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(That wasn't his reasoning at all.)
I don't think anyone expected Pompeo's settlements announcement to be accurately reported, but this is a level of laziness rarely achieved even by our modern political press corps.
Like, if you want to argue that, legally, a Jew living in certain neighborhoods of Jerusalem is a war crime, go right ahead. But it should be no surprise that non-segregationists have come to a different conclusion.
The Jews won't live by your segregationist legal fiction, so sorry this troubles you, please go take a nice long walk off a pier
"Settlements are legal but constitute an obstacle to a two-state solution" was once the consensus, but that was when international law was actually based on law, long before most of these journos were born.
This is a trend in Westerns 'thought'. "I don't like it so it's illegal or unconstitutional."

Yeah, doesn't work that way, Jethro.
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Seth Mandel
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As far as I'm concerned the takeaway has already been offered:

Did Zelensky have to do the investigations? No. He had to announce them, and then he gets his meeting (and presumably the aid).

That's Sondland clearly saying it was never actually about rooting out corruption.
Trumpworld needs an answer to this above all. And so far, they don't have it.
Sondland's response to this is to say that the Ukrainians had a history of backing out of commitments, which is going to be the defense for Trump. Not sure how convincing that will be to people, but there's the defense.
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Do I want to know what this is about
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Outstanding content.
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Seth Mandel
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The sad state of American Jewry in one sentence.

(Note: not a critique of @GlennKesslerWP, who is likely right. *That's* what's depressing.)
Also there is something totally bonkers about the discourse around Israel when every time Trump does something massively pro-Israel we have to ask why he'd do it, since Jewish voters don't care.

What happened to us?
Perfect example, right on cue: Jewish Democratic Council comes out against Jewish freedom to live outside specific boundaries, to own the cons
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump Broaches Quid Pro Quo In Talking US-Ukraine Relations and Ukrainian Corruption Case with Zelensky

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1/ COMEY AND STRZOK'S ORIGINAL SIN:

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2/ On May 8, 2017, Rod Rosenstein drafted a letter explaining why firing James Comey, less than halfway through his 10 year term, made sense.

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That is extremely strong language coming from a current Deputy AG to a former Deputy AG.

DOJ is a club
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Watching the livestream of @LAW_witchhunt, before the meeting starts @ken4london turns to Graham Bash "you're Jewish?" He makes his speech first and then walks out "promised the kids I'd be home by 8..."
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I'm definitely a fan of @KevinMKruse and am very thankful for this thread. But, as a non-historian, I would like to offer a little push-back on each of these points, if I may. Not in defense of @RealCandaceO (please no!), but in defense of criticizing Dems, LBJ, and Sanger. 1/
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3/ During the “Great Migration,” Northerners reacted in violence and rage to the incoming millions and the North was certainly Republican. But the Second Klan, just like the first, was still largely a Southern Democrat organization.
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