Dave Smith

Like, what was the whole reason why those Arab countries wouldn't normalize relations with Israel officially, even though they really had normal relations with them for decades before that?

But the reason was because

all of their people are opposed to what Israel's doing to the Palestinians.

And so they at least had to publicly say like, no, no, no, we're not going to normalize relations until they give the Palestinians their own state, until they end the occupation and the blockade of Gaza.

And this had been, you know, from

the very beginning of the creation of the state of Israel and forget even like who you want to blame for all of this, like who you hold responsible for the 47 civil war or the 48 war or anything like that.

But the reality of the situation is, is that the Palestinians, um, got

in effect, ethnically cleansed out of historic Palestine.

In 1948, a bunch of surrounding Arab countries invaded and were defeated by the new Zionist entity that then declared itself the State of Israel at the end of that war.

And then, of course, there were wars with other Arab states in the 50s, in the 67 War, in the Yom Kippur War.

And from the Palestinian perspective, they've always been their desperate hope was always that, oh, some of these other states are going to have our back, that at some point that'll put enough pressure on them.

And then you got to remember, right, that this this is essentially the entire Netanyahu doctrine for his entire political career.

People don't believe me.

Go read his book, Fighting Terrorism, that he put out in 1995 or 96.

And it's a very easy read.

It's a very short book.

You can read it in one sitting.

And it's, listen, you look at the clean break strategy, coping with crumbling states, every document put out, the project for a new American century.

I mean, in their own words, the Netanyahu doctrine was always, so Yitzhak Rabin,

was the prime minister of Israel in the early 90s.