Transcript [00:00] So, at the end of last week, Lebanon and [00:02] Israel agreed to a ceasefire. [00:06] The Lebanese president called it the [00:07] last chance for peace. The United States [00:09] brokered it. Israel agreed, and [00:12] Hezbollah rejected it, right? Hezbollah [00:14] rejected the ceasefire. Hezbollah [00:16] rejects latest ceasefire agreement as [00:19] Israel continues striking against [00:22] Hezbollah, right? So, [00:23] Hezbollah rejects the ceasefire. They [00:26] were contemptuous of it. Let's go take a [00:27] look at what they actually said about [00:29] it. In this story, I'm not going to read [00:31] this whole story, but here you have the [00:33] Hezbollah announcement came as Israeli [00:36] strikes killed at least four people, [00:38] according to local authorities. [00:40] Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem in a [00:42] written statement read on TV called the [00:44] negotiations absurd, humiliating, and [00:47] insulting. He said the agreement's [00:49] demand that Hezbollah fighters leave [00:51] southern Lebanon under fire would mean [00:53] surrender, defeat, and achieving the [00:56] enemy's goals. And then later on it gets [00:59] into [01:01] the Lebanon side of it. [01:04] Here we go. The latest declared [01:06] ceasefire came about through US-brokered [01:08] talks between Israel and Lebanon's [01:09] government, which accused Hezbollah of [01:11] dragging the country into war and had [01:14] made efforts to disarm it before latest [01:15] hostilities. Not really. [01:18] The ceasefire agreement calls for [01:20] Lebanon's armed forces to take control [01:21] of security zones in Lebanon from which [01:24] the militants would be banned. [01:28] Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on [01:29] Thursday called the new agreement chance [01:32] to enter a final and comprehensive [01:33] ceasefire. He said Lebanon was ready to [01:35] implement the deal once he receives [01:37] responses from relevant factions in [01:40] Lebanon, including Hezbollah. Who else [01:43] is there? We'll find out soon. The [01:44] United States and Trump himself would [01:46] determine how and when the deal is [01:48] implemented, Aoun told journalists. The [01:51] agreement terms Hezbollah an enemy of [01:53] Israel, the US, and Lebanon and calls [01:55] for dismantling it. The government has [01:58] promised to do so in the past but does [02:00] not have the capabilities [02:03] to disarm Hezbollah by force. The latest [02:06] agreement did not say when Israel would [02:07] withdraw from southern Lebanon but said [02:09] the US would support the Lebanese army [02:11] as it works to assert control in areas [02:13] where Hezbollah has long [02:15] wielded power. Okay. [02:19] So, [02:20] what is there to even talk about here? [02:23] So, Lebanon's president's calling for [02:24] peace. So, Hezbollah [02:27] operates from Lebanon. They say, "No." [02:30] And [02:32] Lebanon's government is powerless to do [02:34] anything about it. Now, why? Why can't [02:35] Lebanon's government control what's hap- [02:38] what happens inside Lebanon? So, to [02:39] understand this, you have to understand [02:41] what Lebanon actually is because it's [02:43] not a normal country and I'm going to [02:44] explain this in this video. I did [02:46] another video about this a few months [02:48] ago on the Israel 365 news channel but [02:51] it is worth going back to and [02:53] re-educating ourselves about this [02:55] because if you don't understand what [02:57] Lebanon actually is, you really cannot [02:59] understand any of the stuff that's going [03:01] on. [03:02] Let's uh throw in a clip [03:05] of Joseph Aoun, [03:08] the president of Lebanon. [03:12] Hold on a second. Let me find it here. [03:13] Here he is. The president of Lebanon in [03:15] an interview with Christiane Amanpour. [03:17] So, she asked him about the fact that, [03:20] "Hey, Hezbollah says no and you don't [03:23] seem to have the power to do anything [03:24] about it." Take a look. [03:29] >> any other actors. Let's just take [03:31] Hezbollah, non-state actor, backed by [03:33] Iran. [03:34] >> Exactly. [03:36] >> You go into ceasefire agreements as the [03:38] head of state with Israel. But the [03:41] non-state actor is not party to this. In [03:44] fact, the latest comments from Hezbollah [03:46] to your government and to you [03:49] uh basically says that uh [03:52] this is a farce. The the talks between [03:55] your government and Israel they call a [03:56] farce. They say that you know that [03:59] they're not bound by this and they [04:02] they don't they don't believe in this [04:04] right now. So do you have any reason to [04:06] believe [04:07] because you don't negotiate directly [04:09] with Hezbollah. [04:10] >> Exactly. [04:11] >> That they [04:12] they can be persuaded [04:16] What are the steps to to make this [04:17] happen? [04:18] >> they could hopefully [04:20] and eventually they'll be persuaded but [04:22] that they the cost will be high. [04:24] Unfortunately. I will try. Actually [04:27] nothing is impossible and I will keep [04:29] pushing for it. At the end of the day I [04:32] have I have two choices as I said either [04:35] to sit idle doing nothing [04:37] or trying to negotiate and to reason [04:39] with them. [04:40] Definitely I I don't maintain direct [04:43] contact with them but I'm I [04:45] maintain contact through Speaker Berry [04:47] who's also in line. [04:50] >> We just explained Speaker Nabih Berri [04:53] is Shiite. We'll get to that soon. Talk [04:56] about the different roles in the [04:57] government. He's the Speaker of the [04:59] House so he is closer to Hezbollah. He [05:01] doesn't represent Hezbollah in the [05:03] parliament but he's more closely aligned [05:05] with them. So he acts as the [05:06] intermediary between Joseph Aoun [05:10] and other state actors and Hezbollah. [05:12] That's why he says he maintains contact [05:13] with Speaker Berri. [05:15] >> with the negotiation who's also wants to [05:17] end this war who is also fed up with [05:20] this war seeing the destruction of the [05:22] south and he wants to get rid to to end [05:25] this war. So I'm counting on him. [05:27] Definitely IRGC has a major influence on [05:31] on on Hezbollah and they have to [05:34] remember what they said yesterday [05:36] it's I totally reject their statement. [05:38] >> Who do you say? [05:39] >> This is [05:40] >> Who said? [05:41] >> IRGC the Iranian Revolutionary Guard [05:43] Corps that this they don't agree with [05:45] this they don't approve this agreement. [05:47] They What's happened? [05:49] It's not your country. It's our country. [05:51] It's our obligation. It's not your job [05:54] to interfere into our country. I reject [05:55] the statement totally because our people [05:58] being killed, our people being our [06:00] houses being destroyed. [06:02] They are using Lebanon [06:04] as a chip bargaining chip [06:07] in their negotiation with the United [06:09] States. [06:10] It's unacceptable. [06:12] And here also, Hezbollah must understand [06:14] that Hezbollah must understand that [06:18] no other way but [06:20] to sit and talk. No other way [06:23] to solve this problem and to save what's [06:26] left [06:27] except through negotiation and [06:28] diplomacy. [06:30] >> Okay. [06:32] This is absurd. This is just absurd. [06:34] We'll get to this map in a moment. Let [06:36] me Let me pull that down [06:38] for now [06:40] cuz I I want to tell you we have to talk [06:42] about a few things first. [06:44] Okay. [06:46] Um this is the president of Lebanon you [06:48] just saw here speaking on CNN [06:52] telling the world [06:53] that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps [06:58] the Islamic [06:59] Revolutionary Guard Corps [07:01] which is a foreign government is [07:03] overruling his ceasefire. Now he's being [07:05] defiant about it. I'm telling the IRGC I [07:08] reject this. It's not your country. [07:10] Uh kind of is. [07:12] He's telling the world that Hezbollah is [07:13] being used by Iran as a bargaining chip. [07:17] And he's admitting that he has no direct [07:20] contact with Hezbollah, the most [07:21] powerful armed force operating inside [07:23] his own country, more powerful than his [07:25] own army. [07:27] And think about all this. The president [07:29] of Lebanon cannot [07:31] rein in Hezbollah on his own soil. He [07:35] goes through the the speaker of the [07:36] parliament as a middle man. [07:39] This is the the state at work. And to [07:41] understand why it works this way, you [07:42] got to go back You got to go back to the [07:44] beginning, okay? So, let's pull up that [07:46] map now. Didn't want to distract you [07:48] with it. [07:49] But, [07:51] here's that map again. [07:53] Okay. [07:54] It's a map of Lebanon, and it's it's got [07:57] color-coded for different regions. And [07:59] the reason I found this map I was [08:00] looking for a good map to illustrate [08:01] this point, and it was actually a little [08:04] bit difficult to find exactly what I [08:05] needed. I didn't want to create my own. [08:08] But, if you go back to like how was the [08:12] modern state of Lebanon founded? Okay, [08:14] so Lebanon's not a natural country. [08:16] Uh before World War I, before the fall [08:19] of the Ottoman Empire, to be more [08:21] precise, which happened in the wake of [08:23] World War I. Before the fall of the [08:24] Ottoman Empire, [08:26] there was no such thing ever as a [08:28] country called Lebanon, just like there [08:30] was no such thing as a country called [08:31] Syria, country called [08:33] um [08:34] Jordan, Iraq. All of the All of the [08:37] countries that we know today as the [08:38] Middle East, all of those borders did [08:40] not exist. [08:42] They were [08:43] drawn on on a on a map. Those lines were [08:47] drawn on a map. The lines in the Middle [08:48] East were drawn on a map by French and [08:51] British diplomats. [08:54] Okay? And the French were given control [08:56] of Syria and Lebanon. The British were [08:58] given control of what's Jordan and [09:00] Israel and other Whatever. There was a [09:02] divide up of the whole Ottoman Empire. [09:04] Let's get to Lebanon. [09:08] What the French did there [09:11] was [09:12] they took this area [09:14] called Mount Lebanon that you see on the [09:16] map here. Okay, Mount Lebanon [09:19] is this area here, [09:21] this sort of peach-colored area. [09:23] Okay? [09:24] This area was was what was called [09:26] Lebanon for centuries. The rest of what [09:29] we we know as Lebanon today, all of [09:31] this, [09:33] all of the other areas were not called [09:34] Lebanon. Lebanon referred to this little [09:36] region here and it was a Christian [09:40] independent zone in the Ottoman Empire. [09:43] Now, how independent? It was part of the [09:44] Ottoman Empire, but the Ottomans gave [09:47] the Christians in Mount Lebanon [09:50] some control of their you know, control [09:52] over their own civil life and they had [09:53] their own [09:55] their own militia to keep themselves [09:56] safe. It was a basically a [09:58] self-governing zone within the Ottoman [10:00] Empire that was entirely almost entirely [10:02] Christian. [10:04] But in the breakup of the Ottoman [10:05] Empire, when they started drawing lines [10:07] on a map to create all these new [10:08] countries, what the French did was they [10:11] added in more areas, the Beqaa Valley [10:15] here, this area here uh [10:18] south of Sidon, Tyre, this this whole [10:21] southern area, [10:23] which is today [10:25] uh which is today heavily Shiite and [10:28] heavily populated by Hezbollah forces. [10:31] Um and uh Nabatieh and they basically [10:34] expanded around Mount Lebanon to create [10:37] a new country. But by doing so, [10:40] they brought in [10:42] they included into Lebanon [10:45] with all these other towns, both north [10:47] and south and east of Mount Lebanon, [10:50] they folded in a large Sunni and Shiite [10:53] Muslim population, Sunni and Shiite [10:56] separate populations, but into what had [10:58] been basically a Christian political [11:00] framework. [11:02] And then Lebanon and and they governed [11:03] it. Okay, so the French governed Lebanon [11:05] this way. [11:08] They're in control until 1943, middle of [11:11] World War II, [11:13] and then they leave. [11:16] And they leave Lebanon to be So, Lebanon [11:18] gains its independence, so to speak, in [11:20] 1943. [11:22] And the political system that was built [11:25] by [11:27] by the uh by the French remain. Now, [11:30] what was that political system? [11:32] So, it worked something like this. [11:34] They [11:36] they set up a parliament. [11:39] Okay, they set up a parliament [11:40] and they divided [11:42] power in the parliament among the [11:45] different sects, among the different uh [11:48] ethnic and religious groups. [11:52] And the principle behind it was that no [11:54] one group should be able to dominate. [11:56] Everyone should have a piece of the [11:58] power, but the French also wanted [12:00] Lebanon to be governed by the [12:02] Christians, and the Christians at that [12:03] point were the majority cuz Mount [12:05] Lebanon, this big Christian area, there [12:07] were some other Christians in other [12:08] parts, but mainly the Mount Lebanon area [12:10] was the dominant area. [12:12] So, in this power-sharing agreement, [12:14] they set it up that [12:17] the president always has to be a [12:19] Christian. [12:21] The speaker of the house always has to [12:23] be a Shiite. [12:25] And the and the uh prime minister, who [12:29] has other [12:30] powers, [12:31] always has to be [12:33] a Sunni Muslim. [12:36] And they divided up how many seats each [12:38] group gets [12:41] in advance. Meaning, there's no election [12:44] to determine how many seats in [12:45] parliament each group has, and everyone [12:48] votes according to their religious sect. [12:52] So, that again, the president has to be [12:53] a Maronite Christian, prime minister [12:55] a Sunni Muslim, [12:57] uh [12:59] speaker of the house, speaker of the [13:01] parliament a Shiite. [13:02] The parliament is split 50/50 between [13:05] Christians and Muslims, and then within [13:07] that 50/50, there's fixed quotas for [13:10] every single religious [13:12] and ethnic sect. [13:15] And it's fixed. [13:16] Think about that. You have a parliament [13:19] and it is predetermined and fixed in [13:21] time and it's fixed forever, [13:23] basically, according to their [13:25] constitution, how many seats each group [13:28] has. It cannot change. [13:30] When you vote in Lebanon, all you're [13:32] doing is voting to determine which [13:35] people from your religious sect are [13:37] going to represent you in the [13:38] predetermined number of seats in the [13:41] parliament. [13:43] But here's the kicker. [13:44] Those allocations of seats to [13:47] Christians, to different groups of [13:48] Muslims were all based on a census from [13:51] 1932. [13:54] And the demographics have changed [13:56] greatly. There was a massive influx of [13:59] Muslims, especially Sunni Muslims, and [14:00] then later even more Shiites [14:03] came up they came in [14:05] um especially in the 1960s and 70s. This [14:09] led to civil wars. There was a lot of uh [14:12] persecution of Christians at the hands [14:14] of Muslims. A lot of Christians fled the [14:15] country. So the demographics have [14:17] shifted greatly to the point that today [14:20] uh Christians are estimated only about [14:21] 30% of the population. But no one's [14:23] taken a census to redraw the map here. [14:27] And the way power is divided remains [14:30] identical. So half the seats go to [14:31] Christians, half the seats go to [14:33] Muslims. Within those the half that goes [14:35] to Muslims, there's a set amount for [14:36] Shiites, Sunnis, etc. And there's you [14:39] know the Druze get their few seats. [14:44] So that's the that's the system that the [14:46] French drew up and that the country kept [14:48] after they went independent. So you have [14:50] a government that's kind of frozen in [14:51] time. [14:54] And it means that it's not I mean how [14:55] much of a democracy is it really? So you [14:57] have this power sharing. You have the [14:59] president, the prime minister, and the [15:01] speaker who all have their different [15:03] powers. [15:05] And the idea behind the system was that [15:07] no one group can dominate. That way the [15:09] country will it'll be a sort of rule by [15:11] coalition. But what it actually produces [15:13] is that [15:15] every decision [15:18] requires consensus across sectarian [15:21] lines. Every appointment is a [15:23] negotiation. [15:24] Every law is a compromise. Every faction [15:27] has veto power. [15:29] So, when Joseph Aoun is quoted there as [15:31] saying that he has to get responses from [15:32] the relevant factions [15:35] for approval for the ceasefire, it's [15:38] because everyone has to agree. [15:40] It's paralysis. [15:42] And it makes no sense. [15:47] Okay. [15:49] I I made a video the other uh couple [15:50] days ago. You might have seen it on this [15:52] channel about the Taif Agreement, about [15:54] uh UN Security Council Resolution 1701, [15:57] and the Taif Agreement of 1989. [16:00] You have to watch that video. It's very [16:02] important to help understand more of the [16:04] background here. [16:05] But, there was a civil war in Lebanon [16:07] from 1975 to 1990. 150,000 [16:11] uh [16:12] people were killed. Maybe probably more [16:14] than that. [16:15] That's the estimate. [16:17] And when the war ended, they signed [16:19] these accords called the Taif Accords, [16:21] and they [16:22] they adjusted some of the power sharing, [16:25] but they actually in some ways they made [16:26] the they made the problem worse because [16:28] they diversified the power of the [16:30] presidency, and they gave more power to [16:32] other, you know, to the speaker, and to [16:34] the prime minister, and to whatever. It [16:36] became even more of a government by [16:38] committee. They reduced the president's [16:40] authority. [16:42] So, this guy who you're seeing in this [16:45] in this interview, [16:47] who is the president of Lebanon, [16:50] Joseph Aoun, you think he has power? [16:53] I'm here to tell you he doesn't. [16:56] In fact, no one really does. [16:59] Because the [17:02] it's the whole system is built for this [17:04] paralysis. [17:05] But, [snorts] as part of the Taif [17:06] Agreement, and this is the big problem [17:09] that that is haunting us, that we're [17:11] dealing with right now, this is what I I [17:12] I I discussed this in that previous [17:14] video, is that according to the Taif [17:17] agreement, which ended the civil war, [17:19] that they had to disarm all of the [17:21] different terrorist groups because [17:23] during the 15 years of Lebanese civil [17:25] war, there were [17:26] a [17:27] you know, dozens of different militias [17:30] running around. [17:31] There was the PLO and its various [17:33] offshoots and the PFLP and the DFLP and [17:36] and and then along came Hezbollah and [17:39] there were there were lots of different [17:41] terrorist groups that were all fighting [17:42] each other. The Syrians got involved. [17:45] >> [snorts] [17:45] >> Israel was dragged in in 1982 in the [17:48] middle of it for a few years for that [17:49] what we call the first uh the first [17:51] Lebanon war. [17:53] So, when they agreed to this to the [17:56] ceasefire, [17:58] part of the agreement was that [18:00] all of these militias will disarm [18:05] so that there could just be a Lebanese [18:07] army. [18:08] Make sense, but [18:11] they agreed that there'll be one [18:12] exception, Hezbollah. Hezbollah was [18:15] allowed during those negotiations, it [18:18] was agreed upon that Hezbollah would be [18:20] allowed to keep its weapons because they [18:23] are a resistance force against Israel. [18:26] And therefore, the Lebanese government [18:28] agreed to let Hezbollah have their [18:30] weapons. [18:32] They granted them legitimacy as a [18:34] resistance movement against the Jewish [18:36] state. [18:37] They got to keep their weapons, they got [18:39] to keep their military structure, and [18:41] they basically became the most powerful [18:44] actor in Lebanon. [18:45] Cuz they were all backed by they're [18:47] backed by Iranian money [18:49] and Iranian power. [18:52] And that decision at the Taif agreement [18:53] made 35 years ago is why when President [18:55] Aoun today [18:58] says, "It's our country." But Hezbollah [19:00] basically says, "We don't care." That's [19:03] why we are where we are today. [19:06] So, Lebanon's government, let's just sum [19:08] this up. It's president, it's prime [19:10] minister, it's army, they want a [19:12] ceasefire. They went to Washington. They [19:14] negotiated. They agreed to a ceasefire [19:16] with Israel. [19:18] But Hezbollah, which operates from [19:20] Lebanon [19:22] with weapons that Lebanon's own [19:24] government authorized them to have under [19:26] Taif, [19:28] said, "No." [19:30] They called the whole thing a farce. [19:31] They pledged to keep fighting Israel. [19:34] And what what is being exposed here is [19:36] that Lebanon doesn't really have a [19:38] government. [19:40] The whole concept of having these [19:41] negotiations with Lebanese government [19:44] officials to come to an agreement with [19:45] Israel is just It is absurd. Here's the [19:48] thing. Naim Qassem, the head of [19:50] Hezbollah, is right. It is absurd. [19:53] Hezbollah controls [19:56] a lot of the government in Lebanon. [20:00] It [20:01] you know, it it it doesn't just control [20:04] Hezbollah. They've been in positions of [20:06] power for so long. They have people in [20:08] all the different ministries. [20:11] Yes, the government has officially an [20:13] army, and when you if you get a [20:14] passport, it'll say Lebanon, it'll be [20:17] issued by the government of Lebanon. [20:19] But it doesn't it doesn't really run [20:21] things. [20:23] So, when the world says that Israel [20:25] should respect Lebanese sovereignty, [20:28] what sovereignty are you talking about? [20:29] What sovereignty? Sovereignty of a [20:31] government that that can't [20:34] take control of its own territory, [20:37] who has to send messages through through [20:39] the speaker to see if he can get [20:41] Hezbollah to please please please talk [20:43] to us and agree and convince them that [20:45] the best way is through through through [20:47] talking? [20:51] Look, President Aoun said it in that [20:53] interview. Hezbollah is Iran's [20:55] instrument. Iran is using Lebanon as a [20:57] bargaining chip. The Lebanese people [21:01] are irrelevant here. The Lebanese [21:02] government's irrelevant here. It [21:08] No one in the international community [21:10] wants to just deal with this head-on. [21:14] So this it's a dog and pony show. [21:17] Pretending that the that Lebanon [21:19] actually has a government that that [21:22] and that it means anything if they say [21:23] something. [21:25] Cuz if Lebanon's government can't stop [21:27] Hezbollah [21:30] and won't [21:33] and their political system kind of [21:35] prevents them from really [21:38] getting rid of Hezbollah. [21:39] It's built into the system. [21:42] Then what's Israel supposed to do? [21:46] Like Israel is supposed to wait? [21:48] Supposed to trust the process that the [21:50] Lebanese government is going to take the [21:52] bull by the horns and deal with it? [21:56] The Taif Accords [21:58] was it was it was an agreement by the [22:00] Lebanese government. [22:03] And as part of those negotiations, they [22:05] allowed Hezbollah to have weapons to [22:07] fight Israel. [22:11] Resolution 1701 [22:13] which was 20 years ago, 2006 [22:17] was supposed to disarm everyone south of [22:19] the Litani. Nothing happened. [22:22] It became just like [22:24] like another version of Gaza with [22:26] tunnels and rocket launchers and weapons [22:29] you know, depots [22:31] all in violation of Resolution 1701. [22:36] And the only one who ever does anything [22:37] about it is Israel when we go into [22:39] Lebanon and do something about it and [22:40] then the whole world screams get out of [22:41] Lebanon. [22:43] Israel's not fighting Lebanon. [22:47] Israel's fighting Hezbollah. Lebanon is [22:50] responsible for this. [22:56] Look, [22:58] I don't think President Aoun is a bad [22:59] guy. [23:00] He seems genuinely frustrated. He wants [23:02] peace. [23:05] But wanting peace and having the power [23:06] to deliver it are two very different [23:08] things. And the Lebanese system built by [23:10] these French bureaucrats in 1920 [23:16] and [23:17] it which has never worked. Lebanon has [23:20] been a failed state almost since the [23:21] beginning. [23:22] Most of its history it's been in a state [23:24] of civil war. [23:27] Even though technically the civil war [23:29] ended in 1989, there's constant militia [23:30] activity and you have [23:32] when let's put it this way. When they're [23:34] not in the state of civil war, they're [23:35] being occupied by Iran. [23:38] Hezbollah is a foreign entity [23:41] occupying Lebanon. [23:44] That's what he even said here in this [23:45] interview. He says, "It's our country." [23:48] When he's talking to the Iranians who [23:50] are who are making decisions. So for how [23:52] much of Lebanon's history, if you take [23:54] out the the civil war from 1975 to 1990, [23:57] and ever since then it's been governed [23:59] it's been controlled by Iran. [24:03] Most of the Lebanese history it has not [24:05] been sovereign. It's a failed state. [24:08] It has no real sovereignty. So this idea [24:11] that Israel's going to make an agreement [24:13] a peace deal with Lebanon [24:18] is just ridiculous. [24:20] Hezbollah does not want to cease-fire. [24:23] Lebanon's government is powerless to do [24:25] anything about it. [24:27] And yet the world calls on Israel to [24:29] stand down to withdraw. Israel's not [24:31] going to withdraw. [24:33] Israel's not going to withdraw. Israel's [24:35] not going to withdraw because [24:38] they have no guarantee of our own [24:39] security. We don't have a Lebanese [24:41] government that has the ability to do [24:44] anything about the problem. [24:46] So Israel has to defend itself. And if [24:47] we're getting attacked like I said in [24:48] that previous video, if we're getting [24:49] attacked by a militia from your [24:51] territory and you're not doing anything [24:53] about it. Either it doesn't matter why. [24:55] Either because you don't want to [24:58] or because you can't, that's immaterial. [25:00] But the fact that you're not doing [25:02] anything about it leaves Israel no [25:04] choice. [25:05] That's the way it works, folks. [25:09] I hope this made some sense.
