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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2749 of the Tom Wood's show. We all know who Scott Horton is, host of the Scott Horton Show, director of the Libertarian Institute, just everything in the history of the world, director of the Scott Horton Academy, which of course you are all members of, Scott Horton Academy.com. And I want to talk to him about a question that is, of course, related to this

current Iran war, but goes beyond it. And that is the issue of not just the subject of Israel,

but specifically the question of where do Israeli and American interests diverge? Because as I

keep saying in recent episodes, you pick any two countries they'll always have

something in common but they'll also have areas in which their interests are at odds with each other

and I want to kind of flesh that out a bit poor Scott is in the I'm going to just spill the beans

or he's in the middle of moving so for a while it was Scott in front of. So for a while, it was Scott in front of

bookcases full of books. Then it was Scott in front of bookcases with no books on them. And now

it's Scott with no bookcases. So welcome, Scott. Happy to be here, Tom. Thank you. The U.S.

so-called special relationship with Israel didn't develop immediately in 1948, even though the U.S.

recognized the independence of the state of Israel almost immediately. But I will say that at

that time, there was a perceived issue that could arise, given that the U.S. had implicitly endorsed the state of Israel. It seemed like

it was endorsing, you know, by being so quick to recognize it, that it was endorsing its behavior

toward the Palestinians, and particularly the Palestinian refugee problem, which even Harry Truman,

who was anxious to support the state of Israel, at least in his

words, said he was unhappy with. And a lot of people were unhappy with the way, to say the least,

Israel was handling the Israeli refugee problem. And if you look at State Department statements at

the time, they are warning that the United States is going to attract whatever enemies Israel attracts

as a result of this unresolved refugee problem. And so we need to proceed with caution.

So right off the bat, there was a sense that the interests of the United States and of Israel

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