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Logan Sekulow: Look, I understand being careful and trying to keep your journalistic integrity in check. Because if we know anything, that is what the New York Times is known for. I'm Logan Sekulow. Welcome to the show. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110 and I want to hear from you. Of course, we are still talking about that thwarted attack yesterday. It happened mid-attack, by the way. The 9/11-style attack that is being reported right now from extremist pilot who, from all we have seen now, we have some wild stuff to go over. This was sort of a known entity. This was going to be somebody who no one, it seems like, inside who knew him was all too shocked to hear he would try to pull off this kind of attack. Which again, opens up a whole new can of worms. Now, of course in America, stateside, they're going to do whatever they can to really diminish the true impact that could have come from this terrorist attack. The New York Times yesterday, we covered it, and of course they got a lot of flack. They got a lot of flack because of a statement that they put out originally that that said, "Breaking news, a plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot, Israeli officials say." Now, hold on. We'll let's go back to me. We'll come back to it. So, that was the original statement. By the time that this went up, most people knew what had happened. Sure, confirmations needed to be claimed. Yes, did all everything need to get checked out? Yeah, but using the word "altercation" is like saying that it was a two-sided argument that went awry. Something that would happen, you know, at a dining room table or something that would happen on a sports team as two teams faced off against each other, there'd be some kind of altercation. No, this was one pilot brutally stabbing another one. Trying to take his life and then use his plane not only to take down the hundreds or 100-plus that were on board, but potentially use it as a weapon killing hundreds if not thousands more. But the New York Times did not frame it that way. They framed it again as an altercation. Now they have, instead of correcting their statement, putting out some sort of statement about that, they've decided to double down. That is as more information is coming out very clearly. And their statement and their response was, "Our headlines and live coverage contain all the facts that we're able to confirm as we confirm them." And then they decide to throw some shade at people like us. "Unlike activists and partisans, we don't publish speculation or unverified information." And then, of course, "Follow along as we update our reporting." So again, throwing shade at anyone who was already calling this a terrorist attack. I don't know who else was calling it a terrorist attack. The people on board. I don't know, the people that worked on the airline, the people that knew this pilot, the people in the Israeli government. Everyone was already labeling this an attempted terrorist attack. And now we go over to the Times of Israel, which put out a statement just a few moments ago, where they talked about how this specific pilot again, was a known entity, underwent a radical indoctrination, and you could find, again, they they have reports of this. This is again from the Times of Israel. Of his social media posts which talks specifically about killing Jewish people. Now Israel is putting out some pretty strong statements right now. Fly Dubai flights have been suspended, temporarily suspended, as they're ramping up security checks now on the pilots. You know, you thought you had it. Now security's got to get even more so on the pilots. According to spokesperson for Benjamin Netanyahu's office, they said, "Every pilot that's going to be flying into Israel, we're going to now know the pilot's identity, who they are, do some type of security check ahead of time. Anyone that is going to be flying into Israel, our job right now is to do our best." Anyone who's ever flown in and out of Israel knows what that security situation like. It is sometimes uncomfortable how intense it is. I want to hear from you. 1-800-684-3110. Again, the double down of the New York Times saying, "How dare those activists? How dare those partisans actually cover the news as it's happening?" We'll be right back with more on Sekulow. Don't go anywhere and support the work of the ACLJ when you can at ACLJ.org.
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Logan Sekulow: Look, it is purely a miracle that no one lost their life in this attack. There's no other way to describe it. It was a miraculous moment. And one that if had been successful, we would have a much different tone as we would have yesterday and today's show. Because we would've been dealing with a September 11th-style attack just a few days, October 1st right now, just a few days from the third anniversary of this October 7th attacks. We are in the middle of Jewish holidays right now. A lot of my friends are over there right now, so I ask you to say prayers for all the people in Israel, as they are somewhat celebratory right now. As this could have been a much bigger disaster. But we now know, and again, this is another sort of window that we didn't know we needed to check in on. Which is, are we regularly checking out and are people specifically in areas like Israel regularly checking out the pilots that are going in and out of their country? You'd think if you went through this sort of rigorous training, most people are not suicidal in nature. Most people are not trying to do harm to themselves and then harm to others. But we know that that is a bit of the MO here. Even if it's been 25-plus years since you've had a real successful version of this. But, it was seconds away. They've reported that now, under a minute away from where the point of no return. Where they would not have been able to right the wrongs and fix this after the nose dive of 14,000 feet in just a few moments. But thankfully, they were able to get those pilots, both the one who was stabbed and the other one, who then begged, by the way, to have his life taken by the crew. Because again, he probably knew in that moment, this was failed martyrdom in their eyes. Begged for his life to be taken. So I'm kind of thankful that the crew and the Israeli passengers just decided to you know, keep him pretty uh, rough him up a little bit. I think there was a lot of blood from what I could tell. But you know what? He survives, and maybe we can learn a little bit more about what goes on inside these minds, these minds that have been radicalized. I want you to hear from Prime Minister Netanyahu, bite one.
Benjamin Netanyahu: As you know the the attacker, the co-pilot who attacked the captain, is now being interrogated. But here's what we do know. First, we know that he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination. That appears to be something we're gathering from the information, his personal information.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah, I want to know from you, if you're watching online, you can throw this even in the chat. You can call in too, but I want to know in the chat. Right now, is this something you've ever questioned? Have you questioned when you get on an airplane, whether the pilot who is there, not whether you think they were qualified or whether you thought that that pilot was going to cause you harm? Was potentially working on an actual. Again, this isn't the 9/11 hijackers who then killed the pilots. You're talking about pilots themselves. Have you thought, has that gone through your mind? I'll be honest, as someone who is not a great flyer, usually I put my trust in these pilots to do their amazing job of flying us to safety. And of course, I'm very thankful for that. But now it's going to open up a whole other thing. And what about just travel to Israel in general? I have not visited Israel in a number of years now, and I'll be honest, I've been wanting to get back aggressively since the October 7th attacks. We have our office there. We have people that go all the time. I have not gone. I have not been able to take my family. I really wanted to take my son on his Bar Mitzvah year. He's now about to turn 14. That's simply just not going to happen right now. And every time it feels like, and I feel for the tourism industry of Israel, I feel for the people of Israel, because every time it feels like it's calming down, something like this happens. And whether it's it's a missile attack, whether that's what's happened in the war with Iran, or now even these unknown, unthinkable questions of what happens when you're just in the air over Israeli airspace, or in a plane full of Israelis/Jewish people. Are there people who have been radicalized within our own country and at other countries who will do damage to just those passengers on board? I want to know your thoughts on that. Phone lines are open. You can also hit me up in the chat. 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Again, social media posts have been uncovered saying that this was no shock. People that worked in the airlines said, you know, "We had hired someone who inevitably was very clear, had terrorist intentions." You know, a hijacker, religious extremist, again, who, you know, we that mean that's a quote from the New York Post, "We hired a terrorist." Now, that being said, you know, I think we have to be very careful with that, because some of those languages could be very easily used against Christians and Jewish people. Even some of the things that are traditions. But you do have to kind of get to the the crux of the situation here and to the heart of the situation. So we also have to be careful when you're dealing with this, that you're not demonizing, you know, entire religious groups, because it can easily fall back on you because what, you have traditions and customs that people don't think are normal. But do your traditions and customs involve the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of people simply because they believe differently than you? That is where we have to push back. And we also have to push back against our own press here in the United States, who were so quickly to want to call this something that it wasn't, to just say this was an altercation, a fight that broke out in a cockpit. And, you know, thankfully there were some heroic passengers that saved the day. That is not what happened here. I've never even heard of something like that really even happening. We've had, of course, incidents where a pilot has had some sort of mental breakdown, and things have happened. Sure. But when it comes to this kind of intentional attack, it is a very, very different time. And again, the New York Times decided, "We're going to double down on that and say, 'How dare you go after us for calling it an altercation?'" "It was an altercation. We didn't know any better." At the same time, every other not only mainstream news, a lot of them did in the mainstream news, but everyone, including the governments, including all the investigators who are talking, making statements within hours of this happening, were saying otherwise. But you know, you can't trust the words of the Israeli government. That's essentially what they're trying to tell you. That's like dealing with the Iranians, or it's dealing with someone else. So we can't trust Benjamin Netanyahu who's going to be straight with us, so we're just not even going to report it. We can't trust that Donald Trump is going to be honest with us when it comes to saying this was a terrorist attack. Who knows? It's putting that seed of doubt into everyone. Now, I'm thankful that most of you see right through it. But there was even a Fox & Friends legal analysis this morning that said, "The double standard for Israel has never been more blatant. A pilot stabbed the captain and tried to crash a plane full of Israelis. The New York Times called it an altercation. How quickly suspected terrorism gets sanitized when Israelis are the target." And that cannot be more true than right now. Look, it's me and you for the next half or next 45 minutes. Rick Renell is going to be joining us a little bit later. And I want to hear from you. So I want you to give me a call at 1-800-684-3110. People are asking some questions. We have learned that currently Fly Dubai flights have been suspended, and that's going into Israel. So we know that's happened right now. And the Israelis are changing the security process in terms of scanning and making sure that the pilot, they know who's coming in, including the pilots and the crew. And I'm sure to some extent, of course, they know that in some sort of manifest. But do they know the background? Do they know that you have social media posts from this pilot saying that he would like to kill Jewish people? And that is currently what's being reported by the Times of Israel. I mean, that is um, you know, that the fact that you ever would feel comfortable saying something like that and thinking you'd keep a job, and not only keeping a job, but a job that one of the big tasks is protecting human life. I mean, again, when we all get on a flight, our lives are in the hands of those pilots. And there is an understanding that those pilots, not unlike a doctor or in a medical field, you know, sure, they have to know the they got to know what they're doing because they have the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people in their hands. This is what happens, though, when you have some sort of radical indoctrination where your life is no longer important either. Maybe that was sort of a misunderstanding we've had for many years, which is certainly you wouldn't do this to yourself. Your own life is more important than that. But we've known now so many times that that is not the case. I am going to continue updating you here. There's also some really interesting news out of Iran in terms of the midterm elections. And we're going to get to that coming up a little bit in the next segment and certainly with Rick in the back half of the show. Because the Iranian government went from, you know, death to America to now being like, oh, well, maybe we're not going to be able to accomplish that goal. But maybe we can't accomplish another more politically motivated goal. So we're going to call on Americans to do the right thing and vote a certain way. And you won't be surprised which way they encourage you to vote. But the fact that they think, and maybe they do, and maybe you could get to this, they think that they have enough goodwill from the American people to help sway an election. And that's an interesting thing to think about as well. There are plenty of Iranian Americans. The ones I know don't care too much for the IRGC. They don't care too much about what happened to their country. I mean, they care about it. They don't care for it. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Three lines open right now. I will take a lot of calls throughout this hour. Again, it's just me and you and Rick Renell is going to be joining us in the back half of the show. But go ahead, give me a call at 1-800-684-3110. And new report if you're talking about anti-Semitism growing in New York City. Well, the mighty mayor of New York has something to say about it. He's going to do it, and he's going to fix the problem. He may use all the right words, but we know what the actions are. We'll be right back with more on Sekulow.
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Logan Sekulow: Look, this segment will be the end of our first half hour. If you don't get us on your local station, you can find us broadcasting live, if you do, better experience to see us. That's over on ACLJ.org, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook. We are broadcasting there live 12:00 to 1:00 PM Eastern Time. And then you can catch it archived immediately following. So if you are listening to this later on a delay, you can always watch the second half of the show whenever you want or the whole show, you can go back, you know, it's available. It's podcast, it's available. At all all outlets, wherever you get your podcast. Again, phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Before we move on a bit from what happened in Israel, again, of course, that flight, we're going to talk though a little bit about the Mayor of New York here in just a moment. I do want you to hear a bit more from Prime Minister Netanyahu because there was a bit more when it talked about the nature of what was happening inside that cockpit to give you a bit more of the surrounding, of what was happening because we've seen video clips, but you know, a lot of it is in Hebrew, obviously. A lot of it is is a little bit harder to understand what's happening. You also had a group of people trying to keep children calm. So it's a different scenario. You see a lot of blood, but sometimes, you know, maybe it doesn't fully compute what was going on inside that cockpit. But Prime Minister Netanyahu was on Fox this morning. A lot of what he's done before this was in Hebrew as well. So it was, you know, we'd have to be playing translated and all of that. But he was able to in English talk about this. Let's play bite five talking about what was going on inside the cockpit in terms of the way the passengers and the crew then reacted to that pilot who had decided to take his own life, not his own life, took all the lives on that plane into his own hands. Bite five.
Benjamin Netanyahu: They subdued him. By the way, just understand this. They they had to tie his hands. So they used the cord