I have never heard Chris Hayes, who I think is brilliant, have such a strong take on a controversial topic. But I think what he spoke last night is true and undeniable. Bibi is destroying Gaza and Israel at the same time. This taken from Mediate in total: Chris Hayes on Gaza from Mediaite.
“MSNBC host Chris Hayes warned on Tuesday that there was “no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific” that can “wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza” today.
On his MSNBC show All In with Chris Hayes, Hayes said:
If you spend any time at all reading the Israeli press, listening to what Israeli leaders and commentators are actually saying, it is very clear that for a lot of people in government, the mass destruction in Gaza, razing it like Putin razed Grozny or Assad razed Aleppo, is the point, the goal. Many prominent members of the Israeli government class don’t think there is such a thing as an innocent civilian in Gaza, have said that everyone in Gaza deserves their fate. From Knesset member Meirav Ben-Ari saying that, quote, “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves,” to an Israeli military spokesman saying the emphasis of Israel’s military campaign was, quote, “on damage and not on accuracy,” to Israel’s President Isaac Herzog suggesting there are no civilians in Gaza and everyone is a legitimate target.
Hayes went on to play a clip of Israeli journalist Shimon Riklin saying, “I am for the war crimes. I don’t care if I am criticized, and I honestly don’t care. I am unable to sleep if I do not see houses being destroyed in Gaza.”
The MSNBC host continued:
That’s not a fringe view in Israel. I mean, even the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked the lessons from the biblical story of Amalek in an address to the nation in Hebrew in the end of October, and in that biblical chapter, God commands King Saul on how to respond to an attack by the rival kingdom of Amalek. Quote, “Now go attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put them to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” Now I will be the first to confess, the first to confess I have no idea what to do about Hamas or about what comes next, but the Amalek method cannot be the solution. To be honest, I’m not particularly convinced the Israeli leadership has any idea what comes next. Many want full destruction, and Hamas also wants this war, they have been clear on that.
Hayes argued, “But whatever your views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is just plainly the case that our country is supporting a war whose animating moral logic looks to most of the world, and frankly to me, to be that every single last person in Gaza is guilty and deserves their lot. And that is the moral logic of Hamas. It is the moral logic that drove the atrocity of October 7th, and an atrocity like October 7th does not, cannot justify whatever comes after it, whatever the response.”
He concluded, “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific — and truly October 7th was horrific — that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans in our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”
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