PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS COMPLAINING TO COMMISSIONER ADAM SILVER ABOUT THE REFS BEING BIASED FOR THE SPURS.
Trump was extremely angry that the refs did not call a foul on Victor Wembanyama for his dirty hit on Jalen Brunson.
Wow 😳
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Say what you want, but Rubio has consistently demonstrated a stronger understanding of the specifics of Iran policy (esp. sanctions) than anyone else in the admin.
When asked re: sanctions relief, he says that any relief offered to Iran will be conditional on Iran taking verifiable steps on its nuclear program, but he also stresses that there are "international, Congressional, and executive sanctions," and the admin has the power over some but not all.
Worth keeping in mind when thinking about this issue, and the potential for any deal that goes beyond the current one-page MOU.
Iran will want sanctions relief, and the US govt may not be in a position to provide it to an extent Iran finds acceptable--not immediately, and possibly never.
Just got back from Tokyo. To NYC. It's hard to avoid the blindingly obvious truth--NY tax dollars are disgustingly wasted. It's shocking, the state of the City considering it's budget. You could "tax the rich" into bankruptcy and it wouldn't fix the MTA, which carries approximately the same ridership as the Tokyo Metro but has a budget 5.5x larger than Tokyo's. I mean the answer isn't dollars, it's actually just a question of efficiency. And NYC's government is corrupt, bloated, and the poster child of inefficiency.
@LouisAFishman1 European Muslims migrating to Palestine in 19th century = "indigenous people"
Diaspora Jews migrating to Judea in 19th century = "colonisers"
This is the hypocrisy being highlighted.
I have largely remained silent in public since January 1 because I believe criticism should be constructive and focused. But this post about the Nakba is deeply disturbing, not only because of its one sided and dishonest characterization of history, but also because it attempts to delegitimize Israel as a state even before 1967.
You cannot have it both ways. You cannot argue that the “settlements”, which began after 1967 following Israel’s victory in a war against neighboring states, are the root cause of the conflict, condemn them relentlessly, and justify marches through Jewish neighborhoods in New York over so called “illegal” land sales in the West Bank, while simultaneously condemning the very founding of the State of Israel itself through a one sided narrative built on distortion and falsehoods.
It is also worth noting that while thousands of Arabs lived within Israel between 1948 and 1967, Jews were expelled from areas captured by invading Arab armies from neighboring countries. Those expelled included Jews whose families had legally owned and purchased land for hundreds of years.
Take, for example, the Tzemach synagogue in Jerusalem. In 1847, more than a hundred years earlier, followers of Chabad Lubavitch established and purchased the synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City. During the 1948 war, the Old City fell under Jordanian control. The Jewish population was expelled, and Jews were denied access to Jerusalem, including the Tzemach Tzedek synagogue.
I really do not want to get too deep into the history because that is not my main point here. There can be disagreements and different perspectives about what happened and to whom, but the focus should be on achieving a long term peace in Israel and the region.
The tweet’s one sided narrative deepens division instead of advancing peace, coexistence, and understanding, and it should never have been posted by the mayor of New York City.
@nithyavraman He lives in a hotel because LA politicians burned his house down, along with his parents houses, all his children’s friends houses. You guys are vile.
Name one thing he has said that is not beneficial for L.A?
Preventing wildfires, cleaning g up the city?
The so-called “Nakba” is when Arabs (not a single person identified as ‘Palestinian’ back then) started a war of extermination against Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees from Muslim countries, and lost it. The UN had partitioned the land between Jews and Arabs (most of whom had only arrived after Jews developed the land). The Jews accepted it. The Arabs rejected it, started a war and lost it, and created a day to commemorate their pathetic loss.
Remember: For every Jew, there’s 125 Muslims. Muslims are not an oppressed minority, they are the oppressive majority and the real colonizers.