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 higher perceive what she and so many different households are going by way of.
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Rachel Goldberg joined us Wednesday on “TMZ Live” to debate the continuing launch of girls and youngsters held by Hamas for greater than 7 weeks. Dozens have been returned to Israel in current days, throughout a brief 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 day by 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 responsibility to proceed doing so.
As for Elon — who’s been criticized for utilizing Israel in a chilly PR move after he was accused of antisemitism — Rachel tells us she truly believes his coronary heart’s in the best place, and, to her, he got here throughout as earnestly enthusiastic about studying/sympathizing.
Rachel was amongst a number 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 in the course of the assault.
She additionally talked in regards to the ongoing protests within the U.S. and past … particularly, pro-Palestine ones, the place individuals have decried Israel’s response in Gaza, and its therapy of harmless Palestinians caught in the midst of the struggle.
Rachel’s response would possibly shock some … she says she truly feels for the harmless Palestinians — and even says Palestine does, in truth, 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 she or he says if she will say that about Gaza/Palestine … it also needs to be straightforward for folk to sentence Hamas’ violence.