Following the Yosef Haddad controversy: Yotam Zamir's pointed question | Watch

Yotam Zamir, a panelist on Channel 14's "The Patriots" program, questioned why the events of October 7 changed the Israeli public's perception regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state. According to him, numerous previous terrorist incidents had already proven the murderous nature of the Palestinian enemy, and there is no substantive reason for the shift in stance.

During the program "The Patriots" on Channel 14, panelist Yotam Zamir addressed the public controversy surrounding Yosef Haddad and raised a pointed question: why did the events of October 7 change the perception of many Israelis regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state? Zamir argued that the murderous nature of the Palestinian enemy was already well known and clear beforehand, and that previous terrorist incidents such as the Park Hotel bombing, the attack at the Ophira, and the Savoy Hotel attacks had proven this. In his view, the only difference between October 7 and previous events is the scale of the enemy's success, not a fundamental change in its character. Zamir expressed bewilderment that people are changing their stance specifically now, after decades of attacks. These remarks were made against the backdrop of a public controversy surrounding Yosef Haddad, an Israeli advocacy activist, but the exact details of the controversy are not specified in the article.