Nick Jonas
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and the other 25%, 21% are Arab, 4% are various other ethnic groups.
This is the way other countries work too.
I mean, you can run through a list of the 193 countries that are member states of the UN, and many of them have a population that has an ethnic identity that is 75%, 80%, and at the same time have 20%, 25%, 30% of other ethnicities
peoples who live within their land.
And some states do better than others at providing those people with rights.
And I would fight and be at the front line to ensure that the Arab citizens of Israel, the Palestinian citizens of Israel, have the exact same rights and the same opportunities as the Jewish citizens.
And so I don't agree that having a state that has an ethnic identity as its identity is
is by per se going to lead you to Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
In fact, you know, 90% of Israeli Jews vehemently oppose Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
And as I said, 75% oppose, uh,
Netanyahu.
And when they tried to take apart Israel's democracy and the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, millions and millions of Israelis took to the streets in order to ensure that the functioning liberal democracy that they were brought up in would be maintained.
So, you know, I'm willing to fight for that.
I'm willing to continue to be out there making the case that is a possibility.
And I hope that the state of Palestine will
that's created next to Israel will also set up a structure that provides opportunity for all of its people to have equal rights and protect those rights and has the rule of law, independent judiciary, et cetera.
Well, I do think that we agree 100% on this, actually.
It is absolutely true that one of the reasons why Israel has done what it's done and been able to do what it's done is because of the broken American policy and the broken American political system.
And it does bring us back to American politics.
And one of the reasons why these laws are in effect the way they are and one of the reasons they are not enforced has been because of the political β