Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
What is Israel’s goal in the war against Hamas and Gaza? To keep Netanyahu in power? To convince Palestinians to flee Gaza?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyGyjvikmU
The Crisis in Gaza is Even Worse than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjRbV5zBf8
Pro-Palestinian terrorism in the U.S..
Trump spreads misinformation about South Africa live in front of the South African leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtrhOdAPqCs
“Last night, outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed by a gunman who yelled “Free, free Palestine” after being taken into custody. The deceased—Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26—were set to get engaged to one another; Lischinsky was planning to propose next week in Jerusalem.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/israeli-embassy-staffers-killed/
“Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passes the House…It passed narrowly, 215–214, with one voting present, and now faces the Senate.”
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“This bill will extend the 2017 tax cuts that were passed during the first Trump administration.”
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“The old $30,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions will be raised to $40,000 (a bit of a concession to Republican representatives and constituents from New York and New Jersey). Border states will get big chunks of change to offset extra immigration enforcement costs under the Biden administration (or so the framing goes). There’s some reduced Medicaid and food stamp spending, cutting federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $267 billion over the next decade. The child tax credit will be expanded.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/israeli-embassy-staffers-killed/
“An Israeli-American soldier held hostage for more than 19 months in the Gaza Strip was released Monday by Hamas in a goodwill gesture toward the Trump administration that could lay the groundwork for a new ceasefire with Israel.”
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“Israel says it still plans to escalate its offensive”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-says-release-american-israeli-073629378.html
“The arrest of Mohsen Mahdawi was a test of just how far President Donald Trump’s power over immigrants could go. Mahdawi, a ten-year legal U.S. resident and a student at Columbia University, was at his interview to become a U.S. citizen earlier this month. But because he wasn’t a citizen yet, the Trump administration argued that it could deport Mahdawi for his protest activity, and had Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pick him up at the immigration center.
On Wednesday, however, a federal judge ordered ICE to free Mahdawi, who was born in a refugee camp in the Palestinian territories, while his case proceeded. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,” U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford said at the hearing, according to ABC News. “Mr. Mahdawi, I will order you released.””
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“”Noncitizen residents like Mr. Mahdawi enjoy First Amendment rights in this country to the same extent as United States Citizens,” he emphasized. “If the Government detained Mr. Mahdawi as punishment for his speech, that purpose is not legitimate, regardless of any alleged First Amendment violation. Immigration detention cannot be motivated by a punitive purpose. Nor can it be motivated by the desire to deter others from speaking.””
https://reason.com/2025/04/30/court-frees-palestinian-student-arrested-by-ice-at-his-u-s-citizenship-hearing/
“The Houthi rebels have been striking Israel throughout the war in Gaza in solidarity with Palestinians. The attack on Ben-Gurion International Airport came hours before top Israeli Cabinet ministers were set to vote on whether to intensify the country’s military operations in the Gaza Strip. The army meanwhile began calling up thousands of reserves in anticipation of a wider operation in Gaza, officials said.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/04/missile-from-yemen-halts-flights-in-israel-00325258
We are fighting an intense and hot war against the Houthis. We’ve lost two F-18 hornets due to accidents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ro5rCf8fQ
“While trying to escape from a Yemeni missile and drone attack, the U.S.S. Harry Truman veered so hard that a F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet fell from the aircraft carrier into the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy informed CNN. None of the crew were harmed, except for a sailor who suffered “minor injuries,” according to the Navy’s statement.”
https://reason.com/2025/04/29/u-s-navy-accidentally-throws-64-million-jet-overboard-off-the-coast-of-yemen/