Abdul El Sayed is either so biased on the Israel-Palestine issues that he can’t think clearly about it…or he is bullshitting in this interview.
He thinks we should use words because of the moral imperative they cause not because of the actual meanings of the words!!!
He said that as an official leader in the US government, the lives of Jews are equally as important as the lives of Palestinian Palestinians. On some higher level, all lives are equal, but the leaders of the US should prioritize the lives of Americans and not consider them equal.
His claim that Israel is systematically annihilating tens of thousands of kids is ridiculously misleading! They are systematically trying to kill terrorists who don’t fight in the open, forcing Israel to either just let enemies plan and build up, or to accept killing kids as a cost to fighting terrorists using human shields.
His appeal to authority is bullshit. Things generally get complicated legally, but the word genocide is not that complicated! It’s an attempt to destroy a people. Given Israel’s power to wipe out and kill almost ever Gazan, does it look like Israel is trying to systematically kill every Gazan? The answer is no! It looks like they are fighting a terrorist organization determined to destroy their country that hides amongst civilians and that Israel is open to a lot of collateral damage and at times is committing war crimes.
His answer did seem to imply that he doesn’t think it is an actual genocide. Either he doesn’t think that and is lying when he uses the word, or he gave a bullshit answer in this interview because he thought it would come off better than getting into an argument about what genocide actually means.
The FBI was about to launch a corruption probe into Republican senator Susan Collins when Trump got into office and nixed it. Did Trump likely do this for legitimate reasons, or was he corruptly making government decisions to defend a senator who belongs to his political party?
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
“The Senate early Friday morning approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the budget impasse that has jammed airports, disrupted travel and imposed financial hardship on workers.
The deal, which the Senate approved unanimously without a roll call, next goes to the House, which is expected to consider it Friday.
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The deal did not include any of the restraints Democrats have demanded as they sought to rein in Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
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The GOP’s big tax cuts bill that Trump signed into law last year funneled billions in extra funds to DHS, including $75 billion for ICE operations, ensuring the immigration officers are still being paid despite the lapse.”
“The bill contains a number of provisions designed to lower costs and boost housing supply. Among them are initiatives to change manufactured home requirements to lower their costs, simplify environmental review processes for small building projects, and tie certain state and local government grants and funding to housing production goals.
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While the portions of the bill designed to encourage building and unlock new housing funding have broad support, one section of the package could prove deeply divisive.
That provision prohibits many large investors from buying single-family homes and requires others to sell off rental home holdings to individuals after seven years. It has drawn concerns that the rules could end up worsening the housing shortage, especially for rentals, by discouraging future investment in the burgeoning build-to-rent business.
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The bill now heads to the House, where conservative Republicans have raised objections to a variety of provisions, and divisions between the two chambers could lead to an acrimonious amendment process in the weeks ahead.”
“Graham made the comment in response to an article from Axios titled, “Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel’s Iran fuel strikes, sources say.” Axios reported that U.S. officials were irked by some 30 Israeli strikes on fuel depots in Iran on Saturday, including in Tehran, which resulted in a massive blaze and oil running through the city’s streets and catching fire.
Axios noted that the Pentagon worried “Israeli strikes on infrastructure that serves ordinary Iranians could backfire strategically, rallying Iranian society to support the regime” as well as raise gas prices domestically, further softening U.S. support for the war effort.
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“please be cautious about what targets you select. Our goal is to liberate the Iranian people in a fashion that does not cripple their chance to start a new and better life when this regime collapses. The oil economy of Iran will be essential to that endeavor.””
“The legislation addresses various issues tied to last year’s fatal Washington air disaster, including advanced location-tracking technology on aircraft. But the ROTOR Act has met stiff resistance from the chair of the House Transportation Committee.
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The Senate passed the bill, S. 2503, from Cruz and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), via unanimous consent in December.
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Transportation Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) has objected to the bill, saying he wants big changes to it.
In a series of recent interviews, Graves has cited concerns over impacts to general aviation, the small-scale flights that range from recreational trips on single-engine planes to crop dusting.
On Tuesday, the top Democrat on the House transportation panel, Rep. Rick Larsen of Washington, said in an interview he was mulling two options: either adjusting the ROTOR Act or crafting new legislation after the National Transportation Safety Board last week issued 50 recommendations related to the catastrophe, which killed 67 people.
In a separate interview Tuesday, Graves said his committee will have a bipartisan response to the midair collision.
Victims’ families and the chair of the NTSB have backed the ROTOR Act.
One of the NTSB’s recommendations mirrors a key component of the Senate bill: a mandate of an advanced location-receiving technology — called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast In, or ADS-B In — on planes and helicopters flying in busy airspace.
Graves, an avid pilot and longtime general aviation booster, doesn’t support the ROTOR Act’s ADS-B In requirement, as written.”