Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 710 W.O.R. Well, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America. You can read him every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post, and he's with us right now. Michael Goodwin. How you doing? Good morning, Mark. Thank you.

Hey, great column yesterday. Joe Biden is playing with fire in the Middle East?

No doubt about that, but are we heading towards World War III if we keep this guy around?

Well, look, I think that the idea that he can force the creation of a Palestinian state, you know, into Gaza and the West Bank over Israeli

objections, and even while this war in Gaza continues, I think could set off a chain

reaction of events that are potentially cataclysmic. Of course,

because Iran is funding and financing all of these, an army, the Houthis, the Hezbollah,

Hamas, with the desire to destroy Israel. I mean, Iran has made it clear that's its goal.

That's the little Satan.

We're the great Satan.

And so I think if there is an attempt to force this state in there against Israeli objections

and before there are provisions for safeguarding the security, not only of

Israel, but of the ordinary Palestinians who don't want a terror state.

I'm not sure how many of them there are.

I mean, polls show that 80% of them supported Hamas and what they did on October 7th. So it's a little

unclear that you can have a Palestinian state that will accept Israel's right to exist. This is

not about borders. This is existential. Should there be a Jewish state there? And unfortunately, you know, historically, the Arab nations fought against this.

But one by one, you look at the history of the treaties with Jordan and Egypt,

and then the Abraham Accords.

So the governments of the Arab nations largely have come around to accepting Israel

and working with Israel on trade and security and all kinds of issues.

But now you have the fanatics of Iran and their proxy groups, they're the ones who have taken up the cry to

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