Israel, Nuclear Weapons and US Arms Pressure

I like, believe it or not, I like Israel Katz

Yeah

Um, I know... I mean, I know him personally.

I, I would consider him a friend.

Um,

I was proud that, uh, just a day after October, on

October 8th, he immediately said, "No water, no electricity,

no food, no nothing until our hostages came out."

And that was the correct

policy to have at the time. But then Bibi

broke weak

and whittled it down to the point where we are now.

I mean, it's hard for me to admit this.

We are now feeding our enemy.

I mean, this has never happened in history before,

and you have to

ask why. And I don't wanna hear this business

that it's

consistent with Jewish morality. It isn't.

Anybody saying that doesn't know anything about Jewish morality

at all.

Well, I think also our leaders have had their

necks in a vice

grip by other countries who are-

Okay. Let me-

... they need-

Let me give you a- an example of that.

Um, I was criticized very heavily for opposing

the

ceasefire, the American-imposed ceasefire in

Lebanon-

On us

... and, um, I was told by certain people in the

government, "Look, we didn't

have choice because, uh, we were being threatened with

a complete cutoff of arms."

So I listened to this, and, uh, the individual telling

me this, uh, said, "You

don't believe this or..." Well, I said, "Well, I, I believe that the

Obiden administration," as I called it, "did threaten us."

But I said, "You're mistaken if you think there's never a choice.

There was a choice." He said, "Well, what?

Is it to have our weapons cut off?" I said, "No.

Let me bring you back to, uh, October 1973

during the Yom Kippur War when Henry Kissinger

instituted an arms embargo against us." He, he

stopped the

aerial resupply of our army at that point to

extract,

uh, diplomatic concessions from us. And what happened?

What happened was, um,

an A-4 Skyhawk was parked at, uh, Tel

Nof Air Base with some interesting weapons under the,

its wings and, uh, we told the Americans,

"Take your eye in the sky and take a good look at the airplane

that's on that runway."

And the next day, the

airlift started.

So-

The air-

The guy that I was talking-

Which airlift?

To the, to Israel.

Uh-huh.

The, the arms airlift.

So in other words, we threatened their, um-

We threatened to use unconventional weapons. I'll leave it at that.

And so he said, "Is this what you're thr- want us to threaten now?" I said,

"Absolutely. Except this time I want us to go forward

with it if necessary.

If they think we're bluffing,

we go forward with it." Look,

in ter-

Now, wait. Some people might look at this

and hear you saying these things

and say, "He's a dangerous dude. You know, he's...

He, he could, you know, blow up the entire Middle East."

Well, I guess people really haven't been keeping

their eyes

open since October 7th because the whole Middle East

has blown up.

And as far as I'm concerned, when we are faced with an

existential threat,

we have the right to use any and

all weapons in our disposal to eliminate

that existential threat. Look, a lot of

people don't know anything about,

um, academically speaking, nuclear weapons at all,

what they are, how they can be used re- responsibly.

And I'm, I'm tired of using euphemisms.

I'm tired of saying, "Well, we have something, you know,

in the basement,

but we won't be

the first to introduce, um, nuclear weapons in the Middle East."

It's enough already