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TNL in Jerusalem #24 - All Eyes on Israel - The Essence of Hasbara, Israel Advocacy
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Former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon discusses a new approach to representing Israel. Also Yishai Fleisher, of Israel National Radio, joins to share his experience on AlJazeera. Tune in to hear the Jewish message to the world.
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the landof israel.com and Israel
national TV present Aria brtz and Jeremy
gimpel Live From The Heart of Israel
it's Tuesday night live in
Jerusalem
thank you all for joining us again
Tuesday night live in
Jerusalem tonight we have a very special
treat he's the director of Israel
national radio a spokesman for the
Jewish people his name is isi fler and
he's here with us
tonight he actually had his wedding in
Krone at Mar one of the most beautiful
weddings I've ever been to you know
there was a lot of kevron action
happening about a month ago and the
Jewish people were kicked out out of
their home beta Shalom and everybody was
talking about it and the news media
wanted somebody to speak up about KRON
they wanted to pigeon hole somebody to
make him look like a crazy settler so
they picked me why I think it's a facial
thing so Al jazer called me did anybody
see my Al jazer interview woo all right
well joining us now are our guests in
Jerusalem Rabbi yesai fisha he's a radio
host at Israeli National radio and
co-founder of Kuma an organization that
promotes Jewish immigration to Israel
what's wrong with Jews living in kevron
why is that illegal he just said that
it's illegal by international law
for C why would it be why would it be
illegal for people to live the question
is why are the Jews there in the first
place and if anybody had a historical
perspective or around here then they
would understand what's going on here
the Jewish people have been yearning to
return to their ancient Homeland for a
long time and our tiny little strip of
land in the Middle East excuse me excuse
me I'm answering the question because it
comes out of that it comes out of that
when you have 23 Muslim countries all
around in a tiny little Jewish country
that's under constant attack then people
react when they're being pushed out of
their natural heritage and their
authentic home right peace comes from
the word Shalom as in Hebrew peace comes
from the word Shalom which means you can
only have peace if somebody not
Ste Equitable
agreement Al jazer called me and uh well
I went you know everybody told me you're
crazy don't go to Al jazer and I went to
Al jaaz they have their studios in the
Mal Mall uh in Jerusalem uh at the at
the te Technology Park and it's not
actually their Studios it's an Israeli
Studio company that rents out their
Studios to Al jazer and the guy that was
filming me and making sure that I was
doing my interview right was an Israeli
guy with an earring and a ponytail and
he was working for Al jazer maybe he had
sold his soul you know and I got on Al
jazer and they asked me questions about
KRON and I was just excited and wild and
flailing my arms and I wasn't just the
calm spokesman of it you know the Israel
spokesman that you always expect well
yeah the territories are uh occupied
maybe or I don't know what I said no
this is our land I said I will never
give up this land as long as there's
Jewish blood and Jewish veins we will
never give up Kone and do you know why
that
is and do you know why that is because
my daddy's buried there because our
forefathers our matriarchs our
Patriarchs they're buried in KRON and
that's why we will never give it up and
that was basically my message and I
thought to myself well Al jazer is just
going to cut that tape and make me look
like an idiot maybe they'll just put a
still picture of me and they'll be like
well you're un occupied land what do you
say about that and I'd be a dub over
maybe you know yeah maybe a dub or
something like that okay and I thought
that they'd just cut my video and make
me look like an idiot and I said well
what are you going to do you know you
got
to do your best you know send your your
bread upon the waters and then the
camera guy after I finished the camera
guy looked at me and he said Z
Zak it was good it was strong he said he
said that was good you were strong and I
thought to myself if just this one Jew
if I got this just this one Jew if I
changed his life if maybe he went home
and thought to himself maybe I should
say sh Israel maybe I should leave peace
now maybe I should be a good Jew if that
one moment worked then it was all worth
it and that was the message that I
learned this past Kaneka light that
candle one more candle one more candle
hit another Jew turn on another don't
hit him love him hug him Pat him on the
back love another Jew and you know what
at the end all the candles are lit and
all the Jewish people and all the whole
world is going to be ignited to
God
we have a good man joining us tonight we
have a man that's positioned himself in
the pages of Jewish history helping
facilitate Aliah speaking on behalf of
the Jewish people to the superpower of
the world he was the Israeli ambassador
to the United States and he's the
co-chairman of nefes Benes we have with
us tonight Ambassador Donnie
alone thank you very much thank
you do this all right I need a hug too
great show great show you have
Ambassador alone you've really
positioned yourself as Jeremy mentioned
as a historic figure you've helped
inther the Exiles that's a pretty
auspicious task by the way I need to say
that my parents are here from Houston
Texas and they've announced that they're
making
Aliah how do
you
you've spoken on behalf of the Jewish
people on behalf of Israel to to America
which really is the superpower of the
world what do you think is the most
important task facing the Jewish people
today we have special responsibility not
just to ourselves and to our children
and to our children's children but for
entire Humanity tikun Lam and today this
world is of great danger and we are the
ones to point it out whether it's
because of military force against us in
Iran or in Gaza or in Lebanon or
wherever whether it's anti-Semitism in
Moscow or London or waro or anywhere
else we have to point out we have to
flush it out we should not be
bashful and we have to be outspoken well
it's you know lately you've gotten a lot
of coverage in the Jerusalem Post you've
written a couple of Articles people have
written articles about you and the truth
is when I first read these articles I
got a little excited and I'm just going
to quote one of the things that you
wrote in your article having tried the
conventional wisdom of land for peace
having tried military might and economic
sanctions and failed public relations
programs it's time to think outside of
the box let's be courageous and examine
these issues and ideas from every angle
you then said Israel's too politically
correct you're tired of being
politically correct what does that
mean well it means that we have not just
to identify the problem and to speak
about it in back rooms or speak about it
euphemistically or diplomatically we
have to put the issue and speak about it
Cloud loud and clear in 1938 there was
no room for political correctness we are
now almost in the same world
situation so what I mean is when the
world is coming to to us and say well
you are quote unquote the stronger power
you should give the Palestinians a state
you should do this you should do that we
should tell them
no look at what is
happening well I I'll tell you
Ambassador I alone can I call you Donnie
just between you Ari the crowd and the
cameras absolutely all right so D the
truth is that's beautiful but the truth
that still sounds pretty politically
correct because when we read these
articles there were rumors going around
Jerusalem and when I mean rumors Ari and
I were talking about it and what we were
saying is that perhaps someone is
actually going to get up and say the
truth that the war in the Middle East
has nothing to do with the 67 borders it
has nothing to do with politics or
diplomacy it's a religious spiritual war
the Muslims are religious people they
pray five times a day and it's time as
diplomats we need to speak to them on
their level and say that the god of
Abraham loves the Jewish people and he's
brought us home to the land of Israel
just as the Bible tells that he will we
need to tell the Christian world who
believes in the Bible and say our deed
to the land of Israel is in this book
that you believe in it's our homeland
what do you think about that absolutely
there is great
great there is a misconception and I see
it everywhere now partly it's naive
partly it's very cynical and
self-serving to press Israel and that is
that all the problems in the Middle East
stem from the existence of Israel you
know there are some in Europe who say
right now we shouldn't have voted for
you in 1948 you know at the United
Nations now they ignore all the facts
because if I look back 60 years of
Israeli existence right or you know
Israel is it was reborn it always very
important to tell everybody that Israel
was not born in 1948 it was reborn as a
sovereign C country in 1948 this is
something that everybody has to
understand and you have to drive the
point home not everybody understand it
but if you look just for the last 60
years okay in the Middle East Iran Iraq
war 1980 to 88 more than million
casualties had nothing to do with Israel
or the Palestinian
conflict Kuwait being engulfed and
devoured by Saddam Hussein in 1990
August 1990 had nothing to do with
Israel Lebanon being actually invaded by
Syria in 1976 had nothing to do with
Israel 1970 I don't know how many of you
uh remember Syria was going to invade
into Jordan only because of Israel they
didn't take over Jordan even in the
1960s they were fighting all over the
Arab world the Kurds and the Iraqis and
the Yemen and the Egypt in Yen so all
these problems have nothing to do with
Israel so when you tell them you know
they don't have an answer to it but
people try to ignore it now if you look
at it today the real problem in the
Middle East is as you say a religious
War the extremist islamists they start
in Taran but they go all over the place
and not only they want to take the
entire Middle East but also the entire
world they want to renew the khalifat
you know take over Spain and Europe and
then the United States by the way most
of Americans understand it they
understand that we fight here not just
for ourselves but for for them and
uh to anyone to anyone who say just
solve the Palestinian problem and
everything will be okay we say no just
solve the Iranian problem maybe then
everything could be okay or we could
embark on the way for peace thank you we
have now just another minute or two if
you had one message you'd like to share
with the crowd tonight all the viewers
around the world what would the message
be of the former US ambassador Israeli
US ambassador very simply put you speak
Hebrew I saw it your Hebrew was very
great thank you um I'm
Israel I'm
isra
and I I can tell you it's a great
privilege it's a great responsibility as
well but it's a great privilege and and
pride to represent Israel whether it's
in Washington or anywhere else because
you represent not just 7 million
Israelis not just 13 and A5 million Jews
you
represent God no well I I wish I was a
rabbi maybe in my next life but you
represent hundreds of generations of
Jews you represent King David and you
represent uh you know uh Mori who was a
great Ambassador for the Jewish people
in in Persia you represent Moses who was
a great Ambassador for the Jewish people
in in Egypt but you know uh Donnie I
want you to know I love you I love this
whole talk we're having whether you like
it or not you represent God good you
know what if
you you know what I if you say so I will
take it gladly I mean I wouldn't want to
be presumptious to say it but if you
think that way I will not defy you I
will take it l that's great that's
great that's great all right thank you
so much for being with us dud thank you
very much a real pleasure great seeing
you all thank
you let's face it no matter what we do
we are always going to be in the world's
Spotlight so let's stop trying to get
out of it it's our lot and as long as
the eyes of the world are on Israel are
on the Jewish people let's Inspire them
let's take this opportunity because they
need it now more than ever you know most
Jews in Israel are not so observant and
they don't have such a great Jewish
Education but they are religious they
believe in God
they believe in the Torah they believe
that God gave us the land of Israel so
let's stand up as a nation step onto the
center stage of world history and teach
not always defend ourselves all the time
but teach teach Torah teach truth teach
that the god up in heaven and this
reality in the world below is all one
when we fill our task when we do our
role then and only then will we get that
positive press coverage we've always
wanted Shalom from Jerusalem
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