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: January 6, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | January 6, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And while donald trump does not take office until january 20th,
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- The trump
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- Effect is already being felt throughout north america.
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- Canadian prime minister justin trudeau announced today
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- That he is resigning after nearly ten years in power.
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- Trudeau had been facing calls from members
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- Of his own liberal party to step down.
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- Calls that only intensified after trudeau met
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- With trump in mar a lago last month.
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- More on that in a second.
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- But first, here's trudeau from earlier today.
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- I intend to resign.
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- As party leader, as prime minister,
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- After the party selects its next leader
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- Through a robust, nationwide
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- Competitive process.
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- Folks, i'm going to speak very plainly here.
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- Throughout his time in office.
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- Justin trudeau has been a hard core left wing globalist
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- With a totalitarian streak which he showed during covid
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- When he harassed churches.
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- And in 2022, when he shut down the canadian trucker protests.
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- Canada, the united states and the western world writ
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- Large will all benefit from his departure.
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- Now, trudeau had been unpopular
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- Among a growing number of canadians.
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- But his final downfall began in november,
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- When president trump declared that he was going to demand
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- That canada and mexico finally secure their porous borders
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- With the united states
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- And stop the flow of illegal immigration.
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- He also said very plainly
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- That he would charge canada and mexico a 25%
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- Tariff on all products coming into the u.s..
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- It's called fair trade and truly
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- Putting america's economic interests first.
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- And that scared justin trudeau.
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- He ran to mar a lago to meet with president trump
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- And do damage control.
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- But the opposite happened.
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- Trump simply doubled down on border security and tariffs
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- And even teased trudeau that canada should become the
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- 51st u.s.. eight.
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- So justin trudeau, a weak man, looked even weaker.
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- And his political fate was ultimately sealed, thanks in
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- Large part to president trump's strong leadership.
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- Canada is now set to potentially elect pierre
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- Poilivere, the conservative leader
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- Who would be a far better fit for president trump to work with
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- And get things done.
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- Meanwhile, we're also seeing the trump effect
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- South of the border.
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- Last week, mexican president claudia sheinbaum said
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- She's now open to taking in non-mexican illegal immigrants
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- Who will be deported by the united states
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- Under president trump.
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- She had said the opposite just last month,
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- But it's now dawning on her that president trump has all
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- The leverage
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- And even more importantly,
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- He's willing to use it for the benefit of the united states.
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- That includes in the middle east,
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- The terror group hamas still holds seven u.s.
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- Citizens hostage
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- And over the weekend released
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- A video of one of its israeli captives.
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- Trump has vowed to unleash hell on hamas
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- If they don't release the hostages.
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- And i believe he'll do exactly that if they do not comply.
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- The hamas hostage crisis is just one of many
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- Major challenges the incoming trump
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- Administration faces in the middle east,
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- Including a new jihadist government in syria.
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- Our tv and israel correspondent yair pinto is on the israel's
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- Syria border today and he joins us with the inside story next.
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- It's one of
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- The world hotspots to watch in 2025.
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- What happens inside syria over the course of this year
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- Could have major ramifications not only for israel
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- But also for the united states or tbn.
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- Israel correspondents yair pinto and timothy show.
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- Shani, co-hosts of the brand new tbn show.
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- Boots on the ground travel to israel's very tense border
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- With syria for a closer look.
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- At the shifting sands of the middle east,
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- Have once again placed israel at a critical crossroad
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- Following the collapse of the assad regime in syria.
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- The situation
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- On israel's northern border has become increasingly tense.
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- Rebel forces have moved swiftly to take control of areas
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- Once held by the syrian army, including the buffer zone
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- Near the golan heights and parts of the carmel mountain.
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- In a decisive response.
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- The idf's northern command has activated emergency plans
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- Taking over the buffer zone and deploying tanks and infantry
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- Units along the alpha line to prevent potential incursions
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- Into israel.
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- Israel's actions suggest it is stepping into a new role
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- As the de facto police of this region.
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- This weekend, we're heading up north to manana ridge,
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- Which is a strategic point on israel's border with lebanon.
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- It offers a clear view of the syrian mount hermon buffer zone
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- That israel has captured.
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- So let me go back a little bit.
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- So the idf has been operating
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- Against hezbollah in lebanon for more than two months,
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- Crippling lebanon.
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- Neutralizing all the leadership, all their infrastructure.
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- And basically they cannot function as they used to.
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- The terrorist organizations, there are no.
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- Longer a fighting force, not the way they were.
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- Yes. then lebanon reached
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- A ceasefire agreement with israel
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- That there will be no fighting for 60 days.
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- You know, successful.
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- Not successful.
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- They had the iranians lose power.
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- Yes, the syrian army is losing power.
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- The russians are losing power because they're busy in ukraine
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- And ukraine.
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- Israel is gaining strength
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- And hezbollah is essentially eliminated.
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- And then they see all this happening
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- And they think, okay, assad is super weak now.
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- And i said, let's try that.
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- And then in one day, boom, they came after aleppo,
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- The second largest city in syria.
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- The next step, few days later, boom, damascus is is falling.
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- All the syrian military abandoned their posts.
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- Just leave it for grabs at that second or that that time.
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- The israeli air force carries out more than 400
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- Targeted strikes in a day.
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- All the aerial force of bashar.
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- And i said, meaning the helicopters,
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- The fighter jets, the airplanes are.
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- Eliminated on the ground.
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- Tanks, the navy, the boats, the weapons, the weapons cache,
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- The chemical weapons factories, which is very important.
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- All of them were destroyed within a few hours.
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- Between israel and syria, there's like a
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- Really big physical barrier.
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- And the physical barrier is called the human mountain range.
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- And even just the minority of it,
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- I think we have like an eighth of it
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- On the israeli side and shoulder takes over in a very,
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- Very swift move and takes over the remaining part of it.
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- We get these amazing images
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- Of the israeli soldiers in the snow on syria.
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- Yeah,
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- We didn't have to shoot
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- A single bullet to take over the command.
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- The reason being is that there was a power vacuum created.
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- And unlike past events, the idf said we can't allow
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- Others to fill this vacuum.
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- So let's go in.
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- And we did.
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- We took over the command.
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- We took over these key,
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- Like geographical positions immediately.
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- And it looks like we're like we had the plans ready for me
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- For absolutely do it.
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- So we didn't wait.
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- We didn't ask
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- Permission from the international community
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- To go in and to take control.
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- What we've seen, what that's done in the outside.
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- Take a look at this
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- Huge mountain that we're seeing right next to us.
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- This is the helmand mountain that's on the news every day.
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- The human ridge prevents the syrians from flooding
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- Into northern israel.
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- We need to control the key locations.
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- We need to make sure that they can't come into israel.
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- They can't threaten our civilians.
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- It's so clear that we must protect these communities
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- That we should never give up
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- Any piece of land in this region,
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- That we should always be strong on the borders
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- And make sure that whatever terrorist group it is
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- And whatever the iranians.
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- We're ready.
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- Concoct, we're ready, we're strong,
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- Were present on the border,
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- Even if it means they, me
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- And you are doing reserves till we're 65 years old.
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- Hopefully, hopefully later before that.
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- For the past year, the north was almost empty
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- From terrorism, empty from israeli visitors
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- That come and spend the saturday here, spend the weekend here.
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- But immediately when the cease fire
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- Was announced and immediately after the idf
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- Took the strategic locations, the security and
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- And the people of israel started to come back to the north.
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- I don't know if it's because we're used to being under attack
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- And not under attack. and this is our life.
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- So we don't make this switch really fast.
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- But it's really amazing that this is the mentality
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- And the resilience of the people of israel.
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- Guys, thank you for joining us on this day
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- To the border with syria, to the border with lebanon.
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- And as you see, the war is ongoing for more
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- Than a year now.
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- We need your help in prayer.
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- So you need to understand what's happening
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- And then help us pray for the situation
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- And keep praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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- And here joins us now from the israel syria border.
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- His tbn show
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- Every thursday night is called boots on the ground in israel.
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- That's exactly what he's doing right now.
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- Boots on the ground
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- In one of the hottest hot zones in the world.
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- Yeah, first of all, what are you seeing there
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- Along the israel syria border?
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- Well, erick,
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- What we see here is idf presence in the demilitarized zone,
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- What used to be the demilitarized zone.
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- On the syrian side, we see israeli forces
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- On the helman mountain and not the israeli ski resort.
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- I'm talking about the syrian camp on mt..
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- Where only the what is it?
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- Less than a month ago,
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- The syrian military had bases there,
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- But now the idf took the opportunity to where
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- Basically the syrian regime collapsed to take hold
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- Of all the strategic locations in syria.
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- This is the situation that is an active war zone
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- In syria, which is 500 meters where i'm standing.
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- And we hear explosions all day long here in the syrian side.
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- I mean,
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- We are safe here on the israeli side
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- Because our forces are deep inside syria.
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- And according to recent reports, the israeli
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- Forces, the idf, are 25 kilometers.
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- I think that's less than 20 miles away from damascus.
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- What is the syrian capital?
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- So the idf is not wasting this opportunity
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- To protect the citizens of israel by placing boots
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- On the ground in syria and defending our people
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- Because we don't know what's going to come up next.
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- We don't know if this
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- Terror group
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- Is going to be another islamic state.
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- We don't know
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- What their stance against these are against the jewish people.
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- We don't know if turkey is going to make a move in syria.
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- We don't know if the kurds are going to take over this country.
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- We don't know what's going to happen.
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- Everything is unclear at the moment by the idf
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- Is not taking any chances and he's taking the advantage
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- And placing our forces on strategic locations.
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- Erick, this is the situation here
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- From the border between israel and syria.
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- Yeah, very smart in the eyes,
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- As you mentioned, smart for israel to do this
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- Preemptively and that egypt's group
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- That is now the main powerbroker in syria,
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- At least so far, they're al qaeda linked.
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- So not very moderate to say the least.
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- Hey, last question, about 30 seconds left.
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- Iran, iranian influence completely pushed out of syria
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- Now that assad has collapsed or is iran
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- Still trying to get its claws in that country?
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- Well, iran did not give up.
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- Iran is not giving up on its influence and presence in syria.
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- We just heard yesterday that the supreme
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- Leader of the islamic republic of iran announced
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- That they will gain control in syria once more.
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- So it's not over.
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- Iran is in the corner now, but they're pushing back
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- And israel needs to be vigilant against the head of the snake,
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- Which is the islamic republic of iran.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- Great. break down, as always.
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- Hey, my friend.
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- It's a cold day there
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- On the golan heights, on the israel syria border.
- 00:12:46.188 --> 00:12:48.224
- Go get warm.
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- Thank you for your great reporting.
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- Be safe
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- Yair pinto, host of boots on the ground
- 00:12:51.861 --> 00:12:53.863
- Seen right here on tbn every thursday night. god bless.
- 00:12:53.863 --> 00:12:56.131
- Yeah. we'll see you again soon.
- 00:12:56.131 --> 00:12:57.633
- And coming up after the break, a former israeli major is here
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- With a further breakdown on the state of play
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- In the world's most chaotic and strategic region
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- And why it affects you.
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- That's next. don't move.
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- That's next. don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
- 00:13:20.590 --> 00:13:22.392
- The middle east is on fire, but the israel defense forces
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- Have done an incredible job
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- Of dousing the flames over the past several months
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- With stunning blows against iran and its terror proxies.
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- So what does this year hold for the world's most chaotic
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- And strategic region?
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- Our good friend eliot chertoff is a former israel defense
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- Forces major, a top military and strategic analyst
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- And host of the conflict uncovered podcast.
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- He joins us now from northern israel.
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- Eliot, great to see you as always, my friend.
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- And we start with some tragic news
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- That there was yet another terror attack
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- In northern samaria today.
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- Three israelis killed by palestinian terrorists.
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- Eliot, you see judea and samaria,
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- The biblical heartland,
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- The world calls it the west bank.
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- We call judea and samaria.
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- Do you see this as maybe an emerging terror hotspot
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- Where the iranian regime is trying to get its claws into?
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- Well,
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- Erik, first of all, judea and samaria have been a hotspot
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- For quite a number of years now, including since october 7th.
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- It fell into sort of the background
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- Because of the intensity of fighting going on in gaza
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- And in lebanon.
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- And of course, the strikes back and forth with iran,
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- With the houthis in yemen,
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- And of course,
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- The whole syrian story,
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- I think i just discussed around the entire region.
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- Having said all of that, given the fact that hezbollah has been
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- Heavily beaten back, i hate to say defeated
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- Because they are not defeated in total.
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- Hamas, likewise, their military capability greatly dismantled,
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- But they're still out there in the field.
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- Judea and samaria becomes a means for them in the area,
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- Particularly hamas and, of course, iran,
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- To find another field
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- To begin to play up to to raise intensity.
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- And that's what they're trying to do now.
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- Yeah, and eliot, make great point.
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- The iranian ring of fire,
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- Several of those rings have been really smashed
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- Thanks to the idf, i think, of hamas and hezbollah.
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- You think of the iranian shia militias now saying,
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- Hey, maybe we won't attack israel.
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- We think of the assad regime collapsing in syria.
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- So it makes sense. iran looking for new fronts.
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- Do you see the iranian regime right
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- Now, eliot, as and by the way, their air defenses
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- Were destroyed by israel in an october 26 counterattack.
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- Do you see the iranian regime as being more vulnerable now
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- Possibly than at any time since the iran-iraq war in the 1980s?
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- They are certainly vulnerable.
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- I wouldn't write them off.
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- I think that the idea that they can be
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- Easily taken out is overly optimistic.
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- But having said that, we have to keep in mind
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- Regimes like iran, as we saw with syria,
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- Are what i call brittle regimes not fragile but brittle.
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- In other words, they are hard, they're hard core.
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- But if they get hit the right way in the right place,
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- They could shatter.
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- And we saw that with assad.
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- I don't want to predict that with iran.
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- I believe that
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- The iranian population tacitly supports the regime
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- Much more than we're seeing and hearing in the west.
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- But they're certainly weak.
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- Their economy is in terrible shape.
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- The the iranian currency is at the lowest point
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- It's ever been at in many, many, many decades.
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- As you mentioned, their air defenses are taken out,
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- Their allies and proxies and agents have been beaten up.
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- So they're exposed, vulnerable to attack.
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- But i don't foresee an internal collapse. hmm.
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- A dose of reality from one of the best in the business.
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- Eliot showed off.
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- Former israeli defense forces
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- Reserve, major host of the conflict
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- Uncovered podcast after the break.
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- We're talking syria with eliot, which means we're talking
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- Turkey.
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- More and more of the emerging hotspots after the break.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're talking to former israeli defense forces.
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- Major eliot showed off host of the conflict uncovered podcast.
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- Eliot, you know, northern israel.
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- So well. you're joining us from there right now.
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- We had tens of thousands of residents of the north
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- Evacuated during the war with hezbollah.
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- Any sense of when the residents of the north
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- Will feel comfortable returning home
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- To the communities near the lebanon border?
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- Will that be any time soon?
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- Now that we see
- 00:17:56.235 --> 00:17:57.403
- This shaky cease fire between israel and hezbollah?
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- The big
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- The answer to
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- The question is going to come in the next month or so.
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- It's still too early to tell.
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- First of all, let's keep in mind that many of those communities
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- Have been physically
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- Either heavily damaged or in some cases destroyed.
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- In other words,
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- Even if the people wanted to come home tomorrow,
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- They don't have homes to come home to.
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- They don't have
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- Public institutions, schools and the like
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- For their communities.
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- So there has to be rebuilt.
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- That's months, many months ahead
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- Before many people can return home
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- Physically once again, even if they wanted to.
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- Starting tomorrow morning.
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- Yeah, but more importantly,
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- The the threat of hezbollah, which has been at least
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- Temporarily lifted
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- By the idf's combat operations, air and ground.
- 00:18:45.718 --> 00:18:50.022
- And they were outstanding.
- 00:18:50.022 --> 00:18:52.325
- And, you know, i'm i'm a critic.
- 00:18:52.325 --> 00:18:54.193
- I'm glad i'm an insider, but still a critic of amazingly
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- Successful, effective work by the idf.
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- Hezbollah was not destroyed.
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- They're working to rebuild.
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- They're working to find their way back in.
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- And the critical element here,
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- First of all, is how much israel continues to toe the line.
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- And we've been doing it very well in the past month
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- Since the cease fire went into effect, not permitting
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- Any violation of the cease fire that we're aware of.
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- And we're keeping close track to go uncovered and responded to.
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- If that continues to be done, that will increase the security
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- Over the coming months.
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- But there's a critical month ahead,
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- The 60 days of the cease fire,
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- By which time israel is supposed to withdraw from lebanon.
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- America's pressing pressing for an israeli withdrawal
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- No matter what.
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- The lebanese army has still not moved in
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- And taken any significant control of the south.
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- And, of course, unifil, the united nations forces,
- 00:19:53.653 --> 00:19:56.188
- Have always been totally used.
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- So there's no reason to assume they're going to get any better.
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- Yeah.
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- So those are the three players that we have
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- To look at and see in another month or so.
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- Does hezbollah begin
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- To work its way back into the south,
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- In which case residents are going to say, no, thank you.
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- We're not putting our our our families in that danger
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- That we narrowly escaped from in october 2023
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- Until that's that's cleared up.
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- So it's still too early
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- To answer the question definitively.
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- Yeah, we love the people of the north
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- And those beautiful communities in northern israel, eliot.
- 00:20:28.421 --> 00:20:31.023
- And not too far from northern israel, of course, is syria.
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- We now have a jihadi regime in charge there.
- 00:20:34.760 --> 00:20:37.763
- But is the larger force behind that jihadi regime in syria?
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- Eliot, turkey and the regime have raised it.
- 00:20:41.801 --> 00:20:44.904
- Tayyip erdogan and as turkey continues
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- To exert more influence in syria at israel's doorstep,
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- Could turkey and israel, tensions
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- Between those two nations start to ramp up?
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- Well, they're already pretty high.
- 00:20:56.682 --> 00:20:57.883
- Let's keep in mind that erdogan is muslim brotherhood.
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- He's a radical islamist.
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- But before we even get into the turkish element of it,
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- Let's keep in mind that jilani, the erstwhile head of syria,
- 00:21:06.726 --> 00:21:11.697
- Although he certainly is not in total control of the country,
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- Is jockeying between three imperial powers
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- Who have a tremendous interest in that country
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- Russia, turkey and iran.
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- And that's an imperial conflict
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- Going on for centuries, not decades, centuries.
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- Yeah.
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- So here, too, i would say erdogan certainly
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- Would like to impose
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- As much of his influence as he can over syria.
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- I think that giuliani is playing the russians
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- And iranians against him because with all due respect
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- To the assistance that the turks gave to him
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- In the uprising against assad, that was yesterday.
- 00:21:49.535 --> 00:21:52.538
- What have you done for me lately?
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- He's been a player for the best game
- 00:21:54.807 --> 00:21:56.642
- And the best deal he can get.
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- Yeah, well, thank god we have you on the case.
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- Eliot showed off with a great overview
- 00:22:01.614 --> 00:22:03.449
- Of what's happening in the region.
- 00:22:03.449 --> 00:22:04.483
- Wide impacts all of us.
- 00:22:04.483 --> 00:22:06.285
- Host of the conflict on covered podcast.
- 00:22:06.285 --> 00:22:08.521
- You can find it apple, spotify, youtube,
- 00:22:08.521 --> 00:22:10.890
- Wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Eliot, thanks again, my friend. god bless.
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- We'll talk to you again soon. and coming up after the break.
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- My final thoughts on why what happens
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- Over there matters over here.
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- That's next. it's the ground.
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- That's next. it's the ground.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we wrap up here, a quick thought.
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- If you think israel and what happens
- 00:22:34.711 --> 00:22:36.380
- There does not impact you in the united states
- 00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:39.450
- Or wherever you live, especially if you are a follower
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- Of jesus, consider the words of isaiah chapter 40, verse five
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- The glory of the lord will be revealed
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- And all people will see it together
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- For the mouth of the lord has spoken.
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- Guess what?
- 00:22:55.232 --> 00:22:56.166
- They're going to see it from jerusalem.
- 00:22:56.166 --> 00:22:58.502
- When jesus returns to rule and reign with a rod of iron
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- Jerusalem is the very center of israel
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- And the center of the world.
- 00:23:06.410 --> 00:23:07.711
- And that is not by coincidence. say tomorrow.
- 00:23:07.711 --> 00:23:10.447
- Brooke goldstein is here to break down
- 00:23:10.447 --> 00:23:12.115
- These hamas mobs as anti-israel activity
- 00:23:12.115 --> 00:23:15.486
- Happening here in the united states
- 00:23:15.486 --> 00:23:16.854
- And what the trump administration will do about it.
- 00:23:16.854 --> 00:23:19.423
- You won't want to miss that.
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- Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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