{"id":9727,"date":"2025-07-18T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9727"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:47:58","slug":"old-video-recirculates-with-misleading-translation-of-statement-attributed-to-ben-gvir-regarding-irans-missile-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/old-video-recirculates-with-misleading-translation-of-statement-attributed-to-ben-gvir-regarding-irans-missile-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video recirculates with misleading translation of statement attributed to Ben Gvir regarding Iran’s missile capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media accounts<\/a> posted a video clip of a verbal altercation between former Israeli Defense Minister Omer Barlev and current Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The clip was accompanied by a translation of what the accounts claimed was Ben-Gvir\u2019s response to the question: \u201cWhy did you provoke Iran?\u201d According to the circulated translation, Ben-Gvir replied: \u201cWe did not realize that Iran\u2019s missile capabilities were this powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the video via Google Images search and found it to be old and the accompanying translation misleading. The clip was circulated in March 2022, following the Hadera operation, and has no connection to the military escalation between Israel and Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli newspaper\u00a0Israel Hayom<\/a>\u00a0posted a video clip on its video platform on 27 March 2022, accompanied by the following description: \u201cBen Gvir confronts Barlev at the site of the attack in Hadera.\u201d The newspaper explained that \u201cKnesset member Itamar Ben Gvir interrupted Public Security Minister Omer Barlev\u2019s speech at the site of the attack in Hadera, saying: \u2018You should be ashamed of yourself. You talk about settler violence while Jews are being killed.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The video was posted on the Facebook page of the Israeli newspaper “Israel Hayom” on March 27, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Israeli-Hebrew affairs team at Kashif verified the translation attached to the circulated clip and found it to be misleading. Ben-Gvir did not say the statement attributed to him regarding Iran’s missile capabilities, but rather emphasized the failure and negligence of Omer Barlev after an operation took place in\u00a0the city of Hadera<\/a>\u00a0, between Tel Aviv and Haifa, on 27 March 2022, which resulted in the death of two police officers and the injury of three others.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kashif <\/a>verified\u00a0a video of the same incident, filmed from another angle, on 20 November 2023. Its publishers then attributed a false statement to Ben Gvir, which read: \u201cThe PA\u2019s security services work for Israel\u2019s security, and have achieved more security accomplishments than the Shin Bet during your tenure. You did not exploit the information Hussein al-Sheikh provided you with about the infiltration of three terrorists into Tel Aviv and the possibility of a security incident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification <\/td><\/tr>
Moroccan deterrent<\/a>

Mo Al Masoud<\/a>

Al Ain Press alainpress<\/a>

Ali Hussein Mahdi
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Technocrat Party Egypt
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<\/a>Wael Jalil<\/a>

Hisham Ali <\/a>

Kamel Abidalkhader<\/a>

An-Iraq<\/a>
<\/a><\/td>		Israel Hayom Israel Hayom
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Translated by Israeli-Hebrew Affairs Team at Kashif
48 Arabs Kashf Observatory
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Kashf Observatory<\/a>
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Social media accounts posted a video clip of a verbal altercation between former Israeli Defense Minister Omer Barlev and current Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The clip was accompanied by a translation of what the accounts claimed was Ben-Gvir\u2019s response to the question: \u201cWhy did you provoke Iran?\u201d According to the circulated translation, Ben-Gvir replied: \u201cWe did not realize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[976,130,978,131,44,56,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-9727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facts-in-english","8":"tag-ben-gvir","9":"tag-claim","10":"tag-fabricated-translation","11":"tag-fact","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-kashif","14":"tag-verified"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions\/9729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}