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Search results for "Israel used white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon"

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Michele Bachmann stated on November 22, 2011 in a foreign policy debate in Washington, D.C.:
Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America."
By Aaron Sharockman• November 23, 2011
X posts stated on September 18, 2024 in an X post:
Photo shows a toilet after “some Hezbollah operative blew up.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 24, 2024
Facebook posts stated on February 17, 2021 in Facebook posts:
The snow is government-generated or fake.
By Noah Y. Kim• February 19, 2021
Instagram posts stated on October 27, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Photos show Gaza on Oct. 27.
By Loreben Tuquero• October 31, 2023
Threads posts stated on October 03, 2024 in a Threads post:
The U.S. government is offering Americans loans to pay for flights out of Lebanon while they have been flying Israeli citizens out of Israel on chartered flights for a year “on our dime.”
By Sofia Ahmed• October 9, 2024
Bloggers stated on August 05, 2020 in an article:
“Israel dropped a tactical nuclear weapon on the port of Beirut.”
By Daniel Funke• August 5, 2020
Facebook posts stated on July 02, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Putin humiliatingly blows up all weapons and facilities" on Snake Island by retreating Russian troops.
By Andy Nguyen• July 12, 2022
X posts stated on September 18, 2024 in X posts:
“iPhones exploding in Lebanon blowing up random people.”
By Sofia Ahmed• September 20, 2024
X posts stated on September 28, 2024 in an X post:
Video shows “the bunker-busting bombs that ended the lives of (Hassan) Nasrallah and Hezbollah’s leadership.”
By Jeff Cercone• September 29, 2024
Lee Leffingwell stated on December 13, 2012 in an Austin City Council meeting.:
Says Austin’s treated wastewater, put into the Colorado River, is of higher quality than water the city takes from the lake for public use.
By W. Gardner Selby• January 21, 2013
Barack Obama stated on June 01, 2015 in remarks at the White House:
Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth."
By Louis Jacobson• June 3, 2015
Instagram posts stated on October 06, 2024 in Instagram posts:
Video shows Oct. 6, 2024, fires in Beirut caused by Israeli airstrikes.
By Sofia Ahmed• October 7, 2024
Jake Tapper stated on July 29, 2014 in comments on CNN:
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
By Derek Tsang• July 31, 2014
Viral image stated on October 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Video shows protesters in Lebanon “storming the border with Palestine in support of Gaza” in October 2023.
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 25, 2023
Facebook posts stated on August 04, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“The Beirut bombing today was directly next to the Lebanon Central Bank, which is also owned by the most evil deep state family, the Rothschilds. There are no coincidences.”
By Bill McCarthy• August 6, 2020
Instagram posts stated on October 01, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Video shows a missile strike on Israel.
By Sofia Ahmed• October 7, 2024
Donald Trump stated on March 21, 2016 in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee:
"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."
By Louis Jacobson• March 22, 2016
Instagram posts stated on July 07, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Antarctica has “an entrance to a different world” — a “mythic land” with green forests, giant animals, and “extraterrestrial technologies.”
By Luiz Romero• July 26, 2022
Ron Johnson stated on February 03, 2017 in a CNN interview:
Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.
By Miriam Valverde• February 13, 2017
Marco Rubio stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks:
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
By Miriam Valverde• January 29, 2021

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