Donald Trump is calling on President Barack Obama’s administration to veto a U.N. resolution that denounces illegal Israeli settlements and backs the Israeli government. A planned vote Thursday on a draft resolution calling for an immediate end to Israeli settlement activity on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state was postponed amid pressure from Israel, NBC News reported.
Several days ago, Merkel may have walked on her own into one a potentially career-ending, political traps as she prepares to runs for her fourth term as Chancellor in 2017, when she said has said "it would be particularly repulsive if a refugee, seeking protection in Germany, was the perpetrator" of the Monday Christmas market terrorist attack.
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Around the time of Passover in 67 AD, the Jews of Judea were in the midst of a major rebellion against the occupying Roman Empire.
Riots and violence were commonplace, and an organized rebel force of more than 25,000 men fought regularly against the imperial legions.
But a small group of zealots decided that conventional warfare wasn’t good enough.
So they went to the nearby town of Ein Gedi in modern-day Israel and killed 700 civilians.
A leaked communication between the Trump transition team's Undersecretary of Defense for policy Brian McKeon, and the Pentagon, has revealed the four biggest defense priorities for the president-elect. Among the top four items listed in the memo from are: 1) developing a strategy to defeat/destroy ISIS; 2) build a strong defense by eliminating budget caps/the sequester, 3) develop a comprehensive cyber strategy, and 4) eliminate wasteful spending by finding greater efficiencies.