Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Middle East and Beyond.

I'm Barry Stagner, coming to you from beautiful sunny Southern California, and I'm here with my dear friend and brother,

Amir Sarfadi, coming from the Lower Galilee,

and the beautiful Jesreal Valley.

Shalom, Amir.

Shalom, Pastor Barry.

It's evening already here in Galilee.

It's been a very long day with a lot of breaking news

and interesting things that are coming from the Gulf states

as President Trump is on his second stop in his journey here.

And yeah, it's good to see you, my friend.

Good to see you.

And Amir, today for us is a monumental day as we look back to, according to the Gregorian calendar, May 14th,

1948, when all of the sudden the prophetic calendar began to move forward as Israel, as Isaiah prophesied and posed a question,

can a nation be born in a day? And indeed, on that day, Israel was born.

The people have been regathering back into their national homeland, the Jewish people. But not

everybody is excited about this momentous prophetic event and that we commemorate today some 77 years later.

And there are those who are calling this

a day of catastrophe. And maybe you can talk to us about Nakpanday and explain its origin and

meaning in the Middle East today. Yes, thank you. Well, Nakpa, as you already said, it means

catastrophe in Arabic. And a very interesting thing, Pastor Berry, is that the very origin of that word and term attached to the 1948 establishment of Israel

goes back to a professor in the Beirut University, the American University in Beirut.

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