Republicans are lying when they say slashing IRS funds will lower the deficit. For each extra $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12. Defunding the IRS will INCREASE the deficit.
They want to help their rich donors cheat, while the rest of us pay for it.
"American officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but #Hamas had refused."
If you think a ceasefire is an extremist position, then you might want to check what famously radical organizations like the United Nations, World Health Organization, UNICEF, and Doctors Without Borders are saying.
@luckytran
The same United Nations that keeps a #terrorist genocidal Russian Federation as one of the few permanent members of the #UN Security Council?
The same United Nations that left #Ukraine to fend for itself against a military power hundreds of times stronger?
The same United Nations that asks for ceasefires without presenting solutions on defending against military attacks from crazy military organizations?
They live in la-la land.
It's time they take a look at their own uselessness.
#DeSantis is a lying #fascist. The #government cannot simply pretend that a student group that espouses views that conflict with those in power is providing "material support" to a #terrorist org for the purpose of violating those students' #FirstAmendment rights. This is textbook viewpoint #discrimination that has no chance of surviving judicial scrutiny. In the end, #Florida is going to be forced to reverse their discriminatory policy, and pay out a huge sum.
Traumatized by a horrid #terrorist attack, ruled by extremists and given free rein by Western powers, for three weeks #Israel has bombed densely settled #Gaza under conditions of total #siege collectively punishing 2 million #Palestinians, half of them children, by denying them food, water, electricity, fuel, and medical supplies.
Now it is taking the assault to the next level under electronic #blackout.
Step back from the brink of #genocide. Lift the #Gaza siege. Cease fire.
It does not accurately describe either the foundation of #Israel or the tragedy of the #Palestinians.
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
“…Whatever the enormous complexities…, one truth should be obvious among decent people: killing 1,400 people & kidnapping >200, including scores of #civilians, was deeply wrong.
“The Hamas attack resembled a medieval Mongol raid for slaughter & human trophies—except it was recorded in real time & published to social media. Yet since #Oct7, Western academics, students, artists, & activists have denied, excused, or even celebrated the murders by a #terrorist sect that proclaims an #antiJewish genocidal program.
A highway in #SanFrancisco was shut down by SEVERAL thousand protesters marching for a ceasefire, and a lot of major Western media outlets are not telling you about it.
Instead, places like CTV News and CNN are telling you that #MatthewPerry died.
Cool.
This protest brought to you by #Jewish Voice for #Peace, #Arab Resources and Organizing Center, and the #Palestinian Youth Movement... and protestors like you. ❤
Jewish Voices for Peace are left wing radicals, not mainstream Jews. They won’t use the words #terrorism or #hamas to describe what happened on #october7th2023
Not one of my Jewish family or friends subscribes to this garbage, even those who work for peace.
Hamas is a #terrorist organization who butchered innocent men, women, and children to death in #israel.
If this protest won’t acknowledge that, maybe that’s why there’s no airtime.
2 drones fired from the southern Red Sea area hit the #SinaiPeninsula, #Egypt’s armed forces said in a stmnt. 1 fell on the town of #Taba, which abuts the border w/ #Israel, while debris from a 2nd fell on an uninhabited area in the beachside town of #Nuweiba. Earlier, Egyptian state media had reported that 6 people in Taba had been injured.
In #Israel, Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, the #IDF’s chief spox, linked the explosion to an “aerial threat” that had appeared in the Red Sea area on Fri morning, prompting Israel to send Air Force jets to the area.The reports did not specify the origin of the attack, but last week the #US said that a navy warship in the northern Red Sea intercepted projectiles, possibly launched toward Israel by #Yemen’s #Houthi#terrorist group, another #Iran ally.
The #IDF said it sent #tanks in to conduct a “targeted raid” in the northern #Gaza Strip overnight, describing the brief raid as “part of preparations for the next stages of combat.” It said soldiers “exited the area at the end of the activity.” As calls grow for a #CeaseFire, Israeli PM Benjamin #Netanyahu said #Israel was “preparing for a ground incursion” of Gaza, but that he “won’t specify” when or how it would occur.
Moscow is attempting to walk a fine line in its public stance on the conflict, where it has ties to all sides but little leverage to influence the outcome significantly. #Russia never designated #Hamas as a #terrorist group, hosting its leaders in Moscow over the years, & now has signaled its continued willingness to engage w/the group in an attempt to cast itself as a diplomatic alternative to the #UnitedStates.
He also said the attack on #Israel hadn’t happened “in a vacuum” & noted #Palestinians had suffered >5 decades of #occupation & #oppression by Israel, which drew criticism from Israeli ofcls.
An important piece of context for the current escalation of conflict in #IsraelPalestine that I've rarely seen mentioned in mainstream reporting concerns the #GreatMarchOfReturn, a series of large (and largely peaceful) weekly protests in #Gaza near the border fence that were sustained through most of #2018 and #2019, and which were met with enormous amounts of sustained lethal violence by the #Israeli armed forces. The #MassProtests each Friday were attended by crowds ranging in size from 10,000 to 50,000, many of them children and teens (more than 50% of Gaza's population is under the age of 18). Participants were regularly targeted by Israeli Defence Force (IDF) snipers using a combination of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters (the latter typically fired directly at protesters), and even some tank rounds. Over time, hundreds of #Palestinians were killed and many thousands seriously wounded.
The original idea for the demonstration was for hundreds of thousands of unarmed Palestinians to peacefully walk up to the fence, take down a section, then cross a few kilometres into the land beyond, where they would set up a temporary tent city.
In 2005, a broad range of Palestinian civil society groups put out a call for individuals and civil society around the world to engage in a sustained campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions, targeting all corporate entities profiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the #WestBank. This was based on the historical success of a similar movement that eventually helped to end the #apartheid regime in #SouthAfrica, and occurred with the support and blessing of the leaders of the South African campaign (including #NelsonMandela and #DesmondTutu). Yet in the years since, participation in the #BDS movement has been increasingly criminalised in US states and parts of Europe (criminalised by many of the same governments that designated Nelson Mandela a #terrorist during the South African BDS campaign; the US government only removed that designation in 2008), with a broader corporate counterprotest campaign of blacklisting, firing and smearing vocal supporters of BDS with (very frequently false) accusations of #antisemitism.
Israel Orders More #Evacuations Amid Fears of Conflict Widening
As Israel readies its troops for a #GroundInvasion of #Gaza, escalating clashes on its border w/ #Lebanon & violence in the Israeli-#occupied#WestBank raised fears the conflict could spill over.
Escalating clashes on #Israel’s N border w/ #Lebanon + strikes in #Syria & the #WestBank intensified fears of a widening regional conflict.
Israeli authorities said they’re expanding a state-funded #evacuation plan to move residents from an additional 14 Israeli villages near the Lebanon border to safer areas. The #IDF said Sun it was contending w/increasing attacks from #Hezbollah, the #Iran-backed #terrorist org that controls S Lebanon, resulting in #civilian & #military deaths.
"The deadly #terrorist attack in #Israel and the torrent of social media threats that followed have forced many American #Jews to reconsider their long held stances against owning or using #guns."
Meanwhile #Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said Israel will sever all ties with the #Gaza Strip once its war with #Hamas is over -- it would, as he put it, end its "responsibility" for life there.
The #Hamas authorities say #Israeli attacks have now killed more than 4100 people.
Over 1400 Israelis were killed in Hamas' unprecedented extremist attacks within Israel earlier this month
V #BBC Hugo Bachega:
the question about what #Hezbollah will do next hangs over Lebanon:
Hezbollah - which fought a devastating war against #Israel in 2006 - has a vast arsenal of weapons, incl guided missiles, as well as tens of thousands of well-trained, battle-hardened fighters.
The group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has remained silent since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
Hezbollah, like #Hamas, is considered a #terrorist organisation by countries including the UK and the US.
“We cannot give up on #peace. We cannot give up on a #TwoStateSolution” — a msg to #Palestinians & again distinguishing between innocent Palestinian #civilians & #Hamas, a designated #terrorist grp, & acknowledging the distress many feel over Palestinian lives & rights.
#Biden addressed the anger & division that has inflamed American communities in recent days, denouncing #antisemitism as well as #Islamophobia.
“I see you. You belong. And I want to say this to you — you’re all Americans.”
Judge Box-Wine manufactures another no-win situation for President #Biden. She's criticizing him for traveling to #Israel in the aftermath of the historic #terrorist#attack by #Hamas. But, if he stayed home, there's no doubt she would be criticizing him for not visiting Israel. This is the essence of #badFaith, and #biased reasoning. Why does this drunken #Karen still have a show?
If you hire a #terrorist group as your government, and then they commit a terrorist act, and then the country they commit it against retaliates as is its right … you have to say at least that was foreseeable.
Fears that #Israel or international partners could pressure #Egypt into accepting millions of #Palestinians settling in the #Sinai have abounded for decades in #Cairo: #HosniMubarak strenuously denied reports in 2017 that he had cut a deal with #MargaretThatcher in 1983 to resettle Palestinians exiled in Lebanon in the peninsula, adding that #BenjaminNetanyahu, had also proposed the idea in 2010.
The issue, which was first reported by 404media, affected users with the word “#Palestinian” written in English on their profile, the Palestinian flag emoji and the word “alhamdulillah” written in #Arabic.
When auto-translated to English the phrase read: “Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.” #SocialMedia#Israel#Gaza
Politikwissenschaftler Kaim: "Die Drohung des Irans ist ernst zu nehmen"
Nach Ansicht von Politikwissenschaftler Kaim wird der Iran eine offene Konfrontation mit Israel vermeiden. Vielmehr agiere das Regime über Stellvertreter in der Region, wie etwa die Hisbollah, sagte er im Interview mit tagesschau24.
The rank hypocrisy of Erdogan who just annihilated the water and power infrastructure for 3+ million people in Syria to now try and take the high ground on Gaza.
And he has the gall to call Palestinians terrorists while giving out passports, funding and matériel to Hamas.
Turkey had targeted more than 145 locations in areas held by the AANES, including power stations, water and energy facilities, hospitals, and schools.
"The destruction of infrastructure amounts to war crimes and cannot be described as anything less than that,” according to the statement.
Turkey is a terrorist state. Why is Turkey committing genocide in Syria?
Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency Alert for Turkey's aggression in Northern Syria and Iraq. In Nov 2022 through Oct 2023, Turkey launched many hundreds of airstrikes across northern Syria and Iraq targeting the Kurdish population and Kurdish towns.
Turkey strikes hospitals in NE Syria. I'm sick of the hypocrisy. Cut all aid and military sales to any country that allows Iran and HAMAS to stoke violence. Make them buy broken Russian tanks and planes and go back to the 1950s or join the Chinese who are killing Muslims.
Certainly on Erdogan's orders, Turkey is attacking a #NATO Radar Base in Turkey.
BREAKING:
Turks attempt to breach the base where Americans are stationed.
Turkey heading to the Kürecik Radar Base to attack Americans now.