Israeli war cabinet green-lights military push into Rafah over Biden’s objections: report
By Social Links for Chris Nesi
Published May 10, 2024, 5:14 p.m. ET

Israel’s war cabinet has approved expanding its Hamas battle plan to include Rafah, a move that could soon see Israel Defense Forces enter the densely populated city, which the Jewish state claims is the last bastion for the terrorists.

The decision came fewer than 48 hours after President Biden — dismayed by the rising civilian death toll in Gaza — told CNN that the US would withhold munitions shipments from Israel if it invaded Rafah.

Two sources with knowledge of the details claim Israel’s adapted war plan constitutes a “measured expansion” that won’t encroach on Biden’s “red line” on Rafah, Axios reported.

But a third source told the outlet that the approved expansion plan could potentially be viewed by the US as crossing it.

A majority of the war cabinet also reportedly told Israeli negotiators working on hammering out a hostage exchange and ceasefire deal with Hamas to continue their efforts despite the “expansion of the area of operation” approved Thursday night.

Hawkish cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who have urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to invade Rafah, voted to suspend negotiations, the outlet said.

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I don't like most of Trump's family that much, that one daughter comes off to me as a spoiled princess. But the only Barron annoys me is the first name. He's just going to be an at-large delegate, it's not like he was running for office or anything. Mountain out of a molehill.

He isn't going to be anything. He wasn't asked whether he wanted to be a delegate in the first place, and he has declined the offer.

"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection, and I think we overplayed the vaccines."
-Dr. Deborah Birx


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 Rudy Giuliani yanked off the air for ‘stolen election’ rant on WABC radio show
By Social Links for Priscilla DeGregory and
Social Links for Natalie O'Neill
Published May 10, 2024
Updated May 10, 2024, 6:19 p.m. ET

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was suspended without pay from his WABC radio show for ranting about the “stolen” 2020 election — deepening the legally embattled ex-lawyer’s financial woes, The Post has learned.

In a further fall from grace, the bankrupt, twice-indicted ex-attorney for Donald Trump was yanked from the air by billionaire supermarket mogul and radio station owner John Catsimatidis.

“He did it to himself,” Catsimatidis told The Post on Friday.

“I thought he was a great mayor for the city of New York so I always try to support him. But you can’t cross the line.”

Giuliani, 79, went on a “stolen election” tirade during the final three minutes of “The Rudy Giuliani Show” Thursday, violating a company-wide policy “not to state, suggest or imply that the election results are not valid,” according to Catsimatidis, who runs Red Apple Media.

Catsimatidis said he had sent Giuliani a letter warning him that he’s “prohibited from engaging in conversations relating to the 2020 Presidential Election” — prompting the disgraced mayor to allegedly fire off a defiant text to the billionaire.

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Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel
NY Times, May 10, 2024

The president was livid. He had just been shown pictures of civilians killed by Israeli shelling, including a small baby with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the phone and then dressed him down sharply.

The president was Ronald Reagan, the year was 1982, and the battlefield was Lebanon, where Israelis were attacking Palestinian fighters. The conversation Mr. Reagan had with Prime Minister Menachem Begin that day, Aug. 12, would be one of the few times aides ever heard the usually mild-mannered president so exercised.

“It is a holocaust,” Mr. Reagan told Mr. Begin angrily.

Mr. Begin, whose parents and brother were killed by the Nazis, snapped back, “Mr. President, I know all about a holocaust.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Reagan retorted, it had to stop. Mr. Begin heeded the demand. Twenty minutes later, he called back and told the president that he had ordered a halt to the shelling. “I didn’t know I had that kind of power,” Mr. Reagan marveled to aides afterward.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower threatened economic sanctions and an aid cutoff to force Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula after it invaded Egypt in 1956. Gerald R. Ford warned that he would re-evaluate the entire relationship in 1975 over what he considered Israel’s recalcitrance during peace talks with Egypt. George H.W. Bush postponed $10 billion in loan guarantees in 1991 in a dispute over settlements in the West Bank.

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/politics/biden-reagan-israel.html