Interview · moment 6 of 17
Is Israel an Apartheid State? Gaza, the West Bank, and Hamas Funding
from A Case For Israel with Noa Tishby | The Tim Dillon Show #368 · #368
5 min
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Tishby pushes back on apartheid state claims by citing Arab-Israeli rights and representation, distinguishes Gaza from the West Bank, and they debate whether Israel funded Hamas to undermine the PLO and avoid a two-state solution.
- Only 15 million Jews in the entire world, fewer than LA's population, and Israel is the only Jewish state while there are 21 Arab states.
- Tim acknowledges Hamas attack was barbaric and Israel has right to defend itself, and affirms Israel's right to exist.
- If Jewish people have a cabal they might as well start acting like one, since the accusation keeps coming.
- Zionism is simply the Jewish people's right to a state and self-determination in parts of their ancestral land, not an exclusively Jewish state.
- Israel is not an apartheid state; it's the only country in the Middle East where the Christian population is growing.
- Within Israel proper there is equal rights, one person one vote, with Arab Muslims on the Supreme Court and Arab judges sentencing former Israeli presidents.
- Gaza was never occupied by Israel; the West Bank is under military control pending peace negotiations with Palestinians.
- Caller presses whether Israel actually funded Hamas to keep it more extreme than the PLO, suggesting Israel prefers chaos to two-state negotiations.