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Speaker 1: You're okay with those tactics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you have to get the people out, you know,

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben

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Speaker 1: ferguson Good Morning.

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Speaker 3: It's nice to have you with us on the forty

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Speaker 3: It is actually Tuesday, well where we're recording this with

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Speaker 3: going to start with one of the incredible stories that

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Speaker 3: is on the front page of the Jerusalem Post. But first,

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Speaker 3: right now, all of us, our help is needed with

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Speaker 3: the people in Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and

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Speaker 3: That's if CJ dot org the psychological torture that is

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Speaker 3: taking place on the Israeli people by Hamas. The headline

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Speaker 3: is simple. The three partial remains that Hamas returned to

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Speaker 3: the IDF was preparing for the return of the partial

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Speaker 3: This has been an incredible trip, as I have, for

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