Hasan Piker

And a lot of people were not receptive to that message at all.

And some of which actually became haters of mine and left the community where I lost a third of my entire community for like the first year of Israel's maximum violence, Israel's genocide, where people simply did not want to hear that message at all.

But I know and I knew back then that as long as I say the truth,

that one, history will vindicate me, and two, as long as I say the truth, there will always be people who are more charitable and more receptive to that regardless.

Because I see no reason in sheltering people from that perspective.

Do I obviously manage in a much longer format and a much longer conversation like the one that we're having?

Yes, I am obviously more capable of explaining that position,

But I think saying what I said there that Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel cuts across that narrative in a way that I think even liberals have to think about because

someone who is immediately reactive to that kind of sentiment that goes, wait a minute, but liberal, but Israel is a liberal democracy.

It's the only democracy in the region.

Why is he saying that?

They understand at least one part of it where they think, okay, he's saying Hamas killed 1,200 people.

A third of them were soldiers.

A third of them were military men.

People who are like, you know, active duty in the military and then civilians as well.

Israel has done that, you know, a thousand fold to the Palestinians.

So I think like even in the most reductive ways, even in the most reductive ways to try to comprehend what I'm saying there, people can understand that.

Like, I think people are not stupid at all.

We assume that they're stupid.

We don't do that when the dust is settled.