Jeffrey Sachs
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That's your idea, that for the millions and millions of people there, you will exterminate them or ethnically cleanse them or rule over them in some racially segregated society.
And then you want others to, then when others object to that, you say that they're out to destroy you.
Why don't you show that you have a human reason, that you have a human decency, and say that in conditions of peace,
There would be a Palestine, yes, of course, because there are 8 million Palestinians.
And in a situation of peace, we could have calm with the rest of the region without going to war, subverting governments and so forth.
But you don't try to do that.
Netanyahu's position is
There's no possibility of diplomacy.
We must kill them before they kill us, but without trying to have any peace, without trying to understand that there are legitimate, deep, moral, legal, and historical reasons for doing something different from greater Israel
that kills, maims, destroys, expropriates the Palestinian people and claims territory seemingly wherever they want in Lebanon or Syria and who knows where else, according to Ambassador Huckabee.
So I don't give...
Any credence to Netanyahu because his starting point is not only fear, but his starting point is something obnoxious, which is we don't recognize the people that live among us.
that we have expropriated, that we have taken the land, that we have killed by the tens of thousands, that we have denied basic political rights.
And without that,
How can he think that there could be some kind of solution?
So Netanyahu's absence of an exit ramp starts from his own radicalism, not only from his fear, but from a complete absence of diplomacy that recognizes that there's another side that needs to be dealt with as human beings.
And where that extremism comes from is...
I'm not sure.
It's very pathological.
You could find it in some religious extremist views that this is our land.