We already reported this, but it should be repeated. Netanyahu responded to Joe Biden’s halting arms shipments. “No decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself,” he declared. “If Israel is forced to stand alone – Israel will stand alone.” If I were Netanyahu, I would do the same thing. I don’t […] The post Weapons Shipments or Not, Israel Vows to Destroy Hamas appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) chided President Joe Biden for suggesting the United States could withhold shipments of weapons to Israel if it launches a full-scale ground operation in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip city where many Palestinians have taken refuge during the war against Hamas. During an interview with POLITICO on Wednesday, Johnson reportedly accused Biden of reneging on a deal to pass a $95 billion foreign aid bill last month. He said he hoped the president was experiencing a “senior moment” that did not actually convey U.S. policy. Biden made the comments regarding Israel while appearing for a CNN town hall as he shared insight into his long-standing opposition to Israel conducting a ground operation in Rafah to root out Hamas terrorists amid concerns about more casualties among civilians. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah — they haven’t gone in Rafah yet — if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities — that deal with that problem,” Biden said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP In another interview that took place on Thursday, Johnson condemned Biden for signaling that his administration might halt shipments of weapons to a key U.S. ally more than six months into Israel’s fight against Hamas after the group’s deadly surprise attack in October of last year. “He’s defying the will of Congress and he’s defying what his own top officials in the White House assured me in writing and verbally before that supplemental was passed and even in the days since,” Johnson said of Biden during a “Fox and Friends” appearance. “This idea of withholding weapons to Israel as a condition of somehow, you know, Joe Biden wanting to micromanage their war effort over their defensive effort is catastrophic policy,” the speaker added. “It would be devastating to our closest ally in the region, and it would go directly against the will of what the members of this body voted on just several days ago, so they have got to answer the American people in answer to us and we’re on that right now,” Johnson said.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared her thoughts Thursday on what separated propaganda from education and how to combat false narratives. Clinton made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where she raised concerns about TikTok and told host Joe Scarborough that propaganda was “the opposite” of education. WATCH: "Propaganda is not education… Anybody who is teaching in a university or anyone who is putting content on social media should be held responsible for what they include and what they exclude." — @HillaryClinton on teaching history and responsible social media use pic.twitter.com/fls20bNXkj — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) May 9, 2024 “Propaganda is not education. Propaganda, whether it’s TikTok or in the classroom, is actually the opposite of education,” Clinton said. “Anybody who is teaching in a university or anyone who is putting content on social media should be held responsible for what they include and what they exclude.” Clinton, whose campaign team was eventually fined for funding the Steele Dossier — which spurred the Trump-Russia collusion narrative and spawned an investigation into her 2016 political opponent — went on to complain that people were not doing enough to combat propaganda on social media. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The former Secretary of State — whose State Department also helped to promulgate the narrative that the siege of the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi was driven by a YouTube video — noted that many used social media to promote specific agendas and said that more should be done to make sure that especially younger users were more aware of that. “So we have to do a much better job in trying to number one, teach history at all levels,” she said. “But it’s also important that we recognize the propaganda value of social media. People are on social media oftentimes to press an agenda, an ideological, a religious, a financial, a political, a partisan agenda, and so of course you don’t get the facts. Of course, you don’t get any kind of context.” “We have to do a better job ourselves, and we certainly have to do a better job with young people in trying to help them understand how to filter and interpret the information they’re giving.”

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