Piers Morgan Uncensored - "The REAL Terrorist Is YOU!" Trump's Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal | Owen Jones Gets It Wrong!

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

Donald Trump says he'll be "very firm" with Benjamin Netanyahu on ending the war in Gaza when the Israeli Prime Minister visits the White House on Monday. He's pressed Hamas to take the deal, thre...atening 'it will only get worse' if they don't - and, with Iran weakened following Trump's so-called 'daddy diplomacy', the terror group has indicated it's open to a ceasefire. Israel will want the remaining hostages released, but so far Netanyahu has only said: “There will be no Hamas”. So, what is going to break the deadlock? Piers Morgan is joined by lawyer Alan Dershowitz and secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti. Piers then speaks to Leigh Evans, the nurse from Wales who went viral after a video was posted of him begging to Egyptian police to get into Gaza and British commentator Owen Jones, who is left red-faced about his view on Bob Vylan after Piers shows him newfound footage of the rapper on stage... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I think the real terrorist is you and the real criminal is you. If Hamas hadn't done October 7th, if they hadn't used human shields, if they didn't use hospitals, there wouldn't have been a single person, a single civilian, killed. You are a liar and you don't have manners and you should shut up. Shut up, please. Shut up, please, and let me finish. Shut up, shut up. When you watch that rapper at Glastonbury chanting and leading a charm with thousands joining in of death to the IDF, you instinctively believe.
Starting point is 00:00:29 He said himself. means the dismantling of a violent militant machine. He said it since the furorre blew up. Do you believe him 100%? Yes. Because new footage has emerged. And death to every single IBF soldier out there as an agent of terror. But he's completely contradicted everything you've just said.
Starting point is 00:00:46 I'm not Bovill in Space. You just have to admit when you hear that you were wrong to defend him in the way you defended him. Now you've heard that. Do you still say he only meant the entity? Well, no. Obviously now he's made clear what he meant. He's made all of you look like complete prunes. Donald Trump says he'll be very firm with Benjamin Netanyahu
Starting point is 00:01:04 on ending the war in Gaza when the Israeli Prime Minister visits to White House on Monday, and the President may have already had a breakthrough. He announced on true social, his social media platform, Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize a 60-day ceasefire during which time we'll work with all parties to end the war. The Qataris and Egyptians will work very hard to help bring peace or deliver this final proposal. He's pressed to mass to take the deal, threatening
Starting point is 00:01:29 it will only get worse if they don't. Or with Iran weakened following Trump's so-called daddy diplomacy, the terror group has indicated it's open to a ceasefire. Israel will want the remaining hostages released. But so far, Netanyahu has only said there will be no Hamas. So what will break the deadlock? Do you want me to discuss the ceasefire? His lawyer and author of the preventative state, Alan Dershowitz,
Starting point is 00:01:51 and a general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barguti. Welcome to both of you. Alan Dershowitz. How likely is it, do you think, that this proposal which Donald Trump has talked about on true social will actually manifest itself imminently? Well, the latest report is that the Israelis have accepted it, probably reluctantly, but they've accepted it. You don't say no to Donald Trump. You don't want to be Zelenskyy. Trump helped Israel on Iran. Israel owes him.
Starting point is 00:02:24 And therefore, I think Israel will accept the deal as is, even though they would like to see some changes. The most recent report is Hamas said no, and that's what led Trump to say, you better accept this deal because it's only going to get worse. The history of Palestinian leadership has been a history of rejecting good deals. They were offered a state on 70% of the arable land in 1948. They turned it down. They were offered a state in 67, offered a state 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007. They've always wanted a better deal.
Starting point is 00:02:55 And as President Clinton said, when you turn down deals like this, you're not going to get a better deal, you're to get a worse deal. So I'm hoping that we'll get back to October 6th. Remember on October 6th, there was a ceasefire. In effect, nonetheless, on October 7th, Hamas went and killed 1,200 innocent Israelis and held hostage, 250 others. Nonetheless, I hope there will be a deal,
Starting point is 00:03:19 but the ball is clearly right now in the court of Hamas. Okay, Mustafa Barguti, why wouldn't Hamas accept this deal? No, I thank you. I want to correct the information first. Israel did not accept the deal yet. Mr. Trump said, did not say that Israel accepted the deal. President Trump said that Israel accepted or is accepting necessary conditions to finalize the deal. That doesn't mean they have accepted the deal.
Starting point is 00:03:49 And up till now, there is no statement from the Israeli government that they have accepted anything. Netanyahu faces a very serious opposition from two major fascist ministers in his government, Smotrich and Bingvir, who are threatening to bring down his government if he accepts any deal. So in reality, Israel still did not accept the deal. Ahmad did not yet accept the deal, but did not reject it. So the matter is still being negotiated between the mediators and the two sides. and it is not acceptable to Russia in claiming that it is Israel that accepted and Palestinians did not. On the other hand, I have to also clarify.
Starting point is 00:04:31 Why doesn't Hamas now announce that it would accept the official and accept it? Mr. Peace Morgan, I want to be polite in this meeting, in this discussion. So if Mr. Dorsovich interrupts me again, I will not be silent. So please let him not interrupt me, okay? He's not the one who's interviewing me. you. So please stay silent till I finish my talk. Israel is not
Starting point is 00:04:57 the one. Israel, Israel is the one that have destroyed any possibility for peace, not Palestinians. When did Israel accept to end its occupation of Palestinian land? When did Israel accept the right of the Palestinian
Starting point is 00:05:13 people? Shut up, please and let me finish. Shut up. Shut up. Don't tell me if you do that to you again. You keep interrupting me. don't interrupt me. I did not interrupt you. Why do you talk? When you ask the question, I want to answer it. No, no, no, my condition to participate this time.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Don't ask me questions. You are not the interviewer. You shut up and let me finish. Israel is the one that rejected. You asked the question. Israel is the one that rejected to end occupation. Israel is the one that refuses up till now the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Not only that, Israel passed a law.
Starting point is 00:05:51 the Israeli Knesset, which said Israel passed alone in the Israeli Knesset, which said that the right of self-determination on the land of historic Palestine, which they call Israel, is exclusive for Jewish people. So, don't
Starting point is 00:06:07 talk to me about peace. Israel is the main obstacle to peace. Israel has always been the main obstacle to peace. Israel will always be the main obstacle to peace as long as they have these fascists in the government. Let me answer. Let us. Alan Dosh was responsible to that. Let me answer your question, please. Bill Clinton has stated, and he stated publicly, it's on videotape, that he and Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians. Ninety-six percent of the West Bank, four percent of Israel, capital in Jerusalem, many, many other inducements. And Bill Clinton has said that Yasser Arafat, although he had told him initially he would accept it, he rejected it. The Palestinians have rejected statehood in 1947, 1937, 1937,
Starting point is 00:06:51 2000, 2001, 2007, Omer, often even more than Bill Clinton offered them. Now you're interrupting me. Bill Clinton offered them, and Ehud Barak offered them. The Palestinians, as a leader once said, don't know how to accept yes for an answer. Israelis have offered a two-state solution
Starting point is 00:07:12 over and over and over and over again. The Palestinians don't want a two-state solution because this is Bill Clinton said. This is Bill Clinton, not me. Hamas just wants to kill Jews. But isn't the truth? But Alan, Alan, let me jump in there. The nation state of the Jewish people.
Starting point is 00:07:26 They reject the two-state solution, period. But Alan, isn't it also true that Benjamin Netanyahu has no desire for a two-state solution? Never has done. And in fact, the whole reason he went along with Hamas getting power in Gaza was because he wanted to create a split between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and split the Palestinian people. I don't think he's ever shown any real desire for a two-state solution. So isn't that a problem?
Starting point is 00:07:51 on both sides. It is, but if the Palestinians were to accept a two-state solution, were to accept Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, I actually sat across the table from the head of the Palestinian Authority, and I asked him, would you say the following? Would you say, I accept Israel as a Jewish state? And if you do, I will call Benjamin, Anthony, my friend, and I will ask him to say the same thing. He said, I can't say that. The Palestinians have never accepted a two-state solution. Israel has, your right, Natanyahu is not going to be the first person to accept a two-state solution, but I guarantee you this. If the Palestinians and Hamas
Starting point is 00:08:32 came to the bargaining table and said, we recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, we put down our arms, we declare peace, we want to have mutual agreement, we accept Israel joining the Abraham Accords with Saudi Arabia, a two-state solution would be accepted by the public. Let Hamas do that and we'll see whether Benjamin Natchezhu follows Ben Gavir and Smutrich, which I think he won't, or whether he follows the majority of the Israeli people, which just want peace. They don't want a repetition of October 7. How damaging, Alan? If you can guarantee them that, they will accept. Hang on, Mr. Ruff, I'll come to you one second. I'll sort of ask, Alan, Alan, how damaging is it that Smodrich in particular and Ben-Gavir, these very hard, right members of
Starting point is 00:09:19 this government? Montritch is now on record. It's terrible. But he's now saying he wants to cleanse Gaza of all Palestinians. That is ethnic cleansing. That would be a war crime. And I keep being told what he doesn't represent the government. But he's a senior member of this government.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Well, and you get people in Hamas who are senior members of their government, and people in the Palestinian Authority who make statements like that. He does not speak for the Israeli government. The Israeli government has a mechanism by which people speak for them. Natsunyo speaks for the Israeli government. The Israeli people speak for the Israeli government. Smutritch and Ben-Gavir are two people who I find despicable. I despise them. I attack them. I reject them.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Most Israelis reject them. In order to remain in power, Nathño has had to tolerate them. But if Hamas would come forward and create a situation where there'd be no repetition of October 7th, Smutridge and Ben-Givir would be history, and we would move on to a two-state solution. Okay, Mustafa, your response? Well, first of all, let me go back to Clinton. It's not true what was said, because in reality, no Palestinian state was ever offered to Palestinians. If Bill Clinton is biased to Israel, it's his problem.
Starting point is 00:10:36 But that doesn't mean that what he tells is the truth. And the proof to that, that Israel has never accepted, never accepted that Jerusalem will be the capital of Palestine. And there is no Israeli politician, whoever, that is ready to accept that Jerusalem would be the capital of Palestine. That's one. Second, I live in the West Bank. You are a liar and you don't have manners and you should shut up because you are a person who does not understand the proper way of dialogue. You have to be polite and let me answer. You don't like my answer. It's your problem. You cannot accept it.
Starting point is 00:11:14 But you cannot say that I am lying. You are the one who keeps lying. You are lying. And let me tell you, let me tell you. You are lying. You know what? You are impolite. And I am not surprised because a person like you who used to defend people like Epstein, the sex
Starting point is 00:11:28 trafficker, is not surprising. I knew you'd get into that. I know. I knew you'd get into Epstein. I knew you'd get into that because you have no reasonable answers on America. So you become a McCarthyite. You have no manners whatsoever. me finish. Smotrich and Bingvir, of course, represent the Israeli government.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Smotrich is the finance minister of Israel. Smotrich is the finance minister of Israel. That means he's the second most important minister in the Israeli government. And it was not only Smotrich who said, it was not only Smotrich who said that he will not accept that he wants to call for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. It was Natanyahu. Natanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, who calls for that, who speaks about that, who talks about it and call it Trump's vision of ethnic lending of Palestinians from Gaza. I live in the West Bank.
Starting point is 00:12:27 You live in New York. You don't know what's happening. I live in the West Bank where the Israeli illegal settlers, the terrorist settlers, under Natanyahu, have conducted 333 attacks on us, the Palestinians in the West Bank, the civilians in the West Bank, in the last month alone in June, we are encountering not only illegal settlers, but an Israeli army that has imposed 1,000 military checkpoints all over the West Bank, preventing normal life of people,
Starting point is 00:12:58 besieging villages, police, besieging communities, they have destroyed everything in the West Bank. I'm not talking only about Gaza. In Gaza, up until now, according to the most recent study of Michael Spagat, who is an international renounced demographer, says that Israel has killed more than 75,000 Palestinians already in Gaza, including no less than 58% of them are women and children. This is the highest number of civilians killed in any war.
Starting point is 00:13:31 Children are 19-year-olds with guns. No, children, they know the age. No, no. Okay, let me jump in here. Let me jump in here. Let me jump in there. Let me jump in. We are dealing here.
Starting point is 00:13:42 Wait a minute. Last minute. Last minute. Natanyahu came to power to kill Oslo Agreement. He wrote that in his book. If he is your friend, read his books. He wrote in his book, we will never allow a Palestinian independent state. This is the kind of government we are dealing with a government of fascist, a government of extremists, a government of criminals, even, even ex-prime minister in Israel.
Starting point is 00:14:10 like Yehud Olmert, are saying that Israel is becoming a pariah state because of Netanyahu and the government. I mean, Alan, there's no doubt. Let me respond, please. Yeah, let me just ask you a question, though, because there's no doubt to me. Sure. Israel's government is currently, with the way it's prosecuting this war in Gaza in the last few months, is very rapidly losing global support, even from key allies. That's right.
Starting point is 00:14:35 Who do not think this is self-defense anymore. and they're joining the dots with what people like Smodrish are saying, and they fear there is a much bigger plan that is now unfurling, which is to get rid of all the Palestinians. And in relation to the number of children being killed, obviously you don't believe every statistic that comes out of the Hamasran Health Authority, although historically, their numbers have later proven to be broadly accurate. That is a fact.
Starting point is 00:15:01 But the reality is we know, from reporters on the ground, We know that probably 20 to 25,000 children have been killed here. This cannot be right, Alan, that this continues. Well, let me respond. Let me respond. There was a war in Iran. Israel went in, destroyed much of the military capacity. And they killed an incredibly tiny number of civilians, very, very few in the low hundreds, which proves clearly that the only reason
Starting point is 00:15:35 that civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip is because they're used as human shields. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. Wait a minute. Let me finish. Well, okay. I don't agree with your summation, but finish your sentence, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:50 My point is, when Sinwa hid, where did he hide? He had hit underneath the hospital with nine of his people. Israel had to kill all of them, and yes, they killed 16 civilians. That's proportional. Let me tell you, if Hamas hadn't done October 7, If they hadn't used human shields, if they didn't use hospitals, there wouldn't have been a single person, a single civilian killed. Israel prides itself on being able to target, stop cutting me off, being able to target military targets like the Iranian nuclear reactors. When it destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor, one civilian casualty. Syria, no civilian casualties.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Iran, very few. Why Gaza? Because they use for human shields. Because they hide their commanders among the children in order to induce Israel to kill children so that Pierce, people like you, can get on television and correctly point out that so many civilians have been killed. It's all the fault of Hamas. Here's the problem I have with that theory, which is this. I hear it a lot. But if you look at the way that Israel dealt with Hezbollah, for example, a very careful. carefully planned and well-executed plan that targeted almost exclusively the Hezbollah terrorists, right? Again, very surgical, very targeted like Iran.
Starting point is 00:17:14 They were condemned to that as well. They were condemned to that. I just don't believe that the combined brain power of Mossad and the IDF could not have come up with a better way. Wait a minute. Let me finish. Let me finish. Mossad has no jurisdiction over Gaza. Let me just correct you.
Starting point is 00:17:32 But the idea that Mossad... The idea that Mossad wouldn't have known stuff going on in Gaza is for the birds. And I just cannot understand why given the global dismay about what has been happening in Gaza, with a destruction of 70% of Gaza now, with so many children being killed, everybody accepts that Israel is trying to go after Hamas. But they also accept and understand, because it's clear that it's way too. many children are being killed here and that the end goal of getting the hostages released is not happening right that the the the language for Smodrick's makes
Starting point is 00:18:11 people think there's a different plan going on here and so my question really is he has no influence there has to have been a better way than just leveling Gaza to the ground and I think it's been driven by I agree with you do you not think no no no I agree with you that there has to be a better way and the better way would have been for Amas to come out and fight in the open like brave people do all over the world, but instead they hide behind children and babies. They use them as human shields. And that's why Israel has to go in in order to dismantle Hamas. They tragically, Israel never benefits from killing a civilian. Why would any Israeli ever want to kill a civilian?
Starting point is 00:18:51 So why does it keep doing that? They lose, in your court of public opinion, they lose on your television show if they kill a civilian. They don't want to kill civilians. Hamas makes them. They've never killed more civilians. There are quotes from Amos leaders saying, Alan, Israel's never kill more civilians. They're martyrs. We want you to kill more civilians. That's what Amos says.
Starting point is 00:19:13 Well, then you're playing into their hands, aren't she? So that's right. Yes. And I wish they didn't. So it's a catastrophically bad strategy. Because if you say that's Hamas is, except they don't want another. They don't want another October 7th.
Starting point is 00:19:27 If you say that's the game Hamas wants to play, then Israel is playing the game that the end of the end. wants them to play. That's the problem with it. That's right. And they have an alternative. They have an alternative. Just not go after Hamas. And let the Gaza continue and let there be what Hamas has said over and over again. More October 7th. More hostages. That's the alternative. But if you want to destroy Hamas, you have to kill the civilians who are being used as human shields. It's a tragic choice. I wish Israel didn't have to make it.
Starting point is 00:20:00 Okay. But it's a choice. Let me bring the staff on them by. Hamas, you could argue that they're wrong, but you can't argue that it's their responsibility. Let's bring Mustafa back in. I don't accept that that is the only way Israel could have prosecuted this war. I don't think destroying Gaza and killing tens of thousands of civilians was the only option they could have done. I think it was driven by a rage. What's the other option? By the way, driven by an understandable rage after October the 7th, but that it's been completely disproportionate to what happened and completely alien to the way that Israel's conduct. itself with other conflicts.
Starting point is 00:20:35 That's why I don't understand it. And that's why everyone hates it so much. It's like, how many more people are going to get killed here? It's ridiculous. Mustafa. Well, there are so many points one has to speak about. But first of all, let me remind you and your guest to the following. According to World Health Organization, Israel bombarded 94% of all hospitals in Gaza.
Starting point is 00:21:02 According to World Health Organization, Israel destroyed. I believe that, because Hamas hides underneath them. No, no, wait a minute. Israel destroyed. Today they killed another medical doctor. 1,500 medical doctors, nurses, and health professionals were killed. Not a single foreign journalist was allowed into Gaza. Shut up, please.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Not a single foreign journalist was allowed into Gaza. Why? Because they want to hide the truth. That's a mistake. Two hundred, two hundred eighty-eight Palestinian, 228, Palestinian journalists were killed by Israel in this war, while they were trying to report. More than that, 700 medical centers and hospitals were destroyed by Israel, including several clinics I am responsible for, where our medical teams work, and they were completely
Starting point is 00:21:59 destroyed. One of our health workers, a lab technician, who lived in a house with his family, went out to buy products for his family if you could find products in the siege that is imposed on Gaza. And then he came back to find that his wife, his daughter, his three sisters, his two brothers, and his mother were all killed in one head. Every day. Who was underneath the house?
Starting point is 00:22:25 Who was using the house? Hamas was in the house. Nobody. Nobody. No, you can claim that all the time. You've just heard reports that the Israeli pilots coming back from Iran who needed to get rid of the bombs they had in their plane still decided to go and throw them on Gaza without even having targets.
Starting point is 00:22:44 Oh, that is such a lie. That is such a blood libel. That's like denying the Holocaust. You're saying that they dropped bombs on Gaza? Come on, that didn't happen. You can prove that by looking at the track of the tracking of the, the of the, they didn't even fly over Gaza. They went the other way.
Starting point is 00:23:04 It's just such a lie. All right, Mustafa, I have a question for you, Mustafa. Mustafa, I have a question for you. I'm a question, Mustafa. But let me finish. But I have a question for you. Israeli ha' arids, the Israeli newspaper, not a Palestinian newspaper, reported
Starting point is 00:23:19 that the Israeli high-ranking officers ordered their soldiers and officers to shoot people while they were trying to get humanitarian aid. almost 600 people were killed while they were trying to get humanitarian here. I want to go back to the bombs. Let me remind you, I want to go back to the bombs being dropped. Yahyah, the leader of Hamas, was killed while he was fighting Israeli soldiers in Raffa.
Starting point is 00:23:43 He was not killed or hiding. Underneath the hospital. I have a question. I have a question, please. I have a question for you, Mustafa. Last time you came on, Mustafa, you said that all of the 50 hostages who were believed to a still not been released, many of whom may of course sadly be dead. But you said they were all IDF soldiers. So we did some research into this. And at least 15 of them were not IDF. One worked
Starting point is 00:24:11 as a massage therapist and a gardener in a kibbutz. One was a software tester in a tech company. One was a pianist with plans to study jazz in Tel Aviv. One was electrical engineer and so on. You branding them all IDF soldiers was very disingenuous. It wasn't. true. Okay. Didn't they all serve in the Israeli army? Is that what you meant? You said they were all IDS soldiers. If they serve in the Israeli army, they are soldiers. But as I just said to you, 15 of them were no longer. They're not in the Israeli army. You can't target civilians who once served in the army. You speak about the 50. Hold on, please. You know, it's really disgusting to have an interview with such a person. Let him shut up, please.
Starting point is 00:24:59 There are 50 Israeli prisoners. Okay, some of them are killed. Unfortunately, they will not be able to get back to their families. Fine. But do you accept that many of them were civilians when they were taken? Nobody speaks. Hang on, do you accept, do you accept, Mustafa? Do you accept that many of them were civilians when they were taken
Starting point is 00:25:18 not as used to, not as you claimed IDF soldiers? My information is that they are all have served in the... Israeli army. Well, that's very different because as you know, it's different because as you know, it is compulsory to serve the young men and women in the IDF, but only for a certain period of time. And 15 of the people who were taken out of those 50 were civilians when they were taken. It makes a big difference in international law. But there are other civilians who were taken, not only those if there are civilians. But that's not the issue. The issue is that besides the 50 Israeli presidents, there are,
Starting point is 00:25:56 are now 10,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail. Why nobody speaks about them? You know that out of them. I speak about them. They ought to remain in prison. They're murderers. They're rapists, the murderers, they're terrorists. They ought to be in prison.
Starting point is 00:26:12 I think the real terrorist is you and the real criminal is you and the real criminal who defends criminals and sex traffickers is you and you are the ones who defend people who have killed other people. You are famous with that. You defend the killers. So shut up, please, and let me finish.
Starting point is 00:26:29 What grounds do you have for calling Alan Dershowitz a terrorist? Let me finish my point. Sorry, sorry, Mr. Lysufa, no, you can't get away with that. What grounds do you have for calling Alan Dershowitz a terrorist? Because he keeps defending terrorists. He's a lawyer. Yeah, a lawyer. Are you saying every lawyer, every lawyer who defends anybody is that person.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Is that what you're saying? But he cannot say that the 10,600 Palestinian presidents in Israeli jails, who are all civilians, are terrorists. I think you should withdraw your claim that Alan Dershowitz is a terrorist. You should withdraw it. You talk about rudeness. You should withdraw that claim that he is a terrorist. He's not a terrorist.
Starting point is 00:27:19 And you are interrupting me, Pierce, and you will not let me finish my fault. Because you're making outlandish claims about people being terrorists. I think the person who defends terrorist acts against other people is a terrorist. You think somebody who defends a terrorist as a lawyer is a terrorist? What a ridiculous thing to say? I didn't mean that if he is defending a terrorist in jail. No, I meant he's defending terrorist policies that Smotrich and Binglir... He literally said he hates Smodrich and Bangavir.
Starting point is 00:27:46 Sorry? He literally said in this very debate that he hates Smodrich and Bengevier. What more do you need? And he said that he... Right. He said he's a friend of Netanyahu who killed 50,000 Palestinian children and injured, who killed and injured 50,000 Palestinian children, right? He's his friend.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Are you a friend of any members of Hamas? I'm not friend with anybody. I am going to tell you... Are you a friend of anybody in Hamas? Let me finish my... Are you a friend, Mustafa? Are your yardstick? Are you a friend of anybody in Hamas?
Starting point is 00:28:19 Yes or no. First of all, you did not allow me to finish my... Are you a friend of anybody in Hamas? I am not a friend of anybody without me finishing my... I will not answer you a question to finish my line. You will answer me because you've made that allegation against the other guest. Are you a friend of anybody in Hamas? Yes or no?
Starting point is 00:28:39 I know people from Hamas. Okay. So does that make you a terrorist then? No, no, no. Does that make you a terrorist? No, no, of course not. No, of course not. One rule for you, another rule for Alan Dershowitz.
Starting point is 00:28:50 It's pathetic. You can't do that. I never defended. No, you want to be back. in your approach? Yeah. I will take your language here. I want you to be consistent.
Starting point is 00:29:01 Let me finish my line. Let me finish my line. My line was, there are 10,600 Palestinian prisoners today in Israeli jails. Of them, 3,600 are people without charges,
Starting point is 00:29:15 held without charges. No legal process. No due legal process. Their lawyers even don't know why they are in general. To me, these are captives. Among them, there are 220 Palestinian children who are in Israeli jail. Do you know, or your lawyer knows, do you know that 660 Palestinian bodies are still held by the Israeli authorities?
Starting point is 00:29:43 Some of them have been held by Israeli authorities. I don't know what you call it. So you condemn that? You condemn that. Are you willing? more than 57 years. Is that acceptable? Are you willing to condemn...
Starting point is 00:30:00 Let him respond. Let him respond, please. Let me explain. You can't just keep talking, Mustafa. Let us respond. No, no. Last point. Well, we're running out of time, so I'll have to cut you off.
Starting point is 00:30:12 No, no, but one point. Let's make a deal. Let's make a deal. Let's make a deal here. Let's make a deal. Let's make a deal. Seventh of October would not have happened if it wasn't for Israeli apartheid system.
Starting point is 00:30:26 7th of October would not have happened if there was no displacement of 70% of the Palestinian people since 1948. Consider us Palestinians as equal human beings. We are also entitled to proper life. We don't want to kill anybody. Can I respond, please? I respect the history of those Jewish people who were persecuted by the Gestapo
Starting point is 00:30:50 and by the Holocaust. But I'm telling you, the Jewish people were persecuted by the Holocaust, by the criminals in the Nazi regime, because there were so many cowardly people who stayed silent. And today we see the same cowardness towards all these crimes that are happening. You must let Adam respond. So let me respond. First of all, you're being a Holocaust denier by comparing the Holocaust to the self-inflicted wound,
Starting point is 00:31:22 the Palestinians. Let me finish. Let me finish. You're denying the Holocaust. Let me finish. By claiming that there's an analogy. By claiming there's an analogy between the Holocaust, 6 million people, innocent killed,
Starting point is 00:31:39 and the self-inflicted boom, you say Palestinians were, let me finish. Palestinians were forced to leave. They were not forced to leave. In 19, let me finish. I'm going to finish. You don't want to be interrupted, but you constantly interrupt.
Starting point is 00:31:54 acceptable to conduct this discrimination. Do you accept me as an equal human being to? You have to let me finish. Not a single Palestinian would have been displaced. Had the Palestinian leadership accepted the UN offer of a partition plan where the Israel was established where there was a majority of Jews and a Palestinian state where there was a majority of Palestinians, the Nakhba was a self-inflicted wound.
Starting point is 00:32:23 nobody would have been displaced. The Palestinians would have had their... You're not allowing me to speak. You're claiming that I'm rude. I'm not going to use that word because you've proved it yourself. But the point is that if the Palestinians had simply
Starting point is 00:32:39 said yes in 48, said yes in 67, said yes, 2002, 1, said yes, 2005, said yes, 2007. There'd be no displaced people. This is not me speaking. This is Bill Clinton speaking. These are the records.
Starting point is 00:32:55 These are the official records of the United Nations. I helped to draft a little bit, 267 of the United Nations, which would have provided a basis for a two-state solution. The Palestinian leadership said no, because they did not want there to be. I need one minute. I'm going to leave it there.
Starting point is 00:33:13 We've won other time. We've run out of time. I'm sorry. No, no, I'm sorry. One minute. Just one thing. Israeli historians, Israeli historians. Abishlai,
Starting point is 00:33:23 an Israeli historian at Oxford. He's a phony. He's a phony. He's not an Israeli historian. He's a pro-Palestinian. There is no Israeli official document that shows that any Israeli government accepted the partitioned.
Starting point is 00:33:38 Okay, you've responded. That's the end of the debate. I appreciate you both coming on. Thank you for coming on on on censored. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:33:46 Thank you very much. Well, two weeks ago, a nurse from Wales made global headlines after viral clips showed him begging Egyptian security forces to allow him another humanitarian activist to cross the border into Gaza. Allow us to march to Gaza.
Starting point is 00:34:00 We're peaceful people, we're good people. We're Muslims, we're Christians, we're atheists, we're Jews. We are humanity. We are here for humanity. What are you here for? You don't have to do this. You don't have to follow the orders.
Starting point is 00:34:21 Please, I'll go on to my knees and I will beg you. Allow us to march the Palestine. Please, you've got to listen to me. Well, that nurse was Lee Evans. He says he's previously worked as a nursing guard. He won many plaudits for sincerity, but also many detractors. And this week he divided opinion again
Starting point is 00:34:41 after being filmed outside the Senate in Wales, chanting this. I will not be censored. I will not be censored in my own country. So death, death, death, death to the IDF. Death, yes, no, yeah. Well, Lee Evans joins me now. Mr Evans, thank you very much indeed for joining me.
Starting point is 00:35:02 I just want to start with you chanting death to the IDF. When you're campaigning to stop people being killed, why is it a good thing to then immediately yourself start to call for people to be killed? Firstly, the IDF isn't a people. Well, it is. It's a bunch of people who form an army. It's the militarised arm of a Zionist. occupying force, which facilitates apartheid, and a starvation of two million people in
Starting point is 00:35:34 Gaza. They are human beings. They are human beings. You seem to be very, very appalled by. Well, they're human beings? No, no. Each individual soldier is a human being, and I know a lot of them, and I've worked with a lot of them that are now working to facilitate peace and the freedom of Palestine. But nobody believes people. It's a bit like the rapper at Glastonbury. Now, you, when you say death to the IDF, everybody knows what you really mean, and it's a call for IDF soldiers to be killed. What else going to be saying? No, the institution of the IDF should be dissolved, disseminated,
Starting point is 00:36:09 because I've been there many times, and they are facilitating what I can only compare to Nazi Germany. They are completely facilitating an apartheid. They shoot innocent people. They shoot children. So criticize them, but don't call for them. Don't chant death to the IDF. Call for, criticize the IDF.
Starting point is 00:36:31 I also chanted death to the arms trade. Now, the arms trade isn't a person either. No, it's not, obviously. The IDF. Yeah, arms trade is not a person. The IDF is the Israeli defense force made up of soldiers. Everybody knows this. The arms trade is made up for people who run businesses selling arms.
Starting point is 00:36:53 Right. You're perfectly entitled to your views. I'm sure I agree with a lot of your views, but when I hear people chanting death to other people, it negates the effect of your campaigning. It makes me think you're just as bad as people of campaigning. I understand the misperception. But it's not a misperceptionally, is it?
Starting point is 00:37:14 Come on. It's me you're talking to, not some clue. And I've not talked to you before. I know, it's good to have you on the program. And a lot of what you say and do, I have sympathy with. But when I hear people, try and pretend that when they chant death to America.
Starting point is 00:37:28 It's not when people chant death to America. What do they mean? They mean death to Americans. No, if you're not going to listen to my point, then there's not much I can say, is there? The IDF is not a person. And we have not named any individual soldier. So would you say death to the British Army? Would you chant death to the British Army?
Starting point is 00:37:56 Well, if I had. cause? Well, we waited an illegal war in Iraq, for example. Would you have chanted death to... I actually went there as a nurse. Right. So would you, would you, would you feel comfortable with people chanting death to the British Army? Yes or no? For the genocide that they've caused, yes. And for the genocide that Britain has caused through history. So you would now say that death to the British Army. So you want... Oh, that's what you're saying here. Is that what you're saying? No, it's what you're saying. Well, I thought you just said it. No, you just did. So you wouldn't countenance chanting death to the British Army.
Starting point is 00:38:32 You think that's wrong? It's not a constructive argument and you're not listening to what I'm saying. You're trying to push your own agenda. And I campaigned against this at the Daily Mirror. The British Army waged an illegal war in Iraq, which was completely wrong, which caused mayhem, the rise of ISIS, the deaths of a million people. But I had a brother who served in the British Army. And I would have taken grave exception to anybody chanting death to the British Army.
Starting point is 00:38:56 Because I would have taken that. as a direct threat to kill my brother who was serving his country. I would have been imprisoned if he deserves in his position. So this is my point about this, this casual use of chanting is actually quite dangerous.
Starting point is 00:39:10 And in the wrong people's voices and impressionable heads, it can lead to people actually thinking what you mean is killing human beings. And I just don't see how that helps a campaign to stop human beings being killed. Okay, I can see a perspective and I can see the line of,
Starting point is 00:39:27 thought that you're going down. My initial thoughts when I first heard that chant were that I found it very, very strange that somebody chanting death to the IDF, which isn't an individual person, can upset the Western media so much that they have, it's a five-day debate on it, whereas the IDF caused the actual death
Starting point is 00:39:51 of hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians. Why can't they both be wrong? I can't. both those things be wrong at the same time? Absolutely. The violent loss of any life is wrong. Right. You didn't feel uncomfortable with thousands of people. Thousands of people at a music festival,
Starting point is 00:40:08 ironically, a music festival, and I say ironically, because of what happened in October the 7th, where hundreds of innocent young Israelis enjoying a music festival were slaughtered by a terrorist group. Which is awful. Thousands of people in an audience at an English music festival join in a chant of death to the IDF. And you have no problem with that.
Starting point is 00:40:32 I'm not saying that I haven't got a problem with it. But you don't have a problem with it. You did it yourself yesterday. You don't have a problem with it. You did it yourself yesterday. Yes, because I believe that the IDF should be dissolved. Should die should so long exist. So you know what, Lee?
Starting point is 00:40:49 Say that. That's fine. Criticize the IDF as much as you like. Say that a lot of what they're doing in Gaza now is unacceptable. indefensible, as I've been saying. Not just in Gaza, in the hall of Palestine. But when you incite a chant in front of thousands of people of death to the IDF, many people assume it means
Starting point is 00:41:07 death to the members of the IDF who are human beings. You may not like them, you may not like what they do, their order to do it by their government. And I just feel like it doesn't help the cause when you're trying to stop the killing to just call for killing. That's my point. I wasn't calling for killing. I was calling for the death of the IDF,
Starting point is 00:41:25 which aren't individual people. people. I think it's a convenient to the arms trade, which also isn't. I think, in all honesty, I think it's an excuse that everyone's latched on to when they saw what had happened to this rapper
Starting point is 00:41:38 at Glastonbury. And even he's now joined in by saying, that's what he really meant. And I don't believe him. And I don't believe you. But I, listen, in other areas of what you've been saying, I have a lot of sympathy. But I appreciate you joining me on Unsensor. Thank you very much. I appreciate you giving me the chance. I've been
Starting point is 00:41:54 on television all over the world since my impassioned appeal to the Egyptian police. But none in Britain have even asked me a word about all I did. I've had you on and I appreciate... I know. I admire your intestinal fortitude for it. I really do. It doesn't take that. I like to have everybody on and I like to have vigorous debate. And look, some stuff I'm sure you and I would agree about and some stuff we wouldn't. But I've got to leave it there, Lee. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:42:21 I'm being joined now by the columnist of political commentator Owen Jones. Somebody else who I suspect on this issue of what the island is. IDF is doing in Gaza, we'd have a lot of agreement on. But you and I locked horns a little bit on X a couple of days ago about what happened at Glastonbury. I just felt, I mean, when people try and pretend what they mean is, well, we just mean the entity. We don't actually mean IDF soldiers. It's disingenuous. When a crowd charts death to the IDF, what they mean is they think IDF should be killed.
Starting point is 00:42:49 People talk about the death of institutions all the time. Kirstarmer, when he said the NHS must reform or die, did he mean, and maybe you should probably, give a bit of warning to doctors, nurses and patients around the world. Does he literally mean they're going to be killed? Of course not. So does, sorry, just to be clear, there. You're comparing, you're comparing. You think that the NHS, so when people say the NHS will die,
Starting point is 00:43:09 literally they'll say the NHS will die without reform. Are they saying that they're going to be the mass murder of doctors and patients and nurses? So to be clear, when you watch that rapper at Glastonbury chanting and leading a chant with thousands joining in of death to the IDF, you instinctively believe. He said it himself. He said. He said it himself. Well, no, no, no. Well, yes, you're right.
Starting point is 00:43:28 Look, unlike you and I, we're both a verbose commentators. Correct. Let's be honest. We write at length, sometimes in pithier tweets, but I like to write at length what I think. And I think the idea should be dismantled. That's fine. Yeah, ah, but he said himself, it means the dismantling of a violent... He said it since the furor he blew up. But he also said he's opposed to death of Jews, abs or any of the race of group of people on piss.
Starting point is 00:43:48 I don't want to be rude, but that puts him in a rather different category than not your pro is well. Hang on. When did he post that? Well, the next day, he's... Of course. What do you mean, of course? It wasn't the next day after. So you're saying that a rapper should have done a long-verbose statement on stage. He's a rapper.
Starting point is 00:44:02 His initial response, as you know. Let's just be honest. Oh, and hang on, hang on. Let me respond. His initial response to the next day was not to apologize for anything, to cite his daughter and school meals. He shouldn't apologize. Right.
Starting point is 00:44:15 That's fine. He doesn't have to. No. Free speech, he doesn't have to. But he was dropped by his talent agency. He had his visa revoked so he can't go on the tour he was planning in the United States. And then we saw this. clarification which bore striking resemblance to what people who tried to justify it had been
Starting point is 00:44:31 saying on social media, which is, I didn't mean soldiers. I meant just the institution. Can I put this scene? I honestly am interested to see what you think, because what, you know, well, I'll come on to the false equivalence you also made. If the Russian army on Friday, if Russian officers and soldiers had confessed that they had been ordered to deliberately shoot Ukrainian civilians who had, they had been ordered to starve already. They put a total siege on Ukraine for several months. They had been ordered to shoot dead those unarmed starving civilians.
Starting point is 00:45:03 And they had killed over 600 of them, including an 18-month girl who they shot in the chest. And then the next day, having seen those reports, people chat at the death of the Russian army, would you honestly, and you really do need to answer honestly here? And I want to just say it from the heart, would you honestly regard that as an outrage?
Starting point is 00:45:20 Or would you regard that as an obvious emotional, response to an absolutely unbelievable war crime. Right. So you accept then that the rapper was talking about soldiers? No. You don't? People call for the death of the Russian army all the time. Do you believe him 100%? Yes. But when he said death to the eye death, he didn't mean individuals.
Starting point is 00:45:40 Do you believe that? Well, he's actually unlike, and this is the irony, do you know what the irony is? Well, does answer my question first? Yes, I do. And actually, it's... Because I want to read you something. Can I just... I want to read you something.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Well... Because new footage has emerged. and circulated today a Bob Violin saying on stage, villain, death to every single IDF soldier, May 2025. To be honest, I mean, I don't know about that footage because I haven't seen it. To be honest, that still puts in, I'm afraid to say, Pierce, in a better category than most of your pro-go-guess. But he's completely contradicted everything you've just said.
Starting point is 00:46:17 I'm not Bobville. I'm not Bobill in Spokesperson. By the way, I'm not playing got told that myself. Fair enough. They've literally put it on the iPad, because it's gone around today. Fair enough. I would never, myself. But clearly, that shows his actual meaning was not what he put as an excuse two days later. What he meant was death to every single IDF soldier.
Starting point is 00:46:36 So then the argument becomes your one about the Russian troops in Ukraine. And my point is, coming from a family full of military, military do the orders of their government. Often on pain of imprisonment. I'm afraid to say. You may want to say that that's not. the case, but actually an army goes into battle of the orders. When we went into war against Iraq
Starting point is 00:46:58 in 2003, many of those soldiers would have had serious misgivings. So who is accountable? Tony Blair, who orders them in or the soldiers who do their job? Pierce, we established it Nuremberg that I was just following orders is not a legal excuse. You're absolutely
Starting point is 00:47:14 right. The perpetrators of genocide should be hauled before the courts. That's principally the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu and those at the top, but Israeli soldiers who are massacring knowingly unarmed civilians, it doesn't matter. They are legally required, trickly, they are legally required to refuse to enact those orders.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Now, just on that point, by the way, people like myself oppose sending IDF soldiers into Gaza, and if that had happened, not only would hundreds of thousands potentially of Palestinians' lives and be saved and not maimed and all the rest, but those hundreds of Israeli soldiers wouldn't have been killed either. A lot of your guests, ironically, the pro-Israel guest, supported sending hundreds of IDF soldiers to their deaths
Starting point is 00:47:55 in pursuit of what is a genocidal campaign of extermination. What would you have done on October the 8th if you've been Israel? What would you've done if you were the Palestinians on the 7th? Well, hang on. 3,000 terrorists have come over the border. Right. They've annihilated 1,200 people. They've captured 250 plus hostages.
Starting point is 00:48:13 7,000 people were wounded, many of them with irrevocable injuries. What would you have done if you were... The problem with this is you're saying, if I was an apartheid state, which had deliberately systematically... No, no, no, if I'd repress... Because if I was Israel... If I was Israel, I would create a single state...
Starting point is 00:48:30 So what would you have done, nothing? Well, what I would have done is, if I was... Suddenly the Israeli state... Yeah. Probably what I would have done is dealt with the underlying causes of what happened. You wouldn't have responded to that.
Starting point is 00:48:43 Well, you would send the soldiers in the here and now to prevent... Where? Civilians on the borders. On the borders, they failed to defend because they were in the West Bank, a pogrom at the time, Pierce. But you wouldn't have gone after the people
Starting point is 00:48:54 that did it. Everyone who commits war crimes needs to be held sent to justice. The international... I saw my question. No, no, but the international criminal... Yes, it is. Do you believe that Israel had a right to defend itself?
Starting point is 00:49:05 Gaza, as you know, under international law, wasn't another state. It's occupied legally as per international law. But all the terrorists came from Gaza. Yeah, because... So did Israel have a right to defend itself? Again, this...
Starting point is 00:49:18 Do you know why regard this is so... offensive to the worth of Palestinian life. I'll tell you why. In 2020... Do you think Hamas cared about the lives of Palestinians? No, I haven't argued that. When they committed that... You know what I think of October.
Starting point is 00:49:31 We don't have to, 632 days into genocide, have to start going back to do you condemn Hamas? You know my views on that. We don't arm... That wasn't my question. We don't arm and support Hamas. I said, do you think Hamas cared about the lives of Palestinians when they launched that attack?
Starting point is 00:49:45 Having built an intricate tunnel system which protected Hamas, but exposed the civilians. I don't know what Hamas is not relevant. Of course, it's relevant. No, it isn't relevant. I'll tell you why it's not relevant. I'll tell you why you would find...
Starting point is 00:49:57 Hamas is irrelevant? No, you would find this question offensive if I put it to you. If I had said to you, in 2023, 240 Palestinians had been killed that year by the Israeli state, including 40 children, what else was Hamas supposed to do on the 7th October? What would you say? Are you justified?
Starting point is 00:50:14 No, no, that's the point. I'm saying, you would say correctly, there was never any excuse for war crimes. This is an outright. outrageous question for you to be responding to a terror attack isn't a war crime. What has happened in the last few months to me has now crossed the line between legitimate self-defense to the worst terror attack of modern times against the Jewish people, has gone mile past that into, and clearly from what people like Smoddridge is saying, has gone into a plan,
Starting point is 00:50:41 it seems to me, by the government, to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians, which is a war crime. No, so it's so easy if you do Smotchurch as your bogey now. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah. Because he says it on camera. Yeah, no one doubts at Smotridge and Ben-Givir are deeply impeccent, mass-murring genocidal mania. Well, people do deny, unfortunately a lot of people coming on show. But he should be in prison, okay? From the very beginning, Israeli leaders and officials made clear they were going to commit a genocide.
Starting point is 00:51:06 They made clear they saw no distinction between civilians and people. And the problem is people like yourself. Now, you're literally fueling a continuing rampant campaign about a rapper and what he said on stage. Well, a rapper you've done. defending because he said he only meant the entity. And as we've now discovered, he said he meant death to every single IDF soldier. You got that
Starting point is 00:51:28 at the same time as I did. So at how most base of his podcast? But given that, do you know accept that your defensive him was a little bit wrong? I support. Well, let's watch the clip. Here. And death to every single IDF soldier out there as an agent of terror for Israel.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Death to the highway. I've known you a long time. I've a lot of respect for you. You just have to admit when you hear that, you were wrong to defend him in the way you defended him. He didn't mean IDF the entity. He didn't mean IDF the entity. But do you accept now that you were wrong? He didn't mean that. We both, I didn't hear. I've only heard for the first time. You've heard that. So what, now you've still say he only meant the entity.
Starting point is 00:52:10 Well, no, obviously now he's made clear what he meant like that. So you're wrong? Yeah, because I obviously. I know. I'm not saying you should have known. I'm just saying that I found the defense very disingenuous by everybody. And I felt what he'd done, and this has now been proven, I think. He'd gone on social media. He'd seen people coming up with this ludicrous defense,
Starting point is 00:52:30 but he only meant the entity. And then, knowing what he'd said on stage, so knowing what he said on stage, he issues a statement saying the complete opposite that he's read from people like you defending it. Now he's made all of you look like complete prunes. No, the people I'm defending principally are the people in the audience.
Starting point is 00:52:45 I do not believe thousands of people attending Glasthamry was supporting that. And what I find actually even more grotesque, to be honest, and this is what I've found to the test. That view, which I don't support, I don't support killing anyone, which is what idea of soul just shouldn't be sent. So then we agree. Shouldn't be sent into Gaza to kill and therefore we kill.
Starting point is 00:53:02 Hang on, hang on, then we agree. No, your guests... You don't believe in killing it. I agree with you. Most, your guests, who you treat as respectable people on the show, have more extreme views than he does. On which side? On which side?
Starting point is 00:53:15 But what about the pro-Palestinian guests I've had on? Who the Israelis say are the most extreme people in the world? The war crimes being committed... Do you only care about extremists on one side? Sorry. Because I don't. I care about extremists on both sides. The war crimes being committed by Israel are infinitely worse.
Starting point is 00:53:30 Than what Hamas did? Absolutely. How many people have been killed in Gaza? How many people? Depending on what report you believe, between 50 and 70,000 have been killed. Absolutely not. The Economist, for example, which as you know... Well, I've seen those reports.
Starting point is 00:53:42 No, no, no. We support the onslaught, 109,000 people. These are unsubstantial numbers. Under international law... It is generally recognised by the international... community that is between 50 and 70,000. No, it isn't. What are you talking about? Absolutely not. Sorry, the international community is the international community of the Western States who are
Starting point is 00:53:58 arming and supporting Israel as it commits genocide. The economist, and the economy supported Israel's onslaught. 109,000, that's just violent deaths. We know from other conflicts, this isn't a conflict, this is genocide. The vast majority of people die from non-violent causes. Now, the reason what he said, which I do not support, by the way, there is... Well, that's good. Less extreme. Less extreme than your guests is under international law, it's legal to kill competence. It is not legal to kill civilians, either because of
Starting point is 00:54:26 disproportionate actions, intentionally or recklessly. Your guests, who come on this show, who are pro-Israel guests, they support an onslaught, which doesn't just kill combatants, but kill civilians. That is more extreme than what that man said, but you don't treat them as that.
Starting point is 00:54:42 Why don't you treat those people as more extreme than that man? Why? You've talked for a long time. I mean, I think we actually agree. You just don't want to admit we agree. No, you don't accept Phil with the idea for doing. You don't accept it. As you know, I have said very publicly now for many weeks, in fact, since the start of the year,
Starting point is 00:54:58 that what Israel's been doing in Gaza in the last few months... Is it genocide? Has crossed... I don't think it is genocide. This is a real problem. Hang on, no, it's all a problem. It is a problem because you're a genocide denier. Hang on.
Starting point is 00:55:09 I'm not a genocide. You are. Do you think Israel's committing genocide? Yes or no. Do you know what genocide is? Yes, I do know. What do you think it is? Genocide is the attention to destroy a people in whole or in part.
Starting point is 00:55:20 Right. Do you not think that's what's happening for Palestinians of guns? Do you think they're trying to kill every Palestinian? That's not the definition of genocide. Which genocide is every single person being killed? I think what is happening is more ethnic
Starting point is 00:55:30 cleansing, okay? It's how I would describe it. We can disagree. No, no, no, this is... You can disagree. A lot of people thinking it is genocide. It has not been officially declared a genocide, right? What does that... Obviously, the International Court of Justice is the only arbiter you could point...
Starting point is 00:55:44 No, just quickly, they would have to take years to do that. Okay, let me just put... I would call it what Smodrich is talking. about is ethnic cleansing. A consensus of genocide scholars believe Israel is committing genocide. And that includes just quickly Israeli scholars of genocide, Omar Bartov. He's a professor of genocide and Holocaust. You ask you what I think. No, no, no, no, no, but this is what I'm going to ask you, because we're talking about experts. People actually dedicate that life. But many experts say it is not. No, name, okay, let me quickly, Omar Barthov, Raz Segal, these are only Israeli genocide scholars. Amos Goldberg, Israeli professor of Holocaust history. Daniel Blatman, he's the head of the Institute. What CICC said?
Starting point is 00:56:20 The Israeli has... The ICC is still investigating and their charges aren't public. Now, come up with another... What's it said? Well, we don't know because they've been ordered nor... We do.
Starting point is 00:56:27 We do. We do know that it has not declared it a genocide. Yet. Right. There's evidence that is potential. I agree with that. Can you tell me... I agree with that.
Starting point is 00:56:35 By the way... Piers, can you give me a single... Can you tell me a single genocide scholar... Owen. Who thinks it isn't genocide. Let me get a word in. Okay. My biggest problem with all of this
Starting point is 00:56:45 is that you and I can argue but toss about numbers and this and that scale and genocide, the ethnic cleansing and so on. The reason we don't know more about how to assess this is because British and international journalists have not been allowed into Gaza and do their job.
Starting point is 00:57:01 On that, I think we completely agree, right? If the international journalists were allowed in, they could get to the bottom of all this stuff. I think when they finally get in, we are going to find evidence of appalling war crimes. I really believe that. I believe that is why the Israeli government continues to ban international journalists.
Starting point is 00:57:17 So it may well be that when the journalists get in, that you and I meet again, and I say to you, I believe the bar for genocide was met. At the moment, I don't. So can I believe the... Pierce, Pierce, I believe... That's my honest. Please, can I ask you?
Starting point is 00:57:32 Can I ask you? You spoke for a long time there. I read several genocide scholars. There's a consensus of genocide scholars who believe this is genocide. I'm asking you to name me one... Well, I'll just name the ICC who have not ruled that yet. We don't know that. We do.
Starting point is 00:57:46 They haven't yet. Sorry, the ICC, just quickly, is this true or not? Do you know this? The ICC have ordered any future charges cannot be made public. We don't know what other charges they've made. The bar for genocide because of intent is much higher. Right. So we don't know what charges they're going to make.
Starting point is 00:58:05 So we don't know what genocide yet? You've just submitted it? No. Or did you not? It takes years that process. The legal process takes years. So why don't we wait for that to determine whether the genocide on that? We can rely on the evidence of genocide scholars who dedicate their lives.
Starting point is 00:58:18 You think you know better than genocide scholars. You think the scholars know more than the ICC? Maybe they do. Well, we don't because the ICC takes years. It's clearly an arguable point. Well, it isn't because the ICC take years. That legal process takes years. Now, for example, on the night, this is, again, on the 9th of October,
Starting point is 00:58:36 the head of Cogat, the Israeli general in charge of Cogar, he said, this is Dr. Sorry, the Major General Gassanallion, he said Hamas has become ISIS. He said, the citizens of Gaza are celebrating, instead of condemning. Human beasts will be dealt with accordingly. You will get no water or energy, just damage.
Starting point is 00:58:54 You asked for hell, you wanted hell. That tweet was addressed. It was a video. The tweet was addressed to Hamas and the residents of Gaza. Do you accept that's genocidal? I think it falls into the category of what I've said repeatedly. Why is that not genocidal? Well, it's genocidal language. Okay, so he's the...
Starting point is 00:59:10 Who is he? He's the IDF general. Smodrich is an only member of the government. IDF in charge. Smoddrich talks in genocidal language. I don't dispute that. So you accept intent. is there. You're asking me to... You're asking me...
Starting point is 00:59:20 You ask me, do I believe yet it is genocide? I do not. Do you believe there is genocidal intent? I believe there's genocidal rhetoric. No. Well, what's the difference between rhetoric and intent expressed by a minister and the general? Describe to me the difference between a genocide
Starting point is 00:59:36 and ethnic cleansing. Well, ethnic cleansing is just the forcible removal of people from their land on the basis of ethnicity. Genocide is when you attempt to destroy people in whole or in part. You don't You don't actually need to kill people to do that, by the way. So by your definition, Strebenica is...
Starting point is 00:59:52 So there's not a lot of difference. Do you think Trebenica wasn't a genocide? So I categorise it as a plan to do ethnic... Do you believe Strebenica wasn't a genocide? No, hang on. Let's stick on this. No, no, hang on. It was a judicated genocide. It's not a genocide according to you.
Starting point is 01:00:06 Let's stick on this. Why? I have said, I believe, that Smoddrich is planning ethnic cleansing. Right. Maybe what is happening here, right? And you think it's genocide what's going on. I think it is ethnic cleansing. is the plan, and there's not a lot of difference between them.
Starting point is 01:00:22 Right? You accept that? Well, genocide means... So you think I'm sort of denying genocide. I'm saying I think the bar has been met for me of ethnic cleansing. Because it's come out of smodging in mouth. Ethnic cleansing doesn't actually have legal standing. It's a term which was a youthful... No, it does. It's a war crime.
Starting point is 01:00:37 No. Well, it doesn't exist. It is a war crime. You know that. Ethnic cleansing is... It's a war crime. Sorry, the term ethnic cleansing doesn't exist as legal language. You're talking about forcible displacement of people from the homes. Oh, that's a war crime. But by your definition, Srebrenica,
Starting point is 01:00:52 which, by the way, lots of Israeli leaders claim isn't genocide. They were allied, many of them, to the Bosnian Serbs, who had huge amounts of sympathy for. They said it wasn't a genocide. Is it a genocide? I believe it was. Okay. Do you think there are a hinger?
Starting point is 01:01:04 Is that a genocide? They haven't exterminated the vast majority of the ringers. I prefer to wait. Sorry. You're right. I'm getting excited. You're getting nervous, aren't you? Very excited.
Starting point is 01:01:16 But look, let's just conclude with things we agree. about. Okay. Right? Is your position now about Bob villain, given what we just watched, that when he's chance death to every single IDF soldier, you would condemn that? I don't support Ken. I don't want any soldiers to be killed. The way to stop that is to stop IDF soldiers committing genocide. And just to clarify, in light of what we've just seen, would you now withdraw your defence that he was only talking about IDFing an entity? His statement was obviously not correct. He didn't say that. But as I said... Do you wish you hadn't defended him now?
Starting point is 01:01:48 Well, I wouldn't have defended him on the basis of his state because the state is... Well, you said he was only specifically talking about the entity, not people. Well, that's what he said, Peter. But obviously... But that's what people... Yeah, but he lied to you, didn't they? Well, the statement is not true. But I have to say...
Starting point is 01:02:00 He lied to everyone. I'll say, Piers, he's less extreme than most of your guests, because your guests... That's a different argument. No, it isn't. It isn't. Because you don't show... Well, I take them on. Do you watch my show? Yes, and you don't show...
Starting point is 01:02:09 Have you watched me taking on the Israeli guests? You treat those Israeli guests as having respectable views. You always have. In the first... Have you watched him the last few months? In the first month... Have you watched the show? Do you support...
Starting point is 01:02:20 I don't think you've been watching the show, have you? I don't... Why don't you ask... Why don't you ask Israeli Twitter or Zionist Twitter what they think of what I've been doing on the show? All the way through... You would know exactly how I've been treating the pro-Israel government guests. In the first month...
Starting point is 01:02:34 And you wouldn't be saying this. In the first month... You haven't watched, too of it. Be honest. I'd watch many of your guests who were pro-Israel who treated... Did you watch the interview... Did you watch the interview with Israeli ambassador? Yeah, and she's very easily upset.
Starting point is 01:02:45 She's very easily to... The lawyers for Israel, Natasha, House Dawes, did you watch that? Did you watch the interview with the minister this week? I've seen you from the beginning. Come on. Interview pro-Israel guests and treat them with deference and respect. These are people who support killing civilians, not soldiers. I've also treated.
Starting point is 01:03:04 It's legal to kill soldiers. It's not legal to kill civilians. Apart from the family. It's illegal to kill soldiers, not legal to kill. How did you watch the show for the last few weeks and months? You would know. I don't watch it every one, Pierce. I don't think you've watched it for months.
Starting point is 01:03:16 I've seen you what... But there we go, because you're admitting that, is for the first part of the genocide, when it was clearly a genocide, you were treating pro-Israel gas. Yes, it was. No. They said from the beginning what they were going to do. Was the obvious response, which Hamas... When was the most lethal month?
Starting point is 01:03:30 Hamas... When was the most lethal month? Of Palestinian civilians. Yes, first month. Okay, so when they were wiping Gaza from the face of Earth, where Gaza, within three months was a different color and text you were looked at from space, when they had exterminated, that had the biggest, worst, Trishon, when... When Israeli leaders and officials were making it,
Starting point is 01:03:47 they did not see a distinction between civilians and officials, you don't think that was genocide, and you were treating those people as though they had respectable views. But their views are more extreme than Bolivia. I thought the Israeli military response was a direct response to Hamas's official spokesman saying, on camera, for the world to see, we're going to keep trying to do more and more October the 7th.
Starting point is 01:04:08 Did you think this about Rwanda? You keep to think, what about it? No, it's not what's about it. It's about consistency. What happened in Rwanda? What's the difference? I'm not going to talk about every conflict around the world. No, no.
Starting point is 01:04:18 You've asked me a direct question. You've asked me a direct question about the first month in which Israel bombarded Hamas in Gaza. They murdered innocent civilians. They killed lots of civilians. Well, it's not murder if you were doing a proportionate response to a terrorist. It wasn't proportionate. I kept asking what is proportionate.
Starting point is 01:04:37 Right. I have now concluded in the last few months, it's gone way proportionate. But this is the thing. You spent months. You don't blame her. It was in the first few weeks. It was in the obvious... Do you not blame on mass?
Starting point is 01:04:47 No, the war crimes. I blame them for their war crimes. You don't blame them for what Israel then did? Every war crime, Israel committed is on Israel. So a mass built a massive tunnel network. They then launched the worst terror attack on Jewish people... What you're saying has no legal standard. Since the Holocaust.
Starting point is 01:05:00 And when Israel inevitably responds the way they did, that's not on Hamas. There was no legal basis for what you just said. You cannot say when you commit war crimes, I was made to do them. Every war crime, legally speaking, that the Israeli military... But I don't think what Israel did not... the first few months was a war crime. But that's like saying... It was a defence against Hamas doing it again.
Starting point is 01:05:19 But you wouldn't say that about the 240 Palestinians who've been killed by the Israeli military in the months before 7 October. But what's the difference? Israelis have also been killed throughout the 75-year conflict. Well, you can go back over 75 years and you can say each could respond to the other. But they've always done it on a much smaller scale.
Starting point is 01:05:38 You accept that. And you accept what Hamas did in October the 7th was on a scale totally out of guilt. with anything that had happened on one day before. Do you accept that? Obviously, they killed... And you accept it by... But what Israel has done since, it's infinitely worse.
Starting point is 01:05:54 By building the tunnel network, do you accept that Hamas protected themselves at the expense of the civilian population? Israel wiped out civilians... Do you accept that? Israel attacked civilians targets for others. Do you accept that Hamas knew what was going to happen? Benjamin Netanyahu.
Starting point is 01:06:07 Do you accept that part? Again, it's irrelevant to the point of Israel attacking... Irrelevant? To Israel attacking civilians... Israel knew exactly, the Hamas knew exactly what was going to do? Israel in the first week was given a list of 100 targets by his general. And he said that's not enough targets. I want 400.
Starting point is 01:06:27 And he said, destroy their homes. That's what he said. This was revealed in an Israeli newspaper. Now, the idea that they were, you know, the reason that they slaughtered so many civilians in that first week was because of tunnels is a lie, Pearson. You must know that something. No, no.
Starting point is 01:06:42 It wasn't my question. My question was, do you not. think that when Hamas planned this attack and carried it out, having spent 20 years building this tunnel network, they then hid them the tunnels and let their civilian population take the inevitable bombardment that was going to come back when they committed the attack they had committed. In other words, Hamas sacrificed their own civilian population. You're trying to deflect from Israel's direct. No, no. You're saying that we know Hamas committed war crimes, everybody accepts that. So when any country, when any country, Israel is guilty
Starting point is 01:07:13 of the war crime, it perpetrated. So to be clear, then, your position is, if a country has a terror attack on the scale of what Hamas did to Israel on October the 7th, any response by that country militarily is a war crime. Is that your position?
Starting point is 01:07:28 If you commit... No, if you kill civilians through either disprocantiality, legality or intention, Israel made clear... It's not a war crime. Israel said from the beginning, Israel said from the beginning,
Starting point is 01:07:41 they were fighting human animals. understand international law. Yes, I do understand international law. A war crime is... It's not a war crime. A war crime doesn't mean if you're attacked, you can break international law the norms of war.
Starting point is 01:07:53 It means you have to abide by the norms of war. It's not a war crime for a country to defend itself against terrorists. Israel committed war crimes from the very beginning. We will establish the truth about the war crime in due course. Do you think Israel wasn't committing war crimes from day war crime?
Starting point is 01:08:06 I don't know. They wouldn't let journalists in. I don't know what they were doing. They did it on camera piss. They did it on camera in front of the whole of the life. Is there any military response is a crime, and that's not true? That's not what I said. It's pretty much what you imply.
Starting point is 01:08:18 The reason this has happened is because Israel has been committing war crimes for generations. Literally the Nakhberman with 15,000 Palestinians were murdered. And in the 17th years of the conflict, every one of the five wars has been started by... That isn't true. Well, who started them? Each of the wars. That's true. Each of the wars.
Starting point is 01:08:41 Absolutely not true at all. But we're talking about the Palestinian people here. Are you saying the Palestinians... You think all five outbreaks of war on the 75 years were started by Israel. The Palestinian people didn't start any of those wars. Arabs started the wars. So just Palestinians just get lumped in with Arabs.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Did Israel start those wars? Did Israel start those wars? Did Israel... We're talking about Palestinians here. I just said Arabs. Yeah, but we're talking about the war on the Palestinian people. And they're right to exist. Is Israel ever allowed to defend itself? Israel needs to become a single state
Starting point is 01:09:10 from the river to the sea, in which Jewish people, and Palestinians have equal rights. That's what it needs to do. And until that happens, they will never compete. I believe in a two-state solution where they all get the same human rights. On that, I agree.
Starting point is 01:09:21 But the reason, the war crimes, which you keep erasing, because you keep stopping off... I want to see the evidence of the war crime. So when it comes, when it comes, I will be the first to lambast them. They did them on camera.
Starting point is 01:09:32 But I prefer due process on these things. Yeah, but when they declare, when they declare to the war world, they're fighting human animals, and they're going to... From the very beginning, they said, I would call Hamas human animals.
Starting point is 01:09:42 animals. They didn't say, they said civilians. They said the residents of Gaza and they said they were cutting off at the very beginning, water and fuel. Is a deliberate siege of a civilian population? Is that a war crime? Yes or no? Certainly, if you're asking me, do I agree with the occupation? No, I'm talking about the siege. They announced the siege of Gaza. No, they shouldn't
Starting point is 01:10:00 have been able to do it. Is it a war crime or not? Probably. So you accept they committed war crimes from day one there? I think the siege that they enacted because they were able to, is indicative of the wider, bigger picture problem of the occupation. I agree with that. But that, so you conceded the point,
Starting point is 01:10:15 that this doesn't begin, obviously, in the several... Of course not. But then... I've never said that. You would never say... I think you should watch my show more often. Well, I've got... It's good to have you back.
Starting point is 01:10:25 It's good to have you back. But honestly, life isn't too short for you to be better informed about what I do on my show. Well, you don't accept Israel to be genocide. You throw out all your generalisations, which make me think you haven't watched it. You don't think Israel's committing genocide.
Starting point is 01:10:36 You'd be better informed if you watch my show more often. Do you think Israel's committed genocide? As you were about our friend, Bob Violin. Israel. It turned out, made you look a right chum. Well, you look more of a chump when you won't accept to us, let's committing genocide. Which is really easy to do.
Starting point is 01:10:48 You could just say it now. Is Israel committed genocide? When the ICC says it's genocide, I will say it's genocide. That's the only time you're waiting. That's kind of a legal process I'm waiting for. Okay, so you will never... But we're running out of time. Okay.
Starting point is 01:10:58 It's good to see it. If Hamas, you don't think Hamas has gone on time. Come back again soon. Okay, fair enough. You've not waited for the ICCC to make their case? No, because Hamas broadcast it on their own go-pros. So have it as well. We're committing war.
Starting point is 01:11:11 It's literally on camera. Thousands of war crimes are. You know what? We've run out of time. Literally the studio has run out of time. However, I would love to have you back more often. I enjoy our debates. Actually, we agree with a lot more than probably people think. You do need to move over to accepting its genocide. I think that would be very important giving your platform influence.
Starting point is 01:11:29 And there may be a time I do that. Okay, well, let's see. It's good to see. Appreciate it. Thank you. Here's Morgan on Sensen. It's proudly independent. The only boss around here is me. If you enjoy our show, we ask the only one.
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