JOHN RILEY

Welcome to the Middle East report, your connection to truthful reporting on Israel and The Middle East. Truthful reporting because there is a lot of deceptive news, social media platforms out there, deceptive podcasters, all promoting anti biblical propaganda when it comes to the truth of what's actually happening on the ground in Israel and in The Middle East. So each week, we try to bring you the truth of what's happening over there. And I am thrilled to have our our guest today on this edition of the Middle East Report. Three time Emmy award winning journalist, previously led Newsmax Jerusalem's Bureau as a correspondent. He served as a co anchor on top rated TV stations in Los Angeles and San Diego. We're talking about Daniel Cohen. He now serves as news director for the RealLife Network RLN founded by pastor Jack Hibbs. He's the host of the Daniel Cohen show, which delivers breaking news, bold commentary, exclusive reporting on the issues shaping our day. And he lives in Israel where we are connecting with him right now where he broadcast worldwide, bringing you the truth every single day. Daniel, man, it is so good to connect with you there in the land of Israel.

DANIEL COHEN

Oh, John, great to be with you, and thank you, American family. And thank you for what you're doing and just telling the truth. But most importantly, I do live in Israel, and I'm a Jewish follower of Jesus. I'm a Cohen, and we live in the land. And, it's just my honor to be speaking with you, John. So thanks for your time.

JOHN RILEY

I appreciate you, and everybody needs to, you know, connect with what you're doing there in the land of Israel. We're gonna tell people how to do that here in just a minute. You are, you know, with RLN, RealLife Network. And I want you to, first of all, start off and and tell us about this network that everybody can connect to and what you guys are doing because it is so powerful.

DANIEL COHEN

Yeah. Sure, John. Thanks for the opportunity. Look. The RealLife Network is a is a network that was founded three years ago by pastor Jack Hibbs. He he founded this network. The lord gave him a vision, basically told him to start a network. And he said, I want you to start, and I want a program, and I want you to talk even about Israel. And, and, you know, this was about ten years ago, and what a bold visionary. You know, pastor Jack likes to say, and I'll just I'll just paraphrase and quote him here. He says, where where god leads, god provides. You know, this network is three years old. It was launched on Pentecost. And, the Daniel Cohen show, it came along about a year ago. This show is reaching, and all the content on the RealLife Network, 2,000,000 people every single month. So if anybody wants to wants to see what it's about, the RealLife Network is an app, and we're just launching a linear channel. What does that mean? Not to get lost in the weeds, but a linear channel would be one that you see on on TV, you know, like with your cable subscription. We just launched that. So, up until now, if you wanna download on the app, it's 2l's,reallifenetwork.com. We don't want money. You can take your hand off your wallet. It's completely free. Our job and our mission is we just wanna connect in our show, the Daniel Cohen show, the news to the good news. And so like you said in that very kind intro, John, I've I've worked in the affiliates. I've worked in the networks. I've worked all the way up that ladder to the largest market. So I was a morning anchor in Los Angeles, and the Lord brought my family, my wife, and our three children to Israel in 2020. And and now I just could not be more honored to be hosting my own show and connecting the news to the good news. The good news is, of course, the gospel. And, where and when and how we can, we do we do, shows every week and regularly. Right now, three, and we're we're soon to be going to five when we get the linear channel launch done. That's it. We we do something really radical here, John, which is something I know that you do too. We just tell the truth. We just tell the truth. We say, here's what the Bible says. What does the Bible say about taxes? What does the Bible say about immigration? What does the Bible say about your biblical stewardship when it comes to voting? Woah. Did you know, John, that there are some some 40%, only 40%... That's actually less than that of Christians actually vote. 40%. Think about that. Think about how much different government would look. Your local government would look, your state government, the federal government. If Christians, people who proclaim Jesus, who proclaim Yeshua, would vote. Now I know Jesus isn't on the ballot. He never will be on the ballot. We're not voting for Jesus. And so as we're getting close to an election here where Islam and socialism and communism... I mean, people who who pub... Who say... They say it out out loud that their goal is to remake, reinvent, tear down the institutions that made America great, that made our founding principles, our founding fathers, who were who were Christians, we... The Judeo biblical values that we all have grown up on, that we've lived through. You know, I wanna pass that down to my children, my grandchildren. I wanna encourage everybody right off the bat. I wanna tell everybody right away if they don't hear the rest of this interview, you must vote. And it's not good enough this year to just say, I voted, and here's my sticker on my way to Starbucks. Like, this is a... Charlie Kirk said, get 10 people with you and go vote. I mean, this isn't the... That's I voted. This is get everyone you know to vote. This is not an election to sit it out. This is an an election where we must engage because the Islamists are engaged. And maybe you're seeing that in your community right now. And the atheists are engaged, and the other side is engaged. And Christians, it is biblical stewardship. It is good stewardship. And if you're not voting, then you have no right to complain when we have transing conversations about children and the and the rest of the erosion and the decay that we're seeing in our society.

JOHN RILEY

Well, you brought it up, the USA midterms, and we are gonna talk about, you know, what's happening in in France. We're gonna talk about what's happening there in Israel. But what's at stake here, Daniel, with these, midterm elections? You mentioned the Islamist. You mentioned the socialist. Did this... The communist all joining together to try to change our country. What's at stake?

DANIEL COHEN

Well, everything. I mean, literally everything is at stake. Okay. Let me see. Let me see if I can connect to Israel here for a moment. Okay? Because I'm in Israel. And I know we may talk about that a little bit later as well. But the the truth is the truth is here. I I guess that's what I would boil it down to. The truth is is at stake here. We have a Donald Trump presidency, right, that is that is going into its last two years. And I don't know if you got... John, do you remember when Barack Obama was being interviewed and was sitting next to this this... There was this Russian diplomat, and he said he said, tell Vladimir I'll have more flexibility after the election's over. Do you remember that?

JOHN RILEY

I do remember that. I do.

DANIEL COHEN

Right. And so, look, Donald Trump in his last two years, I certainly hope hope that, the Republicans control the house, that the Republicans can can control the senate, that can elect people, that we will do our duty even as Christians, and that the Republicans will be able to pass the save America act. Because I'm looking forward to, and I'm I'm praying for it, a last two years of Donald Trump's presidency where we also have a prime minister Netanyahu. Right? And we have a a Donald Trump who who won't have to worry about being reelected, who will never... His name will never be on another ballot again. Like, this is it, guys. This is it for him. In in another week, that's it. Just in terms of the peace that he's brought around the the world, exception Israel, Iran, that's still ongoing. Exception Russia of... And Ukraine, that's still ongoing. I think after this election is over... And I can't tell you his name, but I'm telling you some some people that I'm speaking to and and people that have the president's ear and that have prime minister Netanyahu's ear ear are saying that after this midterm election is over in America and after the election here in Israel, there's gonna be a big push. There's gonna be a big push in Israel... For Israel to claim sovereignty and to reclaim some land that rightfully belongs to Israel. Again, I just wanna encourage everybody to vote. I mean, look. We we saw Charlie Kirk, who was maybe the the greatest champion for for the conservative movement of my lifetime. I'm 49 years old. He was 30. He would have been 33 last week. He was murdered on live television, basically, for the entire world. We all saw it. I... And anybody who wants to see it. You know, he stood up for for the bible, for biblical principles, for family values, for everything that we hold dear. I would just say this, John. For people out there, and I know not everyone loves president Trump, but I would hope at least that you will vote for Charlie. Charlie can't vote. And so I would hope that you and your wife or husband or your family that all of you can go and vote in Charlie's stead because America is worth saving. And what we're staring at is the thing that he talked about, this red green alliance between the Islamists and between the, the communists who are parading as Marxists and fascists. Right? And they're teaming up together. And what do they have in common, John? Nothing. They actually have nothing in common. It's one thing. One thing. They hate the bible. They hate the god of Abraham, Isaac, and bake... Jacob, the god of the bible, and they hate his son, the Jewish messiah, Jesus. And so there's a fight coming between the red and the green, and that's gonna be an epic fight. But first, what they're trying to do is remove us. They wanna remove the Saturday people first and the Sunday people second. The Saturday people are the Jews. The Sunday people are the Christians. And by the way, that includes atheists. They don't care. Anybody who's who's not a believer, the Islamist, they consider an infidel. And so I would just say, everybody, please again, vote. And not just you, bring 10 people with you. This is that important, the most important midterm election ever.

JOHN RILEY

You're listening to the Middle East report, and we're talking to Daniel Cohen. He is host of the Daniel Cohen show on the RealLife Network. You can find out more about that at reallifenetwork.com. And since we're talking about, the midterms, the RealLife Network will be actually anchoring during the midterm elections. That night, they're gonna give you coverage like you won't hear anywhere else. So I wanna encourage you. Reallifenetwork.com. Reallifenetwork.com. You guys are gonna have election night coverage. This is really unprecedented what you guys are gonna be doing.

DANIEL COHEN

We are hosting the real life network live coast to coast election night coverage starting at 8PM eastern, 5PM Pacific on the real life network. Again, reallifenetwork.com. You can go there, and you can download our app. And it's, again, totally free. And what makes it different is this. We are going to be opening up the bible. ABC won't do that. NBC won't do it. CBS won't do it. We might even stop and pray in the middle of an election result. I mean, literally, hey. We're about to get the returns for the governor of California. Can everybody... Can we please stop and pray here? You know what I mean? Look. You're not gonna hear anybody on the on the network say, hey. Did you know that Proverbs twenty nine two says that when the righteous are in power, the people rejoice. And when the wicked are in... When the wicked rule, the people groan. We are going to be opening up the Bible. And so what I'm saying is why not watch the election night returns with people that share your biblical worldview, that share that same lens. Right? We're gonna have pastor Jack Hibbs. He'll be with us all night. Frank Turek is gonna be with us. I'll be interviewing Michelle Bachman. So without giving it all away, I'll just tell you, please, 8PM eastern, 5PM Pacific. Come one. Come all. Bring your family. And we're, of course, praying and hoping it's gonna be a wonderful night for us at the RealLife Network and, hopefully, a great night for America. We're calling it America Speaks.

JOHN RILEY

Europe, Daniel, is on fire. You got all these communist groups, labor unions, global activists, Islamists, Muslims, all these people gathering together to turn France upside down. We're we're watching this in real time. The question that comes to my mind, can it happen here in The United States? And then that's one question. The second question is, what in the world's going on there?

DANIEL COHEN

Yeah. That's right. No. John, the answer to your question is not can it happen is this is the cold bucket of water, everybody. Christians, I hope you're listening, and I hope you're on the edge of your seat. It is already happening. It is happening in The United States. The last administration, Joe Biden, they flung open the southern border, and they let at least... Look. The conservative estimate is they let 10,000,000 people into the country. I've heard I've heard some estimates, 15,000,000. I've heard as low as 8,000,000. I've heard more than... Almost upward of 18,000,000. I I don't know what... Where that number lies. What we are having to, grapple with now is this. Import it, become it. Import it, become it. What we're seeing in France, what we've seen in The UK. I was in Paris just a few months ago for... With my son, and with my family. We were in Belgium for a baseball trip in Belgium, in London, in Amsterdam, in Sweden. And what we've seen is weak immigration policy, and we've seen the Islamists who have taken advantage of those weak immigration policies. And, and so now we've seen these places. I don't know when the last time you've been in Europe or even Western Europe, but if you... What we're seeing is a cautionary tale, everybody. This is already happening in America. Import it. Become it. Look at Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn has an entirely Muslim city council. In fact, the mayor said recently, he said he hopes that they will... They wanna make sure that there will never be a non Muslim that sits on that on that seat in the city council for for the city of Dearborn ever again. Hamtramck, Michigan, same. Patterson, New Jersey, same. Bridgeview, Illinois. The state of Texas, if you if you're listening right now in Texas, you you don't need me to tell you this. You already know about the the presence of Islam, and it it is metastasizing. And I use that word intentionally because when you think of metastasization, you... Something metastasizing, you think of cancer. Guys, it is incompatible with The United States constitution. And when we look at a candidate like an Abdul Al Sayed in Michigan, who seems to say the right things and seems... He seems to be impossible to be to be pinned down. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a thing in Islam, John, that I know you know that maybe your audience doesn't, but it's called taqiyah. And taqiyah is a permission structure in Islam, in the Quran, that allows for misrepresentation or hiding or lying outright sometimes in order to further the cause of Islam. We need to become familiar with all of that and know the stakes. The stakes could not be higher for this election, the most important midterm election of our lives, and, of course, in two years from now, the presidency as well. So what's going on in France and what's going on across Europe? Weak immigration and leftist leaders again who are selling out the people for power, and that's what we're seeing on... In The United States Of America. We're seeing an unholy alliance in the red and the green, the Democrats who are parading as socialists, and we see these communists and Marxists, which, by the way, socialism, communism, everywhere it tries, it has a 100% success rate of failure. Let me say that again. It has a 100% rate of failing everywhere it's tried, And that is what America is dealing with. We have a a red green alliance where we have Democrats partnering with socialists and Islamists and communists, and they're all selling you out for power. You must show up and vote on November 3.

JOHN RILEY

You must vote and don't stay home on election day. And if you wanna watch some awesome news coverage, they're gonna be doing that with the RealLife, Network, reallifenetwork.com, reallifenetwork.com. You can check them out, especially on, you know, election day plus. Real life is actually on Roku. That's where we have it, Daniel. We've got it on Roku. We sit there, you know, in our living room, and you got all these shows up there, including your show that you can watch all free. Just just register in reallifenetwork.com. So please check that out, and it's available on a lot of different other platforms, some new platforms that are coming up as well. Alright. I wanna get to some of the things going on there, in Israel and in The Middle East and all of that. I wanna just ask you about the elections there in Israel. And, you know, we've been talking about the midterms in The United States. The elections there in Israel for us here in The United States, it could be kinda confusing. It's complicated. So simplify it for those those of us who don't understand the Israeli politics, what's at stake, what about press, prime minister Netanyahu, and and those sorts of things for those people who are listening right now.

DANIEL COHEN

Oh, I can do that easily. I can simplify it all. It takes about ninety minutes. So ready? Here it goes, John. No. Yeah. That's right. No. It is it is very complicated in Israel. And so if I could boil it down in about ninety seconds instead of ninety minutes, here's what I would tell you. There are many parties here. And so it's not just Democrat, Republican, which are major parties, and then there are independents too. There's a green party, and, you know, and there are libertarians. But here in Israel, there are dozens, literally dozens of parties. There are be... There will be a party that can, have a a really incredible... Incredibly gifted charismatic leader who will rise up, start a party, and then five to seven years later, that party is gone. Imagine the Democrats, and they have Barack Obama or Republicans with Donald Trump, and then they fall out of favor, and the whole party is dissolved. That... That's how it works here. The one constant in Israel is a man named Benjamin Netanyahu, and he is the prime minister. He leads a party called the Likud. And then what happens when we go to vote, and I vote in Israel as well, it's all paper ballots. Everyone here votes by paper, for a party, not for a person. So we don't actually vote for Netanyahu. Every year, you vote for party, and then the party that gets the most votes then gets to try to form a coalition and form a coalition government. And there are 120 members of the Knesset. That's the that's the parliamentarian body here. And so in order to form a government, you have to have 61 Knesset members. You have to have a majority, basically. 60 plus one. 61. We have an election on October 27. Prime minister Netanyahu, is... Gets the same treatment in Israel that Donald Trump gets in The United States Of America, which means it's not a lot of favorable press. Daniel two twenty nine says, god raises up kings, and he deposes others. And he has raised up prime minister Netanyahu, and he has raised up Donald Trump, two imperfect men, very imperfect men, but for such a time as this, just like Esther. I believe that prime minister Netanyahu is going to win, but it's very possible based on the polling data that we have right now that that prime minister Netanyahu, he's gonna get, his party, again, the Likud, will get a significant number of votes. Will he get enough votes to to form a government with a coalition and all those things that I just spelled out? That remains to be seen. If they don't, then there will be another election. So it just goes right to another election and another election and another election until the government is formed.

JOHN RILEY

I wanna give you an opportunity to just, give us a a security briefing, if you will. You know, you got the Iran war. You got what's happening in Lebanon. You got, what's happening in Saudi Arabia, all of this, and, you know, Gaza, all of these things as quickly as you can because I wanna leave time at the end of this Middle East report for you just to share your heart of how you see God working in all of these things, you know, kinda through a spiritual lens.

DANIEL COHEN

Well, look. It it all comes down to the Bible for me. And as a Jewish follower of Yeshua, of Jesus, I read the headlines just like you do, and then I take a step back and I say, well, now what does the Bible say about this? Right? What does the Bible say? Look, guys, I'll just be very blunt and say, I believe that the time is short. I believe that Yeshua is is going to return. How soon? I'm not saying in one year, five years, ten years, but I'm saying look at the alignments that we're seeing geopolitically where we have Persia, which is Iran, who have who have made strange bedfellows with Russia, which have also made bedfellows with Turkey. The leader of Turkey who calls prime minister Netanyahu Hitler. Right? And then China. Right? All of these nations have have sort of gotten in bed with one another, and China is this economic powerhouse, and and Russia as well, and China and Turkey. Guys, these are nations that the Bible talks about. They talk about it in Ezekiel. There's a war of Gog and Magog. And if if you if you haven't read, I mean, I I encourage you to read these chapters 37, 38, 39, 40. I mean, get in get into this stuff. I think right now we have a responsibility as believers to know what the Bible says. And so that when these things come to pass, that we won't be shocked, that we won't be surprised. John, in 1947, the UN passed... I'll make this short. The UN got together, and they passed what was called the partition plan in November 1947. And The United States was the deciding vote. Dwight Eisenhower voted and said yes. And there was... The the plan was to create a Jewish state next to an Arab state. And the Jews said, yes. We'll take it. We'll do it. And, we we want to live our state of our own. This was after the Holocaust nineteen forty seven. And the Arabs said no. They didn't wanna live next to the Jews. And so when when you think about the book of Isaiah, when he says how a nation formed in a day, I mean, my goodness. We we we just saw that. That just leapt right off the pages of the bible. A partition plan where a nation was born overnight and immediately immediately when when that nation was formed, it... There was a war declared the next day. And Israel survived, and Israel won that war. And so God's hand of protection is on the nation of Israel. God made a covenant. He swore an oath with himself, and he told Abraham. He said your generation... From generation to generation would be an everlasting covenant. Now does that mean that bad things don't happen? Does that mean that evil isn't present? Does that not mean... Does that mean that the enemy of God, that would be Satan, who rules through, through these different various false ideologies? I don't say religion. I don't believe Islam is a religion. It's an ideology. The word Islam. The word Islam means submit. It means submission. And so when someone is a Muslim and they subscribe to this ideology Islam, that means that they want you to... They will force you to submit either by your own choice or forcefully and and by the sword if they must. And so it's... Again, guys, it's important that we know what the Bible says. God made a covenant with the nation of Israel. He said he would never ever break that promise. He would never break that covenant. In Jeremiah, it says unless the sun and the moon and the stars cease to exist. He says that is when I'll break my promise to you. So if you're someone there who's wondering about Israel or wondering if is God really done with the Jews or done with these people, he will never break a promise, guys. If God breaks a promise to Israel, a covenant that he swore that that he swore and that he made with himself and through the seed of Abraham, if he breaks that promise to Israel, if you're a Gentile, how do you know that he won't break a promise to you?

JOHN RILEY

That's powerful. That is absolutely powerful, and that's why we know, that God's plans and purposes for the Jewish people in the land of Israel will be fulfilled. No matter how many wars there are, no matter what's going on, God's word does not lie when it comes to, the the Jewish people and and and the land of Israel. It... It's going to come to pass because that is the word of God, and, we need to continue to pray for everything that's going on over there. I've only got three minutes left here to Middle East report. We got a war in Iran that's still ongoing, you know, with The United States and Iran and Israel. You got Hezbollah. You got Gaza. Is anything concerning you about, you know, all these things that are happening there as far as these wars?

DANIEL COHEN

Well, we're always concerned. And the the answer to that question is... Let me let me frame it for you this way, John. The situation in Israel is... If... Imagine a pot on a stove and the pot's full of water, and the the water sometimes comes to a boil. If it's sitting on if it's sitting on the stove and there's... And it's burn... You know, your your... The the light is lit. But sometimes it it it simmers back down. And so this is The Middle East in a nutshell. It's never not it's never not hot. It either is boiling or it's at a point where it simmers. And so everybody here is sort of watching to see what's gonna happen. You know, there... There's been some rumor, and it's purely rumor that Iran might try to do something, during the Israeli elections. They're they're already trying to tinker with the American elections, you know, the gas prices that you're paying and the Strait Of Hormuz and all of those things. We don't need to get into all that right now. But, but it... That that is the situation, and that's the reality. And I know you're coming to Israel in about, what, a week or so. And so you will get to see all of that and experience that, what, for the... I think you've been here something like 30 or 40 times, John. I'm I'm really impressed.

JOHN RILEY

I have. And, honestly, I'm looking forward to, getting back, you know, to the land of Israel. I I love it so much there. And I will tell you this, Daniel, you know, as we wrap up today that even though, you know, all this stuff is going on there, I feel so at peace. I would rather be in Israel with, missiles coming at me or whatever than than, know, in some some other country, you know, in Europe or somewhere because I know Israel's gonna take care of business no matter what is going on with all of these wars, you know, that we're we're seeing. So I'm looking forward to it. And, Daniel, I do wanna just encourage people once again to to check you guys out, especially on election night here in The United States because you are going to provide incredible coverage, real, election coverage that you won't, you know, see anywhere else. And so this... Just go to reallifenetwork.com. Reallifenetwork.com. You can find out all the information there. You can get it up on your Roku. There's a channel there. Lot of ways to watch and and see what's going on, especially on election night. But then also all the other great stuff from reallifenetwork.com. Daniel, thank you so much for all that you do. My wife and I love watching you, and I know many other people do. In fact, over 2,000,000 people every single month. So thanks for all that you do there in Israel.

DANIEL COHEN

Thank you, John. And I I would tell everybody and anyone, please come to Israel. Please come and see for yourself. You know, of all the things that you see on the news, I promise you, you're not you're not only getting half truth. You're not even getting the truth. You're you're not even getting the... You're not... You're getting a story or you're not getting the story. So I I just encourage everybody. Do what John's doing. Are are plane tickets expensive? Yes. But I promise you, your bible will come to life. You'll never read, when you see it... When you read in the Mount Of Olives in the in the book of Matthew or when you read Jesus on the... In Capernaum on the Sea Of Galilee. I prom... You'll never see your bible the same again. So I encourage everybody, come, see for yourself, experience the land. I I do believe as as believers, I know my wife and I dreamed about coming to Israel, and, we've... It took us twenty years. And then when we finally came, the Lord kept us here, and we stayed here. We never left.

JOHN RILEY

DANIEL COHEN , the news director for Real Life Network and the Daniel Cohen show. It comes directly to you from Israel. Check that out. Reallifenetwork.com. Daniel, thank you for your time. I know you... You're very, very busy, but I appreciate your time today.

DANIEL COHEN

God bless you, John. God bless everybody. Thank you again.

JOHN RILEY

DANIEL COHEN and the RealLife Network team will be providing you with live coverage of the midterm elections from a biblical perspective. You're not gonna hear or see any kind of coverage like this anywhere else. So I wanna encourage you to check that out, reallifenetwork.com. That's the website, reallifenetwork.com. They also have an app. So if you're gonna be busy that night and you just wanna watch it on the app, you can do that. You can download that from your App Store. So check that out. Again, reallifenetwork.com, or you can search for it at your App Store, real life network coverage for the midterm elections plus a lot of other amazing content on the RealLife Network app. And another place that you can get, live coverage of what's happening with the midterms is American Family Radio in audio form. We're gonna be providing you with all of that information and details and updates and special guests and so much more with our news team here at American Family News. So I wanna encourage you to, tune in to that. If you're not going to be, you know, near a television where you can watch something from the RealLife Network, you can always tune in to American Family Radio and get the coverage there. Two sources that you can trust, RealLife Network and American Family News. On election night, I wanna encourage you stay away from the mainstream news sources and tune in to American Family News or the Real Life Network. You're gonna get accurate information on what's happening across our country from a biblical perspective. That's the Middle East report. Thank you for listening. Get a podcast of the show wherever you get your podcast. We're on all the major podcast platforms. Plus, you can email me and let me know that you are listening. You can ask any questions you want. You can email me [email protected]. That's [email protected], and you can download this podcast at afr.net and wherever you get your podcasts. We're on all the major podcast platforms. Thanks for listening. I'm John Riley.