Rebel News Podcast - August 18, 2020


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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00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. You know, a huge peace deal was done, but you wouldn't know it because,
00:00:03.900 of course, the author of the deal was Donald Trump. And there's no way we can give him any
00:00:09.000 credit. Just pretend that he didn't solve the Arab-Israeli crisis. Well, I'll show you what 0.68
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00:00:56.620 Tonight, a massive peace deal in the Middle East, but Donald Trump negotiated it. So it's
00:01:04.320 not news. It's August 17th. This is the Ezra LeVance Show.
00:01:09.740 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:13.480 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:17.580 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publishing, is because it's my bloody
00:01:22.420 right to do so. You remember that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? He won it
00:01:32.500 immediately after he was elected. He hadn't done anything yet. I mean, he was nominated in the first
00:01:39.400 weeks of his presidency. He just didn't do anything peace-ish. He won the Nobel Prize because, you know,
00:01:46.360 he was a Democrat and a black man. And those are two good reasons for the Nobel Peace Prize
00:01:50.520 Committee, which, just to remind you, isn't some high-flute and blue-ribbon panel. It's not like
00:01:55.500 the Nobel Prize for chemistry or physics, where you have to be the best chemist or the best physicist.
00:02:01.620 It's literally five people appointed by the left-wing Norwegian parliament. That's who chooses who gets
00:02:07.040 the Nobel Peace Prize, seriously. So it would be like if Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna handpicked
00:02:12.040 the person. If they had any self-awareness, they would have rescinded Obama's award and demanded it back.
00:02:18.120 In his tenure, he toppled Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, which not only lit northern Africa on fire,
00:02:24.780 it also gave a new breeding ground for terrorists, reopened the ancient slave trade, and of course 0.51
00:02:30.620 started a massive refugee rush across the Mediterranean into Europe. Obama oversaw the
00:02:36.100 bloody Arab Spring, which gave Islamists control of Egypt, at least until the people revolted against
00:02:42.760 Obama's friends in the Muslim Brotherhood. Syria caught fire. ISIS became a de facto nation. 0.92
00:02:48.660 I actually can't think of a bloodier time since World War II. Imagine giving that guy a Nobel Peace
00:02:54.860 Prize. Here's the Council of Foreign Relations, just to give you some stats. On January 23, 2009,
00:03:02.060 just three days into his presidency, President Obama authorized his first kinetic military action,
00:03:07.780 two drone strikes, three hours apart, in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed as many as 20 civilians.
00:03:14.600 Two terms and 540 strikes later, Obama leaves the White House after having vastly expanding and
00:03:20.940 normalizing the use of armed drones for counter-terrorism and close air support operations in
00:03:26.760 non-battlefield settings, namely Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. Now, I'm not anti-drone. I'd rather fight the
00:03:34.860 bad guys over there than over here. I'd rather fight the bad guys without risking the lives of
00:03:39.580 Canadian or American men and women in planes or helicopters. I'm just saying Mr. Nobel Peace Prize
00:03:45.660 used drones seven times more frequently than that bad guy George W. Bush. Obama loved war,
00:03:52.560 mainly in places that no American had been to or heard of or knew anything about. Sort of like Trudeau
00:03:58.460 sending our troops to Mali for peacekeeping. No cheating, without Googling. Can you tell me on the
00:04:04.180 map where Mali is? Yeah, don't feel bad, neither can Trudeau. But he's the peace guy, you see.
00:04:10.500 Anyways, Trump is the opposite. You know, he's had fights with his generals, with his first Secretary
00:04:16.100 of Defense, precisely because he wanted to extricate America from foreign wars, and the generals didn't.
00:04:22.740 America didn't go to war against Syria, which is what Hillary Clinton said she would do if she were
00:04:27.840 president. She said she'd even shoot down Russian planes flying in Syria. 0.97
00:04:32.260 If you impose a no-fly zone, first of all, how do you respond to their concerns? Secondly,
00:04:37.220 if you impose a no-fly zone and a Russian plane violates that, does President Clinton shoot that
00:04:42.220 plane down? Well, Chris, first of all, I think a no-fly zone could save lives and could hasten the
00:04:48.660 end of the conflict. I am well aware of the really legitimate concerns that you have expressed from both
00:04:54.200 the president and the general. This would not be done just on the first day. This would take a lot
00:05:00.760 of negotiation. It would also take making it clear to the Russians and the Syrians that our purpose here
00:05:06.440 was to provide safe zones on the ground. We've had millions of people leave Syria, and those millions of
00:05:13.560 people inside Syria who've been dislocated. So I think we could strike a deal and make it very clear
00:05:21.320 to the Russians and the Syrians that this was something that we believe was in the best interests 0.99
00:05:26.520 of the people on the ground in Syria. It would help us with our fight against ISIS.
00:05:30.520 Yeah, that's crazy. Trump is pulling out, pulling back. He's even pulling out of Europe,
00:05:37.400 making them pay their own way. I love it. He's pretty much the opposite of a warmonger.
00:05:41.720 And he hasn't gone to war with Iran, even though he doesn't like Iran like Obama.
00:05:46.280 He didn't send billions of dollars to Iran in pallets of cash like Obama. I don't know if it's
00:05:51.080 working, his whole approach to North Korea. But it's been quite an effort of Trump's to make peace
00:05:58.200 there better than anyone else has done. My point is, Trump isn't a dangerous cowboy he was accused
00:06:04.280 of being. He certainly killed fewer foreigners and Americans than Obama did or Hillary Clinton
00:06:09.320 would have. And now this, the biggest surprise of all, at least to me, I didn't think it would
00:06:14.760 ever happen. I remember Trump bragging about doing the biggest peace deal, the biggest deal,
00:06:19.320 the deal of the century, he called it, in the Middle East. And I thought, you know, some deals can't be
00:06:24.360 done. Those folks have been fighting literally since biblical times. But look at this. Look at this.
00:06:32.440 Here's the news in the New York Times. I chose this paper because they're really Trump's biggest enemy.
00:06:37.800 And they're not particularly a fan of Israel either. But they just couldn't help but admit
00:06:42.200 the obvious. This was a massive deal. Let me quote,
00:06:46.440 Israel and United Arab Emirates strike major diplomatic agreement. President Trump announced that Israel
00:06:52.520 and the United Arab Emirates would establish, quote, full normalization of relations. And then in
00:06:57.400 exchange, Israel would forgo for now, declaring sovereignty over occupied West Bank territory.
00:07:04.360 They put four reporters on the story with the byline. And they had four other reporters who they
00:07:10.600 credited for researching it. So the New York Times put eight staff on this story. That's incredible.
00:07:17.640 It's a huge story. I won't even go into it other than can I just read a little bit about Trump's
00:07:21.720 role and the meaning. Just give me one minute. In a surprise announcement of the White House,
00:07:26.840 after a three-way phone call with Israeli and Emirati leaders, Mr. Trump said,
00:07:30.920 the deal would lead to greater cooperation on investment, tourism, security, technology,
00:07:35.960 energy, and other areas, while the two countries moved to allow regular direct passenger flights,
00:07:40.600 open embassies, and trade ambassadors for the first time. If fulfilled,
00:07:44.520 the pact would make the Emirates only the third Arab country to have normal diplomatic relations
00:07:49.000 with Israel, along with Egypt, which signed a peace agreement in 1979, and Jordan, which signed a
00:07:54.280 treaty in 1994. It could reorder the long stalemate in the region, potentially leading other Arab nations
00:08:01.000 to follow suit in forging an increasingly explicit alliance with Israel against their mutual enemy
00:08:07.800 in Iran, while taking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's explosive annexation plan off the table,
00:08:14.440 at least for now." That's a big deal. The United Arab Emirates, you know, that's the place with Dubai, 0.61
00:08:22.520 right? With Abu Dhabi. It's the most liberal, most progressive, most modern, most western parts of
00:08:29.080 Arabia. You know, the Burj Khalifa, that's the tallest tower in the world. That place. They just made a deal
00:08:35.160 with Israel. Here's a pretty cool tweet by Netanyahu about it. I'll sort of translate. He basically
00:08:42.760 says, the United Arab Emirates is one of the most powerful and advanced countries in the world. As you
00:08:47.720 can see, it is also one of the most beautiful places in the world. Yesterday, we made peace for
00:08:52.120 peace. And he says that in Arabic and Hebrew. Salam Aleikum, Shalom Aleikum. I thought that was pretty cool.
00:08:59.480 And now I see that not only will there be direct flights between Tel Aviv and Dubai,
00:09:03.560 but there are negotiations that those flights would pass over Saudi Arabia. I think that's
00:09:08.360 pretty incredible. Look at this. In the Globe and Mail, Israel says that other moderate Gulf states
00:09:14.280 are next in line. Oman, Bahrain. These are more moderate Gulf states that share the UAE's general
00:09:19.960 outlook and know that Iran is a great threat to all of them. And Israel is the best counterweight to that. 1.00
00:09:24.520 And they also don't know why their ties to Israel should be held up because of intransigence
00:09:29.640 on the part of the PLO or Hamas, which keeps sabotaging peace deals with Israel, who reject
00:09:34.520 peace deals every time they get offered. You see things like this. Netanyahu being interviewed live
00:09:42.200 on Arabic satellite TV. In this case, the interviewer was speaking Arabic. Netanyahu was getting a
00:09:48.280 translation, answering in English, and they had a translator in Arabic. But the questions were
00:09:52.760 genuine interview questions, not anti-Semitic harangues. Both sides seem eager and excited.
00:09:58.440 Peace, prosperity, getting over a hatred. You know, it takes energy to stay mad. Why would Israel and Dubai 0.85
00:10:04.440 have any reason to be mad at each other? Why? Because Hamas or Iran wants them to? 0.92
00:10:10.840 Oh, look at this. Iran and Turkey, which are both Islamist, hate this deal. For some reason, 0.81
00:10:16.520 China likes it. I don't quite know why. I see that Israel is in talks with the U.S. about
00:10:20.840 banning Huawei, and that's good news. So look, I'm excited. Wouldn't it be great if
00:10:25.080 peace broke out? It's so unthinkable. You'll notice in the New York Times piece,
00:10:29.880 they say they were surprised by the announcement. Trump managed to do this huge deal.
00:10:34.440 And so did Israel and the UAE without any media leaks. That is very surprising, isn't it?
00:10:39.240 I see hints that other African countries might join too. There are Muslim countries in Africa,
00:10:44.200 of course. Did Donald Trump just get a big Middle East peace deal? Did he get the
00:10:49.000 deal of the century? Not just some PR announcement, but a real deal? Maybe, as Netanyahu described it,
00:10:56.120 it was peace for peace, not peace for land or peace for cash. Both sides want the same thing.
00:11:00.280 They want peace. It's true Israel says it won't annex Palestinian territories,
00:11:05.560 but Israel has not annexed those territories since Israel recaptured them in the war of 1967. So if
00:11:11.080 Israel hasn't felt the need to change their name in the past 53 years, I don't think that's
00:11:17.960 an onerous concession for Israel to make. I think it's peace for peace. And the promise not to annex
00:11:23.320 helps the deal go down more sweetly in the Arab streets. That's fine by me. Look at this tweet 0.99
00:11:29.240 by a senior Muslim Imam in the UAE. He said, the happiness of the Israeli people with the peace
00:11:35.560 agreement shocked me. I was not expecting it. The peoples want peace. Now, I think that's funny because
00:11:44.200 you got to imagine the misinformation, the mistrust that he actually thought Israel didn't want peace.
00:11:49.400 He believed that, and he's shocked that they do. Now the countries can talk. They can actually visit
00:11:55.000 each other. They can do business with each other. They can live a little bit more like neighbors now.
00:11:59.320 I read more from that Muslim Imam. He's based, I think, in Abu Dhabi, which is the capital of the UAE.
00:12:04.760 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.
00:12:09.240 Here's a few more of his comments. Let me just read a few of them. His name is Wasim Youssef.
00:12:13.320 He says, here he is, he's mad that Al Jazeera was criticizing the deal. He was hurt by Al Jazeera.
00:12:18.840 Of course he was. Here he is, startled that Jewish Israelis were putting up UAE flags while Palestinians 0.90
00:12:27.480 were burning UAE flags, calling the UAE sellouts. He can't believe what he's seeing. He said,
00:12:34.680 when I saw the flag of my country being burned by some Palestinians because of the peace treaty with 1.00
00:12:39.160 Israel, I apologize to every Israeli man if you offended him in the past.
00:12:45.720 This guy's like the Billy Graham of the UAE in terms of size and influence, I think, from what I can
00:12:50.200 find. He was thrilled the peace deal, but just as much he's furious that there are those who want no
00:12:55.320 peace for the UAE for their own reasons. I think his reaction is a really good sign. There really are
00:13:00.520 moderate Muslim leaders in the world, I think. Tell me that's not good news for everyone. It's not just 0.98
00:13:05.160 good news for Israel. But alas, besides Iran and Turkey and the PLO hating this deal, you guessed it, 0.67
00:13:11.880 the anti-Trump, anti-Israel clique in the West hates it, so obviously the CBC hates it. Look at
00:13:18.280 this hilarious headline. It's in the CBC. Bahrain-Oman could be next to normalize relations with Israel.
00:13:25.000 Sure, fine, but Saudi Arabia? Not so fast. You know what said it would happen fast? No one even
00:13:30.520 mention that, but here's the CBC. They're trying to find a downside here. I mean, because their guy,
00:13:35.960 Barack Hussein Obama, lit the fire on the Middle East, burned the place down, brought back open
00:13:41.880 air slave markets in Libya, let ISIS run unimpeded for four years. The CBC can't be happy that Trump
00:13:48.120 has achieved what their Marxist hero couldn't. Look at how the CBCs show that The National treated this
00:13:54.600 huge, huge deal. Lighting up City Hall in Tel Aviv tonight, the blue and white of Israel,
00:14:01.400 and as well, the green, white, black and red of the United Arab Emirates.
00:14:06.280 Just a few moments ago, I hosted a very special call with two friends.
00:14:10.360 Donald Trump with the surprise announcement this morning.
00:14:13.720 After 49 years, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations.
00:14:20.840 Trump's call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:14:24.760 and UAE's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed is said to have sealed the deal.
00:14:29.720 This is the greatest advancements toward peace between Israel and the Arab world
00:14:34.440 in the last 26 years. Israel struck a peace accord with Egypt in 79 and with Jordan in 1994,
00:14:42.360 but most other Arab countries have failed to recognize Israel. Until now, says Trump. Stay tuned.
00:14:49.480 Now that the ice has been broken, I expect more Arab and Muslim countries will follow the United
00:14:56.360 Arab Emirates lead. A key part of the agreement, Israel will suspend plans to annex chunks of
00:15:05.080 Palestinian territory in the West Bank. In return, Israel gets that long-wanted recognition from another
00:15:12.040 Arab country. Then there's Iran. Along with the U.S., both Israel and the UAE see that country
00:15:19.400 as a constant threat. The deal strengthens opposition against Iran within the region.
00:15:26.120 But Palestinians quickly turned thumbs down on all of it. A government spokesman
00:15:30.680 today calling it a betrayal. Palestinians have long urged Arab countries to steer clear of Israel
00:15:38.360 until Israel agrees to lasting peace with Palestinians.
00:15:42.600 For Donald Trump, it's a big foreign policy achievement, just as his re-election campaign
00:15:49.080 is set to begin in earnest. Low in the polls, he seemed happy with how it's all playing out.
00:15:54.120 It's a great, great thing, he said. Andrew.
00:15:57.320 And Paul, speaking of the election, Trump is continuing to weigh in on how he thinks voting will
00:16:02.520 actually play out. Yeah, it's all about how to actually conduct the vote in November.
00:16:09.400 What was that? Two and a half minutes or so? Maybe three? And no questions from the generic CBC anchor.
00:16:15.800 He couldn't wait to move off Trump's diplomatic triumph into the weird democratic talking points
00:16:21.480 about postal ballots. He literally didn't have a moment's interest in the biggest peace deal of
00:16:27.160 the last generation. He couldn't care less because Trump was the guy. I wonder if he would have been so
00:16:30.920 quick to brush it off. I don't know if it were his hero or Obama. And did you hear that one line by
00:16:38.760 Paul Hunter? Palestinians have long urged Arab countries to steer clear of Israel until Israel
00:16:45.720 agrees to lasting peace with Palestinians.
00:16:51.000 So the CBC is saying that the problem in the Middle East has been that Israel just won't give the
00:16:56.200 Palestinians the promise of lasting peace. That's the problem, guys. You know, the PLO, Hamas, 1.00
00:17:03.880 they really, really want peace, guys. It's just, what can they do? Israel just won't give it to them.
00:17:09.880 Is that actually true? Sure it is in the fake news. Just like the Nobel Peace Prize fake committee,
00:17:16.360 they'll probably give the peace prize to Barack Obama again. Or maybe they'll give it to the PLO.
00:17:20.760 Yeah, no, we've just had a major peace deal. And it was done by Donald Trump. And it looks like it's
00:17:27.880 real and sustainable and it could grow. And it's based on mutual interest, not temporary arm twisting.
00:17:34.840 I'd say the president, give the president his Nobel Peace Prize. But why would you want to give him such a
00:17:40.040 sullied partisan award? Stay with us for more on this with Joel Pollack.
00:17:45.160 And joining us now to talk about the big news of the week. Well, I guess there's a couple of big
00:18:01.240 news items. Kamala Harris being chosen, Joe Biden's running mate. But I want to talk about something
00:18:07.080 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
00:18:13.160 been such a momentous year for news. But I'm talking about Donald Trump's peace plan
00:18:18.280 that he negotiated between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. And it seems soon to come other
00:18:24.280 Gulf states, Bahrain, Oman, and some African countries. Our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor
00:18:30.440 at large at Breitbart.com. Joel, I didn't think a deal like this could be done. I was skeptical. I mean,
00:18:37.880 Trump likes to talk superlatively. He wants to do the deal of the century. I thought he's going to
00:18:43.000 give everything away. In the end, it was truly a peace for peace deal. It wasn't a PLO style land for 0.60
00:18:50.920 peace, cash for peace. I think this is a real deal. It looks like it is. And it was particularly
00:19:00.120 interesting because we have been told for four years that Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy
00:19:08.200 doesn't work, that he's too mean to our allies, that he has no clout on the world stage, that America's
00:19:17.000 leadership is fading. And this deal proves all of that wrong. First of all, he's respected by our
00:19:23.080 allies, by Israel and by the United Arab Emirates. He has tremendous clout. He's able to get these two
00:19:28.520 countries which have never had diplomatic relations to come together and really break new ground in
00:19:33.640 Middle Eastern relations. And he's respected on the world stage. This would not have happened if
00:19:39.160 Donald Trump hadn't been respected as a dealmaker. And it was the peace process he laid out in January
00:19:44.840 that created a framework for this. And that peace process was maligned by the New York Times and the
00:19:51.400 Washington Post and the Democrats and CNN. They said it was one-sided. It only favored Israel. No.
00:19:58.040 All it did was take away the veto that Palestinians have over the process. It allows for a Palestinian 0.94
00:20:03.640 state, but it says that they have to meet certain requirements. And it also says they're not going
00:20:07.640 to be able to stop the process. Peace in the Middle East goes on whether they want it to or not. And 0.80
00:20:12.920 that's the genius of the Trump administration's approach. And it's worked. And it's basically taking
00:20:19.880 the foreign policy argument off the table for Joe Biden and the Democrats, because everything Biden and his
00:20:25.560 advisors believed about the Middle East was wrong. The Iran deal was a failure. Appeasing terrorists 0.98
00:20:31.880 didn't work. And standing strong with Israel didn't antagonize the Arab world. It merely showed who
00:20:38.680 Israel's potential partners really were. And this is a tremendous, tremendous deal and a big success
00:20:43.960 for the Trump administration and for the United States. I think it's very exciting. And I like the
00:20:48.600 friendly, positive, person-to-person type spirit that has already been shown in the last few days.
00:20:56.360 I love when Netanyahu ran a video basically encouraging Israelis to do tourism in Dubai.
00:21:03.480 I mean, he really romanced the United Emirates as a great place to go. And you know, flying from
00:21:10.120 Tel Aviv to Dubai, that's a pretty short flight. I bet that's going to become incredibly popular,
00:21:14.840 sort of like people, oh, let's go to Vegas for the weekend. I think it's going to be very popular.
00:21:20.040 You read my mind. It's like LA to Vegas. No, that's exactly what it'll be. It'll be
00:21:25.240 a commercial route that's well-traveled, one that connects Europe to Asia through the Middle East,
00:21:31.640 where Tel Aviv and Dubai form a kind of commercial hub together. And you combine Israeli innovation
00:21:37.960 and high tech and business management and financial clout with Dubai's energy contacts and its
00:21:46.280 commercial and retail side and its recreational opportunities. You have an amazing opportunity
00:21:52.520 for tremendous wealth to be created for the people of the region. And the other states are not going to
00:21:56.840 want to be left behind. So they're going to want to be included in this. And that's why you're going to
00:22:00.040 see other Gulf states come forward and do the same thing that the UAE has done.
00:22:04.040 It remains to be seen what happens in the election in November. And I do think that we're going to take
00:22:09.880 several steps backward if Biden wins, because he has said he wants to go back to the Iran deal.
00:22:14.840 But one good thing about this deal is it's very hard to undo. Biden's not going to be able to roll
00:22:19.800 back peace between Israel and the UAE. And in fact, Trump has shown Biden and the Democrats there is
00:22:26.280 actually a better way than the one Obama and Biden were trying. The better way is simply to be strong
00:22:32.120 and to be strong, stand with our allies and not commit resources to the Middle East that we can't
00:22:37.240 deliver, not state red lines like we did with Syria under Obama and Biden, and then not enforce them,
00:22:45.080 not to promise the Iraqi people protection and then fail to negotiate a deal as Biden did in 2011. So
00:22:52.040 the Obama administration and Joe Biden's role in that foreign policy is fast becoming a very bitter
00:22:58.840 memory. And there is a danger we'd go back to it. But this deal has been so successful,
00:23:03.160 maybe it's even a wake up call for the Democrats who've realized that Trump's way of approaching
00:23:09.240 foreign policy does actually work. That placing America's interests first tends to align things in
00:23:16.440 our direction and in a positive direction. Whereas apologizing for America, appeasing Iran and trying 0.97
00:23:22.520 to set up some other sort of hegemon in the Middle East to replace us is just a recipe for disaster. 1.00
00:23:27.240 Yeah. You know, I've been looking at individual United Arab Emirates Twitter personalities. I know that's
00:23:36.040 that's not a real proxy for the people on the street, but if you're an influencer
00:23:40.760 in the UAE and it's been very positive. In fact, I think some of them were startled that Israel was
00:23:46.600 so friendly and that Israel really wanted this. I think even to see Arab language satellite TV stations
00:23:56.040 ask Netanyahu fairly good faith questions, this feels like a warmer peace than that between Israel
00:24:05.000 and Egypt or even Israel and Jordan. They have had peace deals for years or decades. But this actually
00:24:11.800 feels like maybe more like minded people, like maybe the people of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as you say, are
00:24:17.480 high energy. Let's go do it. Let's not take no for an answer. Let's make the desert bloom like that.
00:24:22.440 That's one of Israel's sort of mottos, make the desert bloom, drain the swamp, you know, 0.99
00:24:27.240 actually turn sand into a livable place. That's what Dubai did, too. It took a nothing place
00:24:33.800 and made it quite a something. There are some cultural, energetic, entrepreneurial similarities,
00:24:41.160 maybe even more so than between Israel and its past two Arab peace partners.
00:24:46.760 Yeah, I think this is going to be a warm peace. I think that the other interesting thing about Dubai
00:24:51.720 is it's an international hub already. It's not provincial. It's not mired in the politics of
00:24:57.000 the Arab world or the Muslim world. Although it is an Arab and Muslim state, it is also heavily
00:25:01.480 populated by people from all over the world who come there to work. Americans, South Africans,
00:25:06.440 Indians, people come from all over the world. And Dubai is an international capital, not quite at the
00:25:12.840 level of New York or London, but they certainly see themselves getting there. And I think they look
00:25:18.040 at Israel as part of that cosmopolitan approach. And they would like to do it in their own way.
00:25:25.160 They would like to have a cosmopolitanism with an Islamic or Arab flavor. And I think they'll get
00:25:29.960 there. And the only way to do it was to make peace with Israel. I think they kept running into problems
00:25:34.200 over and over again of international events that were complicated in Dubai because they were excluding
00:25:40.440 Israelis, like Israeli tennis players or chess players. And eventually they stopped doing that. 0.79
00:25:45.160 And you've seen a similar move in other places in the Gulf, where they've stopped enforcing some of
00:25:50.200 their discriminatory laws against Israelis, which amount to basically discriminating against Jews.
00:25:57.800 So I think Dubai is sincere. I think Israelis will love Dubai. I can just imagine the lines at the
00:26:04.840 duty-free shopping counters in the Dubai airport now when the Israelis discover that they can go there. 0.99
00:26:11.640 So I think it's going to be a really interesting cultural exchange. And it's wonderful news for the future.
00:26:19.080 Yeah. It's really hard to deal with good news. I mean, it's so alien. I don't,
00:26:23.800 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,
00:26:34.920 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,
00:26:42.520 oh, about a year ago about the race and you thought that she had a real chance to be the nominee.
00:26:49.000 She flamed out. She was murdered in a way by Tulsi Gabbard in one of the debates, I recall. Boy,
00:26:55.240 did she fade fast. But look at her now, vice president and a heartbeat away from being president
00:27:01.640 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
00:27:15.000 vice presidential candidate for Joe Biden for the same reasons she was a good presidential candidate 1.00
00:27:19.800 on paper. She checks all the boxes in terms of identity politics. She's a member of the progressive
00:27:26.360 left, but she served as a prosecutor, which gives Democrats an excuse to call her a moderate. Although,
00:27:31.480 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
00:27:40.760 she's a very good politician. She ran one of the worst campaigns in history. I don't think she'd be 1.00
00:27:45.560 a good manager of anything. The pattern in her career is whenever she has a little bit of a power, 1.00
00:27:49.720 she abuses it. And I don't think she adds much to the ticket in terms of bringing actual moderate 1.00
00:27:55.080 or independent voters across. I think she's there to appease the progressive base, which is
00:27:59.480 uncomfortable with Joe Biden, who's not a moderate, but he's not a socialist either. And the action is
00:28:06.200 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,
00:28:17.960 really feels like they deserved to have Bernie Sanders or someone like that on the top of the
00:28:21.880 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.
00:29:01.400 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
00:31:02.600 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 0.99
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 0.99
00:31:57.000 abused her power. And as Rudy Giuliani said it very memorably, this is a clip you might want to
00:32:01.480 find. She's a bully. And she went after little people and ignored big people when she was a 1.00
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,
00:32:24.600 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.