Benjamin Netanyahu

So from the point of view of a viable and functioning state, I think the Palestinians are further away from that than they've been for a very long time.

Thanks, Rachel.

In fact, I think we have, because I think the Knesset passed a resolution to that effect.

Yeah, I just did.

Thank you for doing that.

Well, the big difference is the Islamist revolution that basically took these very gifted people.

The Iranian people are enormously gifted.

First of all, they have a tremendous historic culture, and you won't be surprised, but maybe your listeners would be surprised, that in antiquity, in the time of the great Persian king Cyrus,

there was a honeymoon between the Jews and the Persian people.

And that relationship actually continued in modest ways, but in significant ways under the Shah.

When the Shah went down and these theological thugs took over Iran,

They basically said, our goal, that's in their constitution, is to export the Islamic revolution worldwide.

And that's what they proceeded to do.

So all the mineral resources, all the economic resources were now tuned to war.

In the time that I, when I was finance minister, and till today, Iran at that time and Israel had roughly the same GDP per capita.

Ours went up.

from $17,000 to $60,000 per capita.

And there it stayed flat.

Why?

Because they took all that money, all that money to arm Hezbollah, arm Hamas, arm the Houthis, and purvey terror around the globe, not only in the Middle East, against the Arabs, against Israel, against everyone else, against Americans.