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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Reunion Joy | Allen Jackson Now | October 14, 2025
- Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- The headlines have never been bigger.
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- The smiles have never been so broad.
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- And a sigh of relief could be felt around the globe.
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- President trump put it this way.
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- We gather in a day of profound joy and soaring hope,
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- Of renewed faith, and above all, a day to give our deepest
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- Thanks to the almighty god of abraham,
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- Isaac, and jacob.
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- After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity,
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- 20 courageous hostages
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- Are returning to the glorious embrace of their families.
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- And it is glorious.
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- The president was speaking before the israeli
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- Knesset, and his words echoed around the globe.
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- So too did the sound of hostages reunited with their families
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- And friends.
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- They had survived more than 700 days underground
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- In the darkness of the gaza tunnels.
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- The emotion of the reunion says it all.
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- It's these journey.
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- Time.
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- Hey. come on, come on, come on.
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- I know
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- You must have thought it would.
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- Go. you know, as the families reunited,
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- The president soon flew off to egypt to meet
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- With his global partners in the peace deal.
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- He called it a miracle.
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- Indeed,
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- The agreement
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- Has huge potential,
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- And it will take a lot of effort to make it work.
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- But today is a story of the
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- Human spirit and resilience on a scale that we rarely see.
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- Our guest tonight is a man who's lived through it all.
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- The ira pinto serves in the israeli military.
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- He's the director of operations for tbn in israel.
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- Welcome back, yaya.
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- Well, alan, it's great to be here.
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- And indeed,
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- I think this is the happiest day i've had in two years.
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- And i'm not the only one.
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- The entire country of israel is filled with celebrations.
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- Everybody's dancing in the streets
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- With the return of the israeli hostages that came back
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- After two years of being in the underground tunnels of hamas.
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- It's just amazing. and this is a miracle.
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- This is an answer to prayers.
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- What we've been witnessing here.
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- And i hope that everybody is watching us understand
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- That god is alive
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- And he's performing miracles right now in these modern days.
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- I mean, it
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- Is so good to speak to you when there's joy on your face.
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- We've been looking forward to this day.
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- You know, surely you're still digesting
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- This victory for your country.
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- Tell us what it's like for you and your friends.
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- When the deal was sealed and you saw the hostages
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- Reuniting with their families.
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- Well, it was, first of all, when the deal was sealed,
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- The entire country went into this kind of
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- Anticipation, happiness, but also concern.
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- Is it really going to happen?
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- Is hamas going to really deliver the hostages,
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- Or they're going to pull some kind of act in the last minute?
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- But once we started seeing the hostages come home
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- And it was the entire nation, and i'm talking about me,
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- My family, my friends, everybody was glued to the tv,
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- Looking at the images of when the hostages are released.
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- And you had tens of thousands of israelis waiting on the border
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- With the other strip to welcome them to israel.
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- You had,
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- Thousands of people in city centers all across
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- The land of israel in anticipation,
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- Waiting to receive the hostages back.
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- It was it was just amazing to see them coming home.
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- And just to say it's it's been two years of some of them
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- Not seeing sunlight.
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- So they're going to have a long
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- Process to get back to normal lives.
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- But finally, we're moving from a stage of trauma,
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- And now we're going to try and move through the post-trauma
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- Stage as a country and especially for the hostages.
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- But it's just amazing that we can, you know, continue life
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- With the hostages back home. and these people.
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- It's important to understand
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- The culture in israel is very, very family oriented.
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- Everybody knows everybody
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- Like one of the hostages cannot.
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- Both his wife, he's working with me.
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- It's all media in in jerusalem, you know.
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- So it's like it's such a small community
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- That with two connections, you know, a hostage personally,
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- So that the happiness and the celebration is just
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- Unimaginable to explain and to tell you who he is, it
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- Go on toward the high holiday of him.
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- Hard to walk, which is today.
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- I woke up at 630 in the morning, hearing missiles over my head
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- And getting the call from my military unit
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- That i need to put my boots on my uniform
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- And go and defend the country
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- Against terrorists from multiple fronts.
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- And three years after that, every hostage is back.
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- So i love it when god makes a miracle
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- And he makes sure that we know it's him.
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- That happened on the same day
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- On some hot over that they were celebrating
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- The completion of reading the torah
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- And now starting the reading it again all across israel.
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- So celebration is just amplified.
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- Yeah, i think that's really important
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- To the conclusion of your high holy days.
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- You have this victory to celebrate
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- While your families were together.
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- God did smile on us all.
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- Yeah. yeah, exactly.
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- I love it when it does it.
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- It just been unimaginable.
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- And it's been, like, crazy and everything was worth it.
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- Like when we went into the gaza strip, my unit, myself
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- And other soldiers,
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- What we had it in
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- Front of our eyes was we have to bring the hostages back home.
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- That's the reason that we're fighting this war.
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- That's the reason that we left our families.
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- I personally left my three month old baby
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- When this war started and two years ago.
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- And hey, we have a mission with accomplished.
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- Just amazing.
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- Well, you and your idf colleagues
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- Have been fighting evil
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- Not just for israel, but for the whole world.
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- Tell us what it's been like to have
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- That weight on your shoulders
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- And what it feels like now to win.
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- Though they are pure evil for sure.
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- Like i've seen it personally, being in the gaza strip,
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- This terrorist organization.
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- And it's important to remind the world
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- That we are fighting a terrorist organization
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- That seeks to destroy us, that seeks to restore
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- Peace and seeks to destroy the united states of america.
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- We don't differentiate between the two of us.
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- And in gaza, they placed all their rockets,
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- All their weapons, underneath united nations
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- Buildings, underneath hospitals, underneath schools.
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- Their command centers, their terror tunnels.
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- This is what we had to fight with.
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- They would prevent the civilian population, the
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- Palestinian civilian population, from evacuating from areas
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- That hamas terrorists were fighting intentionally,
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- So that the death toll amongst the civilians would be higher,
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- And then the world would blame israel,
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- While israel was building humanitarian centers, safe
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- Zones, and trying to protect the civilian population of
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- Our enemies.
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- This is who we were fighting,
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- And this is who we are still fighting.
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- But at least we got the hostages back now.
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- But hamas is not defeated yet.
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- If we can talk about that, the images from gaza are that
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- Hamas is now cracking down against any kind of opposition
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- Within the palestinian society, meaning anybody
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- Who is suspected
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- Of collaborating with israel is being executed or arrested,
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- And any clan that is opposed of hamas
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- Is being dealt with violently.
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- So this is the situation in gaza.
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- But i want to focus, of course, about the celebration.
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- This is a day of joy.
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- We have achieved an amazing victory
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- Of receiving our hostages back.
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- Well, i know you're aware
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- That your prime minister took a lot of heat
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- During these two difficult years.
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- Now that he's handed israel a victory,
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- Do you think the opposition will quiet down a bit?
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- Well, on some areas, yes.
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- The whole country is now in a two day unity.
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- Everybody is united and embraced.
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- But the differences between the opposition and the coalition
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- Are not only related to october 7th.
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- And there will be,
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- Criticism of the prime minister even after this day.
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- But definitely the entire nation is so happy
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- About this achievement.
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- And most of the thanks actually goes to president trump
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- And not to prime minister netanyahu.
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- If you want me to be honest about this.
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- When jared kushner and steve wyckoff spoke at the hostage
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- Square and mentioned the prime
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- Minister netanyahu's name, then there was boos in the
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- In the crowd.
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- So he's that is very complicated
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- And divided in terms of our internal politics.
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- But today we are united.
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- Everybody is behind the idf, everybody is behind this deal,
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- And my country is just celebrating.
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- Tomorrow we'll talk a bit
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- More internal politics and what's the day after
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- And what happens when we go to the polls?
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- Well, i
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- Think americans understand political division.
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- You're a whole country has put an incredible effort
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- Into winning this war, and it's come at a real cost.
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- Lives lost, businesses have suffered.
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- There's been physical damage,
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- The trauma of listening to the incoming missiles.
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- Surely you and your friends are exhausted from two years of it.
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- But if there was ever a population
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- That knows how to stay strong, it's the people of israel.
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- Tell us what you're seeing now in the land.
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- Well, as you've said, it's been a very, very hard two years.
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- I think that i had to go to bomb shelters
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- With my kids at least once, or twice
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- Every week since this war started.
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- One time i went on your show from a bomb shelter in my house,
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- As the missiles were, were sounding above us.
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- And this thing affects, especially the children.
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- Affects us.
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- We're dealing
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- In kind of war mode, so we're not dealing with it.
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- But hopefully we'll have some time without,
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- You know, rockets, terrorist and other attacks
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- To try and recuperate then, i don't know,
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- Get back to kind of a normal state of mind.
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- But you know, when i say it, this is kind of
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- Been the life in israel also for me since i grew up.
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- We started with palestinian terrorists that went on busses,
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- School busses.
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- When i went to school
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- And committed a suicide attack, exploding the bus
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- With themselves,
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- And then that shifted
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- Into rockets from the gaza strip for more than ten years.
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- And then this war.
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- So this is kind of the life in israel.
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- And i learned to realize that this is a spiritual war.
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- The enemy do not want to see israel alive at all,
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- Because just the fact that we are here
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- After 2000 years of being in diaspora is is a miracle.
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- It's fulfillment of biblical prophecies.
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- It's proof
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- That god is faithful, that he's truthful to his word,
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- And because he's faithful
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- To the jewish people, to the people of israel,
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- He will be faithful to each and every one of us
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- With whatever it is that we're dealing with.
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- So this is what god is using israel in this time.
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- This is the only reason that
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- Amongst all the conflicts in the world,
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- When you open your news, wherever you are,
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- You hear israel, this tiny little land.
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- It's because it's in the heart of god.
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- It's in the focus of our enemies.
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- And that's why it's in the mainstream of the world.
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- And god is using it, using these challenging times
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- To show that he's faithful,
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- That he's with us, that he's performing huge
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- Miracles today, like bigger than the miracles of the bible.
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- I've seen it on a personal level and on a nation level.
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- From interception rates of 90% of more than 500
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- Ballistic missiles coming to israel.
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- This doesn't happen.
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- I mean, my phone breaks out more times than that.
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- I can imagine the amount of technological coordination
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- Needed to intercept all these missions.
- 00:12:28.506 --> 00:12:30.775
- And also on a personal level, you know,
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- I've been into the gaza strip, into like
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- This terrible place, and i ask god to give me peace.
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- And he didn't just give me peace.
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- I mean, i was smiling and happy
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- And sharing about jesus with my fellow soldier in gaza.
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- So it's kind of it's kind of just a miracle after a miracle.
- 00:12:46.557 --> 00:12:51.429
- And i think this is what it's all about.
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- And god is giving us the strength to deal with it
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- Because it's part of his plans.
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- Well, yeah,
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- We're glad you're there, and we're honored to stand with you.
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- We need to take a short break.
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- Can you stay with us for another segment?
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- My pleasure. yeah.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- We're back now with yaya pinto.
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- He's host of the
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- Boots on the ground podcast, coming to us from israel.
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- Well,
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- The signing ceremony in egypt was world history in the making.
- 00:13:29.628 --> 00:13:32.330
- So many leaders all there
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- To show their support for the plan called peace 2025.
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- Did you ever think you would see something like this on top of
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- At the end of the war in gaza,
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- And an end to the threat from iran?
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- It's remarkable.
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- Yeah. yeah, it's just amazing.
- 00:13:47.412 --> 00:13:48.813
- And i think,
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- I think that
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- This is what trumps all about is we started with the abraham
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- Accords on his first term as president, which was also
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- Amazing to connect arab nations with israel,
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- Breeding these bridges of cooperation.
- 00:14:01.059 --> 00:14:04.596
- And i think that that was just the beginning.
- 00:14:04.596 --> 00:14:07.399
- And he wants to double down on these agreements.
- 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:10.902
- And what i'm
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- Hoping will come out of this is a cooperation agreement
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- On a diplomatic level,
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- Not just the security level, which, by the way,
- 00:14:17.575 --> 00:14:20.478
- Israel just revealed in the past few weeks
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- That since 2022, already we had a security coordination
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- Mechanism to actually coordinate all the satellites
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- And interceptors
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- In case of an iranian ballistic missile attack against israel
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- Or against one of our allies.
- 00:14:37.629 --> 00:14:38.997
- So it took place before the security level cooperation,
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- But now it's time i think, to take it to the next level.
- 00:14:42.767 --> 00:14:46.271
- And president trump
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- Can make it happen with a big cooperation deal,
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- Maybe a few diplomatic acknowledgments
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- And connections between israel and our neighbors.
- 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.916
- And it will be great to visit lebanon, not with
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- Bulletproof vests and tanks.
- 00:15:01.419 --> 00:15:03.388
- Just as a tourist, to see beirut or to go to syria.
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- We'll see what happens there.
- 00:15:07.692 --> 00:15:09.027
- It will take some time.
- 00:15:09.027 --> 00:15:10.328
- But i think that we are on the right place to do it.
- 00:15:10.328 --> 00:15:13.064
- And the biggest obstacle was to get the hostages back.
- 00:15:13.064 --> 00:15:17.268
- And that phase of this war in this region
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- For the next phase is to go along.
- 00:15:20.972 --> 00:15:23.675
- I'm sure that iran will still be a threat.
- 00:15:23.675 --> 00:15:26.778
- And as we hear from them, they're still threatening the
- 00:15:26.778 --> 00:15:29.848
- United states, still threatening israel of retaliation
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- If any of us will do anything to harm their interests.
- 00:15:33.918 --> 00:15:38.056
- And the houthis are still
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- On high alert to launch the next ballistic missile.
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- So far,
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- They haven't shot any rockets since the ceasefire between us
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- And hamas.
- 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:49.667
- So it can be really, really, really exciting times.
- 00:15:49.667 --> 00:15:52.203
- But we'll see what happens.
- 00:15:52.203 --> 00:15:53.438
- Everything can change very, very quickly in the middle east.
- 00:15:53.438 --> 00:15:57.342
- Well, president trump is calling this a new middle east.
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- He said it's the end of an age of terror and death.
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- When he got to egypt, everyone in the world
- 00:16:04.115 --> 00:16:06.017
- Leaders wanted to have their picture taken with him.
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- I have never seen anything like it.
- 00:16:08.319 --> 00:16:10.155
- You spent most of your life living in an age of terror.
- 00:16:10.155 --> 00:16:12.924
- How does it feel knowing that that could be behind you?
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- Well, first of all, i'm very optimistic.
- 00:16:17.495 --> 00:16:19.998
- I'm a glass half full kind of guy.
- 00:16:19.998 --> 00:16:22.333
- So i really, really believe that this is the time to do it.
- 00:16:22.333 --> 00:16:26.137
- Because what we learned is that peace
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- Can only come through strength in the middle east.
- 00:16:29.307 --> 00:16:32.477
- That's how it works.
- 00:16:32.477 --> 00:16:33.945
- And israel, after two years of war,
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- Is in a position of strength.
- 00:16:36.481 --> 00:16:38.550
- Hezbollah, the world's largest terrorist organization,
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- Was defeated.
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- It's now shrunk to this tiny militia
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- That the lebanese government is trying to deal with.
- 00:16:47.158 --> 00:16:49.427
- And this arm, syria of assad, after 50 years of being israel's
- 00:16:49.427 --> 00:16:55.300
- Number 1 or 2 biggest threats, has been destroyed.
- 00:16:55.300 --> 00:16:59.737
- And now there is a new agreement
- 00:16:59.737 --> 00:17:01.539
- There, potentially behind the talks conversation
- 00:17:01.539 --> 00:17:04.275
- With israel on a future deal of security.
- 00:17:04.275 --> 00:17:08.046
- And then hamas has been diminished
- 00:17:08.046 --> 00:17:10.315
- To this guerrilla warfare organization in the gaza strip.
- 00:17:10.315 --> 00:17:14.519
- So israel is very strong.
- 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.454
- The idf has never been more ready
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- To whatever comes against us.
- 00:17:18.923 --> 00:17:21.092
- And that's not even talk about the fact that we destroyed
- 00:17:21.092 --> 00:17:24.496
- The nuclear facilities in iran more than 2000km away from us.
- 00:17:24.496 --> 00:17:29.000
- So the air force,
- 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:30.568
- The military, the ground forces, everybody is on high alert.
- 00:17:30.568 --> 00:17:33.271
- Basically every citizen of israel
- 00:17:33.271 --> 00:17:35.773
- Has never been more combat ready than we are now.
- 00:17:35.773 --> 00:17:38.943
- Actually, we need some some rest to prepare for.
- 00:17:38.943 --> 00:17:42.280
- So anything that comes next.
- 00:17:42.280 --> 00:17:43.715
- But from this standpoint,
- 00:17:43.715 --> 00:17:45.817
- This is the time to make peace agreements,
- 00:17:45.817 --> 00:17:48.186
- Because israel is strong and the united states of america
- 00:17:48.186 --> 00:17:51.523
- Has never been more strong in the middle east as it is
- 00:17:51.523 --> 00:17:54.926
- Right now.
- 00:17:54.926 --> 00:17:55.827
- Well, there's been speculation that president trump
- 00:17:56.828 --> 00:17:58.830
- Was able to make a deal with so many mideast leaders
- 00:17:58.830 --> 00:18:01.766
- Because steve whitcomb
- 00:18:01.766 --> 00:18:03.001
- And his son in law, jared kushner,
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- Have personal relationships with some of those leaders.
- 00:18:04.836 --> 00:18:07.872
- Do you think that managing such a diverse group can only happen
- 00:18:07.872 --> 00:18:10.408
- With these personal and not just political relationships?
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- Yeah.
- 00:18:14.612 --> 00:18:15.480
- What happened is through the think that
- 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:17.015
- At this day and age, people want a personal relationship.
- 00:18:17.015 --> 00:18:20.952
- It makes all the difference and it doesn't.
- 00:18:20.952 --> 00:18:23.221
- And just, you know, with
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- A politically correct statement or a diplomatic statement,
- 00:18:25.557 --> 00:18:29.627
- It's a personal relationship.
- 00:18:29.627 --> 00:18:31.129
- And with golf, i think this guy has more miles on his frequent
- 00:18:31.129 --> 00:18:35.700
- Flier than any other diplomat in the world.
- 00:18:35.700 --> 00:18:39.070
- In the past years, he's been on the plane everywhere.
- 00:18:39.070 --> 00:18:41.539
- He's like the special envoy communication negotiator
- 00:18:41.539 --> 00:18:45.810
- For everything related to the united states of america,
- 00:18:45.810 --> 00:18:49.080
- From russia to syria to lebanon
- 00:18:49.080 --> 00:18:51.983
- To gaza to qatar, so to iran.
- 00:18:51.983 --> 00:18:55.320
- This guy has been everywhere.
- 00:18:55.320 --> 00:18:56.955
- And i guess as president donald trump said in the knesset,
- 00:18:56.955 --> 00:19:01.492
- More than being a great negotiator, he's
- 00:19:01.492 --> 00:19:03.595
- Just a great guy and people loves him.
- 00:19:03.595 --> 00:19:05.697
- So maybe that's the key for diplomacy in the future.
- 00:19:05.697 --> 00:19:09.567
- That's the better person.
- 00:19:09.567 --> 00:19:12.370
- Well, yeah.
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- Here.
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- We need to take a quick break, but we'll be right back.
- 00:19:14.172 --> 00:19:23.993
- We need to take a quick break, but we'll be right back.
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- Yeah.
- 00:19:28.882 --> 00:19:29.683
- It is so good to see you smiling.
- 00:19:29.683 --> 00:19:31.151
- I don't think many people have
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- A clear sense of the diversity you have in israel.
- 00:19:32.186 --> 00:19:34.855
- It's different cultures, different faiths,
- 00:19:34.855 --> 00:19:36.857
- So warm and accepting atmosphere.
- 00:19:36.857 --> 00:19:39.193
- Do you think that some of the people
- 00:19:39.193 --> 00:19:40.327
- Who left israel during the fighting will come back now?
- 00:19:40.327 --> 00:19:44.164
- Yes, yes, i think so.
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- I think many people believe
- 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.301
- That this is a time of a better future for israel,
- 00:19:47.301 --> 00:19:51.505
- Like a peaceful future for the region and otherwise.
- 00:19:51.505 --> 00:19:56.110
- Also from a security standpoint,
- 00:19:56.110 --> 00:19:58.112
- Israel is safer than it's ever been in history.
- 00:19:58.112 --> 00:20:02.149
- By the way, if any of you guys want to come visit us,
- 00:20:02.149 --> 00:20:04.451
- This is the time.
- 00:20:04.451 --> 00:20:05.519
- Like most of our enemies are completely defeated.
- 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:08.022
- The idf is holding the key strategic positions
- 00:20:08.022 --> 00:20:12.026
- On all the borders around these land.
- 00:20:12.026 --> 00:20:14.728
- And i think that people will come back here
- 00:20:14.728 --> 00:20:17.731
- To this land now after this ceasefire took place.
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- We are european, so we are celebrating with you.
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- Thank you for your time today and for all you've done
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- To serve democracy around the world.
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- We'll be back in just a moment with a final note.
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- We'll be back in just a moment with a final note.
- 00:20:38.990 --> 00:20:42.527
- On the release of the israeli hostages.
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- This week is a wonderful victory for everyone who loves peace.
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- God is moving in the earth.
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- Be sure that fills your heart this day.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- It's an honor to spend a bit of time with you.
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- Have a wonderful evening.
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