A United Nations resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank within six months will cause chaos and violence in the Middle East, according to Andrew Tucker, executive director of the Hague Initiative for International Cooperation. “This is a very important and potentially catastrophic decision because it’s going to lead, unfortunately, to chaos and more violence on the ground, putting aside all the other issues about it,” Tucker told The Daily Signal. The U.N. General Assembly voted Wednesday to approve a resolution demanding that Israel unilaterally withdraw its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within a year. The resolution also calls for sanctions and an arms embargo against the country. “It’s the first time in history this has happened, and it’s saying that Israel must withdraw all of its presence, military and civilian, from territories they say belong to the Palestinians,” Tucker said. Tucker said this nonbinding General Assembly resolution is part of a “lawfare” (legal warfare) campaign by the Palestinians. The Arab Group, an organization of 20 Arab nations’ parliaments, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation submitted the draft resolution to the General Assembly. “The U.N. really has become a platform for the Palestinians to be able to access the courts, to use the courts—the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice,” Tucker said. The resolution is “highly problematic for the courts’ own integrity and understanding as an independent judicial tribunal,” Tucker said. Tucker does not expect Israel to be willing to leave the territories as demanded in the resolution. “Palestinians are not governed by a government under the rule of law,” Tucker said. “They are governed by terrorist organizations. Israel knows this reality only too well.” Because Hamas-run Gaza is already on Israel’s doorstep, the Jewish state will not allow another Gaza in the West Bank, Tucker said. “The West Bank is much closer to the heartland of Israel, and therefore, this demand, which Palestinians and the opposers of Israel will say, well, ‘Israel must get out,’ and Israel will say that ‘you can’t,’” Tucker said. “It is really going to lead to more conflicts.” The post ‘Highly Problematic’: UN Resolution Demanding Israel Withdraw From Gaza Will Cause Chaos and Violence, Expert Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration is paying to put on a play that portrays God as bisexual, sharply criticizes former President Ronald Reagan, and paints communists in a positive light, all in an effort to push gay rights on Southeastern Europeans, federal grant records show. Earlier in September, the State Department greenlit funding for a showing of Tony Kushner’s 1991 play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” in North Macedonia, with the agency claiming the production will raise awareness about “LGBTQ+ issues” in the country, federal grant records reveal.  The play follows multiple storylines, among them the ghost of convicted communist spy Ethel Rosenberg antagonizing dying conservative lawyer Roy Cohn and a gay man having sexually explicit visions of heaven as he struggles with AIDS. Prior Walter, the man with AIDS, begins to have prophetic visions in his hospital room after his lover, Louis Ironson, abandons him, according to the play’s text. In one such vision, he finds that angels have “eight vaginas” and are “equipped as well with a bouquet of phalli” and that the universe was created by God “copulat[ing] ceaselessly” with these hermaphroditic beings. Ejaculate from angels “fuels the Engine of Creation,” the play recounts. Walter recounts these visions to a man named Belize, a former drag queen who is tending to him as a nurse. The State Department has committed $20,000 to staging the play in Macedonia, according to grant records. An additional $10,500 in non-federal funding has also been allocated for the production. “In the Manichaean world of Angels in America, everything Reagan stood for (capitalism, etc.) is evil,” a National Review critic wrote of the play’s HBO adaptation in 2003. “The most vocal Republican in the film is Roy Cohn—the unscrupulous gay lawyer who denied his sexuality and AIDS diagnosis to his death. In Cohn, a man ultimately undone by his own lies and hypocrisy, Kushner finds his embodiment of Reagan’s administration.” “Angels in America” portrays Cohn, a real lawyer who was deeply involved in the conservative movement and helped Reagan get elected, as a bigoted hypocrite prone to outbursts of anger. Cohn was instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted in 1951 of spying for the Soviet Union and executed in 1953. Activists long maintained that the Rosenbergs were innocent, however, documents released by the government in the ’90s proved that the couple was involved in a Soviet espionage operation. Rosenberg, portrayed positively in the play, antagonizes Cohn throughout the story, telling him on his deathbed that she “take[s] pleasure in [his] misery.” She later guides Ironson, who is a secular Jew, through a funeral prayer for Cohn, who also had Jewish ancestry, symbolically forgiving him. “We have no system of universal health care, we don’t educate our children, we can’t pass sane gun control laws, we elect presidents like Reagan,” Kushner wrote in his play’s afterword, blaming those purported problems on “individualism.” A gay character, at one point in the play, asks “if [Reagan] didn’t have people like me to demonize where would he be?” “Kushner strips Reagan of any merit, and reduces him fictionally to an anti-gay crusader,” the National Review critic wrote of the play. The State Department’s production of an anti-Reagan, pro-LGBTQ play is not its first exercise in using theatrics for the purposes of social engineering as it spent $120,000 in 2023 to “improve communication at the level of the local community on the social issue of LGBTQ rights and domestic violence via participatory theater” in the African nation of Chad. The new grant isn’t even the State Department’s first theatrical operation in North Macedonia, as it paid to teach the country’s residents about environmental issues through theater and dance in 2023, federal grant records show. “Culture—from music to sports to theater—is a vital component of the United States’ people-to-people diplomacy efforts in Chad and around the world and supports broader U.S. foreign policy goals,” a spokesperson for the department told the Daily Caller News Foundation at the time. The State Department did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post State Department Paying to Put on Play Where God Is Bisexual and Communists Are Good—in Bid to Push LGBTQ Agenda Abroad appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Media and Democrat lies that reelecting former President Donald Trump would bring about the end of the world are inciting violent, disturbed people to try to kill him, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says. “Without question I blame CNN, MSNBC and all the other left-wing outlets,” Sen. Paul told Fox News this week after the latest attempt on the life of former President Trump. Sunday’s failed assassination is the second such attempt to kill the Republican presidential candidate in the last two months. The false, apocalyptic warnings of the Left have successfully ginned up “every crazy person in the world,” Sen. Paul said: "Without question I blame CNN, MSNBC and all the other left-wing outlets for promoting this idea that Donald Trump is going to end elections, that democracy is being threatened, that it's going to be the end of the world – that made it so dire and that so misinformed the public about Donald Trump’s positions that every crazy person in the country now is ginned up.” Leftist media and the Democrats need to tone down their fear-mongering, because they’re responsible for inspiring unstable people to try to assassinate Republican Candidate Trump, Sen. Paul said: “So, CNN, MSNBC, the Democrats in general need to tone it down, because they are inciting this anger that is coming forth through disturbed people or violent people or otherwise, that they need to tone down their rhetoric, without question.”

Tuesday’s White House press briefing provided the clearest indications yet the liberal media and their allies won’t tone down their rhetoric and continue to refer to Donald Trump and his supporters as dangerous and a “threat to democracy” despite the second assassination attempt on Trump in as many months.  Thanks to a slew of softballs from liberal media outlets such as ABC and CBS, they teamed with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to make the case that it’s Trump, running mate JD Vance, and Republicans who must turn down the temperature. And, when challenged on this by Fox’s Peter Doocy, Jean-Pierre told him it’s who he’s being “dangerous”.     Doocy listened until he was the second to last reporter called on and made it count by standing up for sanity: It's been only two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again and you're here at the podium in the White House Briefing Room calling him a threat. How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the President and the Vice President and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than threat? This led to a sigh from Jean-Pierre before arguing not only did she “completely disagree with the premise of your question,” but argued he was being “incredibly dangerous” for wondering whether the Biden-Harris regime should choose its words more careful. By doing so, she insinuated, Doocy would inspire a disturbed person to put Biden or Harris’s life in danger seeing as how “American people are watching” him.  She also retreated to talking points about January 6 and Paul Pelosi as reasons “the temperature” (by Republicans) must be “lower[ed]”, adding it’s only factual to call attention to the danger the MAGA movement poses (click “expand”): JEAN-PIERRE: What I have said about the President – the former President – about January 6 is facts. That's you all have reported. It is fact. When you have a former President who basically says that the election wasn't the – the – the results of the election were not the results of the election – when dozens – dozens of – more than 60 Republican judges said that it was a free and fair election. Six – more than 60 – said it was indeed a free and fair election. You had more than 2,000 people who were told to go to the Capitol. It was one of the darkest days of our democracy. One of the darkest days. There are people who law enforcement officers who died because of what happened at the Capitol and they were there because the former President told them to go there. I mean, I don't know if that's not a – if that's not a threat in our democracy when it was one of the darkest days of our democracy – January 6 – one of the darkest days. DOOCY: To your point – JEAN-PIERRE: And so, we – we have been very clear from here. Now, we can have a disagreement on policies. We can on issues. That is what we should do. It is important to have those disagreements. It is welcome to have those disagreements on the economy, on healthcare, on foreign policy, but when you start bringing political rhetoric – political rhetoric, that is not okay, and that's what you've heard from us too. You've heard of differences on policies. Doocy finally got another question in: There are people watching at home who might miss the part where you say, let's lower the temperature, and they're just – there are mentally unstable people who are attempting to kill political candidates, attempting to kill Donald Trump and they are still hearing this White House refer to him as a threat. Is there no concern that people are taking that literally? Jean-Pierre grossly stuck to her talking points by screaming about January 6 four times in less than 30 seconds as proof of violence on the right and further demanded Doocy “be careful on how you're asking me these questions” and “people” could react violently to the White House, who are only here to “fight for our democracy” and “freedom”. The softballs began thanks to ABC’s Selina Wang: ABC’s Selina Wang: “Donald Trump blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris for the latest assassination attempt against him. He claimed, without evidence that their rhetoric is causing them to be ‘shot at.’ How is the White House responding to those comments?” KJP: “Well,… pic.twitter.com/ver1gXw7EJ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 Jean-Pierre wouldn’t expand on her thoughts despite this second Wang softball: “So, do the President and Vice President believe that the kind of language that Trump used in those comments I just said are contributing to the tension and divisiveness you just talked about?”     However, this third one got her going and argued in part that “Biden has been clear-eyed about the threat that the former President represents to our democracy” and thus it’s incumbent upon Biden and Harris “to continue to strongly call out” Trump as a danger to preserve “our democracy”. Reuters’s Jeff Mason threw a softball about Vance that got Jean-Pierre to argue in essence that he’s putting Harris’s life in danger: Watch this answer from KJP, arguing without evidence that @JDVance is trying to get Kamala Harris killed... Reuters’s Jeff Mason: “On the issue of political rhetoric, do you have any reaction to Senator Vance's comments in which he noted that the difference between – in his… pic.twitter.com/2JqdUvb9u5 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 CBS’s Nancy Cordes actually offered some pushback: KJP says Biden, Harris, the WH *will* continue to talk Donald Trump a “threat to democracy” b/c it's necessary for America to be “clear-eyed” like Biden about the threat he poses to America.... pic.twitter.com/pL8ktsA907 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 CORDES: I want to follow up on that because Senator Vance appeared to call out specifically one of the phrases that you used earlier, which was threat to democracy. He said, “We cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist, and if he's elected, that it's going to be the end of American democracy.” Now, I recognize that Donald Trump has also used those phrases threat to democracy, danger to democracy, but in light of what has happened and in light of the fact that there are going to be disturbed people who take words like threat or danger literally, is the President and is the Vice President considering avoiding those specific terms, threat to democracy or danger to democracy? JEAN-PIERRE: I mean, look, and I answered this question. The President has always been very clear-eyed about this, about the threat of the former President represents to our democracy. Just think about January 6th. January 6th – we have to be honest with the American people when we see those types of threats when we that type of rhetoric that led to 2,000 people going to the Capitol. We have to call that out. Uh – and – uh – look, let me step back for a second even further. You all, as news organizations have the obligation – right – you are all obligated to cover events like January 6th, as I mentioned before, some of your colleagues were there, some of you were there on January 6th, and you had to report that the way you saw it, the obligation to do that. We appreciate it because I know those were dangerous times. That was a dangerous day to be there and you know, we have to call out any type of refusal of an outcome of an election. Any type of violent rhetoric – and this administration has the responsibility to be honest to the American people. So, look, we are, we can as a country – right – we can have disagreements on issues, on policy issues. It is okay to have that conversation. We had a debate, as I mentioned recently. It is – it is – uh – that is what's beautiful about what we do – right – uh – to go back and forth about our democracy, but once you talk – once there's violent rhetoric, we got to condemn that. And you know, the President is going to encourage all leaders from both parties to do so – all leaders from both parties to do so. Uh – it's not just on one, all leaders on both parties have to make sure that we do not – um – we do not use that type of violent political rhetoric because look what happened January 6th, Paul Pelosi, Butler, over the weekend. We got to be mindful. Of course, April Ryan wanted to throw gasoline on the fire: .@AprilDRyan: “I'm going back to one of your – to an answer that you gave to someone about lowering the temperature when it comes to this divisive rhetoric. It's not just about presidential – uh – division. It's also about lowering the temperature, do you think, when it comes to… pic.twitter.com/55vw0Ordjt — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 Anita Powell of taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) had a softball questioning whether the toxicity in our politics might have the world asking “is democracy dangerous” and hardens the resolve of “American adversaries.” To see the relevant transcript from the September 17 briefing (including Fox Business’s Edward Lawrence asking whether the Biden-Harris administration thinks Americans are better off than they were four years ago), click here.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) expressed his frustrations with the Department of Homeland Security and its unwillingness to hand over information Congress has been requesting regarding the first assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.“I am reaching the point of total outrage because the response from the Department of Homeland Security has been totally lacking. In fact, I think it’s tantamount to stonewalling in many respects. ... If necessary, I’ll certainly support a subpoena," Blumenthal told reporters on Tuesday.Blumenthal previously said the nation will be "shocked and appalled by our findings as to the lapses and failures on that day,” referring to when Trump was shot while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Congress' report on the Butler incident is expected to come out shortly.It has been difficult to ascertain the reasoning behind the Butler shooter's attack on Trump since Secret Service agents shot and killed him. While he had been registered as a Republican in Pennsylvania, he also donated $15 through Democrat fundraising site ActBlue. 'I directed state agencies to move expeditiously and provide full transparency to the public.' The lack of answers from the DHS, which oversees the U.S. Secret Service, has been especially concerning in the aftermath of another assassination attempt against Trump while he was on his golf course in West Palm Beach on Sunday.Unlike the Butler shooter, the social media accounts belonging to the alleged would-be shooter in West Palm Beach, Ryan Routh, show he was against Trump and parroted Democrats' talking points about the upcoming presidential election."You should visit the victims in the hospital of the trump rally victims and attend the funeral of the fireman that died; Trump certainly never would. SHOW THE WORLD WHAT REAL LEADERS DO," Routh told Biden on X after the first attempted assassination in July.Due to the lack of answers from the federal government about the first assassination attempt, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced the state will be conducting its own investigation into the second attempt on Trump's life, saying the state has jurisdiction over attempted murder since Trump is not a federal official."The suspect ... is believed to have committed state law violations across multiple judicial circuits in this state, Palm Beach judicial circuit, judicial circuits including Martin County, as well as, perhaps, the judicial circuit represented by Broward County. I directed state agencies to move expeditiously and provide full transparency to the public," DeSantis explained. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

At a recent rally in Nevada, Donald Trump brought up an interesting subject: Hollywood. “If I pull this off with the help of your governor, a lot of Hollywood will be moving from California because right now you don't have the land … it's owned by the federal government. We're going to open up that land to you; you'll be able to build studios and everything else,” he told a cheering crowd. Dave Rubin loves Trump’s idea to take a crumbling Hollywood and move it somewhere else where it can be prosperous. And apparently, Mark Wahlberg agrees. Dave plays a clip of the actor “talking about his mission to bring film studios to Nevada.” “I’m hoping to premiere my next film here and hoping to make lots of films here and move lots of studios and streamers and everybody here to create new jobs, new industry. I think [Nevada’s] got everything to offer. Wahlberg articulated his goal to “bring something to the table when coming to Las Vegas because Las Vegas obviously has so much to offer.” “I think when people hear Las Vegas, they think of the Strip and casinos, which is fine, but 20 minutes away, it's one of the most amazing communities that I've ever been a part of. It's all about faith and family, and it’s thriving,” he explained. “I wanted to come with something to offer myself, whether it be hopefully bringing the film industry here, bringing, you know, a factory here to make shoes and apparel and creating other opportunity and jobs. I want to enrich the community and be a part of something,” he continued, emphasizing his intentions to “be connected to people,” “find great partnerships,” “work hard with people,” “create opportunity,” and “inspire other people.” Dave admires someone who’s willing to leave his home behind for the sake of building a better community. “He saw what was happening there and said, ‘Oh, there are places where I can do this better and I can be part of something that is building and thriving,” he says. “That really is the message right now for America,” he continues. “Which way do we want to go? Do we want to be more like California, or do we want to be more like … a Nevada that is thriving or a Florida that is thriving or a Texas that is thriving?” Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) refused on Tuesday to allow CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins to block him from telling the truth about an IVF-related bill.Earlier in the day, the Senate failed to pass a bill that would provide federal protections for IVF. It was the second time the bill failed after nearly every Republican senator voted against it. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) were the only Republicans who voted for it.'No, Kaitlan, you're not going to stop me there.'The Democratic narrative quickly became that Republicans are once again trying to restrict rights and block fertility care. Collins herself parroted that narrative. Before introducing Cotton onto her show, she said:Senate Republicans today blocked a bill that would guarantee access to the very thing that a lot of them say they support. It's also the very thing that we have heard Donald Trump say that he supports. Democrats tried and failed, again, to pass that measure, which would guarantee access to IVF nationwide. And tonight, they are using this vote to hammer Republicans who said, "No."When it was finally Cotton's turn to speak, he told Collins that he needed to "correct almost everything you said in the lede in there.""First off, there's no risk to IVF in this country. All 49 Republican senators, along with President Trump, support IVF. No state restricts or bans IVF," Cotton explained. "Second, this bill was about a lot more than just IVF."Despite having laid out only those two basic facts, Collins immediately became defensive. Cotton, however, clarified the facts about what the bill actually includes."You said that it had to guarantee access. Access is guaranteed in all 50 states right now," he explained. "You also said that it was about IVF. It's about a lot more than IVF. This bill would mandate coverage for experimental controversial procedures, like cloning or gene editing or providing fertility treatments to men who think they're women, whatever that means."And when Cotton tried to explain how the bill "would also imperil religious liberties" — by allegedly compelling Christians to operate against their conscience — Collins tried to interrupt the senator."Let's stop you there," she said."No, Kaitlan, you're not going to stop me there," Cotton fired back. "Because you're misrepresenting what the bill is about. The bill is about infringing upon religious liberty."As the interview went on, Collins repeatedly defended the bill, claiming "it would have guaranteed access to IVF." But Cotton was forced time and again to remind her that IVF access is prima facie guaranteed already because not a single state restricts it. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!