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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Advocating for Isreal | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 5, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck and we are in washington, d.c.
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For the annual israel advocacy day.
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Now why is this day necessary?
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Well, folks, if you think about it,
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There is one thing that the three devious factions right
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Now, the radical marxist left, the radical right,
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What used to be the right,
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At least led by tucker carlson, candace owens
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And radical islamists.
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One thing is varying far flung ideologies all can agree on
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Is they despise israel and the jewish people and
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The bible believing christians who stand with israel.
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And the hatred is intensifying against the backdrop,
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Of course, of israel facing a seven front war of the us
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Right now, battling iran's terror regime.
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That's why
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This day is so necessary to push back against the hatred
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That has been growing, ironically enough,
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Since october 7th, 2023.
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You would think that vicious terror attack by hamas
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Would cause an outpouring of support for israel
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And the jewish people, but sadly, in many cases,
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It's been quite the opposite.
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That's why our good friends at eagle's
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Wings, led by bishop robert stearns,
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The israel allies foundation, led by jordan macmillan,
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And the international christian embassy in jerusalem,
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Represented here by our good friend susan michael.
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They've come together for this very special event
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You'll see
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Leading throughout the week here on the show, leading pastors,
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Rabbis and commentators, pro-israel voices
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Who are bringing you
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The truth in a time where truth is at a premium
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When it comes to israel and the jewish people.
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Up first, judge roy altmann, author
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Of a great new book called israel on trial, folks.
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He's got a lot to say,
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Not only about the geopolitical necessity of israel, but
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Israel's legal basis to exist.
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And it all starts now.
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With.
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We are here with the author of the brand
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New blockbuster israel on trial, judge roy altmann.
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Great to see my friend and ian israel on trial.
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You get into the legal case for the world's one
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And only jewish state.
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Tell us a bit more about a judge.
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Look, israel.
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We say ancient, ancestral right to land.
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We can go on about that.
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But there's also a legal right
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That people may not know as much about.
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Break that down a bit for us. yeah.
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So first of all, thank you for having me.
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You know, in my travels around the country
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And churches and synagogues and college campuses all over
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These 50 states in the last three years,
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I've come to recognize that there really are six main claims
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That people bandy about that are at the core of the debate
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About israel.
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And each of those six claims, actually,
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If you pull back all the emotion and all the diatribe,
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They're actually legal claims at their heart.
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And so i thought, you know,
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Why not just apply the same legal methodology
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That judges, lawyers and juries have been applying
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In every courtroom and city across this country?
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It's a time tested methodology
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We've been using for hundreds of years,
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And we know we trust it because we use it
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Where truth telling matters the most in our courtrooms,
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Where someone's life is at stake,
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And then apply it to each of these six claims
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And see what happens.
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And that's why
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It's called israel on trial, because we put israel on trial.
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Six chapters, six claims each chapter gets a claim.
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We apply the relevant
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Legal methodology, we produce the facts,
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And then we issue a verdict one way or the other.
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We hear a lot about a palestinian state,
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But you write in the book
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That they really don't have that legal claim.
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The palestinians to the land.
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Talk more about that, because that's a key issue.
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This is a really important point,
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Because one of the
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Subthemes of the book, i say, is that each of the six claims
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About israel genocide, apartheid, colonialism
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Actually is a thing that's happening in the middle east.
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It's just not being done by jews.
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It's being done to the jews.
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So each of the claims is actually like a mirror
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Being held up to jewish suffering so as to that point,
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There's no doubt that israel is a legitimate nation state.
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That's one of the myths.
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People call it illegitimate,
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But it meets and has met since it was founded in 1947.
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All four of the elements that international law outlines
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For the creation of a legitimate nation states.
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Those come to us from the montevideo convention of 1933.
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Does it have a defined population? yes.
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Does it have defined borders? yes.
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Does it have the capacity of conducting foreign relations?
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It always has.
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Always will.
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And does it have a single effective government?
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Yes it has.
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On the other hand,
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The state that over 140 countries around the world
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Have seen fit to recognize in the last few years.
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The supposed state of palestine doesn't meet
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At least two of those four elements, because, first of all,
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It doesn't have defined borders.
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In fact,
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All of the recent european states that have recognized it
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Have refused notably to to say
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What its borders are because they know that doesn't have any.
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But second, and more importantly,
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It doesn't have one government, much less an effective one.
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Gaza is being run partly by hamas, partly by israel.
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Judea and samaria is being run
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Partly by the palestinian authority,
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Who the palestinians themselves have said they don't want,
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And partly by israel.
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So it doesn't meet the montevideo test.
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Was that one of the motivations judged to write this book,
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Especially after october
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7th, where you think there would be an outpouring of support
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For israel and the jewish people?
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In many cases, it's been the opposite,
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Especially in the western world of all places.
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And it's under siege
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By what should be its allies, its natural allies.
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Absolutely.
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The world needs a strong and sane and morally clear america.
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And the problem i saw after october 7th
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Is that history has taught us that societies that persecute
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The jews are societies that are sick and dying.
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Look at the rush of kitchen eve in 1903.
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14 years later, it was gone.
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Look at the nazi germany of 1938, of kristallnacht.
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Seven years later, it was dead.
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So not because i'm jewish, but because i'm first and foremost
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An american
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Who loves this country and understands
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That all of us have been bequeathed to us,
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This judeo-christian civilization
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And all of its blessings.
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I believe that we have a moral obligation to root out
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This jew hatred whenever and wherever it appears, because
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It's the moral rot in the wooden framework of our house.
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And if we're not careful, it'll bring the whole house
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Tumbling down on all of us, not just our jews.
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Israel and the us, right now, side by side
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And taking on the world's number one
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State sponsor of terrorism.
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The iranian regime, to you, judges, is to strengthen
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The case, in terms of why americans should support israel.
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Look where europe
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Is taking a pass
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And all of our traditional allies
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In confronting this existential threat, the iranian regime,
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Which could have had nuclear weapons.
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Israel has stepped up and has answered the call.
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We see this all the time.
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Our geostrategic enemies china, iran, north korea and russia,
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They're looking at our side
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Of the 50 yard line, to use a football analogy.
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And they're saying, who should we be afraid of over there?
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Well, the united states, that's a big, bad enemy,
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The most powerful army that's ever existed.
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But who's going to stand with america
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In the geostrategic struggle that's coming?
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I don't think they're all that afraid of the belgians
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Or the irish or the spaniards, but they do see a nation,
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A western, pluralistic, religiously free democracy
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That is willing
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To fight and die for the judeo-christian civilization
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We all believe in, and that's israel.
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And so should we be
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At all surprised that all of the negative and misinformation
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We see about a foreign ally on our tiktok feeds
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And on the news are about that one vital geostrategic ally?
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Yeah.
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Which is the size of the state of new jersey, by the way.
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And i think it's
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0.01% of the world's entire population is jewish.
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And yet the jewish people, the state of israel, are blamed
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For all of the world's ills.
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That's why your book, judge
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Roy altmann, is so important, folks.
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It's called israel on trial.
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You can pick it up right
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Now, amazon.com, wherever books are sold.
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Coming up, more with judge roy altmann.
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Are the jewish people in israel right now
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The real descendants of the ancient israelites?
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We'll break that down with roy altmann after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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We are here at the israel advocacy day in washington, dc.
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We're talking to judge roy
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Altmann, author of the brand new blockbuster israel on trial.
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Folks, this is a must read for such a time as this.
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It goes without saying and judge,
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I've been struck in recent months.
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We've heard podcasters and different people on social media
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Suggesting that the jewish people
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Who live in the state of israel today are not descendants
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Of the original jewish people.
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The original israelites who live there say 2000, even
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3000, 3500 years ago.
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And even tucker carlson has called on the jews in israel
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To take dna tests.
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But you've broken down that. hey, wait a minute.
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We've been there, done that.
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And these are the descendants of the biblical israel.
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Talk more about that.
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I think it's a really important point.
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As my book lays out,
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There have been dozens of genetic studies done
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On every major jewish population around the world in the last
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Few decades
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The syrian jewish population, the yemenite, the moroccans,
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The ashkenazi jews of europe, the sephardic jews of north
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Africa, south american and north american populations,
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The jews in israel,
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And of course, iranian and iraqi jewish populations.
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And all of these studies have shown
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Not only that all the major jewish populations in the world
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Are intimately genetically related to one another,
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But that we all come back from one place,
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And that's the middle east, the levant, 2000 years ago.
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Now, the claim that you're talking about
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Is called the khazar conspiracy.
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It is a flat out conspiracy theory,
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And like any good conspiracy theory at its core,
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There is a little grain of truth.
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And so i think it's important to talk about what that is.
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In the year 805, the king of a khazar empire.
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These are turkish tribesmen
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Who lived in what is now ukraine.
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They're from the central asian steppe.
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He became enamored with the ancient hebrew bible,
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And he did, in fact convert to judaism
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And then either force converted or compelled his subjects
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In the khazar empire in ukraine to convert as well.
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Now, the issue with the khazar conspiracy theory
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Is mainly three fold.
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The first issue, as i just said, is that the dna evidence
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Bears out that all of the jewish populations in the world
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Are related to one another and come from israel.
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The second is that we have now done a genetic study,
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One done by doctor gil asman, that tested khazar descendants
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Against modern jewish descendants and found
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That they are not, in fact related.
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And the third and most important problem,
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Or maybe they're all three are equally important,
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Is that even if you accept the khazar conspiracy
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And say,
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Okay, the jews of eastern europe are themselves not descended
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From the ancient israelites,
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That still leaves the vast majority of the world's
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Jews and israel's jews, who are not european
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By the ascendancy. including in israel itself.
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The majority are sephardic or mizrahi
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Jews from places like you said iran, iraq, yemen, morocco.
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We can go on israel, the most diverse
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Place in the world, by the way, jerusalem
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And jews of every shade from every nation background.
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It's amazing.
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And as you said, just a seamless line.
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Judge from the ancient israelites
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To the jewish people today in the land of israel,
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It's amazing.
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Only god, in my opinion, can do that. amen.
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Hey, speaking of which, this event, israel advocacy
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Day, it's an incredible alliance here.
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Shoulder to shoulder.
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Jews and christians speaking up with one voice for israel.
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Why is it so important to you
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To be part of an event like this?
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This is the most important thing
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That i've seen over the last three years.
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You know, after october 7th, maybe 2 or 3 nights later,
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My wife and i hadn't slept at all.
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Look over at her and she said to me, how is it
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That 80 years after the holocaust,
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We jews are still all alone?
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And then something amazing
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Happened over the next few days and weeks and months.
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We proved that we weren't alone because first dozens
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And then by the end, hundreds and thousands of our non-jewish
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Friends around this country
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Reached out to see that they stood
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Shoulder to shoulder with the jewish people,
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That they stood shoulder to shoulder with us,
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That they stood shoulder to shoulder
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With the one jewish state in the world.
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And by the way, that is an unbreakable bond.
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So true.
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Another question about the legal case for israel.
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How do you combat because even the u.n.
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And international and world bodies
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Get involved in this pile on on israel,
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And they try to do it from a legal perspective, i guess.
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What would your answer be to them?
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There's the veneer of credibility,
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I guess, with the u.n.
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And these different world bodies.
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Have you battled back against them as well?
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Remember, these are entities that were created
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In many cases in the wake of the holocaust.
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It was a manifestation of the idea,
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Spoken out loud by the rest of the world,
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That we will never again allow a true genocide
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Against the jews.
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And now to have those same organizations
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Turn their backs on the one jewish state in the world,
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Which is responding to a war it didn't start
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And never wanted by a genocidal entity.
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That means in its own charter to destroy the jewish state
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And kill every last you in it is the ultimate treason.
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But what you should know
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Is that a lot of what happens in these so-called
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International courts is really just politics.
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The people on the courts are delegates
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That are sent as judges by countries,
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And they are beholden to their country's view
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About what the particular issue is.
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So the chinese judge, is it any surprise,
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As the geostrategic enemy of the united states,
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With israel as america's most important ally,
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That he's going to vote every time against israel?
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Same thing with the russian judge.
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Same thing with the lebanese judge.
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Well, until recently.
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And so what you get is
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You get a lot of judges who are placed there,
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Who come from geostrategic enemies,
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Not just of israel, not even necessarily of israel,
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But of ours of the united states.
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And their votes match that geostrategic reality
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Accordingly.
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Yeah, it makes perfect sense.
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You lay it all out in the book, judge. last question.
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You're living the american dream.
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As you said. your family left venezuela.
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You're a district judge now.
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You've been a federal prosecutor.
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Talk more about
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Your journey here in america and why this country
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Means so much to you.
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And as a jew who can live here freely
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And prosper here in the united states.
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You know, when i was a little boy,
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All of our family vacations were the same summers
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We would go to israel
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And winter break, we would travel all around
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The american south.
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One day we were at chattanooga and it started to snow.
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And i didn't see a lot of snow when i was a kid
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In miami, venezuela, israel, you know?
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So i said, oh, this is so beautiful to my dad.
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And he said, beautiful.
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You think we bring you here because it's beautiful?
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He goes, we bring you here.
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So you understand the character of the country.
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We brought you to.
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This is a country where 600,000 men gave their lives
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So that a part of the country who were slaves could be free.
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He said that is the level of dedication and devotion
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That a free and fair democracy requires.
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And i believe that with every fiber of my being
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And i will serve this country until the day i die.
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God bless. judge.
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And the book is called again, folks, israel on trial.
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Pick it up right now, amazon.com
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Wherever books are sold, coming
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Up, more from israel advocacy day here in d.c..
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Bishop robert stern's an old friend is joining us.
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That's next. don't move.
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That's next. don't move.
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We'll come back to stakelbeck tonight.
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He's a founder
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And executive director of eagle's wings international.
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Bishop robert stearns is here.
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Israel advocacy day bishop, this has become an institution
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In d.c..
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You're heading this up every year for eagle's wings.
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And i think this year in particular, as the u.s.
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And israel are lined shoulder to shoulder
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Against the world's number one state
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Sponsor of terrorism, the iranian regime.
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I think the timing of this event is very important because
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Israel and bible believing christians who support
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Israel are coming increasingly under fire in this time of war.
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Bishop, talk more about the time
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We're in right now and the timing of this event.
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You know,
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I love the name israel advocacy day
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Because we stand in solidarity with america's
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Greatest ally in the middle east, the state of israel.
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But there's a part of me that says,
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You know, we almost need a subbrand
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Because this really is about western civilization
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As we know it.
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It's about human
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Freedoms, human values, the judeo-christian way of life.
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I have the privilege of being friends with dozens
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And dozens of persian families who escaped iran,
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Of so many christian families who escaped lebanon.
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All around our world, radical islam has terrorized
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Is murdering people in real time across africa
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And now in america.
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They've come into collusion
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With the far left, with with marxist forces
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That genuinely want to
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Disintegrate and destroy america as we know it.
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So as we gather here in dc,
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Yes, of course,
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Every jewish person in america should feel safe,
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As should every person in america of any minority,
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Of any background.
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Being in america means
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You should be able to live in safety and freedom.
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But beyond fighting anti-semitism
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And beyond our alliance with the state of israel,
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This is a clarion call to americans,
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Christian americans, yes, but to americans.
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Wake up.
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There really are bad guys
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Who are out to destroy our nation and our way of.
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Life, getting increasingly
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Their grouping in
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Not only israel and the jewish people,
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But christians who support israel.
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Have you seen that trend now?
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It used to be, okay, we support israel, but we're not jewish.
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But now we're also feeling the blowback
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As bible believing christians
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Who stand with the nation of israel at a time
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Where much of the world is turning against israel.
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I not only see it, but, several weeks ago,
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There were
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Active death threats put out against me online.
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They took pictures of my house.
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They took my address.
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They took the names of my three children,
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Put everything online and called for me to be eliminated.
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And we had to put in a whole massive security system.
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And all of this, and,
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It was it came off of a speech that i gave in miami.
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There was nothing in that speech that was inflammatory.
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That was angering.
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We are here about peace, and yet we really are dealing
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With a level of mob mentality right now
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That the algorithm is, accelerating.
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The algorithm is seeking to divide this nation,
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And it's doing it through fear.
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It's doing it through accusation.
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It's doing it through misinformation.
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So i experienced that personally.
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And that's why we've had to have security everywhere.
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If this event.
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Bishop, we are so sorry to hear that.
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Number one. and number two, you see the incitement online.
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You mentioned algorithms,
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Podcasters, social media, these slanders.
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At first it was israel and the jewish people.
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Now it's turned,
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Along with bible believing christians
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And the biblical mandate to support israel.
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That's under fire.
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And that's why it's so important that you're here in dc
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For this event this week. bishop, talk more about that.
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The importance to get in the ears of lawmakers,
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Of their staffs, to advocate for israel in these times.
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As we've built.
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Eric, i've said we want to build the largest tent possible.
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It was a great british, writer named melanie phillips.
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She and i had lunch recently, and she said, bishop, she said,
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We have to build the largest coalition in human history.
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We have to build the coalition of common sense,
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Common decency, common values, common sense.
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And so,
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Yes, there are christians and jews at this event,
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But there are christians and jews from all denominations,
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From all races.
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There are democrats, republicans.
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At last year we had, senator cory booker
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And we had speaker of the house mike johnson.
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We are very intentional that these are about human values.
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This is not about politicizing a moment.
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This is about fighting for core human values.
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So of course, we rejoice that, the long lost brothers, right,
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That the jews and the christians are finding one other.
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That's fantastic. that's wonderful.
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But we welcome people of all faiths, of all backgrounds
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Who say we want to live under the rule of law.
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That has been such a part of the american dream.
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That's why immigrants come to america,
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Because they're escaping the tyranny
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Of a venezuela, or places where there is not the kind
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Of freedom that we have here.
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So doing that and then
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Going to the hill and saying to our lawmakers, listen,
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These basic american values are important to us.
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Every community should feel safe in america.
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Houses of worship should not be attacked.
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I don't want any house of worship attacked in america.
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And we have to fight for what my friend
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Marc gerson calls, the principal dissenter.
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Right?
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We have to fight for this place
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That we treat one another with, with respect
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And genuine civility.
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Even if we have disagreements on different issues.
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Bishop. thank you. we appreciate it. great stuff.
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God bless.
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Brother. yeah, we'll see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break,
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My final thoughts from here in dc.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight we are wrapping up
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From the israel advocacy day here in washington, dc.
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And folks, a foundational verse.
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Genesis 12 three god says to abraham
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About his descendants, the people of israel,
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I will bless those who bless you, and i will curse those who
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Curse you.
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History bears it out very clearly.
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I don't see the babylonians, the philistines,
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Haymon, pharaoh or the nazis any more around any place.
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But i do see the people
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Of israel reviving their ancient and ancestral homeland
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In 1948, in what can only be described as a miraculous event.
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Thankfully, amid all the hatred and the blowback,
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The people here tonight, the israel advocacy event
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Israel advocacy day realized israel's special role
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Not only biblically but geopolitically
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And as a great partner
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With the united states of america
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And the christian community here.
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So much more from this great event here
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At the israel advocacy day all this week.
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Interviews from dc.
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It's going to be good until tomorrow night.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Advocating for Isreal | Stakelbeck Tonight

May 5, 2026 | 23:29

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