Image Credit: Senate Democrats / CC The Center Square [By Casey Harper] – A $118 billion deal that combined a batch of foreign funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with a slew of controversial border provisions failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday. The text of that bill was unveiled Sunday, but support imploded almost immediately. […]
Just how ridiculously unrealistic did Hamas get in its ‘counterproposal,’ praised by Qatar as “generally positive” and treated as serious by the US? Absurd enough that the Israelis immediately rejected it, and today are emphasizing that there is “no way” that it even serves as a framework for further negotiations. As noted yesterday, Hamas wants […]
As Casey Stengel once remarked about the 1962 Mets: “Can’t anyone here play this game?” Part of the game in Congress requires recognizing defeat before one takes the field — especially on high-profile votes. A good maxim for leadership would be: When it doubt, sit it out. And yet House Republican leadership took not just […]
Just how ridiculous is the long-awaited Hamas response to the latest Qatari proposal for hostage releases? Even Joe Biden can’t summon much enthusiasm for it. At a presser earlier this afternoon, Biden tried to keep a positive spin, but … Hamas’s response to #Gaza hostage deal ‘a little over the top’ – #President Joe Biden […]
Have Iranian proxies had enough of the IDF? Maybe … if you can trust them to stick to their word. After almost exactly five months of war in Gaza and all-but-war in southern Lebanon, both Hamas and Hezbollah sent signals in the last 24 hours that they may be ready to scale back — for […]
It happened almost exactly as predicted. Behind closed doors, a group of Republicans led by Mitch McConnell and James Lankford worked on a supposed “border security” bill with Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden. They sat on it for weeks on end, not allowing the members to read it, no doubt aware of the outrage it […]
The House GOP majority will move forward this week with a new piece of legislation that is unlikely to result in anything more than sending a message to their counterparts in the Senate. The bill would provide more than 17 billion dollars for aid to Israel and replenish American arms stockpiles that have been depleted […]
It would appear that the pressure from the left has truly gotten to Joe Biden and he’s going find a way to demonstrate that he’s ready to “get tough” on Israel. But if this recent report from Politico is accurate, he’s decided on a very odd method of doing it. His executive order will reportedly […]
Everyone else: Yeah, sure. According to the Qataris, Hamas has agreed in principle to a temporary cessation in fighting to exchange all of the remaining hostages on a 1:3 ratio of Palestinian prisoners. Despite explicitly and publicly rejecting this formula just days ago, supposedly the Hamas negotiators today offered their “initial approval.” Not even the Palestinians […]
The State Department, one of the uglier buildings in Washington, D.C., has all but relocated to Dearborn, Michigan, at least as far as the Israeli-Hamas conflict goes. Sure, there are dozens and dozens of career staffers at Foggy Bottom that are boycotting Uber Eats and Door Dash for lunch, participating in a hunger strike to […]
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