Gaza

“I think that that has a huge negative impact on the longterm chances of peace, because then radicals will use that information to further or to attempt to radicalize the next generation of Palestinians or other Arabs or whatever. And so I worry that the progre…”

“I would consider The riots that we just saw in regards to the hospital and the eruption on social media to be a prelude or dress rehearsal of what we can expect to happen almost every day if Israel proceeds with the ground invasion of Gaza.”

“If they don't, Then I think that creates room for some sort of international diplomatic effort to get the hostages back and maybe deescalate the situation. And I guess we'll find out over the next week or so.”

“I personally think that that's still unlikely. And the main reason for that is I think Israel is determined to go in.”

“You do have a lot of civilian casualties, and those civilians have brothers and sisters and cousins and so forth, and that's going to lead to the next generation of terrorists.”

“The reality is, is the best way to improve the lives of the people of Gaza is to eliminate Hamas and put in place a structure where people can finally have the opportunity to live more freely and make better lives for themselves.”

“Before October seventh, I mean, over half the population lived under the poverty line.”

“I would, absolutely. It is the, it is incumbent on the president of the United States to extract Americans being held against their will by any foreign entity.”

“And I went with Netanyahu here. I think, and again, this is just my assessment. This isn't what I want to occur in the world, obviously. But every major Israeli poll is just suggesting that they want him out, and they put the odds, Vox puts the odds of his ous…”

“These protesters, their actions are gonna be judged in the fullness of time. I think there are actually good reasons to believe that Israel's war in Gaza, it's shades of Vietnam, and I think that over the long term, people may regard these protesters in a diff…”

“If Israel could actually destroy Hamas and achieve its military objective in Gaza, that'd be one thing, but I think we've seen that that's impossible. I mean, Hamas basically bleeds in with the population. It's indistinguishable, and the leadership is hidden d…”

“I think that it was, in hindsight, a pretty big miscalculation by Netanyahu to pursue the strategy that they did.”

“All I know is that there have been other conversations I've been privy to behind closed doors where senior people have been passed over because they are Jewish and because of the concerns of someone Jewish being viewed to be in a leadership position in an orga…”

“You know, I think we're sort of sleepwalking into Armageddon with you know, the Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza are just sort of the warmups to the China-Taiwan war.”

“We know that the majority of it is being siphoned off by Hamas and used as a weapon of war.”

“When Israel was going into Gaza, I thought it was too blunt an instrument, but when they went after Hezbollah, I thought they did it the exact right way”

“I've never seen anybody mismanage anything the way the government of Israel is mismanaging the response to what's happening in Gaza and the West Bank.”

“I do think what's happened in Gaza does not help the United States at all.”