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March 18, 2026 | 22:3

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: War Progress | Allen Jackson Now | March 18, 2026

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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I'd like to begin by saying
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With absolute clarity that the world is a safer place
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Now that the overwhelming majority
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Of iran's missile launchers have been destroyed.
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Their entire navy is at the bottom of the ocean
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And their fighter jets have been blown apart.
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But a country as big as iran is,
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Let's spend as much time and money
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As their leadership has on weapons.
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Well, they can't get shut down completely in just a few weeks.
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They're still firing missiles at israel and other neighbors.
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They're still sending out weaponized drones,
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And they're still talking big, despite very clear evidence
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That they've been brought to their knees.
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Well, israel's operation roaring lion has conducted more than
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9000 strikes and operation epic fury at least 6000 strikes.
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On top of that,
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Another largely down to making sure that the strait
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Of hormuz remains open,
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Clear of any mines, and safe for any ship of any size
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To pass through.
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President trump says they've more than met their match.
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Listen to his comments.
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The missiles are trickling in now
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At very low levels because
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They don't have too many missiles left.
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More than 100 iranian naval vessels
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Have been sunk or destroyed over the last week, and a half.
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It has to be some kind of a record.
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Additional airstrikes continue to launch
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From all directions every single hour.
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Well, the focus now it's on the waterway
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Where 90% of iran's exports pass through.
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It's the strait of hormuz.
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Iran's foreign minister claims
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That several countries are asking for safe passage.
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Of course, it's
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Impossible to believe anything that comes out of his mouth.
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President trump has no specific timeline for ending the u.s.
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Attack, but he's made clear that operation epic fury
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Will not end until iran's power has been degraded
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And is no longer a threat to israel or anyone else.
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I'm grateful that this administration
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Made the courageous decision
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To confront the evil islamic regime in iran.
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The u.s.
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Israeli military coordination is at the highest level
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With shared intelligence, synchronized strikes, real time
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Decision making.
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Iran's capabilities are being systematically dismantled.
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Under the ayatollahs, iran became obsessed
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With israel's destruction,
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Repeatedly saying that
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As soon as they had the ability to do so,
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They would eliminate israel
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And they would attack the united states.
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They call us the great satan and israel the little satan.
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Iran doesn't hide its ambitions.
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Yet the illogical hatred for the jewish people has not stopped.
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And this hatred has infiltrated the minds of many
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In our own nation.
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Now, we've always known that some in the muslim world
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Hated the jews. that wasn't news.
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But what shocked me
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Was the depth of anti-semitism in our own nation,
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Even on the conservative media platforms.
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Unfortunately, many in the church are echoing
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Those erroneous talking points.
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You know, as christ followers, we've got to have a new cadence.
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We've got to make a change.
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As much as i want to look through the windows
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Of the church and point accusing fingers
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At whoever it is that we don't like,
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On the other end of the ideological spectrum,
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The reality is it's been the diminished expression
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Of a biblical worldview from the people of god
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That has given this place to evil in our world.
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I don't believe it
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Needs to be as confusing as we're told it is.
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As christians,
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We need a spiritual awareness
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To what's happening and to recognize that israel
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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
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Is that the jewish people, the nation of israel,
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There are chosen people chosen by god
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In the new testament, the word israel or israelites.
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It occurs 79 times.
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The word jew occurs 75 times in the old testament,
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And 188 times in the new testament.
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As a matter of comparison.
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The term christian appears three times in the new testament.
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This gives us
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Some sense of the significance
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That god attaches to the people in the nation of israel.
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How have we moved so far from that biblical perspective?
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And when we see jesus in the book of revelation
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At the culmination of the end of this age,
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I think it's beyond significant
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To understand how he's identified to us.
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He's identified as the lion of the tribe of judah.
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Now, judah is one of the 12 tribes.
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The contraction of which is where we get the word jew today.
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Jesus is identified to us with a complete affiliation
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And alignment with the jewish people.
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At the end of this age, no separation from them.
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It's noteworthy that the conclusion of the age
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Hasn't in any way diminish
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Jesus association with the jewish people.
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And neither should we.
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To be clear, the jewish people aren't perfect.
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Any expression of ungodliness
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You can find in the united states.
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You can find it in jerusalem.
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But the bible says everyone on earth
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Will be blessed to the descendants
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Of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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So it's in our best interest to bless them.
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God sent jesus, our messiah, to be born into their lineage.
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Without the jewish people, there'd be no salvation.
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Every spiritual blessing, our entire spiritual inheritance
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We owe to one people, the jewish people.
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During this time of war, with the jewish nation
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Unfairly being singled out for blame
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For much of the world's injustices.
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It's important that we maintain a biblical perspective,
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Understanding why israel matters,
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And why the jewish
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People have a unique place in god's agenda and purposes.
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It enables us to pray in cooperation with him,
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To see his purposes continue to emerge in the earth.
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Know this god is moving in the earth.
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Let's have the courage and the clarity to track with him
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The people of israel.
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They're in a unique position right now.
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Hope has never been more widespread.
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But so too is the fear that still comes each time
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The sirens go off and everyone's running for the bunkers.
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Well, in a moment,
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We'll get an up close look at what
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It's like on the ground
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As we're joined by israel's special envoy, flor
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Hassan, in whom? i'll be right back.
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Hassan, in whom? i'll be right back.
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You know, there's rarely been
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A completely safe day in israel for many years now.
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But it's also fair
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To say that across this coming year, those days will happen.
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And the days will turn into weeks and then months.
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Well, coming to us from israel right now is the former deputy
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Mayor of jerusalem and currently the special envoy
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For hassan nahum.
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Welcome back.
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Thank you so much for having me, pastor.
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I'm going to begin
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By going out on what i believe is a safe limit.
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The worst is over.
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Iran will not have a nuclear weapon ever pointed at israel.
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And before long, the leadership there, what's left of it
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Is going to run out of conventional weapons
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That they've been building for years.
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So how are things on the ground now?
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Several weeks into this attack.
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So it's actually
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Kind of miraculous when you think about it,
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Because it's been two and a half weeks.
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And every single day, more or less.
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And it's not there's no like, scientific pattern.
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But if you look at how we started, the missile attacks
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Have gone down significantly from those first few days.
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We've gotten rid of 70% of the launchers.
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The ballistic missile launchers,
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And 80% of the antiaircraft launchers.
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They basically have no air defenses left.
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As president trump so eloquently said, they've got no navy.
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It's all at the bottom of the sea.
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And we've basically eliminated the top leadership
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In the military, in the irgc and the political
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Leadership as well. so things are looking good.
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We still have the matter of finding the 60% uranium.
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That is still very dangerous.
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But i have full confidence in the u.s.
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And israel military the way that they have been prosecuted.
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Prosecuting this war is absolutely incredible.
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And the coordination between the us and israeli air
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Force is something the world has never seen.
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Well,
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There's no tougher fighting force than your idf.
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How are the troops holding up?
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They're holding up.
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Well, there's a lot of resilience in this country.
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And the people to, you know, people
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Who've been running into shelters
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For two and a half years,
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You know, for us, this started as,
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You know, on the 7th of october and we barely had a break.
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The troops are strong.
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They're motivated and people are willing to take the hit
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For the sake of liberating the innocent iranians
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And for the sake of liberating the entire world
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From what is essentially
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The biggest generational threat that the world has faced.
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We're talking about nazi germany here,
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And we're talking about president
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Trump and prime minister netanyahu as churchill.
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And it seems like the rest of the world, as chamberlain.
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Well, you know, i talk to friends in the land
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On a regular basis, and you and your neighbors
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Are still in and out of bomb shelters repeatedly,
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And not even those are completely safe.
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As we learned when nine people were killed
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Recently, a missile hit their shelter directly.
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You know, of course, iran aims for citizens
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While israel and the us fire at iran's military.
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There's a big difference in how the two nations
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Have imagined defending themselves.
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Isn't there?
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Well, absolutely, to islamic fundamentalists.
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And unfortunately, we have a lot of experience
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With hamas,
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Which i want to remind
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Everyone is a proxy of the islamic republic and hezbollah,
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Again, another proxy of the islamic republic.
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And for them attacking innocent civilians is a strategy.
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So them using their own innocence,
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In order to protect themselves, in order
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For them to be a shield.
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So their terrorist activities, human shields
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Is a strategy for us.
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It's a casualty of war when an innocent life is lost.
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That's the difference.
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And when you see the accuracy of the attacks in iran
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Right now, literally they're going into one apartment.
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They're going into a checkpoint of the basij forces.
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You can see the accuracy.
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You can see who's aiming for what.
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While they're sending out these last two bombs,
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Which i have been, you know, made illegal many years ago
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To to create as much damage and as much on edge as possible.
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Well,
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The us military has lost at least 13 soldiers now,
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And the president is getting all sorts of heat from democrats.
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But it's important to note that those 13 were fighting
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To eliminate the nuclear threat versus the 13 other americans
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Who died when president biden pulled out of afghanistan.
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I don't remember hearing any of those democrats
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Saying a word about that sudden surrender from afghanistan.
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What kind of support is your prime minister getting?
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Well, i think that what's interesting
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In israel right now,
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Even though that in peace time, if there is such a thing,
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There's a lot of political divisions here.
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But at the moment there is complete consensus
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From the left to the right that this is a just war
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For the preservation of israel, the united states and humanity.
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So there is that consensus in israel, and there is support.
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There was, you know, wall to wall support.
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So, so this offensive.
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Well, iran has been getting a
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Lot of help with weapons from china over the years.
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And in exchange, iran has been selling
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The majority of its oil to china.
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President trump has postponed his meeting with xi
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Jinping until wars for the further along.
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I wonder if you think the chinese
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Might be pulling back from their all out support of iran.
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Well, they they didn't show up to them, did they?
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So they are supportive of iran.
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They have also provided them with a lot of weaponry.
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They buy their oil sanctions oil, as you say.
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But ultimately, where are they now?
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And i'm sure that the gulf neighbors of iran
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Are looking and saying, well, the chinese haven't shown up,
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So why should we rely on china for anything?
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Now, this is very significant, and i'm pretty sure
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It's part of president trump's strategy.
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The strategy is ultimately show all of these countries
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That even though they've been hedging their bets
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Between the united states and china,
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Ultimately the only reliable ally you can have
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Is the united states of america.
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And that in itself is already a huge win for president trump.
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Well, we need to take a short break.
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Flora, will you stay with us for another short segment, please?
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Sure.
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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 flora hassan, the home.
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She's a special envoy for israel.
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This two pronged operation.
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Israel and the united states.
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It's setting the table for the iranian people
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To push forward with a new government.
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Your prime minister has made that quite clear,
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As we can hear in this english translation.
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Let's listen to his comments.
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I am saying to the iranian
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People, once you can embark on a new path of liberty,
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This moment is now closer than ever.
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We are standing beside you. we are helping you.
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But at the end of the day, it is up to you.
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My question is, do the citizens of iran
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Have the tools to get organized and stand up?
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I think that
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By the time that the us and israel
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Are done with this offensive, they will do.
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They have a leader in waiting
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That people have really rallied around.
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He's been also working the last year, organizing
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The different deserters that are coming out of the regime.
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The people have been told at the moment, stay home
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Because it's unsafe for you to go out.
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Let us continue weakening the regime.
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And when it's time for you
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To come out, we're going to tell you.
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And so i have confidence.
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I don't think this is going to be
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Something that's going to happen overnight.
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I mean, we saw the berlin wall fall overnight.
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Not sure we talk about the same thing.
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But i'm fully confident that this regime eventually,
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Sooner or later, and i really pray sooner,
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Is not going to remain on its feet.
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One of the top u.s.
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Generals, now retired, said that one of the goals in this war
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Is to break the will of what's left of iran's leadership.
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Do you think that's really possible?
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Well, i'm just not sure who the leadership is right now.
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I had taller
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So many was eliminated in the first five minutes of the war.
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His son is mia.
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And nobody knows if he lost the leg
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And he didn't lose a leg.
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If he's alive or dead.
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There are people, of course, because there's never a vacuum
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Of leadership.
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But it's just going farther and farther.
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Farther down. also, the military leadership.
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So they do act a little bit like a headless chicken.
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Some of the politicians
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Saying one thing, the military that the islamic regime,
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Irgc sang another, they said to the gulf countries,
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We don't want to keep attacking you.
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The next thing you know, they're being attacked.
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And so there's it seems like there's chaos.
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And that is good news,
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Because the more chaos there is, the less organization,
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They have to attack us,
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And the quicker we can get rid of this toxic regime.
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Well, this has been
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An incredibly stressful time for the people of israel.
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Not just this war, of course, but the october 7th attack
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By hamas.
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You think that hamas, hezbollah and the houthis might disappear
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If they lose the help they've been getting from iran?
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Well, they certainly won't be the same type of strategic
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Threat they are to us than they are right now.
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The i, the, islamic regime
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Aids hezbollah $30 billion over the last 20
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To 30 years, $30 billion, $1 billion almost every year.
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They gave them $1 billion since they supposedly
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Signed a ceasefire with us.
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And then they started attacking us over a week ago.
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Hamas again needs that material support
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That they will be getting.
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So, yes, once you kill, once you cut the head of the snake,
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Then everything else becomes a lot easier.
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And hopefully these other proxie
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But when you were the deputy mayor of jerusalem,
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I know you spent a lot of time greeting people in the streets.
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People from all sorts of countries.
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Do you see that day coming again?
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Maybe even later this year.
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I pray that they do look, ultimately.
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Even, during the war, after october 7th.
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There were groups coming, especially christian groups
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Coming to israel to show support,
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Which is incredibly important for our morale, incredibly
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Important for israel to know that we have friends.
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At the moment,
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The flight situation is problematic,
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But hopefully in the next few weeks
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I hope things will get back
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And we will be able to see all our friends come back to israel.
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I have no doubt that we will recover from this,
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Unfortunately.
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This is what
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We need to go through in order to get to the other side.
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And please god, it'll be worth it.
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It'll be worth all the suffering
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To get to a point where the middle east is redefined,
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And we have all of the countries wanting peace and prosperity
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And not war and destruction.
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We have the resilience.
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And the joy in the israeli
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People has always been remarkable to me.
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Was there, you know, soon after the intifada?
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I've been there in and out of the wars in recent years,
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And the people continue forward with their lives.
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The children go to school, you gather in restaurants.
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So what's the i'm curious with with all that's happened
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In the last couple of years, how is the attitude
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On the streets in israel these days?
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So look, we are definitely exhausted,
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Exhausted from this more world peace loving people
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With people who want to get on with our lives,
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Have a good time with our families.
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That's what we are.
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So people are tired, but
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People are resolute to see this to the end.
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And so things are a bit quieter.
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Some restaurants have closed, but then during purim,
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One of our holidays, a week and a half ago,
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You saw people doing purim parties in shelters,
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Because if iran was going to attack us
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And lisa were in the shelter so they could have a party.
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And so you do see a lot of,
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Communal spirit, and camaraderie.
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That is always the atmosphere here in israel.
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But it most of all, people are positive
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And people are optimistic that after we get over this,
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We can go back to a peaceful life, a peaceful region
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Before.
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Thank you for sharing your time with us today.
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We're all praying for the end of this long struggle.
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Stay strong. you're not alone, pastor.
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Thank you.
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And in a moment, your emails.
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And in a moment, your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
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I always look forward to your thoughts and comments.
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Jerry from plantation, florida wrote
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Thank you for your segment on the war with iran.
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I pray your listeners
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Who may be thinking
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That passivity is needed is our continued stance.
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Well, embrace the biblical truth you expressed so well.
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The four north
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African nations
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With muslim governments in thomas jefferson's day
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Required tribute from all commercial
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Shipping along their coast.
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President jefferson may not have used trump's words.
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Enough is enough,
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But he sent marines to the to defeat the pirates.
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President trump is doing what every president before him
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Should have done to any enemy
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Whose purpose is to kill americans.
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Well, jerry, thank you for the historical reminder.
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And i would agree.
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I think we have led with passivity for far too long.
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And in fact, it became fashionable
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To talk about leading from behind.
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Not sure how that works, but i'm grateful for the change
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In this administration.
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Jared pea
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From florida wrote iran has 16 something different countries.
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Do you think they're doing this?
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So these countries and the people of the world
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Would put pressure on the u.s.
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And israel to stop attacking, or if they just lost their mind,
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Or maybe they're trying to go out in a blaze of glory.
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What do you think? thanks.
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I think evil often always brings destruction.
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The mullahs have been exporting destruction to the middle east
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And wherever they could for decades.
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It's no surprise that that's how they chose to.
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In their reign.
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Dan from illinois.
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When it comes to sin and evil, i get the free will part.
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My question is how?
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How can a loving god keep watching all this evil
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For 6000 years and ask us to multiply into it?
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Why sin happened?
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I get but to keep watching pain, heartache
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And suffering for thousands of years
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And commanded to multiply into it.
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I don't get it. it affects me greatly.
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Well, i would probably take a different perspective.
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We have been shown the grace and mercy of god,
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Every human being, as a revelation
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That there is a living god.
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I'm stunned at our stubbornness in choosing our selfishness
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And our refusal to cooperate with god.
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He's provided a path
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To redemption and the power we need to overcome evil.
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If we would only choose him with our whole hearts,
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Let's be the generation that breaks the trend.
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Let's choose to cooperate with god as never before.
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It'll bring good things to all of us.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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And i pray you have a blessed evening.
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Allen Jackson: War Progress | Allen Jackson Now

March 18, 2026 | 22:3

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