The Canadian Armed Forces drafted a 15-page propaganda plan to demonize Trudeau's critics and strengthen the Liberal Party's narrative. You can see the entire document on our website, where you can also see the words on the document.
00:24:06.560But then a tyrant in a state called Victoria decided he wanted to go full Beijing dictator against his own people using, in that case, the police.
00:24:07.180But plans, not plans to physically smash dissidents like in Australia, but plans to go to war against citizens nonetheless, to smash opposition ideas, to denormalize them.
00:26:35.100The moment Jared Kushner gave His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain a Torah scroll for a synagogue in Bahrain.
00:26:51.160And you can see Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and advisor on various things, including the Middle East,
00:26:56.600giving a Jewish Torah to the King of Bahrain, who not only accepted it, but consented to this photo being published.
00:27:08.000This is the opposite of the cold peace with Egypt and Jordan and the false peace with the PLO that's always broken.
00:28:11.120One of the things that Jared Kushner has done in arranging these agreements is to couch them in the shared monotheism of the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worlds.
00:28:23.980And that's why they called these peace agreements the Abraham Accords.
00:28:30.840They have a synagogue, and several months ago there were religious services in the synagogue.
00:28:37.740They also, about a decade ago, had an ambassador, a diplomat, I believe to the United States, who was a Jewish woman who lived in Bahrain.
00:28:46.660Now, it's a very small country, and it's not a very sizable Jewish community, but they've shown an openness to the presence of that community before.
00:29:22.640But the idea was to couch this all in a kind of spirit of cooperation.
00:29:28.060And I think that was a very effective way, at least of framing these agreements and explaining their significance to the broader world, particularly to Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East and beyond, who might initially be skeptical of normalization of Israel.
00:29:43.340This does create at least some kind of framework where this becomes understandable beyond the national interests and economic interests of the countries involved.
00:29:52.220Well, what strikes me as so different here is we know that Israel has always had secret and private communications and even deals with countries.
00:30:02.420They have common enemies, Iran, for example.
00:30:04.780They would share intelligence on the downloads.
00:30:07.320But the public messaging for public consumption in the Muslim world, the Arab world, was always hostile, even anti-Semitic.
00:30:17.240Even in Egypt, they would run a massive TV series on the anti-Semitic forgery, you know, about Jews poisoning wells or Jews making matzah with the blood of Gentile, like extreme, extreme protocols of the elders of Zion, anti-Semitism.
00:30:35.940Like that was standard fare for the Arab street by these dictators.
00:30:43.000I see on Twitter Muslim religious leaders in the UAE fighting against people who would try and come between them and Israel and saying, you, I would stand with a Jew before I stand with you.
00:30:55.700Like it's, it's so, I mean, it may be political, but it's so public and they're embracing it for good and for bad.
00:31:04.040This is something I have never seen in my entire life.
00:31:20.360It's a center of innovation and it's a center of investment.
00:31:24.680So for the UAE to gain access to Tel Aviv really means gaining access to the West in a broader sense.
00:31:32.620Dubai has always been, or not always, I should say for the last 10 to 20 years, has been a commercial center and has developed its own economy separate from the energy industry, which has been very important.
00:31:44.320But they really want to partner and cooperate with Israel in a deeper sense.
00:31:50.040And they understand that working with Israel is a bridge to the West in Silicon Valley, the West in Wall Street.
00:31:59.940These are avenues that were to some degree open, but not fully open for Israel.
00:32:05.980Well, it's gaining a whole new set of partners through Dubai, not just in the Middle East, but keeping in mind that Dubai is a place where a lot of African companies and workers go to invest, to do business, to shop.
00:32:18.620Likewise with Asia, Israelis can now fly directly through Dubai when they want to go to Thailand, when they want to go backpacking in Kathmandu or whatever it is.
00:32:29.020But Israel now has a more direct connection to the Far East.
00:32:33.320So this is really an incredible partnership, and I think we'll see it develop over the next 10 years, this Tel Aviv-Dubai partnership.
00:32:41.540It's technically a Jerusalem-Abu Dhabi partnership.
00:32:44.620And when I was on Al Jazeera earlier today, that's how they referred to it.
00:32:49.220They referred to it as Tel Aviv-Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi being the capital of the UAE and Tel Aviv being the only capital they'll recognize in Israel at the moment.
00:32:57.640But it really is a Tel Aviv-Dubai partnership.
00:33:00.080It's the economy of Tel Aviv and the economy of Dubai that are going to create this massive prosperity that the entire region and the world really are going to benefit from.
00:33:10.400And so I think that there's a forward-thinking leadership that's been quiet for a long time in the Muslim world but is responding to calls like President Sisi in Egypt who gave a speech in the Al-Azhar mosque a few years ago calling on Muslims to turn against radicalism and saying that terrorism was anti-Islamic.
00:33:32.900And saying it from, I believe, one of the oldest existing mosques in the Islamic world, there is and has been this undercurrent of different thinking that's been overshadowed by Al-Qaeda, overshadowed by ISIS, overshadowed by Iran.
00:33:45.760And now suddenly the forces for progress in the non-political sense, just the general sense of development and prosperity, they're having a moment in the sun and maybe it can be extended indefinitely if it works out.
00:34:01.000Hey, let me read you a couple of tweets from Andrew Neal, who I regard as the leading journalist in the United Kingdom.
00:34:08.080He's a great Scot and he's the publisher of The Spectator.
00:34:11.740He said something that I hadn't heard of before.
00:34:13.640I didn't think of it before because I'm coming from my point of view, a Canadian, a Westerner, a conservative, a Jew, etc.
00:34:20.540But listen to what he said about how Muslims are embracing this.
00:34:40.360Since 9-11, Muslims across the world have been on the defensive.
00:34:44.780I saw the suspicion of Muslims in the eyes of American officials.
00:34:49.220It always boiled down to show us peace in Islam.
00:34:53.980Now with visionary accord between UAE and Israel, a new horizon is opening up to reinstate Muslim dignity by showing peace between peoples.
00:35:03.100We can now say a new way of coexistence is achievable.
00:35:06.780We are not pawns for the mullahs of Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:35:09.860So it's about Muslims saying, you said you wanted peace.
00:35:33.260You can't pose with Jared Kushner taking a Jewish Torah for a synagogue without making people say, you know what, this guy might actually believe in peace.
00:35:44.440Yeah, I think that feeling is going to be quite widespread, and I think that that's the end of the bargain that the West has to fulfill, that Israel has to fulfill, the United States has to fulfill.
00:35:57.280This ought to change perceptions of the Muslim world, provided it continues, provided it can keep rolling on, because it's obviously still a work in progress.
00:36:07.620And the one holdout, of course, is the Palestinian Authority.
00:36:10.340They condemned these peace agreements, and so did Iran.
00:36:14.420And there are still elements in the Muslim world, of course, that are rejecting this kind of move.
00:36:21.160It does change your perspective, I think, of the Islamic world if you understand there isn't some lingering hatred that it's harboring for some part of the West or for all of the West, but even for just some part of the West like Israel.
00:36:35.620As long as that issue remains, it's very hard to develop a full and authentic kind of understanding.
00:36:44.080But once you see these leaders embracing one another and looking toward the future, I do think everything is possible.
00:37:11.560It was absolutely excoriating about poverty and inequality and poor education and underdevelopment.
00:37:17.640And it was taken up by Arab intellectuals, and they weren't trying to write it off as the product of Islamophobia or prejudice.
00:37:26.820They felt it was an authentic indictment of their failure as a civilization, really, to bring the Arab world, to bring their countrymen and countrywomen into the 21st century.
00:37:38.200And what you're seeing now may be the result of a generation that has come of age in the shadow of that report, where they have decided, at least in some of the countries, to move beyond the energy industry, to move toward developing a middle class, to move toward education.
00:37:56.240And the obvious leapfrog way to get there is to partner with Israel, because Israel has experience in building a country literally out of nothing.
00:38:08.360It's part of the West, but it has cultural competence in the Middle East.
00:38:12.10020% of Israelis are Arabs, and many Jews in Israel speak Arabic and come originally from Muslim countries.
00:38:18.460So there's a natural nexus, a kind of synergy there, if I can use that buzzword.
00:38:23.800And so I think you are going to see things develop by leaps and bounds in the Arab world, because there's such a huge interest now on both sides.
00:38:31.780And it's represented by these two commercial capitals, by Tel Aviv and Dubai.
00:38:36.960And I can tell you just from personal experience, I know many people who until now would not have flown Emirates, even if it's a great airline and it's cheaper than the others on whatever route you want to fly.
00:38:48.200People did not want to subsidize Emirates because they had a policy of excluding Israelis from their country.
00:38:55.800There were some chess tournaments and tennis tournaments where Israeli competitors were not allowed into the country.
00:39:01.060All that began to change a few years ago during the Trump administration.
00:39:04.540And now you have commercial flights being booked between Tel Aviv and Dubai, and it's opened up a world.
00:39:12.300Maybe it's just a few people who felt that way who would have avoided Emirates, but there's a stigma that's going to fade around the countries that come on board with this peace deal.
00:39:21.320And so I think you may see a rush of other countries to get involved.
00:39:25.080I saw in Al Jazeera today, Qatar is not going to get involved.
00:39:29.060Remember, they funded the Muslim Brotherhood for many years.
00:39:31.040They also contribute to Hamas, so they may not be on board.
00:39:35.060But Oman is thought to be coming on board.
00:39:37.000Saudi Arabia may eventually come on board.
00:39:39.440And then what's also interesting is Iran is the obstacle to peace in the region.
00:39:45.760But the choice is now being presented to the Iranian people in a very real way.
00:39:50.720Do you want to be part of this or do you want to oppose this?
00:39:54.320And the constituency for peace is going to grow exponentially as the benefits of this deal come forward.
00:39:59.800So what Trump has done, which is interesting, is say very emphatically to the Iranian people, I don't actually care about regime change, which shocks the foreign policy establishment on the right in the United States because conservatives have assumed you can only make progress in Iran if you get rid of the regime.
00:40:17.600Trump says, I'm indifferent to your regime.
00:40:19.400I just don't want you to be fighting everybody.
00:40:21.240I'm ready to make a deal with you after the election.
00:42:25.380Well, I think Americans do care, and the reason Americans care is that this comes during a week when there are peace negotiations between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan in Doha.
00:42:39.360And remember, these negotiations were called off six months ago after there was an attack that killed Americans in Kabul.
00:42:46.120And Trump angrily, if you remember, withdrew from the negotiations and said, we are not negotiating under fire.
00:42:52.680And it looks like the Taliban got the message.
00:42:54.660So if that agreement goes through, that's going to allow Trump to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
00:42:59.500So Americans aren't particularly interested in the Middle East.
00:43:02.100They're really uninterested in sending troops to the Middle East.
00:43:05.240But if you combine troop withdrawals with diplomatic advances, that's something that people like a lot.
00:43:12.740You couple that with the successful war against ISIS, the killing last year, almost a year ago, of Baghdadi, al-Baghdadi, who's the so-called caliph of the Islamic State.
00:43:23.700You combine that military progress with this diplomatic progress, plus the withdrawal.
00:43:29.660That is something Americans care about.
00:43:31.800It's basically the fulfillment of a promise that Trump made in 2015, 2016, not to get into what he called, quote-unquote, stupid wars, but also to knock out the terrorists and to try for what he called the deal of the century.
00:43:43.220There's still some way to go before that final deal is achieved.
00:43:46.540But this is certainly a necessary precondition, getting Arab states to create the environment for peace by recognizing Israel and offering normalization.
00:43:55.500And I think this is a sign, hopefully, of things to come.