President Isaac Herzog on Monday gave an interview to Fox News in which he criticized pro-Hamas protesters in the US and accused them of supporting terrorism.
“It’s a deciding moment in the fate of world affairs because we are faced between a coalition of hate, coalition of, I call it darkness, which is a jihadist coalition which emanates from Tehran, which, with its proxies in Lebanon, in Gaza, of course Hamas, in Yemen with the Houthis and of course, spreading Islamic fundamentalist jihadism all over the world, which wants to erase all of them – all of us,” Herzog said.
“If Israel weren’t there, then Europe will be next and the United States and for sure next, because they call the United States the Big Satan,” he added.
"I think those protesters who are supporting Hamas there, they're actually accomplices to the whole notion that you can butcher young children, that you can chop heads of women, that you can rape women and pregnant women.... you can do a whole bunch of atrocities," Herzog continued.
“I just finished an immensely moving meeting with family members of over 40 children who are under captivity as hostages in Gaza by Hamas, children from ten months old. That’s what these protesters are supporting. None of them — today is International Children’s Day. I repeat, today is International Children’s Day — where are all these protesters? Do they demand the immediate release of these children, let alone the entire group of hostages and all those who have gone through the treacherous, horrendous, barbaric attack on the 7th of October?”
The President also condemned the United Nations for reportedly not taking a strong enough stance against Hamas.
"The UN is a hypocritical organization where and they are playing for many, many years with antisemitic language and rhetoric ongoing every year.... [there are] automatic resolutions against Israel," Herzog said.
Asked about a potential deal to release the hostages held by Hamas, the President said that “we are all waiting and we are dealing on the opposite side with the leadership of Hamas, led by Yahya Sinwar, who is basically a psychopath in the way he operates.”
“So I think that nothing you and I can say really changes the picture. We are only waiting for what is the basic humanitarian deed, which is releasing the children and the women and, of course, all the rest of the hostages. We have now learned about two hostages that were murdered, murdered in Gaza. We reported about it in the last few days,” Herzog added.