Bibi's 'Secret' Tape from 2001
A portrait of a nation
This is a well-known 08:45 min long video that was recorded (2001) in a home video camera and aired on Israeli TV (channel-10) sometime between 2009 and 2012 (estimated).
This video is often mentioned as a proof for the control of Israel and Jewish lobbies have over America.
However, this video is giving us not only a glimpse into Netanyahu’s thinking but also provides an insight into the Israeli reality in general.
Preparing English subtitles to this video will require more work than I would like to invest but I will try to follow this video and provide description and analysis.
00:00:00 to 00:00:04 The studio person presents the name of the reporter who made this piece and tells us that this video offers us an honest and true observation into Netanyahu’s positions.
00:00:05 to 00:00:36 The reporter (David Deri) looks back to 2001 – the second Intifada – which claimed the lives of tens of victims and hundreds of injured under the leadership of Ariel Sharon, and Netanyahu (a previous prime minister) is acting like a “concerned citizen” who decides to travel to one of the settlements called Ofra, and meet with bereaved families.
00:00:37 to 00:01:29 Netanyahu and his bodyguards get in and he sits down, he declines eating some refreshments.
00:01:29 to 00:01:36 Netanyahu tells everyone present that he understands that all present families were victims of hostilities. He acknowledges that everyone there paid a personal price.
00:01:37 to 00:01:49 The people present explain that there are six families in Ofra who lost family members and the host (Mrs Herskowitz) says: “We already gave our men to the state”. They both lower their gaze as they express sorrow for the dead.
00:01:50 to 00:01:54 Mrs Herskowitz wants to know what the future holds for them (and possibly the country too). She asks: “What is next?”
Analysis: Suffice to say that Mrs Herskowitz is not expecting to hear something towards any form of coexistence but looking forward to harsher military treatment of the indigenous population.
00:01:55 to 00:01:56 Netanyahu replies: What next? We move on next.
Analysis: At the first opportunity Netanyahu proves that Israel has no horizon for sanity.
00:01:57 to 00:02:18 Mrs Herskowitz complains that they have voted for Arik Sharon because they were hoping for a war and nothing was happening so she begins to fear that she might be disappointed once again.
00:02:19 to 00:02:28 Netanyahu asks if things were better under his leadership.
Analysis: There seem to be total agreement between them that violence is the only way as nothing else is not even considered as an option.
00:02:29 to 00:02:50 A man addresses Bibi and tells him: “I am telling you here, privately and confidentially, we all have a feeling here that whenever someone is speaking to us outside an executive role they say one thing however once they are voted in something falls and constrains them into a different behaviour. Arik (Sharon) told us before the election that we should give him a chance and then you will see.”
Analysis: Again, these barbaric settlers demand harsher violence as a condition from whomever they are voting for.
00:02:51 to 00:02:58 The settlers begin to press him and demand “What is going on?”, What is going on?” …
Analysis: In some respect these disgusting settlers are correct. They were sent to the settlements by criminal governments and it doesn’t provide them with enough security which they were promised by those murderers so they are angry.
00:02:59 to 00:03:10 Netanyahu asks for them to turn the camera off so he could speak more freely. The reporter is saying this as well.
00:03:11 to 00:03:33 Netanyahu explains that the Arabs (including Yasser Arafat) want the Israelis (Jews) in the sea.
00:03:34 to 00:03:37: He continues “The Arabs are focusing on a war of terrorism on us, as they believe this will break us”.
Analysis: Not a word on reality of brutal occupation…? Of course not.
00:03:38 to 00:03:54 On he goes: “The main thing is to do is, first we must hit them hard, not just once but a series of attacks that will be so painful, it will be simply intolerable. Right now, the price they pay is not high enough and we should destroy the Palestinian authority so they will be brought to a fear that everything is collapsing.
00:03:55 to 00:04:01 One lady does not agree and say that they (Palestinians) do not fear. On the contrary they shoot us and laugh at us.
00: 04:02 to 00:04:09 Mrs Herskowitz asks: What will the world say? Will they say we are occupiers? And Netanyahu quickly dismisses that concern because “the world will agree that Israel is acting under self-defence”.
Analysis: Without noticing Mrs Herskowitz acknowledges that they are acting towards ethnically cleansing the area. And Bibi confirms he is a war criminal.
00: 04:10 to 00:04:11 Mrs Herskowitz asks: “Aren’t you afraid of the world Bibi?”
00: 04:12 to 00:04:34 Netanyahu: “No, especially today with America, I know what is America, America is something that can be moved, and moved to the right direction”
Analysis: This is one of the main sections of this video that has attracted most attention outside Israel. You can see Netanyahu’s hand gestures pointing to something that you feel with your fingertips, like kneading a dough.
Most people assumed that Bibi brags here on Israel’s power to control American politicians, (for example by AIPAC and other Zionist organisations). Another option is that what is easy to control is the American public opinion rather than the control of politicians against the popular opinion in the street.
Netanyahu says (00:04:20): “They will not stand in our way”, “They will not stand in our way”. He goes on to dismiss any voices of dissent (in America): “even if they will say something – let them say”. Bibi understand that they have to say something but that both the US and Israel are actually working as one – but he doesn’t say this…
At 00:04:28 he says: “80 percent of American are with us”, which points to the fact that public opinion is what matters.
It is interesting to note that even the little boy sitting next to Netanyahu knows of the importance of the Americans in this story. The boy says correctly that he finds it an odd situation with the American duplicity.
The boy says at 00:04:17 that the Americans are on our side but if Israel does something (aggressive, I take it) the Americans may change tone, Bibi cuts him off and quickly says “They will not stand in our way”. Bibi knows of course that this is the Good Cop – Bad Cop (fraud) that Israel and America have been playing all along for decades, bamboozling the entire world. This is pointing to how fake the “State of Israel” really is, as looks down at: 00:04:21. This criminality is simply out of this world. Of course, none of the people present did not really get it but the settlers are not complete fools and as we shall see later, they did feel that this visit was a bit strange after all.
00:04:34 to 00:04:48 Here Bibi pushes on with his lies that the Clinton administration was “pro-Palestinian” and in a radical way… He says he was not afraid to confront Clinton and the United Nations (UN). In fact, the way I see it any such “confrontation” is a total fraud.
From here onwards Bibi brags that he was the person who destroyed the Oslo agreements in order to show how badass he really is when it comes to the Palestinians.
In the last few seconds of the video the hosts can’t entirely agree whether Bibi is reliable or is he a crook. Some of them were impressed others, not so much.
Summary:
Netanyahu is a traitor (like all Israeli prime ministers). They have promised stupid and evil Israelis territorial promises on someone else’s land. They have educated Israelis to develop messianic and fascist mindset and to simmer in this for decades in this reality, as they wait for more and more military “achievements”. This is the barbarity Israelis were accustomed to, as they were requested to join the fight in oppressing indigenous population and in the process destroying theirs and their children’s future.
As you sit and watch this it is hard to fathom how a whole country (8 million Jews) were swept by this sort of sick and disgusting bullshit as the mental nutrition to rely on.
At this point it is also interesting to mention the reporter of this piece. His name is David Deri who went on to direct in 2017 the film “The Ancestral Sin”.
David Deri is a Arab (Moroccan) Jew who grew up in the small Negev town of Yerucham. This town belongs to a group of towns that the Israeli planning authorities designated as strategic settlements called “Ayarot Pituach”. They were meant to simply “fill” the land with Jewish inhabitants. But because they did not have enough European Jews, Arab Jews were encouraged to join the Zionist project. Only later those Moroccan Jews realised that they were mistreated by the Ashkenazi-ruled establishment and to this very day tensions exist between Mizrahi Jews and the Ashkenazi.
However, I wonder whether David Deri is ready to admit that not only the Moroccans were fooled but also those Ashkenazi deranged settlers from Ofra, and most other Ashkenazi Jews from all over Israel who bought the lies and fraud of the Anglo-American empire (mafia) who educated Israelis to become products of dark human tendencies that no real state should ever exploit and hoodwink their own sons and daughters as pawns in dirty geopolitics for 3 generations running. I wouldn’t hold any hopes that he does any time soon.