“I Can’t WAIT To Be Invaded!” Bassem Youssef vs Daniella Weiss On Israel-Gaza | Ft. Prof Marandi – Transcript

00:01I'm actually I'm quite honored to be in this interview. I am I mean I have been a huge fan of Daniela for a very long time. >> >> The glow in her eyes as she's celebrating manifesting her dreams of the bodies of the Palestinians.

00:17>> Well, >> >> I am amazed at this angle of support. These grains of sand are the things that are dear to the Gazans. I want my homeland to be inhabited by Jews.

00:37>> Yes, yes, yes. Screw them, you shake them. >> The best way to cope with enemy is to take what is dear to the enemy. >> I'm just amazed. I'm just I can't wait to be invaded. >> Nonsense. Take care of yourself, Iranians. Develop your country instead of spreading havoc in Iraq, in Syria as you did, in Lebanon, in Yemen, in Gaza.

01:00Wherever you go, you spread havoc and destruction. >> Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life as the Israeli opposition plots to remove him for good. He may yet survive as he has done so many times before, but if this really is the end of the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, his legacy will be debated for as long as he served. A man once known as Mr. Security is widely

01:26blamed for security failures on October the 7th. His great powers of survival are now clouded by the corruption, bribery, and fraud charges he's fought so hard to evade. Many also believe that history will record him as a war criminal who is directly responsible for death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. Today, we ask two big questions. What should Netanyahu's legacy be, and what happens next with the Iran war, with Gaza, with settler violence, and with Israel's plummeting

01:53global reputation? Joining me to discuss all this Israeli scholar and IDF intelligence veteran Dr. Mordechai Kedar, the author of anti-Zionism, a Jewish history, Benjamin Moser, and Tehran University Professor Mohammad Marandi. Well, welcome to all three of you. Um Dr. Kedar, we've been struggling on this show in the last 24 hours to get people to come on and

02:19loudly and proudly defend Benjamin Netanyahu. And I've been really struck by that. Um you, I believe, are happy to do that. Why are so many people beginning to turn on him, notwithstanding the fact he still may survive?

02:38>> Look, no doubt the man had some mistakes here and there, but what people see that in the whole Israeli political arena, there is nobody better, especially somebody who can convince other countries to save their own states with Israelis included from the big Satan, which is Iran. And and the Netanyahu actually this might be

03:05his legacy. The constant fight he is for more than 20 years. He tries to shake the world in the public arenas, in the United Nations, in Congresses, in many other places. He tries to convince the world that the real problem of the world is Iran, especially if Iran gets nuclear.

03:25Thank God there are some people in the world who understand it, because you know the missiles which the Iranians are producing reach London already. So, what exactly do they plan with nuclear weapons on these missiles? Okay, this might be his legacy to the world, save yourself from the radical Islam

03:49represented and armed by Iran. Not not not only this, also their partners. Qatar, for example, which buys everything which doesn't move, also in London, many many other places. Buys universities, buys buys politicians, buys media outlets, and this is the the couple, Iran and Qatar are actually

04:16buying the world in order to destroy it and to turn it into Islamic world. We know it, they write it, not in English, they write it in Arabic. But, whoever understands the mindset of these two countries, understands very well their plan. Netanyahu is apparently the one leader who is leading the global hopefully global campaign against this

04:44Islamism projected by Iran and Qatar. >> Okay, Benjamin Moses, you were pulling a number of faces as you were listening to that. So, I'll let you respond first. >> I just learned that Iranians are speaking Arabic all of a sudden. This is interesting. But, I think that this is These are the lines we've been hearing year after year after year. We're focusing on this person and on this politician. And I think out of respect for our viewers, we should say that when

05:10we're talking about this election and we're talking about this choice, we're not speaking about a legitimate election in a democratic country. We are talking about a election. It's true, there's an election. There were also elections in apartheid South Africa. There were elections in French Algeria. There were even elections in the Confederate States of America. But, I don't think that for modern people we would consider any of those to be legitimate elections. We have seen this figure be talked about.

05:37And it's funny that you can't find anyone to advocate for him because in fact, a great number of people in the Israeli public do support him and they support him quite quite vehemently. And the others don't really like him personally. But, they are agreed, united on three main goals.

05:54First of all, Jewish supremacy that they enshrined in the nation-state law in 2018. They're absolutely supportive of the genocide and of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and as the professor mentioned, they're very much united on carrying out yet another insane attack on Iran. So, we're dealing with something that is quite hard to speak about rationally in the terms of normal

06:20modern people. We're talking about really who's going to run the concentration camps. Who's the best capo? We're talking about who might you know, you might even say who's which inmates should run the asylum.

06:34And so, I think that when we're talking about Israel today, we're not talking about a rational place. I'm speaking from a Jewish perspective. We're talking about a state that covers the Jewish people with shame at its criminality and its genocide. And we're talking about something that cannot be reformed from within.

06:58>> Okay, Professor Morandi, two incredibly different views there of Well, I'll I'll come back to you uh Dr. Kedah, but let me bring in Professor Morandi because you know, Dr. Kedah made it clear that Benjamin Netanyahu's legacy will be the way he took on Iran and neutralized the nuclear threat from uh the Iranian regime. What's your response to him?

07:23>> Well, Piers, I don't engage with the Zionists from occupied Palestine and I should have said this to your producer beforehand. So, I'll respond to you and your other guest.

07:36Uh your your uh the the Zionist from Palestine uh he once said that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, period. And that of course is an anti-semite statement. He's from Poland.

07:50His uh mother tongue is Yiddish. And he's an Ashkenazi Jew. And the Palestinians of course in Jerusalem or in Al-Quds are semites. So, he is an anti-semite.

08:03But in any case, uh what is important for the world and for our region is that Zionism be dismantled. Just like as your previous guest rightly said apartheid was dismantled in South Africa.

08:23And that is the only acceptable model where the indigenous Palestinians are treated as equal human beings. And fortunately we see in more recent polls in the United States among young Jewish Americans almost half of them believe that in Palestine Jews and Palestinians must live side by side as equal human

08:47beings. So Zionism obviously does not represent Judaism as the youth in in the United States as Jewish the Jewish youth in the United States clearly indicate.

09:04>> Okay. Dr. Khadavi, I mean how do you respond to the charge that you're an anti-Semite? >> First of all, I keep myself from laughing. Secondly, look Arabs keep saying that they're not they are Semites. So then how can they be anti-Semites? So I say they they hate the Jews. Now Mr. Marandi speaks about Israel. I don't remember

09:30how many thousands your regime killed in the streets in January last January. 50,000? 60,000? 70,000? Recently, a week ago, another girl was hung up in in in your country only because she doesn't like the regime. And how many how many Iranians were butchered by the Khalqali

09:55court system in the '80s? Even Ahmadinejad was Mard-e Hezar-e Geluleh, the man with thousand bullets because of what he did to the victims of the Khalqali courts in the early '80s.

10:10This Iran is a country which doesn't mercy its own citizens. So, what do you think how how would they treat the Ahwazi Arabs? How they treat the Kurds? How they treat the Azerbaijanis? How do they treat the Turkmens and the Baluchis and the Lurs and the Qashqais and all the nations in Iran? Iran is not a nation. Iran is a

10:35dictatorship of the Persians who impose themselves on everybody else. There are like 80 ethnic groups in Iran and this is artificial state and what will happen with Iran is exactly what happened with the Soviet Union, with Yugoslavia, with Czechoslovakia. It's fate is to be dismantled, is to be shattered to pieces as it should have