Transcript [00:00] First of all, the conflict that we have [00:01] in the Middle East is multiple. It used [00:05] to be said that the core of the conflict [00:08] in the singular in the Middle East is [00:10] the is the Israeli Palestinian conflict. [00:13] Well, that went by the window. When you [00:15] see Iraq collapsing, Syria collapsing, [00:17] Yemen collapsing, Libya collapsing, and [00:20] everything else in turmoil. Nothing to [00:22] do with us. The core of the conflicts in [00:25] the Middle East is the battle between [00:28] modernity and early primitive [00:30] medievalism. That's the core of the [00:32] conflicts. [00:34] Why is there no peace in the Middle [00:36] East? Prime Minister Netanyahu was asked [00:38] this exact question and he gave an [00:41] amazing answer and I've got a lot to say [00:43] about it. Go have a look. [00:45] >> Me to explain why we don't have peace. [00:49] Uh you have until tomorrow Here's my [00:53] short answer. [00:55] I I have two rules. When I'm in a press [00:59] conference, when I have journalists, I [01:01] put a board on and they ask me the [01:04] questions. I write all the questions. I [01:06] write all the questions. And then I go [01:09] through each one and here's my answer to [01:11] that. Here's my answer to that. Here's [01:12] my answer to that. And this one, I'm [01:14] fudging. I don't want to fudge. I [01:16] actually tell them that I fudge. I don't [01:18] want to fudge. I want to tell you what [01:20] the answer is. The reason first of all [01:23] the conflict that we have in the Middle [01:25] East is multiple. It used to be said [01:29] that the core of the conflict in the [01:32] singular in the Middle East is is the [01:35] Israeli Palestinian conflict. Well, that [01:37] went by the window. [01:40] When you see Iraq collapsing, Syria [01:42] collapsing, Yemen collapsing, Libya [01:44] collapsing, [01:46] and everything else in turmoil. Nothing [01:48] to do with us. The core of the conflicts [01:52] in the Middle East is the battle between [01:55] modernity and early primitive [01:57] medievalism. That's the core of the [02:00] conflicts. The core [02:03] [applause] [02:04] of the specific conflict between Israel [02:08] and the Palestinians is the persistent [02:11] Palestinian refusal to recognize a [02:13] Jewish state in any boundary. This is [02:16] why this conflict persisted for 50 years [02:21] before there was a state, before there [02:23] were territories, before there were [02:25] settlements. [02:27] If that were the core of the conflict, [02:29] the settlements, why did it take place [02:31] when my grandfather landed in Jaffa in [02:34] 1920? [02:36] Jews were murdered then for what? There [02:39] was no uh West Bank. There were no [02:42] settlements. Now that continued 1921, [02:45] 1929, [02:47] 1936 1939 [02:49] 1948. What was that all about? 1967. [02:55] For nearly half a century, [02:59] we were being attacked because there was [03:01] a persistent refusal to accept us in any [03:04] boundary. Well, we got into these [03:08] territories as a result of the conflict. [03:11] And what Arab propaganda has done by [03:13] endless repetition is to turn the result [03:16] of the conflict into its cause. [03:19] Now, how do you know that that's the [03:20] case? Because we left Gaza completely [03:25] every last [03:27] centimeter. [03:28] And they're still firing rockets at us [03:30] from Gaza. And when you ask them, why [03:33] are you doing this? [03:35] Is it to liberate the West Bank? And [03:38] they say, yeah, sure, that too. [03:40] Now it's to liberate Palestine, you [03:43] know Ako Hifa [03:46] Jaffa. They always get back to Jaffa. So [03:49] now I turn to the other guys, [03:52] to the Palestinian Authority, not to [03:53] Hamas. At least they don't practice [03:56] violence, which is important. [03:58] And I say, "Well, what about you? [04:01] Are you willing to recognize the Jewish [04:03] state? [04:05] Are you willing to recognize the fact [04:07] you'll have a nation state for the [04:08] Palestinian people? How about a nation [04:10] state for the Jewish people? I mean, [04:13] after all, we've only been there almost [04:14] 4,000 years, and we recognize there are [04:18] two peoples there. We're willing to make [04:19] the deal. Are you willing [04:22] to make the deal? Are you willing to [04:24] recognize the Jewish state? [04:27] Because there's no point in making [04:28] another [04:31] Palestinian state, another Arab state [04:33] that will continue the battle from [04:35] improved lines against the Jewish state. [04:38] Are you willing to end the conflict? [04:41] Give up the claim of the so-called right [04:43] of return. Make peace. [04:46] And you know what happens when you ask [04:47] them that? [04:50] They move. And they say, "Oh, we're [04:52] willing to recognize Israel." I didn't [04:54] ask Israel. I said, "Are you willing to [04:58] terminate all claims to the Jewish [05:01] state? You won't get Jaffa. You won't [05:03] flood us with refugees. Are you willing [05:05] to do that?" And the answer is they're [05:07] not. We will have peace when the [05:11] Palestinians [05:13] will accord us what they ask us to [05:15] accord them. We're willing to have let [05:18] them have a state of their own. They [05:21] have to reconcile themselves to the fact [05:23] that we have a state of our own and it's [05:25] here to stay. That is the core of the [05:29] problem. in the Middle East, [05:32] [applause] [05:32] modernity against medievalism, Israel [05:35] and the Palestinians, the persistent [05:37] refusal to recognize a Jewish state in [05:40] any boundary. I hope that changes, but I [05:43] have my mind on um making sure that [05:47] until it changes that yes, we work we [05:50] work up the economies to create at least [05:53] an economic vested hope in the future. [05:56] uh if the Palestinians follow the [05:59] prescriptions I've given here for market [06:01] development, they'll be better off [06:03] economically and we'll move two steps [06:06] closer to peace, too. Thank you very [06:08] much. [06:11] >> So, there you have it. The reason there [06:13] is no peace is very simple. They don't [06:16] want us there. You know what Prime [06:18] Minister Netanyahu did not say in his [06:21] remarks is how much Islam has to do with [06:24] this. Let me explain. If you go back to [06:28] before World War I, almost none of the [06:31] countries that you see in the Middle [06:32] East actually existed. So, it's not just [06:34] there about there not being a [06:35] Palestinian state. There was no such [06:37] thing as Lebanon. There was no such [06:38] thing as Syria. There was no such thing [06:40] as Jordan or Iraq or Saudi Arabia. Any [06:45] none of these countries existed. Okay? [06:47] And it's not like they only didn't exist [06:49] for a period of time. the Arab world, [06:52] the the and this part of Asia, meaning [06:54] the Middle East, was not a place where [06:57] what we know as countries with borders [07:00] and, you know, and you know, clearly [07:02] defined borders and and lines and [07:05] nationalities ever existed. Okay? For [07:10] 500 years, 400 years until World War I, [07:15] the area was governed by the Ottoman [07:17] Empire. Before that, it was governed by [07:19] other various empires going all the way [07:21] back to temple times. Okay? It's always [07:23] just been these these vast expanses [07:25] where you have different tribes and [07:26] ethnic groups living in different areas, [07:29] different regions. Okay? If you look at [07:31] a map from before World War I, again, [07:33] none of these countries existed. There's [07:35] no such thing as a Jordanian person or [07:37] an Iraqi person or a Syrian person and [07:40] certainly not a Palestinian. Okay? None [07:42] of these countries existed. [07:44] And then along came these these western [07:46] diplomats after World War I after the [07:48] Ottoman Empire fell and they just carved [07:51] up the Middle East and created all these [07:53] states and that was the end of the [07:55] Ottoman Empire which meant that it was [07:57] the end of the Islamic Caliphate. Now [07:59] according to Islam any area that was [08:02] ever governed by the Islamic Caliphate [08:06] is the top priority to make it part of [08:10] Islam's territory again. Meaning the [08:12] goal of Islam is to rule the entire [08:14] world. But areas that were never yet [08:17] conquered by Islam are second priority. [08:20] They're not as important as areas that [08:22] were once conquered by Islam. Any land [08:25] that was ever once governed by Islam [08:28] must never ever be under the authority [08:30] of anyone other than Muslims than Islam [08:33] itself. And that is why the Muslim world [08:38] can never never accept a permanent [08:42] Jewish state in the land of Israel [08:45] because the land of Israel was part of [08:46] the Ottoman Empire. So they refused. Now [08:48] this should explain something [08:51] that Prime Minister Netanyahu another [08:52] point that he didn't make but he kind of [08:54] almost made which is the fact that the [08:58] conflict the conflict between Israel and [09:01] the Palestinians so to speak predates [09:05] 1967 when Israel conquers Judea and [09:08] Samaria known as the West Bank and then [09:09] suddenly everyone wants there to be a [09:11] Palestinian state. It predates that. He [09:13] talked about how it even predates the [09:15] state of Israel itself. If you go back [09:16] to the 1920s and Jews were being [09:18] massacred by Muslims, by Arabs in the [09:21] land of Israel, but I want to make a [09:23] different point. [09:25] The, you know, since 1967, but really in [09:27] the last few decades, everyone screams [09:29] about how Israel is occupying certain [09:31] territories, Judea, Samaria, known as [09:33] the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and [09:35] that these are Palestinian areas that [09:37] are meant to be a Palestinian state. So, [09:39] let me just ask a simple question. Or [09:41] for those of you who want to fight the [09:43] information war, you can use this [09:45] question on anyone who makes this claim [09:47] that Israel is occupying Palestinian [09:49] territory. Ask them the following [09:51] question. And this is the killer [09:52] question. Okay? [09:55] Before 1967, Israel did not control [10:00] Judea and Samaria, known as the West [10:01] Bank. Right? from 1948 when the state of [10:04] Israel was founded or really from 1947 [10:07] when the UN partition plan decided to [10:09] break up uh this area into different [10:12] into different states and they created a [10:14] Jewish state and they offered the Arabs [10:16] an Arab state in [snorts] those [10:17] territories. Then there was the Israeli [10:20] war of independence and Judea and [10:22] Samaria the West Bank was conquered by [10:24] Jordan. Okay. Jordan ruled it from 1948 [10:30] till 1967. [10:32] During that time, the Gaza Strip was [10:36] controlled by and owned by Egypt. Okay. [10:39] During that time, again, the areas that [10:41] everyone today says should become a [10:44] Palestinian state and that Israel is [10:45] occupying Palestinian territory were [10:48] under the control of Egypt in Gaza and [10:52] Jordan in what's called the West Bank. [10:54] During those 19 years, there was no [10:57] movement. There was no there was no call [11:00] by anybody to create a Palestinian state [11:04] in those areas. Why not? They weren't in [11:07] Jewish hands. They weren't in Israeli [11:08] hands. Why didn't the Jordanians create [11:11] a Palestinian state? Or why wasn't [11:12] anyone calling on the Jordanians to not [11:16] occupy the West Bank and and create a [11:19] Palestinian state? Why didn't anyone [11:20] call on Egypt to not be occupying Gaza [11:23] and create a Palestinian state? The [11:25] answer is nobody cared. No one wants a [11:27] Palestinian state. No one's interested [11:29] in that. They just want to make sure [11:31] that Jews don't control any of the land [11:34] in this area. So long as those those [11:37] areas, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip [11:39] were under Islamic rule, they were under [11:42] the rule of an Arab Muslim country, [11:44] nobody cared. No one was interested. [11:46] It's only after the Jews conquered these [11:50] areas. It was only after Israel [11:51] conquered these areas in the six- day [11:53] war in a defensive war that they they [11:55] were attacked. It was only after the [11:57] Israel conquered them in the six- day [11:59] war that suddenly there their there [12:01] there was created this brand new cause [12:03] creating a Palestinian state in those [12:05] areas because they were conquered by [12:08] Israel. So the re again to sum up what [12:11] prime minister Netanyahu said very [12:13] simple. The reason we don't have peace [12:16] is that the Muslims, the Arabs in this [12:18] area refuse to allow Jews to live in our [12:22] ancient homeland. They deny that it is [12:24] our our ancient homeland. And until that [12:26] goes away, the only way we're going to [12:29] have peace is what we call peace through [12:31] strength. that Israel is going to have [12:32] to defend itself and make it clear that [12:35] it's just not going to work if you're [12:37] trying to get rid of us and you're [12:39] better off dropping all of this evil [12:42] ideology and this genocidal desire to [12:45] wipe out the Jews. Better to drop it and [12:47] make peace with Israel and everyone will [12:49] be better
