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It was just a few seconds of him kind of being abusive.
He's done it in Palestinian prisons too.
He always does it.
A lot of times.
He goes into Palestinian prisons and glories in the sadistic nature of the treatment.
This time though, it has really blown back on him and you're getting condemnations from across the world and even across the Israeli spectrum saying that this is not, also by the way, this is something you should know as we talk about this.
Ben-Gavir is the head of the prison system.
Prison system has been in the news globally lately
because of the systemic abuses reported on towards Palestinians by Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times.
A couple weeks ago, we ran a co-written kind of first-person piece by two women, a German and an American, who had been on the last flotilla, and they described their experience in this prison system.
One of them was brutalized on multiple occasions.
The other was raped.
And this is a German and an American, the two countries, two Western countries that are most supportive of this government.
And so let's run through some of the backlash that Itamar Ben-Gavir is getting.
We put up D2 here, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs.
You knowingly caused harm to our state in this disgraceful display, and not for the first time.
You have undone tremendous professional and successful efforts made by so many people, from IDF soldiers to foreign ministry staff and many others.
No, you are not the face of Israel.
I don't even know where to start from that, or start with that.
Let's go to D3 before we collapse into some psychedelic type of seizure.