Jamie Rubin

speaker

3,234 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

Jamie Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 20 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Q&A: Is Poland Putin's Next Target & Netanyahu Defies Trump · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

I'm not gonna try to parse all of that, but I think it's important to bring up a few points. voice-verified

Number one, I had always suspected that Hamas agreed to this plan precisely because they knew that uh the Israelis would reject it. voice-verified

Um it was always a bit on the vague side of how this disarmament would work. voice-verified

Would they be decommissioned? voice-verified

Would they be put beyond use? voice-verified

How long would it take? voice-verified

All of those things. voice-verified

Uh but it was a step forward, and I think the voice-verified

Hamas calculation was that the Israelis will take the hit because they will say no to this. voice-verified

And I had said at the time, I think when this first came up, we talked about this, and I guessed that they they were uh willing to say yes to it, knowing that they could block it later, um, because they thought the Israelis would say no, and then the Israelis would take the blame. voice-verified

We've been working on this same idea since I left the government in uh twenty twenty-four, and namely that is to get the Israelis to withdraw from Gaza. voice-verified

So you put in an international force to protect its borders and prevent Hamas from restoring its capabilities that attacked Israel on October 7th. voice-verified

And then you slowly but surely bring governance and uh disarmament and demobilization to the region of Gaza with peacekeepers and a Palestinian force. voice-verified

That was the concept. voice-verified

It was very difficult, it was very hard, and if it had been achieved, I think it would. voice-verified

have yet yielded normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia. voice-verified

That's why we worked so hard on it. voice-verified

That's why people like Lindsey Graham, who recently passed away, thought it was so important. voice-verified

That's why Tony Blair and Tony voice-verified

Uh and voice-verified

Showing 1361–1380 of 3,234 · page 69 of 162