New Israeli ambassador issues stark ‘nuclear’ warning on Iran: ‘We will not wait’
FIRST ON FOX: The new Israeli ambassador to the United Nations has issued a stern warning to the international body amid escalating tensions with Hezbollah and concerns that Iran could be close to obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Ambassador Danny Danon told Fox News Digital that Security Council Resolution 1701 “said very clearly that there would be no military force in southern Lebanon besides the Lebanese military, but look what happened since 2006.”
“Hezbollah took over, they controlled the region, and they made this area a hub for terrorism with tens of thousands of rockets that, unfortunately, in the last few months, we felt the capabilities,” he argued. “I think if the U.N. is not capable of implementing the resolution, we will have to implement the resolution and push Hezbollah away from our community in the north.”
Part of tackling the various groups in the Middle East – such as Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen – requires dealing with Iran.
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“I think it’s about time that not only Israel will deal with Iran, but the Western democracies will realize that they have to put pressure on Iran, they have to be active in order to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear capabilities,” he said.
“We thought on April 14 when they sent hundreds of projectiles into Israel and their intentions … imagine they had nuclear capabilities,” Danon noted. “We will not wait for that day. We will not allow them to achieve nuclear capabilities.”
Danon replaced Gilad Erdan, who in May decided to end his tenure as the permanent representative to the U.N. Danon previously held the role from 2015 until 2020, after which he took the role of Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
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Erdan served in the U.N. during the Oct. 7 attack and roughly the first nine months of Israel’s incursion into the Gaza Strip as the Israeli Defense Forces hunted down Hamas.
Erdan rose to international prominence for his fiery rhetoric, his bold speeches – including symbolically shredding the U.N. charter – and labeling the United Nations as a broken institution. Just last week, he declared that “the U.N. building in Jerusalem needs to be closed and erased from the face of the Earth.”
Danon, on the other hand, believes that the U.N. can be saved – but it requires the U.S. to step in and make demands to seek reform.
“Let’s look at the facts,” Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon told Fox News Digital. “The facts are that the UN was not able to condemn … October 7th. I cannot accept that.”
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“Not the Security Council, nor the General Assembly, not even a small show condemnation: Zero. Nothing. Silence. That’s unacceptable, and it showed that the double standards of the U.N. when it comes to Israel,” Danon argued.
“I think we should reform the U.N., and I expect the U.S. to lead the action to change the U.N.,” he added. “I think the U.N. is an important organization, and we have to reform it and make sure that the U.N. will focus on the real objects of promoting security and peace and not becoming a platform for hate and incitement by radical countries.”
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“I think that the major country – the strongest country, that allocates most of their budget should come with demands and look at the performance of the U.N., the resolution of the U.N. and ask for accountability and make sure that the focus will be on the right places,” Danon argued. “It’s not happening today.”
The U.S. contributed more than $18 billion to the United Nations in 2022, accounting for one-third of funding for the body’s collective budget, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Democrats given word of warning on VP Harris’ slim lead: ‘Nowhere near ahead’
Political commentator Karl Rove warned Democrats on Tuesday that the narrow lead Vice President Harris has seen in recent polls may not be enough for her to defeat former President Trump in November.
“On this day in 2020, Joe Biden was up 7.1% above Donald Trump in the Real Clear Politics average. And at this point in 2016, Hillary Clinton was up 6.3%. As you remember, the election came down to a handful of votes in a handful of states,” Rove said in an interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
He noted that Harris is ahead of Trump according to some national polling aggregators, but she is “nowhere near ahead by the numbers that both Biden and Clinton were in” during their respective campaigns against Trump in 2016 and 2020.
The comments come as the Real Clear Politics polling average shows Harris with a slim 1.5 point lead over former President Trump nationally, a significant shift from the three-point lead Trump held over Biden the day before the president dropped out of the race.
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Rove responded to comments from Democratic strategist Julian Epstein as to Harris’ campaign.
“If the polling errors are anywhere close to what they were in 2016 and 2020, then Trump is in the lead right now,” Epstein previously told Fox News Digital.
“People want to know where you’re coming from and they want to know enough about the specifics to get their hands around it,” he said.
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“[Harris] needs to be more specific,” he added.
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According to a report from Politico last week, recent polls conducted by Democratic firms that show Harris in the lead contain warning signs, including that Trump leads in some characteristics that are more likely to sway voters. Harris is also essentially tied with Trump across the battleground states, the polls show, meaning the vice president is underperforming her national numbers in states set to decide the election.
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Violent migrant gang spills out of sanctuary city, wreaking havoc on suburbs
Although Denver’s suburbs don’t share its sanctuary city policies, the influx of migrants into the Mile High City has spilled outward. Now, its neighbors are facing an unprecedented wave of activity from a notorious Venezuelan prison gang.
Officials from Aurora, about nine miles east of Denver, told Fox News Digital the Tren de Aragua gang has gained a strong foothold in their city, commandeering apartment complexes and drumming up violent crime and sex trafficking.
“We currently have entire complexes under gang control — complexes where staff have been beaten up, they’ve been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property,” Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky said. “These complexes are being run by this Tren de Aragua gang.
“They start brokering apartments themselves when someone leaves out of fear or whatever. They go in and take pictures of the apartment themselves. Then, I’ve been told, within hours, a Venezuelan family moves in.
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“Parts of the city are absolutely under this gang control. The local media is downplaying this,” she said. “I believe politics is being played with people’s lives. … Nothing is being done to help the American citizens that are being trapped under this gang’s control.”
Jurinsky told Fox News Digital calls for emergency services have been on the rise, especially in light of a strapped police department.
“The number of emails coming in to me for help from residents and business owners, the volume is much higher. The allegations being made [about gang activity] are types of crime that I’ve not heard of on a regular basis in our city,” she said.
Suspected members of Tren de Aragua are accused of a series of high-profile crimes across the United States, including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and the shooting of two NYPD officers during an arrest in June.
Its leaders recently gave the “green light” for its members nationwide to shoot members of law enforcement who attempt to interfere with their criminal activity – even in Denver.
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Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino, a Tren de Aragua leader who goes by “Galleta,” the Spanish word for “Cookie,” was arrested after brutally beating a man at an Aurora apartment complex that the gang had taken over, according to the New York Post. He was arrested again in July in a shooting at the same complex that left two wounded, the outlet reported.
Pacheco-Chirino has reportedly been detained and released at least twice since crossing the southern border in 2022, Homeland Security sources told the Post.
Denver, a city with about 710,000 residents, leads the nation in migrant arrivals per capita, with more than 40,000 arriving from the southern border since 2022, according to The Colorado Sun.
The city has spent an estimated $68 million to provide them with aid, even cutting back on emergency services. Meanwhile, Jurinsky and other members of Aurora’s city council passed a resolution 7-3, pledging not to provide any support or resources to migrants coming into their city.
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“We will not be aiding into this migrant crisis,” Jurinsky told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
Douglas County Commissioner Abe Laydon said that when a Denver bill became law in 2017, codifying the city’s resistance to work with federal immigration enforcement, followed by numerous other initiatives to help migrants and asylum seekers, the impending ripple effect on neighboring communities was obvious.
“Not too long ago, we saw this influx of 40,000 migrants [to Denver],” Laydon said. “Douglas County rang the bell and said, ‘Look, from a common sense perspective, it’s impossible that wouldn’t have a huge impact on resources in the Denver metro area – and it did.”
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In an effort to curb growing rates of migrants, Laydon said his county passed an ordinance that outlaws unscheduled bus stops in the area and does not allow “buses from San Antonio to drop immigrants off.”
But attempts to control the influx have been crippled by Colorado state law HB19-1124, passed in 2019, that prohibits municipalities from communicating directly with federal government immigration enforcement.
As a result, Douglas and five other Colorado counties have banded together to sue the state, arguing the law violates the U.S. Supremacy Clause, which bars states from violating federal law, and the Intergovernmental Relationships Provision of Colorado’s constitution, which forbids laws that prevent local governments from cooperating/contracting with the federal government.
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“Our local law enforcement would like the ability to communicate with local immigration officials,” Laydon said. “We have been apprised that there has absolutely been an increase in property crimes, assault and trafficking, and it’s specific issues with the cartels coming out of Venezuela.”
Despite their inability to communicate with federal immigration authorities, an ICE detention center sits within the city of Aurora, and Jurinsky said it is “bursting at the seams.”
“Every week, they’re just opening the back door and just letting hundreds of them go,” Jurinsky said.
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Joe Gamaldi, national vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police, told Fox News Digital, “This is not a Denver problem or an Aurora problem. This is a nationwide problem.”
“There are gangs from all over South America that are coming over here and getting a foothold in our country,” he said Monday. “We have taught criminals that you can commit crimes without being held accountable, and everyone is surprised when that’s exactly what they do.”
In Aurora, he said, there will need to be “a significant investment in their gang division to get these guys behind bars” to put a dent in the problem. However, the city is “going to need a criminal justice system that is going to charge these guys and deport them.
“The police officers out there are going to do their job. They’re going to catch these guys and put them in jail. The question is whether they’re going to stay in jail or get deported. Don’t cut them any sweetheart deals. This isn’t rocket science. When people are robbing people with guns, lock them up for 20, 25 years.”
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Chris Swecker, the former head of the FBI’s criminal investigation division, said this influx of gang members was “predictable and preventable,” calling it “Mariel Boatlift 2.0.” Swecker was referring to a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States in 1980 and comparing it to the rise of Salvadoran gang MS-13.
“I would’ve surged along the border when this popped up and put agents up to interview every non-Mexican crossing that border. You would’ve had informants to boot,” Swecker said of potential ways to combat the nationwide problem. “It’s a question of being creative enough and confident enough to allocate the problems.
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“At this point, federal agencies should get involved,” he added. “The bureau has to get involved with ATF and DEA, share their intelligence and approach this as an international crime problem.”
WNBA star sparks fierce reaction on social media over pregame outfit
Phoenix Mercury guard Sophie Cunningham turned heads once again with her pregame outfit ahead of the team’s matchup against the New York Liberty on Monday.
The Mercury posted a slo-mo video of Cunningham entering the Footprint Arena locker room ahead of the game with a caption straight from the show “Love Island.”
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“This week a hot new bombshell enters the villa,” the team wrote on X.
It did not appear everyone was on board, as the team has not exactly gotten off to a hot start following the team’s return to action from the Olympic break.
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The Mercury lost to the Liberty on Monday 84-70. They are 3-3 since the league started up again. Cunningham had three points in the game.
The former Missouri standout is averaging 7.7 points per game in 31 appearances for Phoenix. She’s shooting 42% from the floor and 37% from 3-point range.
Phoenix is likely to make the playoffs this season, barring a complete disaster at the end of the season. The Mercury are in sixth place in the WNBA standings – two games up in the win column over the Indiana Fever. The top eight teams make the postseason.
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The team has nine games left in the regular season, which ends on Sept. 19 for them.
Harris mocked for on-set demand in first interview with liberal squawkbox
The announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris’ first formal sit-down interview as a 2024 presidential candidate would be done with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, by her side was met with mockery online.
CNN revealed Tuesday Dana Bash would be taping a joint interview with Harris and Walz as they campaign in Georgia on Thursday to be broadcast that night.
It will mark the first time Harris has given a formal interview to the press since President Biden stepped out of the race and she became the nominee 38 days ago.
However, the news that Harris’ first interview would be alongside Walz, and with a sympathetic host and network, was seen as an admission that the vice president infamous for her word salads is “incapable” of doing an extended media appearance on her own.
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Josh Hawley’s communications director Abigail Jackson wrote, “Kamala needs to do a live, unedited, solo press conference. She wants to be commander-in-chief and she’s too scared to do an interview without Tim Walz by her side? Girl power, amirite.”
“Joe Biden can’t get into a car or up a flight of stairs without a handler, and apparently Kamala Harris can’t even talk to a CNN reporter by herself. Embarrassing,” The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis commented.
Mediaite writer Caleb Howe joked that the ticket would be asked, “WHAT WOULD YOU SAY HAS MUTUALLY ENCHANTED YOU BOTH ABOUT BEING THE NOMINEES.”
“LOL, a joint interview. She simply cannot be left unattended,” National Review writer Jeff Behar wrote before adding, “To quote a colleague at NR: Tim Walz is apparently Kamala Harris’s ‘emotional support midwesterner.’”
“When is the first interview with just Kamala? Never?” American Commitment President Phil Kerpen exclaimed.
Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich wrote, “The woman who wants to be the first female president of the United States can’t do an interview on her own? Interesting…and embarrassing.”
“Why does he need to be there?” The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller questioned.
“The entire interview needs to be released — unedited,” conservative commentator Steve Guest wrote.
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In a comment to Fox News Digital, MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider dismissed the announcement, arguing Harris would never have “a real interview with a real journalist” on actual policy issues.
“Kamala Harris is still avoiding the press. She’s going to be interviewing with Dana Bash. Dana Bash, who is sort of notorious for repeating softball questions to candidates who agree with her political worldview and then, of course, being very harsh and asking a lot of questions to people on the right who have different points of view. But we all knew that Kamala Harris was eventually going to do essentially a fake interview with a very sympathetic interviewer. And so, Dana Bash got the nod,” Schneider said.
He added, “The media should be boycotting anything Kamala Harris until she has an actual press conference. The media could force her into behaving like an actual candidate for public office instead of an entertainer seeking stardom in the next role. And that’s how she’s behaving now. She’s just trying to become a star.”
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Airline CEO’s controversial idea to stop mid-flight brawls that are plaguing travel industry
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said airports should institute a two-drink limit on alcoholic beverages for flyers.
O’Leary believes that airports need to limit “the amount of alcohol that can be sold to any passenger to two alcoholic drinks” to help reduce instances of airline passengers becoming disruptive on flights.
Ryanair, an Irish ultra low-cost carrier, and other European airlines have seen a “spike” in disruptive passengers onboard planes “particularly this summer,” O’Leary said in an interview with The Independent.
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O’Leary suggested “record high” flight delays this summer have contributed to the issue, as some travelers visit airport bars to pass time.
The Ryanair CEO also said he wanted to see “more effective” local fines for travelers who are removed from flights due to their disruptive behavior, according to The Independent.
Country singer kicks fan out of concert for hitting a woman: ‘Definition of a coward’
Scotty McCreery is a gentleman.
The country star had just begun his first song of the night at the Colorado State Fair last weekend when he allegedly saw a man in the audience hit a woman, according to video shared on social media.
“That’s a lady you just hit, sir!” McCreey shouted from the stage after he stopped singing and pointed out to the crowd. “Absolutely not. Who just hit the lady?”
He then called for police and security to intervene.
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“Is she OK? Get the heck out of here,” he said as the crowd began booing at the man who could not be seen in the footage. He was escorted out of the concert.
“On God’s green earth, at a Scotty McCreery show?” the singer asked in disbelief while photos of his wife, Gabi, flashed on the wall behind him because she inspired his song “It Matters to Her” that he had been singing, according to Taste of Country.
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The TikTok user who posted the video online wrote in the caption, “Can’t get away with that at a country concert. Scotty is the goat for making sure everything was ok!”
He added, “Right now is when the dude gets his @$$ beat.”
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“Y’all let the cop know who hit the lady cause that’s absolutely unacceptable,” McCreery said.
He added, “Whoever you are, that’s the definition of a coward, hitting a lady. Get the heck out of here.”
He then got back to the show.
Olga Robak, the director of communications and Public Awareness for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, told FOX 21 “We can confirm that an incident took place at the Scotty McCreery concert where a man assaulted a woman and the performer stopped the show.”
“This incident is still under investigation, and we cannot comment further,” she said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for McCreery and the police who secured the fair.
In 2019, Gabi McCreery explained that faith is an important part of their relationship.
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“Our parents raised us both to know that we are full in ourselves on our own and that’s something I really love about us,” she said on Caroline Hobby’s “Get Real” podcast. “We know who we were before we got married. We knew who we were in Christ before we got married.”