May 16, 2025 • 32 mins
Are you ready for a fiery debate that dives deep into the complexity of Middle Eastern diplomacy? 🗺️💰 In our latest podcast episode, Stuart and David go head-to-head over Trump's recent moves in the region. From billion-dollar investments to missile defense collaborations, the conversation is packed with sharp insights. Stuart sees economic partnerships as a step toward moderation, while David delivers a passionate critique of American overreach. Will pragmatism win, or is it all just dangerous compromise? 🤔
Tune in for a thought-provoking exploration of the impossible balancing act: fostering peace while fighting terrorism, engaging autocrats while upholding democratic values, and securing allies like Israel amidst a volatile landscape. 🌍 This episode isn't just another debate—it's a masterclass on the global tightrope America's diplomacy walks every day. Listen now and decide whose argument resonates with you! 🎧
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Wow, do you know what I hear?
I'm in English.
I can't hear you.
I can't.
You know it is another day ofthe week, but it's my most
favorite day of the week when itcomes to a long week.
(00:25):
Today's Friday noon, easternsomewhere.
Welcome to the Rant Network.
This is your go-to podcast forunfiltered, unapologetic
discussions hosted by myself,stuart Briscoe and that other
guy wearing that lovely CCMjersey, david Solomon.
We tackle a diverse range oftopics candid conversations,
bold opinions, whether it breaksdown the latest headlines,
(00:47):
exploring pop culture, debatingpolitics, delving into
complexities of modern life.
We offer a platform from everyperspective.
So grab a seat, settle in, sitback, relax.
This is going to be a wild ride.
You know, david and I weretalking in the little we call it
the green room and we were sortof mumbling what should we rant
(01:09):
about today?
And I stumbled across thistopic where David salivated over
my lack of experience,knowledge, and this wonderful
place called the Middle East,where I made a statement, where
Donald Trump has made a changein the Middle East and he is
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going through trying to bringcivility to a region that has
not known civility in a very,very long time and, you know, on
top of trying to bring peace.
Through the coin phrasestrength, he's managed to
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capture trillions of dollars ofinvestment in the United States.
And considering that DonaldTrump is not the or not
recognized as a globalist, notrecognized as a globalist like
another North American head ofstate is, they all seem to be
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rolling out the American flag,doling out their cash and only
trying to be a piece of a partof the American dream, the
American dream.
But when a people are sopolitically and ideologically
different, how was Donald Trumpable to grab their money, david?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh, come on, Stuart, Smart boy, that you are asking
such a silly question.
Ladies and gentlemen, DonaldTrump is on a tour and let's
start with the high fives, asStuart said.
Trillions of dollars, includingBoeing, who he ripped a new
tush this week about a plane.
Ok, GE, you're talking aboutbig bucks, 200 planes ordered by
(03:03):
.
You know, commitment to Boeing,the biggest order they've ever
had in their lives.
Now, these are not deals, bythe way, that were made in 24
hours.
These were deals that were allconsummated on this trip.
Ok, and that's what this is allabout.
Let's, let's just be real.
It didn't just all of a sudden.
(03:31):
We showed up in Qatar and 24hours later, we have a trillion
dollars in deals.
This takes time and thesebusiness leaders who flooded
with Donald Trump to this SaudiArabia, to Qatar, to UAE, were
looking to close the deals, andthe biggest and the best of
America shows up.
That's great news for AmericaProsperity, business, employment
.
It's great news for AmericaProsperity, business, employment
.
This is what Donald Trump hassaid from the very beginning.
(03:52):
So, high five, DT, but low fivekicking the nuts to DT.
I'm going to bring civility.
Let me remind everybody that azebra doesn't change its stripes
here and the region is stillhateful.
This is still an area and ifyou listen to the way they talk
(04:12):
peace, Stuart.
Peace is going to come and isnot coming.
Let's get real.
And while Donald Trump is tryingto take high fives by saying,
look, and even as we speak, look, Trump gave a nuclear deal
proposal to Iran.
Oh, come on, We've been herebefore.
All of a sudden, you're goingto tell me Iran is going to act
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any differently than Hitler.
Hitler told you know the world,OK, peace in our times.
You know, Neville Chamberlaincame back like an idiot in 1938
saying look, I signed a deal, Ihave a piece of paper with
Hitler, and we knew whathappened a year later.
The Iranians cannot be trusted.
You can't change your statementfrom one minute to the next, Mr
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Trump.
You said they're nottrustworthy.
You said we have to beat themup, and now you're telling me
they're friends, Whoa whoa.
Now you.
You're telling me they'refriends, Whoa whoa.
Now you're in a region that isvery petrified Saudi Arabia,
Qatar and UAE.
There's a reason, Stuart, thatIran has come up in this
conversation.
It's because these threenations are all run by who Kings
(05:17):
?
They're all autocraticallyruled, Family ruled.
And what does Iran like to do?
Put Hezbollah, put Hamas, putthe Houthis in these kinds of
regions to dethrone thesefamilies.
All of a sudden, now SaudiArabia, Qatar, UAE are looking
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at Donald Trump and saying wedon't want to be dethroned, Our
family power cannot be takenaway.
Save us, Mr Trump.
How do we do it?
What can we do for you?
Here's the problem.
In the process, Go north toTurkey.
There I disrupted the region.
Go south in the region.
(05:59):
You still have a problem.
Qatar is still astate-sponsored terrorist
country.
Get over yourselves, people.
Hamas has been housed theresince day one and yet you're
sitting here telling me we'relooking for peace.
Brett Baer from Fox Newsinterviews the prime minister of
Qatar and I applaud the factthat he said we should release
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the prisoners, but alleged thatIsrael is guilty and no
Palestinian state.
No peace in the region.
What does one have to do withthe other?
You want protection in theregion from Iran.
You want protection.
You want to see development.
The only of those three statesthat had the balls to sign the
Abraham Accords and to do anydeal with Israel was the UAE,
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but Qatar continues to supportstate sponsored terrorism.
Let me remind everyone here howmany billions of Donalds were
funneled from Qatar, SaudiArabia these rogue countries to
the universities that we'rebitching about.
For the last year and a half,that has been promoting nothing
but hate.
Did Donald Trump demand an endto this?
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Did Donald Trump demand an endto funding terrorism?
Not a word on this, Just highfives on how wonderful America
is.
So what does the United Statesdo?
Sure, Donald Trump didn'tpretend to pump fist.
You know, Prince Suleiman ofSaudi Arabia, like Biden, fucked
up a few years ago but insteadhe high-fived them and said,
yeah, yeah, whenever you'reready, come on into the Abraham
(07:24):
Accords.
But in the meantime, did youstop anything against Israel?
No, In fact, you dumped yourally.
You dumped.
You left her at the altar whenyou needed to be with Israel in
this case and fight for her, notbehind closed doors, but in
front of these crowds, sayingyou need to stop the
state-sponsored terrorism.
(07:45):
You stop funneling money tothese areas, to the universities
that you are having problems in.
On one hand, Donald Trump callsto cut Columbia and Harvard, but
where is the money coming?
From?
Qatar, Saudi Arabia?
So I'm trying to understandhere why is no one bringing this
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up?
Why do we continue to giveDonald Trump a high five.
You know, forget the plane,forget the.
You know, Chuck Schumer, forgetall this kind of stuff.
Dt, good for you for what youbrought to the US, but what harm
did you cause this week bypretending that you're a
peacemaker?
You're not a peacemaker, You'rea dealmaker.
Don't delude yourself If you'rechasing the Nobel Peace Prize
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and you think bringing Syria tothe table and the world is going
to change.
Syria is slaughteringChristians, Druze and Muslims
and no one is saying a wordabout this.
That was theirs where DonaldTrump doesn't get a high five
but a kick in the nuts.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, let me ask you a question, David.
If you have to go and havedinner at a table and there's
nothing on the table you like,but you still have to eat a meal
, what do you do?
(09:10):
Do you eat the bread and butterand skip?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
over the meat and chicken.
Hey, Stuart, can I answer thequestion?
Who invited me to this table?
What are you referring to?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, you see, you kind of went into a geopolitical
rant.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well hello.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What do you think we do here?
I understand, whereby you pointout that the autocrats are in
jeopardy with any rise in Iran.
Now, in saying that, thePresident of the United States
was, of course, greeted withlove and attention, because we
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have all the military and themight, and without a partner
like the United States, in somefashion their autocracy would
likely cease to exist.
Maybe, yeah, would likely Okay.
Cease to exist?
(10:11):
Maybe, yeah, would likely okay,okay.
So, politically speaking, theneed of the united states, or
the need of china, or the needof russia would be needed for
these autocrats to survive it.
They will not survive withoutone of the three, but, but the
United States is the one ofchoice because it is the most
powerful in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Let me remind you that Saudi Arabia cozied up to
China and Iran during the Bidenadministration.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Correct, correct, correct as a backstop, but that
slowly dwindled away.
But what the facts are, therewill come a time where they're
going to need the United States,which is why they're giving the
United States billions ofdollars Now.
The extremists in thesecountries that are supporting
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this college insanity that needsto be called out.
David, I totally agree, but letme ask you a question, david Do
you start to cozy up to try andjawbone these people into
civility, or do you just standon your hand and say I'm not
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doing anything unless it's ahundred percent of this, and
hold on, hold on, hold on, holdon?
You made an assumption becauseit wasn't in the press, because
no country would want this inthe press in the region, because
they don't want to bedestabilized by we're siding
with israel either.
So again, you don't know, nordo I, what dialogue no, no, no,
(11:45):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
first of all, it's arrogant for an american to use
the word civility.
I'm bringing civility to thisregion.
It's arrogant.
Thank you so much.
We appreciate it.
Even, and this is Americanideology.
I'm saying I'm bringingcivility to the region.
Spare me, spare me, spare me,spare me.
Let me remind everybodysomething about this region as
well Human rights violations,anti-gay legislation, hate
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towards the blacks.
This is a region that stillpromotes all this stuff.
So let's get real of who you'regoing to bed with.
Number one, number two Hold on.
Region that still does, stillpromotes all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
So let's get real of who you're going to bed with.
Number one, number two, hold on.
You asked me how did youdestabilize the cccp, how did
you destabilize russia?
Oh my god, stewart stewart,stewart, stewart.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I adore when you do this.
Can you tell me, can you tellme the united states is beholden
to Saudi Arabia for oil?
Okay, there's money, there'sinvestment.
Let's get real.
This is what Donald Trump wants.
He keeps calling it the art ofthe deal.
I'm not denying that heshouldn't do it.
It's great, it's wonderful.
Keep doing it.
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What I'm trying to say is youbrought let me remind you who
you brought to the table.
You brought a terrorist to thetable from Syria who overthrew a
government to become president.
You lauded this guy by beingyou know, hey, he's the guy.
He is killing, slaughteringChristians.
Druze, israel has had to go inand protect the Druze community
Up in the north.
The Kurds are in there, likeSyria is a freaking mess.
And you went to the guy and yousaid you're a peacemaker, you
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are a peacemaker.
This is the ignorance thatAmericans continue to bring to
the Middle East, because today'shero let me remind you who also
did this, stuart Obama did thatin Egypt when the Muslim
Brotherhood overthrew Mubarak.
Don't get caught up in theshiny penny syndrome.
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You've got to know that thereis a big problem here.
And you went ahead and you saidto Syria listen, syria is
funneling arms into the regionfrom Iran.
If you stop Syria, great, butbe careful who you go to bed
with you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Stop Syria, great, but be careful who you go to bed
with, david, when you offer.
But again, david, I applaudyour myopic view, which isn't
necessarily wrong.
You're focusing on a single wayto do business.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
No sir.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
David, david, david, I let you rant.
You need to look at history.
Yes, yes, the Arab history andthe Judea-Samara history is long
, but let's look at modernhistory how the United States
single-handedly destabilized thelargest threat to the world,
which was the USSR, and what itdid?
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By destabilizing the region insome aspects and then hooking
them into a more moderateviewpoint through economics and
through partnership, and that'show Gorbachev got to tear down
that wall.
And again, the military buildup, the ostrich in the sand, the
walls put up, the war might,doesn't work in a region like
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the middle east.
The, the cccp, went in therethree, four times and got
eviscerated to try the ussr, notthe ccp, you know like.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
At least let people know that you're not a soviet
and you're calling it by thesoviet letters, by the by the
american.
Let's go with that.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The USSR went into Afghanistan, syria umpteen times
and was decimated for themtrying to get control of a
region.
The control of that regionisn't going to be done through
strength and might.
The control or the moderationof that community will be
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introduction to capitalism, andthat's the only way that's going
to free that I'm listening tothis arrogance.
It's unbelievable.
Come on, come on, eric Let meput it this way Canada is a
useless country in the politicalsphere.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
You're caught up in theAmerican black community.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know what, stuart ?
Stuart, if you're great athurling insults, thank you so
much, but you still are.
You call my view myopic.
I want to thank you for callingit myopic.
I can tell you one thingAmerican arrogance in this
region has hurt people forgenerations.
America knows best.
America taking down the USSRtaking down the USSR, stuart,
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taking down the USSR brought youPutin Taking down the to think
that today you are going tochange a region that is so
disparagingly ultra-wealthy andultra-poor.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You're going to change, David.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, stuart, please, the belief that you're going to
change this region.
Stuart, you're not.
You've empowered it.
You continue to make the samemistake believing America
understands the culture of theregion.
You didn't.
You don't.
And I'll tell you what this is.
And I'll wrap this up okay,because we're already overboard.
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When you come in, like otherpresidents have saying, I will
bring American capitalism to theregion in a variety of
different ways.
We will provide Americanism,americanism, americanism.
You only benefit a certaingroup, but the rest of the
population.
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It happened in Egypt.
It's happened in Jordan.
You have peace treaties there,peace treaties, not Abrahamic
courts, peace treaties.
And the people continue to hateIsrael and call for its
destruction.
If this is what you call peace,oh boy, dude, I don't think you
guys get it.
And this is not.
And the peace treaty with Egyptis now what?
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How many years?
Almost 50.
And it's barely held by athread.
Because when Jimmy Carter threwIsrael under the bus to make a
peace deal and Donald Trumpright now has to be really
careful not to throw his allyunder the bus to force a deal
that will hurt the region evenfurther.
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It doesn't work as well and assmoothly as breaking down the
USSR.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
David, before you wrap this up, as you like to say
that I'm an American and I havethis globalist type view and
how the United States tossedIsrael under the bus, I would
just like to ask you a questionCan you name me one Canadian
prime minister that hassupported Israel in the bus?
I would just like to ask you aquestion Can you name me one
Canadian prime minister that hassupported Israel in the last 20
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years?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, stephen Harper.
Thank you very much On thatnote, stuart.
Let's wrap it up, because Idon't understand why you think
that America you're telling methat America just because
America is stronger, canada'sweak foreign policy that
justifies American policy.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
No America has done more for the state of Israel
than Canada or any other statein this world.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What relevance is that to the region?
What relevance is that?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
David.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Explain to me what's the relevance.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You're right, david.
What's the relevance?
You're right, david.
You know the the only countryon the planet that has done more
for israel other than israelhas been the united states.
That's it.
The conversation is simple.
No other country has doneanything for that country other
than other than unbelievable, sothat gives you the right to
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tell me you're again, absolutely.
I would enjoy using thatlanguage.
See, I'm not yelling andscreaming today, david.
I'm being very quiet, veryserene.
I thoroughly enjoy us doingthis rant.
I thoroughly enjoy taking theopposite side of just about
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anything you're going to talkabout.
In fact, I think I can count,out of the 800 episodes that we
have done, that maybe there are20 that you and I have agreed on
the same episode.
Really, it's been that little.
You do a fabulous job, you're afabulous person and you really
do know a lot of the issues,especially in the Middle East.
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The only point I was trying toget across today.
The only thing is there is noother country other than Israel
itself.
Supporting Israel for the mostpart.
That's it, and, with the goodgrace of the United States, has
provided it a lot, or in fact Iwould say 90% of everything that
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it's needed to do it itself.
No other country has been therefor Israel in the last 75 years
at the level that United Stateshas.
Is it a perfect relationship?
The answer is no.
Has any president been aperfect partner for Israel?
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No, and there's been no perfectprime minister either, and I'm
sorry I forgot about StephenHarper.
I'll give you that he was primeminister for less than a second
, and that's another thing.
How is nine years less than asecond?
Because he had no continuity ingovernment.
He was in and out.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Nine years in government Is Because he had no
continuity in government.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
He was in and out Nine years in government.
Is it called in and out?
How many years have theConservatives been in power in
Canada?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Stuart, you're off the rails here with what you're
saying here.
Again, I appreciate what you'retrying to do.
If you want to tell me thatAmerica is better than Canada, I
give it to you that America ingeneral has been a better friend
to Canada, absolutely.
Let me also remind you thatfrom 2008 till 2016, obama tried
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to destroy Israel.
So, while you're right that theUnited States has done,
whatever up and down, I agreewith you, it doesn't negate, it
doesn't change what's happeningnow in the region.
If the United States, stuart, ifthe United States is a world
leader we know it and Israel isIsrael's, first to say, thank
you, friend, for helping us indoing this.
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All I'm saying is don't getcaught up in your high fives
right now that you've changedthe region.
You brought civility.
You just said it.
You're bringing civility to theregion.
All I'm saying to you is don'tget caught up in that, because
that's not real.
What is real is go look at theculture, go look at the attitude
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, go look how the money is.
What's happening there.
Listen, not to the Americanpress, but to the Arab media, by
the way the Arab media onReuters.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The Arab media in Reuters just on.
The press is saying, as the USpresident landed in Riyadh on
Tuesday and while war is ragingin gaza, the normalization for
saudi israel uh process is beingpushed and moved along.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
No, no, you're missing my question, but my
question is to you who sponsorsAl Jazeera?
Qatar?
Who housed Hamas?
Qatar?
Who has called on, who hasblamed Israel for almost the
entirety of the conflict?
Saudi Arabia, qatar?
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So when you tell me that youbring, you're trying to change
something, and you keep hearingthis.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
All I'm saying stewart the whole rant was one
thing I understand, but it'sokay.
I'm enjoying this and you know,thank god, we cut this podcast
up to little pieces and put itout there.
There's a lot of good littlesnips here and I'm loving this.
I got one more thing I want tothrow at you.
Post and again this is an areaof your expertise post
Post-World War II, where did theNazis flee?
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Where did they end up?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
The Nazis went to Argentina, but also, let me
remind you, the United Statesand the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And where else.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
No, they went all over the world any country that
harbored them.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Okay, so all these countries that harbored Is
Argentina, a wonderful country.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I'm still trying to understand the relevance, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm trying to tell you that where you know these
people from Hamas that need tobe brought to a court or a grave
, as I agree with youwholeheartedly.
We don't disagree with that.
These people have blood ontheir hands at a level in which
no other person has in thisplanet and need to be brought to
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justice, and whatever thatjustice may be, may it be served
quickly, swiftly and painfully,and we agree with that.
They ran to the only place thatwas willing to accept them,
with probably the money from thepeople in which they had, which
is also another issue.
So they ran to Qatar.
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Now, in Qatar, in the UnitedStates, in Canada, in every
single country in this world,you have people that just hate.
They hate Jews, they hateblacks, they hate Chinese, they
hate Japanese, they hate.
But the hate for Israel ispurely unique.
Let's separate it now, okay.
Where the hate for Israel ispurely unique, it still doesn't
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change the fact that people thathave hate will find each other.
Is it the entire Qatarigovernment?
Maybe we don't know, but doknow the entire Qatari
government, as we started thisrant, is an autocrat state.
It will choose itself beforeanything else of all.
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And no, but to prove my pointif their, if their
sustainability is beingthreatened, is being threatened,
are they going to choose apartnership with the United
States, with civility, or arethey going to choose the animals
in Iran that are going to tearits walls down?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let me remind you, let me remind you my friend, and
I hear what you're saying and Iwill agree to a point, but I
will disagree.
But oh, is that what it matters, right?
I should just agree with you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I just don't understand.
You agree to a point whichmeans we're going down and I'm
articulating a point, maybebetter.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I think what you continue to believe people is
Qatar without you know.
It's funny, I don't understand.
You want to put, do you makeconditions Like let me give you
a perception, qatar gives you aplane, you give them whatever
they want.
Did Donald Trump say you knowwhat Al Jazeera's got to go?
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Al Jazeera's causing harm inthe United States, let alone in
Israel?
Nope, I didn't hear any of that.
I didn't hear anything aboutDonald Trump saying to Qatar you
need in Israel.
Nope, I didn't hear any of that.
I didn't hear anything aboutyou know Donald Trump saying to
Qatar you need to stop thestate-sponsored terrorism.
Didn't hear any of that.
I didn't hear anything thatreally related to helping the
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region.
I heard stuff that helped thecountry.
Listen, the United States has amilitary.
Listen, qatar built a militarybase for the United States with
their own money.
Everything is beautiful.
What a wonderful gift.
It's great.
Everybody's happy.
It's a strategic location.
Again, the United States islooking out for whom, and so if
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you're going to help a friend inthe region by saying you know,
yeah, I'm helping you, but I'mnot going to give you what you
really need you want to bring,listen, stuart, it's.
I mean, we're way over.
But here's the question for youIf these Middle Eastern leaders
are all saying we can havepeace in the region, we just
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need a Palestinian state, how doyou get it done?
Because that's all they keeprepeating.
It's all you heard from SaudiArabia, it's all you heard from
Qatar.
So how are you going to getthat done, david Trump?
How are you going to get?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
it done, david.
April 13th 2024, 300 missileslaunched from Iran, jets
scrambled from the base that youcalled from the sponsor of hate
, qatar, to intercept and to aid, and fighters were launched
from every single Abraham Accordcountry to intercept the 300
(28:30):
missiles that were going to hitIsrael.
I will give you, this is not aperfect place and it is far from
going to be resolved with ahigh five for Donald Trump.
However, david, if we didn'thave the United States or Israel
, her land, have thepartnerships and agreements as
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thinly iced they are, israelwould have been stricken by more
missiles and caused more damage.
Again, a perfect world?
No.
Is it a better world?
Maybe, maybe, but saying it'sno, it's this or nothing.
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I'm sorry, david.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
When you start, you know you're a very, you're a
smart guy and you know how todeal with people.
But let me ask you the questionDo people negotiate the same
way?
No.
Do people have the same values?
No.
Do people have the sameobjectives?
No.
So let's be careful here aboutthe results of what you're
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trying to do.
I started by saying super job,americans signing trillions of
dollars.
Your economy is going to get alovely little boost.
All I pointed out was you had achance to move upon in the
middle east in a way, andinstead of being so excited
about getting gifts and highfives and allotted, you had to
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go one more step and it didn'thappen.
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's the opportunity lost I'm glad you brought up
chess, because if you play chessand you've played it for any
amount of time, which I have youmentioned the least powerful
instrument called a pawn, andwhere most novice chess players
play is they think that everypiece is weighted by its power
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on the board.
Let me explain to you A pawncan put you into check and a
pawn can put you into checkmate.
Therefore, again, in a firmbeliever that you can't get
everything and you can't geteverything at the same time, and
we only know what's in thefront end, not in the back end
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of these conversations, and Ihave a little faith that we came
a little better off today thanwe were yesterday.
David, and yes, united Statesgets the high five for the money
.
He gets the high five for the400 plane order by Qatar, the
free plane to replace thewonderful big beast.
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But, david, that's not what I'mfocusing on.
I'm focusing on you're takingthese autocrat countries and
you're taking their money andyou're allowing them to be hey,
you're part of our club, butwait a second.
You need to sort of now allowus to do this, and this allowed
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us to knock down 300 missiles inthe sky.
And on that note, david, I'mpressing the button.
All right, that brings us to anend.
I'm not letting David speakanymore.
He's just going to try andinsult me and try and cut me up
and try and cut me.
How foolish I am.
American, if you're listening,I am.
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But this was a fun and goodepisode.
We appreciate you, we love you.
Thank you guys.
We ran double the time, david,and David says my music's too
loud so I'll just take it downlower.
Thanks, david, I don't knowwhat I would do without you.
This has been like 45 years ofjust fun Party.
Say goodbye.
Say goodbye, stuart, bye.
Wow, do you know what I hear?
I'm in English.
I can't hear you.
I can't.
You know it is another day ofthe week, but it's my most
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You know, david and I weretalking in the little we call it
the green room and we were sortof mumbling what should we rant
(01:09):
about today?
And I stumbled across thistopic where David salivated over
my lack of experience,knowledge, and this wonderful
place called the Middle East,where I made a statement, where
Donald Trump has made a changein the Middle East and he is
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going through trying to bringcivility to a region that has
not known civility in a very,very long time and, you know, on
top of trying to bring peace.
Through the coin phrasestrength, he's managed to
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capture trillions of dollars ofinvestment in the United States.
And considering that DonaldTrump is not the or not
recognized as a globalist, notrecognized as a globalist like
another North American head ofstate is, they all seem to be
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rolling out the American flag,doling out their cash and only
trying to be a piece of a partof the American dream, the
American dream.
But when a people are sopolitically and ideologically
different, how was Donald Trumpable to grab their money, david?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh, come on, Stuart, Smart boy, that you are asking
such a silly question.
Ladies and gentlemen, DonaldTrump is on a tour and let's
start with the high fives, asStuart said.
Trillions of dollars, includingBoeing, who he ripped a new
tush this week about a plane.
Ok, GE, you're talking aboutbig bucks, 200 planes ordered by
(03:03):
.
You know, commitment to Boeing,the biggest order they've ever
had in their lives.
Now, these are not deals, bythe way, that were made in 24
hours.
These were deals that were allconsummated on this trip.
Ok, and that's what this is allabout.
Let's, let's just be real.
It didn't just all of a sudden.
(03:31):
We showed up in Qatar and 24hours later, we have a trillion
dollars in deals.
This takes time and thesebusiness leaders who flooded
with Donald Trump to this SaudiArabia, to Qatar, to UAE, were
looking to close the deals, andthe biggest and the best of
America shows up.
That's great news for AmericaProsperity, business, employment
.
It's great news for AmericaProsperity, business, employment
.
This is what Donald Trump hassaid from the very beginning.
(03:52):
So, high five, DT, but low fivekicking the nuts to DT.
I'm going to bring civility.
Let me remind everybody that azebra doesn't change its stripes
here and the region is stillhateful.
This is still an area and ifyou listen to the way they talk
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peace, Stuart.
Peace is going to come and isnot coming.
Let's get real.
And while Donald Trump is tryingto take high fives by saying,
look, and even as we speak, look, Trump gave a nuclear deal
proposal to Iran.
Oh, come on, We've been herebefore.
All of a sudden, you're goingto tell me Iran is going to act
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any differently than Hitler.
Hitler told you know the world,OK, peace in our times.
You know, Neville Chamberlaincame back like an idiot in 1938
saying look, I signed a deal, Ihave a piece of paper with
Hitler, and we knew whathappened a year later.
The Iranians cannot be trusted.
You can't change your statementfrom one minute to the next, Mr
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Trump.
You said they're nottrustworthy.
You said we have to beat themup, and now you're telling me
they're friends, Whoa whoa.
Now you.
You're telling me they'refriends, Whoa whoa.
Now you're in a region that isvery petrified Saudi Arabia,
Qatar and UAE.
There's a reason, Stuart, thatIran has come up in this
conversation.
It's because these threenations are all run by who Kings
(05:17):
?
They're all autocraticallyruled, Family ruled.
And what does Iran like to do?
Put Hezbollah, put Hamas, putthe Houthis in these kinds of
regions to dethrone thesefamilies.
All of a sudden, now SaudiArabia, Qatar, UAE are looking
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at Donald Trump and saying wedon't want to be dethroned, Our
family power cannot be takenaway.
Save us, Mr Trump.
How do we do it?
What can we do for you?
Here's the problem.
In the process, Go north toTurkey.
There I disrupted the region.
Go south in the region.
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You still have a problem.
Qatar is still astate-sponsored terrorist
country.
Get over yourselves, people.
Hamas has been housed theresince day one and yet you're
sitting here telling me we'relooking for peace.
Brett Baer from Fox Newsinterviews the prime minister of
Qatar and I applaud the factthat he said we should release
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the prisoners, but alleged thatIsrael is guilty and no
Palestinian state.
No peace in the region.
What does one have to do withthe other?
You want protection in theregion from Iran.
You want protection.
You want to see development.
The only of those three statesthat had the balls to sign the
Abraham Accords and to do anydeal with Israel was the UAE,
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but Qatar continues to supportstate sponsored terrorism.
Let me remind everyone here howmany billions of Donalds were
funneled from Qatar, SaudiArabia these rogue countries to
the universities that we'rebitching about.
For the last year and a half,that has been promoting nothing
but hate.
Did Donald Trump demand an endto this?
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Did Donald Trump demand an endto funding terrorism?
Not a word on this, Just highfives on how wonderful America
is.
So what does the United Statesdo?
Sure, Donald Trump didn'tpretend to pump fist.
You know, Prince Suleiman ofSaudi Arabia, like Biden, fucked
up a few years ago but insteadhe high-fived them and said,
yeah, yeah, whenever you'reready, come on into the Abraham
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Accords.
But in the meantime, did youstop anything against Israel?
No, In fact, you dumped yourally.
You dumped.
You left her at the altar whenyou needed to be with Israel in
this case and fight for her, notbehind closed doors, but in
front of these crowds, sayingyou need to stop the
state-sponsored terrorism.
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You stop funneling money tothese areas, to the universities
that you are having problems in.
On one hand, Donald Trump callsto cut Columbia and Harvard, but
where is the money coming?
From?
Qatar, Saudi Arabia?
So I'm trying to understandhere why is no one bringing this
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up?
Why do we continue to giveDonald Trump a high five.
You know, forget the plane,forget the.
You know, Chuck Schumer, forgetall this kind of stuff.
Dt, good for you for what youbrought to the US, but what harm
did you cause this week bypretending that you're a
peacemaker?
You're not a peacemaker, You'rea dealmaker.
Don't delude yourself If you'rechasing the Nobel Peace Prize
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and you think bringing Syria tothe table and the world is going
to change.
Syria is slaughteringChristians, Druze and Muslims
and no one is saying a wordabout this.
That was theirs where DonaldTrump doesn't get a high five
but a kick in the nuts.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, let me ask you a question, David.
If you have to go and havedinner at a table and there's
nothing on the table you like,but you still have to eat a meal
, what do you do?
(09:10):
Do you eat the bread and butterand skip?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
over the meat and chicken.
Hey, Stuart, can I answer thequestion?
Who invited me to this table?
What are you referring to?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, you see, you kind of went into a geopolitical
rant.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well hello.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What do you think we do here?
I understand, whereby you pointout that the autocrats are in
jeopardy with any rise in Iran.
Now, in saying that, thePresident of the United States
was, of course, greeted withlove and attention, because we
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have all the military and themight, and without a partner
like the United States, in somefashion their autocracy would
likely cease to exist.
Maybe, yeah, would likely Okay.
Cease to exist?
(10:11):
Maybe, yeah, would likely okay,okay.
So, politically speaking, theneed of the united states, or
the need of china, or the needof russia would be needed for
these autocrats to survive it.
They will not survive withoutone of the three, but, but the
United States is the one ofchoice because it is the most
powerful in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Let me remind you that Saudi Arabia cozied up to
China and Iran during the Bidenadministration.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Correct, correct, correct as a backstop, but that
slowly dwindled away.
But what the facts are, therewill come a time where they're
going to need the United States,which is why they're giving the
United States billions ofdollars Now.
The extremists in thesecountries that are supporting
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this college insanity that needsto be called out.
David, I totally agree, but letme ask you a question, david Do
you start to cozy up to try andjawbone these people into
civility, or do you just standon your hand and say I'm not
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doing anything unless it's ahundred percent of this, and
hold on, hold on, hold on, holdon?
You made an assumption becauseit wasn't in the press, because
no country would want this inthe press in the region, because
they don't want to bedestabilized by we're siding
with israel either.
So again, you don't know, nordo I, what dialogue no, no, no,
(11:45):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
first of all, it's arrogant for an american to use
the word civility.
I'm bringing civility to thisregion.
It's arrogant.
Thank you so much.
We appreciate it.
Even, and this is Americanideology.
I'm saying I'm bringingcivility to the region.
Spare me, spare me, spare me,spare me.
Let me remind everybodysomething about this region as
well Human rights violations,anti-gay legislation, hate
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towards the blacks.
This is a region that stillpromotes all this stuff.
So let's get real of who you'regoing to bed with.
Number one, number two Hold on.
Region that still does, stillpromotes all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
So let's get real of who you're going to bed with.
Number one, number two, hold on.
You asked me how did youdestabilize the cccp, how did
you destabilize russia?
Oh my god, stewart stewart,stewart, stewart.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I adore when you do this.
Can you tell me, can you tellme the united states is beholden
to Saudi Arabia for oil?
Okay, there's money, there'sinvestment.
Let's get real.
This is what Donald Trump wants.
He keeps calling it the art ofthe deal.
I'm not denying that heshouldn't do it.
It's great, it's wonderful.
Keep doing it.
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What I'm trying to say is youbrought let me remind you who
you brought to the table.
You brought a terrorist to thetable from Syria who overthrew a
government to become president.
You lauded this guy by beingyou know, hey, he's the guy.
He is killing, slaughteringChristians.
Druze, israel has had to go inand protect the Druze community
Up in the north.
The Kurds are in there, likeSyria is a freaking mess.
And you went to the guy and yousaid you're a peacemaker, you
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are a peacemaker.
This is the ignorance thatAmericans continue to bring to
the Middle East, because today'shero let me remind you who also
did this, stuart Obama did thatin Egypt when the Muslim
Brotherhood overthrew Mubarak.
Don't get caught up in theshiny penny syndrome.
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You've got to know that thereis a big problem here.
And you went ahead and you saidto Syria listen, syria is
funneling arms into the regionfrom Iran.
If you stop Syria, great, butbe careful who you go to bed
with you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Stop Syria, great, but be careful who you go to bed
with, david, when you offer.
But again, david, I applaudyour myopic view, which isn't
necessarily wrong.
You're focusing on a single wayto do business.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
No sir.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
David, david, david, I let you rant.
You need to look at history.
Yes, yes, the Arab history andthe Judea-Samara history is long
, but let's look at modernhistory how the United States
single-handedly destabilized thelargest threat to the world,
which was the USSR, and what itdid?
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By destabilizing the region insome aspects and then hooking
them into a more moderateviewpoint through economics and
through partnership, and that'show Gorbachev got to tear down
that wall.
And again, the military buildup, the ostrich in the sand, the
walls put up, the war might,doesn't work in a region like
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the middle east.
The, the cccp, went in therethree, four times and got
eviscerated to try the ussr, notthe ccp, you know like.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
At least let people know that you're not a soviet
and you're calling it by thesoviet letters, by the by the
american.
Let's go with that.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The USSR went into Afghanistan, syria umpteen times
and was decimated for themtrying to get control of a
region.
The control of that regionisn't going to be done through
strength and might.
The control or the moderationof that community will be
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introduction to capitalism, andthat's the only way that's going
to free that I'm listening tothis arrogance.
It's unbelievable.
Come on, come on, eric Let meput it this way Canada is a
useless country in the politicalsphere.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
You're caught up in theAmerican black community.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know what, stuart ?
Stuart, if you're great athurling insults, thank you so
much, but you still are.
You call my view myopic.
I want to thank you for callingit myopic.
I can tell you one thingAmerican arrogance in this
region has hurt people forgenerations.
America knows best.
America taking down the USSRtaking down the USSR, stuart,
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taking down the USSR brought youPutin Taking down the to think
that today you are going tochange a region that is so
disparagingly ultra-wealthy andultra-poor.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You're going to change, David.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, stuart, please, the belief that you're going to
change this region.
Stuart, you're not.
You've empowered it.
You continue to make the samemistake believing America
understands the culture of theregion.
You didn't.
You don't.
And I'll tell you what this is.
And I'll wrap this up okay,because we're already overboard.
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When you come in, like otherpresidents have saying, I will
bring American capitalism to theregion in a variety of
different ways.
We will provide Americanism,americanism, americanism.
You only benefit a certaingroup, but the rest of the
population.
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It happened in Egypt.
It's happened in Jordan.
You have peace treaties there,peace treaties, not Abrahamic
courts, peace treaties.
And the people continue to hateIsrael and call for its
destruction.
If this is what you call peace,oh boy, dude, I don't think you
guys get it.
And this is not.
And the peace treaty with Egyptis now what?
(17:51):
How many years?
Almost 50.
And it's barely held by athread.
Because when Jimmy Carter threwIsrael under the bus to make a
peace deal and Donald Trumpright now has to be really
careful not to throw his allyunder the bus to force a deal
that will hurt the region evenfurther.
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It doesn't work as well and assmoothly as breaking down the
USSR.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
David, before you wrap this up, as you like to say
that I'm an American and I havethis globalist type view and
how the United States tossedIsrael under the bus, I would
just like to ask you a questionCan you name me one Canadian
prime minister that hassupported Israel in the bus?
I would just like to ask you aquestion Can you name me one
Canadian prime minister that hassupported Israel in the last 20
(18:41):
years?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, stephen Harper.
Thank you very much On thatnote, stuart.
Let's wrap it up, because Idon't understand why you think
that America you're telling methat America just because
America is stronger, canada'sweak foreign policy that
justifies American policy.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
No America has done more for the state of Israel
than Canada or any other statein this world.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What relevance is that to the region?
What relevance is that?
Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
David.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Explain to me what's the relevance.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You're right, david.
What's the relevance?
You're right, david.
You know the the only countryon the planet that has done more
for israel other than israelhas been the united states.
That's it.
The conversation is simple.
No other country has doneanything for that country other
than other than unbelievable, sothat gives you the right to
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tell me you're again, absolutely.
I would enjoy using thatlanguage.
See, I'm not yelling andscreaming today, david.
I'm being very quiet, veryserene.
I thoroughly enjoy us doingthis rant.
I thoroughly enjoy taking theopposite side of just about
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anything you're going to talkabout.
In fact, I think I can count,out of the 800 episodes that we
have done, that maybe there are20 that you and I have agreed on
the same episode.
Really, it's been that little.
You do a fabulous job, you're afabulous person and you really
do know a lot of the issues,especially in the Middle East.
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The only point I was trying toget across today.
The only thing is there is noother country other than Israel
itself.
Supporting Israel for the mostpart.
That's it, and, with the goodgrace of the United States, has
provided it a lot, or in fact Iwould say 90% of everything that
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it's needed to do it itself.
No other country has been therefor Israel in the last 75 years
at the level that United Stateshas.
Is it a perfect relationship?
The answer is no.
Has any president been aperfect partner for Israel?
(21:02):
No, and there's been no perfectprime minister either, and I'm
sorry I forgot about StephenHarper.
I'll give you that he was primeminister for less than a second
, and that's another thing.
How is nine years less than asecond?
Because he had no continuity ingovernment.
He was in and out.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Nine years in government Is Because he had no
continuity in government.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
He was in and out Nine years in government.
Is it called in and out?
How many years have theConservatives been in power in
Canada?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Stuart, you're off the rails here with what you're
saying here.
Again, I appreciate what you'retrying to do.
If you want to tell me thatAmerica is better than Canada, I
give it to you that America ingeneral has been a better friend
to Canada, absolutely.
Let me also remind you thatfrom 2008 till 2016, obama tried
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to destroy Israel.
So, while you're right that theUnited States has done,
whatever up and down, I agreewith you, it doesn't negate, it
doesn't change what's happeningnow in the region.
If the United States, stuart, ifthe United States is a world
leader we know it and Israel isIsrael's, first to say, thank
you, friend, for helping us indoing this.
(22:08):
All I'm saying is don't getcaught up in your high fives
right now that you've changedthe region.
You brought civility.
You just said it.
You're bringing civility to theregion.
All I'm saying to you is don'tget caught up in that, because
that's not real.
What is real is go look at theculture, go look at the attitude
(22:30):
, go look how the money is.
What's happening there.
Listen, not to the Americanpress, but to the Arab media, by
the way the Arab media onReuters.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The Arab media in Reuters just on.
The press is saying, as the USpresident landed in Riyadh on
Tuesday and while war is ragingin gaza, the normalization for
saudi israel uh process is beingpushed and moved along.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
No, no, you're missing my question, but my
question is to you who sponsorsAl Jazeera?
Qatar?
Who housed Hamas?
Qatar?
Who has called on, who hasblamed Israel for almost the
entirety of the conflict?
Saudi Arabia, qatar?
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So when you tell me that youbring, you're trying to change
something, and you keep hearingthis.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
All I'm saying stewart the whole rant was one
thing I understand, but it'sokay.
I'm enjoying this and you know,thank god, we cut this podcast
up to little pieces and put itout there.
There's a lot of good littlesnips here and I'm loving this.
I got one more thing I want tothrow at you.
Post and again this is an areaof your expertise post
Post-World War II, where did theNazis flee?
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Where did they end up?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
The Nazis went to Argentina, but also, let me
remind you, the United Statesand the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And where else.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
No, they went all over the world any country that
harbored them.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Okay, so all these countries that harbored Is
Argentina, a wonderful country.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I'm still trying to understand the relevance, okay.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I'm trying to tell you that where you know these
people from Hamas that need tobe brought to a court or a grave
, as I agree with youwholeheartedly.
We don't disagree with that.
These people have blood ontheir hands at a level in which
no other person has in thisplanet and need to be brought to
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justice, and whatever thatjustice may be, may it be served
quickly, swiftly and painfully,and we agree with that.
They ran to the only place thatwas willing to accept them,
with probably the money from thepeople in which they had, which
is also another issue.
So they ran to Qatar.
(25:05):
Now, in Qatar, in the UnitedStates, in Canada, in every
single country in this world,you have people that just hate.
They hate Jews, they hateblacks, they hate Chinese, they
hate Japanese, they hate.
But the hate for Israel ispurely unique.
Let's separate it now, okay.
Where the hate for Israel ispurely unique, it still doesn't
(25:26):
change the fact that people thathave hate will find each other.
Is it the entire Qatarigovernment?
Maybe we don't know, but doknow the entire Qatari
government, as we started thisrant, is an autocrat state.
It will choose itself beforeanything else of all.
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And no, but to prove my pointif their, if their
sustainability is beingthreatened, is being threatened,
are they going to choose apartnership with the United
States, with civility, or arethey going to choose the animals
in Iran that are going to tearits walls down?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let me remind you, let me remind you my friend, and
I hear what you're saying and Iwill agree to a point, but I
will disagree.
But oh, is that what it matters, right?
I should just agree with you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I just don't understand.
You agree to a point whichmeans we're going down and I'm
articulating a point, maybebetter.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I think what you continue to believe people is
Qatar without you know.
It's funny, I don't understand.
You want to put, do you makeconditions Like let me give you
a perception, qatar gives you aplane, you give them whatever
they want.
Did Donald Trump say you knowwhat Al Jazeera's got to go?
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Al Jazeera's causing harm inthe United States, let alone in
Israel?
Nope, I didn't hear any of that.
I didn't hear anything aboutDonald Trump saying to Qatar you
need in Israel.
Nope, I didn't hear any of that.
I didn't hear anything aboutyou know Donald Trump saying to
Qatar you need to stop thestate-sponsored terrorism.
Didn't hear any of that.
I didn't hear anything thatreally related to helping the
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region.
I heard stuff that helped thecountry.
Listen, the United States has amilitary.
Listen, qatar built a militarybase for the United States with
their own money.
Everything is beautiful.
What a wonderful gift.
It's great.
Everybody's happy.
It's a strategic location.
Again, the United States islooking out for whom, and so if
(27:33):
you're going to help a friend inthe region by saying you know,
yeah, I'm helping you, but I'mnot going to give you what you
really need you want to bring,listen, stuart, it's.
I mean, we're way over.
But here's the question for youIf these Middle Eastern leaders
are all saying we can havepeace in the region, we just
(27:55):
need a Palestinian state, how doyou get it done?
Because that's all they keeprepeating.
It's all you heard from SaudiArabia, it's all you heard from
Qatar.
So how are you going to getthat done, david Trump?
How are you going to get?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
it done, david.
April 13th 2024, 300 missileslaunched from Iran, jets
scrambled from the base that youcalled from the sponsor of hate
, qatar, to intercept and to aid, and fighters were launched
from every single Abraham Accordcountry to intercept the 300
(28:30):
missiles that were going to hitIsrael.
I will give you, this is not aperfect place and it is far from
going to be resolved with ahigh five for Donald Trump.
However, david, if we didn'thave the United States or Israel
, her land, have thepartnerships and agreements as
(28:52):
thinly iced they are, israelwould have been stricken by more
missiles and caused more damage.
Again, a perfect world?
No.
Is it a better world?
Maybe, maybe, but saying it'sno, it's this or nothing.
(29:13):
I'm sorry, david.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
When you start, you know you're a very, you're a
smart guy and you know how todeal with people.
But let me ask you the questionDo people negotiate the same
way?
No.
Do people have the same values?
No.
Do people have the sameobjectives?
No.
So let's be careful here aboutthe results of what you're
(29:39):
trying to do.
I started by saying super job,americans signing trillions of
dollars.
Your economy is going to get alovely little boost.
All I pointed out was you had achance to move upon in the
middle east in a way, andinstead of being so excited
about getting gifts and highfives and allotted, you had to
(30:04):
go one more step and it didn'thappen.
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's the opportunity lost I'm glad you brought up
chess, because if you play chessand you've played it for any
amount of time, which I have youmentioned the least powerful
instrument called a pawn, andwhere most novice chess players
play is they think that everypiece is weighted by its power
(30:32):
on the board.
Let me explain to you A pawncan put you into check and a
pawn can put you into checkmate.
Therefore, again, in a firmbeliever that you can't get
everything and you can't geteverything at the same time, and
we only know what's in thefront end, not in the back end
(30:52):
of these conversations, and Ihave a little faith that we came
a little better off today thanwe were yesterday.
David, and yes, united Statesgets the high five for the money
.
He gets the high five for the400 plane order by Qatar, the
free plane to replace thewonderful big beast.
(31:15):
But, david, that's not what I'mfocusing on.
I'm focusing on you're takingthese autocrat countries and
you're taking their money andyou're allowing them to be hey,
you're part of our club, butwait a second.
You need to sort of now allowus to do this, and this allowed
(31:36):
us to knock down 300 missiles inthe sky.
And on that note, david, I'mpressing the button.
All right, that brings us to anend.
I'm not letting David speakanymore.
He's just going to try andinsult me and try and cut me up
and try and cut me.
How foolish I am.
American, if you're listening,I am.
(31:56):
But this was a fun and goodepisode.
We appreciate you, we love you.
Thank you guys.
We ran double the time, david,and David says my music's too
loud so I'll just take it downlower.
Thanks, david, I don't knowwhat I would do without you.
This has been like 45 years ofjust fun Party.
Say goodbye.
Say goodbye, stuart, bye.
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