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Here are ten of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed. Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protestors. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after October 7 from the Biden administration. Here are ten of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed. “Progressive Hamas”: Gay and transgendered student protestors in America would be in mortal danger in Gaza under a fascistic Hamas that has banned homosexual acts and lifestyles. Anyone protesting publicly against Hamas or its allies would be arrested and severely punished. Women are segregated...

Israeli military vehicles operate on the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout image released May 7, 2024, by the Israel Defense Forces. ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS Jerusalem — An Israeli tank brigade took control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, as Israel moved forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife's edge. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

---(snip)-- "Three of these discussions were held earlier this year, with participants sharing the goals of creating greater understanding and trust, reducing polarization, encouraging discussion and improving communication. Common ground has been identified, including agreement that penalties need to be raised for violations against our state’s concealed carry law. Several Republican state representatives and a local Republican elected official participated in these conversations, and we thank them for that."

The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press. The aid community believes that tens of thousands of people died needlessly because the international community was slow to respond to early signs of approaching hunger in East Africa in late 2010 and early 2011. The toll was also exacerbated by extremist militants from al-Shabab who banned food aid deliveries to the areas of south-central Somalia that they controlled. Quicker action...

After a psychic tip-off about a mass grave in Texas, Liberty County sheriff's department informs the media no bodies have been found. Turned out that Liberty County sheriff's deputies had been acting on a tip from a woman who may or may not have been claiming to be a psychic, and who may or may not have had an ulterior motive in directing police to the home of the long-haul trucker who owns the place. But by then it was too late for media, in or near Greenwich mean time. They'd long since launched a journalistic corpse-a-palooza. Agence France Presse...

DALTON, Ga. - Funeral services for three children killed in a Lilburn house fire last week were held Wednesday. The services for Jose Ivan Guevara Brito, 3, Isaac Xavier Guevara Brito, 4, and Stacy Brito Pina, 18-months-old, were held in the chapel at the Willis Funeral Home in Dalton. Internment followed at the West Hill Cemetery. The mother of the children, Neibi Brito, attended the services under police escort. Officials say Ivan Gonzalez is responsible for a deadly meth lab fire in the home that killed the three children. Brito has been charged with trafficking in methamphetimine. The fire originated...

QANA, Lebanon - Israeli warplanes carried out strikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, hours after agreeing to temporarily halt air raids while investigating a bombing that killed at least 56 Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children seeking shelter. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said there will be no cease-fire, adding that "Israel is continuing to fight."

Israel: Hezbollah Responsible For Lebanon Qana Civilian Deaths Thousands of Israeli civilians take cover in bomb shelters By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem-----July 30.....The following communication was transmitted from the Israel Defense Forces to the Israel News Agency. "This morning, the Israel Air Force attacked Hezbollah missile launch sites in the area of the village of Qana, Lebanon. An area from which hundreds of Katusha missiles were launched towards the Israel city of Nahariya and the Israel communities in the western Galilee." The IDF will defend the citizens of Israel from terror attacks by the Hezbollah and the responsibility...

The president of a Minnesota organization for the blind said Sunday that he believes a sighted person should have been present when three blind counselors took eight blind children on a swim outing at Lake Calhoun. Brianna Joy Nelson, 7, of Grant, Mich., drowned Friday evening. She and the other students were attending a camp sponsored by Blind Inc., a Minneapolis company that helps children learn life skills from adult role models who, like them, are blind. On Friday, the counselors -- two in their 20s and one in his 30s -- took the students swimming at the lake's north...