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Hamas Ceasefire Risks COLLAPSE; IDF Bolsters Forces At Gaza Border | Boots on the Ground

February 13, 2025 | 28:29

Yair Pinto and Mati Shoshani report on the Israel-Hamas War. Pinto reports that the IDF is preparing for a potential offensive in Gaza following Hamas’ violation of the ceasefire agreement. President Trump’s ultimatum adds pressure, demanding the release of all hostages by Saturday or facing severe consequences. Meanwhile, Egypt and Jordan resist U.S. plans to relocate Gaza residents, and Egypt increases military presence near Israel’s border. In the north, the IDF faces a looming withdrawal from Lebanon, while Iranian-backed Hezbollah reorganizes. Plus, the Houthi rebels in Yemen threaten renewed missile attacks on Israel if hostilities resume.

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Boots on the Ground | Hamas Ceasefire Risks COLLAPSE; IDF Bolsters Forces At Gaza Border | Boots on the Ground | February 13, 2025

The games are over. the idf is on alert for an attack in gaza,
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And hamas could make a strategic error. the heightened military
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Preparedness is aimed at a range of ground, air and sea
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Scenarios. while the organization tries to maximize
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Gains in the hostage deal. the numbers prove that israel is
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Indeed supplying aid, but hamas lumps it all into baseless
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Accusations against the jewish state. meanwhile, israel's
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Southern neighbor is in turmoil. egyptian president el-sisi is
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Furious at the united states and israel, and his white house
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Visit was postponed. trump is demanding the allocation of land
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In egypt and jordan for gazan refugees and so far. king
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Abdullah of jordan vehemently refuses. up north, the united
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States insists on the idf withdrawing from lebanon by
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February 18th, while hezbollah rearms with an iranian presence,
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And in yemen, the houthis warn that in the event of escalation,
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They will again attack israel. meanwhile, defense ministers
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Sharpen mutual threats. war drums are heard on all fronts,
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And international pressure is mounting. the region stands on
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The brink of a historic and dangerous shift. anything is
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Still possible. so let's dive into the details. of i'm the
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Pinto and this is your boots on the ground report about what is
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Happening in israel on day 495 of the war with hamas,
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Hezbollah, the houthis in yemen, and the shiite militias in iraq.
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All of them are acting under the control of iran. the head of the
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Axis of evil in the middle east. a moment before we start, i want
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To invite you to hit that subscribe button on our youtube
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Episodes from israel, the games are over. the idf is on alert
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For an attack in the gaza strip after prime minister benjamin
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Netanyahu set an ultimatum for the release of the hostages.
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Hamas, which hopes to leverage arab support against trump's
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Plan to evacuate the strip, rejected the deal and now faces
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A worsening situation in gaza, destroyed infrastructure and a
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Frustrated public. israel's military preparations include
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Large forces, reserve mobilization and tank deployment
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Around the gaza strip to apply pressure on hamas. meanwhile,
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Israel provides large scale aid, but hamas claims that the
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Quantities are small. the scenario is that hamas might
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Release some of the hostages to buy time, or prefer to hold them
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As a bargaining chip, so a critical decision looms.
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According to sources, hamas is preparing to blow up the
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Agreement and is trying to recruit terrorists through showy
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Ceremonies, while egypt strengthens its forces at the
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Border with israel. and now we'll take a short commercial
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Break, after which tbn.tv, israel's senior middle east
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Analyst matti shoshani will tell us what's really happening. so a
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Commercial and we'll be right back with more news from israel.
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A war zone in the gaza strip, been under fire by hamas
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Terrorists. you don't have time to sit and drink your coffee and
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Wake up in the morning and get ready for the day and prepare.
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So sometimes i woke up at two in the morning after an hour and a
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Half of sleep, and you need to wake up immediately and do your
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Job and do it to perfection. or people die.
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>> you literally have your life on the line. you don't know what
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Corner you turn, and somebody has got a gun pointed at you.
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>> so in order to wake up, i just took a pill and i really
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Felt the energy levels go up faster. the clarity of mind that
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Doesn't usually happen immediately when you wake up in
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The morning. and i don't remember taking much stuff with
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Me into the gaza strip. i had my sleeping bag, a flashlight, and
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A vinegar bottle. so that's what i had with me.
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>> you're a young person. you're very healthy, but you still
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Think that vinea was helpful to get you to even a higher level
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Of performance.
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>> it's helping me to exceed my normal abilities. so let's say,
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You know, i'm at 100%. and that puts me at 120. with raising
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Three kids, you need to be sharp to make the right decisions.
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>> raising three kids may be equal to combat.
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>> a lot harder, a lot harder. listen, i'm still taking junior
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Every day because i want to be there with my kids when they
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Grow old. i want to be able to dance at their wedding and carry
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My kids and my grandkids for years to come. and this is the
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Time to start. i mean, when you're young.
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Thank you for coming back. a lot is happening on the diplomatic
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Front in the middle east since president trump's inauguration,
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And tbn.tv, israel's senior middle east analyst, matti
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Shoshani, will take us deep into things and explain to us what
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Happened in the series of meetings and decisions by the
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American administration.
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>> thank you. yael. so the saga indeed continues. president
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Trump will just remind everyone just a couple of weeks ago,
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Started flowing this outlandish and very new idea. and the idea
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Is displacing the people of gaza, moving them into a new
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Place to rebuild the gaza strip, according to his words, and to
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Bring them a better future. and on the way, while we're doing
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That, do something incredibly important, which is remove the
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Hamas terrorist from the government. now, here's where
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Things get interesting. since that happened, what seemed to be
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This outlandish idea has become the beginning of a plan.
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President trump and prime minister netanyahu met just last
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Week and talked through the details of it, and started
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Giving more depth to this initial concept. and since then,
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Although egypt and jordan, which were proclaimed to be the
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Destinations for many of the people of gaza to move to,
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Although they have strongly resisted this, trump continued
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To push this. last week we saw something incredibly
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Interesting. president trump is setting up for a meeting with
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The king of jordan. he's already declared publicly that he's
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Located, quote unquote, the lands within jordan that can
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Accommodate the palestinian people. and at the same time,
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The president of egypt has resisted and pushed back on a
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Meeting with trump, while continuing to state that he's
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Not going to budge on his resistance to receive any more
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Refugees from the gaza strip. so let's talk about what this means
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For the region we're in. first of all, we've seen at this point
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That the plan that seemed like, again, this negotiation sort of
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Positioning scheme is much more than that. it is part of a
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Regional plan to rebuild stability in this region, to
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Remove hamas in any way means possible from their hold or
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Their choke hold on the people of gaza, and to bring some kind
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Of agreement and ceasefire that, in a long term sense of more
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Than months, will allow the people of israel and this region
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To go back to a peaceful way of life. more so this agreement
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Repositions or this thought process, i should say, shows
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That the incoming trump administration has given a huge
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Amount of thought to the question of what will u.s.
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Policy in this region look like, and what does it look like
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Really? it looks like the us repositioning itself to be the
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Kingmaker and the king breaker, by the way, of powers in the
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Middle east. they're showing everyone that if they flex their
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Muscles big enough, they can make a country that was on the
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Brink of financial catastrophe flourish. and they've floated
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That idea to several countries in the region. and at the same
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Time, they've shown that countries that are going to
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Resist them the iranians, the egyptians, possibly hamas, will
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Be crushed in a level of force that is unseen. so far, we can
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See, and i say this with a high level of confidence, that even
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Before trump entered office, his public statements were enough to
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Reshape the way people in this region behaved. so think about
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This even before president trump was in office, his public
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Proclamations, his special emissary to the middle east were
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Enough to reshape the way people behaved in this region. hamas
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Included. hezbollah included iranians included in that story.
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Something to bear in mind is, is that the perception of power is
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Almost as important as the use of power in the middle east.
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Specifically, if the us government is able to position
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Itself in a way that other countries believe it will use
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Force, even if it doesn't have to use force, that in itself is
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Enough to shift the turn or the chain of events in this region.
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So what does this likely mean on a very likely or very high
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Likelihood hamas that have been threatening to withdraw from the
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Cease fire agreement are probably going to continue as is
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With this agreement. they're trying to show force. they're
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Trying to flex their muscles and show the us and israel that
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They're still, to a certain degree, in control, but in
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Reality, they are likely going to give back the hostages in a
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Couple of days. as was initially intended, president trump made
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Some very, very strong threats against the hamas people,
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Stating that if they don't release the hostages that are
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Planned according to the cease fire agreement, by noon on
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Saturday, israel time, he will unleash a level of violence that
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They have never seen before. and those statements are not empty
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Statements. the us has the power, has the ability, and
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We've seen trump in previous terms do exactly that. bring
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Down fire and weaponry and munitions on the enemies of the
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Us and the enemies of the state of israel. so is this just an
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Empty threat or is it a negotiation ploy, or is this
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Something that's really going to happen? i believe it's all the
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Above. president trump, together with prime minister netanyahu,
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Are bold moves into repositioning american interests
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In the middle east and bolstering and strengthening
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Israel's interest in this very region. the thought here is not
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Just about what's happening tomorrow. the thought is about
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How are we positioning the power balance, how do we maintain
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American interests middle east? how do we make sure that the
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Saudis are incentivized to join back into substantial
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Negotiations and a place of influence alongside the us in
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This region? and how do we make sure that israel doesn't
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Continue to fight endlessly in a war that's been going on for
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Over 15 months?
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>> thanks to matti shoshani for bringing order to the chaos, and
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Now we'll move on to our new field report about the day after
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The ceasefire, whether israel will go back to fighting, or
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Whether we're on a verge of a series of peace agreements in
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This region, we will share with you our initiative to rebuild
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Israel and how you can take part of it. so this year hasn't been
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Easy, but we know that god is still in charge. all the details
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In our next report today as hostages return home, a moment
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Of true joy and relief that should feel victorious. the
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Reality still feels far from it. in gaza, hamas parades through
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The streets in full military gear, unashamed and defeated,
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Still in power in the north, hezbollah terrorists roam freely
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Along the border as if they own the land that the lebanese army
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Was supposed to clear them from. it doesn't feel like the war of
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The past, where the enemy was crushed and peace was restored.
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So now everyone's wondering, is this the start of peace, the end
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Of the war, or just a timeout before things blow up again?
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Moreover, never before has a war devastated our lands and
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Communities as this one has in the past. battles were fought on
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Israel's borders against invading armies on distant
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Fronts. this time, the war reached deep inside our towns,
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Our homes, leaving destruction and trauma unlike anything we
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Have ever seen before. but before we dive into the
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Complexities of the ceasefire and what the day after may hold
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For israel and this region, please like and subscribe and
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Help us share the truth to the world. so the big question
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On everyone's mind is this where are we all going? the
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Recent ceasefire has passed 15 months of war, but what lies
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Ahead? hamas is still standing. and who will govern gaza hostage
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Release videos make it clear hamas still holds control and
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The future remains dangerously uncertain. on a positive note,
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President donald trump has declared his unwavering support
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For israel. he approved military aid to the idf that was
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Previously withheld and is deporting pro hamas students
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From american universities, reinforcing his no tolerance
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Stance on extremism. trump has also put forward a bold proposal
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That neighboring arab nations taking gaza's populations. over
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The years, israel took in jewish refugees from iran, iraq, syria,
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Lebanon, egypt and yemen. because we are one people.
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Meanwhile, arab nations with vast resources have refused to
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Integrate palestinians, using them as political pawns. now,
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For the first time, this conversation is on the table.
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The ceasefire in the north remains unstable, with hezbollah
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Still in the border and the deal to retreat past the litani river
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Failing to materialize. to add to all the complexities, israel
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Faces enormous challenges. entire towns are in ruins.
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Forests have burned, and farmland is devastated. hundreds
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Of thousands of trees have been lost to rockets from hamas,
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Hezbollah and the other iranian proxies. a direct attack not
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Just on israel's people, but on the land of israel itself. once
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Thriving cities in the south and in the north are now ghost
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Towns, forests reduced to ash. i'm here in the ben shemen
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Forest, not far from jerusalem. this is a place deeply rooted in
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Israel's history. biblically, this land was known for its
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Olive groves as shemen means oil in hebrew. it was one of the
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First major reforestation projects of the modern state,
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With millions of trees planted to revive this land, i'm meeting
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Matti shoshani to discuss how we can rebuild israel's lands with
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Your help. because no matter how dark the path may seem, we as a
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People have always found a way through the wilderness and back
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Into the light with god's help.
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>> how are you? i'm meeting rabbi gidon shloush from the
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Jewish national fund to discuss israel's eternal commitment to
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This land, its people, its history, and the.
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>> beautiful forests that have been nurtured for generations.
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>> so what are we planting? we can choose. each one can choose
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One.
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>> the trees that we've got are the cypress, which is this one?
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The pine, the pistacia and the carob.
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>> i have a thought here, though. i want to plant
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Something that's indigenous to this region. so ilan, which is a
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Beautiful indigenous tree that's going to be mine.
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>> this is yours.
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>> this is mine.
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>> this is beautiful. i think.
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>> since listen, since we're talking about the restoration of
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The.
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>> region, we start with something that looks sad. we'll
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Come back in a couple of years. it'll be an impressive tree.
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>> okay. i start with the pine tree. right?
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>> i chose a tree that's a little scarce on the top.
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>> yeah. you feel connected?
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>> connected to. i feel a connection.
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>> okay, let's take it. well, we're planting this up here.
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From the first trees planted by the pioneers to the vast green
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Landscapes we see today. israel's reforestation is not
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Just about nature. it's about revival, resilience, and a deep
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Rooted connection to this land. so, rabbi shloush, this is
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Something we've done here, and i think of every kid that's grown
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Up in israel almost every year of our life. i did it every year
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When i was a kid in school, especially when you're younger.
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Then once i had kids, we started doing it with them. it isn't
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Just because of the war, but the idea of restoring the land is
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Something we've grown up in and as an embedded in us. and i
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Always take pleasure in this idea of like, look, this is the
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Barren hillside. i'm going to come back in five years. and one
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Of the trees here is something that i planted.
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>> and i think it's also very special during the tu bishvat
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Time. maybe you can explain to our viewers what what that is
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All about.
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>> this is a holiday where jews all over the world, but
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Especially in the land of israel, celebrate the planting
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Of life in israel. that's what we're doing. we're planting
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Life. tu bishvat is a symbolism of rebirth. like you were
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Showing me that branch that was. there was nothing on it. we're
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Coming off the winter now, but we know we're going to plant
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Now, and the spring. summer is going to come and we're going to
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See it blossom. and the same thing, we think about the state
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Of israel, and we think what we've been through over the past
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Year plus and please god, it's been very difficult, but we're
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Optimistic and we're filled with hope. and we believe with people
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Around the world joining keren kayemet israel, the jewish
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National fund, we are going to make this place bloom again.
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>> let's go back i'm your announcer and something years,
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Say the late 1800s, end of the 19th century. the zionist
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Movement was a life bringing force for this region. this land
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Was barren, this land was abandoned. it was like the sick
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Child of this region. and you look at it today from a
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Satellite image, and it is an island of green in the middle of
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Desert, even the hills we're standing on, which in biblical
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Times were green, by the way, they saw eons. i mean, we're
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Talking thousands of years of destruction from conquerors are
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Now green again.
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>> one of the most famous stories of tu bishvat is the
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Story of honi the sage. we're going back 2000 years. he's
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Walking one day and he sees an old man planting in the forest.
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And he said, what are you planting? he said, it's a carob
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Tree. he said, carob tree. when is it going to? when will it
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Bloom? he said, in 70 years. and he was an old man. so he said,
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Are you going to be alive to enjoy from these carobs? and he
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Said, listen, just as i came here, and i found carobs to
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Enjoy, i'm planting for the next generation. so i think that's
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What we're doing as well. you know, the early zionists, as you
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Spoke about in the late 1800s, they planted for us. and please
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God, we're planting for our children and grandchildren and
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Future generations.
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>> i think that especially now, after more than 15 months of
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Fighting in the north with, i don't know, 57,000 acres of
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Forests that were burned because of hezbollah rockets and hamas
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Rockets, it's our way to counter this hatred and this spirit of
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Death and destruction by building, by planting something
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That we will only see the results and the fruits of in 20
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Years, 30 years, meaning that we believe that we're going to be
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Here in a generation, two generations, you know, a
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Thousand years from now.
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>> oh, we.
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>> know we are definitely. yeah, we know that's why we're doing
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This. okay. so this is the perfect time to plant the trees
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Digging. take one step.
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>> okay.
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>> how am i doing? here you are. i'm already getting tired.
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>> i'm doing this guy.
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>> not too close.
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>> to mine.
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>> put your.
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>> hips into it. yeah, yeah.
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>> it's not as easy as it looks. guys.
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>> as you can tell everyone, the weather has changed. it's taken
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A while to dig his hole.
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>> it's not my fault i picked a rocky area compared to matti.
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>> i'm gonna put my tree. they call this a.
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>> this is ella. i named my first daughter on this.
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>> this is the biblical tree of ella. yeah, it is indigenous to
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This region. there are plenty of them in the mountains around us.
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Yeah. you want to help me fill the hole with soil? as they say
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In russia? putin.
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>> matti. something i learned just now is that all the trees
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In israel are planted by hands, by people coming like us,
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Digging and planting it into the soil. more than 200 million
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Trees that were planted in israel since 1940.
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>> how many of them did you plant? yeah.
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>> i think about five, maybe.
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>> nails. lesser hole.
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>> we'll see. we'll see in ten years. which tree is taller?
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Actually, matti, this is pretty cool. you know, it's part of
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This crazy year and a half that we're in, you know, fighting and
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Going into reserve duty to take a pause and just plant something
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For the future. it feels like. feels good.
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>> you know, i think this is a good time for a call to action.
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Rabbi. come. come in. frame with us, please. i want to read out
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In what it says on your jacket. on your fleece jacket? over
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Here. it says keren kayemeth l'israel, the jnf. we're doing a
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Project together with cackle. after 15 months of war and our
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Enemies intentionally burning down our country, it's time to
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Restore and rebuild and show everyone that the life force of
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This nation and the lovers of this nation far outweighs all
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Our enemies.
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>> so if you want to help us and plant a tree in israel and help
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Us share the truth of what's happening in this land, go to w
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W w dot tbn.org/rebuild israel. you can have a piece of israel
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That was planted here because of your donation.
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>> so appreciative to all those who are supporting us outside
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The land of israel. you're planting hope and you're
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Planting the future of the jewish people in the homeland.
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>> one thing that i caught in all this story is that the
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People of israel came back to israel from all over the world
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After 2000 years. you know, this is a biblical scale miracle.
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It's ungraspable because people people think that, okay, god
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Performed miracles in the bible times, you know, opening the
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Sea, the exodus from egypt. my point here is that god is
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Performing miracles, biblical scale, miracles today, in modern
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Time israel. and i think that it's an opportunity for you,
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Millions of bible believing christians around the world to
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Partner with god in performing this miracle in the state of
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Israel by rebuilding this land after a year and a half of war
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And destruction. so i believe that god will do it, you know,
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With our help or without our help. but we always want to be
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On god's side in the story. well, we don't need to water the
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Plants anymore.
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>> no. just a short while ago, i was complaining that we didn't
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Get any rain this winter. so here we are, and we got to take
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Part in something that i find to be unique.
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>> yeah.
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>> in the restoration, the rebuilding of this land,
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Especially after the war, especially when our enemies are
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Trying to ruin the land, the people, the language, the story.
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Here we are rebuilding this land, replanting the trees.
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>> it's amazing. it's amazing. and what i see, that is the
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Coolest thing about this is it's a fulfillment of biblical
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Prophecy. absolutely. and you see it over and over again. just
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The spirit of god is to build. i mean, anything that god is
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Involved in has to grow, has to bear fruit and has to be better.
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And if you feel like you're in a challenging position in your
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Life and need encouragement, just take a look at israel. we
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Have been fighting seven different fronts for the past
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Year and a half against multiple enemies, and we are still here,
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Marty. we're still here, still surviving, still planting trees.
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Imagine that. and that's not because we are, you know, great
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Or anything. it's only because god is faithful to the people of
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Israel, and because of it, he's going to be faithful to every
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One of us in our personal lives. so this is a very different, you
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Know, shooting day for me, planting some trees instead of
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Talking about, you know, the fronts and all the wars and the
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New threats to israel.
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>> well, my hope is that many of our upcoming segments are going
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To be ones of restoration and rebuilding. yeah. and we can
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Take a beeline from doom and gloom for a while.
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>> yeah, yeah. listen, definitely, i really hope to do
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Some some videos on archeological sites, places
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Where jesus visited, and to see all of you here in the land of
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Israel in person with us.
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>> and all that we have, we have all the calls in the world to
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Feel hopeful. this land has been under attack in a way that it
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Hasn't seen before. and we've persevered. we've come out of it
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With the upper hand. we're the up and coming power in this
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Region. the us is by our side. there's an international
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Community of people like our viewers at home that that pray
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And care for what's happening here and here. we are in the
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Midst of this planting new trees in this land.
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>> no, i'm excited for the next year, for the next season,
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Marty.
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>> i am too.
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>> and before our director will kill us. guys, if you haven't
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Pray for the situation. this tree that we've just planted is
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More than just a sapling in the soil. it's a symbol of our
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Unwavering commitment to israel's growth, its future, and
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Sharing god's love with its people. like every seed, it
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Carries potential, the promise of new life, of roots that run
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Deep, and of branches that will one day stand tall, providing
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Shade for the generations to come. our enemies seek
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Destruction, but we plant. they choose death, but we choose
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Life. this is who we are. builders, dreamers and
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Caretakers of this land that god gave us. and just as the tree
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Will grow, so will we. stronger, deeper and always here to stay.
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So we invite you to join us in a vision and in restoring israel's
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Lands. click the link below. w-w-w-what tbn.tv. org slash
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Rebuild israel and share god's love with the people and land of
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Israel. i hope you enjoyed the report. now we will take a short
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Our boots on the ground here in israel, and we ask you to please
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Join us in prayer, as this is a spiritual war that involves all
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Of us. i know that it's complicated, and i doubt that
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Anybody has the answers for this situation and how to move
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Forward. but personally, when i'm challenged with a situation
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That i cannot handle myself, i pray and ask god to take
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Control. and you know what? he always finds a way because he's
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Always faithful to the people of israel and to all of you. so
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Here are a few prayer points for the situation. pray for the
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Wisdom for our leaders and the leaders of this world to make
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Godly decisions. pray for the hostages to be released from the
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Gaza strip. and as always, pray for the peace of jerusalem. this
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City right behind me.
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