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“To Destroy An Entire Place, An Entire People, is Never Justified”
EXCLUSIVE: Watch my opening remarks at the big Gaza debate in New York on Saturday, against former Netanyahu spokesperson Eylon Levy.
Mehdi Hasan
September 23, 2024
“Were Israel’s actions in the Gaza war justified?”
“To Destroy An Entire Place, An Entire People, is Never Justified”
EXCLUSIVE: Watch my opening remarks at the big Gaza debate in New York on Saturday, against former Netanyahu spokesperson Eylon Levy.
Mehdi Hasan
September 23, 2024
“Were Israel’s actions in the Gaza war justified?”
That was the question posed at the debate hosted by the organization ‘Open to Debate’ in New York on Saturday evening, in front of a live audience of more than 500 people.
I was onstage against former Israeli government spokesperson (and gaslighter-in-chief) Eylon Levy, and I didn’t hold back, pointing out his long list of lies on Israel’s behalf. I also went through the kids killed, the ‘safe zones’ violated, the aid trucks blocked, and the torture and rape of Palestinian detainees. How could any of that be justified, I asked Levy, again and again. Unsurprisingly, he had no answer whatsoever and even insisted Israel owed no explanation to anyone for its (illegal) actions in Gaza. (At one point, he hilariously pretended not to be able to hear me.)
I’m told that ‘Open to Debate’ plan to release the full debate video online in the coming days but, in the meantime, we here at Zeteo have been releasing short clips from the debate on both our Twitter and Instagram pages.
Finally, let me say this: Free Palestine!
I was onstage against former Israeli government spokesperson (and gaslighter-in-chief) Eylon Levy, and I didn’t hold back, pointing out his long list of lies on Israel’s behalf. I also went through the kids killed, the ‘safe zones’ violated, the aid trucks blocked, and the torture and rape of Palestinian detainees. How could any of that be justified, I asked Levy, again and again. Unsurprisingly, he had no answer whatsoever and even insisted Israel owed no explanation to anyone for its (illegal) actions in Gaza. (At one point, he hilariously pretended not to be able to hear me.)
I’m told that ‘Open to Debate’ plan to release the full debate video online in the coming days but, in the meantime, we here at Zeteo have been releasing short clips from the debate on both our Twitter and Instagram pages.
Finally, let me say this: Free Palestine!
Thanks,
Mehdi
