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An Abbreviated Look At The History of Israel · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  And we are back with you the third hour of The Morning Show with Preston
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  Scott. I'm Preston. That's Grant sort of, it's a reasonable fact simile
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  of Grant over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B,
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  and it's time for a little more history. Doctor Ed Moore joins us
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  Ed. How are you, sir? I'm doing pretty good all things considered.
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  Looking at the state of the world right now, I'm trying to stay
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  optimistic. We decided this week that we would focus in because it is such
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  an important topic on Israel. So where do you want to pick up the
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  history of Israel, because obviously this is a story that begins long before nineteen
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  forty eight. Yeah, there are those in the world today that like to
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  think that Israel, the people, the Jewish people in that area, just
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  started, you know, nineteen forty eight. If you go back to Abraham,
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  that's about four thousand years ago, and Moses would be about thirty four
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  thirty five hundred years ago. The region has had conflict for a very,
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  very long time. What's going on now is not new by my count since
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  Israel declared its independence from Great Britain. Actually, most people don't understand that
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  in nineteen forty eight, there have been seventeen or eighteen named conflicts with the
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  surrounding populations or surrounding countries or groups like Commas or Ismaelah. So it's been
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  at constant turmoil basically since nineteen forty eight, probably more time at war then
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  at peace. So there's nothing new to this. There's just a lot of
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  history behind all of this that most people don't understand. And nineteen forty eight
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  when they declared independence and Great Britain had been ruling the region for about forty
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  years since the end of World War One. For about four hundred years prior
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  to that, the Ottomans, ostensibly what now are the Turks, were ruling
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  the region and the region in those days we included Iran, Iraq, Turkey,
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  Syria, a large swath of land were under control of the Ottoman Empire.
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  That all ended with the end of World War One and the defeat of
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  the Ottoman Empire. But what also began then was what we then later termed
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  as genocide. The Turks had a huge activities of genocide against the Armenian Christians.
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  They expelled Jews from the region. Jews had no place to go.
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  They expelled Jews out of Syria. I mean, it's been this whole issue,
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  and all the issues surrounding this have been in place for a very,
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  very long time. So no one should be surprised that it's finally finally appearing
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  to really blow up at this point in time. You know, you go
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  back to its biblical roots, and obviously for some people that's a matter of
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  faith on whether you believe all that stuff or not. One thing we know,
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  the history tells us that the Jewish people were in essence forced out of
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  the area. In seventy a d. The Roman government archived what took place,
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  and they were literally dispersed to the four corners of the world. I'm
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  of the opinion add that it took the sympathies of the world following World War
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  Two before there was a climate that said, yeah, these people deserve a
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  homeland. Yeah, and it began, actually, the seeds of it began
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  during World War One with the Balfour Declaration, right. But you know,
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  people try to act as if the countries were trying to expel the Jews.
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  In reality, the prominent Jewish families like the Rothschilds and others were pushing for
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  this to occur and pushing to allow them. In nineteen forty well, at
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  the end of World War One, maybe ten percent of the population and what
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  is now Israel were Jewish because they had all been pushed out for so many
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  years. It gave a good opportunity to create a nation, to create some
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  borders. Originally they had what they called the Green Line that created the borders
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  for that region, and that would then become is the modern version of Israel.
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  It settled for a very short period of time. I mean in nineteen
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  forty eight when they declared independence, there was the Arab Israeli's War that had
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  been going on as militia fighting. Now they're a nation. And oddly,
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  when you look at these kinds of things, Russia or the Soviet Union in
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  nineteen forty eight was the very first country to recognize, diplomatically recognize Israel the
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  new nation. The Morning Show with Preston Scott, Hello, Hello, anybody
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  O Hi on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA. Each month we talk
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  history on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Our contribution to the education of
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  the masses with doctor Ed Moore, a little more history we're talking about the
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  history of Israel. Ed. Let's pick up right there the Soviet Union.
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  The Soviet Union was the first, yeah, yeah, and then ironic they
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  were the very first. They beat everybody else to the punch and established diplomatic
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  relations with the new nation of Israel, who at the time was still at
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  war. They were fighting. This is a brand new country, you keep
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  in mind. I just find that fascinating and gets overlooked how an effective fighting
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  force could be put together that quickly. And they at the time they were
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  fighting Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, and they ended up with
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  an armistice as sorts in nineteen forty nine that created ostensibly created a peace in
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  the region. But then around in nineteen fifty to fifty one, there was
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  a series for the next twenty years, for the next two decades the Palestine
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  called the Palestine feeda Yuin insurgency that was basically what you saw the other day,
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  but just not on that grand scale, but going on constantly of attacks
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  and going into villages and killing people, rockets coming across and Israel. At
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  that point, I think is when they started developing this blood costs deterrence.
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  Where is now it's at I think at the maximum is extreme, where their
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  response was to go in and kill as many of the insurgents or the hummas
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  or whoever they were as possible to make the costs so high in hopes of
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  deterring it from happening in the future. Well, this is from nineteen forty
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  nine, fifty nineteen sixty up to nineteen sixty seven when they had a major
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  war. It didn't really work very effectively. I mean it seemed like the
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  more they killed, the more war went on. And no matter what occurred,
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  they were going to be assaulted by rockets and small group gorilla type incursions
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  into the Israeli territory. So it has not been peaceful there. Major wars
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  have occurred. There was a Suez Crisis in nineteen fifty six when Egypt threatened
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  to shut down that area and people went to war. Different Britain and the
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  United States had refused. They were going to build a dam in Asthwa and
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  decided not to, and then it ended up being in a war. Israel
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  maintained their borders at the end of that and what you'd see if it incurags
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  the listeners to look at the history of all of these wars and battles.
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  They were always being attacked. They were a small, tiny country. I
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  think Israel's about eighty five miles wide at its widest, about two hundred and
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  eighty three hundred miles long. It's like having all this going on in the
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  pan Handle. You know, it's not a big area, and they're surrounded
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  by people that didn't want them to exist. So the wars were constant.
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  The wars were coming out of the north, the wars were coming out of
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  the east. The only safe boarder they had was the west, because that's
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  all water. In looking at it, I think a real telling war was
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  nineteen sixty seven and the Sixth Day War and the result of the Sixth Day
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  War where they're fighting now and where they're having the problems soll that's where it
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  comes from. Israel essentially won it and expanded their territory at the time and
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  created what then became called the Purple Line. They took in the West Bank
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  and East Jerusalem that they gained from Jordan. They took the goal On Heights
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  from Syria, and they took the Sinai and Gaza from Egypt. And now
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  all of these countries had controlled these areas. Now all of these countries are
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  saying, we're refugees coming out of Gaza and probably in the next few weeks
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  in the West Bank. We don't want them. We don't want them coming
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  into our country. And that's where a big part of the stalemate occurs is
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  the Palestinians, if you want to call them that, in the one section
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  being ruled by Hamas and then the other section basically being ruled by Hezbollah.
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  The countries that should be their allies, that are supplying them to a degree
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  with arms and munitions, don't want the refugues from those countries. Doctor Ed
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  Moore with us this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Fifty plus
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  Muslim nations, one Jewish state. Get your mind around that for a second.
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  Seventeen minutes past the hour back with doctor Ed Moore, we're talking about
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  the history of israel Ed. We ended with the Six Day War pick up
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  and take us to present. Well, you know, I think that point
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  when they picked up all these new territories, it's kind of like getting the
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  gift that you really don't want, you don't know what how to deal with.
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  In nineteen sixty seven June sixty seven was the Sixth Day War, but
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  then there was a War of Attrition from sixty seven to seventy were forces from
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  the Soviet Union, Jordan, Syria, Egypt went to war again with Israel
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  to try to recapture the territories. Primarily Egypt interested in taking back the Sinai
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  and Gaza, but I'm not sure they really wanted Gaza, and that led
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  to the kip Or War of nineteen seventy three only three years later, where
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  they again tried to come in. It was mainly led by Egypt, and
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  Syria came in surprise attack across the ceasefire lines in the Sinai and the Golden
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  Heights, so they attacked them from the south in the north, which is
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  what's starting to be set up here right now. And at the end of
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  that there were no territorial changes. Egypt had once again defeated a larger enemy.
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  They don't lose. They have a resilience and a will that is probably
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  unseen in the history. Then from that point on, for about a decade
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  and a half, there was all kinds of problems in Lebanon and they continued
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  to battle in Lebanon. Incursions coming across the border. There were civil war
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  in Lebanon and what had been described as the Garden of the Middle East largely
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  got destroyed. Lebanon is no longer what it was. And again it was
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  Hezbollah on one side and moss on the other that continued to attack Israel all
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  the way up until around two thousand or so. During that entire timeframe,
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  there were two periods that they called the First Intifada and the second into Father
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  which was basically Palestinian uprising, girl of warfare, of people coming across the
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  border, things that you don't typically see in civilized warfare. Alcohol it with
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  big quotes, the capturing of civilians, the execution of civilians, right,
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  you know, those kinds of things were going on all the time in Israel
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  was having to deal with it. There's no lack of irony with them complaining
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  saying that Israel killed or destroyed a hospital or killed people, which has now
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  proven to be untrue, when that's what they just did. They went across
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  the border, and they didn't attack military targets, they didn't attack power stations,
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  they didn't attack ports or anything along those lines, or production of munitions.
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  They attacked civilians. They went into basically a small towns be here in
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  the rural part of Florida. If you just went in and you're intent with
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  just kill everybody in Madison, you know why not. And that's what occurred
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  here. So for them to claim horrors something is irony is probably not strong
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  enough award. They continue to do that, which led them to the Gods
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  of war and the first Guds of war. There's been two of them prior
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  to this one, and it just continued. Israeli an army, the Israeli
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  Defense Horse has been engaged in the Gaza Strip for a long time. They
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  do incursions, they leave, they do go in trying to get the bad
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  guys. And what the world now, seemingly some of the people in the
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  world and some of our foolish congresspeople are asking them to get a ceasefire.
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  Well, they've been doing ceasefires now since nineteen forty eight and it's like a
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  broken record at this point. And as I mentioned, fifty islam nations are
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  out there, none of them willing to take in any of these people.
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  And Jewish state there's one and artist artistic gape to get through is the one
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  into Egypt. So thanks for the time this morning, be well day,
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  thank you, all right, doctor edmore with us, a little more history.
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  It's twenty seven minutes past the hour.