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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: US-Israel Relations | The Rosenberg Report | July 9, 2026
- Tonight on the rosenberg report as americans
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- Celebrate our 250th birthday and iran keeps
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- Breaking the cease fire, the iran deal is off.
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- President trump has ordered new airstrikes
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- Against iranian targets and invited
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- Israeli prime minister netanyahu to meet him in washington.
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- What is the state of u.s.
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- Relations?
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- And what about trump's meeting this week with turkish president
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- Recep erdogan?
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- Is the u.s.
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- Really about to sell f-35s to a man threatening
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- To invade israel?
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- Tonight i sit down with president
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- Trump's point man in jerusalem.
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- It's an exclusive conversation with u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, mike huckabee.
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- And it all starts right here, right now on the rosenberg
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- Report.
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- America has just turned 250 years old,
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- And as a dual us-israel citizen, i could not be happier.
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- Although after many weeks in the states, meeting
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- With ministry partners and and so forth.
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- Lynn and i were not actually in washington for july 4th.
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- We missed the massive
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- And spectacular fireworks show in washington.
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- But we're back here in jerusalem.
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- We're grateful for this relationship
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- Between the united states and israel.
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- But it has been under pressure. it has been under strain.
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- And to talk about that and walk it through,
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- There is an expected meeting coming up with president
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- Trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu,
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- Their first personal meeting, lord willing,
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- Since the operation epic fury began.
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- That's coming up soon.
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- But today we have in the studio our dear friend and former tbn
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- Star, us, israel, us ambassador to israel, mike huckabee.
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- As it happens, president trump made big news shortly after
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- Huckabee and i recorded our conversation
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- That trump is furious with iranian leaders.
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- The deal is off, the cease fire is over, and trump
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- Has ordered american airstrikes against iranian targets.
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- These are enormously important moves.
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- We as christians need to be praying for the president.
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- And i'll bring you
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- All the latest developments and my analysis next week.
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- But this week, the ambassador and i focused on the latest
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- Highs and lows in the u.s.
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- Israeli alliance. thank you so much.
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- Thank you. it's great to see you again.
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- Same here.
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- So much has happened since we last saw each other, so
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- I appreciate an opportunity to get together.
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- Let's just start with the fact that you made big news
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- This past week.
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- You and israeli foreign minister guidance
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- Are making the big announcement that it's time that you have
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- Signed the documents.
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- And we are going to break ground for the first actual,
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- Newly built us embassy here in jerusalem.
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- I want to talk about that and your $1 contribution to
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- The cause.
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- It was the best real estate deal i'll ever make, $1,
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- Which gives us a 99 year and perpetuating lease
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- For the property in jerusalem is called the allenby property.
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- It was
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- Dating back to general allenby
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- Of the british army in the early 1900s.
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- And it's a beautiful piece of property.
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- It's going to be an ideal location, flat surface,
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- So it's going to be much easier to construct.
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- On when president trump, in his first term,
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- Moved the embassy and designated jerusalem as the capital.
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- Realizing the embassy belonged
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- Here, he said he was going to move it.
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- He actually did it. every other president promised.
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- They all well-chosen.
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- None of them came through with it.
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- They chickened out
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- At the last minute, if you will, president trump said.
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- I said i was going to do it and it's the right thing to do.
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- And so he did.
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- But what that really meant
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- Was that we took what was a consulate
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- And added on a few things and made it the embassy,
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- But it was never designed
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- To be our full time permanent embassy.
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- So we have facilities, 16 different places
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- Throughout jerusalem,
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- Some in tel aviv, some in jerusalem,
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- Several different office places, warehouses.
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- We've never had a single place.
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- This really marks the beginning of
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- The establishment of a permanent embassy.
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- And it's not going to happen overnight.
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- I mean, it's going to take a while
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- To build something of this magnitude.
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- It's probably going to be, you know, $1 billion building.
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- When it's all done, it's going to be very unique.
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- The most important thing is it's going to be designed
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- Specifically to
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- Be the us embassy
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- And to establish a permanent presence
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- In jerusalem, which i think is an important thing, because,
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- You know, if
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- You're in a temporary building, sometimes people think, well,
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- You're only there temporarily in the next administration
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- May decide to come in and say, let's move it back to tel aviv.
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- Well, i want
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- I think it's a great moment in us israel relations right before
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- And basically during the 250th anniversary celebrations.
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- But it does come at a challenging moment also,
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- In terms of israelis feel rattled
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- By some of the president's recent statements,
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- The iran deal, too, but some of the president's
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- Language recently has been challenging.
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- Let's get back to that in just a moment.
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- Look, we're at a moment of,
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- In many ways, the closest in us israel relations
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- In the eight decade history of modern israel.
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- But there are strains.
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- We're going to talk about them with us.
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- Ambassador to israel mike huckabee, in just a moment.
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- Don't go away.
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- Coming up next.
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- On the rosenberg report, as president
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- Trump cancels the deal with iran and invites
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- Netanyahu to washington, can the two men get back
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- On the same page on iran?
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- And is the u.s.
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- Really about to sell f-35s to the turkish
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- President, a man threatening to invade israel?
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- Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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- Right after the break.
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- Right after the break.
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- Welcome back to the rosenberg report here in jerusalem.
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- So grateful that you're with us. we've got in the studio.
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- U.s. ambassador to israel mike huckabee.
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- We're going to talk about a lot of things.
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- President trump just met with turkish president
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- Recep erdogan at a moment where erdogan has been saying
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- Horrific things about israel.
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- Talk threatening
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- To invade israel, threatening to take over jerusalem, calling
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- Israel a genocidal country, calling
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- Prime minister netanyahu and naci.
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- So get to that in just a moment.
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- But i actually want to talk.
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- First. we'll talk about the president's.
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- President trump's
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- Comments about netanyahu and where are we in a moment?
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- But first, look, things are quieter.
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- When i left, we were still in a missile war.
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- As and i are back.
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- Things seemed quieter.
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- The stock market is hitting record highs in the united
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- States.
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- Prices are below, as you and i speak.
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- They're below
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- Where they were on february 28th when the war began.
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- Operation epic fury.
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- Gas prices are coming down for summer travel, so
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- There's a lot that americans are happy about.
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- And and israelis are happy that things are quieter.
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- We all need the rest.
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- But first, why is now a good time either
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- For start coming back to israel, or at least start planning
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- A trip in the fall?
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- Trip in the spring, you and i will be doing the 2027
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- Epicenter summit, and the joshua fund
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- Will be hosting a whole big tour here next spring.
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- Why is it now a good time?
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- And what's your projection for calm, quiet?
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- I mean, we've had three months now of
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- At least a cessation of hostilities.
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- Doesn't mean that the tension is completely resolved.
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- In the gulf. there's still hostilities. yeah, there are,
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- But i think it's been a peaceful period.
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- But as for when should people come back to israel?
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- I'd say the sooner the better.
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- And i really believe that there's nothing more important
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- For a person to do to understand
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- The middle east better, particularly to understand
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- Israel, than to come and see it for yourself.
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- And you don't have to come and be undocumented.
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- You don't have to come and have someone take you to only set
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- Certain places and select people to talk to.
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- I've said, come to israel,
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- Go up and down the streets, talk to anybody,
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- Go to the old city, go to west jerusalem, east jerusalem.
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- Just look around. listen.
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- See with your own eyes.
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- Come up with your own conclusions. you'll be fine.
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- And it's an incredibly safe place to be.
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- Well, i'm encouraged, and and i agree with you.
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- I think it is time, especially for all americans.
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- But i think
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- Particularly christians who who understand
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- The biblical value of this place,
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- The history and the future and just
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- But what's also going on right now and and i think so
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- I'm, i'm hopeful
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- And i'm very much forward to our, our summit next year.
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- Okay.
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- That being said, israelis are rattled by president trump.
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- His numbers have dropped dramatically here.
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- There was a pull out just the other week last week.
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- 73% of israelis
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- Now look at president trump differently.
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- And they say worse because of this deal.
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- They don't feel about about 68%
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- Say this deal is not a good deal for israel.
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- But the president, for a while, it seemed to be dropping more
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- F-bombs on the prime minister than actual bombs on the enemy.
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- And i think all of that combined has really causes
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- Reilly's to say, this is our best friend,
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- America generally, president trump in particular.
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- But those numbers.
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- Trump's numbers have dropped because people feel
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- They feel a bit abandoned.
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- And i'm not sure that's fair, but it's how they feel.
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- How would you respond to that?
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- I would say, look at what president trump has done,
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- Not just what he has said over the past few weeks.
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- President trump is known to make hyperbolic statements,
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- And that's the nature of the president.
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- I mean,
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- This is not anything that ought to be shocking to anyone.
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- He has an extraordinarily good relationship
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- With the prime minister.
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- I don't know of any world leader
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- With whom he has a better relationship.
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- When you hear that,
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- You know he'll say something particularly about israel,
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- Maybe is too active in lebanon and breaking things down,
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- You know,
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- And i spoke to him when i was in washington
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- A week ago and i said, mr.
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- President, they're really not just
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- Wholesale knocking down villages and communities.
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- And i showed him pictures and i showed him maps,
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- And i said, that's maybe information
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- That you're getting that's not completely accurate,
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- Because what they're looking for are hezbollah targets.
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- That's who they target. that's who.
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- They are.
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- And not just because one hezbollah guy walks
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- Into an apartment building, but because that's a base
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- Headquarters, a communication center,
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- A strategic planning center.
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- And the strikes are surgical.
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- Sometimes they will hit
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- The fourth floor of a building to eliminate a terrorist.
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- Nobody on the fifth floor is injured.
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- Nobody on the third floor is injured.
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- Only the people on the fourth floor,
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- Because it's a very specific
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- And a very accurate type of munition
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- That goes in there and takes out the terrorist.
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- But more importantly than that is that we've just completed
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- The united states, lebanon and israel, a historic agreement
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- To really set a completely different game board
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- For all of the middle east.
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- It's fragile. it's going to be a process.
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- It won't be a
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- Single flip of a switch event, but to get the lebanese
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- To admit that israel is not their enemy is huge.
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- To get them to acknowledge that the problem in the middle east,
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- Specifically the problem between lebanon and israel,
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- Is not either country, it's hezbollah.
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- It's a terror group, an iranian proxy
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- Funded and fueled by the iranian mothership.
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- That's a huge thing
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- For the israelis to say, look, we want to get out of lebanon.
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- We want to redeploy our forces back across our own border,
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- But we're not going to do it as long as hezbollah represents
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- A threat to the people in places like metula or kiryat shmona.
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- So it's it's an honest assessment of where things are
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- With a real clear direction of where things are going.
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- And i think, frankly, i think it's been a remarkable process.
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- And i've been there for all of those meetings
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- In washington, and i watched the dynamics of it
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- Participate in it.
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- It is historic, and we felt that from
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- The beginning you could sense it in the room.
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- There was one particular moment in our third meeting.
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- We had five.
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- In the third meeting, the lebanese and israelis
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- Asked, could we move the tables closer together between
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- Because we had it where you had the us here in a u-shaped
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- Table, the lebanese here and the israelis here,
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- They wanted to move their tables closer to each other
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- So they could communicate more effectively.
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- When that happened, i turned to michel issa,
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- Who is the ambassador of the us to lebanon, and we were seated
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- Next to each other at the u.s.
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- Portion, and i said, who would have
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- Imagined a few weeks ago when we started this
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- That the two countries, not us, what in the us said,
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- Let's move you all closer together?
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- They determined it would be better.
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- I thought that
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- That was a wonderful statement and a beautiful picture.
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- As these countries overcame decades of hostility and enmity.
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- Are we heading, therefore, to a
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- Abraham accords style peace and normalization agreement?
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- Now, there would be several steps in between there.
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- I mean, obviously,
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- You know, the united arab emirates, bahrain, morocco,
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- When they made their deals, they didn't have iran virtually
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- Controlling their country with a terrorist army known as
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- Hezbollah.
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- So those were different.
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- But is that where we're heading?
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- Because i would say not since
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- King david and king solomon had this great peace,
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- Relationship and friendship, a deep friendship biblically
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- With king hiram,
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- Basically the king of lebanon at that time, the king of tire.
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- We haven't really seen a warm and friendly
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- Relationship between israel and lebanon.
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- Is that where we're heading?
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- I think it is.
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- President herzog, here in israel
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- Made a statement that i quote often
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- Because i think it's a beautiful aspirational statement,
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- Sort of the vision, if you will.
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- And he said,
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- I long for the day when i could get in my car
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- In jerusalem and drive all the way to beirut and back.
- 00:14:11.775 --> 00:14:14.778
- And i'm thinking, wouldn't
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- That be an incredible thing for the people of israel
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- To be able
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- To see lebanon, to go to beirut and for the people of lebanon,
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- To be able to come to israel and the holy. sites possible?
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- It once was possible.
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- Even in our lifetimes.
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- Although it's 1973, my first trip here
- 00:14:27.290 --> 00:14:29.759
- I was in beirut, and then i came to israel.
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- So it wasn't unthinkable.
- 00:14:32.862 --> 00:14:34.331
- Even 53 years ago, it would have been unthinkable 53 days ago.
- 00:14:34.331 --> 00:14:39.903
- So now it's not only thinkable, but it's foreseeable.
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- Okay.
- 00:14:43.707 --> 00:14:44.474
- I do want to press you
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- A little bit more on where the president is in this
- 00:14:45.542 --> 00:14:48.712
- And with with the not just the prime minister of israel,
- 00:14:48.712 --> 00:14:52.148
- The people of israel, because that remains a concern.
- 00:14:52.148 --> 00:14:55.118
- Yeah, but hold that thought.
- 00:14:55.118 --> 00:14:56.653
- We'll be right back.
- 00:14:56.653 --> 00:14:57.554
- Don't go away.
- 00:14:57.554 --> 00:14:58.555
- We'll be right back on the rosenberg report.
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- Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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- Is the us really about to sell f-35s to turkish
- 00:15:03.259 --> 00:15:07.063
- President recep erdogan?
- 00:15:07.063 --> 00:15:08.832
- A man threatening to invade israel.
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- Don't miss the rest of my exclusive conversation with u.s.
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- Ambassador
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- Mike huckabee when the rosenberg report continues on tbn.
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- Right after the break.
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- Right after the break.
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- Welcome back to the rosenberg report.
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- So grateful that you're with us right here in jerusalem.
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- As we continue our conversation on the 250th birthday
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- Of the united states and the and the remarkable strength
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- And endurance and resiliency and power of the us
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- Israel relationship eight decades in us ambassador
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- To israel, mike huckabee, thank you so much. for now.
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- Isn't this a little easier environment than you would?
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- Tucker, you know,
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- I don't mind asking you a hard question for sure.
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- I'm not trying to ambush you.
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- Look, but
- 00:15:57.824 --> 00:15:58.658
- But i think that we are in a moment
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- Where i appreciate what you said,
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- But i think you're not actually haven't answered yet.
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- How israelis...
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- You're the us ambassador,
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- So you're not mainly looking at how israelis feel.
- 00:16:08.301 --> 00:16:10.503
- However, you're the bridge and israelis, israelis support
- 00:16:10.503 --> 00:16:15.108
- For the president has dropped by about 40 or 50 points.
- 00:16:15.108 --> 00:16:19.145
- He was in the 70s in terms of approval rating.
- 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.083
- And he's not right now.
- 00:16:23.083 --> 00:16:24.551
- But but there seems at the
- 00:16:24.551 --> 00:16:25.952
- Moment of the relationship being the strongest
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- Relationally, strategically.
- 00:16:29.889 --> 00:16:31.624
- But but relationally, it's really
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- Have suddenly felt blindsided by.
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- The president.
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- They may have felt blindsided.
- 00:16:39.499 --> 00:16:40.700
- I think what they have to understand,
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- The president is looking at the fact
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- That both israel and the us have elections this fall.
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- We don't want to be
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- In the middle of a conflict during an election.
- 00:16:48.508 --> 00:16:50.477
- Nobody does.
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- It's not a good time to try to win the votes of the people.
- 00:16:51.711 --> 00:16:56.249
- And if you don't win the votes,
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- Then you aren't able to govern and you aren't able to move
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- Things forward.
- 00:17:00.086 --> 00:17:01.488
- As i said earlier, look at what president
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- Trump has done, not what he has said.
- 00:17:03.590 --> 00:17:05.458
- What he has done is move the capital of
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- He didn't move the capital. capital was already here.
- 00:17:08.561 --> 00:17:10.563
- He acknowledged. that year ago as.
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- The capital moved the embassy here.
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- Thank god that.
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- He did that recognized sovereignty
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- Over the golan heights, that israel has every right to
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- Recognize that israelis have a right
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- To live in the land of judea and samaria.
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- You just take a long look at the record.
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- The relationship that we have is incredibly strong.
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- We don't have a relationship
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- With any other country on the planet like this.
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- We just don't.
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- I can tell you that during the war,
- 00:17:35.989 --> 00:17:37.690
- Our planes were flying wingtip to wingtip.
- 00:17:37.690 --> 00:17:40.960
- I had admiral brad cooper, who's the head of centcom,
- 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.831
- The person who masterminded the the battle plan.
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- And he told me,
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- He said he's been a military guy his whole life.
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- He said, we've never, ever operated like this.
- 00:17:52.038 --> 00:17:54.440
- Go to the operations center.
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- You'd see a room
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- Full of the soldiers and people, and you'd
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- Have to look on their patch
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- To see where the israeli or american,
- 00:18:00.547 --> 00:18:02.448
- Because they were shoulder to shoulder
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- Running the operations center.
- 00:18:04.851 --> 00:18:06.753
- The battle plan was seamless between the israelis and the us.
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- When the president says some things,
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- When he engages in the mou with iran, you know,
- 00:18:13.059 --> 00:18:16.196
- It was somewhat of a surprise, i think, to everyone.
- 00:18:16.196 --> 00:18:18.865
- But he's looking at things to say, let's
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- See if there is a way to bring the temperature down to find.
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- Are the iranians willing to behave like a country?
- 00:18:26.239 --> 00:18:29.642
- Now here's what we're possibly going to see.
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- We made us find, discover and find out.
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- They're not willing to.
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- If not,
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- The president's made very clear he keeps all his
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- Options on the table.
- 00:18:39.419 --> 00:18:40.787
- Some of the things that maybe
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- People have heard the president say that sounded harsh.
- 00:18:42.488 --> 00:18:45.458
- They're not criticisms of the government,
- 00:18:45.458 --> 00:18:47.627
- Not criticisms of the people of israel.
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- There are recognitions of let's try to present the face of
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- We're going to
- 00:18:55.568 --> 00:18:56.636
- Give this a chance to put it into words of the late
- 00:18:56.636 --> 00:18:59.606
- John lennon, give peace a chance.
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- So here's here's what's going on.
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- You mentioned this stock market is up, oil prices,
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- Which mean fuel prices for americans.
- 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.649
- And i guess israelis to
- 00:19:09.649 --> 00:19:11.484
- Those are down and going into the midterms.
- 00:19:11.484 --> 00:19:14.287
- That's a good and important thing.
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- Real quickly.
- 00:19:16.222 --> 00:19:17.490
- Turkey president erdogan has made the most.
- 00:19:17.490 --> 00:19:22.528
- Horrifying and i would say chilling statements
- 00:19:23.429 --> 00:19:27.066
- There really on the iranian leadership level,
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- You know, we're going to take back jerusalem
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- Because it was under the ottoman empire.
- 00:19:32.071 --> 00:19:33.506
- We're going to invade israel
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- Because of what they're doing in gaza.
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- Netanyahu's a nazi and israel
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- And engage in genocide.
- 00:19:40.313 --> 00:19:43.483
- So israelis are also concerned.
- 00:19:43.483 --> 00:19:46.586
- Americans are concerned about the idea of selling
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- The most advanced fighter jet, f-35 or our engines,
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- Fighter engines, to a guy who a leader who saying that your
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- Your sense of
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- Where are us turkish relations
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- And where do you think we're heading?
- 00:20:02.168 --> 00:20:04.203
- I think the president wants there to be good relations.
- 00:20:04.203 --> 00:20:06.639
- He sometimes will say, as you hear him say, regarding
- 00:20:06.639 --> 00:20:10.410
- President xi of china or vladimir putin of russia.
- 00:20:10.410 --> 00:20:13.846
- Oh, these are great guys. they're strong guys.
- 00:20:13.846 --> 00:20:15.915
- I have great relationship with them.
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- Does that mean that he
- 00:20:17.517 --> 00:20:18.551
- Completely trust them
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- Or that he would not count his fingers after he shook hands?
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- I don't know, i'm thinking he might be very cautious.
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- He respects
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- Strength or tone projects that i think
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- A lot of us have concerns i do sitting in this neighborhood,
- 00:20:31.564 --> 00:20:35.568
- As i do in the middle east, living here.
- 00:20:35.568 --> 00:20:38.204
- Now, as an american, you're not
- 00:20:38.204 --> 00:20:40.006
- You understand israeli concerns, but as an american.
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- Well, as an american, i. supposed to be an ally.
- 00:20:42.342 --> 00:20:44.677
- They don't sound like one.
- 00:20:44.677 --> 00:20:46.312
- Well, and that i think that's something
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- That maybe the president is working
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- Toward is to find out what are their intentions.
- 00:20:49.582 --> 00:20:52.585
- And and i would just say he the president says this a lot.
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- We'll see.
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- We'll wait and see.
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- And i would say that that's the right
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- Answer is don't get excited.
- 00:21:02.795 --> 00:21:04.364
- Don't get all worked up or feeling
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- That somehow there's an abandonment.
- 00:21:06.566 --> 00:21:08.368
- Let's see how this plays out.
- 00:21:08.368 --> 00:21:10.103
- The president is pretty shrewd and pretty thoughtful.
- 00:21:10.103 --> 00:21:14.240
- And he plays a long game, not a short game.
- 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:17.043
- I would say.
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- Stay tuned. sounds good.
- 00:21:18.511 --> 00:21:20.580
- Well, you can't stay
- 00:21:20.580 --> 00:21:21.981
- Tuned to this show any longer because we're out of time.
- 00:21:21.981 --> 00:21:24.283
- But i'm so grateful that you were with us,
- 00:21:24.283 --> 00:21:26.018
- So grateful that you were able to listen
- 00:21:26.018 --> 00:21:27.920
- To this conversation about where are we in the state of u.s.
- 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:31.958
- Israeli relations?
- 00:21:31.958 --> 00:21:32.959
- I think they are better,
- 00:21:32.959 --> 00:21:34.927
- Stronger than they've ever been in eight decades.
- 00:21:34.927 --> 00:21:37.630
- You know, yes, there are moments that that
- 00:21:37.630 --> 00:21:41.467
- Sometimes we catch the american people off
- 00:21:41.467 --> 00:21:44.103
- Guard, sometimes us catches us off guard.
- 00:21:44.103 --> 00:21:47.607
- But i don't think there's a fundamental problem here.
- 00:21:47.607 --> 00:21:50.543
- In fact,
- 00:21:50.543 --> 00:21:51.411
- I think if you look over the last year,
- 00:21:51.411 --> 00:21:53.045
- This is proof that the us, israel's
- 00:21:53.045 --> 00:21:55.448
- Strategic relationship is better than it's ever been.
- 00:21:55.448 --> 00:21:57.583
- But we're going through some some turbulence here
- 00:21:57.583 --> 00:22:00.153
- And we'll continue to see how it plays out.
- 00:22:00.153 --> 00:22:03.356
- Thank you so much for watching.
- 00:22:03.356 --> 00:22:04.991
- Do go to our website, joshuafund.com
- 00:22:04.991 --> 00:22:07.994
- To learn more about the tour next spring.
- 00:22:07.994 --> 00:22:10.730
- And that includes
- 00:22:10.730 --> 00:22:12.298
- The price of the epicenter summit on april 7th, 2027.
- 00:22:12.298 --> 00:22:16.436
- We would love to have you there.
- 00:22:16.436 --> 00:22:17.904
- Obviously,
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- Ambassador huckabee will be one of our keynote
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- Speakers speakers, we'd love to have you be with us.
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- Thank you so much for watching.
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- Have a great week.
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- Continue walking with the lord jesus christ as you spend time
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- In his words, time in fellowship,
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- Time and worship and prayer,
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- Caring for the poor and needy, caring for widows and orphans.
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- Praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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- Praying for american leaders in this league.
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- Leaders for wisdom at this critical hour.
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- Have a great week and lord willing,
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- I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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