David Goldman

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David Goldman

David Goldman

@dgold941

Katılım Mart 2018
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Hananya Naftali
Hananya Naftali@HananyaNaftali·
Israel just unveiled a new naval warfare system called DIAMOND - and it could completely change how wars at sea are fought. Instead of depending only on one giant warship, Israel created small unmanned attack boats that travel alongside it carrying missiles, drones, and air defense systems. They can be swapped, upgraded, and deployed within hours depending on the mission. In simple terms: One ship can now fight like an entire fleet.
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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@NickKristof NYT wants us to believe Israelis trained dogs to rape is utterly ridiculous and they cannot be taken seriously ever again
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T C Jack
T C Jack@TCjack132·
@EricLDaugh Awh they got Sambo on the front line again. He’s a traitor to his on race. He thinks because he married a white woman that changed his color. Dude look at Clarence Thomas yall are same. Being led around like puppie dogs on a leash. Grow a set and stop sucking Donnie!!!
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Rep. Byron Donalds just MIC DROPPED every Democrat traitor in America "They will watch people STARVE. They will watch people be oppressed and they won't lift a FINGER, but they'll go to their cocktail party and talk about how they 'stand for freedom and liberty and democracy.' Give me a BREAK!" "The fact that you have Democrat senators who want to stop President Trump from doing what he can to help free Cuba from more than 60 years of totalitarianism and a DICTATORSHIP." "But then the SAME Democrats will come here and LECTURE everybody in America about how they're the 'only ones that stand for freedom, that stand for democracy.' Give me a BREAK!" 🔥 "They're lying. But this isn't new. They lie about this stuff all the time because we work in these halls and when we try to just do simple common sense policy to actually open up America's economy for the American people, drive down costs, have health care that makes sense..." "...You know who stops us? The same Democrats who go on the trail and talk about how they're the only one standing for the little guy!" "That war powers resolution that they're bringing is indicative of the fact that the Democrats will tolerate totalitarianism on THEIR watch and they will let it happen." "I don't listen to them anymore and that resolution is why." Next governor of Florida. 🇺🇸☀️
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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@mamboitaliano__ Yes but it's easier to just blame Israel, Zionism, and the Jews instead of your own society for foolish decisions re immigration from countries that are incompatible with yiur culture.
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Mambo Italiano
Mambo Italiano@mamboitaliano__·
🚨 I am outraged, exhausted Fed up with what mass immigration has turned Italy 🇮🇹 into Modena was a jewel, peaceful, elegant Today the “usual suspect” went berserk Car into crowd, people run over, stabbed A woman lost both legs This is a national tragedy Enough is enough!
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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

🇮🇹 A driver mowed through a crowd in central Modena (Italy), then stabbed a bystander who tried to stop him. At least 10 pedestrians were injured. The vehicle hit a shop window before the driver was subdued. Europe has seen a wave of vehicle-ramming attacks over the past decade. What's different here: the attacker came prepared to fight back against anyone who intervened. Source: Gazzeta di Parma

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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@MsMelChen @brivael Well said. It did start with Rousseau and Foucalt may just be logical extreme of that. The older I get the wiser and more impressive Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman are.
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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality and Emile popularized the myth that humans are born good and society (property, hierarchy, tradition) ruins us. Fix it with the right education, the right state, the right social contract, and we shall return to natural harmony. This is the kernel of modern progressivism: the belief that inequality is unnatural, institutions are oppressive, and experts/moral vanguards must engineer a better humanity. From this foundation, many took it to the extremes - reign of terror, Pol Pot. But even in moderation it was harmful! Because ultimately It rejects the empirical reality that humans are flawed, self-interested, and that institutions channel that into productive order rather than radicalism and violence. French Theory (post-1968) took Rousseau’s suspicion of truth, power, and norms and turned it into an uglier monster. But the original sin starts with him
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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
If you’re going to apologize for French philosophers, you should really start with Rousseau
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@InsiderGeo Completely wrong on War Powers Act. Dems can howl and bark at the moon per usual but no chance Supreme Court rules that the month long ceasefire extends 60 day period.
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GeoInsider
GeoInsider@InsiderGeo·
NEW | On Air Force One this morning, flying back from Beijing, Trump told reporters: "We really did the ceasefire at the request of other nations. I wouldn't have really been in favor of it, but we did it as a favor to Pakistan." What this actually means, plainly. The April 7-8 ceasefire is no longer described as a US strategic choice. It's now described as a forced concession, done reluctantly. Retroactive reframing. Three implications. First: Trump is giving himself the cover to resume strikes without admitting he's breaking his own commitment. If it wasn't his choice, it's not his breach. Second: Pakistan now carries the political weight of a mediation that Washington describes as imposed, not shared. Islamabad won't appreciate this, and Trump loses a backchannel. Third: and the heaviest: this language is War Powers material. When the president publicly states his preference was to continue the war, Murkowski and Collins have more ground to push a formal AUMF. The MOU was dead as of yesterday. Now the retroactive legitimacy of the ceasefire that preceded it dies too. The frame for resuming kinetic operations is complete.
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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@CaptainUF @JonahDispatch The people who support hin are strong. Israel, Japan, UAE, Argentina, Taiwan etc, same with supporters in US. Feckless Europeans and Muslim nations that talk out of both sides of their mouths are not good allies. Our allies are up to taking on China long term.
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ضيا ممتاز!
ضيا ممتاز!@CaptainUF·
@JonahDispatch History will be fair, and his name will live in ignominy. The people that support him have wrecked the world over a grievance of their own making. It is a cult.
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Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch·
When you listen to Trump talk about Taiwan (or many other topics) it’s the stuff he doesn’t say that is more revealing. Asked about Taiwan he blathers on about how big and strong China is, how tiny Taiwan is, about tariffs and dumb American presidents who didn’t use them. What doesn’t he talk about? Alliances, obligations, democracy, values, honor, etc. Keep in mind, if you don’t care whether Trump throws Taiwan under the bus, that wouldn’t be the only betrayal involved. We’d be screwing Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia too. I’m not saying we should get into a shooting war over Taiwan. I am saying Trump shouldn’t betray our allies, our values, and our national security and national honor just because he’s got a man crush on Xi.
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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@PowerOwn45 Byron Donalds pulled himself up from poverty more than Desantis. Has been loyal to Trump more than Desantis who was nothing until he embraced Trump and then turned on him. Donalds votes conservative 100% and crushed Stephanopoulos on TV. Sorry he's black.
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That Guy Trey 🇺🇸
That Guy Trey 🇺🇸@PowerOwn45·
Out of sheer curiosity I looked into the Florida GOP primary situation to see what in the H-word is going on. It’s not my state but I’m fascinated as to how an electorate goes from DeSantis to Donalds. It’s like trading in a Bentley for a ‘95 Dodge Neon. From what I can tell, the Collins and Renner crowd need to consolidate. That means Renner will likely need to swallow his pride and drop out. It will still be a tough race even if that were to happen, but it would be at least be a race.
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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@StealthQE4 Come on. You left out the other half of the equation. China got nothing too.
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QE Infinity
QE Infinity@StealthQE4·
Let’s keep it real: This trade summit was a disaster. China basically ignored us and gave us a few crumbs. We got no offering of help with Iran. Just a few statements. Those are just words not actions. Then they threatened us about Taiwan and called us a declining superpower. The most interesting part about all of this is Trump just sat there and took it. America isn’t what it used to be. This meeting was a failure imo.
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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@MsMelChen My introduction to you was on the Haviv Rettig Gur podcast. Now I follow you and forward your posts to friends. Such insightful and direct takes. I hope Marco Rubio and those in his circle follow you too, and that you help inform their perspective as well.
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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
Notice the flip flop here. In 2015, Xi said that "there's no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap in the World" and now? Xi just sat across from Donald Trump in the Great Hall of the People and asks whether the two powers can “overcome the Thucydides Trap” and “forge a new paradigm” for great-power relations. Funny! Because a decade ago, he used the phrase "so-called" to describe it and outright denied that it was an applicable concept. So why the change of tone you ask? This is what you'd call a tell, an involuntary admission that Beijing’s position has deteriorated sharply since 2015. Back then, China was at the height of the post-financial crisis boom. Beijing was surging with double digit growth (on paper), the Belt and Road Initiative was rolling out to great fanfare, island building in the South China Sea was barely met with any Western response (thanks Obama), and the American president was still preaching “strategic patience.” Today, in 2026, the material reality has flipped. China’s much-hyped “century of rejuvenation” has slammed into structural headwinds that no amount of state media spin can hide - a demographic death spiral, a property sector collapse that wiped out trillions in household wealth, local government debt bombs lurking on the books, and a tech ecosystem increasingly isolated by US export controls and friend-shoring. The GDP overtake narrative that once enthralled the elites at Davos has quietly died; projections now show America pulling further ahead in nominal terms. Xi’s “China Dream” is at best delayed and at worst, never materializing. Trump 2.0 brought tariffs back on the table, hardened alliances with Japan and the Philippines, accelerated arms sales to Taiwan, and an American public finally awake to the CCP’s game. Knowing that China requires continued access to Western markets, capital, and technology to avoid stagnation at home, Xi now does a U-Turn and reaches for the historical analogy he once dismissed. Basically when you’re strong, you deny any threat exists hoping to lull the bigger power into complacency. When your power and strength wanes, warn that resistance will produce the very conflict you claim to fear. Xi is essentially saying to America, "don't contain us, don’t push back too hard, or you’ll be the paranoid Sparta that started the war against Athens.” It's actually a veiled threat to keep the one-way transfer of power and wealth open, OR ELSE. This 180 deg shift proves that the balance is tilting back toward American strength. The correct US response is to reject the premise entirely, and continue to maintain unrelenting pressure on every front and force Xi to choose between genuine reform at home or managed decline on Beijing’s terms. Xi’s sudden invocation of the Thucydides Trap - something he used to dismiss - simply confirms that the pressure worked. Americans should take this as a sign that their country is not in decline, despite the insane amount of propaganda now also being touted by American influencers and podcasters.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex

Xi Jinping asked Trump if the United States and China can avoid the 'Thucydides Trap', a theory that suggests high likelihood of war between rising and established powers, during their summit.

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David Goldman
David Goldman@dgold941·
@GordonGChang Come on. Neither side gave the other anything. Trump held firm. Xi held firm. Probably a waste of time for CEOs all just to say a few words to Xi and hang with Trump. But everyone needs to STFU. Kind words and handshakes were all that happened.
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Gordon G. Chang
Gordon G. Chang@GordonGChang·
Ignore the doomsters, Trump’s got this. He has the leverage over Xi Jinping’s China. @USATODAY
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David Goldman@dgold941·
@PhillipsPOBrien This is just treasonous CCP propaganda. Rubio clearly said our position re Taiwan is unchanged. Trump gave away nothing. Xi gave away nothing. Everyone just politely held firm. You are a fucking asshole just trying yo misinform and harm the US.
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Phillips P. OBrien
Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien·
New piece. What we are seeing in China is clear and unmistakable signs of US decline. The US is praising Xi, refusing to defend Taiwan and desperate for Chinese help--and the Chinese know it and love it. This summit might be remembered in history as the end of the US Era.
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PolyEdge
PolyEdge@polyedge_news·
Netanyahu just made one of the smartest strategic moves by any world leader right now.Making AI training mandatory for every Israeli child from kindergarten through high school isn’t just “tech education” — it’s a deliberate national strategy to build the most AI-native generation on Earth. The goal is clear: make Israeli kids the best in the world at using and eventually creating next-level AI tools before they even graduate.This is real long-term thinking. In the AI age, human capital + early mastery will be the ultimate advantage. Israel is playing to win
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
🇮🇱 Netanyahu just announced: This summer every Israeli kid from kindergarten to high school gets special AI training His goal? Make them the best in the world at ChatGPT, Claude & next-level AI, even before their final exams.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

🚨 BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇦🇪Netanyahu secretly visited the UAE during the Iran war and met with President Mohamed bin Zayed, his office has announced. - Netanyahu's office claims the visit produced a "historic breakthrough" in UAE-Israel relations - The visit was conducted on a covert flight Source: Times of Israel

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David Goldman@dgold941·
@Qashi110110 @MarioNawfal How can anyone take you seriously? Like Kristof dog raoe story in NY Times. And you wonder why Israel is leader in every area of human endeavor and are happiest nation despite all the hate against them and attempts to wipe them out.
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syedzaidi
syedzaidi@Qashi110110·
@MarioNawfal Netanyahu is telling his own people's children to read the GPT and he is killing Palestinian children. Don't Palestinian children have the right to education?
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David Goldman@dgold941·
@CryptidPolitics So hypocritical. Donalds was asked by the Trump campaign to go on TV where he mopped the floor with the likes of George Stephanopoulos. Ron Desantis ran for president and went on TV and did far more events away from his official duties than Byron Donalds.
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Cryptid Politics
Cryptid Politics@CryptidPolitics·
Ron DeSantis was right about Byron Donalds: “He just hasn't been a part of any of the victories that we've had here over the left over these last years.” Donalds was too busy running around doing cable TV hits for the Trump 2024 campaign. x.com/joanfromdc/sta…
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David Goldman@dgold941·
@bdquinn Why is do feel Trump is unfathomably awful? He seems to be the best president US has had in quite a while.
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Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦
Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinn·
Boy, it's hard to be optimistic about the trajectory of American politics. The Republican Party is a slavishly devotional personality cult around an unfathomably awful man. The Democrats have a pincer of a sclerotic establishment vs. a policy illiterate progressive base.
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🇺🇸@Bartko_Actual·
@C_3C_3 There aren’t any Republican seats in anew England. Jesus, the stupidity of people on Twitter tonight. Is everyone high?
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C3@C_3C_3·
The Republicans should not be celebrating about the House Maps. The Democrats are just going to redraw all the Congressional maps in New England and remove all the Republican seats…
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David Goldman@dgold941·
@RedWavePress Bret is right on this. Bill is dead wrong. There are many emerging black republicans with broad appeal like Byron Donalds in Florida, Wesley Hunt in Texas, Tim Scott in South Carolina and Winsome Sears in Virginia. Times are changing
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RedWave Press
RedWave Press@RedWavePress·
WILD TAKE: Bill Maher on the Supreme Court Striking Down Parts of the Voting Rights Act: “We’ve heard a lot of talk about a civil war. This is like a step toward that. I saw the map. The picture of the map of what it’s going to look like. There’s going to be no black congress people from the South.” “You think you can cut off the part of the country that has the most African Americans in it, and that map is completely red… and you think people are just going to take that lying down.” Bret Stephens: “What I think you’re actually going to have is you’re going to have black representation, but a lot more of it is going to be Republican.”
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David Goldman@dgold941·
@brcryptosa @toly @TheAliceSmith You prove the exact opposite. What was "health care" and life expectancy before capitalism. No Marxist can honestly acknowledge life was total poverty prior to market capitalism. Socialism is a scam of stoking grievances and envy in the pursuit of absolute power.
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José Garajau@brcryptosa·
“Investment can only come from profit” conflates surplus with private profit. Every society in history generated surplus and reinvested it. The question is who controls it, not whether it exists. The welfare state doesn’t eliminate investment. Denmark and Germany have both. The claim doesn’t survive contact with data. The 100 families / 99 homes analogy actually argues for public housing construction which is what welfare states do. The conclusion doesn’t follow from the premise. Ending with “communists sent minorities to Siberia” is punching out of the argument. Real historical crime. Not a response to whether housing policy works.
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Alice Smith@TheAliceSmith·
Capitalism has proved so successful at reducing poverty that socialists had to create the concept of “relative poverty” to keep themselves in business.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers. My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers. This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.
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