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Alex Traiman | CEO of Jewish News Syndicate | 06-02-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: My advice is to be strong, don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it when I see Jewish people, moms
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  Speaker 2: and dads, they tell their kids, you can take your
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  Speaker 2: yamack off.
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  Speaker 1: Take it off.
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  Speaker 2: If you're nervous to walk in the streets, take a
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  Speaker 2: yama go off. I can't stand that. Or Hija mugan
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  Speaker 2: w you do that, they win. They'd almost rather see
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  Speaker 2: that than a dead body in the street of tele Aviviv.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, okay, don't do that. Don't tell your kids.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're a parent. You're nervous. I'm nervous. I'm
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  Speaker 2: nervous too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a son who goes to school in Chelsea.
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy, and my daughter just came back from London.
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  Speaker 2: You want to talk about a rough place for three years,
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  Speaker 2: but when you do that, you're really doing a disservice
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  Speaker 2: to the Jewish people fighting for us in Israel and
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  Speaker 2: all of you find people in the audience here today,
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  Speaker 2: Do not do that. Where are your yamaka proudly? Where
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  Speaker 2: your hi proudly? And show everybody that you're Jewish. That
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  Speaker 2: little part of my appearance yesterday with Liz Pep. You
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  Speaker 2: ready for this. It's up to eighteen million views. Listen again, folks,
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  Speaker 2: listen carefully. Okay, all you people that are impressed with
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  Speaker 2: your social media numbers. Eighteen million views that I just
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  Speaker 2: said on Twitter this morning. Alex Treman happens to be
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  Speaker 2: the CEO of JNS dot Org. I am really excited
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  Speaker 2: going back to Israel and just a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: June eighteenth, and for the second straight year, I will
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  Speaker 2: speak at the second annual JNS International Policy Summit. Great
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  Speaker 2: list of speakers I was told by Huckaby. He texted
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  Speaker 2: me this morning He's not going to be there, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll be b Nitanyau, Mark Levin, Ron Dermer, Alex, myself,
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  Speaker 2: Morton Klein, Victoria Coats, whole bunch of great people. So Alex,
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see you, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: HOWI you can't wait to see you as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's going to be a great, great couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: three days at the beautiful Waldorf Astory in Jerusalem. I
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  Speaker 2: arrive on June eighteenth, and again I'm very excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: I know when you hear what I had to say there, Alex,
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  Speaker 2: You're in New York a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You're in New Yorker and big nick Man. I know that.
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  Speaker 2: And you you wear ya yamaka in the streets here
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  Speaker 2: in New York.
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  Speaker 1: You don't take it off.
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  Speaker 2: You're not You're not going to allow those people to
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  Speaker 2: intimidate you when you're getting rockets fired at you every
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  Speaker 2: night at your house in Jerusalem. So I think you
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  Speaker 2: probably liked my advice.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, And I was very pleased when I was
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  Speaker 3: there just a couple of weeks ago, and I came
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  Speaker 3: into your studios, but I saw lots of Jews on
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  Speaker 3: the street wearing their yamagas, you know, very clearly Jewish,
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  Speaker 3: and just going about their lives. And it's felt like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just do what you need to do in
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  Speaker 3: terms of you know, getting your ass kicked once in
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  Speaker 3: a while. You know, That's what happened over here in
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  Speaker 3: October seventh. We got it really good. But we could
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  Speaker 3: see that it's actually made us a lot stronger. When
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  Speaker 3: you determined that you need to fight for your existence
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  Speaker 3: and you're you're willing to do.
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  Speaker 2: That three years coming up in October hard to believe.
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  Speaker 2: So a big story today is that as Trump continues
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  Speaker 2: to try to get this peace deal done with Iran,
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  Speaker 2: which they want no part of It's just it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Our guy is doing his best and want no part
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  Speaker 2: of it. But I guess at one point yesterday Trump
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  Speaker 2: and BB, why not really Trump and BB? Trump ripped
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  Speaker 2: into BB nets in Yahoo. Somebody heard Trump say what
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  Speaker 2: the f are you doing? And when I say f
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  Speaker 2: Trump actually uses the curse word. You're ef being crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saving your s. Everybody hates you now, everybody hates Israel
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  Speaker 2: because of this. This is supposedly what Trump screamed at
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  Speaker 2: BB yesterday with a bunch of people in DC saying
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  Speaker 2: Trump was legitimately pissed. So I said that to you
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  Speaker 2: this morning. I said, well, these two biting again. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what you said to me. Don't believe everything you read.
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  Speaker 2: This plays well into both Trump's and BB's favor. So
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  Speaker 2: are you saying that this conversation didn't happen, Or it did,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not nearly as harmful as the press wants
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  Speaker 2: you to believe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think that that's exactly right. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, this is another report from Barack Revied.
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  Speaker 3: He's a reporter that I think has gotten the story
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  Speaker 3: wrong more often than any other journalists. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: tell people all the time, they said, if somebody would
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  Speaker 3: get your taxes wrong, is that your tax accountant time
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  Speaker 3: after time after time, you probably wouldn't go back to
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  Speaker 3: them to do your taxes again. But people keep going
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  Speaker 3: back to Barack Revid like he's a reputable source on this,
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  Speaker 3: and he does have sources, you know, I know Barack Revid,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure that somebody that you know, somebody came
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  Speaker 3: to them and told him that that's what happened in
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  Speaker 3: that conversation. Does that mean that is what happened in
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  Speaker 3: the conversation, doesn't mean that it was a tense conversation.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that there's a lot of tension here. It's
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  Speaker 3: clear that Trump wants there to be a ceasefire between
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  Speaker 3: the United States and Iran. Ron is trying to link
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  Speaker 3: up the Israeli as well of conflict into that ceasefire.
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  Speaker 3: So certainly they're there's tensions. But for Natanielle, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting attacked, you know, NonStop, and drones in the north,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the things are blowing up in the north
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  Speaker 3: of the country, and Israel's military doctrine has changed a
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  Speaker 3: ceasefire for Israel means that if we see Chris Balla
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  Speaker 3: moving or firing, we're going to fire back, and we're
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  Speaker 3: going to fire back much harder. In terms of you know,
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  Speaker 3: how does it play into everybody's hands. Well, it's clear
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  Speaker 3: that Trump is not putting the military pressure on Yourn
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  Speaker 3: right now, but Israel's able to do it by putting
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  Speaker 3: the military pressure on Chris Baba and then Trump can say, look,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm holding bb back, So that works in
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  Speaker 3: Trump's favor as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is is a much different dynamic because you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's not going to be attacking Cincinnati today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're not going to be dropping bombs in
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn today. So you know, while we're taking care of
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  Speaker 2: business because eventually, one day and maybe one day soon
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  Speaker 2: they'll have the nuclear capacity to do that. The truth
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  Speaker 2: is it's not right now. And you guys, on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, every time somebody makes a move, you get bombed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether it's Casbola in the northern part of
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  Speaker 2: the country. And obviously you want to deal with all
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  Speaker 2: these terrort proxies over the last three years. In that
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  Speaker 2: brutal day on October the seventh. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: easier for Trump, you know, and I love the President
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  Speaker 2: as you know, to call out Phoebe when the truth
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  Speaker 2: is you guys, you guys, you sitting right now on
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  Speaker 2: the phone with me in Jerusalem. You guys are the
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  Speaker 2: ones taking rocket fire.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And even the situation with Iran directly,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's clear that Israel would prefer and was
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  Speaker 3: ready to go fly side by side again with the
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  Speaker 3: United States to try to finish this job, because we
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  Speaker 3: know that if there's going to be any deal now
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  Speaker 3: that Roan's going to continue to try to consolidate, is
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  Speaker 3: going to use whatever dollars get released through sanctions, relief
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  Speaker 3: and whatever rebuilding money goes back into Iran. And there
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  Speaker 3: were talks to you, we saw a report as much
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  Speaker 3: as maybe three hundred billion dollars if that will be
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  Speaker 3: released into Iran. We know that some portion of that
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  Speaker 3: money is going to be going to funding terror proxies,
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  Speaker 3: some portion is going to go towards trying to extract
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  Speaker 3: that enriched uranium or to rebuild a nuclear program, and
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  Speaker 3: some is going to be poured back into developing missiles
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  Speaker 3: which are going to be used against US. We know
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  Speaker 3: that they'll be against us because they have been used
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  Speaker 3: against us. So we also understand that if you don't
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  Speaker 3: finish your job now, you're just kicking the can down
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  Speaker 3: the roadet again. There will be future rounds of this conflict.
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  Speaker 3: And so what we're seeing now is that Iran is
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  Speaker 3: actually turning into just another theater in this war, the
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  Speaker 3: same way that we had intensive conflict in Gaza, then
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  Speaker 3: there was a ceasfire. Then we go back, then there's
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  Speaker 3: a seasfire, and the same thing in Lebanon there was
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  Speaker 3: a ceasfire. Now we're fighting again. There will be a
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  Speaker 3: ceasfire with Iran. But we we had twelve days of
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  Speaker 3: war a year and a half ago in June, and
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  Speaker 3: now we have we had six weeks of war, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and Worri in March, and we know that if there'll
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  Speaker 3: be a ceasefire, that there's just going to be another
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  Speaker 3: round of this later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well hopefully much later. Because my daughter Ava arrived
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  Speaker 2: in Tel Aviv this morning quite some buddy Alex. He's
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  Speaker 2: actually staying at Johnny Daniel's house this week because he's
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  Speaker 2: in New York and I'll be there now in less
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  Speaker 2: than three weeks. I want to shift the conversation quickly
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  Speaker 2: to New York. I know, you guys wrote a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch of stories about me all over Israel, three different
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  Speaker 2: papers the last couple of days about how I called
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  Speaker 2: out Mayor Mam Donnie. I said, Mam Donnie wants Jewish
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  Speaker 2: people dead. I'm doubling down on that until he comes
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  Speaker 2: out and demonizes the Intafada. I'm gonna say, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to globalize the Intafada, you want Jewish people dead.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not apologizing, I'm doubling down. That's the way
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  Speaker 2: the mayor appeels. That's how I feel about it. So
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  Speaker 2: you guys wrote a whole bunch of stories. But why
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting to this is is that he didn't go
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  Speaker 2: to the parade, but Smoe Twitch did. Bezellelsmostrich, who happens
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  Speaker 2: to be the Minister of Finance in Israel, and Mam
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  Speaker 2: Donnie was pissed about it. He made comments on television.
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  Speaker 2: He considers Smo Twitch to be a right wing is
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  Speaker 2: really crazy. He's the guy responsible for genocide and all
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  Speaker 2: these ridiculous allegations. Kathy Hkal, the governor of New York,
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  Speaker 2: even put out a tweet about Smotrich Letitia James, the
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General in New York. It reminded me, Alex of
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  Speaker 2: the night they all came after me after I called
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  Speaker 2: Mamdanie a couple of names a couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 2: One by one they line up for this creepness mayor,
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  Speaker 2: and they come at people in the past that was me,
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  Speaker 2: Now it's Smotrich. What are your thoughts on New Yorkers
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  Speaker 2: trying to take out the Minister of Finance.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but Salas Mootrich has been a very competent minister
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  Speaker 3: of Finance here. He's appreciated by many of the ministers
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  Speaker 3: and the members of this coalition. You're responsible for a
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  Speaker 3: genocide that didn't happen, right, You haven't had a genocide
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  Speaker 3: in Israel. But the man that's responsible for the genocide
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  Speaker 3: is him. Even though he doesn't control the military, He
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  Speaker 3: doesn't control the military policy. And know, you just have
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  Speaker 3: you just have somebody that represents the views of a
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  Speaker 3: large portion of the population here. It is so you know,
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  Speaker 3: to the political rights for certain does does he believe
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  Speaker 3: very staunchly in Jewish life and and uh in Judaan Samaria?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely he does so.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, so so so do I I'm sick
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  Speaker 1: of I'm waiting for the day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, where should where should Jews live with rather than right?
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's that's why we're called Jews. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the guy one of these days, and President Trump has
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  Speaker 2: been the most courageous and greatest president by a mile.
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  Speaker 2: Truman is one thousand miles behind him in terms of
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  Speaker 2: what good he's been to Israel. But one of these days,
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  Speaker 2: somebody has to be courageous enough for sovereignty in ju
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  Speaker 2: Day in Samaria.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. It's got to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think what sposal comes to the Israel
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  Speaker 3: Da Parade instead of instead of beating down on him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a man who number one loves Israel,
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  Speaker 3: number two loves Judaan Samaria, but number three loves the
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  Speaker 3: US Israel relationship and believes very strongly that that's why
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  Speaker 3: he came to New York to participate in the Israel
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  Speaker 3: Day Parade. So he should be welcome with open arms
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  Speaker 3: somebody who wants to actually strengthen the relationship, not harm it,
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  Speaker 3: which is what Mom, Donnie and OPO and others want
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  Speaker 3: to do. And unfortunately, I would even say that there
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  Speaker 3: are that there are members of the Jewish community. Jewishly
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  Speaker 3: there'd say, oh, we can't stand Smotors, we can't stand
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  Speaker 3: ben Verin that they're actually delegitimizing Israel as government by
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  Speaker 3: saying that all the time. You know, we we don't
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  Speaker 3: walk around saying, you know, left and right, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we can't stand Marjorie tail Or Green and we can't
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  Speaker 3: stand Thomas Massey like we don't. We don't just do
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  Speaker 3: that all every minute. You know, it's not always great
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  Speaker 3: for the UH, for the relationship between the countries to
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 2: So on the way out, I know the elections are
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  Speaker 2: coming up this fall. But if the election was today,
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  Speaker 2: does bb ntallo win for the fifth time in six trides.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's certainly in pole position. What we've seen over
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  Speaker 3: here in Israel is that you can you can actually
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  Speaker 3: win an election and not form a government.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: That's how enough Tilly Bennett became Prime Minister when ninety
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  Speaker 3: five percent of the country voted for somebody else, because
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  Speaker 3: ultimately you vote for a party in Israel, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a parliamentary system with nine different parties that got in
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  Speaker 3: into the Kanessan in the last election, and then among
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  Speaker 3: the Canessan members, they determined, you know, who's going to
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  Speaker 3: run the government. So you've got a lot of parliamentarians
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  Speaker 3: here that don't want to see Nataniell form the next government,
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  Speaker 3: and they could collude against him. But he still remains
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  Speaker 3: by a very very solid margin, both the most popular
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  Speaker 3: politician in Israel and simultaneously the most unpopular. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 3: I think that as long as this war is going
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  Speaker 3: on and you need to work very closely with President
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  Speaker 3: Trump in order to continue to deal with all the
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  Speaker 3: diplomatic and military aspects of this war, Nathaniel is going
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  Speaker 3: to make the case that he's the most indispensable man
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  Speaker 3: and the one that you need to see this war
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  Speaker 3: through to its conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think that's true too. I agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Trainman, your beautiful. I'm going to see you in
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  Speaker 2: your homeland in sixteen days. I can't wait sixteen days.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to that. Are you gonna be using
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  Speaker 3: the studio for your broadcast?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think I'm just actually gonna
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  Speaker 2: take time off. How about that. I'm just gonna go
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  Speaker 2: to Israel and speak at your policy summit, and tour
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  Speaker 2: around a little bit and spend some time on the beach,
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  Speaker 2: maybe go back to the Dead Sea and actually take
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  Speaker 2: a week off. Every time I've gone to Israel, i've
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  Speaker 2: done this show, I've had to slept back and forth
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  Speaker 2: sometimes between you know, even guys on one morning to
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  Speaker 2: get back to do the show on time. So I
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  Speaker 2: think this time, Alex, I'm all yours.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't wait a week for you. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be great. And we look forward to having a showbot
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  Speaker 2: dinner with you and Sippy at your house.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: Amazing? Amazing? All right, I'm gonna talk Stepy to start cooking.
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  Speaker 2: Now, start cooking now. She's a great cook. She's tremendous
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  Speaker 2: and your family's beautiful. We'll see you in sixteen days.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk before that. Alex Treman, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I love you too. God bless you there. He is
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  Speaker 2: the CEO of jans dot org. The only place to
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  Speaker 2: get your information one is reel the War. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Elections jans dot org. And I'll be there, like I
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  Speaker 2: just said, in sixteen days.
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