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April 29, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
09:22
What Will Come Next?
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Judging Trump vs. Judging Palestinians 00:09:10
The attempt to kill as many Israelis as possible on the part of Iran and, of course, the part of Hamas.
I feel bad for you if you have a Hamas supporter, which is the same thing as Palestinian supporter, just like German supporter in 1943 was a Nazi supporter.
Nobody who said, I'm for the Germans, was for the Germans, but not for the Nazis.
The ability of people to delude themselves, I am convinced as many people fool themselves as they try to fool others.
I feel bad for you, and I mean it.
If you have a relative or friend who's anti-Israel, that is sort of the litmus test of our time.
How you react to the Middle East.
And there are some on the right who have failed the test, to be perfectly honest.
It's dispiriting.
But I live with disappointment because I don't expect much from human beings.
To be perfectly honest.
Yeah.
That's right.
Let's see.
I'm having one of my favorite observers of the scene in the Middle East on at the bottom of the hour.
I'm going to go to the Trump trial.
What is it, 35 felonies he's accused of or something?
Did you see that?
Yeah.
It's unbelievable.
He paid a woman with whom he had a one-night stand.
Well, he denies it.
He denies it, I'm sorry.
He's accused of paying a woman not to say anything.
It was a one-night stand.
Now, just for the record, I'm opposed to adultery and I've never committed it.
Okay?
Just for the record.
Having said that, I have never judged people on that issue, certainly not politicians.
Billy Graham had a very powerful statement.
Well, it was about Bill Clinton, and I don't think he was a big Bill Clinton fan.
Do you remember what Billy Graham said?
It was very insightful.
He said, don't judge him until you have as many opportunities as he does.
Yeah, they're very powerful.
Exactly right.
You know, most men go to work, come home.
Right?
But other people have other men go to work.
And have any number of women throw themselves at them for whatever reason.
They're rich, they're powerful.
Whatever attracts women, those two are big ones.
Famous.
The ease with which people judge people, they don't judge, it's amazing, they don't judge the Palestinians, but they do judge Trump.
Or for that matter Clinton.
I'm not defending either act.
Clinton I actually do judge because I believe he raped a woman.
His serial philandering was quite obnoxious to say the least.
But if he had done good for the country I would be more interested in that than I would be in his personal sins.
Judging is a complex matter because we are called to judge the notion, don't judge others, right, because the mode in your own eye and so on, but...
But if you do judge, you will be judged by the same standards.
People forget the rest of the admonition in the New Testament.
The idea that we are not to judge ever is actually an immoral idea, and it's certainly not made by Jesus, and it's not made by the Old Testament.
Now, there's a great phrase in Hebrew, don't judge your neighbor until you're in his place.
That's a very powerful thing, and I have understood that.
I understood that when I was seven, and I understand that now, and I understand it better now.
You don't know the demons that animate somebody.
That's why I restrict my judgments to clear good and evil issues.
That's where it matters, where it's clear and it's evil.
Otherwise, I give a lot of slack to people.
Even Bill Clinton, although I don't, because of the, I believe he raped a woman, and what he did was way more than Donald Trump did.
The Wall Street Journal had a very powerful piece defending Trump on this matter, and they don't like Trump.
They don't want him to be the nominee.
They're not pro-Trump, but they are pro-justice and pro-truth.
The Statue of Limitations has already taken place with the Trump alleged payoff to Stormy Daniels.
So, the...
The DA has simply decided to make them felonies which don't have a statute of limitations.
Generally speaking, a Republican has as much a chance to be acquitted, a conservative has as much a chance of being acquitted by a Washington D.C. or New York jury as a black did with a white jury in And Jim Crow South.
Apropos of nothing, but I am thinking about it because I'm reading a biography of President James Garfield, who was one of the presidents who was assassinated.
Poor thing.
He was a good man by every account.
A really good man.
And he feared that he would only be remembered for having been assassinated.
The reason that I raise him as an issue, I'm reading the biography of James Garfield, and I'm up to the Civil War.
But the point I want to make has nothing to do with the Civil War.
Or slavery.
It has to do with his diary entries.
And each chapter of the book opens up with a quote from James Garfield's diary.
Do you recall that?
And every quote is Shakespeare.
He quoted Shakespeare constantly.
When I read about James Garfield, we're talking about the middle of the 1800s.
When I read about James Garfield's curriculum in either college or high school, I think it was college, it was so much more rigorous.
The amount of learning was so much greater than takes place anywhere, including Harvard.
He had to know Greek and he had to know Latin.
At Harvard, by the way, you had to know Hebrew till 1800 or you couldn't graduate.
This country was founded on the Bible.
And that's what people really mean by white supremacy.
That's what they really mean.
The values that permeated this country, which was largely white.
We're Judeo-Christian.
And if you don't like the term Judeo-Christian, you're ignorant of basic theology.
One Of Many Reasons 00:00:26
They're the only two religions on earth that share a Bible.
Two-thirds of the Christian Bible is the Hebrew Bible.
And they both share that.
One of the many reasons that there is such a thing.
Judeo-based Christians.
Founded the United States of America.
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