Israel’s Defenses And A Risky Demand

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Well, it's Friday, good news Friday at Wall Builders. Welcome to the Wall Builder Show. Thanks for joining us today, the intersection of faith and culture, where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. Wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders.show. Yes, I do the intro faster on Fridays because I like getting to the good news as quick as possible. David and Tim Barton about to share a lot of good news with us. David, kick us off, man.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Well, this is more like a Monday through Wednesday with news. And I was looking at news today, but saw good news tucked inside the news. So I'm going to do some news with some good news tucked inside it. Um, this is an article that caught my attention. It had some pieces in it that I was not aware of that America had certain policies, and I really like the policies. They make sense. I should have known we had them. But nonetheless, the the headline says House Democrats press State Department to disclose Israel's nuclear capabilities amid Iran war. So in the middle of this war with Iran, and in the middle of the ceasefire that was going with Gaza, that now Israel has had to whack Hamas because they haven't kept the ceasefire, and all the stuff that's going over in the Middle East, you've got Democrats saying we demand to know what Israel's nuclear capabilities are. Now, this is in the midst of all this rising, growing anti-Semitism in America, particularly in the Democrat Party. Um, there's an article we'll talk about probably later, maybe on a different program, where that the NEA, the Democrats are actually being sued by the Jewish members of the NEA because the NEA is being anti-Semitic to its own liberal, progressive Jewish members that are in their own midst. I mean, it's gotten so bad that Democrats can't even tolerate Democrats if they happen to be Jewish. So, and looking at this, it's this demand to Marco Rubio that you tell us exactly what Israel's got in the way of um and in the way of nuclear weapons. And so the the letter and you know, just thinking about this, it it's like a thief, in some ways, it's like a thief going to your house, knocking on your door, and saying, Can you show me where your alarm system is? And I want to know if you've got any guns in your closets. And, you know, I they want you to show and disclose all the defenses they have, everything they have that's a deterrent in the most hostile part of the world where they live. They're asking that publicly we know exactly what weapons they have, which is one of the most stupid questions I think I've ever heard. But it did come from Democrats, so maybe I'm being redundant.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

Well, it's also worth pointing out that this has nothing to do with America's position with Iran and why we want to keep Iran from having nuclear weapons. And so, really, all they're saying is we want to make sure all of the Muslim nations around Israel know exactly what Israel's capabilities are, and and maybe even where, if they have nuclear capability, where those nuclear capabilities are, so that if bad guys want to target somewhere specific, they'll know exactly where to do it. It it I mean, it really is one of those super dumb things that I mean, Dad, almost to your thief analogy. Um you know, maybe even though a lot of politicians are thieves, there might be a better parallel um, you know, somewhere along the lines. But uh, I mean, it really it it is that silly. You know, it's like a police officer that uh he pulled you over speeding, is like, oh, by the way, I need to know every gun that you have is your house. Like, no, that's that's not what this is about. If you pulled me over speeding, you you don't have the authority or even reasoning to say, I need you to tell me every gun that you've ever owned, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That that's again, not a perfect analogy, but that's how silly this is. This is not pertinent to the conversation of America's position with Iran. And I know some people might say no, because if Israel is a nuclear weapon, then it might change the way we view things. How? Why? Why would it change what we do with Iran or the Strait of Hormuz, or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera? So it really is one of these dumb posturing things that Democrats want to expose people and also levels of irony that with all of the fraud being exposed, uh, for example, in California, that Democrats are passing or working to pass the anti-Nick Shirley bill where you can't expose fraud. So we don't want we we don't want the American people to know how much fraud there is in California, but we do want Israel to reveal to all of the world and all of their Muslim neighbors that hate them and want to kill them exactly what their defense capabilities are. It's utterly ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

And just to add on to this, just so everybody knows, I know it's a top secret, but Israel has nuclear weapons. And Israel has a bunch of them. Because they're not gonna live in that part of the world with the technology they have and not have nuclear weapons. It's like America not having nuclear weapons. We went through the 70s and 80s with all this nuclear peace and demilitarization and get rid of all the nukes, and we didn't get rid of any of our nukes to speak of except the ones that were too old to use, basically. We're not gonna give up our own self-defense, and Israel really doesn't care what anybody else thinks about them. They're going to defend themselves. They're the size of New Jersey in a landmass that that Middle Eastern area, it's much bigger than the United States. So they're the little tiny country in this huge, massive land area surrounded by enemies who want to wipe them out. I guarantee you they've got nuclear weapons. They have too good of intelligence, too good of scientists not to. So it's silly. But now they're saying, well, we want to know exactly how many Israel's got. And as you can imagine, the signers on this would be AOC and Rashid Talib and Ilhan Omar and all the others that you would expect to be on this. Now, it's interesting. What I did not know about this is since 1969, back under uh LBJ and Nixon, we have had a policy of not telling people what we know that Israel holds. And so this is not a new policy. And there was someone that testified uh back in March from this from the State Department that refused to comment on whether Israel had nuclear weapons or not, and that would set the Democrats off even more. But I was pleased to find that we've been doing this since 1969, that we're not telling people publicly what our allies hold, what they do, what they're not gonna do. Um I think that's just wonderful that we've got those kind of secrets and we're keeping them. And I expect Marco Rubio to give this all the uh attention that it deserves, which is nothing more than to laugh at him when he gets the request. At least I expect that.

DOJ Records Show Anti-Christian Targeting

SPEAKER_01 6:30

All right, taking it over to Tim. Are we are we staying in the Middle East or are we headed somewhere else?

SPEAKER_02 6:35

Well, uh depends on how we apply this next topic of conversation. Uh it's about the Biden administration targeting Christians um in America. So I we probably could make some Middle East connections. Uh however, it's it's dealing with the DOJ releasing information that shows the Biden administration and as I say this, the the thing that was interesting about the report, it's not that now there is confirmed information from the Department of Justice from their own records of the instructions from people in the Biden administration to target and silence Christians. That that's not necessarily surprising because we saw that for four years. We talked about how crazy it was. What is surprising is the volume of the targeting coming from the Biden administration toward Christians. Uh, it was a 500-page report that came out. And by the way, that the title of the article says DOJ releases report alleging anti-Christian bias under Biden. Came out from the Epic Times and it it goes through again 500 pages detailing, and they're saying this alleged anti-Christian bias is the the way the article says it, because that's how articles are reported these days to make sure they don't get sued later for saying something they shouldn't. But when you read what's in the report, you're like, no, this isn't alleged. They literally were targeting uh you can go back to the 2023 FBI memo on radical traditional Catholics, uh, which, by the way, when the FBI identified how radical these quote traditional Catholics were, uh they they were citing a study done by the SPLC, which of course SPLC now has been exposed to some extent for they're not biased at all, Tim.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

They're they're they're they're like the you know purveyors of truth, they're the ones that decide who the good guys and bad guys are. I mean, they no, no, they've never done anything unethical. I don't know, I don't know why you have such a negative tone about SPLC.

SPEAKER_02 8:35

Just because they paid a dude$270,000 to host a a racist rally that they then fundraise to make$65 million off of that one event. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

But you're saying that they rant against Nazis and then they pay Nazis? That's so weird.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

You know, I just I I I can't imagine that there's any bias involved in what they do.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

I totally interrupted you. I'm so sorry. Go ahead. You were on a roll, too.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Oh, wait a minute. You're not sorry. Don't lie, bro. That's you're right.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

You're right. I'm not sorry, sorry, not sorry.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

But but to your point, uh, you know, one of the things that that that that the SPLC is gonna be in a lot of trouble for going forward. All the lawsuits that are are already being filed, but likely many more to come, the because when you look at stuff like what happened to Charlie Kirk, the SPLC had been targeting him as a member of hate, uh, his organization, the uh turning point USA and kind of all of their affiliates, all of the things that had been coming from those guys, SPLC, they they were in to some extent not just encouraging, but even inciting some of this nonsense. And again, uh this is going back to the Biden's uh DOJ tracking all the things they did and and they identify whether it was with the FBI, the IRS, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, uh, other agencies that were monitoring, investigating, and applying pressure to Christian groups. Uh, we know the people that were uh being arrested for praying silently outside of abortion clinics that were getting longer sentences than the violent protesters of some of the big riots that were happening in various cities. And so the article goes to highlighting this. The reason it's good news and not just frustrating because of uh exposing how bad the Biden administration was, the reason it's good news is because it's it's actually showing some transparency, a little bit like what happened with the SPLC when they were exposed for some of the ridiculous, fraudulent, evil things they were doing. It the good news is that the sunlight is becoming a disinfectant. And so people are are now having some exposure to go, oh, okay. So when y'all were saying stuff about how uh prejudiced the Biden administration was being against Christians, you weren't just making it up here are the receipts for those claims you were making. And so I I think the good news is that a lot of this is being exposed, and part of why, again, it's good news is because then it can be a learning curve for people to go, hey, we're not doing this ever again, which of course is what the Trump DOJ is now saying. And and this was only one example uh that they actually there were this article highlights there's also another report, um, an 800-page report from uh a department detailing the weaponization of the freedom to access to clinic interests, face act, etc. So there's a a lot of stuff that has come out. Again, the reason it's good news is from the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, that it's showing a lot of what happened, and certainly good that President Trump has put a stop to that. It's going a different direction now, but it's great that this is being exposed for what it was, and hopefully now we can officially put a stop to this.

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SPEAKER_00 11:54

And if I can add to that, Tim, that there was a stat in that report that really captured my attention, and it was like there were I I think they said there was like five to seven hundred um violent attacks on pregnancy centers, pro-life centers, uh, burnings, bombings, etc. I mean, where they destroyed facilities. And on the other hand, you had people outside kneeling and praying across the sidewalk from abortion clinics. There weren't firebombings or abortion clinics. It was basically prayer. And the Biden administration, on average, recommended a 27-month sentence for those who prayed and a 12-month sentence for those who actually used bombs and arson, et cetera. How you can look at violence and say, well, we'll give you 12 months, but if you prayed, you're getting 27 months. That's that in itself is the kind of bias you're talking about, Tim, that that really stands out. All right, we'll take a quick break.

Iran Pressure Campaign Through Oil Leverage

SPEAKER_01 12:48

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SPEAKER_00 14:06

Well, good news involves the Iran War. And the Iran War, uh, we suddenly now see that after Trump said, Hey, we're we're gonna hold things off and in the Straits of Hormuz, and I'm not doing anything else. I'm just gonna sit there and let uh Iran stew, if you will, in this situation. And suddenly in the last day, they've come back and said, okay, we're willing to make a bunch more concessions. And I I I gotta admit, I didn't quite understand what was going behind that, and I saw a news story, and that news story gave a lot of insight to what I was going to do for a for a Good News Friday story. So I'm gonna give the news story first. And this goes back to Wednesday when we had Congressman Bob McEwen on, and we were asking why are gas prices rising? And I mean, America's producing more oil than we've ever produced, why are prices going up? And I found this article that said that the global condition now is that global oil reserves have plunged at a record rate. They're lower than they've been since COVID. So they're down several billion barrels a day globally. So global production is through the floor, including Iran's production. And because even though America's boosting a whole lot, I had not thought about what the global demand is and how much more demand there is even than what we can supply. And so, well, we've got lots of oil, it's also supplying across the world, and that's driven the prices across the world way up. So the good piece of news that I had that that I was going to point to was what's happening with Iran, that Iran is now being forced to the table to make concessions, and it looks like there's three areas that Trump wants. It looks like they're willing to do all three. We'll know more about that probably over the weekend. But at this point, it looks like we're getting close to the very end of this thing. And there's some leverage that, again, I didn't fully understand about, but it it's the fact that Iran exports so much oil, and what they're doing is they're they're losing. Um since everything shut down and they're blockaded, they can't get anything out, they're collecting about 1.5 million barrels of oil every day that they can't move out of the country. Now, the problem with that for them is they've got about 122 million barrels of oil they can hold and they're almost at capacity. So they don't have any place to put the oil they're still processing. They're out about a billion and a half, uh, I think it's a billion and a half a week that they lose when they can't sell that oil, so they're losing money. But the oil thing I did not understand. If they start shutting down oils, according to these oil people who are experts in this area who do this all over the world, if they shut down oil, they most of their wells, many of their wells will never reopen, and they will never be able to go back to the capacity they had. And they were explaining, uh and again, this is this is stuff that I I didn't understand about the oil industry and how it works. But this is why Iran informed um Trump that they're in a state of collapse. They're about to lose their infrastructure, they have the capacity to have billions, billions, billions coming in, but only if they can sell their oil, and they can't sell their oil because we got them blockaded and they don't have enough space to hold all they're producing every day. So what what's happened with all this? And he's saying, look, we'll let you go back to making money, you get rid of all that nuclear stuff, you agree to not be aggressive to your neighbors, and he's got three conditions for them. Um but the the production cuts are what's really fascinating on this, and so as it turns out, if you shut down a well, it starts getting water. If water gets in, it goes into molecular structure that they can't get it out again, and it blocks the oil from coming out. So there's a process whereby it just seals that well. You're gonna have to drill new wells. Uh also the other things that they were talking about is the coagulation that goes, and I mean, it's all stuff that I that I just don't quite understand how it all works, except it's really clear that if Iran's wells get shut down, if they don't get this thing fixed really quick, um, they're not gonna be exporting oil, and if that happens, they're gonna lose a whole lot of their oil fields and a lot of their future wealth, which is gonna make them a much poorer nation, which is gonna make them open for revolutions that they don't want if they can keep control. So uh Trump, you know, again, has got these guys put in a box, and the fact that in the last 24 hours they've come and said, hey, we're willing to make greater concessions, we're willing to do other stuff, he he's just let them stew. And I was one that did not quite understand the pressure that was on them from letting them stew, which obviously Trump did, and it looks like it's producing good results. So that that war may be coming to a quicker end than it looked like it was even a week ago, and that's good news.

Surgeon General Nominee And Choosing Life

SPEAKER_01 18:41

Yeah, you know, guys, I'll I'll throw in there on that on that specific issue the uh you know, there's there's some people saying that President Trump is violating the War Powers resolution of 1973, and you know, I would argue that's an unconstitutional resolution anyway, because the president has the authority to be commander-in-chief and execute the laws and do all those things, and Adams and others early founding presidents uh had declared and undeclared wars and uh and didn't ask Congress for permission for a lot of those things. But having said that, he's been so smart in how he does this. So, you know, they did the ceasefire just long enough and at just the right time uh to get under the 60 days, and then you know, now things will start back up and it'll be a fresh clock on the 60 days. Now, granted, there's gonna be some in Congress that say that's you know it's it's cumulative or whatever, but um it's just I I I I just have to admire the um masterful way that this whole thing has been done. And I'm like you, David. I was I was getting not getting not frustrated, but I was questioning, I was like, you know, why isn't he just going going harder and and finishing and and I didn't realize a lot of these things you're talking about, that that pressure is just mounting in a huge, huge way. Um so yeah, we've all we've always said, hey, trust the guy in the room. Uh this is a good negotiator. He's he's the one getting all these great intel briefings. He knows a lot a lot of things that we don't know that are that are happening. So I would expect us to get more good news and more stories like that in the coming weeks. Tim, back to you, man. What's our next piece of good news?

SPEAKER_02 20:00

Well, this one deals with someone Trump just nominated for Surgeon General. And I gotta say, guys, uh, when I was reading the article, I I since Dr. Fauci, I just have a different feel uh and skepticism for uh a lot of uh high-level appointed doctors that are gonna give us medical advice uh on a high level. Uh obviously, Dr. Fauci was not a surgeon general under Trump, but he worked with Trump Surgeon General uh Vivek Murphy, I think was the guy's name. Uh anyway, not to digress. The good news about this one, Dr. Nicole Safir is the one that President Trump has nominated to serve as U.S. Surgeon General. Uh, why it is good news is not only was she a practicing doctor who did a lot with women's health specifically, um, she was a radiologist, uh, was director of breast uh imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth. Uh, she's a uh board-certified diagnostic radiology. I'm reading her titles right now, but uh ultimately she she helped women who were uh having to do the early checks and navigating and going through and hopefully surviving breast cancer. But why it's a cool story is because, and then by the way, this article is from Life News, and so they're gonna highlight uh some of the pro-life side of her story, and it really is cool. She was someone who got pregnant when she was 17, and and and she's been very open about her journey. Uh, she actually has a book that has come out called Love Mom, uh, Love, Mom, and it's all about the the greatness of motherhood and in an era where uh we we see a lot of young men coming to faith. Um, but it's really interesting to break down some of the dynamic that the young men tend toward conservative, and young women overwhelmingly are liberal. Young women um are not looking to get married. And this is overall, if if if there's young women listening to our program, you might be in a different category. But generally speaking, in America, young women are not looking to be wives and mothers, is not one of the ambitions they have. They've bought into a lot of this woke feminism uh non-biblical thoughts on the value of motherhood and family not to digress too much um her story is that she uh and and and this is part of of her testimony public interviews um is that uh she chose uh to uh to save two lives hers and her sons and the article goes through giving lots of details um but ultimately it's something that is an encouragement even her book is encouragement uh to young women to choose life and choose motherhood and guys it's it's been a minute since we had a high level medical professional in America that was encouraging things like choosing life and choosing motherhood so this is really encouraging in the midst of a culture that does not seem to be going overwhelmingly pro-life uh definitely something by the way as everybody listening one of the areas we need to make sure we help disciple rising generations the value of life that God is the author and giver of life and so many thoughts that go into that but the fact that we have a U.S. surgeon general that is someone that chose life and has a book encouraging young women to choose life and be a mother guys that is really encouraging.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Well it's a good it's a good good news Friday to share that Tim because this weekend's Mother's Day I hope you guys knew that and that you're prepared for Mother's Day. I just wanted to help you out by just kidding Justin told me on the break so our producer saved me because I had forgotten it's Mother's Day this weekend. But excellent piece of good news there and uh and I'm sure we'll all now have um two days to get a really good card. So we're way ahead.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Well I think guys isn't this like the the the husband hack that you just keep a couple of really good gifts uh in the cabinet somewhere and that way when it comes up you're like I knew this is for you I was so ready. So you just that's a future book right there husband hack. That's pretty good. You shop ahead have the right cards have some good options some good gift options um yeah it's no problem I'm always ready.

Eisenhower Fitness Test Returns To Schools

SPEAKER_01 23:58

That is where have you been all my life Tim I could have saved a lot of pain right there if you'd given me that vice a few years ago.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

All right David we got just a couple minutes left you got a fast piece of good news to finish this out yeah I I love I I love the way this article starts it says not everybody's a winner and I love that because we went through the softness of the last 20 years that everybody's a winner. I'm sorry when you run in a race when you compete on the court anything else there's only one winner. Not everybody's a winner and we convince everybody that they are winners. Trump is going back to instilling competition for American youth in education. He's brought back the Eisenhower uh physical fitness test for kids in school it was started in 1956 with Eisenhower. I remember seeing the videos under JFK uh just how fit America was and now we've really become very um health problem oriented because of all the obesity massive amounts of obesity America's never had amounts this high and all the health problems that go with it but now we're going back to schools are now going to be required to go back to that physical fitness test. Students are going to have to do things like a one mile run, pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, a shuttle run, all sorts of things that have not been part for a good while and that that self-discipline is so good in so many areas. I'm a firm believer that when you keep your body in shape, you also help keep your spirit and your mind in shape definitely your mind your spirit is not necessarily tied to the body in that way the you know the scripture is what you need there but I do know that that good physical fitness is is really good for mental sharpness as well. And so just seeing the nation go back to that kind of emphasis where we're willing maybe to suffer a little pain to get the result rather than just gratify every wish we have and every desire we've had which we've been told to do for 20 to 30 years. This is it's a small thing but it's a big thing to me and going back and putting that physical fitness test back in and having competition back again with young people I think it's really good for the nation.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Yeah and I would say David that you know not obviously your internal spirit but certainly your kind of your emotions your your attitude right a merry heart doeth good like a medicine and a broken spirit dry it the bones and and there's something about physically working out that that boosts your your emotions and your and your spirit in the in the right way.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

And I'll add Rick that that the self-control that you get from having to really as a scripture says buffet your body you can also learn to control your spirit a lot better and your emotions a lot better when you learn to control your body better. So I think it's got spiritual aspect well as you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Well I will admit that as you were rattling off all of those things pull-ups push-ups everything else I was I was kind of getting worn out or already just just hearing you make the list so uh we're out of time for today folks lots of good news for you hope you uh share that with your friends and family have a fantastic weekend you've been listening to the Wild Budder Show