 So let's talk a little bit about that because to me this is maybe one of the most stunning things about the whole Israeli-Palestinian issue is that is the extent to which people are anti-Israel and the extent to which they hate Israel. And you see that, I see that particularly when I travel to Europe, but I see it in the U.S. among libertarians of all people, right? And who claim to be pro-freedom and then a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. So let's just do just facts, right? What is life like basically in Israel? What is life like basically under the Palestinian Authority? Well, what life is like in the Palestinian Authority or under Gaza is essentially cut from the same cloth as you would get in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Jordan. Basically it's tyrannical. So there is no freedom of speech. On Facebook and you criticize Mahmoud Abbas, who is the so-called president of the Palestinian Authority, you will get thrown in jail or taken to court and punished. This actually happened just a few months ago. A year or two ago a journalist was criticized. He didn't criticize him harshly, he just ridiculed him. You cannot do that. If you are gay, God help you. Because if your neighbors don't come after you, one of the security forces, because they have a whole bunch of gangs fighting for whose territory is what, they'll come after you. And some of them have become sort, they've sought to be asylum seekers within Israel. They've fled the Palestinian Authority. If you're a woman, well, under Hamas, you're made to don a veil. And you are, if you're a man, you're made to grow a beard. And so they've brought in the morality police that you see in Saudi Arabia and Iran. Even Egypt has its own kind of morality police that people don't know enough about. So these are societies that are highly controlled. I mean, the idea that Mahmoud Abbas is the president of the Palestinian Authority. Well, he's deferred the elections. He's in the 13th year of a four-year term. It's ridiculous. I mean, this is an authoritarian regime where your life is in control by the state. I mean, it is incredibly controlled. What about economic freedom, like property rights? Are they property rights in the Palestinian Authority? They belong to those who have a gun. So if you have a nice villa and somebody wants it and who belongs to the Palestinian Authority, they'll come in and they'll take your house. They'll take your car in the street. So this is a regime where they're not concerned about the Palestinians' rights. They're concerned about exploiting people and gaining territory and conquest. And one of the things that is typical of authoritarian regimes and interities in general is economic exploitation, which is just a feature of, you know, they believe they should control. And the amount of money that has flowed into the Palestinian Authority is breathtaking. Roughly about $400 million a year just from the U.S. In the first five years of the Palestinian Authority, they got like $2.6 billion in foreign aid. Where has it gone? A lot of it went to ammunition and training. We know now if I died, you had what, a billion over a billion dollars in a Swiss bank account? So these are not regimes that are designed to, I mean, it's an understatement, but these are regimes that are methodical in their oppression of individuals. Like the idea that we have real problems with free speech in the United States, but we still have a free press, even if the president would like it to be otherwise. There is no free press in the Middle East, in the Palestinian territories or in Gaza. There is one place that is different. And so we can turn to Israel. So in Israel, there is real freedom of speech. There is real property rights, there's intellectual property rights. And economically, I mean, so in every dimension, if you're a woman, if you're gay, think of all the minorities, religious minorities. If you're a Christian, so there are some Christians who live under the Palestinian Authority. There aren't that many anymore because they've been persecuted out, and just as they've been persecuted out of Egypt and other countries in the Middle East. But Israel has a thriving community of Christians, a thriving community of Muslims of various sects, regardless of which you are. And you know that the sectarian fighting among Muslims is crazy, and that's a big part of what's going on in Syria. There's a community of an original minority called the Baha'i. They originated in Iran. But in Iran, you can't really live as a Baha'i because the government has made it its project to persecute you. But in Israel, the Baha'i temple in Haifa, where you grew up, is a landmark for tourists to come and see. So the idea of religious freedom and intellectual freedom is just unheard of outside of Israel's borders, but it's a real phenomenon within the country. So in every dimension that matters for human life and what options you have to live and pursue your own life, according to your judgment, you actually have the ability to do that in Israel. And that's whether you're Jew or Arab or Christian or Baha'i? It is, and you can see that. That's the fundamental. So it's kind of paradoxical that Israel calls itself the Jewish state. And it is in important ways. It has religion that's sort of... It's a significant part of the way they conceptualize their government and their country. But that's not anything like what it means to be Saudi Arabia, which is a Muslim state. It's not the law of the land in the same way. And they actually have religious freedom for people who are not Jews. What it means to be a Jew is also itself kind of a big package because a lot of Israelis that I know and that you know and that predominate are not religious in the way that the Hasidic Jews are. So it's a remarkably atheist secular country that leans left that has incredible political freedom. So one of the manifestations of that materially is the extent to which Israel is economically... It is a powerhouse in the region. It's tiny. It doesn't have the natural resources that you see like petroleum in the rest of a lot of the other countries. But what it has distinguished itself with is through high tech and through biotech. And the number of startups in Israel, it's being dubbed the startup nation. It's not an accident. There's a real ethos of entrepreneurialism in Israel. Let's be there for decades. It didn't just with the dot-com development. And when you zoom out and you see that, so there's really political freedom, intellectual freedom and economic freedom. Now it could be freer, right? Much freer, yeah. But relative to its neighbors, even relative to parts of Europe and certain sectors in the US, you can see that the manifestation of those kinds of freedoms leads to greater prosperity. So I think the number of companies from Israel that are listed on NASDAQ, so the priority is the US has the most, then China, then Israel. And that's crazy. I mean, it's relative to proportion. A tiny little country. And you can also look at the number of scientific articles that are generated per capita. The number of Nobel laureates in the actual hard sciences in the fields that are not as politicized. So in all these respects, you have a society that is actually, there really is freedom now. I would love it to be greater freedom, but still it's freedom. And that is an achievement. If you think of all the other countries that were started in the 20th century that became independent, where have they ended up? Just by that measure, but just in world historical skills, achieving a free society is an amazing achievement. No, I want to second that. I mean, the fact that in 60 years what Israel has achieved, given the odds, given the wars, given the threats, given the hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims surrounding it that one day annihilated. And what they have achieved in terms of a thriving economy, in terms of startups, in terms of science, in terms of a free society, in terms of, in really in every respect, now I'm a huge critic of Israel and part of why I don't live there, right? But you have to put it in historical and in global perspective. This is a massive, massive achievement. It is a huge achievement of human ingenuity and a huge achievement of reason and of hard work and commitment. So, you know, and for people to criticize it on stupidity is just, you know, evading all the greatness that has been achieved is just absurd.