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Erick Stakelbeck: The Future of The West | Stakelbeck Tonight

May 8, 2026 | 23:30

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: The Future of The West | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 8, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And since october 7th, 2023, we haven't just seen wars
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In the middle east.
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We've witnessed an absolute explosion
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Of anti-semitism across the western world,
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Including right here in the united states,
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On college campuses, in media and inside political movements.
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Israel and the jewish people are increasingly under attack.
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And folks, it's coming from multiple directions
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The radical left, islamist
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And even factions of what used to be the right personified
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By the off, the rails tucker carlson,
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Have created a dangerous convergence,
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Especially among younger generations.
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By the way, these anti-semites also despise the bible believing
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Christians who are israel's greatest supporters.
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So what does that mean for america,
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For the future of the west?
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And how do we fight back?
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Shabbos kestenbaum has become one of the most outspoken
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Voices tackling these issues head on.
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He's a political commentator with prager u.
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And he joined me in washington, d.c.
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To share more.
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Shabbos.
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Great to have you with us.
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Hey, we're here at israel advocacy day in d.c.,
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And it's sad in some respects that this day is even necessary.
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But shabbos, you've documented this so great
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On the speaking circuit, on your great prager u.
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Show that anti-semitism is spreading like wildfire
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Across the western world, including here
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In the united states, where we have the radical left
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Radical islamist, the tucker carlson wing.
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I guess you call them of what used to be the right,
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All aligned against israel and the jewish people.
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Can you talk more about that?
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The dangerous moment we're in right now
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And why events like this are so necessary?
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Yeah, well, i think you nailed it.
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So as a jewish person, we know that jews are a canary
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In the coal mine.
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And when i look at anti-semitism,
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I see that as a symptom of a much greater societal ill.
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And part of that societal ill is my generation.
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Young people,
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Young people being constantly told by nefarious actors
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Like the tucker carlson wing, like the radical islamist wing,
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That the reason you're working 2
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Or 3 jobs, the reason you can't get a girlfriend,
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The reason you know you can't move out of your mom's
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Basement, it's because something, something
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A pack, it's something. something to jews.
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It's something.
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Something, you know, the billionaires, it's these
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Shadowy, undefined forces that are controlling your lives.
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And i think what makes america and the west
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Such incredible places to live is because we believe
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In that judeo-christian value set of deuteronomy 3019,
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That we can make choices in life.
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We have human agency, we have moral agency.
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And when we surrender that, when we surrender, the fact
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That we were created in the image of god capable
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Of choosing and discerning right versus wrong,
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And we simply say, well,
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I surrender to these shadowy cabal, these forces,
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That creates demoralization.
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And young people will drop out of that system,
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Which is why my generation
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Are the most likely to be medicated,
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The most likely to be depressed or anxious,
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And the most likely to engage
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In political violence on both sides of the aisle.
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And antisemitism is just the most obvious
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Manifestation of that thing.
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But that's where you come in with your great
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Sean prager, you and all the work you've done
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Advocating for israel, the jewish people,
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Strong alliance between israel and the united states.
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And you've had firsthand experience on college campuses.
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You've had a case against harvard university,
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For their refusal to crack down on anti-semitism.
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Tell our viewers the state of play on america's
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College campuses right now when it comes to israel
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And the jewish people,
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Including at ivy league elite, so-called institutions.
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Right. and i think that's the important part.
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Why do we care about harvard, columbia, penn, ucla?
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It's because these are institutions
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Of higher learning in the united states
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That purport to train the next generation
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Of american leaders, and statistically speaking,
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They're not necessarily wrong.
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It's not an exaggeration at all
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To state,
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Given the more than a thousand students
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I sat in classes with on harvard's campus,
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It's likely
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That i probably sat in a room with a future congressman,
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A future senator, even a future president of united states.
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And if these are america's future policymakers,
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If these are america's future judges and jurors,
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If these are america's future authors of the books
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Our kids and grandkids are going to be reading,
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Then it's not just an israel issue or a jewish issue.
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It is a profoundly
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And uniquely american issue because it's true.
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They call for the death of israel.
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We know that.
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We also know the next part of the sentence
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Is death to america. it's true.
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They vandalized my israeli flags.
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They vandalized my american flags.
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It's true.
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They drew swastikas on the hostage posters
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Of israeli citizens taken by hamas.
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They did the same thing with the american citizens
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Omer neutra, hersh goldberg, polen, keith siegel.
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So it's a profoundly american issue.
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And i think the mainstream media has done
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A tremendous disservice by concocting this narrative
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That it has anything to do with free speech,
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Because while it's true students have the right to chant
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In praise of hamas and the irgc, which they are literally doing
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On columbia's campus and harvard and elsewhere,
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It's also documented
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That there have been violations of federal law in particular
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The civil rights act.
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So to your point, we filed a lawsuit
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Against harvard pertaining to their violations
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Of the civil rights act and our judge, judge richard.
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So the federal district court in massachusetts,
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He tossed out harvard's motions to dismiss.
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And he wrote, and i quote, the fact his pledge
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To show harvard failed its jewish students.
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We are the first case in the country, in the country's
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History, pertaining to the civil rights violations of american
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Jews on a campus, to be allowed to go to trial.
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And currently,
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There are half a dozen cases brought by american jews
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Across the country who cited kestenbaum by harvard.
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So we've actually set legal precedent
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That if you were a university, especially one that receives
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Billions of dollars in taxpayer funding,
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You better make sure you are treating your jewish students
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And all of your students, your christian students,
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Your black students, white students, gay, straight.
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You are treating them equally and fairly under the law.
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And it was objectively and legally the case
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That harvard and other ivy league
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Institutions were not doing that thing.
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Yeah, and you can say israel's the first line of defense
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For judeo-christian western civilization
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That used to include our civilization.
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A great defender in great britain.
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But that's really gone by the wayside, i'm sad to say.
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In the past few years,
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Golders green, we just had an a nearly a deadly attack.
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Thank god
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They both live to jews attacked by an islamist migrant.
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Talk a bit more about that.
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You have family history in the uk. shabbos.
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Your family still living there? yeah.
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Talk a bit more about the situation in the uk. why?
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That's a cautionary tale for us here in america. yeah.
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I mean, we can learn so much from the united kingdom.
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We can learn it
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So much from the united kingdom
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In the sense of what they do do the opposite,
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Especially when it comes to migration policy.
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So my whole family is british.
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My parents are the only ones who actually left.
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They came to the united states legally 30 years ago.
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But grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins are also there.
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In fact, my grandmother, god bless her, she's in her 90s,
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But she lives on golders green road,
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Which was the site of this terrorist attack.
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And so i called her after the attack
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To make sure she was okay.
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But, scarily enough, the last time i spoke to her
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Was about three weeks before that to talk about a different
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Islamist terrorist attack on the exact same street.
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So she has been living
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In the united kingdom for 70 plus years,
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And may she have a long, healthy life.
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But the united kingdom that she will die in
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Is a very different country than the united kingdom
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She was born and raised in,
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And we were talking about this earlier that makes the united
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Kingdom so tragic is that is entirely self-imposed.
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It is the deliberate and willing,
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Narrative and culture that we must accept individuals
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Who hate multiculturalism, who hate our democracy,
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Who hate the judeo-christian values set.
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And we in the united states, as i said,
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Need to learn from the united kingdom
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When it comes to illegal immigration.
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I think there's been a paradigm shift whereby the overwhelming
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Majority of americans, both democrats
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And republicans, recognize you need strong borders.
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But even when it comes to legal immigration,
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We need to have that conversation of
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Who are the types of people we want coming into our country,
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Because it's true. we are a country of immigrants.
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My parents are immigrants, but that's because they subscribe.
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They love the united states.
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They subscribe to assimilate as well.
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So tolerance for the intolerant is killing the uk.
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And god willing, that will not happen here.
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Shabbos. great job.
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We know you keep an eye on it my friend. we appreciate it.
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God bless. thank you. i appreciate
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Coming up october 7th shocked the world,
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But what happened on october 8th may be just as important.
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Ej kimball explains next.
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Ej kimball explains next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck
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Tonight, as antisemitism surges across the west.
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New battle lines are being drawn both culturally
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And geopolitically.
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I recently sat down with ej
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Kimball, director of policy and strategic operations
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For the u.s.
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Israel education association and a leader in the combat
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Antisemitism movement
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At israel advocacy day in washington, d.c.
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He broke down the shifting alliances in america
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And the growing threats
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Facing both israel and the united states.
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Take a look.
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Ej kimball, always great to see you, my friend.
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We're here in washington, d.c., for the israel advocacy
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Day, the combat antisemitism movement,
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Which you're a part of, is playing a big role here
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At the event.
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And, ej, you've talked about the october 8th effect,
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And everyone thinks, of course, the october 7th massacre,
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Those horrific events.
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But october 8th, the october 8th effect.
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Tell us more about that.
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I think it explains a lot
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In terms of what we're facing right now.
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Really does. and always great to be with the erick.
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So yeah, october 7th, obviously everyone remembers
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What happened on that day, but it was the day after,
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On october 8th when jews in america and most,
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Of jews in america tend to lean to the left.
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And they had worked for years to build these relationships
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With the other minority communities.
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And on october 8th,
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They saw that those communities were not there for them.
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And and, you know, it it hurt them a lot.
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And they looked around and said, where are our friends
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And what we've been working on with the combat antisemitism
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Movement for over seven years now is we've got friends here
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In the christian community and they want to work with us.
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And so we've been working with them.
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But now what we've seen is the american jewish community
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Starting to embrace the friendship
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That the christian community
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Has, is embracing, and that they're offering to us.
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What's been for you?
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I would say the most surprising, because anti-semitism
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Is the world's oldest hatred.
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But is there a bit of shock in the jewish community
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Among conservatives, perhaps in particular about this backlash
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From what used to be considered the right?
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I don't know even what tucker carlson is anymore,
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How you would classify him,
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But i think some have been shocked by the degree of vitriol
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Coming from
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What used to be the right, just open anti-semitic bile.
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So, you know, on the right there's always been
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Antisemitism.
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And that's
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Where everyone always focused on, you know,
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That fringe anti-semitism that always existed.
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But it was pushed off to the fringes. yeah.
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Then what we saw leading up to and certainly following
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October 7th was the left wing antisemitism spiking
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And what we actually found through
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Our antisemitism research center last year,
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Right wing antisemitism from the far right, which is
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Still a smaller percentage of the overall, about 22%.
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But it rose last year, sorry, it's about 9%,
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But it rose about 22% last year just from the right.
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Now podcasters.
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Podcast, again,
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Because they're pushing this narrative out there.
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And when you want to go down a rabbit hole, you'll find it.
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And so we're seeing that effect, and it is very concerning
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On the right.
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But i would say thanks to president trump's leadership
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By calling out tucker
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Carlson and saying this is not part of the maga movement.
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We've actually seen a drop in that support.
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Good, good, good.
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That is definitely an encouraging development.
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Gen z in particular, edge
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Seems to be infected by this and very impressionable.
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Obviously, listening to these podcasters
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Look at tucker carlson,
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A candace owens, and there's a bunch of them.
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How do you battle back inside
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Of the combat antisemitism movement?
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What do you do to combat that?
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We have to go into hostile environments
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Because there are people there who want to understand.
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But since october 7th, if you are a jewish american,
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It doesn't matter
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What your view of the israeli government is true.
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The enemy doesn't care.
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And if you're jewish, they treat you as if you support israel.
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And ej, make a key point.
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I think about this event, the israel advocacy day bible
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Believing christians, jews together, shoulder to shoulder.
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And we've seen backlash against that alliance, in particular
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In the run up to the iran war, it seems, where
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Bible believing christians and benjamin netanyahu
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Pushed trump into war, according to some of these voices.
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Talk a bit more about what we're doing right now with iran,
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Why that's so necessary to weaken god, god
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Willing to see the end of the world's
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Number one state sponsor of terrorism, the iranian regime.
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Yeah.
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And i know that you've talked about this a lot on your show.
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So i know i'm preaching to the choir here, but,
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You know,
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The war that we launched against iran was not because
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Israel forced us into it.
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Something, quite frankly, president trump's
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Been talking about since 1980.
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Yes, the clips are out
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There, 80, 87, 88 talking about his strategy.
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Vis-a-vis the iranian.
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President's republican and democrat have talked about this.
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It was president trump who thankfully has taken action.
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Look, the what the iranians want is a nuclear weapon. why?
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Because they want to be able to attack israel.
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They want to be able to control the world.
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And this is something that north korea did.
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But the iranians are trying to do the same model,
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Which is not first, get the nuclear weapon,
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But have the defensive capabilities
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And offensive capabilities to prevent an attack on it.
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It's the ultimate term, yes.
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And if they have this ballistic missile capability
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That prevents us from attacking them,
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Then they can develop their nuclear weapon with impunity.
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And that's what president trump is doing.
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And that's why it is vitally important
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Not just to get the strait of hormuz open,
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But to get that enriched uranium out.
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And to end that nuclear weapons program.
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Yeah, it seems to me that under president
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Trump's leadership and really forming this
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Incredible alliance with prime minister netanyahu,
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It seems that iran will never be the iranian regime,
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What it once was in terms of military strength.
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They seem to have really taken a major blow here.
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But the entire ring of fire, ej,
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The iranian backed ring of fire, hezbollah, hamas, the houthis,
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They're licking their wounds right now.
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They're in a pretty bad place.
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Talk more about the advances made against them.
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Ironically enough,
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Since october 7th, when the iranian regime
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May have signed their own death warrant unbeknownst to them.
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Yeah, well, that's a great point, because these
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These proxies have been harmed dangerously for them.
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Yeah.
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And there's an opportunity right now.
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Right now, israel and lebanon are negotiating
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Over peace for the first time in over 40 years.
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So there's this opportunity.
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But it's not going to be easy
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Because terrorist groups will fight to the last man.
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And the only way to defeat them is to crush them.
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Utterly crush them.
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And then you can't give them room to breathe.
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And now, not saying that this has to be done
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In three weeks or three months. this can take time.
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There will be remnants,
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But there needs to be a concerted effort.
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But most importantly from these countries,
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And i think you can look
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At the uae as a great example after nine over 11,
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What is it that they stand for as a society?
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Now, this is the question
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The emirati asked themselves when they had some of the 911
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Hijackers came from the emirates.
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They said, who are we as a people?
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And they determined that is not who we are.
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And it was a whole of society change
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And that's what a country like lebanon needs.
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Ej, great work. we appreciate it, my friend.
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God bless. thank you. great job.
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Coming up from capitol hill
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To capitals around the world, a major shift is underway
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On iran.
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But is the west finally ready to act?
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Jordanna mcmillan of the israel allies foundation weighs in
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After the break.
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After the break.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, as global pressure
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Mounts on iran
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And the stakes continue to rise in the middle east,
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There's a growing movement
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Not just in washington, but around the world, calling
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For a decisive shift in the region's future.
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I recently sat down with jordann mcmillan, u.s.
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Director at the israel allies foundation,
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Which is building an international coalition
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Rooted in faith and shared values.
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Take a look.
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Jordanna.
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Great to have you with us, as always here at the third
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Annual israel advocacy day in dc, the israel allies
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Foundation, your organization of course, plays a big role
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In this event.
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And we're here during a time of war, jordanna and the foundation
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Has been sounding the alarm about the iranian regime.
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You've been able to galvanize
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Lawmakers internationally to sign a letter
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Calling for the end to the world's
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Number one state sponsor of terrorism, the iranian regime.
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Talk a bit more about that.
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Why we need to see a day where this regime
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No longer exists, and the iranian people
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Have a real chance at freedom and a future.
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Absolutely, erick, we work with 66
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Pro-israel caucuses and nations all over the world.
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And when the war, the second war with iran started recently,
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Those leaders just rose up.
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And they really, i felt like,
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Hit the nail on the head of what's at the heart of this.
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And that is a radical islamic regime.
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That is why they're trying to wipe israel off the map.
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And without regime change, without someone in power
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Who sees the importance of democracy,
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Of living at peace with their neighbors,
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Of pluralism, of freedom of religion within iran,
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I don't think much is going to change.
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Yeah.
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And president
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Trump has this vision, jordanna, of a new middle east
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And perhaps new abraham accords, peace treaties, saudi arabia.
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The future is out there and it looks bright.
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If the iranian regime and its axis is out of power.
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You work with lawmakers internationally
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And you work here on capitol hill. of course.
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Do you sense that there is an understanding
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Of the iranian threat internationally?
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Because, jordanna,
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I look across the landscape in europe has taken a pass here,
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But israel has stepped up side to side, shoulder to shoulder
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With the united states. absolutely.
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I think in some parts of europe they understand
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More than others, eastern europe in particular.
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I think they're a little closer geographically.
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So they, sense the threat a little bit more.
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But our eastern european
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Caucuses, their work is really growing.
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They're very bold, speaking out very boldly for israel.
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We're hoping to see soon here
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If there is regime change, cyrus accords, perhaps.
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Between iran and israel. wouldn't that be something?
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And it makes sense because biblically.
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Look, cyrus,
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Let the israel, the people of israel go back to
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Israel, build the temple in jerusalem.
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Amazing history there.
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And before the ayatollahs, there was a good alliance
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Between israel and iran and the united states and iran.
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By the way, talk about your work in latin america as well,
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Because we're talking about, okay, the western world.
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But latin america has been a place
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Where the israel allies foundation is really keyed on.
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Is there a growing groundswell of support for israel there?
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Absolutely.
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We just launched, i think, 2 or 3 new caucuses
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In the past two years in latin america.
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We have our first latin america
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Chairman's conference coming up in argentina.
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We're hoping to see some pretty exciting announcements
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Coming out of latin america soon.
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So it's all over the world, erick,
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And it's all from a basis of faith.
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That is the frontier.
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I think the last frontier of support for israel
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Is faith based diplomacy.
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I was going to ask you exactly that, jordanna.
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This is biblically based, and that's a great thing about it.
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I mean,
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We think of the united states as being kind of the center
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Of pro-israel christianity and christian zionism.
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But man, latin america, eastern europe, as you say,
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Especially latin america, this is really growing.
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We're there.
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Although anti-israel sentiment is rising in the west
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In particular.
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Sadly, in places like latin america,
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There's an increasing recognition that,
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Hey, wait a minute, this is god's land.
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Yeah, god's not done with the nation of israel.
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Absolutely.
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I mean, you see a growing
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Christian population in africa as well.
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We just launched a new caucus in tanzania.
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So you're seeing it across africa, latin america, asia,
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I mean, papua new guinea.
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They moved their embassy to jerusalem recently.
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So it's very exciting.
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Erick, we're we are honored and humbled to be a part of it.
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And just looking forward to see what the new year brings.
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Yeah, okay.
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Growing africa, latin america, asia, the west,
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Which would seem to be a natural ally of israel, of course.
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And you mentioned eastern europe strong,
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But britain, france, germany, belgium.
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Disappointing to say the.
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Countries i feel that have turned their back
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On their heritage, on their judeo-christian values,
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And they have lost their way morally.
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And you see the rise in antisemitism in these countries,
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And i believe a lot of it is from muslim,
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Radical muslim populations within their countries.
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But some of it's homegrown as well.
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Yeah, i'm it's eerily.
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Reminiscent of the left.
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And here in america, we have the tucker carlson wing
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And what used to be called the right.
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I don't know what they are now, but hey,
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Capitol hill, israel advocacy day, big focus here in dc.
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Of course, on the hill.
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You've spent a lot of time here over the years
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Advocating for israel on capitol hill.
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Talk a bit more about that. jordanna.
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Will there be, as we have again, israel's becoming
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A dividing line, even politically here in america?
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It used to be, i would say, the one issue
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That brought democrats and republicans together.
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And in many ways, it still is, you see within congress
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Some very bold democrats speaking out for israel,
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You know, within the republican party,
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Of course,
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Just incredible
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Men and women of faith who support israel,
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Just as we do from a basis of faith.
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I think when most americans, you know, watch television
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And they watch the news, they have a very depressing view
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Of what's going on on capitol hill.
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But we are up in those halls every day,
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And we have the privilege of meeting and working with these.
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Like i said, men and women of faith
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That are speaking out for israel.
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Yeah. amen.
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And you're at the forefront of that
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With the israel allies foundation.
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You've got a big role to play tonight
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At the israel advocacy day event, jordanna.
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So we appreciate your time. god bless. thank you. sarah.
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Up next,
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Don't be surprised that israel is
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At the center of the world's attention.
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The bible told us this would happen.
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More on that after the break in my final thoughts.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here, all this global focus on israel,
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The fight over the world's one
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And only jewish state should not surprise you.
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If you know scripture, a good deal of your bible
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Is about israel's prophetic destiny.
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Of course, by think of deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 13.
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God says to moses, the people of israel, he's referring to
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The lord will make you the head, not the tail.
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When it comes to the nations.
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It's no coincidence
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That when you open your map,
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Israel is at the very center of the world geographically.
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God knows what he is doing. no doubt.
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A great week of shows lined up next week bridget, gabrielle,
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Bill o'reilly and much more.
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Until then, have a great weekend.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: The Future of The West | Stakelbeck Tonight

May 8, 2026 | 23:30

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