I want to expose the lies of the enemy that keep you in a state of spiritual weakness. Right now, you're going to learn how to use your shield and sword of the Spirit. But first, I want you to comment in the comment section right now. Let it be a declaration of faith. Enough is enough. Write those three simple words. Enough is enough. It's time to stop believing the lies of the enemy. Whom the sun sets free is free indeed. It's time to walk in the victory for which God intended you. It's time to experience the peace, the joy, the love, the clarity of the Spirit. But in order to do this, we have to confront the lies of the enemy that entrap us, that warp the way we think and therefore warp the way we feel and behave. Let's begin by going to Ephesians chapter number six. I'm going to start at verse 10, and I'll read onward. Ephesians chapter six, beginning at verse number 10. A final word, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all the strategies of the devil. First of all, we'll continue reading verses 12 and onward in just a moment. But first of all, I want you to note that this is a command given to us. Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. And we are also commanded to put on all of God's armor. Here we see that the believer bears some degree of responsibility for being equipped. Yes, God will provide the armor, but you have to put it on. Put on all of God's armor. Why? What's the results of this? So that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. Now notice here that the text does not say so that you will be able to stand firm against some of the strategies of the devil. And maybe you can have those truths supplemented by other belief systems and other philosophies and the ideas of man or the systems of religion. No, it says that if you put on all of God's armor, you're going to stand against all the strategies of the devil successfully. In other words, there's not something that he can do outside of what's covered by the armor of God. You put on the armor of God and the devil is out of options. You put on the armor of God and you can stand firm against all strategies of the devil. Four, we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world. Against mighty powers in this dark world and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. Therefore put on every piece of God's armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle, you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth. This is truth, truth in general. And the body armor of God's righteousness. Well, how do we receive righteousness? We receive righteousness when we place our faith in Christ. Now, if you take a look at the armor to which is being referred to here in Ephesians or would have been referred to in this day, you'll note that the armor, the body armor, is held in place by the belt. Likewise, the body armor of righteousness is held in place by the belt of truth. In other words, if you're not walking in truth, it's very difficult to be fastened in righteousness. Now, we understand that righteousness has been imputed to us by our faith in Christ. Of course, it's not of works. It's not something we can gain on our own. But in order to experience the benefits of that righteousness in your everyday living, in order to see the effects of that righteousness begin to overtake your everyday life, you have to be grounded in truth. Put on the body armor of God's righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the good news so that you will be fully prepared. So there we see that the shoes of peace are represent the gospel message or the gospel truth. And here we begin to see a theme form, truth, truth, truth. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. What are the fiery arrows of the devil being described here? The fiery arrows of the devil are the lies that he tells you. Think about the fact that a lie doesn't become deception until you believe it. If I were to tell you a blatant lie, one that was obvious, you would reject that lie and therefore you would not be deceived.  So in all of these, in addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet that we talk about the helmet of salvation, the mindset of salvation, truth, grounded in truth, and take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. So as I mentioned just a moment ago, there's a consistent theme here, truth, truth, truth, truth. Why?  That's all the enemy has, his lies. And so otherwise he's powerless. As long as you don't believe a lie that he's telling, he has no power over you. So I want to focus though on just the shield of faith and the sword of the spirit. The shield of faith is my belief in what God has said. When I choose to believe what God has said, then I begin to experience the benefits of that truth. If God says that I am loved, but I don't believe I am loved, I'm going to feel unloved, even though the truth is I am loved. If God's word says I am accepted, even though I feel rejected, then I'm not going to be able to experience the full benefits of that acceptance in my emotions, in my mind, in the way I carry myself and even in my actions, because we know the way you think affects the way you act. Now, sure, yes, you are accepted, that's the truth, but because you're not aware of that truth, you don't feel accepted, you feel rejected, and therefore you live like you're rejected. You approach God like he's going to reject you. So in a moment, I'm going to be going over some of the common lies that the enemy tells believers. Now, as I go through these lies, you may say, well, that's not true. Well, of course, I don't believe that or something like that, because I'm going to be presenting these lies in a very blatant obvious way. But it's possible that you're believing one of these lies in a subconscious way, in a subtle way, in a way that might not be so obvious. So how do you use this armor? Well, the faith is my belief in the truth of what God has said.  Why? Because you blocked it with your belief in the truth. If you do not raise the shield, you will not block the arrow. You may have the shield, but if you don't raise it, you're not blocking anything. In the same way, you have the truth. You live in the truth, but if you don't believe that truth, if you're not aware of that truth, well, then you're not really raising the shield. So we raise our shield by believing in what God has said, the shield of faith. For example, let's say the enemy says, which is one of the lies I'll be dealing with. We'll go into greater detail in a moment, but just for an example, let's say the enemy says that your past sins make you unclean steel. So you've repented of these things, you've turned from them, but you just can't get them out of your memory. Well, unless you believe what God has said about your past, unless what you believe what God has said about you that you're forgiven, you're going to feel the guilt and the shame of those past sins, even though the truth is ready for you to claim. And so you raise your belief in what God has said. You raise your faith in his word. And when you do this, you block the fiery darts of the enemy. Now, the sword of the spirit is how you dismantle the liars themselves. It's how you get at the root of the lie. It's the offensive weapon as opposed to just the defensive weapon. And it keeps those lies from coming back. It takes care of the source of those fiery darts. So let's take a look at the first one. And again, these are going to be blatant and obvious lies. But I want you to really examine yourself to see if you're not believing these things in at least a subtle way, because that's how the enemy works. Usually mixes these with some measure of truth so that they're more easily received and so that they're more deceptive. Number one, the enemy tells you this sin will satisfy. Now, you may not think that outright. You may not say it just like that. But the truth of the matter is that if you're caught up in a habitual sin, you're only going back to it because some part of you still believes that there's going to be some satisfaction in that. Let's go to Genesis chapter three. I'm going to read verses one through eight. Here we see the enemy as the tempter. Now, the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. But God did say, you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it or you will die. Verse four, you will not certainly die. The serpent said to the woman, notice here first that the enemy had to question the word before he could contradict it. So the questioning began first. Did God really say, is that really what it says? Is that really what the Bible says? Is that really what the scripture is communicating? Did the writers of the New Testament really intend to say that we shouldn't involve ourselves in this that or the other? See you first question the word and then you contradict it as we saw in verse four. Continuing on with verse five, for God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil. When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it. The eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Remember this temptation is not an event. It's a process. By the time you fall into sin, you've already given up ground that you should not have given up. Please hear this.   So for example, if you fall into sin on Friday, it's probably because Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, you were doing things that were compromising. Maybe not blatantly sinned themselves, but things that got you closer and closer and closer to giving in to that temptation. Be careful that you do not stand on the edge of the cliff of compromise. Lest, should your foot slip, you fall into the depths of disobedience. If you live right on that line, then any slip is going to take you all the way over. But if you stay away from the edge and you should slip up here or there, you're not going to fall all the way into that deep pit that is disobedience. This is why Jesus told us to pray in Matthew 6, 11 to 13. Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one here. This deliverance is talking about deliverance from temptation, the tempter. Lead us not into temptation. He didn't say that we should pray, Lord, help me when I put myself in temptation. Or help me when I put myself in a compromising situation. No, he said, lead us not into temptation. Think about how Joseph fled when Potiphar's wife was after him. He didn't stick around to debate it and say, well, maybe I should, maybe I should. Let me tell you this. I'll give you a hint here. If you're in that debating mode, should I, shouldn't I, should I, shouldn't I? You've already lost 90% of the battle because you've already come to the point where you're even entertaining the thought. The enemy is a great debater. And so when you enter that place where you're going back and forth within yourself, very rarely will you win that debate. Instead, flee temptation, run from situations wherein you find yourself given over to the cravings of the flesh. Lead us not into temptation. The enemy says this sin will satisfy you. Just one more time and that will be it. Just this one more opportunity and I'll never ask again. In an even more crafty way, when we repent or tell ourselves that we're repenting, we often confuse regret with repentance. It's good that you regret your sin. It's good if you feel that sting of conviction, the hand of the Lord weighs heavily upon you. Awesome. But does that ultimately lead to repentance? Does that ultimately lead to a change in the mind? Does that ultimately manifest in a way that you are now living differently? These are things you have to ask yourself because when we are tempted, we're presented with a lie. When we are tempted, the enemy is like a salesman and sin is like the product. I'm not saying it's the devil's fault. The enemy contempt you, but you're the one who chooses to give it to that temptation. That's a fact. I know that we don't always want to bear that responsibility. That is a fact. But the flesh is so deceptive because should you say to God, Lord, I'll never do that again. The flesh will whisper for now. Or should you say, Lord, I'm done with that. The flesh will whisper until the craving gets too strong again. And so in the back of the mind, there's this belief that one more time will be okay. Oh, we may even get religious about it and say, well, technically, I've been living right for, you know, six months, seven months, whatever it may be. So a month here or there is not going to kill me because technically it doesn't count as a lifestyle of sin. If I'm not actually doing it and see we reason, we bargain and the flesh is deceptive and the enemy partners with the flesh because the flesh wants to hear what it wants to hear and the enemy will tell the flesh what it wants to hear in regards to sin. So the enemy will say this sin will satisfy you. Again, he's like a salesman and sin is like the product. You have to come to the place where you're doing what Jesus said, where you're not just fleeing the sin. You're fleeing the opportunity for sin. You're fleeing the temptation itself, removing yourself from a situation wherein you can fall and agreeing with God in your mind that this thing is wrong, has to go permanently in all forms, in all measures for all time. Number two, another lie the enemy tells us is my past sins make me unclean. The enemy is not just the tempter. He's also the accuser, but consider the way these two dynamics work with one another. The enemy will tempt you and the moment you fall, he starts accusing you. And then you find yourself in this state of shame and being in a state of shame makes it easier to sin. It's really this strange dynamic that the enemy takes advantage of that when you live in shame, the thought process really is like, well, I've already messed up or I'm already so unclean or I'm already an outcast or I'm already unaccepted or I've already gone too far might as well. And that's where shame comes in. So the enemy will tempt, tempt, tempt and the moment you say no, or the moment you say yes, then all of a sudden he's the accuser. Isn't it amazing that when the enemy is tempting you, he says, look at how small this sin is. But the moment you fall, he turns into the accuser and says, look at how big this sin is. And he plays both sides.  Revelation 12, 10 says this, then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah for the accuser of our brothers and sisters who accuses them before our God day and night has been hurled down. So here the scripture refers to the enemy as the accuser. Christ is the advocate, Satan is the accuser. So you have to ask yourself once you've repented about a sin, that is you've changed your mind about it, and you've renounced it, that is you've turned from it. And you've sought the forgiveness of God and you've made things right with God. Once you've come to that place of repentance, what do you think God's going to say? Do you think he's going to continually remind you about your past? Because God doesn't live in your past. He erases the past. If your past is constantly coming to your mind, that's either the voice of the flesh or that's the voice of Satan. Now let me make this clear so there's no misunderstanding. I'm talking about sins for which you have repented. I'm talking about sins from which you have turned. Once you've found that forgiveness, embrace that forgiveness, don't allow the enemy to continually bring that up again. First John 1 9 says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Number three, the lie, I don't belong to God. Consider the power of an endorsement. An unknown political figure can have his campaign skyrocket with just one endorsement from a well known and established political figure. Think about a clothing company. If they get one endorsement from one superstar athlete, they can see sales soar. If an unknown author is endorsed by a New York Times bestselling author, that author now has the potential to see an increase in their message spreading. That's the power of an endorsement. In the same way, the enemy, please hear this now, the enemy will try to use your circumstances, your heartache, your trials, your emotions. He'll use all of that as an endorsement for his lie. So when you feel alone, he's going to use that feeling of being alone to endorse his lie that you are alone. When you feel like you don't belong to God, when you feel like you're out of place, when you feel like an outcast, he's going to use that feeling to endorse his lie that you don't belong to God. When your circumstances are chaotic, you lost the job, the car broke down, sickness abounds, family life is strained. There's trouble on every side. The enemy can look at your circumstances and say, here is proof that you don't belong to God, but the devil's a liar. You can have that sense of rejection like you're an outcast, like you're unwanted, and then the Holy Spirit speaks. Romans 8, 14 through 17. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you receive does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again. Rather, the Spirit you receive brought about your adoption to sonship, and by him we cry, Abba Father. This is so powerful. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now, if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. So here we see one of the very important ministries of the Holy Spirit, and that is to assure you that you belong to God. When the enemy says you don't belong to him, when the enemy says you're an outcast, when the enemy says you're not truly a child of God, and he continually nags you with this thought, you point to the truth of the Scripture, and you say, devil, you may insist that I am not a child of God, but the Holy Spirit within me cries, Abba Father. There it is, shield, the Holy Spirit cries, Abba Father. And then you use your sword, you say I'm a coheir with Christ, and it addresses it at its root.  Well, think of Matthew chapter four. How did Jesus combat the enemy? Think about the fact that if anyone could have used their experience to combat the enemy, it would have been Jesus. Jesus didn't say, well, you know, I've been a pastor for 30 years. You know, I've been in deliverance ministry for 40 years, and of course we know Jesus' ministry, at least his earthly ministry, was relatively short, but these are things that people say. These are things Jesus wouldn't say. They would say things like, well, you know, I have my degree in this, or I've been saved since I was 10 years old, and I'm 70 years old now, and we honor and we respect people who have longevity. I'm not saying we mustn't, but people use those credentials like, oh, I know the spirit realm, or oh, I'm an intercessor, or oh, I'm a prophetic gift, and on and on and on with these credentials, people of God, the devil laughs at our credentials. The devil isn't intimidated by what man is intimidated by. The devil isn't moved by what moves man. The devil isn't frightened when you throw out your credentials. He doesn't shake or tremble in fear when you raise your voice or try to use those things that are powered by the flesh. If anyone could have used their experience, it was Jesus. In Matthew 4, when the enemy tempted him, if you are the Son of God, if you are the Son of God, he could have pointed back to his baptism and said, what do you mean if I am the Son of God? Didn't you see the dove descend on me? Didn't you hear the voice from heaven cry? This is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. Didn't you hear that? But he didn't do that. What did Jesus say? He said, it is written. In other words, he combated the lies of the enemy, the challenge to his identity, the challenge to his identity was combated by the word. And so this is how we fight him. We use the scripture, the word, the word, the word, and we hold fast to those truths. Consider also this portion of scripture, if you believe you don't belong to God, if you believe that your trials and your circumstances are somehow proof that the Lord has abandoned you. Romans chapter 8, beginning at verse number 31. What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also along with him graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died, more than that who was raised to life, is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, for your sake, face death all day long. We are considered a sheep to be slaughtered. Now in all these things, we are more than conquerors. Listen very carefully what it says. It says, in all these things, so many people wait until their life is perfectly ideal before they begin to believe that God loves them. And they allow the enemy to use their trials and circumstances as evidence for the lies that they believe. But you facing a hardship isn't proof that God's rejected you because he's in the trial with you. No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, nor the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. So when the enemy says that you don't belong to God because of your trials, because of your emotions, because of what you're feeling, maybe you feel distant, point to the scripture, and remember that the Holy Spirit in you cries, Abba Father, listen to the voice of truth. Another lie that Christians believe is that the devil has power over them. Now, we don't say this outright, but a lot of the things that we teach which aren't even founded upon scripture seem to indicate that people believe that the enemy has this great power over them. Think about the law of faith. Whenever Jesus healed someone, I should say in many instances where Jesus healed people, he would say, your faith has made you whole. In other words, their faith activated their ability to receive from the power of God. Think about those in Jesus' hometown. He could only heal a few because there was no honor there. They had doubt and unbelief. They didn't believe in his power, and so they could receive only a limited amount of it. Your faith in a power, please hear this. This is a spiritual dynamic we almost know. Your faith in a power is directly proportionate to your ability to receive from that power. And here's the problem. The enemy tries to get us to believe in his power. Why? So that he can lord that over us. But the only power the enemy has over you is the power you believe he has. This is why I think it's so damaging to teach unbiblical notions like Christians can be cursed. Christians can have demons in them. Christians can be bound and not even know it by some spirit that's coiled itself around their spine. Strange, strange doctrines that, by the way, come from other belief systems, not the scriptures. So that should be your first clue. These are so damaging because they keep people in bondage. Now, of course, the enemy can attack, he can deceive, he can tempt, all of those things. But we have to remember that his power is quite limited. He doesn't lord over us. He isn't, he isn't the king of the kingdom to which we belong. Colossians 1 12 to 14 says this, giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Who hath delivered us from the powers of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Think about the fact that when Baelic tried to pay Balaam to put a curse on the children of Israel, he was unable to do so. I love his response. Let me see here. Numbers 23. Let me just try to skip down. Let me see. I think it's in verse eight. But how can I curse those whom God has not cursed? And how can I condemn those whom the Lord has not condemned? I see them from the cliff tops. I watch them from the hills. I see a people who live by themselves set apart from other nations. Who can count Jacob's descendants as numerous as dust? Who can count even a fourth of Israel's people?  Let my life end like theirs. Then King Baelic demanded of Balaam, what have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies. Instead you have blessed them. But Balaam replied, I will speak only the message that the Lord puts in my mouth. In other words, people are powerless to curse whom God has blessed. And we actually have other teachings on the YouTube channel on this. I have teachings on what some would call generational curses. Can Christians be demonized? Make sure you subscribe and check those things out. Number five, this lie, we have to stop believing this one because it can seem, this one by the way, this lie I'm about to read to you, it seems so humble but it's a false humility. And that lie is this, God can't use me. Here's what the Bible says, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians concerning spiritual gifts, for example, 1 Corinthians 12, 7. A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. Now that is Bible. A spiritual gift is given to each of us so that we can help each other. Matthew 28, 18-20. Jesus came and told his disciples, I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you and be sure of this, I am with you always even to the end of the age. Disciples make disciples. So Jesus told his disciples to go and make disciples of all nations and to fulfill all the commands that he had given to them. And here we see that one of those commands involves going and making more disciples. This is part of the multiplication plan that God has in the earth. And this is why all of us must be involved in this. Yes, we all should have a spiritual covering, but each of us should be serving one another as well. Investing in the Kingdom of God. You may not be a pastor, an evangelist, a prophet, one of the five fold and so forth, but God has called every believer to win souls, to evangelize, and to help build and edify one another in some way. So this idea that you have no call on your life directly contradicts the Scripture. And again, it may seem humble. It may seem like we're walking in humility when we say, oh, I don't think God can use me. Oh, I don't know if he has anything for my life. But really what that is is a fear of failure or a fear of sacrifice or a fear of the calling. And we're disguising it as humility. That's false humility because the Scripture says each one of us have an assignment and you have an assignment and you need to stop believing the lie. If you believe that lie, that God has given you nothing. Think of the parable, the talents. He gave each of them a different measure, but each of them still received something. Moses didn't think he was qualified. Isaiah said, I'm doomed. It's all over for me. I'm a man of unclean lips. Think about Peter. He said, depart from me. I'm a sinful man when the Lord called him. But the Lord uses them anyway. And the Lord can use you.  There are a lot more lies many Christians believe, but these are at least five that I will cover here. This sin will satisfy. My past sins make me unclean. I don't belong to God. The devil has power over me and God can't use me. Those are all lies contradicted by the Scripture. Now let's pray. Father, I lift that one right now to you who is recognizing these lies in their life. And I pray, precious Holy Spirit, that you would help them to walk in your truth. Precious Holy Spirit, I want you to say this out loud. Say, precious Holy Spirit, remind me of the truth when I'm tempted to believe a lie. Say it again. Say, precious Holy Spirit, remind me of a truth when I'm tempted to believe a lie. Holy Spirit, we pray you do it. Keep us close to you and sensitive to your voice, to the voice of truth. And Father, I pray that your healing power would flow. Touch and heal as only you can. Bring deliverance, break every bondage, every addiction. Let them sense the touch of your presence and power even now. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it. Even type it in the comments. Amen. If you enjoyed that message, you think others need to hear it. Don't forget to leave a like so you can help spread the message. And also while you're at it, let's stay connected. Remember to subscribe and click the notification bell when you do so that you don't miss any content. Now I want to challenge you to participate with what God is doing in this ministry. This ministry has a simple calling, to win the lost and to build the believer. And we do this through events and media. 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All right, this is my last Morning in Jamaica and I've been thinking a lot about hey What all my final send-off video to be you guys know I do a ton of video and one of the things I wanted to talk about real quick is Execution because our society is lazy Insurance agents are naturally lazy entrepreneurs are naturally lazy. We say we're gonna do something. We don't we say we're gonna work out and we don't I Am just as guilty as anyone we say that we're gonna figure something out and we don't we say we're gonna master something And we don't we say we want to be great at sales, but we don't put in the time every day We don't role play every day. We don't train every day.   I'm fixing that. I'm fixing that Do I always rip my goals down? Yes Do I always execute? Professionally and business-wise. Yes, but can I be better can Cody ask and still be better 100% So when you're thinking about doing something when you say you're gonna do something when you speak it when you want to achieve something Freaking execute.  So guess what what do we do next?  I promise it'll pay off


Good morning traders, Patrick Manila here with another Tick Little Chartered, withdraw your attention to a continuing developing opportunity in the S&P 500. As we talked about in recent live market analysis sessions, we're looking for a September top to develop in the markets as has been the seasonal trend prior to US presidential elections. We're expecting weakness now as we head into the election. In terms of the price action, what I'm looking for in the immediate trade is a move down now to test the quality objective versus the first swing to the downside here. So I'm looking for a test of 31.37 looking for a break of the overnight lows with the protective stock above yesterday's high at the 33.42. As always, traders, plan the trade and trade the plan, most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


There are those who have hit the wall at Indy, and there are those who will. It's not a question of if it's when. It's not a question of if it's when. Welcome Conor Daly. Before anything, I just wanted to say that Conor was the guy that welcomed me last year the best. Took me out for dinner when I was on my own. I had to haul the bus, but I was a bit on my own in the US, and Conor really looked up to me, so thank you, brother. Hey, of course. You know what? It's important to make sure people know that racing over here is a lot of fun. We respect wherever you came from, you know what I mean? We respect the racing heritage, the racing history. Basically, what we're gonna do is talk about your career and get people to know you. All right, let's do it. They may know you from nightclubs. No, no, that would never happen. No. You were born in Indiana. Yes. So that Wikipedia got that part right. Yep. How did you start racing, and when, and how? Not the boring speech that you did normally. Give me good ones. No, I mean, honestly, it all started with my dad, who was, of course, he was a Formula One driver as well, so my dad did a ton of racing, but he retired when I was born, so I never saw him race. Okay. So I was born in 91. His last race was the Seabream 12 Hours in 92, and so that was it. And you don't remember when you were born. I did not remember.  Yeah, it's tough. And then, you know what's sad though, too, is he tested, in 1994, I think he tested the all-active Williams Formula One car, and he got to drive that, and again, I was too young to remember that, but I would have loved to have seen that. So I was always around racing, and I mean, I'm the oldest brother of my three brothers as well, so we got into go-karting, like everyone else, when I was 10, and that was it. That was all we did is go to the go-kart track. Your mom, she was on the water. Yeah, she was a water gal. Yeah, she raced jet skis, but again, when I was young. Super fast, no, no, I go jet ski like. She was a world champion. Yeah, like a world champion jet ski racer, which is crazy. And I grew up on a lake, so my parent, even my dad, he's obviously a racer, and so he would get out on the skis too, but he broke all of his legs racing, so it doesn't work as well when you have a bunch of broken legs trying to race jet skis.  Cannot do it. I raced a boat once, and I don't think I ever really wanna do it again. Way too scary. It's not okay. You flip it or you finish on the grass. Well, we didn't finish on the grass, and we didn't die, so that's all that matters. Okay. So you started go karting like 10, pretty much like all of us do, and then in the States? Yes, so it did all the racing over here, right? But obviously like my dad's Irish, so he knew the path to Formula One as you do, and so I had kind of won all the championships over here that I could win, the road to Indy stuff, and then I was 18, and it was like, all right, well, if we wanna try to go to Formula One, we have to go to Europe. At the time it was GP3. You know, got a great opportunity to go over there, raced with Carl in my first year, and then ART for the next two, and ART is obviously a very, very good team. And your friend in French. And I learned a lot of French. Lot of French. We won't disclose any of that in the video. Yeah, it's rough around the edges, my French, but I did learn, and I did spend a lot of time in France, so I mean, that was really an interesting experience, like in my career, obviously, because you're going up against the best of the best. I was seeing you guys like you in Formula One and anyone else that was over there trying to do that, and to win races over there, I think is really special, obviously. In GP3, GP2, that's the top for the single-seater series. So to be able to be beating guys that we know are in Formula One now, and just having a shot at a championship over there was really cool, and I learned a lot. And I think coming back over here, it was definitely worth it to go over there, and at least get close. Not close enough, but we got close. Yeah, you did GP2. I drove in Formula One car a few times. Yeah, you did. You did. Well, anyone that doesn't know that yet for Sidya, was named Racing Point and now Aston Martin. So GP3, you almost won the championship, you were close. Yes. It was one of those championships. One of the top seven was like within two points of each other. We were leading the championship at Monza, and I'll never forget one of the cars at the first chicane came and wiped out like six different cars, and just cut my right front tire. And so you know when you DNF and Race One, Race Two then is also very much affected. So like we went from effectively leading the championship, and then Danny Kiviak won that race and then like took a huge lead, because like Sines was also involved and like he was fighting for the championship, and then my teammate was also involved. And like the next day, I still think is one of the best races of my career. We started like 28th, and like I finished eighth and set fast lap of the race and like scored, you know, two points or whatever, but like it was all that we could do, you know. And so we finished third in the championship. So it's all right. One question that I have, which I have all the time as European into the US, but I would like the opposite one, the American driver into European driver, what's the difference? It is a very different environment. Because obviously I think everyone here is mostly welcoming. I think everything is like a way more open, right? The paddocks are way more open. Apparently my welcome is overstayed, apparently. I don't know, I don't know. You didn't hear any of that? I mean, look, everyone's gonna fight someone at some point. That's what motor sports all about. I wanna fight people too.  And even the fans, like, if you get an F1 paddock pass, it's very, very special, right? We have everyone over here. So it's like, it's a very different environment. And I also found that like, when racing GP3, there was not a lot of happiness. Like, even if you win, it's like, all right, that's what you're supposed to do. You know what I mean? But like, to be fair, I mean, they're right. Like, it's like, okay, yeah. Like, I'm sorry that I finished second today.  But like, it's something that I think if you go over there, you learn like very quickly that like, there's only room for a few people at the top of the sport, right? There's seven billion people in the world and only 20 people get to suit up for Formula One every weekend. There's only 26 of us that get to suit up here. And there's a lot of young drivers that are out there trying to do it. So you've got to learn that pretty quickly. And I'm actually very glad that I went over there to experience that because I think it definitely, toughen me up a little bit, but like, I get it. It's hard. Like what we're doing here is really difficult to beat all the rest of the other people. That's clear. What I love about the US is if you have a crash and turn one of whatever in a race, they will put the car back to try to repair it. Yeah, exactly.  Like, what's the point here? The race never stops. No, I just like, we came on Sunday to race. We're going to go racing. What ever happened. You know, I think that's very different from Europe where, you know, drivers are like, yeah, save the engine, save it. Just don't go racing. As you say, it's very much more unboxed when I say there's more. I don't know, passion is involving both ways, but it's more, I don't know, you can fit it more maybe. Yeah, I mean, like you saw the Indy 500, right? Like it's just, there's something about it that just like it feels special and like everyone is having a good time. You know what I mean?  It's like, we are all here. We made this race. Like, it doesn't matter if you're starting in the last row or the front row. It's still an awesome introduction. Like I've started in the last row before I've started in the middle. Like wherever it is, it's just like so, like such a cool environment. And you're good at leading that race. Well, I'm fine. Two years in a row and I didn't lead the race.  Yeah, it's tough. I mean, that's the other thing coming from Europe, you know, when I look at ovals and I look on TV and it's left, it's flat, it's boring, it's easy. It was tough. Yeah, no, it's... This year was way harder than that. Great, that's why I had a good rookie year. Yeah, it was, yeah. You might've came in at the toughest rookie year, so sorry, pal. Yeah, well, I failed and I did my first 250 miles of Indiana Police. There's a saying at Indie, it's there are those who have hit the wall at Indie and there are those who will. Well, it's not a question of if it's when. So you know what, you got it out of the way. Yeah, I did. And I wanted it to be the exception. I was like, I already had my big shunt, I don't need any... I said the same thing. And yeah, I was at 200 miles an hour into the wall. So safe for very, very good. Yeah, you feel all right? You good? I didn't feel bad. There you go. Honestly, I didn't feel bad. Pain of muscle aches on the next day, which I was very... What did that point do is... Was Detroit worse? Yeah, Detroit worse. 100 gene Detroit. So that was a big one. I heard it. But the same thing, I wasn't left calf, supposing left calf and a bit of the neck, but yeah, it wasn't too bad. Everyone's sore. Crashing hurts. Crashing hurts. It's part of the job. You know, if you try to get to 100%, these days we give you 102 and these days you're gonna be at 98, so... I don't have to explain that to you, man. You had probably one of the biggest crashes as of anyway. Yeah, ever. So true. No one has to explain that to you. No, but you know, that's another mentality difference here. If you crash, it's not a big deal. You've tried and you failed. It's okay. I feel like in Europe, if you crash, people are really like, why did you crash? Why did you do that? I think it depends on where you're at in your career though, because sometimes... I remember when I was a rookie in IndyCar and I obviously didn't, I was much younger and I was like, all right, you can't make mistakes, right? But I do believe that when you come over and you immediately prove yourself, like you're on the pole or you get on the podium and people understand that you're a good driver and you can do it, I think then it's like, you know what, if something happens, then it happens. But I definitely know what you're talking about and over there, it's like, oh, if you crash, I mean, you might as well be, you're out.  You're done. You're saving and it's very different here. The drivers, I mean, imagine if I was doing that with Kimi Reichen and Rod Evu with Kimi. I mean, I've never happened. I may try, I may try. I got to interview Kimi once after he won the U.S. Grand Prix at Coda. Yeah? Yeah, I got to interview him after the race. 2018? Yep, 2019. I was doing the post-trace show, Will Buxton, and I was like, well, Kimi, you're the coolest guy I've ever met in my life, what do you think about? I asked him, I said, how does the Ferrari, what made it better today? And he's like, oh, we were just faster. I was like, all right, that's all we needed.  I was hoping to get some nice technical response, like, well, we've been working a lot on our aerodynamics. But it was nice to talk to him. I don't think he has any idea who I am, but it was fun. So we are middle of season in the car. I believe you're going to be with us next year. Yeah, I think so, yeah. And Midget, when are we going to the Chili Bowl? The Chili Bowl is in January. Yes. And it's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I will never be doing it again. I've done with midget racing. Well, then that, that's my carryover, because I was only coming a few right there. I did six front flips the last time I was in a midget, and it hurt really badly. And I was leading the race, and I just flipped over. I don't know why that happened. I'm going to do Baja 1000. Would you like to come with me as a coach now? No way, am I wearing a cat for that race? Oh, no. You really have to wear a cat-a-footer for that, right? What? Cat-a-footer? The thing you put in your, yeah, to pee, yeah. Just doesn't sound like me, but you never know. Thanks for coming. No problem. Please, guys, let us know in the comments, like, subscribe, tell us what you thought about it. I need to find out who's the next guest.


Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dhan of amitdhan.com On this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now If you like what you see, please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing This is Amit Dhan of amitdhan.com This is my first day in Bangladesh Dhaka I'll introduce you to my coordinator Hi, this is AVM Milan I'm Mr. Tan's tour coordinator I live in Dhaka I'm going to assist him in this tour To show him all these places He would like to see Okay, thank you Okay, thank you guys And then I'll introduce you to my vehicle operator Please say hi and your name? Ashokat Okay, so his name is Muhammad Ashokat And we're heading towards our destination And I'll show you around And we'll cut through the traffic of Dhaka This is the world's most densely populated city Population is about 18 million And although it's winter here But the weather I feel is very hot for me And it's a kind of muggy day I'll show you some scenes on our way To the destination or to a restaurant This location, the normal traffic condition Will take only about 15-20 minutes But due to heavy traffic It took us a while to come to the restaurant And we just ordered two plates of khachibirani With mutton And then we're just waiting for... So once you have that Then I'll show you more And then we'll start our feast of khachibirani In Dhaka Bangladesh So we have a piece of mutton And I'll just try my first bite It's very chewy and fibery And it looks like all the spices Went inside the mutton You can feel the spices Even in the mutton And it's very buttery This is a fine rice So the rice melts in my mouth And however it gives me the spice Taste or flavor in my mouth My whole mouth just feels Moily or buttery from the oil That I've used So there's some sort of salad Came with it So here's cucumber, onion, chili And lime And I'll try some Squeezing some lime in my food The lime smells different Than the lime I missed too It has a little bit of tangerine Or orange smell It changes the taste of the food A little bit because of the lime But it's very tasty There's a lot of oil in it And you can feel the spices And everything melted together So taste-wise it's very tasty But at the same time it's very spicy We are finishing our khachibirani With a local drink called Burhani Which is made of yogurt Coriander, mint And other ingredients such as Sugar, salt And it could be Some spices added to it So this is a very popular drink in Bangladesh And the other drink we have Is the Pepsi So it looks like this And this is a Pepsi in a bottle And this is a popular drink In Bangladesh as well It's not in a can the way we see So it's a bottle Pepsi


Hello, welcome to CTN member highlights. I'm Leslie McVane and today my guests are Bob and Sally Shiebel from Main Voices for Palestinian Rights. Hi, welcome. Thank you. Now you've just returned from the West Bank. That's right. And I'd like to ask you, before we talk about what happened there, how did you come to go there and stay for as long as you did? Bob, you were there for a month. Sally, you were there for two weeks. What was your reason for going? And we'll go from there. Well, as you said, we're both in Main Voices for Palestinian Rights. I serve as the chair of that organization. This was our third trip there. And we go periodically. We intend to keep doing that so that we can stay fresh in our knowledge about what's happening on the ground. We like to let, learn from people there. And we've discovered this time that they need to learn some things from us. In other words, they don't know how much is going on here. So we realized that we were in a way ambassadors to let them know that there are a lot of organizations here, including a number of very strong Jewish organizations that are working on behalf of Palestinian justice and for a just peace for everyone there. Yes. And, you know, as Bob said, this is our third time. And for me, the intention of this particular visit was to connect with Buddhists in the region in Israel. I'm particularly interested in how to bring the Buddhist perspective, the being informed by Buddhist teachings, and how to have the Buddhist voice be part of an interfaith presence. And so my intention was to talk to Buddhists in Israel and to see how we might work together, what I might learn from them, what I might bring back here, how I might then proceed. And that's all part of the Buddhist teaching, isn't it, to listen, to talk, to teach. And to be compassionate. Right. That's lovely. I should probably add here that the more specific reason we went when we went is that last summer, a young Palestinian man in his late 30s, who was a history teacher there, he came over to Maine as part of the Seeds of Peace for Educators program. And he came a week early before the program, so Seeds of Peace sent out an email asking people to volunteer to host him. And so we were one of those who volunteered and he stayed with us for three days and we just pretty much fell in love with him and I think it was mutual. So when he went back home, he called one day and asked if we would come and visit him and stay in his home this spring. So we had, we were actually planning maybe to go next year, but we thought, well, what an opportunity. So we went over this year and stayed in an apartment of his in the little West Bank village called Al Ram. What an opportunity that most people never get. And one of the things that was really wonderful about this particular visit because we were staying as a guest of a Palestinian person, we were part of the community. When we've gone before, we've had mostly hotels that we stay in, we're with part of a group. When we went the first time, it was to see my, to see our daughter who had been there for seven months, but we still stayed in a hotel and then used that location as our home base. This time we were very much integrated into the Palestinian community. So it was a very different experience. You weren't so much outsiders looking in, you were part of the inside being there all the time. And one of the things that was so important to me, one of the things I learned was being there for weeks, staying right in Al Ram. I got a sense of what it's like to live under the occupation. And here I'm talking about just day to day life, not when a real raid is coming in on your house, not when they're shooting and all just day to day. And every day when Yasser and I were getting his car and we would take off and we'd go normal speed for about three, four minutes and then we hit the main checkpoint. And we would sit in this long checkpoint for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, get through it and then drive five more minutes and be at our destination. So a trip that should have taken about seven minutes takes about 45 minutes and we'd do that when we'd go out. We would do that coming back. So I got a real sense of what kind of patience is required to live under that kind of regimen and what kind of struggle it is to deal with the air quality because you're sitting there with sometimes two or three lanes of traffic and all of that. They're just sitting there waiting on the checkpoints. And so all these fumes are going up in the air and also because there's inadequate services provided for Palestinians. In this particular area there was Calandia, Ram and one or two other towns whose names I don't remember. But among them they made up around 70,000 people. They were comprised of 70,000. Now, officially they're in what Israel calls East Jerusalem. So they pay taxes to Israel. However, Israel does not provide them with garbage pickup. Israel says we can't do that because our workers wouldn't be safe and they were asked, well, would you provide the money and we'll hire our workers to do it and Israel would not do that. They allow the Palestinian Authority to operate one garbage truck per day and to service 70,000 people. Imagine if the town of Portland had one garbage truck.  So again, you have this air quality of open burning. So it was important for me to experience that. I'd like to say something about that as well. We stayed, you know, at Yasser's apartment and it's a beautiful, there's a beautiful view from his sixth floor apartment. Twelve flights walk up.  Dear children. But their play area is, as Bob described, there's dusty roads that aren't paved because, again, of the lack of funding.  There is an area behind that where the trash has been blown. There are feral cats that are prolific, that are in and around there. As Bob said, there was one day in particular when it was particularly foul, the smell.  And you've got children playing out here. And that is the norm. This is the norm for these children. You know, there's another interesting story we encountered. One day we went to Bethlehem and the, a man named Mazen, who's the executive director of the Bethlehem Development Foundation, a very sharp man, arranged for us to have a tour. And so we went up to Batir, which is a small Palestinian village. The people of Batir use aqueducts built from the Roman era. They still use them. They have springs there. They use the water from those springs and that aqueduct to water their various family plots. There are eight Palestinian families that have lived there for generations. And Sally asked this tour woman there, have the families gotten into disputes sometimes over who gets enough water or we need more water? And she said, for my entire lifetime of being here, I've never had seen a dispute. So one of the problems that they're dealing with though is what do they do with their refuse? So they did an elaborate study and they came up with plans for building, getting a landfill and for money to get the truck to take their refuse to this landfill. They had all the, they had to go through licensing permits with Israel to get that. So they did it and they were ready to go. And they had some international funding. They had some international funding and then they learned from the state of Israel, oh, there's one more license that you have to get or permit you have to get. They were ready to go. They said, this is a permit which you will get if you agree to pick up the refuse of the settlers who live down in that part of the country.  And so they had to just scrap it, had to scrap it. So that's one of the the frustrations that Palestinians are dealing with. The man who was an engineer who was showing us a road that was being built around some of the terraces. These terraces go back to three to 3500 years. And he showed where the town, an area where the town had saved up its money and had black topped about two kilometers of that. That was going to help them when they harvested their crops for market to deliver them. And Israel sent a bulldozer in and just tore up two kilometers of black top. It's hard to imagine how that's improving the security of Israel. But I mentioned these things again to say here is some of the frustration that Palestinians living under the occupation are dealing with. And by being there you felt this. I want to go back a little bit to the checkpoint that they have there. When you went through with your host and you have to show your passport, were you questioned a little bit more than you would have thought? Not at the check points. At the check points they looked at my passport, looked in, looked at me and then said okay. Now when we were coming into Israel though at the airport we presented our passports to the woman sitting behind in the little booth. And she asked us as they always ask people why are you here? And I think she at some point asked who are you staying with? So we told her that we were staying with Yasser Abadiah.  So she kept us standing at that booth for what 15 or 20 minutes and then some people or two people came over or one person and she handed our passports to him and said follow him. So we went to a little room where we sat for close to an hour and then a man came and called me out and I went to a separate room and he asked me a series of questions like why are you here and who are you staying with and I gave the same answers I gave before. And so he had some questions about Yasser and this kind of thing and then said okay you can go back now. And the whole time we were talking he was on his computer so I do not know what he was looking at what he was finding. But I went back to the room and then maybe a half hour later the same man came to the door and motioned us out and gave us our passports and said you can go. And there was no explanation as to why. I had heard that in general it is difficult that that you are either searched or questioned a lot longer than you would think. I'd like to go back to that point about the checkpoint because there were two incidents though that I found distressing. One time I was visiting with a new friend there, a woman named Lama who has four children and she wanted to know if I wanted to go with her to pick her children up at school. And I went along with her. The way back through the checkpoint so the way out we had no that we weren't stopped at all but the way back we had to show our pass. I had to show my passport and Lama has a Palestinian ID that she needed to show. And Lama is searching in her pocket book. She's searching and searching. She cannot find it. She takes everything out and I'm watching her. She's not saying anything but I'm very aware of body language. I'm a psychotherapist and I'm also and I'm so I'm very tuned into those kinds of things and I'm watching this anxiety and at one point she looks at me and she said I changed my bags earlier and my ID was split in half. You know the cover of it was separated and she said I took the wrong one. So she they had her pull over and a young woman you know usually the the soldiers who are standing at the checkbook points are between the ages I would say of 18 and 21. Let's say for example a young woman comes and she looks at she looks inside and Lama says I don't have it and she said and she explained why and luckily the woman the Israeli soldier was fine was smiled and said that's okay have a good day but what Lama said to me after was it would have depended on who came up to the window as to what would have happened and then one other experience was when we were with Yasser and it was one it was a very busy day that it was a very congested period of time at the checkpoint and we're going through there's there is a lot you can feel the tension in the air because people are waiting and waiting and waiting and at one point Yasser is doing what everybody else is doing moving wherever there's a space and this car comes up to the side and out jump two men one is in his soldier attire and the other is pulling out a bulletproof vest from the back of the car and it comes up they come up to Yasser and they say give me your ID and Yasser's saying what did I do what did I do and the driver says you cut me off you cut me off and we're thinking he did what you know because we're watching everybody doing the same thing right so I don't know what that all was about but it was very troubling because the man the soldier said took a picture of his of his cell phone he said I'll see you in court um and when Yasser was inquiring as to why he said you keep it up and there'll be another there'll be another charge against you and it will make it even more difficult for you it was harassment yeah I mean and I just it was it was very painful to see this happening and this is something that they're living under that anxiety of having happened any time and now that he's been targeted in a way he'll probably have even more anxiety yeah exactly I mean so you think about a whole community of people living with that and you know how you you are when you're under anxiety it just depletes you in all ways yes and you're you're everything falls apart and to have a whole community living like that every day you know I in the states here I'm traditionally been the kind of person that speaks his mind and if I feel that I'm being treated unjustly or somebody close to me is being treated unjustly I speak up rather forcefully and I realized when I was there for this month and not going through with a tour group but just there is a person with an ordinary person there that when I came to a checkpoint or any other place where there were Israeli police or soldiers around I realized that I couldn't I couldn't exert my rights and demand my rights in the way I can here could not do it and it could be some 18 19 year old kid who's being rude and this time I didn't have anybody treating me that way but I know at times they do treat people that way and I realized though even when we were waiting in line for 45 minutes if I'd been back here I think I would have wanted when I get up here to say would you please play to me why this is happening is this really necessary but I really I could not do that I had well you didn't feel the freedom I didn't feel the freedom to do that I realized if I protest they can yank me out of that car put me in jail or just deport me in an instant and that's kind of a transition into what happened while you were there it's when the three boys went missing do you want to address that a bit it's it's a big concern for everyone it's it's it's world news nobody knows what has happened but you were actually there Sally I think maybe you had come back I had come back so I was following it you were following it from here and Bob was falling from there and were you in touch with each other about the various ways news is is projected when something like that happens yes tell us Bob when you first heard of it well I heard about it from my fan Yasser because he was reading the news every day in Arabic and he told me that it happened and my first reaction was oh no no no please don't tell me this has happened because the Palestinians don't need this my hope and it has not proven to be true but my hope was that okay if some Palestinians did kidnap these three boys I hope what they do is keep them for 24 hours and then call a press conference release them and say we had no intention of harming these kids we simply wanted to get the world's attention to the fact that our children are being kidnapped every day every day and the world is not making a clamor about it I think that would have been such a great statement for the Palestinians made unfortunately they're not seeking my advice on how to do things and they have their own timetables and their own rationale now so far it's just alleged that they're kidnapped my own guess is that they have been but there's a what stresses me is that in our media there is no context provided for this and context is extremely important three Israeli settler youth were let's say kidnapped we'll just assume that for the moment okay that's that's awful that's bad it should not have happened but once we've said that we've not said all that needs to be said in order to have a fuller understanding of what has of the dynamics here for one thing people need to know and I've I read this information when I was over there this is the Haritz let me open this up so people can see it's the Haritz or Haritz Haritz newspaper it's the most some would say it's the most prestigious newspaper and some people in Israel some have called it the the New York Times of Israel it's a progressive newspaper and so I was following what was going on in this paper because they put it out in English as well as in the Jews Jerusalem Post and one of the things that was written about in Haritz is that Israeli settler youth like to hitchhike in the West Bank as an ideological statement and I found this in a paper a gentleman by the name of Nitzan Nuriat who's a former director of the counter-terrorism bureau of the Israeli prime minister's office and he told Israeli television that these settlers for them hitchhiking was also an ideology a statement about who owns the West Bank territory which Palestinians and most of the world considered occupied so there it's a kind of thumb in your face to say we will we can hitchhike and if if something happens to us our army will come in so it's a challenge right and that's and and we want to clarify too that we're making an assumption that these kids were doing that we don't know that we don't know what these three teenagers were doing there or do we right no we don't we don't know about there these particularly one right we just know that this charge was not made by a a Palestinian it was made by an Israeli who say these things do go on and and as you say there's a much bigger picture that we're only seeing a little part of and we make assumptions on that little part we see but we also have to realize too that Palestinians are not all the same Americans are not all the same we all have different ways of doing things and different ways of dealing with things and we don't know who took these children right who they are what their motives are whether I know that there's there's disagreement in Palestine with the with the government of Palestine and their cooperation with the Israeli government on trying to find these young people so it's we've got a lot of things happening here I'd like to say just one thing about this is again if like as you said earlier this has is taking world the world is is is paying attention to this but how often do we know about the children that the Palestinian children that are being taken from their homes two three o'clock at night 12 to 16 years old on a regular basis almost daily just breaking down just taking taking them or the the the the the killing of Palestinian innocent Palestinian people there's a kind of collective punishment that's happening right now as we speak and the and the news we get as you say does not let us know that so maybe this this occurrence that is not a good thing that has happened but it might bring about more dialogue as you two are are speaking about now about what is happening there I would like to hope so although this kind of thing has happened before and you know so yes we need more we need to have we need to have all of the story right we need to understand that violence and oppression only leads to more violence and oppression it does not end in in a healthy way you know we can yes there can be peace there but it would be an oppressed peace if there needs to be full human rights for all people of the region and and and there there's not right everybody everybody wants to live in peace and to be happy and they should have a right to do that but it so this is the kind of occurrence that happens that is very tragic and as bob was saying we need to hear all of the story we need to open our hearts it's true for all people to try to understand why this kind of thing happens and to look at our own hard edges when we hear the word Palestinian what happens inside of us right you know for many people there's automatic association with they're bad yeah but that's where we need to and that goes along with our support of israel yeah you know in our in this country in the the lobby yes to support Israel on at any cost really and we need to rethink that we need to think about what are we doing as long as we don't have our troops in there we don't really worry that much about it um I know we don't have much time so I want to kind of transition into why you were there because this to me being with the buddhist group plays into this this bigger hole of peace and love and giving and and understanding could you say a little bit about that yes I met with two people one in particular that I'll mention his name is Steven folder up in Khalil up in the northern part of Israel he was the founder really of the buddhist community as it began many many years ago I asked him you know for his advice for his perspective that sort of thing and and he he said a couple things one is that in his experience Jews and Israel are quite ignorant of what happens in the West Bank that there is some willful ignorance which is a turning the head and not wanting to see there is deep fear because of you know what Jews have experienced historically and that there is great denial and guilt that is down the guilt is is very deep inside and he's he's quite concerned about that I think we might have to wrap this up and so if you want to end that I yeah yeah so yeah right I mean so my intention is that this this dialogue with the buddhist community community in Israel is continuing I think it's wonderful and maybe you'll come back and talk about that I would like to mention my blog buddhist travels in the holy land which are reflections of my of my trip through the lens of buddhist teachings so my hope is that that that will be an ongoing dialogue as well I think that's great you have a minute we have really like not even a minute okay I just want to emphasize the importance and I wish I had more time to give the context the number of Palestinian children who are killed who are kidnapped and we don't hear about those so we hear about this this happened recently and then the public is inclined to say how awful those Palestinians are look at them once again they're causing trouble you think that way when you're not getting the full story I agree okay well thank you both thank you and I know that people can go to your webpage yeah and your blog and they can go to main voices for Palestinian rights website I would like to invite you both back to continue this conversation we love it and soon thank you thank you very much bye bye