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Did Clinton express regret over not rigging Palestinian elections in 2006?
Yes, the quote is authentic. This is the archived page (saved on 27 Oct 2006) - Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror - from jewishpress.com that published the interview on October 25, ...
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Did Pakistan ask China to invade India and vice versa in 1962 and in 1999?
In 1962:
"China invited Pakistan to invade India (as China attacked India)."
This claim is unverifiable - I could find no documentation that China, in 1962, invited Pakistan to jointly ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?
I found what you've quoted here, here and here:
The “trick” that stopped further withdrawals, Mr Netanyahu adds, was to redefine what parts of the occupied territories counted as a “specified ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?
Yes, he did say it.
In this video, uploaded in 2011, he is seen talking to a kid in his home and claiming that he stopped the Oslo accords by interpreting the wording in a way favorable to Israel (...
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Was Stuart Seldowitz "Obama's former/ex-director of the National Security Council"?
He was a carry over from the Bush administration. He started in 1999.
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Was Stuart Seldowitz "Obama's former/ex-director of the National Security Council"?
A Whitehouse.gov press release from 2009 lists "Mr. Stuart Seldowitz, Acting Director for South Asia, NSC".
A Foreign Policy article from 2010 clarifies the structure a little:
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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in July of 2001?
Balance, the claim really isn't bold.
I feel the other answer is correct but fails to provide balance to the claim,
Did Alex Jones truly talk in infowars in July of 2001 of the possibility of a ...
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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in July of 2001?
https://twitter.com/datarade/status/1673640496587997184?lang=en-GB
In response to @Abel and others' skepticism as to whether Alex Jones mentioned Osama Bin Laden when warning of a government ...
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Would US president Theodore Roosevelt refer to his political enemies as "vermin"?
Google Books is too limited for me to get the full context, but this is what I have, evidently from a letter he wrote in 1900. From The years of preparation, 1868-1900 - Page 1356:
…which will help ...
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Did Hamas dig up EU-funded water pipes and turn them into rockets?
According to an Al Jazeera documentary the water pipes for rockets are dug up from abandoned Israeli settlements:
Narrator: "The reclamation of the unexploded Israeli shells was not an easy task....
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