General joseph votel for a keynote address today. He currently serves for National Security. He joined there in january 2020 following 39 years of distinguished military service. He served in u. S. Central command. He prior to serving as the commander of central command, he commanded the u. S. Special operations command. Hes also a distinguished senior fellow at the middle east institute. Im happen foi welcome paul salem here. He is going to talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning which were all aware of but werent sure of what to think of. I think in about 30 minutes well know exactly what to think about it. About how we should think about great power, competition in the gulf. So im delighted to introduce general joseph votel. [ applause ] thanks very much. Its great to be here, john. Thanks for the invitation to be here. Thanks for your flexibility in scheduling. I kind of smiled when i came up here. This little light i gave a speech up in new york
, yes, churchill, for example, proposed to take 70,000 cesov citizens, gesta leaders, shoot them, without a trial, right on the spot, and throw the corpses into the sea, roosevelt said no, yes, and mordentau, the minister of finance, ordered roosevelt to divide germany into several pieces, he will destroy cities, factories, mines and so on so that the fascistized remnants of the germans were engaged in agriculture all their lives, the margentau plan, everyone remembers the Marshall Plan, but there was a Marshall Plan before the margentau plan , you described it absolutely correctly, absolutely correctly, there was a soviet zone of occupation, remember where soviet soldiers not only raped millions women, but in my opinion, they took out the whole factories, whole farms, whole natural scientific institutes, shipyards, all the equipment on this technique even when i was on practice in leningrad at the institute in the 1980s, before leaving for israel, we still worked on german machines ma
Reminder of the deadly incident that began at 59th and international where an officer tried to stop a car that was involved in a july armed robbery. The person did not pull over and led to a high speed chase. But during the course of the pursuit we were able to get the helicopter overhead. Reporter police say the driver collided with the car. The helicopter pilot then told officers he could see the suspect attempting an armed carjacking and told units to move in. Police say after a failed carjacking, the suspect ran and three officers confronted him, ordering him to drop his gun. The suspect advanced towards the officers while holding a pistol in his hand with three officers fired at the suspect. All three officers fired their weapons. Police say officers then used knewly issued trauma packs to try to help the oakland man. He later died at a hospital. All three officers were wearing activated body cameras and investigators are now reviewing that footage that many protesters would like
Governments. You mentioned going to the arab regimes at the u. N. There have been lots of changes in the last several years of those government and i am wondering if you can give us an overview of where palestine stands in terms of those governments that are trying very hard to win support in washington particularly. Thank you very much for your time. Im with the institute of palestine studies. One question i know we are talking about the new leadership in the u. S. But there is also new leadership at the United Nations. The new secretarygeneral starting january. How is the palestinian leadership feeling about any roles he might have regarding a more active, more serious approach dealing with palestine. Thank you. Go ahead. Work the United Nations commission of refugees. From my perspective, it seems like there is already two states that exist in palestine. It is just that the Actual Community might not recognize it, but i believe you are in the same position as africa was under aparth
Governments. You mentioned going to the arab regimes at the u. N. There have been lots of changes in the last several years of those government and i am wondering if you can give us an overview of where palestine stands in terms of those governments that are trying very hard to win support in washington particularly. Thank you very much for your time. Im with the institute of palestine studies. One question i know we are talking about the new leadership in the u. S. But there is also new leadership at the United Nations. The new secretarygeneral starting january. How is the palestinian leadership feeling about any roles he might have regarding a more active, more serious approach dealing with palestine. Thank you. Go ahead. Work the United Nations commission of refugees. From my perspective, it seems like there is already two states that exist in palestine. It is just that the Actual Community might not recognize it, but i believe you are in the same position as africa was under aparth