Ilan Goldenberg

And then the third piece is when it comes to arms sales, there's some things that really do make sense, like Iron Dome, for example, right?

Missile defense system that protects Israeli civilians from attacks.

No, for sure.

And my argument on that is if you go back, for example, and imagine – there are moments when that might be true.

But if you really think about it in totality, imagine if on October 7th Israel didn't have those systems.

hundreds of more in the aftermath when when Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran started launch and the Houthis started launching missiles at Israel if Israel didn't have the capabilities to protect civilians first of all just on a human life perspective We're talking about somewhere between 500,000 and 700,000 American citizens living in Israel That's a real issue but also

What do you think the Israeli response would have been if a couple of thousand more people would have been killed as a result of these missiles landing in their cities?

I think there would have been more killing of Palestinians and Lebanese, for example.

But even – so I would argue for Iron Dome.

But I also think when it comes to other weapon systems, let's just apply –

the laws that exist on the books already and hold Israel to the same standard as every other country, which means there are certain things they wouldn't get.

Especially there's a law called the Leahy Law, which reviews unit by unit what partner countries are doing in the world.

There's a special process for Israel that is different than, it's pretty much the most lenient process that any country in the world gets.

We don't need that.

Israel doesn't need that.

That's not good for U.S.

interests.

It's not good for Israel.

There's other laws which look at if you're preventing aid from going in, American aid from going in, you should be cut off from certain weapons.

Again, we should have done that.