EZRA LEVANT ｜ Media silence on church attacks as global power shifts unfold
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Summary
A meeting in Washington, D.C. today between Lebanon and Israel, and you'll never guess who was not invited? You won't want to miss it. Plus, Ezra's visit to a church burning in Saint-Romain, Quebec, and a special guest appearance by Sheila Gunn Reed on Parliament Hill tomorrow.
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Hello, my friends. A very interesting meeting in Washington, D.C. today between Lebanon and Israel.
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And you'll never guess who was not invited. I think that's actually the biggest part of the story.
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Oh, hi, everybody. I'm so glad to be back in our world headquarters after my visit to Saint-Romain, or Saint-Romain, Quebec, yesterday.
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A very interesting trip. I'm really glad I did it.
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I was there to document the burning of a church, and that just sounds terrible, but I feel like someone's got to do it because I think it's such a massive scale.
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So many, more than 100 churches have been hit, and I grant you that not all of them have been burned to the ground.
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And some of them are no longer active as churches, but I don't think it matters.
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I mean, you might remember about a month ago, I went to New Brunswick and there was an old
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derelict church that hadn't been used in years and it was sort of deconsecrated and it looked
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And so, yeah, maybe it was just an old building that sometimes kids or arsonists, you know,
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But don't tell me that 100 churches being targeted isn't a pattern.
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So I think it's important to document it because I really believe other people are trying to minimize it, to ignore it.
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I think the authorities don't want to acknowledge that there's something going on and they don't even want to look into it.
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Like maybe it's a lot of coincidences, but we don't know because we haven't properly investigated.
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Now, I should say that tomorrow I'm going to be in Ottawa because our friend and colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed has been invited to testify before Parliament.
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Can you imagine? As you may know, Sheila is the president of something called the Independent Press Gallery, which is a few years old and has almost 100 members.
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This is an antidote or a counterweight to the Parliamentary Press Gallery, which is the government-run press gallery based in Ottawa's Parliament, under the control of the Speaker of the House.
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So this is a kind of voluntary industry association for independent journalists, as the name suggests.
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So Sheila will be testifying on Parliament Hill.
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I actually haven't seen her remarks yet. So I'll be there in person to hear them along with
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parliament in real time. And then we'll talk to Sheila about the day. I'm really excited about
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and we'll show you how it goes. So we're on a roll. I mean, we've had a lot of great interviews
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lately. And I think this goes, the reason we were invited to parliament, I think shows
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that we've received sort of a, I mean, we're 11 years old now. We've been doing this for a while.
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And I think people know that we are real journalists. And the reason I say that is
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because in Quebec, there was this insane reaction to Alexa Lavoie interviewing the leader of the
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Parti Québécois for an hour. The reaction wasn't to anything she said or did. It was the fact that
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the Parti Québécois would dare to sit down for an interview with Rebel News. So I thought that
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was sort of cool. Anyways, that's sort of some housekeeping stuff. But I want to talk to you
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about an interesting meeting in Washington, D.C. Interesting because of who was there,
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and maybe even more interesting for who was not there.
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and it's representatives from Israel and Lebanon
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having face-to-face direct meetings about peace
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which is a very interesting thing to be happening
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because Israel right now is attacking Hezbollah terrorists
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really intensively, you may know that Hezbollah is a terrorist group that is
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run, funded, directed, armed by Iran. So Iran sort of had direct ways of fighting. They would
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shoot missiles or drones, but they had these surrogates, including the Hamas terrorist group
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in Gaza, the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen. So they had
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all these proxies. I mean, really, Lebanon has been occupied by Iran. Syria was another
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finger on the hand of Iran. Iran used to really control the region. They spent 47 years really
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doing nothing but plotting, you're going to laugh when I say it, world domination. They really
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believe in bringing about Allah's reign on earth. They want to topple. They're not governed by the
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same earthly rationales as most countries. They have an apocalyptic religious destiny and that's
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govern what they did. And really, they wanted to attack everything Western and secular. So they had
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these proxies around the world. Anyways, what's so interesting that Israel and Lebanon were having
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their first meetings. I think this was the first head to head meeting since the 1990s. I think I
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read 1993. And what's interesting to me in particular, is that France is not involved.
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And you might say, well, why would France be involved? Well, remember that France actually
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used to be an empire. In fact, there's Caribbean islands like Martinique and there's Saint-Pierre
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and Miquelon just after, just off the coast of Canada. France used to be an empire, not a huge
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one, but they had French Africa. They had French, you know, Guyana and Lebanon and Syria were French
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at one time. In fact, other than Arabic, I think French is the second language of Lebanon. They
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used to say Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. It truly looked beautiful and it was on
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the Mediterranean. So France is not involved at all. Even though France loves to talk about foreign
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policy in Lebanon, they were not invited. And it's sort of incredible that they're meeting. Look at
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these. These are Israeli and Lebanese front pages of the newspaper yesterday with headlines like
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history in Washington, giving negotiations a chance, Israel and Lebanon on the same side.
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And then you can see the one that was translated there, taboo broken.
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That's from an Arabic newspaper in Lebanon, that the taboo of meeting face to face with
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And the joint statement, we want lasting peace.
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And, you know, the US was putting a lot of their reputation behind it.
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It was being really, you could really tell that the Americans are knocking heads together
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and let me just play for you a quote from the israeli ambassador to the u.s who was really one
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of the point people here's name is yechiel lighter is his name here he is talking about the absence of
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the french and whether or not that was a good or a bad thing just take a take a listen this guy i
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think this guy was uh channeling trump or something take a listen mike wagon i'm i24 news english is
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there something specific your lebanese counterpart said today to give you optimism that uh the laf
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will really begin to take hold in southern Lebanon and disarm Hezbollah and also conspicuous
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Did Israel make a concerted, active effort to keep the French away from these negotiations?
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Well, I hope we won't have to make a concerted effort, but we certainly don't want the French
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We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but
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particularly when it comes to peace negotiations.
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They're not a positive influence, particularly not in Lebanon.
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Now, I'll play it in low volume because it's en français.
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And he said, I am pleased to know that the Israeli government has entrusted a man who
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apparently is very diplomatic, very refined, and very subtle, obviously he's being ironic,
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He's apparently determined to reduce to a minimum the number of partner countries
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I suggest that he stays as far away as possible from the microphones and television cameras.
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So he's basically saying, shut your mouth if you want France to help rebuild Lebanon
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after a peace deal, which is sort of a weird thing to threaten to punish Lebanon
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because you didn't like an Israeli diplomat being undiplomatic.
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but uh obviously france was stung by the fact they weren't there now they should bring that
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up with the united states who was hosting him but um you know it may be true that if there is a peace
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deal that france would help rebuild lebanon it wouldn't surprise me france loves spending money
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on foreign aid as much as the uk and canada do it might be true that they would help lebanon
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But Lebanon has not had a moment's peace in 50 years that they could rebuild on.
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I mean, the war is wax and wane, but Lebanon has been occupied.
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It has been colonized by Muslim terrorists for about 50 years.
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They were kicked out of Jordan when they fomented the civil war there.
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And then Hezbollah, which formally swore allegiance to Iran in the 1980s.
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In the 80s came Hezbollah, and they were not interested in being a normal place.
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France hasn't been a normal, sorry, pardon me, Lebanon hasn't been a normal country since.
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There has been no meaningful enduring peace because there are all these terrorist groups there.
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And every once in a while, the terrorist groups would attack Israel and they would push back.
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In fact, Israel actually invaded Lebanon to try and stomp them out.
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Whenever you hear occupation in the Middle East, people say, oh, Israel occupying the West Bank.
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Islamists have occupied parts of Lebanon for 50 years.
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And, you know, I hope France will help rebuild Lebanon when it's all over.
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But that promise is conditional on there being peace.
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there hasn't been peace in 50 years because France and others haven't been willing to make
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the peace by extirpating the terrorists. You would have to end the Hezbollah occupation of
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Lebanon before you could rebuild. Now, I think for a lot of people like the leadership of France and
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many pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli Westerners, they don't quite understand that Lebanon is a
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country that is colonized by Hezbollah. And Lebanon doesn't want that. Here is Lebanon's
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prime minister calling for a normalization of relations with Israel. And I should say this is
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last year after Israel was pummeling Hezbollah for a couple of years straight. Here's Lebanon's
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PM saying he wants a normalization with Israel. So I guess my question is, you wouldn't be
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normalizing relations without at least a credible pathway to, if not, a Palestinian state and a two-state solution, correct?
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I don't like the idea of pathways. I mean, I would like to see a two-state solution,
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Israeli withdrawing from occupied territories in exchange for peace, and peace, I mean, will lead to normalization.
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Or normalization is part and parcel of the peace we would like to see tomorrow and another day after.
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Here's Lebanon's justice minister saying he wants normalized relations too.
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But my opinion is that we will be stronger if we make a vote than if we don't make a vote.
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And if we make a vote, then we don't make a vote.
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There are the United States, the United States, the United States and the United States.
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There are other countries that don't have any problems.
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But if you don't want to make a vote, you won't make a vote with your friends, Mr. Marcelli.
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You'll make a vote with your interests and your interests.
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Remember, all of the Middle East was once Christian.
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I mean, Christianity predates Islam by centuries.
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It was the largest, richest, most Christian city in the world.
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it was the occupation and colonization by islam that turned them into muslim countries
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um i checked the statistics by the way lebanon 50 years ago was about 55 christian now it's just 30
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christian it is being conquered and colonized as part of the larger mission of radical islam
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israel is not actually at war with lebanon it's a war with the occupiers of southern lebanon
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Lebanon, that France hasn't done anything to stop. Why would you invite France in there? It's like
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Norman Schwarzkopf's old joke, going hunting, you know, going to war without France is like going
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hunting without your accordion. France has deployed its aircraft carrier, which is more than the UK
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could do, and managed to set sail. But I can't tell you what they've actually achieved other than
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make some pretty cool political ads for Emmanuel Macron. Like you've got this aircraft carrier,
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France actually has a respectable navy, respectable military. They're a nuclear power.
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They have some modern jets, but why haven't they used those to get rid of the terrorists? Why do
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they just flex their muscles but not actually lift anything? I don't quite know. Why have they
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never tried to end Iran in Lebanon? Why wouldn't they help their fellow French Christians? I don't
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know. But France, I mean, I got to tell you that Israeli ambassador was correct. Let me read for
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you the Wall Street Journal, a major story, which I just thought was incredible. If this was April
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Fool's Day, I would say, oh, it's got to be a joke. Look at this tweet from the Wall Street Journal,
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which is a very reputable newspaper. Exclusive. European countries are planning a post-war mission
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to free up shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, excluding the U.S. What? Let me read a little
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bit of the story for you. It's sort of incredible. The headline is Europe drafts post-war plan to
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free up Hormuz without US. UK and French plan aims to give shipping companies confidence
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to use the strait after the fighting ends. Without America? So you just got all these
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big plans. You're not invited to America's negotiations with Lebanon. You were invited
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to help fight Iran. You declined. But you've got plans to take over when the war is over.
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Here, let me read the story. European countries are putting together a plan for a broad coalition
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of countries to help free up shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, including sending mine
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clearing and other military vessels, but the plan would only come after the war and may exclude one
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country in particular, the U.S. French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, the plan is for an
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international defensive mission that doesn't include the belligerent parties, meaning the U.S.,
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Israel, and Iran. European diplomats familiar with the plan say European ships wouldn't be
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under American command. This is too much. This is too much, but this is real. I'll read some more.
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The mission we are referring to could only be deployed once calm has been restored and
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hostilities have ceased, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault said on Tuesday, adding that
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the international coalition would coordinate with countries bordering the strait, including Iran
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and Oman. That suggests no mission would go ahead without Iranian approval. That is just so amazing.
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They think they're going to be in control of the Strait of Hormuz after America has done the fighting part.
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And they're having a little conference to talk about it.
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What do you think Donald Trump would say about that?
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Hey, we're going to totally get tough as soon as the war is over, everybody.
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We are very concerned about the killing of a Canadian citizen in southern Lebanon.
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And indeed, I express my sincere condolences to his family and his friends and his community.
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I am continuously in touch with the government of Lebanon.
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I spoke with the foreign minister of Lebanon yesterday, in fact, to express Canada's solidarity with Lebanon, including their territorial integrity.
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I understand that the peace talks between Lebanon and Israel began yesterday in Washington, D.C., where their representatives were directly discussing the potential for a ceasefire.
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We very much hope that there will be a ceasefire.
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And in the meantime, we'll continue to examine Canada's approach to this situation.
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Yeah, just first of all, who are you even?
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I mean, we know we're not actually helping stop Hezbollah or Iran.
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They're probably amongst those 40 impotent countries that are having a meeting with America.
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It's not even worth looking to find out because really, who cares?
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you'll notice that there's no recognition that hezbollah is the occupying force that israel's
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trying to stomp out because lebanon can't do it you know there's no acknowledgement that hezbollah
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is firing rockets from lebanon into israel just none of that by the way egypt and israel have had
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a peace treaty for decades they don't shoot at each other jordan and israel have had a peace
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treaty for decades they don't shoot at each other israel is not about shooting at its neighbors in
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a random way it's about shooting back when terrorist base camps shoot at israel this is
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about stopping them here's what i think is going to happen i think there's going to be a peace deal
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i think that they wouldn't i don't think secretary of state marco rubio would have had a public
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display like that if he wasn't pretty sure that a deal was going to be made i don't think he would
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have raised expectations if he didn't realize things were going the right direction i think
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Lebanon and Israel are going to make a deal. I think that Lebanon will be rebuilt and frankly
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wouldn't surprise me if the money didn't come from France but came from the United Arab Emirates and
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maybe the Saudis who have a lot of dough. America calls the shots, not the United Nations,
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not the NATO countries that demand American help in Ukraine but won't help Trump when he asked for
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Israel, I think, will have peace again with Lebanon, like it does with Egypt and Jordan.
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I think the Abraham Accords peace treaty will grow.
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I think you might see the Strait of Hormuz renamed the Strait of Trump.
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And I know that sounds funny, but why wouldn't he rename it?
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Look, I don't quite understand the China stuff that's going on.
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Of course, the number one buyer of Iranian conflict oil is China.
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And what they love about it is because it's subject to Western sanctions, it is so much
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I haven't checked the price of oil lately, but I'm guessing it's around 80 or 90 bucks.
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I'm guessing China's buying its conflict oil from Iran for 25 bucks a barrel just because
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So I think anything that denies China access to oil, like Venezuela being toppled or raises
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the price of it, that's a benefit for America and a detriment to China. I don't exactly know
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what's going on there, but I like what I see. And the benefit to Canada out of all this?
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Well, I don't know. There's around 300,000 Lebanese Canadians, many of whom like to go
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back and forth, love the old Beirut. Maybe they can even help rebuild a democracy again over there.
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Maybe Lebanon can be a Christian country again, and some of the terrorists can go home.
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one thing's for sure the Canadian government is on the wrong side just like France and for the
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exact same reason you know there were three by-elections this week in Canada one of them
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was in a very uh high migrant riding here's Melanie Jolie who won't stop talking about
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demographics remember when she told Thomas Mulcair that her foreign policy against Israel was based
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on the demographics of her riding, where here she is talking about the by-election win in Quebec.
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Of course, we respected the justice's decision, and so that's why there was a new election called.
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And I think also Terrebonne is a writing, for those who don't necessarily know,
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the geography of Montreal is a bit on the outskirts of Montreal.
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It is very much more changing as Montreal and Quebec is changing.
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And so the second generation of first immigrants coming to Quebec,
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a very important community from Haiti, also from Northern Africa.
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And so things are changing across the country, particularly also here.
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And so I think also, I think that could be actually very favorable in general for a candidate that is from the Asian community.
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So there it is. Lots of North Africans, lots of foreigners, and they have to follow what they say, not Canadian interests or principles.
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That is why Canada endorsed Palestine. That is why Canada is condemning Israel.
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That's why. And that's why we have no room in a world that is being created by Donald Trump, Israel, and the actual peacemaking Arab countries.
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Oh, hi, everybody. As you know, I went to Ireland for a day and a half last week because, boy, did they ever have a rebellion.
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It seems to be simmering down now, but we sent our friends Efron Monsanto and Alexa Lavoie to keep covering it.
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I had to come back to Canada and do stuff here, of course, but I'm glad we were over there.
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This is Alexa's first trip to Ireland, and I wanted to hear how things were going.
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Now, we had a bit of a rough phone-internet connection, so we're sort of doing this interview in parts.
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I sent her these questions, and she sent the reply, but I'll read them to you as if it were live.
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My first question to Alexa was, this is your first trip to Ireland.
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How would you compare its political culture to Canada's?
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And how would you compare their street protest to the Canadian trucker convoy?
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Yes, it was my first time here in Ireland, and it is just so beautiful.
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This country is amazing, but everything is so expensive.
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You know, what I was able to see is like Irish people are so unified.
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they stand with each other, and what beautiful people who live here, so open, so nice, and
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something actually comes to me is to see how unified Irish are. They stand with each other,
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they are unapologetic, they are, you know, they stand with what they say, they don't say story
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of what they say, and they are open about their thoughts,
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They don't feel represented by the government in place.
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They all say that there is no party that represents them.
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And it's a little bit what we saw in Canada during the COVID-19
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when people took to the street to protest for their basic freedom.
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Who were speaking for them? Nobody. Nobody. And at one point, enough is enough. They decided to stand together and to voice their disagreement and to put pressure on the government so the government has no choice to listen to them.
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Second, they started painting them as dangerous far-right thug.
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And then they cracked down with the police and the military.
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This is exactly what we saw with the trucker convoy.
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The government dared to say that they were lopsided
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and they say that this is, I don't want to say it live,
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Thank you for what's your rebel news from Canada.
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thank you very much because it's it's them tyrants inside there that are destroying the irish people
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of this country and running irish people into the ground as you can see here we have our flags here
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but because of our poles the guardi will not let us in because of our poles hanging our flag up high
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that's only fiber glass you know i mean but thank you for reporting on it because these people need
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to see what they're doing inside there is nothing but tyranny and destruction to the irish people
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and that's the only way that it is and it's only way that's going to be seen by you might take this
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small crowd there now today but don't you wait you know they say that the mainstream media
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at the beginning they were smearing them and then they started to be a little bit more neutral
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and then the minister said that they are going to investigate them and then they say they
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But it was pretty interesting to see their side of view.
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And they are all aware about the Freedom Convoy,
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And it was really interesting to have that true thought.
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Because sometimes in Canada, this is something,
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Every time anybody opens, I'm out of this context.
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If you're not with the narrative of the government, they call you a far right.
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No matter what, we might be right, but we're not far right.
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Irish people as emigrated to every corner of the earth.
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Any person wants to come over here legally and wants to work and live amongst us Irish people,
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we share our hands out and we would love them to join in on our protests as well.
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So that they can also join in because it's not just us.
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People that are living here legally, they're also getting the cost of fuel
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and also getting the cost of housing and living, rent, everything.
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It's affecting everyone, Irish people and Irish citizens.
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So any person that wants to come and join should well join.
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And any people that want to believe in what they do, just get out and leave.
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It looks like things have calmed down with the government having made some concessions
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so the government have laid down a package deal it's a package deal worth of about half of a
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billions of dollars first of all none of the protesters are happy this is not a good deal
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and they all say that this is ridiculous so it's far from over they all say that more protests
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is ahead. They're all going to continue because they say that this is not enough. They say that
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500 millions of euro to compare what the government literally gave to RTE, that is the
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government broadcast media, we talk about more than 700 million of euro over three years.
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Government is now extending the temporary measures to reduce excise duty and petrol, diesel
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and marked gas oil from the end of May to the end of July.
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For the reducing mineral oil taxes, the government is by 10 cents per litre on petrol,
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10 cents per litre on diesel and 2.4 cents per litre on marked gas oil,
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postponing the increase in carbon tax from May until the budget in October.
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So people feel insulted. People feel like the government is literally not listening.
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And I'm telling you, we will see way more protests. We will see people trying to get
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what they want. And I'm a bit scared to see more police enforcement as we saw in recent days.
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Is there a lesson Canadians can learn from this?
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I think since the trucker convoy, we saw that Canadians are more and more divided.
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Why Canadians don't learn from the Irish people to stand with each other?
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Why you don't stand with each other when you can see that some part of your population cannot afford to feed their family, to buy a home, to continue their business, to put fuel for their tractors?
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Why you are continuing to censor yourself because you're too scared of what people would think about you?
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but the government should all be shot for being traitors.
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Michal Martin, as we all like to call him down here,
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people taking money out of their pockets that doesn't need to be taken over 50%. I think out
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of the 220 we pay for a litre of diesel, 120 of that goes to the government. So as I actually
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explained, RTE received millions of taxpayer money, but it's not the only media who receive
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money from the government. They all rely heavily on taxpayer money. Same in Canada,
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But you can see how they frame the article, what they use to frame protesters as what, far-right?
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Or when it was the mass immigration protests, they were labeled as racist and bigot.
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Those people here in Ireland, they just want to continue to live their life.
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They don't want fake refugees who will have access to everything that they don't have access to drain resources, drain access to lodging, health care.
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They want to preserve also their culture, who they are, their heritage.
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Now we are seeing a population that is in decline, but we see a lot of newcomers coming here.
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And some of them, they are not integrating.
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Mass immigration is destroying not only Ireland, it's destroying all Western countries.
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And unfortunately, here in Ireland, they don't have a political party that will stop it.
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They want to open the door of mass immigration.
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And Irish should just say goodbye to who they are.
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What has been the Irish mainstream media's response?
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So, yes, the mainstream media is literally the same than in Canada.
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They are smearing people who are not in the narrative that the government wants.
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And if the media try to be a little bit neutral, the government interfere and say,
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we will actually audit you because you look cited on the side of the protester.
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And this is what we are able to see here in Ireland.
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So, is this all brought by the neighbourhood shops and people?
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Shops and people have been coming continuously with stuff.
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especially from from tuesday it's just been an ongoing process of especially this man here has
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spent the majority of his time standing here for the last three days so uh no it's been unbelievable
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i think it has wakened a lot of people up like there's an old lady here last yesterday with a
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trolley and she had uh you know she might have been in her 80s and she was so glad to see what
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was going on happening but so many people in the city are are fed up with the direction society is
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going are you from dublin itself no i'm actually i'm from i'm from monaghan which is 90 or 100
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miles down down the road now we're on a street in a neighborhood that has a lot of history
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and a history of rebellion as well is that uh is that spirit still alive in ireland in 2026
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i suppose as i a couple of mornings ago i said to one of the other one of the lorry lads i says
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if you stand back and look at it the soul these lads plow the ground they draw the food
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and the soul of ireland has now landed on o'connell street because they've been watching
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this evolve over the course of the last 10 20 years and now they're all fed up with the level
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of corruption within the country and it's unsustainable it's quite clear we have leadership
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that's not fit to lead and they're just playing to a globalist European agenda and the Irish
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people are now just becoming, how do you put it, number. And in one sense, you could nearly call
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the place an open jail to a degree because they're all just numbers. You know, it's as if
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real communities no longer matter and they don't mind filling the communities with whatever they
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would like so are you referring to immigration there i'm trying to understand what you mean
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there was a lady and came up to the city here after christmas and she came up on the bus from
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and she made the remark about the amount of young ones getting off at the airport to go to australia
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go to go back to work i says i says it's ridiculous i says they're they're exporting
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they're exporting pedigree cattle and they're taking in they're taking in stuff that they
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haven't even got papers for there's no there's no air tags you know it's it's it's a ridiculous
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situation at this stage plus because of my journey through the system i i stood up to the corruption
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10 years ago in relation to our businesses being stolen off us and i've been in jail in the state
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here eight times for just saying no you aren't getting away with this but if anybody wanted to
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look at fergal theory and fergal theory on tick tock fergal joseph theory on tick tock you will
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find a lot of the information and and paperwork that shows that the level of corruption within
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the system is is unsustainable and these bodies are far too they've become so removed from the
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realities of irish life you know well listen i wish you good luck and and thanks very much
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for manning the food bank here good to talk with you cheers likewise well that's our friend alexa
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lavoie in dublin ireland i find it a very interesting country it's smaller than canada
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only five million people so it almost feels like it's all friends and family um and i suppose they
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can find a consensus faster and i think there was a consensus that taxes were just too high
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Here's the first letter about my trip to Quebec
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that Christian symbols are not safe anymore in Canada.
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And there seems to be little prosecuted or people jailed
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desecrated in the last 15 years or so it seems to be a regular thing in the anglosphere in europe
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this wholesale destruction on christian symbols you know it's interesting i i sort of have my
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eyes peeled for this story and churches are burnt regularly in the uk france and in scandinavia too
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it's heartbreaking to see and i simply don't believe that it's all accidents or faulty wiring
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i'm sorry i just don't believe that uh just like i don't believe that the notre dame cathedral
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in Paris was an accident. They ruled out terrorism before they even did the investigation. I think
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that tells you all you need to know. Next letter from Messier45 says, European countries are trying
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to get out of the EU and the demon Carney wants Canada to join. Just insane. Yeah, I think Mark
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Carney is in a very strange position because I think as a banker, he knows that 90 plus percent
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of our exports go to the United States. So even if you doubled your trade to other countries over
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the next 10 years. First of all, it takes 10 years. And second of all, okay, so you now have 20% of
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our trade with others, not just 10%. Yeah, that's still just a fraction of a segment of a part of
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your trade with America. What are you doing? So he knows that. But I think he loves the
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anti-Americanism just too much. He knows it's winning for him, at least amongst boomers and
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newcomers to Canada. He won three by-elections. So he's going to continue being as anti-American
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I'll be in Ottawa tomorrow where Sheila Gunn-Reed
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World