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Alex Traiman | CEO of Jewish News Syndicate | 06-08-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: Three days of amazing speakers in that first night, Sunday
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  Speaker 2: Night expected to speak include bib Natannao and Mike Huckabee,
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  Speaker 2: and on the third and final night expected to speak
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  Speaker 2: anybody from Ron Dermer to Victoria Coach to Morton Klang
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  Speaker 2: to Alex Treman to Sit Rosenberg to Mauk Levin. But
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  Speaker 2: with now missiles being fired once again into Israel into
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  Speaker 2: Israel first time since this ridiculous ceasefire in April, and
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  Speaker 2: Israel of course firing back in Beirut, there are people
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  Speaker 2: questioning me, what's gonna happen with this obviously big big
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  Speaker 2: three days of talking. But more importantly, my daughter Ava
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  Speaker 2: is in Tel Aviv as we speak, and she's been
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  Speaker 2: on WhatsApp every five minutes telling me and Danielle back
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  Speaker 2: in the bombs shelter, there are more sirens. I said,
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  Speaker 2: av Ave, you knew when you went this was a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: Now the truth is when she left last Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: ceasefire was still intact. They were not firing into Israel
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  Speaker 2: and Lebanon Althoth, that it was fighting between Israel and Jaspola.
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  Speaker 2: But now that has escalated. So she's nervous and we're nervous,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just a mess that I text my friends
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  Speaker 2: in Israel, people like Judah and Alex Dreheman are like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're great. Everything is great. With that said here he
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  Speaker 2: is CEO of j dot Org and a frequent guest
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  Speaker 2: on this show because he is great, Alex Treatman, Alex,
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  Speaker 2: good afternoon in Israel. How are you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to you in New York soon.
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  Speaker 2: So you told me this morning you were great. But
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  Speaker 2: my daughter has spent the last two days in Tel Aviv,
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  Speaker 2: getting no sleep and running in and out of bombshellter.
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  Speaker 2: So what's really going on?
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  Speaker 3: Well, last let's say, the last fourteen hours or so.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I think we got the first, the first sirens
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  Speaker 3: going off in towards Tel Aviv and Haifa last night
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  Speaker 3: just around midnight, and then again early this morning we
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  Speaker 3: had We've had a twenty four ballistic missiles fired from
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  Speaker 3: Iran at Israel since the first strikes Lait last night.
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  Speaker 3: But right now we're starting to get indications that maybe
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  Speaker 3: Iron wants this little episode to be over. And certainly
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  Speaker 3: we see a lot of posts from the president interviews
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  Speaker 3: and through social posts indicating that he wants this round
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  Speaker 3: to be over as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he wants the whole thing to be over, but
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  Speaker 2: nobody cares that he wants. At this point, nobody loves
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  Speaker 2: the President more than me, but Iran doesn't care. Clearly
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  Speaker 2: they don't care. It's one hundred and one days and
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  Speaker 2: no matter what we throw with them, they're not stopping.
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  Speaker 2: So there was also a report that Trump was going
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  Speaker 2: to call BB and you remember during the Bush days,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are taking scud missiles all the time, and
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  Speaker 2: Bush told you to just take it, and you guys,
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  Speaker 2: did you took it? The report was yesterday Trump was
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  Speaker 2: going to tell BB just take it, don't do anything
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  Speaker 2: about it, don't retaliate. Just take it. Now, that's not
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  Speaker 2: BBE And how much sure if we retaliate it or not.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no way the BB that I know is
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  Speaker 2: not going to allow anybody to bomb Israel and just
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  Speaker 2: take it. So it's a two part question. A. Did
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  Speaker 2: that conversation take place? But Trump told BB just take it?
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  Speaker 2: And B Has BB already responded and it hasn't. Do
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  Speaker 2: you expect him to?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I think we can be sure that Trump told
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  Speaker 3: BB that he didn't want him to respond, But I
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  Speaker 3: believe that it's clear at this point that BB told
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  Speaker 3: Trump that he was going to respond, and in fact
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  Speaker 3: Israel has responded. There have been strikes early this morning
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  Speaker 3: on around in air defenses and on petrochemical facilities which
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  Speaker 3: are reported to be used for creating ballistic missiles, whether
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  Speaker 3: that's creating the fuel the solid fuel that could be
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  Speaker 3: used in bullistic missiles already struck inside Iran. It's not
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  Speaker 3: the most serious of strikes, it's not a sustained air campaign,
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  Speaker 3: but it is a clear reminder to Iran that Israel
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  Speaker 3: can and will strike at top secret facilities with precision accuracy.
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  Speaker 2: See President Trump is so popular in Israel, severedly. So
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  Speaker 2: there's been no president that's come close to being as
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  Speaker 2: good to Israel as President Trump. Passed is a way
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  Speaker 2: way way, way, way way distance second. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: these little back and forths with bb in the upward
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  Speaker 2: and now telling him just take it. Is there a
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  Speaker 2: chance that some of the Israelis are going to start
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  Speaker 2: to feel a little less love for President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Well, certainly Israeli is our questioning what the President's doing
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  Speaker 3: right now. You know, Israel felt like, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: filed down Comas so much, we filed down Schizbel so much,
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  Speaker 3: we filed down Iran so much. But they still exist,
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  Speaker 3: and they still have the capacity and the intent and
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  Speaker 3: the desire to threaten Israel. And Israel does want to
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  Speaker 3: finish your job. Nathanial certainly wants to finish your job.
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  Speaker 3: So there's definitely the sense last night, I mean, there
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  Speaker 3: was a the anxiety was not about whether Iran would
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  Speaker 3: fire ballistic missiles at Israel. Israelis like We're waiting for
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  Speaker 3: Iran to fire ballistic missiles. The anxiety was over whether
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  Speaker 3: Nettanale would stand up to Trump in the face of
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  Speaker 3: these calls not to retaliate and to order the Israeli
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  Speaker 3: Air Force into action, and when he did so, I
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  Speaker 3: would say a lot of that anxiety in the country
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  Speaker 3: has was immediately relieved. Now everybody waiting to see if
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be a return to war or whether
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  Speaker 3: this was just like a momentary explosion.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that what we've seen here is
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  Speaker 3: that there's this is like what we're calling like the
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  Speaker 3: ceasefire war, the stop start war. I think that Trump
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  Speaker 3: may very well get a temporary pause in the hostilities,
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  Speaker 3: but it's clear that this war is not over, and
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  Speaker 3: so I do expect at some point you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see future rounds here, whether those are immediate rounds or
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  Speaker 3: whether there's a little bit of a break, even several
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  Speaker 3: weeks of a break. At some point you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see Israel and Iron back at it.
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  Speaker 2: So you saying that the Israelis and even look, I
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  Speaker 2: was all born Operation Epic theory. I thought we needed it.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump showed the courage that other presidents promised they
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  Speaker 2: would and didn't do it. So, you know, for all
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  Speaker 2: the criticism that's been levied against him going in, there
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  Speaker 2: was the right move bottom line is no nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: They had provided all these terror proxies. They made them
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  Speaker 2: killing machines. So I was all for it one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thousand percent to go into Iran. But I'd be
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  Speaker 2: lying as the most ordent and supportive Trump supporter in
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  Speaker 2: the world if I haven't questioned this time and time
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  Speaker 2: again the last couple of weeks, and I've sat on
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  Speaker 2: the air, I think was stuck and I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: we had an exit strategy planned that was as good
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  Speaker 2: as when we started this thing over one hundred days ago.
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  Speaker 2: So as well as we're asking the same questions, I
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  Speaker 2: guess that I am.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. I think the President was hoping that the military
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  Speaker 3: epic fury campaign was going to somehow collapse the Iranian regime,
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  Speaker 3: and what we've seen here is that the regime remained
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  Speaker 3: standing because these are you know, terror organizations and the
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  Speaker 3: state sponsor of terror in Iran that they go to
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  Speaker 3: the last man standing, you know, as long as there's
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  Speaker 3: somebody there to waive the banner, they will claim victory
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  Speaker 3: in a war. And they have not collapsed even with
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  Speaker 3: the assassination of the Supreme leader Ali Kamanai from the
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  Speaker 3: first moment, and I think that Trump maybe got disappointed
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  Speaker 3: with that, because he certainly doesn't want to be engaged
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  Speaker 3: in a war that lasts for six months, that lasts
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  Speaker 3: for a year. This was exactly the opposite of what
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  Speaker 3: he promised the American people. So, you know, he pivoted
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  Speaker 3: to a strategy that would place a blockade on Iran,
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  Speaker 3: that would create a significant economic pressure on Iran, and
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  Speaker 3: there is a belief that the economic pressure could ultimately
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  Speaker 3: lead to the collapse. But again here in Israel, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the feeling is that as long as that regime is standing,
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  Speaker 3: the victory has not been reached. And Israelis, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have been in war now for two and a half years,
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  Speaker 3: are just not going to stand idly by while Iran
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  Speaker 3: seems to be the new tail wagon the dog here
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  Speaker 3: and taking over the reins of the tenor here since
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  Speaker 3: the ceasefire was declared.
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  Speaker 2: That's all fair. So the international policy, some of what
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  Speaker 2: you guys put on and I ran down the speakers
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  Speaker 2: an amazing group, has already been postponed once. Right, this
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to happen a couple of months ago, and
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  Speaker 2: it was right in the middle of the war. So
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  Speaker 2: you guys moved it now to next week. Are you
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  Speaker 2: having people contact you and say, boy, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: Alex firing missiles again? What has there been any response
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  Speaker 2: from potential speak from speakers who may not potentially come now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, obviously all of a sudden people are concerned, and
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  Speaker 3: rightly so, and our approach right now is that we
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  Speaker 3: really just need to wait. I would say, even in
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  Speaker 3: another twenty four hours, it will be a lot smarter
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  Speaker 3: as to whether this was an isolated incident or whether
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  Speaker 3: this is the beginning of a multi week campaign. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if it's a multi week campaign and the airport gets closed,
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  Speaker 3: that could force our hands. But if it turns out
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  Speaker 3: the fact that this was an isolated incident and schools
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  Speaker 3: reopen and things go back to normal in the country,
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  Speaker 3: we plan to go full speed ahead with the summit's.
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  Speaker 2: Ben GOINGI an airport open this morning.
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  Speaker 3: The airport is open this morning. There was discussions about
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  Speaker 3: potentially closing it or potentially limiting the number of individuals
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  Speaker 3: that could be in the airport at any given time,
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  Speaker 3: but as of now, the airport continues to run at
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  Speaker 3: full full scale operation.
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  Speaker 2: And you wilex trainman on the way out New York
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  Speaker 2: living in Israel and opera a long time. And you're
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  Speaker 2: the man Alex trainman JNS dot Org. But a die hard,
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  Speaker 2: still a die hard New York Knicks fan. Game three,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump in attendance Madison Square Garden later on tonight,
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  Speaker 2: and you are keeping a good eye. I know these
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  Speaker 2: games on the middle of the night. Bu guys, you've
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  Speaker 2: had these conversations. You guys are seven hours ahead, so
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  Speaker 2: you and tip off tonight until three forty five am.
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  Speaker 2: And Israel. So odds are you're not gonna watch this live?
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  Speaker 2: I know that, But will you wait and then watch
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  Speaker 2: it when you wake up without knowing the score? What
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  Speaker 2: is the what is the Knicks fan? There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them, a lot of them. What are they gonna
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  Speaker 2: do in Israel later on tonight?
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  Speaker 3: The Knicks fans, they wake up, they want to check
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  Speaker 3: to see what happened. A lot of people here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: watch those ten minute full game high rights where you
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  Speaker 3: see every basket. You don't see all the misses, but
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  Speaker 3: you see all the baskets. Uh. And so obviously a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Israelis here come from Americans that have moved
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  Speaker 3: to Israel. You know, they come from New York area.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of Knicks fans. But interesting that both Israel
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  Speaker 3: and the Knicks are concerned with what President Trump is
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  Speaker 3: going to do, where he's gonna be, what he's gonna say.
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  Speaker 3: I guess we'll be watching for a few different angles here.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to about today. I'll tell you the same
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  Speaker 2: thing I've been telling you every day but two and
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  Speaker 2: a half. There's be safe, be careful. I love you, you're
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  Speaker 2: the best in the business. You do a great job
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  Speaker 2: out there, but more importantly, you have a dear friend,
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  Speaker 2: So be safe. We'll talk later on today.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks so much. Did You're amazing?
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  Speaker 2: You want to Alex Treman right there, the CEO of
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  Speaker 2: JNS dot org live in Jerusalem. Well, right now, it's
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  Speaker 2: a little after three o'clock in the afternoon, and they're
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  Speaker 2: waiting to see what the next move is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we talk about this all the time, President Trump and Iran,
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  Speaker 2: and the truth is we're in no danger here. Right
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  Speaker 2: They haven't developed that weapon yet to hit Brooklyn. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're on the way to doing it. That's why Trump
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  Speaker 2: did what he did, and I applaud that effort. But
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  Speaker 2: they can't do it, and they're not going to do
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  Speaker 2: it so Trump can get top, and they can get
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  Speaker 2: top with the people that really pay the price of
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  Speaker 2: the Israelis. They're the ones. And I know they've sent
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  Speaker 2: bombs to other Arab countries, Iran missiles, i should say,
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  Speaker 2: and even sent the missile to the Kuwait airport a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days ago. But the country that takes a
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  Speaker 2: brunt of it ninety plus percent is Israel. They're the ones.
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  Speaker 2: So we can talk a big game here what to do,
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  Speaker 2: what not to do, because we're really in no danger.
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  Speaker 2: These poor bastards, or my friends and now my in fact,
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  Speaker 2: my daughter this morning, they're in harm's way. Andy Ron
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  Speaker 2: shows little to no hesitation to send missiles twenty four
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  Speaker 2: already today to residential areas in Israel. So it's scary.
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  Speaker 3: To say the least.
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