EXCERPT:
HERZOG: “You know, I just got back from kibbutz Be’eri, the Be’eri kibbutz. The kibbutz, as you know, is an epitomization of socialism, equality, very pro-peace place. You should know that in that kibbutz, they lost 10 percent of their members, from young to old. I saw the most horrific scenes. I saw — I saw the skull of the woman in which house I visited, the house totally destroyed, totally destroyed, and they just cut her head off. I saw a pool of blood in that house where the picture of the children is hanging and the grandchildren are hanging on the wall, with the knives and the hatchets which they went in. I saw the most horrific scenes possible. I saw bloodshed. And I was thinking to myself, because in kibbutz Be’eri, there was a special fund to help their neighbors from Gaza. For years, they’ve been paying money to help their friends and neighbors in Gaza, because they advocated peace. And all of a sudden, life was shattered. And the same life was shattered for the Israeli nation. My nation is bleeding. My nation is in pain. My nation is in sorrow. And we are faced with an extremely cruel, inhumane enemy which we have to uproot with no mercy. I’ll show you another example. This was found on the body of one of the terrorists. This is a booklet, okay? This booklet is instruction guide how to go into a civilian premises, into a kibbutz, a city, a moshav, how to break in. And first thing, what do you do when you find the citizens? You torture them. This is the booklet. It says exactly how to torture them, how to abduct them, how to kidnap them. So, therefore, the story is not Israel versus Palestinians, or Judaism versus Islam, God forbid. The story is about human, humanity. Are we with the good or are we with evil? That’s where humanity should stand. And the battle that we are carrying out now, as a nation rising up as a lion, is against evil. And we will uproot evil so that there will be good for the entire region and the world.”
(Via Breitbart)