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The Watchman with Erick Stakelbeck
September 24, 2020
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  • ♪♪
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  • - ERICKSTAKELBECK: THIS WEEK ON
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  • THE WATCHMAN WE'RE ON THESOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE
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  • HOUSE FOR THE HISTORICSIGNING OF THE ABRAHAM
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  • ACCORDS WITH ISRAEL,THE UAE, BAHRAIN,
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  • PRESIDENT TRUMPMAKING HISTORY.
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  • GET THE INSIDE STORYTODAY FROM WHERE IT
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  • ALL HAPPENED.
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  • WE'RE HERE ATTHE WHITE HOUSE.
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  • COMING UP RIGHT HEREON THE WATCHMAN .
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  • PLUS, BIBLICAL HISTORYCOMES TO LIFE WITH
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  • ANOTHER STUNNING NEWARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN
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  • JERUSALEM DATING BACKSOME 2700 YEARS TO THE
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  • TIME OF THE JUDEAN KINGS.
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  • AND THEN IS THIS THE MOSTDANGEROUS MAN IN THE
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  • MIDDLE EAST?
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  • FIND OUT THIS WEEKONLY RIGHT HERE ON
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  • THE WATCHMAN.
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  • ♪♪
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  • - AND WELCOMETO THE WATCHMAN .
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  • HISTORY WAS MADE AT THEWHITE HOUSE RECENTLY AS
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  • ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERBENJAMIN NETANYAHU JOINED
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  • THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OFTHE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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  • AND BAHRAIN IN SIGNINGTHE ABRAHAM ACCORDS.
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  • THEY'RE THE FIRST PEACEAGREEMENTS AGREED TO BY
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  • ISRAEL AND ITS ARABNEIGHBORS SINCE 1994.
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  • NOW, I WAS HONORED TOATTEND THE SIGNING
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  • CEREMONY AT THE WHITEHOUSE ALONG WITH OUR CUFI
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  • LEADERSHIP INCLUDING THEONE AND ONLY PASTOR
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  • JOHN HAGEE.
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  • AND I HAD AN OPPORTUNITYTO MEET WITH VICE
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  • PRESIDENT MIKE PENCEAFTER THE CEREMONY AND TO
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  • LISTEN AS HE SHARED HISINSIGHTS ON THE EXCITING
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  • POSSIBILITIES THAT AREEMERGING TODAY IN THE
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  • MIDDLE EAST.
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  • FOLKS, IT WAS A DAYI WILL NEVER FORGET.
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  • HERE'S MORE.
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  • ♪♪
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  • HEY, EVERYONE.
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  • ERICK STAKELBECK HERE.
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  • WE ARE ON THE SOUTH LAWNOF THE WHITE HOUSE FOR
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  • THE HISTORIC SIGNINGOF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS
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  • SHORTLY WE WILL HAVE THEPRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL,
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  • BENJAMIN NETANYAHU,PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND THE
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  • FOREIGN MINISTERS OFBAHRAIN AND THE U.A.E.
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  • THEY ARE HERE.
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  • THEY ARE GOING TO SIGNTHIS HISTORIC ACCORD.
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  • FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WOULDBE UNTHINKABLE BUT TODAY
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  • WE HAVE IT.
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  • THE SUNNI ARAB NATIONSGETTING CLOSER TO ISRAEL
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  • NOT ONLY FOR ECONOMIC ANDTECHNOLOGICAL REASONS BUT
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  • BECAUSE OF ALOOMING IRAN THREAT.
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  • THIS IS A GREATACHIEVEMENT FOR THE TRUMP
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  • ADMINISTRATIONWITHOUT A DOUBT.
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  • TO BE HERE IS QUITE ANHONOR AND TO SEE REALLY
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  • HISTORY UNFOLD BEFORE OURVERY EYES, AND THIS IS
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  • PROBABLY THE FIRSTOF MORE TO COME.
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  • MOROCCO, OMAN, SUDAN,EVEN SAUDI ARABIA TALKING
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  • ABOUT COMING TO THE TABLEAND MAKING PEACE WITH
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  • ISRAEL, SO THE CEREMONYIS ABOUT TO START.
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  • MUCH MORE COMING UP RIGHTHERE ON THE WATCHMAN.
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  • - PRESIDENT TRUMP: WE'REHERE THIS AFTERNOON TO
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  • CHANGE THE COURSEOF HISTORY.
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  • AFTER DECADES OF DIVISIONAND CONFLICT, WE MARK THE
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  • DAWN OF A NEWMIDDLE EAST.
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  • IN ISRAEL'S ENTIREHISTORY THERE HAVE
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  • PREVIOUSLY BEEN ONLYTWO SUCH AGREEMENTS.
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  • NOW WE HAVE ACHIEVED TWOIN A SINGLE MONTH, AND
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  • THERE ARE MORE TO FOLLOW.
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  • [APPLAUSE]
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  • - BENJAMIN NETANYAHU:ISRAELIS, EMIRATIS, AND
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  • BAHRAINIS ARE ALREADYEMBRACING ONE ANOTHER. WE
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  • ARE EAGER TO INVESTIN THE FUTURE OF
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  • PARTNERSHIP,PROSPERITY AND PEACE.
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  • WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN TOCOOPERATE IN COMBATING
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  • CORONA, AND I'M SURE THATTOGETHER WE CAN FIND
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  • SOLUTIONS TO MANY OF THEPROBLEMS THAT AFFLICT OUR
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  • REGION AND BEYOND.
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  • - WHAT WAS ONLY DREAMEDOF A FEW YEARS AGO IS
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  • NOW ACHIEVABLE.
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  • AND WE CAN SEE BEFORE USA GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR
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  • PEACE, SECURITY, ANDPROSPERITY FOR
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  • OUR REGION.
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  • LET US TOGETHER AND WITHOUR PARTNERS WASTE NO
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  • TIME IN SEIZING IT.
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  • [APPLAUSE]
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  • - WHAT A DAY.
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  • AND WHAT A PRIVILEGE TOBE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR
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  • THE SIGNING AND TO BE ANEYEWITNESS TO HISTORY.
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  • AS PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID,A NEW MIDDLE EAST IS
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  • TAKING SHAPE.
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  • AND NOT EVERYONEIS HAPPY ABOUT IT.
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  • WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOUTHESE PAST FEW WEEKS THAT
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  • THE WHEAT IS BEINGSEPARATED FROM THE TARES
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  • AS SUNNI ARAB NATIONSLIKE THE UAE AND BAHRAIN
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  • LINE UP WITH ISRAEL ONONE SIDE AND THE IRANIAN
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  • REGIME AND IT'S RADICALALLIES LIKE HAMAS,
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  • HEZBOLLAH, AND SYRIA'SBASHAR AL ASSAD LINE UP
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  • ON THE OTHER.
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  • ALSO OPPOSING ISRAEL ISTURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP
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  • TAYYIP ERDOGAN.
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  • HE MAY JUST BE THE MOSTDANGEROUS MAN IN THE
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  • ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST, ANDWE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE ON
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  • HIS LATEST MOVES A BITLATER IN THE SHOW.
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  • BUT UP FIRST, NEWALLIANCES AREN'T THE ONLY
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  • EXCITING THING HAPPENINGIN ISRAEL TODAY.
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  • EARLIER THIS MONTH, WEHAD YET ANOTHER STUNNING
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  • ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERYIN JERUSALEM.
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  • IT DATES BACK SOME 2700YEARS TO THE TIME OF THE
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  • JUDEAN KINGS, AND OURGOOD FRIEND ZE'EV ORENSTEIN
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  • OF THE CITY OFDAVID IS HERE WITH THE
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  • INSIDE STORY.
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  • TAKE A LOOK.
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  • ZE'EV, THANKS SO MUCHFOR JOINING US ONCE AGAIN
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  • HERE ON THE WATCHMAN.
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  • BREAKING NEWS TODAY.
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  • HUGE ARCHEOLOGICALDISCOVERY IN JERUSALEM.
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  • TELL US WHAT WAS FOUNDAND WHY IT IS
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  • SO IMPORTANT.
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  • - TODAY WAS ONE OF THOSEDAYS WHEN YOU JUST FELT
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  • LIKE YOU HIT THE JACKPOT.
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  • WE ANNOUNCED THIS MORNINGIN THE CITY OF DAVID, THE
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  • PLACE WHERE JERUSALEMBEGAN, AN AMAZING
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  • ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY.
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  • ONE GOING BACK SOME2700 YEARS.
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  • AND WHAT WAS FOUND WAS ASERIES OF ANCIENT ROYAL
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  • CAPITALS BEARING THESYMBOL MOST ASSOCIATED
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  • WITH THE KINGDOM OFJUDAH, THE DAVIDIC
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  • DYNASTY GOING BACK TOFIRST TEMPLE
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  • PERIOD JERUSALEM.
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  • GOING BACKTHOUSANDS OF YEARS.
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  • NOW, WHAT IS THAT SYMBOL?
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  • FOR MANY OF THE WATCHMANVIEWERS, THEY MAY HAVE
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  • VISITED ISRAEL, AND WHENYOU'RE IN ISRAEL YOU SEE
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  • THIS SYMBOL ALL OVER THEPLACE BECAUSE THIS IS THE
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  • SYMBOL THAT IS FOUND ONTHE FIVE SHEKEL COIN.
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  • IMAGINE LIKE THE FIVE DOLLARBILL IN THE
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  • UNITED STATES.
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  • THIS IS THE SYMBOL ON THEFIVE SHEKEL COIN, AND THE
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  • REASON IT'S ON ISRAEL'SCURRENCY IS BECAUSE THIS
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  • SYMBOL IS THE SYMBOL OFTHE DAVIDIC DYNASTY, OF
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  • THE KINGDOM OF JUDAHGOING BACK THOUSANDS OF
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  • YEARS THAT WAS FOUNDIN THE ROYAL PALACES
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  • THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOMIN BIBLE TIMES.
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  • SO IMAGINE THERE'SA CHALLENGE COIN,
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  • POLITICIANS GIVETHESE THINGS OUT.
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  • SO HERE YOU CAN SEE THATTHE SYMBOL OF AMERICA,
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  • THE EAGLE SYMBOL.
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  • SO IMAGINE IF, YOU KNOW,A THOUSAND YEARS FROM
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  • NOW, 2.000 YEARS FROMNOW ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE
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  • EXCAVATING WASHINGTON DCOR OTHER PARTS OF THE
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  • UNITED STATES, AND THEYSTART FINDING DATING BACK
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  • TO 1776 ALL THE WAYTHROUGH HOWEVER MANY
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  • CENTURIES AFTERWARDS, ANDTHEY KEEP FINDING THIS
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  • SYMBOL, THISEAGLE SYMBOL.
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  • AND THEY FIND IT ONBUILDINGS, AROUND THE
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  • WHITE HOUSE, AND OTHERIMPORTANT GOVERNMENT
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  • BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT THECOUNTRY AND THEY GO WAIT
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  • A MINUTE.
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  • LIKE THAT'S NOT JUSTA REGULAR SYMBOL.
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  • THAT IS THE SYMBOL OF THEUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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  • THAT WAS THEOFFICIAL SYMBOL.
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  • THAT'S WHAT WEFOUND TODAY.
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  • THAT'S WHAT WASDISCOVERED TODAY.
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  • ESSENTIALLY THAT SAMETYPE OF SYMBOL JUST FOR
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  • THE DAVIDIC DYNASTYTHOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
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  • - YEAH, AND ZE'EV CLEARLYIT HAS DEEP MEANING.
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  • JUST TO KEEP PEOPLE ANIDEA THINK OF A COLUMN OR
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  • A PILLAR, THIS ISBASICALLY A COLUMN HEAD.
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  • AND ZE'EV, TALK ABOUTHOW THEY ARE SO WELL
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  • PRESERVED, NUMBER ONE,YOU CAN SEE THE
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  • ORNATE DESIGN.
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  • NUMBER TWO, TALK MOREABOUT WHERE THEY WERE
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  • FOUND, WHEREGEOGRAPHICALLY IN
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  • JERUSALEM AND WHAT THESTRUCTURE WAS IN
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  • ANCIENT TIMES.
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  • - SO WHAT ARCHAEOLOGISTSBELIEVE HAPPENED HERE IS
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  • THIS GOES BACK TOSOMETIME BETWEEN THE
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  • PERIOD OF KING HEZEKIAHAND KING JOSIAH, TWO
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  • OF THE GREAT KINGS OF THEBIBLE, OF THE
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  • DAVIDIC DYNASTY.
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  • AND DURING THE TIME OFHEZEKIAH JERUSALEM WAS
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  • SAVED FROM THE ASSYRIANSIEGE, AND THEY BEGAN TO
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  • EXPAND AFTERWARD.
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  • WHAT ARCHEOLOGISTSBELIEVE WAS THAT DURING
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  • THIS EXPANSION JERUSALEMEXTENDED NOT JUST FROM
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  • THE CITY OF DAVID BUT TOTHE SOUTH, TO THE RIDGE
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  • OF ARMONA WHICH ISABOUT A MILE AWAY FROM
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  • THE CITY OF DAVID TODAY,AND IT'S ABOUT A MILE
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  • AWAY FROM THE US EMBASSYIN JERUSALEM, ALSO A
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  • PLACE I KNOW, ERICK,THAT YOU'VE BEEN.
  • 00:08:46.865 --> 00:08:48.433
  • THIS IS A PLACE WHEREJERUSALEM WAS EXPANDING
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  • TO AT THAT TIME, AND THEYBELIEVE THERE MUST HAVE
  • 00:08:50.669 --> 00:08:53.105
  • BEEN SOME TYPE OF ROYALESTATE OR ADMINISTRATIVE
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  • BUILDING THAT WAS BUILTON THIS RIDGE OVERLOOKING
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  • THE CITY OF DAVID WHICHSTOOD FOR PROBABLY A GOOD
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  • CENTURY OR SO BEFORETHE BABYLONIANS WOULD
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  • ULTIMATELY COME IN ANDDESTROY JERUSALEM.
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  • BUT WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUTTHESE CAPITALS THAT WERE
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  • FOUND THAT SAT ON TOP OFTHESE PILLARS WAS THAT
  • 00:09:11.356 --> 00:09:13.892
  • THEY WERE BURIED INPERFECT CONDITION.
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  • NOW, WHETHER THAT MEANSTHERE WAS SOMETIME OF
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  • QUARRY IN THE AREA ORMAYBE THEY WERE EXTRAS
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  • THAT WERE GOING TO BEUSED IN SOME FUTURE TIME
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  • ARCHAEOLOGISTS DON'TUNDERSTAND WHY YOU HAVE
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  • THESE THREE PERFECT ROYALCAPITALS THAT WERE JUST
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  • BURIED IN PRISTINE CONDITION.
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  • THEY DON'T HAVE THEANSWER TO THAT WHICH IS
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  • ALSO EXCITING WHEN ITCOMES TO ARCHAEOLOGY.
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  • WHAT HAPPENED 2700 YEARSAGO AND WHAT CLUES CAN WE
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  • FIND THAT WILL HELP USUNRAVEL THAT MYSTERY?
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  • WHAT TOOLS DO WE HAVE ATOUR DISPOSAL, THE BIBLE
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  • OF COURSE DEFINITELYBEING ONE OF THEM, THAT
  • 00:09:48.994 --> 00:09:51.263
  • CAN HELP US UNDERSTANDWHAT WAS HAPPENING IN
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  • JERUSALEM DURING BIBLETIMES, IN THIS CASE
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  • DURING THE FIRSTTEMPLE PERIOD.
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  • I BET FOR MANY OF THEVIEWERS OF THE WATCHMAN
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  • THEY DON'T NEEDARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
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  • TO AFFIRM THEIR FAITH.
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  • WHETHER OR NOT WE FINDSOMETHING THAT SAYS THAT
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  • THERE WAS A KING DAVID,THERE WAS A KING
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  • HEZEKIAH, THERE WAS APROPHET ISAIAH OR SO ON,
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  • WE BELIEVE THAT THESETHINGS ARE TRUE, THAT THE
  • 00:10:18.557 --> 00:10:20.592
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  • AT THE SAME TIME WE ARELIVING IN A GENERATION
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  • WHERE THERE IS ON THEONE HAND UNPRECEDENTED
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  • DISCOVERY BUT ALSOUNPRECEDENTED DENIAL OF
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  • UNITED NATIONS, WHETHERBY THE PALESTINIANS,
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  • WHETHER BY THE EUROPEANSOR ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
  • 00:10:37.709 --> 00:10:41.146
  • SO WE HAVE A TRADITION INOUR FAITH THAT SAYS THAT
  • 00:10:41.246 --> 00:10:45.017
  • BEFORE GOD BRINGS ASICKNESS INTO THE WORLD,
  • 00:10:45.117 --> 00:10:47.185
  • HE CREATES THE CURE.
  • 00:10:47.285 --> 00:10:48.920
  • AND SO WE ARE LIVINGIN A TIME AGAIN OF
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  • UNPRECEDENTED DENIAL OFJERUSALEM'S BIBLICAL
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  • HERITAGE AND REJECTION OFTHE BIBLICAL HERITAGE IN
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  • GENERAL IN SO MANY PARTSOF WESTERN SOCIETY
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  • AND CULTURE.
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  • AND YET AT THE SAME TIMEWE HAVE UNPRECEDENTED
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  • DISCOVERY TO SHOW THAT SOMUCH OF WHAT'S WRITTEN IN
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  • THE BIBLE CAN INFACT BE AFFIRMED.
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  • NOT SIMPLY AS A MATTEROF FAITH BUT AS A
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  • MATTER OF FACT.
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  • - COMING UP, WITH WEHEAD TO IRAQ'S
  • 00:11:18.216 --> 00:11:20.485
  • BORDER WITH TURKEY TOLEARN WHY A NATO
  • 00:11:20.585 --> 00:11:22.287
  • MEMBER NATION HAS BECOMEA GROWING PROBLEM FOR THE
  • 00:11:22.387 --> 00:11:25.590
  • MIDDLE EAST AND THE WEST.
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  • - IT ALL BEGINSWITH WORDS.
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  • - WHEN YOU BECOMEANYTHING WITHOUT
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  • REALIZING THAT IT'SHAPPENING, IT'S
  • 00:11:55.787 --> 00:11:58.090
  • CALLED BRAINWASH.
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  • - I HATED AMERICA.
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  • THE JEWS WERE THE REASONFOR ALL THE EVIL IN
  • 00:12:04.896 --> 00:12:06.998
  • THE WORLD.
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  • - THIS WE MUST NOTALLOW TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
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  • ♪♪
  • 00:12:11.837 --> 00:12:32.958
  • AND WELCOME BACK.
  • 00:12:33.058 --> 00:12:34.259
  • SINCE 1952, TURKEY HASBEEN A MEMBER OF NATO
  • 00:12:34.359 --> 00:12:37.796
  • ALONG WITH THE UNITEDSTATES AND EUROPEAN NATIONS.
  • 00:12:37.896 --> 00:12:40.432
  • YET UNDER THE RULE OFISLAMIST TYRANT ERDOGAN,
  • 00:12:40.532 --> 00:12:45.036
  • TURKEY HAS GONE TO A NATOALLY TO SOMETHING LIKE
  • 00:12:45.137 --> 00:12:49.141
  • N.I.N.O., NATOIN NAME ONLY.
  • 00:12:49.241 --> 00:12:52.978
  • WE HEADED TO IRAQ'S BOREDARE WITH TURKEY TO FIND
  • 00:12:53.078 --> 00:12:55.480
  • OUT MORE.
  • 00:12:55.580 --> 00:12:56.681
  • [MUSIC]
  • 00:12:56.782 --> 00:13:12.264
  • DALTON, WE ARE ON THEIRAQ TURKEY BORDER.
  • 00:13:12.364 --> 00:13:14.499
  • FIRST OF ALL,WHAT A VIEW.
  • 00:13:14.599 --> 00:13:15.734
  • THIS IS ABSOLUTELYSTUNNING.
  • 00:13:15.834 --> 00:13:17.302
  • BUT WE'RE HEREFOR A REASON.
  • 00:13:17.402 --> 00:13:19.037
  • WE HAVE A NOT SO PLEASANTACTOR RIGHT OVER THE BORDER
  • 00:13:19.137 --> 00:13:22.007
  • HERE IN TURKEY INPRESIDENT ERDOGAN.
  • 00:13:22.107 --> 00:13:23.575
  • GIVE US YOUR VIEW OFWHAT'S GOING ON IN
  • 00:13:23.675 --> 00:13:25.610
  • THE REGION.
  • 00:13:25.710 --> 00:13:26.678
  • - THESE MOUNTAINS HEREFOR THE LAST NUMBER OF
  • 00:13:26.778 --> 00:13:28.613
  • YEARS HAVE BEEN LIT UPWITH AIR STRIKES ON A
  • 00:13:28.713 --> 00:13:30.549
  • WEEKLY BASIS, INDESCRIMINATE AIRSTRIKES
  • 00:13:30.649 --> 00:13:32.951
  • FROM THE TURKISHREGIME,
  • 00:13:33.051 --> 00:13:34.319
  • SHELLING, ARTILLERYSHELLING IN COMMUNITIES
  • 00:13:34.419 --> 00:13:37.589
  • AND THEY'RE DOING IT INTHE NAME OF FIGHTING TERROR,
  • 00:13:37.689 --> 00:13:39.157
  • BUT THE REALITY IS ITHINK ERDOGAN'S REGIME IS
  • 00:13:39.257 --> 00:13:42.928
  • CLOSER TO ACTUALLY BEINGTHE MANIFESTATION OF
  • 00:13:43.028 --> 00:13:46.665
  • TERROR THAN THEPEOPLE HE'S
  • 00:13:46.765 --> 00:13:48.266
  • ACTUALLY TERRORIZING.
  • 00:13:48.366 --> 00:13:49.801
  • SO NOW ERDOGAN IS SAYINGWE WANT TO ELIMINATE THE
  • 00:13:49.901 --> 00:13:51.937
  • TERROR CORRIDOR.
  • 00:13:52.037 --> 00:13:52.971
  • WHAT HE MEANS IS WE'REGOING TO ELIMINATE
  • 00:13:53.071 --> 00:13:55.040
  • THE KURDISH FORCESTHAT ELIMINATED THE
  • 00:13:55.140 --> 00:13:56.741
  • TERROR CORRIDOR.
  • 00:13:56.842 --> 00:13:58.176
  • WHAT WAS THETERROR CORRIDOR?
  • 00:13:58.276 --> 00:14:00.145
  • IT WAS THE ISLAMIC STATE.
  • 00:14:00.245 --> 00:14:01.246
  • - ISIS.
  • 00:14:01.346 --> 00:14:01.947
  • - IT WAS THE CALIPHATE.
  • 00:14:02.047 --> 00:14:02.848
  • - YEAH.
  • 00:14:02.948 --> 00:14:03.915
  • - AND WHO AIDED ANDABETTED AND ALLOWED THEIR
  • 00:14:04.015 --> 00:14:06.017
  • OPEN BORDER TO SUSTAINAND NURTURE THE ISLAMIC
  • 00:14:06.117 --> 00:14:08.553
  • STATE FOR THE DURATIONOF ITS EXISTENCE?
  • 00:14:08.653 --> 00:14:10.956
  • AND THEN THE KURDS --- TURKEY DID.
  • 00:14:11.056 --> 00:14:13.558
  • - TURKEY.
  • 00:14:13.658 --> 00:14:14.659
  • - THERE WAS A FREE FLOWOF FOREIGN FIGHTERS FROM
  • 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:17.495
  • EUROPE, EVEN THE UNITEDSTATES TRANSITING THROUGH
  • 00:14:17.596 --> 00:14:20.365
  • TURKEY INTO SYRIA ANDIRAQ TO JOIN AND FIGHT
  • 00:14:20.465 --> 00:14:22.601
  • WITH ISIS.
  • 00:14:22.701 --> 00:14:24.302
  • - TENS OF THOUSANDS.
  • 00:14:24.402 --> 00:14:25.170
  • - AND ERDOGANWENT THE OTHER WAY.
  • 00:14:25.270 --> 00:14:26.137
  • THE TURKS LOOKEDTHE OTHER WAY.
  • 00:14:26.238 --> 00:14:27.105
  • - ABSOLUTELY.
  • 00:14:27.205 --> 00:14:28.173
  • TENS OF THOUSANDS OFFOREIGN FIGHTERS POURED
  • 00:14:28.273 --> 00:14:29.708
  • INTO IRAQ AND SYRIA.
  • 00:14:29.808 --> 00:14:30.876
  • HOW DID THAT GET IN?
  • 00:14:30.976 --> 00:14:31.910
  • THEY GOT INTHROUGH TURKEY.
  • 00:14:32.010 --> 00:14:33.511
  • THE WOUNDED WERE BROUGHTOUT THROUGH TURKEY.
  • 00:14:33.612 --> 00:14:35.013
  • FUNDS WERE BROUGHTIN THROUGH TURKEY.
  • 00:14:35.113 --> 00:14:36.281
  • ARMS WERE BROUGHTIN THROUGH TURKEY.
  • 00:14:36.381 --> 00:14:37.582
  • TURKEY MEDDLED WITHOPPOSITION FORCES THAT
  • 00:14:37.682 --> 00:14:40.986
  • WERE TRYING TO STEM THEFLOW OF IT, AND TURKEY
  • 00:14:41.086 --> 00:14:42.888
  • GOT IN THE WAY OF IT.
  • 00:14:42.988 --> 00:14:44.356
  • IN MANY WAYS TURKEY WASONE OF THE GREATEST
  • 00:14:44.456 --> 00:14:46.725
  • CHAMPIONS OF THEISLAMIC STATE.
  • 00:14:46.825 --> 00:14:48.260
  • YET THEY'RE AMEMBER OF NATO.
  • 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.929
  • AND YOU HAVE THEKURDISH FORCES THAT
  • 00:14:51.029 --> 00:14:52.497
  • ACTUALLY ELIMINATED THETERRITORIAL CALIPHATE, AND
  • 00:14:52.597 --> 00:14:55.200
  • NOW ERDOGAN IS ATTACKINGTHE FORCES THAT
  • 00:14:55.300 --> 00:14:57.569
  • ELIMINATED ISIS WHICHMEANS IT'S PRETTY CLEAR
  • 00:14:57.669 --> 00:15:01.006
  • WHAT'S HAPPENINGRIGHT NOW.
  • 00:15:01.106 --> 00:15:02.440
  • - HE'S VICIOUSLYANTI-ISRAEL, NOT VERY
  • 00:15:02.540 --> 00:15:05.143
  • FOND OF THE WEST EITHER.
  • 00:15:05.243 --> 00:15:06.912
  • TELL US MORE ABOUTERDOGAN AND WHY HE'S SUCH
  • 00:15:07.012 --> 00:15:09.047
  • A DANGEROUS PLAYERHERE IN THE REGION.
  • 00:15:09.147 --> 00:15:11.082
  • - THERE'S A LOT OFREASONS WHY HE'S A
  • 00:15:11.182 --> 00:15:13.251
  • DANGEROUS PLAYER, BUT HEBELIEVES THAT HE HAS THIS
  • 00:15:13.351 --> 00:15:15.887
  • PROPHETIC ROLE TO PLAYAS THE LEADER, AS THE
  • 00:15:15.987 --> 00:15:19.691
  • RESTORER OFTHE CALIPHATE.
  • 00:15:19.791 --> 00:15:21.693
  • - THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
  • 00:15:21.793 --> 00:15:23.028
  • - WHAT WE NEED TOUNDERSTAND IS THAT THE
  • 00:15:23.128 --> 00:15:24.296
  • CALIPHATE, THE ISLAMICEMPIRE THAT EXISTED FOR
  • 00:15:24.396 --> 00:15:26.298
  • OVER A MILLENNIUM WASDISMANTLED AT THE END OF
  • 00:15:26.398 --> 00:15:29.501
  • WORLD WAR I, AND HEBELIEVES THAT IT'S THE
  • 00:15:29.601 --> 00:15:32.170
  • RESTORATION OF THATEMPIRE, SO EVEN WHEN HE
  • 00:15:32.270 --> 00:15:34.673
  • TALKS ABOUT KURDISTAN,HE'S SPEAKING ABOUT THE
  • 00:15:34.773 --> 00:15:37.842
  • TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES OFTHE OTTOMAN EMPIRE OF THE
  • 00:15:37.943 --> 00:15:39.511
  • CALIPHATE, AND HEBELIEVES IT'S HIS ROLE TO
  • 00:15:39.611 --> 00:15:41.179
  • RESTORE IT TOTHE GLORY DAYS.
  • 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:42.814
  • - SO PEOPLE AT HOMEUNDERSTAND, TURKEY WAS
  • 00:15:42.914 --> 00:15:44.616
  • THE BASE, THEHEADQUARTERS OF THAT
  • 00:15:44.716 --> 00:15:46.318
  • OTTOMAN EMPIRE, ANDERDOGAN IT SEEMS SEES
  • 00:15:46.418 --> 00:15:49.054
  • HIMSELF AS THE MODERN DAYAS YOU SAID, THE MODERN
  • 00:15:49.154 --> 00:15:51.957
  • DAY CALIPH OR LEADER OFWHAT HE BELIEVES WILL BE
  • 00:15:52.057 --> 00:15:55.193
  • A NEW CALIPHATE.
  • 00:15:55.293 --> 00:15:56.861
  • - YEAH. ABSOLUTELY.
  • 00:15:56.962 --> 00:15:58.129
  • AND HE'S DRIVEN BY THESAME LET'S SAY GENOCIDAL
  • 00:15:58.229 --> 00:16:00.832
  • TENDENCIES ANDAMBITIONS AS MANY BEFORE
  • 00:16:00.932 --> 00:16:04.102
  • HIM LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN.
  • 00:16:04.202 --> 00:16:05.503
  • THE GENOCIDES OF THE PASTPOINT TO THE POTENTIAL OF
  • 00:16:05.603 --> 00:16:08.974
  • A GENOCIDE IN THE FUTUREIF WE DON'T WAKE UP AND
  • 00:16:09.074 --> 00:16:12.510
  • SEE WHAT'S ACTUALLYHAPPENING AND WHAT'S ON
  • 00:16:12.610 --> 00:16:14.346
  • THE LINE WAS LOOKINGAHEAD AND LOOKING AT
  • 00:16:14.446 --> 00:16:16.948
  • WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THESEHERE MOUNTAINS THERE'S
  • 00:16:17.048 --> 00:16:19.184
  • SOME DARK, HEAVY DAYSCOMING, AND I DON'T THINK
  • 00:16:19.284 --> 00:16:21.286
  • THE WESTERN WORLDIS AWARE OF IT.
  • 00:16:21.386 --> 00:16:23.121
  • - COMING UP NEXT, LEARNHOW ERDOGAN'S THREATS
  • 00:16:23.221 --> 00:16:25.790
  • ARE BECOMINGALL TOO REAL.
  • 00:16:25.890 --> 00:16:27.993
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  • [MUSIC]
  • 00:17:27.352 --> 00:17:33.525
  • - WELCOME BACK.
  • 00:17:33.625 --> 00:17:35.026
  • TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEPERDOGAN RECENTLY GAVE A
  • 00:17:35.126 --> 00:17:37.962
  • VERY REVEALING SPEECHTHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
  • 00:17:38.063 --> 00:17:41.666
  • BASICALLY IGNORED.
  • 00:17:41.766 --> 00:17:42.967
  • ACCORDING TO THE MIDDLEEAST MEDIA INSTITUTE
  • 00:17:43.068 --> 00:17:45.203
  • ERDOGAN SAID IN PARTTHERE IS NO POWER THAT
  • 00:17:45.303 --> 00:17:50.508
  • CAN STAND IN THE WAY OFTHIS COUNTRY TURKEY.
  • 00:17:50.608 --> 00:17:53.611
  • WE SAY TO OURENEMIES BRING IT ON.
  • 00:17:53.711 --> 00:17:55.280
  • WE WILL NOT HESITATE TOSACRIFICE MARTYRS AND
  • 00:17:55.380 --> 00:17:58.650
  • WOUNDED PEOPLEIN THIS FIGHT.
  • 00:17:58.750 --> 00:18:01.019
  • CAN THOSE WHO OPPOSE USIN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
  • 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:03.922
  • AND AROUND IT ACCEPTTHE RISK OF THE
  • 00:18:04.022 --> 00:18:07.292
  • SAME SACRIFICES?
  • 00:18:07.392 --> 00:18:08.693
  • HE WENT ON TO SAY, DO THEPEOPLE OF GREECE ACCEPT
  • 00:18:08.793 --> 00:18:11.196
  • WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEMBECAUSE OF THEIR GREEDY
  • 00:18:11.296 --> 00:18:13.865
  • AND INCOMPETENT LEADERS?
  • 00:18:13.965 --> 00:18:15.433
  • DO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCEACCEPT THE PRICE THEY
  • 00:18:15.533 --> 00:18:18.103
  • WILL PAY BECAUSE OFTHEIR GREEDY
  • 00:18:18.203 --> 00:18:20.371
  • INCOMPETENT LEADERS?
  • 00:18:20.472 --> 00:18:21.873
  • NOW, THESE ARE DIRECTTHREATS COMING FROM THE
  • 00:18:21.973 --> 00:18:25.176
  • LEADER OF A NATOMEMBER NATION AGAINST
  • 00:18:25.276 --> 00:18:27.679
  • OTHER NATO MEMBERNATIONS, SO WHAT'S REALLY
  • 00:18:27.779 --> 00:18:31.783
  • GOING ON HERE?
  • 00:18:31.883 --> 00:18:33.585
  • MIDDLE EAST STRATEGIC ANALYSTAVI MELAMED JOINED US
  • 00:18:33.685 --> 00:18:35.420
  • FROM ISRAEL TOBREAK IT DOWN.
  • 00:18:35.520 --> 00:18:37.789
  • TAKE A LOOK.
  • 00:18:37.889 --> 00:18:39.157
  • - HERE IS SOMETHINGINTERESTING ABOUT ERDOGAN
  • 00:18:39.257 --> 00:18:41.126
  • IS A BULLY BUT HE'S AVERY SOPHISTICATED BULLY,
  • 00:18:41.226 --> 00:18:44.362
  • AND HE ACTUALLY CHANGEDDRAMATICALLY TURKEY
  • 00:18:44.462 --> 00:18:47.298
  • WITHIN LESSTHAN 2 DECADES.
  • 00:18:47.398 --> 00:18:49.334
  • HE IS INSPIRED, I WOULDEVEN SAY OBSESSED WITH A
  • 00:18:49.434 --> 00:18:54.572
  • VISION OF REVIVING THEGLORIOUS DAY OF THE
  • 00:18:54.672 --> 00:18:57.842
  • TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE,AND HE IS LEADING
  • 00:18:57.942 --> 00:19:02.280
  • A HEGEMONIC VISION.
  • 00:19:02.380 --> 00:19:04.782
  • HE IS ACTUALLY FOCUSINGSIMULTANEOUSLY IN SOME
  • 00:19:04.883 --> 00:19:09.854
  • ARENAS, ONE OF THEM FOREXAMPLE IS THE EASTERN
  • 00:19:09.954 --> 00:19:12.957
  • PART OF THE MEDITERRANEANAND THE CENTRAL PART OF
  • 00:19:13.057 --> 00:19:15.426
  • THE MEDITERRANEAN.
  • 00:19:15.527 --> 00:19:16.661
  • IT CENTERS AROUND THESTORY OF THE HUGE GAS
  • 00:19:16.761 --> 00:19:19.297
  • RESERVOIR IN THEEASTERN PART OF THE
  • 00:19:19.397 --> 00:19:21.699
  • MEDITERRANEAN.
  • 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:23.168
  • HE WOULD LIKE TO BE THEONE WHO CALL THE SHOTS.
  • 00:19:23.268 --> 00:19:26.471
  • NOW, THERE ARE OTHERREGIONAL PLAYERS LIKE
  • 00:19:26.571 --> 00:19:29.541
  • ISRAEL, LIKE EGYPT, LIKEGREECE, LIKE CYPRUS WHO
  • 00:19:29.641 --> 00:19:33.478
  • HAS INTEREST IN THOSE GASFIELDS, AND BASICALLY
  • 00:19:33.578 --> 00:19:38.216
  • WHAT WE SEE TODAY IS THATERDOGAN IS ON A COLLISION
  • 00:19:38.316 --> 00:19:42.987
  • TRACK OR A FRICTION TRACKWITH THOSE PLAYERS THAT I
  • 00:19:43.087 --> 00:19:46.424
  • MENTIONED BEFORE AROUNDTHE STORY OF THE GAS.
  • 00:19:46.524 --> 00:19:50.762
  • BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLYCOLLISION TRACK THAT
  • 00:19:50.862 --> 00:19:53.064
  • HE IS ON.
  • 00:19:53.164 --> 00:19:54.632
  • ERDOGAN AS YOU MAY KNOW,ERICK, IS ALSO INVOLVED IN
  • 00:19:54.732 --> 00:19:57.902
  • THE WAR IN LIBYA.
  • 00:19:58.002 --> 00:19:59.103
  • THERE IS A SECRET WAR INLIBYA GOING ON FOR THE
  • 00:19:59.204 --> 00:20:02.607
  • LAST COUPLE OF YEARS,AND ERDOGAN IS INVOLVED
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  • DIRECTLY IN THE WAR INSYRIA, MEANING HE SENT TO
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  • SYRIA THOUSANDS OF SYRIANAND NON-SYRIAN JIHADISTS
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  • FROM THE NORTH PART OFSYRIA WHO ARE ACTUALLY
  • 00:20:17.021 --> 00:20:19.090
  • CONTROLLED ANDMONITORED BY ERDOGAN.
  • 00:20:19.190 --> 00:20:23.161
  • HE SENT THEM TO FIGHT INLIBYA IN SUPPORTING OTHER
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  • MUSLIM MILITIAS IN LIBYA.
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  • ERDOGAN'S INVOLVEMENT INLIBYA FUELS A GROWING
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  • TENSION WITH EGYPTBECAUSE ERDOGAN AND EGYPT
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  • ARE ON A SERIOUSCOLLISION TRACK.
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  • ISRAEL AS WELL AS SAUDIARABIA AND THE UNITED
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  • ARAB EMIRATES AREDEFINITELY NOT HAPPY TO
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  • SAY THE LEAST WITHERDOGAN'S HEGEMONIC
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  • VISION, AND THEY ARETRYING TO BLOCK HIM
  • 00:20:50.688 --> 00:20:52.857
  • GOING FORWARD.
  • 00:20:52.957 --> 00:20:54.092
  • THERE WAS A PERIOD OFTIME A COUPLE OF WEEKS
  • 00:20:54.192 --> 00:20:55.994
  • AGO THAT THINGS BETWEENEGYPT AND TURKEY
  • 00:20:56.094 --> 00:20:58.196
  • ESCALATED TO THE POINTEGYPT'S ARMY WAS ON HIGH
  • 00:20:58.296 --> 00:21:02.133
  • ALERT BECAUSE EGYPTBASICALLY SAID THAT AS
  • 00:21:02.233 --> 00:21:05.036
  • FAR AS ITS CONCERNED,LIBYA IS A RED LINE
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  • FOR EGYPT.
  • 00:21:09.040 --> 00:21:10.341
  • NOW, THE GROWING TENSIONIN THE EASTERN REGION OF
  • 00:21:10.441 --> 00:21:14.112
  • THE MEDITERRANEAN BECAUSEOF ERDOGAN'S AMBITION AND
  • 00:21:14.212 --> 00:21:17.815
  • PROACTIVE AGGRESSIONRESULTED IN STEPPING IN
  • 00:21:17.915 --> 00:21:23.121
  • AND A VERY UNTYPICAL WAYI WOULD SAY, STEPPING IN
  • 00:21:23.221 --> 00:21:26.491
  • OF FRANCE AND ITALY.
  • 00:21:26.591 --> 00:21:28.593
  • THEY BASICALLY ARESENDING VERY STRONG
  • 00:21:28.693 --> 00:21:31.596
  • SIGNALS TO ERDOGANSAYING BACK OFF.
  • 00:21:31.696 --> 00:21:34.098
  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
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  • A COUPLE OF DAYS AGOTHERE HAS BEEN A JOINT
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  • MILITARY DRILL OF FRANCE,GREECE, CYPRUS, EGYPT,
  • 00:21:37.769 --> 00:21:42.840
  • INCLUDING LIVEAMMUNITION, LIVE FIRE.
  • 00:21:42.940 --> 00:21:45.476
  • THAT WAS A VERY CLEARSIGNAL TO ERDOGAN.
  • 00:21:45.576 --> 00:21:48.246
  • - UP NEXT MY FINALTHOUGHTS ON THE NEW
  • 00:21:48.346 --> 00:21:51.082
  • MIDDLE EAST AND WHYIT MATTERS TO YOU.
  • 00:21:51.182 --> 00:21:53.351
  • STICK AROUND.
  • 00:21:53.451 --> 00:21:57.622
  • - IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS,GOD COMMANDS MOSES TO
  • 00:21:57.722 --> 00:22:00.391
  • MAKE A HOLY ANOINTING OILTO CONSECRATE AARON AND
  • 00:22:00.491 --> 00:22:03.661
  • HIS SONS AS PRIESTS ANDSERVANTS OF THE LORD.
  • 00:22:03.761 --> 00:22:07.865
  • WHEN THE PROPHET SAMUELANOINTED KING DAVID WITH
  • 00:22:07.965 --> 00:22:11.202
  • OIL, THE BIBLE SAYS THATTHE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
  • 00:22:11.302 --> 00:22:13.771
  • CAME MIGHTILY UPON DAVIDFROM THAT DAY FORWARD.
  • 00:22:13.871 --> 00:22:16.774
  • ANOINTING OIL IS APOWERFUL SYMBOL OF GOD'S
  • 00:22:16.874 --> 00:22:19.977
  • BLESSINGS AND FAVOR.
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  • THAT'S WHY WE'D LIKE TOSEND YOU THIS CUSTOMIZED
  • 00:22:22.180 --> 00:22:24.816
  • VILE AND ANOINTING OILFOR YOUR GIFT OF
  • 00:22:24.916 --> 00:22:26.884
  • ANY AMOUNT.
  • 00:22:26.984 --> 00:22:28.519
  • START A NEW TRADITION INYOUR FAMILY WITH THIS
  • 00:22:28.619 --> 00:22:30.955
  • TIME HONOREDBIBLICAL PRINCIPLE.
  • 00:22:31.055 --> 00:22:33.391
  • VISIT OUR WEB SITE ORCALL THE NUMBER BELOW TO
  • 00:22:33.491 --> 00:22:37.862
  • RECEIVE YOUR CUSTOMIZEDVILE AND ANOINTING OIL.
  • 00:22:37.962 --> 00:22:44.035
  • AND JOIN OUR CUFIMOVEMENT OF OVER
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  • 8 MILLION FOLLOWERS OFJESUS TAKING A STAND
  • 00:22:47.872 --> 00:22:51.008
  • FOR GOD'S LAND.
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  • 00:22:53.611 --> 00:22:59.717
  • - AND WELCOME BACK.
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  • AS WE TOLD YOU EARLIER,ISRAEL'S RECENT PEACE
  • 00:23:01.152 --> 00:23:03.554
  • DEALS WITH BAHRAIN ANDTHE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
  • 00:23:03.654 --> 00:23:06.357
  • ARE ONLY THE BEGINNING.
  • 00:23:06.457 --> 00:23:07.658
  • PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYSTHERE ARE MORE DEALS TO
  • 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.695
  • COME VERY SOON POSSIBLYEVEN WITH SAUDI ARABIA.
  • 00:23:10.795 --> 00:23:13.965
  • YOU CAN TELL A LOT ABOUTTHESE DEALS BY WHO IS
  • 00:23:14.065 --> 00:23:16.701
  • OPPOSING THEM.
  • 00:23:16.801 --> 00:23:18.202
  • THE IRANIAN REGIME,TURKEY'S PRESIDENT ERDOGAN,
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  • HAMAS,AND HEZBOLLAH.
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  • RADICAL ISLAMISTS LIKETHIS ARE THE BIG LOSERS
  • 00:23:24.041 --> 00:23:27.378
  • HERE AS MODERATE ARABNATIONS MAKE PEACE
  • 00:23:27.478 --> 00:23:29.914
  • WITH ISRAEL.
  • 00:23:30.014 --> 00:23:31.349
  • THE TERRORISTS ANDRADICALS ARE BECOMING
  • 00:23:31.449 --> 00:23:33.551
  • INCREASINGLY ISOLATED,AND YOU CAN EXPECT THEM
  • 00:23:33.651 --> 00:23:36.954
  • TO LASH OUT.
  • 00:23:37.054 --> 00:23:38.689
  • EVEN AS ISRAEL IS MAKINGPEACE WITH ITS ARAB
  • 00:23:38.790 --> 00:23:41.325
  • NEIGHBORS, IT'S ON THEVERGE OF AN ALL OUT WAR
  • 00:23:41.426 --> 00:23:44.228
  • AGAINST THE IRANIANREGIME, HEZBOLLAH, AND
  • 00:23:44.328 --> 00:23:47.665
  • THEIR TERROR AXIS INSYRIA AND LEBANON TO
  • 00:23:47.765 --> 00:23:50.568
  • THE NORTH.
  • 00:23:50.668 --> 00:23:51.702
  • HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS.
  • 00:23:51.803 --> 00:23:52.870
  • THE GOD OF ISRAEL NEITHERSLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS.
  • 00:23:52.970 --> 00:23:56.073
  • HE SEES WHAT ISRAEL'SENEMIES ARE PLOTTING AND
  • 00:23:56.174 --> 00:23:58.543
  • HE LAUGHS.
  • 00:23:58.643 --> 00:24:00.611
  • THROUGH IT ALL HE STILLSITS ON THE THRONE, AND
  • 00:24:00.711 --> 00:24:03.548
  • HIS HAND OF BLESSING ISON HIS PEOPLE AND HIS
  • 00:24:03.648 --> 00:24:06.551
  • LAND, SO BE ENCOURAGED.
  • 00:24:06.651 --> 00:24:09.787
  • THANKS FOR JOININGUS THIS WEEK ON
  • 00:24:09.887 --> 00:24:11.289
  • THE WATCHMAN.
  • 00:24:11.389 --> 00:24:12.523
  • UNTIL NEXT TIME GOD YOU,AND REMEMBER, NEVER HOLD
  • 00:24:12.623 --> 00:24:17.295
  • YOUR PEACE.
  • 00:24:17.395 --> 00:24:19.063
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