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Mike Miller's avatar

How much of trumps manifest destiny is just a way to eventually name a land mass after himself. First you rename the gulf then you acquire Greenland or Gaza and rename them Trumpland or the Trump Strip. Israel would gladly reward him.

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CYS's avatar

15 years later (2010 to 2025) but very interesting piece.

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Todd's avatar

Interesting to watch the parasites crawling out of the woodwork in real time . . . .

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Kate Madison's avatar

Just what we need--a psychopathic liar, and malignant narcissist to deal with the tragic and difficult situation in "post-war" Gaza. By that time, Netanyahu and his IDF thugs will likely have

obliterated what is left of the Gazan landscape, and driven out whatever Palestinians remain in their makeshift houses. That is, if they are still alive...

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kathleen quinn's avatar

Wow! Blast from the past. How old is Ari Ben-Menahse? I feel old just knowing who he is. Seymour Hersh will get a kick out of this I should think.

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Patty Tanji's avatar

Gosh! You just can't make this stuff up. Not even Hollywood

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Gladwyn d'Souza's avatar

Wash rinse repeat: “Hlaileh seems a lot like Ahmed Chalabi.”

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Gary Milligan's avatar

I've heard about a lot of terrible things in my life; this is now one of them. Easily in the top 25. Reading it I could actually feel my skin crawl and felt an ache in the chest region. But I'm glad I did read and digest it because I had a vague suspicion anyway that this kind of sickening shit is going to go down by the Real Estate- Developer-in-Chief who got elected President and in fact be somehow normalized in the mainstream media. Good to know and really appreciate the professionalism in the way Ken reports it.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

glad you found the report helpful!

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Gary Milligan's avatar

Keep on sir. I'm a 69 yr old as of yesterday ( woohoo ! I continue to exist!). Been telling my friends about you. You remind me of my old J school pals back in Evanston where I started up at age zero...now in Seattle.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

Oh hey my parents live in Woodridge!

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tecolote42's avatar

Good grief. Somewhere, there's a centipede relieved this guy emerged and left the hole.

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WILLIAM veale's avatar

Ben Menashe is clearly a complex and unreliable character but you should not have or give the impression that the October Surprise was anything but real. See Unger most recently

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Marian Gillis's avatar

What governmental authority would enable this?

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stephanie Kodeck's avatar

@kenklippenstein how do i unsubscribe? I don't want another year of new I get for free elsewhere.

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