A conversation with Ambassador Ron Dermer

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Politics, Hamas, Society, News, War, Israel, News Commentary, October 7, Geopolitics, Palestine, Government

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The security situation continues to deteriorate in Israel -- tragic developments, including right in the heart of Tel Aviv. We continue to monitor developments and stay in close touch with Israeli family and friends. While Israel is a major focus of today’s conversation, the security crisis is not. We focus on the political impasse in Israel, which may be connected to the security crisis. Today we sit down with Ambassador Ron Dermer, who served as Israel’s chief envoy to the United States from 2013 to 2021 – working closely with the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. During that time, he was widely regarded as one of the most consequential ambassadors from any country. Ambassador Dermer was one of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s closest advisers and played a key role in what led to the US relocation of our embassy to Jerusalem, U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, implementation of the maximum pressure campaign against Iran, and the historic breakthrough that led to the Abraham Accords. He is a graduate of the Wharton School and completed a degree at Oxford. In this episode, we focus on three topics: What to make of the current Israeli political crisis? (Will the Government fall? Will Netanyahu return to power?) What are the real prospects for a new Iran nuclear deal? And what to make of America's role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

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0:00.0	To think that we're going to catch them weaponizing, when you can weaponize in a room that's about
0:05.2	twice the size of this podcast room and a country that is a third the size of Europe, it's
0:09.6	cruise control heading over a cliff.
0:12.2	And so when people will say, and they'll say today,
0:14.3	the deal was working, the deal was working, yeah the cruise control is working.
0:17.4	What about the cliff? What are you doing to deal with the cliff. The security situation continues.
0:27.0	The security situation continues to deteriorate in Israel.
0:37.0	Tragic developments, including right in the heart of Tel Aviv.
0:41.0	We continue to monitor developments and stay in close contact with Israeli
0:45.2	family and friends. While Israel is a major focus of today's episode, the security crisis
0:50.7	is not. We focus on the political impasse in Israel which may be
0:54.2	connected to the security crisis. Today we sit down with Ambassador Ron
0:58.5	Dermer who served as Israel's chief envoy to the United States from 2013 to 2021, working with three administrations,
1:07.3	the administration of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.
1:11.5	During his tenure, he was widely regarded as one of the most
1:14.4	consequential ambassadors from any country I'd often hear this from ambassadors
1:19.0	representing governments across Europe and Asia and even from Arab countries in the Middle East.
1:24.8	He was one of Prime Minister Netanyahu's closest advisors and still is today, almost an alter
1:30.1	ego, and he played a key role in what led to the US relocation of our embassy
1:34.8	to Jerusalem and the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan
1:38.8	Heights, an implementation of the Oxford University. Now, Ron and I banter a lot when I'm in Israel or when he's here in the US like he is today,
1:56.5	but in this conversation I try to get Ron's take on three specific topics.
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