"They ACTUALLY Like Each Other" - Trump ANNOUNCES 3-Week Israel–Lebanon Ceasefire Extension
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In this episode, we talk about the recent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, Trump's comments about the two countries, and why he thinks they like each other. We also talk about Iran and its influence in the Middle East.
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President Trump comes out. Rob, do you have this with the Lebanon and Israel?
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He comes out saying Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to be extended by three weeks.
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Okay? By three weeks. And he said maybe they even like each other.
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Well, thank you very much. And I'm told this is a rather historic meeting
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because these countries have been bordering each other for many, many years.
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And it doesn't happen much, although they like each other.
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I found that out today, and I've sort of heard about that.
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They actually like each other, Lebanon and Israel.
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And we had a great meeting with the very high officials of Lebanon and very high officials of Israel.
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And we think that the president of Lebanon and the prime minister of Israel over the next couple of weeks will be coming here.
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They've agreed to an additional three weeks of, I guess, no firing, ceasefire.
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We hope that happens. It's not going to happen between them, but they do have Hezbollah to think about.
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Okay. So, Ilan, where do you stand with this?
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I think Trump's hilarious, number one, saying that they like each other.
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Look, do I think in the future that there's a possibility that Lebanon, once you have a decay of Hezbollah, that they form better relations with Israel?
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I would love for that to happen, but not right now.
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So I think the, you know, look, I think it shows Trump has actual tremendous influence in the region over Israel.
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You know, as much as people say Israel's controlling the United States, here you have an example where, once again, Trump pushed for Israel to do something, and they listened, they abided.
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And I think deep down Trump is, you know, this is going to sound weird.
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Trump came in hoping to create more stability and peace in the region.
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I think in his own weird way, he's actually accomplishing it.
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I would really like to see more stability between Lebanon and Israel.
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Tom. Well, B.B. Netanyahu has never been the easiest guy for U.S. presidents to deal with at all.
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And you've seen you've heard things from Trump.
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You know, hey, we liked a couple of the guys, but they killed him.
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Sort of signaling there is maybe not perfect alignment there with the battle plans and stuff.
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And I think what he's talking about here, I think behind closed doors, you know, some diplomacy got done.
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And I think they got some progress here because if it is truly a three-week ceasefire to put some accords in place, that's good for the innocent citizens that are all over Lebanon, the Christian citizens that are there that have nobody representing them.
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You know, rockets in the morning go to the south toward Israel, rockets in the afternoon go to the north toward Lebanon, and I'm underneath both of them, right?
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So I think some diplomacy got done, and I think it is kind of funny to say they've been neighbors for many years.
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But to come back and say, you know, hey, they like each other.
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I think he's trying to put out an olive branch there,
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people are sick and tired of fighting wars every single day,
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every single year, every single decade since 1948 in that region.
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And then, again, since 1979, I think people of Lebanon are sick and tired of their country being hijacked by Iran.
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The whole conversation about, you know, Israel controls America.
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But you know who actually controls Lebanon? Iran.
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Because what did they used to call Lebanon many, many decades ago?
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Now it's the Iran of the Middle East, just not the Gulf side of things.
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The people of Lebanon, and I have a lot of friends that are Lebanese.
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You know who they hate more than Israel, the IDF?
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You said 80% this conversation you had with Kiriakou, where he was just plain wrong.
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He said, you said, you said 80 to 90% of people of Iran are sick and tired of the IRGC.
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follow the numbers follow the money it's the exact same thing going on in lebanon and here's
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the last point speaking of follow the money and stability through strength if you look at
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your neighbors right in the the golan heights whatever's covering lebanon syria that area
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if you look over you look at israel 50 years ago the economy wasn't that great they weren't a
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capitalist society now you look over from lebanon you look over some syria israel is one of the
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greatest uh economic booms we've ever seen especially the middle east israel is the silicon
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valley of the middle east and you're in iran sorry and you're in uh in in lebanon and you're
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in syria and you're gaza and you're looking over and you're like these damn jews what did they do
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it's like they just worked earned saved and invested where you're trying to build terror
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tunnels they're building capitalist cities and i think the good people of lebanon who are some of
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the worst in the misery index unemployment and inflation are like can we just have a normal
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freaking life and not fight every single day of our life yeah and have a good society for our
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kids to grow up in let's do it and that's i think cooler heads i mean i think in regard to the
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ceasefire great anytime there's people not dying is amazing i just and i keep going back to what
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is what is victory going to be because i don't think the tail like where you have to get rid of
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the terrorists okay so that'll it'll be a good three weeks hopefully it lasts but it will never
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end it'll never end pat i guess they already took 20 of the land but my thing is terrorists they're
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always going to be there so that that will never stop like well but israel has shown it's willing
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to concede land in exchange for true peace and it's every time it's done that it's either like
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i've talked about in the past it's either been met with sadly retaliation that backfired or it's
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been met with sustainable peace when the other side actually wants it so israel has come forward
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many times also i do believe you know deep down that the lebanese christian population wants better
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relations of course a hundred percent of course they do and and adam's a hundred percent right
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that there's a great tragedy in the middle east not just in lebanon but across the middle east
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in general where there's been a decay of all this opportunity tons of natural resources tons of
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culture tons of history these are places that tourists would love to visit and yet because of
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extremism which is a fundamental issue across the board in the region there's a there's a complete
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decay of virtually every single country lebanon gaza sorry i'll let you go tom i didn't mean no
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i'm not i'm agreeing i'm not in an agreement well because what i want to ask you though what what
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is victory in regard to because those extremists are there by the way they're not going anywhere
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they're multiplying i'm just trying like i mean i'm trying to be hopeful yeah victory looks how
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Victory looks like a complete cultural shift, not just in one region, but across the region.
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They are trying to come back to the table and say there's a way forward where we can integrate with Western societies and see growth in our populations.
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Because they're putting a priority for growth, prosperity, and the benefit of their people over religion.
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Yet in a lot of these other countries and what Iran's motivation is and what Hezbollah's motivation is and Hamas,
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they've indicated not to only Israel, not to only the entire world, but to their own people, we don't care about you.
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So, you know, sometimes if your enemy or if the person you're trying to negotiate with is starting from the fundamental point of I want to destroy you no matter what,
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You're asking an impossible question because that's their starting point.
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How do you get rid of extremists that are everywhere in your country?
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But you're asking a very weird question because to me, okay,
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So many people driving drunk on the 95 freeway.
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Right here, by the way, this exit is number one most people dying in car accidents.
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It's the number one place in America on freeways of the most fatalities driving is right here.
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How do you get rid of alcohol drinking and driving?
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So you can't stop people from, I mean, you want to get people help.
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Stop letting people bring it over the borders and just stop getting it here.
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And then people will stop if they can't get it here.
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Prohibition, you know, make it illegal, all that.
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As long as we have human beings, what do we have?
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Can we, should we just say, well, nothing's going to happen.
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Because what kind of a mindset is that, to say something like that?
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Or can we say, can we find a way to decrease it by 2%?
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In your family, if you think about it in your family, do divorces happen?
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Do people overextending themselves financially happen?
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Should we say, well, people are never going to stop doing that,
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I think the effort is to try to pursue to decrease.
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And all you can deal with is who are the leaders today.
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You cannot deal with who the leaders are going to be tomorrow,
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whose son is going to take over one day and be the leader.
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You know, you have to figure out a way to find a way to make things better today.
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not the emotional players, you have to decide which one you are.
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The reasonable community wants to find solutions.
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How dramatically, how better do you think your mom sleeps today
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right now. Oh, her peace of mind knows that I'm
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better. What if we said it's Vinny? Vinny's always
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Vinny's never going to change. Vinny's a womanizer,
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just wants to do that's vinnie what if people said that what if people accepted that it's not
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leadership it's saying no what if he chooses to change what if he chooses to make an improvement
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what that what happens to the world what happens to his mother what happens to vinnie it opens it
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up i'm a regular guy i'm not a guy that went to what do you call it a ivy league nothing i didn't
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even go to regular states college they wouldn't take me there i barely made it into community
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college and community college they let anybody in so what happened somebody believed and it was
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minor progress so to me i like the fact that we're working on making minor progress the part you have
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to realize vinnie is the hardest thing to do do you know what eventually gets um
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what what content do you think is more exciting to consume divisiveness nasty calling out
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versus somebody that's going out there talking about
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Well, the drama stuff is always going to be the one.
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Tony Robbins, who's changed millions of people's lives, goes and does a show with NBC at last two episodes until they're like, people are not interested in positive stuff.
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People want drama and negativity, conflict, change, all this stuff.
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So if you can find a way to be part of the community to say, you know what, I think we can do something about it.
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You know, because the world today is so, I'm telling you, you go on Twitter and you ask yourself, how long can you be on X?
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if you go on if you you know i'm willing to bet to do this put a blood pressure machine that's
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constantly running on you and i would love to do it on 20 different people and put them on
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different platforms go on twitter and go up and read the stories newsfeed see what happens to your
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blood pressure 10 20 30 minutes later i did this to myself by the way did you really then go watch
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comedy then go read the bible then go read a self-help book then go read a business book see
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what happens to your blood pressure the world today is a different world and we have to we have
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to be aware of it but for me the reasonable players who are trying to make progress more
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power to them the emotional people that are trying to get eyeballs you do your thing the
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market long term is going to favor who the reasonable people that always together i fully
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agree with you pat and if i could just kind of add a little icing on the case you're absolutely
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right how's it going to happen how's it going to happen how's it going to happen you ask these
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questions well let's look at some case examples look what he did the guy did uh bukele in el
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salvador el salvador was the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere a decade ago
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and what was the root of their problem focus with me now what was the root of their problem
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the criminals ms 13 yes ms 13 is hezbollah they are the cancer in society where you have 80 90
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percent of society it's like can we just live a normal life and not kill each other every day over
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religious differences or military differences can we just do that and what did he do he flipped
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our whole country around that's hopefully hopefully what can happen in lebanon and why lebanon pat you
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would know this i don't know if there's another society civilization in the middle east that has
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sunnis shias christians all types of religions living and working together and then you have
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The Shiite radicals saying, nope, we're taking over the country.
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I think the people of Lebanon finally are like, we're done with this.
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I just wanted to say to Vinny also, in terms of being hopeful,
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when we see a snapshot of something, even though it might be 10 years, 20 years,
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But you do see sustainable relations between Israel and other countries in the Middle East
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that you would have never believed would have happened.
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Even Egypt back in the day, if you would have looked at the relationship,
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Jordan and Israel, if you would have looked at the relationship,
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just the entire Middle East from the start when the Arab League
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