'You live in a bubble': Gabor Maté answers question from Israeli audience member

thank you I'll go back to your lecture and you talked about compassion of recognition compassion of understanding compassion of Truth we are approaching October 7th yeah when the horrible Massacre happened in Israel yeah where young children were murdered burned babies in ovens there that didn't happen there were no babies in ovens oh yes they were no they weren't that's been refuted even by the Israelis let's agree on what we do agree on okay a horrible Massacre happened people were killed in their homes civilian hold on second there's been no evidence of mass deliberate rapes I'll

let you finish your question how do I find compassion for this people which people the animals that did that the animals that did that how do we have compassion for these animals I've been to Palestine 2 and a half years ago I went there to work with Palestinian women whove been tortured in Israeli jails which has been documented by Israeli Physicians for human rights by bet salum the the Israeli human rights organization by United Nations and others nobody ever talks about the thousands of Palestinians did you know that two Palestinian doctors were tortured to death

recently by Israel doctors tortured to death history did not begin on October the 7th in Canada 4 years ago there was a poll the thousands of children died in those schools people were tortured raped all kinds of stuff 70% of Canadians knew nothing or little about the residential schools to what happened to indigenous people if you do a poll in the United States until very few years ago and even now in most people will know nothing about what happened to the indigenous people here nothing the genocide the torture the rape the starvation they know nothing

about it and in some states in United States it's illegal to even to teach it in the schools do you think the Irish Jew knows anything about the indigenous people of Palestine these animals that you talk about you know the first massacre of Palestinians in Gaza didn't happen last year didn't even happen four or five years ago when they killed hundreds of children with their bombs it happened in 1956 in in 1956 they massacred 200 civilians do you know about it never heard you've never heard of it of course you haven't heard of it that's

why you can call them animals otherwise you'd see them like human beings like the rest of us that place where we call other people animals if you want to live there that's your choice I don't want to live there I want to understand people I want to understand what happened to them I want I want know why they behave the way they behave I'm not into justifying taking civilian hostages I said that was unjustifiable why you didn't hear me I don't know I said there were massacres that shouldn't have happened why you didn't hear me

I don't know you know why you didn't hear me because you live in a bubble that's why