Israel’s ‘Long Arm’ Will Reach Enemies Anywhere – Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the Israel Defense Forces for carrying out a “precise and successful operation” over 1,700 kilometers away from the country’s borders, which he says serves as a clear warning to all enemies of the Jewish state.
The Israeli military launched its first-ever direct large-scale air raid against Yemen on Saturday, targeting the port city of Hodeidah. The attack triggered a massive fire at the port’s oil terminal and left at least 80 people injured, according to a preliminary tally by the health ministry in Sanaa.
“The port we attacked is not an innocent port,” Netanyahu claimed in a video statement released on Saturday evening. “It was used for military purposes, it was used as an entry point for deadly weapons supplied to the Houthis by Iran.”
“This strike comes in direct response to the killer drone attack yesterday that killed one person and injured several others a hundred yards from the US Consulate in Tel Aviv,” the Israeli leader emphasized, just several days before he is scheduled to give a speech before the US Congress in Washington, D.C.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening:
“From the beginning of the war, I made it clear that Israel will act against all those who attack us.
This is why earlier today, I asked the Israeli cabinet to back my decision to strike against the Houthi targets in Yemen. pic.twitter.com/xWE3KXQaeV— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) July 20, 2024
The drone attack early Friday, praised by Houthi rebels as a “significant military operation,” left one Israeli citizen dead and at least ten others wounded. The IDF blamed an unspecified “human error” for its failure to intercept the drone or at least issue an alert, even though, according to local media, it had been detected by air defenses in advance.
Israel’s strike on Yemen “makes it clear to our enemies that there is no place that the long arm of Israel will not reach,” Netanyahu added in a Hebrew version of the address, as cited by the Times of Israel.
The Houthi group that controls a large part of Yemen has been attacking Israeli-linked merchant vessels in the region since October, in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. A US and UK-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against the group, which they claim to be a proxy of Iran, but the effort appears to have yielded little result.
”The Houthis attacked us over 200 times. The first time that they harmed an Israeli citizen, we struck them. And we will do this in any place where it may be required,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a separate statement on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Houthis have promised to avenge the Israeli raid with more “impactful strikes,” Mohamed Ali al-Houthi of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam said that the latest “blatant Israeli aggression” aimed “to increase the suffering of the people and to pressure Yemen to stop supporting Gaza.”
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US Secret Service Confirms They Rejected Requests to Strengthen Trump’s Security
The US Secret Service has acknowledged that it rejected requests to strengthen former US President Donald Trump’s security with its resources for two years before the assassination attempt, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service.
At the same time, Guglielmi noted that the requests for beefed-up security did not specifically concern the event in Pennsylvania where Trump was wounded in a shooting, the report said.
He also added that in cases where the Secret Service was unable to provide additional security for Trump, it instead deployed state or local law enforcement officers or altered security plans to reduce the threat to Trump’s life, the report read.
The shooting took place on July 13 at a Trump rally in Butler, the US state of Pennsylvania. Trump sustained a gun wound to his right ear and was briefly hospitalized.
Thomas Crooks, 20, killed a member of the audience and injured two others in the crowd before the US Secret Service neutralized him. The FBI is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt and potential domestic terrorism.
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Clintons Backing Biden – Reports
Former US President Bill Clinton, and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have privately thrown their weight behind Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the November 5 presidential election, NBC News and CNN have reported, citing anonymous sources.
The 81-year-old president has been facing a growing mutiny within his own party ranks in recent weeks as an increasing number of lawmakers and donors have called on the veteran politician to abandon his bid for reelection.
Doubts as to whether Biden is fit for a second term have come to the fore in the wake of his bungled performance at last month’s CNN-hosted debate against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. During the showdown, the incumbent repeatedly lost his train of thought, mixed up words and numbers, and struggled to finish his sentences.
On Saturday, NBC News quoted two unnamed people “familiar with the Clintons’ thinking” as saying that the two Democratic heavyweights have privately expressed support for Biden’s decision to stay in the race. They have also allegedly called on Democratic Party donors to stick with the president.
According to the media outlet, the Clintons have been “deferential” toward the incumbent head of state and offered to help his campaign in any way they can.
NBC News claimed, however, that the fact that the pair has not offered their backing publicly only goes to show how isolated Biden has become within his own party.
CNN carried a similar report on Saturday, also citing two anonymous sources, who also used the word “deferential” when describing the Clintons’ stance.
Meanwhile, NBC News estimated that the total number of opponents to a Biden ticket among Congressional Democrats had reached 35 by Friday. Such heavyweights as former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have reportedly expressed concerns regarding the incumbent’s chances of beating Trump in November.
A poll published by AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on Wednesday indicated that nearly two-thirds of rank-and-file Democrats nationwide want Biden to exit the race.
The president, who is currently self-isolating after contracting Covid-19, has vowed to return to the campaign trail next week. The veteran politician has repeatedly reiterated that he is not going to drop out of the race, insisting that he is the strongest Democratic candidate to take on Trump.
NBC alleged on Friday that the president is feeling “personally hurt” and “betrayed” by the failure of some Democrats to stand behind his candidacy.
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‘A Total Failure’ – Donors Vent Over Kamala Harris Conference Call Flop
Major Democratic donors who joined a conference call starring Vice President Kamala Harris say the event’s sloppy organization and scolding tone left them feeling unimpressed and insulted, NBC News has reported.
“It was a total failure. It was damaging. It was poor planning,” said one.
Another called it “ludicrous.”
It was also described as “mismanaged and rushed.”
The Friday call with about 300 heavy-hitter donors kicked off with reports from field organizers, who used their time to vent anger over the intra-party battle over whether Biden should be replaced atop the ticket, owing to plunging confidence in his mental health.
One participant described how organizers stalled to buy time while everyone waited for Harris to join the call 20 minutes after it started. During that stretch, the donors were “admonished” against agitating to replace Biden, and were instructed to “lock in and get behind” the faltering and frail 81-year-old.
According to a transcript obtained by NBC, Melissa Morales, the founder of Somos Votantes, a voter outreach group targeting Latinos, was one of those instructing donors to fall in line:
“It’s time to stop the leaks and the rampant rumors. Your message has been heard and received. But every day that we continue this publicly chaotic conversation, we come closer to a loss — no matter who the nominee is.”
As you can imagine, that kind of tone didn’t set well with many in the audience who’ve committed big money to the campaign and the party. “These are donors who are not used to getting admonished and told what to do,” said one of NBC’s sources who’d heard the call.
Many of those donors went into the call expecting to receive insider insights on how the party was going to recover from the devastating impact of Biden’s June 27 debate performance and the ongoing, damaging battle over the looming nomination. They instead received the “bad-cop/good-cop” treatment — first scolded for their lack of faith in Biden and then given a pep talk from Harris:
“We know which candidate in this election puts the American people first: Our President, Joe Biden. With every decision he makes in the Oval Office, he thinks about how it will impact working Americans. And I witness it every day.”
“Something I believe in my heart of hearts. It is something I feel strongly you should all hear and should take with you when you leave. And tell your friends too. We are going to win this election. We are going to win.”
Her rah-rah remarks came on the same day that saw a record number of federal lawmakers — 11 — step forward to join others who’d already urged Biden to abandon his re-election bid. One of them was Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. The chair of the Senate Finance Committee, he’s the highest-ranking member of Congress to publicly tell Biden to give up. Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have privately encouraged Biden to quit, as has former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Trump in Michigan vs Biden in Michigan: pic.twitter.com/rxjBTcFI3j
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 21, 2024
Given the reviews, the call seems unlikely to jostle new money out of donors who’ve grown increasingly reluctant to throw money at what appears to be a doomed campaign. Some are withholding money not only from the presidential campaign, but from congressional candidates too, whose prospects are diminished by having Biden as the standard-bearer. The Biden-Harris hoped to rake in $50 million from big donors in July, but is only on pace to hit half that, Reuters reported Friday.
With no faith in either half of the Biden-Harris ticket, major donors are taking matters into their own hands. One group is bankrolling — independent of the Democratic National Committee — a process to start vetting potential successors to Biden, according to Washington Post sources. Among the names being bounced around: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly.
Meanwhile, as he completes his allegedly Covid-triggered convalescence in Delaware, Biden’s campaign is reportedly considering rushing him back on the campaign trail, with trips to Georgia and Texas under consideration. Get ready for another string of video “highlights” demonstrating that he’s neither fit to run nor govern.
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WaPo: Secret Service Covering-Up That It Denied Trump’s Requests for More Security
The Secret Service lied last week when they claimed that it was “absolutely false” that Trump’s security team had their requests for extra security resources denied, according to a new WaPo report. Per The Washington Post, […]
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Venezuela’s Maduro Testifies That CIA Tried To Assassinate Him “Just Like Trump”
Testimony from Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro reveals that the Deep State tried to assassinate him in 2018 just like they did to Trump last week. Maduro reacted to attempt on Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania rally by […]
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