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Iran WALKS OUT of Negotiations After Trump Tweets · Combat Veteran News

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  If there's one thing I wish more people
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  did in this world, it's walk right out
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  of interviews. Whether it's that fully
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  remote role with days in office or the
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  salary that's suddenly 20% below what
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  the job listing advertised, if they
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  don't respect you, you don't owe them
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  any respect back. And the Iranians seem
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  to be taking that track to heart because
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  they have walked out of the first round
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  of negotiations with the United States.
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  And frankly, based on the agreement that
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  was signed, they're probably justified.
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  Let's talk about this one. Now, the
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  according to numerous reports,
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  the Iranian negotiators have reportedly
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  just refused to return to the
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  negotiating table unless President Trump
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  himself apologizes for threatening the
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  negotiators and Israel withdraws from
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  southern Lebanon. But obviously, the
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  source for these reports is actually a
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  pro- Lebanese Hezbollah outlet. So, it's
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  unclear if these are factually correct
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  allegations. However, you can see here
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  the Iranian delegation is actually
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  refusing to even pose with a photo with
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  Vice President Vance and instead walked
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  out of the negotiation venue following
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  threats made against the diplomatic
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  delegation by President Trump. Now, I
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  want to point this out that this is
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  actually something that we have seen a
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  bunch of. First off, the Iranians have
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  seen this game before because remember
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  in the negotiations for the Gaza peace
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  deal, the Israelis actually murdered one
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  of the negotiators in Qatar
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  is an Israeli strike targeted Hamas, one
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  of the lead Hamas negotiators who was in
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  a third country. Qatar, who was hosting
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  it as a neutral ground for these peace
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  talks to take place. And the Israelis
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  straight up tried to murder the dude. In
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  fact, it was so bad that for the first
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  time, as far as I can tell, and only
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  time in President Trump's history, he
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  actually made Netanyahu call the Qataris
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  to apologize for launching a military
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  action on their sovereign territory. So,
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  the Iranians are taking these kinds of
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  threats seriously because frankly, uh,
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  well, they have every reason to think
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  so. Uh now again you can see here it's
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  Trump has said quote Iran must
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  immediately stop their highly paid
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  proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble.
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  If they don't will hit them very hard
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  again just like we did last week only
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  harder. Uh now
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  I think this is very interesting because
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  well the Israelis also have some
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  culpability in this because as we have
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  discussed and discussed quite a bit the
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  Iranians
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  have a view that is well somewhat
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  different than the United States where
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  they say listen the Israelis are
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  committing
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  combat actions by invading Lebanon. And
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  even if they don't necessarily conduct
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  bombs or strikes or air raids, the fact
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  that it's happening at all is the
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  problem. Now, about 14 hours ago,
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  Lebanese media reporting that there is
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  in fact calm in southern Lebanon. That
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  for for a significant period of time,
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  there's been reportedly no strikes by
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  the Israeli Air Force, no artillery
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  shelling, no drones or fighter jets that
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  have been cited.
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  So again, in the last 24 hours, it
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  appears that maybe there is a halt to
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  the fighting, but the problem is that
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  the Israeli army still occupies southern
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  Lebanon. And as we know, the Israeli the
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  Israelis have other than the Cyani have
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  essentially never withdrawn from
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  anywhere that they have occupied,
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  notably the Golan Heights in Syria. Uh
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  uh there's also a separate security zone
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  in Syria that the Israelis also occupy.
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  Now a portion of southern Lebanon,
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  though they did occupy Lebanon in the
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  early 2000s and took massive casualties
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  and were forced out. Uh obviously the
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  West Bank and Gaza and portions of the
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  Gaza Strip have all been occupied by
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  Israeli forces. And while in many parts
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  of it there is not really active
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  fighting, uh it is still considered an
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  occupation much like you would say in
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  Ukraine. It's very clear that despite
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  there not for a long time there being no
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  fighting in Crimea, boy has that
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  changed. Uh Crimea was still part of the
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  Russian aggression within the country.
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  And so that is the Iranian argument.
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  They are saying listen the
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  theou
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  that was signed party one like point one
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  uh states that the fighting in Lebanon
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  will stop. And I mean, here it is on
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  NPR, right? Number one, the Islamic
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  Republic of Iran, United States of
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  America, and their allies in the current
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  war. This is a reference to Hezbollah
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  and Israel. It says, "By signing the
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  summit, you declare an immediate
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  permanent termination of military
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  operations on all fronts, including
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  Lebanon." And the Israelis say, "Sure,
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  we're happy to stop fighting, but we're
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  going to continue to hold southern
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  Lebanon." The Hezbollah says, "No, your
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  military occupying Lebanon is itself an
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  act of combat." And I want to be clear
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  that international law is is pretty
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  straightforward on this. They're
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  correct. Uh you cannot invade your
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  neighbor, annex their territory, force
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  it, displace a million plus people, and
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  then claim that the fighting is stopped.
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  It's like my neighbor breaking into my
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  kitchen and declaring my kitchen to be
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  his kitchen and then saying, "Whoa,
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  whoa, whoa. We agreed to not fight. What
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  are you doing trying to get me out of
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  here?" It's like, "Buddy, you're in my
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  kitchen. You're in my house. like once
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  you've broken into my house, the
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  fighting has happened. Like the fight is
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  here. There is not the agreement will be
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  when you go back to your kitchen. And
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  again, I'm not like Hezbollah is great.
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  Hezbollah has a significant number of
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  civilians killed. Their rockets have
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  indiscriminately targeted civilians in
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  northern Israel. Uh obviously their
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  primary stance of like you know their
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  their view that civilians are
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  essentially combatants um is terrorism.
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  Uh but American tax dollars don't
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  support Hezbollah and everything that
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  Hezbollah does that makes them bad also
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  seems to be things that are now
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  considered Israeli tactics. All of this,
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  including the fact that the president
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  seems unwilling to do the most important
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  thing here in this text, right, which is
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  that there is an expectation by signing
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  this that America promises that it's
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  going to restrain Israel from fighting
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  in Lebanon.
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  And I think the fact that the the
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  Iranians are saying, listen, the United
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  States has not moved towards achieving
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  this and in fact has begun to threaten
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  the delegation. And I think Iran is
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  using all the tools in its toolkit to
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  ensure that they get the respect from
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  the White House that they feel they are
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  owed. Right.
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  And it's a fairly straightforward uh
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  tactic because again Iran has closed the
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  straight of Hormuz. They've said listen
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  Hormuz is closed because that paragraph
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  one of the deal has not been respected.
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  So the
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  the Iranians are playing hard ball and
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  they understand because someone in the
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  Iranian intelligence apparatus has
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  briefed them on President Trump.
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  President Trump is not a man who you can
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  cajul, who you can make nice with. Even
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  if President Trump is capable of making
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  generous or positive statements, you
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  have to view him more like a child
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  because he seems to have at times a
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  child's understanding of international
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  diplomacy. And that is introducing the
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  law of of consequences. Right? This is
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  very and and I I saying this in like a
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  judgmental way and it kind of is. But I
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  point out that Vladimir Putin has the
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  exact same calculus. Vladimir Putin does
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  not feel threatened by strong European
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  statements. When the EU condemns Russian
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  actions in Ukraine or in Latvia or in
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  Balt or in the Baltics or against the UK
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  prime minister, when it strongly
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  condemns Russian actions, Vladimir Putin
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  just chuckles to himself because words
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  mean nothing to him. The condemnation of
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  the Europeans mean nothing to him. And
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  so I think the Iranians are like,
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  "Listen, having Trump see about me and
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  get all angry about me and having Trump
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  kiss my ass on in Twitter means
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  nothing." They say only actions count.
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  And the actions have not borne out what
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  they have what their interpretation of
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  ending the fighting in Lebanon has
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  meant.
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  And so
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  you have back to square one.
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  And I just want to point out that yes,
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  President Trump's tweets about how the
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  Iranians are going to he's going to like
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  go back to fighting the Iranians or else
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  is bad. But I want to point out that
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  members of the Israeli government are
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  also actively sabotaging this. This is a
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  real tweet, by the way. I swear this is
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  100% real. tweeted out two days ago just
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  after theou was signed by um uhar
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  Bengeir and to be clear is not a
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  propagandist. I mean he may be but in
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  this case his actual role is an Israeli
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  politician, lawyer and minister of
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  national security. Okay, I want you to
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  understand he is the minister of
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  national security of the state of
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  Israel. This is a direct tweet from him.
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  And this is real. Quote, "For every tear
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  of an Israeli mother, a thousand
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  Lebanese mothers must weep. All of
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  Lebanon must burn. With all due respect
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  to the Americans, Israel must make it
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  clear to the entire world that the blood
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  of our sons and the security of our
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  citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon
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  must burn. The our supreme duty is to
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  protect the citizens of Israel and the
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  soldiers of the IDF. And this commitment
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  takes precedence over every other
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  consideration." I told the prime
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  minister, even in our private meetings,
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  for every tear of an Israeli mother, a
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  thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.
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  Enough with the ping pong in the Middle
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  East. You don't win with measured
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  responses and restraint. You need to go
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  berserk to obliterate, to crush the
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  terror. Now, I I I want to be clear that
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  he is dropping the pretense. He's simply
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  arguing that the way Hezbollah fights,
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  the terrorism, the targeting civilians,
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  the ethnic discrimination, um he's
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  saying we're go we are the same. We are
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  going to be doing the same thing.
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  And again, Hezbollah, well, prior to
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  thisou does not get American tax
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  dollars. They're sanctioned around the
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  world for their horrific actions, for
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  their indiscriminate targeting.
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  Hezbollah rockets hit a children's
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  school, killed something like 45 kids,
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  not even Jewish kids. They're Drews.
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  Hezbollah doesn't care. And so when you
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  have the head of national security for
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  the Israelis saying these things,
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  explicitly saying, "Listen,
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  all we're going to destroy all of
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  Lebanon.
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  All of Lebanon, guys.
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  This is not uh putting anybody on the
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  path to peace.
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  Okay.
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  Uh this idea of the supreme duty is to
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  protect the citizens of Israel. You
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  understand that achieving that if that
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  is your prime duty then
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  every the total liquidation of every
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  possible threat realized and unrealized
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  is the only logical conclusion
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  because as he say states every Lebanese
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  is effectively Hezbollah to him just
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  like every Gazin is effectively Hamas.
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  There are no civilians
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  and they should all be treated as
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  combatants or combatants to be. But what
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  what does that mean? Well, what happens
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  when one Syrian launches a mortar into
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  Israel? Well, then they're all they
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  should all die. What happens when an
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  Iranian launches a ballistic missile
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  into Tel Aviv? Should they should every
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  Iranian burn? You end up with a
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  situation again of infinite warfare
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  forever against everyone.
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  Right. You're you're you I mean this is
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  literally like and I'm I'm actually like
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  I mean what what do you want me to say?
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  Destroying all of Lebanon, burning all
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  of Lebanon, guys. That's that's
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  genocide. That's that's the ball game.
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  So,
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  I I like I want to be clear, the
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  Iranians are not the good guys,
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  but
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  it's hard to read statements like that
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  and to watch Israel sabotage this peace
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  deal, which by the way, I actually am
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  like I'm not glad that Israel is
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  invading Lebanon, but I'm glad this
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  peace deal is falling apart because
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  again, it's 300 billion US taxpayer
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  dollars to Iran with no promise that
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  Iran will stop funding Hezbollah, who
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  are by the best interpretation morally
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  equivalent again by by the statement of
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  Bengavir himself, Hezbollah and Israel
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  pursue the same basic tactical
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  framework.
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  So
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  this is this is I am in awe. Sorry if I
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  appear lost for words.
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  It's because
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  um you have a bunch of people who appear
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  to be psychopaths. You have a bunch of
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  American officials who appear to be
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  completely buffoonishly in over their
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  depth. I Jared Kushner, Steve Witoff, I
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  mean, President Trump, all he had to do
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  is not threaten the Iranians who but who
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  if he listened to any Iran expert, if
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  there were any left in the government,
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  they would tell you that the Persians
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  are big on pride and respect. And when
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  you're talking to someone and then you
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  threaten to kill them, they get a little
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  orary about it.
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  Believe it or not, President Trump would
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  also, by the way, get lose his [ __ ] He
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  lost his [ __ ] that the paint in his
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  fraudulent repainting repaving of our
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  monuments has come up. Like he spent
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  more time tweeting about that than he
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  did about his his big peace negotiations
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  in Iran.
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  So this whole like
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  the buffoonery of the White House, the
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  willingness to cough up American
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  taxpayer money, like if President Trump
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  told me that he was going to pay the
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  first hundred bill of that peace deal,
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  great. Awesome. True patriot. But he's
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  not. He and his family aren't going to
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  be paying any of it. You will, right?
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  His buddies, him and his friends, his
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  rich friends, they're going to exploit
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  loopholes. Will be on the hook for it.
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  Americans and the Israelis clearly
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  appear to have lost their absolute
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  [ __ ] minds. The Iranians remain
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  [ __ ] bloodthirsty psychopaths.
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  And in between it is a clown show.
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  And in between all of this, in the
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  middle of the triangle is Americans,
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  regular ass Americans who just and all
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  the regular people, right? The average
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  Israeli who is like, "What the what the
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  [ __ ] are armed forces doing here?" The
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  average Lebanese who's just like, "Why
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  did I get forced out of my home? I I I
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  don't have [ __ ] to do with Hezbollah.
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  I'm a Lebanese Christian.
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  The average Iranian who's just like,
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  "Listen, I hate the government, too. Why
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  are they Why do they have to fund
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  Hezbollah and Hamas and all these other
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  clowns?
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  Why do any of us Why does all of this
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  happening? Why can't any of the regular
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  people on Earth put a stop to this
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  complete [ __ ] psychopath psychopathy?
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  I don't know, but I'll keep you posted
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  as we try to figure something out."
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  Thanks Christine, GMAT, Dan, Al, Don,
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  James B, Treatum, CM, as well as all
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