Abbas Amanat

This is a memory of suffering.

And I find it enormously difficult to believe that a nation that's the product of so much sacrifice, suffering, loss of life,

and variety of Holocaust above all, would find itself in a position not to give the proper justice to a people who could be their neighbors.

And that is a moral argument which I cannot believe under any circumstances can be accepted.

Second, in real terms, what do you want to, you want to commit a genocide?

Do you have a population there that you have to come to terms with it?

And you cannot just postpone as they did.

Since 67, they're postponing and hoping that it goes away somehow.

I don't think it's going to go away.

And it's going to get worse rather than better.

Of course, I tend to agree with you fully.

And unfortunately, this is a very critical situation that this region is facing, Iran in particular.

I would say that I hope that in the minds of the people of Israel,

There is enough or common sense to realize that probably escalation on the Israeli side is not in the favor of anybody.

And try to let the Iranians to go on with their empty rhetoric as they do so far.

But at the same time, I cannot deny the fact that

You know, there is a danger on the side of this regime and what it says.

It cannot be denied.

Nobody can justify that.

Particularly because the Iranian population is not behind this regime.