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Apr 15Liked by David Thornton

From Shaeil Ben-Ephraim at https://x.com/academic_la/status/1779962623997755733:

"It is pretty obvious what Israel needs to do next. Israel is enjoying a tremendous amount of support from its allies. They are asking for restraint in Iran. Meanwhile, Hamas has made completely unreasonable demands and is retaking Gaza.

Here is the plan:

1) Act as if you are desperate to hit Iran with all your might, and it's a massive sacrifice not to do so.

2) Agree "reluctantly" not to do so in exchange for legitimacy to retake Khan Younis and take over Rafah.

3) Kill Sinwar and get out the hostages that you can.

4) Bring in the reinvigorated anti-Iranian coalition to build a new and reformed government in Gaza.

5) Withdraw with new legitimacy and no Hamas.

6) Then hit Iran. Hard."

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Foreign aid to Israel, yes. To Taiwan and Ukraine, no. We are 33 trillion(on book) in debt, and probably over 200 trillion off book. We are effectively broke, and getting worse. What we need to do is elect Senators and Congresspersons who will start to make the hard decisions to get us out of debt,if it isn't too late already.

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