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So I'm here in Israel on a hill overlooking the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, with Mark Zell. | |
| He's the chairman of the Republicans Overseas in Israel. | ||
| How are you doing today, Mark? | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| This is a day we've been waiting for for years, decades. | ||
| Decades. | ||
| How does it make you feel to see so many American flags, Trump signs, Israeli flags waving together here overlooking the new embassy? | ||
| It's a dream come true. | ||
| What is the significance of this? | ||
| I mean, how important is this decision to the people here in Israel and to Americans in the United States? | ||
| Well, the two different issues. | ||
| And to us in Israel, it's of extreme importance. | ||
| You know, this is something we've been dreaming about, as I said, for years. | ||
| It never happened. | ||
| And every time a president was elected that had promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem, he immediately went back on his promise and waived it under the 1995 embassy, Jerusalem Embassy Act. | ||
| So most people here believed that this would never happen. | ||
| Every president, including Donald Trump, would just continue to do what the others had done. | ||
| But this president was different. | ||
| And so here in Israel, we love this decision. | ||
| We love it. | ||
| People are crazy about it. | ||
| And in the United States, I think most people are also really happy about this. | ||
| A lot of the voters for Donald Trump, many of them who were Christian evangelicals, believe in Israel, put Israel on the top of their priority list. | ||
| They too are very happy. | ||
| You know who isn't? | ||
| The American Jews. | ||
| But that's their problem, okay? | ||
| We in Israel are 80% going for vote for the Republicans, for Donald Trump, and we are for what Donald Trump has done here and what he's doing all over the Middle East and the world. | ||
| God bless him. | ||
| Do you think, though, that after this, more left-leaning Jews will be convinced to vote Republican and support Trump after they see how happy people in Israel are? | ||
| No. | ||
| Do you think there will ever come a day when they stop standing with people who want to be in the middle of the stand in Iran? | ||
| I believe in the Messiah. | ||
| Okay, I believe in the Mashiach. | ||
| We call them in Hebrew Mashiach. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| I believe that the Mashiach is going to come. | ||
| And so I believe one day the American Jews will finally wake up and vote, at least in their interests. | ||
| I mean, they don't have to vote all Republican. | ||
| Just let them vote half Republican like the Italians and the Hispanics do. | ||
| But, you know, the American Jews are who they are. | ||
| And what can I tell you? | ||
| We have a neighborhood expression. | ||
| I'm Sheov, a stiff-necked people. | ||
| That applies here, too. | ||
| Well, thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Great. |