U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said overseas on Thursday that Israel is on the verge of becoming indistinguishable from Hamas‚ the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) responsible for murdering 1‚200 people on October 7 and wounding thousands more.Blinken made the remarks while speaking in Brussels shortly after the White House released a readout of a conversation that President Joe Biden had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day.Biden attacked Israel for the humanitarian situation inside Gaza‚ calling it unacceptable‚ even though Israel has worked to allow aid to flow into the area‚ but has had to do so in a manner that prevents weapons from entering. Biden also seemed to suggest that Israel was responsible for Hamas not freeing the hostages that it kidnapped more than six months ago.What happened after October 7 could have ended immediately if Hamas had stopped hiding behind civilians‚ released the hostages and put down its weapons‚ but Israel is not Hamas‚ Blinken said. Israel is a democracy; Hamas‚ a terrorist organization. Democracies place the highest value on human life‚ every human life. As it has been said‚ whoever saves a life‚ saves the entire world.Blinken then suggested that Israels military campaign against Hamas risks making the country indistinguishable from the terrorist organization even though Israel has taken unprecedented steps to minimize civilian casualties‚ including warning civilians to evacuate areas where Israel would conduct military operations.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APPThats our strength. Its what distinguishes us from terrorists like Hamas‚ Blinken said. If we lose that reverence for human life‚ we risk becoming indistinguishable from those we confront.Blinken claimed that important steps that Israel has taken to allow assistance into Gaza were woefully insufficient and unacceptable.Blinken claimed that 100 percent of the population in Gaza knows acute levels of food insecurity. 100 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance.WATCH:Secretary of State Blinken implies Israel is increasingly becoming indistinguishable from Hamas in losing a reverence for human life: And I made clear then the commitment of the United States to Israel';s security and to ensuring that Oct. 7 could never happen again. I pic.twitter.com/NrgDG3QDLB Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 4‚ 2024

For a very long time in American politics‚ there was a truism about running for president of the United States: You were supposed to run to the extremes during the primaries‚ and then you were supposed to run toward the center in the general.That made perfect sense. The idea was to consolidate a base in the primaries to overcome your primary rivals‚ and then run toward the center because thats where the independents were.And the truth is that in every American election‚ the winner was the person who won the independents. The sole exception came in 2012‚ when Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama with independents‚ but it didnt matter because enough of Obamas base voted that he was able to win.In every other race‚ independents have decided the election.Joe Biden is deciding to buck conventional wisdom. He is not running to the center. Instead‚ hes believing all of the political idiots around him that he has to run it to the far-Left. Hes believing the Bernie Sanders crowd. Hes believing the Pod Save America crowd. Hes believing the most extreme members of his own base.There is very little data to support the notion he is going to win if he runs to the extreme parts of his base and that is why he is currently running far below expectations. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro ShowThe latest NPR Marist poll shows Biden two points ahead of former President Trump nationally. The same poll in October of 2020 found Biden was winning among independent voters by 21 points‚ 57 to 36.The current Marist poll shows Trump beating Biden with independent voters by seven points‚ 52 to 45. That is a net-28 point swing toward Trump among independent voters.There is a reason for that: Biden has decided he is not going to swivel to the center. Instead‚ he is going to run directly to his Left. He has cheerleaders on the Left who are promoting this narrative‚ even though the narrative isnt particularly true.The real reason Biden is losing is because most Americans perceive the economy to be poor. Most Americans perceive the president to be too old. They perceive Biden to be disconnected. And ultimately‚ they believe Biden doesnt have their concerns at heart.Meanwhile‚ all of Obamas old buddies are suggesting Biden should cut off aid to Israel‚ that doing so will win him votes. This is why Karine Jean-Pierre is suggesting Israel should not go into Rafah‚ the last bastion of Hamas.And because he is afraid‚ Biden is listening to all of this.Now‚ the Left is using the horrifying and tragic incident in which seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen were killed in what is best described as a friendly-fire incident. Apparently‚ the Israeli Air Force thought there was a terrorist riding on top of the convoy. Theyve already apologized. Theyve already acknowledged they were wrong.Friendly-fire incidents in war are extremely common. This is something Americans really dont have a lot of experience with because if you dont watch war closely and have members of the military in your family‚ its almost impossible to think about the horror of being killed by your own side.But the reality is that this happens a lot. Its always tragic; its always terrible‚ and it happens a lot‚ particularly in areas that are highly populated and in which it is very difficult to tell one side from another.During World War II‚ perhaps as many as 56‚000 American troops were killed by friendly fire‚ as reported by the RAND Institute. During the Iraq war‚ somewhere around 1% of American troops killed in Iraq were killed by friendly fire.Right now‚ because of the very close quarter combat situations in Gaza‚ at least 17% of all Israelis who are being killed in the Gaza Strip have been killed by friendly fire.This is not rare in the annals of American war.In 2003‚ according to PBS‚ a BBC reporter traveling in a convoy of 8 to 10 cars said it came under attack as it approached an area that was recently captured from Iraqi forces. The reporter said‚ I counted 10 or 12 dead bodies around us. There are Americans dead. It was an American plane. It dropped a bomb right beside us. I saw it land about 10 to 12 feet away.Apparently‚ the attack killed at least 18 Kurdish fighters and injured another 45. Pat Tillman‚ who left the NFL to join the Army after September 11‚ was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan in 2004.The U.S. military mistakenly attacked an actual medical hospital‚ killing 22 people in Afghanistan. During the attempt to go after ISIS in Syria‚ the United States bombed hospitals in Raqqa‚ according to the Physicians for Human Rights. Reuters reported friendly fire from the U.S.-led coalition fighting Daesh (ISIS) killed 10 members of an Iraqi security force and a local official in an airstrike west of Baghdad.The worst lie you can tell about allied forces in Iraq‚ Afghanistan‚ or Israeli forces in Gaza is the lie that they are actively attempting to target people they are working with.The World Central Kitchen has been working with the Israeli government to get aid into the Gaza Strip. That is why they are there. Theyve been doing it for six months.What happened was horrifying‚ but there is zero evidence or logic to support the idea that Israel would purposefully strike a convoy of aid vehicles for literally no reason.The attempt to make a moral equivalence between Israel hitting an aid convoy in a case of mistaken identity and Hamas holding hostages and killing civilians on purpose‚ is disgusting.You want the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to end? Hamas could surrender right now. But not only is Hamas not surrendering‚ they are also not even negotiating anymore because they believe they have the world on their side‚ as the world is so eager to declare a moral equivalence between an actual terrorist group and an actual army.What Hamas wants more than anything right now is world pressure on Israel to stop before Israel can finish off Hamas in Rafah. They believe they have world opinion on their side now. Israel has offered a six-week ceasefire‚ and Hamas walked away from the table.Why? Because they dont care how many civilians have died. They want more civilians to die. Theyre interested in more starvation. Hamas wants more people dead‚ as more people dead means more pressure on Israel. Hamas is in the advantageous PR position of being able to hold all of Gaza hostage by refusing to surrender and then suggesting that if Israel doesnt allow them to survive and continue to threaten Israel‚ then its Israels fault.Hamas knows theyve got Israel in a PR bind because of a foolish media and a foolish West who have decided that after a terrorist group starts a war with a much larger power‚ that it is the job of the larger power to be absolutely anodyne in its response.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APPNo matter how much aid Israel lets in‚ Israel will still be blamed for starvation‚ despite the fact theyre allowing hundreds of trucks into an active war zone. Ive never even seen anything like this militarily. This would be the equivalent of the United States attempting to facilitate aid into Iraq‚ into Baghdad‚ in the middle of a war with the actual Saddam Hussein Iraqi army. It would be comparable to the United States in the middle of a battle with the Taliban in 2000 trying to get aid into Kabul while the Taliban was still in control of Kabul.The prevailing foreign policy idea on nearly all sides at this point is that if war is imperfect‚ war must end.If that is the way Americans or Westerners are going to think about war‚ we will never win another war. Its just that simple because all the incentive structures are then on the side of the people who are willing to fight a dirty war. The dirtier and uglier the war‚ the more we dont want to be involved in the war.But were not even involved in the war as Americans. Nobody wants American troops on the ground. I dont even want America building a humanitarian aid bridge in the Mediterranean. We shouldnt have American troops anywhere near this area. Its absurd that Biden is putting troops in that particular area while simultaneously doing the dirty work of the Iranians.He is funding both sides of this war. Its absolutely insane. You wonder why people disapprove of Bidens position? He doesnt have one. Hes all over the damn place. And the end result is that Americas enemies grow stronger.All the time‚ Biden is listening to those people who tell him hell win if he goes harder toward the Left.

A Harvard law professor is calling on the countrys most prestigious school to abandon forcing academics to make Diversity‚ Equity‚ and Inclusion (DEI) statements.Randall Kennedy‚ who teaches criminal law and contracts at Harvard Law School‚ penned a scathing column Tuesday in The Harvard Crimson‚ the schools newspaper.Kennedy‚ who is black and also teaches courses on the regulation of race relations‚ skewered the Ive Leagues commitment to requiring DEI statements as part of the schools hiring process.Candidates for academic positions at Harvard should not be asked to support ideological commitments‚ Kennedy wrote.He noted the howl of protest that would erupt if Harvard were to ask academic candidates for statements about their positions on capitalism‚ patriotism‚ or Making America Great Again with a clear expectation of allegiance.By requiring academics to profess and flaunt faith in DEI‚ the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom‚ Kennedy wrote.He criticized the expectation that DEI statements will essentially constitute pledges of allegiance that enlist academics into the DEI movement by dint of soft-spoken but real coercion: If you want the job or the promotion‚ play ball or else.The DEI statement requirement discourages conservative candidates‚ Kennedy said.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APPIt does not take much discernment to see‚ moreover‚ that the diversity statement regime leans heavily and tendentiously towards varieties of academic leftism and implicitly discourages candidates who harbor ideologically conservative dispositions‚ he wrote.Kennedy also called out the cottage industry of diversity statement counselors that has sprung up in the last few years.By overreaching‚ by resorting to compulsion‚ by forcing people to toe a political line‚ by imposing ideological litmus tests‚ by incentivizing insincerity‚ and by creating a circular mode of discourse that is seemingly impervious to self-questioning‚ the current DEI regime is discrediting itself‚ Kennedy wrote.Academics at Harvard and beyond already feel intense and growing resentment toward the DEI movement‚ he said.I am a scholar on the left committed to struggles for social justice. The realities surrounding mandatory DEI statements‚ however‚ make me wince‚ Kennedy said.The practice of demanding them ought to be abandoned‚ both at Harvard and beyond‚ he wrote.Kennedys column comes in the wake of a slew of woes for Harvard over the last few months.Harvard faced backlash in recent months for its former president Claudine Gays highly criticized congressional testimony on Harvards response to anti-Semitism on campus.The Ivy League school is currently facing a congressional probe on how it handled anti-Semitism on campus‚ as well as the schools response to the plagiarism allegations against Gay.

Prosecutors in Illinois announced on Thursday that they have charged a Mexican illegal alien who just entered the U.S. for allegedly murdering his wife in front of their two children.DuPage County States Attorney Robert Berlin and Carol Stream Chief of Police Don Cummings announced the charges today against 33-year-old Baltazar Perez-Estrada‚ whom they say murdered his wife‚ 26-year-old Maricela Simon Franco‚ on Sunday night following a domestic altercation at her apartment.On April 1‚ 2024‚ at approximately 11:30 a.m.‚ Perez-Estrada entered the Carol Stream Police Department and informed authorities that he had allegedly stabbed his wife‚ prosecutors said in a statement. Officers took Perez-Estrada into custody at this time and immediately opened an investigation. Through the course of their investigation‚ authorities learned that Perez-Estrada and Franco were at the apartment together and got into a verbal altercation at approximately 10 p.m.‚ the previous evening.It is alleged that the argument turned physical resulting in Perez-Estrada stabbing Franco dozens of times about her head‚ neck‚ body and hands‚ nearly decapitating her head‚ the statement continued. She was pronounced deceased at the scene. Authorities also learned that Perez-Estada had been residing in Mexico and illegally arrived in the United States approximately two weeks ago.The statement said that Perez-Estrada was charged with five counts of First Degree Murder and was charged for illegally being in the U.S. He is scheduled to be arraigned in court on April 25.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APPBerlin said that the murder will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in his county.Not only has this senseless and brutal act removed Maricela from their lives‚ but it has robbed two young children of their mother‚ Cummings said. As domestic violence continues to victimize so many‚ law enforcement within DuPage County stands ready to partner with available social service programs to provide a sustainable resolution to those in need.Related: Mexican Illegal Alien Arrested For Aggravated Murder In Ohio; Was Previously Deported 7 Times

Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Thursday against an argument from former President Donald Trump and 14 of his co-defendants to dismiss the 2020 election-related charges they face in Georgia on free speech grounds.Trump had argued that the prosecution from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was a violation of First Amendment protections of political speech‚ freedom of association‚ and the right to petition. McAfee‚ who is overseeing the case‚ ruled against Trump arguing that Willis has a right to prosecute.After considering the extensive briefing‚ the argument of counsel‚ and the indictment‚ the Court finds these vital constitutional protections do not reach the actions and statements alleged by the State‚ McAfee wrote.In other words‚ the law does not insulate speech allegedly made during fraudulent or criminal conduct from prosecution under the guise of petitioning the government. The right to petition is not absolute‚ nor does it carry special First Amendment status that would render claims asserted under it immune from criminal recourse‚ the judge added.McAfee said that he was required to interpret the indictment against Trump and his co-defendants liberally in favor of the State during the pretrial stage‚ adding that‚ the Court finds that the Defendants expressions and speech are alleged to have been made in furtherance of criminal activity and constitute false statements knowingly and willfully made in matters within a government agencys jurisdiction which threaten to deceive and harm the government.Trump lawyer Steve Saddow said that the defendants respectfully disagree with Judge McAfees order and will continue to evaluate their options regarding the First Amendment challenges.CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APPMcAfees order says that Trump may be able to challenge on the same grounds again later in the court case at the appropriate time after the establishment of a factual record.Williss case against Trump in Georgia has been full of turmoil amid a high profile hearing on whether she should be dismissed from the case over her relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade. Willis stayed on the case after McAfee ruled that either she or Wade had to leave the case.Last month‚ McAfee dismissed six charges in the case brought by Willis‚ including three against Trump. McAfee dismissed counts 2‚ 5‚ 6‚ 23‚ 28‚ and 38. Each count deals with allegations that Trump and his allies asked Georgia officials to break their oaths of office. The defendants challenged the charges‚ saying their Sixth Amendment rights and due process rights had been violated.

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