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British citizen, translated her mothers description of the abduction in form of people came through the fence. The fence cost 2. 5 billion shekel and it didnt help even a little bit. My mum is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike when she first arrived and when they told them that they are muslims and theyre not going to hurt them and that they share, they ate the same food that their the hamas was eating. Hamas was eating. Meanwhile , the israeli meanwhile, the Israeli Security agency has released footage of interviews with captured hamas fighters. One says he was promised huge rewards for capturing hostages in gaza. In gaza. Whoever brings the kidnapped gets a bonus. Gets a bonus. How much is the bonus they give an apartment and 10,000 for each person captured . Yes. For each person captured . Yes. Who told you this . Who told you this . Thats how it works in al qassam brigade. The commander told you this . Yes ....
Be occupying. So yes he was a terrific guy and the only choice for a really successful first president because of the trust that people had in him, that he could in habit this presidency, and they could trust him in that position. But he brought with him some problems. A question i sometimes get and you probably do, as well if not washington, who would be the next obvious choice and my answer is, there wasnt another choice and thats kind of the point he was the in dispensable man. He was somewhat in dispensable perhaps, yeah. So that brings us to this question of what to call him, this debate that you write about, you know, the title controversy. I wonder if you could just give us a little bit of background to the debate. Why did it even happen . The constitution says that this person will be the president of the United States. Why did people in the senate feel like they needed something more than that . Well, the senate had conven ....
But there was another group of americans that worried about a weak executive that would be subject to corruption and manipulation, like a weak king could be manipulated by his court. And so for them, it stood to reason that they would be more interested in a strong title to counteract this weak this fear of a weak president. It seems like all sides agreed that the person should be George Washington. Yes. He was the obvious choice. He was really the most trusted man in america. And i would say the most celebrated person in the western world at that time. I mean, really. When you think about it. And so he studied at the end of the war. He was he and the nation were one. The union. He was like a steadying influence on an unsettled america. People celebrated him, though, with such enthusiasm that he was for the presidency a blessing, as i said. Trusted guy that he was. But he was a bit of a curse as well. Because he was so celebrat ....
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