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Joel Rosenberg: Understanding the Israel/Iran Conflict | The Rosenberg Report

August 13, 2025 | 29:32

Joel Rosenberg: Understanding the Israel/Iran Conflict | The Rosenberg Report
What do Evangelicals want to know about the future of Israel, Gaza, Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu? Joel Rosenberg gets the answers at The Family Leadership Summit.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Understanding the Israel/Iran Conflict | The Rosenberg Report | August 13, 2025
  • Tonight on the rosenberg report
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  • As hostage negotiations break down,
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  • Prime minister netanyahu orders the idf to invade gaza city,
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  • Triggering global condemnation of israel
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  • And sparking intense debate inside israel.
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  • Can netanyahu survive politically as key allies quit
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  • His coalition?
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  • Is a political tsunami
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  • Coming to wash the netanyahu team out to sea?
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  • And how in the world were
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  • Netanyahu and other israeli leaders blindsided by the hamas
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  • Invasion on october 7th in the first place?
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  • And is there any hope of expanding the abraham accords?
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  • Amid so much fighting a crucial conversation with evangelicals
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  • In the midwest about the future of the middle east,
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  • Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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  • Now that israel
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  • And the united
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  • States have bombed
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  • The smithereens out of the iranian
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  • Nuclear program, neutralizing it,
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  • Doing serious, substantial damage.
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  • Now that israel has destroyed the top leadership
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  • And much of the military capacity of hezbollah,
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  • The iranian terror proxy in lebanon.
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  • Now that israel has done so much damage against hamas,
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  • But isn't yet done with the fighting in gaza,
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  • What are evangelical christians asking?
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  • What are they interested in?
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  • Good evening and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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  • I'm in denver this week, but a few,
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  • A few weeks ago,
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  • I was in des moines, iowa, for a conference of about 1200
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  • Evangelical christians
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  • From all over the united states, mostly the midwest, interested
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  • In the mideast.
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  • Now, there were a lot of people speaking at that conference.
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  • It wasn't a summit.
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  • This was called the family leadership summit.
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  • It wasn't focused on israel
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  • And what's going on in the middle east, iran and elsewhere.
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  • It was focused on a lot of conservative issues,
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  • Arkansas governor and
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  • Rising, conservative evangelical republican star,
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  • Sarah huckabee sanders was there.
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  • It was wonderful to spend some time with her,
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  • The iowa governor, who's beloved in that state and served in
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  • As either lieutenant governor or governor for 16 years,
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  • Super pro-life, super pro-israel, pro-growth.
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  • Kim reynolds was also there, and she gave a keynote.
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  • And it was wonderful to spend time with her,
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  • Including lunch with her and her husband, kevin.
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  • So the family leadership summit in,
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  • Des moines
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  • Wasn't focused on israel, but bob vander plaats,
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  • Who is the leader,
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  • The director
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  • Of the family leadership
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  • Summit and the ministry
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  • That runs it, and he also serves on the advisory board
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  • For all israel news.
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  • And he asked me to come,
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  • If you're going to be in the stage
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  • Or would you come and speak to our folks
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  • And let me interview you to talk about,
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  • To answer the questions that the evangelicals are having.
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  • So i'm going to show you tonight.
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  • The interview that we did,
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  • And it'll take up our whole show tonight.
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  • Yes, i will do my trump impression in that interview
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  • And a few other presidents as well,
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  • But i hope you'll find it interesting.
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  • And i hope, that in bob asking me these questions,
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  • That you'll get the answers that you need as well.
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  • The first time that i went to israel, i went with you in 2014.
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  • We were there.
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  • Hamas was firing in in the rockets.
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  • The sirens were going off.
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  • Everybody that we talked to said, well, hamas is doing this.
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  • Don't take your eye off iran.
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  • Explain to us a little bit about iran, because obviously,
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  • You know, so many years later, a decade later,
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  • Iran is the one that's the focus right now.
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  • But explain why iran.
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  • Well, biblically, iran was a friend of israel.
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  • It was cyrus the great who liberated
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  • The jewish people,
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  • Sent us back home to israel to rebuild, rebuild jerusalem,
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  • Rebuild the temple.
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  • And they got mexico to pay for it.
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  • No, no, actually,
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  • Sorry, i that's not in the bible.
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  • Persia the king himself paid for it
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  • Rebuilding.
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  • The. rebuilding of, of israel and rebuilding of the temple.
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  • And so there's been very warm relationship,
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  • Biblically, historically.
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  • But the rise of the ayatollahs, particularly
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  • The supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini in 1979
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  • Brought in such a wicked and demonic regime
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  • Whose mantra was death to israel and death to america.
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  • Remember, israel is only the little
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  • Satan in their end times theology.
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  • The united states is the great satan, and they.
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  • And starting with taking the u.s.
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  • Embassy hostage on november
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  • 4th, 1979, humiliating americans for 444 days.
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  • And ever since, they have either been taking americans hostage
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  • Or killing us or maiming us for half a century, almost.
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  • And and but they decided to make a concerted effort
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  • To wipe israel off the map.
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  • Let me just finish off the little.
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  • And that's their mission statement.
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  • That is their mission.
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  • And then they'll come after the great satan.
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  • And so they launched a seven front attack
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  • On october 7th, 2023.
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  • While they were there, we,
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  • You know, we live there were dual u.s.
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  • Israeli citizens.
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  • I told you last night over dinner, being a dual u.s.
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  • Israeli citizen means you get to vote twice.
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  • It's like living in chicago and...
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  • And you don't
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  • Even have to be dead. so,
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  • But we don't have a 50% love for one country
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  • And a 50% love for,
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  • You know, we have 1,000% love for both countries.
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  • But we were there and, and, and through our ministries,
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  • The joshua fund and all israel news,
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  • We have been living through the missiles, the rockets,
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  • The pain of so much death and so much destruction,
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  • So much terror and so many missiles.
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  • It's exhausting, but iran is behind all of it.
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  • They're the ones that funded
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  • All of these seven different terror organizations.
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  • They're,
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  • You know, the ones you hear about
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  • Are hezbollah in lebanon, hamas in gaza.
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  • But they're we've been attacked on seven fronts,
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  • For almost two years, including directly from iran.
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  • Iran has ever actually never directly attacked israel
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  • In history until,
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  • Just recently.
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  • Just april of last year, then again in october of last year.
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  • And then, you know, the most recent, they usually.
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  • Use their proxies. exactly.
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  • The goal is to get us focused on and drained by
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  • Attacking their or defending ourselves
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  • From their terror proxies and not, you know,
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  • And not dealing with the head of the snake.
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  • One of the
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  • The images, out of israeli leaders uses it's an octopus
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  • And that we're
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  • Dealing with the tentacles, but we never go after the head.
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  • And that's the iranian regime.
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  • I have a tv show on tbn called the rosenberg report,
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  • And i had just done an exclusive interview
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  • With the former prime minister of israel, naftali bennett.
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  • He's the most
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  • Famous and, well, not most famous,
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  • But most popular leader in israel
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  • Right now, he's out of office,
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  • But he's getting ready
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  • To come back and take on netanyahu,
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  • Not getting into the internal politics.
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  • My point is, thursday night of that week,
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  • He was on the show saying it's enough already.
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  • Netanyahu has to go after the head of the octopus.
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  • You need to attack iran.
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  • We can't wait any longer.
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  • And i'm not saying there was a direct correlation.
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  • I'm just saying a few hours later, the attack began.
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  • And so this was a huge game changing moment.
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  • Not just the israel started attacking without
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  • The assurance that america was ever going to come to us,
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  • Because we never asked america to come fight our war for us.
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  • But president
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  • Trump had made a promise iran would never get the bomb.
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  • And and to his credit, he gave iran's leaders
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  • 60 days, 60 days to make a deal or else he was super clear.
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  • But i didn't believe he meant 60 days.
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  • I just thought he was being generous.
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  • Let's get a process started.
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  • I can tell you for darn sure
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  • The iranian leadership didn't think 60 meant 60.
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  • Because nothing's meant anything.
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  • It's the red line keeping moving.
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  • Bill clinton you know
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  • I told him i told him you can't you can't get a nuclear weapon.
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  • I'll never i'll never let you get it.
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  • George h.w.
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  • Bush not gonna do it.
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  • Never going to get the bomb.
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  • Not gonna do it.
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  • Now, at this juncture, no juncture, but no, no.
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  • Nobody ever.
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  • You know, george w strategic.
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  • You know, he's like, we're going to everybody said
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  • Iran would never get the bomb.
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  • But then they're like two weeks away.
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  • And israel, a very little country
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  • Where 10 million they're 92 million.
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  • They're 80 times larger in terms of size.
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  • They have oil. we do not.
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  • You don't usually
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  • Punch that far above your weight.
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  • And i'm, you know, i have some weight.
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  • I don't punch that high. i'm just saying
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  • Israel had to do it
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  • Because we were facing a second holocaust.
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  • But president trump kept his word.
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  • He said 60.
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  • And on day 61, he called me and he said eight.
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  • I gave them 60.
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  • They didn't listen.
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  • Oh, do what you gotta do.
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  • And day 61, the war began.
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  • Oh, and god bless then trump for coming in
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  • And doing what he didn't have to do.
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  • Amen.
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  • But he did it with a tremendous courage.
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  • Amen.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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  • Can prime minister
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  • Netanyahu survive politically as key allies quit as coalition
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  • Is a political tsunami coming to israel?
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  • And how in the world were netanyahu and other israeli
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  • Leaders blindsided by the hamas invasion on october 7th?
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  • In the first place, find out when the rosenberg
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  • Report continues on tbn right after the break.
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  • Report continues on tbn right after the break.
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  • Welcome back to the rosenberg report.
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  • I'm in denver tonight
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  • As i've been traveling all over the country,
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  • Meeting with evangelicals,
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  • Giving speeches, doing media and so forth.
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  • But i want to take you back to a conversation
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  • That i had just a few weeks ago in des moines, iowa,
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  • At the family leadership summit as the head of that summit,
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  • Bob vander plaats, who serves on the advisory board
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  • Of all israel news and is a wonderful pro-israel
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  • Evangelical.
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  • As he interviews me about the main questions,
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  • The key questions that he's hearing evangelicals asking,
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  • Particularly in the midwest,
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  • About what's happening in the mideast.
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  • I was speaking in atlanta, georgia, october 6th.
  • 00:10:40.529 --> 00:10:44.100
  • I was in line
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  • The tsa precheck line in the atlanta airport,
  • 00:10:45.234 --> 00:10:47.803
  • Which is like an hour long for tsa precheck in atlanta.
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  • And we were scheduled to leave for israel october 20th
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  • With a delegation of the family leader going to israel and
  • 00:10:55.144 --> 00:10:59.048
  • My boys started texting me about, hey,
  • 00:10:59.048 --> 00:11:02.685
  • Do you hear what's going on in israel?
  • 00:11:02.685 --> 00:11:04.987
  • And i really thought, this is
  • 00:11:05.621 --> 00:11:06.655
  • Going to be one of those quick flash shutdown.
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  • We still go. on october 20th.
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  • What happened on october?
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  • How how was israel caught that off guard?
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  • I mean, i've been there with you.
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  • As i said, we've looked at the iron dome.
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  • We toured the gaza strip.
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  • They're constantly on high alert.
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  • How did october 7th happen?
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  • If you can even suggest.
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  • How it's very difficult so far to even grasp that.
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  • Right.
  • 00:11:36.852 --> 00:11:37.386
  • Like the commissions
  • 00:11:37.386 --> 00:11:39.021
  • Haven't even begun because we're still at war.
  • 00:11:39.021 --> 00:11:41.257
  • We're trying to win this thing up. i think we're getting there.
  • 00:11:41.257 --> 00:11:43.492
  • But it's it's, you know, we've been fighting on seven fronts.
  • 00:11:43.492 --> 00:11:47.129
  • But to think that prime minister netanyahu, who,
  • 00:11:48.063 --> 00:11:51.000
  • Who understands radical islamism better than anybody on
  • 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.502
  • The planet
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  • And has been warning the united states
  • 00:11:54.670 --> 00:11:56.205
  • About the threat of radical islamism long before
  • 00:11:56.205 --> 00:11:59.208
  • 911, even how he missed it, how his team missed it
  • 00:11:59.208 --> 00:12:03.179
  • Is one of those moments that, it's hard to explain.
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  • I think politically, it's very likely
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  • That when the net connections come,
  • 00:12:11.420 --> 00:12:13.255
  • They're scheduled for october 26th.
  • 00:12:13.255 --> 00:12:15.457
  • They could come sooner.
  • 00:12:15.457 --> 00:12:16.692
  • I think you have to expect there's going to be a political
  • 00:12:16.692 --> 00:12:21.463
  • Tsunami, and everyone that was involved in missing it
  • 00:12:21.463 --> 00:12:25.668
  • Will be washed out to see.
  • 00:12:25.668 --> 00:12:28.137
  • He has been very successful in
  • 00:12:28.737 --> 00:12:31.073
  • In winning a war that that he didn't see coming.
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  • So that that's to his credit tremendous credit.
  • 00:12:34.877 --> 00:12:38.214
  • But basically israel
  • 00:12:38.214 --> 00:12:40.649
  • Got lulled into a false sense of security
  • 00:12:40.649 --> 00:12:44.320
  • Because netanyahu and president
  • 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.989
  • Trump had made four historic,
  • 00:12:46.989 --> 00:12:50.426
  • Abraham accords, peace and normalization agreements.
  • 00:12:50.426 --> 00:12:52.995
  • And we were this close to another deal in this case,
  • 00:12:52.995 --> 00:12:57.499
  • The mother of all peace deals with saudi arabia.
  • 00:12:57.499 --> 00:13:00.703
  • And so things were generally calm, and, of course,
  • 00:13:00.703 --> 00:13:04.673
  • And even hamas,
  • 00:13:04.673 --> 00:13:05.774
  • Which had been sending
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  • False signals that they were a little overwhelmed
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  • And they just didn't want a conflict. and,
  • 00:13:09.545 --> 00:13:12.615
  • We we were blindsided and it was so big.
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  • Let me try to insert and i don't want to steer the interview,
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  • But every mission seeks an opportunity.
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  • And i believe they saw
  • 00:13:25.561 --> 00:13:28.163
  • At least weak leadership of the united states at this point.
  • 00:13:28.163 --> 00:13:31.233
  • That's true.
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  • And now they see very strong leadership in the united states
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  • That. is truly.
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  • Give us the difference of what you see just in the leadership.
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:13:39.975 --> 00:13:41.210
  • So so there was a an open door, but there was also an urgency.
  • 00:13:41.210 --> 00:13:44.546
  • Like in other words, we say on passover as jews,
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  • Why is this night different from all the night? why?
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  • Why was the night of passover? was the moment that god rescued?
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  • And why do we remember it for?
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  • For all of history,
  • 00:13:53.622 --> 00:13:54.890
  • There was an opportunity and that israel's guard was down.
  • 00:13:54.890 --> 00:13:58.827
  • In fact, it happened to be the 50th anniversary
  • 00:13:58.827 --> 00:14:01.463
  • Of the last sneak attack by egypt and syria on
  • 00:14:01.463 --> 00:14:04.733
  • Yom kippur, the high holy day, 1973.
  • 00:14:04.733 --> 00:14:08.737
  • And so most soldiers were on vacation.
  • 00:14:08.737 --> 00:14:11.473
  • They were home with their families and
  • 00:14:11.473 --> 00:14:13.175
  • And nobody saw this coming.
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  • So there was an opportunity.
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  • But the other thing was the urgency.
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  • Iran's leadership sought the urgency, which was
  • 00:14:17.413 --> 00:14:20.382
  • They were hell bent on destroying, blowing up,
  • 00:14:20.382 --> 00:14:24.186
  • As it were, the coming israeli saudi peace agreement.
  • 00:14:24.186 --> 00:14:28.190
  • Because once the saudis makes peace with peace with us,
  • 00:14:28.190 --> 00:14:31.093
  • Almost all other muslim countries will say,
  • 00:14:31.093 --> 00:14:33.295
  • All right, well, then we don't have to agree
  • 00:14:33.295 --> 00:14:35.264
  • With israel on everything, but we can have peace,
  • 00:14:35.264 --> 00:14:37.333
  • We can have tourism, we can have investment.
  • 00:14:37.333 --> 00:14:39.201
  • Indonesia is the largest muslim country
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  • There, right on the edge of coming in.
  • 00:14:41.103 --> 00:14:42.871
  • I think lebanon might come
  • 00:14:42.871 --> 00:14:44.039
  • In, syria might come in, which is a crazy thought.
  • 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.309
  • So it was the combination.
  • 00:14:47.309 --> 00:14:48.711
  • But yes, the weak leadership seen in president biden,
  • 00:14:48.711 --> 00:14:52.214
  • Who had just lost afghanistan
  • 00:14:52.214 --> 00:14:54.917
  • After 20 years of blood,
  • 00:14:54.917 --> 00:14:57.987
  • Toil, treasure and tears,
  • 00:14:57.987 --> 00:15:00.889
  • Had just essentially pulled the jenga stick
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  • Out of the game in afghanistan when everybody,
  • 00:15:03.425 --> 00:15:06.495
  • Including senior democrats, do not do that, don't pull u.s.
  • 00:15:06.495 --> 00:15:10.332
  • Forces out at that moment.
  • 00:15:10.332 --> 00:15:12.401
  • He did it. afghanistan collapsed.
  • 00:15:12.401 --> 00:15:14.536
  • The taliban took over.
  • 00:15:14.536 --> 00:15:15.971
  • And so now it was open season.
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  • And so,
  • 00:15:18.474 --> 00:15:19.742
  • Russia went into ukraine,
  • 00:15:20.309 --> 00:15:22.544
  • Or iran attacked us from seven directions.
  • 00:15:22.544 --> 00:15:25.280
  • And we just feared that
  • 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:27.816
  • China would go after taiwan and try to take over the pacific.
  • 00:15:27.816 --> 00:15:30.919
  • That's
  • 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.287
  • That's the theory in the most recent novel,
  • 00:15:32.287 --> 00:15:34.423
  • The beijing betrayal, that i wrote
  • 00:15:34.423 --> 00:15:36.091
  • Just a couple months ago.
  • 00:15:36.091 --> 00:15:37.092
  • But but thank god that has not happened yet.
  • 00:15:37.092 --> 00:15:40.429
  • So, so,
  • 00:15:40.662 --> 00:15:41.897
  • So what i saw with my friends in israel is that there was like,
  • 00:15:41.897 --> 00:15:45.067
  • Just a renewed resolve
  • 00:15:45.534 --> 00:15:47.736
  • To get rid of hamas after october 7th.
  • 00:15:47.736 --> 00:15:50.806
  • They're like, we're going to uproot it once and for all.
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  • And i even think when they went in
  • 00:15:53.809 --> 00:15:55.277
  • Without the united states, basically
  • 00:15:55.277 --> 00:15:56.945
  • Sanction them to go in kind of like,
  • 00:15:56.945 --> 00:15:58.547
  • No, we're going to take care of business.
  • 00:15:58.547 --> 00:15:59.848
  • Iran is weakened, hamas is decimated,
  • 00:15:59.848 --> 00:16:02.951
  • Hezbollah is decimated.
  • 00:16:02.951 --> 00:16:04.820
  • Here's our opportunity.
  • 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:06.155
  • I think president trump saw
  • 00:16:06.155 --> 00:16:07.456
  • How strategic israel was and taken out key leaders
  • 00:16:07.456 --> 00:16:10.659
  • And that their intelligence was really good
  • 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:12.828
  • And everything was set up for president trump.
  • 00:16:12.828 --> 00:16:15.130
  • Still a huge decision, and he's the one to make that decision.
  • 00:16:15.130 --> 00:16:20.069
  • Do you believe that all played into the timing?
  • 00:16:20.069 --> 00:16:23.138
  • I do i think that israel is the ally
  • 00:16:23.138 --> 00:16:26.375
  • That president trump considers the the paradigm.
  • 00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:30.412
  • This is the type of ally we want.
  • 00:16:31.146 --> 00:16:32.781
  • An ally that doesn't complain, isn't begging.
  • 00:16:32.781 --> 00:16:36.018
  • If it gets attacked, it fights.
  • 00:16:36.652 --> 00:16:39.054
  • If it gets hit back on our heels,
  • 00:16:39.054 --> 00:16:41.390
  • We we put our own sons and daughters in harm's way
  • 00:16:41.390 --> 00:16:45.160
  • To defend ourselves and american interests and values.
  • 00:16:45.160 --> 00:16:48.330
  • We have four sons.
  • 00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:49.932
  • Three of our sons.
  • 00:16:50.365 --> 00:16:51.834
  • Well, two have already served in the idf,
  • 00:16:51.834 --> 00:16:54.236
  • Including one in special forces.
  • 00:16:54.236 --> 00:16:55.604
  • And our youngest just started on may 4th.
  • 00:16:55.604 --> 00:16:57.973
  • We're all in, and we didn't ask
  • 00:16:57.973 --> 00:16:59.908
  • The united states to come fight for us.
  • 00:16:59.908 --> 00:17:01.110
  • We did ask for the tools, to finish the job,
  • 00:17:01.110 --> 00:17:05.180
  • Because, again, we're not fighting for just for ourselves.
  • 00:17:05.180 --> 00:17:08.117
  • This is this is about a movement that's coming for america.
  • 00:17:08.117 --> 00:17:12.020
  • They tried on 911 and they got pushed back.
  • 00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:15.124
  • And they are regrouping.
  • 00:17:15.124 --> 00:17:16.425
  • And if they got nuclear weapons, this
  • 00:17:16.425 --> 00:17:18.393
  • This would be the ultimate game changer in a horrific way.
  • 00:17:18.393 --> 00:17:21.663
  • So, but i think president trump sees,
  • 00:17:21.663 --> 00:17:24.900
  • You know, israel as, as a paradigm, as the best ally.
  • 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:28.670
  • It's more than an ally.
  • 00:17:28.670 --> 00:17:29.805
  • It's a partner that you can't think of
  • 00:17:29.805 --> 00:17:31.473
  • Any other country that's fightin
  • 00:17:31.473 --> 00:17:35.911
  • But that
  • 00:17:36.178 --> 00:17:37.346
  • Is to fighting and winning so creatively, but,
  • 00:17:37.346 --> 00:17:41.083
  • You know, appreciates being able
  • 00:17:41.083 --> 00:17:44.019
  • To buy the weapons that we need to finish the job.
  • 00:17:44.019 --> 00:17:48.157
  • We don't have a standing army.
  • 00:17:48.757 --> 00:17:50.192
  • We're not a continent.
  • 00:17:50.192 --> 00:17:51.193
  • We don't have 330 million people.
  • 00:17:51.193 --> 00:17:53.195
  • We're a very small country, and our army are reservists.
  • 00:17:53.195 --> 00:17:57.466
  • And the country is exhausted right now.
  • 00:17:57.466 --> 00:17:59.101
  • And we don't have even though we attacked.
  • 00:17:59.101 --> 00:18:01.003
  • And we were going to do everything
  • 00:18:01.003 --> 00:18:02.137
  • Necessary to destroy the iran nuclear, arsenal.
  • 00:18:02.137 --> 00:18:05.340
  • And regime and industry.
  • 00:18:05.340 --> 00:18:07.910
  • Still, we don't have what the united states only has.
  • 00:18:07.910 --> 00:18:11.613
  • We don't have 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs
  • 00:18:11.613 --> 00:18:15.417
  • That can go through a mountain
  • 00:18:15.417 --> 00:18:17.019
  • When we don't have the b-2 bombers that can deliver them.
  • 00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:20.822
  • That's the only thing we didn't have.
  • 00:18:20.822 --> 00:18:22.324
  • So we were willing to send boots on the ground and, like,
  • 00:18:22.324 --> 00:18:25.827
  • Attack everything around the last three sites
  • 00:18:25.827 --> 00:18:29.131
  • And then send troops
  • 00:18:29.131 --> 00:18:30.365
  • In special forces troops in to take weapons, bombs.
  • 00:18:30.365 --> 00:18:34.870
  • You know, explosive, deep, you know, just literally bury them,
  • 00:18:34.870 --> 00:18:38.407
  • Which we did in 2007 when we destroyed the
  • 00:18:38.407 --> 00:18:41.777
  • The syrian nuclear reactor,
  • 00:18:41.777 --> 00:18:43.478
  • Both by bombing and special forces. but
  • 00:18:43.478 --> 00:18:46.381
  • President trump decided that it was in america's interest
  • 00:18:47.516 --> 00:18:50.385
  • To finish the job and thus bring that war to an end faster.
  • 00:18:50.385 --> 00:18:55.090
  • It's interesting.
  • 00:18:55.524 --> 00:18:56.625
  • He did it against the strong resistance and advice
  • 00:18:56.625 --> 00:19:01.363
  • And counsel of some very close friends of his, tucker carlson,
  • 00:19:01.363 --> 00:19:05.734
  • Who has become very anti-israel, leader.
  • 00:19:05.734 --> 00:19:10.005
  • I warned you about this last year, and unfortunately,
  • 00:19:10.005 --> 00:19:12.507
  • It has really come true even more.
  • 00:19:12.507 --> 00:19:14.376
  • And steve bannon, it's been another who are
  • 00:19:14.376 --> 00:19:16.345
  • Right on some other issues and we appreciate.
  • 00:19:16.345 --> 00:19:18.313
  • So we got to navigate that.
  • 00:19:18.313 --> 00:19:21.116
  • But they argued openly that the president
  • 00:19:21.116 --> 00:19:24.853
  • Was abandoning maga and abandoning american values
  • 00:19:24.853 --> 00:19:29.258
  • And starting a war that would end forever.
  • 00:19:29.258 --> 00:19:31.827
  • Well, it didn't and lasted 12 days.
  • 00:19:31.827 --> 00:19:34.963
  • President trump wasn't starting a war.
  • 00:19:34.963 --> 00:19:36.798
  • He was ending a war that started in 1979,
  • 00:19:36.798 --> 00:19:40.235
  • And israel did about 97% of the work.
  • 00:19:40.235 --> 00:19:44.039
  • And that doesn't
  • 00:19:44.439 --> 00:19:45.540
  • Minimize what he did, because only he could do it.
  • 00:19:45.540 --> 00:19:48.243
  • And certainly president biden wasn't going to do it.
  • 00:19:48.243 --> 00:19:51.346
  • So this is such a huge moment.
  • 00:19:51.947 --> 00:19:55.017
  • The us alliance has never been stronger, and u.s.
  • 00:19:55.017 --> 00:19:57.986
  • Power and credibility is stronger
  • 00:19:57.986 --> 00:20:02.057
  • Than any time since reagan.
  • 00:20:02.057 --> 00:20:04.660
  • And we're talking about
  • 00:20:04.660 --> 00:20:06.128
  • What i would just spend an hour with, ambassador
  • 00:20:07.095 --> 00:20:09.998
  • Mike huckabee in washington two days ago.
  • 00:20:09.998 --> 00:20:11.767
  • It's our lead story on allisraelnews.com.
  • 00:20:11.767 --> 00:20:15.103
  • So i encourage you all, just to your heads,
  • 00:20:15.103 --> 00:20:17.406
  • Going down to allisraelnews.com.
  • 00:20:17.406 --> 00:20:19.107
  • The lead story is my interview with huckabee.
  • 00:20:19.107 --> 00:20:21.710
  • And huckabee said,
  • 00:20:21.710 --> 00:20:24.046
  • Trump is bringing about change in the middle east
  • 00:20:24.046 --> 00:20:26.448
  • And in the world
  • 00:20:26.448 --> 00:20:27.616
  • And in the united states of biblical proportions.
  • 00:20:27.616 --> 00:20:31.820
  • And he said particularly, it's the russians who are watching.
  • 00:20:31.820 --> 00:20:34.923
  • It's the chinese who are watching.
  • 00:20:34.923 --> 00:20:37.025
  • It's the north koreans we're watching.
  • 00:20:37.025 --> 00:20:38.493
  • It's not just iran's regime that has been affected.
  • 00:20:38.493 --> 00:20:41.530
  • All of america's enemies are saying,
  • 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:44.232
  • Oh, when trump says something, he mean, it means it.
  • 00:20:44.232 --> 00:20:47.469
  • When he says, the jerusalem's the capital of israel,
  • 00:20:47.469 --> 00:20:50.138
  • He means it when he says he's going to move the embassy,
  • 00:20:50.138 --> 00:20:52.207
  • Even though every other president said it.
  • 00:20:52.207 --> 00:20:54.042
  • He means it when he says, i'm going to give you 60 days
  • 00:20:54.042 --> 00:20:57.679
  • To make a deal, you better take 60, because comes 61.
  • 00:20:57.679 --> 00:21:02.117
  • It may be hellfire and brimstone.
  • 00:21:02.117 --> 00:21:05.220
  • That's pretty powerful.
  • 00:21:05.721 --> 00:21:07.189
  • And netanyahu and trump just spent the last week
  • 00:21:07.189 --> 00:21:11.193
  • Assessing what they had accomplished
  • 00:21:11.993 --> 00:21:13.595
  • And then strategizing, where do we go from here?
  • 00:21:13.595 --> 00:21:17.199
  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
  • 00:21:18.066 --> 00:21:20.502
  • What else did evangelicals in the midwest
  • 00:21:20.502 --> 00:21:23.071
  • Want to ask joel about what's happening in the middle east?
  • 00:21:23.071 --> 00:21:26.808
  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
  • 00:21:26.808 --> 00:21:30.512
  • Right after the break.
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  • Right after the break.
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  • Welcome back again to the rosenberg report.
  • 00:21:37.686 --> 00:21:39.788
  • Again, we're here in denver this week,
  • 00:21:39.788 --> 00:21:41.957
  • But i want to take you back to a conversation
  • 00:21:41.957 --> 00:21:43.625
  • I had just a few weeks ago at the family leadership summit
  • 00:21:43.625 --> 00:21:46.962
  • When bob vander plaats, the head of that summit,
  • 00:21:46.962 --> 00:21:49.264
  • The head of a wonderful ministry in iowa,
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  • And on the advisory board of all israel news
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  • As he interviewed me about the key questions conservative
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  • Evangelicals in the midwest are asking about the mideast.
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  • Let's watch the rest of that conversation.
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  • The world recognizes strength,
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  • And they're seeing strength in president trump,
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  • And they're seeing strength that he's
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  • Going to do what he says is what he's going to do right.
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  • And you also saw, i think, a humility in the press
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  • Conference after he did bomb iran, where he he said,
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  • I thought just out of his heart, he said, love you, god.
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  • And what that said to me
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  • When he said, love you, god is i hope i did right by you. god,
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  • But i want you in the tower.
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  • She said, thank you, god.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Because not a single plane was shot down, right?
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  • No one was injured on the us side.
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  • I mean, and then and i love you, god, that was really amazing.
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  • And that was off script.
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  • I mean, that was definitely off script.
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  • That's butler extrapolated out into how he's leading exactly.
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  • And so i believe for such a time
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  • As this, he's positioned for such a time as this.
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  • Obviously, there's a myriad of voices out there.
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  • You mentioned a couple of them,
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  • But you know this audience here.
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  • Why is it imperative that america
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  • Stay and with the nation of israel?
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  • There's two reasons i would say, although there's a whole
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  • Bible full of them.
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  • But i'll narrow to two.
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  • Okay.
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  • So one is that god
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  • Repeatedly says that he considers
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  • Israel the apple of his eye, and he says, don't
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  • Touch the apple of my eye. now, what does he mean?
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  • He's talking about the pupil.
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  • That's a it's an idiom for the pupil,
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  • Which you don't want someone to come touch, right?
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  • Even jesus refers to.
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  • Hey, you know,
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  • Why don't you take the plank out of your own eye
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  • Before you come after somebody else's eye? right?
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  • Even to help.
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  • It's very sensitive.
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  • But the second thing
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  • Is, it's the lens through which god sees the rest of the world.
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  • So that's how central israel is.
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  • Secondly, he said famously in genesis chapter 12,
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  • The abrahamic covenant, he's going to choose
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  • Abraham and his descendants,
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  • Give them land, give them a blessing, so forth.
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  • But then he says specifically,
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  • I will bless those who bless you,
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  • But those who curse you, i will curse.
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  • Now, iran's leadership has been cursing israel
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  • For, you know, almost five decades.
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  • And there's a point of no return.
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  • Now, i'm not saying it's over, but i'm saying
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  • We as followers of jesus christ, you don't have to agree.
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  • And this is the whole debate between tucker and ted cruz,
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  • Which i thought ted did a great job.
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  • Senator cruz did a great job.
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  • But i think, you know, we need to remember that
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  • There are biblical.
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  • We're not just dealing
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  • In a world of of geopolitics and cost benefit analysis.
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  • Those are important.
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  • And israel lines up great on that as an ally.
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  • But there's also biblical truth
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  • That israel is a country that's lost.
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  • It's the house of the lost sheep of israel.
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  • Although more jews are coming to faith than ever,
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  • Faith in jesus, and i'm one of them.
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  • But but we're supposed to love them because god loves them
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  • And he has a plan for them. and that plan is not over.
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  • And he and he's he's taking names, right?
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  • If you if you curse israel or if you abandon them,
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  • There are consequences that we can't afford as a country.
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  • We've got enough troubles.
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  • The ship of state is now turning in a
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  • In a much better direction.
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  • But, you know, that's very fragile
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  • Come a year from now, we could lose the house.
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  • We could lose the senate.
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  • And then what?
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  • Then where are we?
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  • So we need the blessings of god on our country at every level.
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  • And president trump has just shown
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  • That for american interests,
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  • As well as standing with an ally and showing
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  • The enemies of the world who's boss
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  • And the allies of the world, we will not cut
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  • You loose like some voices in america would have it.
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  • President trump did the exact right thing.
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  • And now the question is for
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  • Followers of jesus christ,
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  • I think to also be praying for the church
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  • In israel and throughout the region,
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  • Because through all the volatility in the violence,
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  • The whole region is rattled.
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  • It's a region within darkness, and it's a region without hope.
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  • And the hope is the light of the gospel.
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  • And so one of the things that
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  • Passionate lens my passion and i appreciate yours is
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  • How do we strengthen
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  • The church in israel and in the arab muslim world
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  • To be strong, to be loving, to be bold for the gospel,
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  • To plant new churches, to strengthen
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  • The pastors, to care for the poor, needy,
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  • And to bring hope in a region that has no hope.
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  • And that the gospel would go forth in iran
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  • And that gospel would go forth in israel as well.
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  • Guy man, joel rosenberg is such a friend.
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  • Read his novels, go to allisraelnews.com,
  • 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:34.249
  • Tape the rosenberg report, the joshua fund, he does it all.
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  • Give it up for joel rosenberg.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Such a friend.
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  • Well, i hope that was helpful for you
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  • As you try to get the answers that you need,
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  • To engage with family, friends, others in your church,
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  • In your community
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  • About what's happening in israel and the broader middle east.
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  • I'm so grateful to bob vander plaats
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  • And the entire amazing team at the family leader
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  • Ministry, who put on that family leadership summit.
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  • What a joy to be out there.
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  • Well, that is our show for tonight.
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  • Please keep praying for israel for total victory over hamas,
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  • For the release
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  • Of all of our hostages and for the utter collapse
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  • Not only of hamas, but of the iranian regime as well.
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  • Please pray for israelis and palestinians
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  • Who are suffering
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  • Through this terrible war and that it could be over soon.
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  • Please keep,
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  • Loving your neighbor, walking with the lord
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  • Jesus christ, spending time in his word,
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  • Spending time in prayer, spending time in worship,
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  • Loving your neighbors, caring for widows and orphans,
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  • Praying for the peace of jerusalem,
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  • And loving your neighbors as yourself.
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  • I hope you'll continue to do that.
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  • I know you will,
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  • And i look forward to seeing you next week right here
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  • On the rosenberg report.
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