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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place Among Nations” (4/12)

• 00:03 HELLO, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
• 00:05 AND ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE ARE GOING TO VISIT HISTORICAL ACRE.
• 00:08   THIS IS A COASTAL CITY THAT  WAS FAMOUS IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
• 00:12  AND THEN WE'LL TALK WITH THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM IN ISRAEL.
• 00:16  YOU KNOW, IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT INDUSTRY OVER THERE.
• 00:19 AND FINALLY, OUR FRIEND   WHO'S BEEN WITH US
• 00:21    SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE, THE >>   JOURNALIST AND POLITICAL    ADVISOR, DAVID BAR-LLAN.
• 00:30    [ music playing ]
• 01:04  SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 01:05   WELL, WE HAVE FILMED FOR 20  YEARS IN ISRAEL, GIVE OR TAKE
• 01:08 AND WE'VE NEVER    VISITED THE CITY OF ACRE.
• 01:11 AND TOURIST GO THERE, PILGRIMS    GO THERE ALL OF THE TIME.
• 01:15   IT'S GIVEN AS ACRE IN THE BIBLE, A-C-R-E .
• 01:20    IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT IN >>  THE PAST THAN IT IS TODAY.
• 01:23 IT USED TO BE A HARBOR >>   WHERE BIG SHIPS CAME IN,
• 01:26 ROMAN SHIPS, CRUSADER SHIPS AND SO ON, ESPECIALLY THE CRUSADERS.
• 01:30 AND EVEN THE BRITISH USED IT AS  A HARBOR IN THE 20th CENTURY.
• 01:33    IT'S ON THE COAST  OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 01:36  HERE'S THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
• 01:39   THIS OF COURSE, IS ISRAEL.
• 01:40   HERE'S THE SEA OF GALILEE.
• 01:42 AND HERE'S THE BOUNDARY WITH LEBANON,
• 01:45 THIS IS IN THE  FAR NORTH OF ISRAEL.
• 01:48  AND THERE'S A HOOK IN THE COAST HERE.
• 01:50    AND HYFFA IS HERE IN THIS NATURAL HARBOR.
• 01:54    IT'S A BIG, MODERN CITY.
• 01:56    AND ACRE LOCATED >>  ACROSS THE BAY IS VERY OLD.
• 01:59    IT IS FIRST MENTIONED IN    EGYPTIAN WRITINGS DATING >>FROM 1900 B.C.
• 02:05   THAT'S JUST >>   A CENTURY AFTER ABRAHAM.
• 02:08  IT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH PORT  CITY FOR THE GREEK EMPIRE TO
• 02:11    ESTABLISH A MINT    HERE IN 333 B.C.
• 02:15  AND THE 11th CENTURY,  EUROPEAN CRUSADERS MADE THIS
• 02:18 THEIR PRINCIPLE   PORT AT LIFE LINE,
• 02:20 ONLY TO HAVE IT LEVELED BY THE  MUSLIMS TWO CENTURIES LATER.
• 02:25 THE BRITISH CAPTURED ACRE FROM   THE TURKS IN 1917.
• 02:29   THEY USED ACRE'S CITADEL AS THEIR MAIN PRISON WHILE NEARBY
• 02:33 HYFFA BECAME THE PRIMARY PORT.
• 02:35 THE BUILDINGS WE SEE IN   THE OLD CITY OF ACRE TODAY
• 02:38  WERE PRIMARILY CONSTRUCTED IN  THE 18th CENTURY WHILE UNDER
• 02:39 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE FROM TURKEY.
• 02:45  NOW, THERE ARE NEARLY  50,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN ACRE,
• 02:48    WITH HALF OF THE >>POPULATION BEING JEWISH
• 02:51    AND THE OTHER HALF ARAB.
• 02:52 YET THERE ARE VERY FEW RACIAL OR RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS TO BE FOUND.
• 02:57  FROM ACRE, OUR SENIOR  MINISTRY THEOLOGIAN,   DR. TOM McCALL TELLS US WHY
• 03:02    ISRAEL DESERVES A >>   PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS.
• 03:06 CONSIDER WHAT THE LORD   SAYS IN PSALM 79, VERSE 10.
• 03:26 GOD IS THE HELP  OF THE NATION ISRAEL
• 03:29 AND THE NATION SHOULD KNOW THIS.
• 03:31    BUT SADLY ENOUGH, >>   THEY DO NOT RECOGNIZE IT
• 03:37 OR AT LEAST THEY HAVE >>   NOT RECOGNIZED IT YET.
• 03:39  AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN WORLD WAR II WERE VERY MUCH
• 03:42    INVOLVED IN NOT ONLY THE >>   FIGHTING OF WORLD WAR II.
• 03:47  AND THIS WAS A GREAT HELP IN   THEIR RECLAIMING THE LAND.
• 03:50    BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT, >>  THEY WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE
• 03:54  TO VOLUNTEER TO ALLY WITH THE   BRITISH ARMY IN THEIR FIGHT   AGAINST THE NAZIS.
• 04:03 THIS WAS BEFORE   THE UNITED STATES,
• 04:05  ANY OF THE EUROPEAN NATIONS,  ANY OTHER PEOPLES CAME TO AID
• 04:11    BRITAIN IN THEIR >>  WAR WITH THE NAZIS.
• 04:15   SO THIS EARNED THEM A GREAT RESPECT AMONG THE BRITISH ARMY  AT THAT TIME.
• 04:22 SO THE LORD HAS   GIVEN A PROMISE TO ISRAEL.
• 04:25 HE'S GOING TO KEEP THAT PROMISE  AS WE DRAW EVER CLOSER TO THE
• 04:29    SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
• 04:31   OBSERVE WHAT THE LORD SAYS >>   IN GENESIS 35, VERSE 11.
• 04:53  ISRAEL HAS A DESTINY.
• 04:57    ISRAEL HAD A GREAT PAST, >>   BUT EVEN A GREATER FUTURE
• 05:00    WHEN THE LORD RETURNS AND  ESTABLISHES HIS KINGDOM AMONG   HIS PEOPLE.
• 05:07   ISRAEL WILL BE THE  HEAD OF THE NATIONS,
• 05:09   NO LONGER THE TAIL.
• 05:10  ISRAEL IS MAKING NEWS TODAY.
• 05:14   WHAT COUNTRY OF THIS SIZE,
• 05:17   SAY HOLLAND OR ANY OF THESE OTHER COUNTRIES THAT ARE SMALL
• 05:22  MAKES NEWS ALL OF THE  TIME LIKE THE NATION ISRAEL?
• 05:27  IT IS IN CONSTANT FRONT PAGE ATTENTION AND WE KNOW ALL OVER
• 05:32   THE WORLD ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN ISRAEL.
• 05:36 BUT IT'S GOING  TO MAKE GREATER NEWS ONE DAY.
• 05:39  THERE'S GOING TO COME ONE DAY THE LORD JESUS TO REIGN AS KING.
• 05:45 YOU REMEMBER DURING THE TIME OF    KING SOLOMON IN THE PAST,
• 05:50    THE GREATEST KING  THAT ISRAEL HAD IN THE PAST,
• 05:54  PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL OVER THE    WORLD TO HEAR HIS WISDOM,
• 05:58 EVEN THE QUEEN OF SHEBA   CAME HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS
• 06:01  OF MILES TO HEAR WHAT   HE HAD TO SAY IN THAT DAY.
• 06:06   BUT ONE DAY, WHEN THE LORD    RETURNS, WHEN JESUS COMES
• 06:09    AS KING OF KINGS >>  AND LORD OF LORDS,
• 06:13  THE ONE GREATER THAN SOLOMON,
• 06:15  IT'S GOING TO MAKE NEWS LIKE  HAS NEVER BEEN KNOWN BEFORE.
• 06:19  IN THAT DAY, JUST AS IN THE DAY OF SOLOMON,
• 06:23   MANY WILL COME TO SEEK THE  WISDOM OF THE GREATEST KING,
• 06:27    THE KING MESSIAH, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
• 06:31   WHO WILL BE A GREATER THAN SOLOMON.
• 06:34 AND THEY WILL SEEK HIS WISDOM.
• 06:36  WE READ ABOUT THIS IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 8, VERSE 23.
• 07:05   WELL, DURING THESE PAST CENTURIES,
• 07:07  IN FACT, FOR SOME 4000 YEARS,
• 07:11   WHEREVER THERE HAVE   BEEN JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 07:13    MANY TIMES IT IS >> NOT JUST BEEN 10 OR MANY MORE
• 07:16  THAT HAVE GRABBED HOLD OF THE   JEW -- NOT TO DO HIM GOOD,
• 07:19 NOT TO GO WITH HIM, BUT  SADLY ENOUGH, TO DO HIM HARM.
• 07:24 IN THE DAY WHEN YESHUA, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST RETURNS,
• 07:28    HE WILL BE KING OF KINGS.
• 07:30  HE WILL RULE OVER ISRAEL AND THE WORLD AND 10 MEN WILL GRAB
• 07:35  HOLD OF THE COAT OF THE JEW, SAYING,
• 07:39 "WE HEAR THAT GOD IS WITH YOU, WE'RE COMING WITH YOU.
• 07:42    "WE WANT TO LEARN   OF THE LIVING GOD,
• 07:46   "THE KING OF KINGS,   AND LORD OF LORDS."
• 08:01 YOU KNOW, WHEN   YOU THINK ABOUT IT,
• 08:02  PILGRIMS TO THE LAND ARE SORT OF VOTING FOR ISRAEL.
• 08:06  AFTER ALL, YOU DON'T HEAR OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING A VACATION
• 08:09   IN JORDAN OR IRAQ OR SYRIA   OR ANY OF THESE COUNTRIES,
• 08:12 AND THEY'RE NOT    GOING TO LEBANON,
• 08:14 BUT THEY COME IN LARGE   NUMBERS TO ISRAEL.
• 08:18  OUR PRODUCER KEN BERG TALKED WITH A SPOKESMAN
• 08:21   FOR THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM  ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL  DEVELOPMENT.
• 08:26    TSION, JUST HOW IMPORTANT   IS TOURISM TO ISRAEL TODAY?
• 08:29 TOURISM IS A BRIDGE FOR PEACE.
• 08:31 TOURISM IS A BRIDGE OF  UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S  HAPPENING IN ISRAEL.
• 08:34   YOU KNOW, I LIVED 10 YEARS IN AMERICA AND THERE ARE MANY,
• 08:38 MANY PEOPLE WHO USED TO CRITICIZE US, EVEN OUR BROTHERS,
• 08:42 THE JEWISH PEOPLE, OUR BROTHERS,  THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE.
• 08:44  I SAY, LISTEN YOU'VE GOT A RIGHT TO CRITICIZE THEM,
• 08:47 BUT BEFORE CRITICIZING  PLEASE, GO AND VISIT ISRAEL.
• 08:50    THEY NEED TO COME    AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
• 08:51  HOW JEWS AND  ARABS LIVE TOGETHER.
• 08:53    THEY NEED TO COME BACK AS AMBASSADOR OF GOODWILL.
• 08:57    SO IT'S TRUE THAT WE MADE 3.3 BILLION DOLLARS FOR 1999 --
• 09:03  WE'RE GOING TO MAKE.
• 09:04   BUT MORE IMPORTANT FOR US,   IS THAT EACH OR MOST OF THE
• 09:08   CHRISTIAN JEWS OR ANY JEWS >>   THAT COME BACK TO ISRAEL
• 09:10 IS A POTENTIAL AMBASSADOR OF GOODWILL.
• 09:13  AND WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE THAT MORE THAN THE DOLLARS,
• 09:16  ALTHOUGH THE DOLLARS   ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR US.
• 09:18   WHY ISRAEL?
• 09:19    WHAT MAKES ISRAEL   SO SPECIAL ANYWAY?
• 09:21  WHAT A GOOD QUESTION.
• 09:23 YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ASKING:   WHY ISRAEL?
• 09:26  ISRAEL IS VERY SMALL.
• 09:27   IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN  10,000 SQUARE MILES.
• 09:30  IT'S 15 TIMES >>   SMALLER THAN CALIFORNIA.
• 09:32  26 TIMES SMALLER THAN TEXAS OR MANY OTHER COUNTRIES.
• 09:35   BUT YET, ISRAEL IS THE ONLY  COUNTRY IN THE WORLD LOCATED
• 09:38    BETWEEN THREE CONTINENTS, >> EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA.
• 09:44 SO WE HAVE GOT THE ADVANTAGE   OF THESE THREE CONTINENTS.
• 09:47    WE'VE MADE A SURVEY, IN FACT,  TO LEARN THE EXPECTATION OF >> THE TOURIST.
• 09:50 WHAT ARE THEY EXPECTING FROM    THE DESTINATION WHEN THEY GO.
• 09:53 AND WE DISCOVERED THAT WHATEVER
• 09:55 THEY NEED IT IS  THERE IN THIS SMALL COUNTRY.
• 09:56    THEY SAY HISTORY.
• 09:57    YOU WANT HISTORY?
• 09:59   WHAT CAN BE BETTER HISTORY THAN THE BIBLE?
• 10:02  THIS IS THE LAND OF HISTORY.
• 10:03  THEY SAY ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 10:05  YOU WANT ARCHAEOLOGY?
• 10:06 COME TO ISRAEL.
• 10:07   WE CAN TAKER YOU TO MASADA.
• 10:09 WE CAN SHOW YOU THE REMAINS FROM DAVID.
• 10:13    WE CAN SHOW YOU REMAINS.
• 10:14   HERODIANS.
• 10:18  THE ZEALOTS.
• 10:21 GO TO CEASAREA.
• 10:22 WE CAN SHOW YOU, AGAIN,
• 10:25  PHOENICIAN, HERODIAN, ROMAN, CRUSADE.
• 10:28    GO TO ARMAGEDDON.
• 10:29   22 LEVELS OF CIVILIZATION.
• 10:31   AND SO THIS IS THE PLACE TO COME FOR ARCHAEOLOGY.
• 10:33  THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY LIKE TO GO BECAUSE THEY LIKE TO    EAT FOOD.
• 10:36 WE HAVE 74 DIFFERENT CUISINES.
• 10:38   IF YOU ARE A BIRD WATCHER, COME TO ISRAEL.
• 10:40 AGAIN, THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THREE CONTINENTS,
• 10:42  BIRDS OF THESE THREE  CONTINENTS MIGRATE TO ISRAEL.
• 10:45    AND I CAN GO ON.
• 10:46 YOU WANT HEALTH RESORT?
• 10:48   GO TO THE DEAD SEA,   THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD    AS HEALTH RESORT.
• 10:52 YOU WANT TO GO MOUNTAIN   OR DESERT TOURING?
• 10:57   20 MINUTES FROM JERUSALEM, YOU GO TO THE DESERT OF JUDEA.
• 11:00  IT IS SO CONVENIENT.
• 11:01   EVERYTHING IS HERE IN THIS SMALL COUNTRY.
• 11:03 SO THAT'S WHY I SAY I CAN ALMOST PROMISE YOU WHATEVER YOU NEED AS
• 11:07   A TOURIST, IT IS IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 11:10 BUT THESE ARE ALL MINOR REASONS.
• 11:14 THIS IS THE BIBLE LAND.
• 11:17 SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE EMPHASIZING
• 11:20 THE BIBLE LAND AND THE >>   PILGRIMAGE TOURS
• 11:24    AND THIS IS THE COUNTRY.
• 11:27    [ music playing ]
• 12:28    "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,   I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
• 12:32 "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
• 12:35    "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL   GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 12:39   "THE WILDERNESS AND >>    DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 12:42    "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE     AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 12:46   "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT    I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
• 12:50 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 12:55   WELL, GO TO ISRAEL.
• 12:56 JUST GO, DO IT.
• 12:57   GO WITH US OR SOMEONE ELSE.
• 12:59   BUT GET THERE IN THIS LIFE.
• 13:00 IT'S WELL WORTH SEEING.
• 13:02    I REALLY WANT YOU TO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF.
• 13:04  YOU CAN'T RELY ON THE MEDIA.
• 13:06    THEY JUST AREN'T COVERING  THE PLACE IN ANY FAIR OR LOGICAL WAY.
• 13:11 I MEAN, AFTER ALL, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ACRE ON THE NEWS?
• 13:14 IT IS A TOWN OF 50,000 PEOPLE.
• 13:16   MUCH SMALLER PLACES  ARE COVERED ALL OF THE TIME.
• 13:19  A LITTLE SUBURB OF JERUSALEM WHERE THERE HAPPENS TO BE KIDS
• 13:24 THROWING STONES NOW AND AGAIN IS COVERED AS IF IT WERE
• 13:28    A NEW YORK CITY OR LONDON   AND PROBABLY HAS A  1000 OR 2000 PEOPLE.
• 13:34 BUT YOU NEVER SEEN ACRE BECAUSE IT'S PEACEFUL.
• 13:36  EVERYBODY GETS ALONG.
• 13:38 IT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF   DEMOCRATIC ISRAEL WHERE THE
• 13:41  ARABS AND JEWS LIVE TOGETHER.
• 13:43    AND THEREFORE, THE MEDIA >>HAVE NO INTEREST IN IT AT ALL.
• 13:45  YOU KNOW, WE A FRIEND OVER THERE WHO'S IS A MEDIA MAN.
• 13:49 BUT WHEN DAVID BAR-LLAN >>   WAS THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR
• 13:51 OF THE JERUSALEM POST, A VERY IMPORTANT MEDIA POSITION,
• 13:55 HE WAS ALWAYS KIND TO US, GAVE US INTERVIEWS, ACCOMMODATED US.
• 13:58 AND THEN HE BECAME THE ADVISOR  TO PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU,
• 14:03    HE STILL HAD TIME FOR US.
• 14:06 AND WE CONSULTED HIM ON  THIS PROBLEM ABOUT THE MEDIA
• 14:09   AND ITS COVERAGE OF ISRAEL.
• 14:11 UNFORTUNATELY THE MEDIA    EVERYWHERE NOW SEEM TO BE
• 14:14    OBSESSED WITH THE NEGATIVE AND IN ISRAEL'S CASE,
• 14:17  IT IS EVEN MORE SO.
• 14:19    AND THAT IS IT PERHAPS    THE BIGGEST LIE
• 14:21 THAT CAN BE TOLD ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 14:23  I'VE OFTEN COMPARED >>  IT TO THE WAY THE SOVIETS
• 14:27 USED TO PORTRAY   THE UNITED STATES.
• 14:30    THEY VERY SELDOM ACTUALLY  FABRICATED ANYTHING,
• 14:33 THEY SELDOM TOLD OUTRIGHT LIES.
• 14:36  WHAT THEY DID WAS TOLD 10 PERCENT OF THE TRUTH
• 14:39    AND THAT WAS THE >>  BIGGEST LIE OF ALL.
• 14:41  BECAUSE WHEN YOU TAKE A SMALL   FRAGMENT, A SMALL SECTION,
• 14:45  A SMALL SEGMENT OF THE TRUTH,
• 14:47   IT CAN REALLY BE THE WORST
• 14:50 POSSIBLE WAY OF  SHOWING WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
• 14:54 AND THE SOVIETS, FOR INSTANCE, WOULD TAKE A PICTURE OF A LINE
• 14:59  OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WAITING   FOR THE HANDOUT OR WHATEVER.
• 15:05  A DRUG ADDICT SLEEPING IN THE PARK AND SAY, "THIS IS AMERICA."
• 15:12  THIS IS ALL AMERICA IS ABOUT.
• 15:14 AND OF COURSE, NOTHING COULD BE A GREATER DISTORTION.
• 15:17    THIS HAPPENS VERY >>   OFTEN IN ISRAEL.
• 15:19   WE GOT SO USED TO PICTURES,  FOR INSTANCE,
• 15:24  OF ARAB REFUGEE CAMPS  WHICH ARE REALLY THAN NO MORE
• 15:28  THAN A SOCIAL  PROBLEM WITHIN ARAB SOCIETY.
• 15:32 I ONCE SUGGESTED TO MY REPORTERS ON THE JERUSALEM POST,
• 15:36    WHEN I WAS THERE, TO DO A PROGRAM WHICH WOULD BE SOMETHING
• 15:39 LIKE THE HOMES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS AND TO TAKE PICTURES ONLY
• 15:45 OF ARAB HOMES IN ISRAEL AND IN THE TERRITORIES,
• 15:49   BECAUSE THE MOST SUMPTUOUS,   THE MOST MAGNIFICENT HOMES
• 15:53 IN THIS PART OF   THE WORLD BELONG TO ARABS,
• 15:56    THE PALESTINIANS,  THE AREAS OF THE PALESTINIAN >>   AUTHORITY AND IN ISRAEL.
• 16:00   VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW THAT.
• 16:02 OUR TOURIST ARE OFTEN SURPRISEDLY ESPECIALLY
• 16:04   AS WE DRIVE THROUGH   GALILEE AND TOWNS, NAZARETH
• 16:09  AND SO ON, TO SEE HUGE STONE  HOMES THEY ASSUME ARE ISRAELI
• 16:13   GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, MOVIE STARS.
• 16:15    IT IS LIKE MOVIE PALACES,  MOVIE VILLAS.
• 16:19   ALL YOU HAVE TO DO   IS GO FIVE MINUTES
• 16:20  FROM HERE TO SEE THESE HOMES.
• 16:24 IT IS JUST ABSOLUTELY STUNNING.
• 16:26  AND THAT SHOWS THE TREMENDOUS  GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR
• 16:30  IN ARAB SOCIETY AND THE FACT THAT VERY LITTLE IS BEING BEEN
• 16:33 DONE BY THE PALESTINIAN    AUTHORITY
• 16:36    FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE SO-CALLED REFUGEE CAMPS
• 16:39    WHICH ARE REALLY >>   SHANTY TOWNS OF THE POOR.
• 16:41   NOW, THAT'S A VERY SERIOUS  SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
• 16:46    BUT IT CERTAINLY >>  HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE    GENERAL STATE OF AFFAIRS.
• 16:50  AND IT'S A GREAT PITY    THAT IT IS NOT SHOWN WITH
• 16:53  THE KIND OF BALANCED WAY THAT  WOULD BE CLOSER TO THE TRUTH.
• 16:59 IS IT PERHAPS TRUE THAT >>   IF YOU FAIRLY CONSIDERED
• 17:02 THE WHOLE ARAB SOCIETY  IN ISRAEL WITH THE WHOLE ARAB
• 17:05  SOCIETY IN LET'S SAY    EGYPT OR SYRIA OR JORDAN,
• 17:09    THAT THE ARABS IN ISRAEL >>  WOULD LIVE ON A MUCH HIGHER
• 17:11   ECONOMIC PLANE PER CAPITA?
• 17:14    WELL, OF COURSE.
• 17:16 THE ARABS UNDER ISRAELI   RULE AND THIS APPLIES BOTH
• 17:20 TO ISRAEL AND THE TIME WHICH OF COURSE, HAS PASSED NOW,
• 17:24 BUT AT THE TIME IN WHICH ISRAEL RULED THE TERRITORIES IN WHICH
• 17:28  THE PALESTINIANS LIVE, THOSE  ARABS HAVE A HIGHER STANDARD
• 17:34   OF LIVING THAN ANY    ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 17:37 THE HIGHER STANDARD OF HEALTH.
• 17:40 AS A MATTER OF FACT, YOU KNOW,
• 17:41  SINCE ISRAEL WON THOSE AREAS >>   WHICH IT
• 17:45 NOW FORFEITED,  THE LIFE SPAN OF THE
• 17:49  AVERAGE ARAB, >>   OF THE ARAB, OF THE ARAB
• 17:51 POPULATION INCREASED BY 20 AND  25 YEARS WITHIN THAT PERIOD.
• 17:57 THE HEALTH LEVEL BECAME FROM A
• 18:01 SITUATION WHICH  COMPARED WITH THE WORST PARTS
• 18:04   OF THE THIRD WORLD INTO MODERN FACILITIES.
• 18:08 THE KIND OF HEALTH CARE THAT THEY CAN GET AND STILL DO
• 18:12 GET IN THE HOSPITALS IN JERUSALEM AND HADASSAH HOSPITAL
• 18:16 AND THE OTHER HOSPITALS >>   IS THE BEST KIND OF CARE
• 18:19    THAT YOU CAN GET >>ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
• 18:21 THAT'S THE SORT >>   OF THING THAT NO AVERAGE
• 18:23   ARAB IN ARAB WORLD CAN GET.
• 18:25 I HEARD A STORY FROM BEER-SHEBA,   I GUESS YOU CAN VERIFY IT.
• 18:29    THAT THE MEDICAL STUDENTS  THERE APPROACHED THE BEDOUIN
• 18:32 AND TOLD THEM, YOU HAVE  A HIGH INFANT MORTALITY RATE.
• 18:35 WE'RE LEARNING   TO DELIVER BABIES.
• 18:38 WE CAN DO THIS   IN A DISCREET WAY.
• 18:40  UNDER COVERS.
• 18:41 WE WON'T OFFEND    ANYONE'S MODESTY.
• 18:43   BUT PERHAPS WE CAN HELP YOU WITH A GRAVE PROBLEM.
• 18:46 AND AFTER THEY DELIVERED A FEW BABIES,
• 18:48 SAFELY AND AFTER A FEW BEDOUIN LADIES WHO WERE USED TO SLEEPING
• 18:51 IN TENTS SLEPT IN HOSPITAL ROOMS
• 18:54 WITH CLEAN SHEETS AND HAD MEALS BROUGHT TO THEIR BEDS ON TRAYS.
• 18:57 THERE WAS A LONG LINE OF WOMEN,   NOT JUST PREGNANT,
• 19:00 BUT SOME WITH CUSHIONS   TIED AROUND THEIR STOMACHS
• 19:03  JUST TO HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE.
• 19:06  YES, BUT ANYONE WHO VISITS AN   ISRAELI HOSPITAL KNOWS THAT
• 19:10 THE NUMBER OF ARAB PATIENTS IN THEM ARE DISPROPORTIONATE WITH
• 19:14 THEIR NUMBER IN THE POPULATION.
• 19:16   IN FACT, IT IS MUCH LARGER AND THEY GET THE BEST OF CARE,
• 19:19  LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
• 19:21 THE WORLD PRESS WOULD HAVE IT THAT THE ISRAELIS
• 19:25 ARE OPPRESSING THE ARAB SOCIETY.
• 19:27  THAT THEY'RE STRONG.
• 19:28 THAT THEY'RE UNCARING.
• 19:30 THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN THEIR LAND.
• 19:33  I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW  HOW TO SPEAK TO THIS.
• 19:36   I'LL LET YOU DO IT.
• 19:38  BUT IT'S BEEN REALLY   KIND OF MORE THE OTHER WAY.
• 19:41    THE ISRAELIS HAVE  BEEN MORE THAN FAIR.
• 19:43  FIRST OF ALL,    FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS,
• 19:47  THE ARABS OF THIS REGION HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DESTROY ISRAEL,
• 19:53 TO ELIMINATE THE JEWISH   PRESENCE IN ISRAEL
• 19:56  AND CERTAINLY JEWISH    SOVEREIGNTY IN THIS AREA.
• 19:59 EVEN TODAY, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND ANY KIND OF EXPRESSION
• 20:03   OF RECOGNITION OF OUR RIGHT
• 20:06  TO EXIST HERE AS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.
• 20:09   YOU WILL NOT FIND THE WORD   ISRAEL IN ANY ARAB
• 20:12 MAP PRINTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 20:14  THIS IS REALLY AN INDICATION OF AN ATTITUDE WHICH SHOWS THAT
• 20:19  WE HAVEN'T BEEN ACCEPTED YET   AS PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST
• 20:23  REGARDLESS OF THE BORDERS OR WHATEVER
• 20:25 WE SETTLE WITH THE PALESTINIANS.
• 20:27    BUT JUST THE FACT  OF OUR EXISTENCE HERE
• 20:28 HAS NOT REALLY BEEN RECOGNIZED.
• 20:30  PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS  DON'T HAVE THE WORLD
• 20:32 ISRAEL IN THE GEOGRAPHY BOOKS.
• 20:35  THE MAP OF ISRAEL IS DRAWN AS   PART OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE.
• 20:40 THE WORD ISRAEL DOESN'T   EXIST IN THE BOOKS.
• 20:44  THE LIST OF NATIONS.
• 20:46  THE LIST OF COUNTRIES >>   DOES NOT INCLUDE ISRAEL.
• 20:48   ON THE OTHER HAND,   THERE IS A COUNTRY
• 20:50    BY THE NAME OF PALESTINE,   WHICH DOESN'T REALLY EXIST,
• 20:52    BUT EXIST IN THESE BOOKS.
• 20:53    SO IS THERE THIS KIND OF >>MYTH RATHER THAN REALITY WHICH
• 20:57 DOMINATES ARAB THINKING  AND THAT IS I THINK,
• 21:00 ONE OF THE GREATEST IMPEDIMENTS TO A CONCLUSION OF A SETTLEMENT
• 21:05 OF PEACE BETWEEN US AND THE ARAB  STATES AND THE PALESTINIANS.
• 21:09 THE MEDIA OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, AFTER ALL, THESE ARE DEMOCRATIC,
• 21:15   THESE ARE DEMOCRACY PEOPLE WRITING
• 21:18    AND YET THEY TAKE THE SIDE OF THE DICTATORSHIPS.
• 21:23   WHEN YOU COME TO THE MEDIA,   IT'S AN ADDITIONAL PROBLEM.
• 21:25  AND THAT IS THE FACT THAT THE MEDIA ALL KNOW
• 21:27   THAT IF THEY ATTACK  THESE DICTATORSHIPS,
• 21:31  THEY WILL BE EXCLUDED FROM THESE COUNTRIES.
• 21:34 IF CNN WANTS TO   HAVE AN OFFICE IN DAMASCUS,
• 21:37  IT CANNOT SAY BAD WORD ABOUT ASSAUD,
• 21:40    EVEN THOUGH HE'S >>   ONE OF THE MOST RUTHLESS,
• 21:42    ONE OF THE MOST HORRIBLE    DICTATORS IN THE HISTORY
• 21:45    OF THE 20th CENTURY WHICH  HAS SEEN SOME RATHER   RUTHLESS DICTATORS.
• 21:49 BUT CNN WILL NOT DARE SAY A WORD
• 21:51  AGAINST HIM BECAUSE THEY KNOW   THAT IMMEDIATELY THE REGIME
• 21:54  IN DAMASCUS WILL RETALIATE BY  EXCLUDING THEM FROM DAMASCUS
• 21:58  AND NOT ALLOWING THEM TO OPEN AN OFFICE THERE
• 22:00 IF THEY SO WISH TO DO.
• 22:02  AND SO THE SAME THING APPLIES
• 22:04   TO ALL OF THE OTHER >>   POLICE STATES AROUND US.
• 22:06  THEY HAVE TO BE NICE TO THEM
• 22:07    BECAUSE OTHERWISE  THEY WON'T BE THERE.
• 22:09    YOU COULDN'T SEND ARNETT >>   TO BAGHDAD DURING THE WAR
• 22:13 WITH IRAQ AND EXPECT HIM TO SAY VERY CRITICAL THINGS ABOUT IRAQ
• 22:17    BECAUSE YOU KNEW HE WOULD   BE KICKED OUT THE NEXT DAY.
• 22:19  PETER ARNETT.
• 22:20  YES.
• 22:21 THERE YOU ARE.
• 22:22  THAT'S THE ANSWER TO   WHY THE MEDIA TREAT ISRAEL
• 22:25  AS THEY WOULD >>   TREAT THE UNITED STATES.
• 22:26   THAT IS, THEY KNOW >>   THIS IS AN OPEN SOCIETY.
• 22:29 THEY KNOW THEY   HAVE ACCESS TO EVERYTHING.
• 22:30 THEY CAN BE AS CRITICAL   AS THEY WANT TO BE
• 22:32 AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THEM.
• 22:33    WHILE IN ARAB COUNTRIES, >>IT'S GOODBYE, CHARLIE.
• 22:38  THEY WON'T BE THERE ANYMORE.
• 22:39 WELL, THAT'S VERY GOOD THINKING.
• 22:40 I HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT POINT.
• 22:42  HOWEVER YOU CRITICIZE  ISRAEL YOU CAN STILL
• 22:43 OPEN YOUR OFFICE IN THE MORNING.
• 22:45  OF COURSE, OF COURSE.
• 22:46   THAT IS, YOU KNOW, >>   IT'S PAR FOR THE COURSE.
• 22:49 THAT'S WHAT IS >>   EXPECTED FROM EVERYBODY.
• 22:52    CRITICIZE ISRAEL.
• 22:54    IT ALSO IN A WAY >>  IF YOU ARE A BIT OF  A MASOCHIST, IT'S FLATTERING.
• 22:58  WHY?
• 22:59 BECAUSE IF THE >>   JEWS DO SOMETHING WRONG,
• 23:02  IT IS THE MAN BITE DOG KIND OF NEWS.
• 23:07    BECAUSE IT IS SO UNUSUAL.
• 23:08    WHY, IF THE ARABS   DO SOMETHING WRONG,
• 23:10    WELL, THAT'S WHAT   YOU EXPECT ANYWAY.
• 23:12    SO IT IS NOT REALLY NEWS.
• 23:14    BUT THE FACT IS,    AS THE COLUMNIST FOR THE
• 23:18     WASHINGTON POST AND THE >>   TIME MAGAZINE HAS PUT IT,  JEWS IS NEWS.
• 23:21  JEWS IS NEWS.
• 23:25  AND PARTICULARLY WHEN   JEWS DO SOMETHING,
• 23:28  THAT IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE, DONE BY EVERYBODY ELSE.
• 23:31   BUT WHICH YOU DO    NOT EXPECT JEWS TO DO.
• 23:35    AND THAT IS A SIGN THAT  ANTI-SEMITISM IS ALIVE AND
• 23:41  THRIVING AND THAT IT HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ANTI-ISRAELISM.
• 23:46   THAT IS, I DON'T THINK THAT    PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A RIGHT
• 23:49 TO CRITICIZES ISRAEL POLICIES.
• 23:51   OF COURSE, THEY DO.
• 23:52  BUT WHEN ISRAEL IS HELD TO A  DIFFERENT STANDARD FROM THAT
• 23:56  WHICH APPLIES  TO OTHER DEMOCRACIES,
• 23:59   THAT IS WHEN YOU FEEL THAT   PERHAPS THERE IS NOT JUST A
• 24:02    DIFFERENT STANDARD HERE, >>BUT A DOUBLE STANDARD.
• 24:04    OH, YES.
• 24:06    DO YOU SEE ANTI-SEMITISM, SINCE THAT'S A SUBJECT
• 24:08 IN THE NEWS LATELY IN AMERICA IS GROWING AND BECOMING VIRULENT?
• 24:14    NOT ONLY GROWING >>  AND BECOMING MORE VIRULENT.
• 24:16 I WANT YOU TO REALIZE THAT THE    ONLY GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED
• 24:19   ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE WORLD  TODAY IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 24:23    THERE IS NO OTHER   PLACE IN THE WORLD
• 24:25   IN WHICH GOVERNMENT   SUPPORTS, ABETS, SPONSORED, >>   INITIATES ANTI-SEMITISM.
• 24:30 YOU HAVE ANTI-SEMITISM   EVERYWHERE,
• 24:33    JUST AS YOU HAVE >>   CRIME EVERYWHERE.
• 24:35    I MEAN, YOU PROBABLY WILL NEVER ELIMINATE IT COMPLETELY.
• 24:37   AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE HATE  CRIMES IN THE UNITED STATES,
• 24:40 THERE ARE HATE   CRIMES EVERYWHERE.
• 24:41   BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT    THEIR SOCIETY CONDEMNS IT
• 24:45 AND NEGATES IT AND THE >>   GOVERNMENT DOES WHATEVER
• 24:47    POSSIBLE TO SUPPRESS IT, >> ELIMINATE IT.
• 24:51 HERE IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
• 24:53  THE GOVERNMENTS ENCOURAGE IT.
• 24:55   THE GOVERNMENTS SPONSOR IT.
• 24:57 YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED  PRESS IN EGYPT, FOR INSTANCE,
• 25:02  AND THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WHICH IS ANTI-SEMITIC.
• 25:06  THE STATE DEPARTMENT   HAS CALLED IT ANTI-SEMITIC.
• 25:08 IT IS NOT ANTI-ZIONIST, IT IS NOT ANTI-ISRAEL.
• 25:12   OF COURSE, IT IS THAT, TOO.
• 25:13 BUT IT IS ANTI-JEWISH.
• 25:16 IT ACCUSES JEWS OF ALL    OF THE EVIL IN THE WORLD.
• 25:18   THE OLD IDEAS ABOUT  POISONING THE WELLS,
• 25:20 EXCEPT TODAY IT IS NOT POISONING THE WELLS, IT IS SPREADING AIDS,
• 25:24    IT IS THAT KIND OF THING.
• 25:26 SPREADING FOOD  THAT POISONS PEOPLE.
• 25:28    THAT'S THE KIND OF THINGS >>   ARE JEWS ARE ACCUSED OF.
• 25:30  JEWS AS JEWS, NOT AS  ISRAELIS OR ZIONIST.
• 25:33  SO IT IS THE KIND OF MANIFESTATION WHICH IS
• 25:36  NOT ONLY UNFORTUNATE, BUT WHICH IN THIS PART
• 25:39 OF THE WORLD IS  WORSE THAN ANY OTHER.
• 25:41  AS A MATTER OF FACT,   IT'S UNIQUE IN IT.
• 25:44 WELL, I THINK THE POINT IS MADE.
• 25:46 ISRAEL DESERVES   A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS.
• 25:48 IT'S A FINE DEMOCRACY.
• 25:50   JEWS, ARABS AND CHRISTIANS    ARE LIVING TOGETHER THERE
• 25:54 AT LEAST AS PEACEFULLY AS THEY    LIVE TOGETHER IN AMERICA,
• 25:57    PUT IT THAT WAY.
• 25:58  WE HAVE A FEW RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS >>   IN THIS COUNTRY.
• 26:02 THAT JUST COMES IN A DEMOCRACY
• 26:04  WHERE PEOPLE CAN EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
• 26:06  AND THAT COUNTRY IS PEACEFUL.
• 26:08  ISRAEL IS A PEACEFUL NATION.
• 26:10 I DON'T CARE HOW THEY COLOR IT.
• 26:11  GOSH, I HAVE TAKEN 65 TOURS.
• 26:15  I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY VIOLENCE.
• 26:17 YOU WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE AROUND   OR SEARCH IT OUT OR HAVE IT
• 26:21 STAGED FOR YOUR CAMERA   WHICH IS MORE LIKELY TO DO.
• 26:24 YOU KNOW, THE MEDIA COMPLAINED THERE BECAUSE THEY CAN COMPLAIN.
• 26:27  YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN OLD JOKE  ABOUT THE RUSSIAN WHO ARRIVED
• 26:29 AND THEY SAID, "WHY DID YOU COME  TO ISRAEL, DIDN'T YOU HAVE A    PLACE TO LIVE IN RUSSIA?"
• 26:33  AND HE SAYS,   "OH, I COULDN'T COMPLAIN."
• 26:36   "DID YOU HAVE A JOB THERE?"
• 26:37 HE SAYS, "I COULDN'T COMPLAIN."
• 26:39    "SO WELL, IF YOU COULDN'T   COMPLAIN WHY DID YOU CHANGE   COUNTRIES?"
• 26:43 HE SAYS, "HERE, I CAN COMPLAIN."
• 26:46  AND THAT'S THE MEDIA.
• 26:47 YOU KNOW, IF THEY WROTE THE KIND OF STUFF AND TELEVISED
• 26:51 IT IN SYRIA OR EGYPT --
• 26:52 EGYPT MURDERS CHRISTIANS DAILY
• 26:55 OR SUDAN OR ANY   OF THESE COUNTRIES,
• 26:58   WHY THEY WOULD BE IN JAIL,   THEY WOULDN'T EVEN SURVIVE.
• 27:01 ISRAEL HAS GOT    A PERFECTLY FREE COUNTRY,
• 27:03 A PERFECTLY FREE PRESS AND THEY  TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT,   THAT'S ALL.
• 27:07 THE ARAB NATIONS ARE MORE LIKE CUBA FROM WHERE YOU NEVER GET A
• 27:10 NEWS STORY EITHER OTHER THAN IF IT WAS AN ISSUE OVER SOME KIDS  OR SOMETHING.
• 27:15   LOOK, BIBLE READERS   UNDERSTAND THIS PERFECTLY.
• 27:18   GET DAVID BAR-LLAN'S BOOK.
• 27:20 JERUSALEM: THE TRUTH.
• 27:21    BOY, THIS IS A COMMENTARY ON THE 90's AND HOW IT BUILT UP
• 27:26  TO WHAT WE HAVE NOW.
• 27:28  AND WHAT TRENCHANT, WONDERFUL  EDITORIALS HE WROTE.
• 27:30  REALLY GOOD READING.
• 27:32  I RECOMMEND THE BOOK.
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• 27:40 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:43 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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