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Opinion: The Palestinian and Jewish experiences are both valid

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

For Jews and Palestinians these are painful and difficult days.On Oct. 7, Hamas gunmen indiscriminately murdered about 1,200 Israelis. The victims were not settlers. They did not live in the West Bank or any disputed territories. In fact, many were peace activists. Their deaths break my heart.Israel’s military action in the weeks since have killed many thousands of Palestinians. Most of the casualties are civilians. Their deaths also break my heart.Many of the loudest voices in our community want to apportion blame to one side or the other, to deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state or deny the legitimacy of a Palestinian national identity. I want to suggest something else, something more difficult: If we truly want to find a just resolution to this conflict, we have to recognize that both sides are right — and both sides are wrong.We have to hold the pain and the suffering, as well as the national aspirations, of Palestinians and Israeli Jews. We have to acknowledge th...

Granderson: Climate change costs fall on states that can’t afford them

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

Between 2018 and 2022 many of the states with high rates of poverty — Oklahoma, New York — were also the states that suffered the most damage from extreme weather. A new climate study indicates things are going to get worse for those places and for poor people.The federal government’s Fifth National Climate Assessment was published last week and concludes that we are literally running out of places to hide.Right now, according to the report, more than half of all Americans live somewhere that’s projected to have more extreme weather more often. No matter how much humans might try to put a red-blue spin on climate issues, the weather doesn’t care: The climate damage price tags for Texas and California were roughly the same during the span the report assessed.In 2021, future presidential candidate Ron DeSantis referred to aggressive climate change policy as “left-wing stuff.” But wouldn’t you know it, Florida — the state where DeSa...

Lafayette police arrest 2 men who allegedly stole two vehicles

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

(BCN) -- Lafayette police this week arrested two men for allegedly stealing a motorcycle and another vehicle after a brief chase that led up the wrong way of a freeway ramp.Police received a report of a stolen vehicle at approximately 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the 3300 block of Mt. Diablo Boulevard from a license plate-reading camera.Officers found the vehicle leaving the 1000 block of Carol Lane. The stolen vehicle immediately accelerated away and police pursued it to Pleasant Hill Road, then terminated the pursuit for public safety reasons when the stolen vehicle drove the wrong way up the off-ramp to westbound state Highway 24. Wife and lover who allegedly conspired to kill her husband arrested for murder in Hayward Two suspects exited the vehicle and fled on foot. One was apprehended after a short pursuit.Shortly afterward, police received a report of a male acting suspiciously in a nearby neighborhood where it was believed the driver of the stolen vehicle fled. Officers arrived and...

Woman dies after suspected DUI crash in the North Bay

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

(BCN) -- A female individual died Tuesday afternoon after figuring in a multi-vehicle crash in Lakeville in Sonoma County, the California Highway Patrol said.Around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, patrol officers learned of a traffic collision on Lakeville Highway near Stage Gulch Road. Three vehicles were involved in the crash, the CHP-Santa Rosa said.According to the CHP's investigation, a Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck was traveling southbound on Lakeville Highway when its driver veered left to cross into the opposing lane. It crashed into a Toyota Tundra pickup truck that was traveling northbound on the highway.The CHP said this caused the Toyota truck to turn left into the southbound lane, causing it to collide with a Kia Sorento SUV, that was traveling to the rear of the Chevy. SMART train service delayed after crash with bicycle in Rohnert Park The Kia SUV overturned, killing its female passenger seated in front. Its driver, who suffered major injuries, had to be airlifted from the wre...

Missing at-risk Berkeley woman located

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

(BCN) -- A missing at-risk woman from Berkeley has been found, police said early Wednesday morning.Bronwyn Lieberman, 60, was located hours after she went missing, Berkeley police said in an advisory around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

America’s Unwavering Support for Israel Fuels Iran-Backed “Axis of Resistance”

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

On the day meant to honor Hezbollah’s own martyrs, the group’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, dedicated a considerable portion of his speech to fighters elsewhere in the region. In a televised address on November 11, Nasrallah praised not just Hezbollah’s strikes on Israel launched from southern Lebanon, but also “supporting fronts” in Iraq and Syria, where armed groups have carried out more than 60 attacks on American troops in the past month.“These actions reflect great courage because it is the Americans they are fighting, the Americans whose fleets, aircraft carriers, and bases fill the region,” Nasrallah said of his Iraqi allies. “If you Americans want these operations on the supporting fronts to stop, if you don’t want regional war, you must stop the aggression and war on Gaza.”Nasrallah’s words indicate growing unity among the so-called axis of resistance, a network of Iran-backed actors in the Mideast that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, the Syrian government, the Houthis i...

Secret Intelligence Documents Show Global Reach of India’s Death Squads

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

The Indian government’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, has been planning assassinations targeting Sikh and Kashmiri activists living in foreign countries, according to secret Pakistani intelligence assessments leaked to The Intercept.The intelligence documents identify a series of threats against people living in Pakistan from RAW, which Pakistani security officials believe is working in conjunction with local criminal and dissident networks to carry out assassinations and other attacks. According to the documents, RAW is targeting individuals and religious institutions alleged to support an armed insurgency in the disputed territory of Kashmir, as well as militant Sikh activists living in Pakistan and wanted by the Indian government.The documents offer compelling substantiation for the sensational claim that India has been carrying out a transnational assassination program against its political enemies. The Canadian government first made headlines in S...

Luke Shaw back in training after 3 months out to ease Man United’s injury issues in defense

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United defender Luke Shaw is back in training after a three-month injury absence that has limited the England international to only two games this season.Shaw is working with the main squad, United said Wednesday, ahead of the Premier League game at Everton on Sunday.The left back sustained what United said was a “muscle issue” in August after appearing in the team’s opening two league games — against Wolverhampton and Tottenham.Shaw’s absence came at a time United had a number of other key injuries in defense, with back-up left back Tyrell Malacia sidelined since preseason, Lisandro Martinez out since early October after right foot surgery and both Sergio Reguilon and Aaron Wan-Bissaka missing for an extended period.Martinez was seen working away from the main group on Wednesday.United manager Erik ten Hag has played a number of players as makeshift left backs while Shaw was out, such as right back Diogo Dalot, center back Victor Li...

No. 5 Florida State and rival Florida turn to backup QBs with plenty at stake in the Swamp

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No one could have imagined Tate Rodemaker and Max Brown would headline the latest matchup between in-state rivals Florida State and Florida.But the backup quarterbacks will step into the brightest of spotlights when the fifth-ranked Seminoles (11-0) face the reeling Gators (5-6) in the Swamp on Saturday night. Is either one truly ready to handle the stage, the moment, the pressure?“You try to make it to where the mindset is always the same because you never know,” FSU coach Mike Norvell said. “But it’s probably different for them.”Wildly different.Rodemaker, a fourth-year junior, will make his second career start in place of the injured Jordan Travis. The Heisman Trophy contender suffered a season-ending injury to his left leg against North Alabama last week, leaving Rodemaker to try to fill some of the biggest cleats in program history.Rodemaker’s only previous start came against lower-division Jacksonville State in 2020 and he’s never played in a road venu...

FIFA renews with Qatar Airways as World Cup sponsor through 2030 ahead of Saudi-hosted tournament

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:25:24 GMT

ZURICH (AP) — Qatar Airways will be FIFA’s airline sponsor at the men’s 2026 World Cup being played across North America after soccer’s governing body renewed with the company through 2030 on Wednesday.The state-owned airline initially had a two-tournament deal for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 edition played in Qatar.The World Cup airline slot should next be vacant for the 2034 tournament that FIFA has lined up to be hosted by Saudi Arabia, which is launching a second national carrier called Riyadh Air.The value of the new Qatar Airways deal was not disclosed though is likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars. At World Cup finals, trophy and medal presentation assistants are dressed in the airline’s uniform. The airline was among seven top-tier men’s World Cup sponsors in the 2019-2022 commercial cycle which FIFA said earned almost $1.8 billion in total marketing rights sales.It includes selected FIFA youth tournaments and the 2027 Women’s World Cup, which wil...