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European leaders use their equivalent of F-words, or maybe the real F-word, to describe speeches given by President Trump and Vice-President JD Vance decrying their immigration policies. European Union (EU) nations, for one thing, have an open-borders agreement, so residents of one EU nation can travel to another unimpeded. Some of the nations even have Bidenesque-style policies when it comes to Muslim immigrants. But now that 60,000 Moroccans, an impoverished rabble in the eyes of European policymakers, have swum around borders to reach Spanish-controlled Ceuta, a territory bordering Morocco, the EU’s open-borders policy is now being reconsidered and even suspended. Spain is even sending its military to Ceuta to quell the onslaught of the unwashed and unwanted. The territory is home to 80,000 residents, so adding another 60,000 hungry immigrants is creating a humanitarian crisis, along with the immigration crisis. The battle cry out of Europe is “get rid of ’em,” in so many words. Not only is Spain worried and working to keep the Moroccans off its shores, but France is also responding by reinforcing its border with Spain. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said her country might consider suspending Europe’s Schengen rules. Schengen rules allow for the free passage

My cellphone kept lighting up this evening as word came out of the White House that Hamas had agreed to disarm. “Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY,” President Trump announced on Truth Social. Hamas had a bit different interpretation, however. “We didn’t say disarmament, we didn’t say handing over the weapons, and we didn’t agree on any Israeli involvement,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s negotiating team, was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal. He said they had agreed to put the weapons in a storage facility. The other part of this disarmament/weapons storage development is that Israel must agree to withdraw from Gaza once the weapons are not in the hands of Hamas. Egypt, which is hosting the talks as part of the Trump-brokered Board of Peace, would only say that a “road map” had been agreed to, and that negotiations would continue. Israel, which invaded the Gaza Strip after the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023, has so far been silent on this development. Hamas disarmament and Israeli

He liked it so much that now he wants all of it. Donald Trump liked hosting the FIFA World Cup so much that he’s now working on a deal to buy the Switzerland-based organization. When word of this surfaced in Europe, the 55 soccer teams there — under the control of an organization called UEFA — announced they would boycott the World Cup if FIFA sells out. FIFA can’t sell its real self, but it is looking to sell a minority stake to run its commercial and marketing operations, including of course the staging of the World Cup. The group raising funds to buy this minority stake, which will be called the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), is being led by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. Ya think Trump might have the idea of holding the World Cup forever more in the United States? “Football is the world’s most popular sport and an extraordinary engine of human and social development,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement. “Parts of the game have turned that popularity into remarkable commercial value — and we celebrate that success and want it to continue, because it lifts the whole game.” The Euro World Cup participants