Point of View June 19, 2024 – Hour 2 : Critical Topics

[00:00:00] Music I'm obviously talking about some of the issues in the news, one that almost everybody's talking about is the plan being put forward by President Joe Biden and the White House to actually provide, if you will,

[00:00:33] mass amnesty for individuals who are married, illegal immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens and a lot of people are talking about that, and we will get to that in probably the next segment

[00:00:43] But sometimes I like to start off to talk about some topics that aren't being covered that are very important as well. I think there is really a two-fold goal that I have so often when we have an opportunity to look at issues in the news.

[00:00:59] One is to certainly focus on some of the topics in the news and try to provide a perspective on it, a biblical perspective hopefully on those issues. But number two, to cover some other issues that aren't even covered by the mainstream press but I think deserve some attention.

[00:01:18] One of those is my first article and this is written by the editors of National Review about the fact that we now have a number of members of the United States Senate, and let

[00:01:29] me just give credit to J.D. Vance who is the Senator from Ohio, but you can certainly pick up a number of other individuals who are actually sponsoring a particular piece of legislation called Dismantle DEI Act.

[00:01:45] Now if you're not familiar with DEI, and I would imagine by now you are, a lot of that goes back to again this booklet I held up just a few minutes ago about Wokeness.

[00:01:55] If you wanted to define some of the characteristics or some of the acronyms or some of the three-letter words that are oftentimes used to define what Wokeness is, ESG would be one of those, Environmental Social Governance.

[00:02:09] A lot of that comes from the World Economic Forum and others, but the other is DEI which stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Those all sound really good until you find out what they really involve, and as we have

[00:02:23] pointed out on this program before, there are more and more universities that are saying, you know, maybe it is time to get rid of our DEI complex here, our DEI officers and our DEI departments because it's not doing us any good and is actually causing a great

[00:02:42] deal of harm. Because oftentimes what happens is something that is divisive and really takes away from education. DEI has also been something that has been re-evaluated in terms of the corporate structure as well, because in many cases it turns out that it causes more harm than good.

[00:03:04] A few are one of those individuals, as many of our progressives used to be, saying, well, we need to be more like Europe. Well, let's go over to Europe for just a minute and see the number of countries now, and I

[00:03:17] mentioned just the other day on the program the study that came out of Great Britain saying that DEI has been very harmful for corporations. So with that in mind already, Senator Vance and Senators McLeod and a few, Representative

[00:03:34] McLeod and some others have actually been able to get a number of co-sponsors, and the bill would actually bar school accreditation agencies from requiring DEI in schools. It would stop even financial agencies like NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange from instituting some of these diversity requirements.

[00:03:55] And again, this particular article by the editors goes into some of the reasons why. We've talked about it before, so I won't belabor the point other than simply to say one of their comments is divisive ideologies like those that underlie diversity, equity and

[00:04:12] inclusion have trouble surviving without sponsorship and promotion by the government, because what it would be is that if it weren't for, for example, the executive order that came out from President Biden, that was June 25th of 2021, that was three years ago, which pushed

[00:04:32] DEI requirements in all forms of the federal workplace. If this was not mandated by this executive order from President Biden, I don't know that it would survive very long. So this is, I think, one of these upcoming battles in front of Congress.

[00:04:48] It also, I think, is going to be a really big issue in the campaign. And as people sometimes say, well, what's the difference between, say, a Trump administration and a Biden administration? I think this issue of DEI is one very good illustration.

[00:05:05] While I am talking about Joe Biden, and don't forget that we will have a presidential debate a week from tomorrow, but we also had a reminder of how dangerous it can be just to be even part of the presidential motorcade.

[00:05:22] And the illustration I want to use is that President Biden was out in California. This was a fundraising event that featured President Barack Obama and a number of others. But during the trip, and I can't make this up, during the trip, one of the individuals

[00:05:38] that was robbed was a Secret Service agent. Now think about this. This is a Secret Service agent, oftentimes looking like a Secret Service agent, having something in his or her ear, packing, by the way, certainly a lethal weapon, and was robbed at gunpoint in Tustin, California.

[00:06:02] And as a result, the officers arrived, the victim was a member of the U.S. Secret Service, and his bag was stolen at gunpoint. Now it goes on to say that shooting did occur, so it's quite possible that the Secret Service

[00:06:17] agent, after being robbed, was able to level his or, well I'm pretty sure it's his, his weapon and shoot. But this, if nothing else, illustrates a couple of points. Number one, has it got, has it really become so dangerous in California, Southern California,

[00:06:36] that a Secret Service agent with a concealed weapon, part of a presidential group, I don't know if he, I doubt he was with the President that particular moment, but if he was, that's even worse. Has it become that dangerous to live in Southern California?

[00:06:54] But number two, there have been people really concerned with the fact that, of course, this President, Joe Biden, has not provided Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and there have been some that have wondered, especially with some of the questions surrounding

[00:07:11] Donald Trump, how effective that particular protection has been as well. And so I think it's just an illustration that it's a dangerous place just about anywhere, and believe me, if you can actually have a robbery at gunpoint of a Secret Service agent,

[00:07:35] back to my favorite line, what chance do you have? And again, it's just an illustration of some of the danger, but also concern that we should be concerned about the way in which the Secret Service needs to protect presidential candidates,

[00:07:49] and even, of course, one that isn't even receiving Secret Service protection, which I think is a concern there as well. We come back from the break, just before we get into this whole issue of amnesty, just

[00:08:02] wanted to let you know that at a time when we are most concerned about some of these foreign service issues, and when we're concerned about the dangerous world in which we find ourselves in, we have a story out of the office of the Director of National Intelligence,

[00:08:22] which is again a story that you would have to believe was in the Babylon Bee. But unfortunately, it is not. And it illustrates again what happens during Pride Month. I'll come back and tell you the rest of the story, and then move into some other topics.

[00:08:40] These are stories maybe no one else is covering, but I think they're worth covering here on Point of View. We'll be back right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. You know, in school this out, that is a time when administrators should establish needed

[00:09:06] policies before schools and colleges reconvene. High on the list is to develop policies concerning student walkouts. In a recent article, Stanley Kurtz reminds us how the country has been swept up in successive waves of disorder and lawlessness on campuses.

[00:09:21] These range from protests about racism, to protests to the election of Donald Trump, to high school walkouts about guns, to recent pro-Hamas demonstrations. He reminds us that what is missing from all of this is any trace of accountability.

[00:09:35] Teachers are shouted down, Jewish students and conservative students are threatened, and high school students not only walk off campus, but are often praised and even authorized by faculty. Now in many cases, civic education in the schools has been co-opted and converted into a pretext

[00:09:49] for political activism under euphemisms like civic engagement or action civics. Students are not only encouraged to protest, but are often given course credit for protesting or lobbying. Now, the Supreme Court has ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not shed their

[00:10:03] constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door. But that case involved students wearing black armbands to class, not allowing students to just walk out of class and head to a protest off campus without any supervision from the school.

[00:10:16] Also, that case assumed that the public schools would be neutral, but now we have cases of schools promoting protests and taking sides. Students face teacher pressure and peer pressure, along with pressure from outside the school. And there is a concern over student safety and school liability.

[00:10:32] It is time for accountability, and it is time to develop and promote policies concerning student walkouts. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view. For a free booklet on the biblical view on wokeness, go to Viewpoints.info slash wokeness. That's Viewpoints.info slash wokeness.

[00:10:59] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Let's, if we can, for just a few minutes, talk about some of the dangers around the world. This list comes from our good friend Gary Bauer, who will be with us on Monday.

[00:11:12] And he reminds us that we have Russian ships that are docking in Havana. North Korea says they've added 20 more nuclear weapons to their arsenal. Communist China is in the midst of a massive military buildup and looks like they would like to invade Taiwan. That I've added there.

[00:11:30] He didn't have that in his piece. Russian terrorists have been crossing the border, and we've been talking about that for some time. And, of course, the president has signed us up for 10 more years of war in Ukraine.

[00:11:41] So in all of that, Gary Bauer says, surely our intelligence offices are burning the midnight oil. He says, but wait. It's Pride Month. And he is talking about, and we now know about what is happening in the office of the director of national intelligence.

[00:11:59] We have about 20 different intelligence agencies, and those are all oversaw, people are overseeing that from the director of national intelligence. So they're supervising the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, military offices and the like. So that's what the office of the director of national intelligence is doing.

[00:12:21] And supposedly they're supposed to be focusing on keeping us safe. But apparently they decided the other day to take a break from all the stress to get their fingernails painted at your expense. Oh, by the way, it's not just the women that are getting their fingernails painted.

[00:12:39] Even the men get their fingernails painted with little what are called artistes in the colors of the gay pride flag or the trans flag on their fingernails. And of course they also get to attend a lecture by a transgender non-binary Filipinx.

[00:12:58] That's a Filipino that is non-binary who has the pronoun they. And this is what is happening from the office of the director of national intelligence. As I sometimes jokingly say, sleep well America. That's what's going on right now from individuals that are supposed to be keeping us safe.

[00:13:19] Well, let's if we can now get to a topic that has really hit the various news outlets by storm and that is James Lins refers to it as the White House mass amnesty plan for illegal immigrants married to US citizens.

[00:13:36] And we have posted that on the website so you can read a little bit more about it. He says the Biden administration announced on Tuesday a sweeping executive action to provide legal protections to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who are married to US

[00:13:53] citizens and the order which was put forth, of course by the White House and I directed by President Biden is an effort supposedly to keep families together protect the spouses of American citizens from deportation and provides them with work permits if they've

[00:14:11] lived in the country for at least a decade. Now we're talking about about 1.1 million illegal immigrants that are married to US citizens and this has been referred to in a variety of ways parole in place could benefit

[00:14:26] at least half of that about 500,000 and then they would eventually be able to apply for permanent citizenship. And of course this is all go under the idea that well after all the were here and so of

[00:14:42] course the we are now coming up to what is called the 12th year anniversary of DACA. Now again if you don't remember that back when President Barack Obama was in office he actually created out of thin air this idea of deferred action for childhood arrivals that

[00:14:59] would be DACA later they were called dreamers and this was a way to shield illegal immigrant children from deportation and so again the new order would also make DACA recipients eligible for Obamacare. Lest you think that's all you know better and that is the administration also is crafting

[00:15:21] a plan to streamline the process for undocumented students and other illegal immigrants to receive temporary work visas and it's pretty clear what is being intended and that is amnesty without having to go through Congress to pass it.

[00:15:39] Now you might say why are they doing this because it is not popular at all don't take my word for it this article which I would like you to read its three pages but I'm just

[00:15:50] summarizing two of the pages but a poll taken by CBS found that over 60% of Americans including a majority of Hispanics, Hispanic Americans favor mass deportations of all illegal immigrants living in the country right now.

[00:16:10] Now if indeed the president who actually was in the White House before Joe Biden that is Donald Trump comes into office and decides to start deporting maybe those percentages will go down but it illustrates that right now this isn't a real popular action.

[00:16:29] The argument is well let's try to tie it into the 12th anniversary of DACA but I think there is also a realization on the part of some in the White House that although they hope

[00:16:41] they would have eight years to change the country in dramatic ways they're looking even at the possibility that a poor debate appearance by President Biden a week from tomorrow might actually assure that Donald Trump would be the next president they now are maybe thinking

[00:17:01] we only have a few months so we're going to do anything we can even if it's unpopular with the American people. What I think is so interesting is National Review's editors also went on to say that this latest immigration relief policy is again something which first President Biden

[00:17:19] said passed Congress and then he caught himself because it's just an executive order and I think we can all understand very quickly that members of Congress are going to challenge it very quickly and so Biden then told the audience folks I'm not interested in playing

[00:17:37] politics with the border with immigration and that's when the editors said you know from any possible angle this was disgraceful to say because for the starters President Biden has in fact played politics with the border and he did so again in his speech when he

[00:17:53] pretended that it was Trump and the Republicans that were actually standing in the way of being able to deal with the problem and so if you go and look at what was actually passed

[00:18:07] by the House that was never considered by the Senate or what was proposed by the Senate and had no chance of passing either the Senate or the House you can see that it's really

[00:18:18] been the Democratic Senate that has been the stop or at least the roadblock probably a better way to say it for all of this and again Congress has not passed the policies that Joe Biden has wanted and it's not actually an accident because of course the mistrust

[00:18:36] the Democratic Party had of addressing the roots and that is actually having a wall at the border and as we get to the bottom of the hour I think it would be good just

[00:18:48] to remind ourselves again that we are in the midst of dealing with some really difficult issues we have heard people for example saying that we've got a crisis at the border well that's true and certainly Americans want someone to deal with the crisis at the border in terms

[00:19:06] of border security and for all of the words being spread right now we're not seeing that we want of course common sense immigration laws and yet this seems to be something that those in power want to ignore and the first action from the President in the last few

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[00:23:08] of the station and now here again is Kirby Anderson final half hour let me just mention that tomorrow we will have Ronnie Floyd with us then we're gonna be talking about the Joseph

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[00:24:00] commentaries on Corinth I think you will enjoy that and really just a reminder of when Corinth existed then when it didn't and what it was like under the Roman Empire when Paul was there so

[00:24:12] we'll talk about some of that and Jeff Mateer will be back with us so lots of things that we'll be talking about as the week unfolds let me just mention my commentary today is called student

[00:24:22] walkouts and I recognize that school is out of session we already have a planned and are beginning to work on a school edition for Outlook magazine for when young people get back to school

[00:24:37] but there are some things we can do while school is not in session and one of those is what I write about today in terms of school and student walkouts what we've had is a situation in which

[00:24:50] ever since especially various groups have recognized that they can protest in the schools and have been given a great deal of latitude from administrations that don't want to enact any kind of discipline we've had successive waves of disorder and lawlessness protest about racism

[00:25:11] walkouts about guns pro-homose demonstrations and the rest and then you had of course speakers shouted down Jewish students and conservative students threatened and we have to recognize especially when we're talking about middle school or high school we have students not only walking off campus

[00:25:29] but they're even being encouraged by the school sometimes and even authorized by the faculty because what is happening is civic education has been kind of co-opted into a pretext for political activism

[00:25:45] under euphemisms like civic engagement or action civics and so you might say well yeah but don't students have constitutional rights? Well that's true. The Supreme Court ruled in a very famous case, Tinker v. Des Moines

[00:25:57] that students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door or schoolhouse gate but that was a case involving students allowing them to wear black armbands to class because they were protesting the Vietnam War but that wasn't about allowing kids to just all of a sudden

[00:26:17] walk off campus without any supervision from the school. Now there are all sorts of concerns about student safety and the school's liability and also we recognize that sometimes students are sort of forced into it, they're given extra credit if they go and protest

[00:26:34] there's teacher pressure, there's peer pressure and so my suggestion is while school is out the administrators craft some policies with some teeth in it to prevent some of this happening during the fall. If not and we have the same kind of lackadaisical attitude

[00:26:52] we're going to have more problems not fewer. So again that's my commentary today and if you know somebody that's on a school board, you know somebody who's a teacher or principal I hope you'll take the time to photocopy it and send it on to them.

[00:27:06] Which brings me to just a mention for yesterday. Yesterday of course was our Millennial Roundtable so I didn't have a chance to talk about my commentary but it was on central bank digital currencies, CBDCs

[00:27:18] and I've written about this before but I thought it was time to write about it again because this is another issue that I think you can start seeing some divisions. President Biden actually a year ago signed an executive order which was in Congress

[00:27:34] encouraging the Federal Reserve to study the feasibility of digital currency. Now all of a sudden they're starting to say well maybe we should look at cryptocurrencies for the first time but what a difference from former President Donald Trump

[00:27:50] who has on numerous occasions said that he is on record opposing CBDCs and would like to have more Bitcoin mining in the United States and all sorts of other things so there's another good example of a real significant choice between administrations

[00:28:08] and let's recognize you may not like who the President is or who the Vice President is but you have to begin to pay attention to the policies that that particular President or Vice President would enact over the next four years and that's important.

[00:28:22] If you don't know the dangers of CBDCs, let me just mention it would make it much easier for governments to freeze financial resources. Look at what happened in Canada when they didn't have CBDCs. Imagine what they would be able to do if they had that

[00:28:36] and of course it would give an opportunity for the central bank, that'd be the Federal Reserve to airdrop money, what they call helicopter drops of money but also if there are shrinking balances they could actually put together negative interest rates on various banks

[00:28:54] or various amounts and that's just bureaucratic speak for taking your money out of your account. So there are lots of dangers, we can do a whole program on it but I think if you've done any study at all you know that that is dangerous

[00:29:10] and with that as background let me get to the next piece by our good friend Cal Thomas. It actually has the interesting title until you get into the data from great orators to gobbly-gook and what he's talking about is that there was a time not so long ago

[00:29:28] when we used to think about some great oratory in the halls of Congress from candidates and politicians and the rest and now you kind of have a real question about how incompetent some of those individuals are.

[00:29:45] So he takes a shot at President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris who was talking about the fact that she really supports community banks because they're in the community. Oh boy, but the bigger one is actually a reference to something

[00:30:00] I mentioned before when we were talking with Chuck Bantley this interview that was done with Jarrett Bernstein. Now Jarrett Bernstein if you're not familiar was the chairman of the President's Economic Group and he actually was interviewed about this whole idea

[00:30:17] of whether or not the Federal Reserve prints money and to be fair to Jarrett Bernstein I've talked about this before I've since heard that maybe he had a stroke so he wasn't maybe on the top of his game

[00:30:31] but even individuals that are on the top of their game cannot even come close to explaining the value and the fiscal sanity which is of course insanity of the modern monetary theory because you have in the transcript here Bernstein begins by saying the government can't go broke

[00:30:53] because we can print our own money so the interviewer says well that obviously begs the question why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we can print ourselves and you get a long pause and you get well I mean some things get in some of the language

[00:31:07] and some of the language and concepts just get confused after a while you just get this incredible word salad about the government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money which is why the government definitely prints money and then leads that money by selling bonds

[00:31:21] is that what they do? he says confused well yeah they sell bonds they sell bonds right so they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them their money and yeah and then he seems more confident so a lot of times

[00:31:33] it just goes into another word salad and at the end you're going and this person is the head of the economic policy council for the president of the United States and it just brings me back to not wanting to make fun of Jared Bernstein

[00:31:51] or Kamala Harris or anybody else but just a reminder so often I run into people say well let the government deal with that and I often times say they're just not that smart I wish I could say that I have met some very intelligent people in Congress

[00:32:09] and some that actually work in the executive branch but most of these people are way over their head in terms of what they're trying to do and they have very few management skills and they really don't really in many cases know what they're talking about

[00:32:26] and this is just a perfect example of how once you put a camera and a microphone in front of individuals who we assume are in control of our economy you get such unbelievably bizarre answers or as Cal Thomas says gobbledygook and so once again I remind you

[00:32:49] you would assume that people that are in the Office of National Security would really be focused on all sorts of wire reports maybe watching radar maybe trying to make sense of all the intelligence coming in but they had time to go and get their fingernails painted

[00:33:07] because after all it's Pride Month and then get to actually leave their post and go to hear more about diversity, equity and inclusion more about pride more about transgenderism and then we're supposed to feel safe from this government and I think it is just a reminder once again

[00:33:28] that pay attention to who you're going to elect to office because these people do run your lives and many times it's becoming more and more obvious they really don't know what they're talking about let's take a break we'll be back with more right after this You're listening to

[00:33:48] Point of View Your listener supported source for truth One of the individuals we've had on the program a couple of times both in studio and by phone is Dennis Prager and of course we tend to quote from him on a regular basis and this is no exception

[00:34:09] he wrote a piece the other day that I entitled Germans and Palestinians I'm going to just excerpt parts of it as you might imagine he writes sometimes essay long treatises but it's a reminder again that as he said Germans even during the Hitler era were a better people

[00:34:23] than the Palestinians that seems like a pretty remarkable statement to make so let's see how he makes it he says even in the Nazi era there was a German and a Palestinian and a Palestinian let's see how he makes it he says even after the burnings rapes

[00:34:41] and mutilations and murders of Jews I am not alone in noting one moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis he says the Nazis tried to hide their crimes against Jews from the German people in the world while Hamas proudly publicized their crimes against the Jews to the Palestinian

[00:35:01] people and didn't mind that the world would inevitably be liberated captured Jews dead or alive clothed and naked in front of cheering Palestinian crowds in Gaza this leads to a sobering realization I was aware of the first point but I really hadn't thought about the second point

[00:35:19] and that is Hamas boasting to their fellow Palestinians about what they did to Jews while the Nazis tried to hide what they did from fellow Germans means there's not only a moral difference between Hamas and Nazis but here's the key Hamas has been a threat to the Jewish

[00:35:37] people during the Nazi era and the Palestinian people today for at least the last 100 years and so he goes on to remind us that given the fact that there's no sense of horror on the part of Palestinians about all the atrocities that they've committed against Jews and certainly

[00:36:02] no sense of horror in favor of Hamas it does tell you something and he says morally speaking it would be difficult to name a less impressive people than the Palestinians over the past century for those who do not understand that generalization my definition and there are exceptions

[00:36:24] I would note there are and have always been noble Palestinian individuals but the cumulative of the Holocaust is a very complicated issue and it's not the only thing that is so complicated in terms of the history of the Holocaust and the history of the Holocaust in general is

[00:37:05] complicated and I have a small piece of information on the Holocaust and you can see all sorts of material about that he quotes from what happened in Yugoslavia and what again actually was happening even before the establishment

[00:37:37] of the state of Israel. But then he says, before describing decades of Palestinian butchery of Jews in Israel, it is also important to note the moral record of the Palestinian people with regard to the Arabs. The Palestinians came to be widely loathed

[00:37:53] in the Arab world for good reason. Wherever they went in large numbers they created havoc. And he mentions one particular story that I've talked about on this air, but it's worth mentioning again. In 1970, Palestinian terrorists hijacked Trans World Airlines, Swissair

[00:38:10] and Pan Am airplanes. A few days later they hijacked a British Oversea Airways Corporation, now called British Air. And Palestinian terrorists segregated the flight crews and the Jewish passengers keeping 56 Jewish hostages in custody while releasing the non-Jews. So now you had five planes that were hijacked.

[00:38:31] Three of them were landed in a desert airstrip in Jordan. And these hijacks basically, plus the Palestinian violence led to the Jordanian-Palestinian Civil War. If you're not familiar with that I guess you could look up later the so-called Black September terrorist group and all of the rest.

[00:38:51] And as a result what you found was eventually Jordan came in to deal with the issue. And so again he goes through that in some detail and then just gives this incredible list that goes on for two pages of key elements in which you have Palestinians

[00:39:10] killing Jews, Palestinians murdering Jews whenever possible, blowing up school and municipal buses filled with passengers, blowing up Passover seders and weddings and pizza parlors full of families, wherever else Jews were assembled. On a regular basis they stabbed and shot to death Jews

[00:39:29] who were simply going about their daily business. To cite a few examples and then he starts giving us examples from 1970 all the way up to the present. And the number of examples is really pretty amazing. But then after going on for two pages from 1970 to 2003

[00:39:52] then he says the brief list is nowhere near exhaustive. But he says according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research as of 2022 a majority of Palestinians support terror acts against Israel Jews. Moreover the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank has been paying more than

[00:40:11] three hundred million dollars annually, about eight percent of the Palestinian budget, to families of imprisoned terrorists and of terrorists killed while engaging in an act of terror against Jews. Another Palestinian poll states that the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank, over 75 percent,

[00:40:32] support Hamas at this time. And he concludes by saying Palestinian people love killing Jews and have loved doing so for nearly a century. Palestinian women routinely pass out candy in the streets in celebration for terror acts against Jews. Compare that to Israel

[00:40:50] which has many human rights organizations holding Israel to account regarding its treatment of Palestinians. Compare this to Israelis who for years had volunteered to drive Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza to receive medical treatments in Israeli hospitals. To be pro-Palestinian today means being pro-Hamas

[00:41:12] just as to be pro-German during World War II was the same as being pro-Nazi. The only difference, Dennis Prager says, is that Germans as a whole were a better people than Palestinians. And if you support the Palestinians

[00:41:27] you should know whom you support. Of course there are exceptions and of course we have young children that grow up not actually hating Jewish people but then when they go to the schools and learn that they are to kill Jewish people

[00:41:40] and when there are rewards given out for those who do kill Jewish people you can see the problem and that the figure of 75 percent even in the West Bank I think is low when you compare to the attitude of those

[00:41:56] in the Gaza Strip. So tomorrow we're going to talk about what is happening in the Israel-Gaza war and what we can do to support individuals whether on one side of this battle or the other with food and medicine and other things that certainly

[00:42:12] need to take place. But if you would like to read this piece by Dennis Prager, I've left out more than I've given you and for no other reason then it's pretty gruesome the various attacks against Israelis over these years.

[00:42:25] You can read it and it's one of the many articles we've posted on the website at pointofview.net. Don't forget of course we talked with our good friend Dr. Ed Uszynski about untangling critical race theory what Christians need to know and why it matters

[00:42:40] and that information also is on our website at pointofview.net One last time if you can support this ministry we would greatly appreciate that as we get closer to fiscal year-end we would certainly appreciate your support appreciate the good work that is done by two women today

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[00:43:37] we must not as Winston Churchill said to Britain in the darkest days of World War II never give in never give in never never never never yield to force never yield to the apparently overwhelming might

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