The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Ambassador Yechiel Leiter | 3/3/25

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

After the spectacular fallout of the White House meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Glenn lays out what exactly happened and why it’s evident that Russia ha...s lost the war, no matter what the media claims. The Academy Awards were last night, and Glenn goes through the various winners. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter joins to give an update on the current conflict between Israel and Palestine and what Trump’s strategy is when handling the conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:17 media has been harping on the Trump Zelensky tension from Friday. I mean, that was crazy. But I don't think anybody, at least I haven't heard anybody that looks at this situation the way that I do.
Starting point is 00:00:29 I'll show you the five wins that President Trump had just because of that meeting and what he's doing. Also, I didn't watch the Oscars, nor did anyone else for that matter. But I wanted to recap on what you missed last night, even though none of us actually watched it. And the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. is with me in studio talking about the differences between Biden-Trump administration, their relationship with Israel. Ambassador Lighter joins me today on the podcast. First, real estate agents I trust. I don't want to compare myself to Elon Musk or anything, but I'm just as socially awkward as he is.
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Starting point is 00:02:10 You're listening to the best of the Glenback program. You need to understand. The world needs to understand. And I'm kind of come back to this several times. There's so many, I got to tell you, there's so much exciting news. over the weekend that everyone is framing as bad, and I don't think so. The one thing I'm really good at is connecting dots that nobody sees the connection to. I'm telling you, this one, this one I could connect dots in my sleep,
Starting point is 00:02:53 and I think you'll follow them clearly. First thing you have to know is Russia lost, okay? No, they didn't. No, they didn't. They have 20% of Ukraine has their property. And what was their goal again? To get all of Ukraine. They couldn't get Ukraine, even though Ukraine wasn't a NATO country.
Starting point is 00:03:19 Go ahead, Russia. March into a NATO country. March into Poland. They're not going to. They lost without NATO. That's the first thing you need to understand. Okay. So let's go and take you what happened over the weekend. First of all, there was a brawl in the White House, the likes of which I have never seen. I've never seen this. And make no mistake, we'll run this down for you later. This was Zelensky. This was not Trump. If you just watched the clips, you miss the 20 minutes leading up to this, where Trump is giving him an escape valve the whole time. You should probably be quiet now. You should have. Oh, that's funny.
Starting point is 00:04:06 You know, you should probably not say that again. Over and over again. Finally, cut four, Donald Trump snaps. During the war, everybody has problems. Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future. God bless. You don't know that. God bless.
Starting point is 00:04:26 You will not have war. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you. You're in no position to dictate that. Remember this. You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
Starting point is 00:04:42 We're going to feel very good. We're going to feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position. Just shut up! You're not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Right now you're playing cards. You're playing cards. There is so much to go through on this. There is so much. But let me just give you now what happened after that. Starmor, the prime minister of the UK, the UK, and also Macron, and 18 others got together and huddled in London to embrace Zelensky and kick off an alternate peace plan. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:31 So he comes out and he's like, oh, I got a spanking. and the fools in Europe. And I say this, I say this because of what's going to happen to them, not because of war or anything else, what they're setting themselves up for. Starmour has tossed four billion euros at Ukraine, a $2 billion loan and $2 billion for air defenses. And he's using the Russian frozen assets.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Okay. He's also pitching, a coalition of the willing. Oh, it's because we're not willing. No, I'm not willing to put boots on the ground and planes in the air. Are you? Because I'm not. It makes me sad when France says they're part of a coalition of the willing.
Starting point is 00:06:25 I'm not going and I'm not sending my son to go. So when I first saw this, I thought, Europe, are you out of your mind? you're going to put boots on the ground? That will be backdoor NATO stuff. Okay, Putin could look at it that way. He might not. Could be fine. Might not.
Starting point is 00:06:48 But this coalition of UK, France, Italy, maybe even Canada, what are they doing? Well, this is not really about anything. other than muscling into the peace deal that they fear Trump is about to cut with Putin, leaving Ukraine and Europe out in the cold. That's right, because I don't think you guys want peace. The Oval Office blow up on Friday spook the crap out of them. Why?
Starting point is 00:07:21 Because you have a president who will stand up for America first. Doesn't mean he's not going to stand up for other, you know, countries that are our allies. but America first. Trump told Zelensky, you take the mineral deals. Okay, we've got these deals for you for all the minerals. They're rare earth minerals. Wait until you hear the explanation of all this.
Starting point is 00:07:47 I'm so excited to tell you, but let me just get through the news. You take the deal or pound sand. Now, why did Zelensky fly all the way back? He was just here and he left because he wasn't going to take the deal. Then they continued to negotiate. he flies all the way back because he says he's going to take the deal and sign it.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Well, then he gets here and he's like, no, I don't like this deal. Well, then you should get back on the plane and go home. You're not serious. You're not a serious partner. We've just negotiated with you. You left. Then you came back and said, okay, okay, I'll do the deal. And then you try to change it in front of the press.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Get the hell out of our country. That's what you would say to somebody who is this dishonest in their business dealings. Okay. Now, he said, take the deal, get lost. I'm not going to be part of any NATO-style backup. So Starmor has his summit, and it's a scramble to keep Keeve in the game and not to storm Moscow. Okay. They're talking about a ceasefire enforcement.
Starting point is 00:09:01 think peacekeeping, first of all, not an invasion, if that's the way Russia cares to view it. Macron is floating, you know, a one-month truce in the air and in the sea. Starmer wants security guarantees to deter Putin post-deal. You don't understand. With an oligarch, money doesn't talk. It screams. That's true. Trump's point of view.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Putin is not going to go in if he's making money. Okay. When I heard this, I thought it was madness on the surface. I mean, Russia already has 200,000 dead already and nukes. I mean, I don't know about it. It seems like, you know, it's like, ho, ho, let us play with these matches here in these gunpowther checks. Insane.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Putin has said NATO boots on the ground red line for us. Finland has said if we show any weakness or we start playing with NATO, he's going to pounce. All right. So Europe's not charging in with guns of place, but you don't know that. Okay. Trump, here's his pivot. He's cozying up to Putin. Oh, he's see, I told you he was in.
Starting point is 00:10:33 He was a Russian spy. No, he's not America first. He is pushing minerals over missiles. It's $200 billion in aid. That's what's at stake. And a deal that screws Ukraine if they don't participate. But who else gets screwed besides Ukraine if they, if they take this deal.
Starting point is 00:11:01 China. China hates this. They hate Trump's deal. They hate Trump's deal with Ukraine and they hate Trump's deal with Russia. Why? Oh, I'll explain. So, this whole thing of Ukraine is a settlement.
Starting point is 00:11:26 up for a massive win-win. And I think now it didn't have to be this way. But Ukraine and Europe has just, by their moves, if they don't change the course, it's going to be a lose for them. Russia lost. It's not, it's a paper tiger. It's never going into NATO. It's not going into Poland. They lost. They won a deal about money. Ukraine. Ukraine. could rebuild their country and stop getting their people killed by doing a deal. Instead, they want, I think they want more war. I think this little man, boy, my view has changed on him. This little teeny Napoleon, all he wants is war. You're a fool. Five billion would die if we went into nuclear war. And that is a real option.
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Starting point is 00:14:05 Yeah. Okay. Because I don't know I'd watch any. We have any Oscars kind of music or anything? I mean, you could just go with the Nazi national anthem. It's the same thing. I mean, no, that's not it. Anyway, the Oscars, they had their annual get-together last night.
Starting point is 00:14:23 know where they pat each other on the back, you know, to say congratulations, you were better at pretending to be somebody you're not than the other guy. But that's what happened. So let me just get right to it. Because I didn't watch it. And in fact, I even asked Grock to watch it, you know, the AI. Oh, okay. And he's like, I'd rather make out with a calculator than that. So I don't even know what that is. But first up, best picture. Best picture. Best picture. Best picture. Sure. Everybody said it was going to be Anora, some gritty flick about a sex worker or something. I didn't see it. Sounds like a headache with extra glitter. Buzz was deafening, so Anora wins. Congratulations. It did win, yes. It did win. I heard it was, someone described it as the first 45 minutes of it are all sex scenes. Which, I, it used to be called pornography. Right. Okay. You don't go, I mean, one sex scene. In the first 45 minutes, okay, maybe that's art.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I don't know. 45 straight minutes? I didn't see it. I don't even know if it happened. But Sean Baker took the Oscar. He was the director and, you know, he used to, wow, this is for all the outsiders. Cinema's about, you know, raw truth, not your capitalist propaganda. And then he sat down and took the Oscar and it was wonderful.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Do you remember the Clint Eastwood movie, any which way but loose? You remember that movie? It was good. It had everything in it. It had Clint Eastwood, had a monkey. had somebody who was kind of hot and kind of funny in it and Clint Eastwood. It had everything. That should get the best picture every year.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Did it get, I digress? Does it have a 45-minute Clint Eastwood sexy? No, God, it doesn't. Next, best actor. They were going between Adrian Brody for the Brutelist, which I didn't see. It sounds like, just sounds bad about some architect or something. I don't know. And the other one was...
Starting point is 00:16:21 This is a good update. Shalemate. Shalamette. No. I don't like anybody that spells Timothy with two E's at the end. I just question you
Starting point is 00:16:32 and you're clearly French. But I think he was in like a Bob Dylan thing. Yeah. I flipped a coin on this one. Salome wins or shallame. No, Brody won. Nah, whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:46 Whatever. This is a good update. Anyway, he won and he walked up and he said this for the poets, the dreamers. No. Thanks, Mom. Thanks to my agent and anybody else, but Jesus, I want to thank. Best actress, Demi Moore. They were all talking about, I guess, you know, they're going to give it to her because everybody likes a comeback story and, you know, something about aging and body horror or whatever.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Right. Yes. The substance. She won. No, she did not. Mikey Madison won. Yeah, well, you can listen to Stu apparently cares or me. So she got up and she was like, hey, I want to thank my vegan yoga coach, which brings me to kale. Another reason to hate any Hollywood type. That's your body horror is Cale. Best supporting actor, Karen Culkin. Yes, that one's right. Really?
Starting point is 00:17:40 Really. You got that one right. He walked up on stage and he was like, boy, did my brother blow this thing or what? I mean, I wasn't even the talented one in the family. Or at least that's what my parents. used to say. Anyway, best supporting actress, Zoe Saldanaula. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she won. She was in the Amelia Perez, which is some musical mess. Mm-hmm. This is all accurate. It is more fun than a vegan potluck. Uh, she, I've been to them and no, it's not.
Starting point is 00:18:11 She got up and she said, this is for resilience, for art, and I want to thank my ancestors. I don't even know who her ancestors are. She actually did do the shape. thank her ancestors thing. Did she really? Yeah. She did like I'm pretty good guess. I think she's the first Dominican Republic. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Finally. Finally, the Dominican Republic has an Oscar. How long have we been talking about it? How long have the world. The whole show's history has been dedicated to. Why don't Dominicans win these awards? I don't even know what that movie's about, but I've seen clips. And just watching the clips makes me want to demand my two hours back.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Because I imagined two hours of how bad that was. Horrible. Best director, Sean Baker, for an aura again. You know, and he got up again a second time and he said, see, told you my film's rebellion against the system.
Starting point is 00:19:00 And everybody cheered and it was great. I just want to say to the academy, I didn't see the movie. Nobody saw the movie. I didn't watch the Oscars. Nobody watched the Oscars. And honestly, I think most of America
Starting point is 00:19:13 is totally cool with the update I just gave them. Yeah. Which... It's more information than they probably wanted. which really the most important part is you should see any which way but loose. Clinice would end a monkey.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Okay? It's good. It's good. Not one of his best, but better than the Oscars. Yeah. And there's your Oscar. Wow.
Starting point is 00:19:34 There he goes. Thank you. Thank you. Very informative. Thank you. Let's get to, let's get to Stu where he's badmouthing everything that is America first. You know,
Starting point is 00:19:45 anything that is good for America. Stu's like, I don't like it. not what's happening at all, by the way, if we could be clear on that. Yeah, remember he says. It's as accurate as your Oscar update. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. So it's interesting. I think I mostly agree with everything that you laid out there.
Starting point is 00:20:04 I think one thing that you didn't spend too much time focusing on was what's Zelensky's job in this moment? To kiss everybody's butt as much as he can and walk away with as much. as much as he can get from Donald Trump. Like, for example, Glenn, if I'm going to come to you, I'm Donald Trump right now, and I'm going to be, I'm the mean, a big, bad American, okay? And he doesn't- I'm bad, nobody said I could be any worse, but I am. Got it.
Starting point is 00:20:31 And he says, you know, Vladdy here, this guy started the war? And I'm playing Vlad? Yeah, you're playing what you should do as Zelensky. Okay, got it. This guy here, Vladimir Zelensky, started the war. It's his fault. Everything that's going on right now, the fact that this war is going on. is this man's fault, and I find it to be
Starting point is 00:20:51 despicable. I'd like to say, Mr. President, you're absolutely right. Whatever you just said, and my fault completely, yes. At the very least, you should say, look, I know we have a lot to discuss, and I would love to do that when we get some time alone, not in front of the media, but just some
Starting point is 00:21:07 time to be able to discuss all of these differences. You could even say, look, the president and I don't agree on everything, but we do agree this forum a stop, and we have a treaty that we're working on. And you know, What? Glenn or Donald.
Starting point is 00:21:22 We have so, we do have things that we disagree on, but we have so much more that we unite on. We've been long-term allies. That's right. Glad said it. That's it. Good enough for me. They said he'd never say it, but he said it. There it is.
Starting point is 00:21:35 You know, you ever get that moment and like, it's a bad show and you just want to scream out at the comedian, get off the stage! That's what I wanted to scream out to Zelensky the entire time. That's what I was screaming. Get off the stage. Unfortunately, I was in a supermarket at the time. but is what I was screaming. Anything you can do to disarm that situation if you're in Zelensky's position is what you're supposed to do.
Starting point is 00:21:55 But he, you're not, but Donald Trump started it. Doesn't matter. Well, no. It doesn't matter. But it's not true. Well, that's an interesting point. That's an interesting point. That's where he hates America.
Starting point is 00:22:06 No, it's not true. It's not true. No, I mean, you could, that I would say was the opinion of the media. Yes. That Trump started it. And when you listen to it, the one clip that they keep putting out there, I think you could take that
Starting point is 00:22:22 in a way, not even Trump, but Vance. Because they seem to be having a discussion. There's a couple times where it's seemingly cordial a couple times. And then you hear that clip where Vance steps in. Here it is. Cut five, please.
Starting point is 00:22:39 I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you unknown, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
Starting point is 00:22:56 You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have? I have been to you. I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military? And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
Starting point is 00:23:28 Okay, now you could say if that's the clip you saw, which is what everybody saw. Right, of course, that's what they saw. That's the clip they saw. And you could say, wow, J.D. Vance, A, Donald Trump really respects J.D. Vance because notice he just sat there and just like let him go. Okay. He cost all the problems. It was J.D. Vance's fault. What's the truth there, Stu? Well, I decided to go back and actually watch what led up to it. Oh, you had a life?
Starting point is 00:23:55 You weren't watching it live? Yeah, I know. I was not watching it live. Wow, okay. I saw that clip and I thought, to be honest with you, when I first saw that clip, my initial thought was I've never seen anything like that in my entire life. I've never seen an interaction like that in front of the media between two world leaders in my entire life. It was absolutely shocking, I thought.
Starting point is 00:24:14 You know, it's different than like a UN speech where one's critical. criticizing the other. The fact that two allies were together in front of the American media arguing like I've never seen it before. So just shocking. I actually went next door and talked to some people next door and I was like, are you seeing it? It was live. Yeah. Are you seeing this? Look at this. It was literally fascinating. Crazy. But that's that first clip I saw. And I thought to myself, there is a possibility. I wanted to check on this, but there's a possibility that Vance was trying to irritate this arrangement largely because Vance. Vance has been much more clear than Trump has been over the past few years that he wants to stop that funding.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Trump at times has entertained it. He's even said he would increase it if Russia does not go along with a sensible peace deal. Correct. And he would have as well. He does not bluff. Right. Like he is one of those guys who I think is looking for a functional end to this war. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:11 That's what his priority is. Correct. His priority is not to the dismay of many in the media. the best thing for Ukraine or the best thing for Russia. He wants that thing over. And I think that's a much higher priority than, well, what land border is which and even what, even minerals. I think he wants that war over even more than the minerals.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Yes, but he does find that very important. The minerals are giving them the security that Zelensky is asking for. Yeah, it's a good strategy to those ends, right? It's a great strategy to that end. Right. But that's, I don't think his top priority. I think his top priority is he wants that war to end. That is not the case.
Starting point is 00:25:52 We've talked to J.D. Vance for years. He has been very strong against that funding. Two, I think the applause of much of the audience. Like, he has been ideologically opposed to it for a very long time. He hasn't been like Lindsey Graham. They're totally on the opposite side of that. I don't even think he was like me because at the outset, I was four. I was four Ukraine standing up.
Starting point is 00:26:15 for sending billions of dollars over, but sending our thoughts and prayers, which do no good people, sending our thoughts and prayers over there, supporting them. I was for them. I thought Zelensky, I thought, okay, this guy is standing up.
Starting point is 00:26:30 This guy is their George Washington, possibly. No, he's a little hot head. Yeah, that's certainly was shown in that meeting. And again, I still said my thoughts and prayers. I still think that, you know, they should be fighting for their own country. Again, did you see what I heard? They should be fighting for their own country.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Yeah, me too. Not us. Anyway, so he comes in there with that whole situation. You think, look, you know, Vance has been really clear on this issue. Perhaps he was trying to stir this up, looking to draw a divide. It's not impossible. It's what Vance thinks is the right thing to do as far as ending that funding. Not impossible.
Starting point is 00:27:11 But I thought, you don't just make that judgment and move on. you look at the lead-up to it. I went through the entirely, it's a half an hour. A half an hour. Never get that time back. I mean, first of all, you never get that time back. Secondly, I don't even hear people reporting that. No.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Let alone, they just say there was a buildup. It went back and forth and then it turned. A half an hour is a long time. And throughout this, it's absolutely clear that the instigator of this confrontation is Zelensky. He is confrontational from the start. He is edging back and forth. Trump several times gives him outs to be able to take. Kind of laughs it off.
Starting point is 00:27:49 Kind of laughs it off. He jokes with him. They go back and forth. He keeps trying to make these points about getting security guarantees when, you know, obviously he knows that's not part of this deal. It was not part of the deal. Why did you get on the airplane? Right. Exactly. You were here, what was it last week or the week before last, negotiating. Trump said, here's the deal. No security guarantee. Just the minerals. Then that will bring in. our interest and nobody's going to screw around because that will be so valuable to us. So you have that from the United States. And he said, no, good. Get on a plane. Go talk about it. They negotiated some more.
Starting point is 00:28:28 They're ready with the deal. They're going to have a lunch. You know, sign the deal. Have lunch. What the hell were you on an airplane for if you're asking for the same thing he wouldn't give you last time? Get the hell out of it. You're not serious.
Starting point is 00:28:41 You've wasted our time. you've wasted how much time over the last two weeks. If you're going to come in here and demand the same thing. And then when I say, no, are you going to sign the deal and have lunch? The press comes in. And then like J.D. Vance said, this is why that phrase was so critical. Don't try to try this in front of the American press. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:09 What he was trying to do was make our administration look bad. That's the last thing you should do to any leader in any country if you need their help. And a fascinating part of this story is, and it makes sense with everything you just laid out. So all of this arrangement seems to be in order where this deal is going to be signed. Before the meeting, however, Senator Chris Murphy has talked about this. And I think it's pretty important. before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:29:50 According to Senator Chris Murphy. Now, that is a fascinating development because it may very well destroy Ukraine. I mean, it's to that level that if it's very easy to see a direct path in which the Democrats tell him to upend what he's already primaries. promised Trump. He tries to embarrass him publicly on the kind of advice of Senate Democrats. And remember, he campaigned for Kamala Harris. Yep. Well, yeah. I mean, that was at least how he would not phrase it that way. But that is, that's what Vance, how Vance described it. And I think that's how Trump took it. Yes. Which is the most important. Again, the most important thing. This is diplomacy. How are people
Starting point is 00:30:32 taking things really important? Anyway, the Democrats come in here, encourage him not to take this deal. He fights it out in public. It very likely now that we are going to turn off the faucet of funding here. And we don't know that for sure, but that's possible. And I think likely at this point. Which means then you're left with Europe to defend you. Who knows if they actually step up? They say they're going to.
Starting point is 00:30:54 But how many times does that actually happen in our history? And now maybe it's a situation where Russia regained strength and does take Keev and move in there without our defenses. It's a fascinating thing. And again, the Democrats never have the best for the world in mind. It's always the best for them. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Well, it's not every day. We have an ambassador pop in, but we have the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
Starting point is 00:31:25 Ambassador Lighter. Welcome. How are you, sir? I'm good. It's good to be with you, Glenn. Yeah. You have it easy compared to your predecessor dealing with President Trump over President Biden. So you must be breathing a little easier.
Starting point is 00:31:38 How are things in Israel? Well, I just got here. I got five weeks ago just landed. I know, I know. I was actually the first ambassador to present his credentials to President Trump. Really? Yeah. And as my prime minister, Netanyahu, was the first foreign leader to visit the White House.
Starting point is 00:31:54 So we're feeling pretty good about that. Yeah. So let me go back to the speech that President Biden gave because he said something in his speech with Benjamin Nant-Yov. or his answering question and answer session that even the prime minister couldn't have said you know saying the Palestinians they got to go someplace else he he couldn't have said nobody could have said that Donald Trump just comes out and says it and we're going to build a beautiful resort what strategically what do you think he was doing well frankly Glenn I didn't hear the president say
Starting point is 00:32:34 that he's going to force the Arabs of guys out no he didn't say that No, he didn't say that. I think what the president is saying is let's give people a choice. I mean, these people have been kept in Gaza. Egypt refused to open the gates. Nobody brought ships to the coast to offer them safe passage anywhere. Why don't we just open up Gaza and say, look, if you'd like to leave, you have that option to do so. Many have left, tens of thousands have left.
Starting point is 00:33:08 by paying an exorbitant amount of money to the border crossing in Rafa. We don't need to do that. Just let's say open the gates, let the people out, let's destroy Hamas. And by the way, if they choose to leave, like Arafat left Beirut in 1982, by boat to some country that wants to absorb.
Starting point is 00:33:26 I don't think anybody wants to take the Hamas. I think they want to take the Gazans. Many people will take Gazans. They're an industrial bunch of people, and they'll be very, very helpful to any country that absorbs them, but not Hamas. always going to take them. But if they're going to leave, that's fine. Otherwise, we're going to have
Starting point is 00:33:42 to destroy Hamas. So I saw, well, you're going to have to do it anyway. When I was watching him, I thought, nobody's going to be talking about that part tomorrow. They're all going to be talking about building a big, beautiful city. And the Arab nations are going to say immediately, no, no, America's not doing that. We'll have to do that. Do you think his part of his strategy, was to get everybody kind of back to the table where they were with the Abrahamic accords and everybody kind of working together for some peace with Israel? Glenn, I think your question is straight on. It's very perceptive.
Starting point is 00:34:22 You know, there's been a narrative for the past, really, since Israel has created. You know, that if Israel doesn't give up land and we don't withdraw, there can't be peace. And yet every time we've withdrawn, we've only gotten war. And everybody's gotten in the habit of kind of, you know, using Israel as a whipping boy. Israel's not doing enough. Israel's doing too much. And what the president has done is just taking everything out of the bag, you know, and he said, look, in the Abraham Accords, Israel wasn't demanded to withdraw, to give up land. You know, how much territory do we have, by the way?
Starting point is 00:34:59 I mean, you know, we're the size of New Jersey, except New Jersey is a hamburger. We're a hot dog. It's very easy to cut it in half. Right. You know, we're a tiny little country. By the way, we're here in Texas. Israel fits into Texas 31 times. Darn right.
Starting point is 00:35:11 We don't have, we don't have, we don't have, we don't have, I'll never, I'll never forget when, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took Bush 41 and a helicopter ride over all of Israel. And when they got out of the helicopter, President Bush said, yeah, that's about the size of my ranch, Texas, right? It was all the state of Israel. So we don't have too much territory. And it also doesn't work. But the Abraham Accords did the magic of the Abraham.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Ham Accords is, you know, recognize Israel unconditionally. Let's just be friends. Let's just live together. And that's where we have to go now. Saudi Arabia is ready. Okay, other Arab countries, other Muslim countries are ready. Can you imagine if we have peace tomorrow with Indonesia, 300 million Muslims? And, you know, it's going to better, it's going to be better for them. It's going to be better for the region, for the world. So what do you think of this? Because everybody was freaking out about what happened in the White House Friday, which, by the way, the way Joe Biden treated Benjamin Netanyahu, making him wait for hours, and then just treating him like garbage and then having the Democrats walk out. I mean, please don't talk to me about how President Trump treated Zelensky.
Starting point is 00:36:20 He treated him like a king until things were turned around. But what Trump is doing is he is thinking on almost all fronts out of the box. he's breaking all of the the calcium that's on all of our thing. He's just breaking that all off and thinking in new ways and talking about peace in a different way that if you would get out of yourself
Starting point is 00:36:52 or your old think, you would see there's a real chance this works. But he's realigning everything. He's realigning everything. You know, for a while now, the world has been in search of a new international paradigm. International relations works on the basis of a
Starting point is 00:37:08 paradigm. So the first half of the 20th century, we had a multilateral, a multipolar paradigm. It didn't work. It ended up in two world wars. The second half of the 20th century, we had a bipolar world. It was a cold war. It was on the brink of nuclear warfare and extinction.
Starting point is 00:37:24 Then we had a unipolar moment and a unipolar world, but which the United States is stepping back from because we don't want to leave lead everywhere in the world and take responsibility for the globe anymore. So the world is in need of a new global paradigm. And I believe President Trump is establishing that global paradigm. And it may have a very simple name like multipolar, bipolar, unipolar. It may be Trumpian polar. I don't know. But it's going to be less polar. In other words, it's not mutually assured destruction, but mutually
Starting point is 00:37:55 assured construction. Mutually assured construction, right? Everybody can benefit from this approach to foreign relations. We certainly want to be part. part of that. I think we're the best ally the United States has. We've never asked you for boots on the ground. Okay. We just, we fight the enemies, the common enemies that we have, particularly Iran, particularly Iran. Yeah, kind of scary. You know, J.D. Vance, our vice president said when he was speaking about a year ago, he said, you know, the Islamic country that you should be worried about with nuclear missiles will someday soon maybe be the UK. I mean, I'm not going to ask you to comment on that.
Starting point is 00:38:34 But, you know, Europe, I think you guys could maybe show them the history of Israel. Europe is appeasing an awful lot of stuff right now. And the people are starting to feel like we're losing our country and our place. and it's becoming very, very sharia law in some places. Yeah, well, you bring up a fascinating point, and I'm going to say something very undiplomatic, even though I'm in the world of diplomacy. This all boils down to the fact that of the 36 countries
Starting point is 00:39:19 in the developed world, the OECD, there's only one country in the world with replacement fertility. we're having kids in Israel. Wow. We're preparing the next general. One country of the developed nations that have replacement fertility. That's a state of Israel. That's three generations after a Holocaust.
Starting point is 00:39:36 Talk about miracles. So, you know, the West has to believe in itself again. And part of believing in itself and being happy with his existence and believing in the ideals that created to the Gio-Christian culture needs to be to see. celebrate a revival. Right. And I don't think we did, and I don't think Joe Biden believed in that. And based on their reaction to J.D. Vance over in Germany, I'm not sure that Europe actually believes in itself. Jason Butrell is with us. He's our chief researcher, watches over foreign affairs as well. You have something for the ambassador before he has to leave? Yeah, Ambassador. I was in Israel for the October 7th anniversary, and the flood of emotions
Starting point is 00:40:22 throughout the entire country. I can't imagine what the country. I just can't, what everyone's going through. How do you balance getting hostages back versus releasing, you know, tons more Hamas hostages. How do you even balance that? And can you put someone like me at ease that just wants all these Hamas terrorist dead? Like, what's going to happen to them once they go out? Are they just going to reestablish back in Gaza? Are they going to go somewhere else and still threaten Israel? I mean, how? How do you get hostages back but still deal with the Hamas terrorists that are still getting out there? Like you, Jason, I want my mind to be at ease. It's been a very traumatic year for me personally.
Starting point is 00:41:04 I lost my oldest son who led the forces into Gaza and was killed the second week of the war when he entered a Hamas booby trap together with his command team. He had spent 15 years in special ops and he went to med school and he was supposed to start his rounds in the hospital on October 8. So it's a traumatic year for many. We lost 1,200 people on October 7th. Another 850 soldiers have been killed in this war. That's over 2,000 people. By United States statistics, that would be about 65, 70,000 people killed.
Starting point is 00:41:40 Imagine? In a year, a year and a half. So we also had tens of thousands of people removed from their homes, living in temporary quarters, because of the missiles fired from Gizbala, from the Khutis, in the Gaza envelope. It's been a traumatic year, but I can tell you this. The people of Israel are resilient. Our soldiers are very brave and courageous. And the fight goes on. I can't guarantee you that we're going to release all the hostages, but we're going to do our damnness to do so and get
Starting point is 00:42:07 them out alive. We have still, they're holding on to bodies. I mean, you're talking, you're talking about a cruel and brutal, ghoulish group of people. Can I ask, did they ever get, I think it was the mother of the Bebis children, did they ever get her body? I know they delivered a coffin. They deliberately delivered a coffin with someone else's body. By the way, the locks that they put on the caskets, they provide keys that don't open the locks. Oh my God. Just to stick it in our eye a little further.
Starting point is 00:42:40 We received the body, but you know how they were killed, Glenn. They were murdered by strangulation and then a effect. effacement of the bodies in order to be able to try. And this was verified by autopsies. So we're dealing with a horrific group of people, and we're going to make sure that they are not standing in Gaza any longer. It's going to be a difficult, long process, but we're going to come out on top in the end.
Starting point is 00:43:13 You will, because you're not ashamed of who you are, nor should you be, nor should we. And we support you? Thank you. Thank you. Just let me conclude with this one sentence. My son taught his soldiers when they go into battle. He said, always remember where you are, where your friends are, and where the enemy is. And I learned from my son that we always have to wake up in the morning and say, who am I, who are my friends, and who is my enemy? And don't confuse those three categories. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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