630 in the morning, on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, they have rest, Hamas launches an attack.

The biggest trauma that's ever happened to the state of Israel in 50 years.

There is every temptation when you see all these news items, and PR, the New York Times,

and this one and that one, and this Hollywood celebrity, to start to think to yourself,

you know, I don't know, maybe they're right, maybe Israel is somehow really the aggressor here,

and it takes real wisdom and discernment to hold that line.

Hey guys, welcome back to the Laila Rose podcast. All right, over the weekend, I was,

and this past week, you probably have seen the reports about the attacks on Israelis,

innocent, Israeli civilians, men, women, and children by Hamas terrorists.

And it's just been gut-wrenching. My timeline has been filled with these stories about

the atrocities committed. I think the death toll is now 900 people who have been killed in

Israel by militants who cross the border in a surprise attack. Those listening, I know this

is a very controversial issue for some people. Some people very clearly see this as Israel has been

attacked, and they must fight back to defend their very existence. But then there are other strong

narratives in American media today, and even among some people on the right, some Christians

who say that, well, Israel isn't just an innocent party here. Israel has also, is also at fault

for a decade's long conflict. And so we're going to actually explore that. We're going to get into

what are the prevailing narratives right now about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We're going to

have a great expert on the show today. We're going to have Robert Nicholson on the show today,

who's the founder and the president of the Philos project to walk us through some of the history,

answer some of the tough questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's extremely eye-opening,

and end with ultimately a call for seeing that this is more than a geopolitical battle playing

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