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MIDDLE EASTERN CRISIS

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Canadian-Israeli Peace Activist Vivian Silver Confirmed Murdered by Hamas

The body of Canadian-Israel peace activist Vivian Silver, one of the leaders of the Women Wage Peace organization, was identified on Monday among the dead at Kibbutz Be’eri, more than five weeks after the Hamas terror attack of October 7.

Silver was missing and presumed taken hostage. Her organization, Women Wage Peace, posted a note last week:

Early Saturday morning Vivian wrote to say that terrorists had infiltrated the kibbutz and entered her home.
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And since 11:07 – silence. A deafening silence.
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Vivian Silver, member of kibbutz Be’eri, central activist of Women Wage Peace and renowned peace activist in many other organizations, has been transporting ailing Gazans from the border checkpoint to Israeli hospitals for years now. Humanist, peace loving, determined, wise and steadfast Vivian. She is now a hostage.

Identifying the remains at Kibbutz Be’eri and several other places was a very difficult task because some of the bodies were burnt or mutilated beyond recognition. As Breitbart News reported, forensic experts called in archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority to help, because of their experience in analyzing small fragments of bones, teeth, and other materials in their research.

On Monday, a positive identification was made. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported the sad new of Silver’s death...

China Demands ‘Concrete Constraints on Israel’ to Help Hamas

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday joined the chorus attempting to protect Hamas by demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, just as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are beginning to penetrate the tunnel complexes Hamas constructed under hospitals and schools.

“In order to realize an immediate ceasefire when Israel ignores all calls and warnings to halt its military operations in Gaza, the world, or at least countries in the region that care about the humanitarian situation of Palestinians, also needs measures to impose concrete constraints on Israel,” the Global Times pontificated.

It is difficult to imagine what “concrete constraints” the Chinese tyranny would accept during a successful operation against terrorists who raped and murdered over 1,200 of its citizens, including children. China marched a million Muslims into concentration camps to address a far more nebulous security threat from a separatist group that the U.S. government has confirmed does not exist.

The Global Times harangued the international community for failing to protect Hamas from the IDF, uncritically quoting unconfirmed figures from the Hamas terrorists to argue the Gaza war is a bigger atrocity than the one perpetrated by Hamas on October 7...

 But what do DC think about such requests?

Speaker Mike Johnson at ‘March for Israel’ Rally: Calls for Ceasefire are ‘Outrageous’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed the “March for Israel” rally at the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Tuesday in which he voiced opposition to calls for a ceasefire between the Israel Defense Force  (IDF) and Hamas terrorists.

“The calls for a ceasefire are outrageous,” Johnson said in his remarks, prompting cheers and chants of “no ceasefire” from the thousands of Israel supporters in attendance. “Hamas terrorists waged the bloodiest assault on Jewish life since the Holocaust.”

Johnson, flanked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), then spoke of the approximately 240 hostages held captive in Gaza by Hamas and other radical Islamic terror organizations.

“There are hundreds of hostages, many of them Americans, still stuck inside Gaza,” the Speaker said.

“Israel will cease their counter offensive when Hamas ceases to be a threat to the Jewish state,” he added.

White House: If Iran Proxies Keep Attacking Troops, We’ll Continue ‘to Mitigate that Threat’

Host Andrea Mitchell said, “[T]he U.S. has now conducted its third round of retaliatory strikes against Iranian-linked sites in Syria. This time, notably, it killed several Iranians. Deterrence doesn’t seem to be working.”

Kirby responded, “Well, again, these groups and the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard Corps that works for the supreme leader that funds and supports these militia groups, they’ve got some choices to make. If they want to keep attacking our troops in Iraq and Syria and keep threatening our facilities and the lives of our folks in harm’s way, then we’re going to have to continue to respond and respond aggressively and appropriately to mitigate that threat. These targets were targets that went directly at the IRGC’s ability to continue to provide capabilities to these groups. We’re not looking for conflict. We don’t want to see any more attacks. But we’ve got to do what we’ve got to do to protect our troops and our facilities, and we’ll keep doing that.”

US NEWS

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Crimes Galore

Czech News Crew Covering APEC Robbed at Gunpoint in Stringently Gun-Controlled San Francisco

A news crew from the Czech Republic was robbed at gunpoint Sunday evening while in the Bay Area to cover the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that “Czech TV journalist Bohumil Vostal was capturing what he thought would be a majestic shot — San Francisco’s iconic City Lights bookstore, steeped in the gathering dusk — when three masked assailants approached with guns pointed.”

The suspects were able to get away with over $18,000 worth of equipment before fleeing the scene in a sedan.

Vostal indicated that by taking the equipment, the suspects also managed to take footage which had been shot while the Czech crew traversed San Francisco.

KTVU noted that Bay Area stations “often send armed guards with reporters and photographers” as their crews cover stories in San Francisco.

Sam Haskell, Son of Top Hollywood Agent, Caught on Camera Dumping Suspected Corpse into Dumpster

Sam Haskell IV, the son of top Hollywood agent Sam Haskell, has been arrested in Los Angeles after a woman’s torso was found near his home. Police believe the torso belongs to his now-missing wife.

“The son of a top Hollywood agent who was arrested after a woman’s torso was found in a dumpster near his LA home was caught on camera disposing of what appears to have been part of her body in a California strip mall parking lot,” noted the New York Post.

“Surveillance footage obtained by TMZ shows Samuel Haskell IV parking his white Tesla next to a dumpster in Encino Tuesday afternoon before opening up the back and taking out what appears to be a large garbage bag,” it added. “Haskell, 35, can be seen struggling to hoist the unwieldy bag up and onto his shoulder before tossing it.”

A homeless person searching for recyclables discovered the body last Wednesday. Police believe the body belongs to Haskell’s now-missing wife, Mei, who has been missing along with her parents — mom Yanxiang Wang and dad Gaoshen Li.

Police arrested Haskell after finding blood and other pieces of evidence at his house. He is being held on $2 million bail.

Prior to the body’s discovery, Haskell allegedly gave workers $500 to take away three large trash bags from his Tarzana house. He allegedly told them they were filled with rocks, which they did not believe.

Mob of Looters Ransacks Memphis Gas Stations, FedEx Truck

A mob of more than three dozen suspects vandalized, damaged, and stole more than $17,000 worth of merchandise from two Memphis, Tennessee, gas stations Saturday night, police say.

Local officials said the group of looters victimized an Exxon and a Fill-N-Go gas station during the rampage, the Daily Mail reported. Police said that it was just after 10:00 p.m. when 30 to 40 suspects entered the Exxon at 3483 Airways Boulevard and stole $2,000 in products.

It was close to midnight when police say a group of 40 looters entered the Fill-N-Go gas station at 3084 South Third Street as well, causing approximately $9,000 in damage and stealing $15,000 worth of merchandise.
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The footage, taken from inside one of the stores, showed several individuals taking items indiscriminately, with some concealing their identities with ski masks. Gas station workers were forced to simply watch as the careless thieves stole from them.

No arrests have yet been made in connection to the robberies.

Memphis also saw mobs robbing a FedEx delivery tractor-trailer on Saturday night, with more disturbing footage showing suspects yanking boxes off the truck...

Stefanik, Turner Submit Formal Criminal Referral to DOJ Against Michael Cohen, Alleging Ex-Trump Lawyer’s NY Testimony Proves He Lied to Congress in 2019

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) have sent a formal criminal referral of former President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“The Biden Justice Department must take off its partisan blinders and investigate disgraced fraudster and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen, a felon previously convicted for lying to Congress, who just admitted to lying again to Congress,” Stefanik said in a statement to Breitbart News.

In a letter to Garland, Stefanik and Turner emphasize that Cohen, who had previously been convicted of lying to Congress, appears to have perjured himself during testimony before Congress in 2019.

The referral highlights that while testifying in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) civil case against Trump on October 25, Cohen admitted to lying under oath in a February 28, 2019, testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

During the February 28, 2019, testimony, Dan Goldman, a then-director of investigations for House Democrats, asked Cohen if Trump directed him or former Trump Organization CEO Allen Weisselberg “to inflate the numbers for his personal statement?”

“I’m sorry. Did he ask me to inflate the numbers? Not that I recall, no,” Cohen said.