Shifting gears, the episode scrutinizes the ‘gender affirming care’ practices within the medical industry, questioning ethical boundaries and institutional trust, particularly post-COVID. Insights from Dr. Simone Gold highlight a new documentary titled ‘What is a Doctor?’ which reveals alarming trends involving young patients. The episode concludes with strategic insights from Carolyn Glick on Israel’s anticipation of U.S. policy shifts. Her analysis underlines Israel’s proactive stance as it navigates myriad challenges, marked by its relationship with the U.S. and broader Middle Eastern politics.
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from the heart of our nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation’s leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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As this council has previously called for, a durable end to the war must come with the release of the hostages. These two urgent goals are inextricably linked. This resolution abandoned that necessity, and for that reason, the United States could not support it.
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That was Ambassador Robert A. Wood, alternative representative of the U.S. at the United Nations, speaking earlier today after a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza failed. Welcome to Washington Watch, and thanks for tuning in. Later in the program, we’ll hear from Carolyn Glick with her reaction to the United Nations’ attempt to impose a ceasefire in Gaza without addressing the return of Israeli hostages. The ongoing Biden administration is raising the stakes in Ukraine.
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I can confirm, as you heard the Secretary of Defense speak to earlier today, that we are providing the Ukrainian government with non-persistent anti-personnel landmines. We have been providing them with anti-tank landmines for some time, but this is the first time we are providing them with anti-personnel landmines.
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That was State Department spokesman Matthew Miller earlier today. We’ll be joined shortly by Alabama Senator Coach Tommy Tuberville. And is it really about the well-being of children or is it about the money?
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We are performing surgeries on these children that have neither the capacity to make these life-changing decisions nor the wisdom to know the difference. And we are telling them, this is your quick fix-all. And we are creating complications that require multiple surgeries. And the only people benefiting is the medical industrial complex because the more surgeries that are done, the more money that’s made.
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That was Dr. Melanie Kreitz-Backert, who is featured in a new documentary, What is a Doctor? Later, Dr. Simone Gold, founder and president of America’s Frontline Doctors, will join us to discuss this new documentary.
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And finally… Despite losing by nearly 20,000 votes… Despite the fact the AP and decision desk have called the race for Dave McCormick, Senator Casey is refusing to concede.
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That was Republican Senator Steve Daines, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, earlier today discussing the Pennsylvania Senate race. Brent Kylan, vice president for strategic initiatives with FRC Action, will join us to provide the latest updates on election results across the United States. Stay tuned because we’ve got a packed program for you this evening. By the way, I invite you to join us for Operation Prayer Shield, which is a collective prayer effort in which we’ll seek God’s divine protection and guidance over our nation during this transition from one administration to the next. As you can tell from the stories we’re covering each and every day, there’s a lot at stake. The world is already volatile. And the decisions made in the next two months could make the situation even more intense. So join us. Text SHIELD, that’s S-H-I-E-L-D, to 67742. That’s SHIELD to 67742. You’ll receive weekly alerts, prayer points, and more. So text SHIELD to 67742. Over the past nearly four years, a hallmark of the Biden administration’s foreign policy has been the avoidance of moves that they feared could lead to escalation of international conflict. But since the decisive victory of President-elect Donald Trump, that appears to have changed. Late yesterday, President Biden approved sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine, reversing a previous policy. And this comes just days after the White House gave the green light for Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles that will strike deep within Russia. What could be behind these moves and what could the effects be? Joining me now to discuss this and more is Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. He serves on four Senate committees, including the Armed Services Committee. Coach, welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to see you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, Tony, how are you?
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m doing well, sir. Thank you. What do you make of the latest move by the Biden administration?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it’s just trying to dig a deeper hole for President Trump when he takes office, Tony. That’s all they’re trying to do. He’s trying to put his legacy in. Unfortunately, the only thing that this is going to do is going to get more people killed on both sides, more people injured. It’s not going to prove anything. Listen, number one, Ukraine can’t win. They never could win this fight. It’s just been a money laundering scheme from day one. Obviously, we would love for Ukraine to be able to push back against Russia, but that has not been possible. Now, we have spent $218 billion, Tony, on this war. to this point and spending, by the way, our allies, NATO allies and the world have only spent $52 billion. So the American taxpayers have funded almost all of this war. We’ve made no progress. They’re losing more every day in Ukraine in terms of of their land. And, uh, Joe Biden just escalated it. And it scares me to death because, uh, you know, president Trump’s going to come in. He’s going to try to put some sense of reality in this, but they’re making it worse and worse. And that’s all by design.
SPEAKER 19 :
Do you think in these next two months during this window of transition, that this could escalate beyond the borders of, of those two countries?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I think that, uh, the, the guy that’s got, uh, More common sense than anybody is Vladimir Putin. Now, he is dead wrong of what he did of coming into another country. But he said, you know, I’m coming in, I’m protecting my Russian people in Ukraine. But at the end of the day, this was not our fight. We should have gone in there. And even Vladimir Putin wanted, after two months, decided to call a peace treaty to this. But we called it off. They had a peace treaty done in Istanbul, Turkey, about two months after the war started. And we talked Zelensky out of making peace. And so blood is on Joe Biden’s hands. And he’s going to go out with this all being on on his watch, and again, he’s making it tough for President Trump to put any kind of end to this, but President Trump will end this. I don’t know how he’s gonna do it, but he’s the best negotiator in the world. We have zero negotiators in the Pentagon or the White House as we speak.
SPEAKER 19 :
What do you make of Vladimir Putin’s announcement that they’re lowering the threshold for the decision to use nuclear weapons? Do you see that threat as real?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, not really. You know, what is he going to do? I mean, he said, listen, I don’t know whether any of these missiles have nuclear warheads on them. And so he’s having to prepare his people for anything to happen. He’s dealing with a scared leader, so-called leader in Zelensky in Ukraine. He’s dealing with a bunch of crazies in this Pentagon over here that all they’re wanting to do is keep this fight going and prove that they were right all along. But they know that they’re wrong. And again, if Joe Biden wanted to do anything other than giving more missiles to shoot into Moscow and giving mines put on the ground to kill innocent people, he would load up his plane, leave at the Amazon where he’s birdwatching, and fly to Moscow and say, okay, let’s get this done. I’m almost history as United States president, but I want to get this done. Let’s get it over with, quit killing people. But there is no sense of reality, no common sense in this White House.
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Speaking of the Department of Defense, according to reports, the Department of Defense failed its seventh consecutive audit this past Friday because it was unable to fully account for its nearly $1 trillion budget, $824 million. Does something need to be done there?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, something’s going to be done. And, you know, a new sheriff’s getting ready to be in town. His name is Donald Trump, along with his deputies, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. They are fired up about coming in and start throwing stink bombs in all these buildings in Washington, D.C., saying, get out and let’s do the accounting and let’s find out where the taxpayers’ money are going. We’re tired of spending it. Tony, the bureaucracy up here is about 10 layers deep. They never fire anybody, but By the way, nobody works in the office down here anymore. You have all these beautiful buildings here for all these bureaucrats and all these agencies, and they all work from home. And it’s time to go back to work. It’s time to work for the American people. And if you don’t want to do it, retire, do something else. But President Trump is going to get some sense of reality here. Tony, we don’t have another chance. This will be the last time in your and my lifetime we’ll have a chance to save this country. We only have two years. To do it. President Trump is going to hit the ground running and we have to put everybody on notice that you got to be accountable for every dime. And if you get that money, you spend it the right way. You spend it on the American people. You protect the American people and you do everything you possibly can to give us a chance and opportunity to lower taxes where people here can live a lot better life.
SPEAKER 19 :
So, Coach Tuberville, you’ve been here long enough to know that things are not functioning. What do you see as the top three changes you would like to see as Donald Trump comes in and you’ve got a Republican Senate and you’ve got a slim majority, but you’ve got a majority of Republicans in the House? What do you think is, number one, what needs to be done and what is possible, what’s possible to get done?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, first of all, we got to redo the tax form tax bill that President Trump put into effect a few years ago. We got to make it permanent law. We got to drop taxes for the American people. Everything that the Biden administration has done is they regulated and taxed this climate hoax that they’ve been pushing on everybody across the world, including the United States, is nothing but a tax. So we got to do the tax reform. We’ve got to close the border. We’ve got to build our military back. And we got to do something about education. We got to get God back in our schools, talk about families. We got two genders. We got to do everything possible to get back to common sense, but we got to teach these kids to read, to write, civics, history, science, the basic things, because Tony, as we speak, half the kids in this country can’t read past the sixth grade reading level. And you’ve got these teachers unions that are sucking the American people dry on $27,000 per student a year that we spend, which is almost twice as much as any other country. And our kids are being cheated of an education. We’re 29th in the world in education when we should be number one.
SPEAKER 19 :
President Trump has said, in part, it’s disassembling the Department of Education. Do you see this as giving education back to the states? Because, honestly, the federal government doesn’t provide that much. About 7 to 10 percent of the funding comes from the federal government. But they put a lot of strings on that 7 to 10 percent. Is this something the federal government needs to get out of?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, the federal government basically holds the states hostage. If you don’t do this, if you don’t do that, we’re not going to send you your federal money. You’re exactly right. Most of the money comes from the states. So President Trump needs to come in. And again, this is the reason I ran for this job. And you and I have talked about this because I went into high schools. in elementary schools and higher ed schools for the last 35 years before I got in this business. And I was shocked at what they were teaching, what was on the transcripts, the no education whatsoever in our urban areas, our rural areas are not bad. But the teachers unions have had a had a stranglehold on parents and the things that they’re doing in these schools. So, yes, President Trump will have a secretary of education, which is McMahon, I think, and I think that the first thing that we have to do there is we’ve got a streamlined Washington, DC. We’ve got about 3000 employees. Why, why do we need those? It’s time for her to cut her losses, have a small group up here in Washington, DC, send the education back to the states, let them make decisions for their own communities, for their own state. Every state is different and do the things that we need to do to educate our kids. It’s the number one thing that we have to do to change this country around because It’s about family and education and God. And those three things, if we don’t get those back, this country will not survive as the greatest country on the face of the earth.
SPEAKER 19 :
You’re absolutely right. We’ve got to get on the other end of the pipeline and make sure these kids stop or stop, that the indoctrination stops. And the best way to do that is let the local communities do that. Get it away from Washington, D.C. Coach Tommy Tuberville, always great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you, Tony. God bless.
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All right. It is folks. And that’s something to pray about. I need to make sure that local communities get control and parents, parents need to control education. All right. Coming up next, a new documentary is out that exposes a so-called gender affirming care for what it really is. It’s about making money. That’s next.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Good to have you with us. The website, TonyPerkins.com. Better yet, download the Stand Firm app. You can have us in your pocket anywhere you go. You’ll have alerts, information, action steps to take to make sure you are informed and engaged as a citizen in the United States. Again, that’s the Stand Firm app. All right, we’ve discussed at length on this program how people have been losing confidence in the media and the government. Well, many have also lost confidence in our medical institutions, especially after we saw doctors blindly pushing for the COVID jab on everyone during the pandemic, even supporting mandates on Americans, regardless of whether or not they were in vulnerable categories. And with so many kowtowing to transgenderism, many Americans are rightfully asking, what’s a doctor? I mean, they’re just like a politician in a white coat. Well, What is a doctor is the title of a new documentary that tackles this very question. And here now to discuss it, Dr. Simone Gold, who assembled some leading voices in medicine for this documentary. Dr. Gold is an experienced emergency physician and attorney, and she is also the founder and board chairman of America’s Frontline Doctors. Dr. Gold, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you. Delightful to be here.
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So let me ask you this. What inspired you to put together this documentary?
SPEAKER 14 :
We physicians were very upset during COVID to watch really the healthcare institutions and infrastructure just kind of collapse and not put patients first. It was shocking, astonishing, disheartening. And the good news about it is many independent-minded physicians did find each other. And we have built a strong coalition, strong support group for each other to help patients. So we got to thinking, really, what is a doctor? Is a doctor a pill pusher? Is a doctor just a government employee? You know, there is a mouthpiece for the government. What is a doctor? We independent physicians know that a doctor has a higher calling, a special relationship to another human being sitting in front of them. And we put the doctor-patient relationship first. And we are standing for our patients who need us. That’s what a doctor is.
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I want to get to the heart of the subject matter in this documentary on the transgender craze that the medical community has been pushed into. But before I do, I want to ask you, what about these medical associations that, you know, you’ve got these letters behind your name as you’re a part of this nice association, but they’ve been so politicized?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, it’s horrific. The good news is they are much less powerful than they used to be. In my father’s day, the American Medical Association represented about two-thirds of physicians. Now I think the number is about 15%. People don’t know that. They don’t advertise it, but that’s the truth. Many of us are choosing to leave these associations behind in the dust. They’re terrible. An example of terrible is American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics. I would not go to a doctor that has those initials after their name. They’ve been corrupted. The evidence is overwhelming that they’re not putting patients’ best interests first. It’s really a shame, but we have an opportunity to build back something better.
SPEAKER 19 :
And that’s what you’ve been doing in terms of gathering these independent doctors who are willing to speak out. And of course, I often say in this program, courage breeds courage. So when someone steps forward, it’s not long before others will step forward. This documentary takes on something that the American people, I think, are on to now. And that is this so-called gender affirming care, which is nothing more than experimental drugs and surgical interventions and young people, most of them who couldn’t even legally get a tattoo on their own, are sometimes undergoing the blade, have healthy body parts cut off. Talk about the documentary.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. So, you know, there’s a lot you could say about the gender dysphoria movement and the transgender activists I call transgender groomers, quite frankly. But with this movie, we’re sticking to the medical lane. What exactly is happening to these children? What are they being put through? What are their bodies being put through? We are doctors. We are not here to be butchers. We’re not sorcerers. But we are… Many of my peers are acting this way. They’re cutting off healthy body parts. This is not the doctor’s role. The doctor’s role is to help take someone’s body as healthy as it can be, not to make it destructive. And the words that are being used are very misleading. This is not affirming, and it is not care. It is medical mutilation. You may remember 30 years ago, 20 years ago, it was all the rage that Americans were very concerned about female genital mutilation happening in African nations. I’m so proud against it. This is that. This is that here in America, except it’s to both sexes. But we are mutilating healthy young bodies, causing people to have lifelong infertility and not the kind that you can fix with IVF, the kind where you produce no sperm or no egg forever, the kind where if you have a mastectomy at age 15, you will never be able to breastfeed. It’s horrific. So what we doctors did, we got together and we are… pulling aside the curtain so the average American can see what’s at stake. It’s not nice words. It’s chronic wounds. It’s chronic infections. It’s lifelong pills, lifelong medical care. We’re exposing this mutilation industry for what it is.
SPEAKER 19 :
What is behind it? I mean, obviously, it’s not the interest of these children in terms of, I mean, as you just described, this is mutilating them. And they’re bound to take these medicines and prescriptions for the rest of life. So what is behind it? What’s driving this?
SPEAKER 14 :
I think there’s two things. I think there’s a social cultural movement and this is including, you know, towards the left and causing, um, people of conscience really not to say anything for not fear of hurting people’s feelings. And that’s the social movement and the gender, uh, ideologues who have infiltrated the schools, who’ve infiltrated art clubs and where children associate, and the medical organizations such as the Academy of Pediatrics. It’s terrible. And the other part of it is each one of these children represents at least $1 million to the medical industrial complex over their lifetime. They have repeated surgeries. They’ve repeated medications for the rest of their lives. There’s all kinds of surgeries and costs associated with this. So every case is lucrative. So it’s both. There’s gender ideologues and there’s money.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
We expose the institutions that are profiting in the film.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. All right. How can folks watch this documentary?
SPEAKER 14 :
Please go to whatisadoctor.org. Whatisadoctor.org. We are streaming this for free. We do ask if you can make a donation afterwards, the same price you might do for a movie, but it’s for free. It’s critical, important. Whatisadoctor.org if you want to know more about this subject.
SPEAKER 19 :
Dr. Gold, what do you hope folks will take away from this documentary?
SPEAKER 14 :
Actually, you are empowered. The more you learn about this, the much more manageable it becomes. Some motivation for this is that families are being, this issue has been dropped into families’ laps all of a sudden. A 15-year-old girl comes home from school and all of a sudden announces to her parents that she’s a boy. What does the family do? We have the answers for you what to do. Don’t be bamboozled. Your common sense will get you through. You need a little bit of resources. That’s what we’re doing. We’re doing it for the parents. We’re doing it for people of faith and of conscience. And we’re doing it also to wake up doctors so doctors start acting responsibly and ethically.
SPEAKER 19 :
And this empowers people to do just that. Dr. Gold, great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us and appreciate the great work you’re doing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, folks, check it out. If you didn’t catch that, you can go to TonyPerkins.com and you’ll find the link over. Don’t go away. We’re back with more right after this.
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Welcome back. If you’ve not yet joined our Operation Prayer Shield, I invite you to do so as we pray for our country. Many of the issues we’ve just talked about today, and there are more, we’re in a very vulnerable time. I’m going to be very honest. We need the hand of God to protect our country and to protect Israel and our allies. So text the word SHIELD to 67742. That’s 67742. All right. I know in this… advanced technology that we have in our country, that it’s frankly incredible that there are still races, elections to be called in several localities throughout the country. That’s right. It’s been two weeks since Election Day, and there are still races that they haven’t decided the outcome. All right. So we’re going to check in with Brent Kylan. He’s vice president for strategic initiatives at FRC Action. He’s going to give us the latest. Brent, thanks for joining us today.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thanks, Tony. Good to be with you today.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right. So we know that the GOP will be in control of the Senate next year, but there is an ongoing race in Pennsylvania that has not yet been called. Well, it has been called, but the results are being challenged. Tell us where that race stands and what the outlook is for the Senate, and then give us some of these House races that are still outstanding.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. Tony, starting with the Senate, like you said, we know that the Republicans will control the U.S. Senate next year. The big question is, will they have 52 seats or will they have 53 seats? And that’s going to depend on this Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race. And Tony, I’ll get to the specifics of that in just a second. I think sometimes it’s easy when you say, well, we already know the the outcome of party control is one seat that important. The answer is it really, really is. If you look at a chamber the size of the US Senate, it’s a lot smaller than the US House. And every vote really, really does make a difference. So even this one Pennsylvania US Senate race, it’s important. It’s really important. So where do we stand? Well, like you said, they have called it for Republican Dave McCormick. He was taking on incumbent Senator Bob Casey there. But the rule in Pennsylvania is that if the race is decided by half a point or less, there’s an automatic statewide recount. Well, this race is actually, right now the margin is two-tenths of one point. So in other words, the current margin of victory is 16,000 votes out of about 6.9 million votes cast, which is just incredibly, incredibly thin. So they’re moving into that recount phase. Some counties started on Monday. Some counties had until today to start that. So everybody is at least started with that. We should, Tony, know the results of this by next Tuesday, and I think those should be announced a week from today, so the day before Thanksgiving. I will say, I think for Dave McCormick, he is in a very strong position. It would be very, very rare to see 16,000 ballots either overturned or a margin like that changed in a recount, but you definitely have to keep your eyes open in a situation like this.
SPEAKER 19 :
So if the Republicans hold on to that seat, that gives them what?
SPEAKER 11 :
That gives them the 53, 53 seats going into next year.
SPEAKER 19 :
Which is, you know, still for cloture votes, they’ve got to have 60. But for a lot of procedural things, it’s 50 as they’ve changed some of the rules. So that does give them a little bit of a cushion. It does.
SPEAKER 11 :
And, Tony, other factor here is that there are a couple of very moderate Republicans. You talk about senators like Murkowski and Collins. If they don’t want to go along with the conservative move, you do need that cushion. So this is very important.
SPEAKER 19 :
So this basically disarms them from being able to hold the Republican majority hostage if you have a third seat.
SPEAKER 11 :
It really does. It absolutely does. And that’s why every single race like this is is just so important. If you look at that race, we also have seen some news coming out of the court system in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania actual the state Supreme Court. They’re actually just ruled on this. There were some local Democrat controlled election boards who had been trying to count hundreds of ballots that either were not dated or or were not dated properly, the state Supreme Court just stepped in on Monday and really rebuked them pretty sharply and said, no, this absolutely is a violation of the law. So good to see things like that, but just another reminder why we have to stay on top of these types of situations, Tony. All right, Brent, what’s the House look like? Absolutely. So right now, Decision Desk has called 220 seats for the Republicans, 213 seats for the Democrats, and there’s two uncalled. No surprise, those two uncalled races are in California. One of those is California 13. where the Republican is up by 227 votes. The other one is California 45, where the Democrat is up by 314 votes. So extremely thin margins. Tony, that being said, there’s a couple races that have been called by a decision desk, still worth keeping our eye on. In Iowa, there’s a congressional race where the Republican won, but by 800 votes, that’s heading to a recount. In Ohio, there’s a Democrat held seat. Democrats probably going to win by 800 votes. That’s also heading to a recount. And then the Alaska at large because of their ranked choice voting system there. We need to keep our eye on that as well.
SPEAKER 19 :
You know, Brent, when you look at those amounts of votes in a congressional district, 800, that’s one or two churches. If they’re voting and engaged can make the difference in the outcome of these elections. We were talking about that going into the election, how every vote matters. Brent, thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate the update. Thanks, Tony. Appreciate it. Every vote matters. That’s why we need to be engaged, need to be informed and voting. All right, when we come back, we’re going to take a look at what’s happening in Israel. Also at the United Nations with a vote today attempting to force a ceasefire in Gaza, but that failed. That’s coming up next. Don’t go away. More Washington Watch straight ahead. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council here in Washington, D.C. Behind me is one of the most recognizable buildings in all the world, the U.S. Capitol. What does it stand for? Well, most people say government. But do you know the Bible talks about four institutions of government? Do you know what they are? And do we have a republic or a democracy? Well, what do you say? Also, what about this saying separation of church and state? Does that mean Christians shouldn’t be involved in government? Guess what? We address those issues and more in our new God and Government course. I invite you to join us to see what the historical record and the Bible has to say about government. Join us for God and Government.
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Everything we do begins as an idea. Before there can be acts of courage, there must be the belief that some things are worth sacrificing for. Before there can be marriage, there is the idea that man should not be alone. Before there was freedom, there was the idea that individuals are created equal. It’s true that all ideas have consequences, but we’re less aware that all consequences are the fruit of ideas. Before there was murder, there was hate. Before there was a Holocaust, there was the belief by some people that other people are undesirable. Our beliefs determine our behavior, and our beliefs about life’s biggest questions determine our worldview. Where did I come from? Who decides what is right and wrong? What happens when I die? Our answers to these questions explain why people see the world so differently. Debates about abortion are really disagreements about where life gets its value. Debates over sexuality and gender and marriage are really disagreements about whether the rules are made by us or for us. What we think of as political debates are often much more than that. They’re disagreements about the purpose of our lives and the source of truth. As Christians, our goal must be to think biblically about everything. Our goal is to help you see beyond red and blue, left and right, to see the battle of ideas at the root of it all. Our goal is to equip Christians with a biblical worldview and help them advance and defend the faith in their families, communities, and the public square. Cultural renewal doesn’t begin with campaigns and elections. It begins with individuals turning from lies to truth. But that won’t happen if people can’t recognize a lie and don’t believe truth exists. We want to help you see the spiritual war behind the political war, the truth claims behind the press release and the forest and the trees.
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Welcome back. Again, let me invite you to join us for Operation Prayer Shield. Text SHIELD to 67742 and join us in praying for our nation during this time of transition, praying for our allies like Israel, vulnerable during this time. All right. Our word for today comes from Isaiah chapter 1. How the faithful city has become a harlot. It was full of justice, righteousness lodged in it, but now murders. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them. So where did God’s people go wrong? Well, it was spiritual compromise, idolatry, and it was just a hollow form of religion. They were merely going through the motions. Moral corruption, creating gods in their own image, and it failed to inspire moral living. Political chaos or anarchy, when everyone does what’s right in their own eyes, justice disappears. And when justice is absent, the weak and defenseless are the ones who suffer most. The decline cannot be reversed by political reform alone. Political efforts might slow it down, as could a reform of manners, but ultimately the only remedy is to restore the foundation, and that requires a return to spiritual truth, a return to God. To find out more about our journey through the Bible, text BIBLE to 67742. Earlier today, the United States vetoed a UN security resolution that would have called for a ceasefire. in the Israel Hamas war, noting that it did not call for the release of the hostages. Now, 14 of 15 council members voted yes to the resolution, but the US’s sole no vote was enough to squash the resolution. In his comments following the vote, the alternate representative of the US in the UN, Ambassador Robert Wood, noted that Hamas has been hoping that the international community would forget about the hostages. Does the 14 to 1 vote suggest that they may be succeeding? Joining me now to discuss this and other developments in the Middle East is Carolyn Glick. She is a senior contributing editor at the Jewish News Syndicate and host of the Carolyn Glick Show on JNS. Carolyn, thanks so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, it’s great to be with you, Tony. It’s really wonderful. Thank you.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, welcome to the states. I know you’re over here for a little bit. Let me get your thoughts first on this latest resolution and today’s vote.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, first of all, I was very gratified to see that the Biden administration did in fact veto it. It was touch and go for a while and that that was disturbing. But at least they came through in the end and they vetoed this deeply, deeply hostile resolution. We have two more that are in the pipeline that are supposed to go forward in the next couple few weeks. The first one is a bid in the UN General Assembly to oust Israel from the General Assembly that’s been put forward by the Palestinians, and they have an automatic majority for that if they go through with the vote, as they have for every anti-Israel resolution that they put forward. And then there’s another one that would place – make it illegal and sanction Israel if we conduct any construction activities not only in Judea and Samaria, but in Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights. So that would be a very, very serious action by the Security Council if it goes forward. And so we’re facing an all-out onslaught against Israel at the UN, which just shows how deeply, deeply demented that organization is, that they are siding with mass murderers against a democracy that’s fighting for its survival and fighting these just forces of evil in the Middle East.
SPEAKER 19 :
Carolyn, I agree it was good news to see the Biden administration take this veto, cast this veto vote in the UN today. But when I look at the Biden-Harris administration, it looks like the Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde administration. When you look at some of the parting shots that they’ve taken at Israel, in fact, releasing another $230 million to go into Gaza, while at the same time putting sanctions on on Israelis living in the eastern part of Israel in Judea and Samaria?
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s actually extremely shocking. I mean, we have to bear in mind that since October 7th, the United States government, under the Biden-Harris administration, has poured $2 billion into the Palestinian coffers. And the Palestinian Authority, of course, funds terror, sponsors terror. They pay salaries to terrorists who are in Israeli prisons and annuities to the families of terrorists who are dead. So that’s one aspect of it, and it’s just as a terrorist authority. And they’re also pouring money into Gaza, which is still under the Hamas regime because the administration’s policy is to block Israel’s efforts to be in charge of the distribution of humanitarian aid. And so they’re giving all of this food and water, medicine, et cetera, to Hamas to distribute, and that maintains their iron grip on power. So it’s acting to undermine Israel’s war goal of destroying Hamas as a military organization and as a political entity. So, yeah, you’re having this constant back and forth where they say one thing and then they do another, and it’s very alarming.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. Thank you. I misstated that was not going that 230 million was going to the Palestinian Authority, which oversees the Judea and Samaria. But that’s not gotten a lot of attention in the news. The the increase in terrorist activity that’s been taking place where you you have. Jewish communities being attacked. You have suicide vehicles attacking IDF soldiers that are in the area. So that’s not getting much attention. But here we have unprecedented sanctions against Israeli citizens living in those areas. Usually that’s designed to go after terrorists, criminals, people involved in violent activity. This appears to be nothing more than political disagreements.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s exactly right, and it’s really alarming. Israel is the first U.S. ally that’s ever been sanctioned by the U.S. We’re the first democracy that’s ever been sanctioned by the U.S., and there are currently more Israelis under U.S. sanctions than there are North Koreans. Those sanctions are supposed to be geared against terrorists, narco-terrorists, narcotics, kingpins, cartels. And here they are, an organization or a company, a real estate company called Amana, that lawfully builds homes for Israelis inside of lawful Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria has just been placed under U.S. sanctions. They’ve sanctioned only people who are not indicted for anything. They’ve never been investigated for anything. They’re not under arrest for anything. Under Israeli law, they’ve committed no crime. Under American law, they’ve committed no crime. They’re being sanctioned because they are viewed as danger to America’s policy of establishing a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza and in Jerusalem. And this is a policy that’s rejected by upwards of 85 percent of Israelis. So the Americans are going after Israelis whose sole crime is opposing America’s America, the Biden administration’s policies in relation to the Palestinians, which is just a stunning act of hostility against the people of Israel.
SPEAKER 19 :
but it’s what we’ve been experiencing here in the united states with the weaponization of the federal government that we’ve seen this how they’ve gone after pro-lifers that have been outside praying abortion clinics and so it is the weaponization of government the problem with this is it it’s unprecedented it sets a new standard and unfortunately will be used again in the future. So this has to be, I think, uncategorically has to be repudiated and denounced as a misuse of authority and power. Now, these sanctions limit, I mean, they’re more than just symbolic, because it does restrict their ability to, in some cases, have access to international financial institutions, and in some cases is used to restrict travel.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely. I mean, these people are banned from the international banking system because Israel’s banking system is attached to the U.S. banking system to the SWIFT system for international banking. So what they say to the Israeli banks is that you have to debank all of these people. So they can’t pay their mortgages. They can’t pay for gas. They can’t pay for their children’s after school activities. They can’t pay for groceries. They don’t have access to credit cards. They don’t have access to their bank accounts. So this is causing people to foreclose on their mortgages, on their car payments, because they can’t operate in a modern society where everything is digital and everything is ruled by credit cards and bank accounts. And so this is a This is a debilitating step that they’re taking, again, against Israelis who haven’t done anything wrong under American law or Israeli law. It’s just that they take action that the Americans oppose. And it’s not only people who are in Judea and Samaria either. I mean, there was this organization. It wasn’t even an organization. This woman called for volunteers to come and block the aid convoys to Gaza because they were all going to resupply the enemies in times of war. And the Americans were forcing Israel to and continue to force Israel to allow the constant resupply of Hamas in Gaza under pain of an arms embargo. And that’s something that is ongoing still today. So if we don’t feed and clothe and water and provide medical medicines for Hamas, because they control all of this, then the Americans impose an embargo on critical weapons supplies, which they’re still doing today, to constrain our military actions. And so there was this outcry in the public, and people started just going at 3 o’clock in the morning to block the trucks from getting into Gaza. And so the Americans placed sanctions on this organization. It’s called SAV-9, and then on the woman who runs it. And she’s married to an American citizen, so he’s also under U.S. sanctions. And this is an American citizen with no due process who has committed no crime. And his wife committed no crime, and yet they’ve been debanked. Their whole life is just in ruins because the administration decided that they don’t like the fact that Israelis are trying to block the transfer of material aid to the enemy in times of war.
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s free speech. I mean, we see what they were doing over here in this country, and they don’t touch those that are on the left doing similar demonstrations. Carol, I want to get your reaction to or get the reaction from Israelis to the election as they’ve had time to process and think through this. How are they looking forward to a Trump administration?
SPEAKER 12 :
So first of all, Israelis are exhilarated about the results of the election. I don’t think that there’s any question about that. You know, the Israelis overwhelmingly supported Trump in all of the polling that we did in the months preceding the election. Harris had essentially about 12 percent support among the public. And Trump got around 70 percent of the support and the rest didn’t know. So you’re talking about enormous support for President Trump and enthusiasm and excitement that he was reelected among Israelis, as you saw also unprecedented levels of American Jewish support at the polls in critical districts throughout the United States for President Trump. So Israelis are exhilarated. We’re worried about the next 60 days under Biden and where we’re going to be by January 20th when Trump comes into office but I think there’s a sense overwhelmingly or it’s growing that you know this was a miracle that we got four years with Trump and we can’t let one day go to waste and really what we’re being given here is not salvation it’s a chance for us to to secure our future, that the great aspect of the Trump presidency isn’t even the amazing things that he did with recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the embassy, recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, abrogating the nuclear deal with Iran, and so many other things that he did during his first term. It’s also that he just stands by Israel and he says, look, you guys figure out what you need. Explain it to me. And if you convince me, then I’ll support you because we’re allies. And just standing on our side this entire four years, there’s been this gaslighting effect where Biden embraces us with this bear hug and says, oh, I’m for Israel. And I remember Golda Meir. in my first term as a senator, and yada, yada, yada. And on the other hand, just implementing these incredibly hostile policies that protect Hamas, protect Iran, protect Hezbollah, protect the Houthis against Israel. And so it’s just this sense that, wow, we’re going to actually get an American administration coming into office, which is going to stand with us for real, not just lip service, but actually stand with us and not undercut us every time. So there’s a profound sense of relief. And also, look, we have to just take advantage of this, because if we don’t, it’ll be unforgivable.
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You know, Carolyn, many Christians in this country see the election the same way. This didn’t save our country, but it sure gave us an opportunity to secure our future. But it requires a lot of activity from now through the end of a four-year term. We’ve got to take that responsibility seriously. to rebuild, and from our perspective, the moral foundation of our country, because it’s been disassembled by the left very rapidly during the last four years. Just have a couple minutes left. I know you spoke generally. It’s nice to have a friend in the White House, a friendly administration, but are there any specific steps that Israel would like to see from the incoming administration?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it’d be very important for the administration to say, look, we don’t support a Palestinian state. Gaza was a Palestinian state for 18 years prior to their October 7th invasion. There can’t be a Palestinian state. There is no two-state solution. This is a new path to the final solution to the Jewish problem. And we’re not going with that. Israel obviously has to secure its future. It has to be in charge militarily of Gaza. It has to apply its sovereignty to Judea and Samaria or whatever Israel wants to do on that count. But we no longer support a Palestinian state. I think that’s very, very, very important because otherwise we can find ourselves pushed back into this merry-go-round of misery where we’re constantly empowering terrorists. It’s another thing that’s very important is to say, okay, what does it mean that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons? It means that we support Israel in taking the action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state militarily. There is no diplomatic solution to this, only military. And we’re going to stand with our ally, Israel, as it takes the kind of action it needs to take to take Iran off the table as a nuclear state that undermines its hegemony and it also undermines the stability of its regime at home. And the last thing is to say, look, you know, Israel does not have to sit with Hezbollah at its doorstep. It’s obviously that the people on the northern border of Israel with Lebanon aren’t going to be able to go home so long as that’s the state of affairs. And, you know, Israel, you do what you need in order to secure northern Israel, and we’re going to stand with you on that. I think those are very important things to do.
SPEAKER 19 :
And those three things would be game changers. Carolyn Glick, always great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you so much for having me on your program. It’s always a joy to be with you.
SPEAKER 19 :
And folks, thank you for joining us as well.
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