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Donald Trump went to Israel to take credit for the ceasefire in Gaza.

2,000 Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli prisons and 20 Israeli

captives have been returned.

This is an important new development.

What's not new is the truly disgusting coverage of the capitalist-owned media in

the United States. I'm Leanne Seema Fulahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news,

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Well, I'm glad you mentioned the mainstream media. The New York Times acting in a typical

fashion using the media and very carefully crafted language, very carefully crafted headlines

to sow confusion and deception about what's really at the heart of the war, the genocide in

Gaza. The title of the article is, why now the lost chances to reach

a hostage deal and a ceasefire months ago? Land, I want to talk to you about the article.

I want to go through the article. But real quick, before we do that, 20 Israeli hostages have

been released. That's the first item in all the mainstream media.

Then secondarily, they say, and Palestinian prisoners. Well, there are thousands of Palestinian

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