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we're gonna make sure we the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel elsewhere.

Say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel or the Jewish people.

I think they're home.

This episode is going to be a little bit different than other episodes.

Okay? It's going to be a little bit different.

And earlier this week, the Times of Israel ran an article titled,

I'm tired of living through history.

And as I've said once or twice

or a hundred times before, there's a reason that may you live in interesting times is considered

a curse. And listen, I get it. Living through history can be terrifying. It means sitting in a bomb

shelter for hours on end listening to the impact of ICBMs whistling through the air from nearly 1,000 miles away

sent by a government that is considered tyrannical by many that has no problem murdering its own

people and even less problem murdering you. It means turning on your phone after a Jewish holiday

and seeing that all your worst nightmares have come to life.

That the massive terrorist attack you heard about in synagogue that morning didn't kill 10 people,

or 30 or 100, that instead more than a thousand Israelis are dead,

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