On this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Mike Huckabee joins Joel Rosenberg to discuss Israel, Iran and the future of Gaza.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: The Future of Gaza | The Rosenberg Report | January 29, 2026
- Tonight on the rosenberg report, we sit down with president
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- Trump's point man in israel, ambassador mike huckabee.
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- Is the president about to attack iran?
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- Is he really about to topple the tyrants in tehran?
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- What could be the fallout if iran retaliates against israel?
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- Plus, why did roman catholic and orthodox priests in jerusalem
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- Just launch a broadside against christian zionism?
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- What's the ambassador's response
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- Being such an outspoken christian zionist?
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- And why is he greeted be the keynote speaker
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- At a conference of 3000 evangelicals
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- That i'm organizing here in israel?
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- It's an exclusive conversation with u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel mike huckabee.
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- It's all right here, right now on the rosenberg
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- Report.
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- Never a dull moment.
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- Okay.
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- Whether we're talking about israel, iran, christian zionism,
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- The return of the last body of one of the hostages,
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- The last hostage in gaza,
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- Battles over christian zionism, the future of gaza.
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- There's so much to talk about.
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- And i can't think of anybody i'd rather talk about it
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- With than my friend, ambassador mike huckabee.
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- Ambassador, thank you for coming back on the rosenberg report.
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- Good to see you.
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- Welcome back on the show. well, thanks, joel.
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- You know, it's, everything you just described.
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- Just what's happening here.
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- This is, a very fascinating time.
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- So much is going on.
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- It's going to be hard to squeeze it all in
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- In our conversation, but we're going to give it our best shot.
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- Absolutely. let's start with the big news.
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- Of course, of this week.
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- At least as we record this on a tuesday, you just.
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- I want the audience to know that we're recording
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- On this on tuesday, so anything else can happen.
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- We're going to get to iran in a moment.
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- But the big news of the week was the announcement that
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- The last body, the remains of the last hostage
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- In gaza, ran gvili, had
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- Been discovered by idf forces and is coming back home.
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- You were with president herzog when that announcement came.
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- What's your reaction?
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- Because in many ways, it's
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- Such a dramatic thing for all israelis.
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- But it's also a completion of president trump's promise.
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- All hostages would be returned.
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- And i don't think anybody
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- It's not that they didn't believe him.
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- I just don't think any israeli
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- Really believe that could happen.
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- Yeah.
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- If anyone had said four and a half months ago,
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- All the hostages will be back by the end of january
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- And living and dead,
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- And there will be a ceasefire that will hold.
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- People would have said, yeah, it's not going to happen.
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- I mean, i've been here less than a year.
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- We've been through four wars.
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- This is the longest period of time
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- There has not been any missile alerts, a rocket alerts.
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- It is,
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- A remarkable time, but
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- The release of the hostage this week of ron gvili
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- Is so important.
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- Because, first of all, it's the first time
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- Since 2014
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- That israel has not had a hostage in gaza.
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- People forget that in the 2014 war,
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- There were two hostages that had been held there, and
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- The young man, golden, was able to get out
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- As the last of the 2014 hostages.
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- I'd met his mother
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- On many occasions, back and forth through the years.
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- That was one that was very personal to me
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- Because of the connection with her.
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- And then for ron gvili to get out.
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- I think what it did, it gave everyone here
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- A combination of euphoria and relief.
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- Everyone breathed a deep sigh of relief
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- Because just the thought
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- That there was still a hostage and a mass was holding them.
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- This happened largely
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- Because the idf and shin bet, working with extraordinary,
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- Good intelligence and with the assistance
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- Of the egyptians who get some credit in this.
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- They were able to make sure
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- That there was a safe way for the idf to get to
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- What turned out to be about 250 bodies
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- In order to find out was one of them. ron.
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- And that was a miracle, really, that,
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- You know,
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- An entire war zone devastation, the apocalyptic devastation
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- That you could find this needle in this particular haystack.
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- I mean, i really
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- You know,
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- That is great intelligence, but it really strikes me as
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- A miracle and the answer to a lot of people's prayers.
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- It's also a great testament to the commitment both president
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- Trump and prime minister netanyahu made, which was
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- We will not leave a hostage there.
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- Well, amen.
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- We'll talk more about gaza later in the program, lord willing.
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- But i want to talk about iran. okay.
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- If ron hadn't been returned this week.
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- Then then the only topic really to talk about is,
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- How close are we to
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- An actual u.s.
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- Strike on iran?
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- I want to just lay out what i laid out on the show last week.
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- I said to people, look,
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- There are i guess there are three options.
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- Major options.
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- President trump has talked tough, but he could do nothing.
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- And for a variety
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- Of risk assessments or negotiate with iran or whatever,
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- That's possible. do nothing.
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- The other possibility is a large but limited attack
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- That would punish the iranian regime, but not explicitly
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- Try to topple it and then see what happens.
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- The third would be go all in and explicitly declare,
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- We're going to keep attacking until until this regime falls.
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- Messy, expensive, complicated, and there's a high risk of it
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- Being devastating but not really working. so
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- What should christian viewers?
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- What should american viewers? what should israelis?
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- What should we be thinking?
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- Because we're all sensing any moment
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- This thing could erupt between the united states and iran,
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- And israel could take, you know,
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- A retaliatory strike or many.
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- I think it's fair to say something could happen
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- Very quickly.
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- But it's also even more fair to say
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- It may not happen also quickly.
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- Also immediately. we just don't know.
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- There is
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- Concern that iran might decide to do some strike
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- Preemptively against israel or against the u.s.
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- Forces in the gulf.
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- We have a number of facilities,
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- As you know, throughout the gulf states.
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- And, those are very, very significant
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- To what bahrain, among others, saudi arabia.
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- We have, you know, a number of,
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- Military bases and significant assets.
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- So are they going to try to strike?
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- They're forcing us.
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- We don't know. here's what i think.
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- It's fair to say.
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- We should be prepared for anything,
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- But we should not be afraid of anything.
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- We should look at this as we live
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- In a part of the world where on any given day,
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- Something could happen that we were not expecting.
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- And i would say that only the president
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- Of the united states knows what he will do.
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- Nobody else has the absolute word.
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- If i were to speculate and say,
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- Joel, here's what i think's going to happen.
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- Here's how i see it laying out on the calendar.
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- I would be making it up.
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- I don't know, the president and the president alone would be
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- Able to answer that question, and he has not authorized me.
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- The president may not have decided yet.
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- He may have decided.
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- And you don't know or other people don't know
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- Or they're not supposed to say.
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- But it's also possible that he's still assessing if
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- Putting everything in place and then trying to see
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- Sort of what's the what is the right thing to do.
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- One of the questions we've discussed here on the show is,
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- To go all in and say, i'm bringing down this regime.
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- A can you do it with air power?
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- B if you take out the top 5000 worst people in iran,
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- There are 50,000 others happy to take over the regime.
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- And you may not get a reza pahlavi,
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- A moderate or somebody else like him.
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- So those are risks.
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- My instinct is that if that he's considering
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- This large but limited strike and then, you know, to say,
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- I punished you, i told you, don't do it.
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- You did it.
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- But, but take this inside the thinking,
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- Because the president has said that he'll come to the rescue.
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- Yeah, he said help is on the way,
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- And day after day is going by.
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- So those who are skeptics or those who are on the ground
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- In iran, they're getting anxious.
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- Joel, there's a saying we used down south and it says
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- There is no education. in the second kick of a mule.
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- Last summer was a kick of the mule.
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- I mean, iran got one right in the face.
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- If they didn't learn anything from that,
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- It's probably not likely they're going to learn
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- Something from the second kick of the mule.
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- President trump has made it very clear that
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- Iran cannot continue to murder its own people.
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- We don't know just how extensive.
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- We know that.
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- It's probably worse than we think it is,
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- Because they're very careful about,
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- Hiding the realities of the violence
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- They're committing against their own people.
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- And the numbers that we know are disturbing.
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- And the manner in which these people are being,
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- Killed for their protest is very disturbing.
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- The president does not take that lightly.
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- What i can say with certainty is not about what will he do?
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- When will he do it? here's what i can tell you.
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- It deeply affects him
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- That innocent people who are simply protesting an evil regime
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- That has destroyed what once was a
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- Masterful, delightful culture.
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- He's very attentive to that.
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- Would he like to see
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- All of this resolved in some very peaceful resolution?
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- Absolutely.
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- The one thing
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- That people may not fully understand
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- Or appreciate about president trump is it for him.
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- Military action is not the first resort.
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- It's not the thing he wants to do first.
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- It's the thing he wants to do last.
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- But it's also the thing that he is willing to do
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- When efforts of diplomacy and negotiation don't work.
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- Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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- Why are roman catholic and orthodox leaders
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- In jerusalem suddenly attacking christian zionism?
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- What's the ambassador's response?
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- Why is the ambassador agreed to be the keynote speaker
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- At a conference i'm organizing for evangelical christians
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- Right here in jerusalem.
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- Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn right
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- After the break.
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- After the break.
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- Welcome back to
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- The rosenberg report with my dear friend and the u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel.
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- One of the most interesting men i've ever met.
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- And you know, who knew?
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- Mr. ambassador, when, when president trump was
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- That he was going to call you and invite you to do this.
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- And you are here for such a time as this.
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- It has been very, very dramatic.
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- I want to get to these attacks,
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- By tucker carlson, by candace owens,
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- By so many others,
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- But also by the leadership of the historic churches here,
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- In, in jerusalem, unchristian zionism, because you, you,
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- You you put out a statement, on that.
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- Let's get to that in a moment.
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- But first, tucker carlson,
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- That's one challenge you and i have talked about.
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- And it's a serious challenge, i think.
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- Yes, it is anti-israel person on the, the american.
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- Right. and a huge influence.
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- But we just had the statement put out on january 28th
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- By the patriarchs who had up the roman catholic
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- And some of the orthodox churches here in jerusalem
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- Blasting christian zionism.
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- It seemed a little out of the blue to me.
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- But, it was pretty sharp.
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- And it talked about it was basically misleading people,
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- And it was harmful and it was dangerous,
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- And it brought danger and harm to the christians of this land.
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- And then they claimed
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- They speak for the christians of this land alone.
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- They alone, they said, speak
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- And pretty much ruling out all evangelicals,
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- All messianic jews, anybody of any other denomination.
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- You put out a statement,
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- Which i'm not sure if that's characteristic of a u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, but you're a known devout
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- Evangelical christian, and you're a devout or
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- Let's say, about,
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- A principled christian zionist yourself.
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- This is partly why i think
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- The president appointed you, but what was your take? and,
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- What was the statement that you made?
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- Well, i want us to work toward a more,
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- Unified christian voice.
- 00:12:09.718 --> 00:12:11.921
- Now, that doesn't mean we're going to agree on everything.
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- We don't agree
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- On modes of baptism or doctrine of various things.
- 00:12:14.924 --> 00:12:18.294
- Interestingly, some of those churches
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- That all supposedly and interestingly,
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- There were no names on that letter,
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- Which i thought was a bit yeah, different.
- 00:12:24.567 --> 00:12:28.103
- They don't all agree on a host of doctrinal issues,
- 00:12:29.104 --> 00:12:33.042
- But they said in the letter, we're speaking and we're
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- The only ones who can speak for christians in the holy land.
- 00:12:35.744 --> 00:12:40.082
- I found out a little bit challenging
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- Because i'm thinking,
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- You know, i'm a part of a free church tradition.
- 00:12:43.319 --> 00:12:45.354
- As an evangelical,
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- We believe in the priesthood of the believer,
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- The autonomy of the local church.
- 00:12:47.990 --> 00:12:49.692
- We don't think that our church government model is one
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- That comes top down. it's really bottom up.
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- And therefore,
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- Since there are so many of us around the world
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- And we are christians, zionist
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- Unapologetically, it simply means
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- That we are followers of jesus.
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- That makes us christian.
- 00:13:04.340 --> 00:13:05.708
- Zionist means we believe that there is a historical, biblical,
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- And even geopolitical right of jewish people
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- To live in the land that goes all the way back 3800 years.
- 00:13:12.381 --> 00:13:15.651
- To abraham, it's as simple as that.
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- So this shouldn't be that controversial.
- 00:13:17.686 --> 00:13:19.855
- People don't have to agree with us on that.
- 00:13:19.855 --> 00:13:22.124
- But that's what we believe and there's a good case for it.
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- They said it was
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- Harmful to the actual christians on the ground here.
- 00:13:26.695 --> 00:13:29.798
- I mean,
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- I'm not saying everything's perfect for christians here.
- 00:13:31.233 --> 00:13:32.534
- You have been outspoken about some challenges
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- In the israeli ministry of interior.
- 00:13:34.803 --> 00:13:36.572
- And so you've been pretty outspoken about that.
- 00:13:36.572 --> 00:13:38.707
- And there's there's been issues of of,
- 00:13:38.707 --> 00:13:41.176
- You know, christians being spat upon or,
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- Or even physically attacked and the whole city.
- 00:13:42.978 --> 00:13:45.047
- So i'm not saying that things are perfect here,
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- But when you compare them
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- To syria or to iraq or to lebanon or other places,
- 00:13:48.183 --> 00:13:51.987
- You'd have to say that
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- Israel being here as a sovereign nation,
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- Has protected christians, and it's a thriving and growing
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- Christian community.
- 00:13:58.460 --> 00:13:59.395
- Whereas a lot of the countries in the region,
- 00:13:59.395 --> 00:14:01.430
- The numbers of christians are going down
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- Almost to the point of extinction
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- Around the world.
- 00:14:06.835 --> 00:14:07.536
- I wish people understood that
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- Whatever they think of israel, israel does a very,
- 00:14:09.305 --> 00:14:11.740
- Very admirable job of protecting holy sites for christians,
- 00:14:11.740 --> 00:14:16.145
- Whether it's in the galilee or whether it's in the old city.
- 00:14:16.145 --> 00:14:19.214
- I can go to christian sites and those are going to be open.
- 00:14:19.214 --> 00:14:22.685
- They're going to be protected.
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- There are instances as you mentioned, where you have
- 00:14:24.853 --> 00:14:27.356
- Some very radical ultra-orthodox jewish people.
- 00:14:27.356 --> 00:14:30.793
- If they see someone in a clerical christian robe,
- 00:14:30.793 --> 00:14:32.795
- They may spit on them or heckle them.
- 00:14:32.795 --> 00:14:34.697
- And my pushback is,
- 00:14:34.697 --> 00:14:37.433
- If you think it's offensive to spit
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- On someone in new york city who's wearing a kippah,
- 00:14:39.335 --> 00:14:42.404
- Then it's equally disgusting and inexcusable for you to spit
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- On somebody who might be wearing a clerical robe.
- 00:14:47.076 --> 00:14:50.145
- You can't have one without the other.
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- I'm happy to say that the highest levels
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- Of the israeli government
- 00:14:54.616 --> 00:14:55.818
- Are appalled by those actions, and they condemn it openly,
- 00:14:55.818 --> 00:14:59.254
- As they should. we all need to.
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- I hope that
- 00:15:02.458 --> 00:15:04.760
- The relationships
- 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:05.794
- That i've worked hard to build with some of the,
- 00:15:05.794 --> 00:15:07.663
- I would call them church fathers,
- 00:15:07.663 --> 00:15:08.964
- If you will, of the more orthodox churches here.
- 00:15:08.964 --> 00:15:11.967
- I've had meetings with virtually all of them,
- 00:15:11.967 --> 00:15:14.269
- And we'll continue to.
- 00:15:14.269 --> 00:15:15.704
- I consider them friends, brothers.
- 00:15:15.704 --> 00:15:18.374
- I got no beef with them.
- 00:15:18.374 --> 00:15:19.875
- They don't have to eat their soup the same way i do.
- 00:15:19.875 --> 00:15:22.311
- I often say some people eat their soup
- 00:15:22.311 --> 00:15:24.480
- A little louder than others.
- 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:25.481
- The soup doesn't taste any different.
- 00:15:25.481 --> 00:15:28.550
- We can have fellowship with people without having
- 00:15:28.550 --> 00:15:31.887
- Complete unity of thought.
- 00:15:31.887 --> 00:15:34.690
- But it's not a healthy thing to say.
- 00:15:34.690 --> 00:15:36.825
- We're the only voice, and you don't have a voice.
- 00:15:36.825 --> 00:15:40.062
- That's what i was, expressing some pushback for.
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- And, really concern with.
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- Coming up next on the rosenberg report
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- With the last israeli hostage now home,
- 00:15:50.372 --> 00:15:52.775
- What's president trump's vision for the future of gaza?
- 00:15:52.775 --> 00:15:56.178
- Will he really allow turkish troops to enter gaza?
- 00:15:56.178 --> 00:15:59.648
- And why has ambassador huckabee
- 00:15:59.648 --> 00:16:01.350
- Agreed to be the keynote speaker at a conference i'm organizing
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- For 3000 evangelical christians right here in jerusalem.
- 00:16:05.354 --> 00:16:09.525
- Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
- 00:16:09.525 --> 00:16:13.095
- Right after the break.
- 00:16:13.095 --> 00:16:15.999
- Right after the break.
- 00:16:15.999 --> 00:16:19.235
- Welcome back to the rosenberg report.
- 00:16:20.036 --> 00:16:22.372
- So much to talk about.
- 00:16:22.372 --> 00:16:23.239
- We're going to talk primarily
- 00:16:23.239 --> 00:16:24.641
- About president trump's vision for gaza.
- 00:16:24.641 --> 00:16:27.877
- How do we
- 00:16:27.877 --> 00:16:29.112
- Now that every hostage is out a miracle in its own right?
- 00:16:29.112 --> 00:16:31.881
- What is the vision?
- 00:16:32.348 --> 00:16:33.283
- How do we move gaza in the right direction?
- 00:16:33.283 --> 00:16:37.187
- But first, we've got ambassador mike huckabee
- 00:16:37.187 --> 00:16:39.956
- In the house, here at, at a studio here.
- 00:16:39.956 --> 00:16:43.126
- You often use himself, when he was on tbn,
- 00:16:43.126 --> 00:16:46.863
- But i want to, start ambassador huckabee, this
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- Last section of the program with this on april 7th, 2027,
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- You have agreed to be
- 00:16:53.770 --> 00:16:54.904
- One of the keynote speakers at our epicenter summit
- 00:16:54.904 --> 00:16:58.174
- That the joshua fund and all
- 00:16:58.174 --> 00:17:00.210
- Israel news, all arab news will be hosting.
- 00:17:00.210 --> 00:17:02.445
- We're hoping
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- For 3000 evangelicals and other christians.
- 00:17:03.446 --> 00:17:05.782
- In fact, we'd love that the roman catholics
- 00:17:05.782 --> 00:17:07.317
- And greek orthodox armenians to come as well.
- 00:17:07.317 --> 00:17:10.153
- But we're expecting primarily evangelicals
- 00:17:10.153 --> 00:17:12.255
- From the united states, canada and all over the world,
- 00:17:12.255 --> 00:17:15.058
- Here in jerusalem.
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- Greg, lori, skip.
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- Hi, sig and graham lotz.
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- Jack graham from preston wood baptist,
- 00:17:20.763 --> 00:17:23.166
- President herzog has given us a wonderful message
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- Of endorsement and, will be, lord willing, you know,
- 00:17:25.735 --> 00:17:28.605
- You know, when the time comes, be able to speak.
- 00:17:28.605 --> 00:17:31.674
- Why have you agreed to it?
- 00:17:31.674 --> 00:17:33.042
- And why is it important to get christians,
- 00:17:33.042 --> 00:17:35.178
- Coming back to israel?
- 00:17:35.178 --> 00:17:36.179
- Okay, maybe there will be smoke
- 00:17:36.179 --> 00:17:37.280
- In the air in the next few days. whatever.
- 00:17:37.280 --> 00:17:39.382
- But the but even if president trump, attacks and, it will,
- 00:17:39.382 --> 00:17:44.020
- I think it will clear the way for a much more peaceful,
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- Year and years ahead.
- 00:17:47.357 --> 00:17:49.626
- Why have you said yes?
- 00:17:49.626 --> 00:17:50.727
- And i'm grateful to you that you have said yes.
- 00:17:50.727 --> 00:17:52.795
- Why have you said yes to the epicenter?
- 00:17:52.795 --> 00:17:54.197
- It's an important thing for christians
- 00:17:54.197 --> 00:17:55.698
- To come to israel, to come to the land of the bible.
- 00:17:55.698 --> 00:17:59.035
- It's one thing to read the bible as we all love to do,
- 00:17:59.035 --> 00:18:02.138
- But once you've come,
- 00:18:02.138 --> 00:18:03.640
- You no longer read the bible in black and white.
- 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:05.808
- You read it in 4k color.
- 00:18:05.808 --> 00:18:07.610
- It's so vivid.
- 00:18:07.610 --> 00:18:08.912
- It's also important to see the land, experience
- 00:18:08.912 --> 00:18:11.614
- The people, and understand the uniqueness
- 00:18:11.614 --> 00:18:14.017
- That this little piece of real estate holds.
- 00:18:14.017 --> 00:18:16.452
- To get 3000 believers from all over the world to come,
- 00:18:16.452 --> 00:18:20.089
- We'll do a couple of things.
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- One, it will be an incredible
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- Encouragement to the people of israel,
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- To the jewish people of israel.
- 00:18:24.928 --> 00:18:26.296
- This will be an encouragement to them
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- That they're not standing alone,
- 00:18:28.064 --> 00:18:29.632
- And that their christian friends
- 00:18:29.632 --> 00:18:31.534
- From all over the world are coming to say,
- 00:18:31.534 --> 00:18:33.703
- We're with you.
- 00:18:33.703 --> 00:18:35.038
- It also is an incredible opportunity for these believers
- 00:18:35.038 --> 00:18:38.975
- Who come here to go back home, to speak into their churches
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- And to give testimony of what they have seen and heard.
- 00:18:43.112 --> 00:18:46.282
- Joel, i don't know how many times i've said this.
- 00:18:46.282 --> 00:18:48.318
- The best antidote to anti-semitism
- 00:18:49.085 --> 00:18:52.121
- Is for people to come here, see it for themselves.
- 00:18:52.121 --> 00:18:54.757
- I don't have to tell you what to think. tell you what to say.
- 00:18:54.757 --> 00:18:57.393
- Just come and experience it. look around.
- 00:18:57.393 --> 00:18:59.462
- Go back home and tell everybody what you saw.
- 00:18:59.462 --> 00:19:01.097
- You'll be fine. amen.
- 00:19:01.097 --> 00:19:03.233
- Ambassador huckabee will be one of the keynote speakers.
- 00:19:03.233 --> 00:19:05.668
- You can find out more, including the joshua fund tour itself.
- 00:19:05.668 --> 00:19:08.371
- But we're encouraging pastors and ministry leaders
- 00:19:08.371 --> 00:19:10.273
- Of all kinds of ministries
- 00:19:10.273 --> 00:19:11.507
- All over the country, all over the world.
- 00:19:11.507 --> 00:19:13.343
- You can sign up, you can bring a tour.
- 00:19:13.343 --> 00:19:15.812
- This is just a one day summit
- 00:19:15.812 --> 00:19:17.146
- So you can build a whole tour around it
- 00:19:17.146 --> 00:19:18.815
- That's tailored to your specific ministry needs.
- 00:19:18.815 --> 00:19:21.584
- We encourage
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- You as, as we love to say, it's one thing to stand with israel.
- 00:19:22.852 --> 00:19:26.022
- It's another thing to stand in israel.
- 00:19:26.022 --> 00:19:27.991
- And why are we saying it now, 14 months out?
- 00:19:27.991 --> 00:19:30.426
- Because it takes time to prepare and plan and save.
- 00:19:30.426 --> 00:19:33.363
- So we encourage you to do that.
- 00:19:33.363 --> 00:19:35.164
- The april 7th, 2027, epicenter summit.
- 00:19:35.164 --> 00:19:38.534
- We hope that you will join us.
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- Okay.
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- President trump has a vision for gaza post war.
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- How would you describe it to christians
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- Who that's not the thing they've been focused on so far.
- 00:19:47.644 --> 00:19:50.913
- They've been focused on. is this ceasefire going to hold?
- 00:19:50.913 --> 00:19:53.483
- Can we get all the hostages out? what's going on with iran?
- 00:19:53.483 --> 00:19:56.085
- But what is the president's vision for the future of gaza?
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- He sees it as an entirely different
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- Kind of culture, where people no longer are
- 00:20:03.426 --> 00:20:06.229
- Focused on how they're going to kill israelis and,
- 00:20:06.229 --> 00:20:09.265
- Offer an incursion into the state of israel
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- And do what happened on october the 7th.
- 00:20:12.635 --> 00:20:14.871
- But rather people would be looking forward,
- 00:20:14.871 --> 00:20:17.240
- Looking forward to better jobs, better futures for their kids,
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- Changing the curriculum of the schools so the kids don't
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- Grow up with this education that teaches them to hate,
- 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.884
- But rather teaches them to respect and love
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- And want to live in a neighborhood that is peace.
- 00:20:30.253 --> 00:20:34.324
- I know there's a lot of skepticism.
- 00:20:34.324 --> 00:20:36.125
- This can happen.
- 00:20:36.125 --> 00:20:37.427
- But, you know, these are the same skeptics
- 00:20:37.427 --> 00:20:39.095
- That said, we'll never have a cease fire.
- 00:20:39.095 --> 00:20:41.531
- You'll never get
- 00:20:41.531 --> 00:20:42.665
- Every single arab nation in the world together at sharm
- 00:20:42.665 --> 00:20:45.501
- El-sheikh and all sign a peace agreement.
- 00:20:45.501 --> 00:20:47.403
- But they did.
- 00:20:47.403 --> 00:20:48.838
- We'll never get all the hostages out, but they are.
- 00:20:48.838 --> 00:20:52.208
- When people think that what president will never strike
- 00:20:52.208 --> 00:20:54.844
- Iran is dead and or end the nuclear weapons program,
- 00:20:54.844 --> 00:20:57.914
- Like time and again, i mean, president trump has done that.
- 00:20:57.914 --> 00:21:00.850
- We also remove the, you know, the the madman maduro
- 00:21:00.850 --> 00:21:05.121
- Out of venezuela. he's quite a track record.
- 00:21:05.121 --> 00:21:07.924
- He makes a promise and amazingly, he keeps it.
- 00:21:07.924 --> 00:21:10.727
- So what i would say to people is
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- Look at what is already happened.
- 00:21:13.262 --> 00:21:15.098
- It's been a remarkable process in just the first four months.
- 00:21:15.098 --> 00:21:19.902
- The ultimate vision is that there would be people
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- Living in peace and people would be living,
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- Not trying to figure out what can they do to the jews
- 00:21:26.576 --> 00:21:29.312
- Cross the border,
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- But what can they do for their children, for their own future?
- 00:21:30.546 --> 00:21:33.649
- That's the big picture of the vision that he has.
- 00:21:33.649 --> 00:21:36.152
- There has been a lot of,
- 00:21:36.152 --> 00:21:37.387
- Controversy, though, in this board of peace.
- 00:21:38.287 --> 00:21:41.724
- And i've read the entire document,
- 00:21:41.724 --> 00:21:43.459
- Multiple documents and watched all the speeches.
- 00:21:43.459 --> 00:21:45.762
- Prime minister netanyahu has been very critical,
- 00:21:45.762 --> 00:21:48.431
- Publicly, about turkey and qatar being on that board of peace.
- 00:21:48.431 --> 00:21:53.236
- Others have concerns that
- 00:21:53.803 --> 00:21:54.904
- How could russia be on the board of peace? so,
- 00:21:54.904 --> 00:21:57.907
- Where are those tensions between,
- 00:21:58.641 --> 00:22:01.244
- Are there tensions between the prime minister and,
- 00:22:01.244 --> 00:22:04.113
- And the president on this issue in so many other areas?
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- They just spent a week, together at mar-a-lago,
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- And it seemed to go very, very well.
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- But but this is your turkey
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- And qatar is is a problem for a lot of israelis.
- 00:22:13.589 --> 00:22:16.726
- What should we know about the president's perspective on this?
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- I think what people can know
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- Is that there is an an unbelievable alignment
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- Between the president, the prime minister,
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- And when they do have points of disagreement,
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- It's just that it's friends
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- Talking very candidly and openly with each other.
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- There are are reasons the prime minister has expressed
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- His concerns with tucker are with turkey and with qatar.
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- And with tucker, there's a combination. yes.
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- Freudian slip there. right.
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- But they'll work it out.
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- They will work it out. and that's the thing.
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- You have two very strong leaders,
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- Both capable of,
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- Speaking frankly to each other.
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- But i would back up and say, don't ever discount
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- The extraordinary alliance and alignment
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- Between these two individuals and our two nations.
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- Why should christians
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- Have confidence that hamas can really be disarmed?
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- Or are we really heading towards a west berlin, east berlin?
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- Look, they're not going to be disarmed in the near future.
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- So israel and the international community can help
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- Build a peaceful side, a west berlin, as it were.
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- And hamas will effectively control in east berlin
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- For the foreseeable future. i
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- The president's not going to let that happen.
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- I mean, i just want to say what he says.
- 00:23:37.607 --> 00:23:40.142
- This is not what i think or what i want to say.
- 00:23:40.142 --> 00:23:42.378
- But the president has never been,
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- In any point,
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- In any facet other than saying
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- Hamas has no future in gaza, they will disarm.
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- I would take him at his word.
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- Just like when he said, all the hostages will come home.
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- They did when he said, we will have a ceasefire,
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- We do when he said all the arab nations
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- Will sign the peace document, they did.
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- If he says every hamas soldier will disarm
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- And they will have no future in gaza,
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- Can i tell you how it's going to happen or how soon?
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- Nope, but i will.
- 00:24:16.345 --> 00:24:18.614
- I would almost if i weren't a baptist and a not a betting man.
- 00:24:18.614 --> 00:24:22.418
- I'd pretty much put a paycheck on this one and say,
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- Stand back and watch.
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- Tell me it can't be done, and president
- 00:24:26.188 --> 00:24:28.457
- Trump will prove us all wrong and he'll get it done.
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- Okay, last question really quick.
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- I don't have a problem so much with turkey and qatar
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- Being on the board of peace.
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- That is the sort of a macro sort of organization.
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- And turkey and qatar, even though i have deep
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- Disagreements with their government,
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- Not a big fan,
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- But i have seen them use leverage to
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- To get hamas to stand down and so forth.
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- But there is the question still, the president has been
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- He has not
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- Ruled out turkish troops in gaza.
- 00:24:53.449 --> 00:24:56.419
- And this is a big red line for israeli thinking.
- 00:24:56.419 --> 00:24:59.589
- Oh my gosh, if we had turkish troops,
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- Then god forbid we, you know, there was an incident
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- And we fire and we hit and kill a turkish troop.
- 00:25:04.927 --> 00:25:08.164
- Now we're at war with nato like,
- 00:25:08.164 --> 00:25:10.600
- Yeah, but but the president has seemed still like
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- He could envision turkish troops on the ground in gaza.
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- What should we know about that?
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- I would simply say
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- The president will have a way to work it out.
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- It may not be
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- Anything that anyone has ever conceived before.
- 00:25:25.581 --> 00:25:27.783
- That's what i love about him.
- 00:25:27.783 --> 00:25:29.285
- He doesn't look at any issue like this and say, okay,
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- My options are limited to the options
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- That have been employed in the past.
- 00:25:35.625 --> 00:25:37.426
- He typically throws all of those out
- 00:25:37.426 --> 00:25:39.629
- Because they've not worked,
- 00:25:39.629 --> 00:25:41.163
- And he's going to approach it
- 00:25:41.163 --> 00:25:42.298
- From a completely different perspective,
- 00:25:42.298 --> 00:25:44.767
- And he's going to be right.
- 00:25:44.767 --> 00:25:47.503
- So i think it'll work.
- 00:25:47.503 --> 00:25:48.804
- I said last question, but i have to ask you this.
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- There,
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- Prime minister
- 00:25:51.841 --> 00:25:52.975
- Netanyahu and president herzog have talked about giving,
- 00:25:52.975 --> 00:25:55.845
- You know, israel's highest, award prize to the president.
- 00:25:55.845 --> 00:25:59.115
- Might he actually might the president come back to israel,
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- On or around the the independence
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- Day here to personally accept such an award?
- 00:26:05.821 --> 00:26:08.824
- I hope so, i think it would be great.
- 00:26:08.824 --> 00:26:10.526
- I keep telling him every time i have a conversation with him.
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- Mr. president, you have no idea how popular you are in israel.
- 00:26:12.995 --> 00:26:16.332
- You would get 95% of the vote if you were on the ballot,
- 00:26:16.332 --> 00:26:18.901
- And the other 5% are all in insane asylum.
- 00:26:18.901 --> 00:26:21.137
- So you should come and feel the love of the israeli people
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- For how you have been such a friend.
- 00:26:24.340 --> 00:26:26.709
- No president has ever been such a friend
- 00:26:26.709 --> 00:26:29.111
- As president trump has.
- 00:26:29.111 --> 00:26:30.579
- So i hope, and i'm doing everything i can
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- To encourage him.
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- Don't receive this award in absentia.
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- Come in person
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- And let the people of israel show you their appreciation
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- And their love. all right, we'll stay tuned.
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- Ambassador huckabee, thank you so much.
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- Thank you so much for watching. we are out of time.
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- Please keep praying for this man,
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- For his wife, for his family, for his team.
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- He's doing an amazing job. they both are.
- 00:26:52.635 --> 00:26:54.603
- He and janet, thank you so much for watching.
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- Like i said, we're out of time.
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- So have a great week with you and your family
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- As you walk with the lord jesus christ.
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- As you spend time in his word and time
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- And fellowship, time in prayer for the peace of jerusalem
- 00:27:04.413 --> 00:27:06.882
- As well as the rest of the region.
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- Pray for the people of iran.
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- They somehow
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- Politically, spiritually that they would be liberated
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- And pray for president trump
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- To have the wisdom to know what to do, when to do it.
- 00:27:14.790 --> 00:27:18.327
- That is not those are not easy calls.
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- Thank you. thank you for watching.
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- Have a great week, lord willing.
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- I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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