- Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo on her decision to quit Elon Musk’s X platform, making an excellent point to be honest!

Almost two months after the conflict between Israel and Hamas erupted, a brief pause in fighting appears set to extend a little longer. 
 

• Monday marked the fourth day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas brokered by Qatari officials, the United States, and other allies. The terrorist group has released 69 hostages in total, mostly women and children. Hamas released 13 hostages on Friday, 13 on Saturday and 14 on Sunday. Among the 240 hostages taken by Hamas and other groups on October 7, ten were believed to be American. 
   

• Israel and Hamas agreed on Monday to extend the temporary pause in the war for two additional days, at President Biden’s urging, to allow for the release of an additional 20 hostages. What happens when the pause eventually expires remains unclear. Aaron David Miller, a longtime Middle East negotiator and current official at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said: “Biden’s in a bind. He’s tethered himself to Israel’s war aims — eradicating Hamas. But in view of the rising humanitarian catastrophe and the exponential rise in Palestinian deaths, he’s looking for ways to de-escalate and eventually for an exit ramp.”
   

• Israel said it would agree to extend the pause in fighting by one day for each 10 additional hostages released. President Biden said in a statement on Monday that the humanitarian pause “has also enabled a significant surge in additional humanitarian assistance to the innocent civilians who are suffering across the Gaza strip.” More than 100 Palestinians were released from Israeli captivity in the initial four days of the truce, again, mostly women and children. 

Pressure to extend the pause is mounting, given the staggering death toll already incurred.
 

• United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday that seven weeks of fighting in Israel and Gaza has “taken an appalling toll that has shocked the world.” The rate of civilian deaths in Gaza has outpaced those of similar 21st century conflicts. At least 14,800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza according to the Gaza Health Ministry, although the group has acknowledged that accurate death tolls have become more difficult to obtain due to the decimated communications infrastructure in the enclave. 
   

• At least 1,200 Israelis were killed in the October 7 Hamas attack. In just seven weeks, Gaza’s death toll has outstripped the total number of civilian deaths in Iraq for the entire year in 2003. It’s also a larger toll than the nine-month battle to root out ISIS from Mosul in 2016 and 2017. The estimated 6,000 Palestinian children killed since October 7 is greater than the yearly totals for children killed in conflict zones for the past three years, according to the U.N. 
   

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that any extension of the pause in fighting will be short-lived, and has vowed to continue fighting until Hamas is eliminated.

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A 48-year old man accused of shooting three male college students of Palestinian descent near the University of Vermont campus pleaded not guilty to attempted murder on Monday. He was arrested on Sunday by federal agents and was ordered held without bail. Officials searched his apartment and found a .380-caliber pistol—the same type used in the Saturday night attack. The suspect, Jason Eaton, purchased the weapon legally in April. The victims are Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, all 20 years old, and students of Brown University, Haverford College, and Trinity College, respectively. According to legal filings, Awartani was shot in the spine, Ali Ahmad was shot in the chest, and Abdalhamid was shot in the gluteal area. All three remain in intensive care. 

A lawyer for the victims’ families said he believes that Eaton targeted the men because they were wearing keffiyehs, a traditional Palestinian garment. Police previously said the three men were visiting the home of one of their relatives for the Thanksgiving holiday when they were confronted by a White man with a gun. The case is being investigated as a possible hate crime, which will be determined by the U.S. attorney’s office. Mayor of Burlington Miro Weinberger said he and President Biden had spoken on Monday morning.

The state of Idaho petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to allow its statewide abortion ban, which penalizes doctors who perform abortions, to take full effect. A district court had previously ruled that the law interfered with a federal Medicare statute. 

As disgraced former president Donald Trump continues coasting to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, his former U.N. Secretary Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) are knifing each other through the primary. 

The Republican National Committee is starting to worry about its finances, because its small-dollar donation program has suffered, and donors have not been cutting those villainous, extra-large checks in recent years the way they used to. 

Meanwhile, progressive organizers in Georgia, the state that determined President Biden’s victory in 2020, are also noting a cash crunch and are worried about voter apathy. 

Intercepted audio from the front lines in Ukraine suggests that Russian soldiers are increasingly desperate to flee. 

Democratic presidential candidate and host of “The Young Turks” Cenk Uygur has reportedly raised more than a quarter of a million dollars since launching his bid in early October, despite the fact that he is not legally eligible to be president as a Turkish-born naturalized citizen. Ultimately, gotta respect the grift!

World’s richest man, Tesla CEO and overall Terrible Guy Elon Musk met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday after endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. He later joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a tour of the Kfar Aza kibbutz, which was attacked by Hamas on October 7.

Hundreds of right-wing protesters wearing masks and hoods rampaged through Dublin on Thursday evening, in some of the worst violence and destruction Ireland has seen in decades. The problems began after a knife attack outside of a school in the city center left a woman and three young children injured, with one in critical condition. Within hours, messages spread on social media claiming that the suspect was an immigrant from overseas, despite the fact that police still have not released details of the original suspect or his motives. Protestors set police vehicles ablaze and left a trail of incineration that was still being put out by firefighters on Friday morning. In total, about 500 rioters clashed with more than 400 police officers. 

“We have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology…and engaged in serious violence,” Dublin Police Chief Drew Harris said.  Mary Lou MacDonald, the leader of Ireland’s main opposition party Sinn Féin,   attributed the riot to a “collapse in policing” that should have been preventable. “...hate-filled mobs have threatened and brought violence to our streets before, she said. Some of the protesters spewed bigoted chants, including some against Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Leo Varadkar, whose father was born in India. Today, about 20 percent of Ireland’s population was born in another country, a major shift from just a few decades ago when the country was predominantly White and Roman Catholic. Anti-immigrant sentiments coupled with cost of living and housing crises have fanned the flames of far-right ideology in Ireland recently, as they have in countless other Western countries. In response to the riot, the Irish government vowed to modernize its laws against hatred “for the social media age,” and to introduce legislation to increase police access to CCTV.

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Republican rhetorical attacks on Electric Vehicles may not work in 2024, because swing states and red states are benefiting from tax revenue and employment that comes from President Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Dark Brandon rides again. 

Joseph Gentiluomo, the 101-year-old Schenectady, NY man who invented the modern bowling ball, was inducted into the New York Veterans Hall of Fame on Monday. Gentiluomo is a World War II veteran and holds over 30 patents. Congratulations to Mr. Gentiluomo for over a century of making the rest of us look like lazy slobs!