Why does Israel need to make sure October 7 never repeats?
This is why. https://t.co/QQU8nsBBUD
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 7, 2024
The "innocent" citizens of Gaza pic.twitter.com/Sy4SDLtjAZ
— × ×•×¢×” מגיד | noa magid (@NoaMagid) April 8, 2024
Soros Fund Management, founded by billionaire investor George Soros, is tightening its grip over the US radio industry after scooping up a majority stake in bankrupt radio company Audacy.
The fund’s February investment in Audacy — the second-largest radio firm in the US behind iHeartMedia — potentially marks the beginning of a larger audio-buying spree, three people who have been involved in discussions with Soros executives told Semafor.
In those talks, Soros’ fund, which is now controlled by the magnate’s nonprofit organization, Open Society Foundations, has privately mulled acquiring other major radio companies, including AM and FM giant Cumulus Media, according to Semafor.
As the largest shareholder in Audacy, Soros Fund Management already owns 230 radio stations nationwide — including New York’s WFAN and 1010 WINS, as well as Los Angeles-based KROQ, per bankruptcy filings — as well as a podcast arm that includes Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios.
A mother of two claims that she underwent “very intensive” chemotherapy — only to find out she never had cancer at all.
Lisa Monk, 39, from College Station, Texas, initially went to a hospital in 2022 for stomach pains that she suspected were related to kidney stones, according to the Daily Mail.
Tests from the appointment revealed two kidney stones, but also flagged a mass on her spleen.
The higher-education worker underwent a successful surgery to remove the mass in January of last year — but that’s when events took a turn.
Monk claims that the spleen was sent to three different pathology labs to be tested before finally being sent to a fourth lab, where it tested positive for a rare and terminal form of cancer, called clear cell angiosarcoma, reported the Mirror.
Angiosarcoma is a type of cancer that forms on the lining of blood vessels and lymph vessels, according to Mayo Clinic.
Despite available treatments, angiosarcoma is considered to have a poor prognosis regardless of age or gender.
“It was a blood vessel type of cancer found in the spleen and told me that the most optimistic thing he could say was to give me 15 months [to live],” Monk revealed in a video.
In an interview broadcast on Tuesday, President Joe Biden demanded that Israel agree to a unilateral six-to-eight week ceasefire in Gaza – without insisting on the release of hostages or even that Hamas shouldn’t attack Israel during that time.
“What I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country,” Biden told Univision, a US Spanish-language TV network.
“I’ve spoken with everyone from the Saudis to the Jordanians to the Egyptians. They’re prepared to move in,” Biden added. “They’re prepared to move this food in. And I think there’s no excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people. It should be done now.”
The interview was taped last Wednesday, just two days after an Israeli airstrike mistakenly killed three aid workers. In the leadup to the interview being aired, Biden administration officials appeared to backtrack from the president’s comments – saying that it Hamas, not Israel, that is preventing a ceasefire from going into effect.
“There could be a ceasefire in place today that would extend for several weeks to be built upon longer if Hamas would be prepared to release some of those people, so let’s train the attention where it belongs… I believe Israel is ready and Hamas should step up to the table and be prepared to do so as well,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said.
He added that Hamas “has an opportunity now to agree to the proposal on a ceasefire and hostages. The ball is in Hamas’s court. The world is watching to see what it does.”
Innocent Israelis and Americans were killed on October 7th and are still being held hostage. #BringThemHomeNow pic.twitter.com/PJ5eeLd10x
— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) April 9, 2024
Congressman Mike Lawler, a Republican who represents Rockland and Westchester who is a staunch friend of the Jewish community, vocally defended Israel, and slammed Schumer and Pelosi, during an appearance on Fox Business Network.
Speaking with Neil Cavuto Tuesday, Lawler said, “What Chuck Schumer did, what Nancy Pelosi did, making Benjamin Netanyahu the boogey man, rather than focusing their ire on Hamas…”
He continued, “The fastest way to have a cease fire is for Hamas to put down its weapons and release the hostages.”
Lawler said, “To somehow call for regime change in Israel and dangle aid to Israel is shameful…What would the United States do if a country was threatening to eradicate our country?”
“You have to defend your country, you have to defend your citizens. We still have American hostages being held.”
While their brothers are dying on the front, Hundreds of Chareidim free from learning, free from Torah, and going bat-crazy from doing nothing decided to come out in mass to protest. No one has a clue why? Where were their Roshei Yeshiva?
As I keep telling you guys the Chareide world is totally disconnected from all the other Jews!
Two protesters were arrested Tuesday for disorderly conduct during a violent march from Ein Ya’akov to Kikar Shabbat in Jerusalem. Extremely graphic video footage shows them engaging in violent clashes with the police.
One of the people arrested who was asked to present an ID card pulled out a “Palestinian Jew” card.
During the protest, they waved PLO flags and held up signs against the State of Israel. While police were attempting to arrest them, a violent riot erupted, with protesters attacking police, blocking vehicles and the highway, throwing objects and stones at the officers, attempting to damage a police vehicle, shouting “Nazis” at the officers, and setting fire to two trash cans.
The Jewish holiday of Passover, also known as Pesach, begins this year at sundown on April 22 and continues through April 30. It commemorates the story of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt. Passover is traditionally celebrated with a gathering known as a seder, at which the Jewish text called the Haggadah is read aloud.
On Tuesday, James warned New Yorkers on X, formerly Twitter, about businesses in the state charging extra for services branded as special deals for Passover, a practice she called antisemitic.
The Brooklyn Monarch concert venue located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has canceled the appearance of the Israeli hard rock band HaYehudim because of its name and the club’s fear of appearing to be taking a political position on the war in Gaza.
Of course, by canceling the show the Monarch already took a political position on the war in Gaza, Israel’s right to defend itself, the 2-state solution, and Arab murderers beheading babies, raping women, and slashing innocent civilians.
Twitter user Iris shared the venue’s official explanation:
“I’m very sorry but we can’t accommodate you. My partners got back to me regarding the political nature of the band’s name, and we as an entertainment space in New York prefer to avoid politically charged events or actions.”
Of course, HaYehudim was established in 1992, and their name means, literally, “The Jews.” How would that make their show a politically charged event?
If your audience is mostly antisemites, it would.
Israel is believed to be prepared to strike Iranian nuclear facilities if Tehran launches an attack in retaliation for the assassination of a top general last week.
The Israel Defense Forces has held air force drills in recent days and is eyeing vital Iranian infrastructure, including nuclear facilities, Elaph News, a London-based media outlet, reported, citing an unnamed Western security official.
Israelis have been on tenterhooks since late last week when a high-precision Israeli air strike killed a top general with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and other senior officers at the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Mohammad Reza Zahedi has been described as Iran’s most important general to have been assassinated since the 2020 US airstrike that killed Qassim Soleimani.
Iran has vowed to retaliate, sparking fears of a major escalation and potentially all-out war between Israel and Iran.
A rare six-legged mountain gazelle has been spotted in Israel. The male gazelle has an extra pair of legs growing from its back, but wildlife experts say it seems to be managing fine with the extra appendages.
The discovery was made by an Israeli army reservist who, in late March, spotted and then sent a photo of the bizarre looking creature to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, or SPNI, an environmental nonprofit organization, after noticing that it had "something strange on its back," according to the group.
Amir Balaban, a conservationist for SPNI, said in a news release shared with CBS News that the six-legged gazelle had "survived a complex litter and survived as a young individual, dealt with many predators that endanger young fawns, matured single and as an adult managed to lead an impressive life in the Nahal HaBasor reserve."
The nature reserve sits in Israel's southern Negev desert, just a few miles from the war-torn Gaza Strip. SPNI called it "one of the most important remaining strongholds for the Israeli gazelle in the western Negev, especially during the recent war."
"Contrary to expectations, the gazelle is healthy, strong, and has three female gazelles and a fawn from the previous fall. He has been seen hosting the females in the fields and the extra legs on his back pose no challenge to him," Balaban said.
SPNI attributed the gazelle's extra legs to a rare genetic disorder called organ proliferation, or polymelia.
The animal's genetic abnormality was most likely hereditary, Balaban said. According to SPNI, it occurrs frequently in cattle, birds and reptiles, but this is the first known instance of polymelia being documented in a mountain gazelle in the Middle East.
Mountain gazelles are a protected wild species in Israel. There are estimated to be only around 5,000 gazelles of the endangered species remaining in the wild.
While mountain gazelles can be found mostly in Israel, they live across the region and can also be spotted in the Palestinian territories, Turkey, and parts of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
