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Israeli leaders vow revenge after Tel Aviv attack | The Electronic Intifada “Revenge produces more revenge, which produces more revenge… – dumb, fruitless, cruel…”

Israeli forces have already raided Yatta and closed all its entrances, preventing Palestinians from freely moving in and out of the town. Approximately 100 high school students from Yatta were briefly detained by Israeli forces on Thursday as they tried to leave the town to attend their final exams. Israel meanwhile froze more than 83,000 permits allowing Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza to enter Israel and occupied East Jerusalem to visit family and pray at al-Aqsa mosque during the month of Ramadan, which began a few days ago. Two additional army battalions including “hundreds” of infantry and elite intelligence units are reportedly being deployed to the West Bank following the shooting attack. Lieberman also ordered the suspension of the return of slain Palestinians’ bodies to their families and has reportedly asked the attorney general “to look into the possibility of shortening the legal process to allow faster home demolitions of terrorist homes,” Haaretz reported. Such punitive demolitions of the homes of relatives of suspects are a form of collective punishment Israel uses exclusively against Palestinians.

Source: Israeli leaders vow revenge after Tel Aviv attack | The Electronic Intifada

Elizabeth Warren Endorses Clinton and Goes Taunt-for-Taunt With Trump – The New York Times

“What she is doing right now, focusing on the outrageousness of Donald Trump is really important,” said Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat of Wisconsin. “In the universal sense I am always saying, ‘Go, Elizabeth, go!’” Ms. Warren officially endorsed Hillary Clinton on Thursday. “I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States and be sure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House,” Ms. Warren told The Boston Globe. Never short on confidence, when asked on Thursday by Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC television host, if she believes that she herself could be commander in chief, Ms. Warren said, “Yes, I do.” Mrs. Clinton’s aides had been pressuring Ms. Warren for an endorsement, and the senator decided to do so after talking with Mr. Sanders over the weekend, aides close to her said. Ms. Warren shares Mr. Sanders’s dislike of superdelegates, who are typically longtime Democratic officials and activists. She waited until Democratic primary voters across the country had their say, but before the superdelegates formally cast their votes, to weigh in. Continue reading the main story Presidential Election 2016 Here’s the latest news and analysis of the candidates and issues shaping the presidential race. O.K. I’m With Trump. I Mean, He’s Almost the Nominee. JUN 10 Hillary Clinton Denounces Donald Trump as Untrustworthy on Women’s Issues JUN 10 Mitch McConnell Won’t Rule Out Rescinding His Endorsement of Donald Trump JUN 10 Obama’s Endorsement Leaves Hillary Clinton With a Balance to Strike JUN 10 Bill Clinton and Orrin Hatch Among Speakers at Muhammad Ali’s Memorial JUN 10 See More » Mrs. Clinton’s decisive victory in California’s primary on Tuesday and President Obama’s endorsement on Thursday provided additional impetus for her endorsement, people close to Ms. Warren said. Photo Senator Elizabeth Warren in Washington last month. Ms. Warren has called Donald J. Trump’s candidacy a “serious threat.” Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times “She maintained her neutrality in the primary and that gave her a special space,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois. But her attacks on Mr. Trump were hatched in her own brain, and carried out with a combination of vehemence and apparent pleasure. Through speeches, carefully chosen television appearances and tweet storms designed to skewer the businessman’s remarks, policies and dynamism, Ms. Warren has gone taunt-for-taunt with Mr. Trump, calling him a “loser,” a “small, insecure money grubber” and “weak.” And she is only warming up.

Source: Elizabeth Warren Endorses Clinton and Goes Taunt-for-Taunt With Trump – The New York Times

Anti-migrant party makes foreigners face of PR push – The Local

The populist party have made a name for themselves bashing migrants, whether they be Muslims, or Bulgarians and Romanians, who AfD claim move to Germany with the aim of living off its welfare system. The two models, Carla Caucean and Adi Ene, both come from Romania, one of the EU’s newest member states, reports jetzt.de. It appears that the AfD, too, never meant to make Eastern Europeans the face of its campaign. The images were downloaded from the stock image website iStock. When contacted by weekly magazine Kontext, the AfD in Baden-Württemberg said they had been given the pictures by a branch of the party in another part of Germany. Shortly afterwards the advert disappeared from their Facebook page. The AfD have something of a talent for shooting themselves in the foot.

Source: Anti-migrant party makes foreigners face of PR push – The Local

AR500 Armor Recalls Level III Body Armor Due to Risk of Gunshot Injury or Death | CPSC.gov

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Source: AR500 Armor Recalls Level III Body Armor Due to Risk of Gunshot Injury or Death | CPSC.gov

Tel Aviv mayor says the occupation is a cause of Palestinian terror | +972 Magazine

“On the one hand the occupation has lasted 49 years, and I took part in it,” Huldai told veteran journalist Ilana Dayan, “I recognize the reality and know that leaders with courage must look to take action and not just talk. The fact that we are suffering does not lead to a change in understanding of what must be done… There is no courage to do what needs to be done in order to reach a [peace] agreement.” “There is no way to hold people in a situation of occupation and think that they will reach the conclusion that every thing is okay and they will continue to live like that,” Huldai added.

Source: Tel Aviv mayor says the occupation is a cause of Palestinian terror | +972 Magazine

Family Dog Shot And Killed After Deputies Respond To The Wrong House: LAist – “total fail – hire deputies who are not panicked by dogs.”

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Brad Toms defended the deputies’ actions. He said that deputies approached the home cautiously and “rattled the fence” to see if there were any dogs. He told ABC 7, “A couple of small dogs ran out, barked at them, followed by a much larger dog who barked aggressively and charged toward the deputies.” Investigators say an audio recording of the incident reveals barking, followed by one gunshot.After all of that, deputies did eventually make it to the correct home where they arrested a 42-year-old woman on suspicion of grand theft auto. The deputies involved in Buddy’s death will not be punished.In March of 2015, San Diego police responding to a domestic disturbance call at 5 a.m. on a Sunday shot and killed a 24-year-old man’s service dog of six years. Similarly, the dog’s owner believes the officers had responded to the wrong house.

Source: Family Dog Shot And Killed After Deputies Respond To The Wrong House: LAist

Stanford Rapist’s Dad Says Jail Not Warranted For ’20 Minutes Of Action’; Petition Starts To Recall Lenient Judge: SFist

“Rape is not a joke, rape is rape – and guy should do lots more time for the crime!”

The San Jose Mercury News reports that with good behavior, he’ll likely only be in jail for three months. The details in the case are disturbing — captured in part by a powerful statement released by the victim (whose name has not been released). “[All] that I was told was that I had been found behind a dumpster, potentially penetrated by a stranger, and that I should get retested for HIV because results don’t always show up immediately,” she writes in the letter picked up by Buzzfeed.

Source: Stanford Rapist’s Dad Says Jail Not Warranted For ’20 Minutes Of Action’; Petition Starts To Recall Lenient Judge: SFist

A Response to George Will’s Latest: Campus Rape Is Not a “Fiction”

More than any other federal law today, Title IX is fundamentally concerned with guaranteeing all students access to education.Will does a disservice to accused and accusing students alike by misrepresenting the basic facts of the prevalence of campus rape, as well as the protections legally entitled to those who accuse and are accused of perpetrating it. It’s time we stop putting up with his rape apology and focus on what’s really at stake: students’ right to education.

Source: A Response to George Will’s Latest: Campus Rape Is Not a “Fiction”

PHOTOS: Nationalist Jewish-Israelis march through Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter | +972 Magazine

Ahead of the march Police order Palestinian shopkeepers to shutter their stalls and stores and Palestinians are cleared from the streets in order to prevent the ultra-nationalist participants from attacking them. Jewish participants have been known to vandalize shuttered stores, bang on the doors of homes, chant racist and violent slogans against Muslims and Palestinians, and even use physical violence against Palestinian passersby. This year, following two consecutive years in which the High Court of Justice ordered police to reign in Jewish participants verbal and physical violence against Palestinian residents, police kept closer reigns on the march. It was limited in time and although individual provocative acts still took place, police and ushers were reportedly more vigilant about maintaining order. A police spokesperson said officers arrested two Jewish minors for shouting racist slogans.

Source: PHOTOS: Nationalist Jewish-Israelis march through Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter | +972 Magazine

Bangladesh attacks kill wife of police officer and Christian | News | DW.COM | 05.06.2016

The first attack took place in the coastal city of Chittagong early Sunday morning when at least three men on a motorbike stabbed and shot the wife of an anti-terror police superintendent. Mahmuda Khanam was walking her son to a school bus stop when the assailants struck. “The attackers came on a motor-cycle. Her son said she was stabbed first. Then they pointed a pistol near her ear and shot several times,” Chittagong Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Moktar Hossain told news agency AFP. Khanam was the wife of Babul Akter, a police official who led several high-profile operations against the banned Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) militant group in recent months. No one immediately claimed responsibility on Sunday, but police said jihadists could be behind the murder. “We suspect JMB or local Islamist extremists for the attack. Akter led successful anti-militant raids in Chittagong in which several JMB men were arrested,” Hossain said.

Source: Bangladesh attacks kill wife of police officer and Christian | News | DW.COM | 05.06.2016