The Palestinians Do Not Want Equal Rights
Posted By: Pluperfect, 8/9/2019 5:44:25 AM
On Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper suggested that Palestinian leaders "validate" hatred toward Israel while discussing the tone of American leaders following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, which, according to authorities, a suspected white supremacist perpetrated. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), a Palestinian-American, took offense to Tapper's comment. "Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie," she tweeted the next day. "Palestinians want equality, human dignity & to stop the imprisonment of children.
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The Washington Monument will reopen to the public next month for the first time in more than three years, the U.S. National Park Service announced Friday.
Public tours of 555-foot-tall landmark will resume Sept. 19, the NPS said in a statement.
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The Trump administration announced long-awaited “public charge” immigration regulations this week, and the furor immediately kicked up to derangement level. Reason’s Shikha Dalmia called the policy a “complete abuse of the original understanding” of the law.
In the Washington Post, opinion writer Paul Waldman said the policy sends a message: “We hate you and we don’t want you here, and if you come we will treat you with all the cruelty we can muster.” CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin went so far as to call the proposed regulation “un-American.”
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A movement by an enclave in the communist bloc to grant its people the greater freedoms enjoyed in the West — that’s the drama playing out in Hong Kong today. Yet as youthful protestors wave American flags and sing our national anthem, American support for their cause is being tepidly expressed, at best.
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As sailors and Marines are sailing in more contested waters, the blue-green team is getting creative about how to defend amphibious assault ships from enemy small boats and drones.
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The armored vehicle can be seen in the background of photos released by the Marine Corps on Wednesday, showing AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters flying off the amphibious assault ship Boxer. The LAV was first spotted by Phil Ewing, national security editor at NPR.
Back in June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an incredible claim about homeless people in his state. Asked why the homeless population hadn’t declined when he was Mayor of San Francisco, Newsom said, “The vast majority (of San Francisco’s homeless people) also come in from — and we know this — from Texas. Just (an) interesting fact.”Newsom’s claim was discounted by the LA Times last month but Politifact decided to investigate independently. This week the least reliable fact-checker in the business agreed that Newsom’s statement was absurd, giving it a “Pants on Fire” rating.
Texts and emails allegedly detail
Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers,
including Zion Williamson 0 replies
Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers,
including Zion Williamson 0 replies
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More Clinton Email Funny Business
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Zogby: ‘Poor performances’ of
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to 51%, up with blacks and Hispanics 6 replies
Democrats boost Trump’s approval
to 51%, up with blacks and Hispanics 6 replies
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to Plan Their Trip to Israel 21 replies
Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites
to Plan Their Trip to Israel 21 replies
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July 2019 – Hottest July Ever?
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The press is again awash with the latest hysterical news that July 2019 was the hottest July ever!
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BEIT UR AL-FAUQA, West Bank - Sitting under an olive tree in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Muftia Tlaib scoffs at the attention she has recently received from the president of the United States. "May God ruin him," she says. Tlaib is the grandmother of U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, at the center of an affair that has drawn Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu together against U.S. Democrats. On Thursday, bowing to pressure from Trump, Israel barred a visit by Rashida Tlaib and fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar that it had initially said it would allow. The next day, Israel said
MSNBC Guest Tiffany Cross:
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‘I Highly Doubt’ Anybody at a MAGA Rally
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She wanted a late-night hookup, but
he fell asleep. So she burned his house
down, police say 26 replies
he fell asleep. So she burned his house
down, police say 26 replies
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Late one afternoon, while taking a leisurely stroll on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a friend of mine named Tim Malloy ran into a trim, silver-haired neighbour of ours from Palm Beach in Florida. The man was walking down Madison Avenue, and several things about him were striking. For one thing, he was wearing slippers. Expensive, embroidered, monogrammed slippers. But slippers all the same. For another, he was accompanied by two exceptionally attractive women. As the man half shuffled, half walked down the avenue, the women walked slightly behind him, as if they were attendants or staff.
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Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites
to Plan Their Trip to Israel 21 replies
Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites
to Plan Their Trip to Israel 21 replies
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Violent Antifa protests are breaking out in Portland, Oregon, following the pre-planned “End of Domestic Terrorism” event taking place in the city.City officials have been preparing for the potential of dueling clashes, with the police force at the ready and additional agencies on standby. According to journalist and editor of Quillette, Andy Ngo, – who warned that Saturday’s events had the potential to be a “powder keg” – things are already taking a violent turn.One of Ngo’s videos shows protesters attacking a bus, appearing to attempt to pull people out of the vehicle:
Donald Trump Says ‘Major’ Consideration
Given to Labeling Antifa an
‘Organization of Terror’ 19 replies
Given to Labeling Antifa an
‘Organization of Terror’ 19 replies
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