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This provides a critical response to points and arguments which they believe lacked context, were unsupported by facts, or were false. </span></i></p><p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JLaofOKWgbs?si=DwaWxO76vqtcAz7R" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span></iframe></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and a year since the Hamas attacks on October 7th, the Israeli ambassador to Canada sat down for an interview, offering a perspective that echoed the official line of the Israeli government. This analysis aims to critically examine the conversation.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Brown Said:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Let’s talk about the protests here in Canada. Ostensibly, these began as anti-war protests, ceasefire protests, peace protests. What we hear now, at just about every demonstration or march, are calls for Palestine to be Arab, from water to water, or calls for Jews to go back to Europe, or chants that Israel will soon be gone. So this has become, to a wide degree, an eliminationist movement.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">This suggests the protests have taken a turn from focusing on peace, to focusing on the elimination of Israel and/or the removal of Jews. While it is true that calls for the removal of Jews from the region have been documented at public demonstrations, there is no evidence to suggest this is the focus of the wider movement or representative of participants’ views.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, some of the core organizers of pro-Palestine demonstrations have notably been found to have no association with these calls. For example, the injunction</span><a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24788316/u-of-t-injunction-reasons-for-decision.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ruling </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">on the University of Toronto encampment makes clear that there wasn’t a connection between movement organizers and calls for violence or anti-semitic action: “Although there have clearly been instances of antisemitic hate speech outside of the encampment, there is no evidence that the named respondents or encampment occupants are associated with any of those instances.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The phrase, “from water to water, Palestine will be Arab”, is also not necessarily eliminationist. Elliott Colla, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, </span><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/on-the-history-meaning-and-power-of-from-the-river-to-the-sea/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “It is true that a state of Palestine would entail the end of Israel as a Jewish ethnic-national state. But as many Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals (and others) have noted: replacing Israel with a Palestinian state need not result in genocide or the ethnic cleansing of Jews. Proponents of the one-state solution, for instance, have thought a lot about such a future and have developed various scenarios for securing a vibrant Jewish presence alongside a vibrant Palestinian one in various versions of a future Palestine, from a bi-national, secular polity to a federation.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">What we are seeing here right now is a sort of a reaction to, uh, you know, a campaign of misinformation and disinformation of Israel being called racist and supremacist and all this and colonialist, which is, of course, abhorrent.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disinformation and misinformation campaigns have been omnipresent throughout this war. Government officials and researchers have </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the problem is larger than anything seen before. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-11-20/ty-article/.premium/deep-faked-soldiers-and-spoofed-websites-russian-campaign-pushes-gaza-disinformation/0000018b-ed5c-d36e-a3cb-fd5fadd90000"><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to materials seen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “Russia has renewed its disinformation efforts in recent weeks, publishing a number of falsified reports about the war between Israel and Hamas.” </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Russia, China, and Iran have </span><a href="https://archive.is/2WYue"><span style="font-weight: 400;">allegedly</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> conducted such campaigns. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haaretz also </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-06-05/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israel-secretly-targeted-american-lawmakers-with-gaza-war-influence-campaign/0000018f-e7c8-d11f-a5cf-e7cb62af0000"><span style="font-weight: 400;">alleged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a branch of the Israeli state hired a private firm that conducted an operation intending to “promote content that is pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim content, as well as disinformation about antisemitism on American campuses.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The federal government says it has raised concerns directly with Israel over allegations of a “co-ordinated” and “Islamophobic” misinformation campaign that targeted Canadians online,” according </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/trudeau-government-raises-concerns-with-israel-about-islamophobic-misinformation-campaign-that-is-targeting-canadians/article_3c854d48-274f-11ef-865d-a3f2559953b0.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to the Toronto Star</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel rejected the claim.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: </b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regarding the people in Canada protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And I understand that. Of course we would like it to stop as well. No more killings, no more, destruction. But the point is that we can’t really stop unless we get our hostages back, and Hamas is no longer a threat to us or Hezbollah or Iran.”</span></p><p><b>Response : </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/15/israel-hamas-ceasefire-talks-a-timeline-of-obstruction"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rejected multiple offers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for hostage release and ceasefire, except </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israelhamas-war-hostage-deal-ceasefire-gaza-2023-11-22/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">one ceasefire </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">which lasted for four days on Nov. 22, 2023. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On June 4, 2024,</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-rejects-security-council-resolution-in-support-of-its-own-hostage-deal-offer/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Netanyahu rejected</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> another hostage-ceasefire deal which Israel proposed the week earlier. A Times of Israel </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-issues-response-to-israeli-hostage-deal-proposal-saying-it-made-amendments/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">article</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reads, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The main point of contention in previous rounds has been Israel’s insistence on being able to resume the fighting after hostages are released and Hamas’s refusal to free those it abducted unless Israel commits up front to a permanent ceasefire.” Other Israeli </span><a href="https://archive.is/bJ9rJ"><span style="font-weight: 400;">media</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> suggest that PM Netanyahu and his government are avoiding ceasefire talks that would return hostages. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think that when people are asked questions, you know, they are asked specific questions in specific contexts–that it can be genocide… All we’ve heard it before. These are claims that are based on information and disinformation that’s been spread out by Hamas itself. The Ministry of Health, so-called, is a Hamas organization. So when they give out numbers, you never know how much of them are terrorists.”</span></p><p><b>Response:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The number of Hamas fighters that have been killed, out of the overall death toll in Gaza, is debated on both sides. In February 2024</span> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68387864"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the BBC reported</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">that the IDF’s numbers have been called into question through examination of demographic data from Gaza, which shows a large proportion of women and children killed. “So with the figures suggesting less than 30% of those killed were men – some of whom are likely to be over fighting age – experts have raised questions about how Israel arrived at its claim of killing 10,000 fighters.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, the</span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nothing-wrong-with-gaza-death-toll-figures-who-says-2024-05-14/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> World Health Organization has backed</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Gaza’s Ministry of Health numbers indicating the total death toll.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will not deny that civilians are dying, families are dying, babies are dying, livelihoods are being destroyed. We know that. But at the same time, those same people will live side by side with us forever because they are our neighbors.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a September 2nd news conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined his post-war strategy, which, according to an Al Jazeera </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/what-was-netanyahus-map-and-plan-for-gaza-all-about"><span style="font-weight: 400;">explainer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, involves keeping the area north of a military axis through the Netzarim Corridor under Gaza City in a state of destruction. The plan would prevent reconstruction efforts and prohibit displaced Palestinians from returning to their homes. Al Jazeera </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/what-was-netanyahus-map-and-plan-for-gaza-all-about"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Netanyahu’s presentation appeared to ignore the occupied West Bank entirely, showing it fully annexed into Israel on the map he referenced during the briefing. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “When it comes to encampments in universities, and it’s about disallowing Jewish students from entering campuses.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">While we could not find verified reports of Jewish students being barred from entering campuses, there have been</span><a href="https://thecjn.ca/news/two-days-of-anti-israel-protests-shut-down-buildings-at-mcgill-university/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> incidents in which pro-Palestine protesters have blocked access to classrooms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> associated with engineering, education and other topics “perceived to be connected to Israel.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “We know that the city of Tulkarem, of Jenin, of Nablus, are centers for terrorist organizations that have been shooting mortars into Israel. I don’t think that anybody reports that, anybody knows about that?”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">There have been no reports about mortar or rocket attacks originating from the cities of Tulkarem, Jenin, Nablus, or any of the West Bank, though it is possible that Moed is privy to information that has not been available to the public. There were failed attempts to fire rockets into </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-747738"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel from Jenin in 2023</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, Israel has maintained settlements in the West Bank, which has been deemed illegal and a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention by many countries,</span><a href="https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/mena-moan/israeli-palestinian_policy-politique_israelo-palestinien.aspx?lang=eng"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> including Canada</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/23/who-is-israel-targeting-in-war-west-bank"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> According to Al-Jazeera</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Activists and experts believe that Israel is playing up the threat of what it calls “terrorism” to justify the increasing violence, which leads to mass displacement and the expansion of illegal settlements.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed said:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Nobody thinks about them shooting directly into Israeli villages. Nobody would know about that shooting into a girl’s sleeping room.”</span></p><p><b>Response:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> While there does not appear to be any reports of a West Bank terrorist shooting into a girl’s room, this may be a reference to a 2016 incident in which a</span><a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-01e7f8493ca841aa94c86a592d6cce69"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 13-year-old girl who was asleep</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was stabbed to death in her bedroom by a Palestinian. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have to remember that on the West Bank there is no real authority. There is no government, there is no real policing. There is no real serious security enforcement agency that does anything. And so we have to do it.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The governance of the West Bank is a complex shared responsibility between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, due to Israel’s settlements there. According to the US Department of State’s</span><a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/israel-west-bank-and-gaza/west-bank-and-gaza/#:~:text=The%20Palestinian%20Authority%20maintains%20administrative,zones%20or%20settlement%20zoning%20areas."><span style="font-weight: 400;"> summary of Oslo Accords, the West Bank </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">is divided into three areas: “The Palestinian Authority has formal responsibility for security in Area A, but Israeli security forces frequently conducted security operations there. The Palestinian Authority maintains administrative control, and Israel maintains security control of Area B in the West Bank. Israel retains full security control of Area C and has designated most Area C land as either closed military zones or settlement zoning areas.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the division of control remains a contentious issue between the two governments. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said:</b> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In speaking of the argument that Israeli government policy caused Palestinians to turn against Israel: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You have to think twice when you look at their schoolbooks, somebody your age, when he was went to to kindergarten, what he did was walk over an Israeli flag and on his whatever holiday that he had a costume, he would take a rifle and say, I’m going to be a shaheed. And every mother would tell him, I wish you were a shaheed, and I will sacrifice you. And this is the environment where they grow in.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">This story is unsubstantiated and suggests that Palestinians glorify martyrdom, which is a discriminatory trope. Further,</span><a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24788316/u-of-t-injunction-reasons-for-decision.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> some Palestinian experts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> interpret the word “shaheed” as “witness,” not “martyr.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said:</b> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In answer to the question of why Israel won’t let people in Gaza into Egypt in order to get security clearance for a Canadian visa:</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “You’ll have to check your data. Because with the Ministry of Immigration here, they’ll tell you that a few hundred already left.”</span></p><p><b>Response:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A</span><a href="https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1018-why-are-thousands-of-gazans-still-waiting-to-come-to-canada/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> recent Canadaland episode</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Canada’s plan to issue 5000 visas to Gazans, reported that data from the Canadian government and expert lawyers show that Israel has not let a single person leave Gaza through the program that was set up in January 2024.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to a spokesperson at Global Affairs Canada, “Israel has agreed to Canada’s request to facilitate the exit of extended family members in Gaza as part of their expanding humanitarian efforts.” The most recent reports reflect that has not yet happened. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moed might have been referring to the several hundred people who left through “facilitation” or bribes, but this is not Canada’s official process. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">And if you ask about the Lebanese government, I would ask you where there has been Canada or the Lebanese government or the United Nations for 20 something years about implementing Security Council Resolution one 701 and 1559, which call for the retreat of all these militias, Hezbollah, and the disarming of this whole this whole perimeter or this whole strip of land to the northern part of the border for ten kilometers, where were the calls for cease fire when Hezbollah killed 12 children. Where were the calls for a cease fire when Hezbollah, on October the 8th voluntarily decided to attack Israel out of their own will? There was no provocation. There was nothing there.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">We have actually retreated into the international border line many years ago, as acknowledged by the United Nations, but there is no mention of that.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The U.N. secretary-general has </span><a href="https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-documents"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> violations of resolution 1701 by both sides. The United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon </span><a href="https://unifil.unmissions.org/faqs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FAQ page</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, said “Any unauthorized crossing of the Blue Line by land or by air from any side constitutes a violation of Security Council resolution 1701.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel first invaded Lebanon during its civil war in 1978 and again in 1982, maintaining an occupation in southern Lebanon until 2000, when it announced its withdrawal. To mark this withdrawal, the United Nations established the “Blue Line,” a border demarcation intended to confirm that Israeli forces had fully left Lebanese territory. However, while the UN certified the withdrawal, Lebanon disputed the Blue Line, arguing that the Shebaa Farms area was part of its own territory, not the Syrian Golan Heights, which Israel continues to occupy. An Al Jazeera </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/13/why-is-there-a-disputed-border-between-lebanon-and-israel"><span style="font-weight: 400;">article </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">explains, “there are two separate issues here that lead to the current dispute: the first is that Israel occupies the Golan Heights and treats it as its own territory in violation of international law, and the second is that there was already a pre-existing disagreement between Syria and Lebanon over the border, prior to the Israeli occupation.”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said:</b> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Responding to a question about what Israel is doing to help or allow Lebanese-Canadians to leave the country: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What would you expect me to tell you?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">There is nothing that Israel does at the moment to inhibit anybody from leaving the country.”</span></p><p><b>Response:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Lebanese people are being prevented from leaving the country, via the border crossing: “Israel carried out another series of punishing airstrikes Friday, hitting suburban Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing the Israeli bombardment of the Hezbollah militant group,” reads an </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-lebanon-hezbollah-hamas-4-october-2024-5f2e512d5334b6f7fd7f5a46400e6979"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AP article</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Also, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/24/airlines-suspend-more-lebanon-flights-israel-airstrikes"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that “their bombing has resulted in a suspension of many flights out of the country”.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said:</b> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the various instances of people protesting Israel, including one incident of a rally outside an Ottawa JCC:</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “We have to understand who these people are. Where do they come from? Why are they there? What is their motivation? This is not pro-Palestinian. The fact that they are carrying the flags, they are actually out there to change something very fundamental and significant in Canada and in Western society.” </span></p><p><b>Response:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The rally at a JCC in Ottawa was not held to change a fundamental aspect of Western society, but according to </span><a href="https://muslimlink.ca/news/independent-jewish-voices-canada-ottawa-s-the-soloway-jewish-community-centre-should-not-endorse-militarism"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Independent Jewish Voices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was against a</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation that promoted Sar-El Canada, a volunteer program that directly supports the Israeli military. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The idea that there is a covert attempt to reshape Western society by Arab and/or Muslim activists, is an </span><a href="https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-common-anti-muslim-tropes-2/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Islamophobic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> trope.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have to understand one thing, Israel is fighting a war right now on the people on the West Bank. 60 to 70% of them support Hamas.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">A </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-support-for-hamas-on-the-rise-among-palestinians-now-double-fatahs/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Times of Israel article</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cites a poll </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) between May 26 and June 1, which found that </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">41% of residents in the West Bank said they support Hamas. </span><a href="https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/991"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More recent polling conducted by the PCPSR indicated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> support for Hamas “stands at 37% in the West Bank (compared to 41% three months ago).”</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the Palestinian side, there are no people, no real leaders who will say, we want to live in peace with Israel.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><a href="https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12635.doc.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At a UN general address</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in late September 2024, The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas</span><a href="https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12635.doc.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> said</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“We want a solution that will protect both countries, the State of Palestine and the State of Israel, so that they can coexist in peace, stability and security.” </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">And our response is that we cannot cease fire while Hezbollah is continuing to fight rockets and missiles into Israel without discrimination into civilian populated areas.” </span></p><p><b>Response:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire before his assassination by Israel, </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-nasrallah-ceasefire-assassination-intl-latam/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-nasrallah-ceasefire-assassination-intl-latam/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">added</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mr. Nabih Berri consulted with Hezbollah and we informed the Americans and the French what happened. And they told us that Mr. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu also agreed on the statement that was issued by both presidents [Biden and Macron.]” </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel then </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanese-prime-minister-believes-ceasefire-between-israel-hezbollah-possible-2024-09-26/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pulled</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> out of the ceasefire agreement and subsequently continued its military campaign in Lebanon. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have a war to fight against this organization that has been there, that has been building up for years, for tens of years, for one purpose and one purpose only to be able to deter Israel from attacking Iran.” </span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Israel occupied southern Lebanon and went as far as West Beirut, where the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was based. After an agreement, the PLO left for Tunisia but Israel’s military continued to occupy Lebanon. Israel supported local proxies in the civil war, including contributing to the </span><a href="https://aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/16/sabra-and-shatila-massacre-40-years-on-explainer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sabra and Shatila massacre</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Hezbollah formed to repel the invasion and was able to force the Israeli army to withdraw. Hezbollah and Israel have continuously exchanged fire since the group’s inception.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: “</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hezbollah is not a member of the United Nations. Hezbollah will not go to court. There is no policeman that come to Hezbollah to tell them, listen, there is an agreement, stop firing.:</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The International Criminal Court (ICC) has the power to issue arrest warrants against members of Hezbollah. And, there </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-hopes-fade-netanyahu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">has been an attempt at a ceasefire that could stop the firing, which Israel refused</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p><p><b>What Moed Said: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s as if Israel started October, the seventh war, as if Israel decided to go into Gaza and to do whatever it does.”</span></p><p><b>Response: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">This statement undermines the gravity of the Israeli government’s actions as a response to the October 7th attacks by Hamas. The International Criminal Court prosecutors </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-war-crimes-are-israel-hamas-accused-one-year-2024-10-01/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">say</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> there are “reasonable grounds” that Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant committed war crimes by systematically depriving civilians in Gaza of “objects indispensable to human survival” including food, water, medicine, and energy.” </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The International Court of Justice </span><a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203447"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it is “plausible” that Israel has committed acts of genocide.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We must be clear about this. </span></p></div> <div class='content_block _report _3 _print_share_2'><div class='center_block _flex_right'><div class='_row _2 flex_row_center_vert'><div 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