"Am Yisrael Chai" (The People of Israel Live) | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

May 10, 2026 | S1 E8 | 48:47

Erick Stakelbeck hosts a look at the heroic acts of people during the October 7th attacks.

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Heroes of October 7th and Beyond | "Am Yisrael Chai" (The People of Israel Live) | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond | May 10, 2026

For 46 years, the iranians have said,
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Israel is the appetizer, the u.s. is the entree.
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October 7th, 2023 was meant to be
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The beginning of israel's end.
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We were attacked in our pajamas.
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Everyone was murdered.
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The world waited to see if israel would break.
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They did not break.
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They became unbreakable.
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Iran was the world's chief sponsor of terrorism,
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And we smashed them.
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Israel is still standing, leading the middle east
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Onto a new path of partnership and peace.
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We are looking at a horizon
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Of a complete realignment of the middle east.
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I believe that israel will save
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The world.
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First comes strength, then comes the peace.
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I'm standing here in jerusalem,
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Over two years after hamas launched a brutal war,
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A war not fought only on one border,
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And not against one enemy, but on every front.
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And yet, israel is still standing, proud,
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Stronger than ever.
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The promises and prophecies of god
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Still shining on.
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Yes, the knocks have been hard.
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The cost has been steep.
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But out of the fire has come something extraordinary.
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Israel is not retreating into survival mode.
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Israel is stepping forward
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Into what many are calling its golden age,
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Leading the middle east onto a new path of prosperity,
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Partnership, and peace.
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Many believe it was the fear of saudi arabia
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Moving closer to peace with israel,
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In effect aligning against iran,
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That helped spark this war.
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Iran's fear of losing its power in the middle east,
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Of losing its tyrannical hold over the region,
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Was the spark that lit the fire.
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That future began with something bold.
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The abraham accords, signed in september 2020
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At the white house
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And brokered by the united states
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Under president donald trump.
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We're here this afternoon to change the course of history.
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After decades of division and conflict,
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We mark the dawn of a new middle east.
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For the first time in generations,
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Arab nations chose normalization over hostility.
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The united arab emirates, bahrain, morocco,
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And sudan all signed agreements with israel,
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Opening doors of trade, technology, tourism,
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And security.
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These weren't just handshakes,
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They were tectonic shifts,
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Proof that the region no longer
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Has to be defined by endless conflict.
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I stand before you today
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To celebrate the inauguration
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Of the new embassy of israel in bahrain.
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It is a great honor to officially open
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The embassy of the united arab emirates
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In tel aviv.
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Though the battle for peace is not yet won...
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Iran has launched an unprecedented
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Direct strike on israel.
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The efforts mark the turning point,
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Proves that the future does not have to repeat the past.
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Other nations are watching closely.
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Saudi arabia,
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Oman, azerbaijan.
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Even syria has quietly explored the possibility
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Of joining the abraham accords.
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These moves are being quietly encouraged
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As part of a broader regional embrace
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Of stability and inclusion.
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Israel would want nothing more
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Than for the people of iran to be free from oppression.
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And for all those suffering under evil regimes
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To know freedom.
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Women, children, entire families
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Who have lived under the boot of tyranny
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For far too long.
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So as we look to the future,
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The question is no longer whether israel will survive,
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That has been answered.
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The question now is, how far can israel rise?
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And how much light can it bring
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To a region long defined by darkness?
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And to help us answer that,
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We have a great leader with us.
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Someone who has walked this journey,
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Shaped this moment and can help us see
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What lies ahead.
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Let's meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu.
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Mr. prime minister, thanks so much for joining us
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Here in jerusalem and hosting us.
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You could say that the iranian axis
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Was at its peak on october 7th, 2023?
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Now that ring of fire is basically
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A smoldering heap of ruins.
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Can you talk about the achievements
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Since october 7th and really the battering
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Of the world's number one sponsor of terrorism?
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Well, iran was the world's chief sponsor of terrorism,
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But it had proxies.
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It had hamas,
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It had hezbollah in lebanon,
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It had the assad regime in syria,
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The houthis in yemen,
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And others.
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And with president trump's help,
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We smashed them.
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You two have formed an iron partnership,
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I would say. some said, hey, this is the combination
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Of two churchillian leaders.
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Can you talk about the importance
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Of that partnership and how it's
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Really transforming this region?
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Well, it's the strongest bond that israel has had
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With the united states.
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We've always had a great alliance
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With the united states through successive
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Prime ministers and presidents.
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But this is a personal bond,
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An ideological bond.
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We both believe in peaceful strength.
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But we also believe that first comes strength,
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Then comes the peace.
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And we've already proven it by the common action
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That we took to forge the abraham accords,
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Four peace treaties between israel and four arab nations.
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And as we finish the iran access,
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We'll get more, i believe, more peace treaties.
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So it's a bond that is both personal,
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National, and international. -yeah.
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You are israel's longest-serving prime minister.
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What do you want your legacy to be?
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Defender of israel, wartime prime minister,
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Architect of a new middle east?
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What i'd like to be remembered as is
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Someone who worked to secure the future
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Of the jewish state and the jewish people,
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But also expanding the circle of peace,
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Creating enormous opportunity for prosperity,
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Not only for us, but...
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Which we have already done in many ways
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By turning israel into a free-market economy.
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You had a big hand in that.
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Primarily as finance minister, i turned this country
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From a semi-socialist, paralyzed economy
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To a free economy.
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And there the genius of our people
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Just sprang forward.
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You know, the entrepreneurs, the technologists,
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The scientists, it just burst forward.
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And you look at which country
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Is receiving the most investments,
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Foreign investments, for r&d.
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Well, you won't be surprised to hear, eric,
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That the first country is the united states.
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Big, obviously.
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The second country on the planet is israel.
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Now, this is in the war.
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This is now in the midst of war.
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So obviously people have faith in our resilience,
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In our ingenuity,
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In our capacity for innovation,
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In the free enterprise economy that we built here.
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I believe that this could be part of israel's future,
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Not only to defeat the enemies
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Committed to our annihilation,
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But also to create partnerships with our neighbors
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For prosperity and security for all of us.
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What do you say to the christian population,
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Around the world really, but in america in particular,
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About why israel is absolutely a nation
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And the jewish people
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Are a people that every christian
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Should stand with? well, you know, we have a common bond.
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Well, we have a common bond.
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It's the judeo-christian tradition, the heritage.
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And remember that christianity sprang from judaism
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In this country, in this city.
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And we never forget that bond.
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We cherish our christian friends,
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And we'll continue to give them the only base of true
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Religious freedom anywhere in the middle east.
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You look out over your life
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And your career, you've talked about living
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A life of purpose.
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Some would say, to use a biblical reference,
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That you're in this position, i know you've heard this before,
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For such a time as this.
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How do you feel about that?
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My late brother, who died rescuing hostages
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At the historic raid on entebbe,
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When he was a young soldier, he said:
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"i'd rather be here fighting for the survival
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"of the jewish state than have it
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"being told by historians that israel was a short episode
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"in the history of the wandering jew."
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Well, we're more than a passing episode.
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We're far from that.
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And i've devoted my life to making sure
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That that remains the case.
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It's a very exciting time. -it is indeed.
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Mr. prime minister, we appreciate it.
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Thank you so much. -thank you.
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God bless. we appreciate it.
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Thank you. -thank you. thank you, eric.
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Despite israel's best intentions to bring light,
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To innovate, to contribute to the world,
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The past years of war have revealed a painful truth.
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Much of the world has not stood behind israel.
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Instead of solidarity, we've seen silence.
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And even worse,
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We've seen jewish communities across the globe
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Facing fear and violence reminiscent
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Of the darkest chapters of history.
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In europe, synagogues have been firebombed.
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In london and paris, jews have been beaten
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In the streets for wearing a kippah.
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In american cities, mobs have surrounded
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Jewish-owned businesses,
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Chanting for israel's destruction.
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There is only one solution: intifada revolution!
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It feels hauntingly familiar,
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Like the years leading up to the holocaust,
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When hatred grew unchecked while the world looked away.
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And somehow, the word zionism,
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Which simply means the love of israel,
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The belief that the jewish people should live
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In their indigenous homeland,
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Has been twisted into a curse word.
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From the river to the sea palestine will be free!
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To say you love israel, for many,
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Has become something to hide.
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What the fuck you doing?
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But here's the truth.
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There is no shame in zionism.
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The shame belongs to those
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Who cannot tell the difference between good and evil.
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Bring them home! bring them home!
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Bring them home!
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And yet, there are friends, true friends,
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Men and women who stand tall with israel,
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Who know the difference
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And who refuse to be silent.
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Hamas is isis! hamas is isis!
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America has proven itself one of those friends.
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And among them, evangelical christians
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Have stood shoulder to shoulder with israel
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In this long fight.
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One of those voices belongs to my next guest,
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A true friend of israel, ambassador mike huckabee.
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Welcome to jerusalem!
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I come today on behalf of the american people
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With deep thanks for the incredibly important values
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That unite us together.
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Ambassador mike huckabee, thank you so much
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For joining us in a city, jerusalem,
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That is near to your heart. -yeah.
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Talk a bit about your connection to israel,
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Going back to when you were a young man.
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First trip here was 1973.
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It was between my graduation from high school
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And first semester in college.
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There was something about israel.
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It was a magnet, and i felt drawn to it.
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And it was the only place in the world i've ever been
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Where i felt at home in a place i'd never been.
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And i couldn't wait to get back.
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So in 1981, i started bringing
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Groups of people to israel.
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And over the years, i brought tens of thousands
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Of pilgrims from the u.s.
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To come to see israel for themselves.
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My main purpose is to try to take back
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To the united states to people who may not understand
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This piece of real estate on the face of the earth.
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And i've made over 100 trips here
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In the course of 52 years.
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And the president called and said,
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He doesn't ask, he tells.
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So he called me and told me,
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"mike, you're going to be my ambassador.
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"you're going to go to israel.
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"hope you're ready. you're going."
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That's it.
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It's the only thing
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I couldn't say no to.
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And it was like, it wasn't him calling,
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It was god calling.
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It was, for me, i call it an isaiah moment.
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Here am i, lord, send me.
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And so here i am.
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So help me god.
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Talk about the genesis, no pun intended,
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Of your support for israel.
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What is that support based on?
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The first thing is the bible.
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I'm a person of the book.
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I believe the scriptures.
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Genesis 12, "those who bless israel
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"will be blessed.
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"those who curse israel will be cursed."
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These are biblical truths.
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And i can cling to them, hold to them,
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Be confident about them.
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The second thing was the personal experience.
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To see the prophecy come to life.
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That the dry bones literally have come to life
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Before my eyes.
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That the desert has bloomed as i have watched it bloom.
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Places that were utterly barren 52 years ago.
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There was nothing but dust and stone and rock.
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And there was nothing growing,
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Not even so much as a twig.
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And i drive to those same areas now.
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And there's lush vegetation, fruits and vegetables growing.
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There are forests that used to be desert.
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And you look at that and you realize,
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I have seen scripture come to life.
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Everything god said he was going to do here,
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He's doing it, and i get to be a witness to it.
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The biggest thing that a person needs to do
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To have an understanding of israel
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Is come see it for yourself.
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I don't have to indoctrinate you.
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I don't have to try to persuade you
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Or get you in an intellectual half-nelson
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So that you agree with it. just come and see it.
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I cannot imagine that someone comes here objectively,
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Eyes open, ears open,
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And goes back and says the stupid things people say.
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"oh, israel's an apartheid nation.
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"israel's genocidal."
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You cannot base that on what you see,
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Hear and experience.
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If israel's committing a genocide,
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They're very bad at it.
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Not very good at genocide. -yeah.
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If israel wanted to commit genocide,
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They would have done it on october the 8th.
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They could obliterate gaza in one day,
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In less than a day, if that's what they wanted to do.
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This enemy and what he did
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Is unforgivable.
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And we will attack him until the end.
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But the gaza citizens are not to blame.
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It's not just that they don't obliterate
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Civilian populations.
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They do everything imaginable
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To try and protect them.
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They will send text messages.
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They will send e-mails.
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They will send broadcast messages, pagers,
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Drop leaflets, and they will say,
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If you live in this area, this particular location,
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You need to get out of here.
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Now, the reason some of them don't get out of there
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Is because hamas says, if you leave, we'll shoot you.
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That's what people are not understanding.
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Ambassador, you've seen the footage from october 7th,
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The hamas barbarism.
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How has that affected you?
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It's amazing that some people deny what happened
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On october the 7th.
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It was worse than people can imagine it to be.
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There are things that we saw from the footage
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That was taken by hamas.
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They videotaped themselves doing the most unspeakable things.
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It wasn't just murdering people, innocent civilians,
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Children, elderly people, women.
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It was massacring them, mutilating them
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In front of their families as they were dying.
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There's some things in that video i can't unsee.
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I wish i could.
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I almost wished i hadn't seen it.
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But when somebody tells me it didn't happen,
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I get really angry because i'm thinking,
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No, it really happened,
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And if you're not willing to see it,
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Don't tell the lie that it didn't happen.
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You come to the position of ambassador.
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Talk about the timing of your ascension to this role.
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One thing i tell people is that when i got here,
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My role was not ceremonial.
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We're dealing with heavy-duty life-and-death issues
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Every single day here.
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We are in deep intelligence briefings
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With our intelligence agencies and the israeli mossad.
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Many people will never understand,
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But the u.s. and israel has a level of partnership
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That is unlike any we have
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With any other country on earth.
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And there are too many americans who think
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That all of the benefits are to israel's side.
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And that's simply not true.
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We get as much, if not more, than we receive.
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And that's a message that i want
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Americans to understand. i want them to hear it.
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I feel like it's one of my jobs as the ambassador
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Is not only to represent the u.s. to israel,
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But it's to represent the u.s. interest
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In how we benefit back to our own citizens.
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You sent a text message to president trump,
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And you basically encouraged him,
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Follow where the lord leads you... -yeah.
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When it comes to iran's nuclear weapons programs.
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Yeah. i knew that there were people
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All over his ear.
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Some saying, do one thing,
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Others saying, do another.
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And so i just sent to him that he would make
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The right decision.
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All he had to do was to listen, not to somebody around him.
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Listen to the one above him,
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And he would have the answer.
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Half an hour later, i started watching my phone
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Blow up from people saying,
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I saw your message to the president.
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I'm thinking, did somebody hack my phone?
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How did that happen?
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And then i looked, and i realized
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He released it.
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He shared it with the world.
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What would you say to the world
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In this time where there's so much misinformation,
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Disinformation about israel?
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People need to understand that every enemy
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That israel has is in fact an enemy of america.
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And i don't understand americans
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Who have a naivete about the ultimate goals
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Of the radical islamists.
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For 46 years, the iranians have said,
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We start with israel, and then we go on to the u.s.
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Israel is the appetizer. the u.s. is the entree.
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We have friends, and we have allies.
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We only have one partner. israel is a partner.
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A partner who has done as much for us
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As we have done for them.
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The iranian empire is slowly collapsing. -yeah.
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It seems like a new middle east
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Is possibly brewing now. -yeah.
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Do you have a sense of optimism
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For where the region is heading now?
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I am incredibly encouraged that we are looking
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At a horizon of a complete realignment
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Of the middle east in ways that, frankly,
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Would never have been imagined.
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If i told you that i think
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That syria might be the next partner
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In the abraham accords,
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That lebanon could follow after that,
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That you will see saudi arabia and other gulf state nations
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That will start joining
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And being a part of a new normalization with israel.
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But really an understanding that israel is not our enemy.
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I am not going to try to come and take over the land
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In indonesia or saudi or anywhere else.
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I just want the land god told them
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They could have 3,800 years ago. -amen.
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Ambassador huckabee, thank you so much for all you are doing.
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We appreciate it. god bless.
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Thanks, eric.
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Eight terrorists from gaza
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Get out from the water like monsters.
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And they start with my boy.
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When we return, we'll meet a woman
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Who's suffering tested the limits of endurance
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And whose courage became the emblem
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Of the israeli nation's unbreakable spirit.
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His eye was hanging out of its socket. -yes. yes.
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An eight-year-old boy. -yes.
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They heard the screaming of the boy
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And still they're taking the grenade
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And throw the grenade.
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And throw the grenade.
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Through this journey across eight
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Episodes, we've walked through unfiltered truth,
00:23:37.131 --> 00:23:39.968
Israel's most defining chapter in a generation.
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A story of a people tested by fire
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Who chose to fight not just with force,
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But with faith, unity, and purpose.
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But of everything we've covered,
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I want to pause and talk about the people of israel.
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A real hero is not someone wearing a cape
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Who knows no fear,
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But someone who stares into the abyss
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And chooses to act anyway.
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A hero is the mother who becomes a shield,
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The stranger who becomes family,
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The young soldier who enters the battlefield
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With courage in his eyes
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And his mother's voice in his heart.
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A hero carries heartbreak in one hand
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And unshakable faith in the other.
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October 7th, 2023 was meant to be
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The beginning of israel's end.
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Hamas came not only to murder and destroy,
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But to break a nation.
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In those first hellish hours
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As terrorists desecrated sacred spaces,
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The world waited to see if israel would break.
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They did not break.
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They became unbreakable.
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When darkness threatened to consume everything sacred,
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The people of israel became a nation of heroes.
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A people who have woken up each morning
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For the past two years under the threat of rockets,
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Missiles, and terror,
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With fire raining from all sides,
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And still kept going.
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Never giving up. resilient.
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Steadfast. unshakable.
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Sabine taasa defines such heroism.
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She and her family were among the victims
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Of october 7th.
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The loss and trauma they endured on that day
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Would break even the strongest human being.
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And yet sabine has chosen to turn her pain into purpose.
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To stand as a voice of courage and truth
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For an entire nation.
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Let's meet her.
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Sabine, thanks so much for joining us.
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Thank you.
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Tell us a bit about your life
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In netiv haasara
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Before october 7th.
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I came to netiv haasara at age 28.
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Just a few days after i met my husband, gil.
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I left tel aviv.
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And i said, okay, why not to try something quiet,
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Like a village.
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I knew that something maybe could happen
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Because we are not far away from gaza.
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400 meters from gaza.
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We had a sentence between us in netiv haasara
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That 99% of the time we are living in paradise.
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And 1% of the time we are living in hell.
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Take us through october 7th.
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Take us back to that day. how did that day begin?
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At 6:29 a.m. in the morning,
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I was sleeping very strong.
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My son, zohar, at the time he was 15 years old,
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Came to my room and said to me: "mama, please wake up,
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"wake up, we have an attack, rocket attack."
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You have 7 or 8 seconds to run immediately to the shelter.
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Was your entire family in the shelter with you?
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No.
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I was only with zohar.
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Gil was with the two little boys
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In the other flat that's close to my house.
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But my older son, or, was in zikim, the beach.
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He was at the beach with friends.
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They went out at 6 a.m. in the morning.
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I decided to call or.
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He answered, and i said to him:
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"or, my love,
00:28:54.749 --> 00:28:56.184
"where are you? tell me, are you okay?"
00:28:56.984 --> 00:29:00.054
And he said to me, and you can hear in his voice
00:29:00.054 --> 00:29:03.191
How he's shaking, how he's afraid.
00:29:03.191 --> 00:29:08.162
"mama, i don't know what's happened here.
00:29:08.162 --> 00:29:13.067
"we found shelter with two soldiers
00:29:13.868 --> 00:29:17.538
"that can protect us.
00:29:17.538 --> 00:29:19.841
"don't worry, mama."
00:29:20.308 --> 00:29:26.113
A hamas unit is on the beach with snipers.
00:29:27.014 --> 00:29:30.384
I don't know what else... there's a whole army there.
00:29:30.384 --> 00:29:33.487
I said to him: "please, or,
00:29:34.121 --> 00:29:36.524
"if something bad happens, you must lay down
00:29:36.524 --> 00:29:40.761
"on the floor,
00:29:40.761 --> 00:29:42.263
"and don't even think about to leave the place.
00:29:43.264 --> 00:29:48.903
"please, or, i'm begging you."
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He told me: "please don't worry.
00:29:54.475 --> 00:29:58.446
"don't worry, mama, you know me."
00:29:59.213 --> 00:30:03.184
Six minutes later,
00:30:03.618 --> 00:30:05.853
My boy was murdered by terrorists from gaza
00:30:05.853 --> 00:30:12.927
That get out of the water by swimming
00:30:12.927 --> 00:30:19.100
And eight boats.
00:30:19.467 --> 00:30:22.536
They had rpg, kalashnikov,
00:30:23.170 --> 00:30:27.508
Grenades, knife, and they get out from the water
00:30:27.508 --> 00:30:31.946
Like monsters.
00:30:31.946 --> 00:30:35.883
They shoot everywhere in the beach.
00:30:36.684 --> 00:30:41.255
Everyone was murdered,
00:30:41.756 --> 00:30:45.092
And when they get to the shelter,
00:30:45.092 --> 00:30:49.230
They saw more children there.
00:30:49.864 --> 00:30:54.602
They decide to film it by live,
00:30:55.269 --> 00:30:59.240
And they stop with my boy.
00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.909
They shoot in front of him six bullets
00:31:02.743 --> 00:31:06.814
Straight in the head.
00:31:06.814 --> 00:31:08.582
And they continue with the other boys.
00:31:09.383 --> 00:31:11.719
They were children.
00:31:11.719 --> 00:31:14.322
They just begin the life.
00:31:14.889 --> 00:31:19.126
I didn't know that my boy was killed.
00:31:19.927 --> 00:31:24.165
You were still in the shelter
00:31:24.832 --> 00:31:26.100
With terrorists outside your home?
00:31:26.100 --> 00:31:28.469
Yeah.
00:31:28.703 --> 00:31:30.471
So i tried to call my husband gil,
00:31:31.238 --> 00:31:35.076
But no answer.
00:31:35.443 --> 00:31:38.045
What happened there?
00:31:38.512 --> 00:31:39.714
Talk about that confrontation
00:31:40.348 --> 00:31:42.049
Between gil and the hamas terrorists,
00:31:42.049 --> 00:31:44.685
And how he heroically protected your boys.
00:31:44.685 --> 00:31:58.666
Gil heard the alarms.
00:31:59.166 --> 00:32:02.169
He took the boys outside to the shelter
00:32:02.169 --> 00:32:05.339
Because it wasn't in the flat.
00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:09.010
But gil didn't take with him the gun
00:32:09.777 --> 00:32:13.981
And the iphone.
00:32:13.981 --> 00:32:17.385
And how old were your two youngest boys?
00:32:18.219 --> 00:32:21.355
Koren was 12 years old and shai 8.
00:32:21.355 --> 00:32:26.160
And gil said to the boys:
00:32:26.727 --> 00:32:30.264
"i'm not quiet.
00:32:30.631 --> 00:32:34.135
"i need to go immediately to take the phone, the iphone,
00:32:34.135 --> 00:32:37.838
"and the gun."
00:32:37.838 --> 00:32:39.473
And koren said to him: "please dad,
00:32:39.473 --> 00:32:43.277
"leave this, leave them.
00:32:43.778 --> 00:32:45.713
"you don't need the glock and you don't need the iphone."
00:32:45.713 --> 00:32:47.982
He said: "i must.
00:32:47.982 --> 00:32:49.350
"maybe your mother is looking for us."
00:32:49.350 --> 00:32:54.121
And he ran to the flat, took his gun and the iphone,
00:32:55.189 --> 00:33:02.296
And get out back to the shelter.
00:33:02.296 --> 00:33:09.403
But gil was very tall.
00:33:09.904 --> 00:33:14.975
A very big man.
00:33:15.342 --> 00:33:18.913
And they saw him.
00:33:19.346 --> 00:33:23.484
They took the grenade,
00:33:23.984 --> 00:33:25.686
They opened the grenade and throw the grenade
00:33:26.620 --> 00:33:29.957
To the shelter.
00:33:30.324 --> 00:33:31.392
They knew that they have children there.
00:33:32.226 --> 00:33:37.531
They heard the screaming of the boy.
00:33:38.299 --> 00:33:41.602
And still they taking the grenade
00:33:41.602 --> 00:33:44.338
And throw the grenade on the boys and my husband.
00:33:44.338 --> 00:33:49.443
But he took the grenade, put it in his stomach
00:33:49.443 --> 00:33:53.280
And explode.
00:33:53.280 --> 00:34:01.055
We have footage of gil sacrificing his life
00:34:01.055 --> 00:34:03.757
To save your boys.
00:34:03.757 --> 00:34:05.192
Yes.
00:34:05.192 --> 00:34:06.861
Immediately after gil was murdered,
00:34:06.861 --> 00:34:10.865
The boys get out.
00:34:11.298 --> 00:34:14.068
They were injured.
00:34:14.502 --> 00:34:17.071
And the terrorist took them to the flat.
00:34:17.905 --> 00:34:23.410
And then they started to beat my boy koren.
00:34:24.345 --> 00:34:50.237
The eight year old was in shock.
00:34:50.971 --> 00:34:54.108
He didn't cry, but he was very injured
00:34:54.108 --> 00:34:57.511
And the eye was out.
00:34:57.511 --> 00:35:00.014
He was bleeding from the eye.
00:35:00.014 --> 00:35:01.849
His eye was hanging out of the socket. -yes. yes.
00:35:01.849 --> 00:35:03.984
An eight year old boy. -yes.
00:35:03.984 --> 00:35:08.689
Juice? -no...
00:35:09.089 --> 00:35:11.258
Wine? wine?
00:35:11.258 --> 00:35:13.794
I want my mom! mom!
00:35:14.261 --> 00:35:18.933
I want to die!
00:35:19.300 --> 00:35:22.203
Koren fall in the floor and say in hebrew:
00:35:23.070 --> 00:35:28.142
"why am i alive?"
00:35:28.142 --> 00:35:34.715
"why am i still alive?"
00:35:35.216 --> 00:35:38.152
And this is the famous part that everyone saw in the world
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:44.291
And don't understand how those people, animals,
00:35:44.291 --> 00:35:51.365
Still heroes in all the world.
00:35:51.999 --> 00:35:56.637
You're still in the shelter with another son. -yeah.
00:35:57.705 --> 00:36:02.176
They left the boys after 25 minutes
00:36:02.176 --> 00:36:04.745
And they came straight to me.
00:36:04.745 --> 00:36:06.914
And then try to open the door.
00:36:06.914 --> 00:36:12.453
They try to open the door more than 10 minutes.
00:36:13.454 --> 00:36:17.992
And i said, maybe it's the boy.
00:36:18.726 --> 00:36:21.195
Maybe it's gil. maybe it's or.
00:36:21.195 --> 00:36:23.130
I don't know. i must open the door.
00:36:23.130 --> 00:36:29.937
And i'm going to the door and i open the door
00:36:30.904 --> 00:36:34.308
Very gentle, you know.
00:36:34.308 --> 00:36:38.712
And what i see, it was two terrorists
00:36:39.513 --> 00:36:43.050
In front of me.
00:36:43.050 --> 00:36:48.998
In front of me.
00:36:48.998 --> 00:36:53.598
I opened the door.
00:36:54.032 --> 00:36:56.534
And what i see, it was two terrorists
00:36:57.335 --> 00:37:00.972
In front of me.
00:37:00.972 --> 00:37:02.540
The distance between us, it was exactly like you and me.
00:37:02.540 --> 00:37:07.445
And he took the kalashnikov and said to me:
00:37:07.445 --> 00:37:10.581
"allah akbar! death to the jews!"
00:37:10.581 --> 00:37:13.017
With iranian accent.
00:37:13.484 --> 00:37:17.088
The persian accent.
00:37:17.555 --> 00:37:19.457
So you believe he was iranian?
00:37:19.457 --> 00:37:20.658
I know he was iranian.
00:37:20.658 --> 00:37:22.360
I know, i'm telling you.
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:23.695
Hamas is a proxy of iran, so it makes perfect sense.
00:37:23.695 --> 00:37:27.365
Definitely.
00:37:27.699 --> 00:37:29.667
And i push the door in front of him.
00:37:29.667 --> 00:37:32.737
He get a few steps back off.
00:37:32.737 --> 00:37:36.941
And then the door come back to me.
00:37:36.941 --> 00:37:39.177
And i locked with the key and i was standing.
00:37:39.177 --> 00:37:42.280
"hear, o israel, the lord is our god,
00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:43.715
"the lord is one". i was waiting.
00:37:43.715 --> 00:37:45.683
He's going to kill me.
00:37:45.683 --> 00:37:48.286
But nothing.
00:37:48.619 --> 00:37:50.922
And suddenly i heard, boom!
00:37:51.589 --> 00:37:56.327
It was a grenade.
00:37:56.761 --> 00:37:59.130
And nothing happened.
00:37:59.630 --> 00:38:01.666
Because my house was built with concrete.
00:38:01.666 --> 00:38:07.472
And i saw my boy, zohar, shaking.
00:38:08.206 --> 00:38:12.744
Shaking, with all his pee with him.
00:38:12.744 --> 00:38:18.149
And he threw up and he was in a panic attack.
00:38:18.149 --> 00:38:23.321
And i said to him: "stop now! you understand?
00:38:24.255 --> 00:38:29.494
"and be quiet."
00:38:29.494 --> 00:38:33.998
They came straight to the window.
00:38:34.732 --> 00:38:38.536
The window was not only closed,
00:38:39.237 --> 00:38:43.207
It was like with glue.
00:38:43.207 --> 00:38:45.910
Because gil decided three weeks before the attack,
00:38:45.910 --> 00:38:50.982
The shelter must be protected.
00:38:50.982 --> 00:38:54.519
"these windows, you will never open it again.
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.389
"i'm going to close it for all your life."
00:38:59.290 --> 00:39:03.394
And this is what he did.
00:39:03.895 --> 00:39:08.666
When they tried to open the window, they said:
00:39:09.634 --> 00:39:13.471
"taasa, open the door, bitch.
00:39:13.471 --> 00:39:18.476
"open the door", in arabic and in hebrew
00:39:18.476 --> 00:39:22.213
With the accent.
00:39:22.213 --> 00:39:24.148
But taasa is my family name.
00:39:24.148 --> 00:39:28.252
How do they know my family name?
00:39:28.953 --> 00:39:33.224
They had a map with my name,
00:39:33.891 --> 00:39:37.128
The name of my husband, the name of the boy,
00:39:37.128 --> 00:39:40.031
The name of my cat, the name of my dog,
00:39:40.031 --> 00:39:43.801
The name of my father-in-law, the name of my neighbor.
00:39:43.801 --> 00:39:47.839
They had all the details.
00:39:48.406 --> 00:39:50.975
They'd been planning this for a long time.
00:39:51.876 --> 00:39:54.545
For sure.
00:39:54.846 --> 00:39:58.716
After one hour, they left me.
00:39:59.383 --> 00:40:11.996
So when it was quiet, maybe 10 minutes later,
00:40:12.930 --> 00:40:16.033
I heard: "mama, open the door.
00:40:16.033 --> 00:40:19.203
"open the door, it's me, koren!"
00:40:19.203 --> 00:40:22.507
And i saw my boys with a lot of blood,
00:40:23.307 --> 00:40:27.345
The eye of the little one out.
00:40:27.345 --> 00:40:30.248
And i...
00:40:30.248 --> 00:40:31.849
Take them immediately and close the door
00:40:31.849 --> 00:40:33.851
And straight to the shelter.
00:40:33.851 --> 00:40:51.702
And i noticed that the little one, shay,
00:40:52.570 --> 00:40:55.206
Began to be, you know, blue.
00:40:55.206 --> 00:41:00.077
I took the sheets off the bed
00:41:00.077 --> 00:41:02.847
And start to bathe him but i saw that they
00:41:02.847 --> 00:41:05.583
Have pieces of granite and rocket,
00:41:05.583 --> 00:41:09.320
So i know that i cannot take it off
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:12.123
Because maybe it will kill them,
00:41:12.123 --> 00:41:14.625
But i know that i don't have time.
00:41:14.625 --> 00:41:17.395
If in 10 minutes no one will come in,
00:41:17.395 --> 00:41:22.700
Shay will die.
00:41:23.067 --> 00:41:24.969
And i started to call everyone.
00:41:24.969 --> 00:41:28.839
And finally,
00:41:29.173 --> 00:41:31.108
I get my friend from the
00:41:31.609 --> 00:41:34.679
Kitat konenut (rapid response team)
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:36.447
Of netiv haasara, itay levy.
00:41:36.447 --> 00:41:40.217
"itay, i need help now.
00:41:40.718 --> 00:41:42.887
"i have terrorists around my house.
00:41:42.887 --> 00:41:44.789
"they killed gil."
00:41:44.789 --> 00:41:48.359
After maybe 25 minutes, suddenly i heard:
00:41:49.226 --> 00:41:54.899
"sabine, open the door, it's me, itay!
00:41:54.899 --> 00:41:58.135
"sabine, open the door, we are here to save you!"
00:41:58.135 --> 00:42:03.207
The commando from idf with five people
00:42:04.041 --> 00:42:08.746
Of kitat konenut get in my house
00:42:08.746 --> 00:42:11.916
And said: "immediately, we don't have time.
00:42:12.817 --> 00:42:15.019
"the boy, we're losing the child."
00:42:15.019 --> 00:42:18.089
So i said: "okay, i'm taking just my key,"
00:42:18.089 --> 00:42:21.225
But i didn't take the key.
00:42:21.792 --> 00:42:23.995
I ran away immediately, straight to gil,
00:42:24.829 --> 00:42:28.599
To my husband.
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:34.639
And i saw the body of my love
00:42:35.306 --> 00:42:40.711
With a big,
00:42:41.045 --> 00:42:45.116
You know, liquid of blood.
00:42:45.683 --> 00:42:50.888
And i fall immediately in his face
00:42:50.888 --> 00:42:56.160
And then i don't remember,
00:42:56.727 --> 00:42:58.396
But i felt that someone take me,
00:42:58.396 --> 00:43:01.699
You know, very, very strong.
00:43:01.699 --> 00:43:09.273
And they say to me: "we need to go now!"
00:43:10.141 --> 00:43:13.477
And i say to them: "take the camera.
00:43:13.477 --> 00:43:17.648
"take now the camera. everything was filmed.
00:43:17.648 --> 00:43:21.819
"take the dvr now!"
00:43:22.286 --> 00:43:25.756
That's how you got the footage.
00:43:26.457 --> 00:43:32.663
Take us to the days after october 7th
00:43:33.464 --> 00:43:35.900
And take us up to now.
00:43:35.900 --> 00:43:37.635
Tell us about your sons today.
00:43:38.302 --> 00:43:40.871
I'm telling the boys that we must to live and recover.
00:43:40.871 --> 00:43:47.511
And it's working, but it's not easy.
00:43:47.511 --> 00:43:52.717
Koren cannot get outside.
00:43:53.284 --> 00:43:55.853
Koren cannot be in a big crowd.
00:43:55.853 --> 00:43:59.423
Zohar cannot stop to eat from the october 7th
00:44:00.324 --> 00:44:05.763
And cannot have a normal life.
00:44:05.763 --> 00:44:09.633
Shay is blind with one eye.
00:44:10.301 --> 00:44:15.106
I'm telling to my boys that they're going to be big people,
00:44:16.273 --> 00:44:21.779
Strong, heroes.
00:44:22.146 --> 00:44:25.583
I'm telling to my boys that the life continue.
00:44:26.484 --> 00:44:30.254
The life is beautiful.
00:44:30.254 --> 00:44:32.189
We received back the life as a present.
00:44:32.990 --> 00:44:37.561
The october 7th was a tragedy,
00:44:38.195 --> 00:44:41.699
But it was the day that we born again
00:44:41.699 --> 00:44:46.070
Because we survived.
00:44:46.070 --> 00:44:51.342
I am the mother and the strong rock
00:44:52.143 --> 00:44:57.248
In the house.
00:44:57.248 --> 00:44:58.916
I cannot allow myself to lay down in the bed every day.
00:44:58.916 --> 00:45:07.758
No, i don't have time to cry
00:45:07.758 --> 00:45:12.363
Or to understand that i lost my boy
00:45:12.363 --> 00:45:14.899
And my husband.
00:45:14.899 --> 00:45:16.700
I must tell the truth to the world.
00:45:17.501 --> 00:45:21.438
I will speak in every language to tell the truth.
00:45:21.438 --> 00:45:26.577
And i will not accept antisemitism
00:45:27.344 --> 00:45:30.581
And hate against israel.
00:45:30.581 --> 00:45:33.551
Israel didn't ask for this war.
00:45:33.551 --> 00:45:37.087
Israel protects herself.
00:45:37.087 --> 00:45:40.724
We were attacked when we were sleeping
00:45:40.724 --> 00:45:45.629
In our pajamas very early in the morning.
00:45:45.629 --> 00:45:54.138
The world must understand that the radical islam
00:45:55.105 --> 00:46:01.679
Is not only in israel and europe.
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:04.949
It's in all the world.
00:46:04.949 --> 00:46:08.285
I'm not afraid.
00:46:08.652 --> 00:46:09.920
I lost everything.
00:46:10.354 --> 00:46:12.623
But i believe in life.
00:46:13.123 --> 00:46:15.259
And i believe in the truth.
00:46:15.860 --> 00:46:17.461
And i believe that israel will save the world.
00:46:17.461 --> 00:46:23.367
Sabine, that's why you do what you do.
00:46:24.201 --> 00:46:26.337
And we can't thank you enough for sharing your story.
00:46:26.337 --> 00:46:29.373
I know it's difficult, but the world needs to hear it.
00:46:29.373 --> 00:46:32.142
God bless you and your family, sabine.
00:46:32.142 --> 00:46:33.611
Thank you. -thank you.
00:46:33.611 --> 00:46:34.712
Thank you very much. -i appreciate it.
00:46:34.712 --> 00:46:40.017
Listening to sabine, it becomes impossible
00:46:40.918 --> 00:46:43.888
To ignore a devastating reality.
00:46:43.888 --> 00:46:47.124
The world refuses to see the truth
00:46:47.124 --> 00:46:49.827
About the enemy israel faces.
00:46:49.827 --> 00:46:52.363
Hamas didn't just kill.
00:46:52.363 --> 00:46:54.665
They mocked. they tortured.
00:46:54.665 --> 00:46:56.767
They glorified their own brutality.
00:46:56.767 --> 00:47:01.472
And iran didn't just pay for it.
00:47:02.206 --> 00:47:04.975
They commissioned it.
00:47:04.975 --> 00:47:06.543
This is evil in its purest form.
00:47:06.543 --> 00:47:09.313
And the refusal to call evil by its name
00:47:09.313 --> 00:47:12.650
Is as dangerous as the evil itself.
00:47:12.650 --> 00:47:16.987
The world must learn to differentiate
00:47:17.755 --> 00:47:20.824
Good from evil, truth from lies,
00:47:20.824 --> 00:47:23.761
Because the fight for truth is no less vital
00:47:23.761 --> 00:47:27.197
Than the fight on the battlefield.
00:47:27.197 --> 00:47:29.533
And israel's battle is not only for its own survival.
00:47:29.533 --> 00:47:33.337
It's for the moral clarity of a world
00:47:33.337 --> 00:47:35.873
That too often forgets the difference.
00:47:35.873 --> 00:47:38.509
Israel has always been more than just a nation on a map.
00:47:38.509 --> 00:47:42.479
It's been a blessing to its people,
00:47:42.479 --> 00:47:45.082
To the region, and to the world.
00:47:45.082 --> 00:47:47.584
A land that against all odds
00:47:47.584 --> 00:47:49.753
Has stood proud.
00:47:49.753 --> 00:47:51.555
A land that gives when it has every reason to retreat.
00:47:51.555 --> 00:47:56.327
A land that survives not only by the sword,
00:47:56.327 --> 00:47:59.997
But by the spirit. a land blessed by god.
00:47:59.997 --> 00:48:03.934
And as the bible says in ecclesiastes:
00:48:03.934 --> 00:48:06.870
"there is a time for war and a time for peace."
00:48:06.870 --> 00:48:10.874
And maybe, just
00:48:10.874 --> 00:48:13.010
Maybe, even though this war has been bitter and costly,
00:48:13.010 --> 00:48:16.347
It has also been necessary.
00:48:16.347 --> 00:48:19.083
Necessary to break the grip of terror.
00:48:19.083 --> 00:48:22.453
To push back the darkness.
00:48:22.453 --> 00:48:24.555
And to open the door to something greater.
00:48:24.555 --> 00:48:27.992
And god willing, what follows will be peace.
00:48:27.992 --> 00:48:31.662
True peace.
00:48:31.662 --> 00:48:32.930
A peace with israel still standing strong.
00:48:32.930 --> 00:48:36.533
Still shining bright.
00:48:36.533 --> 00:48:38.669
Leading the way.
00:48:38.669 --> 00:48:38.669

"Am Yisrael Chai" (The People of Israel Live) | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

May 10, 2026 | S1 E8 | 48:47

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