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The world needs to understand that Hamas is “a brutal terrorist organization, [and] that it's only starting with Israel,” Sawsan Hasson says. 

According to Hasson, head of public diplomacy at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, Hamas’ leaders have been quite vocal that they plan to carry out similar acts of violence against the United States and Americans.

The Daily Signal spoke with Hasson at the Israeli Embassy after a screening of a 45-minute film containing raw footage of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel. It was Hasson’s third time watching the film, but she was still visibly shaken. 

The embassy official says she and all of the people of Israel have a very clear message for America, and it's a call to bring the hostages “back home now.” 

Hasson joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what Israel’s key objective in the war is, and what's known about the hostage negotiations. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• President Joe Biden met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for four hours Wednesday. 
• A pro-Palestine and pro-cease-fire protest outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters became. 
• Israeli troops continue their search of Shifa Hospital in Gaza. 
• The House Ethics Committee releases a damning report on New York Republican lawmaker George Santos. 
• A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a pro-Israel Jewish protester in Thousand Oaks, California. 

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Every Senate Democrat voted in opposition to a stand-alone Israel aid package. 

The package, which passed in the House Nov. 2, would have provided Israel with $14.3 billion and was set to pull funding from President Joe Biden’s IRS budget to do so. 

On Tuesday, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., used a special motion to call for a vote on the Israel package on the Senate floor, taking his Democrat colleagues by surprise. The motion failed in a vote of 51 - 48. 

“I've been trying to figure out this for weeks as well, maybe months,” Marshall said. “Why are Democrats so afraid of supporting Israel?”

Democrats have “lots of reasons why we should fund Ukraine, but they never will say why we should fund Israel,” according to Marshall. 

“They say they want to support Israel, but their actions are different,” he says. “What I've found out is there's a significant portion of their base that does not want anyone in their party to support Israel.”

Democrats have advocated for an aid bill that includes funding for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and the border, but now that Democrats have blocked the stand-alone Israel aid package, Marshall says there is no path forward for the $14.3 billion bill. 

Instead of a swift show of support for Israel from Congress, Marshall says it will likely take months for Congress to work through disagreements and pass a an aid package to support Israel. 

Marshall joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why he is so passionate about standing with Israel, and why lawmakers should support a stand-alone aid package for our closest friend in the Middle East. 

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• U.S. allies with China against our own interests to fight climate change
• Vivek Ramaswamy targets Ronna Romney McDaniel
• Tlaib is a member of a pro-Hamas Facebook group
• The Daily Signal is Exclusively live streaming a Republican presidential candidate forum on Friday

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is expected to face a barrage of questions regarding the security threats at America’s southern border at another hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. 

Mayorkas is set to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland.”

The homeland security chief recently testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Nov. 8 and before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Oct. 31.

“Secretary Mayorkas has been very good at evading answers throughout all of his testimonies,” says James Massa, the CEO of NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for lower rates of immigration, adding that he expects Mayorkas “to be evasive again.” 

“He has deferred to not wanting to answer specific numbers, not wanting to answer countries of origin, not wanting to answer how any terrorist who's already been apprehended—and there's almost 170 of them that were on the FBI terrorist watchlist—how they handle them and what they do with them,” Massa says of Mayorkas. 

Massa joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what to expect during Wednesday’s hearing and whether real border security measures are possible under the current administration. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• The March for Israel in Washington, D.C. draws a crowd of tens of thousands. 
• Congress is focused on averting a government shutdown – and others want to ensure accountability over government spending. 
• A sitting U.S. Senator challenges a witness to a fight during a hearing. 
• An appeals court in Finland dismisses “hate speech” charges against a member of Finland’s parliament whose post on social media cited verses from the Bible.

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Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice lays out her strategy for the "David and Goliath" struggle to win school board elections in the face of the teachers unions' stranglehold, following another historic election cycle in which the 3-year-old organization racked up 50 wins, but fell short in many other races.

"It is a bit of a David-and-Goliath moment in American politics, but we're really excited because we're getting the word out," Justice said in an interview with The Daily Signal podcast after the 2023 elections.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Former President Donald Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, dies. 
• The Israeli Defense Minister says Hamas has lost control of the Gaza strip. 
• A Secret Service agent opens fire on suspects attempting to break into a government vehicle. 
• South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced he is dropping out of the Republican presidential primary.
• Investigation proves claims against Moms for Liberty are baseless. 

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Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation's Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. 

"They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice," says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

"You'll notice I say 'education choice' more often than 'school choice,' because we're at a point now in the movement where states are adopting education savings accounts largely, although it's great if a state adopts a voucher or a tax credit, but these education savings accounts, ESAs, are much more flexible," Burke says, adding: 

So, Florida took [its] education savings account program universal so every child now can exercise education choice. [It has] radical academic transparency to families. Families know what is taught in their public schools.There's some movement on teacher freedom to make it easier for professionals to enter the classroom without having to go through woke colleges of education in order to get there.

Burke also notes that Arizona was once again in the No. 2 spot, and Utah clinched the No. 3 spot. 

"Arizona is actually first in the country for education choice, but overall came in second on the report card. And then rounding out our top three was Utah," Burke says. "Utah, also, this year adopted a universal ESA style account, where pretty soon every single child will be able to exercise education choice."

Iowa, which hosted the event at which the report card was released, was ranked "most improved."

Burke joins today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" to further discuss the Education Freedom Report Card, which three states ranked the lowest, and her advice to parents who might see the report card and want to make a change in their state. 

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Andrew Biggio was excited to show his neighbor, a WWII veteran, the M1 Garand rifle he had recently purchased. The weapon was the most common rifle used in WWII, and Biggio thought his elderly neighbor would appreciate holding the gun. 

“When I put that rifle into his hands and he raised it into his shoulder and started waving it around the room and pointing and smiling, and we talked about the Battle of Okinawa for like three hours,” Biggio, a Marine veteran himself, recounts. 

Biggio was in awe of the stories his elderly neighbor had just shared with him. The rifle had not only triggered memories in the veteran's mind, but acted like a microphone, propelling the man to describe his war experiences in detail. 

Biggio asked his neighbor to sign the rifle becasue he wanted to remember the stories he had just been told, and this gave Biggio the idea to find other WWII veterans and ask them to sign the M1 Garand rifle. 

Today, “I have 320 names on that rifle,” Biggio says. “You can't even see the wooden stock. The whole rifle's full of white ink names.” 

But the majority of the soldiers who have held the rifle have done much more than signed it, they described their war stories in detail while grasping the weapon, stories which Biggio has compiled into two book. 

His first book, “The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand,” was released in 2021 but could not hold all veteran stories. In September, Biggio released the project’s second edition, “The Rifle 2: Back to the Battlefield.” 

Biggio joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share some of the stories of the WWII veterans he has had the privilege of meeting and writing about. 

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