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John Fetterman: “If Israel's goal was to eliminate... as many Palestinians as…”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Sen. John Fetterman on Democratic Divides, DSA & Israel | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 1:00:58

Okay, well, and, and I strongly disagree with that. By definition, that wasn't a genocide. The, the Jewish community actually experienced a true, true genocide for that. Now, If Israel's goal was to eliminate... as many Palestinians as possible, they could have accomplished that... a long time ago. for, for that they were not engaging in, in a genocide. Just because you're killing a group slowly doesn't mean you're not killing a group just because you could do it faster. (1:00:58)

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