Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that villages in the Israeli-occupied West Bank should look like cities in Gaza

Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2025/09/08/israels-smotrich-says-west-bank-villages-should-look-like-destroyed-gaza-cities-after-jerusalem-shooting/
Published: Sep 9, 2025
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2025-09-09 12:37:25 by Horse
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that have been reduced to rubble in response to the shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem that killed six Israelis.

Smotrich, a West Bank settler who recently proposed a plan to annex 82% of the Palestinian territory, said that the Palestinian Authority must “disappear from the map,” even though after the attack, PA President Mahmoud Abbas condemned “any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians,” and “denounced all forms of violence and terrorism, regardless of their source,” according to a statement from his office.

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Israeli Supreme Court Orders that Detained Palestinians Must Be Fed The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israel must feed detained Palestinians three meals per day. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has bragged about deliberately creating harsh conditions for Palestinians locked in Israeli prisons.

The three-judge panel ruled Sunday that prisoners are fed three meals a day to ensure “a basic level of existence.” The court was split 2-1. The issue was brought by Israeli human rights groups, who said a system of desperation had been installed for Palestinian prisoners.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/israeli-supreme-court-orders-that- detained-palestinians-must-be-fed/


The US Labor Department revised down 911,000 jobs from the last 12 months ending March 2025, a 50bps rate cut now looks likely.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/the-us-labor-department-revised-down- 911000-jobs-from-the-last-12-months-ending-march-2025/


Trump and Johnson likely doomed in effort to stop Epstein files vote

Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) discharge petition on releasing the Epstein files is all but certain to force a House vote by the end of this month — even if no additional Republicans sign on.

Why it matters: That's bad news for many House Republicans, who are torn between their base's demand for transparency around the Epstein case and President Trump's insistence that the matter be dropped.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/trump-johnson-epstein-massie- walkinshaw-grijalva

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