Kid Rock and Joe Rogan clashed over the Israel-Hamas war, with the rock star declaring on Rogan’s podcast that Israel should begin killing civilians in Gaza up to “40,000 a f–king time” if it wants to win the war.
“Only wars we won were f–king ones where we were the most brutal motherf–kers on the planet,” Kid Rock said on Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“I don’t disagree with what Israel is doing,” the country-rocker added before sharing his idea of how Israel should handle the conflict, which heightened on Oct. 7 when Hamas terrorists ambushed an Israeli music festival, slaughtering hundreds and taking dozens of others hostage.
Rogan pushed back, noting that civilians in Gaza are not armed and have no choice as to who is in power or how Hamas acts in their name.
“You’re not supposed to pick civilian targets. That’s actually a war crime,” Rogan countered.
“If you’re a person who’s born in Palestine, you’re f–ked. You’re under their control. It’s not your fault,” he added.
Kid Rock disagreed, pointing to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. “Boom. Just wiped out,” he said of the atomic bombings, which maimed hundreds of thousands of people.
“They [Israel] should just go in there and be like, you know what? We want our hostages back. If we don’t have them back, clock starts now. And f–king 24 hours, we’re going to start bombing motherf–kers and killing f–king civilians, thirty-, forty-thousand a f–king time,” Kid Rock said in a rant earlier reported on by Mediaite.
“So you civilians better f–king pack up and f–king get these f–king motherf–kers. And you go against Hamas. You f–king go against them. We’re not playing f–king games with you.”
“But you’re not supposed to pick civilian targets,” Rogan reiterated, though Kid Rock insisted: “You can’t fight war like that.”
The two men ended the lengthy conversation — which included discussions on the possibility of a nuclear war — by agreeing that Hamas hides behind civilian targets.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, shared over the weekend that he believes the war can end within “weeks.”
Netanyahu told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the Israel Defense Force will soon enter the Palestinian city of Rafah, home to more than 1.4 million refugees, to eliminate some of the last remaining Hamas units.
“We’ve already destroyed 18 of the 24 Hamas terrorist battalions, so we have four of them [that] are concentrated in Rafah,” Netanyahu said. “We can’t leave the last Hamas stronghold without taking care of it. Obviously, we have to do it.
“It has to be done. Because total victory is our goal, and total victory is within reach,” the prime minister added. “Not months away, weeks away, once we begin the operation.”
Netanyahu revealed plans to move forward with the incursion despite mounting pressure from the US and other global powers on Israel to hold off on entering Rafah until a complete scheme is in place to avoid more civilian casualties — given that the southern city is now the most densely populated enclave in Gaza.
Separately on Sunday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “We don’t believe that an operation in Rafah should go forward unless there is a clear and executable plan for this and we haven’t seen a plan like that.”
The death toll in Gaza is nearly at 30,000, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, with the IDF estimating that it has killed about 12,000 terrorists.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
