SammyD

Alas, Mr. Congressman, I'm not lying. And I started this line of questioning assuming you were telling the truth. I've written long essays on extremist Israeli violence in the West Bank. I know it happens. I was ready, at first glance, to believe it happened here. But it didn't. This wasn't Israeli violence. This was agitprop for your American audiences. I said explicitly that I'm not familiar with the details of that area. It took a lot of effort for JPost to find out what it found out -- which was that it was a closed military zone only recently opened. But if you'd coordinated your visit with Israeli authorities, this would have been sorted out from the start. Those soldiers weren't angry or aggressive, they seemed mostly just confused about the status of the area and how to handle your visit. Because, you know, there was no coordination. JPost suggests all that in the article you yourself shared. And what of the violence? Your group had cameras -- a professional photographer and at least one bodycam -- yet you've produced no evidence that I've seen of the violence you claim to have experienced. Remember that you claimed the violence was sufficient to demand that Netanyahu order the prosecution of those soldiers. I've seen that sort of violence before; if you produce that footage, I'll join your demand for prosecution. That's not rhetoric. I really will, wholeheartedly. But if you don't, I think it's safe to assume you blew up a small inconvenience caused by your own refusal to talk to Israelis. In a similar vein, you used the word "detained" as if you were unlawfully held against your will -- and hide behind its second meaning, that you were a bit delayed in driving forward into the area. The first is on the spectrum of kidnapping crimes, the second is the sort of problem you'd encounter at the entrance to a federal building as you search your pockets for an ID. Which was it? Anyway, you were angling for some domestic political brownie points, and congratulations, you got 'em.

Axios: "Do you consider Israel an apartheid state?" Gavin Newsom: "I said that was directional as it relates to what Tom Friedman was arguing about the annexation of the West Bank... so no." "My biggest concern—my red flag—is Netanyahu, period… I've been very critical of him." "I've long supported the state of Israel."

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon: I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model. We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them in exactly that way. And that is what we did. The infrastructure has been destroyed. Homes in 24 villages along the border—villages that had existed for hundreds of years and were used by Hezbollah as military outposts against Israel—have been demolished. The army systematically flattened the villages with bulldozers and explosives. Ninety percent of the houses are gone. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed.

Lindsey Graham repeatedly called for dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza He was a Rosé sipping genocidaire who reveled in mass civilian death Unfortunately, the vampiric system he represented will live on

Charges laid in hate incident A man has been arrested and charged following the investigation into a hate motivated incident that occurred at a Costco in Halifax on July 4. At approximately 3 p.m. on July 9, with the assistance of RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment, a man was arrested at a residence in Port Dufferin. During the arrest, the man brandished a weapon and officers deployed a conductive energy weapon. He was treated on scene by EHS and medically cleared. Randall Byron Publicover, 37, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court today to face charges of: -Public incitement of hatred -Assault -Uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death (x4) -Mischief (x2) -Resist peace officer -Possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace The investigation is ongoing. Halifax Regional Police thank the public who came forward to help identify the suspect. Crimes and incidents motivated by hate are taken very seriously. If someone finds themselves exposed to behaviour that is offensive, threatening or intimidating, they are encouraged to report it to police. Even if an investigation does not find criminal wrongdoing, it is important to have it on record. 26-103975 and 26-106702 -30-