Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Yes, I'm positive. I'm hopeful. With the Trump administration coming very forcefully. Yes. With clear vision about where the world should be heading. I'm optimistic, cautious optimistic, but it's going to take some time because the legacy that Trump had is a big one. Yes. On foreign policy, domestic policy, debt, immigration. We will talk about all these things, obviously, today.
But the legacy is so big. And we've seen that the first week of Trump or now the first 10 days is coming very strongly. And I really hope that this momentum stays and have a positive effect on the international community as much as it will have a good impact on the domestic policy.
Look, we all know Netanyahu is going to meet him tomorrow. Yes. And I really hope that President Trump is very forceful in imposing or at least forcing Israel to have a peaceful resolution to this Palestinian issue that's been going on since the late 1940s.
It's about time to have a fine solution for the Palestinian cause to stop all those terrorist acts that are really unwanted, like the one that happened in October. And obviously, you're alluding to the Ukraine war. Also, it's about time to have this war end, a useless war between Russia and Ukraine that caused hundreds of thousands of people to die from both sides, civilians and otherwise.
What's the solution to the problem in the Middle East? Look, the stated official position of Saudi Arabia, which I really support, of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was announced on your X Channel Fox. Yes. He said publicly that, you know, we are having discussions with Israel to acknowledge each other. But as a good pro quo, we need a Palestinian state.
We need to have the rights of the Palestinians acknowledged. And we need to have Palestine independent and have as capital city East Jerusalem. So if these things are met, I think Saudi Arabia is more than ready to have diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced a few months ago.
Oh, look, I mean, it's very easy to get against Iran, aligned against Iran. Iran is, you know, is a nation based dogmatically. On terroristic ideas. You know, we have seen how every country that Iran goes to, you have turmoil. Look at Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Sudan, all those countries, what's coming among them? You have the Iranian infiltration.
So clearly it's not easy, not difficult at all to be in alliance with any country against Iran because Iran always plants the seeds of trouble, chaos and confusion wherever they are.
We are very far, of course, after what happened in Gaza. But I think with the strong leadership from the United States and with the effectiveness that the United States could really have in the West Bank with the Palestinian authorities, if they can have these people being more effective,
and more dynamic and inject some fluidity and some power and influence in them, there could really be the power to break in with so that Israel could negotiate with the Palestinian Authority and hopefully that they can have a control over what's happening in Gaza also. How closely are people in the Arab world following what's happening there? Oh, for sure.
The Arab world has been following very closely the destruction that happened in Gaza. I mean, for sure, a terrorist attack did happen there in October. But the disproportionate and the complete disproportionality of the Israeli attack on Gaza that wiped out the whole northern part of Gaza was really unwanted. You know, hospitals, schools, cities, universities, they were all demolished completely.
So, yes, we're following very closely, for sure. Do people here hold the United States responsible for that? I'm not sure at all that they hold the United States. I mean, some do that and they capitalize on the very positive and strong alliance between United States and Israel. But realistically speaking, what happened there really was really Israeli based.
Clearly, the United States did support that. But we have seen also, even the Biden administration, and even Trump, you know, I'm not sure he was very much happy with what happened there at all. But at the end of the day, you know, what happened did happen. And now we need to see how we can put this behind us and open a new chapter in the Middle East.
Clearly, with the Syrian regime neutralized and having a new, I will not say pro-Western regime, but at least not anti-America regime in Syria. With Hamas, hopefully demolished completely. And more importantly, Hezbollah being almost neutralized in Lebanon. These are big, big, big pluses for the inducement to have a peaceful solution for the Palestinian cause. You know Donald Trump well.
I know a long time ago, you know, from the time we bought from him the Plaza Hotel, and we also bought from him his Trump Princess yacht that I still have.
Yeah, we bought it, I think, you know, in the late 80s. And Trump did take possession of it and he renovated it. And I think he reached a stage where he, you know, he did not really want to have it anymore. So we did buy it from him. What was your experience of Trump? What's he like? No, I mean, look, with Trump, I think if you're straight with him, you know, you get the straight answer.
You know, we had very good dealing with President Trump, you know, when he was a businessman, whether during the purchase of the Plaza Hotel from him or buying his Trump Princess yacht. So you were not anti-Trump? Oh, no, no, we can't be anti-Trump, you know, because we are pro-America. We have to be pro-Trump, especially with the new policies that he's taking right now.
You know, I'm very much conservative, socially speaking. Yes. And all his policies right now in being anti-walk, being anti-left wing, being anti all those crazy things that's happening on the left. We are for sure pro-Trump on these matters. And also, all these policies, economic policies, looking after the eradication of the U.S. deficit, these are all conservative policies that we support.
Look, I lived in America. I graduated from the West Coast, you know, from a university in California, and I finished my master's in the East Coast in America. So we all love America. We want America to be strong.
I mean, it went just too far, too much, you know, really. And it's about time for America to get a logical person, a pragmatic person like Trump. I know some policies are extreme to some people, but the social policies... being anti-walk, being anti-left-wing completely, being too liberal. I mean, these are really policies that, you know, this is illogical. You know, look, I'm a religious person.
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