The Extraordinary Silence...And What It Tells Us - Konstantin Kisin
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Summary
On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the 7/8/7 attack, we are witnessing a spectacular cascade of events that reveal the unvarnished truth of this entire debate. To my complete surprise, many prominent campaigners against genocide, who have graced our airwaves for the last two years, have either stayed silent or openly called for Hamas to reject the deal.
Transcript
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As regular viewers will know, Israel is not one of my issues.
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It's not a country I've been to, and until recently, not one I've commented on.
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When the terrorist attack happened on October the 7th, 2023,
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my reaction was a combination of horror and, strange as it may sound, curiosity.
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Whenever something happens in the world that I do not understand,
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my instinct is to try to learn as much as I can before forming an opinion.
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That's why I said little for a year after October the 7th,
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instead engaging with people on all sides of the argument.
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On Trigonometry, we interviewed pro-Israel voices like Ben Shapiro, Natasha Hausdorff,
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and eventually Benjamin Netanyahu himself, as well as those on the other side,
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like Norman Finkelstein, Bassem Youssef, and Ahmed Ford Al-Khatib.
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Eventually, having listened to the different arguments,
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I published what became my most viral article and video on the first anniversary of October the 7th,
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entitled Why I'm Off The Fence About Israel's War.
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In it, I attempted to logically analyze the arguments and reach a conclusion.
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In short, my view was, and remains, that many of the anti-Israel arguments are at best driven by emotions
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which are understandable but irreconcilable with the facts,
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and at worst, deliberate manipulations designed to weaponize our natural horror at seeing the realities of war.
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Now, as the second anniversary of October the 7th approaches,
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we are witnessing a spectacular cascade of events that reveal the unvarnished truth of this entire debate.
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And no, I'm not talking about President Trump's 21-point Gaza peace plan.
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I'm talking about the reaction to it, which reveals what this is actually about.
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The Trump plan is a roadmap to peace which delivers every single anti-war and pro-peace objective,
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the release of over 2,000 Palestinian detainees in exchange for just 20 remaining living Israeli hostages,
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a non-Israeli, non-Hamas administration of Gaza,
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a commitment against the displacement of Palestinians,
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and U.S.-mediated talks between Israel and the Palestinians
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many of the most prominent campaigners against genocide,
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who have graced our airwaves for the last two years,
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have either stayed silent or openly called for Hamas to reject the deal.
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who once published an extraordinary critique of our interview with Netanyahu,
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which she began by admitting she hadn't actually watched it,
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insinuating that Hamas should not take the deal.
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Her social media is a continuous stream of virtue signaling,
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with no mention of the fact that if you want to stop the genocide,
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hasn't even bothered to comment on President Trump's peace proposal at all.
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She's too busy making money from Charlie Kirk's murder
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by conducting her own investigation into his assassination
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Owen Jones has not only failed to urge Hamas to accept the deal,
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has shared tweets and videos portraying it as unacceptable,
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effectively suggesting that it should be rejected.
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I don't believe it's in Hamas' interest to accept the Trump peace plan.
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it requires them to disarm and relinquish any role in the future governance of Gaza.
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Hamas is perfectly entitled to reject a deal it dislikes,
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in exactly the same way Ukraine won't accept peace terms with Russia
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that it feels would damage its long-term interests.
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But Hamas' ability and willingness to reject the deal
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is a clear indicator of what the conflict in Gaza actually is.
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A war that Hamas started and is losing very badly.
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You cannot simultaneously cling to a bunch of war goals
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in order to retain power and continue terrorism,
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and at the same time claim to be a poor, hapless victim of genocide.
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were not slaughtered because they were offered peace terms they then rejected.
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One of the oldest tricks used by liars throughout the ages
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where definitions are stretched beyond their remit
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because if I can get you to misapply the term genocide
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I can get you to stop seeing it as a battle between two belligerents,
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is that the overwhelming majority of those demanding an end to the so-called genocide in Gaza
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as demonstrated by their unwillingness to pressure Hamas to accept a deal that would end it.
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and they're using the suffering of Palestinian civilians,
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you should know that they're available on my Substackers articles,
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days, weeks, sometimes even months ahead of time.
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