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Safe in the Holy Land: A Firsthand Look at Life in Jerusalem Today · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Have some of these raids gone too far?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think they haven't gone far enough because we've
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  Speaker 2: been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges
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  Speaker 2: that were put in by Biden and by Obama.
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  Speaker 1: You're okay with those tactics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you have to get the people out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you have to look at the people. Many of them
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  Speaker 2: are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown
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  Speaker 2: out of their countries because they were, you know, criminal.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben
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  Speaker 1: ferguson Good Morning.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to have you with us on the forty
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update, and we are live in Jerusalem right now.
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  Speaker 3: It is actually Tuesday, well where we're recording this with
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  Speaker 3: my producer, it is Monday, eight hours ahead of where
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  Speaker 3: he is right now. And I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out the times to do these connections
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  Speaker 3: the US has been comical. This show is going to
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  Speaker 3: have a little bit different feel than normal as we
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  Speaker 3: are going to be in Israel all week and we're
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  Speaker 3: going to start with one of the incredible stories that
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  Speaker 3: is on the front page of the Jerusalem Post. But first,
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  Speaker 3: right now, all of us, our help is needed with
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  Speaker 3: the people in Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and
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  Speaker 3: Jews has supported and will continue to support the people
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  Speaker 3: That's if CJ dot org the psychological torture that is
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  Speaker 3: taking place on the Israeli people by Hamas. The headline
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  Speaker 3: is simple. The three partial remains that Hamas returned to
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  Speaker 3: Israel on Friday night do not belong to any of
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  Speaker 3: the hostages still in Gaza. DNA tests conducted at the
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  Speaker 3: Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine have concluded late on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: the IDF was preparing for the return of the partial
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  Speaker 3: remains of three slain Godza hostages. The Red Cross, acting
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  Speaker 3: as intermediaries, handed over the remains to the IDF troops overnight,
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  Speaker 3: but Hamas had not specified whose remains it was handing over.
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  Speaker 3: Hamas said in a statement on Saturday that had initially
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  Speaker 3: offered three samples from unidentified bodies to Israeli authorities for
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  Speaker 3: quote testing. In order to not impede the handover of
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  Speaker 3: the bodies, we offered deliver three samples from a number
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  Speaker 3: of unidentified corpses. Hamas stated on telegram saying quote Israel
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  Speaker 3: refused to accept the sample and demanded to receive the
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  Speaker 3: bodies for examination and we hand them over to preempt
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  Speaker 3: the enemy's claims. Again Hamas still referring to Israel as
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  Speaker 3: their enemy. A statement from the International Committee of the
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  Speaker 3: Red Cross said that the organization acts as a neutral intermediary,
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  Speaker 3: assisted this evening at the request and with the approval
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  Speaker 3: of both parties, in return the remains of three bodies
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  Speaker 3: to Israeli authorities. The identification process is the responsibility of
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  Speaker 3: the revelant authorities in Israel and will be carried out
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  Speaker 3: by then. The reality is these bodies did not belong
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  Speaker 3: to any of the hostages, and this goes back to
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  Speaker 3: what I have been witnessing since I've been in Israel.
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  Speaker 3: This has been an incredible trip, as I have, for
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  Speaker 3: the very first time on my pilgrimage, been able to
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  Speaker 3: see where Jesus walked, see where he carried the cross
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  Speaker 3: for his own death and to see exactly what life
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  Speaker 3: is like in Israel. There are a couple things that
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  Speaker 3: I want to be clear about. Number One, on this trip,
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  Speaker 3: it has been a spiritual journey for me. I will
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  Speaker 3: never shy away from talking about that. I will also
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  Speaker 3: tell you that if you're thinking about coming to Israel,
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  Speaker 3: now is the time to do it. It has been
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  Speaker 3: incredibly safe, especially in Jerusalem, and I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: that there are so many people that want to come
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  Speaker 3: to Israel and they haven't felt like it was the
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  Speaker 3: right time. After being here, I would feel incredibly safe
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  Speaker 3: bringing my entire family. This ceasefire and the leadership of
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump to get this peace in the Middle East
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  Speaker 3: and the Abraham Accords is truly historic, but it's also
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  Speaker 3: very real. But there's also another aspect of this trip
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  Speaker 3: that I think is as important to tell you about,
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  Speaker 3: and that is witnessing the torture. Just like the story
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  Speaker 3: I told you about Hamas and the partial remain Sentomas
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  Speaker 3: that they said were the hostages were actually not at all.
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  Speaker 3: What we are witnessing right now is truly psychological warfare.
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  Speaker 3: It's psychological warfare by a terrorist organization. It still refers
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  Speaker 3: to Israel as the enemy in their own statement on telegram. Today,
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  Speaker 3: what we're also witnessing is something else. It's extremely concerning
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  Speaker 3: and part of the reason why I decided to take
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  Speaker 3: this trip to Israel, and that is the rise of
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  Speaker 3: anti Semitism on the right in America. I had the
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  Speaker 3: privilege this evening of speaking with and hearing the story
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  Speaker 3: of the mother of one of the hostages that was
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  Speaker 3: just returned to Israel. You may remember the video that
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  Speaker 3: went viral of a young lady on the back of
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  Speaker 3: a motorcycle sandwich between two men, holding her hand out,
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  Speaker 3: begging for help from her boyfriend. You may remember that
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  Speaker 3: he moved that camera to the right and you could
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  Speaker 3: see the boyfriend pleading and wanting to grab his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: They were taken hostage and they were separated. That story
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  Speaker 3: I was able to film tonight of a man by
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  Speaker 3: the name of mister Orr. The mother of the hostage
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  Speaker 3: told the story of her son, of how she found
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  Speaker 3: out about when he was taken, and how he was
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  Speaker 3: kept underground without being able to see the sun, literally
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  Speaker 3: for years. That story I have put up on social
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  Speaker 3: media so that you can hear it. I have put
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  Speaker 3: it up on my Facebook account the video, and I
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  Speaker 3: hope that every one of you will go look at
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  Speaker 3: it on Facebook so that you can hear that story.
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  Speaker 3: But what you learn when you were here and you
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  Speaker 3: talk to the hostage victims and their families is that
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  Speaker 3: their stories have not been told by the media. Their
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  Speaker 3: torture has not been told by the media. And in fact,
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  Speaker 3: what we've seen by the media is for them to
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  Speaker 3: imply on every opportunity they get that Israel is somehow evil,
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  Speaker 3: that they are committing genocide, that they are the ones
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  Speaker 3: that are hurting innocent people, which is not the case
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  Speaker 3: at all. I go back to this partial remains that
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  Speaker 3: were sent by Hamas knowing that it was not actually
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  Speaker 3: the hostages bodies. This is torturing the families. They know,
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  Speaker 3: this is psychological warfare. We also know that because the
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  Speaker 3: leadership of President Trump, we got to the point where
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  Speaker 3: all living hostages were given back, and there is incredible
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  Speaker 3: gratitude in Israel right now for the President of the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America and him accomplishing something very quickly
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  Speaker 3: that the prior administration couldn't do or didn't do on purpose,
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  Speaker 3: you can decide. Which brings me to the other point,
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  Speaker 3: and it's something I'm going to be focusing on on
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  Speaker 3: this show the next several days. There is definitely a
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  Speaker 3: rise in anti Semitism in America in the right right now.
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  Speaker 3: It is being led by names that I'm sure you
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  Speaker 3: know about, Candice Owans, Tucker Carlson, Nick Flinte, and others
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  Speaker 3: who have decided that Israel is not important as an
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  Speaker 3: ally of the United States of America. It is also
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  Speaker 3: giving incredible help to the terrorist group of moss And
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  Speaker 3: there is many that are concerned in Israel about this
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  Speaker 3: happening in America. In fact, it's been the number one
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  Speaker 3: thing I've been asked about is I've been in Israel
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  Speaker 3: is what is happening with Republicans and conservatives. There was
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  Speaker 3: a warning on the top page the Jerusalem Post yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: The headline read a growing cancer. Senator Cruz warns of
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  Speaker 3: anti Semitism spike on the US right. The sentater says
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  Speaker 3: issue is accelerated by online normalization of fringe figures. He
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  Speaker 3: also said the church is asleep. I couldn't agree more
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  Speaker 3: with that, and he called on Christian leaders to act.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Cruz delivering a dramatic warning that anti Semitism is
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  Speaker 3: spreading on parts of the America's right and urge conservatives, pastors,
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  Speaker 3: and lay leaders to draw red lines and confront it
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  Speaker 3: head on. After being in Israel, I couldn't agree with
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  Speaker 3: this more than what I've witnessed since being here, and
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  Speaker 3: the danger is very high. The danger, as President Trump
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  Speaker 3: has put it and Senator Cruz have put it, is
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  Speaker 3: that you now have hardcore conservatives that are turning a
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  Speaker 3: younger generation to be anti Semitic. There's real anti Semitism
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  Speaker 3: on the right now, and there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: conservatives that are now believing that it's somehow okay to
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  Speaker 3: say to Israel you're not our ally. I also want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about national security issues, and it's something we'll
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  Speaker 3: focus on tomorrow, and that is just how important Israel
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  Speaker 3: is when it comes to five isis al Qaeda and
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  Speaker 3: Islamic extremism in the Middle East, and how much intelligence
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  Speaker 3: they give to America that allows us to stay safe.
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  Speaker 3: That is going to be part of what we're going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about. We're also going to talk about what
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  Speaker 3: I see on the ground. Is I am going to
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  Speaker 3: visit the site of the terrorist attack where that festival was.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to meet with more families tomorrow that loved
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  Speaker 3: ones were killed and some that were able to come home,
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  Speaker 3: and the leaders that are having to deal with the
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  Speaker 3: fallout of the war that has happened for far too long.
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  Speaker 3: So We're going to take a moment this week to
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  Speaker 3: talk about Israel and the politics of it. So what
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you is this. Go on Facebook and watch
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  Speaker 3: the video of the mother tell the story of her
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  Speaker 3: son who has just returned. And listen that story and
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  Speaker 3: tell me why on earth would we not stand with
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  Speaker 3: these people that were attacked in a horrific way, the
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  Speaker 3: worst attack on the Jewish peoples Enthoholocaust. Listen to our
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  Speaker 3: words and we'll talk more about anti Semitism on the
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  Speaker 3: right as well. Finally, what I'll tell you is this,
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  Speaker 3: the people of Israel, they are I'm so thankful for
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump becoming president. Yet again, they love that we
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  Speaker 3: have a presdent that is standing with them and also
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  Speaker 3: understands there's a difference between right and wrong and good
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  Speaker 3: and evil. That there is clarity in the world now
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  Speaker 3: of where America stands with Israel, and it's part of
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  Speaker 3: the conversation I'm happy to be having. While I'm here
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  Speaker 3: in Jerusalem. I'll see you back here tomorrow for more
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  Speaker 3: from Israel.
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