# Debate Over an Arms Embargo and Military Aid to Israel

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117745789116252269
- Source account: [@Nervana_1](https://x.com/Nervana_1)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:49
- Published: 2026-11-06
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel) The problem is some of the people with the worst ideas in the world have attached themselves to this thing and are helping to drive this thing.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=7) And just from a purely from a foreign policy perspective, these people are incredibly dangerous.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=13) Abdul, who, you know, I work with at CNN, I know Abdul, his positions on Israel and foreign policy are insane.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=21) They're not reasonable reactions to anything.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=24) Look, some Democrats are gonna say that we should condition mil- military aid, um, that I- Israel's gone too far in Gaza and, and the West Bank and in Lebanon.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=34) We- we- we're gonna, we're gonna put some conditions on you.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=37) I think that's a defensible position if you're a Democrat.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=40) That's not Abdul's position. There are people who say, "We shouldn't, we shouldn't be, you know, giving military aid."

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=44) That's understandable, but I think indefensible because it's not charity.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=49) We're building a strong defense sector here, and Israel is protecting a lot of Western interests in that region.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=54) But I can get why you would say, "No more aid. They gotta pay their own way."

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=59) That's not Abdul's position. Abdul's position is a total and complete arms embargo against the State of Israel, including defensive weapons.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=68) That's an insane position. That says, "If Israel wants to pay for interceptors to stop a rocket coming from Iran or coming from Hezbollah or coming from Hamas, an interceptor, we should deny them the right to buy the interceptors to knock down rockets going at Israeli children,

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=86) women, men, babies." That's an insane position.

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=89) And by the way, Barack Obama thought that the Israeli people were in such a tough neighborhood, they needed to be able to knock down rockets.

[1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=96) So you're telling me you're smarter than Barack Obama, you have better ideas about foreign policy than Barack Obama, and you want to deplug and take away Israel's, the half the world's Jews, ability to defend themselves?

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/oqMFuzJvpWaI/en/debate-over-an-arms-embargo-and-military-aid-to-israel?t=107) That-