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I hope the below is true….from X: Hamas is under fire in the Arab world; the brutal video that Israel released yesterday of our captured girls is causing significant waves in the Arab world; here are some responses to it: The Muslim influencer Hoda Janat Takfe: "Listen in the video to one of the ISIS-Hamas fighters saying to one of the girls: 'You are beautiful.' They beat them, attacked them, and hurt them. They would rape them while they were sitting and praying. I said -
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I’m watching today’s congressional committee hearing on college campus protests and antisemitism….. the president is a bumbling idiot who keeps contradicting himself? He’s hard to follow and mentions things that are factually incorrect to obfuscate ("limited law enforcement resources available"; reconstructing the committee; admitting no Jewish students or representatives were asked to be part of this committee)…. what happened to this school? How did it come to this? -
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I would recommend a short water taxi ride. My teenagers don't have patience for the ride all the way from Chinatown to downtown and I'm not sure they would appreciate a full architecture river cruise, but who can complain about a water taxi ride from Navy Pier to Michigan Ave? The city is just so pretty from the water. My teens also like walking around Wicker Park - up and down Milwaukee Ave.
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