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Ophir Falk | Foreign Policy Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | 07-09-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: This is the seventy seven w ABC Mini cast the
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  Speaker 3: foreign policy advisor for Israeli Prime Minister of my friend
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  Speaker 3: BB net Tanyao. He's in the room with bb all
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  Speaker 3: day every day that he knows exactly what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: even doing those bb Trump phone calls. So with that said,
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  Speaker 3: let me welcome him in making his debut. Want sitting
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  Speaker 3: friends in the morning from Israel, Doctor ofir Falk, doctor Falk,
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  Speaker 3: good morning or in your case, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: How are you hey, good morning? Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: It is great to have you and so much to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: I guess we'll start with Iran. You know, I was
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  Speaker 3: just in Israel a couple of weeks ago. I was
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  Speaker 3: there speaking Alex Trainman JNS dot Org. In fact, I
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  Speaker 3: saw BB speak on that Sunday night. I was sitting
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  Speaker 3: right there in the front row, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: Israel and me we want the same thing, which is
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  Speaker 3: why we talk about the economics of the war and
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  Speaker 3: the nuclear stuff. We want to make sure basically that
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  Speaker 3: Iran can't continue to hurt America and Israel people in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East. That's the bottom line, right, So I
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  Speaker 3: think we all want to see some type of reason
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  Speaker 3: to believe that Iran will not be able to do
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  Speaker 3: that in the future. Is that the ab to say,
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  Speaker 3: doctor falk.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So the bottom line is that Iran you and
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  Speaker 2: not have nuclear bombs. That's the bottom line. The President's
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  Speaker 2: been very clear on the other Prime Minister has been
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  Speaker 2: very clear on that, and a deal or no deal,
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  Speaker 2: they will not have any atomic bombs. The rand is
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  Speaker 2: weaker than it's ever been before because, along with the
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  Speaker 2: United States as well, has hit them very hard. They've
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  Speaker 2: been calling death to America and death Israel for forty
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  Speaker 2: seven years and we're putting an end to that today.
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  Speaker 3: They did that just yesterday again, they chanted the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: So is it fair to say, then, based on what
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  Speaker 3: you just said, that you and BB, you're happy with
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  Speaker 3: where we are in this war.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have a fantastic relationship obviously with the United
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  Speaker 2: States as well. In the United States have a fantastic relationship.
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  Speaker 2: We are America's model ally, and obviously the United States
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  Speaker 2: is a really indispensable ally. Never has there been a coop,
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  Speaker 2: such cooperation and coordination between a prime minister and a
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  Speaker 2: president and between our armed forces. The idea if there's
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  Speaker 2: really defense forces and American military forces in this in
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  Speaker 2: this war, in the Rising Lion and then Epic Hurry,
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  Speaker 2: we've hit Iran like they've never been hit before. They're
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  Speaker 2: weaker than ever. We've taken out twenty of their top
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  Speaker 2: nuclear scientists, we've taken out Tier one of their leadership,
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  Speaker 2: Tier two of their leadership, and now we're basically dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the d week Now. If the President can do
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  Speaker 2: a deal and prevent them from happening to a nuclear bomb, great,
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  Speaker 2: But as the President said, and as the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: has said, a dealer, no deal, Iran cannot have nuclear
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  Speaker 2: weapons and they can no longer be the bullies of
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  Speaker 2: this neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you just talked about the relationship between Israel
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  Speaker 3: and America and BB and Trump specifically. Yet you know,
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  Speaker 3: the media here in the United States will lead you
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  Speaker 3: to believe the last couple of weeks that relationship is
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  Speaker 3: very strained, to say the least. That Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's out there and he says things about BB they're
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  Speaker 3: not all that nice, and that those two guys aren't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily best friends these days. Now again, doctor Falk, you
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  Speaker 3: are in those rooms. You're in the room with BB
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  Speaker 3: just about every time he speaks to President Trump. Is
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  Speaker 3: there any truth to the American media stands that Trump
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  Speaker 3: and BB's relationship is at the very least strained.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it was. The President said that the
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  Speaker 2: relationship has never been better. They've met seven times a
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  Speaker 2: Prime minister and the president, and have met seven times
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  Speaker 2: since President Trump was reelected. They talk during the war,
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  Speaker 2: they talked almost every day, and they talked very frequently,
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  Speaker 2: and they're set to meet soon. They're going to set
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  Speaker 2: a date and they're going to meet soon. There's never
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  Speaker 2: been better partners in war and never been better partners
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  Speaker 2: in peace. They've forged four peace agreements together, the Abraham Accords,
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  Speaker 2: and those peace agreements were done peace through strength, and
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what we're going to continue to do we have,
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  Speaker 2: as a Prime ministers said, there's ninety nine per agree
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  Speaker 2: on everything, or they agree on ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 2: the items. But just like in families, sometimes you don't
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  Speaker 2: you don't agree on some things, but they always work
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  Speaker 2: it out. They were kid out and the President has
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  Speaker 2: a great way of expressing himself. Of course in the
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister also expresses himself freely to the to the President.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I love both guys. I've got relationships with both guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Trump has been really good to me. And
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  Speaker 3: I see bb every time I go to Israel some function,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's JOm Hatsmot, you know at a winery or
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  Speaker 3: Jomazi could own at Mount Herzel or again last week
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  Speaker 3: at JNS. So I love both guys and they're both great.
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  Speaker 3: But ninety nine percent may be a high number. Doctor
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  Speaker 3: fault because just look at the last couple of days
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  Speaker 3: with Turkey. I mean, you got President Trump saying nice
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  Speaker 3: things about Erdowan. I actually played Trump saying nice things,
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  Speaker 3: and then Bibe on Box News two days ago saying
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  Speaker 3: he's a terrible guy. And the fear that we may
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  Speaker 3: end up selling f thirty five jets to Turkey. So
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  Speaker 3: I know that you wanted to go well with Trump,
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  Speaker 3: so do why. I want American as all to be
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  Speaker 3: best friends. But this Turkey deal the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: days didn't seem to make you guys very happy.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So first of all, we've never had a better
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  Speaker 2: friend in the White House and President shrup that's for Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they harbor Hamas, they threaten Israel daily. Eard
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  Speaker 2: One calls Jerusalem his city. His foreign minister the other
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  Speaker 2: day said the Jews don't have a place in humanity.
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  Speaker 2: Turkey threatens Greece, which is a NATO nation, They occupy
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  Speaker 2: half of Cyprus, which is an EU country, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they did absolutely zero in the war against Iran.
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  Speaker 2: So these guys should not have F thirty five. That's
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  Speaker 2: what our position is. And again the President and the
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister will agree, I would say, on ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: percent of the issues. And there are are things that
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  Speaker 2: they don't agree completely upon and they talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: This is doctor Ophio Paul Kapansabi bb Nittanyahu's foreign policy advisor.
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  Speaker 3: Where are we, doctor faulk in this peace deal with Lebanon?
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  Speaker 3: You know, much like the ceasefire between America and Yuan.
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  Speaker 3: This this kind of a strange piece ceasefire because it
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  Speaker 3: included powering out each other almost every day. And you
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  Speaker 3: wand a very similar situation with Chris Bola in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you actually in that peace deal with the Lebanese.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, we struck an historic agreement with Lebanon fostered
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  Speaker 2: by the United States in DC. Secretary of Rubio led
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  Speaker 2: that and we set a trilateral framework for peace between
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  Speaker 2: between Israel and Lebanon. It's an historic agreement because it's
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  Speaker 2: the first time in forty five years that Lebanon actually
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  Speaker 2: recognizes the ceremony of Israel. That's a big deal. Now
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  Speaker 2: we don't have a bar with Lebanon. We are fighting
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  Speaker 2: his beela that's been holding Lebanon hostage for forty five years. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how is this deal? How is this deal made possible?
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  Speaker 2: We've degraded his ballah significantly. They're on their knees. They
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  Speaker 2: had one D one hundred and fifty thousand missiles aimed
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  Speaker 2: at us, add our civilians, add our city centers. We've
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  Speaker 2: walked at the outing a handful maybe eight thousand messals.
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  Speaker 2: We still have to take that out. We've taken out
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  Speaker 2: eight thousands Hizbollah terrorists since the beginning of this war,
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  Speaker 2: and that has enabled the Lebanese government to step up
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  Speaker 2: to the plate. If there's one lesson that we've learned
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  Speaker 2: from October seventh atrocities where the Hamas ran into Israel,
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  Speaker 2: invaded Israel and butchered two hundred innocent people, if we've
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  Speaker 2: learned one thing from that is that we cannot allow
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  Speaker 2: genocidal terrorist organizations or regimes anywhere near our border, not
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  Speaker 2: in the south with Hamas, and not in the north
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  Speaker 2: with Hisbellah. The main objective of the agreement, all right,
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  Speaker 2: the main objective of the agreement is to demilitarize South
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  Speaker 2: in Lebanon, to disarm Ribellah, and that there will be
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  Speaker 2: no threat posts to Israel. If we have all that,
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  Speaker 2: we have a real chance for peace and atorage peace
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  Speaker 2: that will build upon that for Aby McCord agreements that
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  Speaker 2: President Trump led.
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  Speaker 3: So even though you've got a peace planning with Lebanon,
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  Speaker 3: Chris Bola decides to fire on you guys, even though
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  Speaker 3: they're in Lebanon, you guys are going to fire back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, No, absolutely, of course absolutely. Security for us is
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  Speaker 2: number one and Lebanon understands this is well. Everybody understands that.
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  Speaker 2: Lebanon understands that. Of course, the President understands that if
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  Speaker 2: he's well that hits us, we're going to hit them
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  Speaker 2: much much harder, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I saw some frustration with the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago when he was speaking on
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  Speaker 3: that Sunday night, and I said the same thing here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, President Trump, I believe in his heart he
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  Speaker 3: does love Israel, loves Bibe. He is as you said,
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  Speaker 3: There's been no president, not even Truman, who's come close,
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  Speaker 3: come close to doing for Israel what President Trump has done.
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  Speaker 3: There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes when Trump gets aggravated with Biebe, I think
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  Speaker 3: people need to remind President Trump that when rockets start
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  Speaker 3: flying in Iran or in Beirut, guess who gets hit next.
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  Speaker 3: Not Cincinnati, doctor Falk, not Brooklyn, not Sacramento. You poor
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  Speaker 3: guys in Tel Aviv. I just was two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: you are the guys who take the brunt of the fire.
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  Speaker 3: When in fact, somebody messes with one of these folks,
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  Speaker 3: that puts Bbe and Israel in a much different situation
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  Speaker 3: than Trump and the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Is that not fair to say, Well, that's true that
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  Speaker 2: the threat is at our doorstep, but surely the Iranian threat,
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear threat, is also a threat to America. They
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  Speaker 2: stay death to America every day for the past forty
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  Speaker 2: seven years. They're building, or they were building, ballistic missiles
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  Speaker 2: that could eventually reach every city in America. So the
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  Speaker 2: threat in America is also real, But of course the
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  Speaker 2: threat to US is much bigger. It's a cnsistential threat
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  Speaker 2: that we, thank god removed for the time being, but
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  Speaker 2: we have to be very vigilant. We've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that they don't regroup, and we have to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that they don't have any nuclear bombs. Deal or
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  Speaker 2: no deal. They cannot have nuclear weapons.