Emma Graham-Harrison

And in America, we have the American ambassador, Huckabee, who's been really close to Israel.

And yet in the domestic Israeli political context, Ben-Gavir sees this video, this mistreatment as an advantage.

And, you know, after he was criticised publicly by the prime minister and the foreign minister of Israel, he doubled down on his video and in response to a post on X,

by the foreign minister.

He sort of quote tweeted him and said something like, the foreign minister should realise that Israel is not going to be pushed around anymore.

That's a paraphrase, but something completely defiant.

Absolutely.

He didn't even just leave it there.

He sort of came back at his domestic critics.

It's a coalition government.

So by its very nature, all Israel's governments since it was founded have been coalition governments.

You're going to be making a political pact with parties who see things differently from you.

So there's an aspect of navigating that.

Netanyahu's said nothing about politics.

previous behaviour by Ben-Gavir, which has drawn international condemnation, not on this scale, but, you know, he's got a record of making videos like this, humiliating and mocking Palestinian detainees while they're being abused.

But, you know, for him to come out with this very public statement and so rapidly, yes, that is unusual and I think reflects the scale of international disgust and opprobrium at this video.

There's over 400 of them.

They left Turkey a week ago in these boats.

They sailed towards Israel.

They were intercepted in international waters, which had already drawn condemnation.