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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with David Friedman. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on November 23, 2024.
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Jan Jekielek sits down with David M. Friedman, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel under the Trump administration, one of the main architects of the Abraham Accords, and the author of “One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
David Friedman: “The new administration is now coming in, they can do something very simple, which is start enforcing sanctions against Iran. I mean, Iran doubled its GDP from the end of the Trump administration to now. So if you noticed, when Trump got elected, the Iranian currency dropped precipitously to the lowest in history. So maybe America never has to fire a shot. Maybe America with the combination of enforcing massive sanctions that bankrupt Iran, and with the recognition that Israel can hit Iran anytime anywhere, it brings Iran away from its nuclear activity.”
CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:01:03 – Appointment of New US Ambassador to Israel
0:05:00 – Challenges Facing the New Ambassador
0:05:40 – Accomplishments of the Trump Administration Regarding Israel
0:08:32 – Potential for Saudi Arabia to Join the Abraham Accords
0:09:26 – The Issue of UNRWA
Amb. Friedman about the two-state solution: “Why don’t we just split? You know, they’re having a dispute over land. They split it up. Draw a line, split it up. Everybody gets what they get. And then, you know, it’s not what the conflict is about. Palestinians, you know, do not want to live peacefully, in a state side by side with Israel. The Palestinian movement, from the day it was, it was created, is a movement to destroy the State of Israel. It’s not a two state solution. It’s really their one state solution. When you hear everybody yelling on college campuses, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. That is the Palestinian goal. From the Jordan river to the sea, which means extinguishing the State of Israel, replace it with Palestine. I think that people don’t want to confront that unpleasant reality, because once you confront it and you got to deal with it, well, makes it much harder, right? You lose your convenience. Nobody has managed to construct a two state solution that doesn’t, that won’t be an existential threat to the State of Israel.”
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