Thank you for that too kind introduction. Im delighted to be back here at mary washington. I was threatening when i was here last that i might not go home. If i had known 14 months ago, i would not have told you all my funny stories. Its probably best that we just move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Im a mainland writer. And so my the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, its thick. We will talk a bit about the hawaiian language, the first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of humility. Captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how we got our hands on the place. The reviews i got from the wall street journal all the way to honolulu magazine were extraordinary. Really wonderful reviews, which did not prepare me for the anger that i saw in the native independence blogs. They hated it. And hated me just another halle trying to make a bunch of money off our history. Apparently they think people write history for money. Which tells you someth
Americans out of iraq so the u. S. Have issued a warning that no matter who attacks the United States the iranian will not be able to hide behind their proxies so what it means actually is that the conflict now hes surfacing on the table and no more deep down underground operations that the United States will tolerate it wasnt too long ago that even Corporate Media was celebrating in the west general saloon money for his defeat of isis. Which some of linked to israel after the famous pictures of netanyahu in the Golan Heights frankly isnt the point that if iran had a Nuclear Weapon this is as a nation wouldnt have taken place and the fact that thats the reason as a deterrent that israel has Nuclear Weapons which apparently netanyahu has finally admitted in the past few days we have to set the record straight the fate. Netanyahu was in the Golan Heights he was visiting a humanitarian project. Is really actually built a special Field Hospital for Syrian People who are wounded who were ha
Congress wasnt and after all were coming up to a 9 Year Anniversary of an israeli assassination of a Nuclear Scientist in iran iran often being targeted has been suspected by assassination strikes on behalf of israel and im not quite sure whether israel was informed or not but lets lets assume it was the reason would be just the distance you know we are unfortunately still within the distance of iranian Ballistic Missiles iranian Ballistic Missiles continue to be developed against the u. N. Security Council Resolutions it is the ayatollah as a regime that continuously threaten israel so i think that would really be reasonable to to warn israel before so we can be prepared and also the iranians make no distinction of distinction almost between israel and the United States. They call the United States the big satan is the real east this small satan so they put us together in the same boat while the iranian government officials from it obviously deny that they want to wipe israel off the
But 1st the world is not the same since donald trump ordered the killing of iranian soldier caught some salami who along with his Iraqi Popular mobilization unit counterparts were drone strike on friday at Baghdad Airport joining me now from tel aviv is former israeli ambassador to the United States danny ayalon thanks so much about coming back on the show lets just begin with what you think your well indicted Prime Minister netanyahu meant when he said israel should not be dragged into what was an american event yes it was a totally american wholly owned american operation and i believe it came following the attack on the American Embassy in baghdad but basically i think the United States was fed up with the intervention of iran through. The Iranian Revolutionary guard and most of the. Force the ocas force which was headed by General Assembly money their responsibility was actually to subvert all over and. I would say make sure that the iranians. Get the influence all over the area an
Congress wasnt and after all were coming up to a 9 Year Anniversary of an israeli assassination of a Nuclear Scientist in iran iran often being targeted has been suspected by assassination strikes on behalf of israel and im not quite sure whether israel was informed or not but lets lets assume it was the reason would be just the distance you know we are unfortunately still within the distance of iranian Ballistic Missiles iranian Ballistic Missiles continue to be developed against the u. N. Security Council Resolutions it is the ayatollah as a regime that continuously threaten israel so i think that would really be reasonable to to warn israel before so we can be prepared and also the iranians make no distinction of distinction almost between israel. And the United States they call the United States the big satan is a real ease this small satan so they put us together in the same boat while the iranian government officials from it obviously deny that they want to wipe israel off the ma