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And today, namely Tuesday, March 18th, 2025, marks a renewed assault by the Israeli

military in their ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. And we really wanted to talk about

the media coverage that we are seeing because mainstream media is bending over backwards,

as they often do to not say

what is really happening, which is that Israel has broken a ceasefire. Which they clearly had never

any intention on taking to phase two, which is to say they wanted to get as many hostages,

quote unquote, Israeli hostages back, not to

be confused with Palestinian hostages who apparently are just prisoners as possible.

And then they wanted to go back to the status quo because, again, they have genocidal

intent with respect to Gaza.

You know, this is a term that gets used a lot, genocide, and I think sometimes it becomes

dull on the ear because it sort of seems like, I think to to some people like this, this, you know, hyperbole

or whatever, you can't even know Amnesty International, the ICJ, to some extent, human rights

watch and others have found grounds for genocide. These are pretty conservative groups who

don't throw that word around loosely, but the reason why the word is important in this

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