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00:00:00.000President Trump unveils his Middle East peace plan, Team Trump concludes its impeachment defense, and panic sets in for Democrats as Bernie closes in on Iowa.
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00:00:21.000Well, you may have noticed this is a chaotic year already, right?
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00:01:48.000So we'll get to everything impeachment related in a little bit.
00:01:50.000We'll also get to everything 2020 related because Bernie Sanders continues to surge and the media continue to pretend that Bernie Sanders is like a normal Democrat as opposed to a flaming communist, a flaming geriatric communist.
00:02:01.000It's unbelievable that Bernie has never been asked a single question about something as simple as, do you believe that private property is a right?
00:02:08.000Right now, normally you wouldn't have to ask a candidate that question, but when you're Bernie Sanders and you have spent your entire career calling for the nationalization of all product and the destruction of the profit motive, at a certain point, it seems like it would be worthwhile to ask him whether he believes healthcare is a right, so does he believe private property ownership is a right?
00:02:36.000Does he believe that real estate should be nationalized?
00:02:38.000He just called for national rent control.
00:02:39.000National rent control effectively means that if you want new public units built, you're going to have to do it through public funding, which means public housing.
00:02:46.000So what doesn't he want to nationalize?
00:02:48.000Like, these would be very simple questions, and you would figure that a guy who came in a very narrow second to Hillary Clinton last time around would have been asked some simple questions, but nobody asked him any simple questions, and so instead you have this pie-in-the-sky nonsense he's been preaching for literally decades, and everybody acting as though this is normal stuff, as though they can pick and choose from his communist poo-poo platter, and that he will then be a normal Democrat
00:03:10.000Moving forward, don't worry, we'll get to Bernie Sanders in a little while and his surge because that should be frightening both Democrats who are looking straight in the face of radicalization and Republicans because the fact is that yes, Bernie Sanders would be an easier to beat candidate than somebody like Joe Biden, who's basically just a corpse at this point.
00:03:25.000But with that said, is it a good thing that 45% of the American population would then be radicalized around an openly communist agenda?
00:03:33.000And we'll get to all of that in just a little while.
00:03:35.000First, we got to talk about this Trump peace plan.
00:03:37.000So Trump brings out this peace plan yesterday.
00:03:40.000And his peace plan is effectively very simple.
00:03:42.000Basically, he acknowledges realities on the ground.
00:03:45.000That's what this Trump Middle East peace plan is.
00:03:46.000Now, what you're hearing from the media today is that Trump has changed the game in the Middle East.
00:03:51.000That Trump has abandoned prospects for peace.
00:03:54.000Now, what's hilarious about this is that prospects for peace have sucked always.
00:03:57.000The reason they have sucked always in the Middle East is because you have one side that would like to wipe the other side off of the map.
00:04:02.000Not a lot of prospects for peace over there.
00:04:04.000See, in order to understand the Middle East conflict, what you have to understand is one very simple truth.
00:04:08.000Israel has accepted every peace offer that has ever been put in front of it.
00:04:12.000And every single peace offer has been rejected by the Palestinians and the Arab world generally.
00:04:17.000Back in 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was first promulgated, that said that there would be a Jewish national home in Palestine, meaning now what would be Jordan as well as Israel.
00:04:28.000When that was first put out there, the Jews immediately accepted it.
00:05:54.000The borders in 1947 that Israel accepted and that the Arabs rejected has been termed by people living in Israel the Auschwitz borders because they're completely indefensible.
00:06:21.000You can travel that without traffic in the 47-48 borders.
00:06:24.000You can travel that in under 15 minutes.
00:06:28.000That is the width of the entire country in that particular area.
00:06:32.000If you've never been to Israel, you don't understand the geography, you don't actually understand what's going on, you don't understand how closely everything is packed together.
00:06:38.000Okay, so Israel accepts that, and the Arabs reject it, and they declare war.
00:06:42.000The Saudis, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Syrians, they all declare war on this new state The British, who are very much afraid of ticking off the Arabs because they didn't want to drive the Arabs into the arms of the Soviet Union, they refuse to allow Jews to immigrate to British Mandate Palestine.
00:06:58.000So during World War II, as the Holocaust is happening, the British Mandate is preventing Jews from moving in, specifically because they don't want to tick off the Arabs in the area.
00:07:24.000OK, this is when all of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem's international control and the Gaza Strip, all of that is delegated to the Arabs who had pre-67 borders.
00:07:34.000And then they launch an annihilation attack on the state of Israel and Israel fights back.
00:07:39.000Now, in the early stages of that of that war, Arabs are urged by the Arab leadership to flee the area specifically because they're supposed to get out of the way of the onrushing Arab armies that are going to come in and crush the Jews.
00:07:49.000So 100,000 Palestinian Arabs, Arabs who are living in the British Mandate Palestine and in the Jewish area of what will be the Israeli state of Palestine.
00:08:03.000Then, as the war progresses, it turns out that a lot of the Arab villages are actually fifth columns operating on behalf of the Arab armies, which is exactly what you would expect because this is an ethnic conflict.
00:08:13.000The Arabs are using these as bases of attack against the Jews.
00:08:16.000They're cutting off supply lines, supply rolls, and the Israelis put into place something called Operation Dalet, which says, we are not going to lock down our tiny army in guarding these villages that are effectively In many cases, a fifth column.
00:08:29.000Instead, we're going to tell people that they need to leave these villages and move over to the Arab side.
00:08:35.000Remember, when the State of Israel is declared, the State of Israel's Declaration of Independence urges the Arab citizens to stay.
00:08:49.000Jews lived as a minority in Arab countries for thousands of years.
00:08:51.000Why exactly should there not be one Jewish state where Arabs are a minority?
00:08:56.000And the assumption on the part of the Israeli leadership is that as all the Jews flowed into Israel from the other Arab countries and from Europe, that that would become a minority population, more of a minority population, the Arab population.
00:09:07.000People flee, and then the Israeli army in the second wave is fighting these battles, and in the middle of war, there's always population turmoil.
00:09:12.000People always leave to get out of the way of onrushing battles.
00:09:16.000And the Israeli army can't afford to be locked down, pinned down, trying to defend insurgent campaigns in certain villages, and so they clear the population out.
00:09:23.000Okay, so after the war ends, there are now something like anywhere from 400 to 700,000 Palestinian refugees.
00:09:29.000At the same exact time, Nearly the same number of Jews are expelled from Arab countries around the region.
00:09:35.000Like the reason that there are so many Moroccan Jews who live in Israel, the reason there are so many Iranian Jews living in Israel, the reason there are so many Syrian Jews living in Israel is because at the time of the Israeli founding, 700,000 Jews were expelled from the surrounding Arab countries and Israel took all of them in.
00:10:02.000The Arab states, instead of absorbing these populations into the general population, decides that they are going to keep these populations as refugees.
00:10:09.000So the first move is we are not going to actually allow them to return to the state of Israel.
00:10:14.000We're not going to allow them to move back to the state of Israel because that would be acknowledging that we lost the war and that they would have to then be Israeli citizens.
00:10:19.000Then very quickly, within about a year, the Arab leadership says, you know what would be great?
00:10:23.000Is if we could infiltrate the state of Israel with a bunch of people who are on our side and want to see the state of Israel destroyed.
00:10:28.000And at that point, the Israelis are like, well, guess what?
00:10:29.000We are not letting people back into the state where they fled their homes.
00:10:33.000We're not letting them back in just to...
00:10:36.000Stand in favor of the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:10:38.000Now, never in human history has it been the obligation of a state that was declared war on by its surrounding population to take in large numbers of members of people who are trying to destroy the state from within.
00:10:53.000And in the aftermath of every war, there are refugees.
00:10:55.000The idea of resettlement of the refugees back in their original homes has never really been a thing either.
00:11:00.000The fact is, in the aftermath of World War II, there were huge population transfers all over Europe.
00:11:04.000In the aftermath of the declaration of the division of Pakistan and India, there were tens of millions of people who were refugees and they were taken in by their new countries.
00:11:14.000The idea is that Indians would live in India, and Muslims would live in Pakistan, and the specific area where there is no separation, Kashmir, has been a hotspot ever since.
00:11:22.000But there's never been any call for the last 60 years for all of the Indians who were expelled from Pakistan and left Pakistan to have their original homes back in Pakistan, right?
00:11:31.000This has never been a negotiation point.
00:11:33.000The Palestinians then are used as a tool by the Arab world to club Israel into submission, and they're used as an excuse to claim that Israel ought to be destroyed.
00:11:42.000This is the so-called Right of Return.
00:11:44.000There's a great book on this, I recommended it yesterday, called The War of Return by a couple of leftist Israelis, one who is a former Labor MK, a member of Knesset, and one of whom is a journalist for Haaretz.
00:11:53.000Okay, so, I'm just explaining the history because you're not going to understand Trump's peace plan until you understand this.
00:11:57.000Okay, so, there's never been anything internationally that says that Jews cannot live in Judea and Samaria.
00:12:03.000The notion that it is somehow a violation of international law for the Jews who won a defensive war in 1948 to settle in the areas that they want is absurd.
00:12:10.000Okay, in 1964, the Arabs still have Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
00:12:15.000Egypt is in the Gaza Strip, but has not annexed it, specifically because it does not actually want the Palestinian population absorbed into the Egyptian population.
00:12:23.000Judea and Samaria have not been annexed by Jordan, right?
00:12:27.000They have not been technically annexed by Jordan for the exact same reason, but Jordan is ruling Judea and Samaria.
00:12:31.000Okay, this is a- So, the notion That Israel was always ruling all of these Arabs?
00:12:37.000The Palestine Liberation Organization, which is Yasser Arafat's organization, now the Palestinian Authority, which rules the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Area A. The Palestinian Authority, effectively, is founded in 1964.
00:12:49.000Now you might notice something with the timeline here.
00:13:00.000The Jordanians are in control of the Old City of Jerusalem.
00:13:02.000They've banned all Jews from entering the Old City of Jerusalem.
00:13:04.000They've discriminated against Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem.
00:13:07.000They've built barbed wire fences throughout Jerusalem.
00:13:09.000Hey, they already control Judea and Samaria, Egypt controls the Gaza Strip, and yet there's something called the Palestine Liberation Organization.
00:13:16.000What exactly are they seeking to liberate?
00:13:17.000Well, they make very clear in their charter what exactly they are seeking to liberate.
00:13:20.000Every square inch of territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
00:13:24.000In other words, the murder of every Jew in that region and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from that region, a second Holocaust.
00:13:29.000Okay, they've made this clear since 1964.
00:13:32.000Then the 1967 war happens, and all of the Arab countries, under the leadership of Nasser and Egypt, decide to mobilize against the Israelis.
00:13:39.000They decide that they're going to launch a second war of redemption against the Israelis.
00:13:42.000And the Israelis get wind of this, and the Israelis...
00:13:46.000Then kick back and launch a preemptive strike downing the Egyptian Air Force and in the famous Six Day War, taking over Judea and Samaria in a defensive action and taking over the Negev Desert as well.
00:13:57.000Well, they've already taken the Negev, but taking over the Sinai as well, radically expanding their boundaries.
00:14:02.000Israel's first move after the 67 war is to hand back the Sinai to the Egyptians, And to make peace overtures to the rest of the Arab countries who naturally enough reject that out of hand.
00:14:12.000Because again, Israel has never rejected a peace offer, a serious peace offer, and the Arabs have never accepted a peace offer.
00:14:18.000So they still refuse to accept the existence of the state of Israel.
00:14:33.000So for all the talk about religious tolerance, they launched a war on the holiest day of the Jewish year, when everybody is fasting and in shul.
00:15:04.000Israel, once again, fights all the way to the Suez Canal.
00:15:08.000By the way, it's worth noting that there was a 1956 war in here, too, in which the Egyptians and the Saudis closed off the Suez Canal to all Israeli shipping, they closed the Straits of Hormuz to all Israeli shipping, and Israel launched a preemptive war.
00:15:18.000By the way, in conjunction with the French and the British.
00:15:20.000It was only the Eisenhower administration, which was Arabist, which stopped the Israelis from liberating the Suez Canal.
00:15:25.000In any case, Israel is constantly fighting for its survival.
00:15:39.000Hey, and they end up expanding their territory into the Golan Heights, they end up expanding their territory again into the Sinai, and then they end up giving back the Sinai, right, in the 80- in the, uh, they actually won the Sinai, not in 67, but in 73.
00:15:51.000They end up giving the Sinai back, very promptly, to the Egyptians, and then they seek peace, right?
00:15:57.000The Israelis are constantly seeking peace.
00:16:01.000The Oslo Accords are Israel's attempt to bring back some form of leadership for the Palestinians and say, we don't want to control you people, please.
00:16:07.000Like, anybody who wants to control these folks can.
00:16:10.000Now, important to note, none of the Arab countries still, for 50 years at this point, right, by the 1990s, for 50 years, none of the Arab countries have actually taken in the Palestinians, except that the Palestinians have been living and working in all these Arab countries.
00:16:22.000So, the Palestinians are living and working in Jordan.
00:16:25.000The Palestinians are living and working in Lebanon.
00:16:27.000These are refugee camps 50 years after the fact.
00:16:29.000This has never existed in human history.
00:16:31.000A refugee camp 50 years after the fact.
00:16:33.000Funded by the UNRWA, one of the most despicable organizations on planet Earth.
00:16:37.000There are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in Kuwait.
00:16:39.000In fact, during the 1991 Gulf War, 200,000 Kuwaiti Palestinians are expelled because they were siding with Saddam Hussein.
00:16:47.000Nobody ever talks about that because that's Arabs expelling other Arabs, so nobody cares.
00:16:50.000Okay, so Israel then moves forward with Oslo.
00:16:53.000The innate promise of Oslo is that Israel will grant sovereignty to the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, a terrorist.
00:17:01.000They'll grant sovereignty to the Palestinian Authority in return for them acknowledging that Israel has a right to exist and leaving Israel alone.
00:17:15.000Immediately, there's a wave of violence after Oslo that nobody ever talks about.
00:17:19.000Then, in 2000, Israel comes back to the table with Bill Clinton brokering.
00:17:24.000And Ehud Barak, then the Prime Minister of Israel, offers an enormous deal to the Palestinians.
00:17:29.000Offers them half of Jerusalem, including control of the Temple Mount.
00:17:33.000Offers them 98% of the West Bank, the so-called West Bank, offers them control of the Gaza Strip, and Yasser Arafat walks away without a counteroffer and launches the second intifada.
00:17:57.000We don't want our young men and women being drafted into the army to go and have to defend territory that really the Palestinians are living in anyway.
00:18:04.000Yes, we have a legit claim on it, both by the laws of war and by the laws of history.
00:18:08.000But we're not going to, we don't want it.
00:18:11.000Ariel Sharon then initiates so-called disengagement from Gaza, pulls out, and the Palestinians immediately burn down every single greenhouse that the Jews leave behind, all these beautiful greenhouses and agricultural resources.
00:18:22.000The Palestinians go in and burn it, like, to the ground.
00:18:25.000And then they elect Hamas, a terrorist group, that uses the Gaza Strip as a staging area for rocket attacks and suicide attacks, which they've been doing ever since 2005, after Israeli disengagement.
00:18:35.000So there are no Jews in the Gaza Strip.
00:18:40.000Hey, meanwhile, the Israelis are still trying to cut a deal.
00:18:43.000So Ehud Olmert, who's the prime minister in 2008, this is right before Bibi is elected, and he's sort of the reason Bibi is elected.
00:18:49.000Ehud Olmert, in 2008, offers the Palestinians an even better deal than Ehud Barak offered.
00:18:55.000Again, 98, 99% of Judea and Samaria, plus control over portions of the old city of Jerusalem, plus a land bridge to the Gaza Strip, all of it, right?
00:19:07.000And Mahmoud Abbas, who is a holocaust denying piece of human debris, who supports terrorism, immediately rejects it, out of hand, without a counteroffer.
00:19:15.000Right, okay, so the reason I tell you this whole history is because this is the backdrop to Trump's peace deal.
00:19:20.000Trump's peace deal is in recognition of reality.
00:19:22.000The obstacle to peace in the Middle East is not and has never been the Israelis.
00:19:26.000The obstacle to peace in the Middle East is not Israel's willingness to give up territory, which Israel has shown willingness every single time this has been brought to the table.
00:19:33.000The obstacle to peace is not the quote-unquote Israeli settlements, which are just a recognition that Jews should be allowed to live in areas.
00:19:39.000Okay, the fact is, 20% of Israel is Arab.
00:19:42.0000% of the Palestine Authority is Jewish.
00:19:45.000There are signs on the roads in Israel that say, if you drive off this area of the road, right, you're driving along the road, there's a red sign off the side of the road.
00:19:52.000I mean, my producer Colton can testify to this because he's seen it.
00:19:57.000You're driving along the highway, okay, and it will say, if you stay on this road, there's a green sign, it's all fine, you drive off this road, the Israeli army is not in control of this area and cannot protect you, you are risking your life.
00:20:07.000Right, because if you're a Jew and you take a wrong turn into a Palestinian area, there is a solid shot they will pull you out of your car and you will be murdered.
00:20:13.000If a Palestinian mistakenly drives into Israeli territory, right, not violates the law and drives over the border and runs over a soldier or something, but mistakenly is let in, they go and have a nice cup of coffee and tell if you didn't go home.
00:20:25.000So you have to understand the internal dynamics.
00:20:28.000What the Trump administration did in this peace deal is they recognized a simple reality.
00:20:32.000And the simple reality is that unless the Palestinians get it through their skulls, and I'm talking about the Palestinian leadership because I think that a lot of Palestinians themselves would like to see this thing end.
00:20:40.000If the Palestinian leadership ever got it through their skulls, That Israel ain't going anywhere?
00:20:45.000So long as they believe that there is the prospect of a gradualistic destruction of the state of Israel, there will never be peace, there will be consistent violence, it will be continued forever.
00:20:54.000Israel would love no- My friend Dennis Prager says this all the time.
00:20:57.000If the Israelis put down their guns, the next day, there would be no Jews.
00:21:01.000If the Palestinians put down their guns, the next day there will be a Palestinian state.
00:21:06.000The Trump administration acknowledges this, the rest of the world refuses to, either because of complete ignorance and foolishness, or because of base, disgusting anti-Semitism.
00:21:15.000Because any objective observer of the situation would say that a militarily superior power willing to give up land, specifically in order to guarantee That there being less terrorism against its people is not the aggressor in the situation.
00:21:30.000Especially not when they've had to fight one, two, three, four, if you count the Gaza war, five, at least five defensive wars against the same folks and waves of terrorism throughout.
00:21:42.000Okay, we'll get to the actual plan in a second because there is something that the Trump peace plan does.
00:21:46.000It's not gonna be successful because the Palestinians will never accept the peace plan because Aba Eban, the former foreign minister for Israel once said, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
00:21:55.000In a second, I'll explain what actually did change on the ground thanks to Trump's peace proposal.
00:22:26.000It gives me handy tips and reminders about how to do nutrition, about how to do workouts.
00:22:30.000It gives me good information about the sort of tricks your brain plays on you to get you to move off of your diet and move off of your workout routine.
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00:23:13.000The reality on the ground is the reality on the ground.
00:23:14.000The Palestinians can either take it or leave it.
00:23:17.000That seems like a real answer to the situation, right?
00:23:20.000No pie-in-the-sky crap about how Israel is going to take in 5 million Palestinians because what the Palestinians want at this point is they want everybody who's been registered by the UNRWA as a Palestinian refugee over the last 70 years absorbed into Israel, which is an insanity.
00:23:41.000The UNRWA registers anybody as a Palestinian refugee who is the child or grandchild of a person who has claimed at any point, with or without evidence, to have lived inside of Israel.
00:23:52.000Hey, first of all, even if you believe that there is a right to live in quote-unquote Palestine, that would be inside the negotiated borders of Palestine, not in your quote-unquote old home.
00:24:04.000It ignores the fact that the responsibility for the refugees lies entirely with the Arab world that declared war on a state that was willing to accept its original borders as given by the United Nations.
00:24:14.000In any case, that's not going to happen.
00:24:16.000Everybody knows that's not going to happen.
00:24:17.000Even leftist negotiators who've been trying to work out this deal understand they always thought the right of return for the Palestinians was simply a bargaining chip.
00:24:24.000In reality, the right of return is the simple basis for everything the Palestinians want, which is the destruction of the state of Israel, which is why they've been teaching it with billions of American taxpayer dollars over the years in those UNRWA schools.
00:24:35.000OK, so this plan says there's no right of return.
00:24:39.000If Israel takes in a symbolic number of Palestinian refugees, they're willing to do that, but they're not absorbing millions of Palestinians who have been born over the years, not when they're being granted a state that's absurd.
00:24:49.000It's like it really it's ridiculous on every level.
00:24:52.000Also, Israel is not going to dismantle major Jewish centers.
00:24:55.000Now, again, people are like, oh, my God, how dare Trump suggest such a thing?
00:25:00.000Even the Clinton and Obama administrations recognized that Israel was never going to withdraw from areas like Efrat, which has, I think, what, 20,000, 30,000 people living there?
00:25:11.000They were never going to simply withdraw from that area.
00:25:13.000Instead, there would be land swaps or something.
00:25:15.000Trump says, listen, These are disputed areas.
00:25:18.000These are not quote-unquote Palestinian areas.
00:25:20.000These are disputed areas because, number one, Israel won these areas in a defensive war.
00:25:24.000Two, Israelis have a historic connection to the land.
00:25:27.000In fact, the most historic areas of Israel are not Tel Aviv and Haifa.
00:25:31.000The most historic areas of Israel are places that are in the West Bank, all right, or in Judea and Samaria.
00:25:40.000And also, Trump is recognizing, listen, the Palestinians can either take this thing or the situation on the ground is moving away from them because they refuse to accept a state.
00:25:49.000Because the truth is, Israel would be much more willing to deal with a state that was not trying to murder them at every turn than they are willing to deal with a terrorist state that is going to use its base as a launch point for attack.
00:25:59.000They're not going to go back to the Auschwitz borders of pre-67.
00:26:03.000So Trump makes this announcement, that is the basic announcement, you know, there will be foreign aid to the Palestinians, that they are going to open their economy, that economic aid will flow.
00:26:13.000Again, the Israelis accepted a horrible deal in 1940, a much worse deal than this one, in 1947.
00:26:19.000The Palestinians have rejected deals much better than this one at every turn.
00:26:22.000So what Trump is really doing here, what this really does show, is that the Palestinians are intransigent, again, because they're always intransigent, because their goal was never any sort of peace deal.
00:26:29.000It was the full-scale destruction of the state of Israel.
00:27:27.000That is only the history of the entire Middle East situation every single time ever in history.
00:27:31.000So here is a little bit of video from, I believe this one is from the West Bank, where Palestinians are burning things and rioting, which is not a giant surprise.
00:27:39.000Again, when you're indoctrinated for 70 years in the belief that if you just hold out long enough the Jews will disappear, then of course this is exactly what happens as soon as you are offered a state of your own.
00:27:47.000Remember, Israelis were offered a state of their own in 1947, a rump state that was indefensible without any arms to defend it, and they took it.
00:28:04.000A thousand no's to the deal of the century, according to Mahmoud Abbas.
00:28:10.000And so, this is what he had to say, this terror, this terrorist piece of garbage, as I'll explain in a second.
00:28:14.000Abbas, sends money to the families of terrorists, he names streets after terrorists, he celebrates them as martyrs, and yet he is purported to be the great peace partner for the Israelis.
00:28:23.000It's a joke, and it's a savage joke against Jews.
00:28:26.000The same week that the world celebrates, well, celebrates, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and you got all these people tagging Never Again on Twitter, the same people are like, oh, Mahmoud Mahmoud Bas, what a wonderful guy, literally wrote his thesis in grad school on Holocaust denial, And also happens to be a rabid anti-Semite who supports the murders of Jews pretty much anywhere it happens.
00:28:46.000Here is Mahmoud Abbas saying a thousand no's to the Trump peace deal.
00:28:52.000We describe it as a slap of the century, not a deal of the century, and by God, we are going to return it in several slaps to our adversaries.
00:29:04.000Up to this day, our situation never wavered and never changed.
00:29:09.000And today, after we have heard all this nonsense from the beginning to the end, we will say 1,000 times, no, no and no.
00:29:19.000So the media are playing this as if Trump had made a better offer, he wouldn't be saying a thousand times no.
00:29:23.000He was literally offered everything he could possibly want in 2008 by Ehud Olmert, and he rejected it.
00:29:30.000Okay, the fact is, until the Palestinian people oust their leadership and put people in place who want to make a peace deal, there will be no peace deal.
00:29:37.000Because the people, like, here's the truth.
00:29:38.000The reason Abbas walked away from the peace deal in 2008 is because Abbas knew that he would likely be killed by the terrorist groups he was making deals with if he made a deal.
00:29:46.000That's what actually happened in 2008.
00:30:36.000Because the lie that's been told by the left, and it is an absolute outright lie, is that at the center of all conflict in the Middle East lies the Israelis and the Palestinians.
00:30:44.000And if only we could solve this canker, then that would solve everything.
00:30:48.000Or if we could just fix this thing, if the Israelis would just be less intransigent and less mean and less cruel, and if they would just give the Palestinians what they want, then everyone would get along and the world would sing as one.
00:31:27.000The reason it's a smart plan is because the possibility of normalization of relations between a bunch of the Arab countries and Israel is very, very possible.
00:31:48.000Okay, that's being solved right now because this is just a recognition of what happens on the ground.
00:31:52.000And Trump says, listen, this is a realistic endpoint.
00:31:57.000And what you guys are, you know, what you guys are complaining about, I don't understand.
00:32:01.000Like, if you wanted to make a deal, you could have made a deal a thousand times before.
00:32:03.000Here's another opportunity to make a deal.
00:32:04.000If you keep rejecting deals, there will be no deal.
00:32:07.000Our proposal provides precise technical solutions to make Israelis, Palestinians, and the region safer and much more prosperous.
00:32:18.000My vision presents a win-win opportunity for both sides, a realistic two-state solution that resolves the risk of Palestinian statehood to Israel's security.
00:32:32.000Today, Israel has taken a giant step toward peace.
00:32:35.000Okay, so the media are just lying to you about this.
00:32:37.000The reason the media are lying, they say, a muted Arab response to Trump's Mideast peace plan.
00:32:41.000Well, you would expect that it would be somewhat muted, considering that Trump is basically saying the Israelis get to stay where they are, they get to continue to have a unified Jerusalem, and they continue to exist.
00:32:50.000That is running counter 180 degrees to everything that the Arab states have been saying for two genera- three generations at this point, and a thousand generations before that.
00:33:00.000Okay, this run- the fact that there was a muted response in favor of the plan is not a muted response, that's a massive success!
00:33:10.000I mean, that's like saying that somebody who wanted to murder somebody the other day now says, well, you know, I guess we can go to coffee.
00:33:43.000The editorial board of the Washington Post says, the Middle East peace plan amounts to another one-sided gift So the right wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they're trying to make it about Netanyahu.
00:34:24.000Because what I'm hearing is, if only Trump had kept banging his head against the wall, yelling at the Israelis, then things would have changed.
00:34:32.000sanctions for the annexation of settlements will, meanwhile, deliver a devastating blow to the prospects for a two-state resolution between Israelis and Palestinians.
00:34:39.000This, of course, misses the entire point.
00:34:41.000The idea here from the Washington Post continues to be the complete and ugly and stupid myth that all that's happening is a territorial dispute as opposed to a war of annihilation, a 60- to 70-year war of annihilation fought by Israel's enemies against the state of Israel.
00:34:55.000And doing that on the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz is pretty telling, is it not?
00:35:00.000The same people who are hashtagging Never Again, people like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, are supporting Hamas, which openly speaks of genocidal anti-Jewish hatred.
00:35:06.000So, I will take everything they have to say on this with a grain of salt.
00:35:10.000Again, if you believe that the real intransigent party in the Middle East has been the Israelis, it's because you don't know a damn thing, like zero things about the Middle East.
00:35:19.000In a second, we're going to get to everything impeachment-related, and we'll get to a little bit of 2020.
00:35:23.000But I wanted to give you the full-on analysis of everything that's happening with the peace plan because the media are lying to you.
00:35:28.000They are lying to you outright, just like they always do.
00:35:30.000They lied to you about Iran, and then Trump uses deterrence, and it works because the media don't know what they're talking about, and or they actively promulgate agendas that are counter to the interests of the West.
00:35:40.000I mean, really, there's no other way to read this.
00:35:42.000Anyway, we'll get to more of this in one sec.
00:35:43.000We'll get to impeachment and everything else.
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00:36:50.000He says Republican leaders said they don't currently have enough votes to block witnesses in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:56.000People familiar with the matter said, after his legal team concluded its efforts, to counter Democrats' charges that the president abused power and obstructed Congress.
00:37:03.000On the third and final day of presentations, lawyers tried to cast doubts on the importance and credibility of allegations by former National Security Advisor John Bolton about the president's motives for freezing aid to Ukraine.
00:37:13.000Pat Cipollone, who is the attorney for the president, he says, listen, this should end now.
00:37:17.000We've already heard everything that we need to hear.
00:37:19.000Here is Pat Cipollone making Trump's case for him.
00:37:21.000Overturning the last election and massively interfering with the upcoming one, would cause serious and lasting damage to the people of the United States and to our great country.
00:37:35.000The Senate cannot allow this to happen.
00:37:38.000It is time for this to end, here and now.
00:37:44.000So, we urge the Senate to reject these articles of impeachment for all of the reasons we have given you.
00:37:52.000Okay, there's only one problem with this, of course, and that is that President Trump has gotten into a firefight with one of the prospective chief witnesses.
00:37:58.000Now, the reason that's a problem is because then it looks like a Republican cover-up if they don't actually hear from the witness.
00:38:11.000Again, this was only forced by the fact that the President of the United States constantly craps all over his subordinates, and also the fact that the President of the United States has a bad habit Of immediately claiming that nothing has ever gone wrong, when in fact, if you just said, yeah, I had conversations with the Ukrainians, I talked to them about linking military aid to investigations, and you know what?
00:39:05.000If you're in favor of conservatism, if you want to see Trump reelected, and you would also like to see a Republican Senate, which seems like kind of a big thing, then what you would like here is for all the information to get out as early as possible.
00:39:16.000In all likelihood, and I said like 99.9% likelihood, there's nothing there that is impeachable.
00:39:22.000And then we move forward to the election.
00:39:24.000Okay, but people who are ripping on Collins and Romney, who are ripping on Murkowski, who are ripping on the Republicans in purple states who could lose their seats, all because Trump decided to make his stand on a dumb defense.
00:39:41.000today for a guy who couldn't get approved for the ambassador to the un years ago couldn't get approved for anything since begged me for a non-senate approved job which i gave him despite many saying don't do it sir takes the job mistakenly says libyan model on tv and many more mistakes of judgment gets fired because frankly if i listened to him we would be in world war six by now i don't know what happened to three four and five but and goes out and immediately writes a nasty and untrue All classified national security.
00:40:15.000Put aside the fact that Trump has never met a subordinate he will not crap on, which is why it's very difficult for him to get people to work for him, which is just bad policy generally.
00:40:38.000They shouldn't come at him, but at the same time, Why is he?
00:40:41.000He's now escalating a conflict with a chief witness, which puts Republicans in the position of either having to say that John Bolton is an outright liar and also we don't need to hear from him or John Bolton is telling the truth and the president is fibbing and we don't need to hear from him.
00:40:54.000Neither of those is a supremely tenable position.
00:40:56.000Here is Susan Collins, who again, I don't think is being supremely unreasonable.
00:40:59.000I know this is an unpopular view on the right.
00:41:01.000I do not think she's being unreasonable when she says that she is likely to support witnesses.
00:41:06.000I do know that but for the efforts that four of us made to ensure that that vote would occur, that it's unlikely that we would have had that opportunity.
00:41:18.000So I'm pleased that every senator will have the opportunity to vote on whether or not additional witnesses and documents are necessary.
00:41:29.000It is very likely that I'm going to conclude that, yes, we do need to hear from witnesses.
00:41:37.000OK, well, again, so the Republicans who are saying, well, it'll drag this thing out.
00:42:02.000Two weeks before the election, a bunch of witnesses come out and say a bunch of damaging things to Trump.
00:42:06.000Trump loses and the Republicans lose the Senate.
00:42:08.000That is the worst-case scenario for Republicans.
00:42:10.000The worst-case scenario is not that this thing drags out in the middle of primaries and people are bored with it, which is really what is happening right now.
00:42:16.000Nonetheless, here's Roger Wicker from Mississippi.
00:42:18.000Saying, I don't think that the testimony would be helpful at this point, so this is the battle inside the Republican caucus.
00:42:24.000I don't think the testimony of Ambassador Bolton would be helpful, because I basically think, in agreement with the very scholarly approach that Mr. Dershowitz gave, that there's no article there that is pronounced for impeachment Now, people are saying, like, why are you so sanguine about the possibility of having witnesses?
00:44:02.000Bernie Sanders' people invaded Joe Biden's campaign office in Iowa singing civil rights songs because apparently Joe Biden is now a segregationist.
00:44:12.000I'm gonna let it shine in Joe Biden's office.
00:44:17.000I'm gonna let it shine in Joe Biden's office.
00:44:33.000People who, like, think that Joe Biden is the root of all evil?
00:44:36.000Now listen, I'll admit that I'm enjoying the internecine warfare inside the Democratic Party because, hell, you know, karma is a hell of a drug, but at the same time, These people?
00:44:48.000OK, people for Bernie released an ad promoting Bernie Sanders as a perfume, which is weird because Bernie Sanders himself has said that he doesn't... I don't understand why the market should allow 16 different types of deodorant.
00:46:18.000By the way, I'm worried about Bernie as the nominee because there are only two possible outcomes.
00:46:21.000He runs and he loses, but he wins 45% of the vote for a full-on commie agenda, or two, he runs and he wins, in which case we have our first communist president.
00:46:58.000She has declared herself white in previous interviews.
00:47:02.000American Dirt, according to Vox, is the fictional account of a woman forced to travel with illegal immigrants after escaping from drug lords in Mexico.
00:47:09.000It tells the story of a mother and son, Lydia and Luca, Fleeing their home in Acapulco, Mexico for the U.S.
00:47:13.000after the rest of their family is murdered by a drug cartel.
00:47:16.000Lydia is a bookstore owner who never thought of herself as having anything in common with the migrants she sees on the news.
00:47:20.000But after she comes up with the plan of disguising herself by posing as a migrant, she realizes that it won't really be a disguise.
00:47:54.000There's an author's note at the beginning of the book.
00:47:55.000It says, at worst, we perceive illegal immigrants as an invading mob of resource draining criminals and at best a sort of helpless, impoverished, faceless brown mask clamoring for help at our doorstep.
00:48:04.000We seldom think of them as our fellow human beings.
00:48:06.000But now, now it turns out, and this is something I both like and hate.
00:48:11.000I like it because, again, karma is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
00:48:15.000At the same time, this is so disgusting and it's so stupid.
00:48:22.000She's not Hispanic and she wrote a book about illegal immigrants who are Hispanic, and now she's been accused of trauma porn and a form of cultural appropriation because she's telling the story of illegal immigrants while being white.
00:48:34.000She said in an interview, I worried that as a non-migrant and non-Mexican, I had no business writing a book set almost entirely in Mexico, set entirely among migrants.
00:48:41.000I wish someone slightly browner than me would write it.
00:48:43.000But then I thought, if you're a person who has the capacity to be a bridge, why not be a bridge?
00:48:49.000Why does the color of the skin, the person pushing for a particular political agenda, have to match the color of the skin of the characters in the book?
00:49:48.000People don't typically try to get into places that are less safe than the places they came from.
00:49:53.000And people are very upset about this, because they say that there was border-chic barbed wire at the centerpieces at America Dirt's book release party.
00:50:01.000There was concern that writers of color would never be offered a seven-figure advance.
00:50:04.000Selma Hayek originally endorsed the book, and then she backed off her endorsement.
00:50:23.000And Oprah is saying we have to rethink this and have a deeper conversation.
00:50:26.000Which again is sort of wonderfully delicious in terms of the karmic justice in all of this.
00:50:32.000Hey, Raffaella Zachariah has a piece over at CNN today criticizing American Dirt.
00:50:38.000It says, in part fueled by the book's breakout success, bitter controversy has sprung up around American Dirt.
00:50:42.000An increasing number of Mexican-Americans and Latinx writers and readers, by the way, the number of Latinos and Latinas in the United States who prefer to be referred to as Latinx is approaching zero, have objected to what they see as Cummins' appropriation and marketing of a story that isn't hers to a mainstream, largely white audience.
00:50:57.000Because obviously, if you're talking about an issue that affects brown people to a white audience, and you're a white person, that's supes racist.
00:51:05.000By the way, I wonder what they would have made of the Civil Rights Movement, wherein many white people were talking about the plight of black people to other white people.
00:51:11.000I wonder what- You know, there were zero black people who were sitting in the United States Senate, as far as I'm aware, at the time of the Civil Rights Act.
00:51:18.000So there were a lot of white people talking to a lot of other white people, and it was a really good thing, because that's how you got the Civil Rights Act.
00:51:23.000Many have denounced the book or taken to social media and other platforms to appeal to readers to, as Miriam Gerba put it on Twitter, read something told in our own voices.
00:51:31.000New York Times reviewer Parul Sehgal called the book enviably easy to read and determinably apolitical.
00:51:37.000And Oprah said, from the first sentence I was in, this helps explain why the book is such a problem, says the CNN writer.
00:51:43.000Again, this is a left-wing book about how evil America's immigration system is.
00:51:46.000What Sehgal and Oprah are describing is a book that is utterly absorbing to a passive reader, which is bad.
00:51:51.000You don't want books that people like.
00:51:55.000Typically, books that generate empathy in the absence of politics run into trouble, according to many critics, because the empathy feels empty.
00:52:02.000Typically, books that generate empathy in the absence of politics run into trouble, according to many critics, because the empathy feels empty.
00:52:08.000Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin stands as perhaps the best example of this phenomenon.
00:52:13.000Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of the leading drivers of abolitionist sentiment in the United States by virtually every historical account and maybe led to the election So if you're going to talk about books that are bad, you should not put Uncle Tom's Cabin on the list of books that are bad.
00:52:30.000Yes, it was written by a white lady about the plight of slaves and how evil slavery was, and it was written as a third-hand account.
00:52:36.000And slaveholders said that it was an exaggeration and all of this.
00:52:39.000And it was one of the great feats of American literature of the 19th century, and maybe in American history, specifically because it drove support for abolitionism.
00:52:47.000And here this person is saying that's not good enough.
00:52:54.000They're undercutting their own causes, so long as the person who's pushing the cause is not sufficiently, is not sufficiently leveled up in melanin.
00:53:05.000So that's why it's a thing I hate, because it's just another evidence that while I enjoy the woke left eating itself, and that's fun, while I enjoy watching these snowflakes devour one another, at the same time it is very bad for the country when identity politics is so strong that even if you push the left-wing agenda, if you don't have the right skin color, this is somehow cultural appropriation and very, very bad.
00:53:24.000This is the polarization and the destruction of the country in real time.
00:53:29.000I probably, from the reviews, probably wouldn't enjoy the book very much, but I will say that a white lady writing a book about the plight of illegal immigrants is not inherently a bad thing, and anyone who says it is is either an idiot or has a badly motivated view of what the United States ought to be.
00:53:44.000Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content, all your impeachment updates and all the rest.
00:53:48.000We'll see you a little bit later, or we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:54:23.000Hey everybody, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:54:26.000You know, some people are depressed because the American Republic is collapsing, the end of days is approaching, and the moon has turned to blood.
00:54:32.000But on The Andrew Klavan Show, that's where the fun just gets started.