Sep 29, 2026 · 56 min · 24 segments
You've seen the news reports, heard Netanyahu's speech, now hear it straight from an IDF soldier who witnessed October 7 firsthand. On the ground and under fire, IDF Reservist, Yair Pinto, author of…
Yair PintoGuest
Carole LiebermanHost
I feel, you know, I well, when I was a little girl, And belonging to a temple and going to temple school, you know, learning about the history of the Jews and the Hebrew and just all kinds of things from grade school to high school.
I mean, it wasn't there wasn't a separation of learning about Jews or Judaism and learning about Israel.
And somehow or other over the years, today's jews is jewish children depending upon whether they're going to temple whether and what that temple teaches and all of that they don't necessarily they have and they know especially their parents i mean it really is mostly the the responsibility of the parents they haven't um inculcated this love of israel that is so important and i think that's part of the problem what do you think about that
Well, I think you don't need to really have a supernatural love for Israel to know what's right and what's wrong.
And also, if you read the charter of Hamas, they are proud of saying that they want to annihilate all the Jews from Israel.
They want to eradicate the Jewish state and create a Muslim Arab state with no Jews, not a coexistence, new democracy in this region.
And when you look at the atrocities that took place on October 7, by the way, you can see them on the website, Hamas filmed themselves murdering, capturing hostages and taking them into the Gaza Strip, including women and children.
So you don't need to have this education or something to love Israel to understand what is wrong and what is right.
And the fact that Israel is defending itself still after three years is not something that we need to be ashamed of.
I went to war on October 7th in order to protect my two daughters and my three months old baby.
and my three little children here alone surrounded by Palestinian villages by the way on October 7 to go to the northern border and to defend my country against a potential invasion from multiple fronts because we were sure that the Hezbollah terrorist organization from Lebanon by the way funded and gets its orders from the Islamic Republic of Iran were going to attack also simultaneously against Israel so This war is orchestrated and conducted by multiple enemies of Israel that all of them, by the way, seek to annihilate the United States of America, annihilate Europe, and Israel is just the first stop.
I feel, you know, I well, when I was a little girl, And belonging to a temple and going to temple school, you know, learning about the history of the Jews and the Hebrew and just all kinds of things from grade school to high school.
I mean, it wasn't there wasn't a separation of learning about Jews or Judaism and learning about Israel.
And somehow or other over the years, today's jews is jewish children depending upon whether they're going to temple whether and what that temple teaches and all of that they don't necessarily they have and they know especially their parents i mean it really is mostly the the responsibility of the parents they haven't um inculcated this love of israel that is so important and i think that's part of the problem what do you think about that
Well, I think you don't need to really have a supernatural love for Israel to know what's right and what's wrong.
And also, if you read the charter of Hamas, they are proud of saying that they want to annihilate all the Jews from Israel.
They want to eradicate the Jewish state and create a Muslim Arab state with no Jews, not a coexistence, new democracy in this region.
And when you look at the atrocities that took place on October 7, by the way, you can see them on the website, Hamas filmed themselves murdering, capturing hostages and taking them into the Gaza Strip, including women and children.
So you don't need to have this education or something to love Israel to understand what is wrong and what is right.
And the fact that Israel is defending itself still after three years is not something that we need to be ashamed of.
I went to war on October 7th in order to protect my two daughters and my three months old baby.
and my three little children here alone surrounded by Palestinian villages by the way on October 7 to go to the northern border and to defend my country against a potential invasion from multiple fronts because we were sure that the Hezbollah terrorist organization from Lebanon by the way funded and gets its orders from the Islamic Republic of Iran were going to attack also simultaneously against Israel so This war is orchestrated and conducted by multiple enemies of Israel that all of them, by the way, seek to annihilate the United States of America, annihilate Europe, and Israel is just the first stop.
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