Dinesh D'Souza

And when Khomeini came in, he didn't say one word about Israel.

He came in on a revolutionary ideology, a global revolutionary ideology outlined in hundreds of his sermons, outlined in a book that I have that's a collection of his sermons.

And it's very clear that he says, ultimately, what he's saying is radical Islam has finally got a hold of a major state.

This is what we've always wanted.

We have been ragtag groups of activists and terrorists and this and that.

But Iran is an important country, undeniably.

We have it and we're going to use it as a beachhead for global jihad.

And that is, in fact, so this is declared out of Iran from the beginning.

It's not just some kind of leftist slogan that they learned at Columbia, sort of like, hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civ has got to go.

This is the sort of founding charter of Iran.

They take our hostages.

They bombed the Beirut embassy in 1982.

So the hostility begins really early on.

Israel is a part of it, but Israel is only a part of it because Israel is in that neighborhood.

And I would argue that really the basis for America's alliance with Israel, I mean, it's absolutely laughable that a country of 10 million Israel can somehow control a country of 350 million that is bigger, richer, and stronger

and his tentacles all over the world.

It makes no sense to say that Lithuania can control the Soviet Union, and it's equally absurd to somehow think that 10 million Jews can control the entire United States.

The reason the United States is allied with Israel is really simple.

the Israelis are living in that bad neighborhood.

They understand the various species of terrorists and thugs and bad guys in that neighborhood.