Trump middle east peace plan

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Brad Johnson it is January 30 2020 and
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President Trump like all of the last all
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the American presidents in my lifetime
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at least has come forward with another
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with a his own version of a potential
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peace plan between the Palestinians
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Muslims will ever have you and the and
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Israel the one Jewish state in the world
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and I haven’t looked at it I know
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nothing about it I’ve heard nothing
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about it the only thing I know is that
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that the Muslims in the Palestinian
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territories started writing well before
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the thing was released saying they
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wouldn’t accept it which I think tells
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should tell any reasonable person
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anything they should need to know really
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doesn’t matter what the deal says
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they’re going to reject it but I’m gonna
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guess that you’ve looked at it what can
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you tell us well it’s it’s very
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interesting this time and naturally
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whoever’s in charge for the Palestinians
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in that area Hezbollah is going to be
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against a peace treaty or a peace
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solution for for Gaza West Bank and all
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of that and the reason of course and we
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saw this when the Palestinian Authority
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was still there and Yasser Arafat was
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still alive and at one point the
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Americans and the Israelis went to them
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and just looked at the list of
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everything of their demands and said ok
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we’ll give you everything on your list
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and Yasser Arafat went ballistic he said
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absolutely not no no no so I mean the
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the demands we knew were false and they
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were just always intended to be
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impossible to meet and the reason is
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because that was how he got power and
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money it made him relevant as an
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authority if there was an actual peace
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treaty Yasser Arafat would have become
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relatively irrelevant you know he could
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have been the governor of a little town
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in the middle of you know podunk and and
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and that would have been it whereas he
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was on the world stage as a leader as
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the head of the Palestinian Authority
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now that plet remains true for his below
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who’s running the show there it’s it’s
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it’s not something where it’s to their
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advantage in any way shape or form
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because that’s a major source of funding
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for them for the air a lot of the
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Hezbollah Hamas
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I’m sorry Hamas yeah so that’s a major
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mistake I apologize I’m sure I’ll get a
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lot of criticism on that one so I’m just
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talking about Hezbollah Hamas is gets a
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lot of their funding and and and and and
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they’re you know see that the world
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stage based on this Palestinian
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controversy so they’re always going to
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be against it so it’s got to be kind of
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shoved down their throat as a peace plan
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now all of the there’s a difference now
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under what President Trump is doing
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versus what everyone else did now
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personal Trump being a businessman has
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looked at this thing and has set it up
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as an economic vehicle and it’s set up
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in such a way that this gives real
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economic possibilities to that region to
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really grow and so it’s something that
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would be a huge advantage to the actual
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people living in the air controlled
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areas to go to this peace treaty so it
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would give them a homeland but it would
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also make them I put them in a position
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to be an economic you know not world
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stage powerhouse but still a strong
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economy where they could make money and
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do really well so that’s gonna appeal at
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the base level to the people in the area
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which is new where before it was always
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a political thing where they didn’t
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really delve into what it would look
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like inside so this is a very
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interesting tactic used by President
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Trump and of course with his background
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in business it is a natural thing for
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him to think of select I actually am
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very curious and interested in this now
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also at the same time we see some
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differences in the world stage as well
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Egypt Saudi Arabia for example on the
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one hand and say Iran and Turkey to some
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degree on the other hand where you have
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Iran and Turkey supporting a more
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radical Islamic approach very anti West
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us Israel all that where there that
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battle for control in the region and
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influence in the region has shaped up
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such that Egypt which is is the main
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population center I mean it’d be very
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difficult for anything to happen in that
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region to be a sort of a universal truth
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without Egypt just because they’re so
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big
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and Saudi Arabia a much smaller
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population but makes up for it in their
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economic clout just a based on the money
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so you have them now where it is as
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common it’s it’s shaped up such that
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it’s to their interest to have a
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solution there so you’ve got elements
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and influential important elements
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within the Arab world that could would
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find this a useful thing to have this
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this treaty take effect so now of course
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Iran and Turkey those people will be
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against it a lot of other people could
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Qatar will be against it but you do have
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the more powerful of the two groups
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probably supporting it
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I would certainly put Egypt against
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Turkey equitably in and Iran in Saudi
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Arabia perhaps but all added up you
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certainly have a sizeable important
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faction that could support this now the
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flying the element at this point is
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Jordan King Jordan is one of our better
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allies in the region and you know an
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influential person just in and of
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himself and the some of the territorial
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divisions how what would go to be split
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off from what was once Jordan be given
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to Palestine to the Palestinian homeland
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then are something that his people are
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objecting to so he’s getting some
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political pushback now he personally I
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don’t know if he would go for it without
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that and is responding to domestic
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pressure not if it’s just that his idea
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as well if he agrees with that negative
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thoughts towards towards that aspect of
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it not sure he cares they haven’t had
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control of that area for a very long
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time so don’t know but that’s the one
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fly in the ointment now on the other
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hand the king of Jordan is a pragmatic
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guy I mean an intelligent educated he
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you know he knows what needs to happen
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that would be better for all that sort
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of thing he can calculate all of those
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things so he’s going to be somebody that
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they could they can eventually probably
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negotiate something with if that’s such
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a big deal but that’s sort of the fly in
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the ointment right now and like I said
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the things are kind of aligned in a way
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that are different the economic elements
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to this the elements within the Arab
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world that would be supportive
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certainly the partnership that trump has
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forged with Israel by moving the capital
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of Jerusalem and these sorts of things
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he’s got some very deep running goodwill
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in Israel so I think there’s a high
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degree of trust for him out of Israel so
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I think the stars are aligned I would
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say for the first time me personally and
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I’ve been involved in the background of
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a lot of these things going on
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previously and and I would say for the
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first time there’s there’s maybe a real
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shot at this so I’m actually fairly
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optimistic and I think that President
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Trump has shown some creativity and
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intelligence on the way he’s put this
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together it’s it has a shop
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