Dinesh D'Souza

So turning to Israel in a kind of fundamental way, I want to go to the root of the matter by saying quite simply that, first of all, the Palestinians are not native to Gaza, right?

If you go back to ancient times, the Jews were in Israel, but the people who were in Gaza were what the Bible calls the Philistines.

And the Philistines are actually Europeans.

These are people from Greece.

They came from places like Cyprus and they occupied Gaza.

So the Palestinians are not native to Gaza.

That's not, quote, their land.

It's certainly not their land going back to ancient times.

They are not the original inhabitants of that land at all.

Nevertheless, Israel said, all right, everyone keeps talking about a two state solution.

Well, let's have one.

Why don't we let the people in Gaza choose their own government?

And in the early 2000s, they elected Hamas.

elected by the people became the legitimate representative of Gaza.

Now, I admit that they didn't have subsequent elections putting their legitimacy in question, but the truth of it is they had built deep roots in Gaza.

And so when the October 7 attacks occurred,

occurred.

And I think, you know, Myron has done a lot to try to minimize those things.

The simple truth of it is when somebody else attacks you first in this way, you are not bound by any rules of so-called proportionality.

It's sort of like saying if someone does a home invasion on me, let's just say my wife kills my kids and then he runs off and he's got nine kids of his own.