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Ariella Noveck | Co-Founder of "Bottom Line Media" Non-Profit | 05-15-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm so excited about making my return to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking about it a lot the last last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, last couple of weeks, and usually it's
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  Speaker 1: Scott Feltman and the One Israel Bund and Judah Hannikman
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  Speaker 1: and Gabriel Boxer, all those great guys make it possible.
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  Speaker 1: But this time around, it's my friend Ariella Novak, who's
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  Speaker 1: been on this show a couple of times before. She's
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  Speaker 1: actually terrific, and she's making this thing happen. Ariella, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know who she is. You should. She's been doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of great work in the Middle East for
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  Speaker 1: a year. She's the co founder of the nonprofit bottom
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  Speaker 1: Line Media, and she knows everything about anti Semitism and
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  Speaker 1: Middle East affairs. I mean everything, with extensive experience covering
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  Speaker 1: Jewish communities worldwide. So let's start with a good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you, Ariella, and I'm very excited about going back
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  Speaker 1: to Israel, this time with you and your group. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much my.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasure, and thank you for having me in. Good morning, Good.
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  Speaker 1: Morning to you. Before we get to the actual Israel trip,
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  Speaker 1: I know you went to a big event on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: the Embassy of Israel is Washington, and it did mark
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  Speaker 1: the seventy eighth Independence Day, the big independence say for
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  Speaker 1: Israel now seventy eight years old. And a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: big time politicians were there. Gotttheimer was there out of
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey Moscow, which they were there. You also had
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  Speaker 1: my friend doctor light or terrific ambassador. He was there
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  Speaker 1: as well. Mike Huckabee, the tremendous President Trump ambassador to
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  Speaker 1: Israel who replaced David Friedman this time around. That was
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  Speaker 1: a star started event on Wednesday night. Tell me about
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  Speaker 1: that big night.
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  Speaker 2: It was really special. Sitting third row had an eye
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  Speaker 2: on everything. And of course Jared Moscowitz, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: is representative and Gottheimer spoke so beautifully and the main
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  Speaker 2: line out to me and gave me real physic as
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  Speaker 2: we say, real strength. They said, no defense, only offense.
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  Speaker 2: We stand tall, we stand proud, and we fight anti Semitism,
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  Speaker 2: and they meant it and you felt it. It was
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  Speaker 2: strong and it was amazing well brutal week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, those are two Democrats. You're right, Gotttheimer,
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  Speaker 1: who's actually done something for my son's disability dysproxya. He
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  Speaker 1: sees working on a bipartisan bill with Mike Lawler to
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  Speaker 1: get at the federal funding and all the exposure it needs.
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  Speaker 1: So I like Gotttheimer Moscow it's too But it's been
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  Speaker 1: a particularly brutal week. You know, boats getting on me
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  Speaker 1: for a while you talked about Israel. Listen, tough man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you saw those violent Midwood Brooklyn riots. They
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  Speaker 1: weren't protests or rallies, they were riots. Swastika is all
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  Speaker 1: over Queens, a swastika flying high above the NYU commencement
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  Speaker 1: addressed just a couple of days ago. That's really really disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: And when I look at all these different horrible things
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  Speaker 1: going on in the city, particularly the Jews under attack,
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  Speaker 1: not the Muslims. There's no such thing as as Lamophobia
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist, but anti Semitism exists in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: I can't help Ariella but blame a lot of this
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  Speaker 1: on the mayor, his rhetoric, how he really feels. He
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  Speaker 1: can smile only once he can say I represent everybody
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  Speaker 1: in the city. Only once we know that him and
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  Speaker 1: his wretched, vile wife they don't like the Jewish people.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe it's translating to the streets of New
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  Speaker 1: York City.
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  Speaker 2: Well, firstly, I just want to say, as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I see photos of his passover Satyr that he hosted,
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  Speaker 2: did you know anyone sitting around that table? Noboden? No,
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  Speaker 2: no one. I mean not that I'm looking for an
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  Speaker 2: invitation there, but in the last administration I was there
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  Speaker 2: celebrating all of the Jewish events. No one I know
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  Speaker 2: is invited, which is what it is, right, But it's fake.
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  Speaker 2: You can make all the statements, as you just said.
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  Speaker 2: You can make all the statements you want. Where is
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  Speaker 2: the action. It's about shutting it down. It's not putting
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  Speaker 2: those policemen in harm's way. There's freedom of speech and
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  Speaker 2: then there's problems. Problem means people can get hurt. Problem
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  Speaker 2: means executing your right to speak, but hurting others. At
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  Speaker 2: what point do you want to put people in harm's
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  Speaker 2: way as opposed to shutting it down. That's what needs
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  Speaker 2: to happen. No more comments, change, stop stop that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right. And I had Michael Rappaport on
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  Speaker 1: the show a couple of days ago. Mike and I
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  Speaker 1: are very very very close. He's got a great documentary
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  Speaker 1: coming out. During the Tebecca Film Festival on June the ninth,
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  Speaker 1: about how he's basically giving up. He's giving up a
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  Speaker 1: lot of his career success. He's a great actor, great
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  Speaker 1: comedian because he's very outspoken about Israel and the Jewish people,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gotten a whole bunch of stuff canceled, including
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  Speaker 1: comedy shows. He's had threats on his life, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of said, he kind of said the same
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  Speaker 1: thing that he's tired of seeing all this happened time
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  Speaker 1: and time again in the city. Both him and Dove
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  Speaker 1: hikingdo I showed this week said maybe it's actually time
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  Speaker 1: for Jewish people to reform the JDLL into a more
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  Speaker 1: physical group where Jews can physically defend themselves because, like
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  Speaker 1: you said, the mayor does a lot of talking no action.
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  Speaker 1: He had a chance to allow that bupper zone in
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  Speaker 1: front of you Shivas, he vetoed it. What Julie mean
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  Speaker 1: and the city council came up with He also would
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  Speaker 1: have veted the synagogue bill, but the truth is they
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  Speaker 1: had enough vote, so you're right, arieta time and time again,
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  Speaker 1: the mayor only does his talk when he's got the
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  Speaker 1: ability to act. Everything he does says, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: about the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I just want to push that into
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  Speaker 2: the same conversation in December, like two years ago, there
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  Speaker 2: was a conversation floating around when the mayor was speaking
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  Speaker 2: with Mehdi Cassan and he said, would you arrest you know,
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  Speaker 2: Bibe Nasa who if he comes here? And again he
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  Speaker 2: said yes because he's in violation of and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to go through of all the things he said.
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  Speaker 2: But again he is all talk. He has no right
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  Speaker 2: to act on something wan't allow the ICC. So I
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  Speaker 2: mean he's all talk. And these actions where he stands
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  Speaker 2: in front of the building where the richest people live,
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  Speaker 2: which actually employ thousands of New Yorkers and donate I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember the number, but x him out back to me.
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  Speaker 2: What is she doing taking more debt and then taking
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  Speaker 2: more money from the governor's budget so he can wipe
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  Speaker 2: out his What strategy is this.
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  Speaker 1: Eight billion dollars? And for folks who may be dumb,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'm here to educate you. You live in
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  Speaker 1: New York, you pay state taxes, So any bailout money
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  Speaker 1: that Kathy Hokle gives to Mamdani in the city that
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  Speaker 1: comes back to you. So he didn't do anybody any favors.
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  Speaker 1: He's a liar and he's a magician. But the smart
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  Speaker 1: people in this city they've got this guy figured out.
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  Speaker 1: They just do Now, this is a very big month
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  Speaker 1: for the Jewish people. That isn't back Jewish Heritage Month.
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  Speaker 1: I yes, a couple of years ago I did make
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  Speaker 1: my way to Gracie Manchin and watched Eric Adams speak
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  Speaker 1: one night. He was he was very good, but he
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  Speaker 1: also I got my issues with him. I could do
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  Speaker 1: a whost show on that as well. But Jewish Heritage
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  Speaker 1: Month in New York, Ariyello, what does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Last year, I actually I remember now where was
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  Speaker 2: I Gracie and we all celebrated together. We had a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful time there. We had our as we knew our
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  Speaker 2: last meal and Andrece you mentioned and I think it
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  Speaker 2: was in July that it was hosted a bit late,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember saying, and we walked around saying, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: it's our last time visiting here. But we celebrated it
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  Speaker 2: together as New Yorkers, proud, right. And you know somebody
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  Speaker 2: else we should recognize, Kemmy Betadoc, right, the Conservative Party
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  Speaker 2: leader in the UK she's telling everyone how to act,
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  Speaker 2: how to be, and she's saying, no more nonsense. We
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  Speaker 2: ought to take a lesson from someone across, you know,
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  Speaker 2: across the Atlantic, and how she's speaking and how she's
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  Speaker 2: standing up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, they're about to fix a lot of stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: Stormer got his putt beat a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: and his party took a vicious beating the Labor Party
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  Speaker 1: and looks like they are paving the way for my
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  Speaker 1: brand and Trump's friend Nigel Farage to actually be the
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  Speaker 1: man there in the UK. If that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the case, a lot of these anti Semitism issues and
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  Speaker 1: money issues, loyalty issues in the UK will go away
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  Speaker 1: overnight if Nigel Farage takes over in a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years for a Stormer. One last thing I mentioned, we
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  Speaker 1: going to Israel, and again I'll usually go with one
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  Speaker 1: Israel fund and me. You know, I do these amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing tours Eve Hairo and Joshua and the Land and
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  Speaker 1: all these great people taking me all over Israel, and
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  Speaker 1: then I was doing my show from there for the
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  Speaker 1: most part the last couple of times. This is not
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  Speaker 1: about the show. This trip is more about the Jynesh
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  Speaker 1: dot Org Summit. I did Abolex Trainman live in studio
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  Speaker 1: just yesterday. That was fantastic, he said from Jerusalem. What
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  Speaker 1: else can we expect to see on this next trip
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  Speaker 1: to the Holy Land?
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  Speaker 2: Perfect? Firstly, we're so excited, sounds so excited to host you.
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  Speaker 2: So I have a nonprofit called bottom Line Media, and
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  Speaker 2: what we do is we work to bring people to
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  Speaker 2: Israel and the whole goal is everyone's see it for
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  Speaker 2: themselves and also eat everything you see and meet the
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  Speaker 2: people and go to all the sites. And what does
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  Speaker 2: that mean? What is a value to you? There's so
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  Speaker 2: much if you're a Christian, if you're a Muslim, if
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  Speaker 2: you're there's so many things to learn that we're all
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  Speaker 2: together and this time we're doing something really special. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: just confirmed yesterday we'll be seeing your friend, Ambassador Huckbye.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be coming to Hadasa Hospital where we'll be going
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  Speaker 2: on the Sunday that we're there to see all. Really,
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  Speaker 2: the Ha Dahasa Hospital to me is like a sujectans
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  Speaker 2: had a hospital, That is what it's like there. And
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  Speaker 2: they're the only American hospital in Israel offering so much
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  Speaker 2: to so many and they're really ahead, not even just
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  Speaker 2: building the innovation. They are ahead of innovation and bringing
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  Speaker 2: us where innovation needs to be. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see that with our own eyes. And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see Ambassador Huckabee for lunch as well. He'll come and
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  Speaker 2: read us nice. And we have a few people that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to know as well. I know there's Xavier
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  Speaker 2: coming with us from Praeger You, which is exciting. This
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  Speaker 2: guy he's a bopka king and he calls himself he'll
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  Speaker 2: be you with us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that guy. He's great. I saw him
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  Speaker 1: at the Young Israel in Jamaica State him and his
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  Speaker 1: way back when they honored me a couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 1: He makes the best popka in the world. That guy's great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we have a lot of great people in
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  Speaker 2: our great group, I should say. And of course we're
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  Speaker 2: going to the greatest conference at JNS. I did their
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  Speaker 2: podcasting last year. I'll be doing it again this year.
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  Speaker 2: And this is how the idea was born. While I
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  Speaker 2: was podcasting, I kept saying, Wow, I'm learning and meeting
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  Speaker 2: so many people. I wish others. You know that our
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  Speaker 2: reporters and journalists can come and you know, get as
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  Speaker 2: much information like I am and as many sources as me.
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  Speaker 2: And from that idea last year, I said, next year
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  Speaker 2: I'll be bringing journalists and that is what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: So we will be arriving the nineteenth of June into Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm so excited. Hopefully spend some time in both
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  Speaker 2: Televiv and then straight to Jerusalem, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: also get a tour of Aroma. Will be the first
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  Speaker 2: group to go there because their coffee is so good,
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  Speaker 2: well ahead of the police, and it'll be a great time.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. Al Yela, thank you for helping
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  Speaker 1: on this morning. You really do a tremendous work, a
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  Speaker 1: bright young lady. You're terrific, and we'll bring you on
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  Speaker 1: one more time before we actually hop on that ll
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  Speaker 1: flight to make our way to Israel. But thank you
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of really great minutes on this Friday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good shavist. We'll talk again very very soon. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Ariella Novak, right there are really really
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  Speaker 1: terrific young lady who fights every day in the media
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that all these lies about is we
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  Speaker 1: on the Jewish people. But what she does is she
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  Speaker 1: works with journalists all over the world. In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: people coming with us, a lot of them are Christian people.
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  Speaker 1: They're not Jewish people. And I say this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: If we're gonna win this war on anti Semitism, which
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  Speaker 1: is a lot bigger and uglier than New York tells
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  Speaker 1: you it is, it's really ugly. If we're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: this war, we need the help of the Christian people,
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  Speaker 1: and for the most part, they are helping us. They
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  Speaker 1: do a great job. Take a short break Friday edition
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  Speaker 1: sit In Friends in the Morning.
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