Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, made clear to the world Israel’s commitment to the oppressed people of Iran, holding up a photo of Mahsa Amini — the young woman murdered by the Iranian regime for not wearing a hijab in the way approved by the regime — during the speech of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who has been called “The Butcher of Tehran.”
U.N. security personnel immediately grabbed Erdan and detained him.
“New moral stain for the UN!! When President Raisi of Iran, the ‘Butcher of Tehran,’ began his speech, I waved a picture of Mahsa Amini, the innocent Iranian woman who was brutally murdered by the regime one year ago for not wearing a hijab ‘properly,'&#8221; Erdan posted on X. &#8220;Meanwhile, outside the UN hundreds of Iranians were protesting, begging for help from the international community. I will never stop fighting for the truth and I will always expose the UN’s moral distortions. Those who roll out the red carpet for murderers and antisemites must be held accountable for their actions!”
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New moral stain for the UN ‼️
When President Raisi of Iran, the “Butcher of Tehran,” began his speech, I waved a picture of Mahsa Amini, the innocent Iranian woman who was brutally murdered by the regime one year ago for not wearing a hijab “properly.”
Meanwhile, outside the UN… <a href="https://t.co/ZVq80Zpt9N">pic.twitter.com/ZVq80Zpt9N</a>
&mdash; Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1704250148212158878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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UN police manhandle <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israeli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israeli</a> UN Amb. Gilad Erdan (&amp; then deny it). <a href="https://t.co/OkzfPRMTfv">https://t.co/OkzfPRMTfv</a> His offence? Challenging Iranian Prez at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNGA</a> with evidence of Iranian brutality. <a href="https://t.co/JQSjzef0qs">https://t.co/JQSjzef0qs</a> Rest of world? Fine with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UN</a> platform for &quot;murderers &amp; antisemites.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LOKEfXNjAU">pic.twitter.com/LOKEfXNjAU</a>
&mdash; Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnneBayefsky/status/1704294226081554436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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JUST IN: Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan was detained Tuesday at U.N. Headquarters — as seen in U.S. exclusive video from NEWSMAX — after protesting the speech of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. <a href="https://t.co/v9k51VTCPT">https://t.co/v9k51VTCPT</a> <a href="https://t.co/lpNgLzO6N7">pic.twitter.com/lpNgLzO6N7</a>
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Prior to his action at the U.N., Erdan posted to X:
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While the UN rolls out the red carpet for the Butcher of Tehran, President Raisi, Iranians in New York are here to show the true face of the Ayatollah regime. The leaders in Iran only seek to oppress, starve, and murder their own people, while exporting terror and racing toward nuclear weapons. The world must wake up and listen to the voices of innocent Iranians! The Ayatollah regime must be held accountable for their crimes and pay the price! The people of Israel stand with the people of Iran.
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While the UN rolls out the red carpet for the Butcher of Tehran, President Raisi, Iranians in New York are here to show the true face of the Ayatollah regime. The leaders in Iran only seek to oppress, starve, and murder their own people, while exporting terror and racing toward… <a href="https://t.co/45jrRNUQzq">pic.twitter.com/45jrRNUQzq</a>
&mdash; Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1704229071113089110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Raisi was one of four members of a death committee responsible for the 1988 execution of thousands of Iranian prisoners of conscience in the space of a few months,” Tablet Magazine <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/who-is-iran-president-ebrahim-raisi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in July 2021. “The ideologically motivated mass executions constituted both a crime against humanity and genocide—a cleansing of religious infidels—according to international human rights expert Geoffrey Robertson. It was a massacre, he says, comparable to those at Srebrenica and the Katyn Forest.”
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“Virgins were systematically raped before their execution, to circumvent the Islamic prohibition on killing virgins and to prevent women and girls from reaching heaven,” Tablet added. “The executed were ordered to write their own names on their hands before they went to their death.”
Erdan’s action was supported by Iranians sick of the despotic regime that controls their country:
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Israel&#39;s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, held up a photo of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MahsaAmini</a> during Ebrahim Raisi&#39;s speech at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNGA</a>. More of this, please! 🇮🇱👏🏼 <a href="https://t.co/fVhzjXbOOM">pic.twitter.com/fVhzjXbOOM</a>
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Thank you Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan <a href="https://twitter.com/giladerdan1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@giladerdan1</a> for honoring the memory of Mahsa Amini – savagely killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the way she dressed – during the speech of Iran&#39;s President to the U.N. just now! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B2%D9%86_%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#زن_زندگی_آزادی</a> <a href="https://t.co/AF53gGz1R9">pic.twitter.com/AF53gGz1R9</a>
&mdash; Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) <a href="https://twitter.com/SiaKordestani/status/1704250775218929817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gilad Erdan, Israel&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations, was arrested on Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters, and this shows the lack of freedom of speech in an organization that supports international freedom and rights. He is the voice of millions of Iranians held captive… <a href="https://t.co/STFhAE8ZaF">https://t.co/STFhAE8ZaF</a>
&mdash; shahbod shafigh (@sh3autosport) <a href="https://twitter.com/sh3autosport/status/1704396439692993020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Israeli Ambassador To The United Nations Gilad Erdan Speaks To The Press After Security Council Meeting

Israel’s Ambassador Manhandled By U.N. Security After Condemning Despotic Iranian President. Iranians Praise Him.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/volodymyr-zelensky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volodymyr Zelensky</a> must have an inkling that his unlimited check could soon be running out because the Ukrainian president is trying out a new sales pitch to world leaders: We need to defeat Russia, or evil dictators will &#8220;weaponize&#8221; the damaging effects of climate change.
Zelensky made his case in the form of a lecture on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme weather will still impact normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And when people in the streets of New York and other cities of the world went out on climate protest — we all have seen them — and when people in Morocco and Libya, and other countries die as a result of natural disasters, and when islands and countries disappear underwater, and when tornadoes and deserts are spreading into — into new territories, and when all of this is happening, one, a natural disaster in Moscow, decided to launch a big war and killed tens of thousands of people. We have to stop it.&#8221;
So it seems Zelensky is implying that Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of climate change — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/global-warming-is-out-global-boiling-is-in-united-nations-secretary-general-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global boiling as the U.N. calls it</a> — to attack Ukraine.
&#8220;We must act, united to defeat the aggressor and focus all our capabilities and energy on addressing these challenges,&#8221; he added. &#8220;As nukes are restrained, likewise, the aggressor must be restrained at all his tools and methods of the war.&#8221;
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Zelenskyy: &quot;Humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives&quot; <a href="https://t.co/h2w54lXL9Z">pic.twitter.com/h2w54lXL9Z</a>
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Zelensky must have heard President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate czar John Kerry preach last spring that &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">money, money, money</a>&#8221; is what makes green energy move. It&#8217;s smart financially for Zelensky to signal that he&#8217;s down with the cause.
If he wants the free world to continue sending him billions of dollars to defeat Russia, he knows he has to express certain 21st-century doctrines of the West — such as believing in climate change.
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Now, Zelensky is heading to Washington, D.C., where he&#8217;ll request $24 billion from the U.S. Congress. He won&#8217;t have to work that hard for the money in D.C. The Uniparty is all on in Ukraine still.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023.

Zelensky Lectures The World About Climate Change, Tries New Tactic For Increased Aid

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> delivered a series of flubs along with his Tuesday <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-2023-unga-us-leadership-trump-04b25cd42d03caf194def2862f6eb8d5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> before the United Nations, saying at one point that he planned to pursue a partnership with China aimed at &#8220;accelerating the climate crisis.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s speech before the General Assembly was designed to rally the world to support Ukraine against Russia&#8217;s continuing onslaught &#8212; and to rally some in Congress who have grown audibly weary of sending money to Ukraine without assurances detailing where those funds are being spent &#8212; but a series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-january-6-flub-caps-a-week-of-gaffes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gaffes and flubs</a> dogged him throughout.
In one such instance, the president struggled to get through a sentence: &#8220;Simply put, the 21st century – 21st century results &#8230; are badly needed &#8230; to move us along. That starts with the United Nations.&#8221;
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Biden&#39;s brain freezes during his UN speech: &quot;The 21st century, 21st century results&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hAJ1CiHH4U">pic.twitter.com/hAJ1CiHH4U</a>
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Biden later hinted at the United States&#8217; relationship with China going forward, suggesting that deference to Beijing would be the prevailing policy position.
&#8220;When it comes to China, let me be clear and consistent. We seek to responsibly manage competition between our countries so it does not tip into conflict. I’ve said we are for de-risking — not decoupling — with China,&#8221; he said.
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BIDEN: &quot;I&#39;ve said we are for de-risking, not decoupling with China&quot; <a href="https://t.co/e5NZpHZqXz">pic.twitter.com/e5NZpHZqXz</a>
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Biden went on to say that an ongoing relationship with the communist-controlled nation was necessary, particularly with regard to climate change.
Promising to &#8220;work together with China on issues where progress hinges on our common efforts,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Nowhere is that more critical than accelerating the climate crisis – than the accelerating climate crisis.&#8221;
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Biden says he wants to work with China on &quot;accelerating the climate crisis&quot; <a href="https://t.co/EWxRdvyuew">pic.twitter.com/EWxRdvyuew</a>
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As Biden continued to speak, however, there were times when it simply appeared that his teleprompter got the best of him.
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In addition to his focus on climate and on continued aid for Ukraine, President Biden touted democracy as the basis from which he believed those and other global problems could be addressed.
&#8220;We will not retreat from the values that make us strong. We will defend democracy — our best tool to meet the challenges that we face around the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we’re working to show how democracy can deliver in ways that matter to people’s lives.&#8221;

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Biden Promises China Partnership Aimed At ‘Accelerating The Climate Crisis’ — And Other U.N. Flubs

Biden Promises China Partnership Aimed At 'Accelerating The Climate Crisis' — And Other U.N. Flubs

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&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/global-warming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global warming</a>&#8221; is out, &#8220;global boiling&#8221; is in, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Thursday.
“Humanity is in the hot seat,” Guterres <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference. “For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer. For the entire planet, it is a disaster. And for scientists, it is unequivocal – humans are to blame.&#8221;
The science is settled, according to Guterres, but it would seem the fear-based propaganda hasn&#8217;t worked in scaring enough of the world into submission. And so, Guterres and his team have changed the talking points.
“All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here, it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.&#8221;
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The words &quot;global warming&quot; didn&#39;t work.
The words &quot;climate change&quot; didn&#39;t work.
So now the UN Chief is using the words &quot;global boiling&quot; to push his radical green agenda. <a href="https://t.co/rzYZJSZgzI">pic.twitter.com/rzYZJSZgzI</a>
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It&#8217;s easy to imagine that Guterres and the gang at the UN have a yellow notepad that looks something like this:
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Global boiling?</blockquote>
Would it surprise you to find out that Guterres is the former president of the Socialist International and a firm believer that the planet can only be saved by a team of &#8220;experts&#8221; and government control?
No, it probably wouldn&#8217;t surprise you; you&#8217;re a Daily Wire reader equipped with critical thinking skills. It&#8217;s easy to draw those conclusions if you pay attention.
Yet, it&#8217;s worth <a href="https://www.socialistinternational.org/fileadmin/uploads/si/Documents/Congresses/Paris_1999/AG_Address_Paris_1999.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewing</a> anyway that in 1999, Guterres gave an address outlining his desire for global socialism, and how his vision for the world would depend upon international organizations like the UN, global regulations, and cooperation between non-government actors.
He ended his speech, saying, &#8220;Dear friends and dear comrades &#8230;&#8217;We must not abandon utopia because the antagonism between ideas and reality is both the major dilemma of democratic socialism and its fascinating driving force.'&#8221;
Guterres is still pursuing that &#8220;utopia&#8221; and is using &#8220;global boiling&#8221; to enact it — with a sense of urgency, too. Don&#8217;t think, just do it, Guterres seems to be saying.
&#8220;It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C and avoid the very worst of climate change but only with dramatic, immediate climate action,&#8221; he said Thursday. &#8220;We have seen some progress &#8212; a robust rollout of renewables and some positive steps from sectors such as shipping &#8212; but none of this is going far enough or fast enough. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated action.&#8221;
Yet Guterres is wrong. The experts are not all-seeing Gods who can predict the future, much less the weather. As best-selling author George Gilder has long touted, the sort of central planning supported by Guterres cannot account for &#8220;human creativity, which always comes as a surprise to us. If creativity didn’t come as a surprise, we wouldn’t need it, and socialism would work.&#8221;
What can work?
Gilder is out with a new book, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-after-Capitalism-George-Gilder/dp/1684512247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life After Capitalism</a>.&#8221; The book isn&#8217;t against capitalism — rather it argues that its critics and many of its defenders get capitalism wrong. The driving force of capitalism is not greed, rather it&#8217;s &#8220;creativity and faith in the future.&#8221;
In the book, which casts doubts on global <del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">warming</del> boiling, Gilder writes, &#8220;Let&#8217;s assume, hypothetically, that Co2 somehow becomes a problem. Capitalism deals with problems by pursuing opportunities.&#8221;
Socialism deals with problems through more government control.
&#8220;Government mandates and directorates and global resets will not shape the future,&#8221; Gilder predicted in &#8220;Life After Capitalism.&#8221;
&#8220;They can only retard progress, and only so far as we let them, if we live in democratic countries. What will really shape the future is human creativity, and a new wave of technological entrepreneurs,&#8221; he added.
Gilder also warned, &#8220;More than ever in America, we face the prospect of a life after capitalism in its most negative sense: a life of scarcity, deprivation, and fear.&#8221;
And that is exactly what Guterres has to offer: Our time left to save the planet is scarce — so is clean air. So we must deprive ourselves of modern technologies, conveniences, and abundant resources of energy. If you don&#8217;t, everybody you know will die from &#8220;global boiling.&#8221; The experts will save the day.
What a load of bunk. Socialists never change, but the words they use to sell their ideology does.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

United Nations, Antonio Guterres

‘Global Warming’ Is Out. ‘Global Boiling’ Is In, United Nations Secretary-General Says

'Global Warming' Is Out. 'Global Boiling' Is In, United Nations Secretary-General Says

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> did not track greenhouse gas emissions caused by its travel for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate conference</a> sponsored by the United Nations despite an executive order from President Joe Biden, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). 
A newly released <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105863.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the GAO shows that the State Department did not follow an executive order from Biden when it sent a delegation of 259 people to the 27th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Egypt in November 2022. The report also noted that emissions related to the same conference the previous year were not tracked. 
“An executive order requires federal agencies to track and reduce emissions from air travel and other sources with the goal of achieving net-zero government emissions by 2050. However, the State Department did not calculate emissions from travel to these conferences,” the GAO <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news release. 
The executive order in question comes from December 2021, which was after the 26th U.N. climate conference which Biden attended. 
“State officials told GAO that they did not have a systematic way to calculate greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. delegation travel to the United Nation&#8217;s Conference of the Parties 26 and 27 or any past meetings of the Conference of the Parties. State is developing methods to estimate future travel emissions, according to State officials,” the GAO said. 
In its official response, the department said that it agreed with the “thrust of the recommendation,” and proposed tracking emissions from official department travel to all meetings. 
The report comes after Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) all requested that the GAO look into whether the department was complying with the order. 
“Americans are tired of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. who don’t practice what they preach when it comes to protecting the environment,” Capito told POLITICO in response to the report. 
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“In the Biden administration, the same people who are closing down power plants across the country and forcing Americans to buy electric vehicles are also the ones flying to climate conferences and using fossil fuels without apology,” she added. 
While the Biden administration has publicly demanded a transition to green energy and emphasized concerns about the climate, many officials in the<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-defends-world-leaders-who-fly-private-while-pushing-climate-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> administration have taken heat</a> for seeming to dismiss concerns about the impact of their own travel on the climate. 
John Kerry, Biden’s climate czar was widely criticized after it was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerrys-family-private-jet-emitted-300-metric-tons-carbon-biden-took-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that his family’s private jet had emitted 300 metric tons of carbon during Biden’s time as president.

Key Speakers At CERAWeek 2023

Biden Admin Did Not Track Emissions From Travel To Climate Conference Despite Executive Order: Report

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The United Nations jumped into the discussion about riots in France catalyzed by the death of a Muslim teenager shot by police, as a UN spokeswoman accused French law enforcement of racism.
The incident that sparked the rioting occurred Tuesday, when a police officer shot and killed 17-year-old Nahel M. during a traffic stop in Nanterre, west of Paris. According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-150-arrests-overnight-unrest-after-teenager-killed-by-police-2023-06-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>, the teenager was driving in the bus lane during a traffic jam when he was pulled over to stop, but refused to provide a license and then tried to drive away. The officer shot him in the left arm and chest, according to the Nanterre public prosecutor, who added that the officer feared the teenager would start a car chase and injure others. Police said Nahel M. had been known to ignore traffic stops before.
“We are concerned by the killing of a 17-year-old of North African descent by police in France on Tuesday,” UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani <a href="https://insiderpaper.com/france-must-address-deep-police-racism-un/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We note that an investigation has been launched into alleged voluntary homicide. This is a moment for the country to seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement.”
“We also emphasize the importance of peaceful assembly,” Shamdasani continued. “We call on the authorities to ensure use of force by police to address violent elements in demonstrations always respects the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, non-discrimination, precaution and accountability. Any allegations of disproportionate use of force must be swiftly investigated.”
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has accused French law enforcement of disproportionate numbers of identity checks, discriminatory stops, and criminal fixed fines against minority groups. CERD <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/12/un-committee-elimination-racial-discrimination-publishes-findings-bahrain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “The Committee was concerned that police and other law enforcement officers often use identity checks, discriminatory arrests and fixed penalties to disproportionately target certain minorities, especially Africans, people of African descent, people of Arab origin, Roma, travelers and non-citizens.”
Interactions involving members of the Muslim community and police in France have provoked riots many times before, according to <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/why-are-people-protesting-in-france-and-why-is-there-a-history-of-rioting-12911541" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sky News</a>. In 1979, after a young North African person was arrested, riots ensued in the Lyon suburb of Vaulx-en-Velin. Riots occurred again in 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2017.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/france-burns-as-big-city-riots-escalate-in-wake-of-police-shooting">France Burns As Big-City Riots Escalate In Wake Of Police Shooting</a>

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UN Finds Familiar Scapegoat After Muslim Migrants Riot In Major French Cities

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations">UN</a> Special Rapporteur — a job that entails monitoring, promoting and raising awareness on a particular human right — warned about trans activists who have championed using violence to achieve their ends.
Reem Alsalem, who monitors violence against women and girls globally, defended women who speak out in favor of women-only sports contests, women-only bathrooms, and women-only prisons and warned of harassment or worse from trans activists.
“There is an increasing trend that I have been observing,” Alsalem told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995903/The-new-face-extremism-unmasked-Republicans-watching-trantifa.html">The Daily Mail</a>. She urged nations in the West to “ensure that the freedom of speech and thought, including on the issues of sex, gender, and gender identity be protected and upheld.”
A series of recent events have crystallized fear of trans activists turning violent.
In late March, a woman claiming to be a man murdered three 9-year-old children and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The woman was armed with three guns including a semi-automatic rifle when she stormed into the school she once attended and opened fire. After the incident, police searched her home and recovered a sawed-off shotgun and a second shotgun.
In April, outspoken 12-time NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-this-just-say-peaceful-riley-gaines-unloads-on-san-francisco-states-response-to-assault">reportedly assaulted</a> by a group of trans activists at San Francisco State University after she made a speech against allowing female trans athletes to compete in women&#8217;s sports.
TikTok creator Tara Jay, who claims he is a woman,  posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1648822913464770561?lang=en">video</a> (later deleted) threatening to use guns against anyone who dared to “stop me from going into the women&#8217;s bathroom,” adding, “It will be the last mistake you ever make.”
Blogger Kayla Denker, a man claiming to be a woman, issued a<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kayla-denker-militant-transgender-activist-posing-assault-rifle-shooting-gun-1791374"> video</a> in which he reloaded an assault rifle multiple times while staring into the camera.
Warning that the trans activists were aligning with hard-left groups, Julio Rosas, the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fiery-But-Mostly-Peaceful-Gaslighting/dp/1956007024">Fiery But Mostly Peaceful</a>,” said, “Trans activists gravitate towards these very far-left groups, because they share their anarcho-communist type ideology. They view the U.S. as systemically racist, that it&#8217;s subjugated queer people, and that states passing laws against child mutilations is part of a trans genocide. And they&#8217;re fighting back.”
Kara Dansky, the president of Women&#8217;s Declaration International in the U.S., was attacked in California when she was protesting against the state’s prison system permitting trans women convicts to be housed in women&#8217;s prisons.
Asserting that the trans activists who attacked her were men, Dansky said, “It&#8217;s inevitable that one or more women who stand up for women&#8217;s sex-based rights is going to be killed. It&#8217;s hard to grasp how normal this is, and how frequently women are on the receiving end of violent threats from men.”

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Seven U.S. Republican Senators nationwide demanded answers from the Biden Administration on Monday, asking if officials were aware of the United Nations-backed report suggesting global leaders normalize pedophilia by allowing children to legally decide on engaging in sexual activities with adults.
“The U.N.’s effort to normalize sex with minor children is barbaric,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said in a <a href="https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=press-releases&amp;id=C381AFC8-7E02-4E4E-8B04-9324DF9D0767">news release</a>. “It violates kids’ basic human rights and ignores our responsibility to protect them from abuse. American taxpayer dollars shouldn’t fund pedophilia or any organization that promotes it.”
Kennedy joined six other lawmakers, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Budd (N.C.) in sending a <a href="https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e/2/e2823a2f-48e5-44aa-b6be-3397616a8542/9A8705493D456481A4B0F7C2850455BB.4a88b8dc4d765ed7f2b7f060721ed3ee.04.21.23---rubio-et-al-letter-to-ltg-re-un-report.pdf">letter</a> to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield about the report backed by the intergovernmental organization.
Wrapped inside a human-rights-based analysis on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health rights, consensual sexual activity, and gender ideology — the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), UNAIDS, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report last month, calling for offenses related to “sex, drug use, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, homelessness and poverty” to be decriminalized.
After reading the 32-page <a href="https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf">report</a> sponsored by the U.N., lawmakers claimed the report asserts that minor children could consent to sex with adults, which pushed Kennedy and his cohort of lawmakers to oppose funding for any U.N. initiatives that promote underage sex.
“We stand firmly against any foreign effort that seeks to undermine the well-established legal principle that children do not possess the emotional or mental maturity required to consent to sexual relations,” the lawmakers wrote. “We, therefore, request your immediate opposition to these efforts and to rescind any U.S. taxpayer money that may have contributed to the United Nations that crafted this report.”
According to lawmakers, the report contradicts Article 34 of the United Nations’ own Convention on the Rights of the Child, which obligates nations to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.
“This flies in the face of laws across the United States, and much of the world affirms that all manners of sex between children and adults are coercive,” they continued, adding that it gives “credence to abhorrent pedophiles and sexual predators who claim that their vile acts should be decriminalized because children would be able to consent to sex.”
Subsequent to the report circulating news outlets and social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, the UN clarified that by “sexual conduct involving” those below the age of consent, it meant to include only incidents in which both parties fit the criteria.
“The 8 March Principles do not call for the decriminalization of sex with children, nor do they call for the abolition of a domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex,” the International Commission of Jurists said in a <a href="https://www.icj.org/statement-regarding-the-8-march-principles/">news release</a>. “Indeed, the ICJ stresses that States have a clear obligation under international law to protect children from all forms of abuses, such as child sexual abuse, including through the criminalization of such conduct.”
It was not immediately clear if the UN intended to correct its imprecise wording.
U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called the claims “malicious misreporting on a recent report on the age of legal consent” in a press briefing last week.
GOP lawmakers requested that U.N. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield provide them with answers to a series of questions regarding the report, and denounce support for it.

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As Jews around the world commemorated <a href="https://jewishunpacked.com/what-is-yom-hashoah-holocaust-remembrance-day/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yom Hashoah</a> (Holocaust Remembrance Day) last week, 100+ organizations signed onto a Human Rights Watch <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/04/human-rights-and-other-civil-society-groups-urge-united-nations-respect-human" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> asking the United Nations not to use the most accepted definition of anti-Semitism, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) <a href="https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">definition</a>, as part of its efforts to make sure that Never Again isn’t just an empty phrase. 
In the international theater of the absurd in which words have little meaning and terrorist organizations (including <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/ngo-campaign-against-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several</a> of the signatories) are free to brand themselves as “human rights” groups, HRW urged the U.N. to a) fight against “anti-Semitism,” but then b) let anti-Semites have the final say in defining what “anti-Semitism” means.
The absurdity of allowing HRW to set policy around this issue is borne out by their own <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/hrw-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sins</a> of both commission and omission: HRW has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/does-human-rights-watchs-kenneth-roth-understand-the-nature-of-prejudice/380556/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> anti-Semitic attacks in the <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/nm/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Roth1.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.K</a>. and in <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/nm/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Roth2.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany</a> on Israel (instead of anti-Semites,); referred to Jewish law as “<a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/editorials-roths-false-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primitive</a>”; defended <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/hrws-definition-of-human-shields.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">war crimes</a> committed by terrorists; and expressed <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldNGOM/status/996386017279135744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismay</a> that Israel has not suffered more casualties as it defends itself.  In terms of its tracking “expertise,” as NGO Monitor <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/hrw-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, HRW has a firm corporate policy of ignoring the phenomenon. For example, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2022/01/World%20Report%202022%20web%20pdf_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their 2022 World Report </a>does not even mention anti-Semitism in the United States, despite the highest ever reported number of incidents. 
Charitably, if HRW understood what anti-Semitism is, they might be in a better position to offer advice on how best to monitor it- or at the very least stop engaging in it themselves. Practically, the letter is wrong on almost every aspect of the IHRA definition. To set the record straight:
The definition was developed because Jew-hatred was on the rise, and authorities were having a hard time recognizing its many forms. As IHRA’s authors have made <a href="https://engageonline.wordpress.com/2021/01/20/ken-stern-isnt-the-only-author-the-ihra-working-definition-of-antisemitism/?fbclid=IwAR0rH9g4sP7x5Qqtzwr853VCxfMWEggVJm0nRypmTgdlGi057WjvYdOSuw4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clear</a>, it was designed for those who need to know what anti-Semitism is, including “those in authority who are responsible for identifying and responding to anti-Semitic hate crimes and other anti-Semitic events.” While it is true that the American Bar Association, which does not monitor anti-Semitism as part of its mission, recently issued a statement condemning anti-Jewish discrimination without referencing the definition, that is irrelevant to the U.N., whose Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief has endorsed IHRA, both in his <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/report-combating-antisemitism-eliminate-discrimination-and-intolerance-based" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> to the Human Rights Council about rising rates of anti-Jewish incidents, and in his subsequent recommendation for a U.N. <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/ActionPlanChanges-May2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">action plan</a> to fight anti-Semitism.
HRW’s pushback comes because the definition includes some useful examples of discriminatory anti-Israel acts that can sometimes cross the line into anti-Semitism. They are ostensibly concerned about the silencing of speech critical of Israel, but offer no concrete allegation of exactly how the U.N. adopting this definition could, in any way, limit anyone’s speech. U.N. officials routinely make vile anti-Semitic <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-congress-members-call-on-un-leadership-to-remove-antisemitic-official/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> which include using Holocaust inversion, supporting the killing of innocent Jewish children, accusing the “Jewish lobby” of controlling the world, and, like HRW, <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/02/13/more-outrageous-un-anti-semitism-high-level-official-says-israel-to-blame-for-palestinians-murdering-jews/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">justifying</a> anti-Semitic violence. Apparently, HRW believes that the only societal norm these people would respect would be a U.N. statement condemning anti-Semitic double standards. Demonstrably, however this is not the case: Not <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ban-kimoon-united-nations-disproportionate-israel-focus-resolutions-palestinians-human-rights-danny-danon-a7481961.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a> but <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-chief-vows-to-stand-up-against-anti-israel-bias-anti-semitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a> U.N. secretary generals have already called out the organization’s systemic bias against the Jewish State, and not a blessed thing has changed. Everyone remains perfectly free to say whatever they want, however abhorrent, about Jews and/or Israel. That doesn’t mean the U.N. should not label things correctly.  
The letter is also wrong about what the examples say. HRW cites two examples to make its point that IHRA can be used “as a blunt instrument to label anyone an anti-Semite.” Those examples are:
<blockquote>“denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination; e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour” and
“applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”</blockquote>
In discussing the first example, the letter openly confuses calling the entire existence of the State of Israel itself a “racist endeavor” i.e. a form of the “Zionism is racism” trope that the U.N. officially revoked, with criticism of particular Israeli government policies or practices. 
In discussing the second, they minimize the explicit caveat in the IHRA definition that the examples given “could, taking into account the overall context,” be anti-Semitic. Of course, in any given instance there might be legitimate, non-anti-Semitic reasons why a person or group wants to single out only the Jewish state for different treatment. But there are definitely times when there are not.
IHRA should be adopted because it accurately captures the essence of anti-Semitism. It also draws strength from the unprecedented reality that the vast majority of Jewish people agree that it best encapsulates their shared lived experience of how anti-Semitism manifests. Of course, Jews are not monolithic and there are tiny fringe groups who oppose the definition. But that does not mean that there is no consensus around it, as the letter falsely implies. The citation to the ‘alternative’ definitions proves the point: Since 2016 over 1,100 entities have adopted the IHRA definition, while none have adopted either the Nexus or JDA definitions. 1,100-0 really is more than just consensus — it is a mandate.
If HRW and its allies are really concerned about IHRA’s misuse, they should direct their time and energy towards understanding what the definition actually says, rather than trying to ignorantly and dangerously undermine a near-universal understanding that is finally raising awareness of the problem’s many manifestations. Anti-Semites should not get a say in defining anti-Semitism, and the U.N. should not shy away from the gold-standard definition to make the perpetrators of anti-Jewish hate feel more comfortable.
Dr. Mark Goldfeder, Esq. is the CEO and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Inc. He is also the Senior Partner with Gideon Law Group, LLC. Previously, he served as the founding Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Law and Judaism, a Trustee of the Center for Israel Education, and as an adviser to the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Why The Definition Of Anti-Semitism Does Not Belong In The Hands Of Israel’s Enemies

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Editor&#8217;s Note: Subsequent to publication of this story, the UN clarified that by &#8220;sexual conduct involving&#8221; those below the age of consent it meant to include only incidents in which both parties fit the criteria. It was not immediately clear if the UN intended to correct its imprecise wording.
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A United Nations-backed <a href="https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf">report</a> published last month suggests global leaders normalize pedophilia by allowing children to legally decide on engaging in sexual activities with adults.
Wrapped inside a human-rights-based analysis on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health rights, consensual sexual activity, and gender ideology the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report — which calls for offenses related to &#8220;sex, drug use, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, homelessness and poverty&#8221; to be decriminalized.
&#8220;Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,&#8221; the Geneva-based ICJ wrote.
Authors of the report further advise lawyers, judges, and law enforcement to consider &#8220;the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.&#8221;
&#8220;Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.&#8221;
The report took over five years to develop and based its findings on feedback and reviews from jurists, academics, legal practitioners, human rights defenders, and various civil society organizations. Such results primarily focused on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health and rights, consensual sexual activity, gender identity, gender expression, HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission, drug use, and the possession of drugs for personal use, according to the report.
According to the <a href="https://decriminalise.unaids.org/">UNAIDS</a>, 20 countries criminalize or otherwise prosecute transgender people, 67 countries still criminalize same-sex sexual activity (with 10 imposing the death penalty for it), 115 countries criminalize drug use, more than 130 criminalize HIV exposure, non-disclosure, and transmission, and over 150 countries criminalize some aspects of prostitution.
&#8220;Criminal law is among the harshest of tools at the disposal of the State to exert control over individuals &#8230; as such, it ought to be a measure of last resort however, globally, there has been a growing trend towards overcriminalization,&#8221; Ian Seiderman, Law and Policy Director at ICJ, said in a <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2023/march/20230308_new-legal-principles-decriminalization">news release</a>. &#8220;We must acknowledge that these laws not only violate human rights, but the fundamental principles of criminal law themselves.&#8221;
Retired Judge Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa argues criminal law deems some groups protected and others condemned and ostracized.
&#8220;In this way, the criminal law performs an expressive function — and it has dramatic consequences on people&#8217;s lives,&#8221; Edwin wrote. &#8220;It sometimes entails a harshly discriminatory impact on groups identified with the disapproved or stigmatized conduct.&#8221;
The report also argues killing unborn children in elective abortions is a human right, calling for decriminalizing the procedure and removing punishment for pregnant mothers who consume drugs or alcohol during pregnancy.
&#8220;Abortion must be taken entirely out of the purview of the criminal law, including for having, aiding, assisting with or providing an abortion …&#8221; the report states.
Officials published the report on March 8 in recognition of International Women&#8217;s Day, alleging a connection between women&#8217;s rights and the age of sexual consent.
Women&#8217;s rights activist Michelle Uriarau of Melbourne, Australia, tweeted that publishing the report on International Women&#8217;s Day succeeded in &#8220;gaslighting women everywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;This hideous UN report … seeks to decriminalize sex — even between children and minors. Evil,&#8221; Uriarau <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/un-backed-legal-recommendations-normalize-sex-minors-critics-say">said</a>.

UN-Backed Report Suggests Normalizing Pedophilia, Decriminalizing All Sexual Activity

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Sixty-three Chinese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christians</a> who were facing expulsion back to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> have been given shelter in the United States after being detained in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/thailand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thailand</a>.
The Christians are members of the Shenzhen Holy Reform Church, also known as the “Mayflower Church,” and left China due to religious persecution in November 2019. They had hoped to be granted refugee status in Thailand by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations</a>, but instead they faced immigration-related charges. 
After negotiations with the State Department, Department of Homeland Security, and the U.N, Thailand agreed to let the U.S. take in the Christians, who hope to become permanent residents of the U.S. 
“ChinaAid welcomes the landing of the persecuted Chinese ‘Mayflower Church’ to freedom in America, and welcomes them to Texas,” ChinaAid Founder Bo Fu <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/05/us_steps_up_efforts_to_help_chinese_christians__149072.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Friday statement, according to RealClearPolitics. “This is truly a Good Friday. Barely a week ago, members of the Mayflower Church were still incarcerated in a jail facing imminent danger of [Chinese Communist Party] kidnapping threats. Now they are safe and free.”
The group, led by Pastor Pan Yongguang, a minister ordained by the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA), landed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on Friday. It had been a tumultuous three years for the group, who initially had attempted to stay in South Korea before moving to Thailand. 
&#8220;This is a successful example of nonpartisan, international cooperation,&#8221; ChinaAid CEO Chad Bullard <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/chinas-mayflower-church-members-resettled-in-us-after-3-years.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We are thankful to all parties including various U.S. government agencies, particularly the State Department&#8217;s International Religious Freedom Office led by Ambassador Rashad Hussain, the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, USCIRF, and a number of congressional offices including Chairman Mike McCaul and Chairman Chris Smith.&#8221; 
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Smith, a New Jersey Republican who is chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, was pleased with the news. “It is a very Good Friday indeed, and a perfect Easter gift to see these persecuted Chinese Christians arrive and be allowed to practice their faith freely in the United States,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Had they been forcibly repatriated to China, they would have been jailed and severely persecuted.&#8221;
Other lawmakers who asked the State Department to intervene on behalf of the Chinese Christians included Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). 
“I was proud to assist in the effort to get them to safety alongside many others, including Ambassador Godec and the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, the State Department’s legislative team, key members of Congress, the Royal Thai Government, and Ambassador Tanee and the Royal Thai Embassy,&#8221; Cruz said in a statement. &#8220;I am especially grateful for ChinaAid and Freedom Seekers International, and for the people of Tyler, Texas who have welcomed the congregation into their homes. Because of their generosity and diligence, the Mayflower Church can now share in the freedoms that we enjoy every day in America.”

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Well, folks, don&#8217;t look now, but the &#8220;risk of a nuclear weapon being used is currently higher than at any time since the depths of the cold war,&#8221; <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1135222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">war in Ukraine</a> — obviously — is what is driving that risk. Based on reports made during the UN&#8217;s security council on Friday, that war isn&#8217;t ending any time soon — as if there were any doubt of that. Americans should know it is not going to end any time soon, our commander-in-chief has said that our tax dollars and equipment will be supporting Ukraine in its battle against Russia for &#8220;as long as it takes&#8221; — whatever that means. The Swamp wants this war to continue — and so it will.
While Biden has been banging the war drums, Putin has been chatting with its neighbors and new BFF Belarus. Now, reports indicate that Russia will be stationing non-strategic nuclear weapons within Belarus territory. According to the UN, those will be in place for aerial use by July.
For its part, Russia denies such accusations.
“We are pursuing cooperation with Belarus without violating obligations,” Russian ambassador and Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-sure-sounds-like-biden-wants-world-war-over-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Friday. “We are not transferring nuclear weapons. We are talking about the retrofitting of airplanes and training teams in the construction of a storage facility on the territory of Belarus.”
Yet he did make sure to note that Russia would respond to any &#8220;provocative measures&#8221; as it saw fit, while adding, “A nuclear war cannot be won.&#8221;
As has been the case for much of the war, Russia and the West aren&#8217;t exactly on speaking terms, to put it lightly. Both sides say that the other needs to leave Ukraine in order for the fighting to end, and both sides say that isn&#8217;t going to happen.
So, the war will persist at an essential stalemate, possibly inching closer and closer to World War III.
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Now, Ukraine has been fortifying troops and conducting practices along its border with Belarus. That has Belarus worried that Ukraine might try to invade Russia through its territory.
How did Belarusian leaders respond? Well, they first offered a proposal for an immediate ceasefire — which was rejected by Ukrainian leaders. Then <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-31-23/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belarus essentially threatened</a> to nuke the West if it tried entering its territory.
What does the U.S. have to say about all of this?
On Friday, Robert Wood, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, told Russia, &#8220;Any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would have severe consequences and would fundamentally change the nature of this war.&#8221; He also called Russia&#8217;s accusations &#8220;ludicrous.&#8221;
Meanwhile, Nakamitsu from the UN was practically begging the two sides to come to the table and craft a peace plan.
“When it comes to issues related to nuclear weapons, all States must avoid taking any actions that could lead to escalation, mistake or miscalculation,” she said. “They should return to dialogue to de-escalate tensions urgently and find ways to develop and implement transparency and confidence-building measures.&#8221;
Yet again, dialogue isn&#8217;t on the table for Biden or Putin. So, the war will go on for the foreseeable future. If both sides don&#8217;t start talking soon, well, then maybe it really is the closest we&#8217;ve been to a nuclear war.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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