Eran Lerman on King Hussein's 1973 Warning

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MEF speech-to-text, word-timed; edited only to withhold private names and to correct misheard public names, in square brackets. Timecodes are source time; each opens the source at that second.

1. 23:28Moreover, in nineteen seventy-three, it was King Hussein who came to warn Golda Meir
2. 23:34that the Syrians are up to no good. I wish she listened.
3. 23:38She didn't fully comprehend the danger that he was describing.
4. 23:43He did not, he was not fully aware of what the Egyptians were up to, but the
5. 23:48Syrians, his northern neighbors he, uh, he knew, and he felt and he, he sensed that
6. 23:54something is, is going in the wrong direction.
7. 23:57He came to warn us.

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