[CLIP] Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Story Behind the Hamas Terror Attack on Israel

genocide is from the Greek word Ginos It Means A Tribe or a group of people and it's the suffix is killing wipe out you're wiping out so we've seen that we've seen it before with the effort of the Turkish government to try to destroy Armenians as a people we've seen it as you said with a wager and we've seen it of course with the Holocaust it's a massive effort to kill thousands of people but when they use that term for the Middle East then you think Israel is engaged in a systematic effort to wipe out the Palestinian people and you say to yourself well 21% of Israel is Palestinian and they have the highest standard of living outside the Persian Gulf and they have more rights they of voting they they have political parties they form the opposition in a way that's impossible in Gaza impossible in Syria impossible anywhere else in the Arab world that's not fitting the definition of genocide and when you look at the conduct of War if Israel wanted to conduct genocide they wouldn't be phoning people or dropping leaflets to get away and the people who would be subject to genocide would not be forcibly taking their own people and putting them in front for example do do people really who use that word think that in the Polish ghetto that Jews that were militant and resisting the gapo took other Jews and put them in front of them assured that the gapo wouldn't shoot them or did the Armenians who were fleeing the Turkish people the militant Armenians that wanted to fight back did they take other Armenian children and put them in and think now the Turkish people won't kill of course not so that doesn't happen what the Israelis are doing they don't fit any imaginable definition of a genocidal power it's very funny too there's a big debate going on as you know at UCLA there's a chant Israel Israel You Can't Hide we caught you in genocide but the the thing that I was curious about is you have all these Pro Palestinian PE and Middle East immigrants and students and leftists and they're all saying we caught you in genocide which is false but they themselves have been advocating for genocide because they have a phrase Israel a Palestine will be free from the river their Jordan River to the Sea the Mediterranean well that just assumes the complete liquidation of Jews and Israel so they're calling for it openly and then they're saying we caught you in genocide because you had the audacity to go back and hit us in Gaza City after we murdered a thousand of your people and we're calling our parents up and saying hey I killed 10 Jews Al Akbar come on great and so it's surreal it's La La Land and people and they think this is going to give them empathy and only a society that was completely morally bankrupt would give them empathy so there's something very sick going on there of this Cult of hatred Hamas has been autonomous Gaza has been autonomous from 2005 and basically we were forgetting the Israelis under Chiron said you export Greenhouse Industries for Europe you're all getting out it's not worth it fighting with Goin it's yours take it you've tried it with Egypt you tried it we tried it you're on your own and they elected as happens in the Middle East of government one election one time and they got Hamas and yes there a lot of innocent Gins but the 1988 Charter predated that election and in the charter it says that they're not interested in negotiations they're interested in Jihad to destroy Israel and they voted for it there's a western conceit that we project in a very paternalistic way what they should think and how they should and why don't you just read what they write rather than to project what you think they should write so we have a 1988 a Hamas chart they've altered a little bit for political reasons but it's all there and then we have the the ranning of the people in gutter who say you know what you stupid Western I'm I'm paraphrasing but you thought you were going to get Singapore we're not interested in Singapore we're interested in killing them and pushing them into the and that's what we teach our children from an early age so when you bring a little Jewish kid as a captive that's four or five they're going to get other children to sort of insult him why he's a captive and that's ingrained deeply into it and so the Western mind says money coming from the Gulf money coming from the UN restored money from the United States EU money hundreds of billions of dollars in this small little unave it's going to be like Singapore has a beautiful Beach Hyatt Regency they're all going to be here Western they can export fruit and vegetables in the winter to Europe they're not interested in that they're interested in destroying Israel period and you can argue why they became that way there were mistakes made but ultimately uh they have never had anybody in the West say I will support you only if you have regular elections and you stop this hatred of Jewish people and then if you do that we're willing to help you but not until and we never had any conditions on them Donald Trump came in and said you support terrorists we're not giving you the 700 million and there was an outrage that he was cruel but notice another thing is that I'm not necessarily happy about this fact but Donald Trump came in and he looked at what we're talking about and he said this man Soloman is not only killing people in Iraq and subsidizing the strategies of Hamas he's killing Americans and they did during the Iraq War he's got to go and he took him out and they said you can't do that and then he said Isis is an Abomination we're not going to put one troop on the ground to kill them but we're going to bomb the proverbial [ __ ] out of them and then he said there's no reason that we' give any money to people who support terrorism the 700 million's gone and then he said for all practical purposes they started these wars and they lost the Golden Heights and they used it to shoot down on civilians and it's been Israeli since 1967 and it's not going to go back and then they said Jerusalem is the historical home of the Jews it's Israel's Capital there's East and West the and each juncture he did that they said you bet our foreign policy establishment the best and the brightest the most sophisticated the Robert males of the world the Jake Sullivans the Anthony blinkin The Brookings Institute if you do one of those things you're going to blow up the Middle East nothing happened what blew up the Middle East restoring the aid lifting the sanctions on Iran sending them agreeing to pay them 1.2 billion dollar for hostages each uh telling Israel you've got to do this you've got to do that intervening in Israeli politics yeah that's that gave the impression that the United States was disting itself and favoring them and that encouraged them to do what they did you know it's it's a funny thing about the human mind deterrence or the ability to warn some somebody that you're unpredictable maybe slightly crazy but warn somebody we have the wherewithal that if you're foolish enough to start a war and a cost of benefit analysis you will lose and we'll show you before you do it how you lose that is a Humane mentality and it saves lives appeasement or mollification when you think I just don't want to be harsh I don't want to come across to to Bellic cost and weakness and guarantees war and human nature being what it is we damn the people who keep the peace like a rean And We Worship the people like Jimmy Carter who cause Wars and Joe Biden and Barack Obama and you know that as well as I do Yan about the Ukraine war there was a reason why Russia went in during the Biden Administration previously during the Obama Administration and a weakened Bush Administration but when he went into Georgia but not during the Trump Administration don't forget to subscribe to our alerts newsletter and you'll never miss an episode