Konstantin the Grifter
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Konstantin Kisin is a grifter, and this interview with Benjamin Netanyahu confirms it.
The Netanyahu interview is embarrassing; an obvious performance. There was so much that was artificial about the “interview”, it could not have been unprompted.
From start to finish, the questions were opportunities for Netanyahu to repeat the hasbara the world has become accustomed to.
The couple of occasions when he was asked a challenging question, the lack of pushback proved this was not the cross-examination of one of the most despicable men alive, but just another Nelk Boys interview. The same old drivel repeated, almost verbatim: “butchered us; raped our women; beheaded our men; burnt our babies”.
Kisin, without a hint of irony, explains that the show is about seeking the truth, to pushback when it’s appropriate, and to have an honest conversation, all of which were lacking in what followed. There were so many lies told that Truth was conspicuous only by its absence. There was no pushback and the conversation was far from honest.
Netanyahu is asked about his “very strange and unique experience, which very few have ever had”. This of a man who said about 9/11: “this is very good”. The irony was completely lost on Kisin.
It didn’t take long for Netanyahu to begin dehumanising the Palestinians, describing them as “bestial”. That is how a genocide is made – by first dehumanising the enemy. The Nazis did it, and now the Zionists are doing it.
The lies also began early, with reference to rape, beheadings and burning. Even the Israeli prosecutor gave up on the rape allegations, with no witnesses or victims found. There is no evidence of beheadings and no babies were put into ovens. “Savagery on a scale not seen since the holocaust”
All of this is repeated without evidence, without pushback from Kisin.
So much for seeking the truth and pushing back!
Israel is battling “barbarism” – and there’s that dehumanising once more. Everyone is not the same; the Israelis belong to the civilised West, a theme that Kisin is passionate about; the assault on the West.
“We’re not the same”, Netanyahu declares. “We don’t prosecute wars that way. We don’t engage in such horrors. We don’t deliberately mutilate human beings”.
This is just another example of what we have learned about Zionists: every accusation is a confession. This is projection. Every horror that Netanyahu projects onto the Palestinians is what Israel has done to the Palestinians.
Babies were allowed to rot in hospital incubators after the IDF had been made aware that babies were there. IDF snipers have trained their cross-hairs on children’s heads and pulled the trigger. And when they got bored they made a game out of it – some days heads, some days chests, some days genitals; children became a macabre game. Palestinian prisoners raped to death; another sodomised on camera. Save the Children have published reports about sexual violence against Palestinian children in Israeli prisons. IDF soldiers dressing up in lingerie. Denying anaesthesia to children. Denying baby formula to babies. IDF snipers boasting about shooting off 42 knees in a day. The “break their bones” policy of Rabin the “peace maker”. Children shot dead because they had arrived too early or too late to collect food from a distribution camp. Children playing football, taken out one after the other by IDF snipers.
Palestinians commit their barbaric crimes with a “fiendish glee. They come with their go-pro cameras”.
Again, no sense of irony because this is another case of projection – of an accusation that is a confession.
It is IDF soldiers that have made tik-tok videos of their war crimes; it is Israelis who celebrate the suffering of Palestinians by mocking the pain; it is Nice Jewish Boys who tell us that they would happily “press a button” and do away with all the Palestinians; it is the IDF soldiers that took selfies while buildings were being blown up in the background. All done with glee.
And how did Kisin follow up this litany of lies?
He asks “does everyone expect to get that phone call?” The implication being that Netanyahu has an impossibly difficult task; the burdens of his people and his nation on his broad shoulders.
So many lies were told by Netanyahu – not one of those lies was challenged by Kisin.
Netanyahu deflects a question about how October 7 was allowed to happen by deflecting. He starts to talk, instead, about Iran. Netanyahu has been obsessed with Iran – indeed Israel has been obsessed with Iran with claims that Iran was just months away from a nuclear device – SINCE the 1980s!
Netanyahu weaves a fanciful conspiracy between Iran, Hezbollah, Iraqi and Syrian militias, the Houthis and Hamas: they coordinated an attack on Israel. The problem was that Hamas acted too early. There is no evidence presented.
But Israel has learned that lies work. They have worked in the past, when the corporate media reports the lies as “Israel says”, without challenging the statements or investigating their veracity. And it’s still happening. With the murder of Anas al-Sharif, the corporate media simply repeated the Israel lie that Anas was a Hamas operative.
Germany’s most popular newspaper, Bild, ran a headline that read, “Killed Journalist was Allegedly a Terrorist”. Who cares if this was challenged in the article – the headline had justified Anas’s murder.
There is no record of Netanyahu suggesting such a conspiracy before. If true, this is monumental – and Netanyahu waited nearly 2 years to announce it on Kisin’s podcast!
I hope Kisin showed his appreciation. I’m sure Kisin showed his appreciation.
Kisin asks a decent question about how Israel missed October 7.
Netanyahu avoids the question by saying “let’s just wait for the official investigation”. His answer is waffle and drivel.
There is an insightful moment in his answer. “We will change the face of the Middle East”.
Netanyahu did not see a tragedy on October 7 – he saw an opportunity. And this was his reaction to 9/11 also. When asked by a journalist for his reaction to 9/11, Netanyahu replied, “It’s very good”. He realised that the quiet part had been said out loud, and so immediately corrected himself: “It will generate immediate sympathy”.
It will generate immediate sympathy? That’s his reaction to 9/11? That is what he thought when he saw the planes plough into the buildings? Seriously?
Of course not! His first answer was more authentic: “It’s very good!”
Netanyahu is a psychopath.
And Kisin offered no pushback. He was bamboozled by a bullshit answer, and had probably forgotten what he had asked. Instead of answering why he had failed to defend Israel on October 7, Netanyahu quizzes Kisin on whether Iran wants to kill Americans, and our intrepid seeker-of-truth is drawn in.
If Kisin can believe it, then of course Netanyahu has to believe it. And Kisin nods sagely. What is this nonsense?
How did Kisin respond to Netanyahu completely ignoring the question about October 7 failures? By praising Netanyahu’s “incredible success” against Iran.
Did Kisin actually follow what was happening? Israel had to beg America to sue for a ceasefire. Iran had struck deep inside Israel, one missile landed just 500m from the Mossad headquarters.
On the question of funding Hamas, Netanyahu did what he does best – lied and he waffled. The money that he was giving to Hamas was for essential infrastructure like sanitation and hospitals. This was the policy, and it was “partial money”. Then the deflection starts – what did Hamas do with the rest of the BILLIONS?
Netanyahu carefully “monitored” the “fraction” he directed towards Hamas.
Could Kisin not have asked why it had to be done surreptitiously? Why not make a song and dance about it? “Look world! We are giving Hamas extra money to improve their sewers”?
Netanyahu knows just how ridiculous his answer sounds, and so another deflection. “Have you been to Gaza? Have you seen it? I’ll make sure to invite you both”.
A personal invitation from the Prime Minister of Israel to inspect Gaza! The dynamic due are elated. So no pushback, no followups.
At one point the dynamic duo are entertained by Netanyahu’s humour: “Israel has a right to defend itself as long as it doesn’t exercise that right”.
That reaction tells us that Kisin agrees with that assessment – Israel is not allowed to defend itself. This is tosh.
The list of Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians is long. Operation Summer Rains. Operation Autumn Clouds. Operation Hot Winter. Operation Cast Lead. Operation Sea Breeze. Operation Pillar of Defence. Operation Protective Edge. Operation Black Belt. Operation Guardian of the Walls. Operation Breaking Dawn.
And that is just Gaza, and only in the last two decades. These murderous assaults left thousands of Palestinians dead; tens-of-thousands injured; and massive destruction of infrastructure.
Israel has been terrorising Palestinians with impunity. There have been zero consequences for Israel.
When Richard Goldstone produced his report on Operation Cast Lead excoriating Israel for its war crimes, he was forced to disavow the report after the Israelis piled on the pressure. What did they do to make Goldstone disavow his own work?
The fact that Kisin found the remark by Netanyahu funny suggests that he agreed with that assessment. The expression on Kisin’s face changes just before the punch line as though he knew the punch line was coming before it was delivered.
Netanyahu thinks it’s shameful the way the Western leaders have “buckled” and criticised Israel. For eighty years Western leaders have allowed Israel to steal land from Palestinians and ethnically cleanse areas for Jewish settlers; those leaders have turned a blind eye to USS Liberty; to the murder of Tom Hurndall and Rachel Corrie; they have ignored the ‘break bones policy’; the Western leaders have ignored the UN resolutions that Israel has flouted; ignored the nuclear arsenal that Israel has accumulated.
Israel’s idea of neutrality is complete surrender to Israeli interests; zero criticism of Israel. Anything else is rejected as antisemitism.
The risible claim that Israel calls every Palestinian on their mobiles; sends them text messages and drops flyers to inform civilians to move out of harm’s way is repeated by Netanyahu. The opposite is the case in reality. Israel tells the Palestinians to come for food and shoots them dead. From May to July 2025, 1,400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food from the GFH sites; 860 at the GFH sites and the remaining on route to the sites.
Netanyahu repeats the absurd claim that civilian casualties in Gaza are not as horrific as the media makes out; the ratio of combatants to non-combatants is 1.5 to 1 he says.
The latest casualty figures from Gaza show that total fatalities are 60,199 of which children are 18,430, women are 9,735, men are 27,605 and the elderly 4,429.
If we have 60,000 fatalities, then a ratio of 1.5 to 1 (or 3 to 2) would give 36,000 civilians to 24,000 Hamas fighters, which suggests that EVERY MAN killed in Gaza is Hamas, including the 40, 50 and 60 year-olds.
Israel’s ratio of 1.5 to 1 is complete bunk – a made up number that no one bothers to check or challenge.
“Every civilian death is a tragedy. We do everything we can to prevent it”, says Netanyahu. Is that why 15 paramedics were murdered and then Israel denied it? Is that why Hind Rajab and her family were murdered? That was just a tragic mistake? Is it a tragic mistake when IDF snipers shoot children in the head? Is that why they have target practice on children’s heads, genitals and chest? Israel does everything to prevent civilian deaths? The lies are brazen and thick.
But that is how Israel has always worked; to lie its way out of every crime. And it has worked in the past.
But no more. There is just too much scrutiny from independent reporters to allow Israel to get away with its lies.
And Kisin and Co are not independent, that much is certain. They accepted Netanyahu’s made up numbers without challenging him.
Kisin defends the disproportionate Israeli response by likening it to the Allies flattening Germany in the Second World War. The Nazis had to be defeated and that was the only way it could be done.
There are two objections to this defence.
First, the Geneva Conventions were established in 1948, to learn the lessons of WW2; to ensure that that level of carnage would not be repeated. So, yes. If Churchill did today what he did then, he would be a war criminal. Bomber Harris’s aircrew were not given a campaign medal because many regarded the Dresden affair as too shocking. But not Churchill, who insisted that Harris accept a Baronetcy.
Second, the levelling of Dresden did not turn the war around. Germany was winning the war, even after the Americans joined the Allies. It was the lack of fuel that lost Germany the war; its tanks would regularly become useless because there was no fuel to deploy them. Germany’s field artillery was vastly superior to that of the Allies – it just did not have access to the oil in a way the Allies did.
And that is one reason why America decided it would not get caught out like Germany, and ensured that it had strategic control of the oil fields in the Middle East.
So, no, Kisin. The war crimes by the Allies did not win the war. It was Germany’s fuel poverty that lost Hitler the war – fortunately for the world.
It’s also telling that Kisin’s problem with the war-crimes is not the horror of the crimes as such, but the bad PR. It is because these crimes can now be live-streamed that Kisin finds them unhelpful; they rather work against Israel. Israel may be winning the military war (who says?) but it is losing the propaganda war.
There is something quite disgusting about lying when it comes to the suffering of children. Netanyahu rejects that children are starving in Gaza – the pictures of emaciated children are either fakes or they are children with congenital illnesses, like cerebral palsy. He says this almost as though the death of the cerebral palsy baby was no tragic matter.
Netanyahu was not challenged on this egregious lie.
So much for seeking the truth and pushing back!
Netanyahu describes the reporting of starving children in Gaza as a modern blood libel.
Netanyahu wants to ‘do something about the algorithms’ of the social networks. We know what he means by that – tilt them in Israel’s favour.
Mitt Romney let the cat out of the bag when he admitted that the tiktok ban had little to do with the Chinese security threat, and more to do with the pro-Palestinian content.
We should take Netanyahu’s resolve to ‘do something about the algorithms’ seriously – very seriously. Israel has some of the best cyber-security expertise in the world; they developed the Pegasus spyware.
Netanyahu’s paedophile cyber-security expert will no doubt have ideas about what ‘something’ can be done to the ‘algorithm’, and no doubt why he was allowed to leave America.
So much for Kisin seeking the truth!
Netanyahu dismisses the genocidal rhetoric of Smotrich and Ben Gavir as evidence of a healthy democratic system where opinions can be expressed and debated. But what democracy allows racists and genocidal psychopaths to hold positions of responsibility? He calls it a “legitimate view” that he happens to disagree with.
It’s a bullshit answer which even Francis has to pushback on. But it’s more of a nudge than a pushback. “Are you not condoning that kind of rhetoric?”, he asks.
Netanyahu’s answer? That’s not his policy. He has no intentions of building settlements in Gaza. His not in favour of ethnic cleansing. He wants a non-Israeli civilian government in Gaza. That is the official story.
Another more sinister one emerges when we hear Netanyahu boast that Israel was “destroying more and more houses in Gaza and consequently Palestinians have nowhere to return. The only obvious result will be Gazans choosing to emigrate outside of the Strip. Our main problem is finding countries to take them in”.
Sounds like a plan. One that involves ethnic cleansing.
Again, no pushback from the dynamic duo, who clearly did zero research before the video. Were they not aware of what Netanyahu had said?
And another example from Netanyahu of projection, and every accusation being a confession:
Netanyahu has no shame. And Kisin has no shame.
It is revealing when Netanyahu says that people respect the strong. Not the good; not the moral; not the ethical. Not those who are in the right. But those who are strong are to be respected.
The strong, he says, can be good or evil – but they cannot lose. If you lose, no one will make alliances with you. The strong survive.
And that is what Netanyahu is doing – surviving, by foul means, because fair means are no longer available to him. And to be clear, this is about Netanyahu surviving, not Israel. He knows that if his coalition breaks, then he will be in jail for corruption. And the only thing that will save Netanyahu is a Gaza cleared of Palestinians. If he can achieve that, the Israeli public will forgive and forget.
The strong survive, whether they are good or evil – and Netanyahu means to survive.
It is astonishing that after such a revelation, there was no pushback. “What do you mean the strong can be evil, Prime Minister?” – nothing of the sort occurs to Kisin or his sidekick.
The sidekick thinks he is pushing back when he challenges Netanyahu for dismissing the critics as just noise. This is not pushback at Netanyahu’s failures, but pushback to warn him that he needs to take the youth who are critical of Israel seriously; they are the leaders of tomorrow. The dynamic duo are concerned about Israel’s reputation, not the genocide.
The interview should wreck Triggernometry’s claim to be seeking the truth; the dynamic duo have let the mask slip – they are Israel’s useful idiots or they are grifters. Possibly both.
And one final piece of advice from Netanyahu. What is it that we need to do more of?
If only!
We are where we are because Zionists don’t do history. Instead of history, they live by a fairy tale about Abraham holding the deeds to the land of Palestine.
If only Israelis read history. If only they read Shlomo Sand, or Avi Shlaim or Ilan Pape.
It’s good advice, but like everything to do with Israel – it’s just another lie. Netanyahu knows nothing about history and cares even less.
This is all the history we need to understand the Zionist claim on Israel – Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Land of Israel.
All three should end up at the Hague and share the same jail cell.