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The way that Italy has dealt with the memory of World War II is to emphasize the partisans who were anti-fascist, anti-Nazi Italian fighters, guerrilla fighters. And the story is not, we were the bad

guys and we allied with the Nazis. The story is our government was bad, but we had patriotic

anti-fascist fighters, partisans, who led the good fight. So there is this glorification of the

resistance fighter, of the partisan. And when you have these

three elements coming together, the Catholicism, the left-wing Soviet propaganda for decades on

the Middle East, and this kind of idealization of the resistance fighter, you have a perfect storm

for this new kind of anti-Semitism slash anti-Zionism.

It's 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 29th, here in New York City. It is 4.30 a.m. on Thursday,

October 30th in Israel, as Israelis get ready to start a new day.

Earlier today, the IDF announced that 37-year-old reservist Yonah Afriam Feldbaum was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in southern Gaza.

He was operating an excavator in Rafah when the attack took place.

Following this, the IDF conducted a wave of strikes on Gaza City,

which the Hamas-run Civil Defense agency said killed over 100 Palestinians.

The IDF announced this morning that the ceasefire is now restored following the series of strikes.

On Monday night, Hamas handed over a casket that it claimed held the remains of one of the 13 deceased hostages yet to be returned.

However, forensic analysis in Israel discovered that the casket contained partial remains of Ophir Sarfati,

a hostage whose body was recovered by the IDF back in December of 2023.

Later, it was revealed that Hamas staged a fake recovery of these remains for the Red Cross of the partial remains.

A video shows Hamas operatives placing the partial remains in a large hole in covering the body bag with dirt.

Now, on to today's episode.

Over the past two years, when I, like many of you, would draw attention to the

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