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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: April 3, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 3, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck and israel is sending a message.
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- On wednesday, israeli fighter jets pounded several military
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- And air bases in syria, including military sites
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- Near damascus.
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- Israeli soldiers also killed several terrorists
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- In a firefight about six miles north of the israel
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- Syria border.
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- Israel's goal here with these operations is to destroy
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- Syria's military assets
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- That were built up for decades under dictator bashar al-assad,
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- With help, of course, from his friends, iran and hezbollah.
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- But remember, assad is now gone.
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- Living in exile in russia after being overthrown back
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- In december.
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- Now, assad was an evil ruler and the men who overthrew him,
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- They're no picnic either.
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- Syria's new masters are radical jihadists
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- Who are linked to al qaeda.
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- Needless to say, they're not nice guys.
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- And that's why israel has spent the past few months
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- Systematically destroying syria's weapons stockpiles
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- And military assets.
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- Israel does not want assad's advanced weaponry
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- To fall into the hands of syria's
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- New rulers who've engaged in terrorism for years
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- And who are not very fond of the world's
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- One and only jewish state.
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- Folks, the world should be thanking israel
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- For preemptively weakening syria's new terrorist regime,
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- But i won't hold my breath.
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- I mentioned at the top that wednesday strikes were a message
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- Clearly to syria's new rulers, but also to turkey.
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- Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has been a big backer
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- Of this jihadi government
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- And has reportedly been talking to them about establishing
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- Turkish military bases inside syria.
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- In other words, iran, hezbollah and assad out
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- And erdogan in
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- Neither option is good for israel when it comes to syria
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- Because erdogan is viciously anti-israel.
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- He even led a prayer in istanbul earlier this week
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- In which he called for allah to destroy the jewish state.
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- Take a look.
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- I mean, it's a little bit of that.
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- You listen to
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- Yushan and another
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- Go to those videos.
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- The zionist israeli
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- Lobby in kahala, these cities
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- All in a competition list
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- The happily to each holla
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- Or order the question on that good attack can be him
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- Is that you know a lot of them you know a all of them.
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- Did you know them?
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- How did this all of them love them?
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- But believes that diamond is.
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- This is evil rhetoric
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- Coming from the leader of a naito member nation.
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- Folks, turkey has the second
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- Largest military, nato behind only the united states.
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- This is a major problem and erdogan is a very dangerous man,
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- But he's not the only bad actor in the middle east.
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- Coming up, we're joined
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- By a former spokesperson for the israel defense forces
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- Who breaks down the state of play in the world's most chaotic
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- And strategic region.
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- And it all starts now.
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- Iran's regime has shown no interest
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- In abandoning its nuclear program and has reject did
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- President trump's offer of direct diplomacy.
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- So is a moment of reckoning finally coming
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- For the ayatollahs?
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- Joining us now to break down is our good friend,
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- Lieutenant colonel jonathan conricus,
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- Former idf spokesperson and senior fellow at afp.
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- Jonathan, always great to see you, my friend.
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- Hey, let's start with iran.
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- We've had well over a decade
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- Now of failed diplomacy with the mullahs.
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- What are the options at this point for israel and the u.s.?
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- It seems like there's really only one option left.
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- Yes. hello. shalom, eric.
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- Thank you for having me on.
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- Always a pleasure
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- And shalom to all of the people who are watching us.
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- So in terms of options, there are a few options.
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- Various degrees of bad.
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- Let's go through them one by one.
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- One option is that the iranians somehow
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- Cast some kind of magic spell on the u.s.
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- President, and they get a short and very good deal for them.
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- Short negotiations, and a quick deal
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- That i think could be disastrous for the region.
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- And i really hope that doesn't happen.
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- A second option could be that there are long
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- And protracted negotiations through which
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- The iranians will basically play for time
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- And wait till this admin american administration
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- Runs out of steam or interest or out of electoral power
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- And then continue with their nuclear programs.
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- Three is, of course, the other
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- The third option of no negotiations and no deal.
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- And fourth, i think, is the one that i think
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- We are closer to now than we've ever been before.
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- We may not be there yet totally, but we are closer than we are
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- Before.
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- And that is, of course, to use military capabilities
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- In order to take this peace off the chessboard
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- And make sure that the iranian regime
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- Never achieve nuclear military capabilities.
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- Yeah, great break down, jonathan.
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- And those nuclear capabilities would be a threat
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- Not only to israel but to the world.
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- And it seems, look, with israel having largely smashed
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- Iran's ring of fire, including hamas and hezbollah,
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- Iran's air defenses have largely been destroyed, destroyed.
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- It seems like this would be a golden opportunity
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- To take military action against iran.
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- Do you see that as well, that this may be an ideal time?
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- Yeah.
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- Eric, while i agree with you that we've made progress against
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- Iran's ring of fire and terrorist organizations
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- That they built around us, hamas and hezbollah,
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- Unfortunately, we still have a lot of work
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- To do in order to be free and safe in our homeland.
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- And yes, you are right, iranian air defenses are weaker
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- Than they were before the 7th of october,
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- But they still have significant air defenses.
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- That would be a challenge even for the israeli air force.
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- But i do agree with your bottom line, eric.
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- This is a probably as good as an opportunity
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- That will ever present itself
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- For israel to do what it needs to do in order to defend itself.
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- And i think that if we don't if we as in the world, u.s.,
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- Israel, with the
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- Support of european countries, if we don't find the political
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- Will and courage and leadership to actually take action,
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- That is something that we and future generations will regret.
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- And, you know, i'm not
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- I don't think that it's ever a good thing to go directly
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- And first for a military solution.
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- Yeah,
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- But i think that, as you say correctly,
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- We have been through
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- About 15 years of diplomacy and we are still
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- At the situation where the iranian regime
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- Are just a short sprint away from having a nuclear weapon.
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- And that needs to be prevented by any means necessary.
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- How much of a factor in this is president
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- Trump's return to office?
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- He's been he warned iran just the other day
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- That it will be bombed like never before.
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- And i think i'm quoting directly there.
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- How much of a factor in this, the ultimate outcome with iran's
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- Nuclear program is donald trump's return and his stance
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- Towards the ayatollahs.
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- Yes. what really matters here in this equation is
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- What does the iranian regime understand and how credible do
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- They think that the threat to use military force is?
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- And i think that that the calculus for the iranians
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- Changed after president trump was elected
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- And after president
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- Trump is on record saying and repeating various statements
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- That are very clear about where he stands.
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- And it's also important that the u.s.
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- Military, centcom, air force and strategic assets
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- Have been utilized or mobilized in such a way
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- That indicates to the iranians that it's not only talk,
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- But that there is military hardware and capabilities
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- Backing up those statements.
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- But sooner rather than later, we will come to a point
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- Where the iranians will continue to stall and play for time
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- And lie and deceive
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- And do the kind of things that they've been doing
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- Successfully for 15 years in order to derail negotiations.
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- And then eventually decisions will have to be made.
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- I hope that israel and the u.s.
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- Will have the kind of leadership
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- That understands that now is the time.
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- This is a historic time, i think.
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- And if we do not take action, we will regret it.
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- And i hope that israeli
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- And american leadership and the defense establishment
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- Will be able to do what's necessary. jonathan?
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- Well said.
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- And we have the u.s.
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- Right now building up its forces at the diego garcia base
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- In the indian ocean.
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- Things are coming to a head
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- With iran's nuclear program, no doubt.
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- But that's not the only crisis in the region.
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- We've got hamas, hezbollah, syria.
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- We'll break down the state of play
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- With jonathan conricus, former idf spokesperson.
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- Senior fellow at ftd 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 our good friend, lieutenant colonel
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- Jonathan cohn ricca, senior
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- Fellow at ftd in washington, d.c., and a former spokesperson
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- For the israel defense forces.
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- Folks, be sure to follow jonathan on
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- And across social media.
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- Jonathan, before the break,
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- We were talking about iran dragging its feet,
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- The iranian regime, when it comes to its nuclear program.
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- Well, it seems hamas
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- Is also dragging its feet and rejecting u.s.
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- Cease fire attempts in gaza.
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- Meanwhile, the idf has had no choice
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- But to ramp activities back up in gaza.
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- What is the state of play there right now?
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- And will we eventually see the destruction of hamas
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- And their elimination as a threat to the jewish state?
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- You're absolutely right.
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- Hamas is refusing to come to the negotiation table
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- And they are just
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- I think that they feel that they are confident enough.
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- They have egyptian support, they have qatar support.
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- And i think that they believe that if they just hide
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- Long enough under the tunnels, in the tunnels underground,
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- Then israel will run out of steam.
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- International pressure
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- Will be brought to bear on israel,
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- And they believe they will be able to eat the cake and have it
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- As in continue to rule and govern gaza,
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- Be there for the day after and keep
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- Israeli hostages, 59 hostages,
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- 24 or 22
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- Who are believed to be alive almost a year
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- And a half in hamas captivity in those tunnels.
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- And during all manners of torture
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- And horrible experiences,
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- We know that from survivors and hostages that have come out.
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- And the sad situation is that, yes,
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- Israel has ramped up military activities.
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- But as of when we're
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- Speaking now, that has not yet had the desired effect.
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- There will come a time, and i think it's not very far
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- In the future
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- Where the fork in the road will be whether israel decides
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- To go all in with lots of troops on the ground, with massive
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- Bombarding, bombarding campaign
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- In order to really eradicate hamas
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- And to really defeat them and win the war.
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- We have not yet done that.
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- We're still holding out and hoping
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- To create the conditions to get the hostages back.
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- But at the end of the day, that time will come and when it
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- Does, it'll be extremely violent and extremely challenging.
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- One last word.
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- Watch out for egypt.
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- All eyes should be on egypt because they hold the key
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- To the future of gaza and they are the ones who single handedly
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- Can save gaza and civilians from the horrors of war
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- If they are allowed to open the gates,
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- If they do the right thing to do
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- The compassionate and humane thing,
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- Which is to open the gates and allow gazans out.
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- They can save a lot of people from unnecessary suffering and
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- Possible death if they continue to keep those gate closed.
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- That means that they have responsibility
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- On their shoulders for the killing of palestinians.
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- And i think that's something that isn't said enough.
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- And egypt should have responsibility
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- And accountability for their actions.
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- Jonathan, great point there.
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- Look, it's the largest, most populous,
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- I should say, arab nation.
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- Some say as egypt goes, so goes the region.
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- So great point there.
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- We will be watching it very closely.
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- Moving to the north, we're also watching syria very closely.
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- Over the past few days,
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- The idf has carried out some pretty serious airstrikes
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- Against former military outpost, i should say, of former
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- Dictator bashar al assad to prevent them from falling
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- Into the hands of this new jihadi regime in damascus.
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- Number one, how concerned are you about
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- That new regime in syria?
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- And number two, turkish involvement in syria.
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- So what israel is trying to do is to send a message
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- To two different recipients, one, the new landlords in syria.
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- It's a former u.s.
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- Designated terror organization
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- Where israel is basically saying, we don't trust you.
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- We think that you are still a bunch of crazy jihadists
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- And we are absolutely not going to sit around and wait
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- For you to get your act together and try to attack israel.
- 00:14:02.709 --> 00:14:06.012
- And while we are defending ourselves, we are making sure
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- That there are as little as possible assets that can
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- Jeopardize the lives of israelis or endanger israeli security.
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- Number two is egypt.
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- And what israel is doing is signaling
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- Through the use of the air force and other means
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- That we are not going to tolerate a creep
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- Of turkish forces that will we will find them
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- Close to our borders.
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- We do not share a geographical border with turkey,
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- And we have no intention
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- Of having turkish troops on our doorstep.
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- And we don't
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- We are not going to allow them to replace the russians
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- Or the iranians who were who invaded the
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- Or took control over syria before.
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- And what israel is doing is signaling
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- By striking targets in hama and in palmyra,
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- Which are two locations where there's reports
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- That there are turkish troops and so-called advisers present.
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- And that is to signal to the turks
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- That you are not welcome.
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- If you keep yourselves far away from israeli borders,
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- Then that is not of none of israel's business.
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- Do not come close to israel because you are not welcome
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- And it would be destabilizing.
- 00:15:13.546 --> 00:15:15.482
- I sure hope that message goes through
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- And i sure hope that the turkish leadership
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- Has the wisdom to listen to it
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- For the sake of regional stability and for their sake.
- 00:15:23.323 --> 00:15:26.126
- I think that's the smart thing to do.
- 00:15:26.126 --> 00:15:27.761
- Yeah, absolutely.
- 00:15:27.761 --> 00:15:28.962
- Israel can afford to swap out the iranian axis in syria,
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- Then swap in the erdogan regime there.
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- Jonathan, great break down all around, my friend.
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- We will see you again very soon.
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- Jonathan conricus folks, again,
- 00:15:38.004 --> 00:15:39.806
- Follow him on across social media.
- 00:15:39.806 --> 00:15:42.042
- He is one of the best. we love having him on.
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- And after the break, jonathan talked about qatar.
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- He mentioned qatar.
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- Well, what's qatar doing here on american college campuses?
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- You'll want to hear this. that's next. don't move.
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- You'll want to hear this. that's next. don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- With anti-semitism surging on college campuses, in the media,
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- And even at the highest levels of global politics.
- 00:16:08.903 --> 00:16:12.406
- The question isn't just why.
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- It's who is enabling it.
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- Joining us now
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- To break it down is charles asher, small, founding director
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- Of the institute
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- For the study of global anti-semitism and policy.
- 00:16:21.048 --> 00:16:24.085
- Charles has been at the forefront of exposing
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- The dangerous networks
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- Funding and fueling this hatred, including qatar's
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- Deep financial ties to terrorism in academia.
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- Charles, great to see you.
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- Speaking of qatar, look,
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- The qatari government, which is a staunch supporter
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- Of hamas, gives more money to american colleges
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- Than any other foreign nation.
- 00:16:44.805 --> 00:16:46.740
- That may shock a lot of people.
- 00:16:46.740 --> 00:16:48.542
- Why is that so problematic?
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- So, first of all, i'm honored to be with you.
- 00:16:50.811 --> 00:16:52.680
- And it's problematic for two reasons.
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- First of all, qatar is a country of less than 350,000 citizens.
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- It's a tiny country
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- Giving more money
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- To american universities and other cultural institutions
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- Than any other
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- Country in the planet, including our staunchest allies.
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- That's number one.
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- Number two,
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- But it's very important to
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- Understand is that the qatari regime,
- 00:17:12.133 --> 00:17:14.101
- The royal family, as in islam, it's called abaya.
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- It's a spiritual oath.
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- That the royal family, the ruling family takes
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- And has with the muslim brotherhood.
- 00:17:22.843 --> 00:17:25.579
- The muslim brotherhood is a reactionary form of islam.
- 00:17:25.579 --> 00:17:28.516
- I would even say a perversion of islam that fuzes
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- European anti-semitism and even nazi
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- Ism with islam and they're out basically
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- Not only to destroy israel and the jewish people,
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- But also to discuss
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- The little satan,
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- But also to destroy the united states of america.
- 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.169
- The big satan.
- 00:17:48.169 --> 00:17:49.036
- So this is a big problem that we have
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- Taking place right now within our country.
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- Yeah, and look, charles, you are traveling the world
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- Quite literally, fighting the good fight,
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- Fighting this surge
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- In anti semitism for an american audience here.
- 00:18:00.414 --> 00:18:04.051
- How bad is it getting right here in the united states?
- 00:18:04.051 --> 00:18:06.954
- Our country has historically been a bit of a safe
- 00:18:06.954 --> 00:18:09.290
- Haven for the jewish people, thank god.
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- But on campuses especially, things are getting out of hand.
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- So i'm in london
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- Right now where i think the struggle
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- Against the west, against democracy, against
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- The christian world is accelerating.
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- And the wave of it is coming to the united states.
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- Look, we found $10 billion that the qatari regime,
- 00:18:30.911 --> 00:18:34.215
- The muslim brotherhood, gave to cornell university.
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- We found $1.3 billion that texas
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- A&m, texas a&m received from qatar.
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- We found 502 research projects at the texas a&m
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- Gave the intellectual property rights to the qatari regime,
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- Including 58 projects
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- That have dual use military purposes and 30
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- In having nuclear military research implications.
- 00:18:57.805 --> 00:19:01.342
- Now, we've been calling on the department of energy
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- To do an investigation two weeks after a report was published.
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- Texas a&m decided to close its campus
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- In qatar, which we think is a very good development.
- 00:19:11.118 --> 00:19:14.588
- But we should
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- You know, we hope that the department of energy
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- Will look into this further.
- 00:19:17.124 --> 00:19:18.659
- We also have to realize that qatar is also funding
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- Radical student groups like sjp, students
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- For justice in palestine,
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- Which is connected
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- For the american muslims for palestine organization,
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- Which is directly part of the muslim brotherhood.
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- So we have sjp on campus
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- Being sort of the shock troops of the muslim
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- Brotherhood, making sure students, faculty and staff
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- Physically threatened and unsafe on campus.
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- So this goes from the classroom
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- To the to the encampments to our streets, where radical
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- Sjp activists are threatening our police officers.
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- And this has gone beyond issues of freedom of expression
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- And free speech,
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- But has entered into criminal behavior,
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- Attacking and discriminating, discriminating
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- Against your students, faculty and staff, vandalizing
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- And destroying property and actually engaged in violence
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- On our best university campuses and on the streets of
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- Our country.
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- Yeah, i mean, these are ivy league campuses, charles.
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- Columbia university is one example, of course.
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- And thank god
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- That you called out
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- The muslim brotherhood, which is the granddaddy of them
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- All when it comes to islamic jihadi organizations.
- 00:20:27.394 --> 00:20:31.231
- And charles, it seems that qatar, again,
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- Is really at the head of a lot of this, of the spread
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- Of anti-semitism.
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- About a minute left.
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- What can be done about this?
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- Well, where
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- We commend the current administration
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- For passing the deterrent,
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- The turnout act last week in congress.
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- It makes existing laws more stringent about regarding
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- Taking foreign funding from countries like qatar.
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- The senate is now calling for an investigation into anti
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- And sjp and code pink and other radical left wing organization.
- 00:21:05.099 --> 00:21:10.037
- And we have to understand that this is a threat
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- Not just to the jewish people.
- 00:21:13.507 --> 00:21:15.142
- Professor elie wiesel, nobel prize winner
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- And survivor of the holocaust, always taught us
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- That anti-semitism is not
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- A parochial problem for the jewish people.
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- But as sort of an early warning system that this hatred starts
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- With the jews but never ends with the jews.
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- And this is really an attack on human decency
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- And on american democratic practices, on principle.
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- And i think with more awareness
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- And the good work that you're doing,
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- I believe that the american population
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- Is beginning to wake up to this extremism
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- And anti-americanism and anti-christian,
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- Anti-christian behavior
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- That the sjp and the muslim brotherhood espouses
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- And that we have to take a stand.
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- And i think we're the last
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- Vestige of democracy and human decency existing.
- 00:21:59.486 --> 00:22:02.790
- And we have to stand up to this and be an example to the world.
- 00:22:02.790 --> 00:22:05.893
- Charles well said. and you're doing exactly that, folks.
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- You can check out his gaps. great work.
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- You see their website there on your screen.
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- Charles, thanks so much.
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- Keep up the good fight and well said.
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- It starts with the jews.
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- It never ends with the jews, charles.
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- God bless.
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- Keep it up.
- 00:22:18.572 --> 00:22:19.139
- And folks, coming up
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- After the break, my final thoughts on the haters of israel
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- And the haters of the god of israel and what can be done.
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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,
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- We had a great breakdown of the enemies
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- Surrounding israel tonight.
- 00:22:40.138 --> 00:22:41.940
- But i
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- Think back to the book of acts in this chapter 23, verse 27,
- 00:22:43.174 --> 00:22:46.077
- What god told israel about their ancient enemies
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- And how i believe it still applies today.
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- He said, i will send my terror
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- Ahead of you and throw into confusion
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- Every nation you encounter.
- 00:22:55.153 --> 00:22:56.888
- I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.
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- And i believe that is open ended from the lord your god.
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- And we're seeing that play out in real time
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- Before our very eyes, and none more so than iran
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- And that nuclear program.
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- Hey, coming up tomorrow, it is the anniversary of
- 00:23:10.068 --> 00:23:12.337
- The reverend dr. martin luther king jr's death.
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- And his niece, alveda king, will be here.
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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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