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Erick Stakelbeck: Is Anti-Semitism Rising? | Stakelbeck Tonight

July 15, 2025 | 25:5

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Is Anti-Semitism Rising? | Stakelbeck Tonight | July 15, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck, and if you really want to defeat evil,
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You have to go to the root.
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When it comes to islamic terrorism,
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The muslim brotherhood is that root.
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It's the granddaddy of them all.
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Founded in 1928, in egypt, the brotherhood's ideology
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Has inspired countless terror groups,
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From al-qaida to isis to, of course, hamas,
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Which identifies itself as the palestinian branch
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Of the muslim brotherhood.
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The brotherhood's official motto is this allah
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Is our objective.
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The prophet mohammed is our leader.
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The koran is our law.
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Jihad is our way.
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Dying in the way of allah is our highest hope.
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Sounds like a perfectly moderate and reasonable bunch or not.
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Which is even more concerning because the brotherhood's
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Followers have a strong presence across the west,
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Including right here in the united states.
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That's why new legislation being introduced
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By texas senator ted cruz is so important.
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The bill calls for the u.s.
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Government
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To designate the muslim brotherhood
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As a foreign terrorist organization, due to its
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Continued support for hamas and for global terrorism.
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This would mean
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Tough economic sanctions against the brotherhood
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And its assets around the world.
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And folks.
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I'm praying that this bill comes to president trump's desk
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And that he signs it.
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It's about holding evil accountable.
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The president announced on monday that he's
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Doing exactly that with russian president vladimir putin.
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Trump is done with putin's games.
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Watch.
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I'm disappointed in president putin
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Because i thought
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We would have had a deal
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Two months ago, but it doesn't seem to get there.
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So based on that, we're going to be doing secondary tariffs
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And we don't have a deal in 50 days. it's very simple.
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And there will be at 100%.
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And that's the way it is.
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It couldn't be more simple.
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It's just the way it is.
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I hope we don't have to do.
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But my sense is he probably will have to do it
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Because putin doesn't seem inclined to make a deal.
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That's why president trump announced that the u.s.
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Will now also be sending ukraine patriot
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Missiles to defend against russian attacks.
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He said the european union will be paying for the missiles,
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Which makes sense since russia is on the eu's doorstep.
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Now, not everyone appreciates president trump's bold moves
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And the return of peace through strength.
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A new movement in iran called the blood covenant
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Claims to have crowdfunded more than $40 million
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As a reward for assassinate president trump.
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We've told you about the iranian regime's efforts
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To target the president, dating back years
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After he made the call to strike iran's nuclear program
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Last month.
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The ayatollahs became even more hell bent on revenge.
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So folks pray for president trump
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And that god places a mighty hedge of protection around him.
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We live in perilous times, but there are also great
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Things happening,
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Including in some of the world's hottest hotspots.
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Coming up, we're joined
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By a top geopolitical expert to break it all down.
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And it all starts now.
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He's host of the josh hammer show.
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Senior editor at large, newsweek, a syndicated columnist
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And author of the bestselling book israel and civilization.
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Josh hammer is one of america's sharpest minds on geopolitics.
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And he joins us now to break down the recent 12 day
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War between israel and iran, ongoing threats from hamas
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And what it all means for the future
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Of judeo-christian western civilization.
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Josh, always great to see you.
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Hey, the dust is settling between israel and iran.
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We'll break that down in a minute.
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But, josh, up first,
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You appeared at a turning point student conference
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Over the weekend.
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You made some headlines and for good reason.
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We've seen this strain, josh, on people who are supposedly
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From people who are supposedly on the political right.
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I think of candace
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Owens and tucker carlson, two of the most notorious.
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Then there is comedian dave smith.
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They are viciously anti-israel and really anti-semitic.
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Yet you had a chance to debate dave smith over the weekend
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On stage.
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Tell us about that experience, josh, and why it is so important
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To refute this growing anti-semitism on the right?
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Well, eric, it's great to join you as always.
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So this is actually my second time debating dave smith
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Just this year.
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I actually debated him back in february
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At princeton university in new jersey as well.
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This was our second go round at the turning
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Point usa student action summit in tampa.
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And you know, one of my tactics, eric, in this debate,
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I think anyone who watched this probably could tell
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Was repeatedly emphasizing the notion
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That if you are a modern
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Conservative, if you are a modern nationalist,
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If you if you are a supporter of president trump,
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Then it is incumbent
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Upon you to recognize that that donald trump,
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The guy who literally has coined the phrase is maga
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And america first.
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He is a stalwart supporter of the jewish state of israel
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And the jewish people.
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And he has proven this time and time again, including in the
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Recent 12 day war,
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Culminating in those in the b two bombers dropping the
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The large scale bunker buster bombs
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That they did over the various iranian nuclear facilities.
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Now, dave smith self-identifies as a libertarian,
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So i guess he's
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Not even pretending to be maga or america first.
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But there are a lot of people you mentioned.
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Some like tucker carlson.
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There are a lot of people who try to wrap themselves
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In the mantle
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And the rhetoric of maga and america first,
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While pretending to be something that the guy
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Who literally coined these terms is not,
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But a sharpened fruit in foreign policy.
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Eric, i have an entire chapter on this
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In my book, israel and civilization.
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A prudent and smart and historically rooted
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American foreign policy rejects the two ideological extremes
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Of moralistic neo conservatism, on the one hand, and then also
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Fanciful ideological isolationism on the other hand.
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There is a third way.
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There is a nationalist,
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Realist, prudential, sober, third way foreign policy.
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Trump, i think of it as the trump doctrine.
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And we saw that very much play out in the 12 day war.
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Yeah. no doubt. and a key point here. josh, i was in d.c.
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Last week,
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By the way, for the meeting between president trump
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And prime minister netanyahu and the key point
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Among israeli and u.s.
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Officials was there is no daylight between the u.s.
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And israel on basically all issues.
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That includes iran.
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Josh. and the dust is settling now
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A bit from the strikes last month.
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President trump coming
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Alongside israel, destroying iran's nuclear weapons program.
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And yet, josh the iranian regime down, but not out.
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Why is it so important that we don't rest
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On our laurels right now, as the iranian regime
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Will likely attempt to rearm at some point?
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So first of all, eric, i was there.
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I was actually in israel when the 12 day war started with
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With my wife and our six month old baby,
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And it was really harrowing.
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For a few days there
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We were running to bomb shelters
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On a moment's notice, primarily in the wee hours of the night
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With our six month old. it was really not fun.
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We ended up
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Evacuating, took us three and a half days to get home.
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I live in florida, was a governor desantis
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Orchestrated state of florida rescue operation for americans.
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So we got home that friday, and then it was the next day.
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That saturday evening that we learned about operation
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Midnight hammer, the iran strike.
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Eric, we actually learned about it
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Towards the end of the jewish sabbath.
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In shabbat, the janitor told us what happened.
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We immediately started playing a special prayer,
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A mission barrack for
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For the soldiers of the us army said they will be successful
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And prosperous in all their ways.
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And there's a couple of hours after that
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That i after shabbat ended, that i went and turned on my tv.
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I saw donald trump give this
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These short remarks at the white house.
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He repeatedly, repeatedly and inextricably
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Linked the national interest, the fates and the destinies
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Of the united states and the state of israel.
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The message was unmistakable that we stand
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Shoulder to shoulder.
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Your enemies are our enemies.
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Your friends are our friends.
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And in particular in the 12 day war.
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I think it's worth noting
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That what the united states
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Accomplished with these two bombing runs,
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The fact that not a single salvo was fired
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From an iranian facility and an american bomber,
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None of that, eric, would have been possible
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Had the idf not set the table by taking out the iranian air
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Defense, taking out the irgc commanders
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And all that that entailed, frankly,
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By by neutralizing hezbollah in lebanon the year prior.
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So it was a perfect head team operation.
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It was a beautiful encapsulation
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Of what a realist foreign policy, relying,
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Among other things,
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On an ally doing part of the dirty work for you.
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It really kind of highlights u.s.
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Relations in its clearest and cleanest form.
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Again, president trump gets that.
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My question is, do all the people
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That call themselves america first? do they get that?
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Yeah. it's amazing.
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We have two churchillian leaders in the modern age
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Working together side by side.
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Incredible partnership
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Between president trump and prime minister netanyahu,
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Literally making history right now, our enemies are on notice.
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You write about all this in your great book,
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Israel and civilization, folks saying
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Pick it up, amazon.com wherever books are sold.
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It's a bestseller and for a good reason.
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It's a great read more with josh hammer after the break.
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What about gaza?
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Is a cease fire coming?
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What about the houthis?
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A lot happening in the world's
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Most volatile and chaotic region.
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And guess what? it all impacts.
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You will break it down more with josh 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're talking to josh hammer,
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Author of the bestseller israel and civilization
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The fate of the jewish nation and the destiny of the west.
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And talk about a book
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For these times that we're living in right now.
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Josh, that includes gaza.
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Now that the iran nuclear program has been set
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Back for a long time, god willing,
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The focus is now shifting back to gaza.
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Josh, what do you think the ultimate endgame is there?
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Tough to say. i know at this point.
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Are we going to see a cease fire in the near future?
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How does that play out
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Over the next several months in that volatile strip?
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So at the start of this war, eric,
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And let's not forget, as we didn't forget in our turning
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Point debate, charlie kirk, the moderator,
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Did a good job of making sure the people did not forget.
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Let's let's not forget that this war
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Didn't start in any other way other than the savagery
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And butchery of october 7th, a day that will live in infamy.
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Roughly 1200 people slaughtered.
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Holocaust survivors
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Murdered, execution style in their kitchens, babies
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Butchered, mass sexual violence and raping and pillaging.
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I mean, frankly,
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Some of the stuff
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That hamas did on that day, and i don't say this lightly,
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I think they would have made the nazis blush, frankly.
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I mean, it really was that barbaric.
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You're talking here about 45 to 59 elevens
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When you compare apples to apples,
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Given the very small size of the state of israel.
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So after that started, israel had very had two very clear
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War aims. once the idea of tanks started rolling into gaza.
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One was the return of all the hostages.
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And god willing, there they will finish down.
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They're getting close.
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The other war
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Aim that the israelis very clearly enunciated
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Was that hamas had to be eliminated.
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Hamas had to go as the driving
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Political and military force in gaza.
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And i hate to be the bearer of bad news,
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But simply by dint of what
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The israelis had themselves said, unless
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Until that objective is fulfilled,
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Israel will have failed its war aims on its very own terms.
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So it simply has to happen.
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Netanyahu simply has to finish the job.
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Now, the million dollar question is what exactly does
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That look like now?
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My best.
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My best guess all along, eric, as to
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What is what that looks like there.
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President trump,
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Somewhat somewhat famously, back in february with netanyahu
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At his side, talked about the us taking over gaza.
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We have not seen a whole lot of,
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You know, much in the way of details as to
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What is the what the president has in mind there.
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My best guess all along
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That has been that you'll have
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Some sort of moderate non-islamist arab consortium
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Iv countries like the saudi, the saudi arabia, the uae
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And so forth, that maybe some egyptian assets that will
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Then control gaza and hamas will effectively be exiled.
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The israelis are going to finish the job
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On their own terms as they feel confident
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They have secured their own terms,
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And they will not take
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No for an answer from anyone, in this case,
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Probably even their best friends,
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The united states, if need be.
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Yeah, josh, i think that's a great take.
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And just meeting with israeli officials last week in dc,
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They said what you just said non-negotiable.
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Israel will crush hamas.
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There's no middle ground there.
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Hey, speaking of hamas and support for hamas and
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Radical ism,
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Which you write about in your book
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Israel and civilization, zoran mamdani, the potential next
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Mayor of america's largest city, new york city.
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He's essentially a communist, identifies as a socialist,
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But he's much more extreme than that.
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He's a muslim, of course, fiercely anti-israel.
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What's your take on that situation, josh?
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And the implications
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If mamdani wins in november in new york city?
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It's truly horrific.
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I mean, there's one guy
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And you're totally right to become a communist.
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By the way, if you
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If you search his old tweets,
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He literally is quoting the communist manifesto.
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I mean, to each according to his abilities.
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I mean, it's literally verbatim quotes
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In his social media history that got the guy,
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I mean, to call him a mere socialist
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Is, if anything, giving him too much credit.
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I think that zorah mamdani is, in one person,
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The perfect encapsulation of what
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Some of us have referred to over the years
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As the so-called red green alliance.
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This alliance of anti-western civilization, anti biblical,
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Anti-christian, anti-jewish forces
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Between, on the one hand, the communists and the marxists,
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And on the other hand, the islamists.
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If he actually, god forbid, is elected mayor there,
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I think you're looking
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At a massive, massive exodus, frankly, of not just jews,
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But of anyone who actually cares about a basic quality of life
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In new york city.
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I think you could potentially
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Be looking at major iconic wall street banks.
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Heck, maybe even the new york stock exchange,
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Maybe the iconic bull on wall street.
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We'll start looking at dallas, texas or miami, florida there,
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But it's going to be really, really bad.
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And hopefully new yorkers come to their senses
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And prevent this before it's too late. yeah, that's the key.
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I mean, look, new york city,
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Still america's largest city, of course, josh, tourism magnet
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Economic center for our country.
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That could all change and change fast if he gets into office.
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Hey, about a minute left.
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This is just kind of coming across the wire today.
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There are rumblings that there may be legislation in the senate
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To designate the muslim brotherhood
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As a terrorist organization.
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Now, you talked about that red green alliance.
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Josh, i think of the brotherhood as
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Being at the forefront of that.
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What would the implications of that
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Be if the muslim brotherhood,
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Kind of granddaddy of them all when it comes to islamic terror,
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If they were designated here in the united states
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As a terrorist organization.
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So very well said.
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They are the granddaddy of them all.
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This is the ultimate wellspring
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Of sunni islamism in the 21st century.
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The muslim brotherhood really is the roots.
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The shiites, the iranians.
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Slightly different issue.
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But as far as sunni islamism goes, the brotherhood really
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Is the source of it all.
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The key thing to recognize, though, when it comes
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Especially to the trump administration being in power
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Now, is,
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Is that the
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The home of the muslim brotherhood
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Right now is actually in qatar.
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That's potentially problematic because the united states is now
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Is not working very closely with qatar in any number of ways.
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President trump visited them in may.
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That's that's going to be an issue.
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I don't think qatar
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Would be happy with this sort of legislation,
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But potentially, you know, clearer applications there.
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I look at groups like care, the
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The council on american-islamic relations,
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Essentially a muslim brotherhood offshoot.
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If the brotherhood is actually declared
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A terrorist organization, that can make things really,
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Really dicey for care,
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Which would be a really good thing,
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Because care is a profoundly dangerous organization here.
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Any subversive act. right? that. josh?
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Well said. it is a new day, no doubt.
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And josh, you were on the forefront of it.
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Israel and civilization, folks. great book.
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Pick it up josh.
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Great stuff as always. we'll see you again soon.
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God bless.
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And coming up after the break,
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The leaders of the white house faith office join us.
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A great event yesterday with president trump.
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Their faith is back in the white house.
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You want to hear this? after the break, stick around.
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You want to hear this? after the break, stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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We have right now
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The most faith friendly white house in our lifetimes.
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We saw it once again on monday,
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As president trump and the white house faith office
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Hosted a gathering of ceos and top business leaders
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Who invest in faith based charitable initiatives.
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Here's more from this unprecedented
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Event from president trump.
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And this group reminds us as a nation,
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That praise is a nation that prospers.
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And you see that.
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I think one of the reasons we went so bad is
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They really wanted to take god and religion out of your lives,
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And there was nobody to, you know, look up to it.
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It was just nobody.
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It was we were free wheeling and we can't free will now.
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We have to bring religion back into the country.
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And we're starting to do that, i think, at a very high level,
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Paula, very, very high level.
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You see, churches are starting to fill up the.
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It was an incredible day in d.c.
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And joining us now to share
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More is the faith director of the white house faith office,
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Jenny corn.
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Jenny, always great to see you.
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Hey, a gathering here of top christian business leaders
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At the white house.
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Faith and business together.
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It could be a great thing.
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Tell us more about this event and why it was so important.
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Right. thanks so much for having me.
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It is so great to see you, eric.
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You do such great work.
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Yeah, yesterday was phenomenal.
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First of its kind to bring business and faith together.
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In fact, we had to explain it to people
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A little bit more in depth.
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Because what does faith have to do with business.
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Well, we've got so many ceos
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And business owners who, because of their faith,
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They just they invest their time and their treasures
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To help charities, to help with philanthropic work,
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To help feed the hungry, to clothe people, to make sure
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That they're following up on disasters, to help even,
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Set up orphanages and hospitals in places like rwanda.
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And so these people, because of their faith,
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They didn't stop and saying, okay, i invested in america
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With hiring workers and paying taxes and investing.
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We're going to go another step further
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And we're going to help people in need.
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And that's their true calling.
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So we wanted that to make sure that we celebrated them.
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The president was so excited to be in the room with them
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And he was only supposed to be there for ten minutes.
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He stayed for almost an hour,
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Celebrating what he said was the core
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And the foundation of america.
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Freedom, hard work, risk taking, and above all, trust in god.
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Yeah, jenny, it's such an amazing initiative.
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And speaking of president trump at the luncheon, here's
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Some of what he said, quote,
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With the grace of god and blessing of providence,
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We will lead our country to heights
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We have never seen before.
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That's a bold and again faith based vision.
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Jenny, what does that tell us about the spiritual tone
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And direction of this administration?
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It's really remarkable to see.
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Right?
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For far too
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Long, people of faith have been discriminated
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By their own government, whether it's
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The federal government, the state government,
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Their local government, they've almost had to hide their
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Their faith to end relegated to saturday or sunday.
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But no more people of america.
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I mean, we were founded on faith.
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And we're saying with this white house
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Faith office and with president trump,
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That faith is welcome in the white house.
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Not only did the president speak, but, pastor
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Paula did a prayer for her husband.
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Amazing husband from jury jonathan cain.
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I did some worship songs, and then i ended with scripture.
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And so we want to make sure that as the
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The leader of the free world, the president is showing
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An example that here at the white house,
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We worship, we pray god is important.
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And that's just it's a beacon of freedom for people
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Not only in this country but around the world.
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Yeah. and god is going to honor that.
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And he is honoring a journey so far.
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And look, one day after the one year anniversary
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Of the attempted assassination of president trump,
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That's when this event at the white house took place.
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Can you tell us how president trump, especially
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Since that day, july 13th, 2024, is a man on a mission?
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I mean, i think it's very clear.
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He has said repeatedly, look, god spared my life for a reason.
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You see it up close every day at the white house.
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Tell us more about his approach in the second term.
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It's amazing because i've been with him for nine years.
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I was able to work all four years
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Of his first administration, and what a pleasure that was.
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And faith was prominent then.
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But after butler, pennsylvania, he has said
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This publicly, privately,
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That he believes that god spared his life
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And he wants to make sure
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That he makes every minute of this four years count.
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And so he's doing so much.
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We were just talking about this before he ended the 12 day war.
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And we're like, past that and on to the next thing.
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He's been nominated for nobel peace prize.
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And president,
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You know, is in pennsylvania today making sure that, we have,
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Companies who are investing in america
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So that people can get their jobs back. inflation is down.
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I just go on
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And on about what has happened, but the president has said
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That he needs to do as much as possible
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To save america and return us to greatness
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Because he believed god spared his life.
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Can you imagine, how different would have been
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If he rolled into a second term right after the first term?
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It wouldn't be the same as it is today.
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And i'll share with you.
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And i think i've shared with you before, but
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He put two angels, these beautiful gold
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Cherub angels, at the top, at the ceiling of the oval office.
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And he says he always tells people that it's to protect,
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The oval office, but also to protect
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Everybody that comes through there.
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So we see it in a profound way.
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He was always a man of faith,
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But it has just become so much stronger.
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And, he's allowed us to have this very new and, historic
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White house faith office. yeah.
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Jenny, it is amazing to behold.
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And as you said, hey, god's timing on the second term,
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This is god's timing, the perfect timing.
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President trump is back.
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Great things are happening,
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Including at the white house faith office.
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Jenny, thanks so much for joining us, folks.
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Be sure to follow jenny on x across social media.
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Jenny, keep up the great work.
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God bless you. we'll see you again soon.
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And coming up, my final thoughts
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On putting our faith into action.
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That's next. stick around.
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That's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here, we've been talking about
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These perilous times that we're living in right now.
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I think this is an opportunity for the body of christ.
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We need to be men and women of action.
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We need to be ambassadors for christ
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In the darkness, light in the darkness.
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Think of the book of james, chapter one, verse 22,
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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,
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Deceiving yourselves.
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Again, we need to put our faith into action.
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It's one thing to receive it gladly.
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Hear the word of god.
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It's another thing to get about doing the father's business.
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We need to do it now more than ever.
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Speaking of which, tomorrow night in israel,
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Great show from zedekiah cave with danny digger herman.
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You won't want to miss that until then.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Is Anti-Semitism Rising? | Stakelbeck Tonight

July 15, 2025 | 25:5

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