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Alex Garrett Marks One Year Anniversary of Terror Attacks on Israel · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Ninety seven. That is the number today I want you
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  Speaker 1: to know on the Alex Garrett podcast network. Ninety seven.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that was the Piano guys. Ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: hostages still in captivity. And while I really appreciate VP
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  Speaker 1: Harris issuing a statement and we'll get to that today,
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciate that there has been marches for peace
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  Speaker 1: and freedom to mark today's horrible anniversary, can we just
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge one thing this year, a year later, that Israel
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  Speaker 1: was attacked and it was a terror attack on October seventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Can we, a year later, collectively say
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  Speaker 1: this was a terror attack on Israel because there are
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  Speaker 1: factions in this country that don't want you to believe that.
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  Speaker 1: There are factions that want you to believe that this
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  Speaker 1: was you know this, that and the other, and the
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  Speaker 1: IDF missed this, and you know it was it was
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  Speaker 1: all planned. But I just don't believe Israel saw this coming.
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  Speaker 1: What happened on October seventh, twenty twenty three. I remember
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  Speaker 1: I was commuting into my radio station AM nine something,
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  Speaker 1: the answer to work on Saturday morning shows, and the
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  Speaker 1: news came out that it was attacked by Hamas. I
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  Speaker 1: remember it clear as day, and it impacted me right away.
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  Speaker 1: But what's happened in the year since is more eye
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  Speaker 1: opening than I ever really thought, because there have been
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  Speaker 1: people I thought were friends that I basically said, why
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  Speaker 1: are you defending Israel? Why you know? Why why are
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  Speaker 1: you I wouldn't go so far as they why are
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  Speaker 1: you mourning the losses? But they basically said, you have
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  Speaker 1: no idea of the history. You're a loser, You've always
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  Speaker 1: been one. I got some hate mail for that standing
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  Speaker 1: up for Israel because we couldn't at the time collectively
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  Speaker 1: say that was a terror attack. And Hamas probably knew
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  Speaker 1: there would be division amongst how we would react in
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  Speaker 1: the Western world. That's why they did it. And they
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  Speaker 1: knew that as much as President Bin's been saying it
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  Speaker 1: to Israel's faces, they would protect them. They really haven't,
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  Speaker 1: ye know, Alex I said millions of dollars. Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 1: if they were having intel, I'm sure they could have
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  Speaker 1: stopped Hamas as well. It was the very same playbook
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  Speaker 1: of well, there's going to be a small incursion of Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: and they never stopped the invasion and incursion on Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: when it came to Russia, I'm sure they knew Hamas
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  Speaker 1: was about to attack Israel, and they didn't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: So while I appreciate, while I appreciate VP. Harris actually
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  Speaker 1: saying something today, it's not enough. And the worst part
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  Speaker 1: of it is not only the protests are going on
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  Speaker 1: the year after and they've become anti Semitic and not
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  Speaker 1: so much free Palestine, but so much destroy Israel. That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the rhetoric I hear from these protests. It's
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  Speaker 1: happening today. Two the Jewish people of America, the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: communities of America and across the globe can't even honor
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  Speaker 1: the Somber Day without that loud noise trying to disrupt
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  Speaker 1: even peaceful vigils across the country and across the world.
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  Speaker 1: Because what's happened is by a allowing these protests to escalate,
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  Speaker 1: they've really allowed the anti Semitism to run rapid, even
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  Speaker 1: on our college campuses. And so the people that I
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  Speaker 1: thought were you know, friends and whatnot and and and
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  Speaker 1: have reacted in such a way that basically tell me
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  Speaker 1: they don't believe Jewish people should exist. I hate to
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  Speaker 1: be so extreme, but that's what it felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was hearing that hurts. It hurts. No, the eye opening
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  Speaker 1: aftermath of this terror attack and how people truly feel
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  Speaker 1: about a Jewish person's right to exist. You know how
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  Speaker 1: I know that because I heard I saw stories of
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  Speaker 1: them screaming in an instant Jewish woman's face in Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: during a protest in Bay Ridge. How is this not
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  Speaker 1: hate speech? What some of these people are saying across
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  Speaker 1: all these protests. In fact, a lot of them are saying,
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  Speaker 1: how is that not considered hate speech? And then when
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  Speaker 1: you interview these college nim numb skulls, they don't even
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  Speaker 1: know half the time what their products. They just want
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  Speaker 1: to be part of the crowd. They want to be cool,
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  Speaker 1: they want to be a dipabetic. That's great. No it's not. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. If you're not going to know why you're
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  Speaker 1: protesting but want to be there to fit in, then
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  Speaker 1: basically you are fitting in with anti Semites. I hate
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  Speaker 1: to say that, but that's the truth. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the focus today should be about the ninety seven that
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  Speaker 1: are still in captivity, and the many others who have
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  Speaker 1: lost their lives in captivity, who have been killed in captives,
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  Speaker 1: who have murdered in captivity, and a year later, we're
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  Speaker 1: now hearing has blow should be treated more nicely? And
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  Speaker 1: why are we blowing them up with pagers? That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing in you know, in the mainstream world, has
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  Speaker 1: anybody truly applauded that Hamas leaders have been killed? Has
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  Speaker 1: anybody truly applauded that, a year later has belated toil? No,
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  Speaker 1: because are wondering how they did it? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these these pages blow up innocence too. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: twelve hundred innocent Israelis. We're attacked a year ago, a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, and so at this point it's not even
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  Speaker 1: complaining about the same Israel. It's complaining about Jewish people
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  Speaker 1: try to exist. And that's the most horrifying an eye
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  Speaker 1: opening discovery I found over the last year. And the
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  Speaker 1: fear of Jewish people and Jewish students that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even see fifteen years ago is now here in UCLA.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't even they had taken over the campus, these
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  Speaker 1: radical protesters and said, oh, you're Jewish, you can't pass
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  Speaker 1: through here. That's Nazi style. There is a difference between
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  Speaker 1: saying free Palestine. Well, actually there's not a difference anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but I think there is a difference between saying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ceasefire now and then saying, well, Jews have no right
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  Speaker 1: to exist or defend themselves now. The politicians won't say that.
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  Speaker 1: They will say front and center, yes, Israel has every
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  Speaker 1: right defend themselves. Of course they'll say that it's politically
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  Speaker 1: beneficial to say it. But when you see and here
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  Speaker 1: I think bid clows doors, President Biden is told that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, well, don't don't really go after them, and
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  Speaker 1: don't really attack I don't. The disconnect is very real
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  Speaker 1: for me. And then, of course a week ago I
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  Speaker 1: said the dj was actually loyering up to defend Unrah
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  Speaker 1: and not the October seventh victims. The bottom line is
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  Speaker 1: a year later, Jewish people of Jewish descent should not
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  Speaker 1: be worried about their existence, should not be worried about
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  Speaker 1: their safety, especially when they're supposed to be going to
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  Speaker 1: school and college in the fall and they're concerned about
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  Speaker 1: their safety. It took Manu Chaffiq forever to resign, and
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  Speaker 1: yet Columbia still expecting protests on their campus because the
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  Speaker 1: campuses are not doing enough to keep the safety of
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish people. And as the last week twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I was bar Mitzva on the twentieth anniversary. I ran
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  Speaker 1: was launching rockets in the Israel. How heartbreaking is that?
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  Speaker 1: And I do not believe the Jewish people, just trying
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  Speaker 1: to live their life is asking to be attacked or
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  Speaker 1: had it coming. They did not, I would say, based
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that what did the how have the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish New Yorkers reacted to this? Well, they haven't gone
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  Speaker 1: out and blocked tunnels and everything like that. They've just
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  Speaker 1: marched peacefully. They've set out, set off a peaceful table
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  Speaker 1: during the holidays in honor of the of the victims
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  Speaker 1: and empty chairs for them. They haven't bum rushed all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because they did. They didn't bum rush the
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  Speaker 1: pro Palestine camps. They stayed in their own kind of
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  Speaker 1: corner lane with everyone to say protesting and a year later,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's loud enough. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: loud enough when you have a family up in the
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  Speaker 1: DNC pleading to get all the victim's home, all the
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  Speaker 1: hostages home, but then the next minute, the DOJ's repping
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  Speaker 1: UNRA and the un workers that helped Hamas collaborate this
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  Speaker 1: awful attack. In twenty twenty three, a year ago today,
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  Speaker 1: If you aren't at least a bit sorrowful that there
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  Speaker 1: were twelve hundred Israelis killed, taken away from their homes, victimized,
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  Speaker 1: then you have no soul at all at all. But
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  Speaker 1: now we can't think about the divisions as much as
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  Speaker 1: I think we should. When we have ninety seven hostins
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  Speaker 1: who sovereign returned home to Israel, that should be a
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  Speaker 1: focus of VP Harris, And in fact Vice President Harris
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  Speaker 1: did say this on her official page today, She said,
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  Speaker 1: I will never forget the horror of October seven, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Twelve hundred people, including forty six Americans, were
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  Speaker 1: massacred by Hamas Terris. Women raped on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road, two hundred fifty people kidnapped. It was dead
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  Speaker 1: to this day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
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  Speaker 1: What Hamas did that day was pure evil, brutal and sickening,
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  Speaker 1: and it has rekindled a deep fear among the Jewish people,
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  Speaker 1: not just in Israel, but in the United States and
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  Speaker 1: around the world. The long, extraordinary arc of Jewish history
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  Speaker 1: is full of programs and prejudice, daughter and a slaughter
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  Speaker 1: and separation, and now in our own generation. There is
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  Speaker 1: a moment that the world moons never forget. I am
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  Speaker 1: devastated by the loss and pain of the Israeli people
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  Speaker 1: as a result of the heinous October seventh attack. Doug
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  Speaker 1: and I pray for the families of the victims and
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  Speaker 1: hope they find solace in remembering their loved ones live.
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  Speaker 1: We also pray for the Jewish people all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: We all must ensure nothing like the horrors of October
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  Speaker 1: seventh ever happen again. I will do everything in my
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  Speaker 1: power to ensure that the threat of moss Poses is eliminated,
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  Speaker 1: that is never again able to govern Gaza, and that
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  Speaker 1: it fall fails in its mission to annihilate Israel, and
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  Speaker 1: that the people of Gaza are free from the grip
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  Speaker 1: of Amas. I will never stop fighting for the release
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  Speaker 1: of all the hostages, including the seven American citizens living
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  Speaker 1: and deceased still held Oh Mayor Edon Segee, Keith, Judy
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  Speaker 1: gadd And I tell you I will never stop fighting
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  Speaker 1: with the justice of those who have who murdered her Scholdberg,
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  Speaker 1: Poland and other Americans. And I will always ensure Israel
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  Speaker 1: has what it needs to defend itself against Iran and
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  Speaker 1: Iraq Band terrorists, mike women as a security is unwavering.
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  Speaker 1: She goes on to say Amasa's terrorist attack on October
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  Speaker 1: seventh launch a war in Gaza. I am heartbroken over
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  Speaker 1: the scale of death and discussion in Gaza over the
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  Speaker 1: past year, thousands lost children fleeing. Is far time for
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  Speaker 1: a hostage and cease fire deal to end the suffering
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  Speaker 1: of business people. And she goes on to fight for
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  Speaker 1: the Penicillian people. All right, there's an Israel elebanon the
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  Speaker 1: words of the cottash, however, are not about death. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they were the prayers about still believing in God
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  Speaker 1: and still having faith. The cottage is read in Mourning.
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Harris, It's read in Mourning. She kind of
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  Speaker 1: loses me when she's talked about the Palestinians, because today
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  Speaker 1: is about the Israelis that have lost their lives, that
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  Speaker 1: are being held hostage. But she also loses me when
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  Speaker 1: she says, and I give a credit for saying she
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  Speaker 1: understands as a terror attack. But if that was the case,
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  Speaker 1: why was she not willing to meet with net and Yahoo?
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  Speaker 1: Someone answer me that? And if that's the case, should
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  Speaker 1: she be elected in November, will she stop the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: from siding with the un r W. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: two burden questions I have. VP Harris, you released this statement,
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  Speaker 1: but it can sound a little empty when you know
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  Speaker 1: you weren't even at the net Nahoo congressional speech. You
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  Speaker 1: weren't even at the meetings when you didn't even want
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  Speaker 1: to meet with them. So I really hope she is
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  Speaker 1: committed to siding with our strongest ally and with the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people and the thousands of Jewish communities across the country.
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  Speaker 1: But actions need to happen beyond words. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: really focused on this, get the ninety seven hostages home yesterday. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and I read today in the posts that they actually
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  Speaker 1: did that music festival where a lot of the terror started.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the resiliency. That's the resiliency of the Jewish people.
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  Speaker 1: The Noble Musical festival site. They may not have at
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  Speaker 1: a concern thing to mark the attack, but they were
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  Speaker 1: there honoring the site. And at Columbia today pro Jewish
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  Speaker 1: and Israeli protesters are reading the names of the dead
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  Speaker 1: from the attack. So these classes are going on in
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  Speaker 1: our city and we have a mayor who's indicted. That's
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  Speaker 1: how descended into chaos. It feels like we've become a
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  Speaker 1: year later, and we mustn't let that chaos lead to
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  Speaker 1: forgetting what happened on October seventh, twenty twenty three. It
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  Speaker 1: was a terror attack against Israel. Never forget that