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A Zionist billionaire couple in California, Stuart and Lydia Resnick, own a pistachio plantation that consumes more water than the entire city of Los Angeles. They lobbied for the US to impose 241% tariffs on Iranian pistachios to protect their monopoly. The Resnicks also fund pro-Israel think tanks and want the US to go to war with Iran. They have been accused of manipulating California's water supply and using treated fracking waste water for their pistachio orchards. They own brands like Pom pomegranate juice, Fiji water, and Wonderful pistachios.
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😮 Nutty fact: Zionist billionaire couple in California whose pistachio plantation consumes more water than the entire city of Los Angeles lobbied to have US 🇺🇸 impose 241% tariffs on Iranian 🇮🇷 pistachios, which are far superior, to protect their pistachio monopoly👇
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In the 1980s, the pistachio lobby, led by Stewart and Lydia Resnick, supported sanctions on Iran to prevent competition from Iranian pistachios. They also worked to commercialize water in California. The Resnicks preferred American pistachios over Iranian ones.
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Speaker 0: Did you know that in the 19 eighties, one of the main industries that pushed for sanctions on Iran was the pistachio lobby? Especially Stewart and Lydia Resnick, owners of the wonderful company, because they knew Iranian pistachios were far superior and would outcompete them. They're also Zionist. I didn't buy the size. I thought it would work.
And they pushed to hydroze and commodify water in California. So here's the difference between an Iranian pistachio and an American one. Right. So this is the Iranian. This is the American.
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Having successfully heisted California’s water supply to become the wealthiest farmers in the US, Zionist billionaire couple Stuart and Lydia Resnick began pumping money into militantly pro-Israel think tanks to influence US into going to war with Iran. https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/04/pistachio-wars-how-the-resnicks-snack-food-fortune-is-fueling-the-assault-on-iran/amp/
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Do not support pistachios due to the climate crisis caused by billionaire owners draining rivers, causing fish extinction, and corrupting climate science. They donate to art museums for image, but their farming practices harm the environment. Avoid giving them money.
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Speaker 0: If there is one food I implore you to not purchase and to not support, it is these wonderful pistachios. Pistachios. You know them, you see them, they're everywhere, and it's not for the reasons that you think. This has nothing to do with health. This has to do with the climate crisis that's happening in California right now.
So this company is owned by 2 billionaires, Stuart and Lydia Resnick, and they are climate criminals. I discovered all of this through a journalist, Yasha Levine. He's making a documentary about this because he was researching the 2,007, 2008 financial crisis in California and discovered that these, like, all these homes were being foreclosed and that the cities were buying water because there was no water left. And these 2 billionaires, this company, this pistachio farming empire, was owning privately owning water and selling it to towns and cities. And recently in the news they have been donating $30,000,000 $45,000,000 to really big art museums to try to cover themselves and make themselves look like philanthropists even though it's a tiny tax write off for them.
$30,000,000 is nothing when you have literally 1,000,000,000 of dollars. So even besides that, the actual pistachio farming is very, very bad for the environment and they're not doing it in a good ethical way at all. I'm sure there's small scale pistachio farming that is fine, but what they are doing is draining rivers. They are driving the mass extinction of fish. They are irrigating their crops with their oil waste, and they're corrupting climate science.
They are very, very, like, vile evil people, and I don't think people realize how much of an effect it's having. But if you drive through, like, part of Northern California, these pistachio farms expand out so far. And they have an empire. I mean, think back to 10, 15 years ago when there was this huge campaign, all these commercials and advertisements came out, and now when you think of pistachios, you probably think of this brand. It's ingrained in our collective conscious.
It's like a schema that just pistachios this company. And we really really should not support them or give them a dollar of our money. So a little fun fact of the day.
'Pistachio Wars': How the Resnick billionaires' snack food fortune is fueling the assault on Iran - The Grayzone
A highly original documentary project reveals how a couple of Beverly Hills billionaires "are willing to risk war in Iran and the Middle East — all in order to boost and protect their lucrative pistachio business." By Max Blumenthal Three years ago, journalist Yasha Levine and filmmaker Rowan Wernham first arrived at the vast pistachio plantation
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The Resnicks are the Sacklers of pistachios, except that the Resnicks also fund genocide and want war with Iran. Sacklers started the opioid crisis, which continues to ravage America. Just like the Resnicks, Sacklers too donated to museums and got massive tax deductions.
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How “wonderful”! In 2015 it was revealed that the Resnicks had been watering their Wonderful Company pistachio orchards with treated fracking waste water. No wonder they could afford to pay Stephen Colbert for a Super Bowl commercial hawking their disgusting 🤢 nuts https://t.co/ItAgwNbXEH
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I was asked to help sell Wonderful Pistachios, but they're so great they sell themselves. Sales haven't gone up in the last 30 seconds, so let's work on branding.
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Speaker 0: To help sell their product. The folks at Wonderful Pistachios have asked me to help sell their product. But come on. They're wonderful. I'm wonderful.
They'll sell themselves. I think we're done. Yeah. You were good. Folks, evidently sales of pistachios have not skyrocketed in the last 30 seconds due to a lack of branding.
Well, let's take care of that.
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The Resnicks, Zionist billionaires who stole California’s water, manipulated the US 🇺🇸 government into imposing 241% tariffs on Iran’s 🇮🇷 pistachios, and fund militant think tanks who want the US to attack Iran, own these brands. https://t.co/emNiqbWxzr
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Since the Resnicks have a pistachio monopoly with their “Wondnerful Brand” and the superior Iranian 🇮🇷 pistachios are not easily available in the US 🇺🇸, go for Turkish 🇹🇷 pistachios (found in Middle Eastern grocery stores) which are just as good as Iranian ones.
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Left: Pistachios from Iran. Right: Pistachios from the US, which imposed 241% tariffs on Iranian pistachios / banned them, hoping to starve Iranian farmers but China and many countries buy lots of pistachios from Iran, which has been growing them for thousands of years. https://t.co/Y0oAfJvkRT
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In 1994, Zionist billionaire couple Stuart and Lydia Resnick seized control of California’s public water supply and built a business empire they call the Wonderful Company by selling taxpayer-funded water back to taxpayers. https://t.co/I4YsUTvRUe
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A billionaire couple, the Resniks, own a significant portion of California's water system, obtained through secretive meetings. They control water supply during droughts, profiting from selling water back to the state. The Resniks influence politicians, like Senator Dianne Feinstein, through donations and lobbying efforts. Their actions harm California's water resources, environment, and economy. This highlights the need for legislative changes to prevent individuals from exploiting essential public resources like water.
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Speaker 0: While 40,000,000 Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, 1 billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, seized in a series of secretive meetings 2 decades ago. That system was largely paid for by the very taxpayers whose water these billionaires hold hostage. Urban water systems are desperate for water, but in 2023, they'll receive just 5% of what they requested from the state. The Resniks are the biggest farmers in California. As of 2007, they owned 4 San Francisco's worth of farmland.
And nearly half of Americans buy at least one of their products. Their pistachios, their pomegranate juice, their mandarins, their flowers. It's all under one massive umbrella, The Wonderful Company, a privately owned company worth at least $5,000,000,000 The majority owners, the Resniks, are worth at least 8,000,000,000. How were they able to take over such a large percentage of what should be a shared public resource? This is the classroom from More Perfect Union.
And today, we're looking at how the Resniks got rich. Linda is a former child actress, the daughter of Jack Harris, a successful movie distributor of the 19 fifties, most well known for The Blob. Starring Steve McQueen and a cast of exciting young people. At 19, she founded her own advertising agency. Stewart was born to a middle class New Jersey family and started his first business, a janitorial service, in grad school.
He eventually acquired American Protection Services, a burglar alarm and security company. Linda approached him about marketing services for the company and they hit it off, not knowing that one day they'd work together to take over California's water. The lovebirds became business partners. They bought Teleflora, the flower delivery company, and the Franklin Mint, purveyors of inane little tchotchkes. Linda was the marketing person and Stuart was in charge of business.
As Linda told the LA Times in 1993, I've always said that Stewart and I together make one perfect person. Like little salt and pepper shakers. In the late eighties, they found their primary industry, agriculture. They got into the pistachio business. Linda said, we've done more for the pistachio than anyone ever since it was planted in the Garden of Eden.
My husband should be canonized for all the work he's done. They started branching into other products, almonds, pomegranates, citrus, wine, and acquiring more and more land to cover it, including some very important land in Kern County, which granted them water rights in the area. As the Resniks were building their empire, the state of California was building new water infrastructure with taxpayer money. California's natural water supply is very inconsistent. Vastly differing amounts of rainfall means the state can go from surplus to drought and back very easily.
So they build water banks to store water during surpluses to have during droughts. One important storage facility is the Kern Water Bank started in 1988. The facility was built with 100 of 1,000,000 of taxpayer dollars, which could have been a good thing. The people of California would have owned the water. But there were 2 Californians thirstier than the rest, and they wanted more water.
Linda and Stuart Resnick. And they had a lot of political power. We'll get to that. In 1994, state water officials, water infrastructure contractors, and agricultural landowners with water rights arranged a secretive meeting at a resort in Monterey Bay, California. These groups, a mix of private companies and public agencies, rewrote California's water rules without any input from voters, taxpayers, or legislators.
The new rules, called the Monterrey Plus Agreement or the Monterrey Amendments, were devastating for working Californians and great for agriculture billionaires. The original code included urban preference, a long standing rule that in times of drought, the State Water Board would give urban areas, where people live, access to water supplies before agricultural interests. Monterrey axed that. That means that in times of drought, the water systems for normal Californians would have to buy water from private companies because they weren't getting it from the state. The new agreement also loosened regulations on paper water.
That's water that doesn't necessarily exist anywhere but on paper. The full quantities of water that providers could have, but don't actually need to have. Today, 5 times as much water has been promised and sold as actually exists. And importantly, the meeting changed ownership of the current water bank. What once belonged to the state was transferred to a few private water contractors.
One of which was West Side Mutual, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wonderful Foods. The wonderful employee who runs West Side, Bill Fillmore, is the chairman of the public organization that manages the Kern Water Bank. Boom. One secret meeting and the Resniks owned nearly 60% of an important California water resource built with 100 of 1,000,000 of dollars in taxpayer money. The new ownership combined with the rules on paper and surplus water meant that during times of drought, the Resniks could sell Kern water back to the state water systems.
They took Californian taxpayers' water and sold it back to them, both literally as the water supply and also to grow expensive food like gourmet pistachios and pomegranate juice. They converted the people's water into products many can't afford. And that's just one water bank. The Resniks also have control of other water boards and have been sued for directing more water towards their properties. So how do they get away with this Chinatown level chicanery?
Speaker 1: Gonna be a lot of irate citizens when they find out that they're paying for water that they're not gonna get.
Speaker 0: With philanthropy. The Resniks donate 1,000,000 of dollars to politicians and research institutions, which help them secure control over water systems and even get more water and more taxpayer funding. One important project is the proposed California Delta Tunnel, a taxpayer funded project which would send water from Northern support the tunnel project. But their favorite politician is senator Dianne Feinstein. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway.
Chair of the energy and water subcommittee. She's a close personal friend of the Resniks, attending their holiday party in Aspen and maintaining their financial interests. A quick look through the bills she sponsored shows several which would direct money to current adjacent water projects. The Resniks even ask her for things directly. When a pesky study about endangering salmon and shad fisheries threatened the Delta tunnel, Stewart wrote a letter to Feinstein demanding a new study.
She immediately forwarded it to the Obama administration who agreed to spend $750,000 on a new study. It returned the same results as the first one. Can't buy science. But the Resniks have tried. They are among the top donors to the University of California system with their donations focusing on agricultural and ecological studies.
The Resniks have basically bought entire departments who put out studies on how water systems should be managed and where funding should go. That leads to even more federal and state taxpayer dollars being used to fix up what the Resniks profit off of. This is all bad for California even in a capitalistic sense. Agriculture uses 80% of California's water but only represents 2% of its GDP. The Resnick's water monopoly is just one way their quest for wealth hurts the rest of us.
They allegedly lobby for increased tensions with Iran to keep embargoes on superior Iran and pistachios. Their giant crops lead to monocultures which kill important pollinators. They siphon taxpayer dollars into the company town charter schools they own, set up to train children to work for their farms. And of course, like any company of this size, they exploit their workers. We need to treat water for what it is, A necessary public resource.
A human right. And something that shouldn't be owned by anyone. And work towards legislative change that stops people like the Resniks from stealing it.
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Zionist billionaire couple Stuart and Lydia Resnick rebranded their chicanery as the Wonderful Company, which owns Pom pomegranate juice, Fiji water, Wonderful pistachios (grown with fracking waste water) and donate to Univ of California, politicians, and museums to buy silence.
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In 2006, Jimmy Carter boldly criticized Israel, labeling it a brutal, colonizing, apartheid state. He emphasized that the conflict's root cause was the sustained occupation of Palestinian land by Israelis, leading to acts of violence. Carter warned that supporting Israeli apartheid practices would diminish the US as a global power, similar to how the Suez Canal incident affected Great Britain. Comparisons were drawn between Israel's policies and Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews, highlighting the disparity in Western reactions. The devastating impact of Israel's bombings in Gaza, funded by US taxpayers, was likened to a small nuclear bomb.
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Jimmy Carter bluntly calling Israel what it really is: a brutal, colonizing, apartheid state. This was in 2006, after Carter published a book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” which drew attacks from the usual pro-Israeli apartheid hawks (Alan Dershowitz etc)…
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Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his book "Palestine Peace, Not Apartheid" and explains why he used the word apartheid in the title. He clarifies that he is referring to the situation in the occupied territories, where Palestinians face severe human rights abuses. Carter emphasizes that he does not see any resemblance of apartheid within Israel itself. He compares the persecution of Palestinians to the oppression in Rwanda, stating that the current treatment of Palestinians is one of the worst examples of human rights abuse. He highlights the confiscation of Palestinian land, the building of settlements, and the restrictions on Palestinian movement as evidence of apartheid-like conditions. Carter distinguishes this form of apartheid from the racism-based apartheid in South Africa.
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Speaker 0: Back to hardball. We're back with the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. His new book is called Palestine Peace, Not Apartheid. President Carter, why did you worse use the word apartheid in the book's title?
Speaker 1: Well, let's look at the entire title, if you don't mind. The first word is Palestine, Which involves the land that belongs to the Palestinians, not the Israelis. I didn't refer to Israel because there's no semblance of anything relating to Apartheid within the nation of Israel. And I also emphasized the word not, that is peace and not apartheid. That's what I hope to accomplish with this book is some move with that goal.
But there's no doubt that within the occupied territories, Palestinian land, that there is a horrendous example of apartheid. The, occupation of Palestinian land, the confiscation of that land that doesn't belong to Israel, The building of settlements on it, the colonization of that land, and then the connection of those isolated but multiple settlements, More than 200 of them with each other by highways on which Palestinians can't travel and quite often where Palestinians cannot even cross. So the persecution of the Palestinians now under the occupying territories is, you know, under the occupation forces. It is one of the worst examples of human rights deprivation that I know. And, I think it's
Speaker 0: Even even worse though than a place like Rwanda?
Speaker 1: Yes. I think yes. You mean now?
Speaker 0: Yes. Oh, yeah. I think the impression now of the Israelis of the Palestinians by the Israelis is worse than a situation in Africa, like The oppression of Rwanda's and the and the civil war.
Speaker 1: I'm not going back into ancient history about Rwanda, but right now, the the persecution of the Palestinians is of the worst examples of human rights abuse I know because of Palestinian
Speaker 0: You're talking about right now. You're not talking about, say, a few years ago.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 0: Oh, Rwanda wasn't ancient history. It was just years ago.
Speaker 1: You you could talk about Iran Rwanda if you want to. I wanna talk about Palestine. What what is being done to the Palestinians now It's horrendous. In their own territory, by the occupying powers, which is Israel. They've taken away all the basic human rights of the Palestinians As was done in South Africa against the blacks.
And I make it very plain in this book that the, Apartheid is not Based on racism as it was in South Africa, but it's based on the desire
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2. Jimmy Carter nailed it in 2006: “Root cause of the conflict is the sustained brutal occupation of Palestinian land by Israelis in direct violation of UN resolutions, in response to which there have been acts of violence.” Why are so many confused about who the aggressor is? https://t.co/MN8xKDih4n
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The speaker criticizes Israel for the treatment of Palestinians, comparing it to apartheid in South Africa. They argue that Israel is motivated by a desire to acquire Palestinian land and exclude Palestinians from their own property. They highlight the lack of awareness and debate on this issue in the United States. The second speaker agrees and wishes for more open discussion. They ask about the responsibility of both Israelis and Palestinians in the conflict. The first speaker blames the conflict on Israel's occupation of Palestinian land, which violates international resolutions and commitments. They acknowledge acts of violence by Palestinians but do not excuse them.
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Speaker 0: What what is being done to the Palestinians now is horrendous in their own territory by the occupying powers, which is Israel. They've taken away all the basic human rights of the Palestinians as was done in South Africa against the blacks. And I make it very plain in this book That the apartheid is not based on racism as it was in South Africa, but it's based on the desire of a minority of Israelis to acquire land that belongs to the Palestinians and to retain that land and then to exclude the Palestinians from their own property and subjugate them so that they can't arouse and demonstrate their disapproval of being robbed of their owned property. That's what's happening in in the West Bank and and the people in this country, in America, never know about this, they never discuss this, there's no debate about it, There's no criticism of Israel in this country. And in other in Israel, there's a there is an intense debate about the issues in this book.
In this country, no.
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, I wish we had that sort of debate that they're having in Israel. Wish we had that in the United States. But give us a sort of sense. How much of the Responsibility for the conflict, Israeli Palestinian conflict, do you think belongs to the Israelis for their tactics like seizing land and occupying territory that didn't belong to them?
How much So that is the responsibility of the Palestinians for their suicide terror attacks and their bombings within Israel proper?
Speaker 0: Well, as a matter of The basic cause of the conflict is a sustained occupation of other people's land by the Israelis. And this is a direct violation of United Nations resolutions. It's a direct violation of the international quartets road map. It's a direct violation of the commitments that leaders of of Israel have made in the past at Camp David when I was president and in Oslo, Promising that Israel would withdraw from occupied territories. They have failed to do so.
In response to that, and I'm not excusing them, There have been acts of violence. As a matter of fact, though
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3. Carter knew that if US continued to financially and morally back the Israeli apartheid practices, it will mark the end of US as a global power and beacon of democracy, just like the Suez Canal fiasco marked the end of Great Britain's role as one of the world's major powers.
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4. Israel’s policy of bombing Palestinians, forcing them to flee Gaza and the West Bank is NO DIFFERENT than Nazi Germany’s policies against Jews which were also designed to force Jews to flee Germany — many fled to Palestine after Hitler signed Havara Agreement with Zionists. https://t.co/uusz9u1boI
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5. While Nazi Germany’s mistreatment of Jews invoked outrage in the West, including a boycott of German goods, weakening the German economy, similar Zionist Israeli atrocities against Palestinians draw moral support, military aid and massive funding from the West 🤷🏻♂️
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Warning ⚠️ sensitive content: Images from Gaza of dead and dying children are reminiscent of Nazi era Germany — except this time it’s the Jews committing horrendous war crimes with the United States providing moral backing and military and financial aid. https://t.co/XbxcjZ2pQX
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In Gaza, the death toll has surpassed 1,000 in just 5 days, with many children among the victims. Israel claims to be targeting Hamas leaders, but the cost is high. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has imposed a complete blockade on Gaza, worsening the suffering of the 2 million people living there. Over half of them are children who had no involvement in Hamas' actions. Despite being urged to evacuate, residents are trapped with no way out. The situation is described as genocide, with the intense sorrow causing physical collapse. The future remains uncertain for the people of Gaza.
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Speaker 0: In Gaza, it's the youngest who are paying the ultimate price. Tiny bodies covered in blood as exhausted doctors try to save their lives. Israel says it's targeting Hamas's leaders, but at what cost? The death toll in the besieged Palestinian territory has surged past 1,000 in just 5 days, and on nearly every street, Scenes of anguish as rescue workers gathered the remains of the dead. The sorrow here is so intense, This woman collapses to the ground.
Despite fierce international criticism, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also ordered a complete blockade of Gaza, Meaning Israel won't allow food, fuel, or water in until Israeli abductees are returned home, only amplifying the misery of the more than 2,000,000 people who live there.
Speaker 1: Go. Where's your time?
Speaker 0: Over half are under the age of 18, just children who had no say in Hamas' brutal assault on southern Israel, we're losing everything, says university student, Edfafa Najjar.
Speaker 1: They're wiping us out. This is genocide. It's it's not even an attack anymore. And they're They keep saying leave the Gaza Stripway too. They want the they want everything.
Speaker 0: Israel has repeatedly told residents to evacuate their homes, But Rafa, the only functioning crossing with Egypt and only way out of Gaza, has been repeatedly hit by the Israeli military, leaving the vast majority trapped with no idea what's to come.
Speaker 1: We have memories. We have dreams.
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Not surprising that Gaza looks like it was nuked — Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza (bombs made and funded by US taxpayers) has done the damage of a “small” nuclear bomb https://t.co/OEPqoNli68
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An Israeli defense official has vowed to retaliate against Hamas's terror attacks in Gaza. The military is preparing for a ground invasion, conducting 250 air strikes in one hour to clear the way. Israeli Defense Forces spokesman, Jonathan Conrikas, announced the deployment of infantry, armored soldiers, artillery cores, and 300,000 reservists to carry out the mission assigned by the Israeli government.
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Speaker 0: An Israeli defense official has vowed that Gaza will become a tense city, promising to raise every building to the ground in revenge for Hamas's terror attacks at the weekend as the military forms up on the border ahead of an expected invasion. In the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli forces conducted 250 air strikes in just 1 hour across northern and eastern parts the Gaza Strip to pave the way for a massive ground operation. Now, Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conrikas said the outfit is sending infantry, armored soldiers, artillery cores, plus 300,000 reservists close to the Gaza Strip to execute the mission that they have been given by the Israeli government.