Rachel Goldberg, whose son is without doubt one of the unreleased Israeli hostages, thinks Elon Musk‘s go to to her nation was a honest effort to raised perceive what she and so many different households are going by means of.
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Rachel Goldberg joined us Wednesday on “TMZ Live” to debate the continuing launch of ladies and kids held by Hamas for greater than 7 weeks. Dozens have been returned to Israel in current days, throughout a short lived ceasefire that is presently set to finish this week.
Her personal son, Hersch Goldberg-Polin, has but to see freedom — and but, Rachel has continued to be a front-facing unofficial spokesperson on behalf of all of the hostage households … a painstaking actuality she says she struggles with every day.
Rachel says that whereas Hamas nonetheless has her personal flesh and blood captive, she acknowledges the worth of serving as a voice for everybody else — and thinks it is her obligation to proceed doing so.
As for Elon — who’s been criticized for utilizing Israel in a chilly PR transfer after he was accused of antisemitism — Rachel tells us she truly believes his coronary heart’s in the appropriate place, and, to her, he got here throughout as earnestly fascinated by studying/sympathizing.
Rachel was amongst a couple of relations of hostages who confirmed them footage from Oct. 7 … together with the horrifying second Hersch was snatched up by Hamas after his left arm was blown aside throughout the assault.
She additionally talked in regards to the ongoing protests within the U.S. and past … particularly, pro-Palestine ones, the place folks have decried Israel’s response in Gaza, and its therapy of harmless Palestinians caught in the midst of the warfare.
Rachel’s response would possibly shock some … she says she truly feels for the harmless Palestinians — and even says Palestine does, the truth is, have a proper to function as its personal state with dignity and freedom.
Her rationale boils all the way down to the ol’ two-things-can-be-true-at-once POV, and he or she says if she will say that about Gaza/Palestine … it also needs to be straightforward for people to sentence Hamas’ violence.