated itself fully into civilian life. they are in tunnels, they're in ambulances, in the case of the claim. there's just no way that we can avoid civilian casualties here. we are doing our best. >> look, of course i understand that point. uprooting hamas in a very dense urban area is enormously difficult under the best of their circumstances. there will be civilian casualties. but we are talking up to now, of almost 10,000 people who have been killed. we are worried now that not only will people die from the bombings, but you're going to have disease, these people have no. water you're going to have diseases because of lack of water. and -- children -- think about how it impacts kids being in iraq and bombings every night the it's operating hamas in an urban. area it's very difficult. i think you've got to be very -- not to believe the israeli [inaudible] and revenge. the people of israel have every right to be furious. but i would hope they would learn a lesson from the united states of america. we are furious. when we were attacked on 9/11 and 3000 americans died. the result of that is we went to war in afghanistan. we went to war in iraq. thousands of soldiers lost lives in those wars. hundreds of thousands of people in afghanistan have died. rage does not bring about good public policy. the -- just to make this situation more tragic, israel has the most right-wing government it has ever had. they are working overtime right now in the west bank to end any possibility of a two-state solution. the united states must be clear, what went on in gaza before october 7th was a disaster. you had unemployment among the people, 75%. massive poverty. it is worse. now if we are going to give any hope to the palestinian 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