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is. So far, Musk has only talked about getting senators and House of Representatives, a small group, you know, maybe just a handful of each, and having that be enough to be able to influence events. So he's not trying to flip the House or turn it into mostly an America Party thing. He's just trying to get a smallish group of like-minded people who are just more America first than they are wed to a…

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lestinian situation that comes from some group of sheikhs. And they had an idea. Joel Pollak is writing about this in Breitbart and the Wall Street Journal has an article on it too. That they want to create an emirate in the holy city of Hebron. Now Hebron is part of the West Bank in the south. So it would be the area that Palestinians would think would create a state. But if it's too hard to have a two-state solution, this might be an interesting workaround.

And I went to Super Grok and said, what's an emirate? How many of you know what an emirate is? Most of you. All right. Well, an emirate is something that's ruled by an emir. And an emir might be sort of a dictator but not necessarily. It would be some Islamic person who's in charge and they would run it as a sort of an independent entity but not a country. So it wouldn't necessarily be a country. It would be an independent managed entity.

Now, did you know that the UAE is a bunch of emirates? So you could think of them sort of like states depending on how it's organized. So there's a lot of flexibility on how the emirate could be ruled and what it is. So there are already existing and very successful emirates in the Middle E

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ast. So it has a precedent. We know how they work. But what it would do is it would take power and attention away from the Palestinian Authority. And it might be something that the Palestinians themselves, you'd have to probably do more than one emirate, but it's something that the Palestinians themselves might be willing to say, oh, well, it's not a state, but we're not going to get a two-state…

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