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'Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough' – is likewise branded as problematic because it implies 'people of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder'
The common concept – in America's business community for decades – that the best person for the job should get it now is being labeled racist by a major university's journalist teachings.
The agenda at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been documented by the Goldwater Institute.
The report cites the leftist ideologies being imposed on students – in blocks of 2,000 hours during the recent Fall 2023 semester alone.
"Avoiding 'microaggressions.' Checking your 'cisgender privilege.' Developing a marketing campaign for a hypothetical popstar who uses 'they/them' pronouns. It's all mandatory at Arizona State University's (ASU) Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication," the organization confirmed.
"This government-run institution is requiring its students to invest their time and tuition dollars into learning the nuances of progressive identity politics as part of a 'Diversity and Civility at Cronkite' course."
Goldwater's documentation shows that course readings "statements such as 'America is a melting pot' as examples of offensive 'microaggressions.' Other statements – such as 'I believe the most qualified person should get the job' or 'Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough' – are likewise branded as problematic because they imply that 'people of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder.'"
And it's discrimination if someone objects to a man using a women's restroom.
"More than 400 students were required to take this class in the Fall 2023 semester alone, with more than 2,000 hours of class time spent on what may as well be called Trendy Topics in Progressive Politics 101. The Cronkite School is supposed to be one of the country's preeminent training grounds for journalists; instead, it's forcing cultural and political indoctrination down students' throats," the report said.
The organization has documented some 100 classes at ASU in the Spring 2024 semester's catalog that feature "diversity," "equity," "inclusion" and the like.
The report charges that if the state's public universities are to return to their education missions, they need to eliminate those "politicized" courses and agendas.
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Joe Biden's Army secretary is being told in a formal legal letter to apologize, in writing, for allowing a popular pro-life organization, Operation Rescue, to be characterized as "terrorist" in a training session for soldiers.
Or legal ramifications will follow.
"Our demand is a simple one: Apologize and acknowledge in writing, using clear and direct language approved by us, that not a single organization named in the aforementioned materials is considered a domestic terrorist organization by the United States Army, including by name our client, Operation Rescue. It must express an assurance that such baseless labeling and training will not reoccur absent lawfully sound justification, describe steps taken to ensure the same, and provide information regarding when and where these training materials have been used in other Army installations," explains a letter from the American Center for Law and Justice to Christine Wormuth.
That came during a presentation for soldiers being prepared to guard the perimeter of a military base.
It happened at Fort Liberty in North Carolina.
The ACLJ pointed out that the situation followed none of the recognized processes for designating terror groups, which "is no light thing."
"In contrast with what occurred here, the authority to designate an entity a 'foreign terrorist organization' rests with the Secretary of State. 8 U.S.C. §§ 1189(a)(1), (d)(4), who can only make such a designation in certain enumerated circumstances. An entity designated a foreign terrorist organization may seek review of that designation before the D.C. Circuit within 30 days of that designation. § 1189(c)(1). There is thus more process available to actual foreign terrorist organizations to challenge their adjudication as such than there is to Operation Rescue, designated a terrorist organization for its political activity."
The letter explained "even more protections are in place before someone is designated a domestic terrorist."
The organization said the Army "unjustly" targeted Operation Rescue.
It's a "disturbing development that strikes at the heart of our constitutional freedoms," the ACLJ warned.
"The idea that those who stand for the sanctity of life – a fundamental tenet of many faiths and a constitutionally protected belief – could be equated with terrorists is not only factually incorrect but also represents a dangerous conflation of peaceful advocacy with violent extremism. This situation is reminiscent of past attempts by government entities to stigmatize and marginalize conservative and Christian viewpoints. It echoes the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal, where we defended conservative groups who were targeted for unconstitutional scrutiny, and it aligns with a broader pattern of hostility toward traditional values in various government institutions," the legal team explained.
The offense was even worse because the mischaracterization being used "to train soldiers."
"In other words, you were fortifying the access points of Fort Liberty so that a pro-life individual attempting to enter would be considered a terrorist on the same level of Hamas. And you have [publicly] admitted that this identification has been going on for seven years. The full effects of this cannot be known, but they are inevitably catastrophic; for example, a family member of a service member could easily have been denied access, based on this identification of Operation Rescue as a terrorist organization," ACLJ said.
Without compliance by the Army, the ACLJ said, it will pursue "appropriate legal remedies."
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been picked by Kamala Harris as her vice president hopeful.
"I am proud to announce that I've asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate," Harris tweeted on X.
"As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he's delivered for working families like his.
Walz said on X: "It is the honor of a lifetime to join @kamalaharris in this campaign. I'm all in."
"Vice President Harris is showing us the politics of what's possible. It reminds me a bit of the first day of school. So, let's get this done, folks!"
"It's a fascinating pick that really has some people scratching their heads," said Bret Baier of Fox News.
"I think it raises some questions about the Jewish vote and perhaps how afraid the Democratic Party is," a reference to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, and was not selected.
The Associated Press called it "yet another milestone" since two weeks ago when the mentally failing Joe Biden abruptly was thrown under the bus by his party, which allowed him to announce he was withdrawing after the party's claims for months that he was on top of his game and pursuing re-election.
Harris was among those who, as shortly as a few days before Biden quit, had been touting him for being as sharp mentally as ever, on top of all situations, and the like.
The AP report said Harris, her husband Doug Emhoff and her VP pick are scheduled to appear for a Philadelphia rally.
The Washington Post explained she was going after a "Midwestern Democrat" to be her No. 2.
The Post said the choice of the 60-year-old who has run a far-left agenda in Minnesota "creates a ticket that many Democrats have said would be politically beneficial."
The report cited the politically correct factors on which Harris is building her campaign: that she is of Indian and Jamaican heritage and has spent much of her career climbing the political ladder in California, sometimes with the help of her onetime lover Willie Brown, a political heavyweight in the leftist state.
Walz, the report said, is from a "list of finalists populated by white men … who have represented more competitive swaths of the country."
Walz is a second-term governor and heads the Democratic Governors Association.
His state mostly votes leftist, not having supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1960. It also was the outlier across America when Ronald Reagan won his overwhelming mandate to the White House. It was under his administration that the George Floyd riots literally burned entire city blocks of Minneapolis.
Walz, like virtually every other Democrat across the nation, has "repeatedly criticized" GOP presidential nominee President Donald Trump "and other Republicans as 'weird' in cable news appearances."
The reports said Harris and Walz already have scheduled a fairly frantic next week with jet trips to multiple locations to try to promote the pair to voters.
Harris, of course, is facing headwinds because of her radical statements and positions that she's adopted in recent years, including one demanding that people must be "woke." Further, her word salads, long strings of words that appear to have only vague meanings, like the "significance of the passage of time" not only are resurging on the Web, they are continuing from the candidate.
Walz came into politics after a career in teaching in public schools. He was elected governor in 2018 and won re-election in 2022.
His verbal contribution to the Democrats' war against Trump, which includes multiple cases of lawfare, has been his comment: "These are weird people on the other side. They want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room. … They are bad on foreign policy, they are bad on the environment, they certainly have no health care plan, and they keep talking about the middle-class. As I said, a robber baron real estate guy and a venture capitalist trying to tell us they understand who we are? They don't know who we are."
The Biden-Harris administration's biggest agenda points so far have been to promote transgenderism and abortion. The duo allowed inflation to explode so that Americans are paying more than 20% more now for the same lifestyle as before the Democrats took office, they've allowed terrorists into American across an open southern border, have allowed America's influence around the world to plunge, and, as Joe Biden said, "cured the economy" only to see trillions of dollars wiped out around the world over just the last few days.
Caroline Leavitt, Trump Campaign press secretary, pointed out, "It's no surprise that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate – Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State.
"While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is 'mostly cows and rocks.' From proposing his own carbon-free agenda, to suggesting stricter emission standards for gas-powered cards, and embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.
"If Walz won't tell voters the truth, we will: Just like Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is every American's nightmare."
National Right to Life President Carol Tobias immediately issued a warning: "If elected, a Harris-Walz Administration would push for the most extreme abortion agenda policies of any administration. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are both radically pro-abortion and see the lives of precious unborn babies as disposable inconveniences."
She said, "Tim Walz has made his support of unlimited abortion a foundation of his administration. Both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have yet to hear of an abortion they would oppose.
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Joe Biden has been known to brag, to boast, to claim he's done things that just haven't happened.
Closing the border? He's claimed that's a done deal, yet it's anything but.
Now Biden has unleashed a real doozy.
He said he's "cured" the economy.
This claim came not even a week before a global financial meltdown heading into the weekend and continuing Monday essentially vaporized some $2 TRILLION.
It was, in fact, only days ago a reporter asked Biden, "What do you want your legacy for Gen Z to be?"
Biden's claim: "That I cured the economy. And the environment. And a few other small things."
The RNC Research team that posted the video said, "(His 'legacy' will be his obvious cognitive decline – which Kamala covered up. Scandal of the century!")
A commenter responded, "His legacy will be as a traitor to this country when it's all said and done."
And another, "He needs to cure his dementia."
The Gateway Pundit said Japan's Nikkei lost 4,451 points on Monday, its biggest single day loss since 1987.
And, "The DOW tumbled more than 1,000 points on Monday."
The Western Journal in a commentary said, "Sometimes events prove overwhelming, and otherwise capable presidents suffer unfairly at the hands of posterity. At other times, however, a lying swindler of a politician finds himself on the precipice of well-deserved infamy."
It continued, "For those watching in trepidation as global markets have plummeted on Monday, President Joe Biden's comments on the state of the economy as recently as six days ago should serve as a reminder that the calamitous 46th president belongs in latter category."
Biden's comments were only last Tuesday following a trip to Texas.
President Donald Trump said, "STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR III, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT 'LEADERS' IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!"
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As soon as Joe Biden gained control of the Oval Office following that 2020 election that was influenced by multiple outside factors, including the $400 million "Zuckerbucks" that let local election officials often recruit voters from Democrat districts, he signed an executive order.
That was Order 14019, called the "Promoting Access to Voting" that required every federal government component to boost voting. It demanded taxpayer-funded employees coordinate with "leftist" organizations to mobilize voters, and of course those groups did not solicit more participation from conservatives.
Now that agenda, to use the assets of the federal government to boost a Democrat political candidate, has gone to the next level.
The plan, uncovered by research and Freedom of Information Act filings by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, is using what have become known as "Bidenbucks," federal dollars applied to an election influence operation.
"What's happening now is absolute corruption. A very red line was crossed by this administration," charged Mike Howell, chief of the Oversight Project, in an interview on The Federalist Radio Hour.
"We've taken for granted in the United States of America that the president isn't allowed to use the executive branch to ensure his own reelection. … The voters get to decide who the president is."
Impacted by the election interference plan are the 46,000 students at 183 schools on more than 60 Indian reservations in 23 states, documents show.
Howell explained the program is "predatory" as it targets Democrat voters, not all voters.
"It's really ham-fisted how they've gone about this in their absolute desperation. We're seeing a huge uptick in Native American reservations, prisons, college campuses — any key demographic that is associated with the left is a target for the government to activate and to roll into the DNC's get-out-the-vote program. They are wholly ignoring sort of any demographic that would traditionally lean right," Howell charged.
The scheme to use students to solicit votes from their parents was documented in email from Jennifer Segal Wiginton, a BIE official in the national Office of the Solicitor, to an adviser.
"I'd be interested in your thoughts on this one. Department leadership is proposing having BIE send home voter registration cards with students to give to their parents."
She earlier asked for confirmation of availability of federal funds "for this purpose."
The plans included sending envelopes with pre-paid postage so parents could "mail in their completed voter registration."
One issue, however, the Federalist explained, is that Congress declined to provide taxpayer money for any such "get-out-the-vote" campaigns.
In fact, America First Policy Institute has charged in a lawsuit federal law "prohibits money from being expended from the Treasury in excess of the amount appropriated by Congress through legislation for that item:"
Frank LaRose, Ohio secretary of state, charged that Biden is running a game "to turn government agencies into a Democratic turnout machine."
Howell pointed out that by targeting reservations, often located in conservative states, "they're picking the hardest left demographics in the swing states and doing things as loony as sending kids home with packets to give their parents to fill out."
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A stunning new report by a former federal counterterrorism expert warns that not only is Hamas now a threat to the United States, it already runs "an extensive network" of supporters inside America who are linked to the jihadis of the international Muslim Brotherhood.
It is the Washington Times that is reporting on the work of John D. Guandolo, a former FBI agent and former counterterrorism strategist for the Pentagon.
He's studied the global Islamist movement for years, and his new report explains Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood jointly are involved in promoting that ideology.
Hamas, of course, is the terrorist organization that sent brutal thugs into Israel last Oct. 7, killing, often in brutal butchery, some 1,200 Israeli citizens.
Israel, in response, has promised to use its military to remove the threat that Hamas poses.
Guandolo said the Islamic organizations both "are engaged in ideological attacks on the American system and pose major internal security threats."
The report notes a key to the terror threat is the close alliance between Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and Marxist and community groups.
"The recent protests across college campuses and U.S. cities by communists and jihadis highlight the need for communities to identify and root out these hostile elements," Guandolo told the Times. "All of the jihadi attacks in the United States since and including Sept. 11, 2001, have been perpetrated with the direct help and involvement of organizations easily identifiable in this hostile U.S. Islamic movement."
Guandolo is a graduate of the Naval Academy and was in the Marines during the first Persian Gulf war, moving to the FBI for a number of years including a stint as a counterterrorism specialist focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic ideology and such.
He later worked with the Pentagon.
The Times report said, "Based on his research, Mr. Guandolo said Hamas and MB have been using both nonviolent and violent protests, along with intelligence-gathering and influence operations in effort spanning more than 60 years of covert operations, to shape government policy and public opinion in the United States."
MB is a group founded in Egypt in 1928 that calls for a global revolutionary Islamic movement toward a caliphate, while Hamas, founded in 1987, is a political movement with a militarized wing that is fighting Israel.
His report said, "Where 'the rubber meets the road' in towns all around America, communist and MB/Hamas organizations and leaders work to undermine liberty, erode effective security measures, and destroy the republican form of government demanded by the U.S. Constitution."
It warns that radical Islamists often work themselves into positions advising state and federal agencies that are responsible for protecting Americans, a move Guandolo called "extremely dangerous."
The report notes not many people fully understand the ideology of a mandatory global Islamic caliphate.
"The Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood Network in the United States" report was released just weeks ago, and was in response to Hamas' terrorism against Israel.
The report warns that without clearly understanding the Islamic movement, "America will lose this war because leaders have failed to do their most basic job when it comes to security matters — identifying the enemy and why the enemy is fighting."
And Guandolo warned of the tactics being used: "Deception is used to gather intelligence and misinform key U.S. leaders and components of government about Islam to confuse and disorient them — and the American people — to render them unable to identify them as an enemy until it is too late."
"It is important for citizens to understand the breadth of the jihadi and communist movements in America, and how significantly these elements have penetrated the key institutions of the U.S. federal government," the report said.
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There is no doubt that the Bible has had a tremendously powerful impact on the world, and especially the West.
It's been documented to have, through its stories, characters and symbolism, influenced literature, art and music. Even government, as America's founding documents cite those rights that are bestowed by our Creator.
Basics concepts of justice such as 'Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not kill" provide the foundation for the law.
In the early days of America, the Bible often was the only text book used in schools. Even now multiple schools teach the Bible as history.
And that's what's going to happen in Oklahoma, through the actions of the state superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters.
Those local education industry managers who disagree, he said, can "go to California."
"It's part of our history. It's crystal clear. … You look at the Pilgrims, you look at the Mayflower Compact, you look at Thomas Jefferson talking about our rights coming from our Creator. … The reality is the left, these radical woke administrators, want to indoctrinate your kids…"
He said they are pushing "leftism" on children, "saying there was no morality, there was no belief in God."
Oklahoma students will consider the Bible in its historical context, he said.
Those "woke administrators" who are, in fact, insisting on their ideological agenda "can go to California," he said.
Fox News said the comments came after he gave a directive to schools to integrate the Bible into history lessons, and eight districts across the state resisted.
"I'm going to tell these woke administrators, if they're going to break the law and not teach it, they can go to California because… here in Oklahoma schools, we're going to make sure that history is taught," Walters aid.
"What we're doing is making sure teachers have resources in order to teach these concepts that the left has pushed out of our schools."
Walters said the impetus for the addition came from parents.
"When I ran three years ago, they were crystal clear. 'Why in the world are we not teaching our kids that our rights came from God? Why in the world are we not referencing all these unbelievable moments in American history where the Bible was cited?' It is absolutely part of our history," he said.
A commentary at Twitchy quickly took up the subject and blew out of the water the criticisms that schools now suddenly are teaching religion.
"Walters has not mandated that schools 'teach the Bible,' as so many outlets like USA Today have proclaimed. The policy mandates that all classrooms be furnished with copies of the Bible, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and, like Louisiana, the Ten Commandments. Moreover, the policy does not include any mandate related to teaching the tenets of Judeo-Christian religions (Walters' guidelines expressly forbid that). Rather, it dictates that schools must include the Bible only in such a way as to reflect its impact on history, culture, and Western civilization."
The guidelines, in fact, call for teaching the "historical and literary aspects of the Bible," not any "religious beliefs."
Further, the guidelines call for full information to parents, with confirmation that using the Bible as a historical reference "is not an endorsement of any religious belief."
The commentary explained, "The fact of the matter is, regardless of how much the left may hate it, there is no single literary text that has had anything close to the historical and cultural significance to and impact on Western civilization as the Bible has. Sorry, lefties. It's just true."
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JERUSALEM – Even by the standards of the devastation which nearly 10 months of fighting a war with ground troops in the Gaza Strip has wrought, the senseless murder of 12 children – and the wounding, some very seriously of dozens more – in Majdal Shams on Saturday has registered a new low for Israel.
The strike was the single-largest loss of life in the north since Hezbollah started firing projectiles – in "defense of the people of Gaza" – on Oct. 8 – and the subsequent fallout could be catastrophic.
Thousands of mourners gathered Sunday morning in the Druze town in the Golan in northern Israel – within clear sight of the Lebanese border – to lay to rest the unfortunate souls caught up in Hezbollah's murderous intentions.
Stores across the Golan region are closed and black flags in neighboring towns have been hung as a sign of mourning for those killed. The funeral procession started from the soccer field where the rocket struck.
Eleven of the twelve children killed in Saturday's Hezbollah attack on Majdal Shams were named by Arabic and Hebrew media:
"With deep sorrow and grief, and with calm and complete submission to the will of God, Majdal Shams mourns the loss of its finest children and youths who were struck in the village stadium attack," the village community said in a statement according to Ynet. That news outlet also reported local authorities in eastern Galilee are coordinating to send dozens of Arabic-speaking social workers to Majdal Shams to try and help families cope with the appalling loss of life.
Amid months of rocket fire and drone infiltrations, which have hassled and harried those who remain in the country's north – to say nothing of the tens of thousands who have been internally displaced because of their proximity to the Lebanese border – there is a very real sense this – unfortunately entirely predictable incident – is the red line beyond which Israel says "no more."
Despite Hezbollah's denials over the strike – which quickly followed having proudly crowed about targeting a military installation – the IDF confirmed the weapon used was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 with a warhead of more than 50 kilograms of explosives.
First responders reported the scene as "resembling a battlefield," and although an incoming rocket alert siren did sound, there was not enough time for those gathered at the soccer field to seek appropriate shelter.
The incident has united different strands from Israel's political spectrum; and Hezbollah's rush to distance itself from responsibility, coupled with a very unusual statement from Lebanon's government – in that it said anything at all – condemning the "targeting of civilians," as well as a warning from Iran's Foreign Ministry against "reckless behavior," highlight how serious the situation is.
"Any ignorant action of the Zionist regime can lead to the broadening of the scope of instability, insecurity, and war in the region," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani, adding Israel will be responsible for "the unforeseen consequences and reactions to such reckless behavior," according to The Times of Israel.
International opinion – albeit temporarily (of course) has swung behind Israel as it attempts to deal with the fallout of the strike – and as it carefully weighs the strength of its inevitable response.
The Biden administration, whose vacillation and lack of both direction and leadership have served only to embolden the mullahs in Tehran and Iran's proxy forces in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon, condemned the attack as "horrific."
A White House national security official said U.S. support for Israel's security was "iron-clad and unwavering against all Iranian-backed terrorist groups, including Lebanese Hezbollah."
It is also a clear sign this event could be the spark that lights the Middle East on fire. It is ironic to note how assiduously the Biden administration – which claimed it was bringing the "adults back into the room," following the supposed chaos of the Trump presidency – has tried to appease Tehran in every possible way, and even by doing so, might still get the wider war it so desperately wants to avoid.
President Donald Trump, speaking at a Bitcoin event in Nashville, Tennessee, condemned the strike. "We just heard that Israel was just severely attacked – Hezbollah, it looks like," he said.
"They cannot do this; what they did is terrible. So to all, God bless everyone. We cannot let it continue, and we wish them a lot of luck. It's a terrible thing."
At a rally Saturday in Minnesota, he reiterated his sense of outrage.
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World War III could be closer than anyone expects if Kamala Harris is elected to the White House in the fall.
That's according to GOP nominee and President Donald Trump, who discussed the race after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on Friday.
"We'll see how it goes. But if it all works out, if we win, it'll be very simple. It's all going to work out. And very quickly. If we don't, you're going to end up with major wars in the Middle East. And maybe a third World War. You are closer to a third World War right now than at any time since the Second World War. We've never been so close because we have incompetent people running the country."
In fact, during Trump's first term in office, there was relative peace around the globe. When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, war broke out in Ukraine and Gaza with other minor skirmishes developing. Further, China in openly belligerent about its land acquisition plans in Asia and the Pacific.
Trump said it is the conflicts in the Middle East that could escalate into a third World War if he loses the 2024 election, according to Fox.
Nethanyahu traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump, where the GOP nominee explained Harris is "worse" on Middle East issues and claimed the Israeli war with the terrorists of Hamas in Gaza could expand if Harris succeeds Joe Biden.
The report explained, "Trump's remarks come amid a reported diplomatic flare-up between Harris and Netanyahu, which occurred after their meeting Thursday. On comments after the meeting, Harris said she told the Israeli prime minister she 'will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself, including from Iran and Iran-backed militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah.'"
But then she also criticized Israel over its ongoing war with the terrorists from Hamas in Gaza who attacked in last Oct. 7, invading and slaughtering some 1,200 civilians, including many at a music festival.
Harris claimed to be concerned about the "humanitarian situation" because of the war on the terrorists.
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Former President Donald Trump posted an eye-opening message online Thursday, calling for the U.S. to eradicate Iran if the Islamic republic were ever to assassinate him.
While American authorities were made aware of an Iranian assassination plot against Trump before the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, during which the ex-commander in chief was shot in the ear, a connection between the plot and the shooting has yet to be established.
Trump said of Iran: "If they do 'assassinate President Trump,' which is always a possibility, I hope that America obliterates Iran, wipes it off the face of the Earth — If that does not happen, American Leaders will be considered 'gutless' cowards!"
Trump attached his message to a video clip of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
"And as we recently learned, they (Iran) even brazenly threatened to assassinate President Trump," Netanyahu told Congress.
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The prime minister stressed the decades-long threat Iran has posed to the U.S., including holding American hostages, committing acts of terror, and dispatching "death squads here to murder a former secretary of state and a former national security adviser."
Iran has been incensed against Trump personally along with his administration officials, seeking revenge for the death of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed by the U.S. during a 2020 drone strike.