One year ago today, the world turned upside down. The eliminationist terror group Hamas, whose charter explicitly calls for the death of Jews and the extermination of Israel, was elected in 2006. Since then, Hamas has spent billions of dollars building hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels below civilian areas. They have also sporadically fired rockets over the border, necessitating that hundreds of thousands of Israelis go underground or to their mamads, safe rooms. That s precisely what Hamas is counting on. At the same time the security wall between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel is breached by thousands of Hamas terrorists, they have taken out the monitoring towers, knocked down the wall with bulldozers, and destroyed all resistance in their terror rampage. It takes days to completely clear the area of the Gaza envelope of terrorists. In the United States, we begin to find out the details of the massacre, only a few days after the attack on the music festival by Hamas terrorists near the city of Re'im, near the border with Gaza, and by the time it s all over, some 1,200 Israelis have been taken hostage by the terrorists. By the time the assault is complete, some 250 have been murdered. This episode is brought to you by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) and is a gift from Benforthefellowship.org, to make a gift to the Jewish people in need of a safe room in the hellhole that is Gaza. God bless you. God bless and thank you, God bless, and God is great. -- Aye, and may you live in peace, bless you and keep you safe, be safe, rest in Paradise, be secure, and rest in the land of safety, and good rest, and so much more. -- Amen and good night. -- Psalm 139, -- -- Ebb and Good night, Blessings, -- Ode to You, my Lord and Good morning, Bless you, Bless You, Ode, Bless Me, and Bless You. -- -- Alyssa and Good Night. -- Eileen -- - Abraham -- -- - Ode To Meghan -- "Amen and Bless Me" -- -- "I swear to God, Lord is Great?" -- Ayn Elie? -- Ayesha -- Thank you, Lord bless you? -- Abigail -- And so on, Lord Bless Me? -- Thank you for listening?
00:00:21.000God bless and thank you. One year ago today, the world turned upside down.
00:00:44.000The eliminationist terror group Hamas, whose charter explicitly calls for the death of Jews and the extermination of Israel, was elected in 2006.
00:00:51.000Since then, Hamas has spent billions of dollars building hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels below civilian areas.
00:00:58.000They've also sporadically fired rockets over the border, necessitating that hundreds of
00:01:01.000thousands of Israelis go underground or to their mamads, safe rooms.
00:01:06.000That is precisely what Hamas is counting on.
00:01:08.000At the same time the rockets are fired, the security wall between the Gaza Strip and southern
00:01:12.000Israel is breached by thousands of Hamas terrorists.
00:01:15.000They've taken out the monitoring towers.
00:01:17.000They've knocked down the wall with bulldozers.
00:01:18.000They've also targeted the IDF troops in the region, destroying all resistance in their
00:03:25.000Gazan civilians celebrate as civilian Jews and Arabs and non-Arabs are dragged back into hell.
00:03:33.000into hell. This is a video of Shani Luke's dead body.
00:03:36.000Oh She was, of course, at the Nova Festival.
00:03:40.000You can see that her body has been completely crumbled.
00:03:43.000They're all screaming Allahu Akbar, surrounded by civilians as they drive back into Gaza.
00:03:48.000She clearly is dead from the position her body is in.
00:03:51.000Hamas tried to maintain for weeks that she was not.
00:03:54.000Meanwhile, Hamas terrorists, as mentioned, descend on the Nova Music Festival, a large-scale party near the Re'im Kibbutz.
00:04:00.000Paragliders descend over the wall and proceed to kill 364 people, abduct dozens, and by the testimony of survivors, rape many of the women before murdering them.
00:04:08.000You can see in this video, members of Hamas in their paragliders descending on the music festival.
00:04:17.000This of course would become iconic in the United States when left-wing groups would actually animate logos in solidarity with the members of Hamas.
00:04:25.000Israelis from all walks of life rush to the scenes of the massacres trying to rescue the Jews, Arabs, and others under assault.
00:04:30.000Many die or are wounded in the attempt.
00:04:32.000It takes days to completely clear the area of the Gaza envelope of Hamas terrorists.
00:04:36.000By the time the massacre is over, some 1,200 Israelis have been murdered.
00:04:39.000250 have been taken hostage back to Gaza.
00:04:43.000Meanwhile, in the north of Israel, Hezbollah, a terrorist group backed by Iran, has joined the war as well.
00:04:47.000They've started shooting rockets into northern Israel by the hundreds.
00:04:50.000The only thing keeping them from a full-scale invasion is probably fear of destruction.
00:04:55.000In the United States, we begin to find out the details of the massacre only gradually.
00:04:59.000The terrorists had waited, as per their usual, religiously respectful arrangement, for a Jewish holiday in order to commit their horrifying crime.
00:05:06.000My family and I had only left Israel on October 6th to make it home for the final of the High Holy Days, Simchat Torah and Shemini Yatzeret.
00:05:28.000Some have relatives in the assaulted areas.
00:05:30.000One has a brother living in an area directly under attack.
00:05:33.000The feeling of dread pervades not just our community, but the entire Jewish community worldwide.
00:05:37.000It's the worst terror assault on Jews since the Holocaust.
00:05:41.000In the years since October 7th, Israel has launched the most targeted successful urban military operation in human history.
00:05:47.000Israel has destroyed 23 out of 24 Hamas battalions with heartbreaking but statistically minimal loss of life among their members of the IDF. Their ratio of terrorists to civilians killed is the lowest in recorded military history.
00:06:00.000Israel has killed the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Khania, in a pinpoint operation in Tehran, Iran.
00:06:05.000Israel has killed the military organizer of Hamas, Mohammed Daif.
00:06:08.000They may have killed Yahya Sinwar, the military leader behind October 7th.
00:06:13.000In the north, Israel has, in the last month, absolutely devastated Hezbollah, an incredibly sophisticated and colorful operation utilizing exploding beepers, beepers Israel sold to Hezbollah, all simultaneously destroyed Hezbollah's communications and their top-level leadership.
00:06:29.000Then there was a follow-up operation in which they exploded Hamas' walkie-talkies.
00:06:32.000Then there was a series of targeted airstrikes that culminated with the destruction of Hezbollah's long-range capacity and the killing of their terror leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and his deputies.
00:06:42.000And now there's military operations going on by ground troops in southern Lebanon.
00:06:46.000Israel has also struck the Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis with force after Yemen sent a drone and cruise missiles into Israel.
00:06:53.000Meanwhile, Israel and its allies have blunted two separate, massive, direct Iranian drone and missile assaults, and now Israel threatens extraordinary retaliation for Iran's last major act of war.
00:07:02.000That happened just last week when Iran shot 181 cruise missiles into Israel.
00:07:07.000If October 7th, 2023 was the low point in the history of the state of Israel, Israel now stands in perhaps its strongest position in living memory.
00:07:15.000Iran's top two terror proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, have been eviscerated.
00:07:19.000Iran itself lives in fear of Israeli retaliation.
00:07:23.000The Sunni Gulf Arab states that were considering the broadening of the Abraham Accords, who may have thought that Israel was a weak horse after October 7th, are moving steadily toward normalization with Israel again.
00:07:33.000But the last year has been a year of lessons.
00:07:36.000In fact, there are seven major lessons that have to be learned or October 7th will be repeated to even worse effect, not just in Israel, but in the West more broadly.
00:07:49.000Now, it's become fashionable in the West to believe that evil does not exist, that really there are no truly evil people, only people who are misguided, who have bad thoughts or who are victims.
00:07:59.000It's tempting to believe. We all believe the same things.
00:08:01.000We want the same things. But we're prevented through conflicting ideologies and interests from obtaining those things.
00:08:17.000It is difficult to think of better evidence of human evil than this phone call in which a Hamas terrorist, in the middle of the massacre, called his family to tell them how proud he was that he had murdered Jewish civilians.
00:08:30.000Hi, Dad. I'm talking to you from Mifalsim.
00:08:34.000Open my WhatsApp now and you'll see all those killed.
00:08:37.000Look how many I killed with my own hands.
00:08:38.000Your son killed Jews. It's inside Mifalsim, Dad.
00:08:42.000And his father says, may God protect you.
00:08:44.000Dad, I'm talking to you from a Jewish woman's phone.
00:08:47.000I killed her and I killed her husband.
00:09:20.000Hamas live streamed them in real time for the whole world to see.
00:09:24.000It's not as though the West's enemies are hiding the ball here.
00:09:27.000Yahweh Sinwar, leader of Hamas, has openly called for Israel's destruction, after, by the way, being healed of brain cancer while being held in an Israeli prison and then released.
00:10:28.000His conclusion, wars only break out when one side, correctly or incorrectly, believes it can win or can deal the enemy a serious blow for purposes of improving bargaining position.
00:10:38.000He wrote, quote, anything which increases optimism is a cause of war.
00:10:41.000Anything which dampens that optimism is a cause of peace.
00:10:46.000Let them know that you will crush them and prevent war.
00:10:50.000War can only be deterred through the credible threat of overwhelming force.
00:10:59.000That is why Israel is now pursuing the only strategy of war that has ever worked ever.
00:11:03.000A strategy that has now been abandoned for generations by the West.
00:11:06.000Victory. Victory leads to further peace as neutral states sign on.
00:11:11.000That's precisely what Donald Trump knew when he brokered the Abraham Accords.
00:11:13.000It was the weakness and stupidity of the Biden White House and the blindness of Israelis who went to sleep on Hamas that led to October 7th.
00:11:20.000This is why the current Biden administration tactic of trying to hold back Israel from destroying its enemies isn't just wrong, it's dangerous.
00:11:32.000Weakness incentivizes evil people to act.
00:11:36.000Israel has spent four decades apologizing for its own power, hoping to apologize for the necessity of strength in defending its existence in one of the worst spots on planet Earth.
00:11:46.000Since Oslo, Israel has promoted the absolute lie that it could simply pay off those who wished its destruction.
00:11:52.000Israel pulled out of large segments of the so-called West Bank, the biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria, and handed it over to the terrorists Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority, and Fatah.
00:12:01.000They pulled out of Gaza and they handed it over to the terrorist group Hamas.
00:12:04.000They pulled out of southern Lebanon and they handed it over effectively to the terrorist group Hezbollah.
00:12:12.000All of it. The same thing is true of the pathetic Biden administration.
00:12:16.000Thanks to the increased strength of the Israeli tech sector and military over the course of the past decade and thanks to the rising threat of Iran created by the pathetic Obama administration and its truly disgusting decision to woo Iran in lieu of America's allies, the Sunni Gulf states signed on to the Trump-backed Abraham Accords.
00:12:31.000They knew they'd have to form an alliance against Iran and that any durable future could be achieved only in alliance with a forward-looking technological and military power.
00:12:40.000Then came the Biden administration, which moved quickly to alienate Saudi and Israel in favor of Iran again.
00:12:45.000This led Iran in fear of the prospect of a Saudi-Israeli alliance to activate Hamas, the goal being to split the Muslim world over the Palestinians, who have never wanted a state and never wanted peace and have always been a tool in the Middle East to destroy the state of Israel.
00:12:58.000When Trump says October 7th never would have happened on his watch, that is clearly correct.
00:13:02.000If America had made clear it was going to back Saudi and Israel against Iranian proxies, Rather than attempting to chastise both countries for fighting those Iranian proxies, Iran wouldn't have had room to breathe.
00:13:12.000Instead, they got billions of dollars from the White House and they went for broke.
00:13:16.000Lesson number four. Division incentivizes your enemies.
00:13:54.000It turns out everybody secular in Israel has a religious cousin.
00:13:56.000All the same people who had threatened to walk out on their military service instead signed up for immediate service.
00:14:02.000Religious and non-religious, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, everyone joined up and fought side by side.
00:14:06.000The people of Israel are united by a common enemy, of course, but they're also united by a common history and a shared fate.
00:14:12.000So are we in the West more broadly if only we would see it.
00:14:16.000But we may be too busy tearing ourselves down.
00:14:19.000Which brings us to lesson number five.
00:14:21.000The West has failed to teach its children the right things.
00:14:24.000We have failed. The West has taken the cancer of decolonization ideology into its bones.
00:14:30.000It is bone deep. For generations, particularly since the end of World War II, the elites of the intellectual West have been apologizing for Western existence.
00:14:38.000They've been teaching our children the West is a colonialist power, exploitative, brutal, and that the enemies of the West, they're just victims.
00:14:47.000That's why the children of the West are marching around with Hamas and Hezbollah flags next to their trans pins.
00:14:52.000They agree with the words of Jean-Paul Sartre that, quote, you who are so liberal, so humane, who take the love of culture to the point of affectation, you pretend to forget that you have colonies where massacres are committed in your name.
00:16:54.000And as a religious Jew, I will say, yes, they fail because of God.
00:16:58.000But they also fail because they are failures.
00:17:01.000The very ideology of anti-Semitism is a failure.
00:17:03.000It rests on a very simple premise that the Jews are a conspiratorial force who Who actually control the world through nefarious means, all in pursuit of corrupt ends.
00:17:53.000Instead, Cain kills Abel, the first murder in human history.
00:17:56.000This is still the model of murder today, particularly political murder, justified by supposed victimization.
00:18:02.000Cain was not a victim, even though he thought of himself as a victim.
00:18:05.000Neither are those who turn their lands into hellholes, who spend billions of dollars on terrorism, who call for the leveling of human achievement in favor of a cannibalistic pseudo-justice.
00:18:14.000They are scavengers, and they have to be fought tooth and nail.
00:18:20.000October 7th may have been a win for Israel's terrorist enemies.
00:18:23.000But in the subsequent year, they learned one particular lesson.
00:18:26.000That if they bet wrong, if they attack the West, if they bet on the weakness of the West and its own pathetic unwillingness to survive, if they bet wrong on that, they will be destroyed.
00:18:52.000And so Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran are finding out the hard way.
00:18:55.000around and find out. It's about time the rest of the West learned that lesson and
00:19:00.000applied it because that's the only type of West that will be able to survive and
00:19:04.000thrive and humanity depends on precisely that the West surviving and thriving.
00:19:09.000As we've been talking about today October 7th marks one year since the
00:19:12.000worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
00:19:15.0001,200 Israelis lost their lives, over 250 were taken hostage, and the war in Israel continues to rage on today.
00:19:22.000Earlier this month, Iran launched a massive barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at the Holy Land.
00:19:27.000This isn't just another conflict in the Middle East.
00:19:28.000Israel and her people are facing attacks from enemies on all sides who seek her destruction.
00:19:32.000But there's hope. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground, providing food, shelter, and safety to those in need during this crisis.
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00:20:15.000Thank you so much. I had the opportunity a little bit early on this week to talk with the parents of a person who's still being held hostage in Gaza.
00:20:23.000The suffering is not yet over for Jews who were taken and their families.
00:20:27.000Everyone who is stolen off into the hellhole that is the Gaza Strip created by Hamas.
00:20:33.000Hamas could surrender. This could be over any day they want.
00:20:36.000But they are not. I was joined earlier this week by Orna Nutra and Ronen Nutra.
00:20:41.000Their son, Omer Nutra, is a 22-year-old dual citizen of the United States and Israel and was kidnapped into Gaza.
00:20:47.000Here's what it sounded like. Joining us on the line are Orna Nutra and Ronen Nutra.
00:20:52.000They are the parents of Omer Nutra, a 22-year-old dual citizen of the United States and Israel, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th.
00:21:00.000Orna and Ronen, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:21:38.000We're both descendants of Holocaust survivors.
00:21:42.000And Omer grew up on the ethos that, you know, Israel needs to be strong.
00:21:46.000He loves Israel. And when he was accepted to college, it was a family decision for him to spend a gap year before he went to college in Israel.
00:21:55.000And he chose to spend that year together with Israeli kids in a Mechina program, which is pretty much a gap year for Israeli kids before they joined the army.
00:22:07.000And he grew very connected to his new friends and to, I guess, certain parts of his identity which were dormant.
00:22:18.000And throughout that year, he started developing feelings that, you know, he couldn't just go back to his life without doing his share and protecting Israel, which he loved so much.
00:22:31.000Yeah, but I want to add that Omer is...
00:22:52.000And yes, sometimes he's very goofy and he's extremely social and he's a big guy.
00:22:59.000Everybody loves to hug him and to be together with him.
00:23:04.000We miss him so much. So I know it's difficult, but take me through the events of what you know about what happened on October 7th with Omer.
00:23:14.000Yeah, so Omer and his group were stationed between Kibbutz Nirim and Kibbutz Niroz.
00:23:21.000And their job was to protect those Kibbutzim in time of peace.
00:23:27.000And nobody expected, obviously, there was a big failure of intelligence because nobody expected what happened on October 7th.
00:23:35.000And on early morning, October 7, they rushed to the border as first responders with two tanks and a small platoon of Golani soldiers trying to protect the border, not knowing that they're going to be meeting and facing thousands of ISIS-Hamas terrorists gushing through the border, attacking their tank.
00:24:04.000Unfortunately, it had to drive very slow.
00:24:06.000As a result, they managed to put explosives on the tank, put it on fire, and Omer and his team were pulled out of the tank after it was smoked and taken hostage into Gaza.
00:24:19.000It took us a few months to learn that the driver was actually killed on that spot, and one of the soldiers was murdered as it was pulled out of the tank, and Omer And a teammate were taken alive into Gaza.
00:24:39.000There was a video propaganda that Hamas published that is just available out there and basically showing that they are pulled out of the tank.
00:24:48.000But we have no further information ever since.
00:24:52.000So there have been opportunities for the International Red Cross to get aid into Gaza, but they've not had any contact apparently with the hostages at this point.
00:25:02.000Is that correct? The Red Cross was not allowed, and how can that be?
00:25:08.000That the Red Cross is not allowed to visit any one of the hostages, and we got no official to see them, see their medical condition, give them attention, make sure that they're getting fed and getting water.
00:25:31.000This is, you know, you're talking about a terrorist, the biggest terrorist attack on the Israeli state on October 7th.
00:25:39.000But for us, it's been a prolonged terrorist attack.
00:25:41.000And of course, for the hostages, you know, they're still there.
00:25:45.000And from what we just recently saw, the information that came out after the brutal execution of the six young people a month ago, You know, there's not much room left for imagination there.
00:25:59.000We were shown the conditions that they've been held.
00:26:59.000And we are pushing them, as well as any international party, to do whatever they can to put pressure both on Hamas and in Israel to reach a deal that is so much needed to bring our son back and the rest of the hostages.
00:27:16.000Yeah, it must be very difficult, obviously, not just what you're going through, but also to watch the world response to what has happened since October 7th.
00:27:23.000People marching in the streets in solidarity with Hamas as parents of somebody who's being held hostage by Hamas.
00:27:32.000You know, we think it's just insanity, you know, what's going on.
00:27:37.000And, you know, we really believe that if there was real concern for the Palestinian people or really appealing to anyone who's really concerned, you know, for the Palestinian people, then they should be demonstrating together with us against Hamas and against Hezbollah and against all these enemies that are surrounding the state of Israel because they really do not care about the Palestinian cause.
00:28:01.000They are taking their own people hostage, and they're just using them in their fight against the state of Israel.
00:28:08.000So, you know, what we're seeing people demonstrating in favor of these terrorist organizations is just appalling.
00:28:15.000And it's such an inversion of the truth.
00:28:26.000The 7th of October demonstration at McGill University in Canada, and on their advertisement they're showing the tank that Omer was pulled out of as a pro-Palestinian victory that they are marching for the pro-Palestinians.
00:28:45.000Can you imagine that? His tank is being shown on McGill University propaganda.
00:28:52.000As a proof that what happened was the right thing, the attack on Israel.
00:28:56.000It's disgusting. So you've started a GoFundMe to help to free your son.
00:29:02.000You guys are going around and doing all sorts of diplomatic initiatives.
00:29:06.000You're reaching out to other families who have relatives who are being held hostage in Gaza and conducting international media outreach.
00:29:12.000We'll drop the link, obviously, below so that people can help give, you know, What's your message as parents of somebody who's being held hostage?
00:29:20.000What is it that the American people, that the world needs to know about the situation of family members who are currently being held hostage by one of the worst terrorist groups on the planet?
00:29:29.000Well, our life stopped on October 6th.
00:29:32.000We spoke with Omer Lass on October 6th.
00:29:35.000This was before anything, you know, happened, and he was expecting a quiet weekend.
00:29:40.000Our life changed forever on October 7th.
00:29:44.000And anything that we did or knew before that has shifted and been moved aside.
00:29:51.000And like you said, we've been traveling across the world to Israel, back to Washington, to everywhere where there's an ear and an opportunity to impact or do something to impact the release of Omer and the remaining hostages.
00:30:09.000And it's taken a toll on our family, On our work.
00:31:52.000We have to fight terrorism wherever it is, because if you don't fight it at its origins and its roots, it's going to hunt you and come back to your home.
00:32:02.000And that's what we are shouting here in front of everybody.
00:32:08.000Taking hostages is such an unhumane Thank you, Ben. Thank you. We appreciate you.
00:32:38.000I also had the opportunity to sit down with Aaron Boers.
00:32:41.000He's 34 and a lone soldier in the idea from Great Neck, New York.
00:32:44.000He was injured in Gaza as part of Operation Iron Swords.
00:32:48.000He, of course, has been called by the left a member of a genocidal army.
00:32:51.000A greater lie, it would be difficult to propagate considering the fact that according to Channel 12, foreign sources from Hamas have admitted that 80% of the casualties in the Gaza Strip on the Hamas side, on the Gaza side, have been members of Hamas or their families.
00:33:07.000Aaron was wounded pretty gravely by Hamas terrorists while serving in the Gaza Strip.
00:33:12.000We had the chance to sit down with him earlier this week.
00:33:14.000Well, joining us online is Aaron Boers, lone soldier in the IDF from Great Neck, New York.
00:33:18.000Aaron was injured in Gaza as part of Operation Iron Swords.
00:33:22.000Aaron, thanks so much for taking the time.
00:33:23.000Really appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Ben.
00:33:25.000It's great to be on your show and I appreciate you having me.
00:33:28.000So why don't we just start with how things went down for you, your journey since October 7th.
00:33:36.000Absolutely. So I've, first of all, been a lone soldier in the IDF for a number of years now.
00:33:43.000I moved from New York to Israel to be a lone soldier to enlist in the Givati Brigade, part of the combat forces in the Israel Defense Forces.
00:33:52.000October 7th, day to day, I'm a marketer.
00:33:55.000I'm a chief marketing officer at an AI startup.
00:34:07.000I was married a month and a half before that.
00:34:10.000And I had about 20 missed calls from my wife.
00:34:12.000She was in hysterics because a white pickup truck with Hamas lunatic terrorists on the back of it had rolled into the border town of Sterot in the south of Israel.
00:34:22.000And she was looking for some kind of calm in an otherwise extremely anxious, scary situation.
00:34:31.000But in all honesty, I knew that all hell had broken loose.
00:34:34.000And I myself knew that this was different than anything I'd faced before and that we'd faced as a country.
00:34:39.000Moving forward. And I got stuck in a suite in the Encore Hotel.
00:34:44.000I was in Vegas scrambling to get back to my unit.
00:34:47.000Delta canceled my flight at the same time that my unit was called up.
00:34:50.000And we're part of the Southern Command, so our job is to defend the South and when needed to go into Gaza if provoked.
00:34:58.000I returned to Israel three days later, joined my unit, and we were part of the first big wave on October 30th, part of the ground operation into the Gaza Strip to try to put pressure on Hamas to bring back those hostages and unearth that labyrinth of terror tunnels that they've spent all that humanitarian aid on.
00:35:39.000And as we're moving through that residential area, there are schools, there are mosques, there are hospitals that have left us standing because the idea follows a strict moral code.
00:35:50.000We don't like to bring down civilian infrastructure, A, the optics of it, and B, again, it's against our ethics.
00:35:56.000So a school was standing, an UNRWA school, that we had to pass in front of.
00:37:03.000I direct my weapon towards where I hear the AK-47s blasting and I shoot back, but they're like ghosts.
00:37:08.000You can't really hear them. You can't really see them.
00:37:13.000They like to pop out of their tunnels for a few minutes, call chaos, and then go back down.
00:37:17.000So I'm shooting for a few minutes, and as I'm giving cover fire to my officer and our comms person, I look over and I see that my officer is in bad shape.
00:37:28.000It looks like he's lost a lot of blood.
00:38:12.000And I didn't want to look. So I was on the ground now and I didn't want to look because I didn't want to go into shock seeing that my leg wasn't attached.
00:38:18.000So I started to crawl myself back to the house.
00:38:21.000And as I'm crawling, I get shot in my left leg by an AK-47.
00:39:23.000They saved my life. The tragedy of my story is that my officer, who I thought I could have saved, was instantly killed by a sniper bullet, and I just didn't see it.
00:39:46.000His name was Omri David, 27 years young, was going to propose to his girlfriend at seven years, loved Israeli boutique beers on the On the beach and traveling to Thailand like all good Israelis do.
00:40:04.000I'll stop there. You mentioned the combat situation in Gaza.
00:40:11.000Obviously the sort of propaganda that's going out from Hamas and that's been picked up by enormous amounts of Western media and of course college students is that Israel is pursuing some sort of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
00:40:21.000That Israel is deliberately targeting civilians.
00:40:24.000That Israel, the IDF, is an inhumane force.
00:40:27.000You are operating on the ground there.
00:40:29.000What do you say to those sorts of accusations?
00:40:32.000Well, it's heartbreaking for me to see kind of where we've come.
00:40:50.000If we were, we're doing a horrible job at it.
00:40:52.000The amount of time we gave to evacuate the north of the Gaza Strip to allow the IDF, you know, time to get Gazans into safety, you know, that meant that they had more time to set booby traps.
00:41:05.000We did it anyway because we value their lives and we're not trying to drag innocent civilians into this conflict.
00:41:10.000Hamas doesn't. And the fact that the school was allowed to stand, my leg, the fact that I'm still on crutches is a testament to the fact that, you know, we leave these buildings, this infrastructure standing, because that's the moral code that we follow.
00:41:24.000And then Hamas abuses that moral code.
00:41:25.000And they were using an UNRWA school from which to launch this ambush, to launch this attack.
00:41:29.000But in that school, there was a tunnel.
00:41:33.000Why do you need those things in a school if you're using the money as an organization for good, for education, and to advance Gazan civilization?
00:41:42.000So I think that genocide is a word to describe what's going on.
00:41:48.000It's so inaccurate, and it's been disproven time and time again.
00:41:51.000I think South Africa is still digging for some kind of clue to inform their political
00:42:13.000These are not people seeking violence or people seeking war or conflict.
00:42:17.000These are people who want to get back to their families, who prioritize Israel's survival, the growth of their own family, their own prosperity, perseverance.
00:42:26.000And it's the opposite when you look at what Hamas is doing with the Gazan civilians.
00:42:32.000They're focused on the destruction of another civilization versus the perseverance and prosperity of their own.
00:42:38.000And I think that that's A real tragic fact on the ground.
00:42:44.000So how are you doing? How's your rehabilitation going?
00:42:46.000Obviously, it's been a while since your injury, but the costs of the injury are something that people don't take into account when they think about what's going on in these wars.
00:42:53.000I mean, I've met other soldiers in Israel who have lost both legs in the war, people who are gravely wounded.
00:43:00.000People pay attention to the numbers of dead, but they rarely pay attention to what happens to the injured afterward.
00:43:05.000No, absolutely. So, I'll tell you, Israel's had a problem with this in the past, and they've addressed it, and the Ministry of Defense and, in general, the bureaucracy around wounded soldiers now has improved greatly.
00:43:16.000That doesn't mean there are still gaping holes in the system and issues that With that, so there are about 12,000 injured soldiers today.
00:43:26.000Not physically, you know, exclusively physical.
00:43:32.000Hospitals were overwhelmed for a time.
00:43:33.000Now things are kind of stabilizing, but who knows what happens now with the Northern Front open.
00:43:39.000There are so many organizations that have pulled together, so many international Jews, Christians as well, people from all over the world who have really started to donate and pay attention to injured soldiers.
00:43:49.000I was five months hospitalized, and I felt greatly respected, taken care of, spoiled at times by people around the world who would come and visit and volunteer and donate, and it's been incredible.
00:44:02.000That being said, you talked about someone missing two legs, right?
00:44:09.000I'm really one of the ones who should be grateful, and my story is one of miracles.
00:44:13.000And I've met these kids who have lost both their legs, some who have lost more than that, and three limbs are missing.
00:44:24.000And they have more, like a higher spirit, a better spirit than most people I meet on a daily basis.
00:44:32.000So Israelis are super resilient and these people are trucking, you know, they're getting through, they're trucking through.
00:44:38.000And I want to shout out to just the amazing organizations that, I won't name them, there's too many, but the amazing organizations that have come together, Sheba Medical Center and all the hospitals throughout Israel that have really like stepped up their game in caring for all of us.
00:44:53.000And I think you do sometimes feel like injured soldiers get lost in the mix.
00:44:58.000And time will tell how much attention is paid to these soldiers as we get further and further away from those first few months of the Gazan War.
00:45:07.000So, Aaron, obviously, the war not only continues, it's now broadened.
00:45:10.000Israel has been doing heavy work in taking out Hezbollah in the north.
00:45:15.000This week, there are a number of casualties in southern Lebanon among members of the IDF, so that war is very much in the fighting.
00:45:22.000Meanwhile, Iran fired 181 cruise missiles at Israel this week, obviously.
00:45:27.000What's morale like on the ground in Israel right now?
00:45:30.000When I talk to my friends in Israel, it obviously goes up and down based on the news of the day.
00:45:35.000It seems as though, based on the extraordinary performance of the IDF in both the Gaza Strip and in southern Lebanon in particular, in Beirut taking out Hassan Azrala, that morale actually is significantly higher now in Israel than it was a year ago.
00:45:49.000Yeah. Yeah, I think the intelligence operation that was conducted day over day, week over week, what we've seen in the past month, just from how we've been able to dismantle Hezbollah without actually a high civilian casualty rate, which is impossible in the Gaza Strip because Hamas is essentially standing amongst civilians when they launch rockets.
00:46:12.000And then, of course, they're using their tunnels to protect themselves versus Gazan civilians.
00:46:19.000It's a miracle and obviously a testament to Israel's strength in that area.
00:46:24.000The morale is really high. The ballistic missile attack, you know, the entire country was in bomb shelters and in one sense that's horrifying and in another it is unifying.
00:46:34.000So the country has come together and you see isolated incidents, you know, of certain sects of the population maybe celebrating those attacks, etc.
00:46:43.000That's really not realistic in what's happening on the ground.
00:46:46.000You know, Our country is united, Arab Israelis, Israelis, Christians, Jewish Israelis, Christians.
00:46:57.000People were sending memes and jokes, and I think we're one of the only population groups, in my opinion, in the world who's able to take these things and spin them into some kind of comedic relief.
00:47:08.000And people are trying to go about their day.
00:47:13.000People are trying to go about their day, to do as well as they can in their respective roles in the company, in the country, to keep the economy as intact as possible, to not let it affect their kids and And that's Israeli resilience.
00:47:31.000I'm proud of the people in it. And of course, the soldiers who are now tasked with fighting in the north and continuing what we've started as it relates to eliminating Hezbollah for the rest of the world.
00:47:41.000Well, Aaron Bors, really appreciate your service and your heroism.
00:47:45.000Obviously, Western civilization is in the middle of a war.
00:47:47.000Israel's at the front line of that war.
00:47:50.000Thanks for what you're doing. Really appreciate your time.
00:47:52.000Thanks so much, man. Really appreciate it.
00:47:55.000Well, speaking of the absolute weakness of the Biden-Harris administration, Kamala Harris continues to be awful on the Middle East, just as her boss, Joe Biden, is awful.
00:48:02.000Remember that guy? He's still the president of the United States, but he doesn't matter anymore.
00:48:05.000We just forgot that he's no longer alive, and we just pretend that he's still the president somehow.
00:48:11.000In any case, Kamala Harris has decided she must do more interviews.
00:48:14.000Now, that doesn't mean she's going to do any unfriendly interviews.
00:48:53.000Israel's our ally. Israel needs the capacity to destroy its enemies since it is currently being attacked by Iranian proxies on seven different fronts.
00:49:00.000Instead, she's still attempting to have the baby.
00:49:04.000It's just pathetic. And so she just word salads this thing.
00:49:08.000Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
00:49:16.000I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people?
00:49:26.000And the answer to that question is yes.
00:49:28.000Okay, well, that is not actually the question.
00:49:30.000Would she say the same thing about Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine?
00:49:33.000In fact, would she say the same about any leader of any American ally?
00:49:38.000This administration is trying to suggest that Netanyahu is singly responsible for the situation in the Middle East when literally any Israeli leader worth his salt would be doing what Netanyahu is doing right now.
00:49:48.000The left in Israel is unified with Netanyahu in trying to go after Hezbollah in Lebanon or retaliating against Iran or finishing off Hamas at this point.
00:51:15.000That is why Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona says he doesn't understand why Arab Americans would think of voting for Donald Trump.
00:51:21.000They obviously have an ally in Kamala Harris.
00:51:23.000You know why he's saying this. What is your message to Muslim and Arab American voters there who are seriously considering either sitting out this election or voting Republican?
00:51:36.000Well, they shouldn't be considering that.
00:51:38.000They should be voting for Kamala Harris.
00:51:41.000I mean, she is committed to their values.
00:51:46.000She met with them, many in the Muslim and the Arab community here earlier in the week, to talk about the issues that they care about.
00:51:55.000And certainly peace in the Middle East is at the top of the list.
00:52:00.000Okay, so he's openly just saying the thing.
00:52:03.000He's openly saying, on the weekend of October 7th, he's openly saying that Arab Americans should know that Kamala Harris has their back because she's putting pressure on Israel in the middle of a war launched against Israel's survival.
00:52:15.000By the way, there's another terrorist attack over the weekend in Beersheba, in which an Israeli Bedouin wounded like 11 people.
00:52:21.000And that followed hard on another terrorist attack that also happened over the weekend.
00:52:26.000So this is a very much ongoing war, obviously.
00:55:38.000I mean, again, Elon is a strong endorser of President Trump.
00:55:42.000He also apparently has launched a significant PAC in favor of President Trump attempting to move forward the get out the vote operation, which is going to be the single biggest thing in the election that matters.
00:55:56.000Apparently, according to Politico a couple of days ago, The Elon Musk backpack and Turning Point have combined operations for Trump in Wisconsin, which is where Trump was this weekend.
00:56:05.000He went to Pennsylvania with Musk, and then he went to Wisconsin campaigning in that state.
00:56:09.000The internal polling I've seen basically shows all these states dead even.
00:56:11.000The public polling internals look pretty much the same.
00:56:14.000Here is President Trump doing something that he has been loath to do before, endorsing early voting in Wisconsin.
00:56:20.000Early voting in Wisconsin is underway now, so if you have an absentee ballot, return it right away as soon as you can.
00:56:27.000You can also vote in person using an absentee ballot starting October 22nd.
00:56:32.000Now, I wish that he had done this back in 2020 and 2021, but better late than never.
00:56:36.000Apparently, according to Politico, hundreds of ballot chasers that had been hired by Turning Point this week are combining with America PAC's operation in Wisconsin, according to four people with knowledge of the arrangement, granted anonymity, to speak freely.
00:56:47.000America PAC We'll find out on election night.
00:57:13.000So we still have yet to see conflicting reports from the ground as to where things stand in these various districts.
00:57:19.000Suffice it to say that in the Senate, there are a couple of Senate races right now that are very, very competitive.
00:57:24.000There are some where Republicans are pretty much going to win.
00:58:50.000Now, not all the changes in the House map do favor the Democrats.
00:58:54.000Right now, again, it is clear that Democrats have some momentum in the House.
00:58:59.000However, Republicans do have momentum in the Senate.
00:59:04.000All that can be said at this point is every little thing matters, which means that you need to vote.
00:59:08.000Your friends need to vote. They all need to vote early.
00:59:11.000Because right now, when you take a look at sort of how this election is going to play out, Democrats are going to turn out in extraordinary numbers to vote early.
00:59:17.000Republicans are going to turn out really heavy on Election Day.
00:59:20.000Little margins are going to make all the difference in the world.
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01:02:19.000teleprompter goes at you. And we know we will do it.
01:02:25.000And this is gonna be a very tight race until the very end.
01:02:34.000This is gonna be a very tight race until the very end.
01:02:38.000We are the underdog, and we know we have some hard work ahead.
01:02:42.000Man, when that teleprompter goes out, she is the rued.
01:02:47.000She also was on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
01:02:48.000You know, I told you she's going to do a lot of adversarial media.
01:02:50.000So she's going on with the lady who talks about sex all the time.
01:02:54.000So here she is with this lady whose name escapes me because she's not important to my life.
01:03:00.000Alex Cooper, I've been informed by producer Jessica.
01:03:03.000So here she is explaining about abortion with the Call Her Daddy lady.
01:03:10.000I want to pose this question more to you and the Daddy Gang, but one of the biggest conversations in this year's election revolves around a woman's body.
01:03:19.000I want to take a moment and can we try to think of any law That gives the government the power to make a decision.