Interview · moment 13 of 17
Hollywood's Dueling Letters and the Hostage Crisis
from A Case For Israel with Noa Tishby | The Tim Dillon Show #368 · #368
5 min
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They discuss competing Hollywood celebrity letters calling for ceasefire versus hostage release, list the celebrities involved, and detail the ages and circumstances of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.
- The letter calling for hostage release deliberately avoided calling for a ceasefire because you cannot expect Israel to stop three weeks after the October 7 massacre.
- Tim compares the situation to America's campaign against ISIS, arguing nobody was timing America with a stopwatch demanding it stop immediately.
- Many celebrities who signed anti-Israel letters have a pattern of opposing Israel on every issue, making their positions predictable.
- There is space for someone to say Israel has the right to defend itself and exist while expressing caution about the military operation's humanitarian costs.
- Hamas is turning water pipes from Gaza's infrastructure into missiles rather than allowing them to supply the two million civilians.
- This is a war Israel didn't want, and those concerned about civilians should be equally concerned about the hostages.
- Anyone calling for a ceasefire should also be calling for the immediate release of all hostages without exception.
- Hamas is conducting psychological warfare by releasing hostages two at a time, one here and there, turning the hostage situation into a prolonged disaster.
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