00:00Jake, what do you make of that? Will the success or the failure of this truce rely on Israel?
00:06If Israel sticks to it, then this truce will remain.
00:09Well, I mean, I think the idea that Israel leads America by the nose is an idea with some quite unpleasant antecedents.
00:17Certainly, I don't believe it's true in this case, as we saw with Donald Trump imposing his ceasefire on Benjamin Netanyahu, apparently almost against his will.
00:26But certainly, I mean, Israel has the upper hand, as Jake pointed out, militarily.
00:32Israel completely destroyed every semblance of Iranian resistance, quote unquote.
00:38Iran has no longer any air defences, any air force, any nuclear program, any nuclear scientists, any top brass.
00:46So Iran really was totally humiliated on the battlefield.
00:50And I think Israel, you know, was totally correct to act in self-defense.
00:56It could no longer tolerate such a threat from Iran that was building up to be an existential threat and had to take action.
01:03But the way in which it pulled back and allowed the ceasefire to take place and, you know, allow its victory to bed in,
01:11I think really speaks well of its desire for stability in the region.
01:15And then that, of course, of President Donald Trump, who enforced it.
01:18Jake?
01:19Yeah.
01:19OK, I'll respond to that.
01:21So there's two hilarious things that Jake just said.
01:24First of all, that Israel starting the war was self-defense.
01:30Sure, sure.
01:31Every time Israel starts a war, they're like, oh, yeah, self-defense.
01:35Yeah, we're the biggest military.
01:37We've destroyed half the Middle East, invaded Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, West Bank, Iran.
01:43But we're doing self-defense.
01:45Sure you are.
01:46So it's an aggressive imperial empire that has been taking more and more Arab land, Muslim land, Palestinian land since 1948.
01:55And so all their propaganda about how they're the victims and it's all about self-defense.
02:01It's just that's all it is.
02:03It's propaganda for the world.
02:04And it used to work, especially in America, it used to work brilliantly.
