Dennis Prager Show - Why Does Hamas Continue To Reject Ceasefires?
Aired: 2024-04-17
Duration: 04:33


=== You'd Go Mad (04:25) ===

[00:00:00]  Just reading the rejection by Hamas of the plan offered by the United States, Qatar, Israel.
[00:00:10]  Six weeks ceasefire and 900 terrorists, Palestinian terrorists, for just 40 hostages and six weeks for Hamas to regroup and they rejected it.
[00:00:30]  On occasion, I think about the hostages.
[00:00:37]  If they're still in tunnels, it's hard to imagine that the trauma is treatable.
[00:00:47]  First, you can't breathe well in the tunnels for a long period of time.
[00:00:52]  Second, you're with people who, if you're a woman, want to rape you.
[00:00:57]  And if you're a man or a woman...
[00:00:59]  Wanted to torture you and kill you, murder you.
[00:01:05]  What is it now?
[00:01:06]  Let's see.
[00:01:07]  November, December, January, February, March, April.
[00:01:10]  It's six months, half a year.
[00:01:11]  You're in your apartment.
[00:01:20]  You're in your little house on a kibbutz.
[00:01:25]  Like any one of you woke up today, a normal day, just go to work or take care of kids or whatever you'll be doing.
[00:01:35]  And then something that you would not have had a nightmare about takes place.
[00:01:42]  This is beyond nightmares.
[00:01:47]  I'm going next week to Washington, D.C. to debate the issue.
[00:01:52]  Come back and then two days later I go to South Africa as the speaker for a Passover retreat.
[00:02:03]  We'll go to Where is Dennis and you can check up on it if you want to go.
[00:02:13]  How many people get to have a safari in the middle of Passover?
[00:02:21]  Anyway, it was not something I wanted to do, that's my point.
[00:02:24]  Go to Washington, come back to Los Angeles.
[00:02:27]  Two days later, go 33 hours to South Africa.
[00:02:31]  But I am committed to making the case for Israel.
[00:02:36]  Actually, I think about those hostages, and I am reconvinced that the human being cannot...
[00:02:51]  God made us so that we cannot fully empathize.
[00:02:55]  We would go mad.
[00:02:57]  If you could empathize with everyone's pain, you would go mad.
[00:03:02]  You'd probably go mad in minutes, given how much pain there is.
[00:03:09]  But not only that, so it's not just that I can't fully empathize, because I've never undergone it.
[00:03:18]  It's that you can't imagine what it must be like.
[00:03:23]  Half a year in those tunnels transferred by people who want you dead.
[00:03:34]  One of the women who was let out was raped.
[00:03:37]  I'm not talking about raped on October 7th.
[00:03:40]  That was plenty.
[00:03:42]  What is the percentage, by the way?
[00:03:44]  Did you send me the article?
[00:03:45]  There was a percentage of Was it Palestinians who denied that any of these things happened?
[00:03:56]  Truth is not a value in, as I told you on the left, it is not a left-wing value.
[00:04:02]  I say that every day.
[00:04:04]  It's not a big value.
[00:04:06]  If you read David Price Jones, one of the most important books ever written about the Arab world, the closed circle it's called.

=== Believe What They Want (00:23) ===

[00:04:14]  Price is P-R-Y-C-E. He was a Brit.
[00:04:19]  Truth is not a big factor in much of the Middle East.
[00:04:27]  So they, you know, whatever, they believe what they want to believe.