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July 7, 2025 | 22:22

Yael Eckstein joins Allen Jackson to discuss life in Israel following the conflict in the Middle East.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Life in Israel | Allen Jackson Now | July 7, 2025

Well.
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Good evening, i'm alan jackson.
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I would normally say welcome to nashville,
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But in this case, i was planning to be in israel saying.
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Nice to see you in person.
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And welcome back to our show.
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Well, as our viewers know, by this point,
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Yael is the president and ceo of the international fellowship
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Of christians and jews.
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And the only reason we're not face to face tonight
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Is because president
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Trump and prime minister netanyahu had other plans,
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Just as we were planning to fly to israel.
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Now their plans worked,
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And now iran and its nuclear plants have been shut down,
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Not just the buildings,
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But the people who built and ran the programs as well.
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There is peace now after years of war.
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So i'd like to be on the ground there today.
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I'm even happier to have yael join us from northern israel,
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Where she can finally wake up
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Without fearing that iran is attacking again.
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And it just so happens that your prime
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Minister is in washington this week
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Meeting with president trump's about next steps.
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Welcome to the program, yael.
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Pastor allen, it is always a blessing to be with you.
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Well, you and your staff are tireless workers
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Feeding, supporting and protecting those in need.
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I know the mission remains very active
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Even as a peaceful period begins,
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But maybe we can begin by telling us
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What it's like for you now, given israel's victory.
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We're living in times, pastor allen, that i think people
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Have been praying about for at least 20 years
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And seeing the outcome that
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History will be talking about, i believe for generations.
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It's a such a scary thing
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To take action against evil and evil that worships death.
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An evil like iran that has spent
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Generation exporting terror to the entire middle east
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So that no one could get to that, what we call
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The head of the snake get to iran directly.
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And yet,
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I believe that our leaders realize that you have to stand
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In your principles and your values
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And take action to back that up.
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And what we saw, pastor allen, is something that
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People of faith know.
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When you walk in the way of god, he blesses it.
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So yes, today is a much safer day for
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Israel, for the entire middle east,
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For the heroic american troops
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Who are stationed in the middle east
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And to the united
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States of america that just celebrated its birthday.
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And i pray we will have safety
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And prosperity for many, many, many generations to come.
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Amen.
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Well, you live within a tough but a war weary population.
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Brave survivors of all ages.
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Surely the people you take care of
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Are happy to know that iran's threat has been eliminated.
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But can you help us understand the mental state of the people
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You visit each day?
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How do you help counsel people
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Who've had to go to bomb shelter
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Well, i feel so blessed and lucky
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That my family is relatively, mentally good in the sense
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Of none of my children are suffering from trauma.
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They're able to sleep through the night.
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But even for children who are mentally and emotionally
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Healthy right now, my nine year old woke up
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In the middle of the night two days ago and said,
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There's a siren.
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We have to go to the bomb shelter.
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There's a siren. everyone run to the bombshell.
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And i said, wait, listen, there's no siren.
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The war's over.
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We're not going to the bomb shelter. everything's okay.
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And he went back to sleep.
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And as soon as the noise goes on the phone,
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My 18 year old jumps and says, oh my god, is it a rocket siren?
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So the country of israel has been through
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Something we've never been through before.
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A lot of people know that there have been 35,000 rockets
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Launched at
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Tiny israel in the past 650 days from seven different fronts.
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But they're not the ballistic missiles like we're seeing,
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That were that were launched from iran.
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I was in, but, it's an area right near tel aviv,
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And i was at the site of the location
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Where one of these ballistic missiles hit, and it destroyed
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Six buildings.
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And for two miles, there were no windows.
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And so the impact of that one ballistic missile
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And what it did there,
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Multiply that by dozens in be'er
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Sheva, in jerusalem, in haifa, in oil refineries,
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That the people of israel
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Have never been under attack the way that we were.
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But god's grace also has never been seen so clear.
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So we're here
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At the international fellowship of christians
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And jews on the ground, ministering
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To the people who are hurting by bringing food,
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Providing bomb shelters.
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As the rockets were falling, we were placing bomb shelters
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In the most poor neighborhoods that didn't have bomb shelters.
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While we were placing them.
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There were rockets hiring from the local community
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Members and children came running in that
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It wasn't even five minutes until it was saving lives.
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So i think the best way, really, to remind the people of israel
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That god is with them, that they're not forgotten,
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That god is still the watchman on the walls of jerusalem,
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Is to remember
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That christians and jews stand together in this fight.
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And just as the fellowship
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During the war with iran, we didn't,
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Turn our backs on our christian brothers and sister.
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We were also in syria,
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The fellowship, setting up a medical clinic
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For the persecuted christians in syria.
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We have to stand together.
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And that's the message
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Of the fellowship in prayer and in action.
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Jews and christians.
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That's the way we bring the blessings to this world.
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Well,
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You know, it's
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The practical expressions of faith that you do so well
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That i know you've gone through truckloads
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Full of food on top of the shelters and the ambulances
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And all the things that the fellowship has provided.
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What are you short of now and what do you need the most?
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Well, the recovery is going to take a long time.
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Some people even say years.
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We're just now starting to, return the israel israeli
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Citizens to the gaza border periphery, kibbutzim.
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So you have these kibbutzim
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That were destroyed by hamas on october
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7th, and only now are the residents able to go back.
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And so what we've been asked for is to renovate
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Their kindergartens, their elderly centers,
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Which are the only places where the elderly
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Actually go out from their homes from this trauma
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And have fellowship with one another
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And have community and have faith and bible study.
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We need more soup kitchens than ever,
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Because after two years of war and so many of the working
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Adults being in me,
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I'm in reserve duty business is have fallen apart,
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And the economy is weaker than any time in my lifetime.
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I've never known so many people who were out of jobs,
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Who have empty fridges, who are asking for aid.
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So the soup kitchens are critical
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Right now,
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And we're focused on the basics of putting back this society
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To be strong and resilient and light into the world.
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Just as we are called to be from here in israel.
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You know, i'm curious, what do some of your
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Elderly friends say about this long war with iran?
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You know, i know the memories
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Of nazi germany and what they endured.
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It seems like it's a nightmare revisiting them again.
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Yes, yes.
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Well, pastor allen, i this woman, zelda,
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I have to tell you about
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Because she's been in my heart for the past few weeks.
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I went to bethlehem to the scene
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Of where the ballistic missile struck
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And the buildings were destroyed.
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And we had fellowship volunteers and search and rescue teams
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That were wearing our flak jackets and helmets,
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Looking still for bodies that were built
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That were buried under the rubble.
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And i was walking around and just giving them words
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Of encouragement and saying, millions of christians
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Are praying for you, and don't look at the people who hate you.
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There are so many people who love you.
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And that's what the fellowship represents.
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And giving them the flashlights that they needed to work
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Through the night and everything they needed.
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And then someone came to me and said,
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There's a woman who i heard of who lives just two blocks away.
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She's 92 years old, and she fell on the way
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To the bomb shelter during the attack.
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And from what i understand, there's no one to care for her.
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And so i grabbed as many prepared meals as i could hold.
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I had my volunteer next to me grabbed to, food boxes.
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I said, we're going to visit her.
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And we went and knocked on the door.
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And it was a 92 year old holocaust survivor
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Who was laying in bed.
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She had wounds all over her body.
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And she
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She looked me start crying, said, how did you hear about me?
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I said, god sent an angel,
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But you're never going to be alone again.
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And she looked at me and she said,
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During the holocaust
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I was hiding. during the holocaust, i was hungry
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And nobody came to save me.
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And i was laying in bed and i was thinking,
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I don't have food in my fridge.
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And once again, no one's coming to save me.
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I'm in israel now.
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And then you came in the door
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And had christians in america have remembered me.
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So i think that it's
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Bringing back such pain from the holocaust.
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Once again,
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The jewish people
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Are being targeted, singled out and trying to eradicate
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God's nation,
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Trying to eradicate god's word by eradicating the the land
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Of israel.
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But the other side of that, the flip side of that,
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That i get to represent every day
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Is this new generation, this new hope,
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Generation of corrie ten boom, this and that.
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It's not just one holy woman who saved over 800 people,
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But we have
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Hundreds of thousands of christians
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Through the fellowship
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That are touching millions of lives
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Of jewish people in need every single year.
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That's that's the light in the darkness.
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Pastor allen.
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What a wonderful reminder.
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Yael, please stay with us for another segment.
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We've got more to discuss in the break here.
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Consider writing to us
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with the ceo and president
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Of the international fellowship of christians and jews.
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You're listing
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Secretary of state marco rubio made a comment recently
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About finding peace versus starting wars.
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I thought it was worth hearing again.
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Mr. president, first of all, thank you.
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When we
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When i first came on this job a few months ago,
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And you made it very clear
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That the
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Priority of this administration under
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Your leadership was going to be the pursuit of peace.
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And from day one,
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Whether it's been in ukraine and russia,
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Whether it's been pakistan, india,
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Whether it's been iran and israel,
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And in the continent of africa, your priorities, but not peace.
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It's that wars get a lot more attention and peace.
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But peace is harder than a lot harder.
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With the
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Arrival of peace, there's a new talk
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Of an expansion of the abraham accords.
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What do you think is possible?
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Pastor allen, i think peace is possible
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Because it was promised by god and we're told him as lama e10.
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I said, mubarak, very first.
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You have to have the strength,
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But then god blesses his nation with peace
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That we are getting closer.
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And what i've seen in the previous administration
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With the abraham accords is that in a second issue, i, a
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A fine redemption from the lord
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Can come in the blink of an eye.
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We never thought we would have these strategic partnerships
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And lasting peace with these arab countries
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Who have been at war with israel for generations.
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And i believe anything is possible
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That we showed our strength
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Not for the sake of showing strength,
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For the sake of protecting our children, protecting our values
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To make sure not that we're having a not
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That we're having revenge, but that we're making sure
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An october 7th will never happen again.
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A pearl harbor will never happen again,
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That the people with
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Evil intentions will not be able to harm our people
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And interests.
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But then we reach out a hand to peace.
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And i believe that anything is possible.
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We are ushering in a new light, a new reality, and i'm excited
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To see what god through our leaders is going to do.
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Amen.
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Well, you're l
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I know you've helped many hostages in their families.
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Some are still missing.
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Can you share what it's like for the families
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Of those still missing after so much time has passed?
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What do they need? and is there anything we can do to help?
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Well, the entire country of israel.
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I think it's something beautiful
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That we were
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Refused to move on until every single hostage is home.
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When you come to israel, you see that they're still
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Photos of the faces of those who are in gaza,
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Still almost two years later.
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On every bus stop on the back of so many cars
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On the side of streets,
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I pinned them to trees that we will never move on as a nation
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Until all of our people are home.
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And it reminds me of the story
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Even of when the israelites left egypt.
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They even took joseph's bones with them
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To be buried in israel.
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And that's what we're doing.
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There are some hostages
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Who are
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Have been killed by hamas
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In gaza,
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But we won't rest even until their bones are home for burial.
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Just like joseph.
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But these families are waking up every day to a reality
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That they know their loved ones are still being starved,
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Are still being abused, are still being held by monsters
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Who are using them as pawns
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And physically, emotionally, spiritually abusing them.
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That these families need our support and love
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And they need the basics.
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They haven't been able to function. they're going from
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Government to government to u.n.
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Their full time jobs has become
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Becoming their spokespeople and advocates
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For their loved ones who are silenced in gaza right now.
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And the international
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Fellowship of christians and jews is there
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Not with big things,
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But with little things
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Around the holidays,
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Giving them a food card so they can
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Celebrate the holidays in dignity,
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Making sure they get the mental and emotional care
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That they need, that they're surrounded by a big hug,
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And mostly that they know that they're not alone
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Because they're facing so many people who are
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Who are calling hamas the hero, who are looking at israel
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And evil as evil and looking at the terrorists as good,
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Which is exactly what isaiah
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Said would happen, that at the end,
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Today's good will be called evil.
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Evil will be called good. light will be called dark.
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Dark will be called light. we see that happening.
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So to hear for these hostage families through words
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And actions like these food cart or just that we give them
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That there are hundreds of millions of christians
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Who are praying for their loved ones
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And recognize who haven't been fooled
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By this spiritual warfare.
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That's taking over the world. but they see it clear
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And they're praying for their loved ones.
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That message, pastor allen, is the strength
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They need to get through another day.
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You know, i'm of the opinion
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The fellowship has done some big things.
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You've collected and donated millions of dollars
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To those in need, people of all faiths
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And from a lot of different countries.
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Well, we pray that the war may be ending.
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The needs don't fade away.
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So tell our viewers what happens when they give
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And what a difference
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It makes for anyone
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Who can afford to participate in the fellowship.
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Well, praise god, we have programs across israel
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And everything we do is based on the scriptures,
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On the bible where it says to provide food and shelter
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And the basics, and to do it with dignity and with love.
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And so throughout israel, from our northern border soup
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Kitchen in kiryat shmona that was hit directly
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By a missile in the next morning, was still, processing
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And distributing over 500 meals from a different location.
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But no one missed their meals in that tiny,
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Little war torn city, all the way down to a lot,
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Which is on the border with, egypt and everywhere in between.
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When you give a donation, it goes directly to the people
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That $25 turns into a meal for an elderly.
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That $45 turns into a food box for a family here in israel,
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That as soon as we have the funds, we turn it into aid.
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Exactly. what's needed exactly.
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At this time, at exactly the location.
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So during the war, we were placing bomb shelters
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As the sirens were sounding and the rockets were falling,
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The fellowship was on the ground.
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We were vulnerable ourselves as we weren't in the shelters,
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But instead placing shelters for others.
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And we're only able to do that because we have the trust
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And love and sacrificial gifts that people work
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So hard for, that they choose to bless israel with.
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It is such an honor to be able to be your voice on the ground.
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We all,
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Your city, you and your teams are truly tireless.
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We pray for your continued good health
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And we hope to see you again soon.
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Please stay in touch.
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Pastor allen, you are a light in this dark
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World, an inspiration to me and so many others.
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Thank you for who you are, what you represent
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And everything you do both
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For your family, your church and for the world.
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You are a blessing.
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And bless you in a moment.
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I have some additional thoughts on how we can all move forward.
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Our hope remains strong and later in the program.
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Your emails the view from well beyond nashville.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Israel is the only true democracy in its region.
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It upholds the rule of law and values human life.
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It allows for religious freedom.
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And for that it's hated by many.
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While trump
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And netanyahu coordinate in order to work toward peace.
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And while the nations of the world
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Decry israel's attempts to protect themselves
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By targeting iran and its proxies,
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It's a good idea to not forget
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What took place on october the 7th, 2023.
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I saw the videos of october the 7th.
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What i saw was horrific things.
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I can't i won't describe hamas abused wives and daughters
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While their husbands watched,
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And then they murdered the husbands.
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As the wives and daughters watched,
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They said, babies on fire.
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You know, we've always known that
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Some in the muslim world hated the jews.
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That wasn't really news.
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But what shocked me after those events was the depth
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Of the anti-semitism in our own nation.
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I wasn't prepared for academic institutions,
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Politicians, cultural leaders to defend hamas.
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It's as if they didn't see the same sanitized version of
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The atrocities that took place on october the 7th
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That we all saw in the news.
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Folks,
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Freedom is not cheap, and it certainly isn't free.
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Freedom is not a right, nor is it a privilege.
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And it will only
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Extend to the next generation if we care enough to protect it.
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Even if college campuses and legacy media quickly forget
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What took place on october the 7th, we must never forget.
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If we forget, our history will repeat it.
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It's up to us to remind those generations coming behind us.
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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 back in just a moment with your emails.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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Just a quick reminder that if you ever miss an episode,
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You can go to aj now.com and find the show every evening.
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There's an archive there
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Of all of the programs. you can even share
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One with a friend that will help all of us.
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And thanks for emails are always a highlight.
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Roman from frederick, colorado wrote.
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Can you explain why jews became the chosen people?
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Is this based on the covenant made with abraham in genesis?
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Can you elaborate on this?
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Well, roman, i think the first step
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Is to recognize that it's about the sovereignty of god.
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There's not really an explanation given.
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We're simply told that god initiated that.
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And then god chooses to either identify himself
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As the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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So it begins with the covenant with abraham.
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But there's a clear identification of the descent
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From which that covenant was to emerge
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From abraham, isaac, and then jacob.
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From that we find ourselves with the jewish people
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Through whom he made a covenant,
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That all people have been blessed, all of us,
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Jew and gentile, the gentiles have been grafted
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Into that covenant.
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We're told in the book of romans,
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Through our faith in jesus christ, god's sovereignty.
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But it's been our benefit.
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John s from springwater, new york said pastor jackson,
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I believe you're spot on
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By bringing a biblical light to those issues in our culture
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That come from the theater of the absurd, as you put it.
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Thank you for doing that and keeping us up to date on how
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We should, as christians, be representing the gospel
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Not only in our churches, but outside the church
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As we interact with the culture.
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Thank you for helping us to be salt and light, john.
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I think you got it. exactly.
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It's not just about going
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To church and sitting there and enduring sermons.
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We really go outside the church to be christ followers
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In our places of business,
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Our neighborhoods, around our kitchen tables.
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That's the true measure of our faith.
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It's an honor we have to represent the lord.
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I want to thank you for spending
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A few minutes with us this evening.
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I'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful night.
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