“When the Republican Party runs out of ideas, all they have left is trolling,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said of the Florida governor s revenge notion.
Gina Carano And Costar Both Made Nazi Analogies. Hers Was Better, And She Got Fired
February 11, 2021
Disney-owned Lucasfilm fired “The Mandalorian” star Gina Carano this week after the vocally conservative actress made a holocaust comparison in the wrong direction, according to the executives of the Star Wars franchise.
“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children,” Carano wrote on Instagram. “Most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views.”
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Western Wall on the final day of his tenure, January 20, 2021 (Courtesy)
David Friedman still believes.
The bankruptcy lawyer who became one of Donald Trump’s most trusted foreign policy advisers came into his role as US ambassador to Israel with a clearly defined conservative, pro-Israel ideology, and he left office with that worldview firmly intact.
Friedman maintains that by coming in as outsiders without any diplomatic experience, he and others in the administration were able to smash precedents and deliver a number of policy objectives long sought by Israel and many in the United States: moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018, normalizing with parts of the Arab world, pulling the US out of the Iran nuclear deal, recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, threatening the International Criminal Court over a war crimes investigation into Is