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>> Brian: THE AUSTRALIA
GOVERNMENT A TRUMP ERA DECISION
WITH THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL.
THEY WERE FIRST APPEAR A DRAWING
CRITICISM FROM MANY INCLUDING
THE NEXT GUEST.
HERE ARE MORE ABOUT THE CHANGE
MEANS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY FORMER IS REALLY A
PRIME MINISTER AND MAY BE FUTURE
PRIME MINISTER OF A BRAND-NEW
BOOK, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, WHAT
IS YOUR REACTION TO AUSTRALIA
DOING THIS?
>> WELL, IT IS ABSURD, A DENIAL
OF HISTORY.
JERUSALEM HAS BEEN THE CAPITAL
OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR 3,000
PEOPLE.
MADE SO BY KING DAVID IN 1,000
BC, CAN YOU IMAGINE?
DENYING HISTORY HAS BEEN DENYING
REALITY.
AND I WAS GLAD WHEN
PRESIDENT TRUMP RECOGNIZE
JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL
AND THE AMERICAN EMBASSY THERE
AND WILL REMAIN ISRAEL’S CAPITAL
WITH OR WITHOUT AUSTRALIA TAKING
A FLIGHT FROM REALITY ALSO SO
BAD.
>> Brian: HERE IS WHAT THE
PRIME MINISTER SAID, THE CURRENT
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
SAYS, "THE WAY THIS WAS MADE IN
AUSTRALIA A RESPONSE TO THE
MEDIA, WE CAN ONLY HOPE THE
AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT MAKE
MATTERS MORE SERIOUSLY AND
PROFESSIONALLY.
THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL AND
NOTHING WILL CHANGE THAT."
IS THAT STRONG ENOUGH?
WELCOME I THINK IT REFLECTS A
VERY BROAD SENTIMENT.
BUT I THINK WHAT BROUGHT THE
AMERICAN DECISION I THINK WAS A
COMBINATION OF AMERICAN
CONVICTION IN THE UNDERSTANDING
OF THE GREAT MAJORITY OF
AMERICANS THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT
THING.
THEY KNOW THE BIBLICAL HISTORY.
THEY KNOW THE STORY OF
JERUSALEM.
THEY KNOW THE CONNECTION OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE.
BUT FRANKLY, THE DIPLOMACY AS
WELL.
I THINK THERE HAS
BEEN, OBVIOUSLY, A WEAKNESS IN
THAT RECENTLY.
AND I WOULD HOLD THE AUSTRALIAN
GOVERNMENT’S FEET TO THE FIRE ON
THIS.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, I WOULD
CONTINUE TO GET MORE COUNTRIES
TO RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM AS
ISRAEL’S CAPITAL BECAUSE THAT IS
THE TRUTH.
THAT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
>> Brian: MR. PRIME MINISTER
IF YOU DO BECOME PRIME MINISTER
AND I KNOW YOU ARE RUNNING RIGHT
NOW WITH THE ELECTION COMING
UP, WILL YOU REVERSE THIS
ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO BE
NEUTRAL IN THE RUSSIAN UKRAINE
WAR?
IS WHILE STANDING ON THE
SIDELINES AND NOT PROVIDING ANY
MATERIAL AND NOT PROVIDING
WEAPONS OR SUPPORT?
>> WELL, I WILL LOOK AT IT.
I DON’T THINK IT IS PROPER TO DO
IT BEFORE I HAVE ALL THE
INFORMATION BEFORE ME.
I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING, ISRAEL
HAS DONE MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF
OFFERING HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT
BECAUSE IT HAS RECEIVED DESPITE
ITS SMALL SIZE -- REMEMBER IT IS
A TINY COUNTRY OF 10 MILLION
PEOPLE.
RE-RECEIVED NOR, AND ALIKE OPEN
FIELD HOSPITALS AMONG OTHER
THINGS, BUT THE QUESTIONS OF
WEAPONS, SOMETHING THAT I
WOULD PERSONALLY LOOK THAT WILL
BE DETERMINED BY THE VOTERS IN T
>> Brian: RIGHT.
AND MR. PRIME MINISTER AS WE
LOOK AT YOUR LIFE STORY AND WHAT
LED YOU TO THIS PLACE AND
ACTUALLY PRINT MINISTER AGAIN, A
LOT GOES BACK TO YOUR BROTHER,
YOUNGER AND OLDER ALIKE.
AND IT REMINDS ME THE KENNEDY
SITUATION.
IT LOOKED LIKE THE OLDER BROTHER
WAS GOING TO BE LEADING THE
COUNTRY.
YOU LOOKED UP TO HIM.
HE LOSES HIS LIFE IN BATTLE
AFTER SHOWING THROUGHOUT HIS
LIFE.
JOHN F. KENNEDY STEPS IN.
IS THAT HOW YOU STEPPED INTO
YOUR JOB TO KIND OF LIVE UP TO
THE POTENTIAL THAT YOU AND YOUR
BROTHER SHOW?
>> WELL, ALL FAMILIES ARE
DIFFERENT.
AND I CAN TELL YOU MY FATHER WHO
WAS A WORLD RESPECTED HISTORIAN
WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM JOE
KENNEDY.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT.
OBVIOUSLY WE ALL DIFFER.
MY BROTHER WAS A HERO OF ISRAEL
AND HERO OF HUMANITY.
HE LED THE MOST CELEBRATED
RESCUED RESCUE OF ALL TIMES BY
LEADING THE FORCES IN UGANDA IN
THE LIBERATING AGAINST
IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, 103 JEWISH AND
PALACE IN THE END TERRITORY.
HE DIED AND HE WAS THE ONLY
CASUALTY.
AND THAT EVENT, THAT TRAGEDY I
THOUGHT MY LIFE WOULD END AT
THAT POINT.
BUT I SOMEHOW FOUND THE STRENGTH
TO TURN INCONSOLABLE GRIEF INTO
A PUBLIC SERVICE.
I ENTERED PUBLIC LIFE FIRST TO
CHANGE THE ATTITUDE OF THE FREE
WORLD TO INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM.
TO FIGHT THE STATES THAT SPONSOR
IT.
SECONDLY, TO BECOME ISRAEL’S
LONGEST-SERVING PRIME MINISTER.
I DESCRIBED IN MY BOOK, "THIS
ODYSSEY" WHICH HAS A LOT OF
STATIONS DURING IT EVEN BEFORE
MY BROTHER NEARLY DIED, I MYSELF
NEARLY DIED SEVERAL TIMES.
I LED MANY SECRET OPERATIONS.
I WAS SHOT AT RESCUING HOSTAGES
FROM A HIJACKED PLANE.
I NEARLY DROWNED IN A
FIREFIGHTING -- A SCORPION, YOU
NAME IT.
I THINK THERE IS A PURPOSE, A
HIDDEN PURPOSE.
IT IS HARD TO SAY THAT, BUT I
HAVE LIVED A LIFE OF PURPOSE AND
THAT IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF
ISRAEL IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
BUT BY DOING SO,
FREEDOM, FREEDOM IS THE GREATEST
PURPOSE WE HAVE AND THE GREATEST
PURPOSE I HAVE.
>> Brian: AND YOU DO TALK
ABOUT 1973 WHEN YOU GUYS DID NOT
ACT AHEAD OF TIME AND WERE
ATTACKED IN THE YOM KIPPUR WAR
AND KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
THAT IS PRETTY MUCH WHY YOU BLEW
UP IRAQ HE NUCLEAR PLAN IN 1980
WHITE YOU WOULD ACT AGAINST
ISRAEL, IRAN TO CONTINUE TO
BUILD A NUCLEAR WEAPON I WOULD
IMAGINE.
MR. PRIME MINISTER THANK YOU SO
MUCH AND A LOT TO BE WRITTEN.