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Joel Rosenberg: Where Are US-Israel Relations Headed? | The Rosenberg Report

February 6, 2025 | S25:E206 | 26:42

As editor in chief of the daily digital sites All Israel News and All Arab News, New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg is a respected geo-political expert on the Middle East. Each week on The Rosenberg Report he offers a close-up view of current events and issues in this volatile region, bringing important insights and biblical perspective that viewers will find both informative and encouraging.

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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Where Are US-Israel Relations Headed? | The Rosenberg Report | February 6, 2025

Tonight on the rosenberg report,
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Pres. trump shocks the world by saying the u.s.
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Is going to take over own, pacify, clear and rebuild gaza.
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What does he mean? and is he serious?
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Trump welcomes israeli prime minister
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Netanyahu to the white house
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And holds one of the most dramatic
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Pro-israel press conferences that i've ever seen.
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More israeli hostages, including israeli american keith siegel,
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Are finally coming out of gaza
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And being reunited with their families.
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And we have the first exclusive interview
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With israel's new ambassador to the united states.
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Yechiel leiter. who is he?
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What does he want from evangelicals?
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And what's the
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Terrible personal price that he's paid in the gaza war?
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All this and more tonight from washington
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And a very special edition of the rosenberg report.
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A dramatic week here in u.s.
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Israeli relations.
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I'm at the white house
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And we are covering our new year,
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A new president, a new israeli ambassador to the united states
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Just appointed by prime minister netanyahu.
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The release of the hostages, dramatic images
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And emotional images of israeli hostages being released and thai
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Hostages also thai workers who were taken captive,
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Being released and welcomed back to their families.
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Very, very emotional week.
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And we're covering it all tonight on the rosenberg report.
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Good evening, and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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Welcome to washington. welcome to the white house.
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Lots to cover.
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And we've got an exclusive interview,
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The first that the new israeli ambassador, yechiel leiter
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Has given to any american or israeli television network.
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I recorded that with him just before
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He came to washington to take up his position.
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And before i came to be part
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Of the national prayer breakfast events this week and to cover
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Prime minister netanyahu's visit.
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So we're going to get to that in a moment.
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But first,
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Again, these dramatic images, the emotions of israelis,
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Welcoming back, we're up to now 18 hostages
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That have been released as part of this
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First phase of this dramatic, historic
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But controversial deal between israel and hamas
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Brokered by the united states, qatar and egypt.
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So israelis are emotional.
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They are.
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We are seeing these families reunited.
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We are seeing people that we feared were dead.
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They are alive.
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There are others that we just don't know yet.
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But we're taking things one day at a time.
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And i ask you to keep praying.
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One of the people released was the husband of aviva siegel,
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Who's been on this program that i interviewed her.
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You've seen me listen to her account
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Of being taken hostage on october 7th with her husband,
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Keith siegel, and her pleas that christians would keep praying,
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That president trump would keep pressing,
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And that, in fact,
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Keith siegel, her husband of more than 40
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Years, would be released.
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He was released on saturday and was able to walk out
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Without the help of a wheelchair.
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Though he is, i would say, emaciated.
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He has lost a lot of weight.
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He was tortured and nearly starved,
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But he is out
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And we are rejoicing
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And we've got more coverage on that on youtube
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And we've got more coverage at all
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Israel news on each of these hostages
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That are coming out. and the dynamic.
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So i encourage you to go to the youtube channel,
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And i also encourage you
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To go to all israel news to get up to speed on that.
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Right now, what i want to do is walk you through,
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The the meeting between trump and netanyahu,
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The press conference they gave.
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I want you to
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I want to walk you through some of the major points,
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And then we're going to go to this interview
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To get to know who is, prime minister netanyahu is point
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Man, to the united states, yechiel leiter.
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I've known him for about 20 years,
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When he was chief of staff for prime minister netanyahu,
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When when netanyahu was actually finance minister
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At the time and did an amazing job at leading through, sweeping
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Free market reforms that really created
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The economic juggernaut
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That israel has become, the technology juggernaut.
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And, it just very dramatic yechiel leiter was a key
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Part of those reforms.
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And we're going to get to his interview,
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His message to americans, his message
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To evangelicals in just a few minutes.
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But first, let's take a moment and kind of walk through.
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What are the key takeaways
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In this week's dramatic meeting between trump and netanyahu?
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We should go to other countries
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Of interest with humanitarian hearts,
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And there are many of them that want to do this.
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And build various domains that will ultimately be occupied
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By the 1.8 million palestinians living in gaza,
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Ending the death and destruction.
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And frankly, bad luck.
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This can be paid for by neighboring countries
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Of great wealth.
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It could be one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, 12.
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It could be numerous sites, or it could be one large site.
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But the people will be able to live in comfort and peace
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And will get to will make sure something really
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Spectacular is done. they're going to have peace.
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They're not going to be
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Shot at and killed and destroyed like this
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Civilization of of wonderful people has had to endure.
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The only reason the palestinians want to go back to
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Gaza is they have no alternative.
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It's right now a demolition site.
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This is just a demolition site.
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Virtually every building
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Is down there living under fallen concrete.
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That's very dangerous and very precarious.
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They instead can occupy all of a beautiful area
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With homes and safety, and they can live out
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Their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back
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And do it again.
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The u.s.
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Will take over the gaza strip,
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And we will do a job with it, too.
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We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of
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The dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.
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Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.
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Level it out.
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Create an economic development that will supply unlimited
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Numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.
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Do a real job.
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Do something different.
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Just can't go back.
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If you go back,
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It's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.
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I'm hopeful that this cease fire could be the beginning
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Of a larger and more enduring peace
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That will end the bloodshed and killing once and for all,
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With the same goal in mind, my administration
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Has been moving quickly to restore trust in the alliance
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And rebuild american strength throughout the region.
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And we've really done that.
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We're a respected nation again.
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A lot's happened in the last couple of weeks.
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We are actually a very respected nation.
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Again,
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I ended the last administration's de facto arms
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Embargo on over $1 billion in military assistance for israel.
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And i'm also pleased to announce that this afternoon,
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The united states withdrew from the antisemitic u.n.
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Human rights council and ended all of the support for the u.n.
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Relief and works agency, which funneled money to hamas
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And which was very disloyal to humanity.
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Today.
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I also took action to restore
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A maximum pressure policy on the iranian regime,
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And we will once again enforce
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The most aggressive possible sanctions,
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Drive iranian oil exports to zero, and diminish
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The regime's capacity to fund terror
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Throughout the region and throughout the world.
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Thank you, mr. president.
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I'm honored
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That you invited me to be the first foreign leader
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To visit the white house in your second term.
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This is a testament to your friendship and support
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For the jewish state and the jewish people.
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I've said this before.
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I'll say it again you are the greatest friend
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Israel has ever had in the white house.
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All right,
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Really interesting developments between trump and netanyahu.
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We'll do more on that next week.
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And we'll do more coverage, of course, on the youtube
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Channel and on all israel news.
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There's a lot going on,
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And we're just scratching the surface now.
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But i want to shift now to my exclusive interview
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With yechiel leiter, the new ambassador
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From israel to the united states,
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He hit the ground running with, welcoming his prime minister
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And getting right into the thick of these conversations.
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Congratulations on this post.
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Well, thank you very much, joel.
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It's good to be with you on the rosenberg report.
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And i appreciate it very much. all right.
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We got to clear out so people don't get,
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Distracted.
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You did have a little bit of, minor surgery.
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On your forehead to, to remove a lesion.
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Maybe that, could potentially be cancerous.
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Right. so i'm glad that went well.
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But, just me.
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Are you feeling.
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It just means that i've got skin in the game
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With this new role as ambassador.
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I appreciate it very much.
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Okay.
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There's a lot to cover.
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I think
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I want to start with
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What's your message to the american people?
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And i would say also, if you widen the aperture,
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Specifically to the evangelical community.
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Well, you know, joel,
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When, david ben-gurion, the first prime minister
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Of israel, came to the united nations
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And made the claim for the return of the jewish
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People to the land of israel, he came holding a bible.
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And, he
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Said, this is this is our this is our deed.
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Yeah.
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This is a dream that's come true.
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We've remained loyal,
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To the idea that the land of israel
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And the people of israel belong together. and,
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We've come home, we've built an incredible country.
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Democracy in an area of the world
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That hasn't seen too many democracies emerge.
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We're very hopeful now that more will will emerge.
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But, we've also created an economic powerhouse.
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We have a greater gdp per capita today
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Than many european countries
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Who not too long ago were occupying,
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The land of israel.
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So, we've had huge successes, but we're also at the forefront
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Of the battle of ideas together with the united states.
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And i think prime minister netanyahu and president trump
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Are on the same wavelength in this regard.
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We're willing and able to say there's something called good
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And there's something called evil, and we're going to
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Adhere to the good, and we're going to fight the evil.
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We're up against an enemy today
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Intent on destroying us and intent on destroying
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Not only us, but us as israel, as the beginning of destroying
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Western civilization.
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And that's the mullahs of tehran.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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Who exactly is israel's new ambassador to the united states
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Yechiel leiter?
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What does he want from evangelicals?
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And what's the terrible personal price that he has paid
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In the gaza war?
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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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Who is israel's new ambassador to the united states?
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New year, new president.
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President trump, the most pro-israel president,
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In us-israel history.
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I've said that to him personally.
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And i am fascinated with where
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He wants to go in the next term.
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But prime minister
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Netanyahu has decided this would be the moment
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To appoint a new ambassador
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Dr. yechiel leiter is an academic.
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He's a guy who's run think tanks.
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He's he's a guy who's, who's a rabbi,
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Orthodox rabbi.
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He's a religious man.
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He's a man of faith, a man of the bible.
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He's also known prime minister netanyahu for about 30 years.
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I've known him.
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I first met him about 20 years ago,
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And i'm very happy to have him here on the rosenberg report.
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This is his first interview,
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As i mentioned at the top of the show,
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On any american or israeli news outlet.
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So we want to get to know him.
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And and i want to turn here now to the personal price
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That you paid in this war.
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This is not just theory to you
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Or i mean, it's personal for all of us as israelis.
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And by the way, i would say that you're also a do it.
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Well, you were a dual u.s.
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Israeli citizen, so you became a diplomat.
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But, you were born in scranton, pennsylvania. so,
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And you have
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Maybe that and the loss of a son in common,
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With outgoing president biden.
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Could you talk about your son, moshe,
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His service to the country and, and and his death and how
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That is not only affected you, but why it has given you?
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Why wouldn't you just fold and decide?
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The last thing i want to do is be in a highly publicized,
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Intense, potentially tense, role,
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Maybe just want to be quiet and
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And not be in the limelight.
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You know, one thing i discovered, joel,
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After my son was killed by hamas
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In battle,
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I realized that,
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A parent that loses a child has to make a decision
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Every morning, a new.
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Do you fall
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Or do you get up and start living again?
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And it's not a one time decision.
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It's a repeated decision.
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And there's this
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Little enzyme within you that kind of brings you down
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And tells you to give up on life
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And to be sad,
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And not forge ahead with a constructive life.
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And, you make the decision to live.
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And that's what my son would have wanted.
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And i feel him with me, you know, kind of on my shoulders.
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We were very close.
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He was not only my firstborn.
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He was my best friend.
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He was a very, very special, unique human being.
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He spent 15 years in special ops, actually trained
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Extensively with the delta force in the us.
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And after 15 years in special ops in the air force,
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He led operations that i still classified to this day.
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I just know that they were,
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Very, very brave.
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Maybe. career roll from moment to breathe.
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You'll get access to to learn more.
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Yeah.
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Most of these operations remain classified.
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He was very, very brave.
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That's what everybody, tells me.
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Very courageous.
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And he would always get his soldiers out of harm's way.
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He always used to say,
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I don't want anybody doing, any tremendous acts.
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You know, rambo like, acts only when there's injured,
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When there's
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Wounded soldiers, that everybody becomes
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A rambo and gets their wounded soldiers out.
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And there were repeated incidents in this war
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Where he, saved his soldiers lives.
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You know, i feel him talking to me today
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And telling me to continue with life,
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And to focus on the important things that were important
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To him.
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After 15 years in special ops, he went to med school.
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He was a 30, 30.
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Something like he was supposed to was a doctor.
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He wasn't his received his diploma.
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And he was actually on october 8th,
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He was scheduled to start rounds in a hospital, in tel aviv.
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Yeah.
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And he led, forces actually, he was the lead commander
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That led the forces into gaza.
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You know, the forces enter in a kind of, pyramid fashion.
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And he was the point commander.
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And, he was
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Really just a special, special human being.
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Was prime minister
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Netanyahu hesitant, therefore, to say,
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If we've been friends for a long time,
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I would like you to do this role.
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Is that too much to ask?
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He was very, very considerate.
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There have been a number of, positions over the years,
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That he, asked me to take and,
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I was, very hesitant to go back into government.
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I spent time in government, in the ministry of education,
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The ministry of transportation, the ministry of finance.
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And i had enough of government.
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But actually, because of my loss and
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Because i want to forge ahead with life,
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I did accept, his offer or his request,
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Really, to serve as israeli ambassador to the united states.
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So, as my son was the point, commander
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For israel forces going against hamas, israel
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As the point commander for western civilization.
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And i think there's tremendous appreciation for that
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On the part of the trump administration.
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There's a clear understanding of that.
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There is such a thing as as evil and evil has to be dealt with.
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And i think there's appreciation for the fact that israel has,
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Not asked for american boots on the ground.
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Right, right.
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We are.
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We're the best ally the united states has.
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Really, because we want support from the u.s.
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And from our european friends.
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We get a lot of support from our american friends,
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Unfortunately, less so from our european friends.
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We hope that'll change now, but the important thing is that
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We are united in the effort
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To fight the enemies of western.
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Civilization and not just degrade.
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We want to defeat right.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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What's the message that israel's new ambassador to the u.s.
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Wants to send to evangelicals as he takes up his new role?
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What does he want from evangelicals?
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And how does the bible inform this orthodox jewish
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Man's worldview?
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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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You█re a rabbi,
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As well as an ambassador, as well as, an academic and,
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Someone who served in
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Public office, in multiple posts here in israel.
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How does the bible inform your own personal views
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And how do you respond to the criticism?
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Some of it very sharp.
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That you're a radical settler, you're going to make it
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More difficult to make peace with the saudis or whomever.
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But let's start with what do you actually believe?
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And, how do you navigate that,
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In this new role of,
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Israel point man to the united states?
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Well, i'd ask you, joel.
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I mean, how could it be that jews living in
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Judea is a controversial idea?
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I mean,
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Is there anything more natural than where did you come from?
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I mean, if you deny the right
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Of us to judea, you deny our identity as jews.
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So, i know that,
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You don't. and the evangelicals
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The evangelical community, the evangelical community
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Gets it.
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I mean, i've, i've, had the privilege
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Of being involved in the renovation
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And the restoration of the archeological sites of shiloh.
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And i've seen the evangelical communities come to visit.
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One of my beautiful temple sites to visit here in.
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Israel. well, it's an it's an amazing site.
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And i was insistent
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That we don't just leave it as archeology,
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But actually make it come alive again,
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Because israel's come alive again.
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And it means so much to,
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People who appreciate the bible all over the world.
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You know, look, i my doctorate is in political
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Philosophy.
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So, you know, i've studied
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Political philosophy from the time of the bible,
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And i've never used my rabbinical mantle at all.
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I studied theology
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Theology for eight years,
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But i haven't practiced as a rabbi,
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But i have practiced as an academic.
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And, i can say that there's something
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Very beautiful about the philosophy of the bible.
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There is philosophy in the bible.
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There is thinking in the bible,
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There's rationality in the bible.
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And it is necessary to,
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Study philosophy alongside the oldest philosophy.
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Really, from the time that abraham came
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To these hills of judea and said, you know,
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God creates man.
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Man doesn't create god. it was a revolutionary idea.
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And, it's been persistent throughout the ages.
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And therefore man has. right and therefore man.
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Has run from god.
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Therefore there's therefore there's given by man.
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Man has humans have autonomy, and they're in the image of god.
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And how much has been lost over the ages in certain
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Philosophies who have removed the image of god from humanity.
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So i'm not embarrassed by that.
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I have a clear identity.
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I live in judah, and, i.
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Think just outside of the fraught which,
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Most evangelicals might not immediately
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Hear the term, but that's what's bethlehem ephrata of judea.
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This is a specifically where king david was born and raised.
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This, of course, where, the messiah,
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According to the prophet micah, would be born and raised.
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I believe that yeshua jesus is that you know what,
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That little town of bethlehem, but that you live literally
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In that in that little section of the world.
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My oldest son,
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Who we spoke about earlier, who was killed as he led forces
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Into gaza, was the first child to be born in ancient hebron.
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Is that right? hebron is.
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The that's where. you lived before.
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You lived before, right? right. and what's also judea?
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Everyone's also judea.
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But it's where abraham, isaac and jacob, sarah, rebecca
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And lay are buried.
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And that's where they lived.
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And that's where this first
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Idea of monotheism was echoed forth from.
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So there's tremendous significance to that fact.
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But i also like to emphasize
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The the realpolitik aspect of that.
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For the first
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Half century, first half of the 20th century,
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We had a paradigm called multi polarity.
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That was the order of the world for the second half of the
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20th century.
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We had the bipolar paradigm.
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Us and soviet.
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Us and soviet,
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For the beginning of the 21st century,
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We had the unipolar, paradigm and everybody's been searching.
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Soviet union was gone the united states. yeah.
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But but none of those paradigms worked very well, did they?
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Because the multipolar system resulted in two world wars.
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The bipolar system was a world divided on the threshold
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Of a cold war. right.
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And it was only it was only a nuclear showdown,
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Which is only
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Prevented through mad, mutually assured destruction.
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We need a new paradigm now.
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And i think that under president trump,
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We're a very chaotic, chaotic world
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Because we've stepped back from the unipolar moment.
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But i think the president trump
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Is going to introduce a new paradigm,
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Which is going to be not mutually assured destruction,
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But mac mutually assured construction.
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I think he's going to have a very constructive approach
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To international relations.
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It's going to be a new paradigm, a new age,
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And it's going to be,
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Symbolized
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By mac as opposed to interesting.
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All right.
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We're gonna have to pick up that thought.
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But the last question just before we go,
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And we've got to go in just a moment, but,
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What do you need from evangelicals?
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What does israel need from evangelicals?
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And what do you need
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As a new ambassador in a country of 60 million evangelicals?
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We're not the majority, but we're influential.
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Well, first of all, i would turn the question around and say,
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What do you need from me?
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What can i do for you?
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I got a list. okay.
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So so i first want to know what i can do.
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What israel can do.
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And we want to be there for you, okay?
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We want to be there for you. what?
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Evangelicals around the world can do in return?
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Particularly the united states.
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First of all, is visit.
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You've got to come to visit to actually.
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Time to come back?
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It's time to come. yeah, yeah.
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Come back. walk in the footsteps.
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I mean, be here. walk through the biblical
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Homeland, feel and experience it.
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Come to army
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Bases, meet with our soldiers, meet
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With the people who have risked their lives
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In order to free hostages in order to secure israel
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And to secure western civilization.
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And, of course, in the united states,
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Try to,
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You know, fight back against this tsunami,
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Of anti-israel propaganda which has taken over campuses,
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Which is taking over much of the media.
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It's propaganda. it's
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Lies, an avalanche of lies, avalanche of lies.
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We're familiar with that in regard to other issues
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As well.
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Israel is at the, unfortunately
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Has been sacrificed in this,
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War of lies.
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And, it's very important
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That lovers of zion and,
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Of the evangelical beauty stand up against this
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This attempt to delegitimize and degrade
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Israel in the eyes of the the are.
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We will and i appreciate it and look forward
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To spending some time with you in the in the states.
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Very soon.
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Thank you. ambassador designate. ambassador.
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I hope i hope to be with you again soon, joel.
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I look forward to that.
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So encouraging to be here in washington
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Covering all these events and my interview with yechiel leiter.
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I really appreciate him.
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And we need to be praying for him, praying for his family.
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Remember the grief that he's still going through.
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It's only been a little over a year
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Since he lost his oldest son and in combat in gaza.
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So please be praying for ambassador leiter.
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Be praying for mike huckabee as he's
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Going through
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His senate confirmation process and hopefully
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Will soon be confirmed and will be in israel.
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We're looking forward to that very much.
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I want to encourage you
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To, to share a copy of this show with your friends
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On social media.
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You can go to rosenbergreport.tv
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And of course, get it on youtube.
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I also want to remind you that the joshua fund
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Is going to be doing
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A really exciting, wonderful cruise to alaska.
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Lynn and i will be leading it.
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You can find out more about it at joshua fund.com.
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But i'm really looking forward to taking people
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On an opportunity to sort of take a vacation with a purpose
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And opportunity to not only get refreshed and encouraged,
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But to hear from israeli and arab ministry partners
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Of the joshua fund.
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And, you can find out all the details
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And you can register at, joshua fund.com.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Thank you so much for praying.
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We're seeing these hostages released,
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But the process is not done.
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We're praying for normalization between israel and
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Saudi arabia.
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I'm hopeful, cautiously optimistic.
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But more on that on future shows. may you have a good week.
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As you walk with the lord jesus christ,
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Spend time in his word, care for the poor and needy
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And those who are less fortunate and, and walk in the spirit.
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And, may you have a good week, and lord willing,
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I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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Joel Rosenberg: Where Are US-Israel Relations Headed? | The Rosenberg Report

February 6, 2025 | S25:E206 | 26:42

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