BIDEN HAS NOW GONE ABSOLUTELY CRZY ..... THE GAZANS SUPPORTED HAMAS AND THOUSANDS OF THEM INVADED ISRAEL AND COMMITTED UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES ALONGSIDE HAMAS FIGHTERS ON OCTOBER 7, AND THE SECURITY SCREENING IS NOT GOING TO CATCH MANY OF THEM

Biden administration considering giving refugees from Gaza permanent safe haven in the U.S. with access to housing and a pathway to citizenship

 

By Nikki Schwab 

Daily Mail

Apr 30. 2024

 

 

Civilians from the Gaza Strip enter Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023 to murder, rape and mutilate the Israeli residents, amid a massive assault by the Hamas terror group.

 

The Biden administration is considering allowing some Palestinians to come live in the United States as refugees.

CBS News reported Tuesday that senior officials across several federal agencies have discussed how to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, potentially using the United States Refugee Admissions Program.

The individuals chosen would have to have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents. 

They would have to pass a series of eligibility, medical and security screenings, but would then be able to obtain resettlement benefits, including housing assistance and a pathway to American citizenship. 

If the administration goes ahead with this plan it would mark a major change in U.S. policy. 

 

President Joe Biden departs for Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday. Top Biden administration officials have discussed bringing Palestinians with American ties into the U.S. via the United States Refugee Admissions Program

Tents housing displaced Palestinians are pictured behind barbed wire in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Palestinians with U.S. ties would be vetted but then have access to housing benefits and a path to American citizenship 

 

The White House, Department of Homeland Security and State Department did not immediately respond to CBS' request for comment. 

Since its inception in 1980 the United States Refugee Admissions Program hasn't resettled large numbers of Palestinians. 

In the last 10 years, while the U.S. has allowed 400,000 refugees to come in, fewer than 600 were Palestinian. 

Last year, just 56 Palestinians were brought in through this program, with more than 60,000 refugees being offered resettlement benefits, State Department numbers show. 

The move would get Palestinian civilians with connections to the United States out of harm's way, as Israel continues to bombard Gaza to root out Hamas, after the terror group killed more than 1,200 and took hundreds hostage on October 7. 

The move could give Biden a political boost with members of his own party, as left-leaning Democrats have pushed the president to do more to stop Israel's killing of Palestinian civilians. 

The Israel-Hamas war has dramatically fractured the Democratic Party - and the large-scale student protests have prompted concerns about whether Biden will lose support among young voters unless he does more to help the Palestinians' plight.

 

Light illuminates the minarets of al-Taiba mosque at sunset before the tents of displaced Palestinians at a camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday 

 

Republicans, however, will likely use the move to criticize Biden, who they already hit on immigration and for having an 'open borders' policy. 

The Biden administration would also need to get Egypt's cooperation for the plan to work. 

Egypt, so far, hasn't allowed large numbers of Palestinians to cross over its border. 

More aid trucks have been allowed into Gaza in recent days but experts have warned that the threat of a famine in the area is imminent. 

Biden pushed Israel to open more aid routes after the killing of seven workers with World Central Kitchen, the group started by Spanish-American celebrity chef Jose Andres.

NO PROTESTERS WERE INJURED ..... WHAT A SHAME

Panicked pro-Palestine protesters fall down the stairs as they try to flee hundreds of NYPD riot cops swooping on occupied Columbia University building and huge encampment: At least 50 are arrested

NYPD stormed Columbia University's occupied Hamilton Hall on Tuesday. Dozens of arrests after cops swarmed armed with zip-ties and pepper spray 

 

By Bethan Sexton and Nic White 

 

Daily Mail

Apr 30, 2024

 

Video from the college showed hundreds of cops in riot gear and armed with zip-tie handcuffs and pepper spray surrounding the campus

 

NYPD riot cops stormed Columbia University to quickly disperse protesters at an encampment and an occupied building in less than two hours.

Panicked pro-Palestine demonstrators tumbled down stairs as they attempted to flee when cops flooded the Ivy League campus on Tuesday night.

Almost 100 people were arrested at the New York City college, according to NBC. Police stated there were no injuries or people resisting arrest.

Around 40 of those detained were picked up in on the first floor of Hamilton Hall, which students violently took over early Tuesday. Cops swooped in on the building through a window after using flash bangs to clear the way.

President Minouche Shafik called in the police 'to restore order and safety' to the campus amid the escalating protests and fears the demonstrations had been co-opted by external agitators.

University administrators have asked the NYPD to maintain a presence on campus until at least May 17, two days after graduation.

 

Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall. 

NYPD cops dressed in riot gear have stormed through the window of a Columbia University building occupied by dozens of pro-Palestine protesters to begin clearing them out

The operation came after a rogue group of protesters smashed their way into the college's historic Hamilton Hall to stage an occupation over night

Dozens of cops poured in using a ramp attached to a Lenco ballistic engineered armored response vehicle to access an upper window 

They used flashbang grenades to distract the protesters holed up inside, then stormed in weirding riot shields to arrest the occupiers

 

Footage showed protesters being dragged out of the campus, some carried bodily by several officers if they refused to walk, and loaded on to buses.

Dozens of cops poured into Hamilton Hall via a window using a ramp attached to a huge armored truck. 

Video showed the police hammering at locked doors before sweeping in with riot shields. 

By just after 10pm, the campus was cleared out and locked down by police with many protesters heading north to City College of New York, where police were also raiding a similar encampment.

Protesters were allowed to give up and leave campus or return to their dorms or face arrest if they refused.

An encampment first sprung up at the school on April 17 after Shafik was hauled before Congress to address anti-Semitism on campus. 

At around 9pm on Tuesday, officers stormed the university as the crowd chanted and yelled at them, some confronted the officers and pushed barricades to try and block their path.

A shelter in place warning was issued to students on Morningside campus in the moments before officers descended.

In a statement, the university said the decision to call in police was, 'made to restore safety and order to our community'. 

'We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,' the statement read.

 

Footage showed protesters being dragged out of the campus, some carried bodily by several officers if they refused to walk, and loaded on to buses

Police speak with protesters they arrested and loaded on to buses on April 30

The police operation was concluded within around two hours of cops storming the campus

A protester is seen  being placed in to flexible handcuffs on April 30 shortly after the cops swarmed

Hundreds of NYPD officers swarmed on Columbia University at around 9pm on Tuesday

 

After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized, and blockaded, we were left with no choice.

'Columbia public safety personnel were forced out of the building, and a member of our facilities team was threatened. We will not risk the safety of our community or the potential for further escalation.'

Donald Trump praised officer's response to the situation, but said it should have come 'a lot sooner'.

'There's tremendous damage that's been done to that building, when you look at it it's a landmark and it's really been damaged by these people,' he told Fox News. 'People have to respect the law and order of this country.'

He also hit out at the president and called for him to speak up more strongly against anti-Semitism. 

The occupation of Hamilton Hall was the latest escalation in the unrest which has rocked the school in recent weeks.

Protesters have been demanding the college divest from companies with links to Israel or firms profiting from its war on Hamas.

 

Cops were forced to enter Hamilton Hall via a window after protesters barricaded themselves inside

Student linked arms as they vowed to defend the encampment ahead of any engagement with police 

Students were warned non-compliance 'may result in further discipline' as officers clad in riot gear descended

Cops were armed with zip ties and pepper spray as they stormed the campus at around 9.3-pm on Tuesday

 

College officials have been battling to shut down the encampment, stating it violates university polices.

Following the occupation of Hamilton Hall, Shafik warned that those involved would face expulsion.

More than 100 activists had already been arrested at the school prior to Tuesday's operation.

A first encampment was broken up by NYPD officials. But university officials had vowed not to take similar steps for the current protest. 

They gave students an ultimatum to leave, but few followed the instructions.

'We will not leave until Columbia meets every one of our demands,' one activist screamed from a balcony in the building after the takeover. 

Officials then started to suspend students before a group raided Hamilton Hall.  

'We believe that the group that broke into and occupied the building is led by individuals who are not affiliated with the University,' officials continued.

 'Sadly, this dangerous decision followed more than a week of what had been productive discussions with representatives of the West Lawn encampment.

 

Police shut down a previous encampment at Columbia and the university had vowed not to take similar measures going forward. However, an escalation in protest tactics appears to have reversed this decision. Pictured: Cops mobilize at Columbia on Tuesday 

A shelter in place alert was issued for the Morningside campus just began to mobilize on Tuesday night

Protesters have been demanding the college divest from companies with links to Israel or firms profiting from its war on Hamas

NYPD officers stand next to barricaded students at Columbia University in New York City on April 30

 

'The decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing. We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law.'

But the move was condemned by the Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which said its members had been locked out of campus.

'NYPD presence in our neighborhood endangers our entire community. Armed police entering our campus places students and everyone else on campus at risk,' a statement read.

'We hold university leadership responsible for the disastrous lapses of judgement that have gotten us to this point.' 

The statement added that faculty had spent the trying to defuse the situation, but were 'rebuffed or ignored.' 

At a press conference prior to the raid, Assistant Commissioner Rebecca Weiner warned the protest had been co-opted by external agitators who were not affiliated with the university.

She stressed the occupation had the potential to spill into other campus buildings, as well as other universities across the country.

'This is not about what's happening overseas, it's not about the last seven months, it's about a very different commitment to at times violent protest activity as an occupation,' she said.

 

Police arrived after college officials asked them to come in to 'restore safety and order'

Prior to the the NYPD had warned the protests has been co-opted by 'dangerous' external agitators

The decision to call in police was condemned by the Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors

Members of the New York Police Department strategic response team move towards an entrance to Columbia University on April 30

 

 'They haven't got a right to be on campus and this violates university polices and most importantly, presents a danger to students and the university and communities.

'When we see what we saw last night, we think these tactics are a result of guidance being given to students from these external actors.'

Police confirmed those occupying Hamilton Hall could be charged with trespass and burglary, while those in the encampment could be hit with trespassing and disorderly conduct charges. 

The raid at Columbia came as cops flooded other campuses in the Big Apple including City College New York.

Video taken at the campus showed protesters letting off flares near the gates to the school.

MEMBERS OF US CONGRESS THREATEN THE ICC

US lawmakers threaten ICC over possible Israeli arrest warrants

House Speaker Mike Johnson calls the prospective warrants “disgraceful,” “lawless,” warns the ICC could issue them against American diplomats and military personnel.

 

Israel Today Staff 

Apr 30, 2024

 

 

US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) issued a statement on Monday calling the prospective warrants “disgraceful” and “lawless.”

US lawmakers will take retaliatory action if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Axios reported on Monday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) issued a statement on Monday calling the prospective warrants “disgraceful” and “lawless.”

“If unchallenged by the Biden administration, the ICC could create and assume unprecedented power to issue arrest warrants against American political leaders, American diplomats and American military personnel,” said Johnson.

He called for the Biden administration to “immediately and unequivocally demand that the ICC stand down” and “use every available tool to prevent such an abomination.”

A White House spokesperson said only that “the ICC has no jurisdiction in this situation, and we do not support its investigation.”

 

Arrest warrants are expected to be filed against (L-R) Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi by the International Criminal Court (ICC)

 

Jerusalem believes that the ICC will issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi as early as this week.

The warrants would likely be issued against the background of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where the IDF is fighting Hamas, as well as accusations that Israel breached the Fourth Geneva Convention related to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told Axios he expects a version of Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) bill to sanction ICC officials involved in investigating the United States and its allies, adding: “We hope it doesn’t come to that.”

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) suggested that the United States “think of whether we stay a signatory” to the Rome Statute—the treaty that established the ICC.

 

Democrats Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-BX) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) joined Republivans in criticizing the ICC over the warrants

 

 

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) also criticized the ICC over the warrants, with the former calling for “strong consequences from both Congress and the president.”

The Palestinian Authority has already declared its acceptance of the jurisdiction of the ICC over alleged crimes committed by Israel. However, Israel does not recognize ICC jurisdiction over its conflict with the Palestinians.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken previously expressed “serious concerns about the ICC’s attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over Israeli personnel.”

Last week, Netanyahu vowed to “never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine” the Jewish state’s “inherent right of self-defense.”

“The threat to seize the soldiers and officials of the Middle East’s only democracy and the world’s only Jewish state is outrageous. We will not bow to it,” said the premier.

“While the ICC will not affect Israel’s actions, it would set a dangerous precedent that threatens the soldiers and officials of all democracies fighting savage terrorism and wanton aggression,” he added.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threatened to cut all funding to the PA if certain unilateral actions are brought against Israel in the international arena.

BIDEN WILL FUCK ISRAEL IN ORDER TO GET REELECTED

Biden ‘willing to throw Israel under the bus’

Former US presidential candidate says the administration “has been anything but supportive of Israel.”

 

By Amelie Botbol 

 

Israel Today

Apr 30, 2024

 

Rick Santorum

 

Former US senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum told JNS that US President Joe Biden is willing to abandon Israel to secure victory in the 2024 presidential election.

“To him, it’s all about winning elections, and he is willing to throw Israel under the bus,” Santorum told JNS at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary on Friday.

“The Biden administration has been anything but supportive of Israel. It has done the bare minimum to keep some sort of lid on the outrage that would come from America if it didn’t support Israel,” he added.

The US State Department’s top Middle East diplomat Barbara Leaf reiterated on Wednesday that contrary to reports, the Biden administration has not given approval to an IDF military operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, where four of Hamas’s six remaining battalions are entrenched.

“Absolutely not,” Leaf, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told reporters. “We have not done any such thing. We have not green-lighted a military operation. I want to be very clear on that point.”

Earlier this month, Biden called on Israel not to “move on Haifa,” apparently confusing the northern Israeli city with Rafah.

Unnamed Egyptian officials told the Qatari Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet last week that Washington had agreed to back an Israeli operation in Gaza’s southernmost city in exchange for Jerusalem forgoing a major strike on Iran in the wake of Tehran’s April 14 attack on the Jewish state.

Biden “has not just attacked Israel, he also directly attacks [Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on national security issues when everybody else would be doing the exact same things” in Netanyahu’s position, said Santorum.

“President Biden is doing everything he can to pressure Israel into doing things that are not in their national security interests. He is doing everything he can to support Iran as being the power in the Middle East,” he added.

Also in Budapest on Friday for CPAC, US Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) told JNS that Biden “coddles” Iran.

“The administration gave $6 billion to Iran in exchange for American hostages. The US also allowed the Iranian regime to access some $10 billion in frozen funds. Sanctions are not being enforced on Iranian oil,” said Self.

“The Biden administration is funding the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism,” he added.

Self was referring to Biden’s deal with Tehran in August 2023 to release five Iranian Americans, whom the Islamic Republic had detained on trumped-up charges, in exchange for the United States freeing up $6 billion worth of Iranian oil revenue and releasing Iranian prisoners.

However, the US House of Representatives thereafter passed a bill intended to permanently freeze the Iranian funds.

In November, the US State Department reissued a sanctions waiver that gave Iran access to an additional $10-plus billion.

Self said that the US-Israel relationship would benefit if Donald Trump wins the November presidential election.

“President Trump was the one that moved our embassy to Jerusalem. It had been promised by many presidents before but never done. He actually did it,” Self noted.

US Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) concurred with Santorum that Biden’s approach to Israel was being dictated by electoral considerations.

“The president is behind in the polls. He wants to keep his coalition together and unfortunately one part of his coalition are those in Dearborn, Michigan who chant ‘death to America’,” Harris told JNS on Friday.

“I think he should stand up against those individuals, but the average person understands that he is not taking the course of action for political purposes,” he added.

Last year, Dearborn became the first Arab-majority city in the United States, with roughly 55% of its 110,000 residents claiming Middle Eastern or North African ancestry.

After the Oct. 7 massacre, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud declared at a pro-Hamas rally that his city was part and parcel of the Palestinian “resistance,” a euphemism for terrorism against Israel.

Biden carried Michigan by less than three percentage points in the 2020 election against incumbent Trump, who narrowly won the state in his bid for the White House against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Harris drew a line between anti-Israel protests taking place in Michigan and the threats looming over Israel.

“Those in Dearborn are not the first people to chant ‘death to America’. It’s been chanted in Tehran, which has direct connections to Hamas and Hezbollah. People make those connections,” said Harris.

He also addressed the wave of antisemitic protests sweeping across US campuses, where many Jews have been made to feel unsafe and unwelcome.

“The fact of the matter is that America was founded on religious freedom, and when you have students that are afraid of being on campus because of their religion that’s not American, and it should be stopped immediately,” said Harris.

Protests in support of Hamas have led to arrests at Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California and The Ohio State University, among others.

While radical progressive ideology was spawned in and has existed at universities for decades, it has now crawled out into the open, according to Santorum.

“It taught students that Israel is powerful, the Jews are powerful and the Arabs are weak, the Palestinians are oppressed. They stand with the Palestinians, never mind Hamas would kill every LGBT person in Gaza,” he said.

“We conservatives have allowed indoctrination to occur, we funded these colleges. We have some of the wealthiest conservatives give millions of dollars to these institutions that destroy America. It needs to stop,” he added.

BUT PIECE OF OBAMA SHIT BLINKEN KEEPS INSISTING THAT CREATION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE MUST BE A PART OF ANY DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA

Report: Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel

The only issue for Riyadh is the timing of the announcement, which could come as early as the next few weeks or after the U.S. presidential election. 

 

Joshua Marks

 

JNS

Apr 30, 2024

 

 

 

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman understands that if a Palestinian state is a prerequisite to any peace agreement, there will be no such agreement.

 

Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel and is debating the timing of the announcement, a foreign diplomat familiar with the details told Haaretz on Monday.

According to the source cited in the article by the daily’s diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Lis, Riyadh is discussing whether to make the move in the coming weeks or after the U.S. presidential election this November, in which either Democrat Joe Biden will continue to lead the country or his challenger Republican Donald Trump will return to the White House.

“The question is when, and the decision on the timing should be made within days,” the diplomat said.

While the Biden administration has been pushing to connect a pathway to Palestinian statehood as part of the Saudis joining the Abraham Accords, the source said that the kingdom would only demand guarantees on progress towards achieving that goal in return for establishing diplomatic ties with Jerusalem.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke about progress toward a Jerusalem-Riyadh detente at the World Economic Forum special meeting in the Saudi capital on Monday, emphasizing the importance of a Palestinian state despite former Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen saying last August that it was not a major obstacle for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who met with Blinken on the sidelines of the summit.

The Israeli government is opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state given Ramallah’s support for terrorism. Recent polling shows a majority of Israelis are also against Palestinian statehood.

More than half of the Israeli public opposes the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a deal that would end the war against Hamas and normalize relations between Jerusalem and Riyadh, according to a January survey from the Israel Democracy Institute.

“So first, I think the single biggest, most effective rebuke to both Iran and Hamas would be Israel having normal relations with every country in this region and the realization of a Palestinian state. Of course, both Hamas and Iran have opposed a two-state solution. So almost by definition, achieving it would be a profound rebuke to everything that they’ve stood for and destroyed for in—over many years,” Blinken said in response to a question from WEF President Borge Brende on stage at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center.

“Second, when it comes to normalization, look, I’m not going to speak for our hosts here, except to say that we have done intense work together over the last months. And in fact, well before Oct. 7, this is what we were focused on. And in fact, I was scheduled to be in the region, to be in Saudi Arabia and in Israel, on Oct. 10, a trip that didn’t happen because of Oct. 7, to focus specifically on the Palestinian piece of any normalization agreement, because that is, as you said, an essential component. 

“I think—look, the work that Saudi Arabia and the United States have been doing together in terms of our own agreements, I think, is potentially very close to completion. 

“But then in order to move forward with normalization, two things will be required: calm in Gaza and a credible pathway to a Palestinian state.  So to the extent we finish our work between us, then I think what’s been a hypothetical or a theoretical question suddenly becomes real. And people will have to make decisions.”

Riyadh put U.S.-brokered Israeli normalization talks on ice after the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre in the northwestern Negev and amid the ensuing war in Gaza, but has maintained that a deal is still on the table.

In an interview with Israeli public broadcaster Kan News earlier in April, a source in the Saudi royal family accused Iran of instigating the conflict in Gaza to undermine progress in reaching a normalization agreement between Riyadh and Jerusalem.

“Iran is a nation that endorses terrorism, and the world should have curtailed it much earlier,” the Saudi royal said.

BUT BIDEN HAS WARNED NETANYAHU NOT TO CONDUCT A GROUND OFFENSIVE IN RAFAH

Netanyahu: IDF will enter Rafah ‘with or without a deal’

"The notion that we will stop the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question," said the premier. 

 

JNS

Apr 30, 2024

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with members of the Heroism Forum, which represents bereaved IDF families, and the Tikva Forum for Families of Hostages at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024

 

The Israel Defense Forces will enter the Hamas stronghold of Rafah in southern Gaza irrespective of the outcome of hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

“The notion that we will stop the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question,” said the premier during a meeting at his office in Jerusalem with the Heroism Forum, which represents bereaved IDF families, and the Tikva Forum for Families of Hostages.

The military “will enter Rafah and eliminate the Hamas battalions there—with or without a deal—to achieve total victory,” he said.

The families at the meeting urged Netanyahu “to continue achieving the goals of the war and to withstand the international pressure,” according to a readout from the Prime Minister’s Office.

The War Cabinet will decide within the next 72 hours whether to launch a military operation to destroy Hamas’s remaining terror battalions in Rafah, Ynet reported earlier on Tuesday.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has approved final battle plans for the operation, which will be accompanied by the evacuation of the city’s civilian population.

The hostage deal being discussed with Hamas includes significant compromises by Israel and, for the first time, Jerusalem is considering ending the war in the Gaza Strip, Axios reported on Saturday.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz has said that the offensive in Rafah would be suspended if a deal to free the abductees is secured. “The release of the hostages is the top priority for us,” he stated Saturday, adding that “if there will be a deal, we will suspend the operation.”

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday that the government will lose its legitimacy if it forgoes the mission and instead accepts the “humiliating surrender” proposed to Hamas during talks.

In a video message shared on X, Smotrich urged Netanyahu to order the IDF to immediately enter Rafah “with all its might.”

Agreeing to the terms currently on the table would be tantamount to “a victory for the Nazis at the expense of hundreds of brave IDF soldiers who fell in battle. It would impose a death sentence on the [133 remaining] hostages and, above all, constitute an immediate existential danger to the State of Israel,” said Smotrich.

U.S. President Joe Biden has told Netanyahu that his administration will not support a major offensive against Hamas in Rafah. Instead, the Biden administration favors a limited operation aimed at attacking high-value Hamas targets and securing the Gaza-Egypt border.

Despite intense international opposition to a major offensive in Rafah, Israel has repeatedly stated that it is necessary to win the war to ensure that Hamas is not able to regroup and threaten Israel again.

According to a Harvard CAPS Harris poll released on Tuesday, 72% of Americans believe Israel should proceed with the battle, while 28% support Hamas’s continued terror rule in Gaza.

THE NY TIMES REPORTS THAT BIDEN WILL CRIPPLE THE IDF IF IT CONDUCTS A GROUND OFFENSIVE IN RAFAH

Decision on Rafah op expected within 72 hours

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says the government will lose its legitimacy if it accepts "humiliating surrender" to Hamas. 

 

JNS

Apr 30, 2024

 

Israel Defense Forces activity in the Gaza Strip, April 18, 2024. 

 

The Israeli government will decide within the next 72 hours whether to launch a military operation to eliminate Hamas’s terror battalions in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, Ynet reported on Tuesday.

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has reportedly approved final plans for the operation, which will be accompanied by the evacuation of the city’s Palestinian civilian population.

IDF forces are amassed along the border waiting for the green light to destroy the four Hamas battalions holed up in the city—Yabna (South), Shaboura (North), Tel Sultan (West) and East Rafah.

U.S. President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his administration will not support a major offensive against the terrorist group in Rafah. Instead, the White House favors a limited operation aimed at attacking high-value Hamas targets and securing the Gaza-Egypt border.

Biden would consider limiting “certain arms sales to Israel” if the IDF launches a ground operation in the city, the New York Times reported last week.

According to a new Harvard CAPS Harris poll, 72% of Americans believe Israel should proceed with the military offensive, while 28% support Hamas’s continued rule in Gaza.

Respondents were asked: “Should Israel move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties, or should it back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza?”

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that the offensive in Rafah would be suspended if a deal to free abductees held in Gaza is secured.

“The release of the hostages is the top priority for us,” he said, adding that “if there will be a deal, we will suspend the operation.”

Axios reported on Saturday that the deal being discussed includes significant compromises by Israel and that, for the first time, Jerusalem is considering ending the war in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday that the government will lose its legitimacy if it forgoes the Rafah mission and instead accepts the “humiliating surrender” proposed to Hamas during ongoing ceasefire negotiations.

In a video message, Smotrich urged the premier to order the IDF to immediately enter Rafah “with all its might.”

Agreeing to the terms currently on the table would be tantamount to “a victory for the Nazis at the expense of hundreds of brave IDF soldiers who fell in battle. It would impose a death sentence on the [133 remaining] hostages and, above all, constitute an immediate existential danger to the State of Israel,” said Smotrich.

Despite intense international opposition to a major offensive in Rafah, Israel has repeatedly stated that it is necessary to win the war against Hamas to ensure that the terror group is not able to regroup and threaten Israel again.

“We will complete the elimination of Hamas’s battalions, including in Rafah. No force in the world will stop us…After what [Hamas] has done, it will not do this again. Neither will it exist,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT SOROS-FUNDED DA JOSE GARZA DROPPED THE CHARGES AGAINST THE ARRESTED UT PROTESTERS, ACCUSING THE COPS OF NOT HAVING PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST ..... NOT ONLY DOES THE SORRY-ASS DA SUPORT THE JEW-HATERS, BUT NOW WATCH THE FALSE ARREST LAWSUITS PILE UP

Dozens more arrested at UT-Austin as police use pepper spray, flash bangs to break up protests

The arrests mark the second time in less than a week that police have broken up a pro-Palestinian demonstration. This time protesters tried to set up an encampment on campus.

 

By Ikram Mohamed, Pooja Salhotra, Stephen Simpson and Julius Shieh

 

The Texas Tribune

April 29, 2024

 

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers surround a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Monday, April 29, 2024

 

Another tense scene broke out at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday as law enforcement officers dragged dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters from an encampment and then used pepper spray and flash bang explosives to dispel a crowd of demonstrators.

At least 40 people were arrested as of 3:30 p.m., and several others were given medical attention because of the sweltering heat.

The arrests began after a group of 60 protesters formed an encampment in an unshaded area on the South Mall, which they have been occupying on and off since a pro-Palestinian rally first broke out last Wednesday.

Students had walked out of class to demand that UT-Austin divest from manufacturers supplying Israel weapons in the ongoing war in Gaza.

Israel launched its war on Gaza after Hamas fighters attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7. Health authorities have reported that more than 30,000 Palestinians have died over the past seven months. Protests have formed at universities across the county over the last couple of weeks.

On Monday, law enforcement officers from the University of Texas Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety formed a ring around the encampment. As arrests began, onlookers gathered around them and began shouting at officers.

The Tribune observed several demonstrators sitting inside the encampment dragged away by law enforcement officers, while observers recorded videos and yelled. The arrests were made by UT police, while DPS troopers stood guard and managed the crowd. Austin police officers were also on the scene, passing out zip ties in apparent preparation to restrain more demonstrators.

Those inside of the encampment sat with their arms linked as officers continued to drag them out. The crowd of onlookers swelled into the hundreds as more law enforcement officers arrived on the scene. Medics brought wet towels to those in the encampment until police advised them to stay away.

Onlookers shouted “We are being peaceful, you are being violent,” as law enforcement cleared the encampment.

Texas department of Public Safety troopers surround a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Monday, April 29, 2024

Texas department of Public Safety troopers surround a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Monday, April 29, 2024

A University of Texas Police Department officer arrests a pro-Palestinian protester from an encampment set up on the campus’ South Lawn. 

 

By 4 p.m. the encampment had been cleared, but the chaos escalated. Additional law enforcement officers arrived, with some using motorcycles, pepper spray and flash bangs to ward off protesters. Students could be seen fleeing the South Mall by 4:20 p.m., but crowds of mostly onlookers remained.

Around 5 p.m., law enforcement boarded a bus and tried to exit campus. Protesters swarmed the bus, writing "pigs," throwing water on the vehicle and shouting "shame."

Some protesters arrested on Monday are students, the Tribune confirmed, but it is not clear exactly how many. Last week, UT President Jay Hartzell said that about half of those arrested amid the demonstration were unaffiliated with the university.

UT Police department could not immediately confirm how many protesters had been arrested. A spokesperson said the University, not the police department, would be handling communications regarding the protests.

Gov. Greg Abbott chimed in on Monday to applaud the resumption of arrests. On X, he reposted a video of officers wearing face shields spreading across campus.

“No encampments will be allowed,” he said. “Instead arrests are being made.”

The UT police department issued a dispersal order Monday afternoon, telling protesters that their conduct on the South Mall violated multiple sections of Texas’ Penal Code and that they would be arrested if they did not disperse.

“Your conduct is in violation of Penal Code Sections 42.01 Disorderly Conduct, 42.02 Riot, 42.03 Obstructing a Highway or other passageway, 30.05 Criminal Trespass,” the order from assistant chief Shane Streepy reads. “I command you in the name of the University of Texas Police Department to disperse.”

Last week, at least 57 people, including one journalist, were arrested for criminal trespassing. All of those charges were dropped. Protests had continued in the following days, without incident.

ADDENDUM: More pictures from thr Austin American-Statesman

 

 

BLACK PIECE OF SHIT SHOOTS DEAD FOUR WHITE COPS ..... BLM IS PROBABLY CELEBRATING, BUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY SHOULD MOURN

What we know about the Charlotte shooting that killed 4 officers and injured 4 others

Many in the community are looking for answers after four law enforcement officers were killed and four others were injured in east Charlotte.

 

 

By Emma Korynta  

WCNC

Apr 30, 2024

 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer Joshua Eyer

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer Samuel "Sam" Poloche

 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer William "Alden" Elliott

 

 

Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas M. Weeks Jr., 

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four law enforcement officers were killed and four others were injured on Monday, April 29, after being met with “active gunfire” from a suspect in east Charlotte, North Carolina.

Here's what we know and what we don't know about the investigation. 

What we know

• Officers were attempting to serve a warrant on Terry Clark Hughes, Jr., 39, for a possession of a firearm by a felon charge and two counts of felony flee to elude out of Lincoln County, North Carolina.
• Three law enforcement officers serving on a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and one Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer were shot while confronting a suspect inside a home on Galway Drive in Charlotte.
• Officers were shot when approaching the home, according to CMPD. 
• Officers shot back at Hughes, who was killed at the scene. 
• After officers shot Hughes, CMPD SWAT negotiated with the others inside the home. Officers questioned two people who were found inside the house during the standoff.
• A total of eight officers were shot. The other four law enforcement officers were injured and taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries; three of the four officers have since been discharged.
• Three task force officers were pronounced dead at the hospital. Two of the officers that were killed were probation officers on a full-time task force with the U.S. Marshals, according to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction.
• One of the injured CMPD officers, Joshua Eyer, "fought for his life for several hours before succumbing to his injuries," CMPD confirmed. Eyer worked with CMPD's North Tryon Division for six years.
• The three other law enforcement officers have since been identified as Sam Poloche, Alden Elliott, and Thomas M. Weeks Jr. Both Poloche and Elliott were 14-year veterans of the agency. Weeks was a 13-year veteran of the agency. 
• Charlotte Mayor Vi and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper were among public officials that responded to the shooting. Cooper also traveled to Charlotte to speak with the families of victims and officials.
• Four schools with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools district were on a modified lockdown from around 3:15 p.m. to around 3:45 p.m. The schools were Devonshire ES, Briarwood Academy, Cochrane Collegiate and Lawrence Orr ES. 
• The shooting investigation led to police officers temporarily closing busy roads such as Interstate 77, Interstate 277 and U.S. 74 (Independence Blvd.) as ambulances carried injured officers to local hospitals.
• CMPD is still working through 

 

Cop killer Terry Clark Hughes, Jr.

 

What we don't know

• Where Hughes got his gun(s).
• When the funerals will be for the officers killed in the line of duty, and whether there will be vigils open the public.
• How many shooters were involved? 
• What was the relationship between the people in the house?