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The Last Worshippers of Empire
On October 7, 2026, Marco Rubio stood beneath the Acropolis in Athens to celebrate the greatness of Western civilization. Of all dates, October 7.
Three years earlier, Palestinian armed groups had massacred Israeli civilians and abducted hostages. Israeli forces had also killed Israeli civilians that day in incidents linked to the Hannibal Directive, a practice intended to prevent captives from being taken, even at the risk of their deaths.
Reports have since raised serious questions about whether Netanyahu ignored advance warnings of the attack. All of this occurred within a long history of…
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