By Rolf Yungclas ——Bio and Archives--January 23, 2017
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“A variety of fighters, bombers and remotely piloted aircraft engaged in the bombing run, which saw 25 strikes in Syria and six in Iraq. In Syria, two strikes destroyed ISIS units and artillery near the town of Bab. ISIS forces in Raqqa, the terrorist group’s de facto capital, took a heavy beating, as 22 strikes destroyed 12 tactical units, nine fighting positions, two underground improvised explosive bomb factories and an ISIS headquarters. The final strike targeted two ISIS oil wells in Deir ez Zour.”
“An outspoken critic of Israel, Sarsour supports the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative that uses various forms of public protest, economic pressure, and court rulings to advance the Hamas agenda of permanently destroying Israel as a Jewish nation-state. “Vis-a-vis the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, Sarsour favors a one-state solution where an Arab majority and a Jewish minority would live together within the borders of a single country. She made clear her opposition to Israel's existence as a Jewish state when she tweeted in October 2012 that ‘nothing is creepier than Zionism.’ “Falsely maintaining that ‘Palestine existed before the State of Israel,’ Sarsour seeks to help ‘bring back a Palestinian State for the Palestinian people.’ To advance this agenda, Sarsour has tweeted images of fraudulent maps claiming to depict the ‘Palestinian loss of land’ that supposedly occurred between 1946 and 2000.”Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed to reporters late Sunday afternoon that President Trump will meet at the White House with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders on Monday. The President will have a very busy first week:
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“Mr. Trump is planning executive actions early in the week on immigration and trade, two White House officials said, and will have a chance to lay the groundwork for a trade deal during a meeting Friday with British Prime Minister Theresa May, the first foreign leader to visit the new president in the White House. He also will meet with congressional leaders on Monday and attend a lawmakers’ retreat later in the week, where he could discuss his legislative agenda.” “The president’s pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, is scheduled for a confirmation vote in the Senate on Monday, and White House officials expect at least three more cabinet nominees—Ben Carson for Housing and Urban Development, Nikki Haley as United Nations ambassador and Rick Perry for energy secretary—to face votes by week’s end. Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, on Sunday cleared a key hurdle on his path to become secretary of state.”And while “numerous unconfirmed reports...in the international media were circulating Sunday that President Donald Trump intends to announce on Monday that “he will relocate the U.S. embassy to Israel from the coastal city of Tel Aviv to the capital city of Jerusalem,” the Trump administration said otherwise: "The White House has responded to the reports in the foreign press with a statement indicating that no statement on Jerusalem was ‘imminent,’ and that the administration was ‘at the very beginning stages of even discussing this subject.’ ”
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Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years