About 67% of the voting-eligible population casts their ballot during presidential election years while only about 50% voted during the last midterm election. The estimated number of people who are eligible to vote based on their age was about 329.9 million as of 2020. Only 158.38 million showe...
7 Hamas attack on Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) By JOSH BOAK, SHELLY CHENG, PARKER KAUFMANN, HUMERA LODHI and PABLO BARRIA URENDA Updated 8:06 PM GMT+8, October 15, 2024 Share WASHINGTON (AP) — As Election Day draws nearer, Dem...
Gov. Greg Abbott is one Texas official who has been particularly vocal in his condemnation of antisemitism. Abbott spoke at Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas’Oct. 7 event marking a year since the Hamas attack, where other speakers thanked him for his commitment to the...
The other real problem is Hamas. And yesterday, he said about Hamas. That there's going to be hell to be paid.Hamas doesn't release those hostages. The gates of hell are going to open up. And I believe him.The -- the thing is, with a negotiator, you have to be able to see -...
With Israel out of the Gaza Strip, it was an opportunity for Palestinians to show they were serious about making peace with Israel. Instead, they burnt the synagogues and the fields of the Jewish settlements andvoted for Hamas. These 2006 elections were the last elections Palestinians enjoyedas...
WhenDonald Trumpbecame US president for the first time, in 2016, the British, along with many other countries, were caught short. They hadn't expected the Trump win and hadn't done their homework. British diplomatic contacts with Mr Trump's transition team back then (which was itself novice...
which has provided broad support for Hamas. He called on the U.S. government to rescue American hostages, resupply Israel, increase pressure on Iran with more sanctions and focus on the U.S.' own intelligence failures. He also claimed Democrats were not doing enough to confront anti-Semitism...
In the first Intifada, Arabs began to target their Israeli co-workers. In the Second Intifada the violence escalated and eventually, when Israel dismantled all the settlements there in 2005, the Gazans voted for Hamas to rule them. Since then – as the radical Islamic terror group reneged on...
The final point is Al-Qaeda has said, and when I say Al-Qaeda I mean Jihadist militant groups in general, that they will not engage in conventional politics. They will not turn themselves into Hezbollah or Hamas and begin providing quasi-government services. An "Al-...
support their colleagues who are under attack, according to two people familiar with her remarks. Tlaib and other progressives had been subject tocriticismfrom conservatives and some Democrats for stances that were viewed as insufficiently condemning Hamas’ terror attacks, something they have ...