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June 12, 2025 | 28:55

Joel Rosenberg sits down for an exclusive interview with former Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett.

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Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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This former israeli prime minister has been leading
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In all polls for the past 20 months
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And could very well become israel's next prime minister.
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But who is naftali bennett?
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What's his background?
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What are his values?
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And how would he deal
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With the iran nuclear threat different than bibi netanyahu?
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Part one of joel█s exclusive interview
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With the once and possibly future leader of israel.
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Plus, another exclusive.
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Joel interviews the evangelical christian just appointed
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To run the gaza humanitarian foundation.
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Tonight, right here on the rosenberg report.
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He's the most popular political figure in israel.
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Every single poll over the last 20 months or so show that he is
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The elections were
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Going to happen today, or soon would be the next guy,
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The next prime minister of israel.
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He was the prime minister several years ago.
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Then bibi netanyahu ousted him after he had ousted bibi.
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But now the polls show very conclusively
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And very consistently that he would be the next prime
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Minister, that he would remove netanyahu from power.
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But who is naftali bennett?
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Most american evangelicals,
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Most americans generally don't know who he is.
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They don't know his values.
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They don't know what he'd do on iran or saudi arabia.
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The palestinians, they don't know
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What his relationship would be like with evangelicals.
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So tonight, the rosenberg report begins part one of a two part
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Exclusive interview
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With the once and possibly future prime minister of israel,
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Naftali bennett.
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Mr. former prime minister, maybe prime minister.
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Again, i should ask you,
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First of all, thanks for having us back at your home.
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It's great to see you. it's great to see you, joel.
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And i also want to say that, i very much,
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Am grateful to you and your audience.
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The evangelicals who have been so supportive of israel.
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When everyone's bashing us, everyone's attacking us,
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And we're fighting against the seven different fronts of,
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Radical muslim islamist terrorism.
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And we know that you have our back, and,
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It means the world to us.
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Thank you. well, i appreciate that very much.
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And, yeah, seven kinetic fronts.
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Seven fronts militarily.
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But the eight front is the world of public opinion
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That is attacking in so many ways.
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I want to ask you about that. i have to ask you first of lies.
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Yeah. the word, the avalanche of lies.
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I being a and up to including in the last few days.
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Well, let's start with what everybody wants to know.
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Are you running for prime minister?
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Are you ready to announce?
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Because you did promise me a year ago
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That when you were ready, you would announce on this show.
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So i'll repeat that when i'm ready, i'll let you know.
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Okay. all right.
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But you're preparing.
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I mean, clearly,
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You're taking steps for the possibility of running.
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You're building a party?
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Yeah, i've registered a party and,
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We need to have the ability to fix israel.
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Israel is currently,
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Being mismanaged, grossly mismanaged by, very poor
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Leadership, in my opinion, and very divisive leadership.
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And that's something that we need to repair.
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We have to unite israel from within.
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If we're divided,
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We have no chance of beating our enemies.
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And i think that's the sort of leadership that israel needs.
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You're pulling is incredibly high, and it's been consistent.
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I mean, the latest poll just in the last few days
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Put your potential party at 28,
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29 seats, well ahead of any other party.
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So that's a that's the the larger question.
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I mean, we're not in the campaign season yet, though.
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There's a lot of tremors inside the government.
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You know, ultra-orthodox
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Talking about maybe bringing this government down.
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So we'll talk about some of those reasons in a moment.
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But i want to really broaden out to the larger picture is
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Who is naftali bennett?
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For most evangelical christians
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In the united states, canada, elsewhere,
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They don't yet know you.
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You were the prime minister.
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You're very successful in business.
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You're served in a very elite military unit.
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But i just like to kind of
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Sort of pull the curtain back and ask you to share
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A little bit about yourself.
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But let's start with
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Some of your political values, and that is starting.
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You have been very tough on the idea of it's time to hit iran.
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When you and i were last together was last fall,
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You spoke at an epicenter briefing with our organization's
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All israel news and the joshua fund.
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And you were pretty clear then.
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And in the days that followed, you kept saying what you were
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Saying to us, in california, which is it's time to hit iran.
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That was last fall.
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And how are you feeling about, you know, president trump
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Is now telling prime minister netanyahu, don't attack iran.
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Did we miss a window?
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Well, the window of opportunity is closing and we have to act.
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We should have acted way, long ago.
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But now is the time to act.
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And i want to explain this.
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This center, the epicenter of islamic radical,
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Terror, is tehran, the islamic republic of tehran. and
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It's been this,
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Octopus sending its arms all across the world,
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All across the middle east, and creating these proxies
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That hit and kill israelis and kill americans
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And just kill anyone who doesn't want to become muslim
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And what israel did over the past year was take out
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Its air defense systems and two of its main proxies,
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Hezbollah and hamas, which are, dramatically diminished.
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So, if you will,
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It's like being in a boxing match
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And and your opponent right now, his hands are tied.
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Finally, now is the time for the knockout.
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And this should have been done.
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You know, between biden and trump during that,
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That short period of a couple of months.
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Because biden told netanyahu, don't do it.
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I know, but at the end of the day,
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If you're an israeli
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Prime minister, your utmost and i would say,
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You know, the key consideration
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Is the security and existence of the state of israel.
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And we, very much respect former president biden,
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But at the end of the day, we need to defend our people.
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It's us who are living here.
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It's us who are fighting all these crazy islamist terrorists,
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Not biden.
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And that was,
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Really big opportunity that was missed.
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But i think, still, we need to act. so.
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So this, again, this will help evangelicals understand you
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And who you are, what your values are.
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Because, again, you said it with me in september.
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You said it on cnn.
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And throughout the fall, it's time to hit.
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It's time to hit if there's ever
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You know, it's not like we're i mean, we're not starting a war.
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We were trying to end the war.
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We keep on fighting
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The tentacles of of this octopus instead of hitting its head.
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So what is your assessment of why
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Prime minister netanyahu didn't do it?
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Do the knockout punch when this has been his
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Main theme for 15, 20 years?
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I don't know,
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In many cases, people
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Divorce their words from their actions.
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This was too important to have missed out on it.
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It's existential.
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And you'd have to ask him what i do know
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Is that the
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Opportunity still exists, even if it's tougher than it
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Was, say, seven months ago.
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But we have to act.
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I, i was a prime minister.
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I sat at that chair, i sat at the table and,
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The supreme and and key consideration,
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Especially for the prime minister
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Of the jewish state and as prime minister
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Was the existence of israel.
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I don't know of many other countries
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Whose existence is being threatened.
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Very few. france is not threatened.
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America's existence is not threatened.
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Sweden or...
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Maybe taiwan and israel might be the only two threatened.
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That's correct. ukraine, of course, you know. and and,
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People want to wipe out the jewish state.
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And when you're prime minister,
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That's the main thing that i wake up with and go
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To sleep at night with that, we have to ensure the security
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Of the 10 million israelis living here.
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Obviously, you can't go into any,
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You know, classified details.
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But as prime minister, former prime minister
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And as a former defense minister,
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Can israel do this job alone?
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If the united states chooses not to help?
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Yes. would we?
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Well, would we?
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Depends on leadership.
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Can we? yes.
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All right.
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When we come back, we'll go deeper into these issues.
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Thank you so much for sitting with us
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At your at your home, inviting us to your home.
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I really great to have you here.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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As president trump and his team send conflicting signals over
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What a new iran nuclear deal might look like.
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Millions of evangelicals and israelis are getting nervous.
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Does once and possibly
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Future prime minister naftali bennett share those fears?
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And what is the evangelical christian
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Who was just appointed to run the gaza
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Humanitarian foundation?
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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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President trump
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Recently made his first official foreign visit.
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Aside from the the funeral of the pope,
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Came to the middle east, didn't come to israel, saudi
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Arabia, qatar and the united arab emirates.
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But i will tell you that a lot of evangelicals
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Are getting anxious.
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Most evangelicals, the vast majority, support
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President trump.
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They believe he's been
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A great president on a lot of our issues,
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Including and most importantly, in some ways,
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Being the
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Most pro-israel president in american history.
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So there's a lot of trust there.
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But is american evangelicals are getting nervous
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By where is the president going
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On these negotiations with iran?
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Why is he telling the netanyahu government?
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Netanyahu himself?
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Don't get in my way.
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Don't take any military action.
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And there's conflicting signals
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Between steve wyckoff and the president.
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The president himself said he wasn't sure whether he would
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Allow iran to enrich uranium, but then he said that
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He know that. definitely not.
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But then whitcomb said maybe 3.65 or so israelis
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Were getting nervous to, well, where's the president going?
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What's your assessment of president trump's approach on
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Iran? is it getting you nervous?
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Well, first of all, let's remember
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President trump has been amazing towards the people of israel,
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The state of israel, the jewish people.
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He had the guts to recognize jerusalem as our capital,
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Which it is.
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It's been that way for about 3000 years.
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But he was the first american president
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That not only promised, but delivered. right.
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They all said they would.
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Do and move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem.
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Tel aviv is not our capital.
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Jerusalem is our capital.
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He recognized the golan heights.
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No one else had the guts to do that.
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As sovereign israeli territory.
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Sovereign israeli territory, which it is.
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Imagine if we had now jolani and all that mess
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On the sea of galilee and not up in the golan heights.
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So, first of all, on behalf of the israeli people,
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We are grateful to president trump.
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First and foremost. make no mistake.
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Now there are differences.
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He also ripped up the iran nuclear deal
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That that obama and biden did,
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Which he said was the worst deal in history.
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You know what else he did?
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He killed soleimani.
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Yeah. which was the architect of the.
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Whole the top iranian terrorist.
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Right? number one, the iranian terrorist.
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So that's why he has so much trust in the bank, right? right.
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And we don't forget that.
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And i won't forget that.
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Right now.
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I do think, however, that, iran is in
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Such a unstable state, that with enough pressure,
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We could see
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A whole new regime come there and it's wobbling.
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It's,
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They're very old leadership, disconnected from the people.
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Incompetent, corrupt, cruel.
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And again,
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And it's sort of like,
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Reminiscent of the soviet union of the late 80s.
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It's going to collapse sooner or later.
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And now we just need to give that little shove.
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And that's what if i were prime minister of israel.
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That's what i would try and and get america together.
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We don't need america to go to war with iran.
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We are. israel is at war with iran.
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Iran has been punching us for ages.
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We gave to small punches back.
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But that's not nearly enough.
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At the end of the day, it's israel's responsibility
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To ensure our security.
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And i think,
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No american president, certainly not president trump would,
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Deny israel of our right to defend ourselves.
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Do you see a scenario?
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Do you see a deal that that you could say, oh, well,
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Okay, i didn't see that deal.
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If trump is able to get that deal
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And he can enforce it, i can be okay with that.
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I mean, oh yeah.
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Yeah. oh, you got one
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That totally dismantles their nuclear program.
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And, and verifies that and has no,
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End date, no expiration date to the deal or what's
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Called the sunset clause, one that tells them to stop,
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All their mischief and terror in the region.
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That sort of deal would be, would be great.
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Unless.
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Okay, so i agree with you,
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Except that i can't see the scenario in which
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When when president trump says,
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And then we'll
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Lift the sanctions and because that will strengthen
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The very regime, i will accomplish what we want.
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But but we'll open up the door for it to be worse later.
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If if this regime gets rich, that that worries me.
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I don't want this regime to be in power at all.
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It's a valid point because you have, a very weak,
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Feeble body right now and you don't want it injected
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With new blood, with $200 billion,
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Worth of money that they are with.
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But, you know, at the end of the day, still,
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If we had those two pieces of totally dismantling
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And verifying, the there's no more nuclear program
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And without, any deadline, it goes on forever.
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And, stop the terror.
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You would take it.
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Take it and say.
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We'll deal with the regime later, but we.
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Yeah, yeah, we got what we need. yeah.
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Because after that, you know, i don't wake up in the mornings,
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Thinking to how i could change a regime in iran,
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I think how i can secure israel in the region.
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Right. and that sort of deal, the one i said.
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But it's the whole dismantling of the whole thing.
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Just blow the whole thing up. that would be a good deal.
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If you come back to power
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And there is no deal like that.
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And and president trump has not yet made a decision
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On whether he wants to use force.
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It's the likely scenario that a bennett
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Government
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Will not hold punches israel's punches any longer,
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That it will take the type of decisive action
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That you've been talking about for quite some time,
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And you're not the only one who's talked about it.
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It just hasn't happened.
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I also acted on it.
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When i was prime minister, israel conducted a series of,
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I would say offensive attacks
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Against, their terror apparatus on iranian soil.
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But i'll set that aside.
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Look, that's what we need to do, okay.
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Well, israel is not just being attacked militarily
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As we as you opened up the show with,
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There's such a public relations war
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To smear us to defame us, to make us look like
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Israelis, look like we're engaged
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In genocide or starving, starving palestinians in gaza
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When we've let so many trucks of aid to come into gaza.
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And it's hamas that keeps shooting people
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To steal the food.
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So first on the media and then we'll get to the actual,
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You know, what's the right way to handle,
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The future of gaza. but,
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You become famous in your post premier role
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As being on television and telling bbc interviewers
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And sky news and others, shame on you for just
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These wicked lies and the slander against israel.
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How do you assess what in the world is going on with the
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The quote, mainstream media that just will will parrot
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Hamas lies against the israeli people?
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It's quite, unbelievable.
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And sometimes it almost feels overwhelming.
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But we have to fight back, you know, about 200 years ago,
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There was something called a blood libel where jews were,
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Were blamed
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When a gentile child was murdered, the jews were
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Blamed for murdering the child to use his blood
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To bake matzah, which is, the bread of passover.
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And, you know, when i grew up here in israel,
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It seemed like, ancient history, like how people believe
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That it's so it's so crazy.
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Why would we do that?
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And now i've seen blood libels.
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Right.
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Right in front of my eyes on cnn.
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On bbc.
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Only over the past ten days,
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Israel was accused,
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Of just tanks opening fire on citizens waiting in line.
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That is not what israel is about.
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We don't do that.
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My own son is in the army.
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We don't do that. i was in the army.
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That's not what israel is about.
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I it's made. up and there was no proof.
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I mean, once.
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You know,
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They look at the video, you know, what we
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We found and we made it public.
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This is, on on the web. you can find it.
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Hamas was shooting the people because it doesn't
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Want the people to get the food directly from israel.
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It wants to make money and control the gazans.
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So instead of supporting israel, the world is attacking us.
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And this lie of starvation where they they show either
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Ai generated pictures or pictures of kids with pre
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Medical conditions of cerebral palsy or muscle dystrophy.
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And then say, you know, there's hunger.
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We have led in 1.7 million tons of food and resources.
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That's 3000 calories per gazan per day.
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Those are the facts.
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And so israel is not starving gaza.
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Hamas is trying to starve gazans in order to control them.
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And now we're trying to take away that weapon from them.
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Thank you so much for speaking out
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As forcefully, as consistently as you do,
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Not just coming out of
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The world's
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Most watched christian television network,
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But going into the belly of the beast, on all these shows.
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Thank you so much. thank you.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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Who is the evangelical christian who was just appointed to run
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The gaza humanitarian foundation?
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And why did he say yes to this incredibly complex operation?
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Find out and watch joel's exclusive interview with him
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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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Most of you don't know this yet, but president trump
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Has appointed a major evangelical leader
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To run the gaza humanitarian foundation.
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Johnny, thank you so much for joining us.
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Congratulations.
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Talk to us about how did this come about
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And then what's the mission?
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Look, i mean, the gaza humanitarian foundation
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Has demonstrated in, in recent weeks
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Something that was long thought to be impossible,
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That you could actually get
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Humanitarian aid to the palestinians in gaza
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Without that aid being diverted or stolen or, or weaponized by
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By hamas.
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And i think all of us have been been frustrated
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For many, many years to watch as the system meant to actually
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Take care of gazans was being exploited.
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Sometimes to prolong conflict as a as in this case.
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You know, even on,
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Many, many occasions it doesn't get reported,
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But actually, un workers who are driving trucks,
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For instance, with the un, you know, have been
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Have been targeted by, by hamas terrorists.
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And more than one circumstance, even killed.
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And so
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The gaza humanitarian foundation is really an opportunity to,
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Like, show
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That there is a way of doing this
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Where you don't have to take to have to take that risk.
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And so i think many of us that watch the region
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That care about the region, of course,
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I care deeply about the entire entire region.
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I want to see peace across the whole region.
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And in my heart, the first thing i am is a peace activist.
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But this has been a a challenge and almost
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No one was willing to take it on. fortunately,
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The president, the united states understands that.
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And and in may, he in fact said a quite profound statement.
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He he made the point that that hamas was making it
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Very, very difficult to get help to the palestinian people.
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And he was determined to fix that.
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This is not a u.s. government operation.
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It's under israeli government operation.
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It's an independent private foundation
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Meant to solve a problem that the president
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Of the united states identified long ago.
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All right. so talk about that a little bit.
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Obviously it's a trump initiative,
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But set up as a private, private foundation.
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But it's obviously requires
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The assistance of the us government.
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And, and in terms of security, israel
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Is ultimately responsible, to provide security in gaza.
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So how does that work as a private organization?
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What what is that air fuel mixture?
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No, i mean, it's like it's like any of the large
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Private humanitarian international organizations.
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It's a it's a it's a us foundation.
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The the contractors on the ground
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That are facilitating all of the food delivery
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That have set up all the operation.
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These are incredibly skilled technical experts.
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They're all americans.
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This is a this is a us initiative.
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It's something that america can be very, very, very proud of.
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And and like you and i actually have done for for many years.
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As you know, as, as people who care about the region,
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You know, very, very often
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The united states government will set a policy direction.
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And, you know, as americans, we have the opportunity
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To sort of like say, okay,
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I'll take that on and i'll work on that.
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And, and, you know, the beauty of living in a democracy,
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Is that you
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You have the ability to make the difference
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On issues like that that you care about.
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And so that's what this is.
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You know, this is a this is a us foundation
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Based in the united states of america
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That decided to take on this problem, that refuses to accept
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That the only way that you can deliver aid
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To the desperate people in gaza is to also allow hamas
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To steal that aid, sell it back to the people,
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Weaponize it, use it for coercive purposes.
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That's a false choice.
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It doesn't have to be that way.
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Well, i say amen to all of that.
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You know what's interesting to me is
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You guys have gotten
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A lot of meals, a lot of food in, in just in,
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Just in recent weeks.
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Would you talk to us about some of the numbers?
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I mean, first of all, a job for people to really understand
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The, the situation like this is the single most complex
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Humanitarian, environment in, in many, many years.
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It's it's it's unbelievably complex, unbelievably deadly.
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It is a real humanitarian crisis.
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And so the fact that in the very first week of operations that
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I was able to deliver 7 million meals
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In eight days without a single security incident happening
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Within the confines of the of the distribution center,
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We can't, you know, this is an active war zone
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We can't fully control, can't control at all.
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Actually, what happens outside of the
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Distribution centers, you know, we can make sure that,
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You know, the attention is being given
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To secure corridors to get to those centers.
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We can send out instructions to people
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As to how to get to those centers.
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But this has been an unbelievable success,
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And it was such an unbelievable success
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That now certain nefarious actors
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Decided to issue a global disinformation campaign
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To discredit, you know, the effort
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When the exact opposite should have been happening.
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Everybody should have been celebrating what was going on.
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Right?
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Well, we're celebrating it.
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And that's why i want people to be aware of it.
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I really appreciate you coming on
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To the rosenberg report to talk about it, because,
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An american initiative
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Encouraged and supported by president trump, run
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By an evangelical christian and yet,
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With all that complexity of trying to deliver
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Actual care, you know, really, truly love our neighbors
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And in some cases, loving our enemies.
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In the hottest of hot zones.
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I mean, i've been in gaza, with the 98th brigade of israel
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And i division,
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As a journalist embedded going in those terror tunnels.
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And it is apocalyptic destruction
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As far as the eye can see,
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Hamas is 100% responsible for the destruction
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That's been brought upon, the portions of gaza.
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And in fact,
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There's a huge uprising now against hamas of outrage.
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And as people feel increasingly out side
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The grip of hamas,
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They're beginning to speak out and they're openly talking about
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How they've been cursed by hamas and they want help.
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They're not, they're not they're not becoming zionists.
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But they do want
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They're they're listening to president
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Trump who says, i'm going to make gaza great again.
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Now, he didn't say it quite that way,
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But he's saying, i want to bring help
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And a future to the people of gaza.
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And he's turning to someone like you, johnny, god bless you.
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I'm so grateful for johnny moore.
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First, that he got appointed to this position,
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A really critical position as an evangelical christian.
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Please be praying for him and his team.
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Really important work.
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Pray for naftali bennett and his family.
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We don't take a position at the rosenberg report.
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And who should be the prime minister.
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But we want you to know
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The decision makers and the the movers and shakers
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In this region, whether they're political,
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Whether they're economic or pastors and ministry leaders
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On the front lines of the faith.
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So please be praying.
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Please be praying for all the hostages to be released.
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We're not quite there yet.
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We've got to keep pressing them in prayer
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That god would set all the captives free.
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Have a great week.
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Oh, don't forget to, i almost forgot,
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And sign up at joshuafund.com
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Have a great week. walk with the lord.
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Stay in his word. stay in fellowship.
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Pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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Care for the poor, needy 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: Who Will Be Israel's Next Prime Minister? | The Rosenberg Report

June 12, 2025 | 28:55

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