Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome on back to another episode to Speak the Truth podcast. I'm your host, Matt Tardio. Today, I've got brand new frontline updates for you guys coming from Ukraine and coming from Gaza. I got brand new war footage and all sorts of other stuff. Got to update on what's going on with Putin and Zelensky, whether or not we're going to actually see a deal anytime soon. All sorts of beautiful things are coming to your guys as way.

So I hope you guys are ready for it.

And I hope you guys are ready for an amazing show. Before we kick this sucker off, and as I wait on everybody to slowly roll in here, I'm going to play this video by Ryan McBeth. You actually, you know what, I've got to give this man some props. And that's what I hit me hardest on this trip. You know, we talk about Israel like it's this abstract news story, but when you're

standing there, looking at 2,000-year-old coins, shaking hands with people, with Muslims who

are just trying to live, you realize this isn't an academic debate.

This is survival.

History doesn't lie.

Jews have been in this land for thousands of years, they're not going anywhere.

So yeah, I was wrong about Israel. I thought this was Northern Ireland with a really different accent, but it's not.

In Northern Ireland, both sides could live together in peace once the guns went quiet. Here, one side has been taught from childhood that the other side shouldn't exist.

And that's a problem you can't solve the treaty, a UN map, or a feel-good slogan.

Maybe that makes me a Zionist, whatever the hell that word means, or a shill, or whatever

label people want to throw up me, but it doesn't make me a liar.

I do not support Israel. I support democracies. I do so

because every American should support democracy, especially against authoritarianism.

And they should support these democracies, whether they're in Ukraine, whether they're in Taiwan,

or whether they're in Israel. The truth is simple that Israel is not perfect.

No country is, but it is a democracy.

It is diverse.

It is fighting for its life.

And that's a truth that I can't ignore.

Oh my goodness.

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