ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENCE AGAINST WHOM? GABOR MATE Physician, Author, Trauma Expert PIERS MORGAN uncensored SERIES PT 2

December 2, 2023

In Part Two of this 4-part series, Gabor Mate, physician and trauma expert, responds to Piers Morgan’s question regarding Israel’s right to defend itself.

Mate stated: “I’m not justifying the terrible events of October 7th. I’m talking in the absence of historical awareness it all just looks like Israel defending itself. But against whom? Against the population that it has been massacring in the thousands for 80 years and taking their lands and destroying their homes and jailing their children and torturing them. That’s the history.
“That’s the history, as Israeli historians have shown. I don’t make this stuff up. I wish it wasn’t true.”

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English Script:
(Piers) Clearly, the loss of civilian life is on a CATASTROPHIC scale. But at the same time, Israel has a RIGHT to defend itself.

(Gabor) The question is, how do they do that APPROPRIATELY? I live in Canada, where this country was founded on the SUPPRESSION and the ERASURE of the indigenous population and the utter DENIAL of that narrative. And in Canada, for example, there are HORRENDOUS residential schools where a few decades ago, if a native child spoke their TRIBAL language, they’d have a pin STUCK in their tongue.

Now, most Canadians are NOT AWARE of that history. Most Israelis are NOT AWARE of the history of what the Palestinians have SUFFERED. They don’t know that in 1948 there were multiple MASSACRES of large numbers of people by Israeli forces. They don’t know the history, the SUBJECTIVE experience of the Palestinians. And in the absence of that knowledge, October 7th would just strike them as another HORRIFIC antisemitic event. They have NO IDEA what’s happening a few miles away from when they’re sitting in Tel Aviv having coffee, and they have NO IDEA. Or in Jerusalem, and they have NO IDEA how those people under occupation are living. It’s not that they’re not capable of being aware, but like most people, they’re just not.

So, if you’re asking me how to move forward, let’s INFORM ourselves of the actual experience of both sides, not just one side. Israel has the RIGHT to defend itself. Every country does. But Israel has no right to IMPOSE an occupation on people. Now, look, I was born in Hungary in 1956 when I was 13, studying for my Bar Mitzvah. There was the great Hungarian Revolution against Soviet occupation.

And was after that revolution that we became REFUGEES and came to Canada. Now, did Russia have the right to DEFEND itself against the Hungarian revolutionaries? You know so, and mostly, when we talk about Israel’s right of defense, we’re taking isolated Palestinian actions. But we’re not saying that this population also has the RIGHT to defend against the occupation. I’m not justifying the TERRIBLE events of October the 7th. I’m talking in the ABSENCE of historical awareness, it all just looks like Israel defending itself. But against whom? Against a population that it has been MASSACRING in a number of thousands for 80 years and taking their lands and destroying their homes and jailing their children and torturing them. That’s the history. That’s the history, as Israeli historians have SHOWN.

I don’t make this stuff up. I wish it WASN’T true. I wish I could believe in the DREAM of the Jewish state. I love that DREAM. Except I found out at what price, at what NIGHTMARE that imposed on the Palestinians. So if you ask me how to move forward, let’s INFORM ourselves of the actual experience of both sides, not just one side. And in the ABSENCE of that conversation, there’s NO moving forward.