Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Alex Traiman | CEO of Jewish News Syndicate | 06-30-26
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- 0:25Speaker 2: Just got back from Israel. Alex Traman was a man
- 0:28Speaker 2: who put together that unbelievable three day JNS dot org
- 0:33Speaker 2: International Policy Summit.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Were again.
- 0:36Speaker 2: I spoke Bbe, Mike Huckabee, mak Levin, hundreds and thousands
- 0:41Speaker 2: of other big names. So Alex, let me stop by
- 0:44Speaker 2: saying congratulations. If there was now the second year we've
- 0:49Speaker 2: done this, it was even better this year than last year.
- 0:52Speaker 3: So congratulations. Thanks so much. Sid.
- 0:55Speaker 4: I'm so glad you were there to join us.
- 0:57Speaker 2: No, I loved every second of it, I really did,
- 1:00Speaker 2: and I know Israel misses me already.
- 1:02Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, I don't know how we're getting on without you.
- 1:08Speaker 2: I got all these people, the one or one for
- 1:09Speaker 2: mayor of New York now Michael rappaport A Portnoy, all
- 1:13Speaker 2: these people and Jessica Tish. Maybe I don't know, Maybe
- 1:16Speaker 2: I'll just move there. One for mayor of tele avivor
- 1:20Speaker 2: when they own steps down, mayor of Jerusalem.
- 1:22Speaker 3: How about that?
- 1:24Speaker 4: That would be good. That would be good. I think
- 1:26Speaker 4: you'd have some tight competition, but uh, you could do it. No.
- 1:30Speaker 3: I think they love it out there. They love it.
- 1:32Speaker 2: They're ready for some excitement. And I did talk about
- 1:35Speaker 2: bb speaking the same night that I did. Me and
- 1:37Speaker 2: Mark Levin spoke right before Bbe. That was last Sunday night.
- 1:41Speaker 2: And you know, I talk about this on the show
- 1:43Speaker 2: all the time. It's become a sport in the United
- 1:45Speaker 2: States and around the world to hate Bbe and hate Israel.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Bbe's a terrible guy. He's he's committing genocide, He's murdering babies.
- 1:54Speaker 2: I mean, just so uninformed and stupid. Every world leader
- 1:58Speaker 2: should be like Bbe. This poor bastard is trying to
- 2:01Speaker 2: protect a country the size of New Jersey with ten
- 2:04Speaker 2: or eleven neighboring countries that want to kill them. Europe
- 2:07Speaker 2: paid some United States. They're not doing any favories, to
- 2:11Speaker 2: be honest, the last couple of months either. So this
- 2:14Speaker 2: guy should be commended, congratulated. People should watch how this
- 2:18Speaker 2: guy works every day, that he's keeping you ten million
- 2:21Speaker 2: people as safe as possible, yet he gets hammered around
- 2:24Speaker 2: the world. So I love when he said, Alex, he goes,
- 2:27Speaker 2: let me ask you something. If a bunch of terrorists
- 2:30Speaker 2: came through the border in America, pick a city, Cincinnati, Sacramento,
- 2:36Speaker 2: Brooklyn and raped and murdered innocent Americans, thirteen hundred, left
- 2:42Speaker 2: them dead in the streets, what do you think President
- 2:44Speaker 2: and Trump would do? And I say that all the time.
- 2:49Speaker 2: BB right there, Alex Treman, right on the money.
- 2:53Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the Prime Minister gave a lot of
- 2:55Speaker 4: insights into how he thinks about this war, about how
- 3:00Speaker 4: he works to defend the citizens of Israel, you know,
- 3:04Speaker 4: discussed just how important it is to keep that security
- 3:08Speaker 4: perimeter inside South Lebanon, and of course that he insisted
- 3:13Speaker 4: that as long as he's the Prime Minister, that Iran
- 3:15Speaker 4: will never get nuclear weapons.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Which is exactly what President Trump said. And I will
- 3:20Speaker 2: say this because I said the same thing on Potch
- 3:22Speaker 2: News early Sunday morning, and the folks who keep asking
- 3:25Speaker 2: me what did the Israelis feel about Trump?
- 3:28Speaker 4: Now?
- 3:29Speaker 2: Because not that long ago, Trump was more popular than anybody,
- 3:31Speaker 2: including Baby Trump could have won with ninety nine percent
- 3:34Speaker 2: of the vote.
- 3:35Speaker 3: And it's anecdotal, just me, but.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Almost everybody, almost everybody I spoke to in Israel very
- 3:44Speaker 2: disappointed with President Trump. What do you see you who
- 3:47Speaker 2: live there?
- 3:49Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that the president's support is approval
- 3:52Speaker 4: ratings in Israel have dropped significantly, and it's not because
- 3:56Speaker 4: of everything that the president has done for Israel. And
- 3:59Speaker 4: he's done amazing things for Israel, including flying side by
- 4:02Speaker 4: side with the Israeli Air Force over six weeks during
- 4:06Speaker 4: the Operation Epic Fury when they took out all of
- 4:08Speaker 4: the Iranian nuclear facilities and also the ballistic missiles. But
- 4:14Speaker 4: specifically because here in Israel we felt that Iran was
- 4:17Speaker 4: on the ropes, and the President A decided to let
- 4:22Speaker 4: up the military pressure and b let up the economic pressure.
- 4:25Speaker 4: But see, you know, just talking so nicely about all
- 4:29Speaker 4: these fanatics across the Middle East, like Airdowan and Turkey,
- 4:32Speaker 4: Altani and Katar, you know, the Field Marshal in Pakistan,
- 4:37Speaker 4: about how wonderful they are, and then also saying that
- 4:39Speaker 4: Natanyao is fin crazy, you know, is a little bit too.
- 4:44Speaker 4: You know, it is making bad decisions. And you know,
- 4:47Speaker 4: I think a lot of Israelis can see that the
- 4:50Speaker 4: President's interests have shifted, and that's okay, you know they can.
- 4:54Speaker 4: But really, the Prime the President should be praising the
- 4:57Speaker 4: Prime Minister for his war reader ship and praising the
- 5:01Speaker 4: ID the Israeli Air Force for doing an incredible job
- 5:03Speaker 4: over six weeks. We didn't even lose.
- 5:05Speaker 3: One pilot one.
- 5:06Speaker 2: I agree with you, But there are some that'll say
- 5:08Speaker 2: this is what President Trump does, whether it's Putin, whether
- 5:12Speaker 2: it's Kim John. You mentioned all those bad people, Arab leaders.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Look, I got it right here in New York.
- 5:19Speaker 2: This Mom, Donnie, who is the biggest scumbag in the
- 5:23Speaker 2: history of American politics, the biggest scumbag Trump at least
- 5:28Speaker 2: once a week, finds a way to call him good looking,
- 5:31Speaker 2: calls them smart. And some say to me, Shid, that's
- 5:35Speaker 2: how Trump operates. He believes being close with the enemy
- 5:40Speaker 2: actually will give him wiggle room to negotiate get something done.
- 5:45Speaker 3: Somewhere down the road.
- 5:46Speaker 2: That may be true, but it hits close to home
- 5:49Speaker 2: from me with Mom Donnie, and I know it hits
- 5:51Speaker 2: close to home with you with Beebee.
- 5:55Speaker 4: Well, I think so. But you know, you hear the
- 5:57Speaker 4: things that are being leaked from the Trump administration. It's
- 6:01Speaker 4: not just from Trump directly in his phone calls with
- 6:04Speaker 4: Barack Revive, but we see that there's a regular stream
- 6:07Speaker 4: of information that is widely believed to be coming from
- 6:12Speaker 4: the offices of Jared Kushner and Steve Woodkoff and even
- 6:15Speaker 4: from JD.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Vance.
- 6:16Speaker 4: You know, they're all, you know, all coming out very
- 6:20Speaker 4: negative against Nataniell, and the feeling among them is that
- 6:23Speaker 4: they'd like to see Nataniell out actually so they can
- 6:26Speaker 4: get in another leader that will basically do whatever the
- 6:29Speaker 4: President of the United States tells them to do.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Uh.
- 6:32Speaker 4: And there's a feeling here in Israel that even though Neatanille,
- 6:36Speaker 4: you know, he's at the same time the most popular
- 6:40Speaker 4: and the most unpopular politicians, so that he is willing
- 6:44Speaker 4: to stand up to an American president, whether that was Obama,
- 6:47Speaker 4: whether that was Joe Biden, and even whether it's a
- 6:49Speaker 4: good friend like Donald Trump.
- 6:51Speaker 2: And Trump's the same thing here. He's beloved and he's
- 6:53Speaker 2: hated at the same time. See Witkoff is Jewish. Kushner
- 6:57Speaker 2: is Jewish. JD's not, And I'm on rucor now for
- 7:00Speaker 2: quite some time. I think I was the first because
- 7:02Speaker 2: my relationship with Marco Rubio dates all the way back
- 7:05Speaker 2: to twenty ten. On a personal level, I was down
- 7:09Speaker 2: in Florida, he was in Miami running for state Senate
- 7:11Speaker 2: and he'll be the first to admit, and he did
- 7:13Speaker 2: on this show back last August. I helped him win
- 7:16Speaker 2: his very first ever state Senate seat down in Florida
- 7:19Speaker 2: back in twenty eleven.
- 7:21Speaker 3: I love Marco Rubio. He loves is.
- 7:23Speaker 4: If you yeah, if you, If you poll israelis now
- 7:26Speaker 4: like which member of the administration they like the best,
- 7:29Speaker 4: you know, if it was advanced, even if it was Trump,
- 7:33Speaker 4: even if it was Mark Rubio, I think Mark Rubio
- 7:35Speaker 4: would score the highest marks over here. And this deal
- 7:38Speaker 4: that he did now to help broker a ceasefire and
- 7:42Speaker 4: armistist now with Webanon actually really is very helpful for
- 7:47Speaker 4: Israel on the one and also tries to undo some
- 7:50Speaker 4: of the damage that was done by j. D. Vance
- 7:53Speaker 4: and the MoU that the United States has been entering
- 7:56Speaker 4: into with Iran.
- 7:57Speaker 3: See that was my point.
- 7:58Speaker 2: You're right, Marco now is the moment popular in Israel,
- 8:01Speaker 2: and he's always been my choice to be the next nominee.
- 8:04Speaker 2: I don't know if President Trump will afford him that opportunity,
- 8:07Speaker 2: but they're just gonna, you know, groom JD.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Vans for that.
- 8:10Speaker 2: But of the three you just mentioned, JD. Vans by
- 8:14Speaker 2: a long distance is my least favorite, my least.
- 8:18Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that this deal that's been signed
- 8:22Speaker 4: to get this ceasefire in Iran is potentially a setup
- 8:25Speaker 4: that can come back to harm JD. Vans and his
- 8:30Speaker 4: prospects for inheriting the presidency moving forward, because you see
- 8:34Speaker 4: that the Iranians really have no interest in getting to
- 8:38Speaker 4: real peace. Quite the opposite, they seem pretty intent on
- 8:41Speaker 4: embarrassing the President of the United States because that's how
- 8:44Speaker 4: they demonstrate that they have won this conflict by push
- 8:48Speaker 4: forcing basically the US President to not want to go
- 8:52Speaker 4: any further with the military, by releasing funds to Iran,
- 8:55Speaker 4: and by humiliating the President and the United States.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Depending on who you talk to, Alex Traman ceojns dot
- 9:02Speaker 2: or joining me live right now from Jerusalem, he's not
- 9:04Speaker 2: about two hundred and fifty times since October ninth, of
- 9:07Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. That's a real number.
- 9:09Speaker 3: You know.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Some people think, wow, the stock market is up and
- 9:12Speaker 2: the S and P is up and oil is going down,
- 9:14Speaker 2: so or winning the war.
- 9:15Speaker 3: I don't agree with that. Okay, we to win the war.
- 9:19Speaker 2: We were told by President Trump that we got to
- 9:21Speaker 2: get the dust.
- 9:22Speaker 3: You don't have it that.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Obviously, there has to be some type of control with
- 9:27Speaker 2: the regime.
- 9:29Speaker 3: I don't believe you've got that.
- 9:30Speaker 2: And the strait has to be open with America making
- 9:34Speaker 2: all the decisions, not the Iranians.
- 9:36Speaker 3: We don't have that either.
- 9:37Speaker 2: You know. The naval blockade did a very very good job,
- 9:39Speaker 2: but they're not there. So I'm trying to figure out,
- 9:42Speaker 2: based on the metrics that the President of the United States,
- 9:45Speaker 2: my friend, I love the guy, I love them, but
- 9:48Speaker 2: based on his metrics, how is America winning this war?
- 9:54Speaker 4: Well, what America did do, and there's no doubt about it,
- 9:57Speaker 4: is that they removed an existential threat the entirety of
- 10:00Speaker 4: the Middle East, in particular certainly to Israel and to
- 10:03Speaker 4: the entire world. Iran is no longer a nuclear power,
- 10:07Speaker 4: and that is only because President Trump did what no
- 10:10Speaker 4: other president was willing to do, and to fly side
- 10:13Speaker 4: by side with the Israeli Air Force.
- 10:14Speaker 2: And when you talk about that, you're not even talking
- 10:16Speaker 2: about Operation Epic thirty. What you're talking about is months
- 10:19Speaker 2: ago when we had Midnight Hammer, because during that exercise,
- 10:24Speaker 2: the conventional wisdom is we destroyed basically the centrifuges. So
- 10:28Speaker 2: they can have dust, but they can't enwitch it and
- 10:31Speaker 2: make a nuclear bomb.
- 10:32Speaker 4: Right, they can't even access it right now. You know
- 10:35Speaker 4: it's buried way underground. There's no indications that they are
- 10:39Speaker 4: able to get anywhere near it. You can be certain
- 10:42Speaker 4: that it is being surveilled to the highest degrees possible.
- 10:47Speaker 4: And like you said, there's no more centrifuges left. Right,
- 10:51Speaker 4: it doesn't mean that Iran could no longer develop centrifuges,
- 10:54Speaker 4: even though Israel was sure to take out the top
- 10:56Speaker 4: nuclear scientists. So there's not really the know how inside
- 11:01Speaker 4: Iran to do that. But for israel I would say,
- 11:05Speaker 4: the number one indicator of winning this conflict with Iran
- 11:10Speaker 4: that has just terrorized the whole region for the last
- 11:13Speaker 4: three years and really the world in America for the
- 11:15Speaker 4: last forty seven years, would be a thorough regime change.
- 11:19Speaker 4: And what you do see is that there are members
- 11:21Speaker 4: of this regime that are still in place. These are
- 11:23Speaker 4: the ones negotiating with the United States. And then on
- 11:26Speaker 4: the other side of that, they are just putting out
- 11:29Speaker 4: comment after comment saying how they have defeated the United
- 11:33Speaker 4: States and you see by their actions that they're not
- 11:36Speaker 4: even willing to open up the Straits or for moves,
- 11:38Speaker 4: which is really the number one point of this deal.
- 11:40Speaker 4: This is a deal not to end the war. It's
- 11:42Speaker 4: a deal to open the straits. And right now what
- 11:46Speaker 4: we can see is that even the Straits is up
- 11:49Speaker 4: for Iranian mischief as they continue to strike the ships
- 11:52Speaker 4: and the United States continues to retaliate tumol lets.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Your one, Alex, tell me about the current status of
- 11:58Speaker 2: this Israel leban On ceasefire.
- 12:01Speaker 3: Where are you with that?
- 12:03Speaker 4: Well, we just signed a great deal and what that
- 12:06Speaker 4: does for the first time is it actually legitimizes Israel's
- 12:10Speaker 4: presence in southern Lebanon as being given permission from the
- 12:14Speaker 4: Lebanese government to be there. And the reason why the
- 12:17Speaker 4: Lebanese government is giving Israel permission to be in southern
- 12:20Speaker 4: Lebanon is because they don't want Iran to be the
- 12:23Speaker 4: sovereign in Lebanon. Iran wants to protect Usbala. It's understood
- 12:28Speaker 4: that there's only one force in this entire region and
- 12:31Speaker 4: entire world for that matter, that can push back his ball,
- 12:34Speaker 4: and that's the Israeli Defense Forces. And so Israel maintains
- 12:38Speaker 4: a strong security buffer about ten miles in from the
- 12:42Speaker 4: border between Israel and Lebanon. And hopefully there will be
- 12:47Speaker 4: further conversations that might lead to a formal recognition of
- 12:52Speaker 4: Israel and even a normalization economic normalization between Lebanon and Israel.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Last one, let's go south north up in leban Let's
- 13:00Speaker 2: go south to Gaza. When I was adrewing those seven
- 13:03Speaker 2: days in Israel, there was a little bit of tumult,
- 13:06Speaker 2: very little, but a little bit of tumult. What is
- 13:08Speaker 2: going on with Hamas and Gaza down in Israel.
- 13:12Speaker 4: Well, meanwhile, the Hamas refuses to disarm the Board of Peace,
- 13:17Speaker 4: which is put together by Donald Trump, and they're trying
- 13:20Speaker 4: to put into place some kind of a technocratic government,
- 13:22Speaker 4: that's a Palestinian led technocratic government to take over from Kamas.
- 13:26Speaker 4: Good luck to them, because Kamas refuses to disarm. Israel
- 13:30Speaker 4: controls more than half, even as much as sixty percent
- 13:34Speaker 4: of the Gaza strip right now, and they're not going
- 13:37Speaker 4: to withdraw as long as Kamasa maintains their arms, and
- 13:40Speaker 4: Kamas really has no incentive to maintain their arms. But
- 13:43Speaker 4: in addition to Israel now withdrawing, there's not really going
- 13:46Speaker 4: to be any major funds pouring into Gaza for rebuilding
- 13:50Speaker 4: until Hamas withdraw us. So it'll be interesting to see
- 13:53Speaker 4: over the coming weeks and months. We just saw a
- 13:55Speaker 4: report of this over the last several days that whether
- 13:58Speaker 4: or not Gazin's will actually take to the streets and
- 14:01Speaker 4: start demanding that Kamas be overthrown. And this will be
- 14:05Speaker 4: interesting because as long as Kamas is there, the people
- 14:08Speaker 4: of Gaza are going to be the most terrorized and
- 14:11Speaker 4: you're never going to get to a period where you
- 14:12Speaker 4: can actually see rebuilding industrup But how.
- 14:15Speaker 2: Could the people revolt They don't have arms. Kamas has guns.
- 14:19Speaker 2: It's kind of like what they say about Iran. Oh,
- 14:21Speaker 2: the people are going to take over the regime. The
- 14:22Speaker 2: people are going to take to the streets. Wait a second,
- 14:25Speaker 2: Iran mowed down forty thousand innocent people. They've got the guns.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Same thing with Hamas and the Palestinians.
- 14:31Speaker 4: No and same thing with Hazbola. That's right. And what
- 14:35Speaker 4: you learn is a lesson here that you actually cannot
- 14:37Speaker 4: defeat guns with F thirty five unless you're unless you're
- 14:42Speaker 4: willing to put men on the on the ground, right,
- 14:45Speaker 4: you know, to engage in firefights, you're not going to
- 14:47Speaker 4: have you're not going to have a defeat. And any
- 14:51Speaker 4: idea that Hamas is going to disarm itself, you know,
- 14:54Speaker 4: let's say Kamas comes to the table. Okay, look, here's
- 14:57Speaker 4: five thousand guns we've disarmed. Okay, sure you give us
- 15:00Speaker 4: five thousand guns. How many more do you have?
- 15:02Speaker 3: Exactly?
- 15:03Speaker 4: There's not really any mechanism for guaranteeing that.
- 15:06Speaker 3: It's like the dust too.
- 15:07Speaker 2: The Iranians will give us some dust, but we knows
- 15:09Speaker 2: how much they won't give us. That we don't know about.
- 15:12Speaker 2: In the end, here, Alex, have you already started it's
- 15:16Speaker 2: only over a couple of days. Have you already started
- 15:19Speaker 2: to plan for the third Annual International Policy Summit?
- 15:24Speaker 4: Yeah, we're already thinking about the third summit. How to
- 15:27Speaker 4: step it up? You know, you mentioned that we did
- 15:29Speaker 4: it last year. It was amazing, and then we tried
- 15:32Speaker 4: to step it up this year. We had over twelve
- 15:33Speaker 4: hundred people, that are over three days, two hundred and
- 15:35Speaker 4: thirty speakers. We're already thinking about what we can do
- 15:38Speaker 4: to make it bigger, bolder, more effective on a policy
- 15:43Speaker 4: level and on a philanthropic level. Next year. We're also
- 15:47Speaker 4: beginning to figure out when we can bring the version
- 15:51Speaker 4: of what we just did here in Jerusalem to Miami
- 15:55Speaker 4: and potentially also to Washington, d C. In the springtime.
- 16:00Speaker 3: What about New York City.
- 16:02Speaker 4: We'll try to do something in New York as well.
- 16:04Speaker 3: Yeah, you should.
- 16:05Speaker 2: I gotta tell you a great event now. I am
- 16:06Speaker 2: so proud of you. I mean it, you were. You
- 16:09Speaker 2: were amazing on stage. You actually m seed hosted all
- 16:13Speaker 2: three days of it. Alviya did a great job and
- 16:15Speaker 2: it was great seeing Sippy and your beautiful family, your
- 16:18Speaker 2: boys and your girls. It was just an unbelievable time
- 16:22Speaker 2: and you should be very, very proud of yourself. I
- 16:25Speaker 2: was in that room quite a bit listening to a
- 16:27Speaker 2: bunch of speakers speaking about everything from China to obviously
- 16:32Speaker 2: the conflict in Iran, to Hamas to American government.
- 16:37Speaker 3: It was it was really spectacular. So congratulations, my.
- 16:40Speaker 4: Friend, Well, thanks so much, and you know, all the sessions,
- 16:43Speaker 4: all the speeches, they were recorded, they're all online on
- 16:46Speaker 4: our YouTube channel. We've already had millions and millions of
- 16:49Speaker 4: hits on the speeches from the summit just in the
- 16:53Speaker 4: past few days, so you know, people can can tune in,
- 16:56Speaker 4: they can listen to you, they can listen to the
- 16:58Speaker 4: Prime Minister, Ambassador Howkabee and others. It's all there for consumption.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Malk Levin too, and you. I love you, Alex Dreman.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Great job. We'll do this again very very soon.
- 17:07Speaker 4: Thank you so much, looking forward. Thanks so much.
- 17:09Speaker 2: Suit my man there he is a CEO of JNS
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