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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - The Darkest of Days

August 30, 2025 | 28:41

John Tweedie - The Darkest of Days
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Darkest of Days | August 30, 2025
  • Our world changed forever.
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  • October 7th, 2023.
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  • I'll explain why after this short
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  • Introduction
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  • Soft music
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  • Welcome to season
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  • 22 of the prophetic connection.
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  • This is going to be a different season
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  • Because normally we would be filming in israel.
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  • But a war is raging in israel today.
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  • And while we could film in some places,
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  • We can go to other places where we would like to film.
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  • So we're doing something very different
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  • With this latest season of the prophetic connection.
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  • We're going back to a documentary series
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  • I did some years ago.
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  • We called it israel a journey through time.
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  • It's the story of israel from the first hebrew,
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  • First to abraham, all the way toward
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  • The battle of armageddon at the end of days.
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  • And in that documentary series, we had testimonies,
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  • Images of the holocaust, everything that israel has gone
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  • Through in her survival
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  • And to be a light to the nations, a light,
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  • Heaven's light reflected through the jewish people
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  • Into the world.
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  • But on october 7th, 2023,
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  • Jewish people today speak of this as the worst day
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  • In jewish history since the holocaust
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  • That occurred at this during the second world war,
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  • When 6 million jewish men, women and children
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  • Were systematically put to death.
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  • Ironically, i was in israel
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  • On october 7th, 2023.
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  • Our camera crew had been filming the day before in the valley
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  • Of elah, where david, the shepherd boy from bethlehem,
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  • Confronted the giant goliath from jaffa in gaza.
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  • We were there on friday, october the 6th,
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  • And the next day, as we were driving to the airport,
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  • We'd heard the news early that morning
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  • That israel was under attack.
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  • The terrorists had come across the border
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  • From gaza into the communities of israel bordering gaza.
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  • And that well, gradually the information came out.
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  • I knew
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  • The rockets were coming over, which wasn't that unusual,
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  • Except it was unusual during the daylight hours.
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  • And that started happening at 630 in the morning.
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  • But later, as time wore on,
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  • We discovered that a massacre had taken place.
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  • Driving from jerusalem, going through the airport, procedures
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  • And boarding our flight home to north america,
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  • The darkest of days in history
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  • In jewish history since the second world war.
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  • We're going to bring that story of that day to you
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  • In this first episode.
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  • In this season, we're also combining the journey
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  • Through time documentary series with season 15,
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  • Another of our prophetic
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  • Connection series, israel's fight to be light
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  • Because the story needs to be told and retold.
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  • The history of israel, god's plans and purposes for israel
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  • And israel's struggle.
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  • Her fight to be light even in the 21st century.
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  • The seventh was shabbat and and some clouds around the holiday.
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  • We were home.
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  • We had heard a rumor that some terrorists had invaded
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  • Israel
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  • And even taken the captives, but nobody knew the breadth of it.
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  • My son was called in and he said to me, you know,
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  • Perhaps you should check your phone
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  • And see if the hospital needs you,
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  • Which i did, and there was a text message
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  • From the head of the hospital at 830 in the morning saying
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  • That by that point, already 200
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  • Patients had been brought into the emergency room.
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  • There was one person who came and severely injured,
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  • And he was acting all tough.
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  • And i'm fine and giving me one word answers.
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  • And it was really like a different.
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  • But it was pretty injured.
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  • And i said, you know,
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  • Again, it doesn't bother me because i know
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  • I'm going to see them tomorrow
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  • And the next day and the next day.
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  • So i said, you know, it's fine.
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  • I'll see you tomorrow.
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  • And i gave him my hand.
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  • I shook his hand,
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  • Put my other
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  • Hand on his shoulder, and he just broke down crying.
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  • He said, you know, i don't know what was going to be.
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  • They evacuated me by helicopter.
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  • I don't know how seriously i was injured.
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  • And he said, you know, the doctor in the helicopter
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  • Gave me his hand and held my hand
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  • And said, you're going to be fine.
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  • And until now, nobody else has.
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  • And that that just made him feel so comfortable.
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  • We've gotten through this historically.
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  • We've gotten through this.
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  • That's you never hear anybody's questioning
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  • What the end game is and what the end point is, because,
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  • In hebrew,
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  • I'm a nurse feel of the will be there at the end.
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  • The jewish people are always there at the end.
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  • And that's never in doubt.
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  • Israel, a land so small, yet so important.
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  • This tiny country was known as palestine for nearly 2000 years.
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  • But in 1948, that changed when jews from around the globe
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  • Reclaimed this land and again made it their own
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  • To explore the rich, turbulent history
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  • Of israel and ignore the jewish people would be impossible.
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  • The history of this land and people are forever entwined.
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  • But why does this matter today?
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  • And why should we care about people that have been so hated
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  • And persecuted down throughout the ages?
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  • You know, it is hard to comprehend
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  • The amount of jewish suffering down through the centuries
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  • And today,
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  • In the opening decades of the 21st century,
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  • Suffering again.
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  • How do you explain all this jewish suffering?
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  • That is that is one of the great questions.
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  • You know, the notion of god is all good,
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  • All powerful and all knowing.
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  • Then why is there evil and suffering in the world?
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  • And, you know, the jewish people,
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  • We we have suffered tremendously more.
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  • And that's not a competition who's been persecuted more.
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  • But i think the jewish people win and hands down,
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  • You know, anti-semitism being the longest, most irrational,
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  • Universal hatred in the world, we never seem to escape it.
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  • And we're seeing it at levels
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  • Now that we haven't seen since the holocaust.
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  • But when it when dealing with the whole issue,
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  • Why does it happen?
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  • I always have to distinguish between the micro and the macro.
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  • You know, the micro, like
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  • Why something happens to an individual person.
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  • We don't know that
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  • That's between that's between that person and god.
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  • And you know,
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  • When you go to heaven,
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  • God shows you the movie and explains why it happened
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  • And you realize that was correct.
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  • And just because we have a very narrow perspective,
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  • We don't see what's going on.
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  • You know that analogy of you walk outside your house
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  • And you see a woman slapping a child?
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  • What a horrible mother.
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  • But you, miss, was the fact that 15 seconds before the kid
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  • Just ran on the road was almost hit by a truck.
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  • So we don't have we and our little in this
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  • In the grand scheme of this world, the here and now.
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  • But in terms of this world, the next world is predicated
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  • On a certain understanding that this world is not all there is.
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  • This is a soul or, you know, the ultimate reward.
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  • We're supposed to be in this world and enjoy it.
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  • But there's the real reward is the spirituality
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  • And the afterlife.
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  • You know, all those things put together a change.
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  • The picture of what we you know, how we understand it,
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  • But in a macro level, it it it has to do with the jewish
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  • People in terms of suffering is are not keeping our side
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  • Of the bargain.
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  • It's sometimes hard for people to digest, but anything that bad
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  • That habits of the jewish people is on some level in the macro,
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  • Whether it's a crusade or a holocaust,
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  • It has something to do with our us falling short
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  • In in our in our relationship with god
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  • And our contractual agreement in that covenant arrangement
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  • That we have with our father in heaven.
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  • October 7th has had an incredible impact
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  • On the jewish people worldwide,
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  • And we just wonder where we go from here
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  • If we don't get a lid on this, if we
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  • If the authorities of the norm somehow put an end to it
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  • And crack down on it.
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  • I'm not comfortable of, where we go from here
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  • From a jewish perspective, as you travel,
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  • You must be seeing this around the world.
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  • Absolutely.
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  • The people who hate us don't distinguish between ours or
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  • At the level of our observance or our political affiliation.
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  • It wasn't like you went to auschwitz in 1943.
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  • And there's okay,
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  • Ashkenazi jews, sephardic jews, orthodox jews,
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  • Conservative jews, reformed jews,
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  • You know, like politically right wing and left wing.
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  • I said, there's only one line
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  • And that the message, the message i said to us
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  • As a jewish people is we are all in this together.
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  • We may have lost the message and have millions of jews
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  • Who are very disconnected and poorly educated,
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  • But they're still part of this team.
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  • The creator of the universe is holding us responsible and
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  • And especially holding,
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  • Which is why god doesn't just go after
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  • The jews who are left weighing and not following the torah.
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  • I said, no, no, no, no.
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  • It's a very basic belief in judaism
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  • That the more you know, the more you're held accountable
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  • And the greater the impact of the mistakes
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  • You make according to your level of responsibility.
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  • So those jews who are connected,
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  • Who should know better, who have a strong identity,
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  • Can't just say, okay, i'm safe, you guys forget it. no.
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  • And i'm not just to forget it in
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  • Terms of physical threats, in terms of spiritual threats,
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  • You don't reach out to your brother or sister
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  • And show them the beauty of your faith and reconnect them
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  • Not to coercion, not through force,
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  • Not through arguing, but through love.
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  • You're going to be held responsible.
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  • But it's also a big message, for the world,
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  • That anti-semitism is this cosmic struggle of values.
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  • And it begins by focusing
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  • On the jewish people of the jewish state,
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  • But it spreads out to the whole world,
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  • Which is why non-jews should be really concerned,
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  • Because ultimately, what drives all of anti-semitism, it's
  • 00:10:52.018 --> 00:10:55.021
  • A rebellion
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  • Against the national historic mission of the jewish people
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  • To bring a certain vision of values, a spirituality
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  • Of morality, to the world.
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  • How are we to understand the festering sore
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  • That is the border between israel and the gaza
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  • Strip?
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  • The modern story of gaza
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  • Is really a story of a struggle between two people groups,
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  • The israelites, the people of israel, on the one
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  • Hand, and the arab nation on the other.
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  • Now today they are called palestinians,
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  • But they were not always called palestinians.
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  • That's a recent name assigned to them
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  • As their choice of their identity.
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  • But they were before that, arabs or the descendants of arabs
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  • Who migrated to the land of israel. certainly
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  • In the late 19th century and into the 20th century.
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  • And so today their descendants, called palestinians,
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  • Live in gaza,
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  • And their numbers are approaching 2 million people.
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  • But to really understand where gaza is and what gaza is,
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  • We have to go back to the biblical account.
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  • And the context is found in the book of joshua,
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  • Who assumed
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  • Command of the armies of israel from moses.
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  • Now moses was,
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  • Old and about to die,
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  • And he realized that he needed a successor.
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  • So his mantle fell to joshua.
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  • And joshua didn't feel adequate to step into moses shoes.
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  • Moses had led the children of israel,
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  • First of all, out of egypt and across the wilderness
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  • That had been with them 40 years.
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  • But we read this in joshua chapter one,
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  • After the death of moses, a servant of the lord.
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  • It came to pass that the lord spoke to joshua the son of nun,
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  • Moses assistant, saying, moses, my servant is dead.
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  • Now therefore arise, go over this, jordan, you
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  • And all this people to the land which i am giving to them.
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  • The children of israel.
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  • And they came here to the promised land, to israel.
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  • And then god's promise to them, every place that the sole
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  • Of your foot will tread upon.
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  • I have given you, as i said to moses.
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  • And then
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  • God describes the boundaries of the promised land.
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  • Verse four from the wilderness and this lebanon,
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  • As far as the great river, the river euphrates,
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  • All the land of the hittites, and to the great sea,
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  • Meaning the mediterranean,
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  • Toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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  • Now israel today is a very small,
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  • Piece of land at the eastern end of the mediterranean.
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  • But god's design, biblical boundary was to go
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  • As far as the river euphrates, far to the east from here.
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  • But history changes things.
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  • In verse five.
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  • No man shall be able to stand
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  • Before you all the days of your life.
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  • As i was with moses.
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  • So i will be with you.
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  • I will not leave you nor forsake you.
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  • Be strong and of good courage.
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  • For to this people you shall divide as an inheritance.
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  • The land which i swore to their fathers to give them.
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  • Only be strong and very courageous,
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  • That you may observe to do according to all the law
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  • Which moses my servant commanded you.
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  • Do not turn from it to the right hand
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  • Or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
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  • So joshua obeyed the word of the lord,
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  • And with the armies of israel came into what was known
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  • Then as the land of canaan and canaan simply
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  • Meant low land, the low land by the mediterranean sea,
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  • Along the coast of what today is israel.
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  • And the land was allotted to the tribes of israel.
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  • But when we speak of gaza, we can be more specific.
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  • And when we come to joshua chapter 15, we read these words.
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  • So this was the lord of the tribe of the children of judah.
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  • So this area was given
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  • To judah according to their families.
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  • And then the borders are explained.
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  • The border of adam at the wilderness of zin
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  • Southward was the extreme southern boundary,
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  • And their southern border began to the shore of the salt
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  • Sea known today as the dead sea,
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  • From the bay that faces southward.
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  • And as i move through joshua chapter 15,
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  • The east border was the salt sea as far as the
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  • Mouth of the jordan, and the border in the northern quarter
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  • Began at the bay of the sea, at the mouth of the jordan.
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  • The west border was the coastline of the great sea.
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  • This is the boundary of the children of judah
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  • All around, according to their families.
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  • Now, as we read through in
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  • Joshua chapter 15,
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  • This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of judah.
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  • According to their families,
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  • The cities at the limits of the tribe
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  • Of the children of judah, toward the border of adam
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  • In the south, where cubs will eat our jaguar.
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  • I won't take time to read all the names,
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  • But it's very specific.
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  • And what is being said here is
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  • This is the inheritance of the tribe of judah.
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  • But the important point that i want to stress
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  • In this episode concerns gaza, where i'm standing.
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  • Verse 47
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  • I stayed with its towns and villages,
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  • Gaza with its towns and villages,
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  • As far as the brook of egypt and the great sea
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  • With its coastline.
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  • So here we have in the biblical account
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  • In joshua chapter 15,
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  • That gaza and all the cities of this
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  • Area were being assigned to the tribe of judah.
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  • This was their inheritance in the land of israel.
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  • Now, as i mentioned earlier, the people
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  • That live in gaza today are the descendants of arabs
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  • Who migrated to this land in recent centuries.
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  • And of course, their families
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  • Have grown, and today they have a burgeoning population.
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  • But their agenda is not to live in peace with israel.
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  • And the sad thing is, they are ruled by hamas,
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  • Whose agenda is
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  • The destruction of israel and the displacement of israel.
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  • And in a sense, the people for the palestinians
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  • Are to be pitied, for they serve under cruel taskmasters.
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  • And if they disobey, they're the rulers over in gaza.
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  • They can be put to death.
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  • And so fear, stalks the streets of gaza
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  • While hamas is in control. now.
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  • Dasa was recaptured by israel
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  • In the six day war in june of 1967,
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  • And jews began to migrate into gaza
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  • And to build communities there
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  • And to build lives for themselves and their families.
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  • And they were prospering,
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  • And they took the sterile soil of gaza,
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  • And with their inventive ways, began to grow crops.
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  • In fact, they were developing new crops.
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  • And but they could only do so under the protection of israeli
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  • Soldiers who were also stationed in gaza all through that time.
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  • Now, a decision was made by the government
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  • Of israel in 2005.
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  • And by the way, as i'm giving this teaching,
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  • An israeli drawn is flying overhead.
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  • And you can probably hear it in the background.
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  • It gives me a sense of safety, because on the drawing,
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  • Our eyes
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  • That are watching
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  • The border area and there are guards
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  • And there are other means of defense.
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  • And so my comfort is that that drone is overhead, even though
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  • It's not the greatest thing to have when you're trying to film.
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  • But back to the year 2005.
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  • In a desperate pursuit of peace,
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  • The israeli government decided
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  • To pull the jews out of gaza,
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  • And they were a community of some 8 to 9000 people.
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  • They primarily they were farmers,
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  • And that's about all they really knew how to do.
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  • Well, to take these sand of gaza, turn it into soil
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  • And grow crops that could be exported
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  • Throughout israel
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  • And to the rest of the world, for that matter.
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  • But the painful decision was made
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  • That it was time for all jews to leave gaza.
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  • So what was known as the community of gush katif
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  • Was uprooted, actually, by soldiers and by priests
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  • Who were taking their brothers and sisters by the arms
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  • And forcibly removing them, because the israelis, for this
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  • Was their home
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  • And they didn't want to leave, they didn't want to give up
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  • Where they had put their blood, sweat and tears.
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  • So they were forcibly removed.
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  • And i think even now, in the, opening decades,
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  • Of the 21st century, that many of them
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  • Have not even found probably employment
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  • Because they were primarily farmers in the first place.
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  • But the reason that israel pulled the jews out of gaza in
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  • 2005, in august of that year,
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  • Was an attempt to demonstrate
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  • To the world that israel longed for peace,
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  • That any peaceful solution they would they would grab,
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  • But they would show the world they wanted peace that much that
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  • They would give up a foothold in gaza.
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  • And sadly, peace was not to be,
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  • Because very soon, under hamas's influence
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  • And in fact, they seized control in, january of 2006.
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  • It was supposed to be a popular democratic election,
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  • But they really just took over
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  • And the rockets began firing more and more.
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  • Until we have the situation today
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  • Where israel has had to add new levels of defense
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  • Because rockets become more sophisticated.
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  • And the jewish people who live here want to stay here.
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  • And rockets
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  • Will not drive them out, for they are determined to stay.
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  • But this is the situation.
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  • They're like, would you want to live here
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  • With fences like the one you can see in the distance,
  • 00:22:42.961 --> 00:22:45.964
  • Knowing that there are terrorist entities over there
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  • Who would try to come over the fence or under the fence
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  • If they could,
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  • And come against you and your family and your children.
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  • This is why this is a festering sore on israel's doorstep.
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  • If only the people on the other side of that wall
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  • Would have a change of heart and a different attitude.
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  • If only they wanted to live in peace
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  • With their is really neighbors.
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  • Think about it this way.
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  • Imagine that the gaza strip, on
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  • Its west side, has the mediterranean coast.
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  • Could you imagine if there was peace
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  • And hotels could be built
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  • And tourists
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  • Would come from all over the world,
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  • Because it's still part of biblical israel,
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  • And how they would come with their families
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  • And bring prosperity to the palestinian people.
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  • What a different outcome altogether.
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  • But it takes two sides to make peace.
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  • Stay tuned for more from doctor
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  • John tweedy after this break.
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  • If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
  • 00:23:54.967 --> 00:23:57.402
  • The bible says,
  • 00:23:57.402 --> 00:23:58.470
  • If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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  • And believe in your heart that god raised him
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  • From the dead, you will be saved.
  • 00:24:03.275 --> 00:24:06.345
  • C4i, that simply means we are christians
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  • Who care about israel,
  • 00:24:10.349 --> 00:24:12.551
  • And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
  • 00:24:12.551 --> 00:24:15.354
  • Because they are suffering so much.
  • 00:24:15.354 --> 00:24:17.389
  • First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
  • 00:24:17.389 --> 00:24:20.392
  • 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
  • 00:24:20.392 --> 00:24:25.564
  • And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
  • 00:24:25.564 --> 00:24:29.334
  • We're here to help the less fortunate,
  • 00:24:29.334 --> 00:24:31.703
  • The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
  • 00:24:31.703 --> 00:24:34.673
  • Special children that need 24 seven care.
  • 00:24:34.673 --> 00:24:38.644
  • But we can't do it alone.
  • 00:24:38.644 --> 00:24:39.978
  • We need your help. please.
  • 00:24:39.978 --> 00:24:42.080
  • You'll see the numbers on the screen.
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  • You'll see the websites that we have.
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  • Please go to the phone or go to the website.
  • 00:24:46.485 --> 00:24:49.621
  • Make a donation.
  • 00:24:49.621 --> 00:24:50.856
  • Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
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  • Thank you.
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  • One. the problem that is gaza today
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  • Is a painful situation for people on both sides.
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  • The palestinians behind the wall
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  • And the israelis beyond the wall.
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  • And i can think of no better way to conclude this episode
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  • Than to allow the word of god to speak to the situation.
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  • I'm thinking specifically of a psalm of david,
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  • When david was in distress
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  • And running for his life, and when enemies were chasing him.
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  • And the psalm is psalm three.
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  • And let me conclude with this, because i cannot do better
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  • Than the holy word of god,
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  • The words of god through david,
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  • Lord, how they have increased troubled me.
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  • Many are they who rise up against me.
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  • Many are they who serve me.
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  • There is no help for him in god.
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  • That's what the nations are really saying today.
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  • Because israel seems to be standing completely alone
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  • And only with her god to help her.
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  • But david's trust is in god.
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  • But you, o lord, are a shield for me,
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  • My glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
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  • I cried to the lord with my voice,
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  • And he heard me from his holy hill.
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  • I lay down and slept.
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  • Think of the people in these communities
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  • As they put their children to bed at night,
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  • And as they say their evening prayers, as they have done
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  • For thousands of years.
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  • I awoke for the lord sustain me.
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  • I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people
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  • Who have set themselves against me all around.
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  • Arise, o lord, save me, o my god.
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  • For you have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone.
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  • You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
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  • And then this salvation belongs to the lord.
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  • Your blessing is upon your people.
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  • David expresses his confidence in god,
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  • The blessing of god over his people,
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  • Even though he's in distress and fleeing from his enemies.
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  • And surely that's a word for israel today
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  • On the border with gaza.
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  • God is with his people.
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  • His blessing is upon them,
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  • Even in conflict, even in terrible strife.
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