02-23-2024, 06:03 AM
USA
What's wrong with that police department!?
They physically witnessed the high level of aggression directed towards Gaines alone and even had to help her escape from the campus!!
EUROPE
MIDDLE EAST
Politics
Quote:Politico reported that on Wednesday, the Biden administration was set to blast out emails to some 153,000 loan borrowers, who will see $1.2 billion transferred out of their collective debts under his Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan.
In the letter, the politically vulnerable president takes credit for the “forgiveness” in the first sentence.
“Congratulations—all or a portion of your federal student loans will be forgiven because you qualify for early loan forgiveness under my Administration’s SAVE Plan,” the email, published by Politico, reads.
“From day one of my Administration, I vowed to fix student loan programs so higher education can be a ticket to the middle class—not a barrier to opportunity,” the letter states. Biden adds he hopes “this relief gives you a little more breathing room.”
The document includes the phrase “SHARE WHAT THIS RELIEF MEANS TO YOU,” which links to a studentaid.gov page that is not yet accessible.
“The borrowers receiving relief are the first to benefit from a SAVE plan policy that provides debt forgiveness to borrowers who have been in repayment after as little as 10 years and took out $12,000 or less in student loans,” the White House stated in a press release. Per Politico, Biden will speak Wednesday about the move at an event in Los Angeles.
Quote:The San Francisco State University police department has suspended an investigation into an alleged assault against former NCAA swimmer and women’s sports activist Riley Gaines.
“Gaines said she was physically attacked by activists who forced her to barricade herself inside a classroom for hours after they stormed an event where she was speaking about her experiences competing against controversial trans swimmer Lia Thomas in college,” reported the New York Post.
Gaines also testified of the incident before Congress in April of last year.
Speaking with Fox News, Gaines said she recently learned that the university police department decided to suspend the investigation.
“Can you please let me know if you have completed your investigation?” she wrote in an email. “I wondered if you can share with me any conclusions you have reached regarding your investigation and whether any charges will be filed against the individuals who sought to threaten, intimidate and harm me? Is there a timetable concerning this matter? Is there any additional information you need from me?”
An officer later responded, “After a thorough investigation, the alleged charges in this case are unfounded and have been suspended pending further lead.”
The department added that it sent messages to Gaines in June and July last year that ultimately “went unanswered.” They had also reportedly asked her for additional photos or videos of the incident so that the case “may be further investigated.” Gaines told Fox News that she had already given her story to police and that she did not feel it necessary to speak with them about it again when they reached out over the summer.
What's wrong with that police department!?
They physically witnessed the high level of aggression directed towards Gaines alone and even had to help her escape from the campus!!
Quote:Authorities in the western Philadelphia suburb of West Whiteland Township are reporting clashes with organized gangs of retail thieves made up of illegal border crossers.
Police officials have identified at least three gangs of migrants responsible for the theft of thousands of dollars of merchandise since January, according to WPVI-TV.
“They’re taking advantage of coming to the U.S. and committing these crimes and being able to disappear to some degree,” West Whiteland Township Police Department Detective Scott Pezick told the station.
“Over the last month, we’ve had what we call South American theft groups,” Pezick added.
Officers arrested two Venezuelan migrants on February 1 and charged them with stealing more than $2,000 in merchandise from an Ulta store in Exton, the outlet added.
The suspects — Albert Torrealba Jordan and Keiver Guilarte Camps — had both entered the U.S. illegally, the police said.
In another case, an illegal from Peru was accused of stealing $17,000 from a Khols in Exton. The suspect had been deported but is reportedly already back.
“That was less than a month ago, and he’s back in the United States,” Pezick explained.
The groups are also being implicated in home and car burglaries, police said.
Quote:The document, a “February 2024 Board Memo” prepared for board members of the American Clean Power Association, is striking in how specific and aggressive it is in detailing plans for its members to push Republican lawmakers to oppose any GOP effort to repeal all or parts of Biden’s inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA, which passed during Biden’s second year as president, did not lower inflation but did aggressively expand government spending, including perhaps most controversially on the left’s radical green energy agenda.
The American Clean Power Association, or ACP, is a trade association made up of companies supportive of or benefitting from the left’s green energy push. On its website, the organization describes itself as a “leading voice of more than 800 companies from across the clean power sector that are committed to meeting America’s national security, economic and climate goals with fast-growing, low-cost, and reliable domestic power.”
This 66-page document obtained by Breitbart News is marked on nearly every page as “ACP Confidential Information.” The first dozen or so pages of it include a breakdown of normal business of a trade association, including discussion about the election of board members and officers of the group, as well as the organization’s financials. The financial report section explains that the group pulls in tens of millions of dollars annually in revenue, and spends tens of millions of dollars per year as well—making this group a powerhouse trade association in the green energy space. The document, for instance, says the trade association’s finance team estimated a total of more than $62 million in revenue in 2023, and expenses at $55.8 million. In short, this group is extremely well-funded—and the document brags about ACP having more than $49 million in cash available on hand to begin 2024.
Quote:Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved a plan in January 2022 that gave more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.
Black New Yorkers, along with naturalized American citizens, the New York State Republican Party, the Republican National Committee (RNC), and Democrat officials like Councilman Robert Holden subsequently sued Mayor Eric Adams (D) and the city’s Board of Elections.
In June 2022, the New York Supreme Court ruled that giving local voting rights to foreign nationals violated the state’s constitution, which explicitly reserves voting for American “citizens.”
On Wednesday, the New York Appellate Division upheld that decision:
Since this is, in part, a declaratory judgment action, we remit the matter to the Supreme Court, Richmond County, for the entry of a judgment, inter alia, declaring that the Local Law is null and void on the grounds that it violates the New York State Constitution and the Municipal Home Rule Law.
Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) President J. Christian Adams, who filed suit against Adams over the law on behalf of black New Yorkers, said the ruling “marks an important step to stop foreign interference in New York City’s elections.”
Quote:Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Trump election interference case, donated to county prosecutor Fani Willis, financial disclosures show.
The judge donated $150 to Willis in June 2020, while working for the Justice Department.
“The donation itself is more or less a token amount and was made prior to his becoming a judge,” legal analyst Philip Holloway told the Daily Caller. “But failure to disclose to the defendants a political donation to the prosecutor can be seen as a present appearance of a conflict of interest. Judges are required to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.”
Gov. Brian Kemp ®, who refused to launch a criminal probe into Willis, appointed McAfee to the bench and was subsequently sworn in on February 1, 2023.
Previously, McAfee worked for Willis in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office before she won the election in 2020, the New York Times reported in August.
Willis dislodged a longtime former county prosecutor accused of corruption. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. She campaigned in 2020 on not engaging in sexual misconduct, as her predecessor was accused of doing. The irony of Willis’s campaign promise was evident after allegations of her own affair surfaced, along with financial implications.
Quote:On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink discussed Russia’s detention of dual citizen Ksenia Karelina and responded to questions on whether Russia feels emboldened to take Americans hostage by stating that Ukraine has done well in its fight against Russia and Russia’s treatment of Americans is “of great concern.”
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Brink responded, “Saturday is the two-year mark of Russia’s brutal, full-scale invasion. And I have to say, in those two years, Ukraine has taken 50% of the territory that Russia has seized back. It has protected its energy grid from thousands of missiles and drones, and it has also reclaimed the Black Sea from the Russian Navy in order to support global trade. It has done this without a single U.S. soldier.”
Perino then said, “Okay, I want to get to that. But I do want to ask about this American citizen, dual U.S.-Russian citizen, who donated $51, apparently, allegedly, to Ukraine, to support Ukraine and now she is being held. She was shackled, blindfolded in Russia, and what can the State Department do when Russia seems to feel emboldened to take our people?”
Brink responded, “[I]t’s a horrifying story. I don’t know the details. But I can say that, based on the way Putin treats his own people, it is of great concern how Putin treats also American citizens. We all know of the terrible death of Alexei Navalny last week. And Putin is to blame. So, it’s, of course, of great concern.”
EUROPE
Russia Can't Stay Quite
Quote:The Moscow City Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter detained on highly dubious espionage allegations in March 2023. Russia has yet to introduce any evidence against Gershkovich or schedule a date for his trial.
The latest rejection of a string of appeals from Gershkovich’s lawyers mean the hostage reporter is certain to spend over a year in prison before his trial gets underway.
As his employers at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) noted on Tuesday, Russian prosecutors have “wide latitude to request further extensions of pretrial detention.” When espionage trials are finally held, they are usually conducted in secret, and almost always result in convictions with lengthy prison sentences.
Previous appeals denied by the court included requests for Gershkovich to be granted bail or transferred to house arrest from the harsh Lefortovo prison in Moscow.
“It’s been nearly one year since Evan’s unjust arrest for doing nothing more than his job, and every day he remains in prison is an unconscionable attack on a free press. Evan is a journalist, and any suggestion or portrayal otherwise is fiction. We continue to demand his immediate release,” the WSJ’s editors said on Tuesday.
The Biden administration insisted that the charges against Gershkovich are “baseless” and he has been incarcerated for “simply reporting the news.”
“When the Kremlin uses lives as bargaining chips, real people suffer,” said U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy.
The Kremlin breezily denied that Gershkovich and other Americans, including recently arrested Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina, are being held hostage by the regime of strongman Vladimir Putin.
Quote:The minister, Sébastien Lecornu, didn´t give specific details about the French flights or aircraft involved in the threatened shoot-down. But he said Russia is returning to a “particularly aggressive” posture reminiscent of the former Soviet Union’s behavior during the Cold War.
“A month ago, to give you a very concrete example, a Russian air traffic control system threatened to shoot down French aircraft in the Black Sea when we were in a free international zone where we patrol,” he said on RTL radio.
“The behavior of Russia in 2024 bears no relation to what we saw in 2022 and, obviously, before the aggression in Ukraine,” the minister said. “It is explained by the fact that Russia is in difficulty on the battlefield in Ukraine.”
French air force pilots regularly patrol on the eastern flank of NATO, part of efforts by the 31-nation military alliance to boost its defenses since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago come Saturday.
French flights include long-range patrols by its AWACS surveillance aircraft. Flying high above the Black Sea coast, they use their powerful radar and other surveillance gear to peer across to the Crimean Peninsula that was seized from Ukraine by Russia and annexed in 2014. The surveillance flights can spot missile launches, airborne bombing runs and other military activity in the Ukraine conflict.
Other News
Quote:A second Ukrainian basketball player has succumbed to his wounds and died after a knife attack in the city of Oberhausen, allegedly at the hand of a migrant gang.
Two Ukrainians who fled to Germany for safety after the Russian invasion of their homeland and who played in the Basketball Bundesliga under-19s for the Düsseldorf team ART Giants have been killed in a knife attack.
The pair were attacked by a group of what police say were migrant-background youths in Oberhausen, near Dusseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia on Saturday 10th of February. 17-year-old Volodymyr Yermakov died in the hospital of his wounds the same day.
Now his friend and teammate 18-year-old Artem Kozachenko has also succumbed to his wounds sustained in the same attack, dying some ten days later. German newspaper Die Welt reports Kozachenko had been in intensive care but his condition had “recently deteriorated dramatically”.
While Ukrainian media states the pair were stabbed “simply because they are Ukrainians”, the German Welt states police believe there is no evidence of a xenophobic motive against the migrants by a different group of migrants.
The paper notes police have arrested a prime suspect, who they believe is the knifeman, described as a 15-year-old “German Turk”. Also under investigation are alleged accomplices, a 14-year-old “German Greek” and two Syrian migrants aged 14 and 15-years-old.
Quote:The French centre-right Les Républicains declared they will not back European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s quest for a second term in the top job in Brussels.
Ursula von der Leyen’s performance in her first term as Commission chief was “not up to par” and therefore the Les Républicains party will not support her candidacy for a second stint as leader, French MEP and the leader of the party in the EU Parliament, François-Xavier Bellamy declared on Tuesday.
“We will not support her in the election that comes with the Republicans, because we consider that the results are not up to what Europe expects today,” Bellamy said in comments reported by Le Figaro.
The declaration from the centrist French party comes just one day after von der Leyen announced her intentions to seek a second term as Commission president. It represents the first party within her European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary group to come out against the German politician’s nomination openly.
The principal objection to von der Leyen from the Républicains has been her green agenda push, which has not only included plans to reach ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions by 2050, but also has seen a swath of new environmental regulations imposed upon European farmers, who have already faced difficulties over inflation, the energy crisis, and the decision by Brussels to allow tariff-free access to its market to Ukrainian agriculture produced with much cheaper labour than within the EU.
Quote:Many Ukrainian men are evading the draft by hiding at home or trying to bribe their way out of the battle.
Along the frigid and muddy front line, commanders say their army is too small and made up of too many exhausted and wounded soldiers. As the war enters its third year, the most urgent and politically sensitive challenge pressing on Ukraine is whether it can muster enough new soldiers to repel an enemy with far more fighters at its disposal.
Russia´s population is more than three times as large as Ukraine´s, and President Vladimir Putin has shown a willingness to force men to the front if not enough volunteer.
The lack of soldiers isn´t Ukraine´s only predicament – it is also desperate for Western military aid, which has been harder to come by as the war drags on. But mobilizing enough soldiers is a problem only Ukraine can solve.
To replenish its ranks, the Ukrainian government is struggling to find a balance between coercion and persuasion.
The parliament is considering legislation that would increase the potential pool of recruits by about 400,000, in part by lowering the enlistment age from 27 to 25. But the proposal is highly unpopular, forcing elected officials to grapple with questions that cut to the heart of nationhood: Can they convince enough citizens to sacrifice their lives? And, if not, are they willing to accept the alternative?
Dangerous Groups
Quote:UK Parliament speaker Lindsay Hoyle has doubled down on his claims extraordinary convention-busting decisions on the Israel-Gaza vote on Wednesday were informed by terrorist threats against Members of the house who didn’t vote in favour of a ceasefire.
Efforts by left-wing politicians from two parties in Britain’s lower house on Wednesday to call for “an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel” and for Israel to not pursue a ground offensive without the political embarrassment of voting for each other’s motions ended in chaos. The position of the speaker is in peril after he broke with long-established procedure to allow unconventional votes, and stands accused of having done so to benefit the left-wing Labour Party.
Sir Lindsay is in a difficult situation as whatever explanation that can rationally be given for his decisions on Wednesday do not land well. Former attorney general Sir Geoffrey Cox put his interpretation on this dichotomy, and wrote Thursday:
There are two possible explanations for the Speaker’s decision to abandon long-standing convention. First, he did it to assist his former party leader get out of a bind. Secondly, as he says, he did it in a misguided attempt to protect certain Labour MPs from the intimidation they said would otherwise have followed, if they had voted against the SNP motion.
Either reason is unacceptable. If the former, it is an abuse of his office. If the latter, it is an abject surrender to intolerance and tyranny; it meekly offers up the House of Commons as able to be influenced by external threats.
Conservative MP Danny Kruger said today it was a specific Islamist threat that had been alluded to.
Quote:The violent hard-left Antifa are already well known, but a splinter group in Germany with a laser focus on race has taken to the streets and it is bent on “revolution towards a classless society”, reports a top newspaper.
‘Migrantifa’ — of course a portmanteau neologism of migrant and Antifascist Action — protested in Berlin on Friday night, a demonstration that devolved into scuffles and arrests after police attempted to shut down banned antisemitic chants. Establishment German newspaper Die Welt gives a rundown on the group which has bubbled under the surface for a few years but now gains new prominence.
The report noted the Monday night rally, called on the anniversary of a terror attack against a shisha bar in Germany that killed nine, attracted 3,500 protesters — Migrantifa themselves claimed “over 10,000” attended — and that chants were led and speeches were given. Describing the extremist worldview held by the Migrantifa group as expressed through the words of its speakers, Welt said the group seamlessly blended anger over Gaza with conspiracy theories about German racism against migrants, seeing no political party as representing migrant interests.
“Deadly racism” is present in the full spectrum from the right-populist anti-mass migration Alternative For Germany (AfD) to the enviro-socialist Greens, said one speaker, who told attendees that at best the political system offered a vote “every four years… between misery with a rainbow flag and misery with a conservative family image”. Even the hard left parties now in government had supplied cash to Israel, they lamented.
The Migrantifa hardliners also “despise ‘diversity’ and anti-racism work-through-workshops rhetoric” — the very basis of the contemporary multicultural state in Germany as elsewhere, and prefer “‘resistance’ and revolution towards a ‘classless society'”, the paper said.
Welt is not the only German newspaper to have noted the Migrantifa rally. Die Tageszeitung also reports on the rhetoric, noting the speeches focussing on popular responses in the country to migrant crime. Noting events like the massive New Year’s Eve unrest in Berlin and the outrage at the behaviour of migrant males towards young women and girls at public swimming pools in recent summers, the protest lashed out at the public’s response to what many would call ‘migrant crime’, describing it instead as “unprecedented agitation against migrants”.
The AfD [a "far-right" political party] — clearly an object of hatred for the Migrantifa activists — responded to the emergence of the group, asking rhetorically whether the members might consider leaving Germany, given they have such a low opinion of it
Farmers Try to Take Control of Several European Capitals
Quote:Polish farmers brought the border with Ukraine to a complete standstill with their tractors on Tuesday as they protested the “uncontrolled” flows of cheap produce from their war-torn neighbour, which they claim has severely undermined their ability to remain in business.
In a significant blow to recently installed globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has vowed to be the most “pro-Ukrainian politician in Europe,” farmers from his country riled Kyiv once again by shutting down the border crossings at Lublin and Podkarpackie with hundreds of tractors, completely blocking off large transport trucks from coming in and out of the country and sparking queues dozens of miles long, Poland’s PAP news agency reported.
Flying the red and white Polish flags, tractors bore signs reading: “Stop the uncontrolled influx of Ukrainian goods” and “Agriculture is dying little by little” .
Speaking to the French news agency AFP, a farmer at the protest, Tomasz Golak said: “I am here so that we abandon the restrictions introduced by the European Union on fallowing, and the Green Deal, and above all so that these Ukrainian foods stop arriving,” adding: “This year, wheat is selling for half the price of last year”.
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Upon taking office in December, Tusk vowed to lead efforts to launch a “full mobilization of the free world, the Western world, to help Ukraine in this war.”
However, relations remain tense between the two neighbours over the issue of agriculture. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that the tractor blockade of the border by truckers and farmers was indicative of an “erosion of solidarity” towards Ukraine.
Quote:Hundreds of farmers drove their tractors into central Madrid on Wednesday as part of ongoing protests against European Union and local farming policies and to demand measures to alleviate production cost hikes.
The protest, the biggest to take place in the Spanish capital after more than two weeks of daily protests across the country, will include a rally outside the Agriculture Ministry headquarters.
Many of the tractors flew Spanish flags and some farmers carried banners reading, “There is no life without farming,” and “Farmers in Extinction.”
“It is impossible to live from the rural industry, which is what we want, to live from our work. That is all we ask for,” Silvia Ruiz, 46, a livestock farmer from the north-central area of Burgos told The Associated Press.
The Union of Unions organizing group said they were bringing 500 tractors and many more farmers on buses. Many of the tractors may have to stay outside of the city because of government restrictions.
Similar protests have taken place across the bloc in recent weeks. Farmers complain that the 27-nation EU´s policies on the environment and other matters are a financial burden and make their products more expensive than non-EU imports.
Quote:Scores of bright-colored tractors were parked outside Greece’s parliament Tuesday, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens.
“Without us, you don´t eat,” one banner said. Some farmers carried mock coffins and funeral garlands as symbols of their plight.
The farmers – whose demands are similar to those at farmer protests elsewhere in Europe – have spent weeks staging sporadic blockades along highways and in rural towns. Farmers in central Greece are also still reeling from major floods last year.
The center-right government has expressed sympathy with the farmers but said budgetary constraints prevent it from meeting all their demands, beyond substantial electricity cost reductions.
Protesters say that’s not enough. They want tax-free fuel, debt forgiveness, measures against foreign competition and speedier compensation for damage from natural disasters. Farmers also criticize the substantial markup in shelf prices compared to what wholesalers pay them for their produce.
Manolis Liakis, a farmer from the southern island of Crete, singled out fuel costs. He said farmers pay more than three times as much for petrol as shipping companies due to tax disparities.
MIDDLE EAST
Only Getting Worse
Quote:According to Iran’s PressTV, IRGC commanders attended a ceremony on Tuesday to take possession of the latest Shahed-131 and Ababil-5 drones, upgraded versions of two designs that have helped Iran’s homegrown drone industry become a significant threat.
The Shahed drone is a “suicide” or “kamikaze” design, intended to fly an explosive payload to its target and then explode. Iran admitted in November 2022 it has supplied Russia with a large number of Shahed drones to attack Ukrainian targets. Iran also supplied Shahed models to the Houthi terrorists of Yemen, who have used them to attack commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
PressTV excitedly reported the Shahed-131 featured prominently in an exercise that simulated Iran using “precision strikes” to destroy an Israeli nuclear power plant.
The Ababil-5 drone, rolled out in April 2022, is an attack drone along the lines of the U.S.-made Predator UAV. The Iranian drone can carry up to six missiles or bombs and has an operating range of about 480 kilometers.
Iranian state media claimed in October 2023 that an Ababil-5 was able to shadow a U.S.-guided missile destroyer in the Indian Ocean, seemingly without being detected or interfered with. PressTV said the latest version of the Ababil drone can carry a heavier payload with its stronger wings, and has a smaller radar signature thanks to its retractable landing gear.
Quote:The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese outlet Al Mayadeen reported on Thursday that a “suicide drone” of unknown origin successfully hit an American base in eastern Syria. Iranian state outlets amplified the report, but the Pentagon has not confirmed or denied the alleged incident at press time.
Al Mayadeen cited one of its reporters in Aleppo, who claimed the kamikaze drone “reached its goal after a strong explosion was heard in the area surrounding the U.S. base.” The base was allegedly in the Conoco gas field in Deir ez-Zor, close to the border with Iraq.
The attack, if confirmed, could mark a return to the heightened number of similar strikes on Americans in the region since October. The Pentagon has confirmed more than 165 attacks on American troops and assets in the Middle East in the past four months. A report citing anonymous sources by Reuters in late February, however, claimed that Iran had ordered its proxies in Iraq to stop targeting Americans out of fear that such strikes could elicit a devastating response, including potential strikes within Iran.
Iran’s state-run PressTV, which cited Al Mayadeen, emphasized that the “extent of the likely casualties or material damages resulting from the strike is yet to be known” and that no organization, individual, or other entity had claimed responsibility for the alleged attack — nor had any party allegedly involved acknowledged the incident. Mehr News, another Iranian state-linked propaganda outlet, cited a separate source for its report: an Arabic-language update on Sputnik, a Russian state propaganda outlet.
Sputnik reportedly used unnamed “local sources” to claim “massive explosions rocked Green Village, situated in the energy-rich Dayr al-Zawr province near the Iraq border.”
Quote:Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun slammed the country’s Hezbollah terrorist organization for its persistent attacks on Israel, stating that “one party cannot make decisions about a conflict like this all by itself,” and noting that Lebanon has no obligation to defend the Gaza-based Palestinians as it has “no treaty with Gaza.”
Aoun’s remarks were made in a Monday interview with Lebanon’s OTV television station, as reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
According to MEMRI, when asked what Lebanon’s limits are in the conflict with Israel and to what extent the Mediterranean country should enter such a conflict, Aoun highlighted that only a “section of the Lebanese people has made a decision, all by itself, whereas the other Lebanese are not a party to this.”
“The government is silent,” he said. “It does not take a clear stand. This reflects helplessness rather than resolve.”
He also expressed his opposition to “linking” the Lebanese front to that of Gaza’s, noting “We have no treaty with Gaza,” and that Lebanon “is not connected to Gaza by an agreement,” while proposing that “perhaps the Arab League could have done something.”
In response to the suggestion that Hezbollah’s actions are “more of a preemptive move than an act of support for Gaza,” Aoun dismissed it as “just an opinion.”
“There are no indications of this,” he said, adding that “perhaps instead of pushing the danger away from us, getting into this war only aggravates it.”
When asked who ultimately decides on these issues, Aoun declared that currently “the people who are fighting are calling the shots.”
Quote:The U.S. State Department condemned on Wednesday a string of missile and drone attacks on American and British commercial vessels by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.
The attacks were evidence that President Joe Biden’s “Operation Prosperity Guardian” has done little to protect shipping or deter Houthi attacks.
The State Department condemned the latest round of Houthi assaults on “civilian shipping and innocent mariners” as terrorism and piracy. The statement noted that the Houthis have frequently targeted ships carrying food headed for starving countries, including Yemen itself, so their actions are “adversely affecting those in need of assistance around the world.”
“Contrary to what the Houthis may attempt to claim, their attacks do nothing to help the Palestinians. Their actions are not bringing a single morsel of assistance or food to the Palestinian people,” the statement added.
After castigating the Houthis for making hungry people suffer, including Palestinians and Yemenis, and jeopardizing the fragile peace process in the Yemeni civil war, the State Department stopped short of laying out specific consequences if the pirate attacks do not cease – a remarkable choke, given that the Houthis have successfully defied the United States and United Kingdom to shut down one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
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