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How much more blood does America and Biden want to wash with their hands?
UNRWA Exposed: Israel reveals identities of agency staff who participated in 10/7 massacre Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant revealed the 12 UNRWA staff members who actively participated in the October 7 slaughter. Among them are teachers working at UNRWA schools. “In addition to these 12 workers, we have significant indications based on intelligence, that over 30 UNRWA workers participated in the massacre, facilitated the taking of hostages, looted and stole from Israeli communities and more," Gallant said. The defense minister also said that of the 13,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza, at least 12% are affiliated with terrorist organizations. “1,468 workers are known to be active in Hamas and PIJ." The problems with UNRWA are beyond repair. America must institute a plan that ends U.S. funding to the agency. Two AIPAC resources to share: |
Lebanon Must Be Freed from Hezbollah and Iran
By Gregg Roman - JNS
https://www.meforum.org/65569/
Lebanon is being held hostage by Hezbollah and Iran. The country's plight is stark. It's trapped in the clutches of Hezbollah, a pawn in Iran's regional power play. As Hezbollah's dominance metastasizes, Lebanon now finds itself at a crossroads. The time has come for decisive action to extricate the country from the grip of extremism.
Lebanon is under the control of Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy that obstructs Lebanese politics and is more powerful than the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). Thanks to Iran and Hezbollah, Lebanon has become a failed state.
In a recent speech in Beirut, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah reiterated his commitment to attacking Israel until the conflict in Gaza is resolved. He rejected international efforts to prevent further escalation and dismissed Israeli threats of large-scale war. Nasrallah also claimed that Hezbollah's actions have stabilized the balance of deterrence in the region. Contrary to his lofty rhetoric, these statements provide evidence of Lebanon's continued downward spiral.
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Gregg Roman is director of the Middle East Forum
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Fani's testimony finished and I would hope so is she.
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Fulton County DA Fani Willis Testimony Suddenly Halted
The district attorney will not testify on Friday, prosecutors said in court.
By Jack Phillips
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s testimony in a court hearing on whether she should be disqualified in the Trump case ended early after state prosecutors opted against questioning her on Friday.
Ms. Willis was expected to take the stand again on Friday and confirmed in court that she would return after she testified on Thursday. But the state said during the second day in court on Friday that they have no further questions for the district attorney, and she did not appear for the hearing.
“The state has no further questions for Ms. Willis,” prosecutor Anna Cross said during the hearing.
Last month, a Trump co-defendant Michael Roman filed a motion accusing Ms. Willis of engaging in an improper relationship with Nathan Wade, her special prosecutor in the Trump case, saying she should be disqualified. Among other claims, the motion accused her of financially benefitting from the relationship with Mr. Wade, who is accused of using taxpayer funds to take her on vacations.
During her first day in court, while being questioned by Mr. Roman’s attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, Ms. Wade took a combative tone and began accusing the lawyer of lying before Judge Scott McAfee called a break.
“You think I’m on trial,” Ms. Willis said Thursday. “These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020,” she added, pointing toward the table of defense attorneys “I’m not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.”
Upon return from the break, the judge advised the parties involved to use decorum. But he later told Ms. Willis that he might strike her testimony if she continued to be combative on the stand.
“I’m going to have to caution you---you have to listen to the questions asked, and if this happens again and again, I’m going to have no choice but to strike your testimony,” the judge told the DA.
Defense attorneys, when questioning both Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis, pressed the pair on why there were no receipts when he took her on vacations. Mr. Wade said that he had no receipts and used his credit card to pay for those expenses, ultimately saying that Ms. Willis paid him back in cash, which she corroborated. However, neither provided any evidence of the cash payments.
“Did you pay him back? For the cruise and for Aruba?“ asked Ms. Merchant. “Yeah, I gave him his money before we ever went on that trip,” Ms. Willis said.
“And so when you got cash to pay him back on these trips, did you go to the ATM?” the defense attorney said. “No,” Ms. Willis added.
“So the cash that you would pay him, you wouldn’t get it out of the bank?” Ms. Merchant asked. “I have money in my house,” said the DA. “For many, many years I have kept money in my house.”
“I just have cash in my house,” Ms. Willis continued. “I don’t have as much today as I would normally have, but I’m building back up now.”
Earlier, Mr. Wade testified that he and Ms. Willis traveled together to Belize, Aruba, and California and took cruises together, but said she paid him back in cash for some travel expenses that he had charged to his credit card.
“She was very emphatic and adamant about this independent, strong woman thing so she demanded that she paid her own way,” Mr. Wade said.
Other issues that were brought up involved the timeline of their relationship. Both Mr. Wade and Ms. Willis said it started in 2022, but an earlier witness—a former friend of Ms. Willis who worked in the district attorney’s office—said that she saw them “hugging” and “kissing” in 2019.
An attorney for former President Trump, Steve Sadow, suggested that she wasn’t being truthful about their relationship. “I’m asking you whether or not prior to Nov. 1 of 2021, there was a romantic relationship with Mr. Wade?” Mr. Sadow asked.
Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Feb. 15, 2024. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool via Getty Images)
Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Feb. 15, 2024. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool via Getty Images)
In response, Ms. Willis said that she did “not consider our relationship to have become romantic until 2022,” adding that “I don’t consider my relationship to be romantic with him before that,” referring to Mr. Wade’s hiring as special prosecutor.
It’s unclear when the judge might rule on whether Ms. Willis and her office should be disqualified from the case. On Monday, he said she could be disqualified “if evidence is produced demonstrating an actual conflict or the appearance of one.”
Their relationship was first revealed by Ms. Merchant early last month. The lawyer has alleged that Ms. Willis personally profited from the case, paying Mr. Wade more than $650,000 for his work and then benefiting when Wade used his earnings to pay for vacations the pair took together.
Several co-defendants in the cast joined the motion, with Trump attorneys also alleging that Ms. Willis made inappropriate and racially charged statements at a church after she was accused of the relationship.
Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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Dred Scott 2
The ruling today against Trump, some family members, a close personal friend and his entire New York organization is a legal earthquake. Perhaps the New York Statute was drawn to purposely allow such verdicts but there was no harm to anyone and the amount, relative to fact there was "no crime" smacks as a purposeful attempt to wreck a man whose political views a sleezy Attorney General wanted to intimidate using the law.
Our constitution is one of the most beautiful documents ever crafted by man. It states everyone is equal before the law. This is a right Trump is entitled to because he also has a guaranteed right to pursue happiness. I submit, living a creative life, where, in this instance, there was no evidence submitted of harm is both unconscionably wicked but motivated by using the law to intimidate a former president of the United States and thus, should be remanded.
As I understand it, this rogue Attorney General announced, prior to the suit, he was out to get Trump . That alone is an egregious and biased comment that buttresses the evil intent to use the law as a sledge hammer.
This ruling reinforces the tragic fact it is now acceptable to use the law to punish a political adversary. Has America become a third world country? If the amount of this ruling is not radically reduced not only will the state of New suffer but our nation will have truly ripped the blinders off Miss Justice.
This ruling will go down as the equivalent of a modern day Dred Scott versus Sandford decision.
If this decision and amount are allowed to stand there is something rotten and it is not in Denmark.
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Insulting Israel is Old News at the State Dept.
U.S. secretaries of state have been leveling unfair accusations against Israel, and sometimes against the Jewish people, for more than 75 years, regardless of whether Israel’s government leaned left or right.
By Rafael Medoff
The claim by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel is “dehumanizing” the residents of Gaza is false and insulting. But it’s par for the course at Foggy Bottom.
It may not be much consolation to the Israelis, but U.S. secretaries of state have been leveling unfair accusations against Israel, and sometimes against the Jewish people, for more than 75 years, regardless of whether Israel’s government leaned left or right.
In 1948, Secretary of State George Marshall vigorously opposed the creation of Israel, implemented the U.S. embargo on weapons to the Jewish forces, and urged President Harry Truman not to recognize the new state. Marshall also promoted a plan to drastically reduce the size of Israel by tearing away the Negev.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, testified to a Senate committee in 1953 that Israel should stop seeking arms and start putting its trust “in the United Nations.” He also criticized the Israelis for striking at Arab terrorists in Gaza.
At another point in his testimony, Secretary Dulles claimed that Israel’s fears of being destroyed were baseless. When asked if America’s strategic plans for the Mideast were adequate to prevent Israel’s annihilation, he replied that the U.S. could not “underwrite” such a promise. Dulles reiterated that the U.S. would not sell weapons to Israel, while defending the administration’s decision to send 18 tanks to Saudi Arabia. He also justified the U.S. surrender to the Saudi leaders’ demand that no Jewish soldiers be permitted to serve on American bases in Saudi Arabia.
In a Mideast policy speech later that year, Secretary Dulles declared that Jerusalem should be ruled by “the world religious community,” instead of serving as Israel’s capital. He also challenged Israel’s identity, asserting that Israel “should become a part of the Near East community and cease to look upon itself…as alien to this community.”
President Richard M. Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, had a disturbing agenda of his own. Kissinger advised Nixon in 1973 that the persecution of Soviet Jewry was “not an American concern,” even “if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union.”
When Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hesitated to make concessions that Egypt was demanding in 1975, Kissinger accused him of “bringing the world to the edge of war.” Kissinger also claimed that Rabin was “fomenting antisemitism,” and he denounced Rabin and other Israeli officials as “fools” and “common thugs.”
According to Prof. Gil Troy’s book, Moynihan’s Moment, Kissinger once described Rabin with a vulgarity, a term similar to the obscenities that some U.S. officials reportedly have used concerning other Israeli leaders.
Another secretary of state with a fondness for curse words—at least when Israel and Jews were the subject—was James Baker, who served under George H.W. Bush. When Housing Secretary Jack Kemp noted Jewish concerns about Baker’s pressure on Israel, the secretary of state infamously replied, “F— the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.” Kemp leaked the quote to former New York City mayor Ed Koch, who publicized it in his syndicated column.
Other Baker gems reported in the press included mocking pro-Israel members of Congress as “the little Knesset,” and remarking, “Jews remember the Holocaust, but they forget insults as soon as they smell cash.”
The pattern of secretaries of state taking shots at Israel crosses party lines. Cyrus Vance, secretary of state in a Democratic administration, criticized Israel’s use of U.S. fighter planes to strike terrorists in Lebanon in 1979. Alexander Haig, secretary of state in a Republican administration, lambasted Israel for bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981.
In 2003, Colin Powell, secretary of state under president George W. Bush, publicly accused Israel of inflicting “daily humiliations” on the Palestinian Arabs. His successor, Condoleeza Rice, said the Palestinian Arab war against Israel was similar to the African-American civil rights movement. She also compared the Holocaust-denying Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bill Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, was still chastising Israel long after she left office. Albright asserted on CNN in 2014 that Israel had lost all its “moral authority” because it was “overdoing it” by carrying out “disproportionate” strikes on terrorists in Gaza. (That was the same Albright who said on “Sixty Minutes” in 1996 that even if sanctions against Iraq caused the deaths of half a million Iraqi children, responded, “We think the price is worth it.”)
John Kerry, who served as secretary of state under Barack Obama, took his share of shots at Israel. In 2014, he publicly claimed that Israel was at risk of becoming “an apartheid state.” In 2016, he indulged in disturbing moral equivalence by listing “settlement expansion” alongside “violence, terrorism, [and] incitement” as the reasons for the absence of Mideast peace.
Ironically, the unfriendly remarks made about Israel by various secretaries of state do not seem to have impressed Palestinian Arab leaders. The official PA newspapers Al-Hayat Al-Jadida and Al-Ayyam have referred to Kissinger as “Henry the Jew”; derided Albright as “vulgar,” “insolent,” and “a snake”; denounced Powell as “a neo-Nazi agent”; and labeled Rice “the black widow” and “the black raven,” among other insults. One wonders what epithets they have in store for Blinken.
The lesson for Israel? Blinken’s insult about “Israel dehumanizing Gazans” is consistent with what we have come to expect from the State Department. Many secretaries of state seem to have believed that coldness to Israel is part of the job description. But Israel has outlasted them all.
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is “Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America,” a nonfiction graphic novel with artist Dean Motter, to be published by Dark Horse in February 2024
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