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00:00:12.000In just a second, I want to talk about the nature of true evil and the West's unwillingness to confront And realize that that evil exists in the first place.
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00:00:36.000Okay, so over the weekend, absolutely horrifying news.
00:00:40.000Six Israeli hostages, including one Israeli American, whose parents spoke at the DNC.
00:00:47.000You recall them, the parents, the Goldberg-Poland parents, they spoke at the DNC about how their son was being held hostage by Hamas in terror tunnels.
00:00:58.000There's a hundred hostages, many of them already dead, who are being held by Hamas.
00:01:02.000But over the weekend, Israel found the bodies of six hostages, Hirsch Goldberg-Poland, Aidan Yerushalmi, Ori DeNino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gott, and Elmog Saroussi.
00:01:12.000I know the parents of at least one of these hostages met the mother of Ori Danino here in Florida not all that long ago.
00:01:19.000She obviously been praying for the safe return of her son.
00:01:22.000It's not just that the bodies of the hostages were found.
00:01:26.000So you'll recall that last week Israel freed a Bedouin Muslim Israeli citizen who was found in one of the terror tunnels.
00:01:34.000Well, at about that time, apparently, Hamas terrorists shot to death those six hostages.
00:01:40.000According to the Times of Israel, the six dead hostages recovered from the Gaza Strip over the weekend were killed 48 to 72 hours before their autopsy.
00:01:48.000So the absolute horror of that, keeping these six hostages alive for over 300 days, and then shooting them.
00:01:56.000In the back of the head, which is precisely what happened, underscores how deeply evil Hamas is.
00:02:01.000The entire situation turned into war because the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force, went into Gaza in order to dismantle Hamas, in order to destroy their infrastructure, in order to take over the Philadelphia Corridor, which is the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
00:02:13.000In order to take over the Netarim Corridor, which runs across the middle of the Gaza Strip and establish military control.
00:02:18.000And a lot of the talk turned to how Israel was prosecuting the war.
00:02:35.000The big reminder is that these are human monsters who are willing To hold hostages for over 300 days, and then shoot them in the head to prevent them from being liberated.
00:02:47.000Because that's presumably what happened here.
00:02:49.000The IDF said it did not have the exact location of the hostages, but had indications of a general area where the six could be held.
00:02:54.000It was operating carefully in the area.
00:02:58.000According to Daniel Hagari, who is the spokesperson for the IDF, troops began to search a tunnel complex some 20 meters underground on Saturday and found the hostages dead in the afternoon.
00:03:07.000Their bodies were extracted from Gaza overnight and brought to Israel for identification.
00:03:11.000Hamas itself has said that they effectively shot these people because the IDF was getting near.
00:03:16.000Now, that is not a change in policy for Hamas.
00:03:18.000Hostages who have been freed in earlier hostage deals, they've said that they were told by their Hamas captors that if the IDF got close, they would be And this is what Hamas does.
00:03:30.000This is why Yahya Sinwar, who's the head of Hamas, who is hiding underground right now, he apparently has surrounded himself, according to reports, by upward of 20 hostages, presumably including women and children, hoping that Israel will leave him alone because otherwise he's going to threaten to shoot the women and shoot the children.
00:03:48.000The spokesman for the military wing of Hamas had said that following Israel's successful hostage rescue in Nusayrat in June, new protocols were given to terrorists guarding the abductees if Israeli troops were approaching them.
00:04:01.000We knew that from a long time ago, that they had said that they were going to shoot hostages if the Israelis got close.
00:04:06.000Then, Hamas, just to add insult to injury, decided that they were going to release hostage videos, like the last videos of the various hostages.
00:04:17.000I don't want to play them here because frankly it's doing the work of Hamas.
00:04:21.000There's been contemporaneous documentation found in the terror tunnels that in which Hamas explains what they're attempting to do.
00:04:27.000Their attempt is to be so brutal and so vicious and so evil that it creates serious political schisms within Israeli society.
00:04:35.000Benjamin Netanyahu obviously was facing the Prime Minister of Israel a lot of political schisms well before You remember, massive protests in the streets over judicial reform, which was a debate effectively about how to appoint the judiciary and what the powers of the judiciary would be.
00:04:47.000You had hundreds of thousands of people in the streets who are angry at Netanyahu, not just because of judicial reform, but because they don't like the current coalition government in Israel, the elected government of the state of Israel.
00:04:57.000And that's normal democracy in action.
00:04:59.000People going to the streets and protesting.
00:05:06.000I mean, we have that in the United States, too.
00:05:07.000We have lots of protests in the United States.
00:05:08.000You have it in every westernized country.
00:05:10.000However, since then, there's been an extraordinary degree of unity in Israel.
00:05:16.000What Hamas is attempting to do right now is murder hostages in the most brutal possible way in order to generate outrage at Netanyahu's government.
00:05:24.000We'll get to more on this topic in a moment.
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00:06:30.000Now you understand why people in Israel, particularly in the areas that don't like Netanyahu, they're just looking for an outlet for their rage and their anger because who wouldn't be if Americans were being held en masse hostage by a foreign country and then those Americans were being murdered systematically?
00:06:46.000Then presumably there would be shock and outrage among the American public, too.
00:06:50.000You'd get large-scale protests, you would imagine, against the sitting government.
00:06:53.000You understand that even though there's not really a good political rationale for it, meaning it's not clear what these protesters want the Israeli government to do.
00:07:00.000Do they just want Israel to surrender to Yahya Sinwar and Hamas?
00:07:04.000Because Hamas's demands right now involve the complete surrender of Israel in the Gaza Strip in order to presumably preserve the lives of some of these hostages.
00:07:13.000And we don't even know how many of them are left because the disgusting International Red Cross has not even gone in and done its basic duty in ascertaining how many of these hostages are alive or providing them humanitarian care.
00:07:27.000That means that they want Israel to abandon the so-called Philadelphia Corridor, which is the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
00:07:33.000That was just honeycombed with terror tunnels through which enormous quantities of weaponry and machinery and, yes, terrorists were smuggled through from Egypt to Gaza and vice versa.
00:07:45.000Israel has taken over the Philadelphia Corridor, that border.
00:07:48.000They've also taken over, as I say, the Netarim Corridor, which is about halfway through the Gaza Strip, in order to establish military control.
00:07:55.000Sinwar wants Israel to not only pull all military facilities out of the Gaza Strip, leaving him in charge, he also wants Israel to release hundreds of murderous terrorists.
00:08:06.000Including a whole new leadership cast for Hamas.
00:08:10.000So, in order to obtain these hostages, he wants Israel to surrender.
00:08:14.000No country worth its salt can do that.
00:08:16.000That is not something that any country can actually do.
00:08:20.000Because if the idea is that when bad guys take your citizens hostage, you just surrender to them, you're not going to have a country for very long.
00:08:27.000They can always just take hostages and hold them for the next concession.
00:08:32.000This is a point that Netanyahu made over the weekend.
00:08:35.000So when this was first announced, he pointed out that the entire world has decided, and this is where this matters to the West, because now why isn't this like a local regional issue?
00:08:43.000Obviously, there's been a very long-standing conflict.
00:08:54.000And on the other side, you have legitimately the world's worst terror group.
00:08:58.000And somehow, the West has found a unique way to decide that that terror group deserves compassion, deserves concession, deserves some level of recognition and decency.
00:09:10.000When in reality, every member of Hamas, up to and including the leadership, deserves nothing but death.
00:09:15.000Because that is what they have brought upon themselves through their violation of basic human norms and standards of just basic human decency.
00:09:30.000And this notion from the West that Israel therefore is the one that needs to be pressed to make concessions to the terrorists is totally insane and speaks to an ulterior political motive on the part of Americans and Brits who are pushing this sort of nonsense.
00:09:44.000The reality is the only way to win a war is to actually win the war.
00:09:49.000The reason that the West has not won a war since World War II is because it has forgotten that basic notion that the way to win a war is to win a war.
00:09:55.000If you look at the entire history of Western military conflict, when the West wins, it's not because there is some sort of peace agreement that is signed.
00:10:03.000It's because its enemies are utterly defeated.
00:10:06.000When its enemies are utterly defeated, then the West wins.
00:10:11.000And when that doesn't happen, then conflict tends to break out very quickly thereafter.
00:10:16.000You cannot leave Hamas in place but the fact that the West is even considering leaving Hamas in place or creating a quote-unquote Palestinian state which would immediately be run and staffed by the very same people who are currently holding hostages and their best friends in the Palestinian Authority Islamic Jihad is totally insane.
00:10:33.000Here's Netanyahu making the perfectly obvious point that when you shoot hostages it's a pretty good indicator you're not looking for a ceasefire deal.
00:10:39.000Hamas is continuing to steadfastly refuse all proposals.
00:10:43.000Even worse, at the exact same time, it murdered six of our hostages.
00:10:48.000Whoever murders hostages does not want a deal.
00:10:55.000The government of Israel is committed, and I am personally committed, to continue striving towards a deal that will return all of our hostages and ensure our security and our existence.
00:11:08.000Now, the way that the left operates internationally is the idea that there is a moral relativism between places like Israel and Hamas, or for that matter, between America and ISIS, or America and Al Qaeda, that all of these people have their grievances.
00:11:21.000And because they have their grievances, really those grievances can be alleviated by a kinder, gentler West.
00:11:26.000That concessions are what make the world go round.
00:11:28.000That diplomacy is the answer, rather than, you know, killing people who take women and children hostages.
00:12:00.000What that means is that some people cultivate the devil within to such an extent that they are able to do things like holding innocent civilians hostage in terror tunnels for 300 days and then murdering them instead of allowing them to be liberated in order to establish an Islamic caliphate in the Gaza Strip and then, hopefully, they think, over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
00:12:22.000So Netanyahu, there's a lot of domestic pressure on him again.
00:12:25.000A lot of what's going on right now in the streets of Israel has very little to do, really, with the hostages because there's no deal to be made with a group of people who want to murder every Jew possible.
00:12:36.000What it really has to do with is just a pent-up anger at Netanyahu's government.
00:12:40.000There may be good reasons for that, there may be bad reasons for that, but the idea that there's any sort of deal to be made and that really what happened with the hostages is somehow on Netanyahu in some way is an insane proposition on its face.
00:12:54.000So, Prime Minister Netanyahu has a lot of domestic pressure on him right now.
00:12:56.000A lot of that is being actually created by the Biden administration and by Joe Biden, who's been sleeping on a beach.
00:13:01.000But not all of us have the ability to just go to sleep on a beach somewhere.
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00:14:15.000Even more insane is the proposition that if Netanyahu were replaced, suddenly the conflict would end and everything would be hunky-dory.
00:14:21.000That, of course, is ridiculous as well.
00:14:23.000In any case, Netanyahu gave a pretty amazing speech yesterday in which he laid out specifically why he is not caving, why he is not conceding, why he is not going to simply give up the Philadelphia corridor because Hamas demands it.
00:14:39.000The axis of evil needs the Philadelphia Corridor, and for that reason, we must control the Philadelphia Corridor.
00:14:46.000Hamas insists for that reason that we not be there, and for that reason, I insist that we be there.
00:14:55.000Now, the narrative that you are hearing in the media today, because the media is a left-wing tool, the narrative you're hearing from the Biden-Harris administration, both Biden and Harris, the narrative you're hearing is that Netanyahu hasn't made enough concessions.
00:15:21.000There are things that the United States could have done to bring pressure on Hamas.
00:15:24.000Joe Biden has done virtually none of them.
00:15:27.000But it really begins, again, it begins and ends with this leftist narrative that there is some sort of moral equivalence or parity in all human relations, which means that when someone is evil, the more, if you believe in moral relativism, if you believe that it's just a matter of perspective, then what that means is that the more evil you are, the more there must be a justification to your evil, because otherwise you wouldn't be evil.
00:15:48.000If you are a moral relativist, the way that the left is when it comes to these matters, Then your belief is, the more evilly you behave, the more you have been victimized.
00:15:57.000The victim- victimizer matrix is undefeated in terms of stupidity and immorality.
00:16:01.000So, take a look at the headlines from the legacy media over the murder of these six hostages.
00:17:16.000I mean, imagine, just take a second to put yourself in the shoes of the hostages for one second, that you were in your own home or you're at a music festival, you were taken hostage by the world's worst vicious human beings.
00:17:26.000You were held alive underground with the shred of hope that maybe the IDF would find you for 300 days.
00:17:33.000And then as the IDF grew close, they put you down on your knees and they shoot you in the back of the head.
00:17:45.000It must have been a car accident, or something.
00:17:49.000So, Joe Biden's initial response, he put out an initial statement, did Joe Biden, and his initial statement said, quote, earlier today, in a city, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas.
00:18:03.000Now, first, we should point out, Israeli troops would have been in Rafah in February or March if it had not been for the Biden administration, which withheld munitions from the Israelis to prevent them from doing operations in Rafah.
00:18:16.000And Israel kept saying, we need to go into Rafah to go get our hostages and to extirpate Hamas.
00:18:20.000And the United States, including Kamala Harris, as we'll see, kept saying, don't go in there.
00:19:15.000I know all Americans tonight will have them in their prayers, just as Jill and I will.
00:19:19.000I've worked tirelessly to bring their beloved Hirsch safely to them, and I'm heartbroken by the news of his death.
00:19:23.000It is as tragic as it is reprehensible.
00:19:25.000Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes, and we'll keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.
00:19:32.000Then how do you plan to hold them responsible for their crimes?
00:19:35.000Seriously, we're going to negotiate with Al Qaeda, and we're going to hold Osama bin Laden responsible for his crimes, are mutually exclusive.
00:19:43.000We are going to hold Hamas responsible for the murder of an American, and we need to negotiate with Hamas to get to a deal, a deal they won't accept except for full-scale surrender.
00:21:09.000The Labour Party, under Keir Starmer, the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, announced on the same weekend On the same weekend, al-Khamas shot six hostages, including
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00:23:12.000So Richard Goldberg, who is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.
00:23:17.000He says, here's some things that the United States could do, that Congress could do.
00:23:21.000They could revoke all sanctions waivers issued for Iran, which is the sponsor state for Hamas.
00:23:25.000They could strip Qatar of its major non-NATO ally status and impose sanctions on al-Jazeera, because Qatar is the home of the political wing of Hamas.
00:23:33.000They could withhold aid to Lebanon and Egypt, considering that Lebanon is currently facilitating Hezbollah in Israel's north, and Egypt is trying to open the border with Hamas in the Philadelphia Corridor.
00:23:44.000They could ban Turkish airlines and Qatar Airways from the United States, both of which are sponsor states of terrorism.
00:23:50.000They could mandate 60-day reporting to Congress on assets connected to Hamas in Turkey, Qatar, or other countries to force sanctions designations.
00:24:01.000There's another thing they could do, and that is, Biden-Harris could make clear that for every day the hostages are held, America will recognize 100 square dunam, which is about half an acre, of Gaza as a permanent Israeli buffer zone.
00:24:13.000For every murdered hostages, a thousand square dunam.
00:24:16.000It's a proposal by the professor at George Mason Law, Eugene Kontorovich, and he's right.
00:24:22.000Because if there is no actual pressure placed on Hamas, Hamas doesn't care.
00:24:29.000In fact, they want Palestinians to die.
00:24:30.000The more Palestinians die, the more they go to the international community about how it's not their fault, it's Israel's fault, and more pressure should be put on Israel.
00:24:38.000That's literally the reason they hide terror tunnels under civilian areas.
00:24:42.000They want Palestinians to die for the cameras.
00:24:45.000Again, these are the worst people in the world.
00:24:48.000The only thing they don't want is a reduction in their territory or loss of control.
00:24:53.000Israel's already threatening loss of control.
00:24:55.000The other thing that could threaten them is a permanent loss of territory.
00:24:59.000A permanent loss of territory, not just territorial control, territory proper, would actually put pressure on them.
00:25:04.000Will the United States and the international community do anything like that to free hostages?
00:25:12.000And by the way, it's not just Joe Biden, it is also Kamala Harris.
00:25:16.000Kamala Harris put out a statement on the death of Hersh Goldberg-Pollan, the murder of Hersh Goldberg-Pollan, and she said, Doug and my prayers are with John Poland and Rachel Goldberg Poland, Hirsch's parents, and with everyone who knew and loved Hirsch.
00:25:28.000When I met with John and Rachel earlier this year, I told them, you are not alone.
00:25:31.000That remains true as they mourn this terrible loss.
00:25:34.000As is said in the Jewish tradition, may Hirsch's memory be a blessing.
00:25:38.000Hamas is an evil terrorist organization.
00:25:40.000With these murders, Hamas has even more American blood on its hands.
00:25:42.000I strongly condemn Hamas's continued brutality, and so must the entire world.
00:29:23.000And when you have earphones connected to your phone, and they're in your ears, you also put the phone up to your ear?
00:29:29.000Is that a thing that you do frequently?
00:29:31.000Or is this all fakery just to get out of questions?
00:29:32.000I think we know the answer because Tim Walz did the same thing.
00:29:34.000So Tim Walz was doing one of his state fair campaigns.
00:29:37.000He's such an irritating human being, Tim Walz, honest to God.
00:29:40.000Like the faux joviality, which is just a mask for total tyrannical subjugation of his own state during COVID and an ugly hatred of a huge swath of America.
00:30:17.000The reason he's walking away is because he has no idea what his position is.
00:30:20.000I mean, we know his position in Minnesota, which was to make nice with Ilhan Omar and the rest of the anti-Semitic crew, but he doesn't know what his position is, so he just walks away.
00:30:28.000And that is the essence of the Western response to true evil in the world.
00:30:32.000The Western response to true evil in the world, basically since the fall of the Soviet Union, and certainly in the post-Iraq War era, has been to pretend that evil doesn't exist and everyone can be negotiated with, and that concessions to some of the world's most evil people bear fruit and peace, when precisely the opposite is true.
00:30:49.000Netanyahu, again, gave a speech on Sunday and a press conference to a bunch of reporters who hate his guts.
00:30:55.000He said, OK, so a few days ago, the State Department, including Tony Blinken, said that I had accepted a deal and the pressure was on Hamas.
00:31:03.000Now you have Joe Biden saying I'm not doing enough.
00:31:05.000What changed in the last five days other than hostages were murdered and the Biden administration hates Netanyahu and wants him out, which is really what this is about.
00:31:12.000This is about the Biden administration for months attempting to oust the Netanyahu government in favor of what they think will be a friendlier government.
00:31:20.000And again, that is because of personal relations between Netanyahu and Biden and the Democratic Party.
00:31:24.000And it's also just because the Democratic Party believes that a more conciliatory, concession-based government in Israel will somehow lead to regional peace.
00:31:48.000And even that one now seems to be turned on its head given the fact that Egypt has facilitated the entry of armaments and terrorists into the Gaza Strip via the Philadelphia Corridor, which again is the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
00:32:00.000Here's Netanyahu saying, I don't understand.
00:32:02.000You guys said five days ago that I had accepted all the conditions you were putting down, and now you're putting the pressure on me?
00:34:06.000Because the hostages were shot and because the pathological response of a West that has apparently outlived its ideological sell-by date is conceding to the most evil people in the world.
00:34:19.000The bigger problem for the West is not what happens in Israel.
00:34:23.000That is just a bleeding tip of the spear indicator.
00:34:26.000It is the fact that you have hundreds of thousands of people who march in the West on behalf of Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:34:30.000It is the fact that the West has not won outright a war in decades.
00:34:35.000The reason for that is because the West is apologetic about its own values.
00:34:39.000It's apologetic about the vast moral gap between it and its enemies.
00:34:42.000Since the end of the Cold War, the West has been pathologically incapable of simply facing up to the problem of human evil, labeling it for what it is, and recognizing that the only solution to evil is victory over it.
00:35:06.000When you exert pressure on the party that had hostages taken from it and shot in the back of the head by an Islamist terrorist group.
00:35:13.000When you exert pressure on that party, it demonstrates your own lack of moral credibility and your own complicity in the evil itself.
00:35:21.000In just a second, we'll get to how this plays in the 2024 campaign.
00:35:25.000Because it turns out this is part and parcel of a broader take on foreign policy that Donald Trump should be hammering the Biden-Harris administration over.
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00:36:01.000Now, again, this is all part and parcel of a Western belief that American military force, that Western military force, that force of arms against the world's most evil people is somehow bad, which is why the Biden-Harris administration sees the Afghanistan pullout not as what it was, a massive debacle, a failure of not just imagination, but of practical application.
00:36:31.000Kamala Harris has treated Afghanistan as a victory.
00:36:35.000The only sin, apparently, according to Kamala Harris, with regard to Afghanistan, is that Donald Trump went and visited the graves of dead troops at Arlington National Cemetery last week.
00:36:46.000So, Kamala Harris put out a statement over the weekend, reading thusly, As Vice President, I've had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times.
00:36:55.000It is a solemn place, a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation.
00:37:45.000But we're supposed to believe that it's all about optics.
00:37:48.000It's the optics of how she treats the troops, not the underlying disdain she has for the reality of power politics in a world filled with nefarious powers.
00:37:58.000The great failure of the Biden administration is that American troops died because they were weak.
00:38:41.000But Harris and company will never acknowledge that.
00:38:43.000Because to them, Western civilization boils down basically to their favorite economic and social policies.
00:38:49.000That's what Western civilization boils down to.
00:38:51.000It doesn't boil down to constitutional rights and freedoms.
00:38:53.000It doesn't boil down to Christian-based natural law.
00:38:56.000It doesn't boil down to any of those things.
00:38:58.000It boils down instead to gay pride flags and welfare state.
00:39:02.000That is what democracy means to the left.
00:39:07.000And what that also means is that anybody all over the world who is, quote-unquote, suffering, who is, quote-unquote, victimized, is actually victimized by Western society.
00:39:17.000Success is a hallmark of victimization, according to Kamala Harris and company.
00:39:21.000That perverse perspective is why evil progresses in the world whenever the left is in charge in the West.
00:39:29.000Tom Cotton was making this point over the weekend on the Sunday shows.
00:39:32.000Here he was ripping into Kamala Harris.
00:39:34.000You know who the family's also invited?
00:39:51.000She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them.
00:39:54.000They did meet with them during the dignified transfer.
00:39:57.000They were with them at the dignified transfer.
00:39:59.000Her and Joe Biden's incompetence, those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan.
00:40:06.000By the way, Joe Biden was checking his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony.
00:40:10.000As you recall, President Trump put out a statement, quote, I want to thank the families of our great
00:40:14.000warriors who have been lost to us for the way they came together as one. And thank me for attending
00:40:17.000at their request, the celebration of their wonderful family members who, because of the
00:40:21.000incompetence of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, are no longer with us.
00:40:24.000Thank you for saying you wanted me to stand with you at Arlington National Cemetery and take pictures, that it was your request, not mine, but it was my great honor to do so.
00:40:32.000The fact that Harris tried to play the great sin as Donald Trump going to visit the graves as opposed to her not going to visit the graves and being complicit in the decision-making that got those people killed says everything about Kamala Harris.
00:40:45.000Meanwhile, the former compatriots of Tim Walz and the National Guard, he of course is her vice presidential candidate, they went on Megyn Kelly over the weekend and ripped into Tim Walz for his stolen valor.
00:41:27.000He lies about stuff that doesn't make sense.
00:41:29.000You're taking a piece of their thunder and you're trying to capture it and putting it in a bottle for yourself and use that for your own benefit.
00:41:35.000He basically said, I've got better things to do.
00:41:38.000You know, go pick somebody else to go on a mission.
00:41:41.000What if you sold out your guard unit and abandoned them?
00:41:44.000I mean, what are you going to do at the national level?
00:44:13.000So let's not pay too much attention to the polls.
00:44:17.000Let's know, like labor always does, we are out here running like we are the underdog in this race because we know what we are fighting for.
00:44:30.000We know what we stand for and that's why we know what we fight for.
00:44:35.000As we fight to move our nation forward, Donald Trump intends to pull us back to the past.
00:44:56.000Ambassador to Israel from March 2017 until January 2021 under Donald Trump.
00:45:01.000And he, of course, successfully guided unprecedented diplomatic achievements in the U.S.-Israel relationship, including the Abraham Accords and the United States Embassy being moved to Jerusalem.
00:45:11.000He has a brand new book out today titled One Jewish State, The Last Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
00:45:16.000Ambassador Friedman, great to speak with you.
00:45:22.000So obviously, let's start with the news of the weekend.
00:45:25.000Horrifying news out of Israel as six bodies are found in a terror tunnel held by Hamas.
00:45:31.000Six hostages for over 300 days in the back of the head, including an Israeli-American.
00:45:35.000And the first response, apparently, of the rest of the world is to tell Israel to make more concessions to Hamas.
00:45:41.000That includes the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, who awakened from his torpor in Rehoboth Beach to explain that Benjamin Netanyahu was apparently not doing enough.
00:45:54.000And I'll tell you why, you know, um, you know, Israel's going through a massive trauma since October 7th.
00:45:59.000And that trauma was, you know, was relived again a couple of days ago when these six hostages were found dead.
00:46:05.000And look, there are political divides in Israel and everybody knows that.
00:46:10.000Uh, but for, for Biden to say, uh, on a day like yesterday or two days ago, whenever he said it, that Bibi Netanyahu was not doing enough to free the hostages.
00:46:20.000Not only is it absolutely false, but it pours gasoline on a fire of America's most important ally.
00:46:28.000I mean, the people of Israel need some comfort.
00:47:13.000The answer is no one knows because there was no deal.
00:47:16.000And the idea of accusing Netanyahu at a time when he's fighting for his life, for the life of the country, is the worst political stunt, the most obnoxious political stunt I've ever seen anybody pull.
00:47:28.000And they should be ashamed of what they did.
00:47:33.000Ambassador Friedman, for those Americans who look at the conflict in the Middle East and they say, why does this even matter to us?
00:47:37.000Why is this something that actually we should care about?
00:47:40.000Why isn't this just a faraway conflict in a distant land?
00:47:43.000I think what this speaks to, the reaction of the Biden administration, or say the UK government, which is cutting off weapons to Israel in the middle of a war, it speaks to a new kind of Western idea since the end of the Cold War, That the West does not deserve to defend itself.
00:47:56.000That when something terrible happens to the West, it probably is because the West has been too harsh.
00:48:00.000It's because the West itself has brought it upon itself.
00:48:35.000Because this war has has mobilized a current within the United States.
00:48:40.000that is Marxist, Communist, anti-American, and wants to destroy us.
00:48:44.000And those that want to destroy Israel want to destroy America, and Israel is the tip of the spear.
00:48:49.000And as goes Israel, ultimately, that's the Western world.
00:48:52.000I mean, that's the tip of the Western world.
00:48:53.000They're fighting the front closest to our enemies.
00:48:56.000And so, there's a direct line between how Israel does and prosecutes this war and defends itself, and how the rest of the Western world... I mean, look, you see, London is unlivable.
00:50:28.000Because the case that's always been made is that a two-state solution is the best.
00:50:32.000There has to be a self-governing Palestinian state in which Palestinians govern Palestinians and Israelis govern Israelis.
00:50:37.000The case that you make is the opposite.
00:50:38.000You essentially say that's never going to happen.
00:50:40.000So why exactly should Israel govern areas like, say, Nablus or Jenin that are entirely Palestinian but are obviously honeycombed with terrorism as well?
00:50:51.000So look, we start off with the point you made.
00:50:54.000The two-state solution, we now demonstrably know it won't work because we have Attempted to establish that in Gaza about 17 years ago, and they were given lots of money.
00:51:05.000There's not a single Jew living there, not a single boot of any American soldier there.
00:51:10.000The territory is beautiful, western-facing Mediterranean, and they took all the money, all the billions of dollars, they elected Hamas, and they created one of the most vile terrorist states ever known to man.
00:51:22.000That would be replicated as well in Judea and Samaria if there were a Palestinian state there, even in places like Area A, which is a component under Oslo of Judea and Samaria, which is entirely Arab.
00:51:34.000Those places have now become hotbeds of terrorism, as you say, in Jenin and Ramallah, and the Israeli defense forces have to go there to keep the peace.
00:51:43.000Making the case that a two-state solution has failed and will continue to fail is pretty easy.
00:52:50.000Number two is for those who care about biblical Israel and those who care about places like Shiloh and Hebron and Bethlehem and the Old City of Jerusalem.
00:53:05.000If Israel doesn't maintain sovereignty over those places, they're gone.
00:53:08.000I mean, the Palestinians, given the opportunity, as they have done, for example, with the grave of Joseph in Nablus, they will destroy any connection, this is their goal, to destroy any connection of the Jewish people, of the Christian faith, to this holy land.
00:53:20.000I mean, this is land, this is where Jesus walked, this is where the kings ruled, the prophets preached.
00:53:24.000These are not places that can be given away.
00:53:26.000And I believe that even the secular Israelis, even the far left in Israel who kind of never wanted to get too close to the Bible, never get too close to their ancient history, wanted to recreate Israel in their own image, even they are recognizing right now that this land is really the DNA of the Jewish people and essential to people who observe the Christian faith.
00:54:17.000You can like it whether you're on the left or you're on the right, whether you're secular, whether you're religious, it's the best outcome for everyone.
00:54:23.000It's actually the unfinished business.
00:54:25.000That Donald Trump and I and Jared and others were working on when we left office.
00:54:29.000I mean, this is the unfinished business, trying to find a solution that works for all.
00:54:34.000And if people keep an open mind, this is a far better solution to the two-state solution, which is a failure.
00:54:41.000So, Ambassador Friedman, obviously the big objection to anything like this is, how does voting work?
00:54:45.000So, the claim is, let's say Israel takes sovereignty, annexes the Judea and Samaria regions of what people call the West Bank.
00:54:58.000They haven't voted in an election since like 2004.
00:55:00.000So Mahmoud Abbas is now in year 18 of a four-year term.
00:55:04.000And obviously voting is not taking place in the Gaza Strip.
00:55:06.000But the supposition is that now living in democratic Israel, they should be granted a vote in the Israeli parliament.
00:55:12.000If that were to happen, then almost immediately you would have a vying for control over the actual democratic auspices of the state of Israel.
00:55:21.000How do you make it so that Israel can maintain all this control over this area without falling into the trap of either a radicalized Arab minority taking control of the entire state or the quote-unquote apartheid state accusation that essentially there's a second-class citizenship being provided for Arab citizens.
00:55:39.000So look, you know, Israel, if it took over Judea and Samaria, it will inherit a large, somewhat radicalized at this point, Arab population and it will work with its partners to try to de-radicalize that by creating opportunities for the Palestinians there.
00:55:57.000But Israel can't, you know, swap, if you will, a security threat for a demographic threat.
00:56:03.000I mean, Israel is a Jewish state, and that's why the book is called One Jewish State, because we're only asking for one Jewish state.
00:56:08.000You know, there's 40-plus Muslim countries in the world, right, where you've got to be Muslim.
00:56:13.000There's Christian countries, there's Hindu countries, there's Buddhist countries.
00:56:16.000We're just saying kind of one Jewish state, which means that the national character of the state of Israel, the collective right of self-determination, which is part of the Israeli nation state law, has to be Jewish.
00:56:26.000Within that umbrella, you'll have governance.
00:56:31.000I use the example, for example, of Puerto Rico and the United States.
00:56:34.000Puerto Rico is a wholly owned territory of the United States.
00:56:38.000Its people are citizens of the United States.
00:56:57.000Possibly, you know, if we're getting into serious discussions, we can talk about taxation and how they'll have representation in taxation.
00:57:03.000You know, possibly, you know, we can go in different directions and just say, look, there are seven or eight principles of Israel that you need 90% of the population to vote in favor of.
00:57:11.000And, you know, which is another way of maintaining the Jewish character of the state of Israel.
00:57:17.000To let that detail get in the way Of de-radicalizing the West Bank, of giving away the biblical heritage of the Jewish and the Christian people, and to creating another terror state that will simply do to Israel in spades ten times what Gaza did.
00:57:34.000It's a problem we're going to be able to fix.
00:57:37.000I have no doubt it's fixable if people take this seriously.
00:57:42.000Well, the book is One Jewish State, The Last Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
00:57:45.000The author is Ambassador David Friedman, of course, who is ambassador to Israel under Donald Trump.