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Michael Goodwin.

How you doing?

Good morning, Mark.

Thank you. Hey, great column yesterday you doing? Good morning, Mark. Thank you.

Hey, great column yesterday about the supposed two-state solution. You know, I'm watching that

awful John Oliver last night. The whole thing is about Israel is starving people and on and on.

You've got the Democrats now pushing a two-state solution in Congress, creating a

pushing for a Palestinian state.

Explain the delusion there.

Well, look, I think President Trump said it best when he said basically creating a Palestinian state now

would be rewarding Hamas for what it did on October 7th of

2023 and what it's continuing to do even now with the hostages.

And I think he's absolutely right that in this environment, look, this is a topic, of course, a Palestinian state that goes back many,

many years. During the creation of Israel in 1948, there was also the creation of an Arab state.

But of course, that wasn't what the Arabs wanted because they didn't want in Israel.

So they fought and fought and fought and fought. And have never, to this day, you still have those

holdouts who still argue that the creation of Israel is illegitimate, that Jews had never been in that area before, right?

I mean, so it's steeped in ignorance of history. But I think now, Mark, with the leaders of

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