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From the Front Lines in Israel in a Time of War, LIVE Interview with Aryeh Lightstone, former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senter, Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 2: You and Center. We've got a special guests live from
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Speaker 2: Israel in a moment. But before we get to that,
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Speaker 2: the media got it wrong. The headlines have not been
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Speaker 2: taken down and they're still misleading the American people and
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Speaker 2: the world over. That rocket that hit the hospital in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: One of the big headlines that's still up as we
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Speaker 2: speak is on CNN. It says Godza hospital explosion sparks
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Speaker 2: anger and protests in Arab countries.
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Speaker 1: Then you look at Reuters.
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Speaker 2: Their breaking news headline was an Israeli airstrike killed hundreds
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Speaker 2: of Palestinians at a Gaza city hospital, crammed with patients
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Speaker 2: and displaced people, health authorities in the besieged enclave claim.
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Speaker 2: Then the Associated Press breaking the Gods of Health Ministry
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Speaker 2: says at least five hundred people killed in an explosion
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Speaker 2: at a hospital that says was caused by an Israeli
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Speaker 2: air strike. The New York Times Times breaking news in
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Speaker 2: Israeli airstrike hit a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, killing at
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Speaker 2: least two hundred Palestinians. According to the Palastinian Health Minister,
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Speaker 2: which says a number of casualies is expected to rise.
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Speaker 2: Then the BBC getting in on it too. Hundreds of
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Speaker 2: people have been killed in it heirs in an Israeli
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Speaker 2: strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palaestinian officials,
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Speaker 2: follow the latest and finally CNN with another one Palisin
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Speaker 2: and Health Ministry says two hundred to three hundred people
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Speaker 2: may have been killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: Now they all got it wrong. They're still not retracting it.
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Speaker 2: You and I talked about this on the last podcast,
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Speaker 2: and it shows you just how much deceit there is
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Speaker 2: within this media and anti Semitism.
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Speaker 3: Well, every one of those headlines the corporate media is
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Speaker 3: lying and at this point they all know they're lying.
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Speaker 3: They are repeating a fundamentally false statement. It has now
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Speaker 3: been demonstrated by both the Israeli intelligence services and American
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Speaker 3: intelligence that the what hit the Palestinian hospital was not
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Speaker 3: a bomb from Israel. It was not the Israelis who
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Speaker 3: bombed that hospital. It was rather Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which
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Speaker 3: is which is a terrorist group in Gaza. And and
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Speaker 3: and listen, one of the basic differences because people might
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Speaker 3: be at well, why would the Palestinians bomb their own hospital.
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Speaker 3: You have to understand there's a very big difference in
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Speaker 3: how the two sides wage war.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 3: The Israelis have one of the most advanced militaries on
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Speaker 3: the face of the planet. They use precision precision guide
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Speaker 3: in munitions, and with very few exceptions, they hit the
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Speaker 3: targets they aim at. And the Israelis don't target hospitals,
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Speaker 3: they don't target civilian targets. They target military targets. They
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Speaker 3: are looking to take out Hamas, the Hamas terrorists and
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Speaker 3: Palestinian Islamic jihad terrorists. They are firing very very crude
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Speaker 3: rockets and missiles, and they're often just a tube of
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Speaker 3: metal with some propellant in them, with some explosive and metal,
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Speaker 3: whether it's ball bearings or nails or other anti personnel shrapnel,
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Speaker 3: design to murder as many civilians as possible, and they
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Speaker 3: fire these rockets. They fire thousands of them, and many
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Speaker 3: of them go wildly off course because they don't have
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Speaker 3: any navigation system. They're just sort of aiming them and
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Speaker 3: hoping they go into Israel and kill Jews, and so
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Speaker 3: a significant percentage of the terrorist rockets don't even make
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Speaker 3: it out of Gaza. And in this instance, both the
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Speaker 3: Israeli intelligence and the US intelligence have confirmed this came
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Speaker 3: from Palestinian terrorists. Now that has not stopped almost the
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Speaker 3: entirety of the corporate media from taking Hamas's talking points
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Speaker 3: and blaming Israel. And I want to read you a
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Speaker 3: tweet that Rashida Talib, who is ostensibly a member of
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Speaker 3: the United States Congress. Here's what she tweeted yesterday. Quote,
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Speaker 3: Israel just bombed the Baptist hospital, killing five hundred Palestinians,
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Speaker 3: doctor's children, patients, just like that Potus. This is what
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Speaker 3: happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire and help
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Speaker 3: de escalate your war and destruction. Only approach has opened
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Speaker 3: my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans like me,
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Speaker 3: we will remember where you stood. Now that tweet at
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Speaker 3: this point she knows it is a flat out lie.
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Speaker 3: Now I will tell you that tweet has had twenty
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Speaker 3: eight point four million views. So she's spreading propaganda that
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Speaker 3: is deliberately false. But you know what, it's very helpful
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Speaker 3: to the Hamas terrorists blame Israel and blame Israel first,
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Speaker 3: it is a lie. And by the way, if you
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Speaker 3: don't believe me, Joe Biden from Israel said, this came
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Speaker 3: from the Palestinian terrorist This did not come from Israel.
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Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer said, this came from the Palestinian terrorists. It
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Speaker 3: did not come from Israel. So Rashida Talib and CNN,
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Speaker 3: MSNBC and every one of those media outlets that are
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Speaker 3: lying about this, they know they're lying, but their objective
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Speaker 3: of undermining Israel is more important to them than telling
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Speaker 3: the truth, and they're shamelessly engaged in that propaganda.
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Speaker 2: What was even more shocking than that is the President
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Speaker 2: is also basically become an apologist for Hamas. He was
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Speaker 2: on Air Force one this audio being released after he
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Speaker 2: had left Israel, and I want to get your reaction
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Speaker 2: to it, because this is Joe Biden on the Gods
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Speaker 2: of hospital attack and he's almost apologizing. Are becoming an
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Speaker 2: apologist for Hamas.
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Speaker 1: Listen, the hospital people.
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Speaker 4: All in the region are upset about the hospital and
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Speaker 4: don't necessarily believe you or the Israelis that they didn't
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Speaker 4: have anything doing that. You have a message to the
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Speaker 4: people in the streets.
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Speaker 5: Right now, Well, if you understand why in this circumstance,
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Speaker 5: toy wouldn't point if you understand that, and I would
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Speaker 5: not to notice. I no safe things like that unless
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Speaker 5: SAH have fa from the source from which I've gotten.
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Speaker 5: Our Defense department says it's highly unlikely it surralis a
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Speaker 5: different flipprint and you've intercepted anyway. Yeah, and so that's
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Speaker 5: why if you notice I didn't say it first. I
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Speaker 5: I wanted to make sure that I knew and look,
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Speaker 5: and I'm not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either.
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Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either. NBC
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Speaker 2: News Senator followed up with that live reporting from the
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Speaker 2: street where their guy Ingle there says blaming Israel for
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Speaker 2: a hospital blast wasn't an impossible assumption. Some of it
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Speaker 2: might be disinformation. That's how they're trying to clean up
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Speaker 2: their mess over there on NBC.
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Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm gonna actually surprise you a little bit
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Speaker 3: on this, Ben, and on this point, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: fit Joe Biden a little bit. Number One, I appreciate
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Speaker 3: that he flew to Israel, that he went to Israel
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Speaker 3: in person to be there while Israel is at war. Listen,
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Speaker 3: I've got enormous criticisms with how the Biden administration has
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Speaker 3: flooded money into Iran, flooded money into Gaza, and has
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Speaker 3: funded this attack, and we have detailed those at great
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Speaker 3: length on this podcast. That being said, for the President
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Speaker 3: of the United States to go to Israel at a
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Speaker 3: time of war is a big deal, and I'm grateful.
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Speaker 3: I want to say thank you for the President for
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Speaker 3: doing the right thing. It would have been easy to
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Speaker 3: stay home and not be there. And I'll say secondly,
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Speaker 3: the fact that he definitively said in Israel, and even
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Speaker 3: in that clip you just played on Air Force One,
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Speaker 3: he definitively said Israel did not do this, this was
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Speaker 3: Palestinian terrorist. That's a big deal too. It's important to
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Speaker 3: clarify this. And I'll actually thank Chuck Schumer as well.
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Speaker 3: I disagree on a thousand things concerning Middle E policy
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Speaker 3: and their efforts to undermine Israel, but the fact that
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Speaker 3: they've gone out of their way to clarify that this
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Speaker 3: was Hamas terrorists, and look, that is really important to clarify.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: The reaction of the media, all of their justification, the
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Speaker 3: glee they had to blame this on Israel, was incredibly revealing.
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Speaker 3: They have those stories ready to go. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: there is going to be a story that is true
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Speaker 3: at some point of a significant number of Palestinian civilians
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Speaker 3: killed by an Israeli attack.
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Speaker 1: Why is that.
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Speaker 3: We've talked about that on length on this podcast. Hamas
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Speaker 3: wants Palestinian citizens to die, so they use Palestinian civilians
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Speaker 3: as human shields. There will be an instance in this
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Speaker 3: war where Israel is taking out a Hamas military target.
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Speaker 3: They're taking out terrorists, they're taking out a headquarters, they're
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Speaker 3: taking out rockets, and there will be Palestinian civilians there
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Speaker 3: because Hamas wants them there, and there will be women
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Speaker 3: and children who are killed. It's tragic Israel Is bending
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Speaker 3: over backwards to avoid civilian deaths, but they will not
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Speaker 3: be one hundred percent successful because Hamas is very good
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Speaker 3: at sacrificing the lives of Palestinian civilians. Now, look, I'll say,
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Speaker 3: as a final thing, what Joe Biden said at the
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Speaker 3: very end there, I don't find fault with either, which
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Speaker 3: is he said he said, I'm not saying Hamas did
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Speaker 3: this on purpose. I agree with that. I don't think
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Speaker 3: Palestinian Islamic Jahad deliberately fired a rocket at the hospital.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they did that. I think they're willing
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Speaker 3: to use Palestinians as human shields, but I think there's
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Speaker 3: no evidence that they said, all right, let's just fire
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Speaker 3: a rocket at a hospital. I think they just don't
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Speaker 3: care who they kill. I think they're just firing rocket
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Speaker 3: after rocket after rocket, and they know a bunch of
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Speaker 3: them are going to go off course and just kill
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Speaker 3: people randomly. So it wasn't like they were aiming at
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Speaker 3: the hospital. They were just firing so many rockets and
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Speaker 3: sort of hoping, well, some of these will kill people
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Speaker 3: we don't like, and we're so excited to kill Jews
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Speaker 3: that if we have to kill Palestinians too, they're willing
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Speaker 3: to do that. So I don't think it was deliberate.
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Speaker 3: I think it was reckless. They just didn't give a
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Speaker 3: damn who they murdered with those rockets.
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Speaker 2: It certainly was interesting to watch the White House today
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Speaker 2: because they were having one thing in Israel, and then
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Speaker 2: you had Vice President Harris saying today at the White
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Speaker 2: House in front of the White House podium, I support
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Speaker 2: the right of the Palatinium people to dignity, freedom, and
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Speaker 2: self determination, making sure they were playing both sides of
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Speaker 2: because it's it's really important that we hear from people
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Speaker 2: on the ground in Israel, and that's what we're going
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Speaker 2: know what's happening on the ground.
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Speaker 3: So I'm really pleased to recognize it, to welcome and
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Speaker 3: to verdict a good friend of Mine Aria Lightstone. So
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Speaker 3: Aria served as the chief of staff and senior advisor
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Speaker 3: to the US Ambassador to Israel under President Trump, David Friedman.
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Speaker 3: And David Friedman was an extraordinary ambassador. He's a good friend.
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Speaker 3: He was the strongest champion in the Trump administration for
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Speaker 3: moving our embassy to Jerusalem. He played a critical role
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Speaker 3: in that. In Aria was byas side, assisted in every
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Speaker 3: aspect of that. I was with Aria. I was with
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Speaker 3: David the day we opened our embassy in Jerusalem. It
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Speaker 3: was a historic day. It was actually the seventieth anniversary
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Speaker 3: of the creation of the Monol State of Israel. And
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Speaker 3: I got to stay. I've been been to jerusalem've been
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Speaker 3: to Israel many times. I've never seen such jubilation, people dancing,
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Speaker 3: women dancing in the streets and celebration. Aria is a
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Speaker 3: native of Denver, Colorado. He's a rabbi, he's a management professional,
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Speaker 3: he's an entrepreneur, and he splits his time. He has
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Speaker 3: a wife and four children. He splits his time now
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Speaker 3: between Colorado and Israel. But Aria is calling us. It
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Speaker 3: is right now five twenty seven in the morning in Israel.
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Speaker 3: And Aria got up early to call in and participate
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Speaker 3: in Inverdict and to tell us, tell us from the
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Speaker 3: ground what is happening. Aria, Welcome, welcome to Verdict, and
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Speaker 3: and our million plus listeners are really glad to welcome
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Speaker 3: you here, Nator.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for having me asked to tell you. Just
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Speaker 6: listening to your moral clarity for the last several minutes
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Speaker 6: was better than a cup of coffee. Going need to
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Speaker 6: hear this, and when they wake up in an hour
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Speaker 6: and I share this, this will be better. It'll be
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Speaker 6: better than a warm hug.
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Speaker 3: Well, Aria, thank you. Now tell me where in Israel
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Speaker 3: are you today and tell me what tell me what's
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Speaker 3: transpired with you. First of all, we're going to talk
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Speaker 3: broader about policy, but just tell me what you've experienced
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Speaker 3: on October seventh and on the days that have followed
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Speaker 3: since then.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you. So Now, twelve days ago, my family
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Speaker 6: and I are Sabbath, were Sabbath servant, went to synagogue
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Speaker 6: to celebrate what's really the joyous from the second most
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Speaker 6: joys stay on the Jewish Sanader year walked into Sinegay
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Speaker 6: at eight fifteen. The security professionals in the neighborhood walked
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Speaker 6: into Cinegada at about eight twenty five, and said, everybody
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Speaker 6: go home, we're evacuating. Now. Israel has a strange thing.
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Speaker 6: We get shot at a fair amount of times by rockets,
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Speaker 6: and that's considered accessible because there's this awesome innovation called
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Speaker 6: iron Dome, which I think one can make an argument
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Speaker 6: that iron Dome has made his own complacence. It's an
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Speaker 6: incredible technology. It shoots rockets out of the air. But
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Speaker 6: if we can imagine, just for one moment that Mexico
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Speaker 6: City was robbing rockets into Dallas or Houston, I'm not
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Speaker 6: plausitive the first reaction of the United States and ANCOT
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Speaker 6: would be to build a shield to prevent those rockets.
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Speaker 6: It would probably be to eliminate Mexico City. In the
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Speaker 6: last fifteen years or Soiel has lived with its cancer
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Speaker 6: called comas on its southern bordervent. Every couple of weeks
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Speaker 6: lobbed several rockets in it. Since that Saturday twelve days ago,
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Speaker 6: there have been over seventy five hundred rockets seemed at
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Speaker 6: civilians from civilian area, which is exactly what we were
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Speaker 6: singing about before. Him and my family has been in
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Speaker 6: and out of our bombshelter no less than forty times,
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Speaker 6: and yes, it might might shit sleep in the bombs shellter.
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Speaker 6: We've discovered the trauma of waking up a child at
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Speaker 6: two in the morning, to rush down in the forty
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Speaker 6: five seconds to get into the room and feel it
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Speaker 6: was too traumatic. So was that an on going sleepover
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Speaker 6: for nights?
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Speaker 3: And how old are your kids are?
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Speaker 4: In?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: How old are you?
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Speaker 1: Thank?
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Speaker 6: Fifteen of my fifteen is my oldest. Six is our youngest.
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Speaker 6: And then we've got a thirteen year old and the
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Speaker 6: ten year old. In between the thirteen year old and
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Speaker 6: the six year old. This is the most traumatic in
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Speaker 6: real time. And just to fast forward a little bit,
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Speaker 6: we had that red alert last Wednesday where the from
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Speaker 6: the Central Command Homeland Security in Israel sends up this
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Speaker 6: app that keeps you alert all of these rockets. So
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Speaker 6: it sent out an incredible blast at four forty five pm.
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Speaker 6: And I believe it was Wednesday that the northern border
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Speaker 6: had been breached a pair of lighters. Now I don't
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Speaker 6: know that too. When I see a pair of lighters
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Speaker 6: prior to twelve days ago, it brings me a normal destroy.
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Speaker 6: I can't imagine anything more quos simulating flying through the air,
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Speaker 6: and it's normally with these beautiful, you know, rainbow colored
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Speaker 6: parish she type things, and it looks majestic. That symbol
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Speaker 6: has been hijacked. On that Saturday, they were more than
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Speaker 6: twenty paragliders who paraglided in with automatic weapons, whose entire
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Speaker 6: role was to murder innocent civilians bash they raped and
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Speaker 6: tortured them. And there was a report that these paragliders
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Speaker 6: had come in from the north and it reached the
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Speaker 6: front lines of Isabella. There and my family went down
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Speaker 6: to our face room and discovered that our safe room
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Speaker 6: is not safe enough, and we did a hostage drill.
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Speaker 6: What would happen if some of the breaches our house.
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Speaker 6: And you need to have that conversation with a fifteen
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Speaker 6: year old or a six year old exactly once in
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Speaker 6: your life to excard them forever. And we did it
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Speaker 6: because we thought it was the only way to protect
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Speaker 6: our family. But when you look at that innocence shattered,
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Speaker 6: it is not surprising that my children do not stak
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Speaker 6: easily at night.
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Speaker 3: Look Aria, that is horrifying. Heidi and I, our girls
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Speaker 3: are fifteen and almost thirteen, and I cannot imagine the
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Speaker 3: fear and terror. And when I've been in Israel, I've
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Speaker 3: been to Kibbutz's on the southern border by Gaza, and
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Speaker 3: I've talked with residents there that deal with the trauma,
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Speaker 3: really the PTSD in some instances of the rocket attacks
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Speaker 3: and rushing to a shelter, and that's a regular part
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Speaker 3: of life and it has a real human cost on
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Speaker 3: any day. But in this instance, what happened on October
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Speaker 3: seventh and in the aftermath was so grotesque and horrifying.
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Speaker 3: The world has not seen a mass murder of Jews
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Speaker 3: on this scale since the Holocaust. You have to go
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Speaker 3: back to the Nazis to find a moment like this.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, I mean, you're there, how are
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Speaker 3: the people of Israel reacting and handling this? My heart
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Speaker 3: is breaking for them, But I'm not there. I'm not
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Speaker 3: seeing firsthand what they're experiencing. And so can you just
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Speaker 3: help people who listen to this podcast understand what the
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Speaker 3: people of Israel are experiencing in real time.
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Speaker 6: So my grandfather, who survived the Holocaust, felt it was
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Speaker 6: his duty to tell people what had happened, because if
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Speaker 6: you didn't hear from the first time, from a first
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Speaker 6: time account, you wouldn't believe it. And he began every
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Speaker 6: one of his speeches to tens of thousands of public
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Speaker 6: school students that there's a phrase called seeing is believing,
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Speaker 6: and he's here to tell you that that is not
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Speaker 6: true because what he saw, what he lived through, he
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Speaker 6: still can't believe it, because human beings who have a
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Speaker 6: soul cannot believe that there is this level of depravity
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Speaker 6: that can exist from other human beings, because it's not
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Speaker 6: possible for somebody with a soul, with a peace of
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Speaker 6: Godliness within them to be so barbar people who use
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Speaker 6: the word of animalistic, it's an insult to animals. Animals
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Speaker 6: don't conduct themselves, it's right. And the news, the reports,
19:58
Speaker 6: there's not a person that this is a small country.
20:01
Speaker 6: There's not a person in Israel who has not been
20:04
Speaker 6: to a funeral, who has not been to a Shiva house,
20:07
Speaker 6: a house of morning, who has not been to a
20:10
Speaker 6: vigil for the many, many hostages that are still listening
20:14
Speaker 6: with very little information about them. And if you remember
20:18
Speaker 6: what it was like in America on nine to eleven,
20:21
Speaker 6: there was a sense of bewilderment and helplessness that existed.
20:27
Speaker 6: And I will be very clear Saturday and Sunday twelve
20:31
Speaker 6: eleven ten days ago. That is what the people of
20:34
Speaker 6: Israel felt like. And that started nine days ago, maybe
20:37
Speaker 6: Tuesday or Wednesday. It felt like when Bush stood on
20:40
Speaker 6: the ruins of the World Place Center and says we're America,
20:45
Speaker 6: and Israel stood up and said we're Israel. We're the
20:49
Speaker 6: strongest and most brave, the most courageous, the most creative, intelligent.
20:55
Speaker 6: We're going to take care of this. And if you read,
20:57
Speaker 6: and I encourage all your listeners to read the stories
21:00
Speaker 6: of heroism that are so incredible, the typical tomagines. Human
21:06
Speaker 6: beings were created this way and they are not angels.
21:10
Speaker 6: But the feeling on the street in Israel today is
21:12
Speaker 6: everybody has a husband, a father on the frontline, ready
21:18
Speaker 6: to do what it will take to excience his cancer
21:22
Speaker 6: from Israel. Because there was a promise that the Jewish
21:26
Speaker 6: people made after the Holocaust will never again, and that
21:29
Speaker 6: promise was fulfilled from nineteen forty five when America liberated
21:34
Speaker 6: the last concentration camp, up until October seventh of twenty
21:38
Speaker 6: twenty three, and October seventh, twenty twenty three, the beheading
21:43
Speaker 6: of children, the kidnapping of Holfax survivors, the murder of women,
21:48
Speaker 6: the time of other women to those murdered women, raping them,
21:51
Speaker 6: torturing them and then murdering them, and all reported, not
21:55
Speaker 6: not quite the eyewitnesses of which there are plenty, but
21:59
Speaker 6: Hamas will recording this on their own go pros of
22:02
Speaker 6: streaming on Facebook Live. The difference between the Nazis and
22:06
Speaker 6: the Mona Day Nazis, and the Nazis had the class
22:09
Speaker 6: just to be embarrassed to do this secretly. They tried
22:12
Speaker 6: to destroy the evidence. Comas not only didn't try to
22:15
Speaker 6: destroy the evidence, they couple of sizes in such a public,
22:19
Speaker 6: gradudicious way. It makes you wonder whether there is any
22:22
Speaker 6: soul in there which leads up to your description of
22:26
Speaker 6: the rocket yesterday. So just sitting in this south yesterday
22:30
Speaker 6: at seven pm, there's an enormous boom that happens because
22:33
Speaker 6: there was a barrage of thoughts orry not yesterday two
22:36
Speaker 6: as you do not forget what day is. There's a
22:38
Speaker 6: barrage of rockets again from civilian populations and aimed at
22:43
Speaker 6: civilian populations, and come ons brag that they're aiming as Kreisle,
22:47
Speaker 6: which would be the furthest north city that their rockets
22:50
Speaker 6: can hit, and everybody in the cricle goes down to shelter,
22:54
Speaker 6: no silence goes off, no boom over price, and several
22:56
Speaker 6: booms over my house. My house is I don't know,
22:59
Speaker 6: forty five minutes out of Kraira. And that's eight minutes later,
23:03
Speaker 6: the New York Times sends out a tweet I don't
23:06
Speaker 6: know led by Rashida or followed by Rashida and Elon
23:10
Speaker 6: saying that Israel deliberately knots out of hospital and killing
23:13
Speaker 6: five thousand People's that's the tree. And within minutes the
23:19
Speaker 6: organized Arab street that dropped caspitals across the Middle East
23:23
Speaker 6: start marching on US embassies. Explain to me what this
23:26
Speaker 6: has to do with the United States of America. Marching
23:28
Speaker 6: on the US embassies screamed death to Israel's death to America.
23:33
Speaker 6: And later on we woke up yesterday morning. The conclusion
23:37
Speaker 6: was it was not Israel. It did not hit a hospital.
23:41
Speaker 6: There were now five thousand deaths. This was a rocket
23:45
Speaker 6: from Islamic Chiad that landed short and hit the hospital
23:49
Speaker 6: parking lot. They may have killed people still waiting on
23:52
Speaker 6: the account. It wasn't in the hundreds, It likely wasn't
23:55
Speaker 6: in a dozen and it hit a parking lot. There
23:57
Speaker 6: are several kios that were damaged. There may have been
24:01
Speaker 6: some toyotas as well, and it would be the urgency
24:05
Speaker 6: to make the Jews, not the victims, but the perpetrators
24:08
Speaker 6: of crime to set off a blood level across the
24:11
Speaker 6: Middle East. When you're sitting there on Isael and you're like,
24:14
Speaker 6: holy can the promise was never again? It needs to
24:18
Speaker 6: be restored by Israeli. The terrenth like has never seen before,
24:22
Speaker 6: because if you were sitting there walking on those streets,
24:24
Speaker 6: they would chop your head off in a split second.
24:27
Speaker 6: That that's a feeling in Israel in a nutshell.
24:31
Speaker 2: To be clear, I want to make sure people understand
24:34
Speaker 2: this because you said it. But the headline said that
24:38
Speaker 2: the hospital was destroyed and that five hundred people died.
24:46
Speaker 2: You're saying the actual hospital is still standing and it
24:50
Speaker 2: was it was not a bomb.
24:52
Speaker 1: It was a rocket that hit in the parking lot. Correct,
24:57
Speaker 1: that's correct.
24:58
Speaker 6: There have been over seventy five hundred rock gets fired
25:01
Speaker 6: by Hamas and Islamachiad and Dangel. Just call it Iran.
25:04
Speaker 6: I'm saying that Iran fired from Gataza over the last
25:08
Speaker 6: twelve days and the sevenator has been the single best
25:10
Speaker 6: person the history of America to identify that and fight that.
25:14
Speaker 6: And if every listening, then I want to be going
25:16
Speaker 6: to the funerals every day and meeting with families of rocks.
25:19
Speaker 6: There's no doubt about that. That that is clear and understood.
25:22
Speaker 6: And at the seventy five hundred rock, it's more than
25:24
Speaker 6: four hundred and fifty never made it out of Gaza,
25:28
Speaker 6: and therefore they have hitsed guys a target. The part
25:32
Speaker 6: that makes people so obseemingly upset over here and obviously
25:36
Speaker 6: correctly upset over here, is the world was a flame,
25:41
Speaker 6: a playing for the period of time where they thought
25:43
Speaker 6: that Israel intentionally murdered five thousand and one to five
25:46
Speaker 6: hundred men, women, children's doctors, nurses, daisies, whatever else it
25:50
Speaker 6: would be. And then when they discovered that their own
25:53
Speaker 6: people did it, there are no profests, nobody's in the street,
25:57
Speaker 6: nobody players about house to me, son other than the
26:02
Speaker 6: Isra the American.
26:04
Speaker 3: Well, and it's worse than that.
26:06
Speaker 1: Are It's worse than that? Are you?
26:09
Speaker 3: Rashida Talib still has not deleted that tweet. I read
26:12
Speaker 3: that tweet from her Twitter feed that is live at
26:15
Speaker 3: this moment, it's ten thirty nine pm in DC. She
26:18
Speaker 3: still hasn't deleted it. She's happy to continue lying because
26:22
Speaker 3: it's a useful lie. And you know, you're talking about
26:26
Speaker 3: the atrocities, and your grandfather saying seeing is believing and
26:30
Speaker 3: that it's difficult to comprehend that people can do this.
26:35
Speaker 3: And I will say that this is these atrocities are
26:39
Speaker 3: being played out in a different time because we have
26:41
Speaker 3: the phenomenon of social media, and we also have the
26:44
Speaker 3: sick phenomenon of hamas proudly bragging about their atrocities and
26:50
Speaker 3: tweeting out the videos. And I will say, I've watched
26:53
Speaker 3: a lot of these videos, and it is it's sickening,
26:55
Speaker 3: it is grotesque to watch what has happened. And listen,
27:00
Speaker 3: I understand in warfare, one soldier shooting another soldier that
27:06
Speaker 3: that war can be horrific, it can be hell, But
27:10
Speaker 3: soldiers fighting each other is something that has happened from
27:13
Speaker 3: the dawn of time and and and you can com
27:15
Speaker 3: you can wrap your mind around that. You can comprehend it.
27:18
Speaker 3: What what these terrorists are doing. I do not understand
27:21
Speaker 3: people murdering the elderly. I do not understand people raping
27:27
Speaker 3: women and little girls, raping little girls in the street
27:30
Speaker 3: and parading them around. I do not understand people who
27:34
Speaker 3: who behead infants and burn them alive. I mean, that
27:38
Speaker 3: is monstrous at a level. It's a level of hatred,
27:45
Speaker 3: hatred and racism and just bilious evil that that that
27:50
Speaker 3: that it's important to to to to really comprehend, and
27:54
Speaker 3: and and and I will tell you, Look, you know this.
27:58
Speaker 3: You you grew up here in the United States. But
28:01
Speaker 3: I'll tell you, the people of America are horrified for
28:04
Speaker 3: what's happening in Israel, and there is Do not be
28:09
Speaker 3: deceived by the corporate media and the radical left at
28:14
Speaker 3: universities and the radical left and the Democrat Party. The
28:18
Speaker 3: American people are are horrified and standing in complete unison
28:24
Speaker 3: with the people of Israel and ari. If you convey
28:28
Speaker 3: anything to your friends and neighbors and colleagues, tell them
28:32
Speaker 3: that we are praying for you, we are standing with you,
28:35
Speaker 3: we are grieving for you at the horrors you are experiencing.
28:40
Speaker 3: But we will also have Israel's back the mission of
28:44
Speaker 3: eliminating Hamas. It is right, it is just, it is righteous,
28:49
Speaker 3: it is necessary. And you know that you are going
28:53
Speaker 3: to have enemies, not just the enemies of these monsters,
28:57
Speaker 3: but you are going to have enemies in the corporate media.
29:00
Speaker 3: They're going to attack Israel, and the way to respond
29:04
Speaker 3: is with truth and light and facts. And so thank
29:07
Speaker 3: you for what you're doing.
29:08
Speaker 4: Are you?
29:11
Speaker 6: Thank you?
29:12
Speaker 4: You?
29:12
Speaker 6: This podcast, your platform, your voice is how we fight back.
29:17
Speaker 6: And you know, the battle has expanded not just to
29:22
Speaker 6: the media, but certainly to our college campuses. If you've
29:25
Speaker 6: seen when people chant from the river to the sea,
29:30
Speaker 6: although they've also taken off the masks on that one
29:33
Speaker 6: I saw on two Texas campuses where they chant actually
29:40
Speaker 6: gas the Jews or something that encouraging the again, from
29:44
Speaker 6: the river to the sea. Thanks you meanings. Plus, look,
29:46
Speaker 6: weidate all the Jews, which he weredated is a nice
29:48
Speaker 6: way to say, let's skill all the juice and it's own.
29:50
Speaker 6: You pointed this out numerous times. Apparently that is too
29:54
Speaker 6: subtle for people protesting today. The people who protest in
29:57
Speaker 6: favor of from US are actively rooting where the beheading
30:00
Speaker 6: of babies, the nation of women and little girls, that
30:03
Speaker 6: is kidnapping of Holocaust survivors, that is what they are
30:06
Speaker 6: looting for. And my comment here is the United States
30:12
Speaker 6: in America is the beacon of life to the world.
30:14
Speaker 6: This is a small percentage. Let's defeat this small percentage
30:18
Speaker 6: while they remain a small percentage. This is as though
30:21
Speaker 6: the Nazis were out there cheering and the process of
30:25
Speaker 6: the murder, the genocide of all of the Jews in
30:28
Speaker 6: all the cases. For people to be quiet, to allow
30:31
Speaker 6: that one percent to turn into five percent, to turn
30:34
Speaker 6: into ten percent. The American people, mind, people, Your people
30:38
Speaker 6: need to stand up and support. This is not a
30:40
Speaker 6: Jewish battle. This is not even in israemy battle. This
30:44
Speaker 6: is a civilization battle in between good and evil and
30:48
Speaker 6: good must prevail.
30:49
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you Aria real quickly.
30:52
Speaker 3: A story that NBC News ran to night that I
30:54
Speaker 3: just retweeted, which is the headline is top us law
30:58
Speaker 3: firm Davis Paul announced is in an internal email that
31:01
Speaker 3: it has rescinded letters of employment for three law students
31:04
Speaker 3: at Harvard University and Columbia University who signed on to
31:08
Speaker 3: the organizational statements regarding Israel and Look, Davis Polk is
31:12
Speaker 3: one of the top law firms in the world. It
31:14
Speaker 3: is one of the premier law firms in New York City.
31:17
Speaker 3: And this is a big damn deal. Look the statement
31:20
Speaker 3: from Harvard and what Columbia did, it was disgraceful, it
31:24
Speaker 3: was it was repulsive. And what the law firm is
31:27
Speaker 3: saying is, listen, if you sign on to a statement
31:31
Speaker 3: that is admitting publicly that you were a deeply racist
31:35
Speaker 3: anti Semite, that you blame Israel for the murder of
31:39
Speaker 3: children and infants carried out by terrorists, that we don't
31:43
Speaker 3: wish to be associated with you any more than if
31:46
Speaker 3: you if you tattoo a swastika on yourself or start
31:50
Speaker 3: marching around in KKK hoods, We're not going to hire
31:54
Speaker 3: you at our firm because we're not interested in being
31:56
Speaker 3: associated with klansmen or Nazis or people who revel in
32:01
Speaker 3: the rape and murder and torture of women and children
32:05
Speaker 3: and innocent civilians. And I will say it is a sign, Look,
32:08
Speaker 3: Davis Polk is not a conservative place to put it mildly,
32:12
Speaker 3: it is not overwhelmingly left leaning, but that that is
32:16
Speaker 3: a positive sign that that you know, even people who
32:20
Speaker 3: are not right of center are recognizing this embrace of
32:27
Speaker 3: of horrific atrocities is is despicable and unacceptable in civilized society.
32:38
Speaker 6: I'm pleased that that there's you know, broad by partisan
32:42
Speaker 6: support for not be heading babyside. We've found the Commons
32:46
Speaker 6: denominator amongst ninety nine percent of America, and we should
32:50
Speaker 6: identify the one percent who can agree to that. There's
32:53
Speaker 6: plenty of room for disagreement with Israeli policy in Middle
32:56
Speaker 6: East policy, you know itself is complicated. This is not complicated. Yeah,
33:00
Speaker 6: and our ability to identify and excize that cancer within
33:05
Speaker 6: us as well will be critical to the ongoing house
33:09
Speaker 6: of the United States America. And we've got to Congresswoman.
33:12
Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't know what legal recourse there is,
33:15
Speaker 6: but the active promotion of a blood libel seems to
33:18
Speaker 6: be something that would deserve at least like a venture
33:21
Speaker 6: or you know, you.
33:22
Speaker 3: Know, well, listen, Ario, we played on this podcast the
33:26
Speaker 3: video a reporter asking Rashida to leave what is your
33:30
Speaker 3: view on the burning alive of children, on the raping
33:35
Speaker 3: of little girls, on the beheading of infants, And she
33:38
Speaker 3: refused to answer the question. And so you know, you said,
33:41
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent agree that the beheading infants is unacceptable.
33:47
Speaker 3: I find it astonishing that a sitting member of Congress
33:50
Speaker 3: cannot say that that that that won't just say it's
33:53
Speaker 3: horrible and evil, unequivocally, period, full stop, but she will
33:59
Speaker 3: not utter those words.
34:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna have to make up a T shirt
34:03
Speaker 6: that said that Rashida represents the one percent. It's the
34:06
Speaker 6: one percent of people who don't ask humanity and the
34:08
Speaker 6: one percent of people who don't have a soul. It's
34:12
Speaker 6: a constituency of aently and who would have thought that
34:15
Speaker 6: she represents the one percent?
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Speaker 2: me ask you the reaction in Israel. Joe Biden has
35:53
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35:56
Speaker 2: for Gaza in the West Bank, and there's many pe
36:00
Speaker 2: asking questions, Okay, why is Joe Biden in essence funding
36:04
Speaker 2: the Palestinians. And this is after he was sitting with
36:08
Speaker 2: Netanyahoo and he said this describing Hamas and based on
36:14
Speaker 2: what I've.
36:15
Speaker 4: Seen in the periods of a row and was done
36:17
Speaker 4: by the other team too, But there's a lot of
36:21
Speaker 4: people out there and we're not sure was looking were
36:26
Speaker 4: pinionalize the value said, like the United States does own
36:31
Speaker 4: the democracies, and I'm looking to see what.
36:34
Speaker 2: We're gonna do Abo He refers to a terrorist organization
36:38
Speaker 2: that just beheaded infant children and raped women and tortured
36:42
Speaker 2: people and put it on video as the other team,
36:46
Speaker 2: while also saying, I'm going to send a bunch of
36:48
Speaker 2: money to an area that's been filled with corruption, even
36:53
Speaker 2: when we've had humanitarian aid going into this part of
36:56
Speaker 2: the world and been used by the terrorists.
36:59
Speaker 3: Well, look, one of the things about the Biden administration,
37:01
Speaker 3: Ben is that they have been willing to hire and
37:07
Speaker 3: bring into their administration radicals who are deeply anti Israel
37:12
Speaker 3: and deeply anti Semitic. So there's a story that broke
37:15
Speaker 3: today and it was in the Daily Wire. The headline
37:18
Speaker 3: is the US government hired a prohamas pla spokeswoman to
37:22
Speaker 3: handle asylum claims. And there is a woman named Nedua
37:26
Speaker 3: Ali who is an officer at the Department of Homeland
37:29
Speaker 3: Security and she's in charge of adjudicating asylum claims. Now
37:35
Speaker 3: she previously worked in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen as
37:39
Speaker 3: a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation in the US, which,
37:42
Speaker 3: according to its own website, served as the PLO office
37:46
Speaker 3: in DC. And she has been on social media repeatedly
37:53
Speaker 3: writing just rapidly anti Semitic statements, so.
37:59
Speaker 1: She has stayed.
38:00
Speaker 3: For example, this is a quote from social media, f Israel,
38:04
Speaker 3: but she does not abbreviate F the government and its
38:08
Speaker 3: military are you ready for your downfall? According to her
38:12
Speaker 3: social media, she's American born Palestinian at heart. She's from dearborn, Michigan,
38:17
Speaker 3: born in America. And if you look at the quotes
38:20
Speaker 3: she has put out, she sent out tweets. She sent
38:24
Speaker 3: out tweets with a picture of the paragliders with machine
38:29
Speaker 3: guns along with the caption free Palestine. She has also
38:34
Speaker 3: sent posts that say quote respect our existence or expect
38:38
Speaker 3: resistance simple, no apologies. She also says, I hold every
38:46
Speaker 3: Israeli accountable for their government's actions if they do not
38:49
Speaker 3: speak against Israel. And here's what she said on October ninth,
38:54
Speaker 3: after watching this mass murder, quote f Israel again, F
38:59
Speaker 3: is note abbreviated and any Jew that supports Israel, a
39:05
Speaker 3: nation that has nothing, but Allah has everything it will
39:08
Speaker 3: ever need. This is a sitting official in the Biden administration,
39:13
Speaker 3: not just an official in the Biden administration. You know
39:15
Speaker 3: what her job is determining who gets asylum. So if
39:20
Speaker 3: you have presumably terrorists who have the same views she does,
39:24
Speaker 3: which is we should murder Jews, you have to assume
39:27
Speaker 3: she's eager to say We're going to grant you asylum
39:30
Speaker 3: in the United States and to carry out your racist,
39:34
Speaker 3: anti Semitic mission. Today I called on the Biden administration
39:39
Speaker 3: to terminate her immediately. To the best of my knowledge,
39:42
Speaker 3: they have not done so yet. And these kind of radicals, sadly,
39:47
Speaker 3: are populating the Biden White House, are populating the Biden
39:50
Speaker 3: State Department, are populating agencies throughout this administration. And it
39:56
Speaker 3: is it is the impact. It's why the squad is
39:59
Speaker 3: not just tolerated in the House. The rest of the House.
40:03
Speaker 3: Democrats are terrified of AOC, They're terrified of to lead,
40:07
Speaker 3: They're terrified of Omar. They don't want to be primary
40:10
Speaker 3: from the left, and so they won't take on and
40:13
Speaker 3: condemn the vicious poison their speeling.
40:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, great point there. Lastly, for everyone in the
40:21
Speaker 2: US it's going to be hearing this. Is there anything
40:25
Speaker 2: that they can do? I've had so many people reach
40:27
Speaker 2: out saying they want to get involved, they want to help.
40:30
Speaker 1: What is it they can do?
40:31
Speaker 2: Obviously, pray for the people of Israel and those of
40:35
Speaker 2: the loved ones that still have their loved ones who
40:37
Speaker 2: are missing, that are being held hostage. But is there
40:40
Speaker 2: anything else or that Americans can do if they want
40:43
Speaker 2: to be involved?
40:46
Speaker 6: Thank you for asking and having had the privilege of
40:50
Speaker 6: representing America here in Israel for four years. I know
40:53
Speaker 6: that Americans love Israel, and I know that Americans loved
40:56
Speaker 6: being on the side of good and Israel is a
40:59
Speaker 6: great example of that. Here are the three things that
41:03
Speaker 6: somebody can do, and I just want to highlight for
41:06
Speaker 6: one moment, it's important for all the listeners to know
41:08
Speaker 6: that there were thirty Americans killed in this tragedy and
41:14
Speaker 6: there are eleven Americans at least still missing. I remember
41:18
Speaker 6: a time where there is a submarine, a tourist submarine
41:22
Speaker 6: to go see the Titanic, and I think there were five,
41:24
Speaker 6: six seven people on board and the Nationals gripped by
41:29
Speaker 6: how many hours of oxygen that they had left. And
41:32
Speaker 6: it was a scorn of watching these people die. But
41:37
Speaker 6: the world was gripped and prayed and whatever else happened,
41:40
Speaker 6: that happened. And I'm not belittling that by any stretching
41:43
Speaker 6: that nations. But I do not see the same captivation
41:47
Speaker 6: of America of eleven American young men and women being
41:52
Speaker 6: held hostage. The Red Cross has not been able to
41:55
Speaker 6: see them. We don't know where they are. The leaders
41:58
Speaker 6: of their organization fit in a major non NATO allied country, Katarre.
42:04
Speaker 6: They sit there in the four season villas and are
42:07
Speaker 6: living it up while they know where our young men
42:10
Speaker 6: and how young women are. And I don't know why
42:12
Speaker 6: there's not a counter of how many seconds have gone
42:16
Speaker 6: by since their pirates, if their parents are still alive.
42:18
Speaker 6: I've seen them last since America knows where they are.
42:22
Speaker 6: I mean, this is this is this is yes in Israel.
42:25
Speaker 6: But there are Americans amongst the hostages, and Americas a
42:30
Speaker 6: monkst that killed in action, and and and we have
42:33
Speaker 6: people protesting the streets rooting these people on that they
42:37
Speaker 6: are there. They are rooting on the killing and the
42:40
Speaker 6: kidnapping of Americans. Let's let's I just want to be
42:43
Speaker 6: the crystal cleanematic.
42:45
Speaker 1: Yeah.
42:47
Speaker 6: Three three, three different things we can do as human being.
42:50
Speaker 6: Certainly Americans, we're highly influential and connected. The first is
42:54
Speaker 6: his prayer to God. Neither sweet story plumbers. Let's make
42:58
Speaker 6: sure that he's busy twenty four seven. If you pray,
43:01
Speaker 6: pray more. If you don't pray yet, start now. That's critical.
43:05
Speaker 6: Number two is Israel will defend itself by itself. It
43:10
Speaker 6: does not want an American troops, never is wanted an
43:12
Speaker 6: American troop. It needs arms, needs wespons, and needs to
43:16
Speaker 6: be able to be resupplied, and it needs diplomatic cover
43:20
Speaker 6: to be able to continue to do this. The senators
43:22
Speaker 6: pointed out so clearly, how fast the world turns against Israel.
43:26
Speaker 6: The United States needs to have the moral clarity to
43:29
Speaker 6: allow Israel to exercise this tumor along its side called
43:33
Speaker 6: comas as long as gi Iran. It needs that diplomatic
43:37
Speaker 6: space and needs the wesponry to be able to do
43:39
Speaker 6: it by itself. The third thing is, look, all of
43:44
Speaker 6: my neighbors that I've said, have somebody who's at the front.
43:46
Speaker 6: I don't know how they sleep the night, which is
43:48
Speaker 6: more than more than honor to be up in the
43:50
Speaker 6: middle of the night, to be able to be on
43:51
Speaker 6: this podcast. The very little bit that I can do.
43:55
Speaker 6: If you post posts, if you give charity, give charity.
43:59
Speaker 6: But whatever is that you do, do it until it hurts.
44:03
Speaker 6: There are mothers who cannot sleep tonight because their kids
44:06
Speaker 6: are missing. There are fathers who cannot sleep tonight because
44:08
Speaker 6: their kids are on the front and they don't know
44:10
Speaker 6: if they will come home. If we want to be
44:13
Speaker 6: with them, we need to be with them, and that
44:15
Speaker 6: can do something differently than you would normally do. If
44:19
Speaker 6: you normally pray for privates, pray until you're missing. The
44:22
Speaker 6: football game is Saturday, pray until right. If you give charity,
44:26
Speaker 6: you can report one thousand dollars, figure out how to
44:28
Speaker 6: get two thousand dollars. There are ways that we can
44:31
Speaker 6: be with the people of Israel at this point in time,
44:34
Speaker 6: the Americans who are still missing at this point in time,
44:37
Speaker 6: in a way that God will know that I am
44:38
Speaker 6: willing to sacrifice in order to help share the pain.
44:43
Speaker 6: Pain can be diffused, Pain can be shared, and so
44:45
Speaker 6: will victory. That Israel will win, the free world will win,
44:49
Speaker 6: America will win. You just need to do those three things.
44:53
Speaker 3: So Aria, that was profound and powerful, and I agree
44:57
Speaker 3: with all three. Let me make a couple of observations. One, uh,
45:00
Speaker 3: the fact, my friend, that you are a rabbi came
45:03
Speaker 3: through loud and clear when when you gave the the
45:06
Speaker 3: the wonderful advice if you pray, pray more. If you
45:09
Speaker 3: don't pray, start praying.
45:10
Speaker 4: Now.
45:11
Speaker 3: I love that advice, and that's that's good advice to
45:14
Speaker 3: every listener of Verdict. I enthusiastically second that that council.
45:20
Speaker 3: And and you're right in terms of all of the
45:22
Speaker 3: steps of adding the voice, adding the voices of truth
45:26
Speaker 3: that that that are really needed powerfully right now, you
45:30
Speaker 3: know I I want to ask you. I want to
45:33
Speaker 3: shift just as we're wrapping up to a broader policy question,
45:36
Speaker 3: because you are living in Israel, you're experiencing firsthand what's
45:40
Speaker 3: happening there. But you also have been a very senior
45:43
Speaker 3: United States official, the chief of staff to the American
45:47
Speaker 3: Ambassador to Israel during one of the most consequential times
45:52
Speaker 3: in the history of Israel, and that was the Trump presidency.
45:55
Speaker 3: David Friedman was ambassador. We moved the American embassy to Jerusalem,
46:00
Speaker 3: something presidents of both parties had promised, both Republican and Democrat,
46:04
Speaker 3: and presidents of both parties had broken that promise, and
46:07
Speaker 3: yet we were able to deliver on it. And you
46:11
Speaker 3: also were integral in a process. Just two and a
46:14
Speaker 3: half years ago, we were at a moment where where
46:18
Speaker 3: peace was breaking out in the Middle East, the Abraham
46:21
Speaker 3: Accords were being signed, and we were seeing Arabs and
46:25
Speaker 3: Israelis coming together in a moment that many of us
46:30
Speaker 3: were afraid we would never see. And it was extraordinary.
46:34
Speaker 3: And you played an important part in that process. And
46:36
Speaker 3: so what I want to ask you is a question
46:39
Speaker 3: what changed three years ago? I remember standing on the
46:43
Speaker 3: south lawn of the of the White House for the
46:45
Speaker 3: signing of the Abraham Accords, and people were marveling, how
46:49
Speaker 3: did this happen? And now we're facing the worst war
46:54
Speaker 3: in Israel in over fifty years, And and and in
47:00
Speaker 3: your judgment, as someone who was intimately involved in the
47:04
Speaker 3: policy that led to the good outcome, what has changed
47:09
Speaker 3: to have led to this horrific state of affairs where
47:12
Speaker 3: we find ourselves today.
47:14
Speaker 6: My goodness, Yeah, you know when their phone shows you
47:16
Speaker 6: like images that happen on that day, So three years
47:19
Speaker 6: ago this morning, I was in Abu Dawi with our
47:22
Speaker 6: Secretary of the Treasury, Stephen Denucin, leading the first ever
47:25
Speaker 6: Abraham of Court business delegation to Abu Dhabi in the
47:29
Speaker 6: height of Covid, who brought one hundred is Rainy business
47:32
Speaker 6: people met and women com meet with one hundred Amaradi
47:36
Speaker 6: business people met and women in the middle of Covid.
47:38
Speaker 6: And had it not been Covid, they would have been
47:40
Speaker 6: hugging each other and said they were doing that stupid
47:42
Speaker 6: outboat thing which like was forced for people. And just
47:48
Speaker 6: three and there was an lal flight flying from Israel
47:52
Speaker 6: to Avru Dabi to the United Arab emners and five
47:56
Speaker 6: piece treaties in one hundred and twenty three days and
47:59
Speaker 6: there were more than the Bible. Administration capitalized on that
48:03
Speaker 6: the answer, and I will agree with how you started
48:06
Speaker 6: the show. Thanks God for President Biden's showing up to Injael.
48:09
Speaker 6: Thanks God that President Biden brought the carriers into the
48:12
Speaker 6: Mediterranean close in order to do an act of deterrence.
48:16
Speaker 6: I praise him. I thanked him, and I think those
48:19
Speaker 6: are important. I think that's great. But the three years
48:22
Speaker 6: prior to that is why we're in this position. When
48:25
Speaker 6: you appease Iran, that is a Neville Chamberlain action. Yeah,
48:30
Speaker 6: we fight Iran, that is the Churchill reaction. We have
48:34
Speaker 6: given money to Iran, We've taken our plus off of
48:37
Speaker 6: their financial neck. Does the billion to tens of billions,
48:41
Speaker 6: hundreds of billions of dollars that Iran has gotten over
48:44
Speaker 6: the last three years. We're not used to rebuild their economy,
48:48
Speaker 6: their universities, that their high tech sector. They were used
48:52
Speaker 6: to fund terror. And when Biden decided that he wasn't
48:56
Speaker 6: going to use the words Abraham of Courts, that sent
48:59
Speaker 6: the men message to every country that joins the Israel
49:02
Speaker 6: in peace that we the United States of America, do
49:05
Speaker 6: not stand with you. It left a vacuum in the region.
49:09
Speaker 6: And when the United States is a vacuum and the
49:11
Speaker 6: region is not filled by Costa Rica, it's filled by China, Iran,
49:17
Speaker 6: and Russia. And the only deal that's been broken in
49:20
Speaker 6: the last three years in the Middle East that fro
49:22
Speaker 6: we get five in one hundred and twenty three days,
49:24
Speaker 6: with ten other countries ready to go, we gain the
49:26
Speaker 6: playbook to the Biden administration. China brokeer a deal between
49:31
Speaker 6: Iran and Saudi Arabia. Now, why would Saudi Arabia, a
49:35
Speaker 6: chief relationship of the United States of America, breached a
49:40
Speaker 6: deal with their number one adversary, Iran broker by China
49:44
Speaker 6: Because they didn't trust that the United States of America
49:47
Speaker 6: would be there for them, and our inability to be
49:51
Speaker 6: able to tell our allies concrete me, we will be
49:54
Speaker 6: with you. Create a vacuum, and when that vacuum exists,
49:58
Speaker 6: it's killed by tylor. Under the old On administration is
50:01
Speaker 6: called I. Under the Bided administration, it's called comas Husballah
50:06
Speaker 6: and Iran. It's the same thing, the same radicals then,
50:09
Speaker 6: but it's because we are not precisive, We are not here,
50:12
Speaker 6: and we fund this. We fund this with our Iran
50:15
Speaker 6: deal that you fought against. We fund this with our
50:18
Speaker 6: hostage negotiations which I would call land and payments, which
50:21
Speaker 6: you fought against. But we nonetheless have enfranchised these monstrous
50:27
Speaker 6: barbarians who direct, fund and lead these attacks. And we
50:31
Speaker 6: can call it Chromas, you can call it Kugbalah, but
50:35
Speaker 6: it's Iran Aria.
50:37
Speaker 3: My friend, there was more wisdom in what you just
50:39
Speaker 3: said than I have heard from virtually any of my
50:43
Speaker 3: colleagues in the United States Senate, and I think that
50:45
Speaker 3: that insight and observation was important and listen. We often
50:50
Speaker 3: asked our listeners to share the podcast, and particularly the
50:54
Speaker 3: last two weeks with the war on Israel, I think
50:56
Speaker 3: what we've been covering has been consequential and in information
51:01
Speaker 3: that you can't get many other places. I think listening
51:06
Speaker 3: to Aria on the front lines, experiencing firsthand what is
51:11
Speaker 3: happening in Israel, this conversation is important. And if you
51:14
Speaker 3: watch CNN, you will watch all day long and not
51:17
Speaker 3: hear a word of the insight that you've heard in
51:20
Speaker 3: the past few minutes. Aria, I want to tell you
51:24
Speaker 3: I'm praying for you. I am praying for you and
51:27
Speaker 3: your wife, and I want to tell you in particular,
51:29
Speaker 3: I'm praying for your kids. As a father, my heart grieves.
51:33
Speaker 3: I know your children are afraid, and I know as
51:35
Speaker 3: a dad you're frustrated and you feel powerless to fully
51:40
Speaker 3: comfort your kids because the fear they are feeling is
51:44
Speaker 3: not irrational. It is a very rational feel, fear from
51:49
Speaker 3: monsters who would do them harm. And know that I
51:52
Speaker 3: am praying that God's comfort be with your children, that
51:56
Speaker 3: His strength be with your children. That is peace, be
51:59
Speaker 3: with your children, and that the world will stand united
52:03
Speaker 3: with Israel as you stand and eliminate this force of evil,
52:10
Speaker 3: these monsters that prey upon you. Know, my friend, that
52:14
Speaker 3: we are with you.
52:16
Speaker 1: Thanks again for coming on.
52:17
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
52:19
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52:21
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52:23
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52:26
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