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STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON CHEMICAL ATTACK IN SYRIA - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain , Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on the chemical attack in Syria: - "President Trump last week signaled Airstrikes hit Syria after deadly chemical attack, state TV reports - Syrian state TV and witnesses said late Sunday that airstrikes had hit a military airport near the city of Homs shortly after a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 40 people in a suburb of the capital city, Damascus, over the weekend.
There is every reason to believe that Israel was behind today's airstrike on a Syrian military base, and not the United States, as Syria at first claimed. It immediately blamed "likely" US aggression - understandable given the US condemnation of a suspected chemical attack days before on a rebel enclave at Douma outside Damascus.
President Donald Trump on Sunday condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian President Bashar Assad an "animal" and said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Hours later, Syria's state-run news agency reported a missile attack early Monday at an air base in Syria's Homs province and labeled it a "likely" U.S. aggression.
President Donald Trump condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian president Bashar Assad an "animal" and delivered a rare personal criticism of Russian president Vladimir Putin for supporting the Damascus government. As Washington worked to verify the claim by Syrian opposition activists and rescuers that poison gas was used, Mr Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction.
President Trump on Sunday condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian President Bashar Assad an "animal" and delivered a rare personal criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting the Damascus government. As Washington worked to verify the claim by Syrian opposition activists and rescuers that poison gas was used, Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction.
An image grab taken from a video released by the Syrian civil defence in Douma shows an unidentified volunteer holding an oxygen mask over a child's face at a hospital following a reported chemical attack on the rebel-held town on April 8, 2018. A suspected chemical attack by Syria's regime sparked international outrage, after rescue workers reported dozens killed by poison gas on rebel-held parts of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
A top Republican Senator said the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens in Syria is a "defining moment" for President Trump to show his resolve in standing up against Damascus despot Bashar al-Assad. "Well, it's a defining moment in his presidency, because he has challenged Assad in the past not to use chemical weapons," Sen. Lindsey Graham said on ABC's "This Week."
President Donald Trump on Sunday promised a “big price” to be paid for what he said was a chemical weapons attack that choked dozens of Syrians to death the day before, and a top White House official said the administration would not rule out a missile strike to retaliate against the government of President Bashar Assad. In a tweet, Trump laid the blame for the attack partly on President Vladimir Putin of Russia, the first time since his election that he has criticized the Russian leader by name on Twitter.
As Washington worked to verify the claim by Syrian opposition activists and rescuers that poison gas was used, Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction. A top White House aide, asked about the possibility of a U.S. missile strike in response, said, "I wouldn't take anything off the table."
The Saudi-backed fundamentalist militia "Army of Islam" in the Douma district of East Ghouta near Damascus alleged Sunday that the al-Assad regime had dropped a barrel bomb full of chlorine and other chemicals on the rebel enclave on Saturday. Initial reports said that some 41, including non-combatants and including children, were killed, some with tell-tale signs of frothing around the mouth.
Congressman Jimmy Panetta, who represents California's central coast, was a member of a Democratic congressional delegation that visited Israel on March 26 to congratulate the nation on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of its government. Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the delegation stated ahead of the March 26 visit, "There is no greater political accomplishment in the 20th Century than the establishment of the State of Israel."
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Could the answer to Trump's abrupt announcement that, "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon," -- which left even White House aides scrambling to figure out what the President had in mind -- lead us back to Russian President Vladimir Putin? Pushback from security experts has apparently irritated the President but persuaded him for now to delay the withdrawal for the time being . At least that's the most recent decision, subject to change by the mercurial President.
The appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor has given rise to lively debate in American foreign policy circles. The discussion seems all the more imperative in light of the upcoming May 12 deadline for sanction waivers under the Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action .
The ultimate resolution of the fate of the more than 39,000 African migrants in Israel - described as "illegal immigrants," and worse, by critics, and "asylum seekers" by advocates - remains to be seen. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision on Tuesday to cancel an agreement with the United Nations he heralded only the day before as "the best solution" to the vexing problem of the migrants' status, is troubling and disappointing.
"It is remarkable to hear religious leaders defend profanity, ridicule and cruelty as hallmarks of authenticity, and dismiss decency as dead language," writes Michael Gerson in the cover story of the April edition of The Atlantic. He is referring specifically to evangelical Christians who defend President Donald Trump despite his very un-Christian behavior.
Former Israeli prison guard at the notorious Ktzi'ot Prison camp for Palestinians and now editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Cpl. Jeffrey Goldberg, breathlessly reported that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told him that both the Jews and the Palestinians have a right to their own state.
Yet again the knee jerk reaction in Thailand to any criticism is to kill the messenger rather than fix the problem. Your report says the governor of Chiang Mai wants criminal charges laid against a local magazine for posting a "blasphemous" painting on Facebook showing ancient kings, Mengrai, Ramkhamhaeng and Ngam Muang, wearing pollution masks as part of a campaign to protest against hazardous smog.
The Israeli army snipers who were ordered to shoot unarmed Palestinian protesters last Friday at the Gaza border, killing 17 outright and wounding hundreds of others, were acting according to the contemporary script of Middle Eastern dictators. The Israeli army initially admitted in a tweet that the tactic was premeditated and preceise, but then deleted the tweet, as the Israeli peace group B'tselem pointed out: Thanks to @btselem for capturing this deleted tweet, revealing the pride the IDF feels about the casualties they inflicted on unarmed protesters yesterday.
Despite its bumpy relationship with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization in urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal from American victims of terrorist attacks in the Middle East more than a decade ago. The victims are asking the high court to reinstate a $654 million verdict against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in connection with attacks in Israel in 2002 and 2004 that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more.