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5 min readThe Door That Opens at the Right Moment
On a Wednesday morning in October, Fly Dubai flight 1073 took off from Dubai bound for Tel Aviv with 174 people aboard, including 27 children returning from vacation during the holiday of Sukkot. At 34,000 feet, one of the pilots pulled a knife and began stabbing the other pilot repeatedly, trying to force him out of the cockpit to seize control. The wounded pilot fought back, and as the two struggled, the plane entered a nose dive, dropping 13,000 feet. The transponder flashed the code every air traffic controller dreads: unlawful interference. Israel closed its airspace. Fighter jets scrambled. No one on the ground knew whether the plane would land, crash, or disappear.
The worst sound, one passenger later said, was a little girl screaming for her father—because her father was up front fighting the man with a knife. When the attacker tried to shove the pilot out, the cockpit door opened, and Israeli passengers sitting near the front ran toward the knife without waiting for instructions. They dragged the attacker out. Everyone was covered in blood. But the plane was still diving.
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- 1 (01:17) **NYC First Lady's Ties to Radical Retreats** - Glenn exposes the mayor's wife's pattern of attending Islamic women's retreats with anti-Israel organizers.
- 2 (03:52) **The "No Role" Defense and Historical Precedent** - Glenn argues that spouses always influence leaders, using Woodrow Wilson's wife Edith as a cautionary tale.
- 3 (10:20) **What to Watch: Money, Appointments, and Police Orders** - Glenn lays out the specific areas where the first lady's influence could manifest in New York City policy.
- 4 (12:17) **The Merger of Hammer and Crescent on the Ballot** - Glenn connects the ideological alliance to the upcoming election and alarming polling data among young voters.
- 5 (14:48) **The Real Question: Where Are You Looking?** - Glenn warns that countries are lost when people look elsewhere, not when they watch closely.
- 6 (15:55) **The President's Lonely Burden** - Glenn asks listeners to imagine the crushing weight of the presidency before deciding to stay home.
- 7 (22:43) **The Newburgh Conspiracy: Washington's Spectacles** - Glenn recounts the story of George Washington preventing a military coup by revealing his personal sacrifice.
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Show Notes
How critical is it that Republicans go vote in this year’s midterm elections? Glenn looks to the Bible to show why it matters. Glenn has a message for the Americans who are tired of voting and feeling like nothing ever changes. Glenn explains why he believes ordinary people save a country by doing their part, not by a certain president or congressman. Glenn discusses the apparent terror attack attempt on an Israeli flight that passengers thwarted.
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