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Caption transcript for Voices From Israel: “Top to Bottom” (9/10)

• 00:07 THIS PLACE IS PART OF YOUR HERITAGE.
• 00:09 THIS PLACE IS PART OF YOUR DREAM.
• 00:11 PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE ARE IN CHARGE OF THE LAND OF THE BIBLE.
• 00:14 I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY TIMES IN HISTORY
• 00:16 WHEN CHRISTIANS HAVE LOOKED THE OTHER WAY WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE WERE BEING ATTACKED.
• 00:20 WE WILL ULTIMATELY SEE THE WORLD CHANGE.
• 00:23 GOD'S PURPOSES FOR ISRAEL JUST MARCH ON, DON'T THEY?
• 00:32 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:34 WELCOME BACK TO OUR "VOICES FROM ISRAEL" SERIES.
• 00:37 ON THIS PROGRAM WE'RE GOING TO MEET A VERY FASCINATING MAN, EHUD OLMERT.
• 00:41 EHUD'S BEEN WITH US BEFORE WHEN HE WAS THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
• 00:45 NOW HE'S THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL,
• 00:48 BUT HE'S ALWAYS BEEN GOOD TO US AND HE'S ALWAYS BEEN AVAILABLE.
• 00:51 WHENEVER WE'VE ASKED FOR AN INTERVIEW, I MEAN, HE'S A MAYOR OF A VERY BUSY CITY.
• 00:57 AND I'LL TELL YOU A STORY.
• 00:59 WHEN WE HAD OUR BANQUET FOR MY 75TH TOUR THAT I LEAD TO ISRAEL,
• 01:05 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENING, HE SHOWED UP.
• 01:08 JUST, AND WHEN THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM COMES WITH ALL OF HIS SECURITY, IT'S A MOMENT.
• 01:13 I MEAN, ALL THESE MEN BURST IN AND INTERRUPTED THE PROGRAM
• 01:18 AND HE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO MAKE A SPEECH TO OUR PEOPLE.
• 01:21 A VERY ENJOYABLE MAN TO KNOW.
• 01:24 I THINK YOU WILL ENJOY HEARING FROM HIM.
• 01:26 ALSO, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM MORE ISRAELIS IN OUR "MAN ON THE STREET" SEGMENT.
• 01:30 YOU KNOW, I STAND OUT ON BEN YEHUDA STREET
• 01:31 WITH A CAMERA AND A MIC AND GET A WHOLE LOT OF OPINIONS.
• 01:35 TONY, WE'RE GOING WITH THE TOUR AGAIN.
• 01:38 WHERE ARE WE GOING ON THIS SHOW?
• 01:39 WE'RE OFF ON OUR WAY TO,
• 01:41 PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
• 01:43 AT BET SHEAN.
• 01:45 ONCE WE LEAVE THERE WE WILL TRAVEL TO JERUSALEM.
• 01:48 WE'LL GO BY SEASIDE AND WE'LL COME TO CAESAREA MARITIME
• 01:52 AND THEN IN THE EVENING IS OUR FAREWELL DINNER,
• 01:55 WHERE WE'LL COME TOGETHER AND REMINISCE
• 01:58 OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE SEEN DURING THIS TOUR.
• 02:00 OK, TO LOCATION IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 02:12 THE CITY OF BET SHEAN IS MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
• 02:15 TIME AND AGAIN, BUT ESPECIALLY IN CONNECTION WITH SAUL.
• 02:50 AND HERE THAT CITY IS BEHIND ME.
• 02:53 IT'S GOT A VERY LONG HISTORY.
• 02:55 IT WAS AN ANCIENT CITY WHEN SAUL WAS FASTENED TO THE WALL HERE.
• 02:59 IT WENT BACK TO ABOUT 3000 B.C.,
• 03:04 WHICH MAKES IT 5000 YEARS OLD FROM WHERE WE STAND.
• 03:08 OF COURSE, IT'S JUST A RUIN NOW.
• 03:10 BUT, IT WAS A GREAT CITY, COMMANDING AN ENTRANCE TO THE TRADE ROUTES OF MESOPOTAMIA
• 03:16 AND UPPER GALILEE AND SO ON.
• 03:18 IT'S SOUTH OF THE SEA OF GALILEE ABOUT 25 MILES
• 03:21 AND THE ROMANS BUILT QUITE A CITADEL HERE
• 03:24 AND THE RUINS YOU SEE BEHIND ME ARE THEIRS.
• 03:27 THEY PUT IN AN AGORA, A KIND OF SHOPPING CENTER WE WOULD SAY,
• 03:34 A GREAT THEATER, MANY PILLARS AND COLUMNS, BUILDING AFTER BUILDING
• 03:39 AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE RUINS
• 03:42 IN ALL OF ISRAEL, VERY BEAUTIFULLY EXCAVATED
• 03:45 AND ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE PILGRIMS THRILL TO SEE ANCIENT HISTORY BEFORE THEIR EYES.
• 04:14 ♪ THIS IS THE DAY ♪ THAT THE LORD HAS MADE.
• 04:16 ♪ WE WILL REJOICE ♪ AND BE GLAD IN IT.
• 04:19 ♪ THIS IS THE DAY, ♪ THIS IS THE DAY ♪ THAT THE LORD HAS MADE.
• 04:26 THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF GRAVITY.
• 04:28 WATER RUNS DOWN THE HILL FROM MOUNT CARMEL,
• 04:30 COMES POURING DOWN ON HERE AND SUPPLIES THIS HUGE CITY OF CAESAREA WITH WATER.
• 04:37 IT'S AN ENORMOUS CONSTRUCTON.
• 04:40 LOOK, IT'S WHAT 15 MILES LONG.
• 04:43 FROM THE AMAZING ROMAN AQUEDUCT BY THE COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA,
• 04:48 WE COME TO CAESAREA, THE CITY WHERE PAUL WAS IMPRISONED
• 04:52 AND THE FIRST GENTILE CONVERSION OCCURRED.
• 04:55 AS THE GROUP WALKS TOWARD THE AMPHITHEATER,
• 04:58 WE FIND ZOLA THERE, WAITING TO OPEN UP THE SCRIPTURES
• 05:00 AS WELL AS PROVIDE A DEMONSTRATION OF 1ST CENTURY ACOUSTICS.
• 05:04 (ZOLA PLAYING RECORDER)
• 05:26 THEY WOULD HAVE ACTORS THERE ON THE STAGE
• 05:28 AND THE PEOPLE ON THE TOP ROW COULD HEAR THEM WHEN THEY TALKED IN A NORMAL TONE
• 05:32 OR PLAYED AND INSTRUMENT OR WHATEVER.
• 05:35 AND THAT JUST PROVED THE PRINCIPLE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT,
• 05:38 JESUS STANDING DOWN IN THE VALLEY COULD TALK THE WAY I'M TALKING NOW
• 05:42 AND BE HEARD BY 5000 AND THEIR FAMILIES, ALL.
• 05:46 THIS I THINK SEATS SOMETHING LIKE 2500 AND THAT'S HALF OF THAT CROWD
• 05:52 AND THEN THE MOUNT, OF COURSE, WENT OUT TO THE SIDES.
• 05:55 THEY ALL HEARD HIM PERFECTLY.
• 05:56 NOW, AT CAESAREA IS A MORE IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
• 06:06 HE'S A ROMAN OFFICER.
• 06:08 I AM SURE THAT HE SAT IN THIS THEATER AND WATCHED ROMAN PLAYS, AND WHY NOT.
• 06:14 THAT'S THE PLACE TO OFTEN FIND AN OFFICE AND HIS WIFE
• 06:17 AND SO YOU'RE SITTING RIGHT IN THE HEART OF THIS PLACE.
• 06:31 WELL, HIS VISION IS THAT HE SHOULD SEND DOWN TO JOPPA,
• 06:35 JAFFA, WHICH YOU WILL SEE LATER TONIGHT
• 06:37 TO PETER, WHO WAS STAYING THERE AT SIMON THE TANNERS HOUSE AND ASKED PETER TO COME.
• 06:44 WELL, HE KNEW WHO PETER WAS.
• 06:46 PETER WAS A FAMOUS EVANGELIST BY NOW AND THE FOUNDER OF THE JERUSALEM CHURCH.
• 06:52 AND HE SENDS FOR HIM.
• 06:55 AND I'M GOING TO SKIP THROUGH THE CHAPTER A LITTLE BIT,
• 06:58 BUT WHEN PETER GOES TO CAESAREA
• 07:13 WELL, AS A MATTER OF FACT, THEY ARE SAVED BEFORE HE GETS FINISHED,
• 07:15 PETER PREACHED AT PENTECOST 5 MINUTES AND 3000 WERE SAVED.
• 07:23 IN ACTS 3, HE PREACHED MAYBE 3 MINUTES AND 5000 WERE SAVED.
• 07:27 THIS TIME HE ISN'T EVEN FINISHED AND THEY INTERRUPT HIM WITH THEIR SALVATION
• 07:31 BECAUSE IT SAYS IN VERSE 44
• 07:50 NOW, INSTEAD OF SAYING REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED, EVERY ONE OF YOU,
• 07:53 HE SAYS, ANYBODY HAVE ANY OBJECTION IF WE BAPTIZE THESE NEW BELIEVERS
• 07:57 AND HE PUTS A LITTLE ARGUMENT IN HIS QUESTION.
• 08:00 THEY'VE RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST LIKE WE DID, AFTER ALL.
• 08:03 NOW, I THINK THEY'RE STILL ASTONISHED.
• 08:14 THEY WANTED HIM TO STAY AND DISCIPLE THEM.
• 08:17 NORMAL CONVERSIONS, NORMAL VIEWS FOR NEWLY SAVED PERSONS.
• 08:23 KNOW THAT SALVATION STARTED FOR GENTILE PEOPLE IN THIS CITY HERE AT CAESAREA
• 08:29 WITH A ROMAN OFFICER, WHO LIVED NOT FAR FROM HERE,
• 08:32 COULD PROBABLY SHOUT AND HE'D HEAR ME, IF HIS HOUSE WERE STILL HERE
• 08:36 AND WE'LL SEE HIM IN THE KINGDOM AND HE'LL SAY,
• 08:40 "BOY, IT WAS A GREAT DAY WHEN I HAD THAT DREAM AND SENT FOR PETER."
• 08:43 ♪ ♪
• 09:13 I LOVE IT.
• 09:15 IT'S JUST THREE DIMENSIONAL HISTORY JUST COME TO LIFE
• 09:17 AND IT'S NOT ALL CLUTTERED UP WITH EXTRA TRAPPINGS TO IT AND ALL THAT.
• 09:23 IT'S THE REAL THING THAT'S OUT HERE.
• 09:25 IT HASN'T BEEN TURNED INTO A SHRINE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
• 09:27 IT'S JUST THE REAL THING THAT YOU CAN COME WALK AROUND IN.
• 09:38 THE HUM OF THE BUS AND THE SETTING SUN MAKE OUR EYELIDS DROOP
• 09:41 AS MANY OF US DOZE OFF FOR A NAP AT THE END OF A FULL, BUT EXCITING DAY OF TOURING ISRAEL.
• 09:47 AS WE DRIVE INTO TEL AVIV, OUR THOUGHTS TURN TOWARD HOME.
• 09:51 WE'RE ANTICIPATING FLYING BACK EARLY TOMORROW MORNING, BUT FIRST, WE CHECK INTO OUR HOTEL.
• 09:57 WE GATHER TOGETHER ONE LAST TIME TO ENJOY A WONDERFUL DINNER,
• 10:01 TO REMINISCE ABOUT THE TRIP AND HONOR THOSE WHO'VE MADE IT POSSIBLE.
• 10:05 YOU REALLY DO ENCOURAGE THE ISRAELI PEOPLE BY YOUR PRESENCE.
• 10:11 IT'S VERY NICE.
• 10:12 IT'S SAD THAT MANY OF THE SITES WE WENT TO, WE WERE ALONE.
• 10:17 DOES ANYBODY HAVE A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE OR TESTIMONY OR FEELING YOU WANT TO SHARE.
• 10:23 EVERYONE HERE KNOWS HOW MUCH WE ALL LOVE ZOLA LEVITT AND HIS WIFE SANDRA.
• 10:29 WE SHOWED THAT LOVE AND APPRECIATION BY COMING ON THIS 75TH TOUR.
• 10:35 BUT, WE DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE 2 OTHER GENTLEMEN TONIGHT THAT WE'VE GROWN TO LOVE.
• 10:41 (WE) NEVER MET THEM BEFORE UNTIL WE GOT OVER HERE
• 10:43 AND NOW I THINK WE'VE ALL GOT VERY, VERY CLOSE TO THEM,
• 10:47 NOT ONLY AS BROTHERS IN CHRIST, BUT AS GOOD FRIENDS
• 10:51 AND GOOD STATESMEN FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
• 10:55 SO AT THIS TIME, WE WOULD LIKE ZVI AND DAVID TO COME UP
• 10:59 AND THE GROUP AND WE WANT TO SHOW A LITTLE APPRECIATION
• 11:03 FOR OUR LOVE FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE.
• 11:07 I KNOW IT'S TROUBLE TRYING TO KEEP A BUNCH OF US IN LINE SOMETIMES,
• 11:11 ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S A SHOPPING MALL
• 11:16 SO IN ZVI'S FAMOUS WORDS, "LET'S GO."
• 11:22 (APPLAUSE)
• 11:32 EACH ONE OF YOU ARE A HERO THAT YOU CAME TO ISRAEL
• 11:37 AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO ANYONE
• 11:39 FROM YOUR FAMILY, FROM YOUR NEIGHBOR.
• 11:42 "DON'T GO, ISRAEL IS DANGEROUS."
• 11:44 SO, THANK YOU FOR COMING AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
• 11:50 (SPEAKING IN HEBREW)
• 11:52 EVERYONE ON THE TRIP RECEIVES A CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM AND OTHERS,
• 11:57 IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND
• 12:00 ALSO A CERTIFICATE RECOGNIZING GOING THROUGH THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEMINAR.
• 12:05 AS WE LOOK OUT THE WINDOW, WE SEE THE LIGHTS OF TEL AVIV,
• 12:09 SOME BECOME EMOTIONAL AS THEY REFLECT BACK ON THEIR EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL.
• 12:14 I'VE CRIED MANY TIMES BECAUSE IT JUST BREAKS MY HEART.
• 12:17 EVERYBODY OUGHT TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 12:20 THE LORD JUST BRINGS IT TO LIFE AND YOU GO AND YOU FEEL IT AND TOUCH IT.
• 12:26 IT'S THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME.
• 12:30 IF I HAD THE MONEY AND THE REST OF MY FAMILY WAS OVER HERE, I'D STAY OVER HERE.
• 12:35 THAT'S THE EMOTIONS I HAVE.
• 12:38 BUT, I'M SAD TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY, BUT I'M GLAD I'M GOING BACK HOME
• 12:45 FOR THEIR SAKE, YOU KNOW, TO SEE THEM.
• 12:47 BUT, THAT'S ALL.
• 12:52 WELL, WE GOT A GROUP PICTURE EARLIER IN THE TOUR
• 12:56 AND I'M GETTING EVERYBODY TO SIGN IT SO I CAN REMEMBER THEM AND WHAT WE DID.
• 13:05 IT'S REALLY NICE OVER HERE.
• 13:09 SOMETIMES I FEEL MORE SAFE OVER HERE THAN I DO AT HOME,
• 13:14 BECAUSE THERE'S NOT GANGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT OVER HERE.
• 13:18 ABOUT ZOLA GROUP, I CAN SAY, BEFORE ZOLA IS COMING, 1 MONTH,
• 13:25 FIRST OF ALL, ALL THE COUNTRY THEY KNOW THAT ZOLA IS COMING.
• 13:29 ALL THE MANY, MANY PEOPLE PHONE ME, WHEN IS HE COMING, IS IT TRUE HE'S COMING.
• 13:36 I SAY YES.
• 13:38 I HAVE THE FAX AND HE IS COMING HE COULD DECIDE HE WILL COME
• 13:42 IF ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN HE WILL COME.
• 13:48 HE DON'T MIND.
• 13:49 A LOT OF PEOPLE SEEM SURPRISED THAT WE'RE HERE.
• 13:53 YES, THAT'S TRUE.
• 13:55 AND I TOLD THEM, IF HE DECIDES TO COME IN THE GULF WAR IN '91,
• 13:59 SO HE WILL BE HERE IN ANYTIME.
• 14:03 SO YOU'RE A BELIEVER, YOURSELF.
• 14:05 I'M A BELIEVER.
• 14:06 MY FAMILY, THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS, BUT THEY NOT BOTHER ME.
• 14:11 WHEN DID YOU BECOME A BELIEVER AND HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
• 14:15 FROM ZOLA'S GROUP.
• 14:16 I THINK ABOUT 9 YEARS AGO IT HAPPENED.
• 14:20 YOU KNOW, SLOWLY, SLOWLY, I BECAME BELIEVER
• 14:23 AND BEFORE ZOLA, I WAS WORKING FOR ZOLA,
• 14:28 IT SEEMED TO ME SOMETHING STRANGE AND WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT MEANS BELIEVER.
• 14:36 BUT, NOW I HAVE BIBLE AT HOME, ON THE BUS, EVERYWHERE.
• 14:39 NEW TESTAMENT.
• 14:41 WHY NOT?
• 14:43 EVEN SOMETIMES I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 14:49 WHY DO YOU THINK THIS IS SO-- YOU KNOW,
• 14:52 I DON'T FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU, SAME.
• 14:56 REALLY, I WANTED TO COME AT THIS TIME TO GET A FEELING OF THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY,
• 15:02 TO REALLY WALK SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE PEOPLE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE FEELING AT THIS TIME
• 15:09 AND WHAT THE SITUATION REALLY IS IN THE COUNTRY,
• 15:12 BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH IN THE MEDIA THAT'S DISTORTED, I THINK
• 15:17 AND IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE TO GET A REAL SENSE OF ACCURACY.
• 15:20 IT'S A DIFFICULT TIME FOR THEM.
• 15:22 I THINK IT'S A VERY ROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THEY LIVE IN
• 15:25 AND IT'S REALLY A TIME TO STAND WITH ISRAEL, REALLY,
• 15:29 TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE IN PRAYER AND TO SUPPORT THEM BY COMING HERE.
• 15:33 YOU KNOW IT HELPS THEIR ECONOMY.
• 15:36 THE BEST THING ABOUT COMING TO ISRAEL IS LANDING HERE.
• 15:38 THAT'S SENSE OF "I'M HOME" AND THE WORST THING ABOUT COMING TO ISRAEL IS HAVING TO LEAVE.
• 15:43 SO, IT IS A BIT SAD, YES.
• 15:46 YOU KNOW, WE SAY
• 15:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW) NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM.
• 16:00 FOR A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST,
• 16:05 ASK FOR ZOLA'S FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 16:12 ZOLA'S NEW CATALOG DESCRIBES HIS, BOOKS, TEACHING TAPES AND CORRESPONDENCE COURSE.
• 16:20 FOR ZOLA'S FREE NEWSLETTER AND CATALOG
• 16:32 NOW WE TAKE OUR CAMERAS TO CENTRAL JERUSALEM
• 16:35 TO HEAR FROM THE "MAN ON THE STREET".
• 16:41 SO THE DISCUSSION IS TERRORISM.
• 16:44 WHAT DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THIS?
• 16:45 THE HUMAN CONDITION, IS THE HUMAN CONDITION
• 16:50 ESPECIALLY THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 16:53 IT'S NOT THAT--
• 16:54 SINCE THE PROBLEMS HAVEN'T BEEN SOLVED FOR 2-3,000 YEARS, 10,000 YEARS,
• 16:58 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME HERE.
• 17:00 IF YOU LOOK AT HISTORY, YOU READ HISTORY AND YOU STUDY HISTORY,
• 17:04 YOU'LL SEE THAT THE SAME HUMAN CONDITION HAS BEEN THE SAME HERE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME
• 17:12 AND THEY FOUGHT OVER THAT SPRING DOWN IN THE VALLEY OF ZOHAN.
• 17:17 IT'S THE SAME SITUATION.
• 17:21 THE STRONG TRYING TO DOMINATE THE WEAK.
• 17:25 I THINK THAT UNLIKE WAR, WHERE THE ANSWER IS DIPLOMACY, IN THE CASE OF TERROR,
• 17:31 THE ONLY ANSWER IS TO FIGHT THEM AND DESTROY THE TERRORISTS
• 17:34 BECAUSE WHEN SOMEONE IS FIGHTING A WAR, THEN THEY HAVE POLITICAL REASONS BEHIND IT
• 17:41 EVEN IF IT'S AMERICA FIGHTING THE RUSSIANS OR WHATEVER.
• 17:43 THEY'RE NOT FIGHTING TO KILL.
• 17:45 TERRORIST ARE NOT HERE TO CONQUER SOMETHING, THEY'RE HERE TO CAUSE PANIC.
• 17:48 THEY'RE HERE TO DRIVE THE PEOPLE SCARED AND TO KILL.
• 17:54 THAT'S THERE MAIN FOCUS.
• 17:56 THAT'S WHY THEY DON'T ATTACK SOLDIERS; THEY ATTACK CIVILIANS THAT HAVE CHILDREN AND WOMEN.
• 17:59 IT'S A COWARDLY ACT, BUT THE SAME AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SEEN
• 18:04 WITH THE ATTACK ON THE TWIN TOWERS.
• 18:06 TAKE FOR EXAMPLE IT THEY WOULD HAVE BLOWN UP, LIKE THEY DID,
• 18:10 YOU COULD SAY THAT THE COLE, THE 6TH FLEET SHIP
• 18:15 OR ATTACK MAYBE THE AMERICANS IN AFGHANISTAN, THAT'S A WAR.
• 18:18 BUT, WHEN YOU BLOW UP THE TWIN TOWERS, WHICH HAVE CIVILIANS IN IT,
• 18:22 ONLY TO CAUSE TERROR AND TO CAUSE PANIC.
• 18:25 THERE'S NO POLITICAL LOGIC BEHIND IT
• 18:28 AND THAT'S WHY I THINK WE CAN'T NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS
• 18:31 BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING TO NEGOTIATE WITH.
• 18:33 AND I THINK THAT'S THE MAIN DIFFERENCE, WHICH PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND
• 18:36 BETWEEN FIGHTING A WAR AND FIGHTING TERRORISM.
• 18:39 THIS COUNTRY WAS ESTABLISHED FOR US
• 18:42 AND EVERYBODY IN DEEP, IN THE SECRET PLACE IN HIS HEART
• 18:48 KNOWS THAT THE JEWS BELONG HERE, EVEN THE PALESTINIANS
• 18:52 AND THEY WOULD ACCEPT IT IF THE JEWS WOULD ACCEPT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY OF BEING HERE.
• 18:57 ARE NOT THE PALESTINIANS SAYING THAT THIS IS THEIR LAND?
• 19:00 FIRST OF ALL, THEY'RE NOT PALESTINIANS.
• 19:01 WHATEVER THEY ARE.
• 19:02 THERE'S NO SH THING AS PALESTINIANS.
• 19:04 THERE'S NOT?
• 19:05 NO.
• 19:06 BECAUSE WHEN NOBODY WANTED THIS LAND,
• 19:09 THERE WERE JUST BEDOUIN ROAMING AROUND, DRIVING CAMELS, SHEEP AND GOATS.
• 19:14 THERE WASN'T AN ESTABLISHED-
• 19:16 THERE WERE A FEW PEOPLE TENDING THE OLIVE GROVES.
• 19:19 BUT, THERE WERE NO PEOPLE HERE, CALLED PALESTINIANS.
• 19:22 IT'S A MYTH, BEEN MADE UP.
• 19:25 WHAT HAPPENED IS, WHEN THE JEWS ESTABLISHED THIS LAND
• 19:27 AND STARTED TO DEVELOP IT AND TURN IT FROM A DESERT INTO A GARDEN,
• 19:32 ALL THE ARABS CAME FLOODING IN HERE WANTING WORK.
• 19:37 THEY HAD NO WORK.
• 19:39 THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING IN ALL THE OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES ARE HALF OF WHAT THEY ARE HERE.
• 19:45 SO NATURALLY THEY CAME HERE LOOKING FOR WORK IN THE ESTABLISHMENTS.
• 19:50 THEN THEY BECAME SUDDENLY--
• 19:51 YOU KNOW THE SLAVES ALWAYS TRY TO BECOME THE MASTER THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
• 19:56 EVERY COUNTRY MAKES THE SAME MISTAKE.
• 20:00 SO, WHAT ARE YOUR OVERALL FEELINGS OF ISRAEL?
• 20:01 IS IT A SAFE PLACE TO BE?
• 20:03 OH, IT'S A REAL SAFE PLACE.
• 20:04 MY WIFE AND I WERE OUT LAST NIGHT AT 11 P.M.
• 20:06 WALKING AROUND THE HILTON AND WE'RE JUST REAL COMFORTABLE HERE
• 20:09 AND FEEL ALMOST MORE COMFORTABLE THAN WE DO IN ANY DOWNTOWN MAJOR CITY IN THE U.S.
• 20:13 DO YOU THINK THAT THE PICTURE THAT'S PAINTED OF ISRAEL IN THE U.S. IS AN ACCURATE ONE?
• 20:17 IT'S NOT ACCURATE BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I TOLD MY FRIENDS I WAS COMING TO ISRAEL,
• 20:23 THEY WOULD SAY, WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY, AREN'T YOU AFRAID?
• 20:28 AND I WOULD JUST TELL THEM, WELL, NO, IT'S ACTUALLY,
• 20:30 I FEEL MORE SAFE IN ISRAEL THAN I DO IN MANY PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES.
• 20:44 ♪ ♪
• 21:27 (VIOLINIST PLAYING)
• 21:34 WELL, IT'S NOT HARD TO GET OPINIONS WHEN YOU'RE IN ISRAEL.
• 21:38 IT'S ODD, YOU KNOW WE TAKE CAMERA AND MIC TO WASHINGTON, DC NOW, AND THEN
• 21:42 AND WE DO "MAN ON THE STREET" PROGRAMS THERE.
• 21:44 BUT, IT'S HARD TO CONVINCE THE PEOPLE TO COME UP
• 21:47 AND GIVE AN OPINION IN AMERICA FOR SOME REASON.
• 21:50 IT'S SURE NOT HARD THERE.
• 21:52 TONY, THANKS A LOT FOR ALL YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS SERIES.
• 21:56 HE TAKES EACH OF OUR TOURS.
• 21:57 HE'S OUR TOUR MANAGER AND YOU KNOW THE ROPES OVER THERE
• 22:01 AND WE ALL APPRECIATE YOUR WORK.
• 22:03 THIS ONE'S BEEN A LOT OF FUN.
• 22:05 NOW, MAYOR OLMERT, I CALL HIM THE MAYOR BECAUSE I KNEW HIM AS THE MAYOR,
• 22:09 DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, OLMERT, WOULD BE MORE CORRECT.
• 22:12 I ASKED HIM ABOUT TERRORISM AND ABOUT JERUSALEM, THE CITY HE LOVES.
• 22:17 THIS IS TIME OF CRISIS.
• 22:20 WE ARE FACED WITH ENORMOUS DIFFICULTIES.
• 22:23 THERE ARE JUST PROVISIONAL DIFFICULTIES AS THE ECONOMIC CRISIS RIGHT NOW,
• 22:30 BUT THERE ARE SOME FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES,
• 22:32 WHICH WILL DETERMINE THE FACE OF OUR NATION FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
• 22:36 THERE IS A GROWING DISENCHANTMENT WITH THE POLICIES
• 22:43 THAT HAVE BEEN THE MAINSTREAM OF THE ISRAELI POLICY IN THE LAST 10 YEARS.
• 22:53 THE SOMEWHAT CHILDISH BELIEF THAT WE ARE EMBARKING ON AN ENTIRELY NEW ERA,
• 23:00 THAT THERE IS A NEW MIDDLE EAST, THAT FROM A CERTAIN POINT ON,
• 23:05 ALL THE RELATIONS BETWEEN US AND THE PALESTINIAN
• 23:09 ARE NOW MOVING FORWARD IN A VERY RAPID WAY TOWARD RECONCILIATION AND A PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE,
• 23:17 ALL THESE HAVE BEEN SHATTERED, NOT JUST BY THE BEGINNING OF THE INTIFADA,
• 23:22 NOT ONLY BY THE NATURE OF THIS VIOLENT AND DEADLY NATURE OF THE INTIFADA,
• 23:27 BUT WHAT LIES BEHIND IT, THE HATRED, THE INCITEMENTS,
• 23:33 THE INDOCTRINATION OF THE WORST ANTI-SEMITIC NATURE,
• 23:40 WHICH NOW HAVE CHARACTERIZED THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 23:45 THIS IS THE "CITY OF GOD".
• 23:47 THERE IS NOT ANY OTHER CITY IN THE WHOLE WORLD,
• 23:49 ABOUT WHICH ONE CAN SAY THAT IT IS THE "CITY OF GOD".
• 23:53 IT HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY GOD TO BE THE CAPITOL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 23:57 THIS IS WHERE OUR FOREFATHER, ABRAHAM WAS ASKED TO SACRIFICE HIS SON ON MT. MORIAH.
• 24:05 MT. MORIAH IS THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 24:08 THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS WHERE THE FIRST AND THE SECOND JEWISH TEMPLES WERE BUILT.
• 24:13 THIS IS THE CENTER OF JEWISH EXISTENCE.
• 24:16 THIS IS THE SPOT FOR WHICH JEWS WERE PRAYING
• 24:20 AND WERE YELLING FOR AND DREAMING OF AND CRYING FOR AND DYING FOR ALL THEIR LIVES.
• 24:28 THIS IS THE ONE SPOT THAT WE ALWAYS ASPIRE TO COME BACK TO.
• 24:32 YOU KNOW FOR 2000 YEARS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE,
• 24:35 THE JEWS SAY, "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM".
• 24:42 NOW, I ASK YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK, 1000 YEARS AGO, 1500 YEARS AGO
• 24:47 WHEN JEWS WERE PRAYING, "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM",
• 24:51 DO YOU THINK THEY THOUGHT OF THE GILO NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE SOUTH PART OF THE CITY?
• 24:56 THERE WASN'T GILO THEN.
• 24:58 DO YOU THINK THAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT OTHER SECTIONS OF MODERN JERUSALEM?
• 25:02 QUITE FRANKLY, THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT,
• 25:04 BUT THEY WERE NOT THE FOCUS OF THE DREAMS.
• 25:10 THERE WAS ONE PLACE IN THE OLD CITY.
• 25:13 IT'S NOT FAR FROM HERE, JUST A FEW HUNDRED METERS.
• 25:17 THIS IS THE PLACE, THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
• 25:19 THIS IS THE ONE SPOT THAT WAS THE CENTER OF THE JEWISH ETHOS FOR 2000 YEARS.
• 25:28 THIS IS WHERE WE ALL LOOKED AT.
• 25:31 THIS WAS THE DREAM. THIS WAS THE GOAL.
• 25:34 IF YOU WANT, THIS WAS THE TORCH.
• 25:36 THERE WAS LIGHTNING, THE DEEP DARK TUNNELS OF JEWISH LIFE THROUGHOUT CENTURIES
• 25:44 AND THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A TORCH, LEAD US TO RETURN BACK INTO WHERE WE BELONG
• 25:52 AND THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT ANYONE CAN FORGET OR THAT I CAN IGNORE.
• 25:57 AT ANY GIVEN SECOND, WHILE I AM THE MAYOR OF THE MODERN CITY OF JERUSALEM,
• 26:03 WHICH STILL LOOKS WITH GREAT REVERENCE AND ADMIRATION AND FEAR FOR THIS PLACE.
• 26:12 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE FIRST TAPED WITH MAYOR OLMERT,
• 26:16 HE SAID TO ME, DO YOU REALIZE I AM ONLY THE SECOND MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
• 26:21 WHAT HE MEANT WAS, MAYOR TEDDY KOLECK, WHO WAS IN OFFICE FOR DECADES,
• 26:26 WAS BEFORE HIM AND THEN OLMERT TOOK OVER.
• 26:29 HE WAS VERY PLEASED WHEN I REMINDED HIM THAT HE WAS REALLY THE THIRD.
• 26:34 NEHEMIAH WAS ALSO THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM, IF YOU REMEMBER IN THE SCRIPTURES.
• 26:39 HE WENT THERE AND HELPED REBUILD AND ACTED AS THE MAYOR.
• 26:43 THIS CITY WILL REMAIN IN JEWISH HANDS.
• 26:48 THE SPAN OF TIME FROM NEHEMIAH TO OLMERT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE TIME COMING UP,
• 26:52 1000 YEAR KINGDOM, JERUSALEM IN ETERNITY AND SO,
• 26:56 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALYIM, PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.