🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is headed to Israel during a time of turmoil

Democratic leaders have expressed concern about the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to visit Israel next week as mass protests over the Israeli government’s plan to curb the power of the high court and other democratic institutions continue to roil the country. A recent Israel cabinet decision to legalize illegal outposts and approve plans for 10,000 new housing units in existing settlements in the occupied West Bank, have also exacerbated tension with the Biden administration.

“I love Eretz Yisrael,” Schumer, the highest-ranking Jew in American politics, often says in speeches before Jewish and Israeli audiences. In recent appearances, Schumer has said that he has a special obligation as the leader of the Democratic Party to keep his caucus pro-Israel and preserve bipartisan support for the Jewish state no matter the makeup of the Israeli government.

Schumer will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he maintains a good working relationship, and with President Isaac Herzog. He has yet to speak out about the legal shake-up, which has already drawn criticism from President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other Democratic leaders.

“I know Bibi very well, and so we work together,” Schumer said in a speech last November.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/536238/chuck-schumer-israel-netanyahu/

🇺🇸⚡️- FEMA allegedly denied to give aid to East Palestine, Ohio after the destructive train derailment

🇸🇻 ❌️ 🏴 El Salvador, population 6M, has gone 300 days without any homicides. Before Bukele took over, it was considered the most dangerous in the world. There were 382 homicides in the city of Los Angeles (3.8M pop) last year.

El Salvador now has the lowest murder rate in the Americas.

The previous administration - the one that the United States backed - didn't have a single day without homicides - in 4 years.

They called Bukele a tyrant. They said he was anti democracy. Funny how El Salvador now has peace and Bukele has an > 90% approval rating.

What's behind this unprecedented drop in violent crime? An unprecedented crack down on gang violence. Over 61,000 people have been detained.

90 people died in police custody in November 2022 alone. To sum up why the homicide rate in El Salvador has cratered: they're getting rid of all the criminals.

Petty criminals are being imprisoned, violent criminals are being killed in police custody. A zero tolerance purge.

They changed the homicide definition/ to exclude:

- People killed in police custody
- People who die in prison
- People who die in confrontations with police

Are state executions without due process a good thing? Is El Salvador's homicide rate dropping? Yes.

- Calvin 🏴‍☠️

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1625983166702919680.html

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump will visit East Palestine next week

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Rocket strikes in Kiev

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Air raid alert throughout all of Ukraine. Multiple strikes reported nationwide.

🇺🇸⚡️- Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, has been put in hospice care.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Israeli airstrikes in Damascus

🇺🇸⚡️- Residents near East Palestine, Ohio have been reporting bizarre conditions, including rashes, blemishes, and illnesses.

🇧🇷🇺🇦🌐 💥🇷🇺— Lula (PT) confirms call with Zelensky; Kiev accepts Brazilian proposal at the UN

Lula is expected to telephone the president of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, in the next few days, in yet another sign of Brazil's effort to position itself as an interlocutor for the eventual condemnation of Russia in the war.

There was a request from the Ukrainian leader for a conversation with the Brazilian since Lula took office. But the offer took shape after the chancellors of both countries met in Munich (Germany). The Kiev government also signaled positively with Brazil's proposal to include, for the first time, an appeal for an end to hostilities in a resolution that will be put to a vote at the UN General Assembly next week.

Sources connected with pro-Putin ambassadors in Brazil confirm that this movement could weaken the autonomy of the BRICS, strengthened during much of the Bolsonaro government.

🇷🇸 - A Soros-funded NGO painted over several Serbian nationalist murals in Belgrade. The West's assault on Serbia continues.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Unconfirmed reports that IRGC Quds Force commander Ismail Qaani was killed in the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus earlier today

🇮🇷 - For those who are unaware, Ismail Qaani was made commander of the Quds Force right after Qasem Soleimani was killed in an American airstrike in 2020.

🇭🇺⚡️- Viktor Orban states that Europe may end up sending troops to Ukraine

🇻🇦 - David O'Connell, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, was shot and killed on Saturday.

🇰🇵⚡️- North Korea fired two tactical nuclear missile tests, at a range of 395km and 337km away

🇻🇦⚡️ - A pipe bomb was found behind a Catholic church in Philadelphia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian Armed Forces have liberated the town of Gryanikovka, Kharkov Oblast.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- A “large white balloon” has allegedly been spotted near Hawaii.

🇯🇵🇰🇵⚡️- Japan has requested an Emergency Meeting of the UN Security Council following North Korea’s missile tests