Let's bring in RNC spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko and the co-author
of stolen youth,
Bethany Mandel. Bethany, to you first,
we're not going to show the pictures,
not going to show the video,
but we're clearly hearing, you know,
some of the the bad information about them,
terror faced by captive Israeli females.
Bethany, what do you think?
Do you think people should see this video?
Do you think it would clarify things for them?
So what's interesting about the release of this video is
that they've pretty much had it this whole time.
And the parents of the five girls who were taken
decided as a collective group that they wanted this video
released because the hostage negotiations had a hit,
hit a total stalemate. And they're desperate.
One of the one of the captors also said,
you know, this is one of the girls who can
get pregnant.
We, we now have testimony about what happened to women
October 7th.
And this has been happening for
229 days to these women.
God only knows, and we need to get them out
now.
And this adds that level of urgency.
Yeah. I just want you to add to this,
Elizabeth, because I think it's important that you both kind
of weigh in on on the video that was released
and why it was released and how important it is.
Yeah, look, I just, I watched this video today.
I thought to myself, where is the outrage?
I would dare anyone to watch this video and then
come back and tell me we should have a ceasefire
before these hostages are brought back home or before Hamas
is completely eliminated. I think the fact that this exists,
people are still calling for a ceasefire,
saying the things that they're saying,
knowing that this happened to 1200 innocent civilians,
including, by the way, five Americans who are still held
hostage right now,
something I have not heard from our administration in quite
some time now.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, it really is. Meantime,
they released this video. You have Spain,
Norway, Ireland recognizing a Palestinian state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says this.
The intention of several European countries to recognize a Palestinian
state is a reward for terrorism.
Rewarding terrorism will not bring peace and neither will it
stop us from defeating Hamas.
He's right, Bethany. I mean,
this is a reward for terrorism.
You watch that video and you think how can anybody
reward them with it?
What do you think?
I mean, I think that that maybe is the intention
of these countries.
Unfortunately, if you look back in into history of how
they've treated Jews,
especially during World War Two,
all three of these countries were neutral.
This is an extension of their foreign policy towards the
Jewish people.
They are not. They're not uncomfortable with rewarding terrorism against
Jews.
Yeah. Meantime, the UCLA chancellor,
Jean Block, will speak to Congress tomorrow.
He's part of his testimony before the necessary police resources
could be assembled to remove the encampment,
which had become a focal point of conflict.
Assailants attacked the encampment that evening.
Tragically, it took several hours before law enforcement could quell
the violence.
And Elizabeth, you know, the,
the anti-Semitic protesters, those people are called protesters.
And he calls the people,
the pro Israeli people, assailants who went after them.
And you think there's a different way of kind of
categorizing some of these these bits of Congress?
What do you think?
Yeah, there certainly is a different way.
I think it's really sad that right now a lot
of us have incredibly low expectations for hearing this testimony
tomorrow.
We have all heard from university presidents over the last
six or seven months,
including the time we're all shocked when I believe it
was the university president at Upenn who could not say
whether calling for the genocide of Jews was against the
standards and policies at her school.
So I think at this point,
it's sad because we're all kind of hoping we just
don't hear that tomorrow,
right? We just get some kind of uplifting message compared
to knowing that some universities don't know where they're calling
for genocide for Jews is against their policies.
So it's a sad point,
but it tells us all we need to know about
the status of our universities,
our education system in this country.
Yeah, it really is. Bethany Elizabeth Pipco,
thank you both.