3/26/26 Jason Jones on Helping the Innocent Victims of Israel’s Violence

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For $2,500, Gaza Walks gives one child a prosthetic limb — 24 fitted in two weeks.

1. Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews features Scott Horton interviewing Jason Jones about the humanitarian crisis facing Christians and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. 2. Jason Jones, founder of the Vulnerable People Project (VPP) and a longtime pro-life and human-rights activist, has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Sudan since founding VPP in 2002 to oppose the Iraq War. 3. The episode's core thesis is that Israeli policy in Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon is eroding Palestinian Christian communities while American Christian Zionists provide theological cover. 4. Jones says VPP evacuated wounded Christian women, pregnant women, and children through the Rafah Gate early in the war and later delivered pop-up homes and water to Christian families, widows, and orphans for Christmas. 5. He states there are 18,000 children in Gaza without any living relative, and describes VPP's two main Gaza programs as Gaza Smiles and Gaza Walks. 6. Under Gaza Walks, VPP aims to fit every child amputee in Gaza and the West Bank with a prosthetic limb within 36 months, reporting its first 24 children fitted in the two weeks before the interview. 7. Jones credits advances in prosthetic technology partly to his friend Ryan Hendrickson, who lost a leg in the first Gulf War and later founded a landmine-removal organization operating in Ukraine. 8. He describes a new West Bank settlement, Stema, which he says is designed to sever Bethlehem from Beit Sahur, and reports two shooting attacks on Bethlehem residents on the day of the interview. 9. Jones says no Israeli settler has been charged with a crime against Palestinians since 2020, and argues Israel is displacing Christians from Taybeh, which he calls the last fully Christian village in the West Bank. 10. He recounts writing an article titled 'Help, I'm an Anti-Palestinian Bigot' after catching himself doubting the sincerity of Palestinian Christians he interviewed while evacuating families through Egypt. 11. Jones traces his own religious path from atheism and Ayn Rand objectivism to Catholicism, saying he was struck by the New Testament's claim that there is 'no longer Jew or Gentile.' 12. He criticizes dispensationalist Christian Zionism as incompatible with early Christian teaching, citing Arabic-speaking believers in the Book of Acts as evidence Arab Christianity predates the divide dispensationalists assume. 13. Jones describes a 2005 meeting with televangelist John Hagee in New York, where Hagee reportedly told him, 'You give me the policy, it's my job to create the theology.' 14. He also mentions interviewing CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, a devout Orthodox Christian, about reconciling his interrogation work with the Christian command to love one's enemies. 15. Jones reports that a million people were displaced in southern Lebanon in the prior week, including VPP team members ordered to evacuate mid-conversation. 16. He contrasts the treatment of religious minorities under Iran's government, which he says protects some minorities despite being an 'Islamist regime,' with what he calls Israel's harsher treatment of Palestinian Christians. 17. The conversation is a long-form, unscripted political interview between two ideologically aligned hosts, mixing personal testimony, policy critique, and organizational fundraising asks. 18. The tone is candid and occasionally profane, with both men trading pointed commentary on named U.S. and Israeli officials. 19. Would appeal to listeners interested in libertarian foreign-policy critique, Middle East humanitarian reporting, or Christian minority rights. 20. Likely to be skipped by listeners seeking pro-Israel commentary or a strictly secular foreign-policy discussion.

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