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This is Words Matter with Norm Hornstein.

We've got the votes and screwed the rest of you.

And Dr. Kavita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all the bombshells.

Didn't catch people's eyes.

Hello and welcome to Words Matter from the DSR Network.

Each week, Norm Hornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we head into yet again another election cycle.

And Norm, it would be completely, I think that when you and I were planning today's podcast,

we were trying to put words into how we could kind of really productively, I would say, and usefully,

or at least for myself, try to describe a series of conversations on this podcast around what's unfolding in Israel, the Gaza Strip, and actually beyond,

just because I have friends in Lebanon who have been encouraged to evacuate.

And clearly it's now a regional crisis, far beyond just the Gaza Strip, the Israel and Palestine.

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