Exclusive: Famous Musician Matisyahu Shares his Thoughts on Israel War
Matisyahu shares his exclusive thoughts on Israel war with FACTZ.com
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00:00 Matis, what's up buddy? What's up man? First of all, huge fan of your music, huge
00:04 fan of Ripple's new song, but I got to get into what's going on in Israel. How are
00:08 your friends, how are your family doing? I know my family's good. My son is in
00:12 Israel right now and he's safe as of right now. My friends are either
00:19 being called up or their children are being called up right now to go to war.
00:22 So a lot of people right now are definitely going through some intense
00:27 times. Yeah, I mean obviously we're in America right now, but it's just crazy
00:31 what we're seeing on social media, the videos, just everything that's going on.
00:34 It's hard to stomach. I don't know, but what are your thoughts on
00:39 the situation? I mean the last, the very last thing that I heard as I was like
00:42 taking my kids for a walk is that that girl that was, you know, at a famous,
00:46 there's a video circulating of like a 15 year old girl, like red hair, who's being
00:51 like taken hostage and put into a car. Yeah. So they were, she was just lit on
00:55 fire. She was just lit on fire in a Palestinian town where they were all
01:00 mocking, laughing, dancing around her as she was burning on flames. So that's kind
01:05 of like what the Jewish people are going through right now, whether
01:08 they're in Israel or America or wherever they are. We're all like mourning and
01:12 we're all feeling the weight of this horrible, horrible situation that we have.
01:18 So what's the next step? What is your, is there gonna be peace?
01:22 The next step is probably gonna be like a severe war. Like I don't think that,
01:26 I don't think that Israel is gonna stand by while civilians are being taken from
01:30 their homes, women, children, elderly, and paraded around the streets and massacred.
01:35 I have a feeling that that Israel is gonna respond in a way that's
01:40 unprecedented, that no one's ever seen the force of what Israel can do when
01:45 they're unleashed. And I think Israel is about to unleash and there's gonna be a
01:49 horrible, horrible price to be, that's gonna pay with civilians. There's gonna
01:55 be a lot of civilian casualties and there's probably gonna be a war is what
02:00 I think. So what does Israel exactly want? Can you explain it to me as far as
02:04 what you know? I mean Israel wants to be, they want to live in peace. If
02:08 all of Israel's enemies were to put down their weapons right now there
02:12 would be peace in the land and everyone would live. You know what I'm saying? If
02:16 Israel was to put their weapons down right now they'd be abolished in one day.
02:20 They would be massacred. Men, women, children, not just soldiers. So Israel
02:25 has to fight for their existence, they have to fight for their right to exist.
02:29 Jews have had to fight for their right to exist since the beginning of time. You
02:33 know from one century to the next. And the Jews in America
02:40 especially, you know we've had it easy but what's going on now in Israel is
02:44 like kind of a pattern of time. It just happens that sooner or later sides are
02:48 taken. People decide whether they're on the side of the Jews or not. Yeah. And
02:53 this isn't just about Israel. A lot of people try to claim it is. This
02:57 is about women, children being burned in the streets, being taken from their homes.
03:02 And that's not about land. That's a religious war. That's about something
03:08 very, that is not just about land. It's not humane.
03:12 It's just, it's, but you know it's crazy because a lot of people are posting on
03:16 social media and some people are getting a lot of you know hate just for posting
03:20 you know I support Israel. But did your phone, did that affect it at all? Yeah, I posted it right
03:27 away because I felt I needed to and I immediately lost like you know followers
03:32 you know. And those followers need to know where I stand you know that's how I
03:35 feel you know. There's something called the Penteliyah. It's like the inner
03:39 point of the Jew. And Jews love to argue. We love to fight. We fight amongst each
03:44 other. You know it's a known thing. But when when Jews are being targeted for
03:49 being Jewish and women and children are being burned in the streets, something
03:53 inside the Jewish people comes alive and we stand together. And for the people
03:58 that are famous, that are out there, that are standing behind the Jews. It's not
04:03 just about Israel. Who are standing behind the Jews right now. I support them
04:07 and I and I say thank you. And to the people that are too afraid to speak up
04:11 or the people that are putting up posts and then taking them down because
04:15 they're afraid they're gonna lose followers and they're gonna lose some of
04:18 their fame or their standing. I have to say I'm sorry for you you know. Yeah,
04:24 Kylie Jenner for example she was one of who had it up and she took it down. Yeah.
04:28 I mean just. I mean any it's bigger than your brand. That's what I have to say.
04:32 This is about your people. This is about thousands and thousands of years of us
04:35 being massacred and you know it's gonna happen again now. You know everyone's
04:41 gonna take a side you know and there's gonna be a huge wave of anti-semitism
04:45 that's gonna hit that hit America and hit everywhere else in the world you
04:49 know. Well Kylie Jenner is the only you know Kylie Jenner posted that she took
04:52 down. A lot of people want to hear what Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid or some of
04:55 the biggest models in the world with their thoughts are about this because
04:58 they've been having they were very free Palestine. Yeah, that's the interesting
05:02 thing is you're gonna see when women and children, 15 year old women are being
05:05 raped and burned and murdered in the streets. How do you how do you justify
05:09 that for for for this for as a freedom fighter? As a situation you know what are
05:15 they gonna say? Okay these people have been oppressed. Well the truth of the
05:19 matter is that billions of dollars have been poured into Gaza so that they could
05:23 be an amazing nation that stands next to Israel and instead Hamas is taking that
05:27 money and turned all of Gaza into regime that's trained to hate Jews and to be a
05:32 murderous nation. So you know no amount of money being poured into Gaza or or
05:39 understanding is gonna is gonna change the fact that these people want not only
05:45 Israelis but every Jewish person in the world to be exterminated and the people
05:50 who will support that are supporting that idea and if they're not aware that
05:54 they're supporting that idea hopefully now they're gonna become aware as 15
05:59 year old children and and elderly and little kids are being burned in the
06:04 streets of Gaza. Yeah. Like I'm sorry like I understand that people are frustrated
06:10 you know there's a lot of there's been a lot of pain you know there's been a lot
06:13 of suffering you know what I'm saying? I go back to this idea if you just dropped
06:17 your weapons there would be no issue. People want we want to live in peace. The
06:22 Jewish people want to live in peace. Yeah so what's next though like what this is
06:27 not this is not gonna be over in a week. No this is gonna be months and months
06:31 and months if not years. It's either gonna turn into a massive war or it's
06:37 gonna or it's gonna play out with just an intent you know Israelis are smart
06:43 you know they're not just gonna just retaliate like blindly they're gonna put
06:48 together a plan and they're they're they're not I don't think that Israel
06:51 will let this happen you know we're talking about the extinction of people
06:55 that's on the line. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? What should America you know
06:59 Biden's in office right now. Yeah. What do you think the America should do as far
07:03 as their handling of this situation? I think I mean it's very clear America
07:09 America and Israel are linked I don't think there's a stronger ally in the
07:13 world between then there is between America and Israel so you know America
07:19 obviously is flexing right now and sending aircraft carriers and helping
07:23 out like in a major way so that so that all the major you know nations hopefully
07:28 stay away because they know I don't know that anyone wants World War three. Yeah
07:33 so you know I would see to wrap this up what should people do is there anything
07:38 that you know I think I think I mean yeah I think if you're Jewish you should
07:42 fucking take a deep accounting of yourself right now and see where you
07:47 stand in all this you know I mean I think that that's the main thing if
07:51 you're not Jewish and you're out there and you're listening I think you should
07:55 try to find some facts figure out when was Palestine created who created
08:00 Palestine where did it come from get into the details and the facts of what's
08:04 been going on there you know what I'm saying before you are so quick to assume
08:09 that Israel is like South Africa with apartheid or something like that which
08:13 it's not because there are there Israeli Arabs inside of Israel who are military
08:18 commanders who are heads of hospitals lawyers doctors Israel treats its Arabs
08:23 properly you know I'm saying and there it's not apartheid to think that it's
08:27 the same thing is like very very juvenile you know to just assume that
08:32 things are this way or that way this is a complicated situation that goes back
08:36 so if you want to have an opinion study the facts get into the facts and figure
08:40 out what's what and if you're Jewish you need to sit down and you need to think
08:45 about our history and you to think about where we stand right now because the
08:49 shit is about to hit the fan I hear you man well it's our let's talk with the
08:52 music but there's bigger things going on right now I appreciate my thank you so
08:54 much I appreciate absolutely