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Iran Strikes Back, Netanyahu "We Had to Act NOW" Can Trump Broker Peace Again? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: So let me tell you exactly what's going on right
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Speaker 1: now in Israel. We're going to be joined by guest
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Speaker 1: who is going to give us a real update of
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Speaker 1: what's happening in Israel at this hour coming up in
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Speaker 1: a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: But before we get to that, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Going to give you the headlines and what really is
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Speaker 1: going on at the moment. Donald Trump has come out
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Speaker 1: and said that Israel and Iran.
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Speaker 2: Will come to a deal soon.
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Speaker 1: He also has warned Tehran against attacking the US. We
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Speaker 1: also know that Iran has now bombed Israeli civilians. Thirteen
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Speaker 1: that we know of have died now more than three
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety have been injured.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Trump, in an early morning social media post, said that
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Speaker 1: the United States had nothing to do with the attack
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Speaker 1: on Iran, as Israel and Iran trade missile attacks for
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Speaker 1: the third straight day. Iran, however, has said that in
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Speaker 1: the again in their words, that they will continue to fight.
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Speaker 1: That is again, welcome to what you're dealing with with
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Speaker 1: a terrorist country, right right, I mean, this is the
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Speaker 1: reality of the situation. He also said that it would
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Speaker 1: hold Iran is now, saying they would hold the US
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Speaker 1: as their words and I'm translating now, so bear with
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Speaker 1: me accountable for providing Israel with much of its deep
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Speaker 1: arsenal of weaponry, for its backing of Israel. So they're
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Speaker 1: saying there is no difference between the two. Now, Israel
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Speaker 1: targeted Iran's Defense Ministry headquarters in Tehran and sites it
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Speaker 1: alleged were associated with Iran's nuclear program, while Iranian missiles
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Speaker 1: evaded that evaded Israeli air defenses slammed into buildings deep
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Speaker 1: inside of Israel, killing and they targeted civilians and killed civilians.
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Speaker 1: Quote Trump said, if we are attacked in any way,
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Speaker 1: shape or formed by Iran, the full strength and might
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Speaker 1: of the US armed forces will come down on you
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Speaker 1: at levels never seen before. Hours later, Trump took to
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Speaker 1: social media again to predict that Iran and Israel should
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Speaker 1: make a deal and will make a deal now. The
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Speaker 1: US President said he has a track record for de
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Speaker 1: escalating conflicts and that he would get Israel and irand
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Speaker 1: to see hostilities just like I got Indian Pakistan to
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Speaker 1: make after the two countries' recent cross border confrontation. Now,
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Speaker 1: India struck targets inside of Pakistan after militants in April
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Speaker 1: mastered twenty six tourists in the Indian controlled Tashmir area.
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Speaker 1: Pakistan has denied any link to the attackers. Following India
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Speaker 1: strikes in Pakistan, the two sides exchanged heavy fire along
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Speaker 1: their de facto borders, followed by missile and drone strikes
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Speaker 1: in each other's territories, mainly targeting military installations and air bases.
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Speaker 1: Now it was the most serious confrontation in decades between
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Speaker 1: those two countries at the time, and so Trump on
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Speaker 1: Sunday repeated his claim disputed by India, that the two
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Speaker 1: sides agreed to cease fire after you'd offer to help
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Speaker 1: both nations with trade if they agreed to quote de escalate.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Trump also pointed to efforts by his administration during his
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Speaker 1: first term to mediate disputes between Serbia and Kosovo and
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Speaker 1: Egypt and Ethiopia. Likewise, he said, quote, we will have peace,
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Speaker 1: all capital letters soon between Israel and Iran. Many calls
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Speaker 1: and meetings now taking place. I do a lot and
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Speaker 1: never get credit for anything. But that's okay that people understand.
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Speaker 1: Make the Middle East great again, the president signed off. Now,
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Speaker 1: the growing conflict, as you know, between Israel and Iran
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Speaker 1: is testing Trump, who ran on a promise to quickly
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Speaker 1: end the Brital wars in Gaza and Ukraine and build
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Speaker 1: a foreign policy that more broadly favors steering clear of
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Speaker 1: foreign conflicts.
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Speaker 2: And Trump has struggled to find.
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Speaker 1: An endgame to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. After
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Speaker 1: criticizing President Joe Biden during his last year campaign for
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Speaker 1: preventing Israel from carrying out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites,
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Speaker 1: Trump found himself making the case for the Israelis to
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Speaker 1: give diplomacy a chance. But the reality was, after the
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Speaker 1: newest report came out about just how close Iran was
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Speaker 1: to getting that nuclear weapon, it was obvious that Israel
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Speaker 1: could not take any more chance and they had to
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Speaker 1: act when they did. Now all this is happening, by
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Speaker 1: the way, as Trump also we got breaking news. Spoke
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Speaker 1: with the Russian President Vitamin Putin on Saturday about the
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Speaker 1: growing Israel Iran conflict, and Trump is set to travel
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Speaker 1: later Sunday to Canada for the Group of Seven leadership summit,
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Speaker 1: where the Middle East crisis will loom large over his
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Speaker 1: talks of leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and
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Speaker 1: Japan and the European Union. Now, some influential backers of
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Speaker 1: Trump are urging him to keep the US out of
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Speaker 1: Israel's escalating conflict with Iran.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you a great example.
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Speaker 1: Marjory Taylor, green Republican from Georgia, and Turning Point founder
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk and former Fox USO's Tucker Carlson are among
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Speaker 1: the prominent backers of Trump who are arguing voters back
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Speaker 1: Trump because he would not involve the nation in foreign conflicts.
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Speaker 1: So there is that side of this as well. Kirk
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Speaker 1: even said last week that before Israel launce strikes on
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Speaker 1: Iran that he was concerned the situation could lead to
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Speaker 1: a massive issue in MAGA and potentially disrupt our momentum
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Speaker 1: and our policies that are insanely successful for President Trump.
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Speaker 1: You also had the Kentucky Republican Ran Paul praising Trump
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Speaker 1: for having shun restraint and so do you hope the
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Speaker 1: president's instincts will quote unquote prevail. And now one other
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Speaker 1: thing that was said that was also very interesting. He
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Speaker 1: said this in an interview on Meet the Press. Quote so,
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be very hard to come
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Speaker 1: out of this and have a negotiated settlement. That is
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Speaker 1: what Center Paul said in appearance on Meet the Press,
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Speaker 1: he said, quite I see more war and more carnage,
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Speaker 1: and it's not the US job to involve itself in
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Speaker 1: this war. So that is kind of where we are
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Speaker 1: at the moment. Now, let's talk about who has been hit.
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Speaker 1: That's also important. Israel has killed the Iranian intelligence chief
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Speaker 1: and his deputy in wide scaled, targeted strikes. The Israeli
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Speaker 1: media sources and the Iranian state media both confirmed late
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Speaker 1: on Sunday that the IDF had succeeded in killing Iran's
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Speaker 1: intelligence chief and his deputy.
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Speaker 2: That is a major blow to the regime.
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Speaker 1: The fact that Israel was able to locate and to
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Speaker 1: eliminate the highest official in Iran's intelligence hierarchy suggests an
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Speaker 1: unprecedented depth of intelligence penetration in Iran. The entire regime
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Speaker 1: quote may be compromised, is how it was described earlier.
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Speaker 1: The Times of Israel reported quote. Iranian Saint media officially
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Speaker 1: confirms that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Guard chief CHI Brigade
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Speaker 1: General Mohammad Kazimi and his deputy were killed in an
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Speaker 1: Israeli strike today. There were also reports that Israel had
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Speaker 1: struck the headquarters of the parliamentary forces that had suppressed
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Speaker 1: popular uprisings in the past, potentially opening the way for citizens.
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Speaker 2: To quote unquote rise up now.
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Speaker 1: The IDEF also said it had conducted strikes on infrastructure
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Speaker 1: belonging to the COUD forces, the IRGC knows, the Iranian
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Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard and Elite Terrorists Force, and the Iranian military
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Speaker 1: in Tehran, as well as numerous weapons production sites across Iran.
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Speaker 1: Iran managed to fire dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, None of them did quote significant damage. Now
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Speaker 1: Israel has near complete freedom of operation above Iranian territories.
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Speaker 1: The regime's air defenses have been almost completely destroyed.
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Speaker 2: There were also reports.
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Speaker 1: And videos on social media suggesting that the residents of
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Speaker 1: Tehran are fleeing the capital because they realize now in
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Speaker 1: Iran that Israel can, in escence from the air.
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Speaker 2: Do whatever they want to do.
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Speaker 1: So you look at all of this right now, and
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Speaker 1: then you see that Aaran says, well, We're going to
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Speaker 1: come back at you, and you better be ready for this.
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Speaker 1: And we have the news now that we have thirteen
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Speaker 1: civilians that have died and a significant amount of others
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety injured in Israel. So the hope
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Speaker 1: that the President is describing, and I think we can
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Speaker 1: all agree this would be a fabulous moment, is if
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Speaker 1: what he says can actually take place, that we will
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Speaker 1: in fact get some sort of deal done very very soon.
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Speaker 2: If that happens, it would be amazing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: If that happens, it will be good for everyone involved.
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Speaker 1: It's also clear that they're saying there is no way
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Speaker 1: that we are going to there's no way that we're
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Speaker 1: going to allow them to get nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 2: We cannot allow them to do it. That is something
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Speaker 2: we must make sure never ever happen.
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Speaker 1: All Right, I want to get into what Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: has had to say and at the White House. Here
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Speaker 1: is what the President said as he was leaving to
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Speaker 1: get on Marine one about what's going on in Israel
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Speaker 1: right now. This was again when he was leaving for
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Speaker 1: the G seven summit. And here is part of what
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Speaker 1: he had to say.
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Speaker 3: But it was beautiful, an environment almost say, we.
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Speaker 2: Had to deal with you lot. Well, we get along
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Speaker 2: very well.
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Speaker 4: And I will tell you that I think I have
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Speaker 4: great respect for each other.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's the president. Can you give us the sense
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Speaker 1: of what we're really socided to get relation street in
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Speaker 1: Arad in Israel.
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Speaker 2: Well, I hope there's going to be a deal. I
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Speaker 2: think it's time for a deal, and we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 2: But sometimes they have to fight it out. But we're
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Speaker 2: going to see what happens. I think there's a good
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Speaker 2: chance he'll be a deal.
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Speaker 5: After what.
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Speaker 1: As you can hear him say there there will be
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Speaker 1: some type of deal. He was also asked about do
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Speaker 1: you support Israel. President Trump's response to that question, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't work in love Israel.
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Speaker 1: Will the US he's a support Israel.
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Speaker 2: We do, yeah, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: We do continue to support Israel. Yes, we do that.
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Speaker 1: Making it clear as the President was leaving there, exactly
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Speaker 1: what is having what is happening there now, the attacks on.
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Speaker 2: Israel are brutal.
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Speaker 1: Right now, Fox was actually live on TV as the
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Speaker 1: team there for Fox in Israel, We're forced to take
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Speaker 1: cover inside an Israeli bomb shelter during a live hit
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Speaker 1: as Iran is attacking and indiscriminately killing women and children.
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Speaker 2: Now I want you to hear part of that report
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 6: So we've seen a massive police presence here throughout the morning,
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Speaker 6: Medics again going through this area door to door. We
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Speaker 6: are seeing all of them right now, evacuating this area,
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Speaker 6: getting themselves to shelter, something we are going to do
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Speaker 6: as well. If those sirens do sound off here in
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Speaker 6: Tel Aviv, meaning that the city would once again be
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Speaker 6: under attack, and it would be something that we have
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Speaker 6: not seen in recent days. Typically these Iranian missile and
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Speaker 6: drone strikes have been happening at night, but for those
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Speaker 6: sirens to take place during the day, it shows just
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Speaker 6: once again the changing experience that Israelis are living through
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Speaker 6: amid this escalation here in.
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Speaker 2: The Middle East. Back to you, thank you, Thank you, Alex.
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Speaker 7: So obviously you know what we're looking at behind you
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Speaker 7: is evidence that the Iron Dome did not get all
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Speaker 7: the missiles that were that were incoming for Israel. And
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Speaker 7: it's not the only those are not the only that's
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Speaker 7: not the only missile that sort of got past the
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Speaker 7: Iron Dome.
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Speaker 2: What is the you.
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Speaker 7: Know, and obviously you have Israel, you have the United States,
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Speaker 7: but there are also other countries that are trying to
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Speaker 7: intercept these missiles. They have a long way to go
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Speaker 7: from Iran. It's it's about one thousand miles. They're going
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Speaker 7: over Jordan, They're going over Saudi Arabia, and we know
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Speaker 7: that those two countries are trying to help shoot down
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Speaker 7: some of these missiles. What other efforts are there, What
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Speaker 7: other countries in the region are working to help shoot
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Speaker 7: down some of these missiles that are incoming to Israel.
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Speaker 6: We're getting we're getting some sirens right now. We're going
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Speaker 6: to move ourselves to shelter. We're going to follow you,
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Speaker 6: but you can stay with us as we continue to move. So,
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Speaker 6: to answer your question, the air defense systems in Israel,
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Speaker 6: it's not made up just of the Iron Dome. We
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Speaker 6: also have David's Sling as well as the Arrow, all
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Speaker 6: of which have different capabilities. Careful here as we move
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Speaker 6: down on these stairs. So we're gonna move with everyone
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Speaker 6: into the shelter, into the closest shelter that we can find.
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Speaker 6: As a result, these sirens mean that Tel Aviv is
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Speaker 6: one of the cities that the IDEA believes could be
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Speaker 6: the center of this next incoming attack. So we have
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Speaker 6: seen a US presence continue to defend Israel as well.
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Speaker 6: We know that the Army and the Navy, they have
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Speaker 6: been using their resources to strike down some of these
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Speaker 6: missiles and these drones that we've seen in recent days.
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Speaker 6: As you mentioned Jordan the other day, Jordan was able
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Speaker 6: to intercept some of the drones that breached its airspace.
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Speaker 6: But so far in terms of the international response, really
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Speaker 6: we're seeing Israel defend its skies as well as the
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Speaker 6: US trying to step in. So right now we're walking
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Speaker 6: into this underground bunker. This appears to be a parking garage,
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Speaker 6: one of the types of areas that would work well
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Speaker 6: because it's insulated with concrete. This is the kind of
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Speaker 6: area again, similar to a stairwell or a bomb shelter,
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Speaker 6: is the kind of place that people will need to
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Speaker 6: stay until we get the all clear.
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Speaker 1: Well, this is what life is like now in Israel,
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Speaker 1: and you can hear it from this reporter as she
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Speaker 1: is rushing into this bomb shelter trying to give this report.
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Speaker 2: Of what is happening.
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Speaker 1: And you know, net Yahoo was one of those who
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Speaker 1: also did an interview with Brett Behar at Fox and
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what he had to say
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Speaker 1: as well about the relentless bombardment, the barrage of strikes
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Speaker 1: between Israel and Iran continuing.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: So that's a difference they're a terrorist regime. We can't
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Speaker 3: have youan have nuclear weapons. And by the way, our
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Speaker 3: intel shows that they intend to give these nuclear weapons
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Speaker 3: to the Huti proxies and others, and that's nuclear terrorism
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Speaker 3: on a global scale. It threatens everyone. Thing is they
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Speaker 3: have plans to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles right now eight
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Speaker 3: thousand kilometers very soon, just at a little distance, and
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Speaker 3: they can reach the eastern seaboard of the United States.
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Speaker 3: These people who chant death to America, try to assassinate
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Speaker 3: President Trump twice, killed two hundred and forty one of
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Speaker 3: your marines in Beirut, killed and injured thousands of American
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Speaker 3: soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, try to bomb a restaurant
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Speaker 3: in Washington, DC, chant death to America, burn the American flag.
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Speaker 3: Do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and
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Speaker 3: the means to deliver them to your cities? Of course not.
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Speaker 3: So we're defending ourselves, but we're also defending the world.
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Speaker 4: I want to talk about the nuclear threat, and I
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Speaker 4: want to talk about President Trump. You just said Ron
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Speaker 4: tried to assassinate President Trump twice. Do you have intel
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Speaker 4: that the assassination attempts from President Trump were directly from Iran.
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Speaker 3: Through proxies, Yes, through their intel. Yes, they want to
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Speaker 3: kill and look, he's enemy number one. He's a decisive leader.
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Speaker 3: He never took the path that others still to try
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Speaker 3: to bargain with him in a way that is weak,
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Speaker 3: giving them, giving them basically a pathway to a rich uranium,
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Speaker 3: which means a pathway to the bomb, patting it with
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Speaker 3: billions and billions of dollars. He took up his fake
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Speaker 3: agreement and basically tore it up. He killed the custom
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Speaker 3: suli money. He said, made it very clear, including now
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Speaker 3: you cannot have a nuclear weapon, which means you cannot enrich.
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Speaker 3: He's been very forceful. So for them, he's he's enemy
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Speaker 3: number one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Look they also try to kill me, but I'm his
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Speaker 3: junior partner.
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Speaker 2: One day.
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Speaker 3: You understand, President Trump is a great threat to Ron's
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Speaker 3: plans to weaponize nuclear weapons and use them.
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Speaker 1: You Listenetnyahu here. I mean, I don't know where he
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Speaker 1: is doing this interview. It looks like it's a very
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Speaker 1: secure location, but he said, the reason why we launch
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Speaker 1: this operation is incredibly simple.
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Speaker 2: Billions.
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Speaker 4: Bret trey X in Tel Aviv, Trey thank you joining
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Speaker 4: us now. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ntya, Minister, welcome back
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Speaker 4: to Special.
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Speaker 3: Report, Thanky, good to be with you.
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Speaker 2: Bet.
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Speaker 4: First of all, let me start at the beginning. Why
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Speaker 4: did you launch this operation now?
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Speaker 3: Because we were facing an imminent threat? A dual existential threat. One,
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Speaker 3: the threat of Iran rushing to weaponize there in which
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Speaker 3: you ring him to make atomic bombs for the specific
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Speaker 3: and declared intent to destroy us. Second, a rush to
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Speaker 3: increase their ballistic missile arsenal into the capacity that they
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Speaker 3: would have thirty six hundred weapons a year, new weapons
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Speaker 3: within three years, ten thousand ballistic missiles, each one weighing
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Speaker 3: a ton coming in at mock six right into our
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Speaker 3: cities as you saw today and then in twenty in
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Speaker 3: six years, twenty thousand. That's no country I can sustain that,
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Speaker 3: and certainly not a country the size.
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Speaker 1: on what's happening in Israel right now. Iranian bombs, Israeli civilians,
21:23
Speaker 1: thirteen dead, three hundred ninety injuris the latest numbers that
21:26
Speaker 1: I have a very dear friend of the show and
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Speaker 1: an incredible organization that so many of you when things
21:32
Speaker 1: happen like this, when Israel is attacked, they asked me
21:34
Speaker 1: over and over again, how do I help?
21:37
Speaker 2: How do I get involved? What do I do?
21:40
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that tonight because there's so
21:42
Speaker 1: many that want to help the people in Israel, and
21:45
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. And I want you to check
21:47
Speaker 1: out IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org. They are
21:52
Speaker 1: doing unbelievable work helping people that are affected in Israel.
21:57
Speaker 2: And we're going to have.
21:58
Speaker 1: That give you or continue to tell you that coming up.
22:00
Speaker 1: But I want to bring in the CEO Yael. You
22:03
Speaker 1: were actually on your way back to Israel halfway there
22:08
Speaker 1: on your plane when your plane was turned around because
22:11
Speaker 1: the attacks had begun.
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Speaker 2: Correct, That's exactly correct.
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Speaker 5: I was on my way to Israel around three and
22:16
Speaker 5: a half hours into the flight when the pilot came
22:19
Speaker 5: on and said, at this very moment, we're praying for
22:22
Speaker 5: Israeli soldiers and the air force that's right now bombing
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Speaker 5: the Iranian nuclear reactors, and so all the airspaces closed.
22:29
Speaker 5: We have to turn around to go back to America.
22:32
Speaker 5: As we're at risk for hijacking and hacking, and we
22:35
Speaker 5: don't know when we're going to be able to get back.
22:37
Speaker 5: So I've been in America since Thursday and airspace is
22:42
Speaker 5: still closed. But I continue to oversee all the operations
22:46
Speaker 5: on the ground in Israel and we continue to save
22:49
Speaker 5: lives as we do throughout every crisis.
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Speaker 1: You guys the work that you do, and this is
22:55
Speaker 1: one of those sad moments but important moments where I
22:57
Speaker 1: hope people will really listen to what the needs are.
23:01
Speaker 1: One of the things you guys do that's amazing is
23:03
Speaker 1: you build bomb shelters and you put them out there
23:06
Speaker 1: all over where people need them in Israel. The other
23:09
Speaker 1: thing is you guys do armored ambulances, which is sad
23:13
Speaker 1: that you would need an armored ambulance, but you do
23:16
Speaker 1: because people die during a lot of these attacks because
23:19
Speaker 1: the ambulances can't get there safely and they have to wait,
23:22
Speaker 1: and that costs human lives that could be saved. And
23:26
Speaker 1: so that's part of the work that you guys do
23:28
Speaker 1: when there are these attacks, and we're seeing these attacks
23:31
Speaker 1: happen on these civilians right now as well.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, actually on Friday, there was not only attacks
23:38
Speaker 5: on civilians that we saw entire neighborhoods in Tel Aviv
23:41
Speaker 5: and the suburbs at Yam be hit by missiles and
23:44
Speaker 5: completely destroyed. But there were actually two ambulance drivers and
23:49
Speaker 5: a medic that was injured by the falling rocket as
23:52
Speaker 5: they were on their way to help rescue people. And
23:55
Speaker 5: so it's both that some ambulances don't even respond until
23:59
Speaker 5: it's safe, or there are people who are suffering and
24:01
Speaker 5: can't get to help. But even those heroes who use
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Speaker 5: their ambulance that's not armored, that's not protected to respond,
24:07
Speaker 5: we saw already on Friday, the first day of the bombings,
24:10
Speaker 5: that they were the first to be injured. And so
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Speaker 5: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jesus on the ground,
24:15
Speaker 5: we've placed over three thousand bomb shelters. Every single one
24:19
Speaker 5: of those bomb shelters has been used numerous times in
24:22
Speaker 5: the past few days alone from the Iranian attacks and
24:26
Speaker 5: has been saving lives. And of course we're there with
24:29
Speaker 5: the armored ambulances and we're actually placing bomb shelters as
24:33
Speaker 5: we speak. Right now. It's mills the night in Israel,
24:36
Speaker 5: and we have trucks there that are placing these bomb
24:39
Speaker 5: shelters are made in factories and we're able to put
24:41
Speaker 5: them on a huge truck and place them even under
24:43
Speaker 5: rocket attacks. So we're there then to save lives. That's
24:47
Speaker 5: our goal. To seed the hungry, to clothe the naked,
24:50
Speaker 5: to shelter the poor, and to be the watchmen on
24:52
Speaker 5: the walls of Jerusalem, to let the people of Israel
24:54
Speaker 5: know you're not alone, and to be there to save
24:57
Speaker 5: whatever lives we can.
24:58
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about what that's happening on the ground,
25:01
Speaker 1: because there's two very different things happening. One, what Israel
25:04
Speaker 1: is doing right now is they are making sure that
25:07
Speaker 1: they go after the nuclear reactors, those in the intelligence community,
25:11
Speaker 1: in the terrorist organizations of Tehran. They're going after the
25:14
Speaker 1: top people and they're having success, but they're also doing
25:17
Speaker 1: everything you can to spare innocent lives. You then look
25:20
Speaker 1: at the opposite and that's what I Ran is doing
25:23
Speaker 1: right now, and they're saying, just just bombard and go
25:27
Speaker 1: after Israel in general, kill as many people as you can.
25:31
Speaker 2: We're not going even after targeted.
25:33
Speaker 1: We're just lobbing as many missiles are as we possibly
25:37
Speaker 1: can into Israel and just kill as many Israelis as
25:41
Speaker 1: you can.
25:42
Speaker 2: That is two very different things.
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Speaker 5: That's spot on, you know. There it's been mostly children
25:48
Speaker 5: who have been killed in the past few days as
25:50
Speaker 5: their houses, of their apartment buildings were destroyed by these
25:53
Speaker 5: ballistic missiles. And then you run Israel specifically targeting the
25:58
Speaker 5: nuclear scientists who vow every single day that they're working
26:02
Speaker 5: in order to destroy Israel and wipe Israel off the map.
26:06
Speaker 5: And what we're seeing here is really a clash of civilization.
26:09
Speaker 5: You have people who cherish life, who value life, who
26:12
Speaker 5: sanctify life, the Jews and Christians around the world, Israel, America,
26:17
Speaker 5: and then you have those who worship that this death
26:20
Speaker 5: cult of the Islamic extremist, Islamic terrorists. And so what
26:25
Speaker 5: it comes down to is this, if you're not prepared
26:27
Speaker 5: to use force to defend civilization, then you have to
26:30
Speaker 5: be prepared to accept barbarism, because if we don't stop them,
26:35
Speaker 5: no one will. And this is right now, just as
26:39
Speaker 5: powerful as impactful historically as Israel's War of independence as
26:44
Speaker 5: the nineteen sixty seven war. This is a war that
26:47
Speaker 5: will decide if Israel is here next year, or God forbid,
26:51
Speaker 5: if the Islamic extremists will take over and if Israel,
26:55
Speaker 5: God forbid, falls, it doesn't stop there. It's Europe next connects.
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Speaker 5: We ready see Christians in the Middle East being targeted.
27:03
Speaker 5: I was very recently on the border with Syrias. The
27:06
Speaker 5: Fellowship in Syria was helping persecuted Christians with setting up
27:10
Speaker 5: a medical facility and providing them with foods. And we're
27:14
Speaker 5: seeing Christians being targeted in Lebanon and Syria and Iraq
27:19
Speaker 5: and Africa across the Middle East. That you see very
27:22
Speaker 5: clearly this is good versus evil and if the good
27:25
Speaker 5: are not willing to take risks that are very painful
27:29
Speaker 5: in order to make sure that our children will have
27:31
Speaker 5: freedom in the future, and we have to be ready
27:34
Speaker 5: for the Islamis to take over the entire free world.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the needs right now. And some
27:42
Speaker 1: of it is just as simple as food. You talk
27:45
Speaker 1: about the bomb shelters, you talk about the armored ambulances,
27:47
Speaker 1: the fat jackets, all of the personal protection you're for
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Speaker 1: the first.
27:51
Speaker 2: Responders to be able to actually respond.
27:54
Speaker 1: There are a lot of needs, especially knowing what Iran
27:56
Speaker 1: is saying, which is they're saying we're not stopping, We're
27:58
Speaker 1: coming after you day after day.
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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, well, what I'm seeing, what I'm hearing on
28:03
Speaker 5: the ground right now, what my staff is seeing. Just
28:06
Speaker 5: as those armored ambulances go when there's a rocket hit,
28:09
Speaker 5: and just as the first responders go with the flag
28:11
Speaker 5: jacket that the International Fellows Christians and Shoes provide, we
28:15
Speaker 5: also have our staff and volunteer that go to the
28:17
Speaker 5: site of the missile hits, and we're the first ones there.
28:21
Speaker 5: These people have lost everything in a second. They have
28:24
Speaker 5: their homes, they have their family, they have their children.
28:27
Speaker 5: It was mostly children that have been killed over the
28:29
Speaker 5: past few days, and they lost everything in one second,
28:33
Speaker 5: in one missile strike. And so the Fellowship is there
28:36
Speaker 5: before all the bureaucracy comes into place to provide them
28:40
Speaker 5: with the basics of what they need. And so right now,
28:42
Speaker 5: for already over one eight hundred families, we're providing food,
28:47
Speaker 5: we're providing the basics like shoes and clothing that they
28:51
Speaker 5: lost everything in the past day or two from these
28:53
Speaker 5: rocket and missile strikes. And so the needs are growing
28:57
Speaker 5: with every missile launch, and they're happening three four times
29:01
Speaker 5: a day. They're hitting homes, lives are being lost, and
29:05
Speaker 5: the Fellowship is the first on the ground to come
29:07
Speaker 5: and say Christians and Jews are here with you in
29:10
Speaker 5: your moment of struggle, in this moment of darkness. And
29:14
Speaker 5: there's no stronger message than that to be fulfilling the
29:17
Speaker 5: words of the Bible, the words of the Prophets, and
29:20
Speaker 5: the land of Jerusalem, not only praying with our mouth,
29:23
Speaker 5: but praying with our hands and really being there on
29:26
Speaker 5: the ground to save lives. I would say it's the
29:28
Speaker 5: greatest privilege of my life.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's a simple gift of forty five dollars to
29:34
Speaker 1: help support life saving work by providing food or shelter,
29:39
Speaker 1: or even giving more that can go towards bomb shelters
29:41
Speaker 1: or armored vehicles or armored ambulances.
29:44
Speaker 2: That is what is needed right now, and.
29:46
Speaker 1: I hope that all of you that are listening will
29:49
Speaker 1: stand with the people of Israel who are literally under
29:52
Speaker 1: siege as we speak. Every dollar helps, you can genuinely
29:56
Speaker 1: make a difference. I want you to go visit FCJ
30:01
Speaker 1: dot org. That's if CJ dot org. You can also
30:07
Speaker 1: call to give eight eight eight four eight eight if
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30:15
Speaker 1: if CJ, or go online to IFCJ dot Org to
30:20
Speaker 1: get involved. And the last thing I want to ask
30:22
Speaker 1: you is talking to people in Israel. You have family there,
30:25
Speaker 1: friends there, you live there. You're in New York right
30:27
Speaker 1: now as your plane was turned around. How terrified are
30:31
Speaker 1: the people on the ground. You deal with rockets and attacks,
30:34
Speaker 1: But this is on another level.
30:36
Speaker 5: This is on another level. These are ballistic missiles launched
30:40
Speaker 5: all the way from Iran that if even one gets through,
30:43
Speaker 5: it takes down an entire neighborhood. The people of Israel are,
30:47
Speaker 5: I think, holding two realities in their hearts, just as
30:50
Speaker 5: the Jewish people very often have throughout history, one of
30:54
Speaker 5: deep fear and sadness and worry, and the other side
30:58
Speaker 5: of hope. That there is no thing that can nothing
31:01
Speaker 5: that can put up put out our hope for the future,
31:04
Speaker 5: hope for a better world. We believe that we are
31:07
Speaker 5: exactly where God wants us. And we all of us,
31:10
Speaker 5: all of us who have read the scriptures, we know
31:12
Speaker 5: how this ends. We know who wins. We know that
31:14
Speaker 5: good ultimately overcomes bad. We know that light ultimately outshines
31:20
Speaker 5: the darkness. And so right now we continue to pray.
31:23
Speaker 5: We're even praying. My daughter was in the bomb shelter,
31:26
Speaker 5: and she said, Mommy, I prayed the sounds of Thanksgiving
31:29
Speaker 5: because I'm so grateful for God for all the miracles
31:32
Speaker 5: he's doing for us to continue to take precaution.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, aim into that. I want to make sure we
31:38
Speaker 1: get out the website one more time. If CJ dot
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31:49
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31:51
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31:54
Speaker 1: your donations. It goes to the people that need it.
31:58
Speaker 2: Now.
31:58
Speaker 1: You can help build a bombs shelter, you can help
32:01
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32:03
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