Tunisia sacked its ambassador to the United Nations, Moncef Baati, on Friday for allegedly not consulting with the country’s foreign ministry on issues, including the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
“Tunisia’s ambassador to the United Nations has been dismissed for purely professional reasons concerning his weak performance and lack of coordination with the ministry on important matters under discussion at the UN,” said the foreign ministry in a statement.
Baati has been on the U.N. Security Council since the beginning of the year. Diplomatic sources told AFP that the ambassador went beyond what Tunisian President Kais Saied wanted in his criticism of the peace proposal.

Richard Ciullo, the alleged founder of the anti-Semitic “Rise Up Ocean County” page on Facebook, is on the way to the slammer.
Ciullo will serve 60 days behind bars for check fraud, though sources indicate that Ciullo will be able to serve the two-month sentence in increments, going to prison only on the weekends if he so chooses.
This is at least the second time that Cioullo has been caught engaging in check fraud.
Rise Up Ocean County is infamous for fostering anti-Semitism, spreading lies about Orthodox Jews, and stoking hatred for Jews.

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 During a tour of the Jordan Valley on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his pledge to apply Israeli law there and in other areas designated as Israeli territory under the newly unveiled White House peace plan.
“[U.S.] President Donald Trump said that he will recognize Israel’s application of sovereignty [over the relevant areas], and he will do so once we finalize the processes that have already begun,” said Netanyahu, referring to the joint Israeli-American effort to delineate the relevant territorial boundaries and deal with other technical matters required for the implementation of the peace plan.

Israel is furious at Belgium for continuing to act against Israel at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), including inviting a “one-sided, radical” pro-Palestinian activist to address council members.
Belgium, who currently holds the rotating presidency for the UNSC, has invited Brad Parker, a senior official for a nonprofit called Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), to speak at the council’s session.
DCI-P accuses Israel of committing war crimes, supports the BDS movement and has ties to the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The Hamas group in the Gaza Strip decided to halt the launches of incendiary balloons into Israel, Palestinian Quds newspaper reported Tuesday.
Citing sources within the group, the newspaper said that the decision was made on Monday and had been relayed to the launch brigades working in the field.
While fresh batches of balloons with explosives were spotted in Israel Tuesday morning, the newspaper says these are the last ones to be sent, with the launches expected to stop as a result of talks with the Egyptian delegation that arrived on Monday to deescalate the situation.
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AIPAC apologized for and removed at least four ads it sponsored on Facebook that slammed “radicals in the Democratic Party.”
“We offer our unequivocal apology to the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress who are rightfully offended by the inaccurate assertion that the poorly worded, inflammatory advertisement implied,” said AIPAC in a statement that it shared on Twitter on Saturday.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — With voting underway across the state, Democrats looked to New Hampshire on Tuesday to reset the party’s presidential nomination fight and bring clarity to a young primary season that has been marred by dysfunction and doubt. There were new signs of turbulence hours before polls closed. Flailing former front-runner Joe Biden […]

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Entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang backtracked on Monday after telling The New York Times in a survey last week that Palestinian refugees and their descendants should have the right to return to Israel.
In response the question “Should all Palestinian refugees and their descendants have the right to return to Israel?,” Yang simply answered “Yes.”
On Twitter, Eric Weinstein, a managing director at Thiel Capital, tweeted the question with a screenshot of Yang’s answer and added, “You need to say more Andrew.”