U.S. Soldiers Killed | News on The 700 Club - January 29, 2024

Summary

The script covers escalating tensions between the US and Iran after an attack by Iranian-backed militias killed 3 US service members in Jordan. It discusses the US response, Israel's perspective, proof of UNRWA employees participating in terror attacks, Iran's proxy war affecting global trade, and the importance of praying for wisdom for President Biden amid many global crises requiring strong US leadership.

Takeaways

• 😢 3 US service members killed & 30+ injured in attack by Iranian-backed militia on US base in Jordan
• 😠 President Biden pledges US will respond to the attack, raising risk of direct US-Iran conflict
• 😤 Iran's proxy attacks on US bases in Syria & Iraq have increased dramatically recently
• 😕 Escalation raises risk of broader regional conflict, all eyes on how US will respond
• 😡 Some in Congress urge Biden to impose crippling costs on Iran including military strikes
• 😟 Israel presented evidence UNRWA employees participated in Oct 7 attacks killing 12,200 Israelis
• 😠 US suspended funding to UNRWA pending investigation into terror links
• 😠 UNRWA has long history of terror ties, critics say it perpetuates conflict not solves it
• 😨 Attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Red Sea disrupt global trade, force costlier ship routes
• 😰 Experts say crisis shows potential for broader conflict as Iran targets US & allies' ships

Q & A

What was the recent attack against a US base in Jordan by Iranian-backed militias?

Iranian-backed militias launched an attack against a US base near the borders of Syria and Iraq in Jordan, killing 3 US service members and injuring over 30 others.

How has Iran been attacking US forces in the region?

Iran has been attacking US bases in Syria and Iraq through Iranian-backed militias over 170 times since October 2021.

How might the US respond to the attack in Jordan?

The US may respond with military strikes inside Iran. However, this risks escalating tensions and conflict in the region.

What evidence did Israel present about UNRWA employees?

Israel presented evidence that UNRWA employees participated in the October 2022 attacks that killed over 12,200 Israelis.

What is the original mandate of UNRWA and how has it changed?

UNRWA was created in 1949 with a mandate to operate for 18 months. It has now lasted over 75 years and the number of Palestinian refugees has grown from 200,000 to 6 million.

How are Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea affecting global trade?

By attacking ships linked to the US and allies, Houthi attacks are forcing ships to take longer alternate routes. This increases costs and delivery times.

How is China taking advantage of the situation with Houthi attacks?

Chinese ships are avoiding attacks by signaling they don't have Western cargo. Some Chinese firms are opportunistically sending ships to profit from higher demand.

What are the costs involved in the US Navy patrolling the Red Sea region?

Deploying aircraft carriers and ships is costly for US taxpayers. Missiles cost millions while Houthi drones cost thousands.

What does Israel want regarding a US response to the Jordan attack?

Israel wants the US to have a strong response to the attack in order to deter further aggression from Iran and its proxies.

How could escalation of conflict in the region affect the global economy?

Wider conflict could disrupt vital trade routes like the Red Sea and Suez Canal, causing costs and delivery times to rise across industries.

Outlines

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😿 US servicemen killed in attack by Iranian proxies in Jordan; US pledges response

Three US service members were killed and over 30 injured in an attack by Iranian-backed militias on a US base in Jordan. This raises the risk of direct US-Iran conflict. President Biden pledged the US will respond. The attack also signals increasing aggression from Iran's proxies against US forces in the region.

05:03

😾 Escalating conflict forces US to weigh pros and cons of striking Iran

The US faces pressure to respond forcefully to deter further aggression from Iran and its proxies. However, direct strikes on Iran could escalate tensions. Regional observers believe some US response is inevitable. Israel also wants a strong US response to reestablish deterrence against Iran.

10:05

🛳 Attacks in Red Sea disrupt trade routes and benefit China

Houthi rebel attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea are forcing shipping companies to use longer routes, burning more fuel and increasing costs. This could lead to higher consumer prices. Chinese firms are capitalizing by transporting goods through the area unimpeded.

Keywords

💡Iran

Iran is mentioned several times in the context of its backing of militias that are attacking US bases and allies in the Middle East. This is raising tensions between Iran and the US, with the potential for direct conflict. The script discusses how the US may need to respond forcefully to Iran to deter further aggression.

💡military strikes

There is discussion of potential US military strikes against Iran directly as retaliation for the attack against the base in Jordan that killed US soldiers. This would be an escalation but some see it as necessary.

💡Red Sea

Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea, forcing rerouting. This is disrupting trade and could lead to higher costs.

💡UNRWA

The UN agency UNRWA that deals with Palestinian refugees is accused of having employees that participated in terror attacks against Israelis. This has led the US and others to suspend funding pending investigations.

💡hostages

Over 100 hostages are being held by Hamas. Negotiations are underway for their release, which would likely involve Israel pausing some military operations.

💡Reagan

President Reagan's forceful response to Libya in the 1980s is cited as an example of how the US may need to clearly retaliate now to deter Iranian aggression.

💡weakness

A concern expressed is that if the US does not respond forcefully, it will be seen as weak. This could invite further aggression in the Middle East and beyond.

💡shipping

The attacks on shipping combined with rerouting is disrupting international trade flows. This could raise costs for consumers and companies globally.

💡tensions

The events discussed, including attacks by Iran proxies and debates over potential US retaliation, are increasing tensions across the Middle East. The concern is this could boil over into open conflict.

💡wisdom

The script closes with a call for prayer for wisdom for the Biden administration as it navigates these incredibly complex challenges in the Middle East and globally.

Highlights

Three US service members killed and over 30 injured in attack by Iranian-backed militia against US base in Jordan

President Biden pledges US will respond to the attack, raising risk of direct US-Iran conflict

Attack wounded at least 30 soldiers at US base near borders of Syria and Iraq that serves as special operations base against ISIS

Iranian-backed militias have attacked US bases in Syria and Iraq over 170 times since October 2021

US deaths raise the stakes dramatically in the Middle East region

If US does not respond forcefully to attacks, it will be perceived as weak

US suspended funding to UNRWA amid evidence UNRWA employees participated in October 2022 attacks that killed over 12,200 Israelis

Cases of UNRWA employees working for terrorist groups began in the 1960s

Estimated 10% of UNRWA employees affiliated with Hamas or Islamic Jihad

UNRWA teachings aim to undo the state of Israel and kill Jews

Attacks on commercial ships in Red Sea by Houthi rebels forcing route changes and delays that could increase prices

Chinese ships avoiding attacks by signaling they are not Western-linked

US naval deployment to counter threats is costly and unsustainable

Next weeks and months crucial for how trade routes evolve amid threats

Please pray for wisdom for President Biden and his administration

Transcripts

oh welcome to the 700 Club three US

service members killed more than 30

injured an attack by Iranian back

militia against the US base in Jordan is

raising the stakes in the Middle East

President Bush pledges the United States

will respond to the attack as Chris

Mitchell reports from Jerusalem the

escalation raises the risk of a direct

conflict between the United States and

Iran at an event in South Carolina

President Biden announced the US would

choose the time and place for its

response we shall

respond God bless you all the attack

also wounded at least 30 soldiers The

Base is located in Jordan near the

borders of Syria and Iraq it serves as a

special operation's base to fight Isis

Iranian back militias have attacked us

bases in Syria and Iraq more than 170

times since October 17th the American

deaths raised the stakes dramatically in

the region it's quite clear that um the

whole players in the region are actually

looking to to see what will be the

United States reaction to that some

Congressional leaders are calling on

Biden to impose crippling costs on the

regime including military strikes inside

Iran Israeli and US conflicts against

Iran proxies are spread throughout the

region including Hezbollah in Lebanon

the houis in Yemen who continue attack

shipping in and around the Red Sea and

Hamas in Gaza AI melamed is a former

Israeli intelligence official he says

the source address of all the conflicts

in the region is Iran this is the mola

regime inan we have today sample of the

disastrous vision and future that Waits

the Middle East and the world if the

Mula regime is not going to be

restrained forcefully also over the

weekend the us along with a number of

other countries suspended funding to

unra the New York Times reported Israel

presented evidence that onra employees

participated in the October 7th attacks

which killed more than 12200 Israelis

the White House said the suspension of

Aid might be a first step we'll

certainly consider additional you know

what depending on the investigation

whether that requires any additional uh

changes in the way we support under

going forward the UN says it's inves

ating the charges but critics of unra

said it's been part of the problem not

the solution for a long time IDI Schwarz

is the co-author of the war of return I

just want to remind you that cases of

people working for unra and at the same

time uh working for terrorist

organization has begun in the 60s

meanwhile negotiations continue to

release the more than 100 hostages in

Hamas captivity Israel said talks have

been constructive but there are still

significant gaps

the deal would include a pause in the

fighting in exchange for the release of

some or all of the

hostages well Chris misal joins us now

more with more from Jerusalem uh it's

obvious that I I don't think anybody but

everyone I talk to in the US doesn't

want to escalate this into a war but it

seems like Biden may be forced to what

what are the pros and cons of directly

striking

Iran well Gordon right now the region is

really waiting to see how the us is

going to react uh because of Sunday's

attack and and the 170 attacks on the US

bases since mid October uh many m east

Believers observers here believe that

the us is going to respond forcefully

one of the cons is uh is that it would

escalate the situation uh Gordon uh you

know on the other hand one of the uh um

things you have to regard is that if the

US doesn't respond forcefully it's going

to make the us perceived as weak as more

than it is right now so you have to

weigh both the pros and the cons here

the uh Joint Chiefs of uh staff is

saying that he doesn't want to escalate

the situation it might not be possible

to deescalate the situation now because

Iran keeps pressing the envelope uh not

only in the Iranian back uh militias in

Syria and Iraq but also the htis so it

looks like right now the whole region

could be on a nice Edge and see what's

going to how the us is going to react

well just you a lot of international law

has been quoted recently so just under

international law what the hoodies are

doing firing missiles at International

Shipping is an act of war and and under

international law there there needs to

be a response to that what Iran is doing

through its proxies to attack US troops

and Iraq Iraq and now in Jordan uh Syria

it it those are acts of war and and so

if we don't respond

appropriately uh I can't I can't help

but think that the entire region the

entire world will think that we're weak

and it will embolden all kinds of

actions uh not just in the Middle East

uh what What's the Israel government

saying about uh the American

response well they're waiting I think uh

for the kind of response we're going to

get right now from the us whether it's

they said the President Biden said it's

going to be a time of their choosing and

and the way they're going to respond but

I think Israel would would feel like uh

the US really has to step forward and

have a strong response in order to have

some deterrence against Iran and its

proxies and if it doesn't it seems like

these attacks by the hoties by the

Iranian back militias in Syria and Iraq

by Hezbollah they will just keep

increasing until the US really does

respond uh I've been reading recently

about how president uh Reagan back in

the 80s responded to Libya and uh and

tried and deter them so we'll just see

what the US does but right now the US is

perceived as fairly weak in the region

and uh it's really a crossroads right

now to see how the administration is

going to respond well let's talk about

unra and and umra paying salaries to

terrorists uh you've been reporting on

this for years uh and it looks like the

world is finally waking up to it uh but

this is even more extreme there's a

report that um workers were actually the

terrorists taking part of the in the

October 7th attack uh what is that doing

to World opinion what what do you think

the future of unra

is well we'll see Gordon you know in

fact ID Schwarz the expert that we

talked to in our report he was saying

that un employees were actually

implicated in the 60s 7s and 80s and

Beyond uh terrorist members from the PLO

that was then today it's Hamas and it's

estimated about 10% of own employees are

affiliated with Terror groups whether

Hamas or Islamic Jihad and 12 implicated

in October 7th to the murder of Jews you

know the original mandate began in 1949

it was supposed to last 18 months it's

lasted 75 years and onra has a different

definition of any the UN agency so

instead of shrinking the refugees they

now have grown from 200,000 to about 6

million and critics say it really just

perpetuates the Israeli Palestinian

conflict because what they're teaching

and we've reported on this for many

years that this generation generation

after generation the goal is to undo the

state of Israel to kill Jews we have you

know children on on camera saying that

just outright and it's really the

embodiment of the chanting from the

river to the sea that we hear in uh in

rallies all over the world many say it's

time to stop the funding and dismantle

unra well I I've been saying it for a

long time and and I think it's it's

about time that people in the state

department start saying it I I I just

can't imagine that the US intelligence

services and the US state department

didn't know it uh it just it makes me

wonder why in the world would you

continue sending US taxpayer dollars uh

to fund it it it makes no sense uh is is

there some kind of double standard

here oh definitely I think uh you know

more than 300 million in US tax uh money

is going to un just this year billions

over the number of years and uh there

does seem to be some sort of a double

standard and there have been many

including yourself uh and I there's been

members of the knesset David Bine is one

of the people here in the land who's

been The Voice crying on the Wilderness

for many years that uh what actually is

doing and if you just listen to the the

children especially talking about their

goal is to go back to Tel Aviv go back

to hia we want to take over all of

Israel and we want to kill the Jews and

uh and that is what's been perpetuating

the Israeli Palestinian conflict and not

solving it well Chris thanks for your

Insight uh and thanks for all you're

doing to report on what's happening in

Israel today for you at home make sure

you let your Congress and your Senator

know how you feel about this that our

tax dollar is going to fund terrorism

where there's now proof that uh unra

employees weren't just educating weren't

just participating weren't just on Hamas

uh payroll in addition to unra payroll

but they actually participated in the

attack uh this has to stop uh unra needs

to go away uh and never come back and

you're going to hear back repeat

repeatedly in the news going forward uh

about some humanitarian crisis all of

that well if Gaza had paid attention to

their own people if they instead of

building tunnels and uh weapons

facilities and the ability to launch

rockets at Israel they would have had

plenty of money to take care of their

own people uh the humanitarian crisis in

Gaza is completely the fault of Hamas

well Iran's proxy war against Israel in

the US is also affecting World Trade

attacks on commercial ships in the Red

Sea are forcing them to alter roots and

that delay could lead to higher prices

cbn's Brody Carter talked to experts in

the field on what it all means for the

global

economy the port of Virginia is vital to

international trade but sources here

tell me that these incoming shipments

are slowing down that's because Terror

attacks in the Red Sea are forcing ships

to go to the West Coast ultimately

increasing those premiums and insurance

rates this comes out of your pocket but

the even bigger problem is the potential

for a broader conflict that's because

houthi Rebels have been firing on

Commercial vessels on the Red Sea since

November forcing shipping companies to

navigate multiple challenges so imagine

a shipment going from say Singapore to

uh Western Europe uh now they have to

travel thousands of miles more burning

more fuel which is of course not great

for the environment

but beyond that they also have to pay

higher uh taxes rather higher fuel

prices while companies like MK and

others take longer routs to help tankers

avoid the Red Sea Haag Lloyd is offering

ground transportation through Sai Arabia

which still can allow customers to use

the Suez Canal

shortcut we're also seeing this

disruption create tensions between world

powers since the attackers Target ships

from the US and other Israel allies

Chinese companies have been able to

capitalize on the situation obviously

the houthis are targeting uh ships that

are linked to the US the UK and Israel

uh and they're T and they're not

necessarily targeting ships that are

linked to China now there's also very

good reporting mostly out of Bloomberg

that indicates that as uh Chinese ships

are making the uh uh The Passage through

the Red Sea they're doing a lot to

Signal or indicate that they're Chinese

ships and they're not holding any sort

of Western Cargo or link to other

Western company uh and so far the

houthis have not really attacked ships

that have been uh sort of based out of

China and so there's some opportunistic

Chinese shipping companies that are

actually sending their cargo vessels

over to the Red Sea to try to pick up

some of that uh excess demand at a

higher price UCLA Professor Chris Tang

says the US Le Coalition which began

deploying Navy ships and aircraft to the

region in mid December is costing us

taxpayers too much right now the US has

the uh the aircraft carrier and

patrolling the Red Sea and along with

the uh the British uh military as well

uh they try to keep the ship safe but

it's not sustainable for each ground to

air missiles to attacks one of those

drones it costs over $1

million but the drones and the missiles

make by the hoties back by Iran may be

around $50,000 so therefore

you cannot continue to shoting all these

million dollars missiles if the Red Sea

crisis continues these coming days weeks

and months will be crucial in

determining how these trade routes

evolve and the world adapts to these

changing tides reporting from the port

of Virginia Brody Carter CBN News well

these are Incredible Days please pray

for President Biden please pray for

everyone in the administration the

pressure on them is enormous and and are

they worried about an election cycle I

think the answer is quite clearly yes

they are and they're trying to make sure

that everything in the economy is going

smooth all the way to November uh but in

all of this uh where do we stand on the

world stage and what messages are we

sending to the world uh what's happening

out of North Korea has North Korea

experts saying the this is the most

dangerous time in all their Decades of

studying North Korea that North Korea

could actually launch an attack against

South Korea you look at China and are

are they going to actually take Taiwan

are they going to go to war uh for that

in the face of American weakness I think

you're going to see that kind of

activity being emboldened to say okay uh

if America's going to take a step off

the world stage where we're going to

step step up for our own National goals

they need wisdom and they need it now

like never before so please pray for our

president