Tucker Carlson

the decency of any person or any empire.

If a father is a good father, his kids are probably happy and well cared for.

If he's not, they're very screwed up.

If an empire is a benevolent empire, its protectorates thrive, and if it's not, they wither.

There is no place occupied by Israel currently that is thriving, and that would include the United States, not thriving.

This is just an obvious observation.

But it is incumbent on American Christian leaders to speak directly to their brothers and sisters in Christ who live under that occupation and to get their perspective.

It is not enough to take an all expenses paid vacation to Israel and spend three days in a conference center with preselected speakers selected by the government.

and Israeli officials and IDF officials and get your little helicopter tour of the Negev desert and all the rest, and then fly back to the United States and spew another government's propaganda to your parishioners, that is not enough.

You got to take a minute to talk to Christians who were born there and still live there and ask them the obvious question, how are you doing?

And one of the things you will find if you do that is that they're not doing well at all.

And they've been leaving.

They've been leaving ever since 1948, since the creation of Israel, when many thousands of them were expelled by the Israelis from their own homes.

Those homes were taken.

They were bulldozed or stolen.

A lot of them moved to the United States and their descendants are still here.

And they can tell you, if you would ask, how were they treated by the Israeli government?

Not well.

And if you ask Christians who live there now, they will tell you not only they're not well treated, but their religion is uniquely despised by the Israeli government.

Uniquely.