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Victor Davis Hanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4047 total appearances

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Yeah. That whole Biden-Merkel mentality, Obama. I mean, we lost $5 billion. I think Ford alone lost almost $5 billion on this EV mandate. And it was even worse over there with Porsche and Audi and BMW and Mercedes and Volkswagen. It was just mindless when they were producing basically zero emission cars.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Beautiful automobiles that you could only argue were polluting because they were producing heat, but not toxic fumes or chemicals. And then by their same policy of forest management here in the United States, we were letting, in California, we were letting more carbon into the atmosphere with all these huge fires every summer than all the cars in two weeks or three weeks combined did.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Beautiful automobiles that you could only argue were polluting because they were producing heat, but not toxic fumes or chemicals. And then by their same policy of forest management here in the United States, we were letting, in California, we were letting more carbon into the atmosphere with all these huge fires every summer than all the cars in two weeks or three weeks combined did.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Beautiful automobiles that you could only argue were polluting because they were producing heat, but not toxic fumes or chemicals. And then by their same policy of forest management here in the United States, we were letting, in California, we were letting more carbon into the atmosphere with all these huge fires every summer than all the cars in two weeks or three weeks combined did.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Well, they had control of it prior to the 67 War, and they felt that it was an open sore. Remember, this is very controversial, but prior to 1947, there was nobody named Palestinians. Those were Arabs that were living in now what is Israel, Gaza, the West Bank. And they, as the state of Jordan was formed, became Jordanians. They weren't Egyptians.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Well, they had control of it prior to the 67 War, and they felt that it was an open sore. Remember, this is very controversial, but prior to 1947, there was nobody named Palestinians. Those were Arabs that were living in now what is Israel, Gaza, the West Bank. And they, as the state of Jordan was formed, became Jordanians. They weren't Egyptians.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

Well, they had control of it prior to the 67 War, and they felt that it was an open sore. Remember, this is very controversial, but prior to 1947, there was nobody named Palestinians. Those were Arabs that were living in now what is Israel, Gaza, the West Bank. And they, as the state of Jordan was formed, became Jordanians. They weren't Egyptians.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

And then after the 67 War, after the creation of Israel, and some left and went into Jordan and Egypt, then they began to become radicalized. And the Jordanian government did not want to deal with the West Bank, and the Egyptian government did not want to deal with Gazan. So they declared their hands free.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

And then after the 67 War, after the creation of Israel, and some left and went into Jordan and Egypt, then they began to become radicalized. And the Jordanian government did not want to deal with the West Bank, and the Egyptian government did not want to deal with Gazan. So they declared their hands free.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

And then after the 67 War, after the creation of Israel, and some left and went into Jordan and Egypt, then they began to become radicalized. And the Jordanian government did not want to deal with the West Bank, and the Egyptian government did not want to deal with Gazan. So they declared their hands free.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

And that process of creating former Jordanian or Egyptian Arabs into Palestinians was formalized. And now all of a sudden there are Palestinians. And those countries do not want to get involved there because they're very radical, they're Islamicist, and they're connected with the Muslim Brotherhood in some ways that Sisi and Egypt had fought.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

And that process of creating former Jordanian or Egyptian Arabs into Palestinians was formalized. And now all of a sudden there are Palestinians. And those countries do not want to get involved there because they're very radical, they're Islamicist, and they're connected with the Muslim Brotherhood in some ways that Sisi and Egypt had fought.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

And that process of creating former Jordanian or Egyptian Arabs into Palestinians was formalized. And now all of a sudden there are Palestinians. And those countries do not want to get involved there because they're very radical, they're Islamicist, and they're connected with the Muslim Brotherhood in some ways that Sisi and Egypt had fought.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

So when Trump says, well, let's clear out all the rubbish, what Trump is basically saying is, look at all the wealthy Arab countries in the world, and we'll provide the security. And you bulldoze all this rubble.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

So when Trump says, well, let's clear out all the rubbish, what Trump is basically saying is, look at all the wealthy Arab countries in the world, and we'll provide the security. And you bulldoze all this rubble.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

So when Trump says, well, let's clear out all the rubbish, what Trump is basically saying is, look at all the wealthy Arab countries in the world, and we'll provide the security. And you bulldoze all this rubble.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

get rid of the tunnels, and then it's right on the Mediterranean, and you make just an antiquity, you know, Gaza was one of the wealthiest cities in the Roman Empire, that whole area of the West Bank. Let us then... make a Dubai or something, international capital, and then we'll only let people back in who are non-terrorist. We will have border passport control.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

get rid of the tunnels, and then it's right on the Mediterranean, and you make just an antiquity, you know, Gaza was one of the wealthiest cities in the Roman Empire, that whole area of the West Bank. Let us then... make a Dubai or something, international capital, and then we'll only let people back in who are non-terrorist. We will have border passport control.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

get rid of the tunnels, and then it's right on the Mediterranean, and you make just an antiquity, you know, Gaza was one of the wealthiest cities in the Roman Empire, that whole area of the West Bank. Let us then... make a Dubai or something, international capital, and then we'll only let people back in who are non-terrorist. We will have border passport control.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
A Swing and a Hit: DOGE and Diplomacy

We will give preference to Palestinians, but we will not let everybody back in who has a history of war. That was the idea. And, you know, Egypt and Jordan want no part of it because... They have restive populations in their own countries. And so now Egypt is massing tanks on the border in Sinai, kind of saying to Israel, maybe we'll replay this.