Jeffrey Sachs

Well, Netanyahu said a couple of days ago that they're out to annihilate us, which is not true.

That's a heavy thing to say.

And it shows, I think, a deep part of

the psyche of Netanyahu personally and of one strand of Israeli extremism, which is the belief and it is taught

that they're out to annihilate us every generation.

And the Holocaust is used as the model that we can never tolerate this again, so we must fight together.

preemptively against anyone that would annihilate us.

Well, it leads to, as even Netanyahu said, a Sparta state, a state that is just a war state.

They've lost the capacity for diplomacy at all.

Israel, unfortunately, has no diplomacy at

It has diplomats, but the diplomats rip up the UN Charter or shred the UN Charter or stand in the podium of the UN General Assembly and accuse the whole world of anti-Semitism and hatred and so forth.

It's not diplomacy at all because one strand of thought is nobody can be trusted.

We have to kill them before they kill us.

If you live like that, you end up as a killer nonstop.

And this is definitely one tragic reality of the mentality of Netanyahu or others.

He's been...

killing before they kill us for decades he's a killer he has become a non-stop killer he kills in the name of self-defense but he kills in the name of preemptive self-defense and so if you believe that the others are out to kill you and you must not talk to them and must not try to understand or must not do anything else you end up as a non-stop killer

Netanyahu would say, oh, you're, I don't know if you, what he would say to me, not much nice, but he would say, you're so naive.

And what I would say to him is, but you, sir, have the idea, not out of any reason, but you have the idea that you will have a greater Israel and expunge the people that live

in your area that are not Israeli Jews.