Transcript [00:00] Are you afraid now of going to New York [00:02] City? Will you not go because of that [00:04] fear even though really he's got no [00:06] means to back that up? [00:07] >> The answer is no. I'm not afraid. So I [00:10] introduced something called free markets [00:12] or as it's commonly known capitalism and [00:15] everything soared up. Israel became a [00:18] global high-tech power. So socialism [00:20] doesn't work. I think that's one problem [00:22] for the people of New York, the [00:24] residents of New York. The other one is [00:25] that anti-semitism usually collapses [00:28] societies. It's not usually always [00:30] collapses societies. [00:31] >> Prime Minister Netanyahu was recently on [00:33] Aaron Molan's podcast and she asked him [00:37] about the fact that New York City Mayor [00:39] Zoran Mandani, this uh this jihadist [00:44] socialist has threatened to arrest Prime [00:47] Minister Netanyahu the next time he [00:49] comes to New York. Now, the basis for [00:52] this is that the International Criminal [00:54] Court issued arrest warrants for Prime [00:56] Minister Netanyahu and some other [00:57] Israeli officials. But the International [00:59] Criminal Court, despite its lofty name, [01:02] isn't really what it sounds like. It [01:04] doesn't have jurisdiction over the [01:05] world. It doesn't actually have any [01:08] standing except in countries that agree [01:12] to honor the power of the International [01:14] Criminal Court. And maybe Zoran Mandani [01:16] doesn't even realize that the [01:17] International Criminal Court has no [01:19] jurisdiction in the United States. But [01:21] be that as it may, Erin Milan asked [01:23] Prime Minister Netanyahu what he thought [01:26] of this threat to have him arrested when [01:29] he comes to New York. And this the [01:31] answer was so surprising. I mean it it [01:35] went in a direction that I did not [01:37] expect. Have a look at this [01:39] >> about the new mayor of New York City, [01:41] Mom Dani, who said very robustly and [01:44] confidently that he would arrest you [01:45] should you step foot in New York City. [01:48] He's softened that stance a little bit [01:50] over the last, say, 12 hours, saying, [01:51] "Well, foreign leaders can travel [01:53] wherever they like." Are you afraid now [01:55] of going to New York City? Will you not [01:57] go because of that fear, even though [01:59] really he's got no means to back that [02:01] up? [02:03] >> The answer is no. I'm not afraid. And [02:06] the answer is you What do you want me to [02:08] say about Mandani? I mean, what about [02:09] him? You want me to give you uh opinions [02:12] about him? So, I introduced something [02:13] called free markets or as it's commonly [02:16] known, capitalism. And everything soared [02:19] up. Israel became a global high-tech [02:22] power. Uh Tel Aviv now is uh the skyline [02:26] changed. We had one skyscraper [02:28] skyscraper 20 years ago. Now we have a [02:31] forest of them. And you know what? [02:33] inequality [02:34] went down because people joined the job [02:37] market. So everybody's income rose and [02:39] the disparity between the rich and the [02:41] poor actually declined sharply. So [02:43] socialism doesn't work. Uh I I think [02:46] that's one problem for the people of New [02:49] York, the residents of New York. The [02:50] other one is that anti-semitism usually [02:52] collapses societies. It's not usually [02:55] always collapses societies. If uh that's [02:57] the future of New York, I think New York [03:00] has a very dim future and usually people [03:02] shake out of it. But what we what I [03:04] found in reforming the Israeli economy [03:06] is that it's very hard to do. It's very [03:09] very hard to do. We did it and we did it [03:11] with amazing success and Israel is now [03:13] one of the the greatest uh I think our [03:16] stock market is growing faster than any [03:18] other stock market in the world in after [03:20] two years of war. And that's because of [03:22] the sound structure of free market [03:25] competition and not the impossible [03:27] handouts that create deficits that then [03:29] collapse everything on on your back. You [03:31] know, if you if you sit at home and you [03:34] just take debt, take debt, take debt, [03:37] you reach a position called bankruptcy, [03:40] and that's where New York might be [03:42] headed. So, uh I I think that uh I wish [03:46] a better future for the people of New [03:47] York. Uh but you ask me, am I afraid of [03:50] going there? Hell no. Of course not. [03:53] >> Are you open to dialogue with him if he [03:55] were to reach out and want a [03:56] conversation with you? [03:58] >> Well, listen, I uh I have a lot of [04:00] dialogues that I'm engaged in right now. [04:02] I mean, a lot. Okay. And I think this [04:05] one I think he should get his act [04:07] together before uh before he makes these [04:09] statements. It's good to be a It's good [04:12] to be a young leader, but it's not good [04:15] to be a young uneducated leader in the [04:17] sense of not knowing economics, not [04:20] knowing what anti-semitism is, not [04:22] knowing who the bad guys are. But I [04:24] think you should brush up on that. Then [04:26] we might have a [04:29] >> Okay, that was not at all what I [04:31] expected. You know, if Aaron Milan is [04:33] asking the prime minister of Israel [04:35] about Zoran Mdani, again, a a Muslim who [04:39] he he made his career in politics out of [04:43] his pro Palestine anti-Israel activism. [04:46] That's how he got started. He got [04:48] started by starting a students for [04:49] justice in Palestine uh branch at his [04:52] college campus. and he's, you know, he's [04:55] been one of these people chanting [04:57] globalize the inifat and and going to [04:59] pro- Hamas demonstrations since October [05:01] 7th. And I expected Prime Minister [05:04] Netanyahu's answer to revolve around the [05:08] fact that he's a Muslim or the fact that [05:10] he's anti-Israel. And instead, he [05:13] pivoted towards the socialism and [05:15] started talking about economics and what [05:16] a failure socialism is and what a [05:19] success he had reforming the economy. [05:21] Now, you might think that he's just [05:23] waxing poetic or taking too much credit [05:25] for reforming the the Israeli economy, [05:28] but this is really a a very important [05:31] aspect of Prime Minister Netanyahu's [05:32] career that a lot of people don't [05:34] realize because before he was prime [05:35] minister, and he's been prime minister [05:36] for a long time. He was first uh he was [05:38] first elected in 1996, [05:42] but before that, he was finance minister [05:45] and he really did reform the Israeli [05:47] economy. So in short, Prime Minister [05:49] Netanyahu really did take the Israeli [05:52] economy from being very socialist, very [05:54] union dominated and pushing it more [05:57] towards free markets and private [05:59] enterprise throughout his career as [06:01] finance minister. He really fought [06:04] against the power of these state [06:05] monopolies. A lot of things in Israel [06:07] were governed by state monopolies, [06:08] including phone companies. And I [06:10] remember I remember that living in [06:11] Israel, one of the first things he did [06:13] as finance minister was he broke up the [06:15] state-run phone monopoly. And [06:17] immediately the cost of long-distance [06:19] phone calling, which this is way back [06:21] before cell phones, the cost of phones [06:24] and long-distance phone calling dropped [06:26] through the floor. He went to war [06:29] against the unions. He cut taxes. He [06:31] opened up Israel to global capitalism as [06:33] prime minister. He then went on and made [06:36] welfare cuts, lowered corporate taxes, [06:40] and uh and made entrepreneurship much [06:43] more profitable in Israel. Look, he's [06:46] he's someone who is really understands [06:48] that economic freedom also contributes [06:51] to national security. And the result of [06:54] all of his policies over the years, both [06:55] as finance minister and as and as prime [06:58] minister, obviously, was that Israel [07:00] went from being very much before him a [07:03] government-run, [07:04] very socialist country with a lot of [07:06] stagnation to becoming the startup [07:08] powerhouse that we're used to. And the [07:10] bottom line is this. Prime Minister [07:12] Netanyahu did what President he did for [07:16] Israel, what President Reagan did for [07:17] America, and what President Trump is [07:19] trying to do. rolling back socialism, [07:21] rolling back regulations, letting [07:23] markets work. And you saw there that [07:25] Prime Minister Netanyao also mentioned [07:27] that the Israeli stock market is [07:29] booming. And this is unbelievable during [07:31] two years of war with all the defense [07:33] expenditures and all the pressure [07:34] Israel's been under. I want to show you [07:36] a chart of how much the Israeli stock [07:39] market has been booming. So take a look [07:40] at this. This is the Israeli stock [07:44] market. This is the Israeli stock market [07:47] over the course of the last few years. [07:50] And you can see here where it turns to [07:53] to 2024, 2025. The Israeli stock market [07:57] is in fact absolutely booming. Take a [08:00] look at that. Look at that. Look at [08:01] where that is. This is 2023 and then [08:04] here we're in the war. We're in the war [08:06] here and then boom, the Israeli stock [08:08] market is absolutely taking off. So [08:10] obviously most of the news out of Israel [08:12] that that everyone pays attention to has [08:14] to do with security and the war and all [08:16] those things, but at the same time [08:17] Israel's economy is absolutely booming. [08:19] So I just found it really cool that his [08:22] his response to being asked about Mamani [08:25] wasn't to defiantly say yes, I'm going [08:27] to go there anyway. He didn't talk about [08:29] the International Criminal Court. He [08:31] didn't talk about the fact that Mani is [08:32] anti-Israel pro Palestine activist. He [08:35] didn't talk about Islam. He talked about [08:37] socialism and what a disaster socialism [08:39] is. and how Mandani is really a uh a [08:43] political novice. Uh, so I thought that [08:46] that was an amazing answer and yes, it [08:48] is true that Prime Minister Netanyahu [08:50] did so much to make the Israeli economy [08:54] the powerhouse that it is today.
