Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty in exchange for an agreement that prosecutors would not seek the death penalty. But under Virginia law at the time, the crime was not eligible for capital punishment.

Where was this dude’s lawyer?

What Euro Med said was also based on the testimony of locals. Sounds like he said she said and since the IDF destroyed all the buildings in that area it’ll be tough to prove definitely.

There are holes in Israel’s story here.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/10/middleeast/israel-gaza-hostages-journalist-hamas-intl-hnk/index.html

Aljamal lived on the first floor of a multi-story building, according to Euro-Med. The IDF said the hostages were found on the third floor.

When people rate the economy they are looking at their personal situation. The article is complaining that people aren’t looking at all these economic indicators, but it’s not clear why they would care about them if they personally are facing hardship.

No one who feels like they can’t purchase a house is gonna say the economy is good. Very simple concept.

Good for a dem primary, literal cancer for a general. That said I think this is safe district.

What’s really gonna sink Bowman in this primary is all that AIPAC money.

Feels like Trump’s ties to the Saudis and Emeratis don’t get enough attention. The Russia stuff is definitely important as well but in these cases you have business dealing with actual state officials.

Edit: actually the other thing was with Oman not the UAE.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-business-deal-with-oman-raises-new-ethical-questions

Gorsuch is definitely one of the better conservative justices. Really Thomas and Alito are the only irredeemable ones. Kavanaugh, admittedly I don’t know enough about to say much.

Main reason it’s news worthy is that Clinton actually did pardon his brother. Trump would absolutely pardon any family members though.

No doubt. Starting to look more and more like none of these other 3 cases will be resolved before the election.

It’s a team of prosecutors that started at 4, now is at 3 after Wade got kicked off. Now it would be down to 2 if she steps down. Typically simpler cases only have 1 prosecutor so if most of the legwork is done they might be able to proceed with 2 or add someone. I agree though this case is much bigger than one persons career.

Ah OK, I can’t read apparently. I thought you meant the attacks from Iraqi militias have been going on longer than the current Israeli invasion. I agree with your original comment.

For these particular groups the article says the exact opposite.

But on Nov. 2 they claimed their first ever attack on Israel.

In general it is pretty rare for anyone to directly attack Israel other than groups they created through their various occupations, mainly Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.

I’m pretty doubtful that much progress has been made to destroy Hamas. They use Israeli unexploded ordinance to make bombs which they now have more than they know what to do with, and they couldn’t ask for a better recruiting tool than this war. At a certain point you have to be realistic about the situation and realize they will have to deal with Hamas in negotiations.

Axios seems to have some more details in this article:

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/01/israel-gaza-hostage-ceasefire-deal-confirms-biden

Basically the deal is a temporary cease fire that would then allow negotiations for a full ceasefire after that. It’s a gamble, but the US seems to think that if they can get the conflict to a very low grade state, they can convince the Israeli’s not to go back in. In a vacuum this isn’t a terrible strategy, but there is broad public support for the war in Israel and the ruling coalition knows their days are numbered if there is no war. Even a temporary ceasefire is better than nothing though.

However, the three Egyptian intelligence sources told MEE that Burns was among several mediators who reviewed the draft before it was sent to Israel.

So they could be lying, but MEE is saying their sources are Egyptian intelligence familiar with the negotiation. I don’t think your characterization of the article is correct.

I feel like the mere reminder that Hillary exists is a detriment to Dems electoral prospects.

Yep. And the subheading I really have a problem with.

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it.

The implication being that it’s low stakes to make this accusation without solid evidence. In reality the whole justification from the West for the state of affairs between Israel and Palestine is that Arabs are a bunch of backwards savages, and this extends to the way the West has acted throughout the Middle East.

I don’t think you understand. There were two buildings, the embassy and the consulate. The embassy was not directly hit, the consulate was.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-01/syria-says-deadly-israeli-airstrike-destroyed-irans-consular-building-in-damascus

While Iran’s consular building was leveled in the attack, according to Syria’s state news agency, its main embassy building remained intact. Still, the Iranian ambassador’s residence was inside the consular building.

Also looks like the Vienna Convention defines diplomatic missions not the Geneva Convention. My bad.

It was a consulate which is also covered by the Geneva convention as all diplomatic missions are. There really isn’t a significant distinction here.