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Anthony Weiner: “We heard similar language throughout some quarters of the Arab world in reaction to September 11, is that this is what…”

On the recordMay 14, 2002
We heard similar language throughout some quarters of the Arab world in reaction to September 11, is that this is what happens if you do not have an energy policy we like or a foreign policy or an agricultural policy, we send 15 suicide bombers to murder 3,000 Americans. We have to recognize, and we have to be able to separate. This is at its fundamental element a complex and gut-wrenching dispute over land. It is difficult. We have difficult political subtexts. We have biblical subtexts. We have historical subtexts. But these things cannot be resolved in an environment where one side is attacking the other side in the most savage and most despicable ways.
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Anthony Weiner
New York

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Discussing the complexities of Middle Eastern conflicts in the aftermath of September 11.

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