Israel Settlements Do Not Violate the Law
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Israel Settlements Do Not Violate the Law
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- LIVE FROM WASHINGTON D.C. JAY SEKULOW LIVE.
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- PHONE LINES ARE OPEN FOR YOUR QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW.
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- AND NOW CHIEF COUNSEL
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- FOR THE AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND
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- JUSTICE, JAY SEKULOW!
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- JAY SEKULOW: THIS WAS BIG NEWS LAST WEEK AND THAT
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- IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL
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- STOP CLASSIFYING ISRAELI WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS AS A VIOLATION
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- OF INTERNATIONAL LAW; A STEP THAT SOME ARE RAISING CONCERNS
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- WITH. WHO ARE THOSE SOME? ILHAN OMAR SAYING ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
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- VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW, DECADES OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
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- AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS. ALL WHO BELIEVE IN
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- THE POSSIBILITY OF PEACE MUST SPEAK UP. SHE'S NOT HAPPY ABOUT
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- THIS. IN THE END WE WILL NOT REMEMBER THE WORDS OF OUR
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- ENEMIES BUT THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS. RASHIDA TLAIB. THESE
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- ARE SHOCKING, BY THE WAY. ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST
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- BANK VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW NO MATTER WHAT THIS CORRUPTED,
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- IMMORAL TRUMP REGIME SAYS. YEAH, IT'S A LAWLESS, KING LIKE
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- DICTATOR. IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACTS. SO, THAT'S ILHAN OMAR. NO
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- GREAT SHOCK THERE. BERNIE SANDERS. ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN
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- OCCUPIED TERRITORY ARE ILLEGAL. THIS IS CLEAR FROM INTERNATIONAL
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- LAW AND MULTIPLE U.N. RESOLUTIONS. ONCE AGAIN MR.
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- TRUMP IS ISOLATING THE UNITED STATES AND UNDERMINING DIPLOMACY
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- BY PANDERING TO HIS EXTREMIST BASE. LET ME FIRST GO TO SKIP
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- ASH. DEFINE WHAT THESE SETTLEMENTS ARE AND WHERE
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- THEY'RE LOCATED. SKIP ASH: THE SETTLEMENTS ARE WITHIN WHAT'S
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- THE TERRITORY WE KNOW AS THE WEST BANK, WHICH WAS THE
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- TERRITORY THAT THE ISRAELIS DID NOT CONQUER DURING THE 1948-49
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- WAR. IT WAS OCCUPIED BY THE JORDANIANS. THERE ARE
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- SETTLEMENTS THERE THAT ARE JEWISH SETTLEMENTS. THEY'RE
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- THERE ON KEY PIECES OF TERRAIN AND THEY'RE THERE FOR THE
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- SECURITY OF ISRAEL. AND THEY'RE BECOMING QUITE EXTENSIVE. BUT
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- THEY'RE ALSO LAWFUL. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE THAT. WHEN WE GET INTO
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- THE LAWFULNESS, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT
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- THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY LAWFUL. THEY HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED SINCE THE
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- MANDATE FOR PALESTINE IN THE EARLY 1920S, AND THEY ARE
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- DEFINITELY LAWFUL, IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT SOME OF OUR POLITICIANS
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- ARE SAYING, AND IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT THE INTERNATIONAL BODIES
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- LIKE THE UNITED NATION'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS SAYING. HERE'S WHAT
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- SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO SAID ABOUT THIS VERY ISSUE.
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- -THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS REVERSING THE OBAMA
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- ADMINISTRATION'S APPROACH TOWARDS ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS. THE
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- U.S. PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE
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- WEST BANK HAVE BEEN INCONSISTENT OVER DECADES. -AND THAT IS
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- BECAUSE THEY WERE CLASSIFIED AS ILLEGAL UNDER THE OBAMA
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- ADMINISTRATION. THIS IS A HUGE DEVELOPMENT. BY THE WAY, WHEN
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- YOU'RE THINKING SETTLEMENTS, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THIS ISN'T.
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- THIS ISN'T LIKE SMALL LITTLE AREAS. SOME OF THESE ARE HIGHLY
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- DEVELOPED TOWNS THAT HAVE UNIVERSITIES IN THEM. I MEAN,
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- THESE ARE BIG AREAS OF THE COUNTRY. I MEAN, ISRAEL IS A
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- SMALL COUNTRY, BUT IT'S BIG AREAS, IT'S A BIG ZONE. AND THIS
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- IS A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, JORDAN. JORDAN SEKULOW: IT IS. YEAH,
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- IT'S FORMAL CONSTRUCTION. IT'S NOT IN THE SENSE OF, OH, I PUT
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- MY, MY -STAKE IN THE GROUND. -MY FLAG DOWN AND, YOU KNOW,
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- I'VE GOT A TENT HERE. THAT MAY HAVE BEEN HOW THEY STARTED IN
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- THE 1940'S BUT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED INTO FULLY FUNCTIONING
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- TOWNS, ALMOST TO THE POINT OF WHERE YOU WOULD SAY SOME ARE
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- LIKE CITIES. -YES. -IF YOU WERE LOOKING BACK AND THEN IN A
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- DISTANCE YOU SEE WHAT HAS BEEN CREATED THERE. AND, AS SKIP
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- SAID, THAT'S BECAUSE THIS AREA, THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING
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- ENCOURAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL. AND SO, FOR THE PEOPLE,
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- THEY'VE BEEN ENCOURAGED TO GO THERE AND ENCOURAGED TO DO THIS
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- AND TO MAKE THIS THEIR HOME. BECAUSE EVERYONE KNEW THAT AT
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- SOME POINT, IF THERE WERE ANY KIND OF PEACE TALKS, THEY'LL
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- HAVE TO NEGOTIATE THIS LAND. AND SOME OF THIS LAND, ISRAEL
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- BELIEVES, IS ISRAEL'S EVEN THOUGH THE MANDATES OF THE U.N.
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- AND THIS. SO, I THINK FROM THE U.S. TAKING A STEP, SAYING,
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- WE'RE NOT GONNA SAY THIS IS ILLEGAL, HAVE A NEGOTIATION OVER
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- IT. -THIS IS A BIG DEVELOPMENT. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF LITIGATION
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- ON THIS ISSUE. THERE'S BEEN U.N. RESOLUTIONS ON THIS ISSUE.
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- THANN, VERY QUICKLY, WERE YOU SURPRISED THAT THIS MOVE IS
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- HAPPENING NOW? I MEAN, IT'S BEEN VERY CONSISTENT WHEN YOU LOOK AT
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- THE GOLAN HEIGHTS DECLARATION. THANN BENNETT: YEAH, NOT
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- SURPRISED, JAY, JUST BECAUSE OF THE LONG TRACK RECORD THAT THIS
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- ADMINISTRATION ALREADY HAS ON THESE ISSUES. LOOK, IT FOLLOWS
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- ON THE HEELS OF MOVING THE EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM,
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- RECOGNIZING GOLAN HEIGHTS, AND THEN A WHOLE SLEW OF ACTIONS AT
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- THE UNITED NATIONS, JAY, WHICH WE CAN GET INTO. IT'S PRETTY
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- CLEAR TO ME THAT THOSE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THAT YOU REFERENCED,
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- THOUGH, JAY, THEY HAVEN'T ACTUALLY READ WHAT THE
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- ADMINISTRATION DID. BECAUSE LIKE JORDAN SAID, THEY DIDN'T
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- CONCLUDE THE LEGALITY. THEY SPECIFICALLY SAID THEY WERE
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- GONNA LEAVE THAT TO THE PARTIES INVOLVED. SO, THOSE MEMBERS OF
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- CONGRESS, JAY, THEY'RE JUST REACTING. -THAT'S A 100 PERCENT
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- CORRECT. SO, AGAIN, LET ME JUST TELL YOU THIS IS A BIG, BIG
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- DEVELOPMENT. WE'RE GONNA GET A LOT MORE ON THIS. A LOT GOING
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- ON!
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- JAY SEKULOW: HEY, WELCOME BACK. SO,
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- THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL NOW RECOGNIZE ISRAEL'S WEST BANK
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- SETTLEMENTS AS NOT VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, NOT OCCUPIED
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- TERRITORY. AGAIN, SKIP, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REITERATE, AND
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- I'VE GOT A QUESTION FOR HARRY AND WES HERE, IMPORTANT TO
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- REITERATE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF THE
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- HISTORY OF THESE AREAS. SKIP ASH: WELL, IF WE BEGIN PROPERLY
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- WE'LL BEGIN BACK AFTER WORLD WAR I IN THE TIME AND THE MANDATE
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- FOR PALESTINE. THE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE WAS CREATED FOR THE
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- VERY PURPOSE OF CREATING A HOMELAND FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
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- AND THE BRITISH WERE THE MANDATORY. THEY WERE THE POWER
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- IN CHARGE, AND BY THEMSELVES THEY DIVIDED THE MANDATE INTO
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- TWO PARTS: THE ONE WE CALL PALESTINE AND THE ONE THAT
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- BECAME JORDAN. SO, RIGHT OFF THE BAT, THE BRITISH TOOK 78 PERCENT
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- OF IT AND GAVE IT TO THE ARABS. SO, RIGHT OFF THE BAT, WE NEED
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- TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE ARABS HAVE A STATE ALREADY OUT OF PALESTINE
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- AND IT'S CALLED JORDAN. THEN IN 1948 THE BRITISH WITHDREW AND
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- THAT TERRITORY THAT WAS LEFT BETWEEN THE JORDAN RIVER AND THE
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- MEDITERRANEAN BECAME THE STATE OF ISRAEL. THERE WAS A CIVIL WAR
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- THAT WENT ON BETWEEN THE ARABS AND THE ISRAELIS, AND THE
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- ISRAELIS WON. BUT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO OCCUPY EVERY BIT. THERE
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- WAS A PART ACCUPIED BY THE JORDANIAN ARMY, WHICH WAS CALLED
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- THE WEST BANK. AND THERE WAS A PART ACCUPIED BY THE EGYPTIAN
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- ARMY, WHICH WAS CALLED THE GAZA STRIP. IN 1967 THERE WAS A WAR
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- BETWEEN THE ARABS AND THE ISRAELIS, AND THE ISRAELIS WON
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- THOSE TWO PARTS BACK, PLUS THE GOLAN HEIGHTS AND THE SINAI
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- DESERT. AND IT'S AT THAT POINT IN TIME THAT THE ISRAELIS REALLY
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- CLAIMED THE CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW PRIVILEGE OF
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- UTI POSSIDET JURIS, WHICH SAYS THE STATE THAT EMERGES WHEN A
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- COLONY OR MANDATE CEASES TO EXIST, GETS ALL THE TERRITORY OF
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- THAT COLONY OR MANDATE AT THE TIME. AND ISRAEL WAS THE ONLY
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- NATION TO EMERGE IN 1948. SO, EVERY BIT OF LAND IN THE
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- TERRITORY BETWEEN THE JORDAN RIVER AND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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- BECAME ISRAEL. SO, THEY ARE NOW SETTLING IN TERRITORY OVER WHICH
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- THEY HAVE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS. AND EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE RECOGNIZED
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- PALESTINIAN CLAIMS, AND ARE WILLING TO GIVE UP SOME OF THAT
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- FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE, THEY, ACTUALLY, OWN EVERY BIT OF IT
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- RIGHT NOW. AND NO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, LIKE THE U.N.
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- GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OR ANYTHING ELSE, CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM
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- THEM. THEY HAVE THE SOVEREIGN RIGHT OVER THAT LAND. -WE HAVE
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- THE PICTURE, A MAP, UP RIGHT NOW THAT YOU COULD SEE EXACTLY THE
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- AREA THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE AND WHAT IT INVOLVED. SO,
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- THIS IS VERY, VERY GOOD. WE ALSO HAVE A CALL COMING IN,
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- APPARENTLY, FROM ISRAEL. WE'RE TAKING YOUR CALLS AT
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- 800-684-3110. JORDAN SEKULOW: YEAH, LOU IS CALLING FROM ISRAEL
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- ON LINE ONE. LOU, WELCOME TO JAY SEKULOW LIVE. YOU'RE ON THE AIR.
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- -HI, LOU. -HI, HOW ARE YOU? -GOOD. -SO, ACTUALLY, YOUR
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- PREVIOUS COMMENTATOR, AND I CAME INTO THE MIDDLE OF THAT
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- CONVERSATION SAID EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY ABOUT THE
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- SO-CALLED WEST BANK, WHICH WE CALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, OR
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- YEHUDA AND SHOMRON. AND THAT IS, IF YOU LOOK AT A MAP FROM THE
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- 20S, 30S, 40S, THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED IS JUDEA AND SAMARIA. AND
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- SO THAT'S THE REAL, REAL NAME. AND SO, IN OTHER WORDS, THEY
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- HAVE NO, JORDAN WAS THE ONE THAT ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED FOR 19 YEARS,
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- WHICH WAS 1948 AND 1967. THEY ARE THE ONES. AND, BY THE WAY, I
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- BELIEVE, I MEAN, JAY, CORRECT ME I'M WRONG OR RIGHT ON THIS, I
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- THINK PAKISTAN I THINK WAS THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT RECOGNIZED
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- THEIR SO-CALLED SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WEST BANK, WHAT THEY CALLED
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- THE WEST BANK. -YEAH, SO, I MEAN, THE INTERESTING ASPECT OF
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- THIS IS, AND IF YOU LOOK AT IT HISTORICALLY, YOU'RE RIGHT, THIS
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- AREA, BUT THIS IS, I WANT TO PUT THAT MAP UP. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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- A BIG SWATH OF LAND. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHEN WE CALL
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- THESE SETTLEMENTS, IT'S A LOT MORE THAN A SETTLEMENT. OKAY?
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- THESE ARE FUNCTIONING CITIES. BUT I THINK, HARRY, IF YOU LOOK
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- AT IT FROM A POLICY PERSPECTIVE, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE IN LIGHT
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- OF THE GOLAN DECLARATION THAT CAME BACK IN APRIL OR MAY OF
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- LAST YEAR, WHERE THE PRESIDENT, WITH BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, MET AND
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- THE UNITED STATES ISSUED THE DECLARATION SAYING THE GOLAN
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- HEIGHTS, WHICH, AGAIN, AT ONE TIME WAS CONTROLLED BY SYRIA
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- WAS, IN FACT, ISRAEL'S SOVEREIGN LAND, WHICH IS UNBELIEVABLY
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- IMPORTANT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, IT MAKES SENSE FROM A POLICY
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- STANDPOINT THAT THIS NOW WOULD BE THIS A NEW APPROACHMENT AS IT
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- RELATES TO ISRAELIS, WHAT'S CALLED SETTLEMENTS. HARRY
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- HUTCHISON: YOU'RE PRECISELY CORRECT. AND SO, I THINK, IF YOU
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- LOOK AT THIS FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, JUDEA AND SAMARIA
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- HAVE BEEN LINKED TO JEWISH HISTORY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
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- THAT'S NUMBER ONE. NUMBER TWO, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MANDATE
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- CREATING THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL, JUDEA AND SAMARIA HAVE
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- BEEN LINKED TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL. AND SO, U.S. POLICY, THE
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- U.S. POLICY CHANGE ANNOUNCED BY SECRETARY POMPEO IS CONSISTENT
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- WITH U.S. OPPOSITION TO BDS AND U.S. CONTINUAL STRONG SUPPORT
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- FOR ISRAEL, AS THANN CORRECTLY POINTS OUT, MOVING THE U.S.
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- EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM, RECOGNISING ISRAEL'S CONTROL OF
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- THE GOLAN HEIGHTS. AND IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT WITH
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- RESPECT TO THE TIMING OF POMPEO'S DECLARATION BECAUSE IT
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- TAKES PLACE SHORTLY AFTER THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DECIDED TO
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- MIS-LABEL ISRAELI GOODS FROM THE SETTLEMENT, GROUNDED IN THE
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- MISTAKEN NOTION THAT GOODS PRODUCED IN THE SO-CALLED
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- SETTLEMENT AREAS ARE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. THIS IS PURE
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- POLITICAL THEATER ON THE PART OF THE EUROPEANS. AND THE U.S.
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- POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT BY SECRETARY POMPEO, BASICALLY, IS A POINTED
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- RESPONSE, IN MY OPINION, TO THAT MISTAKEN NOTION BY THE
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- EUROPEANS. -YEAH, AND WES, IT'S NO SHOCK THAT ILHAN OMAR MADE
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- HER STATEMENT, ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS VIOLATE THE
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- INTERNATIONAL LAW DECADES OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND HUMAN
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- RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS. WESLEY SMITH: OH, YEAH. WHAT THIS OLD
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- POLICY, WHICH THANKFULLY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS
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- REVERSING, WHAT IT DOES IS IT PENALIZES ISRAEL ON AN ISSUE
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- THAT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE HISTORY OF THE REGION, THE
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- GEOGRAPHICAL REALITIES OF THE REGION, AND THE MULTIPLE ISSUES
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- THAT THE PALESTINIANS CONSISTENTLY REFUSED TO ADDRESS.
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- YOU KNOW? THIS IS SIMPLY A GOOD THING THAT HAS HAPPENED. THE
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- PALESTINIANS HAVE A HISTORY, IN ALL OF MY LIFETIME THAT I CAN
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- REMEMBER, OF REFUSING TO TAKE YES FOR AN ANSWER. EVERY TIME
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- ISRAEL NEGOTIATES IN GOOD FAITH, THE PALESTINIANS RESPOND WITH
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- UNFAITH AND VIOLENCE. BUT THIS LAND, HISTORICALLY, BELONGS TO
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- ISRAEL. -NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. WHAT'S YOUR SENSE? -IT'S
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- A BIG STATEMENT COMING FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT. IT'S BEEN A
- 00:11:54.050 --> 00:11:58.030
- LITTLE BIT OVERSHADOWED IN THE WEEK THAT IT CAME OUT BECAUSE OF
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- THESE, THAT WAS DURING THE SECOND WEEK OF THE IMPEACHMENT
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- HEARINGS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK LONG TERM THESE ARE THE
- 00:12:03.210 --> 00:12:07.040
- BIG ISSUE MOMENTS. -BIG POLICY MOMENTS. -YEAH, THAT THE
- 00:12:07.050 --> 00:12:11.090
- PRESIDENT IS GOING TO SPEAK TO ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL ABOUT
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- DECISIONS HE'S MADE, THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS MADE. BIG SHIFTS.
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- I GUARANTEE YOU, BY THE WAY, THIS ONE, INSIDE THE STATE
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- DEPARTMENT, I BET A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE WISH THEY WOULD HAVE
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- WAITED TO TRY AND DO THEIR IMPEACHMENT BECAUSE I BET THESE
- 00:12:25.110 --> 00:12:27.190
- STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS ARE GOING NUTS OVER THIS. -OH,
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- YEAH. I'M SURE THEY ARE. I WAS GOING TO ASK THAT TO THANN. SO,
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- THANN, REACTION IN WASHINGTON. WE SAW BERNIE SANDERS, LET ME
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- READ THAT AGAIN, NO GREAT SHOCK ON THAT ONE, ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
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- IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY ARE ILLEGAL. THIS IS CLEAR FROM
- 00:12:38.150 --> 00:12:40.190
- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MULTIPLE U.N. RESOLUTIONS. ONCE AGAIN MR.
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- TRUMP IS ISOLATING THE U.S. AND UNDERMINING DIPLOMACY BY
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- PANDERING TO HIS EXTREMIST BASE. BY THE WAY, EXTREMIST BASE, IT'S
- 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.080
- LIKE MOST PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT ISRAEL SUPPORT THIS. THANN
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- BENNETT: YEAH, I MEAN, THE FIRST THING I WOULD SAY, JAY, IS THOSE
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- VOICES ARE NOT FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. SO, THEY MIGHT BE
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- EMANATING OUT OF WASHINGTON D.C. BUT THEY'RE NOT VOICES WE SHOULD
- 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.040
- PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO ON THESE MATTERS OF POLICY. LOOK,
- 00:13:00.050 --> 00:13:03.110
- BUT I WOULD JUST UNDERSCORE SOMETHING THAT HARRY TALKED
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- ABOUT. THE VOICE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THESE ISSUES IN THE
- 00:13:06.230 --> 00:13:10.070
- INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS SO SIGNIFICANT, JAY, AND IT
- 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.150
- SHOULDN'T BE LOST ON PEOPLE THE TIMING OF THE OBAMA
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- ADMINISTRATION'S REVERSAL ON THIS. IT WAS IN DECEMBER OF 2016
- 00:13:15.160 --> 00:13:18.120
- RIGHT AS THEY WERE LEAVING. THAT SEEMS TO BE A HABIT IN THIS
- 00:13:18.130 --> 00:13:21.200
- AREA. JAY, THEY DID THE SAME THING AT THE UNITED NATIONS
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- SECURITY COUNCIL. BASICALLY, WHAT IT LEFT WAS IT LEFT THE
- 00:13:24.100 --> 00:13:28.000
- TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITH A LAUNDRY LIST OF ISSUES IN THE
- 00:13:28.010 --> 00:13:30.250
- MIDDLE EAST THAT THEN HAD TO BE ROLLED BACK. SO, HERE WE ARE
- 00:13:30.260 --> 00:13:33.270
- THREE YEARS INTO THE ADMINISTRATION AND YOU CAN GO
- 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:36.170
- DOWN THE LIST OF SIX OR EIGHT MAJOR POLICY ITEMS THAT HAVE HAD
- 00:13:36.180 --> 00:13:40.080
- TO BE ROLLED BACK. I THINK JORDAN'S CORRECT, THAT IT MIGHT
- 00:13:40.090 --> 00:13:42.200
- BE LOST IN THE NEWS CYCLE A LITTLE BIT, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE
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- IS, JAY, THIS IS THE RIGHT POLICY TO MAKE. SO, OF COURSE,
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- PUTTING IT OFF FOR POLITICAL REASONS WOULD NOT BE THE RIGHT
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- THING TO DO. THE VOICE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THIS REGION,
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- IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE. -YEAH, I'M GONNA GO THROUGH ON
- 00:13:53.010 --> 00:13:55.020
- THE NEXT SEGMENT OF THE BROADCAST THE THREE MAJOR THINGS
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- THAT HAVE BEEN DONE ON THE ISRAEL FRONT THAT HAVE HAPPENED
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- IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, AND THESE ARE VERY, VERY
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- SIGNIFICANT.
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSC]
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- JAY SEKULOW: HEY, WECOME BACK TO THE BROADCAST EVERYONE.
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- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING
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- THAT GOT REALLY OVERLOOKED IN THE NEWS, AND THAT WAS THE ISSUE
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- ON THE RECOGNITION THAT THE SO-CALLED SETTLEMENTS WERE, IN
- 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:15.270
- FACT, ISRAEL'S SOVEREIGN PROPERTY THAT WAS MADE BY THE
- 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:18.060
- TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. LET ME PLAY FOR YOU WHAT MIKE POMPEO
- 00:14:18.070 --> 00:14:20.260
- SAID, THE SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCING THIS. AGAIN, IT GOT
- 00:14:20.270 --> 00:14:24.030
- OVERSHADOWED BY THE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. BUT THIS IS A BIG
- 00:14:24.040 --> 00:14:26.180
- DEVELOPMENT AND IT FOLLOWS TWO OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE VERY
- 00:14:26.190 --> 00:14:29.260
- SIGNIFICANT ON THE ISRAEL FRONT. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THOSE AS
- 00:14:29.270 --> 00:14:32.000
- WELL. LET'S GO AHEAD AND PLAY WHAT MIKE POMPEO HAD TO SAY.
- 00:14:32.010 --> 00:14:34.010
- -THE CONCLUSION THAT WE WILL NO LONGER RECOGNIZE ISRAELI
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- SETTLEMENTS AS, PER SE, INCONSISTENT WITH INTERNATIONAL
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- LAW IS BASED ON THE UNIQUE FACTS, HISTORY, AND
- 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:43.150
- CIRCUMSTANCES PRESENTED BY THE ESTABLISHING THE CIVILIAN
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- SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK. OUR DECISION TODAY DOES NOT
- 00:14:46.010 --> 00:14:50.030
- PREJUDICE OR DECIDE LEGAL CONCLUSIONS REGARDING SITUATIONS
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- IN ANY OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. -ALL RIGHT, SO, THAT'S AN
- 00:14:53.170 --> 00:14:57.010
- INTERESTING STATEMENT BECAUSE IT LEAVES OPEN THE NEGOTIATION
- 00:14:57.020 --> 00:14:59.030
- ISSUE. BUT LET ME GO TO WHAT'S HAPPENED. FIRST, IT WAS THE
- 00:14:59.040 --> 00:15:02.060
- PRESIDENT RECOGNIZING THAT JERUSALEM WAS, IN FACT, THE
- 00:15:02.070 --> 00:15:04.230
- INTERNAL CAPITAL OF THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL-MAJOR
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- ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION-TOOK PLACE IN 2018.
- 00:15:07.280 --> 00:15:11.210
- 2019 THIS YEAR EARLIER IN THE YEAR AROUND THE END OF APRIL,
- 00:15:11.220 --> 00:15:15.090
- WHAT HAPPENS? BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IS OVER IN THE UNITED STATES.
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- GOLAN HEIGHTS DECLARATION RECOGNIZING THAT THE GOLAN
- 00:15:17.290 --> 00:15:20.280
- HEIGHTS ARE NOW PART OF ISRAEL'S SOVEREIGNTY. AND SKIP, LET'S
- 00:15:20.290 --> 00:15:24.100
- TALK ABOUT THAT. STRATEGICALLY, THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE
- 00:15:24.110 --> 00:15:27.230
- OF THE ROLE THE GOLAN PLAYS. SKIP ASH: ABSOLUTELY! THE STATE
- 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:31.230
- OF SYRIA ATTACKED ISRAEL THREE TIMES FROM THERE IN THE WAR FOR
- 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:37.050
- INDEPENDENCE, IN 1967, AND IN 1973. AT THAT POINT, IN ISRAEL,
- 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:43.030
- THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS ABOUT SIX MILES WIDE BETWEEN THE GOLAN
- 00:15:43.040 --> 00:15:47.240
- HEIGHTS AND LEBANON, IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL THAT THE
- 00:15:47.250 --> 00:15:51.220
- ISRAELIS CONTROL THAT. THERE IS A RULE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT
- 00:15:51.230 --> 00:15:55.170
- YOU CANNOT GAIN TERRITORY THROUGH AGGRESSIVE WAR. ISRAEL
- 00:15:55.180 --> 00:16:00.110
- DIDN'T GAIN THIS TERRITORY THROUGH AGGRESSIVE WAR. THEY
- 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.290
- GAINED THIS TERRITORY IN A DEFENSIVE WAR TO STOP THE
- 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.230
- AGGRESSION OF SYRIA. AND SYRIA, NOW, IS PAYING A PRICE FOR ITS
- 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:09.230
- AGGRESSION BY LOSING ITS TERRITORY. THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY
- 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.200
- THE RIGHT DECISION ON THE PART OF OUR GOVERNMENT. AND IT'S
- 00:16:12.210 --> 00:16:15.060
- ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL FOR THE DEFENSE OF ISRAEL. -WES, SEEMS
- 00:16:15.070 --> 00:16:18.110
- TO ME THAT THERE'S A CONSISTENT TRUMP DOCTRINE HERE THAT'S
- 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:24.020
- DEVELOPING WITH REGARD TO ISRAEL. YOU SEE IT IN THE
- 00:16:24.030 --> 00:16:25.270
- JERUSALEM DECLARATION WITH THE MOVE TO RECOGNIZING THE CAPITAL
- 00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:28.260
- AS JERUSALEM. YOU SEE IT WITH THE GOLAN DECLARATION. YOU NOW
- 00:16:28.270 --> 00:16:31.120
- SEE IT WITH THE SETTLEMENT ISSUE. WESLEY SMITH: YEAH, AND
- 00:16:31.130 --> 00:16:33.170
- MOVING OUR EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM, WHICH WAS A BIG DEAL. PRESIDENTS
- 00:16:33.180 --> 00:16:37.040
- HAVE PROMISED THAT FOR MULTIPLE ADMINISTRATION'S -THE LAW HAS
- 00:16:37.050 --> 00:16:39.150
- BEEN ON THE BOOK FOR 20 YEARS BUT NEVER ENFORCED. -YEAH, BUT
- 00:16:39.160 --> 00:16:41.090
- WOULD NOT DO IT. YOU KNOW, SKIP'S EXACTLY RIGHT. THE GOLAN
- 00:16:41.100 --> 00:16:43.110
- HEIGHTS ARE SO STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT TO ISRAEL. ROUTINELY,
- 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.250
- OVER THE YEARS, ISRAEL'S ENEMIES HAVE USED THE GOLAN HEIGHTS TO
- 00:16:46.260 --> 00:16:52.030
- SHELL CIVILIANS FROM THAT REGION., AND SO, ISRAEL'S
- 00:16:52.040 --> 00:16:55.020
- SECURITY IS AT STAKE. AS I'VE SAID BEFORE ON THIS BROADCAST,
- 00:16:55.030 --> 00:16:58.010
- ISRAEL IS NEVER THE AGGRESSOR IN ANY WAR THEY'VE HAD TO FIGHT.
- 00:16:58.020 --> 00:17:01.280
- THEY HAVE FOUGHT FOR THEIR SURVIVAL. AND PART OF THE
- 00:17:01.290 --> 00:17:04.210
- PALESTINIAN MAKE UP IN THAT AREA OF THE WORLD, INCLUDES PEOPLE
- 00:17:04.220 --> 00:17:10.030
- WHO DO NOT WANT PEACE WITH ISRAEL, JAY. THEY WANT THE
- 00:17:10.040 --> 00:17:13.170
- DESTRUCTION, THE ANNIHILATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, GROUPS LIKE
- 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:16.200
- HAMAS AND THE PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD. AND SO, THEY FACE
- 00:17:16.210 --> 00:17:20.140
- ENEMIES EVERY DAY AND THEIR EXISTENCE IS AT STAKE. AND I
- 00:17:20.150 --> 00:17:24.030
- APPLAUD THE ADMINISTRATION FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING. -I WANT TO
- 00:17:24.040 --> 00:17:26.060
- PLAY THE REPORTER QUESTION TO MIKE POMPEO ABOUT THIS AND GET
- 00:17:26.070 --> 00:17:29.010
- EVERYBODY'S REACTION. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. LISTEN TO NUMBER
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- 28. -I'M WONDERING IF YOU ARE AT ALL CONCERNED THAT THIS
- 00:17:31.020 --> 00:17:34.020
- POSITION, THIS REVERSAL OF THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION'S
- 00:17:34.030 --> 00:17:38.250
- POSITION, IS GOING TO INCREASE THE ISOLATION OF THE U.S.,
- 00:17:38.260 --> 00:17:42.290
- PARTICULARLY, IN THE U.N. AND AROUND THE WORLD. BECAUSE PRETTY
- 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.180
- MUCH EVERYONE ELSE HAS HELD THE POSITION THAT, IF NOT ILLEGAL,
- 00:17:46.190 --> 00:17:50.210
- THEY ARE, AT LEAST, INCONSISTENT WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW. -WELL,
- 00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:54.150
- I MUST SAY, SADLY, THERE HASN'T BEEN MUCH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL IN
- 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.240
- THE YEARS LEADING UP TO THIS. IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE MORE
- 00:17:58.250 --> 00:18:02.110
- ISOLATION, UNFORTUNATELY, AT THE U.N. AS A RESULT OF THIS
- 00:18:02.120 --> 00:18:05.290
- DECISION. -SO I THINK THAT CAPSULIZED EXACTLY WHAT THE
- 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.070
- PROBLEM IS. THE U.N. HAS A HISTORY, JORDAN, OF ANTI-ISRAEL
- 00:18:09.080 --> 00:18:12.280
- ANIMUS. JORDAN SEKULWO: HISTORY, YES. I MEAN, THE NUMBER ONE
- 00:18:12.290 --> 00:18:15.290
- COUNTRY CONDEMNED BY THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS THE JEWISH
- 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.270
- STATE OF ISRAEL. SO, IT IS ISRAEL THAT IS NUMBER ONE. IT'S
- 00:18:20.280 --> 00:18:24.170
- NOT ANY DICTATORSHIPS OR IT'S NOT THE ASSAD REGIME IN SYRIA.
- 00:18:24.180 --> 00:18:31.180
- IT WASN'T SADDAM HUSSEIN'S IRAQ. IT IS ISRAEL THAT IS NUMBER ONE.
- 00:18:31.190 --> 00:18:37.140
- THE MOST CONDEMNED NATION IN THE WORLD BY THE UNITED NATIONS IS
- 00:18:37.150 --> 00:18:42.130
- THE STATE OF ISRAEL. -ALL RIGHT NOW, THANN, FROM YOUR
- 00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:46.020
- PERSPECTIVE IN DEALING WITH THE U.N., THE FACT THAT THE
- 00:18:46.030 --> 00:18:47.280
- PRESIDENT MADE THIS MOVE ALSO WAS SIGNIFICANT, ESPECIALLY NOW.
- 00:18:47.290 --> 00:18:51.060
- IT'S NOT GONNA BE POPULAR IN THE U.N., NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, BUT
- 00:18:51.070 --> 00:18:53.150
- IT'S THE RIGHT MOVE FOR OUR ALLY. THANN BENNETT: THE FACT
- 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.250
- THAT IT'S NOT POPULAR AT THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE FACT THAT
- 00:18:56.260 --> 00:18:59.070
- IT ISOLATES US FROM THOSE IN THE UNITED NATIONS IS A BADGE OF
- 00:18:59.080 --> 00:19:01.250
- HONOR ON THIS ISSUE. NOT A PROBLEM, JAY. LOOK, JORDAN'S
- 00:19:01.260 --> 00:19:04.200
- CORRECT. THERE HAVE BEEN MORE CENSURES OUT OF THE UNITED
- 00:19:04.210 --> 00:19:07.060
- NATIONS AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL THAN, GET THIS, ALL OF
- 00:19:07.070 --> 00:19:10.130
- THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE WORLD COMBINED. IT'S NOT IRAN. IT'S
- 00:19:10.140 --> 00:19:13.140
- NOT SYRIA. IT'S NOT CUBA. IT'S NOT ANY OF THE LISTS OF OTHERS.
- 00:19:13.150 --> 00:19:16.140
- IT'S THE STATE OF ISRAEL. AND JAY, I WOULD, ACTUALLY, ADD THE
- 00:19:16.150 --> 00:19:20.050
- UNITED NATIONS TO YOUR LIST OF THREE MAJOR MOVES THAT THIS
- 00:19:20.060 --> 00:19:22.200
- ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE ON ISRAEL, BECAUSE WHEN ANYTHING
- 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:25.190
- THAT THE UNITED NATION DOES THAT HAS ANY SORT OF TEETH OR
- 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:28.210
- ENFORCEMENT IN IT IS PASSED, IT ULTIMATELY HAS TO GO THROUGH THE
- 00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:31.240
- UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TO BE APPROVED. AND THE UNITED
- 00:19:31.250 --> 00:19:35.040
- STATES HAS VETO POWER ON THAT COUNCIL. AT THE END OF THE OBAMA
- 00:19:35.050 --> 00:19:38.230
- ADMINISTRATION, AS YOU KNOW, JAY, THE UNITED STATES DECIDED
- 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:42.100
- TO STOP USING THAT VETO POWER AND REFUSED TO STAND BY ITS ALLY
- 00:19:42.110 --> 00:19:45.220
- ISRAEL. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, JAY, HAS
- 00:19:45.230 --> 00:19:48.090
- REINSTATED THAT VETO. SO, THE UNITED NATIONS, IN MY VIEW, IS
- 00:19:48.100 --> 00:19:52.070
- JUST AS SIGNIFICANT AS THOSE THREE ITEMS YOU MENTIONED. IT'S
- 00:19:52.080 --> 00:19:54.230
- MAYBE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL PLACE WHERE THE
- 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:58.110
- UNITED STATES IS ONCE AGAIN STANDING BY ITS ALLIES. -SKIP,
- 00:19:58.120 --> 00:20:00.290
- HOW DO YOU SEE THIS LINING UP AS IT RELATES TO RESOLUTIONS OF A
- 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:04.090
- PEACE PROCESS? OF COURSE, THE PEACE PROCESS IS IN PRETTY BAD
- 00:20:04.100 --> 00:20:06.170
- SHAPE RIGHT NOW. -WELL, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE
- 00:20:06.180 --> 00:20:10.070
- PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN GIVEN MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET 95
- 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:14.080
- UP TO 98 PERCENT OF WHAT THEY ASKED FOR AND THEY DECLINED TO
- 00:20:14.090 --> 00:20:19.290
- ACCEPT THAT DEAL. SO, AS SOMEBODY SAID EARLIER, THEY
- 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.020
- DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE YES FOR AN ANSWER. SO, I THINK WHAT
- 00:20:23.030 --> 00:20:26.180
- WE'RE DOING NOW IS SAYING, OKAY, IF YOU WANT TO SIT ON YOUR HANDS
- 00:20:26.190 --> 00:20:29.060
- AND YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN, WE'RE NOT GOING TO PANDER TO YOU
- 00:20:29.070 --> 00:20:32.080
- ANYMORE. IF YOU WANT TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING THE
- 00:20:32.090 --> 00:20:35.100
- COMPROMISES THAT ARE NECESSARY TO GET YOUR STATE, THEN THE
- 00:20:35.110 --> 00:20:39.020
- ISRAELIS ARE READY TO LISTEN. AND WE'RE, AS THE UNITED STATES,
- 00:20:39.030 --> 00:20:41.210
- ARE READY TO SUPPORT THAT. BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO PLAY GAMES,
- 00:20:41.220 --> 00:20:44.040
- WE'RE TIRED OF PLAYING GAMES, WE'RE GOING TO CORRECT THIS
- 00:20:44.050 --> 00:20:46.170
- HISTORICAL ANOMALY THAT AFFLICTS ONLY ISRAEL, AND YOU CAN SIT
- 00:20:46.180 --> 00:20:51.120
- THERE AND COMPLAIN TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT. IF YOU WANT TO
- 00:20:51.130 --> 00:20:53.240
- DEAL, THE ISRAELIS ARE READY. WE'RE READY, IF YOU DON'T WANT
- 00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:56.220
- TO DEAL, THAT'S FINE, TOO. -CAMBRIA IS CALLING FROM UTAH
- 00:20:56.230 --> 00:20:59.220
- ON LINE ONE. CAMBRIA, WELCOME TO JAY SEKULOW LIVE. YOU'RE ON THE
- 00:20:59.230 --> 00:21:02.100
- AIR. -HI, CAMBRIA. -HI, THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL. -SURE. -A
- 00:21:02.110 --> 00:21:07.010
- QUESTION AND THEN, WELL, ACTUALLY, A COMMENT. FIRST, I
- 00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:09.270
- WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR BOOK ON ISRAEL. -GREAT! -AND
- 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:12.260
- ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO READ IT BECAUSE IT HIGHLIGHTS, SO
- 00:21:12.270 --> 00:21:16.190
- ELOQUENTLY, THE RIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO THEIR LAND. AND I THINK
- 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:20.190
- THAT'S FUNDAMENTAL FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS WHOLE
- 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:24.010
- CONVERSATION. THE QUESTION IS REGARDING THE ICC'S. -YES? -IS
- 00:21:24.020 --> 00:21:28.290
- THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN ENCOURAGE OUR ALLIES TO PULL
- 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:32.260
- AWAY FROM THE ICC, THEREFORE, TAKING THE LEVERAGE OUT? -WELL,
- 00:21:32.270 --> 00:21:36.220
- LOOK, TWO THIRDS, IT'S AN INTERESTING ASPECT, SKIP. THIS
- 00:21:36.230 --> 00:21:39.060
- IS SOMETHING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN OUR ICC ARGUMENT, AND THAT IS
- 00:21:39.070 --> 00:21:42.110
- WHILE TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD'S COUNTRIES ARE MEMBERS, IT ONLY
- 00:21:42.120 --> 00:21:45.020
- REPRESENTS ONE-THIRD OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION. SKIP ASH:
- 00:21:45.030 --> 00:21:48.140
- OH, THAT'S IT. THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. IN THIS SENSE, WE ARE
- 00:21:48.150 --> 00:21:51.290
- EQUATING LICHTENSTEIN AND SAN MARINO AND LUXEMBOURG AND THOSE
- 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:57.050
- LITTLE NATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND INDIA AND
- 00:21:57.060 --> 00:22:01.030
- THE UNITED STATES, THESE HUGE POPULATION AREAS. THE PROBLEM IS
- 00:22:01.040 --> 00:22:04.200
- THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WITHDRAW BECAUSE IT'S POLITICALLY CORRECT
- 00:22:04.210 --> 00:22:07.110
- TO BE THERE, AND WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET OUR EUROPEAN ALLIES
- 00:22:07.120 --> 00:22:10.010
- OUT OF THERE. -THAT DOES IT FOR THE BROADCAST. THANK YOU FOR
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- YOUR SUPPORT OF TBN. THAT KEEPS OUR BROADCAST ON THE AIR EACH
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- AND EVERY WEEK.
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