Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone. Uh, Secretary of State [00:02] Marco Rubio gave an interview a couple [00:04] of days ago to Matt Bole. Matt Bole is [00:08] the Washington bureau chief of Breitbart [00:11] News and of course they talked about [00:12] foreign affairs, foreign policy. And [00:15] there was a section of the interview [00:16] towards the end of it where they dealt [00:18] with the Middle East and in particularly [00:20] they dealt with the war in Iran. And I'm [00:23] going to play you two clips. I'm going [00:25] to play you that whole section of the [00:26] interview in two in two uh pieces. [00:29] Because in this in these clips, Marco [00:33] Rubio talks about some of the larger [00:36] strategic issues uh of of what this Iran [00:40] war is about. And he brings up some [00:42] aspects of it that we don't talk about [00:43] often enough. And he also in talking [00:46] about the overall vision for the Middle [00:48] East, he says some things that are very [00:50] important and I want to share them with [00:51] you. I want to drill down on them and [00:53] give you my take. You know, we spend a [00:55] lot of time talking about the headlines [00:56] and the breaking news of the day and [00:58] what's happening next, but it's very [01:00] important uh to have a clear [01:02] understanding of things to also take [01:04] time every now and then to talk about [01:05] the larger strategic questions. Uh and [01:08] uh and that's what was so good about [01:10] this interview. So that's why I wanted [01:11] to make this video. So let's take a look [01:14] at clip one. Here we go. [01:16] >> Okay. So I want to talk about Iran now. [01:18] So uh the with regard to the war in [01:21] Iran, I think people uh around the [01:23] country ahead of this midterm election, [01:25] they want to see this thing wrapped up. [01:27] Uh at the same time, it does look like [01:29] the president has achieved the original [01:32] military objective, which is that Iran [01:33] will never have a nuclear weapon. Uh [01:36] address both of those points for us. How [01:38] do we end this thing is similar type of [01:40] a thing to the I think people want to [01:42] see the wars over. How do we end this [01:43] thing? But also, uh what have we [01:45] accomplished there so far? Well, it's [01:46] important to remind people why this [01:47] started in the first place. Iran wanted [01:50] to build a conventional shield of tens [01:52] and tens of thousands of missiles and [01:53] drones that once they got to that point, [01:55] they would be able to say to the world, [01:57] "Guys, we're now going to build a [01:58] nuclear weapon and there's nothing you [01:59] can do about it because we have many so [02:01] many drones and so many missiles that we [02:03] will destroy the entire region. So, you [02:05] can't touch us. We are immune." The [02:07] president was not going to allow them to [02:09] build a nuclear weapon hiding behind the [02:11] conventional weapons shield that they [02:12] were trying to achieve. So, he destroyed [02:14] their navy. He destroyed their air [02:16] force. He destroyed their factories that [02:18] make the missiles. Now they still have [02:19] them, but they can't make as many as [02:21] they used to. Far less able to make the [02:23] way they used because he's destroyed [02:24] their factories for drones and missiles. [02:26] They don't have an air force. They don't [02:27] have a navy. And they've lost a lot of [02:29] air defenses as well. The large portions [02:31] of their country are deeply vulnerable [02:33] to future strikes if necessary. So he's [02:35] achieved that objective. They can no [02:37] longer hide behind a conventional shield [02:38] to build a nuclear weapon. The second [02:40] objective is they chose to take the [02:43] straits hostage. They would have done it [02:44] anyway. Imagine if Iran had a nuclear [02:46] weapon. At that point, they could say, [02:47] "And by the way, we own the Straits of [02:49] Hormuz, and you guys can't do anything [02:51] about it because we won't just hit [02:52] ships. We'll use a nuclear weapon [02:54] against you if you try to do anything [02:55] about it." They are trying to control [02:57] the Straits of Hormuz. They lost control [02:59] of the Straits. Today, on average, over [03:02] the last, you know, 10 days and [03:03] certainly over the last 6:30, about 13 [03:05] to 14 million barrels of oil are going [03:08] through the straits of Hormuz out to the [03:09] global market. And some days, it's [03:11] actually equivalent to what it was [03:12] pre-conlict. and the US military is [03:15] involved in escorting and defending [03:18] these ships from these strikes. Iran is [03:19] still shooting at these, but by and [03:21] large, we've been able to get that flow [03:23] going. Um, and and at the same time, [03:26] because Iran continues to fire at these [03:28] ships, we have imposed crippling [03:30] additional sanctions that Scott Besson's [03:32] doing a great job on and a blockade. The [03:35] only country in the world that cannot [03:36] get a single barrel of oil through the [03:38] straits of Hormuz is Iran. They're the [03:41] only ones and we're inflicting [03:42] tremendous pain on them. In addition, [03:44] these sanctions are costing them money, [03:46] which means that's money they don't [03:48] have. Every dollar you deny them in [03:50] sanctions is a dollar they don't have [03:52] for Hezbollah, a dollar they don't have [03:54] for Hamas, a dollar they don't have for [03:55] the terrorist militias inside of Iraq, [03:58] and a dollar they don't have for their [03:59] own military or their own nuclear [04:01] ambitions. So, you know, I I understand [04:03] people's frustration because we all want [04:05] it to be wrapped up. In some ways, it [04:07] is. And right now we are basically in a [04:09] straight of Hormuz's defense posture and [04:11] doing an excellent job of crippling [04:13] their economy in the process. [04:14] >> There's a lot in this clip. There's a [04:17] lot in it. Let's start with the [04:19] beginning of the of what happened here. [04:21] So Matt asks him, he says, you know, it [04:23] seems that we've already accomplished [04:25] the main objective, which is to make [04:27] sure that Iran can never have a nuclear [04:29] weapon. [04:30] Uh what what will we take to wrap this [04:32] up? And Rubio immediately pivoted to the [04:34] ballistic missiles. That was he started [04:36] talking right away about the ballistic [04:39] missiles. Now, I want to go back to the [04:41] day the war started. The day the war [04:43] started, Trump gave an eight-minute [04:44] speech where he uh on February 28th, he [04:47] stood up at the mics and he announced [04:49] that the war had begun. He was wearing a [04:50] white baseball cap, uh a white MAGA hat [04:53] at the time, and he laid out four [04:55] military objectives. [04:58] It's very clear, four military [04:59] objectives. destroy their navy, destroy [05:01] their ballistic missile program, [05:04] uh destroy their nuclear program or make [05:06] or ensure that they can ever have a [05:07] nuclear weapon and finally destroy their [05:10] ability to fund and activate their [05:13] proxies across the region. That was that [05:15] those were the four military objectives [05:17] that were stated there. The straightfor [05:18] came upon later once the war started and [05:21] Iran then uh started attacking shipping [05:23] in the straight of horm closed the [05:24] straits. uh that was when straight in [05:26] for moose came came on board and in this [05:29] clip uh Rubio touches on all of those on [05:33] all of those objectives. But the key [05:35] point here, and I've said that, we [05:37] talked about this at the beginning of [05:38] the war and it came up a few times, but [05:40] we have to always remember whenever we [05:42] talk about, oh, Iran can't have a [05:43] nuclear weapon, the ballistic missile [05:45] program of Iran is equally important [05:50] because if they have a comprehensive [05:52] ballistic missile program, as Rubio [05:55] said, if they have this shield, that's [05:57] why the ballistic missiles is just as [05:58] important as the nuclear. if they have a [06:00] ballistic missile shield that they can't [06:03] and then we can't deal with the nuclear [06:05] program then they could build the [06:06] nuclear program with impunity. Okay, so [06:08] the ballistic missiles are are so [06:09] critical. So he he brought up that point [06:13] but then look at how he dealt with the [06:14] straight of Hormuz. I thought that this [06:16] was fascinating. He was saying look [06:19] now that we know how Iran views the [06:20] straight of Hormuz [06:22] and this this by the way became very [06:24] clear in all the in all of the talk [06:26] around the memorandum of understanding. [06:28] Remember one of the big flaws, maybe the [06:30] biggest flaw, well there were a lot of [06:31] flaws. One of one of the biggest flaws [06:33] in theou the Islamabadou that died a [06:36] very quick death was that it it [06:39] basically conceded that Iran has control [06:43] over the straight of Hormuz that Iran is [06:45] a decision maker in the straight of [06:46] Hormuz when it's actually an [06:47] international waterway that no one has [06:48] the right to police or charge tolls or [06:50] anything. [06:52] And Iran is adamant that they control [06:54] that the straight of Hormuz is their [06:56] territorial waters that they own it that [06:57] they can control shipping through it. [06:59] They're adamant about that. They they [07:00] they maintain that they say that [07:02] publicly every day. [07:05] So look what Rubio's saying. Here's the [07:07] here's the point I wanted to get to. A [07:10] nuclear Iran is not only a problem [07:13] because of the possibility that they [07:15] will use a nuclear weapon, [07:19] right? Because people will argue, hey, [07:21] Pakistan's a Muslim country. They have a [07:23] nuclear weapon. North Korea is a they're [07:26] bad actors. They have a nuclear weapon. [07:28] Russia is no no picnic. They have a [07:30] nuclear weapon. Why are we so adamant [07:32] that Iran is such a danger if they get a [07:34] nuclear weapon? Well, because so there's [07:36] a few reasons. Number one, the one we [07:38] always talk about is that they'll [07:39] they'll actually use it. Trump says it [07:40] all the time. They'll use it because [07:41] they're actually 12 or Shiite Muslims [07:44] who believe that it is their religious [07:45] duty to bring the apocalypse, to bring [07:47] the world to the brink of chaos. And [07:49] that that will and that that will summon [07:52] the the madi their messiah figure. So [07:55] and the fact that they chant death to [07:57] America, death to Israel like like North [07:59] Korea does not have as its daily chant [08:03] at morning prayers and you know as their [08:06] slogan and as their chief policy the [08:09] destruction of any nation. He's I mean [08:11] they're evil. Uh Kim Jong-un is an evil [08:15] guy and what he does to his people and [08:16] what he does to Christians is evil. He's [08:18] a bad actor. [08:20] But his purpose, he doesn't state as his [08:23] as his defining purpose the destruction [08:25] of America or the destruction of Israel, [08:27] destruction of any nation, the [08:28] destruction of South Korea or or or [08:30] whoever. [08:32] Russia is the same. You're talking about [08:35] a n so when you're talking about Iran [08:36] like Ayatollah, the Ayatollah Kamayi [08:39] used to say, and this was a line, this [08:41] is an exact quote, death to America is [08:44] not a slogan, it is a policy. meaning [08:47] that so of course they can't have a [08:48] nuclear weapon. So that's what we always [08:50] focus on. But Rubio is bringing up [08:52] something else that's very interesting [08:53] now that we see how they view the [08:55] straight of Hormuz. [08:57] If they had a nuclear weapon or even a [09:00] ballistic a very comprehensive ballistic [09:02] missile program as comprehensive as they [09:04] were building they could close the [09:06] straight of Hormuz at some point and [09:08] just declare ownership of it and there's [09:10] nothing anyone could do about it. [09:13] It's very interesting. It's a very [09:15] interesting uh argument there. He also [09:16] of course dealt with the proxy issue. He [09:18] said listen this this economic blockade [09:21] is making it so that they can't fund [09:22] their proxies. So we've dealt with the [09:25] proxy issue to a certain extent. Now the [09:27] regime hasn't fallen. The proxies are [09:28] still active. The Houthis are very [09:29] active. Is still there. Hamas is still [09:32] there. But when he said in some ways [09:35] this war is already over because of the [09:37] economic strangle hold what he meant is [09:41] let me put it this way. Let's say [09:44] there's never any more kinetic attacks [09:46] by America against Iran. Let's say we [09:48] never go back to fighting and and [09:51] America just keeps the current situation [09:53] as it is with this strangling strangling [09:56] blockade. [09:59] This isn't a static situation. [10:03] This regime is getting weaker and weaker [10:05] by the day [10:07] and it does prevent them to a great [10:09] extent from all of these problems from [10:12] the nuclear program has been of course [10:15] neutralized largely. The ballistic [10:17] missile program as he said they still [10:19] have some missiles and they're still [10:20] there still have some capability [10:21] probably to manufacture some but [10:23] basically they can't basically it's it's [10:25] been for the most part neutralized. The [10:26] navy's gone and the proxies are also [10:29] being being being starved. [10:32] has they're having a hard time getting [10:34] money and getting weapons to their [10:36] proxies. That was his point there. Very [10:39] interesting uh clip uh in terms of how [10:43] just reminding us reminding ourselves [10:46] recalibrating us reminding us of how [10:49] critical the ballistic missile issue is [10:52] to this whole strategy. It's not just [10:55] about the nuclear. The ballistic [10:56] missiles as a shield for the nuclear are [10:58] equally important. Okay, so that was [11:00] that's clip number one. Wanted to share [11:02] the more interesting clip is the second [11:04] clip where he talks about the Middle [11:05] East in general. Before we get to that, [11:07] uh I just want to uh remind everyone you [11:10] need to sign up for this webinar. You do [11:12] not want to miss this webinar. What did [11:14] I just do here? Let me pull it up. Let [11:17] me pull it up again. There we go. You [11:19] need to sign up for this webinar. Here [11:20] we go. Two elections, two nations, one [11:22] critical moment. The American elections [11:24] and the Israeli elections are happening [11:26] one week apart. Israeli elections are [11:29] next week on Tuesday and then the [11:31] following week we have the American [11:32] elections. How the Israeli and American [11:34] elections could reshape the Middle East. 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I think [13:24] when we look back on what President [13:26] Trump has done both in his first term [13:28] here and in the second term, what you [13:29] guys have been able to do here at the [13:30] State Department, it's going to the [13:32] Middle East looks very different than it [13:34] did before. uh and uh you know the there [13:38] are still major conflicts and different [13:40] things going on in different places but [13:42] the pathway to I mean look peace in the [13:44] Middle East used to be a bumper sticker [13:46] slogan it wasn't a serious thing right [13:48] like now it's like a serious thing we [13:50] have a pathway to real peace in the [13:52] Middle East and prosperity in the region [13:54] uh and that's because of many of the [13:56] changes that President Trump has brought [13:58] uh to uh uh to to the Middle East talk [14:01] to us about that broader vision here uh [14:03] and because I think when we look back on [14:05] on it. It's going to be a really [14:06] historic thing that [14:07] >> Yeah. So, look, I think traditionally [14:09] the American political class thought [14:12] that peace in the Middle East, the core [14:14] central issue is the Palestinian [14:15] question. [14:17] It's an important issue. It's not [14:18] irrelevant. I'm not saying it's [14:19] irrelevant. But I think what President [14:21] Trump has exposed is that the number one [14:23] driver of instability and war and [14:25] conflict and the number one obstacle to [14:27] peace in the Middle East is the Islamic [14:30] regime in Thran. And I think the [14:32] evidence bears it out in Lebanon. Why is [14:35] Lebanon a country that's used as an [14:37] attack point against Israel and other [14:38] interests? Who sponsors Hezbollah? [14:40] Hezbollah is 100% an agent of Iran in [14:43] Iraq. Why does that country still have [14:46] terrorist militias that operate from [14:48] their territory and can launch missiles [14:49] against Saudi Arabia, against Israel? [14:52] Who sponsors them? their Shia militias [14:54] sponsored by Iran, which is the only [14:57] country in the region that has lost [14:58] launched not uh you know simply proxy [15:03] attacks but direct attacks direct [15:05] attacks against Saudi Arabia, the United [15:08] Arab Emirates, uh Bahrain, Kuwait, [15:12] Jordan. I'm probably leaving somebody [15:14] out who's launched the only country in [15:16] the region that's done that Iran direct [15:18] attacks in addition to what their [15:19] proxies has done by the way with the [15:21] Houthis now in Saudi Arabia. Who is the [15:23] number one sponsor of the Houthis? Iran. [15:26] So if you look at all of the things that [15:28] are going on in that region and all the [15:29] the flash points that exist there, they [15:31] all track back to the Islamic Republic [15:33] of Iran to the to the clerical radical [15:36] clerics that run Iran from Thran. [15:39] They're they are the central problem in [15:40] that region. If there was no Islamic [15:43] clerics, these these radical Shia [15:45] clerics in Iran, if they didn't exist, [15:47] if that wasn't there, none of these [15:48] problems would exist. You may still have [15:50] a Palestinian issue. I would argue that [15:52] issue would be easier to deal with if [15:54] Iran didn't exist. So, they're at the [15:55] core of all of these problems. And I [15:56] think correctly identifying who it is [15:58] that's driving instability and war in [16:00] the Middle East is important in order to [16:02] solve it. And that issue has to be [16:04] confronted. And I think what's happened [16:05] over the last few months is it's [16:06] revealed it for the world to see. This [16:08] is amazing. what he he started out his [16:11] answer about the broader vision for the [16:14] Middle East by saying that the [16:17] prevailing wisdom forever basically in [16:20] Washington DC and in the international [16:23] community is that the driver of [16:25] instability in the Middle East, the main [16:27] problem in the Middle East is the [16:29] Palestinian question. [16:31] And he said, and this is, listen [16:34] carefully, he said, President Trump [16:36] exposed the fact that that's not the [16:39] case. He exposed the fact that the [16:41] driver of instability is the Islamic [16:43] Republic of Iran. [16:45] Now, I want to drill down on this. Uh, I [16:48] want to [16:52] hold on a second. [16:55] I want to I want to show you um a [16:58] fascinating [16:59] uh document and this is [17:03] um back in July. [17:07] Back in July, Ambassador, former [17:09] ambassador to Israel, David Freriedman [17:13] gave uh testimony. Okay. And he gave [17:16] testimony to the House Committee on [17:17] Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the [17:19] Middle East and North Africa. The [17:21] hearing was titled, "Building a new [17:23] regional security architecture, the next [17:26] phase of the Abraham Accords." Now, I'm [17:28] not playing you a clip of Ambassador [17:31] Freriedman giving that testimony, even [17:32] though the video of it uh exists online [17:36] because when when testimony is given in [17:39] hearings like this, there's the [17:41] submitted written testimony that goes [17:43] into the record as the official [17:45] testimony and then at the actual [17:47] hearing, they give a shorter kind of [17:50] condensed version of the testimony [17:52] less than what's in the in in writing [17:55] and then they answer questions. Okay. [17:57] So, what I'm sharing with you is from [17:59] the written testimony that Ambassador [18:01] Freriedman, former Ambassador Freriedman [18:03] submitted and that and that's why [18:05] there's no clip of it, but I want to [18:06] share with you just a couple passages in [18:08] his testimony of that day because again, [18:11] this hearing was about the Abraham [18:12] Accords. [18:14] And so, he he lays out right right at [18:17] the beginning, he says, "Some think that [18:18] the Abraham Accords spontaneously arose [18:21] in August 2020 by sheer providence or [18:24] luck. The opposite is true. The seeds [18:26] for the Abraham Accords were planted on [18:28] President Trump's very first foreign [18:30] visit to Riyad, Saudi Arabia in 2017. [18:34] Speaking to nearly 50 Muslim nations, [18:36] President Trump made two things clear. [18:38] The battle against radical Islamism in [18:40] the first instance was theirs to fight. [18:43] And two, the fantasy of Israel's demise [18:46] was completely counterproductive and [18:47] needed to end. In other words, stop with [18:50] the Palestinian issue and stop enabling [18:53] radicalism, radical Islam. Now, [18:57] he goes on following the signing [18:59] ceremony on September 15th, 2020 on the [19:02] south lawn of the White House with [19:05] regard to the first two of the Abraham [19:07] Accords with the United Arab Emirates in [19:09] Baharrain. I asked so following that [19:12] cere following the the signing ceremony [19:14] of the Abraham Accords, he tells a [19:16] little story here. He says, 'I asked the [19:18] foreign minister of the UAE what he saw [19:20] as the greatest benefit of these [19:22] historic agreements. His answer struck [19:24] me as particularly astute. He said, and [19:27] I'm paraphrasing, that the Middle East [19:29] had been beset by radicalism for nearly [19:32] a century, bringing with it enormous [19:34] suffering to the inhabitants of this [19:35] troubled corner of the globe, whether [19:37] Jew, Muslim, or Christian. Critically, [19:39] he said, the Abraham Accords were a [19:41] victory of the moderates over the [19:43] extremists. In his view, which I share, [19:46] the advance the advancement of moderate [19:48] regimes in the Middle East is at the [19:50] core of creating a more peaceful and [19:52] prosperous region. And the driver of all [19:55] the of so much of the radicalism, as [19:57] Rubio laid out, is Iran. If you remove [20:00] all the threats that that Rubio talked [20:02] about, you remove all of the proxies and [20:05] all of the malevolent behavior that Iran [20:08] that Iran is engaged in, what are the [20:10] threats in the Middle East? Saudi Arabia [20:13] is not going to attack anybody. Jordan's [20:14] not going to attack anybody. Syria is [20:16] not about to attack anybody. Who's going [20:18] to attack anybody? Ifah doesn't have a [20:21] background is part of Iran. They're [20:23] gone. [20:24] Lebanon suddenly becomes not a threat to [20:26] anyone. Egypt has its issues, but it's [20:28] not about to attack anyone. They're not [20:30] sending out, you know, terrorist [20:33] militias to other countries to cause [20:35] havoc. The Iraqi militias dry up. [20:37] Suddenly, Iraq becomes a more a more [20:39] manageable, more peaceful place. I mean, [20:41] you just go down the line. But then he [20:44] but then Freeman goes further, and this [20:46] is the most fascinating passage in this [20:48] testimony. [20:51] I'm going to cut it into two pieces [20:52] here. Some have criticized the Abraham [20:55] Accords because they did not resolve the [20:57] Israeli Palestinian conflict. Some go so [21:00] far as to argue [21:03] that the October 7th massacre was [21:05] planned and executed to prevent Saudi [21:07] Arabia from joining the Accords. I don't [21:09] buy any of this. And then he goes on to [21:11] say this. The fact that the Abraham [21:13] Accords did not resolve [21:16] the Israeli Palestinian conflict is a [21:20] feature, not a bug of the deal. Let me [21:23] read that again. The fact that the [21:25] Abraham Accords did not solve the [21:27] Israeli Palestinian conflict is a [21:30] feature, not a bug of the deal. It's not [21:32] a side point. It's part of the point of [21:35] it. The accord sent a clear message to [21:37] the Palestinians that the days in which [21:39] they held the Middle East hostage had [21:42] ended. The Middle East would embark on a [21:44] path of peace, a path to peace and [21:46] prosperity with or without them. And [21:49] they were well advised to think about [21:51] how to create a better future for their [21:54] people. [21:56] Okay, this is [21:58] it's a feature, not a bug, that it did [22:01] not solve the Palestinian issue. See, [22:04] this is this is what Rubio was saying [22:06] there. For so long and for still so much [22:09] of the world, the the mother's milk of [22:12] their foreign policy is the two-state [22:15] solution, the Palestinian issue that has [22:16] to be solved. Look what's going on with [22:18] the UK with Ed Miban, the foreign [22:20] secretary who literally referred to the [22:22] two-state solution as our north star. [22:24] That was the words he used. It is our [22:26] north the two-state solution is our [22:28] north star. That's a quote [22:31] that that [22:33] this holds the Middle East hostage [22:36] because the Palestinian issue, the issue [22:37] of a two-state solution is designed to [22:40] to to perpetuate conflict and it is an [22:45] it is an issue that empowers it empowers [22:48] the extremists. When the Biden [22:50] administration came back into power [22:51] after the first Trump administration, [22:54] when they or came back because it's [22:55] Obama, you know, 3.0, I know when when [22:57] the when Biden came in uh when the Biden [23:00] administration began [23:02] and they re-engaged with Iran rather [23:05] than rather than what Trump had was [23:08] doing in his first term, which was [23:09] crippling sanctions, bringing the regime [23:10] to its knees. And by the way, in the end [23:12] of the in the last couple years of the [23:14] Trump administration, Kamas was very [23:16] quiet. UN was was not getting funding. [23:19] The Iranian regime was on the verge of [23:21] economic collapse because of the Trump [23:22] sanctions at the time. [23:24] The Biden administration comes in, they [23:26] lift all of that. They start negotiating [23:27] with them and they put the Palestinian [23:29] issue back front and center on the [23:31] agenda. That empowers the terrorists and [23:33] makes them feel that they have a shot. [23:35] It suddenly the funding is flowing to [23:37] them. Iran is selling its oil again. [23:39] Blah blah blah. You keep going. [23:41] Everything [23:44] everything that the Biden administration [23:46] did and and Freeman lays this out in the [23:48] testimony. everything they did actually [23:51] brought the Palestinian issue back up [23:53] front and center which ends up fueling [23:57] more conflict [23:58] and that the path to peace the path to [24:02] peace remember it's a feature not a bug [24:05] the path to peace in the Middle East is [24:07] actually putting the Palestinian issue [24:09] on the back burner [24:12] and saying this is yeah we got to deal [24:14] with it but it's not driving the [24:17] relationships in the Middle East anymore [24:19] And as Rubio said so so profoundly, [24:22] Trump exposed this, meaning by going to [24:25] war with Iran and Iran's then Iran's [24:28] response that they then bombed all these [24:31] neighboring Arab countries and everyone [24:32] starts to see the proxies, the Houthis [24:35] for what they are. This stuff has [24:36] nothing to do with Israel. [24:39] Once that gets exposed, everyone [24:41] suddenly realizes, oh my gosh, this is [24:43] so true. [24:44] The driver of instability in the Middle [24:46] East is the Islamic Republic of Iran, [24:47] not the Palestinian issue. In fact, the [24:50] Palestinian issue will be much easier to [24:53] deal with after the Iranian regime is [24:55] gone. Rubio said that, which is true [24:58] because if you take the Iranian regime [25:00] off the table, if Iran becomes a [25:02] pro-Western nation, if all these other [25:05] nations are now much more comfortable [25:06] without these proxies and extreme and [25:08] and extremists in their midst, there [25:10] will still be Islamists. There will [25:12] still be terrorists across the region, [25:14] but they're going to be reduced. They're [25:16] not going to have a state backing [25:17] anymore. [25:20] No more state backing for them, which [25:22] which makes them much easier to deal [25:24] with. It's much easier to deal [25:26] politically with the Palestinian [25:27] Authority with, you know, if there's no [25:30] state backing for Hamas, for example. [25:33] And I could go on and on. [25:36] And that it's so important for us to [25:38] remember this. This is such an important [25:40] talking point that you know that the [25:44] this is that the Palestinian issue and [25:47] it's it's it's not the central issue. [25:49] It's also the great it's the it really [25:51] shows the vision of the Trump approach [25:53] to the Middle East to look that and that [25:56] what the Abraham Accords were and what [25:58] they are. They're a way of saying we can [26:01] build relationships that have nothing to [26:02] do with this one issue and they have to [26:04] stop holding us hostage. Great stuff [26:06] from Secretary of State Rubio. I hope [26:08] you found this video interesting. [26:11] Uh, and uh, please like, share, [26:13] subscribe. 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