U.S. Politics
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.
While congressional Democrats are “free to fixate on settlements as a barrier to peace,” they’re flat wrong to do so, says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The goal? To strengthen “the legal sector to identify, respond and prosecute crimes related to anti-Semitic hate focusing on physical violence, desecration of religious community sites and religion-based discrimination in three to five countries in the Europe region.”
“This is our message to universities,” said the president. “If you want to extend the tremendous amount of federal dollars that you get every year, you must reject anti-Semitism.”
It had been blocked before by Republican senators, reportedly at the request of the Trump administration, which has attempted to maintain good relations with Turkey.
The 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.
The network was allegedly smuggling lethal aid from Iran to Yemen on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’s Quds Force.
