"It Haunts and Shames Us": Former Israeli Soldiers Speak Out on Gaza

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Zeteo.com
Mehdi Unfiltered
May 10, 2024


This week on "Mehdi Unfiltered," two Israeli military veterans reveal how serving in the 2014 Gaza War fundamentally changed their views on Israel's violent approach to the Palestinians.

After serving in Israel's war against Gaza in 2014 and seeing their country's military operations up close, Benzion Sanders and Ariel Bernstein, two former special forces soldiers, turned into anti-occupation activists and have been speaking out ever since against their country's brutal oppression of Palestinians.

They joined Mehdi Unfiltered to discuss what they learned from their own Gaza experience and how they view the current Israeli campaign in Rafah -- and the right-wing trends in Israeli society.

"Destroying a whole neighborhood and all the building that we've seen and been inside for no apparent clear reason, seems to me -- I don't know if it's a war crime or not, according to international law -- but it seems like a crime. It seems like something that I am ashamed that I took part in," Bernstein told Mehdi.

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1. Looks like Mehdi is doing a hit piece on President Biden.

On Biden…

In his opening monologue, Mehdi addressed President Biden’s response to Israel’s invasion of Rafah, calling on the president to do more than just “a single pause of a single arms shipment.”

“Pick up the phone, Mr President. End all of this, right now,” Mehdi said. “You, Joe Biden, can end this disastrous Gaza war and do all of that, or you can spend the rest of this year trying to conjure up a response to pro-Palestine protesters at public events of yours, as they heckle ‘Genocide Joe’ at you.”

Exactly how does he think Biden, the United States President, can end this all with a phone call? He is the President of the United States not the president of Israel, so how can he end this with a phone call?

Does Mehdi Hassan go on to say how this can happen? What exactly is Joe Biden expected to do in that call?

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2. Two Israelis? Mehdi found two Israelis out of nearly 10 million? Now, what are the odds of that?

Well, the odds are exactly one in five million.

That's remarkable detective work for a journalist.