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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the Biden administration for withholding military aid in a video released on Tuesday while recounting a recent conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken."I told Secretary Blinken it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel"“When Secretary Blinken was recently here in Israel, we had a candid conversation. I said I deeply appreciated the support the U.S. has given Israel from the beginning of the war. But I also said something else,” began Netanyahu. “I said, it’s inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunition to Israel. Israel, America’s closest ally, fighting for its life, fighting against Iran and our other common enemies.”Last month, the U.S. announced that it would halt a shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700-pound bombs over concerns of how such weaponry might endanger civilian lives. Biden also said at the time that if the Israelis went into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, he wouldn’t be “supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem.”“We’re not walking away from Israel’s security. We’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas,” insisted Biden at the time.
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“As expected, Netanyahu inevitably knifes Biden in the back. Republicans will cite this video extensively to hurt Biden.…”
The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit challenging an Ohio law that criminalizes non-family members and non-postal workers handling absentee ballots, citing concerns over the rights of voters with disabilities. This move is part of a broader effort by the DOJ to safeguard voting…
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The House Ethics Committee is expanding its investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz, focusing on allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and possible obstruction of government probes. The Florida Republican, who has denied any wrongdoing, is under scrutiny for a series of claims that have prompted…
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Political scientists talk about the “Overton window” — the range of policies that are regarded as respectable by mainstream opinion at any given time. What politicians such as Trump, Marine Le Pen and Farage have done is to shift that window, so policies once regarded as on the extreme right have moved into the mainstream.France’s far right would like — henceforth — to be known simply as “the right”.One can see the logic. The Rassemblement National, the far-right party, is well ahead in the polls for fast-approaching legislative elections in France. Meanwhile the traditional right is in meltdown. If the RN becomes the largest group in the French parliament in July, the party will have redefined French conservatism.The question of whether to rebrand the far right as the right resonates well beyond France. There is a similar issue in the US, where Donald Trump has transformed the Republican party in his own image. The traditional pro-market, internationalist party of George HW Bush barely exists today. Trump’s “America First” nativism now commands the conservative movement.Trump and his ilk have also pushed the Overton window on attitudes to Russia and Ukraine. Here the line between a new form of conservatism and far-right authoritarianism becomes more blurry. It is possible that the likes of Trump and Le Pen want to strike a deal with Russia because they are cold-blooded isolationists who do not believe support for Ukraine is in the national interest. But their flirtation with Vladimir Putin could also reflect admiration for his authoritarianism.
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Trump promised to protect the country by building well that Mexico will pay for. Instead, he could not even pay for it h…
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