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an NPC, what do you say now, Scott? "Scott, nobody can believe the death count from the Gaza Health Ministry. Nobody believes that number, right?" Well I hear that. I tell you all the time, don't believe any numbers that come from a war zone. Right? You've heard me say that. So you all know that I understand that you can't believe any number that comes from a war zone. The exception being the Holo…
← Previous segment →l the military says, "Yeah that's about right. We trust that number." And but the politicians are saying, "Oh no no it's nowhere near that." I don't know.
So apparently there have been other estimates beyond the Gaza Health Ministry and they're actually in one case higher. One estimate is 70,000. Now is that reliable? No. I mean somebody just had a different method for calculating. But there is the thought that the Gaza Health Ministry number does not include any bodies that haven't been discovered. Yeah. So how many are in tunnels that have been collapsed? We don't know. Would the people who worked in those tunnels say, "Ah we lost George in the tunnel." None of them are named George, but is somebody reporting all the ones lost in the tunnels? So somewhere in that 60 to 70,000 dead, most of them are civilians.
And I would like to hearken back to the early days of that conflict. Do you remember people yelling at me for suggesting that the death count might go kind of high? And all th
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e people who thought they knew everything about everything said, "Scott, you fool. Don't you know these will be precision strikes and probably the whole thing will probably be done in two weeks and I'd be surprised if the death count goes over I don't know 10,000." And you remember me saying I don't know that it's going to be short. I don't think the death count's going to stay that low. Well here…
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