# A Christian Speaker on Israel, Jewish Population and October 7

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118821245471113565
- Source account: [@DrPhil](https://x.com/DrPhil)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:27
- Published: 2026-11-07
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7) I grew up as a poor Christian kid in Texas and Oklahoma.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=4) I was homeless at 14, never so much as met a Jew, never learned about Israel, probably couldn't have found it on a globe if you gave me two weeks, a magnifying glass, and a flashlight.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=15) That's just the truth of the matter. Israel is a blip.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=18) It's about the size of New Jersey. It's almost a joke how small it is.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=23) There are fewer than 16 million Jews in the entire world.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=28) That's less than two-tenths of 1% of the world's population.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=33) Not 2%, two-tenths of 1%. Compare that to roughly 2.3 billion Christians and 2 billion Muslims.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=46) Nearly half of the world's Jews live in Israel, and about four in 10 live right here in the United States.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=53) Israel has spent its entire existence trying to make peace with its Palestinian neighbors.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=60) It accepted the UN's plan for two states in 1947.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=64) It offered the Palestinians a state in 2000, again in 2008.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=69) In 2005, it pulled every soldier and every settler out of Gaza.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vMbQj8pWPExa/en/a-christian-speaker-on-israel-jewish-population-and-october-7?t=74) And on October 7th, what did it get? Terrorist monsters who raped and slaughtered Israeli women and children in their own homes, their own beds, their own cribs.