Posted on 11/08/2023 10:57:13 AM PST by nickcarraway
Israel’s president Isaac Herzog has criticised Angelina Jolie over her stance on the conflict engulfing Israel and Gaza.
Herzog, 63, said the 48-year-old Hollywood star hadn’t ‘seen the facts on the ground’ nor had she ‘visited Gaza’.
Last month, Jolie accused Israel in an Instagram post of ‘deliberately bombing children, women, families, deprived of food, medicine and humanitarian aid’.
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Jolie also called for a ceasefire, prompting Herzog to say in a new interview that the A-lister wasn’t ‘offering the Israeli people any ability to defend themselves’.
Speaking to Piers Morgan on Uncensored, Herzog said of Jolie: ‘She never went to visit and see the facts on the ground.’
He added: ‘With all the respect, people in Gaza know there is war, but there is no humanitarian crisis that does not enable them to survive.
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‘There’s a major dramatic increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza which Israel has supported dramatically, in conjunction with the United States and United Nations and many other nations.’
Herzog continued: ‘The Gazan people can move there so we can uproot this terror regime. This is what we know. Angelina Jolie does not offer the Israeli people any ability to defend themselves by saying what she is saying.
‘Gaza is a jail not because of Israel, Israel pulled out of Gaza to the last inch.’
It comes after Jolie’s own father, Oscar-winner Jon Voight, also publicly lashed out at the Tomb Raider actress.
In a video shared on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram over the weekend, Voight, 84, said his world-famous daughter has ‘no understanding of God’s honour’.
Sitting in front of an American flag in the video, captioned ‘Truth and lies’, the Midnight Cowboy actor said in full: ‘I am very disappointed that my daughter, like so many, has no understanding of God’s honour, God’s truths.’
Voight added: ‘This is about destroying the history of God’s land — the Holy Land — the land of the Jews.
‘This is justice for God’s children of the holy land.’
‘The Israeli army must protect thy soil, thy people. This is war. It’s not going to be what the left thinks — it can’t be civil now.’
Denouncing Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, Voight went on: ‘Israel was attacked by inhuman terror on innocent babies, mothers, fathers, grandparents.
‘These animals want to wipe out Jews, Christians.’
At the start of the week, Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health authority said more than 10,000 Palestinians had been killed by military action.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, has continued to shrug off calls from humanitarian agencies and peace protesters pleading for a ceasefire.
The Israel-Hamas fighting was sparked by the events of October 7, when militant group Hamas launched horrific aerial and ground attacks on Israel.
Israeli officials say at least 1,400 people – many civilians – were killed in the attacks.
What’s that saying about “Stars”? “Shut up and sing!”. In her case, it’s “Shut up and pout!” - that’s the extent of her acting. She’s a pawn of the Muslims.
Jolie is becoming less than irrelevant as she and her “ideas” age. Train wreck of an individual. I feel bad for her kids and her father.
The libtard bimbo is obviously a Jew hater
And that’s just Free Repúblic.
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