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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Huckabee's Take on Israel's Future | The Rosenberg Report | May 7, 2025
- Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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- Just how worried should israelis, moderate arab leaders
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- And evangelicals be over president trump's aggressive
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- New push to negotiate a nuclear deal with the iranian regime?
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- Is trump just laying the ground for a massive military attack,
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- Or is there a risk trump could get played by tehran?
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- Why is the president
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- Coming to the middle east next week, but not to israel?
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- And are there any signs that a us brokered deal
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- To free the rest of the hostages is close at hand?
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- An exclusive sit down interview with president trump's
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- New pointman in israel, ambassador mike huckabee.
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- His first since arriving at the american embassy in jerusalem
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- Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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- Mike huckabee, the new u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, is in the house.
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- He is not only in the country, but he is here in the tbn
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- Studios here in jerusalem.
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- And i'm going to talk to him
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- For our first exclusive interview since he arrived.
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- And i'm really looking forward to that.
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- We got a lot to cover.
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- I want to ask him about,
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- Growing israeli but also evangelical concerns.
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- What where exactly is president trump
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- Going with these negotiations with iran?
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- If there's anyone we could trust to deal with iran and israel,
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- It's president trump.
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- But i don't think most of us are were expecting
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- Trump to engage the iranians and to say, i want a deal.
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- I don't want to bomb you if i can help it.
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- We don't we're not opposed to that.
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- We want a deal, but it has to be a good deal.
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- So where are we in that process?
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- Israelis and some evangelicals are anxious.
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- I want to talk to him about that.
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- I also want to talk to him about, the hostages.
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- Where are we?
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- Is there any hope of an american led breakthrough?
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- President trump, of course, is coming to the region.
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- He's not coming to israel, so far as we know.
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- That's not in the plan. at least it's not public.
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- So there's no evidence of that.
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- But he is going to saudi arabia.
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- He's going to the uae
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- And the qatar, and we're going to ask the ambassador why?
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- Because obviously that affects us.
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- Middle east policy affects, u.s.
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- Policy towards israel.
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- But first, i just want to say, hey, welcome.
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- It's great to have you.
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- Thank you so. much, ambassador.
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- Well, it's a privilege to be here
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- And, you know, you and i talk often,
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- But it's usually 7000 miles apart.
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- So, what a delight to get to be with you here in, jerusalem.
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- And i appreciate you able to come and. what have you.
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- We often say this, that, you know,
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- This is not a green screen. this is the real.
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- It really is the real deal. yeah.
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- And there's not another view
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- Quite like this anywhere in jerusalem.
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- Tbn, studio and its view of the old city is second to none.
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- Amen. well, so glad to have you.
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- This particular day
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- Is interesting that you and i meet,
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- Which this will air on thursday and over the weekend.
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- But as you and i record this on sunday, my son,
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- My youngest of four,
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- Was we took him to be inducted into the idf.
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- He's being drafted today.
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- So this is a whole new thing.
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- We've already had two of our four already serve in the idf.
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- The oldest was already getting married
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- And was heading back to the state, so,
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- He didn't end up serving, but.
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- So this is,
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- All these questions i'm
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- Going to ask you about war and peace and hostages.
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- And, you know,
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- It's becoming very, very personal once again for us.
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- The other thing is, this morning, a
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- Ballistic missile built by iran but fired from yemen
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- Broke through u.s.
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- And israeli anti-missile defense systems and hit
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- The grounds of ben-gurion international airport,
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- Our main civilian airport. so maybe we start there.
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- Just your reaction to these incredible, videos of passengers
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- And all being terrified by that explosion.
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- You know, it's sort of like everyday life
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- In the world of an israeli.
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- Now, not every time
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- Missile gets through, most of the time, either.
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- The arrows, the iron dome of the fired
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- Missiles will intercept it, take it out.
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- In fact, a little earlier this morning, we heard a loud boom!
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- I was out in the backyard with my two little dogs,
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- And i hit this big boom.
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- And it was, miles from us.
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- Didn't even activate the jerusalem sirens.
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- But it gives you some idea of the small country.
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- The sound of the boom
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- Was large, and it was a missile being intercepted.
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- Then later, this one got through.
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- And that's unfortunate, because normally they don't.
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- But no defense system is perfect.
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- It's a very important reminder that israel is under attack
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- Regularly from people who want to not just
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- Trouble them, but want to destroy them.
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- And it's part of the ethos of this incredible country
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- That people have to wake up every day
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- Knowing that there are threats to their very existence.
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- Yeah, just over the last month, we've had, i think, 20.
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- I think this is the 26 missile that was fired out
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- Just from yemen.
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- Again, most of them shot down by the us, sometimes by israel.
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- President trump doing a great job at really unleashing.
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- Taking the gloves off and hitting the houses.
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- But obviously there's a lot more work
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- To be done to neutralize that threat.
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- Which brings us really to the larger threat,
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- The head of the octopus, which is iran.
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- But as i just started a moment ago,
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- Israelis are anxious,
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- Because we were, i think, fairly certain
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- President trump would come in and
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- And give a quick ultimatum, you know, make a fast deal
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- Or that's it.
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- They've had all these years,
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- But we're now in engaged in this week by week process.
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- And i think israelis and i think i think
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- As, as time goes by, more evangelicals are thinking, okay,
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- We do trust president trump more than any
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- American president and certainly more than the last.
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- But where's he going with this?
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- Does he really trust the iranians
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- To to cut a deal with him?
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- What should we be knowing about what he's thinking
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- And where he's going?
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- I would say listen to what he actually says.
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- Don't listen so much
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- To the new york times in the washington post.
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- It would have you to
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- Believe that he's about to resurrect jcpoa,
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- 2.0 and go back and embrace the obama policies.
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- He was the one that got rid of jcpoa in his first term.
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- He's been very clear.
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- The iranians are not going to have a nuclear weapon.
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- That's not on the table.
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- There's no negotiation about that part of it.
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- Two things i think people need to kind of
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- Look at in the big picture.
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- One, this is a president who would rather
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- Find a peaceful way for the iranian government
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- To back off their ambition for a nuclear weapon.
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- It's not a matter of
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- Are they going to get one, maybe just a little smaller one.
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- They're not going to get one.
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- That's one thing he has been consistent.
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- Never change that. never hesitated to say it.
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- Can there
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- Be a way to avert an all out war?
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- If so,
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- This is a president who would rather have peace than war.
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- Yeah. well, i think you we all evangelicals
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- Support that, right?
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- You're a peacemaker. that's what we want.
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- But we have very, very high doubts
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- Over a long period of time, 50 years, that this regime
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- Or anyone like them would make a deal that we could.
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- Yeah.
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- I don't i don't think anybody believes
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- That the iranians
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- Will make a good deal unless they're doing it
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- Just to protect themselves, their regime.
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- And if they make one,
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- How do we ever believe they will keep it?
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- For 46 years, the ayatollahs have been in power.
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- They've never made or kept a deal. yet,
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- That somehow showed that they
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- Were willing to be good neighbors.
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- They're terrible neighbors.
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- They're the ones who have financed the houses.
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- Hezbollah and hamas.
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- The reason
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- So many people got slaughtered on october the 7th is because
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- You can say it was hamas, and it was,
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- But the check was written in tehran.
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- And if you look at even those missiles
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- That came out, as you mentioned,
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- You know, those are really postmarked
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- Tehran, the houthis may have shot them,
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- But they were first delivered to the houses from the iranians.
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- So we're not seeing any evidence
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- That they're changing their ways, that the,
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- Leopard is getting rid of its spots.
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- So i want to be clear about that.
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- The president's message
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- Just last week, when he was on the way to
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- The funeral for the pope and he was asked by reporter,
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- Are you going to let israel drag the united states into a war?
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- I love this answer
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- Because he said, nobody's dragging us into anything.
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- If the iranians don't understand,
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- They're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
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- They won't.
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- We won't be dragged into it.
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- I'll be leading it.
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- I'll make sure that they don't have it.
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- I would say those kind of words and statements are much more
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- The policy of the trump administration
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- Than hearing somebody who is spouting off
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- To the new york times or the washington post,
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- Neither of which are going to ever give donald trump,
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- Time of day. and fair enough.
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- Fair enough.
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- But, early
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- On, you got steve wyckoff,
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- Who was a very accomplished negotiator, in fact.
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- We'll get to it later in the show, that he did
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- A brilliant job getting the the next round of hostages out.
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- And we hope that he can do it again.
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- But he does look a little stretched, a little thin.
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- He's trying to end the war between russia and ukraine.
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- Get all of our hostage out.
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- Deal with the iranian portfolio.
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- And the winning portfolio is a steep
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- That's a steep learning curve.
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- His his first statement, the first substantive statement
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- Was that he was going to let the u.s.
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- Was going to let iran
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- Continue to enrich and i think 3.67% or something.
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- That's jcpoa numbers.
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- That's why there is this talk of maybe we're going back.
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- Now he did retract that. yeah.
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- But that seemed like the misstep
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- That a doesn't seem like steve.
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- But on the other hand, he's got a lot of things to cover.
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- Is it too much. is he i mean is there any
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- There are
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- Some reasons to be concerned that maybe with everything going
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- On, president trump might take a deal that he wouldn't
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- Wish for, but he would be okay with?
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- No, i don't have that anxiety.
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- I'm not saying that,
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- And i've talked to the president,
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- I've talked to steve wyckoff, i've talked to marco rubio.
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- I'm not hearing anywhere in the administration
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- That there's a willingness just to get a deal to have a deal.
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- And i think increasingly, there's a clear understanding
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- That the iranians can't, you know, do some,
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- Shock and, and jiving on this.
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- They're going to have to get down to the bare bones.
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- They're going to have to be willing
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- To let inspections take place if anything happens.
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- But i also believe the president would like to say,
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- Sort of to quote the words of a john lennon song,
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- Let's give peace a chance.
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- Now, peace may not have a chance in this,
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- But if there has to be an all out attack,
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- I think the president wants to be able to say
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- To the world, look, we did everything possible
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- To achieve some, positive results.
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- I mean, diplomatically.
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- But when diplomacy fails, the military steps in.
- 00:10:39.695 --> 00:10:42.598
- It's always better to put diplomacy first,
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- Military action second.
- 00:10:45.601 --> 00:10:47.036
- I agree. with that.
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- And i and i appreciate the way you put it.
- 00:10:47.970 --> 00:10:49.138
- When we come back, let's talk
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- About why president trump is coming into the region,
- 00:10:50.306 --> 00:10:54.210
- To talk to our arab allies.
- 00:10:54.210 --> 00:10:55.678
- And iran certainly give me a critical issue.
- 00:10:55.678 --> 00:10:58.347
- Don't go away.
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- We'll be right back on the rosenberg report.
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- Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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- Why is president trump coming to the middle east
- 00:11:05.454 --> 00:11:07.857
- Next week to saudi arabia, the uae and qatar,
- 00:11:07.857 --> 00:11:10.993
- But not israel?
- 00:11:10.993 --> 00:11:12.294
- And why is trump visiting qatar at all when this gulf arab
- 00:11:12.294 --> 00:11:15.931
- Regime is so closely aligned with iran and hamas?
- 00:11:15.931 --> 00:11:19.568
- Don't miss ambassador huckabee's reasons to joel's
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- Direct questions when the rosenberg report
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- Continues on tbn right after this break.
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- Continues on tbn right after this break.
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- Okay.
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- The president's coming.
- 00:11:34.183 --> 00:11:35.351
- It's a big first international trip, aside
- 00:11:35.351 --> 00:11:37.186
- From paying his respects to pope francis,
- 00:11:37.186 --> 00:11:39.688
- But he's not coming to israel. so let's start there.
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- You're the ambassador to israel.
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- Why isn't the president
- 00:11:43.392 --> 00:11:44.426
- Who's the most pro-israel president in history?
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- Why is he not coming here?
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- I mean,
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- He spent an enormous amount of time
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- With prime minister netanyahu in washington.
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- And i think that right now, he would love to see the abraham
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- Accords expanded.
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- He would love to see a greater level of partnership
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- Within the region and the gulf states.
- 00:12:00.409 --> 00:12:02.444
- So it makes sense.
- 00:12:02.444 --> 00:12:03.479
- He's had a strong relationship with the saudis.
- 00:12:03.479 --> 00:12:06.382
- They're a key to moving the abraham accords forward.
- 00:12:06.382 --> 00:12:09.785
- So i think that's part of it.
- 00:12:09.785 --> 00:12:10.953
- There's also some very significant
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- Economic opportunities
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- That he's going to be dealing with and announcing on the trip.
- 00:12:13.889 --> 00:12:16.892
- So he's going to three, key strategic.
- 00:12:16.892 --> 00:12:20.262
- I would say allies of the region,
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- The saudis, the qataris and the emiratis.
- 00:12:22.998 --> 00:12:25.601
- The emiratis are already part of the abraham accords.
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- They're a country that i have great respect for
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- Because they stuck themselves
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- Out there in the early days of the abraham accords.
- 00:12:33.075 --> 00:12:36.445
- Much to the chagrin of some of their neighbors.
- 00:12:36.445 --> 00:12:39.014
- But it's proven to be an increase, a good relationship.
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- And i had a visit with the ambassador,
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- From the emirati to israel.
- 00:12:44.753 --> 00:12:47.623
- They're extremely pleased
- 00:12:47.623 --> 00:12:49.325
- With what has resulted in terms of economic activity.
- 00:12:49.325 --> 00:12:52.728
- There's a lot more that can be done.
- 00:12:52.728 --> 00:12:54.997
- And they're looking to do it. yeah, no, i agree.
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- You may recall that one of the delegations
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- Of evangelical leaders that i led that unfortunately,
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- You know, i invited you just for the record.
- 00:13:02.905 --> 00:13:04.540
- But for the record, i did invite mike.
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- What's on. your fault?
- 00:13:06.408 --> 00:13:07.610
- I know exactly, but you had a full, dance card.
- 00:13:07.610 --> 00:13:11.280
- But we met with, president mohammed bin zayed.
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- He was the crown prince at the time,
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- And it wasn't boilerplate, but i said to him, look, you know,
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- This is the first country that's invited us first.
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- You're the first leader
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- That's invited
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- Us, that in the arab world that doesn't have a peace treaty
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- With israel.
- 00:13:27.296 --> 00:13:27.830
- And we're just looking
- 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:29.031
- Who is going to be the next arab leader to, to make peace.
- 00:13:29.031 --> 00:13:31.867
- It's been, at that point, a quarter of a century
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- After egypt, after jordan.
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- And i just wanted to get it sort of on the record with him.
- 00:13:36.372 --> 00:13:38.841
- And he said, joel, it's going to be me.
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- And we were all of us.
- 00:13:41.310 --> 00:13:42.378
- We're like. the newsmaker. yeah.
- 00:13:42.378 --> 00:13:44.113
- And he spent the next hour
- 00:13:44.113 --> 00:13:45.915
- Explaining how his calculus had changed.
- 00:13:45.915 --> 00:13:48.450
- He said, israel's not the threat.
- 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:50.319
- Yeah, that we thought once.
- 00:13:50.319 --> 00:13:52.154
- And that was all of us in the arab world thought it's iran
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- That's the threat.
- 00:13:55.190 --> 00:13:56.225
- And that that calculus shift changed everything
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- Because we hadn't agreed that that was an off
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- The record conversation at the time.
- 00:14:02.131 --> 00:14:03.565
- So we walked out with this huge headline.
- 00:14:03.565 --> 00:14:05.768
- Yeah, we didn't share it because you know what?
- 00:14:05.768 --> 00:14:07.970
- We get our word.
- 00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:09.104
- But sure enough,
- 00:14:09.104 --> 00:14:10.272
- It was just about two years almost to the day,
- 00:14:10.272 --> 00:14:12.975
- And he announced with president trump and, prime minister
- 00:14:12.975 --> 00:14:15.644
- Netanyahu, that he was starting the abraham accords process.
- 00:14:15.644 --> 00:14:19.448
- And it was really amazing.
- 00:14:19.448 --> 00:14:21.150
- So what should
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- But those arab countries, i can tell you
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- From personal conversations with mbs, mbz and others,
- 00:14:24.687 --> 00:14:27.222
- They're very worried about the iran threat.
- 00:14:27.222 --> 00:14:29.725
- So again. yeah.
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- Is iran part of the agenda?
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- I mean, a briefing on what's going to happen,
- 00:14:34.730 --> 00:14:37.866
- And how president trump is proceeding
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- With these negotiations for these arab leaders face to face.
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- Heart to heart
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- Yeah.
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- I'm not able to talk about what will all be on the
- 00:14:45.641 --> 00:14:48.043
- The table.
- 00:14:48.043 --> 00:14:49.244
- I think it's fair to say that, you've assessed correctly
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- That everyone in the region understands
- 00:14:52.881 --> 00:14:55.217
- Israel is not their enemy.
- 00:14:55.217 --> 00:14:56.685
- It just isn't
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- The real threat, the real enemy, the real danger, the outlier.
- 00:14:57.987 --> 00:15:01.924
- And all of this is iran.
- 00:15:01.924 --> 00:15:04.193
- And then it that multiplies exponentially
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- Should they be able to obtain a nuclear weapon.
- 00:15:08.364 --> 00:15:11.166
- So they're a threat, right now with their capacity
- 00:15:11.166 --> 00:15:14.036
- With ballistic missiles and all of the just things
- 00:15:14.036 --> 00:15:17.973
- That they have continued to build up.
- 00:15:17.973 --> 00:15:19.608
- And people remember that israel
- 00:15:19.608 --> 00:15:21.643
- Degraded their military pretty handily,
- 00:15:21.643 --> 00:15:23.879
- Pretty much took down their air support system.
- 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.281
- But the iranians have been building
- 00:15:27.049 --> 00:15:29.051
- Rockets, missiles and bombs every day as fast as they can
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- Since that happened.
- 00:15:33.022 --> 00:15:34.456
- So if anyone thinks that they just stopped and quit
- 00:15:34.456 --> 00:15:36.692
- Building their inventory, they're quite wrong.
- 00:15:36.692 --> 00:15:38.827
- And they're weaker today
- 00:15:38.827 --> 00:15:41.463
- Than they were when the attacks from israel,
- 00:15:41.463 --> 00:15:44.767
- Were launched to counter the attacks that israel had had.
- 00:15:44.767 --> 00:15:48.804
- But they're stronger today than they were yesterday.
- 00:15:48.804 --> 00:15:51.373
- And they'll be stronger tomorrow.
- 00:15:51.373 --> 00:15:52.674
- Time is of the essence.
- 00:15:52.674 --> 00:15:53.976
- So the other big element
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- That certainly the saudis want to hear,
- 00:15:55.911 --> 00:15:58.180
- But all the arab
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- States want to hear is where are we going with gaza?
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- And aren't you going to make a palestinian state?
- 00:16:02.951 --> 00:16:05.387
- We can't really make peace with israel, at least from riyadh
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- To jerusalem, unless there's a palestinian state.
- 00:16:08.524 --> 00:16:11.393
- That's what they're saying.
- 00:16:11.393 --> 00:16:12.494
- Yeah.
- 00:16:12.494 --> 00:16:13.395
- Now, that's president trump's position
- 00:16:13.395 --> 00:16:17.032
- Historically was a demilitarized palestinian state.
- 00:16:17.032 --> 00:16:20.702
- That was the deal of the century that he rolled out in,
- 00:16:20.702 --> 00:16:23.439
- January 2020.
- 00:16:23.439 --> 00:16:25.240
- Where are we now?
- 00:16:25.674 --> 00:16:26.708
- I mean, what's,
- 00:16:26.708 --> 00:16:27.943
- What is the president's position on a palestinian state,
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- Given that gaza has become, you know, it
- 00:16:31.146 --> 00:16:33.382
- Almost effectively was a palestinian.
- 00:16:33.382 --> 00:16:35.017
- Will say it's a palestinian state.
- 00:16:35.017 --> 00:16:37.219
- The people need to remember that the 10,000 jews that lived in
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- Gaza were all moved by gunpoint of the idf,
- 00:16:40.355 --> 00:16:44.326
- The israeli army were
- 00:16:44.326 --> 00:16:45.794
- The ones who moved the jewish people out back in 2005.
- 00:16:45.794 --> 00:16:49.064
- Two years later, those people voted in hamas
- 00:16:49.064 --> 00:16:51.233
- To run the country.
- 00:16:51.233 --> 00:16:52.434
- And it's been a disaster ever since.
- 00:16:52.434 --> 00:16:54.703
- It was a de facto palestinian state.
- 00:16:54.703 --> 00:16:57.306
- When people say, we need a palestinian state,
- 00:16:57.306 --> 00:16:58.874
- I said, you had one called gaza.
- 00:16:58.874 --> 00:17:00.542
- How'd that turn out?
- 00:17:00.542 --> 00:17:01.877
- But i do think october the 7th changed everything.
- 00:17:01.877 --> 00:17:04.847
- It changed it certainly inside of israel.
- 00:17:04.847 --> 00:17:07.282
- Israelis who are front and center.
- 00:17:07.282 --> 00:17:09.985
- Two state solution.
- 00:17:09.985 --> 00:17:11.954
- You're not talking about that anymore
- 00:17:11.954 --> 00:17:13.622
- Because they see that the closer you let
- 00:17:13.622 --> 00:17:15.357
- People who have been trained to hate you live next to you,
- 00:17:15.357 --> 00:17:18.760
- It doesn't necessarily go well.
- 00:17:19.394 --> 00:17:21.396
- So when people talk about a palestinian state,
- 00:17:21.396 --> 00:17:23.832
- My next question is where's this going to be? right.
- 00:17:23.832 --> 00:17:25.901
- Does it have to be in judea and samaria?
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- Does it have to be in land that israel,
- 00:17:27.903 --> 00:17:31.039
- Really has had claim to for 30, 500 years?
- 00:17:31.907 --> 00:17:34.276
- Or is it possible to say there'll be a palestinian state,
- 00:17:34.276 --> 00:17:36.578
- But it's going to be in a region that has some room.
- 00:17:36.578 --> 00:17:39.982
- There just isn't that much room here.
- 00:17:39.982 --> 00:17:41.683
- And i remind people, muslim countries own 644 times
- 00:17:41.683 --> 00:17:46.321
- The amount of real estate that israel has. 644 times.
- 00:17:46.321 --> 00:17:50.159
- So when people say, how come israel doesn't give up
- 00:17:50.159 --> 00:17:52.728
- Some land?
- 00:17:52.728 --> 00:17:53.929
- I'm thinking, why would they?
- 00:17:53.929 --> 00:17:56.265
- Would any other country in the world who won the war
- 00:17:56.265 --> 00:17:58.400
- Say they do that because.
- 00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.601
- The president is so determined to get a story?
- 00:17:59.601 --> 00:18:02.804
- I mean,
- 00:18:02.804 --> 00:18:04.072
- This would be the ultimate game changing mother of all peace.
- 00:18:04.072 --> 00:18:06.975
- It was saudi israeli deal with u.s.
- 00:18:06.975 --> 00:18:09.044
- Guarantees and so forth.
- 00:18:09.044 --> 00:18:10.546
- But if the saudis are saying we need a palestinian state
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- And the president is skeptical at best,
- 00:18:13.448 --> 00:18:17.352
- And the team around him is pretty skeptical at best,
- 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:21.023
- How does one square that and especially
- 00:18:21.823 --> 00:18:23.892
- When he's making his first stop, saudi arabia.
- 00:18:23.892 --> 00:18:27.362
- I would just say stay tuned. let's see.
- 00:18:27.362 --> 00:18:29.565
- And the the honest answer to that is i don't know.
- 00:18:29.565 --> 00:18:33.368
- I'm not sure anybody does,
- 00:18:33.936 --> 00:18:35.737
- But if anybody can pull this off is president trump.
- 00:18:35.737 --> 00:18:38.073
- I've never seen anyone quite like him
- 00:18:38.073 --> 00:18:40.275
- Who's able to sit down with people
- 00:18:40.275 --> 00:18:41.910
- Who have a very hostile position.
- 00:18:41.910 --> 00:18:43.645
- And by the time it's over, you know, they're making a deal.
- 00:18:43.645 --> 00:18:47.049
- He's really good at this.
- 00:18:47.049 --> 00:18:49.251
- He wrote the book on it, the art of the deal.
- 00:18:49.251 --> 00:18:51.587
- And if, if it can be done,
- 00:18:51.587 --> 00:18:54.523
- I don't know of anyone else who could get this done
- 00:18:54.523 --> 00:18:57.159
- Other than president trump. okay.
- 00:18:57.159 --> 00:18:58.760
- When we come back, i want to talk about the hostages
- 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:01.363
- And where we go from that, with that, because it's
- 00:19:01.363 --> 00:19:04.600
- It's such a festering wound.
- 00:19:04.600 --> 00:19:07.469
- Israelis cannot.
- 00:19:07.469 --> 00:19:09.037
- It was difficult to celebrate in the 77
- 00:19:09.037 --> 00:19:12.107
- Years of this modern, prophetic jewish state,
- 00:19:12.107 --> 00:19:15.310
- Knowing that 24 or
- 00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:18.146
- So of our countrymen are not free.
- 00:19:18.146 --> 00:19:21.283
- They're not safe.
- 00:19:21.283 --> 00:19:22.451
- They're being tortured.
- 00:19:22.451 --> 00:19:23.585
- And maybe they're not even all alive at this point.
- 00:19:23.585 --> 00:19:25.687
- So, let's talk about that in a moment.
- 00:19:25.687 --> 00:19:27.589
- But one more really quick. i got to ask you. qatar.
- 00:19:27.589 --> 00:19:30.292
- So he's going to qatar now.
- 00:19:30.292 --> 00:19:32.227
- I'll just, you know,
- 00:19:32.694 --> 00:19:34.529
- You're not the ambassador to qatar.
- 00:19:34.529 --> 00:19:35.864
- I get that you're not the foreign minister,
- 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:37.332
- But, secretary state.
- 00:19:37.332 --> 00:19:38.400
- But i got a problem with qatar.
- 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.502
- I got a problem because they are playing both sides.
- 00:19:40.502 --> 00:19:42.871
- They are a deep friend of hamas.
- 00:19:42.871 --> 00:19:45.007
- They host hamas leaders.
- 00:19:45.007 --> 00:19:46.308
- They host. they. they love iran.
- 00:19:46.308 --> 00:19:48.710
- And yet they're they've got our centcom base,
- 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:51.146
- And they're acting like our ally.
- 00:19:51.146 --> 00:19:53.115
- But after all this time, 18 months.
- 00:19:53.115 --> 00:19:55.917
- Why can't qatar pressure hamas to get these hostages out?
- 00:19:55.917 --> 00:20:00.022
- Why is the president going to qatar?
- 00:20:00.022 --> 00:20:02.424
- I think it may be in part to, to put a little encouragement
- 00:20:02.424 --> 00:20:05.894
- There as
- 00:20:05.894 --> 00:20:06.561
- Part of economic opportunities
- 00:20:06.561 --> 00:20:07.929
- That will be beneficial
- 00:20:07.929 --> 00:20:09.164
- To the us and probably to qatar as well. but,
- 00:20:09.164 --> 00:20:12.334
- I would just say this the reason that ultimately hamas
- 00:20:13.402 --> 00:20:17.072
- Has not bowed to the pressure,
- 00:20:17.072 --> 00:20:19.141
- And there's been a lot of pressure
- 00:20:19.141 --> 00:20:20.742
- From the egyptians, from the guitar is from the emirati
- 00:20:20.742 --> 00:20:23.178
- Pressure has been there.
- 00:20:23.178 --> 00:20:24.880
- They've got nothing else to hold on to.
- 00:20:25.681 --> 00:20:28.216
- Hostages are there one last card.
- 00:20:28.216 --> 00:20:31.486
- And they know that.
- 00:20:31.486 --> 00:20:32.321
- We know they gave up those hostages.
- 00:20:32.321 --> 00:20:35.057
- There's nothing left.
- 00:20:35.057 --> 00:20:36.525
- No one there to protect them, nobody there
- 00:20:36.525 --> 00:20:38.427
- To give them a reason for hanging on.
- 00:20:38.427 --> 00:20:41.697
- It's a very difficult decision.
- 00:20:42.331 --> 00:20:44.333
- I know from talking to hostage families,
- 00:20:44.333 --> 00:20:46.668
- Which i've done almost every day that i've been here.
- 00:20:46.668 --> 00:20:50.138
- You know, if this were my child, i'd say i don't care
- 00:20:50.138 --> 00:20:52.341
- What you got to do. get my kid home.
- 00:20:52.341 --> 00:20:53.742
- That's all i want to do. get him home.
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- Then we'll worry about everything else.
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- But it's not quite that easy.
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- I wish it was because i have a feeling that would be done.
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- But the leaders who are inside gaza running hamas
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- Actually have a more hard line than the hamas leaders
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- That are from the outside.
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- There's a lot more willingness from those on the outside
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- To get the hostages out than there are from
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- The hamas leaders on the inside. all right.
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- Hold that thought more.
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- When we come back next on the rosenberg report.
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- Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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- Just how close are ambassador mike huckabee and israeli
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- Prime minister benjamin netanyahu?
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- And how does this unique
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- Relationship between a devout american evangelical
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- And a traditional israeli jewish man impact u.s.
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- Israeli relations?
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- Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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- Right after this break.
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- Right after this break.
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- Mr. ambassador, we only have a few minutes left.
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- I want to ask you about your relationship
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- With prime minister netanyahu.
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- First of all, the longest serving prime minister
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- In the history of modern israel and the first full night,
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- Certainly the first cabinet shabbat dinner that you had.
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- You and janet
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- Were invited
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- To be their guests, benjamin and sarah, at their home.
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- What was that like?
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- You know, without giving you anything that's inappropriate.
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- But, you know, your relationship,
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- You know, being welcomed and but you got a lot of challenges,
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- To work on.
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- Together in the, the years ahead.
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- One of the advantages is that i've known the prime minister
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- For over 30 years,
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- And i've been in and out of israel, met with him.
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- I don't know how many times, dozens and dozens of times
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- Even went at his invitation to campaign for him
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- When he was in one of his reelection in 2018.
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- So we have a long standing relationship.
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- It's a very warm one.
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- It's a little different now
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- Because i'm not just here as a friend.
- 00:22:48.558 --> 00:22:50.760
- I'm representing president trump in the united states,
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- So i'm not able to say anything you want.
- 00:22:53.563 --> 00:22:56.299
- You got it.
- 00:22:56.299 --> 00:22:57.366
- My job is to carry the message of the president.
- 00:22:57.366 --> 00:23:00.002
- I tell people an ambassador is not the chemist.
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- He doesn't get to make the medicine.
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- He's the pharmacist.
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- He just delivers it and dispenses it.
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- But we do still have the kind of relationship that is very,
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- Honest, forthright and trusting.
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- And i would just close by this.
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- I've spent so much time with the prime minister
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- Since i have been here that i told him the other day.
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- If i spend any more time with you, you're going to have
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- To put me on your family health insurance plan as a dependent.
- 00:23:26.028 --> 00:23:29.232
- I'm spending more time with you that i am with my wife.
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- So what would you think of how much this has closed the gap
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- From previous administration that wouldn't even invite
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- The prime minister in wartime
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- To the white house, to the oval office.
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- Prime minister has already been there twice.
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- I think you make a good point
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- That, you know, if
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- If trump decides just to go visit
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- The arabs, it's not like he he's not blowing off the,
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- The israeli prime minister and sending you.
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- Yes, you're a friend and your relationship
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- Has changed, but that's why he's sending you
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- Is because you guys are so close and you have
- 00:23:57.393 --> 00:23:59.729
- That sense of deep trust and you know each other.
- 00:23:59.729 --> 00:24:01.864
- And, it's also interesting. you just have to say,
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- To have the first
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- His, this historic, first devout, openly,
- 00:24:07.336 --> 00:24:11.641
- Devout evangelical christian be the u.s.
- 00:24:11.641 --> 00:24:14.410
- Ambassador.
- 00:24:14.410 --> 00:24:15.077
- And again, i was so blessed,
- 00:24:15.077 --> 00:24:17.046
- I was surprised, but not in the cosmic sense of it.
- 00:24:17.046 --> 00:24:20.182
- But then and i was just so amazed to see you and janet
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- And your security detail walk up to us,
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- Outside the garden tomb on easter.
- 00:24:24.921 --> 00:24:27.089
- Resurrection sunday morning. what a blessing.
- 00:24:27.089 --> 00:24:29.525
- And you couldn't say. well, we just got here.
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- We're going to sleep in,
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- And we wouldn't have thought any worse of you or not,
- 00:24:32.795 --> 00:24:35.765
- That we would have worshiped, but, i mean, the,
- 00:24:35.765 --> 00:24:38.034
- I think i have you, but thank you for doing that.
- 00:24:38.034 --> 00:24:40.469
- That was such a great signal as a believer. yeah.
- 00:24:40.469 --> 00:24:43.139
- Having nothing to do with being the ambassador.
- 00:24:43.139 --> 00:24:44.674
- But you are the first.
- 00:24:44.674 --> 00:24:45.808
- I'm sure it was ever done.
- 00:24:45.808 --> 00:24:47.109
- That an incredible experience to be there on easter sunday.
- 00:24:47.109 --> 00:24:49.579
- I told the president i wanted to be
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- On location by the end of passover,
- 00:24:52.615 --> 00:24:55.551
- And by easter sunday i made it by a day and a half, barely.
- 00:24:55.551 --> 00:24:59.155
- But i made it,
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- And i wasn't going to miss
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- The opportunity to celebrate easter sunday
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- At one of the most amazing places on earth the garden tomb.
- 00:25:03.626 --> 00:25:06.362
- The empty tomb. amen.
- 00:25:06.362 --> 00:25:07.597
- Thank you so much. well, thank you guys for watching.
- 00:25:07.597 --> 00:25:09.932
- There's so much more.
- 00:25:09.932 --> 00:25:11.067
- We will we will and could, but we will in the future.
- 00:25:11.067 --> 00:25:13.636
- Discuss with, ambassador mike huckabee.
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- Thank you so much for watching the show.
- 00:25:16.172 --> 00:25:17.673
- Hey, please be sure to post a link to this
- 00:25:17.673 --> 00:25:21.210
- Show, on your social media so your family and friends
- 00:25:21.210 --> 00:25:24.547
- Can hear directly from the new ambassador.
- 00:25:24.547 --> 00:25:28.184
- Don't forget to go to joshua fund.com and check out.
- 00:25:28.184 --> 00:25:32.088
- And i hope you will sign
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- Up for our alaska cruise the first week of august.
- 00:25:33.189 --> 00:25:36.926
- I wish i could bring the ambassador and his wife,
- 00:25:36.926 --> 00:25:38.761
- But now he's in this new role. he can't do that.
- 00:25:38.761 --> 00:25:41.297
- He's done wonderful thing for the joshua fund in the past.
- 00:25:41.297 --> 00:25:43.432
- We're very grateful.
- 00:25:43.432 --> 00:25:44.533
- But check that out. it's gonna be an amazing time.
- 00:25:44.533 --> 00:25:46.235
- We're not yet ready to bring,
- 00:25:46.235 --> 00:25:48.938
- You know, full big large tours here to israel.
- 00:25:48.938 --> 00:25:51.440
- We'll get there.
- 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.642
- And i think we're moving in the right direction,
- 00:25:52.642 --> 00:25:54.110
- But with just with the ballistic missile,
- 00:25:54.110 --> 00:25:56.112
- You know, landing at ben-gurion airport
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- As i recorded, we recorded the show today.
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- We're just not there.
- 00:26:00.850 --> 00:26:02.084
- And this is an opportunity to
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- To learn more, to be the last, to be refreshed
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- And to learn what is god doing?
- 00:26:06.088 --> 00:26:07.623
- And how can christians
- 00:26:07.623 --> 00:26:08.624
- Be a blessing to israel and our neighbors?
- 00:26:08.624 --> 00:26:10.760
- The alaska cruise joshua fund.com first week of august.
- 00:26:10.760 --> 00:26:14.030
- Don't miss it and please check it out.
- 00:26:14.030 --> 00:26:16.399
- Thank you so much for watching.
- 00:26:16.399 --> 00:26:17.767
- Have a great week with you and your family.
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- As you spend time in the word,
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- As you walk in the power of the holy spirit,
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- As you love your neighbor,
- 00:26:23.506 --> 00:26:24.774
- As yourself, and as you bless israel and her neighbor
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- In the name of jesus. have a great week.
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- God bless you and i'll see you, lord willing,
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- Next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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