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Washington DC’s protests against Netanyahu: Letters to the Editor — July 29, 2024
The Issue: The demonstrations in Washington, DC, protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The burning of the American flag and the desecration of our nation’s monuments is deeply unpatriotic and totally unacceptable (“Protests greet Netanyahu,” July 25).
These acts should have been prevented by the authorities present. How was it possible for demonstrators to take down flags from three separate flagpoles and spray-paint a monument without being stopped? The police should have prevented this desecration in the first place.
Peaceful protest is a right, but it should never cross the line into violence. We need better leadership to handle this situation.
Richard Wolff
New Rochelle
It’s time for the National Guard to be deployed to quell such protests in Washington, DC, as they have already gone too far.
These protests all started at liberal colleges across the country. And now there are protests at our nation’s very own capitol. This should be dealt with accordingly.
John Nolty
West Kill
While the protests of the late 1960s and early ’70s against the Vietnam War were loud, strident and occasionally disruptive, what we are now encountering with the recent anti-Israel protests is of an entirely different dimension and character.
For example, the Wednesday demonstration in Washington included threats and assaults on police officers. Should we include flag-burning? A previous Supreme Court decision ruled that it is free speech — but with your own flag.
Peaceful and lawful protest is a well-accepted vehicle that provides the opportunity for dissent. However, what we are seeing now is not acceptable.
Mitch Schwefel
Barnegat, NJ
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was addressing Congress, anti-Israel protesters defaced a Liberty Bell replica, Columbus monument and numerous other prominent American landmarks.
Several progressive Democrats did not attend Netanyahu’s speech, including our very own Vice President Kamala Harris, in what can also be considered a form of protest.
All of this is shameful, as this is done in support of Hamas — a designated terrorist organization.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
The only crime of the protests was that a protester (or, in my opinion, a suspicious agitator) burned an American flag and not an Israeli one.
I am proud, however, to see that Americans of many stripes, among them Jews from the Jewish Voice for Peace, came together to protest the genocide being carried out by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and his goons.
These protests were a prime example of the moral fortitude that so many pro-Palestinian activists hold. They exemplified the resilience necessary to shout, make their voice heard and show our AIPAC-funded politicians how many Americans actually feel about their support for the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Leon Baader
Brooklyn
The desecration of our nation’s monuments with anti-American language cannot, in my mind, be considered free speech.
Seeing the Democrats do little about these protesters just proves that we need a change in our government. It’s time to start locking up and prosecuting these agitators.
Those who have died for this country at the very least deserve that.
James Schwartz
Summit, NJ
The protesters, or should I say rioters, who loudly proclaim that they support Hamas should face prison time when they destroy property and attack law-enforcement officers.
Taking down American flags and then putting up Palestinian flags cannot be tolerated in our country. This is an attack on our democracy.
They should be treated as enemies of the American government and imprisoned.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
The protesters stated they want to wipe out Israel and also besmirched America’s flag.
If that’s not bigotry, I don’t know what is.
Charlie Honadel
Venice, Fla.
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Storm Team4 Forecast: A chilly, gusty Sunday before a cool start to the week
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- Gusty Sunday
- Chilly Monday
- Temps will rise again through the work week
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After a nice and warm Saturday, changes arrive for part two of the weekend.
The first half of your Sunday will have a chance for showers. Winds will pick up with our next system and are expected to gust to about 20-30 mph. Cooler air will settle in, and lows Sunday night fall into the 40s.
Highs temps Monday will reach only into the mid to upper 50s.
However, temperatures will rise through the week, so you won’t need your jackets every day.
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Showers, then partly cloudy
Wind: NW 10-15 mph
Gusts @ 30 mph
HIGH: Lower 60s
MONDAY:
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‘It’s a twilight zone’: Iran war casts deep shadows over IMF gathering in Washington
The most severe energy shock since the 1970s, the risk of a global recession and households everywhere stomaching a renewed surge in the cost of living – hitting the most vulnerable hardest.
In a sweltering hot Washington DC this week, the message at the International Monetary Fund meetings was chilling: things had been looking up for living standards around the world. But then came the Iran war.
“Some countries are in panic,” said the fund’s managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, addressing the finance ministers and central bank bosses in town for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings. “The sooner it [the Iran war] ends, the better for everybody.”
Such gatherings are not typically used to fight geopolitical battles. “You don’t get people shouting at one another at these things,” one senior figure remarked. But, as a record-breaking April heatwave swept the US capital, no one could ignore the mounting damage from the Iran war.
Those familiar with the mood over breakfast at a meeting of the G20’s representatives on Thursday, which included Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the outgoing US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell – said the atmosphere in the room was sombre amid an open exchange of serious views.
“It is such a twilight-zone meeting,” said Mohamed El-Erian, a former IMF deputy managing director who is now chief economic adviser at the Allianz insurance group. “There are several shadows hanging over it: one is the shadow that comes from concern about the global economy as a whole.
“The second is that some countries are going to be particularly hard hit, and it’s mostly countries that very few people are talking about. But the third concern is the adding of insult to injury: the fact that the US, which started a war of choice, is going to be hit, but by a lot less than elsewhere in relative terms.”
Before Thursday’s breakfast, Rachel Reeves had started her day with an early-morning jog. Joined by her counterparts from Spain, Australia and New Zealand for a run down the iconic National Mall, she posted an Instagram selfie with a not-so-subtle dig: “Friends that run together – work together.”
A day earlier, the chancellor had told a CNBC conference that she thought “friends are allowed to disagree on things” as she criticised Trump’s Iran war as a “mistake” and a “folly” that had not made the world safer.
Speaking at a venue just steps away from the White House, before a one-on-one meeting with Bessent, she said this “fair message” was needed because UK families and businesses were feeling the pain from higher energy prices triggered by the conflict.
Those close to Reeves insist her meeting remained cordial. Britain and the US have significant shared interests in AI, financial services and trade. The chancellor also said the UK government had little time for the Iranian regime.
But with the IMF having warned on Tuesday that the Iran war could risk a global recession – in which Britain would be the biggest G7 casualty – it was clear Reeves had travelled to Washington ready to pick a fight.
“I’m struck by how vocal she has been and the words she used,” said one global financier. “We know the disagreement between Bessent and [European Central Bank president] Christine Lagarde earlier in the year. But that was in private.”
At a cocktail party held at the British ambassador’s residence for hundreds of diplomats and financiers – including the Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, the chief executive of Barclays, CS Venkatakrishnan, and dozens of senior figures – this transatlantic tension, weeks before King Charles’s US state visit, was a major topic of conversation.
The other, in the balmy residence gardens, was one of its former occupants, Peter Mandelson, as revelations about the former ambassador’s appointment threatened to further rock the UK government.
Before the war, the agenda for the IMF had been about global cooperation; the adoption of AI, jobs and work to eradicate poverty. Each of those tasks had now been complicated, but not least the task of countries working together.
For many at the meetings, the focus was on forging closer global cooperation without the world’s pre-eminent superpower.
“Everybody is talking about how you hedge against American decisions,” said David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary, who now runs the International Rescue Committee. “You can’t do without them, because they’re 25% of the global economy. But, in a lot of fora, they’ve pulled out.
“So everyone has to think, how does one structure international cooperation? The old west is not coming back. And so everyone has to figure out how to position themselves for that world.”
For those gathering in Washington, there was irony in the fact that they were meeting in the halls of institutions founded, under US leadership, to promote global cooperation after the second world war. The whole idea of the Bretton Woods institutions was to avoid the dire economic conditions and warfare of the 1930s and 1940s. Yet this year’s meeting was taking place amid these intertwining problems.
In their conversations about the best economic policy response to the shock of conflict, the economists also knew the real power to make a difference lay two blocks across town from the IMF and the World Bank – behind the security cordons and construction equipment blocking the White House from public view. “It is not clear they can do anything about it,” said El-Erian.
Still, with a booming economy driven by AI – including Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model, the topic of much conversation – most countries cannot afford to completely break off US ties.
“People want to find ways to insulate themselves from the mess. But, on the other hand, they admire the US private sector,” El-Erian said. “The best way I’ve heard it put, is: they want to go long the private sector and short the mess. But it’s almost impossible to do.”
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Rosselli opens in DC, serving classic Italian flavors from chef Carlos
Washington, D.C. (7News) — Rosselli is the newest restaurant to open in DC.
Bringing in classic Italian flavors, Chef Carlos explained how he hopes his food is a unique addition to the Italian food scene in the DMV.
Chef also demoed a signature dish with Brian and Megan.
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