DAN: IT'S A BIG POLITICAL NIGHT
AND WE HAVE HAD BIG POLITICAL
DECISIONS LATELY.
THE DAN YOR
KE STATE OF MIND
IS BROUGHT TO YOU.
DAN: WE WILL LOOK AT THE PART OF
THE PRESIDENT TO SUGGEST THAT
JERUSALEM IS THE CAPITAL OF
ISRAEL AND A TIMELINE FOR A
MOVEMENT OF THE EMBASSY OUT OF
TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM,
A LOCAL
FLAVOR AND EXPERTISE IS COMING
YOUR WAY MOMENTARILY.
ALSO, THE UHIP
SITUATION, THE
COMPUTER THAT DOESN'T WORK IN
RHODE ISLAND, IT'S AN OLD MONTY
PYTHON JOKE.
IS IT DID YET?
-- IS IT DEAD YET?
THE COMPUTER IS NOT WORKING AND
WE WILL CHECK IN WITH TARGET 12
ON THAT COMING UP.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU ABOARD.
GREAT
-- SORRY TO JOKE ABOUT
THAT.
IT'S TUESDAY EVENING AND THE
NATION IS WATCHING ALABAMA.
HERE IS
A HEADLINE.
ROY MOORE IS THE STAR OF THE
SHOW ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
I DON'T THINK SHE IS AN -- I
DON'T THINK HE IS AN
AFTERTHOUGHT.
HE HAS RAISED HIS PROFILE AND
HAS -- IT HAS HELPED THEM COMING
IN.
IT IS THE LATEST.
I THOUGHT WHAT WAS PROFOUND LAST
NIGHT WAS CHARLES BARKLEY WHO
PLAYED IN THE STATE AND CAME
BACK AND
GAVE HIM PART OF HIS
OWN MIND.
WHEN PEOPLE IN YOUR OWN PARTY
SAY THEY WON'T VOTE FOR YOU,
THAT'S A DEAD GIVEAWAY.
AT SOME POINT, WE'VE GOT STOP
LOOKING LIKE IDIOTS TO THE
NATION.
DAN: IF YOU ARE FROM THERE, YOU
CAN SAY THAT.
BARKLEY IS
THOUGHT ABOUT RUNNING
FOR GOVERNOR AS A REPUBLICAN AT
ONE POINT.
IF YOU ARE WATCHING AT 7:30
P.M., IT STILL AT MELBOURNE AT
HER AND OF ITS MIDNIGHT, YOU
KNOW THE RESULTS AND WE'LL TALK
ABOUT IT TOMORROW NIGHT.
IN THE MEANTIME, LAST WEEK WAS A
VERY BUSY WEEK INTERNATIONALLY.
THE PRESIDENT MADE A PROVOCATIVE
DECISION.
I THINK THE TIMING OF THIS HAS
SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ALABAMA
ELECTION.
HERE'S WHAT CBS HAD TO SAY ABOUT
THIS.
OUTRAGE CONTINUES TO SPILL
ONTO STREETS AROUND THE WORLD
MONDAY AS DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DECISION TO
RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL'S
CAPITAL.
THERE IS A MEMBER OF THE
PARLIAMENT.
WE REJECT TRUMP'S
DECISION AS
A MEMBER OF THE PALESTINIAN
PARTY.
IT MEANS NOTHING TO US.
IN GAZA, PROTESTERS BURNED
AMERICAN FLAGS AND CARRIED GUNS
AND HAMAS HAS WARNED MORE
VIOLENCE WILL COME.
ISRAEL DEPLOYED EXTRA
POLICE
AFTER AN ISRAELI SECURITY GUARD
WAS STABBED AT A JERUSALEM BUS
STATION.
STREET PROTESTS AND CLASHES, THE
DEBATES HAVE BEEN CRUDE AND
WHILE DIPLOMATS MAY NOT BE
THROWING STONES, THE DIVISIONS
ARE JUST AS CLEAR.
IN BRUSSELS, THE ISRAELI PRIME
MINISTER URGED EUROPEAN ALLIES
TO FOLLOW PRESIDENT TRUMP'S
LEAD.
JERUSALEM IS ISRAEL'S
CAPITAL, NO ONE CAN DENY IT.
IT MAKES PEACE POSSIBLE.
THE PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT
ARRIVED IN CAIRO TO RALLY MIDDLE
EASTERN COUNTRIES AGAINST MR.
TRUMP DECISION.
HE SAYS THE U.S. CAN NO LONGER
LEAD PEACE TALKS.
THE
MEETING THAT HAVE BEEN
SCHEDULED BETWEEN PALESTINIAN
PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS AND VICE
PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE HAS BEEN
CANCELED.
DAN: IT'S A
STICKY ONE.
HAPPY HANUKKAH.
HAPPY HANUKKAH TO YOU AS
WELL.
DAN: THIS IS RABBI BARRY'S
RETURN TRIP AND HE IS A WAS
WELCOME.
HE IS A COOL THINKER OF THIS
STUFF.
YOUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ON WHAT
HAPPENED LAST WEEK?
WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK, IN
MY MIND,
IS A GOOD THING.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ABSOLUTELY
CORRECT ON THIS.
I SAY THAT WITH A BIT OF
CAUTION.
THE ONE CAVEAT I WOULD GIVE IS
THAT MANY JEWS VOTED FOR JOHN
TRUMP -- FOR DONALD TRUMP
DESPITE THE NEGATIVES STUFF, BUT
SICKLY FOR THIS THING BUT THAT
IN NO WAY OBVIATES THE HARM THAT
HE HAS CAUSED TO VULNERABLE
POPULATIONS, TO CIVIL DISCOURSE
ALTOGETHER.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A CAUSE
OR
A SYMPTOM BUT IN A SENSE HE IS
BOTH.
THIS IS NOT A FAIR TRADE-OFF BUT
THIS DECISION, IN MY MIND AND I
SPEAK FOR MOST OF MY COMMUNITY
ON THIS ONE, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY
BEHIND IS 100% FOR A FEW
DIFFERENT REASONS.
JERUSALEM IS THE CAPITAL OF
ISRAEL.
ANYONE WHO GOES TO ISRAEL
AND
YOU GO THERE, THAT'S WHERE THE
SUPREME COURT IS.
THAT'S WHERE THE LEGISLATURE IS.
IT'S LIKE SAYING WASHINGTON,
D.C. IS NOT THE CAPITAL SO
DENYING THAT REALITY KEEPS PEACE
FROM HAPPENING.
IT'S A NARRATIVE AND THE
NARRATIVE IS THAT THE JEWS HAVE
NO RIGHT TO ANY PART OF ISRAEL
BE AT OCCUPIED TERRORS --
TERRITORIES AFTER 1967.
THE PEOPLE
THAT OPPOSE THE IDEA
OF JERUSALEM IS THE CAPITAL OF
ISRAEL AND WANT ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT, WILL NOT IGNORE KNOWLEDGE
THE JEWISH PRESENCE
THERE ALL.
I THINK IT PUSHES PEACE FORWARD.
IT'S NOT LIKE THERE WERE SOME
GRAND PEAS BEFORE ON THE VERGE
OF HAPPENING BETWEEN
PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS.
ONE OF THE REASONS IT HAS NOT
HAPPENED, IT HAS HAPPENED WITH
JORDAN, EGYPT AND OTHER
COUNTRIES BUT THEY RECOGNIZE AND
GIVE UP ON THE HATE AND
ANTI-SEMITIC NOTION THAT JEWS
NEED TO BE THROWN INTO THE SEA
WHICH YOU HEARD FROM MANY ARAB
LEADERS AFTER THIS DECLARATION.
FROM THE JORDAN TO THE
MEDITERRANEAN.
DAN: DO YOU THINK THIS WILL
FLUSH
THAT EMOTIONAL,
HISTORICAL, HATEFUL REACTION
FROM THE PALESTINIAN SIDE?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING?
I THINK THE HOPE
-- MANY
PEOPLE HAVE SAID, EVEN SOME
PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY,
THIS IS A FINAL NEGOTIATION
ISSUE.
LET'S DEAL WITH THE READING
FIRST AND MAYBE ONE DAY WE WILL
COME TO BEING UNIFIED.
I THINK DONALD TRUMP IS PROBABLY
DOING THIS FOR CYNICAL POLITICAL
REASONS.
MAYBE WE CAN DISTRACT FROM ROY
MOORE.
DAN: I DON'T
THINK IT'S A
DISTRACTION.
I THINK THERE'S AN EVANGELICAL
COMMUNITY IN ALABAMA THAT'S GOT
THIS ZIONIST POSITION AND HAVE
CONVINCED THEMSELVES THIS IS ALL
PART OF M THEIR OWNATRA
OF
POLITICS AND RELIGION.
I THOUGHT IT WAS TIMED FOR THAT
PURPOSE.
HE TRIPPED HIMSELF A COUPLE OF
TIMES SINCE BUT I THOUGHT HE WAS
STRATEGICALLY PLACING THIS.
THAT COULD BE A VERY WELL BE.
DAN: SO DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE?
I THINK IT'S A HOPE FOR
PEACE.
PEACE IS NOT JUST A DOCUMENT
THAT PEOPLE SIGN.
REAL PIECES ON THE GROUND.
HOW FRIENDLY WILL RELATIONS BE?
WILL THERE BE PEOPLE FROM ISRAEL
SHOPPING AND ARAB VILLAGES?
PEOPLE DON'T
RECOGNIZE THAT.
IT'S NOT AS IF THE TWO SIDES
DON'T INTERACT.
MANY PLACES YOU GO THERE ARE
ARABS AND JEWS AND PEOPLE
INTERACTING.
THEY WILL NOT EAT PEACE
UNTIL
THERE IS PALESTINIAN RECOGNITION
THAT THE JEWS OF RIGHT TO LIVE
THERE.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS THEY
COULD
DO BETTER BUT FUNDAMENTALLY, THE
PALESTINIAN FAILURE TO
ACKNOWLEDGE JEWISH RIGHTS IN THE
LAND OF ISRAEL IS A STICKING
POINT.
IF THIS FORCES THEM TO GET OVER
THAT OR RECOGNIZE THAT THAT HAS
TO HAPPEN, THAT ULTIMATELY
PROMOTES PEACE.
DAN: I THINK WHICH ARE TELLING
ME IS THAT THIS IS NOT A CATCH
22, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE HORSE
BEFORE THE CART THAT YOU THINK
NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
YEAH, AND A LOT OF THE STATE
DEPARTMENT NARRATIVE -- FOR A
LONG TIME, IT HAS OPPOSED
RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM AS A
CAPITAL.
IF YOU ARE BORN IN JERUSALEM IN
ISRAEL, YOUR PASSPORT JUST SAYS
JERUSALEM, IT DOES NOT SAY
ISRAEL.
IT HARKENS BACK TO 1947.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
SIX-DAY WAR.
THERE HAS BEEN
POLICY BUT THERE
IS NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT FEELS
WHERE THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE THE
SOVEREIGN COUNTRY'S RIGHT TO
DECLARE THEIR CAPITAL.
DAN: IN THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY, THERE'S ONLY ONE
COUNTRY THAT'S NOW RECOGNIZING
JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL, US.
WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN WE
COME BACK.
I THINK THAT WHEN
YOU
RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH, WHEN BOTH
PARTIES RECOGNIZE REALITY, PEACE
COMES AND THAT'S JUST THE TRUE
REALITY OF THE SITUATION.
WE ARE LIVING IN THE REALITY
THAT JERUSALEM IS THE CAPITAL OF
ISRAEL BUT IF YOU NOTICE WHEN
THE PRESIDENT SPOKE, HE MADE IT
VERY CLEAR.
HE DID NOT TALK ABOUT DOWN TREES
OR BORDERS OR GET INTO ANY OF
THAT.
THE FINAL STATUS OF
JERUSALEM IS
BETWEEN THE PALESTINIANS AND THE
ISRAELIS.
IT'S NOT FOR THE AMERICANS TO
DECIDE.
DAN: IS IT FOR THE AMERICANS TO
BROKER IT?
I THINK THEY ARE
SMART PEOPLE
AND SOME OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE
JEWISH TO PUSH BACK ON THIS
NOTION THAT THIS WAS A
TACTICALLY SMART THING FOR THE
COUNTRY TO DO, THAT OUR ROLE
AS
PEACE NEGOTIATOR AND BROKER,
MEDIATOR OR WHATEVER THE WORD,
IS DAMAGED BY THIS GIVEN
ASSERTION THAT JERUSALEM IS THE
CAPITAL OF ISRAEL BECAUSE THE
PALESTINIANS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH
IT AS WELL AS THE MUSLIM
COMMUNITY.
I WANT TO PUSH BACK ON
SEVERAL FRONTS OF THAT.
DAN: I MENTIONED DURING THE
BREAK THAT THERE ARE COUNTRIES
OUT THERE THAT ARE SUPPORTING
THIS LIKE CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
THE CZECH REPUBLIC FOLLOW THE
U.S. AND RUSSIA ON THE U.N.
SECURITY COUNCIL ALSO.
DAN: BUT THEY CONDEMNED THE
DECISION.
DONALD TRUMP IS A LITTLE TOXIC
AND THEY DON'T LIKE THE U.S. SO
THERE IS THOSE DYNAMICS.
DAN: AMERICA'S ROLE AS A BROKER
IN THIS BEING AFFECTED IS THE
CHIEF CONCERN HERE.
I'M NOT SURE I HAVE FOUND
ANYBODY WHO ARGUES AGAINST THE
DECISION WHO BELIEVES THAT
JERUSALEM INEVITABLY TO BE
UNDERSTOOD AS THE CAPITAL OF
ISRAEL.
I THINK IT'S A TACTICAL
NEGOTIATING CRITIQUE MORE THAN A
CONCEPTUAL ONE.
I THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY GOOD
IN THAT REGARD.
I ALSO DON'T THINK THERE HAS
BEEN AS MUCH ANGER IN THE ARAB
WORLD AS THE MEDIA WOULD MAKE IT
OUT TO BE.
DAN: PICTURES CAN APPLE IF I
REALITY.
A GOOD EXAMPLE, PEOPLE SPOKE
ABOUT HOW THERE WILL BE A
STRIKE.
MANY SHOPKEEPERS KEPT THEIR
STORES OPEN AND THERE WERE
POLICE GOING AROUND.
THEY
CLOSED THE SHOPS FOR A DAY
OF RAGE AND EVERYONE SAID TO GO
OUT AND PROTEST AND THERE WERE A
COUPLE OF THOUSAND PEOPLE OUT
THERE PROTESTING, MAYBE 4000,
BUT THE WOMEN'S MARCH GOT MORE
PEOPLE.
I'M NOT SAYING IS NOT LEGITIMATE
ANGER AT DONALD TRUMP.
IF YOU CLOSE
SCHOOLS, YOU GET
GOOD PHOTO OPS BUT THE PROTESTS
HAVE ENTIRELY DIED DOWN.
ON FRIDAY WHEN THESE THINGS
EXPLODE BECAUSE IT'S A DAY OF
WORSHIP, ISRAEL MADE A GOOD
DECISION.
THEY NORMALLY LIMIT WHO CAN PRAY
THERE TO PEOPLE OVER A CERTAIN
AGE.
IT'S MOSTLY ELDERLY PEOPLE.
THEY DID NOT DO THAT THIS TIME.
THAT WAS A WISE DECISION.
PROTESTS AND VIOLENCE DID NOT
BREAK OUT FOR THE MOST PART.
IT KIND OF DIED DOWN.
I PERSONAL FEELING IS THAT
EITHER THE U.S. IS NOW IN A
BETTER POSITION TO BE A BROKER
IF ONE SIDE OF THE OTHER WON'T
RECOGNIZE SOMETHING, A
NEGOTIATOR HAS TO COME IN AND
SAY LOOK, YOU HAVE TO OWN UP TO
WHAT'S GOING ON.
YOUR POSITION IS UNTENABLE, COME
TO THE MIDDLE.
IT COULD BE THAT'S WHAT'S GOING
ON OR IT COULD BE THAT THE U.S.
IS DONE IN A SENSE BEING A
BROKER.
THE NARRATIVE
WAS IF THE
ISRAELIS WOULD FOLD THERE WOULD
DAN: IS THE MOVING OF THE
EMBASSY REALLY IMPORTANT?
IT'S REALLY NOT
IMPORTANT
WHERE THE EMBASSY IS.
I'M SURE MOST AMERICANS BEFORE
THIS HAD NO IDEA WHERE THE
EMBASSY AND ISRAEL WAS.
IN A WEEK, THEY WON'T KNOW
EITHER.
ISRAELIS ACROSS THE POLITICAL
SPECTRUM FROM THE LABOR LEFT
WING DESIGN IS HEARTY TO THE
RIGHT WING LIKKUD BASICALLY ALL
SUPPORT THIS, LEFT-WING
SOCIALISTS AND OTHERS DON'T
SUPPORT THIS BUT ALL THE
ZIONISTS STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS.
THIS HAS THE BACKING OF THE
ISRAELI PUBLIC.
DAN: GIVE ME A 32ND PROJECTION,
WHAT HAPPENS FROM HERE?
PREDICTING WHAT'S HAPPENING
IN THE MIDDLE EAST, I AM NOT A
PROPHET OR A SOOTHSAYER BUT I
THINK THIS MOVES THE
NARRATIVE
FORWARD.
I THINK EVENTUALLY, PALESTINIANS
WILL COME TO RECOGNIZE A LITTLE
BIT MORE WHAT HAPPENS HERE.
I THINK THIS WILL ALSO BE
HEIGHTENED BY ISRAELI ALLIANCES
LIKE SAUDI ARABIA WHICH IS
GROWING STRONGER.
I THINK THEY AND THE UNITED
STATES WILL PRESSURE THE
PALESTINIANS AND WE WILL GET IT
DEAL WE COULD ABOUT 16 YEARS AGO
BUT FOR POOR LEADERSHIP.
DAN: THANKS FOR YOUR
PERSPECTIVE.
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