FORMER President Rodrigo Roa Duterte called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a classic warrior, he also has a message to the now-wartime leader leading the Israeli military in its fight against Hamas.
“About Netanyahu, he’s a classic warrior. He’s not for politics. You know his brother died fighting the terrorist. Netanyahu is also a soldier,”
This is how former President Duterte described Netanyahu, in the latest episode of Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa, with Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy.
Duterte also drew similarities between Netanyahu and the Late President Fidel V. Ramos, as they are both soldiers, but unlike the latter.
FPRRD: Netanyahu is not a soldier of peace, but a soldier of war
“He’s not the classic example, the most that I could identify him with, with the Filipino, he is like Ramos. But Netanyahu is more of a warrior. Ramos was a very decent man, a soldier was always for peace. But Netanyahu, is not for peace. Even before this war, he was already a wartime president. Netanyahu is really suited for war, and he has lost in elections parliamentary, he became prime minister, they lost again, in elections and parliamentary, he was removed. I think this is the third or fourth time he came back up again,” according to Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
The former president is referring to Netanyahu’s political power as the longest-tenured prime minister, he has held office six times for over 16 years.
Netanyahu held several ambassadorship positions and later served as a deputy minister of foreign affairs, and deputy minister in a prime minister’s coalition cabinet, but in his early days, Netanyahu was in the Israeli military, he enlisted in the year 1967, and was part of the elite special operations unit called “Sayeret Matkal”.
In 1973, he fought in the Yom Kippur War, also known as the fourth Arab-Israeli War, a devastating event that began with surprise attacks led by Egypt and Syria during Jewish Holy Days.
History books say that Israel ultimately gained the upper hand, however, the war resulted in more than 2,500 Israelis killed, as well as thousands of Syrians and Egyptians.
Analysts and the media have drawn parallels to the Yom Kippur War and the unprecedented attack of Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, which halted Israel’s political divide over a judicial overhaul.
Exactly 50 years and a day later, Netanyahu is facing a similar event
This time, he is standing as a wartime prime minister.
“Israel has an atomic bomb. I think it is only Israel that has an atomic bomb there in the Middle East. I’ll just drop it there and say, ** let’s just end everything. So don’t do that to me. So, if there is a representative of the Jewish State of Israel, please just send my message to Prime Minister Netanyahu, that this is what I would do [if I were him]. For me, if you are an Arab state, was the cranial mass inside your brain. You must condemn, and just say my neighbor, my brother Arab, please do not do it in exert,” Duterte added.
Duterte has strongly condemned Hamas’ attack on civilians.
FPRRD gives advice to PM Netanyahu amid Israel-Hamas war
But if he were in Netanyahu’s shoes, the former president said:
“So, my advice to Netanyahu, if there is a representative of Israel listening now, Turn that place into a big cemetery. Pulverize everything. All of it,” he stated.
“If I have an atomic bomb, I will really drop it in that place. Do you know where I’ll drop it? In Iran, because this [Iran] is the master of Hamas,” Duterte added.
FPRRD also stressed that terror groups like Hamas should be eliminated.
“Hamas they did the right thing. ****, what the s***, was it right to kill innocent people? You can decimate the Israeli army for all I care. You can massacre them all, but you should not harm even one single innocent civilian. He may be an Arab, Palestine or the tourists there, like the French, and Germans, are also included. It’s a tinderbox because if that were to happen in the Philippines if you do that even to just one Filipino, I would go to war,” FPRRD said.
“We have to eliminate this. We can’t allow rulers of masons or groups, violent terrorist groups, to have their way and just kill people without rhyme of reason,” he added.
It can be remembered that Israel launched a total siege on Gaza Strip, it unleashed a retaliatory strike, pummeling Hamas stronghold and halting deliveries of food, water, medicines, electricity, and other supplies.
Violent terrorist groups should be eliminated—FPRRD
“These high-profiles, with so much influence on the Arab affairs should think now of how to correct things, if it can be corrected. Because if I were Netanyahu, I will pulverize Hamas,” he said.
“I will level it to the ground so Gaza will be no more. No more Gaza to fight (for). I will make it a dead place, including those who will be hit by bombs. I will forget about Gaza. I will just still, “Israelis, come home, and find your own space in our own place, and you Palestinians, the good ones, the innocent ones, you should [evacuate] because I will pulverize this place and I will make it the biggest cemetery in the world. That’s what I will really do if I were [in Netanyahu’s place],” FPRRD said.
There’s a reason and a time for reckoning for everything—FPRRD
“I will say that this is not to side with Israel, we have always been neutral even when I was president. The Arab is good, Israel is good. For me, I feel for the Muslims in the Middle East and I love the Muslims—the Filipino Muslims in this country. But there has to be a reason and a time for reckoning for everything, it’s out of tune and it has harmed so many people,” FPRRD said.
