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Allen Jackson: Open Dialog | Allen Jackson Now

September 22, 2025 | 21:56

Ronny Simon joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events in America.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Open Dialog | Allen Jackson Now | September 22, 2025

You know, our goal is always
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Is to take our faith outside the walls of our church.
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And our comfortable bible studies
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And even our conversations with friends
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And impact our culture with the worldview that we hold.
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Well, i don't know that that's ever
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Been more important than it is right now.
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My friend charlie kirk was assassinated last week.
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That's an awkward statement to make.
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You know, it's an uncomfortable thought for me
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That we have a christian martyr in america
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In the 21st century, but that's our reality today.
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I want to start with a verse of scripture, matthew chapter 24.
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It was jesus most lengthy prophetic discourse,
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But he's talking about the end of the age
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And the characteristics of culture
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That will happen as we approach the culmination of this age.
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And he said, this shall be handed over
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To be persecuted and put to death.
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It will be hated by all nations because of me.
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And at that time many will turn away
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From the faith and will betray and hate each other.
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Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
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But i don't think it's a secret
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To those of you that would listen
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To this podcast that charlie kirk was a friend.
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You know, charlie was
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He was a christian.
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He wasn't a pastor.
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He didn't serve a congregation.
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He didn't have an official church title.
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He was an american citizen,
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But he didn't have an elected office.
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He wasn't he didn't have a government job.
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He just took that notion of being a citizen and his faith,
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And he lived those out in a public way.
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And for that, he was assassinated.
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And the language that's been directed at him is awful.
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He was a fascist. he was a bigot.
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He was a nazi.
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I mean, he was a propagator of hate speech.
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You know, in reality, what charlie did was express
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A biblical worldview.
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And i've watched lots
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Of his conversations
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With college students. i hope you have two
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There on youtube and a lot of other places.
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It seemed to me he was always welcoming
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Of whatever perspective people brought,
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Even people that came with a lot of hatred and anger
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And a lot of names they would call him.
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He would be respectful of their opinion,
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Wouldn't always agree with them.
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He would point them back to what
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He understood to be a biblical worldview.
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But engaging in open dialog on a college campus
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Seems to me to be the point of going to a college campus.
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They're not indoctrination centers,
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They're places for the free exchange of ideas.
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Nevertheless,
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Today we see the intolerance expressed
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In a surprising wave of hatred from across our country.
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So how do we respond to that?
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What do we do with that?
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We can't step out of the political discussion.
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We can't step out of cultural discussions.
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I don't accept this notion that we separate church and state.
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A state without the moral influence of a faith is nothing
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But an authoritarian regime
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That will crush our liberties and freedoms.
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We cannot abandon the public square.
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It's not about endorsing candidates or parties.
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It's a worldview that we advocate for.
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Well, i couldn't think of a better way
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To have this discussion with a friend of mine.
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Ronny simon, he's not new to you if you're a faithful follower
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Of this podcast.
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Ronny was my first guest
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On our very first culture and christianity podcast.
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Ronny simon, if you don't know him, he's an israeli,
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But i've known him for a couple of decades
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Now for full disclosure.
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He is a historian.
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He works with us.
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We do tours.
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I have learned
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I've learned more about the middle east
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And the history of israel from ronny
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Than in any university i've ever studied in.
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And i've had the privilege of studying
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In some celebrated university settings.
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So, ronnie, welcome back to the podcast.
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Thank you. so thank you for having me on the show.
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You know, we're struggling in our nation today
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To see the hatred expressed towards a christian
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In what we would imagine a christian nation.
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Now, martyrs are new to our faith.
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They populate the hebrew bible and they feel the story of
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The church.
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But it's unsettling to see them in nations where we think
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We have free speech and rights to a symbol.
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I don't think you can
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Have a martyr like charlie
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Unless you can dehumanize them first.
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You know, you make them less than.
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They don't deserve tolerance.
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They don't deserve to be heard.
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They don't deserve respect.
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Well, i don't know of any group of
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People that have suffered
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Dehumanization over a long period of time.
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More than the jewish people.
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And it's still happening in the last few weeks in america.
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I have heard that the israelis i don't believe any of this,
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But i've heard that the israelis who were responsible for
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Jeffrey epstein, that he was,
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He was an agent of the israeli
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Secret service as a global black male.
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I've heard that the israelis
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Were responsible for charlie's assassination.
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I've heard that the israelis were murdering
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Children in gaza and starving the population.
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And the people saying these things
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Weren't offering any evidence.
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They were just making these hateful accusations.
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So maybe we start our conversation by talking about
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How do you overcome that kind of hate
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And dehumanization, because the you have
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Israel is a happy place in the midst of the hatred.
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You flourish.
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It's one of my favorite places in the world.
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Well, i have to agree.
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So we do not have those issues discussed in israel,
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And we are in awe to see recently how quickly
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The world responded in a shocking way.
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Until about two years ago.
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We knew that it was there because anti-semitism,
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Ojudu phobia.
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If i can use that, there, maybe even better was always there,
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But it was considered to be a negative term to use.
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And the people spoke again to jewish people.
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That was not politically correct.
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It has all changed now.
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Suddenly what was forbidden only a few months ago
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Is right on the table.
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The people speak about the not just the wicked,
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Where the jews, the brutal way of the jews
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And the jews are doing that, not even the israelis.
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So they take something that
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The state of israel and we are not always right,
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And they're just presented to the whole jewish people,
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Because the argument is usually you can criticize israel,
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Which i agree. you can criticize israel.
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But if you take the israeli criticism
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And you throw a molotov cocktail at a jewish person,
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The synagogue in michigan,
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Well, that's not a local israeli issue.
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It's a jewish issue.
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If you bring it up to that level.
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Right.
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So we are facing something that we thought was long gone.
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It's like reading once again,
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The protocols of the elders of zion
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That the jews want to conquer the world, want to take over.
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And here's a proof.
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They are invading gaza.
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Nobody reminds anybody that hamas attacked first.
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It's our retaliation.
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And, you know, over the last 2000 years of history,
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It came and went on different volumes, different levels.
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And maybe the nazis brought it to this perfection,
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If i may say that.
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So speak about the racial issue.
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And they started measuring jewish skulls,
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And they said that they're not as big as a normal human skull.
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So the jews are not really human,
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And if they're not human, we don't have to
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Treat them as human.
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They're less than human.
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And the amazing thing is, you have so many people
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That are willing to follow that kind
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Of not just a lie of dehumanizing other people.
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And that's a full step,
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Because if they're
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Not really human beings, we don't have to treat them
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As human beings.
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So the next step is indeed just saying, listen,
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The jews are victims,
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And this
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You should not be treated as people because of what they do.
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And again, within two years or even less, it becomes the norm.
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This will be the starting point of discussions today.
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This is a given.
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Nobody has to prove anything. as you said earlier.
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For us in israel, that was a big surprise.
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For us in israel, that was a big surprise.
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I want to see
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If we can unpack a couple ideas that are pretty prominent
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When discussions of israel come up.
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One that i hear a lot and i hear it on college campuses.
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I hear it a lot of places.
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Is that the formula for peace in the middle east
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Requires israel to give up land.
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And you're going to know more about this than i do.
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I know just enough to get in trouble
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That israel occupies about 2% of the land in the middle east.
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You know,
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I know there's more
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Than a million arabs who are citizens of israel.
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Close to two. almost 2 million.
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There was a
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Significant jewish population around the middle east
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In all the nations of the middle east prior to world war two,
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And with the the birth of the modern state of israel,
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Those populations were expelled.
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Can you talk about that topic?
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Because i think when you explain it,
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It really makes the notion that israel should give up land
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Absurd.
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I also think before you do that,
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The muslim world saying they could offer anyone peace,
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They don't have peace amongst themselves.
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You can't give what you don't have.
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And the muslim world is divided by hatred and violence.
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And i know there's some exceptions to that.
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But if you take that broader muslim
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World, it's not a unified block of peaceful cooperation.
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So it's difficult to even find a partner
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For peace in that world.
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But let's go back to the land first,
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Because giving up land for peace is really absurd.
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Well, i
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Keep telling people, if you can give me one example
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Of a muslim rally for peace, just one example.
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All right.
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I'm willing to give up all of my theories and ideas.
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You never see muslims rallying for peace.
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Okay, that's just a given.
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On the other hand, here's another challenge.
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Try to find a place when an israeli prominently or a jewish
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Said something like, we want to destroy the muslims,
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We want to kill all the arabs.
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You will not hear such a statement
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Because it was never made.
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And therefore, when people start throwing these slogans, israel
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Is an apartheid state
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And israel is ethnically cleansing people.
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Well, based on what i mean, i say, just give me an example.
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Give me one example.
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That's usually when the composition ends
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And we start calling names one another.
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Because you cannot exactly you cannot give an example.
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In 1957,
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Israel was under an attack from egypt and syria and jordan.
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They were preparing for war.
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We decided not to wait, and we launched a preemptive air
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Strike in june of 1967, a brilliant military victory.
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But if you and. i were very young.
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You know, i know that from books.
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Although i have one recollection.
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One recollection.
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May i tell a short story?
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I mean, the bomb shelter
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In the town that i lived in in bethlehem.
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And next to me, my little friend edith is sitting
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And she's all excited.
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June 7th, 1967. it's a birthday.
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Now there's another round because they're in the army.
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Just the mothers.
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And we, the kids had a great time,
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You know, just nobody told us what to do.
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It was exciting.
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Then the bombshell, and then we hear something.
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The radio was open.
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It sounded like somebody blowing a trumpet.
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And then some of the mothers tears in their eyes.
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And you're concerned, you know, your dad is in the army.
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All the bloody. i mean, what happened?
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And then edith's mother runs in and says, edith,
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I have a great birthday present for you, said what, mom?
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Well, jerusalem, the just said that we liberated jerusalem.
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That's your birthday present.
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And it's it's just great.
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Mom, you promised me a barbie doll.
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I don't want jerusalem as a birthday present.
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So this. i was ten years old.
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So that's my only recollection from the war.
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So in this brilliant campaign, in six days,
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We were able, i would say liberate.
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All right.
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Judea and samaria, the heartland of biblical israel.
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The world calls it the west bank and occupied territories,
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The whole of the sinai peninsula and the golan heights.
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All right.
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Now, i did some research. all right.
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The golan heights, the west bank and, the gaza area,
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The west bank was a land occupied by the jordanian.
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We don't have enough time to get into it.
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Never, ever.
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The world's media was using the term occupied
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Territories when jordan occupied judea and samaria from.
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1948 till 1967.
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Gaza was occupied by the egyptians.
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Never, ever.
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The world media would call gaza
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Occupied territories before 1967,
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When they started to use the term
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When the jewish state has it, obviously.
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But even occupation is a very, very specific term.
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Occupation is a situation in which a sovereign nation
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Is conquering land from another sovereign nation.
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All right.
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West bank was conquered from jordan,
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But it wasn't theirs to begin with.
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They took it from the palestine illegally.
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So whose land is it?
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Well, let's call it disputed territories.
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All right, so that would be the beginning of the 67.
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And then we made peace with egypt.
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And the formula was always land for peace.
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We pulled out from sinai, gave it back to the egyptians.
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In the process,
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We destroyed our own communities that we built in sinai.
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We evacuated lots of people from sinai for peace.
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So whenever the power that we have for peace
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Land is given away, because many people say,
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You know, the settlements are the main obstacle.
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And as long as you have communities
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In the occupied territories
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That will make sure that you never give them back,
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That's wrong.
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They're just part of fake news.
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Offer us some real peace.
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We know how to destroy our own communities, unfortunately.
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2005 israel decided to pullout from gaza completely.
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We evacuated 8000 israelis that lived in 21 communities.
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It was a heartbreaking moment,
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But we gave up the land and gave it to the palestinians.
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And we see what happens.
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Ever since
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Israel pulled out from here,
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Was in the west bank, gave it to the palestinian autonomy
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For peace.
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We offered syria peace.
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So whenever we know that the enemy means business
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So we can work out the peace plan.
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Israel pulls out from territories
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And we did all of sinai, but out of the west bank
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And the golan heights was on the table.
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If syria was willing to negotiate and to offer peace,
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The golan heights would be given back to syria.
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Although syria today is not really a functioning nation.
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Okay,
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But to speak about giving up land and occupied territories.
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That's absolutely nonsense.
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We always give a plan when we know
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That there was a chance to have peace with our neighbors.
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That there was a chance to have peace with our neighbors.
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I was completely unprepared for the hatred for israel
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And the jewish people that came from american college campuses.
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I'm grateful that's been exposed, because now
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We can at least address it.
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Because we won't tolerate it.
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We don't have to tolerate it.
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We shouldn't tolerate it.
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But the line that i hear them
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And when they're interviewed, they can't even explain it.
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But they like to chant from the river to the sea
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Or free palestine.
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Maybe you could explain to the people listening
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What that really means, because i don't think
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The students, most of them, know what it means.
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Well, i do have a little bit of,
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I would to say hope and optimism because when you watch those
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And those students
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Who are willing to engage in the conversation
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And they're all being told, what is it that they mean?
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It looks like it's a revelation for them
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And they're willing to reconsider
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If they want to participate and shouting slogans again.
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You know, i guess everybody goes for a rally.
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Come on. it's going to be fun.
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And many people that joined his rallies,
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They just have a pile of banners.
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You grab one, you have no idea what it is.
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And you're walking down the streets
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And you're screaming, chanting.
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So maybe.
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Maybe if you are
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Able to engage in a dialog, you can change people's minds.
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But for those that do that,
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I think that the combination of zeal
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And ignorance is a dangerous one.
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You're willing to take steps and you're
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Willing to demonstrate, and you're willing
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Maybe to pay a price for something that you know
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Nothing about. this is embarrassing.
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I'm embarrassed to see those bright american kids.
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I'm not being sarcastic.
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All right.
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Expensive university.
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Well, exactly. ivy league, right? yes.
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Being asked questions
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Which are so basic and they don't have a clue.
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And when you ask a question, you can tell they smile
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Or they're embarrassed because they understand that
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You kind of cut them on guard, but they just don't know.
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And you know what the biggest problem is
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That the people behind those messages
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Were willing to sell dirt as a human rights issue.
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And who can be against human rights?
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So you're marching, fighting for the rights of the palestinians
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Because the jews are the big oppressors and the aggressors.
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It's a human rights issue.
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Nobody speaks about religion but speaks about jihad,
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Not about globalize the intifada,
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Which means basically, let's destroy everything
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For islam to rule.
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They're not being told that part of the story.
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So you say from the river to the sea, basically.
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You mean the river jordan on one side
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And the mediterranean sea?
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That will be
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The state of israel, plus some part of the territories.
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And when you say that, would you say,
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Basically, let's eliminate the jews who live there.
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So the same sentence, you say free palestine.
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And the next part of it is by killing all the jews,
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Which means you're advocating genocide without even
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Knowing that that's what you're basically supporting.
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So when you tell that to people, say, oh, okay,
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So maybe this is
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The wrong sign to carry
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And they're going to look for another side.
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But again, this is
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You have to be an optimist.
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All right. and maybe with age.
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But those people that are willing to engage
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In the conversation who are not really brainwashed.
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And it's not something that is coming from their dna, is
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You can change minds, but you need to be open enough
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To have a dialog and just listen to what you're saying.
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And maybe you're wrong.
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And maybe you're wrong.
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Well, since we sat together last.
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God has done more
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Than we would have dared to ask that day.
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Amen to that.
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So i pray we have an opportunity
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To sit down 18 months from now.
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Why wait 18 months and.
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Celebrate even greater victories?
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Yes. well, i hope that we can resolve
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That issue one way or the other.
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And we won't wait 18 months
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Because the hostages will not survive another 18 months.
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The hostages have to be released.
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And this is our first
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Consideration right now for consideration.
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I think there was a big consensus in israel
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That we can deal with hamas at any time in the future,
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And hamas knows that.
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So why would they release them?
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That's a catch.
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Hamas knows if they release the hostages.
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No. there's nowhere to hide. but
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Exactly.
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Well, it's always good to sit down.
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You bring some clarity to a very confusing part of the world.
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Thank you for having me.
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And it's always a pleasure to be able to, at least
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To give some information, because people are thirsty
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For information.
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And the question is always, what can we trust?
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And how do we know that they're not being just
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Fed another one kind of lies and fake news.
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Well,
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Please tell our friends in israel
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That there are many people in america
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That are praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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They will appreciate. it.
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And we're not spreading all the lies, i promise.
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Thank you so.
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And i think what we have to remember is that god
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Is moving in all the earth, not just in israel.
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You'll keep his promises in our lives
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Just as certainly as he will keep them.
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To the jewish people today.
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God is a covenant keeping god, and that's what secures
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Our future. not politicians,
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Not governments, not political parties.
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And when we take our eyes off of that and god's faithfulness,
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We become more vulnerable.
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We will take our faith into the public square.
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And i think we will see christianity impact our culture.
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God's moving in the earth.
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And i'm glad to be able to be a part of it with you.
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