Friday, May 17, 2024

Will Democrats Pay a Price for Their Cynical, Crumbling Lawfare Strategy?


President Joe Biden, who wears bespoke sneakers to prevent embarrassing collapses and whose command of the English language rivals that of most kindergarteners, is in bad political shape. Uncle Joe's reelection campaign faces an uphill climb, given his disastrous handling of the economy -- including a formal recession and four-decade-high inflation -- and his abetting a catastrophic and historically unprecedented invasion on our southern border. Cynicism and a sense of malaise are ubiquitous, and Americans overwhelmingly think the nation is headed in the wrong direction. Monday's New York Times/Siena College poll reflects this: former President Donald Trump currently leads in five of the six most crucial swing states.

Given their terrible candidate, the candidate's awful track record, and their tremendous (if unjustified) fear that a second Trump term would pose an existential threat to "our democracy" (which they disingenuously claim to care about), it is unsurprising that Democrats have resorted to some of the slimiest tactics imaginable to derail Trump's comeback bid and push their senile octogenarian across the November finish line. Properly skeptical of their chances to topple Trump in a fair mano-a-mano, the Democrat-lawfare complex in 2023 conjured up four separate criminal prosecutions -- two federal probes and two state probes -- targeting the 45th president. After all, if you can't beat him, then ... prosecute and incarcerate him! All in the name of "our democracy," naturally.

Suffice it to say that the Democrat lawfare complex's brazen, cynical attempt to subvert our constitutional order in the name of saving it has not gone according to plan.

In Washington, D.C., Special Counsel Jack Smith's crown-jewel case against Trump, pertaining to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 jamboree at the U.S. Capitol, has been interrupted by the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices stepped in to assess the thorny constitutional question of the scope of immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents, and a decision is not expected until late June. The most likely result is a mixed opinion that holds some "core" Article II presidential functions are immune from post-presidency prosecution, but other acts are not. This would require a remand to the trial court for fact-finding to determine which legal category the acts in Smith's indictment fall into. That trial court finding could then be appealed, too. There is virtually no chance Smith can wrap this all up before November.

In Florida, Smith's other federal case has not been more successful. The Florida prosecution, pertaining to Trump's post-presidency handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, had at least some potential on the legal merits. But Smith wildly overplayed his hand by charging Trump with violating the controversial World War I-era Espionage Act, and the proceedings have frequently been set back due to the strenuous demands of the Classified Information Procedures Act -- a 1980 statute first introduced in the Senate, ironically, by then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.). Recently, Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial start date, which had initially been scheduled for May 20. There is again little to no chance Smith can reach a jury before November.

The case in Fulton County, Georgia, which once seemed the most perilous of them all due to Georgia's sprawling Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the far-left Atlanta jury pool, and the potential for high-profile prosecution witnesses, has gone totally off the rails. Ever since January, the only questions in the case have not been substantive legal issues such as whether Trump oversaw a grand conspiracy to "overturn an election," but tabloid fodder such as whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her illicit extramarital lover and appointed special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, are too compromised to bring the case. The trial court's finding that only one of them must recuse is now pending before a Georgia appellate court, and it is likely the Supreme Court of Georgia will weigh in, too. This case isn't reaching a jury before November, either.

That leaves the ongoing drama in New York City, where a literal porn "star" (Stormy Daniels) and a convicted felon (Michael Cohen) are aiding the George Soros-funded prosecutor's case of ... well, he hasn't exactly told us what it is. We surmise the case entails alleged New York State fraudulent bookkeeping charges in furtherance of a federal campaign finance law violation -- which doesn't even fall into the local district attorney's jurisdiction. The prosecution is about to rest its case, and we don't even know for sure what the actual black-letter legal case is. On Thursday, the "star witness" convicted felon's testimony was so bad that far-left CNN anchor Anderson Cooper remarked: "I think if I was a juror in this case watching that, I would think this guy is making it up as he's going along." Brutal.

The Democrats' strategy is failing. But it is up to the American people to make them pay for it.



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The Biden Reelection Strategy ~ VDH

Bidenites believe they can reelect an unhealthy, unpopular, and unsuccessful president by any means necessary. 
And they may be right.


Joe Biden polls at or below 40 percent approval. Historically, such unpopularity has made it almost impossible for a president to be reelected.

His age advances by the hour. His voice falters, his memory fades, and his gait is reduced to short steps, with his arms, winglike and in tandem, offering balance.

Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old. It is America’s irony that he is fit for almost no other job in the country other than President, which apparently allows for a 3-day-a-week ceremonial role while others in the shadows run the country.

So how does Biden become renominated and reelected, as polls show he is behind in almost every critical swing state on nearly every issue?

Answer: not by campaigning, not by championing his record, and especially not by doubling down on his neo-socialist and now unpopular agendas.

Instead, his campaign is focused on four other strategies to beat Donald Trump.

First, left-wing local, state, and federal prosecutors are tying Trump up in court on crimes that have never been seen before and will never be again after the election. All the cases are politically motivated, with many coordinated with the White House.

Even if Trump is not convicted by blue-state prosecutors, in blue-state courtrooms, in front of blue-state juries, he will lose critical campaigning time.

Trump may end up paying out $1 billion in legal fees and fines. At 76, the monotonous days in court are designed to destroy him financially, physically, and mentally.

Biden and his operatives know that, in the long term, they may have fatally damaged the American legal system with such judicial sabotage. But short-term, they hope to destroy Trump before the ballots are cast.

Second, in his fourth year, Biden is suddenly selling government favors to special-interest voting blocs, or hoping to bring short-term relief to voters at the expense of long-term damage to the nation.

For elite college students and graduates, there are now billions of dollars in student-loan cancellations, despite a Supreme Court ruling declaring such targeted contractual amnesties illegal.

For consumers, before the election, Biden will likely drain the last drops from the critical Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices—now sky-high due to his previous disastrous green policies.

If that is not enough, Biden has ordered Ukraine not to hit Russian oil facilities to avoid panic in the global petroleum markets before early and mail-in balloting begin.

Biden will quietly jawbone the Federal Reserve Bank to lower interest rates and reinflate the economy, despite his own creation of hyperinflation that caused interest rates to rise in the first place.

He will pander to Arab-American voters in swing-state Michigan by cutting arms deliveries to Israel, even as it seeks to destroy the killers of October 7.

And if that mollification is not sufficient to win Michigan, he will suddenly slap higher tariffs on imported Chinese electrical vehicles to win back apostate union auto workers.

Three, the left learned after 2016 that the only way to beat Trump is to change the way Americans vote.

So under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown, the left sued in critical states to reduce Election Day to a mere construct, while 70 percent of voters mailed in their ballots or voted by early, rolling balloting over many weeks.

The key was the inability to fully authenticate votes, given the old practice of showing up on Election Day and presenting an ID was declared “racist.”

Four, Biden, as he did in 2020, will outsource his campaign to the media, 95 percent of which is left-wing. Talking televised heads will claim Biden is “sharp as a knife” while focusing on Trump’s tweets, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, and lurid but irrelevant testimonies that permeate Trump’s court appearances.

Trump will continue to hold weekend-long, massive 100,000-person rallies, even in blue states. Meanwhile, Biden’s fixers in the media, administrative state, and legal community will counter that even with no crowds and no campaigning, Biden can win through 24/7 nonstop “October Surprises”—all summer long.

So expect more false “Russian collusion,” “laptop disinformation,” and “January 6 insurrection” hoaxes and their new replacements designed to smother the airwaves with salacious scandals nonstop.

Biden’s fading tenure is similar to the last sad months of Woodrow Wilson’s second term, when in 1919-20, the country was assured that a bedridden president was somehow hard at work, even as his wife, doctors, and handlers kept everyone else away.

Biden’s keepers do not seem to care about the president’s own failing health or his dismal polls. They discount his rare, anemic, and disastrous public appearances. They laugh off the huge Trump rallies. And they certainly could care less about the bad optics of pandering to special interests at the expense of the country or the damage done to the American legal and balloting systems.

Instead, Bidenites believe they can reelect an unhealthy, unpopular, and unsuccessful president by any means necessary.

And they may be right.



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Professor funded by WEF Claims Depopulation Is the Only Way to Prevent Climate Change

A WEF-funded university professor asserted that depopulation through a “pandemic” is the sole solution for climate change.



In a tweet that has since been deleted, Bill McGuire, a professor at the WEF-funded University College London, posted a controversial message, suggesting that a deadly pandemic leading to the depopulation of billions is the only means to combat global warming.

The far-left professor tweeted, “If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate.”

Following the backlash for his polarizing statement, McGuire attempted to rephrase his original message in another tweet.

“I am talking about reduced economic activity NOT reduced population,” he claimed.

The professor stated, “It’s not a view I advocate or welcome but it is a fact that rapid demand reduction will be necessary to prevent catastrophic #climate change.”

Twitter users expressed skepticism, noting that “culling of the human population” sounds akin to population reduction.

One of McGuire’s peers commented on the contentious tweets, labelling him an eco-fascist while urging him to delete his posts.

Furthermore, the university professor accused concerned individuals of being incapable of reading, further exacerbating the situation.

WEF Urges Families to Abandon at Least One Car to save planet from climate change

The World Economic Forum is now advocating for car ownership to be illegal while promoting a “one less car lifestyle.”

In a recently concluded study from Australia, the WEF collaborated on the One Less Car trial with behavioural scientists and fellow rideshare companies to reduce road traffic by promoting reduced car usage.

The article mentions that electric vehicles are part of the solution but emphasizes the need to shift away from the “one person, one car” mentality.

https://thecountersignal.com/wef-professor-claims-depopulation-solution-to-climate-change/

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Donald Trump's List of Debate Demands (At Least It Should Be)


So, the Democrats have finally figured out that they cannot hide Joe Biden in his brment this time. He is going to have to debate Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. In a 14-second video that Joe could not get through without being heavily edited, he answered Trump's debate challenge. 

But then we saw Biden's list of debate "demands." The debate all of these requirements will produce is hardly a debate, but that is the idea for Democrats and the media — to protect Joe at all costs. Biden's list of demands includes no audience and no third-party candidates — which immediately confirms Biden is terrified of Robert Kennedy Jr. Only a certain number of news outlets can host a debate — translation, only the Biden-friendly networks of CNN, ABC, CBS, and Telemundo. Finally, both candidates' mics will be muted after the allotted time to answer questions has expired. 

Two debates have been scheduled: the first on June 27 and the second on September 10. The first will be televised on CNN, and Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate it.  

Staying true to his word, Donald Trump accepted these debate rules. But what about any list of "demands" for Trump? Don't both candidates get to insist upon certain things? Then again, Democrats have already established that there are a whole different set of rules for Trump. But through the magic of the internet, a list of requirements for Trump has been compiled. 


No earpieces — Joe Biden and his handlers, because they have agreed to a debate, have agreed to trot Joe out onto the stage flying solo. No one gets to whisper answers to questions or even keywords that might trigger what's left of Joe's brain to help out. Although it might be a bit of twisted fun to watch him put his hand up to his ear and yell, "Huh? I can't hear you! What did you say?" Along those same lines...

No teleprompters — Again, Joe is on his own. Not only does he not get someone in his ear coaching him through it, he doesn't get to read his inevitable wrong answers, or whoppers, whichever he decides to do either. Besides, if Joe is going to just squint at a teleprompter, we really don't need him. Trump can just debate the teleprompter. 


A drug test for Joe — This one has been all over the interwebs. If we are going to get jacked up "State of the Union" Joe, we kind of have the right to know what he is jacked up on. It is probably a good bet it's not Red Bull and that old people candy your grandma put out in a glass dish at Christmas. Didn't they just find cocaine near the White House again? 

Then there is that old CNN little helper...

CNN not allowed to give Joe the questions before the debate — Who can forget Democrat operative and former CNN employee Donna Brazile getting caught tipping off Hillary Clinton to debate questions in 2016? Even though he might forget them immediately after being told the questions, what guarantee do we have this won't happen? 

Finally, no moderator opinions in between questions — We already know that Joe Biden will be asked what his favorite flavor of ice cream is, and Donald Trump will be asked why he is a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe. But here is a question for fake Jake and Dana: Can you just maybe, find it in your tiny Grinch hearts, some iota of fairness and balance for this debate? No one wants to hear your opinion. It's not about you. 

At the end of the day, the best part of all of this will be watching Democrats squirm as Donald Trump beats Joe Biden like an old sock. 


Becky Noble has been a political writer for over ten years. She has written for Politichicks, The Black Sphere, and The Political Insider. She holds a degree in Communications/Journalism from Regent University. Her Substack page is "Gumshoe Politics," and she hosts a weekly short podcast called "In Your Face." 



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Illegal Aliens From High-Risk Region Nabbed Trying to Break Into DC Area Military Base



In our extensive coverage of the border crisis under President Biden, we often reference the astounding numbers of 'known got-aways' that have entered the country illegally since 2021.  Illegal crossings have always been a problem, to some extent, as has the phenomenon of unlawful migrants entering the country without being apprehended by authorities.  But the scandal of the current catastrophe lies in the extent to which these problems have exploded -- not an uptick or an increase, but an explosion -- under the current administration.  In an exclusive report, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin obtained the known got-away statistics over the past decade-plus, spanning three presidencies.  

The trend line is not subtle.  It illustrates precisely why this mess has aptly and deservedly dubbed the Biden Border Crisis.  He owns this trajectory: 


As you can see, the recorded got-aways ranged from approximately 86,000 to 171,000 annually, between 2010 and 2020.  Starting in Fiscal Year 2021 (Biden was inaugurated in January 2021) the number shot up to north of 387,000.  The following year, it spiked dramatically to over 600,000, then more than 670,000 in 2023.  The number of got-aways that we know of who crossed illegally and unabated into the country last fiscal year was roughly quadruple the worst single-year number over the entire 2010-2020 decade.  As I mentioned above, crossings and got-aways didn't merely creep up or rise on Biden's watch; they soared, sharply. Crossings and got-aways are related issues, of course, because the more time, energy and resources officials expend encountering and processing illegal immigrants, the less ability and wherewithal they have to prevent and pursue got-aways.  More context from Fox:

In FY 2020, there were 136,808 gotaways at the border. That number then rose to 387,398 in FY 2021, which coincided with the last months of the Trump administration and the first months of the Biden administration. As the migrant numbers at the southern border rose to crisis levels, so did the number of gotaways -- with numbers then skyrocketing to 606,131 in FY 2022 and 670,674 in FY 23. This means that there were more gotaways in FY21-23 (1.6 million) than the decade [between] FY 2010 and FY 2020 (1.4 million).

With known-gotaways this fiscal year approaching 200,000 thus far, plus an unknowable number of unknown got-aways, the total number of illegal immigrants who've entered the country under Biden is almost certainly at or above two million.  Not every illegal immigrant poses a public safety or national security risk, obviously.  Most do not.  But some do, and they're disproportionately represented among the got-aways, as people with criminal backgrounds and problematic affiliations pay the cartels a premium to avoid capture.  Stories like this underscore the dangers of an uncontrolled border:

The Marine Corps prevented two people from breaking onto a Marine installation in Virginia on May 3 and turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...Because the two had no affiliation with the Marine br and no credentials to enter it, military police officers directed them to go to a holding area to undergo standard vetting procedures, according to Curtis. But the driver blew past the holding area and attempted to drive onto the br...Potomac Local News, which first reported the attempted breach, reported hearing from multiple unnamed sources that one of the truck’s occupants was a Jordanian national who had recently crossed the southern border into the United States and that one occupant was on the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list.

Nothing to see here -- just an illegall immigrant "newcomer" from the Middle East and another man on the US terror watch list trying to force themselves onto a military br.  The pair has been turned over to ICE.  Our government has no idea who any of these people are, why they came here illegally, or where they're now located inside the United States:






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In Sharp Rebuke of Biden, 16 House Dems Join GOP to Pass Bill to Force Weapons Shipments to Israel


Bob Hoge reporting for RedState 

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 224 to 187 to pass a bill that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel as the administration has been undermining the Jewish state by withholding certain weapons as they fight Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to bend the knee and fight in the Hamas-controlled city of Rafah the manner Biden demands, despite the president's continued threats.

Although the bill has little chance of passing the Democrat-controlled Senate (and Biden would veto it anyway), it's nevertheless a strong rebuke from the GOP—and the 16 Democrats who joined them—of Biden's disjointed Israel policies, which have pleased virtually nobody. Many on the right accuse him of continually sabotaging Netanyahu, while crazed leftists like the ones we see on college campuses across the country allege the president supports genocide. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the measure sends a strong message:

The tweet continues:

With the passage of the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, we send a clear message of solidarity and support to Israel and demand the urgent delivery of defense weapons to our most important ally in the Middle East. 

The President’s threat to veto this legislation and Leader Schumer’s refusal to bring it to a vote in the Senate are acts of betrayal to our closest ally in the region. What’s more alarming is the 184 House Democrats that joined them in siding with the radical, pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic party. Security assistance to Israel is an urgent priority that must not be delayed.

There was a lot of finger-pointing between the two sides leading up to the vote:

Republicans accused Biden of turning his back on Israel after facing widespread pro-Palestinian protests.

"This is a catastrophic decision with global implications. It is obviously being done as a political calculation, and we cannot let this stand," Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson told a news conference with other party leaders on Wednesday.

Democrats also accused the other party of playing politics, saying Republicans are distorting Biden's position on Israel.

"It is not a serious effort at legislation, which is why some of the most pro-Israel members of the House Democratic caucus will be voting no," House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told a news conference before the vote.

Israel, a major recipient of U.S. military assistance for decades, is still due to get billions of dollars of U.S. weaponry, despite the delay of one shipment of 2,000-pound (907-kg) and 500-pound bombs and the review of other weapons shipments by the Biden administration.

The measure does send a message, but unfortunately has no teeth. Biden will likely continue undermining Israel unless he decides he'll get more votes by supporting them. What's wrong or right doesn't seem to affect his political calculus. 



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If Joe Biden Is ‘Sharp As Ever,’ Why Is He Trying To Suppress The Hur Audio?

There is no legal reason to withhold the audio, only a political one.



Joe Biden is as “sharp as ever,” a man blessed with “strong mental acuity,” and in possession of preternaturally incisive intellect. This is just some of the commentary we heard after Special Counsel Robert Hur let the president off the hook for pilfering classified documents because he was an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

If all of this is true, though, why is the president trying to suppress audio of the interview?

Merrick Garland, one of the most nakedly partisan AGs in memory, has advised Biden to argue that the audio falls under executive privilege, which exists to allow a president to engage in candid and confidential conversations with his advisers without worrying about public disclosure.

Garland’s argument is odd for two reasons.

The first, which seems especially pertinent, is that Hur isn’t an adviser to the president. Tasked with investigating Biden’s decades-long mishandling of classified documents, Hur didn’t offer the president any guidance or chew the fat or work on policy or swap confidential stories. Hur was trying to figure out why Biden was hoarding classified documents.

The only reason, we should recall, Hur let Biden walk was that he believed the president lacked the mental acuity to be charged by a jury for breaking the law. Which means the tape will be important in allowing the public to ascertain whether the president is senile. This part is especially pertinent considering the other major presidential candidate is being prosecuted for the same crime.

Second, we already have the transcripts of the conversation. How could the interview fall under executive privilege when we already know what was discussed?

Recall, as well, that Biden was cognizant enough to have lied about the interview, which gives us another reason to want to hear it. “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden barked at reporters after Hur released the report. “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself: It wasn’t any of their damn business.”

The transcript shows that Biden was the one who brought up his late son Beau, not Hur. The president claimed he believed Beau had died in 2017 or 2018 when he had died of brain cancer in 2015. I’m sorry, that’s not the kind of event that slips a healthy person’s mind. Perhaps a president who has spent years trying to emotionally manipulate the public with misleading claims about the cause of his son’s death was just confused.

What the attempted suppression of the audio tells us is that this interaction — and others — will have far more impact on audio. And the White House has basically admitted as much.

“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” White House Counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a letter to House Republicans. “Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally protected law enforcement materials from the executive branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate.”

First off, the tape is not “constitutionally protected law enforcement material,” whatever that means. There was never any expectation that the interview would not be made public. Nor is there anything “inappropriate” or illegal about using excerpts from an existing audio of a real conversation for political purposes. This is done thousands of times every year in political ads. Democrats have this habit of creating new rules whenever it suits them.

Moreover, one of the central arguments made by Republicans is that Biden isn’t mentally fit for the job. That’s a completely legitimate concern. It was a topic brought up in congressional hearings when Hur was grilled by Democrats. It should be a topic that real journalists are interested in figuring out. It is the kind of transparency that defenders of “democracy” should demand.




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America’s Envoy to the United Nations Gets ‘Honest’ With Security Council About the Fate of Hamas’s Hostages

 The plight of Israeli hostages held at Gaza receives a hearing — finally — at Turtle Bay.

“Let’s be honest,” America’s envoy to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, declared at a semi-official Security Council meeting she hosted on Thursday dedicated to “Condemning Hostage-Taking in Israel on October 7 as a Psychological Tool of Terrorism.” She added that the “plight of these hostages has not received the attention it deserves from the UN Security Council. That needs to change.”

That meeting marked the first time the United Nations’s most powerful body asked that hostages be released since March, when it passed a resolution calling for the “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address their medical and other humanitarian needs.”

Council members gathered under the aegis of what is known as an “Arria formula” — an informal meeting of willing members not recorded in the official council annals. Arria meetings are called when some of the council members oppose the gathering, and are conducted in a UN conference room outside the Security Council’s formal hall. 

The March resolution, as well as all of Council’s Middle East meetings since, have mostly concentrated on humanitarian issues relating to Gaza’s Palestinian Arab civilians. The more than a dozen member states present at the meeting on Thursday echoed calls for “a lasting ceasefire” and demanded that Hamas release the 132 hostages still held in Gaza from more than twenty countries.

“We must press the Security Council to speak with one voice as it has with other aspects of the Gaza conflict,” Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said, “and unequivocally condemn Hamas for its terrorism and hostage taking on October 7.” 

A mother of one of the remaining 132 hostages in Hamas’s hands, Ayelet Samerano, pointed to a 2019 UN Security Council resolution, which requires member states to return remains and persons reported missing. “You are seeking a ceasefire agreement, and I remind you, you must demand the implementation of this resolution to return the person reported missing before reading the ceasefire agreement you wish for.”

Last week, the United Nations General Assembly voted to grant some of the rights accorded to states to the Palestinian Authority. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, says that move is in clear violation of the UN Charter, since admitting membership can only be done upon a Security Council recommendation.

Mr. Erdan has repeatedly demanded the Council advance resolutions and practical steps to pressure Hamas to release the hostages. He has also urged the Security Council to declare Hamas a terrorist organization and impose international sanctions imposed on the leaders of Hamas.

“If the Council does not apply pressure and does not exact a price from Hamas, then the terror of kidnappings will spread throughout the world,” Mr. Erdan said in a statement ahead of the meeting, “just like terror through hijacking airplanes became a global phenomenon.”

https://www.nysun.com/article/americas-envoy-to-the-united-nations-gets-honest-with-security-council-about-the-fate-of-hamass-hostages

M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

Ms. Koch graduated in 2023 from Harvard College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student weekly, the Harvard Independent. She reports on issues of higher education and foreign policy at The New York Sun.



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