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When George Clooney publicly called for Joe Biden to drop out of the race for president, he had a plan in mind. It was simple: Make Vice President Kamala Harris the candidate, and let Hollywood do the rest. He knew full well that there were $231 million dollars waiting in the wings from his cronies for her campaign. It was originally intended for President Biden but it was held up because of his poor debate performance and the very real prospect that he was going to lose and bring everyone down with him. As Clooney wrote in his New York Times op-ed, “We are not going to win in November with this President. On top of that we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate.”

On July 11, actor, director, and film producer George Clooney was featured in the New York Times seeking a new nominee for President from the Democratic Party. His credentials for an opinion piece in the newspaper that still claims to publish “All the News That’s Fit to Print” is Clooney’s claim “that I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party’s history.” He continues, “Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election.”

President Biden is missed already. As bad as he was, Vice President Kamala Harris is one hundred times worse. One of her first official acts as nominee for President was to make sure not to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress even though she is the President of the Senate and it is more than just customary for her to do so.

As a possible Hostage deal gets closer, the ultimate fate of Gaza needs to be addressed. Prime Minister Netanyahu has already made it clear that Israel will retain the right of security control to prevent another October 7. This is a stop-gap measure. It does not work as a long-term solution. It simply kicks the can further down the road. The narrative about Gaza has to drastically change.  October 7 was a wake-up call. Allowing the Gaza situation to remain as it was in the past is totally unacceptable. With upwards of 70% of the Gaza population not only supportive of what Hamas did on October 7 but complicit in their crimes and atrocities, a military victory, which Israel is completing, is not enough.

The “week that was” started off with former President Trump dodging an assassin’s bullet. As the Republican nominee for President said, “It was G-d alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.” He told Michael Goodwin of the New York Post and reiterated his remarks in his speech at the Republican National Convention,

In the most expensive primary Congressional race ever, George Latimer beat Jamaal Bowman in the Bronx-Westchester’s 16th District. In the end, the race wasn’t even close: Latimer, Westchester’s County Executive, received 59.3% of the vote to Radical Left Squad Member Bowman’s 40.1%. By most standards, that is a landslide.