Caption transcript for “Our Arab Friend” with Joseph Farah

• 00:08 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:14 THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE
• 00:17 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:27 CONSIDERING THE TIMES AND SEASONS OF OUR WORLD TODAY, HERE'S ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:32 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:34 YOU, KNOW, JOSEPH FARAH,
• 00:36 I GUESS I WAS TRYING TO THINK IF HE'S MY FAVORITE ARAB BELIEVER.
• 00:41 ERGUN CANER IS A GREAT GUY AND BROTHER ZACH THAT WE HAD,
• 00:45 AND WALID SHOEBAT,YOU KNOW, THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE MUSLIMS
• 00:48 GET SAVED AND THEY TURN INTO NORMAL, PLAIN SPOKEN CHRISTIANS
• 00:52 LIKE YOU AND ME AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE.
• 00:56 YOU WOULD KNOW FARAH IF YOU LOOK AT WEBSITE WORLDNETDAILY.COM.
• 01:00 HE'S THE EDITOR AND HE JOINED US IN WASHINGTON.
• 01:03 WELL JOSEPH, I HEAR YOU HAVE A NEW HONOR WITH THE AL JAZEERA, THE ARAB TELEVISION NETWORK.
• 01:09 AL JAZEERA CALLED ME THE NUMBER ONE ARAB ZIONIST IN THE WORLD.
• 01:14 WHAT AN HONOR.
• 01:16 I TAKE THAT AS A COMPLIMENT, I GUESS.
• 01:18 HOW MANY OTHER ARAB ZIONISTS ARE THERE?
• 01:21 WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A GROWING NUMBER.
• 01:24 THIS IS THE GREAT THING, ZOLA.
• 01:25 SINCE 2000, WHEN I BEGAN WRITING MORE ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST
• 01:29 AND PARTICULARLY FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS AN ARAB AMERICAN,
• 01:33 SOMEHOW I'VE BECOME THIS NETWORKING SOURCE FOR ARABS,
• 01:38 NOT ONLY ARAB AMERICANS, BUT ARABS AROUND THE WORLD
• 01:40 WHO, THEY'LL WRITE TO ME, THEY'LL EMAIL ME AND SAY,
• 01:46 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY THIS PUBLICLY, BUT I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU'RE SAYING.
• 01:51 AND I LITERALLY HAVE HEARD FROM HUNDREDS OF ARABS AND ARAB AMERICANS
• 01:55 OH, THAT'S ENCOURAGING. AND ARAB AMERICANS WHO SAY THAT.
• 01:59 AND I THINK THAT IS VERY ENCOURAGING
• 02:00 BECAUSE IT BREAKS THE MYTH THAT ALL ARABS THINK ALIKE.
• 02:05 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AMERICA AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE A VERY SLOW ISLAMIC TAKEOVER.
• 02:12 WHEN I'M TEACHING IN THE CHURCHES,
• 02:16 I MENTION THIS IN CONNECTION WITH EGYPT OVER 15 CENTURIES OR SO,
• 02:21 PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE, AS THEY WILL, RODE IN AND POOR PEOPLE,
• 02:26 BUT WHEN THEY BECAME MUSLIMS THEN THEY PROMOTED THEIR AGENDA
• 02:31 AND EVENTUALLY REDUCED WHAT WAS A WORLD LEADING SOCIETY
• 02:35 TO THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, WHICH COULD NOT EVEN FEED ITSELF.
• 02:40 THIS IS A STATISTIC THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND.
• 02:43 ABOUT 70% OF ARAB AMERICANS ARE CHRISTIANS, OR AT LEAST CULTURALLY CHRISTIAN.
• 02:49 THEY MIGHT NOT BE EVANGELICAL, BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS AS WE KNOW THEM,
• 02:53 BUT THEY COME FROM A CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND.
• 02:55 BUT OVER THE LAST 10 OR 15 YEARS, WHAT WE'VE SEEN
• 03:00 IS THE IMMIGRATION TREND AMONG ARABS AND NOT ONLY NON-ARAB MUSLIMS INTO THIS COUNTRY,
• 03:07 THOSE NUMBERS ARE BEGINNING TO SHIFT.
• 03:09 I MEAN, I GREW UP IN A COMMUNITY IN NEW JERSEY THAT WAS LARGELY ARABIC SPEAKING.
• 03:15 WELL, TODAY IT'S, THAT COMMUNITY IS PRIMARILY MUSLIM AS OPPOSED TO BEING CHRISTIAN ARAB.
• 03:22 THAT'S THE DYNAMIC THAT'S CHANGING THIS COUNTRY.
• 03:24 IN ADDITION TO THAT, I THINK THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES
• 03:28 IS MOST DEFINITE WHEN YOU GO TO THE COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
• 03:31 I KNOW YOU PROBABLY SPEAK ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
• 03:33 I TRY.
• 03:34 WHEN I APPEAR, YOU WILL SEE THE PEOPLE,
• 03:40 YOU'LL SEE THE WAY THEY'RE DRESSED WITH THE KAFIAS AND SO FORTH.
• 03:43 I DON'T EVEN THINK MOST OF THESE PEOPLE ARE TRULY ISLAMIC.
• 03:47 I DON'T THINK THEY'RE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.
• 03:49 BUT, THEY IDENTIFY CULTURALLY WITH THIS ISLAMIC MOVEMENT GLOBALLY
• 03:55 AND I THINK IT'S A VERY, VERY DANGEROUS THING FOR AMERICA
• 03:57 BECAUSE WE'RE LOSING OUR PRECIOUS FREEDOMS.
• 04:00 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T RESPECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH,
• 04:03 DISSENT AND THOSE KINDS OF AMERICAN IDEALS THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED.
• 04:08 YOU LOOK AT EUROPE AND YOU LOOK AT FRANCE FOR INSTANCE
• 04:12 WITH THE GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM THERE.
• 04:14 I THINK THERE WAS A FRENCH OFFICIAL RECENTLY SAID,
• 04:18 LOOK, PROBABLY THE SAFEST THING FOR JEWS IN FRANCE NOW IS IT LEAVE.
• 04:22 WHAT ABOUT ISRAEL ITSELF, PERSONAL LIBERTIES?
• 04:25 OF COURSE, IT'S A THREATENED DEMOCRACY, BUT IT IS A DEMOCRACY.
• 04:28 COMPARE YOUR SITUATION, IF YOU, WHETHER YOU'RE VISITING ISRAEL OR WHETHER LIVING IN ISRAEL,
• 04:35 THERE IS MORE FREEDOM AS AN ARAB IN ISRAEL
• 04:39 THAN THERE IS IN ANY ARAB COUNTRY OR MUSLIM COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
• 04:43 THINK ABOUT THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT--
• 04:45 DOESN'T THAT HAVE SOME VALUE TO YOU.
• 04:48 AND YOU KNOW, IT IS AN AREA WHERE YOU CAN BEGIN TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE
• 04:52 AND HAVE DIALOGUE, BECAUSE, IT'S INDISPUTABLE.
• 04:54 THIS IS WHAT GOT ME, ZOLA.
• 04:57 LONG AGO ON SOME OF MY EARLIEST TRIPS TO ISRAEL
• 05:01 AS AN ARAB AMERICAN JOURNALIST LOOKING AT MY SITUATION
• 05:09 AND REALIZING THAT I WAS ONLY FREE TO DO MY CRAFT OF JOURNALISM IN ISRAEL.
• 05:14 IF I WAS GOING TO REPORT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, IT HAD TO BE FROM ISRAEL.
• 05:17 I MEAN, I COULD GO VISIT SYRIA AND EGYPT AND THESE PLACES,
• 05:20 BUT, I HAD TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT HOW I FILED MY STORIES
• 05:24 AND WHAT I FILED IN THOSE STORIES.
• 05:25 THE ONLY PLACE I WAS TRULY FREE, WITH AN AMERICAN-STYLE CONCEPT
• 05:30 OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, WAS IN ISRAEL.
• 05:33 WELL, SURE, THIS IS THE SIMPLE ANSWER TO WHY ISRAEL IS IN THE FRONT PAGE EVERY DAY.
• 05:37 YOU COULDN'T REPORT, I MEAN, WE DON'T GET STORIES FROM SYRIA.
• 05:41 WE DON'T GET STORIES FROM LYBIA OR I DON'T KNOW, SUDAN OR MOROCCO.
• 05:46 I MEAN, UNLESS SOME BRAVE REPORTER DECIDES
• 05:50 OR WAR CORRESPONDENT WRITES FROM IRAQ OR SAUDI ARABIA.
• 05:54 BUT, THEY THEMSELVES DON'T HAVE COVERAGE OF THEMSELVES.
• 05:58 CORRECT.
• 05:59 THERE ARE PROBABLY MORE ARAB NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHING FROM ISRAEL
• 06:05 THAN THERE ARE IN THE ENTIRE ARAB WORLD, TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE,
• 06:08 YES, THEY CAN SURVIVE THERE.
• 06:12 IT'S ALMOST, I MEAN, YOU LAUGH AND I LAUGH, TOO,
• 06:15 BUT IT'S A SAD SITUATION THAT DEMOCRACY ITSELF IS THREATENED.
• 06:19 WE'VE SAID, YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS AGO AND MORE IN OUR LEVITT LETTER
• 06:23 THAT THE 21ST CENTURY WOULD APPEAR TO BE A WAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY.
• 06:28 JOSEPH, IF ISLAM WINS THAT WAR, IT'S WORSE THAN A NEW DARK AGE.
• 06:35 WELL, IT IS, I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 06:38 I DON'T THINK YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 06:40 I THINK THAT THE LORD IS GOING TO PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING.
• 06:43 BUT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DEVELOPMENTS,
• 06:46 YOU LOOK AT THE GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD TODAY;
• 06:51 IT DOES REALLY REMIND ONE OF WHAT THE CONDITIONS
• 06:55 WE WOULD EXPECT FOR THE RETURN OF OUR LORD.
• 06:57 SO, THAT'S THE BRIGHT SIDE. IT REALLY DOES, DOESN'T IT?
• 07:00 LET ME COME TO THAT.
• 07:02 OF COURSE, YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN BELIEVER AND BORN AGAIN BELIEVER,
• 07:04 NOT LIKE THE ARABS YOU DESCRIBED.
• 07:06 IN ISRAEL YOU FIND EVERY SORT OF, COPTS AND MARONITES AND THE ARMENIANS
• 07:13 WHO ARE NOMINALLY CHRISTIANS, THEY'RE SACRAMENTAL CHRISTIANS
• 07:18 AND DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SINCERITY.
• 07:19 BUT, AT LEAST THEY ARE SAYING JESUS' NAME AND THEY ARE--
• 07:26 BUT, BORN AGAIN ARABS, THAT'S ANOTHER MATTER.
• 07:29 IT COMES UP A LOT WHEN I SPEAK IN CHURCH.
• 07:31 PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ARABS ARE BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS.
• 07:34 WHAT DO YOU THINK?
• 07:36 I DON'T THINK ANY RESEARCH HAS REALLY BEEN DONE ON THAT, THAT'S MEANINGFUL.
• 07:39 WE GOT TO GET GEORGE BARNA WORKING ON THAT.
• 07:41 SERIOUSLY, SOMEBODY WHO UNDERSTANDS THE CONCEPT
• 07:45 AND TO SOME REAL PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 07:48 I WOULD SUSPECT THAT IN THIS COUNTRY
• 07:50 THE PERCENTAGE OF ARAB-AMERICANS WHO ARE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS,
• 07:53 IS VERY CLOSE TO THE GENERAL POPULATION.
• 07:56 I MEAN, I THINK WHAT HAPPENS AFTER ONE GENERATION OR TWO GENERATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY,
• 08:01 THE TRADITIONAL CHURCHES THAT THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH--
• 08:06 LOOK, PEOPLE HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN THIS COUNTRY
• 08:09 AND THEY'RE BOMBARDED WITH THE GOSPEL AND SO THEY TEND TO--
• 08:15 MY BACKGROUND WAS SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.
• 08:19 WHICH IS NOT A BORN AGAIN DENOMINATION.
• 08:23 AND THEN THAT SORT OF, MY PARENTS SORT OF WENT TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
• 08:28 BECAUSE THAT WAS MORE PREVALENT IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 08:31 BUT THEN, THE SECOND GENERATION, I COME ALONG AND I LOOK AROUND
• 08:37 AND I BECOME A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER AND SO THOSE TRADITIONS ARE IN THE PAST
• 08:41 AND I SUSPECT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WITH MOST ARAB-AMERICANS.
• 08:44 IT WOULD BE INTERESTING WOULDN'T IT
• 08:46 IF THE ARABS CAME HERE, AS THEY ARE, AND THE MORE THEY ARRIVE,
• 08:50 THE MORE THEY WERE SAVED, THE MORE THEY GOT INVOLVED WITH TRUE FAITH
• 08:55 AND THEREFORE THE WHOLE THING DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE,
• 08:58 AS YOU SAY, THE LORD RESCUES THEM.
• 09:00 THE BEAUTIFUL THING IS IT CAN HAPPEN TO MUSLIMS JUST AS EASY
• 09:02 AS IT CAN HAPPEN TO A CULTURALLY CHRISTIAN ARAB. OF COURSE IT CAN.
• 09:07 AND THAT IS THE BEAUTIFUL THING.
• 09:09 MAYBE WE CAN, WHY DON'T WE THINK OFFENSIVELY LIKE THAT?
• 09:13 WHY DON'T WE THINK OF WITNESSING TO THE MUSLIM AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND CONVERTING THEM?
• 09:19 SO, YOU'RE CONCEPT OF PROPHECY IS THE LORD IS WELL ON HIS WAY?
• 09:23 I THINK SO AND I THINK THAT IT'S THE PROPER WAY FOR US TO THINK AS CHRISTIANS
• 09:30 THAT HE'S AT THE DOOR ALL THE TIME AND I THINK THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO LIVE,
• 09:33 WHETHER IT'S 10 YEARS, 20 YEARS OR 100 YEARS FROM NOW.
• 09:38 I THINK THE BEST WAY FOR US TO LIVE IS IN ANTICIPATION THAT HE'S RIGHT AT THE DOOR.
• 09:53 HELLO, MY NAME IS AMANDA MOORING.
• 09:55 MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES FOR ABOUT 4 YEARS NOW
• 09:59 WE'VE NEVER MET A MAN WITH SUCH COMPASSION FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 10:03 A MAN WHO UNDERSTANDS WHY THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE IMPORTANT IN PROPHECY AND TODAY.
• 10:07 WE REALLY BELIEVE IN THE MISSION OF ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES.
• 10:10 WILL YOU BELIEVE, TOO, AND HELP SUPPORT ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES?
• 10:22 I SHALL STAND WITHIN THE WONDER OF YOUR WALLS, OH JERUSALEM.
• 10:28 I SHALL WALK WITHIN THE SPLENDOR OF YOUR GATES,
• 10:33 BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH.
• 10:38 SURELY THE LORD HAS BLESSED THEE AND MADE HIS FACE SHINE UPON THEE.
• 10:43 JOIN ZOLA LEVITT IN HIS NEXT TOUR OF ISRAEL.
• 10:48 COME TO ZION WITH SONGS AND EVERLASTING JOY.
• 10:55 COME, WORSHIP IN THE SPLENDOR OF HIS HOLINESS.
• 11:03 WELL, JOE FARAH IS REALLY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 11:07 WE GO THERE ALL THE TIME AND I KNOW THE PLACE PRETTY WELL, BUT, HE'S GOT A WONDERFUL SIDE.
• 11:13 HE'S AN ARAB ZIONIST, OBVIOUSLY.
• 11:17 YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT BAD TO BE A ZIONIST.
• 11:19 I ALWAYS REPEAT. GOD IS A ZIONIST.
• 11:21 ANYBODY WHO PREFERS THE JEWS TO LIVE IN THEIR LAND
• 11:24 AND SETTLE IT IS A ZIONIST AND JOE FARAH IS NO SLOUCH.
• 11:29 SO, LET'S GO BACK AND HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ON THAT SUBJECT.
• 11:34 ONE OF THE THINGS I'M HEARING FROM THE ANTI-ISRAEL CROWD AROUND THE WORLD
• 11:40 IS THAT ISRAEL IS SOMEHOW GUILTY OF ETHNIC CLEANSING.
• 11:44 OH YAH.
• 11:46 BECAUSE IT'S A JEWISH STATE AND WANTS TO NOW BUILD FENCES TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT
• 11:53 THAT THIS IS SOMEHOW ETHNIC CLEANSING.
• 11:55 IT'S SO IRONIC BECAUSE THE OTHER SIDE IS THE SIDE THAT IS TRULY PRACTICING,
• 12:01 HAS BEEN PRACTICING FOR AS LONG AS THEY'VE BEEN AROUND
• 12:05 AND FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE THERE ARE NO PLANS TO CHANGE.
• 12:08 THAT IS THE OFFICIAL POLICY OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, THE P.L.O.
• 12:13 IT IS NO JEWS ALLOWED, VERY SIMPLY.
• 12:16 WHY IS IT THAT ISRAEL SEEMS TO BE FORCED RIGHT NOW
• 12:20 TO WITHDRAW WELL ESTABLISHED COMMUNITIES IN THE GAZA STRIP,
• 12:23 WHY ARE THEY LOOKING AT PULLING JEWISH COMMUNITIES OUT OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA?
• 12:28 BECAUSE, THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AND FUTURE PALESTINIAN STATE
• 12:32 ARE GOING TO BE, NO JEWS ALLOWED.
• 12:34 THAT'S GOING TO BE THE OFFICIAL POLICY.
• 12:37 THE ISRAELI COMMUNITIES, EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE.
• 12:39 ARABS LIVE THERE, THEY ARE CITIZENS, THEY VOTE,
• 12:42 THEY HAVE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, THEY SERVE IN THE MILITARY.
• 12:45 THAT'S RIGHT.
• 12:47 THEY VOTE AND AGAIN, I DON'T THINK A LOT OF AMERICANS UNDERSTAND THIS,
• 12:50 THAT THE SIZABLE POPULATION OF ARABS WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL, OVER A MILLION OF THEM,
• 12:56 THEY VOTE, THEY ELECT MEMBERS TO THE KNESSET, THEY OPERATE NEWSPAPERS, THEY SPEAK OUT.
• 13:02 THEY EVEN GIVE SERMONS ON FRIDAY THAT ARE HATE-FILLED
• 13:06 ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-CHRISTIAN MESSAGES AND THEY HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO IT IN ISRAEL.
• 13:12 IT'S MIND-BENDING THAT PEOPLE DON'T GET THAT.
• 13:15 I HAD A LETTER SAYING YOU REMARKED IN PASSING
• 13:19 THAT SOME PALESTINIANS WERE ILLEGAL ALIENS.
• 13:22 WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY THAT?
• 13:23 I THOUGHT YOU SAID THEY'RE CITIZENS.
• 13:25 WELL, I SAY, LOOK, THE PEOPLE OF GAZA, SAY
• 13:28 AND THE WEST BANK ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAN THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN ISRAEL PROPER.
• 13:33 WHEN ISRAEL WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE U.N.,
• 13:37 THE TERRITORY THEY WERE GIVEN, ARABS WERE WELCOME.
• 13:39 THEY BECAME CITIZENS.
• 13:40 THEY ARE CITIZENS.
• 13:43 THE OTHERS WHO CAME OVER BORDERS AND SO ON RATHER LIKE ILLEGAL ALIENS THAT COME IN TO AMERICA.
• 13:47 THERE WAS NO WAR OR ANYTHING.
• 13:51 THEY TOOK JOBS, THEY EXCHANGED THEIR LABOR,
• 13:53 BUT THEY DIDN'T BECOME CITIZENS AND DO NOT PREFER TO.
• 13:56 WHEN DID THOSE ARABS START TO COME IN?
• 13:59 THEY CAME IN, IN RESPONSE TO JEWS MOVING IN
• 14:03 AND THERE WAS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY THAT WAS TAKING PLACE.
• 14:06 THERE WAS MORE FREEDOM THERE.
• 14:07 THERE WAS OPPORTUNITIES THERE.
• 14:09 THEY CAME FOR GOOD REASONS INITIALLY, PARTICULARLY.
• 14:11 BUT NOW, THEY'RE ALSO COMING TO MAKE WAR BECAUSE YOU KNOW,
• 14:16 THERE'S 2 BASIC SOLUTIONS BEING TALKED ABOUT IN THE ARAB WORLD
• 14:20 FOR THE FINAL SOLUTION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL.
• 14:24 ONE IS THE 2 STATE SOLUTION.
• 14:25 THE OTHER IS THE 1 STATE SOLUTION.
• 14:27 EITHER ONE IS BAD NEWS FOR ISRAEL
• 14:31 BECAUSE THE 2 STATE SOLUTION GIVES THE YASSER ARAFATS AND THE HAMASES OF THE WORLD
• 14:37 A BETTER LAUNCHING PAD FOR ATTACKS IN THIS UNCONVENTIONAL,
• 14:43 ASYMMETRICAL TERRORIST WAR LONG TERM WITH ISRAEL.
• 14:47 THE 1 STATE SOLUTION THAT KHADAFI AND THE PEOPLE LIKE THAT ARE BEGINNING TO TALK ABOUT IS,
• 14:51 LET'S JUST HAVE ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY AND ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO LIVE THRE CAN LIVE THERE
• 14:56 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THERE ARE 300 MILLION ARABS IN THE WORLD AND ONLY 7 MILLION JEWS
• 15:04 WHO LIVE IN ISRAEL AND THEY CAN BE QUICKLY OVERWHELMED THAT WAY.
• 15:08 7 MILLION JEWS AND THERE ARE 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS AND GROWING AT AN ALARMING RATE.
• 15:14 IF THIS WERE COMPARED, AS WE SAID TO HISPANICS TO AMERICA,
• 15:18 THAT WOULD MEAN OVER 100 MILLION HISPANICS, WELL, IT'S NOTHING CLOSE TO THAT.
• 15:23 IT IS MORE-- IT WILL HURT ISRAEL A LOT MORE IF THEY KEEP ON COMING AND KEEP THAT ATTITUDE.
• 15:31 BY THE WAY ZOLA, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED THIS, BUT,
• 15:34 THEY'RE BUILDING THIS SECURITY FENCE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WEST BANK.
• 15:39 AND IT'S WORKING, TOO.
• 15:41 IT'S WORKING, BUT, IT'S ALSO DRIVING MANY ARABS TO TRY TO GET ON THE ISRAELI SIDE OF THE FENCE
• 15:48 AS OPPOSED AS TO BEING ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE OF THE FENCE.
• 15:51 AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ALWAYS SEEN WHENEVER THEY,
• 15:54 ALL THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS TO DO IS TALK ABOUT DIVIDING LINE IN JERUSALEM FOR INSTANCE
• 16:00 AND THE EAST JERUSALEM ARABS WANT TO MAKE SURE
• 16:04 THEY DON'T LIVE IN WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE PALESTINIAN SECTOR.
• 16:07 WE'VE SEEN THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE LAST 30 OR 40 YEARS.
• 16:13 THE ARABS DON'T WANT TO LIVE UNDER THE DICTATOR YASSER AFAFAT OR WHOEVER IT MIGHT BE.
• 16:20 THEY'D MUCH PREFER TO LIVE IN THE FREE SOCIETY, IN ISRAELI SOCIETY.
• 16:24 WHO CAN BLAME THEM?
• 16:25 WHAT'S YOUR HOPE FOR, LET'S SAY THE LORD TARRIES 50 YEARS?
• 16:30 I DON'T THINK HE WILL, BUT, LET'S SAY HE WOULD, NOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
• 16:35 I THINK THAT OUR ROLE AS A CHURCH IS TO BE SALT AND LIGHT UNTIL THE LORD RETURNS
• 16:40 AND I THINK THAT'S A PROPER WAY FOR US TO THINK ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST, TOO.
• 16:44 LOOK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO TURN THE MIDDLE EAST INTO A PARADISE,
• 16:48 SOME KIND OF UTOPIA IN OUR LIFETIME.
• 16:51 IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 16:52 WHAT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO DO IS TO TRY TO EXPAND FREEDOM IF POSSIBLE,
• 16:58 PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
• 17:02 I MEAN, CHRISTIANS ARE BEING PERSECUTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY.
• 17:05 JEWS ARE BEING PERSECUTED IN ISRAEL BY THEIR NEIGHBORS.
• 17:10 THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
• 17:11 WE HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO TRY TO EXPAND THE FREEDOM'S CALL
• 17:17 TO THOSE FOLKS TO OPEN THEIR EYES TO THE TRUTH,
• 17:22 NOT JUST THE TRUTH OF JESUS CHRIST, BUT THE TRUTH OF--
• 17:26 LOOK AROUND YOU JUST FROM A WORLDLY PERSPECTIVE.
• 17:28 WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE IN FREEDOM OR SLAVERY?
• 17:31 THAT'S YOUR CHOICE AND I THINK THAT CAN HAVE SOME APPEAL EVEN IN THE MUSLIM UNCONVERTED WORLD.
• 17:38 IT'S A MATTER OF WITNESS, ISN'T IT, ALWAYS IS.
• 17:40 SURE IS.
• 17:42 IF SOMEHOW THEY COULD BE PACIFIED,
• 17:43 IF SOMEHOW THEY COULD GET TO CHRIST, I THINK THAT WOULD,
• 17:47 EVEN IN A SMALL PERCENTAGE, TURN THEIR OWN THEORY ON ITS HEAD.
• 17:50 YOU KNOW, 10% OF MUSLIMS IN FRANCE CHANGED ALL OF FRANCE.
• 17:53 THAT'S RIGHT AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE, SOME PEOPLE SAY, WELL,
• 17:57 LOOK, THE ARABS HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH SELF-GOVERNMENT AND THOSE KINDS OF PRINCIPLES,
• 18:01 BUT, YOU KNOW THERE WAS A PRETTY GOOD EXPERIMENT IN LEBANON THAT LASTED A LONG TIME
• 18:05 AND IT LASTED A LONG TIME BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONE NATION IN THE ARAB WORLD
• 18:09 WHERE CHRISTIANS WERE A BIG PART OF THE POPULATION, ABOUT 50%.
• 18:13 IT'S NO LONGER 50%; MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF LEBANON.
• 18:18 BUT, I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECALL, THE LEBANESE EXAMPLE.
• 18:24 THERE'S ANOTHER BRIGHT SPOT, I THINK, IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 18:26 WHEN YOU LOOK AT IRAN.
• 18:29 IRAN IS ON THE VERGE RIGHT NOW OF BECOMING A NUCLEAR POWER.
• 18:32 OF COURSE, IT'S A TERRORIST SUPPORTING STATE;
• 18:35 MAYBE THE BIGGEST TERRORIST SUPPORTING STATE IN THE WORLD
• 18:38 AND IT'S A NIGHTMARE OF A PLACE TO LIVE.
• 18:41 YES.
• 18:42 BUT, THOSE PEOPLE, MANY OF THEM REMEMBER A BETTER TIME
• 18:47 AND THERE'S A LOT OF OPPOSITION TO MULA RULE IN IRAN RIGHT NOW.
• 18:51 I THINK THAT'S A COUNTRY THAT CONCEIVABLY IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS,
• 18:56 THE REGIME WILL FALL OF ITS OWN DEAD WEIGHT.
• 18:59 IT COULD USE A LITTLE PUSHING.
• 19:01 IT COULD USE A LITTLE HELP FROM MAYBE, A VOICE OF AMERICA TYPE OPERATION
• 19:08 BEAMED IN FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GIVE THOSE PEOPLE SOME HOPE.
• 19:11 BUT, THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN IRAN ARE SICK OF THE MULAS.
• 19:14 THE YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T EVEN REMEMBER THE SHAH
• 19:17 AND A LOT OF THE OLDER FOLKS WHO DO REMEMBER BETTER TIMES ARE TIRED OF WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE.
• 19:24 SO, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE GOOD THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN IN THE VERY SHORT TERM
• 19:30 IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO GIVE US A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK.
• 19:34 OK, AND THE CONVERSE, WALID SHOEBAT WAS WITH US.
• 19:37 HE'S A PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN.
• 19:40 MY FRIEND.
• 19:42 TRAINED AS A TERRORIST AND HE DIDN'T MAKE A VERY GOOD TERRORIST.
• 19:45 HE SEEMED LIKE A GENTLE--
• 19:48 FORTUNATELY HE WASN'T TOO SUCCESSFUL AT BLOWING UP THE BANK
• 19:51 AND KILLING THE POLICEMAN AND THOSE GUYS.
• 19:54 OH, YAH, HE TOLD ME THE STORY.
• 19:56 WHAT SHOEBAT SAID TAHT WAS A LITTLE DISCOURAGING WAS THE SUICIDE BOMBING
• 20:02 EVEN IN IRAN, SINCE YOU BROUGHT IT UP,
• 20:03 THEY ASKED FOR VOLUNTEERS AND THEY GOT 10,000 PEOPLE, THEY SAID.
• 20:08 A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE TO KILL JEWS AND AMERICANS AND SO ON.
• 20:13 WELL, WHEN YOU EDUCATED PEOPLE FROM THE TIME THEY'RE IN PRESCHOOL
• 20:16 THAT THE HIGHEST CALLING IS MARTYRDOM, AND THEY REALLY DO.
• 20:20 THEY DO THIS IN THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WHERE OUR TAX DOLLARS,
• 20:24 ZOLA, ARE GOING TO SUPPORT THIS KIND OF THING.
• 20:26 AND THAT'S JUST ONE SOCIETY.
• 20:29 SAUDI ARABIA HAS BEEN PAYING FOR THESE MADRASES FOR WHO KNOW HOW LONG,
• 20:33 WHERE IT'S TAUGHT THAT THE HIGHEST CALLING IS MARTYRDOM.
• 20:36 SO, IT SHOULDN'T BE SURPRISING THAT A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE ACTUALLY GROWS UP BELIEVING THAT
• 20:43 AND WANTING TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE.
• 20:45 THAT'S UNFORTUNATE.
• 20:47 THE THING WE HAVE TO DO IS STOP, FIRST OF ALL,
• 20:50 STOP OUR TAX DOLLARS FROM SUPPORTING THIS KIND OF THING
• 20:53 AND THEN DO WHAT WE CAN TO STOP THE SAUDIS FROM CONTINUING TO FINANCE IT.
• 20:58 WHY DON'T WE, JUST ASK YOU WHY DON'T WE CHANGE THE REGIME IN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA?
• 21:03 IT WOULD TAKE ALL SUMMER TO GET IT DONE.
• 21:05 BUT, I MEAN LIKE IRAQ, WE CHANGED IT IN THREE WEEKS.
• 21:08 NOT THAT-- THEN WE STOOD AROUND FOR A YEAR, BUT NEVER MIND THAT PART.
• 21:12 HOW ABOUT IF WE JUST TAKE THEM DOWN.
• 21:14 I THINK OUR PRESENCE IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW WITH 160,000 TROOPS
• 21:19 IS ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT COULD HELP TOPPLE THE IRANIAN REGIME.
• 21:25 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY WILL FOR IT IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 21:29 LOOK AT THE OPPOSITION, ZOLA, IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY
• 21:31 THAT'S TRUE.
• 21:32 TO IRAQ, OUR OCCUPATION THERE.
• 21:34 WE'VE LOST 800, YOU'D THING WE'D LOST 800,000 TROOPS THE WAY THE OPPOSITION IS MOUNTING.
• 21:41 IT'A A POLITICIZED ISSUE NOW IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
• 21:45 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE JUST DON'T HAVE VERY STRONG STOMACHS.
• 21:48 AND SAUDI ARABIA IS SORT OF ASKING FOR A REGIME CHANGE, IT FEELS LIKE.
• 21:53 IT IS.
• 21:54 IT THERE IS A REGIME CHANGE IN SAUDI ARABIA, IF THERE'S A COUP,
• 21:58 IT'S GOING TO BE A BAD ONE, IT'LL GET WORSE.
• 22:01 I MEAN, IT'LL BE AN AL QAEDA STYLLE REGIME.
• 22:04 IT IS IN OUR BEST INTEREST TO THINK IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN DO THERE TO PREVENT THAT
• 22:11 OR TO BRING ABOUT SOME KIND OF A FREEDOM ORIENTED GOVERNMENT IN SAUDI ARABIA.
• 22:20 BUT, I GOT TO TELL YOU, SAUDI ARABIA IS LESS SUSCEPTIBLE
• 22:27 TO THAT KIND OF CHANGE THAN IRAQ WAS, WHICH WAS MORE OF A SECULAR COSMOPOLITAN SOCIETY.
• 22:34 OH, THAT'S TRUE.
• 22:35 AND SO, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S MUCH OF A CONSTITUENCY
• 22:38 FOR A FREE REPUBLIC IN SAUDI ARABIA.
• 22:41 JOSEPH, I'M SO GRATEFUL TO YOU.
• 22:43 YOU ALWAYS INFORM US AND YOU'RE RIGHT UP TO DATE WITH THESE THINGS.
• 22:47 I REALLY THANK GOD YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND YOU TAKE THE VIEWS YOU DO.
• 22:51 WELL, THANK YOU.
• 22:52 IT'S BEEN VERY NICE TO BE WITH YOU.
• 22:53 I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.
• 24:26 OF COURSE, OUR LORD SPENT ALL OF HIS MINISTRY IN ISRAEL.
• 24:30 HE PREACHED TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 24:32 HE INSTRUCTED HIS DISCIPLES, GO NOT INTO THE WAY OF THE GENTILES,
• 24:36 NOR ANY CITY OF THE SAMARITANS ENTER YE NOT.
• 24:39 FOR I AM COME ONLY UNTO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
• 24:42 LATER HE EXPANDED THE MINISTRY AND TOLD THEM TO BE DISCIPLES IN JERUSALEM, JUDEA, SAMARIA
• 24:49 ALL THREE, WHICH ARE ISRAEL, AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.
• 24:52 AND SO WE HAVE GENTILE SALVATION.
• 24:54 BUT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF JESUS' STATEMENTS WAS MADE TO JEWISH BELIEVERS.
• 25:01 SOME PEOPLE SAY THE JEWS MISSED THE MESSIAH.
• 25:03 I'VE HEARD THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
• 25:04 A TEACHER HERE AT A HIGH SCHOOL SAID, CHRISTIANITY STARTED IN GREECE.
• 25:08 GOOD GRIEF.
• 25:10 OMITTING EVEN PENTECOST.
• 25:12 BUT, IN ANY CASE JOSEPH WAS TALKING ABOUT THE TRUTH
• 25:16 AND OF COURSE IT BRINGS TO MIND JESUS' FAMOUS TEACHING ABOUT THE TRUTH,
• 25:20 THE WHOLE CONTEXT, JOHN 8:30 SAYS,
• 25:26 AS HE SPAKE THESE WORDS, MANY BELIEVED ON HIM
• 25:29 THEN SAID JESUS, TO THOSE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED ON HIM, IF YE CONTINUE IN MY WORD,
• 25:35 THEN ARE YE MY DISCIPLES INDEED AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.
• 25:45 YOU KNOW, A RIGHT HEART TOWARD ISRAEL IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL AT THIS PROPHETIC TIME.
• 25:51 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.