The AP has operated from the building for 15 years, including through three previous wars between Israel and Hamas, without being targeted directly. During those conflicts as well as the current one, the news agency’s cameras from its top floor office and roof terrace offered 24-hour live shots as militants’ rockets arched toward Israel and Israeli airstrikes hammered the city and its surroundings.
“We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building,” AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement. “This is something we actively check to the best of our ability. We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk.”
So this is one of those situations where the choice is between horribly corrupt or insanely stupid. Most of the time those caught in these situations will try to disavow corruption and cop to just being stupid. But something such stupidity is difficult to believe.
Denying it is hard, since proof had been provided to even our own Government. Nobody in the Biden Administration has really pushed back on the claims that Hamas was in the buildings and for now the Administration seems to be backing Israel.
Officials in more than one government office confirmed that US President Joe Biden’s phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday was, in part, about the bombing of the building, and that Israel showed Biden and American officials the intelligence behind the action.
Now quite obviously most of the international press is anti-Semites. It wouldn't comes as a shock that they share a building with a terror group and actually use that relationship to gather inside information for their reporting. This would be corrupt and horrible. Imagine the press likely knowing about when and where a terror strike will happen, and then allowing it to happen so they can report on it (likely fairly quickly and in good position to do so). The concept is mind-blowingly brazen and callous. It is also criminal and those involved should be in jail, not covering the conflict.
On the flip side, if we are to believe that they have shared a building with Hamas for 15 years and actually never uncovered that scoop, then they are incompetent. Simply put; too stupid to be covering a local three legged race at the school picnic, much less covering the Israeli Palestinian terror group situation. They should all be fired immediately and replaced with people who have working sight, hearing, and brains.
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Once you accept the fact that the MSM are terrorist sympathizers with by-lines, it all makes sense.
Yesterday in posts starting at 10:45AM and stretching through 1:55PM
I, JamesNewLeaf, walked all over Ch/Scottie's "Slow Fuse Joe" thread MIScharacterization of the NYT article supposedly making Biden look incompetent, an article Ch lyingly called a "hit piece."
I constantly challenged him and others to give us extensive quotes proving his lies
AND HE NEVER DID.
NOR DID ANY OTHERS.
NO, NOT ONE SINGLE TIME DID CH OR OTHERS EVEN ATTEMPT TO DEFEND HIS LYING THREAD ARTICLE WITH GENUINE QUOTES.
Excuse me while I take a much deserved VICTORY DANCE.
Ch/Scottie says
"and for now the Administration seems to be backing Israel."
No, the Biden administration is calling on both sides to cease acts of aggression and return to negotiations (although Jared Kushner supposedly prepared the way for peace already, according to earlier Trumpistic propaganda).
CNN
Whatever happened to Jared Kushner's peace plan?
Opinion by David A. Andelman
The views expressed in this commentary belong solely to the author. View more opinion at CNN.
(CNN)Last year, former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled their peace plan for the Middle East at the White House. Now, 16 months later, the question that begs to be asked is whether that plan has worked at all.
Initially, of course, it seemed like a colossal success. Though Palestinian representatives rejected the entire plan from the outset and refused to be involved in any aspect of its creation, two of Israel's longest-standing foes in the region, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, followed by Morocco and Sudan, reversed generations of hostility, opened diplomatic relations and eventually allowed commercial air flights.
Yet, from the get-go, there were some ominous signs. The plan, in what has become known as Jared Kushner's Vision for Peace -- a tribute to the efforts by the former President's son-in-law -- spelled out in a detailed map for Israel to halt expansion of any new settlement activity on a large swath of the West Bank without American consent, which Kushner affirmed would not be given "for some time." (However, the plan did allow Israel to annex its existing West Bank settlements -- in violation of international law.)
Indeed, a series of "talking points," which Kushner and the State Department cabled to all American embassies, and which Politico obtained and published, claimed that "Israel has agreed to comport its policies to this Vision for at least four years, including freezing all settlement activity in the West Bank in areas that this Vision designates for the future State of Palestine."
Sadly, Netanyahu, who is now facing prospects for a fifth election in two years after failing to form a government, has respected little of this. Settlement creep has continued. A joint statement earlier this month from five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain) urged a halt to the expansion of 540 new homes in the West Bank, and asked Israel "to cease its policy of settlement expansion across the Occupied Palestinian Territories."
Accompanying these provocative actions, frictions with the Palestinians have only intensified, leading now to what threatens to become an all-out war. The direct trigger for the violent exchanges appears to be the actions of Israeli police who fired stun grenades inside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, one of the city's holiest sites, on Monday. At the same time, Israeli police also were clashing with Palestinians over the eviction of several Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. While the attack on the sacred mosque and the evictions in Jerusalem may have been the more immediate triggers, the all but unchecked expansion of the settlements provided an atmosphere that was a toxic undercurrent.
President Joe Biden's administration has said little about the Vision for Peace, although Kushner himself, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in March, described the persistent Arab-Israeli conflict as "nothing more than a real-estate dispute between Israelis and Palestinians that need not hold up Israel's relations with the broader Arab world."
And, turning to suggestions on how Biden might proceed, elaborated: "The table is set. If it is smart, the Biden administration will seize this historic opportunity to unleash the Middle East's potential, keep America safe, and help the region turn the page on a generation of conflict and instability."
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Since the decline in visitors here since you lost your mind Scott, you might end up in a straight jacket!
We sliced and diced your insane comment from a right wing media websites!
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Excuse us while we take or much deserved VICTORY DANCES.
Unfortunately, it is precisely some of these real estate actions that have poisoned the always fraught atmosphere between Palestinians and Israelis.
The only real hope in the near-term is for veteran Middle East specialist Hady Amr, the special envoy dispatched this week to Israel by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to find a way of returning Israel to a position of paying more than lip-service to key elements of the Kushner proposal. In dispatching him, Blinken pointed out that Amr "will urge on my behalf and on behalf of President Biden a de-escalation of violence. We are very focused on this." Then, however, he added that "the United States remains committed to a two-state solution. This violence takes us further away from that goal."
A two-state solution means that Palestinians will ultimately receive their own homeland in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, removing them from Israeli control. The alternative would mean a single nation of Israel that includes Palestinian Arabs as citizens. Demographic trends, however, suggest that eventually, Palestinians could become a majority, placing the Jewish state in a position not unlike that of South Africa under apartheid -- a minority group ruling a hostile and growing majority. And settlement creep threatens to shrink Palestinian territories bit by bit, leading to a toxic and potentially irrevocable status quo.
For the moment, beyond the violence that is paralyzing Israel and Gaza, I am also holding my breath as to what the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan might do. While there are considerable commercial advantages -- especially in terms of trade and tourism -- to them maintaining their ties, Israel's actions in the West Bank and now in daily strikes on Gaza (in response to daily Hamas rocket attacks into Israel) may prove too costly.
Hopefully, the situation can be stabilized before any such irrevocable actions take place.
I confess, I have a personal stake in this. My dear niece and her husband are planning to emigrate to Israel in the next month, and their baby will be born there. My prayer is that they will not be forced to arrive in a nation in flames.
It is incumbent on the Netanyahu government to demonstrate its willingness to adhere to critical international agreements, particularly on halting the expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands. Such a show of goodwill can only be constructive, even if it does remove some of the ultra-Orthodox who oppose such moves from Netanyahu's coalition and complicates his efforts to retain hold on power.
Any number of American Presidents have played key roles in bringing, if not peace, at least a degree of stability to the Holy Land. Now it may be time for Biden to bring his good offices to bear. It is a complicated equation, certainly. Netanyahu and Biden are clearly at odds over some central issues in the region, especially the President's goal of resuscitating the Iranian nuclear accord, which the Israeli leader finds anathema. But a determined gesture, more than simply a shrug, may be necessary on the part of Netanyahu if Israelis and Palestinians are not to spiral deeply into more destructive violence.
The former is put Kushner in charge of our foreign policy in the middle east. He was as qualified as the former President and this President is once again fixing the problem, instead of putting unqualified people who have fucked up everything they touched.
That was a reasoned look at the situation.
Trump brokered multiple peace agreements in the middle east. In only 4 months, Biden's incompetence wrecks it.
Just like immigration
Just like energy independence
Just like jobs
Just like wages
Biden will be the most incompetent president in history.
Thanks but one grammatical error will get an insult.
The former President put Kushner in charge of our foreign policy in the middle east. He was as qualified as the former President and this President is once again fixing the problem, instead of putting unqualified people who have fucked up everything they touched.
Another Sunday Funny
Myballs said...
Trump brokered multiple peace agreements in the middle east. In only 4 months, Biden's incompetence wrecks it.
Just like immigration
Just like energy independence
Just like jobs
Just like wages
Biden will be the most incompetent president in history.
A disaster
supported by dancing fools
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
CNN
Whatever happened to Jared Kushner's peace plan?
235 million to the paleostinians and ValJar is back
You insipid unthinking, pedo
Trish Regan
https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1393560597103513604
What the heck is WRONG w/ #Biden team?! We’re buying green energy panel from #CCP slave labor camps in #China—but THAT’S OKAY in the name of the ENVIRONMENT?!?
Meanwhile, our GOVT isn’t protecting our infrastructure from cyber attacks?!
Kerry is actually worse than Biden
except he is not demented
Omri Ceren
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1393560187169017858
This AP article says Israel destroyed media building but leaves out it was being used by Hamas. Says electricity in Gaza is off but leaves out that Hamas rockets took out power lines. Says Israel killed a Lebanese protester but leaves out he was Hezbollah.
pretty obvious which side our state news is on
Joe Biden's America
FAKE NEWS
Ministry of Truth
1984
dancing fools
There’s no question Biden has been faster out of the gate with consequential actions, achieved without the drama of his predecessor.
Most notably he’s won a sweeping pandemic relief package that not only sent hefty checks to most Americans but set the stage for a big reduction in child poverty and boosted the affordability of the Obama-era health law.
But it’s not all been smooth. Biden has struggled to change course on Trump-era immigration practices, earning rebukes from some
Here’s a look at some defining numbers from his first 100 days in office:
2.67 million – Average number of vaccines administered daily during the past week, up from roughly 1.5 million when Biden was inaugurated.
4,380 – COVID-19 deaths on the day Biden became president, Jan. 20.
677 – COVID-19 daily death average for most recent seven-day period. All told, including before Biden’s presidency, 569,000 Americans have died from the pandemic.
$1.9 trillion – Sum of the debt-financed coronavirus relief package that the administration says will help vaccinate the country and restore the 8.4 million jobs lost to the pandemic.
1.38 million – How many jobs have been added during the Biden presidency through March. When you add the additional 640,000 jobs, since he was inaugurated, he has created over 200 hundred million jobs. The greatest number in history.
Chris Sununu
https://twitter.com/GovChrisSununu/status/1393345267831910408
THREAD: Late tonight Joe Biden quietly tried to reverse his Peace Officers Memorial Day Proclamation, hoping no one would notice they are no longer calling for flags to fly at Half Staff across the USA honoring our men women in blue. This is outrageous and precedent breaking. 1/
On May 10th, the Biden Administration announced in a release flags would be flying at Half Staff across the country to honor our heroes on the front line. Tonight, in the eleventh hour, the Biden Administration is now no longer calling for flags to fly at Half Staff. 2/
New Hampshire will continue to honor the men and women who have died or been injured in the line of duty by flying flags at Half Staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day as we have always done, and as is right. 3/
New Hampshire’s law enforcement are the best in the country, and they are owed an explanation for this sudden reversal. I call on New Hampshire’s congressional delegation to join with me in rejecting this disrespectful decision. 4/4
Joe Biden's boss must have told him he was wrong and in trouble.
So he reversed again
The Federal Reserve will not raise rates, they can't.
Gasoline is up about a Dollar nation wide, Biden has zero plan for that.
Lumber costs are high and going higher, Biden has Zero plan for that.
Biden shutting down US Fracking.
Robby Starbuck
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1393916719849250819
The irony of #FreePalestine people on the left is that most of them would never survive a week in Palestine and that’s not because of Israel...
wouldn't survive a weekend in Chicago either for that matter
or a "peaceful" BLM riot
Kansas is receiving a gentle deep sinking beneficial rain.
I am collection 250,000 gallons.
But, 36, million gallons has fallen on the home place and lands we own, clear deeds.
Scott, seriously, we are in a different position.
We don't want Hamas and the Palestinians removed from the region, but the Israelis want to push them out.
The Israelis avoided sending in troops.
If we can get the Egyptians involved again, they might fix the Camp David agreement that fell apart after the Palestinians pulled out.
We don't want to get into the mess in Beirut during the Reagan administration.
The economy there is horrible.
I'm not going to jump into judgment yet because it's too complicated for Biden and the Israelis who are divided by Netanyahu, who can't get a majority in the parliament.
Roger and James back Palestinians.
Trump stooped this pay out.
Biden made this pay out.
Why?, peace?
"235 million to the paleostinians"
My posts at 10:05 offer a reasoned and reasonable look at the situation, written by an American Jew who has reason to be concerned about his own realatives' safety in Israel, but is also concerned about how the Palestinians are being treated. This is because he is convinced that there can never be peace with justice without some stronger degree of fairness to both sides.
By the way, I wrote 11:04 before I even saw KDim's stupid comment at 10:58.
Stop shooting rockets and calling for the end of isarael
Pretty simple pedo
The Palestinians have lived in the west bank for centuries. The Christians and the Jews and the Muslims have sacred areas in the west bank.
I hope that President Biden can find a way to achieve peace.
But realistically, if he does that he will go down in history as the Greatest American ever.
They have the right to live there.
We have supported their rights since Israel was created after World War two.
I don't support violence on either side right now kputz.
"degree of fairness to both sides."
Tell us how you see it, in your own words.
where is palestine on a map?
I'd like to see it.
A real Sunday Funny from SNL
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/-saturday-night-live-satirizes-confusing-no-mask-guidelines-112055877771
https://images.app.goo.gl/xhLt9WCqhDyGzEw46
Nobody cares about the Palestinians.
Some Palestinians may look to Iran as their last ally, and may well cheer the Hamas rockets as the sole way to push back against Israel. But for more than 40 years, the Islamic Republic has used the Palestinian cause for its own advancement. These days, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweets his outrage at Israel and the “racist criminal behavior of the usurpers” before flying to Damascus to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—the same man who unleashed hell on his own country and besieged and starved thousands in Yarmouk.
KIM GHATTAS is a contributing writer at The Atlantic
I hope that President Biden will announce a cease fire between Israel and Hamas. If he can get the Egyptian government to act in the same way.
Stop shooting rockets and calling for the end of israel
Agreed. But also,
Stop taking land and houses away from Palestinians and pretending they have no right at all to live on land where many of them and their forebears lived a long time.
MEANWHILE, TODAY all the below linked at politicalwire.com:
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:
Surge of Newcomers Pack Georgia GOP Meetings
May 16, 11:49 EDT
“The grassroots effort to punish Gov. Brian Kemp largely fizzled at key Republican meetings across the state this weekend even as record crowds of activists continued a relentless focus on former President Donald Trump’s lies about Georgia’s election results."
Fury over Trump’s narrow defeat combined with anger at President Joe Biden’s administration helped bring a surge of new faces to the weekend meetings, held in 13 of Georgia’s 14 congressional districts. Many speakers repeated Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud in Georgia, which have been repeatedly debunked.
Kinzinger Says Trump Leads the GOP
11:38 am EDT
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told NBC News that he would “love to move on” from former President Trump, but Kevin McCarthy “gave Trump his leadership card.”
Said Kinzinger: “Trump set the table, he’s the one continually bringing up the stolen-election narrative.”
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The rotting lie will smell worse as time goes on.
GOP Lawmaker Says Downplaying Jan. six Is ‘Bogus’
11:33 am EDT
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) told CNN that his GOP colleagues downplaying the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building is “absolutely bogus.”
Said Upton: “Bogus. It’s absolutely bogus. It’s absolutely bogus, you know, I was there I watched a number of the folks walk down to the White House and then back. I’ve got a balcony on my office. So I saw them go down. I heard the noise. The flashbangs smelled, some of the gases, it moved my way.”
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No it was just a peaceful visit by tourists, dontcha you know?
Quote of the Day
11:29 am EDT
“We’ve lost the White House, the House and the Senate over the past four years, and to continue to, you know, do the exact same thing and expect a different result is the definition of insanity.”
— Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), in a CNN interview, on the state of the Republican Party.
Crenshaw Says Republicans Can’t Boot Trump from Party
11:27 am EDT
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told NBC News that Republicans could not simply “excommunicate” former President Trump from its ranks, although he declined to say whether or not he believed Trump is the “legitimate leader of the Republican Party.”
Said Crenshaw:
“These are complex human relationships that involve millions of people. And I have always said, look, I do not think Trump is the devil and I won’t say that. I don’t think he’s Jesus either, you know, I’m a rational human being about this.”
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EVEN MORE RATIONALLY, JAMES SAYS:
He's certainly more like Satan than like Jesus.
You gotta have buffer zone for clear field of fire
I mean damn the only people on earth that caused their own diaspora
Washington (CNN) — Republican Rep. Fred Upton on Sunday called out an effort by some of his GOP colleagues to downplay the Capitol insurrection, saying their "bogus" claims about the deadly attack are evidence of a need to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the incident.
"It's absolutely bogus. You know, I was there. I watched a number of the folks walk down to the White House and then back. I have a balcony on my office. So I saw them go down. I heard the noise -- the flash bangs, I smelled some of the gas as it moved my way," the Michigan congressman told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" when asked about comments made by several congressional Republicans last week who attempted to re-write what happened on January 6.
The comments from the longtime congressman come as a rift in his party grows between members who are offering an inaccurate account of the insurrection and those who have consistently condemned the violence on January 6 while also casting blame on former President Donald Trump and his 2020 election lies for the attack. Upton was among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in inciting the riot.
Among the claims made last week was one by Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Republican from Georgia, who falsely compared the riot to a tourist visit, saying during a hearing on the attack that "there was no insurrection and to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold baseline."
Upton told Bash he wasn't sure what was motivating his colleagues to make such claims, but that those statements stand as a reason why he supports a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack. Lawmakers on Friday cleared a hurdle on Friday in creating a bipartisan commission after the top Democrat and Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee struck a deal on how to structure the independent panel.
"Get the facts out, try to assure the American public this is what happened, and let the facts lead us to the conclusion," Upton said.
After the agreement was announced Friday, it was not clear whether House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy -- who has been fighting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the commission proposal -- would sign off on the deal, as he said he was still reviewing it. Upton said in his interview that he hopes the California Republican will support the proposal.
Going a step further on Sunday, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who was ousted from her post in GOP leadership last week for challenging Trump's election lies, told ABC News that McCarthy should "absolutely" testify before the commission should lawmakers establish the investigatory body.
"I would anticipate that -- I would hope he doesn't require a subpoena, but I wouldn't be surprised if he were subpoenaed," Cheney said of McCarthy, adding later that the attempts by some of her colleagues to downplay the insurrection are "disgraceful and despicable."
The proposed commission would include a 10-member panel, with half appointed by Democratic congressional leaders, including the chair, and half by Republicans, including the vice chair. The panel will have the power to issue subpoenas if they are signed off by both the chair and vice chair, according to a summary released by the committee. The commission would be tasked with issuing a final report by the end of this year, making it a quick timeline for the panel to put out a final product.
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