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July 31, 2025 | 22:27

U.S. Ambassador to Isreal Mike Huckabee joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events and Israel.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Life in Israel | Allen Jackson Now | July 31, 2025

Good evening, and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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We're joined tonight by a very special guest
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At a very dear friend, the former governor of arkansas,
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Presidential candidate
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And host of some very successful tv shows.
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But now he's the distinguished u.s.
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Ambassador to israel.
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Mike huckabee, it's great to see you, mr.
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Ambassador.
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Well, alan, what a pleasure to be here.
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I thought you were going to say.
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And the very extinguished.
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Former tv host mike huckabee.
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Some days i feel that way.
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But i got to tell you, alan, it is the greatest privilege
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Of my life
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To represent the united states and president trump as the u.s.
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Ambassador to israel.
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And janet and i are loving living in jerusalem.
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It's, it's been an incredible challenge, as you can imagine.
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But the joy of my life and i'm, deeply grateful to god.
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The one thing i miss, well, there's a lot of things
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I miss my grandchildren being one of them,
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But i really miss the opportunity
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That i had to be on tbn
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For all those many years and for a great team of people.
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I miss that a lot.
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Well, i'm keeping the chair warm for you.
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I've got hope for the future.
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You know, i think most of our listeners
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Know that our programs were ran back to back
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When we launched this new initiative.
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And i was delighted when i heard
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That the president was calling.
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But i was close enough to understand
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A bit of the sacrifice involved in that.
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Your daughter is in the governor's mansion in arkansas.
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You and your lovely bride have moved back there.
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Be close to your grandchildren. see them grow up in the house
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Where you'd raised your children.
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I mean, you had a lot of momentum in your life.
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And then president trump calls.
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I understand that was a bit of a unique call.
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Maybe we start by
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You telling us what he said when he reached out
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And asked you to make the sacrif
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Well, allen,
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President trump never asked, he tells.
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So it's just a few days after the election.
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I've never had a conversation with him about this position
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Or wanting to be an ambassador, because
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I was happy with my life.
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I was enjoying life.
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And i'm sitting at my desk one day.
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It was just a few days past the election.
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No other ambassadorship had been announced and the phone rang.
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I picked it up and it was president trump.
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And in his characteristic way, he said, mike,
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You're going to be buying bassador to israel.
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You're going to go over there, you're going to be great.
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You won't be as great as your daughter,
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But you'll be great.
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He always tells me that he loves sarah.
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Sarah loves him,
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But he always lets me know that she's better than me,
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Which i love. i love hearing that.
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But he told me just point blank,
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You're going to go and be the ambassador.
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I said, well, mr. president,
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But thank you.
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I think,
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Do i have time to talk to my family?
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And when is this going to be announced at all?
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He said, oh, you have plenty of time.
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30 minutes later, it was on fox news,
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And i barely, just barely got ahold of my wife and time
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Before she learned from tv.
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She was actually in oklahoma working with samaritan's purse
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On a disaster recovery because she's
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A volunteer for them and has been for years.
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And i had to just
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Desperately try to get ahold of her and say,
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You might want to think about what you're going to be hearing
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In the news here soon.
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And i told her and she just said,
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I don't know if i'm ready for that,
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But she was ready for it.
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And both of us feel this is where,
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God has put us, and we feel very confident
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That we're not just here by some political means,
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But really by divine appointment.
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You know, you're pretty even keeled.
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But after you were nominated, it took almost two months
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For the senate to confirm you.
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I got agitated, ben reached out to you.
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You were pretty calm about it, but i was getting heated up.
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Politics as usual, doesn't change.
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But you got to israel just in time
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To be right in the middle of a war.
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What's it like to live someplace
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Where there's bombs dropping out of the sky?
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Well, let me put it this way.
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This year,
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The 4th of july,
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Nobody in israel bought fireworks
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Because they had all the rockets and explosions they needed.
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And they got them for free,
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Thanks to the iranians and the saudis.
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And to what's going on?
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The rockets out of gaza.
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So when we got here in april,
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Immediately we were introduced to, the hooting missiles,
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And those usually would come every,
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Every other night, perhaps means going down to the shelter.
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The sirens go off, the dogs bark, and here we go.
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Then when the iranian war,
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The 12 day war started, that was intense.
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And it meant sometimes five trips a night to the shelter.
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No sleep.
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Because you were awakened every hour or two.
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We had to evacuate half of our embassy staff
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And get them out of here with their families.
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We had about 9000 americans that we needed to evacuate,
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But the airspace was closed.
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So there. no, there were no flights.
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We had to try to get them across the allenby bridge
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Into jordan to amman, get flights, since some of them
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By boat to cyprus, sent some to sharm el-sheikh and egypt.
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It was every which way we could.
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Half of our staff gone, and the rest of us
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Were working around the clock, trying to evacuate
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Americans who were stuck here, many of them students.
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And you can imagine al and their parents
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Were frantic back home.
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Please get my son.
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Get my daughter back.
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We knew that if they stayed in the shelter
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And they went to a shelter, they would most
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Invariably be safe.
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But it's hard to tell a parent that when what they see on
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Television is a building being blown up.
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So we wanted to accommodate every request,
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And we worked hard,
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And we got all the people out that wanted to get out.
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I had some friends who had family members.
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There were students there, and my phone was lit up
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And i was echoing that message.
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You and your team did a beautiful job
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Of helping them evacuate in due time.
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Israel's been at war now
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For almost two years between gaza and then iran.
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I know that takes a tremendous toll on the economy there,
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Particularly the service sectors of the economy.
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Restaurants and hotels.
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And what's it like on the ground?
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What's the attitude of the people after being at two year
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War? israel's not built for that long a war.
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No they're not.
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They're used to shorter wars.
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And this one has been tough because there's
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Not a family in israel that isn't directly touched.
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And by that
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I mean that every family in this country
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Pretty much has a son or daughter
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Who has either been in or they're in the war right now
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In gaza or perhaps on the lebanon border.
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So much
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Of what you hear, families have had a loved one,
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A shot, a daughter, a niece, nephew,
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Who have died serving in god for the israeli army.
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And so the people are fatigued, they're tired.
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It's been tough.
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And of course,
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They also go through the problem of having to be awakened.
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Perhaps several times a night because of the missiles
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Coming in. ballistic missiles.
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These are little rockets.
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These are some
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Significant missiles the size of an 18 wheel truck.
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And another challenge
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Is that so many of
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The reservists for the idf, the israeli defense forces,
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Have been called up.
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And that means that
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There are people who haven't been able to go to their jobs
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And go to work.
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And so a lot of places are understaffed.
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People have lost their businesses
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Because they aren't able to be there and be open.
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It's, it's taken its toll.
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You go into the old city and allen, you've been here
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So many times, you brought thousands of people
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Here to see this wonderful land.
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And when you go to the old city
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Right now, there's there's no crowd.
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Nobody's there.
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You want to go to the church of the holy sepulcher?
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Walk right in. nobody's in line.
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Want to go to a restaurant?
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Not a problem.
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Plenty of seats available
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Because the tourists have simply disappeared.
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That's hard on the economy.
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You have a lot of people out of work because of that.
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So it's been a challenge.
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But having said all of that,
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Allen, there's no group of people
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I've ever seen in my life
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More resilient than the israelis, who
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Every day they wake up knowing someone is trying to kill them.
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But do they curl up in a fetal position, stay in bed, cry
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And whine? no they don't. they get up.
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They're positive. they're upbeat.
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They they know what they're fighting for.
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They know that this is the land god gave them.
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They know they have to fight for it
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Because nobody else will fight for it on their behalf.
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And they are an amazing and resilient people.
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Well, i know ultimately only
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God knows what's in the mind of hamas's leadership,
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But they seem determined not to cooperate and negotiate.
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They're going to fight to the finish.
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Do you have any idea what's next is that story unfolds?
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I think what we saw today, the president,
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Who has been such a leader
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In all this, and my heavens, i just can't tell you,
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How grateful i am that he is in the oval office right now.
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But just today he made a comment on truth social.
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That was really
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The quintessential thing that needed to be said.
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He made it clear
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That the reason the hostages are not out, the reason
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There's a humanitarian crisis is because of hamas.
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And i can't tell you how refreshing it is
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For someone to just to understand
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What israel is facing.
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You have the french, the irish, the uk,
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The canada now joining in this nonsense,
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Saying that they're going to demand that israel
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Provide humanitarian support, which they already are,
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But they put more pressure on israel than they do on hamas.
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And it was hamas who massacred 1200 people on october the 7th
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To 250 hostage, have continued to hold them in
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Tunnels, tortured them, killed a bunch of them
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And have refused any type of reasonable option
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To shut this all down and let these people go.
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Everything that you hear about in the terms of human suffering
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Is because of one reason it's hamas.
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They really are the personification of sheer evil.
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It is so demonic.
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What they have done
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And and the pride with which they have done it,
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Only out of the very depths of hell
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Could such an evil be hatched.
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And that's why i get really angry
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When i hear the europeans with a cavalier spirit
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Talk about what israel ought to do.
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And i'm thinking,
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Yeah, well, the french haven't contributed
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One penny to the humanitarian relief here,
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Nor have they offered to take anyone who wanted to leave gaza
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And let them come and relocate in france.
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All they've said is we demand a palestinian state.
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And i said, well, it's emmanuel macron really wants one.
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Then he should offer up the french riviera
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And let that be the palestinian state.
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Why not? he seems to want it pretty badly.
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I'll vote with you on that one.
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Ambassador huckabee, stay with us for another segment.
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If there's more we need to discuss
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In the meantime, we'd love to get your comments
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On this visit by the ambassador.
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You can send your emails by logging on to aj now.com.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now with the distinguished u.s.
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Ambassador to israel, mike huckabee.
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Mr. ambassador, we saw a blurb in the news today
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That you and mr.
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Wyckoff are headed to do a bit of an evaluation in gaza.
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The reports we're hearing from too many sources
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Are really disturbing.
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Can you give us a little insight on what's actually happening?
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Well, you're hearing reports that there's widespread salmon
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And just starvation.
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Alan, i'm not going to tell you that
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Everything is rosy there because it isn't.
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There's suffering, there's heartache.
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In some pockets of gaza, there is deprivation
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And there is hunger, but it is not as widespread.
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And the reason that hunger is there is for two reasons.
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One, hamas
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Steals most of the food that comes
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Across the border to the un sources.
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That's why the u.s.,
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Under the direction of president trump, set up a
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Different kind of approach to feed people.
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And it's worked very well.
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With over 100 million meals
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Having been served in the last two months.
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But the other piece of this is that the media has been
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Very dishonest.
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They have depicted children who look amazing and look starving.
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Turns out the new york times had a front page picture.
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There was a child who, appeared to be starving.
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Truth is, the child had a birth defect
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And was actually taken by the israelis
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To jordan, to a hospital to get treatment.
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He wasn't starving.
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He had a birth defect.
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There was another picture.
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And this should have been a real tale tale for everyone.
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And it was touted as this child, a starving artist,
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Lying on a gurney next to his mother.
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He, too, had a serious health disease.
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But if you looked at the picture,
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The part that was obvious was that the mother was quite
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Well fed.
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I'm being charitable and when i say this, but
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It was very evident that not everybody in
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The family was starving, because she certainly was not.
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This is the kind of thing that israel
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Has to deal with every single day.
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The misinformation, some of it is outright lies.
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And the stories that come out are often from hamas themselves.
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And the u.n.
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Was sitting on 900 trucks of food last weekend
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That they had put across the border,
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But they hadn't moved in and distributed.
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There were thousands of pallets of food estimated enough
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That could feed all of gaza for two years.
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But it was just sitting there.
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And i think we finally convinced maybe some of the u.n.
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Organizations
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That it was time to do more than complain and whine.
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If you really wanted to feed people,
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Get that food out there to the people.
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Now, the trouble is, a lot of it gets looted.
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There's a euphemism that the un uses.
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It's called self distribution.
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What we call that in the real world is it's theft.
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Self-distribution people go in and they take
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Whatever they can grab off the truck.
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In the south, when people shoplifted,
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We called it five finger discount.
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Well, this is a little heavier than that.
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And they're taking big bags of food
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And then turning around and selling it.
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So one quick thing.
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The people that were getting food from the site that the u.s.
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Set up and has been successful,
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That they would come and they would say,
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Oh my goodness, this is the first time
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We didn't have to buy the food
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Because hamas didn't just sell it,
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But then they would turn around and sell it to the people
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That were supposed to be
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Getting it for free in a humanitarian effort.
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They would take the money, buy more weapons,
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Pay their soldiers and kill more people.
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That's hamas.
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Yeah, the reporting is abysmal.
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But there's a larger issue connected
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With this, and you're uniquely, i think, prepared to respond
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To it.
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We're accustomed to the nations of the world hating israel.
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We've seen that in the united nations for decades.
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But there's something different since october the 7th
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On our most celebrated university campuses.
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We've seen the anti-israel sentiments
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Expressed in some very blatant ways.
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And in recent weeks, there's even a new shift.
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I'm hearing voices on the conservative side of the ledger.
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You know, it was epstein.
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They were blaming the israelis for the whole epstein debacle.
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Now it's the genocide in gaza and the murder of children.
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And it's coming not from the fringe nations in the world.
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It's coming from the conservative side
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Of the spectrum in the united states.
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And our most elite universities
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Have any idea of what's driving that
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And what's caused the turn of that page?
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I would say, and it sounds
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Simplistic, but i would say it's demonic influence.
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But to put it in more human terms,
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I can tell you that it is the influence
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Of the billions of dollars that have been spent
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By some of the muslim nations
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On university campuses, indoctrinating students.
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It's also
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Because there are some people
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On social media who make money off the number of clicks.
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And so if they say outrageous and preposterous things
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Like that,
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The israeli mossad, their version of the cia,
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Is the one behind jeffrey epstein.
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They get a lot of clicks, they make money.
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And i know that sounds crass, but how else can you explain
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The level of anti-semitism that we see in places?
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I do have a concern, allen, and i pray that there's
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An awakening in our churches because even among evangelical
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Young people, not so much older people like me,
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But on younger people, many young evangelicals
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Don't understand the biblical reason to support israel.
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And i don't know if it's biblical illiteracy
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Or if it's just kind of going with the flow
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Of the culture of the day.
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But we should be alarmed by that.
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And we should really work hard to bring
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A good biblical perspective, because all we have is the book.
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I mean, let's let's face it,
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If we don't believe the scripture, what do we have?
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What is it
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That we can base our beliefs on and our our faith on?
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It has to be the scripture, and the scripture tells us that
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Those who bless israel will be blessed,
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And those who curse israel will be cursed.
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That's right.
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In genesis chapter 12,
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You and i believe that because we're bible believing people.
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But i'm not sure that all of the younger people
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Coming up after us have fully understood that.
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And we need to make sure that we
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We help them to be oriented in god's word.
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Well, i want to slip in one quick question,
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Because i think it leads us to a hopeful note.
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I think one of the reasons
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We see much to see so much negativity
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Is they're aware that there's some historic peace
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Opportunities on the immediate horizon.
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If you look down the road just a little bit,
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Where the abraham accords
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Are going to be expanded in the middle east.
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Allen, i think they will.
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And i think some of the nations that are very likely in line
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To be the next abraham accord members will shock people.
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But i think we could see syria
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And lebanon be among the the next group of countries.
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I want to be very honest.
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It's fragile.
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Nobody's pretending this is going to be easy,
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Or that it would be simple, or that it will be perfect.
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But can you imagine just a few years,
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Two, three years ago, even talking about syria
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Or lebanon being in the abraham accords
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And not having people laugh in your face?
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But that's the realignment that we're seeing going on.
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And i say first, thank god, i believe he is doing something
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Mighty.
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And then secondly, thank donald trump.
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Whether you voted for donald trump or not,
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No president has ever had the kind of consequential influence
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In israel and in this part of the world, as he has.
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And he doesn't do things the way they've always been done.
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He throws conventional wisdom,
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Political correctness, right out of the room.
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And he asks, is it working? no.
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Is it going to make things better?
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No, he says, then quit doing it that way.
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Let's do it a different way.
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And his policies.
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They are working. amen.
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Well, ambassador huckabee,
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We're hoping to see you later this year in person.
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God willing.
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In the meantime,
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Please know
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That we're praying for you, your family, your staff,
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And all the brave people in israel.
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We're here for you.
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Thank you.
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God bless you, my friend,
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And your wonderful, wonderful church family in tennessee.
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Well, in a moment, i'll have a dose of hope of my own to share.
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And later, your emails.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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You know, there's a significant amount of anti-semitism
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In the media, just in the wind these days in our own country.
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It's unsettling.
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It's something we haven't seen at this level in my lifetime,
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For certain.
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And i talk to people i don't know what to do.
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What can we do?
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Well,
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If you'll accept me, or at least join me in
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An assignment, it's a part of my daily routine
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To pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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That's not just an absence of military conflict.
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And that's not just about the jewish people.
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It's a peace with god for the inhabitants of jerusalem,
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No matter what their religion or their ethnicity.
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And for all the people at the middle east,
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Ultimately, the only peace that's coming to
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That region is going to come from the prince of peace.
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And you and i can add our voice in that request every day.
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We're not just observing what's happening.
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We've become participants in the purposes of god.
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That's worth an investment of time.
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I'll have a final note in just a moment.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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