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##JERUSALEM: Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. A former Pentagon official, Dr. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, and both pre- and post

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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##JERUSALEM:
Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. A former Pentagon official, Dr. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, and both pre- and postwar Iraq. He also spent time with the Taliban before 9/11. For more than a decade, he taught classes at sea about the Horn of Africa and Middle East conflicts, culture, and terrorism, to deployed US Navy and Marine units.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Duchler with Malcolm Ho-line Conference of

0:39.2

Presidents, Major American Jewish Organizations, and we're very pleased to welcome Michael Rubin of the

0:43.9

American Enterprise Institute. Michael, the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Nettenyah, who

0:48.6

is due into Washington in several days to address a joint session of Congress. What are we listening for

0:54.8

after these nine or ten months of war fighting? What is the Prime Minister's

0:59.5

mission to it to the Congress? Good evening to you.

1:03.8

Good evening.

1:04.8

The Prime Minister should be making the case

1:07.0

that Israel is the canary in the coal mine

1:09.9

in defense of Western liberalism and democracy.

1:14.0

What we should be looking for is further American commitment to Israel.

1:18.4

The worst sign would be if the personality of Benjamin Netanyahu becomes a political football and a distraction where we no longer see the forest through the trees and we get distracted from just the civilizational battle in which we are, which we now find ourselves.

1:36.8

Now you have written a very important article which underscores some research findings that we've had about the growth of anti-Hindu

1:46.3

feeling on our campuses in America paralleling the rise of anti-Semitism.

1:51.7

But you write about the role of human rights organizations in the

1:54.4

West and they're deep-seated anti-Indian bias.

1:59.2

How do these undermine their credibility?

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