Ashley Perry on Netanyahu's UN Visit

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1. 7:00this is where Netanyahu excels. He's an excellent speaker, we know that.
2. 7:04He's an excellent deliverer of a speech, and we also know that he likes his props,
3. 7:09and those usually get him, uh, a lot of attention, not just in Israel, but all around
4. 7:13the world. They become, They have been in the past with, with the cart- the sort of
5. 7:18cartoon bomb, uh, of Iran, and he showed maps and I think even Auschwitz plans and
6. 7:24things like that in the past. So he usually has some trick up his sleeve, and I'm
7. 7:28sure tomorrow will be no different because, you know, he is fighting for his
8. 7:31political, uh, life. So I'm sure there'll be, um, uh, be something along those lines.
9. 7:38And also, uh, he and his supporters will make the point in the coming days after the
10. 7:43speech that only Netanyahu can deliver such a speech.
11. 7:46And, uh, earlier on in the campaign, he's talked, uh, or his people, surrogates or
12. 7:51party talked about how the fact that [Eisenkot] doesn't have particularly good
13. 7:55English, and that really is, uh, to his great disadvantage.
14. 7:59So tomorrow he will show off his oratory skills, um, to Israel and to the world, and
15. 8:05certainly that will be used in campaign videos again and again.
16. 8:10Um, interestingly, which certainly could be taken advantage of, uh, by the
17. 8:15opposition, is the fact that Netanyahu is going in where many, if not most of the
18. 8:21world leaders are going to be, and so far he doesn't have a single meeting.
19. 8:24Now, he is trying to get meetings. Uh, something could certainly be put on the
20. 8:29schedule by tomorrow, but at the moment it's, it, it, it will be pretty unprecedented
21. 8:34if Israel's prime minister goes to the UN, um, will not get a sit down with anyone.
22. 8:38Even Donald Trump at this point has said, uh, because of scheduling diffi- uh,
23. 8:43difficulties, that he will not be meeting, uh, uh, Netanyahu.

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