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Sharon Cameron, Yair Pinto, and Dr. Mohamed TasoujiThe Neil Haley Show opens with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Cameron, whose historical novel Up from the Ashes she calls both historic and deeply timely. Based on the true story of Chaim Engel and Selma Wijnberg, the book follows two strangers paired to dance for the amusement of their guards inside the Sobibor death camp in 1943, who did not share a language yet, as Selma later said, made love their language and chose to become each other's reason to survive. Cameron described Sobibor's horrors plainly while framing the novel as a story of hope, drawn to the idea of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances who discover their own strength, and to the real 1943 prisoner uprising in which the couple walked out the front gate among the survivors. She argued these histories depend on the choices of ordinary individuals and challenged readers to examine how they treat others. Reflecting on resilience, she shared her own mid-30s pivot from musician to writer, sparked in forty-five free minutes, and the years of work behind her success. Find her at SharonCameronBooks.com.Marking the October 7th anniversary, Neil then welcomed Israeli journalist and IDF reservist Yair Pinto, host of the daily program Boots on the Ground on TBN Israel and author of a book by the same name. Pinto recounted waking on October 7, 2023 to rocket sirens and the news of the attack, and his decision to report daily from the front lines, he said, to counter what he described as an information war and widespread misinformation about Israel. He shared his firsthand account of reporting through missile barrages, going into tunnels with cameras, and his stated view that the conflict is with Hamas as a terrorist organization rather than with the Palestinian people, pointing to Muslims serving across Israeli society. He described, from his perspective, IDF efforts to warn civilians before operations and the humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and framed the fight as one he believes extends beyond Israel. His book pairs each chapter with a QR code linking to video he recorded on location. Learn more at bootsonthegroundbook.com.The program closes with Dr. Mohamed Tasouji, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, who drew a sharp distinction between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people, asserting that the vast majority of Iranians reject the current government and that the real struggle is between the people and the regime. He argued against a boots-on-the-ground approach as too costly, citing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and instead urged continued sanctions targeting the regime's leadership alongside support for what he called the legitimate resistance, including the Mojahedin-e Khalq. He pointed to Maryam Rajavi's NCRI and its ten-point plan calling for separation of church and state, a non-nuclear Iran, an end to executions, and gender equality, and contended that cutting off the regime's oil revenue while backing the opposition could let Iranians topple it themselves. He asked listeners not to conflate the regime with the Iranian people. Find more at the NCRI, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

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