Israeli Channel 12 News has published what reads like a very horrible and awkward recording of a meeting held by previous Hamas-held Israeli hostages, and families of current hostages and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara.
Throughout the meeting, Benjamin Netanyahu disregards the families concerns and speaks to them in the most horrible psychotic manner imaginable.
I am publishing a part translation of the transcript as translated by journalist, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim.
Meanwhile, protests in Tel Aviv have become a regular occurrence during the weekend as Israelis keep pressuring Netanyahu to force a ceasefire deal and resign from the government.
Transcript:
“We went through difficult things. I was beaten. I was tortured. More cruelty than we experienced is impossible in my opinion, Enough. I can’t stand that he is suffering there. I can’t stand that the women are suffering.”
Son of a hostage: Do you understand that there are girls being raped now? Because Biden understands that.”
Netanyahu: “Hearing your stories is shocking. I went through a captivity training session. I was beaten, but it didn’t affect me much, because I knew it was a drill. So I get hit, it hurts, I knew it was a drill. That I am not really in danger and that adds to the suffering.”
Hostage daughter: ” You can be remembered as the one who led the country to a better place or as the one who wreaked havoc here. You are the prime minister and you are responsible for the abductees, not Hamas and not anyone else. You are supposed to reach a deal that will bring all the abductees.”
Netanyahu: “What’re you proposing that I do?”
Hostage daughter:”I’m proposing that you sign a deal that will bring the hostages home. There’s a deal on the table!”
Netanyahu: “What deal? Which deal? Whoever told you that there was a [hostage-ceasefire] deal on the table and that we didn’t take it for this reason or that reason, for personal reasons, it’s just a lie. There are many things we want and they’re hard to get. For example, I’d like to walk to Italy on foot in a straight line… so if that’s what we need to do, it means drying up the ocean, so ‘let’s dry up the ocean, what’s the problem?’”
Released hostage: “I didn’t get an apology from you.”
Another released hostage: “And you didn’t take the blame.”
Sara Netanyahu: “There is also the army.”
Released hostage:” Who is the leader? He runs the army. He is responsible.”
Sara Netanyahu: “They don’t tell him anything. How is he supposed to know?”
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