i love canadas addiction to creating meaningless stat holidays purely because sometimes its nice to have a long weekend. you can pry august long weekend out of my cold, dead hands
🚨Israel has formally objected to three provisions in the Board of Peace approved roadmap for Gaza, including demands that would allow it to continue striking the territory, prevent Hamas’s collected weapons from remaining under the NCAG’s control, and exclude Qatar and Turkey from verifying compliance, Haaretz reported.
🔸 Continued Israeli attacks:
Israel is demanding continued freedom to carry out strikes across Gaza even after the agreement takes effect. A source familiar with the matter told Haaretz that “Israel demands freedom to strike areas of the Gaza Strip.”
The Associated Press separately reported Sunday that Israel was seeking continued freedom to strike and conduct military operations in Gaza under the agreement.
🔸 Control of collected weapons:
Israel is also demanding that weapons surrendered by Hamas be destroyed. Under the roadmap reportedly approved by Hamas, the weapons would be collected but remain in the custody of the Board of Peace-backed National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, or NCAG.
🔸 Excluding Qatar and Turkey:
Israel wants Qatar and Turkey barred from the verification mechanism that would determine whether each party has fulfilled its obligations before the roadmap moves to its next stage.
The agreement calls for the Board of Peace to create an International Verification Committee expected to include representatives from mediator states.
➤ Israel conveyed the three objections Thursday to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a member of the organization’s Gaza Executive Board, according to a diplomatic official cited by Haaretz.
Meek Mill -- who received release from jail Tuesday -- has plans to attend 76ers-Heat Game 5 tonight in Philadelphia, working to make the game, 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin's spokesperson Ron Berkowitz tells Yahoo.
@netflix Really insensitive you chose to make a documentary and profit off the deceased but you never once tried to resurrect the victims. Didn’t even do a seance.
It’s actually gross the amount of money China spends on things like unlimited clean energy for its citizens when it could be sending that money to Israel instead.
smartest people I knew from high school:
-dead and soul captured in my amulet
-dead and soul captured in my amulet
-dead and soul captured in my amulet
-dead and soul captured in my amulet
REPORT: Warriors owner Joe Lacob is focused on building the team for the post-Steph era
“What Lacob wants to do and this might get Warriors' fans mad, but he wants to build the next team after Steph Curry.”
(via @timkawakami, h/t @TheNBABase)
LeBron James having the option to live in New York City and commute to Sixers practices and games via helicopter only added to the appeal, per @mcten.
Signing in Philadelphia could allow him to still temporarily live in NYC for his final season or two.