"Netanyahu is Deceiving You. He is Lying to You:" A Father of an Israeli Hostage Asks America to Stop Supporting Israel's War

Yehuda Cohen, Israeli father of hostage Nimrod Cohen, wants U.S. Congress to stop enabling Prime Minister Netanyahu's "meaningless" war which is endangering his son and empowering Israeli extremists.
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As President Biden and U.S. Congress continue doing everything in their power to fund and support Israel’s genocide, Yehuda Cohen is using his voice to pressure the international community to hold Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accountable for his failure to bring back the hostages and continue “this meaningless war.”

Yehuda is the father of 20-year-old Nimrod Cohen who Hamas has held for over a year. On October 7th, Nimrod, an IDF soldier, was kidnapped from a tank that malfunctioned near Gaza. Along with many other family members of the hostages, Yehuda blames Netanyahu for rejecting a ceasefire and hostage deal to protect himself from jail time. 'This government betrayed me, but it also betrayed the entire state of Israel,” he said last month.

In the past year, Israel has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and expanded the war to the West Bank and Lebanon. Israel has already engaged in assassination attempts against Hezbollah leaders and is currently stationed in Syria’s buffer zone and raiding villages. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders, a move that Cohen publicly supports. Meanwhile, in America, the US House of Representatives just voted in favor of a bill to sanction the ICC for trying to hold Netanyahu accountable and President Biden has promised $8 billion more in weapons to Israel to continue its reckless war.

Cohen has instead praised those few Democrats who tried to block $20 billion of arms sales to Israel saying that the war not only increases civilian casualties and destroys peace in the region but also endangers the lives of his son and nearly 98 other Israel hostages.

In this Chai Talk, Yehuda joins me from Israel and tells me why so many family members of Israeli hostages are increasingly speaking out about Israel’s failed war, placing the blame on Israel’s leaders, and asking the United States to stop enabling Netanyahu, a war criminal.

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The United States House of Representatives has voted in favour of a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.