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Alex Traiman | CEO of Jewish News Syndicate | 05-14-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: With Alex Treman sitting right in front of me, mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem. Sounds kind of nice.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds good. They have those absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: How is the mayor in Jerusalem where you live and work?
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  Speaker 2: Is he a good guy or he's a pretty good guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very strong executive. He has a lot of
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  Speaker 2: executive experience, and he runs the city really well, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why infrastructure is going up all over the city.
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  Speaker 1: It's right. I think I've met him.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, what's his name again, Mayor mosh Lyone.
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  Speaker 1: I met him. I met Mosha Lyone. I think I
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  Speaker 1: met him at your summit, which is coming up in
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  Speaker 1: about a month. Yeah, I didn't notice that last time
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  Speaker 1: I was in Israel. They talk about building and katsu matids.
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  Speaker 1: He's got buildings in Corney Island, in Brooklyn. He's got
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  Speaker 1: this gorgeous new building in Saint Petersburg, Florida. But John,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be smart, take a look at Israel
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  Speaker 1: these days, because you know, despite all the bombing and
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  Speaker 1: they've knocked down a whole bunch of stuff in Tel Aviv,
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  Speaker 1: the bad guys, there is new stuff going up every
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  Speaker 1: day all over the.
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  Speaker 2: Country, right everywhere you look on the skyline of Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: Tel avivc cranes. The national bird of is the crane,
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  Speaker 2: because buildings are going out, but buildings are going up
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  Speaker 2: everywhere everywhere in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: That should it's a it's an unbelievable place. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to convince an anti Semite. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great place. But if you're not an anti Semite, and
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not Jewish, you know, the Christian population
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  Speaker 1: loves it there. I keep saying that people. My friend
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  Speaker 1: did a tremendous job, David Friedman in Nassau County. He
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  Speaker 1: was a great ambassador to Israel. They got the Abraham
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  Speaker 1: Accord's done with him. But there's a reason why Mike
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  Speaker 1: Huckabee is that guy. Now he's not Jewish, he's Christian,
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  Speaker 1: and he's doing a spectacular job as well. I think
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  Speaker 1: you'd agree to that. But the Christian population, which is
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  Speaker 1: large in numbers that live in Israel, they love it too.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only place in the Middle East that Christian
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  Speaker 2: life flourishes. If I actually took you to Jerusalem and
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  Speaker 2: you didn't know anything about the place, you didn't know
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  Speaker 2: anything about Israel, anything about the people that live there.
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  Speaker 1: You did that about three years ago, right.
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  Speaker 2: But if I drove you around the city, or I
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  Speaker 2: flew you over the city, and I asked you to
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  Speaker 2: tell me what's the religion of this city. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: would see all the churches, the cathedrals, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: proper the monasteries. You would say, this is probably a
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  Speaker 2: Christian city. Yeah, that's how powerful. Yeah, that's how powerful
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  Speaker 2: that the Christian presence is in the city right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And everybody gets along, Everybody lives nicely together, no problems
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  Speaker 1: except for the Palestinians, not just Hamas. I know I
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of people angry, but the Palestinians. And
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  Speaker 1: I always say to people who remark about this relationship
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  Speaker 1: between the Arabs and the Jews, when you do it
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  Speaker 1: from Staten Island, when you do it from Brooklyn, when
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  Speaker 1: you do it from Tennessee, it means nothing to me.
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  Speaker 1: You have to go. I've experienced the dynamic. I've walked
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  Speaker 1: through the Muslim markets right by the war, but the
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  Speaker 1: Western Wall, I've seen Aba and Gabriel cry because some Palestinian,
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  Speaker 1: not Hamas, Palestinian, gave me the evil eye because I
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  Speaker 1: was wearing an israel shirt. So you live amongst these
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  Speaker 1: people every day. So when people say, listen, before you
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  Speaker 1: start going on and on about these beautiful, innocent Palestinians,
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  Speaker 1: you may want to know a little something about what's
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  Speaker 1: really gone on for the last eighty years.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you know, these are people that grew up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when I moved to Israel back in two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 2: there was a show on Palestinian television that was a
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  Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse character and they canceled the show and in
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  Speaker 2: the last episode of the show, the Mickey Mouse character
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  Speaker 2: became a suicide bomber.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious.
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  Speaker 1: That Mickey Mouse character was wearing a suicide.
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  Speaker 2: Became a suicide bomber and became a martyr. Right, this
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  Speaker 2: is a you know, they're Palestinian kids like in Guys
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  Speaker 2: and elsewhere. They go to summer camps where they stage.
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  Speaker 2: They staged like October seventh like attacks and they film
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  Speaker 2: that and you could just go to the Palestinian Media
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  Speaker 2: Watch website and you go see it for yourself. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not making this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And the adults talking about running these camps. They were
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  Speaker 1: doing that in Gaza for months leading up to October seventh.
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  Speaker 1: That's why did they stay there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that are upset with BBE because it happened, and
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  Speaker 1: they were kind of doing it right out in the open.
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  Speaker 1: They would be doing these exercises in Gaza, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess the Israelis thought, Okay, they've been doing that real
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  Speaker 1: a while, it's not really going to happen. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as I know, Alex, they were doing these exercises
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  Speaker 1: right out in the open.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a fundamental change now in Israel. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we allowed this to happen. We allowed a forced poster
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  Speaker 2: to build up right in our backyards, as if people
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  Speaker 2: just hoped that they would never attack. But what do
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  Speaker 2: you think they were going to do with those rockets,
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  Speaker 2: with those missiles. But now the situation in Israel's totally different,
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  Speaker 2: and Israel's not going to permit it anymore. Israel's emerging
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  Speaker 2: as a strong force that protects its citizens after the
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  Speaker 2: horrific mistake and the massacre of October seventh, and I
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  Speaker 2: think you're going to see, you know, Israel just really
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  Speaker 2: really thrive in this region.
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  Speaker 1: Peb was coming under fire quite a bit early on.
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  Speaker 1: For that. I don't really hear a lot about that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Person It was that, and it was the hostages. You know.
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  Speaker 1: But people who love BB like me and I love
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  Speaker 1: him or Trump he loves them. We have no issue,
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  Speaker 1: zero issue complimenting Netanyao. But for people that don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: don't find something new Just about every day, I say,
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  Speaker 1: people have no idea how lucky we are to have
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  Speaker 1: Trump and BB in charge for America and Israel. This
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  Speaker 1: really is the golden age. There's never been a better
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  Speaker 1: one two combination. People talk about Harry Truman. No, folks, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bill, he ain't no President Trump. This is
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  Speaker 1: the best one two combination for our two countries.
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  Speaker 2: Ever you agree with that, oh absolutely. You know if
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  Speaker 2: I would have told you on October eighth that two
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  Speaker 2: and a half years after the worst massacre in modern
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  Speaker 2: Israeli history, that Israel would control fifty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: Gaza Strip, that Yahya Sinemara would be dead, Mohammad def dead,
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  Speaker 2: Hamas wouldn't have any more rockets, that Israel would cont
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  Speaker 2: all the territory up to the Latani River in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 2: that Hassana Srao would be dead, that his number two,
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  Speaker 2: Ford Shukar, would be dead, that the whole mid level
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  Speaker 2: command of his ball would be taken out in this
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  Speaker 2: Grand Beeper episode, that his ball would no longer have
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  Speaker 2: tens of thousands of rockets to destroy Israel, that the
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  Speaker 2: that Pashar Asad would no longer be the president of Syria,
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  Speaker 2: that the Ali Khamenei would no longer be the supreme
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  Speaker 2: leader in Iran, and every single one of their nuclear
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  Speaker 2: facilities would be hit. And then on top of that,
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  Speaker 2: every single last one of the hostages living in dead
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  Speaker 2: would be home. Everybody would have signed up for that result,
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  Speaker 2: And that's due to the war leadership of Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: Natanyao together working with the President of the United States
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Right, I'm glad of.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, right, because the last guy was a complex told
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  Speaker 1: you from October Athan that guy Biden was no good.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk about the war though. In Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You guys must be keeping a very close eye on
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Chi in China, China. Yesterday there was a
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  Speaker 1: conversation between she and Trump, but he talked about the
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  Speaker 1: willingness from China. This is unbelievable. This is huge news,
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  Speaker 1: Alex The willingness from China to buy oil from US,
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  Speaker 1: oil and gas from America. At that point, they don't
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  Speaker 1: have to rely on Iran. Supply Iran with weapons, give
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  Speaker 1: him money for some of those terror proxies, because let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, Iran was the country that funded all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Hamasen Gaza, the Hutis coming out of Yemen, Hasbola in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: it was all Iran. It was all Iran. So what
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  Speaker 1: you really want to see here is China moved closer
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  Speaker 1: to America and maybe they'll take Russia with them and
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  Speaker 1: kind of leave Iran all by themselves. That's great for
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  Speaker 1: your country, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, China was basically evading sanctions because Iran was
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  Speaker 2: selling them oil at a discount. And I think President Trumpy,
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  Speaker 2: he's brilliant, and he's looking at the global chessboard where
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  Speaker 2: he sees China on the other side of the chessboard,
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  Speaker 2: and he sees Iran as one of the bishops on
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  Speaker 2: the map, and so he understands Trump. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to set up an alternative trade route to the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese Belt and Roade initiative. It's called the IME Corridor
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  Speaker 2: India Middle East European Economic Corridor to bring goods through
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  Speaker 2: eventually through also Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel use the Hypha
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  Speaker 2: Port as a major hub then to transfer goods over
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  Speaker 2: to Europe and the West. And so Trump understands that
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  Speaker 2: in order to establish that, you got to quiet down
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. So you have to take out Iran
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  Speaker 2: and this entire network of regional proxies and then bring
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  Speaker 2: all the other players, which include the Saudis, includes Qatar,
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  Speaker 2: includes Turkey over into the American orbit. Because if you
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  Speaker 2: don't have them in the American orbit, where do they go?
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  Speaker 2: They go into the Chinese orbit. So Trump is playing
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  Speaker 2: a massive forty chess game here with China.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Traman, the CEO of JNS dot Organ, I see
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  Speaker 1: you about as much in New York as I do
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  Speaker 1: in Israel the last couple of years. I see here
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit. If I would have said to you
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  Speaker 1: Trainman ten years ago, think about this. This is nuts
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  Speaker 1: that a Jew would be safer walking forget about Israel
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  Speaker 1: at any one of about five Middle East countries, that
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  Speaker 1: a Jew would be safer walking there in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: then Europe, London or New York.
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  Speaker 2: You would have said, what crazy crazy, But that's the situation.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to the United Arab Emirates. You can
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  Speaker 2: go to Bahrain. You can go to Morocco, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and walk around and you know, feel good. You can
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  Speaker 2: go to Iserbaijan, uh you know, Jess, Israelis are going
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  Speaker 2: over there. But you go to Paris, you go to London.
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  Speaker 1: They kill you. They just killed him when you was
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  Speaker 1: in London last week. And I was in both of
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  Speaker 1: those places over the summer when they've graduated, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they're unrecognizable, unrecognizable, and you've got a lot of balls.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. You're walking around New York City
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  Speaker 1: with your Yama Khan right now. And I say that joking,
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  Speaker 1: because at least once a week I have some mother,
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  Speaker 1: somebody in a gym who says to me, you know
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  Speaker 1: where these two bracelets. One reads I'm Yasuel Chai and
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  Speaker 1: one reads f a Hamas but the word F is
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  Speaker 1: spelled out, you know, And they go, aren't you nervous?
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  Speaker 1: I go nervous about what?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I tell my kids, hide the khi,
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  Speaker 1: take the Yamaga off.
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  Speaker 2: I go.
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  Speaker 1: You do that. They won the terrorist one. They would
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  Speaker 1: almost rather your kid do that than find a dead
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  Speaker 1: body in the street. Why would you do that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm nervous. I'm scared. I'm scared too. I love my
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  Speaker 1: kids too. My son walks around Gable with a huge
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  Speaker 1: Jewish star. My daughter Ava, she's a walking as WELLI
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  Speaker 1: billboard and I encourage them to continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is every now and then, Alex, in
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  Speaker 1: a city like this, you are in peril. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you're a New Yorker, you were here for many years.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to believe that, right, yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: People ask me, they said, well, what should we do here?
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  Speaker 2: And people are afraid? And I said, listen, you know,
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  Speaker 2: stand up for yourself, be proud, support Israel. People are
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  Speaker 2: looking for authenticity today. You've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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  Speaker 2: Country is strong. You know, the country you support, Israel,
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  Speaker 2: is just becoming stronger and stronger. You know you have
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  Speaker 2: a backup plan if you need, We'll be willing to
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  Speaker 2: welcome you with open arms. And meanwhile, just strengthen yourself,
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  Speaker 2: strengthen your community. Don't be stupid about security here. You
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  Speaker 2: got to protect yourself and be proud and spread the
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  Speaker 2: message of truth amidst all the lies and darkness that's
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  Speaker 2: being spread.
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  Speaker 1: How much Mom, Donnie talk? Is there seven thousand miles
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  Speaker 1: away in your home country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's mum, Donnie talk. Is Tucker Carlson talk. We
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on here in the United States. We're
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  Speaker 2: following that. Of course, we're still dealing with the war,
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  Speaker 2: and and we're going to be in an election cycle
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  Speaker 2: in Israel soon, so we're probably a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: hyper focused on the neighborhood. But you know, certainly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're very aware of what's going on around the world,
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  Speaker 2: because there's also a lot of Israelis that live here too.
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  Speaker 1: A ton of Israelies. They go back and forth, and
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  Speaker 1: you might Pandalic Stremean and your boys. I love your family,
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  Speaker 1: and Sippy, your beautiful white Hope listening right now in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: You Wilex Trainman. You're a diehard Nick fan, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a Knicks fan, you know, giants fan.
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  Speaker 1: You time? What time are the Nick games on in Jerusalem?
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  Speaker 2: I don't watch the games live?
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that. Yeah, it's like three o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Watched it. I watched the highlights. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I had President Trump on this show two days ago.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him about the Knicks. He said, I love
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks. I love James Dolan. Boy, those guys are
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. They made such quick work of Philadelphia. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Joel Embiid. I said, wow, this guy's really paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: The President of the United States in a war with
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  Speaker 1: Iran on the way to China, mentioned Joel Embiid. How
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  Speaker 1: great is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, these are people, you know, I see
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  Speaker 2: that in Israel also, you know, the Prime Minister, his advisors,
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  Speaker 2: government officials. They're just people and you know them, and
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  Speaker 2: they're just they're just humans. And they also you know,
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  Speaker 2: need to take you know, some time off and the
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  Speaker 2: disconnect for a few minutes, find out what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in sports. Watch watch a quarter of a game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, go go down, go down to
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  Speaker 1: the Dead Sea, which I did last time. I got
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the they scared the hell out of me.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a cart, it's gonna burn.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. It wasn't uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite places in the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. Let's see, I'm going back again this time.
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  Speaker 1: So tell folks who may be on their way to
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem for your big event or maybe pondering whether they
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  Speaker 1: go or not. Because people are still saying to me,
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  Speaker 1: is it safe? Stop asking that question. You're safer there
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  Speaker 1: than you are, honestly right now in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dumb question. But wait a second, said, they're
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  Speaker 1: blowing up buildings in Tel Aviv. No, they're not. When
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  Speaker 1: was the last time a rocket hit anywhere in Israel?
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  Speaker 2: About three and a half weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's too close for my comfort. Oh, I'm not coming.
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  Speaker 1: And where was that?
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  Speaker 2: Right? I mean, for until the ceasefire with Iran, they
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  Speaker 2: were firing rockets up till the last minute, to tell Aviv,
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  Speaker 2: mostly right, a lot towards Tel Aviv. Also, we had uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it's over now, it's been over for a month.
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  Speaker 2: Let's come on, it seems like it's over. But if
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  Speaker 2: you ask israelis they think that there could be a
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  Speaker 2: short round two?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because Trump is talking about going back in. Once
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  Speaker 1: Trump goes back in, then you guys, you know they're
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  Speaker 1: not bombing Staten Island, they're not bombing Cincinnati. Trump goes
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  Speaker 1: back in, and what do they do? They bomb you?
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  Speaker 1: So is it beare to say then that, well nervous
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  Speaker 1: Israel bombs too, right, we're participating. Yeah, but you're not
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  Speaker 1: killing civilians. They're blowing up and maybe you are, but
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  Speaker 1: not certainly not on purpose. They're sending their missiles towards
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  Speaker 1: apartment buildings in Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 2: They send cluster bombs, which what that means is that
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  Speaker 2: the bomb actually breaks off into twenty different fragments, each
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  Speaker 2: with a warhead on it, and just spraying it over
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  Speaker 2: a city. And they don't care what they hit. They're
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  Speaker 2: you cannot target something specific except for a population center
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  Speaker 2: with a cluster bomb. Every time Israel strikes inside Iran,
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  Speaker 2: they're hitting a precise military target. I mean, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: like in Lebanon, for example, they know that a terrorist
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  Speaker 2: is eating dinner in his dining room on the fourth
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  Speaker 2: story of the building, and they put a missile through
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  Speaker 2: the window of the dining room. Yeah, right, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That they're not killing anybody else. There's not all this
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  Speaker 1: casualty of war. This genocide in Gaza. Is Gaza also
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  Speaker 1: starting back up again? What that last week, that maybe
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  Speaker 1: there'll be more.
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  Speaker 2: We know that there's nobody that can disarm Hamas except
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  Speaker 2: for the IDF. But the question is what's the cost?
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you Israel goes back into Gaza. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the whole international community, the media, they're gonna go nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, they hide among the civilian populations. Every time
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  Speaker 2: you kill a terrorist, they say that Israel killed the child, right,
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  Speaker 2: they say, Israel hit a mosque, because Hamas uses a
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  Speaker 2: mosque as it's a military.
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  Speaker 1: They use, they use hospitals, they use nurseries.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then in addition, you can't do the
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  Speaker 2: Hamas rules with machine guns, and you can't defeat machine
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  Speaker 2: guns with F thirty five's. The only way you can
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  Speaker 2: take away machine guns is in hand to hand combat,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and then you have to send your
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  Speaker 2: soldiers in. And for Israel, a big part of the
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: national resilience is, you know, waking up in the morning
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  Speaker 2: and seeing if a soldier died. I mean, we value
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  Speaker 2: our soldiers so much. People don't understand this. Every life,
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  Speaker 2: especially our lives and our soldiers' lives, is so valuable.
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  Speaker 2: And why should we kill send our boys and daughters
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  Speaker 2: to get killed, you know, in order that Hamas should
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: get rebuilt, because right now, the Trump twenty point plan
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: says there's no rebuilding in Gaza until Hama's disarms, So
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: we should get ourselves killed in order to disarm them
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: in order that billions of dollars should flow in to
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  Speaker 2: gads that have rebuilt it. Maybe the current situation is better.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Probably is. Look, I've been there on Yo Huzzi got own.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Not this year, the year before, which is Israel's Memorial Day,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and I've gone to Mount Hertzel and I cried all day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is a very very tough watch all
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: these young and beautiful soldiers walking to grave sites of
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: relatives and friends. It is very very tough. So in
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the final sixty seconds, trainman, what can we expect that
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: this big summit coming up and now a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're hopeful that the Prime Minister will speak as
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: he did last year, for fifty five minutes. The Foreign Minister,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: President Herzog, who's been a guest on your show many
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: times many he likes.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Me for some reason. I'm a Republican, he's not, but
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: he likes me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, because he knows that you have the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: biggest audience in New York City. That's why you likes you,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: you know, dummy. Mark Levin is coming the great one
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to speak again at our summit this year. Many media personalities,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl's coming, diplomats, members of Parliament in Europe. It's
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: going to be two hundred speakers of the whole pro
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Israel community over three days at the Waldorf Story in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: June twenty one to twenty three. We're still selling tickets.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Go to the website and we'd love to have we'd
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: love to have you there. Of course you're going to
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: be there.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Yeah, they go nuts when I speak.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: It's like Tom Jones. I start throwing zios and watching
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: on the stage. But watch your mouth on you did
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I night? Did I say? I don't think I cursed?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: You were a bet last year. I don't think did I.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: You never know, though. It's a risk, And you were
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: saying this right before. I spoke at some shool in
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Queen's a couple of months ago. The guy said, listen,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they're all here for you. It was packed, there were
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: people outside in the street. But you can't curse, so
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I think it took me. No, you were well behaved. No,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I think I said the upward about sixty seconds in
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: at the Jay and askin I believe no, no, no, no.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: The one in Queen's, Oh yeah, I'm sure you did it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And I told this story once before. I had the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: famous comedian Gilbert Godfred. I used to love Gilbert. He
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: was on my show. It was quite a bit. He
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: was a very very funny guy.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: He died.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I'm so sad about that. But I had him on
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: one time in Florida. I was on in Florida and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I said, Gilbert, do me a favor. Last time you
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: were on, he said the word penis about twenty times.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I had to spend an hour in my program director's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: office him yelling at me, do me a favor of Gilbert,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: stay away from that word today. No problem, No problem.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: The interview starts and for a good twelve minutes all
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: he said was penis. That was it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I think you just said it twice.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I know, well that see that's me though. When you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: tell me not to say something, you're better off not
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: saying anything, because once you tell me not to say
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, watch don't do to trainment today? Watch us? No, No,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I know better. It'd say it's a beautiful event and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: you do a great job.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I thought that was the last word that was going
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to come up in our segment. That's amazing.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: You just never know. You never know, Dulia. It's great
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to see you. I love you to pieces. You know
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that your terrific guy, and you do a great job
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: at JNS and the family's beautiful, and I'll see you
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that me too.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: It is at JNS dot org. Second International Policy Summit
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: from the beautiful Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem. Alex Treman does
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: an unbelievable job and it's going to be three days
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of great speeches and a lot of solidarity and unity.
• 19:38
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