Hamas Terror Spree Sparks Republican Demand That Biden Terminate Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Rep. Issa: ‘You must abandon the dream of signing a nuclear agreement with Iran’ Getty Images Adam Kredo • May 25, 2021 6:30 pm
The Iranian-backed terror group Hamas’s recent terror campaign against Israel is generating demands from Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress that the Biden administration immediately abandon its diplomacy with Iran aimed at cementing a revamped nuclear accord.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another Iran-backed jihadist group, bombarded Israel with thousands of rockets over a two-week period before a ceasefire was announced late last week. Iran played a central role in arming Hamas with sophisticated missiles capable of striking further into Israel and endangering millions of civilians. The hardline regime has committed to sending more money to Palestinian terror groups in the wake of the latest conflict, money that likely will come fro
Minority Employees Slam House Dem Plan To Boost Diversity at State Department The State Department building / Getty Images Alana Goodman • May 25, 2021 4:30 pm
Minority employees and union leaders say a House Democratic plan to boost diversity hiring at the State Department will crush workforce morale and drive staffers out of the agency, according to correspondence obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon.
The bill, which the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved for advancement last week, would require the State Department to recruit minority candidates from outside of the foreign service for mid-level positions allowing these hires to bypass the typical foreign service officer career path, which starts at the entry level. The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Karen Bass (D., Calif.) and has 71 cosponsors, 70 of whom are Democrats.
Biden Campaign Alumni Blame Israel for Hamas Rocket Attacks Getty Images Jack Beyrer • May 25, 2021 5:15 pm
More than 500 alumni of the Biden-Harris presidential campaign sent a letter to the White House blaming Israel for its latest conflict with Hamas and demanding President Joe Biden investigate the Jewish state for human rights abuses. Israel s protracted refusal to consider a ceasefire also put Israelis in harm s way, prolonging the violence of Hamas s barrage of rockets and Israel s air strikes a cycle that is bound to repeat itself as long as we allow the status quo to stand, where Palestinians have no freedom and Israel controls their lives in perpetuity, reads the letter, which the organizers posted online on Monday. To ensure a lasting ceasefire and a future of peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians, we ask that you work to end the underlying conditions of occupation, blockade, and settlement expansion that led to this exceptionally destructive perio
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Think about this: on Saturday, May 12th, with barely an hour’s notice, Israel took out the al-Jalaa Tower, a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed the Associated Press, al-Jazeera, and other media outlets. That act of destruction, among so many others, caused shock globally and protests not just by those media groups but by previously Israeli-supporting Democrats in Congress. As it happens, the weapon that destroyed that tower was a GBU-31, a Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM (aka a “smart bomb”) that was manufactured in the United States. Not only that, but in the midst of the
This month, deadly bombs rained down on Gaza, and rocket attacks wreaked destruction in Israel. In a metaphorical sense, on Capitol Hill and in the White House, explosive political predicaments