naftali bennett in ra'anana, israel, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. leasure to have you on the show, mr bennett. i want to take your mind back to those dark days of october in israel, after hamas�*s barbaric attack on southern israel of october 7. a few days later, joe biden visited your country and he said this to israelis. he said, "while you feel the rage, do not be consumed by it. "after 9/11," he said, "we in the us were enraged. "while we sought justice, we also made mistakes." do you think israel has paid heed to those words from joe biden? i think the operation that we're conducting is not about rage and it's not about what happened. it's about preventing it from happening again. you see, there's a huge difference between 9/11 and october 7th. afghanistan is far away from the united states. gaza is on our doorstep. and hamas, the terror organisation that executed this horrible attack, tells us point blank, "we're going to do it "again and again." so we have really no choice but to eradicate it. close to 20,000 palestinians have been killed in i

earlier, i spoke to naftali bennett, former israeli prime minister about the reports of sexual violenceict. i want to start with that report, the bbc seeing and hearing evidence of rape, sexual violence during the attacks by hamas. what have israeli investigators been finding when speaking with survivors? this is a very difficult undertaking for obvious reasons and mainly because many, many of the victims of rape were then murdered. but we know that there has been widespread, on october seven, widespread use of rape, of gang rape, ultimately in most cases, killing the victim at the end of the act. in some cases, cutting her breasts off and playing around with. and we know many women were under very aggressive sexual violence. it is certainly something as we heard there in the report that will continue be investigated. something that the us administration, president biden has said should be condemned internationally. i want to come to the fighting we are have moved into khan younis, down to rafah, but civilians have already moved from the north to khan younis in that area so you have man

naftali bennett in ra'anana, israel, welcome to hardtalk.

we�*ll speak to the former israeli prime minister naftali bennett.ould lose its war against russia without more us funding as congress prepares to vote on an aid package. hello. i�*m sumi somaskanda. the israeli military says it�*s been engaged in the heaviest day of fighting since the start of its offensive in gaza. in the south, israeli forces have entered the city of khan meanwhile in the north, israeli forces are surrounding the jabalia refugee camp, which israel says is being used as a base by hamas. the israel defense forces has just posted on x, formerly known as twitter, that their troops have: "eliminated several hamas commanders and operatives of hamas�*s northern gaza strip brigade"

[cheers] this week, naftali bennett who was the israeli prime minister, there is a speech on the internet of where he talks about the fact that there was a peace deal signed under turkish prime minister erdogan, that he helped negotiate. in april 2022, putin wanted to get out. zelenskyy, his people initialed it. by the way, this week the ukrainian negotiator has come clean that we had a peace agreement. it was done and president biden sent boris johnson, the british prime minister over there to force zelenskyy to tear it up. since then, he wanted the war with russia. it was a more about nato. why do we want nato in ukraine so badly? here is one of the reasons. both the democratic and republican party are getting their money from blackrock, state street and vanguard. the military contractors, northrop grumman, general dynamics, boeing, lockheed and raytheon, and a couple of others. they want to get as many nato countries as possible. why? every time somebody new signed up as nato, part of the contract is they have to conform their weapons purchases to nato specifications. that means gettin

[cheers] this week, naftali bennett who was the israeli prime minister, there is a speech on the internetf where he talks about the fact that there was a peace deal signed under turkish prime minister erdogan, that he helped negotiate. in april 2022, putin wanted to get out. zelenskyy, his people initialed it. by the way, this week the ukrainian negotiator has come clean that we had a peace agreement. it was done and president biden sent boris johnson, the british prime minister over there to force zelenskyy to tear it up. since then, he wanted the war with russia. it was a more about nato. why do we want nato in ukraine so badly? here is one of the reasons. both the democratic and republican party are getting their money from blackrock, state street and vanguard. the military contractors, northrop grumman, general dynamics, boeing, lockheed and raytheon, and a couple of others. they want to get as many nato countries as possible. why? every time somebody new signed up as nato, part of the contract is they have to conform their weapons purchases to nato specifications. that means getting

david: well, former israeli prime minister naftali bennett writes in the "wall street journal," quote pay for sow ising chaos through their e hamas, hezbollah and houthi proxies. joining me now to discuss is richard goldberg, senior adviser for the foundation for defense of democracies and foreman white house nsc director. here's what he says, he says the evil empire of iran must be brought down. can we do it? >> we absolutely can, and we were actually on the way to doing that as of the end of 2020. remember, iran came into 2021 with just $4 billion in accessible foreign exchange reserves. it was on the restreet. instability was on -- retreat. instability was on the rise inside the country because of the economic and political pressure. military deterrence had been restore thed after the killing of soleimani. the israelis had been taken out, the godfather of the nuclear weapons program as a well. but then maximum pressure disappeared and replaced with maximum deference. and so we need to get back to that posture of putting iran on defense, not allowing iran to play offense. david: you

[cheers] this week, naftali bennett who was the israeli prime minister, there is a speech on the internet of where he talks about the fact that there was a peace deal signed under turkish prime minister erdogan, that he helped negotiate. in april 2022, putin wanted to get out. zelenskyy, his people initialed it. by the way, this week the ukrainian negotiator has come clean that we had a peace agreement. it was done and president biden sent boris johnson, the british prime minister over there to force zelenskyy to tear it up. since then, he wanted the war with russia. it was a more about nato. why do we want nato in ukraine so badly? here is one of the reasons. both the democratic and republican party are getting their money from blackrock, state street and vanguard. the military contractors, northrop grumman, general dynamics, boeing, lockheed and raytheon, and a couple of others. they want to get as many nato countries as possible. why? every time somebody new signed up as nato, part of the contract is they have to conform their weapons purchases to nato specifications. that means gettin