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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is being roundly â and rightly â criticized for his failure to promptly condemn Hamas rocket attacks against Israel at the outset of its latest military go-round with Hamas, and for his subsequent, rather laid-back expression of support for Israel.
At a news conference after the first rockets were launched, Schumer, together with Robert Menendez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, only went so far as to grudgingly say that âIsrael had a right to defend itselfâ â as if what it was doing was something wrong and needed some justifying. And when pressed by a reporter, he simply deferred to Menendez who proceeded to chide Israel for the inadvertent, to be sure, deaths and injuries suffered by Palestinian civilians and children.
It is said that in physics the closest distance between two particles is Chuck Schumer and a news camera. Not that the Majority Leader of the United States Senate should be faulted for being a Jewish ham. His mastery of media has enabled him to ascend to the pinnacle of power in America.
Senator Schumer likes to boast that his name Schumer comes from the Hebrew word for “guardian” and that he is the guardian of Israel. Yet when an unprecedented rain of rockets fell on the cities of Israel for eleven straight days, our self-anointed guardian was deafeningly silent. The politician who is poised to pontificate about the most trivial of matters apparently has not given a single address or even a social media post on the dire situation.
Canada off-limits to U.S. leisure travelers for at least another month
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A helicopter flys past a Canadian flag in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Canadian media reported late Tuesday that the border with the U.S. would stay shut through at least June 21.Brent Lewin/Bloomberg News Service
PLATTSBURGH Quebec Premier François Legault was scheduled to reveal a reopening plan for the province Tuesday evening, but it wasn t expected to extend across the border to the United States. Meanwhile, Canadian media reported late Tuesday that the border with the U.S. would stay shut through at least June 21.