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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR Now, the WOR.

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Speaker 2: Saturday Morning Show. Here's Larry MINTI.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show, Eric Adams

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Speaker 1: was in Israel for the week, and ABC News correspondent

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Speaker 1: Jordana Miller says he was treated like a rock star. Jordana,

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Speaker 1: I'm interested when Mayor Adams is there to visit. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it's big news here in New York. Is it big

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Speaker 1: news in Israel?

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Speaker 2: It is. I have to say, he's being treated like

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Speaker 2: a rock star. Wow, he met with us. Yeah, as

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Speaker 2: you said, he met with the Israeli Prime Minister. He

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Speaker 2: met with the President of Israel, Isaac Hertzog. He met

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Speaker 2: as well with the Foreign Minister Guidon Saar. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, making the rounds, if you will, and really

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Speaker 2: just everyone heaping a lot of praise and gratitude on him.

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Speaker 2: I mean for Israelis and for some Jews. The election

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Speaker 2: of Mom Dannie has said, off alarm bells, and now

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Speaker 2: it's you know, I think the leadership here in Israel

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Speaker 2: is feeling grateful that they had Adams, who, as you know,

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Speaker 2: has been a very big supporter of Israel. He came

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Speaker 2: to visit here in Israel in the you know, in

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Speaker 2: the first weeks after Hamas's deadly attack on October seventh,

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Speaker 2: he has been vocal in his fight, indeed and in

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Speaker 2: word and indeed against anti Semitism. And that's something that's

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Speaker 2: been highlighted here and we're hearing, you know, over and

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Speaker 2: over again each leader say here, you know that Mayor

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Speaker 2: Adams is a is a true friend of Israel.

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Speaker 1: Well for a day, and it really did last I

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Speaker 1: don't I'm not even sure if it was a full day.

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Speaker 1: For a day, it seemed like zorin Mom Donnie was

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Speaker 1: backing off of his pledge to arrest Benjamin net Yahoo

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Speaker 1: if he ever came to New York. But in a

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Speaker 1: couple of their interviews there he was again saying, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to enforce international law. And so if Netna who comes,

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Speaker 1: I have to enforce international law, which seems to man

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Speaker 1: he is going to arrest him. Has did that come up?

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Speaker 1: And has Benjamin Netanya who addressed that?

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Speaker 2: So, first of all, with all, do you respect to

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Speaker 2: Mom Danny, I mean, you're you know, he is now

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Speaker 2: the mayor of New York City. He should definitely check

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Speaker 2: the facts before he speaks. It's now he's in a position,

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Speaker 2: you know, of responsibility. Right, he's not a candidate. The

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Speaker 2: United States is not party to the International Criminal Court.

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Speaker 2: They are not under any obligation to implement the rulings

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Speaker 2: of the International Criminal Court. It doesn't apply to the

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Speaker 2: United States. Natagnell can go to New York, to every borough,

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Speaker 2: to every state in America and and no, nobody has

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Speaker 2: a there's no authority to arrest the Israeli Prime minister.

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Speaker 2: Now maybe that was a great line when he was

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Speaker 2: running for mayor of New York City, but I would

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Speaker 2: suggest he shelf it, you know, because it makes him

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Speaker 2: sound like he's not that informed on you know, what

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Speaker 2: the International Criminal Court is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he keeps saying it. He keeps saying that

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Speaker 1: he's going to do it, and that he's going to inform.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, this is the problem people have

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Speaker 2: with Mom Dunny. Right, you need to be clear about

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Speaker 2: what the facts are when someone asks you about HAMAS, Right,

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Speaker 2: you should, without blinking an eye, you should absolutely reject

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Speaker 2: what HAMAS stands for. They don't represent the Palestinian people.

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Speaker 2: They are a terrorist organization. Right. You know, no any

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Speaker 2: American campus, let alone the top campuses in America should

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Speaker 2: be waving a Hamas flag, right, That's like waving an

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Speaker 2: isis flag. Right. So Mam Donnie needs I think he's

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Speaker 2: going to have to try to you know, get a

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Speaker 2: hold of his rhetoric and try to stay you know,

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Speaker 2: in reality and really you know, not not actually tap

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Speaker 2: into people's worst fears, whether you're a Jew or not.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's already said he's not going to march in

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Speaker 1: the Israeli Day Parade, and he also has come out

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Speaker 1: and said several times when he's been asked he will,

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Speaker 1: he refuses to call Israel a Jewish state. So I

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Speaker 1: don't think any of the I don't think things are

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Speaker 1: going to change overnight with how he feels about Israel

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Speaker 1: and the people of New York City elected him.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's it is a frightening situation for Jews that live

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Speaker 1: in New York because many of them have been very

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Speaker 1: vocal saying they don't feel protected by this man.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I hope that Mamdani turns out to you know,

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Speaker 2: be a terrific mayor in New York City. I hope

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Speaker 2: that he represents, represent and protects all of New York,

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Speaker 2: all of the residents of New York City, right, no

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Speaker 2: matter what color or creed right that they are, or religion. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, Mamdani now again is in a position of

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Speaker 2: responsibility and he really needs to be careful with the

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Speaker 2: words he uses. You know. Everybody, uh, you know that

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Speaker 2: is part of the progressive movement is very interested and

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Speaker 2: supports an ultimate you know, Palestinian state that's led by

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Speaker 2: the Palestinians that hopefully will be democratic. Right. What Mamdani

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Speaker 2: doesn't understand is that when people call Israel a Jewish state,

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Speaker 2: it's because it is a place that has historical connections

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Speaker 2: for Jews, and Jews see themselves as a people in

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Speaker 2: the same sense that Palestinians see themselves as a people,

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Speaker 2: or the Indians right, or any ethnic group. So, you know,

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Speaker 2: I would suggest me, Mom, Donnie, do what others have

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Speaker 2: done in the past, and that is, you know, find

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Speaker 2: someone to maybe get a tutorial, really an in depth

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Speaker 2: tutorial on Jewish Jewish identity Israel, right, because it's clear

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Speaker 2: he doesn't quite understand things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he's going to do that, but

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Speaker 1: your DNA, that is a wonderful thought. I look forward

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Speaker 1: to talking to you again, especially as Zorah Mom Donnie

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Speaker 1: starts to after getting sworn in as he's mayor. ABC

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Speaker 1: correspondent in Israel Jordana Miller. This has been a podcast

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