By Shannon Mcguigan
00:28 03 Jul 2024, updated 00:36 03 Jul 2024
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters accuses Israel of telling “dirty and disgusting lies” about babies being burned and women being raped by Hamas.
The 80-year-old musician claimed there was “no evidence” that victims were sexually abused during the terrorist organization’s October 7 attacks.
And that despite a United Nations report earlier this year that said Hamas gangs had carried out “sexualized torture” such as rape and gang rape, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostage.
Waters, who has previously said Hamas is “morally obligated to oppose the occupation” by Israel, told Piers Morgan Uncensored last night that the killing of civilians was a “war crime”.
In a heated exchange, the 80-year-old musician accused Israel of lying about the atrocities committed by the terrorists, before bizarrely whispering to himself in an attempt to calm down on camera.
Speaking on Talk TV last night, Waters said: ‘I’m not saying that part of the Palestinian resistance movement didn’t cross that barbed wire. I’m not saying that didn’t happen at all.
“What I’m saying is that there’s so much talk about whether Israel has the right to defend itself. Why didn’t Israel defend itself that morning?
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“Why did they wait seven hours before machine gunning everyone?” he asked.
As the interrogations between Waters and Piers Morgan intensified, the rock star suggested that there should be a “real” and “true” investigation into October 7.
He added: ‘In addition to the very good AlJazeera documentary that we all saw, there is also a documentary that came out.
“And all the great work that Grayzone has done to debunk all the filthy, disgusting lies that the Israelis have been spreading since October 7th about burning babies and raping women.”
When Piers confirmed that women had been raped that day, the 80-year-old adamantly denied the claims, shouting: “No, that’s not true.”
He continued, “Well, there was no evidence. You can say whatever you want, but there is no evidence.”
Shortly after his defiant tirade, Waters began talking to himself in a strange manner.
“Roger, Roger calm down. Don’t stoop to his level, okay, I won’t. Stop yelling. Stop yelling back. Let him interrupt you as much as he wants,” he whispered.
The musician then claimed that Israel had attacked its own citizens that day, calling this an “irrefutable” fact.
“All those piles of cars were destroyed by Apache missiles from helicopters. Hamas had no helicopters at all,” he said.
He then claimed that he firmly believed that Hamas had killed civilians that day.
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Waters called the killing of civilians a “war crime” but refused to label Hamas a terrorist organization, saying Palestine had the right to fight back against the “oppressor.”
‘The people fighting for the liberation of Palestine have a legal and moral right to fight back against the oppressor.
“If someone invades your country, throws everyone out of their homes, steals everything, steals all your land and occupies all your land for 75 years, you have the absolute right to armed resistance,” he said.
The musician previously stirred controversy when he said on October 7 that Hamas was “morally obligated to resist the occupation” and accused Israel of “making up stories” about the terrorist attack.
In November, the veteran rocker spoke to Glenn Greenwald on the Rumble podcast System Update and said there was “something very strange” about Israel not being aware that Hamas would invade the country.
“But again, it’s the Geneva Convention. They have an absolute legal and moral obligation to resist the occupation since 1967. It’s an obligation.”
He continued: ‘As I said in a statement afterwards, if war crimes were committed, I condemn them.
‘They’ve finally released the numbers on how many people were actually killed and who they were on that day.
‘Probably the first 400 were Israeli soldiers – that’s not a war crime.
‘Of course I don’t condemn it, but the case has been completely blown out of proportion by the stories the Israelis made up about beheading babies.’
The presenter claimed that Waters had been the target of “character insults and attacks”, suggesting that this was because he had “expressed views that were threatening to those in power”.
The guitarist claimed the accusations of anti-Semitism came about “because they had no answer to the argument.”