Norman Finkelstein: Iran a long-term Israel rival

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00:00Donald Trump as president of the USA, talking about Iran and Israel being in a conflict for so long,

00:08they don't even know what the F they're doing.

00:10It's unusual for a president to use the F word.

00:12What did you make of that when he described it that way?

00:15Well, I think both sides know exactly what they're doing.

00:18I don't think there is any misapprehension.

00:22Israel has regarded Iran as a major regional rival.

00:30For a very long time.

00:33Rival or threat?

00:35Rival for a very long time.

00:38They have always said that their chief, they call it the main threat to Israel, they used to say Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.

00:56Now, you will recall already during the buildup to the war in Iraq, there is a certain misapprehension.

01:04I'm referring now to 2003.

01:09Israel's first goal was not Iraq.

01:12Israel wanted to attack Iran.

01:15The United States had set its sights on Iraq.

01:20And the view back then that we're talking about 20 years ago, the view back then was first Iraq, then Syria, then Iran.

01:31Israel was a

01:48Hezbollah.

01:51His Ant ventilator is in top of Australia.

01:52And then the view back then was vite Algitto.