Soloviev and Kedmi staged a showdown on air over the Israeli operation

A military expert, former head of the Israeli intelligence service Nativ, Yakov Kedmi, and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov had a skirmish on TV on the Rossiya 1 channel regarding the assessment of the operation being carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip.

It began with the fact that Vladimir Solovyov, speaking about the mass death of civilians in the Gaza Strip, stated that “the crimes of some are not an excuse for the crimes of others.” He added that “nothing can justify the death of so many children and women.”

To this Yakov Kedmi replied: “I can.”

Soloviev said that in Russia they will never understand this and will not accept collective responsibility.

Kedmi tried to explain his position, noting that “there is no collective responsibility,” and women and children were “put under fire by Hamas.”

“No, it’s you who are killing them,” Solovyov said, adding that in Ukraine the same thing happens when Ukrainians “try to hide behind civilians,” the Russian army does not strike at them, sacrifices soldiers, but saves civilians.

To this, Kedmi asked not to teach the IDF how to fight.

Let us recall that earlier Vladimir Solovyov apologized for the words of political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky, said in relation to Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Bogdanov and the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Then he said that he no longer saw the opportunity to continue professional communication with Satanovsky and decided to dismiss him from the Soloviev-Live channel.