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Speaker 1: Israel looks set to launch a ground invasion into Lebanon,

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Speaker 1: could happen as early as today. And as all this happens,

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Speaker 1: our government is refusing to say if it will designate

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Speaker 1: Hesbila's political wing as a terrorist entity. In a statement

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Speaker 1: to this show our terrorism designations work in group. There

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Speaker 1: the ones who decided this stuff. They say that the

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Speaker 1: aramback group's military wing was declared a terrorist entity in

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Speaker 1: twenty ten. It basically says they won't talk publicly about

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Speaker 1: whether they're considering going further with Hesbila. This all comes,

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Speaker 1: of course, after Israel killed its leader, Hesbila's leader, Hassan

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Speaker 1: israelap The US called this justice the group itself interesting

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Speaker 1: that she makes no distinction between its military and its

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Speaker 1: political social wings. What's interesting here two things. Number one,

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Speaker 1: Luxon and Winston designated hamas a terror group in its

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Speaker 1: entirety back in February, after years of making a distinction

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Speaker 1: for the political wing. Will they do the same with

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Speaker 1: his Number two? In Australia, Albanezi there is cracking down

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Speaker 1: on protesters in New South Wales and in Victoria, who

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Speaker 1: was seen waving his bill of flags and allegedly chanting

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Speaker 1: violent verses, if such a thing were to happen here,

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Speaker 1: would the lack of his designation stop our authorities from

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Speaker 1: taking similar action. Leon Goldsmith, who say Middle East expert,

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Speaker 1: told me yesterday on the show, Australia and Canada don't

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Speaker 1: make any distinction like we do. Ultimately, what we do

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Speaker 1: is not going to stop more in the Middle East,

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Speaker 1: but could affect how we deal with the fallout here

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