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9 December 2023

9:00 AM

9 December 2023

9:00 AM

When Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press he was asked if Israel was breaking international law in its war on the terrorist group Hamas. His answer was one word: ‘hogwash’. This nice word has meant ‘nonsense’ since at least 1870. But before then (long before) ‘hogwash’ had other meanings.

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