Oscar-winning Hollywood star Jon Voight is speaking out about his estranged daughter Angelina Jolie after she came to the defense of Palestinians in their conflict with Israel.
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Jolie defends Palestine – condemns Israel
Jolie, 48, took to Instagram last week to defend Palestine instead of Israel. She began by accusing Israel of deliberately bombing Gaza, which she described as an “open-air prison,” for “almost 20 years,” adding that “entire families are being murdered.”
“While the world watches and with the active support of many governments, millions of Palestinian citizens – children, women, families – are being collectively punished and dehumanized, deprived of food, medicine and humanitarian assistance in violation of international law,” she wrote.
Voight fires back at Jolie
This did not go down well with her father, who has been an outspoken supporter of Israel for years.
“I am very disappointed that my daughter, like so many, has no understanding of God’s glory, God’s truths,” Voight, 84, began in a video posted to social media. “This is about destroying the history of God’s land, the Holy Land, the land of the Jews. This is justice for God’s children of the Holy Land.”
Voight then called on the Israeli military to protect “your soil” and “your people.”
“This is war. It will not be what the left thinks,” he said. “It cannot be civil now. Israel was attacked with inhuman terror on innocent babies, mothers, fathers and grandparents.”
He didn’t stop there. Voight labeled anyone who supports Palestine “fools” before calling on them to find God’s “truths.”
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“Those who understand the truth see the lie. These animals want to exterminate the Jews and Christians. They see that the Palestinians have not been neglected financially,” he stated, claiming that the terrorists have received “huge cash injections” that they “did not share with the people.”
“Instead, they made weapons for their anger. The people of Israel care for people. They love and cherish – something these animals do not understand,” he concluded. “Justice shall prevail.”
Jolie has not responded to Voight’s comments at the time of writing. Watch his full video below.
Truth and lies pic.twitter.com/HkvbVWpFcD
— Jon Voight (@jonvoight) November 4, 2023
Related: Jon Voight Condemns ‘Hamas Holocaust’ – ‘Israel Will Stand’
Voight’s previous comments about Israel
This comes a month after Voight publicly announced his support for Israel in another video posted to social media.
“Israel, I love you. Israel will stand firm for the land of its holy ground. These sick creatures have been evil since birth. They are trained to destroy,” he said at the time. “God’s power, together with the Israeli army, will put an end to this destruction and the power of this evil. It will be destroyed once and for all so that the Jewish people can live in peace and safety. L’Chaim.”
“Let me assure you, by the almighty power of God, and the power of Moses, who once stood in the time of evil forces, that this is the Holocaust,” he continued. “It is the horror that the Jews witnessed at Auschwitz, and I have come now to warn the wicked that God will show truths again. He will win this war for his people, like when Moses was able to lift the Red Sea. He will deliver these pests once and for all, and we, the people, will rise and fight for our loved ones, lost and alive.’
Israel, we love you pic.twitter.com/wMVLMDeygA
— Jon Voight (@jonvoight) October 11, 2023
Related: Christian pop star Justin Bieber was criticized after supporting Israel
Voight and Jolie’s estrangement
Daily Mail reported that Voight and Jolie have been estranged at various points in her life, as she has long blamed him for cheating on her mother Marcheline Bertrand, causing the couple to divorce a year after her birth.
“When my father had an affair, it changed her life,” Jolie said after her mother died of ovarian cancer in 2007. ‘It set her dream of a family life on fire. But she still loved being a mother.”
Baby Angelina Jolie with her mother, Marcheline Bertrand. pic.twitter.com/wPN18GMOw7
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While Jolie and Voight were estranged in the early 2000s, they reconciled in 2010 with the help of her then-husband Brad Pitt, who convinced the father and daughter to make peace. Voight was thrilled that he was even able to meet Jolie’s six children in the aftermath of their reconciliation.
“That one moment changed my whole life,” he said at the time. “It gave me my daughter and my family back. Reuniting with my Angie is very valuable to me.”
Unfortunately, Jolie cut off all contact with her father again following her 2016 divorce from Pitt, and they have been estranged ever since.
“They have lost contact again,” a source said in May last year.
Angelina Jolie’s actor father Jon Voight has expressed his disappointment in his daughter, saying, “I am very disappointed that my daughter…like so many…does not understand God’s glory.” He added: “The Israeli army must protect your country…your people.” His comments… pic.twitter.com/R3FI88SHoo
— Bollywood Nazar (@BollywoodNazar) November 5, 2023
Voight’s latest comments about Jolie’s anti-Israel comments will undoubtedly do nothing to mend their fractured relationship. Given how strongly Voight feels about the Israeli cause, however, it’s hard to blame him for speaking out on the matter.
Between Voight and Jolie: Who do you think is right when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Let us know in the comments section.
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