Transcript [00:00] Every time a terrorist murders an [00:02] innocent person and falsely invokes the [00:05] name of God, it should be an insult to [00:08] every person of faith. Terrorists do not [00:11] worship God. They worship death. If we [00:14] do not act against this organized [00:16] terror, then we know what will happen [00:19] and what will be the end result. [00:22] >> So, back in May of 2017, President Trump [00:25] spoke at a meeting in Saudi Arabia. It [00:28] was actually his first foreign trip as [00:30] president of the United States in his [00:32] first term. And he went to Saudi Arabia [00:34] and he spoke to a summit meeting, a [00:36] gathering of over 50 Islamic nations. It [00:39] was a meeting called the Arab Islamic [00:42] American Summit and it took place in [00:44] Saudi Arabia [00:46] and he gave a remarkable speech there. I [00:48] want to play you an excerpt from the [00:50] speech where he really puts in front of [00:53] the Muslim world, in front of the Arab [00:55] world, the choice that they have to make [00:57] about whether they want to be part of [01:00] the peace and prosperity of the peaceful [01:03] family of nations in the world or they [01:05] want to continue to embrace and support [01:08] terrorism. And he starts out this he [01:10] starts out this part of the speech [01:11] talking about how young the population [01:14] in the Middle East actually is. But it's [01:16] an amazing clip and I want to talk about [01:18] it for a few minutes after we watch it. [01:20] So have a look. [01:23] >> 65% of its population is under the age [01:27] of 30. Like all young men and women, [01:30] they seek great futures to build, great [01:34] national projects to join, and a place [01:37] for their families to call home. [01:41] But this untapped potential, this [01:44] tremendous cause of optimism is held at [01:47] bay by bloodshed and terror. [01:52] There can be no coexistence [01:55] with this violence. There can be no [01:58] tolerating it, no accepting it, no [02:01] excusing it, and no ignoring it. Every [02:06] time a terrorist murders an innocent [02:08] person and falsely invokes the name of [02:10] God, [02:12] it should be an insult to every person [02:15] of faith. Terrorists do not worship God. [02:20] They worship death. If we do not act [02:23] against this organized terror, then we [02:26] know what will happen and what will be [02:31] the end result. Terrorisms, devastation [02:35] of life will continue to spread. [02:39] Peaceful societies will become engulfed [02:41] by violence and the futures of many [02:45] generations will be sadly squandered. [02:49] If we do not stand in uniform [02:52] condemnation of this killing, then not [02:55] only will we be judged by our people, [02:58] not only will we be judged by history, [03:02] but we will be judged by God. [03:06] This is not a battle between different [03:08] faiths, different sex or different [03:13] civilizations. This is a battle between [03:16] barbaric criminals who seek to [03:19] obliterate human life and decent people [03:23] all in the name of religion. [03:27] People that want to protect life and [03:31] want to protect their religion. This is [03:34] a battle between good and evil. When we [03:39] see the scenes of destruction in the [03:42] wake of terror, we see no signs that [03:45] those murdered were Jewish or Christian, [03:49] Shia or Sunni. When we look upon the [03:53] strains of innocent blood soaked into [03:56] the ancient ground, we cannot see the [03:59] faith or sect or tribe of the victims. [04:03] We see only that they were children of [04:06] God whose deaths are an insult to all [04:11] that is holy. [04:13] But we can only overcome this evil if [04:16] the forces of good are united and strong [04:20] and if everyone in this room does their [04:22] fair share and fulfills their part of [04:26] the burden. Terrorism has spread all [04:30] across the world. But the path to peace [04:32] begins right here on this ancient soil [04:36] in this sacred land. [04:39] America is prepared to stand with you in [04:42] pursuit of shared interests and common [04:45] security. But the nations of the Middle [04:47] East cannot wait for American power to [04:50] crush this enemy for them. The nations [04:52] of the Middle East will have to decide [04:56] what kind of future they want for [04:57] themselves, for their country, and [05:01] frankly for their families and for their [05:04] children. It's a choice between two [05:07] futures. And it is a choice America [05:11] cannot make for you. A better future is [05:15] only possible if your nations drive out [05:18] the terrorists and drive out the [05:21] extremists. Drive them out. Drive them [05:27] out of your places of worship. Drive [05:31] them out of your communities. Drive them [05:34] out of your holy land. And drive them [05:38] out of this earth. [05:40] >> There you go. drive them out. So there's [05:43] President Trump, again, this is 2017. [05:45] It's almost nine years ago telling the [05:48] Muslim world, "Hey, it's time to make a [05:50] civilizational decision. Which side are [05:53] you on? And do you want to have a [05:55] better, more peaceful future with the [05:56] rest of the world, or do you want to [05:57] embrace all of this Islamism and this [06:00] terrorism?" And I think the best, most [06:03] powerful part of the speech is where he [06:04] says, "Listen, this is not a choice that [06:07] America can make for you. you need to [06:10] make a choice yourself about what what [06:13] direction you want to go in. And we've [06:15] seen that since that time in during [06:17] Trump's first term, we had the Abraham [06:20] Accords where the United Arab Emirates [06:21] and Morocco and Bahrain [06:25] um and Sudan got involved were signing [06:28] agreements, normalization agreements [06:30] with Israel that have sustained [06:32] themselves even through the war that [06:34] Israel has fought. countries that have [06:37] that have outlawed the Muslim [06:39] Brotherhood and that have really been [06:40] pushing back against the terrorism. And [06:43] then you see other countries like Turkey [06:45] and Qatar who continue to fund the [06:48] terrorism. They continue to back it. [06:50] They back countries that, you know, that [06:53] are engaging in the terrorist activity. [06:56] And look, let's be very frank here. The [06:58] real reason I wanted to show you this [07:00] video is because we have a problem right [07:03] now in the current Trump administration [07:05] for and let me say President Trump has [07:08] been the best president for Israel ever. [07:11] However, there is a blind spot. It's a [07:13] very serious blind spot and that is this [07:17] kind of wishful thinking. Looking at [07:18] countries like Qatar and Turkey as [07:22] allies, looking at them as moderates, [07:24] believing that they are not supporting [07:26] terrorism because Turkeykey's a NATO [07:28] ally and they're kind of friendly to [07:30] America and they have a history of being [07:33] a more western style democracy before [07:35] Erdogan. And Qatar puts a lot of money [07:38] into its image and hosts Formula One [07:40] races and hosts, you know, uh, you know, [07:43] the World Cup and and has a nice airline [07:46] and and at the same time they fund all [07:49] this anti-American and anti-Jewish hate [07:52] all over the world pouring in billions [07:53] of dollars into American college [07:55] campuses. So when America in its [07:59] approach to the Middle East sees Qatar [08:01] and Turkey as moderates who could hold [08:03] back or fight against the terrorists, [08:06] they're fooling themselves. And that's [08:07] why we see like what's happening in [08:09] Syria right now where this this former [08:13] al Qaeda ISIS guy al-Shara who's now the [08:16] nominal president of Syria, I don't know [08:18] why anyone calls him that. He's not the [08:20] lawful he wasn't elected by anyone. He [08:22] was just the first terrorist into the [08:23] palace after the Assad regime fell. So [08:26] because he crossed the finish line [08:27] first, I guess he gets to be called the [08:29] leader. But America is propping him up [08:31] because Turkey is propping him up. And [08:34] the minorities in Syria like the [08:36] Alawites and the Christians, the [08:38] Marinite Christians and the Drews and [08:40] the Kurds are all not having any of it [08:42] and they don't want to submit to this [08:44] jihadist regime. Here you have the [08:46] Americans [08:48] kind of hoping or wanting to believe [08:51] that these jihadist terrorists can be [08:55] incentivized with economic incentives [08:58] and and and the like to not be jihadists [09:03] anymore. And that just never works. That [09:04] is a mistake that Westerners have been [09:06] making in the Middle East for a long [09:07] long time. believing that economic [09:09] incentives uh and worldly incentives [09:12] like that that would work on Westerners [09:14] would work on the ideologues in the [09:17] Middle East. Here's an interesting data [09:18] point that makes that point really [09:20] powerfully. There's been polling done of [09:23] the Palestinians, the Arabs in Gaza and [09:26] Judea and Samaria, what's known as the [09:27] West Bank. And they and uh I'm talking [09:30] polling done by Palestinian polling [09:32] agency, very reliable, and they've been [09:34] doing uh polling from the beginning of [09:37] the October 7th war every couple of [09:39] months. And one of the questions that [09:40] they have been asking in the last few [09:43] polls, asking the population of Gaza, [09:46] they ask them, "Are you in favor of [09:48] ending the war by Hamas laying down its [09:52] weapons?" Meaning the question is, are [09:54] you in favor of Hamas laying down its [09:56] weapons, disarming if it will mean that [09:58] there's no more war with Israel? Very [10:01] simple question, right? Do you want the [10:03] war to end and have kamas lay down its [10:05] weapons? Because we're always told that, [10:06] oh, the people of Gaza just want a [10:08] better life for themselves. They don't [10:09] really want kamas. They don't really [10:11] want, you know, they they of course are [10:14] suffering and they're and they're being [10:16] displaced and their homes are being [10:17] destroyed and they're living in terrible [10:19] conditions. You'd think the answer would [10:20] be obvious. You'd think it would be like [10:22] a 100% of them would say, "Of course, we [10:23] want Hamas to lay down their weapons and [10:25] end the war." Well, lo and behold, more [10:27] than 70% of the population of Gaza said, [10:30] "No, they do not want Hamas to lay down [10:32] their weapons, even if it means the end [10:34] of the war." You see, and that's and [10:36] that's incomprehensible to Westerners. [10:38] But what it's really coming from is this [10:40] problem. This problem that ideology, [10:43] this jihadist ideology runs so deep in [10:45] this part of the world that it's [10:46] actually more important to these people [10:48] than their own economic well-being. So, [10:51] President Trump is very well-meaning and [10:53] I love the way he was very forceful in [10:55] that speech just basically saying, [10:56] "Drive them out. You have to make a [10:58] decision. Do you want to be part of the [10:59] family of peaceful nations? If you do, [11:02] you have to drop all this jihadist [11:03] stuff. You have to you have to root it [11:05] out of your societies." I can't say that [11:07] the Muslim world on a whole or even [11:10] majority has done this. They haven't [11:13] made the right choice for the most part [11:15] since that speech President Trump gave. [11:18] But it's so important for Western [11:20] leaders to not be fooled into thinking [11:22] that countries in the Middle East that [11:25] act like moderates are actually [11:27] moderates. You got to take a look at [11:28] their actual behavior and look at what [11:30] they say to their own populations in [11:31] Arabic. So again, for all the moral [11:33] clarity President Trump showed, I'm [11:35] hoping that his administration gets some [11:38] clarity, some real moral clarity about [11:40] the Turks and the Qataris who are [11:42] actually fermenting chaos and supporting [11:45] Islamic terrorism all over the world, [11:46] not fighting against
