Ted Cruz: “Israel creates a shell company in Hong Kong, builds pagers…”

“If you wrote the pager attack as a script to a movie, nobody in Hollywood would buy it. If you wrote it as a Jason Bourne movie, they'd say, this is ridiculous. You're telling me Israel creates a shell company in Hong Kong, builds pagers years in advance, makes them heavy duty. kind of serious, hardcore pagers, and embeds where the battery would be a tiny little explosive, then gets this shell company in Hong Kong to sell the pagers to Hezbollah.” (14:21–14:29)

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