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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Australia Attacks | Allen Jackson Now | December 16, 2025
- Well, good evening.
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- And i'm alan jackson.
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- And tonight
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- I want to say to our friends
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- In israel, welcome back to nashville.
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- As you know, he's the distinguished u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, mike huckabee.
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- It's so good to see you again, mr.
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- Ambassador.
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- Well, i was the thought you were talking about somebody else.
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- You said something about the distinguished ambassador
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- And said, nobody here by that description, is just me.
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- But i'm thrilled to be back with you, alan.
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- And, always a pleasure.
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- I appreciate you, and, just a joy to get to chat again.
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- It is always a treat.
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- You know,
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- I was hoping that we could start our visit with some good news,
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- Especially during hanukkah and with christmas coming soon.
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- We've just had the arrest of a pro-palestinian group
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- That was testing bombs in the california
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- Desert for a series of new year's attacks,
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- And that's on top of the deadly attack
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- On hundreds of jews who had gathered
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- At a hanukkah celebration on a popular beach in australia.
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- Israel's prime minister was quick to respond,
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- Blaming the australian government
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- For leading anti-semitism go unchecked
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- Despite many previous warnings.
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- Listen to his words.
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- Your government did nothing
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- To stop the spread of anti-semitism in australia.
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- You did nothing to curb the cancer
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- Cells that were growing inside your country.
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- You took no action.
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- You let the disease spread and the result is
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- The horrific attacks on jews.
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- You know, not only did the disease spread,
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- As netanyahu put it, but the australian prime
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- Minister also made the recent decision
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- To formally recognize a palestinian state.
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- What do you think he's thinking?
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- I don't think he was thinking.
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- And that's the unfortunate thing.
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- I don't want to blame the prime minister for what happened.
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- It's the responsibility
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- Of the shooters who did their incredibly atrocious deeds.
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- But the atmosphere was certainly enhanced
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- When you go around and don't push back
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- When people are screaming things
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- Like globalize the intifada and from the river to the sea.
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- Most of the people even saying that have no idea which river
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- And which sea
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- And what that even means,
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- But it means the annihilation of israel.
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- And the fact is, when you hear this stuff
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- And you say nothing and you don't push back,
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- You're helping to create an atmosphere
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- In which it's considered to be okay.
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- That does really lend itself
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- To the kind of violent acts that we've seen.
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- Allen, i remember my high school speech
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- Teacher taught me something
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- Over 50 years ago that i never forgot it.
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- Simple lesson that is that silence is agreement.
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- And if there's something
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- That is evil
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- And you are silent and you don't speak out against it,
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- You're agreeing with it.
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- And all across europe and across many parts
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- Of the united states, in many of our college campuses,
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- There are people who are silent in the face of extreme
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- Anti-semitism, hate speech toward jews.
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- And if we don't speak out and speak out against this,
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- Then we're agreeing with it.
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- And the people who spout this stuff,
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- They're just encouraged to think it must be okay,
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- Because no one is challenging them.
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- You know, it's unsettling to me
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- That america is using its influence
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- And the influence of the american media
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- To carry this
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- Message of anti-semitism broadly around the world.
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- We've got to change that some way.
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- We have to.
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- And it starts, i think, with each of us,
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- But especially those of us who are christian,
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- We have a responsibility to stand with our jewish friends
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- Because the foundation of our faith as followers of
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- Jesus is the faith of abraham, isaac and jacob.
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- There's a dangerous and insidious theological heresy
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- That's going about the united states
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- And in other parts of the world called replacement theology.
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- It says that god is finished with the jews.
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- There's no place for them anymore.
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- And it's all about a covenant now with christians.
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- There's just one little problem with that.
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- It's not biblical.
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- And if we're people to the book
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- And if we adhere to the scripture,
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- And i know you and i do, that, we have to believe
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- That when god makes a covenant, god doesn't break it.
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- I might break my part of it.
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- God never breaks his.
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- He promised in both the old and new testament,
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- I will never leave you or forsake you.
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- If god can break his covenant, if god would break his covenant
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- With the jewish people,
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- Then what makes me think, as a christian,
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- That god would ever keep his covenant with me?
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- It's really a again, a dangerous heresy
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- That is going about and causing many people to say, israel
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- Doesn't matter. the jews don't matter.
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- I would beg to differ, and to say that as christians,
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- We need to be on the forefront standing
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- With our jewish friends.
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- The fact is, there are only 16 million jews
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- In the entire world, and half of them live in israel.
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- It's a tiny little piece
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- Of the population, 0.1% of the world's population.
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- There aren't many.
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- There are hundreds of millions of christians around the world.
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- And it's time that we recognize our common roots
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- Of the true god, the god of creation.
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- We'd better stick together.
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- No. your point is so well
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- Taken, and i know you understand the theology behind it.
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- You know the unsettling part that replacement theology
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- Has been used to fuel the hatred of the jewish people.
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- And the church has been at the point of that
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- For many centuries.
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- So it's unsettling that here, at the beginning of the 21st
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- Century, we're returning to that again.
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- I agree with you completely.
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- We've got to use our voices to change it.
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- You know,
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- Like a lot of countries,
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- Australia has a really big immigration problem.
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- They come by boat, by plane, and even when they come
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- Legally on temporary visas, they often
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- Stay in hide past the date when they're supposed to leave
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- The bondi beach.
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- Father and son shooters.
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- They trained at an isis camp in the philippines.
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- And here american authorities now estimate that there's 18,000
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- Terrorists and their accomplices
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- That enter the united states during the biden years.
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- All of which makes me even more grateful to israel
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- For cleaning out gaza and to president
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- Trump for demolishing iran's nuclear operations.
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- What are your thoughts on the growing threat here at home
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- And beyond? mr. ambassador?
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- It's a serious threat.
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- Americans need to wake up and understand
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- That the same people who hate israel hate america.
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- For 46 years, the iranians have said death to israel.
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- And in the same sentence, death to america.
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- Israel is just the appetizer.
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- America's the entree.
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- It's always been that way.
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- And anyone who is so naive as to think that what happens in
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- Israel has no effect on the united states.
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- I would give you, first of all,
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- The fact that israel's enemies there are enemies.
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- Second thing i would tell you
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- Is that when people act like, well,
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- America gives so much to israel, it gives nothing to us.
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- That's simply not true.
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- One of the things that we get from israel
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- Is an extraordinary level, and i'm talking
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- Into the billions of dollars
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- Worth of intelligence information, actionable
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- Intelligence that helps to stop and thwart,
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- These terrorist activities that are being planned in america.
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- Many of them you never hear about
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- Because they never happened.
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- And maybe they just got quietly put away.
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- But the intel that helped to lead us to understanding
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- What was going to happen,
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- It came from the partnership that we have with
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- The israeli secret service called the mossad,
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- With our intelligence agency, the cia and the nsa.
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- We better be grateful for this partnership
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- Because we both benefit tremendously from it.
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- I mean, you know, there's more just this week in syria.
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- Isis killed three americans, two of them servicemen.
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- And in gaza, israel found and killed
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- The senior hamas commander
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- After three of israel's soldiers had been killed.
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- The war in gaza has largely ended,
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- But not the attacks on israel and its allies.
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- And no one can say if they'll ever end.
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- What do you think it will take for these attacks to stop?
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- It's going to take what the president has said
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- Repeatedly, and that is
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- That hamas has to be disarmed and demilitarized.
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- Israel has offered them the opportunity to take asylum
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- And go somewhere if anybody wants them,
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- But they're not going to be able to stay.
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- And that's what president trump has said so consistently.
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- Just like he told iran consistently,
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- You're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
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- They didn't believe it.
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- He proved that
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- He meant what he said, and he said what he meant.
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- Hamas should heed very carefully what president trump has said.
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- They are the impediment
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- Into fully implementing his 20 point peace plan.
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- The cease fire has been a godsend to
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- Those of us who live here in the region,
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- For the past two months.
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- And we haven't had to go to the shelter one time.
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- And it's been such a joy not to have to hear that siren
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- And know that we had 90s to get to the shelter.
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- The cease fire is in place.
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- It has largely held.
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- There have been those instances where hamas sticks its head up
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- And they try to kill and often do kill idf soldiers.
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- Israel responds as they should, and they take out the,
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- The target.
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- And then we have peace again.
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- But we have not seen a complete breakdown of the cease fire.
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- And i think that's because president trump,
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- Bringing all the arab nations together,
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- Really was able to to create something that is epic
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- And historic in, bringing what is the beginning
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- Of the solution to what happened in gaza?
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- Well, as i mentioned, at the top of the show,
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- The fbi just arrested four people from a
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- Pro-palestinian anti-government group in southern california.
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- There's evidence that they were planning
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- Bombings on multiple targets beginning on new year's eve.
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- And it was just five years ago
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- On christmas day, that a very disturbed man
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- Committed suicide,
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- Setting off a huge bomb here in downtown nashville.
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- But even with all that, progressives continue to push
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- Back on the police ice, and our national guard
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- Just makes no sense unless they're trying
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- To dismantle our democracy.
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- You know, what do you think?
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- I know you get to see it
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- For a little further distance right now.
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- I think you're right.
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- The real ultimate goal is to end democracy,
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- To end western civilization as we know it.
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- And as we love it.
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- If you think about it, the reason anti-semitism is
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- A thing
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- Is because the jewish people
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- Really have always been the canary in the coal mine
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- When it comes to believing in the power,
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- The intrinsic worth of the individual.
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- That's what makes judaism, so unique
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- From many of the religions of the world.
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- And christianity is the, really
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- Extension of it is the fulfillment of judaism.
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- So when people talk about the judeo christian ethic,
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- What they're really talking about
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- Is the foundation
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- For western civilization, the foundation for america.
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- There would be no constitution.
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- There would be no america without this partnership
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- Of jews and christians, upon which is built from the bible.
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- The idea that every single human being has intrinsic worth,
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- Because in many religions of the world,
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- People are collectivist.
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- They don't believe the individual matters.
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- They don't believe that i have a soul
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- That is accountable to god.
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- We say it in our declaration of independence.
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- We hold these truths to be self-evident,
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- That all men are created equal,
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- Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
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- That little statement is founded on the biblical idea
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- That there is equality before god.
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- God values each of us equally, but that our values
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- And that our basic rights do not come from government,
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- Nor do they come from the creation.
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- They come from the creator.
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- But we live in a world where people are worshiping
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- The creation instead of the creator.
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- They gotta get rid of those of us who say
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- We have to be accountable and responsible to the creator.
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- So they start with the jews, but don't kid yourself.
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- If they were ever able
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- To rid the world of the jews, christians are next.
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- Absolutely.
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- Well, ambassador, we need to take a short break.
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- If you can stand by for just a moment.
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- During the break, you can log on to aj.
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- Now, dot com and send me an email
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- About this conversation with ambassador huckabee.
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- We can include that in our next visit.
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- We read them all. i'll be right back.
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- We read them all. i'll be right back.
- 00:12:32.008 --> 00:12:36.751
- And we're back now with the u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, mike huckabee.
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- President trump took the time
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- To condemn the attack in australia.
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- He also congratulated a man who put himself in danger
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- By grabbing the gun of one of the shooters.
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- He was a 43 year old father of two,
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- Made his living selling fruit snacks at the beach.
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- Here's what president trump had to say about it
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- In australia.
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- You probably read if it's been.
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- It's been a very, very brave person, actually,
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- Who went and attacked frontally.
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- One of the shooters and saved a lot of lives,
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- A very brave person who is right now in the hospital
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- Pretty seriously wounded.
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- So i great respect to that man that did that.
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- His name is ahmed ahmed, but he was also shot
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- And he said he would do it again if he had to. ambassador,
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- What kind of recognition is he getting in israel?
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- He is greatly appreciated.
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- He saved many lives.
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- And i think it's significant.
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- And i want to note this.
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- He is a muslim.
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- He didn't do this because he was out trying to protect shoes.
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- He was protecting human lives.
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- And the fact that they were jews didn't matter to him.
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- He showed an extraordinary level of raw courage
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- And an incredible sense of responsibility.
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- I've seen the video then going after that shooter,
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- And he totally put his own life in mortal danger.
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- It really could have turned out where he was.
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- Another victim of that shooter.
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- The good news is there is a gofundme page
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- To help this gentleman.
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- As of a few hours ago, it had already raised well over
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- $1 million to help with his medical expenses,
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- Which is a wonderful outpouring of love for this man
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- Who literally did what john, 15, says
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- He was willing to lay down his life for others.
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- True love is just that laying down one's life for another.
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- Well, i want to shift to some
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- Even more encouraging issues in israel.
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- You recently wrote about your meeting
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- With israel's tourism minister,
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- Complimenting him on the large number of u.s.
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- Citizens who live in israel, now 700,000,
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- But also on the nearly 1
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- Million americans who've come to visit.
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- What are you seeing on the streets these days?
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- And how are the neighborhood businesses doing?
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- Well, it's a struggle for the economy in many ways.
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- The four wars that i've experienced
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- Since i've been here in less than a year
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- Have certainly caused a lot of people
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- To say, oh, it's too dangerous.
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- Here's what i would say to people right now.
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- There has never been a better time to come to israel.
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- First of all, things are safe. they're calm.
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- But the other
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- Thing, there are no tourists that have come back yet.
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- The tourists are 90% down from what they normally are.
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- Here's what that means in practical terms.
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- Allen, i know you lead many tours to israel,
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- So you'll understand this
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- When you go to the very special sites
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- That we all want to go to and see,
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- Instead of having to stand in line
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- Or to be there with a huge crowd of people
- 00:15:30.625 --> 00:15:33.161
- Right now, you can go to places and have it all to yourself,
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- And it's not going to be that way forever.
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- Tourism is going to roar back and the crowds will come.
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- I'll be thrilled when they do
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- Because it's a great way for two things
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- To revive the israeli economy
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- Help this nation get back on its feet.
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- But the other thing, when people come to israel
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- And they see it for themselves,
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- They go back with a whole new understanding.
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- They don't listen to the tucker carlson's of the world who spew
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- Nonsense about what israel is because they've seen it.
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- And they don't have to listen to somebody else's depiction.
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- So i'm hoping tourists come back.
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- But i would say right now, book your trip.
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- Get over here as quick as you can.
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- You will absolutely love the experience
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- And you will have
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- A better experience then perhaps when tourism is back at peak.
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- No, you're absolutely right.
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- I was there with the group in october
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- And i felt like we'd rented disneyland.
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- We had a delightful time.
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- So it's a wonderful time to visit the land of israel.
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- You've also spent some time focusing on some of the joint
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- Us-israeli projects,
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- Like the scientific cooperation that's happening.
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- Can you tell us about some of that?
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- Well, the partnership with israel is
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- Where america gets benefits they don't even understand.
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- Some of it is in technology.
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- If you like your cell phone. thank israel.
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- They invented the sim card.
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- If you like car navigation.
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- Again, be grateful to israel.
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- There are many medical devices that probably have saved
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- Maybe your life or the life of a loved one
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- Developed in israel's hospitals like adelson medical,
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- One of the top
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- Ten hospitals in the world right here in jerusalem.
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- There are also some, maybe simple things, if you like
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- Seedless watermelon or cherry tomatoes.
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- Those were developed agriculturally in israel.
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- But the big picture is the
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- Extraordinary military hardware that israel develops.
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- And then they send it to the us.
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- We scale it up.
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- But israel battle tested,
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- And that's billions upon billions of dollars
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- Of research and development that we don't have to pay for.
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- But we get the benefit of
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- You start talking about it.
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- Watermelon in israel,
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- I'm going to get on a plane because you've got the best
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- Fruits and vegetables in the world.
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- They're
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- Incredible and it just is amazing.
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- The produce, it's all fresh.
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- The desert blooms here.
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- I can remember when it didn't.
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- I've seen the bible come alive before my eyes
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- Since the first trip i made in 1973.
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- I've seen the dry bones come to life in the flesh.
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- Put on them.
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- But the desert blooming.
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- Alan. what?
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- You just mentioned places that were nothing but dry,
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- Desolate, rocky sand with nothing that was green.
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- Now lush with groves and, forests and farmland
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- That is producing some of the most amazing
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- Fruit and vegetables that you'll ever have.
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- We have to take a quick break, but we'll be right back
- 00:18:23.665 --> 00:18:26.067
- With ambassador huckabee.
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- With ambassador huckabee.
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- Well, before we run out of time,
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- I'd like to highlight a social media posting
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- I saw from another governor from arkansas.
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- On the video, she pointed out that
- 00:18:46.291 --> 00:18:47.793
- For the second year in a row, arkansas
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- Ranked number one in people who've moved to your state,
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- She said.
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- She said that's what happens when you cut
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- Taxes, invest in education and defend our god given rights.
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- Is there anything you'd like to add?
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- She's always said she wanted to be a better governor than me.
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- She accomplished that in her first month in office.
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- So i would just say how proud i am of her for the great job
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- She's done leading that state, and she is really crushing it.
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- What a joy to be able to watch that from a distance.
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- Absolutely.
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- She's in helping tennessee be stronger.
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- It's good to have good neighbors.
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- Well, ambassador huckabee, i
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- Thank you for sharing your time with us today.
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- We know you have a very busy schedule.
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- Arkansas misses you, and we do too.
- 00:19:29.534 --> 00:19:31.637
- We hope to see you again soon.
- 00:19:31.637 --> 00:19:33.872
- Thanks, al on the joy to be with you.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- It's a wonderful reminder in this program
- 00:20:09.801 --> 00:20:11.903
- That god is moving in the earth.
- 00:20:11.903 --> 00:20:13.872
- He's still watching over us, from bethlehem
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- To jerusalem to middle tennessee to wherever you may be.
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- We're not alone in this.
- 00:20:20.412 --> 00:20:21.813
- There's a god in heaven, and he can be known.
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- And he knows us.
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- I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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