The former speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, “I couldn’t have made things worse” in the conflict in Gaza, in an interview broadcast this Sunday by the BBC.
Pelosi, who on Thursday participated in an event at the English university of Oxford, declared to the ‘Laura Kuenssberg Program’ that Netanyahu “He was never an agent of peace” and admitted that she “she’s not a big fan of his”.
The congresswoman stated that what is happening in the Strip “challenges the conscience of the world” and maintained that “It’s almost unforgivable” the impact of the famine on children, while calling “barbarian” the Hamas attack in Israeli territory on October 7.
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“Israel has the right to defend itself, but the way it is doing it is a challenge because Netanyahu has never been an agent of peace”he stated.
“I’m not a big fan of his; he couldn’t have done things worse than those tens of thousands, or whatever number, of dead people, malnourished children and the uncertainty that exists… and that’s what people talk about “he argued.
Asked if she understood why young people in the United States used controversial tactics when protesting the conflict, Pelosi said: “When they go beyond the campuses and block the Golden Gate Bridge, or something else, for a long period of time, and people can’t go to the doctor or the hospital or anything urgent in their lives, they don’t gain support”.
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But he added: “How can you criticize the demonstrations on (university) campuses? That is a way of life in the United States”.
The British Police on Thursday evicted two pro-Palestinian demonstrators who protested during her speech on populism to students at Oxford University, while outside another group criticized her for her defense of Israel and her position on the pro-Palestinian movement.
EFE
