A massive Middle East peace deal. But Trump negotiated it, so it’s not news.
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Trump brokered a peace deal in the Middle East, but no one knows why. Is it because he's a bad guy? Or because he s a good guy? Ezra Levenson explains why Donald Trump is the perfect president for the job.
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Hello, my Rebels. You know, a huge peace deal was done, but you wouldn't know it because,
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of course, the author of the deal was Donald Trump. And there's no way we can give him any
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credit. Just pretend that he didn't solve the Arab-Israeli crisis. Well, I'll show you what
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Tonight, a massive peace deal in the Middle East, but Donald Trump negotiated it. So it's
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not news. It's August 17th. This is the Ezra LeVance Show.
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publishing, is because it's my bloody
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right to do so. You remember that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? He won it
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immediately after he was elected. He hadn't done anything yet. I mean, he was nominated in the first
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weeks of his presidency. He just didn't do anything peace-ish. He won the Nobel Prize because, you know,
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he was a Democrat and a black man. And those are two good reasons for the Nobel Peace Prize
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Committee, which, just to remind you, isn't some high-flute and blue-ribbon panel. It's not like
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the Nobel Prize for chemistry or physics, where you have to be the best chemist or the best physicist.
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It's literally five people appointed by the left-wing Norwegian parliament. That's who chooses who gets
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the Nobel Peace Prize, seriously. So it would be like if Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna handpicked
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the person. If they had any self-awareness, they would have rescinded Obama's award and demanded it back.
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In his tenure, he toppled Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, which not only lit northern Africa on fire,
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it also gave a new breeding ground for terrorists, reopened the ancient slave trade, and of course
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started a massive refugee rush across the Mediterranean into Europe. Obama oversaw the
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bloody Arab Spring, which gave Islamists control of Egypt, at least until the people revolted against
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Obama's friends in the Muslim Brotherhood. Syria caught fire. ISIS became a de facto nation.
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I actually can't think of a bloodier time since World War II. Imagine giving that guy a Nobel Peace
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Prize. Here's the Council of Foreign Relations, just to give you some stats. On January 23, 2009,
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just three days into his presidency, President Obama authorized his first kinetic military action,
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two drone strikes, three hours apart, in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed as many as 20 civilians.
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Two terms and 540 strikes later, Obama leaves the White House after having vastly expanding and
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normalizing the use of armed drones for counter-terrorism and close air support operations in
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non-battlefield settings, namely Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. Now, I'm not anti-drone. I'd rather fight the
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bad guys over there than over here. I'd rather fight the bad guys without risking the lives of
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Canadian or American men and women in planes or helicopters. I'm just saying Mr. Nobel Peace Prize
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used drones seven times more frequently than that bad guy George W. Bush. Obama loved war,
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mainly in places that no American had been to or heard of or knew anything about. Sort of like Trudeau
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sending our troops to Mali for peacekeeping. No cheating, without Googling. Can you tell me on the
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map where Mali is? Yeah, don't feel bad, neither can Trudeau. But he's the peace guy, you see.
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Anyways, Trump is the opposite. You know, he's had fights with his generals, with his first Secretary
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of Defense, precisely because he wanted to extricate America from foreign wars, and the generals didn't.
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America didn't go to war against Syria, which is what Hillary Clinton said she would do if she were
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president. She said she'd even shoot down Russian planes flying in Syria.
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If you impose a no-fly zone, first of all, how do you respond to their concerns? Secondly,
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if you impose a no-fly zone and a Russian plane violates that, does President Clinton shoot that
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plane down? Well, Chris, first of all, I think a no-fly zone could save lives and could hasten the
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end of the conflict. I am well aware of the really legitimate concerns that you have expressed from both
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the president and the general. This would not be done just on the first day. This would take a lot
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of negotiation. It would also take making it clear to the Russians and the Syrians that our purpose here
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was to provide safe zones on the ground. We've had millions of people leave Syria, and those millions of
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people inside Syria who've been dislocated. So I think we could strike a deal and make it very clear
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to the Russians and the Syrians that this was something that we believe was in the best interests
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of the people on the ground in Syria. It would help us with our fight against ISIS.
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Yeah, that's crazy. Trump is pulling out, pulling back. He's even pulling out of Europe,
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making them pay their own way. I love it. He's pretty much the opposite of a warmonger.
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And he hasn't gone to war with Iran, even though he doesn't like Iran like Obama.
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He didn't send billions of dollars to Iran in pallets of cash like Obama. I don't know if it's
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working, his whole approach to North Korea. But it's been quite an effort of Trump's to make peace
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there better than anyone else has done. My point is, Trump isn't a dangerous cowboy he was accused
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of being. He certainly killed fewer foreigners and Americans than Obama did or Hillary Clinton
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would have. And now this, the biggest surprise of all, at least to me, I didn't think it would
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ever happen. I remember Trump bragging about doing the biggest peace deal, the biggest deal,
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the deal of the century, he called it, in the Middle East. And I thought, you know, some deals can't be
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done. Those folks have been fighting literally since biblical times. But look at this. Look at this.
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Here's the news in the New York Times. I chose this paper because they're really Trump's biggest enemy.
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And they're not particularly a fan of Israel either. But they just couldn't help but admit
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the obvious. This was a massive deal. Let me quote,
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Israel and United Arab Emirates strike major diplomatic agreement. President Trump announced that Israel
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and the United Arab Emirates would establish, quote, full normalization of relations. And then in
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exchange, Israel would forgo for now, declaring sovereignty over occupied West Bank territory.
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They put four reporters on the story with the byline. And they had four other reporters who they
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credited for researching it. So the New York Times put eight staff on this story. That's incredible.
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It's a huge story. I won't even go into it other than can I just read a little bit about Trump's
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role and the meaning. Just give me one minute. In a surprise announcement of the White House,
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after a three-way phone call with Israeli and Emirati leaders, Mr. Trump said,
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the deal would lead to greater cooperation on investment, tourism, security, technology,
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energy, and other areas, while the two countries moved to allow regular direct passenger flights,
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open embassies, and trade ambassadors for the first time. If fulfilled,
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the pact would make the Emirates only the third Arab country to have normal diplomatic relations
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with Israel, along with Egypt, which signed a peace agreement in 1979, and Jordan, which signed a
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treaty in 1994. It could reorder the long stalemate in the region, potentially leading other Arab nations
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to follow suit in forging an increasingly explicit alliance with Israel against their mutual enemy
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in Iran, while taking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's explosive annexation plan off the table,
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at least for now." That's a big deal. The United Arab Emirates, you know, that's the place with Dubai,
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right? With Abu Dhabi. It's the most liberal, most progressive, most modern, most western parts of
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Arabia. You know, the Burj Khalifa, that's the tallest tower in the world. That place. They just made a deal
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with Israel. Here's a pretty cool tweet by Netanyahu about it. I'll sort of translate. He basically
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says, the United Arab Emirates is one of the most powerful and advanced countries in the world. As you
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can see, it is also one of the most beautiful places in the world. Yesterday, we made peace for
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peace. And he says that in Arabic and Hebrew. Salam Aleikum, Shalom Aleikum. I thought that was pretty cool.
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And now I see that not only will there be direct flights between Tel Aviv and Dubai,
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but there are negotiations that those flights would pass over Saudi Arabia. I think that's
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pretty incredible. Look at this. In the Globe and Mail, Israel says that other moderate Gulf states
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are next in line. Oman, Bahrain. These are more moderate Gulf states that share the UAE's general
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outlook and know that Iran is a great threat to all of them. And Israel is the best counterweight to that.
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And they also don't know why their ties to Israel should be held up because of intransigence
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on the part of the PLO or Hamas, which keeps sabotaging peace deals with Israel, who reject
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peace deals every time they get offered. You see things like this. Netanyahu being interviewed live
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on Arabic satellite TV. In this case, the interviewer was speaking Arabic. Netanyahu was getting a
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translation, answering in English, and they had a translator in Arabic. But the questions were
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genuine interview questions, not anti-Semitic harangues. Both sides seem eager and excited.
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Peace, prosperity, getting over a hatred. You know, it takes energy to stay mad. Why would Israel and Dubai
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have any reason to be mad at each other? Why? Because Hamas or Iran wants them to?
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Oh, look at this. Iran and Turkey, which are both Islamist, hate this deal. For some reason,
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China likes it. I don't quite know why. I see that Israel is in talks with the U.S. about
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banning Huawei, and that's good news. So look, I'm excited. Wouldn't it be great if
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peace broke out? It's so unthinkable. You'll notice in the New York Times piece,
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they say they were surprised by the announcement. Trump managed to do this huge deal.
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And so did Israel and the UAE without any media leaks. That is very surprising, isn't it?
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I see hints that other African countries might join too. There are Muslim countries in Africa,
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of course. Did Donald Trump just get a big Middle East peace deal? Did he get the
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deal of the century? Not just some PR announcement, but a real deal? Maybe, as Netanyahu described it,
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it was peace for peace, not peace for land or peace for cash. Both sides want the same thing.
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They want peace. It's true Israel says it won't annex Palestinian territories,
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but Israel has not annexed those territories since Israel recaptured them in the war of 1967. So if
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Israel hasn't felt the need to change their name in the past 53 years, I don't think that's
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an onerous concession for Israel to make. I think it's peace for peace. And the promise not to annex
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helps the deal go down more sweetly in the Arab streets. That's fine by me. Look at this tweet
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by a senior Muslim Imam in the UAE. He said, the happiness of the Israeli people with the peace
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agreement shocked me. I was not expecting it. The peoples want peace. Now, I think that's funny because
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you got to imagine the misinformation, the mistrust that he actually thought Israel didn't want peace.
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He believed that, and he's shocked that they do. Now the countries can talk. They can actually visit
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each other. They can do business with each other. They can live a little bit more like neighbors now.
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I read more from that Muslim Imam. He's based, I think, in Abu Dhabi, which is the capital of the UAE.
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He's got more than a million and a half followers on Twitter. So he's a bit of a big deal in the UAE.
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Here's a few more of his comments. Let me just read a few of them. His name is Wasim Youssef.
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He says, here he is, he's mad that Al Jazeera was criticizing the deal. He was hurt by Al Jazeera.
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Of course he was. Here he is, startled that Jewish Israelis were putting up UAE flags while Palestinians
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were burning UAE flags, calling the UAE sellouts. He can't believe what he's seeing. He said,
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when I saw the flag of my country being burned by some Palestinians because of the peace treaty with
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Israel, I apologize to every Israeli man if you offended him in the past.
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This guy's like the Billy Graham of the UAE in terms of size and influence, I think, from what I can
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find. He was thrilled the peace deal, but just as much he's furious that there are those who want no
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peace for the UAE for their own reasons. I think his reaction is a really good sign. There really are
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moderate Muslim leaders in the world, I think. Tell me that's not good news for everyone. It's not just
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good news for Israel. But alas, besides Iran and Turkey and the PLO hating this deal, you guessed it,
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the anti-Trump, anti-Israel clique in the West hates it, so obviously the CBC hates it. Look at
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this hilarious headline. It's in the CBC. Bahrain-Oman could be next to normalize relations with Israel.
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Sure, fine, but Saudi Arabia? Not so fast. You know what said it would happen fast? No one even
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mention that, but here's the CBC. They're trying to find a downside here. I mean, because their guy,
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Barack Hussein Obama, lit the fire on the Middle East, burned the place down, brought back open
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air slave markets in Libya, let ISIS run unimpeded for four years. The CBC can't be happy that Trump
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has achieved what their Marxist hero couldn't. Look at how the CBCs show that The National treated this
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huge, huge deal. Lighting up City Hall in Tel Aviv tonight, the blue and white of Israel,
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and as well, the green, white, black and red of the United Arab Emirates.
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Just a few moments ago, I hosted a very special call with two friends.
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Donald Trump with the surprise announcement this morning.
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After 49 years, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations.
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Trump's call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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and UAE's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed is said to have sealed the deal.
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This is the greatest advancements toward peace between Israel and the Arab world
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in the last 26 years. Israel struck a peace accord with Egypt in 79 and with Jordan in 1994,
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but most other Arab countries have failed to recognize Israel. Until now, says Trump. Stay tuned.
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Now that the ice has been broken, I expect more Arab and Muslim countries will follow the United
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Arab Emirates lead. A key part of the agreement, Israel will suspend plans to annex chunks of
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Palestinian territory in the West Bank. In return, Israel gets that long-wanted recognition from another
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Arab country. Then there's Iran. Along with the U.S., both Israel and the UAE see that country
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as a constant threat. The deal strengthens opposition against Iran within the region.
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But Palestinians quickly turned thumbs down on all of it. A government spokesman
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today calling it a betrayal. Palestinians have long urged Arab countries to steer clear of Israel
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until Israel agrees to lasting peace with Palestinians.
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For Donald Trump, it's a big foreign policy achievement, just as his re-election campaign
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is set to begin in earnest. Low in the polls, he seemed happy with how it's all playing out.
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And Paul, speaking of the election, Trump is continuing to weigh in on how he thinks voting will
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actually play out. Yeah, it's all about how to actually conduct the vote in November.
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What was that? Two and a half minutes or so? Maybe three? And no questions from the generic CBC anchor.
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He couldn't wait to move off Trump's diplomatic triumph into the weird democratic talking points
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about postal ballots. He literally didn't have a moment's interest in the biggest peace deal of
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the last generation. He couldn't care less because Trump was the guy. I wonder if he would have been so
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quick to brush it off. I don't know if it were his hero or Obama. And did you hear that one line by
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Paul Hunter? Palestinians have long urged Arab countries to steer clear of Israel until Israel
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So the CBC is saying that the problem in the Middle East has been that Israel just won't give the
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Palestinians the promise of lasting peace. That's the problem, guys. You know, the PLO, Hamas,
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they really, really want peace, guys. It's just, what can they do? Israel just won't give it to them.
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Is that actually true? Sure it is in the fake news. Just like the Nobel Peace Prize fake committee,
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they'll probably give the peace prize to Barack Obama again. Or maybe they'll give it to the PLO.
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Yeah, no, we've just had a major peace deal. And it was done by Donald Trump. And it looks like it's
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real and sustainable and it could grow. And it's based on mutual interest, not temporary arm twisting.
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I'd say the president, give the president his Nobel Peace Prize. But why would you want to give him such a
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sullied partisan award? Stay with us for more on this with Joel Pollack.
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And joining us now to talk about the big news of the week. Well, I guess there's a couple of big
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news items. Kamala Harris being chosen, Joe Biden's running mate. But I want to talk about something
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that I think is the largest news maybe of the year. I can't say it's the biggest news of the year. It's
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been such a momentous year for news. But I'm talking about Donald Trump's peace plan
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that he negotiated between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. And it seems soon to come other
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Gulf states, Bahrain, Oman, and some African countries. Our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor
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at large at Breitbart.com. Joel, I didn't think a deal like this could be done. I was skeptical. I mean,
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Trump likes to talk superlatively. He wants to do the deal of the century. I thought he's going to
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give everything away. In the end, it was truly a peace for peace deal. It wasn't a PLO style land for
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peace, cash for peace. I think this is a real deal. It looks like it is. And it was particularly
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interesting because we have been told for four years that Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy
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doesn't work, that he's too mean to our allies, that he has no clout on the world stage, that America's
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leadership is fading. And this deal proves all of that wrong. First of all, he's respected by our
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allies, by Israel and by the United Arab Emirates. He has tremendous clout. He's able to get these two
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countries which have never had diplomatic relations to come together and really break new ground in
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Middle Eastern relations. And he's respected on the world stage. This would not have happened if
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Donald Trump hadn't been respected as a dealmaker. And it was the peace process he laid out in January
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that created a framework for this. And that peace process was maligned by the New York Times and the
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Washington Post and the Democrats and CNN. They said it was one-sided. It only favored Israel. No.
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All it did was take away the veto that Palestinians have over the process. It allows for a Palestinian
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state, but it says that they have to meet certain requirements. And it also says they're not going
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to be able to stop the process. Peace in the Middle East goes on whether they want it to or not. And
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that's the genius of the Trump administration's approach. And it's worked. And it's basically taking
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the foreign policy argument off the table for Joe Biden and the Democrats, because everything Biden and his
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advisors believed about the Middle East was wrong. The Iran deal was a failure. Appeasing terrorists
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didn't work. And standing strong with Israel didn't antagonize the Arab world. It merely showed who
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Israel's potential partners really were. And this is a tremendous, tremendous deal and a big success
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for the Trump administration and for the United States. I think it's very exciting. And I like the
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friendly, positive, person-to-person type spirit that has already been shown in the last few days.
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I love when Netanyahu ran a video basically encouraging Israelis to do tourism in Dubai.
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I mean, he really romanced the United Emirates as a great place to go. And you know, flying from
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Tel Aviv to Dubai, that's a pretty short flight. I bet that's going to become incredibly popular,
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sort of like people, oh, let's go to Vegas for the weekend. I think it's going to be very popular.
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You read my mind. It's like LA to Vegas. No, that's exactly what it'll be. It'll be
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a commercial route that's well-traveled, one that connects Europe to Asia through the Middle East,
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where Tel Aviv and Dubai form a kind of commercial hub together. And you combine Israeli innovation
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and high tech and business management and financial clout with Dubai's energy contacts and its
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commercial and retail side and its recreational opportunities. You have an amazing opportunity
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for tremendous wealth to be created for the people of the region. And the other states are not going to
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want to be left behind. So they're going to want to be included in this. And that's why you're going to
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see other Gulf states come forward and do the same thing that the UAE has done.
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It remains to be seen what happens in the election in November. And I do think that we're going to take
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several steps backward if Biden wins, because he has said he wants to go back to the Iran deal.
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But one good thing about this deal is it's very hard to undo. Biden's not going to be able to roll
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back peace between Israel and the UAE. And in fact, Trump has shown Biden and the Democrats there is
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actually a better way than the one Obama and Biden were trying. The better way is simply to be strong
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and to be strong, stand with our allies and not commit resources to the Middle East that we can't
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deliver, not state red lines like we did with Syria under Obama and Biden, and then not enforce them,
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not to promise the Iraqi people protection and then fail to negotiate a deal as Biden did in 2011. So
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the Obama administration and Joe Biden's role in that foreign policy is fast becoming a very bitter
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memory. And there is a danger we'd go back to it. But this deal has been so successful,
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maybe it's even a wake up call for the Democrats who've realized that Trump's way of approaching
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foreign policy does actually work. That placing America's interests first tends to align things in
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our direction and in a positive direction. Whereas apologizing for America, appeasing Iran and trying
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to set up some other sort of hegemon in the Middle East to replace us is just a recipe for disaster.
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Yeah. You know, I've been looking at individual United Arab Emirates Twitter personalities. I know that's
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that's not a real proxy for the people on the street, but if you're an influencer
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in the UAE and it's been very positive. In fact, I think some of them were startled that Israel was
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so friendly and that Israel really wanted this. I think even to see Arab language satellite TV stations
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ask Netanyahu fairly good faith questions, this feels like a warmer peace than that between Israel
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and Egypt or even Israel and Jordan. They have had peace deals for years or decades. But this actually
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feels like maybe more like minded people, like maybe the people of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as you say, are
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high energy. Let's go do it. Let's not take no for an answer. Let's make the desert bloom like that.
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That's one of Israel's sort of mottos, make the desert bloom, drain the swamp, you know,
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actually turn sand into a livable place. That's what Dubai did, too. It took a nothing place
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and made it quite a something. There are some cultural, energetic, entrepreneurial similarities,
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maybe even more so than between Israel and its past two Arab peace partners.
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Yeah, I think this is going to be a warm peace. I think that the other interesting thing about Dubai
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is it's an international hub already. It's not provincial. It's not mired in the politics of
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the Arab world or the Muslim world. Although it is an Arab and Muslim state, it is also heavily
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populated by people from all over the world who come there to work. Americans, South Africans,
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Indians, people come from all over the world. And Dubai is an international capital, not quite at the
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level of New York or London, but they certainly see themselves getting there. And I think they look
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at Israel as part of that cosmopolitan approach. And they would like to do it in their own way.
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They would like to have a cosmopolitanism with an Islamic or Arab flavor. And I think they'll get
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there. And the only way to do it was to make peace with Israel. I think they kept running into problems
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over and over again of international events that were complicated in Dubai because they were excluding
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Israelis, like Israeli tennis players or chess players. And eventually they stopped doing that.
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And you've seen a similar move in other places in the Gulf, where they've stopped enforcing some of
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their discriminatory laws against Israelis, which amount to basically discriminating against Jews.
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So I think Dubai is sincere. I think Israelis will love Dubai. I can just imagine the lines at the
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duty-free shopping counters in the Dubai airport now when the Israelis discover that they can go there.
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So I think it's going to be a really interesting cultural exchange. And it's wonderful news for the future.
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Yeah. It's really hard to deal with good news. I mean, it's so alien. I don't,
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I can't think of any, I was saying that this is the biggest news story of 2020. That's probably not
00:26:28.440
true, but maybe it's the biggest good news story of 2020. Right. So far, so far. That's right. I mean,
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hopefully there'll be more. I don't want to keep you too much longer because I know how busy you are,
00:26:38.680
but give me a couple of words on Kamala Harris. I remember when you and I were talking,
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oh, about a year ago about the race and you thought that she had a real chance to be the nominee.
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She flamed out. She was murdered in a way by Tulsi Gabbard in one of the debates, I recall. Boy,
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did she fade fast. But look at her now, vice president and a heartbeat away from being president
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if the Democrats win. Like she's, she's had a real comeback. I mean, obviously there's that little
00:27:07.640
thing called an election in the way, but boy, she's had a renaissance. Yeah, she has. And she's a good
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vice presidential candidate for Joe Biden for the same reasons she was a good presidential candidate
00:27:19.800
on paper. She checks all the boxes in terms of identity politics. She's a member of the progressive
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left, but she served as a prosecutor, which gives Democrats an excuse to call her a moderate. Although,
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funny enough, she was on the campaign trail for a year running for president and no one ever called
00:27:35.240
her a moderate then. But they're able to squeeze her into whatever box they want. I don't think
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she's a very good politician. She ran one of the worst campaigns in history. I don't think she'd be
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a good manager of anything. The pattern in her career is whenever she has a little bit of a power,
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she abuses it. And I don't think she adds much to the ticket in terms of bringing actual moderate
00:27:55.080
or independent voters across. I think she's there to appease the progressive base, which is
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uncomfortable with Joe Biden, who's not a moderate, but he's not a socialist either. And the action is
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all on the socialist side right now. He's also an old white guy with some ailing faculties. And I think
00:28:12.920
the progressive left, which is the source of energy right now in the Democratic Party,
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really feels like they deserved to have Bernie Sanders or someone like that on the top of the
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ticket. Kamala Harris is not exactly beloved by the Bernie Sanders progressive base, but they'll take
00:28:28.360
her. It's better than some of the alternatives. And so I think this was a pick designed to cement
00:28:34.520
party unity. And the Democrats are going to try to run a turn out the base type of election. They're
00:28:40.040
not really appealing to independents. They'll try. I mean, you'll hear Republicans obscure, by the way,
00:28:45.080
obscure has been Republicans endorsing Joe Biden, but it's not really fooling anyone. They're not really
00:28:51.240
appealing to anyone but their core constituency. And likewise with Republicans. I mean, Trump is basically
00:28:56.280
appealing to the Trump fans and the independents are quietly going to make their choice.
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I don't think either parties really got them, at least publicly, but I think you have to think that
00:29:06.680
the unrest in the cities has pushed many independent voters back toward Donald Trump in the last few
00:29:12.040
months. Yeah, I've heard that's happening in even in Washington state in some of the rural and smaller
00:29:17.320
towns. People are saying, whoa, we don't like what's going on in the cities. Let me show one super quick
00:29:21.720
clip to you. This is from Stephen Colbert, who is interviewing Kamala Harris and and said, well,
00:29:28.040
what about you calling him? Well, I mean, basically, Kamala Harris called out Joe Biden very stringently,
00:29:37.160
accusing him of racism, of of being either a sexual harasser himself or blind to women who
00:29:45.480
were targeted that way. And she just laughed it off. Here, take a quick look at this clip.
00:29:49.960
Because in those debates, you landed haymakers on Joe Biden. I mean, they were his teeth were like
00:29:57.320
chicklets all over the stage. And now I believe you that you're fully supportive of him. How does
00:30:03.080
that transition happen? How do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles
00:30:10.200
for you? And now you guys seem to be pals? It was a debate. Not everybody landed punches like you did,
00:30:22.840
though. It was a debate. So you don't mean it. It was a debate that the whole reason, literally,
00:30:31.480
it was a debate. It was called a debate. Everyone traveled to the debate. There were journalists
00:30:38.280
there covering the debate where there would be a debate. That laughter, that's just that reminded me
00:30:43.800
of Hillary Clinton. I don't know what the laughing was about, but I don't think she answered it just
00:30:47.960
saying, oh, it was a debate. I think that looked awful. But did that excuse work? It seemed to work with
00:30:55.080
Stephen Colbert. I think it works because it's honest. I think she is explaining that she said
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what she needed to say for political reasons. And that's exactly what it was. And that's who she is.
00:31:08.120
She will do and say anything to get ahead. That's Kamala Harris. I think it was a rare moment of
00:31:13.400
honesty. She's basically saying, hey, I was playing the game. That's how the game is played. You attack
00:31:17.320
your opponent in the primary and then you come together in the general. I don't think that sort of
00:31:20.760
thing is going to trip her up. What will trip her up is the sense of her character that
00:31:25.000
people have, that she basically is an abusive personality in public office. And we've seen
00:31:29.480
that. We've seen with the way she's treated Brett Kavanaugh, the way she tried to compare ICE agents
00:31:34.280
to the Ku Klux Klan, the way she prosecuted an anti-abortion filmmaker, the only person ever to be
00:31:40.120
prosecuted under California's laws against surreptitious recording. He was basically doing
00:31:46.360
investigative journalism, which everybody else does. But he's the only person ever charged with this
00:31:50.680
crime. And she also tried to expose the donors of conservative organizations. She's basically
00:31:57.000
abused her power. And as Rudy Giuliani said it very memorably, this is a clip you might want to
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find. She's a bully. And she went after little people and ignored big people when she was a
00:32:08.200
prosecutor. And that's who she is. Right. And that's a great point because Rudy Giuliani,
00:32:12.920
he went after the biggest people he could find. He took down the mob in New York.
00:32:16.040
Joel Pollack, great to catch up with you. Thanks so much for this. Such interesting times. We're
00:32:20.520
going to appreciate you giving us a moment of your time. Thanks so much. All right,
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there you have it. Joel Pollack, senior editor at large at Breitbart.com. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:32:40.840
Hey, welcome back. On our show Friday, introducing all our new talent, John writes,
00:32:44.920
great additions. All I'm very happy with the fighting a rebel spirit in each of them,
00:32:49.880
as well as the existing team. Keep fighting for freedom. Thank you. You know, I really enjoy the team
00:32:55.640
spirit and the fact that it's not just one or two guys and gals. It's a whole team of us. There's so
00:33:02.040
many stories to cover. It's such a big country in such a big world. We really do need all hands on deck.
00:33:07.480
Of course, it costs money, which is why we're always crowdfunding. But look, that's a better way to do it
00:33:12.620
rather than ask for money from Justin Trudeau, like our competitors do, right? Paul writes,
00:33:18.140
great team building. I like the new members. Well, I'm glad you do. I like to see them in action.
00:33:23.660
And I can hardly wait to when we put our new teammates on adventures. You know what I mean
00:33:28.700
by that? Send them on missions, maybe do a story even overseas. I mean, right now the pandemic has got
00:33:34.540
us all locked down. But you'll recall, for example, Sheila Gunn-Reed always goes to the UN
00:33:38.860
global warming conference every year, wherever that is. She went to Madrid, Spain with Kian last
00:33:43.660
time. And so I'm excited about taking our new talent and seeing them operate in different
00:33:49.820
terrain. Anyways, there's a lot of stories ahead for us to cover. I'm really glad you like the new
00:33:54.300
folks. And that's it for today. Until tomorrow. Until I see you again, on behalf of all, let's see
00:34:01.020
you at Rebel World Headquarters to UNO. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.