Hey, everybody, Greg Laurie here with an exclusive interview with my friend, Joel Rosenberg,

who is an absolute expert on what is going on in the Middle East.

Joel was born in the United States, but has actually moved to Israel and is in Jerusalem

right now and has dual citizenship as both an American and Israeli citizen.

So I think he's uniquely qualified to talk about what's happening there.

And also Joel has written many bestselling books that deal with issues in the Middle

East as well.

So Joel, thank you so much for taking the time to talk just a little bit about what is

happening.

I think what is unique about this attack, Joel, is you know well, is it isn't against

soldiers, it's against women and children and even babies have been killed and decapitated

and even survivors of the Holocaust have been taken away, some murdered, some now hostages.

Why is this happening at this moment in time and the bigger question?

How is it that Israel, with that state of the art, intelligence and technology and everything

else at her disposal, did not detect this was coming?

Well, very hard questions, but important ones.

But you're asking two questions.

So the first is why?

Why is it happening?

So there are several answers to that question.

The first answer is that you have to look not at Hamas.

Hamas is a terrorist organization, they're horrible, they're basic like ISIS, but they don't

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