Amy Goodman intervews Yonatan Zeigen and Gideon Levy
Democracy Now!
“Our politicians won’t listen to anything, because they’re driven out of self-interest,” says Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother Vivian Silver was killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri.
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