U.S. Politics
“I would not recommend to anyone to walk through wearing a kipah,” said Max Privorozki of Halle, Germany.
Heidi Sloan of Texas calls for ending U.S. assistance to Israel “until the occupation of Palestinian territory is ended.”
“If I really believed the Holocaust had taken place, I wouldn’t have joined the Nazi Party,” said Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Arthur Jones.
“The light of religious freedom and tolerance is ever brighter,” said U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. “And so, we gather here in the glow of that light and the Festival of Lights.”
New Lebanese premier Hassan Diab reportedly has the support of a majority of lawmakers, including those affiliated with Hezbollah and its allies, but still needs the support of key Sunni figures.
Abolghassem Salavati and Mohammad Moghisseh have been accused of overseeing “show trials” against journalists, attorneys, political activists and members of Iran’s ethnic and religious minority groups.
They discussed the security and defense situations regarding Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, in addition to other regional issues.
The U.S. Justice Department announced an eight-count indictment of an Indonesian businessman and three Indonesian-based companies for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
The annual ceremony celebrates its 40th year; it was first lit in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and has been erected and lit every year since.
The upper chamber unanimously passed the measure recognizing Turkish massacre that took the lives of 1.5 million Armenians.
Part of it consists of $90 million for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which seeks to protect nonprofit institutions, including synagogues.
The U.S. assistance authorizes cooperation with Israel on counter-tunnel and counter-aerial capabilities, and $500 million for developing and procuring the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow weapon systems.
