Gov. JB Pritzker

And so I'm just expressing to you, and as somebody who grew up in a home where being Jewish meant fighting for social justice and economic justice, and believing in the fundamental values of, you know,

I guess I'll say Niemöller's first they came poem, you know, that that when you have somebody like Benjamin Netanyahu, who gets elected in Israel and leads that country to commit atrocities, starving children, starving innocent people as a matter of warfare.

Um, as an example, these are all things that are, I mean, you know, you, I have to step back and wonder why,

What has happened?

What has happened fundamentally?

Benjamin Netanyahu, honestly, it's like he moved.

I'm not suggesting I was ever a big fan, but I mean, way, way back, Benjamin Netanyahu was just sort of like a regular, I guess I'd say he was like a never-Trumper type of conservative.

and then he just slowly but surely because he thought it would get him elected and it did over and over again he became this right-wing zealot about what to do with gaza and the west bank and so the betrayal i think is that the leadership of the country

Because there are a lot of really great people who live in Israel and you cannot hold against the people of Israel what the leadership decided to do.

Let's also recognize, I don't want to overlook the fact, and again, you know, I remember when Hamas attacked and killed and raped Israel.

innocent people on october 7th i mean it that's also an atrocity right and so i don't want to forget that or or forgive that um but to your point we as a party and you know i i know you you know i i want to say we have to recognize when atrocities have occurred and then we as a

important carrier of values in the world need to do what we need to do in order to squash the atrocities and stand up for those who are innocent and being killed as they were in Gaza.

Now the question is, with Donald Trump as leader of the United States inviting somebody like Vladimir Putin

as he did, as I understand, last night to serve on a kind of peace board to decide what's going to happen in Gaza.

He's putting together where he's going to have Benjamin Netanyahu and an enemy of ours, Putin, making decisions about what's good for the innocent people who live in the Gaza territory.

what kind of a country you live in.

So we have to make sure that we're speaking truth to power.

And also just as a Jew, I have to, in my commitment to my faith, understand that

these values of mine, right, of fighting for social justice and people's freedom, that I have to apply that equally to the state of Israel as I do to other countries that have committed atrocities.

Yeah, I'm sorry.