Monday, September 29, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 11:45)
Netanyahu Before the U.N.: The Prime Minister of Israel Defends His Country’s Existence and Defense Before World Leaders (Some of Whom Left the Room)
Part II (11:45 – 18:44)
Palestine is Not (Yet) a Nation: Just Look at the Criteria for a Nationhood and Connect the Dots
Part III (18:44 – 23:27)
Should Israel Be Barred from the Eurovision Song Contest? The Question is More Important Than It Might First Appear
- Eurovision Members to Vote on Whether to Exclude Israel by The New York Times (Alex Marshall)
The NYC Mayoral Race Gets Even More Interesting: Mayor Eric Adams Withdraws from the Race
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 29, 2025. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | Well, coming out of the weekend, I think we have to go back to Friday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations. He did so |
| 0:22.6 | without many people being in the room. Of course, last week was a huge week at the UN. You had all |
| 0:28.9 | these heads of state, heads of government speaking. All of it's political. All of it in one sense is |
| 0:34.7 | rather pathetic. Nonetheless, it still right now is important, and it was |
| 0:39.5 | particularly important that the Israeli Prime Minister addressed the UN on Friday, and he knew exactly |
| 0:45.2 | to whom he was speaking. Or you might put it another way, he knew exactly to whom he was not speaking. |
| 0:49.9 | A vast number of persons left the hall there in the General Assembly before the Israeli Prime |
| 0:54.8 | Minister spoke. It was a statement of opposition to Israel, and I might just put a full stop there. |
| 1:01.2 | Now, the context is opposition to Israel in the context of its war in Gaza against Hamas, |
| 1:06.7 | and in particular a complaint, even to the point of international courts and others accusing Israel of genocide. |
| 1:14.0 | But the Israeli prime minister was undeterred. |
| 1:16.8 | He stood before those at the UN, and he knew his primary audience was not there in the United Nations at all. |
| 1:23.2 | His primary audience was in the United States, specifically at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and he knew |
| 1:29.9 | his other audience was in Israel. So his political, his political future is in Israel. It's what's |
| 1:36.1 | his stake in all of this. He is the longest serving prime minister in Israeli history. He has a rather |
| 1:41.7 | fragile coalition, but even though that word's used over and over again, |
| 1:45.8 | it sure has stuck together during some of the hardest years in Israel's history. So I'm not sure |
| 1:51.3 | how fragile it is, but at least it represents a difference from earlier versions of Netanyahu |
| 1:57.8 | governments. And you have a very close relationship between the Israeli prime |
| 2:01.8 | minister and the American president. You have a very close relationship between the United States |
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