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: Trump Stands Strong | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 23, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And iran's threats of fiery revenge over the destruction
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- Of its nuclear program turned out to be just that.
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- Big threats with not much action behind them.
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- Earlier today,
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- The iranian regime fired at least six ballistic missiles
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- At the american
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- Air base in qatar, which houses some 10,000 u.s.
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- Troops.
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- According to the qatar,
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- All of the missiles were intercepted
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- And no americans were killed or wounded, thank god.
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- There was also reportedly one iranian missile fired at a u.s.
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- Base in iraq that appears to have caused no damage.
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- Folks, at the end of the day, that seems to be
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- The very underwhelming iranian response
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- Thus far to president trump's decision
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- Over the weekend to send a team of usb to bombers
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- To obliterate three iranian nuclear sites
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- As a result of operation midnight hammer,
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- The iranian nuclear threat is no more.
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- And while iran's ayatollahs have been completely humiliated,
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- They're still clinging desperately to power
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- With a major strike against the united states,
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- They would have signed their own death warrant,
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- According to this tweet from the new york times.
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- Iran actually coordinated the attacks on the american base
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- In qatar with qatari officials and gave advanced
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- Notice that attacks were coming to minimize casualties.
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- Three iranian officials said iran symbolically
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- Needed to strike back at the u.s.,
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- But at the same time carry it out in a way
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- That allowed all sides an exit ramp. wow.
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- Talk about humiliation.
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- Now, it's unclear
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- Whether president trump will even feel the need
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- To respond to this failed iranian attack.
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- But folks, it's pretty clear
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- That iran's regime has been severely weakened
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- And it may not have much fight left over the past 11 days.
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- Israel has eliminated
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- Much of iran's military leadership and capabilities.
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- And on saturday night,
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- President trump delivered a decisive blow to iran's
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- Nuclear weapons facilities at fordo, isfahan and natanz.
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- Here's more from the president.
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- A short time ago, the u.s.
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- Military carried out massive precision strikes on the three
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- Key nuclear facilities in the iranian regime.
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- Our objective was the destruction of iran's
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- Nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat
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- Posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
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- Tonight, i can report to the world
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- That the strikes were a spectacular
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- Military success.
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- Iran, the bully of the middle east, must now make peace.
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- If they do not, future attacks
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- Would be far greater and a lot easier.
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- And i want to just thank everybody and in particular,
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- God, i want to just say we love you, god,
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- And we love our great military. protect them.
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- God bless the middle east.
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- God bless you and god bless america.
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- Thank you very much. thank you.
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- Amen.
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- You know, i've never
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- Heard an american president praise god so openly.
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- Honor god and he will honor you.
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- That bodes well for our nation.
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- And president trump was not alone, by the way, in
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- Acknowledging god for the defeat of iran's nuclear program.
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- Jerusalem lit up saturday night in red, white and blue,
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- Honoring the united states for standing strong with israel.
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- Folks, i believe president trump and prime minister
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- Netanyahu are like modern day churchills.
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- Throughout the 1930s, winston churchill
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- Warned of the hitler led gathering storm.
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- He boldly confronted the nazi threat head on
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- And helped save western civilization.
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- Likewise, bibi has warned of the iranian nuclear menace
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- For at least 25 years, and president trump immediately
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- Declared ten years ago, after announcing his candidacy,
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- That iran
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- Could not have a nuclear weapon and that he would do everything
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- In his power to stop the ayatollahs genocidal ambitions.
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- Trump and bibi, like churchill, ignored the naysayers
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- And the noise and together have now saved the west once again.
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- They saw iran's nuclear gathering storm years ago,
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- And when history called, they met the moment
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- Their takedown of the iranian axis is also similar
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- To ronald reagan, margaret thatcher and pope john paul
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- The second working together to defeat the soviet empire
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- During the 1980s.
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- Bottom line, it's a new day in the middle east.
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- And up next, we're joined by a former
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- Top british commander with an update
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- On the state of play in the world's most strategic
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- And prophetic region. that's after the break.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Iran's nuclear sites have been destroyed
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- And the iranian regime teeters on the brink of collapse.
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- It's a new day in the middle east.
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- And joining us now to break down what comes
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- Next is colonel richard kemp, former
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- Commander of all british forces in afghanistan and a renowned
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- Expert on global security in the middle east.
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- Richard, you're joining us now from tel aviv.
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- It is great to see you, my friend.
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- And just coming across the wire some breaking news.
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- Apparently the iranian regime has responded
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- And launched missiles at u.s.
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- Bases in qatar and iraq.
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- We don't have a lot of details
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- Yet, of course, but your initial impression, richard, is
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- This kind of what we expected in terms of an iranian response
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- After what happened on saturday night,
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- The destruction of its nuclear facilities?
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- I think it's entirely predictable, erick.
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- I think
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- It was really a matter of time
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- Whether the regime wanted to
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- Wait a bit
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- And get their ducks in a row, or whether they want to lash out
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- Straight away.
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- And i think that's what we're seeing now.
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- Yeah.
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- And we'll see if there's a u.s. response.
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- President trump essentially promised to unleash
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- Hell if iran dared to strike back.
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- So we'll see how this plays out, richard.
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- But hey, let's take it back to saturday night to the big event
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- Which precipitated everything we're talking about right now.
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- Obviously, a bold move by president trump.
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- What is your assessment, richard?
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- It seems, number one,
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- That the nuclear facilities were successfully destroyed.
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- But number two, where do things go from here?
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- It seems the iranian regime now, between israel pounding
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- Iranian assets on the ground and the u.s. strikes.
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- Of course,
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- It seems the iranian regime may be on the brink of collapse.
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- How do you see it?
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- Do you think the regime could still survive?
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- I think the regime could still survive.
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- I hope not.
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- I think it would be a service
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- To the whole world of operations of israel.
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- And the united states combined, had
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- Created a situation where this regime collapses.
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- It's been a very strong it's been in existence since 1979
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- As we all know, has been there's been many occasions when
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- Iranians have wanted to bring it down.
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- It's very hated in the country.
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- But it's managed to withstand all of that.
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- This this is a different situation.
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- This is the worst situation the regime has
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- Come close to facing since 1979.
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- Huge numbers of,
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- Of khamenei's immediate advisors
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- And staff have been killed by the israeli attacks,
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- He said, and i don't know the truth of this.
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- I really want to read,
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- He said, to be very much an isolated man.
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- He's in a state of significant shock with questions
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- As to what how much he's controlling himself.
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- But of course, he still has some pretty strong men around him.
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- And so it could, it could stand up.
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- But, you know, i think there's also every chance that,
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- There could be some kind of regime change.
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- In other words, toppling this regime,
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- Whether it's or it's not.
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- One of the opposition is groups in iran, which are many.
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- I don't quite know how well organized,
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- Armed with the strong enough
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- To actually bring it down, or indeed by the army,
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- Or the irgc itself,
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- Of course, of the irgc stages a coup and takes over.
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- That's really pretty much no change from what we've got now.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- Great. break down colonel camp.
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- And look, ayatollah khamenei is 86 years old.
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- There have been reports over the years
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- That he's in bad health, so he's kind of teetering himself.
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- Hey, i've been comparing president trump
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- And bibi netanyahu to a man you know very well.
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- Winston churchill,
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- They met much like churchill, saw the gathering storm
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- Of nazi germany.
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- He acted.
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- Trump and bibi have acted against the gathering storm
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- Of that iranian axis.
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- And now, because of their bold leadership,
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- The iranian ring of fire is pretty much
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- A smoldering heap of ruins.
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- Richard, can you talk about the importance of the strong
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- Leadership displayed by trump and bibi working in tandem
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- To bring down this existential threat?
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- Yeah, well, prime minister netanyahu has been
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- Absolutely focused on bringing down the nuclear threat
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- To israel for many, many years now and has worked for them
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- To stick towards doing that.
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- Former presidents
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- In the united states have essentially resisted him,
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- Tried to prevent him from taking action.
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- Tried to appease the iranian regime.
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- And that's not just for presidents in the us.
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- That's also most western leaders
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- Who can only think in terms of a diplomatic solution.
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- Let's talk about it.
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- And of course, that talk has got nowhere.
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- You cannot negotiate with a regime like the regime in iran.
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- They would never honor
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- Any agreement that went against their perceived interests.
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- So i think what we've seen here is,
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- You know, the culmination of many years
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- Of determination by the israeli prime minister,
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- To to end this
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- Threat not just to his country is a big threat to this country,
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- But this threat to the whole of the middle east.
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- It's not a threat to the world
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- If iran manages to get hold of nuclear weapons.
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- And i would say standing up
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- Against the ayatollahs and standing up against
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- What i would say is the weight of world
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- Opinion against taking action, is certainly churchillian
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- On the part of both trump and netanyahu.
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- Yeah.
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- Well said.
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- And look, you're a student of history, richard.
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- You're a defender,
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- A fierce defender of judeo christian western civilization.
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- You mentioned world opinion, obviously, against this strike,
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- Especially in the west.
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- Why this inclination?
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- I call it almost a suicidal impulse.
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- Why do we have this weakness?
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- We can't see inside the minds, of course,
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- But it just seems to be this endemic weakness among
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- Western leaders and a reluctance to defend their civilization.
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- And then comes donald trump smashing the paradigm.
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- We need more people.
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- Teams like trump, like bibi, to come alongside them.
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- Do you see any sense that the west may wake up any time soon?
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- No, i don't, i and i think,
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- You know,
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- Another example of western weakness has been over ukraine
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- Where and also that applied to weakness in the biden
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- Administration as well, but certainly in europe,
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- The, the, the west, the european leaders,
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- Including in the uk and france, germany and other countries,
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- I think in western europe, not so much in the east,
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- Have been totally unwilling to do everything they can
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- To help ukraine
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- Drive the russians out. and as a consequence,
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- The russians have kept advancing.
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- And that that really is a sign of, i think, a western fear,
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- Fear of a nuclear armed russia, which of course,
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- Also reflects on what, what fear they might have even more over
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- Iran if it got nuclear weapons,
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- An unwillingness to stand up for themselves.
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- And you just have to look at our own prime minister.
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- He said several times, we can't let iran have a nuclear weapon,
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- And we must negotiate to achieve this.
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- But i still want to think that negotiation before.
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- But, you know, it's it's it's
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- I think in his case, the the case of many western
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- European leaders, one of the biggest problems, apart
- 00:12:22.398 --> 00:12:24.500
- From a lack of moral courage and moral strength,
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- Is their own electorates at home.
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- The focus not on
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- What is the right thing to do or what's
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- Strategically important internationally,
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- But on their own electorate.
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- So in the case of starmer, he's got a very strong electorate
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- That supports his party and that he hopes
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- Will support his party
- 00:12:44.687 --> 00:12:46.288
- That is anti-israel, is, anti britain as well.
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- And that's his priority.
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- So you know, you see
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- You see marches on the streets of london
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- Every day, including on saturday.
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- Last week we saw,
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- Mobs on the streets of london with brandishing placards
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- Of ayatollah khamenei saying, be on the right side of history,
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- Basically be on khamenei's side.
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- And that's what he's worried about.
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- And he doesn't have
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- The strength, i don't think, to to lead opinion in britain.
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- He wants to follow it.
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- Yeah.
- 00:13:17.786 --> 00:13:18.954
- Pro iran and pro hamas protest in the streets of london.
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- I think the great winston
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- Churchill is turning in his grave right now.
- 00:13:22.491 --> 00:13:25.160
- But after the break, more with colonel richard kemp.
- 00:13:25.160 --> 00:13:27.563
- He's an expert on all things military.
- 00:13:27.563 --> 00:13:29.632
- We'll get his take on israel's stunning military operation
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- Over these past ten, 11 days in iran.
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- Also, there's still major activity in gaza.
- 00:13:35.738 --> 00:13:39.108
- Colonel camp was just there.
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- We'll get the inside story from him after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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- We're talking to our friend, colonel richard kemp.
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- Folks, you can follow colonel kemp on x
- 00:13:54.059 --> 00:13:55.928
- And across social media for some of the best insights
- 00:13:55.928 --> 00:13:58.964
- Anywhere to what's happening in the middle east and beyond.
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- He, of course, commanded all british forces in afghanistan.
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- And, colonel kemp, i think you have a unique window
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- Into this israeli operation, operation rising lion,
- 00:14:08.373 --> 00:14:11.977
- Over the past 11 days or so, stunning military achievements
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- Weakening the iranian regime, perhaps to the point of
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- No return.
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- What's been your take, just from a military perspective
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- Of how the idf, the israeli air force have operated
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- In iran during this campaign?
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- I think it's been absolutely staggering what they've done.
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- They i think they've shocked the world and certainly shocked
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- Iran is.
- 00:14:36.835 --> 00:14:38.370
- Of course, the campaign started off with airstrikes
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- And on the ground, israeli commando forces do,
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- And most that i think they were described as mossad agents
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- On the ground who carried out, the killing,
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- The elimination of some of the most senior members of the,
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- Iranian military hierarchy, as well as a significant number
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- Of most important nuclear scientists.
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- And since then, we've seen strike after strike after strike
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- As, the idf, the air force, they've taken up
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- Fall, basically the regime and its military capabilities.
- 00:15:11.803 --> 00:15:15.307
- It's not finished by any means.
- 00:15:15.307 --> 00:15:16.842
- It's been badly damaged.
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- But its response has been extremely weak,
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- Comparatively speaking.
- 00:15:22.114 --> 00:15:23.382
- Given this,
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- The difference,
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- You know, israel is a tiny country
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- Compared to iran,
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- Which was deemed to be a major military power.
- 00:15:27.986 --> 00:15:31.023
- Yet iran has fired something like 500
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- Ballistic missiles and round about a thousand drones
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- At israel since in the week since this war began.
- 00:15:38.263 --> 00:15:42.100
- The total
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- Effect has been to kill 25 people inside israel.
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- Nightly attacks, almost,
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- 25 people is terrible.
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- I, you know, every single israeli death is is a tragedy,
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- But it is nothing in strategic terms.
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- I don't say that with any.
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- You know, i say that
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- Recognizing the the value of every life,
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- But they've achieved almost nothing really.
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- They've destroyed quite a few buildings, damaged others.
- 00:16:06.892 --> 00:16:10.028
- But something like 80 or 90% of those ballistic
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- Missiles have been taken out
- 00:16:12.898 --> 00:16:14.966
- Before they were able to impact either by the air force
- 00:16:14.966 --> 00:16:18.136
- Before they entered israeli air strikes or indeed by israeli
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- Missile defenses and american missile defenses.
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- So it shows.
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- It shows the power of israel.
- 00:16:25.477 --> 00:16:27.312
- It shows the utter weakness of this regime.
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- And i think that weakness, you know, the explosion,
- 00:16:30.115 --> 00:16:33.051
- That weakness in the way it is can only encourage,
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- Oppositionists in iran to rise up
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- And bring the regime down,
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- Because they're not the strongman
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- That they've tried to portray themselves as.
- 00:16:41.693 --> 00:16:43.795
- Yeah. great point.
- 00:16:43.795 --> 00:16:44.763
- Certainly a paper tiger.
- 00:16:44.763 --> 00:16:45.997
- They've been exposed for all the world to see.
- 00:16:45.997 --> 00:16:47.766
- And colonel, it's interesting,
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- You know, october 7th, 2023 was kind of a high
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- Point in an evil way for iran and its proxies.
- 00:16:51.937 --> 00:16:55.340
- But on that day,
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- It seems a sign their own death warrants hamas, hezbollah
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- In their death
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- Throes, the houthis getting walloped, iran itself.
- 00:17:00.979 --> 00:17:04.616
- Now how stunning has that been to the turnaround in a year
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- And a half? number one.
- 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:09.754
- And number two, can you see a new middle east
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- Perhaps emerging out of this, a more peaceful region?
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- Yeah.
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- It's incredibly
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- You know, they did,
- 00:17:18.730 --> 00:17:19.364
- As you say,
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- They basically signed their own
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- Death warrant when they initiated
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- The, invasion of israel on 7th october.
- 00:17:23.368 --> 00:17:26.738
- And they've seen all of their proxies,
- 00:17:26.738 --> 00:17:28.273
- Pretty much all of them either
- 00:17:28.273 --> 00:17:29.608
- Severely damaged or taken out of the game.
- 00:17:29.608 --> 00:17:32.577
- They spent billions of dollars on building that network
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- With the sole purpose of destroying israel.
- 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.016
- And the consequence of that has been their own destruction.
- 00:17:38.016 --> 00:17:41.820
- And as to the future of the middle east, i think,
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- There's no question that most arab countries
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- Are strongly behind israel
- 00:17:49.594 --> 00:17:51.062
- In this fight, in the fight both against hamas in gaza,
- 00:17:51.062 --> 00:17:54.232
- But also, of course, in the fight against iran.
- 00:17:54.232 --> 00:17:57.435
- Iran is iran, and hamas is as big a threat
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- To arab countries around the region as it is to israel.
- 00:18:00.906 --> 00:18:04.342
- And, of course, is part of a much wider
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- Muslim brotherhood network,
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- Which we threatens every arab country.
- 00:18:07.879 --> 00:18:10.382
- And iran hates
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- Sunni muslim countries just as much as it hates israel.
- 00:18:12.150 --> 00:18:15.353
- So the middle east is behind israel, i think largely.
- 00:18:15.353 --> 00:18:19.624
- And it will see israel's strength,
- 00:18:20.358 --> 00:18:22.394
- And that will encourage even more than it existed before
- 00:18:22.394 --> 00:18:25.430
- The desire of countries like saudi arabia
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- And other arab countries to normalize relations
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- On ships with israel, which was on the cards before.
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- But now i think even more so.
- 00:18:33.905 --> 00:18:35.774
- So yeah, i think we're going to see,
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- A much more strongly unified middle east.
- 00:18:37.442 --> 00:18:40.178
- And of course, let's not forget syria, which the assad regime
- 00:18:40.178 --> 00:18:44.449
- Was shattered
- 00:18:44.449 --> 00:18:45.550
- As a result of israel's actions and then brought down,
- 00:18:45.550 --> 00:18:48.987
- And the, the, you know, there's even possibly hope
- 00:18:48.987 --> 00:18:52.123
- Of some kind of rapprochement between syria and israel.
- 00:18:52.123 --> 00:18:55.327
- I'm not overoptimistic on that, but it is a possibility.
- 00:18:55.327 --> 00:18:58.363
- I don't see peace and harmony forever across the middle east,
- 00:18:58.363 --> 00:19:01.533
- But i certainly see
- 00:19:01.533 --> 00:19:02.767
- A significantly changed world from the chaos we've
- 00:19:02.767 --> 00:19:05.670
- Been witnessing, up to now.
- 00:19:05.670 --> 00:19:07.606
- Yeah, it truly is an incredible turnaround.
- 00:19:07.606 --> 00:19:10.075
- Hey, by the way, you were recently in gaza.
- 00:19:10.075 --> 00:19:12.477
- You were observing the great work of the gaza humanity
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- And foundation.
- 00:19:15.180 --> 00:19:16.348
- Our good friend johnny moore actually heads up the eff.
- 00:19:16.348 --> 00:19:19.217
- Here's a quick clip of colonel kemp in gaza.
- 00:19:19.217 --> 00:19:21.720
- Take a look.
- 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.822
- It's a trap.
- 00:19:24.155 --> 00:19:25.290
- But one of the few distribution centers inside gaza.
- 00:19:25.290 --> 00:19:29.728
- As you can see behind me,
- 00:19:29.728 --> 00:19:31.563
- There are a large number of 20,000 cars to come here
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- To collect aid
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- Delivered into gaza by the gaza communitarian foundation.
- 00:19:36.368 --> 00:19:39.971
- There's about 20 trucks of food behind me, and i hope that
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- Some of the international aid and humanitarian organizations
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- That have rejected the work will rethink this.
- 00:19:48.113 --> 00:19:51.316
- This is a really important position
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- That the g8 is carrying out in the interest of the welfare
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- Of the people of gaza. and.
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- Colonel camp, you've been on the ground
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- In israel since this war began.
- 00:20:01.593 --> 00:20:03.461
- You've been bringing us the truth of
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- What's really happening in places like gaza.
- 00:20:04.996 --> 00:20:08.366
- Can you talk real quick about the mainstream media
- 00:20:08.366 --> 00:20:11.403
- Narrative about gaza, genocide, etc., and the truth about gaza,
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- Which in that clip we just saw your reporting
- 00:20:15.540 --> 00:20:17.542
- What's really going on there?
- 00:20:17.542 --> 00:20:19.744
- Yeah, of
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- Course the the there's no genocide in gaza.
- 00:20:20.945 --> 00:20:23.615
- There's actually very little
- 00:20:23.615 --> 00:20:24.949
- There's certainly i don't believe there's
- 00:20:24.949 --> 00:20:26.518
- Any real starvation in gaza, something you might see in
- 00:20:26.518 --> 00:20:30.021
- Places don't know other places around the world.
- 00:20:30.021 --> 00:20:33.591
- The idf have been facilitating huge amounts of agents in gaza,
- 00:20:33.591 --> 00:20:37.729
- Since this war began about 20 months or so ago.
- 00:20:37.729 --> 00:20:40.732
- And they've been doing everything they can to
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- Eliminate hamas, to bring the hostages back
- 00:20:43.568 --> 00:20:46.604
- And minimize the civilian deaths in gaza.
- 00:20:46.604 --> 00:20:49.541
- I think this gaza humanitarian foundation,
- 00:20:49.541 --> 00:20:52.711
- Project really sums it up.
- 00:20:52.711 --> 00:20:54.512
- The attitude to that, the to believe, believe it or not,
- 00:20:54.512 --> 00:20:57.982
- The two enemies of the gaza humanitarian foundation,
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- Which aims to get aid to the goals of the people
- 00:21:01.353 --> 00:21:04.689
- Without falling into the hands of less
- 00:21:04.689 --> 00:21:06.624
- The two enemies, obviously all hamas,
- 00:21:06.624 --> 00:21:08.727
- But the united nations is the enemy as well.
- 00:21:08.727 --> 00:21:10.895
- The united nations as opposed to all along.
- 00:21:10.895 --> 00:21:13.398
- And that tells you
- 00:21:13.398 --> 00:21:14.632
- As much about the united nations as it tells you about hamas.
- 00:21:14.632 --> 00:21:18.403
- A sad commentary, but you're
- 00:21:19.003 --> 00:21:20.638
- Getting some real commentary, some truthful commentary, folks
- 00:21:20.638 --> 00:21:23.608
- Here from our good friend colonel richard kemp.
- 00:21:23.608 --> 00:21:25.610
- Be sure to follow him on x across social media
- 00:21:25.610 --> 00:21:28.446
- For breaking insights and real time analysis.
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- Colonel kemp, it is always great to see you.
- 00:21:31.950 --> 00:21:34.018
- Be safe my friend.
- 00:21:34.018 --> 00:21:34.919
- We hope to see you very soon in israel.
- 00:21:34.919 --> 00:21:36.421
- As a matter of fact, god bless colonel kemp.
- 00:21:36.421 --> 00:21:38.223
- We'll see you again soon.
- 00:21:38.223 --> 00:21:39.424
- And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on the signs
- 00:21:39.424 --> 00:21:43.762
- And the times and strong leaders knowing what to do about them.
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- That's next.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks, as we wrap up
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- Here.
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- Look, we've been talking about
- 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:00.847
- Prime minister netanyahu and president trump
- 00:22:00.847 --> 00:22:03.016
- Being modern day churchill.
- 00:22:03.016 --> 00:22:04.851
- In a sense, as winston churchill saw the gathering storm
- 00:22:04.851 --> 00:22:07.687
- Of nazi germany, trump and bibi saw the gathering storm
- 00:22:07.687 --> 00:22:10.957
- Of a nuclear iran.
- 00:22:10.957 --> 00:22:12.159
- And like churchill, they boldly acted against it.
- 00:22:12.159 --> 00:22:15.462
- Despite the howls and the opposition of much of the world.
- 00:22:15.462 --> 00:22:19.199
- I've also compared trump and bebe to that triumvirate
- 00:22:19.199 --> 00:22:21.835
- During the 1980s thatcher, reagan, pope john paul
- 00:22:21.835 --> 00:22:24.905
- The second who helped together to bring down the soviet empire.
- 00:22:24.905 --> 00:22:29.443
- Clearly, we are at a pivot point in history and thank god
- 00:22:29.443 --> 00:22:33.513
- We've got strong leadership at the helm in dc and jerusalem.
- 00:22:33.513 --> 00:22:37.284
- It makes me think of first
- 00:22:37.284 --> 00:22:38.318
- Chronicles chapter 12, verse 32 from the tribe of mr.
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- Carr.
- 00:22:42.122 --> 00:22:43.323
- There were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives.
- 00:22:43.323 --> 00:22:46.193
- All these men understood the signs of the times
- 00:22:46.193 --> 00:22:49.996
- And knew the best course for israel to take.
- 00:22:49.996 --> 00:22:52.732
- Those were the sons of this a car, an elite group
- 00:22:52.732 --> 00:22:55.735
- Again, of 200 men who were close to king david.
- 00:22:55.735 --> 00:22:58.839
- We need that kind of visionary leadership.
- 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:00.974
- I believe president trump
- 00:23:00.974 --> 00:23:02.242
- And bibi netanyahu do understand the signs of the times.
- 00:23:02.242 --> 00:23:06.446
- We're in good hands.
- 00:23:06.446 --> 00:23:07.581
- Hey, be sure to follow us youtube x facebook
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- Instagram across social media for breaking updates.
- 00:23:10.650 --> 00:23:14.221
- And tomorrow, brandon tatum.
- 00:23:14.221 --> 00:23:15.755
- Officer tatum is here
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- With some updates on the riots here in america.
- 00:23:16.857 --> 00:23:19.092
- 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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