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We'll talk about what all of that means. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:32.880 Plus eighteen magazine that's celebrating Karl Marx seems pretty crazy 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.360 to me. We'll get into that in a whole lot 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.839 more coming up. This is the buck Sexton Show, where 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.800 the mission or mission is to decode what really matters 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:48.840 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:59.600 Again the buck Sexton Show begins. What a day, my friends. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.960 Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Honor and a privilege 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.760 to have you here with me. As always, I am 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:14.640 really enjoying watching this Trump administration flummocks the critics just 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.919 to drive them up the wall. I'm not going to 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.840 say that that's the one and only thing that I 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.480 need to keep me happy with this administration. That's not true. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.079 We need policy success, we need victories beyond just the rhetorical. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.160 But man, it is fun to watch them squirm while 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.560 Trump does things on the world stage, the place where 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.400 he's supposed to be the least a death right. We 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.800 were told, Okay, maybe he'll be good at infrastructure. Maybe 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.359 maybe he'll be good, a little bit of dealing here 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:49.040 and there. But foreign policy, that's the preserve of the fanciest, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.639 smartest people, kind of people who work for Democrat administrations, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:03.000 not Trump, the ruffian, the billion they're barbarian. Not possible 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.720 for him to get further with some of these US 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.880 interests and some of these global policy matters than previous administrations. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.239 Certainly not in eighteen months as opposed to the eight 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.840 years of his predecessor. And yet here we are President 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.640 President Trump getting a lot of gratitude, a very warm 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.240 his administration, the folks that are over there, Ivanka, Jared 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:35.440 Manuchin and others, warm reception in Israel today. Here is 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.120 what the Prime Minister had to say about this embassy 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:43.839 opening Playcliff nine. Dear friends, what a glorious day. Remember 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:53.040 this moment. This is history. President Trump. By recognizing history, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:04:01.840 you have made history. There you go making history. Let's 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.520 be honest. Not in year one, tech, it's year two. Now. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.440 That's still really early, isn't it. It's still rather impressive, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.360 and it's just the beginning, isn't it. Now. I will 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.360 get into some of the violence going on in cause 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.280 I will talk about that as well. Because it's not 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:24.200 like this is going on without there being a a 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.400 I shouldn't say a downside to it necessarily, it's just 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:32.560 a an opposite reaction, right, it doesn't have to be 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.240 this way. So I mean by it that the downside 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.640 doesn't come along with this decision. There is no reasonable 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.080 expectation that anyone should have that because the United States 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.440 moves its embassy. By the way, who is that really 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:51.600 a decision for for us and for the are Israeli hosts? 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.560 That's it. It really isn't, in fact something that we 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:02.360 have to take a worldwide proxy vote. We don't have 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.560 to ask everyone's opinion on this. And yet you get 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:11.640 the sense there's this consideration of this as though this 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.960 is a vote by committee instead of a bilateral issue, 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.080 which is really what it turns out to be, or 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.880 turns out that it is. A few things. I want 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.919 to get into the Gaza situation. What's going on with 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.720 these so called protests. I mean, yeah, there's some protests, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.719 but there's some violence and yes, dare I say, some 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.680 terrorist activity going on as well, and that has led 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.040 to a response from the idea from Israeli forces that 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:46.080 has resulted in the depths of over fifty people. But 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.039 I first want to look at the policy side of this, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.000 and just note that this is an issue among the 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.640 very first issues that I ever looked at as a 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.080 policy matter. In fact, I am in the swamp right now, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:02.880 not far away from my first DC job, where I 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.280 spent my first time in DC working at a Midi 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:11.840 stink tank as a research intern for the Clinton era 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.559 negotiator for the Arab Israeli peace process. So that takes 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:23.160 me back gosh, seventeen years, eighteen years something like that, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.160 so I'm almost twenty years ago now, which, as I 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.240 say that out loud, it feels pretty crazy, but that 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.719 is the case. So this was an issue that I 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.120 went to very early on in my academic career, studied 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.120 in school, and I learned a few things, and this 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.720 will hopefully provide some context for discussion we're about to have. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.880 I learned some things. One is that generally speaking in 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.000 this country on the issue of Israel and Palestine, it 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:51.160 quickly devolves into not, hey, how could we solve this? 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.320 Everyone pretends that they want to solve it, but very 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.680 quickly you see that there is a polarization that occurs 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.799 because people feel the need to just to take a side. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:07.720 They take a side and the pro Palestinian left. I 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.720 am I kid you not. I almost physically bumped into 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.280 and I don't mean that it would have been an accident. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.080 We were both in the coming out of the train. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.280 I saw Linda Sarsore today at the train station here 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.680 in DC. I just walked right past her and we 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.160 were we were a foot away from each other. Said, oh, interesting, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.640 speaking of the anti Israeli pro Palestinian left, you have 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.560 Linda star Sore in the house. Part of me was like, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.400 it would be fun to try to engage, But you 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.480 know what, I give people their private space, even public people. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.720 I don't I see someone in public. I'm never gonna heckle. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.520 I'm not one of those. I'm just it's just not 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.160 who I am. Linda sars it was at least thought about. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.520 I thought about it, right, it would have been Hey, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.680 so why do you say all those terrible things? Just 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.360 curious you want to try to have a discussion about that. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.760 But I'm sure profanity would have come my way and 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.200 why ruined her day? Ruined my morning? But you often 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.400 see that this gets turned into a highly politicized discussion 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.680 and so I tell you from the outset that I 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:17.120 want to solve the issue, but I also am allied 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.360 ideologically and otherwise with the Israeli state. So just to 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.720 be upfront about it doesn't mean I think everything Israel 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.520 does it's great. Doesn't mean that I don't think that 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:31.960 there's some difficulties on both sides that we could alleviate, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:37.960 that we could do things to make less problematic. But 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.360 I just view right now, you have an Israeli state 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.079 that's trying to do the right thing, and that's trying 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.880 to live in peace and has achieved a tremendous amount 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.120 of prosperity. You have Palestinian people who are suffering, granted, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.440 but you have a Palestinian leadership that's a disgrace. And 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.040 Hamas is a disgraceful organization. It's a terrorist organization. So 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.800 I side with civilization against the terrorists. That's just a 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.440 shorthand way of saying I'm I'm with the Israeli people 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.400 in the Israeli state against Hamas. I don't view Palestinians 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.040 and Hamas is one and the same. Though would also 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:20.520 like to help, I would like the situation to be improved, 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.800 and America to play a role in that for Israelis 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.520 and Palestinians, and so with that or for Palestinians specifically, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.160 with that in mind, a few things here that I 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.240 think have not gotten nearly enough attention with today, and 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.840 I'll also come back to the Trump component of all this. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:44.600 But this is not the end of the US as 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.760 an arbor in this. In Middy's piece, this is not, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.200 in any way, I think, something that we can look 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:59.640 at as even a huge it's interesting, it's tremendously significant 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:05.040 as is symbol. But in terms of where this takes 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.080 us with the actual peace process, right, the very elusive 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:15.280 now Palestinian Israeli peace process we've been trying to achieve, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.560 I usually think this will be better. And here's why. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.240 There was never going to be an Israeli state. It 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.800 just wasn't going to happen that did not have as 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:32.000 its end state Jerusalem as its capital. So then you 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.000 start to wonder, what's with the not having embassies in 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.719 the capital if there is there is absolutely positively no 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.720 way that there would be an Israel that would allow 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.560 Jerusalem to not be its capital. Right, it was never 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.720 going to be traded away, It was never going to 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.480 be placed under just a generalized international mandate or all that. No, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.960 that was never going to happen. So why go through 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:01.240 these games, Why why go through these motions of well, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.760 we're gonna wait on the embassy because we don't want 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.160 to make it seem like we've already decided. Well, they 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:11.679 have decided as they should, so it doesn't really change 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.160 very much in that regard. And people will talk about 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:19.319 a two state solution and that's been There are a 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.080 lot of their buzzwords. You'll hear about this and what 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.760 is it like? Un resolution? They'll talk about two four 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.280 two and three three eight and land for peace and 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.800 there's all. This has just been ongoing for decades and 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.920 decades now. No one's really gotten very far, although the 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.319 biggest improvement has just been the Israelis, that's right, building 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:46.559 a wall, building an actual physical border and creating security 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.800 for themselves and then saying okay, well now what And 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.920 the Palestinians, as they have done so many times, never 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.240 miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity, and Mahmoudabas the 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:04.320 leader of the Palestinian authority, is a disgrace. And now 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.240 we get to finally see an administration coming along the 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.440 Trump administration that says this is just this is nonsense. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.000 This holding off on the embassy. Why it's already US law. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.959 What's the what's the point of pretending that there will 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.160 be any future where we don't put our embassy with 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:26.320 this Israeli state in Jerusalem. This isn't a carrot that 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.040 should be offered up right, This isn't an inducement to talks. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.600 This is just reality. So I think that that's that's 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.680 very important, and it also undermines a narrative here. You see, 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:43.880 the narrative from Hamas is that the Israelis don't actually 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:49.560 even that the Jews do not actually have ties to Jerusalem. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.880 They have they have no authentic relationship with Jerusalem. Their usurpers, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.760 you know, all kinds of vitriol from Hamas specifically around 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:05.319 your Jerusalem. And this clearly undermines that narrative, right because 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.400 one of the problems that you have with the hardliners, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.520 the radicals predominantly in Gaza, but there's some of the 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.160 West Bank too, is that they are told by their 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.360 leadership this is just temporary. This is just temporary, and 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.600 they don't mean it's temporary as in there'll be a 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.120 peace settlement. They mean the existence of the Jewish state 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.320 is temporary. So when the world's loan superpower says, actually, 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:34.440 our embassy with the Jewish State is going to go 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:39.040 in their capital of Jerusalem, it doesn't obliterate the notion 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.280 of a two state solution. Quite the contrary. And I'll 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.000 get into some of that in a moment, But what 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.760 it says is you've got to stop believing and telling. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.200 In the case of the Hamas leadership, you gotta stop 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.040 believing these lies that this is going to change, that 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.560 there is a world in which a world that you 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.320 should be waiting for, in which there is no Jews state, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.440 there is no Jewish presence in Jerusalem. It's just not 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.240 going to happen. Because as long as people believe and 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.000 they've been fed a diet of anti Semitism and anti 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.920 Israeli rhetoric for a very long time. As I tell you, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.960 I had a it's kind of a personal asside. I 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.280 had a girlfriend many years ago who instead of meeting 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.400 it was her choice. She was in grad school and 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.920 instead of meeting me in I forget where I was 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.520 going to meet her in Italy somewhere for you know, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:34.440 a romantic week away with vacation, and instead of going 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.880 with me, she decided to go interview the families of 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:43.080 suicide bombers in the West Bank for a school project. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.400 It wasn't mandated, but she did it, and putting aside 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.240 for a moment the fact that I was disappointed that 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.400 that was not a good move for our relationship. When 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.440 she came back, she had a completely different view of 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.720 what the problem was over there, because you had women 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.680 who were celebrating the martyrdom of their children as suicide bombers. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.920 It was as though they had you know, gotten into 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.920 Harvard or something but obviously dead now and killed a 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.320 bunch of people in the process. This was a good thing, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.440 and that was and this was now stretching back, gosh, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:20.000 a decade ago, but that was a that was a 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:25.640 moment that I always remember because Palestinian society had been 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:30.880 so poisoned by this rhetoric from Hamas and these extremists 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.800 and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and you know, the alax On 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.480 Marter brigades, all these these different groups and factions within 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.920 the groups and militants, and that this had now taken 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.600 over even in some of the homes of people as 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.760 normal in their minds. That's how poisoned they had become 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:52.480 against honestly any basic decency or humanity. So you have 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.920 to eradicate that. You have to take that narrative and 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.480 shatter it and get rid of it. It's bad for 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:00.200 the Palestinians, it's bad for it's bad for everyone. And 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.480 I think that moving the embassy works to that effect. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.120 I do have to talk to you about Gaza. We've 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.720 got a lot here on this and also the Trump 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.160 administration getting credit for this. So we'll spend most of 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.160 this hour on this issue, and then next hour we'll 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.880 talk maybe a bit about where the latest is with Muller. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.440 The White House still under siege, no surprise there, that's 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.400 like every day. And then I've got some interesting, an 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:28.480 interesting assortment of stories, including legalizing sports betting. Talk about that. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.360 Karl Marx gets a shout out from teen Vogue, who 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.400 knew the crazy world. And if you stay through the 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.600 whole show, I've got a really heartwarming story about a 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.760 wedding that you wouldn't expect at the very end, So 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.000 I got a lot more comming teams, stay with me. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.760 Jerusalem is still the capital of Israel and must remain 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.920 an undivided city accessible to all. Soon as I take office, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.640 I will begin the process of moving the United States 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.160 ambassador to the city Israel as children as its capital. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.399 I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.040 of Israel, and I have said that before and I 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.760 will say it again. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:22.680 and it must remain undivided. It is time to officially 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:31.840 recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Oh, previous presidents 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:36.880 have made this a major campaign promise they failed to deliver. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:45.120 Today I am delivering, right. So the president there is 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.800 just doing what you would think any previous president that 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.879 we played the audio from right, we went through you know, Clinton, Bush, Obama, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:01.280 all of them. They're all saying that Jerusalem capital of Israel. Okay, 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.040 So why wouldn't we put our embassy where the capitalists? 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.240 What are we caving to? What sensibility are we trying 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.920 to plague Kate with this? And with Trump? The genius 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.960 and yeah, that's right, I said it. The genius of 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.160 some of his foreign policy moves thus far has been 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:26.040 to forget about the so called consensus, forget about what 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.320 the people that think they are also smart on these 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.080 issues have been telling each other about them for a 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.840 very long time without fixing anything, without even moving the 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.920 ball down field and say, what is the problem, Let's 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.920 do something about it. What are we saying about it? Well, 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.760 let's do something based on what we say. In this case, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.399 that means if Jerusalem is the capital, that's where the 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.760 embassy will be. It's so simple. It's so simple, isn't it. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:19:00.720 It's so straightforward. Trump takes kind of an comes raise 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.639 or approach to foreign policy. All Right, we got a 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.840 big problem with North Korea. Let's maximize our leverage. We'll 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.600 sit down and talk to North Korea, see if they'll 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:13.960 stop this crap. We've got an agreement with the State 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.560 of Israel that Jerusalem is their capital. We've said we 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.760 want to move our embassy there. Let's just move our 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.439 embassy there. There's no future in which we're not going 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.080 to put our embassy there, so why not just do 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.760 it now? And I think the messaging is very powerful 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.480 for why moving it is in fact the right, the 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:32.600 right thing to do now. David, if Fune will be 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.760 join us here in just a moment, he's a if 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:36.480 you listen to show you know, he's brilliant guy, editor 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.320 in chief of the Alga Miner knows the Israeli issue 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.359 backwards and forwards. So we'll talk to him about this 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:48.040 and then I've got a whole lot more stay tuned team. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:52.400 Over a century ago, the Balford Declaration recognized the right 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.920 of the Jewish people to a national home in this land. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:01.320 And exactly seventy years ago today, President Truman became the 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:07.520 first world leader to recognize the newborn Jewish States. Last December, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:12.600 President Trump became the first world leader to recognize Jerusalem 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.960 as our capital. And today the United States of America 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:21.840 is opening its embassy right here in Jerusalem. Thank you, 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.120 Thank you President Trump for having the courage to keep 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:33.000 your promises. Thank you President Trump, and thank you all 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.640 for making the alliance between America and Israel stronger than ever. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.320 Prime Minister net and Yahoo giving a heartfelt thanks to 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.280 the Trump administration in the United States of America today 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:51.200 because of what's going on with the embassy move We've 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:52.879 got somebody who can help us put all of this 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.479 into a context as well as some of the violence 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.520 going on in Gaza. We have David iffun on the line. 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.560 He is the editor in chief of the Alga Minor, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.200 which is the fastest growing Jewish newspaper in the country. David, 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.240 great to have you back, always a pleasure, but I 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.080 just wanted to hear from you what the significance is 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:19.520 in your mind in terms of US Israel relations of today. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.960 It's hugely significant. Not so much it's so far as 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.840 you know what is being said in and of itself. 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.359 I think it's along been the case to Jerusalem has 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:34.000 been the capital of Israel, of course historically, and of 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.400 course that the Israel has always viewed it and as 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.000 an act of congress back in nineteen ninety five, the 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.600 American people have recognizing that as well. What's important today 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:47.000 is really the symbolism of it. It's the celebration of it. 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:51.920 It's the fact that the world newspapers and media outlets 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:57.119 and headlines across the world are featuring the unveiling of 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:01.680 this embassy, the public celebration and announcement, the comments from 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.440 Benjamin Niahoo, and it's hard to to to really get 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.959 a cent of what this means to the Israeli people. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:15.840 There's been some some imagery and of the streets of Jerusalem, 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:21.000 which are be deathed with flags thanking President Trump. Obviously 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.000 he played that clip. President Truman has a very special 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.760 place in the Israelian hearts as the first person to 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.880 recognize the Nason state of Israel while it was under siege, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.119 and the Israeli certainly feels very strongly about President Trump. 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.040 I think, I mean a while ago he was he 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.600 was more popular there than in the United States, which 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.120 is one of only a couple of countries where he's 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.680 perceived in that way. Now, I'm sure if a Poe 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.040 were to be taking it would be even higher. They 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.560 feel recognized, they feel that justice has been said up 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.720 and there's a great deal of credit for Presidents Trump 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:01.840 for really taking historic stand on the bucking the the 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:07.120 political correctness and this uh sense of fear and and 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:12.879 uh and insensitivity to the ready perspective and things, and 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.200 coming out and saying that we're going to accept this publicly. 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.280 We're going to move our industry and make a statement, 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:23.120 and nobody's going to stop us. One thing that I 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.760 read today, David, and I don't think this is getting 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.960 nearly enough attention to press. You and I could both 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.880 surmise as to why that is. But there are some 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:37.720 knowledgeable onlookers analysts of this situation who are saying that 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:42.240 this is actually better for a perspective peace process. Could 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:46.320 you give me your sense of that. Look, that's certainly 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.679 the the the perspective. Uh, And that's the narrative that 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.080 we've been hearing from the White House, and I think 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.159 there is there are certainly elements of truth to that. 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.280 I mean, this is this is I mean the age 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:02.240 old discussions of peacemaking, especially when you're when you're dealing 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:06.960 with an adversary that that doesn't really have any intention 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:12.400 to split hairs with you, to to reason and to divide. 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:15.959 I mean, look, it's very very clear that the Palestine 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:20.959 in preference is the complete annig nation, eradication, and replacement 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:24.160 of the Jewish State of Israel as it stands today. 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:26.760 So when you're dealing with an adversary who has that 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:30.960 in goal, and the negotiating from a position of strength 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:36.000 actually leads to a greater opportunity for some form of concession, 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:40.080 the first thing that's necessary is for them to understand 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.639 that the enterprise known as Israel is not up for 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:48.600 negotiation and it's eradication and removal it's not on the horizon, 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:51.199 and when that becomes a fact point, you can have 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.280 a real discussion as long as there is some hope 0:24:54.760 --> 0:25:00.040 that eventually, piece by piece, in the long term, the 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:06.320 entity called era can be out maneuvered and bypassed and overrun. 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.639 Then dependency and the willingness to make real confessions and 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:14.480 to really come to terms with it are going to 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:15.960 be a lot less and I think, by the way, 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:20.400 that applies to lots of international discussions. There are echoes 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:22.840 of that line of thinking in the North Korean discussions, 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:25.600 of the Koinian discussions, and the end of the day, 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.199 as with everything in life, you know, the adversaries are 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:31.160 going to push as hard as as they can until 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:34.800 they meet resistance. And when facts are established, and when 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.159 resistance and when lines in the sand are drawn and 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.960 they're maintained, that's when you can start to have a 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:46.520 conversation which doesn't involve the demise of either party. Now 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:49.160 I have to ask you, David, I'd have to ask 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:52.080 you about this violence in Gaza at the at the 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:55.800 border fence between Israel and Gaza. What do you make 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.800 of it? I mean, clearly, there's a there's an effort 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:03.919 you punch through the fence. You have these people referring 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:07.800 to this as a protest today in response to the 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:10.640 embassy move when we know that for six weeks now, 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.520