Sep 2024

2h 5m

Exploding Pagers, Carpet Bombing, and a ...

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Today we speak to Lebanese writer and researcher Elia Ayoub. He goes into deep detail about the recent attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, looking into why 100+ civilians were killed to take out Nasrallah.

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