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Recorded today. Fast forward to about 5:40 where my talking head appears and begins the analysis of the current crisis. Here’s how I introduce the matter in the video’s “Description” on YouTube: Israel knowingly escalated when they attacked an Iranian...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 10:47 AM PDT
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The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 07:52 AM PST
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
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In 1973 Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria. The attack happened on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews: When they fast, repent, and spend the entire day in synagogue praying and reflecting. In 1973, Jews had much...
by Keith Newman
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 07:28 AM PST
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It is absolutely outrageous to say that President Biden supports the genocide of the Palestinian civilians. It's incredibly ignorant to attack President Biden and not vote for him on the basis of a claim that he supports Israel targeting Palestinian...
by Dem
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 01:49 PM PST
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The Extreme Right Wing Government of Israel and Hamas deserve each other. Neither have any democratic credibility. Neither Care about Palestinian or Israeli lives all they care about is power. I do not believe anything either of them says. Today's...
by LaFeminista
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 12:23 PM PDT
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The players in the Middle East are perhaps on the edge of a wider war. This video from the excellent YouTube channel, Caspian Report, covers the situation and looks at the positions, power and potential strategies of the states (Israel, Egypt, Syria,...
by Rikon Snow
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 03:57 PM PDT
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This I imagine will take a lot of flack. It is also hardly a perfect analogy, because Bibi is hardly FDR, Israel is not quite America between the world wars, And Japan did not take hostages, or brutally rape, murder and Dismember civilians on Oahu...
by David B
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 08:28 PM PDT
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Former President Bill Clinton isn't very popular here, but I learned something from him. Undoubtedly a lot of you who are much smarter than I am already knew this, but I had not really thought about it before. He said that it was much wiser to be very...
by Dem
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on Tue Oct 24, 2023 at 01:23 PM PDT
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Having closely followed the Israeli Palestinian conflict over the last 50 years I agree with most of what Mustafa Berghouti had to say during an all too brief interview on Face the Nation. CBS Reporter Imtiaz Tyab: On the Israeli occupied West Bank...
by Lefty Coaster
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 03:58 PM PDT
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Excerpts from NYTimes Daily podcast. Sabrina Tavernise From “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise, and this is “The Daily.” President Biden arrived in Israel today as the crisis in the region deepened — Archived Recording 1 We have other breaking...
by annieli
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 05:57 PM PDT
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Via NBC News Trump said: “And then two nights ago, I read all of Biden security people — can you imagine? National defense people and they said, ‘Gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack from the north because that’s the most vulnerable spot.’ I said,...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 09:58 AM PDT
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Donald Trump spent years making claims like “No President has done more for Israel than I have,” and holding a series of high-profile meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But at a Wednesday rally in Florida and in comments on Fox...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 10:38 AM PDT
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Tim Miller, on behalf of the Bulwark, reports that Donald Trump, former head of state, has decided to heap praise on Hezbollah during the Israel-Palestinian crisis. He also criticized Netanyahu—not for his scorched-earth policy against Gaza but for...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 08:15 PM PDT
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Netanyahu's Self-Indulgence has Weakened Israel. Again. Why's he Still PM? (And Stop Killing Gazans) The Hamas terrorist deluge; the long planed slaughter, assault and kidnapping which was focused not on the IDF, not on IDF outposts, not on militant and illegal setter outposts but on huge numbers of defenseless civilians and a music festival for peace...
by DrLou
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on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 09:19 AM PDT
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The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip have carried out an unprecedented, multifront attack on Israel, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations and catching the country...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 09:28 AM PDT
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This is a very brief “breaking news” diary, essentially linking you to Prof. Juan Cole’s report on an Israeli military attack on the main Damascus airport on “Friday morning.” As a news junkie, reading this near midnite PDT which is like 24 hours after...
by leftcoast ron
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on Sat Jun 11, 2022 at 12:03 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue May 17, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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“This is a good day,” President Barack Obama began his remarks on Jan. 17, 2016, “because once again we are seeing what’s possible with strong American diplomacy.” On that day he ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Thu Dec 09, 2021 at 06:34 AM PST
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Just finished reading Red Line, by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Joby Warrick. It was published in February 2021. Warrick tells the story of how, since the 1980s, the Assad regime in Syria built a massive chemical weapons...
by theaccidentalrabbi
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on Wed Sep 29, 2021 at 08:59 PM PDT
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