Israel’s War With Hamas

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Well, Israel is at war, and I know you have lots of questions and you have friends asking

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you lots of questions.

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So I'm here today to give you some of the facts, very brief facts, to arm you so that

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you can give an answer for what is going on today.

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First of all, Hamas is not a military or an army of a country.

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Hamas is a jihadist, Islamist terrorist group.

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This was not a military attack on Israel's army that took place on October the 7th.

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This was an anti-Semitic rampage with the goal to torture, murder, and mutilate as many

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Jews as possible.

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Now, I want you to understand the gravity of this attack.

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It's the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

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Now, think about that.

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They were not soldiers.

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There were a few soldiers, but these were Jewish civilians.

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These were Jewish people, not soldiers, not a military.

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This is also one of the largest security failures in the state of Israel.

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There will be an extensive investigation once the fighting is over to understand how they

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did not know this attack was coming.

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But for Americans, this attack was so grave that it's 10 times larger than 9-11.

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Yes, Israel's a small country, so 1,300 people dead, that's a lot for Israel.

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So to compute that in American terms, the same percentage of our population, it would

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be over 50,000 Americans killed in a 72-hour period.

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That is horrendous.

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That is the size of this, and then there is the gruesome massacre and murdering and beheading

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and raping and torturing that took place.

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It was horrendous.

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Now, Hamas is the government over Gaza.

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They took over Gaza with a bloody coup back in 2007.

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They are taking all the money meant for the people of Gaza and using it to build military

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industry, weapons, underground tunnels, rockets.

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And they are actually the greatest cause for any humanitarian crises in Gaza.

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It's because of Hamas.

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It's not because of Israel.

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Now, Israel is warning civilians to leave the north part of Gaza.

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That's where Gaza City is.

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And they're telling them to flee south, where they will be out of the range of the fighting

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and the attack that Israel has already undertaken.

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And we believe that we'll be doing a ground incursion soon.

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So Israel's warning the civilians to leave and working with the nations around the world

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for humanitarian relief for the Gazans.

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Whereas Hamas is forbidding them to leave the north to go to the south, where they'll

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be safe, because Hamas wants to use civilians as human shields.

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They want the death of civilians so that they can post it on social media and flash it around

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the world and say Israel is the evil monster, not us.

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But Islamic Jihad just today did a barrage of rockets towards Tel Aviv.

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And one of them, it seems, hit a hospital in the center of Gaza City and killed 500

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people.

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And I can tell you, Hamas probably doesn't even care.

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Now, Israel is the most ethical army, military, in the world.

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And we say that because they do everything that they can to save civilian lives.

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They have developed weapons for urban warfare.

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They have developed techniques and strategies for urban warfare in order to save as many

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civilians as possible.

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So over the last week, Israel has had a team of Arabic speakers.

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They have been calling every phone number in Gaza, telling the civilians to flee to

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the south where they will be safe.

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They've also been dropping leaflets from airplanes over Gaza, telling the citizens to move south.

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So Israel is doing everything they can not to kill civilians.

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Now, of course, civilians will die.

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War is a very ugly thing.

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We all hate war.

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We hate death.

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We hate the destruction that takes place in war.

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But I can tell you, my father was a World War II vet.

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He was on the front lines of the infantry all across Europe, landing at Normandy and

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going all the way across to Czechoslovakia.

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He was in the Battle of the Bulge.

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He saw it all.

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And he had nightmares the rest of his life because of what he saw in the war.

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War is terrible.

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And it took that destruction and that military operation to bring down the evil Nazi regime

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that was killing not just Jews, all kinds of people in Europe.

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And so it was necessary.

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And I have to say that in the annals of just war and biblically what is a just war, this

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war is just.

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War has to act militarily to end this evil Hamas regime.

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Now, what is the answer to Gaza?

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What is the answer?

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Well, number one, end the terrorist government of Hamas over Gaza and put another government

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in place that can be more trusted.

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And require the schools to stop poisoning the minds of the young people with all of

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this anti-Semitism and jihad.

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Require the school textbooks to be cleaned up and to have a teaching on peace.

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You know, the average age in Gaza is 19 years old.

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So these are young people right out of the schools.

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And unfortunately, even the UN funded schools in Gaza teach anti-Semitism.

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This must be stopped.

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The only way we can create peace is by teaching these young people the importance of peace

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and how to live in peace side by side with the Jewish state.

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Now, what can we do?

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What can you and I do here outside of Israel?

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Number one, pray.

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The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is conducting regular prayer initiatives every

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day during this conflict.

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We have a global prayer call on Zoom and you should join that call.

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You'll get the latest up-to-date briefings.

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You'll get Christian perspective and you'll have the opportunity to pray over these situations.

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We have an ongoing prayer watch of people all around the world that take an hour of

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prayer every month.

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In fact, some of them take many hours of prayer.

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And it's called our Roche Kodish Prayer Watch.

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We send out regular prayer points.

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So go to our website.

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We'll link to it in today's show notes, but it is www.icejusa.org and go to Under Initiatives

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to Prayer.

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You'll find it all there and you can sign up to get on our prayer list.

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Give financially.

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You want to talk about a humanitarian disaster?

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That's in Israel.

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And while the UN is calling for humanitarian aid for the Gazans, they're not saying a word

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about the Jewish people.

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There are 60,000 displaced Israelis.

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They have been evacuated out of 25 or 28 communities in the southern part of Israel and some in

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the northern part now because of the threat of war on the north.

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They've been evacuated.

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They're being put up in hotels anywhere they can find housing for them.

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They need also food.

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They need clothing.

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Great humanitarian need there with these evacuees.

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Israel needs medical equipment.

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They need more ambulances.

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They need medical motorcycles that can get to the side of an attack quickly.

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They need more bomb shelters.

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The ICEJ has placed over 200 bomb shelters now in Israel.

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And I can tell you at least another 200 are needed and they're needed desperately because

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if the war breaks out on the northern border, there's going to be rockets coming down from

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the north.

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So give.

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I'm going to link in today's show notes to our donate page for this crisis.

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It is ICEJUSA.org slash donate Israel in crises.

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100% of your donation will go to Israel where it'll be used there in the relief work of

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the ICEJ.

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Lastly, we must speak up.

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That's why I'm doing this video.

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I wanted to give you the main points so that when you hear the false narrative that's out

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there, you can speak up and give an answer.

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Well in today's show notes, I'm also going to link to you a fact sheet that we put together

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on this conflict so you can read it and study and even be more prepared.

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We also have a how to pray that we'll link to in today's show notes and we give you prayer

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points with scriptures that you can use to pray for this very, very grievous situation.

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So we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but sometimes we think that's a little cliche.

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So I want to tell you, pray for the peace of Jerusalem and of Israel and of the people

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of Israel.

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Pray for their comfort.

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God is a God of comfort and he has promised to comfort his people in Jerusalem.

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And one of the things he uses to comfort his people is the voice of the International Christian

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Embassy Jerusalem.

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We're there speaking words of love and encouragement and hope and it's such a comfort to them.

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God wants to use you in this conflict through your prayers and your financial giving.

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You enable us at the ICEJ to have an even greater impact and to bring the comfort of God to

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his people in Israel.

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Thank you and God bless you.

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We hope you have enjoyed this episode of Out of Zion with Susan Michael.

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