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Matthew Paul Miller, a.k.a. Matisyahu, spoke out against the celebrities who have refrained from commenting on the war in Israel. “We’re all mourning, and we’re all feeling the weight of this horrible, horrible situation,” the reggae artist, 44, exclusively told HollywoodLife via FACTZ.
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00:01Matis, what's up buddy?
00:02What's up man?
00:03First of all, huge fan of your music, huge fan of Ripple's new song, but I gotta get
00:06into what's going on in Israel.
00:09How are your friends, how are your family doing?
00:11My family's good, my son is in Israel right now, and he's safe as of right now.
00:17My friends are either being called up, or their children are being called up right now
00:22to go to war, so a lot of people right now are definitely going through some intense
00:28times.
00:29And obviously we're in America right now, but it's just crazy what we're seeing on
00:32social media, the videos, just everything that's going on, it's hard to stomach.
00:37I don't know, but how, what are your thoughts on the situation right now?
00:40I mean the last, the very last thing that I heard as I was like taking my kids for a walk
00:44is that that girl that was, you know, the famous, there's a video circulating of like
00:49a 15 year old girl, like red hair, who's being like taken hostage and put into a car.
00:54So they were, she was just lit on fire.
00:56She was just lit on fire in a Palestinian town where they were all mocking, laughing,
01:02dancing around her as she was burning on flames.
01:04So that's kind of like what, what the Jewish people are going through right now, whether
01:08they're in Israel or America or wherever they are.
01:10We're all like mourning and we're all feeling the, the weight of this horrible, horrible situation
01:17that we have.
01:18So what's the next step?
01:19What, you know, what is your, is there going to be peace?
01:22The next step is probably going to be like a severe war.
01:25Like I don't think that, I don't think that Israel is going to stand by while civilians
01:29are being taken from their homes, women, children, elderly, and paraded around the streets and
01:34massacred.
01:35I have a feeling that, that Israel is going to respond in a way that's unprecedented,
01:41that no one's ever seen the force of what Israel can do when they're unleashed.
01:45And I think Israel is about to unleash and there's going to be a horrible, horrible price
01:52to be, that's going to pay with civilians.
01:55There are going to be a lot of civilian casualties and there's probably going to be a war is what
02:00I think, you know.
02:01So what does Israel exactly want?
02:03Can you explain it to me as far as what you know?
02:05I mean, Israel wants to be, they want to live in peace, you know.
02:08If, if, if all of Israel's enemies were to put down their weapons right now, there would
02:12be peace in the land and everyone would live.
02:15You know what I'm saying?
02:16If Israel was to put their weapons down right now, they'd be abolished in one day.
02:20They would be massacred, men, women, children, not just soldiers.
02:23So, Israel has to fight for their existence, they have to fight for their right to exist.
02:29Jews have had to fight for their right to exist since the beginning of time, you know,
02:33from one, one, one century to the next, you know.
02:38And the Jews in America especially, you know, we've had it easy, but what's going on now
02:43in Israel is like kind of a pattern of time.
02:45It just happens that sooner or later sides are taken, people decide whether they're on
02:50the side of, of the Jews or not.
02:52Yeah.
02:53And this isn't, this isn't just about Israel.
02:55A lot of people try to claim it is.
02:57This is about women, children being burned in the streets, being taken from their homes.
03:02And, uh, that's not about land.
03:04That's a religious war.
03:06That's about, uh, something very, not, it's not, that is not just about land, you know.
03:11It's not humane.
03:12It's just, it's, but, you know, it's crazy because a lot of people are posting on social
03:16media and some people are getting a lot of, you know, hate just for posting, you know,
03:21I support Israel and, but did your following, did that, did that affect you?
03:25Yeah, I, I, I posted it right away because I felt I needed to and I immediately lost,
03:30like, you know, followers, you know, and those followers need to know where I stand.
03:35You know, that's how I feel, you know.
03:37Um, there's something called the Pentele Yid.
03:39It's like the inner point of the Jew.
03:41And, uh, Jews love to argue.
03:43We love to fight.
03:44We fight amongst each other.
03:45You know, it's, it's a known thing, but when, when Jews are being targeted for being
03:49Jewish and, uh, women and children are being burned in the streets, uh, something inside the
03:54Jewish people comes alive and we stand together.
03:57And for the people that are famous, that are out there, that are, uh, standing behind the Jews,
04:02um, it's not just about Israel.
04:04We're standing behind the Jews right now.
04:06I support them and I, and I say thank you.
04:09And to the people that are too afraid to, uh, speak up or the people that are, uh, putting up posts
04:14and then taking them down because they're afraid they're going to lose followers
04:17and they're going to lose, uh, some of their fame or their standing,
04:20I have to say, um, I'm, I'm sorry for you, you know?
04:24Yeah.
04:25Kylie Jenner, for example, she was one of, who had it up and she took it down.
04:28Yeah.
04:29I mean, just.
04:30I mean, any, it's bigger than your brand.
04:31That's what I have to say.
04:32This is about your people.
04:33This is about thousands and thousands of years of us being massacred.
04:36And, um, it, you know, it's going to happen again now, you know?
04:40Everyone's going to take a side, you know?
04:42And, uh, there's going to be a huge wave of anti-Semitism that's going to hit the, hit, hit America
04:47and hit everywhere else in the world, you know?
04:49Well, Kylie Jenner is the only, you know, Kylie Jenner posted and then she took down.
04:52Uh, a lot of people want to hear what Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid are some of the biggest models in the world,
04:56what their thoughts are about this because they've been having, they were very free Palestine.
05:00Yeah.
05:01That's the interesting thing is you're going to see when women and children,
05:0315 year old women are being raped and burned and murdered in the streets.
05:07How do you, how do you justify that for, for, for this, for, as a freedom fighter, as a, as a situation, you know?
05:14What are they going to say?
05:15Okay.
05:16These people have been oppressed.
05:17Well, the, the, the truth of the matter is that billions of dollars have been poured into
05:21Gaza so that they could be an amazing nation that stands next to Israel.
05:25And instead, Hamas has taken that money and turned all of Gaza into regime that's trained
05:30to hate Jews and to be a murderous nation.
05:33So, um, you know, no amount of money being poured into Gaza or, or our understanding is going
05:40to, is going to change the fact that these people want, uh, not only Israelis, but every
05:46Jewish person in the world to be exterminated.
05:49And the people who will support that are supporting that idea.
05:53And if they're not aware that they're supporting that idea, hopefully now they're going to become
05:57aware as 15 year old children and, and elderly and little kids are being burned in the streets of Gaza.
06:05Yeah.
06:06Like, I'm sorry.
06:07Like, I understand that people are frustrated.
06:10You know, there's a lot of, there's been a lot of pain.
06:12You know, there's been a lot of suffering.
06:13You know what I'm saying?
06:14I go back to this idea.
06:16If you just dropped your weapons, there would be no issue.
06:19People want, we want to live in peace.
06:21The Jewish people want to live in peace.
06:23Yeah.
06:24So what's next though?
06:25Like what, this is not, this is not going to be over in a week.
06:28You know, I think this is going to be months and months and months, if not years.
06:33Um, it's either going to turn into a massive war or it's going to, uh, or it's going to play out with just, uh, an intent.
06:41You know, Israelis are smart.
06:43You know, they, they're not just going to just retaliate like blindly.
06:47They're going to put together a plan and they're, they're, they're not, I don't think that Israel will let this happen.
06:51You know, we're talking about the extinction of a people that's on the line.
06:56Yeah.
06:57You know what I'm saying?
06:58What should America, uh, you know, Biden's in office right now.
07:00Yeah.
07:01What do you think the America should do as far as their handling of this situation?
07:06I think, uh, I mean, it's very clear America, America and Israel are linked.
07:10I don't think there's a stronger ally in the world between then there is between America and Israel.
07:15So, uh, you know, America obviously is flexing right now.
07:20And sending aircraft carriers and helping out like in a major way so that, so that all the major, you know, nations hopefully stay away because they know, I don't know that anyone wants world war three.
07:32Yeah.
07:33So, you know, obviously to wrap this up, what should people do?
07:38Is there anything that, you know, I think, I think, I mean, yeah, I think if you're Jewish, you should fucking, uh, take a deep accounting of yourself right now and see where you stand in all of this.
07:48You know what I mean?
07:49I think that, uh, that's the main thing.
07:51If you're not Jewish and you're, uh, out there and you're listening, I think you should try to find some facts, figure out when was Palestine created?
07:59Who created Palestine?
08:00Where did it come from?
08:01Get into the details and the facts of what's been going on there.
08:05You know what I'm saying?
08:06Before you are so quick to, uh, assume that Israel is like South Africa with apartheid or something like that.
08:12Which it's not because there are, there are Israeli Arabs inside of Israel who are military commanders, who are heads of hospitals, lawyers, doctors.
08:21Israel treats its Arabs properly.
08:23You know what I'm saying?
08:24It's not apartheid.
08:25To think that it's the same thing is like very, very, uh, juvenile.
08:30You know, to just assume that things are this way or that way.
08:33This is a complicated situation that goes back.
08:36So, if you want to have an opinion, study the facts.
08:39Get into the facts and figure out what's what.
08:41And, uh, if you're Jewish, you need to sit down and you need to think about our history and you need to think about where we stand right now.
08:48Because this shit is about to hit the fan.
08:50I hear you, man.
08:51Well, let's talk about the music, but there's bigger things going on right now.
08:53Yes, sir.
08:54But I appreciate it, man.
08:55Thank you so much.
08:56I appreciate it.
08:57Absolutely.
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