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Ophir Falk | Foreign Policy Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | 07-09-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: The Foreign Policy Advisor for Israeli Prime Minister of my
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  Speaker 3: friend BB neat Tanyao. He's in the room with BB
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  Speaker 3: all day, every day, so he knows exactly what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: even doing those BB Trump phone calls. So with that said,
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  Speaker 3: let me welcome him in making his debut on Sitting
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  Speaker 3: Friends in the morning from Israel, Doctor Ophir Falk, Doctor Falk,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, or in your case, good afternoon. How are
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  Speaker 3: you hey?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: It is great to have you so much to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: I guess we'll start with Iran. You know, I was
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  Speaker 3: just in Israel a couple of weeks ago. I was
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  Speaker 3: there speaking Alex Trainman JNS dot Org. In fact, I
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  Speaker 3: saw BB speak on that Sunday night. I was sitting
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  Speaker 3: right there in the front row, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: Israel and me we want the same thing, which is,
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  Speaker 3: while we talk about diaconomics of the war and the
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  Speaker 3: nuclear stuff, we want to make sure basically that Iran
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  Speaker 3: can't continue to hurt America and Israel people in the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East. That's the bottom line, right, So I think
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  Speaker 3: we all want to see some type of reason to
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  Speaker 3: believe that Iran will not be able to do that
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  Speaker 3: in the future. Is that be ab to say, doctor Folk? Right?
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  Speaker 2: So the bottom line is that Iran cannot have nuclear bombs.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. The President's been very clear on
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  Speaker 2: the other Prime Minister has been very clear on that,
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  Speaker 2: and dealer no deal, they will not have any atomic bombs.
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  Speaker 2: I RAN's weaker than it's ever been before, because, along
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  Speaker 2: with the United States as well, has hit them very hard.
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  Speaker 2: They've been calling death to America and death to Israel
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  Speaker 2: for forty seven years and we're putting an end to
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  Speaker 2: that today.
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  Speaker 3: They did that just yesterday again, they chanted the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: So is it fair to say, then, based on what
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  Speaker 3: you just said, that you and BB you're happy with
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  Speaker 3: where we are in this war.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have a fantastic relationship obviously with the United
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  Speaker 2: States as well. In the United States have a fantastic relationship.
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  Speaker 2: We are America's model ally and obviously the United States
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  Speaker 2: is really indispensable ally. Never has there been a such
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  Speaker 2: cooperation and coordination between a prime minister and a president
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  Speaker 2: and between our armed forces, the idea of there's really
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  Speaker 2: defense forces and American military forces in this In this war,
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  Speaker 2: in the Rising Lion and then Epic Furry, we've hit
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  Speaker 2: around like they've never been hit before. They're weaker than ever.
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  Speaker 2: We've taken out twenty of their top nuclear scientists, We've
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  Speaker 2: taken out Tier one of their leadership, Tier two their leadership.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're basically dealing with the d week Now.
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  Speaker 2: If the President can do a deal and prevent them
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  Speaker 2: from happening to a nuclear bomb, great, But as the
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  Speaker 2: President said, and as the Prime Minister has said, a dealer,
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  Speaker 2: no deal, Iraq cannot have nuclear weapons and they can
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  Speaker 2: no longer be the bullies of this neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you just talked about the relationship between Israel
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  Speaker 3: and America and BB and Trump specifically. Yet you know,
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  Speaker 3: the media here in the United States will lead you
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  Speaker 3: to believe the last couple of weeks that relationship is
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  Speaker 3: very strained, to say the least. That Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's out there and he says things about BB they're
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  Speaker 3: not all that nice, and that those two guys aren't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily best friends these days. Now again, doctor Falk, you
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  Speaker 3: are in those rooms. You're in the room with BB
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  Speaker 3: just about every time he speaks to President Trump. Is
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  Speaker 3: there any truth to the American media stands that Trump
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  Speaker 3: and BB's relationship is at the very least strained.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the President said that the relationship
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  Speaker 2: has never been better. They've met seven times a Prime
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  Speaker 2: minister and the President, and have met seven times since
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  Speaker 2: President Trump was reelected. They talk During the war, they
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  Speaker 2: talked almost every day, and they talked very frequently, and
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  Speaker 2: they're set to meet soon. They're going to set a
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  Speaker 2: date and they're going to meet soon. There's never been
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  Speaker 2: better partners in war and never been better partners in peace.
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  Speaker 2: They've forged four piece agreements together, the Abraham Accords, and
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  Speaker 2: those piece agreements were done peace through strength, and that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what we're going to continue to do. We have,
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  Speaker 2: as the Prime ministers said, there's ninety nine percent agree
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  Speaker 2: on everything, or they agree on ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 2: the items. But just like in families, sometimes you don't
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  Speaker 2: agree on some things, but they always work it out.
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  Speaker 2: They work it out, and the President has a great
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  Speaker 2: way of expressing himself. Of course, in the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: also expresses himself freely to the President.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I love both guys. I've got relationships with both guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Trump has been really good to me, and
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  Speaker 3: I see bb every time I go to Israel some function,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's Joam Hatsmot, you know, at a winery or
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  Speaker 3: jo Maaze could own at Mount Herzel or again last
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  Speaker 3: week at JNS. So I love both guys and they're
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  Speaker 3: both great. But ninety nine percent may be a high number.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor fault, because just look at the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: days with Turkey. I mean, you got President Trump saying
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  Speaker 3: nice things about Erdawan. I actually played Trump saying nice things,
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  Speaker 3: and then Bibe on Box News two days ago saying
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  Speaker 3: he's a terrible guy. And the fear that we may
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  Speaker 3: end up selling f thirty five jets to Turkey. So
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  Speaker 3: I know that you wanted to go well with Trump,
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  Speaker 3: So do I I want American as al to be
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  Speaker 3: best friends. But this Turkey deal the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: days didn't seem to make you guys very happy.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So first of all, we've never had a better
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  Speaker 2: friend in the wet house some President Trump. As for Turkey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they harbor Hamas, they threatened Israel day we
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  Speaker 2: eard one calls Jerusalem his city. His foreign minister the
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  Speaker 2: other day said the Jews don't have a place in humanity.
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  Speaker 2: Turkey threatens Greece, which is a NATO nation, They occupy
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  Speaker 2: half of Cyprus, which is an EU country, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they did absolutely zero in the war against Iran.
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  Speaker 2: So these guys should not have f thirty five. That's
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  Speaker 2: what our position is. And again the President and the
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister agreed, I would say, on ninety nine percent
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  Speaker 2: of the issues. And there are things that they don't
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  Speaker 2: agree completely upon and they talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: This is doctor Ophio paulk happens to be bb Nittanyahu's
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  Speaker 3: foreign policy advisor. Where are we, doctor fault in this
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  Speaker 3: peace deal with Lebanon? You know, much like the ceasefire
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  Speaker 3: between America and Iran. This is kind of a strange
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  Speaker 3: piece of Seaspire because it included powering out each other
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  Speaker 3: almost every day. And you had a very similar situation
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  Speaker 3: with Chris Bola in Lebanon. Where are you actually in
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  Speaker 3: that peace deal with the Lebanese.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, we struck an historic agreement with Lebanon fostered
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  Speaker 2: by the United States in DC. Secretary of Rubio led
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  Speaker 2: that and we set a trilateral framework for peace between
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  Speaker 2: between Israel and Lebanon. It's an historic agreement because it's
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  Speaker 2: the first time in forty five years that Lebanon actually
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  Speaker 2: recognizes the ceremony of Israel. That's a big deal. Now
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  Speaker 2: we don't have a war with Lebanon. We are fighting
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  Speaker 2: hisbe La that's been holding Lebanon hostage for forty five years. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how is this deal? How is this deal made possible?
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  Speaker 2: We've degraded Hisbelah significantly. They're on their knees. They had
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and one hundred and fifty thousand missiles aimed
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  Speaker 2: at us, add our civilians, at our city centers. We've
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  Speaker 2: knocked that down to a handful, maybe eight thousand messials.
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  Speaker 2: We still have to take that out. We've taken out
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  Speaker 2: eight thousands Hibola terrorists since the beginning of this war,
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  Speaker 2: and that has enabled the Lebanese government meant to step
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  Speaker 2: up to the plate. If there's one lesson that we've
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  Speaker 2: learned from October seventh atrocities where the Hamas ran into Israel,
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  Speaker 2: invaded Israel and butchered our two innocent people, If you've
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  Speaker 2: learned one thing from that is that we cannot allow
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  Speaker 2: genocidal terrorist organizations or regimes anywhere near our border, not
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  Speaker 2: in the south with Hamas and not in the north
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  Speaker 2: with his Blah. The main objective of the agreement, all right,
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  Speaker 2: the main objective of the agreement is to demilitarize south
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  Speaker 2: in Lebanon, to disarm his Belah, and that there will
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  Speaker 2: be no threat posts to Israel. If we have all that,
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  Speaker 2: we have a real chance for peace and his storage
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  Speaker 2: peace that will build upon that for abray mccor agreements
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  Speaker 2: that President Trump led.
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  Speaker 3: So even though you've got a peace planned with Lebanon,
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  Speaker 3: because Pola decides to fire on you guys, even though
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  Speaker 3: they're in Lebanon, you guys are going to fireby.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, No, absolutely, of course absolutely. Security for us is
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  Speaker 2: number one, and Lebanon understands this as well. Everybody understands
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  Speaker 2: that Lebanon understands that of course, the President understands that
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  Speaker 2: if well, that hits us, we're going to hit them
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  Speaker 2: much much harder, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I saw some frustration with the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago when he was speaking on
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  Speaker 3: that Sunday night, and I said the same thing here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, President Trump, I believe in his heart he
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  Speaker 3: does love Israel, loves Bibe. He is as you said,
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  Speaker 3: There's been no president, not even Truman, who's come close,
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  Speaker 3: come close to doing for Israel what President Trump has done.
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  Speaker 3: There's no question about that, Okay, But sometimes when Trump
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  Speaker 3: gets aggravated with Bibe, I think people need to remind
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  Speaker 3: President Trump that when rockets start flying in Iran or
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  Speaker 3: in Beirut, guess who gets hit next. Not Cincinnati, doctor Falk,
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  Speaker 3: not Brooklyn, not Sacramento. You poor guys in Tel Aviva.
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  Speaker 3: I just was two weeks ago, you are the guys
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  Speaker 3: who take the brunt of the fire. When in fact,
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  Speaker 3: somebody messes with one of these folks that puts bbe
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  Speaker 3: be An Israel in a much different situation than Trump
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  Speaker 3: and the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Is that not fair to say, well, that's true that
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  Speaker 2: the threat is not our doorstep, but surely the Iranian threat,
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear threat is also a threat to America. They
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  Speaker 2: stayed death to America every day for the past forty
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  Speaker 2: seven years. They're building, or they were building, ballistic missiles
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  Speaker 2: that could eventually reach every city in America. So the
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  Speaker 2: threat in America is also real. But of course the
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  Speaker 2: threat so is much bigger. It's a cnsistential threat that
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  Speaker 2: we thank God removed for the time being, but we
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  Speaker 2: have to be very vigilant. We've got to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that they don't regroup, and we have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that they don't have any nuclear bombs. Deal or no deal.
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  Speaker 2: They cannot have nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 3: How disappointing is it for you, doctor field Falk that
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  Speaker 3: here in America we have this lady Maudreie Taylor Green.
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  Speaker 3: I used to be plund with her. Now I can't
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  Speaker 3: stand her. She was a congress person. I think you
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  Speaker 3: know who she is, and she was on the view
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  Speaker 3: this horrible TV show in America yesterday. I went on
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  Speaker 3: and on about how Israel is genocidal and all the
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  Speaker 3: big donors in America have put Israel first. It's not
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  Speaker 3: about America first anymore. It's Israel first, and Israel is
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  Speaker 3: killing babies, all that nonsense, which is very widespread in
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  Speaker 3: America these days. It's continuing to grow because of the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Party. How do you, guys, you and Bib feel
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  Speaker 3: in Israel when you hear that nonsense?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're right, it is absolutely nonsense. But
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  Speaker 2: those who demonize Israel don't stop with Israel. They end
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  Speaker 2: up demonizing America too, And I think that's what we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: People that have a problem with Israel, and the people
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  Speaker 2: who have a problem with the Jews, they usually have
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  Speaker 2: a problem with America. We see that throughout the whole,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everywhere you look at that. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: really a problem only with Israel, it's a problem with America.
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  Speaker 3: You what about that last one? I love Bebe. I
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  Speaker 3: want them to win every election. And I love Sarah too.
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  Speaker 3: I spent many, many times with the good times with
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  Speaker 3: Sarah and the Phallax. So the question is very simple,
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  Speaker 3: election coming up. I guess October I saw something this
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  Speaker 3: morning that some other guy not worth mentioning may have
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  Speaker 3: edged ahead of BB here in the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: days in the polls. How confident are you, guys, because
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  Speaker 3: you know, Mark Levin made a speech in Israel, and
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  Speaker 3: he said, you know, I want BB to win, and
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  Speaker 3: BB said moments after him, I plan on being here
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. How confident are you guys that
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  Speaker 3: BB will in fact win the next election.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, the Prime Minister is a fighter and I
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  Speaker 2: would never have been against Natignielle. That's all I could say.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great answer, Doctor Faulk. It's really really special
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  Speaker 3: and great to talk to you. You know how much
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  Speaker 3: I love you guys and respect you guys. So continued success.
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  Speaker 3: They're in that beautiful holy land of Israel, and next
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  Speaker 3: time I get back to you will probably in April.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing you in person. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sirs, thank you for every much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh God bless you. Thank you. There he is. What
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  Speaker 3: a great guy. Senior policy advisor for BB Netanyahu, Doctor
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  Speaker 3: Opi or Fault making his debut right here on Sitting
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