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New Radio Title:Bless Israel_012_GOI_v02

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Bless Israel_012_GOI_v02

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Updated: May 3, 2016

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The following program, “Bless Israel with Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein,” is made possible through the prayers and blessings of friends and supporters of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

David James: / Ladies and gentlemen just over a year ago Israel was in the grip of Operation Protective Edge and if you remember from the news three Israeli teenager boys on their way home from school were kidnapped, murdered by terrorists and code red sirens sounded daily, signaling incoming rockets from nearby Gaza, sending terrified Israelis running for shelter.
Israel would respond and send their young men off to protect Israeli citizens in what was called Operation Protective Edge. Soon after, and I remember this very well, an elaborate network of terror tunnels leading into Israel were discovered. Do you remember that? Reminding Israel and her people that threats don't just rain from the sky, but sometimes they creep into the very backyards, very backyards of Israeli families.
Well here today, with Israel facing even more terrorism in the form of stabbing, shootings the violence and killing continues even at this very moment, as we have this conversation. With me to talk about all of this and how Christian's can help pray for Israel and help support God's chosen people is the Senior VicePresident of the International Fellowship of Christian's and Jews, Yael (Yah-ehl) Eckstein. Yael thank you for joining us.
Yael Eckstein: / Thanks so much Dave for having me here. It's really an honor.
David James: / Well it's an honor to talk with you Yael. I know you’re here in the U.S. for a visit. Your home is in Israel with your family.
And to begin, let's talk about what has taken place in Israel over the past year. How does this Israeli-Palestinian conflict against innocent Israeli citizens start? What's the latest news coming out of Israel?
Yael Eckstein: / Well, it's a really good question that not many people have an answer to. Violence seems to suddenly erupt in Israel and there's no real explanation for why it happens.
What we do know is that you can't just start this mission of terror with five terror attacks a day without any planning.
What I've learned being here in America for the past two weeks is there are certain kind of things that people say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of ignorance. One of those things that people say is they say Israel's anapartheid. I always say that should be offensive to South Africans, the same way if someone doesn't do something that you want and they call you a Nazi. That's offensive. The Nazis killed over six million people. You don't just use that term lightly and that's the same thing that I look at as apartheid. In South Africa there was a real problem. It was a real, racism that Africans, blacks they were killed, they weren't allowed to use the same bathrooms, weren't allowed to drink from the same water fountain. They were not allowed in the government, not allowed to be police officers, not allowed in college. They were jailed, they were murdered, they were attacked and nobody stood up for them.
Well in Israel we have a quarter of our population Israeli Arabs that serve in the Knesset, that are police officers, that have free education, free healthcare, all the same rights and benefits as Israeli Jews and so the question that you ask of how did this come to be? Well, in 1967 when Israel was attacked by all of our Arab neighbors and they said for weeks leading up to the attack we're going to wipe Israel into the sea once and for all. We're going to kill every single Jew. We're going to get rid of this Jewish nation. The Jewish problem since 1948 when Israel was established, and they didn't hide it. It was weeks of leading up to this war that they were saying, we're going to attack you. We're going to wipe you out. We're going to kill you.
Now, we all know (Hebrew) the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. Israel miraculously won that war and I say miraculously because it was only because of miracles, the hand of God you can't deny that was a miracle. During, right before the attack in 1967 the Arab world told the Arabs living in Israel, leave. Leave your homes, let us take care of the Jewish problem here on this land and then go back to your homes. That's where we get the refugees from. These people that on their own will left their homes waiting for the Jews to be killed. Now there were some Arabs who stayed. They didn't leave their homes like all of the Arab leaders told them to, and after Israel won the war the whole world was looking at Israel. What are they going to do with these Arabs that stayed? The only two options that the world thought were available was one, Israel is going to massacre them just like the Arab world said they were going to do to the Jewish people.
David James: / Yeah, kind of like a payback.
Yael Eckstein: / Exactly, or they were going to exile them. Send them out to Jordan, to Syria, to Egypt, to any of the other countries where they could go and live. Israel instead gave them citizenship. They said now we are going to have this concept of Israeli Arabs. You're going to be integrated into our society. We're going to welcome you in with open arms. We're going to show you what justice is, what righteousness is, what Godliness is, holiness. That we're not going to kill you, we're not going to kick you out of your homes. You can have your homes, you could have an Israeli ID card, a passport, you could have all the benefits from the government of free education and free healthcare for your kids. Israel's main incentive in that was that we would have peace with our neighbors. Since 1948 every single step we've taken was with the goal of bringing the Middle East and specifically Israel to a place of peace.
Unfortunately, what we're seeing today is that many of these terror attacks being committed, four, five, six times a day are by Israeli Arabs, the children of those people who we gave citizenship to in 1967.
David James: / Had all the rights of a citizen, that were given.
Yael Eckstein: / Exactly.
David James: / It's like the next generation that's making this happen.
Yael Eckstein: / It's terrifying because it's also, going back to the whole concept of apartheid, you know, that you go into any of Israel's neighbors, any of those countries surrounding Israel and you won't find one Jewish person. In fact even when you go into certain parts of the West Bank, that's technically under Israel's control, there are signs that say any Jewish person or Israeli passport holder, it's illegal for them to enter, it's a danger to their life. You won't find a Jewish person in these Arab countries. Yet when you walk through Israel, there's not one city that you'll go to that you won't see Muslims openly walking around. Wearing the Muslim garb, that's actually illegal in many parts of Europe, but in Israel it's legal. You'll hear the Islamic call for prayer over the loud intercoms and actually where my father Rabbi Eckstein lives in Talpiot in Jerusalem, it's very close to an Arab city, and so every morning at five in the morning he's woken up by this Muslim call for prayer. He always says, this is a freedom that even in America they wouldn't allow.
Yael Eckstein: / So, the freedoms that you see in Israel are huge for Jews and Christians and Muslims and it's something that we do because we believe in it. We believe that we have a responsibility. This is a holy land and God has given it to us to control right now and we have to rule in a righteous way.
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David James: / My name is David James, we're talking to Yael Eckstein. She is the Senior Vice President of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and we're discussing what is going on right now in current events.
Those attacks Yael, they're not just taking place in Gaza, they're happening in small quiet towns in Israel. Parks where children play.
And I understand this hit really home for you because one of your children came home from school and said that the school was on lock down.
Yael Eckstein: / Yeah there's nobody in Israel that's not affected. That you could read about the numbers of people killed on each side and I always say, this isn't a basketball game. The way that the news reports it. There is so much more behind this and you can't compare an innocent person being killed to a terrorist being shot in the middle of committing a terrorist act. It's something that I tried to a long time to hide my children from the reality of Israel.
David James: / They're young.
Yael Eckstein: / They're young. My oldest is nine years old, my youngest is three and a half yet they've already been through a war. We had to hide in the stairwell as code red sirens were going off and rockets were being launched. A week and a half ago there was a terror attack right by my city and my daughter came home two days later and said, we were on lock down today. It was middle of recess and then they thought they saw terrorists outside the school so we had to run into our classroom and lock the door. We had to wait there until the police came and said that it wasn't a terrorist. It's something that's heartbreaking, not only that the children's innocence is taken from them but that they know they're targeted for being Jews. That's it.
That you can't be with them every second and in fact, I was just talking today with somebody about how right now what they're using are the fear tactics. Our enemies have gone through a lot of different ways of trying to destroy us. They tried militarily and saw that God will not allow that. They've tried with lots of propaganda. Now what they're using is fear. That they're targeting exactly like you said Dave these small communities. They're targeting children, they're targeting elderly. A two year old was shot. An eighty year old woman was stabbed. Two parents were murdered in front of their four children.
And so, the people of Israel realize how dangerous that is, to live in fear and so every single time there is a terrorist attack, within twenty four hours all of the local schools get together and bring the children to the scene of the terror attack to sing, to dance, to read psalms and to show the world that we're, we're not afraid. We're not going to be scared away. We have hope, we have prayers, we have faith and this is where we're going to stay.
David James: / I found it really daunting and shocking that you mentioned that this is happening and the crime is only because they're Jewish. I mean, in Israel this is happening and the crime quote unquote that's being given is because you're Jewish this is happening. It's not anything else. It's this.
Yael Eckstein: / That's exactly it because, you see, if I may be unpolitically correct for a moment-
David James: / Please, please, no. Fine.
Yael Eckstein: / The Western world loves to attribute all of the problems to Israel settlement building. For the terrorists, they don't distinguish between settlements or central Israel. That's what I think this wave of terror is showing the world. It doesn't have to do with settlements. The attacks aren't in the settlements. They're not against the soldiers. This isn't something about rational politics. This is straight terror. The same thing as ISIS, the same thing as Al Qaeda. They're targeting innocent people without any reason except for you're not an Islamic extremist.
That's why we're seeing in Tel Aviv, in Petah Tikva, in Netanya, Hadera, these cities that aren't controversial, no one says the Jewish people will eventually leave there, they're not the settlements.
David James: / Yael you mentioned that these attacks with your own children, but the Fellowship staff too, the workers, first responders, tell us the story. I heard that one of your staff saved a little boy’s life?
Yael Eckstein: / I think every staff member has their own story just from the past two weeks. We have some amazing stories coming out just of how every day civilians turn into heroes in one second.We had one of our Fellowship employees that left the office to go get her child from kindergarten She was on the way home and she stopped off to speak to a friend and right in front of her a terror attack took place. There was a thirteen year old boy that was stabbed numerous times. And she was the one that went and she found a rag and she wrapped it around his body where he was stabbed and when the first responders got there and they took him to the hospital and she got a phone call later that night that she added on a few minutes to him surviving until they got there. That because of her, he survived.
David James: / That's amazing. Absolutely amazing. Right there just picking up her, you said kindergartner and she became a hero at that point.
Yael Eckstein: / She went right after to pick her kindergartner shaking and she didn't even realize that the teacher opened the door and said you're covered in blood, you're shaking. What happened? That this is the reality.