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Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now nine till noon weekday smart simone only on 710
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  Speaker 1: wor well let's turn now to the greatest columnist in
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  Speaker 1: america michael goodwin his columns every sunday and every wednesday
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  Speaker 1: in the new york post uh and you can get
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  Speaker 1: all his columns they're all up on the new york
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  Speaker 1: post website michael goodwin how.
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  Speaker 2: You doing good morning mark thank you hey a great
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  Speaker 2: column yesterday now explain this to me the Democratic socialists
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  Speaker 2: are at war with Mamdani because he's not radical enough
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  Speaker 2: for them? Is that the case?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. I mean, it's amazing, isn't it, that he is
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  Speaker 3: very radical, the most radical mayor in New York history.
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  Speaker 3: And yet, for many of his fellow travelers, he's given in, right?
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  Speaker 3: He's changed his stripes. He's compromised too much, particularly on
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  Speaker 3: the police side. and keeping Jessica Tish as commissioner. And
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  Speaker 3: he's now also accused of being a sellout to the Palestinians.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is crazy talk. But I think these
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  Speaker 3: are the sorts of people who are burning down Paris.
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  Speaker 3: So we're lucky we're only getting a fight so far.
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  Speaker 3: But this is the danger of this new left radicalism.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the fires, the rioting, the destruction of Paris, of
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  Speaker 2: much of France. What do you think? That'll have some
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  Speaker 2: effect on the midterms. People might realize you don't want
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  Speaker 2: these left-wing crazies in power.
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  Speaker 3: I think it could and it should. I think people
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  Speaker 3: should wake up and look at what these leftists are
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  Speaker 3: really about. They're not really about building a socialist state
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  Speaker 3: so much as they are about tearing down the nation
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  Speaker 3: that exists now. So if you like your health care, right,
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  Speaker 3: you can keep it. That was a big lie. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's a big lie now, too, that they would change
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  Speaker 3: everything to give the government more power. That's what the
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  Speaker 3: left believes in. It trusts only the power of the state,
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  Speaker 3: not individual liberty. not private power of any kind, not
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  Speaker 3: corporate power, only government power. Now, I think most Americans
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  Speaker 3: are repelled by that idea, yet enough of them are
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  Speaker 3: being hoodwinked that this leftist movement has to be taken seriously.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Mamdani's election is the clearest example, but many
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  Speaker 3: of the Democrats running in this midterm election are also far, far,
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  Speaker 3: far off the deep end. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This whole war on Mamdani, I guess they want him
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of Jessica Tisch. I mean, she's been
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  Speaker 2: a pretty fine police commissioner. Is this just anti-Semitism? Is
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  Speaker 2: that why they want to get.
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  Speaker 1: Rid of her?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a part of it, Mark. Obviously, she's Jewish.
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  Speaker 3: She often wears a Jewish star and a necklace. and
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  Speaker 3: she made no bones about it. And yet she has
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  Speaker 3: not been commissioner in a way that favors any group
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  Speaker 3: over another. She has been very even-handed, and she has
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  Speaker 3: been fundamentally sound in using the tactics and the knowledge
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  Speaker 3: developed over years of intelligence gathering, you know, under the...
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  Speaker 3: Giuliani years, right? And then the Bloomberg years. So her
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  Speaker 3: real supporters were Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton. Now, that's
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  Speaker 3: quite a lineage. And she is the inheritor of their
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  Speaker 3: police leadership. So she is doing a fine, fine job.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Mamdani would be crazy to fire her
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  Speaker 3: just to give a scalp to the far-left maniacs. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about Israel. Netanyahu, the election is next week.
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  Speaker 2: It's a week from tomorrow. President Trump came out with
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  Speaker 2: a big endorsement for him. And what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think will happen in Israel?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've talked to a lot of people who
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  Speaker 3: know more about this than I do, and nobody seems
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  Speaker 3: to know. Nobody has a firm grasp about which way
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  Speaker 3: it's going. I have some friends who are going back
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  Speaker 3: to vote. Most Americans, I think, who are Israeli citizens
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  Speaker 3: as well, dual citizens, do not like Netanyahu, from my experience.
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  Speaker 3: But there's nobody on the scene who can rival him. So,
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  Speaker 3: for example, there are 10 Muslim Arab seats in the
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  Speaker 3: Knesset out of 120. And the leader of the two parties,
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  Speaker 3: each with five seats, and they have offered, they will
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  Speaker 3: give their 10 votes to any candidate who promises to
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  Speaker 3: create a Palestinian state. And none of the major candidates
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  Speaker 3: have accepted the offer. They know that's a very unpopular
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  Speaker 3: position in Israel, that the creation of a Palestinian state
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  Speaker 3: I mean, where? Who's going to protect? What are the rules?
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  Speaker 3: So they find no takers. So that's the kind of
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  Speaker 3: thing that suggests Netanyahu still has the largest base of
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  Speaker 3: the three main candidates. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A great number of people in the U.S. have Israeli citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: They're asking them to fly back to Israel just to vote.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right. A lot of them are flying back
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  Speaker 2: to vote against Netanyahu. And what is the argument against Netanyahu?
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  Speaker 2: Is it just Netanyahu derangement syndrome?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think to a certain extent, Mark,
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  Speaker 3: some of it is just exhaustion, fatigue. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: been around forever. He's been the prime minister, the longest
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  Speaker 3: serving prime minister ever. Not continuously, but he's like the
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  Speaker 3: rubber ball. You know, you squeeze it and it just
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  Speaker 3: comes back. That's what his career has been. October 7th,
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  Speaker 3: of course, he explained for not being more aware of
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  Speaker 3: what was coming. And then there's the whole issue of
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  Speaker 3: the West Bank, of what's going on. The fact that
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  Speaker 3: he won't really curb that. because his majority depends on
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  Speaker 3: some of those, uh, King makers in his party. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that he has been far from a perfect
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  Speaker 3: prime minister, but it's in my democracy, the only democracy
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  Speaker 3: in the mid East. And so if he wins, it
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  Speaker 3: will be because he is the choice of the free voters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you're right. You know, as a, Ed Koch
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  Speaker 2: will tell you, George Pataki will tell you, once you
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  Speaker 2: get into the third or fourth term, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people start turning on you.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like Netanyahu now believes in a one-state solution.
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  Speaker 2: He may be right. We tried that two-state solution, and
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  Speaker 2: look how that ended up.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Well, I mean, that's sort of the theme of
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  Speaker 3: a book by David Friedman, who was the American ambassador
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  Speaker 3: during Trump's first term. And He believes that the West
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  Speaker 3: Bank and whatnot should be treated in the same way
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  Speaker 3: that America treats Puerto Rico, for example. The Puerto Ricans
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  Speaker 3: can vote in local elections, but they cannot vote in
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  Speaker 3: the national election. He believes that is a model for
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  Speaker 3: how Israel should handle the West Bank. It should annex it,
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  Speaker 3: but then keep it somehow as a protectorate. rather than
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  Speaker 3: a full-fledged citizenship in the complete way. So it's an
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  Speaker 3: interesting argument, and there are no other good arguments on
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  Speaker 3: the table. So I'm not sure where this ends up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Michael Goodwin, great column yesterday. Everybody can go read
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  Speaker 2: it if you missed it. It's up on the New
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  Speaker 2: York Post website, and you can read his column every Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: every Wednesday. Go check. All of his columns are up
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  Speaker 2: on the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being with us.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's a pleasure. Thank you, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Take care. Hey, we've got a lot coming up.
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