One of Ramadan’s accusers now admits that the date on which she claimed she was raped cannot be right, but the court which previously denied bail refuses to dismiss the charges:
If you thought Joe Walsh was willing to humiliate himself to suck up to Israel, wait until you see the depths to which Jason Spencer sinks …
- GOP Rep. Jason Spencer Rejects Calls to ‘Resign Immediately’ Following Sacha Baron Cohen Prank (Daily Beast)
… or for that matter, Donald Trump:
As dangerous as the Pompeo-Trump saber rattling may be …
… Iran isn’t falling for it, with Iran’s foreign minister tweeting back, “COLOR US UNIMPRESSED” …
- Iran Isn’t Taking Trump’s Twitter Bait—for Now (The Atlantic)
… yet the debate over whether the U.S. is seeking to provoke a war with Iran should not obscure “how much of Mr. Pompeo’s speech was accurate, and whether in some instances — intentionally or not — he may have exaggerated, omitted facts or mixed facts with conjecture”
- Fact-Checking Pompeo on Iran (NY Times)
Small countries can evade Trump’s bullying by resorting to old fashioned barter …
- Sri Lanka to Pay Iran Oil Debt in Tea as Trade Partners Look for Creative Ways to Avoid Trump Sanctions (Independent)
… while an EU “law forbids European companies from complying with the US measures and allows them to recover damages arising from the sanctions “from the person causing them”:
- EU Struggles to Counter US Sanctions on Iran (Financial Times)
- Open to Personal Law Changes Within Islam Tenets: AIMPLB (Economic Times)
As in the US:
- In Western Europe, Familiarity with Muslims Is Linked to Positive Views of Muslims and Islam (Pew Research Center)
Palestine’s ambassador to the U.N. says that the U.S. and Israel are “still denying we are a state. We walk like a state. We quack like a state. Therefore we are a state”:
“This behavior by Israel infringes on our diplomatic relations and is a further indication of the need for South Africa to implement the ANC’s resolution for the immediate and unconditional downgrade of the SA Embassy as Israel. There can be no doubt that Israel is a hostile state to South Africa”:
- Israel Blocks Shashi Naidoo from Seeing Palestine (Independent On Line)
“In court papers, the district attorney’s office argued that no one can be a good-faith purchaser of a stolen work”:
