Since Charlie Kirk's assassination, countless tributes and testimonies have poured in about the kind of friend he was.

What stands out the most to me is not just the sheer number of people who have spoken about their friendship with him,

but the remarkable range and diversity of those individuals.

In addition to the time that he devoted to producing content, traveling, and memorizing facts for his on-campus debates,

Charlie Kirk clearly had a remarkable capacity for building and sustaining relationships

on a large scale. Some of the controversies that have emerged since Charlie Kurt's death

center around differing impressions his friends had of his views, particularly on Israel. Was Charlie Kirk pro-Israel?

Columnist Josh Hammer claimed that less than 24 hours before Kirk's appearance at Utah Valley

University, the two of them were on a Zoom call, talking above all about the anti-Israel questions

they expected to receive on the campus. He actually did speak for the last time, less than 24 hours before the assassination

happened.

We had a Zoom call, a friend of mine, him, a couple of his producers.

It was a small call.

We were literally talking, above all, about the anti-Israel questions that he expected

to receive on this campus tour.

We were kind of talking him through talking points and strategy and how to deal with

these expected hostile questions.

And what Charlie was essentially trying to do was he was essentially trying to figure out

how to navigate this to keep the Nick Flentes, neo-Nazi, Groyper stuff at bay, while trying

to meet the younger generation, the Gen Z folks who were pretty

wobbly on this issue, kind of meet them on their own terms.

Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that months before the assassination, he

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