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I usually run down my commentary,

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but I'm going to bring in a guest tonight,

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because he's over in Israel

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right this moment. He's talking to us from

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Tel Aviv or close by. His name is Daniel

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Nerber. You might have heard

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of him running for Congress

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in the 3rd District. That's my district

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on Long Island. And

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he went over to Israel for the Jewish holidays

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with his wife and four children, and

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he joins us now. So Mr. Nerber,

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thank you for helping us out. When

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was the first time you knew that war had

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broken out? Thank

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you for having me on the show. So

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we came over for a few weeks for the holiday

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of Sukkot, just wanted to spend some time with the family

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like we do.

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We're sleeping in our beds

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Saturday morning. It's

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Shabbat, and it's also a holiday in addition

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to everything. It's the last day of the holiday.

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It's

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called Erev Sukkot.

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And we just decided to sleep

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in. And all of a sudden at 6.30 in the morning,

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we hear

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sirens go off like crazy.

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It's loud and blasting in our ears. Me and my

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wife are looking at each other. We're

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thinking immediately that this must be some type of

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mistake, because usually beforehand we

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get some kind of warning beforehand,

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the night before, days before, that there might be something going

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on, but we didn't hear anything

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at all. So we were thinking this is a mistake.

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So we run down to the shelters with the children like we

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do. Every house that we were

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residing in has some type of shelter.

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And we were in there and we're just trying to keep up with the news, what's

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going on. And we're understanding that it's just that

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rockets are being launched into the country.

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But in addition to that, our

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worst fears were actually realized

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that there was actually an invasion into the country

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of Hamas. About 28 terrorist

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cells were coming in.

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They were they arrived

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some type of party or rape. We weren't sure exactly

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what was going on But they were killing people

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and not just killing people and massacring them.

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They were actually abducting

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them Which was unheard of and

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it's a atrocity that no words could explain

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that we've ever Let me stop

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you there So you were born in usa but

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raised in israel and you did serve in

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the israeli defense forces And

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the accusations on the progressive left

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that israel is the oppressor that

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it uh Has practiced

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apartheid with the palestinian people and

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that this is justified hamas's murder

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of civilians and everything they're doing is justified

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Because israel is so bad. How

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do you react to that?

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It's the same thing. They're just saying all the time.

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That's the only thing that they could The

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only thing they could say at this point is that how

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terrible the israelis are towards how

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they're treating the hamas or the palestinians But

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they have to understand That we

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don't ever start these Wars

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these attacks. We don't want to start the attacks.

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We have so many arabs

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living amongst israelis Always

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they uh, we live with them

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peacefully So this is

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complete proof That we

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want peace that we don't care if you're

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a muslim you're a christian you're a jew or anything

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We just want to live in a society where people

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live with each other a melting pot

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And and hamas is just sitting

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there and instigating this and

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you have iran behind

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the scenes Uh pushing

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this forward. I mean they say it's complete

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all the time that they they want to wipe israel

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off the map That's what it's still Now

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when you were when you were being

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trained for the israeli defense forces Is

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that what they told you that that iran

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and the other? islamic militants

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wanted to kill all the jews No,

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that's not in our that's not exactly

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what we hear that's we understand that iran

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is an enemy

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They're not our friends, but

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they want to and they have an agenda

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of destroying Israel, but

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not the entire country is like that. There's

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so many Iranians in my district. I

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mean Muslim and Jewish. Sure.

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We, in Great Neck, exactly. And

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we will live with each other. And that's how we

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want to live in Israel also. Okay. And

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I would like to thank you for.

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Yeah. What is the United States response

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under Biden has been appropriate right

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now from your vantage point?

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Well, 10 minutes ago, I know he was speaking right now

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and he was saying how much of his atrocity is, but you know what?

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It's too much too late because he, I mean,

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the damage is done. You can't say it

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otherwise. $6 billion

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was given to them and immediately see where

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the money went. It went straight to those rockets.

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I mean, last year, two years ago, there was 4,500

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rockets sent over to us, launched

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within a week. We had 5,000

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rockets sent within 20 minutes.

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Where did they get the money for those rockets? Only

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from Iran. So we

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need to stop appeasing Iran. I

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mean, all the other presidents before, except

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Donald Trump, have been appeasing Iran and this

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needs to end. All right.

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Daniel Norber, running for Congress

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in the 3rd District of Long Island. Stay

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safe over there, Daniel. When you get back,

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give me a shout so I know you're around,

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okay? Absolutely well. Thank

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you very much for your time. Sure, sure. And

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tell everybody over there that

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our thoughts are with them and

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all we wish for is the same thing you wish

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for. Peace.

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Thanks again, Daniel.