Video Infoblog: Iran Retaliates Against Israel with Hundreds of Missiles & Armed Drones
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Iran's First Direct attack on Israel was
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full of Sound and
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[Music]
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Fury by Israel's count 150 ballistic and
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cruise missiles bringing the Middle East
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to the moment of Maximum danger many
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predicted without admitting it Israel
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has been stepping up assassination of
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Iranian revolutionary guard commanders
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in Syria and Iraq Iranian leaders have
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been getting increasingly
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agitated over the weekend Iran for the
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first time directly attacked Israel
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sending a barrage of hundreds of
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missiles and armed drones that were
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intercepted by the United States the UK
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and Jordan now the strikes did not come
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out of nowhere and served as retaliation
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for Israel's attacks on on an Iranian
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Consulate in Syria a few weeks ago
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here's how the attack by Iran went down
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and what the aftermath
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was more than 300 drones and missiles
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launched at Israel including more than
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100 medium-range ballistic missiles 30
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land attack cruise missiles and more
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than 150 one-way attack drones IDF
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spokes person Peter Lerner telling me at
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an air base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv
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that cooperation with American forces
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and others me that they were able to
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shoot down most of the threats but some
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missiles did make it past their defenses
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in a video circulating online verified
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by ABC News you can see missiles
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striking Israel's neam Air Force Base
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Iranians claim this was the site
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responsible for the strike on an Iranian
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Consulate in Syria earlier this month
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that killed top commanders the president
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today meeting with leaders of the G7 to
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try and stabilize the situation and
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avoid further
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escalation and while us officials drive
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home the Ironclad support for Israel and
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its right to defend itself there are
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also calls for restraint we don't seek a
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war with Iran we don't seek an escalated
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uh re tensions in the region we don't we
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don't seek a wider
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conflict now it's important to keep in
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mind that the way Iran carried out this
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retaliatory attack was really meant to
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communicate to the Iranian people that
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Iran was willing to retaliate but Iran
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in my opinion made it pretty clear that
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they do not want to escalate this in
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into a regional War why do I think that
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well first of all it was the most slow
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moving attack against Israel imaginable
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they had warned Israel weeks in advance
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the I remember when the news first broke
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over the weekend I tune into CNN they're
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like oh the the uh weaponized drones the
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missiles they're coming uh in the next
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few hours right so it was intentionally
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done in a way to prevent casualties to
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prevent major destruction to Israel give
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uh Israel and its allies enough time to
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prepare its defenses and that's why
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there were no casualties no fatalities
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and very little um you know damage in
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terms of uh what the you know you saw in
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the video what the few missiles that did
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get through the defense system uh
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managed to cause and it was at an Air
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Force Base uh in Israel pausing here to
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deliver some honest truth as we do in
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our news coverage as well tyt is facing
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appreciate you thank you yeah so Iran
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has been saying for some time we're
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going to strike back for the consulate
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um uh attack that Israel did in in Syria
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so uh but this is a critical fact that
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you should know not only that but they
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told their the Arab countries that the
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missiles were going to fly over and the
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drones were going to fly over uh with
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72-hour notice now they know that once
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they tell those countries that they're
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going to tell America like allies like
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Jordan are Etc and and America's going
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to tell Israel so why did they give them
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this enormous heads up oh we are so mad
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at you we are going to fire 300 missiles
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and
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drones they know that Israel has Iron
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Dome they know that we have an aircraft
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carrier there and by the way the Arab
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countries participated in knocking down
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the drones and missiles including Jordan
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okay so the there's a very good reason
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why Iran did it that way number one they
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have to Plate their domestic audience as
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any country has to so the Ayatollah goes
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out there goes oh we showed those
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Israelis we launch all these missiles
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and drones you see that we didn't let
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them get away with attacking our
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consulate and and and murdering our top
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General Etc and then they turn around to
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America and go look guys obviously we're
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not trying to start a giant War here uh
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we gave you a 72-hour notice we took a
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couple of hours to fly the drones to
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Israel like we couldn't Telegraph this
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anymore meaning we don't want a war so
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now what Israel does next is critical it
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will probably determine everything so
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and one other thing that's important
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here why is this different than the
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other attacks because Israel's been
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hitting uh Iranian targets for a long
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long time whether you say surgus like
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Hamas Hezbollah I mean Israel hits those
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on a regular basis and I get it because
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those are the surgat that are attacking
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Israel especially Hamas right but then
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Israel has gone way beyond that many
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times uh including hitting uh Iraq
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I'm sorry Iranian officials as Anna and
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the news just pointed out in different
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countries like Iraq and Syria but on top
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of that they have targeted physicists
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inside Iran and they have done
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assassinations including a physicist
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that weren't working on their nuclear
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program at all in assassinations in
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front of a kindergarten as a uh a guy
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was picking up his uh children they just
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murdered him but the difference here is
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both of these strikes both the Israeli
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strike on the consulate and the Iranian
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strike on is Israel are acknowledged
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publicly which the others are not Israel
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goes oh was another Iranian scientist
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murdered I wonder who did it right so
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that is not acknowledged these are
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acknowledged and secondly a consulate is
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the equivalent of your home soil so this
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is the first time they're hitting each
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other on their home soil so that is why
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it's an extra degree of concern here and
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hence then leads to the question of what
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is Israel going to do next and what is
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our role America in preventing them from
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doing something disastrous exactly so
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we'll get to what Israel is saying in
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just a moment but I also wanted to make
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a point about you know i' I've been
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seeing some criticism toward the United
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States and its allies in providing uh
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defense capabilities to Israel to
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prevent Israel from you know suffering
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from these strikes and I disagree with
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those takes completely for a number of
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reasons number one I don't want to see
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civilians die as a result of this war
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whether they be Israeli civilians
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Palestinian civilians I want them to be
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protected number one number two you want
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to
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prevent giving Netanyahu any excuse to
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broaden this to a much wider Regional
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War a war with Iran which make no
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mistake the United States would be
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dragged into and so the fact that there
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are no casualties is a good thing
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because it it means that Netanyahu can't
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point to Israeli civilians dying as the
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excuse for expanding this war which is
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something that I believe and this is my
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speculation I believe Netanyahu wants to
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do Netanyahu wants nothing more than to
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remain in power and the way the easiest
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way for him to do that is to prolong
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this war right to to engage in more
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conflict which makes it far more
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difficult for the Israeli people to oust
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him because during wartime it's
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incredibly difficult to oust the prime
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minister of Israel yeah so first let me
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double down on what Ana said I I love
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that uh Israel and America and Jordan
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and others were able to protect the
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Israeli civilians I believe in defense
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uh because our whole mission here is to
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try to save as many civilian lives as
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possible they're Israeli Palestinian
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Iranian Etc uh but there's a giant
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difference between defense and offense
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so that's why I give Biden a lot of
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credit because he uh has said that the
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US will not join Israel if they're going
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on the offense and so that that's real
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and so credit where credit is due we'll
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talk about a little bit more about that
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in a second but the reason why what
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Israel is going to do next is not that
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clear is I you know I I don't even know
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that it's even speculation as Anna just
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said it's more analysis than anything
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else because Netanyahu over the last
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couple of decades has said repeatedly
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that uh that there should be attacks
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against Iran not only that Israel should
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do it but that America should do it on
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behalf of Israel and so that he's not
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hiding that agenda he's wanted to attack
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Iran uh for a long time but there are
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complications CU they also want to
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attack Rafa which is the last standing
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City in Gaza so they're like hm how do
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we kill the Palestinians in Rafa and
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drive them into the desert with no
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evacuation plan and do a massive
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humanitarian damage there what US cables
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said would be catastrophic
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humanitarian uh consequences while at
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the same time starting a giant war with
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Iran and I think that there are some
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cabinet officials that appear to be
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concerned that they could do both at the
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same time and I don't know if there are
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any cabinet officials who are concerned
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that Israel and Israeli citizens a lot
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of them could die in this disastrous War
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but they're so arrogant they're
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so you know used to getting everything
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they want and and I'm a little afraid
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that this kind of near false attack by
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Iran gave them more confidence like oh
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we can knock down anything yeah that's
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because they launched it from hours
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ahead of time brother the next time they
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do that they're not going to give your
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heads up and they're not going to launch
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from so far away they've got Hamas
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Hezbollah surrounding you Etc so I I'm
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worried about the Cockiness of the
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Israeli right-wing government and the
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disaster could lead to but yeah you
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should be you should be and really in
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terms of any concern that the United
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States engages in a direct war with Iran
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really the ball is a netanyahu's court
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because if Netanyahu continues provoking
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and Iran decides you know what we've
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done everything we can to prevent this
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from expanding into a war a hot war
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between you know ourselves Israel and
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the United States we can't take it
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anymore we're now we're all in now right
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you think the United States is just
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going to sit back and allow Israel and
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Iran to Duke it out without getting
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involved the US would definitely get
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dragged into that war because don't make
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the mistake of thinking that Iran would
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not be
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you know a a formidable uh opponent to
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Israel militarily they would be a
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formidable opponent to the United States
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militarily okay yeah it doesn't mean
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that they're going to come and take
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Albuquerque what it means is you see how
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we got bogged down on Iraq and
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Afghanistan Iran is four times the size
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of Iraq and has much greater military
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capabilities than Iraq did so we we'll
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get uh you know bog down in the Middle
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East for another decade or two draining
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trillions of dollar in taxpayer money
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for a war that no one needs it helps no
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one it doesn't help Iran it doesn't help
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Israel it doesn't help anyone but the
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political career of Benjamin Netanyahu
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yes so it would be criminal if we got
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involved in this war we should do
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everything in our uh you know within our
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uh potential to to prevent that war let
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alone if our troops go and die there for
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the most needless war in human history
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so somebody just for God's sake get a
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control over Netanyahu so that we don't
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all wind up in World War II to appease
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his stupid ego now Biden as you
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mentioned earlier Jen is telling Israel
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and Netanyahu in particular to just take
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the win don't escalate this further a
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senior Administration official
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emphasized that the United States would
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not participate in any offensive Israeli
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response against Iran quote our aim is
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to deescalate Regional tensions and
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prevent the Israel Hamas war in Gaza
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from becoming a wider uh conf
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configration uh the senior Biden
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Administration official said but
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unfortunately some of the messaging that
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we've seen from Israel so far Israel
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spokespeople make clear that maybe
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deescalation is unlikely let's take a
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look we are told that in their phone
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call last night President Biden urged
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to slow
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things down to think carefully and
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strategically about the risk of
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escalation Iran's government we are also
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told sent a message to the White House
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as this attack was underway suggesting
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that they're finished after this that
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they consider this matter to be closed
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now as for what comes next the White
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House says ultimately it is up to Israel
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to decide whether and how to respond but
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officials here tonight tell us that the
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US will not participate in any
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Counterattack but Iran has said this was
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in retaliation for the air strike on the
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consulate they said it was always going
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to be a limited operation there is no
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intention of continuing it now so can
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this end
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here um and at the same time in the
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early hours of this morning Iran's proxy
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Hezbollah launched more rocket attacks
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against Israel so I don't trust Iran I I
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don't see why anybody
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should so it's important to keep in mind
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that while yes Iran provides uh Aid to
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groups like Hezbollah there is no
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indication that Iran is giving hezb the
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uh orders to attack Israel it's kind of
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like the United States honestly arming
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various countries after you arm them you
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don't have full control over what they
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do with those arms and I think that's
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been pretty clear with this war in
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Israel as well I should also note that
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uh an Israeli official told NBC News
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quote Israel can't allow such a large
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attack over Israel uh without some kind
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of response be it small or large it's up
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to the war cabinet to decide now and
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remember that Ward cabinet is um filled
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with you know the Basel SM riches and
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the people who absolutely want to engage
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with a hot War uh with Iran so that
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doesn't give me any uh peace of mind at
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all but right now we're just waiting to
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see what Israel decides to do whether
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they do in fact plan to retaliate and if
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they do retaliate what is that going to
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look like and would that expand this to
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a broader Regional war with Iran
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involved yeah so we have some indication
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of that based on what Israeli surrogates
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are saying including one that I debated
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on Piers Morgan today so I'll get to
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that in one second but first look I
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don't want you to hear only one side of
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a story so they say oh like Hezbollah is
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has fired rockets at Israel yeah of
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course they don't mention that Israel
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preemptively attacked Hezbollah after
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October 7th and now at the same time
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Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th so
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there are both sides of this story the
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idea that Israel's uh you know which
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often times are spokespeople uh pain
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this and so does Rishi sunak and uh UK
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and a lot of other Western governments
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oh poor Israel has never done anything
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in their lives and these mean terrorist
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Hezbollah guys are attacking them Etc no
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I'm concerned about hezbollah's Rockets
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but at the same time I'm concerned that
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Israel's been occupying the Palestinians
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for 75 years with no letup at all and
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has taken more and more land thereby
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inflaming the entire region occupation
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is the moral cancer in the Middle East
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that is causing all of these problems so
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so the fact that they haven't stopped
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occupation is crazy but guys even if you
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say I don't care about the other side I
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they're the bad guys I don't care if
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they all die all I care about is
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protecting Israel okay do you think it's
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going to help Israel to go and attack
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Iran and have the entire Iranian
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population rally around the flag and the
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population which does not like the
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current Iranian regime but the minute
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they're bombed what are they going to do
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they're going to turn around and go well
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okay now we got to fight Israel so now
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we're going to support the regime so
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