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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: Are They Planning the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem?
Date: 03/06/2026 Length: 00:44:05
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Welcome Happy Warriors to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show where I your rabbi and I or
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me, think
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about this, reveal how the world
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really works, and we are right at the outset, going to apologize for the sounds of passing traffic. There might even be the sound of an air raid siren or the sound of an Iron Dome explosion, because we are actually outdoors and we are also out of Jerusalem. Where are we? So we are now in the town of zekron, Yaakov. It is about, oh, maybe 10 miles south of Haifa. So it's more of Northern it's more North than Jerusalem. And we have a daughter, a son in law, and four grandchildren who live here, and we are visiting them. And this town, actually, we also have a studio audience in the form of a very special grandson who I would suggest, comes and makes
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a guest appearance. This is URI, our very special grandson, and URI is letting us stay at his house. And URI, what do you give me whenever I need
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coffee? Yeah, right. Or is a special coffee, and you know how to make coffee, right? Coffee specialist,
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okay, good. And here is Ariella, but you'd have to come around this side Ariella. And that way we can say, if you come just behind us between grandma and me, there you are. Alright, terrific. That's Ariella who is, how old?
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1010, years old. So that's just by way of where we find ourselves now, because, as some of you may already know, we were scheduled to be back in the United States by now already
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several to three or four days a few days ago. So at any rate, here we are on the eve of Shabbat. It's Friday afternoon, and in only a few hours,
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eight on what time is Shabbat here,
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11 minutes past five, everything is going to go quiet, and
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the sun will sink below the horizon, and it will be 25
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hours of Shabbat. So we're very eager to have a little bit of a conversation with you before that happens, so is that we can bring you up to date with where we are and what's going on. So
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I think what will come back to the news of the hour, but I think most of you are probably up on that. It's being very accurately reported, and
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the Hour will be totally different.
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We will tell you this, that not only is there extraordinary bravery and resilience, where did we go? Oh, he's here. Okay, here you are. Not only is there extraordinary bravery and resilience among Israelis during this really nerve wracking time and but there's something else that's going on as well, and that is these two things. Number one, there is a deep attachment
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to and a strong connection with the land of Israel. Israelis feel deeply connected in a way that I don't think all Americans do. Obviously, many do, but there are many people who've immigrated to America over the last decade or three that I don't think feel any strong attachment. They've come to America because it's a land of opportunity. They've come for the freedom. They've come for the economic possibilities. But that's not the feeling among the vast majority of the people you run into on the busses and on the trains and on the streets of the cities and in the shelters and and we have already found ourselves, I think, in in maybe two or three public shelters, because the sirens went off while we were on the streets and there's just a feeling of, you know, here we are. We're not going anywhere, and we're not running, we're not fleeing, and so
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we're going to do whatever it takes. So that very much is one part of the attitude, and the other one is, I've spoken about this before, optimism, and I think that optimism is one of the great gifts of the.
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Judeo, Christian, Bible based religion. I do believe that it is the most reliable source for a constant high level maintenance of a state of optimism. I think that has to do with the large number of children, not just right here on today's broadcast in the form of URI and Ariella, but in the country at large, because, as has been proven again and again in the rapidly diminishing European nations, economic incentives do not appear to make the slightest bit of difference to a nation's fertility. And so the idea that people are not having children because they're worried about the future, or they're worried about dangers, or they're worried about climate change, or they don't have the money, or they're worried about childcare, I think all of that is
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is complete unadulterated bilge water. People have children when they feel optimistic. And I think it's the opposite of a vicious cycle. It's almost the blessed cycle. Children lead to optimism. Leads to children, just about to say, and children lead to optimism. Yeah, that's exactly right.
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So you'll pardon me not wearing a tie and jacket. I usually try and be more formally dressed for podcasts, but, but in Israel,
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I feel a little bit of an odd mod wearing a tie and jacket, because it's just not part of the culture
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and and so here we are in our Children's and grandchildren's home, and
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we wanted to share some of the observations that we have with you. But first of all, something I think more, I don't want to say alarming, because I'm not feeling alarmed. Neither Susan, nor I are feeling beset by worry or concern. We, you know, like, like all everyone around us, we deal with what we have to deal with, and we do so in optimism and above all, in gratitude to he who is ultimately in charge. As Psalms 121, verse four, says, The Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. And my goodness, do you feel that right here where we are today? Susan,
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you like that? You do know, have you ever noticed on newscasts when one guy on the newscast runs out of things? Well,
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I think we're actually are a little short of time today. So we want to focus in very specifically on one thing and well, it's not one but it's examples of one thing, which is that increasingly there are an incredible number of lies that are be are spread around. They've been being spread around for years. They exacerbated and they got more after October, after the massacre, after it was a massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023 somehow the lies it that emboldened Islamists and that emboldened them to spread lies. And the bottom line is that the majority, certainly people in the United States, but in Europe as well, the majority of Western civilization, after decades, are rather uneducated. You know, I remember being a teenager. I was a teenager during the Vietnam War. What did I know from Vietnam? I had a cousin who was fighting, but that was about
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it. And I kept on, okay, wait, which side are we North Vietnam or South Vietnam? Just because I didn't know, I wasn't familiar. And also, it was very far that war was very far from Brooklyn. It was very far away. But I remembered, like not to say to myself, which side is, which side are we on? I don't remember, and I feel like there's had someone said lies or past lies, I would have been very susceptible. And we're hearing a lot of lies about, not only Israel, about Judaism, and they're absurd, and they're so absurd that it really is. It's not even gaslighting, but it's somebody handing you an orange and saying, oh, have this apple. And everybody around you is saying they've been psychological studies of this, things like this happening where everyone a room is is, is
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in on the picture, except for one person, right? There,
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Solomon, Ash, right? That was the line experiment, right? Interesting. Yes. Do you want to explain that quickly? Because, literally, that is what's happening. You know, we really sought with covid, and it's crowd psychosis, psychosis written about most effectively by Matthias DeSmet, who is a Belgium scholar, and he's written about this idea of how crowds can more easily be persuaded of things than an individual can, in other words, the ordinary skepticism that you and I feel when told something that sounds just a little bit weird.
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If it really sounds weird enough, we'd need considerable validation and assurance and perhaps evidence that it actually is so, however, oddly enough, in a crowd of people who are visibly succumbing to the misinformation that imposes somehow psychological pressure and all of us become more susceptible to propaganda and distortion when we're part of a crowd and the the Solomon ash example, one of them is that
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he has a group of 10 or 15 students all agreed that when he puts two lines up on The board labeled A and B, and he asks Which one is longer? Everyone is immediately going to shout out, A is longer. And he then draws on the board two lines where B is obviously longer than a, and a new person comes into the class who is not party to the initial agreement arrived at by the group, and at one point, after drawing the lines, short, a, long, B, he then says, Now, please tell me which line is the longer line. Everybody shouts out a, and the person and the camera focuses in on the guy who's just come in, and you see him change his he was going to say B, but he look everyone else, and he also puts up his hand for a as well. So that's where they're looking at the line, and they have the evidence of their own eyes. When it comes to Israel and Judaism, most people are working in relative ignorance. There's no reason we don't expect people to know about any of the theological
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depths of Judaism. Why? Why should they? It's
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you know any more than we don't know the depths of
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theology. Or Yeah, right, so, and most people have not visited Israel and or don't have relatives here and friends here, and so all the more so when you read something and quite frankly, Tucker Carlson has been disseminating, and Kansas Owens have been disseminating tremendous lies. And we want to just discuss some of those, because we fully accept that you have the right to say. How do I know it's a lie? So you just have to decide maybe you'll believe us. I just know when we want to discuss. You know, a few. All right, well, we'll, we won't dilute it too much, but we'll, we'll start off with, I think, just one. Okay, pick, one, pick, anyone. I've got four. I can, I think of that he's been disseminating, really, that you want to. We have time for it. I'm just saying, Tell me which. Okay, well, the most recent, okay, and we're, we're recording this early in March. What's it about? The sixth of March? So,
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so one of the most recent that we're hearing, and it's so interesting, because
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these things betray
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a lack of
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a lack of diligence, because no maliciousness. I think it's malicious. You think it's even malice? Well, I think it's, you know, thinking back to and I don't think she's ever retract. Well, maybe she has, I shouldn't say, I don't know, but Candace Owen said how bad it is in Israel because Muslims are confined to the Muslim Quarter.
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And of course, this is the provoked gales of laughter, because every waiter in every restaurant in which we had a meal over the last few weeks, I'd say,
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people live with Muslim neighbors saying, Oh, I hear San Francisco has a Chinatown China. Chinese people are restricted. They may only live in China. That's exactly that is the equivalent. It's just simply ridiculous. It's
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ridiculous. I mean, five minutes of research, one question on Google and and she'd have known. So I think it was malicious. I don't believe this was but it's interesting, then, if you have many opportunities to
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to project malice, to come up with something that is so easily laughably, you know something, there have been congressmen and there have been Supreme Court Justice nominees who will not get up and say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman. So we are? We?
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All right. So what what
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just said is that the Chabad movement is behind the war because of their eagerness to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque, the the gold dome on the Temple Mount, and they are about to get busy to rebuild the Third Temple. Well, I can't tell you how Laughably absurd this sounds to Jewish ears. That's simply that the Mosque of that Al Aqsa could be blown up that I could hear that wouldn't surprise me. That's.
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Mean that that, and it's even possible, I wouldn't rule out, the possibility, that Iran is aiming missiles and yeah, so it's a very small area, so they're from the Jewish where they're aiming at Jewish civilians, they're talking they're a mile from, not even as much as that yards away from the mosque. So that, I'm not going to say it's not going to blow up, but the idea that after is blown up, Jews will rebuild the Third Temple is completely lawful, as is the idea that Chabad, the sect. Chabad is a Hasidic sect control Judaism. Okay? So ridiculous. The leader of the Chabad movement was Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who passed away a couple of probably 20 I was going to say it's more than, I think, probably thereabouts, and I was privileged to spend half an hour with him when I first arrived in the United States of America. He was one of the rabbis that I actually came to America to meet, not knowing that I was going to remain in America and marry in America and build my life in America. But at the time I was thought I was coming for a few weeks, and so I Okay. So what is the Lubavitch movement? It is one of the very few, if not the only, evangelical outreach movement in Judaism, Jellicle to Jews. Yeah, not Yeah, that's right. So there is no movement. And this may surprise many people, but there is no movement in Judaism to gather converts, to increase the size of the Jewish people by going out and trying to enthusiastically encourage people to abandon their faith and become there's none of that. Also no belief that the only way to heaven is through Judaism. In other words, we don't have that people can go to heaven. Yeah, so, so there is no outreach on however, something that you've possibly heard me speak about many times is that only about 25%
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of those who identify as Jews in the United States of America are religious or actively observant. And when I say actively observant, I'd be talking chiefly about
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eating food only, food that corresponds to the Old Testament dietary laws we call kosher. And one of the wonderful things for us being in Israel is being able to walk into almost every restaurant knowing that we can, in fact, eat there, which is, I don't want to sound overly gastronomically focused, but it's fun. It's fun. It's great, but
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So
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only about a quarter, at most of American Jews would be would confine their food to the kosher.
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Secondly, observance of the Sabbath, as I mentioned earlier,
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at 12 minutes, or did 11 minutes past five, and we're very precise to the minute, the
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phones will go off, our computers will go off. We won't be using the cars. We'll be walking to synagogue. And again, it's only a small proportion, and you know, I wish there were more, because it's, it's a wonderful lifestyle and and then a few other areas as well, marrying somebody and building a home in accordance with with Torah laws that that's kind of what we're talking about. And so Chabad, the Lubavitch movement, sees it as their mission to go out into the streets of Israel or Chicago or Thailand, or Thailand, or in, well, I was gonna say it's not just the United States. It's, it's Jews around the world. For example, when the USSR, when the Soviet Union dissolved, you had, you had 1000s of Jews who had knew nothing of their religion. Chabad sends emissaries to the strangest places in the world. You were in Ghana and there was a Chabad. Ghana is not a strange place. Well, let's say, for someone who grew up in New York, maybe a bit exotic, but they send, they send emissaries to all sorts of places around the world, and very often, their places. Sadly, most Israelis do not necessarily, let's say, keep the Sabbath, though it's a different cat. It's a different game. It's a different animal in Israel. But very often, after army service, Israelis will trek around the world. Well, they can trek wherever, to Sri Lanka, they can trek to Thailand, to Taiwan. They will find a Chabad emissary there, because they see it as their mission to make sure there's a place for Jews if a Jew needs a
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we've occasionally been in places including Ghana, where my hosts for and the Government of Ghana and a very large church were involved.
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In bringing me to Ghana and and they arranged with the Chabad emissary in the city of Accra to provide kosher food, which they did. So yeah, it's a pretty remarkable prominent because they go all over the place, and because they make themselves very visible. When you see Hanukkah time, you see a menorah being lit, and this is why they were the massacre. The recent massacre in Sydney was a Chabad event that that they also you might remember a terrible massacre on the Jews of Bombay or Mumbai. It was Islamic terrorists who landed by boat in the harbor in Bombay and immediately headed for the Chabad House, where they killed the young emissary and his wife and their child. Their son, escaped the Indian made
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nurse, got the number the baby. So they are they do have a little bit of a target, because very often they are the most visible Jewish presence in whatever. However, despite that their visibility, they are actually a very small group, and small, not to get into theological minutiae, but there's a lot of theological differences with them and other groups, including us in Judaism, we get along, we're friendly, we'll eat each other's homes. We didn't, but it's not that, yeah, it's not into marriage. It would be, but it would be, but it's different. It is a different, slightly different theology, a little bit, oops. And so the idea that they control the Jewish world is, again, it's, it's ludicrous. It's almost like saying, oh, you know, there's this group in, I don't know, Kansas City. And they're going to, I hear them talking about something, and they're going to direct what the United States does. Not only is that ridiculous, Chabad isn't even talking about this. Also, you know what? The the inflation rate in America is set by the latter day? Saints, church out of Salt Lake, city in in Utah. Come on, really, however silly, we understand that you first of all, we were trying to think, you know, you have the phrase the aphorism where there's smoke there's fire, and we were trying to think, well, what's the opposite of that? Because, like most aphorisms, there's an element of truth. I think less so today, and I think people are because of AI and because of the internet and all sorts of things, people are more cynical and less likely. But there used to be an element, you know, an element your your your parent, you might say to a child, you know, don't hang out with those kids, because if you hang out with them, they have a bad reputation. People going to say, with this smoke, this fire, I hear she's hanging out with them. Well, there's not we couldn't think of maybe, if you can, please let us know. But we couldn't think of an opposite pithy aphorism. The best we could get was Will Rogers statement that by the time not will Rose was Mark Twain. Oh, Mark Twain. I'm sorry, who said that by the time that a lie has gone around the world twice before truth gets out of bed and puts its boots on. That's all we can say about what Kansas Owens and Tucker are saying. They are literally what they're saying is so ludicrous. It is as ludicrous as when I went to my my gynecologist and I was asked on the form, what pronoun Do you want to use? I mean, if they couldn't figure it out as a female, I don't know that that's the gynecologist I want that is where we're at in we have been it's pulling. Just to clarify, Susan, we are not saying how can Tucker and Candice to be so dumb as to say the Chabad movement caused the war.
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We're not seeing it as as
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stupidity or ignorance, we're seeing it as malice, simply because these are things that are far too easy to discredit. In other words, you only have to know the most elementary aspects of life in Israel to know that the Chabad movement doesn't have that kind of influence. It does. It's not real, and it's not what they believe either. It's not what they're they're not focused on. But we fully accept, we do understand that many, many, many people around the world do not know anything about the Chabad movement. Do not know anything about the theology of the Third Temple. Nobody is looking to build the Third Temple. And the reason for it is really, really simple, which is that in Jewish theology, instructions for building first, second or third temple have to come from the boss. It's not from the Israeli government at all. I assure you, it would never be in that kind of
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circumstance where a political pal would say, Well, now it's time to it's not in that region. There is also no rabbi.
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Do you know? I'm sure you do. There is no rabbi accepted by all the Jews of Israel. There isn't or the world, or America, or even there's no chief rabbi in America,
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there is no there is no such thing there. And in Israel, there is no political leader who all Israelis say, Yep, he's our guy. And there is certainly no rabbi. As a matter of fact, how many different certifying authorities are there to provide kosher regulatory compliance for restaurants within each city? You know, there are a lot so
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you know, and and they probably are all kosher, and they're all fine, but different groups will only eat according to the authorization of their particular Rabbi that they hold for so the idea that some rabbinic group, and this is why some people suggest, well, why can't you establish a Sanhedrin and get together your 72 rabbi? Because they don't
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exist. It's we're nowhere near that point. Jewish unity is as remote a possibility as British unity or American unity, or Swedish unity or German unity. It doesn't exist. Pretty much. The thing that unifies the Jews of Israel is we would like to be alive. We're not willing to commit suicide. And October 7 actually changed that, because before October how to how to achieve that change? Before October 7, the fact is that the majority of the people massacred in the areas that are near Gaza were the leftists. They were the they were peaceniks. They were taking their Muslim Gazan neighbors to medical appointments, and they were having joint artistic activities. And so, really, Hamas kind of murdered the peace next, and they murdered the idea for the moment that we actually can all be friends. Can all be friends. Yeah, that because they, you know, Hamas charter wants the destruction and the murder, as motorist Rodney King said in 1992
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in Los Angeles, why can't we all just be as we're under missile fire? I would say 99.9% of Israelis agree. We don't want to die. We want to live. But it's funny because, like many things, it's only when you are under a threat that you actually get united. And here's something else, which you probably already know, but I got to tell you that it really took being here for me to move this thought from my head to my heart, in other words, to move it from intellectual awareness to deep, emotional and psychological conviction. And that's really only happened over the last couple of weeks that we are here in Israel. And that is that if Israel, if, if the Arab world, I'm not going to say Arab, I'm saying if the Muslim world put down weapons. There would be a glorious period of peace. There would be a renaissance. There would be an economic golden age on these shores of the Mediterranean,
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if Israel unilaterally put down arms, well, we got October 7 would be on a nationwide basis. In other words, something that that is is shocking to realize, is that the the Palestinians and the Hamas and the Hezbollah, they don't want peace with Israel. The two state solution to them is one of the most hilarious, rolling on the floor with laughter stupid Americans,
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yeah, maybe, but they have absolutely no interest in that. It's really true, and I had to be here in order to wrap myself around it. Psychologically. They actually want all the Jews in Israel dead. Astonishingly. I mean, this is
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so there's a conflict, yep,
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something else also, which is the idea that America is now on a war, in war with Iran, because of the Jews and Israel. And that is,
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I understand how people could easily believe that, partially, what that is, is chosen blindness. Islam is at war with the world, with the West. And quite frankly, if they, God forbid, managed to, if, if Israel disappeared, just disappeared. There was a, you know, an Aladdin had had a lamp, and he rubbed it, and the genie came out and and he said, make Israel, you know, put put all the Jews elsewhere. Let's not kill them. Let's scatter them around. At that point, it would be as if the cage was taken off the Lion's Lair, and it would now pounce on America. It's already pouncing on Europe. And actually, we're going to give a link to a an interview. It's over an hour. I really advise you to listen to it. It's, I'm not.
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Sure I'm pronouncing his name right, but Peter Bogosian, does that sound right? Is interviewing a Frenchman, and what I liked about it, they're talking about the Islamist threat. France is on the verge of of not being France anymore because of the Islamist
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horse cultural, cultural influence. And it's an important to listen to because what I liked about it is the word Jew, or Israel. I think it came up once the word Jew in the middle of the thing for a second, and then the last five minutes it came up. It is the Islamists are at war with the West.
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That I think people don't always realize is that religion has been de emphasized in America, in England, Christianity is almost over, almost over. Yeah, those English people who do not identify as Muslims, it's not as if they all identify as Church of England. And as a matter of fact, when I gave speeches in England a few years ago, it was very interesting to see that Church of England churches were empty, evangelical churches, very often led by charismatic and effective pastors from Africa, from Ghana, from Nigeria, from Zimbabwe, remarkable guys doing good work in England. But those are the churches that are thriving. My point is that the United States State Department, as well as London's Westminster, where the government is located, is peopled primarily by bureaucrats who have never, ever known anybody willing to die for their religion, to die for God and and so they have trouble understanding Muslims. And to be honest, they have trouble understanding Jews, because the there was a notion, this is many years ago. You know, we could move all the Jews in Israel to New Jersey, and never mind what New Jersey would have to say about that, although we'll probably bring about a cultural and economic renaissance for New Jersey. But we could do that, and that'll bring peace to the Middle East. No, it actually won't. That's not how it works. And so
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battle is and again, I for for a de tribalized white person or black person, for that matter, in the United States of America who is detached from faith. To hear me say that this is an existential and historic clash of cultures between the biblical faiths of the Bible and the culture of the Quran. That's what this is really all about. Now, I'm sure some of you are saying, Yeah, you know, he'll, he'll come to his senses when he's back in the United States right now, he's drinking the Israeli Kool Aid. I don't think so. I do think this is a struggle between two competing religions, and Islam is serious about winning, because Christianity and Judaism are on the same size as not Islam and one other, no, it's Islam and the biblical, Biblical faith, yeah, but it's also, there's also an element the world has gotten smaller. I mean, we just have, right you can get from one end to the other rather quickly. There's an element of China's involvement. It's very easy to say, ah, Jews have made wonderful scapegoats throughout millennia. So it's very easy, if you can get everybody believing, oh, this is all about the Jews. This is all about Israel. Bad parties get to act and you're not paying any attention to them. There is a heavy Islamist. Obviously, there's an Islamist desire to reconquer parts of the West. They used to have Spain, they had Turkey, they had all sorts of places they want to reconquer and conquer new territories such as America. And the fact is that having a Mamdani elected mayor of New York and having certain congressmen and in St Louis and in Missouri and places they are doing so. But there's also an element of China's involvement and Russia's involvement. It is not simple. It's too simple to say China's involvement needs to people should really explore that. There's quite a lot of good information out there, but the linkages between Iran and China were things that I wasn't aware of until I started looking into it during this past week. But 15% of China's oil comes from Iran. A huge proportion of China, of Iran's foreign currency comes from China. Through that transaction,
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Iran has switched technologically to dependence on Chinese technology, not Western technology. I did not even know until this week. I never even knew that China has a competing global positioning satellite.
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System. I've always thought GPS is ours, and I've always thought to myself, you know, how generous America is to let the whole world use our GPS system. And you know, I'm sure in a time of war, America could adjust it and degrade aspects of it for for general usage. But how silly of me not to have realized that China knows that as well, and they've set up their own GPS system.
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I think that kind of like this quote, If you want to have the good guys and the bad guys, the bad guys are counting on the fact that most Westerners today have a very short attention span. They have a very poor education of both geography and history, and they have a desire for simple, glib answers. Look, we, you know, we all know our attention span is less than it used to be, and so there's a counting on and the blame it on the Jews and blame it on Israel is just a really, really handy
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thing that if you can get people to go that way, and Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are doing. So if you can get people to go with that, and young Americans and young Europeans are increasingly doing that, then you can conquer anyway. Look at the Chinese connection. It's really interesting because in the same way that Iran has prospered mightily by having proxies to execute its dirty work in Hezbollah in Lebanon and in Hamas
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and the Houthis in Yemen in exactly the same way, China benefits enormously by having an outpost in the Middle East in the form of Iran. And I'm quite sure that, well, I'm more than sure that the President and his advisors are fully aware. Obviously, if I know about it.
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But the Chinese dimension is, a very, very interesting one, which two weeks ago I had not fully understood. I'm not sure I fully understand it now, but I see now what a major factor really is, I think we're kind of coming to the end. But you said, what were the other things?
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Just one of the lies is that Israel is an apartheid society, which, again, five minutes in Israel will make that clear, debunk that one, five minutes of knowledge. Yeah.
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Another one is Tucker Carlson has had two competing ones, which is very common with with anti semitic tropes, is they can conflict. They can contradict each other. You just would, some people will buy one and some people will buy the other. So one in the same time, he has that do we've heard that people have been had screams. People, you know, Jews walking on the street, have had people screaming that. Go back to Poland. The fact is, over 50% of the Jews in Israel come from Muslim countries. They were kicked out of Muslim countries like Iran, oh yeah, Iraq and Egypt and Syria. And at the same time, he said, Oh, actually, the Jews don't have a a
Susan Lapin 37:50
descent. They come from the converts from the kazars, which is, again, is easy to debunk from a DNA perspective, we actually are one of the few people who can show a DNA limit his patron, oh, thank you. That's that is one of the things about Israel that we don't care for so much, is people New York. You didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in New York. People lean on their horns. I mean,
Susan Lapin 38:17
let me just finish. Okay, leaning on it can be being in traffic, can be quite definitely or even trying to cross the road. Can I tell you something? I took the baby first for a walk in her stroller today, and I was I not once, not twice, but about five or six times, every single time I came to an intersection when I wasn't even at the intersection, I was on the sidewalk heading towards the intersection. Cars waited for me to cross with that baby. Yeah, it's
Daniel Lapin 38:44
the the optimism and the presence, or let me put it as well, the optimism and the fertility
Susan Lapin 38:49
is an equation the celebration of children. It's a culture that celebrates children. You can't go very far before coming across a park. Assumption is you're going to have your children with you in a restaurant, it's, it just is a very child centric and child celebratory. And I got to tell you, it's, it's nice. There's no question about it. You can see how much optimism is beamed into the atmosphere by lots of kids around but the bottom line is that, unfortunately, there's
Susan Lapin 39:23
anything quick and easy, is probably a lie, frankly, and we can, maybe we can put, also a another link to have you read to Gore on China, yes. And we'll put to the the French, the discussion of how France is losing itself. It may be gone already, and it may not be, by the way, I was checking birth rates. Okay, this may be of interest to you. I decided to find a group of industrialized countries with the same population as Israel, and I did they are hungry, Greece, Portugal and Sweden. And I checked birth.
Daniel Lapin 40:00
Birth rates, and they're all around about 60,000 new babies a year. And I thought, you know, it's a tangible figure, instead of giving you, you know, saying that the birth rate in these countries is the fertility rate is way down, and it's only 1.7
Daniel Lapin 40:18
all of that's true, and these countries are in real, real problems, and providing financial incentives and promising daycare not helping one little bit, but nonetheless, about 60 to 70,000 new babies a year in Greece, in Hungary, in Portugal, Sweden, with the same population as Israel, is off the charts. It's like 98,000 new babies a year. And I was a little bit baffled, until I thought, oh, it suddenly hit me, I need to dig deeper and get a more granulated picture, because Sweden has a very, very, very large Muslim population. Well, sure enough, the figure in Sweden of Swedish non Muslim babies only about 50,000 it's the lowest of all these countries. But counting Muslim in other words, Muslim births are more than half the births in Sweden at the moment, you tell me if that bodes well for Swedish culture, Swedish society, and the country of Sweden and so with all these countries in the 60 to 70,000 babies a year, Israel, 200,000 babies in a year, and 80% of them are Jewish. About 18 or 19% are hard to be a Christian number, and very small. And then, and then Muslim. Can I go back just to something you said at the very beginning of the show, because I just think it's important point to make you mentioned against or when we're saying about apartheid, and you mentioned Arab waiters that could still be under an apartheid because, right, they're Muslim, but it's Muslim members of the Supreme Court,
Susan Lapin 41:55
friend who's who's doing medicine at the University. If you go to a hospital, your chances of having a Muslim nurse or a Muslim doctor are very high and medical school, so, yeah, significant proportion. So some apartheid to call some Israel an apartheid state, is, is, I don't, I can't even think
Daniel Lapin 42:16
so. I fully accept that Tucker Carlson and Canis Owens for reasons of their own, and I have no idea what those reasons are, but they've developed an irrational problem with Jews and with Israel that's useful for them, whatever, for reasons. But what I don't understand is why they're doing it foolishly to say that Chabad is behind the wall. You know, I'm sorry it or saying that Arabs are confined to the Muslim Quarter. It's, it's strange things for intelligent people be saying, I can only assume that
Daniel Lapin 42:56
they have a very low opinion of their audience, yeah, they've got to, they've got to be thinking to themselves, I don't believe that they are that misinformed. That can't be. I don't believe tuck in. They've got, they've got staff. They're big organizations. They are not that badly informed, so they know that they're promoting rubbish. They must have a low opinion of their audience, because otherwise, by the way, if I wanted to come up with anti Israel propaganda, I could do better than that. I don't, you know, I don't think there's a lot, but I could do better than saying the things that they're saying contempt. It's a content contempt for the people.
Daniel Lapin 43:37
We could continue, but time is racing by, so we must, for the moment, wish you for farewell and hope that in spite of the war that you are doing what most Israelis are doing, which is focusing on your families, your finances, your friendships, your fitness and your faith. We are the Lapin s. God Bless.
