Old Man: We have 2 people dead in DC. We have 50,000 dead in Gaza. And, how many children starved to death last night? In 1956, Israel invaded Sinai. They invaded Gaza. The United States president at the time, Dwight Eisenhower, put his foot down and he told the French and the British get the heck out of the Suez Canal, and he told Israel to get the heck out of Sinai and out of Gaza. Now, where would we be today if we had a president that could have said that 2 years ago?

Reporter 1: Can you describe again the Elias personality that you met?

Old Man: Quiet and friendly. Quiet and friendly. Yeah. Yeah.

Reporter 2: What’s your age if you don’t mind?

Old Man: 71. Yeah. I’m the guy with all the with all the signs in the window.

Reporter 1: What do you hope happens next?

Old Man: Ceasefire. No more deaths. No more deaths in DC. No more deaths in Gaza.

Reporter 1: What about with your neighbor?

Old Man: I don’t know.

Reporter 3: If you could say something to him right now, what would you want to communicate to him? What would you have said, if you like you said earlier, could talk to him?

Old Man: I would have repeated, what I’ve already said, “Guns and bombs are not going to end this genocide.”

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  • hellinkilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Old Man: I would have repeated, what I’ve already said, “Guns and bombs are not going to end this genocide.”

    I hope he isn’t implicating himself as having talked with this guy about the idea in advance… Could he get slapped with conspiracy to terrorism or something?

    • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think he was referring to a question asked earlier in the interview. The longer interview on Fox News is around 6 minutes, the twitter clip has 2 and a half minutes.

      He says at the start of the video that he hadn’t talked to the suspected shooter about Palestine or Israel before, and that he “would have talked him out of it”, referring to the Embassy shooting. He also tells the press that voting is more powerful than guns and bombs.

      I don’t think this guy is very radical but what he said is somewhat different from the rest of the media narrative right now. He at least doesn’t say Zionist lines like “Israel has the right to defend itself” or “Bring home the hostages” or whatever.

      Most importantly is that he redirects the media narrative to Israel’s genocidal action during the interview. His interview places blame on Israel and calls on people to stop Israel.

      https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Kikog4yePzw