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Back to episode — Episode 2799 CWSA 04/04/25

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e say, "Well, you had a choice of just doing it perfectly in the first place. Why didn't you just measure twice or thrice before you cut?" I mean there's a little thing that even says what you should do. Measure twice, cut once. Have you never heard that? I mean if you've heard it then I guess you would never make any mistakes. But it's a good thing that I'm cleverly telling you now with all my la…

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rt of it is that Israel used the term total victory and they said things like it will never be the same. Now when you hear total victory and you hear it will never be the same there what did you think was going to happen? Because if all they did was fight for a while and then say, "All right, let's try living together again," would that be total victory? No. No. That wouldn't even be anything. If they had negotiated for the hostages and then said, "All right, we promised we'd get our hostages back so now you can keep on living and Hamas you can keep on running Gaza." That's not really total victory, is it? It's not even close. It's more like losing.

So yes there's really no chance that the Palestinians will be going back to Gaza and living there. Now again if you're new I'm not saying that's good or bad or moral or ethical or not. That's up to you. Make up your own decisions. I'm just predicting. And I'm saying that if you were in that situation what would you do? If the situation were reversed what would Hamas do? This. They would do this. Everybody in this situation would end up defaulting to this because everything else doesn't make sense at all. And the United States is kind of distracted at the moment. So if we had an impulse to try to stop Israel from doing what it's doing I don't think this would be the time we'd use it.

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So that looks like what's going to happen. And that ladies and gentlemen are my comments for today. I'm going to make a few comments privately to the locals subscribers but for the rest of you thanks for joining on YouTube and X and Rumble. And I'll see you again tomorrow. Same time, same place. And locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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