Israeli Lawmaker's Dire Warning – with Ofer Cassif

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Click here for the full interview with Ofer Cassif: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/israeli-lawmakers-dire-warning-with?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and chat live with Katie and Aaron in the Absurd Arena at www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Fox News Guy is SO Over Palestine https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/fox-news-guy-is-so-over-palestine?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Join the Absurd Arena live chat with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est at https://usefulidiotspodcast.com/chat “I am not anti-Israeli,” explains Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif, who was suspended from the legislature for 45 days after criticizing Israel’s “fascist assault” on Gaza. “The government is anti-Israeli. The government undermines the security and the well-being of the state and its citizens.” Cassif, who is Jewish and served in Israel’s military, goes on: “Because I stand with Israel, I stand against the government of Israel. Because I stand with Israel, I stand with the Palestinians.” Rational, empathetic voices like Ofer’s have become not only controversial in today’s political culture, but illegal. “There is now persecution of every and any voice which is in opposition to the war, to the assault on Gaza, or even expresses any sympathy for the children of Gaza. People who try to demonstrate are violently beaten by police.” And after the interview concluded, Ofer called us back to share an ominous breaking update: “Netanyahu and his thugs use the smokescreen of the war to impose a martial law on Israeli citizens, predominantly Palestinian ones: PROTESTS ARE PROHIBITED AND CAN NOW BE ANSWERED WITH LIVE AMMUNITION, workers and students are suspended and dissidents are persecuted for posts on the social network. “I plea to the world - supporting the Israeli government is not supporting Israeli people - it is supporting fascism, death and dictatorship. If you wish to help Israeli people in this dire time - support the peace movement, not the warmongers who waged a war against their own people!” Subscribe for the full interview with Ofer Cassif where he responds to Bernie Sanders’ refusal to call for a ceasefire, the only way to find a solution to this war, and his dire warning if we continue on this path: “We are on the verge of an international or even world war, and everyone is going to pay the price.” And after listening to the extended interview, we challenge you to find any US politician with half as much journalistic knowledge or bravery to criticize their own government as Ofer Cassif. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper, one of your two hosts.
0:10.0	I'm your second host, Aaron Matte. Hey everybody. Very excited to be joined this week by our guest,
0:15.6	Opharic Cassif, who is an Israeli politician. Very excited to talk to him. He's taken a lot of heat
0:22.4	for his positions, including getting dismissed by the parliament. So very excited to talk to him.
0:28.7	And as always, we invite you to give yourselves the gift of a useful idiot subscription.
0:35.2	So you can see the full interview that we do with Opharic as well as the full interviews we do every
0:39.9	week. And also, of course, the Thursday Throwdown, which is your midweek dose of media madness,
0:44.7	which is when we react to midweek media clips that are really ridiculous. And boy, oh boy,
0:50.4	they ridiculous this week. And this week's Thursday Throwdown features such luminaries as Fox News
0:56.7	host Jesse Waters, who claims he's done with Palestine, which is a huge, a huge blow to the
1:02.5	Palestine. It's all there to move in Jesse Waters. It blocks the huge ally known for his staunch
1:06.4	advocacy for Palestine rights for equality. And then we feature a whole bevy of U.S. lawmakers
1:14.0	using this current moment to dust off an old favorite, which is calling for bombing Iran,
1:19.6	because why not? Why not? Yeah, that's what the world needs now. You can ratchet it up.
1:25.5	That's right. Yes. Forget diplomacy. And you can do that, of course, at useful idiots podcast.com.
1:32.0	But it wouldn't be a useful idiot's regular show without the four basic food groups.
1:37.6	Democrats suck, Republican suck isn't that weird, isn't that terrible. I have Democrats suck.
1:41.6	And boy, oh boy, does it break my heart to do this Democrat suck?
1:47.2	Let's just go to the tweet. This is Bernie who used to be called Ammo Bernie affectionately,
1:52.7	which is Uncle and Arabic. He earned that nickname for his good work around Palestine.
2:03.6	And sadly, he tweeted this on October 25th. Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas,
2:09.8	but innocent Palestinians also have right to life and security. I'm calling for humanitarian
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