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Sep 2024
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"They want people to routinize the massa...

Makdisi Bros.
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The brothers discuss the latest developments from the Gaza genocide, the murder of American citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi followed by the wholesale media silence around it, and to what degree the US is calling the shots over the looming regional war.

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Date of recording: Sept 11, 2024.

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