The Associated Press and Jonathan Lis, Noa Shpigel, Jasmin Gueta, and Ben Samuels at Haaretz:
Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating the country's new ban on Al Jazeera.
The U.S. is urging Israel to return seized AP equipment and reverse its broadcast block on Gaza images, according to senior White House officials.
"We've been engaging directly with the Government of Israel to express our concerns over this action and to ask them to reverse it," a White House spokesperson said.
The Al Jazeera channel is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from AP and other news organizations. AP denounced the move.
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"The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country's new foreign broadcaster law. We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment and enable us to reinstate our live feed immediately so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world."
The Israel Apartheid State seized Associated Press equipment and shuttered the live Gaza feed by citing the anti-press freedom law used to shut down Al-Jazeera's operations.
This is a very despicable act by the Israeli government.
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Israel is Intentionally targeting press in Gaza beacuse they know they are committing mass war crimes and genocide and doesn't want the world to see it. But they take to twitter to provide fake evidence against Palestine, which has been proved as fake hundreds of times. The villainization of the Palestinian people is outrageous. The audacity is un real.
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Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei at Axios:
If former President Trump wins in November, top supporters will push him to investigate, prosecute — and even try to imprison — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who won Trump's conviction in the hush-money case.
"Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed," Steve Bannon, one of the top voices of the MAGA movement, told us — saying for the record what many Trump supporters are privately plotting.
Why it matters: This column has reported extensively about all the norms Trump plans to shatter if returned to the White House. Nowhere would that be truer than at the Justice Department, which Trump wants to make his fief and retribution arm.
Bannon told us Bragg could be targeted using the 14th Amendment (equal protection) and Fourth Amendment (outlawing unreasonable searches and seizures by the government) "plus scores of other" laws.
Bannon told us he wants "investigations to include [Democrats'] media allies."
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The big picture: With Trump's conviction, "lawfare" — political warfare involving the courts — is one of the top issues animating the Trump faithful.
Asked about the signature cry of "lock her up" from Trump rallies in 2016, the former president said in a post-conviction interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend": "I could have done it. But I felt it would have been a terrible thing. And then this happened to me. And, so I may feel differently about it."
Last year, Trump vowed on his Truth Social platform to "APPOINT A REAL SPECIAL 'PROSECUTOR' TO GO AFTER THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, JOE BIDEN."
What we're hearing: Of all the slots in a prospective Trump Cabinet, attorney general is where we've been told to watch for an aggressive, MAGA-diehard nomination.
YIKES! This Axios article regarding plans to jail those prosecuting him if Donald Trump gets elected again is scary. America’s freedom will be in jeopardy if he is elected this fall.
See Also:
AP, via HuffPost: Republicans Who See Trump Conviction As Politically Motivated Vow To ‘Indict The Left’
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