""Have you ever seen an Arab in your life?" • A heated confrontation between Haim Levinson and Yinon Magal

July 3, 2023   

Yinon Magal and Haim Levinson sat down in front of the microphone and discussed the security situation in light of the military operation that began tonight in Jenin. "You don't understand what a large-scale operation is, you have no idea. What do you even understand? Have you ever been to Jenin or Nablus? Have you seen an Arab in your life?" Yinon wondered. "I was a territories reporter for seven years, so I was in Jenin and Nablus a little longer than you," Haim replied. Yinon responded angrily: "I was in Nablus before you were born. You were born in the 1980s, I was already there in the 1970s, when I would drive with my parents on Highway 60 and stop to eat knafe in Nablus. And you're here to teach me?" Levinson attacked: "You're boring, there's not a grain of intellectualism in you. You're incapable of coming and saying - wow, flop. Everything you do is just a position. Everything that Shmaka Bresler says is retarded, everything they say on Channel 14 is the words of the living God. How do you not bore yourself? You're so one-dimensional." Magal: "You're right, I'd like to learn from you what intellectual honesty is. I'm just reminding you that in Case 4000 I was a witness in a lawsuit, and do you know why? Because I had more intellectual honesty than all of you hypocrites, who are trying to tell me what journalism is." Listen.