'Is the White House really this stupid or are they just trying to get people targeted?' Fox News contributor Sara Carter asked on X.

The White House took serious heat on social media Thursday for posting an image of President Biden meeting with U.S. troops in Israel without obscuring their identities.

Though the White House account deleted the photo soon after sharing it on Instagram, X users ripped Biden's team for the dangerous mistake, accusing the administration of "compromising" the troops' identities while they were in Israel defending U.S. interests in wake of Hamas' terrorist attack on the U.S. allied country.

It's true that Israel didn't "bomb the al-Ahli hospital" in Gaza on the night of Oct. 17th 2023. The evidence suggests it did something much worse.

As is the case with all other hospitals in Gaza, al-Ahli hospital had become a refuge for the thousands of people internally displaced in Gaza due to Israel's massive bombing campaign that began on Oct. 7th. On the night of Oct. 17th, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children had congregated in the courtyard of the hospital (the hospital itself being already full) because they believed it to be a relatively safe haven from Israeli bombs.

Canon Richard Sewell, the dean of St George's College in Jerusalem, told the BBC that about 1,000 displaced people were sheltering in the courtyard when it was hit, and about 600 patients and staff were inside the building.

Not only had the IDF already warned this hospital in the three consecutive days before the explosion that it would be attacked, they actually attacked it on Oct. 14th, hitting the cancer ward. Since Oct. 7th, the WHO has reported 59 attacks on healthcare establishments in Gaza City and 137 across the entire territory of the Gaza Strip.

Note also that, in the past week, Israeli political and military elite have publicly stated that they view all Palestinian resistance groups as "literal Nazis" and by implication the Palestinian people as "Nazi sympathizers", and therefore "subhuman" and not entitled to the same rights as "normal" human beings.

Initially, and based on claims by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and hospital staff, the media reported that Israel had bombed the hospital, "killing hundreds of people." Within a day however, the IDF claimed that the explosion was in fact a result of a PIJ rocket that "misfired" and hit the area, and provided evidence to "prove" it.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today announced the committee obtained bank records revealing a $200,000 direct payment from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check. In September, Chairman Comer issued three subpoenas for Hunter and James Biden's personal and business bank records.

In 2018, James Biden received $600,000 in loans from, Americore — a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans "based upon representations that his last name, 'Biden,' could 'open doors' and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections."

On March 1, 2018, Americore wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sara Biden's personal bank account - not their business bank account. On the same day, James Biden wrote a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden.

Since the start of the war in Gaza, Israeli officials have taken to western media outlets to claim all Gazans are "Nazis" or "terrorists" that need to be eradicated...

During a live interview on Russia's state-run broadcaster RT, Israeli lawmaker Amir Weitmann threatened to make Moscow "pay the price" for allegedly supporting the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.

"We're going to finish this war. We're going to win because we're stronger. After this, Russia will pay the price. Believe me, Russia will pay the price," Weitmann, the head of the libertarian caucus in Israel's ruling Likud Party, told the RT news anchor.

It doesn't matter who runs the government in Warsaw; what matters is who is really pulling the strings...

Poland's rise in the European Union's political firmament is in itself vivid evidence of the bloc's declining importance in world affairs. This is seen in the merely ceremonial role Brussels plays in the discussion of almost all contemporary crises and its inability to offer an alternative to American policy.

Since its "return to the European family," Poland has consistently played the role of spoiler in any attempt to make the bloc stronger or to negotiate with Russia. In other circumstances, in the kind of EU that Paris and Berlin dreamed of 30 years ago, Warsaw would have remained a silent appendage of the Franco-German tandem. The fact that the country now plays a disproportionate role not only means that Western Europeans have lost the initiative but also reveals the true extent to which the bloc's politics has become provincial.

For Russia, it is not Poland itself that matters, but rather the new conditions in the geo-strategic game we are playing with the West. We do not care which party will be in power in Warsaw because any government there is nothing more than functional, whose only way of survival is to represent US interests and maintain transatlantic unity. This, of course, nips in the bud any hope of a sustainable European order. After all, the strategic disposition of our confrontation with the West has always been determined precisely by its internal divisions.

Mahmoud Abbas reportedly turned down a US request to talk following the bombing of a hospital in Gaza...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused to hold a phone call with US President Joe Biden during the latter's visit to Israel on Wednesday, Israeli state media reported on Friday.

Citing a Palestinian source in the West Bank, the Kan news agency said that Biden's team had attempted to arrange a conversation between the leaders, but Abbas rejected the request.

Biden and Abbas did speak by phone on Saturday, with the US president pledging to support efforts to "bring urgently needed humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people," according to a readout of the call provided by the White House.

The two leaders were set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II in Jordan on Wednesday. However, the summit was canceled by the Jordanian side after a deadly explosion at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital hospital in Gaza the night before.

"Like it or not, Republicans have the law in their favor, to put this point another way. Democrats are left with subterfuge and media manipulation. The latter present Americans with the greater danger." — Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News

Things are going a little sideways now, wouldn't you agree? The world is not coming to an end, exactly, but our arrangements in it are breaking up all at once, threatening to wreck everyday life for a whole lot more people than just the poor mutts on the margins. The endless insults to common decency and common sense by the vicious governing blob that runs things don't help, either. The main question du jour: when things break really badly, will they break against that vicious blob hard enough to make it stop?

This blob — a weird cabal alien to our heritage — is composed of people with names and duties, and institutions too. They have already lost their credibility, their authority, and their legitimacy. The problem is that they haven't lost their power to wreck our country. Exposed and disgraced as they are, they still occupy the seats of command, still twiddle the dials on the control console, still enjoy a foolish illusion of invulnerability.

I'm in favor of wholesale impeachment of these top people as the best way to go, first, to pry their hands off the levers of power, and second, use the process of impeachment to move public sentiment to a firmly anti-blob position. When you read of "Joe Biden's" 37 percent favorable rating in some poll, do you wonder how it can be that high? Hard evidence of his high crimes of bribery has been plain to see for many months. We await a brisk House inquiry to put all that evidence in order, in a simple bill that even The New York Times won't be able to ignore. Let Mr. Schumer's tiny Senate majority try to decline an impeachment trial. Between that and "Joe Biden's obvious incapacity, he'll have to resign. And then let the Party of Chaos try to pretend that Kamala Harris can be in charge of anything. We'll see soon enough who's pulling the strings in the White House.

While Israeli soldiers hide behind civilians as they attack Gaza it is hard to find any area in Israeli without some kind of military presence

Throughout Israel's 2014 assault on the Gaza Strip, perhaps no phrase featured as prominently or persistently in the lexicon of Israeli propaganda as "human shields." Repeated in stentorian fashion by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a heavily regimented army of 10,000 public relations flacks, the phrase was ruthlessly deployed to shield Israel from responsibility for the bloodbath it has caused in Gaza. Israel killed 1,800 civilians in a matter of weeks during that assault, including some 430 children, but it was Hamas that forced them to do it.

Like so many Zionist accusations against Palestinian society ("They only understand force," "They teach their children to hate," "They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity") the human shields slander is a projection. Israel is the most militarized society on earth, with soldiers and military installations honeycombed throughout its civil society. With full military conscription for all men and women and reserve duty required for all Jews until they reach their 40s, Jewish Israelis alternate constantly between the role of civilian and soldier, blurring the line between the two.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has displayed outrageous hypocrisy by chastising her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban for his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. That's according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, who recalled that Kallas recently found herself in a tough spot over her husband's business ties with Russia.

Speaking to Reuters on Wednesday, Kallas, a long-time Russia hawk, lamented that "it was very, very unpleasant to see" Orban shaking hands with Putin as the two held talks on the sidelines of China's Belt and Road Forum. The Estonian prime minister went on to call the Russian leader "a criminal," accusing him of "waging a war of aggression" in Ukraine.

Writing on Facebook on the same day, Szijjarto pushed back against the criticism. "With great respect, this is Kaja Kallas... whose husband, as it was recently revealed, even after the outbreak of the war [in Ukraine], still owned a share in a company that supplied €30 million worth of raw materials to a Russian factory."

The Russian president claimed that sports authorities have permitted the use of the movement as a political tool.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told an athletics forum on Thursday that the Olympic movement is now a far cry from the ideals of its modern reinventors, with politics trumping sportsmanship and athletes suffering discrimination due to their ethnicity.

"Unfortunately, much has changed since the time of [Pierre] de Coubertin and [Aleksey] Butlovsky, and some things have been lost for good," he said at the XI International Sports Forum in the Russian city of Perm.