Dave Smith
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He's quoted as saying it's almost the same line as what he says about Iraq.
He goes, he goes, if the Soviet Union falls, I guarantee you there will be positive reverberations around the region.
You know, back then he was trying to say that the PLO is only so the Palestinian liberation or like the what he was saying essentially was that the Arab terrorism that we're dealing with here is
is a result of them being proxies of the Soviet Union.
Like they're the Soviet Union's guys here.
Now, it is true that they did some business with the Soviet Union, but why was Benjamin Netanyahu framing it that way?
He was trying to say, hey, America, your fight is our fight.
This is their this is you know what I mean?
Like this is this is your fight, too, because this was in the middle of the Cold War.
So like, yo, this is a dynamic between the Soviet Union and you.
So anyway, he's on record being like, yo, be on be in this fight with us.
And if the Soviet Union falls, positive reverberations will will sweep the region.
Of course, he he guaranteed that.
that if Saddam Hussein fell, positive reverberations would sweep the region, like every single one.
So in other words, he's sitting here saying, you're the killer regimes.
We got to take you out and then we can have peace.
But this plan that Benjamin Netanyahu has been working on since the mid 1990s has resulted in the war in Iraq, the war in
Libya, the war in Syria, the destruction of Gaza, the war in Iran, the war on South Lebanon, massive bombing campaigns in Yemen.
Like it's been permanent war.
So fucking forgive me if I don't trust that the guy whose plan has been permanent militarism,