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Hamas rejects Trump's "malicious plan" to end the war in Gaza

President Trump drafted with the help Netanyahu, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff a 20-point peace plan to end the war on Gaza. Arab and Muslim leaders were consulted prior to announcing the Plan, even though Palestinians were not invited. After the plan was praised and accepted by Arab and Muslim leaders, Trump met Netanyahu and made changes to the plan which give Israel 1) the right to resume bombing after the hostages are release and 2) there will be no Palestinian state in the foreseeable future. President Trump was not an honest broker. He was all along an accomplice in the genocide and he even as well as Genocidal Joe Biden have spread the Israeli lies that they both saw Hamas rape and beheading on TV. Additionally, Trump is mainly concerned about getting the Nobel Peace Prize. To accomplish that, ensure that he has warned Hamas it has "three to four days" to decide whether to say yes or no. If the answer is no, the war goes on. That is not a promising start and a genuine way to hold peace negotiation. Hamas spokesman told the BBC its reason to reject Trump's malicious plan: It rejects disarmament and views the international force as a new form of occupation.

Who Murdered President Zia?

Zia-ul-Haq was a great leader of Pakistan, a tough tank general, and the man who defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan. He was murdered in August 1988 when the C-130 he was flying in was sabotaged and crashed near Bahawalpur, central Pakistan.I spent a good deal of time with Zia, the last in his home at Army HQ in Rawalpindi. Gen. Zia had read a newspaper column I wrote about how Pakistan was defeating the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He invited me to come to Pakistan and interview him.I did so at a time when few in the West knew or cared anything about Pakistan or Afghanistan. My father, a New York businessman, was fascinated by Pakistan. I quickly became beguiled by Pakistan and its many peoples. Zia revealed to me the inner workings of the war in Afghanistan and introduced me to his partner, Gen. Abdul Rahman, then head of Pakistan’s crack intelligence agency, ISI. Gen. Rahman held a major command briefing at ISI HQ for me on how ISI was secretly managing the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, complete with radio intercepts and field reports.

DNC Leaders Are Pretending That U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to oppose the U.S. government’s arming of Israel. But with the first Democratic National Committee meeting in seven months getting underway on Monday, the DNC’s leadership is determined to derail a resolution calling for “an arms embargo and suspension of military aid to Israel.”

 Maneuvering to sidetrack that resolution, DNC Chair Ken Martin and all five vice chairs are sponsoring a counter-resolution that does little more than repeat the kind of hollow rhetoric that President Biden and Vice President Harris offered about Israel and Gaza last year.

House Speaker Mike Johnson acts as Israel's lapdog

The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is commonly known as the speaker of the House or House speaker. He holds the third most powerful position the US government. Our current speaker of the House this week was leading a tour of newly elected Republican lawmakers to Israel. It is all a paid trip by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Rather than meeting with their constituents in their home districts during summer recess, Speaker Mike Johnson and his troops were in Israel lobbying and defending Israel's genocidal policies. Mr. Speaker told the world that the West Bank belongs to Jews "by right" during a settlement visit. He is following a misguided form of Christianity and does not understand the virtues of separation of church and State. People around the world don't like to see Israeli ownership because that claim comes from old BS fairy tales and not the Bible.

In defense of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist, drew national attention after sweeping the city's Democratic mayoral primary in a stunning upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. If he wins the general election in November, he will become the city's first Muslim mayor and its first Asian American mayor. President Trump immediately accused Mamdani of being a "communist" and "living illegally" in the US. Why does that not surprise me? After all, he was the same person who during last presidential debate accused Haitian immigrants of eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. No one trusts a 34X Convicted Felon, Convicted Sex Offender who has been on Epstein's island at least seven times that we know of. Had Mamdani been living illegally in the US, ICE agents would have arrested him faster than a blink of an eye. VP JD Vance slammed Mamdani for a "lack of gratitude" for the U.S. Why don't we ask War Criminal Netanyahu when was the last time he said thank you for the $3.8 BILLION Israel gets every year? Did Vance's in-laws voice their gratitude for being allowed to live in the US?

Run for Your Life! The Muslims Are Coming!

The cry echoes up and down New York City’s crowded streets. Out of nowhere has emerged a malevolent Muslim candidate for mayor named Zohran Mamdani. He’s 33 years old and born in Uganda to Indian parents. Uganda was also home of the late Idi Amin. To many horrified New Yorkers, it looks as if he may win! Jewish old timers on the Upper West Side and Wall Street are having apoplexy, muttering about the Holocaust. President Trump, a fellow New Yorker, calls Mamdani a ‘communist lunatic.’ Mamdani’s followers have similar unkind thoughts about Trump – who is a long-time foe of most Muslims – unless of course they have oil wells. Mamdani has two huge strikes against him. First, he’s a Muslim running in the world’s largest Jewish city that venerates Israel. Second, he says he’s a ‘democratic socialist’ and, gasp, pro-Palestinian. Some big NYC firms (and from Silicon Valley) are now trying to ban the word ‘Palestine’ from their internal email. Just close your eyes and it will all go away.Mamdani, who came to the US in only 2018, calls for free buses, state-run supermarkets, price controls, and other market handcuffs. Where have I heard of these before?

The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani From Becoming New York’s Mayor

The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York last Tuesday. “Those who own the country ought to govern it,” Jay insisted. But now, oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

US Rep. Max Miller: Another genocidal anti-Palestinian playing the wild victim card

Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller called the local police this week in his Ohio 7th congressional district in northeastern Ohio to report a "road rage incident." Rep. Miller said he was forced off the road by a "deranged" pro-Palestinian protester. A man who issued a death threat against him and showed him a Palestinian flag. Again, no name, no picture, no license plate, and no witness. Just another day in MAGALAND. I am not buying this story at all. I've never heard of a driver chase another driver down waving a flag. And how would anyone know if the driver of the car is Jewish to begin with? We all know that Rep. Miller is on the record saying he hoped Gaza was turned into a parking lot, which is certainly far more threatening to many more people.  U.S. Rep. Max Miller even accused his wife last October of stalling their divorce case (Cleveland.com) while her dad Bernie Moreno was running for US Senate seat. Subsequently, his wife Emily Moreno Miller bought a house in Westlake on July 1 without telling Max Miller; that she took their baby, two dogs. and her belongings from their marital residence on Aug.

50501 Mobilizes Nationwide Alongside Labor Leaders to Protest ICE Raids Terrorizing Los Angeles Community

People protesting

The 50501 Movement denounces the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on communities in Southern California and is mobilizing to protest nationwide in solidarity.

On June 6, ICE undertook warrantless, military-style raids in Los Angeles, detaining at least 44 people as part of Trump’s unconstitutional mass deportation plan. In response, protests erupted across the city. At a protest outside the Roybal Federal Building, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was attacked and injured by federal agents while observing and documenting ICE activity. He was then unlawfully arrested.

The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t

It has been an interesting few days with the United States renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Persian Gulf while also doubling down on spying directed against Greenland in expectations that it will be acquired as a US territory sometime soon. Meanwhile, some of us who have been watching developments in what has been described as Donald Trump’s “peace initiative” trip to the Middle East, which might also have included a stop in Istanbul to sit in with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, are now examining the pluses and minuses as the travel has ended. In my mind, high grades should be awarded for two aspects of the trip. The first one is what he did do, and that was speak sensibly and decently in his address to the Saudi, Emirates and Qatari leadership when he specifically rejected a hegemonistic “neocon” inspired approach to US foreign policy, saying that independent countries in the Middle East and elsewhere are perfectly capable of acting to develop their economies and societies in such a fashion as to prosper and provide fundamental liberties for their citizens.

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