 Thank you for inviting me, very generous of you, and thank you all for being here. It's a nice group, so I'm excited and excited about this. Let me just add on to what Pata just said. Ayn Rand, her books are in Georgian now. So her major novels, Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead, are both in Georgian and in Pata's organization. The New Economic School has translated some of her non-fiction, her articles that are non-fiction. So I encourage you to kind of go out and pick up a book. And if you find anything I say interesting or provocative, because I'm going to be provocative today, then I encourage you to go and read up a little bit. I think you'll find it mind-expanding. So two weeks ago, almost to the day, I think you all know, and I'm not going to go through all the horrors of the day, not only were 200 people kidnapped, children, old people, babies, but 1400 people were slaughtered, murdered, raped, tortured, children, babies, old people. And the monsters who did this, not only committed these horrific crimes, but videotaped it, put it up online, were proud of their achievement. As we speak right now, 100,000 people in London are protesting in favor of Hamas, in favor of these monsters and what they did and how they did it. I think you can all kind of imagine the horror that is going on in Israel right now. No family in Israel has not been touched. Everybody knows somebody, if not directly, indirectly, that was there, that has died. Israel is a small country, a little bit like Georgia. Everybody knows everybody in some way, right? This horror that happened is not a surprise, sadly, should not have been a surprise. And what was a surprise, certainly to me and I think to many Israelis, is the failure of the Israeli security system to stop it, the failure of the Israeli security system to respond to it, an intelligence failure, a military failure, and above all, a political failure. And there will be time to analyze all that and to think about why it happened and how it happened and who's to blame afterwards. But now, I think justifiably, Israel is focused on what needs to be done. And although I do think it is important for us and I don't think we can understand what happened without understanding some of the historical context that led to this and some of the political failures over the last 50, 60, but certainly 20 years that led to what occurred. I mean, think about just the magnitude. In terms of the percentage of the population that was killed on that day, this is something between 20 to 30 times 9-11. In 9-11, 3,000 Americans died. That's horrific and it's huge, but it's a 350 million people country. In Israel, 1,400 people died in one day in a country of less than 10 million. So how did this happen? Why did this happen? What needs to be done as a consequence? And why is it? And I think this is a really, really crucial question. Why is it that so many people in the world today, in spite of all the support we're seeing for Israel, including from you, from you, Georgians, why are there so many people in the world today who are on Hamas' side or who are equivocating between the two? I see it all over the Internet, everywhere. Hamas, yes, what they did was horrible. Everybody says it's horrible, but Israel's bad too. You see that over and over and over again. You saw that certainly with the news article, with the news story you saw two days ago with the bombing of the hospital. Nobody checked, nobody questioned. They heard from the Palestinian Authority that a hospital had been bombed and hundreds of people were dead. And that was immediately the headline in New York Times and in every newspaper in the world. I mean, put aside the journalistic incompetence that that represents, but they were almost eager to show, see, they're bad too. So how do we deal with this moral question of equivalence? Because reality is, if you look at the numbers and I've seen lots of charts and newspapers about this, right, they show you a chart and they say, here's how many Palestinians, how many Israelis Palestinians have killed. And here's how many Palestinians, the Israelis have killed. You know what? Israel's killed more Palestinians than the Palestinians killed Israelis. That's true. And therefore they say, see, there's a moral equivalence. It's a numbers game, but that is ridiculous and sick. You wouldn't do that for World War II. You wouldn't add up the number of people Nazis killed and the number of people, you know, the allies killed and make a comparison. Why? Why would you not do that? Well, because the Nazis started a war and the allies were primarily acting in self-defense. There's a massive difference between those who initiate force, who use force in order to subjugate people, to kill, to conquer territory, to destroy, and those who act in self-defense. And indeed, all deaths in war, all deaths in war are the moral responsibility of those who initiate force. All deaths in war are the responsibility of those who initiate force. Every Palestinian dying today in Gaza, and look, some of them are innocent, children, children are innocent. Their death is the responsibility of those who initiate force. So it's important to understand who in the biggest scale of things is the good guy and who are the bad guys. Who started this? And I think there are two ways to evaluate the situation between Palestinians and Israelis. Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? One, you can look at history, and we'll do that briefly, although history is messy and difficult and there's always going to be counter-stories. But I will tell you my story, at least, and I think it's true, but I will tell it to you. But I think you can even skip over the history. You can to some extent look at the parties and you can tell who the good guys and who the bad guys are. By the way they live, by the culture they create, by the civilization they embrace or not. If you go to Israel, and my assumption is, some of you at least, maybe many of you have been to Israel, Israel is a thriving western country. It is a country that for the most part, like most western countries, respects rights, respects property. It is a country where all the citizens within Israel are treated for the most part equally. They're Arabs in the Israeli parliament. They have been Arabs in the Israeli government. They call it an apartheid state, but no apartheid state includes the minority in political power, in political office. Property rights are respected. Freedom of speech is respected. No apartheid state allows its population and minority people to protest against the government. Arabs protest regularly in Israel. Participate in all civil and economic activities. Israel is not a perfect state. No state is. I think you Georgians know that. Georgia is not perfect, Israel is not perfect. The United States is far from perfect. Western Europe is far from perfect. But there is a fundamental difference between states. They respect the rights of their individuals. They respect property rights and respect free speech. And that are politically free. That is, we vote. We elect our representatives from those who oppress, who don't allow free speech. Who, you know, I saw a sign somewhere in the United States in one of these protests for Hamas, in favor of Hamas. And the sign said, gays for Hamas. Do you know what they do to gays in Gaza? They take them to a tall building and they throw them off. You cannot be a homosexual in Gaza, in the Palestinian Authority. There's no civil liberties. There's no respect for your individuality. No respect for your sexuality or whatever it is that makes you different. That's a fundamental difference between Israel and Gaza or between the West and free countries and those that are not. You can speak, you can engage in economic activity freely and you can engage in personal activity freely. That is what morality requires. That is a moral state, an ethical country. If you go to the Palestinian Authority, you cannot speak against the authorities, whether it's in Gaza or it's in the West Bank. If you happen to think that the Israelis are not as bad, then, and you speak about that, you're likely to be killed or hurt in other ways. You can't oppose the regime. You can't express yourself. And you can't practice your life as you see fit. There is an authoritarian regime and has been in Gaza and has been in the West Bank forever, as long as they've had any form of autonomy. There is a fundamental clear-cut difference between these two cultures, these two people and the way they are politically run today. And one has to evaluate. One is good, one is not. Now, you can evaluate. There's so many countries around the world. And you can still criticize certain countries for their actions, even though you think they are good. But freedom, freedom of the individual to live their life is the standard by which one should evaluate, whether that country is good or a country is bad. The purpose of government is not to oppress us. It's not to control us. It's not to run our lives. The purpose of government is to protect us. In Israel, for the most part, that is what the government does in the Palestinian Authority. The government is an oppressor. The government is an oppressor. And it should be condemned as such. Now, if we look at the history, you know, there's the who started it? Who started it? It's pretty clear-cut. It's not that controversial or shouldn't be that controversial in terms of the facts. And I don't want to go all the way back to the 19th century or whatever. But we could. And I'm happy to answer the question. But I will start with 1947 when the British mandate over the territory was going to expire. The British had conquered Palestine from the Turkish. Remember, there was no country in the area that is Israel. There had been no country since the Romans. The Romans had taken over a Jewish state and kicked out all the Jews because that's how the Romans dealt with opposition. They moved you away from your territory. Since then, there's been no state in Israel. Since then, it's been switching between empires, the Roman Empire, the Arab Empire, ultimately the Ottoman Empire, and then the British Empire. And British didn't want it. So they told the UN, we don't want it. So the UN said, okay, we're split it into two countries, a Jewish country and Arab country. In 1947, they voted on that and it was approved. And the Jews celebrated. Yes, we finally get a country. And the next day, the Arabs attacked. And when the British ultimately left in May 1948 and the Jews declared independence over the little piece of land the UN had given them, seven Arab countries attacked. Seven. And somehow the Israelis managed to hold them back and to defeat them and to gain that territory without the West Bank, without Gaza. And by the way, Gaza was not independent. It was Egyptian. And the West Bank was Jordanian. As I think was said, there is no Palestinian history in that sense. Right? And Israel said, great, we've got this land. It's good enough. And then in 1967, and throughout this period, the terrorist attacks against Israel, throughout this period, there were attacks against Israel. Throughout this period, the Arabs, both in the Palestinian territories and all over the Middle East, committed themselves to doing what? To living in peace? No, to destroying Israel and to getting every Jew out of there. So in a war of self-defense in 1967, Israel fought, captured Gaza, the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. They begged the Jordanians not to enter the war. The Jordanians did, lost. You know, usually in Europe and elsewhere, when one country beats another country and occupies some land, it can take hundreds of thousands of years, if ever, that land switches. Right? Just look at the history of Europe, look at maps of Europe. Borders are changing all the time. Israel conquered land under the war that it initiated. It didn't conquer the land because it wanted it. It conquered the land because it fought in self-defense. So the aggression here is all one-sided. You know, there's a little saying that people have, you know, if the Palestinians tomorrow lay down their weapons, just put down their weapons, then basically it would be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons, they'd basically be wiped out. And that is the reality, a reality you saw two weeks ago. You saw what the consequences are when you have Israelis without arms, without weapons, and what these terrorists are willing to do to them. Imagine Israelis all putting down their arms. This would happen on an even larger scale. So there is no moral equivalency here. Israel fights for its self-defense. Israel fights for its life. Israelis here are indeed the good guys. What they're doing, and any civilian casualties that are going to occur, they're going to occur because in war, they occur. You cannot achieve anything without it. They occur because they are fighting in self-defense. They occur because of the brutality and the attacks and the constant war engaged by the Palestinians. So there's a right and a wrong here. The Palestinians have committed themselves, unfortunately, over the years to terrorism. Their leadership has been committed to terrorism really for decades. In 1993 Israel signed a peace agreement, sadly, with a terrorist with Yasser Arafat in Oslo. I remember calling my parents the next day. I was already in the United States in 1993 and I called my parents who still live in Israel and are still there now, and said, this is going to be a disaster for Israel. You will pay a deep, horrible cost for this. One of the great principles one can learn from history is you cannot negotiate with evil. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. You cannot make a deal with the devil. Devil doesn't believe in deals. Evil does not believe in deals. They're not interested. And they view you even wanting to negotiate with them as a sign of weakness. A sign of weakness to be exploited. That's exactly what happened. Terrorism in Israel increased dramatically once they signed a peace deal. And then when Arafat and the Israelis met in the U.S. to sign the next step of the peace deal, in Israel basically gave Arafat 90% of everything he asked for. Arafat turned it down, went back to Israel and started the Second Intifada. Some of you are too young to remember the Second Intifada. But it was horrific. People would walk into restaurants and blow themselves up, walk into buses and blow themselves up everywhere in Israel. There were no way they were safe. And as a consequence of the Second Intifada, Israel made a decision. I think a false decision, but a decision to separate itself from the Palestinians. They left Gaza. I don't know if you know this, but in Gaza before 2005, there were Jewish villages, Jewish towns. And in those towns there was industries, there was agriculture, there was technology, and the people loved living there. Israel had to devote significant amounts of money to secure those places. It was difficult to secure them. When Israel left in 2005, they literally forced those people to evacuate their villages and bring them to the other side of the border. And they said to Hamas, they said to the Palestinians, sorry, said to the Palestinians, it's yours. Here's Gaza, it's yours. You can do whatever you want with it. We'll supply you with electricity. We'll supply you with water. Our borders will be open for the most part. Do with Gaza whatever you want to do. It's yours. And indeed the next year, there was a Palestinian election. The PLO, the Hamas won. It's a whole story about why they were even allowed to run. You can thank George W. Bush for that. It was part of his democracy, bringing democracy to the Middle East. So Hamas was allowed to run as a political party. They won. There was a civil war between them and the PLO because the PLO didn't want them to be the rulers of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas won in Gaza, lost in the West Bank. West Bank was the PLO. Gaza was Hamas's, Hamas had a state. Could have done anything with it. They could have turned into the tourist heaven. If you've ever been to Gaza, the beaches, they are amazing. They could have turned into Singapore. They could have given tax rates to businesses and brought in technology. They could have established a democratic socialist republic. Who knows, they could have done anything they wanted. What did they choose? To make it into an Islamist republic, modeled after Iran. To make it into an authoritarian state where individuals have no liberty, have no freedom. And to make it into a state that is dedicated, dedicated, not to the war being of its people, but dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is what Hamas chose to do. Not forced, chose to do with that territory. You could argue very similar things happened in the West Bank, but certainly we know what happened in Gaza. So what we saw, and since then, every few years they attack Israel, launch rockets. Israel shows unbelievable restraint. Much more restraint than I would have. Much more restraint than I think some of you would have. Unbelievable restraint. They launch rockets, they attack, they dig tunnels, they attack. And over the last two decades, Israel has basically done nothing. Once in a while they go in, they try to chop the head off the snake, they try to do something, but they've done nothing. At the end of the day, what happened two weeks ago is a consequence of Israel doing nothing. Hamas has learned they can attack Israel. Yes, they suffer some casualties, yes, a few buildings get blown up, but don't worry about the buildings. The Saudis, the Qataris, the others will fund new buildings. Don't worry about the weapons that they've lost. New weapons will be supplied. The Iranians will provide it. And it's wrong. This whole idea that Iran is the sponsor of Hamas, Iran is the sponsor of Hamas, but so are many, many, many other Arab countries and Arab institutions over the years. Now it's easy to pinpoint that Iran, because we want to be friends with Saudi Arabia and everybody else, I'm suspicious to put it mildly, whether that is a good move. Hamas will be rebuilt. You chop off its head and another head shows up. So Israel faces an alternative today. And still, two weeks later, it hasn't really chosen what path it'll take. And it's clear that the Americans though wanted them to take one path. One path is to do what they've always done. To go in there, destroy some buildings, kill a few people, kill the leadership and leave. And if they do that, Hamas will re-institute itself. The Gaza Strip will return to what it was and you can expect more missiles and more terrorist attacks and more destruction in the future. The alternative is to for now re-occupy Gaza, destroy every single element within Hamas, take it apart. But destroy Hamas requires a lot more than that. It's going to require dealing with Hamas's political leadership, which sits in Qatar. It's going to require dealing with Iran. It's going to require dealing with Hamas in the West Bank. It's going to have to be unbelievably destructive. More destructive than anybody can imagine. And more destructive, I think, than the Biden administration in the U.S. wants. But that's the choice. The choice is either Israel gets really tough, which is going to be a lot of violence and a lot of necessity to explain what is going on, or we just get the same thing over again for decades to come. I fear they will choose to do little. I fear that they will kick the can down the road. You know, the term kicking the can down the road. Let future generations deal with it. We'll settle things in the short run and let the future. Our politicians are very good at that. I'm sure Georgian politicians are very good at it. American politicians are brilliant at it. Let's push the problem into the future. Let's not deal with it now. I just want to wait one more comment and then I'll take any questions you guys have. I don't think the Hamas-Israel war is an isolated war. And you're seeing this in London and you're seeing it all over Europe. There's a much broader war going on. Just those of us in the West are ignoring it and pretending it doesn't exist. There is a real clash here that started really became evident, I think, in the West during 9-11. There is a movement among Muslims. Not all Muslims, but a movement among Muslims. Call it Islamism, jihadism, Islamic totalitarianism, Islam or fascism. I don't know whatever name you want. I don't really care. But there is a movement among within the Muslim world. A movement that is war-funded and that its head sits Iran, but is war-funded by many elements in the Middle East, even elements that pretend that they are friendly towards the West. It is a movement that is dedicated to dominating the world. And I know that sounds weird to most of our years, dominate the world. That's kind of superhero, James Bond kind of ridiculous stuff. But they take it seriously. They really believe it. They believe they are destined to war. Hamas is one little element within it. Islamic jihad, khizballah, Muslim brotherhood, of which Hamas is just a spin-off, al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iran, the Taliban, ISIS and al-Qaeda in North Africa, much of North Africa, all part of one movement. A movement dedicated to the spread of Islam, the domination of Islam in the rest of the world. The 100,000 protesters in London today, whether they know it or not, are part of this movement. And it is a movement that is at war with the West. And it is a phenomena the West is ignoring purposefully. They are sticking their hand in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist. After 9-11, George Bush and Western leaders generally made every effort in the world not to name the enemy. Remember who the enemy was after 9-11? Terrorism. Terrorism? Any terrorism? Terrorism in Peru? Is it related? Terrorism in 8? It's a certain type of terrorism, motivated by a certain religion. You want to pretend the religion doesn't exist? You want to pretend this isn't about that? At your own peril. Islamic totalitarianism, the ideology of jihadism is the enemy. And Hamas is one manifestation of it. And if we ignore that, we pretend it's not the case, then we just keep coming. Then we don't deal with the core of the problem. We don't deal with the essence of it. I'll just say, I don't think you can deal with what's happening right now in Israel without dealing with Iran. I didn't think you could deal with 9-11 without dealing with Iran. Iran is the fountain head of this ideology in the modern Muslim world. It is the one country ruled by Sharia law with no question. And it's a country where the population does not actually like the rulers. So there's a real opportunity there to make change, but we have to capitalize on that opportunity. So I'm not optimistic, sadly. I wish I was. I'm not optimistic because I don't think the world has the courage to face what is really at stake. I don't think the West, and I view the West as some broad category of free countries generally, I don't think free countries in the world are willing to actually acknowledge they face an enemy and face a challenge and do what is necessary in order to deal with it. We are, we live in a world of compromise, of appeasement, of worry about it later. Remember that there's a, there's a famous, there's a, gone with the wind. Anybody see the movie Gone with the Wind? A few of you. The last line of the movie Gone with the Wind is, I'll think about it tomorrow. I won't worry about it now. I'll think about it tomorrow. And that kind of evasion, that kind of delay, that is typical of our Western world and our Western politicians. So I think Israel will be active in the next few weeks. They'll need a lot of help explaining and defending. So I salute those of you who go on TV and defend them and explain and articulate the case. A lot of Palestinian civilians are going to die. They will be pictures of Palestinian children who are dead. And it's important for us to recognize that and to explain that the fault of that lies with Hamas. The fault of that lies with those who appease Hamas. The fault of that lies with the people who make Hamas possible. Thank you. Take any questions? Yes, please, questions. Go ahead. Please. We are to please. Yeah. I actually have a very practical question. Yes. All these days I'm very, very actively involved in this informational work. And I have to explain that I receive a lot of backlash because I try to. And the most important thing that I have to face in this, I have a serious lack of credibility because of my belonging to a Jewish nation. I would like to ask our Georgian friends who are not ethnically Jews to help us because it's just as soon as you try to say something, explain, or try to defend Israeli state, but you are a Jew, the same moment your credibility goes variable. And it's like you are brainwashed. It's just because you are raised like this, just because you want to defend your nation. And so the question is, of course I will not stop and I will always try to spread as much information and talk about fake information, which is well spread and very encouraged to the Internet, sadly. But first of all, how should I deal with this case? And also this is my very kind request of Georgians who are involved in this. Maybe you can also support us just in spreading them. We don't need to be defended because we just want truth to be spread. This is the only thing we need now. It's not like we please fake something for us to look better. So the question is what should we do in this case? Notice all the people who speak up for the Palestinians who happen to be Arabs. Does anybody say you're an Arab therefore you're biased so you shouldn't talk for the Palestinians? Of course not. Of course not. I mean think about all the Arabs who talk for the Palestinians. They only do this to Jews. And they need to be called on it. It is anti-Semitic. What is it about? I'm Jewish, I abandon objectivity, abandon reason. By the way, there are plenty of Jews who hate Israel. You can point that out. They've been demonstrating in the United States, Jews against Israel. There are plenty of those, always have been. The fact that you're Jewish doesn't give you ideas. The fact that you're Arab doesn't make you a particular view of the world. You can be Arab and support Israel. They are, if you go online, many Arabs will support Israel. But the fact that an Arab defends the Palestinians is the response to that saying, well you're Arab, of course you're going to defend the Palestinians. They're racist. And the argument about being Jewish is anti-Semitic. And I don't think you should take it. I think you should fight back on it and call them on it. It is absurd and ridiculous. The question is what is true and what is not. And there are plenty of resources out there, I mean obviously here and elsewhere, to show that what you're arguing for is not made up. It is true. One can have a debate, one can have an argument, one can have different views. But to say your views are out because you're Jewish, we know where that leads. So I just wouldn't tolerate it. Because remind them that they don't tolerate it. They never do that to the other side. Never do that to the other side. Thank you. There is a shy audience. They're not usually shy. What can be accepted like defeat from the Palestinian side? What's that? How can Israel defeat Palestinians? What can be accepted like defeat of Hamas from the Palestinian side? So that's an important question. What constitutes defeat? Let me say this. You cannot achieve peace without defeating the enemy. In all of human history, there are almost no cases where peace was negotiated between somebody that we accept as good and somebody that we accept as bad. Peace is achieved when one side is thoroughly defeated, crushed. Peace with Japan was achieved because of Hiroshima Nagasaki. No question in my mind. And today, Japan is America's best friend, one of its best friends. Nobody in Japan thinks, oh my God, they did Hiroshima Nagasaki. We should hate America forever. I've been to Japan. I'm sure many of you have been to Japan. It's an incredibly friendly place to Americans. They love Americans. And they have a great relationship politically with America. Why? Because they realized they fought a war. They lost. They were defeated thoroughly. The question of who won and who lost, like after World War I, the Germans weren't sure they lost. They thought they could have won. Guess what happened? And it was a negotiated peace. Germany was never crushed. You get World War II? But after World War II, Germany became America's best friend. Why? Because they were crushed. Churchill is considered today a war criminal for ordering the bombing of Dresden. The reason Germany was pacified and was willing to accept friendship with the Allies ultimately was because Dresden was bombed, because they were crushed. Now it's not nice to say, but I guess many people don't think I'm nice, so fine. The Palestinians need to be crushed. They need to be brought to their knees. They need to be brought to the point where they say to themselves, we will never defeat Israel. We better figure out how to live with them, because we will never defeat them. And every time Israel negotiates, every time Israel compromises, every time Israel leaves Gaza and whatever, it's sending a message of weakness. It's sending a message that next time they can get us, next time they will beat us, next time, and this is why. You send missiles, we don't do much. So they say, okay, so we'll do more. They just did what they did. How are we going to respond? If Israel responds weakly, they will become more aggressive, not less aggressive. You cannot negotiate and compromise with Hamas. You cannot negotiate and compromise with Hitler. That was tried. It doesn't work. It emboldens the enemy. It always does. The only alternative is to crush them. It means Israel needs to go into Gaza, it needs to occupy Gaza, it needs to destroy everything Hamas related. It needs to imprison thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people, because Hamas is a bigot. People in Israel, they say, oh, we'll go in and kill Hamas. Who is Hamas? I mean, in most of the territories. Certainly they need to lose the territory, and Israel needs to occupy the place and stay there for a while, for a long time until there's actually somebody to talk to and negotiate peace with. They need to re-occupy the West Bank. They need to get rid of this bizarre notion that the Palestinian Authority is somehow better and they can negotiate with them and they will bring peace, again, weakness. They have to pass a generation, maybe, of Palestinians who accept the fact that Israel is there to stay. And then we can negotiate a two-state solution, a one-state solution. There are lots of solutions you can come to. I have no objection to any solution that brings peace. I want peace. But you cannot negotiate with those who are committed to killing you. You cannot negotiate. You don't negotiate with a murderer. You don't negotiate with a kidnapper. If Benjamin Netanyahu had read the book he wrote about terrorism that he wrote in the 1990s, where I think chapter two is, never negotiate with terrorists. I wish he'd read it. He never read his own book. And as a consequence, he's never practiced what he actually wrote. He's been one of the weakest prime ministers that Israel has ever seen. He's negotiated with them over and over again since the late 1990s. It's a reality. I hate to say it, but it's a reality. I'm a great admirer of his brother. Yes? It's very complicated. Of course. I'd like to express my special thanks to all the people who are really out to organize such great meetings for our students. Of course. It's very important to stress and pay attention on main topics. And also many, many thanks to you for your emotional speech to explain what's going on right now. You touched history. And you asked me questions. And I have the same questions. Why? And how can we deal? Okay. I absolutely agree with you that no negotiation with terror and just punish and just defeat. Absolutely. I agree. But after this comes questions, the suffering of children. Also... I'm sorry. The suffering of children? The suffering of children. Absolutely. And other problems, for example, hostilities, problem of hostilities, victimization of this question. So how can we deal? So we have to be prepared to answer all these common problems after defeat. Yeah. So... As a teacher, it's very complicated for me. We all always like to stress, okay, education, let's teach and learn these topics and let's take policy, okay, we have special programs like teaching history without dividing lines. But you mentioned during your speech so different civilizations, so different cultures, and how can we deal with this? And again, I already mentioned that at Howard University, we have a special course called for St. Genesis, Bisegrad Group Countries. And you see, I don't want, after maybe a yard, to show with photos and to put together with the photos in Auschwitz and say the same. Sure. We like to just, you see, it always happens again and again. Yes, absolutely. Evil exists out there in the world. There are bad people in the world. But we have to prepare our society to answer on such questions. Sure. So I'd say a few things on those. Look, children are going to suffer. Their parents have made really bad decisions. And the children will suffer. I mean, there's a saying in the Old Testament, I think, something about the children will reap the ills of what the parents have done. The parents voted for, supported, embraced Hamas. Their children will suffer from their decision. Children didn't do it. They didn't embrace it. And they are innocent victims. And it's sad. And we should feel sadness about it. Doesn't make a difference. We still have to defend yourself. You mentioned teaching history with no lines. But we need to teach history with lines. And we do all the time. We don't teach that the Nazis would just like the British. We teach that the Nazis were evil and the British were good. Well, Hamas is evil. And we need, that's history. That's fact. If you understand what evil is, they are evil. And we need to teach that. And if we ignore the fact that there is such a thing as evil, then we perpetuate it. We make it possible for it to keep coming back. And at the end of the day, what we need is to fight for a positive vision for the world. And this is the long-term solution, right? And the solution is a respect for the individual. I don't care where you come from. I don't care what color skin you have. I don't care what religion your parents had. The question is what kind of an individual are you as an individual? And what we need is to embrace that idea of individualism, individual liberty, individual freedom. And bring it, embrace it, and bring it to the world. And that's true of the Palestinians as well. We need to bring it to the Palestinians. We need to re-educate them, not re-educate them towards a different form of collectivism, towards a different form of sacrifice of the individual, but towards a respect for individual life. And once people have a respect for individual life, we can all live together quite peacefully. It's when we hate somebody else because of their nationality, or because of their religion, or because of their background, or because of the color of their skin that we get into trouble. It's collectivism and tribalism that ultimately lead us towards war. And individualism is what leads us towards peace. And it's not going to be easy to bring individualism to the Palestinians. But they deserve it just like any other human being does. We should treat people as individuals. First, you have to win. Then you have to solve the long-term problem. The long-term problem is respecting individuals and teaching people to respect individuals. There's a hand in the back. First of all, Hamas is almost impossible to be dispatched or eliminated in one day, because Hamas is not sitting in Gaza. Nowadays Hamas is all over the world. And Hamas is an ideology. It's not a personality. Unless in a kindergarten school, in Gaza, every day they're preparing 300,000 future Hamas fighters, it's impossible. That's why we need to start a holistic approach, starting with education like CSA, because education and eliminating any kind of league of Hamas influence on fresh brains and brainwashing of kids, which are having a lot of video clips nowadays on the internet and I will ram the car over the Jew, I will kill Jew and all this stuff. This is a language of hatred. This is not a language of the peace, but the teachers are teaching. We are taught to the next generation. Yes, kids are taking all what their parents have said. I agree completely. This is why Israel must occupy Gaza. It must go into the schools and change the curriculum. It must prevent brainwashing from happening. It cannot just go in and leave and say, okay, we'll give it to the Palestinian Authority, let them do it, because the fact is if you go to the books in the West Bank, same stuff is being taught over there. They have to stay there and they have to make sure that these schools don't become machines of propaganda. And you absolutely right that Hamas is an international movement. But this is the thing about Hamas and it's true about ISIS and al-Qaeda. It's interesting. ISIS was big, you know, 10 years ago, remember? And it was all over Europe and there were terrorist attacks every day in Europe. And it seemed like it was only going to grow and there was no way to stop ISIS because they were everywhere. And my argument at the time was if you destroy Hamas in Iraq and Syria, if you make it clear that they will never succeed in establishing the Caliphate, or whatever it is that they were after, people will not join them in Europe. You know, even bad people want to support a winner. And how about students? What's that? Students of Harvard. Well, we'll get the students of Harvard. They want to support a winner. They want to support an ideology that they think can win. Right now, support for Hamas is huge. Why? Because they're winning. They just managed to, you know, take Israel, probably the second strongest military force in the world and bring it in a sense to its knees. And the world is looking and saying, whoa, these Hamas people, they're strong and powerful. I want to join. But if you make them weak, if you destroy their base in Gaza, if you destroy their leadership, and I'll say something about their leadership in Qatar in a minute, if you destroy their leadership, then people will look at them and say, oh, Hamas is weak. I'll have to look for somebody else to, you know, some other element. And if the West broadly embraces the idea of destroying Hezbollah, of ultimately destroying Iran, then the movement will disappear completely. The movement is driven by the fact that they think they can be successful. It's driven by the weakness of the West. The weaker the West, the weaker Israel is, the bigger the movement becomes. The stronger Israel in the West are, the weaker the movement will be. Let me say something about Qatar. Qatar is a fascinating, fascinating country. Qatar is a country that funds terrorism. It funds Hamas. It funded ISIS. It funded al-Qaeda. Everybody knew, what's that? And Taliban. And Taliban. And everybody knew this. Everybody knew that Qatar was funding ISIS. And yet, the Central Command, the US Central Command, for all operations in the Middle East, is in Qatar. The largest US Air Force base in the Middle East is in Qatar. Literally, airplanes would leave Qatar to bomb ISIS while money flowed from Qatar to ISIS Bank. This is how weak and stupid America is. Just to express my view on American administrations. This is pathetic. Your enemy is right there. You have all the military forces in the world. I mean, Qatar is a tiny little country with nothing. Yeah, it's around 350,000 people. What's that? 350,000 people. But they're rich because they have oil and they have a port. And yet, America tolerates them funding its enemies. No question asked. I mean, at the very least, the United States should shut down all its military bases in Qatar and leave, right? Because right now, they're paying the money. The Americans go out shopping. They support the economy. All that money flows into the enemies. Right now, military bases of the United States are being attacked in Iraq and in Syria. By elements funded by Qatar. And who is Qatar hosting? All the Hamas leadership lives in Qatar. The Four Seasons Hotel chain actually put out an email saying, they're not staying at the Four Seasons. Actually, this means, Malhanya lives in Qatar. Yes, exactly. Or the entire political leadership. And this is something else the Israelis have to understand, is you're not going to get rid of Hamas by just destroying its military leadership. They have to get its political leaders and they have to get the spiritual leaders. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks for being here.