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Erick Stakelbeck: Defending Western Civilization | Stakelbeck Tonight

June 30, 2026 | 23:29

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: Defending Western Civilization | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 30, 2026

Coming up on stakelbeck tonight.
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What happens in the middle
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East does not stay in the middle east, as the u.s.
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And israel continue to battle the iranian axis over there,
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Radical islamist
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Are making major inroads right here in america.
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Aaron mullen joins us from down under with an urgent update
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On the defense of western civilization.
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Plus, bestselling
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Author bill koenig breaks down the state of play in iran.
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What comes next and why it matters to you.
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And it all starts now.
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How can you make a deal with a regime
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That has broken every deal it's ever signed?
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Iran's regime
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Continues to attack shipping
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In the strait of hormuz, and is proving once again
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That it cannot be trusted under any circumstances.
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So what does the future hold for the world's number
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One states bouncer of terrorism, not to mention israel,
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The united states and the entire free world.
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Joining us now to break it down is our good friend
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Aaron mullen, host of the aaron mullen show.
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Aaron, always great to see you.
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Hey, you and i just talked about this topic on your great show,
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The aaron mullen show.
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Encourage everyone to check it out
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Youtube and across social media.
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But we discussed that you're
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Kind of banging your head against the wall.
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If you're the us trying to deal
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With a group of fanatical jihadists.
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Aaron, i'll ask you what you asked me.
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Do you see this deal coming to fruition, or
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Does this inevitably end in a renewal at some point,
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Probably after the midterms of military action?
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I think
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His spot on eric and hello to your lovely audience
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And to you, thank you so much for having me.
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I suspect, and i hope and i when i say hope, it's
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Not because i am a warmonger or because i, i seek conflict
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Or any kind of military action when it's not required.
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I'm a realist, and a regime like the islamic
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Regime of iran does not do deals.
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It's not in their nature. it's not in their blood.
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They are incapable of doing so.
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And we've seen so many examples of this already.
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You know, if they
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If they are not capable of doing a week without breaking
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An element of this memorandum of understanding, how do they go
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60 days
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And by extension to that any longer term that is agreed to
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This is the regime that that is ideologically driven to destroy
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America, to destroy israel, to destroy western civilization.
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And they're very happy to kill tens of thousands
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Of their own people in the process,
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Which they have done.
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They're not renowned for being honest dealmakers
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Or any kind of people that you can trust.
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So i see this absolutely not being able
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To continue in the way that president trump,
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I think, had hoped.
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But i also suspect a part of him understood that he has other
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Political pressures.
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I understand that
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Midterms are crucial for him, so he can continue to do things
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That make america great again.
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But i would argue this, this regime in place, it's
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Not even that president
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Trump came out and said help is on the way.
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A point that i was thinking about this week.
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A lot of people are quoting that
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In a very disappointed in the president.
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I'd say to them,
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We often on this side say, don't take him literally.
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Look at what he does.
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And we can't kind of then take him literally
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When it suits us,
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But when it doesn't, like when he says
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A whole civilization will be wiped out,
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We say, guys, he's not talking about the whole civilization.
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He's just talking about the terrorists,
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And he's talking to terrorists.
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So he's using that rhetoric
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Because they don't understand shakespeare.
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So i think we've got to cut him a little bit of slack there.
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Have faith that what he what he means is to finish the job
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And that he will do so, but sooner rather than later,
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Because any extra time you give this regime,
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But let alone billions of dollars,
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They're not going to put into
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Programs to uplift their people or to,
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You know, restore electricity to sporting clubs.
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It will all go into creating a nuclear weapon.
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And they set it themselves.
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Just two days ago, eric, the national state publication
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Came out and said, we absolutely must have a nuclear bomb.
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So if they're telling you
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That, imagine
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What else is going on behind the scenes
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That they're not saying publicly. no doubt.
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Aaron. so well said.
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And by the way, the nuclear program is one thing.
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Their ballistic missile program, their sponsorship of terror,
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Hamas, hezbollah, the houthis,
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Those two points, by the way, are not even mentioned
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In this memorandum of understanding.
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One aspect of the whole conflict that was is lebanon.
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Good news?
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Because when i saw the memorandum at first, aaron,
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I was very worried
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That hezbollah would have free rein
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That israel is going to be pressured to withdraw.
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What do you think of this deal
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Between lebanon and israel that dc brokered last friday?
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It looks like
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Israel's in pretty good position,
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But i guess a lot of this hinges
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On lebanon's central government.
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Can they finally step up and repel
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Hezbollah and keep iran out of that country?
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You've absolutely nailed it.
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And i think, to be honest,
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When i first saw the memorandum, my first thought,
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Aside from some words
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That i would never share on your platform,
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My second thought was the poor people of lebanon,
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Because this is essentially throwing
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Them to the wolves as well.
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This is making sure that hezbollah, the regime of iran,
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Of course, it's not even a proxy.
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It is who they are, will be able to survive and stay.
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And this is one of the reasons, eric,
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That we saw this initial
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Aggressive action from the islamic regime
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Sending ballistic missiles towards israel is
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Because they were doing such
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An incredible job of taking care of hezbollah.
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They were on the brink there.
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And what this is essentially done
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Is give them another lifeline.
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And what i would say to people, not not to the extent
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That there are 90 million iranians
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In iran who despise this regime, who stole power 47 years ago.
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But it is similar in lebanon in that
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The hezbollah is not the lebanese people,
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Nor the government,
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But they have a lot more influence,
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And there are more supporters, but not everyone.
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And there's still that's been done in.
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Secretary of state marco rubio spoke brilliantly off the cuff
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About what this deal is and why it matters.
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But i worry, eric, because i've just seen reports
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Coming out over the last few hours saying that
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Lebanon either has or is looking to pull out of it
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Entirely because of pressure from hezbollah
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And a couple of members of the lebanese government
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Who are tied to hezbollah have said, no, we're not doing it.
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We're not doing anything like it.
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So that worries me significantly.
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But again, israel cannot sit like a sitting duck there,
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Given what happened on october 7th, and expect to somehow
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Not retaliate or respond to threats
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On the lives of its people, you know it.
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It's experienced what it's like when you kind of placate
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And when you sit back and when you wait.
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And sorry, but the people of israel
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Have a government
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That not just should defend it, but must defend it.
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And that includes keeping hezbollah in check.
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Amen. absolutely, aaron. well said.
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And more folks, we're talking about iran and hezbollah.
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What about supporters of hezbollah and the iranian regime
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Right here in america and in australia,
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Where aaron is based, will break that down
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With aaron mullen after the break.
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Be sure to follow her on
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Instagram across social media, of course.
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The aaron mullen show on youtube.
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More after the break. stick around.
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More after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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Thousands of shia muslims took to the streets of sydney,
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Australia this weekend to mark the islamic ashura holiday.
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The large scale procession shut down
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Major streets in australia's largest city.
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Take a look at the front left foot.
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The young son
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Logan.
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On the cover. god.
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The god of the
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Folks. that's australia.
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The land down under.
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And joining us now is our good friend and aussie aaron molan.
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Aaron, look,
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We saw similar scenes in dearborn,
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Michigan here in america where i'm
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Sitting in the midwest over the weekend as well.
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We've got a major problem
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Here, and i think we're starting to see the bitter fruits
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Of mass migration really come to the forefront.
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And it seems that islamists
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Here in the west are getting bolder.
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How do you see this?
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That's such a perfect way to put it.
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And you're right, because i think this issue
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Has absolutely been
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In both of our countries and in other places in the west
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For much longer than, say, just a month or a year.
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But they are emboldened now, and i can't imagine why,
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Except, of course, i can.
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And particularly looking at some results in new york,
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Where new yorkers are electing people who are apologists
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For nine over 11.
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And we wonder why we're seeing this so brazenly on our streets.
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It is a show of force.
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And the women who are marching,
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Of course, segregated, erick, because in a western society,
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That's of course, something else that we should.
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Yes, support, which is fine.
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But the yelling from the women was very aggressive as well.
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It is intimidating.
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And do you know what the saddest part of all of that is?
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They ended up in some of the places
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They were marching at a church where they were embraced
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Because this suicidal empathy, where we feel like we have to
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Not only tolerate this on our streets, but we have to
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Welcome it publicly.
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So everyone thinks we're really good people.
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Well, sorry, but the people in bondi
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And i'm not linking these two.
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But when you allow
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This to fester and you have islamic extremism
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And there are elements of that in our society
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Who have reared their ugly heads,
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There are consequences for it.
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And again, keep parts of your own culture,
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Stay your religion
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When you come to another country,
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But embrace the values that matter to us,
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The core values, and respect us as a society.
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And don't do that stuff.
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I hate it, it looks awful and it is just the start.
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We are absolutely screwed and we're seeing it in the uk,
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In dearborn all over.
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And if you look back, google muslim brotherhood,
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Look at the plan they openly have.
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They've set it all out and they are ticking
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Off boxes as they go because woke western governments
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Are too weak to do anything about it
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In case somebody says you're islamophobic.
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Well, no.
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In plenty of muslim countries, they don't allow
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Praying on the streets. they won't allow it.
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Regardless of which god you look up to, they won't allow it.
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So it's not islamophobic, it's sensible, it's sane,
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And it's doing what you're meant to be doing,
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Which is at the core of your job
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As a government is to protect your people. yeah.
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No doubt.
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And aaron, one of the phenomenons we see,
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We see the woke left obviously embracing islamist.
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But now the woke. right.
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You've been very critical of the likes and rightly so.
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Tucker carlson, candace owens, etc.
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You can throw megan kelly in there now as well.
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And essentially they seem to be a lot more,
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Shall we say, islam friendly these days.
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I guess they think they can use
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Islamist as a couple against the jews as well.
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Do you see that phenomenon
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Kind of shaping up in a very troubling way,
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Where elements of the right are what used to be the right
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Are now becoming islamist friendly.
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It seems
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It's crazy.
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Something from tucker.
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And you're right, i cover this a lot in my show.
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Not because i enjoy their content.
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Quite the opposite.
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I would ignore it if i didn't think it had
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Traction or it had such a big audience.
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But so many millions of people
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See this, and so many of them just lap it up and believe it.
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So i feel like we all have a role in this to push back on it.
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But tucker was talking about, oh, i used to say, all
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Muslims are trying to kill us.
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So and then he says, oh,
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But now i understand that's not the case.
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Trying to infer that
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Any of us who speak up about islamic extremism
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Or jihadism are somehow saying that exact same thing.
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No one that i know has ever
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Said all muslims are trying to kill us.
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That's insane.
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But this is what he's trying to do.
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He's trying to say that
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Those of us who are aware of the issue are crazy
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And are just filled with hate and are bigoted.
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It's not the case at all.
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He has done a complete 180 in this space.
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He said the other day.
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I mean, oh, the threat of jihad is,
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You know, jihadi, what even is jihadi?
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And then he moved it.
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And i just thought it absolute like, sorry,
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I'm sure every parent of every american killed by an act of
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Jihadi would tell you,
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Tucker, to your face, exactly what it is.
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It is a very real threat.
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It's regimes like the islamic regime of iran
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Through their proxies or directly on i mean,
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We had the islamic regime of iran firebomb a synagogue
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In australia directly from them,
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Not even using, you know, a terrorist proxy group.
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They are a significant threat.
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They have more blood of americans
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On their hands than anyone else,
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Mind you, except for their own people.
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This is why the threat is real.
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But when you have people like tucker
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Not only suddenly saying that he thinks
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Islam is the greatest thing since sliced bread,
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But what he's trying to do
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Is say that there is no significant threat within it.
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Well, that's just wrong.
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It's dangerous,
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And it goes against everything we should stand for.
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He's not pro-american anymore.
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He's the complete opposite.
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And again, you mentioned megan kelly.
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Candace owens is on a whole other level of that.
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That but meghan
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Is almost more dangerous because she still pretends to
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Be reasonable.
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She's not.
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She still tries to frame it in the same way.
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I talk about tucker saying, oh, everyone from islam
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Wants to kill us, which no one ever said.
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She's saying they hate me
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Because i was critical of the israeli government.
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No, i've been critical of the israeli government.
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You are allowed to be. that's great.
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What she's done is not that she's bought into a million
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Things. conspiracy theory.
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She said things that are completely anti-semitic.
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I don't think she is, but she's saying things that are.
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And she is dangerous.
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She she is platforming people who spew hate.
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It's not because once
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She was critical of the israeli government.
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But this is a straw man argument, isn't it?
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They try and frame it as something
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And then say, it's so unfair, i've been attacked mercilessly.
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Well, no, sorry.
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And it's actually your own listeners and viewers
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Who are calling you out because they don't
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Recognize the person that you have become.
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But it's deeply, deeply disturbing.
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But i hope erick and i notice in polls
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That the influence they seem to have on x and online
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Doesn't quite translate into the voting public.
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Yeah. aaron.
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That's yes. true.
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That is a key point.
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I think x
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Is one world and real life and real america
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Is another world where they don't resonate.
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But aaron mullen, you do, of course.
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Folks, check around the aaron mullen show
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X instagram across social media.
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Aaron great stuff.
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Always great seeing you.
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God bless.
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We'll see you again soon.
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And coming up much more after the break.
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A middle east
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Update from an insider who just returned from jerusalem.
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You won't want to miss that. that's next. stick around.
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You won't want to miss that. that's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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The middle east continues to stand at a pivotal moment
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For me.
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Ron's nuclear ambitions to
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Hezbollah's future in lebanon to growing threats from turkey,
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The region is undergoing a major realignment
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That could reshape the security of israel and the entire world.
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Joining us now to break down is our good friend, veteran
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White house correspondent,
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Founder of worldwatch daily and a foremost expert on u.s.
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Israel relations. bill canning is with us. bill.
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Great to see you, my friend.
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I should mention also author of the classic eye to eye.
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We'll talk more about that as well.
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But hey, let's start with lebanon.
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Bill, i know you're watching the region very closely.
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The us brokered this deal between lebanon and israel
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Historic deal last friday, and it seems great on paper.
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It's a good thing israel is happy,
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The us is happy. lebanon's happy.
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But you have hezbollah there.
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The iranian regime entrenched in lebanon as well.
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At the end of the day,
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It seems like they're not going to go quietly and just disarm.
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Where do you think that deal could be heading?
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Well, it's a good point, erick i think i like what ambassador
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Huckabee said today.
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Said, i look forward to the day that i can drive from jerusalem
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To beirut and return.
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And i think there's a lot of optimism from the united states.
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Marco rubio was very involved.
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Ambassador latter, who is an incredible
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Israeli ambassador to the us and in the lebanese people,
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Have been held hostage to hezbollah for so long.
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Erick.
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So i think they're encouraged,
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But obviously they know they still have a problem.
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It's called hezbollah.
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And in a lot of ways, they're looking to israel to
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Maybe finish the job.
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Yeah, i think
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Lebanon's central government bill has to step up eventually.
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They're saying all the right things,
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But they've kind of got to have the backbone
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To confront hezbollah and neutralize hezbollah.
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We'll see if that happens.
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But as you said,
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No matter what happens,
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Israel is going to defend its interest,
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As it should with hezbollah, its doorstep.
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Hey, you've been warning about iran on the ropes right now,
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Of course, weakened, but they've got powerful friends.
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Russia, china.
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Talk more about that axis of evil
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China, russia, iran, north korea in the mix as well.
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But china and russia in particular
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Are still propping up the regime in tehran.
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Well, you know, they have so much money invested.
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You know, iran receives a tremendous amount of money.
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I mean, most of their goes to china and asia.
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But, you know, china is invested
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40 billion plus in iran.
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They're very clever, very crafty.
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I. after president trump's trip to china,
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President trump didn't quite
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Have the spunk that he typically has.
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And i think he was expecting more help from china.
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China is very iran.
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Yeah, exactly. exactly.
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And he
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He didn't come back out of that chinese trip.
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President trump,
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As with as much tenacity as i thought he would.
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And i think obviously
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He didn't get the help he wanted from china.
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And russia has a long term relationship with iran
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On the nuclear front to building nuclear plants in iran.
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Absolutely.
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And there's,
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You know,
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A lot of money invested in russia and russia, and china
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Has invested a lot of money in iran.
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But, you know, iran is a master there.
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So clever, crafty.
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These are some of the toughest negotiators.
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You know, president trump's ever dealt with,
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They are uniquely positioned on the persian gulf.
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And they're going to use that leverage as much as they can.
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And, you know,
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They also know that president trump
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Has a midterms coming up and that this war is
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Not too popular in the united states.
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And so between china,
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Russia and iran, they aren't big fans of the united states.
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Yeah. well, and gas prices, of course.
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President trump wants to get them
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Lower in advance of the midterms.
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And you and i were talking off camera.
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The iranian regime, master chess players,
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The dirtiest players in the game.
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And as you said, master negotiators and dealmakers.
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Speaking of which,
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Maybe not a master dealmaker, but he's another adversary
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Of israel.
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Erdogan, the turkish president.
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Bill. he's just increasing the rhetoric.
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I mean, he's
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Essentially talked in the past several months
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About confronting israel militarily.
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I mean, rhetoric on that level.
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Now, prime minister netanyahu is striking back,
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At least in a verbal sense, and saying, look,
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We're watching you, erdogan.
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We're concerned.
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And to me, i watch erdogan's rhetoric.
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He talks about conquering
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Jerusalem and israel's desired entity, etc..
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And i say, where's nato?
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I mean, erdogan, that's a nato member nation. turkey.
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Where's the condemnation from fellow nato member nations?
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Well, it's a big concern.
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And also, president trump is talking about selling
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Some of our most advanced jet engines to turkey and the f-35.
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Yeah. any mistake?
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Absolutely.
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And there's a lot of people in.
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Fortunately, the senate us senator that are so pro-israel
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To see it for what it is, they understand erdogan.
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I mean, listen to what he says, believe what he says.
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And he's not a friend of israel.
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And he he's playing to the muslim brotherhood.
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This is his big backer.
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He he sees himself as being the leader of of the middle east.
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And he knows if he can be cantankerous
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And difficult and say certain things, that he's going to win
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Favor with the sunnis and the shiite,
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But mostly the sunnis, which is 80% of islam.
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So, erick, one of the key leaders that we watch
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Biblically and prophetically is erdogan major player.
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Absolutely.
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I'd say outside
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The iranian regime, he engages to
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Some of the most vicious anti-semitic rhetoric
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That we'll see from a world leader. without a doubt.
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No doubt.
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And the irony turkey and iran really don't
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Have that greater relationship unless it's business.
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And then they then they do business together,
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Or they've kind of used each other in this recent conflict
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Going all the way back to late february.
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So we're going to watch that closely.
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At the same time, iran's
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Playing their cat and mouse game with the strait of hormuz and
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And the persian gulf. erick.
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And i think that's one of the most contentious,
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Difficult challenges that president trump has gone
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Forward is his ongoing relationship with control
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Over the strait of hormuz
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And also the situation with the nukes.
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What's he going to do about the nukes?
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And they're playing them.
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The iran's negotiators are playing him.
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Yeah.
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The us israel relationship optimistic going forward
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Bibi trump tension turning the page.
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I think it's still good.
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Erick i think it's
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I give president trump a lot
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For you know standing strong with israel doing what he did.
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I know the pressure for israel to depart
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From lebanon was part of iran's negotiating ploy.
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The relationship still fine.
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But the great thing about it.
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Israel support in congress, which is the republican support
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In the senate and the house is as strong now as ever before.
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And, you know, thanks to senator cruz,
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Senator cotton, senator graham, we'll continue to see that.
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But i think the the pro-israel, whether it's in the church
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Or in the jewish community or in congress,
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Needs to be stronger now than ever because israel's
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At a precarious place politically
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Right now in that relationship
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In the united states is extremely important. yeah.
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No doubt.
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And when it comes to iran, i continue to say
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Finish the job, as we shall see.
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Bill. great stuff, my friend. thanks, folks.
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Bill. x across social media.
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Eye to eye is great book amazon.com
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Wherever books are sold. coming up.
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My final thoughts. stick around.
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My final thoughts. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As you wrap up here, a word of encouragement
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As enemies are gathering around israel, as always, right?
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We see anti-semitism rising in disturbing ways
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Right here in america.
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Even i think of genesis 17 seven, god has made
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Unconditional, everlasting, eternal promises to israel.
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Here it is.
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He says to abraham, i will establish my covenant
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As an everlasting covenant between me
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And you and your descendants after you, for the generations
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To come to be your god and the god of your descendants
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After you.
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So israel's not going anywhere, and the god of israel is still
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On the throne. thanks for joining us tonight.
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Until tomorrow. god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Defending Western Civilization | Stakelbeck Tonight

June 30, 2026 | 23:29

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