FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Cristiano Ronaldo Declining To Shake Hands With Israel’s...
A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo declining to shake hands with the president of Israel. Verdict: False The footage actually shows Ronaldo passing by former Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) President Michel Platini in 2014. Fact Check: In the video, a uniformed Ronaldo can be seen interacting with a…
Biden Sends Michael Ratney to Israel; Deleted Emails in Anti-Netanyahu Plot in 2015
President Joe Biden is sending diplomat Michael Ratney to represent the U.S. in Israel in the absence of an official ambassador — despite Ratney’s role in an attempt by the Obama administration to interfere in Israel’s 2015 election and oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Times of Israel reported Ratney’s appointment Thursday. In 2015, Ratney was…
Joe Biden Announces Israeli Ceasefire; Promises to Replenish Iron Dome
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had agreed to a ceasefire in their military campaign against Hamas. “Prime Minister Netanyahu informed me that Israel has agreed to a mutual unconditional ceasefire to begin in less than two hours,” Biden said during an announcement at the White House. The president said…
Biden Addresses Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
President Joe Biden addressed Israel’s ceasefire in its conflict with the terror group Hamas during a Thursday night press conference. “Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu informed me that Israel has agreed to a mutual unconditional ceasefire beginning in less than two hours. The Egyptians have now informed us that Hamas, and the other groups in Gaza,…
Joe Biden Supports Israeli Ceasefire After Pressure from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
President Joe Biden expressed his desire for an Israeli ceasefire of operations against Hamas, after a growing force of leftist Democrats criticized his support of Israel. Biden spoke with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu Monday afternoon, walking back his support for Israel’s aggressive response in Palestine to Hamas rocket attacks. The Israeli military response against Hamas…
Ilhan Omar: ‘Appalling’ Biden Would Allow Weapons to Be Sent to Israel
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), in a statement Monday, said the “United States should not stand idly by” allowing casualties to rise in Gaza while President Joe Biden lets “precision-guided weaponry” be given to Israel “without any strings attached.” “The violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip is spiraling out of control,” Omar said in the…
“How can we look at Palestine with no moral compass and no sense of...
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator “This is truly a massacre that cannot be described,” said Dr. Al Reesh at the al-Shifa Hospital which received the bodies of 10 Palestinians killed, including eight children, and 15 people wounded by an Israeli air raid on the Shati Refugee Camp in the Gaza strip in the hours…
Apartheid Israel faces full scale war
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator For the first time since the 2014 war, Palestinians in Gaza fired an uninterrupted barrage of more than 500 rockets into Israel, as the Israel Defense Forces pounded Gaza with more than 140 airstrikes through the early hours of Tuesday. The Iron Dome, Israel’s antimissile defense network, destroyed many…
Israeli Ground Troops Invade And Attack Targets In Gaza
Israeli Defense Forces soldiers crossed the nation’s Southern Border into Gaza early Friday morning local time following a barrage of 1,500 rockets that targeted airstrikes failed to curb. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously announced that IDF soldiers were massing at the nation’s border with Gaza in preparation for invasion. He promised that Israel would “would…
Tlaib: We Shouldn’t Be Giving ‘Apartheid’ Israel Billions — ‘They Promote Racism and Dehumanization’
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports” that the United States should stop sending billions of dollars to Israel because it was “promoting racism and dehumanization.” Tlaib was commenting on Hamas firing dozens of rockets toward Israel on Monday and the Israeli military responding with airstrikes. Tlaib said, “This is an…
