Posted by Samuel on Fri 06th Mar, 2026 - tori.ng
During a heated live interview on Arise TV on Friday, Rufai Oseni directly challenged the Israeli ambassador over Israel’s historical military actions and current controversies.
Arise TV anchor, Rufai Oseni clashed with the Israeli Ambassador, Michael Freeman, during a live broadcast, confronting him over Israel’s alleged historical atrocities, civilian casualties in Gaza, and claims of nuclear hypocrisy.
During a heated live interview on Arise TV on Friday, Rufai Oseni directly challenged the Israeli ambassador over Israel’s historical military actions and current controversies.
Oseni, visibly frustrated, interrupted the ambassador multiple times to make his point, saying: “I mean, we can go back historically. I can tell you about the King David Hotel bombings, Argon, Shargon, and all the other atrocities, even Gaza, where Israel initially denied the number of people killed before eventually acknowledging them. And what they are doing in the West Bank… a lot of crimes are being investigated against the Israeli army. So if you think Israel is the same…”
When Ambassador Freeman attempted to respond, Oseni stopped him, emphasizing: “Hang on a minute, let me finish. Do not interrupt me, ambassador. Let me finish.
“Alright, so you can go ahead and claim all of that, but the interesting part is also the hypocrisy. Only last year, during the 12-day war, you said the words of Donald Trump and Israel allies they are obliterating the nuclear program in Iran.”
Responding to the allegations, Ambassador Freeman, pushed back against some of Oseni’s claims saying; “Well, before I go to the second part, some of the statements you made in the beginning were outrageous and absolutely based on no facts. For example, Israel still disputes some of these numbers of people in Gaza that the Hamas authorities claim. We absolutely do not accept those figures. Reports suggesting otherwise are simply not true, and I can say that categorically now.”
“Your question was about the 12 day war, and you’re right. In the 12 day war, Israel and America destroyed and set back, rather, Iran’s nuclear program.
“But over the last less than one year, Iran the Iranian leadership began again even when Iran has no water, the people in Tehran haven’t got water. They are dealing with one of the worst economic crisis they’ve ever had.
“But the Iranian leadership decided they were going to invest $1 billion, 1 billion with a beep, into building a new nuclear program and investing in restarting and rebuilding their nuclear program by digging deeper under the ground, by looking to enrich uranium even further, by developing their missile program and their ballistic missile program, and in all of the negotiations with the Americans, the Iranians made it very clear they were not prepared at any point to give up nuclear enrichment.
“They were not prepared to give up their ballistic missile program, and they were not prepared to stop sponsoring terror organizations throughout the region and throughout the world,” Freeman explained.