21m ago (09:30 GMT) Six senior Israeli figures call on US Congress to ‘disinvite’ Netanyahu: Report Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo and four other senior political figures have published a joint letter in the New York Times, calling on the leaders of the US Congress to prevent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from giving a speech to US lawmakers on July 24. “Congress has made a terrible mistake” by inviting him, the letter said, adding that “Netanyahu’s appearance in Washington will not represent the State of Israel and its citizens”. The address “will reward his scandalous and destructive conduct toward our country”, the claimants said, stressing that the prime minister “failed to come up with a plan to end the war in Gaza or free dozens of hostages”. “Congressional call for him should have been conditional on resolving these two issues, as well as calling for new elections in Israel,” the letter concluded.
Congress / Biden are up to their eyeballs in shit arming up Israel with their murderous bunch of IDF goons and Settlers goons. If Trump gets into power, "watchout!" Trump will blame Biden for all his problems and what better excuse than this Biden/Gaza fiasco as a scapegoat. Biden will be fucked well and truly and jesus won't save his pathetic ass either. Go Trump!
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/25/world/video/gaza-aid-us-pier-diamond-pkg-ac360-digvid Images from sea shows destruction on Gaza’s coast after months of war
Well who wooda thort, surprise surprise...... Who are Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, the Jewish moderators of the Biden-Trump debate? The two CNN anchors, who co-host the channel’s ‘State of the Union’ segment, often include their Judaism in their reporting By Ron Kampeas Today, 10:30 pm https://www.timesofisrael.com/who-a...-jewish-moderators-of-the-biden-trump-debate/ Moderators Jake Tapper (right) and Dana Bash during a commercial break of the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University, January 10, 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA) WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Joe Biden and Donald Trump meet Thursday night for their first debate this election season, they will face two moderators with a lot in common. Dana Bash and Jake Tapper are both veteran CNN anchors famous for their no-nonsense style. They both panned the first Biden-Trump debate in 2020, Tapper calling it a “hot mess” and Bash calling it a “s—show.” And they’ve both infused their Jewish identity into their reporting. In fact, Bash and Tapper are congregants at the same Washington synagogue: Temple Micah, a Reform congregation known for its progressive advocacy and for attracting members from the city’s political, government and media elite. Here’s what you need to know about the two Jewish anchors helming the first of two US presidential debates in 2024:.............
CNN bans White House pool reporters from debate room Published 06/27/2024 CNN bans White House pool reporters from debate room WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Correspondents' Association said on Thursday CNN has rejected multiple requests to include White House pool reporters inside the studio during the first presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump. The press pool, made up of representatives of major news organizations, accompanies the president on foreign and domestic trips and normally has access to any event where he speaks or appears in public, with the goal of keeping the U.S. public informed. It is extremely rare for them to be barred from an event in the United States. "WHCA is deeply concerned that CNN has rejected our repeated requests to include the White House travel pool inside the studio," Kelly O'Donnell, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, said in a statement. "The pool is there for the 'what ifs?' in a world where the unexpected does happen," she said, and to provide "context and insight by direct observation and not through the lens of the television production." These reporters are there to see what is said and done when the microphones and cameras are off, and provide independent observation, she wrote, with duties "separate from the production of the debate as a news event." O'Donnell said both the Biden and Trump campaign agreed to the WHCA's request. CNN has only agreed to allow one White House print pool reporter to enter the studio during a commercial break to "briefly observe the setting." The network will also allow still photographers from other outlets to cover the candidates inside the studio and will provide a television feed of the debate to other networks.
Dems freak out over Biden’s debate performance: ‘Biden is toast’ One prominent operative texted, “Time for an open convention.” President Joe Biden's performance was widely panned online and will likely reinforce the impression that he’s lost a step. By Lisa Kashinsky, Adam Cancryn and Eugene Daniels 06/27/2024 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/biden-debate-opening-concerns-00165595 All Joe Biden needed to do was deliver a repeat performance of his State of the Union address. Instead, he stammered. He stumbled. And, with fewer than five months to November, he played straight into Democrats’ worst fears — that he’s fumbling away this election to Donald Trump. The alarm bells for Democrats started ringing the second Biden started speaking in a haltingly hoarse voice. Minutes into the debate, he struggled to mount an effective defense of the economy on his watch and flubbed the description of key health initiatives he’s made central to his reelection bid, saying “we finally beat Medicare” and incorrectly stating how much his administration lowered the price of insulin. He talked himself into a corner on Afghanistan, bringing up his administration’s botched withdrawal unprompted. He repeatedly mixed up “billion” and “million,” and found himself stuck for long stretches of the 90-minute debate playing defense. And when he wasn’t speaking, he stood frozen behind his podium, mouth agape, his eyes wide and unblinking for long stretches of time. “Biden is toast — calling it now,” said Jay Surdukowski, an attorney and Democratic activist from New Hampshire who co-chaired former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s 2016 presidential campaign in the state. In text messages with POLITICO, Democrats expressed confusion and concern as they watched the first minutes of the event. One former Biden White House and campaign aide called it “terrible,” adding that they have had to ask themselves over and over: “What did he just say? This is crazy.” “Not good,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) wrote. POLITICO spoke to about a dozen Democrats, some of whom were granted anonymity to discuss Biden’s performance. Biden’s team was quick to defend the president’s performance. First they said he had a cold (and that he was negative for Covid-19). Then they insisted Trump was hurting himself by insulting Biden’s presidential record. Biden did grow stronger throughout the night, at one point seizing on Trump’s reported dismissal of fallen soldiers as “suckers and losers” to skewer the former president as the real “sucker” and “loser.” At others, he hammered Trump’s criminal conviction in New York. “The only person on this stage who’s a convicted felon is the man I’m looking at right now,” Biden said. But first impressions matter — particularly to voters just tuning into the election and who were more likely to watch the first debate than the second that’s scheduled for September. And instead of setting the tone of the next phase of the presidential campaign, Biden’s shaky performance reignited fears among Democrats that the octogenarian whose mental acuity and physical fitness have stood as voters’ chief concerns about returning him to the White House might not even be able to carry the party through to November. “Time for an open convention,” one prominent operative texted. Biden’s team had tried to engineer the debate in his favor — pushing for it to be early and without an audience. And the president agreed to hold the event in part to calm Democratic nerves over whether he could win in November. Afterward they didn’t try to cover up his poor performance, but instead tried to emphasize that Trump remained a threat to American interests at home and abroad. “It was a slow start, that’s obvious to everyone. I’m not going to debate that point,” Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Anderson Cooper an hour after the debate wrapped. “I’m talking about the choice in November. I’m talking about one of the most important elections in our collective lifetime. And do we want to look at what November will bring and go on a course for America that is about a destruction of democracy?” While some Democrats were quick to brush aside Biden’s blunders — Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) said Biden “isn’t a TV showman, he’s a workhorse” — the trajectory of the race appears dramatically changed. “My job right now is to be really honest. Joe Biden had one thing he had to do tonight. And he didn’t do it,” former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) told MSNBC. “He had one thing he had to accomplish. And that was reassure America that he was up to the job at his age. And he failed at that tonight.” Already, some Democrats were openly saying that Biden should end his campaign. One major Democratic donor and Biden supporter said simply: “Biden needs to drop out. No question about it.” Biden struggled at times to articulate strong arguments on some of his campaign’s biggest selling points, bungling his health care record and stumbling through a response on his support for abortion rights. “I support Roe v. Wade. You have three trimesters. First time is between a woman and a doctor. Second time is between a doctor and an extreme situation. Third time is between the doctor — I mean, between the woman and the state,” he said. Trump tripped, too. He called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, a documentary filmmaker, a “fil-i-maker.” He accused Democrats of wanting to “take the life” of a child “after birth.” He inflated the country’s economic strength under his presidency. He reiterated his defense of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, launching into a lengthy diatribe against the convictions of hundreds of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the 2020 election. And asked repeatedly if he would accept the results of the election no matter the winner, Trump refused to give a straight answer — eventually specifying that he’d only do so “if the election is fair and free.” But Trump largely did what Republicans had begged him to do: show a modicum of restraint while also laying bare Biden’s weaknesses. The former president, who delights in calling Biden “sleepy” and “crooked” at every turn, waited a full 20 minutes to draw attention to the Democrat’s initially shaky performance. “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Trump said, after Biden stuttered through an answer to a question about immigration. “I don’t think he knows what he said, either.” And in a relatively staid debate, it was Biden who fell short of even the lowest of expectations. “Biden seems to have needed a few minutes to warm up,” said one veteran Democratic operative. “Poor guy needs a tea. Maybe a whiskey.” Another suggested that Biden get a throat lozenge. Both Biden and Trump, who is just three years younger than the incumbent, faced questions toward the end of the debate about their fitness for another four years of the presidency. Biden, with a cough, urged voters to judge his competence based on his record, attacking Trump as “three years younger and a lot less competent.” “Look at the record. Look at what I’ve done,” he said, reprising a line he’s often deployed on the campaign trail. Trump then offered his own meandering case for his aptitude, claiming to have “aced” a pair of cognitive tests and pointing to golf tournament championships he’s won at his own golf course as evidence of his physical stamina. The exchange quickly devolved into a game of one-upmanship — “I’m happy to play golf if you carry your own bag,” Biden shot back at one point. But by that point, many viewers’ opinions were likely long cemented. Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chair and “Never Trumper” who is considering voting for Biden, had warned that Democrats would need to reconsider their ticket if the president delivered a poor performance on Thursday. After the debate, Cullen said: “Anyone who has watched a parent grow old, frail, and foggy recognizes what they are seeing and knows it only gets worse, at an accelerating rate, from here.” Nicholas Wu and Josh Seigel contributed to this report.
Lack of real vision’ in ending the conflict for both Democrats and Republicans in US 2h ago (07:40 GMT https://www.aljazeera.com/ Tamer Qarmout, a professor at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, says the US presidential debate highlights how both Democrats and Republicans have lost their will to end Israel’s war on Gaza and to support the creation of a Palestinian state. “The focus of the discussion was not on a Palestinian state per se – it was one supporting Israel and the best way to support Israel,” he told Al Jazeera. “For both candidates, there’s a lack of real vision to end this conflict. It’s a very shallow discussion that does not have ending the conflict in the centre of it.” He added that the US’s policies are so aligned to Israel’s interests that Palestinians should turn to the “great global momentum” of solidarity and the increasing wave of [state] recognitions for support instead of waiting for the US to embrace a new position.
Gaza war suffering receives little attention from Trump, Biden in debate While foreign policy and the Middle East were referenced numerous times during the US presidential debate, the suffering of the Palestinians and the toll of Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza received little mention. While debate hosts Dana Bash and Jake Tapper mentioned that “thousands” of Palestinians had been killed and the onset of famine conditions in Gaza due to Israel’s persistent blockage of aid, the mass destruction of Gaza went unaddressed by the candidates. Biden falsely claimed that every party but Hamas has agreed to his ceasefire proposal. Trump said Biden has become “like a Palestinian” and retorted that Israel should be allowed to “finish the job” in Gaza. “That comment was very blatantly racist,” Ayah Ziyadeh, director of American Muslims for Palestine, told Al Jazeera in a TV interview. “Using Palestinian as a slur shows the depths of racism that exists here,” Ziyadeh said. President Joe Biden, right, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, participate in a presidential debate on June 27 in Atlanta, Georgia [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo] 6h ago (04:00 GMT) Biden and Trump ‘not fit to represent’ US’s Palestinian and Arab communities: Analyst Ayah Ziyadeh, director of the American Muslims for Palestine Advocacy group, said Trump’s branding of Joe Biden as being “like a Palestinian” in the debate was a“blatantly racist” slur, and neither presidential candidate appealed to many in the US’s Palestinian and Arab communities. “Israel’s genocide in Gaza has become a focal point of this election. Not only are Muslim and Arab Americans deciding that they don’t want to commit to Biden or re-elect him because of his continued stance and fuelling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But the broader American public has also shifted and it’s become one of the biggest issues that is impacting the coming elections,” Ziyadeh told Al Jazeera. “Right now, it seems that most of our communities are going after uncommitted or they just don’t want to vote because we are presented with two candidates that are just not fit to represent us, both as Palestinians and also as Americans,” Ziyadeh said. “One is blatantly racist. Wants to deport all of us. And said that President Biden isn’t, essentially, being genocidal enough and that he should let Israel finish off its war on Gaza. And the current president has been consciously and willingly, politically and financially, backing an evident genocide in Gaza,” she said. “There is no lesser than two evils here,” she added. “The card we are being dealt with as voters and as Americans is frankly unfair.”
Biden’s debate performance spurs Democratic panic about his ability to lead party against Trump https://apnews.com/article/biden-pa...te-trump-cnn-fe6546f2c9762e80e6067ba10abedea8 By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER June 28, 2024 If there's panic then it seems the Democrats are oblivious to reality. Same goes for Trump, the party oblivious to the vandal whom they want running for them.
After the debate, I think Joe would have gone home and cried his eyes out to delusional jesus. And delusional jesus would have spoken to Joe jn prayer.... "Youve gotta keep going Joe, you have to finish the job I gave you which is support Israel until it has wiped out all those Nazis in Gaza."