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Ryan Bridge: Why have we designated Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist entity, but not the political wing? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Israel looks set to launch a ground invasion into Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: could happen as early as today. And as all this happens,
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  Speaker 1: our government is refusing to say if it will designate
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  Speaker 1: Hesbila's political wing as a terrorist entity. In a statement
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  Speaker 1: to this show our terrorism designations work in group. There
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  Speaker 1: the ones who decided this stuff. They say that the
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  Speaker 1: aramback group's military wing was declared a terrorist entity in
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten. It basically says they won't talk publicly about
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  Speaker 1: whether they're considering going further with Hesbila. This all comes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, after Israel killed its leader, Hesbila's leader, Hassan
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  Speaker 1: israelap The US called this justice the group itself interesting
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  Speaker 1: that she makes no distinction between its military and its
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  Speaker 1: political social wings. What's interesting here two things. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: Luxon and Winston designated hamas a terror group in its
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  Speaker 1: entirety back in February, after years of making a distinction
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  Speaker 1: for the political wing. Will they do the same with
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  Speaker 1: his Number two? In Australia, Albanezi there is cracking down
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  Speaker 1: on protesters in New South Wales and in Victoria, who
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  Speaker 1: was seen waving his bill of flags and allegedly chanting
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  Speaker 1: violent verses, if such a thing were to happen here,
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  Speaker 1: would the lack of his designation stop our authorities from
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  Speaker 1: taking similar action. Leon Goldsmith, who say Middle East expert,
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  Speaker 1: told me yesterday on the show, Australia and Canada don't
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  Speaker 1: make any distinction like we do. Ultimately, what we do
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  Speaker 1: is not going to stop more in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: but could affect how we deal with the fallout here
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