Josh Hammer
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first heard Jan 2025
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I remember, Josh, go ahead. No, I'm just saying, I mean, like, they actually genuinely believe this stuff. I mean, like, they really are out to get all of us. Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, they're not hiding it, Andrew, at all. No, I totally agree.
Great question. Lots to unpack on that, actually. So you're totally right. If you look at foreign countries' approval ratings of the United States, the state of Israel, Israelis as a whole, have an extraordinarily high approval rating of the United States, certainly of President Trump. President Trump as you can imagine, because he's so pro-Israel, is a wildly, wildly popular figure in Israel.
They literally named a town after him, Andrew, called Trump Heights in the Golan Heights. I know because I've been there, because I've literally, during Biden, took a photo of it just for the memories there. He's an extraordinarily popular figure there. Here in the United States, it's complicated for a few reasons. There is, I guess I'll explain it this way. The
The problem, Andrew, you're a Christian. Politics is very often downstream of religion. And when you have a strong biblically-based worldview, you're more likely than not going to end up with a conservative political worldview. That is why evangelical Christians, traditionalist Catholics, Orthodox Jews – I mean Orthodox Jews – But vote for Trump at like an 80-20, 85-15 rate.
I mean, so-called ultra-Orthodox Jews, a.k.a. Haredi Jews, it's really like 95 to 5. I mean, it's beyond overwhelming margins.
I mean, I'm religious. I go to Orthodox services there. The notion that you would find essentially anyone here where I go to synagogue in South Florida, you'll be hard pressed to find virtually anyone who voted for Kamala Harris. It's totally not a thing, honestly.
The problem is that demographically across the United States there, tragically, most Jews, the statistical majority of them are not Orthodox, are not religious there, do not observe all the various commandments of Jewish law there. And it's because of the secularization of large swaths of American Jewry, of the American Jewish people. That is why so many of them vote for left.
So one of the audiences for my book, Andrew, I mean, I have a lot of audiences here. I really want to reach young Christians. I want Christians to fall in love with the Bible, with the Old Testament again, with everything from Genesis through Psalms and Proverbs and all that. All that's in there there.
But I also have a special message to my fellow Jews as well, because I actually grew up quite secular. I have not become religious until the past few years or so there. And part of my message is actually like I did it. You can do it too. I mean, you know, the Jews are called to be a light unto the nations in the book of Isaiah there.
And the way that we are called to be a light unto the nations is to actually lead by trying to be holy, by trying to be moral, by actually observing God's law, the law of Moses and so forth there. So we have a very unique role to play in the kind of the grand scheme of things there.
And I really make an, and at times probably aggressive borderline acerbic argument to my more secular inclined Jewish brethren, basically saying like, you guys really ought to strongly consider doing this for real the same way that I made a conscientious decision at some point that I was going to start doing it for real as well here.
So God willing, as the religious demographics here in the United States change, the political results will change too. The good news, Andrew, is that statistically the demographics are on the side of Orthodox Jews because Orthodox Jews are actually marrying fellow Jews. They're having a lot of children. They're having large families. Reform Jews are typically marrying out.
They're not really having children because they're just secular like other secular.
All right. So I finished drafting the book, Andrew, this past October. So before the 2024 election, I mean, well before Donald Trump shocked the world with his comments about how the U.S. will take over Gaza. So none of that is addressed in the book.
I do talk in the book certainly about the need to finish the job against Hamas, a U.S.-recognized foreign terrorist organization, an organization that slaughtered and raped and beheaded and took hostage many American citizens as well, by the way. It's funny, Andrew. There are some people who kind of pump their chest and say, America first, not my problem there.
But Americans were literally slaughtered. Americans were literally taken hostage. I mean, October 7th, even on its own America terms, was the single largest American hostage crisis since Tehran in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter there. So So Hamas has to go.
And the question right now is frankly whether or not Prime Minister Netanyahu gets the message and acts on it because President Trump admirably has been crystal clear. He has been above and beyond. Do what you have to do. There will be hell to pay and this and this there. So the question frankly is really what Israel will do. The ball is frankly in Israel's court when it comes to eradicating Hamas.
In terms of what the actual future and the long-term settlement of Gaza ought to be, Look, Andrew, in my heart of hearts, I would prefer that Israel take it over. I'm not enamored with the idea of the United States having a permanent presence there, frankly. It's not my instinct because I'm not an imperialist. I'm a nationalist.
I fundamentally get a little skittish when it comes to the idea of America just kind of having an ever-increasing global footprint around the world. I'm open to the idea. I'm not totally opposed to it. I would like to hear a little more details as to exactly what President Trump has in mind. He obviously is an outside-the-box thinker, and I'm very open and willing to being persuaded here.
In my heart of hearts, I do think it's best, in theory, if Israel takes it over. But unfortunately, Andrew, something does have to happen to the Arabs there in order for Israel to take it over there. And that's kind of where this other part of Donald Trump's plan comes in there.
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