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“Once again, the crime reductions across the five boroughs are a direct result of our precision policing strategy: focusing on illegal guns, putting officers where they’re needed most and taking down violent gangs,” stated Jessica Tisch, NYPD commissioner, about overall crime in the city.
The Biden directive required recipients of U.S. arms to provide written assurances within 45 days that they were abiding by international law.
In recent weeks, Israeli diplomats held several meetings with the parties in France, Spain and Sweden.
“This will send a clear message that the harassment of Jewish students and faculty will not be tolerated at Columbia,” Brian Cohen, executive director of the Columbia Barnard Hillel, told JNS.
“Anyone who deals in Iranian oil exposes themselves to significant sanctions risk,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The United States and Israel also shared the company of North Korea, Belarus and Eritrea.
“There is a general sense of uncertainty and concern about what’s happening right now, and you wonder what Jewish life will be like in Ontario,” Jason Cherniak, a center-left Liberal running for office, told JNS.
“The Palestinian Authority has always seen the U.S. funding as an endorsement of its participation in terror,” Maurice Hirsch tells JNS.
U.S. President Trump is ready to back Jerusalem in “whatever course of action it chooses regarding” the Gaza-based terrorist group.
“It has never been more important to condemn this moral depravity, demand accountability and implement President Trump’s America First peace through strength agenda,” Rep. Elise Stefanik told JNS.
“The AP chooses to whitewash the baby killers, calling them ‘militants’ rather than terrorists and claiming the children ‘died'—rather than were murdered—in captivity,” Rep. Ritchie Torres wrote.
The premier’s party called for The Democrats’ Naama Lazimi to be stripped of parliamentary immunity and pay over the accusation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “just so angry, and he should be,” the U.S. president told reporters.
