Daron Spielman
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
Nice to see you, Ben. Thanks for having me.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
I think it's insane. I think we actually need to zoom out. If we look at this, let's say 20 years from now, a two-year period, Hamas goes over the border, they massacre 1,200 civilians, they take 250 hostages, they let some of the hostages go, and now they're back in power in the Gaza Strip.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
I mean, there has rarely been an example in world history, can we imagine doing this with Al-Qaeda, where a terror group is then gonna be encouraged to take hostages? It's an absurdity, it makes absolutely no sense. And the army today, I was in the Gaza border just a few days ago, the soldiers are committed to finishing this job. The state of Israel, even though our heart's torn over the hostages,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
is committing to finish this job. And the military plan that was put forth now is a plan that says we will hold territory, as opposed to doing strike, moving in and out, and we will push Hamas to the limit. This is the opportunity to finish them off. Giving them any type of state is a historical blunder and would not serve U.S. interests either.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
I mean, basically, it's supporting an enemy that denies Israel, denies Jewish faith, denies the sources, foundations of America.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
So the city of David is actually ancient Jerusalem. Most people think ancient Jerusalem is in the walls of the old city, which would make sense if it was anywhere else in the world. However, Queen Victoria sent an explorer to find the Ark of the Covenant 150 years ago, and he didn't find it or anything biblical in the old city walls.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
So one day he leaves the old city walls and finds a spring of water, walks through a cave, and finds a shaft. And when he climbs up, he uncovers an entire ancient city beneath the ground. After a short period of time, he realizes, wow, the ancient city of Jerusalem from the Bible, the city of King David, is actually outside the old city walls.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
And that is the site that I spent over 21 years excavating. And today, if you want to walk around with the Bible and pull stuff out of the ground and match the pages of the Bible, that's the city of David. Essentially, it is the the foundation of Jewish, Christian, and American faith. And every time we find something, Ben, it sends out shockwaves.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
One part of the world cheers when we find a name that matches from the book of Jeremiah. However, another part of the world, the part of the world you just mentioned, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood that have been denying Israel's history as part of this campaign, they then circle the site and say, that's something we have to stop.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
And that's what the city of David's been facing.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
That's why they call it, right, Ben, the Al-Aqsa flood. They didn't call it the Gaza war. They didn't call it the war to take over southern Israel. Al-Aqsa is the Temple Mount, right? So I stood on October 8th on the southern border in massive wreckage, hundreds and hundreds of cars, I describe it in When the Stones Speak, that had just been obliterated. And the smoke was still coming out of them.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
And I opened up the door. I could see the driver's registrations there. And I looked around. I said, this is a flood. But they're not calling it Southern Israel Flood. Their whole intention, it goes back to al-Aqsa, to the foundations of Jewish belief. And they have spent decades, and we saw this in the city of David, denying the foundations of Jewish belief.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
Every time we found something, they would claim it was a Zionist plot. And to the point at which we found this incredible road, which you've been on, this pilgrimage road that stretches all the way up to the temple. It's the most miraculous thing ever. And they threatened not the Jewish workers. They threatened our Arab workers until the Arab workers quit.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
And when that didn't work, they tried to assassinate the head of the city of David. And when that didn't work, they took us to court. They even enlisted the State Department in the Obama presidency, all because they realized that when we uncover this foundation, it dies. bashes and obliterates this entire Palestinian narrative out of the water.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
And as you've talked about so eloquently, this is now spilled over onto American campuses. This is the battle in Israel and in the United States.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
You know, Ben, the time that this really struck me and why I wrote this book is I was explaining this to Leslie Stull. She came to the site to do 60 Minutes, and she brought her husband with her. She said to me for the first time ever of any shoot she's ever done, Leslie Stull from 60 Minutes, I show them the clay seals that we found of the two people that tried to kill the prophet Jeremiah.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
She's blown away. Her husband is crying. Then the show begins. It was like windshield wipers. The smile's gone. She never mentioned those whatsoever. The only thing she talked about was the fact that we were digging underneath Arab homes and Arab homes are falling under, which the reality is exactly the opposite.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
In addition to preserving archaeology, we have spent so much money that the only homes in the entire area that now have supports underneath them are the Arab homes we've actually dug beneath because of what we've built. And at that moment, I realized if Leslie Stahl, if I did a whole 60 Minutes episode and she can't get off the story, I have to write the story of the city of David.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
And that's basically why I wrote the book, because these challenges and the efforts to stop the archaeology are so intense and they affect Jews all over the world on campus. They affect Americans because the founding fathers of America, of course, died. The Liberty Bell, Declare Liberty, all these symbols come from the Bible.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
If you wither away, if you chop away at the Jewish Bible, there's nothing left for any of us. And that's exactly what the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, their head, by the way, the U.S. still keeps talking about, certainly in the Biden administration, he should head the new Gaza. He said three weeks ago on the news that the temple is in Yemen.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2198 - Left FREAKS As Trump Accepts White Refugees
So, you know, it's right up to the top when it comes to this.