Here's uh

uh Treasury Minister Smotrich

uh on

what they've done

in Gaza and in the West Bank and what

they plan on doing. Chris.

>> Samaria is the mountain that

geographically and topographically

dominates all these areas and if we are

not there, God forbid, Hamas will end up

taking over in a second. We saw how

quickly they took over Gaza. In the end,

when we established 103 settlements and

160 farms, pave roads, plan and

regulate, our goal is to bring a million

settlers to Judea and Samaria so that

there won't be pickup trucks later in

Ra'anana, Kfar Saba, Petah Tikva, Tel

Aviv, Beersheba, and Afula. And that's

true. God forbid.

>> Of course of course Hamas came to power

through an election and let's

um remember that.

And basically, if you act with

sufficiently

vile oppression, you get consistent

resistance.

Uh this is not a solution to anything.

Israel has made itself an international

outlaw.

Uh it has placed the so-called Abraham

Accords

on life support.

Uh its prospects are poor if it follows

the advice of Mr. Smotrich.

>> How um

dispirited

unhappy

uh unstable

is Israeli society today, where Net- a

place where Netanyahu has brought it.

>> Well, it's it's driven by multiple

divisions. Um

um some of these are have been

long-standing. Uh

for example, the division between the

ultra-Orthodox and

secular [clears throat]

Israelis

uh symbolized by the difference between

um

uh Jerusalem and and Tel Aviv Um

But um

others are more acute and new um

the economy is in deep distress

um the reserves Israeli armed forces

like the

US

armed forces are structured basically

for short victorious wars not

wars of attrition

and Israel has now um

managed to

engineer a war of attrition against it

on multiple fronts um

and uh and and so um

the reserves are not available to

conduct the economic activity

the army is too demoralized very and

diminishing numbers of reservists turn

up for duty when they're called

uh casualties in Lebanon have been

significant

uh Hezbollah turns out to be quite good

at uh

infantry uh operations so which Israelis

are not so good at um

and um the

the uh political scene is is greatly

divided a lot of what's going on in

Israel we don't know because of

censorship

uh and um the bias of our press

uh to uh always report the best about

Israel they

the uh we don't know how many people

have emigrated although we know it's a

large number

we don't know what the damage of the uh

Iran Iranian attacks on Israel were they

were considerable

but we don't have the information

because

it's uh illegal under military

censorship to report it in Israel

uh and the Western press no longer

investigates

situations like that with the exception

of a few people like Max Blumenthal and

Aaron Maté whom you have on your

your show and who who are vigorously

pursuing investigative journalism. So we

don't know

but

you know, I mean if you ask me

if

I were an insurance company and you

asked me to

write a life insurance policy on Israel

at this point

I don't think I'd do that.

A lot a lot of things are going wrong

for the country.