Bassem Youssef questions Daniella Weiss's vision for Gaza
Piers Morgan's discussion moves from Netanyahu's legacy to settlement ambitions, with Youssef's advertised appearance arriving well into the programme.
Why this story? 877,143 views so far, and here is what is inside it.
“I Can’t WAIT To Be Invaded!” Bassem Youssef vs Daniella Weiss On Israel-Gaza | Ft. Prof Marandi
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- 2:39Kedar credits Netanyahu with raising awareness of threats from Iran and radical Islamism.
- 4:56Moser argues that Israel's underlying political system, rather than Netanyahu alone, needs to change.
- 7:23Marandi calls for Zionism to be dismantled, drawing a comparison with South African apartheid.
- 35:28Weiss invokes biblical claims and past wars to justify Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza.
- 43:03The title's Youssef-Weiss exchange begins, with Youssef using sarcasm to challenge her territorial ambitions.
- 58:50Youssef uses a house analogy to explain his argument about Palestinian dispossession and international indifference.
Piers Morgan begins with a question about Benjamin Netanyahu's legacy. By the time Bassem Youssef joins, the discussion has become a more concrete argument about who should live in Gaza and the West Bank, and on whose terms.
Daniella Weiss, founder of the Nachala settler movement, appears from an outpost near Gaza. She invokes biblical claims and past wars to justify Israeli Jewish settlement across those territories, and explains why she voted for Netanyahu. Morgan challenges her over settler violence against Palestinians; she denies that settlers are violent.
Youssef arrives around 43 minutes in. His apparent admiration is sarcastic: he treats Weiss's openly stated territorial ambitions as an illustration of the policies he opposes. He then asks why Israeli military deployment took hours on October 7 despite prior warnings. Weiss offers her view that Netanyahu hesitated because he feared being accused of starting a war, while maintaining that he remains the best available leader.
That exchange follows a panel with sharply different answers to Morgan's opening question. Mordechai Kedar credits Netanyahu with drawing attention to threats from Iran and radical Islamism. Benjamin Moser argues that replacing the prime minister would not resolve the underlying political system; Mohammed Marandi similarly argues that alternative Israeli leaders would pursue comparable or harsher military policies.
The hour-long upload has drawn about 880,000 views, without an exceptional opening audience for this channel. Its title foregrounds Youssef and Weiss, but viewers looking for their exchange face a substantial wait. Near the end, Youssef uses an extended analogy about a house to explain his argument about Palestinian dispossession and the world's response.
An Egyptian-American comedian and political commentator who previously worked as a heart surgeon. He became internationally known for the Egyptian satirical news show Al Bernameg and left Egypt in 2014 amid legal and political pressure.
More on Wikipedia ›An Israeli politician and founder of Nachala, a far-right settler organisation. She previously served as mayor of Kedumim, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
More on Wikipedia ›An Israeli scholar specialising in Arab culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.
More on Wikipedia ›An American writer and translator who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Susan Sontag.
More on Wikipedia ›An Iranian-American academic and political analyst who has advised Iran's nuclear negotiating team in Vienna.
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