1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast, and thank you so 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: much for joining us today. I'm excited because my good 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: friend Rabbi Aria Lightstone is joining us for an update 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: from Israel. As the twenty twenty four election looms and 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is struggling with questions over his mental fitness, 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: his ability to broker deals on the world stage is 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: on display as well, and it seems when it comes 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: to Israel, his actions have been more political in nature 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: than executive Biden's support from the Arab population has plummeted 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: from fifty nine percent to seventeen percent. That's more than 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: forty percentage points, and that is freaking him out. Those 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: numbers seem to be impacting his decision and the language 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: around his discussion of the war in Israel right now, 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk to the rabbi about. 15 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: Rabbi Lightstone is the former advisor to the former US 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and the author of the 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: book Let My People Know. Aria, Welcome back to the podcast. 18 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: It's great to see you, nice to speak with you. 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: Very good to have you here. I've been watching this. 20 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: I think we've all been watching this but something struck 21 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: me and you wanted to talk about it. I'm glad 22 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: you wanted to talk about it, because when I talk 23 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: about Joe Biden's actions, what he's doing, this executive order 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: came out that he is putting sanctions on four Israelis 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: who are living in the West Bank. Am I getting 26 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: that correct? 27 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: That's correct? 28 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: So why would a foreign government put sanctions on individuals 29 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: like this who are already Israel's already working on this. 30 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: They're like the one guy I was reading about, He's 31 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: already had an arrest and everything else. What does this mean? 32 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: Once you have a foreign government saying, hey, we don't 33 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: think you're doing this, well, we're going to step in. 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, not only a foreign government but an ally. So 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 2: for example, right, yeah, invaded Ukraine, So we sanctioned people 36 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: in Russia. And you can make an argument we sanctioned 37 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: too many people. And I've made that argument, not because 38 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: I think that Russia is good by any stretch of 39 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 2: the imagination, but when we're going to go reach and 40 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 2: sanctioned people, there's got to be a reason where we 41 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 2: sanction people. There's not a judge, there's not a jury, 42 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 2: there's some bureaucrat who sits someplace and passes a piece 43 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: of paper for the president or the Secretary of the 44 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: Treasury to sign off, and that person's life is now frozen. 45 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: Now, well, I have to say on the I think 46 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: Russia was a little bit different because we are looking 47 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: at these oligarchs who had a lot of money. They 48 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: were funding Putin and this is shutting off Now. I mean, 49 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: I agree, I think that it was an odd choice. 50 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: But you could almost say, Okay, well maybe he did 51 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: this because he thought I can shut off their access 52 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: to their planes, I can shut off their access to 53 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: their US bank accounts. But these are four individuals. They're 54 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: not wealthy, they're not funding the Israeli government. Why do this? 55 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't mean to go down that rabbit hole. 56 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 2: The argument I was trying to make is, look, we 57 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 2: can sanction people in Russia because Russia is not going 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 2: to sanction them. We want to push Russia. They don't 59 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 2: have a judicial system. They hold our people hostage, so 60 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 2: that is a tool that we use. But Israel is 61 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 2: a robust democracy. It has a judicial system, it has 62 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 2: a policing system, it works. If anything, it has a 63 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: very left I call it progressive and aggressive judicial system 64 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 2: that prosecutes these people, including these four individuals very well. 65 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: The United States of America reaching into Israel's backyard and 66 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: sanctioning these people is such an overreach and it's such 67 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: a threat to our alliance. It's almost difficult to articulate. 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: Could you imagine for a moment that I would decide 69 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: that there's somebody in the United Kingdom that on behalf 70 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: of the United States of America. We don't like their politics. 71 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: They jaywalked, they graffited something. We're not talking about murder, 72 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 2: we're not talking about robbery. We're talking about crimes that 73 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: we don't like, and they are not good crimes and 74 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: they should be condemned. But we sanction somebody in the 75 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: United Kingdom without the United Kingdom asking us to do that. 76 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: This is such an example of a political twisting of 77 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 2: facts and narratives in order to win votes in Dearborn, 78 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: I mean, it's hideous. 79 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: Well, I think that's the real question is why, what 80 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: is the motive for doing this? Because this is distracting 81 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: from why Israel is there, distracting from the work Israel's 82 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: doing and the hostages that Israel's trying to get back. 83 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: And so I see him doing this, and all of 84 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: a sudden, all of the front page of every paper, 85 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: of every website is saying that an executive order comes 86 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: out and Joe Biden is sanctioning And I mean, if 87 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: you're reading that quickly, it's like, why is he sanctioning Israelis? 88 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: And that makes it look like suddenly we're not with you, 89 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: You're no longer allies. I mean, to me, the optics 90 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: of it are so bad. But the question I have 91 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: is if he's willing to do this, what else is 92 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: he willing to do? Is he going to destroy this alliance? 93 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: I mean, he's also come out and he's we've heard 94 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: that he said things about Nan Yahoo that have not 95 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: been very nice. The Prime minister there, he's gone after 96 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: him and said that he well, we've heard that behind 97 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: the scenes, he's caught him horrific things. I mean, the 98 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Netan Yahoo, he's calling an a hole. You know, 99 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: this is what we're hearing from his team. It's coming out. 100 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: Where does that? How does this? How could this go 101 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: a little bit further? If you see him sanctioning individuals, 102 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: what does he do next? Or what should we be 103 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: worried about? 104 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 2: Your question is exactly on point, and let me just 105 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: articulate how morally perverse this is. I have a very 106 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: good friend who has a child who was injured in 107 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: a tarror attack in my neighborhood. There was a Palestinian 108 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,679 Speaker 2: terrorist who deliberately rammed a car into a school bus stop, 109 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 2: trying to injure as many ten to fifteen year olds 110 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 2: as possible. And there's one child who's still in a 111 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 2: coma happens to be a dual citizen, an American and an 112 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 2: Israeli citizen. That terrorist will sit in jail. That terrorist 113 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: will be released at some point in time, because that's 114 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: what winds up happening here. That terrorist will not be 115 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: sanctioned by the United States of America. That terrorist will 116 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 2: receive a pension from US taxpayer dollars because when we 117 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 2: pay the Palace in authority, which Joe Biden does, that 118 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 2: money goes directly to pay to slay, which is what 119 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 2: that person did. And contrasts that with these four settlers, who, 120 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: again I'm not condoning their behavior at all, but Israel 121 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 2: has prosecuted them, arrested them. They will serve their time, 122 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: and when they're done with that, they're frozen out of 123 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 2: the entire Western banking system. That message that it sends 124 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: to people who care about freedoms anywhere is devastating. And 125 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 2: the slippery slope argument says, wait a second, I donated 126 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 2: a prayer book to a synagogue that happens to be 127 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: on the other side of the Green line in the 128 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 2: West Bank. Maybe they'll sanction me. You've been out to 129 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 2: visit there, and you go visit the Cave of the 130 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: Patriarchs that's on the other side of the green line. 131 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 2: Perhaps you're aiding in a bedding, maybe you're antagonizing. You're 132 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: going to be on a watch list someplace, and there's 133 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: no way to get off that watch. That's maybe they'll 134 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 2: sanction you. 135 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: Well, And that's the interesting thing. The one gentleman's mother 136 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: was like, we don't do business in the United States, 137 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: this doesn't affect us. But Prime Minister net and Yahoo 138 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: came out and said made it clear acts against lawbreakers everywhere, 139 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: or acts against lawbreakers everywhere, So there is no need 140 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: that Israel acts against lawbreakers everywhere. So there is no 141 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: need for exceptional steps in this matter. And to me, 142 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: this is like big brother coming in and being like, 143 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: you know what you don't handle this well, which I 144 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: think is interesting because anytime you hear of another government 145 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: trying to tell a government how to run, you have 146 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: all of these people coming into Oh my goodness, are 147 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: you colonizing? Are you saying they can't do and they're 148 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: on their own? 149 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 2: What are you? 150 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: What are you trying to do here? But isn't this 151 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden stepping in and saying no, no, Israel, you 152 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: don't have this right. I'm gonna I'm going to punish 153 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: these people for you, and because of that, I may 154 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: have to do it further. 155 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: That's correct. He is punishing Jews for living in Judea. 156 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 2: That is what he's doing. And if you just look 157 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: at it this way, South Africa took Israel to the 158 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. So the 159 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 2: fact that South Africa has standing in the International Court 160 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: of Justice just shows you that the International Court of 161 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: Justice doesn't make any sense. But South Africa takes Israel 162 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 2: to court, and through tremendous deliberation, Israel sort of one 163 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 2: how do they win it? They won that They've got 164 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 2: forty five days to prove that they have not committed genocide, 165 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: and everybody in Israel's like, well, that's okay, that's considered 166 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 2: a victory. Why did South Africa take Israel to International 167 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: Criminal Court of Justice, Well because of Iran told them to. Now, 168 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 2: why does Biden sanctioning Israeli settlers? Who's telling them to 169 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: do that? And I think it's in your backyard. It 170 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 2: is a naked panderin for votes. That makes no sense. 171 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 2: On the same day that he sent it to Dearborn Michigan, 172 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 2: he sanctioned Israeli settlers. He said that he may unilaterally 173 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 2: recognize the state of Palestine, and he said that Israel 174 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 2: is over the top in their reaction to what happened 175 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 2: on October seventh. All three of those I wouldn't expect 176 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 2: from somebody neutral. I certainly do not expect from America, 177 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: who I do believe that we are Israel's number one. 178 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: Ally, let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next 179 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: on the Tutor Dixon podcast. Like I said, his actions 180 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: seem very much more politically motivated than executive motivated, because 181 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: these sanctions came just hours before they came to Dearborn, Michigan, 182 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: which is well known for having a large Arab population, 183 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: and people went, I mean, are you kidding me. Come on, 184 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: But as I said, his poll numbers, he's lost forty 185 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: points with the Arab community, He's down from fifty nine 186 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: to seventy. So now he's willing to do anything to win. 187 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: To me, there's nothing more terrifying than someone who's willing 188 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: to do anything to win back power, and that is 189 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: to even work against our allies. And his comment on 190 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: Israel's response being over the top, I mean the combination 191 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: of those two things, announcing these sanctions on the day 192 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: he's coming to meet with the Arab community, and also 193 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: then saying that Israel's over the top, when there are 194 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: still hostages over there, There're still Israel's still trying to 195 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: get their people back, and this is what the President 196 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: of the United States and ally says. I've seen nothing 197 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: like this kind of pandering. But it's also so dangerous 198 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: for our experience, our allies, our knowledge of what's happening 199 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: in the Middle East, are standing on the in the 200 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: world stage. I mean, it's a disaster. 201 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 2: Even more than that we still have six American hostages. 202 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 2: If I were the president and I went to an 203 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 2: Arab community, or an Asian community, or a Jewish community, 204 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: my argument would be we are going to stand with 205 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 2: our ally, who's going to get our people back? How 206 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 2: is it possible right that they have this conversation about 207 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 2: hostage negotiations and all you see is that President Biden 208 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: is trying to get Israel to stop attacking the last holdout, 209 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 2: which is Rafo, which is where all the hostages are. 210 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 2: That's the same thing as asking Patrick Mahomes to kneel 211 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 2: with the ball on the three yard line instead of 212 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 2: trying to win the super Bowl. You've gone all of 213 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 2: the way, you're through overtime, and by the way, quit now, 214 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 2: because a tie would be fantastic. A tie in a 215 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 2: super Bowl is ridiculous, it's laughable. But a tie in 216 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 2: a war means that Hamas won. Why would we want 217 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 2: Hamas to win if it wasn't politically serving for somebody 218 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 2: running for office. 219 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's what he has been saying. He 220 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: wants a ceasefire. He says that he wants a ceasefire. 221 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: But he even came out and said, I'm trying to 222 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: negotiate this with Prime Minister net and Yahoo, but he's 223 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: giving me Hell yeah, I would expect that from any 224 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: leader who says I have over a hun of my 225 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: people and six of yours, and I'm trying to get 226 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: them back. What are you talking about a ceasefire? Do 227 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: you think that this is solely politically motivated or do 228 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: you think he also is too mentally incapacitated to have 229 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: the right advisor standing next to him saying sir, we 230 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: have an alliance. You can't do this. 231 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 2: I'm more nervous about his advisors than his mental capacity. 232 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 2: If you see the recently related released documents by powers 233 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 2: in terms of in twenty twenty one, when Israel was 234 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 2: at war with Comas again, she refused to meet with 235 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 2: the Israeli ambassador until there was yet another ceasefire. In 236 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: other words, you have to pay in order to enhance 237 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 2: the relationship with the United States of America. When Trump 238 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 2: was running United States foreign policy, that was certainly never 239 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 2: the case. The obligation was stand with our allies and 240 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: the burden of proof was always on our enemies. Why 241 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 2: aren't we holding Egypt to a higher standard. The King 242 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 2: of Jordan was just standing next to President Biden, who 243 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: simply said that this is seventy years of occupation and oppression. 244 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 2: How does the president of the United States of America 245 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 2: stand next to somebody who says that about our ally 246 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: that creates daylight, and that daylight is not filled by 247 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 2: Costa Rica, that daylight is filled by Iran, China and 248 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 2: russiall just give you one example. These settlers, sanctions of 249 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: which you correctly pointed out, lead to a slippery slope. 250 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: The French have important have placed sanctions just today on 251 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 2: twenty three settlers. The British have placed sanctions on fifteen 252 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 2: settlers just today. This has never been done before. President 253 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: Biden says that we're going to unilaterally recognize a palace 254 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: inan state. The Foreign Secretary of the UK, David Cameron 255 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 2: says that immediately after people will follow the United States 256 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: of America for good and unfortunately in this case, for bad. 257 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: So what happens if I don't think people understand the 258 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: importance of the alliance with Israel, that is our one 259 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 1: area of insight into the Middle East. We have been 260 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: so tightly woven together because this is a dangerous, constantly 261 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: at war situation over there, and you have been our stronghold. 262 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: Now we see that aid is likely coming, but that 263 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: also includes humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Does that go to 264 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: the people of Gaza. 265 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, it goes are the people of Gaza but run 266 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 2: by Kamas, So meaning that there are good people in 267 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 2: Gaza where they are, I don't know how we distinguish 268 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 2: who they are. I don't know. Here's something that we 269 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 2: just found out today. Israel and the Daring raid save 270 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 2: two hostages just two nights of those Super Bowl night 271 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: in this incredible rate. If you haven't watched the videos. 272 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: The. 273 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: Israeli soldiers literally placed themselves in between the hostages and 274 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 2: the terrorists getting hit by bullets, using them selves to 275 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 2: shield these hostages, where the exact opposite is Comas hides 276 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 2: behind civilians in order that way the terrorists don't get shot. 277 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 2: So that's the dichotomy at play over here. They went 278 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 2: to go rescue these hostages, the hostages come back, and 279 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember about ten days ago, 280 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: there was a big trade about medicine. They were going 281 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: to give medicine to the Israeli hostages in exchange for 282 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 2: some more humanitarian aid going into Gazo. So what was reported, 283 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 2: No humanitarian aid got to the Israeli hostage, the hostage 284 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 2: that were taken by Kamas, there was no medicine given 285 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 2: to them. So there was an enormous uptick in humanitarian aid. 286 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 2: The humanitarian aid was stolen by Kamas and no medicine 287 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 2: got to the Israelis who have been taken hostage now 288 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: for more than one hundred and thirty days. 289 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: Do we have any updates from the people who have 290 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: been released over time and rescued over time? Do you 291 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: have any insight as to what was happening to them 292 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: while they were over there? 293 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 2: So a myriad of different reports. There's something on Twitter 294 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 2: today one of the very brave young women probably tear 295 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 2: up when I just even recall this who spoke about 296 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: the sexual assault that she was under daily while she 297 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 2: was kept hostage. She was a plaything for these we'll 298 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: call them people, that's an insult to humanity, and she 299 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 2: described what she went through. These two men that were 300 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: just liberated just two nights ago were essentially slaves to residents. 301 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 2: They weren't held captive by comas officially, they were guarded 302 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: by camas, but they were put up in a regular 303 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: residential house and owned by regular residential people. The difference 304 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: in between civilians and Kamas in Gaza is a blurry line. 305 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 2: If you look at Unra, which was the story. Three 306 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: weeks ago, the United Nations, more than twelve of the 307 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 2: members who are paid for by US. We are the 308 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 2: taxpayers who paid for UNRA, participate in the massacres of 309 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: October seventh. Immediately under UNRA headquarters in Gaza is commanding 310 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 2: control for Comas. It's a complicated area. And when we 311 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: the United States of America blur lines, it gives the 312 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 2: rest of the world the ability to go ahead and 313 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 2: take a step back and say, you know what, they're 314 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 2: dead babies here. That's terrible, which is true. Dead babies 315 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 2: are terrible on every side, But nobody died on October sixth. 316 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 2: On October seventh, Kamas declared war. Every single death, innocent 317 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 2: and not is should be born the responsibility of Kumas. 318 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: So it just seems though that people somehow they just 319 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: glass over that they don't want to talk about it. 320 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: And it's not just I mean, we've seen even here 321 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: in grund Rapids, Michigan, we had a student that went 322 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 1: out and was interviewing protesters who came out for a 323 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: pro Palestinian protest. He said, what about the women who 324 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: are raped? What about the people who were burned alive? 325 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: What about the people who had their babies killed in 326 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,479 Speaker 1: front of them, and they said that never happened. That 327 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: is such a lie. All those videos are fake. None 328 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: of that happened. And I mean these you could tell, 329 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: for whatever whatever had come to these students, very obviously 330 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: early or late teens, early twenties, they believed this, that 331 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: this didn't happen. It's so important that we continue the conversation. 332 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I think about all of these news stories 333 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: that come and go. I mean, we talk about East Palestine, 334 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,479 Speaker 1: but we never go back and visit the people. We 335 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: talk about Lehina and the fire, but we never go 336 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: back and visit the people. We talked about October seventh, 337 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: which was the greatest, most horrific terror attack we've seen 338 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 1: on Israel and the worst attack on Jewish people since 339 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: the Holocaust, and yet these kids have not really been 340 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: educated on it. And I think that we see this 341 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: even with professors, which to me I thought could ever happen, 342 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: That people could be so propagandized, that they could be 343 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: so manipulated that you would have professors who would say, no, no, 344 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: that didn't happen. How do you fight that. 345 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 2: Well, the professors are leading the charge. They're not following. 346 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 2: In this particular case, if you were to imagine a 347 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 2: PhD dissertation to be written about a person of a 348 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: specific color does not belong in our university, that dissertation 349 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 2: would be rightly rejected and that person would be escorted 350 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 2: outside of the university because that type of talk thought 351 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 2: has no place in any of our institutions of higher learning. 352 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 2: But that same person, if they were to write a 353 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 2: dissertation on the fact that Israel does not have the 354 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 2: right to exist, not only would they receive their PhD, 355 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,239 Speaker 2: they would probably become the chair of their department and 356 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 2: be feeded by all of the big donors and all 357 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 2: of the people who support that university. This has been 358 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 2: going on for the better part of thirty five years. 359 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 2: It's the canary and the coal mine. My daughter, whose 360 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: dream was to go to the University of Pennsyl. She's 361 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 2: thirteen years old, pretty bright, she can get into likely 362 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 2: any universes she wants to turned to me in said 363 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 2: I've got no interest in going there. That would have 364 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 2: no appeal to me. And I turned to her and 365 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: said why she goes? Well, they don't know the difference 366 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 2: in between right and wrong, and if you're going to 367 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 2: a place to learn about things that matter. If they 368 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 2: don't know the basics in between right and wrong, so 369 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 2: what do you care what they think about economics or history? 370 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 2: That's likely also not correct. And then she said something 371 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 2: that I thought was incredibly profound, which is, if you 372 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 2: can't tell the difference in between a man and a woman, 373 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 2: how can you tell the difference in between Hamas and 374 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 2: Israel when you give up on the very basics of 375 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 2: what life is made of. Okay, so everything is fake, 376 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 2: Everything is blurred, and if you live a life like that, 377 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 2: it's sad and it's pathetic. My argument is not that 378 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 2: President Biden shouldn't panter to the voters. My argument is 379 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 2: why are their voters who want you to support Kamas. 380 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: I think that's a very interesting point. If everything is fake, 381 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 1: then what is real? I'll tell you I watched ad 382 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: during the Super Bowl, and I'm going to tear up 383 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: talking about this because to me, it was very real. 384 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: The Foundation to Combat Anti Semitism put out a few ads. 385 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: There was one where a mom walks out of her 386 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: house and the little girl says hello to the neighbor, 387 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: and the mom's face changes and the little girl looks 388 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: at the garage and says, what's that, mom, And it 389 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 1: says no Jews, and it has a swastika painted on 390 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:31,439 Speaker 1: their garage. And the mom's reaction was exactly how you 391 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,360 Speaker 1: would react as a mom, because you got to get 392 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: someplace and you have your daughter who is too young 393 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: to understand there are people out there that hate you 394 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 1: without even knowing you, and how do you even have 395 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,959 Speaker 1: that conversation? And she did such a great job of 396 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: portraying that exasperation of I have to explain something so 397 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: horrible to her, and now it's happened to us. And 398 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: then the neighbor who watches this all happen when they 399 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: get home, he's painted the garage so the little girl 400 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: doesn't have to see that again. But that, to me 401 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: is such a powerful message because I'm telling you every 402 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: mom in America that watches that goes, oh, I get that, 403 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: I know what that. Yes, I understand that feeling, And 404 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 1: I just wondering, like, how do we make that just 405 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: run wild? How do we get that knowledge out there? 406 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: How do we educate people on what hate really is? 407 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: Because I see these signs that say hate has no 408 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: home here, but nobody talks about what hate really is. 409 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: Those people aren't actually talking about this. 410 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 2: So that commercial was so spectacular. I have to tell you, 411 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 2: as a very proud Jew, I grew up in Denver, Colorado. 412 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 2: I believe I'm the only person who walked around the 413 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 2: city as an identifiably Orthodox Jew from the age of 414 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 2: like eleven. I don't know why I did that, but 415 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 2: that's what I did, and I ran into lots of 416 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: people who made lots of different comments. America has many, many, many, 417 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 2: many more of the people that have paint on their 418 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 2: boot than the people willing to spray that crap on 419 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 2: the on the door. And that's what makes America different 420 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 2: than any other country in the history of the world. 421 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 2: But the difference is does it come from our leaders? 422 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: And when our leaders equivocate in between what is right 423 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: here and what is wrong? This isn't This isn't taxas 424 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 2: should we pay thirty eight percent or twenty eight percent? 425 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 2: This isn't Obamacare, This isn't any of those things. This 426 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 2: is a question of can we inculcate within our community 427 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 2: the difference between good and evil? And if we can't 428 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 2: decide on good and evil, you know, Germany was the 429 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: most advanced country and the history of the world. Prior 430 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 2: to Nazis taking over, what they produce culturally, economically, scientifically 431 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 2: was second to not in the entire world. America was 432 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 2: chasing Germany. America has a choice in terms of which 433 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 2: direction it wants to go. The Jewish people will be fine. Again, 434 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 2: it'll be rough. We're used to things being rough, but 435 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 2: the Jewish people will figure out. I'm not particularly concerned 436 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 2: about that. If America loses track of what's evil and 437 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 2: what's not, then where are we going. 438 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. Will continue next on 439 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. I think what you've just said 440 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: was key what your leaders do. I think it is 441 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: your leaders and the media who covers the leaders, because that, 442 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: to me, has been so manipulated what we've heard about 443 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: these stories, and the leaders are allowing it. And that 444 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: was really the difference when you saw Donald Trump in office, 445 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: when the media lied, he called them out, but he 446 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: was also the one out there that was standing with 447 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: our allies and standing against endless wars. I think that 448 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: was just so profound what you said. It is something 449 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: that you think about as a parent too. You know 450 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: what I do, they will do. It's the same. If 451 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: you are the leader of the free world, what you do, 452 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: they will do. You just talked about France, you just 453 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: talked about the UK and the sanctions. That is exactly 454 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: what needs to happen in all of those rooms. When 455 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: you've got all of these advisors in the situation room, 456 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: you want to have the right ones there. 457 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: If Donald Trump was president today, would we have six 458 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 2: hostages under tunnels and Gaza today? And the answer to 459 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: that is definitively not. It just want to be the case, 460 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 2: and I believe that all of the Israeli hostages would 461 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 2: be returned as well. That there is no doubt that 462 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: when if we don't lead on those issues, because we've 463 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 2: chosen not to lead on this issue, we've chosen to 464 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 2: be part of a solution, not the solution, and unfortunately 465 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 2: there is no part. We are the number one superpower, 466 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 2: we are the leader of the free world. We cannot 467 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 2: take second place, and right now we're playing for second 468 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 2: place and the results of that are very real. 469 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: Absolutely well, we appreciate you coming on today to talk 470 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: about this. I think that we have to continue to 471 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: remind people what's going on, and just the conversation that 472 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: we just had It's so so relevant right now because 473 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: we are about to make this decision come November. We 474 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: are about to say, Okay, what happens on the world 475 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 1: stage will be decided by what voters come out in 476 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. But they can only make that decision 477 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: if they are educated, if they know what's really going on, 478 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 1: and that comes from the top, and so that kind 479 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: of falls on the people around these campaigns to go 480 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 1: out and really educate on the important things. And that 481 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: is what's happening on the world stage because of what 482 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: you just said. If America falls, if America takes the 483 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: wrong step, then all of a sudden, we don't have 484 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: that I mean what you talked about with Germany, it's like, 485 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,160 Speaker 1: when you put it that way, they were the leaders. 486 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: You know, they had all of the technology, they had, 487 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 1: they were going in the direction of Wow, this is 488 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: the country that's really got something. But a radical mistake, 489 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: and how quickly the media and the propaganda could turn 490 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: the people. That's what I think. It's the scariest thing 491 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: is you think, well, okay, it's one guy, but when 492 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: he has control of the media, he can turn the 493 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,120 Speaker 1: people and suddenly you lose everything. 494 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: You knew Osama bin Laden was trending positively in the 495 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 2: United States of America. Within the last sixty days, Osama 496 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 2: have been laden. Here's why I I don't need to 497 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 2: leave you, but one of the silver linings of what's 498 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 2: been going on over here in Israel, where I split 499 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 2: my time six months here six months in the States. Look, 500 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 2: I sound old when I say this, but people don't 501 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 2: have a lot of confidence in fifteen to twenty five 502 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 2: year olds because I spend most of their time like this, 503 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 2: with their face shoved in a phone and scrolling and 504 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 2: stories and snapchat and TikTok and all the rest of 505 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 2: this stuff. You want to talk about unbelievable human beings. 506 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 2: Look at the eighteen to twenty eight year olds here 507 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: in Israel. Look at what they've been able to do 508 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: over these past one hundred and thirty days. They have 509 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 2: surpassed anything that anybody could have expected of them. I 510 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 2: know people who have been excused from their units who 511 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 2: were fighting in Gaza for seventy five eighty days house 512 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 2: because Israel is not using their overwhelming airpower house to 513 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 2: house in order to find hostages and to be able 514 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 2: to eliminate terrorists and to be able to protect guysands 515 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 2: civilians putting themselves at risk for that have buried their friends, 516 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: have seen their friends get grievously wounded, who are now 517 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 2: done with their service, who refused to leave service because 518 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 2: the job is not done. They cannot go home while 519 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 2: they are still hostages in the tunnel. And there's a 520 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 2: twenty two year old who should be on vacation in 521 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 2: Thailand now after their army service, and they're strapping their 522 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 2: boots back on and they're going back in and they're 523 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 2: doing what they can in order to fight for freedom. 524 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 2: We used to fight for freedom. 525 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, we did well. I hope that some of those 526 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty five year olds who have their head 527 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: in their phones are starting to see those ads that 528 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: we saw at the Super Bowl and that we can 529 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: start to get in that space, because I think that's 530 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: the space that the reasonable voices, the truth, the light 531 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: that has not been in those spaces. Sadly, my daughter 532 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: came home from high school the other day and she 533 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: was like, Mom, I had to do this project where 534 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: I had to look in my daughter's fourteen Okay, so 535 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: right in that age range. She's like, I had to 536 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: look up all these different music goals for my choir class, 537 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: and as I'm looking them up, every single one had 538 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: a Barack Obama commercial that was saying vote for Joe Biden. 539 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: She's like, and President President Obama kept telling me to 540 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: vote for Joe Biden, and then sometimes Joe Biden would 541 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: come on and they would talk to each other, and 542 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: She's like every single video and I'm like, see that, 543 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: that's where we're not paying attention. And that's where I 544 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: love the fact that this ad campaign came out because 545 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: I hope that it will reach those kids. Because here 546 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: I talked to somebody on the Republican side and I said, 547 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: my daughter is seeing all of these ads and he goes, oh, 548 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: that's hilarious. It's the wrong demographic. She can't vote. And 549 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: I said, you don't get it. It's the right demographic, right. 550 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd be too live if I 551 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 2: was saying she was looking up the musical Wicked, because 552 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 2: that would at least at least be on on form. 553 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: But we'll leave that perhaps. 554 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: Society, well we will, We'll see. I'll have to go 555 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: back and see what she was looking at. 556 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 2: Well, if we don't win the hearts and minds, if 557 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: we don't win the culture, if we don't win any 558 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 2: of these things, then what are we going to do. 559 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 2: We've lost the universities. We can retake the universities. Here's 560 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 2: the essential point, going back to that ad. Americans are 561 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 2: that neighbor who have paint on their booth. They are yes, 562 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 2: and those are the parents of these kings. 563 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen the ad, you have to look 564 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: it up to know what he's talking about, because it's amazing. 565 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I retweeted you can find me lightstone a 566 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 2: on Twitter, on X on something, I actually tweeted something 567 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 2: today or X something. I don't even know how to say. 568 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 2: That from the Golden Girls in eighteen eighteen. In nineteen 569 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: eighty seven, I actually remember watching this live, which just 570 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 2: tells you how sad that is. And I remember in 571 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: eighty seven it was a little scene of ninety seconds 572 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 2: on anti Semitism, and I remember that I was seven 573 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 2: years old, thinking I don't know any anti Semits. It's 574 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 2: America the nineteen eighties. This doesn't exist. And I we 575 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 2: tweeted that and reposted that today because I wish people 576 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 2: would watched that. Also, it's funny to watch. It's not funny. 577 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 2: It's sad to see that it's still relevant. 578 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: But that's the thing. I think that in the past 579 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: these things used to be a common conversation. We were 580 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: allowed to have this conversation. And now you're right, we've 581 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: lost the culture. And that's what I keep saying. Republicans 582 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: are trying to make politics the culture. That's where we're losing. 583 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,239 Speaker 1: We lost the culture, so therefore you lose politics if 584 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,479 Speaker 1: you tried to run on culture that you've already lost. 585 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: You know, you got to change things and it can't 586 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: come from politics. 587 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 2: You couldn't be more right about that. 588 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, thanks for being on here 589 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: with me today. Make sure you check him out on 590 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: x or Twitter or whatever we call it. Rabbi Aria 591 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: Lightstone tell us again what your handle. 592 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 2: Is Lightstone A. 593 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: Okay, awesome, and thank you all for joining us on 594 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon Podcast. For this episode and others, go 595 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: to Tutor Dixon podcast dot com. You can say subscribe 596 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: right there, or head over to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 597 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts and join us next 598 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: time on the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Have a blessed day.