Coates’ later interview suggesting on the basis of complete nonsense (something about fishing offshore) that he might have participated in the murders and rapes of Oct 7th were he 20 years old underscores how right the CBS Dokoupil interview was to challenge Coates and he should frankly never even have been given any air time at all. He is being allowed to spread what is really antisemitism packaged up in a one-sided way that pretends that there is no terrorism or anti-Jew extremism that was homegrown and that billions of dollars of aid provided to Gaza could not have been used to create a better life for people instead of bombs and tunnels nor that somehow it was Israel and not Egypt that was responsible when Israel left the territory and Egypt sealed off its border because it did not want more violent extremists in its country. No, Mr. Coates, no one should have participated in the rape, murders and kidnapping of over a thousand Jews mostly at a rock concert under any circumstances and nothing you have said provides any justification for those acts.
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