<p>Remember Lawrence John Ripple, 71, who tried to rob a bank in Kansas City, Kansas, last September and said he did it so he would be thrown in jail and could get away from his wife?</p>
<p>On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that because Ripple was depressed, he would only be <a href="http://www.snopes.com/2017/06/14/kansas-husband-robbed-bank-avoid-wife/">sentenced to probation</a> &#8212; and that he would be sentenced as well to home-confinement.</p>
<p>Ouch.</p>
<p>According to court records, Ripple had written the robbery note in front of his wife before he went to the bank, then handed the note, which read,  &#8220;I have a gun, give me money,&#8221; to a teller. After the teller gave Ripple $2,924, he sat down in the bank lobby waiting for the police. He had told his wife he would rather be in jail than at home with her.</p>
<p>Instead, he will be home with her instead of in jail.</p>
<p>According to <em><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article155936879.html">The Kansas City Star</a></em>, Ripple told the judge his heart surgery had left him depressed and unlike himself. Ripple had no prior criminal record.</p>
<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Catania said Ripple&#8217;s attorney and federal prosecutors had asked for leniency, a request supported by the vice president of the bank and the teller who got the note from Ripple.</p>

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, President Trump reportedly asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky if Ukraine could strike Moscow and St. Petersburg if Trump offered the necessary weapons. He also revealed a plan in which European nations would buy American weapons and transfer them to Ukraine.</p>
<p>Reports in The Financial Times and The Washington Post cited anonymous sources saying that Trump had encouraged Zelensky to strike deeper into Russia, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted those reports, telling <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-zelensky-moscow-st-petersburg-putin-russia-strikes-2099034">Newsweek</a>, &#8220;The Financial Times is notorious for taking words wildly out of context to get clicks because their paper is dying. President Trump was merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing. He&#8217;s working tirelessly to stop the killing and end this war.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump set a deadline for Russia: If no peace deal is reached with Ukraine in 90 days, he will be “doing very severe tariffs &#8230; Tariffs at about 100%, you’d call them secondary tariffs. You know what that means.” A White House official told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/us-ukraine-weapons-trump">CNN</a> that “secondary tariffs” meant secondary sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I am grateful to President Trump for his readiness to help protect our people’s lives,” Zelensky wrote on X. “This war continues solely because of Russia, because of Putin’s desire to drag it out. Russia is trying to make the war seem like the ‘new normal.’ We must never put up with this. Everything humanly possible must be done to force Russia to stop the killings, to achieve real peace, and to ensure security. Peace is only possible through strength. Russia’s war financing must be cut off. Its ties with Iran and North Korea must be cut off. Any supply of components and equipment for Russia’s military industry must be cut off.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m grateful to our team and to the United States, Germany, and Norway for preparing a new decision on Patriots for Ukraine,” he continued. “We are also working on major defense agreements with America.  Ukraine is absolutely ready for all honest and effective steps toward peace – lasting peace – and real security. It is Russia that isn’t ready. It is Russia that must be forced. And this is whatʼs happening.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am grateful to President Trump for his readiness to help protect our people’s lives. This war continues solely because of Russia, because of Putin’s desire to drag it out. Russia is trying to make the war seem like the “new normal.” We must never put up with this. Everything… <a href="https://t.co/i16GSeTSqZ">pic.twitter.com/i16GSeTSqZ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1944833457622016479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I spoke with @POTUS,&#8221; Zelensky said. “It was a very good conversation. Thank you for the willingness to support Ukraine and to continue working together to stop the killings and establish a lasting and just peace.  President Trump shared details about his meeting with the @SecGenNATO. It’s important that we have such a good relationship, and that the Alliance countries are working to increase defense spending. We discussed the necessary means and solutions with the President to provide better protection for people from Russian attacks and to strengthen our positions. We are ready to work as productively as possible to achieve peace. We agreed to catch up more often by phone and coordinate our steps in the future as well. Thank you, Mr. President! Thank you, America!&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I spoke with <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>. It was a very good conversation. Thank you for the willingness to support Ukraine and to continue working together to stop the killings and establish a lasting and just peace.</p>
<p>President Trump shared details about his meeting with the <a href="https://twitter.com/SecGenNATO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecGenNATO</a>. It’s…</p>
<p>&mdash; Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1944844682493653138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, President Trump also spoke of sending weapons to help Ukraine and placing sanctions on Russia.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“My conversations with him [Putin] are very pleasant, and then the missiles go off at night,” Trump said. “He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden — he didn’t fool me.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Europe has a lot of spirit for this war,” Trump continued. “When I first got involved I really didn’t think they did, but they do. The level of esprit de corps they have is amazing,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/us-ukraine-weapons-trump">reported</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker spoke of Trump’s comments about sending a “full complement” of weapons to Ukraine, saying, “All weapons are both offensive and defensive. Obviously an air defense system is important and critical for the situation, but at the same time we’re not taking anything off the table.”</p>

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz is set to introduce a Senate bill on Tuesday that would formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, which follows repeated attempts to name the group a terrorist organization, differs from previous versions as it calls for a &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; approach, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/ted-cruz-unveils-bill-to-designate-muslim-brotherhood-a-terrorist-organization-anticipates-bipartisan-support/">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reported.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">According to a fact sheet provided by Cruz’s office, the previous attempts failed because “not all Muslim Brotherhood branches are currently violent and wouldn&#8217;t therefore meet the criteria for designation.&#8221; Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates already designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The bill urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to &#8220;catalog Muslim Brotherhood branches that are designated as terrorist groups and designate additional ones that meet relevant criteria—and mandates the designation of the global Muslim Brotherhood for its support to those terrorist groups.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">That approach mirrors President Donald Trump’s 2017 effort to sanction Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an effort that designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist group.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Cruz’s effort is openly supported by GOP senators from Arkansas (John Boozman and Tom Cotton), Florida (Ashley Moody and Rick Scott), and Pennsylvania (Dave McCormick).</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Arab allies also appear ready to back the initiative, with one official telling the Free Beacon in June that ‘any of the countries in the Middle East that have already designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization would welcome the United States doing the same,’” the Free Beacon noted.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Cruz’s bill would use three ways to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization: congressional action under the 1987 Anti-Terrorism Act, the State Department recognizing the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and specific designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has 90 days after the bill passes to submit a report to Congress cataloguing ‘all Muslim Brotherhood branches’ around the globe,” The Free Beacon stated. “The legislation instructs him to designate any identified group that meets the criteria. The bill then authorizes a formal designation for the Muslim Brotherhood’s global operation under the 1987 ATA, creating a ‘primary embargo’ under which Americans are banned from engaging in financial transactions with the group and rendering it services.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In April, Jordan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/world/middleeast/muslim-brotherhood-explainer.html">banned</a> the Muslim Brotherhood from the country. According to their charter, the terrorist group Hamas is a “wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.” The Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 for making peace with Israel.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is to turn the world into a theocratic empire,” Stand With Us has <a href="https://www.standwithus.com/factsheets-the-muslim-brotherhood">noted</a>. “The  Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a revolutionary fundamentalist movement to restore the caliphate and strict shariah (Islamist) law in Muslim lands and, ultimately, the world. Today, it has chapters in 80 countries. &#8230; The Brotherhood wants America to fall. In 2010 their Supreme Guide told their followers to be ‘patient’ because America ‘is heading towards its demise.’”</p>
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Cruz Introduces Bill To Name Muslim Brotherhood A Terrorist Group

<p style="font-weight: 400;">A 12-year-old British girl was removed from her class and her father was called after she simply wore a British flag dress on her school’s culture day.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“’Straight A’ student Courtney Wright wore the Spice Girls-esque dress and wrote a piece about British history and traditions as part of the celebrations on Friday,” The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/15/schoolgirl-punished-for-wearing-union-flag-dress/">reported</a>. Informed her dress was “unacceptable” at Bilton School in Rugby, Warks, Wright was told to wait in an office for her father, Stuart Field, he said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Courtney Wright a Grade A student went to her Bilton School on Culture Day in a Union Jack dress. She had also prepared a short essay on what being British means. The head sent her to sit in reception.</p>
<p>He father added: &#8220;She was told she wasn’t allowed in school with the dress on… <a href="https://t.co/npNu72llqe">pic.twitter.com/npNu72llqe</a></p>
<p>— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1945013567352111403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Courtney was so embarrassed and couldn’t understand what she’d done wrong,” Field stated. “She should not be made to feel embarrassed about being British. And she shouldn’t be punished for celebrating being British – nobody else I’ve spoken to can quite get their heads around it.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Somebody at the school has politicized a Union Jack dress even though that was clearly not Courtney’s intent,” he continued. “Courtney didn’t do anything to be political. It’s about being British, the Spice Girls and even the freedom at being able to wear a dress. This is just what being British means to her.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The school had sent a permission letter to parents, explaining that the “culture day” was “designed to promote inclusion, understanding, and appreciation of different backgrounds, traditions and heritages.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Field claimed that other pupils with St. George’s flags and Welsh flags were stopped from entering the school.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s the school who have made it political and it went against everything the event was being held for. All the kids there are British in my eyes, I like to think I’m a tolerant person but this was just not right. I wanted an answer as to why they thought this was acceptable – and nobody could give me a straight answer, I wanted to know how they had justified it. I spoke to her head of year, and he said he wasn’t the best person to talk to about it, so I can only assume he didn’t really agree with it either. It obviously came from above him but I don’t know for sure who made the decision,” he concluded.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Courtney Wright said teachers informed her that “only other cultures were allowed to celebrate,” adding that she “felt really embarrassed” and teachers “point blank refused” to let her read her speech about British culture. “They didn’t want to hear it at all,” she said. “My speech was about diversity and all the traditions that we have in Britain – our politeness, our humor, we drink tea, we talk about the weather a lot and we like rugby and football. The school has since apologized. Even though the school has suggested reading my speech I don’t think I want to after how they embarrassed and upset me.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The school that sent home a 12-year-old girl for wearing a Union Jack dress (<a href="https://twitter.com/BiltonSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BiltonSchool</a>) has also been pushing dangerous gender ideology on its young students.</p>
<p>Our children are being taught by activists, rather than educators. <a href="https://t.co/tSdBojPv1v">pic.twitter.com/tSdBojPv1v</a></p>
<p>— James Esses (@JamesEsses) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesEsses/status/1945087651293397119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust issued a <a href="https://www.stowevalleymat.com/">statement</a> regarding the incident:</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>At Bilton School, we are proud of the diversity of our students and the rich heritage they bring to our community. We are committed to fostering an environment where every pupil feels respected, valued, and included.</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>On Friday 11th July, an incident occurred during our Culture Celebration Day that caused considerable upset to one of our pupils, her family, and members of the wider community. We deeply regret the distress this has caused and offer our sincere and unreserved apologies.</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>We have since spoken directly with the pupil and her family to listen to their concerns and reflect on how this could have been handled better. We are committed to learning from this experience and ensuring that every student feels recognized and supported when expressing pride in their heritage.</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>As a school, we are reviewing our policies and strengthening staff training to ensure our practices reflect our values of inclusion, respect, and understanding for all.</em></p>
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12-Year-Old Girl Removed From Class Over British Flag Outfit On Culture Day

<p style="font-weight: 400;">As per usual, the BBC offered an apology for another <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwqpdy00w2o">manipulative anti-Israel piece</a> that was presented as impartial.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">This time, the BBC acknowledged that a BBC documentary titled “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” which was narrated by a boy from Gaza, neglected to mention that the boy just happened to be the son of a high-ranking Hamas official.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">BBC Gaza documentary breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose child narrator was son of Hamas official, review finds <a href="https://t.co/0YkaPtGUX5">https://t.co/0YkaPtGUX5</a></p>
<p>— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1944715012628431237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">A review of the situation found that three members of the independent production company Hoyo Films knew the narrator’s father served as deputy minister of agriculture for Hamas in Gaza and the BBC team was not “sufficiently proactive” with initial editorial checks and displayed a “lack of critical oversight of unanswered or partially answered questions” before the broadcast aired.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">A spokesman for the media watchdog Ofcom, which will conduct an investigation, stated, “Having examined the BBC&#8217;s findings, we are launching an investigation under our rule, which states that factual programmes must not materially mislead the audience.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">BBC News CEO Deborah Turness admitted, “We are owning where we have made mistakes, finding out what went wrong, acting on the findings, and we&#8217;ve said we&#8217;re sorry.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">BBC&#8217;s director general, Tim Davie, said the report “identifies a significant failing in relation to accuracy.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“It&#8217;s not for the government to say who should and shouldn&#8217;t work at the BBC,” British Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy stated. “My job is to make sure that we uphold the highest standards and that the public and parliament can have confidence in the BBC. I think, given the recent events, that has been called into question, but the BBC in recent weeks has made big strides to try to reset that relationship with the public, and show that they have grip on the very, very serious issues.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Campaign Against Antisemitism responded to the report, calling its recommendations — which included creating “a new leadership role in news documentaries and current affairs,” issuing “new editorial guidance,” and a new “first gate” process — “frankly insulting. &#8230; The report says nothing we didn&#8217;t already know: paying licence fee money to a Hamas family was bad. The report yields no new insight, and almost reads like it&#8217;s trying to exonerate the BBC.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In March, a producer for the BBC contacted the Israeli Embassy in London and asked if it could supply “an Israeli military voice” who would “be critical of” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s military offensive against Hamas.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In August 2024, the BBC rejected a call from more than 200 Jewish staffers, contractors, suppliers, and contributors for a formal investigation into its alleged antisemitic reporting.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We write to you today to request an urgent formal investigation by the BBC board into systemic problems of anti-Semitism and bias at the BBC, alongside senior management’s demonstrable failure to properly address the issue,” the letter stated, adding the signatories’ “anguish and disbelief because we fear we have now exhausted the process of raising our very serious concerns about anti-Jewish racism with BBC Management,” <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/01/bbc-chairman-dismisses-staff-complaints-anti-semitism/#:~:text=If%20other%20minorities%20were%20treated,pointed%20to%20the%20whistleblower%20process.">according</a> to The Telegraph.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The group also sent the board members what they describe as a non-exhaustive list of social media breaches and ‘impartiality breaches in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,’ broadcast mistakes that ‘suggest bias,’ and an account from anonymous sources ‘of the fear and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses and experiences of prejudice and racism at work,’” Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/08/bbc-formal-antisemitism-investigation-jewish-group-1236028620/#recipient_hashed=08fffa7c82ea6b2d094e763900bf54666b85ace76f2a09af81b15c839e1ca06f&amp;recipient_salt=1a059f2921757ba80b9af3ebcdcec73bbac911a89a1e4e907fd2e8fe6b1d8fc1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Deadline_IntlBNA&amp;utm_content=540896_08-01-2024&amp;utm_term=11484234">reported</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The letter pointed out “impartiality breaches in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,” broadcast mistakes that “suggest bias,” and an account from anonymous sources “of the fear and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses and experiences of prejudice and racism at work.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">But BBC Chairman Samir Shah dismissed the call for a formal investigation, responding that the BBC was “successful” in creating an “inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds feel welcome, safe and supported. &#8230; I am satisfied, however, that where we have made errors, the executive has acted appropriately and handled matters in accordance to the guidance as they apply to my colleagues. Following your correspondence, I have asked the executive to review the papers you sent and to see if there’s anything included that has not been previously considered.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In November 2023, the BBC, which had presented an editorial slant against Israel for years, was forced to apologize for falsely accusing the Israel Defense Forces of committing war crimes in its attack on a Hamas command node at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">A BBC presenter falsely claimed twice on air that Reuters had reported that the IDF had targeted medical teams, as well as Arabic speakers, instead of what Reuters actually reported, which was that the IDF had included medical teams and Arabic speakers on its team.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Later, another presenter offered a muted apology on behalf of the network, stating, “And now, an apology from the BBC. BBC News, as it covered initial reports that Israeli forces had entered Gaza’s main hospital, we said that medical teams and Arabic speakers were being targeted; this was incorrect and misquoted a Reuters report. We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and Arabic speakers for this operation.”</p>
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If you don&#8217;t want to apologize over and over again for the false information you propagate against Israel &#8211; maybe just start publishing the truth? <a href="https://t.co/uc62A93yqG">pic.twitter.com/uc62A93yqG</a></p>
<p>— יוסף חדאד &#8211; Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) <a href="https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1724744461236715836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></p></blockquote>

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BBC’s Anti-Israel Bias At Work Again: Narrator On Film Is Son Of High-Ranking Hamas Official

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, fed up with the allegations being peddled that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had worked for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, issued a statement condemning those who purveyed such a notion in a desire to harm the Jewish state.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The allegations that Epstein may have worked for the Mossad have been pushed openly by influencers on the Right, such as <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/tucker-carlson-suggests-jeffrey-epstein-was-working-for-israels-mossad-spy-agency/">Tucker Carlson,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PtBr4Brp12U">Megyn Kelly</a>, and Charlie Kirk, among others. Carlson went so far as to <a href="https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1943833522344755521">imply</a> that Israel was “committing crimes on our soil.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett wrote on X. “Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel. Epstein never worked for the Mossad. This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t. They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel. There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty:</p>
<p>The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. </p>
<p>Epstein’s conduct,…</p>
<p>&mdash; Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1944721571555270793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/jeffrey-epstein-documents-woody-allen-larry-summers-edb3e9b2?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhXVtdTlCTnGZDiERtnXgINffkfg2C25hQmsNPfzt08SI1zfEvjPUN0yCU1eHg%3D&amp;gaa_ts=687524df&amp;gaa_sig=GsX86L0NYenWcSz_5QnUD8Qes-wzV64xmMZgg9JgKvVt_z9meYIFYInVkjhV6aOkXBIfbDRoN1Jt_5fk3uL1_A%3D%3D">noted</a> that Epstein had met numerous celebrities and politicians between 2013 and 2017, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, hard-core leftist and Israel-hater Noam Chomsky, Eva Andersson-Dubin, the wife of hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, leftist donor Reid Hoffman, filmmaker Woody Allen, Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen, former Treasury secretary and onetime Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, the leader of the leftists in Israel opposed to Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu.</p>

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Says ‘With 100% Certainty’ Epstein Never Worked For Israel

<p style="font-weight: 400;">A man reportedly looking for his wife at a Lexington, Kentucky, church gunned down a grandmother of eight and her daughter after shooting a state trooper near the city’s airport on Sunday. The gunman also shot the two women’s husbands, one of whom is the pastor at the church, before police responding to the emergency shot and killed him.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The suspected shooter, Guy House, 47, shot a state trooper outside Blue Grass Airport before fleeing, then carjacked a vehicle and headed to Richmond Road Baptist Church, the Lexington Herald Leader <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article310590260.html">reported.</a> The small church is comprised mainly of families related to one another, Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/13/us/kentucky-shooting-lexington-church-ky">said</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Beverly Gumm, 72, and her daughter, Star Rutherford, were cooking lunch in the basement of the church on Sunday afternoon when House barged in and asked for his wife, the mother of their three children, who is Gumm’s daughter and Rutherford’s sister. When they informed him she wasn’t there, he said, “Well, someone is gonna have to die, then,” and started shooting, Rutherford told the Herald-Leader, which added, “Gumm, 72, ducked and avoided the first shot, but the second hit her in the chest, killing her. The man then went outside and shot and killed another of Rutherford’s sisters — Christina Combs, 32 — and injured two others: Gumm’s husband and the longtime pastor of the church, Jerry Gumm, and Combs’ husband, Randy Combs.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Another daughter of Gumm’s, Rachael Barnes, said Combs had five children, including a 6-month-old baby, and had plans to graduate from nursing school in December. Of her slain mother and sister, she said, “They were both fantastic moms.” She said Jerry Gumm and Randy Combs were in critical but stable condition. The injured trooper is reportedly also in stable condition.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Star Rutherford said she held her mother as she died. Gumm’s surviving daughters said she was a “faithful member of the church who loved God,” and her “love language” was feeding “homeless people, drug addicts, strangers.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“In 2022, the Lexington Police Department and Madison County Sheriff’s office featured House as the Crimestoppers ‘Wanted Person of the Week,’” Fox 56 r<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKEVJXLCGec">eported</a>. “He was wanted for wanton endangerment of a police officer.” Other charges against House included theft of a vehicle, fleeing and evading, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and receiving stolen property.</p>

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