"TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday, as the United States and allies prepared to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike and prevent an even more destructive regional conflict. Tensions have soared following nearly 10 months of war in Gaza and the killing last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran. Iran and its allies have blamed Israel and threatened retaliation. Hamas says it has begun discussions on choosing a new leader."
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the US bolstering Air defenses in and
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around Israel sending additional
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Cruisers destroyers and another Squadron
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of fighter jets to this region after
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Iran promised to severely punish Israel
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for those two assassinations in tan and
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Beirut last week President Biden
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announcing those new defensive measures
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for Israel on the phone to prime
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minister Netanyahu over the weekend with
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the president calling their phone call
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very direct saying the killing of the
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leader of Hamas in the Iranian Capital
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had quote not helped the chances of
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getting a ceasefire in Gaza a former
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Israeli General telling me he thinks
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Iran and Hezbollah will attempt a more
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decisive attack than that mass barrage
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of Iranian drones and missiles fired
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Israel in
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April the US is sending more military
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resources to the Middle East ahead of an
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expected attack on Israel by Iran and
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its proxies that the United States and
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its allies believe could come at any
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moment the escalation follows Israel's
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assassination of Hamas political leader
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Ismael hania in tyon and Hezbollah
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military commander foud Shakur in Beirut
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last week after those killings Iran and
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its proxies immediately promised to
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retaliate take a look Iran immediately
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vowed Vengeance H posted it is our duty
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to take revenge and the Islamic
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revolutionary guard Corps said Israel
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will quote face a harsh and painful
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response from the powerful and huge
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resistance front especially Islamic
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Iran that threat of regional war was
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repeated today by Iranian proxies in
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Yemen the houthis
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and in Lebanon by Hezbollah and Hamas
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which vow to take the battle with Israel
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to quote New Dimensions the US and
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Israel appear to be taking those threats
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seriously and Netanyahu is already
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vowing Iran will pay a heavy price if
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they follow through Secretary of State
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Anthony blinkin told his counterparts
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from the G7 countries on Sunday that an
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attack by Iran and Hezbollah against
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Israel could start as early as today
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blinkin reportedly told officials on the
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call that pressuring Tyron to limit its
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assault is the best way to avoid
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Regional War Iran's foreign military
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spokesman Nasser Kanani blamed Israel on
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Monday for the instability in the Middle
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East saying that Iran is not seeking to
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escalate tensions in the region though
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any attack obviously would escalate
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tensions Biden is meeting today with his
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National Security team in the situation
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room and speaking with Jordan's King
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Abdullah in the hopes of de-escalating
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the situation with diplomacy but
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Netanyahu seems to have different plans
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Israel would consider launching a
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preemptive strike to deter Iran if it
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uncovered airtight evidence that tyan
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was preparing to mount an attack Hebrew
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media reported after prime minister
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Benjamin Netanyahu convened Israel's
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security Chiefs for a meeting on Sunday
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evening so for now unfortunately it's a
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waiting game but it's also critical to
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note that this escalation has already
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been disastrous for multiple reasons
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including the fact that it's derailed
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talks about a potential ceasefire in
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Gaza axios reports One Source who was on
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the call with G7 countries said blinkin
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sounded frustrated when he briefed the
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ministers on recent talks with Israel
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over a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal
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blinkin said the administration felt it
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was close to a breakthrough before the
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assassination in ton Jen I guess this is
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just what happens when a country
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assassinates the chief negotiator of a
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ceasefire deal what do you make of this
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story hey don't scroll away come back
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come back because before the video
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continues we just want to urge you to
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lend your support to tyt you power our
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honest reporting you do it at tyt.com
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team and we love you for it yeah this is
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obvious Netanyahu is saying I'm going to
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start World War III in the Middle East
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and you idiot Americans as he called us
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when he spoke in front of Congress here
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I'm going to make you pay for it I'm
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going to make you pay for it in in money
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and treasure and blood uh I'm going to
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make your guys fight for it and by the
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way he's not wrong it's happening right
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now uh blink's talking about how we're
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moving warships into the area to defend
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Israel I have a a question that will be
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considered controversial in Washington
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but not at all in the country why why
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should we defend Israel they definitely
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started this war they did a strike
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inside tan the capital of Iran earlier
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they did a strike in in Beirut the
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capital of Lebanon how many neighboring
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countries will Israel attack before we
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say hey maybe they're starting the war
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so don't tell me this oh well oh it was
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a Hamas leader there and so they get to
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kill anyone in in a foreign country uh
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and they get to assassinate anyone they
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like by the way Vladimir Putin agrees he
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thinks it's totally okay to assassinate
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any uh person in any country and he
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doesn't care about our sovereignty UK
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sovereignty no sovereignty doesn't
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matter he thinks it's okay to invade
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other countries so does Benjamin
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Netanyahu and so is there any limit is
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there any limit what if they had nuked
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Iran do we still have no no we got to
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defend Israel we got to do poor Israel I
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mean they were only in the middle of
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attacking almost every neighbor they
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have when all of a sudden they were
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attacked by mean Iran so we all have to
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go and die there for Israel and for even
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if we don't have to die no you have to
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send more Bill billions more billions
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more maybe trillions maybe trillions
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shut up and give me the Goddamn money
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I'm in the middle of attacking all my
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neighbors self-defense my ass this isn't
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anywhere near self-defense now look at
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this warmonger n one of the biggest
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warmongers of my lifetime period of any
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country and by the way you know he was
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part of the neocons who started the Iraq
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War so it's not like we didn't fight a
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war that Netanyahu wanted us to fight
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how'd that one turn out for us Iran is
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four times the size of
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Iraq okay let alone Lebanon let alone
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the occupied territories let alone the
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1.6 billion Muslims that at some point
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is going to say godamn it now what do
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you want us to do how much humiliation
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can any people take
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so now okay he says maybe a preemptive
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strike you already did a strike inside
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Iran you assassinated someone in Teran
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in their
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capital and now you say before Iran
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strikes back we're going to strike them
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again so we wait that's two pre
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preemptive strikes and even then we have
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to defend them I don't want to defend
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them this is not an ally this if they're
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an ally with allies like this you don't
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need enemies what kind of an Ally says
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I'm going to keep starting more Wars and
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more Wars and by the way all of this to
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protect the massive oppression that I
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have of the occupied territories and hey
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hey no no you got to do it while my
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settlers go steal more land on the West
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Bank we're not done stealing their land
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yet and beating them and humiliating
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them and killing them 57 years of a
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brutal dictatorship in the occupied
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territories oh we have the best
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democracy in the Middle East first of
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all that's so insulting that's not
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remotely true if you count turkey in the
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Middle East it's a 10 thousand times
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better democracy than Israel why well
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Israel's got a nice little democracy if
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you're inside Israel but for 5 and a
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half million people they run a
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totalitarian dictatorship where they and
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it's and it's from an ethnostate says no
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a people from a different religion I
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don't care which religion people from a
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different religion will rule you and
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you'll know to shut up and take our rule
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for 57 years and if you complain will
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destroy every building in Gaza by the
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way they I mean look we're going to get
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to this in the next story on Thursday
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they bombed a school killed 15 uh people
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on Saturday they bombed another school
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killed another 17 on Sunday they get
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bombed another school and they killed
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another 30 so kill kill kill kill kill
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kill kill nonstop Ally no no no we're a
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nice little piggy bank we're a bunch of
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morons who say oh yeah oh they captured
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our government through this Lobby called
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apack so now we got to go and fight a
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war with Iran I think it's a terrible
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idea I want no part of that war America
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should not send a dollar to fight
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netanyahu's aggressive Wars of choice
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offensive Wars that he is definitely
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starting and if any reporter dares say
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that Israel is defending itself after it
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started this war well okay then you'll
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know they're giant liars every one of
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them is an enormous purposeful liar
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because we can all see right now Israel
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did the first strike against
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Iran so and by the way they've
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assassinated people in Iran before
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non-stop they think oh I have a right to
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infinite assassinations why I don't like
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them I call them terrorists well did Nan
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yahu has killed now about 40 times the
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number of civilians as Hamas has so
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would it be fair to call him a terrorist
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no no no no no no no if you're not
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Muslim you never get called him as
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terrorist well I mean is this killing
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civilians or isn't it oh no no no we
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have one standard for Israel and America
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and our allies we have a completely
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different standard for Muslims you can
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kill them all day long kill all their
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civilians kill 40 times their civilians
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and nope we're not terrorist so now we
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can kill any of their leaders any in any
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other country what if they did likewise
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and they killed one of the Israeli
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leaders you know what would happen right
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oh Savages these violent Muslim
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terrorists we have to kill them all and
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we have to do we have to do a preemptive
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strike and an assassination and a
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bombing and a bombing and a bombing and
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if they ever respond we have a right to
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defend ourselves so this is the worst
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Ally in the world and by the way last
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thing that uh for now that Jordan
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mentioned there is Han was considered
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the moderate who was trying to get to a
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ceasefire deal in Hamas now when you
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kill the moderate what happens all of
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the extremists and there are plenty of
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them in Hamas are going to say see we
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told you so all Israel ever does this
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violence the minute you're soft on them
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a little bit remember isma he wanted to
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do peace deal with them and they
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murdered him so of course we're not
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going to do a peace deal now okay
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because the minute we go to do a peace
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deal Nan yaho is going to murder us so
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now we're going to have war and more war
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and it is definitely brought to you by
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the state of Israel and within that like
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that Dynamic you're talking about by
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killing uh hania then they could say if
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there isn't any more progress after this
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because of Israel's action
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if there isn't any progress in
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discussions Israel can then say well we
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we tried to negotiate they don't want to
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negotiate they don't want to make a deal
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with us Hamas doesn't want to deal and
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that only justifies what they actually
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want which is more war and the media
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will run with it because look at the
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framing they're setting up in this
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story Iran I guess not not that it's
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great but understandably wanting to
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retaliate that's what escalates things
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it's not Israel it's not Israel
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assassinating somebody on Iranian soil
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it's Iran retaliating for them doing
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that just as we saw when Israel bombed
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the Iranian Consulate in Syria when Iran
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sent that mostly performative response
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of of drones and unmanned aircraft that
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were all shot down that was Iran
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potentially escalating things it wasn't
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Israel instigating it the the the idea
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that Iran responding to Israel is what
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escalate it's like NFL uh
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it's like NFL rules you can hit a you
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can hit somebody but if they retaliate
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they get flagged it's so egregious it's
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so ridiculous and for some reason we all
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just accept it we need to push back on
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this framing there is no in no scenario
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where Israel is isn't the aggressor here
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they are assassinating leaders they are
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bombing diplomatic buildings in
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different countries and Iran we talk
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about Israel having a right to defend
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itself as they Massacre tens of
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thousands of people in Gaza of course
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that's not self-defense it's mass murder
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it's ethnic cleansing it's
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genocide does Iran have a right who gets
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a right because in the western media
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it's never anybody that is mostly Muslim
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any country that is mostly Muslim or
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mostly Brown it is that that luxury is
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never afforded to Muslims or or
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traditionally Middle Eastern countries
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ever and you see that jingoism in our
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foreign policy and it's perpetuated
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throughout our media it's
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disgusting so look I ask questions that
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are very hard to answer because it
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exposes obvious overwhelming hypocrisy
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so let's take a moderate leader inside
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Israel that I want to replace that yaho
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Benny gance so you say oh there are no
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moderates in Hamas people will say of
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course of course of course they're all
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dirty terrorist Savages I know I know
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and you guys are super pure it's not
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like you just butchered over 39,000
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people including
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15,000 children that Israel murdered oh
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I know I know it wasn't Israel Hamas
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made you do it you have no idea how
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ridiculous you sound when you say things
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like that the rest of the planet is not
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interested in your BS anymore just
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because you bribe a bunch of American
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politicians doesn't mean that you get to
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rule our minds and you get to make us
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believe absurd things and I don't care
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what any stupid cable news anchor says
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about how they're a special Ally what
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does that even mean so so okay I would
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hate it if Iran assassinated Benny gance
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in Jerusalem or Tel
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Aviv and I would say that's an
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outrageous Act of terrorism and it's
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provocative and of course Israel is
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going to Counter Strike but when you do
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it to one of their leaders people go
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yeah well he's Muslim of course he's
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Marked for Death who cares his life is
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worthless we just butchered 15,000 kids
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you think we care about that guy's life
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you think we care about and f that guy's
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life I don't care about his life either
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but I care about
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Law and Order I care about the
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international rules and why do I care
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about them because if you keep violating
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International rules people violate them
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back if you keep punching people in the
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face do not be surprised if they punch
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you in the face back and so and then you
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could say oh I can't believe they
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punched me I had a right to murder them
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and their children I can't believe
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they're fighting back well okay you
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could be an idiot you could be the
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world's dumbest person to go I can't
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believe those Muslims dare to defy us
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they should have just sat there and let
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their kids be murdered come on and let
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their leaders be murdered and yes we
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have a double standard you're not
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allowed to kill any of us or any of our
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leaders but we can murder any of you we
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like and by the way we're the good guys
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are we are we cuz right now America is
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not acting like good guys we're backing
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the most belligerent and oppressive
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government in the region if you say hey
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Bashar Assad's a worst butcher I agree
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with you but has Syria attacked as many
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neighbors as Israel has
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no Netanyahu is an obvious one of the
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biggest warmongers of our lifetimes
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absolutely drenched in
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Blood and he's the one that leads the
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moral Army literally no one on earth
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believes that anymore unless you're
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blinded by your Israel bias and you
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think well obviously all the Muslims are
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dirty and need to be killed and
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obviously we're the moral ones for
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killing them
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okay you could believe that all day long
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but now the world hates you so is that
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good for Israel you idiots is that good
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for Israel oh yeah they hated us anyway
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everybody's an anti-semite oh just
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because we killed 40,000 people just
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because we killed a stadium full of
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women and a stadium full of children now
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all of a sudden they they hate us
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because they're
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anti-semitic really okay listen Whatever
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Gets You Through the Night okay but the
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reality is Israel has been monstrous
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here absolutely monstrous if you love
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Israel you do everything in your power
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to get them to turn around and to end
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the goddamn occupation but if you say no
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I don't like Israel nearly as much as I
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like oppressing and killing Muslims well
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then you made your bed and I don't want
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to lie in it and I don't want America to
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lie in it so America vote out anybody
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who's telling you we got to go pay
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in Blood and treasure for Israel's war
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crimes hell no should be our answer
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