11 May 2021
New York City mayoral candidate and former Democratic Party presidential contender Andrew Yang tweeted his support for Israel earlier this week, during Palestinian rocket attacks and is being attacked by left-wing Democrats for having done so.
I m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.
Until very recently, there would have been nothing unusual about a candidate for mayor of New York backing Israel, given the city’s large Jewish population and New York’s own direct and painful experience with radical Islamic terror attacks.
The Biden administration s failure to appoint an ambassador to Israel is a serious problem, analyst says
May 11, 2021
As the Israel-Palestine conflict escalates, the lack of a U.S. ambassador to Israel or a consul general in Jerusalem for Palestinians is becoming more glaring, Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Tuesday.
I realize the Administration has lowballed and deprioritized the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian issue. But the lack of an Ambassador to Israel and a consul general in Jerusalem is a serious problem during a crisis.
In an earlier tweet, Miller wrote that the Biden administration s decision to remain mostly out of the fray has resulted in Israel and Hamas emerging as the key decision-makers at the moment, which is not an uplifting thought. Walla News Barak Ravid seemed to agree that the unhurried approach is befuddling amid a huge crisis, noting that the Biden administration has appointed envoys
Ben Affleck reportedly started flooding Jennifer Lopez with loving and longing emails in February
No, you haven t accidentally stepped into a time machine and emerged back in 2003: it appears Bennifer really might be a thing again.
After it was revealed Monday that exes Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck recently vacationed together for a week,
TMZ reported Tuesday that they didn t just rekindle their romance within the last two weeks, but instead, it s been building since February. According to the report, Lopez and Affleck, who broke up in 2004, were in very regular contact beginning in early February, when Affleck started flooding her with emails while she was filming a movie in the Dominican Republic.
2 NYC mayoral candidates completely flub question on price of Brooklyn housing
In their New York City mayoral endorsement interviews, published Monday by
The New York Times, Democratic candidates Shaun Donovan and Ray McGuire dramatically underestimated the cost of homes in the city.
When asked the median sales price for a house or apartment in Brooklyn, McGuire, a former Citigroup vice chairman and Wall Street executive responded, It s got to be somewhere in the $80,000 to $90,000 range, if not higher. The correct answer was $900,000.
When asked the same question, Donovan, who was the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under former President Barack Obama and a housing commissioner under former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, answered, I would guess it is around $100,000. He later emailed to clarify his response as referring to the assessed value of homes in Brooklyn, not their price.
Florida s inquiry clears Bloomberg over felons voting case
By Bobby Caina Calvan article
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida authorities on Wednesday closed a criminal investigation into fund-raising efforts by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pay off the outstanding fines of thousands of the state’s felons seeking to reclaim their voting rights, finding no violations of election law. After a review of the data, no donations from Bloomberg were identified nor were any violations of Florida election laws found, said a two-page summary released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Bloomberg last year earmarked $100 million in Florida to help defeat then-President Donald Trump. In addition, investigators said, the billionaire Democrat and former presidential candidate raised more than $16 million to help pay off the legal debts of felons so they could vote in the election.