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3. From the transcript ...
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:38 AM
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"And the fact of the matter is, you know, and I go through the history of this in the piece is everybody knows what happened with the indigenous Americans of this country.

But what is less known is that we spent the 20th century and most of the Cold War, undermining democracies, overthrowing governments, plotting against people.

And a disproportionate amount of that violence, although not exclusively was done in the Arab and Muslim world.

And so when we have a conversation about Gaza, I think one of the things that we do not understand, or we have a conversation about Iran, one of the things we do not understand is that these people remember things that we have had the imperial privilege of forgetting... "

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