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Sean Hannity just banned this top Republican from his show June 7, 2023...Sean Hannity is a go-to destination for Republicans running for President. But not for one contender.
Sean Hannity just banned this top Republican from his show
Sean Hannity is a go-to destination for Republicans running for President.
But not for one contender.
And Sean Hannity just banned this top Republican from his show. RINO former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will announce his intention to run for President this week in New Hampshire.
Christie’s sole motivation is to act like a suicide bomber focused solely on trying to destroy Donald Trump’s campaign.
Christie allies told Axios Christie will run as a “happy warrior who speaks his mind, takes risks and is happy to punch Donald Trump in the nose.”
The former New Jersey Governor claimed Trump was a failure saying Trump “can’t be a credible figure on the world stage; he can’t be a credible figure interacting with Congress; he will get nothing done.” Christie said his unique lane in the race is attacking Trump as Christie claims Trump has never been “called out . . . by somebody who knows him. Nobody knows Donald Trump better than I do”.
Normally candidates like Christie would quickly schedule an interview with Hannity upon declaring their campaign.
That’s because even though ratings are down on Fox News in the wake of firing Tucker Carlson, Hannity still reaches a big audience through his radio and TV show.
But Sean Hannity has no time for giving Christie a platform to carry out his anti-Trump jihad.
Hannity said he won’t have Christie on his show since Christie’s only goal is not to win the nomination, but to stop Trump.“I’m looking at this and I’m saying, ‘OK, you’re only getting in this race cause you hate Donald Trump and want to bludgeon Donald Trump.’ I don’t see Chris Christie actually wanting to run and win the nomination. He views it as his role to be the enforcer and to attack Trump,” Hannity explained.
Hannity added that Republicans didn’t want to hear Christie’s anti-Trump whining and that Christie left office in New Jersey as one of the most detested political figures in history.
“You know what? That’s not a very inspiring agenda, and I don’t even know if I’m interested in facilitating or listening to him babble on when he left office with nobody in New Jersey even liking him,” Hannity said.
A 2017 Quinnipiac poll from the end of Christie’s term found just 15 percent of New Jerseyans approved of Christie.
Christie ran for President in 2016 as one of the great hopes for the RINO establishment. But GOP voters had no interest in the pro-gun control, pro-amnesty, pro-illegal spying RINO.
Christie dropped out of the race after a poor sixth place showing in New Hampshire.
And now Christie somehow thinks a RINO that GOP voters detest is the man who will take down Donald Trump.
FORTRESS FROM THE TIME OF DAVID... A fortified complex from the time of King David (Iron Age, eleventh to tenth century BC) was uncovered in Hispin.
FORTRESS FROM THE TIME OF DAVID
Historical find on the Golan Heights
A fortified complex from the time of King David (Iron Age, eleventh to tenth century BC) was uncovered in Hispin. The excavation site is located on the Golan Heights and is the first find of its kind in this area. Archaeologists believe that the fort was built by the Kingdom of Geshur, King David’s ally, enabling more effective control over the region around.
The excavation was part of the usual routine when Israel engages in a public works project like a new highway or water line. Residents of Hispin and Nov, as well as young people from Natur, Kfar Hanasi, Elrom, Metzar and Katzrin all volunteered to help.
Barak Tzin and Enno Bron acted as excavation overseers on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. They describe the unearthed complex as follows: “It is a strategically favorable location on the small hill above the El Al Gorge. Walls made of basalt blocks, 1.5 meters thick, fortified the hill. We are most amazed at a large basalt stone with a schematic engraving of two horned figures with outstretched arms.”
In 2019, as part of the Bethsaida excavation headed by Rami Arav from the University of Nebraska, a figure carved into a cult stone stele was found. The stele, which depicts a horned figure with outstretched arms, once stood next to the city gate. This scene was identified by Arav as a representation of the moon god cult. The Hispin stone was on a shelf near the entrance, and not one, but two figures were depicted on it. According to archaeologists, it is conceivable that someone imitated the Bethsaida stele here.
Bethsaida is considered by scholars to be the capital of the Aramaic Kingdom of Geshur, which ruled the central and southern Golan 3,000 years ago. According to the Bible, the kingdom had diplomatic and familial relations with the House of David. David’s fourth wife, Maacah, was the daughter of Talmi, king of Geshur. Localities of the Kingdom of Geshur are known along the Sea of Galilee, including Tel En Gev, Tel Hadar and Tel Sorag, but few places are known in the Golan. The newly discovered complex in Hispin raises questions about the settlement of the Golan in the Iron Age.
The Ministry of Construction has now changed the zoning plan to make the unique fortified complex accessible for educational archaeological activities. The aim is to ensure that the story is not only conveyed through books, but also through the experience of the work on-site in order to strengthen the bond between the young generation and its historical roots.
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COSTLIEST HEBREW BIBLE, 1,100 YEARS OLD, SENT HOME TO ISRAEL;Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased for Tel Aviv’s ANU Museum at a Sotheby auction for $38.1 million.
COSTLIEST HEBREW BIBLE, 1,100 YEARS OLD, SENT HOME TO ISRAEL
Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased for Tel Aviv’s ANU Museum at a Sotheby auction for $38.1 million.
The 1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for $38.1 million on May 17, making it the most expensive Jewish manuscript ever sold.
The codex will become part of the core exhibition and permanent collection of ANU — Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. (Anu means “us” in Hebrew.)
The Codex Sassoon — named after its most notable owner, Judaica collector David Solomon Sassoon, who died in 1942 — dates to around 900 CE and consists of 24 books presented in 792 pages made from several hundred sheepskins weighing a total of 26 pounds.
The rare Bible is said to have been written by a Jewish scribe in the Levant and was last publicly displayed 30 years ago.
It was purchased by the American Friends of ANU through a donation of American attorney and diplomat Alfred H. Moses of Washington, DC, and the Moses family.
“The Hebrew Bible is the most influential book in history and constitutes the bedrock of Western civilization,” Moses said.
“It was my mission, realizing the historic significance of Codex Sassoon, to see that it resides in a place with global access to all people. In my heart and mind that place was the land of Israel, the cradle of Judaism, where the Hebrew Bible was originated.”
Irina Nevzlin, chair of ANU’s Board of Directors, noted that the manuscript is returning to Israel “on the eve of Shavuot, the holiday of giving the Torah, to a place where it will forever be available to the general public.”
“ANU embodies the Jewish narrative and safeguards the values, legacy, heritage and identity of the Jewish people,” Nevzlin said.
“We will be eternally grateful to Ambassador Moses and his family for ensuring that the most treasured, historic and complete Bible in existence will be permanently displayed at the world’s largest Jewish museum.”
Orit Shechem Gober, the museum’s chief curator, said, “Accepting the Sassoon Codex into our museum collection is like winning the lottery of history. There are almost no words to describe how exciting it is for us as a museum to present an item so significant to the history and culture of the Jewish people. This is undoubtedly the most important event in my life as a curator.”
Antifa and Armenian Parents Clash at California School Board Meeting Over Required LGBTQ+ Activities 06.07.23 | Tony Kinnett | Daily Signal
Antifa and Armenian Parents Clash at California School Board Meeting Over Required LGBTQ+ Activities
Several fights broke out between Antifa and parental rights activists outside of the Glendale Unified School District’s administration Tuesday night during a school board meeting discussing LGBTQ+ curriculum.
Law enforcement arrested three individuals amid the mayhem after the protest “exceeded the bounds of peaceful assembly,” the Glendale Police Department announced Tuesday night.
Following the Glendale school board’s decision to incorporate LGBTQ+ “Pride” festivals and celebrations into June school days, dozens of parents pulled students from classrooms—with some elementary schools seeing only 40% of students show up for class on June 2.
Additional documents revealed that Glendale staff have attempted to incorporate LGBTQ+ materials and ideology into other curriculum. One assistant principal even told staff to teach children that every person is, by default, “queer” and “socialist.”
Parents from the traditionally conservative Armenian and Hispanic communities in Glendale planned to protest the board’s decisions at an upcoming school board meeting. Antifa Southern California called for activists to counter protest against these parents, whom they labeled “hate groups.”
Several parents told Glendale’s board that they were concerned with Glendale’s transgender policies, such as allowing students of the opposite sex to use the same bathrooms and locker rooms, putting their children at risk.
One father told the board:
I graduated from Glendale in ‘96, and I have two daughters. My daughter is afraid to change in the locker room because she knows another guy could come into the room. When I asked the principal, he told me there were no cross-gender bathroom policies.
Other parents previously told The Daily Signal that their children changed in locker rooms with students of the opposite sex multiple times, and that this is standard practice in Glendale.
The father finished by telling the Glendale board: “All of these fake people [pointing to several masked crowd members] are going to go away, and we’re going to vote every one of you [pointing to the school board] out.”
About 42 minutes into the meeting, Board President Nayiri Nahabedian stopped the public comment session as law enforcement locked down the building due to disturbances outside. The board meeting went into recess for almost 20 minutes while police attempted to manage the situation.
According to footage from Los Angeles news networks and on-site independent journalists, masked progressive protesters in pink bandanas and progress flags traded blows with Armenian and Hispanic parents.
Glendale police then announced over loudspeakers that the assembly was now considered “unlawful” and ordered the crowds of protesters to disperse. They then arrested at least three members of the crowd on “various charges.” The department did not specify either the affiliations of the suspects or the charges involved.
Many of the speakers claim it is essential to teach children about LGBTQ+ topics, even though critics claim some of the materials are sexually explicit, even pornographic.
“Schools should teach kids to grow up in a diverse world, with different colors, religions, and sexualities,” one woman shouted at the board. Most of the pro-LGBTQ+ speakers shouted into the microphone, causing it to short out momentarily.
Several of the speakers turned their attention towards the parents protesting Glendale’s LGBTQ+ policies.
A man in a skirt, high-heel boots, and a women’s leather jacket who claimed to have three daughters told the board: “Their ideology is the same as the Proud Boys. Hiding their hate behind their kids just as Proud Boys hide behind their masks.”
A speaker claiming to be a representative from the “Revolutionary Communists” told the board that all socialists had a duty to protect LGBTQ+ students from “Christofascism.”
One Glendale teacher used her time to lecture white and Armenian Americans:
[I volunteer] extensively in South LA and work with the children’s hospital of Los Angeles with queer/trans youth in large groups, and so I deal with a lot of their trauma related to the hetero-normative, Judeo-Christian, patriarchal, imperialist, capitalist system that oppresses them.
And so, I’m not just here in support of our LGBTQ youths, it’s all connected. I’m here in support of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training because white people participate, for example, in the largest social welfare program in the history of the United States, and yet—now they put their hands up in the air and look at our housing crisis.
Armenians talk about the genocide that they received SSI, but they don’t want to talk about the indigenous genocide in 1850, and the lack of reparations for indigenous and black people in this country.
They don’t want to talk about—how dare you talk about how marginalized people come here…and you don’t want to talk about the oppressed trans youth who… you know those kids aren’t even learning to learn in this.
[At this point a bell sounded as her time speaking was up]
One in two will commit—attempt suicide and 95% know that they are “trans” when they are three, four, and five.
While the teacher didn’t explain what genocide occurred in 1850, what “SSI” was, or from what social welfare program “white” people supposedly benefit, progressive members of the crowd cheered as she sat down.
As of 9 p.m. Pacific, crowds outside had not yet dispersed, though Glendale police were ordering all to leave or face arrest for unlawful assembly.
The Glendale Unified School District did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment on the events of June 6 or the district’s LGBTQ+ policies.
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Antisemitism Is Rising in America, Left and Right. The Bible Helps Explain Why, Philos Project Leader Says. 06.07.23 | Tyler O’Neil | Daily Signal
Antisemitism Is Rising in America, Left and Right. The Bible Helps Explain Why, Philos Project Leader Says.
ORLANDO, Fla.—The greatest tool for fighting antisemitism is the Bible, and Jew-hatred is on the rise in the U.S. because Americans are less and less familiar with the holy text, a Christian leader warns.
Antisemitism “is on the rise in general,” Luke Moon, deputy director at The Philos Project and leader of Philos Action League, told The Daily Signal. Philos Action League mobilizes Christians to fight antisemitism.
Speaking with “The Daily Signal Podcast” late last month at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Moon said Jew-hatred is “on the rise because we as an American society are becoming less biblically literate, less connected to the Bible.”
“You find that people who are biblically literate tend to have a more positive view of Jews and Israel, and as a result, as that declines, so does any kind of affinity, any kind of knowledge,” he said.
“So it’s very easy for those tropes, the scapegoating of the Jewish people, to begin to rise,” Moon explained. “That’s what you see groups like the Goyim Defense League taking advantage of when they go after Jews … they’re like, here’s the 12 Jews that are wanting to take away your guns. So they’re using issues that the Right is very concerned about and weaponizing them against the Jews.”
Moon also noted the rise in antisemitism on the Left.
“Antisemitism on the Left is ‘I love Jews and hate Israel,’ and on the Right it’s ‘I love Israel and hate Jews,’” he said. He noted that student groups at the University of California, Berkeley, law school pledged not to invite speakers who have supported Zionism or “the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”
Moon also noted that Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., supported a resolution lamenting the establishment of the state of Israel as a catastrophe, or “Nakba,” for “the Palestinian people.”
“I don’t think it’s a very positive view of society when you’re celebrating the destruction of the Jewish people or the attempted destruction of the Jewish people. It’s a problem,” Moon said.
The Philos Project leader also addressed concerns about antisemitism among traditional Roman Catholics. The FBI recently drew attention to this issue by rescinding an internal memo citing the Southern Poverty Law Center on “radical-traditional Catholic hate groups.”
The SPLC, which routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian groups “hate groups,” placing them on a map with KKK chapters, justified attacking traditional Catholics by accusing them of antisemitism, an accusation many loudly deny.
Moon said Roman Catholic antisemitism is “not very common, but again, it does exist.” However, he suggested that antisemitic Catholics are not faithful to their church’s teaching.
Moon noted that the Catholic Church explicitly has rejected the notion that all Jews in the time of Jesus or any Jews living today are responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. In the 1965 document “Nostra Aetate,” Pope Paul VI stated that Jesus’ death “cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.” Paul VI also called on Catholics to oppose antisemitism.
As for the idea of blaming Jews for Jesus’ death, Moon noted that the Romans had taken the authority for capital punishment away from the Jews at the time.
“So it explicitly wasn’t the Jews alone, and it was the Romans who actually pulled the trigger,” he explained. He also repeated the doctrine that all humanity—not any group in particular—participated in the killing of Christ, the ultimate sin.
When churches recite Bible passages narrating the trial of Jesus, they often have the entire congregation utter the damning words, “Crucify him,” to illustrate the gravity of each individual’s sin and to encourage repentance.
Moon also discussed The Philos Project’s upcoming trip to the Christian Armenian breakaway region of Artsakh, where the neighboring Muslim country of Azerbaijan reportedly has cut off trade access. Sam Brownback, the former Republican governor of Kansas and former ambassador at large for religious freedom under President Donald Trump, is leading that trip.
Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.
Tyler O’Neil: This is Tyler O’Neil. I’m managing editor at The Daily Signal and I’m honored to be joined by Luke Moon, deputy director at the Philos Project. Thanks so much for joining me.
Luke Moon: Thanks for having me. It’s wonderful.
O’Neil: So you were talking to me about the Philos Action League, this part of this project of the Philos Project that’s really focused on combating antisemitism. Can you share more about it?
Moon: Yeah. So, over a year ago, we started the Philos Action League. Basically, it was to mobilize Christians. Anytime there’s an antisemitic incident anywhere in the country, a Christian will show up with a bouquet of white roses and a card saying, “We stand in friendship and solidarity with you.”
And the idea was, like, I was tired of the social media kind of activism and it was, like, let’s get people to actually show up and do something physical. And when we do that, it just makes such a big difference. It actually gives you something to talk about on social media, but it’s very physical and I think that that matters so much today.
O’Neil: Yeah, no, it really does. And recently you had a situation where a neo-Nazi group was gathering and you organized a counter-protest and then they pulled out.
Moon: Yeah, it was great.
The National Socialist Movement, which is a Nazi and neo-Nazi organization, they had planned to protest Sheriff [Mike] Chitwood of Volusia County, Florida. And so we heard about it and we organized a counter-protest in which we were able to get over 65 people, mostly, actually mostly conservative Jews and Christians, to man the barricade and stand in opposition to the neo-Nazis. And the cowards, they never showed up. It was great.
O’Neil: Yeah, no, I mean, that’s encouraging to hear because oftentimes you hear from the Left this threat of antisemitism and hate from the Right, and they act as though there’s a Klan hood in every Republican’s closet. And how would you respond to that kind of rhetoric?
Moon: Well, the problem is there are voices on the far Right that are behaving in a manner that is inappropriate of the Right, I would say. And I think it’s important for us to call that out.
I think it’s important for us to draw a clear line between those who are using antisemitism, any kind of xenophobia, any kind of proper old-school racism is inappropriate for anybody on the Right. And so my goal is to really draw a bright line between what I would call the good Right and the bad Right.
And the problem is that the bad Right is using and exploiting the issues that are major issues, that the Right sees are problematic, and blaming the Jews for those. And that’s a real problem. That’s why I want to make sure that we’re clear to everybody out there. I’m a man of the Right and I am leading one of the most powerful movements against antisemitism that exists in the country.
O’Neil: And you talk about there is antisemitism on the Right and it needs to be combated, but there’s also antisemitism on the Left. What does that look like?
Moon: Well, it manifests itself a little bit differently. So I have this—say, antisemitism on the Left is “I love Jews and hate Israel,” and on the Right it’s, “I love Israel and hate Jews.”
And it really actually plays out a lot like that because, for instance, the same month, last August, that Kanye [West] came out and said all his antisemitic statements on Alex Jones’ show and stuff like that, that same month, Berkeley, California, the university passed or student body passed a bunch of initiatives where they were like, “We’re not going to allow any Zionist speaker to speak to our group.” All the student associations were like, “We don’t allow Zionists.”
So we’re busy calling out the antisemitism of UC-Berkeley, and then Kanye came on the scene, and then everybody got focused on Kanye. But it really kind of highlighted that issue that in that month of August of the problem of the Right and the problem of the Left.
O’Neil: Well, I think we saw, and I don’t know if you can speak to this or not, because she is an elected official, but [Rep.] Ilhan Omar having an event in Congress to lament the 75th anniversary of Israel.
Moon: Yeah. I mean, again, her constituency are largely Muslims or Palestinians and she is responding to their desires.
But the issue of what they—it’s called Nakba, “catastrophe,” of basically the Arab armies losing to this fledgling Israeli force that was, they just had endured the Holocaust. They had their backs against the wall. And the Jordanian soldier, his wife and kids were in Amman. He hadn’t had the same existential crisis that the Jews faced that day.
And so, yes, it was a catastrophe for the Palestinians that their armies lost. But to celebrate that, it’s a little weird. To intentionally antagonize Jews is also weird. I don’t think it’s very positive view of society when you’re celebrating the destruction of the Jewish people or the attempted destruction of the Jewish people. It’s a problem.
O’Neil: And I’ve been hearing a lot of reports saying that in election years, attacks on Jews ramp up, that hate crimes increase, that various things like that are going on. Would you say that tracks with your monitoring of antisemitism?
Moon: Well, it’s on the rise in general. It’s on the rise because we as an American society are becoming less biblically literate, less connected to the Bible.
You find that people who are biblically literate tend to have a more positive view of Jews and Israel. And as a result, as that declines, so does any kind of affinity, any kind of knowledge. And so it’s very easy for those tropes, the scapegoating of the Jewish people to begin to kind of rise.
And that’s what you see groups like the Goyim Defense League taking advantage of, when they go after Jews, they’re like, “Here’s the 12 Jews that are wanting to take away your guns.” So they’re using issues that the Right is very concerned about and weaponizing them against the Jews. And I think that’s really what we’re going to see an increase of.
And again, one of those things that I’m fighting very hard to highlight the difference between the good Right and the bad Right.
O’Neil: Yeah. And I think of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It recently had a report—a very outdated report from what I understand, when you look at the actual state of traditional Catholicism in the U.S.—but they had “radical-traditional Catholic hate groups.” And the FBI was citing this report. And the report essentially boils down to these groups are antisemitic. And have you seen a lot of radical-traditional Catholic antisemitism?
Moon: It’s not very common, but again, it does exist. You have guys like Nick Fuentes who has come out pretty aggressively against Jews. I remember watching a video of him yelling at Ben Shapiro when he was walking with his wife and kids across a parking lot and just saying the most foul things. And he identifies as a Catholic—I don’t think he’s a faithful one, but that’s me.
But one of the things that we’re doing is we have a whole arm of the Philos Project called Philos Catholic. And this fall, we will have a conference on Catholics against antisemitism. So we’re actually going to raise that issue within the Catholic community, have a conference, get people, people are going to sign on to our statement and from the Catholic Right.
And they’re, again, creating that nice, bright line between the good Right and the bad Right because there’s a majority of conservative Catholics, traditional Catholics, they have nothing against the Jews. The Nostra Aetate settled that for them, which was the papal decree that we can’t blame the Jews for killing Christ. That kind of, the deicide argument was taken off the table.
And for traditional Catholics to say, “Oh, no, we’re going to hold onto that,” they’re actually going against papal authority. And my understanding of Catholic tradition is that’s wrong.
O’Neil: Yes. Generally speaking, yes. That’s interesting because I’d always thought, being, growing up Protestant, but also in high church circles, that we all as a church repeated those horrible words in the passion narrative where we say, “Crucify him. Crucify him.” The implication is we all are implicated in the death of God. It’s not singled out Jews. This is something that we all must lament because we all share in the sin that led Jesus to the cross.
Moon: Absolutely. And actually, I was just teaching a group last week on the history of Christian antisemitism, and it was actually before Christ was born that the Romans took away capital punishment from the Jews. It was a law, it was part of the taking on the authority of Rome over a province, was it took away the ability of the conquered people to be able to exact capital punishment.
And so it explicitly wasn’t the Jews alone. And it was the Romans, actually, pulled the trigger. And so regardless of whether it was Jews or gentiles, all of us participated through our sin of the killing of Christ. And all of us then need the saving grace of Jesus Christ in order to be redeemed.
O’Neil: So how important is it for Christians to stand up against antisemitism?
Moon: Well, I actually define antisemitism as an irrational hatred of the Jewish people rooted in the fact that the people by which God brought his moral revelation into this world, and the world hates him for it, and the degree to which Christians are hated, were hated, because we’re actually affirming that same law.
And there’s a verse in Romans, it says, “You don’t sustain the root. The root sustains you.” And I think drawing on that understanding of the Hebraic roots of our faith, not only should shape our Christian faith, but also shapes our understanding of Western civilization. …
Particularly as a Protestant, I’m Protestant as well, the reformation was a direct result of people reading the Bible for the first time, with their own eyes, reading the development of the Hebrew nation and beginning to articulate the principles that they found there.
That was significant in shaping Western political thought. And all that is somehow lost. It’s now coming back to the forefront, but I think it serves Christians well to understand that we stand on the shoulder of giants and those giants are the patriarchs.
O’Neil: Yeah. Well, are there any other impressive, interesting things that Philos is working on that you’d like to share?
Moon: Well, we’re also working on a big project with Armenia. It’s a very interesting country. Obviously, the word “genocide” was coined because of the genocide against the Armenian people. And they were the first Christian nation, the first nation that as a people adopted Christianity.
But I was talking recently to a group, and I was like, “Well, how does the Armenian story fit into the, I don’t know, the meta-narrative of Christianity?” And I get an almost like an offhand remark. Robert Nicholson, who’s the executive director of the Philos Project, he says, “Well, Noah’s Arc was landed there.” And I’m like, “Well, that’s kind of important. We should lead with Noah’s Ark is Armenian, right?”
To the degree to which there’s the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the patriarchs, the line that we follow that developed the Israeli people, the Jewish people, that continues to this day, really, the Armenians kind of almost represent the nations. Everybody else.
The Bible kind of divides things that way. You get the Jews and then everybody else. And I think Armenians represent that everybody else in the meta-narrative of our faith. And by, I think, articulating and highlighting the importance of that people as a particularly representative people, I think is important for us.
O’Neil: Well, and from what I understand, there’s a particular community in Armenia that’s been cut off by Azerbaijan.
Moon: The Artsakh, which is this little, I don’t know, appendage almost that’s connected with Armenia by a very narrow corridor. Armenia’s in the mountains so you have a lot of mountains and valleys kind of things going on. And Azerbaijan’s basically just cut it off, not allowing fuel, not allowing food. It really has a stranglehold on the hundreds of thousands of Christians that are living there.
And I don’t want to overstate the kind of Muslim-Christian element to this, but it does matter that the Azerbaijan is a Muslim country. Turkey, which also borders Armenia, is also a Muslim country. And they have an antagonistic relationship against Christians, not only in Turkey and Azerbaijan, but around the region.
O’Neil: And from what I understand, Philos is planning to do something on it. I understand if you can’t share with me what that is yet.
Moon: Yeah. Well, we have a trip coming up actually later, or actually not later, but next month in June. Just really a fact-finding trip.
One of the things that we love to do is just bring people to a place and say, “Let you see for yourself.” We’re not prescriptive about the policy applications afterward, but more understanding that we bring smart people to these places and give them a variety of views that they will walk away with a better understanding and then also be able to articulate their own positions.
O’Neil: And who is going on this trip? Is that something you can share?
Moon: Yeah. Basically, Ambassador [Sam] Brownback is going on the trip. Several leaders from—there’s Catholic leaders, leaders of organizations, major ones in Washington, D.C. Yeah, it’s a good trip. It’s a good number of people.
O’Neil: Yeah. Well, I’d be very curious to see what comes out of that trip.
Moon: Yeah, you and me both. You and me both.
O’Neil: All right. Well, thank you so much for joining me, Luke. Is there anything else you’d like to add? Where can people find the Philos Project and plug into your important work?
Moon: Yeah. We, like everybody else, have a website and it’s philosproject.org. … Philos means “friend” in Greek. Our goal is to just basically promote positive Christian engagement in the Near East. And that means identifying your friends and affirming them and doing stuff with them to show that you’re a friend, physically show that you’re a friend.
O’Neil: Wonderful. Well, thank you so much for joining me, Luke.
Moon: I appreciate the time.
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