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Allen Jackson: Ongoing War | Allen Jackson Now

June 23, 2025 | 20:47

Allen Jackson: Ongoing War | Allen Jackson Now
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum joins Allen Jackson to discuss the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Ongoing War | Allen Jackson Now | June 23, 2025
  • Good evening.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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  • It's not going to happen overnight,
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  • But it's becoming more and more clear
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  • That the citizens of israel are on the verge of a new day.
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  • The leadership in iran,
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  • Or what's left of it, is being wiped out.
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  • One fighter jet, one missile launcher, one nuclear plant
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  • And one evil public statement at a time.
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  • The ayatollah khomeini is 86 years old.
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  • He's in declining health.
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  • Much of his senior staff are now gone.
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  • Yet running a repressive regime that he took over
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  • When ayatollah khomeini died in 1989.
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  • Khamenei was the one in charge when our embassy was overrun
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  • And our diplomats held hostage for 444 days.
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  • They were let free only after ronald reagan took office.
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  • Describing both of these so-called supreme
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  • Leaders with the word evil doesn't seem like enough to me.
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  • The only supreme thing they've done is frighten
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  • The iranian population into living in fear for decades.
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  • Generations of good people are terrified
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  • That if they say or do the wrong thing,
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  • They'll be thrown in prison, never to be seen again.
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  • And it
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  • Isn't just the people of israel
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  • That they've been showering their hate on.
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  • It's the citizens of that nation of israel,
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  • The american military troops base throughout the mideast,
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  • And anyone else
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  • Who didn't fit their agenda of a world takeover.
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  • Well, now the end seems near for this hateful harmony.
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  • He spent his years building up hamas, hezbollah
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  • And the houthis, as well
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  • As the equally tyrannical assad regime in syria.
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  • But the landscape has changed, and he knows it.
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  • Assad was toppled.
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  • Hezbollah and hamas have been decimated.
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  • And the houthis, they're next on the chopping block.
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  • The people of israel,
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  • It seems like they've seen it all.
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  • It's been their most stressful
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  • Period possible since that attack on october 7th
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  • On those innocent concert goers.
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  • But this is a strong population.
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  • They're survivors. they never give up.
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  • Well,
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  • Joining us today is the former deputy mayor of jerusalem
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  • And now a special envoy for israel's foreign ministry.
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  • Our friend flora's on the home.
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  • Welcome back to our show.
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  • Thank you so much.
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  • It's great to be with you.
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  • You know, this interview
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  • Was supposed to happen with me and israel.
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  • We're going to get to sit down face to face.
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  • But as you know, the flights were canceled.
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  • I'll be back.
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  • We'll get to meet again in jerusalem.
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  • But for now, perhaps
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  • We can start with telling us how you've been surviving
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  • Through this constant shelling from iran.
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  • Well, it's been a week, but you have to understand
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  • How exhausted we all are
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  • Because we've been at war since october 7th.
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  • We've been receiving rockets here since october 7th.
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  • From gaza.
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  • From october 8th. from hezbollah.
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  • And then last year,
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  • Just for kicks, the hottest decided to join in.
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  • And they've been sending rockets for over a year and a half.
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  • So we're a country under attack already for a year and a half.
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  • But last thursday night was different.
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  • I was at a wedding.
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  • We got how we went to sleep,
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  • And all of a sudden we got woken up
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  • At three in the morning by our own government
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  • Telling us, not that there were attacks coming in,
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  • But that israel had actually attacked iran
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  • And that the retaliation could be very wrong.
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  • And so we should all stay in shelters.
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  • That was last thursday night.
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  • And it's been a week.
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  • And it's almost unbelievable that every single night
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  • We've had a terrible rocket attack with
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  • More than 1,000 pound
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  • Bombs on these missiles.
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  • They have 1,000 pound warheads on these missiles.
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  • It's kind of crazy to think, 24 people have died.
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  • There's over 100 injured.
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  • And this morning,
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  • They hit a hospital, a surgical unit, and.
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  • And the children's part of the hospital.
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  • It was a miracle.
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  • That hospital protocol was changed yesterday.
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  • Imagine this yesterday in order to get everybody
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  • Out of the way and not have them in the surgical unit.
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  • So it's nothing.
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  • We're seeing miracles every day.
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  • Well, it may be too early to feel
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  • Any real sense of relief, but are the people you live around?
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  • Are they aware that iran and
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  • Harmony is about to be yesterday's news?
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  • Well, i'm praying that that's true.
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  • We've managed to kill a lot of the senior military.
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  • The whole of the air force.
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  • I mean, and so create history as well.
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  • Israel faked
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  • A meeting,
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  • Invited them all to this meeting,
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  • And then when they were in the same room, they got eliminated.
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  • The head of military intelligence is.
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  • Reports that whoever's
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  • Been able to escape to moscow is escaping to moscow.
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  • But you still have that very toxic khomeini
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  • Who is the head of this snake.
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  • And i have to add, is responsible
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  • For the murder of 600 american servicemen and women.
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  • This is a guy who it.
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  • Like any of us, not jews, not christians,
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  • Not any infidels, as far as you see
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  • That he's an apocalyptic, genocidal,
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  • Extremist jihadi, a danger to the world.
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  • The hitler of our time.
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  • And this regime has to fall if we're going to be having any,
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  • Peace, of, prosperity in this region,
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  • But not just this region.
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  • The minute that this regime has a weapon of mass
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  • Destruction, has a nuclear weapon,
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  • They will not only use it on israel and the region,
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  • But as soon as they have intercontinental capabilities,
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  • They will be using it on america because they say very clean.
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  • Death to israel. death to america.
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  • Little satan, big satan.
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  • And when people keep telling you they want to kill you,
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  • It is our obligation to believe them.
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  • When we last met in israel.
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  • You made a very convincing point about how much of the world
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  • Doesn't understand
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  • The breadth of the multifaceted population in israel.
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  • You were the deputy mayor, and you did quite a lot
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  • To build a thriving coexistence among many cultures.
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  • Tell us a little bit more
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  • About how you did it and how things are now.
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  • So jerusalem is the most diverse city in the state of israel.
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  • 40% of the population here is muslim.
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  • And we have orthodox
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  • Jews, christian communities,
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  • We have regular,
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  • Secular and religious of different types.
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  • It's a very, very diverse city here in jerusalem,
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  • And a lot of people see it as the core of the challenge
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  • Because of the holy sites, etc.
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  • But i actually see it as the laboratory
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  • For this generation, because
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  • We've done so much bridge building economic development
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  • Between communities.
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  • I myself, had founded a number of stations
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  • To advance women, arab and i'm jewish women alike.
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  • And it, and the proof of that past
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  • Is that on the 7th of october, yael sinwar
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  • Actually believed that he would do this massacre.
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  • He would inspire the
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  • Arabs in israel and the arabs specifically in jerusalem,
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  • To rise up and kill their jewish nodes.
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  • And it didn't happen.
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  • And i want to believe
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  • That part of the reason why it didn't happen
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  • Is because of all of the bridge building work
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  • That we have been doing for
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  • The last ten years here in the city.
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  • Amen.
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  • There's no place in the world quite like jerusalem.
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  • That's right.
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  • We need to take a short break.
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  • But we'd like you to stay for another segment if you can.
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  • Sure. we'll be right back.
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  • Sure. we'll be right back.
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  • We're back
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  • Now with the special envoy from israel's foreign ministry.
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  • Floor. hassan, the room.
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  • There's so much progress that was being made prior
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  • To october the 7th.
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  • Several countries in the region have been looking for peace.
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  • And more than just a coexistence with their neighbors.
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  • What do you think could develop once iran and its proxies
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  • Are totally eliminated?
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  • Well, it's going to be a different region.
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  • And in a also a digital world.
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  • Iran has been essentially,
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  • Like i said earlier, the head of a snake.
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  • They have been
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  • They their strategy was not to get their hands dirty,
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  • But to create proxies around israel to choke israel.
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  • So they were funding, aiding and abetting, from us
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  • In, in the southern part
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  • In our southern border with israel, hezbollah,
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  • In the northern border with israel.
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  • Hezbollah was actually their main proxy.
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  • So very powerful proxy that they had just
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  • Borrowed was doing the dirty work for them.
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  • They were also funding and helping the hotels.
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  • And they also have, shiite militias in iraq that in fact
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  • Attacked, the american embassy in baghdad not so long ago.
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  • So this was always
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  • Iran structured in the islamic republic of iran strategy.
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  • And what happened was what started on october 7th,
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  • They believed would be the beginning of the end of israel.
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  • And and in the end, miraculously, it's the beginning
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  • Of the end of them of the islamic republic.
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  • Because once we managed to,
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  • Go in and eliminate much of, some us,
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  • But actually much more significantly,
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  • When it comes to iran, we killed nasrallah.
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  • Nasrallah was a very powerful figure, almost irreplaceable
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  • In, in, in the hezbollah organization.
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  • Nobody's replaced him.
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  • And in fact, people think that iran influenced nasrallah,
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  • But in fact, national was actually a very,
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  • Very significant influence in the islamic republic of iran.
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  • He was an extremist that actually pushed the agenda
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  • In iran.
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  • And imagine where we're at right now.
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  • That after the operation was the beginning of the end
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  • Of crystal ball, we then killed nasrallah,
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  • And then after that, as a result of that, syria,
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  • The assad regime in syria fell because it was
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  • Hezbollah propping them up.
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  • So you've got syria now with the entire air
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  • Space that we can slide through,
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  • Because they don't want to pick a fight with us.
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  • And you've got hezbollah gone
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  • And incredibly on
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  • Last friday, after we started the attack, hezbollah
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  • Came out and said, oh, we're going to skip this fight.
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  • I mean, that is something that in a million years
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  • You wouldn't believe would happen.
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  • And the reason is because we've completely dry them out
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  • And we've completely cut their legs off with their hands
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  • And they've got nothing to fight with.
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  • And so the whole
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  • Set of circumstances, in order for us to be successful in iran,
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  • It's all of those circumstances,
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  • All of us beginning to eliminate the proxies around
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  • Israel that iran set up in order to do this.
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  • And again, we see the miracles every day.
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  • I think the surprise attack on iran was a little odd.
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  • I think flawlessly, i want to believe that
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  • President trump and, and netanyahu,
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  • You know, played the sleight of hand here
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  • Because they didn't see it coming.
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  • There were, you know, there were, reports of a rift
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  • Between a president trump and netanyahu.
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  • And it is very clear the dishes or,
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  • You know, manufactured change so that,
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  • So that the power of surprise,
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  • Would remain, which is a very important part
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  • Of of trying to start a war where the.
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  • I don't want to make this about american politics,
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  • But do you think your neighbors
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  • Understand the change in support since mr.
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  • Trump and jd vance took over?
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  • Oh, i mean, there's no doubt.
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  • There's no doubt.
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  • Look, how did this way past up?
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  • One of the hostages came out.
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  • Thank god came out in one of the last deals,
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  • And she was interviewed by an american mainstream journal.
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  • And he said in this interview, hamas wanted kamila to win.
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  • What does that tell you?
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  • That's enough.
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  • Well, let's build on that message.
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  • You're speaking to the american people.
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  • What do you want to tell them?
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  • What do you say to the american people
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  • That i think overwhelmingly
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  • Support israel and understand that we share values
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  • And that our values are what civilization is about?
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  • It's these values that will take us into the next century.
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  • And they are they are at risk.
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  • There are play.
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  • And israel is standing as a lone voice.
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  • Yes. with american help in our defense.
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  • But we don't win wars by stepping away from the fight.
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  • And you don't get rid of evil
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  • By waiting for something to happen.
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  • If we get rid of evil, it's
  • 00:13:12.985 --> 00:13:14.386
  • Because we have to get rid of the evil, not cells.
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  • We have to, do the action.
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  • We have to act in the face of evil because it's
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  • Not actually in the face of evil that is enabling evil.
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  • And that's why israel has been today.
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  • Amen.
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  • Well, thank you for sharing your time with us today.
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  • Sure.
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  • I very much look forward to being back in jerusalem
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  • And getting to see you and your neighbors in person.
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  • Me too.
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  • So looking forward to having you back.
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  • God bless you. we are praying.
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  • God bless you.
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  • In a moment
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  • I'll have some thoughts of my own about our future together.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • The nations of the earth
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  • Are calling for a cease fire between israel and iran.
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  • But the reality is to have a legitimate peace deal
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  • Between israel and iran. you have to have
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  • People of integrity with which to negotiate.
  • 00:14:10.466 --> 00:14:13.202
  • And iran doesn't meet that standard.
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  • Hamas, which is funded and supported by iran, attacked
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  • Israel on october the 7th, 2023.
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  • I was later invited to the israeli embassy
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  • In washington, d.c., to view footage of that attack.
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  • What i saw was just horrific things.
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  • I can't i wouldn't describe in this format.
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  • It wasn't human behavior.
  • 00:14:32.622 --> 00:14:34.590
  • I grew up around animals and animals treat each other
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  • Better than what i watched in those videos.
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  • They abused wives and daughters 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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  • We've always known that
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  • Some in the muslim world hated the jews.
  • 00:14:48.805 --> 00:14:50.873
  • That was a news.
  • 00:14:50.873 --> 00:14:52.508
  • But what shocked me was the depth of anti-semitism
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  • In our own nation.
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  • I wasn't prepared for academic institutions, politicians
  • 00:14:57.513 --> 00:15:00.650
  • And cultural leaders to defend hamas and their behavior.
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  • Well, now,
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  • Israel's been at war for over 600 days.
  • 00:15:06.923 --> 00:15:09.625
  • They were caught in a multi-front war,
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  • Surrounded by hezbollah in the north.
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  • Syria, iranian backed forces.
  • 00:15:13.563 --> 00:15:16.566
  • 20 months ago, survival seemed truthfully impossible.
  • 00:15:16.566 --> 00:15:21.070
  • Yet today, hamas has been decimated.
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  • Hezbollah has lost influence.
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  • Syria's leadership is gone.
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  • Iran's defenses are weakened.
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  • What's happened in the last 20 months was impossible,
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  • With just a secular natural perspective.
  • 00:15:32.148 --> 00:15:34.417
  • It just couldn't be done.
  • 00:15:34.417 --> 00:15:35.785
  • And yet it has been done.
  • 00:15:35.785 --> 00:15:37.920
  • That alone should lead us to seek a deeper understanding.
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  • There's something happening here more than just politics.
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  • As christians,
  • 00:15:43.593 --> 00:15:44.627
  • We need an awareness to what's happening
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  • And to recognize that israel does matter.
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  • I don't believe that you can understand the bible
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  • If you don't have some insight and understanding
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  • Into the role of israel and the jewish people.
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  • I think the most significant principle
  • 00:15:56.806 --> 00:15:58.875
  • Is that the jewish people, the nation of israel,
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  • Are a chosen people, chosen by god.
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  • Whether we like it or not. it's just true.
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  • In the new
  • 00:16:07.216 --> 00:16:08.151
  • Testament, the word israel occurs 77 times.
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  • The word jew occurs
  • 00:16:10.787 --> 00:16:12.021
  • 75 times in the old testament, 188 times in the new testament.
  • 00:16:12.021 --> 00:16:16.392
  • As a matter of comparison, the term christian.
  • 00:16:16.392 --> 00:16:18.961
  • It appears three times.
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  • Well, this gives us some sense of the significance god attaches
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  • To the people in the nation of israel.
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  • Israel is a unique people.
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  • Listen to the words of king david.
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  • It's first chronicles 17.
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  • He said, you made your people israel your very own forever.
  • 00:16:31.074 --> 00:16:34.977
  • And you, o lord, have become their god.
  • 00:16:34.977 --> 00:16:38.014
  • See, there's just no one else like the people of israel
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  • In history and god's economy and god's relationship
  • 00:16:40.116 --> 00:16:42.685
  • With adam and his descendants, the jewish people were chosen.
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  • So when we pray, let's just all pray for israel
  • 00:16:46.823 --> 00:16:49.292
  • As if she were like all the other nations.
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  • Let's instead pray in alignment with the word of god.
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  • If we do that,
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  • I promise there are more reasons for hope than despair.
  • 00:16:55.331 --> 00:16:58.301
  • And we will see them.
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  • Diane from massachusetts wrote the judge.
  • 00:17:30.664 --> 00:17:32.933
  • Good episodes were so compelling that i viewed them twice.
  • 00:17:32.933 --> 00:17:36.237
  • The caveats he so astutely voiced
  • 00:17:36.237 --> 00:17:38.172
  • That there is no democracy without morality and no truth,
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  • If it's cultural and not god's absolute truth are jarring.
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  • The only remedy to restore the king to his rightful throne
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  • Everywhere, especially in the public arena.
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  • Diane, you are so right.
  • 00:17:51.719 --> 00:17:53.687
  • And i think that has to fundamentally begin
  • 00:17:53.687 --> 00:17:55.723
  • With the people of faith. it has to be carried into our churches.
  • 00:17:55.723 --> 00:17:57.191
  • Don't sit in a church
  • 00:17:59.560 --> 00:18:00.961
  • That denies the authoritative truth of the word of god.
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  • It's not helpful.
  • 00:18:04.765 --> 00:18:06.834
  • Then a
  • 00:18:07.034 --> 00:18:08.135
  • Youtube viewer commented on the ron dermer episode.
  • 00:18:08.135 --> 00:18:10.704
  • Thank you for your staunch support of israel, pastor allen,
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  • And your explanation of why
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  • Christians should be supporting and praying for israel.
  • 00:18:14.942 --> 00:18:18.245
  • Well, you're welcome.
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  • I believe it's a part of our assignment,
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  • And it's a very important time
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  • To know the places god has asked us to stand.
  • 00:18:22.983 --> 00:18:26.754
  • The difference in christians and non-christians
  • 00:18:26.754 --> 00:18:28.722
  • Should be more than where we sit
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  • For a few minutes on a sunday morning.
  • 00:18:29.857 --> 00:18:32.893
  • Then dwight from virginia wrote, every elected official
  • 00:18:32.893 --> 00:18:35.396
  • Has to swear to the best of their ability
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  • To do all to ensure our safety, security, common good,
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  • And the pursuit of liberty and happiness.
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  • Why would a judge be held to a lower standard?
  • 00:18:43.337 --> 00:18:46.774
  • I think that's a very good question, dwight.
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  • Unfortunately, we're seeing far too many judges of late
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  • Who pursue
  • 00:18:52.479 --> 00:18:53.647
  • Their personal preferences before they uphold the law.
  • 00:18:53.647 --> 00:18:56.483
  • That's malpractice.
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  • And we're going to have to have the courage to say it.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:19:00.588 --> 00:19:01.855
  • He's realigning the roles of nations,
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  • And i want to be certain that i'm moving with him.
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  • And i hope you are as well.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • I want to thank you for spending a few minutes
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  • With us for the program today, and i pray that you
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  • Have a wonderful evening.
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