Dan Pfefferman
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The first part of what Israel did was handle it incredibly professionally.
The second part with Ben-Gvir, and I very much agree to what you're saying and to what the previous guest was saying and to what our own prime minister and foreign minister was saying, was that it should never have happened.
This is not how
You manage these things professionally.
What Ben-Vir did with these protesters or flotilla participants being humiliated is not something that should have been done.
in a country that acts according to international norms, they should have been sent back to their countries and that's it.
Even during the height of the war, it has now come out by...
almost every single serious international organization, including the UN, there was never serious famine or starvation in Gaza, and certainly not now during the ceasefire, when plenty of aid by international mechanisms, including
Arab countries, including the United Nations, including aid organizations, is getting in with zero restrictions and zero problem.
I'm not sure where you're getting this information from, but it's completely detached from the reality.
I'm not aware of that.
From what I'm aware of here on the ground is that the aid gets in at more than enough levels for the population of Gaza.
So they shouldn't be treated like dogs.
And that's the one issue that I'll agree with you on.
They should be treated respectfully, according to international law, where everything else of this story, with the exception of Minister Ben-Gvir's debacle, was done according to international law and international norms.
You cannot send a flotilla to an active war zone with a naval blockade.
You're still talking about an internationally recognized terrorist organization that has since 2006, when it took over the Gaza Strip forcibly, been smuggling arms into the Gaza Strip.
I'm not aware of any other country in the world that would suffer these kinds of media stunt flotillas constantly trying to breach these waters and naval blockades in an active war zone.
This is backed by Turkey.
This is connected to Hamas supporters.