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June 16, 2025 | 22:42

Ron Dermer joins Allen Jackson to discuss the latest on the Israel-Iran conflict.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Israel-Iran Conflict | Allen Jackson Now | June 16, 2025

Well.
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Good evening, i'm alan jackson.
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You may have heard me mentioned last week
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That we were planning to anchor the show from israel this week,
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But given events there and the fact that the airports
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Were closed.
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I'm in nashville,
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But we begin tonight with israel's minister
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Of strategic affairs and the former ambassador
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To the united states, ron dermer, joining us from israel.
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Welcome back to our program.
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Minister dermer.
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It's good to be back.
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And, and, pastor, if you can't come to
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Jerusalem, jerusalem is going to come to you.
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Well, thank you for that.
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You know,
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You're the right hand man to prime minister netanyahu.
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And we heard him yesterday, reports
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That the attacks on iran will not stop
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Until you're certain
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That the ayatollah is unable to build a nuclear weapon.
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Maybe we can start by telling us how the mission is going.
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The mission is going very well.
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In fact, we're ahead of schedule.
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As the prime minister said the night of, when we began
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This operation, we are trying to remove two,
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Existential threats to israel, two threats to our survival.
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The first, obviously, is nuclear weapons.
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And to make sure that we deny,
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Iran a military nuclear capability.
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And we've been targeting
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Several things, which i'll get to in a second.
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The second thing is, we also want to deal
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With the threat of ballistic missiles.
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These are the rockets that and missiles,
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Actually, that your your viewers are watching hit.
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Our cities bombard our cities.
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These are one ton missiles.
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It's like imagine
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A bus or two busses filled with explosives
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Flying through the air and hitting in a neighborhood.
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So right now, iran has a plan.
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They're making maybe 50 or 60 of these every month.
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They're trying to ramp up production
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To about 300 a month, which means 3500 a year,
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Which means in three years,
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They're going to have 10,000 of these things,
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And in six years they're going to have 20,000.
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Now, for a country the size of israel
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And we're the size of new jersey.
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People should know israel is very small,
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Especially relative to iran, not just relative
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To the united states, which is 500 times
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The size of israel,
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But iran is about 80 times the size of israel.
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It's about ten times our population, 80 times
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Territory. we are a very small country.
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When you bombard a country that size with missiles
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Like the likes of which you've seen
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On your television screens, that's an intolerable threat.
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So when we set out to do this operation,
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We said we got to deal with the nuclear threat
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And we got to deal with the ballistic missile threat.
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Both of those
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And what we've done on the nuclear side is we've
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Already taken out their main
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Nuclear enrichment facility, which is in natanz.
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We've also taken out a conversion facility,
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Which they convert
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Uranium to what they need to actually weaponize that uranium.
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Now that has been taken out.
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We also took out in the first minutes,
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Essentially the manhattan project
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For the iranian atomic bomb.
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This top scientist in iran met their end
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In the first minutes of this.
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And these are people
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That were dedicated and working in these laboratories
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To develop a bomb that the leaders of iran say there.
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And they declare every day
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That they openly committed to the destruction of israel.
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Israel has to be wiped off the face of the earth.
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The supreme
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Leader of iran was tweeting, you know, in english, in hebrew,
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In persian, tweeting about israel's destruction.
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They have a clock in the middle of tehran,
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Which is a countdown to israel's destruction.
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So when they're telling you they want to kill you,
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You don't give them the means to achieve that goal.
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So we took out natanz, took out the conversion facility, took
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Out of the scientists, were taken out
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Some other information that they would need
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To set them back years.
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And now we're systematically going and targeting other sites.
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There's r&d facilities,
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The centrifuge manufacturing facilities.
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We're dealing with that
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On the other side with the ballistic missiles.
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We're taking out a lot of those launchers.
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But more importantly, we're going to take out
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We've started
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Take out their ability to produce the factories
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Where they produce
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And manufacture these weapons, and then we're going to deal
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Them a very, very heavy blow.
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And i think this is critical not only for israel's security.
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It's critical
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For america's security because our fight is your fight.
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We're the little satan. america's the great satan.
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And so when we're fighting iran and their leaders lead millions
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In chants, it's death to israel, death to america.
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But we're the little satan right there.
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Think you're the great satan.
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So we're taking out america's enemies in the region.
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We did that in hezbollah.
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We did that in, in lebanon.
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We've done that in gaza, where we've crushed them.
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We still have the houthis that we're dealing with.
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And you pounded them pretty hard as well.
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But the the head of this octopus,
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This head of this octopus is in tehran.
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And they had these tentacles of terror,
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And we've taken out
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Those octopus arms and turned it into t-rex arms.
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And now the only thing they have is their ballistic missiles
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And their military nuclear capability.
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And now we're taking that away.
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And i think in the wake of this war,
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We will finally have a chance to turn the page
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And to move towards peace.
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And one thing i want your viewers to understand
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The iranian people, they are not an enemy,
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Neither of israel or of the united states.
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They're probably after the people of israel.
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The second most pro-american people in the middle east.
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They hate this regime.
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They've been suffering and subject being subjugated
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Under this repressive boot of the tyrants of tehran
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For nearly half the century.
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You remember three years ago the women of iran,
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They took off those head coverings
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And they went into the streets to protest.
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2009 they tried to protest.
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Don't be surprised
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If in the wake of this, or maybe even during this,
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That you start seeing the sparks of rebellion
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Start happening in iran,
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Who really deserve and want their freedom.
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And i think when that happens, the middle east has changed,
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Maybe for generations to come,
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And we can get about what
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We tried to do, and we did successfully
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At the end of president trump's term,
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We the first term, we did the abraham accords
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And in israel, for the first time in 25
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Years, was making peace agreements with arab states.
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And we did it with the emirates,
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And we did with bahrain and then sudan and then morocco.
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We can continue on the path of peace.
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But first we have to win.
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President trump says peace through strength.
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First you need strength.
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If you have strength, then you will have peace.
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Well, israel has been very strategic
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About hitting iran's military assets
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As well as their leadership, as you mentioned,
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With their nuclear program,
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It's very clear that iran is doing the opposite.
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They're targeting israeli citizens, the elderly, children.
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Can you tell us a bit about the losses on your side
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And what they tell you about iran's tactics?
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Yeah, well, iran decided to just fire into civilian areas,
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And they probably want to see as many people killed
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As as as possible, and they'd be thrilled with that.
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We are doing everything as we do
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In all of our wars to keep the civilians out of harm's way.
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We are attacking, as you rightfully said,
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Military targets, and they're lobbing these flying.
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But, you know, busses
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Filled with tnt into residential neighborhoods.
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That's the terrorists that we're dealing with. and that's why
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We have to do everything to stop them every war.
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Pastor, unfortunately, has a cost,
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And israelis have paid a price for this war.
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We've already lost that.
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The last time i checked, it was 25.
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25 israelis have been killed by these rockets that were,
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That were coming into israel.
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And it's a it's a it's a terrible loss.
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But we understand that if we don't act to remove
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This threat, the losses could be catastrophic.
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So i, i'm very impressed with how the people of israel
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Have responded over the last 3 or 4 days.
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You know, they're very disciplined.
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You know, israel, you know, that they have safe rooms.
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You know that there's sometimes
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Underground areas where they go.
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And if the israeli population, which is disciplined,
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Continues to be disciplined, continues to listen to the
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Our home front command, then we will have fewer casualties.
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And a lot of people will expect.
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And we're going to try to do finish our
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Objective with this war and then end it as soon as we can.
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But we can't end the war without winning the war.
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And that's why we're determined
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To finish the job that we started.
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And, you know, prime minister has shown
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Maybe once in a century leadership.
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You know, you had churchill in the last century.
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And then in this century, you have netanyahu,
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Who was willing to actually
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Take action before the danger fully materializes.
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Because if everybody waits until the threat
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To your survival materialize is it's too late,
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You have to take action before it's too late.
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And that's the toughest decision for a leader to make.
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That was the decision
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That the leaders before world war two did not take.
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They were actually so upset about world war one, not upset,
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But they came in a generation after world war one
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Where people felt that this horrific war
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And the terrible carnage of world war one, which claimed
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16, 16, one, six, 16 million lives, was so bad
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They would do everything to avoid war at any cost.
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And for two decades you had leaders.
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All the evidence was there.
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You saw the nazi rise to power.
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They were saying what they were saying.
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You saw them building their war machine.
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And people ask, how did they not see?
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How did they not hear?
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The truth is, they didn't want to see,
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And they didn't want to hear, because they didn't want to make
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This decision that is very hard to make.
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But their failure to act in time
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Led to the worst disaster in human history.
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World war two were 60,000,006 0
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Million died, including 6 million jews
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Who were murdered in the holocaust.
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One third of the jewish people.
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So israel is very fortunate today
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To be led by prime minister netanyahu,
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Who has warned the world of a dangers of a nuclear iran.
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You've been following for a very long time.
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He has warned that world for probably for decades.
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I've been by his side for 25 years.
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And in the very first meeting that we had together,
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He told me,
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Help me prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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His eye was never off that ball was always there.
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And now he's placed
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Israel in a position after october 7th, that for after what
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We did to hamas and to hezbollah and iran's other proxies.
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Now, he put israel in a position where he could act.
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One last thing, pastor, that i want to say is
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I want to express on behalf of the government of israel,
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I used to,
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When i was ambassador,
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Be able to say i speak on behalf of the people of israel,
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But i think i do speak on behalf of the people of israel
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When i say this.
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I want to thank president trump
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For his support for israel right now.
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He is there for israel, helping defend israel.
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Your egis
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Ships are knocking down
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Some of those one ton missiles that are
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That are being launched at our cities.
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You have your sad intercept system and and the soldiers
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That are working to prevent those incoming
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Missiles from reaching israel.
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And you also have american pilots
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Who are flying over the skies to knock down drones.
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And and president trump has given us
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The political support, the diplomatic support
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And the backing that we need to prosecute this war.
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And we are deeply grateful for that.
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Now, he wanted to reach a diplomatic solution to that.
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And guess what, pastor?
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We would love to have a diplomatic solution
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Where they would dismantle their program.
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Something like
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What happened with libya in 2003 when they gave up all of their
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Their weapons of their nuclear program
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And weapons of mass destruction program.
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But unfortunately, iran wasn't interested in that.
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They were interested in
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Just delay, delay, delay stirring this along.
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And in the last few years, iran has built as well
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And has enriched enough, highly enriched uranium for nine
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Atomic bombs and enough enriched uranium for 70 atomic bombs.
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And in the last few months,
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I don't know if you're aware of this,
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But our intelligence services and your intelligence services
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Understood that iran is taking steps
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In its
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Nuclear weaponization program
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That it had not taken for 20 years.
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So it was clear that we had to act.
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The president said, you got 60 days
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Basically to dismantle, to agree to dismantle your program.
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Iran wasn't interested.
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And then israel acted.
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And we're very grateful for the support
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That president trump and his entire
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Administration has given us.
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Well, once again, the world is indebted to the jewish people.
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We thank you for your sacrifices.
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Minister dermer, we need to take a short break.
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We'll be right back.
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If you can, please stay for another segment.
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If you can, please stay for another segment.
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We're back now with one of the most important
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Figures in the israeli government.
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The minister of strategic affairs, ron dermer.
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Long before this to me, were
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Your assignment was in washington,
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Where you've seen our presidents come and go.
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You've also seen the growth of the anti-israel sentiment,
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Or at least the additional attention
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That our media seems to be giving it.
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So you know america quite well.
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Do you think that things might change for the better
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When people here understand that you're fighting their fight,
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That iran wanted to wipe out
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Not just israel, but the united states as well?
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And they were quite close to having the material
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To do that if you hadn't intervened.
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Well, look, whether or not
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The american people will understand it,
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I think depends on
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On what they hear from leaders, from political leaders,
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From influential figures in the media to make sure
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That they get all the facts and know the truth.
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I mean, iran is a regime
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That has been at war with america since its inception.
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It took over that american embassy in 1979,
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And it held american hostages for 444 days.
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It its proxy, hezbollah, took out
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240 marines, 241 marines in beirut.
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In those barracks. it has bombed.
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Its proxies have bombed u.s.
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Embassies in africa.
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They tried to, blow up a restaurant in in downtown
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Washington, dc, and they tried to assassinate president trump.
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I mean, this regime hates america.
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And i would say the greatest cost has been
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In the thousands of people that were killed, remained
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By iranian backed militias and their ids,
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All those people at walter reed medical center who lost limbs,
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The ones who were behind that.
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It was iran.
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And so i think when israel is fighting
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Iran, we're fighting america's fight.
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And when we defeat iran,
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We are defeating america's worst enemy.
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Now what's happening in different college campuses
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When this anti-israel movement.
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I gotta tell you something, pastor,
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I think it's not an anti-israel movement.
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It's an anti-american movement.
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About 99% of the people in those protests
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Who hated israel, they hate america as well.
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And i think that's a problem in the united states,
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And it's something that your leaders
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Will have to deal with to not raise
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A generation of people to hate their country.
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I mean, i love america,
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I was born and raised in the united states,
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And i'm deeply grateful
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For the united states of america and and what it gave.
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You know, my grandparents was probably
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Your grandparents or great, great, great parents.
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I don't know how many generations
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You go back to be the land of the free,
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The home of the brave,
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To open its arms to immigrants
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That were coming into the country.
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And it was. it's tremendous.
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It's the greatest superpower in the history of the world.
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And it's been a good power
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And a decent power with all of its blemishes.
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And every country does.
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You have to have be
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Totally ignorant of history to not understand
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What america has meant to the world.
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And we, the jewish people,
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Know what it was like when america wasn't
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The preeminent power of the world.
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That was the situation before world war two.
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You saw what happened with the jews then.
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But thanks to the birth of israel,
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Thanks to the great alliance with the
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United states of america, we're in a different world.
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And what i would say is like israelis will deal with israel.
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We're going to take care of israel.
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We've got a brave people.
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We have soldiers who are willing to go into battle.
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We have a people of tremendous resolve
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And let's say, the forces of israeli exceptionalism.
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They're on the march.
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I think the important thing in america
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Is to make sure the people
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Who love america and understand what it's all about,
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The forces of 1776, let's say that they be on the march.
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And i think it's very important for the future of the world
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That america believes in itself, and that it's proud of itself.
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And when you see that on an american college campus,
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Then you know your future is going to be bright.
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So when we win
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In the middle east,
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We're winning
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For the united states, there's no question,
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Because we're taking out enemies.
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But the very idea of america, which i think israel represents
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In the middle east.
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You are standing for freedom around the world,
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And we are a free democracy, a robust and free democracy
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In the heart of a region
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Where you don't have a lot of free countries
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Around us, and we are defending the same values.
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We share the same interests.
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The more americans know that, the better.
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And i hope
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That they will understand that they have no better ally
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Than the state of israel in the world.
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The problem you had in the middle east
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When you spent $7 trillion or so in iraq and afghanistan, is
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You didn't have more israelis in the middle east.
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It's not american boots that are on the ground.
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It's israeli boots.
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There was an american leader 40 years ago,
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Said israel is an unsinkable american aircraft carrier
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In the heart of a region that is important
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And critical for u.s. interests.
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We are fighting your fight.
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We are on the front lines,
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And we share the same values,
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The share, share the same interests.
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And, pastor,
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This is something that you know
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Well, we also share the same destiny
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Because israel and the united states are not just countries
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We're causes.
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And i think as long as the cause of america is strong,
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America is going to have a brilliant future.
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So that's what i will worry about.
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We'll take care of ourselves. you take care of america.
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Well, i'm most grateful not just for your leadership
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In israel, but for your message to the american people.
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I pray they'll receive it.
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Mr. dermer, we have a vast audience.
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I'd like to close out this interview with a prayer
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For you and your family
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And the people of israel, if you'll allow me.
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Almighty god, i thank you for the nation of israel.
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You and you alone have brought it into existence.
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I thank you for your provision for them,
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And i pray now they'll have a wisdom beyond themselves,
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A supernatural courage, lord, as you have protected them
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On so many occasions.
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May you stand, watch over them
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And bring them victory in the midst of this conflict.
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May they know that almighty god has spared them
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As diminished their enemies, and brought a new season
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Of freedom to them, and may they know they're not alone.
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That not only does the united states
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Stand with them, but that almighty god
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Watches over them.
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We bless them,
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And we pray for the iranian people,
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That they will choose freedom
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And be delivered from the tyranny
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That is dominated them for generations.
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In jesus name, amen.
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Those who bless
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America pastor will be blessed and god bless israel.
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God bless america and god bless all the people around the world
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Who stand on the side of civilization against barbarism.
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Israel is going to win this fight, and in winning here,
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We're it's
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Going to be a great victory not only for us,
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But also for the united states of america.
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Thank you.
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Amen.
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Well,
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The united states is here
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For you, sir, and we are extremely grateful
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That you've manned the front lines
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On this evil force
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That's been working to diminish and destroy all of us.
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May god bless you.
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Thank you for spending time with us today.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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War in the middle east.
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It's not new.
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Israel has been at war for over 600 days.
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But the current battle, operation rising lion,
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It's focused on removing iran's nuclear capabilities.
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Iran has been a global sponsor of terrorism for decades.
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Through their proxies like hezbollah, hamas, the houthis
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And others, they have sponsored terrorism
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Not only throughout the middle east, but around the world.
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They've issued threats to americans for decades.
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But until now, there had never been
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An american administration that was willing to let
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The iranian threat be direct, be directly addressed.
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Well, i believe freedom in iran could bring as much change
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To the middle east
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As the tearing down of the berlin wall brought to europe.
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Here's what you can do.
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In addition to praying for the peace of jerusalem,
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Add to that your prayers for the iranian people
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That a door of freedom will be opened for them.
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That the light of the gospel
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Of jesus may enter that nation in new ways.
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If we'll do that, i promise there's more reasons for hope
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Than despair.
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We'll be right back
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With a word before we go.
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With a word before we go.
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Just a reminder.
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If you miss a program, any program,
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You can go to aj now.com.
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There's an archive there so you can review the programs.
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Or you can share a link for a friend
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I'm alan jackson.
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Keep praying for the peace of jerusalem
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And have a wonderful evening.
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Allen Jackson: Israel-Iran Conflict | Allen Jackson Now

June 16, 2025 | 22:42

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