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Cori Bush Says She Wants to See Arms Embargo Placed on Israel, Regrets Not Running for President
US Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) raises her fist as US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) addresses a pro-Hamas demonstration in Washington, DC. Photo: Reuters/Allison Bailey
US Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) lamented not running for president during a new interview, saying that she wants to see the White House place an arms embargo on Israel.
Bush chatted with members of the Uncommitted Movement during the “Not Another Bomb” digital roll call on Thursday. Uncommitted, an initiative which has encouraged Democrats not to support presidential nominee Kamala Harris unless she adopts anti-Israel policies, hosted an event to discuss strategies on how to fracture the relationship between America and the Jewish state.
During the discussion, Bush suggested that the Harris campaign has not been sufficiently adversarial toward Israel. However, Bush added that she does not feel justified in complaining about their unwillingness to agree to an “arms embargo now” on the Jewish state, citing her own decision not to “step up” and launch a presidential campaign.
“But the thing is, I had to check my own self and say, ‘You know what? While you’re asking for all of these things from someone else, you didn’t step up to the run. You want things that you would’ve bought to the table. But you didn’t step up. So how dare you want a perfect person? Like, you wanted yourself,” Bush said.
Bush, an anti-Israel firebrand, also suggested that pro-Palestinian organizers would have a harder time making progress under a Donald Trump presidency.
Bush argued that Trump’s “talk about rounding up and deporting pro-Palestine protesters” would render anti-Israel activists unable “to do as much work to save the people of Gaza.” Bush claimed that the “oppression” of a Trump presidency would neutralize the ability of protesters to push for change in society.
“How much capacity will we have to help abroad, as we are fighting here?” Bush asked. “What harm will we have to suffer and live through with a Donald Trump presidency as we are still trying to fight for the people of Gaza?”
Bush has established herself as one of the most vocal critics of Israel in the US Congress. Only nine days after Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of roughly 1,200 people in southern Israel, Bush called for an “immediate ceasefire” between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group. As the war dragged on, Bush’s rhetoric toward Israel sharpened, with the congresswoman accusing the Jewish state of committing “genocide” in Gaza and “apartheid” in the West Bank. Bush has also accused Israel of inflicting a “famine” in Gaza without providing evidence.
Bush’s consistent anti-Israel rhetoric following Oct. 7 galvanized scores of St. Louis area Jews to throw their support behind her Democratic primary opponent, St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying group in the US, spent $8.5 million to help secure Bush’s ouster from Congress. The congresswoman lost her bid for re-election earlier in August to Bell, who unlike Bush has expressed support for the Jewish state’s right to defend itself from Hamas’s terrorism.
In her concession speech, Bush blamed her loss on AIPAC, vowing to destroy their “kingdom.”
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Israel Readies for a Nationwide Strike on Sunday
Demonstrators hold signs and pictures of hostages, as relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas protest demanding the release of all hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Itai Ron
i24 News – The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza are calling on for a general strike to be held on Sunday in an effort to compel the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a deal with Hamas for the release of their loved ones and a ceasefire. According to Israeli officials, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, of whom 20 are believed to be alive.
The October 7 Council and other groups representing bereaved families of hostages and soldiers who fell since the start of the war declared they were “shutting down the country to save the soldiers and the hostages.”
While many businesses said they would join the strike, Israel’s largest labor federation, the Histadrut, has declined to participate.
Some of the country’s top educational institutions, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, declared their support for the strike.
“We, the members of the university’s leadership, deans, and department heads, hereby announce that on Sunday, each and every one of us will participate in a personal strike as a profound expression of solidarity with the hostage families,” the Hebrew University’s deal wrote to students.
The day will begin at 6:29 AM, to commemorate the start of the October 7 attack, with the first installation at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Further demonstrations are planned at dozens of traffic intersections.
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Netanyahu ‘Has Become a Problem,’Says Danish PM as She Calls for Russia-Style Sanctions Against Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, July 8, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
i24 News – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become a “problem,” his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen said Saturday, adding she would try to put pressure on Israel over the Gaza war.
“Netanyahu is now a problem in himself,” Frederiksen told Danish media, adding that the Israeli government is going “too far” and lashing out at the “absolutely appalling and catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza and announced new homes in the West Bank.
“We are one of the countries that wants to increase pressure on Israel, but we have not yet obtained the support of EU members,” she said, specifying she referred to “political pressure, sanctions, whether against settlers, ministers, or even Israel as a whole.”
“We are not ruling anything out in advance. Just as with Russia, we are designing the sanctions to target where we believe they will have the greatest effect.”
The devastating war in Gaza began almost two years ago, with an incursion into Israel of thousands of Palestinian armed jihadists, who perpetrated the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
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As Alaska Summit Ends With No Apparent Progress, Zelensky to Meet Trump on Monday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at the press conference after the opening session of Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, 23 August 2023. The Crimea Platform – is an international consultation and coordination format initiated by Ukraine. OLEG PETRASYUK/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – After US President Donald Trump hailed the “great progress” made during a meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he was set to meet Trump on Monday at the White House.
“There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven’t quite gotten there, but we’ve made some headway,” Trump told reporters during a joint press conference after the meeting.
Many observers noted, however, that the subsequent press conference was a relatively muted affair compared to the pomp and circumstance of the red carpet welcome, and the summit produced no tangible progress.
Trump and Putin spoke briefly, with neither taking questions, and offered general statements about an “understanding” and “progress.”
Putin, who spoke first, agreed with Trump’s long-repeated assertion that Russia never would have invaded Ukraine in 2022 had Trump been president instead of Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump said “many points were agreed to” and that “just a very few” issues were left to resolve, offering no specifics and making no reference to the ceasefire he’s been seeking.