Israel’s ambassador in Austria, David Roet, cannot understand international criticism of his home country. In conversation with the “Kroon” he responds to the allegations and puts on the image of Israel again.
The mood in Israel is characterized by resistance and at the same time very involved, says David Roet, who is currently in Tel Aviv for a few days, in the Zoom Talk with the “Kroon”: “We are fighting for our existence. Here in the country and on the international public prosecutor.”
October 7, 2023 is still present for the people of Israel – and it will probably remain for a long time. The day of the massacre. The day on which more than 3000 Hamas terrorists have penetrated from the Gaza Strip to Israel in the early morning, more than 1200 people – children, women, old, even babies – crumbled in a cruel way and kidnapped more than 200 people. About 50 hostages are still in the hands of the terrorists today, and about 20 of them are still alive. Locked up under inhuman conditions in the terrorical tunnels deep under the Gaza Strip.
“We cannot understand that we are seriously asked to accept that Hamas must continue to exist,” says Ambassador Roet. Everyone in Israel would like to put an end to the war. “But the question is: at what price?” The diplomat says.
“You would definitely do it again”
If the Hamas in the Gaza Strip would remain in power, it would only be a matter of time before she tried to hit again, soot is certain. An opinion that he probably shares with almost all Israelis. “We just don’t know if that would be in six months or maybe only in ten years. But you would at least do it again.”
In its articles of association, the Palestinian Hamas has even declared the complete destruction of Israel and the removal of all Jews to his main purpose. She doesn’t get away from it either.
“That is why Israel has two goals,” the ambassador explains: “The liberation of all hostages. And the destruction of Hamas.” Israel knows that Hamas’ ideology cannot be repaid from the heart of the population: “But the management structure of the Hamas must be completely broken so that it can no longer play a political role. And it must be completely disarmed to make another October 7 impossible.”
Israel can no longer be led on the nose, says David Roet: “We do not understand why Israel is being exerted instead of Hamas. If Hamas expires today, all weapons give up, the war can be over tomorrow.”
“Stolen relief supplies stolen and then resold”
The world must understand the kind of enemy that it has to do with Israel: “Hamas is indifferent to the lives of its own population.” So she also robbed the auxiliary supplies that were brought to the Gaza Strip by the UN and then it lasted. “In this way the terrorist organization is financed,” says the diplomat. That is why Israel stopped the help of the UN.
The Gaza Humanitian Foundation, which recently started working by an American foundation, has already spread 16 million meals to Palestinians in two weeks. The Hamas and the UN try to block their work.
“It is planned to open another four distribution centers,” says David Roet. “We still do not know how well this will work because the” work is in progress “. But we know that the UN path has not worked and that we need international support.”
Source: Krone
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