In a highly publicized interview with American daytime talk show host Dr. Phil, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed peaceful, US campus protests were “supporting the genocide” of the Jewish people.

• Dr. Phil spoke with Netanyahu in Israel on Thursday to “discuss the war between Isreal and Hamas and how it has made an impact on the United States.”

• During the interview, Netanyahu attacked pro-Palestine protestors for supporting Hamas, stating that they would be “killed” for their neoliberal beliefs if they lived in Gaza.

• He would also go on to say that Palestinian civilians themselves were complicit in “genocide” due to copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf allegedly found in the ruins of apartment buildings in Gaza.

The Conversation: During the interview, Netanyahu specifically attacked those using the phrase “from the river to the sea” as evidence of supporting genocide against Jews.

He also stated that wishing the destruction of Israel was not a legitimate form of resistance, which really stemmed from “radical Islam and the ultra-anarchist left.”

• “You have a lot of ignorant people, who I’m sorry to say, whose sense of history at best goes back to breakfast, not even that. They don’t have the faintest clue what Hamas is,” the prime minister says, citing Hamas’s treatment of homosexuals and women.

• “When they say ‘from the river to the sea,’ that’s wipe out the State of Israel. They’re supporting genocide. Now, this is a sorry state of American education…There’s a deep rot and a bankruptcy there.”

• “Are the Palestinan people at large complicit in this,” asked Dr. Phil. “Very much so,” answered Netanyahu. “We went into residential buildings where these terrorirts hide and shoot from…We found tablets, and in the tablets you see a picture of Adolf Hitler…In another building you find texts of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, which is the work of itemized and laid the plan for the destruction of the six million Jews in the holocaust.”

Dr. Phil went to Jerusalem to interview Netanyahu. He asks how “complicit” ordinary Palestinians are in the activities of Hamas. Very much so, replies Netanyahu, claiming to have found portraits of Hitler and copies of Mein Kampf in their apartment buildings pic.twitter.com/iOd8qcgXKV

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The Big Picture: The attempt to drum up support for Israel’s ongoing “genocide” of Gaza comes amid reports that Netanyahu is on the cusp of a long-feared invasion of the southern border city of Rafah, which is currently home to over a million displaced Palestinians.

• Earlier this week, Israel launched a limited military strike on Rafah, despite a pending ceasefire agreement that had already been accepted by Hamas. The attack dashed hopes of ending the war early, with many accusing Israel of trying to eke out better conditions before an eventual truce.

• In the aftermath of the Rafah attack, U.S. President Joe Biden halted a munitions shipment to Israel out of “fears” they would be used in a Rafah incursion. The act was quickly revealed to be a token political gesture by Biden, as it was later revealed that “billions of dollars” worth of US munitions were still en route to Israel despite the pause.

In the headlines: As casualties mount, both peaceful and armed resistance against Israel and its agents continues to grow internationally.

• Earlier in the week, a Jewish dual national of Canada and Egypt was “liquidated” in his car after the group responsible for the attack claimed he maintained ties to the Israeli Mossad.

• In the wake of growing anti-Zionist sentiment, members of the Israeli Knesset were warned that pro-Palestine, anti-war protests on American campuses pose a “direct threat to the existence of the state of Israel” on Tuesday.

• At a recent Holocaust rememberance ceremony, numerous members of the US Government—including President Joe Biden—took the time to compare US college campus protests to “gas chambers.”

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