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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Victoria Coates: “THE BATTLE FOR THE JEWISH STATE: HOW ISRAEL AND AMERICA CAN WIN”

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Coates is Vice President of National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. She previously served as a national security advisor under President Trump. She answers many questions, including, “Why does Israel exist?”

https://x.com/VictoriaCoates 

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0:00.0

Who do you think is influencing these protests?

0:14.0

I think it's probably coming from two sources.

0:16.5

And I, again, take this a little personally.

0:18.3

I'm a pen alum and was invited to campus by the Free Speech Society last April to give remarks and the virulence with which the very announcement of the speech, the attacks on the website were such that I required three levels of armed guards to go to my own campus and talk

0:39.4

about how I like free speech and I think hating Jews is a bad idea. So controversial, Victoria.

0:45.5

So controversial. When did this become radical? And that speech wasn't free. The city of Philadelphia,

0:54.1

the University of Pennsylvania and the Heritage Foundation all paid.

0:57.1

So I could I could do that in safety.

1:02.7

The book is The Battle for the Jewish State, How Israel and America Can Win.

1:08.5

Victoria Coates is the author.

1:10.8

She's the vice president of national security and

1:12.6

foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation. You have probably seen her writing in the New York Post,

1:17.9

in the New York, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, many, many places. This is not her first book,

1:23.5

but it's an important one and a timely one. It's not only timely, it's timeless. This is

1:27.7

information you can use. And she gives you a lot of history in this book and a lot of forward

1:32.3

thinking as well, what we might be able to expect with Trump back in the White House.

1:37.2

She's got a vast amount of experience and I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

1:43.2

Victoria Coates is next.

1:48.4

Victoria, welcome.

1:49.5

I'm so glad to speak with you, and this is such an important topic.

1:52.6

And I just wonder, you know, you've got a ton of books on the bookshelf behind you.

1:56.9

I do.

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