
The March
Air dates: 2005-Jul-24
Production Code: 783
Episode 4 of 12 in the series “Age of Terror Continued”
Duration: 28:31
Year: 2005
Closed Captioned
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Caption transcript for Age of Terror Continued: “The March” (4/12)
- 00:29 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
- 00:31 WE'RE GOING TO TALK ON THIS PROGRAM ABOUT THE 4 SETTLEMENTS,
- 00:34 THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE EVACUATED
- 00:39 ALONG WITH THE GAZA PULL OUT, SHORTLY.
- 00:42 WE ACTUALLY WENT TO ONE OF THEM AND WE TALKED TO THE FOLKS THAT LIVE THERE.
- 00:46 IT'S VERY, VERY EYE OPENING, MORE THAN THE OTHER MEDIA DO.
- 00:50 I'LL TELL YOU THIS, THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THOSE 4 SETTLEMENTS
- 00:55 HAVE A BETTER CASE FOR NOT WANTING TO BE REMOVED THAN THE PEOPLE LIVING NEXT TO GAZA.
- 01:02 THE 4 SETTLEMENTS ARE IN NORTHERN SAMARIA.
- 01:06 THAT WAS TRIBAL LAND.
- 01:07 THAT'S SIMPLY JEWISH LAND THAT GOD DIVIDED UP AMONG THE NORTHERN TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
- 01:12 GAZA WAS NOT TRIBAL LAND.
- 01:15 IT WAS OUTSIDE OF THE TRIBAL INHERITANCES.
- 01:18 WE'RE GOING TO TALK WITH A MEMBER OF THE KNESSET, BENNY ELON, LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
- 01:25 HE'S BEEN THE MINISTER OF TOURISM FOR TWO TERMS.
- 01:27 HE'S A RABBI.
- 01:28 HE'S A VERY STUDIED MAN.
- 01:30 HE HAS SOME VERY STRONG VIEWS ON THIS.
- 01:33 HE'S WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED "GOD'S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL".
- 01:37 IT'S NOT REALLY AVAILABLE YET.
- 01:39 IT'S VERY INTERESTING.
- 01:41 HE POINTS OUT THAT AT LEAST THE SAMARITAN AND JUDEAN SETTLEMENTS ARE NOT REALLY SETTLEMENTS.
- 01:48 THEY'RE PART OF GOD'S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL.
- 01:51 HE MAKES QUITE AN EMOTIONAL CASE.
- 01:54 THE UNDERLINE OF THE TITLE IS ESTABLISHING BIBLICAL BOUNDARIES IN TODAY'S WORLD.
- 02:00 VERY, VERY INTERESTING STUFF.
- 02:03 WE'LL HAVE HIM LATER IN THE PROGRAM.
- 02:05 IN THE MEANWHILE, WE'LL GO TO THESE SETTLEMENTS AND WE'LL TALK WITH THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE.
- 02:10 DR. ARIEH ELDAD IS A KNESSET MEMBER.
- 02:15 THAT'S ISRAEL'S PARLIAMENT.
- 02:18 HE'S FRUSTRATED WITH HIS GOVERNMENTS DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM SANUR,
- 02:22 THE SETTLEMENT IN WHICH HE LIVES, SO HE'S TAKING ACTION.
- 02:26 HE HAS ORGANIZED A MARCH WHICH WILL TAKE HIM AND LIKE-MINDED DEMONSTRATORS
- 02:30 ON A JOURNEY TO ALL OF THE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED FOR EVACUATION,
- 02:35 INCLUDING GUSH KATIF IN GAZA.
- 02:39 WALKING FROM ONE CITY TO ANOTHER CITY, FROM ONE TOWN TO ANOTHER TOWN,
- 02:44 I HOPE TO GATHER MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WITH ME TO CHANGE THE PUBLIC OPINION.
- 02:50 THIS IS THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY.
- 02:53 IN ANY WAY, THIS IS THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.
- 02:56 GEOGRAPHICALLY, HISTORICALLY, THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL STARTED.
- 03:05 THIS IS SAMARIA.
- 03:06 ON THE WAY HERE WE JUST PASSED THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS,
- 03:10 THE RUINS OF THE KINGDOM, THE CAPITAL OF SAMARIA.
- 03:16 THIS IS HERE.
- 03:18 THIS IS WHERE OUR HISTORY LIES.
- 03:20 WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OUR ROOTS ARE STARTING FROM HERE,
- 03:25 NOT ON THE COASTAL LAND.
- 03:28 WE ARE CONSIDERED AS AN OUTPOST OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
- 03:34 IT'S THE FRICTION BETWEEN JEWS AND MUSLIMS HERE, BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND ARABS HERE.
- 03:41 A PART OF THE COLLISION BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS THAT IS GLOBAL
- 03:49 AND YOU SEE IT ALL OVER THE WORLD BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS.
- 03:53 WE ARE HERE JUST AS AN EXTERNAL OUTPOST OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION
- 03:59 AND THAT'S WHY EVEN IF WE GIVE UP THIS PART OF THE LAND AND ANOTHER PART OF THE LAND,
- 04:04 FOREVER WE WILL BE CONSIDERED WESTERNERS, FOREIGNERS,
- 04:08 NOT BELONGING TO THE MUSLIM CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION HERE
- 04:13 AND THEY WILL WANT TO GET RID OF US.
- 04:15 THAT'S WHY I DON'T SEE WHY ANY GIVING UP A SMALL PIECE OF LAND
- 04:19 OR UPROOTING A SETTLEMENT WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
- 04:22 IT'S JUST LIKE BELIEVING THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WWII,
- 04:26 IF YOU LIVE IN PEACE WITH THE LOCAL GERMAN COMMANDER OF A CERTAIN FRENCH VILLAGE
- 04:33 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SET PEACE TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
- 04:37 THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT'S DONE.
- 04:39 WE HAVE TO WIN THE WAR AND THEN TO SET THE PEACE.
- 04:42 (ZOLA) WE ASKED DR. ELDAD TO SHOW US HIS HOUSE.
- 04:45 (ZOLA) A RATHER SIMPLE HOME, TYPICAL OF THOSE SEEN HERE AT SANUR.
- 04:51 THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE HOME IS THE VIEW.
- 04:54 WHAT YOU SEE FROM INSIDE AND IT'S ALL GREEN HILLS,
- 05:00 IN THIS CASE SURROUNDED BY ARAB VILLAGES,
- 05:04 BUT THERE'S PLENTY MORE ROOM TO PUT NEW SETTLEMENTS ALL AROUND US.
- 05:09 THAT'S THE LIVING ROOM AND THE DINING ROOM AND THE KITCHEN.
- 05:19 IT'S VERY COMPACT, VERY SMALL.
- 05:23 NICE TO-- IT'S VERY EASY TO TIDY UP.
- 05:27 THAT'S, WELL, THAT'S WHERE WE SLEEP IF WE HAVE THE TIME.
- 05:35 THAT'S MY PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE.
- 05:40 THAT'S MY STUDY AND WHERE I KEEP MY COMPUTER.
- 05:46 THIS IS WHERE I'LL OPERATE FROM IF, GOD FORBID,
- 05:51 THE DAY COMES WHEN WE'LL HAVE TO STAY IN WITH THE POPULATION AND RESIST THE UPROOTING.
- 06:00 SO, I WILL USE IT AS MY HEADQUARTERS HERE.
- 06:04 (ZOLA) DR. ELDAD IS NOT ALONE.
- 06:06 (ZOLA) HE'S BEEN JOINED BY OTHERS WHO HAVE A LIKE-MIND AND KINDRED SPIRIT.
- 06:10 I LIVE IN HEBRON.
- 06:15 BUT I'VE COME HERE TO BE HERE UNTIL WE MAKE SURE THAT THIS COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO FLOURISH.
- 06:27 WE CAME TO HEBRON THIRTY SEVEN YEARS AGO.
- 06:32 THERE WEREN'T ANY JEWS IN SAMARIA AND THERE WERE VERY FEW IN JUDEA.
- 06:40 THANK GOD, TODAY, THERE ARE 300,000 JEWS.
- 06:45 ALL THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE COMING TO LIFE OF ZIONISM AGAIN,
- 06:54 BRINGING BACK JEWISH LIFE TO THE HEART OF OUR HOME LAND OF ISRAEL.
- 07:00 THE YOUNG JEWS, IDEALISTS, MEN AND WOMEN CAME AND JUST CONTINUED THE PATH,
- 07:09 THE CLASSICAL PATH OF ZIONISM, WHICH IS SETTLING, BUILDING,
- 07:14 GIVING BIRTH TO CHILDREN, EDUCATING.
- 07:18 THE GOAL OF ZIONISM IS TO BRING BACK JEWISH LIFE.
- 07:21 THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE.
- 07:23 NOW THERE'S A NEED TO STRENGTHEN THIS COMMUNITY.
- 07:26 WE'RE DOING THAT.
- 07:28 WITH GOD'S HELP WE ARE SURE THAT THIS ABSURD STEP, THIS CRIME OF UPROOTING JEWS,
- 07:40 WHICH IS REALLY SOCIAL OR RACIST CLEANSING.
- 07:47 WHERE IN THE WORLD WOULD WE ACCEPT THAT IF JEWS WERE TOLD YOU CAN NOT LIVE HERE.
- 07:52 CERTAINLY WE DON'T ACCEPT IT IN OUR HOMELAND
- 07:56 AND WE SHOULDN'T GIVE ANY LEGITIMACY TO SUCH A CRIME.
- 08:02 OF COURSE, OUR GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT TO MAKE PEACE PACTS, DETERMINE BOUNDARIES,
- 08:09 BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE A RIGHT TO UPROOT JEWS VIOLENTLY FROM THEIR HOMES.
- 08:16 WE HOPE THAT OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING AROUSED AND THE MAJORITY OF THE JEWS LIVING IN ISRAEL
- 08:23 ARE AGAINST THAT AND IT WON'T BE DONE.
- 08:27 THIS IS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
- 08:29 IF WE WILL GIVE UP ON THIS LITTLE AREA, AS YOU SAY,
- 08:37 AND THE NEXT CITY THAT WE'LL HAVE TO GIVE AWAY WILL BE JAFFA AND TEL AVIV.
- 08:48 I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD GIVE THE PALESTINIANS ANY CITY.
- 08:56 FIRST OF ALL, IT'S NOT A PEACE PROCESS.
- 08:59 IT'S ONE WAY--
- 09:02 WE JUST TAKE JEWISH PEOPLE, ISRAELI PEOPLE FROM THE LAND AND MOVE THEM AWAY.
- 09:10 WE DON'T GET ANYTHING BACK.
- 09:17 THIS IS PART OF THE HEART OF ISRAEL.
- 09:20 ALL OF OUR HISTORY WAS CREATED HERE IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
- 09:24 YOU KNOW, WHEN OUR PREVIOUS GENERATIONS DREAMT AND PRAYED TO COME BACK TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
- 09:32 THEY DIDN'T DREAM ABOUT TEL AVIV AND HAIFA AND THE COASTAL PLAIN.
- 09:36 THEY DREAMT ABOUT JERUSALEM AND HEBRON AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
- 09:40 THIS IS WHERE OUR KINGS RULED.
- 09:44 THIS IS WHERE OUR PROPHETS PROPHESIED.
- 09:47 THIS IS WHERE WE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD AND RECREATE JEWISH LIFE.
- 09:53 (ZOLA) AND THEY DO CONTINUE TO BUILD.
- 09:57 (ZOLA) THESE TWO WORKMEN ARE CONSTRUCTING A SYNAGOGUE HERE AT SANUR.
- 10:01 (ZOLA) THEY SEEM OBLIVIOUS TO THEIR GOVERNMENT'S DECISION
- 10:03 (ZOLA) TO TURN THIS VERY LAND OVER TO THE NEIGHBORING PALESTINIANS.
- 10:08 IF WE WERE THINKING LIKE THIS, YOU WOULDN'T SEE HERE ONE JEWISH PEOPLE.
- 10:14 IF WE THINK JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE A [HEBREW] A STRONG BELIEF,
- 10:21 WE BELIEVE THAT [SPEAKING HEBREW]
- 10:24 GIVE THIS HOLY LAND TO AHM ISRAEL.
- 10:29 SO WE DON'T LOOK AT ALL THE MINISTERS.
- 10:36 IF SOMEBODY CAN TALK AGAINST [SPEAKING HEBREW],
- 10:42 IT'S ONLY PAKA PAKA.
- 10:44 SO WE BUILD.
- 10:47 THIS IS REALITY.
- 10:49 WORDS ARE JUST PAKA PAKA.
- 10:53 PEOPLE CAN TALK AND SPEAK.
- 10:56 THIS IS THE SOUL OF AHM ISRAEL.
- 10:59 WE BUILD THIS.
- 11:02 SOON WE BUILD (HEBREW)
- 11:05 WE ARE NOT ASHAMED.
- 11:10 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN THIS DATE IN JULY COMES WHEN WE'RE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE HERE?
- 11:18 WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO LEAVE HERE, TO LEAVE.
- 11:21 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO LIVE HERE. NOT TO LEAVE.
- 11:24 LIVE. LIFE.
- 11:28 WE HAVE ONLY ONE COUNTRY - ISRAEL.
- 11:31 WE HAVE ONLY ONE STATE.
- 11:32 THEY HAVE 21, 21 ARAB MUSLIM STATES.
- 11:36 I DON'T THINK-- IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK.
- 11:40 I MEAN, RABIN TRIED THE PEACE PROCESS.
- 11:44 HE TRIED IN OSLO NINE YEARS.
- 11:47 WE GAVE THEM GUNS.
- 11:49 WE GAVE THEM ALMOST EVERYTHING AND THEY ARE SHOOTING AT US.
- 11:54 WE CAN'T MAKE PEACE WITH PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT PEACE.
- 11:57 WE WANT PEACE. I WANT PEACE. EVERYBODY HERE WANTS PEACE.
- 12:02 BUT, PEACE THAT WILL LAST, NOT JUST FOR A FEW YEARS
- 12:08 AND THEN IF WE WILL DO SOMETHING THAT THEY DON'T LIKE
- 12:12 THEY CAN SHOOT AT US AND THROW, I DON'T KNOW--
- 12:18 THE NEXT BOMB WILL BE A TANK OR AN AIRPLANE.
- 12:24 I DON'T KNOW.
- 12:26 FIRST OF ALL, THE PALESTINIAN STATE--
- 12:31 THERE IS A PALESTINIAN STATE. IT'S JORDAN.
- 12:35 JORDAN IS THE PALESTINIAN STATE.
- 12:37 75% OF JORDAN IS PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
- 12:42 THEY CAN GO OVER THERE.
- 12:46 WE CAN MAKE AN AGREEMENT THAT ALL OF THE ARABS IN THE WORLD SHOULD UNDERSTAND
- 12:52 THAT JEWS AND ARAB AND PALESTINIAN CANNOT LIVE IN THE SAME SMALL COUNTRY TOGETHER.
- 13:03 BECAUSE OF THEM, NOT BECAUSE OF US.
- 13:05 I MEAN, I DON'T GO TO GAZA AND SCHRAM AND SHOOT AT PEOPLE AND BOMB BUSES.
- 13:14 NO, I JUST WANT TO LIVE QUIETLY IN MY COUNTRY, THAT'S IT.
- 13:19 WHEN YOU START GIVING AWAY PARTS OF ISRAEL
- 13:21 THEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MORE RIGHT ON THIS LAND WHATSOEVER.
- 13:25 WE DIDN'T COME HERE AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS IN THE GOLA
- 13:28 AND THE DIASPORO TO SAY THAT THIS IS NOT OURS.
- 13:33 BECAUSE IF THIS IS NOT OURS, THEN TEL AVIV IS NOT OURS
- 13:36 AND HAIFA AND JAFFA AND JERUSALEM AND EVERYWHERE.
- 13:39 IF IT IS OURS THEN ALSO SANUR IS OURS
- 13:42 AND ALSO HOMESH AND MEVO DOTAN AND GANIM AND KADIM AND, OF COURSE GUSH KATIF.
- 13:46 WE HAVE TO DRAW A LINE AND THE LINE IS THAT WHAT'S OURS IS OURS.
- 13:50 WE HAVE TO, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T LOOK NICE TO THE WHOLE WORLD OR TO THE PALESTINIANS, IT'S OURS.
- 13:56 WHAT'S OURS IS OURS.
- 13:57 I DON'T THINK THAT ANYONE IN THE STATES
- 13:59 WOULD START GIVING AWAY PLACES TO THE INDIANS OR TO THE MEXICANS OR WHATEVER.
- 14:04 SO WE SHOULDN'T GIVE UP THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO THE PALESTINIANS.
- 14:08 IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER.
- 14:12 (ZOLA) AND SO THE MARCH BEGINS.
- 14:14 (ZOLA) DR. ELDAD AND HIS FELLOW DEMONSTRATORS
- 14:16 (ZOLA) HOPE THAT THEY CAN BEGIN TO KINDLE A SMALL SPARK THAT WILL IN TURN REKINDLE A FLAME.
- 14:22 (ZOLA) THE HOPE THAT OTHERS WILL JOIN THEM IN THEIR JOURNEY
- 14:24 (ZOLA) TO KEEP THEIR HOMES AND SAVE THEIR SYNAGOGUES.
- 14:29 IT'S A NICE WALK, BY THE WAY.
- 14:31 MOST OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEWS IN ISRAEL, THESE VIEWS.
- 14:34 JUST THINKING THAT WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE THIS FOR NOTHING.
- 14:38 NO AGREEMENT, NO PEACE. NOTHING.
- 14:41 JUST OUT OF CRUELNESS. EVEN THIS IS STUPIDNESS. IT'S WEIRD.
- 14:48 THIS THING WOULD NOT HAPPEN IN THE STATES.
- 14:50 NO, NEVER, WHATSOEVER.
- 15:02 JUST LOOK.
- 15:05 IF YOU GO TO TEXAS AND YOU BUILD A BIG FARM, A MILLION YARDS, NOBODY LOOKS AT YOU.
- 15:10 HERE, IF YOU BUILD ONE BRICK, ALL THE TELEVISION, RADIO, PICTURES, SOMETHING SPECIAL.
- 15:18 IF YOU GO TO AUSTRAILIA YOU BUY A MILLION SHEEPS, NOBODY LOOKS AT YOU.
- 15:23 HERE, YOU PUT ONE CONTAINER-- ALL THE SATELLITES, EVERYTHING,
- 15:28 AMERICA, RUSSIA, EVERYBODY LOOKS AT YOU, SOMETHING SPECIAL.
- 15:50 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
- 15:55 AND OUR CATALOG WITH VIDEOS, BOOKS AND MUSIC.
- 15:58 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES:
- 16:03 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
- 16:07 DID YOU KNOW THAT ZOLA TAKES TOURS TO ISRAEL,
- 16:10 GREECE AND THE HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA?
- 16:15 PLEASE, CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
- 16:22 I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO ZOLA FOR FIVE OR SIX YEARS.
- 16:27 AND WHEN MY MOTHER CALLED AND SAID I'M PLANNING A TRIP TO ISRAEL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO.
- 16:31 I DIDN'T HESITATE. I SAID, ABSOLUTELY.
- 16:33 SHE SAID DO YOU KNOW ANYWHERE OR HOW TO GET THERE?
- 16:35 I SAID, ABSOLUTELY. LET ME GIVE ZOLA A CALL.
- 16:37 THIS IS THE MOST SPECIAL PLACE IN THE WORLD AND THIS WAS THE PLACE WE WANTED TO BE.
- 16:42 WE CAN'T IMAGINE THAT WE'RE HERE.
- 16:44 I MEAN IT'S-- YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T IMAGINE WE'RE HERE.
- 16:53 WELL, NOW WE'LL TALK WITH RABBI BENNY ELON,
- 16:57 WHO HAS WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED, "GOD'S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL".
- 17:00 HE'S VERY STRONG ON THE IDEA THAT THE BIBLICAL LAND GRANT,
- 17:04 THAT JEWISH PEOPLE OCCUPYING THE LAND GOD GAVE THEM IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
- 17:10 HE'S QUITE A CHARACTER.
- 17:12 HE'S BEEN A MEMBER, WELL, HE IS A MEMBER OF THE KNESSET, ISRAEL'S PARLIAMENT.
- 17:17 HE HAS SERVED A COUPLE OF TERMS AS TOURISM MINISTER.
- 17:21 BUT MOST IMPORTANT, HE'S A MEMBER OF THE KNESSET CHRISTIAN ALLIES CAUCUS.
- 17:28 THAT'S VERY INTERESTING.
- 17:29 THEIR PARLIAMENT HAS A GROUP OF MEMBERS
- 17:35 THAT HAVE NOTICED THE SUPPORT THEY GET FROM CHRISTIAN ZIONIST, ME AND YOU
- 17:41 AND IS HAPPY WITH IT AND WANTS TO ENCOURAGE IT.
- 17:46 THEY ALSO, I'M SURE, NOTICED THE LACK OF SUPPORT THEY GET FROM THE PRESBYTERIANS
- 17:51 WHO HAVE DIVESTED AND THE REST OF THE DENOMINATIONS WHO CRITICIZE ISRAEL ALL THE TIME.
- 17:56 BUT, THEY BEGAN TO THINK THAT CHRISTIAN SUPPORT IS IMPORTANT AND, OH BOY, IS IT EVER.
- 18:01 THAT'S ALL END TIMES PROPHECY IS REALLY ABOUT--
- 18:04 CHRISTIANS SUPPORT OF ISRAEL LEADING TO THE KINGDOM TO COME.
- 18:07 HE'S VERY, VERY IMPASSIONED ON THIS SUBJECT
- 18:13 AND WE WENT TO HIM AND ASKED HIM JUST WHAT MESSAGE HE MEANS TO LEAVE WITH PEOPLE IN HIS BOOK,
- 18:19 "GOD'S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL".
- 18:22 I THINK THAT THE MESSAGE IS THAT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND REAL POLITICS
- 18:31 ESPECIALLY HERE IN THIS SPECIAL AREA OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL
- 18:38 HERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS PEOPLE,
- 18:42 WITH THIS SPECIAL HISTORY TO PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,
- 18:46 YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION BETWEEN REALITY,
- 18:54 MEANS ALSO REAL POLITICS, NOT ONLY REAL PHYSICS LIKE EARTH AND SO ON,
- 19:01 REAL POLITICS AND THE BIBLE.
- 19:04 MORE THAN THAT.
- 19:06 EVEN IF YOU'LL JUST TAKE IT IN A RATIONAL WAY,
- 19:10 THE FACT THAT A NATION WAS ABSENT FOR ALMOST 2000 YEARS FROM THE LAND
- 19:21 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY ARE HERE AND BACK,
- 19:23 WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS THE PROPHECY OF THE BIBLE,
- 19:29 THAT THIS IS THE PUNISHMENT AND THEN THE EXILE AND THEN
- 19:34 THE COMING BACK BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF GOD.
- 19:38 WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING, YOU REALLY CANNOT EXPLAIN POLITICALLY
- 19:44 WHO IS GIVING YOU THE ETHICAL AND THE MORAL JUSTIFICATION
- 19:50 TO COME TO A PLACE THAT YOU ABANDONED IN 2000 YEARS.
- 19:58 JUST IMAGINE THAT IN 2000 YEARS
- 20:03 THE SPANISH OR THE INDIANS WILL COME TO THE USA.
- 20:09 YOU CAN'T JUST SAY, LISTEN, I WAS THERE ONCE BECAUSE IN HISTORY THINGS WERE CHANGED.
- 20:16 PEOPLE COME, PEOPLE WENT, WARS.
- 20:20 YOU CAN'T BEHAVE IN REAL, NORMAL, REAL POLITICS
- 20:25 AND REAL CURRENT HISTORY IN MEMORIES OF 2000 YEARS.
- 20:31 BUT THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
- 20:33 THE ISRAELIS DON'T COME TO ISRAEL, THE JEWS AND SAY,
- 20:37 WE CAME HERE TO LOOK FOR PEARL OR TO LOOK FOR GOLD.
- 20:43 BUT WE ARE HERE, SO WE ARE HERE.
- 20:45 NO, WE CAME BECAUSE OF THE BIBLE.
- 20:48 WE CAME BECAUSE WE NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING THAT THIS IS OUR LAND.
- 20:53 SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WITHOUT INTRODUCTION OF THE BIBLE, YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
- 20:58 PART OF OUR POLITICAL PROBLEM IS THAT OUR ENEMIES, THE MUSLIMS, DON'T RESPECTTHE BIBLE.
- 21:06 THEY SEE US AS PART OF THE COLONIALIST, IMPERIALIST CONSPIRACY,
- 21:15 A BRITISH CONSPIRACY, AN AMERICAN CONSPIRACY, FOREIGNERS.
- 21:21 THEY ALWAYS WANT TO COMPARE US TO ZIMBABWEE, TO SOUTH AFRICA.
- 21:26 THIS IS THEIR WAY OF ARGUMENTS.
- 21:31 I'M SAYING TO MY COLLEAGUES IN THE ISRAELI PARLIAMENT, BE CAREFUL.
- 21:39 IF YOU'LL BE ASHAMED TO BE BASED ON THE BIBLE AND IF YOU'LL BE ASHAMED IN WHAT YOU ARE,
- 21:47 AND IF YOU'LL BE ASHAMED IN YOUR HERITAGE
- 21:50 AND IN YOUR GOD OF ISRAEL, YOUR ENEMIES WILL BE RIGHT.
- 21:55 IF YOU'LL JUST SAY, I'M HERE BECAUSE I AM STRONG.
- 21:58 I AM HERE BECAUSE I HAVE THE BEST ARMY
- 22:00 AND IF THEY ARE TERRORISTS I'LL CHASE AFTER THEM.
- 22:04 NO, THEY ARE NOT TERRORISTS.
- 22:07 IF YOU HAVE TO MORAL JUSTIFICATION TO BE HERE
- 22:10 AND YOU OCCUPY TERRITORIES THAT DON'T BELONG TO YOU,
- 22:14 THEY HAVE THE ETHICAL JUSTIFICATION TO FIGHT AGAINST YOU.
- 22:19 AND THEY WILL WIN, GOD FORBID.
- 22:22 THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY POLITICAL WAY TO SURVIVE HERE
- 22:27 IS TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUR SURVIVAL IS JUST PART OF OUR REVIVAL.
- 22:34 AND OUR REVIVAL IS A FULFILLMENT OF A PROMISE IN THE BIBLE.
- 22:40 IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND IT, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS
- 22:45 LIKE COVENANT BETWEEN THE GOD OF ISRAEL AND ISRAEL, BIBLE, GOD
- 22:51 ARE NOT SO FAR, ARE NOT SUCH SPIRITUAL TERMS.
- 22:56 FOR US, IT'S A VERY, VERY EXISTENTIAL WORDS.
- 23:02 WITHOUT THEM WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO HERE AND WE LOSE OUR FIGHT.
- 23:08 ♪ AND WE FLED BEFORE THEIR ♪ SWORDS
- 23:11 ♪ BUT ALMIGHTY GOD HAS SHOWED ♪ THEM THAT THE BATTLE IS ♪ THE LORD'S.
- 23:15 ♪ SHALOM, SHALOM ♪ THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL'S ♪ BROUGHT US HOME
- 23:20 ♪ HAG SAMEACH! Y'SHALOM ♪ FOR THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL ♪ IN HIS MERCY BROUGHT US HOME.
- 23:29 ♪ WE ARE NUMBERED AS THE SAND ♪ AND NO POWER ON EARTH CAN TAKE ♪ AWAY OUR LAND.
- 23:34 ♪ HE WILL SMITE THEM WITH ♪ HIS ROD
- 23:37 ♪ AND WE'LL LIVE BECAUSE WE ♪ TRUSTED IN THE PROMISES ♪ OF GOD.
- 23:40 ♪ WE ARE BACK NOW IN OUR LAND ♪ WE'RE DELIVERED BY OUR GOD'S ♪ ALMIGHTY HAND.
- 23:45 ♪ HE HAS CALLED US, ♪ CALLED US HOME.
- 23:48 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE ♪ AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN ♪ HOME.
- 23:52 ♪ SHALOM, SHALOM ♪ THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL'S ♪ BROUGHT US HOME.
- 23:57 ♪ HAG SAMEACH! Y'SHALOM ♪ FOR THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL ♪ IN HIS MERCY BROUGHT US HOME.
- 24:14 ♪ HE HAS SANCTIFIED HIS PROMISE ♪ AND HE'S CALLED HIS CHILDREN ♪ HOME.
- 24:19 ♪ SHALOM!
- 24:21 WITH ALL THE PASSIONS ABOUT THESE 4 SETTLEMENTS UP THERE IN NORTHERN SAMARIA,
- 24:26 THEY JUST MAY WELL BE INDEFENSIBLE FROM A MILITARY STANDPOINT.
- 24:31 I'M GUESSING AT THAT.
- 24:33 I LOOKED AT A MAP AND THEY ARE REALLY SURROUNDED BY THE PALESTINIAN OCCUPIERS.
- 24:38 IF YOU WANT TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE.
- 24:39 IT'S THE ARABS, OBVIOUSLY, WHO CAME FROM ARABIA AND ARE OCCUPYING THE LAND,
- 24:43 NOT THE JEWS WHO WERE GIVEN THE LAND BY GOD 4000 YEARS AGO WITH HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM.
- 24:49 BUT THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY AN ENEMY THAT GETS EVERMORE DANGEROUS.
- 24:53 THE SITUATION IS SORT OF LIKE GAZA WHERE YOU HAVE 8500 SETTLERS
- 24:58 LIVING ACROSS A ROAD FROM 120,000 POTENTIAL MURDERERS
- 25:04 WHO ARE ALREADY FIRING ROCKETS AT THEM.
- 25:06 WE'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT PRIME MINISTER SHARON IS NOBODY'S FOOL.
- 25:11 WE INTERVIEWED HIM. I TALKED WITH HIM.
- 25:13 HE IS NOT SENILE OR CRAZY OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT.
- 25:17 HE'S A VERY INTELLIGENT, WELL STUDIED BATTLEFIELD GENERAL.
- 25:21 I THINK THAT WHAT IS MEANT BY THESE WITHDRAWALS, ESPECIALLY GAZA,
- 25:27 IS PROTECTION OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS WHO HAVE PROVOKED NOTHING BUT MAY BE TARGETED.
- 25:34 IT'S TOO DIFFICULT TO GET ARMY BATTALIONS OUT TO DEFEND A HANDFUL OF SETTLERS
- 25:39 HERE OR THERE WHEN THEY'RE SO REMOVED AND OUT ON THE FRONTIERS.
- 25:43 SO, WHILE GAZA IS GETTING A LOT OF THE PUBLICITY, SAMARIA ITSELF WAS TRIBAL.
- 25:52 I MEAN, IT'S MORE LIKELY THAT THE JEWS WOULD REMAIN IN SAMARIA,
- 25:58 OR WHAT THE WORLD CALLS THE WEST BANK THAN GAZA,
- 26:00 WHICH WAS IN THE HANDS OF PHILISTINES AND VARIOUS FOREIGN POWERS THROUGH THE TIME
- 26:05 EGYPT AND SO ON, AND WAS NOT A TRIBAL INHERITANCE OF ISRAEL.
- 26:09 SO YOUR HEART GOES OUT IN A WAY TO THESE 4 SETTLEMENTS.
- 26:12 IT'S REALLY A SHAME THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO MOVE OFF LAND LIKE THAT.
- 26:16 BUT THIS WAS PUT TO A VOTE TIME AND AGAIN
- 26:21 AND THE KNESSET APPROVED IT AND IT'S PART OF THIS ROADMAP FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.
- 26:26 SO I GUESS WE'LL SEE THE EVACUATION OF THESE 4 SETTLEMENTS.
- 26:31 AND I KNOW ONCE YOU'VE WATCHED THEM ON TELEVISION OR MEET THE PEOPLE
- 26:34 YOU'LL REALLY GET THEM IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WANT TO PRAY ABOUT IT.
- 26:39 WELL, PRAY ABOUT IT. THAT CERTAINLY DOES NO HARM.
- 26:41 AND WHILE YOU'RE PRAYING ABOUT THAT,
- 26:43 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALIAM. PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
Episodes in this series
- Academic Terrorism with Joan Peters, Part 1
- Academic Terrorism with Joan Peters, Part 2
- Guest: Benny Elon (Knesset member)
- The March
- Counter Terrorism
- Biblical Heartland
- The Hill of Evil Council with Tom McCall
- Trials and Tribulations with Tom McCall
- Hated of All Nations with Tommy Ice
- Truth be Told with Tommy Ice
- Israel: Who Owns the Land?
- Israel and Prophecy with Tommy Ice

