Day: April 20, 2024

House Passes Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan Aid

House Passes Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan Aid

U.S. House Votes On Foreign Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel, And Taiwan WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 20: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) reads from his notes while speaking with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aide bills at the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. The House is passed a $95 billion foreign aid package today for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
U.S. House Votes On Foreign Aid Packages For Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 20: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) reads from his notes while speaking with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aide bills at the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. The House passed a $95 billion foreign aid package today for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
12:27 PM – Saturday, April 20, 2024

The House passed a series of bills to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan along with the potential ban of TikTok.

Following a morning of deliberations on the House floor Saturday, the four bills will be combined into one and forwarded to the Senate for their approval.

After which, the package will be forwarded to President Joe Biden for his signature.

Biden praised the bill, stating he would sign the legislation if passed by the Senate.

“I want to thank Speaker Johnson, Leader Jeffries, and the bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in the House who voted to put our national security first,” Biden said in a statement following the votes. “I urge the Senate to quickly send this package to my desk so that I can sign it into law.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) signaled Saturday that the Senate is expected to vote on the package on Tuesday.

“I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X after the vote.

Additionally, on Saturday, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz expressed gratitude to Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for their assistance in approving the aid.

More than $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, more than $26 billion for Israel, and more than $8 billion for Taiwan and Indo-Pacific security are all included in the bills.

A fourth bill calls for a national ban on China’s ByteDance if the company does not sell the social media site TikTok within nine months (the president may grant a ninety-day extension).

The $95 billion version of the aid package to finance Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine was approved by the Senate in February.

In response to Johnson’s aid plan, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed a motion to remove Speaker Johnson from office in March, but he hasn’t yet forced a vote on the proposal.

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Rep. Claudia Tenney slams Biden: Israel is ‘fighting for the West against Islamic terrorism’

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/rep-claudia-tenney-slams-biden-israel-is-fighting-for-the-west-against-islamic-terrorism; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes: 

Tenney slammed Biden for his betrayal of Israel “and for having made the Islamic regime ‘flush with cash’ by reversing former President Donald Trump’s crippling sanctions, emboldening it and its terror proxies.” She hit the nail on the head.

It should be clear to anyone by now that Israel is not only fighting an existential war, but a frontline war against enemies who threaten the entire West. These enemies, including Iran, Hamas and Iran’s other proxies, have openly stated their intention to obliterate Israel and aim for a global caliphate. Most mystifying is that there are far too many who still do not see the grave jihad threat to America, or that Israel is on the front line against that same jihad.

“Exclusive — Rep. Tenney Slams Biden for Boosting Iran: Israel ‘Fighting for the West Against Islamic Terrorism,’” by Joshua Klein, Breitbart, April 17, 2024:

Republicans stand “strongly” behind Israel, which is fighting a war both for its own existence and “for the West — against Islamic terrorism in the Middle East,” according to Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), who slammed President Joe Biden for vowing not to back an Israeli response and for having made the Islamic regime “flush with cash” by reversing former President Donald Trump’s crippling sanctions, emboldening it and its terror proxies.

Lauding Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign,” which imposed “tough” sanctions on Iran, Tenney also criticized Biden for having “unraveled” all that the Trump administration accomplished, having “turned the world upside-down,” and having put Israel in a “perilous position” while the Middle East was on a “path to peace.”

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Tenney, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed the Biden administration’s leaking to the press — before Saturday and Sunday’s unprecedented attack — that Iran would strike in 48 hours.

“It was a little disturbing that Biden telegraphed that there is going to be an attack on Israel [from Iran],” she said. “How is that a secure type of thing to say, and why is he telegraphing that for the rest of the world?”

During a call on Saturday, immediately after Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones at Israel, Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. would not back any Israeli response, telling the Israeli Premier to “take the win” of defending itself from a direct attack on his country.

Tenney then turned to the current administration’s policy of appeasement, which enriched and emboldened the Islamic regime to attack Israel both through its terror proxies and directly.

“What is the Biden administration doing giving money to Iran and making them flush with cash, which they are using to attack our ally [Israel], with Iran giving money to Hamas from the sanctions relief. And now Iran is directly hitting Israel, which is an unprecedented incident,” she said. “I’m very concerned, and I hope that Israel is going to act knowing that, other than Joe Biden and a few other players, we Republicans are strongly standing behind Israel.”…

Biden administration sent money to Palestinians who used their US training and weapons to wage jihad against Israel

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/biden-administration-sent-money-to-palestinians-who-used-their-us-training-and-weapons-to-wage-jihad-against-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

In January, the Palestinian Authority increased its “pay-for-slay” payments by $1.3 million per month. Yet no matter what proof emerges that the Palestinian Authority is sympathetic to and actively aiding jihad terrorists, the Biden administration still sends it money. The administration is funding terror and assisting in jihad against Israelis.

In 2011, Palestinian Media Watch exposed in the US Congress the fact that “the PA pays salaries to terrorists,” and while many countries withdrew financial support from the PA, America continued to fund it, and still does.

Trump, however, directed the State Department to withdraw $200 million in aid to Judea, Samaria and Gaza in 2018. In 2021, however, Biden reversed Trump’s aid cuts to the Palestinians, as well as to the Hamas-infiltrated UNRWA — long known for spreading hatred of Jews in Palestinian school curricula.

Palestinian Media Watch has now uncovered direct terror financing by the US government of active elements of the Palestinian jihad.

How much longer will the Biden administration continue to abuse American taxpayers and get away with being complicit in actual murder?

“US money to convicted terrorists; US training to aspiring terrorists,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, April 16, 2024:

After Palestinian Media Watch exposed in the US Congress in 2011 that the PA pays salaries to terrorists, most Western countries eventually cut off funding of the PA’s general budget and instead gave money for specific projects, such as education. However, one Palestinian framework has remained a recipient of Western money and was also excluded from the limitations of the Taylor Force Act, which prohibits American funding of the PA. That framework is the PA Security Forces.

The U.S. State Department said that in 2002, it provided $45 million to the PA security sector:

“The U.S. government plans to provide an additional $75 million in economic assistance to the Palestinian people this year. Additionally, the United States is also providing $45 million for programs to support the security sector, including important improvements to the rule of law.”

[U.S. Department of State website, March 26, 2022]

Now the PA reports that the Western-funded General Intelligence Service of the PA Security Forces gave a special grant to precisely those terrorists whom the West is trying not to fund—the convicted Palestinian terrorists and dead terrorists. Worse still, the recipients are terrorists who are members of the PA General Intelligence Service who used their training and weapons from the U.S. to perpetrate terror against Israel. The decision to give the grants to the terrorists was made by the head of the PA General Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj, who is presented internationally as a “moderate” who cooperates with Israel in fighting Palestinian terror. Yet instead of punishing those members of the PA Security Forces who turned to terror, Faraj decided to give them an extra reward:

“The [PA] General Intelligence Service in Jenin provided a grant to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners(i.e., terrorists) from the service’s ranks in the district…
A delegation from the service provided the grant to 25 families from among the Martyrs’ families and 11 families from among the prisoners’ families from the General Intelligence ranks.
[PA General Intelligence] Service Director in Jenin Adnan Abu Aisheh said that the message of the service, under the instructions of its leader [Head of PA General Intelligence] Majed Faraj, is to emphasize what President Mahmoud Abbas has said again and again – that if we are left with one penny, it will be paid to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners.”

[WAFA, official PA news agency, April 4, 2024;
official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 5, 2024]

Official PATV also reported on the special grants to members of the PA Security Forces-turned-terrorists’ families:

News flash on screen: “The [PA] General Intelligence [Service] gives a grant to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners from its members in the Jenin district.”

[Official PA TV, April 5, 2024]

In addition to these direct payments from the U.S.-funded budget to terrorists, new recruits to the PA security forces train “at a U.S.-funded training center” [Washington Post, March 5, 2024]….

New PAC Wants Muslim Immigrants to Run for President

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/new-pac-wants-muslim-immigrants-to-run-for-president; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

“This is the last form of acceptable bigotry in American society”

Should Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks run for president or be deported? A sane country would have deported the obnoxious Turkish influencer who instead decided to run for president on a platform of attacking Israel during the Hamas war and insisting that despite the Constitution, he should be allowed to be president.

Arkansas election officials on Monday said online news personality Cenk Uygur, who was born in Turkey, won't appear on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot next year.

“My office has received your candidate filing paperwork,” Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston said in a letter to Uygur. “However, based on your own proclamation, you are not qualified to hold the elected office for which you filed. Therefore, I cannot, in good faith, certify your name to the ballot.”

The Constitution sets simple requirements for the president: A candidate must be at least 35 years old and “a natural born citizen.”

Several other states, including the early primary states of New Hampshire and Nevada, have also rejected his application to appear on their ballots.

Uygur said officials were treating naturalized citizens as “second-class.” He has argued that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution makes him eligible to run for president.

“This is the last form of acceptable bigotry in American society and I’m going to fight it with every fiber of my being,” Uygur said in a statement. “I’m not going to accept that I don’t belong in my own country.”

Uygur’s only presidential angle, apart from being constitutionally ineligible and widely hated, is trying to get on the Left of Cornel West on terrorism and Israel. But since his presidential campaign isn’t going anywhere, what about a PAC?

A newly formed progressive hybrid Political Action Committee (PAC) is looking to support Muslim candidates and naturalized citizens who want to run for federal office.

The group, dubbed “Cavalry PAC,” was filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) last Monday.

The group is headed by former Democratic Congressional candidate Kara Eastman and progressive media personality Cenk Uygur. It is set to launch on Tuesday, Eastman told The Hill.

The new PAC will continue the constitutional dogfight.

“We’re also going to continue the litigation that we started, because the idea behind his [Uygur’s] campaign was fighting full equality for naturalized citizens, which we still believe in the 14th Amendment grants,” Eastman said.

“We did not have the resources to be able to do that through the campaign, or the time really – that’s one of the main goals for this,” she continued. “So we want to pay off the legal bills, but then, just as importantly, if not, more importantly, move it forward with the potential of even suing in other states.”

If Obama can do it, why not Uygur? Sure, even Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of Uygur (and think how horrible you have to be for Bernie to risk offending his base by pulling an endorsement from one of his pet leftists), but there’s always tomorrow. And if the country keeps going the way that it is, the impossibilities of today become the nightmares of another day.

Unless America wakes up.

Chicago: Leftist Muslim teaches American leftists to scream ‘Death to America’ in Farsi

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/chicago-leftist-muslim-teaches-american-leftists-to-scream-death-to-america-in-farsi; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

The fond fools have no idea of the fact that once Israel is destroyed, if it is, they will be squarely in the sights of their jihadi friends. Just ask the Tudeh party of Iran.

“American Anti-War Activists Cheer for Iran’s War,” by Olivia Reingold, The Free Press, April 14, 2024:

CHICAGO — About 300 anti-war activists crowded into the basement of the Teamsters Union’s headquarters on Saturday to hear organizers from all over the country describe their plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention this August. Joe Biden’s backing of Israel since Hamas’s October 7 attack has turned these left-wing radicals against their own party.

“It’s really inspiring to see that people are just as enthusiastic, and maybe even more enthusiastic, to march on the DNC as they are to march on the RNC,” says Omar Flores, a Milwaukee-based activist. “We can thank Genocide Joe and our movement for that.”

But then a man stumbles to the podium, wiping sweat from his forehead. He grabbed the microphone to announce that Iran's Islamic regime of Iran had launched missiles and drones heading straight toward Israel.

“They believe that they will be in Palestinian—I don’t call it Israeli—airspace between two and four a.m., which means about two to four hours from now,” he says. “In addition, there are reports of drones having been fired on Israel from Yemen and Iraq.”

The crowd, all wearing black N95s, erupts into applause. Someone in the back lowers their mask to send a celebratory whistle soaring throughout the room.

The man at the podium, Hatem Abudayyeh, heads the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, “a purported community group which, on information and belief, is an affiliate of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror organization based in Gaza,” according to a lawsuit over the alleged relations between U.S. advocacy groups and Hamas.

“This is when this country and the world needs us because the United States is going to, quote unquote, defend the criminal Israeli state,” says Abudayyeh, whose home was raided by the FBI in 2010 as part of an investigation “concerning the material support of terrorism.”…

Earlier that day, before the news of the attack broke, at a “breakout session” on “the anti-war movement,” Shabbir Rizvi, an organizer with Anti-War Committee Chicago, taught participants how to chant “death to Israel” and “death to America” in Farsi.

“Marg bar Israel,” he chanted, leading a group of about 80 attendees along with him. A man draped in a Soviet flag bearing a gold hammer and sickle clapped his hands.

A man in a full black denim outfit shouted out from behind his N95—“Can we get a ‘marg bar America’?”

“We can get a ‘marg bar America,’ ” Rizvi replied.

Then Rizvi raised his hand in the air, leading the crowd like a conductor.

“Marg bar America,” they cheered….

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A North Carolina male high school student, Christian McGhee who’s 16, was suspended for using the term "illegal alien" when asking his English teacher a question. The journalist who broke the story, Brianna Kraemer, joins One America's Stella Escobedo.

Department of Education Reportedly Vows to Shut Down Largest Christian University in the U.S.~The Biden administration and the largest Christian university in the U.S., Grand Canyon University (GCU), are locked in a heated battle, reaching a fever pitch. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has reportedly vowed to shut down the university. Last year, the Department of Education accused GCU of misleading more than 7,500 students about the costs of its doctoral programs, resulting in students allegedly paying more due to undisclosed continuation course fees. Consequently, the department imposed a $37.7 million fine on the university. Then, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued GCU over similar allegations. GCU has staunchly challenged the accuracy of these allegations. Tanner DiBella, President of the American Council, joins OAN’s Alicia Summers.