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Biden Released Somali Terrorist into the U.S. & Funds UN Agency CAUGHT Participating in October 7 Terrorist Attack · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 2: you and Senator we have got a lot to talk about,
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Speaker 2: including later in the show, we are going to get
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Speaker 2: a live on the ground update from Israel of what's
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Speaker 2: happening in Israel right now, something very important that I
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Speaker 2: want to point out, so make sure you stick around
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Speaker 2: for that. Also, before we get to that, there was
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Speaker 2: a shocking news story that came out and I'm still
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Speaker 2: trying to get my head around at Centator terrasts that
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Speaker 2: have been caught illegally crossing the border in this country
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Speaker 2: were released and allowed to roam free for nearly a
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Speaker 2: year because apparently we don't have time to check backgrounds
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Speaker 2: of terrists that we are allowing to go free in
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Speaker 2: this country. And the Biden Administration's like, oh, yeah, that happens.
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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, there's a hell of a
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Speaker 2: lot of terrorists on the terrorist watch list that are
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Speaker 2: being caught now every single month in this country.
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Speaker 3: Well that's exactly right. I've said a number of times
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Speaker 3: that I believe the risks of a major terrorist attack
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Speaker 3: right now are greater than they have been at any
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Speaker 3: time since September eleventh, and this story that broke this
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Speaker 3: week is further underscores that. So the story that broke
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Speaker 3: was an internal federal memo that indicated that a terrorist
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Speaker 3: was apprehended by the Biden administration at the southern border
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Speaker 3: and they released him into the country. They released him
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Speaker 3: into the country for a year. And this individual, who
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Speaker 3: was a member of the Somali terror group Al Shabab,
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Speaker 3: was released shortly after being caught illegally crossing the southern
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Speaker 3: border near Sanya Cidro, California. And that was on March thirteenth,
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, and the Daily Caller News Foundation published this.
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Speaker 3: They have a memo from the federal government that's been released,
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Speaker 3: and the Terrorist Scream Screening Center initially quote deemed him
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Speaker 3: a mismatch, so in other words, they said, okay, this
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Speaker 3: is a guy is not a terrorist after running him.
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Speaker 1: Through the terror watch list.
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Speaker 3: However, on January eighteenth, twenty twenty four, so just a
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Speaker 3: few days ago, the Terrorist Screening Center made a redetermination
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Speaker 3: that the individual was in fact a quote confirmed member
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Speaker 3: of Al Schebab and was involved in the use, manufacture,
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Speaker 3: or transport of explosive or firearms. Two days later, Ice
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Speaker 3: arrested the Al Schebab member in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So understand,
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Speaker 3: we caught a terrorist and the Biden administration let him go,
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Speaker 3: and he was in the United States for nearly a year.
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Speaker 3: And just last year in twenty twenty three. Do you
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Speaker 3: know how many terror watchless suspects were caught by border
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Speaker 3: patrol last year?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a number that I know, but I
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Speaker 2: want you to share it with everybody because it's so shocking.
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Speaker 2: It should terrify everyone listening the fact that they're doing
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Speaker 2: this in this country.
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Speaker 3: One hundred and seventy two now one one hundred and
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Speaker 3: seventy two last year. By the way, during the Trump administration,
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Speaker 3: most years, every year was in single digits. There were
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Speaker 3: numbers like zero two four zero, one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 3: two last year. Do you know how many were apprehended
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Speaker 3: in the last three months just October to December.
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Speaker 2: These numbers are even more terrifying. And I say this
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Speaker 2: because you're asking the question, and it means that there
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Speaker 2: is an uptick in terrorist activity of terrorists coming into
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Speaker 2: this country.
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Speaker 1: Tell everybody this number fifty.
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Speaker 3: Five zero five zero and three months and fifty times
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Speaker 3: four if you have four quarters of a year is
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Speaker 3: two hundred. That means last year is one seventy two.
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Speaker 3: We're on a pace to be at two hundred. To
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Speaker 3: put that in perspective, fifty terrorists on the terror watch
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Speaker 3: list apprehended on the southern border during just the last
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Speaker 3: three months. Do you know how many people on the
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Speaker 3: terror watch list were apprehended in the entirety of the
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Speaker 3: Trump administration four years? How many thirty so more people
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Speaker 3: on the terror watch list we're caught at our southern
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Speaker 3: border in October, November to December than all four years
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Speaker 3: of the Trump presidency. That's how bad Joe Biden's open
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Speaker 3: borders are.
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Speaker 2: You also have to compare it so people understand how
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Speaker 2: staggering these numbers are. When you have fifty in the
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Speaker 2: last three months of the year that came in that
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Speaker 2: were caught, that doesn't count the number of godaways who
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Speaker 2: are on the terrorist watch list. And to be clear,
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Speaker 2: the people that are being caught, the fifty that were caught,
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Speaker 2: they're not walking up to border patrol agents like literally
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Speaker 2: the millions of people that are coming into this country
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Speaker 2: in total who are looking to turn themselves in to
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Speaker 2: government agents because they know they're not going to be
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Speaker 2: kicked out and they get to stay here.
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Speaker 1: That's the other part is how many have we not caught?
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Speaker 2: Center If we caught fifty while there's an onslaught at
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Speaker 2: the border of ten thousand a day.
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Speaker 3: Now, that is exactly right. The most terrifying number under
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Speaker 3: the Biden administration is the over two million Godaways. Those
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Speaker 3: are the people that run that we know crossed in
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Speaker 3: the border but the Border Patrol did not apprehend. We
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Speaker 3: have nine point six million, more than nine point six
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Speaker 3: million that we know of, and the vast majority of them,
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Speaker 3: seven plus million of them essentially turned themselves into the
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Speaker 3: Border Patrol. Those are less likely, although to be honest,
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Speaker 3: the one hundred and seventy two people on the terror
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Speaker 3: watch lists, some of them are in that group. Many
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Speaker 3: of them are in the Godaways or they were in
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Speaker 3: the Godaways and they get apprehended. But the two point
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Speaker 3: two million, they're much more likely to be criminals, to
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Speaker 3: be murderers, to be rapists, to be child molesters, to
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Speaker 3: be gang members, to be an MS thirteen, or to
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Speaker 3: be terrorists. And understand, the Border Patrol has sent out
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Speaker 3: written memos direct instruction of Border Patrol agents. When I've
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Speaker 3: been down on the border. Border patrol agents have told
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Speaker 3: me they are very, very concerned about Hamas and Hezbela
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Speaker 3: terrorists crossing the southern border and the risk of an
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Speaker 3: October seventh style attack here in the United States, and
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden and the Democrats are increasing our vulnerability to
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Speaker 3: that every single day.
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Speaker 2: Let's also put this in a perspective center. And if
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Speaker 2: my memory serves me correctly, it was nineteen terrorists from
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Speaker 2: al Qaeda that hijacked those four commercial airplanes.
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Speaker 1: Nineteen so nineteen people.
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Speaker 2: Is what it took for nine to eleven to take
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Speaker 2: place on that Dan and the attack. When you have
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Speaker 2: one hundred plus terrists that are being caught in the
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Speaker 2: last year, one hundred and seventy plus and you have
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Speaker 2: fifty at the end of the year, these numbers are staggering.
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Speaker 3: And there have been how many hundreds or thousands more
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Speaker 3: are in the godaways that we do not know about,
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Speaker 3: that are in place in cities across America and preparing
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Speaker 3: to commit horrific acts of terrorists.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that goes back to the warning that we
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Speaker 2: also learned about that's been very quiet, that we mentioned
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Speaker 2: on this show.
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Speaker 1: I think it was several weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Now are a terrorist attack they're concerned about that could
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Speaker 2: mimic the same style of attack that we just witnessed
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Speaker 2: in Israel.
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9:10
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9:13
Speaker 2: placed an immense pressure on all of our federal resources.
9:17
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9:34
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Speaker 2: lists coming into our country and we don't know where
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Speaker 3: Look, that's exactly right. And Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and
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Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer are the congressional Democrats. They want this crisis
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Speaker 3: to be happening. The nine point six million who've crossed
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Speaker 3: into this country, they want them to come. How do
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Speaker 3: I know that? Because Biden could stop it tomorrow if
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Speaker 3: he wanted to. He does not want to. He looks
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Speaker 3: at every one of these as future Democrat voters, and
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Speaker 3: he's willing to accept the risk of terrorism, the risk
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Speaker 3: of Americans dying in order for Democrats to get a
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Speaker 3: partisan advantage. And by the way, this is not a
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Speaker 3: phenomenon limited to our southern border. This Biden White House,
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Speaker 3: they have a consistent pattern. It's a pattern. Ben Frankly,
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Speaker 3: I don't understand. They give money to people who hate
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Speaker 3: us and want to kill us. Joe Biden has flowed
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Speaker 3: roughly one hundred billion dollars to Iran and Iatola, who
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Speaker 3: chanced death to America. He's flowed hundreds of millions of
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Speaker 3: dollars to Gaza that's gone directly to Hamas. And I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you there was a story that broke the last
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Speaker 3: week that is really studying, which is the United Nations. Look,
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Speaker 3: the United Nations is a global institution with massive problems,
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Speaker 3: massive corruptions, massive anti americanism it has. It is in
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Speaker 3: a terrible institution. As bad as the UN is. There's
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Speaker 3: actually an institution even worse than the UN, and that
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Speaker 3: is a part of the UN that's called UNRA.
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Speaker 1: Now what is RA.
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Speaker 3: UNRA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and
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Speaker 3: UNRA is established to focus on Palestinian refugees. And the
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Speaker 3: problem is UNRA has been a pit of radicalism, of
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Speaker 3: anti Semitism, of anti Israel, hate, of extremism. And there's
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Speaker 3: a story that broke this last week that is really studying,
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Speaker 3: and the Wall Street Journal broke it. A number of
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Speaker 3: places broke it, which is at least twelve UNRAH employees
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Speaker 3: were directly involved in the October seventh attack. Understand that.
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Speaker 3: Let me let me repeat that, because that's a headline
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Speaker 3: that people go.
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Speaker 1: What holy crap.
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Speaker 3: At least twelve employees who worked for the United Nations,
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Speaker 3: for this subsidiary called UNRA were actively involved in the
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Speaker 3: October seventh terrorist attack. And yet you know what Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden has been doing for three years flowing money to
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Speaker 3: UNRA because he gives money to terrorists who hate America
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Speaker 3: and hate Israel.
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Speaker 2: What's even more shocking is there were warnings about UNRA
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Speaker 2: that have been going on for quite some time. And
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Speaker 2: I want to play this for everybody. This is not
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Speaker 2: that long ago. Okay, on December the eleventh, So do
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Speaker 2: the math here. December the eleventh, What happened before December
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Speaker 2: the eleventh of twenty twenty three was the attack on Israel.
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Speaker 2: On December the eleventh, the twenty twenty three, the Biden
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Speaker 2: State Department spokesman Matt Miller was question about this type
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Speaker 2: of radicalism from UNRA, and he defended UNRA and said
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Speaker 2: they were doing vitally important work for those on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this carefully. This is at the State Department.
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Speaker 4: In light of a recent Jerusalem Post report about a
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Speaker 4: UN agency EUNRA school teacher in Gaza holding a hostage
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Speaker 4: captive in an UNRA school, as well as a teachers
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Speaker 4: at UNRA schools in Gaza praising the attacks on social
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Speaker 4: media with ties between Hamas terrists and the agency's schools.
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Speaker 4: Is President Biden now willing to defund this terrorist un
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Speaker 4: organization UNRA? And I have a follow up.
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Speaker 5: So I would just say with respect to that first report,
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Speaker 5: we saw that report, we sought information from UNRAH about it.
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Speaker 5: I would add to our knowledge that report has never
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Speaker 5: been verified. Certainly, if that were the case, we would
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Speaker 5: expect accountability for the individual involved. But I do want
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Speaker 5: to speak about UNRA specifically UNRAH. UNRA is providing life
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Speaker 5: saving work for Palestinians right now under very difficult circumstances.
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Speaker 2: Can we just hit pause there, We'll continue the second apartment.
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Speaker 2: I got to get your reaction to that center I mean,
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Speaker 2: not only is the State Department now defending terrorists, they're
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Speaker 2: saying that the terrorists are doing great work.
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Speaker 3: Look, I gotta say, I'm just annoyed at listening to
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Speaker 3: that White House hat go UNRA like he pronounces it
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Speaker 3: almost like he's singing like a love poem. UNRA, they
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Speaker 3: do life saving work. Look, the report that has just
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Speaker 3: come out is that ten percent of unra's staff, it's
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Speaker 3: Gaza staff, have ties to Hamas and Islamic militant groups
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Speaker 3: ten percent. So you've got the un funding Hamas terrorists.
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Speaker 3: And mind you, these are people who participated in October seventh.
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Speaker 3: And you know where UNRA gets their money from. Joe Biden,
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump cut off the money for UNRA. By the way,
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Speaker 3: I've advocated cut UNRA off. They're a pit of anti Semitism,
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Speaker 3: anti America, anti Israel, hatred terrorism. What did Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: do when he came in back into office, Key, he said,
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Speaker 3: all right, let's give money to the people who hate us.
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Speaker 3: And I will say Biden, in the face of this
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Speaker 3: shocking report, was forced to temporarily pause funding for UNRUH.
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Speaker 2: Temporarily, by the way, But listen, let's go back to December.
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Speaker 2: I want to finish this so that people can hear
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Speaker 2: how much they were defending the terrorists and their great
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Speaker 2: work that they were doing on the ground. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to back up about ten seconds so you hear the context.
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Speaker 5: Listen to our knowledge that report has never been verified. Certainly,
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Speaker 5: if that were the case, we would expect accountability for
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Speaker 5: the individual involved. But I do want to speak about
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Speaker 5: UNRA specifically. UNRA is providing life saving work for Palestinians
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Speaker 5: right now under very difficult circumstances. We've seen I think
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Speaker 5: it's more than one hundred unrestaff killed during this conflict
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Speaker 5: while they are out trying to get food and water
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Speaker 5: and medicine to the Palestinian people. The work that they
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Speaker 5: are doing is essential, is saving lives. The United States
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Speaker 5: continues to be the largest donor of humanitarian access to
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Speaker 5: the Palestinian people. We continue to support UNROUGH for the
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Speaker 5: work that it's doing and will continue to do it
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Speaker 5: because they are I will say, as I said a
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Speaker 5: moment ago, actually there on the front lines, under staff
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Speaker 5: putting their lives at risk to get food, water, medicine
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Speaker 5: to children, to babies, to civilians. So we absolutely support
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Speaker 5: the work that they're doing well.
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Speaker 3: One of the things that the White House there said
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Speaker 3: that was accurate is UNRAS on the front lines. Yes,
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Speaker 3: you're right, they're on the front lines with Hamas engaged
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Speaker 3: in terrorism. And it is stunning that the Biden administration
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Speaker 3: was happy to fund them. This was known for a
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Speaker 3: long time that they spread anti Semitism, that they were vicious,
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Speaker 3: that they hire Hamas sympathizers, and yet this Biden white
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Speaker 3: House is willing to give them money. Right now. The
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Speaker 3: report is so stunning they paused it. But let's be
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Speaker 3: absolutely clear. This Biden white House wants to resume funding
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Speaker 3: to UNRUH as soon as a little bit of time passes,
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Speaker 1: Senator one.
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Speaker 2: Other questions I want to ask you about this, this
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Speaker 2: story that comes out. I love how this administration refused
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Speaker 2: to admit that this story on UNRO was real because
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Speaker 2: it was reported in the Jerusalem Post and they immediately
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Speaker 2: discredit for like, oh, well we don't we don't count
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Speaker 2: that as as being a publication that we'll listen to.
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Speaker 2: And you noticed how he shot back so hard. He's like, well,
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Speaker 2: this hasn't been verified. We now find out all these
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Speaker 2: other countries are pulling out their funding from UNRA as
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Speaker 2: well because the information is so damning, and it was
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Speaker 2: damning in December. They just refused to look at it
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Speaker 2: in December.
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Speaker 3: No, that's exactly right. When the United States halted funding,
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Speaker 3: we saw countries throughout Europe do so as well. Germany
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Speaker 3: halted funding, the United Kingdom halted funding, Finland halted funding,
19:29
Speaker 3: Australia halted funding, Canada halted funding, Italy halted funding, the
19:33
Speaker 3: Netherlands and Switzerland halted funding. So it was at that
19:38
Speaker 3: point unavoidable. But listen, many of those countries, particularly the
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Speaker 3: European countries, have long been willing to stand with the
19:46
Speaker 3: Palestinians against Israel, and it says something that the Biden
19:50
Speaker 3: administration is not willing to lead, and they will only
19:54
Speaker 3: stop giving money to people supporting terrorism when the pressure
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Speaker 3: become unbearable.
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Speaker 2: Senator, you and I have talked so much about what
20:04
Speaker 2: is happening in Israel, and look, there's a lot of
20:07
Speaker 2: other issues that obviously are happening in the news, other
20:09
Speaker 2: things that are happening in this administration and policies in Iran.
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Speaker 2: But I do want to pause and you and I
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Speaker 2: talked about this and go back joining us now as
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Speaker 2: a guest. Yeall ex Stein is the president and the
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Speaker 2: CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, doing
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Speaker 2: amazing work on the ground, especially with those that were
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Speaker 2: affected by the horrific attacks in Israel. First of all,
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Speaker 2: thank you for coming on. We really appreciate it and
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Speaker 2: the work you're doing. You're in Israel right now.
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Speaker 6: Correct, Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 3: What and honor, Yeah, welcome, We're very glad to have
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Speaker 3: you on Verdict. And tell us where in Israel are
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Speaker 3: we talking to you?
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Speaker 6: So I'm in central northern Israel, where we've had a
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Speaker 6: few rockets from US come in. I've been in the bombshilter,
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Speaker 6: both with my children and also with different senators from America.
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Speaker 6: Governor Kakabi I was in the bomb shelter with him
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Speaker 6: in Tel Aviv, And the biggest threat right now in
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Speaker 6: Northern Nidral is actually Frezvalah, which would make the war
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Speaker 6: like come with Kamas feel like something small. So here
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Speaker 6: in Northern Nidril we're very on edge that a huge
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Speaker 6: figure war with the Hazalah would break out, which would
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Speaker 6: see around one hundred and fifty thousand rockets on tiny Israel.
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Speaker 3: Tell us what is the spirit, what is the morale
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Speaker 3: that people are feeling in Israel? With obviously in the
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Speaker 3: wake of October seventh and the horrors that unfolded then
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Speaker 3: and now several months of active warfare, how are people
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Speaker 3: doing on the ground in Israel.
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Speaker 6: Israel is resilient. Israel has always been resilient. We've never
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Speaker 6: lost sight that. Since nineteen forty eight, we've been in
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Speaker 6: a fight for our survival and there's no other country
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Speaker 6: to go to. There are twenty two Arab states with
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Speaker 6: the population of four hundred and forty million people living there,
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Speaker 6: and there's one Jewish population around seven point five million Jews.
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Speaker 6: So no one in Israel has lost sight of that,
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Speaker 6: and we are all unified and resilient and finding moments
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Speaker 6: of hope and moments of moments of peace and comfort
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Speaker 6: as well, that we're together and that God is with us,
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Speaker 6: and that we see how there are hundreds of millions
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Speaker 6: of mostly Christian friends around the world who are standing
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Speaker 6: with us as well. I just saw an estimate that
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Speaker 6: there's around seven hundred million Christians around the world who
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Speaker 6: are praying for Israel. So I think what's in a
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Speaker 6: way most difficult for Israel right now and the people
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Speaker 6: is to see how anti Semitism is rising again, to
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Speaker 6: see how once again the world is questioning if the
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Speaker 6: Jewish people should have a right to exist being okay
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Speaker 6: with Israel and the Jewish people's annihilation. So I want
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Speaker 6: to start off by saying thank you to you. In
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Speaker 6: a world that is lacking such moral clarity. You, since
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Speaker 6: October seventh and before have been proveding such a moral
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Speaker 6: compass to all of your listeners, all of your followers,
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Speaker 6: which especially day so unique and sacred and what everyone
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Speaker 6: here in Israel is just appreciative for.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, y oh, thank you. I will tell you
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Speaker 3: we are proud to stand with the people of Israel.
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Speaker 3: October seventh made clear to the world, to anyone paying attention,
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Speaker 3: that this is a battle between civilization and barbarism, and
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Speaker 3: this is Israel standing against the face of evil. And
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you, Heidi and I our family, we are
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Speaker 3: praying for the people of Israel. The people of America
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Speaker 3: stand with you. And as horrific as what happened on
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Speaker 3: October seventh was, I believe there are at least two
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Speaker 3: good things that will come of this. Number One, Israel
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Speaker 3: stated commitment to utterly eliminate Hamas if and when that happens,
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Speaker 3: and I think we've made real and meaningful progress towards that.
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Speaker 3: That is a very very good thing for Israel. That
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Speaker 3: is a very very good thing for America because Hamas
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Speaker 3: hates Israel and hates America and they want to murder
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Speaker 3: us both. And secondly, you referenced anti Semitism. I think
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Speaker 3: one of the things October seventh.
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Speaker 1: Did is it laid bare.
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Speaker 3: It exposed the vicious anti semitism we see globally but tragically,
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Speaker 3: especially in US universities. And listen, I believe that anti
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Speaker 3: Semitism was there on October sixth. I don't think that
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Speaker 3: was newly created. But what happened on October seventh exposed it,
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Speaker 3: and I think shining a sunlight on it is a
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Speaker 3: key step to eliminating it.
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Speaker 4: And so.
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Speaker 3: Know that despite the viciousness, you're seeing that millions and
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Speaker 3: millions of Americans and people across the world stand with
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Speaker 3: the people of Israel.
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Speaker 6: It's incredible, it's so inspiring. I read the words of
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Speaker 6: Isaiah five, for example, and says in the last of days,
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Speaker 6: good will be evil, and evil will be called good.
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Speaker 6: And I see how in the beginning of the war
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Speaker 6: in October eighth, people were debating if fromas beheaded babies
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Speaker 6: or just peacefully burned them alive. And then it took
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Speaker 6: less than one minute it TOAs bread the lie that
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Speaker 6: Israel bomb the hospital, which ended up in the Samas rocket.
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Speaker 6: But there is so much hatred towards the Jewish people,
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Speaker 6: there's so much anti Semitism. What I see, Senator Cruiz
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Speaker 6: is exactly what you're saying, that this isn't nineteen thirty
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Speaker 6: eight today, it's a different reality because we have the
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Speaker 6: State of Israel which is able to protect the Jewish people,
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Speaker 6: and we have millions of Christians around the world who
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Speaker 6: stand with us. And that's exactly the message of the Fellowship.
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Speaker 6: You know, we've all learned about the righteous gentiles during
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Speaker 6: the Holocaust. We've learned about the Corey Tamboons and Oscar
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Speaker 6: Shimmler's and there's even a forest in Jerusalem that's planted
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Speaker 6: outside of the Yaddashian for the righteous gentiles. And what
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Speaker 6: I see today is if we had to plant a
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Speaker 6: tree for every righteous gentile who's dancing with Israel, to
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Speaker 6: cover an entire continent with trees. And so what I
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Speaker 6: represent on the ground here in Israel is millions of
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Speaker 6: Christians who are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, who
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Speaker 6: are not political at all, but are standing with the
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Speaker 6: biblical words of the Bible. Naha uai comfort you, comfort
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Speaker 6: enite people by bringing food to Holocaust survivors and their
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Speaker 6: bomb shelters and providing bulletproof ambulances. And that is the
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Speaker 6: difference today between twenty twenty four and nineteen thirty eight,
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Speaker 6: and it's significant.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I want to ask amen, Amen, absolutely, I
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Speaker 2: want to ask you and inform the vertical listeners because
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Speaker 2: there's so many listeners to show that. Ask Center Cruz
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Speaker 2: when he's traveling and myself, they ask the same question,
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Speaker 2: what can we do to get involved. Talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does.
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Speaker 2: The mission you mentioned and this is something that I
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Speaker 2: learned from you when we got to sit down and
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Speaker 2: break bread, is that there are these, for example, the
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Speaker 2: ambulances that they need, not just ambulances, but bulletproof ambulances.
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Speaker 2: And these are some of the resources that you guys
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Speaker 2: are helping with those on the ground that desperately need
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Speaker 2: these life saving not just care, but also the meals
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Speaker 2: and everything else.
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much so. The International Fellowship of Christians
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Speaker 6: and Jews is the largest philanthropic organization in Israel, and
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Speaker 6: we represent the Christian community on the ground in the
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Speaker 6: Holy Land. We have three different areas that we focus on.
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Speaker 6: One is Aliak, bringing Jews from at risk countries home
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Speaker 6: to Israel and the vision of the Bible, and that's
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Speaker 6: actually continued since October seventh. Almost every day we've had
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Speaker 6: people landing in Israel from Ukraine, from the Arab world,
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Speaker 6: different places where they're persecuted. The second is focusing on
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Speaker 6: poverty and welfare, where we provide food and meals and
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Speaker 6: all the basic needs to people who are hungry and hurting.
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Speaker 6: And the third is security. And so on October seventh,
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Speaker 6: we were already prepared on the ground. We already provided
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Speaker 6: over five five hundred bomb shelters on the ground in Israel.
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Speaker 6: We are ready to wow at bulletproof best. We already
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Speaker 6: distributed bulletproof ambulances. We already in Barzilai Hospital which got
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Speaker 6: four direct rocket attacks, we already protected their labor and
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Speaker 6: delivery and nicky unit that's completely fortified, so that they
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Speaker 6: were protected. And to October seventh, we were already, we
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Speaker 6: were already mobilized. We already had the connections with all
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Speaker 6: of the security officials, with all of the welfare officials.
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Speaker 6: And what happened on October seventh was that suddenly the
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Speaker 6: people who are normally there to provide aid became the victims.
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Speaker 6: We had a head of social work, head social worker
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Speaker 6: in southern Israel who was kidnapped. We were calling her
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Speaker 6: to say, what do you need, how can we help?
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Speaker 6: She was in Agaza, she was kidnapped by the Kamas terrorists.
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Speaker 6: We had heads of cities who their children were murdered.
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Speaker 6: And so the Fellowship moved in on October seventh to say,
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Speaker 6: until the local national government is able to get together
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Speaker 6: to care for the systems. We're here, We're on the
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Speaker 6: ground in Steiroath. As there were terrorist roaming, going shelter
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Speaker 6: to shelter bringing food. As the first responders were going
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Speaker 6: down south to fight the terrorists, the Fellowship was there
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Speaker 6: providing thousands of bulip Who's helmets and flat jackets. Because,
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Speaker 6: simply put, Israel wasn't prepared for October seventh. It took
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Speaker 6: us by surprise. And so the fact that the Fellowship
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Speaker 6: has been there on the ground providing security for over
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Speaker 6: fifteen years, we were able to mobilize on October seventh
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Speaker 6: and we haven't backed since.
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Speaker 2: What are the needs right now for specifically people in
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Speaker 2: the US that do want to get involved and want
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Speaker 2: to help, and how can they get involved in help?
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Speaker 6: Well, one of the biggest needs right now is actually
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Speaker 6: for food and basic needs for those who are evacuated,
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Speaker 6: people who haven't had a business, people who haven't had jobs,
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Speaker 6: many of them for over four months. We have reserve
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Speaker 6: soldiers who are called up four months ago, who have
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Speaker 6: barely come home, who haven't been able to work, and
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Speaker 6: those families, many of them were poor before October seventh,
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Speaker 6: and so one of the just needs that we're seeing
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Speaker 6: is really for the basics, to bring food to the
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Speaker 6: families whose husbands are in reserve duty, who are poured
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Speaker 6: before the war and now are desperate to the evacuees,
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Speaker 6: to the Holocaust survivors. I was in Sterot just a
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Speaker 6: few a week and a half ago. Scaut is a
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Speaker 6: city on the border with Gaza that was evacuated right
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Speaker 6: after October seventh, almost four months ago, and there are
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Speaker 6: five hundred elderly over eight years old who they said,
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Speaker 6: we would rather stay here and die in our homes
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Speaker 6: than live again as refugees. Most of them are Holocaust survivors.
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Speaker 6: And so there's no gross restores opened, there's no infrastructure there,
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Speaker 6: and so it's the fellowship who's they're providing food to
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Speaker 6: these elderly in the evacuated war torn city of Stereot.
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Speaker 6: So right now it's the basics, which means we're not
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Speaker 6: looking for millions of dollars, we're not looking for huge donations.
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Speaker 6: Twenty five dollars provides a food box to one of
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Speaker 6: those elderly in Steros.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible the work that you guys are doing. Where
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Speaker 2: can people find out more specifically online?
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Speaker 6: So online you could go to our website www. Dot
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Speaker 6: ISCJ dot org and get all the information there. And
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Speaker 6: I'm veridicated to showing on a day to day basis
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Speaker 6: what the Fellowship is doing. So you can follow me
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Speaker 6: y Lxtein on all social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn
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Speaker 6: and get day to day, real time updates on the
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Speaker 6: donations are saving lives.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Welle, thank you so much for joining us,
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Speaker 3: and thank you for all that you are doing, and
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Speaker 3: know that our prayers are with you, Our prayers are
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Speaker 3: with the people of Israel, and truth will prevail, Israel
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Speaker 3: will stand against the face of evil, and America stands men.
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Speaker 6: I can't tell you how comforting those words are and
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Speaker 6: how much you've put truth to action. So thank you,
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Speaker 6: thank you, thank you.
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