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If you want to be a part of the program, again, it's everything we've been telling you now going back to October of 23 and frankly for decades before because we've been to Israel so many times.
And that is, you know, this battle, this conflict against radical Islamists.
You know, what did we see in a 24-hour period?
A Muslim, you know, killing three Americans in Syria, five Muslims arrested for plotting a massacre at a Christmas market in Germany, the Paris, you know, Christmas festival concert and lighting canceled because of the rise of radical extremism and violence that took place there.
Two Muslims murdered 15 people at this Hanukkah party, the beginning and first day of Hanukkah.
We talked at length about the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide, the rise on college campuses, halls of Congress, you know, on the airwaves has never been louder.
The lack of understanding about radical Islamists is breathtaking to me.
I think you can, you know, just let's go to, for example, a comment that was made on fake news CNN.
You know, there was Abby Phillips, radical leftist, confronting a New York Post correspondent over the declaration that certain cultures are not compatible with us.
Listen to this.
I think we should absolutely select the best of the best.
It should be an individual choice.
But I think we can also acknowledge there are certain cultures that are not compatible with America.
Which ones?
Well, if we look at Europe, actually, there was a lawyer this week who argued that an Afghan immigrant who raped a woman shouldn't be charged or shouldn't have a penalty because his culture said that women weren't free and equal.
We're seeing 77% of rapes in France are from migrants.
So there is a real question that people on the right have about certain cultures.
What are the cultures?
The cultures that are okay with that.
The cultures that are okay with female genital mutilation.
So, I mean, is it Afghanistan?
Is it Africans?
Is it, what is it?
Like, how are we going to define that?
90 plus percent of women have female genital mutilation.
How are we going to define culture?
What about the people fleeing female genital mutilation?
Are you going to allow them in?
Are they allowed in?
I mean, if you are Somalia.
If you are Somali and you're a woman, you're also fleeing.
We're fleeing.
You're actually trying to fight.
You're bringing it with them.
The FBI is now arresting people.
If you want to leave another country, Afghanistan, because you want to be able to read, the United States says you are not allowed in because culturally you're not compatible with this country.
How does that make sense?
You know, here's what's missing in this conflict.
I'll give you an example.
If you buy into the radical Islamic thought of convert or die, that is incompatible with American and with Western values.
The problem with Europe and what Europe is now seeing, you know, and they have tried to capitulate, you know, and they want to be a multicultural society, but yet Great Britain has Sharia courts.
Those are not people that have wanted to assimilate into Great Britain society or no-go zones in France and other places or, you know, the instances where people do believe in female genital mutilation.
You know, how do you actually know what's in somebody's heart or mind?
I don't know how you ever ascertain or determine the truth or veracity of that.
However, I mean, unvetted people into this country, you know, last week there was testimony in the halls of Congress.
We have over 18,000 known or suspected terrorists that are in the country.
Among the Afghan refugees, Tulsi Gabbard said last week, over 2,000 of them have known terror ties that are in the country, but we don't know where they are.
Israel has had to deal with this.
They've been on the front lines of dealing with this, and then Israel gets criticized.
Even though hundreds of thousands of rockets have been fired into their country by radicals whose own charters call for the destruction of Israel, they've been surrounded by enemies.
Nobody, you know, what would you want your government to do if one rocket from one entity, whatever it happens to be, was fired into an American town or city, never mind 100,000 or hundreds of thousands.
What would you want America to do?
How would you want America to respond if something of the equivalent of October 7, 2023 happened here, where Israel has a very small population, under 10 million people, and they lost over 1,500 that day, murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, beheading.
I've seen the videos.
I've been to Israel many times.
I've been to border towns like Sarot and where kids play in underground bunker playgrounds because it only takes 12 seconds from Gaza to fire a rocket into that town.
And that's the number of years ago when I was last there.
Or the Iron Dome, I've always said, is a band-aid.
It does not stop radicalism or terror tunnel networks that are so advanced and sophisticated, all for the purpose of destroying Israel and wiping it off the map.
Death to Israel, death to America, and people chanting that.
If you come from a country, maybe you do want refugee status.
Maybe you don't support what the radicals support.
How do we possibly ascertain the good people from the bad people?
I don't know.
I don't know if there's a way that you can ever do that.
And is it really America's problem?
If you look at the borders left wide open under Biden, Harris, and Majorkis, over 200 countries, many were terror ties, including Iran and Syria and Egypt, Afghanistan, and so many others.
And all these people entering our country unvetted and let free into the country.
And what do you think that these 18,000 known or suspected terrorists are doing?
I would argue they're plotting, planning, scheming, an attack on our homeland.
And what you see happening around the world is coming to America.
This is a preview of coming attractions and the appeasement of those that have radical ideas and wanting to be, quote, multicultural, but not insist on assimilation has not worked out well for Europe.
It's not worked out well for Australia.
I mean, it was remarkable to listen to the Australian prime minister responding to questions about taking anti-Semitism seriously, saying that they have been warned more about the threats from right-wing extremist groups rather than the people that were responsible for what we all witnessed, the horror we witnessed over the weekend, and saying far-right extremism is a threat along with anti-Semitism.
Well, I don't see the examples that he's referring to.
Anyway, here to help us sort it out.
They're on the front lines of dealing with this every day.
You have Blaise Mishtal, vice president of policy for JINSA, a leading expert on countering extremism, Iran, and global threats.
Our friend Yahel Eckstein, president and CEO of the IFCJ.
Welcome both of you to the program.
You know, in Blaze, in a 24-hour period, we had a radical Islamist kill three Americans in Syria, five Muslims arrested for plotting a massacre at a Christmas market in Germany, Paris canceling their largest Christmas festival because of the rise of radicalism and radical Islamic crime in Paris.
Two Muslims murdered, what, 15 people at this Hanukkah party in Australia.
And we learned, too, that, you know, America is being targeted for an attack from the FBI we learned and the Pentagon we learned here in our own country.
What do you make of it all?
And what do you make more importantly of the lack of understanding worldwide?
Good afternoon, Sean.
Thanks for having me on.
You're absolutely right.
You know, Israel's enemies are America's enemies.
I heard that just two days ago from Ambassador Mike Huckabee in Israel when I was there with a group of American soldiers touring the country.
And unfortunately, in the span of 48 hours, I think he was proven exactly right with more examples than anyone should need.
It is a matter of culture of life versus a culture of death.
That culture of death doesn't discriminate.
It goes against everything that Israel stands for.
It goes against the Jewish people, but it also goes against everything that America stands for, the liberties and freedoms that our forefathers created for us here.
And if we allow them in, if we allow their ideas in, if we allow terrorists in to our societies, if we allow the normalization of claims of globalizing the intifada, then we shouldn't be surprised that this is what we get.
And so I think it's incredibly important that we not just secure our communities, secure our country, but that we continue to fight the extremists who represent the culture of death and want to do Israel harm, want to do us harm.
Yeah, let's get your thoughts on this.
You've been on the front lines in Israel dealing with the aftermath, but really for decades now.
Israel has had to withstand hundreds of thousands of rockets over the years.
I remember that one town that I just mentioned, throw 10,000 rockets over a 10-year period of time into that one little tiny city.
And I actually saw when I was there, I went there one day, came back the next day, and a kibbutz, meaning a community, had been attacked the night before.
And the lethality of the missiles being fired, you know, they become more lethal day after day, week after week, year after year.
Thank you so much, Sean.
It's so important for us to recognize, especially now, that it's not just about Israel.
It's not even just about America.
It's about the global West.
It's about people who sanctify life and freedom against those who are trying to destroy it.
And so there's so many fingers to point.
There's so many people who can do more, governments who haven't done enough, and policies that have led to this bloodshed.
But what I see is that each one of us needs to do what we can to take responsibility to bring more light in whatever ways we can.
Just now, I'm here in Israel.
We just lit our Hanukkah menorah, me and my family.
And the whole message is one tiny light can bring so much light to a dark room, one tiny flame.
And so when I go on the ground here in Israel, I'm not just looking at the darkness and the terror.
That's heartbreaking, and we're all facing it now.
But I'm looking at how we're able to bring light and how we're able to help.
Since October 7th, Sean, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has distributed 6 million meals.
We've placed thousands of bomb shelters.
We've provided medical equipment to hospitals.
We've gone into Syria when we saw that the Christian community there was under attack and built them medical clinics and distributed food boxes.
That when I hear you list all of the terror and hatred and killing around the world, my heart breaks.
And I'm also called to just declare this biblical word, hi meni, here I am.
And all of us together can help to save lives as there are those who tried to destroy them.
Quick break, right back more with Blaise Mishtal and Yael Eckstein, president of the IFCJ on the other side, 800-941 Sean.
There's a number more of your calls coming up at the bottom of the half hour as we continue on what is a very busy and also tragic and sad News Monday.
All right, our final moment with Blaise Mishtal and Yael Eckstein of the IFCJ.
What do you make?
I mean, this is not manufactured.
The rise of anti-Semitism.
It's in the halls of Congress here in the U.S.
It's on college campuses, as you know.
More and more people have become, you know, virulently anti-Semitic and frankly, not even embarrassed to express those radical views.
You see, you know, countries capitulating in the name of multiculturalism, and there's no vetting of people coming.
You know, I don't know how you've possibly vet somebody that comes from a country controlled by radicals, and I distinguish between radical Islamists and those that consider themselves Muslim, but there are a lot of radicals among them, and they're determined to destroy Western civilization.
And they say it.
That's why we know it.
Well, I think that there's we have to recognize that there is a spiritual warfare and there's an evil in our midst.
What we also know is there's a silenced majority that stands for these Judeo-Christian values, that stands for freedom.
Around October 7th and the Fellowship's Flag of Fellowship Project, we had over 1,300 churches across America plant 1,200 Israeli flags on their church grounds.
And yes, some of those flags got stolen.
Yes, some of those churches even got desecrated.
But they all went to proudly say, I stand with freedom.
I stand with Israel.
I was in New York last week.
I was in the elevator and someone came up to me and said, I love Israel.
I pray for Israel.
Israel and America have to stand stronger than ever now as we face these days ahead.
And so I think that, yes, we have to be careful who we let into our countries.
We have to recognize there's a real evil that's trying to destroy us.
But as individuals, as the millions of people who are listening right now, we can't just point our fingers to them, to the policymakers, to the politicians.
We have to each do what we can to raise our voice and say, I stand for freedom.
I stand with my faith in the public square with my chanuka menorah, with my Christmas tree.
I stand for this God of love and who sanctifies life.
And that's what I am going to live in.
And by doing that, each one of us can bring the light that will shine through the darkness.
And we have to make sure that the politicians, they are aware of this threat and make the right policies to protect us as well.
Well, keep up the good work, AL.
I love the IFCJ and what you're doing.
888-488-IFCJ as you provide for the displaced, not only in Israel, but in Europe and victims of war and terror.
Thank you.
Blaise, we appreciate you being on as well.
Thank you as well.
Let's take a trip down memory lane, Margaret Thatcher, about how you do not negotiate with people that are radicals and how you are to handle them.
As Winston Churchill said in the 30s, if you give in to aggression, there will be no end to the humiliation you will have to suffer.
Some people suggest there should be negotiations.
What is there to negotiate about?
You don't negotiate with someone who marches into another country, devastates it, killing whoever he stands in his way.
You get him out.
You make him pay, and see that he is never in a position to do these things again.
We have people that are dedicated to human destruction, to the destruction of Western civilization, to the destruction of Israel, to the destruction of Europe, to the destruction of the United States.
There is just an unwillingness among many to just face this simple truth and this simple reality.
Listen to Bill Esaley, is the first assistant U.S. attorney discussing a planned terrorist attack for New Year's Eve in Los Angeles that was thwarted.
The four defendants are Audrey Carroll, 30 years old.
The pictures, I think we have them somewhere.
We'll put them up here.
Audrey Carroll, 30 years old, Zachary Aaron Page, 32, Dante Gaffield, 24, and Tina Lay, 41, each from the Los Angeles area.
Each is charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device in violation of Title 26, United States Code Section 5861D.
We intend to file additional charges in the coming weeks as we finish reviewing the evidence.
The defendants are all radical anti-government members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which according to their own social media is an anti-capitalist, anti-government movement that calls for their associates to rise up and fight back against capitalism.
One of the leaders of the organization, defendant Audrey Carroll, helped organize an even more radical faction of the group called the Order of the Black Lotus.
Each of the defendants charged today was also a member of the Order of the Black Lotus.
Carol described this group to her co-conspirators as everything radical.
As detailed in the federal complaint, which we will now make public, in November 2025, Defendant Carroll created a detailed bombing plot to use explosive devices to attack five or more locations across Southern California on this upcoming New Year's Eve.
Carol and her co-defendant, Zachary Page, led the effort to obtain and build the bombs and to recruit others to join in their plot.
Carol's bomb plot was explicit.
It included a step-by-step instructions to build IEDs or improvised explosive devices and listed multiple targets across Orange County and Los Angeles.
Carol also made clear her desires.
She said, quote, what we are doing will be considered a terrorist act.
Carol and Paige also discussed plans for follow-up attacks after their bombings, which included plans to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs.
Carol stated that those plans would, quote, take some of them out and scare the rest.
Well, it's happening now.
It's globalized the Antifada.
If this weekend didn't wake you up, I don't know what will wake you up.
Joel, in my free state of Florida, Joel, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
It's good to speak with you.
I'm actually a neighbor of yours.
I'm in Naples.
Yes, sir.
What's going on?
Well, it's just disgusting to keep hearing attacks on Jews and Christians, too, but let's focus on the Jews.
I mean, they had plenty of warnings and they ignored it.
And how can you ignore the intelligence of the Mossad or the NSO or the briefings of that?
Because they've been so accurate on everything that they've done.
And Israel has a high technology on cell phones.
And they're some of the best developers on cell phone technology.
So I'm sure they tracked a lot of those conversations.
I don't know what you think about that.
Listen, I'm going to tell you something.
I mean, you know, thank God Donald Trump is president at this moment in history because he's taking a stand against open borders, which has created a national security threat that could have been prevented, the most preventable national security threat, and that is wide open borders and millions and millions and millions of unvetted people from over 200 countries, including countries with terror ties, into our country.
And just like the president's fixing the Biden-Harris economy and the Biden borders, now he's trying to deal with the mess of getting rid of people that had no business ever being allowed into this country.
And look at the pushback.
Look at the anger directed towards people that are doing their job, ICE agents.
I mean, Tom Homan over the weekend was begging people, literally begging them, you know, to stop demonizing ICE agents.
It's putting their lives in jeopardy.
A 1,200% threat increase against ICE agents.
So, you know, we live in a time and a place where, unfortunately, the ignorance abounds.
I don't even know what to say.
I mean, you know, I expect ignorance of the left.
I don't expect it from people that claim that they are conservative, but I'm hearing it from them too.
Or people that claim to be MAGA, I'm hearing it from them too.
We're seeing it in the halls of Congress.
We're hearing it on college campuses.
It's become institutionalized.
All the warning signs that Australia missed, all the warning signs that Europe has missed, you know, it should be an educational moment for our country, and it's not.
People are not waking up, and I hope they do because our safety and security is in jeopardy.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
Wish you the best, best holiday on the face of the earth.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
We have Chris in New Jersey.
Chris, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how's it going?
I just wanted to talk a quick sec, sadly, about Governor Newsom.
He posted an AI video of Trump and Heg Seth and Sean Miller in handcuffs.
And all I see is all these people talk about, oh, what a great meme game he's got.
When the only thing that pops in my head is seeing his greasy smile on TV talking about these laws he's signing and to law against deep fakes and AI.
Whatever happened to those laws.
Listen, Gavin is a tragic case, in my view.
I mean, his political ambition is overriding any bit of common sense he might have had.
I call him governor Tweety Bird, governor, you know, podcaster, governor.
You know, he's now trying to travel the world and headed to Brazil and making his trek around the country in the hopes of building up momentum.
There was an interesting article, I think you'll find this interesting, in Axios today, and it's called Inside the Newsome Takedown.
And it describes how his Democratic rivals are plotting to take him down.
This is not conservatives.
It talks about Democrats that are going to take him down.
And they've got different arguments they're going to make.
One, he's too liberal.
He's a coastal elite.
And they're going to go through his entire history as a former San Francisco mayor.
And, you know, then they're going to go after the scandals, the Newsome scandals.
I'm apologizing for having an affair with his campaign manager's wife.
I'm sure that will come up.
I mean, this is all an Axios.
You know, his behavior during the COVID lockdowns, he is, you know, the double standard, the French laundry, all of that.
His potential rivals, Democratic leaders, are like Roe Conna now going forward.
But you've got 20-plus years of Newsom in the public eye.
I mean, why isn't this guy spending time fixing his state and making sure that the people in the Pacific Palisades can get building permits?
They have the number one highest tax state for income taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes, highest poverty rate, one of the highest crime rates, highest migration rates.
And he's become a world-traveling tweety bird full-time podcaster, and he's not solving problems.
And, you know, he's driven California single-handedly into the ground.
So to watch that, that it's going to be liberals that take him down is pretty interesting to me.
You know, there have been past elections.
I'll share something with you.
There have been past elections when I start vetting Democrats that other Democrats that would never talk to me reach out to me or my team and they start feeding us information about their potential rival.
I can see that happening again.
Okay?
So that's going to get, you know, as we move towards 28, that'll get interesting.
I'm going to stay dialed into 26, though.
I know we have to buck historical trends, but I believe it's possible.
And I hope Republicans get their act together.
They get on message.
I hope that the economy bounces back in such a major way that every American will notice a profound and deep change.
Obviously, the president's controlled the borders, and that's my hope for 26.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program to my free state of Florida, let's say hi to James.
James, you're next.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, how's it going?
It's going good.
What's going on with you?
Sad day, to be honest.
I mean, sad weekend, to be honest.
That's true.
Let me hold on a lighter note, Dan.
Now, if you could do me a favor and give your listening audience a list of Trump's accomplishments, what he has accomplished so far.
And then if you could make another list, a separate list of what Trump could have accomplished if all these evil people who were handering him were not there.
And I'll hang up and listen to your response.
I appreciate the call, James.
The short answer is: I've done this in the past.
Just buckle up.
My first day back.
You know, we have our long vacation of the year coming up is going to be hit the ground running and lay out what the stakes are for 26.
You know, and there's going to be people.
There are already people.
You know, it's true.
It's only happened three times in the last hundred years that the party in power maintains control of the House.
Only three, only four times in the last 150 years.
So you have to buck historical trends and historical precedent for Republicans to maintain control of the House.
I do believe it's possible if all of you understand how high the stakes are, all progress will stop and America then will disintegrate into nothing but never-ending investigation,
impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, and they won't lift a finger to make any Americans' lives safer, more secure, the border safer, more secure, the economy better off.
For Democrats to win, they've got to hope we fail on the borders.
They've got to hope we fail economically.
They've got to pray for some type of tragedy that they can try and blame on Donald Trump.
That's not the greatest position to be in, in my humble opinion.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel, the rise of radical Islamists worldwide.
We'll have a full, complete report and how it's all connected to open borders, immigration.
It's on one continent after another.
Tom Holman weighs in on all of this.
He's also pleading with Democrats to stop demonizing ICE officials.
Lindsey Graham on what is the threat of radical Islamism.
The investigations into all of this, including the threats against Los Angeles on New Year's Eve that was discovered.
We'll check in with Nicole Parker, Paul Morrow, and also LJ Lawrence Jones and Maureen O'Connell.
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