00:00:55.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:25.000So sometimes when you wake up to news in Israel, you kind of grow accustomed to, you know, rockets going back and forth, 10 people dead, 15 people dead.
00:01:38.000I'm not minimizing that suffering, but you kind of grow accustomed to that news cycle with Israel.
00:01:42.000Every couple of years, there's an operation or a border dispute.
00:01:47.000I mean, Israel has been in some form of a conflict my entire life.
00:03:10.000And then 70 dead, then 150 dead, and then 200 dead, and then 350 dead, and then 500 dead, and then 800 dead, and 100 people taken as hostages.
00:03:26.000And I was watching this and I was growing numb, to be honest.
00:03:51.000We're going to show what is the West Bank.
00:03:52.000We're going to go through all of that.
00:03:54.000But I got to be very honest with you here.
00:03:57.000I want to make sure we ask the right questions.
00:03:59.000As someone who has visited the very gate, I have been to the very gate that these terrorists went through from Hamas.
00:04:09.000I am scrambling for an explanation, anybody to explain to me what the heck happened in Israel over the weekend.
00:04:20.000Yes, we know that there were allegedly, some people say that there was paragliders and people penetrating the fence and rockets, 5,000 rockets that went through the Iron Dome.
00:05:13.000Israel is by far the most alert country in the world.
00:05:18.000I remember when I went to Hebron or the Golan Heights or went to the Gaza Strip, there's nothing but young 19 or 20 year olds with automatic machine guns walking the streets.
00:05:29.000I mean, at a coffee shop, at a bar, at a restaurant.
00:05:32.000It is without a doubt the most militarized country that I've ever been to.
00:05:36.000Maybe the most militarized country in the world.
00:06:15.000It's like the size of Queens, New York, 2.5 million people.
00:06:19.000There's only so many attack vectors that Hamas could go through.
00:06:24.000And you're trying to tell me on the 50-year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, one of the most holy days, we know Arabs like to attack on holy days, okay?
00:07:47.000Now, he doesn't speak the best English, so that's his, but that's actually, it's the best he can.
00:07:51.000The language had to be cleaned up a little bit.
00:07:54.000Usually there's helicopters flying all over the place.
00:07:56.000And I just want to, I don't know what the complete picture is here, but you're trying to tell me that the CIA, Mossad, Israeli intelligence, everybody missed this.
00:08:08.000It's not, I want you to understand this is not like the United States southern border, where you have 2,800 miles where someone could go through.
00:08:38.000And now Israel is planning a ground invasion of Gaza.
00:08:41.000Before they do that, somebody should say, have you guys fixed the intelligence bug in your own operating system?
00:08:48.000Is this a trap that you guys are going into?
00:08:51.000Have you purged the traitors in your midst?
00:08:54.000And more importantly, has America cautioned Israel to measure twice and cut once before you pull 300,000 reservists to go into Gaza?
00:09:05.000And I could go into the detail, the horror and the barbarism by these Muslims, what these Muslims did to kidnap these young girls, rape them, murder them, indiscriminate killing.
00:09:19.000Before, I just have to re-emphasize this, and anybody is welcome to email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:45.000Because it's one of, it's only a couple explanations.
00:09:48.000Israel is completely, they are completely incompetent, and they have no idea what they're doing, and they really don't have much of a border.
00:09:56.000Or maybe they had an intelligence failure.
00:09:58.000I'm not sure, but this is one of the more bloody and horrific days in Jewish history, let alone Israeli history.
00:10:06.000Not to mention nine Americans also killed.
00:10:08.000It's hard not to just be emotional with the suffering that is occurring right now in Israel.
00:10:15.000These savage animals, in the name of Islam, go and just, they just mow down young girls.
00:10:22.000They kidnapped, you know what they said?
00:10:24.000They said, we have kidnapped the girls, we killed the ugly ones, and we're raping the pretty ones.
00:10:34.000First, I just want to reiterate, very, very hard for me to understand how Israel, the most fortified country on the planet, allows this to occur.
00:10:43.000Israel is the freest society in a desert of totalitarianism.
00:10:47.000The Israeli government's far from perfect.
00:10:49.000There's plenty that I could say I don't like what they do.
00:10:51.000It's a very complicated country, and I don't get involved in Israeli politics, but why should I?
00:10:57.000But Israel has a right to exist, and Israel has a right to defend itself 100%.
00:15:01.000But then there's this other problem, child, which is actually the bigger problem right now.
00:15:05.000And that's where all the attention is being directed.
00:15:07.000You have to wonder, are the Arabs trying to get Israel to dedicate all their military forces to Gaza and they're going to be invaded from the north or from another direction?
00:17:57.000But Gaza used to be controlled by the Israeli government.
00:18:00.000There was something called the Oslo Accords that Bill Clinton brokered, which basically started the withdrawal of Israel out of Gaza in the pursuit of peace.
00:18:33.000It became like a hot box of fury and intensity and rage because they basically were able to get so many young men in the hot box of Gaza to say, see, Israel is blockading us.
00:18:47.000And then Israel said, let's blockade you more because you launch rockets.
00:18:50.000And it started this kind of cascade of negative interventions where Gaza, which again is controlled by a terror organization, Hamas, which is supported by Iran, which again, Joe Biden is awfully friendly with, it just creates this intensity that rises and rises and rises.
00:19:14.000Here's the best way I could explain it that is essentially ruled by a cartel, except they claim to follow the will of Allah, that they're following the will of the Islamic caliphate, or they're trying to recreate the caliphate, and that they feel as if they're on the right side of history.
00:19:28.000And it kind of has become a cesspool, to be perfectly honest.
00:19:30.000It's very poor, densely populated, and Hamas, they use children and women as human shields.
00:19:41.000So now this weekend, Hamas brings in 800 militants and they do some of the most medieval, bloody, inexplicable war crimes that we've seen in the modern era.
00:19:56.000Now understand when the bad guys say decolonization, this is who they are.
00:20:02.000Absent Israel, this is what the Middle East is.
00:20:05.000Raping, torturing, kidnapping, mutilation, using human shields.
00:20:12.000If you don't believe me, look at the protests in the streets.
00:20:14.000In America, 500 years ago, Western laws imposed the death penalty for these things.
00:20:22.000This idea of just war, which came from Augustine, this idea of trying to fight a cleaner war, which I know sounds weird, but you don't fire on hospitals.
00:21:24.000So we understand, obviously, that Hamas is leading these attacks.
00:21:28.000Do we know if other groups are involved as well?
00:21:31.000Well, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is involved as well, and both of them are working very closely with Iran that provides them with the arms, with technologies, with the ideas, how to operate.
00:21:42.000We know that the leadership of Hamas, together with the leadership of Hezbollah, were meeting recently the leadership of Iran.
00:21:49.000So I'm sure that the Iranians are involved.
00:21:52.000The Hamas leadership calls on the Palestinians in the West Bank to join in as well.
00:21:58.000Okay, so Hezbollah is another terror organization to the north that is domiciled in Lebanon.
00:22:24.000New York Post, 31 Harvard organizers blame Israel for Hamas, saying Israel, the Hamas attack, is entirely responsible.
00:22:33.000More than 30 students at Harvard University are holding Israel entirely responsible for the Hamas slaughter, sparking outrage, condemnation, and calls by a congresswoman for the Ivy League School to denounce the abhorrent and heinous support of evil and terrorism.
00:22:49.000This is what Harvard University is producing.
00:22:52.000In a letter titled Joint Statement by the Harvard-Palestine Solidarity Group on the Situation in Palestine, 31 student organizations, including the Ivy League affiliate of Amnesty International, condemned Israel, even as its residents are kidnapped.
00:23:08.000More than 700 have been killed by the terror organization.
00:23:12.000And they're just getting warmed up if they have their way.
00:23:14.000Let's play another piece of tape here.
00:25:26.000He said that, and I'm going to read his quote exactly.
00:25:30.000The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA through our totally open southern border at record numbers.
00:25:36.000Are they planning an attack within our country?
00:25:38.000I'm not trying to make you panic or trying to make you in a state of fear or afraid, but Israel's border is far more secure than our border.
00:27:38.000Do you know that there is a Jewish law in Deuteronomy that says if you win a war, that if you see a woman that you like, not only are you not allowed to rape the woman, but you must take her home, let her mourn her family for 30 days, and then you may only touch her if you take her as your wife.
00:30:25.000The Muslims, we overreacted after 9-11, and that wasn't a good thing.
00:30:31.000We got into several no-win wars, lost 4,500 people in Iraq, spent trillions of dollars, demoralized our nation.
00:30:38.000The Muslims' playbook is surprise attack, use children and women as human shields, build international support that can then get consensus against Israel, and people will forget that Israel was attacked in the first place.
00:32:40.000Well, we were in synagogue on Saturday morning, and a large part of Israel's population would have been in synagogue.
00:32:49.000Saturday morning wasn't just a regular Shabbat morning, it was a Shabbat morning, and it was also a biblical holiday found in Leviticus chapter 23.
00:32:58.000It's called the eighth day, and it's a day of significance to Christians as well as Jews.
00:33:04.000And all of a sudden, during the early part of the service, sirens went off, and these are sirens that are set up to automatically detect incoming rockets.
00:33:19.000And rapid and very sophisticated computer programming determines the rocket trajectory.
00:33:27.000And then sirens in the target vicinity are set off.
00:33:32.000And Israelis all know to make for their shelters when that happens.
00:33:38.000Every building, every synagogue, every hospital, every school has a bomb shelter or a rocket shelter.
00:33:45.000And that was how it began, although it had begun earlier down south at dawn when about a thousand terrorists broke through the Gaza fence and penetrated as far as about 10 miles into Israel, attacking about 20 settlements and starting to murder.
00:34:11.000By the end of the day, they'd killed about 800 people.
00:34:15.000Now, Charlie, can I just put that into context?
00:34:20.000Israel's got a population of about 7 million Jews.
00:34:24.000That's about the same as the population.
00:34:27.000Actually, it's a little less than the population of the state of Georgia.
00:34:46.000The equivalent impact would be about 30,000 people killed in a day in the United States by some concerted terrorist attacks.
00:34:56.0009-11, you'll remember, was just under 3,000 victims.
00:35:01.000And the impact over the last two days in Israel has been 10 times what America felt on 9-11 Israel is feeling during this period.
00:35:12.000And it's also incredibly traumatic because the Israel Defense Force, the IDF, has always been seen as almost unbeatable, almost a magical force of mythical strength and effectiveness.
00:35:34.000And something really, really bad went wrong on Saturday and Sunday.
00:35:42.000Obviously now nobody's doing investigations, but I assure you there will be a major investigation when this is all over.
00:35:49.000And all over probably means a land invasion.
00:35:55.000based on the mobilization calls, the likes of which Israel has never seen in its history.
00:36:00.000The mobilization is so extensive that one would have to assume that a land invasion of Gaza is now being planned.
00:36:12.000So, Rabbi, what I don't understand is how this logistically happened.
00:36:18.000Egypt warned Israel repeatedly that something big was happening.
00:36:24.000Before a ground invasion, are there calls internally for some people to say, let's figure out what went wrong?
00:36:31.000Because if there are traitors in the Israeli government, wouldn't it be wise or prudent to try to resolve that beforehand?
00:36:41.000And then as far as the everyday Israeli citizen, I'm sure that there is more unity now than almost ever before, where even a week and a half ago, it was a country that felt as if it was almost on the verge of a soft civil war, given all the judiciary conflict.
00:37:00.000Please go through those two questions.
00:37:37.000I don't think that anybody is seriously contemplating treachery in the Israeli government or in the Israeli army, but shocking incompetence.
00:37:50.000And as far as Egypt's warnings, so yes, you know, afterwards, there are always people who claim, well, I told them and I told them the trouble is that Israel gets about two or three of these warnings every week.
00:38:05.000And it's really difficult, isn't it, to keep up a high level of vigilance month after month, year after year, when not a whole lot is happening.
00:38:17.000Part of the problem that will, I think, come out is that the 70 kilometers, say 50 odd miles of Gaza border fence have largely been guarded digitally, electronically.
00:38:32.000And somehow or another, maybe with the help of Iran, nobody knows yet, but somehow that was hacked.
00:38:40.000And the Hamas operatives themselves have made videos boasting about how shocked they were that they were not challenged for the first few hours.
00:38:52.000They didn't expect this kind of success.
00:38:55.000And again, Israel's primary military doctrine has always been battles on the enemy's territory.
00:39:04.000We do whatever it takes to make sure that the war doesn't occur on Israeli soil where Israeli, again, the, you know, the death of millions of Jews in the 20th century during the Holocaust through the Nazis still hangs very heavily on the Jewish consciousness.
00:39:23.000And And so this is like a major thing.
00:39:27.000And the fact that these people, about a thousand of them, invaded Israeli soil and committed massacre and mayhem for up to several hours, maybe as many as five hours.
00:39:40.000Israelis will never forget the anguished phone calls from besieged victims who were watching people being killed, calling, where is the army?
00:39:51.000This is unprecedented and it will leave permanent changes.
00:39:56.000So, Rabbi, in just about a minute, do you think that this will be a prolonged conflict or do you think that this will be rather surgical, similar to the six-day war?
00:40:08.000Bibi Netanyahu says this could take up to months.
00:40:12.000Being in the region, do you think that this is actually might be the start of something quite long and unfortunately bloody?
00:40:20.000It's very, very problematic because Israel has never planned for a long engagement.
00:40:27.000As a matter of fact, the 73 war went much longer than anyone expected.
00:40:33.000And honestly, without Richard Nixon, who went against the wishes of the State Department, even against the wishes of Henry Kissinger, but he claimed that it was his mother's love for Israel.
00:40:48.000Richard Nixon resupplied 22,000 tons of military material in 256 flights of United States Air Force cargo.
00:41:01.000And so the problem is that Israel is not geared for a very long, drawn-out campaign.
00:41:06.000But on the other hand, what they plan to do in Gaza, in my view, is not something that will happen in five days.
00:41:14.000So Rabbi, help us respond to what some people would say.
00:41:18.000Some people will say Israel is an apartheid state, that we must free Palestine.
00:41:24.000How would you respond to this idea that Israel is an aggressor, apartheid state?
00:41:34.000I think it's really important for people to understand and for people to be helped to understand that virtually every struggle in the world today, almost every crisis and every conflict is a conflict between civilization and barbarism.
00:41:54.000And civilization as we know it, Western civilization, is essentially a direct product of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:42:07.000Civilization springs from the pages of scripture, from the pages of the Bible.
00:42:13.000And so the Israel conflict in the Middle East, again, it's a conflict between barbarism and civilization.
00:42:22.000And you don't need to be Jewish to know which side is which.
00:43:19.000I think it's thoroughly irresponsible for so much of American armament to be being deployed in that part of the world.
00:43:27.000I think it's irresponsible in the extreme to drive Russia, India, and China into forming their own economic union, which is almost certainly going to result in the displacing of the dollar as the world reserve currency in the foreseeable future.
00:43:45.000And so to merely label Israel as an apartheid state is the same technique as trying to label people racist or bigoted or sexist.
00:43:59.000And the fact is kind of funny that if Israel is an apartheid state, you know, why would it be that so many doctors in Hadassah hospital are Arabs?
00:44:12.000Why is it that so many medical students in Haifa are Arabs?
00:44:16.000Why is it that Arabs sit in the Israeli parliament?
00:44:21.000What Muslim country in the world has Jews or Christians sitting in their governing body?
00:44:27.000What other nation in the world has Jews or Christians being allowed to build churches?
00:44:36.000And so this whole charge is part of the left strategy of not engaging in substantive discussion and factual debate, but merely flinging accusations and terms around, which become automatically scurrilous indictments without any analysis at all.
00:46:20.000And I pray that the bloodshed can be limited and that some form of justice can be served while innocents on both sides don't have to die unnecessarily.
00:49:06.000Obviously, I think that there's going to be a reckoning in the days ahead.
00:49:10.000I think Israel is on a full war footing.
00:49:14.000And I think there's going to be real payback in terms of the attack that are coming against Hamas.
00:49:21.000I hope that they uproot Hamas, totally destroy it as a force, and maybe then we can actually have peace in the Middle East.
00:49:28.000I think it's also worth noting that the Biden administration over the last four years has been flooding the Iranian regime with billions and billions of American dollars, has taken a soft stance on sanctions.
00:49:41.000All of the good work President Trump did deterring the Iranians from funding and supporting terrorism throughout the region is now for naught because of weakness in the American administration.
00:49:52.000I think that's a key piece of this story as well.
00:49:56.000So, Will, I want to focus on one part of this.
00:49:59.000So, the American response has been the government, whatever, I'm talking about the grassroots, has been reprehensible, what I've seen in the streets.
00:50:09.000So, we see 30 organizers at Harvard University saying that they support Palestine 100%.
00:50:18.000Then you have like BLM activists saying something very similar.
00:50:21.000And now, in academic circles, you're starting to see this phrase over and over again: decolonization, decolonization, decolonization.
00:50:31.000Will walk our audience through intersectionality.
00:50:35.000How all of a sudden a BLM activist or somebody fighting for queer rights or whatever has changes their costume and they show up on Sunday with a Palestinian flag.
00:50:52.000What is the academic reason for intersectionality and the threat it poses to America?
00:50:59.000So, on the woke left, there's this idea that all oppression essentially stems from Western civilization, from Western institutions, and Western governance structure.
00:51:12.000So if you adopt that view, if you adopt the view that people all over the world are being oppressed by the same network of organizations, which we would call Western civilization, America and its allies, American institutions, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, liberalism, small L liberalism.
00:51:31.000If you adopt that view, then it's like if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
00:51:40.000I mean, the same LGBT activists who, if they showed up in Gaza, would probably be tossed off the top of a building are out in the street chilling for Hamas.
00:51:49.000The fact that we have Americans all over this country demonstrating in favor of one of the most vicious terrorist groups in the world is shameful.
00:51:58.000And I think Americans need to understand what's going on here.
00:52:04.000We have the leftist movement in America has been totally hijacked by the craziest, by the most violent radicals in the world.
00:52:12.000And we have congressmen, my own congresswoman, Corey Bush, who's one of the absolute worst members of the squad.
00:52:19.000I mean, she's out there essentially shilling for Hamas right now.
00:52:31.000This comes from a series of academic papers and now a whole school of thought that the West is the problem for all of our problems, is the reason for all of our problems, right?
00:52:41.000Homophobia, colonialism, misogyny, all that sort of stuff.
00:52:45.000And they loop it all together and they say we are all allies in this fight for justice.
00:52:52.000Rashida Talib this weekend, Congresswoman Rashida Talib, blamed Israel for the violence and accused Israel of apartheid.
00:53:02.000So Will, for those in the audience that are not as read into all the complexities of what's happening in Israel, talk a little bit about the history and respond to now this new narrative.
00:53:15.000Because Will, I'll be honest, even in some of the Instagram comments I'm getting, people that they say, Charlie, I usually love you, but this pro-Israel stuff, Israel is an apartheid state and they're committing genocide.
00:53:26.000So walk us through this, Will, because there's a lot of people that have been told to hate Israel and they haven't really thought deeply about the topic.
00:53:33.000So in 1947, the United Nations attempted to partition an area of the world that was at the time controlled by the British Empire into a Jewish state and an Arab state.
00:53:45.000The Jews accepted it and declared the state of Israel.
00:53:48.000The Arabs invaded and attempted to destroy the state of Israel and drive the Jews into the ocean.
00:54:20.000Israeli Arabs, Israeli Arab citizens have more rights in Israel than Arabs do in any Arab governed state in the world.
00:54:29.000Israel has Arab members of the Knesset.
00:54:31.000They've had Arab members of the Israeli Supreme Court.
00:54:34.000Israel, in terms of rights, in terms of the Western conception of a society governed by right, by the law, Israel is far and away the most advanced, the most liberal state in the Middle East, small ill liberal, of course.
00:54:53.000What we have right now is a number of terrorists.
00:54:56.000Hamas is a terrorist organization internationally recognized, a number of terrorists who are holding the entire region hostage.
00:55:04.000They're being funded and abetted by the Iranians, one of our greatest foes in the world.
00:55:08.000Americans need to understand that, you know, this may start with Israel, but it's going to come to us as well.
00:55:14.000Americans were killed in the attack the other day.
00:55:17.000Americans are currently being held hostage in Gaza.
00:55:20.000We need to understand which side we're on here.
00:55:22.000And I promise you, we are not on the terrorist side, and they are not on our side.
00:55:27.000The savagery and the barbarism is hard to even grasp.
00:55:33.000And thank you for going through all that, Will, because the amount of antagonism and nastiness that is thrown at Israel is quite remarkable.
00:55:44.000And it's from people that you otherwise would be like, why are you so focused on Israel?
00:55:49.000Will, what is your answer to why the UN and all these international organizations are so focused on this relatively small country, the size of New Jersey, right?
00:56:06.000And you think about this, you know, Hamas or Gaza or Jordan.
00:56:10.000You have, what, 50-plus Arab-dominated countries, the Middle East, and the Jews want one little sliver.
00:56:17.000What is it about Israel that gets the Muslims, the globalists, the internationalists so fired up?
00:56:24.000Yeah, I mean, look, I think a piece of it is anti-Semitism, but I think it goes beyond that.
00:56:29.000As you said, you have a ton of Arab countries who historically have always rather, you know, they've always wanted to be able to distract their people with this conflict against Israel as opposed to dealing with the very real issues in their own societies and their own cultures.
00:56:45.000What we saw under President Trump with the Abraham Accords was a fundamental rejection of that premise.
00:56:51.000It was the greatest sort of ray of hope for Middle Eastern peace in generations.
00:56:55.000Unfortunately, we've seen a lot of that unwind in the last few years under Joe Biden.
00:57:01.000But when you look at the UN, when you look at these international organizations, they'd much rather beat up on Israel rather than talk about the fact that China has millions of Uyghurs in concentration camp.
00:57:13.000They'd much rather talk about Israel than about human rights abuses in any number of other countries around the world.
00:57:20.000Because as you said, Israel is a small country.
00:57:27.000I mean, Israel probably shouldn't get the attention that it does from these sorts of international organizations.
00:57:33.000I think a piece of it is anti-Semitism.
00:57:35.000And I think a piece of it is that Israel is a convenient whipping boy if you don't want to address the very real issues around human rights, around democracy, around rights-respecting government around the world.
00:57:47.000I do want to try to get to your story about the Trump indictment, but all the energy right now is about Israel and how this could turn into a regional conflict.
00:57:55.000And I have yet to be satisfied by any answer.
00:58:00.000And I've been looking around how on earth Hamas was able to penetrate that border.
00:58:07.000I'm not a military expert, but I just look at this and I say, wait a second, before you guys invade Gaza, can you figure out the intelligence failure?
00:58:14.000Because maybe you have more intelligence failures and more traitors in the midst.
00:58:18.000Maybe they have some traitors in Mossad.
00:58:23.000Add more detail about Iran's role and Joe Biden funding Iran.
00:58:28.000So Iran funds any number of terrorist groups all over the Middle East.
00:58:33.000With respect to Israel, the two key players are obviously Hamas, which controls the Gaza script, and then Hezbollah, which controls much of the country of Lebanon.
00:58:43.000Iran has been a prime actor in this region for a long time through what's called the IRGC, which is a component of the Iranian military, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
00:58:55.000That's sort of their key entity for exporting terrorism around the region.
00:59:00.000What we know now is that IRGC officers, Iranian officers, were actively meeting with Hamas and Hezbollah operatives and leaders in Lebanon within the last month or two.
00:59:13.000Iran is a principal source of both funding and weapons for Hamas.
00:59:18.000It's tough to see how Iran did not have a role in these attacks.
00:59:23.000So far, what we've heard is denials that Iran had a direct role.
00:59:28.000But certainly in terms of financing and arming Hamas, Iran is the key player behind this sort of activity and needs to be held accountable.
00:59:37.000You may remember when Donald Trump was president, the head of the IRDC was a general named Qasem Soleimani.
00:59:46.000After the IRGC started attacking American-occupied military bases in Iraq, Trump had Soleimani killed in a drone strike.
00:59:55.000That was the sort of approach we took to Iranian exporting of terrorism in the region under President Trump.
01:00:02.000Unfortunately, under President Biden, as I said before, we've seen now, I think, close to $10 billion of money shipped to Iran for various purposes in the, I think, the misbegotten hope of resurrecting the Iran nuclear deal.
01:00:46.000And if you have a passport, if you're an American passport holder, that needs to be a guarantee that we're going to do everything we possibly can to get you out of harm's way.
01:00:55.000Answer those two questions, Will, as we summarize all this.
01:01:42.000I believe one of the easiest ways for us to fight against Iranian terrorism, making it into the homeland here and threatening American interests abroad, is giving Israel the tools they need to deal with Iranian terrorism on their perimeter.
01:01:58.000In terms of the Saudi issue, obviously a key goal of American foreign policy in that region for a long time has been the rapprochement between Israel and key Arab powers like Saudi Arabia, like the United Arab Emirates, and like Egypt.
01:02:13.000I think under President Trump, we made great strides in that respect.
01:02:17.000Obviously, the Abraham Accords, but also increased security cooperation between Israel and Egypt and Israel and Saudi Arabia.
01:02:25.000Before these attacks, it appeared that we were on a path towards full normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which would have been a major win for those of us who care about American interests in the Middle East.
01:02:39.000Unfortunately, these attacks may derail that as public pressure on the Saudi government ramps up in the coming days as Israel starts to do what they have to do to guarantee their security.
01:02:50.000I do think it's important to note, though, that the United Arab Emirates put out a statement supporting Israel, condemning Hamas.
01:02:57.000It was in many respects a much more positive, aggressive statement than we've seen from many aspects of American society and American congressmen.
01:03:06.000So I think it's fortunate that at least in some respects, the peace that we've attempted to broker between Israel and our Arab allies in the Middle East over the last decade seems to be holding.