Standing With Israel: Responding to University Protests

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to the Strang Report podcast.

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The surge of antisemitism in America, particularly on college campuses, has reached alarming levels,

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threatening the safety and well-being of Jewish students.

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Students at institutions like the University of Michigan and Columbia University and NYU

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reveal a disturbing increase in hostility, leaving mainly Jewish students feeling unsafe

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and targeted for their identity.

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This alarming rise in antisemitism coincides with new waves of terror against Israel.

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For some insane reason, it has become vogue to stand with the terrorists like Hamas and

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Iran instead of standing with their victims, the people of Israel.

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Hamas and Iran's acts of terror and violence have resulted in significant displacement

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of Jewish families across Israel, including elderly Holocaust survivors who are now in

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dire need of support and protection.

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Here at Charisma, we're keeping up with these events.

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We have a long history of standing with Israel and over the years, we have raised several

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million dollars for humanitarian aid in Israel, including significant amounts for the Hamas-Israel

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War.

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The campus unrest that we're seeing in the news reminds me of the anti-Vietnam War protests

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that I saw as the University of Florida student in the 1970s.

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I was never really a protestor, I was a student journalist, but I saw what was happening up

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close and personal, and at one protest, I was actually involved with tear gassing.

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They tear gas the entire crowd, and that included those of us who were journalists who were

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too close.

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The only time in my life I've ever experienced that.

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There were outside agitators then, as there are now.

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I read that the University of Texas in Austin, they arrested about 55 protesters, and half

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of them had nothing to do with the university.

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There's reason to believe with reports that are trickling in because the mainstream media

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tends to play it down, that a lot of the unrest is actually by people who want to undermine

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our democracy and our republic here in the United States.

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They're using this tension, this anti-Semitic tension, this pro-Palestinian fervor that a

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lot of people believe that really is something that is unusual for here in America.

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I heard a report that some, on one campus, they were taking down American flags and putting

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up Palestinian flags.

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I mean, it's insane.

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In my opinion, it's one thing to disagree on politics or even to advocate for the downtrodden,

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which many of the people are saying the Palestinians are downtrodden, which is an exaggeration.

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But this goes way beyond support for the Palestinians or their cause is actually hatred of Jews

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and hatred of Israel.

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Let's remember that it's Israel that's defending itself against the terrorism that's coming

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from Hamas and the Palestinians.

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It's very disturbing.

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Here's a report that I was sent recently from Jews for Jesus, which is one of the ministries

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that we support that's doing a lot of humanitarian work in Israel in addition to evangelism.

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And this clip will show you how bad things are in Israel, especially the anti-Semitism.

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Our campuses are a hotbed for anti-Semitism.

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Over the last few days, we've seen campuses like NYU, Columbia, and Fashion Institute

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of Technology be taken over by people that hate Jewish people and hate the modern state

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of Israel.

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And they are not just standing up for Palestine.

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I'm here on the campus of NYU.

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And right behind me, there are people with all sorts of shirts and all sorts of slogans.

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This isn't just an issue about justice.

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This isn't an issue about hatred.

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And we need to stand against that.

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If you're Jewish and you're concerned, as I know I'm concerned, feel free to reach out

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to us.

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We would love to connect with you and pray with you.

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If you're Christian, we need you to stand with us.

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We need you to pray for the Jewish people right now and pray for the state of Israel.

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Again, thank you so much and God bless.

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Now I believe in the freedom of speech, the freedom of the assembly.

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I believe in the First Amendment.

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It also gives us freedom of the press.

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But there's something very evil that's happening.

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And we as believers in Jesus need to understand, we need to discern the times, like the sons

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of Issachar, to understand what is really going on.

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And that's why I'm doing this podcast and that's why I'm showing some of these clips.

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In fact, a couple of days ago, the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been

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a friend of evangelicals and who has recognized that evangelical support of Israel as some

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of the most genuine and strongest support that Israel has.

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Israel doesn't have many friends, but over the years they've come to understand that

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evangelicals who are those who believe the Bible, believe the Word of God is true, believe

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in salvation, those kinds of things, believe in living out their faith and following what

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the Bible has to say that there's some of the greatest supporters of Israel.

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So here's what prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to say.

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Anti-Semitic mobs have taken over leading universities.

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They call for the annihilation of Israel.

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They attack Jewish students.

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They attack Jewish faculty.

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When you listen to them, it's also because they say not only death to Israel, death to

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the Jews, but death to America.

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And this tells us that there's an anti-Semitic surge here that has terrible consequences.

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The purpose of this podcast is it's my way of urging the Christian community to support

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Israel.

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I know there are many voices supporting Israel.

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There have been a few protests in favor of Israel.

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They've been downplayed in the press.

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They're small by comparison, but there have been some.

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There are various ministries, including the ones that we support that are rallying the

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call.

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The support of Israel has been pretty mild and pretty low-key.

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And I believe that we need to speak up to support Israel.

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And we do it not just for political reasons, although there are political reasons for America

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and for us Americans to support Israel.

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We know that Israel is our main democratic ally in the Middle East.

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And we have Iran as a common foe, and we have terrorism as a common foe.

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But why do we support Israel?

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It's not just for politics.

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It's not just because we wanted to support a small democratic country in the Middle East.

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No, it's because Israel has a special place in God's heart.

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The Jews are God's chosen people.

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The fact that Israel even exists is a fulfillment of prophecy that said Canaanation be born in

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a day.

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And Israel was born in one day, May 14, 1948.

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And it's a miracle that Israel even exists, because as soon as they declared their statehood,

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they were attacked by seven Arab nations.

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They had no army, just a little militia.

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They didn't really have arms.

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In fact, the arms that the United States was able to give them as part of what helped

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them win.

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But more than that, it was a miracle that they even survived.

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And then a few years later, they survived the Six Day War.

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In fact, they won in six days, which was a miracle.

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A couple of years later, just barely 50 years ago, they won the Yom Kippur War, where again,

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they were attacked on Yom Kippur, the High Holy Day, when they were all in their homes

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fasting.

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And it was a miracle that they survived.

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And then they survived, attack after attack after attack.

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But you know, this is drawn on now for more than six months.

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It's very serious.

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It's active terrorism.

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In October 7th, when this took place, they killed 1,200 men, women, and children.

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It was the most deaths of Jews in one day, of any day since the Holocaust.

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I had the opportunity when I was in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago, actually a couple of

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months ago, to go to the Israeli Embassy and kind of see a behind the scenes, off the record

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clips of actual footage of some of the carnage.

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I mean, it was enough to just bring tears to your eyes and turn your stomach.

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And it was just horrible beyond horrible.

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And it let me see the deprivation.

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And then to see, and at first it seemed like the world was supporting Israel, like the

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world supported the United States when we went through 9-11.

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You know, people came to our aid.

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We lost 3,000 people, more or less, in that terrible attack.

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Israel lost 1,200, which percentage-wise is a much higher percentage.

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And Israel has gone in to protect itself.

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But it seems like things are shifting.

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Protests at the Capitol, protests in different parts of the country, supporting the Palestinians.

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And you know what?

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This is way beyond a two-state argument over a two-state solution.

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It's terrorism trying to wipe Israel off the face of the map.

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In fact, they have a chant.

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I'm sure you've heard it.

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They say, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free.

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And that's from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

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And if you look at the map, that is Israel.

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They want it just wiped off the map for it to all of it be Palestine.

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You know, I thought it was kind of funny, and I'll just inject this.

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One of the interviewers, one of the conservative interviews, was interviewing some of these

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leftists on the street that were actually protesting in charge of Palestine.

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They didn't even know the name of the river or the name of the sea from that chant.

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They were just kind of going along mindlessly with this rioting or whatever is going on,

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these protests that are going on.

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Hopefully, people are starting to come to their senses.

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We've gotten, I mentioned the University of Texas.

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They cleaned up.

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They got a bunch of fraternity boys.

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They called them the frat boys to come in and just clean up these tent cities and the

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different things.

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And as I mentioned earlier, they arrested some people, half of whom were not even affiliated

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with the university.

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At my own alma mater, the University of Florida, just this afternoon, I saw a report that they're

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cleaning up, they're starting to arrest people.

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They've been patient.

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They warned the protesters.

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They needed to leave.

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They knew the rules.

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They know the consequences.

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And they issued a release that said, these are not children.

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We're not going to treat them like children.

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They know the rules.

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They know what they've done, and they're going to have to face the consequences.

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Hopefully that will happen more and more.

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I want to encourage each of you to do what you can to be involved.

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A lot of times we Christians don't know what to do.

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We don't have control of the news media.

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Thankfully, we do have alternative media with conservative media and also some Christian

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media like here at Charisma.

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We can use that.

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And it goes out to people like you.

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You can share the link to this podcast to help it go viral in a small way to get out

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the word of what's really going on, and you can also get involved by giving.

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The Bible says that where our treasure is, there our heart is.

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And God commands us, and God tells us that He will bless those who bless Israel.

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So we're going to give you an opportunity to bless Israel.

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This is not new.

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We've done it through our nonprofit partner called Christian Life Missions.

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You can go to christianlifemissions.org and see what we've done.

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We do it under the name of Bless Israel because there's a lot of things we do to bless Israel

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that go well beyond the current conflict.

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I recently have gotten messages from the three ministries that we support.

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One is the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America, the MJAA.

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They have a thing called the Joseph Project.

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They're able to get truckloads of humanitarian aid in.

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Some of it comes from other countries, but they have to raise the money for the transportation,

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for the shipping, for the trucks.

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They have to organize the volunteers to give it out.

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Jews for Jesus is giving out meals all over Israel, especially to people who have been

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displaced by the war.

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And Vision for Israel, Barry and Bat Yasegal also have a vast network of humanitarian aid.

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We've been friends with all three of these ministries for many, many years.

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We take what comes in and split it among the three.

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We give 100% of what comes in to these ministries.

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We take nothing out for administration or marketing costs or anything else.

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You can give with confidence.

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These are smaller ministries.

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There are some big ministries doing some big things, but there are a lot of needs that

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kind of fall between the cracks.

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That's why these ministries are able to meet a need in the way that some of the bigger

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ministries or the government isn't able to do.

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So I invite you to go online at christianlifemissions.org, exactly like it sound, Christian Life Missions

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is written as if it's one word, you'll be able to see very quickly what we do under

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Bless Israel.

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What I'm saying to you is repeated there.

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There are stories, little clips of things that you can watch to see exactly what we're

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doing.

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I've given generously out of my own pocket for this and I encourage you to do the same.

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You know, we all have to do what the Lord puts in our hearts.

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And I just, my prayer, even before I did this podcast with them is that the Lord would encourage

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people to give generously.

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That's something that we can do to show our concern.

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Also, you can speak up.

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You can write letters to the editor.

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You can post things online that indicate that you side with Israel in spite of what these

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protesters are doing.

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You can encourage the officials in your area to stand up against the protesters and enforce

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the laws that are on the books.

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People have a right to protest.

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They can march up and down peacefully with signs if they want to.

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It's their right to do it.

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But it's also our right to stand up for Israel and to stand strong.

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I'm proud to call myself a Christian Zionist.

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I'm a, in fact, I had a kind of a liberal Jewish friend joke with me one day and tell

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me I was more of a Zionist than he was.

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And he was probably right because I believe that we have to really stand strong with the

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Jewish people and with Israel.

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I'm not talking about the government.

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The Israeli government is a secular government.

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They have problems like every other government.

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But I believe as a principle, we need to stand strong as Christians.

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There's a terrible, terrible history over the centuries of antisemitism, even among

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Christians.

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But in the last 50 or 70 years, that has really, really changed, especially by Christians

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who really believe the Word of God and who believe in standing on the Word of God and

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what God says to do.

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So you can give with confidence that your money is going to be rushed to where it's

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needed the most.

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We promise you we've done this for years.

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We have a long history of doing this.

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And really a lot of the people that give through Christian life missions, because there are

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many ministries you can give to.

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Christians United for Israel is doing a fantastic job.

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I don't have time to list all the ministries.

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Sid Roth and his ministry up in Charlotte is doing a great job.

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But our ministry helps small ministries that are helping where things sometimes fall through

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the cracks.

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And so I'm asking you boldly to do what I've done, and that's to give, to help the people

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of Israel.

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Thank you for tuning into the Strang Report.

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That's all I have to share today, except that I want to close by one more clip from Benjamin

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Netanyahu that I felt was important to share.

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And then after the clip, I'll come back and we're going to pray for Israel, and we're

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going to pray that sanity comes back to our university and college campuses where all these

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protests have been taking place.

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We have to stop anti-Semitism because anti-Semitism is the canary in the coal mine.

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It always precedes larger confligations than engulf the entire world.

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Thanks for sticking with me.

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Thanks for watching these clips.

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I hope that you learned something.

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I hope I inspired you.

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Please share this on social media.

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Just take the link and put it on Facebook or on X or whatever social media you use.

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Of course, we send it out as well.

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There's sort of this feeling that there's not that much support for Israel, but there

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is a lot of support in the Jewish community and also in the Christian community.

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So now as we wrap up this podcast, I want to remind you to subscribe.

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And then would you pray with me?

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And this is how I'm going to end the podcast.

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Father God, we come boldly before your throne asking you, Lord, to be with Israel during

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this very difficult time, be with their leaders.

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Lord, they have to make decisions on how to respond.

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I really didn't get into it, but when they were attacked by Iran, how did they respond?

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They responded very, very carefully.

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There's such a danger that this could escalate, but that's a subject for another day.

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But Lord, you know our hearts and you know that we want your will.

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We feel as if we're racing toward the end of time.

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We know that your will in terms of what's going to happen in the world is outlined in

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the Bible.

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And it's almost like we're seeing it unfold before our very eyes.

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Lord, my prayer today was that you would give wisdom and boldness to the authorities at

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these different colleges and universities, how to deal with these protests.

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Lord, I pray that you open the eyes of the protesters to help them to see the error of

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their ways and how evil it is and how evil Hamas is and how this terrorism is wrong and

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how there needs to be peace.

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Lord, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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We pray that peace will come to Israel.

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We thank you, Lord.

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We pray this in your mighty name.

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Amen.

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Thank you for watching.

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God bless.