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Secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Charlie discuss a new breaking annoucment about how Sec. Kennedy's HHS is working to reform the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) establishd by The 1986 Vaccine Act. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki joins to debunk the latest set of lies out of Gaza including new allegations, promoted by the mainstream news, that the IDF is intentionaly starving innocent civilians.
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Hey, everybody.
Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
Bobby Kennedy breaks some major news on our show.
That's right.
Bobby Kennedy joins us exclusively, makes some big news.
Young people are going back to church in major numbers and listening to Christian music.
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And then what's going on in Gaza?
What is the truth about Gaza?
Listen to this and text this episode to your friends if someone around you is lying about what's happening in Gaza.
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Joining us now is a phenomenal person who's doing a great job as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
It's Secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Mr.
Secretary, thank you so much for joining us today.
You have some news to share.
I just saw the tweet regarding the VICP going all the way back to the 1986 Vaccine Act.
Mr.
Secretary, please tell our audience about this breaking news.
Yeah, the vaccine injury compensation program, which was part of the Vaccine Act that was passed in 1986.
And you know what happened back then, Charlie?
The vaccine companies said they were paying, they were getting sued at that point, and they were paying $200 in downstream liabilities, according to them, for every dollar that they made
selling vaccines.
And they went to Congress and said, we're going to stop making vaccines unless you give us immunity from liability.
And Congress worked with the parents of vaccine-injured kids to come up with a solution because the court solutions were not good for the vaccine injured either because they took so long.
And so many of these parents are very, very desperate to get compensation and care for these very, very needy kids.
So they worked out a compromise solution where they would give the vaccine companies immunity from liability.
So no matter how negligent they are, no matter how reckless, no matter how unnecessary their ingredients.
or their quality control, you can't sue them.
But Congress made up for that by saying that we're going to create a a compensation program and
a procedure by which parents can come in and quickly,
generously get compensation without having to go through this whole court process.
So it was well-intentioned.
And in that, the tie was supposed to go to the runner.
So if there was a
question about whether the injury was vaccine related or not, they were supposed to compensate the child.
It's turned out to be, and at that point,
under the original act,
the children, if they didn't like the settlement they got from the vaccine court, they could go to a real court and vindicate their claim.
What's happened is
the act has changed.
So you can no longer go to the, you can no longer go to another court.
It is your exclusive remedy.
And they've made it, you're not suing the vaccine company that made the
defective product.
You're suing instead me, the Department of Health and Human Services.
And we're represented by DOJ lawyers.
So you're facing the awesome, the deep pockets and the awesome power of the federal government.
There's no discovery.
They can't look at the vaccine safety data link, which is the attorneys are not allowed to look at it.
And independent external researchers can't get in there.
And that's the record, you know, the data sets for all the vaccine injuries.
the Justice Department attorneys have turned this into historically, not under Pam Bondi, she's trying to fix this,
into a very adversarial proceeding so that on average, half the cases get dismissed.
The average length of adjudication is five years.
Some of these parents who are desperately needy to have
care for their kids, take 10 years.
And these kids, some of them, you know, it's a million dollars a year to care for for them.
And so the system has been has been turned into this kind of morass
where vaccine cases go to die.
And most vaccine cases, particularly the serious ones, simply don't get compensated.
They've also changed the rules to abolish vaccine injury by fiat.
So they took the age-old definition of encephalopathy, which is brain injury, brain damage, and they made it so that there's no way that you can prove it.
You have to prove
your child lost consciousness for 24 hours and then was hospitalized.
And
then they have to jump through a bunch of other hoops.
You can't prove it.
So each case goes in and has to be proven like a regular court of law.
And it's devolved into this very, very
cruel,
heartless system that is designed
to deny vaccine injury and to deny
compensation to people who badly need it.
And we are about to fix all that.
And I want to get into the fixing, but just to reiterate it, immunity is a blank check to be careless.
Look, I'm not a huge fan of all the trial lawyers or attorneys, but over time, they do make products safer, whether it be, you know, faulty engines in cars or whether it be problems with food.
Again, the over-litigious nature of part of our society probably needs to be restrained.
But when you have no capacity to be able to sue when a product is faulty, then it's just a blank check to be careless.
And so, Secretary Kennedy, what are you doing to fix this?
Because I know a ton of families that have submitted reports to VARES, the vaccine adverse event reporting system, and for years and years they can't get any progress at all with the VICP, the vaccine injury compensation program.
How are you fixing this?
Because this is a broken system that
overwhelmingly benefits AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson ⁇ Johnson.
Secretary Kennedy.
I mean, those companies,
you know, we have a free market system in this country, and part of that is that there's consequences if you make a bad product.
And, you know, vaccines are particularly exempt from that because there's no free market economy.
Normally, if you get poisoned by Coca-Cola, you can stop drinking Coca-Cola.
But if you get poisoned by a vaccine, your kids still have to take that vaccine to get them to the school.
If your doctor tells you your child will die because, you know, you can look and see what happened to elder siblings.
There's some kind of genetic vulnerability that's affected the older siblings.
And the doctor wants to tell you
your third child should not take this vaccine.
he's going to be punished for that but also the schools won't let you go to school no matter what so in New York and California, there's not only no religious exemptions, there's no philosophical exemptions,
but there also effectively is no medical exemption.
So, these kids, it's mandated, and because it's mandated, there's no market forces that tell you,
that allow you, if you don't like the product, if you have reservations about it, you can't stop using it.
You got to take it anyway.
So, the things that,
and then, you know, you have, of course, the mainstream media is bought and brain dead when it comes to these issues.
They will not criticize.
They will not report vaccine injury.
The Congress is very with the,
so you have none of the market forces that apply that make
other products safe.
There is zero incentive for these companies to make them safe.
And they don't get punished for it in the market.
They don't get punished for it in the court.
And so, you know, what we're going to try to do is to make sure that the parents who do get injured get compensation, that they get it very quickly, and they get it without the kind of adversarial impediments that have now been erected over the past 40 years.
So, Secretary Kennedy, just I looked at some of these numbers previously.
The counter argument is like, oh, this barely ever happens.
Now, just in 2021, there were 1.3 million reports that came into the vaccine adverse event reporting system.
Now, of course, there might be some people lying and there's some fraud or there might be other issues.
So let's just cut that in half.
That's 650,000 Americans that very well might have been harmed by a vaccine.
How many people, Secretary Kennedy, do you think have legitimate claims?
I know it's a tough question or approximation, but can you at least reiterate this is a major issue, potentially affecting millions of Americans that I'm ignored by their government?
Secretary Kennedy.
Well, first of all, you should know that
when somebody wins a case in the vaccine court, they're not compensated by the company that injured them.
They are compensated from a trust fund that is endowed with a 75-cent surcharge on every vaccine.
That trust fund is sitting there.
It's got a couple of billion dollars in it.
It's paid out to date about $5.6 billion.
And 12,000 people have recovered.
Well, about 13,000 000 have cases been dismissed
but the there's no advertising for this program doctors are not trained how to recognize vaccine injuries so if you get a if your child gets a allergy for example or asthma or seizures when they're four or five years old there's no way that your doctor is ever going to say, hey, that might have come from the vaccine.
I'm going to report it to VARES.
So there's chronic undercounting in VARES.
You said a million.
That's right.
Well, in 2010, CDC did a study of VARES.
And what they found in their own study is that fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries are reported.
So most people who get a vaccine injury don't even know it.
And they've never reported.
And there's a lot of penalties against doctors who do report them.
It's time consuming.
They're not compensated for the time they get.
Medical boards frown on them for doing that, and they're not trained in medical school to recognize the injuries.
So Secretary Kennedy, what do you say to those who just say this is just more anti-vaccine propaganda and that this will only further deteriorate people's trust in vaccines?
I mean, my job as Secretary of HHS
is to restore trust in the vaccine program.
That parents know that we're telling them the truth, that we tell them the things that we know, we tell them the things that we don't know,
and we tell them the things that are both good and bad about vaccines.
Vaccines are very, very useful in many cases, but they do cause injuries occasionally.
And we need to be frank about that.
And we need to have compassion.
toward the children who are injured.
We can't gaslight the parents.
We can't gaslight the children.
We can't marginalize and vilify the doctors and delicence the doctors who report injuries.
We can't punish and retract articles by the scientists who document those injuries.
We have to start being honest again with the American public.
And my philosophy is that public health officials should never lie.
They should never, you know, Anthony Fauci used to talk about the noble lie.
He would tell people things to get them to do things that were good for them.
Well, we're going to start trusting the American public that they're the best judges of what's good for them, what's good for their kids.
And what they need is good information that they can believe,
and not information that they've been fed by public health agencies to try to manipulate their behavior.
Secretary Kennedy, we have to let you go.
Thank you so much for all of your leadership and your courage on this.
Any final thoughts, one minute remaining, on this major announcement?
Oh, I mean, we're a nation of compassion.
And, you know, my uncle helped write this bill.
And when during the Senate debate, he said, in America, we are not going to ignore people who are left behind.
We're not going to try to advance an agenda or advance the American people by leaving the vulnerable, the injured behind.
Every child who takes one of these vaccines is entitled.
to compensation if they get injured.
And we need to, as a nation, commit ourselves to compensating them justly, generously, and quickly.
Secretary Kennedy, thank you so much.
You're welcome anytime.
And thank you for doing what you said you were going to do.
Thank you so much, Secretary Kennedy.
Thank you, Charlie.
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Gen Z and Gen Alpha are coming to Jesus in massive numbers.
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One of the reasons I think this is happening is that young people have father hunger.
Many Gen Z men, especially, were raised in homes without strong fathers or any dads at all.
The church has a vision and has a reality of a loving yet authoritative father.
This is such an important point.
Father hunger is one of the reasons why, even though God the Father could be quote-unquote gendered either way, is described as a father.
Because young men, if it was the heavenly mother,
young men would not resonate the same way.
Young men are more likely to take orders from a masculine figure.
You know who taught me that?
Is the great Dennis Prager.
That is his point.
Young men are also seeing through the woke mirage.
Gen Z men,
as they are super online,
they want to try to find a place that is rooted in eternity, rooted towards heavenly orientation.
They want to look up.
Almost every generation until Gen Z has become less and less religious.
And Gen Z is bucking the trend.
And make no mistake, post-COVID, there's so much bad came out of COVID, but God will use something evil for good, as he beautifully says in the scriptures, Genesis 50:20.
I will use
the enemy meant for evil, I will use for good.
Romans 8:28, which is,
God will use all things for good for those who love him.
All things.
And we are now in this moment, this incredible moment,
where
millions of young people are giving their life to Jesus.
One of the top songs out there is a song by a very impressive young man, Forrest Frank.
People love this guy.
And he is a Christian music artist.
He actually shared our video from Fox and Friends Weekend of me and Ali B.
Stuckey.
And Forrest Frank, if you listen to his music,
the theology of Forrest Frank's movement is terrific.
It's very good.
I was even listening with an analytical eye.
I said, okay, is this going to be a little bit kind of like narcissism?
Me, I'm going to get rich with Jesus.
Nope.
His number one song is Your Way is Better.
It's all about how Jesus has a way.
And the profundity of what Forrest Frank is saying in that song is very, very significant.
It goes back to what C.S.
Lewis would talk about, which is the Tao.
It would talk about how
there is a way, that there is a certain path for us that is above just the temporal experience.
The theology and the actual wording of the songs is terrific.
And the...
The music of it, Gen Z just seems to really love.
So the top music right now is Christian music.
Young men are going back to church.
Young ladies, we need a little bit of help with, but young ladies, they have to shed themselves of the Jezebel spirit.
They have to.
The Jezebel spirit has just infected an entire generation of young ladies.
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Feminism has done such damage to these young ladies.
It's just beyond.
It's very, very difficult to summarize that in a short period of time.
But we're seeing the music revelation and the Renaissance and the church renaissance.
It's a a beautiful thing.
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Okay, I'm very interested in this story because I hate being lied to and I hate being propagandized.
And this weekend, there was an all-out
propaganda campaign trying to make it seem as if Israel is intentionally starving the people of Gaza.
I hate being lied to, especially by the media networks.
They lied to us about COVID.
They lied to us about the vaccines.
They lied to us about open borders.
They lied to us on Hunter Bay and Laptop.
Joining us now is Rabbi Willicki, a great friend.
And thank you so much for defending me the other day.
Rabbi Willicki, you're also the YouTube, people can find you on YouTube, Israel365.
Rabbi, let's just go through the facts here and then let's get into the lies.
What is the situation in Gaza as the truth would bear it out?
Not the New York Times propagandist network.
Well, if we're talking about the starvation lie, and thank you, Charlie.
Thank you for having me on to talk about this.
It's so important because this is really pure, pure propaganda, as you say.
So since the beginning of the war, since October 7th, the whole issue of the food getting into Gaza and how much food is getting in has been weaponized by Hamas and
by the whole pro-Hamas crowd.
And what they're doing most recently is claiming that there's a starvation crisis.
The quantities of food, I'm not going to get into the weeds of the numbers, but the quantities of food that have been brought into the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war and month over month is enough to feed the Gaza Strip, according to the World Food Program's numbers for what it takes to feed people for longer than this war has gone on, for about 27 months worth of food.
And there's plenty of food getting into the Gaza Strip.
But what's happening is that Hamas is trying to perpetuate this narrative that Gazans are starving because starting about two months ago, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is run by Americans
and is in cooperation with the Israelis, has started distributing food, started distributing humanitarian aid directly to the people of Gaza.
And why is that important?
Because until they started doing that, the only way for Gazans to get food was to get it from Hamas.
All of the tons and tons of food, all the truckloads of food that have been coming into the Gaza Strip as humanitarian aid since the beginning of the war until two months ago, were brought in by United Nations organizations that were working hand in glove with Hamas.
It was going directly to Hamas, and then Hamas would sell it at exorbitant prices to the people, hoard it for themselves, take all the fuel to fuel their war machine, use it to recruit new recruits into Hamas, and
it was basically Hamas's oxygen.
The estimates now by the United States, by the State Department, is that Hamas has made approximately $500 million
just from selling aid to the people of the Gaza Strip since the war has began.
So Israel has realized for a long time that this is a problem because while the aid has to get to people, the aid is also fueling Hamas.
So two months ago, they started this new program where in areas that are under Israeli security control on the Gaza Strip, they distribute the food directly to the Gazan citizens.
All the aid is supposed to be free.
In fact,
there are videos and pictures online of packages marked not for sale being sold by Hamas vendors to the people of the Gaza Strip.
So what's happening now is because food is being distributed directly to the Gazan citizens at these distribution centers, that's cutting off Hamas's oxygen because the people can get food directly from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
They don't have to pay exorbitant prices to Hamas, and Hamas is both losing control of the population and also losing their cash flow.
So they started perpetuating this starvation narrative.
a few really just over the course of the last couple of weeks.
It has no basis, in fact.
We see this even from the Gaza Health Ministry, which is Hamas's own numbers for casualties, for deaths throughout this war.
There's nobody dying of starvation in the Gaza Strip.
But you could also see it looking at the pictures on your screen right now.
We know what starving people look like.
These are Gazans.
They're not emaciated.
They're not starving.
The people of Gaza are not starving.
But Hamas needs to perpetuate this narrative so that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is discredited and they could go back to the old system of all of the food and aid going through the UN to Hamas so they can retain control over the population and keep their cash flow going.
There's a lot more to the story than that.
I don't know how into the weeds you want me to go, but if people go to our YouTube channel, Israel365 YouTube, we've been covering this for months.
Yes, so let's just put this picture up here.
This is what really set me off.
And these lies against Israel are relentless.
This is a mother holding a baby.
And by the looks of it, this is pure...
visual warfare.
Plug a 309.
This is all this is.
This is propaganda, emotional, visual, optical warfare, optical warfare.
And so no one likes to see what you're looking at here.
Looks like a kid who's starving to death, right?
So the whole story says this.
The story says young, old, and sick starved to death in Gaza.
That is the front page of the New York Times.
And so the picture they're using is of Muhammad al-Mutawak, a child with a muscular disorder, and they're using that as the face of famine in Gaza.
And so what you are saying, Rabbi, just to respond to the New York Times here, I'm going to read the New York Times just for people to understand.
Israel, I can't, it's got a little blurry, but it says that trading of blame and chaos as violence hit aid routes.
There is nothing here.
They are starving to death.
And then the picture they are using is a young kid.
who tragically is suffering from a muscular disorder, but he's not starving to death.
So just to repeat what you're saying, Rabbi, you're saying that there is no starvation in Gaza.
Is that correct?
Look, it could be that
in certain areas under Hamas control, where they still control things and are hoarding the food, that they're not distributing it in order to create more of a starvation and a desperation problem so that Gazans could be going hungry so that they can perpetuate the narrative.
And that's not just
a conspiracy that I'm saying.
Just the other day,
there was drone footage released by the Israelis Israelis to debunk the whole starvation narrative of 1,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid that had been delivered into the areas that are still under Hamas control that were sitting on the other side of the Gaza border, meaning on the Gaza side of the border, 1,000 truckloads sitting there for weeks and weeks.
No one was coming to pick it up.
And
the UN was saying they had logistical problems.
And then as soon, but right after Israel released that drone footage of these 900 truckloads, over the last couple of days, hundreds and hundreds of those truckloads have been picked up because they were humiliated by the release of this drone footage that showed that they simply weren't taking the aid into the Gaza Strip.
Now, let me make it clear.
A thousand truckloads of aid is about what it takes to feed the entire Gaza Strip for two weeks.
And a significant portion of the Gaza Strip is being fed now by this other organization, the American organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund.
So
for the Gazans who remain under Hamas control, this thousand truckloads is probably a month's worth of food, and Hamas was simply not picking it up.
Listen, I'm going to play this piece of tape here live from Mount Aid.
This is quite a video, but you think about it from Hamas's perspective.
Hamas would want the people of Gaza to starve.
Number one, they don't care about their own people, they're just cannon fodder for their radical Islamic aims.
But secondly,
if they can starve their people, then they can get a media narrative in the West to try to end the brokering of the war.
So
it's a circuitous way.
It is a loophole way of them to use their own kids to starve, blame the Israelis for the starvation, to get the war against the terrorists to stop.
Let's play cut 312.
This is
from someone, Fish Burger.
I want to make sure I get that Fish Burger.
Who literally sees a thousand things of aid.
Look at all the aid that is not being distributed to the people of Gaza.
Play cut 312.
I don't know if you guys have ever seen what
600 trucks worth of aid looks like.
But this is what it looks like.
It is a lot of aid.
Wow.
It's all going to waste because the UN refuses to distribute it.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Look at this.
Look at all that.
Literally mountains of aid.
Literally, look.
Standing on it.
Standing on mountains of aid.
I mean, that is an extraordinary amount of food and aid.
So is the UN intentionally allowing the kids of Gaza to starve?
What is going on here?
When you talk about the UN in Gaza, you're not talking about the people sitting in the United Nations in New York.
The UN in Gaza is Hamas.
It has been for a long time.
If you remember all of the flab earlier on in the war about UNRWA, the UN Relief Works Agency, which it turned out that a lot of their employees were actually members of Hamas who even participated in October 7th.
Because the UN employees in Gaza are all locals, and Hamas controls the UN in Gaza.
So when you hear about the schools, for example, that Hamas uses as military sites, so that when Israel bombs a military installation and they say, oh, you bombed a school, those schools are UN schools.
So, there really is no distinction.
It's a bit of, it's kind of a fictional distinction between the UN and Hamas.
When it comes to the Gaza Strip, the UN is just kind of a cover for Hamas.
Yeah, and it's just, it's just such a lie, and it's creating so much hysteria here in the United States.
And just so so we are clear again, this is the only way that Hamas can quote unquote survive the war is through a narrative war where they win sentimentality in the West.
So they are willing to have their people starve.
They're willing to have invoked famine so that they can win points in the West and then blame it on Israel.
These are the very same people that did this on October 7th against the innocent Israelis on October 7th.
Why wouldn't they also do it to their own people?
But they are.
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We're going to play a word association test.
What's the first word that comes to mind when you hear Israel?
Judaism.
Aid.
Aid.
Manyahu.
Tax dollars.
Liability.
Sacred.
Tax dollars.
Conflict.
Complex.
Controversial.
Scary.
Strategic.
Massage.
There is a
lot there with this Israel focus group.
We'll get to that with Rabbi Walicki in a second.
This has gone viral, and it's worthy of your attention.
You guys can watch it on our YouTube page.
I have a lot of people texted to me, and some people were very upset about it.
And
we just did an entire segment defending Israel against the lies.
You guys know where I stand on this, but also I am here as an interlocutor to try to explain what is coming next and what is real.
Don't be upset just because someone is reporting the information.
Anyway, there's also been a lot of positive on it as well.
So you guys can check it out on the YouTube panel page, Charlie Kirk YouTube page, and I think you'll really enjoy it.
Rabbi Willicki is with us.
Rabbi, I want to play this piece of tape here and then I want to give you some time to react to just the entire focus group.
Let's go to cut 302.
This is with our turning point, you'll say, students, they say that anti-Semite is becoming the new word racism, which means almost nothing, unfortunately.
Play cut 302.
You're not anti-Israel.
You don't wish them harm.
You're not, you know, like cheering on Iran.
No, I support Israel.
I think they're our ally.
I want them.
But you would be called an anti-Semite by some people for saying this.
And I think that's ridiculous.
I don't hate Jews because I think a nation should defend themselves.
Exactly.
Like, I think that's the most ridiculous thing ever.
I feel like it's becoming like the word racism.
Like we just disagree with them, so we just have to call them a name.
I don't think they're actually anti-Semitic.
I think people just can't agree with them and they can't prove them wrong.
So they just throw a word out and be like, you're anti-Semitic because you think that we should stop sending our money there.
Rabbi Willicki is us.
Rabbi, what was your reaction of our focus group?
Well, Charlie, first of all, I commend you for doing it.
And the fact that you're getting criticized by those who support Israel and by those who are anti-Israel, I think shows that
you did something very important.
And really just listening to what these kids have to say.
And if
much of what they have to say or some of what they have to say is based on misconceptions or incorrect information, that just tells me as an Israeli and as someone who is an advocate for Israel that we have more work to do.
But what I was really thinking as I watched this is that there's a question that's been on my mind really for more than a year now, almost since the beginning of the war here in Israel, which is, and I don't mean this as a criticism of anyone, this question.
If you look around the world at populist, nationalist, Christian conservatives, right-wing Christian conservatives, everywhere else in the world, whether it's Victor Orban's supporters in Hungary, Gert Wilder's supporters in the Netherlands, the Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil, and you
go around the horn, virtually everywhere, those populist, nationalist, Christian conservatives are pro-Israel, almost lockstep pro-Israel in this war.
And yet, somehow in America, things are a lot more mixed.
And again, I'm not saying that as a criticism at all.
It's something I've been thinking about.
Like, what is it?
What is it that young Americans are seeing that the rest of the world isn't seeing?
And I believe that the answer is right there in your focus group.
In all those other countries I mentioned, their tax dollars are not going to Israel in the form of aid.
And the fact that aid was the most popular answer in your word association at the beginning there really speaks to the fact that the entire relationship of America giving foreign aid, military aid to Israel, is it clouds the vision of young Americans about what they're seeing in the Israel conflict.
It ends up becoming what the Israel issue is all about, their own tax dollars.
And the second issue that I think is part of this mix is that there are organizations in America, the vast majority of American Jews are progressive left liberals, what we used to call liberals.
They're part of the progressive left.
By polling, over 70% of American Jews identify with the left.
And what that means is that if I'm a young Christian conservative in America,
Unfortunately, a lot of the leading Jewish organizations and the Jewish establishments
are on the other side of the issues that I care about most.
Organizations like the ADL, who, in my opinion, promote anti-Semitism more than they fight it, end up demonizing anyone who is out of step with their viewpoints.
Now, let me also say parenthetically that that same Jewish establishment is also increasingly over the last few decades uncomfortable with the state of Israel because Israel has become more right-wing, more religiously observant, more faithful to God.
And Israel hasn't had a left-wing prime minister in over 20 years, and we're not going to have one for a while.
Young Israelis are more conservative than their parents and grandparents were.
But that, I think, the combination of the Jewish establishment in the United States and the aid issue end up dominating the thoughts about Israel of young American conservatives.
Now, the flip side to all of this is that
it is worthwhile, it's important for young American conservatives, even as they have these issues, to also think about what is it that their counterparts around the world are seeing that make them pro-Israel?
Because for the rest of the world, for the rest of
the conservative Christian, populist nationalist world, they see in Israel a nation-state that is
Jewish, that is based on
the Judeo-Christian civilization, that is fighting against an Islam that is trying to destroy it, and that the Red-Green Alliance's number one enemy is the state of Israel.
They see that war, and it's obvious to them to back Israel.
Got a dash.
Rabbi Willicki, it's well said.
The young students that we talked to, they were not anti-Israel, they were Israel fatigued.
We have to be on team civilization.
We're up against the Marxists and the Islamists to stand for the West.
Rabbi Willicki, thank you so much.
Thanks so much for listening.
Everybody, email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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