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Did You Know? - The Full History of Genocide: From 149 BC to Today · Voices Of Life

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Welcome to Voices of Life. Today we remember
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the stories the world tried to forget. From ancient
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cities burned to ashes, to modern nations torn
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apart. This is the history of genocide. Real
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people, real lives, falls out for justice. Welcome
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to Voices of Life. Did you know? A ministry of
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the Church for Life. I'm Pastor David. Did you
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know that genocide is not only a modern crime,
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but a recurring wound across human history. Today,
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Voices of Life walks you through the verified
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record from medieval Europe to present, honoring
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the victims, confronting the perpetrators, and
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preserving the truth for generations to come.
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In 146 BC, there was the destruction of Carthage.
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So did you know that Rome's final war with Carthage
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ended with the city burned to the ground tens
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of thousands were killed and survivors were sold
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into slavery a complete destruction of a civilization
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moving forward to the era twelve o nine to twelve
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twenty nine was the albigensian carthaginian
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crusade perpetrator crusader armies under pope
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innocent the third country was the kingdom of
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france under the papal authority The target was
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Carthus' estimated killed were tens of thousands
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to hundreds of thousands. That is an amazing
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amount for that period of time. 1209 to 1229.
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Think about that. That's a lot of people. And
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did you know that one of Europe's earliest mass
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exterminations was carried out under the banner
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of a crusade? Under religious doctrine. The entire...
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cathar towns were wiped out with orders to kill
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all god will know his own that was the order
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of the pope at the time moving on 1219 to 1221
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the mongol destruction of gormazian cities the
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perpetrator was the mongol empire genghis khan
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the target was the khawazmian populations the
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estimated killed were hundreds of thousands to
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millions. Think about that. Millions in that
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time period. Whole civilization. So did you know
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that the Mongol invasions produced some of the
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deadliest city destructions in world history?
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Entire populations were annihilated as punishment
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for resisting Mongol rule. But the Mongols weren't
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done yet. Mongol sack of Baghdad. So the Mongol
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Empire under Ghulga Khan targeted the population
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of Baghdad in 1258. They estimated to have killed
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200 ,000 to 800 ,000 of the population of Baghdad.
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So did you know that the fall of Baghdad in 1258
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ended the Islamic Golden Age? The Mongol army
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slaughtered vast portions of the city, destroying
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libraries, scholars, and centuries of culture.
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As we move up to the 1800s, we look at the Tasmanian
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Aborganel destruction, 1803 to 1876. The perpetrator,
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British colonial authorities and settlers. The
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target, Tasmanian Aborganel peoples. Estimated
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kill, 2 ,000 to 5 ,000. Now, compared to the
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previous real genocides, that doesn't seem like
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a lot. But did you know Tasmania's indigenous
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population was nearly wiped out? Just that small
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amount, that 2 ,000 to 5 ,000 within decades
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of British settlement. Violence, displacement,
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and disease. That was another part that didn't
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help. Erased entire communities. So when you
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have to look at numbers, it's truly local to
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the population that's being targeted that would...
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Beat the standards of it reaches the point of
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genocide. Then comes 1846 to 1873. The California
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Indian Genocide. Perpetrators, the state of California
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government. State -sponsored militias and private
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settlers and vigilantes. The target, the indigenous
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people of California. Estimated killed was 9
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,500 to 16 ,000 through violent deaths. Did you
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know that California's early state government
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funded and authorized militia campaigns against
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native peoples? California governors and lawmakers
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provided financial support for these campaigns
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while private settlers and militias carried out
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additional attacks. California Governor Peter
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Burnett declared in 1851 that a war of extermination
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would continue until the Indian race became extinct.
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Thousands of native people were killed. while
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many others died from starvation, disease, displacement,
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forced labor, and the destructions of their communities.
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In modern time, I believe Gavin Newsom acknowledged
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this, and this is part of the record. This had
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nothing to do with the United States government.
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This was strictly California on its own making
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that decision. And as a western territory and
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later state, it had a lot of sovereignty, almost
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as much as a country, because... It was so disconnected
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from the rest of the country. So then we come
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to the Circassian genocide in the 1860s and 1870s.
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The perpetrator, Russian Empire. The Circassians
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and other North Caucasian peoples estimated amount
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killed were hundreds of thousands to 1 .5 million.
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Hundreds of thousands and up to 1 .5 million.
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Did you know that Russia's conquest of the Caucasus
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produced one of the largest forced expulsions
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in European history. Entire Circassian communities
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were burned, deported, or killed. Now we have
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to look at this and say, wow, and this was not
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people of color. This was not ethnicity. These
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were Caucasians. But they did meet the Russian
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criteria. So we have to look at the war today.
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that Putin has done on Ukraine and what he's
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been trying to do? Is this trying to do a repeat
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of what happened back in the 1860s and 70s? It's
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just a question. So let's transition to modern
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era. So did you know the age of empires gave
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way to the age of nation states? And genocide
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did not stop. In fact, in the 20th century became
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the deadliest century for the targeted destruction.
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So let's talk about modern genocides. And we're
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going to talk about genocides that are truly
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genocides, not that people are labeling them,
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organizations are labeling them, especially organizations
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that have conflicts of interest, including the
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people that did these investigations and made
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these determinations, who also had connections
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and conflicts of interest. Because you have to
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have a fair and objective look at this. when
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you take a look at what is really genocide. But
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all the cases we're going to talk about are verified
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and they're documented. They're part of history.
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So we have Herero and Nama genocide 1904 to 1908.
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The perpetrator, the German Empire. The target
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were the Herero and Nama people. Estimated killed
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65 ,000. Herrero and 10 ,000 Nama. 65 ,000 Herrero
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and 10 ,000 Nama. So did you know that Germany
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committed genocide decades before the Holocaust?
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Survivors were driven into the desert, denied
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water, and placed in concentration camps. So
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Germany learned about concentration camps very
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early on in the 20th century. So, moving on.
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to 1914 to 1924. The Asrian Sappho Genocide.
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The perpetrator, the Ottoman Empire. And the
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Ottoman Empire, you should remember in some of
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our previous podcasts we talked about, they enslaved
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a lot of people. Most of the people that they
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enslaved were Caucasian. Not people of color,
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not from Africa. That was not what they were.
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They were Slavs. That's where the name slave
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actually came from. But here is the Ottoman Empire
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in 1914 to 1924. And the target was the Assyrian,
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Syriac, Chaladian Christians. Estimated killed
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a quarter of a million to 300 ,000. Just think
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about that. 250 ,000 to 300 ,000. A lot of people.
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So did you know that entire Christian communities
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of the Middle East were targeted during World
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War I? Villages? were emptied, clergy executed,
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and families marched to their death. That's one
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of the reasons why the Islamic religion flourished
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so much because a lot of the Christians were
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all gone. They were all killed off. So moving
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on to 1914 to 1923 with the Greek and Pontic
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Greek genocide. Again, the perpetrator, the Ottoman
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Empire, but this time they were partnered with
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the Turkish nationalists. The target were Ottoman
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Greeks. Estimated killed 300 ,000 to 900 ,000.
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Even more than the first time. So did you know
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that hundreds of thousands, almost a million
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Greeks were deported, massacred, or starved during
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the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This destruction
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paralleled the Armenian tragedy. And let's look
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at the Armenian Genocide, 1915 to 1916. The Ottoman
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Empire, again. Armenians estimated killed were
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664 ,000 to 1 .2 million. Two -thirds of a million
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to 1 .2 million killed by the Ottoman Empire.
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So did you know the Armenian Genocide is one
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of the most documented genocides before the Holocaust?
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Armenians were arrested, deported, starved, and
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massacred. across the empire. And we move on
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to 1932 to 1933. And we have the Holodomor. The
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perpetrator, the Soviet Union. The target, Ukrainian
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peasants. Does that sound familiar? Here we go
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again. Estimated killed 4 million. 4 million
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Ukrainian peasants. This is second to the Holocaust
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by the Soviet Union. Again, we look at Putin
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today. What has he been doing? What was the first
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targets he did when he started the war four and
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a half years ago? Civilians. It was condominiums,
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apartment houses, a lot of civilian targets,
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not military targets. So did you know that millions
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of Ukrainians died in the man -made famine? Grain
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was seized, villages sealed, and starvation weaponized.
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You take away the resources of these people,
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and they die off. Which brings us to the worst
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of all the genocides, the Holocaust, 1933 to
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1945. This happened over 12 years. Perpetrator,
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Nazi Germany. Target, primarily Jews, but also
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Roma, disabled persons, and there were a lot
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of others. If they had captors from Russia, they
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were automatically... put in those concentration
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camps too but it estimated killed of six million
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jews and a quarter of a million to 500 000 romas
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six million jews murdered quarter of a million
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to 500 romas did you know that the holocaust
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remains the clearest example of industrialized
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genocide the nazi state mobilized railways camps
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police and propaganda to annihilate european
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jewry Now, does that sound familiar? We're listening
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today to all this hate toward Israel and hate
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toward Jews. And unfortunately, here in the United
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States, it's actually propagated by some of our
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elected officials. Now, see, there's got to,
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I mean, freedom of speech is one thing. When
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you're an elected official, you lose some of
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your freedom of speech because you are representing
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that political subdivision or division. whether
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it's state, local, county, city. And when you
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promulgate these type of policies, you are just
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as guilty and you are the cause of more hate
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and you are the cause of more violence. And you
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should be held accountable as a contributing
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party. Moving on to 1971, the Bangladesh genocide.
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Perpetrator. Pakistan, the target, Banglis, especially
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Hindus, 300 to 3 million. I'm sorry, 300 ,000
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to 3 million. So did you know that during the
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Bangladesh Liberation War, Pakistani forces carried
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out mass executions and targeted Hindus? The
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death toll reached into the millions. And that's
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in the 70s. That's really modern days. We're
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talking about 55 years ago. Within my lifetime,
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certainly. Moving on to 1975 to 1979, Cambodian
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genocide. The perpetrator, Khmer Rouge. The target,
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Cham Muslims, Vietnamese, and intellectuals,
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religious groups. Anything that opposed them.
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Estimated killed. 1 .5 to 2 million. So did you
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know that the Khmer Rouge attempted to remake
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Cambodia by destroying its people? Nearly 2 million
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died from execution, starvation, forced labor,
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and disease. We now move into the 80s. 1986 to
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1989. The Anfel Genocide. Perpetrator? Iraq.
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Target? The Kurds. Numbers killed? 50 to 100
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,000. Now that sounds like a small number compared
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to the others we've just listened to. But again,
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what is the total population of the Kurds during
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that time? You have to look at it in its own
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perspective. So did you know that Saddam Hussein's
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regime used chemical weapons, mass executions
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against Kurdish communities? Entire regions were
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depopulated. You use chemical weapons, you don't
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use... Normal weapons, the people die, but the
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facilities are still there. I guess that was
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his way of keeping infrastructure. Moving on
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to 1995, 40 years ago. The Bosnian -Serbrinka
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Genocide. The perpetrator, Bosnian Serb forces.
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The target, Bosniak Muslims. Killed 8 ,000 men
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and boys. This was targeted against... One sex
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of a race. 8 ,000 men and boys. So did you know
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that on July 1995, over 8 ,000 Bosniak men and
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boys were executed in Serbianka? International
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courts ruled this atrocity a genocide. And I
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think everybody would agree that that was a genocide.
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Because again, the specific circumstances and
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what they did. Moving on to 1994, Rwand genocide.
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Perpetrator, Hutu extremist government. Target,
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Tutsi and moderate Hittus. Estimated killed,
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a half a million to a million. So did you know
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that in just 100 days, Rwanda lost up to a million
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lives? Malicious soldiers and civilians carried
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out one of the fastest genocides in recorded
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history. 100 days and up to a million lives.
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I can't even fathom that. Even the Nazis weren't
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that sophisticated. Moving on to the new millennia.
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2003 to 2005 and onward. The Darfur Genocide.
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The perpetrator, Sudanese government, and the
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Jawaweed. Target, the fur, muscle it, Zagawa.
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200 to 300 civilian deaths. Not military deaths,
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civilian deaths. So did you know that the Dhafara
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region witnessed mass killings, village burnings,
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and systematic targeting of non -Arab communities?
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Hundreds of thousands died. Moving on to within
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the last 10 years, 2014 to 2017, the Yazidi genocide.
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Perpetrator, ISIS. Target, Yazidis. Estimated
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killed, 2 ,100 to 5 ,000. So did you know that
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ISIS attempted to eradicate the Yazidi people?
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Men were executed, women enslaved, and children
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forcibly converted. This was a very small population,
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so while the number seemed small, it absolutely
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was an attempt by this terrorist organization,
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ISIS, to go ahead and eradicate the Yazidis.
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Moving on to 2016 to the present. The Rojava
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Genocide. Perpetrator, Myanmar's and target,
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Rohingya Muslims. Estimated killed 9 ,000 to
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13 ,700. So again, we look at a lower number
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and say, well, that's just a very low number.
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But you know, when you have different communities,
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different races, different beliefs, different
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religions. These all fall into separate things.
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You could say, well, everyone was Muslim. Okay,
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they were all Muslim, but these were specific.
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They have a specific belief that might have differed.
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Just like Christians, you have Catholics and
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you have Protestants and you've got Episcopal.
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It's the same thing. And you have a smaller population
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of something like this. So did you know that
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the Myanmar's military burned villages, executed
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civilians and drove over 700 ,000 Rohingya into
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Bangladesh. The U .S. determined in 2022 that
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genocide occurred. So moving on to 2017, the
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Uyghur genocide determination. Perpetrator? China.
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Target? Uyghurs and other T8 Uruk Muslims. Estimated
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killed? Well, there's no reliable information.
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It's very hard to get information out of China,
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just like it's very hard to get information out
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of Russia. So the exact number that were killed
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is unknown. I'll say, did you know that the Ugar
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case represents a modern form of genocide when
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focused on forced sterilization, mass detention,
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and cultural erasure rather than mass execution?
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So it's a little bit different, but there are
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no numbers. And the only thing, we know that
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this is happening, but we don't know the numbers.
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think that it's very hard to start calling something
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a genocide until you know because let's say there
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never were like 10 people i don't think it probably
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is more than that for to get out like this but
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you know you have to really look at that and
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make that determination so it genocide using
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that label it's a very powerful label because
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it everyone first thing you think about back
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is to the holocaust six million jews killed at
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the hands of the nazis i don't use that word
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loosely or lightly, and no one else should. So
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right here, I'm going to withhold my opinion
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on this, but I'd like to know really what the
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numbers are. And while we're getting ready to
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close, I want to just say this. Recently, and
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I brought this up just a little bit ago, we had
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an elected official in this country, more than
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one, but one that stands out, that called what
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Israel did in response to October 7th massacre
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They're calling to the Gaza people a genocide.
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First of all, they start to call these people
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Palestinians. Well, there is no country of Palestine.
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There has never been a country of Palestine.
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There still is not today. So you can call yourself
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what you want. It's like, you know, transgender.
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It's like, let's pretend. Okay, that's fine.
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I'm going to say I'm trans people. I don't know.
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And call it something that it's not. But they'll
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keep saying free Palestine. There's nobody that's
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not free. There are people that live in Israel
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that are non -Jews, and they get along fine in
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different cities. Gaza's had a problem because
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the terrorists have been implanted there, and
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they use the people, and I think the people let
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them be used. I think these are radical people,
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and even though they call them civilians, I don't
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think they are civilians. I think that you let
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these terrorists come into my house, to my hospitals,
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to my schools. put in weapons and things like
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that, you are part of the problem. You need to
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fight for your freedom. And it's not something
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anyone else can do for you. You have to give
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them up. Going back to where I was saying, calling
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on the Israeli government to say that they've
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been committing genocide in Gaza is really a
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false statement. The UN has put up this, it's
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not a formal thing, but it's an investigation
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and it's the results of an investigation. But
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the complaint... that Mayor Mandami was talking
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about, Israel to the International Criminal Court,
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came from South Africa. Funny that it came from
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South Africa, which has no tie or closeness to
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Israel or to Gaza. But it did come from South
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Africa and it happened to come from Muslims.
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And the UN investigated. They had a three -person
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leadership team plus others involved. And it
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is amazing. that one of the people investigating
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is from South Africa and happens to be a Muslim.
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How is that neutral? How is that objective? She
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should have recused herself, but she didn't.
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And she went ahead and, of course, acknowledged
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and validated the genocide, as well as they throw
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all these different names in. Well, October 7th
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started with Hamas doing an attack against Israel.
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Unprovoked, two civilians. Not military, not
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a military target, nothing like that at all.
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And then they expect nothing to happen. They
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don't expect the country to fight back. Any country
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would have fought back. If this happened in Italy,
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they would fight back. If this happened in Spain,
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they would fight back. Anybody would have fought
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back. And I don't know how careful you can be
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when going after terrorists when the civilian
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population welcomed the terrorists into their
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homes, into their schools, into their hospitals.
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Those are not neutral civilians anymore. They
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become... combatants, just like Hamas is. I'm
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going to say at this point, shame on anybody
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that says that Israel is carrying out a genocide,
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and especially shame on any elected official
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in the United States that would say the same
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thing without absolute, uncontradicted evidence
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and truth. If it is, hey, I'll eat my words.
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But until that day comes, just saying something
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because you want it to be true doesn't make it
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true. And especially for the mayor of New York
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to say it, which just goes along with his and
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his wife's radical beliefs of radical Islam,
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doesn't make it true either. But right now he's
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got both sides mad at him because the radicals
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are saying he didn't go far enough and the moderates
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and the conservative people are saying you went
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too far. So now you put yourself in the middle.
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But you know what? You can't ride that fence
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forever. Always remember that. So did you know?
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That remembering these stories itself is an act
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of resistance. Genocide drives in silence. But
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when truth is spoken, dignity rises again. This
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is Voices of Life. Preserving memory, defending
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humanity, and declaring that every life bears
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the image of God. Every life is valuable. Every
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life is worth something. And genocide is totally
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unacceptable. The taking of any life is unacceptable
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unless it is in self -defense, protecting your
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family, protecting your country. God has said
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over the years, over the centuries, that if you
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have enemies, you can smite them. But they truly
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have to be enemies, not just because they said
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something you don't like. They truly have had
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to show a violent part. And we see a lot of this
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in this world today. We see it in Iran. They
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have been doing this for 47 years. And I hate
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bringing all these things up. This is really
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not political. This is reality. This is about
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human life, all human life. It's like President
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Trump was saying for Gaza, he got that Council
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of Peace, and I know it's kind of stalled right
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now. I wish it would get itself moving. That's
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what we need. We need peace everywhere. I know
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they say, oh, you can never get peace in the
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Middle East. I think you can. I think you can
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have peace across the world. But people have
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to respect each other's... choices, choices of
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religion, and not radicalize any religion to
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the point where you're hurting or infringing
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on the rights of others. Those are my words for
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today. I'm Pastor David for Voices of Life. Did
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you know? Thank you for listening, and we'll
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see you next. This has been Voices of Life. We
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honor every life, taken every family shattered,
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every voice silenced. But memory is stronger
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than fear. Truth is stronger than violence. and
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hope is stronger than death. Did you know? Your
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voice can keep their stories alive. Until next
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time, stand for life, stand for truth, and let
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every generation.