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Man stabbed near Berlin’s Holocaust Museum – plus, German elections coming soon
How symbolic: German police arrested a suspect after a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial left a person seriously injured on Friday evening local time. Police haven’t yet given a motive or made any connection between the stabbing and the Holocaust … Continue reading →
More on the Bibas family
Now Hamas is saying they’ll give back the body of Shiri Bibas. It will, I’m sure, be examined and the DNA checked to see if it finally means that this kidnapped mother’s body has come home to Israel. Awful, terrible, … Continue reading →
Will Trump lift sanctions on Russia?
And if so, why? Commenter “mkent” offers this idea: Trump has said as a part of the ceasefire he’ll lift Western sanctions against Russia. It’s these sanctions which have ground Russian war production to a halt. They are having great … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/21/2025
It was bad before, but now it’s much worse: the forensics on the Bibas family reveal …
… that Ariel and Kfir were brutally murdered. And that the body of the woman that Hamas so kindly returned is not their mother Shiri Bibas, but is instead some unknown person. The military informs the Bibas family that the … Continue reading →
Kash Patel is the new FBI head
Patel has been confirmed by the Senate, and this time McConnell voted yes, and Collins and Murkowski voted no. When Pete Hegseth was confirmed, I wrote this post about Murkowski and Collins, and what I wrote there applies to the … Continue reading →
Ghoulish Hamas parades the bodies of the Bibas family
Today Hamas returned the bodies of the Shiri Bibas and her baby and toddler, and of elderly Oded Lifshitz. We really didn’t need more evidence of the ghoulish nature of this entire society, but we got it nevertheless. When we … Continue reading →
What did Trump actually say about Zelensky starting the war?
I realize that Trump actually said a great many things about Ukraine and about Zelensky, some of them contradictory. That’s par for the course for Trump. I think I’ve made it clear that I find some of those things alarming, … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/20/2025
A whole lotta 2s in that date.
Continue reading →More on Trump, Zelensky, Putin, and the Ukraine peace talks
Today I’ve already written one post on my concerns about Trump’s recent statements on Ukraine, and his dissing of Zelensky. One of the things that has kept me wondering what’s really going on is that Rubio is Trump’s Secretary of … Continue reading →
Six living hostages are due to come back on Saturday [UPDATED]
[UPDATE 8:18 PM]: Israel has announced that the Bibas family’s bodies are due to be returned Thursday: Israel has confirmed that Hamas’ youngest hostages, Kfira and Ariel Bibas, and their mother have been killed in Gaza — and their bodies … Continue reading →