The wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a Washington Post reporter in January 2021 that an upside-down American flag recently flown on their flagpole was “an international signal of distress” and indicated that it had been raised in response to a neighborhood dispute.Democracy dies in darkness or, like, whatever, man.
Martha-Ann Alito made the comments when the reporter went to the couple’s Fairfax County, Va., home to follow up on a tip about the flag, which was no longer flying when he arrived.
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The Post decided not to report on the episode at the time because the flag-raising appeared to be the work of Martha-Ann Alito, rather than the justice, and connected to a dispute with her neighbors, a Post spokeswoman said. It was not clear then that the argument was rooted in politics, the spokeswoman said.
The US and the UK will reject the international court of justice order directing Israel to end its offensive on Rafah after slowly blurring their red lines that once stated that they could not support a military offensive in Rafah.The next step is to understand there is no "day after" coming before the November election and recognize the consequences of that (You can say it doesn't matter for the election if that's what you think, but then you don't get to yell at the people it matters to. They don't matter! You just said it!)
🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine #ICJ
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 24, 2024
Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz told US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that Israel has no intention of following a ruling by the UN’s top court, and will continue fighting in Rafah.
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Leaving aside the "turned up to 11" bigotry from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it's quite an interesting view of life in Spain historically, especially for Jews, who did not fare very well subsequently!
The International Court of Justice ordered Israel on Friday to “immediately halt” its offensive in Rafah, in a high-profile rebuke that adds to global pressure on Israel over its war Gaza. The court cited “exceptionally grave” developments for the “extremely vulnerable” population in Rafah, and said it was “not convinced that the evacuation efforts” Israel put in place for Palestinian civilians in Gaza are sufficient to “alleviate the immense risk.”Well he'll spend the rest of his long life at some noshow thinktank job, so who is to say if it is good or bad?
Oopsie:Here's our @CNN investigation. Others are named in this story & our digital write. They have not shown up in jail records. https://t.co/wuXoSx5gGy
— Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) May 24, 2024
The young man sporting the white mask and a white hoodie in widely shared video clips is Edan On, a local 18-year-old high school senior, his mother confirmed to CNN, though she later said he denies being at UCLA. Video shows On joining the counterprotesters while waving a long white pole. At one point, he strikes a pro-Palestinian protester with the pole, and appears to continue to strike him even when he was down, as fellow counterprotesters piled on.Mom has bad OPSEC.
“Edan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!” his mother boasted in Hebrew on Facebook, referencing Hamas. She circled an image of him that had been broadcast on the local news.
