Friday, May 31, 2024
B&B Biden-Blinken Deranged Policies On the Way to Destroy The World in a World War
Biden administration greenlights Ukraine's use of American weapons to strike inside Russia https://t.co/ASOg6fVUd2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 31, 2024
Australia rejects Recognizing Palestine in 80-5 Landslide
Australia has rejected the recognition of Palestinian statehood in 80-5 landslide vote.https://t.co/5idzLcWqT0
— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) May 31, 2024
International Criminal Court runs wild, threatening Israel and anyone who criticizes the Court
by Douglas Murray
Back in April, I revealed here that the so-called International Criminal Court was aiming to prosecute an American ally.
Sure enough, last month the absurd international body announced that it was prosecuting Benjamin Netanyahu, the democratically elected prime minister of Israel.
It was an obscene overreach by the court.
The court has carried out no investigation and gathered no evidence.
It has announced that it is seeking the arrest of Netanyahu because of things it thinks he might have done.
Back then, I said the “court” would come to regret it.
America is not a signatory to the body. Thank goodness.
And neither is Israel.
Some more foolish allies — particularly in Europe — are. Some Democrats would love for America to join the court.
But as the court´s opponents have always warned, the court is a corrupt and sectarian political organization that will in time come for Americans.
Anyone who wants a Belgian or Congolese judge standing as judge and jury over American soldiers and politicians should love the institution.
Fortunately, the ICC´s recent overreach got a stern response from 12 US senators.
They said they saw the warrant for the arrest of the Israeli leadership as “not only a threat to Israel´s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.”
The senators’ letter went on, “The United States will not tolerate politicized attacks by the ICC on our allies. Target Israel and we will target you.”
The letter spelled out that “targeting” would include ending all American support for the ICC plus the sanctioning and barring of ICC officials, employees, associates and their families from the United States.
Seems fair enough.
And to anyone who doubts that the ICC is politicized, you might note that just last week, the court´s former chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, praised the ICC warrants against Israel.
He also described the leadership of Hamas — including those who organized the October 7 massacres — as “victims.” Charming.
This week, the court answered the US senators and the response is breathtaking.
The prosecutor´s office replied to the senators in part,
“When individuals threaten to retaliate against the Court or Court personnel … such threats, even when not acted upon, may also constitute an offense against the administration of justice under Art. 70 of the Rome Statute.”
That’s what they call some cojones.
The ICC is not just threatening US senators. It is saying they are already criminals in the eyes of the ICC prosecutor. Making the ICC effectively impossible to criticize.
An almost divine institution.
Criticize the ICC and you become a war criminal-in-waiting too, apparently.
Well, the puffed-up prosecutor might note several things.
Not least that the USA is not a signatory to the Rome Statute.
Here’s what happens after Trump’s guilty verdict in ‘hush money’ trial
Donald Trump was found guilty in the Manhattan hush money case for covering up a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election — here’s what to expect next for the former president.
A jury found that Trump, 77, doctored business records to hide that he had porn star Stormy Daniels paid $130,000 in the lead up to the 2016 election to keep her quiet about her allegations that she slept with him one time in 2006.
He was convicted of falsifying business records to carry out another crime and faces a minimum of probation and a maximum of four years imprisonment.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will remain free until his sentencing date on July 11, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said after the verdict was read out Thursday afternoon.
Trump also won’t face any travel restrictions until his sentencing, according to Michael Bachner, a former prosecutor and longtime defense attorney.
The 45th president most likely will receive a no-jail sentence and therefore prosecutors wouldn’t seek to jail him ahead of his sentence and a judge wouldn’t likely grant such a request anyway, Bachner explained.
“He will not be remanded,” Bachner told The Post. “There is no requirement that the judge remand him and I would be shocked if the judge were to remand him even if [prosecutors] asked for it.”
Bachner explained that since “there is a very decent chance he’s looking at a probationary sentence. It would be unnecessary punishment to incarcerate somebody who very likely isn’t getting a jail sentence.”
Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman — who repped drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, among other notable clients — agreed “I do not expect he’d receive any jail time.”
And there isn’t much of a chance that Trump will go on the lam, Bachner said.
“He’s neither dangerous nor a flight risk. He’s one of the most well known faces in the United States. Where is he going to run?” the lawyer said.
Trump will be sentenced on July 11.
First, he’ll have to meet with the probation department to go over his history and then both prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers will file their sentencing recommendations to the judge.
Prosecutors haven’t said what penalty they will be seeking but it’s possible they won’t ask for jail time since Trump was convicted of a non-violent crime and since he has no prior convictions.
Either way, the real estate tycoon’s lawyers most certainly will ask for a probationary sentence, Bachner said.
Despite being a convicted felon, Trump can still continue his presidential run.
And experts told CBS News that Trump – whose primary residence is in Florida – will likely still be able to vote come November since he’s unlikely to be sentenced to prison.
Florida “defers to other state laws when it comes to disenfranchising voters who are tried and convicted elsewhere,” Blair Bowie, a lawyer at the Campaign Legal Center, told the outlet.
Under New York law, a felon is only prevented from voting while incarcerated.
The former president could also lose his right to own a gun, according to the federal Gun Control Act.
But whether Trump even owns a gun is not clear.
Trump’s attorneys said they plan to appeal the verdict “as soon as we can.”
First, Trump’s team will most likely seek to have Judge Juan Merchan set aside the verdict and if that’s rejected this will set off at least a year’s worth of appeals by Trump’s side, experts say.
Any appeal “won’t be [decided] before the election,” Bachner said.
And if Trump loses an appeal with the mid-level appeals court, he’ll likely seek to have the state’s highest court hear his case, which could take another additional year.
“An appeal could easily take a year or longer after the sentencing,” Lichtman said.
Bachner noted that if Trump were sentenced to jail time he would probably remain out free pending the appeal.
“To the extent there is a reversal on the appeal by the time Trump’s appeal is decided he would have already done his jail time so it would just be unfair to incarcerate him,” he explained.
Chareidie Explaining to Palestinian Children in Brooklyn that "Palestinians Love Jews" only "Zionists Hate Jews"
The radical Satmar faction called "neturei karta" have stepped up their game and are now going to Arab Brooklyn Neighborhoods to explain to the Arabs that Zionists hate Jews too!
Tuna Beigel Sticks Up for Supporters of Murderers of Jews
This stupid little twerp doesn't understand why Frum Jews wouldn't judge chilonim but judge the Neturei Karta!
Growing up in the Satmar sewers he cannot understand why vilifying Neture Karta, a group that supports Iran, a country that vowed to destroy the only Jewish State in the world, is the right thing to do!
Growing up surrounded by the hateful SHIT"ah of Satmar he cannot distinguish between a Jew that has yet to embrace and observe mitzvois, and Jews that fly to Teheran to attend a funeral of a murderer of his own people and who was a threat to all of civilized mankind. There was a good reason that Iranians themselves called Raisi "The Butcher of Iran"
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Houthi Mistakenly Bomb Ship that was full of grain bound for Iran
Greek-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that came under attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels earlier this week had a cargo of grain bound for Iran, the group's main benefactor, authorities said Thursday.
The attack on the Laax comes as the Houthis continue their attacks on shipping throughout the Red Sea corridor, part of a campaign they say aims at pressuring Israel and the West over the war in Gaza. However, as shipping through that artery has dropped during the months of attacks, the rebels have struck vessels associated with Iran, as well as Tehran's economic lifelines of China and Russia.
Initially after the attack, the Laax had listed its destination as Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. On Thursday, however, its listed destination instead appeared to be Bandar Khomeini, Iran.
A statement released by French naval forces based in the UAE that patrol the Middle East also identified the vessel's grain shipment as being bound for Iran. It said that a team from Djibouti had inspected the damage caused by the attack, which it said involved both drones and missiles, and found no remaining dangerous explosives onboard the ship.
Images released by the French navy showed damage both at the waterline of the vessel, as well as on its deck.
Tuesday's attack saw five missiles hit the Laax during the hours-long assault, the private security firm LSS-SAPU told the Associated Press. LSS-SAPU, which earlier helped evacuate mariners from the Houthi-attacked Rubymar that later sunk, said there had been no prior warning by radio from the Houthis.
LSS-SAPU had three armed security guards onboard the Laax at the time of the attack. Among the ship's crew were 13 Filipinos and one Ukrainian, the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers said in a statement.
The Houthis have launched more than 50 attacks on shipping, killed three sailors, seized one vessel and sunk another since November, according to the U.S. Maritime Administration.
On Wednesday, another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone apparently crashed in Yemen, with the Houthis claiming they fired a surface-to-air missile at it. The U.S. Air Force didn't report any aircraft missing, leading to suspicion that the drone may have been piloted by the CIA. As many as three may have been lost this month alone.
Gambrell writes for the Associated Press.
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