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Tucker Carlson: “One thing we know about Israeli occupation, it does not…”

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Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It

Published April 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 29:28

… occupation, who actually live there, who live in East Jerusalem, who live in Gaza, who live in the west bank, who live in Lebanon and who live in Syria. And One thing we know about Israeli occupation, it does not improve the lives of the occupied. And that is one way to judge the decency of any person or any empire. If a father is a good father, his kids are probably happy and well cared for. (29:28–29:36)

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Asserts that Israeli occupation does not improve the lives of those living under it.

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“A mother and daughter were shot to death by an Israeli sniper in a churchyard in Gaza.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 11:25-11:31
“An Israeli tank fired an artillery shell into a cross on top of a Christian church in Gaza.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 12:05-12:13
“That was an Israeli tank going out of its way, taking a break from hunting down Hezbollah to bulldoze a Christian statue of St. George…”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 13:45-14:09
“In some Israeli religious schools, the plus sign is not used because it looks like a cross.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 15:07-15:13
“There was a study last year by a Jewish Israeli group which found in 2025, there were 61 physical assaults against Christians.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 18:23-18:40
“This actually was real.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 03:51-03:54
“American evangelical Christians...were the last bulwark of support for Israel in the last country on the globe that supports Israel with…”
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“In fact, it's a very common occurrence where the Israeli military desecrates Christian religious symbols and churches and kills Christians.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 10:08-10:18
“Christian churches were bombed intentionally multiple times in Gaza.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 11:14-11:20
“Christian parishioners were murdered by the IDF in Gaza.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 11:21-11:26
“In no case was anybody punished for blowing up churches and murdering Christians in Gaza.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 11:57-12:04
“Poll after poll of Christian Arabs shows the main threat they perceive is the Israeli government and settlers.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 16:21-16:39
“American evangelical leaders...will even sit by and cheer as Mark Levin lectures them on the New Testament.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 17:03-26:16
“The United States on a bipartisan basis has sent billions and billions of dollars to the Israeli government.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 17:12-17:24
“It is so common for Christian priests to be spit on and roughed up to have their churches urinated on or defaced by radical religious…”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 18:43-18:54
“The United States gives so much money to Israel that its basic needs are met.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 22:57-23:04
“The government of Israel is promoting the largest pride event they claim in the history of the region.”
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“Mark Levin...is entirely comfortable using his platform on Fox News to lecture Christians about what the Christian Bible teaches about…”
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“There is no place occupied by Israel currently that is thriving.”
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“They've been leaving ever since 1948, since the creation of Israel when many thousands of them were expelled by the Israelis from their own…”
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“Their religion is uniquely despised by the Israeli government.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 31:30-31:37
“Her house was bulldozed, the restaurant was closed by the Israeli government.”
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“These are people from, in many cases outside the region, from the United States or Ukraine, she told us, who showed up and decided that the…”
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“They've abetted, they've worked to affect, to accelerate the ethnic cleansing of this area.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 34:11-34:18
“In the United States we're told that the enemies of the state of Israel are Muslims and that Israelis, and that would include the IDF and…”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 37:09-37:22
“Destroying images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary, that's not protection from terrorism.”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 39:19-39:28
“Have churches in the United States or Christian leaders or American officials, are they aware of this and have they done anything to help…”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 40:32-40:43
“You're describing what we used to call a madrasa. And we would say that Islamic religious extremist jihadis trained in madrasas as children…”
Tucker Responds to Israel's Attacks on Jesus Christ & the American Christian Leaders Supporting It | Uploaded April 22, 2026 | 1:10:22-1:10:35
“There's never been a settler punished for attacking you?”
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