Q: How do you excuse or explain the violence in the West Bank preceding October 7th
A: A breakaway group from the Palestinian Authority called “Lions Den” are responsible for many terrorist attacks from Jerusalem and through the West Bank.
Islamic Jihad is a terrorist group with wide presence in the West Bank.
My Questions
Does Shapiro believe all violence in the West Bank against Palestinians is justified? Is it always while targeting a terror cell?
Does Shapiro believe the IDF ever commits indiscriminate violence against Palestinians in the West Bank?
Does Shapiro believe in unjustified Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank?
Q: What do you think about IDF enacted violence against the March of Return?
A: Ben isn’t familiar.
Q: Do you think the IDF shoots at civilians with total impunity?
A: That’s not true, many of them have been arrested. “They’re all currently sitting in Israeli jail.”
My Questions
Do you believe the IDF or Settlers are generally held accountable when it comes to committing violence against Palestinians?
What about the pardons given to the perpetrators of the Kafr Qasim massacre?
Q: Do you think Israel is justified in killing civilians using your logic?
A: There is a difference between going in and deliberately killing civilians vs attacking infrastructure and killing civilians through collateral damage.
Q: A question about the political climate in the United States.
A: “We should nominate somebody who’s sane…on one hand, we have a geriatric old guy, on the other hand, we have Donald Trump.”
My Questions
If we were truly looking to nominate someone based on their sanity, do we feel like Donald Trump’s behavior is truly a better reflection of sanity than Joseph Biden’s?
Q: Why not support Biden over Trump? Trump’s call for a suspension of the Constitution and Trump’s incitement of January 6th.
A: In Trump’s imagination, he’s a serious threat to Democracy, but since Democracy survived he must not have been a serious threat.
A; January 6th was not a threat to American Democracy. There is no point in time on January 6th that a military coup had been launched and that Donald Trump would retain the presidency.
A: Joe Biden has used the power of the executive branch in new and exorbitant ways. For example, when he tried to use OSHA to enforce vaccination policies.
A: “I think Donald Trump only cares about Donald Trump.”
A: Joe Biden doesn’t believe in the Supreme Court. He’s attacked the Supreme Court with alacrity. His party has talked about packing the Supreme Court.
My Questions
Does someone need to always have a clear chance at thwarting Democracy to be considered a threat to Democracy? Does a failure to be anti-Democratic mean that you are, by definition Democratic?
During Jan 6th, is it inconceivable that a few more people could have caused substantial damage to the actual members of government? Were protestors at one point not a single hallway away from lawmakers? What would have happened if they were caught? Did Trump’s constant election denialism not fuel this riot?
Did Donald Trump not flex incredibly executive power? What about in regards to restricting immigration, enacting tariffs, doing border policy, doing executive actions, etc..?
Isn’t Donald Trump’s obsession with himself a danger to all of us when he’s supposed to be representing the American people instead of his own ego?
The Democrats literally lost a Supreme Court pick to the Republicans. Biden has explicitly refused to consider packing the Supreme Court.