1 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: Well, we have come out to your city, Donna pay 2 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: I get. 3 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 2: Thomas saying you a conscious zone, will be desire how. 4 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 3: A telan. 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 4: And if you want a little mag in a yin, 6 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 4: I come along Stephen Miller. 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 5: He's he's a Nazi, Yes he is, and he's Jewish. 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 5: He should be ashamed of himself. 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 4: The truth is that Donald Trump is the most president 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 4: in the history of the United States of America. 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 3: What I say now, you say, kings new New. 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 5: This is what democracy looks like. 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 3: That's what democracy looks like. 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 5: This, there's what democracy looks like. 15 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 4: This is what democracy looks what fradom is back in style. 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 4: Welcome to the evolution, coming to your. 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 2: SENTI going the way I gets Alz and sane you 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: a conscious song. 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 5: Sean Hennity show more me I'm the scenes. Information on 20 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 5: freaking news and. 21 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 4: More bold inspired solutions for America. Coming up next our 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 4: final News round Up and Information Overload hour. 23 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: All Right, News Round Up and Information Overload Hour eight 24 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: hundred and nine four one, Sean, if you want to 25 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: be a part of the program. It's been beyond disconcerting 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: to me that there are so many that have jumped 27 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: on a bandwagon and have you know, at times made 28 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 1: Israel the the you know, the aggressor in this conflict. 29 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: And I ask people all the time, I say, Okay, 30 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: imagine your country has been inundated from all sides, with 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: rockets being fired into your town and your city and 32 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: your country. I mean, we're not talking about, you know, 33 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: a thousand, We're talking about tens and tens and tens 34 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: of thousands. I told you about the trip I took 35 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: one of my many trips to Israel, and I went 36 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: to Throat, a border town with Gaza, and by the 37 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: time I had been there, they had gotten hit with 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: ten thousand rockets one little town. In ten years. Kids 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: played in underground bunker playgrounds. And when I was there 40 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: one day, I came back the next day and they 41 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: had been a rocket attack the night before and a kabbutz, 42 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,679 Speaker 1: you know, was you know, you see the shrapnel and 43 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: the metal, you know, designed for maximum destruction. And imagine 44 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: if this was an American city, and then imagine you 45 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: have a population of under ten million Israelis in what 46 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: is a geographic size about the state of New Jersey, 47 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: and you know, just imagine that the equivalent of you 48 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: extrapolate out their population compared to ours of forty thousand 49 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,239 Speaker 1: dead Americans in a day, because that's that's the percentage 50 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: of their population that were murdered on October seventh, twenty 51 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: twenty three, and then those that were kidnapped, and then 52 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: the rapes that took place. All of this is on video. 53 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: The IDF showed it to me. And the beheadings that 54 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: took place, and the torture that took place, we now 55 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: understand inside what that would be like. We're very honored 56 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: to have on the program. Elie Sharabi is with us. 57 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: He spent four hundred and ninety one days in captivity. 58 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: He has a brand new book out, it's called Hostage. 59 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: It just debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. 60 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: And he's here to tell his story, and it's really 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: an honor to have him. I can't imagine the horror 62 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: of having a face four under ninety one days in captivity, 63 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: not knowing if if you're ever going to get home 64 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: and see your family again. Elie Sharabi, thank God you're home. 65 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: God bless you, and thank you for joining us on 66 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: this program. 67 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure. Thank you. 68 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: Tell us what happened that day, October seventh. I know 69 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: that you had been leading a peaceful life. You had 70 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: a new wife from Great Britain, and take us to 71 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: that day. 72 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 2: We woke up half past six in the morning, thousands 73 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 2: of alarmed missiles over central and southern of Israel, all 74 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: the kyboots in the area of Gaza, and we took 75 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: our daughters to the safe room and our dog. 76 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 5: We've waited there for more than four hours. 77 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 2: We've waited that the army will arrive because we got 78 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: a message that there's a possibilit that harmasteroists infiltrated the 79 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 2: Bary and and some half an hour before they arrived 80 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: to our house, me and my wife made a decision 81 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: that we are not going to fight back. We don't 82 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: have any weapons with us, and we presumed that I 83 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 2: will be kidnapped. And my wife and my daughters have 84 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 2: a British passport and we presume that this passport will 85 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: protect them. We thought that this terrorists have any boundaries 86 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 2: and that's it for hours in this safe room, and 87 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 2: they arrived to our house, opened the safe room and 88 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 2: start to shoot immediately in the safe room to scare us, 89 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 2: we jumped on our daughters to shield them and protect them, 90 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: and we shouted them to stop, and immediately we said 91 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 2: them they have a British passport. They understood that, and 92 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: three minutes later they kidnapped me as we presumed, and 93 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 2: that was the last time I've seen my daughters alive. 94 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: And go through the rest of the story. What happened 95 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: to your family? 96 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: Apparently five minutes after they give me they've been I've 97 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: been kidnapped. 98 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 5: They murdered. 99 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 2: My wife and my two daughters in our house and 100 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 2: our dog as well. 101 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 5: And like they've done in you know, in many places, 102 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 5: and then in our key boots. 103 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: Our key boots suffered from one hundred and to people 104 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: that've been dead same day, been murdered, and another thirty 105 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: being kidnapped together. 106 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: You know, you were fluent in Arabic, which allowed you 107 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: to understand everything your captors are saying when you finally 108 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: realize that you were being held by Hamas. And I 109 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: assume you didn't know at the time what had happened 110 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: to your family, but you understood what your captors were saying, 111 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: which kind of revealed insight into their motivations, their belief system, 112 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: the hierarchy inside of Hamas. What did you learn, what 113 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: did you hear? Did they know that you understood them? 114 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 5: First of all, they were very very surprised. 115 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 2: I know Arabic, and they start to say to me 116 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: that I'm from Mozad and. 117 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 5: All this secret service. 118 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 2: And I said, then, I'm simple civilian and understood, of 119 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 2: course everything they've said. They tried to hide from me 120 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: a few information, but I succeed to understand almost everything. 121 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 2: And I had many, many conversations with them, and each conversation, 122 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: you know, they've finished with this mantra and these sentences 123 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 2: that they have heard in the mosque. And they said 124 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: to me that they don't care how many how much 125 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 2: time will take to kill all the Israelis and the Jews. 126 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: And they come in and they come back on twenty six, 127 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 2: twenty seven, and twenty eight, and after they finished with 128 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 2: the Israelis and the Jews, they will come to Britain 129 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: and France and Germany and to us, because for them 130 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 2: all the words should be Muslims and there's only religion, 131 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 2: only one religion in the world. 132 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 5: It's this Lam. 133 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question, because you know you 134 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: had a life experience as a father and a manager, 135 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: and you claim that that gave you tools to navigate, 136 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: you know, what you were going through at the time. 137 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: When when did they really think in that, Wow, my 138 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: life has now changed dramatically and I have no power 139 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: over the future of my life. 140 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 2: The minute that they pushed me into the car near 141 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 2: to Newberry, I've understood that it's I'm in my step 142 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 2: having mode. Now I need to survive to come back 143 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 2: to my wife and my daughters. And so I understood, Okay, 144 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 2: I don't have any control of my life now or 145 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: my freedom, but I I can, you know, always to 146 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 2: choose how to react to this, to these situations. 147 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 5: And I tried. 148 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 2: To choose all the time, you know, choose life and 149 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 2: try to survive. 150 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: A moment you thought was there a moment you thought 151 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: there's no way you're going home? 152 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 2: No, it was one it No, it wasn't any one 153 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: moment of that. Always keep saying to the young other 154 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: hostages that have been with me that it's only a 155 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 2: matter of time that with someone, sometime in the future, 156 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: someone will come and let us know that we are 157 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 2: going home and we are. 158 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 5: Going to be released. 159 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 2: And because you know, I know how the IDEF works 160 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 2: and all this, you know, Security Service of Israel walking 161 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: and I knew they're taking care of us to release 162 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 2: us from there. 163 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: Let me ask you what were there? What was the 164 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: relationship like with your fellow hostages? What was the relationship 165 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,119 Speaker 1: like with your captors? 166 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 4: Uh? 167 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: What were the conditions like? Where were you being held? 168 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: The more you moved often. 169 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: So of course we had a relationship, a kind of 170 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 2: relationship with our captors. It was very delicate relationship which 171 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 2: should be very very careful not to get confused with them. 172 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 2: But we understood this relationship should help us to survive, 173 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: and we give us the will be able to ask 174 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 2: some things from time to time, and especially food, of course. 175 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 2: And the relationship within between us the hostages wasn't all 176 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: the time great because when you put four gon up 177 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 2: men in ten metal square, it's not easy. 178 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 5: Each one of us have his own, you know. 179 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 2: Desires and way to live and values, and. 180 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 5: It wasn't very easy. 181 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: And all these situations you should be managed that you 182 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: can be able to survive together. And the condition in 183 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 2: the tunnels were horrible. 184 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 5: We were chained. 185 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 2: Twenty four to seven for almost all all the days 186 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 2: in captivity. 187 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 5: It was most of the time it's dark. 188 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 2: They don't have enough batteries for life, fifty metals underground, 189 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 2: no water, no no running water for shower. So we 190 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 2: showered with with our bottles one one in six weeks. 191 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 2: And you know, worms all over the place, rats, cockroaches, 192 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 2: and they humiliate us day on daily basis. 193 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 5: From time to time. It was violenced against us. 194 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 2: And but the worst thing was the starvation that was 195 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 2: on purpose, of course, because they ate four or five 196 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 2: times a day a day, and we ate one, you know, 197 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 2: one bottle of past our day, one and a half 198 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 2: bitter bread a day. 199 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 5: That's what we ate. 200 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: And we've seen the dozens of boxes that coming into 201 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 2: the to the tunnels every week, every two weeks, this 202 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 2: humanitarian aid that they stole from their population. 203 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: Now you were given there were some days you were 204 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: only given a peter a day and that was it. 205 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: That's all you'd have all day. And you know, you 206 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: saw whether you live. Were you in the tunnels pretty 207 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: much the whole time? Were you in different tunnels that 208 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: they move you at times? 209 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 2: So I moved three tunners for four hundred and forty days. 210 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: From the four hundred and ninety one days I was 211 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: in the tunnels fifty meters underground in three different tunnels, 212 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 2: and we ate one and a half bitter bread a 213 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 2: day for twenty four hours, sometimes more. You never know 214 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 2: when the next meal will come. And that's your main 215 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: concern in captivity, because you understand this is the way 216 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 2: to survive. 217 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 5: It's to eat something. 218 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: You develop rituals. 219 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: Why you were in captivity, to keep your mind, body 220 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: and spirit strong. You you you're very conscious about staying 221 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: as aware and as healthy and physically fit as possible. 222 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 3: How did you do it? 223 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 2: You understand that in the tunnels, you cannot wake up 224 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 2: every day every morning and to expect to go home. 225 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 5: It's not a way to survive. 226 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 2: It's not a way to keep your spirits, you know, 227 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: in a good condition. And so I forced them to 228 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: have a routine, to pray every morning, to eat, to train, 229 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: to talk, to. 230 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 5: Love, to sing some songs. 231 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 2: We needed to do loads of things that will time 232 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 2: move day by day and wait patiently to the day 233 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 2: that we are going to be released. And and I 234 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 2: forced them even then to say in the evening at 235 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: least one good thing that happened to them in the 236 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 2: same day. And in the beginning they look at me 237 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 2: like I'm in I'm a lunatic. But after two or 238 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 2: three weeks or each one of them, of the young guys, 239 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: of the young hostages, succeed to find four and five 240 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: things that could things that happened to them in the 241 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 2: same day. It could be more food, It could be 242 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: someone that I used to humiliate us that is not 243 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 2: there anymore. 244 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 5: Loads of things like that, basic things that happened. 245 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 2: To us that was very very good things, and they 246 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 2: lift our spirits. 247 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: Elie Sharabi is with us four hundred and ninety one 248 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: days held hostage by Homas. He has a new book out. 249 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: It's called Hostage. It's on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, 250 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: bookstores around the country. When we come back, we'll ask 251 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: Ellie about the propaganda tools that were employed by the terrorists, 252 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: the psychological torture, the lead up to his release, and 253 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: then the discovery that he had lost his family, and 254 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: his meeting with President Trump. All coming up quick break. 255 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: We'll come right back. We'll continue more with Eli Sharabi 256 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: new book, Hostage on the other side. 257 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 3: All right, twenty five now till the top of the hour. 258 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: We continue with Eli Sharabi. He has a new book out, 259 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: it's called Hostage, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller 260 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: List four hundred and ninety one Days Held in Captivity 261 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: by Hamas taken on October the seventh. You know, so 262 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: you're describing nothing but a mitigated torture. 263 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 3: You know. 264 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: It sounds like at no point did you ever doubt 265 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: you were going home, which is pretty remarkable to me, 266 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: because I would imagine with each passing day, and I'm 267 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: not even sure being in a tunnel that you knew 268 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: you had any sense of time. Did you lose a 269 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: sense of time being in there. 270 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 2: No, we dragged the time all the time. We knew 271 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 2: how many days we were in captivity. 272 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 5: We knew the dates. We even knew that the time 273 00:16:59,440 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 5: of the. 274 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 2: Day, because they have five prayers a day, and we 275 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 2: asked them what times every prayer. They thought we are 276 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 2: we are very interested in Islam, but we actually wanted 277 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,120 Speaker 2: to know about the time the day. 278 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 5: It was very important for us. The only mistake. 279 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 2: They've done with us that I said to us in 280 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 2: onund twenty twenty four, on February, they have we had 281 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 2: the twenty nine days and not twenty eight days. 282 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 5: So it was a part of our control in. 283 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 2: This captivity, and it was very important for us not 284 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 2: to lose the time, and you know, they tried, of 285 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 2: course to torture us with loads of psychologic error and 286 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 2: tell us that the Israeli government and the Israeli civilians 287 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 2: forgot about us. But we always believed it's not the true. 288 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 2: We always believed that we are going one day to 289 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 2: be released. 290 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: Did you hear year the bombings that were going on 291 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,719 Speaker 1: in the process, Did you know that Israel was engaged 292 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: in Gaza militarily in a major way? 293 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 5: Yes, we knew that. 294 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 2: We've been in the first fifty two days, we've been 295 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 2: in a family house, Palestinian family house up in the ground, 296 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 2: and only there four hundred and forty days later. We've 297 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 2: been in the tunnels, and even in the tunnels, do 298 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 2: you hear a little bit of bombs? And the tunnel 299 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 2: were shaped from time to time, So we understood that 300 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 2: there was a woe outside. 301 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 5: They keep saying that to us. 302 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,959 Speaker 2: That's a big wo outside, So we knew that. 303 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 3: Yes, let me ask you this. 304 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: You talked about the propaganda tools and they had these 305 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: choreograph video productions that you describe in your book where 306 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: they forced you to take or partake in containing propaganda messaging. 307 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 3: What was that. 308 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 5: From time to time. 309 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 2: They you know, they took photos of us and films 310 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: and film does that saying a few things that they 311 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 2: wrote for us. And we've done lots of rehearsals and 312 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 2: and they took these photos many many times, and so yes, 313 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 2: it's the propaganda for them. 314 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 5: It's a it's a lot, especially. 315 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 2: The last four days I've been in captivity and on 316 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 2: the day of my release, I've been on this stage ceremony, 317 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 2: and they forced me to answer that I'm what I'm 318 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 2: thinking about that I'm going and what I'm feeling about 319 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 2: me going to meet my wife and my daughters, and 320 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: that they already know them, that they've been murdered on 321 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 2: October seventh. 322 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 3: Unbelievable. 323 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: Now, they had psychological torture techniques that they employed as well, uh, 324 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: trying to get you to renounce Judaism for Islam and 325 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: misinformation about what was happening to you, your families outside. 326 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 3: What were they telling you. 327 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 2: They told me that they're seeing my wife, my daughters 328 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,479 Speaker 2: with my mom in the protests. They said to me 329 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 2: that A few times I wanted to believe that, you know, 330 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 2: but always I knew that there's a scenario that that's 331 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 2: something wrong. You know, something really really batting that happened 332 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 2: to us on October seventh, So I always I wasn't 333 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 2: sure what. 334 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 5: They said to me. 335 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: And you know, they about the Islam. They tried to 336 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 2: bribe us when they gave us one mill a day, 337 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 2: and we've been very, very hungry, and sometimes when we 338 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 2: went to the toilet in the middle of the night, 339 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 2: they tried to bribe us with a little bit of 340 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 2: food that we'll say, some sentences from the Quran. 341 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 5: And to convert us to be a Muslims. 342 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 2: And we refused, and we told them that we are 343 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 2: not religious, of course, but we knew that we can't 344 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: do that. 345 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 3: Yes, so that that was a bridge too far. 346 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: Were you beaten, Yes, we were beaten from time to time, 347 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 2: but it was one thing, one time that it was 348 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: really bad violence against me. Someone got, you know, came 349 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 2: to me and start to punch me in my ribs, 350 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 2: kick me in my ribs when I was on the floor, 351 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 2: and step on me. And that was for at least 352 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 2: thirty thirty to forty seconds, you know, the longest thirty 353 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 2: forty seconds I've ever I've ever been in my life. 354 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 5: And I probably. 355 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 2: Broke a few ribs and I've been in agony for 356 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 2: at least two or three months. 357 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: That's painful, that's extraordinarily painful. When the Red Cross representative, 358 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: when you met that representative face to face one hundred 359 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: ninety one days later, what was that like? And how 360 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: did you find out that your family had been killed? 361 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 2: After this horrible ceremony they've done to us, they transferred 362 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 2: us to the Red Cross. 363 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 5: We got into the car and. 364 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: They said to us, we have something like fifteen minutes 365 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 2: drive to the Israeli border. In the meantime, one of 366 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 2: us asked them, where have you been for five hundred days? 367 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 2: Why didn't you come to visit us and check on us? 368 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 2: And they said they wanted, but Harmas didn't let them. 369 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,919 Speaker 2: And after fifteen minute drive, we arrived to the Israeli 370 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 2: border and the social worker from the IDEF approached to 371 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 2: me and said to me that my mother and my 372 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 2: sister waiting for me ten minutes from there. So I 373 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 2: said to her, please bring me my wife and my daughters, 374 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 2: and she said that my mother and my sister will 375 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: tell me. And of course, for me, it was announcement 376 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 2: that the war scenario for me happened, and. 377 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 5: My wife and my daughters. 378 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 2: Are not alive anymore, and they didn't survive October seven. 379 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 2: It was, of course devastating for me, and I've cried 380 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 2: for a few minutes, something like five ten minutes, and 381 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 2: then I said to hell, Okay, let's go to meet 382 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 2: my mother and my sister. I need them to hug them. 383 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 2: And I knew who's going to who's giving me these 384 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 2: times the s friends in my life, and it's always 385 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 2: my family. So that's what I wanted to do, to 386 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 2: hug them. 387 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: I mean, that's got to be in and of itself 388 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: its own level of torture, because you would assume the 389 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: whole time in captivity that they would be alive, and 390 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: you thought they had escaped what you were going through, 391 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: and I'm sure that was a source of comfort when 392 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: you were being held in captivity. You got to meet 393 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: President Trump. I don't know if did you talk to 394 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Nathan Yahu. 395 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 2: I spoke with the privaci Prime Minister Antania a day 396 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 2: or two days before I flew to Washington to meet 397 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 2: mister Wheatcow and President Trump. It was very very important 398 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 2: for me to arrive to Washington, to the White House 399 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 2: and thank you know, personality to President Trump and mister 400 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 2: Wheatcock that they secure may release and thanks God, they've 401 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 2: done it two weeks ago with well and all the 402 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 2: live hostages been released as well, and it's amazing. And 403 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 2: you just show that how much, you know, power they 404 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 2: have and they can put pressure on the Israeli government 405 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 2: when they want. 406 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 5: And it was very very. 407 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 2: Important to end this war. So a quiet for all 408 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 2: this area after two years, very difficult two years. And 409 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 2: we hopefully this peace process. 410 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 5: In this area. 411 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 2: Will be you know, something that is reasonable and many 412 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 2: countries in the area will join to this agreement. 413 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 5: It would be great for all this area. 414 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: A lot of Americans and a lot of people around 415 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: the world do not understand Hamas to me is a 416 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: death cult. 417 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 3: It's convert or die. 418 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: It is, you know, in their charter, the call for 419 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: the destruction of Israel at all costs and setting up 420 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: a caliphate within you know, and taking over Israel. What 421 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: can you tell people about the terror group of mass 422 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: that they don't seem to understand because in the interim, 423 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: what we've seen is on college campuses in the US 424 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: and in the halls of Congress and worldwide and in 425 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: the punditry class a rise of anti Semitism, which I 426 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: find beyond disgusting and ignorant. And you know who Hamas is, 427 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: you lived and were you know, held captive by Hamas? 428 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: What do people not know about them? What do they 429 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: need to know? Those people that don't understand. 430 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 2: H I think actually all the all the world knows. 431 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: You just choose, you know, maybe to ignore that. But 432 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 2: the fact is Ramas is a very cruel their organization 433 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 2: like isis, and nobody have any doubt that we need 434 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 2: to kill them, all, all the Ramas and they cannot 435 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 2: have control in in Gaza. That's not a good leadership 436 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 2: for for the Palestinians, for better life. And we wish 437 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 2: after the last hostage will arrive to Israel one day, 438 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 2: we will you know, destroy this organization because they will 439 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 2: not stop and try to murder all of us in Israel, 440 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 2: that's for sure. 441 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: Would you be able to recognize the people that are 442 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: holding you in captivity if given. 443 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 2: The chance, Oh well, I've already recognized all of them, 444 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 2: and I hope one day the idea for reach each 445 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 2: one of them and kid him. 446 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: But you are aware, I mean, I assume you said 447 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: you heard some of the bombing going on you are 448 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: aware that Israel also engaged in a conflict with Iran 449 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: and had many successful military strikes against Iran. I think 450 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 1: you're aware now that the Americans took out Iranian nuclear sites. 451 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 1: A lot of this precipitated by what happened to you 452 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: and your family and so many others on October the seventh. 453 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: But I do think that there is a level of 454 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: ignorance in terms of Israel being surrounded by enemies and 455 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: terror groups, and the tens and hundreds of thousands of 456 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: rockets fired into this country over the years and over 457 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: the decades, you know, culminating in October the seventh, and 458 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: there comes a point where you know, this is now 459 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: about Israel's survival because they're trying to, you know, wipe 460 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: Israel off the map, as it as is stated in 461 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: their own charter. And I don't think the world fully 462 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: comprehends because they're not living that way. We're not living 463 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 1: that way here in the US. But this is everyday 464 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: life of the people of Israel. 465 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 5: You're right, You're right. 466 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 2: So because of that, you know, I say when I'm 467 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 2: talking with people around the world, and you know, they 468 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 2: have a very like you know, solid opinion about what 469 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: happening here. And you can hear all the ignorant and 470 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 2: they have no clue and don't really know the facts 471 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: about what's really happening here. 472 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 5: And they probably you. 473 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 2: Know, got their information from the social media, lots of them. 474 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 5: It's fake. It's really really sad reality for us. 475 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: You're now in the process. You have to rebuild your 476 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: entire life. How is that going? And and do you 477 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: have any plans for your future now that you have 478 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: this new found freedom. 479 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 2: I'm very happy to be alive. I'm very happy to 480 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,719 Speaker 2: be free. I'm going to rebuild my life. The grief 481 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 2: and my loss of my wife, my daughters, and my 482 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 2: brother will be always with me until my last day 483 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,959 Speaker 2: in this life, and but it will be alongside of 484 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 2: my life, like instead of them. And I have to 485 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 2: keep being busy and you know, try to enjoy my 486 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 2: life as much as I can. And that's what I'm 487 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:51,239 Speaker 2: planning to do. 488 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: Oh, it's a it's a terrible story, but one of survival, 489 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: one of strength and courage and resiliency, and I think 490 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: one that the world needs to hear. I'm really glad 491 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: you wrote this book. I hope Americans will read it. 492 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: I hope they will come to understand as deeply as 493 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: I do and many others, and that you certainly do, 494 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: the dangers of radical Islamis like members of the group AMAS, 495 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: and I hope they will join with you in pledging 496 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: to make sure that this group no longer exists, because 497 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: I think that's the only way to stop them, because 498 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: they are fanatical and they think they're on a mission 499 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: from God. 500 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 3: We're glad you got home safely. 501 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: Welcome home, and we're sorry about what happened to your family, 502 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: and we wish you all the best in your future 503 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: endeavors and whatever you do. 504 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 3: We appreciate your time, sir. 505 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 5: Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. 506 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: Eli Sharabi. Book is called Hostage New York Times bestseller. 507 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: You can get it on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, 508 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: bookstores around the country. We'll take a quick break, we'll 509 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: come back. We'll continue on the other side.