ones that was silenced, you know, banned. and unless people up for freedom, they're not going to have it. i want to show this post as well. you endorsed robert f kennedy. yes. well, robert kennedy actually talking about issues that matter to people. we have we have two candidates, president former president trump and president biden, who really aren't talking about how the how is this new generation kids going to be able to afford a home? how are we going to bring the interest rates down? how are we going to rein in blackrock and vanguard and state street from buying up so many homes and causing the price of rent to rise in america? why do 54% of children in america children suffer from chronic? we need to get a handle on the fact that our agencies our governmental agencies whether it's the food and drug

administration whether it's the environmental agency, our have too much in the food and drug administration they have too much influence and there's too much of a revolving door between industry and the regulatory boards. this actually impacts americans. we have a third of americans who are obese. we need to we need to handle things that actually affect americans. and robert kennedy, the only candidate that's really talking about these crucial issues. the new book is called you can do it, speak your mind america. the author is rob schneider. thanks. spent a few minutes with us here welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to evening, which promises to be fascinating and very intriguing and thought provoking. this is a special to take a

moment to. welcome back to our neighborhoods, david and tammy friedman. david, in time, it's been a pleasure really a pleasure to have you back here and, especially mazel tov on the birth of your of your grandson in israel was yehuda. what a beautiful strength. yehuda, after tammy's dad's resurrection. god willing, he should bring lots of light into this into this world. thank you. i wanted to take us back. david it really is a pleasure to be back to back here. i want to take us back, actually, one year. one year ago at the end september, we will all altogether many us in this room were together with you down in rockville center watching a movie together where we were. if you take us a background. and what was that movie feels like a billion years. it feels like a million years ago. and then we were at the premiere september 19th, 2023, in the rockville center watching ruth's 60, the biblical highway premiere. and you introduced it. it was such a beautiful time.

it was a time of optimism. it was a of looking forward. and and i really walked out saying there's a bright future. there's this so much to look forward to. and now we're a year later and that was within three weeks of october 7th. and now, here we are. and we we're at this book. and i'd like to just dig into how did the events of the last lead to this space, the space of this of this new book in your personal journey. so we were in israel on october 7th with actually with daniel and janet as well and their family and and so you know, that was it was it was traumatic for everyone far, more traumatic for others than for us. but traumatic and and then, you know, the things just kept moving forward. and what happened, at least from my perspective, was two things kind of struck me. the first was the overwhelming for this barbaric, brutal

unspeakable act by the palestinians. right. that was polling down that, you know, 80 plus percent of the palestinians since judea and samaria were supporting, you know, that cruelty that they're now trying to walk that back. but i at the time that that was unquestionably views and and then a few weeks later you know our administration was pushing this idea that the reason we really have no peace region is because we haven't given the palestinians a state of their own. i heard that and they said, know what? to me it's just it's of it's sort of hit me that, you know, what am i it just struck me as so wrong and by the way, you know, i think the way people should look at it, i mean, i think i'm guessing everybody here has been to at least a few places in judea and samaria, whether it's shiloh or batel or hebron or bethlehem, you know, lots of places. just imagine like watching a video where palestinians are gleefully breaking every single

archeological site, every single connection of the jewish people to their ancient homeland because what that's what a palestinian state is right. that's what it is. i mean, you want to talk about like clear bothered it and how we cry this horrible and you know the rest of jewish history in the in the land of israel and so you know i'm thinking that's really what the world wants as the response to the worst attack against -- the holocaust. so i said all right what am i going to do? you know, i'm not in government anymore. i really you know, nobody in cares what i say. i can assure you that. so i said i locked myself in a room for ten weeks and write a book and i'm going to make two points. one, we can never have a two state solution or a palestinian state. israel. it'll never work. and it's not good for anybody not just not good for the jewish people. it's not good for anyone. and second of all, we're at a very unique time. think in our history in the world history where when you think about what do you think about the israeli palestinian

conflict. right. and people obsessive it around the world. i mean, it gets so much more attention. you know, there's there's there's there's a war going in sudan right now where people are getting killed in numbers that are multiples of what's happening in gaza nobody cares. right. there's an expression, you know, no --, no news. right. it's but but that's but you know, that when you think about it, you know, people are obsessed about the israeli-palestinian conflict. and i think basically five different, you know, perspectives, you know, this faith, right. you know, which certainly is one of my, you know, vectors, if you will. there's national security. there is know economics, there's human rights and there's kind of regional stability. do you how do you make all those things you know, put those things all together and depending upon what you prioritize? you're going to look at this conflict differently. you know, you're going to have different. and what's happened after october, at least what struck me, all these vectors are heading in the same direction for the first time maybe in the history of the state of modern state of israel, the only

nation, the only people that have showed any ability to empower an arab minority are the state of israel. the only nation in the region that has any economic capacity is state of israel. so it's like in stark numbers the gdp, the gdp per capita, israel is about $55,000 in in lebanon in syria, it's about $2,000 in jordan. and egypt, it's about $5,000 in gaza is called z at this zero. and and, you know, judea and samaria, arab communities, you know, two, three, $4,000. if you were like picking, you know, somebody to take over this land and make something out of. right. you know, you're looking at the resumes right. who are you going to pick? right. it's only the state. israel. the state of israel. you know, we've we've made some very good friends who arab muslims, the state of israel. i mean, i have a dear friend who used to be the chairman of the

largest in israel. he's a muslim. he's an arab israeli citizen. doctors, you know you get you get hurt. and you all you probably know this. i mean, you know you get hurt in israel. you got to go to a hospital a pretty good chance. you're going to get an arab doctor. arab, you know, it's almost non-arab pharmacist. right. so you israel has and they don't see credit for it and they don't take credit for it's a shame. but israel has the ability to empower and respect its arab minority. so the idea to me is like, well, is everybody trying to, you know, push a square peg into a round hole, take a people who've become radicalized who hate israel, who have shown that they've given they've been given the chance, you know, you know, in gaza no -- living in gaza. and that seems thousand and five. no, no, no, no soldiers set foot in gaza since 2005. they got billions of dollars. they got this beautiful land, a western facing mediterranee view which is the best for you. we get to sunset at and they took all that money and they built terror and they built rockets. right?

so that that's that's you know, to me, strike one, two and three. and they elected hamas. they weren't taking over by hamas. and then on the other side, you know, in judea and samaria, they were given, you area and area b under oslo, which is about 40% of judea and samaria. and they they run, you know, they you know, if you if you ever tried to if you ever drive around aimlessly and you never shomron you'll get to these red signs. they say if you're israeli, don't come in there. it's it's literally judenrat. you can write right that you can't get -- can't go in there. so they're running entirely by by the palestinian. and they're also hotbeds of terror. so like we're still talking about something that. it's not like we're not sure it's going to work. we know it doesn't work. so i have to book is to kill that idea and. then the second half of the book is to say, well, look, we're not going to create a vacuum. we're going we're going to try to a way for israel to kind of take over this land. and then, you know, the interesting thing, you know, i point out and a lot of christians really appreciate maybe more than the -- is that, you know?

this is also god's will. so here we're at a point where god's will also happens to be the best outcome for everybody living there. and i don't think people have realized that before and they're starting realize it now. and i wanted to jump on that point before it got stale and again, ten weeks, you know, as tamir i came out, you know, for dinner and, you know, eight way too much and drank drank too much coffee and, you know, didn't really take good care of my health. but i the book, you know, i wrote the book in ten weeks and just pounded it out. unbelievable. and there's so much that you're saying here, which i think deserves digging into a little bit. so i just like sometimes we sit with these these vestigial like fossils from the past. one of them is the two state solution. so hear it again and again and again and. any time anybody talks about israel, it's is, you know, upending the process, delaying the process of the two state solution. and netanyahu is a prime minister is not fostering enough

support to create this and paving a way. we hear this all the time and i'm just curious as to why where that came from like why why why it goes back in to go back to 1936 peel commission going back to the partition plan in 1947, the partition plan of the un voted here in queens you go back to the numerous offers oslo all the way to the 2000 and every offer of some some degree of division the nation of the states of israel has accepted all the nations, the pre-state israel's accepted and the arabs have rejected. where does this notion come from that that two states is the solution when it's been tried so many times and hasn't worked with the originated well, you know you kind of touched on the problem which is that the state of israel continues to accept. you know, the problem is, you know what? you know, i don't i don't you know, the arabs want to kill us. they want to destroy us. i they're going to keep doing that. and the question is, what are we going to do in response now? the fact that we are willing to you know, we pay it?

it's very kind of awkward it depends on the government of israel. it depends on who's in the white house. it depends on the pressure that's being put on on israel. what else what do they need from america? so you'll hear all this lip service. but at the end of the day, you're hearing you have two different things being heard from from israel. one, they'll they'll they'll go, you know, during the campaign campaign season, they'll say things like, you know, 711 may as well the permit you know, it's forever. it's our you know you'll hear this talk about judea you know we're -- because we come judea and and that's all that's all great but we're not really i have to tell you, we don't act like we're really the barbarians of this land. we don't. and and one in the world thinks we own this land. america mean for a short window from 2019 till we left office. you know we had we we reverse the doctrine in the state department mike pompeo you know kind of reversed course and said

the jewish people have a right to be here. i mean forgetting about you know, we they were they didn't even have a right and just think about that. arabs have a right to live in israel. i mean so the idea that you don't have a right to live in, you know, in judea and samaria we're not talking about statehood here, just about the right to live there. and and know. pompeo reversed doctrine for two years and blinken, you know, turned it back when he got in. but you know we have to i don't blame anybody but ourselves i really i mean i think it's a question of who the jewish standing up and caring enough to say and i'll tell you the truth, i mean, i've spoken to lots of lots of, you know leaders of the arab world. they're they're deeply religious. they're deeply wedded to their history which is not as ancient as ours, but has its anti antiquity. and they get it. i say, look what what do you think israel should do? should you give up sovereign? should it give up the you know,

they tell it. this is where god told jacob that his children would have this land forever. just give it away and they get it. they say, well, we we wouldn't give away. you know, you guys want to get you guys not to care. you know, most of a good portion of israel doesn't. and it's the reason they don't care. it's not because they don't care. it's because they just don't know. and a failure of it's a failure of israel. i mean, it pains me to say it goes tell one story because this is this is this is what caused me to write the book. this single story. the single event. so i was in tel aviv kind of doing my my other job, which is to consider investing in some israeli companies. and i'm on the 40th floor of a higher maybe a siren, a tower, gorgeous, beautiful building in tel aviv. what a nice building has ever been in views of everything know you can see the whole world from there and talking to a guy who runs this company and he is he's

brilliant. incredibly. and, you know, his looks secular israeli wearing, you know, black shirt, black jeans, you know, running a company almost potential and, you know, we talked about business, but then he wants to talk politics so it's like talking. and i asked him, what do you how do you feel about? youth? i was wrong. he says, i don't really care about at all. i don't i haven't been there since i was in the army. i don't want to rule over these people. i don't my kids don't. i don't my kids risking their lives there. and i said, well, you know, do you believe in god? and he said, i don't, you know, like my parents are holocaust survivors. you know, i got i got i got i got some issues. i got some issues with god. and i said, well, let me ask you a question. do you know much you remember much about you didn't marry. we'll pick a place. let's pick shiloh. and he said, you don't happen there. he said, i may of no doubt refresh my memory. so like when joshua brought the jewish people across, you know,

he over for moses on the jordanian side of the jordan river, he brought the jewish people over, brought the nation of israel over into the land of israel. they spent seven years in guildhall, you know, which you know, kind of an asterisk. then they went to shiloh. it's the first place the jewish people stopped wandering from the moment they left egypt. the miscount, the tabernacle stood there for 369 years. this jerusalem, you know, before there was a jerusalem, this pre first temple. right. and, you know, it's where all the tribes would, you know, kind of were given. they're not allowed out. you know, you go that way. you go this way. they were told where to go. the people would come back every you know, every one of the shabbos regular. you can actually how that the altar that his back was built in a way where because can't eat from them is bad unless you can it there it's like you see like bleachers all around with the altered down low in the you all the almost like seating almost steps like an amphitheater all

around you see shards of pottery and there were shards, pottery because you had to break the vessels after you ate from something holy. i said this is where you know, this is shmuel navi was born. this is where i kind of the world how to pray. he said, what was that? i said, well, you know, like i said, people used to give sacrifices and kind of shows up. and she wants a child desperately and she starts to pray and know liturgical voice and she sings a song. it was so unusual that the high priest thought she was drunk and said, you know, don't, don't come here drunk. so i said to her, look, it's a very important place, as you can see, what do you want to do. like i'm not an israeli i don't get a choice here. what do you want to do? you're in israel. you to keep it. you want to let it go. now, if you let go. i understand that it'll never be the same. you'll never see it again. it'll be destroyed all the. all the, you know, all the incredible holiness of it will be. because that's what the palestinians want to do. they want to destroy any connection of the jewish people to their biblical legacy. so this is what they want to do. she says, we have keep it.

i said, well, you got to keep it. i thought you were i thought you don't believe you don't care. we have to keep it. i said, but you know, i think the bible's a it's a great book. you know so is the iliad, you know, says the odyssey you know i mean, you know, i went to college, i read a lot of books they were all they told me mean i don't trust columbia anymore but they told me they were great books, you know and. and so of them is the bible. so what he said is our book. i said, and you guys, you know, it's our book. it sustained us. i don't care who wrote it, who cares? he wrote it this book has sustained us for 3000 years. it's our dna, who we are and these places are what give credibility. what authenticity to the book. so how can we give it away? so would you give the washington monument? would you give away the statue of liberty? i said, but ten, 15 minutes ago you said you didn't care because i really didn't know. i didn't think about it. and i said, i wish i could have this conversation because this guy, this, this this is this in, i should say, preface know i

don't take shots at secular. i mean, these are incredible patriots. they fight for our country. you know, they know what they know. i mean and it's but but it's an of of the educational in israel and i again, it pains me to say it, you know, the book will hopefully be out in hebrew soon. and i hope, you know, i actually hope more read it in hebrew than than in english. but but i can't have that conversation a million times. right. so i think i'll write the book maybe that will you know, the word will get out. but i believe that that the jewish if they really thought long and hard about, they visit it. they understood it, can't give it away. i mean, it's it's this great gift, this treasure that god gave us. and, you know, as i say, the book, you know, october 7th was, you know, to some extent, i don't want to i don't want to imply that i have any particular insights into what god thinks. but to me, at least way i took it was god saying to us, how many times i have to tell you, stop trying to give the land and

i want to give you. don't give it away, it doesn't work. please don't do that anymore. and i hope that october 7th was the last time. i hope we internalize that lesson as painful as it was. i wish we didn't have to learn that lesson. i tried. i trade, you know, ignorance, right? you know, i anything not to have had october 7th, but we had october 7th. we have to at least understand that we can never go back there again. i love the fact how deeply rooted it is in our tradition and our history. i just was just curious, as a representative american, the the united of america and the state department's, you served you the judea and samaria is not the only disputed territory in. the world there are many, many disputed territories. the world. why is this different and why is this treated differently so? northern cyprus is, ukraine, crimea, there are lot of places in the world. why is this different? why is the solution different? why is why is the focus different than any other disputed territory? i mean, it's a great question and it's probably requires a psychiatrist to answer it rather

than answering. but it's it is again know the bible sells 2000 copies an hour. i wish my book sells sold 10% of that. yeah like the bible sells 2000 copies an hour in the united states 20 million copies a year. most of the people buy it already have a bible right so they're you know, they're giving them out. we have we've made a every one thing i learned. we've made a colossal error in in in trying to approach this approach to all these issues in israel by of western rules. you know nobody else does you know and we've been given you know you know everyone here knows like knows the first roshi, right? we've been given the title policy to piece of land on earth of you know, when someone says to you, you know, you don't

belong here, you say, look what you want to take it up with god, you know, i'm not you know, we don't need to argue. yeah. you don't like where i am. take it up with god, you know, i mean, the bible is the single most accepted book in the world. take it up with him. you know, he gave it to us. what you want from us. so i don't think we do that. i don't. i think we are squeamish about our biblical legacy and. you know, if we do, i guarantee you look, look, look at the muslim world, they they have a whole, you know, religious about jerusalem. it's complete fantasy it's this complete sense about the jewish about the lack of entitlement to the jewish people, to the land of israel. if really study the koran, there's nothing holy about jerusalem al-aqsa someplace in saudi arabia and the and the rights of the jewish people the land of israel is in the koran but they don't care. you know. they got their narrative. they got their story. this my story, i'm sticking with it. and they push it and they push

narratives and they get people to buy into it. and and take it seriously. we don't take we just don't react, you know? you know, you you know, one -- walks past al-aqsa and says, you're my israel and you know, there's this writing everywhere. you know, arabs, you know, defile our holy places. and we say what do you want there? you know, they're they're filled the high as what can we do it we got to get better at this i mean we just have to we just have to have stronger spines and mostly we to know who we are. and you know what people say, how do you anti-semitism? well, the first thing we need to do is know what we're fighting like. if if it doesn't if it's not worth being jewish, then who cares? then just give it up and people won't want one, one fight us anymore. you know, we could become we become, you know, agnostic or just take off the key, but do everything it's got to be worth fighting for. and if in order for it to be worth fighting for, you have to what? your fight, what it is. and you know, i'm not talking

about people sitting here, but you know, there's 5 million -- in america or more. and a tiny fraction of them know what they're fighting for. unfortunately. unfortunately, i want to actually just push a push on a actually the subtitle that you you have the book, which is the last best hope to resolve the israeli-palestinian conflict. and in that in that subtitle, there's a there's an of urgency i sense from the the idea of the last best hope. i mean what's the problem? let's say let's not go in the direction of two state solution and what's the problem with the status quo in a certain sense, if you look at the current governments, the current government has has said, well, just kind of live with things right as they are what is the urgency that you see in finding a solution which is beyond the status quo? well, look, if if you if you had next to your house, a if there was a home that you thought you had title to and somebody else thought they had title to, and

the home was fabulously valuable. it had, you know, natural, you know, it discovered oil underneath it. right. it was some incredibly valuable home. and you, you know, it's mine but i'm not going to really take any actions to perfect my rights to it, you know. well, we'll agree to disagree and we'll just kind of every day your claim to that land gets worse because no one takes you seriously. like if you something if you had you know some incredibly valuable asset next door and you thought it was yours, you'd hire a lawyer, you'd take the actions to protect. well, you know, our entire biblical legacy is right across the green line. and you it's you know, you want to build a house there. you know, you got to go to the right. i mean, everything is run there by the by the military. i mean, it's treated as and israel is very honest about it, open it. the judaism area is a military occupation. i got to yell all the time that it's not occupied territory classically as defined and it's

not. but because there's no other system of laws would apply, israel says, well, we're going to treat this as if it's a military occupation. well, military occupations definition are temporary. you occupy the land until you can, you know, peacefully turn it over to the indigenous population. right now, more arabs than there are -- there. and then you leave right? that that's what israel's doing. that's what it is. so every year, you know, we're just i got to tell you, i mean, i can, you know i have these arguments in the state department and you know, you can read the book and you can i think even mentioned it in my first book. we can go through the law. i mean, i can i can make a legal argument why this land belongs to the jewish people. easy. it's easy. it's a it's much legal argument why this belongs to the jewish people. but, you know, again, what what are you doing? what what are you doing on the ground? like, what's what? what's how are you actually taking steps to to perfect your rights? and and we're not we're not. and and the biggest problem is

that it's got nothing to do with america. like if i said to donald trump tomorrow, i going to say i mean, let's say he's back in office i'm somehow in the government and i say you know read my book i really think this is the best outcome. i think we should i think we should have sovereignty over judaism every he said about what does israel want to do? and i would say as it's it's the right question. right? that's the right question right here. and i'd i don't know. and i'd say i'm not sure. and said, well, look, i'm not getting ahead of them. so you figure that out and come back to me. and so that, that conversation that i had with that, that, you know, very talented, intelligent, high tech entrepreneur has to be socialized across, you know, and the people of israel have to want if israel doesn't want to do it, i mean, it's it's got to be the subject, the national war. and i've met, you know, lots of people in the government. i know still a lot of there. and, you know, some of them say, yeah, let's do it, let's pass a resolution i said, guys, no, no, no, no. this is not, you know.

with all due respect to my friends, the right and you guys are great and you're patriots and i love you're the worst politicians like ever. that's not the way to do it. like you want to do it like don't do it like reform. you know, let's get 61 seats and just ram it through. you won't be able to get it through. you really need to go into the, you know, into the shtetl, as they say. you got to really get into that get into the fields and talk this through and make the case. i don't care if it takes a year or two years. it's just the trajectory counts. you'll get there eventually if you just make the case for israel's and make it from all perspectives. why it's our biblical legacy, why it's the best way to treat the inhabitants of the land with dignity, with giving them the opportunity for prosperity. you know, you can make it. why it's essential for israel's national security. you know, i remember speaking i mean, i remember when i spoke to i used to meet with the head of the shin bet once, once a month and, who's since left and i must say, it seems like he's lost his mind in terms of how shrill he's

gotten. but i he's he used to say to me the the worst tragedy that could befall the jewish people is israeli sovereignty. judea and samaria, that's the head of, the shin bet or shin bet that he is this is is our this is our the equivalent of that of our fbi. and i said, why? he said, because will we will die under the weight of ruling over those people. i said, yeah, but like i'm not talking about conquering them, talking about, you know, you know, being a sovereign and treating the people who live there. they're not they're suffering there. i mean, they you're all you're offering right now is stick. you don't have any carrots. you know what? if we got saudi arabia and the emirates to kick in a few billion dollars and we start building better roads and better schools and we took over the schools. the schools weren't teaching people to hate -- anymore. what about if we actually, you know, took some responsibility? he says, well, i don't you know, i don't want to we don't want take out the garbage in janine. i said was that me, you know, you're not taking out the garbage in janine. i mean, they can take out their own garbage. they've been taking it out for four not and i found that there

was a real kind of institutional reluctance there and they said, well, you know, we don't want to rule. we don't want to rule, janine. and i said, you ready? or i mean, like know, like you don't want to go into janine. you don't want to rule over janine. and my friend, you're on, you know, yossi, really? fouda. i mean you're you're showing up there in the middle of the night under the most high risk circumstances at times, and things are the most difficult to solve when terrorist acts are are just about to be committed and you're coming in there and everyone's risking their lives, if you were there, you're on the ground right? you'd have better security. don't you agree? and i mean and this is this is the guy that runs. yes. he's not there anymore. but this is the guy. but this is a this is a it's it's complicated. it really is. i mean, the the israeli people are the people i know they what they've done since october the seventh is extraordinary. the courage there. but it's lot of it. a lot of the the kids like the ones who are like under 30, they get it the you know, the