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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Voice to the Nations” (8/12)

• 00:03  ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, SOMETHING   VERY OLD AND SOMETHING NEW.
• 00:07    JAFFA, ONE OF THE  OLD HARBORS OF ISRAEL
• 00:09 AND A DISCUSSION OF TECHNOLOGY >>   IN THIS REMARKABLE LAND.
• 00:18    [ music playing ]
• 00:52  SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:54  WELL, ON THIS PROGRAM ANOTHER IGNORED SITE OF ISRAEL,
• 00:58    THE AMAZING INGENUITY AND    TECHNOLOGY OF THIS PLACE.
• 01:01  THE SCIENCE, THE MEDICINE,
• 01:03    THE CONTRIBUTIONS  TO THE MODERN WORLD.
• 01:06 I DON'T THINK YOU'LL FIND THESE
• 01:07    CONTRIBUTIONS IN >>   ANY ARAB COUNTRY.
• 01:09 BUT IN ISRAEL, >>   JUST A GENERATION OLD IN
• 01:13 MODERN FORM HAS BECOME A LEADER AMONG THE NATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY.
• 01:17    YOU KNOW, ON ONE TOUR MY   SUITCASE GOT LOST,
• 01:21 AND IT WAS FOR MY HEART PILLS.
• 01:23    I HAD TO REPLACE    THEM RIGHT AWAY.
• 01:24 AND SO THERE WAS A CARDIOLOGIST IN THE TOUR GROUP AND WE WENT TO   A PHARMACY.
• 01:28  BUT IT WAS QUITE EASY >>   TO FIND THE EQUIVALENTS.
• 01:31  THEY WERE ALL  ISRAELI PILLS TO START WITH.
• 01:33   THEY INVENT THE MEDICINES.
• 01:34  WE PUT LONG NAMES ON THEM AND   RAISE THE PRICE TEN TIMES.
• 01:37 BUT MANY TIMES,    THE ISRAELIS ARE THE ONES
• 01:40   THAT THOUGHT OF IT   IN THE FIRST PLACE.
• 01:42  BUT FIRST, WE'LL GO TO JAFFA.
• 01:44   JAFFA IS AN OLD, OLD PORT.
• 01:46   ABRAHAM COULD HAVE  VISITED HERE FOR ALL I KNOW.
• 01:48 IT'S HERE JUST   SOUTH OF TEL AVIV,
• 01:52 ONE OF ISRAEL'S    VERY LARGE CITIES   ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST.
• 01:54    HERE'S JERUSALEM.
• 01:56   THIS YELLOW LINE IS    THE WEST BANK, SO CALLED.
• 01:58 JAFFA HAS BEEN OUT HERE ON THE SEA AND SO OLD THAT JONAH SAILED
• 02:04  FROM THERE AND PEOPLE >> A THSAND YEARS BEFORE HIM.
• 02:07  FROM THIS PORT, ISRAEL TRULY BECAME A VOICE TO THE NATIONS.
• 02:21   OUR LOCATION IS THE FAMOUS HARBOR OF JAFFA.
• 02:24  NOW, THERE ARE MODERN CONSTRUCTIONS HERE, OF COURSE.
• 02:27   BUT IT WAS FROM THIS HARBOR  THAT PETER AND PAUL SET SAIL,
• 02:29 JONAH SET SAIL.
• 02:32 ISRAEL REACHED OUT TO THE WORLD.
• 02:34   THEY HAD SOME IDEA OF THEIR   CALLING TO REACH OUT TO THE >>   NATIONS.
• 02:37  IN THE DECLARATION OF   INDEPENDENCE COMPOSED HERE
• 02:40 IN TEL AVIV THEY WROTE:
• 02:54 AND INDEED, IF ISRAEL IMPORTED  NOTHING ELSE TO THE WORLD BUT
• 02:57  THIS WONDERFUL BIBLE, THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
• 03:01   WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED HERE   IN ISRAEL BY JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 03:04  THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH.
• 03:08    THEY ARE THE HOME OF ALL >>EVANGELIST IN THE SENSE
• 03:11 THEY EITHER SET SAIL FROM HERE
• 03:14  LIKE THE FAMOUS EVANGELIST OF OLD OR THEY GO OUT OF THIS BIBLE
• 03:17    THAT WAS >>  ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED HERE.
• 03:22 TOURISM, THE PEOPLE COMING THE    OTHER DIRECTION TO ISRAEL
• 03:25 IS ANOTHER WAY THEY BLESS THE NATIONS.
• 03:27 TWO AND HALF MILLION PEOPLE COME  HERE EVERY YEAR TO VISIT LESS
• 03:31   THAN FIVE MILLION ISRAELIS.
• 03:33  IMAGINE THAT.
• 03:34   WHAT A PROPORTION.
• 03:36    IT'S LIKE NEARLY >>  150 MILLION PEOPLE VISITING
• 03:38  THE UNITED STATES IN A YEAR.
• 03:40   AND OF THE TOURISM, 60 PERCENT IS CHRISTIAN TOURISM.
• 03:45 PASTOR GROUPS, GROUPS LED BY CHURCHES.
• 03:48  GROUPS LIKE WE TAKE, PILGRIMS, BIBLE PEOPLE WHO WANT
• 03:52   TO SEE THE PLACE IT ALL HAPPENED.
• 03:53    THERE'S ALSO A GREAT DEAL  OF TOURISM OTHERWISE.
• 03:57   THE EUROPEANS COME  HERE FOR FUN AND SUN.
• 04:00    THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE A >>BIBLICAL CONSCIOUSNESS,
• 04:04  TYPICALLY THE KIND OF SECULAR  GROUPS THAT COME HERE FOR THE >>   BEACHES.
• 04:08 THEY FAVOR THE >>   PALESTINIAN AUTHORITIES,
• 04:11 ESPECIALLY THE FRENCH,  ONE OF THE MOST ANTI-SEMITIC
• 04:14 NATIONS I EVER VISITED.
• 04:16    WHEN THEY COME HERE, I'M    REMINDED OF MY NAMESAKE,
• 04:20  WHO WAS AN AUTHOR WHO WROTE A   BOOK ABOUT ALFRED DREYFUSS,
• 04:24 THE CAPTAIN IN THE FRENCH ARMY WHO WAS JEWISH AND WAS ACCUSED
• 04:28  OF SPYING AND HE COVERED THAT IN HIS BOOK, CALLED "I ACCUSE."
• 04:32 HE ACCUSED OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT >>   OF ANTI-SEMITISM
• 04:35    AND HE WAS RIGHT >>   THEN AND WOULD BE
• 04:37    RIGHT TODAY FROM >>MY EXPERIENCES IN THAT COUNTRY.
• 04:40 BUT IN ANY CASE, EUROPEANS COME HERE NOT WITH AN APPRECIATION OF
• 04:44 THE LAND AND THE BIBLE SO MUCH, >>   BUT JUST AS A PLAY LAND,
• 04:47    AS A PLACE WHERE >>  THEIR MONEY GOES PRETTY FAR
• 04:50  AND THE MEDITERRANEAN   IS HERE AND SO ON.
• 04:54   IT'S A LAND   OF SUCH PHYSICAL CONTRAST.
• 04:56    YOU CAN GO SKIING AND GO >>  TO A DESERT IN THE SAME DAY
• 05:03 OR THE SAME HOUR IF YOU WANT TO.
• 05:05   LIKE IN CALIFORNIA,   YOU SEEM TO HAVE ALL LANDS,
• 05:09 ALL LATITUDES, ALL CLIMATES IN ONE SMALL PLACE.
• 05:14  YOU KNOW, THERE IS A STORY OF  PALESTINIAN FARMERS GOING TO
• 05:18 CALIFORNIA IN THE 19th CENTURY  TO HELP THE FARMERS THERE IN
• 05:23   CALIFORNIA CULTIVATE THEIR  VINEYARDS AND SO ON IN A LAND
• 05:27   VERY SIMILAR TO THIS LAND.
• 05:29 AND THAT STORY IS TRUE,    I LOOKED INTO IT.
• 05:30  BUT THOSE PALESTINIAN >>   FARMERS WERE ALL JEWISH.
• 05:33    THE CO-OPTION OF THE TERM PALESTINIAN BY ARABS HAS CAUSED
• 05:37    PEOPLE TO THINK THAT ALL >>PALESTINIANS ARE ARABS.
• 05:40  THAT IS BEFORE 1948, EVERYONE WHO LIVED IN PALESTINE
• 05:45   WAS A PALESTINIAN,   INCLUDING THE JEWS.
• 05:48 WELL, JAFFA IS AN OLD, OLD CITY.
• 05:51   SOME SAY EVEN ANTEDILUVIAN.
• 05:56    BUT IN ANY CASE, >>   JONAH SET SAIL FROM HERE.
• 05:58  DEFINITELY ALMOST WHERE I AM  STANDING THE HARBOR WAS RIGHT  HERE.
• 06:00   AND HE FLED  THE WILL OF THE LORD.
• 06:02   HE TOOK A SHIP TO TARSHISH,   WHEREVER THAT WAS.
• 06:06 SOME MAKE IT IN TURKEY.
• 06:08    SOME MAKE IT ALL >>THE WAY OVER IN SPAIN.
• 06:09   BUT ANYWAY, >>   IT WAS A FOREIGN NATION.
• 06:11    IT WAS NOT WHERE >>HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO.
• 06:12    HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO >>NINEVAH; AND PREACH THE GOSPEL.
• 06:15 IF YOU KNOW THE STORY OF JONAH,    THE RELUCTANT MISSIONARY.
• 06:17 AND TODAY, I AM AFRAID   WE HAVE A NATION OF JONAHS,
• 06:21 THAT IS, PEOPLE WHO HEAR GOD AND  LIVE WITH HIM ALL OF THE TIME
• 06:26 BUT MAYBE DON'T   ALWAYS DO HIS WILL.
• 06:30 ISRAEL SHOULD WITNESS HOWEVER.
• 06:32 ISRAEL IS A WITNESSING NATION.
• 06:34  THEY ARE THE  ORIGINAL EVANGELIST.
• 06:36   THE BIBLE IS PURELY JEWISH.
• 06:38  PETER AND PAUL SAILED  FROM HERE AS WE SAID.
• 06:42 IN ISAIAH 49, THE PROPHET PUTS  IT BEAUTIFULLY WHEN HE SAYS:
• 07:12   THIS IS IN A CHAPTER OF MY SCHOFIELD BIBLE HEADED:
• 07:14   ISRAEL TO BE PRESERVED AND  RESTORED AND IT CERTAINLY IS.
• 07:18   NOW, THE SUBJECT OF   RELUCTANT PROPHETS,
• 07:22   JONAH WASN'T THE ONLY ONE.
• 07:25    WHEN YOU LOOK AT >>  THE MEN GOD CALLED,
• 07:26   WELL, STARTING WITH MOSES WHO    SAID HE WAS SLOW OF SPEECH.
• 07:29  AND AARON SPOKE    FOR HIM AND SO ON.
• 07:34  JEREMIAH TO PROPHESY, NOT THAT   HE WAS RELUCTANT TO PROPHESY.
• 07:37    HE HAD A LOT OF COURAGE   AND HE PROPHESIED
• 07:39  THE DESTRUCTION OF >>JERUSALEM AND HE NAMED NAMES,
• 07:41 NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE CHALDEES,
• 07:44  AND THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH COMING DOWN ON US.
• 07:47    AND HE WAS JAILED FOR HIS TROUBLES.
• 07:49  IT WAS TREASON    TO SPEAK AGAINST JERUSALEM.
• 07:52   AND YET HE WAS RIGHT.
• 07:53    HE LIVED TO SEE THE   INVASION FROM HIS JAIL CELL.
• 07:56   ISAIAH MUST HAVE BEEN    RELUCTANT TO WRITE:
• 08:11  SURELY THE 53rd CHAPTER   OF ISAIAH IS ONE OF THE MOST
• 08:13  OBVIOUS PROPHECIES OF THE FIRST  ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH.
• 08:34  IT MUST HAVE BEEN HARD    TO BE INSPIRED BY THE ANGEL   TO SAY THAT.
• 08:39   GIDEON WHEN HE WAS CALLED BY  THE LORD TO A MILITARY MISSION,
• 08:43  HE JUST DIDN'T BELIEVE   THAT THE LORD WAS CALLING HIM
• 08:47    AND HE WAS RELUCTANT TO GO.
• 08:49   IN THE END TIMES, OF COURSE,  GOD WILL CALL FROM THIS NATION, 144,000.
• 08:54   REVELATION 7:4 SAYS:
• 09:00  THERE'S NO CONTRADICTING THAT.
• 09:02   AND THAT CAN'T BE THE CHURCH    AND THIS HAIR-BRAINED IDEA
• 09:04  THAT THE CHURCH IS ISRAEL NOW.
• 09:08 THAT DOESN'T WORK  IN SCRIPTURE LIKE THIS.
• 09:10   REVELATION 14:6, 7, THE ANGEL  IS SAYING PREACH THE GOSPEL IN
• 09:16 ALL OF THE EARTH   AND SURELY THEY WELL DO THAT.
• 09:19    YOU KNOW, DAVID BEN GURION,    THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF   ISRAEL SAID:
• 09:31  EVEN FACED WITH   650,000 TOTAL PEOPLE,
• 09:34 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ARMED MEN,  FACING FIVE ARAB ARMIES TOTALLY
• 09:39 EQUIPPED AND SAY WE SHALL TRIUMPH AND SO THEY DID.
• 09:44    IN ROMANS 11:25-27,
• 09:48   THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH, IT WAS RECORDED WHERE PAUL SAYS:
• 10:16    SO THE ULTIMATE DESTINY OF  ISRAEL IN THE SO-CALLED SECOND
• 10:19    COMING OF THE LORD WHEN HE RETURNS,
• 10:21   WILL BE A NATIONAL SALVATION.
• 10:24   THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM  THEY PIERCED AND MOURN FOR HIM
• 10:27    AS AN ONLY SON SAYS  THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH IN 12:10,
• 10:31 AND A FOUNT OF CLEANSING WILL BE  OPENED UNTO THE HOUSE OF DAVID.
• 10:35   ULTIMATELY, THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE SOMETIMES RELUCTANT
• 10:40 AND SOMETIMES BELIEVED IT   AND SOMETIMES DIDN'T BELIEVE,
• 10:41   SOMETIMES REACHED OUT TO THE   NATIONS AND SOMETIMES DIDN'T,
• 10:45  IN THE END, NATIONALLY   WILL ALL BE REDEEMED.
• 11:01     "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,    I SHALL GATHER YOU FROM THE
• 11:04   "PEOPLES AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE
• 11:07     "BEEN SCATTERED AND I WILL    GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
• 11:11   "THE WILDERNESS AND >>    DRY LAND SHALL BE GLAD.
• 11:15    "THE DESERT SHALL REJOICE     AND BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE.
• 11:19   "YOU SHALL KNOW THAT    I AM THE LORD WHEN I BRING
• 11:22 "YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 11:27 WELL, I'M IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF JEWELRY STORES, ART GALLERIES,
• 11:33   FINE CRAFTSMANSHIP,   THIS KIND OF THING.
• 11:36 EASTERN STONES.
• 11:39   BUT YOU WOULDN'T THINK THAT MODERN THINGS LIKE THIS WOULD BE
• 11:41 FOUND IN THESE   OLD, OLD BUILDINGS.
• 11:44    THIS CITY IS REALLY OLD.
• 11:46  AN OLDIE, BUT GOODIE.
• 11:47  WELL, THERE'S A HEBREW LEGEND THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT BY
• 11:52   ONE OF NOAH'S SONS, >>   JAPHETH AND NAMED JAFFA.
• 11:56 AND EIGHT PEOPLE GOT OFF OF THE ARK AND HAD THE WHOLE WORLD TO SETTLE IN AND HE SETTLED HERE.
• 12:00    THAT'S KIND OF LEGENDARY.
• 12:03   THE GREEK LEGEND HOLDS MORE TRUTH I THINK BECAUSE IT AGREES  WITH HISTORY.
• 12:09 JAFFA WAS A DAUGHTER OF A GREEK    GOD, THE GOD OF THE WINDS
• 12:13 AND SHE -- THE THING WAS NAMED, THEREBY, GREEK SAILORS WHO CAME
• 12:20 FROM THE ADRIATIC OR FROM CRETE, THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL  PHILISTINES.
• 12:24   IT BEARS MENTIONING BECAUSE >>   TODAY'S PALESTINIANS SAY
• 12:27   THEY ARE DESCENDING   FROM THE FIRST PHILISTINES.
• 12:30   THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
• 12:32 THE PHILISTINES WERE EUROPEANS WHO CAME HERE IN SHIPS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
• 12:36   THE PALESTINIANS ARE ARABS    WHO COME UP HERE FROM THE >>   SOUTHERN DESERT.
• 12:41 SO THERE'S NO CONNECTION THERE.
• 12:43   BUT IN ANY CASE, THIS PLACE   WAS HERE WHEN JOSHUA CAME.
• 12:47    HE FAILED TO CONQUER IT.
• 12:49   IT WAS A TOUGH STRONGHOLD.
• 12:52    LATER ON IN DAVID'S TIME,  HE CAPTURED THE CITY.
• 12:56 AND THAT WAS IN ABOUT 1000 B.C.
• 12:58 AND IT WAS AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE  BECAUSE THE HARBOR HERE CAME
• 13:01 INTO PLAY WITH THE BUILDING OF   THE FIRST TEMPLE OF GOD BY
• 13:05   DAVID'S SON, KING SOLOMON.
• 13:09 SOLOMON CONTACTED HIS FRIEND AND   ALLY, THE KING OF TYRE WHEN
• 13:14 RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL AND WHAT
• 13:17   IS NOW LEBANON WERE IN MUCH  BETTER SHAPE.
• 13:21   AND HE AGREED TO SEND DOWN   CEDARS FROM LEBANON  TO BUILD THE TEMPLE.
• 13:25    THEY WERE FLOATED DOWN THE MEDITERRANEAN
• 13:26 AND OFF LOADED AT THIS HARBOR.
• 13:28 THIS WAS A MAJOR PORT.
• 13:30 NOW, IT'S A MAJOR PORT >>   FOR TOURIST AND SHOPPERS >> AND WHAT NOT.
• 13:34 NOWADAYS ORANGES ARE SHIPPED OUT  OF HERE ALONG WITH MANY OTHER    PRODUCTS.
• 13:38 BUT ORANGES ARE   STAMPED J-A-F-F-A.
• 13:41   THERE'S A SUPERMARKET IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WITH JAFFA ORANGES
• 13:44    AND THEY MAY BE IN YOURS.
• 13:46    NOWADAYS WE HAVE    MODERN ARTISTS, ORANGES,
• 13:50 THE MODERN WORLD COMING OUT OF SOME OF THE OLDEST BUILDINGS TO
• 13:53   BE FOUND ANYWHERE.
• 14:03 ONE OF THE IMPORTANT WAYS ISRAEL IS A VOICE TO THE NATIONS IS OF   COURSE, THROUGH THE BIBLE.
• 14:07 WRITTEN THERE, OLD TESTAMENT AND NEW.
• 14:11 IT IS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK.
• 14:12 I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO ARGUE
• 14:14   THAT POINT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
• 14:16    AND THEN ISRAEL SENT THE >>   EVANGELIST TO THE EMPIRE.
• 14:19    I MEAN WHEN PAUL >>AND SILAS AND BARNABAS
• 14:23  WENT OUT TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE,   THIS JUST CHANGED HISTORY.
• 14:27 THIS CHANGED THE WESTERN WORLD
• 14:30   COMPLETELY AND SOME  OF THE EASTERN WORLD AS WELL.
• 14:33 THEY LEFT FROM JAFFA BY THE WAY.
• 14:36 IT IS NOW A PRODUCTIVE    CONTRIBUTOR TO THE WORLD.
• 14:40   ISRAEL IS A POWER.
• 14:42  ITS ECONOMY -- SOMEBODY SAID,  TEN TIMES THE SIZE OF EGYPT, JORDAN AND SYRIA PUT TOGETHER.
• 14:51 I BELIEVE THAT.
• 14:52 AND IT'S REALLY >>   AN IMPORTANT NATION NOW.
• 14:56  KEN BERG, OUR PRODUCER SPOKE  WITH THE MINISTER OF SCIENCE
• 15:01   ABOUT THE MANY INNOVATIONS   GOING ON IN MODERN ISRAEL.
• 15:04 WOULD YOU TELL ME ABOUT   THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE
• 15:07   MINISTER OF SCIENCE HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 15:09  THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE IS   RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SPACE    AGENCY.
• 15:13    IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT >>WE CALL IN ISRAEL INTERNET II.
• 15:18  WE HAVE THE RESEARCH THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN THE UNIVERSITIES
• 15:23    AND IMPLEMENTING RESEARCH  THAT IS TAKING PLACE
• 15:27  WITHIN THE INDUSTRY.
• 15:29 YOU MENTIONED SPACE.
• 15:30    THAT SOUNDS VERY INTERESTING.
• 15:32 WE NEVER HEAR >>   ABOUT THAT IN AMERICA.
• 15:34   WHAT'S HAPPENING  IN SPACE IN ISRAEL?
• 15:36 ISRAEL IS A VERY TINY STATE,
• 15:39   BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE VERY  GREAT OR WE EVEN MAY BE ONE OF
• 15:43 THE SEVEN OR EIGHT COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD THAT AT THE SAME TIME
• 15:46 SATELLITES THAT   ARE MADE IN ISRAEL.
• 15:52  IN OUR PROGRAMS HERE THAT WE   HAVE, VERY TINY SATELLITES,
• 15:58  THAT IT IS ONLY 40 KILOS AND >>   SOMETHING LIKE 80 POUNDS >>  AND 40 CENTIMETERS.
• 16:05 AND WE WANT TO TAKE OUR  KNOWLEDGE IN TINY SATELLITES
• 16:11 TO BE PART OF THIS WORLD SPACE    STATION THAT NOW THEY ARE   DEVELOPING IN NASA.
• 16:19   HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THE  INVOLVEMENT IN SPACE
• 16:21 AND CYBERSPACE AND LEADING THE    WORLD IN SO MANY AREAS OF
• 16:24   SCIENCE AND YET IT   BEING SUCH A SMALL COUNTRY?
• 16:27 WE HAVE VERY GOOD BRAINS HERE.
• 16:29 WE HAVE VERY GOOD PEOPLE THAT GO   THROUGH VERY GOOD TRAINING.
• 16:33  YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT  ISRAEL WAS IN A SITUATION FOR
• 16:37 TENS OF YEARS AND THOSE YEARS,
• 16:42 WE HAD TO DEVELOP OUR HIGH TECH  IN DIFFERENT MILITARY FIELDS
• 16:49 AND PLAN VERY MUCH TO INCREASE  OUR HIGH-TECH IN THE CIVILIAN  ONES.
• 16:56 WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING TO INVEST IN EDUCATION,
• 17:00  TO INVEST IN UNIVERSITIES, TO INVEST IN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS.
• 17:04 UNFORTUNATELY MOST OF THE BUDGET  IS STILL GOING TO THE DEFENSE
• 17:10  ISSUES AND NOT WHAT REALLY WE  WANTED TO INVEST ON.
• 17:18 BUT STILL ISRAEL IN THE   LAST 50 YEARS OF EXISTENCE
• 17:24    DID EVERYTHING TO  INVEST IN HIGH TECH.
• 17:28   I THINK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE  INVOLVED WITH HIGH TECH KNOW
• 17:31 THAT ISRAEL IS   A SUPER POWER IN THIS AREA.
• 17:38   FAR FROM THE IMAGE OF DUSTY    STREETS AND CIVIL UNREST,
• 17:41 THE NATION OF ISRAEL IS >>   THRIVING, INNOVATIVE AND >>  PROSPEROUS.
• 17:45   OUR FRIEND DAVID BAR-ILLAN,
• 17:46    FORMER ADVISOR TO    PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHOU
• 17:50   AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF THE   JERUSALEM POST GIVES US HIS
• 17:53  UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON  ISRAEL'S PROSPERITY.
• 17:56  WE ARE ON AN EUROPEAN LEVEL, >>   OUR ECONOMY IS THRIVING.
• 18:00  AS A MATTER OF FACT,    WE'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE
• 18:05 IN THE FACT THAT EVEN THOUGH WE  DON'T HAVE NATURAL RESOURCES,
• 18:09 THE WAY THE ARAB HAS, YOU KNOW  THE PREVALENT JOKE IN ISRAEL,
• 18:13 THAT MOSES MANAGED TO FIND THE  ONLY PLACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT DOESN'T HAVE OIL.
• 18:18  THE FACT IS, THAT WE DO HAVE >>   THIS PROBLEM OF NATURAL >>  RESOURCES.
• 18:23    BUT TODAY WE HAVE WHAT IS  CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT
• 18:27 NATURAL RESOURCE IN THE WORLD.
• 18:29  AND THAT IS THE KIND OF BRAIN   POWER WHICH IS AN ESSENTIAL
• 18:33   PART OF THE  ECONOMY OF THE NEXT CENTURY.
• 18:37  THE KIND OF BRAIN POWER THAT  MAKES THIS THE SECOND SILICON  VALLEY IN THE WORLD.
• 18:42  THE KIND OF BRAIN POWER WHICH  MAKES BIO-TECHNOLOGY,
• 18:45  FOR INSTANCE, ONE OF THE MOST    THRIVING FORMS OF SCIENCE
• 18:49 IN THIS COUNTRY   AND WHICH IS IT AFTER ALL,
• 18:51   THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE, GENETIC RESEARCH AND THAT SORT    OF THING.
• 18:54 AND AS YOU SAID THE PER CAPITA   INCOME, THE PER CAPITA GDP,
• 19:02 THE PRODUCTION OF THIS COUNTRY  IS ON A VERY, VERY HIGH LEVEL
• 19:06   AND WE HOPE WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE OR SO WE WILL ACTUALLY
• 19:10  SUPERSEDE THE   EUROPEAN COUNTRIES,
• 19:13 CONSIDERING THAT WE ARE  CONSTANTLY STILL UNDER SIEGE.
• 19:16 THAT OUR DEFENSE BUDGET IS FAR LARGER THAN ANY    EUROPEAN COUNTRY.
• 19:21 ALLOWS ITSELF TO HAVE.
• 19:24 AND THAT WE HAVE ALSO A CONSTANT   CHALLENGE OF ABSORBING VERY   LARGE IMMIGRATION,
• 19:31    CONSIDERING ALL OF THAT, >>I THINK WHAT WE HAVE PERFORMED
• 19:35 HERE IS NOTHING  SHORT OF MIRACULOUS.
• 19:36    IT IS MIRACULOUS.
• 19:38 IT IS.
• 19:39    WHY DO THE EUROPEANS, FOR  EXAMPLE, THE EURO PARLIAMENT,
• 19:44  WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT,
• 19:46 ANNOUNCED RECENTLY THE ABSOLUTE >>   LEGISLATIVE RIGHT OF THE
• 19:51 PALESTINIANS TO BUILD A COUNTRY    HERE IN ISRAEL AND SO ON?
• 19:54    WHY DO THEY SEEM >>TO TAKE THE OTHER SIDE?
• 19:57   THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I'M  AFRAID FOR A REAL ANSWER YOU
• 20:01   WILL HAVE TO ADDRESS THEM,
• 20:02 BECAUSE I'M REALLY PUZZLED BY IT TO BE QUITE TRUTHFUL ABOUT IT.
• 20:07    AFTER ALL, IT USED TO BE >>CONSIDERED AN ECONOMIC CONSIDERATION.
• 20:13 THE ARAB MARKET IS MUCH LARGER  THAN OURS AND IF THEY WANT TO  CURRY FAVOR WITH IT.
• 20:18  THEY HAVE TO BE ANTI-ISRAELI.
• 20:21   BUT NOW OUR ECONOMY IS SO LARGE AND SO PROSPEROUS,
• 20:28   THAT WE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW,   OUR GDP IS LARGER THAN ALL
• 20:31   OF OUR NEIGHBORS TOGETHER.
• 20:33  YOUR GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT.
• 20:35  IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND   EXCEPT IN TERMS OF THE FACT
• 20:41    THAT IT IS ALWAYS EASIER TO BE --
• 20:45   TO TRY TO CURRY FAVOR WITH    DICTATORSHIPS THAN WITH A
• 20:49   DEMOCRACY, BECAUSE  A DEMOCRACY WILL FORGIVE YOU.
• 20:51   YOU KNOW YOU WILL CONTINUE >>   HAVING GOOD TERMS WITH A
• 20:55 DEMOCRACY NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY    AND WHAT YOU DO ABOUT IT.
• 20:57   WHILE DICTATORSHIPS    CAN TAKE REVENGE.
• 21:01 CAN RETALIATE BY DOING THE KINDS  OF THINGS THAT YOU DON'T WANT
• 21:08 THEM TO DO LIKE BOYCOTTING YOU.
• 21:09    LIKE BOYCOTTING COMPANIES THAT INVEST IN ISRAEL,
• 21:11 USED TO BE THE CASE AND STILL IS  IN MANY INSTANCES EVEN TODAY.
• 21:16  SO IT IS THE KIND OF  THING THAT IS PLACE OF LEAST
• 21:20  RESISTANCE AND ATTACKING THE   DEMOCRATIC FRIEND AND ALLY
• 21:23   AND CURRY FAVOR AND ACTING   TOWARDS THE DICTATORSHIPS.
• 21:34 IN CLOSING, I GUESS OUR SUBJECT THIS IS ISRAEL,    IS TO DEMONSTRATE
• 21:40 THIS COUNTRY AS A LEADING NATION
• 21:42  AND HARDLY A BACKWARD  AND TROUBLED NATION.
• 21:45  DO YOU THINK UP AHEAD WE ARE GOING TO HAVE PEACE OR AT LEAST  TRANQUILITY?
• 21:51  I'M NOT SURE.
• 21:53 BECAUSE FOR THE TIME BEING, THE  MAXIMUM THAT ISRAEL CAN GIVE
• 21:57 WITH SECURITY AND SAFETY AND THE MINIMUM OF WHAT THE PALESTINIANS
• 22:02  ARE DEMANDING ARE STILL INCOMPATIBLE.
• 22:04 THE DISTANCE AND THE GAP BETWEEN  THEM IS SO LARGE THAT I'M NOT
• 22:08 QUITE SURE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE THE KIND OF PEACE THAT
• 22:12 WE TALK ABOUT IN THE WEST, THAT  IS BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY  FOR INSTANCE.
• 22:16   WE MAY BE ABLE TO REACH AN ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS SOMETHING
• 22:20 ISSUE THAN WAR WHICH IS BETTER    THAN WAR NEEDLESS TO SAY.
• 22:25   ON THE OTHER HAND, I DON'T  THINK THE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMY
• 22:29 AND STANDARD OF LIVING IN THIS    COUNTRY AND DYNAMISM HAVE
• 22:34 ANYTHING TO DO WITH ALL OF THIS.
• 22:35   I THINK IT >>   WILL CONTINUE TO THRIVE,
• 22:37   CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS,  CONTINUE TO DEVELOP,
• 22:40    CONTINUE TO BE ONE OF THE >>   LEADING COUNTRIES IN THE
• 22:42 WORLD ECONOMICALLY AND SOCIALLY
• 22:44   REGARDLESS OF WHAT  HAPPENS ON THE PEACE EFFORT.
• 22:52 [ music playing ]
• 24:16 AND ANOTHER WAY THAT ISRAEL IS A   VOICE TO THE NATIONS IS GIVING
• 24:20   A LESSON ON HOW    TO THRIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
• 24:24 AFTER ALL THERE ARE 200,000    MILLION ARABS IN THIS KIND OF  COUNTRY AND THAT.
• 24:28 SOME HAVE OIL AND SOME HAVE OTHER RESOURCES, ET CETERA.
• 24:30   SOME HAVE BEEN IN THEIR    COUNTRIES 5000 YEARS
• 24:33   WORKING ON THE PLACES.
• 24:35 ISRAEL HAS   OUT STRIPPED THEM ALL.
• 24:38    THIS IS SOMETHING THE NATIONS  SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO.
• 24:41 I HAVE SAID IT FROM TIME IMMORAL
• 24:43 WITH JEWISH BRAINS AND ARAB   MONEY, THE MIDDLE EAST COULD BE PARADISE.
• 24:48 IF THE ARAB CULTURES WOULD  SIMPLY EMBRACE THESE NEIGHBORS.
• 24:52   THEY LIVED WITH THEM, MY GOSH,
• 24:54    FOR THOUSANDS    OF YEARS IN THE PAST.
• 24:56    AND QUIT THIS CHEST THUMPING INDIGNATION ABOUT THIS TINY
• 25:00   COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM.
• 25:03    AND SIMPLY COOPERATE, OH, IT COULD BE WONDERFUL.
• 25:08    BUT IN ANY CASE, THE    BIBLE AND ISLAM HAVE NOTHING
• 25:11   MUCH TO SAY TO    EACH OTHER AND THAT'S A FACT.
• 25:15    I THINK IF THE LORD TARRIES, ISLAM WILL BEGIN TO GIVE OUT ITS
• 25:22 HOSTILITY TO NOT JUST TO ISRAEL,
• 25:25  BUT THE CHRISTIANS OF THE WORLD   IN VERY IMPORTANT WAYS.
• 25:28 I SAID OFTEN THE 21st CENTURY IS   APT TO BE A WAR BETWEEN
• 25:32 ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY    IF THE LORD TARRIES.
• 25:35  WELL, THOSE WHAT CAN'T SEE THAT  GOD IS WORKING IN ISRAEL,
• 25:38    JUST ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION    THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY.
• 25:41   THIS CERTAINLY INCLUDES   CHRISTIAN SEMINARIES THAT HAVE
• 25:45  NOT BEEN TEACHING ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 25:47  AND PASTORS WHO YOU KNOW.
• 25:51   I HAVE SPOKEN SO MANY TIMES IN  CHURCHES WHERE IT WAS NOT
• 25:55    WELCOME TO TALK ABOUT ISRAEL
• 25:56   OR EVEN UNDERSTOOD WHY  I WANTED TO ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 25:59  CAN YOU IMAGINE?
• 26:00  I SPOKE IN A CHURCH ONCE,
• 26:03   I OFFERED THE PASSOVER SERVICE    AND THE PASTOR SAID,
• 26:08    "THIS IS A CHRISTIAN CHURCH, MY FRIEND."
• 26:11 AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND OF COURSE JESUS' LAST SUPPER WAS PASSOVER.
• 26:15   YOU KNOW, ISRAEL IS EVENTUALLY
• 26:17    TO BECOME THE    HEAD OF THE NATIONS.
• 26:19   IN THE TRIBULATION, IT SAYS IN    ZECHARIAH, TEN MEN WILL GRAB
• 26:23 A COAT OF A    JEW SAYING YOU KNOW TAKE US.
• 26:27   YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE  GOING, ET CETERA.
• 26:30    AND IT'S ON ITS WAY.
• 26:31    IT REALLY IS.
• 26:32  IT'S AMAZING WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN 52 YEARS.
• 26:36   THERE ARE COUNTRIES ALL AROUND    THE WORLD THAT ARE MUCH OLDER
• 26:39   THAN THAT HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED    WHAT ISRAEL HAS ACCOMPLISHED
• 26:43 EVEN STEADY   AT WAR WITH THE ARABS,
• 26:45  WITH THE MEDIA,    WITH THE CHRISTIAN SEMINARIES
• 26:48 AND WITH PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
• 26:50   FOR SOME REASON  COME DOWN ON THIS PLACE.
• 26:53 I KNOW THE REASON.
• 26:54    WE HAVE DISCUSSED IT BEFORE.
• 26:56   IF IT IS GOD'S COUNTRY,    GOD HAS AN ENEMY AND    IT'S NOT HIS COUNTRY.
• 27:00  AND HE WOULD LIKE TO ELIMINATE THAT COUNTRY.
• 27:02    READ JERUSALEM, THE TRUTH.
• 27:04  THAT'S OUR OFFER TODAY.
• 27:06   DAVID BAR-ILLAN WAS A   GUEST ON THE PROGRAM.
• 27:07 HE WROTE A BRILLIANT BOOK  EARLIER IN THE 90's THAT SERVES
• 27:11   AS A HISTORY    OF HOW WE GOT HERE.
• 27:13  HARD-HITTING EDITORIALS  FROM THE JERUSALEM POST
• 27:16  ABOUT THE PEACE PROCESS   PARTICULARLY FOCUSING
• 27:19   AROUND THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
• 27:21  IT'S A WONDERFUL BOOK, A VERY GOOD READ.
• 27:23 YOU WILL NOT PUT IT DOWN.
• 27:24   I WANT TO ASK YOU FOR A WORD
• 27:26  OF PRAYER FOR DAVID BAR-ILLAN.
• 27:27 HE RECENTLY HAD A    VERY SERIOUS HEART ATTACK,
• 27:30  AND IF ALL OF US PRAY TOGETHER,   IT WILL HELP.
• 27:32   GET OUR LEVITT LETTER AND OUR CATALOG.
• 27:35 GET OUR ADDRESS.
• 27:36   THERE'S NO CHARGE FOR THOSE.
• 27:37    REMEMBER THE GIFT OF FUNDS
• 27:39  AND AS YOU PRAY   FOR DAVID BAR-ILLAN,
• 27:41 AND SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 27:42 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.
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