Former Israeli PM Wrecks MSNBC's Narrative, Teaches Actual History of Gaza

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett wrecked MSNBC host Katy Tur’s talking points on Monday, delivering an epic history lesson on Gaza, Hamas, and the Palestinians in the process. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and the rest of the antisemitic "Squad" should really watch, take notes, and actually learn their facts about the region and its past.

Tur began, as so many leftist outlets do, by siding with Hamas as the Israel-Hamas war heats up:

Tur grieved at the horror children are facing and the overall violence that occurred in the Oct. 7 attack, then asked, "But I’m sure that there are Palestinians that can show images of their own kids that they’re worried about that have died in this, and much of the world is calling for a cease-fire. A lot of allies are saying at the very least, a pause, if not voting for a cease-fire in the U.N., why do you think that so much of the world is asking Israel to stop for a moment?"

Bennett simply wasn’t having it. He pointed out that Israel is held to a different standard than almost any other country, including the United States:

"Imagine if America, instead of Mexico, had a state of al Qaeda, with 240 American hostages, including babies, there, and this al Qaeda state entered Florida and raped women and murdered parents in front of their children, and vice versa and burnt them, would anyone ask America to cease fire against this al Qaeda state?" He asked. [Bolding mine.]
Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, but Hamas took over shortly after in elections there and has not held voting since. Bennett, who served as prime minister from 2021 to 2022, suggested that many Israelis assumed that if Palestinians "just have good enough lives, they’ll get off our case," but instead "they created a nightmare." He then declared that Israel can no longer tolerate any Hamas presence near its border.

Watch:

"There's no simple answer" Former Israeli Prime Minister @naftalibennett on why Israel has continued attacks despite calls for ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/INqiRl6iuR
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But here’s when he went into history mode and explained how we got here, a lesson woke college students across America and pro-Hamas demonstrators around the world seemingly have no idea about.

We tried precisely that [a two-state solution]. I want to be very clear to the viewers now. Until 2005, Israel occupied Gaza. In 2005, we pulled out of Gaza, back to the 1967 borders. We handed the entire territory over to the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. There was no blockade, nothing.

They had the chance to form the Palestinian state that everyone’s talking about. No one stopped them. They have beautiful beaches and beautiful weather, and they dedicated those 17 years to shooting rockets at us, and to killing us, so would you try it again?

His most important point was that Gaza and the Palestinians got everything they were seeking, yet they still remained hell-bent on killing Israelis and did nothing to improve their territory—in fact, they essentially destroyed it.

We’re talking about Gaza. The West Bank is the West Bank, and Gaza is Gaza. They got everything they wanted.

Would you try that again? Would you experiment again after what they did? I can tell you that Israelis left and right, there’s consensus, no one wants to try experiments, dangerous experiments, again.

The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel ideologues that seem to have dominated so much of the conversation around the globe ignore these facts. A “cease-fire” will not solve the problem, a “two-state solution” will not magically fix things. The only hope for progress and potentially peace is the elimination of Hamas.

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