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Gaza.

Again and again, Jeff, for weeks now I'm told sincerely by people I respect who are back from the region.

The Gaza op is on. Raffa will be cleaned out again and again.

Yes, I say yes, however.

And then there is the Hezbollah threat to the north again and again and again I'm told we will deal with that

although the last time I heard it was 50-50 whether we're gonna launch on

Boca on Lebanon but Rafa is the one that's the center of all the soft power conversations right now by the State

Department, by the President of the United States, by our allies.

The understanding is there are a million people up to a

million people in the raffa area that it will be evacuated before there is an

operation do you believe it yet?

Well, I believe that's their desire, particularly by the United States, as you look at mounting casualties, now over 34,000 Palestinians having been killed and over 75,000

having been injured to move in a very deliberate heavy operation

into the Rafa with 1.3 million people, as you suggest, crammed into this small area would result in

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