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Netanyahu vows 'Forceful' response to Iran attacks · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Join me now in this sunny, whinning future is exclusive.
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  Speaker 1: Is the man himself, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Prime Minister, thank you so much for joining us
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be with you, Maria.
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  Speaker 1: So, Prime Minister, you just heard what Zorn Mamdani had
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  Speaker 1: to say. He's calling you a war criminal. You're not
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  Speaker 1: welcome in New York City. We of course also heard
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  Speaker 1: from the President Trump on this and many others who
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  Speaker 1: said this is absolutely not happening. But what are your plans?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still going to come to the U in
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  Speaker 1: General Assembly? Are you concerned about that?
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  Speaker 2: Ark?
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm not concerned, and I certainly intend to do so.
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  Speaker 3: I've appeared just about every year, not every year, but
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  Speaker 3: almost every year in my prime ministership unless there are
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  Speaker 3: security conditions, but barring that, and I don't expect that
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  Speaker 3: to be the case this time. Yes, I do intend
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  Speaker 3: to come to New York.
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  Speaker 1: The International Criminal Court issued arrest of warrants for you
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  Speaker 1: and your former Defense minister for genocide. What is your
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  Speaker 1: response to this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the one who promoted that was the ICC, the
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  Speaker 3: International Criminal Court prosecutor, who has since been completely exposed
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  Speaker 3: as a criminal he himself was accused was going to
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  Speaker 3: face charges of sexual harassment by two women. He knew that,
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  Speaker 3: and he was going to come to Israel, and he
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  Speaker 3: spoke warmly about Israel's judicial system and the fact that
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  Speaker 3: there has to be an extensive investigation before any conclusions
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  Speaker 3: are gone. And on the day that he was supposed
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  Speaker 3: to visit Israel, he canceled everything, called a news conference
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  Speaker 3: and accused me and the former Defense minister of the
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  Speaker 3: war crimes. Now we learned why because a few days
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  Speaker 3: before that he was basically confronted by his chief of
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  Speaker 3: staff who said, you know, these two employers, employees of you,
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  Speaker 3: female employees of yours, are going to charge you with
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  Speaker 3: the sexual crimes. So he thought, how am I going
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  Speaker 3: to divert my criminality to something that will protect me?
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  Speaker 3: And the best way, he thought, was Israel bashing and
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  Speaker 3: frankly bashing me and thereby getting the envelope the protection
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  Speaker 3: of all the anti Israel crowd. And that's basically what
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  Speaker 3: he did, and it worked for a while, but then
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  Speaker 3: the truth came out by various organizations, including the left
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  Speaker 3: wing newspapers The Guardian, and as it came out, he
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  Speaker 3: was basically he lost his job. He thought, if there's
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  Speaker 3: an indictment, I'm going to have a job. There was
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  Speaker 3: an indictment, and he lost his job because he was
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  Speaker 3: removed by a vast majority of nations who knew that
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  Speaker 3: he was a con job. So his name is Kareem Khan.
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  Speaker 3: He pulled a con job on the international community with
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  Speaker 3: these bogus charges of war crimes on us. Now he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be in the dock. And I think that
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  Speaker 3: tells you that the whole thing that the Mayor of
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  Speaker 3: New York is basing himself on this criminals, bogus charges,
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  Speaker 3: that's what he's using. And look at what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: He's for metting hate. He's supposed to be the mayor
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  Speaker 3: of all New Yorkers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone, but he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to turn one group against the other and he's
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  Speaker 3: foisting hate and fear. I speak to Jewish Americans in
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  Speaker 3: New York and they're afraid right now. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it's accidental that after he made this hate speech
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  Speaker 3: against Israel and against me, the next day a Jewish
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  Speaker 3: stabbed coming out of a synagogue, I think, and with
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  Speaker 3: a cry of Allah's akaba, allah akaba, and you know
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  Speaker 3: what that means. So I think that it's shameful. This
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  Speaker 3: thing is very bad for New York. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: very bad for peace. But the answer to your question,
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  Speaker 3: I intend to come and speak the truth, speak for
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  Speaker 3: Israel and for the Israeli American Alliance from the podium.
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  Speaker 2: Of the United Nations.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is a very important point that you're making, though,
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  Speaker 1: because this rhetoric from Zorn Mamdani is more than just
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  Speaker 1: talking about Israel and a personal fight that he's having
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  Speaker 1: with you. I'm wondering if you believe that this rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: is making Jewish New Yorkers unsafe, and is that what's
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  Speaker 1: behind so much upset and this anti Israel sentiment raging
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  Speaker 1: across the country.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do think that Jews feel very uncomfortable, because
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  Speaker 3: I speak to quite a lot of my friends and
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  Speaker 3: they say, look, it's like a different world. We're afraid
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  Speaker 3: to go into the streets. We certainly do not want
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  Speaker 3: to wear yamukas or any clothing that would give away
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  Speaker 3: that we're Jews. But yes, they feel frightened, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's part of this incitement language that is sweeping
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  Speaker 3: a lot of circles with anti Semitism, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: circles in the West, in the United States, and unbelievably
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  Speaker 3: in New York City, which has the second largest Jewish
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  Speaker 3: population in the world after Israel. And I think it's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: The whole thing is wrong. And what are they doing?
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  Speaker 3: I mean what mom? Dannie is supporting his wife, his
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  Speaker 3: family celebrated October seventh massacre, the worst massacre against Jews
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  Speaker 3: since the Holocaus. He's basically supporting. He tries to say
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  Speaker 3: that he doesn't, but he's supporting the Hamas murderers who
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  Speaker 3: raped our women, then beheaded them, burnt babies alive, slaughtered
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  Speaker 3: our men, took innocent people, hostages, two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: one men, women, children, babies. That's who he's supporting. And
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  Speaker 3: they're the ones who are responsible for genocide. They would
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  Speaker 3: have killed, as their charter says, and they themselves proclaimed,
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  Speaker 3: they would have killed every single Jew in Israel and
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  Speaker 3: every Jew in the world. So the genocide charge belongs
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  Speaker 3: to our enemies. What we're doing is try to fight
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  Speaker 3: this genocidal terrorist organization that embeds itself among civilians, prevents
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  Speaker 3: us from moving the civilians out of harm's way they
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  Speaker 3: use gunpoint. That's where the real criminals are. But Mamdani
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  Speaker 3: is aligning himself with the criminals, with these murderers. But
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  Speaker 3: the worst thing is that he's tormenting his own, his
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  Speaker 3: own citizens, his own voters.
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  Speaker 2: No, that is wrong.
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  Speaker 3: And to New York so many times, Maria, Yes, over
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  Speaker 3: the years, I have met all the New York mayors. They
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  Speaker 3: all saw themselves as mayors of all New Yorkers, not
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  Speaker 3: putting pitting one part of the population against the other.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, mister Prime Minister, let me move on to
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  Speaker 1: the war where we saw the highest really hostilities yet
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  Speaker 1: in the last week. What will it take to end
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  Speaker 1: this war?
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  Speaker 2: I think it will.
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  Speaker 3: What will it take it will take for Iran to
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  Speaker 3: understand either for this regime to fall or for Iran
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  Speaker 3: to realize that the cost of reeking economic chaos to
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  Speaker 3: the world, murdering its thousands of its own citizens and
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  Speaker 3: shooting at everyone, I mean literally at everyone, at Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 3: at Bahrain, at Qatar, at Kuwait, at the UAE, at Israel,
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  Speaker 3: at Jordan, every single one. I mean, this is what
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  Speaker 3: this regime is doing when they don't have nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 3: What they would do if they had nuclear weapons. I
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  Speaker 3: think when this regime is either toppled or it's sufficiently
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  Speaker 3: weakened that it knows it has to end its nuclear
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  Speaker 3: program and has to change its course. That's really what
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  Speaker 3: President Trump is trying to achieve, and I back fully
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  Speaker 3: his efforts to do so. If he can do so
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  Speaker 3: without returning to intense military fighting, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Fine, why not.
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  Speaker 3: But one way or the other, they have to end
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  Speaker 3: their nuclear program, and with a deal or without a deal,
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  Speaker 3: that has to come to an end.
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  Speaker 1: How far back do you believe Iran's nuclear program has
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  Speaker 1: been set back or since this fighting began at the
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  Speaker 1: end of February.
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  Speaker 2: Quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we you know, we knocked out twenty of
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  Speaker 3: their chief nuclear scientists in the two operations that we
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  Speaker 3: did with the United States, twenty leading nuclear scientists. We
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  Speaker 3: knocked out a lot of their facilities. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that they can try to reconstruct, but we pushed them
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  Speaker 3: back a.
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  Speaker 2: Good few years.
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  Speaker 3: Important because just imagine, I mean, what would happen if
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  Speaker 3: this regimed the chance death to America. That's their real goal,
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  Speaker 3: death to America. If they had nuclear weapons and the
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  Speaker 3: means to deliver them to where you're sitting right now, Maria.
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  Speaker 3: To New York, or to Washington, or to any city
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  Speaker 3: in the United States, this would be a mortal peril
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  Speaker 3: to every citizen in the United States. And obviously President
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  Speaker 3: Trump and I are both committed to prevent this danger
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  Speaker 3: to the United States, to the peace of the world,
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  Speaker 3: and to Israel. And I can tell you that we'll
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  Speaker 3: pursue all the means to prevent that. So, yes, we
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  Speaker 3: pushed it back, but it doesn't mean that you can't
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  Speaker 3: have the attempt to restore it. And we have to
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  Speaker 3: be on the constant watch so it doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: And you're getting set to travel to the US to
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  Speaker 1: meet with President Trump and then attend the funeral services
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  Speaker 1: of Senator Lindsey Graham. Prime Minister, what can you tell
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  Speaker 1: us about any fresh new intelligence that you may have
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  Speaker 1: about that nuclear program that you were about to present
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  Speaker 1: President Trump with.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first, let me say that Lindsey Graham is a
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  Speaker 3: terrible loss. He was such a great friend, such a
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  Speaker 3: champion of America and a patriot, and such a champion
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  Speaker 3: of the Israeli American Alliance. He believed in the benefits
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  Speaker 3: at Israel gives to the United States, in terms of
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  Speaker 3: intel weapons technology, and of course we appreciated very much
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  Speaker 3: all the help that we got from the United States.
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  Speaker 3: So he was an extraordinary American patriot and we miss
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  Speaker 3: him greatly. As far as the nuclear program, we constantly
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  Speaker 3: exchange information. Our intel services and yours are working so
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  Speaker 3: close together that it's not that I'm going to present
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  Speaker 3: new information, but I think it's a good thing to
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  Speaker 3: have the opportunity to sit with our good friend President
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  Speaker 3: Trump and to hear what he has in mind, because
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  Speaker 3: I think in many ways it's his decision. But let
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  Speaker 3: me say one thing, and I think I should say
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  Speaker 3: very very clearly, if he ran tax Israel, either directly
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  Speaker 3: or through proxies, either with ballistic missiles or UAVs or
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  Speaker 3: killer drones, it will make a terrible mistake because our response,
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  Speaker 3: Israel's response will be very very forceful.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Lebanon is also a key central to Israel's
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  Speaker 1: long term security. I want to get your take on
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  Speaker 1: the meeting in the White House with the President of
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon last week and your thoughts on whether or not
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  Speaker 1: he can be a positive in this fight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I think we've already had a
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  Speaker 3: positive development because remember Krisbala, that basically holds Lebanon hostage,
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  Speaker 3: had taken over the south of the country that borders
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  Speaker 3: on Israel, and they were going to invade us like
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  Speaker 3: the Kamas Dad on October seventh. They were going to
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  Speaker 3: do it, actually with a force a lot bigger. They
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  Speaker 3: prepared terra tunnels, they had the terror installations along the order,
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  Speaker 3: and we pushed them back. We pushed them back by
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  Speaker 3: five to eight miles away from our border, destroyed a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these terror tunnels, and they were in a
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  Speaker 3: position to fire directly anti tank missiles right into our
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  Speaker 3: living rooms across the border. Actually they did that, so
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  Speaker 3: we prevented that from happening. I think we weakened Isabella
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  Speaker 3: a lot. They had one hundred and fifty thousand missiles
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  Speaker 3: and rockets, the greatest concentration of such projectiles on the
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  Speaker 3: planet aimed against Israel. We knocked out about ninety four
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  Speaker 3: percent of that. So that's good for Israel, good for peace,
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  Speaker 3: good for Lebanon. But it's still there. We talked to
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  Speaker 3: the Lebanese government with Europe, with America's Good offices in Washington,
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  Speaker 3: led by the President and Secretary of Rubil, and we
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  Speaker 3: got a deal, and the deal says openly, for the
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  Speaker 3: first time in decades, Israelis and Lebanese are talking directly
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  Speaker 3: to one another. And the deal was we pushed back Hisbala,
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  Speaker 3: we demilitarize Lebanon, we disarmed Hisbeala, and we make peace.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the fact that this deal was put
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  Speaker 3: forward is a great advance. It shows that Ribala's ability
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  Speaker 3: to intimidate Lebanon's government and its president has been sharply reduced.
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  Speaker 3: Now whether or not the Lebanese army can take over
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  Speaker 3: the areas that we clear up from Ribala, that remains
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  Speaker 3: to be seen, but we're willing to give it a try.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that on the whole of positive development
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  Speaker 3: and may lead to another peace treaty between Israel and
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  Speaker 3: in Arab country.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Well, that's what I want to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: it about the Abraham Accord. But first let me ask
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  Speaker 1: you this, because many Israelis are deeply divided on what
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  Speaker 1: your government is doing in the response to this, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to say to critics who may not
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  Speaker 1: understand what you're seeing in terms of this ongoing war.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot more unity in the country
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  Speaker 3: than appears in you know, in the in the various
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  Speaker 3: statements by politicians, most Israelies understand we have to fight Chrisbala.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing that, by the way, with an incredible ratio
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  Speaker 3: of the five terrorists killed for every civilian killed. That's
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  Speaker 3: unheard of, and we do it because we precision target
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  Speaker 3: the terrorists. Chris Bala, like Hamas embeds itself among civilians.
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  Speaker 2: But we've been.
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  Speaker 3: Able to reduce that ratio in Gaza because the last
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  Speaker 3: thing we want is genocide. In fact, we want to
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  Speaker 3: hit the terrorists, not the civilians that they use as
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  Speaker 3: human shields, and we're very successful in doing that. In Lebanon,
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  Speaker 3: most as rallies understand that we have to keep the
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  Speaker 3: security zone that we have now alongside the Israeli border
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  Speaker 3: on the Lebanese side in order to prevent a new
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  Speaker 3: invasion attempt by Chrisbala terrorists, and most support our efforts
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  Speaker 3: to reach a piece with Lebanon. So I would think
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot more unity among Israelis than meets the eye.
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  Speaker 3: And if I'm elected again, we're going to have elections
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  Speaker 3: in a few months, I intend to create a broad
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  Speaker 3: national government that will give expression to that unity.
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  Speaker 1: In the next government and Prime Minister. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get your take on this Saudi deal over nuclear a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear deal with the US. The Israel was concerned in
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  Speaker 1: the past about Saudi Arabia's ability to enrich uranium. But
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has done this civilian nuclear deal program with
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  Speaker 1: the Saudis on the condition that Saudi Arabia joined the
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Accords. Are you expecting that and what is your
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  Speaker 1: assessment of this nuclear deal?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I think President Trump was absolutely
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  Speaker 3: right in stating that condition.
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  Speaker 2: You know that Saudi Arabia would get.
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  Speaker 3: A civilian nuclear program in exchange for normalization of relations
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  Speaker 3: with Israel. I stress civilian because the last thing we want,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure the last thing the President wants, is
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  Speaker 3: a military program nuclear program in Saudi Arabia. Can we
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  Speaker 3: have this? Yes, I think it's possible. Remember that we
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  Speaker 3: had four peace agreements between Israel and Arab nations broken
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  Speaker 3: by President Trump. With my working together with me, it's
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  Speaker 3: a great achievement, historic achievement, and obviously we'll be delighted
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  Speaker 3: if we could extend it to Saudi Arabia and other countries.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if we weaken Iran further, we.
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  Speaker 1: Will Which countries are you expecting to join the Abraham
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  Speaker 1: Okkur Accord, sir?
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  Speaker 2: The ones that I want to join, I will not.
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  Speaker 3: I won't reduce the probability of their joining by exposing
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  Speaker 3: them here. But I can tell you that we have well, Marie.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody says Israel is isolated, as it's not isolated.
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  Speaker 3: I mean many many countries in Africa, in Latin America,
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  Speaker 3: in Asia, even in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: Many countries are coming.
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  Speaker 3: To us because they want to share our technology, civilian technology.
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  Speaker 3: They want to benefit from our military prowess and technology.
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  Speaker 3: And there are now contacts with several Arab countries in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East. But because I want to advance those contacts,
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  Speaker 3: I'd rather reserve my answer to a future appearance on
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  Speaker 3: your show.
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  Speaker 1: Well and we want you back, but real quick, before
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  Speaker 1: you go, mister Prime Minister. The anti Semitism in the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat Party, are you worried about losing the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 1: as supposed a risk to Israeli US relations? Real quick, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very concerned with that, obviously, because I think
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  Speaker 3: a bipartisan support for Israel is important, very important for us.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what I'm worried about most. I'm
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  Speaker 3: worried about the reasons that leading Democrats have said privately.
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  Speaker 3: One of them said it actually publicly of why they
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  Speaker 3: joined the radical fringe, and the reason is that their
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  Speaker 3: family has been arressed that they're afraid of being tailed
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  Speaker 3: everywhere and being intimidated by this rat fringe. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that's really something that should worry every American. You
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  Speaker 3: don't want legislators taking their position because of personal intimidation.
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  Speaker 2: That's bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I worry about it, Miss Prime Minister. Good to
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  Speaker 1: have you this morning. We so appreciate your time. Thank you, sir.
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