politics

This is not a faithful transcription. The real one is about 2% less bad. Still bad, but neither more nor less than the tired argument that the fighting is essentially religious, not a question of human rights, sovereignty, occupation, etc. I don’t think he means that Palestinians need to believe in the Torah, they “just” need to agree that the land belongs to the Jews… (in the form of an apartheid state ofc)

My transcription:

The view of Palestinians is simple: “Well, the Europeans treated the Jews badly, culminating in the Holocaust, and they gave them our land as compensation.”

Of course, we say it’s our land; the Torah says it. But they don’t believe in the Torah.

So, that’s the reason there is not peace. They invent other reasons, but they do not believe in a Jewish state. And that is why we, in America, must stand strong with Israel through thick and thin. We must. Because that is the reason, not any of these other false shibboleths, why there is not peace in the Middle East. Too many people do not understand that, here in America.