Israeli politicians shocking comments about killing babies
An Israeli politician has broadcast shocking comments about babies being killed during a live interview with on local TV.
An Israeli politician has broadcast shocking comments about babies being killed during a live interview on local TV.
“Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas,” far-right Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin declared on Wednesday.
“We need to conquer Gaza and colonize it and not leave a single Gazan child there. There is no other victory.”
Video of the comments has been shared widely on social media, including by Adil Haque, a Professor of Law at the esteemed Rutgers Law School in the US state of New Jersey.
In sharing the video, Prof Haque wrote: “Yair Golan’s quote isn’t the problem.”
"Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas."
— Adil Haque (@AdHaque110) May 20, 2025
"We need to conquer Gaza and colonize it and not leave a single Gazan child there. There is no other victory."
Yair Golan's quote isn't the problem.pic.twitter.com/mQuzA81s3fhttps://t.co/0OBj7a0Klm
Yair Golan is a left-wing politician who sparked controversy earlier this week for suggesting Israel was on its way “to becoming a pariah state”, and that “a sane country ... does not kill babies for a hobby”.
He said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was “fuelling anti-Semitism and hatred toward Israel, resulting in unprecedented diplomatic isolation and danger to every Jew across the globe”.
Netanyahu responded angrily, calling it an “outrageous incitement against our heroic soldiers and against the state of Israel”.
But babies in war-torn Gaza are dying in huge numbers either via Israel’s intensive bombing campaign or the decision to deny food, water and supplies from entering Gaza for 75 days.
The UN earlier this week warned that as many as 14,000 babies would die in the next 48 hours unless food could reach them.
In response, Israel allowed five trucks carrying food to cross into Gaza on May 19, where some two million Palestinians are on the brink of famine, according to numerous aid agencies.
Al Jazeera reports that 500 aid trucks would be needed per day to meet the population’s basic needs.
Israel claims that stopping aid for two and a half months put pressure on Palestinian terror group Hamas.
The resumption of some aid — an amount the UN Humanitarian Chief described as “a drop in the ocean” — is being viewed with scepticism.
Right-wing Israeli politician and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich plainly described the motivation for lifting the ban on some food trucks.
He said Israel would ensure “that only the most essential supplies reach civilians, primarily to prevent international accusations of war crimes and avoid halting our military campaign”.
The Times of Israel quotes Smotrich as saying: “It will allow civilians to eat, for our friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and The Hague Tribunal and for us to continue the fight, God willing, until victory.”
In a joint statement signed alongside her counterparts in major democratic nations, including the UK, Japan, Canada and Italy, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she could not support the “new model” of drip-feeding humanitarian aid and that it should not be subject to political or military conditions.
Feiglin’s comments about Gazan babies being the “enemy” are the latest in a long line of controversies linked to the head of the newly formed political party The Democrats.
According to theSydney Morning Herald, Feiglin told an online gathering of Australian Jews in 2024 that Israel should have reduced Gaza to ashes.
“What Israel should have done to Gaza, on the 8th of October, was exactly what the British people did in Hamburg and Dresden, and exactly what the American people did in every Japanese city they could reach,” he told a meeting hosted by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA).
“They burnt them to ashes. No ridiculous humanitarian aid. They burnt those cities.
“If we had done that, we would have won the war in a few days and many of the hostages would be free today.”
AJA president David Adler defended the decision to host Feiglin.
“AJA has hosted hundreds of speakers from across the political spectrum,” Adler said. “We never claim to share particular views, but we don’t do censorship or cancel culture.”
The devastation in Gaza follows the deaths of more than 1200 men, women and children in Israel after Hamas launched a surprise attack on October 7, 2023.
Israel’s aggressive and relentless retaliatory campaign in Gaza has led to the deaths of at least 53,655 Palestinians and wounded 121,950, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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