Politics 101 – if something's wrong, ya blame the immigrants
And that's precisely what was happening in San Francisco a 150 years ago
Just as an incident was about to happen, a man stood between the Chinese and the locals
Quietly bowed his head and recited the Lord's prayer
Both crowds dispersed – nobody was to be hurt on that day
The magical man was a friend to them all – Emperor Norton, the first and only emperor of The United States
Joshua Norton came to San Francisco as an already rich man. He went about his business and was fairly successful
Until, one day, he tried to corner the rice market
Norton invested pretty much everything he had, and lost all of it... Including his mind
He disappeared after the ordeal – nobody had seen or heard from him until he showed up at various newspaper offices
With a document in which he deemed that the citizens proclaimed him the emperor of these United States
The editors found him amusing. They played along, and so did the people of San Francisco
Every day Norton would wander about, inspecting the streets of his city
He would greet everyone, and everyone would greet him
Whether a royal salute or a simple bow, it was really all the same to His Majesty
During his daily patrol, Norton made certain that all sidewalks were unobstructed
He reviewed the police to see that they were on duty
He checked on the progress of needed street repairs, inspected buildings under construction
And, of course, if anybody had a minute or two he was always up for a chat about all kinds of topics
Norton's majestic reign produced quite a few imperial decrees
The corrupt US Congress was to be dissolved.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties needed to be abolished for creating tension in his realm
And yes, whoever called San Francisco the abominable word "Frisco" was to pay 25 dollars
Which in today's money is like a 1000 bucks.
And you gotta admit, that's a small price to pay for uttering such a dumb word
Norton also frequently wrote to queen Victoria and other royal counterparts throughout the world. And he got replies!
Just not from them...
Although, the king of Hawaii at the time said he would only speak to Norton and didn't recognize "the other US government"
Yeah…that's probably the reason why Hawaii doesn't have a king anymore
Just as Norton took care of his city, his city took care of him
Officers gave him a new uniform whenever they noticed his old one was starting to look shabby
Every theatre and every restaurant in town had a seat and a table reserved for the emperor
Sometimes it was free of charge, but sometimes it had to be paid with Norton's own currency
Happily printed by the local press
One day during the emperor's stroll, a policeman, obviously new in town, arrested Norton
And locked him up to be sent to a mental institution
The public was so outraged that Norton was immediately let free
He wasn't one to bear a grudge, so the policeman got an imperial pardon the very same day
To a lot of people, Norton was a man of mystery. Many of them thought that he wasn't really bankrupt but was pretending
His progressive ideas about building a bridge across the San Francisco bay
Creating a league of nations and equal rights for women were all considered odd at the time
Upon his death, authorities found only a few dollars in change
"The king is dead!" read all the newspapers as more than 30 thousand people
Gathered for the funeral of their most beloved citizen...
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How to Make an Acrylic Led Edge Lit 3D Xmas Tree Lamp - Duration: 10:16.
Hi welcome to Techydiy. I'm Nigel and
today i'm going to make an acrylic
edge lit lamp using LEDs to light the sides.
The lamp consists of two cutouts that slot
together and then into a wooden base,
which also has a glowing acrylic layer.
So let's have a look at some of the parts.
First of all a six millimeter or
quarter-inch-thick clear acrylic sheet,
some square planed wood, 5 x blue leds
and 4 x white leds, 3 x 220 ohm resistors,
some wire, DC power connector and to cut
the acrylic sheet, I fitted a jigsaw with a
Bosch T101a blade, which is designed for
cutting polycarbonate and acrylic. For the links
to the plans, parts and tools have a look
in the video description or you can go
directly to the TECHYDIY.ORG website.
The design was created using google
sketchup, along with two templates, which
were printed out and glued to the
acrylic sheet as a cutting guide.
I used water-soluble glue, so that the
templates could be easily washed off
afterwards. Once the glue had
dried I cut along the lines with a
sharp knife, which marked the design directly
into the acrylic. The first section to be
cut was the slot; and to start that I
drilled a hole at the mark point on the
template, using first a center punch and
then a step drill take the finished hole
size up to six millimeters or quarter of
an inch. I then used the jigsaw to cut
along the lines of the template, using a length
of wood as a guide. The trick when you
cutting acrylic is to cut very slowly, in
short sections and avoid heating up the
material.
[Music]
When you edge light acrylic it highlights any
scratches or imperfections and as I had used
an old sheet, I needed to polish it; and so to
do that I ran a blowtorch along the
bottom edges to flame polish them, but I
left the sides unpolished, as this was
necessary for edge lighting. I then sanded the
faces with wet and dry sandpaper, using a
little water to create a paste, starting
with 240 grit and they're moving all the
way up to 3000 grit. To finish I used
plastic polish and a cotton polishing
mop.
Next I cut 2 square blocks of wood for
the base. I marked the centre on one of
the blocks and then set up the router
table fence, so that the router bit was centrally
positioned, in line with the center mark.
I also clamped a length of wood onto the
table to act as a guide. And I routed the
top face of the block, cutting across its
full width, before turning it 90 degrees to
cut again. The router bit is a six
millimeters or a quarter of an inch
straight bit, which is the same width as
the acrylic sheet.
For the bottom face of the block I didn't want
to route all the way across,
so I set up stop blocks.
To accommodate the power cable I removed
the stop blocks and routed a channel
through to one edge.
and I finished off the top edge with a
roundover bit. Next I drilled holes for the
leds, which are five millimeters in diameter.
I used a new five-millimeter brad point
drill bit which made it very easy
to locate and cut clean holes.
For the base center layer, I cut a square of
acrylic, using the same dimensions as the
wooden layers. This piece will be lit
by an LED, so I drilled an eight millimeter
hole in the center to accommodate it
using a step drill. To secure the three
pieces together, I drilled counter sunk holes
into the corners and screwed them together.
I sanded the sides flat and applied some
clear varnish. The next job was to solder
the LEDs together.
There are four white and four blue LEDs
pointing up, with which light up the tree
and another blue LED pointing down, which
lights up the base. The circuit diagram
looks like this, with three sets of three
leds in series with 220 ohm resistors.
All of the information about how this is
wired, along with a step-by-step guide
can be found on the TECHYDIY.ORG website.
To make the assembly easier, I drilled a
template into some scrap wood, following
the same pattern as the base.
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Once the leds are soldered, I installed them
into the base, hot glued the power lead in
place and then screwed the base together.
Slotted the acrylic cut-outs together and
installed it into the base. So let's check
it out! Thanks for watching. Please don't
forget to Like, comment and subscribe and
I'll see you again next time
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'It's so special:' Dozens sworn in as new U.S. citizens in Pittsburgh - Duration: 0:42.
E
CUSTODY OF THEM.
TALKS ABOUT IMMIGRATION ARE
SPREADING ACROSS THE NATION.
BUT TODAY IN PITTSBURGH 51
PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING BECOME
LEGAL CITIZENS.
JANELLE: THEY CAME FROM AS FAR
AWAY AS AUSTRALIA AND AS CLOSE
AS CANADA AND THEY EACH RECEIVED
THEIR CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP
AND AN AMERICAN FLAG.
>> THIS IS GREAT, IT'S SO
SPECIAL DOING IT WITH YOUR WIFE,
PLUS HAVING YOUR OWN SON WITH
YOU.
OF COURSE HE'S AN AMERICAN
CITIZEN, SO WE JOIN HIM NOW.
IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
HE'S THE WITNESS FOR US, SO IT'S
GREAT.
IT'S REALLY GREAT.
JANELLE: LAST YEAR PITTSBURGH
WELCOMED ABOUT 3,000 NEW
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Remains of Missing U.S. Army Soldier Found - Duration: 1:01.
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Let Us Explain... Our Name - Duration: 2:00.
So when we chose our channel name we were a little bit apprehensive about it.
But we felt like this name better suited the needs of our channel.
We just wanted to tell you guys what our name actually means to us.
just to avoid misunderstandings.
it'll probably end up happening anyways though so.
So here's the definition of vendetta.
It is.
I have it written down.
it is a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer
or the murderer's family.
So we consider veganism to be a blood feud because there is actual blood being spilled.
2,000 animals every second are killed just for food.
And we consider ourselves to be the family of these animals.
This is where the definition get complicated.
We consider our vengeance to be our activism.
Right so we are not here to be bullies or tell anyone that they're doing anything wrong.
Its the animal agriculture industry that we're going after.
And we're going after their bottom lines.
Their wallets by getting as many people to go vegan as we possibly can.
That's our idea of vengeance.
So we really hope that no one thinks that we are on youtube to say that we are better
than anyone or bully anyone um we were meat eaters once to.
Yeah and this channel is a place for us to share our experiences, opinions, and beliefs.
We want this to be a place that you guys can come for advice and helpful information.
not a place of hatefulness.
there enough of that in the world.
we hope this helps you to understand us better.
please make sure you guys subscribe to help us spread our message and we will see you
next time.
bye!
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【YIFC】[Eng Sub] Till Death Tear Us Apart (愉此一生) - 20170128 [Trailer 3.0 Love within Blazed ver] - Duration: 2:31.
Adapted from NanZhi's best-seller novel 《Till Death Tear us Apart 》
Once upon a time,Spring flower and autumn moon still can't compare with your every twinkle and smile
Once upon a time, the land bounded by river and mountain awaits the mature of the youth
When the nation is in its crisis,everyone has responsibility to save it
A nation strengths along with it's youth generation
I only entrap outsiders,I won't entrap people on our side
You are such a insecure person
How can you survive in this troublous world
You have to stop all activities right now
Will my cousin be the traitor
They are framing me
This matter involves too many people
The same cast from <Love Is More than A Word>
Produced with our full sincerity, the spy war between schoolmates during the Republic of China
Maintaining secrecy is more important than fighting capacity
There will be a war between the Kuomingtang and the Communist Party
Student's march disturbed the plan of the Communist Party
He doesn't know anything
Let him go
What's important is the person standing behind him
Directed by Chen Peng
I can preserve the profit of Kuomingtang
but who can safeguard my son
The Japanese is gone
but this troublous time
may not end yet
<Till Death Tear Us Apart> ChenPeng Production
2017.02.14
The Land Remains Broadcast by Tencent Executively
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Stocks slip on earnings, data; dollar advances January 27, 2017 - Duration: 5:18.
Stocks slip on earnings, data; dollar advances
A key index of global equity markets edged lower from near-record highs on Friday after
underwhelming corporate earnings and U.S. economic growth data gave investors reason
to pause following the recent sharp rally in equity prices.
The dollar shrugged off disappointing U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product growth
numbers to extend its rally against a basket of currencies, and U.S. Treasury debt yields
slipped as the data spurred buying of U.S. government debt.
MSCI's world index, which tracks shares in 46 countries, was down 0.03 percent and about
2 percent off its record high hit in April 2015.
Weakness in Europe weighed on the index and it found little support on Wall Street.
Lackluster corporate results gave little reason to investors to push U.S. stocks higher.
Chevron closed down 2.4 percent after its quarterly profit fell short of analysts' expectations.
It was the biggest drag on the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes.
"The market has rallied on expectations of good things to happen in the future but as
we are getting the data ... it is not as good as people are hoping," said Andrew Slimmon,
portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Chicago.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 7.13 points, or 0.04 percent, to finish at 20,093.78,
the S&P 500 lost 1.99 points, or 0.09 percent, to end at 2,294.69 and the Nasdaq Composite
added 5.61 points, or 0.1 percent, to close at 5,660.78.
European shares eased with UBS dragging bank stocks lower after posting a drop in full-year
profit, while Britain's biggest supermarket, Tesco, surged after a 3.7 billion-pound takeover
of a supplier.
Europe's broad FTSEurofirst 300 index closed down 0.29 percent at 1,446.93.
The dollar rose to a one-week high against the yen, once again buoyed by expectations
that U.S. President Donald Trump would deliver on his campaign promise to put policies in
place to further bolster the U.S. economy that has improved but has sputtered at times.
The greenback has climbed for two straight days, pulling it back from seven-week lows
against a basket of currencies on the view that it would gain from a rise in border tariffs,
tax reform and future spending.
"Donald Trump's ambitious fiscal plans point to stronger growth in the coming quarters,"
said Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst at Forex.com in London.
The dollar retreated a little against the basket of currencies after data showed U.S.
economic growth slowed more than expected to 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter but recouped
losses to trade up 0.21 percent at 100.59.
The greenback rose to a one-week high of 115.37 against the yen.
The Mexican peso, which slumped on Thursday after the White House said Trump wants a 20-percent
tax on imports from Mexico to pay for a wall on their shared border, strengthened more
than 1 percent after the two countries agreed not to talk publicly for now about payment
for the wall.
In bond markets, U.S. Treasury yields fell as investors reached for U.S. government debt
following the disappointing fourth-quarter GDP data.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note's yield was down 2 basis points at 2.484 percent.
Oil prices extended losses after data suggested drilling is ramping up in the United States,
easing the focus on efforts by OPEC and other producers to support prices by cutting supplies.
Brent crude settled down 72 cents, or 1.3 percent, at $55.52 a barrel, and U.S. crude
settled down 61 cents, or 1.1 percent, at $53.17.
Gold logged its first weekly loss of the year as persistent dollar strength prompted some
traders to cash in on this week's rally to two-month highs.
On Friday, spot gold was up 0.2 at $1,190.87 per ounce.
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VIDEO: Nearly 200 immigrants sworn in as U.S. citizens - Duration: 1:23.
PREPORTER: AN OVERWHELMING DAY
PFOR NEARLY 200 NEW AMERICAN
PCITIZENS
PAS THEY TAKE THE OAT
P45 COUNTRIES WERE REPRESENTED,
PFROM AUSTRALIA TO COLUMBIA.
P>> THIS IS COOL, THIS IS
PFANTASTIC, IT REALLY IS
P>> I FEEL SO PROUD AND SO HAPPY
PBECAUSE ALL MY FAMILY IS IN
PAMERICA EXCEPT M
PREPORTER: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
PWAS A HOT TOPIC FOR MANY IN THIS
PROOM
PAND THE JUDGE DID NOT IGNORE
PTHAT.
P>> IMMIGRATION WAS A TOP ISSUE
PDURING THE 2016 ELECTION.
PREPORTER: PRESIDENT TRUMP THIS
PWEEK PROMISING TO BUILD A WALL
PON THE MEXICAN BORDER
PAND TIGHTEN OUR COUNTRY'S
PIMMIGRATION POLICIES.
P>> I WANT TO COMMEND ALL OF THE
PNEW CITIZENS FOR TAKING THE TIME
PAND THE EFFORT TO GO THROUGH THE
PPROCESS AND TO DO IT LEGALLY.
PTHE UNITED STATES NOW --
P[APPLAUSE]
PREPORTER: AND WITH THE
PIMMIGRATION FUTURE UNCERTAIN,
PMANY OF THE NEW CITIZENS WE
PTALKED WITH THANKFUL THEY GOT
PEVERYTHING DONE WHEN THEY DID.
P>> THERE IS SO MANY PEOPLE THAT
PWANTS TO LIKE, THE AMERICAN
PDREAM COME TRUE OVER HERE SO I
PTHINK PROBABLY NOW IT'S
PDIFFICULT FOR THEM. BUT I'M SO
PGLAD I PASS ALL THE PROCESS,
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Reinhold Mitterlehner zum Amtsantritt von US-Präsident Trump - Duration: 1:14.
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U.S. Military Developing Floating Communications Network - Duration: 1:02.
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Federal court says election map unconstitutional - Duration: 1:41.
RE-DRAW WISCONSIN'S
ELECTION MAPS.
A FEDERAL COURT SAYS THE
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES ARE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AND IT WANTS A
NEW MAP IN PLACE BEFORE THE 2018
ELECTION.
NEW TONIGHT, 12 NEWS' KENT
WAINSCOTT EXPLAINS WHAT THE
RULING MEANS FOR YOU.
>> THEY'RE THE BOUNDARIES THAT
DIVIDE WISCONSIN'S LEGISLATIVE
DISTRICTS AN ELECTION MAP THAT A
, FEDERAL COURT SAYS IS UNFAIR
TO VOTERS.
NOW THAT COURT IS GIVING STATE
LAWMAKERS UNTIL THIS NOVEMBER TO
RE-DRAW THE MAP.
SACHIN CHHEDA HEADS THE GROUP
LEADING THE COURT FIGHT, AND
SAYS HE WANTS THE PUBLIC
INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS.
>> WE WANT TO SEE PEOPLE BE ABLE
TO PROPOSE MAPS.
WE WANT HEARINGS TO BE HELD.
>> THE GROUP IDENTIFIED SEVERAL
CASES OF WHAT IT CLAIMED WERE
BOUNDARIES DRAWN FOR PURELY
POLITICAL REASONS.
THIS IS ONE OF THE EXAMPLES
CITED IN COURT.
THAT'S SHOREWOOD, AND THIS IS
WHITEFISH BAY, FOR YEARS
REPRESENTED BY THE SAME
LAWMAKERS.
BUT NOW, NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS ARE
IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.
LAURA MICHEALIS' LIVES RIGHT ON
THAT LINE.
>> I WANT TO SEE THE MAPS JUST,
AND NOT DRAWN TO BENEFIT ONE
POLITICAL PARTY OR THE OTHER.
>> REPUBLICANS PLAN TO FIGHT THE
RULING.
A SPOKESMAN FOR GOVERNOR SCOTT
WALKER TELLS 12 NEWS, "WE
BELIEVE THE MAPS ARE
CONSTITUTIONAL AND PLAN TO SEEK
A PROMPT REVIEW FROM THE U.S.
SUPREME COURT."
BUT DEMOCRAT FRED KESSLER, WHO
HAS BEEN CALLING FOR FAIR
DISTRICTS FOR DECADES, IS
PRAISING THE COURT RULING.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS MEANS FOR
WISCONSIN VOTERS?
>> THIS MEANS THIS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR WISCONSIN VOTERS
TO HAVE THEIR WILL REFLECTED IN
THE LEGISLATURE.
JOYCE: SO HERE'S WHAT NEXT, THE
FEDERAL COURT HAS GIVEN THE
LEGISLATURE UNTIL NOVEMBER FIRST
TO RE-DRAW THE ELECTION MAP.
THE COURT WANTS THE NEW DISTRICT
BOUNDARIES IN PLACE FOR THE 2018
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION.
BUT THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE THE
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US NOT SO ONLINE - Day 02 - 06 - Duration: 3:05.
No no you have to be the tour guide
"Ok let me be tour guide"
"So this is the living room"
Wait let me look outside and show (them?)
"Well look from window ( obvious enough ) "
I am
"Thats the window"
(oh really?)
"There is our presents from santa "
( wait for it.. )
Smile
( There it is ~ )
There ya go, that was beautiful
"Your beautiful "
( Meanwhile )
Oh babe. . .
" There is no babe here ~ "
Ohhhh baby babe . . .
"Nooo there no baby babe"
Babe baby babe . . .
"What?"
You heard me
" Noo say it again "
You deffinetly heard me
"I didnt . ."
Control freak ~
"Say it! "
. . I love my girlfriend more than anything
"And what else "
And she the most beautiful..
"Where is the kissy kissy?"
Are you kidding me??
"Yeaa i want the kissy kissy"
( Dont judge me )
"And we're going outside"
"And we're outside "
"This is how it looks"
uhmm
"So this is the town"
Soo what are you in the mood to eat tonight?
( Always thinking about food )
"Well. . . you said you're gonna make sticks(steaks)"
Yea i can make the steak dinner if that's what you want, we'll check the meat place see what they have
"Ok"
"So what're you cutting?"
Onions
"What kind of onions"
The white kind
"The white kind ~ "
mhmm
( She's pleased )
( He's pleased )
( jk )
Well time to go motivate myself and go shower
"Games, games, and games "
"He doesnt want to give me attention"
Your so full of sh**
"It's not full of sh** it's the truth"
"what are you doing"
Playing a game
Hey babe
"hey handsome"
Whatcha doing?
"I'm looking for my phone "
Why?
"Because i have to call my mom"
Why?
"Because i have to answer her"
Why?
"Because i have too"
Need my help over there?
"NO!"
( She said yes )
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Japan, a Longtime U S Ally, Now Worried About Trade War with Trump - Duration: 4:09.
Japan, a Longtime U.S. Ally, Now Worried About Trade War with Trump.
Tokyo � With speculation high about a coming trade war � or possibly even a cold war
� with so-called enemy China, the New York Times on Wednesday reminded its readers that
President Donald Trump�s removal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) has great implications for America�s allies, as well.
�What comes next, many in Japan believe,� the Times writes, �could be a bruising showdown
between Tokyo and Washington.
They fear a return to the trade wars of the 1980s and early �90s, when many Americans
saw Japan as an untrustworthy economic adversary.�
Trump, who on Monday made good on his promise to pull the U.S. out of the TPP deal immediately
upon entering the White House, has stated he finds the trade imbalance between Japan
and the U.S to be unfair because Japan sells far more goods to the U.S. than it buys in
return.
The president reiterated this sentiment, which is a foundational element of his overall �America
First� policy, on Tuesday, before a group of American auto executives in Detroit.
�It�s the long-terms jobs we are looking for,� President Trump said at a televised
meeting with executives from GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler.
Ahead of the meeting, the U.S. leader had once again demonstrated, via tweet, his desire
to strengthen the American workforce at home: �I want new plants to be built here for
cars sold here.�
President Trump has stated he wishes to pursue individual trade deals with nations, rather
than group agreements like the TPP.
This is unfortunate news for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who, as the Times notes,
had hopes of �drawing the United States closer to Japan and other friendly Pacific
Rim countries� through the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Japan has traditionally preferred multilateral agreements to one-on-one deals of the sort
the new American president is insisting upon, the Times explains, but Abe�s strong desire
to keep the U.S. engaged in the region may leave him no choice but to play along.
�Japan may eventually agree to bilaterals with the U.S. to ensure that the U.S. stays
engaged in Asia,� said former U.S. trade official Glen.
S. Fukushima � now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Highlighting what a delicate dance Japan will have to play in the coming days if it intends
to safeguard trade relations with the United States, the chairman of the lobbying group
for Japan�s largest corporations says Prime Minister Abe should deal directly with Trump
for the time being, with an overarching �goal of eventually broadening negotiations to a
multilateral level.� This appeasement by Abe, however � even
if it is only to eventually work Trump into a softer position down the road � is what
many locals in Japan are concerned about.
As a rice farmer, interviewed by the Times, explains:
�It�s actually a lot scarier, because what comes next will be a lot harsher.
We have to sell cars to the U.S., and farmers will be traded
away for access.�
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BABY GIRL Shopping Trip! - Duration: 12:25.
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Jerusalem Dateline: US Mulls Jerusalem Embassy Move, Will it Happen? 1/27/17 - Duration: 22:31.
>> THIS WEEK ON "JERUSALEM
DATELINE," CBN NEWS TALKED
WITH FORTH MER NE FORMER MAYOR OF NEW
YORK RUDY GIULANI ABOUT
THE NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH
ISRAEL.
>> FROM MY POINT OF VIEW,
E RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL
HAS NOW GONE BACK TO
NORMAL.
>> Chris: AND SCOTT RSS
TAKES A LOOK ATHE CITY
AND ITS HISTORY.
AND ISRAEL AND THE WORLD
REMEMBER THE SIX MILLION
JEWS WHO DIED IN THE
HOLOCAUST.
HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THIS
EDITION OF "JERUSALEM
DATELINE."
I'M CHRIS MITCHELL.
IN THE FIRST FEW YS OF
THE NEW U.S.
ADMINISTRATION, ITS
RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL
HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY,
IN BOTH STYLE AND
SUBSTANCE.
JUST TWO DAYS AFTER HIS
INAUGURATION, PRESIDENT
TRUMP INVITED BENJAMIN
NETANYAHU TO WASHINGTON,
AND MANY EXPECT THE
MEETING WILL MARK THE
BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA IN
U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS.
TRUMP INVITED NETANYAHU TO
VISIT SOMETIME IN
FEBRUARY, DUNG THE FIRST
PHONE CALL BETWEEN THE TWO
LEADERS.
A STATEMENT FROM
WASHINGTON SAID THEY HAD
DISCUSSED WAYS TO ADVANCE
AND STRENGTHEN THE
U.S.-ISRAEL SPECIAL
RELATIONSHIP, AND ADD
SECURITY AND STABILITY IN
THE MIDDLE EAST.
NETAAHU'S OFFI
DESCRIBED THE CONVERSATION
AS WARM.
THE STATEMENTS FROM BOTH
SIDES SAID THEY HAD
DISCUSSED IRAN.
ABSENT FROM BH
STATEMENTS WAS ANY MENTION
OF MOVING THE U.S. EMBASSY
FROM TEL AVIV TO
JERUSALEM.
TRUMP SAID IT ISOO EARLY
TO TALK ABOUT IT.
AND WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN
SE SPICER TOLD
JOURNALISTS NO DECISIONS
HAVE YET BEEN MADE.
>> WE'RE AT THE BEGINNING
STAGES OF THIS
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.
HIS TEAM IS GOING TO
CONTINUE TO CONSULT WITH
STAKEHOLDERS.
>> Chris: PALESTINIANS
WERE UPSET BY THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE EMBASSY
MOVE.
BUT THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM
SAID HE APPLAUDED TRUMP,
AND SAID IT SENT A CLEAR
MESSAGE TO THE WORLD THAT
THE U.S. RECOGNIZES
JERUSALEM AS THE
INDEPENDENT CAPITAL OF THE
STATE OF ISRAEL.
NOW THE WAITING GAME
CONTINUES TO SEE HOW TRUMP
WILL FOLLOW THROUGH ON HIS
PLEDGES.
>>> ONE OF THE CLOSEST
ADVISORS TO U.S. PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS FORMER NEW YORK
CITY MAYOR RUDY GIULANI.
HE CAME TO ISRAEL TO MEET
WITH BENJAMIN NETANYAHU,
AND CBN NEWS SAT DOWN WITH
THE FORMER MAYOR TO
DISCUSS THE NEW
U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP.
WE METN THE TEL AVIV LAW
OFFICES OF GREENBURG
TORIK, THE ONLY
INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM
WITH AN OFFICE IN ISRAEL,
WHERE GIULIANI SERVES AS
ITS GLOBAL CHAIR IN CRISIS
MANAGEMENT.
>> MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US ON CBN NEWS.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING
ME.
>> Reporter: YOU MET
WITH THE PRIME MINISTER,
AND YOU GAVE A MESSAGE
FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP.
WHAT WAS THE MESSAGE?
>> IT WAS A MESSAGE OF
FRIENDSHIP.
I'VE KNOWN THE PRIME
MINISTER ABOUT THE SAME
AMOUNT OF TIME I'VE KNOWN
PRESIDENT TRUMP, ABOUT 25
YEARS.
THEY'RE BOTH CLOSE FRIENDS
OF MINE.
AND I JUST WANTED TO
ASSURE HIM THAT FROM MY
POINT OF VIEW, THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL
HAS NOW GONE BACK TO
NORMAL.
I THOUGHT THE LAST EIGHT
YEARS IT WAS ABNORMAL.
THAT WE HAD AN AMERICAN
PRESIDENT THAT DIDN'T
SUPPORT ISRAEL ITHE WAY
I WAS USED TO, BOTH
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENTS SUPPORTING
ISRAEL.
AND HE WOULD NOW HAVE A
PRESIDENT HE COULD GET
ALONG WITH, THAT SHARED
ESSENTIALLY THE SAME VIEWS
ON THE WORLD.
AND THAT WHEN THEY DID
HAVE DISAGREEMENTS, THE
DISAGREEMENTS WOULD BEN
PRIVATE, THE WAY THEY
SHOULD BE BETWEEN FRIENDS,
THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A
VERY HIGH REGARD FOR HIM.
I KNOW THAT FROM MY
CONVERSATIONS WITH H.
AND THEN WE DISCUSSED A
FEW THINGS THAT ARE
PRIVATE.
>> Chris: OKAY.
ONE OF THE OTHER ISSUES,
MAYOR, IS MAYBE YOU TALKED
ABOUT WITH PRIME MINISTER
NENYAHU IS THE PLEDGE BY
PRESIDENT TRUMP TO MOVE
THE U.S. EMBASSYROM HERE
IN TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM.
WHAT CONCERNS DO YOU HAVE
WITH THAT?
AND HOW DO YOU SEE THAT
PROGRESSING FROM HERE?
>> I BELIEVE THAT'S
SOMETHING THEY'LL TALK
ABOUT.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP PLEDGED TO
DO, AND I KNOW HE KEEPS
HIS PROMISES.
SO I CAN'T TELL YOU
EXACTLY HOW HE IS GOING TO
DO IT OR WHEN HE IS GOING
TO DO IT OR IN WHAT
STAGES, BUT I CAN TELL YOU
TH HE IS VERY SERIOUS
ABOUT THE PROMISES THAT HE
MAKES.
A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN
SOME OTHER POLITICIANS.
>> Chris: DO YOU SEE A
RIPPLE EFFECT, POSSIBLY IF
THE U.S. GOES AHEAD WITH
THIS NEWS, THAT OTHER
NATIONS WILL DO THE SAME
MOVE TO JERUSALEM?
>> I THINK SO, SURE.
LOOK, JERUSALEM IS THE
CAPITAL -- I'VE BEEN IN
FAVOR OF THIS FOR 20
YEARS.
SO FOR ME IT IS NOT A NEW
POSITION.
I THINK I WAS IN FAVOR OF
IT BEFORE CONGRESS EVEN
PASSED THE LAW THAT THE
PITAL SHOULD BE IN
JERUSALEM.
IT JUST MADE SENSE TO ME.
THAT IS THE CAPITAL OF
ISRAEL.
SO I'D LIKE TO SEE IT GET
DONE, BUT I REALIZE THAT
ARE REPERCUSSIONS FROM IT,
AND IT HAS TO BE DONE IN
THE RIGHT WAY.
BUT I'M CERTAIN THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL KEEP
HIS WORD.
>> Chris: AND ISRAEL, IN
CONSULTATIONS WITH ISRAEL,
TO SEE HOW IT IS DONE?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
JUST LIKE YOU HAVEN'T
NOTICED A STRONG
DIFFERENCE -- THERE WERE
EXTRA HOMES BEING BUILT IN
TH SETTLEMENT, 2500 EXTRA
HOMES IN THE SETTLEMENT A
COUPLE OF DAYS AGO -- THE
REACTION OF THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION FROM
HILLARY CLINTON OR BARACK
OBAMA WOULD HAVE BEEN
CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL.
INSTEAD, THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE
WAS NO COMMENT, WHICH
MEANS THAT'S AN ISRAELI
ISSUE.
YOU'VE GOT TO DECIDE WHAT
YOU WANT TO DO WITH THE
SETTLEMENT.
IT'SOUR COUNY.
IT'S YOUR SECURITY.
WE RESPECT YOU.
AND IF WE, ON THE AMERICAN
SIDE, HAVE A DISAGREEMENT,
AS FRIENDS WE SHOULD
QUIETLY DISCUSS THAT, JUST
THE TWO OF US, MEANING THE
PRESIDENT AND THE PRIME
MINISTER OR THE
APPROPRIATE MINISTERS.
THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND
THE SECRETARY OF STATE, OR
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR.
THAT'S THE WAY WE USED TO
DO BUSINESS.
NOT THIS HOSTILITY THAT
HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THE
LAST EIGHT YEARS.
>> Chris: DO YOU SEE
THAT AS A HARBINGER OF THE
NEW ADMINISTRATION,
BETWEEN TRUMP AND ISRAEL?
>> I SEE IT IN TWO STAGES.
THIS IS WHAT I TOLDHE
PRIME MINISTER AND OTHER
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS THAT
I'VE MET WITH: FIRST,
LET'S BEGIWITH THE FACT
THAT WE'RE BAC BACK TO OUR
NORMAL RELATIONSHIP, WHICH
IS FRIENDSHIP.
SECOND, I THINK IT WILL BE
BETTER THAN THAT.
BECAUSE I THINK PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAS A VERY HIGH
REGARD FOR ISRAEL.
I THINK HE SEES ISRAEL AS
A CRITICAL PART OF HIS
EFFORT TO DEFEAT RADICAL
ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
I THINK HE SEES ISRAEL AS
A RESOURCE,OT JUST AN
ALLY, BUT A RESOURCE.
AND I KNOW HE IS
SURROUNDED BY A GROUP OF
ADVISORS W HAVE SIMILAR
VIEWS.
SO I THINK WE CAN MAKE THE
FRIENDSHIP EVEN STRONGER
THAN IT WAS.
BUT WE CERTAINLY ARE BACK
TO WHERE WE USED TOBE.
I REMEMBER TELLING PRIME
MINISTER NETANYAHU SOME
YEARS AGO, IT MUST BE VERY
UNCOMFORTABLE BEING THE
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
AND NOT KNOW WHETHER THE
AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS
YOUR BACK BECAUSE HE
DIDN'T RESPOND, BECAUSE HE
IS TOO DIPLOMATIC TO
RESPOND.
WELL, THE AMERICA
PRESIDENT NOW HAS HIS
BACK, AND VICE VERSA.
>> Chris: COMING UP,
SCOTT ROSS TAKES US
THROUGH A TOUR OF ISRAEL
THAT CONTINUES TO BE IN
U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
PLEDGED TO MOVE THE U.S.
EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM.
YET THE PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY WANTS THE CITY
AS THEIR FUTURE CAPITAL.
CBN'S SCOTT ROSS TOOK A
TOUR OF THE CITY AND
UNCOVERED THE ?FTIO SIGNIFICANCE
OF JERUSALEM THAT IS
BECOMING MORE AND MORE THE
CROSS-ROADS OF HISTORY AND
PROPHECY.
>> Reporter: JERUSALEM'S
OLD CITY, THE TEMPLE MOUNT
AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES,
ALL SHARE A COMMON BOND:
IN ADDITION TO BIBLICAL
SIGNIFIC, THEY'RAL
IN THE PART OF THE CIT
THAT PALESTINIANS WANT AS
THEIR FUTURE CAPITAL.
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS
JERUSALEM IS A CITY SET ON
THE HILL.
>> WE ARE ON THE MOUNT OF
OLIVES, AND WE ARE
OVLOGINOVERLOOKING THE TEMPLE
MOUNT.
>> Reporter: HIEN
SILVERSTEIN BELIEVES THE
CITY MUST REMAIN UNITED.
WE SPENT THE DAY LOOKING
AT JERUSALEM FROM
DIFFERT ANGLES TO
UNDERSTAND ITS COMPLEXITY.
>> THIS IS A CITY THAT HAS
BEEN SCONCED IN POLITICS
AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
>> Reporter: JERUSALEM
HAS BEEN NQUERED MORE
THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN THE
COUNTRY OF ISRAEL.
STILL, THE WORLD REFUSES
TO RECOGNIZE IT AS
ISRAEL'S CAPITAL, EVEN
THOUGH IT IS MENTION
MORE THAN 640 TIMES IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, AND NOT
ONCE BY NAME IN THE QURAN.
>> JERUSALEM IS THE
CAPITAL OF ISRA.
WE KNOW THAT OVER 3,000
YEARS AGO KING DAVID CAME
HERE.
HE CONQUERED JERUSALEM,
AND HE SET UP HIS CAPITAL
HERE.
AND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS
ISRAEL HAD SOVEREIGNTY,
THE USE HAD SOVEREIGNTY,
IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
AOCT OF JEWSEMAINED
PALESTINIAN AND ISRAEL
THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES.
BUT WE ONLY SAW A REAL
RETURN OF THE JEWISH
PEOPLE IN THE LAST 150
YEARS OR SO.
TODAY WHEN WE LOOK AT
JERUSALEM, YOU SEE
JERUSALEM BUILT UP.
>> Reporter: AT WHAT
POINT WAS IT THAT THE
ARABS, THE PALESTINIANS,
MADE A DETERMINATION THAT
TH WAS THEIR CAPITAL?
>> IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE
ISRAELIS LIBERATED
JERUSALEM IN '67 THAT THEY
CHANGED THAT BECAUSE THEY
NEEDED TO GET US OUT.
SO THEY THEN CREATED THIS
IDEA THEY WANT A
PALESTIAN STATE WITH
JERUSALEM ASTS CAPITAL.
>> Reporter: ON THE
WORL STAGE, JERUSALEM IS
TYPICAY DIVIDED BETWEEN
EAST AND WEST.
THE NEWEREERN CITY IS
IMILY JEWISH.
THE OLDER, EASTERN
SECTION, STRETCHES FROM
NORTH TO SOUTH.
THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY'S
ARABS LIVE THERE, BUT SO
DO AN ALMOST EQUAL NUMBER
OF JEWISH ISRAELIS.
WITH THE CITY AS IT IS
NOW, AND THE TALK OF
DIVIDING JERUSALEM, IS
THAT REALISTIC, A DIVIDED
JERUSALEM?
>> I THINK THAT IT WOULD
BE A DISASTER O HISTORIC
PROPORTIONS, AND A HUGE
MISTAKE BECAUSE DIVIDING
UP JERUSAL WILL CREATE
THE EXACT OPPOSITE EFFECT
OF PEACE.
>> Reporter: FROM 1949
TO 1967, JERUSALEM WAS
DIVIDED WITH JORDAN
CONTROLLINGHE EASTERN
SECTOR.
DURING THE 1967 SIX-DAY
WAR, ISRAEL TOO
CONTROL.
SILVERSTEIN TOOK ME TO THE
BATTLE FIELD THAT TURNED
THE TIDE.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL SPOT
WHERE HAND HAND COMBAT
TOOK PLACE?
>> COECT.
BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE
MOUNT WAS AMMUNITION
HILLS.
IT WAS CRITICAL TO TAKE
THIS HILL.
>> Reporter: THE BIBLE
CALLED JERUSALEM THE CITY
OF THE GREAT KING, AND IT
HASEN MANY KINGS.
IN 1964, IT WAS JORDAN'S
KI HUSSEIN STARTED
BUILDING A HILLTOP PALACE
ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF
JERUSALEM.
THE SIX-DAY WAR
INTERRUPTED HIS PLAN
>>HIS SITE WHERE WE ARE
NOW, IS NOT REALLY THE
PALACE OF KING HUSSEIN,
BUT RATHER THE PALACE OF
KING SOL.
>> Reporter: FROM ON
GHIT IS EASY TO SEE
WHY KINGS OLD AND NO NEW
WOULD WANT TO OCCUPY THIS
HILL.
>> WE'RE LOOKING EASTWARD
INTO THE JUDEAN DESERTS,
TO THE MOUNTAINS OF MOHAB,
WHERE ISORDAN IS TODAY.
WHAT YOU SEE BELOW US IS
THE JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD,
AND TO THENORTH OF THAT
ANOTHER CITY, AND THESE
TWO NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
BASICALLY NESTLED WITHIN
ARAB NEIGHBORS THAT ARE
SURROUNDING THEM.
IF WE WERE GOING TO CUT
OF JERUSALEM AND SAY
EVERYTHING TO THE LEFT
WOULD BE PALESTINIAN,
90,000 JEWS LIVING IN
THESE TWO NEIGHBORHOODS
WOULD FIND THEMSELS IN
PALESTINIAN.
>> Reporter: HOW CAN YOU
DIVIDE THEM WHEN THEY ARE
SO INTEGRATED?
>> THAT IS A RHETORICAL
QUESTION.
>> Reporter: IT IS.
>>> LOOKING TO THE NORTH,
WE CAN SEE BIBLICAL JUDEA
AND SAMARIA, OTHERWISE
KNOWN AS THE WEST BANK.
IN THE DISTANCE, JUST FIVE
MILES FROM JRUSALEM, IS
RAMALLAH, THE CURRENT SEAT
OF GOVNMENT FOR THE
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.
>> AN IMPORTANTHING TO
UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU WANT
TO UNDERSTAND THE
STRATEGIC ISSUES FACING
JERUSALEM IS WHAT IS THE
GOAL OF THE ARABS?
THEY UNDERSTAND THAT
JERUSALEM IS THE HEART OF
THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND IF
THEY CAN LIBERE
JERUSALEM, FROM THEIR
POINT OF VIEW THEY WILL
HAVE SUCCEED IN LIBERATING
ISRAEL ULTIMATELY.
>> Reporter: HE BELIEVES
THE ARABS HAVE THREE MAIN
WAYS THEY'RE WORKING TO
LIBERATE JERUSALEM: BY
FORCE, PROPAGANDA AND
DIPLOMACY, AND DEMOCRACY.
>> WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS
BUILDING AND BUILDING AND
BUILDING INSIDE JERUSALEM,
LARGELY ILLEGAL
STRUCTURES.
AND THEY HAVE SUCCESSFULLY
CREATED A CONTINUUM THAT
RUNS FROM RAMALLAH IN THE
NORTH, ALL THE WAY THROUGH
JERUSALEM, THROUGH THE OLD
CITY, TO BETHLEHEM IN THE
SOUTH.
AND BYOING THAT, THEY
WILL HAVE INFILTRATED A
DEMOGRAPC TROJAN HORSE
INSIDE JERUSALEM.
>> Reporter: DO YOU HAVE
HOPE FOR THIS CITY TO
EVENTUALLY BEWHOLE?
DO YOU SEE A GOOD FUTURE
AHEAD?
>> ZACHARIAH TALKED ABOUT
WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE
MOUNT OF OLIVES.
THERE WILL BE AN
EAHQKE.
THERE WILL BE A WAR.
THAT HAS YET TO HAPPEN IN
THE FUTURE, BUT ZACHARIAH
ENDS THE PROPHECY BY
SAYING AND JERUSALE WILL
DWELL SECURE.
THE QUESTION IS: HOW WE
WILL GET THERE.
THE THING THAT IS
GUARANTEED TO BRING PEACE
TO JERUSALEM IS KEEPING
JERUSALEM UNITED AND IN
ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY.
AND THAT CERTAINLY IS THE
PRELUDE TOOPEFULLY THE
INCREDIBLE EVENT THAT WE
HOPE AND PRAY WL HAPPEN
LATER, WHICH WILL BE
ULTIMATEPIEULTIMATE PEACE IN
JERUSALEM AND THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD.
>> Chris: UP NEXT,
ISRAELI AND THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST,
AND SOME SEE IT AS A
WAKEUP CALL TO THE CHURCH.
>> Chris: WELCOME BACK.
JANUARY 27 IS
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST
REMEMBRANCE DAY.
TO MARK THE DAY, MANY
JEWISH LEADERS AND OTHERRS
TAKING THEIR PICTURE WITH
A SIGN SAYING, "WE
REMEMBER."
IT IS A NEWWAY OF
COMMEMORATING THE LIVES OF
SIX MILLION JEWS WHO LOST
THEIR LIVES IN THE
HOLOCAUST.
MANY ALSO REMEMBER THE
JUDGE HATCHETHOLOCAUST TO ONE OF THE
ST MOVING FILMS OF ALL
TIME "SLINSCHINDLER'S LIST."
HERE IN JERUSALEM
CHRISTIAN LEADERSECENTLY
MET ONE OF SCHINDLER'S
SURVIVORS AT THE WORLD
HOLOUST REMEMBRANCE
CENTER.
AT THE END OF SMIN SCHINDLER'S
LIST, THE SURVIVORS PLACED
STONES ON HIS GRA IN
JERUSALEM.
TODAYV IVA RITZ IS ONE OF
THOSE SURVIVORS.
SHE WAS NUMBER 201AND HER
MOTHER WAS 202.
>> AND THEY ASKED ME, HOW
DID YOU SURVE THE
HOLOCAUST?
FIRST OF ALL, ALMIGHTY
GOD.
SECOND, MY MOTHER, AND
THIRD, OF COURSE,
SCHINDLER.
IVED MR. SCHINDLER.
ALL OF US LOVED HIM.
WAS AN ANGEL OF MERCY,
REALLY.
WE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE
WAS DOING, AND HOW
DIFFICULT IT IS TO DO IT.
>> Reporter: RATZ LATER
TOLD THE GROUP ABOUT
SURVIVING THE HOLAUST
AND LIFE IN THE CAMP
BEFORE SHE MET SCHINDLER.
>> THE GERMANS WERE
TERRIBLE.
25 LASHES OR MORE ON THE
BEHIND WAS EVERY DAY.
THEY HANGED PEOPLE IN THE
UPPER AREAS EVERY TWO
DAYS.
THERE WAS NO REASON.
THEY ARE NOT HUMAN.
>> Reporter: TSE
CHRISTIAN LEADERS CAME AS
PART OF A SM NA SEMINAR.
>> I THINK ABOUT THE
HOLOCAUST.
THE CHURCH WAS SILENT.
WE DON'T HAVE TO BE SILENT
TODAY.
>> Chris: SUZANNA ADS
THE SEMINAR FOR NEW
CHRISTIAN LEADERS.
>> IT IS FOR CHRISTIAN
LEADERS TO LEARN ABOUT
ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE
HOLOCAUST.
WHEN WE THINK ABOUT
ANTIEMISM, WE USED TO
THINK ABOUT IT IN THE
PAST.
BUT NOIN THE PAST FEW
YEARS, WE HAVE SEEN HOW
MUCH IT IS RISING ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
SO WE UNDERSTAND THAT
SUDDENLY THIS TOPIC IS
VERY URGENT, AND IT IS
REALLY IMPORTANT FOR
CHURCH LEADERS TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
HAPPENING.
>> Chris: THE 10-DAY
SEMINAR HAD A DEEP IMPACT
ON THE VISITING CHRISTIAN
LEADERS.
>> I WOULD SAY THIS
SEMINAR HAS BE A
LIFE-CHAING EXPERIENCE.
IT HAS BEEN A STRETCH
INTELLECTUALLY AND
EMOTIONALLY.
IT HAS IMPACTED MY VIEW OF
THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH
PEOPLE.
TO BE HERE IN THE LAND AND
MEET THE PEOPLE AND THE
SURVIVORS IS QUITE A
MOVING EXPERIENCE.
>> Chris: PASTOR JOHN
PHILIPS PLANS TO TAKE HOME
A NEW PASSION.
>> A LOVE FOR THE JEWISH
PEOPLE ANDSRAETHAT I
DIDN'T KNOW I HAD, DIDN'T
KNOW I NEEDED.
A DESIRE TO BE A PARTNER
AND AN ADVOCATE FOR
ISRAEL, FOR THE JEWISH
PEOPLE.
>> Chris: HE BELIEVES
MUCSHE BELIEVESMUCH OF THE CHURCH IS
STILL SILENT.
>> WE ARE SILENT ABOUT
ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THAT
ALSO RESIST EXISTS WITH REGARD TO
PERSECUTION OF THE
CHRISTIANS.
>> MORE CHRISTIANS ARE
BEING MURDERED THAN THE
JEWS.
>> Chris: HE SEES WORLD
EVENTS FORGING A BOND
BETWEEN JEWS AND
CHRISTIANS.
>> WE BOTH HAVE TOORK
TOGETHER BECAUSE THIS IS
SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS US
ALL.
AND WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT
THE DANGERS ARE IN
FUNDAMENTAL RADICAL
EXTREM ISLAM.
EVIL CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED,
ESPECIALLY AFTER THE
HOLOCAUST.
>> Chris: AND HE SEES
THE VALUE OF THESE
SEMINARS.
>> WE COME IN CONTACT WITH
THE EVANGELICAL PASTORS,
AND IT GIVES US HOPE,
ISRAELIS, JEWS LIVING
HERE.
WE'RE IN A TOUGH
NEIGHBORHOOD, AND IT IS
NOT EASY, BUT THEY GIVE US
A LOT OF SUPPORT AND
OPTIMISM, WHICH IS
IMPORTANT.
THEY EMBRACE US AND WE
EMBRACE THEM.
IT COULDN'T BE TTER.
>> Chris: RATZ AGREES.
>> I WANTED EVERYONE TO
KNOW WHO SCHINDLER WAS.
SCHINDLER WAS NOT A JEW.
HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
AND I'M SURE THERE ARE
MANY CHRISTIANS THAT WOULD
DO THE SAME.
I BELIEVE IN THE
CHRISTIANS.
>> Chris: COMING UP, SEE
HOW ONE JEWISH WOMAN
SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST.
>> Chris: WELCOME BACK.
EVEN THOUGH THE HOLOCAUST
ENDED DECADES AGO, MANY OF
THE SURVIVOR STILL SUFFER
FROM THE PAST, AND NEW
CHALLENGES CAN ALSO MAKE
LIFE DIFFICULT.
HEAR HOW CHRISTIANS AND
CBN'S "OPERATION BLESSING"
HELPED ONE SURVIVOR DURING
A CRISIS IN HER LIFE.
>> Reporter: RITA LOVES
SPENDING TIME WITH FRIENDS
IN HER APARTMENT IN
ISRAEL.
THEIR COMPANY HELPS HER
COPE WITH TRAUMATIC MO HASOF THE
HOLOUST IN MOLDOVA.
>> ESEND
BOMBS STARTED FALLIN
SO SCARY.
EVERYWHERE.
>> Reporter: RITA'S
PARENTS QUICKLY LOADED HER
AND HER SISTER ONTO
HORSE-AWN
AND THEY FLO UKRAINE.
THEY WERE STOPPED
WHOONFISCATED
THEIR LONGIN
THEM TOLL
THE WAY BTO THEIR
VILLAG ICH WAS SOON TURNEIN
A GETTY.
HETTO.
EVNG,
ICCUTI OLENCE.
>> Reporter: CHRISTN
NEHBORHO WBLE TO
EAK RITA AND HER FAMILY
IN A CHRIIAN HOME,
WHERE THEY WERE HIDDEN
UNTIL THE AREA WAS
LIBERATED.
>> THEY SAVED US OUT OF
THE GOODNESS OF THEIR
HEARTS, ANI WILL NEVER
FORGET THAT.
>> Reporter: YEARS AFTER
SURVIVING THE HORRORS OF
THE HOLOCAUST, RITA MOVED
FROM MOLDOVA TO IAEL.
BUT BAD WIRING IN HER OLD
TV CAUSED AN ELECTRICAL
FIRE, AND EVERYTHING SHE
OWNED WAS DESTROYED.
>> I W TERRIFIED, AND I
TRIED TO GET OUT AS FAST
AS I COULD, BUT I HAD
TROUBLE WALKING,ND I
THOUGHT I WOULD BURN UP.
I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS
GOING TO DO.
I HAVE NO INSURANCE AND NO
MONEY.
EVERYTHING HAD WAS LOST.
>> Reporter: SO CBN
ISRAEL GOT RITA BRAND NEW
APPLIANCES, INCLUDING A
STOVE, REFRIGERATOR, AND
WASHING MACHINE.
WE ALSO BOUGHT HER NEW
FURNITURE, AND A MORE
STABLE WALKER WITH A SEAT.
NOW SHE H NEW FRIENDS
WHO SHE INVITES OVER TO
ENJOY HER APARTMENT.
>> I AM SO THANKFUL Y
WERE WILLING TO HELP ME.
EMOTIONALLY I WAS
DESTROYED.
BUT I HAVE PEACE IN MY
HEART NOW.
I WISH YOU GOOD HEALTH,
AND I PRAY YOU CONTINUE TO
HELP OTHERS.
WHAT YOU DO IS SO
IMPORTANT.
>> Chris: THAT'S A
HEART-WARMING STORY.
AND AS RITA SAID, SO VERY
IMPORTANT FOR HER TO
RECEIVE THAT KIND OF HELP.
>>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS
EDITION.
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Trump to Ban Citizens of Seven Countries From Visiting US.
According to officials who have been briefed on the matter, President Trump is planning
to sign an executive order that would impose a temporary ban on visas for citizens of seven
countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, a move which some reports indicate
could just be the beginning of further limits.
The ban will exclude all people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen
from visiting the United States.
It is also to include a total ban on refugees entering the United States from anywhere,
with some exceptions for religious minorities.
Trump campaigned on the idea of banning all Muslims from entering the United States, and
while he�s said to have moderated on that position since then, this appears to be at
least the start of a policy in that vein.
At the same time, the ban list has some conspicuous absences.
Despite presenting such moves as a national security measure intended to prevent terror,
the nations from which 9/11 plotters originated (primarily Saudi Arabia, but also including
Egypt and the UAE) were left off the new ban.
Also, while the US may fear blowback from wars in Iraq and Syria, and constant drone
strikes in Yemen, they did not include Afghanistan, 15 years into America�s occupation, nor
Pakistan, which has borne the brunt of America�s drone war.
It is thus very difficult to figure exactly how they came by this list, with nations like
Iran seemingly just included for political value, and the other countries on the list
just sounding scary.
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A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron - Duration: 15:18.
OK, so today I want to talk about how we talk about love.
And specifically,
I want to talk about what's wrong with how we talk about love.
Most of us will probably fall in love a few times
over the course of our lives,
and in the English language, this metaphor, falling,
is really the main way that we talk about that experience.
I don't know about you,
but when I conceptualize this metaphor,
what I picture is straight out of a cartoon --
like there's a man,
he's walking down the sidewalk,
without realizing it, he crosses over an open manhole,
and he just plummets into the sewer below.
And I picture it this way because falling is not jumping.
Falling is accidental,
it's uncontrollable.
It's something that happens to us without our consent.
And this --
this is the main way we talk about starting a new relationship.
I am a writer and I'm also an English teacher,
which means I think about words for a living.
You could say that I get paid to argue that the language we use matters,
and I would like to argue that many of the metaphors we use
to talk about love --
maybe even most of them --
are a problem.
So, in love, we fall.
We're struck.
We are crushed.
We swoon.
We burn with passion.
Love makes us crazy,
and it makes us sick.
Our hearts ache,
and then they break.
So our metaphors equate the experience of loving someone
to extreme violence or illness.
(Laughter)
They do.
And they position us as the victims
of unforeseen and totally unavoidable circumstances.
My favorite one of these is "smitten,"
which is the past participle of the word "smite."
And if you look this word up in the dictionary --
(Laughter)
you will see that it can be defined as both "grievous affliction,"
and, "to be very much in love."
I tend to associate the word "smite" with a very particular context,
which is the Old Testament.
In the Book of Exodus alone, there are 16 references to smiting,
which is the word that the Bible uses for the vengeance of an angry God.
(Laughter)
Here we are using the same word to talk about love
that we use to explain a plague of locusts.
(Laughter)
Right?
So, how did this happen?
How have we come to associate love with great pain and suffering?
And why do we talk about this ostensibly good experience
as if we are victims?
These are difficult questions,
but I have some theories.
And to think this through,
I want to focus on one metaphor in particular,
which is the idea of love as madness.
When I first started researching romantic love,
I found these madness metaphors everywhere.
The history of Western culture
is full of language that equates love to mental illness.
These are just a few examples.
William Shakespeare:
"Love is merely a madness,"
from "As You Like It."
Friedrich Nietzsche:
"There is always some madness in love."
"Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love -- "
(Laughter)
from the great philosopher, Beyoncé Knowles.
(Laughter)
I fell in love for the first time when I was 20,
and it was a pretty turbulent relationship right from the start.
And it was long distance for the first couple of years,
so for me that meant very high highs and very low lows.
I can remember one moment in particular.
I was sitting on a bed in a hostel in South America,
and I was watching the person I love walk out the door.
And it was late,
it was nearly midnight,
we'd gotten into an argument over dinner,
and when we got back to our room,
he threw his things in the bag and stormed out.
While I can no longer remember what that argument was about,
I very clearly remember how I felt watching him leave.
I was 22, it was my first time in the developing world,
and I was totally alone.
I had another week until my flight home,
and I knew the name of the town that I was in,
and the name of the city that I needed to get to to fly out,
but I had no idea how to get around.
I had no guidebook and very little money,
and I spoke no Spanish.
Someone more adventurous than me
might have seen this as a moment of opportunity,
but I just froze.
I just sat there.
And then I burst into tears.
But despite my panic,
some small voice in my head thought,
"Wow. That was dramatic.
I must really be doing this love thing right."
(Laughter)
Because some part of me wanted to feel miserable in love.
And it sounds so strange to me now, but at 22,
I longed to have dramatic experiences,
and in that moment, I was irrational and furious and devastated,
and weirdly enough,
I thought that this somehow legitimized the feelings I had
for the guy who had just left me.
I think on some level I wanted to feel a little bit crazy,
because I thought that that was how loved worked.
This really should not be surprising,
considering that according to Wikipedia,
there are eight films,
14 songs,
two albums and one novel with the title "Crazy Love."
About half an hour later, he came back to our room.
We made up.
We spent another mostly happy week traveling together.
And then, when I got home,
I thought, "That was so terrible and so great.
This must be a real romance."
I expected my first love to feel like madness,
and of course, it met that expectation very well.
But loving someone like that --
as if my entire well-being depended on him loving me back --
was not very good for me
or for him.
But I suspect this experience of love is not that unusual.
Most of us do feel a bit mad in the early stages of romantic love.
In fact, there is research to confirm that this is somewhat normal,
because, neurochemically speaking,
romantic love and mental illness are not that easily distinguished.
This is true.
This study from 1999 used blood tests
to confirm that the serotonin levels of the newly in love
very closely resembled the serotonin levels
of people who had been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(Laughter)
Yes, and low levels of serotonin
are also associated with seasonal affective disorder
and depression.
So there is some evidence
that love is associated with changes to our moods and our behaviors.
And there are other studies to confirm
that most relationships begin this way.
Researchers believe that the low levels of serotonin
is correlated with obsessive thinking about the object of love,
which is like this feeling that someone has set up camp in your brain.
And most of us feel this way when we first fall in love.
But the good news is, it doesn't always last that long --
usually from a few months to a couple of years.
When I got back from my trip to South America,
I spent a lot of time alone in my room,
checking my email,
desperate to hear from the guy I loved.
I decided that if my friends could not understand my grievous affliction,
then I did not need their friendship.
So I stopped hanging out with most of them.
And it was probably the most unhappy year of my life.
But I think I felt like it was my job to be miserable,
because if I could be miserable,
then I would prove how much I loved him.
And if I could prove it,
then we would have to end up together eventually.
This is the real madness,
because there is no cosmic rule
that says that great suffering equals great reward,
but we talk about love as if this is true.
Our experiences of love are both biological and cultural.
Our biology tells us that love is good
by activating these reward circuits in our brain,
and it tells us that love is painful when, after a fight or a breakup,
that neurochemical reward is withdrawn.
And in fact -- and maybe you've heard this --
neurochemically speaking,
going through a breakup is a lot like going through cocaine withdrawal,
which I find reassuring.
(Laughter)
And then our culture uses language
to shape and reinforce these ideas about love.
In this case, we're talking about metaphors about pain
and addiction and madness.
It's kind of an interesting feedback loop.
Love is powerful and at times painful,
and we express this in our words and stories,
but then our words and stories prime us
to expect love to be powerful and painful.
What's interesting to me is that all of this happens
in a culture that values lifelong monogamy.
It seems like we want it both ways:
we want love to feel like madness,
and we want it to last an entire lifetime.
That sounds terrible.
(Laughter)
To reconcile this,
we need to either change our culture or change our expectations.
So, imagine if we were all less passive in love.
If we were more assertive, more open-minded, more generous
and instead of falling in love,
we stepped into love.
I know that this is asking a lot,
but I'm not actually the first person to suggest this.
In their book, "Metaphors We Live By,"
linguists Mark Johnson and George Lakoff suggest a really interesting solution
to this dilemma,
which is to change our metaphors.
They argue that metaphors really do shape the way we experience the world,
and that they can even act as a guide for future actions,
like self-fulfilling prophecies.
Johnson and Lakoff suggest a new metaphor for love:
love as a collaborative work of art.
I really like this way of thinking about love.
Linguists talk about metaphors as having entailments,
which is essentially a way of considering all the implications of,
or ideas contained within, a given metaphor.
And Johnson and Lakoff talk about everything
that collaborating on a work of art entails:
effort, compromise, patience, shared goals.
These ideas align nicely with our cultural investment
in long-term romantic commitment,
but they also work well for other kinds of relationships --
short-term, casual, polyamorous, non-monogamous, asexual --
because this metaphor brings much more complex ideas
to the experience of loving someone.
So if love is a collaborative work of art,
then love is an aesthetic experience.
Love is unpredictable,
love is creative,
love requires communication and discipline,
it is frustrating and emotionally demanding.
And love involves both joy and pain.
Ultimately, each experience of love is different.
When I was younger,
it never occurred to me that I was allowed to demand more from love,
that I didn't have to just accept whatever love offered.
When 14-year-old Juliet first meets --
or, when 14-year-old Juliet cannot be with Romeo,
whom she has met four days ago,
she does not feel disappointed or angsty.
Where is she?
She wants to die.
Right?
And just as a refresher, at this point in the play,
act three of five,
Romeo is not dead.
He's alive,
he's healthy,
he's just been banished from the city.
I understand that 16th-century Verona is unlike contemporary North America,
and yet when I first read this play,
also at age 14,
Juliet's suffering made sense to me.
Reframing love as something I get to create with someone I admire,
rather than something that just happens to me
without my control or consent,
is empowering.
It's still hard.
Love still feels totally maddening and crushing some days,
and when I feel really frustrated,
I have to remind myself:
my job in this relationship is to talk to my partner
about what I want to make together.
This isn't easy, either.
But it's just so much better than the alternative,
which is that thing that feels like madness.
This version of love is not about winning or losing someone's affection.
Instead, it requires that you trust your partner
and talk about things when trusting feels difficult,
which sounds so simple,
but is actually a kind of revolutionary, radical act.
This is because you get to stop thinking about yourself
and what you're gaining or losing in your relationship,
and you get to start thinking about what you have to offer.
This version of love allows us to say things like,
"Hey, we're not very good collaborators. Maybe this isn't for us."
Or, "That relationship was shorter than I had planned,
but it was still kind of beautiful."
The beautiful thing about the collaborative work of art
is that it will not paint or draw or sculpt itself.
This version of love allows us to decide what it looks like.
Thank you.
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