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Israeli Mom, 81, House Set on Fire While She's Inside · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Greece. As horror unfolds across the
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  Speaker 1: oceans and Israel, Americans are suffering. We see accounts on TV,
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  Speaker 1: we hear them, but what's really happening. Joining me right
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  Speaker 1: now is Gabriel Glixman, who knows only too well exactly
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  Speaker 1: what is happening seemingly across the world with me, Gabriel
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  Speaker 1: Glixman and my friend and colleague, Daniel Horowitz. Gabriel, what
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  Speaker 1: have you learned? And how.
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  Speaker 2: It's Hi?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: And on the night of Friday, I was on my
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  Speaker 2: way to just you know, just another ordinary night. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to take a shower and getting ready to go
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  Speaker 2: to bed, and I get another phone call. It's been
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  Speaker 2: going on for many years, these phone calls from friends.
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  Speaker 2: Hey is your mom? Okay, your parents? Okay, everybody? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on over there? Rockets are being launched again?
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  Speaker 1: So your mother is in Israel.
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  Speaker 2: He's in Israel. He lives on a keyboot about about
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  Speaker 2: a mile a mile and a half of gather.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Gabriel, A lot of people read the word keyboots,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't understand what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Explain, Okay, kyboots is a collective village. You can look
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  Speaker 2: at it as a farm agricultural community. They came.
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  Speaker 3: In order to rebuild Israel as fast as possible, make
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  Speaker 3: it prosper you know, so for people to come and
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  Speaker 3: get together and rebuild.
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  Speaker 2: The country from nothing to where it is today seventy
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  Speaker 2: something years now.
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  Speaker 1: So there and there are many many key boots. They
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  Speaker 1: are like farming communities. It's a collective. As you say,
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  Speaker 1: people from America often travel to Israel to live on incuboots,
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  Speaker 1: to live a certain period of time, and then return
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  Speaker 1: to America. And that is where your mom is correct,
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  Speaker 1: that's correct, yes, So what happened on that phone call?
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  Speaker 2: So I call my mom and as usual, we're on
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  Speaker 2: a video chat. You know, it's always nice to see
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  Speaker 2: a familiar face. And I find her in the shelter,
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  Speaker 2: pretty scared. As usual, those rounds come and running to
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  Speaker 2: the shelter. Sometimes you don't have enough time. My mom
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  Speaker 2: is eighty one years old, and it's pretty a frightening incident.
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  Speaker 2: You just run to the shelter and you hunk her
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  Speaker 2: down and you just wait till it goes away.
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  Speaker 1: What is the shelter? What is the shelter? Like?
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  Speaker 2: So a shelter. The shelter actually it's above ground. It's
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  Speaker 2: actually a reinforced room made out of concrete. It's just
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  Speaker 2: another room that is connected to the house itself. So
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  Speaker 2: you have a door, a reinforced door to go in there.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes for older people it's harder to shut the
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  Speaker 2: door behind them, so they leave a little gap. I
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  Speaker 2: can keep going and not telling you what where this
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  Speaker 2: one led to. If you want me to, yes, please, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So we're on the phone, and really it's the first
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  Speaker 2: time that I hear gunshots automatic weapon outside my mom's house.
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  Speaker 2: She's telling me, can you hear that? And I can
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  Speaker 2: hear it. Imagine myself helpless, can't help my mother. Before
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  Speaker 2: seconds go by, she's telling me, I can hear them outside.
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  Speaker 2: They are screaming Allah walk bus God is great in Arabic.
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  Speaker 2: And that is really when I freak out. Tell my
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  Speaker 2: mom to turn off the lights and be quiet and
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  Speaker 2: not move. I tell her to put her phone on mute,
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  Speaker 2: as I do myself, and I just stay there staring
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  Speaker 2: at the screen and just hoping for the best. Those
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  Speaker 2: shelter rooms, since they reinforced concrete, they don't have good receptions.
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  Speaker 2: So we're now being disconnected. So I text her and
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  Speaker 2: a few seconds go by, another minute and then he
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  Speaker 2: text me everything, Okay, I can still hear them. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: don't move, Hopefully military is on its way to take
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  Speaker 2: care of business. Then I text again. She's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I can still hear him. I think they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: barge into the house, as you can tell. Getting a
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  Speaker 2: little emotional here. You know, it's very frustrated to even
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  Speaker 2: go through that. I text again, I hear nothing. Then
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  Speaker 2: I go mom, question mark, and two hours almost go by,
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  Speaker 2: and there's another mom question mark, And I look at
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  Speaker 2: my wife and I tell her that might be the
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  Speaker 2: last time I've spoken to my mom. You can imagine
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  Speaker 2: my wife. He's in tears, and it was a horrible night.
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  Speaker 2: A few hours went by. Then I started making cold
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  Speaker 2: and texting people who also didn't have good reception, as
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  Speaker 2: everybody is in the shelters.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, let me understand it up to right now.
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  Speaker 1: So you get a call, you start getting information from people,
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  Speaker 1: how's your mom, how's your mom? Your mother is eighty
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  Speaker 1: one years old living in Israel, that's right. And then
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  Speaker 1: you get in touch with your mom and you can
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  Speaker 1: actually hear automatic weapons being fired, and she says that
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  Speaker 1: the attackers are screaming in Arabic, God is great. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: she gets into the safe room and then you start
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  Speaker 1: having bad reception. Then she tells you she hears them
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  Speaker 1: trying to break into the home, and then everything goes dead.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, Then what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Then what happened?
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  Speaker 2: So that was California times was about eleven thirty at
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  Speaker 2: night on Friday, And the next time I had contact
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  Speaker 2: with anybody there who knows what's going on with her,
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  Speaker 2: that was about six am on Saturday mornings.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess you were watching the knees the whole
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  Speaker 1: night and stunned.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually just on the phone, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: get in touch with my sister who lived in Tel Aviv,
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  Speaker 2: and neighbors who barely wanted to text back, they were
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  Speaker 2: so scared. And then I hear, your mom is okay.
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  Speaker 3: She is with neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: So again a few hours since, since six o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning here I still I just heard that she's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I did not hear her voice, and she did not
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  Speaker 2: text me because I found out that when I talked
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  Speaker 2: to her, she was saying they came in the house
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  Speaker 2: at gunpoint. They took my phone, they took my tablets.
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  Speaker 2: They took me to be quiet and wait in the
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  Speaker 2: shelter as they were shutting the door behind her, and
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  Speaker 2: they were looting the house. They were probably taking everything
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  Speaker 2: they could. And then she heard some maybe flammable or
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  Speaker 2: something being poured on their floor outside or door of
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  Speaker 2: the shelter, and she thought the worst, and she made
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  Speaker 2: a decision to jump out out of the window, and
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  Speaker 2: she just had a stroke about a month ago. This
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  Speaker 2: is an eighty one year old lady. He jumped out
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  Speaker 2: of the window and ran across the key book, trying
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  Speaker 2: to not be seen by probably blow other terrorists that
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  Speaker 2: were around. He ran all the way to see my
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  Speaker 2: buddy's mother's house. She was burnt in her house, and
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  Speaker 2: she didn't make it. She burnt down to death. My
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  Speaker 2: mom kept running and she saw another friend laying dead
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Nothing she could do about that. She
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  Speaker 2: kept running and knocking on neighbor's doors until eventually somebody
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  Speaker 2: opened the door and took her in to save her life.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's about as much as this story goes.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, praise the Lord. Your mother jumped out
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  Speaker 1: of that window and I cannot even imagine Gabriel. My
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  Speaker 1: mom is ninety one, she'll be ninety two in December.
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  Speaker 1: She can barely stand up straight. Crime stories with Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Grace imagining her jumping out of a window after she
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  Speaker 1: hears terrorists throw excellant flammable liquid into the house to
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  Speaker 1: set it on fire, because that's what they were doing,
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  Speaker 1: telling people to go back in and then setting their
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  Speaker 1: houses on fire for them to burn to death inside.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And Daniel Horowitz now defense attorney, veteran defense attorney and friend,
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  Speaker 1: when you have you know you've worked on arson cases.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a flammable liquid, you don't die. The
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  Speaker 1: victim doesn't die of smoke inhalation and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: drift off to sleeps smoke. You die with a flammable
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  Speaker 1: liquid and accelerant. You burn to death because it's so
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  Speaker 1: fast moving, there's no time for a smoke to seep in.
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  Speaker 1: You die because you burn to death. That is what's
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  Speaker 1: happening to these victims.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Nancy, in forty years of practicing criminal law,
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  Speaker 4: I have never seen a criminal act with the cruelty
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  Speaker 4: that you just described.
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  Speaker 1: Telling the Grandma eighty one and this of course, is
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  Speaker 1: Gabriel's mother to go back in and go in your
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  Speaker 1: hiding place and then throw accelerant in the home, and
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  Speaker 1: this woman eighty one jumps out out a window and
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  Speaker 1: starts to run for her life, trying to hide. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: your mother, your mother, ducking and diving and running as
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  Speaker 1: best as they can at that age, and seeing a
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  Speaker 1: friend dead in the street, seeing another home you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to go to for refuge, burned with the neighbor friend,
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  Speaker 1: the lady inside, burned alive. Gabriel Glisman with me, describing
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  Speaker 1: the hell he has gone through with his mother so
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  Speaker 1: far far away. Have you spoken to her? What is
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  Speaker 1: her frame of mind now, Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: You know she's staying with her sister in a Tell
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  Speaker 2: him that's tel Aviv who took her in. And he
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  Speaker 2: wakes up at night, he has panic attacks. He's a
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  Speaker 2: little better. We're trying to treat her, but I think
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  Speaker 2: overall he's a very strong human being. I was telling
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  Speaker 2: her how I'm not surprised of what she did, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm very impressed. The will to live and survive is
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  Speaker 2: beyond what we can imagine, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Daniel and Gabriel. Daniel Horowitz, high profile lawyer out
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  Speaker 1: of California, and his friend Gabriel Glicksman, owner of krav
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  Speaker 1: Maga extreme there in California. I'm stunned, Daniel. I'm stunned
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  Speaker 1: that somehow on children having their throats slipped, dragging young
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  Speaker 1: girls away from a music festival peacefully enjoying a piece
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  Speaker 1: peace a piece festival, attacking literally little old ladies like
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  Speaker 1: Gabriel's mother. How are people suggesting that that's okay?
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  Speaker 4: I know, Nancy. I think about a school shooter coming
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  Speaker 4: in shooting up the school, with the world then blame
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  Speaker 4: the school for the school shooter. That's what is going
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  Speaker 4: on right now. And I think about the compassion of
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  Speaker 4: the Israelis where they're trying to get their people back,
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  Speaker 4: but they're so concerned about innocent lives. Again, I imagine
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  Speaker 4: if someone is in the act of killing a child
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  Speaker 4: and I stand in front of that person when the
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  Speaker 4: police are coming, am I out of my mind? And
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  Speaker 4: yet here the Israelis are saying, get out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: Our people are locked up, they're being tortured, they're being terrorized,
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  Speaker 4: but we're going to wait day after day so you
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  Speaker 4: can get out of the way and be safe. It's
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  Speaker 4: such a disconnect between the terrorists and the human beings.
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  Speaker 4: I just applaud the Israelis for their restraint and their compassion,
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  Speaker 4: and I just want them to get the people home.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel, You know how, I very, very studiously avoid politics.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that I care about stepping on anybody's toes.
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  Speaker 1: It's this. I hate politics. I think they're all lying.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Democrats lie, the Republicans lie, the independence
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  Speaker 1: lie whenever it suits them to get what they want.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to the problem, the horrible,
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  Speaker 1: horrible problems in the Middle East. I don't know the answer,
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  Speaker 1: but I know this. This is murder. This is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that there's nothing else going wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: this is wrong. And I'm having a really hard time
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  Speaker 1: with Americans actually defending it.
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  Speaker 2: Speak to me, I may, this is not a war
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  Speaker 2: against Jews, it's not a war against Israel. This is
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  Speaker 2: a war against humanity. It's twenty twenty three. For God's sake,
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  Speaker 2: we need to get on the same page. It's time.
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  Speaker 2: Friends who I grew up with from nearby Kibutza's are dads.
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  Speaker 2: I know too many whole family wiped mother father, the
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  Speaker 2: grandma and three little children were murdered in their own home.
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  Speaker 2: My very best friend and whose mother died in that
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  Speaker 2: fire across from my mom's house. His daughter and his
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  Speaker 2: niece were at that party. His daughter managed to get
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  Speaker 2: in a car and saved at least seven people with her.
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  Speaker 2: They drove as fast under fire and she saved those
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  Speaker 2: people and she's alive. Her niece got shot four five
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  Speaker 2: bullets and she's in critical condition. Since then. A mother
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  Speaker 2: of another friend of mine is Dead's people that we
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  Speaker 2: know were kidnapped and murdered in their homes. All the
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  Speaker 2: keybootsies around. My cousin is pregnant with twins, and her
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  Speaker 2: partner who lives with their little three year old daughter.
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  Speaker 2: They left the night before just because they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: go camping. One hundred and eight people died were murdered
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  Speaker 2: in this Key Boots. It goes on and on and on.
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  Speaker 2: We have horror stories, real horror stories here. We need
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  Speaker 2: to understand that what's going on over there is an
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  Speaker 2: extremeist terrorist group in Gaza that needs to be eradicated.
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  Speaker 2: The people of Gaza we have nothing, zero, absolutely nothing
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  Speaker 2: against them. We want them to live a good life.
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  Speaker 2: And prosper. They are being held hostages in their own land.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get the Hamas out of there. We
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  Speaker 2: need to eradicate Risbela, and we need to take care
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  Speaker 2: of your run. So I hate to get into politics,
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  Speaker 2: but we also need to look the truth in the
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  Speaker 2: eyes and say it and speak it and not stay
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  Speaker 2: in the shadows.
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  Speaker 1: Gabriel. Glexman, you're so right. Truer words we're never spoken.
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  Speaker 1: What I know right now is that people have been murdered,
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  Speaker 1: horribly innocent people, babies, young women being dragged away from
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  Speaker 1: a music festival, one year old woman being terrorized. Gabriel.
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  Speaker 1: Many people actually don't believe this is happening. It's happening, Gabriel.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening, and now the only question is what are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do about it? Gabriel. I praise God
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  Speaker 1: your mother is alive, and I pray for peace and
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  Speaker 1: justice for those who have lost the ones they love
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  Speaker 1: the most. Gabriel, thank you for being with us. Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: of course, my longtime friend, Thank you for being with
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  Speaker 1: me as always through the years, and we will continue
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  Speaker 1: our prayers. Goodbye, friends,