Jake Tapper of CNN (Video screenshot)
By Harold Hutchison
Daily Caller News Foundation
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett sparred with Jake Tapper during a Tuesday CNN appearance over his call to “denazify” Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Bennett laid out the call as part of a proposal to ensure that the deadly terrorist attack carried out by Hamas on multiple locations in southern Israel Oct. 7, killing over 1,400 people. On Monday, Israel agreed to extend the cease-fire with the radical Islamic terrorist group by two days after multiple groups of hostages were released since Friday.
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“The first thing is to fully disarm Gaza and ensure that there is no more arms, no more explosives there after we dismantle and eliminate Hamas. The first thing is to kill the Hamas leadership and the terrorists, then clean up Gaza from weapons and explosives so something like this can never happen again,” Bennett told CNN host Jake Tapper. “The third thing I would do is create a buffer zone into Gaza about on and a half kilometers deep, which would be a no man’s land between Gaza and Israel so this sort of thing can’t happen and Israel would retain overall defense responsibility, but we don’t want to govern the Gazans.”
“So what I think we would do is create an interim technocratic self-government that would stay for about five years, govern Gaza, denazify Gaza, which means clean out all the incitement, that education that all Jews are pigs and devils, and after five years, we would revisit and figure out how to create a sustainable government,” Bennett continued.
Tapper questioned Bennett, citing concerns about free speech.
“What do you mean by denazify? No free speech? People can’t say nasty things about Jews?” Tapper asked. “Get rid of them how?”
“Free speech doesn’t mean educating and poisoning the minds and hearts,” Bennett said.
Bennett cited Hamas propaganda that promoted antisemitism. Hosts on one children’s TV show aired by Hamas taught young children to shoot Jews.
“When people are incited with propaganda from the moment they’re born, through they are 20 years old, that all Jews are pigs and devils and need to be slaughtered, they go out and slaughter Jews,” Bennett said. “If it is something that we used to sort of procrastinate on, or not take care of, we can’t ignore it anymore.”
IMPORTANT NOTE TO WND READERS: Shortly after Hamas terrorists fired over 5,000 rockets from Gaza into Israel on Oct. 7 and then proceeded to attack the Jewish state by land, sea and air – torturing, burning, beheading and murdering well over a thousand people, including women, children and infants, and wounding and abducting hundreds more – world reaction was, in its own way, almost equally shocking.
For after the biggest one-day mass slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, what followed was an outpouring of celebratory demonstrations, unbridled Jew-hatred, deliriously gleeful support for Hamas and bitter condemnation of the nation of Israel. Not just in the Arab-Muslim world, but throughout the Western world as well, including all across America.
Why? What is behind the explosion of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, pro-terror sentiment in the United States, where Israel has long been one of America's closest friends and allies? Why are hordes of young "woke" LGBT demonstrators marching in support of Hamas – when Hamas wouldn't think twice about binding and blindfolding them and throwing them off the roof of a tall building – as they routinely do in the Muslim world?
It turns out there's one area of agreement that is so powerful, deep-seated and all-consuming that the vast differences between the deranged left and the murderous jihadists melt away into Kumbaya harmony.
All of this and much more is completely exposed in November's issue of WND's critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled ISRAEL VS. GLOBAL JIHAD: How Jew-hatred, radical Islam and Leftism are pushing us toward World War III. Beyond a deeply insightful dive into why leftists are surging toward radical Islam – which hates and dreams of raping and butchering them – this Whistleblower issue includes fantastic articles by everyone from top Israeli analyst (and former Israel Defense Forces officer) Caroline Glick to Harvest Christian Fellowship's Pastor Greg Laurie on the current war in Israel and biblical prophecies regarding the End Times … which he says are now upon us.
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