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Bassem Youssef

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  1. “The gender prosecutor, the gender prosecutor, and it was based because of complaints by the officials and the government because in order the general prosecutor to do it, it has to have a high up mandate to bring that person to questioning.”

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  2. “They remove the Muslim Brotherhood, they came to power. And I have to say, I admit it, I supported that in the beginning because I had daily threats. I was actually interrogated and arrested under the Muslim Brotherhood. I was in an interrogation for six hours and they were asking me about my jokes. And I use that in my stand-up comedy, describing exactly what happened in the six hours. And it is so funny.”

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  3. “So basically, I had one hour and they have like the five things that they were like, you know, they're calling me all kinds of names, not just me, like all their enemies, you know. And then I just had one hour and I would kind of like annihilate them in one hour a week. So at a certain point, they would even kind of be side with the army against the liberal seculars, whatever you call it. And at a certain point, the army kind of flipped everybody.”

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  4. “Yeah. And it is loved by the people, but it comes with a prize because if the power is too strong and you're not into a situation or a system that allows that, that gives you that kind of safety. What happened? I was so when, so the height of my fame, what the Muslim brothers was in power. And at that time, they had their median. And I had one show. I had like one hour per week. And they had five channels, 24-7. And they were like, you know, John Stewart said it beautifully once. It's like, we say shit and you say shit and we just say shit better than you.”

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  5. “You are human. And people, kind of the adoration and the fun and the love comes because they see you saying stuff because you do your job basically. Political satire is basically us making fun of politicians in the media. And a lot of people have a really strong opinions about politicians in the media. So we came that we articulate that and we give it to them and we make them laugh. So for them, we made a great job. So why don't you do more? But you are limited. And at a certain time, you can't. And at a certain time, you're afraid because we're humans. Because you're afraid about like if I continue speaking up, not like something will happen to me. I'm kind of like maybe have some protection because people see me. But what are the people around you? And I've seen that. So that's why at a certain point, that's it. I can't.”

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  6. “Toxic. It's toxic. It's unnatural. It's unnatural. When people started to recognize me in the street and take pictures, I was awkward. It's like, why do you want to have a picture of me? Why? Why is it? Because I didn't feel that I'm worthy enough to be like a reward for someone to have a picture. And I didn't understand it. I was kind of an ass sometimes. People thought it was arrogance. No, it was confusion. And I remember my director and my producers and people, they always saw me in a very bad mood. It's like, why are you why are you not enjoying this? It's like because this is not natural. This is not natural. This adoration, this love, and this have to end somehow, and it did. Because at a certain”

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  7. “Overnight Five to six videos, boom, went out. At that time I was waiting to get my clearance to go to Cleveland. I already accepted in a fellowship as a pediatric art surgery in a hospital in Cleveland. And I said, all right, I'm just going to do a couple of videos. Maybe I'm going to put it on the internet, and maybe after a year or two after I come back from the fellowship, somebody will come, hey, why don't you write a show that looks like John Stewart? That was my mind. Took five weeks. I had my first contract of television. And overnight Exposure and over the next two, three years, I had 30 to 4 million people watch 30 to 40 million people watching every episode. A lot of this like, wow, that's too much. That is terrifying. It means that there are 30 million people who have an opinion about you.”

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  8. “And we thought, oh, 18 days, we can change the country in 18 days. But of course, we were naive and we had this kind of hope. So Mubarak was removed. There was an interim period by the military, took it for one year. Then they did elections. Muslim Brotherhood came to power. Stayed for one year, and then the military removed them. And in these three years, my show started. It started by kind of like a YouTube video.”

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  9. “And it's the joke that they say also, like Bubaric had a president for 30 years. Like, oh my God, he had a president for 30 years. It's the Middle East. It's a very short first term. It's like we started warming up And I told them, like, we need to plan ahead. We need to plan our Our vacations, our careers, our jail time. It's just like we need to”

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  10. “The American soldiers who did that a few days ago. And that kind of sparked protest in Tunisia. And Ben Ali was a dictator in Tunisia for about 20 years. And they removed him. So suddenly it was kind of like a domino effect. So then Egypt started and it just took 18 days. And people, hindsight is 2020. Saying said, like, you know, just Mubarak became like a burden on the military because the military are the real rulers of the country. You might have a president that kind of like have certain powers, but at the end of the day, when the military sees that a certain president is like too much of a burden, too much of like, you know, so like they cut him off.”

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  11. “Which side of the equation you are, because for a lot of people it's a conspiracy, it's American made. It is the Muslim Brotherhood. It's the Islamists. It is Israel. It is everything else other than people. But it's a pure revolution. It's a pure. I think we put too much weight on conspiracies. I think it is normal human behavior that then become, get maybe used or abused or taken advantage of by other powers and then the conspiracy. Starts. But at the time The Arab Spring didn't start in Egypt, it started in Tunisia. Bouaziz, a fruit vendor, burned himself up.”

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  12. “What is this? And we had the global edition. So I went to their YouTube and I just started to kind of watch every single episode that I can. I said like, do you think we can have this in Egypt? I said, never. And then 2011. I had a friend of mine who was also a YouTube partner. It was something new at the time. He said, let's do something on internet. Let's do something. I said, like, I want to do John Suet. It's like, do Ray William Johnson. John Stewart will not work. It's like, I wanted, oh, John, that one.”

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  13. “You know, sometimes when you even see like a comedy that's the language you don't understand, but there's a rhythm. Boom, boom. There's something So there's something with the videos and the pictures and he and the face and people reacting.”

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  14. “I was in a gym and I was running on the treadmill. And at that time CNN was coming out on cable. And I was watching, and there's this studio, I don't know what it is, so I put. The earphones on, and I started watching, and I was so taken by this that I stopped the treadmill and I just stood for the 20 minutes like this on the treadmill. And then I just standing there. I didn't know what we were using. I didn't understand what the Democrats, what is Republicans, what those names that he's saying, what is Fox News, I don't understand. But I was fascinated. There was something, you know, when you don't understand the music, but you get the rhythm. It was that.”

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  15. “That I was not meant to be a TV presenter. I have an Arabic it's very obvious. I cannot roll my R's. Can say it. So in Arabic, like Spanish, it's very obvious. So, when I did my first video on the internet that made me famous, and then I got my television deal back there in Egypt, my partner at the time, he took the video and he went to a producer. I said, like, are you giving me a guy with... That's why when I came on television, I was the first ever guy with the lisp. I had two things going for me the lisp and the big nose. And I was always bullied for these two all the time. So I always felt less.”

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  16. “Yeah, yeah. I always felt as less because, I mean, I didn't have any girlfriends in school. I had very late in life. Everything to me came to life. So I always felt even stand-up comedy. It came very late to me in life. So I always feel that I'm not good enough. I feel that I didn't spend the time to fill the foundation that other comedians do. So I always feel that I am too lucky. I always feel that this is a fleeting thing. And when I went had the height and the fall in Egypt, when I would like the top of everything, I was like, so famous. And then everything was taken away from me. That's like, ah, you see, I told you that happens when you don't build foundation. You fall. So I always feel that I am not good enough or if I am in a position where people think I am deep inside, I am not. Do you know that I have a speech in Peter?”

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  17. “I still did it, but I don't know. Is it because of the difficulty? Or Because of what I told you, maybe I needed something. Maybe because I was not very confident in my social life. So I needed a distraction not to have that much of a social life. Oh, wow, okay. You understand? Yeah. It's kind of loud because I will always have an excuse I'm studying. I have something, I have exams, and I don't know, I kind of like self sabotaged my own thing because I couldn't compete with those people on the outing and the money and whatever. So I need an excuse to be as like, oh, he's a doctor he study.”

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  18. “And he didn't talk to me for six weeks. I said, what's happening to Farido? Which college is like, I didn't want to tell you. She went into medicine. I said, what? Medicine, why did he do? Because he knows how I hated it. I was traumatized. And I said, like, dude, she's a basketball player. Make her go like to an easy school. So that's kind of.”

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  19. “Maybe, but like when I left Egypt and I came here, I still had the choice to go back to medicine. But I hated it. I hated medicine traumatized me. The amount of like you give up, you know, my brother in Egypt, he had a daughter. She's a brilliant basketball player. She is in the national team amazing. I used to play basketball also in the Egyptian league, but I never, I was kind of like my favorite position in the court was the bench. I was not as good as her. And then it was time for her to go into college.”

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  20. “Maybe I went to the hardest school ever so I don't have space to use other than studying. Because if I have that much space, what I'm going to do with it, I don't have that much freedom, I don't have that much money. I can't compete with those people going out. So maybe I need a solid excuse that I'm in a place where I don't have that much of a spare time.”

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  21. “Can I tell you something Actually, I was thinking about why I actually went to medicine and why did I always choose the hardest thing, although I didn't love it. And I have to tell you I had an epiphany only two weeks ago. And I don't know if that's actually related or not. You know, I remember when I told you I went to this school and I didn't have that much money. And I didn't have the luxury of time or money to be with those people and do what they do. So by the time I finish school and everybody was going to university, oh, everybody in my school went to the AUC, the American University in Cairo, of course. American education, part-time, like, I mean, of course, they're brilliant and everything, but they have, yeah, they have a different social life. And part of me, now I kind of like. I realized that just like very, very recently.”

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  22. “It was a choice of exclusion. I mean, there's nothing else you can do with these high grades other than doctrine engineering. I hate math, so go be as doctrine. This is the Middle East. What do you expect? It's either in my joke, in my show, I said, like, it can be one of three things in the Middle East. A doctor, an engineer, or a disappointment. That is the choices that you have. So years after.”

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  23. “I was okay. I was cool. I was fun. There were people better than me, but I have a thing about teaching. I like teaching people.”

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  24. “I had like the biggest Lusa class in Egypt in the beginning of the 2000s, and it was fantastic. And it was an outlet because you go there and there's the shifts and people dying.”

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  25. “I was making a killing amount of money, like huge amount of money. And I was just like, you know, I would go finish my shift and I go to the Salsa class. And sometimes I would have like 70 people in my Salsa class.”

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  26. “The approval from the other sex. We are babies. We are terrible people So, of course, that was great. But then as a nerd, I went in so hard and now I became a Salsa teacher. And I earned more money from salsa more than I did as a doctor.”

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  27. “To learn it, yeah, like you know, Samba sells a pachata meringue. It's kind of like Latin dances. And I don't know how you describe Sansa, a couple dance on Latin beat. And I did it because And I talk about that in my Arabic stand-up comedy, not the English. I talk about how I was, you know, I didn't have really a grid. Social life, and I my friends went there one day, and I go into a place which was called El Getone Gregre. No, no, it was called Big Fat Black Pussycat. And then I think they thought it will be like racist or something. They'll change it to it. It'll get to Negro. Anyway”

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  28. “91 I was supposed to be on a plane coming back to Egypt. What happens? Thank God I ran out of money 10 days before that. Just like, all right, I changed my ticket and I came back. 9 11. I'm kind of like my mom”

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  29. “I'm an outsider for the third time because in Salsa I'm kind of like the respectful doctor, and in resident, I'm the guy who is just dancing, and everything, of course, as a dedicated resident, you will mess up a lot. So they would always like, oh, because you're a dancer, oh, because you don't care about medicine, you just want to go there and dance with women. Which is true, but And so all of my life, I felt that I'm an outsider. I'm not part of the team. I'm not part of the core group. So And I have a story that you would love right before my residency, I was so much into Salsa, so I asked all of the mommy and then you saved that and I was working summers and I was doing extra jobs and I took that money and I went to Miami in order to learn Rue de Casino, which is the Cuban kind of like circle salsa kind of thing.”

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  30. “Yes, all the time, and that's why it kind of like I'm more of a loner. I don't have a lot of what you call friends. I have acquainted with people that I do stuff with, but I don't have like the people that I tell them everything. When I went to medical school, now medical school is a different animal. Medical school is where all of the people from the public schools go. Public schools are very like, they don't have like, they don't have English language as a strong partner, but they are brilliant people. So because they would mostly study in Arabic, but they are brilliant and they are very, very, very smart, very sharp. But then I'll go there. Now I am the sissy boy from the private school that comes into medical school. Now I'm an outsider again. And I go into residency and I pick up salsa. So now I'm a Salsa teacher while being a cardiothoracic surgery resident.”

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  31. “And from there was this moment where you feel less right away. I mean, of course, the regular bullying and stuff, but it's not that. It's kind of like you always feel less. You don't have that much of purchasing power that can allow you to go to the same outings or travel with them and even how you dress, it will be modest compared to them. So I was always an outsider. And I compensated with that by two things, being good at school and being good at sports. So I was not like the typical nerd who was just like that. I was like, I was playing football, basketball, cratering field. And I was like one of the people would like to have me on their team. So I wasn't kind of like, ah, he's an air, get him away, but I never had a girlfriend. I never had any kind of, I was not boyfriend material. So that's kind of like it leaves remnants in you that you're not good enough.”

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  32. “No, no, it's kind of like the minimum. My dad was not a command of showing off. Whatever money they would do, they would put it for us, education, give everything to their kids. This is kind of like a very... Very typical mentality, and I'm sure it's in many cultures, but we grew up with this, like everything that we have is for kids. So they would put us into education. So middle school, that was the big 1986, was the beginning of the explosion of international schools, private schools. And these schools were relatively expensive. Of course, now with today's currency, it's ridiculous. But at that time, it was very expensive. So I went to that school.”

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  33. “My memory in general was cool. It was cool. I went to a Catholic school until primary school, elementary. And by the time I'm done There was kind of like a start of a decline into the public education. And my parents, they're like middle class working officials. My dad was a judge. My mom was a business professor. And they were one of the people that's like, they didn't have that much luxury. My dad drove a regular car, a fiat, which is the equivalent for the ladder.”

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  34. “These kind of attacks at the beginning, it's fun. But when they evolve into something else, so for example, I was like laughing off all of the stuff about calling me this, calling me that. But then when people would come and thread the theater, because it's not the people who are making those accusations that would come to you. It's the people that will hear and see those accusations and act on it. And there's always the fear of like, I mean, we have in the airboard a lot of things that somebody you would hear something about someone else and go kill him and whatever like anybody else. So there's this, but somehow I want to make fun of it. And it is to be called a net an Islamazi, it must have been the funniest thing ever. Wow, how did you, and a radical Muslim, me, a lot of Islamists hate me. They call me a secular infidel.”

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  35. “Time I have been cold so many things in Egypt. So in Egypt, I was called CIA operative a mus by secret Muslim Brotherhood, a secret Jew, a secret Jew. There was also an article that was published about me in the state run media saying in details how Basem has been Recruited by CIA agents using John Stewart in order to use satire to bring down the country. Was a Freemason, an infidel, a member of the Knights of the Temple, something like that. And there is actually people, the Muslim Brotherhood on their show, they would say like, he is actually an Israeli, and they have forged an Egyptian ID for him to come. So it's kind of like when I get, I said, I left all of that behind and I come here. It's like, boom, anti-Semitic Nazi. Damn. I mean, I really covered everything. I don't know what else. I mean, I think I have.”

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  36. “He is a survivor of the Holocaust. And you know what happened to him? He died, by the way, a couple of years ago, but he, before he died, he was canceled by so many people and he was called anti-Sem He joined the BDS movement and he spoke about Palestine. That is the author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that we value so much and we think that that would define our humanity. But then we go in and we are. Shocked, it's like maybe we were sold something, maybe that was false advertisement.”

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  37. “I think the shock came from the fact that we thought that we as humanity have evolved and now we are What have actually changed is that we became more advanced in effectively eradicating a group of people because of the technology that we have. And the fact that we can do that under the eyes and ears of all the world and we are watching it under our phone, we have a window, we have a window to the war. 1945, people didn't know what was happening in Japan. We heard about it on the radio. Like, oh, today our forces came in and they launched a room. We don't know. We heard it. Maybe we saw pictures after that. And it's quite edited. But now we see it. We're into it. And it is so much for our psyche. And we can get it. And the Arabs will say, like, guys, you told us we came to the West because we were told that we were equal. You know the Universal Declaration, right? One of the co-authors, his name is Stefan Hessel. He's a Jew.”

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  38. “Because you know what's the problem? We told ourselves we can be better. After 1948, there was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It means that we are going to be better humans. We're not going to kill and take land. We're not going to displace people. We're not going to take people for their laws. There's international laws, there's international court of justice. And now Israel is giving the middle finger to all of them.”

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  39. “France, Greece, Persia, Egypt, they would like go in, expand and shrink, expand and shrink. It's always been there. What is different here is exactly what happened in Australia and the United States. A group of people came in not just to conquer and take the land, but to completely change, to replace them and get them out or kill them. It was very easy with the Indians because they had small parks, there was no social media, they did it over 400 years. They had time. The problem is what is happening right now? I agree with you. It might not badly be that new, but we are there and we're watching it happen.”

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  40. “I agree with you. This has been the history of humanity. Humanity was not living peacefully. It's all about people taking people and killing people. But there's two differences here. Mostly, usually, The conquering power, like, for example, England, they had England and they conquer you in India. And after the occupation finished, they go back to England.”

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  41. “I can't pull it up right now, but if we look at the numbers, the number of tanks, the planes, the trained officer, because many of those Jewish fighters came from World War II. They were seasoned fighters. And they actually had more planes, more tanks, more artillery, more pieces of weapon, more of all of the other combined because the people that really fought was Egypt. And you have to, 1948, many of those Arab countries didn't even have their independence. So they would kind of like send like a cavalry or like a people and horses. But in fact, the whole idea was like, we won against seven nations. The numbers were totally in Israel favor. They were better equipped. They were better trained. They had like more tanks and artillery and airplanes. They planned better. So, yes, they deserve the win because they planned and we did it.”

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  42. “Yeah, well, that's also a misconception, like a misinterpretation of the event because it seems that it was like the small, it's kind of like a David and Goliath kind of story. And I was always like, how did we not do that? But in reality with numbers.”

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  43. “And then you come in, and it's not really Israel against the Arab world or the Muslim world because we have to say, we fucked up big time. But the Palestinians that are in, and they have been subjected to that. So it's not really like the 1.8 billion and the 16 million Jews. 1.8 billion, if you look at them, some of them don't care, some of them live into regimes that are being oppressed, and those regimes are supported by the United States in order. It's easier for me as an empire to take what I want from this country if I control the dictator. And I tell them that his power is linked to my ability, my desire to keep him in power. So that's why you have a total disconnect between people in power in the Arab and the Muslim countries and the people themselves.”

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  44. “Jews in Israel have every right to feel afraid because of everything that they see and everything they've been told everything. But I would say that the calculus or the numbers doesn't, like, of course, like being small. It is, of course, a factor, but it is never an excuse in order to take something that's not yours. It's saying, like, hey, you have 300 million Americans, and we have 52 cis, give one state for another, there's too many of them, too many of you. Just give them something. It's like the fact that I have something and you don't, and there's too many of me and there is little of you”

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  45. “Because humans need to concentrate their hate, their insecurities, and their shortcomings into one thing that they can practice that hit on. If it's a person, great. If it's a group even better.”

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  46. “People don't know. That is a work of plagiarism. It was plagiarized from a satirical play called Conversation in Hell between Machiavelli and Montezciu. And it is just, and it is kind of like based on one chapter or one scene or something. It's crazy.”

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  47. “And when they find they arrive to Jerusalem, all they killed were Jews. They almost annihilated the Jews. So it was all this, and of course you have the Dark Ages. Who do you need as an enemy? The Jews, right? They're the killer of Christ. There's nothing bigger than this. And then you fast forward. I mean, one of the things that I found out that was very, very, very, very crazy when Henry Ford imported the protocols of the elders of Zion. By the way, in the Arab world, protocols of the Elder of Zion is so popular. The obvious years, and for the people who don't know it, it's kind of like a bunch of stories. And basically it's the Jews saying”

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  48. “That was so, yeah, that was, and that stayed for years, that stayed for centuries, I'm sorry, centuries, they're the killer of Christ. And then the Catholic Church did not allow usury, but they would work in usury. So they become rich. Now the people that we hate, that we accuse them of feeling Christ are becoming rich. So that's envy now. And that's hatred. I mean, when you talk about ghettos, ghettos were not just as secluded parts in cities. Sometimes those ghettos were outside the cities. Jews were not even allowed to work a lot of professions. They were not allowed to get into the syndicates of certain professions. So they had to work usually and they got rich. So people hated them more. The first crusade didn't kill a single Muslim. All they killed were Jews.”

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  49. “Oh, it's very easy. It all started from Christ. They killed Christ. They killed Christ. They killed Christ. They're the killer of Christ.”

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  50. “And you give me that kind of piece of like terrible human tragedy. Like, oh my God, that is terrible. But then I'm an Arabs like, yes, I'm so sorry, but what do I have to do with that? Why is that my fault? The persecution of the Jewish people have started since the 8th and 9th century because they were like, they were first anti-Christians. They were like with criminal immigrants. They were like conspirators. This is the antis. kind of like as if Europe kind of like throw anti-Semitism on us. You understand that Henry Ford is one of the biggest anti-piration for Adolf Hitler. This is how anti Semitic Henry Ford was. And you kind of like gloss over that. And then suddenly we as Arabs have to pay the price. Why?”

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