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Who is Daniella Weiss? The ‘Godmother’ of Israel’s settler movement now calling for a return to Gaza

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/who-is-daniella-weiss-the-godmother-of-israels-settler-movement-now-calling-for-a-return-to-gaza-j0xq8l8h

Go study Gush Emunim.

She is a monster .......call me antisemitic if you like I couldnt care less .

Settler Leader Daniella Weiss Is the True Face of Israel

Instead of the weekly self-abasement of cabinet members on Piers Morgan's talk show, this time we got something fascinating: an interview with the string-puller behind "religious Zionism" and a land-theft activist. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome with applause Daniella Weiss.

For many long minutes, Morgan tried to elicit from her a word of compassion for the 20,000 Gazan children killed by Israel. He was in turmoil while she interlaced her fingers, donning the smile of cruel Aunt Lydia from "The Handmaid's Tale."

How do you feel about that, he asked; Daniella Weiss replied, saying that she believed that the Palestinians, Gazans and all the Arabs around us should stop attacking Israel. One has to be very stupid not to understand that the subtext of her answer was that the killing of tens of thousands of children with bombs and through disease and hunger is the natural response to an attack, and that it would be worthwhile for them to learn their lesson next time.

Morgan insisted that he wanted to know what she feels about such killing, since he assumed that she knows the difference between emotions and thinking. This was a mistake. "I think," she said for the second time, "that the parents should be very careful before they teach the children to hate Jews and to kill Jews … I think that Arabs, Gazans, or Jordanians, or Syrians, whoever, should be very, very careful with the way they educate the children."

At that point, Morgan turned red and his hair bristled. "That wasn't what I asked," he said, choking up. He noted that he had asked how she felt, what she personally felt about the killing of 20,000 children since October 7. Yet again, she began with "I think," explaining that Arabs ought to be careful. Morgan again insisted that this was not what he had asked. This repeated itself five times.

The video spread across social media, and Israelis reacted, obviously. Some were hurt by the fact that Morgan chose to interview marginal figures, extremist people whom he depicts, please note, as characterizing this country – benighted, ignorant, ineloquent, medieval, to quote one of many responses.

However, cabinet members, idiotic as they may be, cannot be considered marginal figures, and Weiss' ideology is represented in this government by a party that receives budgets for the purpose of maintaining and expanding its apartheid enterprise, while wielding crucial influence on the most important issues at stake.

Obviously, it's not just the government. In response to the question of why Morgan only looks for "abject extremists rather than people striving for peace," one can consider to what extent Weiss is an extremist: 82 percent of Israelis, according to a recent poll, support the forceful expulsion of Gaza's residents. Excuse me, friends, even if the majority of Israelis don't look like sadists with Orthodox head coverings, their opinions about Gaza's residents are similar to hers.

Before someone suggests launching a military assault on Morgan's studio, it is worth remembering that Daniella Weiss is not a marginal figure – she is an influential one who has been shaping reality for decades, with the power to implement her policies. If she is a minority, she is one with an army behind her. Regarding the children of Gaza, the great majority believe as she does that after October 7, their lives are worthless. People don't care how many of them have died (953 babies under one year of age).

If you think I'm exaggerating, I would like to remind you that the good people, the ones who are our ray of hope, the ones standing at the margins of Israel's consensus holding photos of Gazan children whom we've burned alive, shelled, shot and starved to death, are being pushed aside. They are the minority. Not Weiss. The people holding photos of children are on the fringe.

Since Israelis always had difficulty seeing the cruel reality through their veil of self-pitying tears, what I've described here is the reality. There is no need to worry about the face of this country around the world. It stands out in every report on Gaza, in every picture of desolation or piles of bodies, even if local media hide all this from the public.

Source : Haaretz

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