⚡️ Republicans push to force Biden to send arms to Israel

US congresswoman Beth Van Duyne has introduced the “Immediate Support for Israel Act” - which would require transfers of some weapons to Israel to happen within 30 days of procurement.

Other Republicans have said they are drafting articles of impeachment against Biden for withholding aid.

The backlash comes as Sec of State Antony Blinken is expected to submit a report on Friday set to be highly critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza - but stopping short of concluding it has violated the terms for its use of US weapons, according to Axios.

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⚠️ NEW: Israeli Tanks Encircle Eastern Half of Rafah – Reuters

 Israeli tanks captured the main road dividing the eastern and western halves of Rafah on Friday, effectively encircling the entire eastern side of the city in the southern Gaza Strip.

Residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire east and northeast of the city on Friday, with intense fighting between Israeli forces and militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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❗️Netanyahu Admits Failures on Oct 7 but Ducks Personal Responsibility

Israel’s longest-serving leader has dodged accountability and said any inquiry would have to wait until after the war ended.

“There were failures, obviously. . . The govt’s first responsibility is to protect the people. That’s the ultimate enveloping responsibility. And people weren’t protected. We have to admit that,” Netanyahu said in a televised interview with Dr Phil.

Asked if he held himself to account, he replied: “I hold myself and everyone on this. I think we have to examine how it happened. What was the intelligence failure? What was the military failure?”

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🐝Beehive Bites Back: Israel Confirms 12 IDF Soldiers Have Been Critically Injured After Being Stung by Bees in Gaza

The bees have a right to defend themselves. 😂

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🔴 JUST IN: Environmental Activists Storm Tesla Factory in Berlin

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⚠️ Two ‘Just Stop Oil’ protesters - in their 80s - have smashed the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library

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🔴 Rafah Under Attack

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⚡️ NOW: Israeli War Cabinet Unanimously Approves to Deepen, Expand Rafah Operation - Channel 12

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❎ Israeli Tanks Target Comms Transmission Station in Rafah – an Attempt to Sever Connections to the World

The “most moral army” doesn’t want a global audience to witness its war crimes.

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🤔 Tucker Carlson claims Lyme disease - spread by ticks - was engineered in US biological laboratories

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👀 Zelensky’s No Churchill and Ukraine’s Corrupt – Dominic Cummings

Cummings - who led Britain’s Vote Leave Brexit campaign and spectacularly fell out with Boris Johnson in 2020 - declared that the West “should have never got into the whole stupid situation” and claimed sanctions against Russia have had a greater impact on European politics than in Moscow.

“This is not a replay of 1940 with Zelensky as the Churchillian underdog,” Cummings told the i newspaper. “This whole Ukrainian corrupt mafia state has basically conned us all and we’re all going to get f*cked as a consequence. We are getting fu*ked now, right?”

He argued that war would only strengthen the relationship between Moscow and Beijing, saying Western nations “pushed [Russia] into an alliance with the world’s biggest manufacturing power.”

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