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00:00:23say they've targeted Riyad's international airport in the past few
00:00:26hours. Saudi Arabia has also conf confirmed that...
00:00:30Musat base was targeted but says the danger has now passed, it
00:00:33of says also vow a strong response to recent hoothy attacks on Riyad's
00:00:37main international airport and extended the suspension of all flights
00:00:41to and from its capital city. the event of
00:00:45recent weeks are serious. our response
00:00:49must be equally serious. energy security cannot be
00:00:53taken for granted. for Saudi
00:00:57Arabia, this circum
00:00:58this circumstances have. tested our infrastructure,
00:01:02our institution, our
00:01:04people and our
00:01:07resilience, they have also tested decision
00:01:11made long before the present crisis
00:01:14of
00:01:15of and of Israeli
00:01:15of drone attack has targeted
00:01:19of a refugee camp in the south of Gaza killing at least two Palestinians, paramedics say several
00:01:23people were wounded in the strike on the camp near Rafa, which is home to thousands
00:01:27of Palestinians who've been displaced multiple
00:01:29of times. during Israel's three-year
00:01:31war. US immigration officials have
00:01:35raided the home of Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan
00:01:39of Omar in the early hours of Monday. Omar has described the raid as an
00:01:42of active intimidation and vowed not
00:01:45of to be silenced with the investigation reportedly regarding
00:01:48her immigration
00:01:52of paperwork. Russia is continuing to attack Ukraine's energy facilities
00:01:55despite the
00:01:57of so-called energy cease fire declared by US President Donald Trump on
00:02:00Sunday. Russia has yet to comment on Trump's claim, but Ukrainian
00:02:04president Vladimir Zelensky says several gas facilities were hit
00:02:08since that cease fire
00:02:11of announcement. And
00:02:12of hundreds of of supermarkets in France have been hit by an unprecedented cyber
00:02:16attack that raised fridge and freezer temperatures to 50 degrees
00:02:20celsius. Fires and widespread food spoilage have been reported
00:02:24with losses estimated at millions of dollars. Some
00:02:27of the country's biggest supermarket chains were hit including. four, which said
00:02:3180 of its stores were
00:02:53On this episode of Inside America, we ask, has
00:02:57the US forgotten Gaza? "I've
00:03:01followed politics here for 40 years, it's never
00:03:05been like it is today in terms of American
00:03:10of of public opinion, a shift has already happened, of when his promise doing the campaign, I'm going to fix this on day one, has he delivered on that? He did not delivered on
00:03:14that, of course, exactly, but he just has he didn't renig on his
00:03:18promise, he just failed to fulfill it, has the Trump administration achieved something that
00:03:22previous
00:03:23of administrations have been unable to achieve, I think they have, which is what, I think
00:03:27they have established the basis for a state for."
00:03:32palestiny people. Hello
00:03:33and welcome to the show. I'm Selena Downs and today I'm joined by the Democratic strategist Richard
00:03:37Gidstine and the political writer Peter Roth. In moment, we'll be
00:03:41debating whether America has forgotten
00:03:44of Gaza. Donald Trump's peace plan has stalled and the Iran war has
00:03:48diverted lot of political and media attention. But
00:03:52polls show historic levels of public support for
00:03:55Palestinians. I put this to Robert Mally, a middle east.
00:04:02of tomorrow He's
00:04:02is also
00:04:06yesterday, co-author a book about the pursuit of peace between
00:04:10Israel and
00:04:12of Palestine. One
00:04:12of the paradoxes of everything that's happened from October 7th onwards is
00:04:16that militarily, it's more cable
00:04:19than than it's been in the past, politically in terms of its international reputation,
00:04:22it is really had such a low standing in its history, particularly in the
00:04:26US, I'll come back to it, I think you could reverse the case
00:04:29of the... calls has rarely been
00:04:32as universally, not endorsed, but at
00:04:36least as strong university as
00:04:38it is today, the palestine national movement has rarely been as
00:04:42weak as
00:04:43it is today, and that's the paradox that we're living through, now I've followed
00:04:46in politics here for 40 years, um,
00:04:50it's never been like
00:04:52it is today in terms of American public opinion, the shift in the younger
00:04:55generation is unprecedented, the poll numbers
00:04:59are... controvertible, I mean that's the of all
00:05:01of the change, if you want to look for one change that should
00:05:04of bring hope to those who are still
00:05:07longing for, a peaceful
00:05:09a settlement, self-determination for the palestine people, the... shifting in public
00:05:13opinion here, which is yet to fully manifest itself at the
00:05:17political, but you're already seeing, look at the debates among political
00:05:21candidates on the democratic side, it's who's going to accept money from apac and who's not
00:05:25going to accept money from apac, is conditioning aid aid
00:05:29to to Israel or or military sales to Israel has become a litmus test,
00:05:33forget about military just military aid without free
00:05:36military to Israel, debating whether
00:05:39it was genocide, debating whether israel is apartide state, are all
00:05:42questions which would would have been maybe mentioned by a fringe the political
00:05:46class and not even few years ago and today every
00:05:50serious political candidate in the US has to grapple with these questions and as we
00:05:54approach the primary in 2028 among
00:05:56the democratic party you'll see one candidate after another struggling
00:06:00to come up with what they think is the right answer given the
00:06:04political earthquake that has shaken the public opinion.
00:06:08so why the disconnect between the public opinion?
00:06:13uh and the policy making, there's always been a lag, the
00:06:17question now is whether that lag is going to be very quickly filled, but
00:06:21because we're seeing such mobilization in the democratic base, I mean the elections here in
00:06:25New York, mayor Mamdani, we'll see what happens to the senatoral elections in
00:06:28Michigan, another true bellweather barometer the state of political
00:06:32opinion, a shift has already happened and the
00:06:36rhetoric of of candidates and political leaders has already
00:06:39changed, the question is, and I'm talking about the democratic side, question is,
00:06:43how far will that go and how quickly will if ever the
00:06:46political establishments catch up with where their bases? why do you take such a
00:06:50cynical view the two-state solution? listen, it's been
00:06:54i was part the cynical industry if you will, the industry
00:06:58that was a pretend industry. it's been how many decades now
00:07:02that we have one American leader and often European leaders saying our
00:07:05priority is to get two-state solution, we want two-state solution, and while
00:07:09they were saying those things everything on the ground. was moving in the
00:07:13opposite direction, it became the argument that US and other leaders used to
00:07:17say, oh, let's not mobilize the
00:07:21boy, let's not allow boycots, let's not allow the palestins to go
00:07:24to international institutions, to go to the ICC, to go to the ICJ, to
00:07:28declare their own state, because all of that is
00:07:32going to interfere with this process, which is supposed to lead to two state
00:07:36solution, which was not leading anywhere at all,
00:07:38and I'm not against, but describe to me how we're going to get from
00:07:42here to there and how you're going to overcome the obstacles that you were unable
00:07:46to to overcome a time when they were much lower, much
00:07:49less, much less of
00:07:53an obstacle to suit solution than they are today, so if you have that plan, if you have that road
00:07:57map, feel free describe it, but otherwise what you're saying is
00:08:01just words, but so is it the framework that's a failure or is it that the
00:08:05framework was allowed to fail, was it the lack of political will behind it, was it
00:08:08passivity, listen a minimum so...
00:08:13the most elemental explanation is the status quo
00:08:17continued occupation or even worse the entrancement the
00:08:20occupation has served Israely interests, if there's no pushback, if
00:08:24there's no price for them to pay, if there's a cost-free occupation,
00:08:27if the palestinan authority is trying to take care of security more or
00:08:31less, if the west is and our world is paying for the occupation,
00:08:35if nobody is taking action against Israel, why should Israel change
00:08:39course? mean it really is for me the blame, mean i has made
00:08:42its choice, it's an understandable choice, we could, we could lament it, but it's a
00:08:46choice that makes sense from their perspective, right? and the United States is being
00:08:50compliciting that, there's always been asy about, the question is why the US, why
00:08:54Europe and why others have not put matched the their
00:08:58actions with their words, they say they want two-state solution, which is not where the events
00:09:02were leading, and they were not prepared to make
00:09:05Israel pay any price for uh the the course it was on, if the
00:09:09United States wanted to truly compel Israel... um to
00:09:13comply with UN resolutions on the 1967 borders
00:09:17on East Jerusalem, it could. You no, it is possible if the US had
00:09:20shown greater symmetry in its pressure, greater
00:09:24understanding the political realities on both sides. It was at least
00:09:27possible that you could have had two-state outcome, whether it would have been a solution, how long it would have lasted,
00:09:31that's a different question, but you certainly were not going to get there if you're
00:09:35not prepared to put any pressure if you're prepared to be as you say complicit in Israeli
00:09:39actions, if you are taking steps to.
00:09:47making sure that other country could play a role in this process, then by definition
00:09:51it was going to, it was bound to fail, again whether they could have
00:09:54succeeded with different modes of pressure, that's
00:09:56an open question, but today given how far we are from where we were
00:10:00before, think everything has to be rethought, the
00:10:03objective, who are the parties at the negotiating table, because we need parties that
00:10:07have real representation, real legitimacy, real credibility with their
00:10:11constituence with... is ready, who the mediators are going to be, is it
00:10:15just the United States, should Arab countries come in? I mean all that at this point,
00:10:19because as I said, we're so far from any outcome, any solution that's agreed to by the
00:10:23two sides, why not take? the time to put everything on
00:10:27the table and to ask the fundamental questions that we basically have not answered since
00:10:301993, we we've been in this one way path, this peace
00:10:34process, which led us not just to an impass, it led
00:10:38to october 7th and to israely offsaw that followed. mean, one
00:10:42thing, another thing that has come out the events of october
00:10:457 is the gaza border peace and
00:10:49president trump's plan for for peace
00:10:53in gaza, to get your thoughts on that, I mean currently
00:10:57obviously it has stalled between phases, there continues to be a
00:11:01symmetry there as well because there are, demands on Hamas to
00:11:04disarm, Hamas says it won't disarm until Israel withdraws, Israel says it won't
00:11:08withdraw until Hamas disarm, the plan itself is an
00:11:12eye saw, it is outrageous in its asymmetry, I
00:11:15mean it is demanding that one side pay amens for the masker of October
00:11:197th without asking the Israelits to do
00:11:22anything in. to pay for what the
00:11:26massacers, the the answer, what a number of international
00:11:30jurists have now called a genocide, but no accountability for them accountability for the
00:11:34Palestinians, the Palestinians have to re-educate themselves and
00:11:37and and reform themselves, no reform is ass the pales the the
00:11:41Israelis, it basically enshrines and validates continued
00:11:44Israeli occupation of at least 50% of
00:11:47Gaza, etc. etc. so I could go through chapter and
00:11:51verse of how this plan was...
00:11:56you know, a a fundamentally flawed biased plan
00:12:00that did not in any way um reflect palestine
00:12:04interest, palestine need, palestine interest and and and palestine rights,
00:12:08but it did one thing which the bidon administration was had been unable to do, which is to reach a
00:12:11cease fire, and even though people
00:12:15would question what kind of ceasefire it is when palestines are being killed every day,
00:12:19it was better than at the height the onslot that Israel was
00:12:23waiting, so you got to give that, much credit at all if anything
00:12:27to um to the Trump administration for having achieved in and for having put some
00:12:31pressure, some pressure on Israel to to agree to that, but since then what
00:12:34have we seen
00:12:35and what we've seen basically is attempt to
00:12:39reduce the palestine question to humanitarian question, can we
00:12:43make their lives a little bit better, can we get a little more humanitarian goods
00:12:47in, but the political question of palestine
00:12:50is the attempt is to bury it right, and there's no re.
00:12:55nition that it's a political problem, that the what's happening in Gaza is a political
00:12:59decision, what's happening
00:13:00in the west bank is a political decision, and that there are political aspirations that are being
00:13:04completely trampled as we
00:13:12in Gaza about this, do they feel forgotten by
00:13:15America? they are exploiting
00:13:19the crisis in Gaza, because no one is standing with us
00:13:23and Gaza. means nothing to America, we
00:13:27were just a card used to help Trump in the election,
00:13:30nothing more. America is the sponsor the war
00:13:34on Gaza and one the main supporters providing the weapons used to kill
00:13:38children, women and the elderly, and to completely destroy
00:13:42Gaza. It is doing this to serve its own interests and
00:13:46external agendas and the interest of those seeking to bring an end to
00:13:50Gaza. America acts in its own interests,
00:13:54yet when Trump... came to power, the war stopped, but his
00:13:57entire policy is in Israel's interest, not ours.
00:14:01America is in the region only to protect Israel, nothing
00:14:04more. It claims that
00:14:07it is helping us, providing aid and standing with us, but
00:14:11no, they have not kept their promises. Perhaps it is
00:14:15because of other political considerations, such as the war with Iran
00:14:19or
00:14:19their other wars in the middle east, I don't know. There are policies
00:14:23and agendas that...
00:15:01out
00:15:02Israel strikes, is carrying they say there is sece fire, but i don't see any cease
00:15:06fire. so onto today's
00:15:09debate, with me is the democratic strategist richard goodsteen, a former
00:15:13advisor to the clintons and Peter, a contributing
00:15:17editor and columnist at newsweek. welcome to you both, thank you, thank you,
00:15:21um, peter, if i can start with you, has the us
00:15:25uh forgotten Gaza, has the Iran war shifted the focus
00:15:29the administration? uh, forgotten
00:15:32Gaza, just because it's off the front page doesn't mean it's
00:15:35forgotten, but America we have tendency to
00:15:39confuse the urgent with the important and right now uh
00:15:43Iran, straight of hormoos uh red sea
00:15:46exits for Saudi Oil uh and the elections all
00:15:50seem more urgentuh and worthy of coverage than Gaza.
00:15:54Richard, do you agree? so I would say it's kind the it's a one hand on the
00:15:57other. remember Donald Trump said he was going to solve the war
00:16:01in Gaza on day one. So here we are,
00:16:05these many years, almost two years after. his presidency started,
00:16:09doesn't seem like a real solution is at hand
00:16:12whatsoever. on the other hand, within democratic politics for
00:16:16sure, and think increasingly more in republican politics,
00:16:19this notion of where do you stand, what's the solution? i think those
00:16:23are actually going to be fairly front burner as the 2028 presidential
00:16:27election starts, so i think it's it's not really
00:16:31um off the it's off the front burner now, it will be, think a front
00:16:35burner issue,
00:16:36i would say six months from now. Peter, President Trump's uh
00:16:40Gaza peace plan appears to have stalled, we're finding um, there was
00:16:44a lot of public discourse,
00:16:46there are a lot of high-level meetings being held here in the aftermath
00:16:50of October 7, but it seems now that the peace process is
00:16:54stalled, humanitarian assistance uh appears to be
00:16:57severely severely restricted, um, how
00:17:01is the administration going to navigate this path forward for Gaza? Well, fortunately, I
00:17:05think the administration has the support the... countries that sign the
00:17:08document, they're closer, they're more
00:17:12neutral, they're better able to observe, and I think they will be
00:17:16expressing their opinion, but I'm not sure at all that the process has
00:17:19stalled, it was going to be difficult, there were going
00:17:23to be fits and starts, there's still the issue of disarming
00:17:26to be dealt with, and until Himas is is is dissolved
00:17:30and disarmed or disarmed and dissolved will probably be the way it
00:17:34will have to work, I'm not sure you can't get to the
00:17:38vision of what's um, what the peace
00:17:42plan laid out, which is the best thing for all palestinians and it's
00:17:46important to remember that Hamas doesn't represent all the Palestinian
00:17:49people. I mean, I spoke to Robert Mally about this, there is asymmetry
00:17:53in the way that Hamas is being asked to disarm and
00:17:56demilitarize, give up its weapons, but there is no pressure on the
00:18:00Israeli side to do so, correct, look, I
00:18:04think, remember there was this whole board of peace, all these countries. that paid big
00:18:08money into one Trump organization after another and
00:18:12signed something that proported to be some commitment to
00:18:15whatever. I will say speaking for myself, I thought that was always
00:18:19fantasy. um, this notion that they were going to get Hamos
00:18:23to disarm when their whole purpose was
00:18:27to basically uh eradicate Israel as a Jewish
00:18:30state, seemed preposterous until they
00:18:34have something that feels like a commitment to two-state solution.
00:18:38and um, I, I, I just think, and I don't think the
00:18:41Palestinians have that, certainly Hamas doesn't, I don't think Israel does
00:18:45either, you certainly don't hear that from President Trump or his administration
00:18:49anymore, I mean, we have seen an incredible change in public discourse
00:18:53here, um, we have seen an outporing of support for
00:18:57Gaza, for the state of Palestine, we have seen recognition the state of
00:19:01Palestine coming from 150 plus countries now, just
00:19:05how has that shifted in the United States, is that? precedented in in terms
00:19:08of what you have seen over the decades. I mean, it's certainly new. I mean, if you would
00:19:12pull people decades ago between their support for Israel
00:19:15versus Palestine, such as it was, it would be fairly
00:19:19imbalanced in favor of Israel, and that's now shifted. And honestly, I
00:19:23fault the Netanyahu government for so overplaying
00:19:27its hand after October 7th, there was so much sympathy
00:19:30for Israel, from that point on, and the
00:19:34fact that the response has been what it's been. it would almost take
00:19:38work for Israel to be as discredited worldwise as it
00:19:41is by virtue of how Netanyahu is kind of totally botched
00:19:45things, so again, I think this will be a big factor
00:19:49in the Democratic presidential nomination process. I
00:19:53think that um, whoever is going to be the ultimate
00:19:57winner of that process, it's going to be somebody who's going to have to speak to
00:20:00the interest of those who want a Palestinian state
00:20:04without walking away from Israel, which is... fine line to
00:20:08walk, but I think it's walkable, but it's going to take some some deft
00:20:12going to uh politics. How much of influence do you think uh
00:20:16Gaza is having on the mid-terms? Do you think that Democrats and Republicans are
00:20:20having to navigate the shifted public discourse? uh, I think it's having a huge
00:20:23influence a couple of races, couple of marquis races like the
00:20:27senate race uh in Michigan, but I do think
00:20:31what this does is sets up a an opportunity for the Republican
00:20:35party to broaden its appeal to... um the Jewish
00:20:38American electorate uh, which frankly doesn't vote on
00:20:42Israel, if you're if you're an American voter who votes on
00:20:45Israel, you're probably already republican. If you're a Republican
00:20:49voter votes on social and economic issues, you've been voting with the
00:20:53liberal party, but now that the liberal
00:20:57party, the democrats are being
00:21:01uh, I don't what the right word is, taken over, over overrun uh the
00:21:04influence of people who support Hamas and the Palestinians is increasing
00:21:08among the party, that's a fantasy, look, if you watch Fox News, if you watch
00:21:12right white right-wing sources, you think that somehow these democratic
00:21:16socialists, these hamas sympathizers and so forth are taking over the democratic party.
00:21:20because that's what you want to think, you can't accept the fact that with
00:21:24very, very very
00:21:26exp, here's the here's the
00:21:30answer to that, Peter, um, the the squad,
00:21:34Aoc, Bernie, they have yet to flip a single seat
00:21:38ever from red to blue, they've never gotten seat going from Republican to
00:21:41Democrat, the the moderates, the new democrats have done that to
00:21:45fairly well dozens and dozens and dozens of times, the the the New
00:21:49Democratic.
00:21:59they're flipping blue seats, they're flipping their own seats, they're
00:22:03they're engaged in the cleansing the democratic party, no these they're
00:22:07going from from blue to cobalt blue, great, congratulations, but
00:22:11they're not doing anything to make the democrats a stronger, more kind of dominant
00:22:14party in congress and think everybody other than Bernie and
00:22:18realizes that
00:22:19at the moment don't think they care, i think what they care about is purifying the
00:22:23party. we watched the republicans go through this in the 80s and 90s with the
00:22:27with the um inculcation of christian conservative
00:22:30activists who insisted that the republican party become officially the
00:22:34pro-life party in the abortion debate and they were flipping red
00:22:38seats, they were flipping red seats in red states to change the nature
00:22:42the base in congress so they could go out and win national elections and
00:22:46i think that's this is phase one of what the democrats are doing and that once the...
00:22:50locked in the socialist positions and they've locked in the foreign policy
00:22:54positions that say we are pro- palestine, we are anti
00:22:57Israel uh that it is going to change the direction the
00:23:01party, the platform the party, and it's going to change the American electorate. yeah, the reason
00:23:05I i would strongly disagree with that as the following: imagine in Israel where
00:23:09Netanyahu is not in charge, imagine United States where Trump's not in charge,
00:23:13imagine we had a Bill Clinton and a Shimone
00:23:17Perez orbin, what, "this antipathy that we
00:23:21now see, and it's i agree, it's real for
00:23:25Israel, that changes, because Netanyahu
00:23:28is so mismanaged things and Trump has so sucked up to him, and vice
00:23:32verser. do you think the Trump administration has a Gaza strategy
00:23:35to all talk? they look, I think
00:23:38they do do a couple different things, they send people who were not steeped
00:23:42in diplomacy, Trump son-in-law, Jared Kuschner,
00:23:46his buddy Steve Witkoff, to negotiate all the things, whether it's Russian, Ukraine." and
00:23:50gaza, they're making no headway with any of that stuff, okay? so they sent the
00:23:53C team, not not even the A or B team, um, and then
00:23:57they kind of hope that they can just bamboozle people, they said were professional
00:24:01negotiators, guys who know how to do
00:24:04deals, diplomats don't have to do deals, diplomats know how
00:24:08to success they shown peter, tell me if you think when his
00:24:11promise during the campaign, I'm going to fix this on day one, has he delivered on that, he did not
00:24:15deliver on that, of course, exactly, buse he's got these these in it, but he also hasn't cut
00:24:19a bad. he hasn't let the diplomats cut a bad deal
00:24:22like
00:24:24his promise but he didn't renig on his promise he just failed to fulfill it and politicians
00:24:28remember if you like your healthcare you can keep it politicians fail to keep
00:24:32their promises all the time we accept that that's part the American political
00:24:36dynamics remember read your lips we accept that but he sent real
00:24:39negotiators hard nose guys who know how to cut deals has the Trump
00:24:43administration achieved something that previous administrations have been unable
00:24:47to achieve. I think they have which is what? "I think they have
00:24:51established the basis for a state, for Palestinian people, that
00:24:55no president has been able to do before that. The two state solution was nice
00:24:59idea created by diplomats. I think it's dead arrival, I think we ought to
00:25:03stop talking about it. I think it's a multi-state solution. I think the West Bank
00:25:07may become its own country, it may become several countries. They will eventually
00:25:10have a place that they will be able to call home, but it's not going to be
00:25:14something that we decide for them, it's going to be something that they decide for
00:25:18themselves,
00:25:19what did the two states?" solution failed because uh the framework was a failure or
00:25:23because the process or the political will behind it was a failure? i think because the
00:25:27framework's a failure, you can you can't have one country divided by another
00:25:31country, and you were either going to have palestine divided in half by Israel, or you're
00:25:35going to have Israel divided in half by palestine. so let me just say can i say one thing about the west
00:25:38bank? because i think it's a whole other topic, i think what's happening
00:25:42in the west bank now, which is Israel is basically
00:25:46killing and and terrorizing locals, palestine.
00:26:02"and more about what they're seeing in the West Bank, and I
00:26:06think the fact that Trump has greenlighted uh
00:26:10Netanyahu building all these settlements is horrible and is making
00:26:14matters worse, it's going to make it the ability to deliver, I think
00:26:18that I think it, I'm sorry, I think that's a drop a bucket, I think that the biggest
00:26:21change has been the way Israel's prosecution of its
00:26:24defense after it was attacked by Hamas was covered,
00:26:28um, the Palestinians said genocide, and the New York Times said, okay,
00:26:32UN commission also concluded it was genocide
00:26:36and it doesn't what it's talking
00:26:39about and it's useless. um moving on, I want to know do you think this will continue
00:26:43to be a partisan wedge in US politics uh the
00:26:47Israel palestine conflict? um, you mentioned looking
00:26:51ahead to the 2028 election, we talked about obviously
00:26:55the midterms, do you think this will continue to be a partisan divide? we
00:26:59saw um, we saw recently house democrats. tried
00:27:02to um prevent the weapons
00:27:06and the aid going to Israel, about 100 house democrats more than 100 house
00:27:10democrats, one republican voted to do that, it obviously
00:27:14failed, when can we see the United States stop
00:27:17sending weapons assistance to Israel? I think that the United
00:27:21States is committed to Israel being a Jewish state and being
00:27:25able to defend itself. I i don't, I think that's fairly
00:27:28unshakable, so do I think will we stop?
00:27:32giving them as opposed to selling them weapons, I don't think we're going to see a day where that
00:27:36stops, however they're going to get help, the United Israel is going to get
00:27:40help from the United States, but here's how it's going to play
00:27:44out: if the populist wing in either party, the JD Vance wing in the
00:27:47Republican Party, or the Bernie Sanders Aoc wing in the Republican Party
00:27:51wins the White House after 2028, I think the US relationship
00:27:55with Israel changes fundamentally and perhaps irreparably,
00:27:59um, there's a lot of anti-Israeli sentiment in both. both
00:28:02of those wings of both parties, it it it it's more
00:28:06dominant and sometimes on the right, it's more dominant, sometimes on the left, but it's
00:28:10it's there, and unfortunately it's always going to be there just like it's
00:28:14there in every country around the
00:30:03"there is no end inside to fighting between Saudi Arabia and the
00:30:07Yemen base
00:30:17I Mohammed reporting from the negative in southern Israel where 400
00:30:21residents have been left homeless and 80 homes demolished by Israeli
00:30:25authorities. Amid rising criticism over their
00:30:29actions, US homeland security raids the house of..."
00:30:32Somali-born Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan
00:30:35Omar and Bangladesh prepares
00:30:39to bring its first nuclear power plant into
00:30:42service.
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