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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.
Officials worried the new U.S. administration will impose higher tariffs.
“We have to push forward until everybody’s out. Then we will be done,” Adi Alexander said at the annual gathering of conservatives.
The IDF chief of staff was awarded the Legion of Merit in recognition of the cooperation between the Israeli and American militaries during his tenure.
A scheduled meeting between U.S. and P.A. officials to discuss the latter’s counter-terror operation in Jenin has also been postponed.
“Evil doesn’t touch it. This is unthinkable savagery and hatred,” wrote Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
“It’s important for Jews and non-Jews to see this kind of case come to closure in this way,” Jessica Anderson, of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, told JNS.
The comments by Al Williams “are deeply offensive and should be disqualifying,” stated Mark Mellman, president and CEO of Democratic Majority for Israel.
“He was really a right and wrong kind of guy, a standup guy,” Chris Edmonds said of his late father, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds.
Heshy Tischler, a candidate for New York City Council, told JNS that he was assaulted at the gathering, which he said drew 200 anti-Israel protesters and 600 people supporting the Jewish state.
“We are absolutely excited about coming to Jerusalem and we most definitely will be there this year,” Fiji’s Deputy Prime Minister Viliame Gavoka told JNS.
The U.S.-Israel alliance has never been stronger, which will assist in achieving all of the objectives of the war against Hamas, the Israeli premier told a visiting congressional delegation.
The White House believes that removing Hamas from power is a bigger obstacle to a Gaza plan than is reconstruction or relocation of Gazans.
