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So Alex, welcome

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0:32

under, I would say, terrible

0:35

circumstances. For

0:37

the first time in history, Iran

0:39

has directly attacked your country,

0:41

Israel. And

0:44

we read that 99% of

0:46

the missiles were shot down with Arrow

0:49

missile defense systems, UK and US

0:52

air power. So

0:55

many questions, Alex. What's the

0:58

feeling in Israel? Israel, the people feel more

1:00

vulnerable today. They must. Well,

1:03

on the one hand, we feel

1:05

very confident that the air defenses

1:08

were able to successfully knock down what

1:10

was the largest drone attack in military

1:12

history and also ballistic missiles,

1:14

which are probably the most powerful weapons

1:17

that Iran has to date, a short

1:19

of a nuclear weapon that they're

1:21

building. So the fact that we were

1:23

able to essentially disarm this

1:26

entire attack is a feeling of

1:28

great security on the one hand.

1:30

On the other hand, we understand

1:32

that Iran definitely wants

1:35

to escalate this

1:37

war. You know, it's been firing

1:40

at us by Hamas, by Hezbollah,

1:42

by Houthis, you know,

1:44

continuously since October 7th and actually for

1:46

years before. So

1:49

we understand that we

1:51

are involved in a war that's been going

1:53

for six months and that now we're probably

1:55

at a phase two of that war

1:58

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You know, I was reading various commentary. I

3:47

personally tweeted something that I must read to

3:49

you because as this was going on, I

3:53

took a big chance and I

3:55

said SABG Theory did Russia work with

3:57

Iran to attack Israel, giving

3:59

back to the US. USA proxy war to

4:01

equalize our Ukraine proxy war against

4:03

Russia and I received You

4:06

know many different responses and

4:08

the reason I asked it is because it seemed to me

4:11

there was Well, here's

4:13

something Russia use I understand it out. Maybe you

4:15

know more about it than I do Russia

4:18

uses a jet engine on their Geronta

4:20

drones and some

4:23

say They would

4:25

be very surprised if Iran is not capable of

4:27

doing the same and the

4:29

jet engines make the drones much more difficult

4:32

to shoot down The

4:34

speed difference is 130 kilometers an hour compared to 800 kilometers

4:36

an hour In

4:39

short someone said Iran wanted them to

4:41

be shot down Yeah,

4:44

that's definitely one of the theories that

4:47

this was that this was a coordinated

4:49

attack Yeah, obviously the attack was telegraphed

4:51

You we saw on the Wall Street

4:53

Journal and every other mainstream media that

4:55

Iran was going to attack Israel

4:57

within 24 to 48 hours the

5:00

United States apparently knew about that Israel

5:03

had that same intelligence whether they got

5:05

it directly and sent it to America

5:07

or America got at first and sent

5:09

it to Israel You know Israel was

5:12

prepared for an attack. We saw a

5:14

coordinated response the United States the UK

5:17

Jordan Saudi Arabia all on a

5:19

word all of them Canceling flights

5:21

to make sure that the airspace

5:23

wasn't wasn't blocked

5:25

up with commercial vessels And

5:28

all of them ready to shoot down what

5:30

was coming that said It

5:33

wasn't a small attack, you know, so I it

5:35

was very much a test that Iran

5:38

was sending to see just how effective

5:40

All of the missile defense would be

5:43

You know, so while it was coordinated and you

5:46

could argue that Iran

5:48

actually didn't want to cause any

5:50

damage They sent so much towards

5:52

Israel that it's hard to imagine

5:54

including ballistic missiles over a hundred

5:56

ballistic missiles That you

5:58

know, if you see them and you We've seen some of

6:00

them that crashed down after they were intercepted. They're

6:03

like 20 yards long. Some of

6:05

these things had half a ton payloads in

6:07

them. So to say that they wanted everything

6:09

shot down, I don't think that they expected

6:11

that everything would be shot down. I think

6:13

they expected that a lot of it would

6:16

be shot down, but they were still hoping,

6:18

I believe, to inflict some significant damage on

6:20

the Jewish state, which quite frankly just didn't

6:22

happen. Do you think Russia was

6:25

involved with Iran to get back at

6:27

the US for our constant provocations

6:29

through Ukraine? Well,

6:32

we've seen involvement between Iran and

6:34

Russia for a long time. Since

6:38

the Syrian Civil War, basically

6:40

Russia came in to fill the vacuum

6:42

of leadership there. They have allowed Iran

6:44

to use Syria as

6:47

a base of operations in order

6:49

to essentially create a land bridge

6:51

between Iran that includes Iraq through

6:53

Syria into southern Lebanon. The only

6:55

reason why Hezbollah has 200,000 rockets

6:57

pointed at Israel is because Iran

7:02

was able to transport these weapons through

7:04

Syria. So Russia plays a

7:06

role there. We've definitely seen

7:08

some collaboration. And I'm

7:10

not a weapons expert, but we've seen collaboration

7:13

between Russia and Iran in the

7:15

creation of drones and missiles. And

7:19

so it is clear that Russia and Iran are

7:21

on this same axis. I don't know if it

7:23

had to be that way, but at this point

7:26

in time, Israel

7:28

can consider Russia to be part

7:31

of the Iran-China axis

7:34

that includes all these terrorist arms. Well, created by

7:36

Joe Biden, in my opinion, if Trump were in

7:38

power where he created the Abraham Accords, peace between

7:41

Jews and Arabs, all of a sudden now the

7:43

world is on a tetherhook, ready to

7:45

blow up everywhere you turn. And

7:47

that is crazy. I mean, it looks like

7:49

Biden and his geniuses are

7:51

sleepwalking the US into another catastrophic

7:53

war in the Middle East. I

7:56

don't know whether you agree with that or not. Is it Biden's...

8:00

bundling or what's going on here? You

8:02

know, I think if you would look at what

8:04

happened in the region during the Trump presidency, and

8:06

I know that a lot of people don't like

8:08

Donald Trump for a lot of different reasons, but

8:10

certainly when it comes to the Middle East and

8:12

Israel, he really did everything right. What

8:15

he did was he stood clearly behind

8:17

Israel. He stood

8:20

clearly against Iran. He pulled out of

8:22

the Iran nuclear deal that withheld a

8:24

lot of funding that Iran had been

8:26

using for their illicit nuclear

8:28

weapons program and for the funding of

8:30

their terror proxies, which have

8:32

created this axis of terror around the

8:35

state of Israel. He

8:37

defunded the Palestinian Authority. He kicked

8:39

the PLO mission out of Washington,

8:41

D.C. He

8:43

defunded the organizations like

8:46

UNRWA and UNICEF and

8:48

UNESCO and others that

8:50

were part of the

8:52

Palestinian strategy of diplomatically

8:54

attacking Israel. And then

8:56

he moved the embassy of

8:58

the United States to Jerusalem from

9:01

Tel Aviv, essentially taking Jerusalem off

9:03

the table, set the Palestinians could no

9:05

longer claim that Jerusalem was their capital.

9:08

He recognized Israeli sovereignty in the Golan

9:10

Heights, and he said that the settlements

9:12

that Israel has all throughout Judea and

9:14

Samaria weren't necessarily illegal. And

9:16

even though Trump did all of these great

9:18

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9:20

hated him. Yeah, yeah. We got

9:22

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9:25

like the preface, you know, these are the

9:27

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9:29

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9:31

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9:34

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9:36

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9:40

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9:42

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9:53

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9:58

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hear you? I know that's true.

14:07

We can see the evidence all

14:09

around us. Whether. It's the

14:11

Us border or Israel. Everything.

14:13

From did the Protect America they've on done.

14:17

By these like mad children who just wanna

14:19

take a clock apart of they can't put

14:21

back together again. Why? Would think that.

14:24

The. Have another agenda. What's their agenda?

14:27

Well. I certainly think that they don't

14:29

understand the Middle East are they don't

14:31

understand the way it works in the

14:33

Middle East. And if you wanted Islam

14:36

in general, the thing that doesn't work

14:38

here is ambiguity about who is what

14:40

we call in Hebrew, the ball by

14:42

the owner of the house thrive. If

14:44

you know, If if there's any ambiguity

14:47

as to who's the most powerful force

14:49

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14:51

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14:53

has been to create balance all across

14:56

the Middle East. When it comes to

14:58

let's say just the State of Israel.

15:00

So the United States under Biden under

15:02

Obama would they want to see is

15:04

pure balance between Israel and Palestinians? Okay,

15:06

it's and in the great a region

15:08

they want to see balance between Israel

15:10

and Iran. They want to see balance

15:12

between Iran and Saudi Arabia. They don't

15:14

want any want power to be stronger

15:17

than the other And whenever you have

15:19

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15:21

that you're going to have a fight.

15:23

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15:25

saying which players here share our. Values:

15:27

A Democratic Values Western values Liberal values

15:29

By A which forces tend to promote

15:32

stability A Which forces can promote instability.

15:34

In this case you know if if

15:36

Israel is is backed up and it

15:38

doesn't me with boots on the ground

15:41

is Roka. Defend itself can take care

15:43

of itself but of they understood. If

15:45

the the other players in the region

15:48

understand that Israel's the most powerful player

15:50

mobile app and number one, they want

15:52

attack Israel because they understand that Israel

15:55

stronger and they understand that stretch. Also

15:57

comes from the back he has

15:59

the United States and they want

16:01

will happen. You'll see that the

16:03

moderate forces that all sore against

16:05

the belligerent forces they will com

16:07

towards Israel. And that's why we

16:09

saw these incredible normalization agreements between

16:11

the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco,

16:13

Sudan all coming towards Israel because

16:15

they understood that now that Israel

16:17

was the protectorate in the Middle

16:19

East, so it would you had

16:21

an amazing amazing trajectory that people

16:23

thought was completely impossible when Trump

16:25

was the President and and the

16:27

him his raises just chose to

16:30

undo. All the good momentum in reverse,

16:32

All the progress that was made so over

16:34

the since the last couple of days. I.

16:36

Ran launches be some drones and

16:39

miss and and ballistic missiles. And.

16:42

All of a sudden. Biden. Says we

16:44

stand with where are in clad. Standing.

16:47

Behind Israel that he was supposed to give a

16:49

speech that night. And. Then they

16:51

cancel the speech. The. Next

16:53

thing we read his biden told Israel to

16:55

show restraint. So.

16:58

He was gonna say one thing, then they told me

17:00

say another or he couldn't say anything at all. And

17:02

the idiots who run his state department wrote the

17:04

speech Or God Those who wrote the speech. At.

17:07

May maybe com wrote the speech for him.

17:10

I. Don't understand what's going on here

17:12

because. On the one hand, The

17:15

as an ironclad connections Israel. The next

17:17

thing he doesn't say anything sub don't

17:19

do anything to fight back. What's gonna

17:21

happen next? What Are you here on

17:23

the ground? Is Israel really going to

17:25

counterattack? Well, I mean,

17:27

certainly work. When Biden says that

17:30

his support for Israel's ironclad, what

17:32

he basically means is that. The

17:34

United States will support Israel in purely

17:36

defensive measures. meaning if Iran the tactics

17:38

with missiles, they'll try to shoot those

17:40

missiles out of the sky so they

17:42

own hits. But they certainly don't want

17:45

Israel to counterattack. and they don't want

17:47

Israel to. When they tried to stop

17:49

Israel from going in with ground troops

17:51

into Gaza from day one they came

17:53

on October eighth, he said we're sending

17:55

over aircraft carriers to Israel to deter

17:57

Hezbollah from attacking because they didn't. One

17:59

is. The go into Southern Lebanon first

18:01

and now they're saying you will provide

18:03

air defense for you but we don't

18:05

want you to counter attacks against the

18:07

against Iran after they sent in one

18:09

hundred and ten ballistic missiles and to

18:11

order drones and thirty cruise missiles. And

18:15

is a big question as to what

18:17

Israel's going to do Because Israel feels

18:19

that this was an escalation beyond any

18:21

proportion they could have been expected. Or

18:23

it's intolerable what they did. The fact

18:26

that Israel did sue down ninety nine

18:28

percent of what came over ah you

18:30

know, is is wonderful. It's probably impart

18:32

miraculous but they were using when they

18:34

didn't just use their own text, Israel

18:37

did news, it's own technology. We have

18:39

to be fair to the equation here.

18:41

It was Us Air Force, Uk Air

18:44

Force by when I read. And

18:46

the Arrow defense system which is

18:49

originally Us defense system corrects. it's

18:51

a joint. It's a jointly made

18:53

defense system between. Between.

18:56

Israel and the United Stars. So.

18:58

Great! This time it was great. If.

19:00

Israel gets attacked again. After

19:03

this. Sealer. Attack.

19:06

From. The north and from Iran.

19:09

And. Iraq. To me it

19:11

looks like a nightmare scenario. You know Alex?

19:13

I remember the Iran, Iraq War. People.

19:16

Have forgotten that already. The

19:18

Iranians sent over one million boys that

19:20

with children. A Lot of them. Over.

19:23

Minefields into Iraq and killed a million

19:25

of their own voice exactly to invade

19:27

Iraq. Yoder the she assume the split.

19:30

I. Rak lost a million. Boys.

19:33

Or men. A minute They would vote

19:35

that sacrifice any A million. How the

19:37

hell would Israel? ever? The five always had

19:39

this nightmare scenario. Of. Millions

19:42

of of invaders coming over the

19:44

Israeli border. How would they defend

19:46

against that? Yeah.

19:48

we saw how they did on october seven one

19:50

three thousand people came across all was supposed to

19:52

be one of the most secure borders and in

19:55

the world's or between israel and gaza israel didn't

19:57

really fear that well on october seventh we had

19:59

twelve onto people killed, 260 people

20:01

kidnapped, and thousands others

20:03

entered that you don't even really hear about

20:05

anymore. That's the nightmare

20:08

scenario from the north as

20:10

well because Hezbollah has a much larger fighting

20:13

force than Hamas ever had,

20:16

and they could send 100,000 people across, and

20:18

they can

20:20

definitely fire, you know, they have 150 to 200,000 rockets pointed at

20:22

Israel. They're

20:25

not like the Qasam rockets of

20:27

Gaza. These are much more sophisticated,

20:30

some of them precision guided. They can blanket

20:32

the entire country. And

20:35

you know, Iran telegraphed this

20:37

attack, giving everybody basically advance

20:40

notice so that they could

20:42

coordinate these air responses. And

20:45

even when they attacked, they

20:48

first sent drones, which took about two

20:50

hours to get towards Israel, and

20:52

then they announced they were sending cruise missiles, which

20:54

then take less than an hour to get to

20:56

Israel. And only then as

20:59

the drones and the cruise missiles would have

21:01

been scheduled to arrive, then they

21:04

sent ballistic missiles, which take only about 12

21:06

to 15 minutes to get from Iran to

21:08

Israel because they shoot them up in the

21:10

atmosphere, and then they come down basically at

21:13

the speed of gravity. And

21:16

what would have happened if there was

21:18

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21:20

if they started just with the ballistic

21:22

missiles, sent 100 of those at one

21:24

time, start sending missiles from Lebanon at

21:26

the same time? They were

21:28

testing the systems. What would

21:30

have happened if there wasn't this coordinated air

21:32

defense? What if Israel- No, Alex, that's what

21:34

I'm saying. It seems to me that this

21:37

was a test for the real

21:39

McCoy, and they know

21:41

Israel knows that, and they know that they know that

21:43

Israel knows that, and they're saying

21:45

to Israel something. They're

21:47

saying something. But as we were watching

21:49

here in America, we

21:52

kept seeing a shot of

21:54

Tel Aviv as it was awakening that morning,

21:57

and you see all these cranes building these

21:59

new buildings. buildings. It's

22:01

a civilization that's emerging and

22:03

building and creating. And

22:06

then you look at the other side, all they do

22:08

is hate and murder.

22:11

They create nothing. They

22:13

create nothing but death and destruction.

22:17

The Jewish state creates

22:20

a civilization, as

22:23

an example, as a light to the world,

22:25

Alex. It's light versus

22:27

darkness here. I don't

22:29

know how this ends. I can't figure this

22:31

out. Can't the world see the

22:33

obvious difference? Here in America, you've got morons

22:35

running through the streets saying

22:37

death to Israel. Not

22:40

one word about death to Hamas, death to

22:42

Iran. Nothing. Not one word. It's

22:45

a very worrisome time, Alex. I don't know

22:48

how this ends, truthfully. Well,

22:50

the same people that are calling for death to

22:52

Israel, even in Michigan and Minnesota, are also on

22:54

record saying death to America, which is the exact

22:56

same thing that Iran is saying, death to Israel,

22:58

death to America. Big state and little Satan. I

23:00

know what the Islamists say, yes.

23:04

But the Americans don't seem to know that, because

23:07

a lot of Americans say it's

23:09

not our war. They're not

23:11

our people. We don't want to fight a

23:13

foreign war. But they don't understand

23:15

that Israel is the canary in the coal mine

23:17

right now, which is the

23:21

Iranians, this Khomeini,

23:23

the chief bugaboo over there

23:25

in Iran, this hater. Little

23:28

Satan is Israel. Big Satan is America.

23:31

So big Satan now has an awful lot

23:34

of enemies running around in the country that

23:36

were either indigenously here or brought in by

23:38

Biden. Where did this

23:41

vast number of anti-American Arab

23:44

Palestinians come from? How they suddenly pop

23:46

up out of the woodwork. Yeah.

23:49

And what's ironic about it is

23:51

that America refuses to take one

23:53

Gazan refugee, right? You

23:56

Know, in every war, you always have

23:58

refugees. When Russia Attacked Ukraine, The

24:00

millions of people running to Romania

24:02

running to Poland. Try to

24:04

get us outta here and here

24:06

away when when his or goes

24:08

into Gaza Egypt blocks the border.

24:10

United States and every other country

24:12

says. These. Refugees can't go

24:14

any place. Okay and then what are

24:16

they do? Then they censor Israel for

24:18

humanitarian crisis. Ah. that was started when

24:21

Com Os wants a war that Israel

24:23

did a wants his last to go

24:25

when they have to fight among civilians

24:27

because some Ah sides itself among civilians

24:29

because almost every single building in Gaza

24:32

is used as a weapon stored or

24:34

unanswered. Sits a tunnel as and then

24:36

because they don't let the civilians out

24:38

Than that, the whole situation of the

24:40

humanitarian crisis, famine. Whatever you want to

24:42

say, it's always. Roles for because they

24:45

won't take in a single Palestinians, even as

24:47

is an open border and thousands and thousands

24:49

of people can pour over at any time

24:51

In Nc I'd say it's so is that

24:54

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24:56

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26:22

world is now holding its fall. As

26:24

we hear Israel is preparing its next

26:27

move. Yona, Jeremy

26:29

Bob outlined in the J-Post that Israel

26:31

has already faced most of its worst

26:33

case scenarios already. I don't believe that.

26:36

And he writes, being that most of the

26:38

worst case scenarios have already transpired, there

26:41

would seem to be a lot less of a reason to

26:43

hold back at this moment than at any time

26:45

in decades. Do you agree with that? Well,

26:48

I think that when you see that

26:50

you were able to basically knock the

26:52

ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones out

26:54

of the sky, what that means is

26:56

that if you're prepared, you have a

26:58

good plan, now is as good a

27:00

time as any to go strike against

27:03

Iran and particularly its nuclear facilities, because

27:06

you feel like you can contain

27:08

the retaliatory threats that Iran poses

27:10

right now. And

27:12

you also probably have the most legitimacy

27:14

that you've ever had to strike Iran.

27:16

You know, Israel has been thinking about

27:18

doing this for decades, but they've never

27:20

had Iran first send over 110 ballistic

27:23

missiles towards us. Now they have. So

27:25

yes, I do think that Israelis feel

27:28

like they're confident enough that if they needed to do

27:30

something that now is as good a time as any,

27:33

you want to do it before Iran has a nuclear

27:35

warhead that they could put on top of one of

27:37

these ballistic missiles. Right. I'm not

27:39

a military expert again. I'm not a weapons

27:41

expert. But what happens if there's a nuclear

27:44

warhead on a ballistic missile that gets shot

27:46

out of the sky by one of these

27:48

arrow systems right overhead? Does that create a

27:51

nuclear reaction? I don't really want to find

27:53

out. So, you know, I would like you

27:55

to see Israel neutralize the Iranian threat now

27:57

while it has a chance and what that would also.

28:00

do is it would neutralize the threat, the

28:02

threats that all these proxies pose. If you

28:04

want to stop the proxies, you first got

28:06

to go and cut off the head of

28:09

the octopus, which is Iran. Well,

28:11

it's not really the Iranian people. People

28:13

don't know that Iran once was

28:16

a great ally of Israel and

28:18

the United States under the Shah of Iran,

28:22

who was reviled in America

28:24

as some fascist dictator. He

28:26

was doing what was necessary to keep

28:29

the Islamists in place. But

28:31

here in America, under Jimmy Carter, we were told

28:33

he was a monster, a fascist, and

28:35

we overthrew the Shah, who then went

28:38

into exile into, I think, America, in

28:41

Los Angeles. I'm not sure where he went. You

28:43

know, that Jimmy Carter years later said it was the

28:45

greatest mistake he ever made. Incidentally admitted

28:47

that. But the

28:50

Iranian people, people should remember

28:52

were once Persians, one of the most advanced

28:54

civilizations on the earth at the time with

28:58

the largest Jewish community on the planet

29:00

in Iran. And that

29:02

community still exists in Iran, even though

29:04

it's severely. It's very small, less than

29:07

a thousand people. Where'd they go? To

29:10

Israel. They're all in Israel now. The

29:12

Iranian Jews got out. I mean, they're also

29:15

in Los Angeles and Great Nick, New York,

29:17

but the majority of them are in Israel.

29:19

They got out? They did, yeah. They

29:21

were killing them, weren't they? Yeah.

29:24

But, you know, first of all, many came

29:26

over with the with the foundation of

29:28

the state of Israel. There was a major

29:30

purge, you know, of Jews from Muslim majority

29:32

countries across Middle East and North Africa

29:34

between 1948 and 1951. After the foundation of

29:37

the modern state of

29:40

800,000 Jews were kicked out of

29:42

North African countries, even though the

29:45

northern crescent of Africa, Morocco,

29:48

Tunisia, Algeria, etc.,

29:51

had Jewish communities there for hundreds and

29:53

hundreds of years. Right. And Middle East,

29:55

Lebanon, Syria. And they were kicked out

29:58

of those countries when Israel was found

30:00

that nobody ever talks about that

30:03

diaspora, that diaspora that was

30:05

created by Arabs kicking

30:07

the Jews 800,000 out. All

30:09

we hear about is Palestinians being kicked

30:12

out of Gaza. Right.

30:14

And meanwhile, no Palestinians have gotten kicked out

30:16

of Gaza. Palestinians are the only people that

30:19

are refugees in the country that they claim

30:21

to be kicked out of. Yes, I got

30:23

it. And then Israel

30:25

is accused of being a white

30:27

colonialist country when more than half

30:29

the country is completely indigenous to

30:31

the Middle East. Yeah, this is

30:33

a brown and white country over

30:36

here because you have Iranian Jews,

30:38

Iraqi Jews, Yemenite Jews,

30:41

Syrian Jews, Lebanese Jews, Egyptian Jews,

30:43

African Jews, Talashan Jews, black men,

30:45

black women, Ethiopians. Exactly. I even

30:47

said the other day on a

30:49

podcast, I said, you know, Israel

30:51

has the worst PR department in

30:53

the world. I said they

30:56

have black Jews, they have

30:58

brown Jews, everyone who speaks, they

31:00

look like me, a European

31:02

Jew, nothing wrong with European Jews. But if the

31:04

world is largely brown and black, and it's based

31:07

on race now in the world, put

31:09

out a black woman, put out a

31:11

brown woman to speak for Israel, but

31:14

they don't the worst PR in the world. Now, let's go

31:16

back to the military if we can for a minute. Well,

31:19

we're talking about these terrible, terrible

31:21

scenarios. I read

31:24

by Yona, Jeremy Bob again in the J

31:26

Post that Israel, the Israeli Air Force could

31:29

bring Iran to its knees with

31:31

quartets of F-35s and

31:33

then there would be flights of F-16s. I read the

31:35

whole story, whatever he wrote. But

31:38

I also read something interesting is that the

31:41

United States has never given Israel

31:43

bunker busting bombs, which

31:45

would be needed to penetrate the

31:48

depth required to actually hit

31:50

a nuclear facility on the

31:52

ground. Correct. But

31:54

they could cripple the area

31:57

around the nuclear plants fundamentally, render

31:59

delivering them not working.

32:02

Is that accurate? Well,

32:05

I'm not sure exactly what that would look

32:07

like and

32:09

how Israel could defeat the nuclear reactors,

32:11

but what I do understand is that

32:14

Israel hasn't gotten the bunker busters that

32:16

it wants. And by the way, the

32:19

United States has not given them to Israel because they

32:21

don't want Israel to use them to take out the

32:23

nuclear program. That's the reason why Israel doesn't have them.

32:26

But what I do understand

32:28

is that if you do send over F-35s

32:32

and you have consecutive strikes with,

32:35

let's say, two-ton bombs, one

32:37

after the other, after the other, after the

32:39

other, into the same spot, you might be

32:41

able to achieve the same type of effect

32:43

as a single bunker buster. So

32:46

there might be solutions to some

32:48

of these problems. Also, we saw

32:50

that Israel has a

32:53

capacity to stop some of these reactors.

32:55

We saw the Stuxnet virus, which gets

32:57

the reactors to, you know, they

32:59

basically compromised them using technology

33:02

and hacking, essentially. So, you know, Israel

33:04

probably has a lot of tools at

33:06

its disposal. There was a false report

33:08

during this phase of the rockets coming

33:10

to Israel that the Iranians had used

33:12

cyber technology to shut down Israel's power

33:14

grid, which turned out to be false.

33:17

But in fact, the reverse was true. I

33:20

read, and maybe you can confirm or deny it, that

33:23

Israel, in fact, shut down the power grid

33:25

in regions of Iran. Is that which

33:29

part of that is true or false? We've

33:31

heard some things like that, but it's hard

33:33

because Israel will never take credit for doing

33:35

things like this. And, you know,

33:37

they have infrastructure problems in Iran anyways,

33:39

because they put all their money into

33:42

the nuclear program and the proxies. So,

33:45

you know, they have their

33:47

own crumbling infrastructure there. So, it's hard

33:49

to know. So, what's the chance of

33:51

Iran's people turning on

33:53

these Ayatollah Hitlers? Well,

33:55

they've tried to turn on them many times. You know, they

33:57

had in 2008. at

34:00

what was called this Green Revolution. And

34:02

Barack Obama said, no, we support the

34:04

ayatollahs. And

34:07

that's exactly the opposite of what happened

34:09

in Egypt when America had an ally

34:11

in Hosni Mubarak who was also an

34:13

ally of Israel. People came

34:16

out in the streets of protest. And what did

34:18

Hillary Clinton and Obama say? They said, it's time

34:20

for Hosni Mubarak to go. If

34:22

Barack Obama would have given that same signal

34:24

and said, we're done with these ayatollahs, the

34:26

people would have done the rest. The

34:29

people don't like the ayatollahs in Iran. They're

34:31

much more friendly to the state of Israel

34:33

than they are to their own leadership. The

34:35

theocracy is a disaster. It's a Hitler. I

34:37

call him Hitler and a headscarf. There's no missing

34:39

words. It's a theocracy of

34:42

the worst kind. It's not a benign

34:44

theocracy. It's a dictatorship. What

34:47

the hell is this? Obama supported the ayatollahs?

34:50

Absolutely. Holy God. And

34:52

we see that that was what

34:54

the original Iran nuclear deal was. It was

34:56

about funding for the for the Iranian regime

34:59

to bring the ayatollahs back into the community

35:01

of nations. Even Biden was trying

35:03

just just about a year ago to get

35:05

back into the Iran nuclear deal that Trump

35:07

had pulled out of. Why? What

35:10

is this? Appeasement. If you appease the enemy,

35:12

they'll be nice to you. You know, I don't know

35:14

what it is, but you can do some of the math here.

35:16

You look at at at

35:18

former secretary of state, John Kerry, that

35:20

his daughter is married to the son

35:23

of the foreign minister of Iran. You

35:25

had Robert Malley. You lost me there.

35:27

Please say that again. I

35:30

said that the daughter of John

35:32

Kerry, the former secretary of state,

35:34

is married to the son of

35:36

Iran's foreign minister. Oh,

35:39

does anyone know this? I

35:41

as a public information, you know, and you have

35:44

you had just recently, less than a year

35:46

ago, you had Robert Malley, who was the

35:49

United States envoy to Iran

35:52

into the negotiations, lost

35:54

all the security clearance. We don't know why

35:56

he lost all the security clearance, but it

35:58

was basically believed that he was was operating

36:00

as a spy for the Iranian

36:03

regime. The Iranians have... Who is this? Robert

36:06

Malley. Where did he work? In the CIA?

36:09

Robert Malley, where he worked for the White House,

36:11

I believe, or for the State Department. Oh my

36:13

God. Yeah. Well, look, everyone

36:15

that I know and everyone you read on

36:18

the internet, they say this is the Obama

36:20

regime running America. It's Obama's third term. They

36:23

call him O'Biden, you know, whatever, all sorts

36:25

of weird names. So

36:28

let's say Obama is himself...

36:33

He went to a madrasas

36:35

in Indonesia. His

36:37

earliest memories of that are

36:40

prayers in Arabic. He

36:42

thinks it's... He said it's the most beautiful cell on

36:44

earth is the sound of the prayers

36:46

coming out of the minarets. You

36:49

know, so... Yet

36:51

he's become a billionaire somewhat here

36:54

in America after

36:56

the presidency mansions, Netflix

36:58

deals. That tends

37:00

to spoil... The only hope

37:02

is the corruption of America to save us.

37:05

It's an irony of the whole system,

37:07

Alex, which is that the only way

37:10

to get these fanatics to stop is

37:12

to make them very rich if

37:15

they still live in America because they realize

37:17

they have to pay more taxes and they're

37:19

as vulnerable as their neighbor to an incoming

37:21

missile. But the Obamas haven't

37:23

seen seem to have given up their

37:25

radicalism in this regard, have they? Well,

37:28

they're all there. All the members

37:30

of the administration are now the

37:32

members of the Biden administration. You

37:34

have the Obama is running America.

37:37

Right. And Lincoln, these are these are

37:40

all the same players. They just did musical chairs

37:42

and they changed. Lincoln used to work for Obama,

37:44

correct? Absolutely. It was shocking. You

37:46

know, after the October 7th massacre in

37:48

Israel, Lincoln started to look

37:50

like a different man to me. All of a sudden he

37:52

looked shaken by what

37:54

happened. He suddenly revealed he's Jewish, then revealed

37:57

that he had relatives who were lost in

37:59

the Holocaust. I said, holy God, this is

38:01

not a blink and I've known. I

38:03

used to call him blinky blink and he always

38:06

seemed like Mr. Wimpy giving into the enemy. All

38:08

of a sudden he looked like he had

38:10

a spine and he cared. And then after a

38:12

few short weeks of the real inner blink and

38:15

coming out, they got him in line and

38:17

told him to dummy up and go back to what we

38:19

told you to be and now attack Israel again. Well,

38:22

yeah, I mean, I think he saw that 47 minutes or

38:25

more video of the atrocities that

38:27

took place, on October

38:30

7th, that many members of the

38:32

media have seen. And it definitely

38:34

shook him to the core. But again,

38:36

this goes back to what we said

38:38

earlier, when Israel is a victim or

38:40

being attacked, so the United States is

38:42

with them, but the second Israel goes

38:44

on the offensive, then we see the

38:46

doctrine changing. They don't want Israel to

38:48

win the war. They don't want Israel

38:50

to remove Hamas from power. They

38:53

don't want Israel to be sovereign over Gaza. They

38:55

want there to be a two state solution. They

38:57

want the Palestinian Authority to be in charge. They

38:59

don't want Israel to go and take out the

39:01

threat of the 150, 200,000 rockets pointed at it

39:04

from Hezbollah. And

39:07

they certainly don't want Israel to take

39:09

out the Iranian nuclear program.

39:14

Wow, you know, I see in the screenshot

39:16

behind you the Dome of the Rock, the

39:18

Al-Aqsa Mosque on top of the Wailing Wall.

39:21

I remember when I went to Israel, I

39:23

was gonna go to the Wailing Wall and the professor who had

39:25

invited me there, Professor Meshulim, he said, where are you going

39:28

tomorrow? I said, oh, I'm gonna go to the Wailing Wall.

39:32

He says, that's a relic. He says, that's

39:34

not what you said. That's just the

39:36

foundational stone. You should go on

39:38

top of the Wailing Wall and go see the

39:40

Al-Aqsa Mosque. People don't know that was built on

39:42

the ruins of the Second

39:44

Temple, correct? On the ruins of

39:47

the Second Temple, which was the same spot where the

39:49

first temple stood. Those two temples each stood for about

39:51

400 years. So we

39:53

have collectively a second

39:55

holiest site in Islam is right behind

39:58

your right ear. Well,

40:00

they say the third holiest site, but

40:03

you know, Islamic purists will

40:05

say that there's only two holy

40:07

sites to Islam, and that's

40:09

in Mecca and Medina. And so the idea

40:11

of a third holy site, there's no such

40:13

thing as that. And how do you know?

40:16

You know, this dome over the rock is

40:18

not a mosque. This is a shrine that's

40:20

over the foundation stone where the temple stood.

40:23

And on the south side of this

40:25

Temple Mount complex is, I hope you could

40:27

see it here. No, you can't see it.

40:29

Yeah, it's over. It's over here is the

40:32

the al-Aqsa Mosque. This one has a black

40:34

dome on it, and that's where the Muslims

40:36

go to pray. And when they were when

40:38

they were trying to figure out where to

40:40

build the mosque on the Temple Mount and

40:44

which way do Muslims face when they

40:46

pray, they pray towards Mecca. So

40:48

from Israel, if you're praying towards

40:50

Mecca, you pray towards the south.

40:53

OK, so there was a there was

40:55

a disagreement among the clerics at the

40:57

time where to build the mosque. Should

40:59

we build the mosque on the north

41:02

side of the Temple Mount? Because

41:04

if we build it on the north side,

41:06

when we face south towards Mecca, we will

41:08

also be facing the dome of the rock.

41:10

So we'll be praying towards both of the

41:12

holy sites. And the ruling among

41:14

the clerics was no, you have to

41:17

put it specifically on the south side

41:19

of the Temple Mount. So when you're praying,

41:21

you're only praying towards Mecca. And that's why

41:23

you see when they do their prayers like

41:25

in Ramadan, you see thousands and tens of thousands

41:27

of people on the on the Mount, they're praying with

41:30

their butts up to the dome of

41:32

the rock specifically to demonstrate that it's

41:34

not actually a Muslim holy site. Oh,

41:37

my God. You

41:40

know, your your history that look, Alex,

41:42

you know, I read in your bio

41:44

that you're originally from New Jersey as we

41:46

talked this last time and

41:49

that you live in Israel with your

41:51

wife, Zippy, and five children, five

41:54

children. You're a very brave man. Speaking

41:58

now as a father. Is

42:01

there a future for your children in Israel? Absolutely.

42:04

I think that one of the, you know, one

42:06

of the best things about raising

42:09

children in Israel is that they believe

42:11

that they are part of something bigger

42:14

than themselves. That every child

42:16

here feels a part of the Jewish state.

42:18

They want to serve in the army. They're

42:20

taught to go towards the threat, not to

42:22

run away from it. My kids all want

42:24

to serve. My 14-year-old boy is waiting to

42:26

go into combat units in the army. They

42:28

feel like they're part of, that they're building

42:30

something, that they're part of something. And it's

42:33

a very different experience than raising children in

42:35

the United States. This is

42:37

a country that is filled with children. This

42:39

is the only country in the world that has an ascending

42:41

birth rate. Amazing. For a Western country. There's

42:44

over three children per mother in

42:46

Israel. This country is

42:49

booming with kids. And I think that the

42:51

future for Israel, despite all the threats, is

42:53

very, very bright for the Jewish people. I really believe that. That's

42:56

beautifully put. You're an optimistic

42:58

man. I need to hear more about that. Incidentally,

43:01

going back to the Abraham Accords, that

43:04

Trump orchestrated. I

43:07

know that it was Jared Kushner who was mainly

43:09

the driving engine, but it was Avi Berkowitz

43:11

who wrote those Accords. And he

43:14

was a friend of mine at the time. He

43:16

never gets credit for it. These people should

43:18

have gotten the Nobel Prize for bringing

43:20

Jew and Arab together. But instead,

43:22

all we hear in the temples is that Trump

43:24

is Hitler, and they keep

43:26

voting D. You

43:28

know, it's like the Holocaust again. All over again.

43:32

They just are Holocaust mentality.

43:35

Again appeasing the enemy. Home

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44:14

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44:16

with Alex Trehman, CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief

44:18

of the Jewish News Syndicate. We're

44:21

talking about Iran's attack upon Israel

44:23

and what might happen next. Alex,

44:28

what would you like to leave the listeners with,

44:30

please? Well,

44:32

I think that it's important for people

44:35

to realize that most Americans actually do

44:37

support the state of Israel. I think

44:39

that most Americans can very clearly see,

44:41

you know, who is an ally of

44:44

the United States and who offers

44:47

nothing to the United States, who

44:49

is just terrorist and barbaric. And

44:54

I think that is the people should

44:56

also understand that the relationship between Israel

44:58

and the United States is not like

45:00

a one-way relationship. Yes, there's defense cooperation.

45:02

You mentioned the Arrow 2 and the Arrow

45:04

3 systems. Those are systems that are developed

45:07

conjointly and then are also used by the

45:09

United States to provide

45:11

missile defense, their needs

45:13

as well and are sold to other

45:15

countries around the world, which essentially make

45:17

the entire world safer. You know, Israel

45:19

doesn't want war. Israel wants peace. If

45:21

Israel didn't have to fight this war,

45:24

if Israel wasn't attacked on October 7th,

45:26

we wouldn't be fighting right now. If

45:28

Iran didn't send over 110 ballistic missiles

45:30

and 200 drones, we wouldn't be talking

45:32

about an attack on Iran's nuclear

45:34

sites or anything else right now. Israel is

45:36

a peace-loving country that shares a lot of

45:38

values with the United States, loves

45:41

the United States, and, you

45:44

know, and Israel is willing to

45:46

defend itself by itself. All it wants, really,

45:48

is the diplomatic

45:50

support. You know,

45:52

and it's very easy for the United

45:54

States to give that. Why they're not

45:57

giving it? It's leaving Israelis feeling very

45:59

uneasy. about the relationship. So

46:02

I think that Americans

46:04

should look at what

46:07

Israel represents, how important these

46:09

battles are, and any

46:13

leader that would basically

46:15

hang Israel out to dry, that's

46:18

against the interests of the United States. And

46:20

I think that that's very important that Americans

46:22

will understand that, especially as they decide in

46:24

the coming months who they want to

46:26

lead their country. Well,

46:29

if US continues on the Biden-Obama

46:31

path of cutting Israel off or

46:33

leaving them out to dry,

46:35

Israel certainly has alliances with other major

46:38

powers. I know of India, for example.

46:41

But I'm sure there are other countries in the

46:43

works for Israel. What may they be? Well,

46:46

certainly, you know, Israel is emerging as

46:48

a regional superpower. And the idea that

46:50

Saudi Arabia would seek to normalize relations

46:53

with Israel, they just came out yesterday, there

46:56

was a report where they, for the first

46:58

time, said Iran launched the October 7th war

47:01

through their proxy Hamas, specifically to

47:03

try to spoil the normalization agreements

47:06

with Israel. I will tell you that if

47:09

Israel will win this war conclusively, it will

47:11

proceed to normalize relations with

47:13

almost every Muslim-majority country around.

47:16

OK, that's a guarantee. But if

47:18

Israel cannot defeat Hamas, cannot defeat

47:20

Hezbollah, if Iran somehow comes out

47:22

on top of this conflict, these

47:24

countries are not going to normalize

47:26

with Israel, because then what does

47:28

Israel offer them? They're expecting Israel

47:30

to defeat Hamas. You mentioned India,

47:32

a very important relationship for Israel,

47:34

perhaps the most important strategic relationship.

47:36

But even China is looking at

47:38

this conflict. If Israel emerges strong,

47:40

Israel can have good relations with

47:42

China. Israel, prior to the Ukraine

47:44

war, had good relations with Israel as

47:47

well. Russia did.

47:49

Africa can have good relations with

47:51

Israel. They're begging for good relations

47:53

because Israel has the technology that

47:55

they need to solve their problems.

47:57

There's a big one missing here.

48:00

Before this Hamas

48:03

attack and before

48:05

the Ukraine insanity, in my opinion,

48:08

Israel had good relations with Russia. They

48:11

did. What are the relations now

48:13

between Putin and

48:16

Netanyahu, if any? Are there

48:18

any remaining relationships? The

48:20

relations between Netanyahu and Putin

48:22

were filled with mutual respect.

48:25

The Netanyahu had been to

48:27

Moscow several times. Putin

48:29

had been to Israel several times. Putin

48:32

for all the things that he

48:36

is, similar to the accusations leveled against

48:38

Trump, which I think are not true,

48:40

people accused Putin of being an anti-Semite.

48:42

Putin is a phyllis-Semite. He's not an

48:44

anti-Semite. He had a lot

48:46

of respect for Netanyahu, who he

48:48

respected as an intelligent leader that

48:50

put the interests of his country

48:52

first. And a warrior, a warrior

48:54

leader. That's why

48:56

he respected him. Now what

48:59

happened, okay, when, you

49:01

know, we've had five elections here in

49:04

Israel in five years, okay, in the

49:06

fourth election, even though Netanyahu beat

49:08

the next largest party by 13 seats,

49:11

it should have been a landslide, there was

49:13

a parliamentary maneuver to block him from forming

49:15

a coalition by a single seat. And

49:17

you had then, Naftali Bennett became the

49:20

prime minister, and Yair Yaupid, who is

49:22

a Blinken sycophant,

49:25

became the foreign minister, okay.

49:28

While this happens, while Bennett and Yair

49:30

Yaupid are running the government, and Netanyahu

49:32

was in the opposition, which was for

49:34

about a year and a half, during

49:36

this period, Russia attacks

49:39

Ukraine. Now Naftali Bennett, what

49:41

he wanted to do was to

49:43

try to remain neutral and say,

49:45

you know, because Israel has strong

49:48

interests in good relations with Russia,

49:50

because Russia is one of the

49:52

primary forces inside Syria. And Israel

49:55

attacks inside Syria and wants

49:57

the freedom of operation in Syria, so they

49:59

need for their national security

50:01

to have decent relations with

50:03

Russia. So even though from a

50:05

moral perspective, they obviously supported Ukraine,

50:08

they wanted to remain neutral in

50:10

the conflict. What happens? The

50:12

United States is putting tremendous pressure

50:14

on Israel to come out in

50:16

favor of Ukraine, openly in favor

50:19

of Ukraine. And

50:21

Yair Lapid, who was the foreign minister and

50:23

that he's currently the chairman of the opposition.

50:25

He's one of the most far left politicians

50:28

in Israel. He took the bait from

50:30

the United States. That's what

50:32

they wanted him to do. And he came

50:34

out and he started publicly lambasting Putin.

50:39

And what he did was destroy the relationship

50:41

between Israel and Russia. I mean, he did

50:43

it by himself and we didn't have to

50:46

do it. That's Lapid. Lapid. That

50:48

was Lapid. You know, Israel said, you know

50:51

what? We'll provide humanitarian aid in this crisis, but

50:53

we're not taking a political position. You know, if

50:55

you guys need aid, what a food. If

50:59

you need whatever, you know, on the humanitarian

51:02

level, we support all humanitarian needs, but we're

51:04

not taking a side. Lapid took a side

51:06

and he ruined the relationship. You know, he

51:08

also did the same thing, by the way,

51:10

with Poland, which was a key ally of

51:13

Israel and Europe. Yes. He

51:15

undermined, he tried to undermine unsuccessfully.

51:17

He tried to undermine the relationship between

51:20

Israel and Hungary, which is another country

51:22

which is really important ally of Israel

51:24

and the European Union. And

51:27

this is what happens. This is what

51:29

the left wingers in this country do.

51:31

They go against Israel's own interests, own

51:33

security interests, in order to try to

51:35

kiss up to the, you

51:37

know, to the Biden administration and to the

51:39

Western Europeans that are not acting in Israel's

51:41

interests. I'm not surprised. They do the same

51:44

thing in this country. They do everything that

51:46

undermines the security of this nation. I

51:49

wrote a book years ago called Liberalism as

51:51

a Mental Disorder because it seems to be

51:53

suicidal at times. You know,

51:55

before we go, you mentioned Naftali

51:57

Bennett. People

52:00

don't realize he was He

52:03

was a former prime minister for a while and

52:05

and people didn't know that he had been a

52:07

warrior Who

52:10

led one of the most elite? Commando

52:13

brigades in Israel isn't that true? He

52:16

did you know most most Israeli leaders

52:18

have had that kind of military amazing

52:21

pretty amazing that Bennett who was

52:23

seen as kind of a leftist

52:26

Wasn't oh you he wasn't never seen as

52:28

a leftist. I mean he actually ran to

52:30

the right of Netanyahu, but but then what

52:33

he did What he did

52:35

was he to to he had

52:37

said in the run-up to the election

52:39

that he would not go into government

52:41

together with Yahya Lapid certainly not at

52:43

any kind of a rotation agreement in

52:45

fact a week before the election he

52:47

went on national TV and He

52:49

he read a paper that he wrote that

52:51

said I will not sit in a coalition

52:53

together with Yahya Lapid And certainly not in

52:55

a rotation arrangement He signed it

52:58

on the cameras in front on the nightly

53:00

news a week before the elections Held it

53:02

up to the camera for everybody to see

53:04

that he signed it and three weeks later

53:06

He becomes the prime minister in a

53:08

rotation arrangement with Yahya Lapid when he

53:11

had received his party received only seven

53:13

seats out Of 120 which

53:16

means that only 95 percent of

53:18

Israel voted for somebody other than Naftali

53:20

Bennett to become Prime Minister But as

53:22

part of this parliamentary maneuver to block

53:24

Netanyahu He somehow shot the moon and

53:27

emerged as the Prime Minister and guess

53:29

what that government lasted only a year

53:31

because it didn't have anything The

53:34

only thing it had was that it opposed Netanyahu

53:36

and sure enough in the fifth election

53:38

the Israeli electorate punished Bennett and punished

53:40

all the members Of the that went

53:43

in with that government which included every

53:45

left-wing member of Knesset and

53:47

also for the first time an anti-zionist

53:50

Arab party that is an affiliate of

53:52

the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas They brought them

53:55

into the government just to get Netanyahu out

53:57

and sure enough Netanyahu was back. It just

54:00

year and a half later as prime minister.

54:02

Is Lapid, does he have a military

54:04

history? Lapid does not have

54:06

any military history. Lapid does not

54:08

have a high school diploma. He's

54:10

a high school dropout. He never

54:12

went to college. He served in

54:14

the spokesperson's unit as a journalist

54:17

in the military. So he doesn't

54:19

have any military background either. He

54:21

was a television anchor for

54:24

many, many years and went from television directly

54:26

into politics. So he knows how to play

54:28

the part. You know, he's handsome. He wears

54:31

the suit. And I

54:33

could tell you that the Western Europeans

54:35

and Blinken and others, they

54:37

just love him. Oh my God. Well,

54:39

you've certainly given me a playbook of

54:41

what's going on in Israel. I

54:45

still have terrible trepidations about Armageddon

54:48

because the fanatical

54:51

Muslims, Islamists, whatever they

54:53

may be called, really

54:56

want the Jewish state annihilated. At

54:58

least that's what they say. Do they really want it

55:00

gone? Well, they seem to

55:02

put their money where their mouth is, right?

55:04

I mean, if you just said that you

55:06

want to annihilate them and that was all

55:09

talk, right? I mean, you have probably like

55:11

neo-Nazis and, you know, parts of America that

55:13

say that they want to kill all the

55:15

Jews, but they don't control territory. And

55:18

they don't have the weapons to be

55:20

able to commit their annihilation. But here,

55:22

Iran has taken every penny that's come

55:25

in. It has armed and funded these

55:27

terror proxies, which openly attack Israel. They

55:29

don't say they're going to attack Israel.

55:32

They do attack Israel. And now Iran itself,

55:34

I don't understand how this ends. I can't

55:36

understand it. I can't play it out. And

55:38

I really, do you think Israel is going to counter attack

55:40

or you don't know? It's

55:42

hard to know right now when you start

55:44

to hear Yav Galan, who's the defense minister

55:46

and Benny Gantz, who's the member, a member

55:49

of the war cabinet, who also is, by

55:51

the way, he's the preferred candidate to defeat

55:53

Netanyahu of the Biden administration and

55:55

Blinken and has some of the same political

55:58

consultants as as Biden

56:00

and Clinton's had before him. They

56:04

say now is the time to create

56:06

an international alliance against

56:08

Iran, an international coalition. So what

56:10

does that mean? That Western countries

56:12

are gonna speak out against Iran

56:14

in the United Nations, that Western

56:16

countries are gonna put economic sanctions

56:19

against Iran that Trump had already put, and then

56:21

they removed, and maybe now they'll put them again.

56:25

When you hear that kind of talk, it

56:27

gives an indication perhaps that Israel's not going

56:30

to attack. So

56:32

right now, we're in this limbo land

56:35

where we hear that the war cabinet

56:37

wants to attack, that the Biden administration,

56:39

Rishi Sunak, and other Western Europeans all

56:41

don't want Israel to attack. We

56:45

don't know what's gonna happen here. We're going

56:47

about our business like it's a normal day,

56:50

but we could be back facing

56:54

Iranian counterattack in no time. It's hard

56:56

to know what the next several weeks

56:59

are gonna look like, let alone the

57:01

next months and years. Amazing.

57:04

Alex Trehman, I'm so glad you found the time to be with us

57:06

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57:50

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57:52

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57:56

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57:59

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58:01

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