They Opened Their Bible: Why Christians Stand With Israel

Male announcer: Previously
on “The Endtime Show.”
Dave Robbins: What would you say
to Tucker Carlson if he said,
“Hananya,” you know, “why should
people around the world support
Israel or Christians?”
What would you say to that?
Why should Christians in
America support Israel?
Hananya Naftali: The–those
Christians who support Israel,
including you, Dave, including
the people that are watching and
listening to us, it’s because
they did something just genius.
And it’s so revolutionary.
Let me tell you about it.
They opened their Bible.
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Dave: Welcome back, everybody,
and I’m joined with my good
friend Hananya Naftali.
He is–works with Prime Minister
Netanyahu.
He is his social media advisor.
And so, chances are if you see
something posted on Facebook or
something like that from Prime
Minister Netanyahu, many times
that would be posted by
Hananya Naftali’s team.
He all works with the social
media team anyway, they’re all
working together.
And so, he, along with Endtime
Ministries, everybody knows
we’re just hyper pro-Israel.
And again, like Hananya said
that I don’t agree–I don’t give
Israel just a green light to do
whatever, and I don’t agree with
every decision they make.
However, I support Israel.
It’s biblical, it’s godly, and
God knows, and all the money
that we’ve sent over the years
in supporting Israel and the
people and things like that, it
all goes because it is God.
It is the–it is biblical, and
God told Abraham, “I will bless
them that bless you, and I will
curse them that curse you.”
And I’m going to support Israel
all the way to the end.
And God’s certainly
been in all of it.
So, with that said, I want to
clear up something else about
the Gaza war, because there has
been so much false narratives
that have been
flying around, Hananya.
And number one, that–the Israel
was trying to commit genocide in
Gaza and that they were
intentionally targeting
civilians and trying to wipe out
everybody down there.
That simply is not true, but
explain that Israel was not
trying to commit
genocide in Gaza.
They were simply
defending themselves.
What would you say to that?
Hananya: Well, that’s a very
popular accusation
against Israel.
It’s usually, you know, when
people talk about Israel, that’s
usually, you know, in the top
five topics that they would
bring up.
And I, you know, I did an
interview on the Piers Morgan
Show and Al Arabiya.
And that’s a big topic that they
like to talk about and usually
they add to your question and
they would say, “Well, the
numbers show that you guys
killed 69,000 civilians in Gaza.
Well, what’s your
response to that?”
And, you know, actually, number
one, as someone who served in
the army, it’s never the
objective of the Israeli Defense
Forces to target civilians.
When I was in Gaza, they would
tell–they told us very
strictly, “These are
your objectives.”
And guess what’s
not an objective?
To target civilians.
So–but listen, we deal with
a terrorist organization that
cynically uses its own people.
It’s just tragic to see how much
they want their people to
get hurt.
So, number one, war is ugly.
It’s not something
that we wish for.
It’s not something that we
started, by the way.
But, you know, if we tackle the
genocide claim, number one, this
war is–was dragging for two
years, and we all can agree that
Israel has the capability to
destroy all of Gaza if it wanted
in two days, but why did this
war take two years?
It’s very simple.
It’s because we don’t want to
target civilians, so we
pinpointed and
targeted Hamas only.
And, you know, the big claim
that they say about the 62,000
people killed, first of all,
they believe–they are quoting
the health ministry in Gaza that
is run by Hamas that, you know,
launched the invasion
and the war.
And even if people don’t like
Israel, they would agree with me
that the Hamas-run health
ministry has a very clear goal
to make Israel look bad, right?
So, they make
numbers look very big.
They including them people that
died from either Hamas torture,
misfired rockets.
But even if you take this number
at face value, Hamas–
it proves it.
So, the–commit a genocide.
Gaza is a–has a population of
about two million people.
So, in two years of war, even if
you take this number at face
value, it proves you that Israel
did not commit a genocide.
But, you know, people love to
talk about numbers and all that.
At the end of the day, we’re
talking here about human life.
To me as an Israeli Jew, I care
about Palestinian civilians.
I don’t wish anything
bad for them.
In fact, when I was stationed in
the army, I treated many times
Palestinians that guess what,
when they needed help, they ran
to us, the Israeli soldiers,
because they knew.
They know the truth.
They know that we are
not out there to kill them.
We are not out there
to target them.
We–they–when they wanted help,
they knew who to turn to and
guess what, it was not
their own authorities.
It was the Israeli army.
So, as a soldier, I also served
as a combat medic.
With my hands, I treated
Palestinian civilians and saved
their lives, but I understand
it’s always easy to, you know,
lies, they spread
faster than electricity.
But at the end of the day, the
truth has roots and that’s
what matters.
Dave: Yes.
Another false narrative that was
spread by the liberal news media
was that all of the humanitarian
aid that Israel was holding that
back and wasn’t sending any
humanitarian aid down there, but
that was simply not true.
Can you clear up
that false narrative?
Hananya: Well, I have something
funny to tell you.
You know, I went to the border
crossing, I think it was last
year, because I wanted to see
for myself the humanitarian aid
coming in.
So, I was invited by the
authority that’s in charge of
coordinating all of that, and
they invited a pool
of journalists.
There were journalists from
“The New York Times,” from CNN,
from all the big media outlets.
And I was among them also.
So, we listened to the same
briefing, we saw the same facts
on the ground, and I reported
what I saw.
I said, “Hey, there is a line of
trucks waiting to get into the
Gaza Strip as far as
my eyes can see.”
And that’s what I
reported, what I saw.
And then I–but you know, Dave,
I said, “I have to go and see
what the other journalists
reported from the mainstream
media outlets,” and guess what,
they–we saw the same thing and
yet they were reporting
something completely different.
They said, “Well, yeah, sure.
They sent hundreds of trucks,
but they could really do more.
You know, they could really–”
It’s like, “What are
you talking about?
There are trucks as far
as your eyes can see.
What–you want the line to go
all the way up from south
to north?” you know?
So, it clearly shows why The
Endtime Ministries it’s so
valuable, you know, sharing the
facts because you see that they
are–they have a political
agenda, and it’s so good that
you and your team and many–
and millions of Christian
evangelicals around the world,
they have a biblical agenda, and
they understand that they stand
with Israel not because Israel
is perfect, but because
God is faithful.
And, you know, I have to say,
and I’ll conclude with this,
that when Christians speak up
for Israel, they’re not taking a
side, but they’re taking a stand
and stand for the Bible and a
stand for God.
Dave: Amen.
And wow, what a powerful
statement.
Christians who stand for Israel
are not taking a side, they’re
taking a stand.
That is such a powerful
statement.
I’m–if you don’t mind, I’m
going to use that because that’s
a great statement.
Yeah, absolutely.
Another thing I wanted to ask
you just from a, you know, your
opinion, your–from your
spirituality, what you think,
why do you think the
international community is so
against Israel?
And just as a whole, the
internet–the United Nations
totally seems like they’re
almost 100% except just for the
Jewish coalition in the United
States and a few others, they’re
almost totally anti-Semitic, and
there’s so much anti–the
anti-Semitism is just going up
like a hockey stick around the
world even colleges here in the
United States.
We’ve all–a lot of people have
faced it, and it is such an
anti-biblical position.
Why, just from your gut, why do
you think most of the
international community and
people are so anti-Zionist,
anti-Semitic, anti-Israel?
Hananya: Look, I have my
logical opinion, but I think
that when you see this, you
know, really vicious hatred
towards Israel, you know, I was
just reading a deeper at length
report about the war and, you
know, spread over by days.
And in the–I think the next day
and most definitely the same
week Hamas invaded Israel, the
criticism already begun.
And I don’t know how many
remember, but when Israel was
invaded, at first the whole
world, or, you know, maybe 60%,
they stood with Israel, they
waved flags, and, you know, they
said something.
But that support ended as soon
as the Jews rose to
defend themselves.
So, the world was in support of
the Jews when we were massacred,
and that really speaks volume on
the values of this world.
It seems like they are okay when
we are being butchered and then
we’ll get their support, but
when we defend ourselves, that’s
where the–when
the support ends.
So, you know, it’s–
quite frankly, we are
done apologizing,
and we don’t need to do anything
in order to gain the support of
the UN or any
international body.
You know, the same–it’s the
same United Nations that I think
it was UNESCO or, you know, one
of their international forums
that passed a vote on–that cast
doubt on the Jewish connection
to Jerusalem.
It’s just unthinkable.
This is modern anti-Semitism.
It’s, you know, unfortunately,
anti-Semitism didn’t die with
the Holocaust.
It just, you know, changed its
dress code, but it’s the same
hate out there.
They have a problem with the
Jews at the end of the day, and
they use Israel as an excuse to
keep hating the Jews.
Dave: Yeah, I can tell you from
a biblical perspective, I’ve had
a thought for many years and my
father-in-law Irvin Baxter
before me has taught this.
That the Lord said 37 times in
the Old Testament, “I will put
my name in Jerusalem and on the
Temple Mount,” and it’s as if,
Hananya, that Satan himself has
said, “Well, if that’s where you
want your name, I’m gonna fight
you for that,” and there have
been 40 major wars fought over
the city of Jerusalem throughout
time, more than any
other city in history.
And it’s as if there’s a
spiritual battle right there for
Israel, and Satan is the
principal driver behind this end
time world government
and all these things.
And it’s a spiritual battle and
people that are, you know,
pro-international community,
pro-world government, they’re
being driven by this mindset of
we’ve got to demonize Israel,
where if they only understood
the Bible and all the narratives
behind that and that they would
understand, “Man, I’ve got to
support Israel.”
And one final thing on this is
that at the end of the day, God
trumps everything.
The God of Israel,
I believe in one God.
I believe Deuteronomy 6:4,
“Hear, O Israel,
the Lord our God is
one Lord,” that’s it.
End of story.
And that God is
gonna protect Israel.
I don’t wanna fight him–against
him in any way, shape, or form.
And so, I’m supporting Israel, I
am pro Hananya Naftali, and I am
pro–because you stand for
Israel in every way, and I’m
very thankful for that.
But it’s like you said before
the first break there, it is a
biblical position.
To answer all these false
narratives, you could almost
say, “Go to the Bible.”
What about this false narrative?
“Go to the Bible.”
But we’re gonna–we’ll get a
little bit more detailed than
that, because I know our
time’s going so quickly.
The United Nations passed
Resolution 2334 back in 2016
that says Israel’s occupation of
East Jerusalem and the West Bank
is a flagrant violation of
international law.
This was under the Obama
administration when he was
headed out of office, the
Obama-Biden administration.
President Trump came in and
said, “No, we don’t
recognize that.
This is Israel’s land.
You know, we recognize their,
you know, that they’re right to
the Golan Heights
and things like that.”
But I want to get your
take on that.
We’re–I’m coming up
to another break here.
This will be my final break
of the program.
But I wanna get your take on
that because I believe it’s not
illegal in any way, shape, or
form because it’s biblical, but
I’ll get your–I’ll make another
remark and then I’ll get your
position on the backside
of this break.
Sorry about that.
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Dave: Welcome back, everybody.
I’m joined with my good friend
Hananya Naftali, and he is the
social media advisor to Prime
Minister Netanyahu of Israel,
and a couple of–just a few
questions remaining here,
Hananya, and you’ve been, man,
it’s just been awesome, but the
United Nations passed resolution
2334 that says Israel’s
occupation of the West Bank and
East Jerusalem is a flagrant
violation of international law.
What would you say to that?
Hananya: Well, you know, people
can say whatever they want.
It–I understand how hard they
are trying to rewrite Jewish
history in this land, but it
doesn’t matter what
they’re saying.
What matters is the facts
on the ground.
And look, I will suggest this,
I will pack my bag.
You know, I was born
and raised in Israel.
I was–I did–this is my land,
but I will pack my bag and go.
I don’t know where, but I’ll do
the moment someone shows me
who is the Palestinian king.
What is the Palestinian history
before the age of television?
They never had a currency.
They never had
anything like that.
So, you know, then you come
and say that we occupy our
ancestral homeland?
It doesn’t make any sense.
You know, if anything, it is the
Palestinians that are occupying
Jewish lands, but apparently
nobody talks about that because
this is too controversial.
You know, but this is actually
facts on the ground.
Hebron used to be a Jewish city,
it’s now predominantly
Arab city.
And you have, Samaria that used
to be also a Jewish city with,
you know, wherever you dig in
Judea and Samaria, you find that
Jewish history.
That’s where most of biblical
events took place.
I’m sorry, I don’t know a
Palestinian king.
I know a Jewish king called King
David, so, you know, the–but
the Palestinian narrative, it’s
important to understand it has
nothing to do with Philistines
that we read about in the Bible.
They just hijacked the name,
and evidently you see–
by the way, just to point out
because we’re short in time,
the Philistines,
they’re coming from–
it’s believed that
they’re coming
from Greek or Cyprus islands,
but the–and the Palestinians
today they’re just coming from
neighboring Arab countries.
So, they have no connection
between them and the
Philistines, and evidently, by
the way, the Palestinian
president himself, Mahmoud
Abbas, he said in one interview,
the president, okay?
The so-called president, he
said, “We are the
original Philistines.”
Okay, then when that fact was
debunked, he went on to say in
another interview, “We are the
original Canaanites.”
It’s like, brother, you need to
make up your mind, so what
are you?
The freaking president doesn’t
even know who are they.
Dave: Yeah, I totally agree.
And Yasser Arafat actually
claimed to be a Philistine
as well.
And, of course, they–
it’s so inconsistent.
They’re just making stuff up as
they go along because they’re
trying to push their agendas
and different things.
The US-Israel alliance.
Now, you and I have never
talked about what I believe
prophetically and
different things.
I believe the United States is
mentioned in the Bible, Daniel
7, it was the eagles’ wings,
modern-day nations pulled out of
Great Britain years ago.
And then in Revelation 12, it
says that the Israel is carried
away on the wings of a great
eagle, where she is nourished in
her place for time, times, and
half a time throughout the
end time.
I believe that’s a prophecy of
the United States and Israel,
our bond and our alliance.
And of course, it’s playing out.
That’s a 2,000-year-old prophecy
playing out in the geopolitical
situation between the two
countries right now.
And how would you assess from
your position that the strength
of the US-Israel relationship?
Because even Democratic and
Republican administrations, like
we’ve used our UN Security
Council veto power 49 times
since the ’70s
to protect Israel.
So, in–from your position there
in Israel, how would you assess
the US-Israel–the strength of
our alliance right now?
Hananya: Well, I have to say,
you know, we had such a great
conversation and you–I didn’t
even get a chance to first and
foremost say thank you to
America, thank you to Truman
that recognized Israel
11 minutes after its
reestablishment, and thank you
to the staunch American people
that know the truth in a world
that’s drowning in lies.
So, number one, I have to say
massive thank you from the
bottom of my Israeli heart, and
I am sure I’m speaking on behalf
of the 10 million Israelis.
Maybe a few leftists would
disagree with me, but they
definitely don’t reflect the
majority that are so grateful
and thankful.
By the way, Israel is one of the
few countries where the flag of
America is waved proudly.
It’s not burnt.
You know, actually it’s very
saddening that nowadays even in
New York in pro-Palestine
rallies, they set on fire the
flag of America.
You know, clearly they see–they
show that they have a problem
with what both of us are
standing for, values of freedom,
democracy, true liberalism, not
the fake liberalism.
But, you know, if we talk about
America right now, we see
very–a very interesting
movement that’s trying to shut
down support for Israel in–they
have different arguments, but,
you know, I have to say Israel
is the one true ally that you
can count on that never ask for
your boots on the ground.
And, you know, there’s this
America only movement, and I
have to say, I think America
should focus on, you know,
securing borders, on illegal
migration and all that, the
economy, but by the way,
supporting Israel, that has
nothing to do with the budget
that’s allocated for that.
But number one–and number two,
support America only should not
mean America alone.
Every power needs allies.
China is looking for allies,
Russia is looking for allies,
and America also, you know.
So, there are a lot of people
that maybe they spent five
minutes in a so-called power
like Marjorie Taylor Greene,
that’s my personal opinion, that
know nothing about decision
making on state-level
foreign affairs.
So, I advise these people to
learn and to, you know, first of
all study the Bible to
understand where we’re headed,
because at the end of the day,
this ministry is called
“Endtimes” and we know that in
the end times, people are going
to take a stand against Israel,
but I’m reminded in Romans 11:1,
“Has God rejected his people?
By no Means!”
Dave: Right, exactly.
And that’s–man, I got to tell
you, I got a million things I
want to talk about, but that’s
one of the things–I have a good
friend of mine, Dvora Ganeni.
She works with a Jewish agency,
and we go through the Jewish
Agency when we go there because
I’m–we’ve spent–I don’t know
how many Jews we’ve helped make
Aliyah back home, and so I’m
very, very closely connected
with the Jewish Agency.
And Dvora Ganeni said one
of the main things that she
faces when she goes to churches
around the world nowadays–and
this blows my mind.
I can’t even–I don’t even want
to wrap my mind around this and
be able to comprehend it, but
she’s facing what’s called
replacement theology.
That the Jews have no more place
in the plan of God for the end
time, and I’m like, “I don’t
know how you could even come up
with that because Romans 11 is a
perfect chapter for that.
But the plan of God, he has
never–he’s not rejected Israel
or not rejected the Jews.
That is total nonsense.
And for people to buy into that,
it just blows me away.
But that’s absolutely a false
narrative, and you actually just
spoke to that.
Let’s talk about peace real
quick before the end of the
program here.
We’ve got about
five or six minutes.
Peace and diplomacy, as far as a
Palestinian state in the near
future, do you believe that with
the–what President Trump is
doing with the Abraham Accords,
and Saudi Arabia, if he brings
Saudi–Saudi Arabia is the
800 pound gorilla in the
living room.
Trump believes that if he brings
Saudi Arabia into the Abraham
Accords, that all the other
majority of the Abraham–
the Arab nations will
follow with him.
Do you believe that Israel would
be willing to, and again, this
is opinion because I know you’re
working right there closely with
Netanyahu, but do you believe if
the–if Israel was to normalize
relations with Saudi Arabia in
the Abraham Accords, do you
believe–and all the other Arab
nations come in.
If they said if Israel
finalizes, because Saudi Arabia
said this, if they finalize a
situ–a peace agreement with the
Palestinians, that all of the
Arab nations will come in.
Do you believe Israel would be
willing to do that, especially
if they had a liberal prime
minister in the near future?
Again, this is opinion because
we’ve kind of covered this, but
the Abraham Accords is a huge
thing that could add a lot of
pressure onto Israel
to capitulate.
Hananya: Well, number one, I
have to say in our short time
that, you know, just for people
to understand, if Saudi Arabia
normalizes relations with
Israel, that essentially ends
the Israeli-Arab conflict.
And the Abraham Accords, they,
by the way, proved that Arab
nations no longer follow the
Palestinian veto of peace.
They want progress for their
people, and I think that they
understand that oil is not
going to be there forever.
That’s why you see countries
like the UAE that use a lot of
technology and they know that
Israel is a technological hub.
They understand that if they
want progress for their people,
they need partnership
with Israel.
But I have to say in regards
to–the semantics are, by the
way, interesting.
You know, President Trump is
right now, you know, people are
going to watch it.
He already met MBS, but he’s
right now in the White House.
I have to say that the semantics
are interesting, because the
Saudis, they said–they didn’t
say, “We demand a Palestinian
state as a term for
negotiation,” but they said
something more like, “We will
normalize if Israel and the
Palestinians come together in a
way that will–a path that would
lead to a Palestinian state.”
I don’t know what that means.
You know, the Palestinians can
call their authority whatever
they want, but just like Prime
Minister Netanyahu said, and I
hope that that is not
going to change.
They can have–they can call
themselves whatever they want,
but they should never have a
military to threaten us, and
especially with the Pay to Slay
program they teach about
killing Jews.
We wouldn’t want
them holding guns.
But I have to say,
most Israelis,
they oppose the
Palestinian state, and I do
believe in peace, but I don’t
believe compromising my security
in my homeland.
So, we all know that true peace
is going to come when the Prince
of Peace is going to return, but
until that happens, let’s try to
live peacefully
amongst ourselves.
Dave: Amen, I totally
agree with you 100%.
I hope they never sign
a peace agreement.
But I do know that Israel has
signed–and you know, a lot of
people thought Ariel Sharon
would not trade land for peace
back in 2005, but he certainly
did do that with Gaza.
And so, I, you know, and they
pulled Jews kicking and
screaming out of there.
And when President–Prime
Minister Netanyahu and President
Trump proposed the peace to
prosperity plan, they were going
to annex portion of–portions of
the West Bank and then leave
Jews living out there under kind
of, you know, the Palestinians
were going to have like an
autonomous situation and leave
Jews living out there
in that region.
So, I don’t know.
I mean, I don’t know–I think I
know what the future holds, but
we’ll have to see
how it all plays out.
But certainly, I believe it
would be–it would not be
biblical for them to do it, but
I know that there have been some
prime ministers in the past that
have been, you know, very, like
we said, liberal and willing to
do some things that would be
almost anti-biblical.
So, we’ll have to see
how it all plays out.
So, right here with 30 seconds
left, Hananya Naftali, what
would you like to say to our
audience, Endtime, great
supporters of Israel.
Hananya: You know,
keep praying for Israel.
We need our friends
today more than ever.
True friends show up in times of
crisis, not when everything is
good and great.
And I feel like now it’s this
time where we need our friends
more than ever.
You know, to tackle a
replacement theology in 15
seconds is just to say if you
believe that God changed his
mind, how can you trust his
promises to you?
So, Israel is the proof that God
is staying true to his promises.
And number two, peace in the
Middle East comes through
strength, not through
stupid concessions.
We have to safeguard our future,
and thank you for your staunch
support for Israel.
We are one family
for freedom and truth.
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