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TRUMP
TRUMP ON GAZA!
Times Radio: Trump could be arrested over Gaza plan
Original article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki84pjUrsas
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
None of Trump's 'big ideas' appeal to me! Really not a surprise!
But many of Trump's ideas are more than bad ideas in themselves, they are part of a broader Trump mindset which is nothing more than 'disruption' to benefit Trump the disrupter in chief.
This is the last thing the world needs ... even though ot may be 'good for Trump, it is really bad for everyone else!
Trump was a 'spolt brat' when he was growing up, and he has been 'spoiled' all his adult life.
I ran into Trump myself when I visited a Trump casino that had recently been opened in Atlantic City. It subsequently failed and hundreds of contractors were never paid. These contractors went into bankruptcy and even though different parts of the Trump corporate structure went bankrupt, Trump himself gained in wealth. This makes no economic sense, but it is amazing what powerful people can do toe game the law to their benefit. At this, Trump is a master!
Fast forward from the 1990s aabout 30 years to the second Trump Presidency, and it looks like being the 'same old ... same old Trump' where everyone becomes a loser with the exception of Trump himself.
Peter Burgess
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Trump could be arrested over Gaza plan
Times Radio
Feb 5, 2025
1.18M subscribers ... 189,227 views ... 8.3K likes
“Ethnic cleansing of the population in Gaza is tantamount to a crime against humanity.”
Trump’s plans to relocate Palestinians from Gaza could lead to an arrest warrant by the ICC, says Scott Lucas, from UCD Dublin’s Clinton Institute.
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Transcript
- 0:00
- what you saw in Washington was one man
- who was already under an arrest
- 0:06
- warrant from the international criminal
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- court Benjamin
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- Netanyahu and another man who
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- effectively put himself in the position
- 0:15
- although it won't
- 0:17
- happen facing an arrest warrant Donald
- 0:20
- Trump so Scott Trump has delayed tariffs
- 0:24
- on Mexico and Canada why do you think
- 0:26
- he's done that because Donald Trump
- 0:28
- backed down over his tariff threat that
- 0:31
- every trumpist out there is going to hit
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- your YouTube channel because of that
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- sentence and I know that so I better
- 0:39
- explain what happened here um Trump's
- 0:42
- tactic first of all you know he did it
- 0:45
- as a businessman he did it as a
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- politician and that is he um he tries to
- 0:50
- bully and intimidate and it is it's a
- 0:52
- negotiating tactic I mean that part is
- 0:54
- true so it's not necessarily the case
- 0:56
- that Trump was going to slap 25% tariffs
- 0:58
- on at the end of Canada in Mexico but he
- 1:00
- wants them to make concessions to him so
- 1:04
- he looks like the winner um you know we
- 1:06
- saw that during Trump's first term we
- 1:09
- are seeing it with China as well what is
- 1:12
- interesting is the way that this played
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- out because of the way that countries
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- have learn how you deal with
- 1:17
- Trump so uh we got to the Monday and we
- 1:22
- were facing the deadline was going to
- 1:23
- come in and first of all uh Claudia
- 1:26
- shinell who is the president of Mexico
- 1:30
- and there's an important bit of
- 1:31
- background here when Trump was making
- 1:32
- all his threats about
- 1:34
- migrants oh you know if you don't take
- 1:36
- migrants we're going to slap sanctions
- 1:38
- on you we're going to punish you you
- 1:40
- know we're gonna we're going to come
- 1:42
- after you Shin bound told him last
- 1:44
- November that's not going to work you
- 1:46
- know we're not going to be intimidated
- 1:47
- and he backed off he actually backed off
- 1:49
- of in going after and he went after
- 1:51
- Canada instead anyway shine bound on
- 1:54
- Monday um comes out and having taken a
- 1:58
- very tough stand with her to domc
- 2:00
- population then she and Trump talk on
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- the
- 2:02
- phone now what she does is she doesn't
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- completely go studs up against him right
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- we're not going to have the
- 2:10
- confrontation what she does is she makes
- 2:12
- a token gesture and the token gesture is
- 2:14
- we'll send some National Guard up to the
- 2:17
- border right you know to patrol the
- 2:19
- migrant flows Etc the same thing that
- 2:22
- Mexico did in 2021 at the start of the
- 2:24
- Biden Administration exact same thing
- 2:27
- that took place um but Biden's but sorry
- 2:31
- but Trump has got something shiny now oh
- 2:33
- well they're sending National Guard to
- 2:34
- the border so he can remove the threat
- 2:37
- for 30 days and say look this is what
- 2:40
- I've achieved but the Mex Mexicans
- 2:42
- really made no concessions in terms of
- 2:44
- what's taking place okay then there's
- 2:47
- the Canadians uh and of course Donald
- 2:50
- Trump hates Justin Trudeau he's hated
- 2:51
- him for years but Trudeau gets on the
- 2:54
- phone with him and he says oh okay well
- 2:56
- we are we're devoting I think 1.3
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- billion to border
- 3:00
- security uh we're talking about
- 3:02
- Personnel we're talking about technology
- 3:04
- advanced technology uh and I'm going to
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- name a fenel
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- are now that's kind of meaningless only
- 3:12
- 19 kilograms of fenel crossed from
- 3:14
- Canada to the US in 2024 but the word
- 3:18
- fenel are this goes back to the 1980s
- 3:20
- drugs are and the radio reg
- 3:22
- Administration oh that's an really
- 3:24
- important position and Trump goes out
- 3:26
- and says look big victory the Canadians
- 3:29
- had announced all of the steps except
- 3:31
- for the fenals are they had announced
- 3:33
- everything else on border security on
- 3:35
- December
- 3:35
- 17th they'd already made the commitments
- 3:39
- so yeah what you had was you had a bit
- 3:41
- of theater Trump was trying to act tough
- 3:44
- he was trying to get some concessions
- 3:46
- and buly and Canada and Mexico stood
- 3:48
- their ground do you think part of it as
- 3:50
- well was that he was a bit spooked by
- 3:52
- the global markets and their reaction
- 3:55
- like he doesn't he's a man that doesn't
- 3:57
- like to be um he doesn't like to be
- 4:00
- unpopular you know and and that kind of
- 4:03
- changed things a bit I I think there
- 4:05
- were multiple things that came into play
- 4:06
- on that Monday which is interesting and
- 4:08
- and of course Everybody is watching the
- 4:12
- markets and of course the markets start
- 4:14
- on Sunday American time it started in
- 4:16
- Asia because of the threat on tariffs on
- 4:19
- China as well and I think the Nik in
- 4:21
- Japan was down 2% South Korean index was
- 4:23
- down to around about two um so you could
- 4:26
- just see the wave of the markets you can
- 4:28
- see Europe where the market Market
- 4:29
- changes take place and then you watch
- 4:31
- the US markets it wasn't just that the
- 4:34
- US markets were down
- 4:36
- 2% technology stocks took a big hit on
- 4:39
- Monday because the idea being if there's
- 4:42
- going to be a big us China scrap if it's
- 4:44
- going to be affecting raw materials as
- 4:46
- well from other parts technology is
- 4:48
- going to be affected uh and of course
- 4:52
- technology stocks are what has been
- 4:54
- driving the US Stock Market for several
- 4:56
- years and of course Elon Musk the
- 4:59
- unelected co-president of the United
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- States has uh a big investment in Tesla
- 5:06
- which is part of those big seven The
- 5:08
- Magnificent Seven of stocks that we're
- 5:09
- talking about so yeah I think the
- 5:11
- markets had a play in it um and I think
- 5:15
- I'm not sure Trump always looks at
- 5:17
- headlines on markets but his advisers
- 5:19
- also would have looked at what's behind
- 5:20
- the headlines on markets which is in
- 5:22
- terms of how the financial sector is
- 5:23
- reacting and JP Morgan came out and said
- 5:28
- this Administration is not business
- 5:30
- friendly that's a pretty big warning
- 5:33
- shot that's fired from where in
- 5:35
- America's biggest financial institutions
- 5:37
- so I think all of this was in play there
- 5:40
- U and so what Trump does of course is he
- 5:42
- kicks the can down the road for 30 days
- 5:44
- because he can't back out completely you
- 5:46
- can't say oh that's it I'm not going to
- 5:47
- impose tariffs at all U what we now have
- 5:50
- to see is over the next 30 days you know
- 5:53
- are we going to have serious trade talks
- 5:55
- what shape do they take place are they
- 5:57
- overtaken by Trump going off on another
- 5:59
- thought bubble um which means that even
- 6:02
- though we're out of the immediate Woods
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- on terms of what would have affected not
- 6:06
- just Canada Mexico it would have
- 6:08
- affected Europe it would have affected
- 6:09
- the UK um we still have the uncertainty
- 6:13
- we still have the business investment
- 6:14
- uncertainty you know over whether
- 6:17
- something's going to happen in the next
- 6:18
- month it's going to bring us back to
- 6:19
- again another throw of Confrontation uh
- 6:22
- which is you know in a lose lose
- 6:24
- situation because no one wins in the
- 6:26
- Tariff wall That's the headline I mean
- 6:28
- now we have the tariffs uh with China
- 6:31
- and this kind of looming threat of a
- 6:34
- full-on trade War do you think that he
- 6:36
- would Backtrack on that as well I mean I
- 6:40
- think people a lot of people would have
- 6:42
- thought that maybe having Elon Musk it
- 6:44
- you know kind of adjacent to the White
- 6:47
- House or in the white house whatever you
- 6:48
- want to call it maybe one positive part
- 6:51
- of it would be that he does have these
- 6:54
- you know links with China and his work
- 6:55
- with Tesla that he might have been able
- 6:57
- to help those relationships and behind
- 7:00
- Trump at the inauguration was all of
- 7:02
- these Tech bosses and they're kind of
- 7:04
- the most impacted by the tariffs you
- 7:06
- kind of would have thought that they
- 7:07
- might have been in his ear a little bit
- 7:09
- more saying like this isn't going to
- 7:10
- work well TR Trump had already stepped
- 7:13
- back a bit even on the China tariff line
- 7:16
- because remember he was talking about
- 7:17
- 60% during the campaign you know and in
- 7:19
- the end he goes with 10 that's still
- 7:21
- significant I mean that's still given
- 7:24
- the size of uh the US China trading
- 7:27
- relationship you know it's you talk
- 7:28
- about many bli ions of dollars that
- 7:30
- could be affected but China would have
- 7:33
- been preparing for this and so what was
- 7:35
- interesting is that China within minutes
- 7:37
- comes back out and says all right we're
- 7:40
- going to retaliate uh on American
- 7:43
- Vehicles we're going to retaliate on
- 7:45
- other American sectors they slapped two
- 7:47
- American companies on their bad on their
- 7:49
- naughty list um but what was interesting
- 7:52
- out of all that is is that the one
- 7:54
- company they then said they're going to
- 7:56
- investigate um was uh Google now of
- 8:00
- course Google's arrival to Elon Musk in
- 8:04
- the it sector so China's playing it both
- 8:07
- ways in that uh they they're going to
- 8:09
- say we're not going to be pushed around
- 8:11
- but they're leaving the door open for
- 8:12
- Maneuvers as well and of course
- 8:14
- everybody started flagging out the fact
- 8:15
- that Trump's gonna talk to Xian ping and
- 8:17
- and Trump loves xan ping Trump trump
- 8:20
- wants to be an autocrat like Xian ping
- 8:21
- so that kind of comes into the play with
- 8:23
- it here and once again we're going to
- 8:26
- get into an idea of what happens in the
- 8:27
- next 30 days which was exactly what
- 8:29
- happened during Trump first ter is that
- 8:32
- he would come out and impose tariffs in
- 8:33
- this case by social media just you know
- 8:36
- an announcement and then everybody would
- 8:38
- start to calibrate and bring it on now
- 8:41
- China's biggest challenge right now is
- 8:42
- internal Cheng's got China's got big
- 8:44
- internal issues economically we've known
- 8:47
- that for years uh the terrs don't help
- 8:49
- that but they're they're not like a
- 8:52
- breaking point so China will assess
- 8:55
- they'll make their play but I think the
- 8:57
- interesting thing to watch is that that
- 9:00
- China will not just maneuver with the US
- 9:02
- they'll maneuver with other countries so
- 9:04
- their play with other countries is going
- 9:05
- to be the US is not a reliable trading
- 9:08
- partner you see what they have done to
- 9:11
- their allies and of course Trump is
- 9:13
- threatening tariffs on the EU as well
- 9:15
- don't you think you should be looking to
- 9:16
- us for a stable trading relationship so
- 9:19
- there's multiple pieces that Beijing are
- 9:21
- going to be looking at um where Trump's
- 9:24
- focus is going to be I don't know
- 9:26
- because you know the other thing about
- 9:28
- this is we should be talk about these
- 9:29
- tffs but Trump's got a relatively short
- 9:32
- attention span and he jumps off onto
- 9:35
- other issues so on Monday we were
- 9:37
- talking tariffs you know here I am
- 9:40
- talking to you on a Wednesday and the
- 9:43
- big story is his his uh ethnic cleansing
- 9:46
- of Gaza you know his whis bank proposal
- 9:49
- so you know whether he spends the next
- 9:51
- few days thinking about Israel Gaza or
- 9:53
- whether he gets back onto tariffs or
- 9:55
- whether he gets back onto something else
- 9:57
- for example completely breaking the US
- 9:59
- government with an administrative coup
- 10:02
- you know there's no I can't give you a
- 10:04
- coherent read on where tariffs are going
- 10:06
- to go at this point because there is a
- 10:08
- coherence around Trump and around the
- 10:10
- administration just before we go on to
- 10:12
- Gaza I just wanted to ask the last thing
- 10:14
- on tariffs is this not just completely
- 10:18
- playing into xiin Ping's hands into his
- 10:21
- Playbook I mean you know now he gets to
- 10:24
- turn around and go to bodies like bricks
- 10:27
- and um you exactly what you said you
- 10:30
- know go and trade with other bodies it
- 10:33
- means the countries even like the UK
- 10:35
- might feel like they have to trade with
- 10:37
- you know um other B surely it's just
- 10:40
- going to have a quite a detrimental
- 10:42
- impact on the US which last time it had
- 10:44
- a really big impact on the agricultural
- 10:47
- sector we're seeing things like you know
- 10:49
- already USPS they're not delivering some
- 10:52
- parcels coming from China and Hong Kong
- 10:55
- you're going to look China is going to
- 10:58
- play this in in multiple ways I mean the
- 11:00
- first thing is going to be that um even
- 11:02
- though the tariffs are more limited now
- 11:04
- that they just simply on China rather
- 11:06
- than Canada and Mexico it's still going
- 11:07
- to be an inflation Spike you know
- 11:09
- because you just SLA 10% increased on
- 11:11
- cost on everything you're on on
- 11:13
- everything you're bringing in um when
- 11:16
- inflation goes up well that gives you
- 11:19
- less room to cut interest rates which is
- 11:20
- what the Federal Reserve had been
- 11:22
- planning to do in
- 11:23
- 20125 when you don't cut interest rates
- 11:26
- uh then the stock market will uh not
- 11:29
- bounc that will tick off Trump even more
- 11:32
- and what you're going to have is these
- 11:34
- series of economic effects that are
- 11:35
- going to absolutely undo his rhetoric
- 11:37
- you know during the campaign I'll make
- 11:39
- America great again economically um
- 11:41
- which we fully expected that this would
- 11:43
- happen you know that economically things
- 11:45
- would fall apart but tffs aren't going
- 11:47
- to help it and China's going to play
- 11:49
- upon that right because China's going to
- 11:50
- play upon it to distract from their own
- 11:52
- economic issues look at what's happening
- 11:54
- in America but then you're absolutely
- 11:56
- right that that if you play this longer
- 11:58
- term um China which is develop you know
- 12:01
- has its own alternative economic system
- 12:03
- it's got alternative currency it's got
- 12:05
- alternative trading relationships
- 12:06
- alternative Financial relationships but
- 12:08
- it will go into other countries and make
- 12:10
- the play which is you know you're you're
- 12:13
- Western Le you're us-led economic system
- 12:15
- this just isn't stable now um which
- 12:18
- takes place and also they'll do it in
- 12:20
- terms of what we call soft power they'll
- 12:22
- do it in terms of look you know who who
- 12:25
- who Who's the adult in the room here you
- 12:27
- know is it Trump or is it us
- 12:29
- you know and and when it comes to
- 12:31
- diplomacy they're going to build upon
- 12:33
- that and China's also going to be able
- 12:35
- to play upon other things that are going
- 12:36
- to take place for example the complete
- 12:38
- disorder now in the US government with
- 12:41
- the entire agencies being shut down with
- 12:43
- other agencies being paralyzed with
- 12:45
- certain services that are going to be
- 12:46
- crippled uh already being crippled
- 12:48
- whether you're talking about health care
- 12:50
- whether you're talking about uh
- 12:52
- providing basic payments regarding
- 12:53
- transport whether you're talking about
- 12:56
- education you know and Chinese media is
- 13:00
- already having to feeli day with the
- 13:01
- fact that Elon Musk is just tearing
- 13:04
- through the US government like an
- 13:06
- autocrat um and expect more of that to
- 13:08
- come because I don't see musk backing
- 13:10
- down and because Trump simply does not
- 13:14
- know does not know how to to to work off
- 13:18
- of a win-win basis if you want to put it
- 13:20
- this way he always works off a win- lose
- 13:22
- basis and China's going to turn that
- 13:24
- against him so moving on to the
- 13:26
- situation in Gaza um Trump Trump met
- 13:29
- with Benin Netanyahu he laid out his
- 13:32
- plans for the Middle East and he said
- 13:33
- that he wants to take over Gaza and
- 13:37
- relocate Palestinians what was your
- 13:39
- reaction to that press conference that's
- 13:42
- horrific oh yeah let me just speak as a
- 13:44
- human being not as an analyst here 2.3
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- million
- 13:48
- people live in
- 13:51
- Gaza um after hamas's Mass killing of
- 13:54
- Israel they have endured 15 months of
- 13:57
- mass killing
- 14:00
- of their population by Israelis and
- 14:03
- we're getting close to 50,000 who have
- 14:04
- been killed in Gaza since then 90%
- 14:09
- almost 90% of the population has been
- 14:11
- displaced they've been thrown out of
- 14:12
- their homes some of them are now trying
- 14:15
- to return to their homes during phase
- 14:16
- one of the ceasefire but a lot of them
- 14:19
- were returning to Rubble Health Services
- 14:22
- absolutely decimated schools torn apart
- 14:26
- there's no functioning economy which is
- 14:28
- there now so you have had a population
- 14:31
- which has gone through this suffering
- 14:33
- and then rather than saying we're going
- 14:36
- to try to continue the ceasefire and
- 14:38
- we're going to lay out a plan for
- 14:40
- Recovery to help those in this
- 14:43
- population which by the way would be a
- 14:45
- good tactic to separate those people
- 14:46
- from Hamas what you say here is they
- 14:50
- have to leave not that they want to
- 14:52
- leave not that they're choosing to leave
- 14:55
- they have to leave and they have to go
- 14:59
- where Egypt which is said it doesn't
- 15:02
- want them Jordan which says it doesn't
- 15:05
- want them another unspecified
- 15:09
- country the Gulf States would say they
- 15:12
- don't want them nobody wants to be
- 15:15
- responsible for the ethnic cleansing of
- 15:19
- Gaza of all gazans and this is what it
- 15:22
- is it is ethnic
- 15:25
- cleansing it should be called out for
- 15:27
- this and I'm just going to put in a
- 15:30
- historical reminder as to why which
- 15:32
- hasn't really been mentioned by folks a
- 15:35
- lot of the current issues we deal with
- 15:36
- in
- 15:37
- 2025 which surrounds Israel and
- 15:40
- Palestinians go back to
- 15:42
- 1948 and the creation of the state of
- 15:44
- Israel because during that Israel era of
- 15:48
- War hundreds of thousands of
- 15:51
- Palestinians were displaced lost their
- 15:56
- homes I think the it's total around
- 15:58
- about 5 to six million descendants of
- 16:00
- those refugees effectively still are
- 16:02
- stateless in various countries around
- 16:04
- the Middle East it's called the
- 16:06
- Naka nobody wants a second Noba in the
- 16:10
- region nobody except maybe some in
- 16:13
- Benjamin netanyahu's cabinet and what
- 16:15
- Donald Trump has done is he has
- 16:18
- effectively not just sanctioned e
- 16:20
- cleansing he's leading from the front
- 16:22
- including up to the point of using US
- 16:24
- troops to enforce it and that's what's
- 16:27
- happened but what
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- is serious in terms of the immediate
- 16:32
- seriousness is is the effects that this
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- has uh there will be no phase two of the
- 16:40
- Israel Gaza
- 16:42
- ceasefire now it was already going to be
- 16:45
- difficult because phase one ends in
- 16:47
- three weeks and at that point phase two
- 16:49
- is supposed to be a full Israeli
- 16:52
- withdrawal and talking about who's then
- 16:55
- going to govern
- 16:57
- Gaza now is Israel and the US don't want
- 17:00
- Hamas to govern Gaza uh Hamas would like
- 17:03
- to govern in fact they want to govern
- 17:05
- Gaza but if you don't have a m there
- 17:07
- someone else has to govern it right now
- 17:10
- when you
- 17:12
- say we are going to ethnically cleanse
- 17:15
- gazin of all gazin there will be no Gaza
- 17:18
- government
- 17:19
- none that means no pay to ceasefire and
- 17:22
- you have only two options at that point
- 17:25
- you either have and they two May coexist
- 17:27
- for a while you either have Return To
- 17:30
- War open-ended Israeli attacks Andor you
- 17:34
- have a indefinite military occupation by
- 17:39
- the Israelis and possibly if Trump has
- 17:42
- his way by the
- 17:44
- Americans that's where you are um and it
- 17:48
- you know the the the talks for phase two
- 17:51
- were restarting in Doha and Trump has
- 17:53
- completely swept that aside even if
- 17:55
- Benjamin
- 17:57
- Netanyahu who was under pressure not to
- 17:59
- go into phase one by the hard right
- 18:01
- ministers in his cabinet even if he
- 18:04
- didn't wanted to have a phase two and I
- 18:06
- don't think he does but even if he
- 18:07
- wanted to have a phase two he can't do
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- it now he can't do it now because the
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- Finance Minister Mr
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- smrd supports the ethnic cleansing of
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- Gaza the former national security
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- minister Mr Ben havir who left the
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- cabinet because he objected to phase one
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- but he still supports the government he
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- came out and it said Trump's statement
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- is absolutely right this is the way we
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- have to
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- go
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- even Benny gamps who resigned from
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- netanyahu's cabinet last May because he
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- didn't agree with the open-ended Waring
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- G he said well Trump is Trump's idea is
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- original and
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- creative Netanyahu has no space to
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- pursue a phase two now and again I don't
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- think he would have but he has no space
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- so you will see the end to to this
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- ceasefire in a few weeks and at that
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- point Donald Trump who was supposedly
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- Remember The Peacemaker because the
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- rhetoric was he helped bring about phase
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- one he is all in on the side of the
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- Israelis to do whatever needs to be
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- done to get rid of all
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- Gins I'm going to say this point blank
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- and look you're out on YouTube and you
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- can decide whether or not to put it in
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- or not and so
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- on we have lived with the
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- experience going back to the 20th
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- century and even before
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- that of ethnic cleansing of other groups
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- we've had ethnic cleansing of Armenians
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- in World War I in Turkey we've had
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- ethnic cleansing of groups in Eastern
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- Europe that took
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- place we had ethnic cleansing of Jewish
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- people which took place
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- part of the reason why the state of
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- Israel was created was because of the
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- ethnic cleansing of Jewish
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- people in 2025 having seen that
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- experience of ethnic cleansing which by
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- the way took place in the Balkans in the
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- 1990s as well in 2025 for any politician
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- to be talking about ethnic cleansing
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- given the experience of different
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- religious groups different ethnic groups
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- in the
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- past should be called out as being
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- against
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- all principles of
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- morality and against all international
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- law and it is tantamount to supporting
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- crimes against humanity I'm going to
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- repeat ethnic cleansing of the
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- population of Gaza is tantamount to a
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- crime against humanity which means that
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- in effect what you saw in Washington was
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- one man who was already under an arrest
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- warrant from the international criminal
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- court Benjamin
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- Netanyahu and another man who
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- effectively put himself in the position
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- although it won't happen of facing an
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- arrest warrant Donald Trump I appreciate
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- your um we're running out of time a
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- little bit so I just want to ask you
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- just a bit just a question on kind of
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- Trump's decision making on this axio
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- reported that
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- you know not only did this send shock
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- waves through the Middle East and
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- through the world but in the White House
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- himself itself he kind of came up with
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- this himself apparently he didn't speak
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- to many people in the white house before
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- this a lot of members of the GOP didn't
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- know until we were told and everyone was
- 21:45
- a little bit confused by it and upon
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- Trump running for office there was this
- 21:51
- idea that Trump was going to be quite
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- isolationist you know back out of
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- Ukraine back out of all of these
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- conflicts and now you know it's another
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- place that he wants to lay claim to on
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- top of the Panama Canal on top of
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- Greenland on top of
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- Canada and so we're almost seeing these
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- kind of Imperial Ambitions from someone
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- that we thought was quite isolationist I
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- mean what do you think is kind of what
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- do you think is behind this decision
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- making in
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- uh it when uh Trump was negotiating with
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- Kim jongo in North Korea uh he said oh
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- North Korea has got it's got some prime
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- Coastland some prime Coastland for
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- development his son-in-law Jared Kushner
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- who was part of the first Trump
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- Administration said that uh Gaza Gaza
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- has gotten incredible waterfront
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- property for
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- development Donald Trump in his press
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- conference yesterday talked about the
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- potential of Gaza
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- for uh
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- Resorts where people from all countries
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- could come to he simply was talking as a
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- businessman to depopulate the
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- area and rebuild it not for Gins but for
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- people with a lot of money to come that
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- is exactly what took place and I'm sorry
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- I'm not buying this if you're in the
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- Trump Administration you know that
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- Donald Trump has talked like this he's
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- been talking like
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- this if you hadn't gone back years he's
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- been talking about it ever since the
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- inauguration I can go back and give you
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- a statement on January 23d where he said
- 23:29
- the same thing so now I don't know
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- whether the Trump Administration people
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- just simply won't put a leash on him or
- 23:37
- whether they simply think oh well he can
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- say that you know it's not really going
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- to matter that much the point here is is
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- that there will be some people in the
- 23:45
- media that will just pretend it's all
- 23:46
- normal it's just Trump speaking off the
- 23:48
- cuff and so you know no big deal now a
- 23:52
- lot of us in the media aren't thank God
- 23:54
- and talk about how serious it is but I
- 23:56
- want to see today all right which
- 23:58
- Republicans are going to speak out
- 23:59
- against
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- this nobody would in the white house
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- will of course because then Trump would
- 24:04
- fire them is Elon Musk and call him out
- 24:06
- on X I doubt it you know so who's going
- 24:10
- to stand up who's going to have the
- 24:11
- bottle to come up and say not only does
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- the emperor have no clothes the emperor
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- is a convicted felon who is
- 24:18
- destructive who has no regard for human
- 24:22
- life and whose ideas are repugnant who's
- 24:26
- going to do that you know and and who in
- 24:28
- the Republican party if they say that is
- 24:31
- going to be able to stay in the
- 24:32
- Republican party that's where we are
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