Caption transcript for “The Heights of Courage” with Avigdor Kahalani

• 00:18 BRETHREN, MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
• 00:23 FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE,
• 00:27 FOR THE SAME LORD OVERALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
• 00:35 WITH SANDRA LEVITT AND DR. JEFFREY SEIF.
• 00:39 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 00:42 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH SANDRA LEVITT AGAIN.
• 00:45 SHALOM. WELCOME BACK.
• 00:46 HOW ARE YOU JEFF?
• 00:48 I'M GREAT AND HERE WE ARE INTRODUCING AMERICA TO A GREAT WAR HERO, AVIGDOR KAHALANI.
• 00:57 GENERAL KAHALANI.
• 00:58 YES, AND NOT JUST A GENERAL BUT IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN ISRAEL,
• 01:03 THIS GUY IS THE SECOND MOST HIGHLY DECORATED SOLDIER IN THEIR HISTORY.
• 01:09 THIS A COMBINATION OF A GENERAL PATTON. THIS A ROCKY BALBOA.
• 01:14 THIS IS JUST BLOOD AND GUTS AND FAITH AND "GET AFTER IT" KIND OF GUY.
• 01:20 HE'S MY HERO. HE SAVED THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
• 01:22 HE SURELY DID.
• 01:24 GOLAN HEIGHTS IS A VERY STRATEGIC AREA IN ISRAEL.
• 01:26 AND HE IS REALLY A HERO.
• 01:28 THERE'S A PART OF ME AND PERHAPS OTHERS -
• 01:30 I KNOW THAT I HAVE A CAREER BEYOND BEING A TELEVISION THEOLOGIAN GUY,
• 01:35 AS A COP IN DAYS GONE BY, AND A FIRE FIGHTER.
• 01:38 AND I LOVE THOSE GUYS THAT DARE AND RISK AND HE EMBODIES ALL OF THAT. DOESN'T HE?
• 01:42 BUT HE BELIEVED IN ISRAEL. YES.
• 01:44 THAT'S HIS HOME.
• 01:46 AND NOBODY'S GOING TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM HIM.
• 01:47 HERE'S GENERAL KAHALANI.
• 01:51 GENERAL KAHALANI THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING US YOUR TIME THIS MORNING.
• 01:54 YOU'RE WELCOME.
• 01:55 WE ARE STANDING HERE IN FRONT OF -
• 01:57 THIS IS YOUR TANK, YES?
• 01:59 YES, THIS IS THE TANK THAT I FOUGHT [IN] DURING THE YOM KIPPUR WAR.
• 02:02 YES, AND MORE THAN FOUGHT.
• 02:04 FOUGHT YES, BUT YOU HAVE THE REPUTATION
• 02:05 OF BEING THE MAN WHO SAVED ISRAEL IN MANY RESPECTS.
• 02:09 I DON'T KNOW - THIS IS -
• 02:10 I FOUGHT MANY TIMES
• 02:13 FOR THE COUNTRY IN 1967.
• 02:15 I WAS THE FIRST TANK CROSSING THE BORDER IN SINAI.
• 02:19 BADLY WOUNDED, AFTER THAT A YEAR IN [THE] HOSPITAL.
• 02:23 I UNDERSTAND THAT TO GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL,
• 02:24 TO GET BACK TO YOUR TROOPS,
• 02:26 YOU EVEN HAD TO FUDGE WITH THE PAPERS A LITTLE BIT. YES?
• 02:28 YEAH, THEY MOVED DOWN MY MEDICAL PROFILE TO 31.
• 02:33 AND I CLEANED IT UP, THE PAPER AND I WROTE "97".
• 02:37 THIS IS THE MAXIMUM IN ISRAEL.
• 02:39 WELL, YOU KNOW ISRAEL HAS THE REPUTATION OF BEING THE BEST ARMY IN THE WORLD
• 02:43 AND YOU HAVE THE REPUTATION OF BEING ONE OF THE BEST GENERALS IN THE ARMY.
• 02:49 SO YOU ARE A VERY IMPORTANT PERSON.
• 02:51 I DON'T KNOW.
• 02:53 WELL,I APPRECIATE YOUR HUMILITY.
• 02:57 SO YOU WERE THE GENERAL. YOU FOUGHT IN THE -
• 03:00 YOU LED THE 7TH GOLANI BRIGADE IN THE GOLAN. YES?
• 03:06 DURING THE YOM KIPPUR WAR I WAS BATTALION COMANDER IN THE 7TH BRIGADE.
• 03:11 IT IS [AN] ARMOR BRIGADE. AND MY BATTALION WAS 77.
• 03:14 THIS IS THE NUMBER OF MY BATTALION.
• 03:17 AND DURING THE LEBANON WAR 1982
• 03:21 I WAS DIVISION COMMANDER AND WITH MY TROOPS WE ARRIVED TO BEIRUT.
• 03:26 ACTUALLY I WAS A THREE TIME DIVISION COMMANDER IN ISRAEL
• 03:30 AND I FOUGHT ALL THE WARS.
• 03:33 SO GENERAL, WHEN YOU FOUGHT AGAINST THE SYRIANS,
• 03:39 MY UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE ODDS WERE TEN TO ONE?
• 03:43 SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
• 03:44 YEAH, THE SITUATION WAS THE RATIO BETWEEN THEM AND US
• 03:47 IS ONE ISRAELI TANK AGAINST TEN OF THEM.
• 03:50 AND THEY CAME FOR FOUR DAYS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
• 03:55 AND ARTILLERY WAS CRAZY.
• 03:57 THEY SHOT ALL OVER. THE AIRCRAFT, THEY BOMB US.
• 04:02 WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROTECTION FROM OUR AIR FORCE
• 04:06 AND IT WAS [A] SURPRISE FOR ALL OF US.
• 04:08 AND WE FOUGHT - YOU KNOW -
• 04:11 I GET THE COURAGE FROM MY SOLDIERS.
• 04:16 I WAS LIKE 28 YEARS OLD, A BATTALION COMMANDER, LT. COLONEL COMMANDER
• 04:20 WITH THE EXPERIENCE FROM 1967.
• 04:22 BUT THE TIME THAT I WATCH MY SOLDIERS, 18, 19 YEARS OLD,
• 04:28 AND I SAW THEM HOW THEY MOVE FORWARD
• 04:32 AND THEY SHOT ALL THE DIRECTION,
• 04:37 THE COURAGE AT THAT TIME I GOT FROM THEM.
• 04:41 AND OF COURSE I WAS THE FIRST TANK LEADING THEM.
• 04:44 SOMETIMES I WAS IN THE FRONT AND THEY FOLLOW ME.
• 04:47 SOME OF THE WAR WAS VERY COMPLICATED BECAUSE OF LEADERSHIP PROBLEM.
• 04:54 WHEN YOU HAVE TO LEAD THE PEOPLE IN FIRE IT'S HARD.
• 05:03 IT'S VERY HARD. YOU HAVE TO BE [AN] EXAMPLE.
• 05:06 RIGHT. AND SO YOU HAVE TO SAY, "FOLLOW ME", FOLLOW ME.
• 05:09 NOT SAY, "GO THERE". YEAH, YEAH.
• 05:11 THERE'S A DIFFERENT DYNAMIC. YES?
• 05:12 YEAH, "LOOK AT ME AND COME AND JOIN ME IN THE FRONT".
• 05:17 AND WE HAD SOME KIND OF SITUATION LIKE THAT.
• 05:20 YEAH. RECENTLY,TOO.
• 05:22 NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD TODAY,
• 05:24 IT'S A LITTLE "MESHUGGAH", IT'S A LITTLE CRAZY.
• 05:27 WHAT DO YOU SEE WITH MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD RAISING HIS HEAD
• 05:33 AND THE SITUATION AROUND ISRAEL,
• 05:36 WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN THE NOT TO DISTANT FUTURE?
• 05:39 WE UNDERSTAND VERY WELL WHAT THOSE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE LOOKING [FOR] FROM OUR COUNTRY.
• 05:48 THEY WANT TO DESTROY ISRAEL OF COURSE.
• 05:51 AND IF THEY HAVE THE POWER
• 05:53 WE CAN SEE ANOTHER TIME [OF] HOLOCAUST
• 05:55 FROM THE ARABS POINT OF VIEW.
• 05:58 THEY ARE READY TO DO IT IMMEDIATELY.
• 06:03 WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO PROTECT OURSELVES.
• 06:05 IT [IS] A SHAME THAT WHAT WE COULD SEE IN IRAN
• 06:09 THAT NOBODY IN THE WORLD [IS] TAKING CARE OF THAT
• 06:11 AND IT [IS A] SHAME THAT SOME COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD,
• 06:15 THEY LOOK [AT] ISRAEL, WHAT WE ARE GOING AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO REACT.
• 06:20 AND IT [IS A] SHAME BECAUSE IT IS NOT OUR PROBLEM.
• 06:23 WE ARE THE TARGET BUT IT [IS] NOT OUR PROBLEM.
• 06:37 GENERAL CUSTER HAD THE 7TH CALVARY
• 06:40 AND GENERAL KAHALANI HAD THE 7TH BRIGADE, THE GOLANI BRIGADE.
• 06:45 A FAMOUS, FAMOUS MILITARY UNIT IN MODERN HISTORY.
• 06:48 AND HIS BATTALION WAS THE 77TH.
• 06:50 YOU KNOW, 7 THEY SAY IS GOD'S NUMBER.
• 06:52 ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL, THE WAY THAT IT WORKED OUT,
• 06:55 THAT HE WAS THE 7TH AND THE 77TH?
• 06:57 INTERESTING. VERY INTERESTING.
• 06:58 I'M REMINDED WHEN I THINK OF GOD'S NUMBER.
• 07:00 WE'RE TOLD IN THE PSALMS, CHAPTER 46,
• 07:03 "THE LORD OF HOSTS IS WITH US."
• 07:05 SURELY IT SEEMS THAT GOD WAS WITH HIM
• 07:08 BECAUSE HE OVERCAME INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS ONE WOULD SAY.
• 07:13 GOD HAS A WAY OF TAKING UP FOR US WHEN IT SEEMS THAT ALL IS GOING AGAINST US.
• 07:18 THE GENERAL TELLS HIS STORY IN HIS BOOK
• 07:19 "THE HEIGHTS OF COURAGE".
• 07:23 IT'S A GOOD READ. YOU READ IT DIDN'T YOU? I READ IT A LONG TIME AGO.
• 07:25 BUT IT TALKS ABOUT THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
• 07:28 SO IT'S KIND OF A WORD PLAY ON "GOLAN" AND "THE HEIGHTS".
• 07:31 IT'S "THE HEIGHTS OF COURAGE" ALRIGHT,
• 07:32 BUT IT'S ALSO "THE GOLAN HEIGHTS".
• 07:34 IT'S A GREAT PLAY ISN'T IT? IT'S A WONDERFUL PLAY.
• 07:36 LET'S CONTINUE ON AND HEAR WHAT THIS MAN HAS TO SAY,
• 07:38 A HERO IN OUR DAY.
• 07:40 WELL, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION
• 07:42 ABOUT THE WARS THAT WE FIGHT AT PRESENT.
• 07:44 THEY SAY THE ENEMY'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
• 07:47 IT'S MORE DIFFICULT TO GO TO WAR AGAINST A NON CONVENTIONAL ARMY, A MILITIA.
• 07:52 HOW DO WE FIGHT THIS WAR?
• 07:54 LOOK, WE HAVE THE EXPERIENCE.
• 07:57 JUST [A] FEW MONTHS AGO
• 07:58 WE FOUGHT IN LEBANON
• 08:00 AND MY FEELING [IS]
• 08:02 VERY BAD ABOUT THIS WAR.
• 08:04 MY SON WAS THERE. HE IS A MAJOR IN [THE] RESERVE UNIT.
• 08:09 THIS IS FOR US -
• 08:11 WE DIDN'T ACHIEVE ANY GOAL FROM MY POINT OF VIEW.
• 08:15 FIRST, I DON'T THINK THAT ANY GUNNERS IN THE TANKS SAW ANY TARGET.
• 08:22 THEY SUFFERED A LOT FROM THE HEZBOLLAH.
• 08:25 THEY COULDN'T FIGHT AGAINST THEM IN BETWEEN THE TOWNS,
• 08:30 BETWEEN THE VILLAGES,
• 08:31 IN THE ROADS.
• 08:35 IT [WAS] VERY DIFFICULT.
• 08:37 THE PROBLEM WITH THE DEMOCRA[TIC] COUNTRY, I AM TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL,
• 08:41 THAT SOMETIMES YOU ARE TOO SOFT WHEN YOU FIGHT AGAINST [THE] GORILLA.
• 08:48 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE TRY TO IDENTIFY THEM.
• 08:53 IT'S ALMOST "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE".
• 08:56 IF YOU FIGHT LIKE -
• 08:58 YOU BEHAVE LIKE [A] DEMOCRA[TIC] COUNTRY
• 09:00 AND YOU KNOW ALL THE WORLD [IS] WATCHING YOU [AND] WHAT YOU DOING
• 09:03 AND ALL THE CAMERA[S] [ARE] ON YOUR FACE,
• 09:06 SOMETIMES, MAYBE MOST OF THE TIME,
• 09:09 YOU WILL NEVER ACHIEVE THE GOAL.
• 09:11 SO WHAT'S THE ANSWER FOR ISRAEL
• 09:13 AND WHAT'S THE ANSWER FOR AMERICA TOO,
• 09:15 WHERE WE BOTH HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON NOW?
• 09:17 FIRST, WE NEED LEADERS [TO] MAKE THE DECISION[S]
• 09:21 AT THAT RIGHT TIME AND THEY NEED THE COURAGE TO DO IT.
• 09:25 ANOTHER THING IS THE PROBLEM TO CONVINCE YOUR NATION
• 09:28 THAT YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
• 09:31 AND AFTER THAT SOMETIME[S] NOT TO LISTEN [TO] ALL THE WORLD,
• 09:34 WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU IN THIS SITUATION
• 09:37 IF YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL.
• 09:39 IF YOU WANT TO GIVE UP YOU CAN WORK FROM STEP BY STEP
• 09:45 AND TRY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
• 09:48 YOU [WILL] NEVER STOP THE PROBLEM WITH THAT.
• 09:51 YOU SHOULD PUT THE OBJECTIVE IN YOUR FACE,
• 09:55 IN THE FRONT OF YOU AND MOVE WITH ALL THE POWER TO ACHIEVE IT.
• 10:00 BUT IT'S WHEN I SEE THE AMERICANS HOW THEY BEHAVE,
• 10:05 WHEN WE SEE OUR LEADERS HOW THEY BEHAVE,
• 10:08 I THINK IN THE FUTURE WE ARE GOING TO SUFFER A LOT.
• 10:14 WELL, WHEN I THINK OF LEADERS,
• 10:16 YOU KNOW DAVID IN THE BIBLE WAS A VERY SPIRITED LEADER
• 10:19 WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE PHILISTINE.
• 10:24 DID YOU EVER THINK OF HIM?
• 10:26 WHAT IS THE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COMMANDER
• 10:31 WHO'S GOING UP AGAINST A BIG GOLIATH,
• 10:35 WHAT'S THIS LIKE FOR YOU?
• 10:36 WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BE SUCH A GOOD LEADER?
• 10:39 I TELL YOU, FIRST IT'S ALL THE STOR[IES] ABOUT OUR COUNTRY.
• 10:44 I GREW UP WITH THE STORY FROM THE HOLOCAUST
• 10:47 AND I SAW MY FATHER [FIGHT] DURING THE INDEPENDENCE WAR
• 10:53 AND WE FOUGHT TOGETHER IN 1967 AND AFTER THAT
• 10:58 IN 1973 MY FATHER FOUGHT [ALONG] WITH [HIS] SON[S].
• 11:01 ONE OF THEM DIDN'T COME BACK, MY BROTHER, THAT HE WAS KILLED.
• 11:05 EMANUEL. EMANUEL, YES. YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 11:08 AND WE FOUGHT AFTER THAT
• 11:09 AND TWO OF MY SON[S] [WERE] THERE ON THE TOP OF THE TANK.
• 11:13 I'M NOT GOING TO APOLOGIZE TO ANYBODY IN THE WORLD THAT I'M HERE.
• 11:17 AND I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY [ARE] LOOKING FOR,
• 11:20 TO SEE ME VERY DEEP IN THE OCEAN.
• 11:24 I'M TALKING ABOUT MY NEIGHBORS.
• 11:26 AND WE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER COUNTRY. WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT.
• 11:30 I WAS IN THE GOVERNMENT. I WAS IN THE CABINET.
• 11:33 AND SOMETIMES WE HAD TO MAKE SOME DECISION[S]
• 11:36 ABOUT HOW TO REACT AGAINST THE HEZBOLLAH.
• 11:39 AND I CONVINCED THE GOVERNMENT TO DESTROY THE ELECTRICITY SYSTEM IN BEIRUT,
• 11:45 TO [CUT] THE WATER SYSTEM IN BEIRUT,
• 11:48 JUST TO PUT THE GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON
• 11:54 INVOLVED [IN] THE SITUATION.
• 11:56 THEY ENJOY FROM THE SITUATION
• 11:58 THAT IN THE SOUTH OF LEBANON
• 12:00 SOME GROUP [WAS] FIGHTING AGAINST ISRAEL
• 12:02 AND MOST OF THE COUNTRY [WAS] UNDER SHELL AND PROTECTING THEIR[SELVES]
• 12:09 AND THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIRUT [DIDN'T] CARE ABOUT IT.
• 12:11 LIKE THE GOVERNMENT NOW IN [THE] GAZA STRIP.
• 12:14 THEY DON'T CARE THAT SO MANY KASSAM [ARE] SHOOTING TO ISRAEL.
• 12:17 YOU SHOULD FIND A WAY TO BRING THE GOVERNMENT
• 12:22 TO BE INVOLVED IN THE SITUATION.
• 12:24 THEY HAVE MORE POWER THAN YOU TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
• 12:28 IF THE GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON WOULD TRY TO HOLD THE HEZBOLLAH,
• 12:32 THEY CAN DO IT BETTER THAN YOU.
• 12:34 AND THE PROBLEM NOW IN THE WORLD,
• 12:36 [IS] THAT SOME GOVERNMENT[S] PREFER TO BE ON THE SIDE,
• 12:38 TO LOOK AND THEY ARE NOT INVOLVED.
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• 13:41 "ARISE, WALK THROUGH THE LAND."
• 13:45 "FOR ALL THE LAND WHICH THOU SEEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT AND TO THY SEED FOREVER."
• 13:53 WORSHIP IN THE SHADOWS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 14:01 BEHOLD THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
• 14:10 THAT'S ISRAEL.
• 14:11 IT'S THE WAY WE SEE IT ALRIGHT.
• 14:13 BUT WE'VE GONE TO THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
• 14:14 WE GO TO A PLACE CALLED "THE PEACE VISTA"
• 14:17 AND WE LOOK DOWN INTO THE SEA OF GALILEE
• 14:19 AND WE'RE ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS.
• 14:21 YOU'RE ACTUALLY STANDING IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS
• 14:23 AND IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL!
• 14:25 AND IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE HOW PEACEFUL IT REALLY IS THERE TODAY.
• 14:29 THAT'S WHY WE GO. EVERY TIME WE GO THERE PEOPLE SAY,
• 14:32 "OH, MY GOODNESS,
• 14:33 THIS IS THE GOLAN HEIGHTS!",
• 14:35 LIKE THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS A PIECE OF LAND.
• 14:38 RIGHT. PEOPLE EXPECT ALL KINDS OF TENSION WHEN WE VISIT THESE PLACES. RIGHT. RIGHT.
• 14:41 IF ONLY THEY KNEW.
• 14:42 AND THEY ARE AMAZED HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS.
• 14:44 AND IT'S PEACEFUL TODAY BECAUSE OF HOW SOME FOUGHT YESTERDAY
• 14:49 AND ISRAEL PUTS THE CREDIT TO THE GOLAN'S PEACE
• 14:53 AT THE FEET OF GENERAL KAHALANI.
• 14:57 WE KNOW BETTER. WE BELIEVE IN A GOD WHO LOOKS OUT FOR ISRAEL
• 15:01 BUT HE WORKS THROUGH INDIVIDUALS OF THE SORT THAT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM
• 15:05 AS WE CONTINUE.
• 15:09 NOT EVERYBODY HAS THE COURAGE THAT YOU HAVE.
• 15:11 LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION ABOUT THE WAY YOU FOUGHT IN THIS TANK.
• 15:17 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT YOU WOULD OPEN THE HATCH. YES.
• 15:25 YOU WOULD STAND UP, YOU WANT TO FIND YOUR TARGETS WITH BINOCULARS.
• 15:29 YOU'RE NOT HIDING IN THE TANK.
• 15:31 BULLETS AND SHELLS ARE ALL AROUND YOU.
• 15:33 YOU EXPOSED YOURSELF TO DANGER.
• 15:36 MY GUESS IS SOME OF THESE GOVERNMENTS DON'T WANT TO BE EXPOSED.
• 15:39 THEY'RE NERVOUS. THEY WANT TO STAY BACK SOME, YES?
• 15:41 THIS IS THE PROBLEM.
• 15:42 I WAS A POLITICIAN AND I'M NOT NOW, I'M OUT OF THAT.
• 15:47 I KNOW HOW THE POLITICIAN THINK[S] ABOUT THE SITUATION.
• 15:51 THEY'RE THINKING
• 15:53 ABOUT SURVIVAL.
• 15:54 THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT
• 15:56 THE NEW ELECTION.
• 15:57 HOW TO BE RE-ELECTED.
• 15:58 THIS IS WHAT THEY WORRY.
• 15:59 AND SOMETIME[S] THEY SAID,
• 16:00 "HOW [AM I] GOING TO FINISH MY TIME
• 16:02 AND WITHOUT ANY OBSTACLES
• 16:06 AND I[DO] NOT HAVE TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEM."
• 16:10 TALKING ABOUT HOW WE FOUGHT IN TANKS,
• 16:13 YOU ARE FIGHTING TO SURVIVE.
• 16:16 AND I HAD THE ONE ACCIDENT.
• 16:19 FOUR TANKS IN THE FRONT OF ME, TWENTY-FIVE [IN THE] MIDDLE.
• 16:22 AND MY EYES LOOKED STRAIGHT AT THE EYES OF THE ENEMY
• 16:26 JUST 25 METER[S] IN THE FRONT OF ME.
• 16:29 AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT SURVIV[AL].
• 16:32 AND I HAD TO SHOOT SO FAST TO HIT ALL OF THEM.
• 16:36 BEFORE THEY WILL SHOOT ME AND I'LL BE IN THE CEMETERY.
• 16:40 THIS IS A BIG DIFFERE[NCE] POLITICIAN THINK[S] ABOUT TO BE RE-ELECTED.
• 16:45 AND SOMETIMES THEY DON'T PREFER TO GIVE YOU [THE] RIGHT ANSWER
• 16:50 AND[THE] RIGHT SOLUTION TO THE SITUATION THAT HE BELIEVE[S] IN.
• 16:54 IN AMERICA THERE'S A SAYING,
• 16:56 "THERE ARE NO ATHEISTS IN FOX HOLES".
• 16:59 THAT IS, WHEN SOMEONE IS FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE, THEY PRAY.
• 17:04 IN AMERICA THE LEADERS WILL SOMETIMES TALK ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.
• 17:10 HOW ABOUT YOU?
• 17:11 WHEN YOU WOULD EXPOSE YOURSELF TO DEATH
• 17:14 YOU WERE SO BOLD, SO COURAGEOUS,
• 17:16 IS THERE A RELIGIOUS SIDE OF YOU THAT GIVES YOU FAITH TO STAND UP AND FACE THESE TROUBLES?
• 17:21 I GREW UP IN THE HOUSE, A VERY TRADITION[AL] HOUSE.
• 17:27 BUT WE [WERE] NOT ORTHODOX
• 17:28 LIKE USING THE YAMIKA. YOM KIPPUR AND ALL THIS,
• 17:32 AND MY FATHER, HE'S GOING TO PRAY
• 17:35 ALMOST EVERY DAY WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM.
• 17:37 BUT HE USED THE CAR AFTER THAT ON SATURDAY. YEAH. I UNDERSTAND.
• 17:39 WE HAVE THIS KIND OF TRADITION[AL] FAMILY.
• 17:42 YEAH, I BELIEVE IN GOD. I BELIEVE IN GOD.
• 17:45 THE TIME THAT WE WERE FIGHTING YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT THE GOD.
• 17:49 BUT AFTER THAT YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND [SAY],
• 17:54 "I'M HERE. I'VE SURVIVED.
• 17:57 AND SOMEBODY CARED FOR ME."
• 18:00 SO IN THAT REGARD THEN, DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR SUCCESS AS A GENERAL
• 18:08 AND ISRAEL'S SUCCESS AS A COUNTRY AND ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL
• 18:12 IS A ATTRIBUTED TO SOME KIND OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE?
• 18:17 DO YOU BELIEVE - YOU KNOW THERE'S TEXT,
• 18:19 "AND HE WHO KEEPS WATCH OVER ISRAEL NEITHER SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS" IN THE HEBREW BIBLE.
• 18:24 DO YOU HAVE THESE FEELINGS EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T PRACTICE AS ORTHODOX?
• 18:28 YEAH, ABSOLUTELY YES.
• 18:29 I FEEL THIS IS A PART OF OUR EDUCATION.
• 18:33 FROM THE KINDERGARTEN YOU STUDY ABOUT THE STORY FROM THE BIBLE.
• 18:39 YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE KING SOLOMON, THE KING DAVID,
• 18:41 THE MOSES AND ALL THE STORY IS ON YOUR BACK.
• 18:46 AND YOU CARRY THAT WITH YOU
• 18:48 WHEN YOU'RE IN THE COMBAT.
• 18:49 YOU DON'T FEEL THAT YOU BEHAVE
• 18:51 MAYBE TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE STRONG LIKE THEM
• 18:55 AND MAYBE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION WE PROTECT THE COUNTRY.
• 18:59 AND THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT WE HAVE.
• 19:01 AND THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT I HAD WHEN I FOUGHT,
• 19:04 THAT I'M HOLDING THE FLAG OF ISRAEL
• 19:06 AND TRY TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY AND THIS IS MY TIME TO DO IT.
• 19:10 WHEN I TEACH MY KIDS I TOLD THEM,
• 19:14 "NOW TAKE THE FLAG AND CONTINUE TO PROTECT THE NATION HERE IN ISRAEL".
• 19:21 THIS IS COME FROM THE BIBLE BECAUSE OUR BIBLE IS OUR ROOTS
• 19:26 AND OUR ROOTS IS THE HISTORY OF THE NATION
• 19:29 AND EVERYBODY IN ISRAEL CARR[IES] THE NATION [ON] HIS BACK
• 19:34 FROM THE BIBLE POINT OF VIEW.
• 19:36 LASTLY, IN GROWING UP I USED TO SING A SONG,
• 19:39 "DAVID MELECH YISRAEL CHAI V'KAYAM",
• 19:42 "DAVID LIVES FOREVER".
• 19:43 HE WAS SUCH A COURAGEOUS MAN
• 19:45 AND HE LEFT SUCH A MARK ON THE IMAGINATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 19:48 YOU'RE THE CLOSET PERSON I KNOW THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO
• 19:51 THAT REMINDS ME OF THAT HEROIC SPIRIT,
• 19:54 THAT BOLDNESS, THAT CHUTZPAH.
• 19:57 IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT TO SAY TO AMERICA
• 19:59 BEFORE WE FINISH THIS INTERVIEW?
• 20:01 FIRST I CAN TELL TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA,
• 20:05 DON'T APOLOGIZE ALL THE TIME.
• 20:07 YOU ARE THE [MOST] DEMOCRA[TIC] IN THE WORLD
• 20:11 AND WE TRUST YOU, WE TRUST THE AMERICAN.
• 20:15 WE KNOW THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY,
• 20:17 THE WAY THAT YOU ARE GOING.
• 20:19 AND SOMETIMES WHEN I FEEL LIKE, WHEN I SEE THE CRAZY WORLD,
• 20:24 I KNOW WE HAVE AMERICANS. THEY WILL PROTECT.
• 20:28 THEY WILL TAKE CARE ABOUT ANY SITUATION IN THE WORLD.
• 20:31 I KNOW HOW COMPLICATED [IT IS] TO SAY THAT
• 20:34 AND IT'S MORE COMPLICATED TO DO IT.
• 20:36 BUT THE AMERICAN, THIS IS FOR ME THE EXAMPLE FOR THE PEOPLE.
• 20:41 THEY ARE READY TO FIGHT FOR THE IDEA
• 20:45 TO KEEP THE DEMOCRA[TIC] COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
• 20:48 AND THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE CRAZY VERY SOON.
• 20:51 WE CAN SEE THAT.
• 20:52 AND YOU NEED THE COURAGE NOT TO APOLOGIZE.
• 20:58 ♪ WE ARE BACK NOW IN OUR LAND. ♪
• 21:00 ♪ WE'RE DELIVERED BY OUR GOD'S ALMIGHTY HAND. ♪
• 21:04 ♪ HE HAS CALLED US, CALLED US HOME. ♪
• 21:06 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN HOME. ♪
• 21:09 ♪ WE WERE SCATTERED LIKE THE SAND. ♪
• 21:12 ♪ WE WERE DRIVEN OFF BY STRANGERS IN OUR LAND. ♪
• 21:15 ♪ AND WE FLED BEFORE THEIR SWORDS. ♪
• 21:18 ♪ BUT ALMIGHTY GOD HAS SHOWED THEM THAT THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S. ♪
• 21:21 ♪ SHALOM, SHALOM. ♪
• 21:24 ♪ THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL'S BROUGHT US HOME. ♪
• 21:27 ♪ HAG SAMEACH! V'SHALOM. ♪
• 21:29 ♪ FOR THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL IN HIS MERCY BROUGHT US HOME. ♪
• 21:36 ♪ WE ARE NUMBERED AS THE SAND. ♪
• 21:38 ♪ AND NO POWER ON EARTH CAN TAKE AWAY OUR LAND. ♪
• 21:40 ♪ HE WILL SMITE THEM WITH HIS ROD. ♪
• 21:43 ♪ AND WE'LL LIVE BECAUSE WE TRUSTED IN THE PROMISES OF GOD.♪
• 21:46 ♪ WE ARE BACK NOW IN OUR LAND. ♪
• 21:49 ♪ WE'RE DELIVERED BY OUR GOD'S ALMIGHTY HAND. ♪
• 21:52 ♪ HE HAS CALLED US, CALLED US HOME. ♪
• 21:55 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN HOME. ♪
• 21:58 ♪ SHALOM, SHALOM. ♪
• 22:01 ♪ THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL'S BROUGHT US HOME. ♪
• 22:04 ♪ AM YISRAEL CHAI B'SHALOM. ♪
• 22:06 ♪ FOR THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL IN HIS MERCY BROUGHT US HOME. ♪
• 22:20 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN HOME. ♪
• 22:25 ♪ SHALOM! ♪♪
• 22:27 THAT'S "WE ARE BACK". MUSIC WRITTEN BY ZOLA.
• 22:29 IT SOUNDS LIKE A MILITARY SONG JEFF.
• 22:31 IT'S "WE ARE BACK", WE'RE NOT LEAVING,
• 22:33 WE'RE NOT LEAVING THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 22:35 AND GENERAL KAHALANI THINKS THAT WAR WILL BE BACK TOO.
• 22:40 AT ONE LEVEL THAT'S NOT A PARTICULARLY GOOD MESSAGE
• 22:43 BUT HE SEES TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY.
• 22:47 IN FACT, HE CAN'T AFFORD TO THINK ANY OTHER WAY.
• 22:50 LOOK WHERE ISRAEL IS SITUATED. THERE'S TROUBLE IN THE REGION.
• 22:54 AND HE HAS SEEN IT BEFORE.
• 22:55 ISRAEL HAS TROUBLE. THIS IS NOTHING NEW.
• 22:57 RIGHT. WE ARE PROTECTED BY THOUSANDS OF MILES OF WATER.
• 23:02 THEY'RE NOT PROTECTED BY THOUSANDS OF SECONDS FROM WHAT CAN COME DOWN ANY MOMENT,
• 23:06 SO THEY'VE GOT TO MAINTAIN A VIGILANCE.
• 23:08 GOOD TO KNOW, HOWEVER, THEY'RE NOT ALL ALONE.
• 23:11 I READ IN PSALMS CHAPTER 46, QUOTE IN VERSE 5,
• 23:15 "GOD IS IN THE MIDST OF HER, SHE SHALL NOT BE MOVED."
• 23:19 THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.
• 23:20 "GOD WILL HELP HER JUST AT THE BREAK OF DAWN."
• 23:24 SOUNDS TO ME THAT GOD'S GOT ISRAEL IN VIEW.
• 23:27 "THE NATIONS RAGED", HE SAYS.
• 23:29 "THE KINGDOMS WERE MOVED".
• 23:31 BUT THEN IN VERSE 7 AGAIN,
• 23:33 "THE GOD OF HOSTS IS WITH US".
• 23:37 AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES GOD RAISES UP PEOPLE.
• 23:40 HE'S GOING TO PROTECT THAT LAND ISN'T HE?
• 23:42 ALWAYS HAS. AND ALWAYS WILL.
• 23:44 WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS, JOEL ROSENBERG, NEXT WEEK.
• 23:48 HERE'S A CLIP FROM THAT COMING INTERVIEW.
• 23:51 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY
• 23:52 IF THIS IRANIAN THREAT
• 23:54 TOWARDS ISRAEL IS PROPHETIC.
• 23:55 TIME WILL TELL. RIGHT.
• 23:57 BUT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS COMING.
• 23:59 ISRAEL IS VERY LIKELY TO BE IN AN APOCALYPTIC WAR POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT YEAR.
• 24:05 CERTAINLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
• 24:07 AND THE UNITED STATES MAY BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THAT WAR AS WELL
• 24:09 AND THE QUESTION BECOMES,
• 24:10 "ARE WE PREPARED TO STAND WITH ISRAEL,
• 24:13 TO BLESS ISRAEL, TO SUPPORT HER?"
• 24:18 AND NOT JUST IN THE MATERIAL SENSE OF BEING HERE
• 24:20 AND BRING TOURISTS AND HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• 24:23 WHICH WE ALL NEED TO DO. RIGHT.
• 24:24 BUT ALSO TO SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT?"
• 24:26 "THERE IS HOPE."
• 24:32 DAVID FOUGHT GOLIATH HERE
• 24:33 IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
• 24:35 SOME 3000 YEARS AGO.
• 24:36 AND THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID AND THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PHILISTINES
• 24:39 HAVE BEEN FIGHTING EVER SINCE.
• 24:41 WE CONSIDER THIS AND MORE IN OUR SERIES
• 24:43 "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH."
• 24:47 I HOPE YOU'LL BE LOOKING FOR IT.
• 24:52 THAT WAS JEFF IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH.
• 24:55 THE VALLEY OF ELAH WHERE DAVID AND GOLIATH FOUGHT.
• 24:58 WHERE DAVID IS VICTORIOUS
• 25:01 BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHO HIS GOD IS JEFF.
• 25:03 I WAS IN MASADA THIS PAST TRIP
• 25:06 AND WATCHING TWO LITTLE BOYS SWORD FIGHTING THERE. OH YEAH.
• 25:09 I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S TESTOSTERONE DRIVEN,
• 25:12 THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MALES OF THE SPECIES, THESE IMAGES OF WAR
• 25:14 AND DOESN'T JUST DAVID BRING IT OUT AS THIS SOLDIER
• 25:18 THAT GOES UP AGAINST INCREDIBLE ODDS?
• 25:21 BUT MORE THAN THAT I THINK DAVID IS SO RIGHTEOUS
• 25:25 AND SO CONFIDENT THAT HIS GOD -
• 25:29 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BIG GOLIATH IS, DAVID IS CONFIDENT.
• 25:33 "YOU TALK TO ME LIKE I AM WHO I AM,
• 25:36 I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU DOWN".
• 25:37 RIGHT. HE SAYS I COME TO YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS. RIGHT.RIGHT.
• 25:41 "ADONAI TZEVA'OT", THE LORD OF THE ARMIES. OBSOLUTELY.
• 25:45 HE HAS FAITH IN GOD.
• 25:46 AND HEAR ME ON THIS PLEASE
• 25:48 THAT FAITH IN GOD CAN PROPEL US AGAINST INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES
• 25:54 OR SO THEY SEEM IN THE NATURAL.
• 25:56 WE SEE EXAMPLES OF THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN
• 25:59 AND WE HEAR A MODERN EXAMPLE OF IT IN GENERAL KAHALANI
• 26:03 AND THERE'S AN ARMY OF INDIVIDUALS JUST LIKE HIM,
• 26:07 PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE.
• 26:08 WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD.
• 26:10 WHEN I LOOK IN THE PSALMS
• 26:11 THE 47TH CHAPTER,
• 26:12 I HEAR THERE IN VERSE 1
• 26:14 ABOUT A GOD WHO GIVES SUCCESS
• 26:16 AND THE PSALMIST SAYS,
• 26:17 "SHOUT TO GOD WITH THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH."
• 26:21 SANDRA, THE WORD "CONFIDENCE" COMES FROM [LATIN]
• 26:24 AND IT MEANS "WITH FAITH".
• 26:27 WOULD THAT WE NOT ALL HAD CONFIDENCE TO BELIEVE GOD FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE
• 26:32 AND A GREAT AND GLORIOUS FUTURE.
• 26:35 IN FAITH, CAST YOUR CARES ON THE LORD.
• 26:37 IN FAITH.
• 26:38 I'M EXCITED THAT DANIEL'S COMING UP
• 26:40 AND THAT YOUR GOING TO TEACH US ABOUT DANIEL.
• 26:42 I'M REALLY -I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT.
• 26:43 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:46 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.