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Jerusalem (AFP) – Relatives of a Palestinian family burned alive filed a lawsuit against Israel on Monday demanding it be held responsible and pay damages over the 2015 attack blamed on Jewish extremists in the occupied West Bank.
Eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabsha died along with his parents when their house was firebombed in July 2015. Continue reading “Family of Palestinian toddler burned alive sue Israel”
On the day the White House threatened to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, emerged as a key conduit between the United States and Canada.
But his role has sparked a cross-border game of telephone and conflicting accounts about who called who first. Continue reading “Kushner emerged as conduit for Canada on NAFTA talks”
The Political Insider – by Paul
Robert Eugene Owens was one of the most vocal defenders of the Second Amendment in the country, and he used his platform on his website Bearing Arms to inform Americans about the value of our gun rights.
Tragically, it appears Robert took his own life on Monday in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. He was 46, and police believe the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Continue reading “Popular Second Amendment Writer Robert Eugene Owens Dies of Apparent Suicide”
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians who witnessed Israeli border police shooting and killing 16-year-old Fatima Afif Abd al-Rahman Hjeiji in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday evening said the girl was “executed in cold blood” and did not pose a lethal threat when she was hit with some 20 bullets outside of the Old City.
Israeli police claimed Hjeiji “approached Israeli police and border guards stationed at the site, drew a knife, and tried to attack them while calling out ‘Allah Akbar’ in an attempt to hurt Israeli forces, who determinedly and professionally neutralized her.” Continue reading “Teenage Palestinian girl ‘executed in cold blood,’ witnesses say”
During the Israeli bombardment and shelling of the Gaza Strip last summer, an Israeli soldier approached a 74-year-old Palestinian woman Ghalya Abu-Rida to give her a sip of water. He gave her the water, took a photo with her and then he shot her in the head from a distance of one metre. He then watched as she bled to death, the Palestine Information Centre reported.
This is how Ahmad Qdeh, a journalist in Al-Aqsa TV, described the scene that he witnessed during the latest Israeli aggression. The spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, shared the photo of an Israeli soldier holding the water bottle and helping the old woman drink as an example of the “humanity” of the Israeli army towards the civilians in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading “Israeli soldier gives 74-year-old Palestinian woman water then shoots her in the head”
Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong
We have succeeded in moving close toward the Civil Unrest that can erupt into civil war. In Oregon on the Communist May Day holiday, anti-Trump factions who are calling themselves now “anarchists” have turned violent. They threw rocks, smoke bombs and just about anything they could at police officers during a May Day rally. Thousands more marched in other major cities around the nation on this Communist day when Russia would display its military weapons and celebrate the people working for the State. Continue reading “Civil Unrest in Oregon – Communist Uprising is USA?”
Rense.com – by Stephen Lendman
Washington created and supports ISIS, along with other anti-government terrorists in Syria and elsewhere.
NATO, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other regional rogue states supply them with weapons and other material support.
So does Israel. In June 2015, the Times of Israel quoted former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, saying “(w)e’ve assisted (anti-government terrorist groups in Syria on) two conditions. That they don’t get too close to (Israel’s) border, and…don’t touch the Druze.” Continue reading “Israel Aids ISIS”
Senator Chuck Schumer on MSNBC (via ZeroHedge): “We’re no longer fact-based. The founding fathers created a country based on fact. We don’t have a fact base. If Breitbart News and the New York Times are regarded with equal credibility, you worry about this democracy.”
First of all, in Schumer’s opening sentence, who is this “we”? There is an implication that the “we” is somehow monolithic and centralized. But people have been in disagreement about facts and what they mean since the dawn of time. People have rejected centralized sources of facts, from kings and queens and priests, to newspapers and television news. Continue reading “What Chuck Schumer is revealing out in the open”
The Political Insider – by Thomas
Country legend Willie Nelson is back on tour, much to the delight of millions of his fans. But we just learned Nelson paused a performance in Texas.
Apparently, Nelson – who is 83 years old – became disoriented during his performance at Nelson’s New Braunfels. Nelson left the stage after playing through his first song, “Whiskey River,” with an out-of-tune guitar. Continue reading “Willie Nelson Halts Concert in Texas – Country Legend was ‘Disoriented’”
The CIA has denied that it has any information about intelligence budget-line items earmarked for Israel between 1990 and 2015—a claim which a federal judge in Washington DC has dismissed as “neither logical nor plausible.”
According to a report by the Courthouse News Service (“CIA Hammered After Shrug on Israel Records”), the ruling came in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy who asked for the information back in March 2015. Continue reading “CIA Denies Knowledge Of Aid To Israel”
Two leading U.S. news outlets reported on Wednesday on business ties totaling tens of millions of dollars between the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and the Steinmetz family, one of the richest families in Israel which made most of its fortune in the diamond industry in recent decades.
According to reports published in Bloomberg and in the New York Times, the ties between the two families include high-stake real estate deals in Manhattan worth more than $150 million. Bloomberg says at least 15 different buildings in downtown Manhattan are co-owned by Raz Steinmetz, nephew of diamond dealer Beny Steinmetz, and by Kushner family’s Kushner Companies. The two also invested together in a project bearing President Trump’s name in New Jersey, according to the report. Continue reading “Reports Uncover Jared Kushner’s Business Ties With One of Israel’s Richest Families”
LAS VEGAS — The Latest on the trial of six men charged in an armed standoff with federal agents:
10:50 a.m.
Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jenny Wilson reported the verdict in a series of tweets:
— Jury reaches partial verdict – Gregory Burleson, former FBI informant, guilty of 8 counts. Todd Engel guilty of two. Hung on rest Continue reading “Partial verdict reached in Bundy ranch standoff trial in Nevada”
LAS VEGAS — A federal jury is ready to deliver a verdict in the trial of six men accused of taking up arms against federal agents during the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014.
The jury is expected to return to the courtroom about 10 a.m. Arizona time.
Jurors began deliberating April 13 after two months of testimony involving 35 prosecution and four defense witnesses. Continue reading “Jury announces it has a verdict in Bundy Ranch trial”
LAS VEGAS (AP) – The Latest on the trial of six men charged in an armed standoff with federal agents (all times local):
12:45 p.m.
A federal jury in Las Vegas ended a half-day of deliberations without a verdict in the trial of six men who brought assault-style weapons to a standoff with government agents near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014. Continue reading “Bundy jury takes break and will resume deliberations Monday”