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- This week on Jerusalem Dateline.

Palestinians protest themurder of a prominent activist,

making some wonder howlong Palestinian Authority

President Mahmoud Abbascan continue to rule.

Plus, Israeli teams lend a helping hand

to those affected bythe Miami condo tragedy.

And "To Life," Israelivolunteers changing the world.

All this and more thisweek on Jerusalem Dateline.

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Hello, and welcome to thisedition of Jerusalem Dateline.

I'm Chris Mitchell.

Recently, thousands ofPalestinians have taken

to the streets of Ramallah and Bethlehem

to protest the death of Nizar Banat,

a prominent critic of thePalestinian Authority.

Some believe theunprecedented demonstrations

could pose a serious threat to the rule

of PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

For months, Nizar Banatposted videos on Facebook

accusing the PalestinianAuthority of corruption

and betraying the Palestinian cause

because it worked closely with Israel.

Banat also criticized PA President Abbas

for canceling elections thathad been scheduled for May.

They would have been thefirst elections in 15 years,

and Banat was a candidate.

On June 24th, Banat's familysays PA security forces

burst into his home,beat him with iron rods,

and arrested him.

He later died in custody.

After Banat's death and funeral,

thousands mourned him inhis hometown of Hebron.

And in Ramallah, protestors marched

on Abbas' headquarters,blaming the president

for Banat's murder.

They chanted, "The peoplewant to overthrow the regime."

PA Prime Minister MohammadShtayyeh says Banat's murder

is under investigation and vowed

to prosecute those responsible.

- [Translator] Whoever isinvolved in this matter

will be referred to thecompetent judicial authorities,

which gives everyone their rights.

And we ask the investigation committee

to complete its reportwithin the next two days.

- [Chris] Casting doubt on that effort,

journalist Nadia Harhashexpressed the frustration

of many fellow Palestinians.

- They didn't care and they killed him.

That's why it's so dangerousthat these people don't care

about anything, they don'teven care about publicity.

They don't care what anyone thinks of.

Because they know thatthey can get away with it.

- [Chris] The European Union,the main donor to the PA,

wants an independent murder investigation,

and the U.S. State Departmentsaid it was deeply disturbed

by the reports that non-uniform members

of the PalestinianAuthority security forces

both harassed and used force

against protestors and journalists.

Harhash goes on to blamethe international community

for enabling Abbas to basicallyrule over a police state.

- It's the internationalmoney that blesses

what's happening to us.

And they know that nobodyis holding them accountable.

And yet the internationalmoney enters their pockets.

It's not a Palestinian internal affair.

It is the international responsibility

that we're getting killedbecause we speak out.

- They must see that a 17-year dictator

is now using the security apparatus

which is funded by U.S. aid contributions

in order to crack down on dissidents,

in order to quash democracy.

- The high profile murder and protests

could also represent a seriousthreat to Abbas' leadership.

Polls show his popularity is decreasing

while support for Hamas,the ruling body in Gaza,

is growing.

Following the recent Gaza conflict,

a Palestinian poll showed Ismail Haniyeh

leading Abbas by 59% to 27%,

a margin of more than 30 points.

Before the war, Abbas led Haniyeh

by a single percentage point.

- It gained them atremendous amount of support

within the Palestinian population,

because that's unfortunatelyhow you gain support,

political support, inthe Palestinian sector.

- [Chris] That growth also elevated Hamas

on the world stage.

Lebanese President Michel Aounwelcomed the group's leader,

who also visited Morocco,Mauritania, and Egypt.

That tour happening whileAbbas faces an uprising

in the West Bank.

For some, it's one more sign that the end

of Mahmoud Abbas' rule couldbe just a matter of time.

While the PA faces major challenges,

Israel's new government is pressing ahead

with international diplomacy.

And as CBN Middle EastCorrespondent Julie Stahl explains,

one of the key arenas isthe United Arab Emirates

that signed historic peace agreements

known as the Abraham Accordswith Israel last year.

- [Julie] New Foreign Minister Yair Lapid

is the highest ranking Israeli official

to visit the United Arab Emirates

since the signing of lastyear's peace agreement.

- This is an historicmoment and it is a reminder

that history is created bypeople who understand history

but are willing to change it.

People who prefer the future to the past.

- [Julie] In the capital of Abu Dhabi,

Lapid dedicated the Israeliembassy in a ceremony

that included Jewish prayers

and placing a mezuzah on the doorpost.

- Israel wants peacewith all its neighbors.

We aren't going anywhere.

The Middle East is our homeand we are here to stay.

So we call on all thecountries of the region

to recognize that andto come to talk to us.

- [Julie] Lapid alsothanked leaders responsible

for bringing the AbrahamAccords to fruition,

the first peace agreement between Israel

and Arab nations in more than 25 years.

- To Israel's former PrimeMinister, Benjamin Netanyahu,

who was the architectof the Abraham Accords

and who worked tirelesslyto bring them about.

I want to thank former U.S.President Donald Trump.

- [Julie] Since the agreement's signing,

Israel has established severalhundred million dollars

worth of trade agreements with UAE,

and more than 200,000 Israelitourists have visited there.

Lapid also opened a consulatein the Emirate of Dubai.

- It's a place of life,of tourism, of business,

of dialogue between twotalented peoples who can

and who want to contribute to one another.

- [Julie] Ambassador Eitan Na'eh,

Head of Mission at theIsrael Embassy in Abu Dhabi,

told CBN News the AbrahamAccords opened the way

for a different future.

- I think the AbrahamAccords, first of all,

are a dream and a vision.

And now we are down torealizing it, materializing it,

and really rolling up our sleeves

and starting the hardwork of making it happen.

Creating the new model ofpeace and normalization

in the Middle East wherecooperation is the key word.

- [Julie] Na'eh said it doesn't mean

there won't be challenges, butthere's a strategic decision

to build normal relations.

- In a few weeks we will signquite a few more agreements

to really cement the cooperation

and the relationships to show peoples

and governments in the region

what true, close relationships look like.

- [Julie] Na'eh saidthey want other countries

in the Middle East to askthemselves, why not us too?

Julie Stahl, CBN News, Jerusalem.

- U.S. President Joe Bidenordered the U.S. military

to carry out air strikes against the bases

of Iranian-backed militia groups

near the border of Iraq and Syria.

Pentagon spokesman JohnKirby said the militias

were using the facilitiesto carry out drone attacks

against U.S. troops in Iraq.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

discussed those attackswith CBN's David Brody.

- Air strikes the Bidenadministration has just completed,

if you will, on some ofthese Iranian strongholds

in Iraq and Syria, what doyou make of that strategy?

- I'm glad they did it.

If you've got soldiers on the ground,

you have to establish tactical deterrence.

You have to make sure they know

that there'll be a real cost.

But second, if you allow proxy forces

of the Iranians to fire at Americans

and the Americans turnaround and fire back

at the proxy forces, theIranians feel no pain.

We made clear that we weren'tgonna let their proxy forces

serve as that intermediary todisconnect them from the risk.

So we made clear if you haveproxy forces come after us,

we were gonna go after Iranian targets.

I hope this administration isprepared to do the same thing.

If they're not, they're gonnacontinue to suffer attacks

and we'll have Americans killed.

- What do you think of on Israel?

As we rapid fire throughsome of these issues,

and just so much to unpack on each one.

Naftali Bennett, whatdo you know about him?

How confident are you that he will be

as strong a leader as Benjamin Netanyahu?

And evangelicals especiallywant to know the answer

to that question.

- Yeah, so only time will tell.

I know Prime Minister Bennett some.

I know, too, that he takesIsraeli security very seriously.

I also know he's got a coalition

that I cannot figure outhow he's gonna manage.

- Razor thin.

- It would be likehaving the Freedom Caucus

and AOC in the same caucus.

It'll be really difficult politically

for him to manage that process.

And so I wish him well.

It is important that this relationship

between the United Statesand Israel stay strong.

I regret that we're not doing our part.

It doesn't look like theBiden team is leaning

into the importance of this relationship

in the way that theTrump administration did.

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- In Miami, there's an ongoing search

for survivors at thedeadly condo collapse,

where work continues around the clock.

Foreign search andrescue teams from Israel

and Mexico are now on the scene.

Officials say this isstill a rescue mission,

not a recovery.

And the commander of Israel's team says

he's seen the impossible happen before.

Caitlin Burke has the story.

- Of those still unaccounted for

at the Surfside condo collapse,

more than two dozen are Jewishwith connections to Israel.

Now an Israeli search andrescue team is on site,

bringing decades of experience.

- We came because people arehere, lost their families,

lost their relatives,lost their loved ones.

And we are here as we are always doing

in the last 35 years all over the world.

- [Caitlin] The Israeliteam has seen this kind

of disaster before, and thecommander says he believes

they can still find survivors.

- Most like this place I found a man alive

10 years ago in Haiti after 100 hours.

And we still have hope, butthis site is very complicated,

and I hope that we'll find someone.

- [Caitlin] United Hatzalah,an Israeli non-profit

that provides emergency medicalresponse, is also in Miami.

Their psycho trauma andcrisis response unit meeting

with anyone affected by the collapse.

- What we're basicallytrying to do is we're trying

to make this process of thewaiting, of the unknowing

a process where they canbe active, be effective,

be helpful to the searchand to one another

by helping provide relief to one another.

'Cause they're all goingthrough the same thing.

They're all going through the same trauma.

- [Caitlin] Firefighters,who also make up elite

federal search and rescueteams out of Miami,

were some of the first to respond.

- Just when we firstarrived and what we saw,

the horrific, catastrophictype of collapse,

Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue, we were able

during that timeframe toremove 37 individuals,

37 individuals.

And we continue searching.

- [Caitlin] The Florida task forces

now helping search through the rubble,

looking for pockets of air or voids

where survivors could be trapped.

Governor Ron DeSantissays teams are working

under grueling conditions,all with the goal

of bringing victims home.

- They understand that in every one

of those condominium buildings were people

whose different family'sworld revolved around them.

Grandmothers, grandkids,brothers and sisters.

And I just thank themfor all their efforts

and I thank them forleaving no stone unturned.

And the families, we're gonna be there

for the long haul on this.

- As investigators continueto determine a cause,

the "Wall Street Journal"publishing a letter it says

was sent by the condoboard's president in April,

warning that significantrepairs were needed

and that the building had deteriorated

since a 2018 inspection.

An engineer who studiedthe 9/11 Pentagon attack

has been hired to inspect the collapse,

although it will likely be quite some time

before any real questions are answered.

Caitlin Burke, CBN News.

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- As America celebrates itsindependence on July 4th,

the country is going through a political

and cultural crisis.

Now one Israeli Americanhas written a book on

how the U.S. can learn fromthe experiences of Israel

to survive this crisis.

Well, David Rubin, thanks for joining us

on Jerusalem Dateline,great to see you again.

- Well, thank you, Chris.

- You've written a bookcalled "Confronting Radicals,

What America Can Learn from Israel."

Why'd you write the book?

- Well, it was duringthe George Floyd riots

when the American cities were burning,

when all of the monumentsto American heroes

were being torn down orvandalized or under attack,

they were changing names of schools,

and I just could not understand it,

because here it's not like that.

We have a very differentapproach to our heroes.

And I felt somethingneeded to be done about it.

I started to research it

and that's how the book got started.

- [Chris] So what canAmerica learn from Israel?

- Well, first of all,it's important to learn

from Israel's successes aswell as Israel's mistakes.

And Lord knows we've madea lot of mistakes, too.

So among our mistakes, socialism.

From 1948 until the early 1980s

we were a socialist country,Democrat socialists,

as AOC would say.

In addition, we have theproblem of appeasement.

In Israel, we appeased thePalestinians for many years.

We had the Oslo peace process, 1993.

That lasted for about 25, 30 years.

And it brought theworst waves of terrorism

that Israel has ever experienced.

In America, we had the defundingof the police movement,

which is an appeasementactually of the rioters,

of the looters in the hope thatthat's going to please them.

Well, the problem isthat when you appease,

it's like giving achunk of meat to a wolf.

It's going to eat the meat

and then it's going to attack you.

It's not gonna be enough.

Now Israelis understand

that you cannot appease Muslim terrorists.

It's important for Americansto learn that lesson as well

about the radical secular left.

When people are burning downmonuments to American heroes,

when people are burning American flags,

when people are burningBibles in these riots

in American cities, in those cases

it is definitely not about racism.

It's not about protesting racism.

It's about a Marxist revolutionthat is being spearheaded

by movements like BlackLives Matter and Antifa.

- Talk about some of theJudeo-Christian values

that undermine our civilization

and how can we protect those?

- This has been a decades-oldgrassroots movement

among the secular left tochange the values of America,

to tear down Judeo Christian civilization.

Now, the United States wasbuilt on Judeo-Christian values.

The founding fathers, ThomasJefferson, Benjamin Franklin,

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,

they all had that connectionwith the values of Israel

that are rooted in the Hebrew Bible.

Those are values thatare under attack today.

They've been under attack since the 1960s

when the left wingradicals of the 1960s went,

they seemed like theywere going establishment,

but they really didn't go establishment,

they just joined theestablishment to gain power.

The only way to combat it is

to have a similar grassroots movement

on the conservative side.

Learn from Israel, learnfrom Israel's successes,

Israel's mistakes, thevalues of hard work,

the values of family, ofthe traditional family.

The traditional familyis on the rise in Israel.

It's a good thing here.

And people are getting married.

More people are having more children.

We honor the traditionalfamily of a father

and a mother and children.

And that is the basis for agood, healthy, productive life.

Not a life based on handouts.

Yes, I want people to get active.

I want people to get activeon the grassroots level.

It's not just looking forsome savior in a president,

in a Senator, it's being active yourself.

- That's a great message for today.

Thanks for being with uson Jerusalem Dateline.

- Thank you, Chris.

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- [Gizmo] Pastor Aaron invited Chris

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- [Narrator] The massive earthquake killed

nearly 9,000 people andinjured 22,000 more.

In just a few moments,hundreds of thousands

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- I got a phone call, middleof the night, "You're going."

- We are now in Gongabu district

inside the City of Kathmandu, which is one

of the worst areas hit by theearthquake on last Saturday.

As you can see here, thedevastation is just enormous,

and the recovery processwill take long time.

- Within 96 hours after the earthquake,

we already have a fieldhospital here fully operational.

- [Narrator] The devastationin Nepal was extreme,

but for the Israelidoctors, it was nothing new.

When a catastrophic earthquakedevastated Haiti in 2010,

more than 200 IDF volunteers arrived

in Port-au-Prince to help.

In less than 12 hours,they built a hospital

on this soccer field, andover the next two weeks

they treated more thana thousand patients.

The dedication and efficiencyof the Israeli army doctors

caught the attentionof the worldwide media.

- One unit has become legendary,the Israeli medical unit.

- As you walk through this campus,

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You see a pediatric ward,you see a maternity ward,

a newborn intensive care unit.

- I've been here since Thursday, no one

except the Israeli hospitalhas taken any of our patients.

- I'm just amazed, I'mjust amazed at what's here.

This is, this is like another world

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