October 9, 2024 • 32 mins
Live from Israel, Ken tells Dave Nabity and me the wonderful and often scary realities of what it's like to live in that nation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vordies this week, though, is important for another reason.
A couple of days ago saw the one year anniversary
of the Hamas attacks on the people of Israel. And
we have a person standing by live from Israel with
us this morning on Nebraska's news, weather and Traffic station
joining me, Scott voorh He's here on news radio eleven
(00:21):
ten KOFAB and this is someone who Dave Navide, who
is a frequent contributor to eleven ten KFAB, including his
regular show mornings from six to eight Saturdays on Nebraska's news,
weather and Traffic station. And Dave, you heard this man speak.
I want you to talk about what he said that
moved you and why you reached out to him, and
(00:41):
what a gentleman named Ken Fink is doing on the
radio with us this morning. Good morning, Dave, Well Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A few weeks ago, I went to Dallas to one
of the national meetings with the financial services firm that
I work with, and Ken was one of the speakers
down there, and he's one of my brothers with this firm.
I didn't really know Ken all that well. And you know,
I've been a student of the Bible for most of
my adult lifetime, and the Old Testament and the Jewish people.
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The people from Israel mean everything to me from a
faith standpoint, because that's where my faith came from. And
so Ken gets up on stage and he says that
I lived in Minnesota and decided to move my whole
family to Israel and raise my family there to have
them have a good piece of that heritage there. And
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his talk was so moving to me. I stood up
at the meeting at the end of it and I
said a big prayer for Israel. I was so moved
by what he had to say. So I asked him
if he would be willing to come on the show
with you. He can't do Saturdays because that's the Sabbath,
so I asked if he could come on with you
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and just tell his story not only of wising he's
an Israel but what it's like to live through what
they're going through right now.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, Ken, let's start there. You were living in Minnesota
and you decided to move to Israel. I don't know
if you're much of a history buff, but the Middle
East has never been exactly a real safe place, especially
for Israeli's to be So why did you make that decision.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, thanks Scott, and thank you both of you for
having me on. I appreciate the opportunity. Yeah, I'm a
Minnesota born and bred guy. Yeah. You know, when my
wife Nicole was born in Australia, but her family made
what we call ali yah, which is to go up
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to the land of Israel. And she was about nine
years old when I met her. When she was in
her twenties, I was described in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Turchak. It
was a very exotic location. This is an Israel. When
I met her at very exotic location is called Minneapolis, Minnesota,
she had a get up on the road Atlas. Don't
even know where that was. So I told her, you know,
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it's give me an exotic travel location and they're going
to build a family there. And she said, well, how
many years will it be until we moved back to
the end of Israel? As I said, this was when
I met her when I was in Israel at my twenties,
in her twenty and I said, you know, somewhere between
three and thirty years, we'll come back. So you know,
she heard three and I heard thirty. We ended up,
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you know, we ended up raising our three kids until
my oldest was twelve, and she finally prevailed upon me
to move the family to Israel. So she gets really
all the credit.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
When did you move there?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Reason?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Sorry, when did you move there?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, I'm sorry? That was That was July twenty second,
twenty twenty two. July twenty second, twenty twenty two, and COVID.
You know, it's post COVID, and I have a national
financial services company in the US, and I thought, you know,
maybe I can run this thing from Israel. I'll just
work night hours, a little bit of zoom, a little
few airplanes, and you know, everything, I'll be okay. In fact,
(04:10):
you know the conference that they mentioned. The title of
my talk over there was they asked me to speak
I normally speak on charitable planning. They asked me to
speak on why I'm with Israel. So my title was
moved to Israel dot dot What could go wrong? That was?
That was the title of good And so we moved
here in twenty twenty two. And you know, as they said,
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I mean, our mission was to put our kids in
the land of Israel. I'm personally in an Orthodox Jew.
I came to Judaism as a meaningful part of my
life in my twenties, and you know, Israel has always
been where my heart is from my family, my friends,
my culture, and you know, everything I'm used to was
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in Minnesota, was in America. But Israel, you know, there
is for those of those that are religious, those that
have a feeling for spirituality. Obviously, this is the center
axis of the spiritual world from from many, for many
of the main three three religion. So you know, it's
a purpose, a sense of meaning. You know, I wanted
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to get my kids past bagels and creat cheese and passed,
you know, and you know, some things in America sort
of deteriorate George Floyd, other things in Minneapolis, and I felt,
you know, maybe this is the time for us to
go right. And so you know, we kind of put
caution to the to the side, and we and we jumped.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes, I know a lot of people can think of,
you know, the Jewish experience from an American or Christian standpoint,
and we basically think of Adam Sandler's the Hankkah song,
and then we look at the Middle East and we go, well,
it looks like a war zone over there. But I've
talked with people who live in all parts of Israel,
and they say, you'd be surprised at how israelis and
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people of the Arab faiths, Palestinians specifically, who are not
Humas or has belah uh. They live next door to
each other, they work together, they go to market together,
their kids are in school together, and generally it's a
peaceful place. Was that your experience when you moved there
and found it? And when when was it that your
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family started to feel like maybe this was not a
safe place for the family to be.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, you know, it's a great it's a great set
of questions. So first of all, you know, Israel's population
is about nine and a half million, approaching ten. There's
seven million Jews, and you know a couple of million
Arabs and then some Christians obviously, and there's also Drews
and other other other other people. And Israel is a
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tough neighborhood, right. You have, uh, you have a very
small land mask you know, I shared previously that you
know that the land of Israel is only about eighty
three hundred square miles and Texas is two hundred and
sixty five thousand square miles. We could get thirty two
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Israel inside of Texas. Okay, so it's a very small
place surrounded by let's just say, hundreds of millions in
some hostile but it's the only democracy in the environment belief.
So yes, the Arab population, the Druiz population, the Christian
population live in peaceful co existence within Israel and what
are and we have friends and co workers who are Arabs,
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and we are surrounded by Arab communities. The large majority
of Arabs that live in Israel are extremely happy, and
they should be. They've got their right to vote, they've
got health care, they've got almost free education, and listen,
there's even there's there are fifteen mostly Arab members of
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the Kinessi in Israel. So the end, you're absolutely right,
is coexistence. But obviously we have some extreme extremism all
around us.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And you know, so that impact society now in terms
of in terms of the lifestyle here. Yeah, I mean
that's the thing. You know, if you put on TV,
you watch Fox at CNN or whatever news source you watched,
you know, all you see is you know, buildings being
blown off, and you know this kind of stuff, and
so it looks like a very violent place. The truth
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is Israel is extremely safe, extremely safe. A woman can
walk down the street at two o'clock in the morning
in almost any city of Israel and feel safe. My
kids run around, you know, going house to house, yard
at the yard, and it's completely safe.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Obviously. Yeah, one one year ago that safety was shattered.
I want to pick up there and hand you off
to Dave Knaberty. I'm turning things over to you for
this segment.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Day Well, Ken, thanks so much for being on. I
think something that would be really helpful. Can you can
you give us an idea of the size of Israel
compared to maybe a state in the United States.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Sure, yes, I mentioned am I talk israel Is about this.
You can fit an Israel in the state of Minnesota.
You can fit thirty two Israel's in the state of Texas.
So Israel's a small country. I actually was with a
couple of congressmen and a helicopter and we flew across
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the waste of Israel an helicopter and that took exactly
forty five seconds. Oh, very very small.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Okay. So if that's true, then if you know Gaza
is how big.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Goza? You know, I have to.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Is it like a little city?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, Gaza it's called the Gaza Strip, of course, and
if you look at Israel on the map, you can
kind of see little, a little stretch of land along
the western border, you know, that faces the ocean, and
it's just above Egypt. And the exact land mass of that,
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you know, you know, maybe it's I'd have to check it,
but you know, I would be shocked if it's more
than twenty miles long.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, the Google Google says, we're looking at about the
size of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, So so then you have the West Bank, then
you have the West Bank, right, I mean those are
basically the two areas where a lot of this stuff started,
am I correct?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah? Well, you know, in terms of the you know,
the history, we don't have time to go through the
whole history, of course, But two thousand and five Israel
turned over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority, which
was at that time controlled by a political group called
Fata Fata. Then in two thousand and six was out voted.
I'm not sure it was a real election, right, but
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by the Commas organization Hamas took over two thousand and six,
and by the way, the population of that time at
Gaza was about four hundred and fifty thousand. In twenty
twenty three the population was two point one million, and
got home money and so it grew a lot and
under comas you know, CAMAS was supposed to be a
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hamonitarian organization, and of course they were. I don't know
if this is well known, but they have been. This
has been shown to be true. They have been the
largest recipient of international aid than any location on the planet.
Over forty three billion dollars have been pumped into Gaza
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since since in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
From where is that American money?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That was American European money, mostly Americans, And of course
that money was spent not on building schools and hospitals
and roads, but was building tunnels and weaponry and a
machinery of hate that of course, you know, we could
talk about October seventh, which we just had a couple
of days ago, the anniversary. But the punchline is that,
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you know, this has been a the most fertile ground
for hatred against Israel. And I want to say.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Also, and it was funded by the United States, and
it was funded yes, okay, so oh yes, that that
really gets me upset. But I gotta I gotta ask
you this question, what were the Palestinian people doing that
were peaceful, that didn't mind living in the in the
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environment that the Jewish nation was in. What were they
doing when these guys were building tunnels and taking over hotels.
Why wouldn't they have been communicating with Israel and saying, hey,
this is going on, that's going on. You guys need
to look out. You know, why did this get done
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so stealthully that Israel didn't see it coming?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Okay you, first of all, I don't think it was
done stealthily. I think that you know a couple of things. First,
as you're asking, you know, the people of Gods, of
the two point one million people, are they are they
passive observers? Are they victims? Are they? Are they active?
Active participants? You know, all you have to do is
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ask any of the you know, any of the surviving
hostages that somehow managed to be released or escape from Gaza,
and they'll tell you there was not one single citizen
of Gaza that was helpful to any of them. It's
not quite the opposite. And you know, unfortunately we've seen
in the education of children in Gaza since the time
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they're in kindergarten, they're taught to hate and want to
kill Jews. They dressed their children instead of you know,
dressing up for Halloween and so on, they dressed them
up in suicide bomber outfits with weapons, and they chief
them hatred. So this is unfortunately, this is the hatred
of extremism. That is, there is a hotbed and Guys
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That really is one of the worst places you know,
on the planner for that, which, by the way, is
another reason why none of the other Middle Eastern countries
want the people of guys That to come in. You know,
it would have been very easy for the people of
guys That to be just walk right into Egypt, but
they don't want them because of all the extremisms. So
you know, this is the culture.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That so Israel has no choice but to get them
all wiped out. I mean, how else does Israel survive
without not only pushing them all out, but taking over
the territory.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, I think I think that you know that. I mean, listen,
there's always innocent people and the people of Guys are
victims of horrific leadership. So there's no leadership there. And
as a result of the zero leadership, you know, these
people are lost. And you know, it's interesting to note
there's not one bomb shelter in one home in Gaza.
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You know that in Israel every home has a bomb shelter.
My home is a bomb shelter. And why is that?
Because they spent these billions of dollars instead of taking
care of their people, they just build tunnels for the
terrorists to hide and to transport. And it's been widely
noted that the tunnels underneath Gaza are more expansive than
the New York City subway system.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, one quick question.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
They don't care about their people. Mostly, they don't care
about their people.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Why couldn't Israel see these tunnels being built because of
all the dirt they had to move.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Well, Israel was aware, certainly aware. Maybe they don't want
to wear the magnitude, but you know, there's there's a
lot of international pressure, of course on Israel for years
to allow Gaza to become autonomous and to allow Goza
and listen, we turned Israel turned that land over to
these people. Now, obviously that you know, Israel has very
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strong intelligence and I'm sure there was many people, you know,
many people that knew within the Israeli society, within Israeli government,
with Israeli military that this is all going on, and
you know, it was it was tremendously unfortunate that there
wasn't more intelligence that you know, that was aware that
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this attack was about to happen, although you know, people
people were aware that, you know, that they were cooking
up something. But you know, Hamas did a great job
of tricking many people that they were really wanted peaceful
co existence and they really were very quiet. They're very
quiet for a dozen years in terms of their attacks
on Israel. So I think that, you know, it's a
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complicated situation. It has a lot of history. I think
the go forward plan that there has to be in
order to secure the safety of the southern part of Israel,
obviously post to October seventh, that there's going to have
to be Israelian all to protect the Jewish people.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
With air raid sirens going off in Israel. What is
that life like for you?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, thanks, Scott. You know, I'm not used to it,
of course, nor are my kids and even my wife
to some extent. So I have to say the first
night when Iran attacked back in April, my mother called
me for Minneapolis about ten o'clock at night. She was
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hysterical and she said, you know, they launched a hundred
drones toward Israel. Aren't you hiding in the bombs shelter?
And I said, a, Mom, you know they're going to
slot those drones like flies. She's like, what is the
matter with you? So I said, Mom, frankly, I'm gonna
I'm gonna go to sleep soon. She's like, no way anyway.
So I took it a little lightly in the early
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part of the early part of the war in terms
of these attacks. And then when I woke up in
the morning and I found out that there was ballistic missiles,
cruise missiles, and some three hundred and thirty one missiles
that miraculously were knocked out of the sky by Israel
and their various defense systems as well as our allies,
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I became a little bit more concerned that this is something,
you know, really really terrifying. We were at that time,
we were living a little bit farther north in Israel,
in an area called Kasaria. We had a famous neighbor there,
viving Natiyahu, and that area we had no sirens. Now
we moved recently in the last few months to a
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place closer to Tel Aviv, and we've had a number
of these sirens and had to run to the bomb shelter,
including the second Run attack which two hundred cruise missiles
apparently our ballistic missiles were launched, you know, just last week.
So it is honestly for me, it was terrifying. And
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we heard the booms. The house was shaking. Now, these
were the booms from the anti missile defense systems. And
we were told that the biggest risk kids the shrapnel
that's falling around us. And I have kids. There are
kids that are twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years old. I
have to say my kids were brave. They were calm,
and I was trying to look calm and brave, but
I really was scared.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, Well, you know, calling you from the states here.
How many times has she asked you in the past year,
why don't you move home? Have you ever been to Branson, Missouri?
It's a really fun place. Why don't you move there?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You know? Yeah, she's called me, you know, since we
moved here two and a half years ago, I don't know,
three or four hundred times telling me to move back.
Of course, my friends are concerned, and you know, the
rabbis tell us that Israel is actually the safest place
in the world for Jewish people, and of course, you know,
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God is protecting the land of Israel. And it is
absolutely miraculous that all of these rockets and all these missiles,
not one, thank God, not one Jewish person has died
from all of these attacks. And it is it is miraculous.
There is no other way to explain it, honestly.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Can I gotta I gotta ask you this question. I mean,
is this just about Arabs and Jews? You know, is
it is it just Arab hatred of Jews or what
I mean? Is there more to this than just Israel?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You know, it's it's a great question. And Israel is
represent you know, Israel United States are very very closely
aligned because Israeli courus being the only democracy, and let's
not even say democracy. This is the only place in
the Middle East East where Western values and the values
of you know, I'm just saying, the religious values of
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the Torah and the religious values of Christianity are represented, honestly,
So this is actually not a battle between Israel and
the Kamas or the Iranians. This is actually a battle
for Western civilization. And when the murderous barbarians crossed, you know,
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thirty five thirty five hundred murderous terrorists broke in and
started murdering, raping and burning people to death, it was
obvious that, you know, the hatred, the values that these
people have there there's nothing, there's nothing in common with us.
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In fact, when I say us, I mean the Western civilization.
So I think and I believe that I'm correct in this,
that Israel's the front line of this this cultural war.
And those of you that saw vibing at Tiajo speak
Prime Minister to speak at the UN, I love that
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week in half ago.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I played that on my show on Saturday. I thought
he did phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And me too, and you know he is a phenomenal speaker.
But his point that you know, the the curse, you know,
he talked about the blessing or the curse. Right, yes, Israel,
with the Abraham Accords, tried to create this pipeline railway
trade from west to east, and Saudi Arabia was on
the on the on the brink of signing this deal
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with the Abraham Accords, and of course you know, from
Iran trying to create a destructive curse. So you know,
they're about death and destruction and control and domination, and
we're about blessing and love and life. So this is.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Actually even even to the point where you're reaching out
to the Arabs and willing to develop an entire transportation
system between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The job, the jobs,
the economic growth, all that sort of stuff would have
been a real blessing to the area.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
One hundred percent. And this is why many people believe
that the attack took place. Uh. And by the way,
you know, as horrific as the attack was, it's well
documented that there was a plan to a much much
more dangerous and global attack, not global, but a regional
attack with Hesbon in the north, Iran, and Hamas all
at the same time, and including the West Bank attacking
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Israel all at one time, and an invasion from the north,
and that that could have been not you know, I mean,
what happened was horrific, twelve hundred people murdered that day,
you know, in cold blood, but what could have been
could have been much worse. So, uh, you know, it
is a it is a big battle for civilization. You know,
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in America, I think, you know, we we need America.
I mean, you know, not only do American America's military
and America's funding and America's interests lie in in Israel,
but you know, we need we need the political support.
And I think it's very difficult. For example, today the
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French president, uh, you know, it's pushing arms embargo against Israel.
And you know this is unbelievable because you know you
have again you know, that would be like Iran putting
an embargo on Kamas, or Iran putting an embargo on Block.
You know, our allies in America being the most important.
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You know, in my opinion, without the support, this would
be very very without America being possible. I think, well
we're talking here with you, we really really need American support.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Ken think with us here. Moved from America with his
family to Israel a couple of years ago. Was there
before during after October seventh, one year ago this week
you talk about American support, and then you talked about
just a few months ago Iran just raining or trying
to rain weapons down rockets on Israel. That was right
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after President Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a
lot of funding for Iran, and it's hard not to
see the lane between Iran getting an influx of money
from America using that money to either fund JMAS has
the lah or to their own rocket defenses against our
rocket offenses against Israel. Do you feel like America and
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President Biden Vice President Harris are the allies that Israel needs?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well on that point, I mean, first of all, I
think that the release of those frozen assets to Iran
was definitely instrumental in Iran unleashing billions of dollars of
terror and the Prime Minister beving a theologiant speaking at
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the UN for I don't know thirty years about this,
So I think that first of all, the release of
assets was a very unfortunate and not just a release
of assets, but under the Biden administration there was a
really relaxed protocol around compliance and the nuclear deal, and
all of a sudden is a I'm just going to
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say it, a weakness. There was a weakness on international
policy coming out of America and the Biden industry administration,
which you know, in the Arab world they only understand
one thing, and that's power, power and strength and you know,
the biggest, the biggest fan of of President Trump was Israel.
I mean, basically every single person in Israel loves loves
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Trump because he was so strong on Israel and still is.
So I think that the general consensus here is that,
you know, the Biden administration although you know, there was
certainly support in the beginning of the war. Aircraft carriers
came and support from America was amazing, but you know,
it has waned and you know, when politics started to
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get involved in terms of you know, reelection, and then
everything's happened with the with you know, with with the
vice president now running for president. You know, there's there's
a perception that a Democrat in the White House will
not be strong enough to uphold and to fight this
war with Israel.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
So they they become really squishy and they've lost their principles.
In my opinion, I'm I'm embarrassed at my country. And
if there was ever a reason to change the leadership
of this country, this is a big, big, big, big one.
Now let me ask you, what what's a call to
action Those that are listening to this show, if they
want to help, if they want to be supportive, what
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should they.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Do so, first of all, I think very important to
vote and to influence your your congressional leaders in support
of Israel. You know, we don't have to look very
far in the Bible, in Genesis. In Genesis, you know,
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Abraham gets it, you know, get the instructions from God.
Those litill bless Israel will be blessed. Those will curse
Israel be cursed. And so it doesn't take long to
realize that the support of Israel is you know, it
goes back thousands of years. In fact, somebody would pointed
out to me that if you look at the word Jerusalem,
just the word Jerusalem in the middle of the word Jerusalem,
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if you spell it out on a piece of paper,
you see USA. See Usa Jerus alone. So the USA
is sank or sanct in the relationship with Israel. And
so I think to go to your congressional leaders and
push them and say, hey, we need unconditional support for
the state of Israel. So that's that's number one. Thing
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Number two is you know there's so many needs since
October seventh, Yes, we were here and Scott mentioned it. It
was a terrifying experience to see this going on and
since the war we have. You know, we had we
had sixty thousand people displaced from their homes in the North,
still displace living in hotels and living in all different places.
We have you know, we had two hundred and forty hostages.
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We still have one hundred and one hostages, presuly half
of them are alive. And so we have widows, we
have orphans, we have tremendous social needs, and and we
have soldiers that have been through just unbelievable trauma in
the last year. Uh. And by the way, the Israeli
army could never be could not be described anything that
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completely motivated. Uh. You know, some people ask me, you know,
are are the soldiers fatigued? And the answer is no,
they know this is the most important fight, the fight
to defend Israel, their families. So to help the soldiers,
the soldiers with PSD PTSD, there's progress for that, help
the widows and the orphans, and to to push Congress
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and our president we're our future president.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Where can we send money? We want to send money?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Okay? So uh, so there's a couple of a couple
of places that I would suggest, Uh, there is a
program which uh that provide what I described as a
p PTSD program for soldiers that have gone through tremendous trauma.
And so there's a there's a website for that. It's
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www dot here, Help Heroes Today dot com, Help Heroes
Today dot com. That's that's one place to go. Uh.
The second place which is helping helping families here who
have gone through this trauma and also helping soldiers. There's
various types of equipment needs that they have because this
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is just unprecedented the number of volunteers, you know, it
was incredible that there was literally tens of thousands of
reservists all over the world jumped on every plane possible
on October seventh to come help in the land of Israel. Uh.
So a second one that I would suggest is just
get the website here quickly. Is uh there's something called
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B Cleave B cleave h A d dot org. B
cleve b c L e V E c h A
d dot org. This is an organization helping families with
soldiers and helping supply soldiers and families with needs here.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, Ken, what I want you to do? Text that
for me. Text that to me. We are up on
a hard deadline. So we've got to go. But God
bless you, my friend. I'm so grateful that you are
on the show. Scott, thanks for allowing us to invade
your morning program, Dave.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Thank you for setting this up. That's Dave Navity and
Ken Fink here and finally Ken from Stephanie, who is
a big Israel supporter who emails the show a lot.
She wants me to wish you a Shanna tova. If
I'm pronouncing that correctly, Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You are a happy New Years. Thank you very much
and happy everybody.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I appreciate it. God bless you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thank you, Ken, Ken Think live from Israel here on
news Radio eleven ten KFA B. That's Dave Navity back
Saturday morning, every Saturday morning, six to eight right here,
Scott Boyes, News Radio eleven ten A F A D
Scott vordies this week, though, is important for another reason.
A couple of days ago saw the one year anniversary
of the Hamas attacks on the people of Israel. And
we have a person standing by live from Israel with
us this morning on Nebraska's news, weather and Traffic station
joining me, Scott voorh He's here on news radio eleven
(00:21):
ten KOFAB and this is someone who Dave Navide, who
is a frequent contributor to eleven ten KFAB, including his
regular show mornings from six to eight Saturdays on Nebraska's news,
weather and Traffic station. And Dave, you heard this man speak.
I want you to talk about what he said that
moved you and why you reached out to him, and
(00:41):
what a gentleman named Ken Fink is doing on the
radio with us this morning. Good morning, Dave, Well Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
A few weeks ago, I went to Dallas to one
of the national meetings with the financial services firm that
I work with, and Ken was one of the speakers
down there, and he's one of my brothers with this firm.
I didn't really know Ken all that well. And you know,
I've been a student of the Bible for most of
my adult lifetime, and the Old Testament and the Jewish people.
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The people from Israel mean everything to me from a
faith standpoint, because that's where my faith came from. And
so Ken gets up on stage and he says that
I lived in Minnesota and decided to move my whole
family to Israel and raise my family there to have
them have a good piece of that heritage there. And
(01:35):
his talk was so moving to me. I stood up
at the meeting at the end of it and I
said a big prayer for Israel. I was so moved
by what he had to say. So I asked him
if he would be willing to come on the show
with you. He can't do Saturdays because that's the Sabbath,
so I asked if he could come on with you
(01:55):
and just tell his story not only of wising he's
an Israel but what it's like to live through what
they're going through right now.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, Ken, let's start there. You were living in Minnesota
and you decided to move to Israel. I don't know
if you're much of a history buff, but the Middle
East has never been exactly a real safe place, especially
for Israeli's to be So why did you make that decision.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, thanks Scott, and thank you both of you for
having me on. I appreciate the opportunity. Yeah, I'm a
Minnesota born and bred guy. Yeah. You know, when my
wife Nicole was born in Australia, but her family made
what we call ali yah, which is to go up
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to the land of Israel. And she was about nine
years old when I met her. When she was in
her twenties, I was described in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Turchak. It
was a very exotic location. This is an Israel. When
I met her at very exotic location is called Minneapolis, Minnesota,
she had a get up on the road Atlas. Don't
even know where that was. So I told her, you know,
(03:05):
it's give me an exotic travel location and they're going
to build a family there. And she said, well, how
many years will it be until we moved back to
the end of Israel? As I said, this was when
I met her when I was in Israel at my twenties,
in her twenty and I said, you know, somewhere between
three and thirty years, we'll come back. So you know,
she heard three and I heard thirty. We ended up,
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you know, we ended up raising our three kids until
my oldest was twelve, and she finally prevailed upon me
to move the family to Israel. So she gets really
all the credit.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
When did you move there?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Reason?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Sorry, when did you move there?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, I'm sorry? That was That was July twenty second,
twenty twenty two. July twenty second, twenty twenty two, and COVID.
You know, it's post COVID, and I have a national
financial services company in the US, and I thought, you know,
maybe I can run this thing from Israel. I'll just
work night hours, a little bit of zoom, a little
few airplanes, and you know, everything, I'll be okay. In fact,
(04:10):
you know the conference that they mentioned. The title of
my talk over there was they asked me to speak
I normally speak on charitable planning. They asked me to
speak on why I'm with Israel. So my title was
moved to Israel dot dot What could go wrong? That was?
That was the title of good And so we moved
here in twenty twenty two. And you know, as they said,
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I mean, our mission was to put our kids in
the land of Israel. I'm personally in an Orthodox Jew.
I came to Judaism as a meaningful part of my
life in my twenties, and you know, Israel has always
been where my heart is from my family, my friends,
my culture, and you know, everything I'm used to was
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in Minnesota, was in America. But Israel, you know, there
is for those of those that are religious, those that
have a feeling for spirituality. Obviously, this is the center
axis of the spiritual world from from many, for many
of the main three three religion. So you know, it's
a purpose, a sense of meaning. You know, I wanted
(05:15):
to get my kids past bagels and creat cheese and passed,
you know, and you know, some things in America sort
of deteriorate George Floyd, other things in Minneapolis, and I felt,
you know, maybe this is the time for us to
go right. And so you know, we kind of put
caution to the to the side, and we and we jumped.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes, I know a lot of people can think of,
you know, the Jewish experience from an American or Christian standpoint,
and we basically think of Adam Sandler's the Hankkah song,
and then we look at the Middle East and we go, well,
it looks like a war zone over there. But I've
talked with people who live in all parts of Israel,
and they say, you'd be surprised at how israelis and
(05:57):
people of the Arab faiths, Palestinians specifically, who are not
Humas or has belah uh. They live next door to
each other, they work together, they go to market together,
their kids are in school together, and generally it's a
peaceful place. Was that your experience when you moved there
and found it? And when when was it that your
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family started to feel like maybe this was not a
safe place for the family to be.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, you know, it's a great it's a great set
of questions. So first of all, you know, Israel's population
is about nine and a half million, approaching ten. There's
seven million Jews, and you know a couple of million
Arabs and then some Christians obviously, and there's also Drews
and other other other other people. And Israel is a
(06:48):
tough neighborhood, right. You have, uh, you have a very
small land mask you know, I shared previously that you
know that the land of Israel is only about eighty
three hundred square miles and Texas is two hundred and
sixty five thousand square miles. We could get thirty two
(07:09):
Israel inside of Texas. Okay, so it's a very small
place surrounded by let's just say, hundreds of millions in
some hostile but it's the only democracy in the environment belief.
So yes, the Arab population, the Druiz population, the Christian
population live in peaceful co existence within Israel and what
are and we have friends and co workers who are Arabs,
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and we are surrounded by Arab communities. The large majority
of Arabs that live in Israel are extremely happy, and
they should be. They've got their right to vote, they've
got health care, they've got almost free education, and listen,
there's even there's there are fifteen mostly Arab members of
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the Kinessi in Israel. So the end, you're absolutely right,
is coexistence. But obviously we have some extreme extremism all
around us.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
And you know, so that impact society now in terms
of in terms of the lifestyle here. Yeah, I mean
that's the thing. You know, if you put on TV,
you watch Fox at CNN or whatever news source you watched,
you know, all you see is you know, buildings being
blown off, and you know this kind of stuff, and
so it looks like a very violent place. The truth
(08:29):
is Israel is extremely safe, extremely safe. A woman can
walk down the street at two o'clock in the morning
in almost any city of Israel and feel safe. My
kids run around, you know, going house to house, yard
at the yard, and it's completely safe.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Obviously. Yeah, one one year ago that safety was shattered.
I want to pick up there and hand you off
to Dave Knaberty. I'm turning things over to you for
this segment.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Day Well, Ken, thanks so much for being on. I
think something that would be really helpful. Can you can
you give us an idea of the size of Israel
compared to maybe a state in the United States.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Sure, yes, I mentioned am I talk israel Is about this.
You can fit an Israel in the state of Minnesota.
You can fit thirty two Israel's in the state of Texas.
So Israel's a small country. I actually was with a
couple of congressmen and a helicopter and we flew across
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the waste of Israel an helicopter and that took exactly
forty five seconds. Oh, very very small.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Okay. So if that's true, then if you know Gaza
is how big.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Goza? You know, I have to.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Is it like a little city?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, Gaza it's called the Gaza Strip, of course, and
if you look at Israel on the map, you can
kind of see little, a little stretch of land along
the western border, you know, that faces the ocean, and
it's just above Egypt. And the exact land mass of that,
(10:12):
you know, you know, maybe it's I'd have to check it,
but you know, I would be shocked if it's more
than twenty miles long.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, the Google Google says, we're looking at about the
size of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, So so then you have the West Bank, then
you have the West Bank, right, I mean those are
basically the two areas where a lot of this stuff started,
am I correct?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah? Well, you know, in terms of the you know,
the history, we don't have time to go through the
whole history, of course, But two thousand and five Israel
turned over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority, which
was at that time controlled by a political group called
Fata Fata. Then in two thousand and six was out voted.
I'm not sure it was a real election, right, but
(10:58):
by the Commas organization Hamas took over two thousand and six,
and by the way, the population of that time at
Gaza was about four hundred and fifty thousand. In twenty
twenty three the population was two point one million, and
got home money and so it grew a lot and
under comas you know, CAMAS was supposed to be a
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hamonitarian organization, and of course they were. I don't know
if this is well known, but they have been. This
has been shown to be true. They have been the
largest recipient of international aid than any location on the planet.
Over forty three billion dollars have been pumped into Gaza
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since since in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
From where is that American money?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That was American European money, mostly Americans, And of course
that money was spent not on building schools and hospitals
and roads, but was building tunnels and weaponry and a
machinery of hate that of course, you know, we could
talk about October seventh, which we just had a couple
of days ago, the anniversary. But the punchline is that,
(12:09):
you know, this has been a the most fertile ground
for hatred against Israel. And I want to say.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Also, and it was funded by the United States, and
it was funded yes, okay, so oh yes, that that
really gets me upset. But I gotta I gotta ask
you this question, what were the Palestinian people doing that
were peaceful, that didn't mind living in the in the
(12:39):
environment that the Jewish nation was in. What were they
doing when these guys were building tunnels and taking over hotels.
Why wouldn't they have been communicating with Israel and saying, hey,
this is going on, that's going on. You guys need
to look out. You know, why did this get done
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so stealthully that Israel didn't see it coming?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Okay you, first of all, I don't think it was
done stealthily. I think that you know a couple of things. First,
as you're asking, you know, the people of Gods, of
the two point one million people, are they are they
passive observers? Are they victims? Are they? Are they active?
Active participants? You know, all you have to do is
(13:26):
ask any of the you know, any of the surviving
hostages that somehow managed to be released or escape from Gaza,
and they'll tell you there was not one single citizen
of Gaza that was helpful to any of them. It's
not quite the opposite. And you know, unfortunately we've seen
in the education of children in Gaza since the time
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they're in kindergarten, they're taught to hate and want to
kill Jews. They dressed their children instead of you know,
dressing up for Halloween and so on, they dressed them
up in suicide bomber outfits with weapons, and they chief
them hatred. So this is unfortunately, this is the hatred
of extremism. That is, there is a hotbed and Guys
(14:07):
That really is one of the worst places you know,
on the planner for that, which, by the way, is
another reason why none of the other Middle Eastern countries
want the people of guys That to come in. You know,
it would have been very easy for the people of
guys That to be just walk right into Egypt, but
they don't want them because of all the extremisms. So
you know, this is the culture.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That so Israel has no choice but to get them
all wiped out. I mean, how else does Israel survive
without not only pushing them all out, but taking over
the territory.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, I think I think that you know that. I mean, listen,
there's always innocent people and the people of Guys are
victims of horrific leadership. So there's no leadership there. And
as a result of the zero leadership, you know, these
people are lost. And you know, it's interesting to note
there's not one bomb shelter in one home in Gaza.
(15:07):
You know that in Israel every home has a bomb shelter.
My home is a bomb shelter. And why is that?
Because they spent these billions of dollars instead of taking
care of their people, they just build tunnels for the
terrorists to hide and to transport. And it's been widely
noted that the tunnels underneath Gaza are more expansive than
the New York City subway system.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, one quick question.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
They don't care about their people. Mostly, they don't care
about their people.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Why couldn't Israel see these tunnels being built because of
all the dirt they had to move.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Well, Israel was aware, certainly aware. Maybe they don't want
to wear the magnitude, but you know, there's there's a
lot of international pressure, of course on Israel for years
to allow Gaza to become autonomous and to allow Goza
and listen, we turned Israel turned that land over to
these people. Now, obviously that you know, Israel has very
(16:02):
strong intelligence and I'm sure there was many people, you know,
many people that knew within the Israeli society, within Israeli government,
with Israeli military that this is all going on, and
you know, it was it was tremendously unfortunate that there
wasn't more intelligence that you know, that was aware that
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this attack was about to happen, although you know, people
people were aware that, you know, that they were cooking
up something. But you know, Hamas did a great job
of tricking many people that they were really wanted peaceful
co existence and they really were very quiet. They're very
quiet for a dozen years in terms of their attacks
on Israel. So I think that, you know, it's a
(16:45):
complicated situation. It has a lot of history. I think
the go forward plan that there has to be in
order to secure the safety of the southern part of Israel,
obviously post to October seventh, that there's going to have
to be Israelian all to protect the Jewish people.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
With air raid sirens going off in Israel. What is
that life like for you?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, thanks, Scott. You know, I'm not used to it,
of course, nor are my kids and even my wife
to some extent. So I have to say the first
night when Iran attacked back in April, my mother called
me for Minneapolis about ten o'clock at night. She was
(17:29):
hysterical and she said, you know, they launched a hundred
drones toward Israel. Aren't you hiding in the bombs shelter?
And I said, a, Mom, you know they're going to
slot those drones like flies. She's like, what is the
matter with you? So I said, Mom, frankly, I'm gonna
I'm gonna go to sleep soon. She's like, no way anyway.
So I took it a little lightly in the early
(17:51):
part of the early part of the war in terms
of these attacks. And then when I woke up in
the morning and I found out that there was ballistic missiles,
cruise missiles, and some three hundred and thirty one missiles
that miraculously were knocked out of the sky by Israel
and their various defense systems as well as our allies,
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I became a little bit more concerned that this is something,
you know, really really terrifying. We were at that time,
we were living a little bit farther north in Israel,
in an area called Kasaria. We had a famous neighbor there,
viving Natiyahu, and that area we had no sirens. Now
we moved recently in the last few months to a
(18:31):
place closer to Tel Aviv, and we've had a number
of these sirens and had to run to the bomb shelter,
including the second Run attack which two hundred cruise missiles
apparently our ballistic missiles were launched, you know, just last week.
So it is honestly for me, it was terrifying. And
(18:51):
we heard the booms. The house was shaking. Now, these
were the booms from the anti missile defense systems. And
we were told that the biggest risk kids the shrapnel
that's falling around us. And I have kids. There are
kids that are twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years old. I
have to say my kids were brave. They were calm,
and I was trying to look calm and brave, but
I really was scared.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
All right, Well, you know, calling you from the states here.
How many times has she asked you in the past year,
why don't you move home? Have you ever been to Branson, Missouri?
It's a really fun place. Why don't you move there?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You know? Yeah, she's called me, you know, since we
moved here two and a half years ago, I don't know,
three or four hundred times telling me to move back.
Of course, my friends are concerned, and you know, the
rabbis tell us that Israel is actually the safest place
in the world for Jewish people, and of course, you know,
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God is protecting the land of Israel. And it is
absolutely miraculous that all of these rockets and all these missiles,
not one, thank God, not one Jewish person has died
from all of these attacks. And it is it is miraculous.
There is no other way to explain it, honestly.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Can I gotta I gotta ask you this question. I mean,
is this just about Arabs and Jews? You know, is
it is it just Arab hatred of Jews or what
I mean? Is there more to this than just Israel?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You know, it's it's a great question. And Israel is
represent you know, Israel United States are very very closely
aligned because Israeli courus being the only democracy, and let's
not even say democracy. This is the only place in
the Middle East East where Western values and the values
of you know, I'm just saying, the religious values of
(20:45):
the Torah and the religious values of Christianity are represented, honestly,
So this is actually not a battle between Israel and
the Kamas or the Iranians. This is actually a battle
for Western civilization. And when the murderous barbarians crossed, you know,
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thirty five thirty five hundred murderous terrorists broke in and
started murdering, raping and burning people to death, it was
obvious that, you know, the hatred, the values that these
people have there there's nothing, there's nothing in common with us.
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In fact, when I say us, I mean the Western civilization.
So I think and I believe that I'm correct in this,
that Israel's the front line of this this cultural war.
And those of you that saw vibing at Tiajo speak
Prime Minister to speak at the UN, I love that
(21:45):
week in half ago.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I played that on my show on Saturday. I thought
he did phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And me too, and you know he is a phenomenal speaker.
But his point that you know, the the curse, you know,
he talked about the blessing or the curse. Right, yes, Israel,
with the Abraham Accords, tried to create this pipeline railway
trade from west to east, and Saudi Arabia was on
the on the on the brink of signing this deal
(22:13):
with the Abraham Accords, and of course you know, from
Iran trying to create a destructive curse. So you know,
they're about death and destruction and control and domination, and
we're about blessing and love and life. So this is.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Actually even even to the point where you're reaching out
to the Arabs and willing to develop an entire transportation
system between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The job, the jobs,
the economic growth, all that sort of stuff would have
been a real blessing to the area.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
One hundred percent. And this is why many people believe
that the attack took place. Uh. And by the way,
you know, as horrific as the attack was, it's well
documented that there was a plan to a much much
more dangerous and global attack, not global, but a regional
attack with Hesbon in the north, Iran, and Hamas all
at the same time, and including the West Bank attacking
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Israel all at one time, and an invasion from the north,
and that that could have been not you know, I mean,
what happened was horrific, twelve hundred people murdered that day,
you know, in cold blood, but what could have been
could have been much worse. So, uh, you know, it
is a it is a big battle for civilization. You know,
(23:33):
in America, I think, you know, we we need America.
I mean, you know, not only do American America's military
and America's funding and America's interests lie in in Israel,
but you know, we need we need the political support.
And I think it's very difficult. For example, today the
(23:53):
French president, uh, you know, it's pushing arms embargo against Israel.
And you know this is unbelievable because you know you
have again you know, that would be like Iran putting
an embargo on Kamas, or Iran putting an embargo on Block.
You know, our allies in America being the most important.
(24:18):
You know, in my opinion, without the support, this would
be very very without America being possible. I think, well
we're talking here with you, we really really need American support.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Ken think with us here. Moved from America with his
family to Israel a couple of years ago. Was there
before during after October seventh, one year ago this week
you talk about American support, and then you talked about
just a few months ago Iran just raining or trying
to rain weapons down rockets on Israel. That was right
(24:51):
after President Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a
lot of funding for Iran, and it's hard not to
see the lane between Iran getting an influx of money
from America using that money to either fund JMAS has
the lah or to their own rocket defenses against our
rocket offenses against Israel. Do you feel like America and
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President Biden Vice President Harris are the allies that Israel needs?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well on that point, I mean, first of all, I
think that the release of those frozen assets to Iran
was definitely instrumental in Iran unleashing billions of dollars of
terror and the Prime Minister beving a theologiant speaking at
(25:41):
the UN for I don't know thirty years about this,
So I think that first of all, the release of
assets was a very unfortunate and not just a release
of assets, but under the Biden administration there was a
really relaxed protocol around compliance and the nuclear deal, and
all of a sudden is a I'm just going to
(26:01):
say it, a weakness. There was a weakness on international
policy coming out of America and the Biden industry administration,
which you know, in the Arab world they only understand
one thing, and that's power, power and strength and you know,
the biggest, the biggest fan of of President Trump was Israel.
I mean, basically every single person in Israel loves loves
(26:25):
Trump because he was so strong on Israel and still is.
So I think that the general consensus here is that,
you know, the Biden administration although you know, there was
certainly support in the beginning of the war. Aircraft carriers
came and support from America was amazing, but you know,
it has waned and you know, when politics started to
(26:45):
get involved in terms of you know, reelection, and then
everything's happened with the with you know, with with the
vice president now running for president. You know, there's there's
a perception that a Democrat in the White House will
not be strong enough to uphold and to fight this
war with Israel.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
So they they become really squishy and they've lost their principles.
In my opinion, I'm I'm embarrassed at my country. And
if there was ever a reason to change the leadership
of this country, this is a big, big, big, big one.
Now let me ask you, what what's a call to
action Those that are listening to this show, if they
want to help, if they want to be supportive, what
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should they.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Do so, first of all, I think very important to
vote and to influence your your congressional leaders in support
of Israel. You know, we don't have to look very
far in the Bible, in Genesis. In Genesis, you know,
(27:48):
Abraham gets it, you know, get the instructions from God.
Those litill bless Israel will be blessed. Those will curse
Israel be cursed. And so it doesn't take long to
realize that the support of Israel is you know, it
goes back thousands of years. In fact, somebody would pointed
out to me that if you look at the word Jerusalem,
just the word Jerusalem in the middle of the word Jerusalem,
(28:10):
if you spell it out on a piece of paper,
you see USA. See Usa Jerus alone. So the USA
is sank or sanct in the relationship with Israel. And
so I think to go to your congressional leaders and
push them and say, hey, we need unconditional support for
the state of Israel. So that's that's number one. Thing
(28:32):
Number two is you know there's so many needs since
October seventh, Yes, we were here and Scott mentioned it. It
was a terrifying experience to see this going on and
since the war we have. You know, we had we
had sixty thousand people displaced from their homes in the North,
still displace living in hotels and living in all different places.
We have you know, we had two hundred and forty hostages.
(28:56):
We still have one hundred and one hostages, presuly half
of them are alive. And so we have widows, we
have orphans, we have tremendous social needs, and and we
have soldiers that have been through just unbelievable trauma in
the last year. Uh. And by the way, the Israeli
army could never be could not be described anything that
(29:16):
completely motivated. Uh. You know, some people ask me, you know,
are are the soldiers fatigued? And the answer is no,
they know this is the most important fight, the fight
to defend Israel, their families. So to help the soldiers,
the soldiers with PSD PTSD, there's progress for that, help
the widows and the orphans, and to to push Congress
(29:39):
and our president we're our future president.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Where can we send money? We want to send money?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Okay? So uh, so there's a couple of a couple
of places that I would suggest, Uh, there is a
program which uh that provide what I described as a
p PTSD program for soldiers that have gone through tremendous trauma.
And so there's a there's a website for that. It's
(30:10):
www dot here, Help Heroes Today dot com, Help Heroes
Today dot com. That's that's one place to go. Uh.
The second place which is helping helping families here who
have gone through this trauma and also helping soldiers. There's
various types of equipment needs that they have because this
(30:32):
is just unprecedented the number of volunteers, you know, it
was incredible that there was literally tens of thousands of
reservists all over the world jumped on every plane possible
on October seventh to come help in the land of Israel. Uh.
So a second one that I would suggest is just
get the website here quickly. Is uh there's something called
(30:56):
B Cleave B cleave h A d dot org. B
cleve b c L e V E c h A
d dot org. This is an organization helping families with
soldiers and helping supply soldiers and families with needs here.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Okay, Ken, what I want you to do? Text that
for me. Text that to me. We are up on
a hard deadline. So we've got to go. But God
bless you, my friend. I'm so grateful that you are
on the show. Scott, thanks for allowing us to invade
your morning program, Dave.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Thank you for setting this up. That's Dave Navity and
Ken Fink here and finally Ken from Stephanie, who is
a big Israel supporter who emails the show a lot.
She wants me to wish you a Shanna tova. If
I'm pronouncing that correctly, Yes.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You are a happy New Years. Thank you very much
and happy everybody.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I appreciate it. God bless you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Thank you, Ken, Ken Think live from Israel here on
news Radio eleven ten KFA B. That's Dave Navity back
Saturday morning, every Saturday morning, six to eight right here,
Scott Boyes, News Radio eleven ten A F A D
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