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The embattled Prime Minister wants Washington to approve of Israel's further expansion into the Jordan Valley, just days after he urged Donald Trump not to miss a rare chance to back Tel Aviv's territorial.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who fiercely fights for re-election, believes that "the time has come to extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley," a swath of land spanning between the occupied West Bank and neighboring Kingdom of Jordan. On their part, Israel's closest ally should give a final nod to the move.
"I want American recognition of our sovereignty in the Jordan Valley. This is important," he bluntly told an event set up on Sunday by Israel's Makor Rishon newspaper. As part of the proposed annexation, all Jewish settlements in the area would become part of Israel, he insisted.
With more charges of corruption heaped upon his attorney, Netenyahu is even more of a wounded geopolitical animal than he was before the charges became public.
And Mr. President, I do believe that you have given quite enough of what Bibi Netanyahu has "demanded" of you this last year;m it is well high time to see how much of that plays into your "America First" campaign strategy for 2020.
Five Palestinian workers have been injured after Israeli soldiers opened fire on them in the early hours of this morning near the separation wall in the occupied northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint shot tear gas into the large crowd who were attempting to get to work, causing dozens of others to suffocate from excessive tear gas inhalation.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the five wounded victims were rushed to the Thabet Government Hospital in Tulkarem. Medics confirmed the casualties were shot towards their lower extremities and described their situation as "moderate."
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers situated near the gate through the Israeli Annexation Wall at Dahr Al-Abed, southwest of Jenin, shot and wounded a young man from the Palestinian village of Arabeh.
The Palestinian was identified as Saif Iyad Wajih Al-Ardah.
Israeli occupation has denied permission for British lawmaker, Philippa Whitford, who is a doctor, from entering Gaza to offer help for patients of breast cancer.
Over the past two and half years[1], I have been working with Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) to improve the provision of services and treatment for breast cancer patients in Palestine.
Last year, I travelled out with the specific aim of setting up a project to enable experienced professionals in breast cancer care to provide teaching and training to local Palestinian clinicians working with breast cancer patients.
Since my last visit, I have managed to recruit a team of specialists from all over Scotland to join the project, which will help improve breast cancer care – prevention, diagnosis and treatment – for women in Gaza and the West Bank.
This is unredeemably vile, on the part of Israel officials, who really want these women to die, rather than profit from advances in breast cancer care.
But you have to look at this from the larger perspective of the Israeli Government's "Final Solution to the Palestinian Question"; denying these women state of the art care, is all part of the plan.
Most of us know - or know of - someone who has been diagnosed with this kind of cancer, but have, luckily, been able to beat it, at least in a first remission period.
All women on this planet, deserve the best, most intelligent approaches to beating this disease which exist today.
The resolution was intended both to contradict President Trump, whose recent positions have been pro-occupation and pro-annexation, as well as to potentially warn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against any hasty annexations, something he's been advocating recently.
The bill was hardly perfect, which meant a lot of the voting on the margins defied conventional wisdom. Some traditional critics of Israel voted against the bill over language, and still others rejected the bill because it proscribed a US-imposed solution.
The "gang of four" stood as four Democrats opposing the resolution, and did so because the bill's final version removed any mention of settlements, of Israel being an occupying power, and watered down language about the two-state solution at the behest of more centrist Democrats.
What is really worrying me about Israel right now, is a new draft proposal, conjured up by Netanyahu and Pompeo, which I am certain, Pompeo is going to present, hurriedly to Congress, and push it through to get it passed, before their last day of this session (and I find this ironically amusing), which is Friday the 13th.
This bill Proposed US/Israeli Defense Treaty Gaining Steam after Pompeo/Neetanyahu MeetThe article goes on to state:
"A proposed US-Israeli defense treaty is gaining steam after a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (currently representing an 'interim' government) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Lisbon this week.
Speaking of the controversial defense pact, Netanyahu told reporters of the Wednesday discussion: "The meeting with Pompeo was critical for Israeli security," and added, "We agreed to promote a defense pact."
However, such a controversial pact wold have a long way to go in the domestic politics of both nations, considering it would commit the United States to war to defend Israel. This also at a time when Israel has frequently attacked what it deems 'Iranian targets' inside Syria and Iraq in what both countries have condemned as acts of brazen aggression."
I have a deep concern that such an act may well get placed as a rider, or amendment, to a larger, "gotta pass this one" bill", and become law, before it has a chance to be seen for what it is, in the cold, cruel light of morning; a commitment to defend Israel, no matter what it has done, and no matter how wrong it was in doing so, and which may give Netanyahu another chance to "ride herd" on the Israeli government as Prime Minister, even with those corruption charges hanging over his head.
A recent UN report indicates that Israel has withheld tens of billions of dollars in taxes and duties that are due to the Palestinian Authority, placing Palestinians in a fiscal crisis and severely impacting development.
Note: Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Murdering, Torturing, Beating, Does the Jewish state of Israel have a right to exist!
The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is the target of a $90 million lawsuit that accuses the group of engaging in environmental terrorism.
The legal action was brought forward by the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) and 12 Americans citizens who live in Israel last month. Although they're identified as the KKL-JNF in Hebrew, the group is widely known as the Jewish National Fund. The complaint alleges that USCPR has funneled money to the Boycott National Committee (BNC) to be used for terrorist activities and that BNC is directly connected to HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front-General Command and the Palestinian Liberation Front. The group's press release on the action asserts that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement itself is a "campaign of terror against Israel."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reported to be planning a run for Senate in Kansas next year and quietly recruiting funders for that race. And surprise– Pompeo has already reached out to Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Republican donor around, and to other pro-Israel donors– at the very time that he was announcing that the U.S. no longer considers Israeli settlements illegal.
The report by Michael Wilner of McClatchy and Bryan Lowry of the Kansas City Star is frank about the crazy timing here.
The timing of Pompeo's exchange with Adelson coincided with the secretary's on-camera announcement on November 18 that the Trump administration would revoke its longstanding legal determination on the legitimacy of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Adelson supports the settler enterprise.
Last month, over 100 Democratic House members signed a letter that decried the Trump administration's policy shift on West Bank settlements. The letter was initiated by Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI and was sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. On November 18, Pompeo announced that the U.S. government was abandoning a 1978 State Department legal opinion which determined that settlement expansion in the occupied territories were in violation of international law. Just a day after Pompeo's announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advanced a bill that would annex the Jordan Valley.
"If the U.S. unilaterally abandons international and human rights law, we can only expect a more chaotic and brutal twenty-first century for Americans and our allies, including the Israeli people," reads Levin's letter, "Given these serious implications, we strongly urge you to reverse this policy decision immediately."
Israel is holding a prominent Palestinian scientist without charge or trial.
Ubai Aboudi, an American citizen, was due to travel to the United States in January for a conference on science and Palestinian rights.
Prominent scholars, including Nobel Prize winner George P. Smith and Noam Chomsky signed a petition demanding Aboudi's release.
The petition calls on the European Union in particular to demand that Israel free Aboudi. The EU grants Israel huge amounts of money under the guise of research and science partnerships despite Israel's constant violations of the human rights condition in its agreement with the EU.
European Union (EU) countries' are taking steps towards boycotting the Israeli apartheid system, using its legal, legislative and parliamentary institutions to oppose the occupation, Palestine News Network reported.
The EU condemned the Trump administration's positions and policies carried out in the Palestinian Territories, occupied by Israel since 1967, especially in Jerusalem regarding the Israeli settlements, and the two-state solution.
Within this context, the EU's Supreme Court has approved labeling Israeli goods produced in settlements built in the Palestinian territories, and exported to the EU. It should also be noted that the EU always asserts that settlements are "illegal, and are an obstacle for achieving peace."
Stuart Littlewood looks into aspects of British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis which the UK media dare not investigate, such as his association with openly racist Israeli groups, and highlights the Israeli-orchestrated campaign to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of power.>>
The study also revealed that the Israelis have killed 526 Palestinians since Trump's announcement of occupied Jerusalem as capital of the occupation state back in December 6, 2017. The martyrs included 111 children, 22 women, 6 Palestinians with special needs, and 108 martyrs in Israeli strikes on Gaza. There were also 13 prisoners, who were killed in Israeli jails, and one Palestinian killed in an assassination in Malaysia.
Note: I weep.
What do Paul Wolfowitz, Dan Kurtzer, Aaron Miller, and Prince Andrew have in common?
These four privileged older white guys have all sought (and been granted) exposure in the corporate media recently. Paul Wolfowitz, one of the prime architects and advocates of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was given this fine platform on the NYT's opinion page in order to criticize Pres. Trump's recent decision to withdraw (or later, reduce/redeploy) the U.S. troop presence in Syria. Dan Kurtzer and Aaron Miller, two of the leading "peace processors" guiding U.S. policy on Palestine and other Middle Eastern issues for 24 years, 1992-2016, were given this platform on the Washington Post, to comment on Trump's policy on Israel's illegal settlement. As for Prince Andrew, you may have heard he gave this disastrous interview to the BBC, discussing his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein.
A new Israeli settlement will be built in the heart of the flashpoint city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, joining a long list of notoriously violent settlements in the area.
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennet, of the ultra nationalist "New Right" party, said on Sunday that a new settlement would be built on top of Hebron's once bustling fruit and vegetable market, now referred to by locals as a "ghost town."
According to Bennet, the existing buildings, which belong to the Hebron municipality, will be razed to the ground to make way for new shops and buildings for the settlers.
The new settlement will create a contiguous settlement bloc in the middle of Hebron's Old City, extending from the Ibrahimi Mosque to the Avraham Avinu settlement, and according to Bennet, will double the Jewish population of the city.
Backed by the Democrats, the US House of Representatives is planning to vote on a resolution reaffirming the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tomorrow.
The resolution was introduced by Representatives Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.).
Originally, this was introduced in April and referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee advocates for a negotiated, long-term solution that ensures Israel's security as a democratic, Jewish nation while also establishing a Palestinian state.
The Israeli government has increased discretionary spending on settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory by 50 per cent over the last two years, reported the Jerusalem Post.
According to data published by settlement watchdog Peace Now, so-called "discretionary spending" "is expenditure by various ministries outside the general budget, including from the Interior, Housing, Education, and Energy and Water ministries, as well as the National Roads Authority".
These funds are directed towards the construction of settlement housing units, as well as for roads inside the settlements, "buildings for educational, social and religious purposes, commercial centres and industrial parks", the report added.
France's National Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution conflating support for Palestinian equality with hatred of Jews – an initiative supported by the country's Israel lobby.
But most lawmakers did not take part in the vote.
On 1 June 2018, 21-year-old Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar was shot and killed by Israeli forces while tending to casualties during the Great March of Return - the unarmed protests that had begun two months earlier along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel and that continue to this day.
In predictable fashion, Israeli officials have cast the protesters - from children to elderly women to disabled persons - as diabolical minions sent by Hamas to lay waste to Israel via "kite and balloon terrorism" and other Scary Stuff.
As with every other manifestation of the Palestinian demand for dignity, Israel has used the Great March of Return as an opportunity to engage in mass slaughter: on a single day in May 2018, some 59 protesters were killed, including children.
Having slipped through Israel's security fence, Emad Khalil Ibrahim Shahin and his friends sneaked into an abandoned barracks and lit a fire. Anxious they were about to be discovered, they fled the scene.
"We ran until we found a sand dune to hide behind on the other side of the fence, but then noticed Emad was not with us. He ran slower because he was on crutches," one of his companions, who wished to remain anonymous, told Middle East Eye.
"We saw him on the ground and told him to crawl. But then a military vehicle raced up and a soldier fired at him, shooting him in the right leg. Soon a helicopter came and took him away."
It would be 355 days until Shahin returned to Gaza. He arrived on 23 October in a body bag.
Israeli agents last year killed two Hamas fighters when they were rumbled in Gaza before they called in an airstrike to cover their escape, a new report has revealed.
Eight operatives dressed as Palestinians moved through enemy lines on November 11, 2018, intent on bugging Hamas's private communications lines, an Al Jazeera investigation uncovered.
But their van was halted by a Hamas patrol unit and the enemy forces became suspicious of them during questioning.
Shooting erupted, the Israeli agents unloading silenced rounds into commander Nour Baraka and his lieutenant Mohammed al-Qarra. The leader of the Israeli cadre, named only as 'Meni', was also killed.
In the ensuing carnage, Hamas fired more than 80 rockets and mortars and Israel pummelled the coastal enclave with airstrikes in the heaviest cross-border fire since the 2014 war.
Israeli Minister of Defense, Naftali Bennett, on Tuesday, issued a written order imposing international economic sanctions on Palestinian militants abroad, The Palestinian News and Info Agency reported.
How does Chancellor Merkel intend to explain it during her first visit to Auschwitz on December 6, 2019, that she and her government – given the historical responsibility for the Holocaust and 74 years after the liberation of Auschwitz from the National Socialist concentration and extermination camp by the soldiers of the Red Army – miss any respect when it comes to the permanent break of international law in the "Jewish state". Does not it respect the respect for international law, as a compelling doctrine from German history, to finally take back the raison d'etat for the security of the "Jewish state"? How can a German government ignore the constant violations of international law simply because they are committed by a Jewish regime, descendants of the victims of the Holocaust? The clear rules, which international law has, Merkel can not simply sweep her "Christian Zionism" under the table.
An advisory committee set up to monitor and recommend the investment policies of Brown University in Rhode Island has voted to divest from companies participating in the continued subjugation of Palestinians.
The successful passing of the resolution by the university's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) on Monday paves the way for activists to pressure the university to withdraw support for companies "facilitating the [Israeli] occupation and its human rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza".
In a statement released by Brown Divest, a coalition of undergraduate students that has been at the forefront of the call to divest from companies operating in the occupied territories, the group said they were "elated that the university committee responsible for divestment has finally joined the calls for divestment from human rights violations in Palestine".
New details have emerged about a botched Israeli intelligence operation in the Gaza Strip in November 2018 that sparked deadly Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire.
Eight undercover Israeli agents - who were disguised as Palestinians and had taken the aliases of a real family in Gaza - entered the coastal enclave on November 11 last year with the objective of planting listening devices on Hamas's private communications system, an investigation by Al Jazeera Arabic's Ma Khafia Aazam (Tip of the Iceberg) programme revealed.
However, the Israelis were stopped and questioned by a Hamas patrol unit in Khan Younis for 40 minutes and became suspicious of their answers. A firefight broke out and the Israeli operatives used guns with silencers, immediately killing Hamas commander Nour Baraka and one of his aides, Mohammed al-Qarra.
Forty-seven incidents of violence toward Palestinians and their property took place over the past tree months ? Israel Police closed most cases because perpetrators were not identified
Two weeks since the air force attack in Deir el-Balah that killed nine members of the Sawarkah family, who were living in a structure that the army had defined as an Islamic Jihad "terror infrastructure," the Israel Defense Forces are still investigating why the green light to bomb the building wasn't based on updated information.
But an inquiry conducted by Haaretz shows that this conduct isn't unusual. According to sources in the defense establishment, the IDF often bombs terror targets in Gaza that were included in its target bank long before the strike without checking in real time whether there are civilians at the site or whether the site has been converted into residences.
The reality is that members of the IDF have absolutely no qualms about killing innocent civilians; it is just when they get caught doing it, that there is just the slightest glimmer of embarrassment, that they couldn't murder more of them than they did in any particular incident.
Children being made to endure lengthy medical treatments alone is a particularly cruel feature of Israel's permit regime imposed on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
It is a shameful reality that COGAT, the Israeli military body that handles such permits, tries to obscure with liberal use of emojis on its social media pages.
I have previously written about how COGAT tries to present itself as a humanitarian body in its social media propaganda while it plays a central role in Israel's complete and unjust system of control over Palestinian movement.
For example, COGAT describes its restrictions on the movement of millions of Palestinians, such as military checkpoints, as projects which "improve the quality of life of the region's population."
It even put out a video last week boasting of a "service revolution" following the launch of "an advanced call center" through which its Civil Administration "provides clear responses on all topics, to everyone":
Making sick Palestinian kids travel alone, to get treatment, is a very cruel, and nearly a mentally ill thing to do to them, and their families.
Jonathan Cook highlights the motives, hypocrisy, deceitfulness and myopia behind UK Chief Rabbi – and Israel flag waver – Ephraim Mirvis's scurrilous and utterly unsubstantiated claim that Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party are "anti-Semitic" – a claim now parroted by the BBC and other mainstream media.>>
The Israeli government is aiming to increase the volume of Israel's defence exports, reported Globes, which has revealed the main points of the plan for the first time.
The project, being overseen by the Defence Ministry's International Defence Cooperation Directorate (SIBAT) led by Brigadier General (Res.) Yair Kulas, will begin to be rolled out in early 2020.
According to Globes, the plan is based on "focused seminars for senior commanders in foreign armies", Israeli military "assistance for promoting sales of Israeli weapons", and "subsidising small and medium-sized defence companies seeking to sell arms around the world".
Speaking this week, Kulas said that SIBAT favours a major expansion of agreements between countries, resulting in significant deals for the large defence companies, especially Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems.
Color me unsurprised at this development; but one has to wonder how Israeli weaponry really stands up to that of China or Russia, at this point?!?
The good thing about the Secretary of State's declaration that the U.S. does not regard settlements as illegal is that it is a naked expression of the power of the Israel lobby in U.S. policy making. Even the Associated Press chalked the decision up to Trump's biggest donor, Sheldon Adelson.
For 20 years Sheldon Adelson has been pouring money into Republican politics to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and he has succeeded. Trump has proved to be Adelson's "perfect little puppet" (to quote the president on Adelson's former favorite in 2015), giving the casino mogul everything on his wish list, from recognition of Jerusalem as the capital to recognizing the Golan annexation to tearing up the Iran deal. "A huge check from Sheldon Adelson" and winning Jewish votes in Florida, is how Thomas Friedman explained Trump's policy last summer. Adelson has more power than the secretary of State, writes Tim Egan of the Times.
Israeli warplanes carried out fresh air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday following a rocket fire, according to the military, reports Anadolu Agency.
The army said fighter jets struck a number of targets belonging to Palestinian groups Hamas, which rules the seaside territory.
No injuries were reported.
The air strikes came shortly after the Israeli army attacked a number of Hamas sites in the southern Gaza Strip after two rockets were fired from the enclave into southern Israel.
My short visit to Palestine in early November began around the time of the commemoration of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, went through the assassination by Israel of Islamic Jihad leader, Bahaa Abu Al-Atta and his wife in Gaza, and ended as Prime Minister Netanyahu, who should be indicted for his countless crimes against the Palestinian people, was indicted for low grade corruption (valued at about $200,000), pulling strings and lying. And as always, Palestinians continue to bury their dead as Israelis bury their heads in the sand.
It is only a matter of time before the next terrible massacre in Gaza or elsewhere in illegally occupied Palestine will take place. The Zionist regime needs wars both internally and externally to survive.
Sirens went off in Gaza Strip and Sderot, Israeli Defence Forces reported on their twitter page on Tuesday.
Following the sirens, two launches from Gaza Strip at Israeli territory were identified, according to the IDF. The military added the Iron Dome air defence system managed to intercept one projectile.
"2 rockets were just fired from #Gaza at Israeli civilians. 1 rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System," the IDF wrote on its Twitter page.
However this happened, you can nearly bet on one hell of a response to this bombing, most possibly close to US holiday, Thanksgiving Day, when many Americans are in a turkey/ tryptophan-induced coma, and watching sports.
Normalising Israel as a Jewish state absents "Palestinian experience, history and identity claims". Yasmeen Abu Laban and Abigail Bakan, Palestinian and Jewish authors of "Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race" have constructed a detailed analysis of race and power relations which has been sustained and adopted by the international community. By dispelling the conflations associated with race, the book delves into the political implications, showing how the exclusion of Palestinians on all levels – politics, land and environment – are all sites in which Israel is able to manipulate, thus constructing the apartheid state in full view of, and with no obstruction from, the international community.
A disgraced Israeli businessman who is said to have received billions of dollars in backing from Saudi investment funds, has admitted to working with President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, to draft the controversial "peace plan" commonly known as "the deal of the century".
The surprise revelation was reported in a Vanity Fair article on the rise and catastrophic downfall of WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann. The 40-year-old Israeli entrepreneur raised on a kibbutz in southern Israel, not far from the Gaza Strip, is said to have assigned one of the directors of WeWork to produce a slick video for Kushner that would showcase what an economically transformed West Bank and Gaza would look like. The video was shown by Kushner during his speech at the White House's peace conference in Bahrain during the summer.
Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers attacked five villages in the occupied West Bank overnight, torching vehicles and olive trees, and leaving graffiti on the walls of homes.
Ghassan Daghlas, a spokesman for the Nablus governorate, says the Jewish settlers set fire to five cars and spray-painted graffiti on more than 20 others. Villagers circulated photos of the damage on social media.
Israel has occupied the West Bank illegally since 1967, and commits various abuses against Palestinian civilians, human rights groups say.
More than 600,000 Israeli Jews live in settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, in constructions considered illegal under international law.
Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank after the Israeli army closed off the mosque to Palestinians.
Settlers also attacked Palestinians in Hebron, injuring at least eight people.
The settlers performed a Jewish religious ritual in the mosque to celebrate the Chayevi Sarah holiday.
Dozens of Israeli troops deployed in the alleys leading up to the mosque in order to prevent Palestinians approaching it.
According to the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA), 50 Palestinian vehicles were vandalized in the latest series of Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank district of Salfit.
Mayor of Kufur Ad-Dik, Ibrahim Issa Ad-Dik stated that a group of Israeli settlers sneaked their way into the Palestinian village, slashed the tires of 50 vehicles, and scrawled anti-Palestinian hate graffiti on several vehicles and the walls of houses.
Graffiti reading "A closed military zone" was scrawled across the wall of a villager's house, in Hebrew, according to Ad-Dik, who noted that this was the second time the village was targeted by settlers in a year.
Lawrence Davidson says Pompeo's claim that Jewish colonies in Palestine are lawful is disingenuous humbug, and underlines the need to redouble efforts to boycott Israel and for Jews – whom Israel says it represent – to escalate their campaigns against Zionism and the Israeli occupation. >>
Stuart Littlewood highlights the failure of the Diocese of Shrewsbury to allow free speech on Christian Zionism and Israel's crimes against the Palestinians – and its apparent indifference to the persecution of Christians by Israel.>>
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that the US is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Secretary Pompeo repudiated the 1978 State Department legal opinion that stated that Jewish settlements in the occupied territories are "inconsistent with international law."
It is hard to determine whether the move was intended to rescue Benjamin Netanyahu's political career or to buy the Jewish Lobby's support for President Trump at a critical time. It is reasonable to assume that the policy was put forth to advance both aims.
Lawrence Davidson highlights the fact that recently-deceased Israeli jurist Meir Shamgar, who is regarded as a national hero in Israel, was actually a stalwart of apartheid and advocate of racial discrimination against the Palestinian people.>>
Monday's announcement was the latest in a series of efforts by the Trump administration — declaring occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, and the movement of the US embassy to Jeruaslem — aimed at weaking Palestinian claims of statehood.
"The announcement marks a continuation of the Trump Administration's efforts to undermine years of progress on refining parameters for an agreed-upon resolution of the core issues of the conflict," Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said in a statement.
The group called the announcement "an Orwellian absurdity," saying "no declaration will change the fact that the settlements were built on occupied territory, in contravention of international law, and that they pose among the greatest obstacles to peace."
Two dozen Christian leaders are calling on the US Congress to support a bill to curb Israeli torture of Palestinian children.
This comes as progressive lawmakers are being challenged over their failure to uphold Palestinian rights. In Chicago, activists occupied the office of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky to demand she back the bill.
In a Monday statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Washington no longer regards Israeli settlements in the West Bank as violating international law, reversing the Obama administration's position and taking no legal position on the question or that of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank itself.
Israel has said it carried out fresh air raids on the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from the besieged enclave, two days after a precarious ceasefire went into force following a round of fighting that killed dozens of Palestinians.
The Israeli army said its attacks early on Saturday did not target positions of the Islamic Jihad group but sites belonging to Hamas, which administers the Gaza Strip. There was no immediate comment by Hamas.
Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour on Friday criticized Israel's killing of civilians and called on the international community to condemn this aggression.
"Today is our national day... we bury our martyrs, the civilians killed by the Israeli occupying forces during this current aggression, which we condemn," the ambassador told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.
"We demand from the international community, especially the Security Council, to condemn this aggression and to stop it, to shoulder its responsibility in connection with international peace and security," the envoy added.
Mansour said he was grateful to countries and parties that called for an "independent, transparent" investigation on this crime and to hold "in an accountable way" the criminals who have committed this crime and to bring them to justice from the Israeli side.
Act.IL is a global pro-Israel campaign at least partially funded by the country's government. The project includes an app that enables users to earn points and prizes for promoting the state of Israel online, by attacking BDS and other pro-Palestinian movements. According to Electronic Intifada reporting from earlier this year, it's operating with a budget of a more than a million dollars.
WhatsApp yesterday blocked access to hundreds of Palestinian journalists and activists who were providing live updates during the Israeli offensive on Gaza, Safa news agency reported.
This came less than 24 hours after the end of the two-day Israeli offensive which resulted in the death of 34 Palestinians and wounded 111 others.
Palestinian journalists and activists, who were active during the Israeli offensive, reported that their accounts were blocked and they were unable to use them.
An Israeli attack on Gaza was imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel's contentious political scene. The war was not a question of "if", but "when".
The answer came on November 12, when the Israeli military launched a major strike against Gaza, killing an Islamic Jihad Commander, Bahaa Abu al-Ata, along with his wife Asma.
More strikes followed, targeting what the Israeli military described as Islamic Jihad installations. However, the identities of the victims, along with damning social media footage, pictures, and eyewitness accounts indicate that civilians and civilian infrastructure were bombed and destroyed as well.
There is much speculation about the timing of Israel's assassination of an Islamic Jihad leader, Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife, Asma.
Why rock the boat now? The killing came in the middle of Israeli coalition negotiations, that – if they fail – could lead to an unprecedented third election in a year.
It came during a period of Egyptian-mediated calm between Israel and Hamas that had raised hopes that not only would Israel's draconian siege on Gaza be eased a little, it could secure a longer-term cessation of hostilities, as well as pave the way for Palestinian elections, long overdue.
And finally, and with a more or less simultaneous attack on an Islamic Jihad leader in Damascus (which missed its apparent target, Akram al-Ajouri, but killed a son, Muath, and a granddaughter, Batoul) it came at a time when there are plenty of other hotspots in a region that seems perpetually poised on some disastrous precipice.
Why escalate at this time?
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Times Square in New York City on Friday, 15 November to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza and support the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Provoking a conflict with Gaza led to the deaths of 32 Palestinians. But, was the real objective the creation of an emergency government so Netanyahu can remain in power?
Progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders should be credited for finally offering solutions to decades-old Israeli Human rights violations, but those solutions are often little more than talking points designed to placate their base and appease Israel.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attacked publicly the possibility of a minority government of his rival Blue-White that would be dependent on the Joint List of Palestinians parties, crying (Hebrew) that the Blue White leadership "has lost its mind, stop this madness."
Netanyahu said this in a video on his Facebook page. There is to be an emergency rally against the inclusion of Palestinian parties tonight in Israel.
Israel's threat to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Rahma Gate have been getting worse, the Deputy Director of Jerusalem Religious Endowment Department, said on Sunday. Najeh Bkeerat told the Palestinian Information Centre that the rising threat is due to Israeli aggression and the lack of Arab, regional, international and Islamic deterrence in response to this.
Bkeerat added that the lack of awareness about the importance of the Palestinian cause, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque among Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims is another reason for the increasing Israeli danger. Bab Al-Rahma was re-opened in February for the first time since 2003, before being closed again by the Israelis a month or so later.
The Conservative Party will include in its election manifesto a ban on public bodies from boycotting or sanctioning foreign states, reported the Sunday Telegraph.
The report noted that "the policy will cover boycotts of products or divestment from pension funds connected to foreign states."
However, the ban is primarily aimed at the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which seeks to pressure Israel to abide by international law and respect Palestinian rights.
Most zionists don't believe that God exists,but they do believe he promised them Palestine. Ilan Pappe
It is needless to say that historically the Canaanites, Jebosites (of Jerusalem), the Hittits (of Hebron); the Amorites of Schem, and the rest of the seven nation-tribes are the original inhabitants of Palestine who dwelled this land for thousands upon thousands of years before the old jewish invasion. It is needless to say that the natives of Palestine are those who built the ancient cities (towns) of Palestine like Jerusalem, Hebron, Jericho, Schem/Nablus and the rest of the Palestinian-Canaanites twons and villages.
A ceasefire has been reached between Israel and groups in Gaza, after two days of violence that left 34 Palestinians dead. Many of the Democratic candidates have tweeted about the events, defending Israel's actions while condemning rocket fire from Palestine. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders expressed concern for Israelis and Palestinians, while Warren was the only candidate to acknowledge that multiple Palestinians have been killed.
Unfortunately for Warren, by making this acknowledgement, she has just lost any chance of winning the Democratic Party's nomination for President.
Tel Aviv is not amused, when someone mentions any deaths or woundings of any Palestinians; I am amazed that she apparently did not know better, than to go there.
2020 presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday condemned recent violence between Israelis and Palestinians following the announcement of a cease-fire earlier in the day.
The two candidates took to Twitter to condemn acts of violence from Palestinian militant groups accused of firing rockets at Israel, while also calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
"Israelis should not have to live in fear of rocket fire. Palestinians should not have to live under occupation and blockade," Sanders tweeted.
These are great, and well-nuanced sound bites; but at the end of the day, they will do nothing to forestall more violence perpetrated by Israel against Gaza.
My sense here, as that the IDF will wait for the US Thanksgiving Holiday, starting on 27 November, to uncork, big-time, against Gaza, as they figure that most of Americans will be too sated with turkey's L-tryptophan, and football, to really care, (if they ever did) about what they are going in Gaza.
Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Tel Aviv will continue with its policy of assassinations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip despite an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
"Israel will harm anyone who tries to harm it," Katz told Army Radio yesterday, adding that Islamic Jihad "was beaten in an unprecedented manner in our offensive."
Israel's targeted assassination of Islamic Jihad leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata on Tuesday led to a new round of violence that killed 34 Palestinians and injured 111 others.
Egypt and the UN brokered a ceasefire between Palestinian faction in Gaza and Israel which came in to affect yesterday morning. Israel has, however, struck Gaza a number of times since the truce came in to affect bringing into question how long it will hold.
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad and Israel declared a halt to hostilities across the Gaza Strip border on Thursday but a lasting ceasefire appeared tenuous as they differed on terms.
Islamic Jihad said an Egyptian-mediated truce went into effect at 0330 GMT, about 48 hours after Israel triggered the exchange of fire by killing the Iranian-backed faction's top Gaza commander in an air strike, deeming him an imminent threat.
Occasional rocket fire from Gaza and a retaliatory Israeli air strike broke the calm, but the ceasefire largely held.
I am hoping, and praying, that the cease-fire will hold; that being said, I am not holding my breath, that this is a done deal.
Israel's temporary security minister Naftali Bennett threatened yet more Palestinian leaders after the killing of an Islamic Jihad commander in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Far-right Naftali Bennet on Wednesday morning sent a threat to Palestinian officials as Israel's military continues to bomb civilians in Gaza.
"This morning we send a clear message to all our enemies on all fronts: whoever plans to target us in the daytime will never be safe for the night to pass," he said.
A truce was declared by Israel and Islamic Jihad early Thursday, bringing an end to 48 hours of violence across the Gaza-Israel boundary that teetered on the brink of a full-blown war.
Gaza's health ministry stated that Israeli forces killed 34 Palestinians during the fighting, nearly half of them civilians, including eight children and three women. No Israeli fatalities were reported.
Three members of the Ayyad family, among them a 7-year-old child, were killed as they were on a motorcycle in front of their Gaza City home on Wednesday, 13 November.
They were targeted as they were rushing to a hospital after a relative had been injured in a separate attack.
Residents of the Gaza Strip spent three days and nights under bombardment by Israeli forces between Tuesday and Thursday, after the Israeli army assassinated Islamic Jihad commander Bahaa Abu al-Atta on Tuesday, prompting the Palestinian resistance group to launch a barrage of rockets at Israel.
For three days, Islamic Jihad and the Israeli army exchanged fire, with the Israeli army killing at least 34 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
These days put Gaza residents under intense pressure, stoking fears that they might be reliving the devastation of the month-long 2014 war, whose consequences are still visible across the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The government information office in Gaza reported that 48 housing units were completely or partially damaged by Israeli air strikes over the span of those three days. (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)
A third of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the 3-day offensive on Gaza were women and children. 111 Palestinians, including 46 children and 20 women, were injured. The bombardment damaged dozens of homes, 15 schools, farmland. 8 members of one family were killed in their home. No Israelis were killed
Like many other interceptors, the Tamir missile destroys enemy projectiles by approaching them mid-course and detonating its warhead to send out an expanding ring of shrapnel. The tricky part is correctly identifying the right time for the detonation and executing the defensive explosion exactly when needed.
The timing must be perfect, considering the astounding speeds at which both the targeted projectile and the interceptor travel. So, it's no surprise that the components responsible for it, the active radar seeker and the fuse section, are highly classified (and sought-after by anyone wishing to reverse engineer the Israeli technology). Usually an interceptor that fails to hit its target self-destructs to protect its secrets.
But one Tamir missile seems to have been recovered by someone in the Gaza Strip with this highly-sensitive part still intact, defense news website The Drive reports.
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said today that "the indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars against population centres is absolutely unacceptable and must stop immediately."
In a statement he ignored the continuous Israeli strikes in Gaza, which have resulted in the death of 24 and injured 69 over the past two days, in addition to demolition and damaging residential buildings in the besieged enclave.
"I am very concerned about the ongoing and serious escalation between Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Israel, following the targeted killing of one of the group's leaders inside Gaza yesterday," Mladenov said.
Benjamin Netanyahu's motivation in killing a Palestinian commander in Gaza was partly political, a former Israeli negotiator said today: Netanyahu aims to show that his chief rival to be prime minister, Benny Gantz, cannot be counted on to provide security to the country.
It is to be thanked for the criticism of the left-wing town councilor Simon Aulepp that finally a dispute and a basis for discussion arise in Germany. Who is Jewish and what does Judaism mean in Germany? (1) He asks the legitimate question of whether the city council would raise the flag of Saudi Arabia at the town hall, if Muslims were killed in an attack in Germany? However, in this context, Saudi Arabia seems unhelpful. I would find Turkey the right state in this context when it comes to expressing sympathy in racist murders. After all, about 3.5 million Turkish citizens live in Germany.
The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip rose to at least 25 on Wednesday as Israel escalated its lethal attacks on the territory that began on Tuesday morning.
Three children are among those slain.
Gaza's health ministry said that more than 85 Palestinians have been injured, including 30 children.
Israel extrajudicially executed Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu al-Ata early Tuesday along with his wife, provoking an exchange of Israeli missile strikes on Gaza and rocket fire from the territory.
Israel is targeting civilian areas, homes, vehicles, stores, security sites and fields, the human rights group Al Mezan stated on Wednesday.
The "pinpoint" strike or "targeted killing" is back. Mainstream media simply can't resist such terms even when the wording is clearly misleading.
The New York Times described Baha Abu al-Ata, who was killed in an Israeli air strike early Tuesday, as a senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Adopting the language of the Israeli army, The Times wrote that "Targeted strikes against militant leaders have led to war before, and Israel has sworn them off in the past."
But this was no "targeted" strike.
In the third paragraph, the newspaper of record notes that Asma Abu al-Ata, the commander's wife, was also killed in the attack on their home in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City.
Not until the 24th paragraph is it noted that one of Abu al-Ata's young sons was injured as well.
At least 50 Israeli airstrikes & artillery shelling over the past 2 days have killed 23 Gazans, injured 69, and destroyed homes and farmland. Israeli peace group Gush Shalom opposes 'a war that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dragging Israel into… a war that will only bring death, suffering, and pain on both sides…'
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed eight members of the same family, the Ministry of Health announced today.
Witnesses said Israeli occupation fighters targeted the Al-Sawarka family home at 1:15am local time today, destroying it.
The house is located east of the city of Deir Al-Balah, in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
Protected by the Israeli police, 244 Israelis today raided Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowment said.
According to a statement issued by the ministry, 99 settlers, 97 students from religious schools, 40 government employees and eight intelligence officers raided the holy site.
The seriously misnamed Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and its supporters get very upset when members of the fifth largest army in the world are accused of targeting innocent women and children. They issue vehement denials to the world even though that is exactly what happens as a direct consequence of firing high explosives into densely populated civilian areas.
Even as the bombs are falling, Israeli propaganda goes into top gear. An IDF tweet yesterday announced dramatically: "BREAKING: We just targeted Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza, Baha Abu Al Ata. Al Ata was directly responsible for hundreds of terror attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. His next attack was imminent." This was followed quickly up by another post which claimed that the deadly attack was a "precision strike".
Israeli missile strikes on Gaza and rocket fire from the territory continued late Tuesday evening after the assassination of an Islamic Jihad leader earlier in the day set off the most serious military confrontation in months.
Ten Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes during the day, according to Gaza's health ministry. Meanwhile, Israel closed the besieged territory's crossing points and reduced the fishing zone to six nautical miles off of Gaza's coast.
The spokesperson for Islamic Jihad's military wing vowed late Tuesday that the "coming hours will mark a victory for the Palestinian people. Israel began this campaign, but it will be notified when it ends."
The European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that goods from Israeli colonies on occupied Palestinian land must be labeled as originating from settlements.
The judgment is a severe blow to Israel's efforts to legitimize its colonies in the occupied West Bank and Syria's Golan Heights – the construction of which is a war crime.
The court, the highest judicial authority for interpreting EU law, stated that labeling settlement goods is mandatory "in order to prevent consumers from being misled as to the fact that the State of Israel is present in the territories concerned as an occupying power and not as a sovereign entity."
The ruling also acknowledges that Israel's settlements are part of a "policy of population transfer" by Israel "in violation of the rules of general international humanitarian law."
The Israeli government has called up several hundred reserve soldiers, as the Israeli army continues to strike the Gaza Strip following the assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad military leader in the besieged Palestinian territory.
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and 45 others wounded in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip that began early on Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
The ministry said that most of those killed were civilians.
The Israeli army carried out at least 30 airstrikes and artillery attacks Tuesday on several areas of the Gaza Strip, according to the government's media office in the Strip, reports Anadolu Agency.
"More than 20 Israeli airstrikes and 10 artillery shelling have been marked in different parts of the enclave since early Tuesday," it said in a statement.
Targets included agricultural lands, residential buildings and a number of sites of Palestinian factions.
After the 2008-9 Israeli onslaught on Gaza that took 1500 lives, a UN fact-finding mission concluded that the three-week campaign was "a deliberately disproportionate attack, designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population." Note the word "terrorize."
But was this an isolated incident? Not at all. Israel has a long and sordid history of state-terrorist activity. There was the pre-state terror, which eventually served as a means of ethnic cleansing, known as the Nakba of 1948. Those Palestinians who tried to return were shot by the thousands, most of them unarmed.
The most alarming messages to me and my siblings are those messages that come in the middle of the night.
My mother, Halima, is writing to us in our private family chat group that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza started again. She tells us our one-year-old niece is traumatized and shaking of fear. They start to comfort her or play with her to distract her, but the home is shaking and the windows might blow in anytime from the impact of the falling F16 bombs.
My parents and my brother continue to write throughout the day about how horrible last night was in Gaza. How the Israeli warplanes and drones are still above them; bombing areas every now and then. I just wake up to realize Gaza was attacked all night, and that warplanes and drones are still hovering.
srael launched two attacks simultaneously on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad yesterday, one targeting Bahaa Abu Al-Ata — a senior commander of its military wing, Al-Quds Brigades — in Gaza, and the other targeting the movement's Damascus-based political bureau member Akram Al-Ajouri. Abu Al-Ata and his wife were killed in the former, while Al-Ajouri's son was killed in the latter.
In November 2019, eight Palestinian, regional, and international organisations, including Al-Haq, BADIL, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Addameer, the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCPRJ), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), and Habitat International Coalition – Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN), submitted a comprehensive 60-page report to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) ahead of Israel's upcoming review in December 2019.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said fighting with Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants that erupted after Israel killed their top field commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday could prove protracted.
"Israel is not interested in escalation, but we will do everything required to protect ourselves," Netanyahu told reporters at military headquarters. "This could take time. What is needed is stamina and cool-headedness."
Their every move is filmed, every exit from their house depends on the army and they may access their land three times a year at most. The Gharib family has been living this way since Israel surrounded them with settlers
Jonathan Cook highlights recent cases of extraordinary human rights abuses by Israeli soldiers, and argues that it is a sign of Israel's overweening confidence in its own impunity that it is also openly violating the rights of those whose job it is to monitor human rights.>>
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel does not seek to escalate tensions with the besieged Gaza Strip, just hours after the Israeli army announced that it had assassinated a senior military leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
In a statement, Islamic Jihad confirmed the death of 42-year-old Bahaa Abu al-Atta, the group's commander in the northern Gaza Strip, and his wife Asmaa, 39, in an Israeli attack on their house in the east of Gaza City.
Around an hour after the killings in Gaza, dozens of missiles were launched into Israel from Gaza after Palestinian groups vowed retaliation for the killings. Israeli forces have carried out several subsequent strikes in Gaza
At least two more Palestinians, who Israel claimed was part of an Islamic Jihad rocket launching unit, were reported to have been killed, the Gaza Ministry of Health said, raising the death toll to four Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza on Tuesday.
The European Union's top court has ruled in favour of clearly labelling products made in Israeli settlements as having been produced in the occupied West Bank, an announcement that could have wide-reaching implications.
The ruling, which the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered on Tuesday morning, clarifies labelling rules for Israeli settlement products sold in France specifically.
"Foodstuffs originating in the territories occupied by the State of Israel must bear the indication of their territory of origin, accompanied, where those foodstuffs come from an Israeli settlement within that territory, by the indication of that provenance," the ECJ said in a statement - adding that such labelling would allow consumers to make choices based on "ethical considerations and considerations relating to the observance of international law".
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The "drive" is the most intuitive ball in tennis and therefore the easiest to learn for everyone. Professional players and hobby use (sometimes too much) their forehand, neglecting the backhand. It's an sport classic!
Nevertheless there are more possibilities with different difficulty grades: the split step, the flat forehand, the topspin. All of them have reasons to exist, although the split step is not used that much anymore and nowadays it is only used in extreme cases of defence.
The topspin on the other hand has become really popular, most of all because of Rafa Nadal, who is unbeatable on clay. It's all about hitting the ball from down and accelerate keeping the racket blocked. In that way the balls are more effective, they reach the extreme of the field in a higher and more efficient way and with more weight.
The flat forehand is more common. Roger Federer uses it a lot, as well as many others. It means choosing a direct and fast game, without fears nor too long rallies. The flat forehand is riskier than the topspin because the ball doesn't have that much leeway over the net.
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Jay Inslee is demanding the Democratic National Committee change its rules after the first primary debate devoted just 6% of questions to the climate crisis.
In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Washington governor, who has centered his White House bid entirely on global warming, implored his 2020 rivals to rally behind his call for the committee to either schedule a debate on climate change ― or let someone else do it.
The DNC's so-called "exclusivity clause," which became a source of conflict during the 2016 presidential primary, bars candidates who take part in unsanctioned debates from participating in subsequent official ones. Inslee called it a "gag rule."
"Today, I urge all of you to join me in demanding the DNC allow a climate debate, and eliminate its gag rule that punishes candidates for participating in an outside climate debate," he wrote.
The DNC did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday.
It took 82 minutes for NBC News moderators to ask a single question about climate change, though Inslee and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren made unsolicited remarks about the issue earlier in the evening.
When hosts Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow finally gave the topic airtime, they asked questions that climate experts roundly criticized as badly framed and uninformed. After about seven minutes of meandering discussion from just four candidates, the moderators moved on.
"At last night's first debate, the DNC and its media partners had the opportunity to show that they were listening and willing to help educate voters about our candidates' views and policy plans on climate change," Inslee wrote. "They failed."
DNC Chairman Tom Perez rejected Inslee's request for a climate debate earlier this month, arguing in a Medium post that scheduling such an event would unfairly favor the governor's candidacy. But he held firm even as at least 14 other contenders, including Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand backed Inslee's call for a debate. An online petition for a climate debate had nearly 223,000 signatures by Thursday evening.
Democratic-leaning voters overwhelmingly support a climate debate. Roughly 64% back the idea, with 42% strongly in support and 22% somewhat in favor, according to an online YouGov survey commissioned by the left-leaning think tank Data for Progress earlier this month.
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Many years ago I wrote a list of things that I absolutely must do in life. It was a bucket list of sorts. I have been sorting through all my old computer files and I cannot locate it anywhere.
I think the reason for this is actually one of the items that was on my bucket list – which was live in a foreign country. Check Australia / Check New Zealand. This brings me to a bit of a dilemma!
Do I start a new list of stuff to achieve or do I try to remember some of the stuff that I have achieved that was on the list to gain the satisfaction of crossing them off?
So I started to run through all of the things that I have achieved in the last few years. I must stay that I was amazed at all the exciting things I have achieved without even realizing that they would have been on my bucket list;
- Complete a Skydive
- Go Hang-gliding
- Dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Start my own business
- Get a dog
- Climb Machu Picchu
- Walk to Everest
- Learn to Ski
- Spend New Year's Eve in Sydney to watch the fireworks
- Visit the Acropolis in Greece
- Climb Ben Nevis
- Visit Alcatraz
- Go to Hawaii
- Feed a Penguin
- Swim with Sharks
- Visit the Louvre
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- The Taj Mahal
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- See the Pyramids, Valley of the Kings
- Cliff Dive
- Go to a Festival
- Learn to Kayak
- Learn how to Sail
- Ride a Horse
- Travel by Helicopter
- Visit Petra in Jordan
- Float in the Dead Sea
- Learn Yoga
- See where the Hobbits live in New Zealand
- Visit Berlin
- Go to the Opera
- Air-boat across a Crocodile swamp
So now my thoughts turn the things that I still want to achieve, here is what is still a work in progress:
- Read the Top 100 books of all time
- Road Trip USA
- Do the Cresta Skeleton Ice Run
- Learn to paint
- Be an Extra in a film
- Sit on a Jury
- Run a Marathon
- Visit LA and not just the airport
- Dive with Great Whites
- Climb Everest
- Visit Stonehenge
- Hike the Grand Canyon
- Gamble in Las Vegas
- Hike Kilimanjaro
- Glastonbury
- Write a book and get it published
- Learn how to paint
- Write my name in wet cement
- Canoe down the Amazon
- Visit the Rain forest
- Go to the Azores
- Scuba Dive in Mozambique with humpback whales
- Visit all 7 continents – only Antarctica to go
- Visit Rome
- Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- Ride a Zip Line – will be doing this year
- Go to the Ballet
- Visit the Vatican
- Visit Santorini
- See the Northern Lights
- Experience Zero Gravity
I think I have achieved quite a lot over the last few years, I would say one thing for certain, If I go tomorrow – what an amazing time I have had. There is definitely still a way to go and more things to enjoy in life.
The list of course will grow and change over the next few years and of course any recommendations or ideas of things to do that I am missing are more than welcome.
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text: Now that Bernanke has thrown in the towel and reverted back to the old bad news is good news regime (or did he - GETCO's vacuum tubes at least sure seem to think so), there was hardly anything more the market could ask for than a horrible Initial Claims print. It got just that with today's initial unemployment claims which soared from last week's upward revised 344K (only +1k revision this time) to 360K, well above the consensus (and Joe LaVorgna) forecast of 340K. Sure enough, the BLS said the July claims were difficult to seasonally adjust, so let's look at the NSA claims which jumped by 49,778 in the week ended July 6 to 384,829 making one wonder if the BLS' instruction in the holiday shortened week was to actually represent a worse economic reality unlike during the Obama pre-reelection months. The only other notable item in the report was the ongoing drop in Extended claims, with EUCs down by 23K to just 1.6 million, 1 million less than a year ago as claims exhaustion means ever more people drop out of the official labor pool. Permanently.


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While most prisoners at Rikers Island stay less than a year, inmate No. 2100400442 has been on ice there for 37 months, making him the jail's longest-standing resident. He's also Rikers' only "terrorist."
Or at least that's the state's contention. But sometime in the coming weeks when his case finally goes to trial, there will be no special security provisions, no bulletproof vests, not even an explosives-sniffing dog.
The fact that it's expected to be business as usual at Bronx Supreme Court when Edgar "Puebla" Morales goes on trial says a lot about New York State's hastily enacted terrorism law.
Almost six years after the state's Anti- Terrorism Act of 2001 was passed, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson is about to use the law for the first time not to go after a bin Laden protégé but a diminutive Bronx gangbanger.
Adopted by the legislature six days after 9/11 with almost no debate, the law was initially viewed as a symbolic gesture because tougher federal terrorism laws already existed. In fact, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver commented at the time that he didn't think there would ever be a prosecution under the state law, saying he voted for it more as a show of legislative solidarity in a time of crisis.
With jury selection currently under way in People v. Morales, Silver is about to be proved wrong.
Using one of the law's broad definitions of terrorism, "an offense that is intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population," the prosecution contends that the "agreed-upon objective" of Morales and the St. James Boys gang was to control a swath of the Bronx between University and Webster avenues, from East 170th to East 205th streets, purely to "enhance their status." The targeted "civilian population," according to Johnson's statements following the May 2004 indictment, were "hard-working, law-abiding citizens, including fellow immigrants from Mexico." Johnson declines comment, but he said at the time that "the terror perpetrated by gangs . . . also fits squarely within the scope of the statute."
Michael Balboni, head of the state's Homeland Security Office, has called the Morales case an "unanticipated application" of the law he co-authored when he was a Long Island state senator. But when it comes to its use, he says, he defers to the district attorneys.
Though the indictment details typical gang crimes to support the terrorism charge, the case really boils down to one incident: In August 2002, the St. James Boys crashed a
christening party at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Bronx. Initially, as the kids tried to break open a piñata, there were no problems. But once the gang members got drunk they grabbed the DJ's microphone and gave shout-outs while dissing the rival Vagabundos gang. Eventually, the St. James Boys got into it with some guests outside the church. Punches led to gunfire, and a stray bullet struck 10-year-old Malenny Mendez in the head as she tried to run away from the fracas. A second innocent bystander, Javier Tochimani-Fuentes, was left a quadriplegic by another errant shot.
Hours later, four of the gang members— including Cesar Rosas, whom police identified as Malenny's shooter, and gang leader Alejandro "Alex" Solis, who investigators said fired the shot that paralyzed Tochimani-Fuentes—were in a car headed to Mexico, according to prosecutors.
Edgar Morales was arrested in the Bronx four days after the shooting, but as a bit player, charged with criminal trespass and tampering with physical evidence. Morales spent the next 11 months in jail, until July 2003, when he pled guilty to misdemeanor trespassing and was released on time served. At that point, the shooters were nowhere to be found and the case was foundering. Nearly another year would pass before the prosecution took a new tack.
One of the men who had fled, Enrique "Kiko" Sanchez, had been arrested coming back into this country. He eventually pled guilty in the case and agreed to become a cooperating witness. Sanchez told detectives that Morales shot Malenny. However, Sanchez also said that gang leader Alex Solis sent him back to New York to take the fall and threatened to kill him and his family if he refused.
Morales's attorney, Dino Lombardi, claims that Sanchez then picked Morales to take the fall: "Kiko decided to put Edgar in the soup—little 5-foot-tall, 120-pounds-soaking-wet Edgar—because he's afraid of Alex."
Still, prosecutors did nothing with Sanchez's statement for a year and half. But in May 2004, with Rosas and Solis still in the wind, they got an indictment charging Morales with murder, attempted murder, assault, and gun possession—as acts of terrorism. The prosecution was now accusing Morales of firing the fatal shots.
On Thursday, Morales, now 25, turned down the prosecution's final offer of 20 to life, and the judge ordered jury selection to begin.
Ultimately, this anti-terrorism law is getting a test run because the St. James Boys were more like the Jets than the Bloods. They were small-time; their shit was all quien es mas macho. Had they been dealing drugs or involved in prostitution instead of always beefing with other gangs, the prosecution could have gone after them for racketeering. But without being able to bring a RICO case, the state opted for the terrorism law.
In fact, the slapped-together state law, with its vague definitions and lack of practical application against traditional terrorists, may ultimately prove to be the way to hammer violent youth gangs. In Morales's case, Lombardi says, the D.A. is using it like a cudgel: Plead guilty or face life without parole.
"I used to be a prosecutor and I'd do the same thing," says Lombardi. "If you give them that law, of course they're going to use it."


text: Postgraduate researchers Back to 'Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research ' Meet our doctoral students Emily Colley Name: Emily Colley Age: 23 Current stage of study: PhD student, I started at the end of October 2016 so I'm fairly new to Tommy's. Research Focus: The investigation of cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA) in the evaluation of miscarriages. Can you start by telling us a little about how long you have been working on your particular body of research and how you came to be working on it? I've been working on this particular research for just over a month. I trained as a Biomedical Scientist and completed an MSc in Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London so I have plenty of clinical and research laboratory skills. I joined Tommy's when I was awarded the PhD studentship. Why does this research appeal to you specifically? My interests in science have always been within reproductive biology and unfortunately 15% of clinically recognised pregnancies result in spontaneous abortion with more than 50% due to chromosomal abnormalities, so this is a huge area in early reproductive biology. The specific appeal of this project is giving women answers as to why a miscarriage occurred. This will hopefully give them peace of mind and reassurance that there was nothing they could have done to prevent the miscarriage. What is the long term aim of the work you are currently doing and when do you expect to have researched these results? It has been recognised that cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA) is present in maternal plasma and has already been utilised in non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to screen for trisomy 13, 18 and 21 in ongoing pregnancies. My work considers how the cffDNA can be utilised to clinically evaluate early miscarriages, including whether cffDNA can be used to reliably detect chromosomal aneuploidies and whether cffDNA can be used as an early predictor of miscarriage. I hope to reach these results within the three years of my PhD. How long has Tommy's been involved with the work you're doing and what impact does the charity have on what you're able to do? Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research has offered and funded my PhD. I rely on Tommy's miscarriage clinics for recruitment of women in my studies. How do you hope the work you're doing will impact on hopefully parents across the nation? A miscarriage can have a huge impact on women and their families. One of the primary questions from women who have unfortunately miscarried is: Why did I miscarry? While there is testing available, it requires material from the pregnancy to produce a result. I hope that my work will be able to answer the question of why a miscarriage happened, by using a non-invasive method which could also be used when there is no material present, providing answers when previously there would be none. It could also help in the management of future pregnancies. For example, I hope to develop a method to give reliable prognosis as to whether a miscarriage is expected in the future, in order to prepare the families. How much interaction do you have with women and parents and how much is based in the laboratory? My PhD is laboratory based, so I have very little interaction with the parents. However, there is a great team of Tommy's clinicians who work closely with the parents. What does the Tommy's funding enable you to do that you wouldn't otherwise have been in a position to? Tommy's funding enables me to complete the genetic testing and analysis involved in using cffDNA to evaluate miscarriages. Without Tommy's this work wouldn't be completed. Let's end on a cheesy one! What's your proudest achievement to date? The competition for my PhD was very fierce. So to date, this is my proudest achievement. Thanos Georgakas Name: Athanasios Georgakas Age: 31 Current stage of study: Following in the tradition of many notable scientists in the field of human reproductive biology, my educational background has roots in farm animal breeding. With a Degree in Animal Production Science and a Master in Equine Science, I'm now pursuing my first year of PhD study at the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR) based at the University of Birmingham (UoB). Research Focus: My project focuses on the role of sperm DNA quality in early miscarriage. The chemical structure of DNA might be altered naturally or due to environmental factors, including diet, exercise and smoking. Damage to sperm DNA, such as breaks in single or double DNA strands, has been linked to increased risk of miscarriage. This project is a truly fantastic opportunity for me and my supervisors Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Professor Arri Coomarasamy and Dr Sarah Conner, to explore a really fascinating research topic and hopefully change some paradigms in unexplained miscarriage. Can you start by telling us a little about how long you have been working on your particular body of research and how you came to be working on it? As an undergraduate student in Greece I had the opportunity to receive hands-on training in farm animal breeding. Subsequently whilst studying for my Masters degree in Wales, I visited Sweden and worked on stallion semen quality at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. During this time I developed my laboratory and scientific skills, and realised that I really wanted to work in the field of reproductive biology and in particular in andrology. Eventually, my research goals took shape while I was working with infertile men as a Laboratory Andrology Practitioner at UCLH. Why does this research appeal to you specifically? My professional experience, working at a large NHS fertility centre, soon helped me to realise the importance of male factor infertility, in particular in relation to miscarriage. It is a really rewarding experience to contribute to such an exciting translational research project and to see how research work in the laboratory can improve the prevention and prognosis of miscarriage in clinical practice. What is the long term aim of the work you are currently doing and when do you expect to have researched these results? Our journey has just officially started but we hope to achieve meaningful initial results, to guide us in the next stages of my research, by Easter 2017. We will be trying to confirm the level at which sperm DNA damage starts to have a clinical effect on miscarriage risk, and whether we can treat the man to stop the sperm DNA being damaged, to alleviate miscarriage. Moreover, since my PhD project is a work package within the wider Tommy's miscarriage research portfolio, some of our findings will be informed by co-analysis with the results of other work packages, and therefore available only at a later stage. How long has Tommy's been involved with the work you're doing and what impact does the charity have on what you're able to do? Tommy's charity is crucial to this work. In particular my PhD project is one of the work packages within Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research, directed by Professor Arri Coomarasamy here in Birmingham. Tommy's is unique among many charities in that research and evidence-based medicine is a fundamental part of its existence. Therefore, in working as a PhD student and being a member of Tommy's research team, I benefit not only from the necessary funding but also from expertise and knowledge invaluable for my study. How do you hope the work your doing will impact on hopefully parents across the nation? We know that miscarriage affects 200,000 couples every year in the UK. Based on a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by our team, as well as other studies published in recent years, we also know that many currently unexplained early miscarriages may be linked to poor sperm quality and in particular high sperm DNA fragmentation. Therefore we aim to systematically study this scenario, and hopefully develop some useful diagnostic and treatment approaches that will help to ameliorate the physical and emotional devastation experienced by many couples in UK and worldwide. How much interaction do you have with women and parents and how much is based in the laboratory? My work is based within UoB Centre for Human Reproductive Science (ChRS) laboratories as well as at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BWH). I'm confident that with expert teams within Tommy's, UoB and BWH, we can provide all the support and information that couples may require. The outcome of this project is directly linked to the collaborative efforts of scientists, healthcare professionals and of course the patients who would like to participate. What does the Tommy's funding enable you to do that you wouldn't otherwise have been in a position to? None of this would be happening without the support of Tommy's! Let's end on a cheesy one! What's your proudest achievement to date? I always dreamed of combining my skills, knowledge and passion for biology in a creative manner and for a useful purpose. Therefore I can undoubtedly say that I'm currently experiencing my greatest professional achievement. Postgraduate Research If you are a student who would like to become involved in the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research then please contact us with details of your particular interest among our listed projects.


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So I woke up this morning, looked at the time and date, and had a moment of realisation. It's my half birthday. I am officially 6 months into being 20. It's been 6 months since I went to from being a teenager to "adulthood". I put adulthood in quotation marks like that because I do not consider myself an adult, but then again, what truly defines an adult?
In honour of it being my half birthday, I thought I would share five of the most important lessons I have learnt over the last 6 months.
Take a Risk. Being an anxious person, I don't like taking risks. I like to know what is going to happen and when so I can prepare myself accordingly. But you can't live your life like that – sometimes you have to jump and hope that someone will catch you. I'm not talking in terms of love – that is a whole other blog post on it's own – but about making new friends, creating new memories and experiencing new things. Recently, I have been looking for flatmates to live with next year, and if it hadn't been for me taking a risk and holding an open application, I never would have met someone who I hope is going to become a good friend with time, even if everything doesn't work out with the flat.
Stop overthinking. It's like a constant game of he likes me, he likes me not in my head. One day I think someone likes me and other days I think they hate my guts. And it is exhausting! Chances are, his/her feelings lie somewhere in the middle, where we're friends but not best friends. It takes a lot for someone to hate you so it is highly unlikely that anyone hates you and if that did, you would certainly know about it.
You are your own brand. This one is partly inspired by YouTubers who's names are their brand, but the same concept can be applied to everyone to an extent. Your name is how someone identifies you. It's normally the first thing that someone learns about you. It's more than a name – it's the password to a box of memories and stories, both positive and negative. You are in control of how people react when they hear your name.
If something is worth doing, do it yourself. I am not a natural leader but I am good at organising and research which makes me a good candidate for leadership, especially in terms of group chats for events. We all know how hard it can be to organise to do something with everyone's conflicting schedules! It can get exhausting always being the one making the effort but know that they do appreciate it. Some people are just good at organising, other people are good at turning up!
You are what you eat. I can practically hear the eye rolls from here. It's true though! What you put in your body has an influence on you – your energy levels, your mood, how you feel within yourself. I'm not saying you need to live off raw food only but we can all be more aware of what is going into our body in terms of ingredients and how our bodies are reacting to different food types. Whilst dairy makes me feel bloated, it might make you feel strong as it's such a good source of calcium. Listen to your body and what it wants.
Let me know down below when your half birthday is and what you have learnt over the past 6 months.


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