Israeli police and Palestinians clash at Jerusalem holy site

Jerusalem: Israeli police firing tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that threatened to push the contested city toward wider conflict. More … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 7 May 2021

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Greetings from Tyler, In case you didn’t know, the redhead with the hair that hangs limply on one side informs us that the border problem was created during the last administration, and the new crew is just trying to clean … Read More

Jerusalem’s on fire, and it’s poised to spread in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank

The Israel Police have failed to contain the violence in the capital — the worst in at least 4 years — and the country’s political leadership is nowhere to be found. Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli security forces amid … Read More

17 policemen, 200 Palestinians hurt as hundreds riot on Temple Mount

One officer moderately wounded in intense clashes after Ramadan prayers; police use stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets after Palestinians throw rocks and bottles. Palestinian protesters look on during clashes with Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, on … Read More

Brexit: is it sustainable?

Brexit with EU and UK flag by Christoph Scholz – Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license In January 2020, as Britain was about to exit the EU, a post appeared on the London School of Economics (LSE) blog musing about the mechanism … Read More

‘God’ left out of Biden’s National Day of Prayer proclamation

Biden’s proclamation was different from Trump’s. Like his predecessors, President Biden issued a proclamation on the National Day of Prayer this week, but one word was missing. Both former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump mentioned “God” in their National Day of Prayer proclamations, but Biden’s proclamation never … Read More

Rev. Graham reacts to Biden leaving ‘God’ out of prayer proclamation: ‘There is no one else to pray to’

‘This is a National Day of Prayer. Of course we need to call on God,’ Graham claims. Reverend Franklin Graham reacted on “Fox News Primetime” Thursday to President Biden being the first commander-in-chief to omit “God” from his address on the National Day of Prayer. The … Read More

How April’s dismal jobs report is setting the stage for Biden’s $4 trillion economic fight with the GOP

President Joe Biden speaks about the April jobs report in the White House on Friday. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Republicans and Democrats drew sharply different conclusions about the April jobs report. Democrats used it to bolster a case for massive … Read More

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