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Rahm Emanuel: “The question of genocide is a historic question, going all the way back to Professor Lumpkin in 1942, all the…”

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… policies in the Middle east, it has to change the dynamics and the whole structure of it. Now, I happen to also know that to the core of your question, The question of genocide is a historic question, going all the way back to Professor Lumpkin in 1942, all the way back to the Nuremberg trials. if you're going to use that term, then we got to have a conversation about Sudan. (14:12–14:21)

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Asserts that the question of genocide has historical roots dating back to 1942 and the Nuremberg trials.

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