[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] coming up on this edition of Jerusalem dine Hamas weakened as the IDF continues pounding in Gaza and Yahya sinir asks for assurances he won't be killed plus analysis on us politics and Israel's war for existence and how Iran's current regime controls the Free World through Terror and has lost the support of the Iranian people and remembering Theodore Herzel all this and more on this edition of Jerusalem dat line hello and welcome to this edition of Jerusalem dayline I'm Julie stall as the Israel Hamas War enters day 322 ceasefire negotiations continue the IDF continues pounding Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah and Lebanon and Israel buries the bodies of hostages recovered this week take a look boss leader Yaya senoir has reportedly added a new demand to ceasefire negotiations his own Survival an Egyptian official told Israeli media that senoir wants assurances he won't be killed despite previously stating he'd be proud to die fighting Israel this as cracks may be forming in Palestinian support for the terror leader on Tuesday a gazen woman interrupted a live Al jazer English broadcast shouting may Allah curse you sinir and Hamas she was immediately hauled Away by an unidentified man meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on maintaining an IDF presence along the Philadelphia Corridor at the Gaza Egypt Border in a phone call Wednesday President Biden reportedly pressuring Netanyahu to soften his stance to help get a ceasefire deal but with the IDF having found and destroyed 150 tunnels there Israel believes it must guard the corridor to permanently end Hamas threats prepared for any scenario both in defense and attack Teran claims that their delay in this massive response that they've promised for the killing of Ismael Ania is part of their strategy for punishing Israel but Israelis remain largely unfazed the delay in Iran's execution of this attack has caused a lot of Israelis to just engage in a sort of cautious optimism that perhaps the attack won't be coming at all nevertheless some are continuing to prepare While others are just going about their daily lives as the war continues the outgoing head of the Israeli military intelligence gave an address about the October 7th intelligence failure on that Sabbath we fail the most important Mission we're entrusted with giving a war warning the ultimate responsibility for the failure of the Intelligence Division rests with me as Israel deals with the aftermath of the o October 7 attacks and still faces threats on all sides the United Nations takes little notice Israeli Ambassador gilad eron criticized a new UN exhibit that highlights Global victims of Terror but omits any mention of Israeli Jews or the October 7th attack there's not a single mention of any attack carried out by Palestinians against Israelis we're about to mark one year since the massacre and the largest terrorist attack against Jews and Israelis since the Holocaust yet the UN does not think it needs to be displayed on its walls Chuck Holton CBN News Jerusalem Israeli media report Hamas has decided to Target Israelis abroad in its bid to avenge the killing of its top leader Ismael hania in Iran that's because it apparently has little ability left to strike Israel directly from Gaza after the pounding it's taken over the last 10 months from the ID F in the past Hamas has largely failed at its attempts at such Terror attacks overseas since since founding in 1987 in Israel mourners are burying the bodies of six hostages recovered this week in Gaza yuran meter from kibutz Nero one of the hardest take communities and yev bav from kibutz Nim were laid to rest in their communities which are still evacuated forensic experts say evidence shows all six were shot an initial findings suggest their captors in Gaza murdered them but the findings are just preliminary we have no idea what you went through there you do not deserve to end your life this way in what world is a mother supposed to think that the nightmare will end when her son is returned for burial in what world does a mother have to thank for the return of her son who was abandoned and murdered Israel is keeping up its attacks on both Hamas and Hezbollah as it fights to defeat the terror groups backed by Iran Israel launched extensive strikes against Hezbollah at different locations in southern Lebanon this week in Gaza the IDF says its troops killed some 50 terrorists in just one day in rafac this week it also lost a 19-year-old Sergeant the 336th Israeli soldier to die in the Gaza War Israeli ambassador to the un Danny Denon says all the Bloodshed can end as soon as Hamas is defeated or surrenders the future for Gaza will begin when Hamas will be eradicated it's on the way it's happening once Hamas will be eradicated we can start speak about reconstruction and building a future for the people of Gaza Julie stall CBN News Jerusalem I'm joined Now by Middle East analyst John W welcome John thank you yeah you know we've had plenty here to cover with Israel and the war but you've also been watching the Democratic Convention in in uh Chicago so what's caught your attention well off the bat the first thing that caught my attention obviously was the beginning of the convention when you had a threat of a 100,000 protesters in the street it didn't ever approach that number but there were still a lot of pro-hamas anti-israel protesters outside the convention center and inside there was a different message coming out from the the leadership of the party and so you have this split and um it was reflected the first night in in Joe Biden's speech on Monday to the convention when he uh went off script and said uh these demonstrators outside they have a point well what's the point their point is they want an arms embargo on Israel they want Israel not to uh function in the way they have in Gaza or in the north they basically want Israel muzzled and they want the United States to make sure that happens so any president of the United States would would naturally uh have to count out to that so it it was um and and what happened as a result of that was that um Biden himself had to acknowledge that this is a representative of a significant portion of the democratic base so going forward that's a big issue from now till November it's a huge issue yeah yeah now um there were were reports that some Jewish groups had to meet in secret uh to at the Democratic Convention for the first time that's shocking it it is shocking it's shocking for several reasons one of which is Democrats tend to vote almost three4 uh for the de uh I'm sorry Jews vote Democratic in almost 3/4 of the vote each presidential election goes up from there goes down from there but that's about the the number they get and so they're used to having an open field wherever the convention is held it's like you have Jewish groups meeting here and here this side of the city and this time they actually had to announce where they were meeting shortly before they actually met they had to go through magnetometers or some sort of metal detector they had to show ID to let them know who you are and even then there was one group that was basically accosted by pramas anti-israel demonstrators and and not only ridiculed but but basically threatened so um this was something I know that you've probably heard of and seen Abe foxman who for decades was the head of the Anti-Defamation League and he would come here for interviews and we'd interview him in the States this is what he tweeted just uh recently after 50 years of fighting anti-Semitism in America I could not have imagine a Time Jews would have to meet in Secret locations in Chicago at the de Democratic National Convention so it it when it goes that high in the Jewish leadership of the Jewish organizations you know there's a problem it's a big problem this we're talking about the United States right right so is shocking um now what are the Israel concerns among Jews and Christians about uh Kamala Harris taking over for Biden at the time of the ticket well for one thing what's she been in she's been the Democratic nominee for a month is that what it is and and so you have Joe Biden who may have uh diverted here and there on different issues but even you know prime minister Netanyahu would give him a hug say you know my friend Joe of 40 years and all that Kamala is an an unknown qual quality you don't know where she's going to come from she certainly leans to the more Progressive side of the democratic party vase and and Biden already with his team has been putting extreme pressure on Israel so the the chances are that she's going to appeal to the leftward base to the greatest extent possible in order to get votes in States like Michigan and other key swing States and so um she may become more anti-israel not only in a rhetoric but if she were to become president in her policy and that's what Jewish uh voters in America and Israelis have to take into consideration between now and election day absolutely now Secretary of State Anthony blinkin has been to the Middle East time after time he gets a lot of press when he's here boy does he pushing this ceasefire deal that seems to be like almost dead in the water and uh what why you know it it's they believe in the administration that this is the only way that A Whiter war with Hezbollah and with Iran is going to be averted and so it's it's amazed me how far they've gone with it I mean now you've got the situation where senoir himself is saying I don't want to die I want to live and that's another condition and and uh it's already you know at a at a dead end point and yet they keep trying to revive it and I think that it's just um they're going to continue to pursue that policy until somebody moves it off dead center that could be from an actual attack by Iran uh an attack uh by Hamas either within Israel or somewhere outside of Israel but something's going to move it off dead center maybe a preemptive Israeli strike somewhere we don't know but they'll keep pushing this uh as long as they can yeah and we haven't really seen any fruit from it have we no no well John WGY thank you so much for joining us thanks Julie [Music] the guest in our next report describes Iran's current regime as blackmailers holding the Free World hostage through terrorism and according to him the regime's hold on power is weakening he spoke with Gary Lane on his news program Global Lane avoiding a bigger war in the Middle East the United States is warning Iran against escalating the conflict with Israel has us 's policy led to this moment and what approach is more likely to help cooler heads prevail well joining us is Dr Majid sadur he's Iranian American human rights activist and political director of the organization of Iranian American communities Dr sadikpur it's good to have you with us Iran's blaming the United States they call us the great Satan of course for supporting Israel and its war with Hamas Iran claims that Israel would never have taken that risk of assassinating h M leader Ismael hania if the US hadn't provided the IDF with weapons so what are your thoughts on that well um well the regime in Iran has been at war with Humanity since its Inception let me get back to the 19 very early part of 1980s when the regime in Iran began persecution of the Iranian people and essentially waged war on the people of Iran that has continued to this day um the Carnage that you see outside of Iran particularly in the Middle East at the moment is really part and paral of uh two things one uh a strategic framewor work built by the regime in Iran because it knew it had no legitimacy within the country didn't have support of its people and so it created a framework outside of Iran through creation of uh terrorist organizations proxies across the region so that we could essentially handc off uh foreign uh policy of Western Nations a second thing is that uh as you mentioned in your intro the global Community Western Nations have bought into the process as if the regime in Iran is reformable so our Western decision making has been uh aimed at changing dipa's Behavior to what we consider power and moderate why have we failed to uh challenge them excellent well the first first strategic framework that regime is built meaning um blackmailing the Free World by terrorism uh has worked it has really U created a significant amount of hesitation for the Free World to confront Iran and now with now with the nuclear weapons right that is correct but uh the the really the the the fundamental reason is that we don't we have not as of right now as the US policy has has not accepted the framework that the people of Iran don't want this regime in other words on the one there's a contrast between what International Community thinks is happening inside Iran whereas what the people of Iran are telling us is in other words the people of Iran have been dying at the highest per capita execution rate in the world I just used last year's number 2023 uh Iran executed north of 850 people publicly in other words acknowledged executions that is 74% of all Global executions that were carried out but Iran only has one% of the global population that speaks to a population that is trying to overthrow the regime but he's got an enormous headwind the headwind is the International Community continuing to engage the regime yes there is also a headend of the regime killing and persecuting uh the Iranian people but if you remove that if you remove the the first one which is the International Community finally making a decision to say goodbye to this regime diplomatically to actually put pressure on the regime That Matters to hold its leaders accountable for rights violations and terrorism truly hold them [Music] accountable one of the most studied and enigmatic figures from modern Israeli history is Theodore Herzel here's a look at some aspects of the founding of the Jewish State Theodore Herzel didn't start out as a Zionist but he became one as he saw how Jews were marginalized in European culture it fueled his drive to see Jewish people living in their own country he aligned himself with important people who could move Zionism forward what's interesting is who he didn't align himself with religious Jews or Christian zionists I spoke with author and early Zionism expert Philip Earl steel about herzl's significance and how he sidestepped religious groups groups that ironically ended up playing an important role in Zionism after his death take a look Herzel is universally considered the father of Zionism although there were uh many and and important zionists before him going all the way back to the 1820s and 1830s but herzo outshone them all he's fairly uh judged the father of Israel the Visionary of the state is he brought unprecedented unprecedented attention to the cause and created sturdy structures that uh evolved into the modern Jewish state so Zionism started out it's really a religious or a Biblical idea a Messianic idea uh the return to Zion but then it became secularized so exactly what was herzl's own attitude toward religion yeah herzo was was uh a rather tangential Jew most of his life I mean his contacts were rather weak he wasn't you know attending Temple or synagogue regularly with his parents as a boy uh he went to a Protestant High School in in Budapest Hungary where where he spent the first 18 years of his life once his Zionist career began though when once he gave up uh the his hope his faith in in assimilationism um he he remained aloof even even allergic to uh to to religious ideas um Herzel also betrayed an allergy to religious thinking in the sense that he never pursued what we call today faith-based diplomacy he never conducted any Outreach toward Evangelical Christians uh I think the the biggest example of how allergic he was to religious thinking Messianic thinking all the more so was that in 1903 he proposed Uganda as uh you know in fact it's modern Kenya today but uh he proposed the Uganda solution that is that um a modern Israel should be established there not inel so he had this blind spot so how did Zionism kind of overcome this and go forward to move on and become the success of the founding of the state of Israel well when we look at the trajectory of Zionist history we see that Zionism made its most important leaps forward in partnership with Evangelical Christians and uh this was also the case after after herz's death in 1904 what what quickly happened uh following his death was that uh the Zionist movement began to to evaporate and apathy and otherwise tended to take over and we're left looking at at generals without armies on the eve of World War I at that very point however uh several um Zionist leaders among the most importantly uh nahem Soo and H vitman who later became president and uh and Rabbi Moses gaster a Romanian Jew who by this point was the spartic chief Rabbi in Britain these three men began to work closely with uh uh the the the British government of of David Lloyd George uh the foreign minister then was was balur Arthur balur you know the famous balur declaration and the these men pursued um uh the angle of of of Christian Zionism with with men who were Christian zionists in in the British government so this sort of cooperation Christian Evangelical this sort of cross-pollination uh once again proved itself to be the key and L all the way to to state here Philip steel thank you so much for joining us on Jerusalem dayline very very interesting thank you so much great to be here Julie thank you that's all for this edition of Jerusalem dayline thanks for joining us remember you can follow us on social media and access CBN content through our CBN apps and please continue to pray for the safety of IDF soldiers and all those Caught In Harm's Way and for the return return of all the hostages and remember The God Who Watches Over Israel and you and me neither Slumbers nor sleeps I'm Julie stall we'll see you next time on Jerusalem dat line [Music]