Erick Stakelbeck: Peace Through Strength | Stakelbeck Tonight

September 17, 2025 | 25:5

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

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Peace Through Strength | Stakelbeck Tonight | September 17, 2025
  • Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck,
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  • And it's been one week since charlie kirk was assassinated.
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  • Martyred for his faith.
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  • We've seen an onslaught of absolutely demonic reactions
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  • From left wingers celebrating charlie's death.
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  • Doctors, teachers, health care workers, college students
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  • All exulting on social media over a godly family.
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  • Man's murder.
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  • Now, thankfully, a good number of these evil
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  • Ghouls have been fired from their jobs.
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  • But if you still had any doubt that we are locked
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  • In a spiritual battle for the very soul of america,
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  • What we've seen this past week should be your wake up call.
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  • Folks, let me say it very clearly.
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  • There is evil in the land.
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  • The radical left is a violent force
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  • That hates america, hates god, and despises
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  • Anyone who holds traditional biblical values.
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  • That's the reality.
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  • President trump and his team are actively taking steps
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  • To root out this moral rot, but in perilous
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  • Times like these, you need to remember that
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  • God is still moving and he's still on the throne.
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  • That's why an event in jerusalem this past monday night
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  • Was so important.
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  • The city of david unveiled the fully exposed pilgrimage road.
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  • It's an ancient route dating back to the first century,
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  • The time of jesus.
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  • It links the pool of siloam to the foot of the temple mount.
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  • Anyone going up to worship
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  • At the temple, including jesus and his disciples,
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  • Would have walked this very road.
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  • It's an amazing archeological breakthrough
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  • That proves the truth of the bible.
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  • Here's more.
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  • It was here that the lessons that formed the base rock
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  • In the foundations of our laws, of the principles
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  • Upon which we decide what is right
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  • And what is wrong, was built upon 2000 years later.
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  • We recovered our city.
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  • We recovered our independence.
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  • We built our sovereign state on you.
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  • We built an army.
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  • And we built a country like no other.
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  • The stones? absolutely.
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  • And 100% validate that the jewish people
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  • Not only belong here now, but they have belonged here
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  • For 4000 years, since the time
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  • God said to abraham, this is yours.
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  • We're here.
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  • This is our city.
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  • It will always be our city.
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  • It will not be divided again.
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  • For god's promise is eternal, and it is perfect.
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  • And his word is always true.
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  • And i'm honored to be a part of this.
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  • I welcome today secretary of state
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  • Marco rubio,
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  • Who understands
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  • That this is the foundation that will come into their office.
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  • It is being challenged tonight.
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  • The rest of the world comes to say, welcome home.
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  • And they know one.
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  • Ever, ever attempt
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  • To take your home from you.
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  • I'm excited for you and jerusalem
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  • Lives in our hearts.
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  • Incredible.
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  • And folks, remember, all roads ultimately lead to jerusalem.
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  • Things are moving rapidly in the middle east.
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  • That's why i visited the israeli embassy in washington, d.c.
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  • Recently to sit down
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  • With israel's ambassador to the united states, yechiel leiter.
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  • He broke down israel's next steps in its war with hamas.
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  • And why
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  • Now, more than ever, the free world needs to join
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  • Together to defend judeo christian western civilization.
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  • Take a look.
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  • Ambassador, thanks so much for joining us, for
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  • Hosting us here at the embassy in washington, d.c..
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  • This strike in doha
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  • Against the hamas external leadership,
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  • Some in the so-called
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  • International community, are wailing
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  • About it, howling about it.
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  • But it seems to me, ambassador, that the united states,
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  • For instance, took out osama bin laden in pakistan,
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  • Targeted the taliban when it was harboring al-qaida
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  • After nine over 11.
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  • Seems to me what israel is doing,
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  • Whether it's in doha or yemen, targeting the houthis there
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  • Or throughout the region,
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  • Is perfectly in line with not only international law,
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  • But protecting the interests of the state of israel.
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  • Can you talk about why that strike in doha
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  • Was so crucial for israel?
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  • Security and really the security of the free world ultimately,
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  • There's a un charter.
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  • The un charter specifically delineates
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  • The rules of engagement.
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  • And one of them is that a
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  • A country that's a member of the un
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  • Is not a lot of host terrorists.
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  • What is qatar doing hosting
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  • Hamas terrorists who ordered the attack of
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  • October 7th in doha?
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  • That's the first question that has to be asked.
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  • It has to be understood.
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  • Right after october 7th,
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  • The prime minister made it very clear
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  • That those responsible for the slaughter of our
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  • Civilians, 1200, in a few hours,
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  • Are going to be held responsible.
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  • The morning before we attacked the
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  • Six innocent people waiting at a bus stop
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  • In jerusalem fathers, husbands, sons
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  • And a pregnant woman were gunned down and slaughtered
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  • By those people that we targeted in doha.
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  • Those people
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  • Sent the attackers, the killers,
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  • And then they applauded the attack in jerusalem.
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  • They're not even ashamed to take responsibility.
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  • You know, the nazis
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  • Tried to hide their crimes against humanity.
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  • These people are so ghoulish, are so cruel that they actually
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  • Celebrate the murder and mayhem which they spread.
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  • What we need to do
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  • Is destroy the notion that israel can be destroyed.
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  • This is an idea that's been spread for a long time.
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  • Many of the arab nations have given up on this idea.
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  • Egypt made peace with this. jordan made peace with us.
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  • The abraham accords, which i'm sure we'll talk about more.
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  • I've given up on this idea, but there's still this
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  • Iranian backed, muslim
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  • Brotherhood backed idea that israel can be destroyed,
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  • And we have to destroy that idea,
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  • Because if if we don't, we're going
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  • To constantly be in this battle
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  • And we're on the cusp of doing it.
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  • The the
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  • Collaboration we had with the united states on iran,
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  • The fact that we've degraded the proxies around our country,
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  • Intent on destroying us,
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  • Have degraded islamic extremism in the region.
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  • If we degrade islamic extremism in the region,
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  • The moderates can rise
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  • More participation with israel in regional stability
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  • And moving into a mode of abraham accords 2.0.
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  • Yeah, it truly is peace through strength.
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  • And as the prime minister has said,
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  • The strength comes first and then you can have peace.
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  • Speaking of that, ambassador,
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  • Do you think about the abraham accords?
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  • We've heard rumblings
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  • Of even syria, lebanon, saudi arabia, of course.
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  • What's your optimism, your sense of optimism,
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  • I should say, about the state of the abraham accords.
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  • It seems like with the iranian axis being smashed,
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  • Some good things could be coming in the region.
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  • You know, i had a meeting recently with,
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  • A group of senators
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  • Who are very, very critical of israel.
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  • I go into the lion's den, i speak to everybody.
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  • They even voted in favor of an arms embargo
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  • On an american ally while we're fighting a seven front war.
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  • But i sat with them,
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  • And one of the senators said, you know,
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  • You should be more open to compromise because
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  • The houthis have been degraded, hezbollah has been degraded,
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  • Hamas has been degraded.
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  • Assad fell in syria, and i stopped him.
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  • I said, senator, can we get a little love?
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  • I mean, after all, that didn't just happen.
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  • It happened because the prime minister had a vision, right?
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  • A political program and a military approach
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  • To implementing the political program.
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  • We degraded them stage by stage, step by step,
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  • You know, by by degrading these islamic terrorists.
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  • We're creating a situation whereby islam
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  • And judeo christian civilization,
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  • Islamic civilization and judeo-christian civilization
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  • Can live side by side
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  • If the extremists within islam get the upper hand.
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  • We're not going to be able to have a situation
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  • Where civilizations can live side by side.
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  • That's their rejection of the idea that judeo christian
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  • Civilization could live together with islamic civilization.
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  • Their approach, the iranian approach,
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  • The muslim brotherhood approach is they have to dominate
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  • And end judeo christian civilization.
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  • What's the first thing you do
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  • If you want to end judeo christian civilization?
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  • You destroy israel
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  • Because israel is that judeo christian transplant.
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  • Within the middle east, the cradle is the chris.
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  • So you destroy that.
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  • And that's the first step.
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  • Like they say, we're the small satan.
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  • America is the big satan.
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  • That's their attention.
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  • So if we allow the moderates within islamic civilization to,
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  • Get stronger, to rise to the surface,
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  • To be predominant within islamic civilization,
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  • The chances that we're going to have
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  • Civilizational peace are much greater.
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  • Coming up, ambassador leiter shares
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  • A devastating personal story of losing his son in gaza
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  • And how it drives him in his mission.
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  • You'll want to hear this.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Stick around.
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  • In the wake of the death of your son moshe.
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  • You said
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  • He was fighting to defend judeo christian civilization.
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  • Defend the state of israel as well? of course.
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  • This is personal for you.
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  • Not only as an israeli, but as a father.
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  • Moshe, 39 year old, six beautiful children,
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  • A medic, very accomplished.
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  • He died in gaza defending the state of israel
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  • And, as you said, defending
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  • Judeo-christian civilization writ large.
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  • Talk more about the impact of his life,
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  • His death and how that's affected
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  • You in your life's mission here.
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  • Now, as the top diplomat for israel in the united states.
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  • My show is my oldest of eight children,
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  • And he had spent 15 years in special ops,
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  • Air force special ops.
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  • He trained with the delta force.
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  • He was a very special human being.
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  • At the age of 33, decided to go to med school.
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  • And, he was an md, not just a medic.
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  • He had completed med school.
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  • August 2023.
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  • He received his white jacket
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  • At a beautiful ceremony at ariel university,
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  • And he was supposed to start his residency on october 8th.
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  • But of course, october 7th changed his life as it changed
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  • Ours, changed the nation, and i really think it changed
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  • The region in the world.
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  • And he led forces.
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  • He was asked by the general, the southern command,
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  • To lead the forces of division 551, which is the commandos
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  • In reserves.
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  • It's the largest division we have in reserves.
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  • And he was asked to lead it inside.
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  • They go in and and as a pyramid.
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  • And he was the lead company leading the vision.
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  • And he led the battles for 415 days.
  • 00:11:51.458 --> 00:11:54.227
  • And on the 15th day, just before the sabbath was about
  • 00:11:54.227 --> 00:11:58.265
  • 320 in the afternoon, he was given the order to find a
  • 00:11:58.265 --> 00:12:02.435
  • A shaft leading to a main terror tunnel in northern gaza.
  • 00:12:02.435 --> 00:12:06.973
  • And, he found it.
  • 00:12:07.407 --> 00:12:09.309
  • It was persistent and he found the shaft, but it was,
  • 00:12:09.309 --> 00:12:13.580
  • It was booby trapped.
  • 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:15.816
  • And they had followed,
  • 00:12:15.816 --> 00:12:17.851
  • His, his team into that room where the shaft was
  • 00:12:17.851 --> 00:12:20.954
  • And set off a massive explosion which brought him down.
  • 00:12:20.954 --> 00:12:24.224
  • But, you know, you, you when you lose somebody so dear.
  • 00:12:24.224 --> 00:12:26.726
  • I mean, he was my, my oldest son and my best friend.
  • 00:12:26.726 --> 00:12:29.996
  • You do a lot of,
  • 00:12:29.996 --> 00:12:31.832
  • A lot of longing.
  • 00:12:31.832 --> 00:12:33.033
  • The longing sometimes is,
  • 00:12:33.033 --> 00:12:35.735
  • Is is physically painful.
  • 00:12:35.735 --> 00:12:37.637
  • You know, you have to scrape yourself
  • 00:12:37.637 --> 00:12:38.839
  • Off the floor, but you look for meaning
  • 00:12:38.839 --> 00:12:41.074
  • And i really believe that, his life and his death
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  • Symbolize the the,
  • 00:12:45.245 --> 00:12:49.115
  • The progression in history towards something better.
  • 00:12:49.115 --> 00:12:52.018
  • We're moving to something better.
  • 00:12:52.018 --> 00:12:53.420
  • Removing humanity to something better.
  • 00:12:53.420 --> 00:12:55.488
  • He was fighting against
  • 00:12:55.488 --> 00:12:57.958
  • Pure evil.
  • 00:12:58.258 --> 00:12:59.826
  • The idea that
  • 00:12:59.826 --> 00:13:01.962
  • There is, everything is relative.
  • 00:13:01.962 --> 00:13:05.365
  • You know, there's radical relativism
  • 00:13:05.365 --> 00:13:07.067
  • That there's no such thing as objective evil.
  • 00:13:07.067 --> 00:13:09.669
  • There's no such thing as objective truth.
  • 00:13:09.669 --> 00:13:12.472
  • And that's how you can have people here on october
  • 00:13:12.472 --> 00:13:14.374
  • Ave run out of the universities into the streets screaming
  • 00:13:14.374 --> 00:13:19.012
  • From the river to the sea.
  • 00:13:19.579 --> 00:13:21.147
  • I mean, from the river to the sea is annihilation.
  • 00:13:21.147 --> 00:13:23.416
  • That means that you want to destroy the state of israel.
  • 00:13:23.416 --> 00:13:25.151
  • I mean, like like auschwitz is not over.
  • 00:13:25.151 --> 00:13:27.187
  • So let's like, continue it here in the holy land.
  • 00:13:27.187 --> 00:13:29.923
  • And that's here in the west. by the way.
  • 00:13:29.923 --> 00:13:32.158
  • It's here in the west.
  • 00:13:32.158 --> 00:13:32.959
  • And that came out of an ideology
  • 00:13:32.959 --> 00:13:36.096
  • Which refuses to accept that there's such a thing as is evil.
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  • There's such a thing as good.
  • 00:13:40.934 --> 00:13:43.003
  • Talk about the cooperation.
  • 00:13:43.003 --> 00:13:44.971
  • And you're seeing it firsthand, obviously at a high level
  • 00:13:44.971 --> 00:13:48.008
  • Between israel and the united states
  • 00:13:48.008 --> 00:13:49.910
  • In particular,
  • 00:13:49.910 --> 00:13:50.710
  • The trump administration has it's
  • 00:13:50.710 --> 00:13:51.912
  • Really been a game changer in regards to the relationship.
  • 00:13:51.912 --> 00:13:54.948
  • I think, of course, the cooperation in the 12 day war
  • 00:13:54.948 --> 00:13:57.918
  • Bringing down iran's nuclear program.
  • 00:13:57.918 --> 00:13:59.819
  • Talk about that close cooperation.
  • 00:13:59.819 --> 00:14:01.888
  • And many say it's never been closer than it is right now.
  • 00:14:01.888 --> 00:14:04.691
  • Well, what many say is absolutely true.
  • 00:14:04.691 --> 00:14:06.660
  • We've had we've had many friends in the white house.
  • 00:14:06.660 --> 00:14:08.762
  • We've had many friends in the senate, in congress.
  • 00:14:08.762 --> 00:14:11.064
  • We've never had a better friend
  • 00:14:11.064 --> 00:14:12.532
  • In the white house than president donald trump.
  • 00:14:12.532 --> 00:14:14.501
  • There's no there's no question about it.
  • 00:14:14.501 --> 00:14:15.969
  • You know, in operation rising lion and midnight hammer,
  • 00:14:15.969 --> 00:14:19.639
  • We reached a level of collaboration
  • 00:14:20.407 --> 00:14:22.342
  • Between our intel community and our air forces,
  • 00:14:22.342 --> 00:14:26.646
  • Which is unprecedented in terms of the,
  • 00:14:26.646 --> 00:14:30.183
  • Depth and breadth of the joint
  • 00:14:30.784 --> 00:14:33.486
  • Planning and collaboration between our two countries.
  • 00:14:33.486 --> 00:14:36.890
  • And we acted to protect the interests of israel
  • 00:14:36.890 --> 00:14:41.061
  • For sure, that for us it's existential.
  • 00:14:41.061 --> 00:14:43.596
  • But of the united states
  • 00:14:43.596 --> 00:14:44.764
  • And western civilization, as i said before, iran says
  • 00:14:44.764 --> 00:14:48.301
  • We're the little satan, and the ballistic missiles
  • 00:14:48.301 --> 00:14:51.538
  • They're developing were ballistic missiles intended
  • 00:14:51.538 --> 00:14:53.673
  • First to hit europe and then hit the united states.
  • 00:14:53.673 --> 00:14:56.843
  • So we had to act together and we did that very successfully.
  • 00:14:56.843 --> 00:15:00.347
  • So the level of cooperation at this point
  • 00:15:00.347 --> 00:15:03.817
  • Is, as, as great as it's ever been
  • 00:15:03.817 --> 00:15:07.020
  • Is greater than it's ever been and is growing.
  • 00:15:07.020 --> 00:15:09.956
  • And i think that it's difficult right now.
  • 00:15:09.956 --> 00:15:13.293
  • Look, we're still in the trenches, right?
  • 00:15:13.293 --> 00:15:15.495
  • The war isn't over.
  • 00:15:15.495 --> 00:15:17.497
  • We have to defeat hamas.
  • 00:15:17.497 --> 00:15:18.698
  • And i'll say a little bit more about that in a moment.
  • 00:15:18.698 --> 00:15:21.001
  • But if we can get our heads a little bit
  • 00:15:21.001 --> 00:15:24.170
  • Out of the trenches, we can see sunlight shining in.
  • 00:15:24.170 --> 00:15:28.475
  • Because when this is successful and the war's over,
  • 00:15:28.475 --> 00:15:32.545
  • And radical islam of the shiite brand of iran
  • 00:15:32.545 --> 00:15:36.750
  • Or the muslim brotherhood brand of hamas is degraded,
  • 00:15:36.750 --> 00:15:41.721
  • The possibilities for regional stability,
  • 00:15:42.589 --> 00:15:45.792
  • For regional cooperation between moderate islam and israel
  • 00:15:45.792 --> 00:15:50.397
  • Are going to grow and intensify, and that's going
  • 00:15:50.397 --> 00:15:52.632
  • To allow us to move into abraham accords 2.0.
  • 00:15:52.632 --> 00:15:56.436
  • I personally was involved before i got back into,
  • 00:15:56.436 --> 00:15:59.672
  • The, the, the role of, of diplomacy,
  • 00:16:00.473 --> 00:16:03.643
  • Spent a lot of time both in business
  • 00:16:03.643 --> 00:16:05.779
  • And in the think tank world in abu dhabi.
  • 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:09.215
  • And i must tell you,
  • 00:16:09.215 --> 00:16:10.617
  • I felt more comfortable in abu dhabi with my yarmulke.
  • 00:16:10.617 --> 00:16:14.220
  • Right.
  • 00:16:14.421 --> 00:16:15.255
  • As an openly identified jew
  • 00:16:15.255 --> 00:16:18.158
  • In abu dhabi than i feel in most european cities.
  • 00:16:18.158 --> 00:16:22.028
  • I can't walk through the streets of london like this.
  • 00:16:22.028 --> 00:16:24.097
  • No, but i can. in abu dhabi.
  • 00:16:24.097 --> 00:16:26.232
  • That means that we're moving into a different age,
  • 00:16:26.232 --> 00:16:29.369
  • And we have to celebrate that and development more
  • 00:16:29.369 --> 00:16:33.339
  • And, moving to a brighter future in every respect.
  • 00:16:33.339 --> 00:16:35.975
  • Yeah. it's coming, it's coming. we just have to be patient.
  • 00:16:35.975 --> 00:16:38.378
  • And the defeat of hamas is a crucial step.
  • 00:16:38.378 --> 00:16:40.513
  • Obviously, in that,
  • 00:16:40.513 --> 00:16:41.981
  • And you feel like that is getting closer the other day.
  • 00:16:41.981 --> 00:16:45.251
  • It's getting closer, it's getting closer.
  • 00:16:45.251 --> 00:16:47.220
  • And we have to understand that
  • 00:16:47.220 --> 00:16:48.421
  • That's one of the main reasons why iran developed this idea
  • 00:16:48.421 --> 00:16:51.524
  • Of a ring of fire.
  • 00:16:51.958 --> 00:16:52.926
  • I mean, what was what is this all about?
  • 00:16:52.926 --> 00:16:55.728
  • Coming up, is
  • 00:16:56.096 --> 00:16:57.097
  • Hamas finally on the verge of total defeat?
  • 00:16:57.097 --> 00:17:00.667
  • Ambassador leiter shares his take next.
  • 00:17:00.667 --> 00:17:05.997
  • Ambassador leiter shares his take next.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck
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  • Tonight we are on the verge of a new middle east.
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  • But first, hamas must be defeated.
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  • Ambassador, yechiel leiter.
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  • Israel's top diplomat in the united states.
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  • Lays out what comes next.
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  • Take a look.
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  • Iran wants to stop this movement towards
  • 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.597
  • Greater, to the rapprochement, to the
  • 00:17:31.597 --> 00:17:33.799
  • To the accommodation of judeo christian civilization
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  • Represented by israel in the middle east.
  • 00:17:37.703 --> 00:17:41.273
  • Now they saw that they couldn't defeat israel
  • 00:17:41.273 --> 00:17:43.442
  • Through conventional military means.
  • 00:17:43.442 --> 00:17:46.812
  • So soleimani,
  • 00:17:46.812 --> 00:17:49.882
  • The president trump took out.
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  • Yeah.
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  • He developed this idea of hybrid warfare
  • 00:17:52.284 --> 00:17:55.254
  • Or non-conventional, warfare, where
  • 00:17:55.254 --> 00:17:59.124
  • There would be a ring of fire
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  • Where proxies would surround israel.
  • 00:18:01.493 --> 00:18:04.263
  • So it's hamas in the southwest and the houthis
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  • In the southeast,
  • 00:18:07.132 --> 00:18:08.267
  • Hezbollah in the north, hezbollah,
  • 00:18:09.034 --> 00:18:11.336
  • Syria in the northeast, hezbollah, iraq
  • 00:18:11.336 --> 00:18:14.439
  • And iran would all attack at once.
  • 00:18:15.207 --> 00:18:19.611
  • It all stormed through these tunnels, attack civilians,
  • 00:18:19.611 --> 00:18:23.682
  • Slaughter as many people as possible, and all the while,
  • 00:18:23.682 --> 00:18:26.885
  • Missiles would be rained down from the houthis
  • 00:18:27.853 --> 00:18:31.456
  • And hezbollah, syria and iraq
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  • And then iran with the huge ballistic missiles
  • 00:18:34.226 --> 00:18:37.462
  • That would be fired at the same time.
  • 00:18:37.462 --> 00:18:38.830
  • So into this tiny little country where the periphery
  • 00:18:38.830 --> 00:18:40.966
  • Is being attacked
  • 00:18:40.966 --> 00:18:42.234
  • By hamas and hezbollah
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  • Missiles would hit the middle of the country
  • 00:18:43.936 --> 00:18:45.804
  • So that the reserves couldn't be mobilized.
  • 00:18:45.804 --> 00:18:49.408
  • And that would end israel.
  • 00:18:49.975 --> 00:18:51.877
  • That was the ultimate dream.
  • 00:18:51.877 --> 00:18:53.645
  • And that's why ending this,
  • 00:18:53.645 --> 00:18:56.148
  • As we're planning to do now in gaza,
  • 00:18:56.148 --> 00:18:58.817
  • Ending hamas will send a message to all of these proxies.
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  • Look, look what's happened.
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  • I mean, if people would just stop a minute,
  • 00:19:03.121 --> 00:19:05.390
  • Those who are so critical of our prime minister,
  • 00:19:05.390 --> 00:19:07.359
  • Just stop a minute and see what
  • 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:08.627
  • The prime minister has accomplished
  • 00:19:08.627 --> 00:19:10.462
  • With this vision by sticking to the the the end goal.
  • 00:19:10.462 --> 00:19:14.633
  • We went step by step.
  • 00:19:15.133 --> 00:19:18.003
  • First, we degraded hamas to the point
  • 00:19:18.003 --> 00:19:20.539
  • Where our army was free
  • 00:19:20.539 --> 00:19:22.107
  • Enough to then move on to degrade hezbollah.
  • 00:19:22.107 --> 00:19:25.944
  • We did not immediately attack, hezbollah
  • 00:19:25.944 --> 00:19:28.914
  • After they were firing missiles.
  • 00:19:28.914 --> 00:19:30.315
  • At the same time we were a fight against hamas.
  • 00:19:30.315 --> 00:19:32.317
  • So now we have a situation
  • 00:19:32.317 --> 00:19:34.019
  • Where lebanon, the government of lebanon,
  • 00:19:34.019 --> 00:19:36.521
  • Has taken a decision to disarm hezbollah.
  • 00:19:36.521 --> 00:19:39.291
  • A year ago, this would have been unthinkable. unthinkable.
  • 00:19:39.291 --> 00:19:42.027
  • And at the same time, because of that,
  • 00:19:42.027 --> 00:19:44.863
  • Assad falls.
  • 00:19:44.863 --> 00:19:46.131
  • Who could have imagined
  • 00:19:46.131 --> 00:19:47.699
  • That the tyranny of bashar assad would fall in syria?
  • 00:19:47.699 --> 00:19:52.037
  • And we're going to finish the job without you, began
  • 00:19:52.037 --> 00:19:54.273
  • The united states, began the job with the hutus.
  • 00:19:54.273 --> 00:19:55.941
  • We're going to finish it. we begin with iran.
  • 00:19:55.941 --> 00:19:57.609
  • You finished it.
  • 00:19:57.609 --> 00:19:58.877
  • We have that relationship.
  • 00:19:58.877 --> 00:19:59.978
  • We're going to finish the job with the houthis,
  • 00:19:59.978 --> 00:20:01.313
  • Because we're not going to
  • 00:20:01.313 --> 00:20:02.014
  • Tolerate any organization
  • 00:20:02.014 --> 00:20:03.682
  • Firing ballistic missiles into our, our, our, our country.
  • 00:20:03.682 --> 00:20:07.552
  • And we also can't allow a situation where there,
  • 00:20:07.552 --> 00:20:10.756
  • Impeding the,
  • 00:20:11.123 --> 00:20:12.791
  • The, flow of maritime trade and the people
  • 00:20:12.791 --> 00:20:16.561
  • Who should be operating as the houthis,
  • 00:20:16.561 --> 00:20:19.264
  • The brits and the french and the germans and the and the
  • 00:20:19.264 --> 00:20:22.034
  • And the dutch and the italians,
  • 00:20:22.034 --> 00:20:23.835
  • They're more concerned right now with a palestinian state.
  • 00:20:23.835 --> 00:20:27.472
  • You know a word.
  • 00:20:27.472 --> 00:20:28.473
  • The palestinians after october 7th, the state
  • 00:20:28.473 --> 00:20:30.409
  • Than they are protecting international waterways.
  • 00:20:30.409 --> 00:20:32.944
  • It's a it's just a, a no, i don't want to call it.
  • 00:20:32.944 --> 00:20:37.816
  • I mean, it's just just insanity. it's crazy. it's a war.
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  • We're going to finish the job.
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  • You'll finish the job there,
  • 00:20:41.520 --> 00:20:42.954
  • And we're
  • 00:20:42.954 --> 00:20:44.156
  • Going to break this ring of fire and put an end to the idea
  • 00:20:44.156 --> 00:20:47.025
  • That israel is going to be destroyed.
  • 00:20:47.025 --> 00:20:48.427
  • The interaction, the collaboration between israel
  • 00:20:48.427 --> 00:20:52.097
  • And our arab neighbors is going to intensify.
  • 00:20:52.097 --> 00:20:53.799
  • And it's going to benefit not only the region.
  • 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:55.767
  • There's so much we can do together, for example,
  • 00:20:55.767 --> 00:20:58.637
  • In the horn of africa regarding food insecurity.
  • 00:20:58.637 --> 00:21:01.940
  • There's 900 million people
  • 00:21:01.940 --> 00:21:03.775
  • That go to sleep hungry every night. why?
  • 00:21:03.775 --> 00:21:07.179
  • Because we haven't brought the technological advancement
  • 00:21:07.179 --> 00:21:10.949
  • That we have in israel.
  • 00:21:10.949 --> 00:21:12.284
  • I mean, look, we have solutions to food insecurity.
  • 00:21:12.284 --> 00:21:15.487
  • All of them in a five mile radius of tel aviv.
  • 00:21:15.487 --> 00:21:18.023
  • All of our startup companies.
  • 00:21:18.023 --> 00:21:19.658
  • Okay. we know how to purify water.
  • 00:21:19.658 --> 00:21:21.960
  • We know how to make water come out of the air. okay.
  • 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:24.496
  • We 90% of our industrial water is wastewater
  • 00:21:24.496 --> 00:21:29.134
  • That's been recycled
  • 00:21:29.134 --> 00:21:30.602
  • Together with our emirati and bahraini and saudi friends.
  • 00:21:30.602 --> 00:21:34.039
  • We could come in to places like sudan that are hungry,
  • 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:37.275
  • Like south sudan, that are hungry like
  • 00:21:37.275 --> 00:21:38.944
  • The hinterlands of ethiopia, that are hungry
  • 00:21:38.944 --> 00:21:41.313
  • And solve their problems.
  • 00:21:41.313 --> 00:21:42.714
  • We have the greenhouse technology,
  • 00:21:42.714 --> 00:21:44.182
  • We have the water purification technology,
  • 00:21:44.182 --> 00:21:46.585
  • We have the seeds that withstand the elements.
  • 00:21:46.585 --> 00:21:50.589
  • We have all the solutions to food insecurity.
  • 00:21:50.589 --> 00:21:53.558
  • We know how to do it. we've done it.
  • 00:21:53.558 --> 00:21:55.360
  • And we just need peace. we just need stability.
  • 00:21:55.360 --> 00:21:57.763
  • We just need these islamic extremists
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  • To be swept into the dustbin of history.
  • 00:22:00.932 --> 00:22:04.102
  • Extremism is not going to work anymore.
  • 00:22:04.102 --> 00:22:06.338
  • It's over. and unfortunately,
  • 00:22:06.338 --> 00:22:09.174
  • It's not being solved in the halls of academia.
  • 00:22:10.075 --> 00:22:12.844
  • Unfortunately, it has to be done
  • 00:22:12.844 --> 00:22:14.012
  • On the battlefield
  • 00:22:14.012 --> 00:22:14.913
  • Because they're using terror and israel
  • 00:22:14.913 --> 00:22:17.082
  • Fighting the good fight for all of us.
  • 00:22:17.082 --> 00:22:18.750
  • Ambassador, thank you so much. this was great.
  • 00:22:18.750 --> 00:22:20.852
  • We really appreciate it.
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  • God bless you.
  • 00:22:21.653 --> 00:22:22.554
  • Great work. thank you so much.
  • 00:22:22.554 --> 00:22:25.757
  • Thanks again to ambassador yechiel leiter
  • 00:22:25.757 --> 00:22:27.826
  • For that great break down coming up.
  • 00:22:27.826 --> 00:22:30.128
  • My final thoughts on the prophetic times
  • 00:22:30.128 --> 00:22:33.198
  • That we are living in.
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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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  • I think of the unveiling of that ancient pilgrimage road
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  • Leading from the pool of siloam up to the temple mount
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  • Jerusalem that we showed you earlier in the show.
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  • And i think of the book of isaiah, chapter 56, verse seven,
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  • My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.
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  • The timing of the exposure of the pilgrimage
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  • Robe is no coincidence.
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  • We're living in prophetic times
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  • And as ambassador yechiel leiter laid out
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  • Part of that is israel finishing the job in gaza.
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  • Hey, great show tomorrow night, fcc chairman brendan carr,
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  • Director of the white house faith office jenny korn is here.
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  • Going to be a great show.
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  • Until then, god bless you. we'll see you soon.
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