“The War In Israel Is A Defensive War" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr Defends Israel's war against Hamas

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“The War In Israel Is A Defensive War...I don’t See that Israel Has A Choice” RFK Jr

TRANSCRIPT:

I look at the Israel war and I see a defensive war. Israel was attacked on October 7th, but not just October 7th. It was attacked for 16 years prior to October 7th with an average of 2000 missiles a year being fired into civilian centers.

I don't see why people are blaming Israel. I think it's a mistake to conflate Hamas with the Palestinian people. Hamas has been the worst enemy to the Palestinian people. It has been a proxy of Iran, and it is pursuing a different objective than the than the welfare of the Palestinian people.

Oh, I don't see that Israel has a choice. There's no country in the world.

You have an organization, Hamas, that is sworn to the destruction of Israel.

It has in its charter not only that it wants the annihilation of Israel, but also that it is against Islamic law to even negotiate with Israel except as a ruse.

People say, you know what we want is a cease-fire. What happens in a cease-fire? Isn't a ceasefire just a an opportunity for Hamas to regroup, rearm, and then attack again, which it says it's going to do.

It says this is just the beginning.

October 7th is the beginning of a whole series of October 7s. And it's as good as its word.

There have been 5 cease fires to date and every one of them, Hamas has used to rearm, regroup, push the banner and attack again. At some point, if you're Israel.

And this last attack demonstrated, I think to everybody in Israel, and this war is overwhelmingly popular in Israel because people understand that this is no longer a tactical problem, it is now a strategic problem.

They tried to handle it tactically for 16 years.

They did something that no nation in the world has ever done, which is to build the Iron Dome so that...

They're dealing with a neighbor that’s firing missiles...If Mexico decided to reclaim Texas. And started firing 2000 missiles a year onto San Antonio in Houston.

It would take us 5 minutes to go get rid of the people who were doing it.

Any other nation in the world would do that.

And you know, the offensive wars are legal under Article 5, the UN charter for a good reason is that you know a nation has an obligation to protect its people, to protect its borders.

So you have a, you know, you have a group that has pledged to it's destruction.

And I don't see how Israel has any choice except to go in and get rid of the group.

Unless they're going to negotiate, which they will not negotiate.

They've already said, "we will not negotiate." By the way, every other country in the world that got in this position would surrender.

Israel has won the war.

Why is Hamas not surrendering? It is hiding behind its own people.

It is ensuring their deaths rather than doing what the Nazis did, what, you know, the Japanese did, what everybody else, what the Iraq did, which is to say, "yeah, we're going to surrender, we're not going to put our people through this." Why are people blaming Israel?

I mean the question we should ask ourselves, are we blaming Israel just because it’s a Jewish state.

Anyway, that’s maybe the beginning of a discussion for you, but that's, you know, a simple statement of why I take this position.