Discussion on Israel and Political Alliances

you could agree with them 90%, but Israel is the red line.

Absolutely. Israel for me, like I can't ever turn my back to Israel

after where it's at. So, and I mean no disrespect on this,

but that is not our country.

You're saying that these candidates may have great ideas for our economy.

They may want to do the exact same thing you want

to do in terms of getting money out of politics.

They may want to increase the social safety net.

They may want to change the balance of power from capital back to labor.

But if they don't agree with you on Israel, you don't want them in your party.

Well, I don't know who you're referencing to specifically.

No, I'm referencing what you just said.

So in other words, Syed or AOC or Bernie Sanders,

I assume you agree with a lot of what they say economically.

And what I'm saying is like, if you are a DSA member,

if you are a member of a specific political party,

run under your own banner. And now I think

Bill Maher said something very insightfully. He said, the DSA are colonizing the Democratic Party.

So just be Democrats if you're going to run under the Democratic Party for that.

Why have a DSA party for overall? So run on that.

And you all understand. It's just an organization.

We have a two-party system. It's like the Freedom Caucus in the Republican Party.

There's Randy Fine and Oglesan,

all these nutbags that are also part of an area.

And Republicans, I'm sure, may not agree with all of them on all kinds of things.

But there is no other party. I guess you could try it. But my point is,

if you don't disagree with him on a lot of things,

why not use some of that energy? And even like Mamdani in New York is DSA,

but there are things in the DSA platform that he disagrees with.

And I'm assuming there's probably things in the Democratic platform that you might disagree with, but you don't disavow the entire thing.

You're literally saying... It's all, we can all have discussions,

except when it comes to Israel, which is not America.

It seems like a weird line to draw.

Well, so then, well, I don't think that's weird. I

think, I think what history demonstrates is, is that when,

when people or a government or people turn their back to, to the Jewish community, things end really badly.

And it's a dangerous... Jewish community and Israel are not the same thing, brother man.

They're not, that is not the same thing.

No, no, no. It's like, Hey, it's like if I have to pick a side for,

for after 10-7 and after Iran, you know, I'm always, I'm always going to stand with Israel.

I'm always going to vote and support whatever that's necessary to protect themselves and to prosecute Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran too.

And the very left never said a peep after Iran executed 30 to 40,000 young people in there just for protesting for

democracy. You think that the left is

pro-Iran, pro, not, not the country, but the, the regime?

I'm, I'm, what I'm saying, what I'm saying though, is like, if, if,

if anyone in the Democrat party is fine with Iran building a nuclear bomb, I disagree with that person.

I think most people are, again, I think you're caricaturing the issue,

but I want to, is there anything you would criticize Israel about?