Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: The Strategic Case for Supporting Israel
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:03.0 | Not much to it is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.0 | Mmm, that is good. Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:19.0 | I'd like to return to this often contentious subject in the news of why the United States supports Israel. |
| 0:26.6 | I must come clean. |
| 0:28.0 | I am not a Christian Zionist. |
| 0:30.3 | I support Israel for one reason. |
| 0:32.2 | It is in the interest of my country and the United States. |
| 0:35.5 | Now, why would that be? |
| 0:51.1 | Music of my country in the United States. Now, why would that be? Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. I'd like to return to this often contentious subject in the news of why the United States supports Israel. |
| 0:57.0 | I must come clean. I am not a Christian Zionist. I feel I'm a Christian, but I have no special advocacy to support Israel because it's a biblical home of the Jews and by extension the Judeo-Christian traditions, of which I am a member. |
| 1:14.6 | And I can even confess as a rural resident who grew up and isolated on a farm, I don't recall anybody being Jewish, |
| 1:23.6 | and I had never met anybody Jewish until I was 18 years old when I went to the |
| 1:29.0 | University of California campus at Santa Cruz. And for the first time in my life, I met somebody |
| 1:33.4 | who said he was Jewish. So I don't come to this issue with any particular hidden agenda, |
| 1:42.2 | whether it's Christian Zionist, that's a new term that's in use now, or as an |
| 1:47.3 | advocate of Jewish Americans or Israelis, I do it for one reason. I support Israel for one reason. |
| 1:54.0 | It is in the interest of my country and the United States. Now, why would that be? I'll give you |
| 1:59.6 | one example. In 2012, 13, and 14, |
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