Claire's tests came out fine. Thanks to those who emailed.
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman
The Battle of Cable Street was a conflict on Sunday 4 October 1936 between anti-fascist protesters and the British Union of Fascists. The BUF was an organization inspired by Mussolini's Blackshirts, and reportedly consisted of 50,000 members at its height before being banned in 1940.
According to police, the Gilgo Beach murders are one of Long Island's most significant criminal investigations. A search begins for Shannon Gilbert, a missing sex worker, leading to a grim discovery – 10 bodies found on a beach along the south coast of the island. The discovery comes nearly 13 years after the initial victim was found. Recently a suspect has been arrested in connection with the case. Rex Heuerman, a 59-year-old New York City architect and married father of two, has been charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
During World War II, German U-boats wreaked havoc on Allied supply lines and commercial shipping, causing heavy losses to merchant convoys. Hiding secretly beneath the waves, these deadly submarines operated with great secrecy and surprise, using torpedoes and sometimes surface guns to attack merchant ships and warships, resulting in considerable economic and military losses to the Allies. used to have.
A few weeks ago, from an international and domestic-U.S. public relations standpoint, Israel might have been able to bring its war in Gaza in for a hard landing. Now it has painted itself into a corner.
Gaza has been destroyed. By this time next year, so will Israel — not its physical plant, but its current status as a privileged, funded, protected nation-state.
Palestinians have become sand in the eyes of the Mideast. How did this happen? From where did they come?
Nowhere, according to the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. She insisted Palestinians did not exist and were merely human flotsam and jetsam. That was pretty rich coming from Golda Mabovich, born to a Jewish family in Kiev, Russia.
“News organizations like the New York Times and Reuters received an ominous letter from attorney generals about their coverage of Hamas.“ U.S. Journalists threatened by 14 Attorneys General for covering Hamas Dec 5, 2023 12 minutes
In the 10 years before Israel was created, from 1937 to 1947, Israel launched at least 50 major terrorist attacks, blowing up 814 civilian aircrafts, two trains, one ship, and razing 385 Arab villages to the ground.
Note that the above are only “major” terrorist attacks.
Between 1947 and 1949, Israel attacked major Palestinian cities, destroying some 530 villages and killing some 15,000 Palestinians in a series of mass atrocities, including dozens of massacres.
The deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Aryeh Yitzhak King, has called for the Israeli army to bury alive hundreds of Palestinian civilians captured in Gaza.
In a post on X on Friday, King, a far-right politician, said the Israeli army was eliminating “Muslim Nazis” in Gaza and suggested it needed to pick up the pace.
