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In the Shadow of War, IFCJ’s Mission to Nourish Israel’s Future in Fellowship · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

0:01
Speaker 1: I'm coming to you live from Jerusalem on my pilgrimage
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Speaker 1: here to Israel, and I can tell you it has
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Speaker 1: been nothing but an unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Trip to be here.
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Speaker 1: I was sitting here before, and I'm going to have
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Speaker 1: a guest in a moment, the President and the global
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Speaker 1: CEO of IFCJ, the International Fellowship a Christians and Jews Exstein,
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Speaker 1: is going.
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Speaker 2: To join me. But I just wanted to kind of
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Speaker 2: lay the land for you.
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Speaker 1: This is the fifth time that I had planned a
0:28
Speaker 1: trip to come to Israel, and the first four times
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Speaker 1: had been canceled because of different things. One time it
0:36
Speaker 1: was COVID, and the other three were because of war
0:38
Speaker 1: and outbreak and attacks that happened, and so it put
0:41
Speaker 1: it on pause. In fact, I was even supposed to
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Speaker 1: this summer bring my entire family to Israel as a
0:48
Speaker 1: guest of the Israeli government and just go on a
0:51
Speaker 1: pilgrimage with all of us. That obviously got canceled for
0:54
Speaker 1: because of the war. But this time I was coming
0:57
Speaker 1: over and I was hell bent on getting here. Get
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Speaker 1: on the plane. I'm sitting on the tarmac for five
1:02
Speaker 1: I think it's about five hours, and they canceled the
1:05
Speaker 1: flight and I walked up to the pilot. I was like,
1:07
Speaker 1: there's no way I'm getting out of here tonight, going
1:08
Speaker 1: to make my flight in Newark to go over to
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Speaker 1: tell Aviv.
1:11
Speaker 2: And he's like, dude, I get off this plane right now.
1:13
Speaker 1: He was like, I got two different He goes, You've
1:16
Speaker 1: got two different people on the plane.
1:17
Speaker 2: They're about to time out.
1:18
Speaker 1: So I get off the plane, go back home, sleep,
1:21
Speaker 1: get back. I was like, I'm going I'm not canceling
1:23
Speaker 1: this trip. And now I am here, I'm going to
1:26
Speaker 1: talk a little bit during this conversation about what I've
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Speaker 1: seen here. But I do want to bring in and
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Speaker 1: have a really interesting conversation with a Yeo ex teen
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Speaker 1: who is with IFCJ. You live basically the majority, by
1:40
Speaker 1: the way, welcome and so nice.
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Speaker 2: Have you back.
1:42
Speaker 1: Thank you you live here, I do, and you travel
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Speaker 1: a ton to the US, but that's because you live
1:47
Speaker 1: in Israel, not the other way around, which is me
1:49
Speaker 1: like what I'm doing here.
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Speaker 2: I have to say just coming here.
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Speaker 1: There's there's one thing I will message I want to
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Speaker 1: get across to people listening. If you are planning to
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Speaker 1: come to Israel, is wide open for business. Now I
2:02
Speaker 1: have felt incredibly safe, and I feel like it is
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Speaker 1: very different than it would have been even a month ago.
2:08
Speaker 1: You can tell where the shops have reopened, the people
2:11
Speaker 1: that are advocating and supporting tourism. I was one of
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Speaker 1: the ladies that took me on a tour the Old City.
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Speaker 1: Was incredible because she was talking about how she didn't
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Speaker 1: work for almost two and a half years because of
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Speaker 1: the war. And so if you want to come to Israel,
2:26
Speaker 1: now's a great time to come and you feel safe
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Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, I have to tell you. I felt
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Speaker 3: safe every second in the past two years, even if
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Speaker 3: we had thirty five thousand rockets launched at tiny Israel
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Speaker 3: the size of New Jersey, thirty five over thirty five thousand, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: thousand thousand from seven different fronts, suicide drones, ballistic missiles,
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Speaker 3: Katchoosha rockets. But you know what, and I really believe
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Speaker 3: that when you're doing the right thing, God protects you.
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Speaker 3: And I believe that I'm here living out the words
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Speaker 3: of our profits, walking these footsteps that our ancestors from
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Speaker 3: the scriptures walked, and they saw us sitting here me
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Speaker 3: and you've been in Jerusalem overlooking the Old city that
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Speaker 3: one day Christians and Jews would be able to come home.
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Speaker 3: And every time I would hear the siren, I would
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Speaker 3: always envision it a chouffar call a trumpet, and I
3:19
Speaker 3: would imagine God saying, Okay, wake up, wake up, I'm here,
3:22
Speaker 3: you have my protection, and I would run to the
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Speaker 3: shelter with my children, with my husband, and I would
3:26
Speaker 3: imagine the shelter being in the wings of his security
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Speaker 3: and safety, and we would just sit and say, hey,
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Speaker 3: vloyshan sho Marsral, the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps,
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Speaker 3: and so right now, thank God, it is as safe
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Speaker 3: as ever for people to come. We've actually wiped out
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Speaker 3: most of the biggest threats and Lebanon and Iran and
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Speaker 3: Syria and the Kaza Strip and the West Bank, and
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Speaker 3: we're very aware and alert of those threats that if
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Speaker 3: there was ever a time to come to Israel to
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Speaker 3: support the local economy, to show solidarity with the people
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Speaker 3: in Israel, Jews, Arabs and Christians, we are waiting for
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Speaker 3: you guys.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I think is
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Speaker 1: really interesting about being here, and I've read it, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't understand.
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Speaker 2: It until I witnessed it over the last couple of days.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a misconception in America that if you
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Speaker 1: come to Israel, everyone in Israel is Jewish. Walking by yesterday,
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Speaker 1: walking in the markets, going to the whaling Wall, and
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Speaker 1: seeing Jesus' tomb. This is an insanely eclectic city. Yes,
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Speaker 1: with an incredible amount of the population is actually Muslim.
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Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people understand that. If
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Speaker 1: you haven't studied history and studied Israel, that is something
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Speaker 1: that I think would shock many people if you've never come.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're around a mile away from the Garden of Kesemite.
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Speaker 3: When you walk and you see all different people from
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Speaker 3: all around the world, Christians from also from Israel, great
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Speaker 3: Orthodox and priests and visitors that are treated with the
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Speaker 3: utmost respect and appreciation. But in Israel, where a country
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Speaker 3: with around seven point five million Jews, and twenty percent
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Speaker 3: of our population are non Jews. And so you have Arabs,
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Speaker 3: you have Drus, you have Bedouin, you have Muslims, you
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Speaker 3: have all different religions that have freedom, and of course
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Speaker 3: you have one of these.
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Speaker 1: So the key word there, I'm interrupting you freedom because
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Speaker 1: what I watched yesterday was and I didn't realize this.
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Speaker 1: In the Old City, they were saying that almost forty
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Speaker 1: percent of the population is Muslim. Yeah, I would not
5:29
Speaker 1: have known that if I wouldn't have witnessed it, because
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have known to ask that question. Right, And
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Speaker 1: they've talked about freedom, like freedom of religion, there is
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Speaker 1: no problem with where we see God is literally carrying
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Speaker 1: his cross, He's going to be die on to. Then
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Speaker 1: seeing a moss is the most one of the most
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Speaker 1: important moss in the Muslim faith. That is incredible that
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Speaker 1: they're they're that coexisting that close together.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. To me, freedom also means of course respect and appreciation,
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Speaker 3: but also tangible build in this brotherhood. When you go
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Speaker 3: down the streets of Jerusalem, there's no sign that doesn't
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Speaker 3: have Arabic writing on it. You have Hebrew, you have English,
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Speaker 3: and you have Arabic every street sign, every holy site sign,
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Speaker 3: most store signs even And you can compare that to
6:16
Speaker 3: where the rest of the Middle East is. In Israel
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Speaker 3: were seven point five million Jews with over two million
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Speaker 3: non Jews. In the entire Middle East, there are twenty
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Speaker 3: two Arab countries in one Jewish country. Israel sits on
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Speaker 3: a round point six percent of the land mass of
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Speaker 3: the Middle East. The Arab world has ninety nine point
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Speaker 3: four percent, and in the entire Middle East there aren't
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Speaker 3: even thirty thousand Jews that live there. And so when
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Speaker 3: you do that comparison, you realize what democracy means, what
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Speaker 3: freedom means, and we don't is.
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Speaker 2: Not a slogan Israel. You're living it out every single day.
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Speaker 3: Because we believe in it. Because we're not doing it
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Speaker 3: because of some piece of paper or to get that
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Speaker 3: label of democracy. We're doing it because we believe in
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Speaker 3: that as as these Judaeo Christian values, we believe in freedom.
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Speaker 3: We remember in the scripture, how many times does it remember?
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Speaker 3: Remember that you were a stranger in strange land. And
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Speaker 3: so Israel has the only growing Christian population in the
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Speaker 3: entire Middle East. In Bethlehem, even you see it going
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Speaker 3: down quickly. You look at Nazareth, Yeah, Christian population has grown.
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Speaker 3: You look at Bethlehem. Up until around nineteen ninety four,
7:24
Speaker 3: Israel was in charge of Bethlehem and it was eighty
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Speaker 3: percent Christian. After nineteen ninety four, the Palestinian authority took
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Speaker 3: it over, and now it's under ten percent Christian. And
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Speaker 3: so when you talk about these kind of words that
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Speaker 3: in many ways have lost meaning, like freedom and democracy
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Speaker 3: because so many evil forces are taking advantage of it,
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Speaker 3: you see what the real ramifications are. And that's also
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Speaker 3: why we stand with our Christian brothers and sisters inside
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Speaker 3: of Syria who are being persecuted both as the state
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Speaker 3: of Israel and also the International Fellowship of Christians and
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Speaker 3: Jews who's gone in built two medical clinics for them,
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Speaker 3: distributed thousands of food. We need to stand together ben
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Speaker 3: now more than ever.
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Speaker 1: There's something interesting, and I think it's I say interesting
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Speaker 1: is a way of saying shocking that is happening right
8:12
Speaker 1: now in the United States of America. I have clearly
8:15
Speaker 1: I believe there's a line that's been drawn in the sand.
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Speaker 1: You either are anti Semitic and against Israel, or you
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Speaker 1: are standing with them. I don't believe there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of gray area unless you're just new and younger in learning.
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Speaker 1: But what we're witnessing in the conservative movement is something
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Speaker 1: that I never could have imagined we would see. I
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Speaker 1: knew this would happen on the left and the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of them have abandoned Israel, and we
8:38
Speaker 1: saw that, certainly in the last administration under Biden. But
8:41
Speaker 1: what I'm shocked to see now is there is this
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Speaker 1: group on the right that has gained a very large audience.
8:49
Speaker 1: What scares me even more, it's a younger audience, and
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Speaker 1: they are in this ideal this idealistic world of isolationism,
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Speaker 1: which is Israel is not it doesn't need to be,
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Speaker 1: is not a big deal to us. I don't understand
9:02
Speaker 1: why there were such great allies to them. Why do
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Speaker 1: we give them a blank check? Is how it's been
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Speaker 1: said recently. They're committing Atroses is what I've been hearing.
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Speaker 1: Their genocide is another word that they used in Gods
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Speaker 1: in the West Bank.
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Speaker 2: And if you come here and you see what.
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Speaker 1: I've seen, not only do you know that's a lie,
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Speaker 1: but there's factual data to back it up. But even
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Speaker 1: if you haven't come here, I am terrified of what
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Speaker 1: we're going to see in the Republican Party in the
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Speaker 1: next ten to fifteen years, as these younger people that
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Speaker 1: are being indoctrinated to hate Israel or hate Jews in general,
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Speaker 1: are gaining momentum legitimacy because of people that have very
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Speaker 1: large followings on social media. I've considered him a long
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Speaker 1: time friend Tucker Carlson. I couldn't disagree with Tucker more
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Speaker 1: on the issue of Israel. I think friends should be
9:48
Speaker 1: able to disagree, and that's why I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: attack him personally, but i am going to say on
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Speaker 1: this show publicly I disagree. And when I'm on TV
9:57
Speaker 1: with Tucker Carlson, I have seen and I've known me
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Speaker 1: and Kelly for a long time. I disagree with her
10:03
Speaker 1: on what she has been saying recently and some of
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Speaker 1: the people she's been talking to on Israel. Nick Flint
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Speaker 1: as a white supremacist full stop. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: people are giving in platforms like Tucker good to the
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Speaker 1: the day. I even disagree with the Heritage Foundation, and
10:16
Speaker 1: I'm going through a list in my head because I'm
10:18
Speaker 1: shocked Heritage Foundation the present there who is given a
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Speaker 1: platform to advocate for this or is supporting it even financially.
10:26
Speaker 1: We've seen some of the numbers that come upou how
10:28
Speaker 1: much everytime they've done on Tucker Carlson's show, and I
10:31
Speaker 1: think it's important that we don't stay silent. Certainly is
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Speaker 1: a conservative leader in the Conservative movement and say this
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Speaker 1: is going down the wrong path?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: Can I love all those people? Can I still be
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Speaker 1: friends of them? I saw Tucker at Charlie Kirk's funeral.
10:42
Speaker 2: We hugged.
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Speaker 1: I'm not winning a war with him, but I do
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Speaker 1: think there's an important point here where I want people
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Speaker 1: to know that I do believe something very different. How
10:51
Speaker 1: concerned are you being in Israel seeing this? Where I
10:54
Speaker 1: mean the Conservative movement, the Republican Party had been star
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Speaker 1: wars for my entire lifetime for Israel. Kay, who's the
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Speaker 1: ambassador is I'm going to see him tomorrow and I
11:03
Speaker 1: can't wait to see him. By the way, we were
11:04
Speaker 1: texting earlier today and I'm so excited to see him
11:07
Speaker 1: tomorrow for lunch. But like we are now becoming, I'm
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Speaker 1: a worried the minority in this in this fight, and
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Speaker 1: I think now is the time that we have to
11:14
Speaker 1: understand there's a real anti Semitic problem on our college chemists.
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Speaker 1: But not just from the left. It's also happening the
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Speaker 1: right and it terrifies me.
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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, thank you for being so bold
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Speaker 3: in what you say and standing with your values and
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Speaker 3: being consistent in that no matter what that's what I
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Speaker 3: think we need in this world. I look at everything
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Speaker 3: through spiritual eyes, and so I see a spiritual warfare
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Speaker 3: that's raging. I see the words of Isaiah that are
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Speaker 3: coming to life, saying there's going to come a time
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Speaker 3: when darkness will be called light, and light will be
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Speaker 3: called darkness. Isaiah said it, good will be called bad,
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Speaker 3: bad will become good, and people are going to be confused.
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Speaker 3: And I see this confusion setting in. And it's not
11:54
Speaker 3: differentiating between Republicans or Democrats. It's a confusion. It's a
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Speaker 3: spiritual warf. And so what I always go back to
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Speaker 3: when I'm confused is the scriptures is God's word. And
12:05
Speaker 3: that's another issue. So many people are biblically illiterate. We're
12:09
Speaker 3: trying to get educated on scriptures from podcasters. People are
12:13
Speaker 3: going to their podcast instead of to their pastor, and
12:17
Speaker 3: their church. Pastors are scared of speaking out because they
12:20
Speaker 3: don't want to be canceled. That God's word has become
12:24
Speaker 3: so controversial. It's not Israel, it's the entire Bible. It's
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Speaker 3: all of what God said and has withstood much worse
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Speaker 3: things than where we are right now. But we have
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Speaker 3: to learn from history and make sure it doesn't get there.
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Speaker 3: But I truly believe that on one hand, we're seeing
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Speaker 3: a generation of darkness and people who are confused, and
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Speaker 3: people who are really spreading things that are evil, people
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Speaker 3: who in the name of trying to free Palestine, are
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Speaker 3: actually keeping the Palestinian children and people oppressed by this
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Speaker 3: terror group Ramas. They're not standing up for the Palestinian people.
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Speaker 3: They're standing up for Ramas, which for me says everything.
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Speaker 3: It's a confusion. But when I see that darkness, Ben,
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Speaker 3: I also for myself, I need to make sure that
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Speaker 3: I express in every possible way how there's also to
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Speaker 3: counter maybe balance that darkness, this light that we've never
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Speaker 3: seen of a generation of Corey teenboons. And Pastor Bonhoeffer's
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Speaker 3: who Pastor Vonhaffer, one of my favorite quotes from him,
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Speaker 3: He said, God doesn't care about how you feel. He
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Speaker 3: cares about truth. And there are so many people like
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Speaker 3: what you just declared that care about truth. God says,
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Speaker 3: pray for the peace of Jerusalem. God says, to to
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Speaker 3: love our neighbor like ourself, to be able to put
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Speaker 3: our hand out to peace. When you see the Abraham Accords,
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Speaker 3: and how Israel's been able to maintain this relationship with
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Speaker 3: Arab countries because it's incredible, Yes, because they recognize and
13:55
Speaker 3: they share the same threat. The threat is radical Islam,
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Speaker 3: and so there's there's a confusion, yes, But there's also
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Speaker 3: so many people with the strongest moral clarity, like you,
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Speaker 3: people who are forced now to speak out for the
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Speaker 3: first time ever. And I just pray, pray, pray that
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Speaker 3: those voices will grow and that the light will outshine
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Speaker 3: the darkness.
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Speaker 1: something good coming out of something terrible in the attacks
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Speaker 1: October seventh attacks on Israel.
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Speaker 2: Is that one you know who your friends are.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But two you've had President Trump really step up
16:26
Speaker 1: and go after your enemies.
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Speaker 2: Iran is one of them.
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Speaker 1: How significant is President Trump's leadership do you believe for
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Speaker 1: the safety of Israel and not just Israel, but for
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Speaker 1: the world. He's made it clear I'm going after terrorists,
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Speaker 1: whether they're narco terrists we're seeing that right now, or
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Speaker 1: going after the rand nuclear sites. Like he is a
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Speaker 1: impact has he had do you think in the last
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Speaker 1: six eight nine months?
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Speaker 3: Wow, Well, we've seen leader who talk about peace and
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Speaker 3: then capitulate to the strongest, most violent voice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Are not bringing peace closer, They're bringing peace farther. President
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Speaker 3: Trump has been strong and vocal and has taken very
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Speaker 3: bold action to bring peace because he knows peace is
17:19
Speaker 3: an active statement. It's not a passive statement. And so
17:25
Speaker 3: a strong America brings a strong world. And we've seen
17:28
Speaker 3: that firsthand. I was at President Trump's speech at the
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Speaker 3: Knesset just a few weeks ago, and it was incredible
17:36
Speaker 3: to see how in Israel that's so divided politically, the
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Speaker 3: right and the left, we're hugging and giving each other
17:43
Speaker 3: high fives and genuine smiles and genuine because what we're
17:47
Speaker 3: ultimately looking for ben both the right and the left,
17:50
Speaker 3: and we can't lose sight of this. We're looking for
17:53
Speaker 3: a better world. We're looking for peace. And President Trump
17:57
Speaker 3: in the Abraham Accords, in the historic peace agreement that
18:00
Speaker 3: he just drew, now that got every single living Israeli
18:04
Speaker 3: hostage back from Gaza strip. Just yesterday, the American hostages
18:10
Speaker 3: body was returned to Israel. But you know that's not
18:12
Speaker 3: reported on America.
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Speaker 2: Now, it's not a lot of people don't know that.
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Speaker 2: They're listening right now. Why was that? And that's a
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Speaker 2: huge victory.
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Speaker 3: After over two hundred and fifty days that an American
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Speaker 3: young adult was being held his body by terrorists and Gaza.
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Speaker 3: Americans don't even know that because of President Trump's agreement,
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Speaker 3: we got that body back from burial to his parents.
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Speaker 3: Many Americans don't even know that. Yeah, and so I
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Speaker 3: think that strength in the right way brings peace closer,
18:38
Speaker 3: not farther away. And I'll tell you that I say
18:41
Speaker 3: that as somebody who is not involved in politics. I'm
18:45
Speaker 3: a humanitarian. I distribute over three hundred three million meals
18:50
Speaker 3: a year in Israel, from north to south, in every
18:53
Speaker 3: different community, from Nazareth to the Christian community to Jerusalem,
18:57
Speaker 3: to carry out Shmona where our soup kitchen was hit
18:59
Speaker 3: by Iraq. Within twenty four hours, we were distributing food again.
19:03
Speaker 3: And I do that on behalf of Christians who stand
19:05
Speaker 3: with Israel and love Israel. And so I'm not a politician.
19:10
Speaker 3: I'm an individual when you speak in this way, but
19:13
Speaker 3: it's very clear the right kind of strength protects those
19:17
Speaker 3: people who should be protected and weakens those who are
19:23
Speaker 3: trying to wreak havoc. And I say that also as
19:26
Speaker 3: a mother who just yesterday brought my nineteen year old
19:29
Speaker 3: daughter to the Israeli Army.
19:31
Speaker 1: You bring up something that I witnessed yesterday and it
19:34
Speaker 1: is something that I do actually wish America had. You know,
19:37
Speaker 1: there's a lot of anti Americanism that is growing within
19:41
Speaker 1: our country, with young people that are barrass of America,
19:45
Speaker 1: that hate America. That think America is evil, that America's
19:48
Speaker 1: history is awful, that America should be torn down and
19:51
Speaker 1: turned back into some sort of utopia under socialism or
19:54
Speaker 1: communism or Marxism. One of the things that I think
19:57
Speaker 1: is so incredible about Israel is whether you're a man
19:59
Speaker 1: or a if you're able bodied, you're going to give
20:02
Speaker 1: two years to your government.
20:04
Speaker 2: In serving your government.
20:06
Speaker 1: Yesterday, as I was walking, we witness dozens and dozens
20:12
Speaker 1: of different groups of I say, kids now being forty. Gosh,
20:15
Speaker 1: when I forty four haveever old I am who are
20:17
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen who are serving their military walking around with
20:22
Speaker 1: machine guns. I didn't find that threatening. I thought it
20:25
Speaker 1: was amazing, And I'm like, dude, I wish we did
20:27
Speaker 1: this in America, because if you serve your country for
20:30
Speaker 1: two years, I think you're going to love your country
20:32
Speaker 1: a lot more than if you are being in doctrinatey
20:35
Speaker 1: like we are. Our kids in our public school education
20:37
Speaker 1: to hate our country. And it's the amount of pride
20:42
Speaker 1: that people that live in Israel have in their nation
20:44
Speaker 1: has to be connected to that.
20:45
Speaker 3: In some way, we could disagree with our government and
20:49
Speaker 3: still love our country. We could disagree with the politicians
20:53
Speaker 3: or some decisions they make and still love one another.
20:55
Speaker 2: I mean proove that BB does not have one hundred
20:57
Speaker 2: percent approval rating.
20:58
Speaker 3: No he doesn't.
20:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, nowhere close.
21:00
Speaker 1: And I think that goes to the point that you're
21:02
Speaker 1: saying you can love your country and also disagree on
21:04
Speaker 1: the political side of things.
21:05
Speaker 3: In America's country in the world, it's the country of freedom,
21:08
Speaker 3: is a country of Opportunity's country. If you want to
21:11
Speaker 3: go out and work, you'd make a good life for yourself.
21:14
Speaker 3: There's no one holding it back. Was your daughter excited,
21:18
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
21:20
Speaker 1: I mean, I know as a mom, I've got three boys,
21:22
Speaker 1: you're freaking out right, because at any point serving in
21:25
Speaker 1: the military could become a very deadly thing. It's not
21:28
Speaker 1: a time of peace really over here. I think at
21:30
Speaker 1: any point in my lifetime, there's always there's always a
21:33
Speaker 1: real threat that you're watching, even if it's not all
21:36
Speaker 1: at war. You guys experienced war a lot more than
21:39
Speaker 1: we do in the US. Your war is much more
21:42
Speaker 1: hand to hand than it is, you know, shooting drones
21:45
Speaker 1: shots from the sky like we did our B two
21:48
Speaker 1: bombers or whatever it is that are bombing.
21:50
Speaker 2: I mean, it is very different.
21:52
Speaker 1: But like the kids that I saw, like they seem
21:55
Speaker 1: to be pretty pumped. And there's an ignorance when you're
21:58
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen about just like this is what I do
22:01
Speaker 1: and I'm excited. So I know your fear is a
22:04
Speaker 1: mom right, but your daughter was.
22:05
Speaker 2: She excited.
22:06
Speaker 3: So I called this spend the broken ground of getting
22:09
Speaker 3: what you prayed for. From the time our children were
22:11
Speaker 3: born here in Israel, my husband and I would always pray,
22:14
Speaker 3: let them be connected to family, let them be connected
22:17
Speaker 3: to God, let them be protected, connected to this land
22:20
Speaker 3: and to God's word. And we got what we prayed for.
22:24
Speaker 3: But that means that, yes, my daughter was very excited
22:26
Speaker 3: to join the army, not because the violence. She's not
22:29
Speaker 3: excited to kill people, it's not She's excited to protect
22:32
Speaker 3: and serve. And after October seventh, and she always volunteered
22:35
Speaker 3: at soup kitchens through high school, and she volunteered on
22:38
Speaker 3: an ambulance and took the course. And after October seventh,
22:41
Speaker 3: I looked at her and I said, my love, do
22:44
Speaker 3: you still want to serve? You know, as you see
22:47
Speaker 3: your peers. I can't tell you how many funerals of
22:50
Speaker 3: nineteen year olds I've been at with my daughter. In
22:52
Speaker 3: the past two years, I can't count.
22:54
Speaker 2: And so when you say that, you're not talking five
22:57
Speaker 2: or six, You're talking.
22:59
Speaker 3: A lot of funerals, a lot of funerals.
23:01
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I think people to
23:03
Speaker 1: understand about this war, the number of people that died
23:06
Speaker 1: in this war, that we're just trying to protect and
23:09
Speaker 1: defend their people.
23:10
Speaker 2: Their pry protect just to procure it's significant. Yeah.
23:13
Speaker 3: Yeah. And she looked at me and she said, Mummy,
23:18
Speaker 3: if I was at all hesitant about joining the army,
23:23
Speaker 3: which I wasn't, now even that tiny hesitation is gone.
23:28
Speaker 3: If I don't protect this land, we won't have it.
23:31
Speaker 3: If I don't protect my people, they won't be safe.
23:34
Speaker 3: And if I don't stand on these borders watching, we
23:37
Speaker 3: won't have a future. That she went with such faith
23:42
Speaker 3: and confidence that this is God's calling on her life,
23:46
Speaker 3: and as a mother, I couldn't be more proud and worried.
23:49
Speaker 3: And I'm praying like I never prayed before. But what
23:53
Speaker 3: else do you want for your child then to love God,
23:56
Speaker 3: love the land, and love their people.
23:59
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what the IFCJ is doing. And this
24:02
Speaker 1: is day one of me broadcasting live here from Israel.
24:04
Speaker 1: My guess with me is the President Global CEO of
24:07
Speaker 1: the IFCJ. You can go to IFCJ dot org to
24:10
Speaker 1: find out more. Yale Exstein, and y'all, let's talk about
24:14
Speaker 1: what I've just experienced with IFCJ since I've been here.
24:16
Speaker 1: I had the privilege today of delivering food to a
24:20
Speaker 1: woman that's basically bedridden.
24:22
Speaker 2: She cannot work.
24:24
Speaker 1: Her son has a pretty intense epilepsy, so he can't work.
24:28
Speaker 1: She's a caretaker for him, even though he's I think
24:30
Speaker 1: she said he's fifty three. She desperately needs the food
24:36
Speaker 1: that comes. It was you could just tell by the
24:37
Speaker 1: condition of where she lived in her home and the
24:40
Speaker 1: stipend that she receives in the government's very small. It's
24:43
Speaker 1: less than so security in the US, and to see
24:46
Speaker 1: how thankful she was and tell her story, and she
24:48
Speaker 1: cried a lot because she was so thankful that there
24:51
Speaker 1: is a group like IFCJ that is giving her the
24:54
Speaker 1: food she needs to live, so she can also live
24:57
Speaker 1: for her son, because when she's gone, there's no one
25:00
Speaker 1: else to take care of him. He will go into
25:02
Speaker 1: some sort of assisted living mental health facility. From what
25:06
Speaker 1: we were told today, She clearly doesn't want that to
25:08
Speaker 1: happen anytime soon. She's a mom that's trying to stay
25:12
Speaker 1: alive who cannot walk for her son so he doesn't
25:17
Speaker 1: get institutionalized in essence, and looking at how thankful she
25:22
Speaker 1: was for and for people that are listening don't know
25:24
Speaker 1: what IFCG does. They do a lot of different things,
25:26
Speaker 1: but one of the things you guys do is you
25:27
Speaker 1: mentioned the meals. How many meals do you guys deliver
25:30
Speaker 1: to people in Israel a month or a year.
25:32
Speaker 3: Just from soup kitchens, we'd deliver over three million meals
25:36
Speaker 3: a year. And that's besides hundreds of thousands every single
25:40
Speaker 3: month that we're delivering through food boxes, food tickets, food cards,
25:45
Speaker 3: meals on wheels. There's nowhere in Israel that there's a
25:50
Speaker 3: person in need that doesn't have access to food from
25:54
Speaker 3: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and we even
25:57
Speaker 3: help the government of Israel build the first nation small
26:00
Speaker 3: food program in America. There's food stamps that at least
26:04
Speaker 3: someone could have food even if they're very poor. Israel,
26:07
Speaker 3: we have to remember as a young country, and it
26:09
Speaker 3: was started by.
26:11
Speaker 2: Let's remind you how young it.
26:12
Speaker 3: Is nineteen forty eight Israel was established, but it shouldn't
26:15
Speaker 3: be forgotten then.
26:16
Speaker 2: My parents' lifetime. Where I was sitting yesterday was actually Jordan.
26:19
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, hmm.
26:21
Speaker 2: That's just crazy to me. We were standing in part
26:23
Speaker 2: of the old Sting and they're like, just so you know,
26:24
Speaker 2: you were standing.
26:25
Speaker 3: In Georgia and Jews weren't allowed there and.
26:27
Speaker 2: Jews weren't allowed there and that was until what year?
26:30
Speaker 3: That was until the nineteen sixty seven.
26:32
Speaker 2: That was okay, Yeah, So nineteen sixty.
26:34
Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty seven is when we got Jerusalem after the
26:37
Speaker 3: Arab countries attacked Israel trying to take away the little
26:40
Speaker 3: piece of Israel that we had. They lost in Israel
26:43
Speaker 3: conquered Jerusalem in six days and whenever.
26:45
Speaker 2: Israel concert, that is the famous war.
26:48
Speaker 3: That's the famous war. Six days, six days, you work,
26:50
Speaker 3: on the seventh day, you rest, And that was the
26:53
Speaker 3: War of Jerusalem. But it's it's you know, there was
26:58
Speaker 3: a very famous quote for Warren Buffett. He said, it's
27:02
Speaker 3: easier to make money than it is to effectively distribute it. Yeah,
27:06
Speaker 3: and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has excellence
27:09
Speaker 3: in distributing because our average donation is around fifty dollars
27:13
Speaker 3: a month. We recognize every single penny makes a difference,
27:16
Speaker 3: and so every meal is done with integrity and given
27:20
Speaker 3: with full love and respect. But we do it in
27:23
Speaker 3: a way that is as cost effective as possible. We
27:26
Speaker 3: work with an organization that saves fruits and vegetables that
27:30
Speaker 3: would otherwise be thrown out from fields across Israel. They're
27:34
Speaker 3: in perfect condition and we are able to distribute them
27:37
Speaker 3: too elderly as soup in the winter. That we're always
27:41
Speaker 3: finding new ways both to hold the government of Israel
27:43
Speaker 3: accountable and get matching funds and give them our plans
27:46
Speaker 3: of how you can effectively distribute food, but also to
27:50
Speaker 3: wherever we see someone that's hungry, be there to say,
27:53
Speaker 3: just like the woman that you met today, this is
27:55
Speaker 3: from Christians around the world who love you, and very often, Ben,
27:59
Speaker 3: it's the food, of course, another day of living, another
28:02
Speaker 3: day of having that sustenance that they've been praying for.
28:05
Speaker 3: But even more than that, I think it's feeling loved the.
28:11
Speaker 2: People loved you talk about love.
28:13
Speaker 1: One of the other things that we got to witness
28:15
Speaker 1: today was there's a really cool project and I hope
28:19
Speaker 1: that people in America will do this where elderly a
28:22
Speaker 1: lot of them eighty years older above, can come every
28:25
Speaker 1: day and they can paint and help create things they're
28:29
Speaker 1: sold in the gift shop and they get subsidized about
28:32
Speaker 1: thirty percent of their pension or their government aid to
28:35
Speaker 1: come and do this.
28:35
Speaker 2: And many of them have been doing it.
28:36
Speaker 1: For twenty twenty five, twenty seven years. There's even six
28:39
Speaker 1: married couples who work there. They're not allowed to work together,
28:41
Speaker 1: which is even help more funny to that, Like, it
28:44
Speaker 1: was hysterical when I found that out.
28:46
Speaker 2: But there were people in their nineties. There were people.
28:49
Speaker 1: There's a woman who's legally blind and they basically created
28:52
Speaker 1: a way for her to still make her projects. It
28:55
Speaker 1: was some of the most beautiful like throws. There was
29:00
Speaker 1: some table runners that they make can make. They're just
29:05
Speaker 1: beautiful pot pottery that they were pan painted.
29:11
Speaker 2: And you see this and you're like, these people have
29:13
Speaker 2: a purpose and.
29:14
Speaker 1: They were loving what they were doing at this age,
29:16
Speaker 1: giving them a place where they belong. They were saying
29:18
Speaker 1: during COVID that thirty percent of the workers could didn't
29:22
Speaker 1: come back afterwards because they said in their homes and
29:26
Speaker 1: they lost that skill at that older age. They lost
29:29
Speaker 1: the ability to be mobile and go get on the bus,
29:31
Speaker 1: which is so sad, but also tells you how much
29:33
Speaker 1: community matters. You're not isolated, you're not home alone. And
29:36
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that you guys Ifcj's sponsor,
29:39
Speaker 1: which is amazing giving these elderly people a place to
29:41
Speaker 1: be important and significant and also to creates thing beautiful.
29:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's incredible because all those elderly that you saw
29:48
Speaker 3: live below the poverty line. They live on around six
29:50
Speaker 3: hundred dollars a month. Almost all of them are immigrants
29:53
Speaker 3: to Israel. You see the Ethiopians together from the once
29:57
Speaker 3: last tribe of Dan and they're speaking I'm Hurrik. And
29:59
Speaker 3: you see the Russians sitting together and speaking Russian, and
30:02
Speaker 3: the Ukrainians and the French, and many of them don't
30:06
Speaker 3: have family.
30:07
Speaker 2: And so this simple this is their family.
30:09
Speaker 3: This is their family. We give them a bus card
30:12
Speaker 3: that they're able to come, but for them that saves
30:14
Speaker 3: them money and gives them somewhere to go. We give
30:16
Speaker 3: them a place to go where they can actually be
30:17
Speaker 3: valued and develop a skill and be selling their work.
30:21
Speaker 3: And we give them lunch every day that for them.
30:24
Speaker 1: Maybe they're only hot meal of the day we found
30:25
Speaker 1: out today, which is incredible.
30:27
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's saving lives and it's you know, in
30:30
Speaker 3: the scriptures, we see God says specifically feed the hungry,
30:33
Speaker 3: clothe the naked, shelter the poor, and so that's what
30:36
Speaker 3: we do. We look at all of our philanthropy here
30:38
Speaker 3: in Israel, all of our projects are saving lives through
30:41
Speaker 3: the eyes of what does the scripture say? And so
30:43
Speaker 3: every day we have Jews returning home to Israel from
30:46
Speaker 3: the four corners of the Earth. We bring them on
30:48
Speaker 3: Alia from places where they're persecuted, from South America, from
30:52
Speaker 3: across the former Soviet Union, from France, from countries I
30:56
Speaker 3: can't even say on air because they're secretive and it
31:00
Speaker 3: be dangerous. But there's still Jews coming home every single
31:04
Speaker 3: day with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews because
31:07
Speaker 3: that's what it says in the scriptures.
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Speaker 1: You guys, purpose is incredible and I hope that people
31:12
Speaker 1: that are listening will go check you out IFCJ dot org.
31:14
Speaker 2: That's IFCJ dot org and you can just see what
31:17
Speaker 2: they do.
31:17
Speaker 1: There's a lot of videos online, so you can check
31:19
Speaker 1: them out on social media. What are the biggest needs
31:22
Speaker 1: now with the ceasefire, because the work now is really
31:26
Speaker 1: just begun. In many ways, that's also part of what
31:28
Speaker 1: I've witnessed here. A lot of people lost their homes,
31:31
Speaker 1: a lot of people lost where they live, they lost
31:32
Speaker 1: their communities. There's a lot of needs right now, and
31:35
Speaker 1: there are going to be a lot of needs for
31:36
Speaker 1: some time, because when you have a basically a three
31:39
Speaker 1: year war, it is it changes your community, especially.
31:43
Speaker 2: The areas that were hit hard.
31:45
Speaker 1: What are the needs now that that are for people
31:47
Speaker 1: that are listening that might want to get.
31:48
Speaker 3: Involved, Well, let me give you an example what rebuilding means.
31:52
Speaker 3: Rebuilding means that there's communities the Kibusim on the border
31:55
Speaker 3: with Gaza that we're invaded on October seventh.
31:58
Speaker 2: And explain to people, I know what it is, but
32:01
Speaker 2: it's neighborhoods.
32:02
Speaker 1: It's neighborhoods, a neighborhood, just like we're going nine percent
32:05
Speaker 1: people listening right now, it's you imagine your neighborhood as
32:09
Speaker 1: a neighborhood being attacked exactly.
32:11
Speaker 3: It's a neighborhood that has its own grocery store, that
32:14
Speaker 3: has its own kindergartens and schools, that has homes that
32:17
Speaker 3: but it's a closer community. The term keyboots kind of
32:20
Speaker 3: alludes to very very close knit community where everyone's doing
32:24
Speaker 3: things together. You don't lock your doors, you go into
32:26
Speaker 3: people's houses without knocking, you eat meals together. It's a
32:29
Speaker 3: very close knit community, which is beautiful, which is why
32:32
Speaker 3: they always said we have the best life here. And
32:34
Speaker 3: those homes, those buildings are all destroyed. I was just
32:39
Speaker 3: in near O's where one in four people from that
32:43
Speaker 3: community were either killed or kidnapped. The homes are destroyed.
32:47
Speaker 1: I say that again in four and I can say
32:50
Speaker 1: this because I want to paint the picture. Imagine your
32:52
Speaker 1: neighborhood where you're listening right now. I live in a gated,
32:55
Speaker 1: guarded community. One in four in my neighborhood was gone
33:00
Speaker 1: on the day of the attack.
33:01
Speaker 3: Ye including the Bibas family, those beautiful redhead kids one
33:05
Speaker 3: year old and three year old and their mother who
33:08
Speaker 3: are kidnapped and then murdered, and they were taken just
33:11
Speaker 3: a mile away into Gaza. You have to realize how
33:14
Speaker 3: close things are. It's these communities are a mile away
33:17
Speaker 3: from the Gaza strip where Hamas terrorists are planning their
33:21
Speaker 3: next October seventh, But these communities are still destroyed, but
33:25
Speaker 3: people want to go back. That's the resilience here in Israel.
33:28
Speaker 3: We believe in life, we believe in planting, we believe
33:30
Speaker 3: in rebuilding. And they turned to the Fellowship and said,
33:33
Speaker 3: we need our kindergarten at least refurbished so we could
33:37
Speaker 3: send our children to a kindergarten that's not burnt and destroyed.
33:41
Speaker 3: And so the Fellowship now is renovating all the kindergartens
33:45
Speaker 3: on the border with Gaza. You have the hospital that
33:48
Speaker 3: was hit by Iranian ballistic missile. An entire floor of
33:52
Speaker 3: the hospital, the surgical unit was destroyed.
33:55
Speaker 2: Do you know why buy an Iranian missile?
33:57
Speaker 3: Buy an Iranian missile. The reason why there weren't hundreds
34:00
Speaker 3: of deaths there is because the day before they made
34:04
Speaker 3: the decision to close down this unsecured surgical unit and
34:09
Speaker 3: move everyone to the Mimi Gan, which means armored or
34:13
Speaker 3: protected surgical unit that the International Fellowship of Christians and
34:18
Speaker 3: Jews sponsored and built just a few years before.
34:21
Speaker 1: One of the things that you guys do that I
34:23
Speaker 1: also think is so incredible is you give out I
34:25
Speaker 1: think a lot of people think that there's like unlimited
34:27
Speaker 1: funds in Israel, not true by the government. That's a lie.
34:31
Speaker 1: I've witnessed it. A lot of people think the Israel's
34:33
Speaker 1: are very rich country is actually not. And one of
34:36
Speaker 1: the things that I also think misconceptions is why I
34:38
Speaker 1: tell people to come here, is that there's just a
34:41
Speaker 1: plentiful amount of military goods.
34:44
Speaker 2: Also not true.
34:46
Speaker 1: You guys give out armored vehicles, armored military vehicles, also
34:52
Speaker 1: armored ambulances, flat jackets, basically bullet provests for first responders
34:58
Speaker 1: that are not provided by the by the government here
35:01
Speaker 1: in Israel.
35:02
Speaker 2: That is how real the need is.
35:04
Speaker 3: Yes. On October seventh, then our team was at the
35:09
Speaker 3: place the farthest you could go that the military would
35:12
Speaker 3: let you go on the way down south, handing out
35:14
Speaker 3: bulletproof vests because when all the other infrastructures fell apart,
35:18
Speaker 3: we were there to provide and so for the heroes
35:20
Speaker 3: going down south to try to save lives, we were
35:22
Speaker 3: just passing out bulletproof vests. And I was watching television
35:26
Speaker 3: and there was a live interview with one of these heroes,
35:30
Speaker 3: a civilian hero who was driving down south in his
35:33
Speaker 3: car and wearing his vest, and he came under live
35:35
Speaker 3: fire on TV from Ramas terrorists and he got out
35:38
Speaker 3: of his cars. He's still reporting and he's hiding in
35:40
Speaker 3: the bushes and he's trying to figure out what to do,
35:42
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you see he's wearing a
35:44
Speaker 3: vest from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. And
35:47
Speaker 3: the person who led so much of this heroic work
35:52
Speaker 3: saving countless lives on October seventh was Keith Isaacson. He's
35:57
Speaker 3: the head of security for that area that the old
36:00
Speaker 3: The only reason why he survived is because the Fellowship
36:02
Speaker 3: provided him with a bulletproof vehicle. He was shot at
36:05
Speaker 3: over two dozen times. Even the wheels are bulletproof.
36:09
Speaker 2: Wow.
36:10
Speaker 3: So without that car, he wouldn't be alive, and many
36:13
Speaker 3: other people wouldn't be alive. Because it's only because he
36:16
Speaker 3: was alive he was able to arrange for the rescue.
36:19
Speaker 3: I was on the ground during the Iranian War at
36:22
Speaker 3: a site where a huge missile hit. Six buildings were destroyed.
36:26
Speaker 3: Me and my team were there as there were still
36:28
Speaker 3: first responders working trying to uncover the bodies, trying to
36:31
Speaker 3: save people's lives. And as they were working, I realized
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Speaker 3: there's sirens going off, there's missiles falling, and they don't
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Speaker 3: have flack jackets, and so immediately we went and provided them.
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Speaker 3: These first responders need to be protected, both because they
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Speaker 3: deserve to be that's what's right, that's what's just. These
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Speaker 3: people risking their lives instead of being in the bomb
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Speaker 3: shelter with their family should be protected. But also because
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Speaker 3: the bombs that are trying to kill them are coming
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Speaker 3: from evil and the black jackets that are protecting them
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Speaker 3: are coming from forces of good Christians who are saying,
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Speaker 3: we sanctify life. And that's a message that we have
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Speaker 3: to shout off of rooftops. There are still people in
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Speaker 3: this world who sanctify life.
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Speaker 1: I tell you what, as we wrap this day one
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Speaker 1: I have felt incredibly safe here the entire time. I
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Speaker 1: my family back very soon. I want them to see
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I'll be a meeting with with Huckabee, a dear friend
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Speaker 1: of mine who's US Ambassador to Israel, so I'm gonna
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