Dimitry Toukhcher

They'd been residents of the UAE for over 30 years.

Him, siblings, mother, everybody in a van out of the country shipped out.

So this is really fascinating, right?

In the Middle East, like the Saudis, the Emiratis, and by the way, what the Emiratis have built is incredible.

Like the UAE is just like the greatest place on earth, hands down right now.

What they have built, they see the Palestinian cause, and I use the word cause quite loosely because it's really just a political...

bifurcation to empower communists.

That's all it is.

They see it as such a threat to the ambitions and dreams of their states that they ban all of that.

And yet we in the West allow it.

People don't know that the Palestinian flag is banned in Saudi Arabia.

It's banned in the UAE.

Wow.

It's banned in Kuwait, by the way, because they tried to overthrow Kuwait, right?

They don't want them in Syria.

They don't want them in Lebanon.

They don't want them in Jordan.

The Jordanians, actually, everybody in the West Bank had Jordanian passports until 1980.

And in 1980, King Hussein dissolved the parliament and said, we're taking all the passports away.

And so the West Bank was just Jordan.