Israel to Rochester traces one hard truth across oceans, borders, and backyards: when leaders rename evil, children and families are left to carry the cost.
Peter Vazquez opens with David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel, founder and president of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, and author of Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel. Rubin speaks from inside Israel, where sirens, bomb shelters, terrorism, war, and uncertainty are not political abstractions. They are daily realities for families and children.
The conversation begins with the trauma of Israeli children, who face the same wounds children everywhere face, but with the added burden of terrorism, murdered neighbors, wounded family members, teachers called to war, and nights broken by sirens. Through the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, Rubin works to heal what terror tries to silence.
From there, the show moves into Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Abraham Accords, showing how global conflict reaches local families, farms, fuel prices, and food costs. Then the mirror turns home: rising antisemitism, abortion language games, border weakness, Albany’s late budgets, cannabis confusion, housing politics, and a culture that keeps changing words to hide consequences.
The warning is plain: a nation that cannot call evil by its name will eventually be ruled by it.
Israel to Rochester. There are moments when politics runs out of polished language and reality kicks the door open. This conversation began where polite people usually try not to look: with terror, trauma, and children carrying memories no child should have to hold.
Peter Vazquez opened from the Voice of Liberty Studios with a question that reached beyond party lines and press releases: what happens when a world renames terror as resistance, blackmail as diplomacy, and cowardice as compassion?
David Rubin answered from inside that world.
Rubin is not a distant commentator watching Israel through a studio monitor. He is the former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel, founder and president of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, and author of Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel. He lives where the sirens are not symbolic.
He knows what it means for children to run to bomb shelters ten times a day and through the night. He knows the sound of uncertainty, the weight of trauma, and the cost of raising children in a nation surrounded by enemies that chant death to Israel, death to America, and death to the free world.
He also knows what terror does to a child.
Rubin explained that Israeli children suffer the same wounds children everywhere suffer: divorce, abuse, bullying, illness, fear, and pain. But then terror adds another layer. A neighbor killed. A teacher called to the front. A family member wounded in war. A siren in the night. A shelter instead of sleep. A childhood trained to listen for danger.
That is why the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund exists. Not to talk about trauma from a safe distance, but to heal it. Mobile therapists are sent into the hotspots. Children receive care where the wounds are still fresh. The mission is not political theater. It is restoration. It is a refusal to let terror have the last word over the next generation.
The conversation widened from the child in the shelter to the war machine behind the chaos. Rubin described Iran as the octopus and its proxies as the arms: Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza and Samaria, and other fronts funded and armed for one purpose: the destruction of Israel. The point was brutally simple. Hezbollah is not separate from Iran. Hamas is not separate from Iran. The Houthis are not separate from Iran. They are extensions of the same evil regime.
And America is not outside that story.
The Strait of Hormuz became more than a foreign policy term. It became a test of American seriousness. Peter and Rubin discussed President Trump’s shifting public posture, not as weakness, but as strategic unpredictability.
In war, Rubin argued, surprise matters. A president who does not broadcast every next move may be doing what common sense used to teach before bureaucracy turned military strategy into cable television commentary.
Bob Savage brought in another striking angle: Israel’s deployment of Iron Dome technology to defend the United Arab Emirates, an Arab ally under Iranian attack. What once seemed impossible has now become operational reality.
The Abraham Accords are no longer just a document. They are a defense architecture.
Israeli systems defending Arab cities. Former enemies learning who their real friends are. History moving faster than the experts can explain it. Imagine that, experts being late to reality again.
Then came the American mirror. Peter turned the conversation toward home, where the same Vanbōōlzalness Crisis wears different clothes.
Abroad, terror is softened with slogans. At home, disorder is excused with language games. The same culture that tells Israel not to defend itself tells America not to enforce its borders, not to defend police, not to question radical ideology, not to call evil evil.
The words change. The sickness does not.
Safe becomes a weapon. Compassion becomes control. Women’s health care becomes the language used to hide the killing of the unborn. Affordability becomes a slogan from the same political class that helped make life unaffordable. Housing becomes politics, and somehow produces less housing.
Cannabis legalization promises revenue, and towns are left asking where the money went. Albany turns late budgets, tax games, redistricting, immigration defiance, and bureaucratic confusion into a theater of control.
The caller Ellen added the final public witness: the left’s constant habit of changing words until truth itself is buried. Safe spaces. Safe acts. Safe policies. But safe for whom? Safe for criminals? Safe for political agendas? Safe for bureaucrats? Safe for everyone except the family trying to live, work, worship, raise children, and stay free?
That question carried the whole broadcast.
From Israel to Rochester, from Shiloh to Albany, from bomb shelters to abortion pills, from the Strait of Hormuz to the streets of New York, one truth emerged: civilization does not collapse all at once. It collapses when people stop naming things honestly.
- Terrorism is designed to terrorize.
- Children need healing, not slogans.
- Borders matter.
- Words matter.
- The unborn matter.
- Police matter.
- Families matter.
- Israel matters.
- America matters.
- Truth matters.
Rubin closed with the warning America needs to hear before the consequences become too large to ignore: there is good and evil in the world, and radical leftism and radical Islam are working together to bring down the Western world as a Judeo-Christian civilization.
That is not a talking point. That is a diagnosis.
The next step is not complicated. It is just difficult, which is why so many leaders avoid it.
Tell the truth. Confront radicals. Protect children. Defend the innocent. Refuse to let trauma become a tool of silence. Refuse to let language become a mask for evil. Refuse to let America learn too late what Israel already knows by necessity.
A nation that cannot call evil by its name will eventually be ruled by it.
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The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez
Guest: David Rubin
Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel; Founder and President of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund; Author of Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel
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Mira la izquierda, mira la derecha. ¿Qué ves? ¿Dónde estás? In a world that seems to change daily, what will you do next?
Welcome to The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez, a starting point for discussion y un poco de dirección.
Peter Vazquez:
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Soy yo, Peter Vazquez, aquí en the Voice of Liberty Studios. Como todos los días, it is noon, and I am happy, excited, and blessed, como siempre, to share with you.
Let us start this conversation where polite politics usually ends, with topics like terror and trauma and the children left carrying the cost. We seem to talk a lot in this country about how we have to protect the children, but everything we do seems to be more about, “Hey children, do what the government tells you to do.”
Pero mira, you know what is crazy? What we see here as a traumatic event, like no food, is pretty traumatic. Fatherless homes are extremely traumatic. But let us look across the ocean. Let us look across the pond. Let us look into the Middle East.
What I see is the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis in action, ladies and gentlemen. Terror is renamed resistance. Blackmail is dressed up as diplomacy. Radicals create the wounds, politicians manage the press conference, and they try to make it all pretty, all while children are left trying to sleep through sirens, through funerals, and through memories that no child should ever have to carry.
Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to take a look at what is going on in the Middle East. We are going to look at our sisters and brothers over in the State of Israel.
Today, it is my honor to introduce to you once again the Honorable David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel, founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, and author of Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel.
Señor David Rubin, bienvenido to The Next Steps Show.
David Rubin:
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Peter Vazquez:
I appreciate you, David. It has been a while since you and I have had a conversation, and since we have had an opportunity to speak with someone right there in Israel.
Sir, how are you doing?
David Rubin:
We are trying to cope with a very difficult situation. There is a lot of uncertainty right now. When you have uncertainty, you have trauma when children are involved.
We as a country are very uncertain right now about what is actually going to happen next. We have just been through months of running to bomb shelters ten times a day and at night. For children, that is a very, very difficult situation to have to deal with.
We look mainly at the psychological side of things, at the emotional side. When we talk about trauma, we are not talking about trauma from a wound or physical trauma. We are talking about emotional trauma.
That is where the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund comes in. We are focused on healing. We are sending out mobile therapists to all the hot spots, and we are doing what we can to heal this trauma.
Peter Vazquez:
David, if you do not mind sharing with us, you mentioned that you are running to shelters ten times a day. I have to assume sirens are going off on a regular basis.
I want to make a distinction, because when we talk about trauma here in the United States, we are talking about someone’s emotional state, something they have dealt with, maybe a divorce. I think one of the worst ones is some kind of abuse, and I do not want to minimize that.
But I have to believe that waking up every single morning to sirens, and not knowing if those sirens mean October 7, or a test, or something else, is different.
What is a day like for a child in the State of Israel today? I mean, really.
David Rubin:
Let me lay it out for you. You draw a very interesting analogy, which I think is very important to understand.
The way I explain it is that children here suffer from all of the same traumas as children around the world. Trauma from divorce, from parents getting divorced. Trauma from having a difficult time and being abused or bullied in school or out on the street. Trauma from pain that comes from many difficult situations and illnesses.
Children here suffer from all those same traumas, but they also suffer from the trauma of terrorism. The trauma of somebody close to them being killed or wounded in a terror attack. The trauma of having family members who are out at war, who have been killed or wounded in wars.
We have a high percentage of our citizens who fall into that category. For children, it is a very uncertain state.
So we have all those things, plus the threat of terrorism and the threat of war, and that just compounds the trauma so that it is widespread. It falls into every element of their lives.
They leave the house. They pass the next-door neighbor whose father was killed in a terror attack or who was killed in a war. Or they go to school and they see that half their teachers are out on the front lines fighting, getting wounded, and very often killed.
So it is all around them. Even if it is during a lull in the fighting, when they are not running to the bomb shelters as much in the middle of the night or during the day, the trauma is still there because they see the reminders wherever they are, whether it is in school, at home, at the neighbors, or out in the street.
When they have such a high degree of PTSD, it has to be dealt with. It has to be confronted.
Peter Vazquez:
Yes, absolutely.
David, could you stand for another segment by chance?
David Rubin:
Sure.
Peter Vazquez:
I appreciate that.
I want to get into the war a little bit, because right now the world is kind of focused on the Iran war, which is the most common, I would say, or at least the one we see out there. But there are also other conflicts, like the war with Hezbollah.
Is that impacting you guys in Shiloh, or in Israel in general?
David Rubin:
Yes. Yes, absolutely.
Peter Vazquez:
From your opinion as an Israeli citizen, sir, why does going into places like Hezbollah, and not focusing just on Iran, matter?
David Rubin:
Look, Iran is the octopus. That is what we need to call it. The octopus has eight arms, and there are eight fronts that we are fighting.
If you include Iran itself, we are being attacked from all sides, from Iran, from Lebanon, where Hezbollah is, and from all these other arms. Hezbollah and all of these others are proxies of Iran. They were all established by Iran, and they are all terrorist organizations that have been established for the purpose of destroying Israel.
“Death to Israel, death to America,” as the Iranian regime would declare every week. They have not been doing that as much in recent days, but that is what they chanted all the time in their parliament.
Hezbollah, which is threatening Israel from Lebanon, is as much a threat as Iran itself.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, that is the Honorable David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel, founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund, and author of Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will be right back, right here on The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez and the Voice of Liberty. Do not change that dial. WYSL, WLEA.
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Peter Vazquez:
Muchas gracias, señor.
Let me share a quote from our guest today. He said children are often muted by their trauma, and that is 100 percent true. It is not just children, ladies and gentlemen. It is you and me too.
The thing is, when you look at the politics here in the United States of America, especially coming from the Left, what do they want you to do? They want to use the trauma to shut you up.
Just like that commissioner of urban development in the City of Rochester told me not that long ago, people with trauma, people in need, you just throw money at them to stop them from stealing from the rest of us.
Is that not something?
David Rubin, ladies and gentlemen, right from Israel. Sir, thank you for your time today.
David Rubin:
You are welcome.
I think it is important to look at the word terrorism and understand what it actually is, exactly what you just described, which is the goal of terrorism.
You could just look at the simple meaning of it, that it is designed to terrorize people, to frighten people, to intimidate people so that they will be unable to speak out, so that people will be cowed by it.
Fortunately, we in Israel have been suffering from terrorism for decades, and we are not so easily cowed. Children are another story, but we have learned to be resilient.
Bob Savage:
David, Bob Savage here. I am kind of the sidekick in the program. It is good to talk with you.
I want to get your take on Bibi Netanyahu deploying a significant portion of the Iron Dome technology, which Israel has had since 2011, to protect its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates. That seems somewhat unprecedented.
Do you have any comment on Bibi doing that?
David Rubin:
Look, Israel has friends and allies. The United Arab Emirates, which is a relatively small country geographically in the Persian Gulf, made peace with Israel. They made real peace with Israel.
It is not like the peace with Egypt. That is just a piece of paper. But peace with the United Arab Emirates has established very strong economic relations with Israel, mutually beneficial relations, and they have also established a very strong defense connection with Israel and diplomatic relations.
So when they are in need, we are going to help. If you look at Israel and its relationship with a lot of countries in the world, those who are our friends, we will work with them, we will help them, because that is what we are supposed to do. We are supposed to help other people.
Our enemies, no.
Bob Savage:
That is fantastic.
As I recall, I think the Emir, or whoever the supreme leader of the UAE is, said, “We are not going to forget this,” because Netanyahu deployed those defensive mechanisms to help the Emirates, at some political cost to himself.
David Rubin:
Possibly. But it will go well for Israel as well. We have a good relationship with them. We have a peace treaty with them, which they have honored, respected, and cherished.
We also want to make sure that Israel is strengthened by standing with our friends. They were being attacked by Iran, and we have been attacked essentially by Iran.
We are also being attacked by Hezbollah, which is a proxy of Iran. We are being attacked by the Houthis, those terrorists from Yemen, who are also proxies funded by Iran. We have been attacked by Hamas, the terrorist organization in Gaza and in Samaria, and they are also supported by Iran.
We are up against the same enemy force, which is Iran, which is an evil regime that threatens death to Israel, death to America, and death to the free world.
This is such a time when we need to stand up against it.
Peter Vazquez:
Absolutely.
Let me ask, as far as the relationship to the United States, I saw a meme recently referring to President Trump and the Strait of Hormuz. The meme said one day President Trump wants it, the next day he does not, and so on and so forth.
Does the Strait of Hormuz play any role whatsoever in our relationship with Israel, or with Israel in general? And is President Trump really flip-flopping, like some people are saying, from the perspective of Israelis watching the war?
David Rubin:
I think President Trump will very often flip-flop intentionally in his public statements because he wants people guessing. When you are fighting a war, or a war of words, a little flip-flopping is not a bad thing because it leaves open the element of surprise.
The other side of it is that in the past couple of days, Saudi Arabia, which is a large Arab country in the Persian Gulf, tried to convince President Trump not to go back into the war. So he kind of backed off.
You could call it a flip-flop. Perhaps it is.
The reason why Saudi Arabia pressured him not to go forward with Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz, maybe they were just nervous. But Saudi Arabia has very large airspace, a very large country. The United States and Israel need that airspace, or it helps us to have that airspace, and helps all of us to have that airspace to attack Iran.
They said that they are not going to provide that airspace. They told President Trump. So Saudi Arabia has been added to a long list of countries, including the countries of Western Europe, that are not standing with President Trump in this war.
That is truly a shame.
Peter Vazquez:
Very much.
The thing is, every time I hear a conservative, an individual who believes in God, country, and family, regardless of Republican or Democrat, just someone who says, “I love America,” and they do not stand with Trump, I say, listen, I do not know Trump personally. The chances of that man eating at my dinner table or dating one of my daughters is pretty unlikely.
So I say, I trust the guy because he has kept his word. He has been consistent, the most consistent president I have ever seen. So when he says he is doing something or he flip-flops, I can see that he is playing a three-dimensional game of chess.
You are right. It never made sense to me how previous presidents in the United States would literally tell on television what our next military step was going to be. I am not a smart guy, but that does not make sense to me.
David Rubin:
It is basic common sense. You do not forecast your upcoming moves, especially when you are talking about a military conflict.
Peter Vazquez:
For our Second Amendment lovers, just to point out Trump’s ability to use words to his advantage and things that make us say, “Hmm.”
The Second Amendment is big in the United States. We love our guns. I think we are the only country that actually allows us to carry guns the way we do on this globe, if I remember correctly.
David Rubin:
There are a few of them. There are countries way more permissive than we are, especially in Eastern Europe.
Peter Vazquez:
Really?
David Rubin:
Yes. We certainly do.
In Israel, you have to apply for a gun license if you want to carry. But once it is approved, then it does not have to be hidden carry. You keep it on your waist, and people know it.
Peter Vazquez:
And do you notice that it has helped?
David Rubin:
Yes, it has helped prevent many terror attacks.
Peter Vazquez:
Robbers do not rob an armed house. The best way to fight a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
So Trump made it illegal, or said it was illegal, for [unclear] to not carry a gun, if you remember.
David Rubin:
What?
Peter Vazquez:
Yes. It was something Trump said. Either he was going to make it, or he made it. I do not know what the outcome was, but all of a sudden you had the entire LGBTQ community supporting the Second Amendment. Is that not something?
David, I am—
David Rubin:
Well, look who tried to kill him.
Peter Vazquez:
Yes. Right. And continuously tried to kill him.
And it is not just him. It is people like you, people like me, people like Bob, who do not buy into this terrorist mentality.
Sir, I am down to the last few minutes, so let me ask you one last question.
The same world that tells Israel to restrain itself often tells America to tolerate its own decay. Do not enforce borders. Do not defend the police. Do not question radical ideology. This is what we are hearing in this country. Do not call evil evil.
Sir, because you wrote a book on this, what can Americans learn from Israel before we face Israel-sized consequences?
David Rubin:
It is hard to sum it up in less than a minute, but basically understand that there is good and evil in the world, and that there is a radical Left, as well as radical Islam, that are working together to bring down the Western world as a Judeo-Christian civilization.
I think, in a nutshell, that is what we have to understand.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable David Rubin, former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel, founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund.
Sir, what is your website?
David Rubin:
Actually, current president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund. The website is IsraelChildren.org.
Peter Vazquez:
IsraelChildren.org.
Mira esto, ladies and gentlemen. It could easily be the United States that has a different kind of trauma, like sirens, like bombs, like October 7.
Visit IsraelChildren.org.
What is the best way for people to help you guys out? Are you just looking for funds?
David Rubin:
Yes, basically that is it. Treatment is very expensive, and we need all the help we can get.
We welcome partners, people wanting to stand with us and partner with the children of Israel in this time.
Peter Vazquez:
David, if I could do my show from Israel, I would volunteer to help, because I am assuming volunteers are important for you as well.
David Rubin:
You let me know, and I would be happy to welcome you here. We could set up a little studio for you.
Peter Vazquez:
No joking. I may take you up on that, sir. Do not joke.
One last request, and I know this may be a little beyond your reach, but I will tell you, the Voice of Liberty, WYSL, WLEA, is the perfect place for someone like Prime Minister Netanyahu to join us for a conversation to speak directly with the American people.
People love Fox. People love CNN. But I will tell you, they listen to the Voice of Liberty, David.
I appreciate you. May God continue to bless you and the work that you do at your organization. May God continue to bless the State of Israel.
David Rubin:
Thank you very much.
Peter Vazquez:
Mira, ladies and gentlemen, do not change that dial.
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Now, mira, today’s show: Israel’s fight for survival. We are going to move into America’s fight for sanity. The same Vanbōōlzalness Crisis, the excuses for terror abroad, uses the same tactics elected officials use here.
Right, Bob?
Bob Savage:
Listen, it is very important for you to realize what the perspectives are on what is happening, not just here in our community, which we are probably painfully aware of, but also throughout the geopolitical sphere.
Actually, we were just talking about this during the break, and I was pulling this up. I wanted to share this with you.
[Aside] Somebody is doing something here. Stop this. We have to stop with the alerts here.
Anyway, I just wanted to share this.
In late February 2026, two weeks into the Iran war, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan picked up a phone in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and called Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
Iran had fired 563 missiles and 2,256 drones at the UAE, more than any other country in the region, more than Israel itself.
Why did they do this? Because the UAE is a huge oil exporter, actually the biggest one in the Middle East. Emirati air defenses were saturated. MBZ asked for help. Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defense Forces to deliver a complete Iron Dome battery, dozens of interceptors, and several dozen IDF operators to UAE soil.
The system was operating in Abu Dhabi within days. It intercepted dozens of Iranian missiles. Axios reported yesterday afternoon that it remains in country.
This is the remarkable 2011 Iron Dome defense system, which we, by the way, are adopting to use here in the States.
This is the first time in the 77-year history of the State of Israel that the IDF has deployed an active combat air defense system to defend an Arab capital. Think about that.
The Arabs hated Israel, almost all of them, but apparently not all.
It is the first time the Iron Dome has been used outside Israel or the United States since it became operational in 2011. The Tamir interceptor, designed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to protect Israeli population centers from rocket fire originating in Gaza and southern Lebanon, was built in 2007 to defend Sderot from Hamas rockets, and deployed in 2026 to defend Abu Dhabi from Iranian Shahed drones and [unclear] ballistic missiles.
There is no precedent for this.
The detail that breaks the story open is the timing. The Wall Street Journal reported on March 27 that Iran’s sustained barrages had pushed Israel’s own anti-missile systems beyond their physical limits, forcing the IDF to ration its most advanced interceptors while Israeli civilians took direct hits.
The Times of Israel reported that Netanyahu’s coalition had repeatedly refused to fund interceptor production, with some members arguing for offensive capability over defense.
Netanyahu sent a complete Iron Dome battery to Abu Dhabi while rationing the same weapon for Tel Aviv, his own capital, while his coalition had blocked the production line. The decision was acknowledged by Axios sources as likely provoking backlash in Israel, which is why I asked David that question.
This is what an alliance looks like when the diplomatic frame becomes operational.
The Abraham Accords, thank you President Donald Trump, signed on September 15, 2020, in his first term as a normalization treaty, have now been demonstrated in combat against a shared adversary, with Israeli weapons defending Arab cities and Israeli soldiers commanded by an Emirati president’s phone call.
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Senator Ted Budd’s Abraham Accords Defense Cooperation Act, introduced March 26, would codify what Netanyahu and MBZ have already operationalized. The Accords have transitioned from agreement to architecture inside a 60-day window.
A senior Emirati official told Axios, “We are not going to forget this.” [Tareq/Tahnoon] al-Otaiba, former UAE National Security Council official, said, “It was a real eye-opening moment to see who our real friends are.”
So what is going on in the Iran war is not what is being represented in the lame legacy media. No, no, which is why I have [unclear] on all the time.
Unprecedented cooperation. This is an alliance with global impact.
This is one reason why the UAE is dropping out of OPEC. And with OPEC gone, that is going to have a huge impact on the near-term and long-term price of oil.
Peter Vazquez:
The UAE dropping out of that deal is interesting to me because when one organization, one country, can drop out of a worldwide network like that and have such an impact on a commodity that we need, that is a problem to me.
Which is, again, why I stand with Trump. It is okay to me that we are blocking the Strait of Hormuz and increasing oil production or oil distribution out of the Gulf of America. I love it. I love those things.
One of the things, Bob, that really caught my attention was the local impact that this war is having.
We have a lot of people on the Left saying things like, “Stand with Palestine,” or “Stand with Iran.” Like I said earlier, they are turning things like terrorism into compassion, or some nonsense like that.
But check this out. The Rochester Jewish community responded to rising threats on May 7, 2026. The Rochester Jewish community is taking proactive steps to prepare against rising threats and antisemitism with the Secure Community Network.
That is here in the United States.
Bob Savage:
Yes, there is antisemitism all over the place, particularly, I think, as a result of brainwashing younger people.
Peter Vazquez:
The liberals?
Bob Savage:
Younger people, because I think they get this a lot in institutions of higher learning. They get it a lot from toxic antisocial media and also pop culture.
It is another one of these fashionable kinds of things that they mouth because it gets them approval from certain sectors.
It is uninformed. It is ignorant. And again, remember, a lot of these young people have been taught what to think, not how to think.
So they do not have discernment. They do not have the judgment to try to think about the implications of the things they say.
Peter Vazquez:
Emotional intelligence is what I call that as well, because it is not just discernment. It is understanding the difference between, “I am emotional,” and making an emotional type of decision.
That is something that a lot of people do not understand.
Why do we support Israel today? This is why I told David I would love to have the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the show. The thing is, people are making emotional decisions based on what we are hearing in media here locally.
But the reality is this, and I said it when I was talking to David: trauma from a divorced mom and dad, trauma because somebody abused you, is a little bit different than trauma with bombs falling over your head, whether you know or not if you are going to live that night.
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Peter Vazquez:
Absolutely.
We live in a state where even housing is politics. That is interesting to me because when you take housing and put it into politics, what do you end up with?
No housing. That is what you end up with.
I am just saying, everything else is nothing but agreeing to be a victim. That is it. You want housing in New York State, whether you are a victim, whether you are a veteran, right now the worst thing about this whole picture is, if you are an illegal immigrant, all you have to do is call Kathy Hochul and she will say, “No worries. You can stay at the governor’s mansion.”
Wait a minute. They can call Mamdani, and he will say you can stay in the New York City mansion. Just hop on one of those free fast buses on your way to the free grocery store.
Good luck.
What I think David Rubin from Israel really highlighted was this: here in places like New York and Connecticut, and really many other left-leaning states in this nation, there is a theater of control.
Late budgets, tax schemes, redistricting, cannabis confusion. It is legal for you to smoke pot all day long, but how you get that pot all of a sudden matters.
You have Henrietta saying, “We were cheated out of $100,000 from marijuana revenue.”
Is that not something?
Then I ask this: tell them to start one of those wonderful daycare centers. Or maybe a hospice. That seems to be the game these days, Bob.
Maybe we should. We will call it Next Steps Daycare. No, [unclear joke]. Daycare, because learning was never really spelled in there. Or hearing, for that matter.
But mira, the first rule is that every failure gets renamed as progress.
This is the route. We are going to play the Democrats’ game.
Bob Savage:
This is a corollary of one of their favorite games, which is changing the meanings of words.
Peter Vazquez:
Yes, let us play along. Let us see if we can do it, Bob.
Let us name a late budget, right? Complex negotiation. Or a tax flip. Let us call that affordability, because that seems to be the mantra this year.
Forget about the fact that we have more illegals in the City of Rochester than really probably the whole nation. I am just going off a gut feeling there, but it sure feels that way.
Money talks, or money takes a back seat, does it not, Bob, when the liberals have an agenda?
Bob Savage:
Money is always in the front seat from our perspective because we believe in God, country, and family.
I have one for you. How about women taking the unborn child that is inside their bodies, that is being nurtured in there to be born and become a person in the image of God, and calling murdering that little baby “women’s health care” and “women’s rights”?
Peter Vazquez:
Yes, it is their right to kill their baby.
Nationally, I believe the Supreme Court said something about abortion, and we are not sure if that is a government thing or a personal choice. They recently allowed, what is it called, the mifepristone?
Bob Savage:
Mifepristone.
Peter Vazquez:
Mifepristone, that pill that does the same thing. They said that is a constitutional right, Bob?
Bob Savage:
I do not know. There was a stay on that by the Supreme Court, which has been lifted temporarily because they are working out this conflict with state laws such as New York’s, which conflict with [unclear].
The thing is, technology settled that argument. Remember, that was the argument for decades: “It is not really a baby. It is not really a viable human being.”
Then we found out using the DNA helix that the baby inside of Mommy has a completely different DNA string. So that is identifiable.
Then you have the remarkable 3D color ultrasounds, so the moms who stop into CompassCare or PreBorn can see that child inside them, and there is no debating with a young woman that it is a viable human being they are shepherding to independent life.
Peter Vazquez:
I was asked to be the speaker at a 250th anniversary of our nation, of what makes America. It is for a pro-life event.
People ask me, “Peter, why would you agree to that?”
Bob, I am thinking, well, the thing is this—
Bob Savage:
Let me stop you. What is wrong with it? What is the argument?
Peter Vazquez:
The typical argument.
Bob Savage:
That only one side should be heard?
Peter Vazquez:
Pretty much. That is pretty much the argument that I get.
But I say this: life, liberty, and justice is the pursuit of everybody, including the unborn.
I have two grandchildren right now in the oven, and I cannot imagine. Remember, I told you I lost a grandchild at 21 weeks. I held that grandchild in my hand.
This is what the pill says they are going to allow you to watch flush down your toilet.
All I was thinking was, man, I do not know if I can afford the counseling services my son would need if he allowed his wife to just flush this 21-week-old baby down.
We have Elaine on the line. Ellen? Ellen?
Caller Ellen:
Hi, guys. How is it going?
Peter Vazquez:
It is good. We were talking about words that liberals use as actually the opposite.
Caller Ellen:
Yes. I would consider the opposite. One of them is the word “safe.”
When they said the vaccines were safe and effective, or the SAFE Act when it comes to our Second Amendment rights, they were doing something with something called the SAFE Act, which we were against.
Then they talk about safe places for trans people to continue those surgeries and stuff that are going to cause them so much harm in the future.
So I just wanted to call in and go off on that one.
Bob Savage:
Those are good examples.
Peter Vazquez:
Absolutely, and I am glad you did.
This is what I call the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis, ladies and gentlemen. You can call me loco, insane in the membrane, or whatever you want to call me. But the fact of the matter is this: these legislators that you elected into office have figured out—
Let me stop here for a second. Bob, left or right, it does not matter. Republican or Democrat.
We have a guy running for the 130th Assembly District who had purple hair when he started, but changed it when he realized it would not get him elected in that district.
That is Vanbōōlzalness, right, Ellen?
Caller Ellen:
Right. I think Blakeman, the Republican running for governor, my husband and I were saying, after a while you see people with white hair, and even just the white hair, and you think they look kind of like a Democrat. I know that sounds probably weird.
But it is true these days. I said, maybe he is doing that because that way it attracts the Democrats too.
Peter Vazquez:
Yes. It is all a matter of marketing.
Bob Savage:
Did you hear that George Borrello, the New York State Senator, introduced a law to block the crazy electric school bus mandate? Did you see the Democrats blocked that, so now the mandate is back in place?
Caller Ellen:
Then they are not going to get their kids to school on a bus. Their kids are just going to have to walk like in the old days.
We do not have the money to afford this green, green, whatever you call it.
Peter Vazquez:
Green agenda.
Caller Ellen:
Green agenda.
Peter Vazquez:
I call it Democrat agenda.
Caller Ellen:
It is a scam.
[Brief unclear exchange.]
I have a quick question. In the military, if I am making a knitted heart and I am doing Navy, Marine, and Army, if I put gold in there, does that mean they are retired? I am putting an anchor on a blue heart. Should it be white or gold?
Peter Vazquez:
No, no. I would go with white, only because gold refers to Gold Star families, which is a little bit different.
If you are looking to send a broad type of message, I would go with white.
Caller Ellen:
It is kind of like Veterans Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
Peter Vazquez:
White means purity. You cannot go wrong with white. In our flag, we have red, white, and blue. White equals purity.
Always go with that if you are confused.
Caller Ellen:
That sounds great. The Army star is white.
Peter Vazquez:
Yes. On a green background. That is correct.
I am not sure why they changed it to the whole “Army of One” thing. I get it, but how can we talk about unity when we have an army of one? I struggle with that one, but nonetheless, you are correct.
Caller Ellen:
I am just glad that they are out there fighting for our freedoms, are you not?
Peter Vazquez:
Yes, sister. Thanks for the call, Ellen.
Bob Savage:
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You know what, we have to wrap it up here, Mr. Peter.
Peter Vazquez:
Check this out.
Albany’s theater of control, late budgets, tax games, redistricting, cannabis confusion, and immigration defiance, is all on display.
Ladies and gentlemen, all you have to do is type in, “What does it mean to be free?” And all of a sudden you will see nothing.
You know why? Because in the United States of America, for some reason, especially in places like New York and Colorado, being free became the oxymoron.
Is that not something?
Check this out. The Arabs in Israel decided that they believe in God, country, and family. That is biblical.
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Founder, Author, and Former Mayor of Shiloh, Israel
David Rubin is the founder and president of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund and a former mayor of Shiloh, Israel. After surviving a terrorist attack with his young son in 2001, Rubin turned personal tragedy into a mission of healing, establishing SICF to help children recover from trauma through therapeutic and educational programs in Israel’s biblical heartland.
Born and raised in the United States, Rubin now lives in Israel with his wife, Lisa. Together, they have raised six children in a neighborhood overlooking the historic site of Ancient Shiloh, where the Tabernacle stood for 369 years during the time of Joshua, Hannah, and Samuel the Prophet.
Rubin is the author of seven books, including Trump and the Jews and Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel. A frequent commentator on Israel, terrorism, faith, and Middle East affairs, he has appeared on Fox News, Newsmax TV, and many other television and radio programs. His writing has been published in The Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, and numerous other outlets.
Known to many as the “Trusted Voice of Israel,” David Rubin speaks across North America and beyond, bringing a firsthand perspective on Israel’s security, the trauma of terrorism, the resilience of children, and what America can learn from a nation forced to confront radicalism without illusions.
davidrubinisrael.com
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