Comment: Ben Shapiro's reaction to the knife ban:

Comment: More details from RT:

Yehuda Glick, an MK with the Likud party, said the footage is "very hard to watch," adding that the atmosphere was "troubling and disappointing," Haaretz reported.

However, Likud MK Oren Hazan, who has been suspended from the Knesset over sexual harassment and stalking incidents, had a different view. "What's all the fuss about? It was noted in advance: anyone who approaches the fence, armed or not, is gonna get hit. As it should be!" he tweeted.

What's the fuss about? The message was given in advance: anyone approaching the fence, armed or unabducted. And good thing! Then let the soldiers defend us all--I am personally proud of them! Hope that through the clip the other side will be clearer. and a note to Yonit Levy: do everyone a favor and keep your msoazaim looks where you really need them...

Hazan continued to state that he was proud of the soldiers defending Israel, and that he hopes the footage sends "a clearer message to the other side."

According to IDF protocol, any live fire directed at protests requires approval by the most senior leadership in the field.

Meanwhile, a sniper is permitted to fire towards anyone who approaches the border fence with the intention of penetrating Israeli territory, with the permitted distance being 100 meters (328 feet).

There is a separate fence in front of the border fence, and rules allow for shooting only in the lower body of anyone entering the territory between the two fences.

Protests as part of the 'Great Return March' have been taking place at the border since March 30, and are scheduled to continue until 'Nakba' on May 15 - a day which Israelis celebrate as Independence Day and Palestinians believe is the day of mass exodus from their land as a result of the establishment of the Jewish state.

Comment: An interesting development. So what are we to make of the media reports suggesting that MI6 wanted to "disappear" the Skripals by putting them in witness protection in another country - with no public statement from either of them confirming that's what they actually want? See: Chemical Cover-up Continues: British Consider 'Disappearing' Skripals Somewhere in The Anglosphere. Moscow responded, saying that such an action would be seen by them as citizen abduction.

The embassy said any secret relocation of the duo from their current position in the Wiltshire town of Salisbury would negate any chance of hearing their account of what happened on March 4, when Sergei and Yulia were struck by a powerful military-grade nerve agent.

"The world, while having no opportunity to interact with them, will have every reason to see this as an abduction of two Russian nationals or at least as their isolation," the embassy's website said.
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Yulia, a Russian citizen who lived in Moscow and was attacked in the UK while visiting her father, reportedly intends to seek political asylum in Britain, Russia's RIA news agency reported on Monday.

"I know that Yulia Skripal's statement about political asylum is coming already," her cousin, Viktoria Skripal, said on a Russian TV talk show, according to RIA.

That makes it sound as if Viktoria thinks Yulia might genuinely want asylum. This should clarify what she thinks: 'I fear Yulia will now be pushed to disown us and get political asylum - and we will never be able to see her and Sergei again.'

The hospital's handling of the case (and the Skripals) has been abysmal, but they're probably under a lot of pressure to obey. See:

• John Helmer writes letter to Salisbury Hospital regarding Yulia Skripal
• Brits preventing Yulia Skripal from calling relatives, flout international law by preventing Russian embassy from seeing her

Note that in that first article, Helmer addressed his letter to Blanshard, the woman making the statement in the video above. She has refused to confirm that Yulia and Sergei have signed consent forms. Blanshard has claimed to be speaking on their behalf, but we have nothing but her word to confirm if that's true or not. Here's what she had to say in today's statement:

"All three had been exposed to a nerve agent," Blanshard said. She added that the Skripals had "both received round-the-clock care" throughout the last four weeks.

"I won't go into great detail about the treatment but nerve agents attach themselves to certain enzymes in the body. This results in hallucinations and sickness. We then needed to use a variety of drugs to supplement the patients to create more enzymes to fight the poisoning," she said.

"Both patients have responded exceptionally well to the treatment we've been providing, but equally, both patients are at different stages in their recovery.

"Her father has also made good progress. On Friday, I announced he was no longer in a critical condition. Although he is recovering more slowly than Yulia, we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course."

Yep, it's a "miracle", all right.

Comment: Another insane theory that tries to reconcile what Putin does and what the MSM says Putin does.