Welcome back to the Jordan side mini podcast. In this episode I speak with

Israeli Defense Force soldier Rudy Rockman. He's actually a sniper in the

Israeli Defense Forces and he's on the ground right now in Israel. He's

actually on base during this interview. He took some time in between missions to

speak with me, which I am eternally grateful for. Now if you listen to this

entire episode, you're going to hear someone who is very objective, very straight

forward and above all his main goal is peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

I've followed Rudy for years online and all he does online is he tries to

create peace between these two peoples and educate the world on what peace can

look like and how we can achieve it. He's truly an extraordinary person and I

admire him greatly. Now because he's on base and because the internet

connectivity wasn't the greatest, there are a couple very brief instances in

which we lose Rudy, but he comes right back and you can absolutely hear the

vast majority without any issues whatsoever. There are just a couple brief

instances in which we lose him. So don't stop listening to the podcast when that

happens. Just keep listening. He'll come right back in a few seconds. So with

that being said, this episode is also a continuation from the initial episode I

did on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I published that a few days after the

October 7th massacre. We recorded this episode on November 1st. So a lot

has happened since that initial podcast. The first one was a lot about the

history of these two people, the history of the conflict and how we have

arrived at this point. But now in November 1st 2023, there have been way more

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