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  • Australia to Resume Funding to UN’s Main Palestinian Relief Agency

    03/14/2024 8:47:58 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Australia will resume funding to the United Nations’ main Palestinian relief agency, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Friday, almost two months after pausing ties over allegations that some of the agency’s employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Australia had consulted with UNRWA and other donors and was satisfied the aid agency was not a terror organisation, Wong said. New and additional safeguards would protect aid money, and A$6 million ($3.9 million) in paused funding would be released immediately, she said. “We have children and families that are starving and we have a capacity along with...
  • Schumer faces backlash after calling for new Israeli elections to oust Netanyahu

    03/14/2024 6:14:28 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 56 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Thu 14 Mar 2024 | Chris Stein
    Senate majority leader says Israeli prime minister has ‘lost his way’ and warns that country risks becoming ‘a pariah’ SNIP In remarks from the Senate floor, Schumer said he had a longstanding relationship with Netanyahu but believed he “has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel”. Noting the prime minister’s inclusion of far-right officials in his government, Schumer said Netanyahu “has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah”. Israel’s...
  • Israel Fires Back at Chuck Schumer's Foreign Election Interference and Tells Him to Pound Sand

    03/14/2024 5:50:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Red State ^ | 03/14/2024 | Bonchie
    Sen. Chuck Schumer decided to engage in a bit of foreign election interference by going to the Senate floor and proclaiming that Israel must hold new elections. That comes as the American ally gears up to finish Hamas off in Gaza once and for all. In the face of that, Democrats have faced significant pushback from their radical, pro-terrorist base. "I believe that holding a new election once the war starts to wind down would give Israelis an opportunity to express their vision for the post-war future."— Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calls for new elections in Israel pic.twitter.com/yFXM6504oh—...
  • Schumer Calls for End of Netanyahu-Led Government in Israel

    03/14/2024 10:10:33 AM PDT · by airdalecheif · 79 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/14/24 | Natalie Andrews
    Netanyahu is “allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. He said Israel “cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”
  • Biden Slaps More Sanctions on Israel While Giving $10 Billion Sanctions Waiver to Iran

    03/14/2024 9:11:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/14/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    President Joe Biden’s administration slapped more sanctions on Israelis over so-called “extremist settler violence” on Thursday — including on two outposts in the West Bank, marking the first sanctions on Israel relating to a specific area. The sanctions are a virtual gift to the anti-Israel and antisemitic “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, at a time when Biden is trying to shore up flagging Arab- and Muslim-American support. The news also came on the same day that the Biden Administration sent senior White House officials to meet with Palestinian-Americans in Chicago. The sanctions also came a day after the Biden Administration...
  • Schumer: Netanyahu and obstacle to peace, has to go Senate Majority leader gives address from the Senate floor on "a pathway to peace and achieving a two-state solution." attacks Israelli government and calls for new elections

    03/14/2024 8:47:33 AM PDT · by Nextrush · 68 replies
    israelnationalnews.com ^ | 3/14/2024 | Israel National News
    US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a speech on "a pathway to peace and achieving a two-state solution" today (Thursday). In his remarks Schumer called for the holding of new elections in Israel, saying that "Netanyahu has lost his way". He further called the Israeli Prime Minister an "obstacle to peace." According to Schumer, Netanyahu is one of four obstacles to peace, among others being Hamas, "radical Israelis", and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Schumer's criticism of Netanyahu centered on the prime minister's "outright" rejection of the idea of creation of a Palestinian state in the aftermath of October...
  • The Crime of Mohamed Hadid-An Israel hater utters a threat to Joe Biden

    03/14/2024 5:59:47 AM PDT · by SJackson · 17 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 14, 2024 | Hugh Fitzgerald
    Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Ah, the Hadids. Where would we be without them? Brainless beauties, those Hadid girls, Gigi and Bella, sashaying down the catwalks of the Western world, and their doting, equally empty-headed, stage-door papa, a real-estate tycoon on his uppers and down on his luck, in sunny California, appear to have no other subject in their empty heads – as their Instagram postings make clear — than the hideousness of the Israelis and the sheer wonderfulness of the Palestinians they persecute. Gigi has informed the world that “Jesus was a Palestinian,” that the Palestinians are the “indigenous”...
  • Hamas casualty numbers are ‘statistically impossible’, says data science professor (pallywood)

    03/13/2024 1:52:19 PM PDT · by Milagros · 11 replies
    JC ^ | March 08, 2024 | JC Reporter
    Hamas casualty numbers are ‘statistically impossible’, says data science professor University of Pennsylvania statistician has analysed the widely quoted death figures put out by the terror group Data reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry since the start of the war indicates that the official civilian death toll is “statistically impossible”, according to statistical analysis conducted by a University of Pennsylvania data science professor. In an article published by Tablet Magazine on Thursday, statistician Abraham Wyner argues that the official number of Palestinian casualties reported daily by the Gaza Health Ministry from 26 October to 11 November 2023 is evidently...
  • Senior Israeli Official: Biden Should Topple Hamas, not Netanyahu

    03/13/2024 8:42:17 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 12, 2024 | Joel B. Pollak
    A senior Israeli official said Tuesday that President Joe Biden should focus on toppling the Hamas terrorist group, rather than trying to topple the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The Israeli source was commenting in the wake of a report Monday that said U.S. intelligence agencies "expect" the Israeli prime minister's coalition government to collapse. The assessment, in the middle of a war, was the latest political attack by the Biden Administration against the Netanyahu government. Netanyahu pushed back, and told Fox News on Monday morning that "[t]o the extent that Hamas believes that there's daylight between us, that...
  • Omar: Can’t Solely Blame Hamas for Lack of Ceasefire, They ‘Showed up’ for Talks and Have ‘Interests

    03/13/2024 7:23:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/12/2024 | IAN HANCHETT
    On Tuesday’s “CNN NewsNight,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) accused the Biden administration of inaccurately placing the blame for the lack of a six-week ceasefire solely on Hamas because “Hamas showed up to Egypt, it’s my understanding, for the negotiations. It was Israel that refused to send negotiators” to the table and “you have to remember that a ceasefire is not something that happens magically. It is a process that is negotiated by different parties that have interests.” Host Abby Phillip asked, “So, we just had one of your Democratic colleagues, Rep. Moskowitz (D-FL), on the show last night. He suggested...
  • Harvard Grad Student Who Accosted Israeli Classmate and Supervised Undergraduate Students Glorified Convicted Palestinian Terrorist

    03/13/2024 7:18:03 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 12, 2024 | Collin Anderson
    Elom Tettey-Tamaklo praised failed suicide bomber Fatima Bernawi in a 2023 essay.. Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, the Harvard University graduate student who was filmed accosting an Israeli classmate at a campus protest, penned an essay last year glorifying a Palestinian terrorist who was imprisoned for her role in attempting to bomb a movie theater in Jerusalem in 1967. "When I started learning about Palestine, I was always struck by the women who featured prominently in the movement's work," Tettey-Tamaklo wrote in a March 2023 article published in the Institute for Palestine Studies. "However, one woman's story struck me and has stayed with...
  • Foes of Israel Wore Red Hand Pins at Oscars-A reflection on the full horrific symbolism.

    03/13/2024 4:14:58 AM PDT · by SJackson · 28 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 13, 2024 | Robert Spencer
    The Oscars are always a superb occasion for leftists to indulge in an orgy of virtue-signaling, and this year was no different. Foes of Israel sported little round pins featuring a red hand with a black heart in the palm, which even for them was a bizarre and ham-fisted way to show the world that they want Israel to stop fighting and Hamas to live. It recalled nothing more vividly than a notorious Palestinian jihad massacre which, despite having taken place over twenty years ago, is still recalled with horror among Israelis and supporters of Israel.NPR reported happily on Monday...
  • The Realignment

    03/13/2024 7:50:43 AM PDT · by Lake Living · 2 replies
    Tablet Magazine ^ | May 10, 2021 | MICHAEL DORAN AND TONY BADRAN
    But even the Israelis have yet to absorb the full scope and magnitude of Biden’s accommodation of Iran. The problem is not that Sullivan and Blinken are failing to restrain Malley, but that they are marching in lockstep with him. A consensus reigns inside the administration, not just on the JCPOA but on every big question of Middle East strategy: Everyone from the president on down agrees about the need to complete what Obama started—which means that the worst is yet to come. If the control that Obama’s project exercises over every mind in the Biden administration is not already...
  • Netanyahu dismisses Biden's warning over "innocent lives being lost" in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza

    03/13/2024 7:16:26 AM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 11 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 11, 2024 | Chris Livesay
    Jerusalem — In interviews over the weekend, President Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disregard for the "innocent lives being lost" amid his country's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip was "hurting Israel more than helping Israel." Netanyahu said Mr. Biden was "wrong on both counts," claiming that both his political and military policies were supported by an "overwhelming majority" of Israelis who "support the action that we're taking to destroy the remaining terrorist battalions of Hamas." Mr. Biden's remarks to MSNBC on Saturday reflected his growing frustration over the situation in Gaza, where the Hamas-run health ministry...
  • By 44% to 30%, Israelis prefer Trump to Biden as next US president

    03/12/2024 7:56:59 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 34 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 3/12/24 | ToI Staff
    Forty-four percent of Israelis would rather see former US president Donald Trump return to the White House in 2025, compared to 30% who would prefer US President Joe Biden be elected for a second term, according to a poll published by Channel 12 on Tuesday evening. An additional 26% said they didn’t know which of the two men they would rather see elected. Among respondents who voted for parties in the current government coalition, 72% said they preferred Trump while 8% said they preferred Biden. When asked the same question, 55% of respondents who voted for parties sitting in the...
  • You’ll Be Shocked at the True Meaning of the Pin Worn by Billie Eilish and Mark Ruffalo

    03/12/2024 5:36:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 42 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 12, 2024
    Back in 2000, two Jewish IDF reservists mistakenly drove through Ramallah and were detained by Palestinian police — and then brutally murdered in their jail cell by a crowd of savage, blood-hungry thugs, one of whom showed his bloodied hand in a now-infamous photo. That is, like so much of American “advocacy” for Palestinians, the pins are a wink-wink, nudge-nudge endorsement of violent terror against Jews. It’s no coincidence that these stars are hard leftoids: Institutional antisemitism is now part of the American left’s core DNA. Ruffalo is an empty-brained Sanders fanatic, despite being a millionaire many times over himself:...
  • So, a Pier for Hamas it is...

    03/12/2024 7:56:15 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 29 replies
    CDR Salamander ^ | 11 Mar 2024 | CDR Salamander
    A lot of people spent the weekend scratching their heads over this; It will take a few weeks to make the transit from Virginia to the eastern Mediterranean. The 37-year old Besson can’t even break 12-knots fully loaded. …and yes my friends - the Army has its own navy. I feel real sorry for the Operational Planners. In an area thick with poorly controlled hostile forces with everything from snipers to ATGM, how do you work this force protection problem? What are your ROE if you take fire? What if you are confronted with a wave of people wanting refuge...
  • Israeli jets hit Lebanon's Bekaa Valley for a second day

    03/12/2024 6:30:03 AM PDT · by McGruff · 9 replies
    REUTERS ^ | March 12, 2024
    Israeli warplanes struck deep into Lebanon for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, hitting a facility belonging to Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley and killing at least one member of the Iran-backed group, sources in Lebanon said. The Israeli military said its fighter jets had "struck two Hezbollah military command centers" in the Baalbek area, in response to Hezbollah rocket launches towards northern Israel earlier in the day. Hezbollah said in a statement it had fired more than 100 Katyusha rockets at 7:00 a.m. (0500 GMT), targeting several Israeli military posts, in response to Israeli shelling of the Bekaa Valley...
  • Jerusalem police commander: 'Hamas trying to create significant escalation in Jerusalem'

    03/12/2024 4:56:14 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 7 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/3/24
    The Israel Police worked yesterday to ensure a safe and regular course of prayers on the first day of Ramadan. Hundreds of officers, under the command of Jerusalem District commander Doron Turgeman, were positioned in various areas, with emphasis on the Old City, the holy places, and the roads leading to the area. Turgeman commented at a situational assessment: “We are entering a complex Ramadan, and I feel certain that along with you, it is clear to all of us that Hamas is trying as hard as possible to create significant escalation, especially in Jerusalem.” .....
  • Biden Should Draw Red Lines For Hamas — Not Israel

    03/12/2024 12:16:25 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 11, 2024 | Richard Goldberg
    President Biden on Saturday suggested he might cut off US military assistance to Israel if it moved forward with a military operation to dismantle Hamas’ last stronghold in the Gazan city of Rafah. An Israeli victory over Hamas is now a red line for a president surrendering to a pro-Hamas political base. Americans should understand the consequences of that red line: A guarantee that Oct. 7 will happen again, that hostages will never come home, that an emboldened Iran will escalate on all fronts and that Hamas-oppressed civilians will suffer indefinitely. After dismantling Hamas’ operational control over northern and central...