They’re Lying About The Numbers

I've been having issues with the whole settler violence conversation. Uh and I've spoken about this. I tried speaking about it in the debate recently where it's not that I'm denying that crime takes place or that Jews are incapable of committing crime or even terrorism. There's a difference between isolated acts of violence that should be condemned, dealt with, prosecuted, and a narrative of settler violence in which the entirety of well, Israel and specifically the entirety of the population of the Jews of Judea and Samaria that live there in thriving, prosperous communities building in area C where they're permitted to build, they're painted as this massive illegal block of settle of settlers who are all violent and illegitimate. And it's interesting what gets lumped into this category called settler violence. And it's not just referring to, I don't know, call it the hilltop youth or random thugs or criminals who do criminal activity. The fact is any incident where there's violence without accounting for who started it, where the acts of aggression are versus the acts of retaliation or defense get lumped into this category of settler violence. Jews going to pray on the Temple Mount can get lumped into settler violence. So, the numbers are highly manipulated, [clears throat] distorted to paint this picture of this phenomenon when in fact, I think it's marginal as an issue, not excusing it. I'm just talking about the degree to which it's portrayed as this phenomenon that needs to be addressed and that that's the cause of the conflict. No. Last year alone, there were 5,000 attacks against Jews by Arabs. 5,000. And not taking into account who began an attack versus who's defending against it, it gets lumped into incidents of settler