Joining us now we’re so fortunate to have with us and of tali bennett who served as the thirteenth prime minister of israel from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two that mr bennett thank you so much for joining us when you left off as you found to stay away from politics for at least a decade but now you’re back maneuvering with a new opposition bloc in the hopes of beating prime minister netanyahu.
ill as you well know six hostages were found murdered just over the weekend there could be dozens more still alive how would you act differently to get them home
what i would do is apply a tremendous pressure on hamas pressure that is not been used know for example oh israel right now is allowing a huge vast amounts of glove fuel and the other resources into the strip and all of this go
directly to com os and that giving them the lifeline to continue holding out at when president biden was as monday of netanyahu was doing enough to reach a hostage deal he said point blank know just tonight netanyahu’s nemesis pentagon said he does not look directly at the public can tell the truth claims netanyahu is less interested in
cutting a deal and more interested in simply staying in power by appealing to israel’s right would you agree
I think of the most important thing in order to get this done is to apply tremendous pressure and right now we’re operating at about five percent intensity we are very few forces right now in the gaza strip there’s not a real war going on there’s
Minor presence of idea of this is not how you win a war if you want to win a war you got a fight two hundred percent not five percent and i would add just as a question because you’re suggesting that it’s not a full on war when you have more than forty thousand people who have died at this point palestinians
-what at what cost does israel defend itself
-well a great deal of that number one i would say over fifty percent are terrorists and i think we all agree that it’s a wonderful thing when are murderers and the terrorists
-disappear well that’s what you did to been lot in and that’s what we’re doing to ah
-of these horrible horrible murderers so that’s a good thing actually are our ratio of collateral damage is one of the lowest in history of urban warfare now the fact that the the are mom.
But let’s say twenty thousand ah gaza civilians have died it’s because hamas deliberately wanted them to die because they embedded themselves within civilians so the in all the blame and responsibility falls only only on hamas not on israel when you’re a coward and you go and murder and rape israelis and then you run back and hide behind your own family-
-then you are responsible for killing your own family
-a you’ve said you don’t believe in a two state solution
-why not a two state solution and what would be your proposed solution
-because they’ll kill us
-there’s no way to live in peace
-not with people want to kill you
what what what we’ve learned over the past the bar thirty years is every time we gave the palestinians are a piece of land instead of building it into a beautiful singapore they turned it into a terror state and began killing israelis it happened first time in the ninety
when we we did our slow it happened the second time in two thousand and five when we gave them all of the gaza strip and they began shooting rockets at us and and later on or october seven is weren’t going to kill ourselves a third time it’s a horrible horrible idea to inject
a terror steak on on our borders what isn’t a hamas separate from the will of the palestinian people the palestinian people elected hamas in democratic elections
right but there are palestinians there who are saying that they could live in peace right let me let me ask you this what yeah there are but then it’s all very minority it’s a minority in every poll and the most important poll of elections out of one hundred and thirty two two seats in parliament hamas got seventy six that so much much more than fifty percent so if the palestinians elective hamas and hummus is a murdero